58 dogs? 58? What’s the average person eat at a setting? 52? 53? Embarrassing day for America.

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You'd have gotten banned from social media for suggesting this just a couple years ago.. "misinformation" and all that, right?

I would vote for Romney over having to choose Biden/Kamala in a heartbeat.

Not as much as this guy ( sidebar, The Church are a criminally underrated band-one of the best ever)


However, the lab has now been given a new lease of life as a vibrantly hued, maze-like music archive and hub, which will be opened up to creatives visiting or living in the Portuguese city. Created by guitarist Marty Willson-Piper of Australian psych-pop icons the Church, the In Deep Music Archive houses an expansive, painstakingly curated collection of over 65,000 vinyl records. To put things into perspective, that’s about the same as legendary California beatmaker DJ Shadow (per Questlove’s estimate) and not far off the 70,000-rich haul famously sold by Elton John for his AIDS Foundation charity in 1993. Add to this the 15,000 CDs, cassettes, stacks of prime vintage gear (which includes Rickenbacker 6- and 12-strings and a Roland space echo unit), and memorabilia-like signed concert posters and David Bowie Barbie dolls, and you’ve got a veritable candy shop for music enthusiasts. Virtuosic drummer Virgil Donati, members of Brian Jonestown Massacre, and Dais Records mavericks Drab Majesty have all paid the archive a visit since Willson-Piper and his wife Olivia first sourced the premises in spring 2023.

What was the name if the bar next to the Englert theater, late 80's, that was kind of a heavy metal bar. Long flight of stairs up to get in. Had dime draws a lot, etc.

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"The chemicals are linked to cancer, birth defects, liver disease, thyroid disease, plummeting sperm counts and a range of other serious health problems."

Coffee, eggs and white rice linked to higher levels of PFAS in human body​

Study that researchers say highlights chemicals’ ubiquity also shows PFAS association with seafood and red meat

New research aimed at identifying foods that contain higher levels of PFAS found people who eat more white rice, coffee, eggs and seafood typically showed more of the toxic chemicals in their plasma and breast milk.


The study checked samples from 3,000 pregnant mothers, and is among the first research to suggest coffee and white rice may be contaminated at higher rates than other foods. It also identified an association between red meat consumption and levels of PFOS, one of the most common and dangerous PFAS compounds.
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The authors said the findings highlight the chemicals’ ubiquity and the many ways they can end up in the food supply.

“The results definitely point toward the need for environmental stewardship, and keeping PFAS out of the environment and food chain,” said Megan Romano, a Dartmouth researcher and lead author. “Now we’re in a situation where they’re everywhere and are going to stick around even if we do aggressive remediation.”

PFAS are a class of about 16,000 compounds used to make products that resist water, stains and heat. They are called “forever chemicals” because they do not naturally break down and have been found to accumulate in humans. The chemicals are linked to cancer, birth defects, liver disease, thyroid disease, plummeting sperm counts and a range of other serious health problems.

Though regulators have focused on reining in pollution in water, food is thought to be the most common exposure route. The Food and Drug Administration, however, has drawn criticism for what some say is a failure to protect the nation’s food supply. Among other controversies, it altered its testing methods to make it appear as if the food it tests does not have PFAS in it when it actually does contain what many advocates say are concerning levels.

PFAS can end up contaminating food through a number of routes. In rice, the researchers suspect it stems from contaminated soil or agricultural water. Non-stick cookware also often contains the chemicals, or it could be in water used for cooking.

Researchers found higher levels of PFAS associated with eggs from backyard chickens, which Romano said could be attributed to the birds more commonly being fed with table scraps. PFAS-fouled sewage sludge, which is used as a cheap alternative to fertilizer, may also contaminate the soil from which chickens feed, and has been found to contaminate beef. The chemicals also could be in the birds’ feed.

In coffee, researchers suspect that the beans, water used for brewing, or soil could be contaminated. Previous research has also found coffee filters to be treated with PFAS, and paper cups or other food packaging also commonly contain the chemicals.

Seafood, meanwhile, has regularly been found to be contaminated with PFAS because water pollution is so widespread.

Public health advocates say a ban on the chemicals except for essential uses is the only way to begin addressing the problem broadly. Romano said the research found diets high in fruit, whole grain and higher dietary fiber were associated with lower levels of some PFAS, and eating a varied diet so no one protein source comprises too large of a proportion of intake is beneficial.

“That helps you not only reduce your exposure to PFAS but other contaminants we might anticipate are in food,” Romano said.

After Kristi Noem, we said a dog should only be touched by loving hands, but this is just going too far:

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Nice to see the national media on this — not positive who this is, looks like a fill-in for Colin Cowherd.

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Not bad, but work to be done.


Americans value independence. We fought hard for it during the Revolutionary War, and in the present day, we celebrate not only our freedom from the British crown but also our strong ability to rely upon ourselves as individuals. Now, with inflation affecting people across the country, many Americans are struggling to maintain financial independence. Some have become at least temporarily more dependent on support from the federal government. Other people have become more dependent on personal vices, such as drinking and drugs, due to stress and depression.

In order to find out where Americans are the most self-reliant, WalletHub compared the 50 states based on five sources of dependency: consumer finances, the government, the job market, international trade and personal vices. We broke down these categories into 39 key indicators of independence, from the share of households receiving public assistance to the unemployment rate to the share of adults with gambling disorders.

OK, not here. Yet.

Heat wave breaks monthly records in India and continues to build​

The heat is increasing fire risks and threatening crops, and could lead to flooding from melting glaciers​

For the second month in a row, temperatures in India and Pakistan are abnormally high because of a string of strong and prolonged heat waves — and now another surge is building.

Temperatures have already soared to dangerously high levels. They topped 110 degrees in the Indian capital of Delhi on Thursday and Friday, where pavement melted amid the heat, while several cities broke April records.

The Times of India reported Delhi clinched its second hottest April in 72 years Friday with an average high temperature of 104 degrees (40.2 Celsius).

The city of Nawabshah in Pakistan hit 117.5 degrees (47.5 degrees Celsius) Thursday — the hottest temperature in the Northern Hemisphere this year so far.

The heat wave has heightened the fire danger in recent days, threatened crop yields and even accelerated melting of some glaciers. While this part of the world is no stranger to extreme heat, scientists say conditions have been worsened because of climate change.

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Google is investing another $1 billion into its massive data center south of Council Bluffs.

Joe Kava, vice president of global data centers at Google, said he counted nine cranes at work Tuesday on an expansion of the complex on Bunge Avenue. The facility — along with a smaller site near Lake Manawa — will become among the largest data centers anywhere.
"Data centers like this one are truly critical for cloud and artificial intelligence," Joe Kava, vice president of global data centers at Google, said Tuesday in Council Bluffs. "This will be one of the world's largest data center campuses."




Google has previously invested more than $5.5 billion in Iowa since 2007, including generating more than $1.8 billion of economic activity for tens of thousands of businesses, nonprofits and others, according to a news release.

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The data centers in Council Bluffs support core Google services, including its search, maps and cloud software. The company said the continued growth supports, among other offers, its innovation in artificial intelligence.

“As we continue to develop and deploy AI solutions across our products, particularly within Google Cloud, our infrastructure is what brings these innovations to people locally and globally," Kava said.
The company has expanded its footprint in Council Bluffs over 15 years, and it is building out data centers in the nearby Nebraska communities of Omaha, Papillion and Lincoln. Elsewhere in Iowa, Google is also behind a $576 million data center project in Cedar Rapids.

Last year, the company announced a $350 million expansion. At the time, it also cited AI and cloud computing as a key driver of growth in its data center portfolio.

Again citing AI and cloud computers, Kava said Tuesday that we're seeing "the advent of the most critical industrial revolutions that the world has seen, and I'm proud to say that we're right at the forefront of that here."
Google says its Iowa cloud is among 40 regions globally that powers its services.

I know how much liberals now love me so I wanted to post something you might find interesting. Cnn just had a 4 part documentary on Russian and American espionage. It basically compared Oleg Gordievsky, who worked with British and American intelligence versus Aldrich Ames, a loser who worked at the CIA and worked for the Soviets.

When I was growing up, and I know you bigots will hate this, in the US, all my friends were super rich liberals. Mostly medical and legal professional fathers and mothers. So, I too thought Reagan sucked and I still remember getting teary eyed when Carter lost.

Watching this documentary, you'll like it if you like real espionage and what these people actually did, I realized Ronald Reagan was an amazing man. The dude was far more intellectually capable than I thought and far more compassionate than I assumed. He and Thatcher reached out to Gorbachov. It's because of Reagan and Gorbachov Europe isn't teeming with nuclear tipped missiles.

I miss that 80s Republican. There used to be some of Fox in the early days. Educated people like Fred Barnes, Mort Kondracki etc.

Anyways, check out the series if it's back on. I owe you an apology Ronnie. Peace out.

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General Motors will pay a penalty of nearly $146 million and take other steps to resolve excess emissions from nearly 6 million vehicles on the nation’s roads, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department announced Wednesday.

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The move marks a significant step to ensure compliance with President Biden’s most consequential climate rule: carbon dioxide emissions limits for cars. It comes after an EPA investigation found that these vehicles were emitting more than 10 percent higher CO2 on average than the automaker’s initial compliance reports claimed.

“EPA’s vehicle standards depend on strong oversight in order to deliver public health benefits in the real world,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan said in a statement. “Our investigation has achieved accountability and upholds an important program that’s reducing air pollution and protecting communities across the country.”


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GM spokesman Bill Grotz said in an email that the automaker is not admitting any wrongdoing, including any violation of the Clean Air Act or other relevant federal laws.
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“We believe this is the best course of action to swiftly resolve outstanding issues with the federal government regarding this matter,” Grotz said. “GM remains committed to reducing auto emissions and working toward achieving the Administration’s fleet electrification goals.”
The vehicles in question are model years 2012 through 2018. They include popular SUVs under GM’s Chevrolet brand, including the Chevrolet Equinox with front-wheel drive.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), a division of the Transportation Department, will impose the $145.8 million penalty. In addition, GM has agreed to retire millions of credits that it has received for complying with federal rules.



The automaker will cancel 50 million metric tons of greenhouse gas credits from the EPA, the agency said in a news release, as well as roughly 30.6 million gas mileage credits from NHTSA, spokeswoman Lucia Sanchez said in an email.
Dan Becker, director of the Center for Biological Diversity’s Safe Climate Transport Campaign, said the announcement underscores the importance of federal laws and oversight.
“This demonstrates why it’s important to have laws rather than just trusting automakers who say they will make cleaner, more efficient vehicles,” Becker said. “And it shows why EPA and NHTSA need to be constantly vigilant to protect our air and atmosphere.”

The action announced Wednesday pales in comparison to the Volkswagen emissions cheating scandal, often known as “Dieselgate.” In 2015, VW admitted to equipping around 11 million cars worldwide with software designed to cheat emissions tests. The German automaker later agreed to pay total fines of roughly $20 billion.


“Obviously this is not as large as Dieselgate,” said Dave Cooke, senior vehicles analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists. “But 6 million vehicles is no small number.”
The Biden administration has sought to step up enforcement of the nation’s bedrock environmental laws. Last year, the Justice Department and the state of California reached an agreement with the truck engine manufacturer Cummins to resolve claims that the company installed devices to defeat emissions controls on hundreds of thousands of engines. The $1.6 billion penalty was the largest ever under the Clean Air Act.

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Diversity is presented as a positive, but what actually happens to the culture when you increase diversity?

The linked article discusses how 1500 different languages are at risk of being lost due to globalization and increased connectivity.

One of the highlights of traveling is experiencing the culture and the people unique to that location.

Do you think it is possible to maintain traditional culture while supporting diversity?

On Hawkeye Hotspot with Howe and Morehouse, Dochterman is going through edits of a Chris Doyle interview.

Interesting nugget: Kirk and Chris haven't spoken since his firing, plus at Gallery's HOF enshinement, both sat at the same table and still never spoke to each other.

If not for the pane of glass between them, it would have been a hug.



Officer Isaiah McNamee, standing on the rooftop ledge of the Hilton Garden Inn in downtown Iowa City, held onto the man to keep him from falling. The man had climbed over the glass barrier and considered jumping. After speaking with McNamee, the man changed his mind and wanted to get to safety, but it wasn’t easy 12 stories in the air.


“I could see how well he spoke to the man, how understanding he was, how kind he was, how brave he was,” Iowa City Police Officer Mike Harkrider said of McNamee. “I was in awe.”




Iowa City last week recognized the officers for their “compassion, professionalism and quick actions” in saving the man’s life. McNamee received the Commendation of Distinguished Service and Officer Harkrider the Certificate of Special Commendation.


“There are a lot of people in modern society, ourselves included, who deal with a lot of trauma,” McNamee, 27, said in an interview Wednesday. After six years with the Iowa City Police Department, McNamee will start Monday with the Waukee Police Department.


Police, especially in Iowa City, are trained how to recognize when people are experiencing a mental health crisis or other trauma and how to de-escalate that situation, often without arrest, said Harkrider, 40, who has been with the ICPD for 11 years.


The call came in about a suicidal subject around 5 p.m. May 23, Harkrider said.





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Staff at the Vue restaurant on the top floor of the hotel reported the man had come up the elevator, walked across the restaurant to the patio, where he climbed over an armpit-high glass barrier on the northwest side of the building.


McNamee, who arrived a minute before Harkrider, went up to the top floor and asked the man if he could get a little closer. The officer went onto the ledge, but did not climb over the glass barrier.


“I don’t want to rush up there and grab onto someone,” he said. “That might startle someone and cause him to slip.”


McNamee had talked with the man before in a past crisis, the officer said. He asked the man what was going on and how he was feeling. “It’s having empathy and trying to put yourself in their shoes,” McNamee said. “It doesn’t have to be talking someone off a ledge. Sometimes someone’s moment of crisis can be small.”


Within a few minutes it became clear the man didn’t want to end his life, but didn’t know how to get back over the glass wall, which was higher from the outside ledge. McNamee, who is 6 feet 4 inches, reached over the barrier, his arms extending to hold the man to the glass until help could arrive.


Harkrider had coordinated with other police officers to block traffic in the area and the Iowa City Fire Department and Johnson County Ambulance Service had arrived to help.


First the fire department raised the ladder on their truck, but the basket didn’t go high enough, Harkrider said. Then they brought up a Little Giant ladder, which allows for one end to be longer than the other. Firefighters extended the longer end over the glass barrier and harnessed the man to protect him as he climbed to safety.


“You could feel the collective weight lifted off everyone’s shoulders as they got him back over,” Harkrider said.


The whole incident took about 30 minutes, but it seemed much longer to both officers, they said.


Harkrider, who is on Iowa City’s crisis negotiation team and served as a suicide prevention officer in the Naval Reserve before becoming a police officer, said he’s been in numerous situations with people contemplating dying by suicide. Once, there were two incidents in one day in Iowa City.


“I’ve been part of incidents with individuals on top of ramps or bridges or buildings that were ready to do something like this,” he said. “I’ve seen what happens to someone when they make the decision to do something like this. It’s a disturbing thing to see.”


Officers are trained in active listening and will ask for more information.


“I’ll tell them I’m not the No. 1 person who can help them, but I can help get them to that person,” he said. Most of the incidents Harkrider has handled have ended with the person deciding not to jump.


Harkrider and McNamee were honored to be commended for their actions May 23 and invited family members to the ceremony. It made Harkrider think of all the other officers deserving of such an award. “It was a good reminder of the dedication and bravery of all the officers I work with who go out and do brave things each and every shift.”


If you or someone you love is in immediate crisis or having suicidal thoughts, call or text 9-8-8 anytime, day or night. You also can chat the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline for free, 24/7.

"The poll also finds Vice President Kamala Harris within striking distance of Trump in a hypothetical matchup: 47% of registered voters support Trump, 45% Harris, a result within the margin of error that suggests there is no clear leader under such a scenario. Harris’ slightly stronger showing against Trump rests at least in part on broader support from women (50% of female voters back Harris over Trump vs. 44% for Biden against Trump) and independents (43% Harris vs. 34% Biden).

Both Biden and Trump supporters have grown likelier to say their choice is an affirmative vote of support rather than one against the opposing party’s candidate, but the election continues to be driven more by feelings about Trump than about Biden. Two-thirds (66%) of Trump backers say they’re voting mainly for him rather than against Biden (up from 60% in January) while 37% of Biden’s supporters say their vote is more for the president than against his predecessor (up from 32% earlier this year)."

It might surprise a few self-prolcaimed knowledgeable posters on this board...

Headline: Slower Growth and Higher Inflation.