“Good morning Miss Welch, quite the dress you got there.”
“Thank you sir. Glad you like it.”
“Miss Welch you could look good in anything, or nothing at all.”
“Thank you sir I… wait a minute.”
“So who won last week?”
Winner
This week.
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I make hundreds renting out one side of my bed — but ‘hot bedding’ requires boundaries
“Hot bedding is excellent for people who are able to detach emotionally and sleep next to another person in a completely respectful and non-strings-attached manner,” Monique Jeremiah, 36, an entrepreneur from Queensland, Australia told CatersNews.
Sandwich Chain Subway Will Be Sold to Arby’s Owner Roark Capital
www.myhighplains.com | Aug 24, 2023MILFORD, Connecticut (AP) – Sandwich chain Subway said Thursday it will be sold to the private equity firm Roark Capital.
Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Earlier this week, The Wall Street Journal reported that Roark was offering around $9.6 billion for Subway, which is privately owned.
Subway CEO John Chidsey said the deal reflects Subway’s long-term growth potential and the value of the brand. Subway plans to continue to modernize restaurants and expand internationally under Roark’s ownership.
Roark is a private equity firm with $37 billion in assets under management. It specializes in franchised businesses, and owns multiple restaurant chains, including Arby’s, Dunkin’ and Buffalo Wild Wings.
Subway, which has dual headquarters in Miami and Connecticut, was founded in 1965 and is still owned by its founding families. It’s now one of the world’s largest restaurant chains, with 37,000 outlets in more than 100 countries.
But in the U.S., it has been losing market share in recent years to fast-growing rivals like Panera and Firehouse Subs, which feature more varied menus and newer stores. Subway has been trying to catch up; in 2021 it refreshed its menu and last year it announced a line of chef-developed sandwiches.
But in February, Subway announced it was exploring a sale.
My experience with Subway?
LOVED their foot-long Italians throughout college. Their bread was superfine. Their sandwiches stuffed. Probably got them twice a week.
Tried to re-create the experience in adulthood. Not possible. Weak service, weak meat, weak everything. Went to one at an airport once. I think I threw half the damn thing out. Tried it again in a tourist town, not far from Milford, Connecticut. Same experience. Wrapping paper with a thong or two between it.
From then on, I’ve hated Subway. Went out of my way to avoid it. Now, it’s sold. Good riddance. Pfecch!
Ford Confronts Strange, Ear-Piercing Static in F-150 Trucks
WSJ | 23 Aug 23 | Nora EckertPhil Floraday was driving his F-150 pickup last fall when his truck’s audio system suddenly emitted a loud, crashing sound that, to him, resembled glass shattering, and then blaring static.
His ears rang for days after the event, he said.
On online forums, F-150 owners have been airing similar accounts of an odd sound, which some describe as a “sonic boom” or “ear-piercing static.” Drivers, in some cases, were able to turn it off right away. Others say it lasted for 15 minutes or more, persisting even after the car was shut off.
Hope everyone had a fantastic Labor Day weekend. So sorry to hear of the passing of Jimmy Buffett. Did a few margaritas myself. So we have last week’s winners and this week’s matches. Enjoy.
Results
Round 1 Match 21
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Round 1 Match 22
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This Week
Round 1 Match 23
Kim Riekenberg vs Kristen Louelle
Kim Riekenberg
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Kristen Louelle
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Round 1 Match 24
Lacy Schnoor vs Leryn Franco
Lacy Schnoor
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Leryn Franco
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Was New York’s 2022 General Election Valid?
American Thinker | 25 Aug, 2023 | Marly HornikPeeking under the hood of New York’s election tallies is a pretty eye-opening experience.
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I am a homeschool mother and dairy goat farmer in the state of New York.
After the 2020 election, I founded New York Citizens Audit, a miraculous grassroots team of over 2,000 New Yorkers that has spent tens of thousands of hours analyzing New York’s voter rolls and election law. The most stunning fact we discovered is that New York’s 2020 general election was certified as accurate with 338,000 more votes counted than voters who voted.
For the full horrifying details, I encourage you to go to the American Thinker article, which features this chart:
To think that Trump lost by this amount in each and every Democrat precinct across the country makes me sick. We might as well deserve to have every groper, hair-sniffing nipple-fondling pedophile Caligula they want to impose upon us.
A new state of quantum matter seems like nothing to sneeze at.
Superconduction Breakthrough: Scientists Discover New State of Quantum Matter
Scitech Daily | August 29, 2023 | Cornell UniversityScientists at Cornell discovered a new quantum matter state in Uranium Ditelluride, which could revolutionize quantum computing and spintronics
[oh, I like that word]
by forming the materials platform for ultra-stable quantum computers and revealing new avenues for identifying such states in various materials.
Researchers from Cornell University have identified a new state of matter in candidate topological superconductors, a discovery that may have far-reaching implications for both condensed matter physics and the fields of quantum computing and spintronics.
Researchers at the Macroscopic Quantum Matter Group at Cornell have discovered and visualized a crystalline yet superconducting state in a new and unusual superconductor, Uranium Ditelluride (UTe2), using one of the world’s most powerful millikelvin Scanned Josephson Tunnelling Microscopes (SJTM). This “spin-triplet electron-pair crystal” is a previously unknown state of topological quantum matter.
The findings were recently published in the journal Nature. Qiangqiang Gu, a postdoctoral researcher working in the lab of physicist J.C. Séamus Davis, the James Gilbert White [uh-oh . . . ] Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the College of Arts and Sciences, co-led the research with Joe Carroll of University College Cork and Shuqiu Wang of Oxford University.
Superconductors are topological when the pairing potential exhibits odd parity, leading to each electron pair adopting a spin-triplet state, with both electron spins oriented in the same direction. Topological superconductors are the target of intense research by physicists because they can, in theory, form the materials platform for ultra-stable quantum computers, said Gu.
However, even after a decade of intense investigation into topological superconductivity, no bulk materials have been definitively recognized as spin-triplet, odd-parity superconductors, with the exception of superfluid 3He, which was also discovered at Cornell. Recently, the exotic new material Uranium Ditelluride (UTe2) has emerged as a highly promising candidate for this classification. However, its superconductive order parameter remains elusive, said Gu.
In 2021, theoretical physicists began to propose that UTe2 is actually in a topological pair-density-wave (PDW) state. No such form of quantum matter had ever been detected.
In simple terms, a PDW is like a stationary dance of the paired electrons found in a superconductor, but the pairs form periodic crystalline patterns in space.
[So, are we going to get Dilithium Crystal warp drives out of this or not?
Or is it going to be that watered-down Uranium Ditelluride crap?]
“Our team at Cornell discovered the first PDW ever observed in 2016 using the superconductive-tip Scanned Josephson Tunnelling Microscope that we invented for that purpose,” said Gu. “Since then, we have pioneered SJTM studies at millikelvin temperatures and with microvolt energy resolution. For the UTe2 project, we have directly visualized the spatial modulations of the superconducting pairing potential at the atomic scale and found them to modulate exactly as predicted in a PDW state as the density of electron pairs modulates periodically in space. What we detected is a new quantum matter state – a topological pair density wave composed of spin-triplet Cooper pairs.”
[… And a brand-new MIT pick-up line is born]
Cooper-pair density waves are a form of electronic quantum matter in which pairs of electrons freeze into a superconductive PDW state, instead of forming a conventional “superconductive” fluid where all are in the same freely moving state.
“The discovery of the first PDW in spin-triplet superconductors is exciting,” said Gu. “Uranium-based heavy fermion superconducting compounds are a new and exotic class of materials that provide a promising platform for realization of topological superconductivity. … Our scientific discovery also points out the ubiquitous nature of this intriguing quantum state in s-wave, d-wave, and p-wave superconductors, and it sheds light on new avenues for identifying such states in a broad spectrum of materials.”
Reference:
“Detection of a pair density wave state in UTe2” by Qiangqiang Gu, Joseph P. Carroll, Shuqiu Wang, Sheng Ran, Christopher Broyles, Hasan Siddiquee, Nicholas P. Butch, Shanta R. Saha, Johnpierre Paglione, J. C. Séamus Davis and Xiaolong Liu, 28 June 2023, Nature.
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05919-7
— Hunter Biden, quoted from the now-un-debunked-bunked-and-rebunked infamous Laptop from Heil.
Hunter Biden’s Foreign Dealings Spell More Trouble Ahead
Wall Street Journal via MSN | 8/23/23 | James T. AreddyU.S. relations with China were steady in December 2013 when then-Vice President Joe Biden stepped off Air Force Two in Beijing with a seemingly unremarkable companion: his son Hunter.
Days later, Shanghai authorities approved the formation of an investment boutique, underwritten by Chinese government money, that named Hunter Biden as a director and later cut him an ownership share at a discounted price. Roughly four months afterward, he began earning up to $1 million annually for sitting on a corporate board in Ukraine, a country his father paid special attention to as vice president. Hunter Biden would go on to earn millions more from a brief association with a Chinese energy-and-finance conglomerate trying to break into the U.S.
Biden claims he’s been TOO busy to visit East Palestine in Ohio after toxic train crash 212 days ago left town with polluted air and contaminated water – and admits he STILL has no plans to visit Republican state
UK Daily Mail | September 3, 2023 | Stephen M. Lepore…
Sunday will mark exactly seven months since the February 3 catastrophe. The commander-in-chief was ripped back in February for waiting to visit, eventually promising on March 2 that he would.
Biden cites busy schedule when asked about visiting East Palestine, Ohio: ‘It’s going to be awhile’…
Fox News ^ | 9.02.2023 | Andrea Vacchiano
How old is the youngest girl there?
