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We are having another one of those perfect summer days here in northern New England. Sunny with temps in the low 70's

I picked up a couple pork butts on sale yesterday for $1/lb. Ended up throwing them in the freezer for when we have company. Not sure is I'm going to smoke a rack of ribs, or reverse sear a 2" bone in rib eye for dinner tonight

We started out very humid this morning and reached a high of 79° this afternoon. Temp is now down to 74°, and humidity is lower thanks to the dew points falling to the upper 50's.

A piano would work too

Bush was elected after Regan server 2 terms

I plan on picking up a pork shoulder tomorrow to smoke this weekend

I just had another CM come in without a screen name listed.

Ford just waved a caution flag on American car sales. The No. 2 U.S. auto maker warned on Thursday of a growing list of global risks and suggested the previously-roaring American market may have peaked. "We are seeing signs of a maturing U.S. recovery," Ford CEO Mark Fields told analysts during a conference call. Wall Street doesn't like the sound of that. Ford (F) stock plunged 8%, on track for its worst day since at least January 2011. The stock is now down 10% this year. Ford's second-quarter profits were dented by expensive incentives to lure customers -- an industrywide trend the company believes will continue. Related: Best-loved new cars of 2016 Ford execs also dimmed their 2016 outlook on U.S. auto sales, which hit record highs last year and were a bright spot in the economy. The company said sales will likely soften further in 2017. "Sales are still at healthy levels overall, but the competitive environment has increased as retail demand has weakened," Fields said. That view stands in contrast with General Motors (GM), which last week posted record earnings and promised better times ahead. Ford's credit arm also stumbled amid concerns about auto loan deterioration. Profits at Ford Credit slumped 21% during the quarter due to rising defaults, higher delinquencies and lower resale values in auctions. Related: U.S. government worried about risky car loans Powered by SmartAsset ANALYST RATINGS BY Away from the U.S., Ford experienced turmoil from Brexit. The auto maker suffered a $60 million hit due to the collapse in the British pound and warned of full-year losses of $200 million related to a "weaker industry" in the U.K. Britain is Ford's second biggest market and makes up about 30% of European sales. Ford anticipates losses of $400 million to $500 million a year after 2016 due to Brexit. The economic slowdown in China is also creating headaches for Ford, which posted a loss in Asia-Pacific. Sales in China slowed and Ford lost significant market share there.

Great pics Last winter was definitely the year to ride 'The County' or Quebec if you live in the northeast.

(CNN)Cancer may not be so modern after all. Though we typically think of it as a new affliction attributed to bad habits, bad luck or longevity, a surprising discovery has revealed that the disease existed in human ancestors more than a million years ago. Scientists have found evidence of cancer in a foot bone and spine from two ancient hominin specimens in South Africa. The foot fragment is approximately 1.7 million years old and the vertebrae almost 2 million years old. To put it in perspective, before these finds, the oldest dated possible tumor in a human was only 120,000 years old. That's a huge difference and vastly expands our recorded timeline of the disease. What it means An ancient vertebra, with the outline of the tumor rendered in pink. Cancer, tumor or both? "Cancer is not a single disease; it's a continuum," Randolph-Quinney said. "The disease class that cancer falls under is neoplastic disease, which means new cell growth." Benign tumors, like the one found in the ancient vertebrae, are considered cancer. However, they are not as dangerous as malignant ones, like the one found in the ancient foot bone. A team of scientists from the the University of the Witwatersrand's Evolutionary Studies Institute and the South African Centre for Excellence in PalaeoSciences made and recorded the discoveries, and they say the bones provide a direct link over millions of years of human evolution. In fact, you'd never know that the cancer evidence in the foot bone was from prehistoric times, says Edward John Odes of Wits University's School of Anatomical Sciences. "We tested this particular bone with a known modern human osteosarcoma specimen, and it looked identical," he said. "Millions of years old, and you wouldn't be able to tell it apart." Therein lies a tantalizing mystery: In the time since that nameless unlucky soul got bone cancer, massive evolutionary changes have occurred. Things changed. Humans changed. Why didn't the cancer? Scientists don't have the answer. "What we do have is that these types of cancers existed so many years ago, and we are seeing the same thing today." Odes said. "Normally, in an evolutionary biological situation, you'd see change." Up until now, researchers and scientists have held to a tacit assumption that cancer didn't exist in humans this far back in history. Now that there is proof that it does, the understanding of cancer's origins and processes will evolve as well. "This kind of research changes perceptions of cancer," said Patrick Randolph-Quinney of the University of Central Lancashire. "The takeaway is the notion that cancer is a huge continuous problem in the developed world. Even if we have very healthy, perfect lifestyles we still have the capacity for cancer. It is an inherent part of our evolutionary process." How it could benefit cancer research Dinosaurs got cancer, too. Randolph-Quinney and Odes say evidence of cancer has been found in ancient animals, including Jurassic dinosaurs. In fact, tumors have been dated all the way back 300 million years ago to fossil fish. Many modern cancers have all sorts of variables. "These days, we have cancers that are entirely new, brought on by obesity and diet, alcohol, smoking," Randolph-Quinney said. "There is a direct causal link." The tumors found in the ancient bones were primary osteogenic cancers, which means there weren't any environmental factors, or variables, to account for their existence. These types of cancers obviously still exist today, so their existence could provide a constant of sorts. "There has to be something else that's (causing cancer)," Odes said. "We don't know know what it is at this stage. We know the capacity for malignancy is ancient. We also know that there are mechanisms that bring these tumors and cancers. The question is, how can we apply these mechanisms to understand the evolution of cancer from ancient times into this modern world?"

FBI Director James Comey testifies during a hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on July 7, 2016. (CNN)Battlefield success against ISIS may produce more terrorism for the West, FBI Director James Comey warned this week. Speaking to a cybersecurity conference at Fordham University Wednesday, Comey predicted that eventually crushing ISIS in its self-proclaimed caliphate in Syria and Iraq will likely result in dispersing terrorists elsewhere. "At some point there is going to be a terrorist diaspora out of Syria like we've never seen before," Comey said. "Not all of the Islamic State killers are going to die on the battlefield." The FBI director's warning that the collapse of the caliphate will mean increased attacks in Western Europe and the United States mirrors a consensus among intelligence officials. Comey compared it to the formation of al Qaeda, which drew from fighters who had been hardened and radicalized fighting the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s and early 1990s. "This is an order of magnitude greater than anything we've seen before" Comey said. "A lot of terrorists fled out of Afghanistan... this is 10 times that or more. "We saw the future of this threat in Brussels and in Paris (attacks earlier this year)." And just not in the West. There have recently been stepped up ISIS attacks worldwide, including in countries near its home base territory that has been shrinking due to military losses in Iraq and Syria. CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen blames a more complex regional breakdown for sowing the attacks. He notes that the fracturing of authority in Iraq, Syria and Yemen has produced a massive migration of Muslims from those regions to Europe, which prompted reactionary political parties there to rail against them. In France they live in largely segregated communities where youth unemployment can run as high as 45%. "Many French Muslims live in grim banlieues, the suburbs of large French cities (similar to housing projects in the United States), where they find themselves largely divorced from mainstream French society," Bergen writes. "All these feed into ISIS' narrative that Muslims are under attack by the West and also by the Shia as well as by any Muslim who doesn't share their extremist ideology." CIA Director John Brennan recently told Congress it was still critical to take away ISIS' safe haven territory because it gave the group a base for training operatives and raising revenue. At the end of May, ISIS' chief spokesman and ideologue, Abu Mohammed al Adnani, tried to reframe how ISIS defines victory. In an audio message, he said defeat would not result from losing control of cities but from "losing the will and the desire to fight." One Western counterterrorism official predicted "a metastasis of terror as it becomes increasingly difficult for ISIL (another acronym for ISIS) to hold on to core territories."

I know who you mean, but it's not Kivalo. Kivalo was Bigums or something like that

Exactly

The Ryan Fitzpatrick stalemate with the New York Jets has finally come to an end. Fitzpatrick is re-signing with the team on a 1-year deal worth $12 million, NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport reports from a source.

Social network shatters Wall Street estimates UPDATED 5:38 PM EDT Jul 27, 2016 Justin Sullivan/Getty Images NEW YORK (CNNMoney) —Facebook can do no wrong. The social network shattered Wall Street's lofty estimates for sales, profits, user growth and pretty much everything else you can think of with its second quarter earnings report on Wednesday. The company now has 1.71 billion monthly active users, adding 60 million users from the previous quarter and growing its user base by 15% from the same quarter a year earlier. On mobile, where Facebook was once thought to be be struggling, the company now has 1.57 billion monthly active users, up 20% year-over-year. And if that's not enough, there are 1.13 billion people using the social network every single day, on average. Facebook's strong user growth is remarkable for an Internet company more than a decade old. It also means more eyeballs and more demand from advertisers. The company posted sales of $6.4 billion for the June quarter, up from $4 billion a year earlier. Not only does Facebook have more users to make money off of -- it's also making more money off each one of them on average. Facebook made $3.82 per user on average worldwide in the most recent quarter, up from $2.76 a year earlier. Much of that growth came from users in the U.S. All of that comes in stark contrast to Twitter, which reported this week that its user growth is stalled around 300 million. Twitter is struggling to lure advertisers, who would rather spend on larger social networks -- like Facebook. Facebook's stock, already trading at all-time highs on Wednesday, shot up by as much as 7% in after hours trading. Facebook has been firing on all cylinders in recent months, touting investments in virtual reality, messaging and even drones. Facebook Messenger recently topped one billion monthly users, making it Facebook's fourth product to reach that milestone, after WhatsApp, Groups and Facebook proper. Facebook has laid the groundwork to make money from the messaging app by encouraging users to communicate more with businesses. Instagram hit the 500 million user mark last month and is expected to hit $1.5 billion in mobile ad sales this year, according to an estimate from research firm eMarketer. Michael Pachter, an analyst with Wedbush, summed up the general investor sentiment about Facebook in a note leading up to the earnings: "Facebook is a great company, period."

Baltimore (CNN)[Breaking news update, published at 1:16 p.m. ET] "Justice has been done," Baltimore Fraternal Order of Police President Gene Ryan said Wednesday after charges were dropped against the three officers. He added that comments about police from Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby were "outrageous." [Original story, published at 9:48 a.m. ET] Baltimore prosecutors are dropping charges against the three remaining officers facing trial in connection with Freddie Gray's death. Gray, 25, died after sustaining a neck injury while in police custody in April 2015. Three of the six officers charged in the case had already been acquitted. Gray's death became a symbol of the black community's mistrust of police and triggered days of protests and riots in Baltimore. The city became a focal point of the Black Lives Matter movement and the nationwide debate on excessive police force. http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/27/us/freddie-gray-verdict-baltimore-officers/index.html

Chuck Eye steak, baked potato, and a garden salad.