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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Sean "Diddy" Combs sued for sexual assault and distribution of a video of the alleged assault (More) | Combs' music has seen an 18% increase in streams since his arrest last week on sex trafficking charges (More)

> MLB regular season set to wrap this weekend; see latest playoff picture (More) | ... and see latest WNBA playoff bracket (More)

> Paramount Global begins second round of layoffs that will impact 15% of its US workforce; CBS News among networks most impacted by layoffs (More)


Science & Technology
> Researchers use AI algorithm to identify more than 300 new geoglyphs—large-scale designs on landscapes—in Peru's Nazca desert; find nearly doubles number of known etchings made by the pre-Inca civilization (More) | Nazca lines 101 (More)

> Neuroscientists find the human brain categorizes zero as numerical value instead of the abstract concept of "nothing"; answer to long-standing question sheds light on how the brain processes quantitative information (More)

> Human heart tissue shows signs of accelerated aging after just one month in space, new study reveals (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +0.3%, Dow +0.2%, Nasdaq +0.6%), with S&P 500, Dow closing at record highs (More) | China's central bank unveils biggest stimulus package since 2020 amid predictions the country will miss this year's 5% annual growth target; Chinese stocks jump on news (More)

> Justice Department sues Visa on antitrust grounds, accuses world's biggest payment network of monopolizing debit card market by penalizing businesses and banks forgoing its payment processing tech (More) | CrowdStrike executive apologizes before House subcommittee over multibillion-dollar outage in July (More)

> Southwest Airlines investor Elliott Investment Management calls for shareholder meeting as soon as next week in ongoing bid to shake up airline's board (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Thousands of people evacuate Lebanon as death toll from two days of Israeli strikes passes 560 people; Israel says it killed head of Hezbollah's rocket program (More) | See war updates (More) | War discussions dominate opening day of 79th annual UN General Assembly (More)

> Swiss police arrest multiple people behind first-of-its-kind "suicide pod"—which releases nitrogen gas inside enclosed chamber—following inaugural use by US woman; Swiss law allows assisted suicide but without external assistance (More)

> Man discovered weeks ago with rifle near golf course owned by former President Donald Trump charged with assassination attempt (More) | Missouri executes Marcellus Williams, convicted in the 1998 murder of a former newspaper journalist, amid ongoing disputes over evidence in the case (More)

SOURCE:  1440 NEWS

Roles in Marriage

 

SO...

who is in charge at your house, assuming you are either living with someone and are not married or you are living with someone and are married?

And...

what do I mean exactly about being in charge?

Not an easy question to answer.

In most marriages,

there is always one person who displays the dominate roll without really being in charge.

• They are dominate in the bedroom
• They are dominate with finances
• They are dominate with all decision

BUT...

that does not necessarily mean they are in charge because both spouses can actually make family decisions, rather than just one.

The dominate spouse tries to convince the other spouse that their ideas are better, but the couple decides together.

THEN...

there are those couples who have their own checking and banking accounts, and based upon how much they earn annually and how that relates to overall incomes and expenses, determines their contribution to the family expenses.

While they buy their own stuff like clothes, cars, personal items, the vacations are usually spent 50/50.

THEN...

there are those couples where one spouse maintains all the money, but all decisions are made together.  This typically happens when one spouse does not like balancing the check book.

TRADITIONALLY...

men are the head of the household and make all the decisions when their spouse is not working; however, with more and more married females in the workplace, that relationship is changing, and more and more females are taking on the role of head of the household.

Men are finding themselves in more of a subservient role when it comes to the household.

What marriage are you in?

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Transforming Copper Wire into a Cosmic Furnace

Using a novel laser method, scientists mimicked the extreme environments of stars and planets, enhancing our understanding of astrophysical phenomena and supporting nuclear fusion research.

Extreme conditions prevail inside stars and planets. The pressure reaches millions of bars, and it can be several million degrees hot. Sophisticated methods make it possible to create such states of matter in the laboratory – albeit only for the blink of an eye and in a tiny volume. 

So far, this has required the world’s most powerful lasers, such as the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in California. But there are only a few of these light giants, and the opportunities for experiments are correspondingly rare.

A research team led by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), together with colleagues from the European XFEL, has now succeeded in creating and observing extreme conditions with a much smaller laser. 

At the heart of the new technology is a copper wire, finer than a human hair, as the group reports in the journal Nature Communications.     READ MORE...

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Living Alone VERSUS With Someone

My post has very little to do with an actual marriage although, being married is at the heart of living together.  What do I mean by that?

When two people live together, married or not, they must find a way to deal with or accept those traits that are disliked or frowned upon.

When two people live together, unmarried, the likelihood that the male will help out more around the house is increased because they are, in essence, roommates.  Roommates share duties and responsibilities is typically the norm or you find another roommate.

When a couple is married, the male has a tendency to do the outside work while the female does the inside work.  However, most outside work is mowing the lawn, weed eating, and lawn maintenance, deck painting, and pressure washing house.

If you put the eagle eye on this, outside maintenance is not done daily or weekly throughout the year like inside work is done...  hence, the wife is always left with having to do more work.

But work is not the only issue with living or not living together.

Wives tend to bitch more at their lazy husbands either for not doing this or that but also for how they are dressed and/or take care of themselves.  Husbands typically don't give a shit about their appearance whether they are going out or staying at home.

Wives always seem to be caring about their appearance as if they are going on a date everyday even on the weekends, although the makeup is usually not put on as heavily.

As a result of being bitched at, husband do one or more of the following:

• go hunting or fishing
• take up golf
• go drinking with the guys
• play poker with the guys
• volunteer somewhere
• get a second job
• spend more time outside

Now, there are some advantages to being married versus not being married:

• you are always with someone
• you are always doing things together
• you have someone to sleep next to
• you combine incomes
• you make decisions together
• you are cared for when sick
• you are very seldom lonely

HOWEVER...

I would suspect that most of the people who live alone, do so because they want to and they don't need or want another person sharing their life all the time.

I suspect that living alone is also cheaper even with combined income.

But, for those who got divorced, living alone can be a nightmare at times, living the divorcee bitter, angry, with no desire to ever trust again.

It is for this reason, I believe, that most couples stay married whether they want to stay married or not, falsely influencing the results of living together.

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> "Friends" competition game show begins production at Max in honor of the show's 30th anniversary (More)

> 2005 Heisman winner Reggie Bush sues NCAA, Southern Cal, and the Pac-12 over name, image and likeness compensation (More)

> "Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda set to star in "All In: Comedy About Love" on Broadway in January (More) | 2025 Tony Awards to return to Radio City Music Hall after a two-year hiatus (More)


Science & Technology
> Encrypted messaging app Telegram will begin providing some user information, including IP addresses and names, to officials when legally requested; change comes a few weeks after CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France (More) | See previous write-up on Durov's arrest here (More)

> Giant panda skin cells reprogrammed into pluripotent stem cells, a key step toward potentially conserving the endangered species (More) | What are stem cells, and how do they work? (More, w/video)

> Space experiment reveals low gravity environments weaken heart muscles, disrupt normal rhythms (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +0.3%, Dow +0.2%, Nasdaq +0.1%); S&P 500, Dow close at new records (More)

> California sues ExxonMobil over allegedly misleading the public for decades about whether the plastics the oil giant manufactured can be recycled (More) | Why plastics are hard to recycle (More)

> Boeing raises offer to striking union workers amid nearly two-week long walkout, which brought production of commercial jets to a near-halt; latest proposal includes 30% pay increase over four years and doubles signing bonus to $6K (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Man found guilty of killing 10 people at a Boulder, Colorado, supermarket in March 2021, will receive life sentence (More) | Man accused in this month's assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump wrote down plans and tracked Trump's whereabouts months before incident, prosecutors say (More)

> Murders in the US fell 11.6% year-over-year in 2023, the largest single-year decline in two decades, according to new FBI data; overall violent crime dropped 3% in 2023 while motor vehicle thefts rose 12.6% (More) | Explore data (More)

> Southeast US under storm warning as disturbance in Gulf of Mexico expected to strengthen into Hurricane Helene this week, with potential US landfall as Category 3 hurricane as soon as Thursday (More)

SOURCE:  1440 NEWS

American Literacy

Here are some literacy statistics for the United States:

• Literacy rate: 79% of US adults are literate, while 21% are illiterate.
• Literacy level: 54% of adults have a literacy level below 6th grade, and 20% are below 5th grade.
• Functional illiteracy: 45 million adults are functionally illiterate, meaning they read below a 5th grade level.
• Reading habits: 44% of adults do not read a book in a year.
• State literacy rates: Minnesota and New Hampshire have the highest literacy scores, while Louisiana, Mississippi, and New Mexico have the lowest.
• Cost of low literacy: Low literacy rates cost the US up to $2.2 trillion per year.
• Reading for enjoyment: Fewer children are reading for enjoyment.
• Reading challenges: Many adults face challenges with basic reading tasks
  

Is this the kind of AMERICA in which you want to live?

America USED TO BE #1 in the global level of highest literacy, now we are ranked much lower...

Who is to blame?

More importantly. DOES ANYONE CARE?

What do you think is going to happen with our literacy levels if all those illegal immigrants are made citizens?

• Many of them don't speak English
• Many of them have no skills
• Many of them have no desire to learn
• All of them want a better life

Do you think the CHINESE have a plan that will incorporate having a higher literacy rate than the USA?

The CHINESE want to be the GLOBAL LEADER in the areas of:

• the economy
• the military
• education
• the space race

Americans just want:

• Illegal drugs
• Alcohol
• SEX
• Free education
• A guaranteed income
• Not having to pay their dues

THIS IS EXACTLY WHY WE HAVE A ILLITERACY PROBLEM 

IN THE US OF A

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Van Gogh's Starry Night

Scientists recently analyzed Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night to see how well its famous swirls matched up with known atmospheric physics.

After analysis, they found that not only did the shapes match up with our current ideas of atmospheric turbulence, but the colors used throughout the piece communicated fairly accurate physics at a remarkably small scale.

Researchers think that Van Gogh could have come to understand these movements by “studying the movement of clouds and the atmosphere, or that he could have just had “an innate sense of how to capture the dynamism of the sky.”

The swirling colors and flowing brushstrokes of Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night have secured the painting (and its artist) a place among the all-time greats. As a piece of art, Starry Night is undeniably beautiful, but beauty alone is often not enough to keep a painting so cemented in the minds and hearts of the public.

Beyond just being beautiful, Starry Night somehow manages to capture the feeling of a clear night sky. Capturing feeling may be the whole point of impressionism—Van Gogh is himself most often labeled a post-impressionist, a style separate from true impressionism that nonetheless uses many impressionist techniques—but Starry Night does a singular job at managing it. Something about those particular swirls of paint just… feels like the night.     READ MORE...

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What Do We Know?

 

We know several things actually...

First - we know that we have a problem with illegal immigration that started almost four years ago.

Second - we know that we have a problem with inflation (even though it has come down a tad) that started almost four years ago.

Third - we know we have a problem with crime and violence in our big cities that started almost four years ago.

Fourth - we know that we have a problem with Fentanyl that started almost four years ago.

Fifth - we know we have wars and rumors of war breaking out all over the world that started almost four years ago.

As someone who is not very smart, I am seeing a trend here...  all five of these items started about four years ago when Biden became our President.  Now, I have heard over and over again, that these five items are not Biden's fault that they were actually caused during the Trump administration.

Well...  assuming that to be true, then why hasn't BIDEN FIXED THE PROBLEM, or does he believe that since he thinks he did not cause it, then he should not have to fix it.

I am not sure I see the logic in that, but I believe that is the narrative that mainstream media is pushing.

So, if Trump caused the problem and Biden does not want to fix it because he did not cause it, then logically we should return Trump to the white house so he can fix HIS OWN DAMN PROBLEMS.

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