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Forgot about Miller. He gets my vote.

My understanding is, if those employees were given a temporary layoff they still would have qualified for UI, PSE still would have been subjected to an increase in their UI premiums, but those employees would have been eligible to come back once things returned to normalcy. I'm not understanding the need, nor the benefit to the employee, of a termination.

And it's not the financial gain, per se, that bothers me the most. It's the understanding that our leadership knew how bad this could get and chose to gild the lilly instead of enact measures to prevent the level of infection we are seeing today. People's live are being affected so they could project a warm, happy place.

LaFontaine and Mogilny were the better players, but Luce and Martin were very good. And in Luce's case he had a longer tenure. My vote is, this is on ice only, not off ice contributions. Four players that are probably about equal overall.

Just returned from grocery shopping. What a stressful experience. I'm somewhat anti-social normally. This was a different kind of stress though. I just felt like I needed to rush in and rush out as more of a survival mechanism. Everyone was glancing at everyone else with a look of distrust. Almost no eye contact. It was very different than the usual western NY friendliness that is usually apparent. At least toilet paper is back on the shelves. Meat and frozen foods, not a chance. The BJ's we go to had someone at the door dosing out hand sanitizer to everyone that came in, and hit every shopping cart handle with a Clorox wipe. Of course, they were also sold out of sanitizer and Clorox wipes...... When this whole thing was just starting we bought a bulk pack of TP just in case we ended up under quarantine and couldn't get out. I didn't think about hand sanitizer, and now I can't find any (not that I looked hard. I'm not making extra stops). I would have loved a bottle of hand sanitizer in my vehicle when I came out of the store. Time to fire up the Google machine and find a recipe.

Twitter post I came across this morning. This guy is an epidemiologist associated with Harvard and John Hopkins. Look at the graph for the US. So far it is steeper, longer than any other country on that graph. Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing US now accelerating upwards and outpacing all other countries in epidemic exponential growth. (Note log Y Axis: linear = exponential). USA is gonna be dubiously #1 at this rate. But IMHO TESTING+CONTACT TRACING+QUARANT is more important than approaches which only slow.#COVID19

Adding to what I posted earlier, what is really disappointing is, we are throwing a bunch of blame towards China for not being forthcoming regarding the severity of this virus ealry on (and rightfully so), yet it's completely obvious that lots of people aren't making a big deal about Trump calling it Chinese flu or whatever because it is factually accurate, they're doing it to deflect from Trump's own mistakes. Mistakes that effectively did exactly what the Chinese were doing early on. And now with the disclosure that several members of Congress profited from stock sales once word got out from China, it is painfully obvious that OUR government knew how bad this could get and pulled the China move of non-disclosure anyway.

It was near the end of the 2nd period. Maguire and Probert were already gone for the game. Play went into the corner. It got rough. Krupp and Kocur squared off and Krupp beat him in a decision. Suddenly Krupp was a tough guy.

I think Krupp was underrated. But Korab was a very good defenseman. I can't argue with either choice. Anyone else remember Krupp beating Joe Kocur the same game that Kevin Maguire started a line brawl with Bob Probert on the ice?

Val James based on notoriety alone, cuz there isn't anything notorious about the rest. Calle Johansson is a reasonable choice here.

I think it has to be said now. Ghost of Dwight Drane was likely right about these people.

Longevity as a Sabre is all Housley has over Hawerchuck. Dale was simply a higher level player all around.

It so obviously intended to whip up nationalism. How can that even be debated? The leader of our country is taking to using his own name for a pandemic virus for political points. Just simply distasteful.

And its not even close. If it weren't for a couple of seasons of LaFontaine to Mogilny magic, more would recognize it.

Yeah, there may be recency bias choosing Campbell.

I'm curious to find out if these people routinely have to re-apply at the start of each season, or if this is new.

I though it was illegal under NYS employment law. Curious.

Working form home. Just as hectic as working form work. It's not as efficient for sure. In my non-working hours? I've got plenty of whiskey to contemplate. For some reason this was the year that I received bottles of Port as gifts. Not sure why. I may develop a new obsession by the time this is over. If only I could find a cigar to buy....

You assume that compassionate capitalism would prevail without global pressures? I won't. More realistic, IMO, is that the rise of T. Boone Pickens and "Shareholder Rights" is what led us down the path of cutting employees off. We didn't see these kinds of things until Pickens showed the world that stock prices and dividends could go through the roof with heavy cost cutting measures including substituting direct hire employees for contract labor. His battle cry of shareholder rights and shareholder value is still corporate-speak today. And his methods are still in common usage. You want to explore the movement to outsourced labor, do some research on Mr. Pickens' tactics. He forced boards to cut costs under the threat of hostile takeover, and in the process led a movement towards short term share value over long term performance. Actually, that's not quite right. We've seen plenty of pre-1980's examples of the worlds capitalists take advantage of those that work for them. Thinking Robber Barons and the lead up to the union movement. Employers taking advantage of their employees as much as they can legally is as old as capitalism itself. Really, the only period of relief from it was during the union era, now that I think about it. IMO we're entering the second era of the Robber Baron.

I really hate the word "lie" here. This sort of word choice is why we cannot have good conversations on social media. Lie implies a level of intended misrepresentation that I seriously doubt PA intends. There is no reason to assume the worst. Instead of lie, a less confrontational and less accusatory word is better used here.

Don't know how accurate these numbers are, but if they are, it justifies the strong response.

The dirty little secret that’s never been touched is, outsourcing to domestic contract agencies and service providers have done just as much to undermine the American worker as outsourcing manufacturing to low wage countries. It used to be that a gig in the auto industry, defense industry, and aerospace was an enviable gig for a white collar worker and on the floor technical people, but around 1990 all of those industries went to a model that let go direct hire employees and replaced them with employees from contract agencies and contracted technical service companies. Wages and benefits in those situations are a fraction of what they were for direct hire employees. And it’s quite widespread. And its never been discussed at any meaningful level.

Well, there is no entertainment value in that.

I don't know anyone who has a problem with Bezos being wealthy. What people do have a problem with is Bezos overseeing a company that has schemed to use non-employees in ways that are almost predatory and exploitive in nature, operated a company that has avoided income taxes, and use predatory and exploitive tactics with their suppliers. It's not the wealth. It's all the people you are stepping on to acquire it. By contrast, I've never perceived hate for Elon Musk. His companies don't have the exploitive reputation that Amazon has.

Very aware of all this. The strongest reaction I have to it is a yawn.