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According to Gerry Dick of Inside Indiana Business, poor management and employees will have no problem finding jobs in a white hit trucking industry.

I just finished season two of Jack Ryan, I believe Venezuela's situation has been fixed.

Another interesting tidbit from Virginia. FTA: https://nationalistreview.net/2019/12/05/virginia-sheriff-promises-to-deputize-thousands-if-necessary-to-protect-their-right-to-own-firearms/?fbclid=IwAR3b64pjNciykTf0Por9i4R6YC6skeBLSB0H-2IfQBabBo04RrDTxiOxBNE

Not really a meme, but funny.

If both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue were to fall into a giant sink hole, would anyone care?

I just listened to Joe Rogan's podcast with Tulsi Gabbard. I came away being even more impressed with her than ever. She makes an incredible amount of sense on foreign policy and even some domestic policy. She got a free pass on most of the divisive domestic stuff, I was a little disappointed with Joe Rogan as it wasn't discussed. Which is odd given Rogan's marathon podcasts. After checking out her website and based on what little I've seen on the debates, I don't think I could vote for her, but she seems one of the least bat shit crazies on the stage. She is not currently qualified for the December debate, which is a shame, hopefully she makes the show. The more I see of Mayor Pete, the less I think. He's a spineless pandering politician who's life is dictated by polls. I never thought I would see this come to fruition:

The softball certification clinics, required every other year for tournament applicants, focus pretty much soley on 3 man mechanics. I would assume baseball does something similar. I usually attend a certification clinic every year, it has been my observation at the clinics I attend the vast majority of the guys/gals at these clinics will never work beyond the sectional level, and could probably benefit more from throwing some 2 man stuff in the mix. Add into the mix the number of guys/gals who just umpire for beer and cigarette money who don't apply for a tournament so don't attend anything, much less a certification clinic, and it's not hard to understand why you hear the stories you hear regarding officiating in the bat and ball sports. When I was coaching I only hired what I deemed competent officials at home. It just makes your life much easier, in most cases they were state finals officials. But when we traveled, especially south, we often times got really bad officials. I never felt like we got homered, I just felt like they were in many cases incompetent. Many times I questioned whether or not they even had a softball license. They're not hard to spot, you see them when they're walking to the field and their partner is pointing locations of the field while he's talking to him. Poor rules knowledge, you might be amazed what I managed to talk umpires into. ***Note to coaches*** it pays to know the rules and know when the official doesn't.

I didn't realize he was an old SCC guy. I'm just trying to wrap my head around the fact he's older than you.

I hesitate to use the term "civil war", however something is brewing. More evidence: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/dozens-of-virginia-counties-pass-second-amendment-sanctuary-resolutions

Rust belt cities.

This is suppose to be a completely new program. The merger will create a "new" Elkhart High School. Grades 10-12 will attend the old Memorial building. Central will house the freshman center. I guess the question would be is this a continuation of the "old" Elkhart High School? The schools split in 1972.

I'm assuming the week 3 game is an issue because of the new HHC schedule. Will this continue to be a revolving door or is there a long term game out there in the future?

Follow the money.

We had a couple of games where the sideline tarp came right up to the sideline. One was on a raining night and it was slick as hell. My LJ complained all night. Allowing QB to spike the ball in shotgun seems like a no brainer to me, particularly with the way O's have evolved. Seems odd we did away with automatic first down/loss of down on PI and now we're talking about adding DPI back. What is the purpose of first down for D PF/USC? If it's to fall in line with NCAA code, lets just use NCAA rules.

How does CE get these 1 game deals and get them to come to Columbus?

Bartholomew, Jackson, Scott counties used to have a large number of dairy farms. Thompson Dairy which was headquartered in Columbus bought all the milk. Thompson's had facilities in Columbus and Seymour and still offered home delivery as late as the mid-70's. Thompson's was a regional dairy supplying milk and ice cream to a good part of of south central Indiana. The Thompsons sold out around the mid-80's to Prairie Farms, giving Prairie Farms a pretty good strong hold in south central Indiana. I'm not sure about the Columbus facility, but all production ceased at Seymour. Prairie Farms did maintain a small distribution hub in Seymour for several years. There has been a pretty steady decrease of dairy farms in the area since. Dairy farms are hard work, cows have to be milked twice a day 365 days a year, they don't get sick and they don't take vacations. As with so much in the farming industry large corporate facilities began dominating the landscape. C'mon Muda, follow the money. And to be clear, I'm a Gen Xer, I have never drank milk. The thought of sitting down with a big glass of milk is repulsive to me. My wife goes thru 2-3 gallons a week. But she drinks 1% which is really just water lying about being milk.

All milk stinks in my opinion. I don’t drink any of it.

It's pretty clear we now have a new generation here on the GID, you gotta love these 20 year old subjects getting new legs.

I told you the dude at Central was in the driver's seat! 😉

Westfield has a Sushi bar one day a week.........the P/P's can't compete.

There are any number of factors: Look at the number of kids who participate in extracurriculars at publics vs. privates. Last time I checked it was about 70% in privates vs. about 35% in publics. TA often misconstrued this concept, read carefully, kids who attend. Look at your own programs, look at the kids who work hard, odds are their parents are fairly successful, contrary to popular belief, success occurs thru hard work. Unsuccessful people are not sending their kids to private schools. No I did not say private students work harder. Not necessarily a private only advantage, but in many cases private feeder schools have multiple feeder K-8 schools. So the pool doesn't start getting weeded out until their freshman year, where schools with a single feeder MS start getting weeded out when they're in the 7th grade. As has been mentioned, in most cases parents who send their kids to private schools are much more likely to hold their children accountable than their public school counterparts. The may also have the means for outside of school instruction, camps, etc. Legacy, again not necessarily a private school deal, but it seems a lot more prevalent there. Multiple generations who attend the same school. That creates a culture, Grandpa was on that 56 team that went undefeated, dad was on 85 championship team, and Junior and his teammates have that tradition to live up to. You hear constantly private schools talk about their culture, and it's necessarily aimed at sports, but sports do weigh heavily into it. Just some random thoughts off the top of my head. And just to be clear the tired old "they can recruit" thing is sooo played. EVERY SCHOOL in the state of Indiana recruits, lets move on.

That is correct, play clock goes. Game clock should start when the down box is set. Ideally with around 32 seconds on the play clock.