Jim Rockford

When I was in middle school, our classes were in the old high school building. The "weight room" was still out back behind the gym. Iron bars with concrete blocks on the end. It was probably cutting edge in the thirties and forties.

My cousin was a compulsive gambler and owed money to some bad people. He joined the Army to get away from them. He had a business degree so they put him in the Finance Corps. There he was in some office minding his own business doing payrolls or whatever and 9/11 hit. A few months later he was in Afghanistan with a briefcase full of cash paying off warlords. And knowing him, probably skimming some off for himself.

President Rousse participated in the groundbreaking ceremony for a new DTD house this morning.

My mother died at 85 after a prolonged illness. My dad is 90 and in poor health. From my perspective, an extended longevity is not a desirable outcome.

You're welcome, but I didn't do anything noteworthy.

I am all about that Chili's discount, though.

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NV Energy, the Nevada utility that has supplied the bulk of Lake Tahoe’s electricity for decades, told Liberty Utilities—the small California company that services the region—that it will stop providing power after May 2027. The reason? NV Energy needs the capacity for data centers. As in: the energy supplier for the Lake Tahoe region is telling the utility company that it has less than a year to find another power source.

Northern Nevada has become one of the fastest-growing data-center corridors in the country. Google, Apple, and Microsoft have either built or are planning facilities around the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center east of Reno. The Desert Research Institute, using data from NV Energy’s 2024 Integrated Resource Plan, found that the 12 data center projects located overwhelmingly in Northern Nevada could drive 5,900 megawatts of new demand by 2033. At a regional business event last fall, NV Energy’s director of business development called the moment “unprecedented,” saying the company was eager to serve the new industrial load but that it would not “impact our existing customer base.”

But Liberty’s 49,000 California customers may already be bearing the cost. Liberty Utilities generates about 25% of its power from solar facilities it owns in Nevada. The other 75% comes from NV Energy, and that source will no longer be supplied to the region by this time next year.

“It’s like we don’t exist,” Danielle Hughes told Fortune. Hughes is a North Lake Tahoe resident, CEO of the nonprofit Tahoe Spark, and a supervisor within the California Energy Commission’s Efficiency Division.

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California's largest wildfire of the year was started by a sailor stuck on an isolated island who fired a flare gun to attract attention.

The 67-year-old was trapped on Santa Rosa Island in California's Channel Islands National Park.

The wildfire burned more than a quarter of the island, threatening rare Torrey pine trees found in only two locations in the United States.

According to the United States Coast Guard, the man became stranded after his sailboat struck rocks near Santa Rosa Island on Friday.

He remained on the island overnight before rescue crews reached him the following morning.

'The sailor fired emergency flares to signal for help, which inadvertently sparked a wildfire that grew to 1,000 acres by Friday afternoon,' officials from Coast Guard Air Station Ventura said.

Images from the scene showed the sailor had written 'SOS' in the scorched grassland.

More than 70 firefighters have been deployed to tackle the blaze, which has scorched nearly 14,600 acres since it began on Friday morning.

The fire, described by officials as human-caused, remained 0% contained on Monday.

The National Park Service said firefighting efforts had been complicated by the outbreak of several mainland fires, including the Sandy Fire in Simi Valley, which has burned more than 1,300 acres, destroyed at least one home and forced thousands of residents to evacuate.

'Today new wildfires ignited on the mainland which immediately became the priority,' the Park Service said in an incident update.

'Per policy, firefighting resources are always assigned based on the greatest threats to life, safety, and property. This prioritisation helps ensure that the most urgent needs are addressed first during rapidly evolving fire activity.'

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Do they come in XXL and have a PFG style air vent in the back? Asking for tOT.

That reminds me of a Gomer Pyle episode.Gomer had a garden next to the barracks and was growing watermelons. SGT Carter spiked one with vodka so that Gomer would get sick and give up on the watermelons. However, the Colonel was a big fan of Gomer's watermelons and ordered one for his wife's garden party, which happened to be the spiked one. Hilarity ensued as Carter tried to defuse the watermelon bomb before it exploded all over his career.

If I was going to construct an ideal employee, they would have a non business undergrad degree, preferably something that teaches them how to write and communicate. Then get a MS (not an MBA) in whatever field they are going into

You can learn most of what you need to know on the job, as long as you know how to think.

I was at a funeral a few weeks ago and saw the same thing.