sherpa

Standard LA all-nighter.

My neck of the woods.

Should have stayed on his horse. Nobody would have questioned it.

Its less than a one hour flight, and an NFL charter, which is quite different. Driving it, compared to what they do, is not comparable. They don't fly back Monday. They fly about 2.5 to 3 hours after the end of the game.

Not a six hour flight. About four and a half.

From most reports, what a number of players used to do post home game during the Super Bowl years was far more damaging than a five hour snooze in an airplane.

On the bright side, the Clay drop at the end of the Miami game likely got us Ed Oliver.

The damage on that 737 engine would not have caused any serious problem. I flew airplanes for 40 some years, from little Cessnas to flying fighters at very low altitude and very high speed, (bird region), to 777's all over the world and have had three bird strikes, none of which cause any problems. The Sullenberger thing was a complete fluke. In my 32 year airline career, my company, about 185,000 flights per year, had one serious bird strike which took out the left windscreen.

I have a Hiroshima Carp jersey. Maybe I'll get a chance to see them at some point if it expands to Japan.

Gladly. The company is Custom Ink. They've designed three mask products in response to this and their latest is quite good. It's not simply printing a logo on them, it's the entire manufacturing procss. [Edit: found an ad and link for Custom Ink mask products today https://www.customink.com/products/categories/face-masks/205/styles?li_did=f23eee69-e81a-3bcd-99d4-4e56245aa3fc]

Seinfeld Frasier

My daughter works as a project manager for a national printing company, and they got their largest ever single order yesterday. Half million dollar order for masks for the NYC Police Dept. [Hap sez: I'm confused: has the printing company retooled to make masks, or is the NYPD having something printed on the mask? @sherpa, clarify?]

Bruno Sammartino. Once he threw 600 pound Haystacks Calhoun out of the ring his legend was sealed.

As long as nobody calls him "Squeaky."

Garo Yepremian? Can't wait to see the fake extra point pass attempt.

You have used a single word in your post that leads me to conclude your claim of ex Navy is valid. The rest of your post........ The point is that if the Iranian Revolutionary Guard continues to behave in a hostile manner that effects navigation in international waters, a Skipper of a US combatant may well decide that such activity is a threat. He is responsible for his ship and crew, and as an ex sailor, presumably, you would want him to act appropriately.

This isn't that big of a deal. It's been going on for years. It's just a way to let them know you know about them. I've done scores of these intercepts of Soviet bombers and one potentially hostile Iranian one. The complaint is how the Russians are doing it. There is a protocol to approach from the rear, on the side, from 4 or 5 o'clock, or 7 or 8 o'clock, and make your presence known in a non threatening way. The Russians are intercepting intel gathering airplanes and doing things like flying inverted near them, or "thumping" them. Thumping is flying under them with a good deal of overtake speed, then pulling up through their projected flight path, resulting in them flying through your wake turbulence and jet wash. It's a really stupid thing to do. If they breach the protocols, they invite a weapon response. As an example, when the two Libyan Migs were shot down by US Navy F-14'a from Kennedy. If you listen to the audio, the US pilots repeatedly mention the Migs turning into them in a head on intercept. That is to display the clear hostile action, and justify the response. Splashed Migs Audio starts at 2 minute mark. This Iranian revolutionary Guard thing has been going on for years as well, but they are playing with their lives if they keep it up, as these are clearly aggressive and possibly threatening tactics.

That's one way. There is also a ring behind and above your head. You grab it with both hands and pull the face curtain over your head. Very important to have your spine completely vertical during the sequence, or you'll likely suffer back injury. The seat is disabled by a lever that is behind your head, at neck level. When enabled, it fits inside the seat. If it is disabled, that lever would be jamming the back of your neck, so it's always enabled in flight.

Nope. Can't be disabled, and it isn't a "button." Since French, probably said "surrender," which caused him to select it. Just kidding.

In a head scratchier, Browns select Kim Jung Un. Oops. Hit google News instead of NFL Office.

So legal lease terms should be abrogated? Wow. Opens up all kinds of possibilities.

Incredibly non technical and non Palmeresque, but how 'bout somebody talk to him about not coming out of the locker room like a lunatic? He seems almost out of control until he gets a couple series, settles in, and then looks pretty good.

Best ever was Kramer. Barney Fife was up there.

Allen and Singletary need to cover up the ball with two hands when going down. Allen especially needs to acknowledge that the NFL knows he can be separated from the ball from behind, because he doesn't protect well enough.

Things are happening. The University of Virginia may have developed a barrier breaking test that is way quicker and cheaper. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - A research team at the University of Virginia says it might have found a new way to detect COVID-19. Dr. Ben Orsburn’s team is using a device nearly every lab in the world has on hand, and could potentially diagnose patients within hours of them becoming infected. “The reason that we decided to make our data public, or to make our message public, was when it occurred to us that basically, every hospital in the world these days and every university has a mass spectrometer of some kind,” Orsburn said. Dr. Orsburn is at the forefront of a new method that may detect coronavirus far faster than traditional DNA testing. The theory is that certain proteins in the virus might appear before a patient even realizes they have been infected. Orsburn says this idea was first proposed during the SARS 2003 outbreak, though the field wasn’t developed enough at the time to test effectively. “The understanding is that these viruses are similar and that an early detection method could detect the nucleocapsid protein in SARS would be at least there is a nucleocapsid protein in this virus as well.” Orsburn’s theory found a home in labs in China and Germany. “Probably within 36 hours or so, we actually saw real proteomics, real protein mass spectrometry data being released by a German group that and their data very strongly mimics our model,” the doctor said. “You see this nucleocapsid protein just go up in abundance really early infection.” COVID-19 proteins appear in infected samples within hours, and can be detected days before a patient would even begin showing symptoms. Work is underway to make this detection method widely available. The team is already working with a company in New York to potentially make rapid sample preparation methods more easily accessible nation wide. Other labs are building similar detection methods based on the theory." https://www.nbc29.com/2020/03/17/uva-researchers-may-have-found-faster-way-detect-covid-/