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That's a shame, because the majority of the state's residents are BIG fans of yours.

That nobody (including me) noticed my headline originally said It's an outage!

Perhaps you should just realize you have too much money to know how to relate to people who don't.

No, many small deals. You missed the point.

The Braves' GM apparently has a bonus clause in his contract for making the most trades in the off-season. December DATE TRANSACTION December 9, 2023 Acquired a player to be named later or cash from Chicago White Sox for C Max Stassi. December 8, 2023 Acquired INF David Fletcher and C Max Stassi from Los Angeles Angels for INF Evan White and LHP Tyler Thomas. December 7, 2023 Agreed to terms with LHP Angel Perdomo on a one-year contract. Sent INF Evan White outright to Gwinnett (IL). December 5, 2023 Acquired a player to be named later or cash considerations from Pittsburgh Pirates for LHP Marco Gonzales and cash considerations. December 3, 2023 Acquired LHP Marco Gonzales, OF Jarred Kelenic, INF Evan White and cash considerations from Seattle in exchange for RHP Jackson Kowar and minor-league RHP Cole Phillips. November DATE TRANSACTION November 30, 2023 Agreed to terms with RHPs Jackson Stephens and Penn Murfee on one-year contracts. November 20, 2023 Agreed to terms with RHP Reynaldo Lopez on a three-year contract. November 17, 2023 Failed to offer 2024 contracts to RHPs Yonny Chirinos, Penn Murfee, Michael Tonkin, LHP Angel Perdomo, C Chadwick Tromp and INF Lucas Williams. November 16, 2023 Acquired LHP Aaron Bummer from Chicago White Sox for RHPs Mike Soroka, Riley Gowens, LHP Jared Shuster, INFs Nicky Lopez and Braden Shewmake. November 14, 2023 Designated RHP Yonny Chirinos for assignment. Claimed RHP Penn Murfee off waivers from the New York Mets. November 6, 2023 Claimed LHP Angel Perdomo off waivers from Pittsburgh.

I worked with a career coach who gave me guidance about asking for a raise and promotion. It was bad advice, and I was fired. Can I sue the coaching firm? Wow — that must have been spectacularly bad advice. What did you do, threaten the boss? Pretend you had another offer to get a counter? Blackmail the boss? Any of those typical best practices? I can’t imagine what the advice is that got you fired, but I think you would be hard-pressed to prevail, particularly because if the advice was egregious, it reflects poorly on you for following it. Even the worst career coaches aren’t that bad, so it sounds like there was a serious disconnect between you and the company about your level of performance. Ask for clarity from your employer as to why you lost your job so that you can learn from it. SHOULD CHECK YOUR DEODORANT TO SEE IF IT’S WORKING, AND IF IT IS, ASSUME YOU HAVE A HORRIBLE PERSONALITY AND REPUTATION. I need advice for my daughter, who is a recent master’s graduate in marketing. She’s interested in pursuing a career with Norwegian Cruise Line, specifically on one of their ships, since it has the same name as her. What and how do you suggest she get in touch with the right person to communicate her interest in wanting to work for that specific ship? And suggestions on how she should compose an email to them to get her exact point across? Hi, mom. I get it. I have children, and we desperately want to help them. Sometimes, our desire to help actually hurts them despite our best intentions. It would have been better for you to steer your daughter in my direction, so she could ask for my advice directly. Just don’t reach out to an employer on your daughter’s behalf. She shouldn’t communicate her interest in working on a specific ship — particularly if only for the reason that she and the ship have the same name. She should apply to jobs within the company that she’s qualified for and explain what it is about the company and cruise industry that appeals to her (other than her name). Once she’s inside and proven herself, then she can explore transferring based on the company’s internal policy. THANK GOD NONE OF THEM ARE MORONS LIKE YOUR DAUGHTER. I HOPE YOU ENJOYED THROWING AWAY HER COLLEGE TUITION. Gregory Giangrande has over 25 years of experience as a chief human resources executive. Hear Greg Wed. at 9:35 a.m. on iHeartRadio 710 WOR with Len Berman and Michael Riedel. Email: [email protected]. Follow: GoToGreg.com and on Twitter: @GregGiangrande

Probably related to Patty O'Furniture

A California-based moving company that boasts about its young, buff employees is being sued by the federal government for age discrimination. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit against Meathead Movers for violating age-discrimination law by not hiring enough older workers, the Wall Street Journal reported. Since launching in 1997, the Fresno-based company’s mission has been to hire student-athletes. Its social media posts show its youthful, muscled employees lifting weights and lifting boxes. The employees, dubbed “Meatheads,” annually face off against each other in the Meathead Olympics, racing to assemble and leap over boxes. During moves, workers are required to run from the moving truck to the home when they’re empty-handed, according to the Journal. The company states on its website that its “founding principle is to support athletes working in pursuit of their dream career path and that will never change.“ Meathead Movers executives deny that they discriminate against older workers, claiming the job is simply too demanding for those not in tip-top shape. “We are 100% open to hiring anyone at any age if they can do the job,” company owner Aaron Steed (that's his porn name, right?) told the Journal. “People love working at Meathead, or they are turned off by how hard it is. You have to move furniture and run to get more.” The EEOC, chaired by Charlotte Burrows, alleges that Meathead Movers’ marketing and hiring practices discourage older workers from applying, WSJ reported. Current employees are asked to seek new potential hires at local gyms and colleges, the agency claims. The agency told the outlet that discouragement bias can be present in job ads, marketing materials and intrusive job application questions, like asking about a student’s class schedule. EEOC has been looking into the company since 2017 on its own and did not stem from a complaint as most of its investigations are. Last year, it received more than 70,000 complaints and filed 91 employment discrimination lawsuits, according to the newspaper. The two sides tried to negotiate a settlement, with the agency demanding $15 million before lowering that to about $5 million, according to internal emails reviewed by the Wall Street Journal. Meathead countered with a $750,000 offer to settle. The EEOC filed the suit in September. “We had no idea we were doing anything wrong by being a moving company that hires a lot of student-athletes,” Steed told WSJ. “We want to change and evolve, but we can’t agree to go out of business doing it.” Burrows was appointed chair of the EEOC by President Biden. Since Democrats took control of the agency in August, commissioners have since voted seven times on age discrimination matters. They voted on age issues just three times this year before that. She has vowed to enforce age-discrimination laws regarding age bias as nearly a quarter of the country’s workforce is aged 55 and older, and the agency appears to be aggressively pursuing age-discrimination cases. According to the Labor Department, the number of seniors over the age of 65 in the workforce will grow by a third over the next 10 years. The Post has reached out to the EEOC for comment on the lawsuit. Advocates for older Americans lauded the agency taking on age discrimination. “Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson is over 50. I’m pretty sure he would be good at moving boxes,” Bill Alvarado Rivera, senior vice president for litigation at AARP, an association for the rights of older people, told the Journal. “That kind of stereotype about who could be a good mover has no place in an economy that values individuals.” “Meatheads” are required to run from the moving truck to the home when they’re empty-handed. https://nypost.com/2023/12/09/news/meathead-movers-sued-by-feds-for-age-discrimination/

Supposedly most of it deferred until he retires so they can stay closer to the tax threshold & go after more players. I'm just glad he's out of the AL & didn't go to Toronto.

The Cardinals are trading outfielder Tyler O’Neill to the Red Sox, reports Jon Heyman of The New York Post. The other components of the deal aren’t publicly known at this time.

As California’s redwoods recover from fire, an astonishing fact emerges By Julie Johnson Sprouting redwoods in Big Basin Redwoods State Park, shown in April 2021, six months after the CZU Lightning Complex wildfires burned through the park. Raging wildfires in 2020 transformed Big Basin Redwoods State Park in Santa Cruz County from a towering forested cathedral into a standing boneyard with some of the oldest trees on the planet seemingly burned beyond survival. But soon after the flames were gone, California’s coast redwoods began calling upon a remarkable energy storage system helping these trees survive even after fires burned away every life-sustaining green needle. Scientists now have an idea about just how far back these reserves go. Researchers studying a stand of severely burned old growth Big Basin redwoods found the trees fed ancient buds that had been hiding underneath thick bark for more than 1,000 years using carbon transformed into sugars with sunlight that shone more than a half-century ago. “The longevity of these bud tissues is the shocker here,” said Drew Peltier, an assistant professor at Northern Arizona University. Coast redwoods, or Sequoia sempervirens, are the tallest tree species on the planet. They can live more than 2,500 years, protected by thick bark and the ability to resprout, features that make these trees especially resilient to fire. But in 2020 nearly 77% of the wildfire in the park was extremely severe, leaping off the forest floor and burning up into the green-needled crowns of these towering trees, some soaring 300 feet high. Even though most of the redwoods survived, many were badly burned. When Peltier first visited the park six months after the fire, he thought “this place is completely destroyed.” “Frankly, it was shocking,” Peltier said, to see so many trees that “had no branches and were totally black.” The first clues of resilience were out of sight. Peltier’s colleague and longtime redwood researcher George Koch recalled finding a charred tree that looked sturdy enough to climb. Only when he’d climbed far above the forest floor could he see green buds poking out of charred bark on the tops of branches. “That was a little glimmer of good news,” said Koch, a professor with Northern Arizona University’s Center for Ecosystem Science and Society. Peltier, Koch and a group of colleagues wanted to know just how deep these redwoods had to go into their reserves after a destructive wildfire without parallel in Big Basin’s park history. Most nonstructural carbon — the kind stored as sugars and starches versus woody material — is relatively young and transient, part of the day-to-day photosynthesis breathing life into plants. They suspected redwoods were able to store sugars far longer, maybe even for decades. They used a new carbon dating technique to determine the carbon stored as sugars and starches that used the proliferation of nuclear bomb tests in the 1950s and 1960s as a sort of historical bookmark. Commonly referred to as the “nuclear bomb spike,” the United States and former Soviet Union were detonating hundreds of nuclear weapons in tests until a treaty in 1963 ended the deluge. These bombings infused organisms across the planet with trace elevated levels of radiocarbons, Peltier said. “Folks born in the 1950s have more radiocarbon in their tooth enamel than I do,” said Peltier, who was born in the 1980s. The redwood researchers determined that nearly half of the carbon used in new sprouts (which they covered to isolate from new photosynthesis) was acquired more than 57 years ago, before the bomb spike peaked. Koch said their findings illuminated just how a long-lived organism like a redwood tree can sustain its towering mass over millennia. “We found these trees do seem to invest in a type of fire insurance, if you will — reserves that can help them recover,” Koch said. Today, most of Big Basin’s redwoods look nothing like they did before the fire. Many trees lost branches the size of entire trees and are instead covered with little buds, “like fuzzy telephone poles,” Peltier said. The 2020 wildfires forced these ancient trees to tap into long-held reserves, and potentially depleted them, meaning these stalwarts may be more vulnerable than ever to future stressors like drought and wildfire, Koch said. “This amazing species seems to be able to tolerate so much,” Koch said. “But they’re not indestructible.” https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires/article/redwood-trees-18538393.php

UPenn megadonor Former VIEW co-host's daddy, Jon Huntsman, threatens to close checkbook, says school should 'completely cut ties with current leadership'

Not so old that I forget I drew the same comic strip 6 weeks apart...

Dear Abby: My boyfriend and I were excited to go on an $11,000 Caribbean cruise. His 22-year-old son was not that enthusiastic. We invited him to join us for dinner, shows or to play games, but the majority of the time he refused. The only time he’d join us was for events that were paid for in advance. He called his mom, grandmother and girlfriend every night, but not once did he call his father’s mother. To me, it seems like he’s not interested in his father, grandma or me. The moment we arrived home from vacation, he bolted out the door to meet his girlfriend and slept at his mom’s house. What can I do to bring this family together? — Social Disaster Dear Social Disaster: Although at 22 your boyfriend’s son is legally an adult, he didn’t act like one on that trip. In fact, he demonstrated that he was uninterested and didn’t want to interact with his father or with you. It is nice of you to want to bring him and his dad closer, but it’s time for you to step back and let them work it out. Nothing you can do will fix this. WHAT A SHOCK! A 22 YEAR OLD DOESN’T WANT TO SPEND TIME WITH HIS DAD (who is probably trying to buy his love with an $11,000 cruise after letting the Mom’s side of the family raise him) & HIS GIRLFRIEND! Dear Abby: Three days before my daughter “Ginger’s” wedding, her fiance called to announce that he could not marry her because she’s bisexual. It’s something he knew about for a year but waited until three days before the wedding to mention. Needless to say, my husband and I were shocked, embarrassed and devastated. We had gone to a wedding with Ginger and her fiance the Saturday before her wedding date, and they were excited about their own wedding, talking about the home they were building and about having a baby. By the following Wednesday, it was over! She has reimbursed us for half of our expenses for the wedding. Ginger has since been involved mostly with women who have stolen from her, treated her badly and lied to her. We no longer trust our daughter because we thought she was happily engaged, but she lied when she told us how happy she was and how great she and her fiance got along. We cannot accept the current situation, and our relationship with her is now very strained. We told her to live her life but not to bring these women around. Since then, she has chosen to stay away. We miss our daughter but are not willing to accept this behavior. We don’t think Ginger is even trying to gain back our trust. Please give us your best advice. — Lost in Louisiana Dear Lost: Has it occurred to you that your daughter may be a lesbian who tried to appease you and her father by claiming to be bisexual? It is a blessing to all concerned that the wedding was canceled. IS JUST AN IDIOT? If you’re a regular reader of my column, you surely must be aware that some women have dysfunctional “manpickers.” In your daughter’s case, she’s having the same problem choosing her female partners. Rejecting her because you don’t want “those women” around is not the solution to her problem HER CHOICES WOULD BE LOSERS REGARDLESS OF THEIR SEX. Instead, suggest she seek counseling at the nearest LGBTQ community center so she won’t continue seeking love in all the wrong places BUY A PET ROCK AND ENTER A NUNNERY.

IF THE DICK FITTS... The Yanks acquired Alex Verdugo from Boston for 3 pitchers including Richard Fitts and...

I would say the same thing about your avatar.

Yeah... I, too, have fond memories of when KFC was selling roast chicken; it wasn't bad, but the sides and dessert were definitely the best part.