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They are recruiting kids younger and younger these days....

Literally the very next paragraph: "In Louisiana, up to 15 percent of the oilseed crop is being plowed under or is too damaged to market, according to data analyzed by Louisiana State University staff. Crops are going to waste in parts of Mississippi and Arkansas. Grain piles, dusted by snow, sit on the ground in North and South Dakota. And in Illinois and Indiana, some farmers are struggling to protect silo bags stuffed with crops from animals." I think you might be sticking a little hard to this one issue. The issue of tilling under damaged crops, and farmers leaving in the field isn't a wide problem by itself. But it is a symptom of a larger crisis. That is that farmers produced way more grain than the market needs. Like BRB said, a lot of farmers had a great crop, just nowhere to go with it. As to the bolded: I would say the price of soybeans is a pretty big indication of a problem.

Do farmers have damaged crop in your area? If so, are the elevators taking them with no problem? As far as the bolded: That's the issue the article takes on. Bins are full. Much fuller than usual and there isn't a demand to match the inventory.

I think you may need to read the article. It doesn't say there are rotting piles of soybeans. It says that local co-ops are not buying damaged grains because there is no room. Therefore, farmers with damaged crops left them in the field and cut losses.

I'd be excited to here some good news. Please share.

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We have SmartBoards in almost every classroom in our district (A very large district). And a significant chunk of them are used as plain old marker boards. Kids are also facing "technology fatigue". Everything thing they do is on the computer, especially as schools go 1:1. Kids actually get excited when we hand out worksheets...lol

I disagree with this. The bump in pay will pay for the Masters in 2 years. Plus it keeps you from "bottoming out" on the schedule. If your wife is a young public school teacher in NE, she needs to get her Masters sooner than later.

https://www.nsea.org/sites/default/files/content_images/Collective_Bargaining/18PAGEall.pdf Education is along the top and experience down the left. Look at the figures to the bottom/right on the chart. This is "max' salary and doesn't include clubs. I am a head 7th grade football coach and assistant MS wrestling and make about $3600 off of those two 8 week sports; and I'm nowhere near the lower right of the chart yet

There are teachers making north of $80000 in Nebraska right now. Granted, they will most likely be eligible to retire soon and sponsor/coach multiple teams or clubs, and have a Master's Degree and at least the equivalent hours of a second Masters...

That Hillary soundbite though........**cringe**

Education needs it's own thread. It is one giant mess. Parents and schools push kids to seek college degrees no matter the ability or desires of the kids. Schools want butts in the seats to bring in more tuition. High schools push "no fail" policies so they can get more kids into colleges even though they aren't prepared. Our education system sucks, and I'm a teacher in that system. My sister is a professor at a university in Minnesota. Over Thanksgiving she was telling me a story about a student in her department who was caught forging supervisor signatures on his internship evaluation forms. Her colleague questioned some of the answers on the form so he went to the workplace to follow up. That supervisor had never even met the student, let alone evaluate him. It was immediately taken to administration to begin the expulsion process. The "powers that be" responded to my sisters department that they should evaluate their internship processes because they can't afford to expel students for financial and appearance reasons. The student is still enrolled in the department and knows that the university won't expel him.... I've also had students who were very excited about possibilities in welding and/or diesel mechanics. There are many programs out there where kids can get a free education because companies are more than happy to pay for it so they can have workers. These jobs can pay $50,000-$70,000 to start; for a 21-year-old kid with no college debt. But the students tell me their parents believe they should go to a 4-year college because "they're better than that". A lot of these kids will rack up $60,000 of debt or more to get their business management degree to come back home and be the shift supervisor at the local liquor store. It is frustrating.

I still talk to them when I see them. But I don’t ask them to fill me in on their thoughts about Muslims. When we were “friends” that crap just popped onto my screen and I had to see it. Now that my only interaction is in person the conversations are bettetbetter

I don't like being reminded that my brother and many cousins are truly very angry and racist. So I unfriend them so I don't have to observe it. I tried for a while though.... Otherwise, my list of "friends" is coworkers (current/former) that I still have professional contact with, family (no more distant than 1st cousin so I can keep in the loop with aunts and uncles that I don't see often, and people that I have actually spoken to in the last 3 months. I used these rules to cut about 150 people from my feed (mostly former classmates that I didn't talk to anyway) and it is a much more pleasant experience. And not just because of politics....

I'm going to use my 1st Amendment right and call your friend's friend a giant douche bag......

In his defense, he didn't write the book. He probably had no idea what was in it....

This would make me very excited if it were to happen. I would love to have 2 reasonable people to choose from!

To the bolded: This is exactly what I've been trying to explain to all of my MAGA friends and family members. Even to people here like Ric and HuskerNation. I would have voted for almost any other Republican candidate over Hillary Clinton. But to me, the "sanity" of America, wasn't negotiable...

I'm in the same camp as a lot of fans that believes this season would have looked a lot different if the Huskers had played and beaten Akron. However, I'm also starting to believe that the Akron cancellation and subsequent losses were better for the program in the long run. For the players that came forward after 0-5 and took ownership in Frost's culture, they have been rewarded with wins. There is now tangible results to hang on to. It also flushed out some players that most likely weren't excited about doing things the "new way". It will be a quiet bowl season, but I'm optimistic that we won't have to deal with it again for quite some time.

I'm so tired of people posting this. If there are truly that many people who feel that way, they could overwhelm this forum; since it's only the same "dozen" liberal posters anyway. Tell your friends to quit being so shy.

But you don't see the point. Trump's words are empty, so are his "compliments".

What's funny is the same man called the same man "a thief" only 2-3 weeks ago....

Maybe, maybe not. Most of the season ticket holders I know are pretty liberal, or at the very least believe the Republican party isn't representative of their values. But I live in Omaha and have friends in Lincoln. The one season ticket holder I know in Kearney was a life-long Republican until around May of 2016.... But it really doesn't matter, I couldn't care less about the political leanings of the person next to me in the stadium. If they are talking about anything other than football in the stadium during the game, I don't like them

People will discover this after January when the Democrats control the House. It is obviously because of them and their intent to raise taxes....