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For Husker fans whose love of all things Big Red is eternal, the University of Nebraska may one day have a deal for you: How about a final resting place inside Memorial Stadium?
Now, to be clear and unequivocal, NU is not in any way considering making the Boneyard — as the student section has been dubbed — a more literal place inside the iconic college football venue.




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But, Omaha Regent Barb Weitz listed allowing the Husker faithful to make their permanent address inside Memorial Stadium as one potential revenue driver during discussion of the NU system's budget on Thursday.
"I, as a regent, am committed to finding new sources of revenue," she said. "I already told everybody about my idea of a columbarium under Memorial (Stadium)."


While the quip was met with laughs from regents and others in the boardroom that have heard Weitz's pitch, the former faculty member at the University of Nebraska at Omaha quickly moved on without elaborating further.

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Asked after the meeting, Weitz said she originally pitched the idea to former NU President Ted Carter ahead of the upcoming $450 million renovation of the stadium.

While new seats and concession stands are completed, and sometime before the turf field is converted back into grass, Weitz said it was the perfect time to leverage the emotional connection fans have to Memorial Stadium.

NU could sell spots within a proposed columbarium — a room or building with spaces, or niches, for funeral urns — at varying prices depending on the location, under Weitz's idea.

A spot near the 50-yard line or under the end zone would fetch a higher price than other areas of the stadium, for example, while a niche with a forever view of the Tunnel Walk could also go for a premium.
Each niche could be adorned with photos of the departed in their favorite Husker gear or during a memorable game in the stadium, she added, giving a visit on Saturdays in the fall added meaning for family and friends.

It's unlikely, or near impossible, the university moves forward on the idea from Weitz, which came among a slew of other ideas like corporate partnerships and engaging nonprofits to help NU's fiscal future.

On Thursday, regents approved a $1.1 billion budget for 2024-25 that includes a combination of cuts and tuition increases — the traditional levers used by the board to set a balanced budget.

The idea of making Memorial Stadium the final resting place for the Husker faithful was received with mixed to mostly negative reviews on X, the social medial website formerly known as Twitter.
"If this was implemented before selling alcohol I think I'd have a stroke," one user wrote.
"There is no (resting) place like Nebraska," another said.

I have a friend who has colon cancer and not much appetite. I have read papers that indicate that cbd might have some benefits in tackling this disease.

I know thc is illegal in Iowa but are there any cbd gummies you recommend? Does it boost appetite? Is 25mg of cbd per gummy a high dose?

Sorry for the 20 questions. I'm more of a conventional scientist so I'm just learning.

Thanks, as always.

Jerry West has died at age 86.

So my home town back in Iowa just announced they are going to have a Dollar General built. The town is about 1,200 people.

Anyone have experience on the pros and cons of the impact of the community?

The number of arrests by Border Patrol agents of people illegally crossing into the United States fell in May to the third lowest of any month during the Biden presidency, while preliminary figures released Thursday show encounters with migrants falling even more in the roughly two weeks since the president announced new rules restricting asylum.

The figures are likely welcome news for a White House that has been struggling to show to voters concerned over immigration that it has control of the southern border. But the number of people coming to the border is often in flux, dependent on conditions in countries far from the U.S. and on smugglers who profit from global migration.

Border Patrol made 117,900 arrests of people entering the country between the official border crossing points in May, Customs and Border Protection said in a news release. That’s 9% lower than during April, the agency said. The agency said preliminary data since President Joe Biden’s June 4 announcement restricting asylum access shows arrests have fallen by 25%.

“Our enforcement efforts are continuing to reduce southwest border encounters. But the fact remains that our immigration system is not resourced for what we are seeing,” said Troy A. Miller, the acting head of CBP.

The U.S. has also benefitted from aggressive enforcement on the Mexican side of the border, where Mexican authorities have been working to prevent migrants from making their way to the U.S.-Mexico border.

The figures are part of a range of data related to immigration, trade and drug seizures that is released monthly by CBP. The immigration-related figures are closely watched at a time of intense political scrutiny over who is entering the country and whether the Biden administration has a handle on the situation.

Immigration is a top concern for voters, with many saying Biden hasn’t been doing enough to secure the country’s borders. Former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, has made immigration a cornerstone of his campaign by saying he’s going to deport people in the country illegally en masse and take other measures to crack down on immigration.

After Biden announced his plan to restrict asylum access at the southern border, opponents sued, saying it was no different from a similar effort under Trump.

Who's sacrificing virgins today?

How Heat Affects the Brain​

High temperatures can make us miserable. Research shows they also make us aggressive, impulsive and dull.

In July 2016, a heat wave hit Boston, with daytime temperatures averaging 92 degrees for five days in a row. Some local university students who were staying in town for the summer got lucky and were living in dorms with central air-conditioning. Other students, not so much — they were stuck in older dorms without A.C.

Jose Guillermo Cedeño Laurent, a Harvard researcher at the time, decided to take advantage of this natural experiment to see how heat, and especially heat at night, affected the young adults’ cognitive performance. He had 44 students perform math and self-control tests five days before the temperature rose, every day during the heat wave, and two days after.

“Many of us think that we are immune to heat,” said Dr. Cedeño, now an assistant professor of environmental and occupational health and justice at Rutgers University. “So something that I wanted to test was whether that was really true.”

It turns out even young, healthy college students are affected by high temperatures. During the hottest days, the students in the un-air-conditioned dorms, where nighttime temperatures averaged 79 degrees, performed significantly worse on the tests they took every morning than the students with A.C., whose rooms stayed a pleasant 71 degrees.

A heat wave is once again blanketing the Northeast, South and Midwest. High temperatures can have an alarming effect on our bodies, raising the risk for heart attacks, heatstroke and death, particularly among older adults and people with chronic diseases. But heat also takes a toll on our brains, impairing cognition and making us irritable, impulsive and aggressive.

How heat hurts our cognition​

Numerous studies in lab settings have produced similar results to Dr. Cedeño’s research, with scores on cognitive tests falling as scientists raised the temperature in the room. One investigation found that just a four-degree increase — which participants described as still feeling comfortable — led to a 10 percent average drop in performance across tests of memory, reaction time and executive functioning.

This can have real consequences. R. Jisung Park, an environmental and labor economist at the University of Pennsylvania, looked at high school standardized test scores and found that they fell 0.2 percent for every degree above 72 Fahrenheit. That might not sound like a lot, but it can add up for students taking an exam in an un-air-conditioned room during a 90-degree heat wave.

In another study, Dr. Park found that the more hotter-than-average days there were during the school year, the worse students did on a standardized test — especially when the thermometer climbed above 80 degrees. He thinks that may be because greater exposure to heat was affecting students’ learning throughout the year.

The effect was “more pronounced for lower income and racial minority students,” Dr. Park said, possibly because they were less likely to have air-conditioning, both at school and at home.

Why heat makes us aggressive​

Researchers first discovered the link between heat and aggression by looking at crime data, finding that there are more murders, assaults and episodes of domestic violence on hot days. The connection applies to nonviolent acts, too: When temperatures rise, people are more likely to engage in hate speech online and honk their horns in traffic.
Lab studies back this up. In one 2019 experiment, people acted more spitefully toward others while playing a specially designed video game in a hot room than in a cool one.

So-called reactive aggression tends to be especially sensitive to heat, most likely because people tend to interpret others’ actions as more hostile on hot days, prompting them to respond in kind.

Kimberly Meidenbauer, an assistant professor of psychology at Washington State University, thinks this increase in reactive aggression may be related to heat’s effect on cognition, particularly the dip in self control. “Your tendency to act without thinking, or not be able to stop yourself from acting a certain way, these things also appear to be affected by heat,” she said.

What’s happening in the brain​

Researchers don’t know why heat affects our cognition and emotions, but there are a couple of theories.
One is that the brain’s resources are being diverted to keep you cool, leaving less energy for everything else. “If you’re allocating all of the blood and all the glucose to parts of your brain that are focused on thermoregulation, it seems like it’s very plausible that you just wouldn’t have enough left for some of these kind of higher cognitive functions,” Dr. Meidenbauer said.

You could also be distracted and irritable because of how hot and miserable you feel. It turns out that’s actually one of the brain’s coping responses. If you can’t get cool, your brain will “make you feel even more uncomfortable so that finding the thing you need to survive will become all consuming,” explained Shaun Morrison, a professor of neurological surgery at Oregon Health and Science University.

Heat’s effect on sleep could play a role, too. In the Boston study, the hotter it got, the more students’ sleep was disrupted — and the worse they performed on the tests.

The best way to offset these effects is to cool yourself off, as soon as possible. If you don’t have access to air-conditioning, fans can help, and be sure to stay hydrated. It might sound obvious, but what matters most for your brain, mood and cognition is how hot your body is, not the temperature outside.

Do they lump all sick time and vacation time together? Do they split them? Are you allowed certain amount of hours per month?

We switched to an unlimited PTO a few years back. They pitched it as more of a work/life balance approach. I was getting about 5-6 weeks when we made the switch and we could carry 40 hours over annually. I don't take nearly that amount anymore but "technically" could take 2x that amount if I wanted to. Good move on their part

Robert Winnett, the editor selected to run The Washington Post, will not take up that position, after reports raised questions about his ties to unethical news gathering practices in Britain.
Mr. Winnett will stay at The Daily Telegraph, where he is the deputy editor, according to emails sent on Friday to employees of the London-based newspaper and to staff at The Post.
“I’m pleased to report that Rob Winnett has decided to stay with us,” read a message to Telegraph employees from the newspaper’s top editor, Chris Evans. “As you all know, he’s a talented chap and their loss is our gain.”
Will Lewis, the chief executive of The Post, confirmed the news in an email to staff.
“It is with regret that I share with you that Robert Winnett has withdrawn from the position of editor at The Washington Post,” Mr. Lewis wrote. “Rob has my greatest respect and is an incredibly talented editor and journalist.” He said that The Post would run a search to fill that role.
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Mr. Winnett did not immediately respond to a call seeking comment.
Mr. Winnett earned a reputation as an unassuming newshound whose relentless pursuit of scoops earned him the nickname “Rat Boy.” But his appointment to the top editing job at The Post was jeopardized by recent reports in The New York Times and The Washington Post that detailed his connection to a private investigator who acknowledged using unethical means to obtain information.
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The connection, revealed first by The Times and confirmed by The Post, raised alarm bells among Washington Post journalists, many of whom privately said that they believed he was an unworthy candidate to run one of America’s pre-eminent newsrooms.
On Friday, several Washington Post journalists told The Times that they were relieved Mr. Winnett would not be leading their newsroom.
“Rat Boy is out!” one journalist said in a text message.
On June 2, Mr. Lewis told Post employees that Mr. Winnett would take over as The Post’s editor after the U.S. presidential election in November. Matt Murray, the former editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal, was slated to replace Sally Buzbee, The Post’s previous top editor, in an interim role until then. In the past week, Mr. Winnett’s future at The Post became uncertain after The Times — and subsequently The Post — published their investigations.

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In his email on Friday, Mr. Lewis said that Mr. Murray would continue as The Post’s top editor until after the U.S. elections. He said that The Post was planning to put in place a new division focused on so-called service journalism sometime in the first quarter of next year. Mr. Murray was slated to take over the new division at the time Mr. Winnett’s appointment was announced.
The decision by Mr. Winnett to step aside is a major setback for Will Lewis, the chief executive of The Post, who hired the British editor in a shake-up of The Post’s editorial ranks. Ms. Buzbee resigned after Mr. Lewis undertook a dramatic reorganization of the newspaper that would have sidelined her.
Mr. Lewis has also come under fire in recent days after The Times reported that he clashed with Ms. Buzbee over a decision to cover a court development mentioning him in a phone hacking case. (Mr. Lewis has denied pressuring Ms. Buzbee.) The next day, an NPR reporter said that Mr. Lewis had promised him an exclusive interview in exchange for ignoring a story about phone hacking. In response, Mr. Lewis called that reporter an “activist” and acknowledged having an off-the-record conversation with him.
Still more revelations came to light about Mr. Lewis and Mr. Winnett. Last week, The New York Times reported that Mr. Lewis and Mr. Winnett were said to have used fraudulently obtained records in news articles at the Sunday Times newspaper in London. The next day, The Washington Post followed up with a 3,000-word investigation into Mr. Winnett that traced his ties to John Ford, a private investigator who acknowledged using unethical methods to obtain big exclusives.
With Mr. Winnett no longer joining The Post, it remains to be seen who will lead the newsroom on a permanent basis. The Post has typically conducted a lengthy search to fill its top editor position, culminating with an interview with The Post’s owner, Jeff Bezos, and its chief executive. The appointment of Mr. Winnett was somewhat unconventional by Post standards: Mr. Lewis initially told Ms. Buzbee she would be allowed to pick a co-editor to run The Post’s news operations, then informed her that Mr. Winnett would be joining The Post.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/business/media/washington-post-editor-winnett.html

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We all know the A listers like Phoebe Kate, Heather Locklear, etc.

But what 80s ladies gave you the same feeling as climbing the rope in gym class but remained a little under-the-radar?

I will kick things off by nominating Night Court hottie Markie Post:

I'm looking for something to pair with a laptop while traveling. I'll be spending a week in Ohio later this year for a wedding and hope to get work done on several days while my wife visits cousins and shit.
I'd also like sometime I could take up to the cabin midweek so I could get some fishing in.
My work is pretty screen intensive, I typically run dual 24" screens but figure I can get by for a few days with the laptop screen and a paired monitor.
Anyone have something they like?

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It's a roller dog and a fountain drink. You don't even get a bag of chips.

Hardly a "big" meal and you have to be a loyalty club member to get the deal.

Boooooo.

How much of that cash will be committed to his legal bills?

Former President Donald Trump’s huge May fundraising haul erased President Joe Biden’s longstanding cash advantage as the two gear up for a rematch.
It wasn’t due to poor fundraising on the incumbent’s part — Biden’s campaign saw a decent fundraising rebound in May after a weak showing the month prior. But Trump’s fundraising while he was on trial in New York that month, punctuated in the final days when he was convicted, was enough to surpass Biden in campaign cash, something that had long been seen as a crucial strength of his.




The latest campaign finance filings with the Federal Election Commission also revealed how Biden has continued to build out his campaign apparatus, while Trump has largely held onto cash. And down-ballot races are also heating up, with party committees and other outside groups bringing in — and spreading around — more cash than before.
After months of a relatively sleepy start, the real money race has begun.
Those are among the takeaways of the campaign finance reports filed by presidential campaigns, party committees and a handful of other groups on Thursday. The reports covered all activity for the month of May.

Biden was counting on a cash advantage. Trump wiped it out.​

Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee said they raised $141 million in May, a figure that included the significant fundraising boost after the former president’s criminal conviction on hush money charges. (The full breakdown behind that number won’t be available until mid-July, when Trump’s joint fundraising committees file their own reports.)
But the former president’s campaign filing Thursday showed a significant surge in the final two days of the month — the day the jury handed down a guilty verdict and the day after.
Just looking at large-dollar donations, the campaign reported receiving at least six times as many daily donations those two days compared to a typical day. And the fundraising spike was likely even greater, considering that doesn’t include unitemized donations of less than $200 or any donations that the joint fundraising contributions hadn’t yet transferred.
In total, Trump’s campaign and the RNC reported just over $170 million cash on hand combined at the end of May, overtaking Biden and the Democratic National Committee, which reported just shy of $157 million.

Trump’s campaign had $116.6 million in the bank at the end of May, compared to $91.6 million for Biden.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/21/trump-overtakes-biden-campaign-fundraising-00164384

has anyone seen this before? A relative found at a garage sale and gave it to me. It's kinda funny. From what I can tell the artist name is J Holladay and its dated 1981. TIA

Pre-game has been awesome. Great Willie Mays tributes. Reggie Jackson with some powerful stories. Barry Bonds even came off as likeable. MLB knocking it out of the park.

BREAKING: Bloomberg drops out and endorses @JoeBiden

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After all, when you want to be the best you’ve got to learn from the best. And taking down CIA agents and former SecDefs is no small feat.

On May 22, 1949, the body of the man generally regarded as the leading government official warning of the communist menace abroad and within the United States government, the nation’s first Secretary of Defense, James V. Forrestal, was found on a third floor roof 13 floors below a 16th-floor window of the Bethesda Naval Hospital. He had been admitted to the hospital, apparently against his will, diagnosed as suffering from “operational fatigue” and kept in confinement in a room with security-screened windows on the 16th floor since April 2, some seven weeks before. The body had been discovered at 1:50 a.m., and the last edition of the May 22 New York Times reported the death as a suicide, although the belt, or sash, of his dressing gown was tied tightly around his neck, a more suspicious happenstance than anything associated with Masaryk’s death.
(The death of Czechoslovak foreign minister Jan Masaryk on March 10, 1948 remains a mystery. The communist regime initially ruled his death a suicide by jumping from his bathroom window at the Foreign Ministry, but some suspect he was defenestrated by communist agents.)

Four years later, a CIA officer named Frank Olson was tossed out of a New York hotel window. It was claimed that Olson jumped as well, after a reported bad trip on LSD. But the Olson family refused to accept the official story and forty-one years later, after Olson’s body was exhumed, forensic analysis proved that Olson had suffered a severe blow to the head immediately prior to his fall.