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I need an Engineer

Sorry Bill, I'm sure this is OT, But selfishly need as many engineers eyes as possible 😉
I want to build a dump box trailer with a special capability. It's a rather simple addition, but I need some expertise on how to make sure it's something that can work. I have a wood box prototype to demonstrate. I need to get a NDA, because I've talked to a few close friends and family that use trailers frequently and they aren't afraid of being honest, and they keep asking me if it's made yet. I live between Ames and Ankeny if anyone is interested in discussing. Thanks
Again sorry Bill.

Global Weather Continuing To Heat Up

I know many CycloneReport members have little to no concern about the changing climate. Personally I have been concerned about it for quite some time, although I have had my disagreements with how we are going about addressing it. Most of us will be long gone, but as time goes by more sensible options will no longer be on the table and more extreme measures may become necessary. I do have some concerns about how increasing temperatures affect the water supply in parts of the country that go to great lengths to supply their large population centers with enough clean water that it's competing with water needed to sustain farming.

This morning the Ames Tribune had a page one article on the rising global temperatures. I've provided the link below and have clipped a paragraph from it. My hope is that people can realize this is a real problem due to human activity that's not just part of global weather cycles. The US can't solve this on our own, but what we can do is work on technologies that bring economical solutions that can close a business case for doing something about it. Done right there would be profit to be had in those ventures. But first we have to understand the issue is real. About that there should be no argument (although I know there is).

Climate change heats up global weather

Although heat waves are a natural part of the climate, the severity and extent of the heat waves so far this year are not “just summer.”
A scientific assessment of this year’s heat wave estimates that heat this severe and long-lasting was two to four times more likely to occur today because of human- caused climate change than it would have been without it.
This conclusion is consistent with the rapid increase over the past several decades in the number of U.S. heat waves and their occurrence outside the peak of summer.
These record heat waves are happening in a climate that’s globally about 2.2 degrees warmer than it was before the industrial revolution, when humans began releasing large amounts of greenhouse gas emissions that warm the climate.
While a temperature difference of a degree or two when you walk into a different room might not even be noticeable, even fractions of a degree make a large difference in the global climate.
At the peak of the last ice age, some 20,000 years ago, when the Northeast was under thousands of feet of ice, the globally averaged temperature was only 10.8 degrees cooler than now. So, it is not surprising that 2.2 degrees of warming so far is already rapidly changing the climate.
Countries promised in 2015 as part of the Paris Agreement to keep warming well under 3.7 degrees, but current government policies around the world won’t meet those goals.
Temperatures are on pace to continue rising, with the increase likely to more than double again by the end of the century.
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BASKETBALL ***RELEASE: Weiler-Babb Named to Team Germany for Paris Olympics***

Iowa State Media Relations

HAGEN, Germany - Former Iowa State men's basketball player Nick Weiler-Babb has been named to Team Germany for the Paris Olympics. Weiler-Babb is a member of the 12-person team that will compete in the Paris Olympics, which will take place July 27-Aug. 10.

Weiler-Babb is the fourth former Iowa State men's basketball player to qualify for the Paris Olympics. Tyrese Haliburton is a member of the USA Men's National Team, George Conditt IV is a member of the Puerto Rico National Team and Melvin Ejim will be playing for Team Canada. Haliburton, Conditt IV and Weiler-Babb played together at Iowa State in 2018-19, while Ejim was at Iowa State from 2010-14.

As part of Group B, the German men will face Japan on July 27, Brazil on July 30 and France on Aug. 2 in the first round of the Olympic tournament. The 5-on-5 Olympic basketball group phase will take place in Lille, France, before the tournament moves to Paris for knockout and medal rounds.

Weiler-Babb has played in Germany since 2019 with Riesen Ludwigsburg and Bayern Munich. He won the 2023 BBL-Pokal with Bayern and was named the tournament's MVP. Last week, he signed a two-year extension to remain with Bayern Munich. He played for the German National Team at EuroBasket 2022, helping the team to a third-place finish.

Cyclones in the Olympics
1964 - Raul Daurte, Peru
1988 - Jeff Grayer, United States
2000 - Tony Rampton, New Zealand
2004 - Tony Rampton, New Zealand
2024 - Tyrese Haliburton, United States
2024 - George Conditt IV, Puerto Rico
2024 - Melvin Ejim, Canada
2024 - Nick Weiler-Babb, Germany

FOOTBALL *** Iowa State Mini-Packs, Single-Game Football Tickets And Parking On Sale Thursday***

Iowa State Media Relations

AMES, Iowa – Three-game mini-packs, single-game tickets and parking passes for the 2024 Iowa State football season go on sale Thursday, July 11 at 10 a.m.

This year’s mini-pack allows fans to purchase tickets to any three home games for $180.

All single-game tickets will be on sale at the same time as well.

Season tickets are available for as low as $299.

Tickets can be purchased online or by phone (toll free at 1-888-478-2925, locally at 1-515-294-1816). It is strongly encouraged to purchase online to avoid long wait times.

PARKING PASS SALE INFO – PURCHASE

Single-Game Car Parking

Single-game car parking permits for the public grass lots located along South 16th Street will be available to purchase starting on Monday, August 15 at 10 a.m.

Pre-sale parking will be sold online only and will cease at Noon the Friday before each game OR when passes sell out. Pre-sold parking passes for public parking lots allow entry into one of the public parking lots, all will be first-come, first-served with pass holders choosing their lot upon arrival. If available, parking passes for the general public lots will be available on site the day of the game.

  • Public, single-game parking is $25/car. Passes purchased during the presale will be mobile passes only that will be scanned upon entry in the parking lots valid only in the public grass parking lots located along South 16th Street. Please click here for a football parking diagram.
  • Public car parking lots open six hours before kickoff for all kickoffs, Noon or later; parking lots open at 6 a.m. for 11 a.m. kickoffs on game day.
  • In the event of inclement weather, public car parking lots may be unavailable. In this case, purchasers will be notified, and a refund will be issued.
Single-Game RV Parking

General public RV parking may be available at the Haunted Forest lot that is North and East of the stadium. For more information on this lot, you can contact the owner at 1-515-249-0553 or 1-319-350-1668. Please note this is private land and is not under the direction of Iowa State Athletics.

Handicapped Parking

Handicapped parking is available in Lot S1 on a first-come, first-served basis on game day only (no presales) with a state issued handicapped parking pass. Parking in Lot S1 is $25/car, or a Cyclone Club parking pass may be presented to waive the parking fee. No RVs will be permitted in Lot S1.

Visa, MasterCard, and Discover are accepted as forms of payment for both presale and game-day parking.
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The sharks are circling


The people so concerned about meaningless social justice warrior initiatives, have never thought of what the world would have been like if Japan wouldn’t have bombed Pearl Harbor and the pacifists in the US kept the USA on the sidelines. We’re the only country keeping the bullies of the world creating what Hitler and Japan started. Only through strength.
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How the 25th amendment would work, as far as I can tell.

The Dems are in a real pickle (and I love it). I looked up the 25th and tried to figure out how it could work, and it is a lengthy process, which is why the Dems have not done it yet.

Steps:
1 Vice President and 8 Cabinet officers have to call for it. That will be very tough to do.
2. VP becomes "acting" POTUS after step 1.
3. Old POTUS can notify congress that they contest what was done in step 1.
4. Congress must convene in 48 hours, and can discuss for 21 days.
5. If old POTUS has objected, VP and officers may file objection.
6. After all this, it would then require a 2/3 vote of congress (assume both houses) to carry out the 25th, otherwise old POTUS remains in power. GOP would drag this out as long as possible, and likely not vote to remove BIden, just to f#ck the dems even more.

So this option seems like it would take upwards of a month, time which the dems do not have.

Biden will not step aside, since his son is going to be on trial again, and Biden needs to be POTUS to give his son the pardon. Also the Biden family has a good deal in making money off the POTUS.

So the dems must either go down with the sinking ship (Biden), or maybe Biden get the Clinton treatment. Like I said before, I feel for the White House food taster.

I like what Trump said tonight, Biden was brilliant making Kamala his VP, because the party will do nothing to replace Biden based on how inept Kamala is.

Uh oh .. Epstein and trump

LOLOLOLOLOL

I mean everyone knew it all along. Maxwell testimony.... Oops.. release

Who is DOE 174 again .... Ouch. LOL

Now line up clowns.

"Trump's name appeared in all nine docket entries that Doe 174 is mentioned in.

Doe 174's docket entries were unique, so it could not be confused with any of the other Does listed in the lawsuit."

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