Pretty work keeping the, Iowa has one in the finals streak going!!!!
Give us all a reason to root on a finals tonight
Very Greatful!!!!!!

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?

An Elvis song just played on my system and I noticed (for the upmteenth time) what a terrific voice he had.

Who do you think has a great voice? Any genre or gender.

Letting guys defend against leg attacks by tying up the attacker's knees and ankles, diving under, rolling around, just wears me out. There needs to be a consequence for back exposure that rewards the agressor.

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.

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).

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Iowa (1 finalist)

141 Woods vs Echemendia (Iowa St) Consi semi
157 Franek vs Robb ( Nebraska) 7th place match
165 Caliendo vs Olejnik (Okie St) Consi Semi

It’s a battle for a team trophy. Only top 3 get a trophy this year. Nebraska already got a freebie this morning when McNeil from North Carolina MFF against Hardy at 141. That’s 2 bonus points plus 0.5 advancement and 3 extra points for going from guaranteed 6th to 4th. Need Woods and Caliendo to win twice for 3rd and Franek to get that extra point for 7th.

Michigan 2 finalists, 2 consi semis
Arizona St 2 finalists, 2 consi semis
Iowa St 1 finalist, 2 consi semis, 1 7th place
Cornell 1 finalist, 2 consi semis
Nebraska 0 finalist, 1 consi final, 2 consi semi and 2 7th place
Ohio St 2 finalists, 1 consi semi.
Oklahoma St 2 finalists, 1 consi semi
VA Tech 1 finalist, 2 consi semis, 1 7th place

C'mon man... getting on Freeman like that.

He is a freshman playing like a senior and you are a junior playing like a high schooler tonight.

It might have been camera angles, I dont know but isnt she listed at 6 feet but seems to be taller

So what is your interest level with CFB on a 1-10 scale with the recent Proctor news?
Add in NIL and unlimited transfers.

I'm still a diehard Iowa fan obviously I am just not sure I can hitch my wagon to anything more than 12 team playoff appearances. It is pretty evident in the Money Arms Race Iowa should be a good top 25 type program but probably unrealistic to expect perennial top 10 finishes or anything...

I actually am more worried about my general interest in CFB besides Iowa. I can watch any CFB game any day of the week but I'm worried the new landscape kills my passion in the future.

What about you ladies and gents?

Of course.

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Story from the team is that Hannah wasn't feeling well today — but one player said after the game it was Hannah's knee not feeling great. It certainly explains why she was on the bench with her teammates during the second half, which is not what you'd expect from a migraine.

Will try to get some more info on this today and tomorrow.

Long duration x class flare. Long duration is key for strong geomagnetic storming on earth.

This looks really promising

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Gotta be Kate Martin for me. Ripped down 14 boards! 15 points, infinite hustle.

Also want to give props to O'Grady and Affolter.

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.

IMO this season comes down to whether Brands can get Ayala on top of the podium. Getting a champ other than Spencer even if it's 125 again still gives the program at least something to hang their hat on plus it keeps a chance alive to possibly get a trophy. A loss and it's a very unremarkable season and potentially 5th place behind ISU.

Sources close to the situation (of him being dead) can confirm he is still dead.

Iowa State plays Illinois to advance…..who you rootin’ for?

That is a grizzly bear. And two cubs.

I guess most of the idiots in that crowd must have been of the mindset that they don’t have to outrun the bear, they just have to outrun the person next to them.

LA VERGNE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Five La Vergne police officers were fired and three were suspended Wednesday for allegedly having sexual relationships with a fellow officer on duty, sending explicit photos to each other, as well as engaging in “three-ways” with another officer and his wife, according to a police investigation document.

The five officers were fired and the three officers were suspended Jan. 4.


Documents obtained by News 2 said Mayor Jason Cole called the director of human resources on Dec. 12, 2022, reporting one officer was having intimate relationships with other officers, including a “three-way” with another officer and his wife.

Cole also mentioned a “girls gone wild” hot tub party at an officer’s house, according to the documents.

In addition, one officer is accused of attempting to intimidate a city employee by putting his hands around their neck, and two additional officers conspired to be untruthful during the investigation, the documents said.

There were six incidents of unreported sexual relationships, according to records, and two incidents of sexual relations on duty inside the police substation.

One officer was called into HR on Dec. 13, 2022, about the alleged incidents. He admitted to HR director, Andrew Patton, of knowing and being at the hot tub party with three other officers.


He then told Patton an officer’s top came off in the hot tub, revealing her breast, according to the documents. He told Patton he and another officer helped put her top back on.

The documents stated one officer tried to intimidate another officer in denying any allegations against him in the case.

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Interesting data

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There is some cruel irony in the fact that Russia, which has been the perpetrator of so many terror attacks in recent years from Syria to Ukraine, was itself struck by terrorists on Friday night. Heavily armed marauders attacked Crocus City Hall, a concert venue in Moscow, killing at least 133 people and injuring more than 100.


The Islamic State quickly claimed responsibility, and it soon emerged that U.S. intelligence had warned the Kremlin that Islamic State-Khorasan (ISIS-K), the ISIS affiliate based in Afghanistan, was planning an attack in Moscow. The U.S. Embassy in Moscow had even told Americans in the capital to avoid concert halls.
Yet Russian dictator Vladimir Putin — focused on imaginary threats from supposed Ukrainian Nazis rather than actual threats from Islamist terrorists — blithely dismissed the prescient U.S. messages. Providing insight into his twisted psyche, Putin earlier this week described the American notification as a “provocative” statement that resembled “outright blackmail and an intention to intimidate and destabilize our society.”



That Putin ignored the U.S. attempt to help — only to have his own security forces fail to prevent the Moscow attack — tells you all you need to know about the nature of his regime. Putin is not interested in serving the Russian people or protecting them from actual threats, and his regime is more adept at repressing peaceful dissidents than violent terrorists.


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Putin’s goal is to attain imperial glory for himself as a latter-day czar, no matter the cost to the long-suffering Russian people. Now, rather than going after his actual enemies, he may well try to find some way to pin the Moscow attack on Ukraine and the United States and use it to justify further assaults on innocent Ukrainians.


The Kremlin’s failure to stop an ISIS-K attack comes only a few months after the U.S. intelligence community had provided a similar warning of an ISIS-K attack to Iran — only to have the mullahs also turn a deaf ear to the words of the “Great Satan.” The Islamic State was able to carry out two bombings in Iran on Jan. 3, killing more than 95 people in the town of Kerman who had gathered to commemorate the death in a U.S. airstrike of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, himself one of the chief organizers of terrorism in the Middle East.



The Iranian regime, like the Russian one, has undoubtedly overdosed on its own propaganda about America as its enemy — and thus refused to lend credence to what this supposed enemy was telling them. It does not require a psychology degree to detect the projection: Neither Vladimir Putin nor Ayatollah Ali Khamenei could imagine informing Washington of a terrorist plot in the United States to save the lives of ordinary Americans, so these tyrants cannot imagine Washington trying to save Russian or Iranian lives. They must have imagined that the U.S. warnings were some kind of trap, because they could not conceive of Americans (whom they routinely accuse of convoluted plots against their regimes) being so guileless as to help their enemies.
After the earlier U.S. warning to Iran became public, some Americans, too, were critical of the Biden administration for notifying Tehran. After all, Iranian proxies have been attacking U.S. forces in the Middle East for years. Why not give them a taste of their own medicine? But that is not the way the U.S. intelligence community operates, and we should be glad of that, because Washington draws a distinction between combatants and non-combatants; U.S. enemies ignore such distinctions.
The U.S. intelligence community has a “duty to warn” the victims of impending terrorist attacks, and while such warnings have normally gone out to U.S. citizens and U.S. allies, it makes sense that the Biden administration also warned Moscow and Tehran. Terrorists should be considered under international law as “enemies of mankind,” and all states should have an obligation to hunt them down. Just because Russia and Iran are complicit in terrorism of their own doesn’t mean that America should be complicit in terrorism against Russian or Iranian civilians.