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Get rid of the non-contact days at the beginning of the actual practice season. I hate going from limited contact in shoulder pads and helmets in your competition days during the summer to helmets only to start the season.

PLEASE NOTE: Dates have been set for our two BISHOP DULLAGHAN MIDDLE SCHOOL CAMP Sessions this summer for kids entering grades 5 thru 8. Session 1 - June 22-23-24-25 at University of Indianapolis - 9 opportunities over 4 days and 3 nights. Session 2 - July 13-14-15 at University of Indianapolis - 8 opportunities over 3 days and 2 nights. To Register please visit our website at: https://bishopdullaghan.com/middle-school-camps/ NOTE: This is SKILLS Camp and is designed to work on offensive and defensive position drills with some 7 on 7 competition at the end of camp. This Camp is staffed by high school and college coaches. BDCAMP-2020Brochure.pdf

A non-direct consequence was seen a couple of times this season. My daughter is on the dance team for Jeff. For home games, she'd often stay after school and then we'd pick her up after the game. I told her to text us at the start of the 4th quarter and we'd come get her ... from that text, you've got 12 minutes to get to the school with the mercy rule. Used to be able to have time to grab a bite for dinner if you got there by the half and still have enough time to finish up and get over to the school for pickup. Depending on the opponent and the mercy rule, you may have to go fast food or skip the appetizers and get it to-go. 😉

Time was a good thing until the Government got involved...

those dang Intangibles

My last game was Favre’s last win as a Packer.....against the Seahawks in the same round they are in now. It was the perfect night to see the game; had a blast tailgating, driving snow, playoff football, and a Packers win.

Was at the grocery last weekend......SF wonders.....how do you milk an almond?

I would agree with about everything stated about Linton. Individuals looking to score... not enough guys willing to do the little things. The new faces are still trying to figure out where they fit. Some of the returning guys are looking to carry a team, which seems to just slow the process down. We get glimpses of how some guys could fill a role... then things get bogged down. Post play is only an option when Kip has a favorable matchup on the block. He doesn't get as many of those since a big man is usually guarding him without the Robbins twins around. Frady is good in the post(even though I don't know that he has ever received a post entry pass), but has some limits on defense. Those limits could have played a role in him not playing against TH North. Clearly... they have zone busters. This team might think to last years senior class. Sammy and Silas Robbins both could have scored 15-20 ppg if the offense ran through them. Slover... he could have scored 20 a game on his quickness and ability to finish around the basket. Tucker Hayes is one of the most gifted shooters to come through Linton... on other teams... he scores 25+ ppg. All sacrificed a little for the good of the team. I can't count how many times I've seen Frady alone on the block... Hart or Cook open on the perimeter with no pass to the open guy. Hart is also under utilized as a slashing scorer, which is his greatest asset. Some teams have a defender to lock up Hale... I've not seen too many with 2nd guy as athletic as little Joey. Same could be said for D-Rob and Pyne. Instead we shoot a lot of one on one contested 3 pointers. With all that said... Coach Hart usually starts whipping them into shape after Christmas. If guys buy in... this team could make another trip to Indy. If not, we might have a guy or two break some individual records... maybe even win a sectional... I just don't see them beating really good teams. Isn't it sort of comical to hear Linton fans(myself included) complain about things when they have a varsity bench and JV team full of guys that would get varsity minutes elsewhere.

Obviously learned his telestrator skills from Randy Marsh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiPUjGNTi24

I'm a huge fan of this idea. I'm familiar with a state that does this and it's a huge success. About half of the schools in their smallest class are co-ops. Some are a couple smaller schools joining a school that could possibly support their own team, but most of them would not exist if not for co-ops.

Really like it. Have been on both sides of it and I think it is good as is.

Industrial chillers with boilers systems, now you’re in the ball park for reducing energy consumption.

Seattle. Fine by me. Don’t know about anyone else, but I can’t stand Pete Carroll.

Did you seriously type that with a straight face? I mean...seriously?

I’d like for that to happen also, but it won’t...

I’m struggling to think of a game that started later than 7:00 due to heat in Evansville. But we are central time, which the whole state should be on. Until Indianapolis wisens up (not likely) and realizes they should be central time, heat will be an issue for 82 counties early in the season. http://sagarin.com/counties/timezone.htm

CFL’s were a train wreck shoved down our throats. I have been switching everything in home and business to LED. The technology is fairly mature at this point, the price continues to fall, it makes fiscal sense. You can’t look at the initial costs, in the long term LED is a better investment. I’ve been using LED for several years and have only replaced on bulb, within days of it being installed, it was obviously a defective bulb. The real issue I had was what the government did to the fluorescent industry, first ramming immature technology of digital ballast down our throats, then essentially banning T12 lamps......

........or 8:00. That was the starting time back in my day.

As long as conferences are based primarily on scheduling convenience and geographic proximity, rather than competitive reasons, I think conferences in general - and especially 10 school conferences — are bad for football. The inability to schedule out of conference games that might be more competitive detracts from the quality of football generally, a cause that I thought you were championing.

I CANNOT LIKE THIS STATEMENT ENOUGH I believe our tackling the last few years has also improved greatly and we also do not live to ground at all. We use wheels, non contact drills to emphasis technique, lots of reps on angles both as team and within position groups.

I can't speak for DT, but there are just too many ND haters out there. It's common knowledge. You either love 'em or you hate 'em. Notre Dame is one of the top programs in the country whether you like it or not.

Tried to muster some outrage on behalf of Michigan. ... Failed.

Uni-party.

How about a 25% reduction in the size and scope of the federal government, across all departments, agencies. bureaus, etc.? That should save some energy consumption right there.

Without Evidence of 'Imminent' Attack on Americans, the White House's Justification for Killing Iranian General Seems Hollow: https://reason.com/2020/01/04/absent-evidence-of-imminent-attack-on-americans-white-houses-justification-for-killing-iranian-general-collapses/ Why would Trump opt for a "far out" plan like assassinating a foreign official—an act of war, make no mistake about it—when other presidents have passed on the opportunity to do so? It could be simply Trump being Trump. The president wrote on Twitter that Soleimani "should have been taken out many years ago." And Vice President Mike Pence expanded on that idea in a thread posted to Twitter on Friday in which he laid out a long history of Soleimani's involvement in everything from the 9/11 plot to various attacks conducted by Iranian-backed militia since America invaded Iraq. There's no doubt that Soleimani has blood on his hands and that he worked to make America's ill-conceived occupation of Iraq even more of a disaster than it already was. It's highly likely that he was still doing that when he was killed on Thursday. But there's a big gap between saying that Soleimani was killed for his track record going back years or decades versus saying—as the White House and State Department have officially stated—that he was killed to prevent some impending, immediate threat. And this distinction matters. It matters as a philosophical or moral concern regarding how America will continue exercising its global police powers. Is the standard for assassinating foreign officials now as murky and minimal as proclaiming them to be "bad guys?" More importantly, it should matter in a very practical way to anyone who wants to soberly assess whether the White House did the right thing in droning Soleimani this week. The attack has ratcheted up tensions, caused the State Department to warn Americans to leave Iraq immediately (even if that means fleeing across the desert into another unfriendly country), and resulted in the Pentagon ordering thousands more Americans into harm's way. The onus is on the White House to prove that the alternative—not killing Soleimani—would have been worse. But it doesn't seem like that was the calculus that actually drove the decision to kill Soleimani at all. The Washington Post reports that Trump was "motivated to act by what he felt was negative coverage after his 2019 decision to call off the airstrike after Iran downed the U.S. surveillance drone." (For what it's worth, I praised Trump when he called off that 2019 airstrike, a decision that likely saved dozens of lives and may have averted war.) Taken together, the reporting from the Post and the Times paint a picture of Trump making a crucial decision that could put lives at stake and further destabilize the Middle East because he wanted the media to portray him as a tough guy. Rather than facing down an immediate threat, it seems like the White House has created a much more dangerous situation because it retaliated against Soleimani for any number of prior offenses, including the attacks at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad last week. That's not the official story, of course, because as terrifying as "we assassinated a foreign official just because we wanted to, risk of war be damned" might be, "we assassinated a foreign official on a whim so the president would look like the tough guy portrayed in MAGA memes" sounds even worse.

The military-industrial complex:

Trump Wants to Target Iranian Cultural Sites, Says His Tweets Shall Serve as Notice to Congress: https://reason.com/2020/01/06/trump-wants-to-target-iranian-cultural-sites-says-his-tweets-shall-serve-as-notice-to-congress/ Destruction of cultural heritage sites and artifacts is opposed by the U.N. Security Council. The council—of which the U.S. is a permanent member—in 2015 condemned "the destruction of cultural heritage in Iraq and Syria … whether such destruction is incidental or deliberate, including targeted destruction of religious sites and objects." And condemning destruction of cultural sites and objects goes much further back than that. As the Los Angeles Times points out, the Hague Convention of 1907 said "all necessary steps must be taken" to spare "buildings dedicated to religion, art, science, or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals, and places where the sick and wounded are collected." And the Geneva Convention states that "any acts of hostility directed against the historic monuments, works of art or places of worship which constitute the cultural or spiritual heritage of peoples." Acts such as these are considered by many to be a war crime, and a lot of U.S. media has been condemning them as such, as have some Democratic politicians. "Targeting civilians and cultural sites is what terrorists do. It's a war crime," tweeted Sen. Chris Murphy (D–Conn.). "The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes on Twitter," said Rep. Ilhan Omar (D–Minn.). Trump also announced over the weekend that his tweets shall serve as official notice to Congress of his intent to engage in military action against Iran. "These Media Posts will serve as notification to the United States Congress that should Iran strike any U.S. person or target, the United States will quickly & fully strike back, & perhaps in a disproportionate manner," Trump tweeted on Sunday evening. Rep. Justin Amash (I–Mich.) says all that needs to be said on this one: But for the record, here's how the House Foreign Affairs Committee responded: Quippy principles from Democratic leaders ring hollow, however, when party members in Congress have repeatedly voted against measures to rein in presidential war powers or require more congressional oversight. Trump's dangerous Twitter tantrums come as Iranian people have been pouring out in mourning over Soleimani, ("for now, Iran is united—in anger at the United States," says The New York Times) and the Iraqi parliament has voted the U.S. military out. Owing to that last bit, Trump has started threatening Iraq again. "If they do ask us to leave, if we don't do it in a very friendly basis. We will charge them sanctions like they've never seen before ever. It'll make Iranian sanctions look somewhat tame," the president said. Meanwhile, it hasn't taken long for the administration's justification for murdering Soleimani to start unraveling. Trump and company initially insisted that Soleimani's death was necessary because he posed an "imminent" threat to American citizens and was planning an upcoming attack that would cost hundreds of U.S. lives. But a range of administration officials suggest that Trump's political image was the only thing under imminent threat. The option of attacking Soleimani had been floating around as a potential (but not optimal) plan for months. .... Trump the Dictator.

Another large dairy files for bankruptcy: https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/06/business/borden-dairy-bankruptcy/index.html