@Sowell33 I don't root for Penn state, but I can appreciate the efforts of the former Cyclones on the team. Can't root against Sowell or Hansen or the others. Once one always one!
While we love the CyHawk rivalry and all it entails, we want to offer our support and thoughts to our friends and colleagues in the @HawkeyeBand.
The Cyclone Marching Band family is heartbroken by the loss of a member of the Hawkeye Marching Band. We hold the Hawkeye Marching Band in our hearts and thoughts during this difficult time. Many of our members were in bands, youth orchestras and Drum Corps with Derek and echo all the incredible stories of his love for music and life. We extend our sympathies to Derek’s family and like the Hawkeye Marching Band, we’ll #DoItForDerek this season to honor his love and passion for music.
@LostHistory9 Yes, because by the time the Balrog awakened he was likely the Necromancer and over halfway through the 3rd age. Dwarven kingdom was friendly with Eregion elves, his foes. Not remotely Canon
THIS IS INSANE! 130 MPH winds destroyed windmills in South Dakota this morning.
This is very rare. We hardly ever see windmills take this much damage from straight-line damaging winds. But when you push over 110 MPH winds, it becomes a lot easier for the windmills to crumble.
Photos via Storm Chaser Jakob McMillin
Welcome home Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy! 🫶
The Artemis II astronauts have splashed down at 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11), bringing their historic 10-day mission around the Moon to an end.
If you’re tired of seeing my face in your newsfeed or on the TV, apologies in advance, because it’s about to get a lot worse. By the end of the year, you’re going to be absolutely sick of me, due to America’s ever widening skills gap, and our ongoing attempts to close it with a record number of work ethic scholarships from mikeroweWORKS, and therefor, a record number of invitations to apply.
The situation is serious. Skilled tradespeople are retiring much faster than they’re being replaced. For every 5 that leave the workforce, two come in. The math is not sustainable, and not a week goes by that I don’t hear from some industry leader wondering if I can help with their recruiting challenges. Every trade is in demand like never before. In fact, there’s been so much outreach from so many CEO’s and elected officials, that we’ve doubled the size of our scholarship fund, and extended the application period this year from six weeks to nine months.
Last year, we received 10X the number of applications we normally get, and this year, with the disruption of AI, I suspect the number will be even higher. These are AI-proof, six-figure jobs that don’t require college debt, but instead, training. Thus, I will be cluttering up the media landscape with an onslaught of invitations to apply for scholarships, (like the one attached,) and good-natured appeals to support our efforts with a modest (or immodest) donation.
Toward that end, I’m pleased to announce that the enrollment period is officially open. Funds are now available to help train the next generation of skilled workers. My goal this year is to award $10 million in scholarships, and you’re invited to apply today. Or, if the spirit moves you, to support our efforts with a donation of any size. The donate button is big and red and hard to miss at https://t.co/uolhGspFtN.
If nothing else, please share this, so others can be similarly annoyed with another unsolicited invitation to help us close America's skills gap.