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    Federal Trade Commission banned "non-compete" clauses

    Yes, what the FTC decision is really about is this. If I learn how to sew shirts and go to work at a shirt factory, the factory can't make me sign a noncompete to prevent me from getting a better job at another shirt factory. If I learn how to bake bread, a bakery can't use a noncompete to...
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    Film Study - Quinton Martin Jr's Opening Act

    I loved how he came down low and THEN cut back, marooning the linebackers. He doesn't seem to have great speed but he runs a corner really smooth, like a wideout, and he can outrun linebackers that way. Really great understanding of how space works -- that's hard to teach. Anyway I agree there...
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    Is KLS going to the portal?

    The problem here isn't portal, the problem is the whole wideout program. Poor recruiting, coaching turnover so players were in a different system than what they were recruited for. Countless 4 star recruits who didn't pan out. It just was a combination of a lot of things. Portal can't cover up a...
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    Film Study - Quinton Martin Jr's Opening Act

    It's spring but keep in mind this is PSU athletes on D -- so he's showing good speed. Really good cutback technique, he's had good coaches in HS working with him. Now it comes down to staying healthy, learning to read defenses/disguised blitzes, not fumbling.. there is so much for these guys to...
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    FB Recruiting No. 36 overall recruit, 2025 RB Alvin Henderson commits to Penn State

    Fwiw I liked running back work in the BW game from the freshmen. Cam Wallace showed some good quickness and intelligence and Quinton Martin moves really well for a big guy. It's prob the strongest unit on the team and there appears to be good depth.
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    OT: Has anyone else been paying attention to auto insurance premiums?

    Somebody, I think the Post, had a really interesting story about newer model cars that are always connected to a network like Onstar. Apparently a lot of these cars (from multiple brands, not just GM) actually rat on you -- they report your speed and location, they report every time you do a...
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    OT: Has anyone else been paying attention to auto insurance premiums?

    Traffic engineering is underfunded at all levels of government and technology moves at a glacial pace. Everything having to do with state and federal highways (which means most major urban streets as well) is regulated by thousands of pages of state and federal rules. You can't use new...
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    OT: Has anyone else been paying attention to auto insurance premiums?

    In Pa., unlike other states, red lights even on major highways are controlled by the local borough or township, and the state highway dept gets no say. So basically every time Wawa opens a store, they go to the local borough council and get their own stop light. PennDOT spends billions of...
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    OT: Has anyone else been paying attention to auto insurance premiums?

    It's a paradox but I think it makes sense. For 50 years the US has tried to make cars injury proof and idiot proof instead of requiring drivers to be safe. And in the interest of safer highways and roadways, we've continually put up more red lights and eliminated merges and turn-on-reds and...
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    OT: Has anyone else been paying attention to auto insurance premiums?

    We pay in so many ways for our wildly inefficient, broken health care system. Go to Europe and you see what it means to have health costs 1/2 to 1/3 of what they are in the United States. A baguette in a Paris bakery costs $1.20 because the bakery doesn't have employee health care costs or...
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    Eddie George on Penn State

    Yeah it was just bad timing. The year before George, PSU had an absolutely insane running back class -- depending on who's counting, 5 or 6 all-American running backs. Pitts, the no. 1 tb in the NE, Archie, the No. 1 in Pa, Carter -- the top prospect in the midwest, and JT Morris, the top...
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    Baltimore bridge collapse

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    Just for fun

    Maybe it's a win-win because Shrewsberry has a 7 year contract at $4 million a year, which he wasn't going to get at PSU. I think he'll be fine once he recruits some players -- he obviously can coach, we all saw that. But meanwhile, Rhoades will be a good fit at PSU and he'll have his old...
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    Off Topic -- United Airlines Maintenance

    Yes and no. It's the same fuselage, cockpit and wing architecture as the original 737 -- first drawn up in the early 60s. It was designed for airports before there were modern gates with jet bridges, which is why it's so low to the ground, which is problematic today because there's not enough...
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    Off Topic -- United Airlines Maintenance

    93,000 scheduled flights in the USA each day, stuff happens, stuff has always happened, and fortunately planes and procedures are designed with enough redundancy that actual crashes are incredibly rare. Boeing unfortunately has earned its way to a place where every time a toilet gets clogged...
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    Wendy's to start "surge pricing"

    Restaurant wait staff (and busboys) make a "tipped minumum wage" ($2.83 an hour in Pa) which presumes they make nearly all their money from tips. So people should tip generously because table service requires a lot of skill to get right. Table waiters in good restaurants make a nice living, and...
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    Wendy's to start "surge pricing"

    In some cities the restaurant tax is close to 20 percent, so if you tip 25% post-tax (like some restaurant waiters expect) you're really tipping 30%. That is a lot. It just makes eating out that much more expensive -- a $150 meal becomes more like $200 real quick. It's worth a ticket to Europe...
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    Wendy's to start "surge pricing"

    Yep. I don't want to be too righteous about it because there are a lot of super busy working people who don't have time or brain space to cook. But, being retired, with a little bit of brain space and a good pantry and freezer, we eat so incredibly well so cheaply. It doesn't take much skill or...
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    Wendy's to start "surge pricing"

    At some point we just stopped buying soda when we took the kids to restaurants -- cost a lot plus the kids would suck down the sugar and immediately lose all interest in food. We would try to get them to delay drinking the soda but then that became the sole focus of dinner for them -- to...
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    Wendy's to start "surge pricing"

    There's a really good answer to price inflation -- the free market. If people don't want to pay $5 for a single serving of fried potatoes or $3 for sugared water, don't pay it. If enough people make that choice, the price magically goes back down or the place charging those prices goes out of...
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