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Sometimes were brimming with ideas and ready to shoot. But, what can you do when the ideas dry up?

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A little while ago, when Apexel asked me to review the 200X LED Lens microscope adaptor, I told them I was interested in both the microscope and the macro lens kit. Due to stocking issues, they were able to send the microscope adaptor.

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Long-Exposure Photos Envelop Bonsai Trees With Streams of Bright Light

Photographer Vitor Schietti highlights the beauty of bonsai trees in his ongoing series Impermanent Sculptures. Featuring explosions of bright yellow light against a pitch-black background, these long-exposure portraits imbue familiar subjects with a sense of magic. The sparklers dance along the branches and leaves, illuminating the shape of each tree.

In the series of photographs, Schietti captures an array of unique bonsai trees with this method. The light painting is made over one single exposure or, in some cases, through overlaying several images. Trees are such majestic beings. It is not by accident that many cultures have the concept of a tree playing central roles in their creation myths, Scheitti tells My Modern Met. We acknowledge in this ancient form of life, the pioneers of the first cells to breathe sunlight. Trees absorb light so they can inspire us back with their resilience, playfulness, and elegance.

By using light in conjunction with the bonsai tree, Schietti attempts to emphasize the ephemerality of photographs while also celebrating the enduring power of nature. Even though bonsai trees are famously miniature, they are magnified in these intimate portrayals. The small scale representation of their grown natural counterparts allow my strokes of sparkles to reach further through the trees' shape, thus revealing something like its soul, the source of life, the pulsating energy that emanates through the universe, he continues.

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Study Suggests That Early Retirement Can Cause Cognitive Decline

One of the many advantages of getting older is the prospect of retirement. Relaxing after years of hard work sounds well-deserved, and being able to take advantage of decades of savings sounds tranquil. But when, exactly, should you retire? The typical age ranges across the globe from the early to late 60s, and with life expectancy ranging upwards to the mid-80s worldwide, it makes sense to relish in many years of not working. A new study suggests, though, that early pension programs could have a negative impact, particularly on cognitive functioning.

Researchers Plamen Nikolov and Shahadath Hossaina focused their studies on a fairly new pension program in China that aimed to alleviate concerns of old-age poverty and deal with rising life expectancies. The program started in 2009 and encouraged people to retire soon after turning 60 by offering a stable income. Now, with over a decade of data, researchers are able to study the effects of this program.

Nikolov and Hossaina begin their research article by stating, Economists have mainly focused on human capital accumulation rather than on the causes and consequences of human capital depreciation in late adulthood. In other words, literature in economics, they claim, has historically made the formation of human capital (such as cognitive abilities, education, and health) a priority over the declination of human capital.

Studying how human capital depreciates over the life cycle has powerful economic consequences. Nikolov and Hossaina point out that elderly individuals make crucial and co...

Bitcoin market volatility dries up as sideways trading cools bullish BTC price predictions in the near term.

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This morning I got a pig with my broadhead arrow. I was able to apply the tips and tricks that all of you shared with me and noticed that the process is getting much easier.

It did help that this pig was smaller (closer to my size.)

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Mom Offers To Pay People To Hang Out With Her Son Who Has Down Syndrome, Gets an Amazing Response

According to the CDC, in 2008 about 1 out of every 1,200 people living in the U.S. had Down syndrome. While inclusion and job opportunities have increased over the last decades, some people with this condition struggle to maintain a social life once they graduate from school. This was the case of Christian Bowers, a 24-year-old man from Missouri. After seeing him long for friends but not getting to hang with people his age, his mom, Donna Herter, came up with an idea. She'd offer $80 to men between the ages of 20 and 28 to visit him and play video games for a couple of hours twice a month.

Christian is a social bug and when we're in public, he'll invite anyone to join us, Herter said. That's why it broke her heart when he asked her, When are my friends coming over? She didn't know what to do or say.

Determined to fix the situation, Herter made a post on Facebook. Im looking for a young man, between the ages of 20-28 who would like to make some extra money. Two days a month for two hours, Ill pay you to be my sons friend, she wrote, explaining that Bowers doesnt have any friends his age.

Obviously he wont know you are getting paid, but that you are there for him those two days, she said, adding that getting paid wasn't optionalthe money was to guarantee that the person would show up.

Hoping to get one or two applicants among her feed, Herter went to bed. When she woke up, her post had been shared over 6,000 times, reaching people as far as Ireland and Japan. Her words resonated not only with fellow parents of special kids but people from all walks of life who wanted to be friends with Bowers.

In the end, their initial plan came true, and at least four young men visited Christian to play video games and watch movies. The best part? According to Herter, they all have declined the payment. On top of that, Christian's story has inspired more people to make him feel included. He spent Valentine's Day hanging out and eating snacks with a group of officers, whi...

Meet Claire, a South Africa native learning from Kilkenny, Ireland. Claire has over 13 years of experience working in a SaaS environment as a multi-skilled Lead Technical Writer and Web Content Creator, but that was not always her chosen career path. Learn more about how Claire has used Coursera courses to help advance her skills in every phase of her career journey.

Hi Im Claire! Let me walk you through my diverse career journey. When I was younger, I had aspirations of teaching, so in university I majored in English and graduated with not only my Bachelors, but a Masters as well. I landed a job as a high school English teacher in South Africa. However, it wasnt fulfilling the desires I had for myself and my career. I decided to make a career switch into content writing and creation and landed a job as an Academic Content Creator. This combined my passion for copywriting, social media, and education. 

After my contract was up for that role, I began looking for positions where I could write educational content in the technical field. I was lucky enough to land a job at Adobe, a massive software development company, as a Technical Content Lead. In that role, I created an online database, developed a content program for a beta cloud project, drafted UX proposals, and reported on analytics and content crawl in the Adobe Support Center. To better enhance my technical skills and customer support I enrolled in my first three courses on Coursera: Get Started with Empathy Mapping the User Experience in Miro, Introduction to HTML, and Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design by Google. 

Through those courses, I learned how to better understand and empathize with the users experience (UX) and design web pages using HTML code. 

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With a rich history and recent evolution, Belgrade is now home to the latest Bitcoin working and presentation space.

This is an opinion editorial by Plumski, a native of Serbia and founder of the Belgrade Bitcoin Hub.

What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife

Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla.

As Bitcoin adoption grows at an unprecedented rate for a new technology, Bitcoiners are setting up physical locations around the world where enthusiasts can work and play in group atmospheres.

For those of us taking part in this Bitcoin "Renaissance" period, it has been a great joy to watch the Bitcoin Beach success story in El Salvador that likely resulted in the country-wide adoption of bitcoin as legal tender. Since such projects are numerous in Africa, Central and South America, Bitcoiners living in Eastern Europe have watched these developments with intrigue. And added to that is the fact that Eastern Europe is economically underdeveloped compared to its Western European counterpart.

Inspired by what we saw in other parts of the world, a small group of Bitcoiners centered in the Serbian capital city of Belgrade recently opened a Bitcoin hub where we want to welcome visitors from around the world.

A New Chapter For A Historic City

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According to rumours from generally well-informed people, Boris Johnsons resignation honours list has been shrunk to 50 nominations from 100, and contains some of the worst peope ever to grace the UK political arena.

But dont worry, because it looks like the resignation honours list of 49-day PM Liz Truss is working on picking up the rest of them, so they wont feel left out.

The heads of Vote Leave and the IEA, whose ideas have helped wipe billions of pounds off the UK economy, to be handed peerages in Liz Truss' resignation honours.

Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) March 24, 2023

Mark Littlewood Director of the think tank behind Truss budget

Matthew Elliot Chief Exec of Vote Leave that broke electoral law and gave you Brexit

In a normal country, both would face consequences

In broken Britain, Truss awards them peerages. https://t.co/RAcGn8b1mb

Marina Purkiss (@MarinaPurkiss) March 24, 2023

Heres one of the probable future Peers of the Realm.

This is who @trussliz wants to put in the House of Lords.

Thats not the Britain I want. We can do so much better than this. pic.twitter.com/7xR0Okwc0H

Dr Mike Galsworthy (@mikegalsworthy) March 25, 2023

If the next government doesnt scrap the concept altogether, they should at least ban people from awarding honours if their time in office was outlasted by salad.

Heres how tweeters have been reacting.

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As a reward for fucking up the country with her mad ideas, Liz Truss gets to put four people with the same mad ideas into the House of Lords.
Isn't democracy fantastic?

Parody Rishi Sunak (@Parody_PM) March 24, 2023

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AofA Editor-At-Large Mark Blaxill has updated his prevalence slides to reflect the 2023 announcement. The 11 slides are at the end of this post.

In New Autism Report, CDC Again Fails to Address Root Causes

One wonders how high autism spectrum disorder prevalence will climb before public policy moves beyond its current focus on equity toward addressing the root causes of the condition.

By Cynthia Nevison, Ph.D.

The newly released Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network report finds that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) prevalence in the U.S. has increased to 2.8%, or 1 in 36 U.S. children born in 2012 up from 1 in 44 from the previous report for children born in 2010.

Prevalence among 8-year-old boys was 4.3% nationwide and as high as 6.9% in California.

The policy focus of the new report is centered not around the increasing ASD rates, but rather around a social justice narrative in which disability issues take a back seat to the equity implications.

While the ADDM reports of the 2000s declared rising rates of ASD an urgent public health concern, the most recent reports have abandoned that messaging.

The new reports primary public health action recommendation is to develop enhanced infrastructure to provide equitable diagnostic, treatment, and support services for all children with ASD.

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From Beeple to Lil Yachty, Geminis NFT marketplace Nifty Gateway has a lot to offer for crypto artists.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then if they cant kill you, they co-opt you.

Co-optation here refers to the process by which a powerful institution attempts to preserve its control by incorporating a popular element of a radical movement while burying the radical ideology of that movement.

Once again, the institution of psychiatry is in crisis and desperately seeking to excite a general public that is increasingly disenchanted by psychiatrys repeated failures. As I document in A Profession Without Reason (2022), psychiatrys treatment outcomes were acknowledged in 2011 by former National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) director Thomas Insel as abysmal and bleak. Since then, in 2021, the New York Times concluded that psychiatry had done little to improve the lives of the millions of people living with persistent mental distress. Almost every measure of our collective mental healthrates of suicide, anxiety, depression, addiction deaths, psychiatric prescription usewent the wrong direction, even as access to services expanded greatly.

Has psychiatry contributed anything positive to society? SSRI antidepressantspsychiatrys last heralded miracle drugare now known to create a far higher percentage of sexual dysfunction than to positively affect depression, with success rates no different or even lower than placebo rates. Psychiatrys serotonin imbalance theory of depression, discarded by researchers three decades ago, is now finally known to the world to have no merit; and psychiatrys attempt to gaslight the general public into believing that it is blameless for this theorys perpetuation has made it vulnerable to a potential class-action lawsuit. Psychiatrys DSM diagnostic manual has now been acknowledged even by high-ranking members of the psychiatry establishment to be invalid and even bullshit. The Open Payments database reveals 75% of psychiatrists are on the take from drug companies. And research shows psychiatrys idea that serious mental illness is a brain disease has resulted in a perception of greater dangerousness and a desire for social di...

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People want definitive solutions, manuals that gonna help them step by step, lead them from point A to point B. It works in any field of life, so it works too in the field of survival.

It is one of the reasons why we as humans become more and more dependent on the system-we are simply got used to manuals, disclaimers, warnings, advisories and similar things.

It affects us in every aspect of life. It is not a problem right now to live by manuals, disclaimers, warnings, etc. The real problem is in fact that one day all those things will be gone when SHTF, and if you are really conditioned to live by it you are in deep problems then.

Books are written about bugging out or bugging in, and some of those books are good, but again, just like we are conditioned to follow manuals we are also conditioned to have OPINIONS and stick to it. So somehow it became modern to have an opinion about everything, and to stick hard to it, even more- to fight with people who have other opinions.

Bugging out, bugging in

Preppers usually choose prior SHTF are they gonna bug out or bug in when S hit the fan. And then based on that decision they put majority of their efforts into the direction and plan based are they bugging in or bugging out.

So, for example, people choose to bug out and most of their effort and money they invest in bug-out bags, vehicles, bug-out locations, planning their routes there, etc., etc.

Or people who plan to bug in invest all effort in reinforcing home, basement, stash or whatever. It seems that we forget that SHTF is by definition most probably going to be something unexpected, and it is going to force us to alter our plans.

Altering and adapting

Altering and adapting are words that preppers put for their profile pictures on prep forums, or patches on survival uniforms, logos and similar. Those words are everywhere in survival and prepping world, it is like every prepper is completely and absolutely ready to adapt, and still, somehow I have a feeling that many of us gonna die simply because, for example, they are not willing to walk long distances, stay without AC, be without favorite food and similar.

Altering and adapting are big words when it comes to survival, they are hardcore words. Now take into consideration here my words from the beginning of the article  -that we are conditioned to follow orders, man....

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PITTSBURGH Owner of the Sound Spynners record shop Dale Randly once again released a pack of vicious dogs on shoppers who compared their prices to Discogs in order to potentially flip them for a profit, several chewed-up sources report.

One would think that the price of feeding and all the responsibilities of keeping a pack of giant, blood-thirsty dogs would be burdensome, but whenever I see the look of terror in the eyes of would-be record flippers, its all worth it, Randly explained while mopping up drops of blood in front of his stores new arrivals section. Sure, if youre only looking up a price on Discogs or eBay to see if you can get a cheaper copy, by all means, go ahead! But just think to yourself, what is my time worth? and how good is my insurance anyway? Just be aware that once you hear those vicious barks, youre basically toast already.

David Grunwald was shopping at Sound Spynners when he dared to quickly glance at his phone after noticing all the rare punk records that had just come in the store.

I was flipping through records and noticed an original pressing of The Exploiteds Troops of Tomorrow for $45, said Grunwald while being getting stitches and being treated for multiple fractures in his wrist. I thought that seemed a little steep, so I pulled up Discogs and before the page even loaded I was ripped to the ground by angry dogs. I thought I was going to die right then and there. Thanks to my curiosity Im spending all my cash on reconstructive ass surgery. From now on, Im leaving my phone in the car when I go record shopping.

Head of Walden Security Services Damarcus Walden gave a little insight into the unknown world of record store security.

Believe it or not, these record shops are some of our biggest clients, Walden said. A lot of these owners just want to prevent customers from doing all the annoying shit customers at a record shop do. One of our top-of-the-line ejector seats, the SendEm 2000, jettisons whoever is being too rough with the listening stations stylus through the ceiling and basically into the stratosphere. You dont want to know what Ive done to people that intentionally put records in the wrong slots so they can come back for them later.

At press time, Sound Spynners implemented a policy in which shoppers who touch vinyl with their greasy fingers will have said fingers met with a dull cigar cutter.

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ABERDEEN, Wash. Local psilocybin enthusiast Justin Reeves grew suspicious of his partners over-the-top reaction to peaking on psychedelic mushrooms, sources reported.

Ive seen better acting in local car commercials, said Reeves, referring to the last time he tripped on mushrooms with his girlfriend, Denise Ashcroft. There was so much oohing and ahhing that people from neighboring campsites told us to keep it down. I didnt think much of it when she complimented my hat even though I wasnt wearing one, but when she started crying because she heard an ants heartbeat, I knew I was dealing with an actress.

When Reeves realized Ashcroft peaked in 45 minutes, a record in comparison to his previous two girlfriends who both took hours, he was particularly skeptical.

Yeah I faked it, said Ashcroft. I figured the faster I pretended to peak the sooner it would be over with. I didnt even eat the mushrooms. I pretended to chew them the way you fake chew in front of a baby who wont eat their dinner and then put them in my pocket so I could take them alone later. I should feel bad, but its hard to feel anything but seething anger when your partner asks are you peaking yet every six minutes while Starship Troopers plays on repeat.

There are many reasons women fake mushroom peaks, but unless your partner flat-out admits to it, its usually impossible to prove.

No two peaks are going to look exactly alike, said Steven Vetter, a self-described psychedelic researcher. The movies will make you think that all couples peak at the same time, but thats just Hollywood. In reality, many women find it easier to peak alone or even with a group of random strangers than with their own partner. Many of my clients have confided in me theyve faked complete ego deaths, but reported the experience still felt good even though they didnt peak.

At press time, Ashcroft was seen acquiescing to Reeves by pretending indica made her sleepy so she could roll on her side and stare at her phone.

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If history has shown us anything, its that America best exhibits its core values when done by force. The woke liberal industrial complex trying to turn our kids gay or worse, tolerant of other viewpoints, poses an existential threat to our, by which I mean my, way of life. Its up to parents to ensure their right to instill the Christian values that make this country great. Thats why when my kids read the bible, I always make sure theres a loaded gun trained on them.

Thankfully I live in a state where guns are prized off at church bingo night, cue the AR-15 that I keep trained on my children during mandatory bible study. And before any of you snowflakes cry about putting a gun in my kids faces, I always keep the safety on. Oh, wait okay, NOW the safety is on.

I love what our founding fathers did to lay the groundwork for this great nation. But who I love even more are their predecessors the Puritans, who absolutely got it right with enforcing Christianity to the point where theyd set you on fire the moment you strayed from the flock. Couple that enthusiasm for Christ with the 2nd Amendment and youd be surprised how well you can make a child memorize Leviticus front to back.
I want my kids to grow up to be upstanding citizens with a strong belief in their faith, and Ive found the most effective way for them to accept God in their lives is to threaten them to meet God. As the old saying goes, spare the rifle, spoil the child.

If anything, Im getting them ready for real world situations, like how they could be minding their own business, and someone barges in with a rifle and starts indiscriminately firing. Oh sure, my children like to bellyache about wanting to play with other kids and have tried to escape our home numerous times. I dont blame them, what with those hedonistic, secular delights out there like gun free zones and movies without Kevin Sorbo in them. But they eventually come around ever since I installed the sniper tower at the end of the driveway.

I dont care how many of my neighbors accuse me of child abuse or that my own church tells me Jesus wouldnt condone my behavior. I want my kids to know that so long as they believe every word of the Bible is true, I wont pull the trigger. Unless they dont stand for the flag.

The post Opinion: I Believe In Traditional American Values, Which Is Why I Make My Kids Read the Bible at Gunpoint appeared first on The Hard Times.

While going through the unfamiliar process of wrapping NFTs, Riley accidentally sent the asset to a burn address, permanently deleting the NFT from circulation.

Evolving as an artist is something every musician must struggle with in order to be fulfilled in their creative identity. Well, every musician except these 8 that is who made sure they got paid and spent the rest of their time fucking about like drunk toddlers. Heres our list of musicians who basically decided the first paycheck was enough.

The Mamas and the Papas

With a handful of early hits and plenty of amphetamines to keep their momentum up, the Ms and the Ps were all set to ride that money train into the sunset. But then, everybody took their dicks out, and the band quite literally fucked off on a fortune.

Primus

Cmon. You all knew Primus was gonna be in here somewhere. Moving on.

Country Bear Jamboree

Though most people dont know it, after the bears got sick of chilling on tree stumps down in the old holler, they entered an experimental electrical phase that was critically panned. This was due, in part, to the fact that the woods have few reliable sources to power synthesizers.

Hanson

Were pretty sure these guys started their own kombucha company or something stupid. Whatever, here they are.

The Band on the Titanic

Its not often reported in history books as it ruins a bit of the romance of their sacrifice, but just moments before this string quartet did one last run of the classics as the Titanic went down, they pre-showed by robbing a bunch of first-class cabins and stuffing their pockets with expensive blue jewelry. Many historians believe this added weight is what held them down as they slowly sank beneath the waves.

This Mariachi Band on the Subway

Why else would they be playing on the subway, in full mariachi uniform, than if they...

While often overlooked, there is abundant evidence of the intentional use of geometry in the composition of traditional arts, crafts and architecture. This was often accomplished through the use of regular polygons -frequently concentric- to establish proportional systems within a composition.

These associations can create a feeling of unity within the work by harmonizing its disparate elements of form, decoration and purpose. Polygonal composition also allowed the incorporation of number and shape symbolism associated with religion, mythology, culture and the organization of society, within a work of art.

This presentation will reveal the appearance of regular polygons found within round (tondo) creations from across the ancient world. Through many examples well see how polygonal shapes, patterns and proportions have been applied to harmonize the elements of great painting, jewelry, ceramics, sculpture, architecture and more across a variety of cultures and centuries.

Michael S. Schneider is an American author, educator, and speaker who has written several books on sacred geometry, including The Beginners Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science. He has also given many talks and workshops on the subject, and is considered an expert in the field. Schneiders work explores the mathematical and geometric principles that underlie the structure of the universe, and how these principles are expressed in art, architecture, and other areas of human creativity. His approach is interdisciplinary, drawing on insights from science, mathematics, art, and spirituality to provide a holistic understanding of the role of geometry in human culture.

Here he has deconstructed illustrations in ancient art through the use of polygonal geometry.

Its almost impossible to find art from the ancient world that is not done with intentional harmonious proportion Michael Schneider

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You RSVP or you dont show up.

Thats how the world works, right?

Well, at least some of the time

So did this guy act like an a**hole when he turned a friend away from his birthday dinner for not RSVPing?

Take a look at this story and let us know what you think in the comments.

AITA for turning away a friend after he showed up to my birthday dinner without RSVPing?

I had a birthday dinner this weekend.

A week before the dinner I sent a mass text out to eight of my friends telling them the location date and time and to let me know by a certain date if they are coming so I can make a reservation at a hibachi place.

Most people said they could come, one friend said they couldnt make it and another friend never responded. A couple days later I was talking to one of the friends I invite about the dinner and they said they thought the friend who didnt answer was coming but they werent sure.

I said that he needs to RSVP so I have the girrest head count for the reservation. I never heard from the friend who didnt respond so I made the reservation accordingly.

I should add that before I made the reservation I texted in the mass text chain with last chance to RSVP Im making the reservation at this time today.

The day of my dinner, the friend who didnt respond showed up right as the hostess was asking for the name of the reservation. I told her that we had an extra person show up and I apologised. She looked to see if she could place all of us but was unable to find a place to accommodate an extra person without us having to wait 2 hours.

So I told the friend who didnt RSVP that he could not join us for dinner. He got mad and told me I was a bad friend. He told me it was embarrassing to be turned away f...

Speaking with Cointelegraph, Animoca co-founder Yat Siu noted that given the sources anonymity, it makes it difficult to ascertain exactly who or what the source or agenda is.

Dr. Arne Burkhardt is a veteran German forensic scientist who has exposed the state of corpses following Covid vaccines, tying a large percentage of deaths (admittedly from a small sample group) to the injections. See this from 18 months ago Dr. Arne Burkhardt shows a medical slideshow of confirmed spike proteins replacing sperm almost entirely. 28 year old man who died 140 days after injection. Spike protein is in the tests shows almost no spermatocytes in here. "If I were a woman in fertile age, I would not plan a motherhood from a man who was vaccinated." https://rumble.com/v2a5fpw-dr-arne-burkhardt-confirms-sperm-has-been-almost-entirely-replaced-by-spike.html https://rumble.com/embed/v27jzuq/?pub=1ouhku

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By David Hawkins, A top female cyclist has announced that shes quitting her sport after being forced to compete against biological male transgender athletes. Hannah Arensman, a 35-time winner on the national cyclocross circuit, issued a heartbreaking statement in an amicus brief filed to the Supreme Court over the sports transgender policy. She revealed that she has been forced to end her career as it has become impossible to beat men who are competing as women. She wrote: I was born into a family of athletes. Encouraged by my parents and siblings, I competed in sports from a young age, and I followed in my sisters footsteps, climbing the ranks to become an elite cyclocross racer. Over the past few years, I have had to race directly with male cyclists in womens events. As this has become more of a reality, it has become increasingly discouraging to train as hard as I do only to have to lose to a man with the unfair advantage of an androgenized body that intrinsically gives him an obvious advantage over me, no matter how hard I train. I have decided to end my cycling career, she said. At my last race at the recent UCI Cyclocross National Championships in the elite womens category in December 2022, I came in 4th place, flanked on either side by male riders awarded 3rd and 5th places. My sister and family sobbed as they watched a man finish in front of me, having witnessed several physical interactions with him throughout the race. Additionally, it is difficult for me to think about the very real possibility I was overlooked for an international selection on the US team at Cyclocross Worlds in February 2023 because of a male competitor. Moving forward, I feel for young girls learning to compete and who are growing up in a day when they no longer have a fair chance at being the new record holders and champions in cycling because men want to compete in our division. I have felt deeply angered, disappointed, overlooked, and humiliated that the...

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First of all, let me just say that I'm not a mod, I'm not the owner, I'm just another member. I've been here for a few years but not since the beginning and not as long as many others. This is just me saying welcome...and making a few observations and possibly suggestions.

This is not directed at anyone in particular, so please don't take offense. Anything here in this post (can't speak to the entire thread, just what I've written) is meant in a general sense and to anyone and everyone....

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Here we go again. After a very successful hip replacement in March of this year I had a total knee replacement (knee arthroplasty) today. I also got a new knee cap, whatever that's called.

This knee had been going down hill slowly since I had the leg crushed in 1982. I haven't been able to straighten the knee since then, and the doctor measured the angle at 19 degrees. The new knee has only a 1 degree bend. The muscles and tendons are all accustomed to the old bend and they'll need...

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Most people who have children know in their hearts that one day, when they have grandchildren, they will be over the moon. Its a great job one with more rewards and fewer hardships than parenting and people really look forward to it.

For that reason, most pregnant couples put some thought into telling their parents theyre going to be promoted. If youre looking to do that but dont have any ideas of your own, here are 25 unique ideas to inspire you.

25. A whiskey glass.

If they both enjoy a whiskey, then get a matching set!

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While the U.S. government opts for regulation by enforcement, other countries are fostering vibrant crypto ecosystems due to progressive regulation, argues Coinbases Daniel Seifert.

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+++ Please read this entire page! Update at bottom: There seems to be some debate pertaining the differences in package whole blood from a hostpital vs. human to human transfusions. +++

Please consult with a medical professional before following any of this advice. We are merely passing the below as information that has been found or sent to us over the years.


Blood is grouped into four types: A, B, AB, and O. Each type is also classified by an RH factor either positive (...

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I have a confession...

I'm a sucker for "Before and After" pics, but I like to take before and after pictures of my gardens.
It keeps me motivated when I'm weeding or trying to be patient while my seedlings and fruit trees to grow.

This is a Bosworth (Kwai Mai Pink) Lychee tree that I planted a few springs ago. The "Before pic" is from April of 2021 (a year after I planted it) and the "After" pic is from April of 2022. I will take another updated picture this upcoming spring.

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The White House isnt doing any favors for derivatives traders by turning a blind eye to the biggest players in the space.

Never ones to miss an opportunity to teach, my guides use the magic of midnight darkness to summon a TV screen image of Dorothy, finally safe at home in Kansas, trying to convince the adults in her life that her liminal journey really happened. I hear her voice as she says: And you, and you, and you, and you were there.

Continue reading Ruby Slippers at The Wild Hunt.

Thirty-five years ago, Barbara Vareses family began buying abandoned homes in a tiny Italian hamlet, and today she has united all of them into a maze of bedrooms, ancient kitchens, hidden stairways, and converted stables. When the family first began purchasing the properties, many hadnt been lived in for years, so they were just fragments of houses they had to rebuild, but they used as much of the old stone and wood as possible, knocking down walls between buildings to connect everything with hallways and stairs.

When the Vareses first started buying here, there were only two residents of the village of Oretto Italo and Renata and when they died their homes were purchased to complete the village-wide labyrinth. Even the old wooden barn and stone stables were converted into a banquet hall and lounge, respectively.

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This article was originally published by Tyler Durden at ZeroHedge. 

Last night, amid the Feds H.4.1 report, we noted an unprecedented surge in foreign official Repo ($60 billion) under the Feds new FIMA repo facility, which means that the offshore scramble for dollars was alive and well, and someone really needed access to USD. The assumption was that it was Credit Suisse (or UBS) shoring up some shortfalls, but with the action of the last couple of days, others are worrying that there is more afoot in the EU banking system.

After a brief respite earlier in the week, European bank stocks are cratering once again, now at 3-month lows (catching down to Senior Financial CDS)

Deutsche Bank stock has crashed to 5-month lows

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Inside the Economic Reset
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They say the biggest rewards require the biggest risks, but anyone who has lived a good amount of time can tell you that those risks dont always pay off.

These 16 actors saw a role they wanted and they werent going to let it go no matter if they had to lie, steal, cheat, or significantly change their appearance to get it.

16. He could pull it off.

When Brian dArcy James had a chance to land a part in First Man, he knew he had to work extra hard to convince the creators they could see him as an M15 pilot.

To do just that, he borrowed an Air Force jumpsuit from a costumer and a plane from a friend, and passed out the resulting photos to the casting directors.

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Heads of all major U.S. financial regulatory agencies gathered by video to hear a presentation by New York Fed staff that concluded that the banking system remains sound.

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The company announced in November 2022 that it was working on a new Animoca Capital fund with a target of $2 billion but then halved that target in January 2023.

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Despite global bank turmoil and regulatory crackdowns, traditional and decentralized finance (DeFi) are continuing to blend.

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All the pieces are in place for BTC to rally to $30,000, but escalating economic uncertainty and regulatory pressure add strength to the key resistance level.

Securities processor Deutsche WertpapierService Bank will provide its affiliates with seamless integration with their current offerings, with more digital assets to come.

Though Elizabeth Talford Scotts stalwart contributions to fiber art warrant great acclaim, she is, unfortunately, underappreciated beyond Baltimore, where she lived from the early 1940s until her death

I wasnt even a minute and a half into episode four of MTVs The Exhibit: Finding the Next Great Artist when artist Jillian Mayer acknowledged that even though this was a competition, she has a lot of friends on the show whom she described as a sweet group of talented creatives. With only two episodes to go, even the magic of friendship cannot revive the shows fading heartbeat as the competing artists addressed the themes of justice and injustice in this weeks round.

Honestly speaking, this has been the most lifeless episode so far, and that surprised me considering a number of the competing artists personal practices tackle intersectionality and minority perspectives. I think what made it so yawn-worthy was the fact that I havent seen any growth or inventiveness from the artists thus far (save for Jamaal Barber, whom Ill get to later), but instead a stagnant reliance on existing skills, knowledge, and canons to win the $100,000 prize and an exhibition at the Hirshhorn. Its just becoming painful to sit through another episode knowing exactly what each artist is going to create before their studio time even starts.

The formula is that Hirshhorn Director Melissa Chiu dully reads her lines off of cue cards, co-host Dometi Pongo uses his reality TV voice to convey the next challenge, the painters paint and the sculptors sculpt, and then everyone gathers for the babiest o...

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The Arbitrum airdrop has created quite a hype in the DeFi industry, with several fake airdrops and exploits leading up to the distribution.

The Chinese PLA has been probing for a weakness in the US Government and society being that our military has been deemed too strong. This is absolutely hilarious! 

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<p><h2><a href= "https://mymodernmet.com/large-planetary-alignment-march-2023/" rel="nofollow">Five Planets Will Appear in the Sky Later This Month in Rare Event</a></h2> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_585850" style= "width: 760px;"><img alt="Sun and planets of the solar system" class="size-full wp-image-585850" height="485" src= "https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/planetary-alignment-march-2023-0-1.jpg" width="750"> <p class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-585850">Photo: Krisdog/<a href="https://depositphotos.com/" rel="noopener" target= "_blank">Depositphotos</a></p> </div> <p>The stars have alignedor at least the planets haveand on March 28, five planets will be visible to stargazers in the northern hemisphere. Jupiter, Mercury, Uranus, Mars, and Venus will line up in a large planetary alignment just after sunset. While an alignment of two or three planets is fairly common, seeing five grace the sky at once is a rare treat.</p> <p>Mercury and Jupiter will be visible near the horizon, while Venus will shine higher up in the sky and <a href= "https://mymodernmet.com/mars-facts/">Mars</a> will be near the first quarter of the Moon. These four planetsespecially Mercury and Jupiterwill be easy to spot. But, not all of the planets will be visible to the naked eye. Given its distance from Earth, binoculars or a telescope are a must in order to see Uranus.</p> <p>If you are interested in seeing the planetary alignment, there are apps that can help you understand what you can expect to see. For instance, using the <a href= "https://vitotechnology.com/apps/sky-tonight" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Sky Tonight app</a>, you'll be able to quickly discover the planets in the sky at your location, as well as their visibility conditions.</p> <p>In fact, your location, as well as weather conditions, will be the main factors in determining whether or not you'll be able to see the rare event. Unless you have a clear sky and a nearly flat western horizon free of obstructions such as trees or buildings, you won't see Jupiter and Mercury, <a href= "https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11863785/FIVE-planets-visible-night-sky-end-March-heres-them.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">shares</a> Rick Fienberg, senior contributing editor at Sky & Telescope.

And if for some reason you miss this large planetary alignment, don't worry. There are two smaller alignments set for April. On April 11,  Mercury, Uranus, Venus, and Mars will make an appearance in the sky. And then, a few weeks later on April 29, the same group will have an encore.</p> <p>h/t: [...</p></p>

The passed measure ends the 1% USDC-to-DAI minting fee that was previously implemented.

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Recently a clergyman serving at the Vatican made a discovery. Deep in the archives hidden below the ground levels a strange instrument exists. A device that can look into the past and produce images. Described as the Chronovisor, somehow it has remained hush and spoken of little though it has been in existence for hundreds of years. The Monsignor who viewed it and glanced back into the past claimed to have seen images of Jesus on the way to his crucifixion. He wanted to make the truth known about this device, but was reprimanded and an effort to see that this bizarre instrument remains under wraps resulted.

Can looks be deceiving?

There have been many allegations that there are photos of time travelers in historic pictures or even in routine photographs going back into the 19^th Century, odd looking people not fitting into the rest of the crowd wearing futuristic apparel and even possessing what appears to be a cell phone. However, with the use of editing software such as Photo Shop almost anything can be faked with little chance of hiding the process. From Miami in 1966 comes the story of a little boy who finds an apparent crystalline device that shows futuristic visions on its small screen. The story is picked up by the local paper with no follow up at all. It may also have been mentioned in local TV news coverage as well. So an amazing discovery quickly fades away, but the question is, did the US government confiscate the device? Well never know for sure.

Another secret Nazi invention?

From World War II Germany comes another bizarre story of a device that the operator could use to see visions from the past, but also serve as an anti-gravitational machine as well as being an offensive weapon! Die Glocke, nicknamed, The Bell it was actually bell shaped. The machine was said to have two rotating cylinders within supposedly containing a secret fluid perhaps mercury. When heat or electricity is applied to mercury it is known to rotate clockwise in the northern hemisphere with bizarre conductive characteristics. Like so many other secret weapons and aircraft being developed by the Nazis in some desperate way of overcoming the overwhelming odds of the allies winning the war, Die Glocke was yet another mysterious design and question mark over the science the Germans acquired that allowed for such incredible developments.

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A Florida principal has resigned under pressure from the school board after three parents complained that an art teacher had shown Michelangelos statue of the biblical shepherd David (15011504) to their 11- and 12-year-old sixth-graders. One parent even said the famous artwork was pornographic. The art teachers lesson was part of the curriculums mandatory unit on Renaissance art.

Now the Board Chair of the Tallahassee Classical School a public and free charter institution is using the resignation as an opportunity to advocate for parents rights, a conservative talking point that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis codified with the 2021 Parents Bill of Rights.

Parental rights are supreme, and that means protecting the interests of all parents, whether its one, 10, 20, or 50, Board Chair Barney Bishop III told the Tallahassee Democrat.

Principal Hope Carrasquilla had worked at the Tallahassee Classical School for less than a year and announced her resignation at an emergency school board meeting on Monday, March 20. In a contentious interview with ...

Underwater drones aren't new, but ones equipped with the tools required for professional cinema use are quite uncommon. That's what makes the Boxfish Luna so exciting, as it offers professional-level filmmaking control housed in a high-end ROV.

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It was clear from the beginning that the Johannes Vermeer retrospective at Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam was going to be a smash hit. And indeed, the show sold out within days of its opening on February 10. This has sparked a hot resale market on eBay, where tickets for the show are being sold for hundreds and even thousands of dollars. As tickets remain unavailable many weeks after the show opened, mark-ups continue to spiral out of control.

Simply titled Vermeer, its the largest-ever exhibition of the Dutch Golden Age master, bringing together 28 of his 37 known paintings through loans from various institution...

You may have heard that the Earth spins so fast, if it were to slow down, wed all fall off. Thats not only false according to a new study, but the Earths inner core appears to have recently slowed its spin, appearing from Earths surface that its reversing.

Scientists from Peking University in China have been tracking the movements of our planets layers using data on seismic waves from earthquakes. They started collecting changes in these waves in the early 1960s.

Despite such research, Earths inner workings remain mysterious and debatable. Its made up of four primary layers: the outer crust, the mantle, the liquid metal outer core, and the inner core made of iron and nickel. Because the inner core is separated from the rest of Earth by the l...

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Vinyl Surpasses CD Sales for the First Time Since 1987

Media changes fast. From wax cylinders to disc records to cassette tapes and CDs to MP3 files and streamingthe ways we enjoy music have changed a lot since the late 19th century. Since the 1950s, record discs made of polyvinyl chloride have preserved the melodies of everyone from Elvis and Little Richard to The Beatles and Donna Summer. However, in the late 1980s, cassette tapes and CDs chipped away at the records primacy as the most sold musical format. While streaming is the music format of choice of today, vinyl has had a sort of resurgence. In fact, sales of vinyl records have surpassed that of CDs for the first time since 1987. This rise in vinyls popularity is due in part to young consumers embrace of the nostalgic medium.

According to the Recording Industry Association of Americas (RIAA) annual revenue report, vinyl records sold 41 million units last year compared to 33 million CDs. Vinyl has been on the rebound for about 15 years; but in the last few, sales have skyrocketed. Vinyl sales increased by 17% since 2021, whereas CD sales dropped 18%. Similar trends have been recorded in recent years in the UK, Germany, Japan, and other countries. While Dad's old vinyl is still just as cool, modern albums are selling vinyl as well. Taylor Swift's records sold 1.7 million copies last year, while Harry Styles reached 719,000.

The RIAA found that streaming totaled 84% of total music revenue in 2022a shocking high of $13.3 billion. Download sales, however, are falling out of popularity, dropping to only $495 million in sales. Vinyl's resurgence in popularity cannot be attributed to convenience like the rise of streaming. Instead, it speaks to a preference among many music lovers for the unique sound captured by records....

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Misfits are one of the most recognizable bands of all time. Not many other groups combined Elvis-inspired crooning and punk with the macabre, and invented an infamous haircut thats business on the sides and party down the front of your face. Even their crimson ghost logo is so ubiquitous that youll see it on toddler onesies, dog bandanas, and apparel for people whove never even heard of them. Hey, we dont judge. But we will judge their studio albums. Here goes.

7. The Devils Rain (2011)

Its not Danzig era. Its not even Graves era. This is Jerry Only singing. Like lead singing. Sure, there are some bright spots if you look close enough, but overall it feels the band. Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein isnt even on it. Misfits are usually at their best when there are at least two devilock hairstyles in the group at a time.

Play it again: Once is enough.
Skip it: Death Ray (Its the last song on their last studio album and its last ranked. Bad sign.)

 

6. Project 1950 (2003)

The first appearance of Only-era Misfits came in the form of this collection of covers. It also features Marky Ramone on drums and Dez Cadena of Black Flag on guitar, so its barely a Misfits lineup. Itd be like if Krist Novoselic recorded a new Nirvana album with the drummer of Pearl Jam and guitarist from Soundgarden and acted as if it was business as usual. Doesnt sit right.

Play it again: Monster Mash (Probably makes sense they covered this one at some point.)
Skip it: Diana or Donna (Cant remember which. Maybe both just to be safe.)

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To date, artificial intelligence (AI) has been successfully used in the fields of personalized shopping, fraud prevention, content generation, and many more. Despite these wins, technology continues to struggle with human images, specifically teeth and hands.

Today, well discuss hands and fingers. You can imagine the Twitter uproar at the sight of an AI-generated sign language manual. Mobile games creative director Elizabeth Sampat uses the nightmarish digits to reassure the world that robots wont be taking over just yet.

Someone asked AI to make a sign language manual, in case youre worried that well all be out of a job soon pic.twitter.com/usCxNOj3p0

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The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation presents The Feminine in Abstract Painting, curated by Jennifer Samet and Andrea Belag, on view in New York City through July 15.

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NYU Steinhardts Department of Art and Art Professions and 80WSE Gallery invite you to the 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibitions in New Yorks Greenwich Village. We are excited to present works created from the culmination of intensive research and production by our second-year MFA degree candidates.

MFA Thesis Part I
Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 29, 57pm (ET)
On view from Wednesday, March 29, until Saturday, April 15
Participating Artists: David Vades Joseph, Megan Nugroho, and Sam Ticknor

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Opening Reception: Wednesday, May 3, 57pm (ET)...

The Katonah Museum of Art (KMA) presents two special exhibitions Miniature Worlds: Joseph Cornell, Ray Johnson, Yayoi Kusama and John OReilly: Studio Visitations and two installations The Rothko Room and Visual Conversations: An Assemblage Studio on view through June 25.

Miniature Worlds: Joseph Cornell, Ray Johnson, Yayoi Kusama explores the friendships between Joseph Cornell and two pioneering artists Ray Johnson and Yayoi Kusama and brings their works together in this context for the first time. By delving into the visual conversations, deep resonances, and shared sensibilities that emerged from these two individual relationships, the exhibition offers a rare snapshot of the role social networks play in the process of artmaking.

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<p><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_229040" style= "width: 2003px;"><img alt= "A photo of Leonardo Drew's wood installation that appears to explode inside Yorkshire Sculpture Park's chapel" class="wp-image-229040 size-full" height="2560" src= "https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/drew-3-scaled.jpg" width="1993"> <p class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-229040"> Number 360 (2023) installation view at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Photos by Jonty Wilde, images courtesy of the artist, Goodman Gallery, and Galerie Lelong & Co., shared with permission

In the cavernous 18th-century chapel at <a href= "https://ysp.org.uk" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Yorkshire Sculpture Park</a>, a new installation by artist <a href= "https://leonardodrew.com" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Leonardo Drew</a> (<a href= "https://www.thisiscolossal.com/tags/leonardo-drew/">previously</a>) explodes toward the ceiling in a massive plume, scatting shards, dust, and tiny fragments of material around the space. Titled Number 360, the work is comprised of blackened and painted plywood that brings chaos and destruction to the otherwise stark, quiet sanctuary. The central surge of the installation reaches five meters tall to fill the entirety of the chapels nave, while small paths are left clear to move through the immersive rupture.</p> <p>Born in Tallahassee but raised in Connecticuts notorious <a href= "https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/09/nyregion/bridgeport-housing-project-to-close-a-victim-of-crime.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Bridgeport Housing Project</a>, Drew spent much of his childhood scrounging waste materials and repurposing them into what were his earliest artworks. This commitment to regenerate whats been left to decay remains central to his practice today, and many of his pieces reuse materials from earlier projects. Number 360, for example, utilizes the same fractured plywood as that of Number 341, which the artist made in 2022 for Art Basel: Unlimited in Switzerland.</p> <p>To achieve the rough, grainy texture of the individual components,...</p></p>

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Kyawthuite is the only mineral on Earth known from only one sample. The transparent reddish-orange stone, weighing 1.61 carats, was found near Mogok, Myanmar, and was recognized by the International Mineralogical Association in 2015. So, what do we know about this rarest of crystals?

Kyawthuites chemical formula is Bi3+Sb5+O4, with traces of tantalum. Both bismuth (Bi) and antimony (Sb) are rare metals, but not especially so. Youll find more bismuth than gold and more antimony than silver on the planet, and of course, oxygen is our most abundant element.

According to the mineral database at Caltech, kyawthuite is composed of checkerboard sheets of octahedra Sb5+O6 parallel to Bi3+ atoms. Sapphire hunters discovered the specimen, the only recognized bismuth-antimony oxide, in a stream bed. It is named after Dr. Kyaw Thu, a former geologist at Yangon University.

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The United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told lawmakers on Thursday that Chinese President Xi Jinpings recent state visit to Russia should be regarded as a matter of grave concern for Washington. Lloyd said this meeting send a very troubling message to the U.S. ruling class.

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Speaking at the House of Representatives subcommittee on defense appropriations, Austin was asked to comment on Xis trip to Moscow, and its ramifications for Sino-U.S. competition. Xis visit to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and remaining there for a couple of days I think sends a very troubling message, a message of support, the Pentagon chief replied.

Lloyd stated that while the Pentagon has not seen signs that China had been providing Russia with military equipment for use against Ukraine, it is watching the situation very closely, cautioning that if they were to go down that path, I think that would be very troubling for the international community. He went on to warn that if Xi decided to arm Moscow, it would prolong the conflict and certainly broaden the conflict potentially not only in the region but globally.

According to a report by RT, on Monday, the Chinese leader embarked on a three-day state visit to Moscow, holding talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. During the summit, the two sides signed more than a dozen documents on increased defense and industrial and economic cooperation.

Moscow and Beijing also pledged to deepen relations of comprehensive partnership and strategic interaction entering a new era. RT

The U.S. has repeatedly claimed that China has been considering sending arms to Russia. The U.S. also continues to threaten consequences should it make such a move. Beijing, however, has dismissed such plans, accusing Washington of spreading false information and fanning the flames of the Ukraine conflict.

It is the United States and not China that is endlessly shipping weapons to the battlefield, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said last month.

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Couple Renovating Their Kitchen Discovers 400-Year-Old Paintings Hidden Underneath

In the north of England, a young couple and their dog moved out of their flat in December 2022 to allow workers to come in and remodel their kitchen. Luke Budworth, 29, and Hazel Mooney, 26, were then surprised by a call from one of the workmen asking about a painting behind the cabinets. They had not previously known of its existence. It turns out, this wasnt just any ordinary painting and the couple would be in for a big surprise.

After the initial discovery, the couple returned home. The workers had finished their job, and the new cabinets now covered the mural, but Budworth suspected the mural might wrap around the wall in the open floor-plan apartment. The couple removed some paneling to find that was correct. The mural continued along the top of the wall. It was painted the same as the rest of the wall and I knew it was hollow, Budworth said to CNN. I always thought it was probably just covering some pipes.

The painting depicts Biblical scenes and has scrolling text beneath. It measures about 9 feet by 4 feet, cut off by the ceiling. Experts from Historic England were called to investigate. They photographed and examined the mural, realizing it dated to sometime between 1635 and 1700meaning its almost 400 years old. On the prior date, Francis Quarles published a book entitled Emblems. Scenes from this work are depicted in the painting. By 1700, however, this style of frieze was out of fashion. The Grade II listed Georgian building in York's historic Micklegate neighborhood was constructed in 1747. This strange timeline suggests that the wall bearing the work was removed from another building and then the present home was build around it.

Although originally discovered in 1998, the painting had been paneled over. Its rediscovery is important, according to a statement by Historic England...

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A new study found that in addition to young men, older women think their IQ scores are significantly higher than they are. The research considered each subjects intelligence quotient (IQ) and emotional quotient (EQ), surprisingly, women overestimated their IQs as they got older.

Using IQ to test the nuances of intelligence is controversial among scientists. While the single assessment is limiting and doesnt account for social and environmental factors, IQ has been linked with higher results in life achievements, such as economic and academic success.

This latest study, published in Brain and Behavior, measured peoples self-estimated intelligence (SEI), whether their perceived IQ is close to their actual IQ. SEI studies are well documented among young people, but the authors wanted to extend their age parameters.

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Martin Short Changed Seats on a Plane So Chance the Rapper Could Sit With His 7-Year-Old Daughter

One of the many nightmares parents face when traveling with their children is ending up separated from them on a plane. Since many airlines assign seats randomly at check-in, families sometimes end up scattered across different rows. That's when theyre face with the awkwardness of asking a stranger to swap seatswhich some even paid forso their little ones don't have to be on their own. This happened to musician Chance the Rapper on a recent flight. Surprisingly, before he even thought of making a request to his seat neighbor, the man offered to swap places so that Chance and his 7-year-old daughter, Kensli, be seated next to each other. It wasnt until later that he realized the identity of the good samaritan.

So I just got on this plane with my daughter, and found out our seats werent next to each other, Chance the Rapper tweeted. I really aint wanna inconvenience anyone by asking them to swap seats, but before I could say anything this kind older gentleman offered his seat to Kensli so we could sit together. We both said thank you and as he stands up, I realize its THE Martin Short!! he revealed.

Thanks to his storied career in comedy and film, Short has fans of all ages. To make the situation even more adorable, Chance revealed that his daughter loves Short. So cool and Kensli freaked out cause shes obsessed with The Santa Clause 3, he continued, adding a screenshot of the actor in the movie. What an awesome person! SHOUTOUT TO JACK FROST.

His tweet quickly went viral, earning over 300,000 likes but most importantly, sparking a debate: who would miss out on Short's company? My daughter could have sat by herself. Marty would have been a delight,...

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The exchange giant is joining Fidelity and BNY Mellon in the pursuit of their own cryptocurrency custody platform.

Nasdaq, an American stock exchange based in New York City, is reportedly looking at Q2 2023 for the release of its custody services for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. 

In an interview with Bloomberg, Senior Vice President and Head of Nasdaq Digital Assets Ira Auerbach said that Nasdaq is pushing ahead to get all the necessary technical infrastructure and regulatory approvals in place.

The report describes an infrastructure that might look similar to that of Fidelity Digital Assets, which quietly opened its operations to the public last week. The first step to bitcoin and cryptocurrency trading on Nasdaq would be the custody service for the assets.

According to the Bloomberg report, Nasdaq has applied to the New York Department of Financial Services for a limited-purpose trust company charter, which would oversee the new business.

Launching just as several major cryptocurrency firms have collapsed, amidst increasing regulatory tension, the goal is seemingly to offer those customers who now have no platform, a regulated, well-trusted American service for bitcoin.

It should be noted that many of the issues surrounding exchanges come from the third-party risks presented by a custodian holding bitcoin for customers. The most secure way to interact with bitcoin is to self-custody it with your own wallet. Although trading platforms do offer the ease of interaction created by custodianship, with the American financial system seeing precarious headlines as of late, it is important to consider these trade offs compared with traditional bitcoin self-custody. 

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