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  1. According to the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, the standard advance notice period for layoffs is 60 days for employers with 100 or more employees planning a mass layoff or plant closure; meaning they must provide written notice to affected employees at least 60 days before the layoff takes effect
  2. West Virginia beats Gonzaga.
  3. The Republic of Molossia…
  4. How many of those belong to NATO? Hint: it isn’t zero.
  5. So Ken is one of Chef’s socks. Didn’t see that one coming…
  6. And what were both teams ranked? #4 and #6. If you're trying to support my counter-argument, good job.
  7. If the issue was rec league volleyball you would have a valid point. Or if the evidence confirmed rather than refuted your stance. https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/42549609/inside-san-jose-state-university-2024-volleyball-season-gender-fairness-safety Former Nebraska coach Terry Pettit, whose daughter played for Colorado State, has seen the San Jose State senior compete in person, and he believes her power has been exaggerated. "She happens to be the kill leader on the team," Pettit said. "But to think that she's hitting any harder than people if you look at the top-10 volleyball teams in the country, that's not the case." The player who is said to be transgender leads her team in kills (297) and is third in hitting percentage (.251). She is fourth in the Mountain West in kills per set with 3.96. She does not rank in the top 10 in the Mountain West in hitting percentage or in the top 150 in the NCAA. ESPN used camera calibration software to analyze video of five of her spikes in five different games, including the one shared by Gaines from the Iowa game (51 mph) and another that went viral against San Diego State (60 mph) to estimate their velocity. The average speed of her spikes was 50.6 mph. The fastest was estimated to travel 64 mph. "A lot of players that I talk to have been like, 'Have you been in the Nebraska gym? Have you been in the Texas gym?'" said former Texas player and AVCA national player of the year Logan Eggleston. "These biological women are hitting the ball just as hard or maybe, probably, harder and jumping even higher and all these things. That's kind of the conversation I've been hearing, is, 'Yeah, this woman at San Jose State, yes, she might be transgender, but that doesn't make her this superhuman athlete that's crushing other people.'" The San Jose State player is not an outlier when it comes to her size. Listed at 6-foot-1, she is one inch taller than the average height of the 120 players listed as hitters across the Mountain West Conference. The tallest player in the Mountain West is Kekua Richards at Colorado State, who is 6-7. Of the teams that played in the final four last season -- Texas, Nebraska, Wisconsin and Pittsburgh -- the average height is 6-2½. The tallest is 6-9 Anna Smrek of Wisconsin. Multiple clips of the San Jose State player have been shared across social media, showing her striking the ball hard and sometimes hitting opposing players with the ball. "I get hit in the face in practice every single day -- either blocking or playing back-row defense," former Pitt and Penn State star Serena Gray said. "This is normal." "I think it was ridiculous how people kept saying, 'Oh, this is why it's dangerous,'" Michigan State outside hitter Akasha Anderson said. "At the end of the day, all these top-25, top-50 big-time programs have male practice players, male coaches constantly playing. If we're talking about danger, I feel like that's not a fair argument to make in this situation." Anderson grew up in the same area as the San Jose State senior and has known her since Anderson was 13. Anderson said she learned the player was transgender when they were both in high school. The San Jose State senior played girls club volleyball as well as girls high school volleyball. "It's been a weird transition to see that she's in her last year and it's now becoming a problem," Anderson said.
  8. The quality of the MW champ at that time was top 5. So I’m certainly not going to argue that point.
  9. Afraid so. Tariffs will drive up the imported avacados, and the domestic ones will go up because there’s no one to harvest them. Law of Unintended Consequences and all that.
  10. That’s so cute…
  11. HS in Virginia, 1st season at Coastal Carolina. No Florida involved. So years of play before anybody got their panties in a twist.
  12. We don’t need to know their IQs.
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