Impartial_Observer

We had this particular email read to us at a meeting, it was not forwarded. I have asked the chair and no one seems to know anything about the URL we're suppose to fill out if we have a running clock.

Hope the young man with the broken arm heals up.

Great point, but I'm out of likes for the day, week, month, whatever. We all see the same thing play out on FB every day and we've had this discussion here countless times. "Gun nuts" are accused of wanting to mire the discussion down in minutia. But the point of my post is that words mean things. Yet during these discussions words and phrases get thrown about interchangeably and in most cases ignorantly, in that the people who use the words just don't understand what they mean. To me this is what I find about Francis's "hell yes" statement so offensive. The government is going to forcibly take my legally/lawfully purchased/owned property based on the fact that he doesn't like it. I get it currently there's not a snowball's chance in hell of getting any type of gun bans passed. But at some point, there might be.

Heard some interesting debate regarding the "weapons of war" . I think there could very well be some unintended, or perhaps intended consequences with regards to banning guns that were "designed for the battle field". The Colt M1911 was standard issue firearm for every branch of the military for over 70 years. Their civilian counterparts are virtually identical to the military version, as they are semi-automatic hand guns. With untold millions of them in circulation. The Beretta M9 has been standard military issue since 1986 along with it's civilian variant Model 92 and various variants. Again the civilian counterpart is virtually identical to it's military cousin. And again, untold millions of them in circulation. IO will admit to spending an obscene amount of money on a Wilson Combat Beretta 92G that he absolutely LOVES. the thing is a tack driver. Since around 2014ish the military has adopted a new protocol with regards to hand guns, opting for customizable civilian off the shelf weapons. This is not only a cost savings measure but to customize guns to individuals So my point being, John Browning created the 1911 specifically for Colt to sell to the US Military. The Beretta was an existing design that was adopted by the US Military. So if we go down the rabbit hole of banning all guns military, this opens a huge can of worms for owners of iconic guns such as the 1911 or the Beretta 92. I'm not sure anyone I know who owns guns who doesn't own at least one of these firearms. Forget the AR-15's and AK-47's, what about the rest of these "weapons of war" that have been "designed to kill"?

We had a running clock in this game, so the coach is already in trouble;) The play had 0 impact on the game, but more to my point, this is why film is so valuable to us. We had two of these plays in the game that were not covered, one was worse than the other. This spurred conversation among the crew how do we get this covered. I realize most people think we just meet up before the game and go wing it, but there is a fair amount of preparation that goes into it. Our goal every Friday night is to be the best team on the field, I didn't think we were very sharp Friday night, working hard towards this week. I doubt anyone in the stands knew we were there Friday, but you know as an official when you walk off the field, we just weren't sharp.

I think Francis has proved that wrong.

BHO was the best gun salesman the world has ever seen.

Receivers end up close enough together to question who the ball is going to when it's thrown and far enough apart to not see it when you're focus is on one matchup. My scribbling is obviously not to scale, but I think everyone gets the gist.

Dude, the ball was in the air........otherwise it wouldn't have been DPI! My point was I didn't want another dick measuring contest over bumping a potential receiver.

Kinda my thoughts. I was hoping someone had a magic bullet. Not having this discussion on this thread.

One of the biggest issues with Arbiter as I understand it, was Arbiter didn't play well with all scheduling software. EL is a product of one of the scheduling software companies and is suppose to be able to link to the the other scheduling software products. One by-product we're seeing is virtually EVERY contract we've had for the last two years has been in EL, even if they were originally scheduled in Arbiter. We've be paid via EL Pay for 4 of 5 V games we've had. The nice thing about being paid via EL Pay is my savings is growing, but I don't have the walking around money I used to have. Oh who am I kidding, my wife or kids are going to end up with it anyway!

5 man mechanics, back slips out of the back field and is about 5 yards beyond the LOS. The U has slid up towards the LOS and LB takes a shot at back out of the backfield, just behind the U as he has moved forward. Who's responsible for this call? This is from spread, twins both sides, and single back.

Sign needs to be updated, Indiana now has over 1 million LTCH issued.

An old softball coach I know several years back had “COACH” put on the back of his shirts, and of course “ASS COACH” on the back of the assistant coaches’ shirts.

Typically a “crew” is hired. However in the last few years you are starting to see individuals hired thru hiring apps such as Arbiter and Event Link. You see individuals being hired closer to the game date. In one example a couple of weeks back the AD discovers on Wednesday that the crew he had hired for Friday has in fact retired. He uses various means to find a crew for Friday, one is to send a mass invite thru Event Link where individuals can accept the game. Thru various means, he found two officials from a crew who had taken the week off due to their other crew mates having some other obligations, it was Labor Day weekend, and three individuals who were not on crews and could work. I don’t use an assigner, but I would assume assigners are probably having put individuals together to create crews for some games. Assigners have long been used in other sports, not necessarily Football. But as our shortage continues and grows worse, I assume we will see more schools use assigners, mainly because it’s less work for the AD’s to make sure they have officials. Honestly as an official, I’d never take a varsity game with four guys I’d never worked with.

Article mentioned an assigner, do we know for a fact this crew was thru an assigner? I’m not ready to assign blame until we have a lot more info, but with today’s communication technology, this sort of thing should NEVER happen.

Sad..... Similar thing happened to my kid. She did it for cash in college. Upon landing a decent paying gig out of college, she told me "you know what the best part of this is?" "I'll never have to umpire again." One of the toughest female athletes I've ever been around. Was offered a college umpiring gig her second year of umpiring in college. And idiot youth coaches ran her off. And I assure you she's forgot more about the game than they collectively will ever know. What these idiots don't understand, it's the game that suffers. Hopefully she finds her way into coaching, she's had numerous offers, but hasn't found the right situation yet. My point all along has been the game was really good to her, she needs to give back.

“The last thing we want them to do is to sit on an unused building It's being used for the next 15 months and WLS is being compensated 1.5 million. I have no idea if that money can be used for teacher salaries or not. publicly paid classrooms in play for public education, in this case public charter schools created under Indiana law as alternatives to traditional public schools. There is no law that says a school can't rent their class space for $1 a year or whatever. In fact I have seen this happen in my local school district. “It is taking the building that was built in the interest of the community to serve students, and say ‘X’ school district says it doesn’t want to use it anymore, it’s made available to ‘Y’ public school that can use it for the purposes of educating children in that same community.” I'm not sure how much more plainly it can be stated: NO ONE CONTACTED WLS about renting the building. No downtrodden kid is being forced into the government schools of WLS. Killion said the school district doesn’t have specific plans for Happy Hollow once the city moves back to Morton Community Center. Perhaps a charter school will contact them? NO ONE HAS SAID THAT!

Come on Gonzo, everyone's a Pulp Fiction fan.

I said it was a stupid law. And you may have missed the part of the article where WL Schools have sued the state over it. In fact it was the title of the OP that YOU made. This is not a quality of education thread, put the goal line back where it was. Reducing school choice, did you read the article? Mr. Killion and I'm assuming the school board are acting on behalf of the WL school taxpayers. I'm sure the school board is elected, so there is accountability to the locals.

Francis is so far behind, he's grasping at straws to keep his hopes alive and remain relevant. Unfortunately he's hitched his wagon to the wrong pony. He seems to think if he yells louder, says naughty words, he'll get some traction. I think he's greatly overestimated the population's zeal for further limiting their rights. The bottom line, as the article points out, they have no idea where these guns are, who owns them, and will have more difficulty than they know finding police officers who will break their oath to go confiscate these newly illegal guns.

I never said they were all for profit. But we both know there are for profit charters exploiting this stupid law.

I ain't had no college learning or anything, but $1,500,000>$2 Seems like a better use of the facility for the next year and a quarter. While the local taxpayers are on the hook either way, WL Schools come out to the good. And they eliminate the opportunity for a for profit enterprise to shaft the local taxpayers by not paying a fair market lease.

Once again, perhaps in a former life he was "The Wolf".

In lean manufacturing you don't manufacture inventory, you manufacture what you can ship today. It is critical that your manufacturing systems operate at optimum levels. When one of those systems breaks, it's a HUGE problem. It could be anything from a vendor truck with critical raw materials you need breaking down to Todd in shipping showing up high after lunch and any system in between. And if your constraint breaks down, it's costing you HUGE money. Perhaps in a former life, Gonzo was "The Wolf"?