Seating capacity of Fieldhouse?
- By El Simbolo
- Iowa Men's Basketball
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I saw that Seton Hall is playing their NIT games at an on-campus gym that seats 1300. They tweeted about the sellout 
Anyway, that had me wishing Iowa had some old venue they could still occasionally use, like PSU does with Rec Hall. The wiki page for Iowa’s Fieldhouse says it’s current capacity is 1500 - where in that building is there a 1500 seat venue today?
Anyway, that had me wishing Iowa had some old venue they could still occasionally use, like PSU does with Rec Hall. The wiki page for Iowa’s Fieldhouse says it’s current capacity is 1500 - where in that building is there a 1500 seat venue today?
Two Iowa cities among happiest cities in America
- By cigaretteman
- Off Topic
- 17 Replies
Two cities in Iowa are considered among the happiest cities in America, but unfortunately for Iowans, those cities aren’t taking any top spots.
Personal finance company WalletHub announced its 2024 happiest cities in America report on Feb. 27, highlighting 182 cities across the country that were measured by factors such as life expectancy, job satisfaction and 27 other metrics.
Des Moines is home to several cultural and entertainment offerings including Hoyt Sherman Place, the Des Moines Civic Center, the Des Moines Art Center and the Wells Fargo Arena.
With a population estimate of 211,034 as of July 2022, the median household income from 2018 to 2022 was $62,378, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The employment rate was nearly 70% for the same period of people 16 and older, and the average travel time to work for the same period and worker age group is only about 20 minutes.
Cedar Rapids beat Des Moines, ranking 45 on the list.
The eastern Iowa city has a population of 136,429, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. It is home to several cultural attractions such as the National Czech & Slovak Museum, historic mansion Brucemore and the African American Museum of Iowa.
About 69% of people age 16 and older living in Cedar Rapids were employed between 2018 and 2022, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and the median household income was $66,895 during this period.
Plus, having an airport located within the city also provides convenient travel options.
Four cities in California nabbed positions in the top 10, with Silicon Valley city Fremont taking the lead. One reason it’s the happiest city in the country is having the lowest separation and divorce rate in the country at 8.9%, according to WalletHub.
Three of Iowa's border states were represented in the top 15. Those cities are Madison, Wisconsin (No. 4), Sioux Falls, South Dakota (No. 11) and Minneapolis (No. 13).
Personal finance company WalletHub announced its 2024 happiest cities in America report on Feb. 27, highlighting 182 cities across the country that were measured by factors such as life expectancy, job satisfaction and 27 other metrics.
How does Des Moines rank among happiest cities in America?
The state's capital city came in at No. 72 in the report.
Des Moines is home to several cultural and entertainment offerings including Hoyt Sherman Place, the Des Moines Civic Center, the Des Moines Art Center and the Wells Fargo Arena.
With a population estimate of 211,034 as of July 2022, the median household income from 2018 to 2022 was $62,378, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The employment rate was nearly 70% for the same period of people 16 and older, and the average travel time to work for the same period and worker age group is only about 20 minutes.
What other Iowa city is among the happiest?
Cedar Rapids beat Des Moines, ranking 45 on the list.
The eastern Iowa city has a population of 136,429, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. It is home to several cultural attractions such as the National Czech & Slovak Museum, historic mansion Brucemore and the African American Museum of Iowa.
About 69% of people age 16 and older living in Cedar Rapids were employed between 2018 and 2022, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and the median household income was $66,895 during this period.
Plus, having an airport located within the city also provides convenient travel options.
Four cities in California nabbed positions in the top 10, with Silicon Valley city Fremont taking the lead. One reason it’s the happiest city in the country is having the lowest separation and divorce rate in the country at 8.9%, according to WalletHub.
Three of Iowa's border states were represented in the top 15. Those cities are Madison, Wisconsin (No. 4), Sioux Falls, South Dakota (No. 11) and Minneapolis (No. 13).
Live in these Iowa cities? You should be feeling happy, says new list on happiest cities
Fremont, California nabbed the top spot out of a list of 182 cities, measured by factors like unemployment, food insecurity rates and more.
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Opinion The Supreme Court’s latest abortion case has an obvious answer
- By cigaretteman
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The Supreme Court declared nearly two years ago, when it overruled Roe v. Wade, that the rules on abortion were now up to the states — but as the justices hear a critical case this week regarding the pill mifepristone, reproductive rights rest yet again in their hands. The good news is, this isn’t a hard one.
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The court agreed to hear FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine after two panels of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled to impose significant restrictions on health providers prescribing mifepristone — the first part of the two-drug regimen used in more than half of all abortions in the United States. Whether patients can access mifepristone at all isn’t at stake; courts have agreed that the statute of limitations is up to challenge the FDA’s 2000 approval of the drug. But when and how they can do so is still challengeable: The 5th Circuit nixed changes the agency made in the past eight years that made it possible for women to obtain mifepristone more easily — later on in their pregnancies, for example, or by mail or without three separate visits to health facilities.
The Supreme Court must now consider whether to side with the 5th Circuit judges or with the doctors and scientists at the FDA on a subject about which judges generally know little and doctors and scientists a lot. But before the justices even reach that debate, they must settle another: Does the litigant in this case even have standing, the legal right to sue? Resolving this question is simpler than it sounds.
To have standing, the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine must show existing or imminently impending injury caused by the broader availability of mifepristone. Yet they, emergency room doctors, neither use nor prescribe mifepristone. So they’ve settled on claiming hypothetical injury: If some unspecified member of their group has to treat patients who have taken mifepristone, that member could suffer harm. It should be no great harm to doctors, who have sworn to care for those in need, to treat those suffering side effects from any duly prescribed medication.
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The speculative injury the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine claims is even more dubious considering complications from mifepristone are exceedingly rare. For this same reason, the plaintiffs’ case is weak — even if the Supreme Court does decide that they have standing to challenge the FDA. The 5th Circuit, agreeing in part with U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, said the FDA violated crucial safeguards when it loosened regulations on mifepristone. The FDA says it has merely updated the approved conditions of use for a drug deemed safe and effective for almost a quarter century, and for millions of patients.
The science, unsurprisingly, is on the scientists’ side. Study upon study has shown that fewer than 1 percent of mifepristone patients need hospitalization. The FDA has received reports of 28 deaths out of the 5.6 million who have used the drug between its 2000 approval and last summer, and even these can’t be confidently attributed to the drug. The rest of the world has been engaged in similarly rigorous research and has come to the same conclusion. At least 94 countries have approved the pill, and increasingly they’re putting it on their essential medication lists.
Indeed, patients seeking abortions are in more danger without mifepristone than with it. Terminating a pregnancy with mifepristone’s usual companion pill, misoprostol, is possible — but results in more cramping and bleeding. The risk of severe complication from childbirth, meanwhile, hovers around 1.4 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Compare the methodology underlying these conclusions, established by the global community carefully and over ample time, to the methods Judge Kacsmaryk relied on in his ruling that the 5th Circuit reviewed: Much of his data came from an antiabortion group whose very mission is to undermine the FDA’s policy. To prove that “chemical abortion” provokes a “negative change” in patients, he cited a study that relied on a collection of anonymous blog posts from — yes, really — abortionchangesyou.org.
The Supreme Court pronounced less than two years ago that courts have little business meddling in democratically decided abortion rules. Now, its justices are asked to decide whether courts have any business overruling the scientific judgment of an executive agency — and, in so doing, curb patients’ ability to access mifepristone regardless of their states’ laws. The answer should be obvious.
Sign up for the Prompt 2024 newsletter for opinions on the biggest questions in politicsThe court agreed to hear FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine after two panels of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled to impose significant restrictions on health providers prescribing mifepristone — the first part of the two-drug regimen used in more than half of all abortions in the United States. Whether patients can access mifepristone at all isn’t at stake; courts have agreed that the statute of limitations is up to challenge the FDA’s 2000 approval of the drug. But when and how they can do so is still challengeable: The 5th Circuit nixed changes the agency made in the past eight years that made it possible for women to obtain mifepristone more easily — later on in their pregnancies, for example, or by mail or without three separate visits to health facilities.
The Supreme Court must now consider whether to side with the 5th Circuit judges or with the doctors and scientists at the FDA on a subject about which judges generally know little and doctors and scientists a lot. But before the justices even reach that debate, they must settle another: Does the litigant in this case even have standing, the legal right to sue? Resolving this question is simpler than it sounds.
To have standing, the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine must show existing or imminently impending injury caused by the broader availability of mifepristone. Yet they, emergency room doctors, neither use nor prescribe mifepristone. So they’ve settled on claiming hypothetical injury: If some unspecified member of their group has to treat patients who have taken mifepristone, that member could suffer harm. It should be no great harm to doctors, who have sworn to care for those in need, to treat those suffering side effects from any duly prescribed medication.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...5IG7MFHNDMJDWSKEFZQBRGBQ_inline_collection_19
The speculative injury the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine claims is even more dubious considering complications from mifepristone are exceedingly rare. For this same reason, the plaintiffs’ case is weak — even if the Supreme Court does decide that they have standing to challenge the FDA. The 5th Circuit, agreeing in part with U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, said the FDA violated crucial safeguards when it loosened regulations on mifepristone. The FDA says it has merely updated the approved conditions of use for a drug deemed safe and effective for almost a quarter century, and for millions of patients.
The science, unsurprisingly, is on the scientists’ side. Study upon study has shown that fewer than 1 percent of mifepristone patients need hospitalization. The FDA has received reports of 28 deaths out of the 5.6 million who have used the drug between its 2000 approval and last summer, and even these can’t be confidently attributed to the drug. The rest of the world has been engaged in similarly rigorous research and has come to the same conclusion. At least 94 countries have approved the pill, and increasingly they’re putting it on their essential medication lists.
Indeed, patients seeking abortions are in more danger without mifepristone than with it. Terminating a pregnancy with mifepristone’s usual companion pill, misoprostol, is possible — but results in more cramping and bleeding. The risk of severe complication from childbirth, meanwhile, hovers around 1.4 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Compare the methodology underlying these conclusions, established by the global community carefully and over ample time, to the methods Judge Kacsmaryk relied on in his ruling that the 5th Circuit reviewed: Much of his data came from an antiabortion group whose very mission is to undermine the FDA’s policy. To prove that “chemical abortion” provokes a “negative change” in patients, he cited a study that relied on a collection of anonymous blog posts from — yes, really — abortionchangesyou.org.
The Supreme Court pronounced less than two years ago that courts have little business meddling in democratically decided abortion rules. Now, its justices are asked to decide whether courts have any business overruling the scientific judgment of an executive agency — and, in so doing, curb patients’ ability to access mifepristone regardless of their states’ laws. The answer should be obvious.