Power Roomates
- Bill and Hillary Clinton
- Donald and Melania Trump
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Haha, Tom Izzo and Steve Mariucci is actually a great one. They lived together for 7 years and their sexuality was frequently called into question because theyâd always bring each other to football/basketball banquets because they were just too focused on sports to even bother with girls.
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My sources on golf happenings are NLU and r/golf, so I donât actually know whatâs happening, but the rumors are out there.
Tiger and Nike couldâve split a dozen times over the years, but to do it now when heâs been behaving himself makes me think this is more than Tiger taking a new apparel sponsor. We know they left the equipment industry years ago, so I think theyâre getting out of apparel too.
With Day also leaving, that seems to confirm it.
for me itâs wearing snow pants on the golf course
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Thatâs crazy. I was a freshman at ND for Weisâ first season, one of Joe Montanaâs daughters dated a guy down the hall from me, and yet I never heard of this.
Surprised nobody has mentioned Jim Nantz and Fred Couples were college roomies at Houston.
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Tommy Lee Jones, Jon Lithgow, and Al Gore were roommates at Harvard
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While weâre on clothing, big mea culpa. I didnât like B Draddy Willie hoodie out of the box (envelope) at first because it felt like slippery polyester. I was an idiot. I canât take the thing off.
Condolences that your time coincided with what I, an avowed ND hater, would classify as a great time in ND history.
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from Bloomberg this morning:
The shipping forecast
By Peter Millard and Michael D McDonald
Thereâs no better way to see how climate change can choke global trade than a visit to the Panama Canal.
The drought-stricken waterway, which handles $270 billion a year in global trade, is in trouble. With water levels languishing at six feet (1.8 meters) below normal, the canal authority capped the number of vessels that can cross to just 24 â from the usual 38.
Tree stumps rise above the waterline. Theyâre all that remains of a woodland flooded more than a century ago to create the canal. Photographer: Walter Hurtado Lozano/Bloomberg
Its travails are just part of a wider story about how global warming is altering the flow of goods around the world. Drought created chokepoints last year on the Mississippi River in the US and the Rhine in Europe. In the UK, rising sea levels are elevating the risk of flooding along the Thames. Melting ice is creating new shipping routes in the Arctic.
The constraints in Panama have since eased, slightly, due to a rainier-than-expected November, but with the dry season on the horizon, the bottleneck is poised to worsen again.
âAs a canal, as a country, we need to take some measures because it isnât acceptable,â Erick CĂłrdoba, the manager of the water division at the canal authority, said in an interview. âWe need to calibrate the system again.â
Under normal circumstances, the Panama Canal handles about 3% of global maritime trade volumes and 46% of containers moving from Northeast Asia to the US East Coast. The channel is Panamaâs biggest source of revenue, bringing in $4.3 billion in 2022.
As of November, 2023 was the driest year on record at Barro Colorado Island in Lake GatĂșn, according to Steve Paton, the director of the physical monitoring program at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. A large section of the canal goes through the lake, which is also its main source of water.
Low water levels outside the Miraflores locks of the Panama Canal, on Nov. 3 Photographer: Walter Hurtado/Bloomberg
Global warming is intensifying the weather phenomenon known as El Niño, which has brought dry conditions to Panama and is expected to last at least through March in the Northern Hemisphere. Lake GatĂșn drains faster during severe dry seasons, and rising temperatures accelerate evaporation.
Last year was âtotally different from the others,â said Gabriel AlemĂĄn, the head of the Panama Canal Pilotsâ Association. Heâs steered ships through the canal for more than 30 years. âWe havenât reached the peak of the impact.â
In 2023 the trade winds never fully kicked in, which contributed to record water temperatures off the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of Panama. Weak winds also mean that rain clouds donât make it all the way to GatĂșn. On many days, it pours in Panama City while the lake only gets a few drops.
To allow for vessels through during the dry season, the canal will release water from Lake Alajuela, a secondary reservoir. Itâs a short term fix, though. The longer term solutions â which include creating a new dam on the Indio River â are more contentious and create an uncertain future for the people of Panama.
Elizabeth Delgado, 38, who lives in the last house along the road to the Indio River, will be one of the first to get flooded if the reservoir is built.
âHow are we supposed to survive someplace else where we wonât know what to do?â Delgado said. âTheyâve told us that weâre going to have to leave, but weâre going to stick with our land.â
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Christmas pajama pants. He looks like such a doofus in that Malbon shit
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He and JD leading the non-boring pants brigade.
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As someone who used to live on Broadway in Williamsburg (among the Hasidic community), Iâm keeping a very close eye on this situation. My old roommate @chebellz and I were convinced our neighbors had a tunnels and probably an armory underneath all the apartment buildings in South Williamsburg. It looks like we were right about the tunnels!
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https://x.com/FrumTikTok/status/1744521634826854482?s=20
Always need a second exit in case things go wrong. Nice to know theyâve also seen National Treasure.
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The secondhand cigarette smoke in those tunnels would halve your life expectancy
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Can someone explain what was actually going on here? I tried reading a bunch of stuff but couldnât make heads of tails of it because I donât know a lot of the Hebrew words everybody is using, the history of this place, or any Brooklyn geography