Monday, February 26
US Coast Sinking Fast
Parts of the East Coast of the United States are sinking so fast it could threaten infrastructure, farmland and wetlands, according to NASA.
Some areas have seen a drop of more than 2 millimeters per year from 2007 to 2020.
Satellite data shows the two biggest changes are from Savannah to Myrtle Beach and off the coasts of Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Charleston is one of the fastest-sinking cities. It is more than 2 inches lower than it was in 2007, and that’s a big deal for a city that’s just 10 feet above sea level.
Because of that, the city is considering building an 8-mile seawall. READ MORE...
Illegal Immigration
Most ever state is asking the Federal Government to give them more money to deal with the illegal immigrant crisis...
Some states and cities want to treat illegal immigrants better than they treat their own residents, especially those that are poor and/or homeless...
Does this make any sense to you???
NOW... Biden, who blames the illegal immigrant crisis on TRUMP, wants to implement several Trump policies that he did away with immediately after he became president....
GO FIGURE???
- Illegal Immigrants are committing crimes
- Illegal Immigrants are draining resources
- Illegal Immigrants are trashing wherever they live
- Illegal Immigrants don't speak English
- Illegal Immigrants don't have skills
- Illegal Immigrants are lowering our quality of life
Yet, our federal government does nothing to stop them from coming across the border...
If you continue to vote Democratic this will continue to happen...
Microplastics Detected in Human Placenta Samples
A flurry of recent studies has found that microplastics are present in virtually everything we consume, from bottled water to meat and plant-based food. Now, University of New Mexico Health Sciences researchers have used a new analytical tool to measure the microplastics present in human placentas.
In a study published February 17 in the journal Toxicological Sciences, a team led by Matthew Campen, PhD, Regents' Professor in the UNM Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, reported finding microplastics in all 62 of the placenta samples tested, with concentrations ranging from 6.5 to 790 micrograms per gram of tissue. READ MORE...
Sunday, February 25
In The News
> AT&T network experiences hours long outage across the US, cause remains unclear as of this writing; an estimated 70,000 people affected, less than 1% of the network's estimated 100 million people serviced (More)
> Researchers discover antibody capable of neutralizing venom from a wide variety of snake species across the globe; discovery may lead to universal antidote for snakebites (More)
> New advanced CRISPR tool edits strands of short-lived RNA instead of DNA, allowing gene editing without the risk of causing permanent errors in a cell's genetic code (More) | CRISPR 101 (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +2.1%, Dow +1.2%, Nasdaq +3.0%), S&P 500 hits another high after Nvidia's blockbuster earnings report Wednesday; Nvidia rises 16% (More) | Japan's Nikkei stock index breaks 1989 record, closing at all-time high of over 39,000 (More) | Europe's benchmark Stoxx 600 index closes at all-time high (More)
> Reddit files to list initial public offering on New York Stock Exchange, invites power users to invest; company's market debut is expected in March and will mark the first major tech IPO of the year (More) | Reddit strikes $60M deal allowing Google to train AI models on the online discussion site (More)
> Vaccine-maker Moderna shares rise 15% after company reports better-than-expected quarterly profit despite decline in sales of its COVID-19 vaccine (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Israel agrees to resend negotiators to participate in Qatar-mediated cease-fire talks to pause fighting in the Gaza Strip; meeting comes ahead of a multilateral weekend summit in Paris (More) | Gaza death toll nears 30,000 according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry; see updates on the war here (More)
> State appeals court rules New York law allowing green card-holding noncitizens to vote in local elections unconstitutional (More) | Texas judge finds Houston-area high school dress code, which resulted in a student's suspension over the length of his dreadlocks, did not violate state law; case gained national attention beginning in August (More)
> Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador publicly releases address of local New York Times bureau, following report by the paper US officials had investigated his potential ties with drug cartels (More) | Read report (More)
SOURCE: 1440 News
Quest for Youth and Beauty
Advertisers take advantage, mainly of females but also males, convincing them both that they need to lose weight, whiten their teeth, dye their hair, eliminate wrinkles, and dress like they are YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL rather than admitting that age has gotten the best of them.
These males and females may have an outward appearance of being youthful and beautiful but inside their bodies are old, aging, and having problems.
Millions of dollars, perhaps billions of dollars are spent each year on these items to look young and beautiful when that money could be used for something more constructive and beneficial.
If you drink coffee all your life, your teeth are going to be stained and the images of white teeth these advertisers are using of young people and there are no guarantees that they ever drank coffee in the first place.
- Americans are being deceived because they want to be deceived.
- Americans drink alcohol because they want to drink alcohol.
- Americans use illegal drugs because they want to use illegal drugs.
- Americans are obese because they want to be obese...
What is the point of a white-haired female dying her hair so that she will look younger?
Is she that vain that she needs that kind of attention from other females and males?
Does she have a self-esteem problem?
- I will never dye my hair.
- I will never whiten my teeth.
- I will never pay for a diet to lose weight.
- I will never wear young looking clothes.
- I will never get a hair transplant.
- I will never try to eliminate my wrinkles.
My money will be spent on things I enjoy and want to do and if people think I look old and old fashioned... well, that is exactly who I am.
Staying Happy as You Age
Growing older… it’s something we all do. But who says it has to be full of frowns and worry?
Believe it or not, waving goodbye to certain habits can make our later years a whole lot happier.
So, settle into your favorite chair and let’s chat about 12 behaviors to ditch if you want to smile more as you age.
You may just find a new lease on life!
1) Hanging onto grudges
We’ve all been hurt or wronged at some point in our lives. But clinging to these past hurts? That’s a one-way ticket to Unhappyville.
Holding a grudge is like carrying around a backpack full of rocks – it’s heavy, it’s uncomfortable, and it makes the journey so much harder than it needs to be.
As we get older, it’s time to put that backpack down. Forgive those who’ve hurt us. Not for them, but for us. For our peace of mind and for our happiness. Forgiveness doesn’t mean forgetting or saying what happened was okay. It simply means we’re choosing our happiness over our hurt. READ MORE...
Saturday, February 24
In The NEWS
The US has warned Russia not to deploy nuclear weapons in space, noting it would violate a 1967 treaty that bars weapons of mass destruction in space. It marks the first indication of the Biden administration’s approach to Rep. Mike Turner’s (R, OH-10) warning last week alluding to a “serious national security threat.”
Lunar Lander Success
The Odysseus spacecraft successfully reached the lunar surface yesterday, becoming the first-ever private-sector mission to land on the moon while remaining operational. Its arrival also represents the first US-built spacecraft to land on the moon in more than 50 years, following the final Apollo mission in 1972.
Wendy Williams Diagnosis
Daytime talk show host Wendy Williams has been diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia, according to her representatives. Williams, 59, was diagnosed last year and currently resides in an undisclosed care facility.
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
In partnership with NativePath
> Vice Media, which filed for bankruptcy protection in May 2023, announces it will stop publishing content on its news site Vice.com and plans to cut hundreds of jobs (More) | See our previous write-up (More)
> Yale becomes second Ivy League university to reverse pandemic-era test-optional policy, will require submission of standardized test scores for admission (More) | See our previous write-up (More)
> Tiger Woods' son Charlie, 15, falls short in pre-qualifying event for next week's Cognizant Classic, failing in bid to qualify for his first PGA Tour event (More)
SOURCE: 1440 News
TRUST
It is not a good idea to use the word you are trying to define as part of the definition but that is what I found online.
So, what we have is a belief in the reliability, the ability, and the strength of someone or something. What is interesting to me is that HONESTY is not mentioned in the definition.
Therefore, TRUTH is not based upon being honest but in one's belief of that which is being presented. That is why, our history books are written by those who won the wars not the ones who lost.
Truth is WINNER's TRUTH.
Truth is only that which can be proven in a court of law and has nothing to do with right/wrong or good/bad or the reality of events.
It is for this reason, that I have NO TRUST IN TRUTH...
Right now, truth is based upon what the Democrats believe or do not believe.
A few months ago, they were not acknowledging a crisis with illegal immigration, now they are saying there is a problem, but it is because of the former President Trump.
SO, WHAT IS THE TRUTH HERE?
A few months ago, the Democrats said the economy was healthy and growing faster than the economy under the former President Trump. Now, they are saying there may be a problem with inflation.
SO, WHAT IS THE TRUTH HERE?
Mainstream Media: CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, and PBR all support the Democrats and are broadcasting most of what the White House tells them to broadcast.
SO, WHAT'S THE TRUTH HERE?
DO YOU HAVE TRUST IN THE TRUTH?
A Preordained Universe Implied by Quantum Theory
Was there ever any choice in the Universe being as it is? Albert Einstein could have been wondering about this when he remarked to mathematician Ernst Strauss: “What I’m really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all.”
US physicist James Hartle, who died earlier this year aged 83, made seminal contributions to this continuing debate. Early in the twentieth century, the advent of quantum theory seemed to have blown out of the water ideas from classical physics that the evolution of the Universe is ‘deterministic’.
Hartle contributed to a remarkable proposal that, if correct, completely reverses a conventional story about determinism’s rise with classical physics, and its subsequent fall with quantum theory. A quantum Universe might, in fact, be more deterministic than a classical one — and for all its apparent uncertainties, quantum theory might better explain why the Universe is the one it is, and not some other version. READ MORE...
Friday, February 23
Offensive Cyber Attacks Via Generative AI
Microsoft said Wednesday it had detected and disrupted instances of U.S. adversaries — chiefly Iran and North Korea and to a lesser extent Russia and China — using or attempting to exploit generative artificial intelligence developed by the company and its business partner to mount or research offensive cyber operations.
The techniques Microsoft observed, in collaboration with its partner OpenAI, represent an emerging threat and were neither “particularly novel or unique,” the Redmond, Washington, company said in a blog post. READ MORE...
Retirement Life
In some cases, a person can also retire (but not draw SS) at 55 years of age if they have worked a one company for 20-25 years.
So, what is retirement life like, when one retires at 67 like I did?
Retirement varies upon these factors:
- geographical location
- physical health
- amount of savings
- current amount of debt
There are other factors but those are the main ones.
East TN is one of the cheapest places in the US to live but, if you are in poor health, have minimal savings, and still have debt to pay off, your retirement is not going to be very enjoyable.
The best I can offer is my own situation.
- My wife and I are debt free
- My wife and I have minor to serious health issues
- My wife and I live in East TN
- My wife and I have savings to last for twenty-five years (when we both will be 95 years old)
With this said, we go out to eat once a week, have two - seven day vacations (April/Sept), have two reliable vehicles, own our own home, and have absolutely not debt that we don't pay off at the end of the month.
I am 76 and she is 71 and we have been retired since 2015.
We both have hobbies that keep us busy all day long so that we are never bored. We both sleep until 8/9:00am each day unless our cats decide to wake us earlier. We each have several doctor appointments each month and neither of us have any need to spend money on any additional clothes.
Our neighbors are all very friendly and supportive and have offered to help out anytime we are in need of anything. Right now, one of our neighbors is in Florida for the winter and we are taking care of their Koi pond.
As far as our retirement goes, we have everything we need and lack for nothing. However, we do not have a grand lifestyle but a simple one. The past 8 years have been very relaxing and enjoyable with absolutely no stress at all in our lives. We are not in the best of health, but our health is better than most people our age.
In 5 years, when I turn 80 years of age, I doubt that we will be taking any vacations unless we fly somewhere and use taxis for transportation.
Minds Blown by Quantum Physics
The quantum world defies common sense at every turn. Shaped across hundreds of thousands of years by biological evolution, our modern human brain struggles to comprehend things outside our familiar naturalistic context.
Understanding a predator chasing prey across a grassy plain is easy; understanding most anything occurring at subatomic scales may require years of intense scholarship and oodles of gnarly math.
It’s no surprise, then, that every year physicists deliver mind-boggling new ideas and discoveries harvested from reality’s deep underpinnings, well beyond the frontiers of our perception. Here, Scientific American highlights some of our favorites from 2022. READ MORE...
Thursday, February 22
Ethiopia First to Ban Internal Combustion Engines
While in the past less affluent countries have been the dumping ground for second-hand cars from other nations, Ethiopia is now the first country in the world to ban the import of all cars that are not electrically powered. In contrast to the European Union, which has a ban on the sale of cars with internal combustion engines from 2035, Ethiopia is about ten years ahead of schedule:
A decision has been made that automobiles cannot enter Ethiopia unless they are electric ones. - Minister Alemu Sime READ MORE...
Family Controversy
There has always been the feeling that family was the most important unit around and that it should be preserved at all costs.
While that might have been the case in the 1800s and 1900s, I is clearly not the case today.
In fact, family is not even close to being the strong unit that it once was, especially since there are so many single parent households out there.
Those family units that have managed to stay together, that is to say, not get divorced, no longer have the closeness they once had due to people's ability to move around so freely.
My family for instance, started in North Carolina and has ended up in New York, Tennessee, Michigan, South Carolina, Kentucky, as well as North Carolina.
Birthdays are not the same, Thanksgivings are not the same, and Christmas is not the same as not everyone can get together each year.
While the divorce rate has maintained a 50% level for over 10 years, those families that do not get divorced, fall apart once the parents die. It was the parents that kept the family together and the children have no desire to maintain a strong family unit.
Wealth is another issue that separates the children of these families because if one sibling becomes wealthy, there is a good possibility that his or her wealth will not be shared with the other siblings, increasing the animosity.
However, in those families where the parents did a better job of bringing the siblings together, there is no problems with sharing the money.
WE ARE EXPERIENCING THE DEATH OF THE FAMILY UNIT
Those Wonderful Church Bulletins
The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals.
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Scouts are saving aluminum cans, bottles and other items to be recycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children.
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The sermon this morning: 'Jesus Walks on the Water. ' The sermon tonight: 'Searching for Jesus.'
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Ladies don't forget the rummage sale. It's a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house. Bring your husbands.
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Don't let worry kill you off - let the Church help.
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Miss Charlene Mason sang 'I will not pass this way again,' giving obvious pleasure to the congregation.
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For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs.
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Next Thursday there will be try-outs for the choir. They need all the help they can get.
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Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on October 24 in the church. So ends a friendship that began in their school days.
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A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall. Music will follow.
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At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be 'What Is Hell?' Come early and listen to our choir practice.
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Eight new choir robes are currently needed due to the addition of several new members and to the deterioration of some older ones.
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Please place your donation in the envelope along with the deceased person you want remembered.
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The church will host an evening of fine dining, super entertainment and gracious hostility.
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Pot-luck supper Sunday at 5:00 PM - prayer and medication to follow.
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The ladies of the Church have cast off clothing of every kind. They may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon.
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This evening at 7 PM there will be a hymn singing in the park across from the Church. Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin.
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The pastor would appreciate it if the ladies of the Congregation would lend him their electric girdles for the pancake breakfast next Sunday.
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The Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 PM. Please use the back door.
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The eighth-graders will be presenting Shakespeare's Hamlet in the Church basement Friday at 7 PM. The congregation is invited to attend this tragedy.
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Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church. Please use large double door at the side entrance.
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