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I was able to spend some time in Singapore (a friends first UFC fight was there) and everything just works there, that’s the best way to describe it. People get in lines, the streets are clean, everything is orderly and makes sense With that said, the government is heavy handed and culturally different from America - I don’t think what they do would work for us on a grand scale However, I would love to take back some of their things back to the US - paying government employees private market wages so we have a competent government and aren’t wasting tax dollars training folks for the private market or keeping on idiots because that’s all we can get…

See Mitch McConnell It would be tough to find anybody in the Louisville metro who actually likes the dude, but he gets elected time and time again because it puts the small state of Kentucky on the national stage Ex, getting almost half a billion for a new VA hospital (https://www.lanereport.com/119958/2019/12/mcconnell-secures-funds-for-louisvilles-va-medical-center/) (which is a huge boondoggle - don't get me started, a complete waste of money... we have a perfectly good hospital in downtown Louisville, Jewish Hospital, that was being sold at the same time... could have bought that, did upgrades to the facility and surrounding infrastructure, and still spent less money... https://www.courier-journal.com/story/life/wellness/health/2017/07/14/could-jewish-hospital-become-va-medical-center/476136001/)

I wonder if they are close at all on the 32 hour work week demand, would be interesting to see that play out at such big companies

Related but unrelated In Kentucky, Churchill Downs is building casinos but the slot machines are based on old horse races - this way they can skirt the rules against slot machines

Indiana does a duals tournament put on by the coaches association, it's classed (1A-4A) and there is a qualification formula along with bid in spots. In addition, the state keeps track during the state finals (no class) of team score and awards a team champion from that

The growth in The Region helps, pretty soon I would think we should be seeing more Indiana folks with the growth of the Indianapolis suburbs and the amount of money in that area (on the national level, Brownsburg, Center Grove HS) Nick Lee representing Southern Indiana (Evansville) and Mason Parris repping the Cincinnati area (I guess both are Southern if you are north of Indy)

Indiana with a nice showing so far with Micic and Parris Now if Nick Lee can pull something off…

I can dream

Bellarmine Would love to see what Coach Shuck can do with some top end talent

It’s official now

Has Rainey expressed any colleges he’s interested in yet? I know it’s early, but would be awesome to see him stay in state

When at BK, get the double cheese burger with an extra patty, it’s like $4 total and pretty decent

https://goheels.com/news/2023/8/31/national-champion-rob-koll-named-carolina-wrestling-coach.aspx

It's tough - you have to have $$$ to campaign and then up beholden to those interests (or you have to have money to start out with) My dad has done the thing - small town councilman, town council president, county commissioner, county commissioner president, and recently turned down the opportunity to replace a Congressman who was stepping down... Just running at the local level was very expensive, the local party wanted him to raise at least $40k to run for county commissioner (and that was the low amount, the other races like sherrif were much more money).... He did not raise that amount and still won, but then came the other issue - to do the job correctly you have to treat it like a full time job and educate yourself on the laws and issues, it's not a thing you can show up and vote and do it correctly.... and then when you do that, you are still pissing off a loud group of people no matter what direction you go. He was able to dedicate a crazy amount of time to do it since he's self-employed, but most of his peers did not and it showed /end rant

Dude wants accountability for his tax money, I mean if that's a fascist principle time to pack it up....

I did an Israel/Jordan trip a few years ago, crossed the border at Eilat

I'm not a bourbon guy but involved somewhat in the industry on the marketing side (and live in Louisville, capital of bourbon) Green River just restarted operations in Owensboro, they are DSP 10 so been around forever, but stopped operations for a good bit... Recently was bought out by Bardstown Bourbon and they restarted everything.... I can't speak publically on what's in the works, but they have some really good product hitting the market soon... Also Rabbit Hole I'm told is good - they were neighbors next to my office and actually just bought our property If you ever want to get into Bourbon certification, gonna plug one of my clients, Stave & Thief - they have an online course (also in person if that's your thing)

The big three-piece mats for practice and then the lightweight section mats for meets - that way you never have to move the heavy ones and you don't tear up the nice meet ones

As an Indiana guy, it's gotta be Nick Lee I was able to attend a coaching clinic that he was presenting at a few weeks ago and once he starts to coach, dude is gonna be a force. He already gets a lot of the small things

Indiana-born folks on the World Teams Sara Hildebrandt Kayla Miracle Nick Lee Gable Steveson

And you have Jungle Jim's! I drive up from Louisville once a month and hit up Ikea, Jungle Jim's, and then pizza at Adriatico's.

I try not to hate Flo - they employ one of my former HS kids as a contributor (and so does Matscouts) However, the streaming is really subpar... They are past the point of being a startup and their end product is not acceptable at this point I can live with the occasional data error on profiles, but for the streaming issues to be a reoccurring theme, I mean come on... The product at my HS is better

https://kpmg.com/us/en/home/insights/2023/06/tnf-glam-organizations-developing-nil-opportunities-for-student-athletes-generally-will-not-qualify-as-tax-exempt.html https://www.si.com/college/2023/06/10/irs-name-image-likeness-collectives-not-tax-exempt Posting in the college board since this affects a lot of NILs, since a ton of them advertise as tax-exempt donations... I wonder how it will affect some of the smaller NILs

Tailwinds isn’t my cup of tea, but I mean that’s a whole other discussion … I’ve used it on a React ticketing application and can see the pros/cons Im just mentioning it and Angular as they are running a modern stack, not a Wordpress site on a shared server somewhere. That’s it’s a shame they have something relatively modern and letting it down with bad data

I mean they are using Tailwinds for styling and a decently updated version of Angular (14.3) so it's a relatively modern frontend stack...