This is an amazing idea. I've toyed with the idea of creating both subject specific and geographic specific groups for my interests but it's a clunky solution. For example, I like birdwatching, but I want to know what people are seeing around me, not on a continent away, so being able to join a centralized 'birding' group then narrow it down geographically would solve the problem of having to create potentially hundreds of sub groups. Same for politics, news, restaurants, etc.
We need Right to Roam.
Sweat wicking clothes and a bandana on my head. The bandana will be soaked when I'm done with a 5k, but it keeps so much sweat off my body and out of my eyes.
I'm east of these beaches this week on vacation. Is this related to the high water temperatures in the Gulf? Saw fish have been driven to strange behavior in southern Florida recently.
"mostly" was actually a subset of employees that owned a controlling interest and shared with some more passive investors. I don't know the details on how the PEF got a majority but I imagine the passive investors were bought out and can't imagine it took many employees to defect to produce the majority.
It was majority employee-owned before the acquisition but is now majority owned by private equity firm. The main change I'm noticing is that everyone is being pressured to work uncompensated overtime (we're all on salary here) and requests for training/professional development have been all but eliminated. They also initially hired a bunch of new employees with no specific work in mind and expected us to find the new people work to do then got rid of a lot of people about 1 year afterwards.
Has anyone else rode out a private equity buyout? It's not terrible, but it is extra stress on top of an already stressful job. Is it a good idea to get out now? I've heard they typically sell after around 5 years of "optimization". What happens then?
One of the things we rely on is for the companies who make the stuff we need to not stick it to us, the customer. But it’s become painfully clear that’s just what happened during the pandemic and that it’s still happening today. What can we do about it?
I thought this was a very centrist view of "greedflation" from SYSK. It's great to see this recognition of this problem become more mainstream.
I think being stepped on would be less trauma than transplanting. You could always fold them back onto your property and wrap them with some flagging tape or something to keep them visible to workers.
By cutting them back, I meant cutting them back to a reasonable length to manage. It's usually not great to prune plants more than 1/3 of their total size, but some plants will even recover from a full cut back. The jasmine will be fine. Depending on the rose variety, they should be ok too. Some people seriously prune roses to encourage flowering.
I'd leave them in the ground if possible and just untangle them from the fence. Cut them back if need be. This is not a great time for transplantation and they may not survive.
If you have to take them out, your plan is probably the best you can do. Make sure to keep the roots wet the entire time they're out. That's going to be your main killer.
I think the construction company is just being lazy and doesn't want to work around the tree but if it's a Bradford Pear, they'd be doing you a favor. If it's on the south side of the house insist on the replacement being something sturdy and deciduous so you get shade in the summer and sun in the winter. Cherry bark and Scarlet Oaks are great. You have some leaf pickup every year, but as hot as the summers have been lately, you'll save a fortune on electric if it shades your house.
If you want it as an evergreen green screen, get a Southern Magnolia.
Myself and some other managers I know became managers for being competent at our science-based jobs when the company wanted to expand. Our education and career up until this point mostly had not involved learning skills like delegation, teaching, scheduling, and team-budgeting, not to mention the interactive social skills needed to successfully manage individuals.
Some bad managers are just good workers that weren't able to suddenly learn these skills when their employer insisted they manage a team so it could pursue its endless quest for infinite growth by setting up hierarchies of workers. Good managers are either trained in management or extraordinarily talented.
I very much miss the Facebook groups of 2018, but there's so much recommended content, I barely even see my wanted content. When I do see something, it's only once before it's buried, even if there's an evolving discussion in the thread which there rarely is anymore due to the glut of sponsered content.
That was my gut reaction too but what happens when this happens to the electric company as well?
This is one of my favorite new songs in the last year. The thoughtful lyrics are about mental health and understanding others at a time where I feel like it's extremely relevant and the smooth harmonies and guitar picking mellow me out and get me emotional at the same time. I hope everyone else enjoys as much as I do.
I want to get a professional wetland scientist license for work I've been doing for 15 years professionally, but the license requires college credits in biology that I don't have. The application board will not consider current experience level in the subject and will not accept any training or education taken post-college that didn't award college credits.
Do you have any recommendations for self-paced online classes that offer college credit? I will be working full time and taking care of children during this time, so the classes have to be flexible.
I photographed and had my best views ever of an American Flamingo this morning in Pensacola (actually Warrington) Florida at Navy Point Park. Based on eBird records, it looks like it showed up yesterday. Wild flamingo summer in the eastern US appears to be wrapping up, but these birds are still showing up in unexpected places after being displaced by Hurricane Idalia in September.
I saw a pair of Great Kiskadee in south-central Louisiana today at White Lake Wetland Conservation Area. This pair has been here for at least a few years and it looks like they were gathering nest material this morning. This species is considered rare in Louisiana but with increasing sightings in the last few years. Is this species expanding its range like other southern birds such as the Limpkin and Black-bellied Whistling Duck?