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right - F-35B is STOL, doesn't much need an airfield at all, but supposedly it's not as capable as the non-STOL variants.

I think it was in a piece by the Asia CSIS guy where there was a good presentation of the issues for Xi with Taiwan - the big diff is that it's much harder to invade over water, but it will also be much harder to resupply Taiwan with no friendly land borders. Bottom line, Taiwan's needs to stockpile a lot of ordinance and they should be doing it now.

according to Monarrez in the DetNews Campbell has already decided to go 4-3.

Nixon was a figure whose tragedy the classic Greeks would have loved. Brilliant strategic thinker but insecure, paranoid personality.

or another way to put it into scale, over the last few years annual imports from Russia have been roughly 10 days consumption. But it's a canard that environmental regs have stopped the frackers. Low prices closed down fracking. High prices will bring them back.

I say this all the time and people think I'm joking but I'm not: but ban velco closures on batting gloves and you take 30 min off a baseball game. (snaps, buttons or zippers only!)

take I-75 south to the Fla turnpike, follow that to i-95, take the Oakland Park Blvd exit west, around the bend to the left in 10 miles and you can't miss it.

it will go on until one day 1,000,000 people show up in Red Square to say it won't go on any longer. That's the only way out I see. I know the conventional wisdom is that can't happen in today's Russia, but it seems it must.

but it's not necessarily easy even to do humanitarian aide without either getting you people killed or the aid being diverted. The world is actually pretty decent about doing straight up famine and hunger type relief when it's reasonably do-able. I have to assume NGOs can't do much in Yemen due to factors beyond their control?

many of them could have without programs like the paycheck protection plan etc. Just because a one time event like the pandemic was the reason they had to shut down doesn't mean they automatically come back when it's over. Who knows what percentage might have or did fold, vis-a-vis the number saved by specific policy interventions. The was a story in the local rag today, that Zingermann's in A^2, which runs several food/restaurant related businesses probably goes under without the paycheck protection program.

if there was a case that Americans would buy regarding who the 'good guys' were in Yemen, it would be a 1st step. You have the Saudis, led by MBS, who has come to be pretty universally regarded as a dirt bag, fighting with proxies for Iran, of whom we are also such big fans. Biden has taken us off the Saudi bandwagon, which might at least reduce the arms supply in that mess.

just to do some spitballing here....(feel free to offer other estimates....) there is some nationalization of TV money now ($60million) - as per the article below. Supposedly no team has less than a $40M local deal so each team is now guaranteed a floor revenue of $100 million from TV sources alone going forward. In addition total revenue sharing is given at $110 million - assuming not more than 10 teams share in this that would be another $10million, so the very 'poorest' teams should be looking at $110 million *before* ticket sales. If you draw a millions fans (and none of the 6 teams that didn't should exist where they are!) that's probably at least another $60million. Throw in $20M for radio, merchandise, parking and you have $190M on the revenue side for the *poorest* teams. Now, take a SWAG that non-MLB salary expenses for a team might be something like 100 employees at $100K, ($10M), Exec salaries including manager $20M, Stadium maint 5%/yr of a $500million struture = $25M, and say $20M in prospect salaries. That's $85M, so if we assume most owners don't really care how much they take out of their team, the poorest teams would have something like $105M for MLB salaries. Even if this is all off by 100% to the low side, you are still just barely approaching the luxury tax number. https://dodgerblue.com/mlb-teams-receive-at-least-100-million-annually-from-tv-rights-contracts/2022/02/12/

and the truth is they probably don't even have to deaden the ball very much specification wise, just tighten the distribution to remove those most above the current average COR. Of you could just take all the balls and fire them at a wall from an air cannon a dozen times to soften them up a bit before packing them.

what kind of fool american would be in Russia right now? Did her team put her there? Sounds like daylight madness to me..... ....plays for a Russian team...../..sigh../

right, but on the other hand I don't want judges to distort other rules of procedure in back door efforts to get death penalty reprieves because that reverberates through the whole trial system as well. I would guess that the admission of the kind of evidence that the defense wanted in this case would end up leading to more (possibly wrongful) convictions in other cases.

Yup. The PP kill sure suffers when the first unit has to rotate off. This one was frustrating because they played well enough from about the 30 minute mark to have at least picked up one point. The other thing on my wish list would be to make the goalie crease about 4 feet bigger and then cut down the size of the goalie equipment. I don't really much care for the number of goals scored by screening the goalie, but you would have to give the shooters some advantage back if you force the screeners away. In that regard I actually think the curved crease is worse than the old rectangular one because it's the corners where I would like to see the goalie have more unobstructed space back.

Plus it was superfluous, the proposal is DOA with the players anyway. There is no deal there with or without those four owners. Their action hasn’t kept a single game from being played.

I'd be(will be) happy to see the death penalty go away, but I don't have an argument with the Tsaraev ruling, basically because I don't much like the base concept behind 'Svengali' defenses so I'm not troubled at the exclusion that was the basis of the appeal. Haven't read about the other one....yet.

I've been trying to guess how much better they will be with Berggren, Vrana and Edvinsson, and wondering how Yzerman is going to come up the rest of the offense they would still need, or if '22-'23 will be another tread water year.

Wings get a decent chance for Betuzzi at 6 on 5 but take a penalty with 50 seconds left.

the most dominant Wing player without a doubt. He's passed both Larkin and Bertuzzi

wings fight off 110 seconds of a Tampa PP, then lose a defensive zone face off and give up the goal. Looked like Oesterle could have made the shot deflection and didn't.

2nd PP looked much better. Didn't get the puck on the net much but held the play in and pressured well.

Wings pick it up in the 2nd half of the 2nd period, carried the play well other than one bad sequence with about a minute left. What do they have left for the 3rd?

Bertuzzi with the stick, Seider makes the play, Fabbri gets the goal. Wings being outshot more than 2:1 tie the game.