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5 days 13 hours ago	"There is no reason for these	"There is no reason for these salaries to wildly outpace growth in just about every other field in the country." That's an interesting point. In a number of other fields salary growth hasn't even kept up with inflation (16% over the time period you mention) and in many fields average salaries are even down from eight years ago (e.g. Law).
5 days 13 hours ago	New Hampshire has it right.	New Hampshire has it right.
6 days 20 hours ago	I'm sure we will see that	I'm sure we will see that from the Mathlete (and I look forward to it), but frankly we don't need it to know that it's true. There were very few freshmen that ever saw significant (if any) playing time before the mid-2000s, and really, probably more accurately 2009. The question I'm more curious about isn't if, it's when it happened. I suspect it wasn't really until 2009, which masked some of why what happened in the next few years happened, and only seems like it happened sooner because we were blessed with several of those exceptions (Henne, Hart, Manningham) in basically the same short span.
1 week 2 days ago	I wish I could lend some	I wish I could lend some insight, but this will largely depend upon some particularities of New York common law. So you will need to have some of the New York admitted lawyers who post here contribute to get the most accurate answer. From a very general perspective, though, I tend to side with Singh on this one (but that certainly isn't based upon the state law that will actually control in this cass).
1 week 5 days ago	I see what you mean. I find	I see what you mean. I find that, generally, when people can an answer its beyond obvious that they have something memorized and it sounds absolutely inauthentic. We far prefer that they have a situation or experience that they can pull answers from when they get a question, rather than having a precise answer. We do a lot with behavioral interviewing, though, so if you don't that may be where our perspectives differ.
1 week 5 days ago	I didn't say unprepared.	I didn't say unprepared. There is a big difference between being prepared and having obviously canned answers.
1 week 5 days ago	"I don’t doubt that on the	"I don’t doubt that on the whole, hiring managers choose the candidates who dress up, stay off their phones, and have canned answers ready to go." The first things you mention, yes, but not the last one. Really, though, all the first things you listed do is not hurt a candidate, rather than really help.
1 week 5 days ago	"The other thing that I've	"The other thing that I've noticed is that folks just don't put a lot of effort into their resumes." Absolutely agree, and many of the ones who do make very poor choices on how to present what they think is relevant (which oftentimes they are wrong about).
1 week 5 days ago	Unfortunately, it does.	Unfortunately, it does.
1 week 6 days ago	Exactly. When they show the	Exactly. When they show the angle that looks straight at the end line it's absolutely clear that initial contact was to the body (front of left shoulder) and then carried through to the head.
1 week 6 days ago	No. He didn't. If you watch	No. He didn't. If you watch it frame by frame, he is not in the air with both feet when contact is made.
1 week 6 days ago	We'll have to agree to	We'll have to agree to disagree.
1 week 6 days ago	You're absolutely right, on	You're absolutely right, on all accounts.
1 week 6 days ago	On his feet until contact and	On his feet until contact and initial contact was to the shoulder. Terrible.
1 week 6 days ago	The national folks are	The national folks are idiots.
1 week 6 days ago	Disagree completely. That	Disagree completely. That was not a penalty.
1 week 6 days ago	You mean the same idiots that	You mean the same idiots that decided not to call a blatant over the glass penalty at the end of regulation against the Capitals? No way...
1 week 6 days ago	This. It's called a DVR.	This. It's called a DVR. Use it before you say something dumb.
1 week 6 days ago	Because: 1) He didn't leave	Because: 1) He didn't leave his feet until after contact was made. 2) Initial contact was to the shoulder. 3) It was only to the head because the player he hit lowered his head. 4) They didn't call it initially, but rather used the TV timeout to talk about it together (after quite a bit of whining by Boohoodreau, I'm certain).
1 week 6 days ago	My sentiment exactly. There	My sentiment exactly. There was absolutely nothing wrong with that hit.
1 week 6 days ago	Or better yet, to get the CBC	Or better yet, to get the CBC teams throughout.
1 week 6 days ago	I agree. I would also pay	I agree. I would also pay decent money to be able to watch the regional broadcasts throughout the entire playoffs (especially living out of market).
1 week 6 days ago	Absolutely. That was just	Absolutely. That was just awful.
1 week 6 days ago	Can anyone explain why NBC	Can anyone explain why NBC insists on using jokers like McGuire, Emerick, Olczyk, etc. when there are other options that are so much better? So happy to have Rick Peckham on this game tonight. Boston-Toronto has CBC's simulcast. Night and day difference from the AWFUL combination that they had for the Caps-Rangers game (Emerick, Olczyk, McGuire). Just call the damn game, stop the theatrics (it's a driiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive!), and the stupid personal interest stories during the game (no one gives a crap that two of the Islanders played for the Penguins last year, let alone that you need to tell us about it 8 times in two games). I don't know why, but the TSN and CBC crews just call the game, while the NBC crews try to make it a show. So annoying. Personally, I hate these "national" crews because they don't know crap about the teams (aside from the basic stuff that anyone knows) and repeat the same stuff game after game after game as if no one watched the previous games. It's such an uneducated broadcast and so annoying for fans that closely follow the teams. That said, Rick Peckham is the clear exception and I wish they would use him more, instead of continuing to put their awful trio on every "important" game. /rant. Sorry... Had to get that off of my chest, and I can't be the only one who this pisses off.
2 weeks 1 day ago	Yes! Wings & More, that's	Yes! Wings & More, that's it! That place was unexpectedly amazing.
2 weeks 2 days ago	I have, literally, no idea	I have, literally, no idea what you are talking about.
2 weeks 2 days ago	I think Tennessee pretty much	I think Tennessee pretty much closed the door on much future expansion (same with Alabama) due to the way they did their last expansion and closed in the entire stadium.
2 weeks 2 days ago	I know you were. I	I know you were. I absolutely agree with you on the food scene. There was a place we went that had some of the best wings I've ever had. Can't remember the name, but it was where Mike Sherman did his radio show. Really unexpected. That's a damn shame about Sodolak's, if true. It's been about two years since we were last there. That experience must have been priceless with those grad prospects. That is a real strange drive out their, especially if you are trying to find it the first time with a GPS (something which I swear is not possible).
2 weeks 2 days ago	I know, I know, there are	I know, I know, there are allegiances, but as an out of towner I'm cool with just saying that they make damn good chicken in that town, no matter where you get it. Now I am hungry. I could also go for some chicken fried bacon at Sodolak's in Snook...
2 weeks 2 days ago	It's kind of funny that the	It's kind of funny that the author mentions food, then completely omits the best food in town. What I wouldn't give right now for some Layne's chicken fingers...

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