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If he’s reelected, Biden wants to expand Medicare’s drug negotiation to 50 drugs a year and extend the out-of-pocket spending caps to the general population. Trump, meanwhile, has said he is going to “totally kill” the Affordable Care Act and that he intends to dismantle the IRA.
Joe Biden Lowered Drug Prices. Does Anyone Care? - The AtlanticThe unfortunate paradox of super-popular policies is that, almost by definition, they fail to generate the kind of drama needed to get people to pay attention to them.
Joe Biden Lowered Drug Prices. Does Anyone Care? - The AtlanticJoe Biden accomplished what none of his predecessors could. The Inflation Reduction Act is best known for its clean-energy investments, but it also empowered Medicare to negotiate prices for the drugs that seniors spend the most money on.
Joe Biden Lowered Drug Prices. Does Anyone Care? - The AtlanticPractically nothing is more popular than lowering drug prices, and yet the popularity hasn’t materialized. Which raises an uncomfortable question: Politically speaking, does policy matter at all?
Joe Biden Lowered Drug Prices. Does Anyone Care? - The AtlanticI believe the simplest, and least conspiratorially-minded, answer is that, as is also the case with the Mayo Clinic's incredibly troubling advocacy of Timing problems... It's what (pretty much) everybody teaches. They making the all too common mistake of assuming that proper pitching mechanics are anything that let you throw hard. If you're throwing hard, then your mechanics have to be good.
Tommy John TwistFor years, I have expressed concern about how, at foot plant, you often see the same twist in the wrists of pitchers who have had or will need Tommy John surgery.
Tommy John TwistInto foot plant -- which is the critical moment because that is when the arm typically comes under load -- Nolan Ryan points the ball at third base while Walker Buehler is points the ball at second base.
Tommy John Twist“It’s kind of sad that I’m just out there having fun and my phone blows up with people angry about it. But what are you going to do?”
Gambling has made ends of games miserable for college basketball benchwarmers - The AthleticUpon receiving an UberEats order one day, Bacot was less pleasantly informed by his delivery guy that Bacot had “f-ed up his parlay.’’
Gambling has made ends of games miserable for college basketball benchwarmers - The AthleticNCAA president Charlie Baker last week asked for a ban on prop bets involving college athletes, saying the national body wanted to protect both athletes and the integrity of the game.
Gambling has made ends of games miserable for college basketball benchwarmers - The Athleticmaybe that’s how much patience enough important people in Highmark Stadium had left for Diggs.
The Buffalo Bills’ patience wore thin with Stefon Diggs. Now he’s gone - The AthleticEither way, to answer Diggs’ social media question from Tuesday night, Buffalo’s offense already did prove he’s unessential to Allen’s success down the homestretch.
The Buffalo Bills’ patience wore thin with Stefon Diggs. Now he’s gone - The AthleticMulkey wrote that, by the time they moved to Waco, the kids had learned to give their mom space, especially after losses, and stop asking why she cussed so much.
LSU coach Kim Mulkey holds grudges, battles everyone and keeps winning. But at what cost? - The Washington Post“It’s emotionally draining. On the other hand, it gets results.”
LSU coach Kim Mulkey holds grudges, battles everyone and keeps winning. But at what cost? - The Washington Post“You might be able to win us a championship, but are people going to want to come back and see you?”
LSU coach Kim Mulkey holds grudges, battles everyone and keeps winning. But at what cost? - The Washington PostIt was as if everyone was discussing Griner’s plight. Everyone, that is, except Griner’s college coach. “And you won’t,” Mulkey shot back at a reporter who said he hadn’t seen her comment on the situation.
LSU coach Kim Mulkey holds grudges, battles everyone and keeps winning. But at what cost? - The Washington Poststaffers sometimes mitigated the risk of Mulkey’s tirades being recorded by barring phones from the room
LSU coach Kim Mulkey holds grudges, battles everyone and keeps winning. But at what cost? - The Washington PostThree months after Mulkey contracted the coronavirus in 2021, forcing the cancellation of a home game against U-Conn., she urged the NCAA to “dump” testing for the virus.
LSU coach Kim Mulkey holds grudges, battles everyone and keeps winning. But at what cost? - The Washington PostNiemann found Mulkey and approached her. Niemann says she thanked her former coach for the impact she had made on her life and said she was sorry for the way things ended. Niemann said Mulkey said nothing and walked away. “There was just nothing there,” she says. “There was no warmth. There was no nothing.”
LSU coach Kim Mulkey holds grudges, battles everyone and keeps winning. But at what cost? - The Washington PostEven before Baylor announced plans to replace the old Ferrell Center with a new arena, Mulkey told peers that she expected the court to be named for her.
LSU coach Kim Mulkey holds grudges, battles everyone and keeps winning. But at what cost? - The Washington PostThis was the same year that Baylor fired football coach Art Briles after a damning investigation of the football program’s coverup of at least 17 acts of sexual or domestic assault by 19 players. Mulkey went on the attack. She snapped at reporters who brought up the scandal, saying she was “tired of hearing” about it, then turned a postgame speech after her 500th career win into a pulpit. “If somebody is around you and they ever say, ‘I will never send my daughter to Baylor,’ you knock them right in the face,” she said. Mulkey later apologized.
LSU coach Kim Mulkey holds grudges, battles everyone and keeps winning. But at what cost? - The Washington Post“Just once, I wanted her to stop worrying about what everyone else thought and stand by my side.”
LSU coach Kim Mulkey holds grudges, battles everyone and keeps winning. But at what cost? - The Washington PostI never really knew if Kim fully accepted me for who I am.”
LSU coach Kim Mulkey holds grudges, battles everyone and keeps winning. But at what cost? - The Washington PostPlayers weren’t to bring non-basketball matters to Mulkey, they say, encouraged to confide in assistant coaches instead
LSU coach Kim Mulkey holds grudges, battles everyone and keeps winning. But at what cost? - The Washington PostEverything Mulkey did, at least as it related to basketball, worked
LSU coach Kim Mulkey holds grudges, battles everyone and keeps winning. But at what cost? - The Washington PostThese procedures were written in the belief that the vast majority of fires aboard airplanes would be caused by lit cigarettes being dumped in the trash, and that such a fire was not an emergency. Indeed, when people could smoke on airplanes, it was impractical to declare a full-blown emergency every time someone saw smoke in the cabin!
A Song of Smoke and Fire: The tragedy of Air Canada flight 797 | by Admiral Cloudberg | MediumTo a modern reader, accustomed to an environment in which the mere utterance of the word “fire” is enough to send any pilot scrambling for the nearest airport, the NTSB’s judgment makes some sense. At the time, however, it was gratingly out of touch with the reality experienced by most flight crews
A Song of Smoke and Fire: The tragedy of Air Canada flight 797 | by Admiral Cloudberg | Mediumin Cameron’s mind, he certainly was not receiving conflicting information — he was being told without caveat that the situation was under control, and in fact everyone believed this to be the case until multiple system failures occurred.
A Song of Smoke and Fire: The tragedy of Air Canada flight 797 | by Admiral Cloudberg | Mediumimmediately after Ouimet mentioned that he “couldn’t go back,” Cameron was told five separate times by three different people that the smoke was clearing and that he need not worry
A Song of Smoke and Fire: The tragedy of Air Canada flight 797 | by Admiral Cloudberg | MediumFirst Officer Ouimet submitted a formal letter of contestation, which was amplified by the Air Line Pilots Association, requesting that the probable cause be revised.
A Song of Smoke and Fire: The tragedy of Air Canada flight 797 | by Admiral Cloudberg | MediumThis conclusion was devastating for the pilots, whose names and reputations were immediately dragged through the mud by the media.
A Song of Smoke and Fire: The tragedy of Air Canada flight 797 | by Admiral Cloudberg | MediumThe investigators believed that Ouimet need not have been sent back a second time, and that the comments about smoke clearing were misleading and distracting, since it had already been established that the fire was not in the trash bin and was not under control.
A Song of Smoke and Fire: The tragedy of Air Canada flight 797 | by Admiral Cloudberg | MediumThose three to five minutes may well have meant the difference between life and death for some of the passengers. (Incidentally, the controller was cleared of any contribution to the delay, despite his initial misidentification of the airplane on radar, because flight 797 flew the shortest possible route to Cincinnati anyway.)
A Song of Smoke and Fire: The tragedy of Air Canada flight 797 | by Admiral Cloudberg | MediumCaptain Cameron continued to believe that the fire was in the bin for several more minutes, all while flight 797 remained at its cruising altitude. Clearly some kind of miscommunication had occurred.
A Song of Smoke and Fire: The tragedy of Air Canada flight 797 | by Admiral Cloudberg | MediumFirst Officer Ouimet’s decision to turn off the air conditioning packs several minutes before landing was not called for in any emergency procedures and may in fact have made the situation even worse. Experts estimated that it robbed the passengers of two full cycles of fresh air. However, the investigators accepted that Ouimet was not aware of the consequences, and that the logic he used to come to his decision, while erroneous, would have made sense to him at the time.
A Song of Smoke and Fire: The tragedy of Air Canada flight 797 | by Admiral Cloudberg | MediumHad such an order been given, the smoke may well have been discovered several minutes sooner, but since this was a judgment call rather than a procedural requirement, investigators could not strictly fault him for it.
A Song of Smoke and Fire: The tragedy of Air Canada flight 797 | by Admiral Cloudberg | Mediumit would have been normal for Captain Cameron to send a flight attendant back to investigate the status of the lavatory
A Song of Smoke and Fire: The tragedy of Air Canada flight 797 | by Admiral Cloudberg | MediumBut the NTSB nevertheless felt that they missed opportunities to get on the ground sooner than they actually did.
A Song of Smoke and Fire: The tragedy of Air Canada flight 797 | by Admiral Cloudberg | Mediumit praised the pilots for “outstanding airmanship without which the airplane and everyone on board would certainly have perished.”
A Song of Smoke and Fire: The tragedy of Air Canada flight 797 | by Admiral Cloudberg | MediumIn addition to the causes of the fire, the NTSB also sought to understand whether the crew acted properly during the emergency. This area of inquiry would prove to be highly controversial, and in an uncharacteristic lapse for the agency, there remains considerable doubt that all of the NTSB’s conclusions were justified.
A Song of Smoke and Fire: The tragedy of Air Canada flight 797 | by Admiral Cloudberg | Mediumin contrast to some other famous in-flight fires, the blaze did not become particularly large prior to landing. It was more of a slow, smoldering fire — in fact, it is thought to have been burning for as long as 42 minutes by the time the plane stopped on the runway, and yet it never grew large enough to produce visible flames inside or outside the plane. The first time anyone saw any actual fire was when the cabin suddenly burst into flames, 90 seconds after landing.
A Song of Smoke and Fire: The tragedy of Air Canada flight 797 | by Admiral Cloudberg | MediumCanadians were stunned to learn that not only had 23 people died on an Air Canada plane, but that one of them was Stan Rogers.
A Song of Smoke and Fire: The tragedy of Air Canada flight 797 | by Admiral Cloudberg | Mediumjust 90 seconds after the plane came to a stop, that the entire passenger cabin exploded in flame.
A Song of Smoke and Fire: The tragedy of Air Canada flight 797 | by Admiral Cloudberg | MediumCaptain Cameron applied maximum braking, and while the anti-skid system was not working, causing all the tires to blow out, he was able to bring the plane safely to a halt. In the cabin, relief was palpable — the worst was surely over. Little did they know that the horror had only just begun.
A Song of Smoke and Fire: The tragedy of Air Canada flight 797 | by Admiral Cloudberg | Mediumsomehow, they did it; from just a few miles out, they spotted the runway and were cleared to land.
A Song of Smoke and Fire: The tragedy of Air Canada flight 797 | by Admiral Cloudberg | MediumBoth pilots were fully engaged in a Herculean effort to line up for the runway with inoperative instruments and heavy, sluggish flight controls.
A Song of Smoke and Fire: The tragedy of Air Canada flight 797 | by Admiral Cloudberg | MediumOuimet eventually settled on turning off the air conditioning packs, which were still receiving power from the emergency DC bus. It would later be noted that while Ouimet thought the air conditioning system was feeding more smoke into the cabin, the opposite was actually true, and turning the packs off probably increased the rate of smoke accumulation inside the plane.
A Song of Smoke and Fire: The tragedy of Air Canada flight 797 | by Admiral Cloudberg | Mediumthe plane was only eight nautical miles from the runway threshold and still at 8,000 feet — there was no way to safely descend to the runway in time.
A Song of Smoke and Fire: The tragedy of Air Canada flight 797 | by Admiral Cloudberg | MediumSome people started writing notes to loved ones; one man recalled placing his ID in a secure pocket so they could identify his body.
A Song of Smoke and Fire: The tragedy of Air Canada flight 797 | by Admiral Cloudberg | Mediumthe passengers were fully exposed to the acrid smoke, which attacked their eyes, throats, and sinuses with caustic ferocity.
A Song of Smoke and Fire: The tragedy of Air Canada flight 797 | by Admiral Cloudberg | Medium