So my buddy has been separated from his wife(not legally) for almost 2 years. His wife actually left him. He bought a place like 1 year ago in Iowa City and is now looking to sell it. His wife never lived there, never paid any equity into the house, and has never even been on the property. How in the **** is she(possibly) legally entitled to some of the money he could potentially get from the a sale in the future. Nobody but the person on the loan should be entitled to that. They had only been married like a year and a half too.

Cherry Mash or Twin Bing, which one of the similar candy bars is your favorite. Mine is Cherry Mash, though I wouldn’t turn down either.

A sample of their hits:

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One thread to share Coach Otz’s recruiting interest, visits, and offers to the 2027 Cyclone Class.

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Here we go!

ROUND TWO!

If you missed the first contest, read the original post in that thread to catch up.

A reminder: I wanted to celebrate our own @ChrisMWilliams and his Fanatic: Stories from 20 years inside Iowa State book with Rob Gray. I'll be giving away three books total and local ethical bagman @Cycsk is kindly helping me send them out.


HOW DO YOU SOLVE THIS PUZZLE?

To give people time to see this thread, there are two parts. PART ONE is below. I'll post PART TWO (by editing this post) on Thursday (June 4). The clue from PART ONE will help you solve PART TWO.


WANT A HINT?

To keep this thread visible, post something random (pets???) in this thread. If you do that, you can ask me a single question via private DM about PART ONE that I can answer with yes or no. One question per account.

That will give you a head start on PART TWO. Then once PART TWO is released, the first person that posts the solution in this thread wins.


THE PUZZLE:


PART ONE - What does this mean?



PART TWO:



TO WIN, WHAT DOES THAT SYMBOL MEAN?


BONUS CLUE TO HELP FIGURE OUT PART ONE:


BONUS CLUE 2:


BONUS CLUE 3 (REFERS TO PART ONE) - FIXED TYPO (UNDERLINED):

BONUS CLUE 4:


BONUS CLUE 5:


BONUS CLUE 6:


BONUS CLUE 7:


ONE CLUE HAS BEEN SOLVED:


BONUS CLUE 8:


BONUS CLUE 9:


BONUS CLUE 10:


Even if you already have the book, let me know in this thread if I can improve this process somehow. After the books, I might keep doing more contests for goodies from the CF Shop.

It's tough out there, so trying to spread the love. Any other thoughts or questions, let me know.

A thread to throw in comments on high school contests.

I just saw this basketball score from North Iowa.

The draw is set for Friday in Washington D.C.

This article explains the draw much better than I ever could.

How does the 2026 World Cup draw work? Format, date and more

The stage is almost set for the 2026 World Cup, which begins June 11 and concludes with the final July 19. Here's what to know about the draw.

www.espn.com

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...However, there is one trend in this recruiting class that could cause some concern. Among the 20 players committed, just three come from Pennsylvania. In a 2027 class that is loaded with in-state talent, the Nittany Lions swinging and missing on a majority of the top talent can be worrisome.

Currently, Penn State has more players committed in New Jersey with five than its own state. While no singular team has dominated the state in the 2027 class, it’s allowed some major programs to enter itself into the Pennsylvania ecosystem...

We've had a YEAR, haven't we?
Let's try to look back on it and actively choose to remember the good parts.

Blessings to all of you in this new year. Let's see if things go better this time around!

@CYdTracked said it was time.

Saw a blog today on YouTube saying Shota. Alcantara and Wiggins have been the biggest surprises thus far in Mesa. Imanaga and the Jaguar are fully healthy and Wiggins is touching 100.

Season kicks off tonight so figured time to start up this thread.

Some news for tonight's game:

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It doesn't have to be your only vehicle, just your first.

Upcoming Bowl schedule now out:

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Anyone else really excited for this show?

I can't wait. Over the last 2 weeks I re-watched all of GoT.

I really wish HBO would have kept the Bloodmoon prequel going too.

This was just a matter of time.
In most sports, you would be able to track offensive/defensive schemes throughout the year/preceding years, and adjust accordingly.
Add AI personnel to staff.

With no sports and peeps recommended to stay at home, what are you watching or have watched that you can recommend?

I finished Altered Carbon 2 last week. Netflix. Would recommend if you have watched season 1. New story but would be way easier to understand if you've watched the previous. Good sci-fi.

Thinking of checking out the South Korean "Kingdom", also on Netflix.

Clark's 1st Half Highlights from 1st Pre-Season Game:

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Been waiting for these guys to come back to Iowa for awhile now. Got tickets this morning.

Welcome to another edition of On That Note. This is part 2 (of 3) for our annual albums-by-decade series.

Post from your favorite LPs released in 1986 and/or 1996. (Those years only, NOT the entire decade.)

Include up to 3 sound clips. In addition to the tracks, we encourage you to expound on why the album is meaningful, including personal history of your relationship with the record and its music.

Choices should focus on studio albums. Avoid greatest hits/live LPs/compilations. We allow it, but it should be a definitive element of an artist’s body of work that isn’t otherwise available from studio output.

If someone posts an album on your list before you get to it, you are free to reference it, but please use different song clips.

If you’re more singles-oriented, you may substitute favorite singles from either of those years.

OTN is featured weekly on Cyclone Fanatic by @MeanDean, @CycloneRulzzz and cyclones500.

Link to Part 1 here


I'll do one or two from '86 first, then on to '96 and back again.

Lifes Rich Pageant — R.E.M.
July 28, 1986

My favorite R.E.M. album. Keeping my tracks to a minimum, it could be a somewhat common pick.

My favorite opener from an R.E.M. album ("Harborcoat" from "Reckoning" is a close 2nd)
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Good tempo-buster between "What If We Give It Away?" and "Swan Swan H."
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While I’ve been a casual viewer of most the MCU movies since they started coming out in 2008, up until lately, it has been just that… casual entertainment. Well, a few months ago, I decided to give the whole MCU a big chance to fully engage me and wow, it has been a fun ride ever since. What I wanted to do was to watch everything in chronological order, and by everything, I mean the movies, TV shows and even the official tie-in comics. Most of the comics are just some type of prelude to the movies. Took me a few months to pull this off. To get a good chronological order, I found this website and I followed it to a “T”, which turned out to be a great way to go:

http://www.storyhobby.com/timelines/marvel-multiverse-chronology/marvel-cinematic-universe-timeline/

Anyway, now that I’m caught-up, I thought it would be fun to rank and debate what I just watched, so feel free to rank and chime in yourself. Also, I figured it would be good to start an ongoing thread where people can post any new news items related to the MCU as they come out. So, here is my ranking of the entire MCU, minus the comics.

1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier – Thought this movie had the best drama and best action scenes of all the movies
2. Marvel’s The Avengers – Iconic way to pull everything together with the best villain in the MCU
3. Iron Man – Epic way to start the Universe with an unbelievable star for a headliner. Never got into the Iron Monger villain though.
4. Guardians of the Galaxy – Best space epic since the original Star Wars movies. Also was probably the funniest movie of the MCU so far.
5. Marvel’s Daredevil: Season 1 – Loved the street-level more-adult-themed tone of this show. Also contains probably the second best villain in the MCU. Being on Netflix is a great way to un-cuff all the normal problems of making a TV show for network viewing.
6. Ant-Man - Had super-low expectations, but walked away pleasantly surprised. Yet another weak villain, but contained some great comedy with some great actors. Paul Rudd won me over when I once was really skeptical of him.
7. Captain America: The First Avenger – Epic first-half of the movie with Cap’s origin story, but believe it or not, I found Red Skull a little underdeveloped. Loved the WWII time period aspect of this one.
8. Iron Man 2 – Many will mock me, but I actually really enjoyed this movie and actually enjoyed it more than Iron Man 3. Make fun of me all you want, but I didn’t think Whiplash was that bad. I think this movie gets unfairly criticized.
9. Avengers: Age of Ultron – Fun movie, but suffered from too much CGI action, too many characters, and too many storylines.
10. Thor: The Dark World – Criticize me if you will, but I actually liked this movie and thought it got an unfair bad wrap. I didn’t find Malekith that bad and I actually liked this movie more than the original Thor.
11. Iron Man 3 – Don’t know what it is, but I just never really got into this one, and it probably had something to do with the big Mandarin villain twist towards the end. Also never really liked Killian either. Again, I surprisingly like Iron Man 2 better
12. Marvel’s Agents of Shield: Season 2 – Liked the less cheese and more serious tone than the first season. Also, loved the Inhuman’s storyline. Used to hate Skye, but now don’t mind her.
13. Marvel’s Agent Carter – Loved the period timepiece aspect of this. Great show.
14. Thor – Don’t know what it is, but I just never got into this storyline or villains as much as the others. Again, I surprisingly liked Thor: Dark World more.
15. The Incredible Hulk – Good movie, but not great. Never was into Norton for the role, so was glad when the switch was made.
16. Marvel’s Agents of Shield: Season 1 – Struggled hardcore in the first half-dozen episodes, but then finally picked up when Winter Soldier storyline set in and the cheese started to fade. Overall, ended up really enjoying this.

It is also worth noting that I haven't actually disliked anything so far, while the first half-dozen episodes of Agents of Shield Season 1 came close. But again, even that got better. Overall, I've just found entertainment and merit in all of them, which is really pretty impressive, but of course, I definitely like some more than others.

Their old coach is going to cost them $20,000,000. Plus more cuts in recruiting.
From CBS Sports.

Chris Williams & Brent Blum take questions from subscribers about the upcoming Iowa State football season. Which Cyclones do the guys think have an NFL future? More analysis on President David Cook’s search for a new athletics director. Post Malone wore an Iowa shirt in Jack Trice Stadium on Friday night. How does that happen? All this and more, courtesy of our friends at Mechdyne.
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2026 season tees off in Hawaii this week.

Also Koepka is coming back to the PGA Tour:

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