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What an odd thing to say. His speed is very good. Especially for a Mack Truck.

I can't believe people are flaming Wilson. It's a newsworthy story and she happens to be a journalist.

Many posters are questioning the timing of the article, which I understand, but I suspect it's because some of the pertinent details of the saga have only recently come to light. With the passage of time details are more likely to surface.

Good article and unlike another poster I thought it was insightful.

Whisky review #21: 1495 Blended Scotch Whisky Here's one to avoid, Read on at your own peril! This whisky is called 1495 which refers to the first mention in historic text of the distillation of whisky in Scotland. I could go on but this whiskey doesn't deserve the attention. This is bad whisky! My lowest scoring whisky yet! http://kevlikeswhiskey.blogspot.com.au/2016/06/whisky-review-22-1495-blended-scotch.html

Your maths don't quite work for me. I suspect he's on $500K per year, so we're paying 15% over two years, which would be $150,000, or $75,000 per year. Well, that's how I read it.

Tom McDonald kick 5 goals in a game last year having trained as a defender for years. Sam Blease kicked 5 in a game. I couldn't care if he kicks 10 and wins their B&F. The MFC outgrew Watts.

Prior to JLT1 Lewis hadn't missed a session all preseason. And with about 15 preseasons under his belt I suspect he'll be fine as long as he's getting in plenty of match simulation sessions at training.

You won't have to worry. Gawn highlighted in his commentary on AFLX how good and competitive he was in "one on one contests". It was the first thing he highlighted about him and needless to he wouldn't say it if it wasn't true. And you would have already noticed his courage in the air at Casey and JLT games.

Far from panicking. I'd prefer him to Pedersen, but it's hardly wrist slashing material if he doesn't play the first few rounds.

Interesting points. Viney apparently ran slightly differently after the plantar fascia (which led to the stress fracture in his third metatarsal), so one does wonder whether McDonald's ankle surgery has led to a slightly different running pattern also, which could perhaps have meant he favoured a part of the foot, which in turn led to a "hotspot". Is it coming back to soon, or the body (mind) over compensating for a recent injury in the biomechanics of running ? I'm not equipped to know.

Even if it's a stress fracture (and they're saying "hotspot") they're supposedly a 6-8 week injury. Which is why I think Viney must have suffered a setback (pain) at some stage.

It was reported on 3AW at 6.30pm. I have little doubt the reports are accurate. It is what it is. No biggie. Pedersen can cover McDonald for a couple of games if need be. It's not like he's Tony Lockett.

I wish him no luck at all. I don't wish any opposition player "luck". When his career is over I'll have some fond memories and respect him as a former MFC player. But for now he wears colours I can't stand.

Get Fritsched.

The worst movie I have ever seen (and didn't finish) was Hudson Hawk. It starred, and I use the term loosely, Bruce Willis and Andie MacDowell. Truly horrible.

I reckon they want to play both.

Hardeman the closest. Icke no. Wight no. Hughes hell no.

I expect Lever to be the best recruit in my time following Melbourne. The difference he makes to our defensive structures is enormous. I'm of the view that teams don't win flags (there may be a rare exception) without at least one elite defender. We haven't had an elite defender at the club in my footy lifetime (circa 1970). The opportunity to secure a 22 year old soon to be elite defender (if not already) is profound. In part due to our present weaknesses in defence and in part because the opportunity itself is so rarely presented. How often does a talent of Lever's ilk (at 22) fall into club's laps ? Our list is the best I've seen at Melbourne. It's better balanced than any we've had previously. If it doesn't secure at least one flag in the next 5 years I'll be amazed and dismayed.

It's as much structural. They obviously want 2 talls and 4 small/mediums. And Hibberd plays pretty tall and intercept marks well also.

Fritsch has courage in the air.l

There's one massive difference between Fritsch and Watts. What is it ?

OK. I will get to it, but it won't be today. In the meantime this discussion with climate data scientist John Christy is excellent.

Whether it's NASA's top dogs James Hansen, Gavin Schmidt from realclimate.org, or the American Meteorological Society, they are highly paid climate alarmists. "Retired senior NASA atmospheric scientist Dr. John S. Theon, one of the former supervisors of Hansen, has now publicly declared himself a skeptic and declared that Hansen “embarrassed NASA” with his alarming climate claims and said Hansen was “was never muzzled.” Theon was elected a fellow of the American Meteorological Society, given the NASA Exceptional Performance Award twice, elected an Associate Fellow of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics, and awarded the AIAA's Losey Medal for contributions to airborne remote sensing. Dr. William Gray In a February 7, 2009 essay titled “On The Hijacking of the American Meteorological Society”, Gray wrote: I am appalled at the selection of James Hansen as this year’s recipient of the AMS’s highest award - the Rossby Research Medal. The American Meteorological Society (AMS) was founded in 1919 as an organization dedicated to advancing scientific knowledge of weather and climate. It has been a wonderful beacon for fostering new understanding of how the atmosphere and oceans function. But this strong positive image is now becoming tarnished as a result of the AMS leadership’s capitulating to the lobby of the climate modelers and to the outside environmental and political pressure groups who wish to use the now AMS position on AGW to help justify the promotion of their own special interests. The effectiveness of the AMS as an objective scientific organization has been greatly compromised. Award-winning NASA Astronaut and Physicist Walter Cunningham of NASA’s Apollo 7 also recently chastised Hansen. “Hansen is a political activist who spreads fear even when NASA’s own data contradict him,” Cunningham wrote in an essay in the July/August 2008 issue of Launch Magazine. “NASA should be at the forefront in the collection of scientific evidence and debunking the current hysteria over human-caused, or Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW). Unfortunately, it is becoming just another agency caught up in the politics of global warming, or worse, politicized science,” Cunningham wrote. Retired meteorologist Craig James, an AMS member, wrote a scathing commentary about Hansen. "I believe Dr. Hansen's political ideology has taken over his science and renders him no longer qualified to be the keeper of the global temperature data," James wrote on January 15, 2009. In June of 2008, Dr. Nicholas Drapela of the faculty of Oregon State University Chemistry Department expressed his outrage at Hansen and referred to him as “an apocalyptic prophet.” “My dear colleague Professor Hansen, I believe, has finally gone off the deep end. When you have dedicated the bulk of your career to a cause, and it turns out the cause has been proven false, most people cannot bring themselves to admit the truth,” Drapela wrote on April 21, 2008. Drapela wrote that Hansen’s recent claims “contain neither reason nor truth when compared to the volumes of daily literature being published in scientific journals today on climate change. It is not difficult to refute the words of Professor Hansen. On the contrary, one feels it is almost unfair.” “The global warming ‘time bomb’, the ‘present, dangerous situation’, ‘the perfect storm’, ‘global cataclysm’, ‘disastrous climate changes that spiral dynamically out of humanity's control.’ These are the words of an apocalyptic prophet, not a rational scientist,” Drapela added. Meteorologist Joe D’Aleo also launched a sharply worded critique of RealClimate.org in January 2009 titled “Response to Gavin Schmidt – Global Data Base Issues Are Real.” “To Gavin [Schmidt] and the other alarmists, it appears, a piece that is fair and balanced can make no mention of any other opinion except that carbon dioxide is causing global warming and action is needed now and will deliver gain and no pain, something the one sided media coverage has gotten them used to over the years,” D’Aleo wrote on January 13, 2009. D’Aleo served as the first Director of Meteorology at The Weather Channel and served as chairman of the American Meteorological Society's Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecasting. Atmospheric Physicist James A. Peden, formerly of the Space Research and Coordination Center in Pittsburgh, also critiqued RealClimate.org on June 24, 2008. Peden wrote, “‘Real Climate’ is a staged and contracted production, which wasn't created by ‘scientists,’ it was actually created by Environmental Media Services, a company which specializes in spreading environmental junk science on behalf of numerous clients who stand to financially benefit from scare tactics through environmental fear mongering.” Israeli Astrophysicist Nir Shaviv has also been critical. “The aim of RealClimate.org is not to engage a sincere scientific debate. Their aim is to post a reply full of a straw man so their supporters can claim that your point ‘has been refuted by real scientists at RealClimate.org,’” Shaviv’s website reported. Shaviv, who calls the website “Wishfulclimate.org,” noted that the “writers (at RealClimaet.org) try again and again to concoct what appears to be deep critiques against skeptic arguments, but end up doing a very shallow job. Jara, I could go on and on and on. And I will. The organisations you get your climate porn from are paid alarmists who falsify data and are presently relying on flawed weather surface stations where they manipulate data. They don't much like satellite data that has shown a 19 year "pause" in warming. But I can't help you, Jara. You're too far gone. Sad.