#90 degrees in Wisconsin

[cupc4ke88]

🎃Welcome October🎃

[dusty-metaphors]

ya girl is homesick today

[vladdyissues]

There is a real-life goth castle in Wisconsin; however, the new houseowner gave it a Barbiecore makeover. Some of the black gothic furniture is still being used. Imagine Vlad getting excited for the Barbie movie and just paint his entire castle pink.

I had to see this for myself and...

Anon, I had no idea that Wisconsin Castles are, like... a Thing. Must be something in the beer up there.

But you're right. I can see Vlad going through design phases. Maybe when he first bought his castle he went with a gaudy gilded Louis XIV style that came with the place. Then perhaps he got tired of smashing his kneecaps to smithereens on claustrophobia-inducing Baroque furniture and tore it all down to fill it with modern things, and when he became sick of flat surfaces, primary colors, and 90-degree angles, he went full Gothic, gargoyles and spires and everything. Maybe he saved one or two things from each phase and ended up with this Frankensteinian hodgepodge, and after repeated dissatisfaction he just decided to fire his interior decorator(s) and do things his own way.

Vlad certainly decorates according to his whims, and canon supports this theory. (What is it with rich people and tasteless décor?) I'm sure Barbie is just the excuse he needs to vault back to his Aqua-seasoned Barbie Girl days of the mid/late 90s when things like inflatable furniture and glitter and fuzzy pink everything was in vogue.

[itracing]

Porsche 911 GT3 RS Sets Record at Road America

Porsche upped the ante on its own Road America production car track record. A lap in the Type-992 Porsche 911 GT3 RS bettered the established record set in a 2018 Porsche 911 GT2 RS. The record shattering lap was set by Porsche Deluxe Carrera Cup North America veteran Dimitri Dimakos on the freshly paved “Nürburgring Nordschleife of North America”.

Dimakos, a veteran of the Porsche Deluxe Carrera Cup North America, lapped the four mile, 14 turn road course in a time of two-minutes, 13.8 seconds. Conditions were near perfect, with an air temperature hovering around 75 degrees and a track temperature just above 90 degrees Fahrenheit. The lap on the freshly paved classic American race course in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin bettered the previous record (2:15.1). The previous lap, set by David Donohue in a 2019 Porsche 911 GT2 RS in April, 2019, was improved upon by nearly two seconds. The feat is especially remarkable considering the huge horsepower difference between the 700-hp prior record holder, and the 518-hp 911 GT3 RS.

[cammie-morgan-goode]

Seeing all the townsend-zach ask makes me literally BEGGING for you to please please please write even just a blurb about some of their dad-son bonding uwu

Zach looks around the campus of Georgetown. He knows that Cammie is in the building by the university’s hospital. Which is on Torndorf Road. Which is approximately 5.5 miles from the library walk.

“You know she’s fine, right?” A voice sounds from behind him.

Zach turns around, noting that he had been sloppy. How long had Townsend been standing there? How long had Townsend been tailing him?

Townsend shoves his hands in his pockets. “Don’t look so shocked. I’ve only been here for 90 seconds.” He says with a shrug.

Zach sighs and then raises a hand to rub the back of his neck. Before he has a chance to speak, Townsend beats him to it. “Walk with me,”

Zach follows him across the campus, following him away from Cammie. He knew that she was taking a test right now which is why he wanted to see her. He knew she had a routine. They’d go north west on O Street. And then on Wisconsin Ave, right on the corner is Cafe Georgetown. She would order a hot chocolate, even though it was 85 degrees outside. And she’d order a grilled cheese panini for lunch. And they would sit and talk and she would ramble on about whatever it was that she was learning in class. And she’d smile at him. And he’d finally breathe.

“Did you even hear a word I just said?” Townsend asks, taking a right towards the statue of John Carroll.

Zach rolls his eyes. “There’s a possible threat in Moscow. Rogue asset on the run from a possible splinter group even though my girlfriend and I have been systematically wiping them out for the past several months. So yes, Townsend. I did hear every word you just said,”

Townsend huffs. Of course the boy is good. Otherwise the CIA wouldn’t want him. Of course the boy heard everything he said. He was Solomon’s protege. He’d been trained for this. He wasn’t a kid anymore.

And Townsend hated that that thought sent a pang of worry through his gut.

“Anyways, it’s your call.” Townsend says. Like he always does.

“And what did Cam say?” Zach asks. Like he always does.

“She said and I quote, ‘you got it but I’m making the calls first.’ Whatever that means,”

Before Townsend even finished, Zach is laughing. Of course Cammie wouldn’t let him live Berlin down.

Townsend rolls his eyes. Those crazy kids. They remind Edward of Abby and him. And he kind of loves them for it.

“Oh Townsend?” Zach says before Townsend can disappear. Townsend pauses and looks over his shoulder.

“There’s a turkey croissant with mustard in your bag. And some cash for a hot chocolate. On me. Learn to take a lunch will ya?”

Zach looks down at his crossbody bag and watches Townsend fade away before opening it. Sure enough there’s a sandwich and some cash in the ziplock bag.

How he managed to pull that off will always be a mystery. But Zach was grateful to have someone look out for him the way that Townsend did.

Even if he could be annoying about it.

(Written by: @cammie-morgan-goode)

[wellenklavier]

i need to stop queuing all my posts from the same 3 people i just get pressed for time and its whoever i think of first 😭😭

which also means queue is a permanent feature bc homegirl making bread 🥖 and dying. why is wisconsin 90 degrees. my weekends are thurs-fri so i’ll probably be more active on those days :)

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

Small, cool and sulfurous exoplanet may help write recipe for planetary formation

A surprising yellow haze of sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere of a gas “dwarf” exoplanet about 96 light years away from our own solar system makes the planet a prime target for scientists trying to understand how worlds are formed.

Astronomers discovered the planet, GJ 3470 b, in 2012 when the planet’s shadow crossed the star it orbits. GJ 3470 b is located in the constellation Cancer and is about half the size of Neptune, with a mass 10 times that of Earth. In the intervening years, researchers have compiled data on the planet using the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, culminating in a pair of recent observations with the James Webb Space Telescope.

Planets outside our solar system — called exoplanets — like GJ 3470 b are interesting subjects for researchers wondering how planets are created. Ideally, astronomers capture light from a star that shines through the edge of the planet’s atmosphere. This allows them to assemble a measure of the component light, or its spectrum, a readout marked by spikes and dips characteristic of the interesting molecules found in that atmosphere.

“The thing is, everybody looks at these planets, and often everybody sees flat lines,” says University of Wisconsin–Madison astronomy professor Thomas Beatty. “But when we looked at this planet, we really didn't get a flat line.”

They saw evidence of water, carbon dioxide, methane and sulfur dioxide, findings Beatty presented in Madison today at the 244th meeting of the American Astronomical Society and that he will soon publish in Astrophysical Journal Letters with co-authors from Arizona State University, the University of Arizona, NASA’s Ames Research Center and other organizations.

GJ 3470 b is the lightest and coldest (averaging a mere 325 degrees Celsius, or more than 600 Fahrenheit) exoplanet to harbor sulfur dioxide. The compound is likely a sign of the churn of active chemical reactions in the planet’s atmosphere, created when radiation from its nearby star blasts apart the components of hydrogen sulfide, which then go looking for new molecular partners.

“We didn’t think we’d see sulfur dioxide on planets this small, and it’s exciting to see this new molecule in a place we didn’t expect, since it gives us a new way to figure out how these planets formed,” says Beatty, who worked as an instrument scientist on the James Webb Space Telescope before joining the UW–Madison faculty. “And small planets are especially interesting, because their compositions are really dependent on how the planet-formation process happened.”

Divining that process is one focus of Beatty’s research. It’s a little like spying on a baker only at the beginning of their work and then again when it’s nearly time for dessert.

“Laid out on our table, we have all the ingredients that go into a cake, and we have a finished cake,” he says. “Now, can we figure out the recipe — the steps that turned the raw materials into the end product — by measuring what’s in the cake?”

Astronomers like Beatty hope they will be able to do just that: figure out the recipe for planet formation by looking at what’s in exoplanets.

“Discovering sulfur dioxide in a planet as small as GJ 3470 b gives us one more important item on the planet formation ingredient list,” says Beatty.

In the case of GJ 3470 b, there are also other interesting features that might help fill out that recipe. The planet’s orbit around its star takes it nearly over the star’s poles, which is to say that it’s circling at a 90-degree angle to the expected path of planets in the system. It’s also surprisingly close to the star, close enough that the light from its star is blowing copious amounts of GJ 3470 b’s atmosphere away into space. The planet has probably lost about 40 percent of its mass since it was formed.

The close-in, off-kilter orbit is a sign that GJ 3470 b used to be somewhere else in its system, and at some point, the planet became entangled with the gravity of another and was pulled into a new path that eventually settled it in a different neighborhood.

“That migration history that led to this polar orbit and the loss of all this mass — those are things we don’t typically know about other exoplanet targets we’re looking at,” Beatty says. “Those are important steps in the recipe that created this particular planet and can help us understand how planets like it are made.”

With further analysis of the ingredients that remain in the planet’s atmosphere and the help of colleagues like those in UW–Madison’s Wisconsin Center for Origins Research who specialize in proto-planetary disks and migration dynamics, GJ 3470 b may help Beatty and others understand how planets like it got to be so appetizing — at least from the astronomers’ perspective.

This research was supported by grants from NASA.

IMAGE....The sulfur-laden atmosphere discovered on gaseous exoplanet GJ 3470 b, show here in an illustration orbiting its star in the constellation Cancer, could help researchers figure out how it (and similar planets) were formed. Credit University of Wisconsin–Madison

[weather-usa]

Thunderstorms bring severe weather to multiple states, claiming a child's life, as heat scorches the West

Strong thunderstorms barreled across the central and eastern U.S. on Wednesday, reportedly claiming the life of a young child, triggering flood advisories, and causing a series of travel delays, while a heat dome baked California's Central Valley, other parts of the West, and southern Texas.

In Livonia, Michigan, a 2-year-old child was killed, and a 2-month-old infant and their mother were injured when a tree fell on their house amid high winds from a storm, according to WJBK-TV. The condition of the mother and baby, who were hospitalized, has not been detailed.

See more:

https://www.behance.net/gallery/196222201/Weather-Forecast-for-Illinois

Separate storms were set to roll over the Midwest, lower Plains, Ohio Valley, and the mid-Atlantic region throughout the day and into the night, according to the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center. By morning, flash flood warnings were in effect across parts of north-central Texas, northwestern Louisiana, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Philadelphia.

In Texas, the weather service in Fort Worth advised residents to stay indoors as floodwaters remained high and rivers were above flood stage. "Doppler radar indicated the heavy rain has largely come to an end, but it will take several hours for flood waters to recede," the weather service said. "Please do not travel unless you are sure roads are not flooded!"

In Oklahoma and Iowa, meteorologists warned of flooding along the banks, fields, and roads near rivers. Across Michigan and Ohio, forecasters said isolated wind damage throughout the afternoon would be the main storm threat.

Nearly 60,000 homes and businesses were without power across Texas late Wednesday afternoon, according to a USA TODAY outage tracker. Additionally, 59,000 utility customers in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota experienced outages, along with 26,000 in Mississippi.

Weather Forecast For North Carolina:

https://devpost.com/software/weather-forecast-for-north-carolina

At Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, more than 350 flights were delayed, and at least 45 were canceled Wednesday morning, according to FlightAware, a flight-tracking website. The Federal Aviation Administration temporarily grounded all flights at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston.

Travel disruptions extended to the Northeast as well. Flights at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport were delayed by more than three hours on average, while Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey saw average delays exceeding two hours. Departure delays were also reported at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C.

Millions Under Heat Advisories

Climate and Average Weather Year Round in Kansas:

Much of the southwestern U.S., southern Texas, and California's Central Valley are under heat advisories as the first major heat wave of the summer brings anticipated record-breaking temperatures in the triple digits.

The National Weather Service in Los Angeles and Oxnard, California, forecasted temperatures up to 100 degrees across the Cuyama and Salinas valleys through the afternoon, as well as the Highway 14 corridor, which runs from Los Angeles to the northern Mojave Desert.

In the eastern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, temperatures were expected to reach the 90s to lower 100s. Heat advisories were also active across New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, and Nevada, where forecast temperatures approached or exceeded 100 degrees. In Las Vegas, the afternoon high temperature was expected to be between 107 and 114 degrees.

See more: https://weatherusa.app/zip-code/weather-35036

https://weatherusa.app/zip-code/weather-35038

https://weatherusa.app/zip-code/weather-35040

https://weatherusa.app/zip-code/weather-35041

https://weatherusa.app/zip-code/weather-35042

Southern Texas, which has faced unseasonably hot temperatures since late May, could see afternoon highs of 103 to 107 degrees. The heat index, or "feels like" temperature, could reach well over 110 degrees in some areas, including Corpus Christi, San Antonio, Uvalde, El Paso, and the Rio Grande Valley.

The extreme heat is expected to continue into the weekend.

[bike42]

PAWs Old World Wisconsin Ride

Saturday June 1, 2024

We’re no strangers to riding our bikes in the rain, in fact, we did it just two weeks ago on a training ride up north! We set out early this morning to try to get a bit ahead of it. We were riding by 7:30am, with just three other riders. Down the Capital City Trail, over the fantastic Lower Yahara River Bike Trail towards McFarland.

We’re on a 7-day ride put on by PAWs (Pedal Across Wisconsin), run by a family from northern Illinois. We’ve twice ridden their Northwoods Tour (Eagle River WI), as also their San Juan Islands (Washington State) tour. They do a great job with the logistics and we’ve met many like minded riders along the way. This is their Old World Wisconsin tour: starts in Madison, two nights in Whitewater, two nights in New Glarus, and two nights in Spring Green. If you know Southern Wisconsin, you know this is hilly territory!

The rain started as we were leaving McFarland. We had our cycling rain jackets on, tights over our bike shorts, and wool socks on with our bike sandals - so we were mostly ready. Jeff had dug out his booties, arm warmers and full-fingered bike gloves, but left them at home on the laundry room counter (along with his wallet!). It didn’t take long for me to realize that my 20-year old cycling rain jacket was no longer water resistant, and I got soaked through my layers. It was about 65 degrees, so not too cold, and thankfully not windy at all. We’ve had some terrific storms these past few weeks, but this was just steady rain, no thunder or lightning.

We rode through beautiful scenery on really good roads with very little traffic. After 24 miles we got to the food stop at a park in Cambridge. I’d been thinking of coffee shop instead, but the had the table under a shelter and it was actually quite pleasant to hang out there with about a half dozen riders (there are 90 registered riders but most were hanging out at breakfast when we left the hotel, and some were strapping their bikes to their cars having decided to sit today out I guess).

We left the food stop and headed down the Main Street of Cambridge - quiet on this early rainy Saturday morning, but fun to window shop the boutiques there. Doing so, we made our first navigational error of the day. They mark the turns with yellow paint which I can’t see from the back of the tandem. I have a plastic wrapped cue sheet in JT’s pocket so I generally know the name of the road for our next turn. We also have downloaded “Ride With GPS” and have the routes on our phones, but decided we didn’t need the turn by turn instructions. We turned around, and I pulled off my phone and found we were parallel to the route so it was easy to get back on course.

We rode along the shore of Lake Ripley, a beautiful cottage / resort area I didn’t know existed! Then through rolling hills, past pretty farms and into the town of Ft Atkinson. We got to Highway 12 and stopped, and I realized we’d missed another turn. We decided to detour into Downtown to find a cafe. I noticed a bike shop too, and suggested we stop there for a shopping excursion. There we bought a new rain jacket for me (I will get a lot of use out of it this week), a warmer shirt for JT (he thought it was too expensive, but I insisted … his rain jacket is working well, but he just had a short sleeved Jersey under it), and warm gloves for JT. We left our bike chained there and walked to a cafe I’d spied: Scottie’s Eat-Mor. Our kind of dive! There were about 12 stools at the counter, where 10 heads swiveled to stare at us as we walked in out of the rain wearing bike helmets covered with those disposable shower caps that we take from hotels (our secret weapon when riding in the rain!). We peeled off our wet layers and squeezed into the remaining two stools. The waitress, Jackie, was a hoot. A women of few words, and many facial expressions! Randy was the talented, multi-tasking cook. We saw that the portions were huge, so we tried to order a smaller sized meal, but one pancake was still more than I could eat! That was a great stop, and we were able to continue on after a nice break.

While in the diner, I researched how to get us back on course, and saw that the route was a bike trail just the other side of the bike store. We collected our bike, and then began to see a few other cyclists with orange tags identifying them as part of our group. We rode a few miles on the Glacial River Bike Trail, and it was really beautiful! Awesome sculptures and landscaping - raining too hard for photos though, we’ll have to go back!

Back out to country roads, about 10 miles of mostly gentle up and down until we reached the hotel in Whitewater. We’re at a Baymont Inn - not glamorous, but the front desk lady was friendly and helpful, offering old towels for people to wipe down their bikes. We collected our bags and brought them to the room - then back for the bike, carrying it up the stairs to our second floor room. We cleaned it up, and cleaned ourselves up. The hotel has a hot tub, but it’s out of order so I soaked a bit in the tub in our room. Felt fantastic!

We’d arrived at the hotel just before 1pm, so had lots of time to relax! Jeff walked to the hardware store, and when he came back he reported the rain had stopped and the crew was setting up the 4pm Happy Hour at the UHaul van. We went out and grabbed a beer and met a few more people. Just after 5 we were ready for dinner, and I suggested we walk the 1.5 miles down to a brew pub that had a good dinner menu. Along the way, we met Mary-Claire and Roger, and struck up a conversation with them. We walked quickly and were soon at the brew pub, so they joined us for dinner and we continued the conversation. They live in Delaware, and this is their first PAWs ride, although they have friends that have recommended the rides. They were really interesting and have done some awesome adventure, including a 10-Country Self-Supported European tour last year! Dinner was good, and we decided to walk back versus jumping on the shuttle bus they were running. Whitewater has a UW campus, and it seems this is the slow time between Spring and a summer session - town seemed quite, and just a few frat houses seemed occupied - one with kids outside playing Beer Pong. For some reason, it felt like TRAM to me (might have been the school bus shuttle), and I felt nostalgic for those fun times riding across Minnesota and searching for dinner in a small town.

We have a Culver’s just down the road, so JT and I deviated there for a small concrete mixer. We returned to our room for some cribbage before bed time.

51.6 miles, 1843 elevation gain

3 hours, 45 minutes of riding time (5 hours elapsed time)

[wausaupilot]

Universities try 3-year degrees to save students time, money

What do you think of this idea?

by Elaine S. Povich, Wisconsin Examiner May 31, 2024 With college costs rising and some students and families questioning the return on investment of a four-year degree, a few pioneering state universities are exploring programs that would grant certain bachelor’s degrees in three years. The programs, which also are being tried at some private schools, would require 90 credits instead of the…

[the-firebird69]

Shared route

Shared route

From Saint Ann to Rhinelander via I-55 N and I-39 N.

7 hr 59 min (562 mi)

7 hr 59 min in current traffic

1. Head north on Westridge Ln toward St Martha Ln

2. Turn right onto MO-180 E/St Charles Rock Rd

3. Turn left onto the I-170 N ramp

4. Merge onto I-170 N

5. Take exit 10B for I-270 E toward Chicago

6. Take exit 15B for I-55 N toward Chicago/Springfield

7. Keep right at the fork to stay on I-55 N, follow signs for I-72 E/Chicago/Decatur

8. Keep right at the fork to stay on I-55 N, follow signs for Interstate 55 N/Chicago

9. Take exit 164 for I-39/US-51 N toward Rockford

10. Take the I-39 N/US-20 E exit toward Wisconsin-Belvidere Rockford

11. Use the left 2 lanes to take the I-90 W/I-39/US-51 exit toward Wisconsin

12. Keep left to stay on I-39 N/I-90 W

13. Keep left to continue on I-39 N/I-90 W/I-94 W

14. Take exit 108 A-B for I-39 N toward US-51/Portage/Wausau

15. Keep right to continue on Exit 108B, follow signs for I-39 N/US-51/Portage/Wausau

16. Use the right lane to take the US-8 ramp to Prentice/Rhinelander

17. Turn right onto US-8 E

18. At the traffic circle, take the 2nd exit onto W Kemp St

19. Exit the traffic circle onto W Kemp St

20. Turn left onto Arbutus St

21. Slight left onto S Stevens St

22. Turn left onto W King St

23. Arrive at location: Rhinelander

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Left in the upper Midwest would be Eastern Wisconsin Eastern Illinois Indiana Ohio Michigan and part of Pennsylvania of course the Western half almost half the state. It's still fairly good size Plus Canada but it's only five miles north of the Great lakes North Havana sauce except for a 500 MI radius around the Hudson Bay but it does close off and it goes to the East Coast to the Atlantic. This is a big area and there's a lot of people there and we have put a wall up where you see the line it's kind of straight down the middle of three lines and it's almost due north and south between the two points. For real. We are aggressively clearing and people are evacuating the areas in the cities of Illinois and Western Wisconsin as a matter of fact they are vacuuming the east of those States to a lesser degree 50% of those there now anticipate to evacuate to the west of the wall where is 20% of active evacuated last night already we anticipate 25% to the east to the wall within those two states will evacuate today they are anxious to leave and we're holding off until the upper Midwest is emptied a little bit more from erasing cities.

-they are seeking to relocate Wells Fargo Bank and it is a decent venture but not sure if we should let them do something that crazy and we've been waiting for that for a long time and don't want them to destroy it. Fargo the movie will begin today along with several other films such as Jaws one the others have completed and they got massively injured and about 25% of them are gone forever and everybody was fighting over the sharks. Some of our money I mean our son's money that's what I was saying is up there North Dakota at that branch it was moved there from the upper Midwest because they wanted to drag people to North Dakota and it did not work they went out in and out a whole bunch of times accepted stipends to stay there for a week and left. Is a huge number of people who are trying to get in to go there. And Fargo is a small town so the airport is about 100 miles away and you have to drive and I'll kind of wondering how they're going to get there and that sun laughs and says during the daytime.

-couple other things are happening there are the formations on the border of Charlotte county to enforce their way in the military of USA is repelling them and staying there not welcome here their actions are illegal and be met with brute Force and they say that before but he didn't tell people. It's probably about 5 million at the outer ring and 3,000 no 300,000 at the inner and they're being fired upon. And almost out and this is triggering reactions in Florida to evacuate and it is more luck who are leaving all kinds including clones. Over the past two days only had expected high numbers but they did evacuate about 15% of Florida is more luck there was some infilling about 5% but now they're not coming back they're not that many attacking and not that many forming they are leaving I'm going to the islands and other parts

Going to publish so we don't lose it

Thor Freya

Zues

What time we get some help here he's falling to sleep all the time

Hera lol

Olympus

[smackalicious]

Pass the happy! 🌻 When you receive this, list five things that make you happy and send it to the last ten people in your notifications!

Aw!

Okay, let's see...

Baseball, lol. Just bc it's that time of the year and I was watching a Brewers game earlier and even though they ended up losing (boo), I was just like, I love baseball.

My favorite golfer. Listen, I know this website hates golf, but omg, my fave golfer is SO FUCKING CUTE, like she's just adorable and her positivity is just contagious. I listened to a podcast she was on yesterday and she spent a good 5 minutes rambling about Korean corn dogs, lmao. I can relate as someone who also loves food.

Finding new songs that I end up becoming totally obsessed with. Bonus points if it's a song by a band/artist I've listened to for a long time, but just hadn't listened to that particular song. Main example right now is California Dreamer by Wolf Parade. OMG I love that song. And that album has been out for YEARS, lmao.

A really good book that reminds me how much I love reading. I haven't been reading quite as much lately and the book I've been reading is kinda long and dense, so it's taking me longer, but I flew through a couple right before that and it was awesome.

Warm weather, lol. I mean, today was a bit much (it was like almost 90 degrees here, like chill out, it's April and we're in Wisconsin :P), but I truly thought winter was never going to end and I was so ready for spring. So I'm happy we're finally getting some warmer weather.

[louisianaprelawland-blog]

U.S. Circuit Court Takes A “Bite” Out Of “Big Cheese”

By Lauren Barrouquere,  University of Louisiana at Lafayette Class of 2024

March 6, 2023

Earlier this week, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the label “gruyere” on cheese may not be solely reserved for the particular kind of cheese imported from Switzerland and France [3]. This ruling comes after a years-long legal battle between cheese makers from Wisconsin, as well as Austria, and even the Netherlands, and “Syndicat Interprofessionnel du Gruyère”, as well as“Interprofession du Gruyère”, two groups representing French and Swiss cheesemakers, refiners, and milk producers [4].

Initially, “Interprofession du Gruyère” sought to trademark the term “gruyere” in the United States, so that it could only be used to refer to cheese from that particular region, as opposed to any cheese that possesses “gruyere”-like qualities [1]. Europe has much stricter rules than the United States in terms of food labeling, especially as it relates to the food’s country of origin [1]. The Food and Drug Administration has set some standards for what may be labeled as “gruyere” in the United States, most notably that the cheese must have small holes, and be aged 90 days, but does not require it to be from the physical region [1]. The Fourth Circuit Court cited that the word “gruyere” has been used colloquially, and on the packaging, to describe a type of cheese for decades in the United States, thus rendering the attempt to trademark by  “Interprofession du Gruyère” and  “Syndicat Interprofessionnel du Gruyère” a fail [3].

To understand why the use of a term or word colloquially renders the cheese trademark a failure, it is necessary to get a brief overview of trademark law. At its core, a trademark is a word, symbol, or phrase, that makes a seller's product easily identifiable and distinguishable from other products [6]. There are several prerequisites a mark must fulfill in order to be distinctive enough to be “trademarked”[6]. There are four categories the court uses to determine a mark’s distinctiveness: arbitrary or fanciful, suggestive, descriptive, or generic [6]. Arbitrary marks have no inherent descriptive relationship to the product, they are inherently distinctive, and are given the highest degree of protection [6]. An example of an arbitrary mark is the Nike “swoosh”, which is unrelated to the shoes but is distinctive [6]. Suggestive marks evoke a characteristic of the underlying product, such as “Coppertone”, a sunscreen brand with a name that evokes images of bronzed skin, without actually describing the product [6]. Similarly to arbitrary marks, suggestive marks are given high protection. A descriptive mark gains meaning when the general public associates it with a specific producer, and not just the good or service in general, such as the “Holiday Inn” [6]. This type of mark is only protected once it has gained “secondary meaning”, and not before [6]. Finally, a generic mark is a mark that describes a whole category of products, like “computer” [6]. This mark is offered no protection because it does not have any secondary meaning [6].

Essentially, “gruyere” has no secondary meaning [3]. Instead of the word specifically referring to a cheese with a set of particular qualities, from a certain region, in the minds of the American Public, “gruyere” refers to a category of cheeses, with similar qualities, from all different regions [3]. The “Interprofession du Gruyère” and “Syndicat Interprofessionnel du Gruyère” have stated they will continue to pursue efforts to gatekeep “gruyere” cheese in the future [1].

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/04/gruyere-describe-us-cheeses-court-rules

https://abc7chicago.com/cheese-lawsuit-where-is-gruyere-from-wisconsin-switzerland/11477285/

https://www.politico.eu/article/french-swiss-groups-cant-restrict-gruyere-cheese-label-us-court/

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/12/business/gruyere-cheese-us-court-ruling.html

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/us-cheesemakers-can-keep-using-gruyere-name-4th-cir-say

https://cyber.harvard.edu/metaschool/fisher/domain/tm.htm

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Twin Cities Could Get 12 Inches of Snow from Winter Storm: Minnesota Weather

MINNEAPOLIS — Winter is returning to Minnesota after a warm February. According to the National Weather Service, more than 12 inches of snow are possible in the Twin Cities metro area by Wednesday. A winter storm watch was issued for the following Minnesota and Wisconsin counties: Douglas, Todd, Morrison, Mille Lacs, Kanabec, Stearns, Benton, Sherburne, Isanti, Chisago, Wright, Hennepin, Anoka, Ramsey, Washington, Carver, Scott, Dakota, Le Sueur, Rice, Goodhue, Waseca, Steele, Freeborn, Polk, Barron, Rusk, St. Croix, Pierce, Dunn, Pepin, Chippewa, and Eau Claire. National Weather Service The storm will arrive in two rounds. Tuesday night is the first. From Tuesday evening to Wednesday morning, between 4-8 inches of snow will fall. From Wednesday evening to Thursday afternoon, another 8 inches of snow will fall. On Thursday, temperatures will fall below zero. Travel could prove difficult or impossible. Visibility could be significantly reduced in areas where there is blowing snow. The NWS warns that hazardous conditions could affect morning and evening commutes. “Frostbite could be caused by cold winds as low as 20 below zero in 30 minutes on exposed skin.” Here’s the exact NWS forecast for the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport. Monday: There is a chance for snow to fall before 2pm. Then, there will be rain and snow between 2pm-4pm. After 4pm, there will be a slight chance for snow. Cloudy with a high of 36. It is breezy with a south breeze 5-10 mph, shifting to west 15-20 mph in afternoon. Winds could gust up to 35 mph. The chance of precipitation is half. A new accumulation of snow less than half an inch is possible. Monday Night: Partly cloudy with a low of 12. Breezy with a west wind between 20 and 25 mph. This will decrease to 10 to 15mph after midnight. Winds can gust up to 40 mph. Tuesday: There is a 40% chance of snow falling after noon. High near 23 degrees. There are increasing clouds. West-northwest wind 5-10 mph becoming east by the afternoon. Tuesday Night: Snow. Lows around 18. Winds will be northeast at 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. 90% chance of precipitation New snow accumulations of 3-7 inches are possible. Wednesday: Snow mostly after noon It is possible to see patches of blowing snow. Highs near 25. Windy with a northeasterly wind 20-30 mph and gusts up to 45 mph. There is a 80% chance of precipitation. Possible new snow accumulations of 2 to 4 inches Wednesday Night: Snow. Sometimes the snow could be very heavy. There will be a lot of snow blowing, especially after 5am. Lows around 14. Windy with a northeasterly wind between 20 and 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph. There is a 100% chance of precipitation. Thursday: Snow, mostly before noon. Sometimes, the snow could be very heavy. Broadly blowing snow, especially before 11 am. Near 18. Highs near 18. The chance of precipitation is 100% Thursday Night: Partly cloudy with a low of -6 Northwest wind 5-15 mph Friday: Partly sunny with a high of 15. West wind 5-10 mph becoming southeast in the afternoon. Friday Night: There is a 20% chance of snow. Cloudy with a low of 10. Southerly wind 10 mph. Saturday: Sunny with a high of 29. The afternoon will see a southwest wind of 10 mph, then a westerly shift to the south. Saturday Night: Partly cloudy with a low of 13. West wind 10-15 mph Sunday: Sunny with a high of 28. West wind 10-15 mph Source by [author_name]

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Twin Cities Could Get 12 Inches of Snow from Winter Storm: Minnesota Weather

MINNEAPOLIS — Winter is returning to Minnesota after a warm February. According to the National Weather Service, more than 12 inches of snow are possible in the Twin Cities metro area by Wednesday. A winter storm watch was issued for the following Minnesota and Wisconsin counties: Douglas, Todd, Morrison, Mille Lacs, Kanabec, Stearns, Benton, Sherburne, Isanti, Chisago, Wright, Hennepin, Anoka, Ramsey, Washington, Carver, Scott, Dakota, Le Sueur, Rice, Goodhue, Waseca, Steele, Freeborn, Polk, Barron, Rusk, St. Croix, Pierce, Dunn, Pepin, Chippewa, and Eau Claire. National Weather Service The storm will arrive in two rounds. Tuesday night is the first. From Tuesday evening to Wednesday morning, between 4-8 inches of snow will fall. From Wednesday evening to Thursday afternoon, another 8 inches of snow will fall. On Thursday, temperatures will fall below zero. Travel could prove difficult or impossible. Visibility could be significantly reduced in areas where there is blowing snow. The NWS warns that hazardous conditions could affect morning and evening commutes. “Frostbite could be caused by cold winds as low as 20 below zero in 30 minutes on exposed skin.” Here’s the exact NWS forecast for the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport. Monday: There is a chance for snow to fall before 2pm. Then, there will be rain and snow between 2pm-4pm. After 4pm, there will be a slight chance for snow. Cloudy with a high of 36. It is breezy with a south breeze 5-10 mph, shifting to west 15-20 mph in afternoon. Winds could gust up to 35 mph. The chance of precipitation is half. A new accumulation of snow less than half an inch is possible. Monday Night: Partly cloudy with a low of 12. Breezy with a west wind between 20 and 25 mph. This will decrease to 10 to 15mph after midnight. Winds can gust up to 40 mph. Tuesday: There is a 40% chance of snow falling after noon. High near 23 degrees. There are increasing clouds. West-northwest wind 5-10 mph becoming east by the afternoon. Tuesday Night: Snow. Lows around 18. Winds will be northeast at 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. 90% chance of precipitation New snow accumulations of 3-7 inches are possible. Wednesday: Snow mostly after noon It is possible to see patches of blowing snow. Highs near 25. Windy with a northeasterly wind 20-30 mph and gusts up to 45 mph. There is a 80% chance of precipitation. Possible new snow accumulations of 2 to 4 inches Wednesday Night: Snow. Sometimes the snow could be very heavy. There will be a lot of snow blowing, especially after 5am. Lows around 14. Windy with a northeasterly wind between 20 and 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph. There is a 100% chance of precipitation. Thursday: Snow, mostly before noon. Sometimes, the snow could be very heavy. Broadly blowing snow, especially before 11 am. Near 18. Highs near 18. The chance of precipitation is 100% Thursday Night: Partly cloudy with a low of -6 Northwest wind 5-15 mph Friday: Partly sunny with a high of 15. West wind 5-10 mph becoming southeast in the afternoon. Friday Night: There is a 20% chance of snow. Cloudy with a low of 10. Southerly wind 10 mph. Saturday: Sunny with a high of 29. The afternoon will see a southwest wind of 10 mph, then a westerly shift to the south. Saturday Night: Partly cloudy with a low of 13. West wind 10-15 mph Sunday: Sunny with a high of 28. West wind 10-15 mph Source by [author_name]

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