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@MarkGottlieb Is that a bad thing? Might be good for players to understand that ducking amd getting a reputation has long term implications.

You cannot convince me that the ‘ducking into a tackle’ rule isn’t umpired on reputation 80% of the time. Jack Ginnivan wouldn’t get this free kick if he was decapitated. #AFL #AFLLionsMagpies

@MusicBrownlow So hard to ignore most of an incredible catalogue. Feel like I have to go late career though. 3) Don't let me Down 2) The Long and Winding Road 1) While me guitar..

Voting is open in the #EdRichardsStarkeyMedal. We want to know your top three songs by The Beatles. Give us your 3-2-1

@eighteenholes18 @fnf2017 Couldn't he declare the original ball unplayable and take stroke and distance?

@fnf2017 Yes (1) 🤓 (1) with rare exceptions

Why couldn’t he play his provisional?

MJP

@FOXFOOTY I hate the focus we put on players with big $ contracts. Its not their fault clubs want them! Should they say no?

'IS IT SYSTEM, OR IS IT SELFISHNESS?' Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera has come under fire with Jordan Lewis revealing "damning" footage of the $2 million Saint's play against Melbourne. #OnTheCouch

@EmlynBreese It was brilliant.

for all of the highlights from trelle, roo, max and the rest, I can't get that defensive play from Petty out of my head. My goodness.

@AlwaysChill64 @Concreteisland2 Churchill said to his wife Clementine on D-Day morning: "Do you realize that by the time you wake up in the morning, twenty thousand men may have been killed?" — reflecting his deep anxiety about the human cost. Trump has just gloated about killing people.

@Concreteisland2 If we had you people as citizens in WW2, you would have given up on D-day. How about giving it 2 weeks before going completely negative.

I’m beginning to get limited visibility markers on my posts. I post ex CIA, ex US military and interviews with sharp minded international analysts. Please look at what I share and listen to it. The war is going badly for the USISRAEL and they are hiding it.

@jordainc @politico Lede

This is what we in journalism call burying the lead

@DennisPassa @cmclymer The most famous name in Australian Winter Olympic history. "Doing a Bradbury" is part of the lexicon.

@cmclymer Thanks for laying it all out there, Charlotte. I've interviewed him several times and you'd be hard-pressed to find a nicer person anywhere.

It annoys me that so many people are under the impression that this guy, Steven Bradbury, is some subpar goober who lucked his way into gold. That could not be further from the truth. This is one of the most satisfying victories in the history of the Olympics if you know the full backstory. This medal final was during his fourth Olympics, in Salt Lake City in 2002. Earlier in his career, he was among the best athletes in the world in this specific event, the 1000 meter short-track men's speed skate. But despite his talent, he just had some of the shittiest luck in the sport. We're talking a decade of shit luck. In the '94 Winter Olympics, he was considered the odds-on favorite to take gold, but he fell in his heat after getting illegally pushed by an opponent (who was later disqualified). He didn't get a re-do. That was it. He got shoved by some asshole, and his Olympics was over. Then in the '98 Winter Olympics, he was a favorite to at least medal in the same event but got caught up in a collision that wasn't his fault and failed to advance. In 1994, he got his thigh sliced open by a competitor's skate during a race, which required 111 stitches and 18 months of recovery time. In 2000, he broke his neck during training because a skater in front of him fell and tripped him up. That required a bunch of screws and plates being inserted into his skull and back and chest. And doctors told him that he should stop skating. But he didn't wanna give up. It meant too much to him. So, there he was in Salt Lake City in 2002, past his prime, a walking erector set, going up against opponents who were faster and younger and in their prime. He manages to win his heat and advance to the quarterfinal but then has the shit luck (yet again) of having to go up against the best two athletes in the quarterfinal and only the top two advance. He finishes third and thinks: "Damn, I gave it my best shot." But then, the second place finisher is disqualified, so Bradbury gets to advance to the semifinal. Now, at this point, he's thinking: Well, shit, I'm not as fast as these younger guys, and I got a bad habit of getting taken out by crashes that aren't my fault. So, he consults with the Australian national coach, Ann Zhang, and they decide that he should hang back from the pack and hope the pack crashes. That is a perfectly valid strategy. If you crash, you lose, but speed skaters risk crashing to gain an advantage in order to win. It may not feel exciting, but it is a valid strategy and just as risky: avoid crashes entirely and hope that pays off. It paid off in the semifinal: the pack, including the defending Olympic champion, jostled too much and crashed. Bradbury wins and advances. So, he's improbably in the final and takes the same approach, and it works: the entire pack jostles too much and crashes, and Bradbury's risk of hanging back pays off. This victory was not some un-athletic schlub lucking his way into gold. It was a journeyman athlete who never gave up and played smart after a career of shitty luck and finally got his due after it being snatched away from him so many times. Hands down, one of my favorite Olympics stories.

@NeilRingdahl @YellowLabLife What is the NPV of a silver stream that starts in 20 years? Answer is very little. Of course it's a lot when you get there, but the $ upfront, if spent wisely, is worth a lot too.

Fair enough. What is not factored in is the asymmetric benefit to Wheaton when, very likely, the mine life extends beyond its current projection, due to new ore discoveries or resource conversions. Antamina has a history of resource conversion with at least another 100Moz of inferred silver in resource (i.e. not in the plan). Maybe its because I am not an accountant, but -as a miner- if I really need to "better spend" $4.3B that I DON'T have I don't go & give away my bread & butter income to someone else. I hold back until I have the cash or I go into more conventional debt & take % on the chin, leaving the cream on the table for shareholders or for paying back that debt faster (which no one seems to ever consider an option). A precious metals stream is really a perpetuity debt instrument with a lower interest rate....with the interest rate increasing proportionally with any metal price increase. So while the cash I am sure has "better use now", in 10-15yrs time, when the silver price is who-knows-what, BHP will rue the day it struck this deal, as they burn more cash extending the life. Combined with Wheaton's existing stream on Glencore's 33.75% share, this deal gives Wheaton rights to 67.5% of Antamina's total payable silver reducing to 45% after thresholds on both streams - a significant poison pill to any future disposal option. I can only conclude then that BHP don't see the silver price going up very much if at all. Kudos to Wheaton - they have always been good at doing deals with perfect timing.

Madness is giving up a valuable piece of all gross revenue for short-term gain. It is NOT a "low cost of capital" over the LoM & makes a mining business way less competitive & attractive. But ppl looking at DCF's never think about extending mine life which usually happens.

Did 4 out of the last 4 of Kingsbury's #mensdualmoguls opponents crash out? Bradbury like...

@mintomusings @stephaniemain2 Not a dinky... a dink. In Brisbane anyway.

@stephaniemain2 OMG! Do I live in another country? In Sydney Australia it was always giving someone a double. What the hell is a dinky?

What did you call giving someone a lift on your bike? We called them "backies"

@robwade91225 Could move to the US... "MRI scans in the USA typically cost between US$400 and US$12,000, with a national average of roughly $1,325. Prices vary based on location. Specific, high-cost, or complex scans, such as those for the neck or brain, can exceed $10,000. "

@RileyBev @AFLcomau Lucky they paid up big for Oliver..🤣

A devastating blow at the Giants this morning, with star midfielder Tom Green going down with a suspected ACL injury. Green is on his way for scans, but the club is fearing the worst for their reigning best and fairest winner. @AFLcomau

@TheKennyDevine He was found by a jury to have committed sexual assault. Very conventional...

Rita Panahi laments the coverage of US politics in Australia... ...just as Adam Creighton expresses his "shock" that so many people would think Donald Trump is a sexual predator. "[Trump] has never done drugs in his life; his private life is pretty conventional and conservative by all accounts" Cooked to an absolute crisp.

@RalphyHeraldSun Morikawa turned down LIV cash in 2021 after winning the Open. Since then he's faded from majors contention. You can see why. (that's crap but just as valid as Ralph's crap)

Some players like Cam Smith have taken LIV cash & faded from majors contention. Smylie can get the dollars, still play 12-15 DP World tour events, stay sharp & now gets world ranking points to play majors. You can see why he made the call after LIV lifted their offer a third time

@UncleWalnutz @BobHarig Uncle Walnutz??

Elvis Smylie won LIV’s first-ever OWGR event that concluded in Saudi. He was 134 going in and will move inside the top 80 pending Phoenix results. He’s now another win or a couple of high finishes away from earning a spot in the Masters

@Norma5387953815 3531

99.9% will fail..!! Tell me the number that is bigger than this..??

@Ausbobsmit @realDonaldTrump You are confusing 98% with 98 people. Easy mistake, but try to do better champ.

@realDonaldTrump A whopping 98% of Australians wish President Trump was Prime Minister of Australia.

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@Skunkie_C Yeah, that's not a little argy-bargy. That's flat out assault. How long would the suspension be if it was during a game?

Meh, intensity in training in the summer heat. Tempers fray…. It’s a contact sport!