I am not a huge follower of college baseball so need your help. Who will be the Hawkeye pitcher for the Saturday game in DSM ? Too far ahead to predict? TIA

A man was arrested at a Northern Virginia grocery store after he was seen pulling down his pants and rubbing produce items on his buttocks, police say.

The suspect then put the items back on the shelves, a loss prevention employee at the store told authorities, according to Manassas City Police.

Officers responded to the Giant grocery store at 10100 Dumfries Road in Manassas shortly after 4:30 p.m. Saturday. Officers arrested Manassas resident Michael Dwayne Johnson, 27, at the store.

Johnson is facing charges of indecent exposure and destruction of property.

The store had to destroy several pallets of produce after the incident, police said.

A police spokesperson did not have information on what type of produce Johnson allegedly defiled, although she said a police report mentioned it was fruit.

A Giant store manager said he was unable to speak about the incident. https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/...493507801.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_DCBrand

Campaign says if he's still on rolls in FL it's bc officials there haven't purged him yet-not bc he's living there anymore

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Kylie Feuerbach uploaded a 30-min vlog about Iowa's Final Four run. Lots of great footage, especially off the court.

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When Henri Kunz was growing up in West Germany in the 1980s, he used to drink an instant coffee substitute called Caro, a blend of barley, chicory root, and rye roasted to approximate the deep color and invigorating flavor of real coffee. “We kids drank it,” Kunz remembered recently. “It had no caffeine, but it tasted like coffee.”

As an adult, Kunz loves real coffee. But he also believes that its days are numbered. Climate change is expected to shift the areas where coffee can grow, with some researchers estimating that the most suitable land for coffee will shrink by more than half by 2050 and that hotter temperatures will make the plants more vulnerable to pests, blight, and other threats. At the same time, demand for coffee is growing, as upwardly mobile people in traditionally tea-drinking countries in Asia develop a taste for java.

“The difference between demand and supply will go like that,” Kunz put it during a Zoom interview, crossing his arms in front of his chest to form an X, like the “no-good” emoji. Small farmers could face crop failures just as millions of new people develop a daily habit, potentially sending coffee prices soaring to levels that only the wealthy will be able to afford.

To stave off the looming threats, some agricultural scientists are hard at work breeding climate-resilient, high-yield varieties of coffee. Kunz, the founder and chair of a “flavor engineering” company called Stem, thinks he can solve many of these problems by growing coffee cells in a laboratory instead of on a tree. A number of other entrepreneurs are taking a look at coffee substitutes of yore, like the barley beverage Kunz grew up drinking, with the aim of using sustainable ingredients to solve coffee’s environmental problems—and adding caffeine to reproduce its signature jolt.

A crop of startups, with names like Atomo, Northern Wonder, and Prefer, is calling this category of throwbacks “beanless coffee,” even though in some cases their products contain legumes. Beanless coffee “gives you that legendary coffee taste and all the morning pick-me-up you crave, while also leaving you proud that you’re doing your part to help unf—k the planet,” as the San-Francisco-based beanless coffee company Minus puts it. But it’s unclear whether coffee drinkers—deeply attached to the drink’s particular, ineffable taste and aroma—will embrace beanless varieties voluntarily, or only after the coming climate-induced coffee apocalypse forces their hand.

Coffea arabica—the plant species most commonly cultivated for drinking—has been likened to Goldilocks. It thrives in shady environments with consistent, moderate rainfall and in temperatures between 64 and 70 degrees Fahrenheit, conditions often found in the highlands of tropical countries like Guatemala, Ethiopia, and Indonesia. Although coffee plantations can be sustainably integrated into tropical forests, growing coffee leads to environmental destruction more often than not. Farmers cut down trees both to make room for coffee plants and to fuel wood-burning dryers used to process the beans, making coffee one of the top six agricultural drivers of deforestation. When all of a coffee tree’s finicky needs are met, it can produce harvestable beans after three to five years of growth and eventually yield 1 or 2 pounds of green coffee beans per year.

If arabica is Goldilocks, climate change is an angry bear. For some 200 years, humans have been burning fossil fuels, spewing planet-warming carbon dioxide into the air. The resulting floods, droughts, and heat waves, as well as the climate-driven proliferation of coffee borer beetles and fungal infections, are all predicted to make many of today’s coffee-growing areas inhospitable to the crop, destroy coffee farmers’ razor-thin profit margins, and sow chaos in the world’s coffee markets. That shift is already underway: Extreme weather in Brazil sent commodity coffee prices to an 11-year high of $2.58 per pound in 2022. And as coffee growers venture into new regions, they’ll tear down more trees, threatening biodiversity and transforming even more forests from carbon sinks into carbon emitters.

At many times in the past, coffee has been out of reach for most people, so they found cheaper, albeit caffeine-free, alternatives. Caro and other quaint instant beverage mixes, like Postum in the U.S. and caffè d’orzo in Italy, were popular during World War II and in the following years, when coffee was rationed or otherwise hard to come by. But the practice of brewing noncaffeinated, ersatz coffee out of other plants is even older than that. In the Middle East, people have used date seeds to brew a hot, dark drink for hundreds or perhaps thousands of years. In pre-Columbian Central America, Mayans drank a similar beverage made from the seeds of ramón trees found in the rainforest. In Europe and Western Asia, drinks have been made out of chicory, chickpeas, dandelion root, figs, grains, lupin beans, and soybeans. These ingredients have historically been more accessible than coffee, and they sometimes confer purported health benefits.

Today’s beanless-coffee startups are attempting to put a modern spin on these time-honored, low-tech coffee substitutes.

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So, I filled up the tank a couple of days ago and immediately noticed the engine wasn't running the same as it did when I rolled up to the pump. Was running 93 octane and filled up with 93 octane. Yesterday it seemed better but today it seems sort of "off" again. Like the computer is having trouble finding the right timing. This is a 2024 Mazda CX-5 Carbon Turbo. If those jackasses sold me bad gas and it fouls my engine I'm going to go ballistic.

Assuming something is wrong with the gas, what should or could I possibly do about it, other than running the tank down and refilling from a different gas station?

Thanks a lot Trump, you worthless POS:

For the past 15 years, the most important clues about Iran’s nuclear program have lain deep underground, in a factory built inside a mountain on the edge of Iran’s Great Salt Desert. The facility, known as Fordow, is the heavily protected inner sanctum of Iran’s nuclear complex and a frequent destination for international inspectors whose visits are meant to ensure against any secret effort by Iran to make nuclear bombs.


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The inspectors’ latest trek, in February, yielded the usual matrices of readings and measurements, couched in the clinical language of a U.N. nuclear watchdog report. But within the document’s dry prose were indications of alarming change.
In factory chambers that had ceased making enriched uranium under a 2015 nuclear accord, the inspectors now witnessed frenzied activity: newly installed equipment, producing enriched uranium at ever faster speeds, and an expansion underway that could soon double the plant’s output. More worryingly, Fordow was scaling up production of a more dangerous form of nuclear fuel — a kind of highly enriched uranium, just shy of weapons grade. Iranian officials in charge of the plant, meanwhile, had begun talking openly about achieving “deterrence,” suggesting that Tehran now had everything it needed to build a bomb if it chose.



Fordow’s transformation mirrors changes seen elsewhere in the country as Iran blows past the guardrails of the Iran nuclear accord. Six years after the Trump administration’s controversial decision to withdraw from the pact, the restraints have fallen away, one by one, leaving Iran closer to nuclear weapons capability than at any time in the country’s history, according to confidential inspection reports and interviews with officials and experts who closely monitor Iran’s progress.
While Iran says it has no plans to make nuclear weapons, it now has a supply of highly enriched uranium that could be converted to weapons-grade fuel for at least three bombs in a time frame ranging from a few days to a few weeks, current and former officials said. The making of a crude nuclear device could follow in as little as six months after a decision is made, while overcoming the challenges of building a nuclear warhead deliverable by a missile would take longer, perhaps two years or more, the officials said.
Iran recently has sought to dilute some of its highly enriched uranium, signaling, in the view of U.S. officials, that it is seeking to avoid a conflict by self-imposing limits on its supply of near-weapons-grade fuel. But Fordow’s machines are making highly enriched uranium at a faster rate than ever before, and the country’s combined stocks of uranium fuel continue to increase, records show. The trend is unmistakable: From interviews with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) officials at the nuclear watchdog’s Vienna headquarters and with more than a dozen current and former U.S. and European intelligence and security officials — many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters — the emerging view is one of Iran advancing slowly but confidently, accumulating the means for a future weapon while making no overt move to build one.



The collapse of the deal, meanwhile, has sharply curtailed the IAEA’s ability to monitor Iran’s activity or investigate any reports of secret weapons activity, the officials and experts said. A U.S. official with knowledge of internal discussions at the IAEA’s governing board conceded that the nuclear watchdog is less capable now of detecting a nuclear breakout by Iran. Such an event could bring cascading consequences, from a Middle East arms race to a direct Israel-Iran conflict that could unleash a wider regional war, said the official.
For now, the U.S. official said of Iran, “they are dancing right up to the edge.”
President Biden vowed early in his presidency to seek to restore or revamp the deal, but the administration’s efforts ran into a wall of political opposition at home and indifference from Iran. In December 2022, a video recording captured Biden acknowledging that the accord was “dead,” although the administration has not said so formally.



White House national security spokesman John Kirby recently acknowledged what he called the “futility” of the effort to revive the deal, and said the administration had “stopped putting energy and effort into it.” He said Biden remains determined to stop Iran from acquiring the ability to make nuclear weapons, but he conceded that the United States has few fewer tools to achieve that end.
“He would prefer — vastly prefer — to do that through diplomacy,” Kirby said in a White House briefing in September. “But that’s just not a viable option right now.”

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Wind power is vital to help decarbonize the energy industry. However, while the electricity it generates has a small carbon footprint, the towers of conventional wind turbines are predominately made using carbon-intensive materials like steel. Swedish company Modvion believes it has found a greener alternative — building turbine towers from wood.

Modvion towers are coated with a thick, waterproof paint, and like steel towers, they have a lifetime of 25 to 30 years, according to the company.

Currently, Modvion is in the design phase for its first six-megawatt turbine, which will be installed next year. By 2027, it aims to start commercial production of the turbine in a new factory.

While the company is only focusing on the tower component, Lundman says turbine blades — which are traditionally manufactured from fiberglass bound together with epoxy resin, an incredibly strong material that is difficult and expensive to recycle — could also be made with wood.

Some smoke on X that Iowa is interested in adding Lincoln Kienholz, QB at OSU, when portal opens. Others seeing this? How credible? Brown supposedly speaking to LK on new Iowa offense.

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DUI suspect in pickup wasn't noticed until cop saw him 'spinning both of its rear tires'​

FRUITLAND PARK, Fla. (TND) — Some stunt driving in a pickup truck got the attention of police and the suspect ended up charged with another DUI.

The officer reported seeing the driver "initiate a ‘burnout’ by spinning both of its rear tires while remaining stationary, causing a plume of smoke to begin filling the air," early last Tuesday evening, April 2, in Florida.

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The officer conducted a traffic stop, asked for the driver's license, and reported Chase Kristopher Wery “appeared to struggle through his wallet to fulfill the request.”

The officer also said Wery had “glassy bloodshot eyes, slurred speech, and he spoke with a mush mouth.”

Plus, the officer “could smell the odor of [an] alcoholic beverage emitting from the vehicle, which grew stronger as Wery spoke,” but he denied drinking any alcohol.

The arrest report said Wery made “slow unsteady movements” while getting out to perform field sobriety exercises, “And while at the rear of the truck, he utilized the truck’s tailgate as support while he stood.”

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The officer went back to his cruiser for a moment, “And upon returning, Wery was speaking on his phone and became extremely argumentative.
“Wery then stated he did not wish to participate in standardized field sobriety exercises,” so he was arrested.

“During transport,” the arrest report said, “Wery was very verbally aggressive and at times had mood changes, and apologized for his behavior, and then went back to being verbally aggressive.”

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In jail, he refused to give a breath sample.

Wery was charged with DUI-second offense and stunt driving, and he spent three days in jail and until his release Friday in lieu of $10,000 bond.

The police officer added, “several empty beer cans, one unopened beer can, and a 3/4 empty bottle of Jim Beam Apple Whiskey,” were found in his pickup before it was towed away.

Wery’s previous DUI was in March 2019.

That arrest report said he was driving recklessly, and his SUV didn't have a front bumper.

It also said, “While in the back of the patrol car, he moved the handcuffs from behind his back to the front of his body several times.”

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Plus, “The defendant also continued to advise he was going to pee in my patrol car if I didn't stop at a gas station to let him pee.”

Furthermore, “While en route to the jail, the defendant advised he made a mistake and that he should have run from law enforcement to make the situation more fun.”

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And finally, “The defendant asked myself what was going to happen at the jail to which I advised him I was going to request him to submit to a breath test.

“The defendant advised he was already drunk, and the breath test was not needed.”

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A longtime executive at Donald Trump’s company was sentenced to five months in jail on Wednesday after pleading guilty to lying under oath in the New York attorney general’s civil investigation into business practices at the Trump Organization.

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Allen Weisselberg, who worked for the Trump family for a half-century before retiring recently, was taken into custody after a brief proceeding in New York Supreme Court and is expected to serve his sentence at Rikers Island, the city’s sprawling jail complex near LaGuardia Airport.

It was not clear whether Weisselberg will be called as a witness at Trump’s criminal trial scheduled to begin Monday in New York.

Weisselberg, 76, now a Florida resident, pleaded guilty on March 4 to several counts of perjury for lying in sworn testimony both before and during New York Attorney General Letitia James’s civil fraud trial. He has been embroiled in Trump’s legal issues for years because he was a key figure at the former president’s namesake company for decades.


Weisselberg was a defendant in the civil fraud trial and was ordered in February to pay $1 million as a penalty, representing the amount of severance he received from the company. New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron found that Weisselberg was a player in the persistent fraud and that his severance was an award for remaining loyal to Trump.

Trump was fined more than $350 million, representing ill-gotten gains earned through deceptive practices in real estate deals. He owes another $100 million in prejudgment interest, but he is appealing the judge’s decision.

In 2023, Weisselberg served about three months of a five-month sentence related to the company’s tax fraud case. The Trump Organization was convicted and fined $1.6 million, the maximum allowed by law.
In that matter, Weisselberg blamed himself and another executive, Jeffrey McConney, for orchestrating a 15-year tax evasion scheme that sought to compensate company executives, including Weisselberg, with unreported benefits such as free cars, apartments and other paid personal expenses. Weisselberg testified that Trump was not involved in those crimes.
Weisselberg held several titles at the Trump Organization and spent years as its chief financial officer.

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If so, we only have @curtisj157 as the only grumpy old man left. Sad days.

Growing up in Iowa, I always knew wrestling was big and from my memories starting in the mid-80s Iowa had plenty of Olympians, including gold medalists. But I just saw a stat that blew my mind. Someone either from Iowa or who wrestled in the state in college has been at every Olympic Games since at least 1920. For over 100 years…. Someone like a Gilman counts. Iowa State has carried their water over this streak, it’s not just Iowa. If you go back far enough, it was a Cornell guy or people born in Iowa that represented. That’s bonkers.

The state has 3 million people. Roughly 1% of the USA population. The consistency and the tradition…. It’s not just about Gable, though he and his connections have been a big factor since 1972.

Someone else on that list is Carl. Yes he left, and we joke about how he could only win big with PSU’s money and access to recruits. But to me it’s really just another extension of Iowa’s influence on the sport. We made Carl. He was destined to be a great coach. He just chose a different state and school to build his tree.

PSU isn’t much to speak of without what Carl has done. The state of Iowa already had at least 40-50 years of Olympic success before anyone even heard of Gable.

The best tradition and job in wrestling is coaching at the University of Iowa. And I don’t really know much about the history there, but Oklahoma State has to be second. And third? Iowa State? Not sure who else makes the list for third. I would take Iowa State over PSU.

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Tremendous opportunity ahead for Iowa Women's basketball.

Time to recruit with the big dogs now.

What's waiting in the wings? Who is Iowa after that could be a serious rebounder down low?