Friday, November 22
In The NEWS
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Green Day, Lady Gaga, Travis Scott, and Post Malone tapped to headline 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (April 11-13, 18-20) (More)
> "Rust" film debuts in Poland just over three years after on-set shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins (More)
> Detroit Tigers' Tarik Skubal and Atlanta Braves' Chris Sale win AL and NL Cy Young Awards for MLB's best pitchers; MVP announced tonight (6 pm ET, MLB Network) (More) | LPGA announces $131M in prize money for 2025 season, a 90% increase from 2021 (More)
Science & Technology
> The gut microbiome is shaped in part by social networks in localized areas, study finds, suggesting such microbes can be passed from person to person (More) | What is the gut microbiome (More, w/video)
> Researchers release updated Human Cell Atlas, cataloging 62 million cells across 18 biological networks; dubbed the "Wikipedia of cells," project seeks to map 37 trillion cells from birth to old age (More)
> Squid-inspired device allows doctors to deliver drugs orally that would otherwise require needles; design uses tiny jets to shoot drugs into tissue lining once in the digestive tract (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 +0.0%, Dow +0.3%, Nasdaq -0.1%) (More) | Target shares close down 21% after retailer posts weaker-than-expected quarterly earnings, lowers forecast for holiday quarter (More) | Nvidia beats Q3 revenue and earnings expectations (More)
> Billionaire Gautam Adani indicted in US on federal charges of securities fraud, including for allegedly lying to US investors over $250M in bribe payments to Indian government officials (More) | Archegos Capital founder Bill Hwang sentenced to 18 years in prison for fraud, market manipulation tied to his firm's 2021 collapse (More)
> Vertical farming startup Oishii raises $150M in funding; company is best known for growing strawberries in its New Jersey vertical farm (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> House Speaker Mike Johnson (R, LA-4) announces policy requiring people to use Capitol bathrooms aligned with their biological sex; decision follows election of first openly transgender Congress member (More) | Senate Judiciary Committee requests FBI files on since-dropped investigation into attorney general pick Matt Gaetz (R); House Ethics Committee defers decision on releasing their report (More)
> President-elect Donald Trump selects former acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker to serve as ambassador to NATO (More) | See running list of Trump appointments (More)
> Board denies parole to Susan Smith, convicted in the 1994 murders of her children; case gained worldwide attention alongside OJ Simpson trial, with Smith originally pinning the murders on a Black gunman (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
Life - Part II
It is obvious, at least to me, that the Democrats are still pointing fingers and assigning blame rather than performing the ritualistic introspection that losers always do.
It is not easy for AMERICANS to lose. We like to win, and we have no time at all for losers. As a result, children learn at an early age, that WINNING IS EVERYTHING.
However, when children grow up, that is to say, leave high school and get a job, they find out very quicky that winning in high school sports is not going to do a damn thing for them.
College is the same way. It is true that college graduates can earn more than high school graduates but that only applies in the early stages of one's career, say for the first 3-5 years.
Usually, but not always, between 25-30, high school graduates can SURPASS college graduates.
I knew someone that started as a cook at a restaurant after high school. Became a waiter, then an assistant manager, then a manager at age thirty, making more than college graduates at that same age. Before, he was 40, he became a franchise owner and was earning twice what a college grad was earning.
BUT... he had to pay his dues for a while...
Is this what he had planned?
I don't know, but he stayed with it hoping for the best and wanting to grow, I believe.
My high school graduate franchise owner did not experience the winning or losing mentality in high school. Therefore, he did not consider himself to be a loser, when after he graduated from high school, he became a cook.
I would have seen myself as a loser if I had become restaurant cook after high school, instead of going to college.
Death Might be an Illusion
What happens after we die? While many believe that death is the end, quantum physics suggests that it might not be as simple as we think.
In fact, it could be an illusion. This idea challenges everything we know about life and death. By looking at concepts like the interconnectedness of all things and the nature of consciousness, here’s to a whole new perspective on life after death.
Dr. Robert Lanza, a leading expert in biotechnology, plays a major role in this idea. He’s the Chief Scientific Officer at the Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine, where he studies stem cells and how they can be used to treat diseases.
Before this, Dr. Lanza focused on researching embryonic stem cells and cloning, working with both animals and humans. He is also an adjunct professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina. READ MORE...
Thursday, November 21
Life in the FAST LANE
Gaetz is out, Hegseth is having issue that could cause him to withdraw... Trump is used to failure and may have even picked these two to make sure their replacements would get confirmed... who knows?
What I do know is this:
- Trump is going to push gasoline into the economy and make the USA energy independent once again.
- Musk and Ramaswamy are going to SHRINK GOVERNMENT.
- Tom Holman is going to DEPORT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS and legally go away anyone that tries to stand in his way.
- Unless the Republicans try to fight for power and position, they control the house and senate for at least two years.
- Trump is going to lower the corporate tax rate and put tariffs on the imports of foreign goods.
- Trump will find some way of removing generals and taking WOKE out of the military.
- MOST ALL of Trump's cabinet picks are PISSED OFF at the Democrats for the 91 felony charges against him.
- Most, if not all, of the global leaders fear Trump because they are uncertain of his behavior, including Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea.
- The Democrats and Mainstream Media are going to do everything in their power to STOP TRUMP FROM DOING EVERYTHING HE WANTS TO DO.
- 76,000,000 million Americans voted for Trump because they were tired of lack of action by the Democrats, but the Democrats don't believe they did anything wrong.
The next two years are going to be exciting to say the least.
Why do I think that?
First - the Democrats fighting Trump
Second - the Mainstream Media fighting Trump
Third - the USA is on the brink of a civil war
Fourth - the world is on the brink of a WWIII
Fifth - the interest payments on our National Debt are greater than the nation's Gross Domestic Product and China owns ONE THIRD of our DEBTS
Sixth - the BILLIONAIRES are in control of everything
In The NEWS
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Katie Taylor-Amanda Serrano boxing match brought in 74 million live viewers; the match was the co-main event to the Mike Tyson-Jake Paul fight and is now the most-watched professional women's sporting event in US history (More)
> Bob Love, three-time NBA All-Star, dies at age 81 (More) | Colin Petersen, founding member and drummer for the Bee Gees, dies at age 78 just four days after another Bee Gees drummer, Dennis Bryon, passed away (More)
> Tennis great Rafael Nadal plays in last match of his more than 20 year career as Spain loses to the Netherlands in the Davis Cup quarterfinals (More)
Science & Technology
> SpaceX makes sixth test launch of its massive Starship space vehicle; skips second attempt at a "chopstick" catch of the Super Heavy rocket booster using giant mechanical arms (More) | SpaceX's "chopstick" method explained (More, w/video)
> Embattled physicist Ranga Dias ousted from the University of Rochester following retractions of controversial papers claiming room-temperature superconductivity (More) | Breaking down the scandal (More)
> Octopuses expend significant amounts of energy to change color, new study finds; amount is roughly equal to what is needed to maintain all bodily functions while at rest (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 +0.4%, Dow -0.3%, Nasdaq +1.0%) (More) | Nvidia stock rises over 4% ahead of third-quarter earnings report today (More)
> Justice Department will reportedly ask federal judge to force Google to sell Chrome—the world's most popular internet browser—today; expected proposal follows August ruling the company operates an illegal search monopoly (More)
> President-elect Donald Trump nominates Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick for commerce secretary, pending Senate confirmation (More) | Dr. Mehmet Oz nominated to oversee Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (More) | Linda McMahon nominated to lead Education Department (More) | See list of Trump appointees so far (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Major storm expected this week in Northern California and Pacific Northwest as plumes of moisture known as atmospheric rivers are expected to combine with bomb cyclone to bring heavy rainfall, flash flooding (More) | Bomb cyclone 101 (More) | See live updates (More)
> Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) agrees to postpone sentencing in Trump hush money case (More) | Hacker accesses depositions in since-dropped investigations on former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R); includes remarks from woman who says she had sex with the attorney general nominee when she was 17 (More)
> Two undersea cables in the Baltic Sea have been damaged, per European officials, raising suspicions of foul play; one connected Finland and Germany, the other connected Sweden and Lithuania (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
Life
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Life is different for all of us.
Different if you live in the USA or some other country in the world.
Different in the USA if you live in the north or in the south.
Different in the USA if you are wealthy or poor, white or black or of another minority.
Why is the USA divided like that?
We are divided because we are not equal other that equal in being alive.
A test of this life is how we accept this life and how we try to change this life to make it better for ourselves and our family.
This is a basic desire of human beings - to make life better for us and our families... we spend the rest of our lives trying to achieve that goal, some of us achieve that goal but a majority of us do not.
In other parts of the world, like India for example, there is a vast majority of the people in that country who just accept what they have and have no desire to make it better.
In that acceptance, they find contentment and happiness and peace of mind.
Who is right about the way life is meant to be lived?
New Physics Through BOSONS
Since the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, researchers have been studying Higgs bosons and searching for signs of physics beyond the current model of elementary particles.
Scientists working with the ATLAS detector have combined these two goals: their latest analysis has not only deepened our understanding of how Higgs bosons interact with each other but also placed stronger limits on potential “new physics” phenomena.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) achieved a major success with the discovery of the Higgs boson, the final missing piece of the Standard Model and a key to understanding the origin of mass in elementary particles.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) achieved a major success with the discovery of the Higgs boson, the final missing piece of the Standard Model and a key to understanding the origin of mass in elementary particles.
However, despite this breakthrough, researchers have yet to find any evidence of physics beyond the Standard Model, which has been a source of ongoing frustration. Scientists at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva are now working to address this by improving the precision of Higgs boson measurements while actively searching for signs of “new physics.” READ MORE...
Wednesday, November 20
In The NEWS
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Shaboozey's "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" tops Billboard Hot 100 for 18th week, one week from tying record for most weeks at No. 1 (More)
> Beyoncé tapped to perform at halftime at Baltimore Ravens-Houston Texans Christmas Day matchup on Netflix (More) | LeBron James' production company merges with UK company behind Grammy Awards and "The Kardashians" (More)
> Pittsburgh Pirates' Paul Skenes, New York Yankees' Luis Gil win MLB's National and American League Rookie of the Year awards (More) | CC Sabathia, Ichiro Suzuki headline group of 14 debuting on baseball Hall of Fame ballot (More)
Science & Technology
> Pennsylvania school closes after a student creates and distributes explicit AI-generated deepfakes of a reported 50 students; head of school reportedly first learned of the issue in November 2023 (More) | How we've entered the age of deepfakes (More, w/video)
> Researchers use AI to identify three subtypes of the congenital brain disorder known as Chiari type 1; affecting roughly 4% of the population, condition occurs when the cerebellum protrudes through a gap in the skull (More)
> Study reveals how dust mites trigger the immune system and cause allergic reactions after being inhaled (More) | See image of a dust mite under a scanning electron microscope (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 +0.4%, Dow -0.1%, Nasdaq +0.6%); Nasdaq boosted by Tesla, with EV maker's shares closing up nearly 6% on report of President-elect Donald Trump seeking to relax US self-driving vehicle rules (More)
> Super Micro Computer shares rise 40% in after-hours trading after hiring BDO as its new auditor and filing a compliance plan with the Nasdaq composite to avoid delisting; move comes amid scrutiny on Super Micro's accounting practices (More)
> Boeing to lay off more than 2,000 workers in Oregon and Washington next month as part of broader plan to cut 17,000 jobs or roughly 10% of its global workforce (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Brazil hosts annual G20 summit this week in Rio de Janeiro, the first to be held in South America's largest economy; early discussions center around Ukraine, China, and Trump (More) | President Joe Biden becomes first sitting US president to visit the Amazon rainforest (More)
> At least one person dead following E. coli outbreak linked to organic carrots from grocery stores; at least 39 cases have been reported across 18 states so far, with 15 people hospitalized (More, w/map)
> At least seven people dead from landslide in the northern Philippines triggered by Typhoon Man-yi (More) | Emergency declared in India's capital, New Delhi, as toxic smog clouds northern parts of the country (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
What Is In It For Me???
WHAT IS IN IT FOR ME???
You may be a college graduate
a community college graduate
a technical school graduate
a high school graduate
and while each of the kinds of people have unique needs and desires, their careers are based entirely on what they are going to get out of it... for example,
- What's my title
- What's my position
- What's my salary
- What power do I have
- What are my benefits
- What are my growth options
If I do this for you - what are you going to do for ME?
Granted there are some people who want to be teachers regardless of what they get back from their employers and there are some people who want to be pilots because all they care about is flying and there are people who just want to be cooks...
But for the most part, people only work due to what their employers are giving them... and if it is not enough, they look for another job or STRIKE.
What got me involved in politics was JFK when he said:
ASK NOT WHAT YOUR COUNTRY... CAN DO FOR YOU BUT WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY...
Ancient Galaxies Challenging Cosmic Theories
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and most advanced space telescope ever constructed, has been making remarkable discoveries since its launch in December 2021. Among its achievements is the identification of the earliest and most distant galaxies known, which formed just 300 million years after the Big Bang.
When we observe distant objects in space, we are also looking far back in time. This is because the light from these objects takes billions of years to reach our telescopes. Through the JWST, astronomers have detected several of these ancient galaxies, providing us a glimpse of the universe as it appeared shortly after its inception.
Surprising Brightness of Early Galaxies
The data collected by the JWST aligns well with existing theories of cosmology—the study of the universe’s origin and evolution—and galaxy formation. However, these observations have also brought some surprises. Notably, many of these early galaxies are much brighter than expected, challenging previous assumptions about galaxy brightness and activity shortly after the Big Bang. READ MORE...
The data collected by the JWST aligns well with existing theories of cosmology—the study of the universe’s origin and evolution—and galaxy formation. However, these observations have also brought some surprises. Notably, many of these early galaxies are much brighter than expected, challenging previous assumptions about galaxy brightness and activity shortly after the Big Bang. READ MORE...
Tuesday, November 19
Liberal Americans
BLUESKY is really composed of a lot of Twitter/"X" users who left the social media platform after it was purchased by Musk. Musk has refused to censor the conservative voice.
Today on BLUESKY, I have been chatting with liberals who have called me a BIGOT, a RACIST, and a FASCIST because I refuse to agree with them. Additionally, they have refused to continue to chat with me because I do not agree with them.
These liberals do not understand how dangerous their attitudes are for the future of this country. If we cannot agree to disagree, then how are we, as a country, going to move forward?
When the liberals are in charge, they change everything the GOP did before them. When the conservatives are in charge, they change everything the liberals did before them.
How do we, as a nation, move forward.
These liberal views are coming from all different age groups. What is sad is that these LIBERAL AMERICANS believe that:
- Trump is going to put Americans in determent camps
- Trump is going to use the military against Americans
- They don't believe that Trump has done anything good for America
- They believe that Trump was and is currently a Russian Spy for Putin
- They believe Trump is a rapist and a liar
- They do not believe Biden weaponized the DOJ
- They do not believe that the 34 felony convictions will be overturned by the Court of Appeals
- They believe Trump will deport Americans
- They are convinced that Trump will be a dictator as President
- They believe Trump's economy was created by O'bama
- They believe that Biden had closed the border to illegal immigration
It is difficult for me to understand why and how someone could believe all of this... but they do... and they are convinced they are correct. They believe everything the liberal news outlets have printed negative about Trump.
In The NEWS
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Miss Denmark Victoria Kjaer Theilvig crowned 2024 Miss Universe; Miss Nigeria Chidimma Adetshina named first runner-up (More)
> Bela Karolyi, controversial longtime coach of Team USA gymnastics, dies at age 82 (More) | Vladimir Shklyarov, Russian ballet star, dies at age 39 after fall from fifth-floor building (More)
> US Postal Service to honor actress Betty White and musician Allen Toussaint with postage stamps in 2025 (More) | Netflix hauls in 60 million households for Friday night's Mike Tyson-Jake Paul fight (More)
Science & Technology
> President-elect Donald Trump selects Chris Wright, CEO of Denver-based fracking company Liberty Energy, to lead the Department of Energy; choice faces Senate confirmation (More) | See running list of Trump appointees (More)
> Researchers create first fully mechanical qubit, the basic processing unit for quantum computers (More) | The amazing science behind quantum computers (More, w/video)
> Stress disrupts memory formation and leads to anxiety in nonthreatening situations, mouse study finds (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close lower Friday (S&P 500 -1.3%, Dow -0.7%, Nasdaq -2.2%) (More) | October retail sales rise 0.4%, beating expectations (More)
> The Federal Trade Commission is reportedly planning to investigate Microsoft's cloud computing business; allegations of anticompetitive practices include steep exit fees, other terms preventing clients from migrating data to competitors (More)
> The Exploration Company, European competitor to SpaceX, announces it has raised $160M to develop Nyx, its reusable space capsule (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> President Joe Biden approves Ukrainian use of US-made long-range weapons into Russia in policy reversal (More) | Russia launches 120 missiles, 90 drones into Ukraine in attack on country's power grid, per Ukrainian government, killing at least eight people and prompting blackouts (More) | See war updates (More)
> Israeli strike on Beirut kills Hezbollah's spokesperson (More) | Israeli strikes in northern Gaza kill dozens of people; Israel says it intercepted two rockets launched from the area (More) | See war updates (More)
> California confirms first US case of mpox variant originally identified in eastern Congo; the variant—clade I—is associated with more severe illness than the variant currently circulating at low levels in the US (More) | See overview of cases (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
Government SHAKE-UP
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On November 5th, 2024 I voted like so many other Americans voted, and while my vote is PRIVATE, I am pleased with the results. It has nothing to do with if my vote made a difference or not.
What I am pleased about is, the new administration is about to shake up Washington by reducing the size of government.
Financially, and being retired, I would have fared better under Harris because my Social Security check would have been HIGHER since Dems love to spend money and the CD interest rates would have remained higher as well.
BUT...
Government would have remained FAT and a FAT government has never been what I wanted.
To me, a FAT government, is a government that employs more people than it needs to which is the number one reason why bureaucracies as so DAMN ineffective and inefficient.
Have you ever driven by city workers working on the road, where 2 workers are doing the work, and a half dozen are standing around watching???
Every time I think about that, it pisses me off that my tax dollars are being WASTED LIKE THAT.
Trump wants to reduce government and most, if not all, of his cabinet choices have been selected by their desire to REDUCE GOVERNMENT...
Sec of Defense, Pete Hegseth, has been criticized because he is only 44 years of age, not a general and has no PENTAGON experience.
Let me draw your attention to JFK's secretary of defense, McNamara, who was not a general either, had no pentagon experience, was simply an officer, and was 44 years of age.
JFK was a Democrat, and it was ok for him but not ok for Trump???
Looks like a double standard to me...
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