Wow, hope this kid enjoys running for his life behind that shit show of a line.
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Dems have plans for Trump administration

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HERE WE GO! Vaccine researcher Peter Hotez says multiple viruses will be unleashed on America the day after Trump takes office
“We have some big picture stuff coming down the pike starting on January 21st.”
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First of all, a 1500 plus page bill is absurd. I bet zero congress people know everything in this bill but will vote yes anyways. My opinion, shut it down.

Oh Lord, have some self-respect Kirk

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Many of you know the US and Russia both had many communications stations around the world during the Moon race. The russians could easily aim two of their antennae at our signals from the Apollo 11 Lunar landing on the moon to figure out the yes those signals intersect with our antennae at an angle that puts the source about 240,000 miles away right in line with the Moon. The British and other countries with antennae around the world could do this also.

As someone on this thread mentioned, if the triangulation didnt measure correctly we know the Soviets would have been screaming to high heaven with their evidence. But it did.

If a flat-Earther looks that the very famous picture taken by Voyager 1, the picture from about 7 million miles from Earth that is the first ever picture to capture both the Earth and the Moon in the same frame, and they do not see the terminator line where sunlight and darkness meet on their surfaces as curved showing their spherical shape then you can tell them they are stupid and insane.

Also, for proof, you may know that the Greek philosopher Eratosthenes used different lengths of shadows cast at different places on Earth about 2200 years ago to really accurately measure the circumference of the Earth. He showed that the Earth is not flat because the shadows in Greece, the Nile Delta, and much farther south on the Nile had different angles. A flat Earth would have shadows at the same angle.



What logic would you use, what arguments? I have mine but I will save them for awhile before I put them here as I want to hear your ideas first.

And what are some other crazy notions that people ascribe to and believe?

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YEMASSEE, S.C. (WCSC/Gray News) - Four monkeys remain uncaptured weeks after 43 primates escaped from a research facility in South Carolina.

The rhesus macaque monkeys escaped from Alpha Genesis near Yemassee on Nov. 7.

On Sunday, the company’s CEO, Greg Westergaard, said his team still sees the remaining four monkeys together in a tree almost daily.

“The four monkeys look good, and engage in species-typical behaviors such as grooming and tree-climbing,” he said in a statement. “I could have them darted but have not given that directive because it could pose a danger to the monkeys and since they are doing well, we are just waiting for them to go in the traps.”


Westergaard said the 39 primates that were recaptured are in good health.

He confirmed in mid-November that there was no structural failure in the containment area where the monkeys are kept. He said there are two gates you must pass through to get inside the main enclosure where the monkeys live.

The company is assuming the failure to secure the gates “was the result of human error rather than malice,” Westergaard said, but he added that they have no way of knowing that for certain.

The employee who was responsible for leaving the gates open left the facility after the monkeys escaped, but Westergaard said he was not aware of any argument or disagreement involving the employee that would have been a motive for leaving the gates open on purpose.


Westergaard said they continue to provide fruit and other treats to the four escaped monkeys, which he said “probably slows down the trapping process” but added that it seems to him to be “the right thing to do.”

”Rhesus monkeys are native to the Himalayan Mountains in Northern India, so the relatively mild Lowcountry winters are not an issue for them,” he said.

This is the first update on the ongoing efforts to recapture the last of the escaped primates since news broke weeks ago that the U.S. Department of Agriculture was reviewing a complaint against the research facility.

The animal rights activist group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) said it submitted whistleblower complaints alleging misconduct.


“I can confirm that we recently received a complaint with some detailed allegations and that we are reviewing them to determine whether there are Animal Welfare Act noncompliance we need to follow up on,” USDA spokesman R. Andre Bell said in a statement.

Alpha Genesis did not respond to requests for comment on the complaint, and the USDA has not provided updates on where that review stands.

Over the last 10 years, the facility has received over $130 million from the Department of Health and Human Services with the majority of that funding coming from taxpayer dollars.

What's going on here? I've seen multiple sites that show Iowa has a top 20 NIL collective program, yet I continue to hear we have no money. For the last few years Iowa has brought in some of the lowest transfer numbers of any P5 program, so where is the money going? I'm seeing programs like Minnesota, Iowa State, Kansas, Texas Tech and others that supposedly don't have near the collective programs that Iowa does but yet they seem to be attracting players that we cannot. Is it the numbers are a lie? If so, why are the numbers so low? I think it might have to do with that greater than 50% of our fans are no longer "excited" about Iowa football anymore. We have a coach that's been here for 3 decades and has spent all 3 decades preaching "we're not sexy" and now the rest of the country see us as such and many players are not even giving us a look. Thoughts?

Do you tuck or untuck your shirts in the office? And how old are you when you started doing it?

I’m 36 and still rock the untucked polo. Not sure when the move to tucking in shirts happen but idk if that happens with my generation.

"The Biden administration has renewed a science and technology cooperation agreement with China despite complaints about Beijing’s theft of American technology and damaging state-linked hacking operations. The State Department announced Friday that the 1979 agreement that lapsed this summer had been extended for five years..."

A 2018 White House report estimated that China’s technology theft costs American companies $225 billion to $600 billion annually. Former National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander has described Chinese theft of U.S. technology as “the greatest transfer of wealth in human history.”

Security officials recently said Chinese intelligence-linked hackers have broken into computer networks of U.S. telecommunications firms and critical infrastructure networks for spying and plotting sabotage.
The House recently passed legislation requiring any extension of the science and technology agreement with China to include 15 days’ notice to Congress, explicit protections for human rights, and curbs on dual civilian-military research.

“While not yet law, the Biden Administration’s decision to ignore Congress’s articulated guardrails is alarming,” the committee said in a statement.

Jaxx DeJean is the first in-state prospect that Iowa has offered in the Class of 2027 and the second overall for the Hawkeyes in his class, which just finished their freshman year of high school.


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Happening on February 2 against USC.
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Elliot, Seeing lots of portable discussions, but wonder if some of the walkons like Wetjen and Rexroth will be put on scholarship. They’ve paid their dues.

The University of Iowa announced plans to honor former Hawkeye women's basketball star Caitlin Clark on Wednesday.
According to a press release from the university, Iowa will hold a ceremony inside Carver-Hawkeye Arena ahead of its home matchup against USC on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025 to retire Clark's No. 22 jersey.
"I'm forever proud to be a Hawkeye and Iowa holds a special place in my heart that is bigger than just basketball,” Clark said. "It means the world to me to receive this honor and to celebrate it with my family, friends and alumni. It will be a great feeling to look up in the rafters and see my jersey alongside those that I've admired for so long."

Clark will attend the game against the Trojans, which is set to tip off at 12:30 p.m. (CT) and will also feature a blackout theme for the crowd. Broadcast coverage will be provided by FOX and the Hawkeye Radio Network.

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“Caitlin Clark has not only redefined excellence on the court but has also inspired countless young athletes to pursue their dreams with passion and determination,” Iowa Director of Athletics Beth Goetz said. “Her remarkable achievements have left an indelible mark on the University of Iowa and the world of women’s basketball. Retiring her number is a testament to her extraordinary contributions and a celebration of her legacy that will continue to inspire future generations. Hawkeye fans are eager to say thank you for so many incredible moments.”


Last season, Clark broke Kelsey Plum's record to become the all-time women's NCAA Division I scoring leader, and also broke Lynette Woodard's AIAW scoring record and Pete Maravich's all-time Division I men's and women's scoring record.


Clark received the Wooden, Naismith, Wad, Anny Meyers Drysdale, Honda Cup and AAU Sullivan awards twice during her Hawkeye career.


She was also named 2024 Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year by the Collegiate Women Sports Awards (CWSA) and 2024 Athlete of the Year by TIME Magazine. She is also a three-time winner of the Nancy Lieberman Point Guard Award and is the first-ever three-time winner of the Dawn Staley Award.

During her time in Iowa City, the Hawkeyes experienced unparalleled success, claiming three Big Ten Tournament titles (2022, 2023, 2024) and reached the NCAA National Championship in 2023 and 2024.
Since leaving Iowa, Clark led the Indiana Fever to the WNBA playoffs in her first professional season while leading the league in assists. The Dowling Catholic product also earned WNBA All-Star, All-WNBA First Team and WNBA All-Rookie Team honors in 2024.

there are about a half dozen intersections we travel often around the QC that have panhandler's

Homelessness went up!

How is that possible?

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never a hold a pee!

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Former congressman Jim Leach passed away, and here is what the obit in the CR Gazette had to say about his wrestling career:

"But Leach’s humility receded when it came to his accomplishments as a wrestler. He won a state title in 1960 for Davenport High School.
“He liked to say that he'd been inducted in the Wrestling Hall of Fame,” Wierzynski said.
"I’ve always thought that the most equalitarian place in the world is the wrestling mat," Leach said in a 2009 interview. "You have two people operating with the same goal in mind and abiding by the same rules. Wrestlers may differ in height and body type, but it’s hard to say who has the natural advantage." "

Always a maverick, and always an Iowan. We will miss him.

So after a relatively sleepy start to the term (marked by relatively few electoral cases), this December session has some really interesting stuff.

Aside from the supposedly "sexy" stuff like Skremetti (no pun intended), which as I've noted elsewhere really does entail some high stakes for TG advocacy specifically and EP law generally, most of the other cases this session are really interesting.

We've already had FDA authority regarding e-cigarettes and FSIA immunity in the case of nazi stolen goods. Today we get a interesting case about just how broad the mail fraud statutes are when applied to government contracts. Tomorrow a huge environmental case about just how far upstream and downstream from the regulated 'event' an agency can go when considering the 'effects' of the event. And thursday, on a personal note, we get Duberry - a rather dull Lanham Act damages case, but one that is fun for me in that I know the Duberrys.

The tuck in or out polo shirt thread gave rise to this derivative question. after brushing your hair do you leave it all perfectly placed or deliberately ruffle it up a bit?

Have lived away from Iowa the last 15 years. Have moved back and attending first basketball game in 15 years this Friday vs UNI. Any advice on parking? Thanks.

To me, these 2 make the most sense for Iowa. 1(ish) years that aren't 5+++ stars but very talented i.e., versatile run/pass. Would be pricey, but not Miller Moss type money. Both upgrades to B. Sullivan.

Adam Lashinsky is a former executive editor at Fortune magazine and the author of “Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired — and Secretive — Company Really Works.”
The bursting of the cryptocurrency bubble will end the way other speculative crazes have concluded: in a trail of wreckage across companies, continents — and unlucky investors. Crypto has had a horrible year. We saw the terra “stablecoin” wipeout in May, the unraveling of the FTX trading exchange this week and the shriveling of trading in non-fungible tokens all year long.


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Small-time investors already have fled, their grubstakes or life savings decimated. Well-heeled venture capitalists, badly burned by each successive bust-up, will wash their hands and move on to the next shiny object. The side-hustling crypto-ambassadors (insert any big name from professional sports here, please) will slip back backstage. And regulators, as is their wont, will finally issue their overdue rules, long after the damage is done.



There’s a critical difference with crypto, though, compared with past bubbles: It had virtually no intrinsic merit.
Before and after their bubble burst in the mid-1600s, tulips were still pretty flowers. American railroads begot massive (and positive) change well before the Panic of 1873 and are still vital almost 150 years later. The promise of email in the 1990s — and its dot-com derivatives — was real and epochal. Even badly abused subprime mortgages were a lamentable innovation on hard-to-get loans for home purchasers — a market that survived the financial crisis of 2008.
“Crypto,” a still poorly understood catchall phrase for digital currencies and other securities not controlled by a government, won’t be able to make the same claim. Crypto was supposed to be a haven in inflationary times, the way hard-metal commodities such as gold often are. Yet confections like bitcoin and ethereum have plummeted as inflation has skyrocketed. They promised a way to store value. Clearly, they do not.



More egregiously, crypto was supposed to have all sorts of other uses, from easy cross-border remittance to pegging a value for newly created forms of digital art. None of this has come true at any scale worth bragging about.
In our system, entrepreneurs, and the investors who back them, provide a valuable service by taking risks on unproven ideas. Without them, we wouldn’t have Apple or Google — or Post-it notes. But we now know the crop of swaggering financiers who dreamed up the new category of investments casually known as web3 have been kidding themselves.
A common justification for these investments has been that they captured the fascination of software coders and entrepreneurs, leading to the dreamy conclusion that a real market for digital assets of all kinds was emerging.

What emerged instead is another example of one of the worst ills that afflicts Sand Hill Road, the heart of Silicon Valley’s venture-capital industry: confirmation bias. The enthusiasm the VCs mistook for an investment thesis was often just the result of too much cash chasing too few truly good ideas.






Nerds aren’t stupid: If someone offers them oodles of money to chase a fad, they’ll start coding. Hence, crypto.
The past 15 years or so of venture-capital investing can be in many ways explained by the low-interest-rate environment in which it exploded. With endowments and pension funds (and many an ordinary multimillionaire) unable to earn safe returns in bonds for more than a decade, their money managers opted instead to place riskier bets.

Consider the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Canada’s third-largest. Three years ago, it set up a special fund to make venture-capital-stage investments. It invested $95 million in FTX, a leading crypto trading platform. On Thursday, it noted that “not all of the investments in this early-stage asset class perform to expectations.” It added that its FTX investment — presumably none of which it will ever see again — represents a tiny percentage of overall investments.


For years now, the folly of such investment strategies translated, essentially, into free money for entrepreneurs. It didn’t take a genius to spin up a company when the cost of capital was next to zero.
Now, that era is over. Higher interest rates will allow pension funds such as the one in Ontario to seek safer investments. As a result, the flow of funds to VCs and start-ups will slow. Only the best companies and VCs will emerge on the other side.

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