NASA Capture Black Hole at the Center of the Perseus Galaxy Cluster / Data Sonification
Since 2003, the black hole at the center of the Perseus galaxy cluster has been associated with sound. This is because astronomers discovered that pressure waves sent out by the black hole caused ripples in the cluster’s hot gas that could be translated into a note — one that humans cannot hear some 57 octaves below middle C. Now a new sonification brings more notes to this black hole sound machine. This new sonification — that is, the translation of astronomical data into sound — is being released for NASA’s Black Hole Week this year. In some ways, this sonification is unlike any other done before (1, 2, 3, 4) because it revisits the actual sound waves discovered in data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The popular misconception that there is no sound in space originates with the fact that most of space is essentially a vacuum, providing no medium for sound waves to propagate through. A galaxy cluster, on the other hand, has copious amounts of gas that envelop the hundreds or even thousands of galaxies within it, providing a medium for the sound waves to travel. In this new sonification of Perseus, the sound waves astronomers previously identified were extracted and made audible for the first time. The sound waves were extracted in radial directions, that is, outwards from the center. The signals were then resynthesized into the range of human hearing by scaling them upward by 57 and 58 octaves above their true pitch. Another way to put this is that they are being heard 144 quadrillion and 288 quadrillion times higher than their original frequency. (A quadrillion is 1,000,000,000,000,000.) The radar-like scan around the image allows you to hear waves emitted in different directions. In the visual image of these data, blue and purple both show X-ray data captured by Chandra. Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO/K.Arcand, SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)
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I don’t know. It kinda sounds what you might think it would sound like? What do you think?
Someone forwarded the below to me as a suggestion to post. So, here it is! The font is a little bit light: 8 Common PayPal Schemes and How to Avoid Them:
Thank you for reading today's post. Have an InterStellar Day! ~PrP
There is no sound in space because there are no molecules to bump into each other to make sound.
Thank you. I had to look it up. Maybe others are interested too:
Why are there no molecules in space?
That’s because the outer shell of a noble gas atom already has its fill of electrons, so it won’t ordinarily exchange electrons to bond with other atoms and form molecules — at least, not here on Earth. In retrospect, space seems the perfect place to seek noble gas molecules, because these gases abound in the cosmos.
The universe is not entirely made of molecules … in fact, most of the mass in the universe is probably not even made of familiar matter, i.e. the atoms and molecules of which we, the Earth, the solar system, and all the stars in our own and other galaxies are composed.
It is true that one learns in space travel that the Natural Phenomenon of one part of space can be completely different from another.
10 Heart Health ‘Rules’ You Should Actually Ignore
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/heart-health-rules-ignore_l_62f52a56e4b045e6f6ab8c7b
I hope you don’t mind, Alycedale. I want to reprint your comment of August 18, 2022. I would like to ensure it was seen. Thank you very much for posting.
The Benefits of a warm glass of lemon juice every morning:
Drink water with lemon on an empty stomach, do you know what benefits it has?
There are many urban legends when one wants to start taking care of oneself, but nevertheless there is one that is real: drinking water with lemon on an empty stomach every morning is beneficial for our body -although there are exceptions-. Today we will show you what it takes to apply this practice every morning, something that we can adapt to our daily routine without any effort, do you dare?
Preparation method
Although its preparation is very simple, the water must be lukewarm since if it is cold water our body takes time to process it and needs more energy. The lemons will have to be fresh, organic and natural -avoid processed and bottled lemon juices-. We will only have to squeeze half a lemon in a glass of warm water and drink it 30 minutes before breakfast (completely fasting).
The benefits of a simple gesture
They help us lose weight. Drinking water with lemon on an empty stomach provides us with more satiety during the day and prevents us from consuming more calories than necessary. Additionally, maintaining a more alkaline diet has been shown to help you lose weight faster. According to a study carried out by the ‘Journal of Clinical Biochemistry and Nutrition’, it was confirmed that the polyphenols in the lemon peel prevented the subjects from accumulating extra fat for 12 weeks.
Radiant skin. Lemon contains a lot of vitamin C, which means that it helps reduce wrinkles and blemishes, in addition to fighting free radicals. It should be said that vitamin C has beneficial effects on the production of collagen (that element that keeps our skin elastic).
Prevents constipation and improves digestion. Drinking a glass of water with lemon every morning helps to eliminate toxins from our body. In addition, it relieves the symptoms of indigestion -burning or abdominal distention-.
Restores the pH of the body. If we adapt this practice regularly, we will be able to eliminate the total acidity of the body thanks to the citric acid and ascorbic acid that each lemon contains.
Prevents diseases. As we have already mentioned, lemon contains ascorbic acid, which improves the absorption of iron in the body -something basic for our immune function-.
Freshens our breath. Drinking water with lemon every morning we disinfect the mucous membranes and that helps reduce the proliferation of bacteria in the oral cavity.
It is a good director. It combines the effects of increased water consumption with the diuretic properties of lemon, thus eliminating more toxins.
Helps improve our mood. Lemon contains negatively charged ions, that makes our body have more energy when it enters the digestive tract. As if that were not enough, it helps us reduce anxiety and depression.
there are contraindications
This practice is good for our body, although there are exceptions. Avoid drinking water with lemon every morning if:
You have stomach ulcers. Citric acid can aggravate this condition.
Tooth sensitivity. Avoid drinking lemon water if you suffer from weak teeth or damaged tooth enamel.
Inflammation of the prostate or urethra. The symptoms will increase.
If you suffer from acidity.
If you suffer from rheumatic, arthritic or osteoporosis diseases..
If you have anemia or lack of a mineral such as calcium.
When you have gastritis. Symptoms may increase.
Sores or wounds in the wedding and/or tongue.
There are two things you need to know: drinking lemon water on an empty stomach has benefits for your health, but you must be careful with your tooth enamel. On the one hand, lemon helps to strengthen the immune system thanks to its contribution of Vitamin C and also to fight against free radicals that are responsible for premature aging. If we add to this the moisturizing and dragging properties of water, we have the perfect combination.
Thus, these are some of the benefits of drinking a glass of water with half a lemon on an empty stomach daily.
– Strengthens the immune system. The vitamin C and ascorbic acid that the lemon contains contribute to the prevention of colds and a better absorption of iron.
– Alkalizing power. If you suffer from imbalances in pH, you will easily get sick. Lemon is alkalizing and helps keep the pH balanced. Of course, remember that if we ingest it in excess we can obtain the opposite effect.
– A natural diuretic. Combining water with lemon helps eliminate toxins and prevents fluid retention.
– Improves digestion. If we consume the warm we will be able to stimulate the intestinal tract, while the contribution of lemon helps to purify the liver.
– Beautify the skin. Water with lemon brings luminosity to the face. Dehydration of the body leaves the skin dull, opaque and without light.
– Provides extra energy. Substituting coffee for hot water with lemon is more energizing than you think, since its consumption helps to hydrate and oxygenate the blood.
– It’s an emergency kit. Consuming several glasses of water with lemon (the amount should be determined by a specialist) throughout the day combats bad breath, constipation and helps offset the dehydrating effects of alcohol.
Although it is a beneficial practice for health, it is true that experts advise against doing it in these cases:
– If you have anemia or lack of any mineral such as calcium.
– If you suffer from gastritis or frequent heartburn.
– If you suffer from dental sensitivity, damaged enamel or weak teeth.
– If you have sores or wounds in your mouth or tongue.
– If you have stomach ulcers.
– If you suffer from osteoarthritis, osteoporosis or rheumatic diseases.
– If you suffer from inflammation of the prostate or urethra.
Thank you for printing this. I intend to try it right away.
Wow!, I love this.
This is news to me. Can’t wait to try it.
Thanks for reposting. I read it the first time and was intrigued. I want to do this. Thanks, Alycedale.
Great blog. I love these wonderful entries.
If you have Zoom on your Mac, please read this.
Older versions of Zoom could allow hackers to take over your macOS through a privilege escalation vulnerability. But the latest Zoom update (5.11.5) patches this flaw. If you use Zoom on your Mac, you should update the software now.
Update, 8/22/22 9:51 am Eastern: Two days after this article was published, Zoom pushed an additional security update for macOS. It seems that the company failed to completely patch Zoom’s privilege escalation vulnerability with the previous updates. If you use Zoom on a Mac, update it today.
This update comes just a week after Zoom revealed its privilege escalation vulnerability in a security bulletin. The vulnerability (CVE-2022-28756) received widespread coverage after it was demonstrated by Patrick Wardle, founder of the Objective-See Foundation, at a Def Con hacking conference on August 12th.
The vulnerability extends from a bug in Zoom’s auto-update system. Normally, Zoom checks update packages for a cryptographic signature. This verifies that the update is authentic and published by the Zoom company. But if you give a file the same name as Zoom’s cryptographic signature, the software will run that file without asking any questions.
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In a worst-case scenario, hackers could use this flaw to place RATs (remote access trojans) on your Mac. But this vulnerability could open the door to any malware, including ransomware. It’s no surprise that Zoom pushed such a quick fix.
Thanks for the notice. I just updated mine and it is now 5.11.9. Is that the latest?
Should you run your laptop with the lid closed?
If your laptop is overheating or throttling its performance when you have the lid closed, then that’s clearly an issue, and you should strongly consider opening the lid to prevent this from happening. If you’re mainly worried that heat exposure will ruin your laptop screen, there’s no clear evidence we could find that this is the case. Anecdotally we’ve run laptops with their lids closed for years and have never experienced a display failure that could be directly linked to heat. That said, it’s impossible to rule it out entirely.
Ultimately, the only safe option is to run your laptop with the lid open. Besides, this offers a second screen if you’re using an external monitor, which is almost always more useful than only having a single display. Then again, running your laptop with the lid closed has serious aesthetic and space-saving benefits, so the tradeoff depends on how much you value form over function, or what specific job you need your laptop to do.
A biotech company wants to take human DNA and create artificial embryos that could be used to harvest organs for medical transplants.
Share of homes in select cities that saw price cuts
July 2021
July 2022
29.6% •
0 69.7%
Boise, Idaho
Denver
Salt Lake City
Tacoma, Wash.
Tampa, Fla.
Sacramento, Calif.
Indianapolis
Phoenix
San Diego
Portland, Ore.
36%
24.6%
29.6%
28.6% •
32.5%
31.2%
21.7%
23.6%
31.2%
58%
0.56.4%
• 54.8%
0 52.1%
2.52%
• 51.4%
0 50.1%
D 49.7%
0 48.3%
A surge in vehicle crashes is disproportionately harming lower-income families and Black Americans.
Not since the 1940s
Vehicle crashes seem as if they might be an equal-opportunity public health problem. Americans in every demographic group drive, after all. If anything, poor families tend to rely more on public transportation and less on car travel.
Yet vehicle deaths turn out to be highly unequal. Lower-income people are much more likely to die in crashes, academic research shows. The racial gaps are also huge — even bigger on a percentage basis than the racial gaps on cancer, according to the C.D.C.
Data understates all death rates because race is not recorded in all crashes. | Source: National Safety Council
The unequal toll from crashes is particularly notable now because the U.S. is experiencing an alarming increase in vehicle deaths. Pete Buttigieg, the transportation secretary, recently called it “a national crisis of fatalities and serious injuries on our roadways.” And the toll is falling most heavily on lower-income Americans and Black Americans.
The reasons for the increase remain somewhat mysterious, experts say. But the consequences are clear. More than 115 Americans have been dying on the roads on average every day this year.
A decline, reversed
Not so long ago, the trend in car crashes was a good-news story. The death rate began to fall in the early 1970s, thanks in large part to the consumer movement started by Ralph Nader. Cars became safer. States passed seatbelt laws. Drunken driving became less common. The declines continued into the early 2010s, as airbags became standard and vehicles began to include technology to prevent crashes.
Source: National Safety Council
But the situation changed around 2015, with the death rate mostly rising over the next several years. One reason seems to be distracted driving. By 2015, two-thirds of U.S. adults owned a smartphone, up from almost none in 2006.
The U.S. has also been less aggressive about cracking down on speeding than Britain and some other parts of Europe, and vehicles here tend to be larger. “The engorgement of the American vehicle,” as Gregory Shill of the University of Iowa has called it, can kill pedestrians and people in smaller vehicles. These patterns help explain why death rates have fallen substantially more in other countries than in the U.S. during recent decades.
As alarming as these trends were, the biggest increases have taken place more recently — since the pandemic. In the spring of 2020, as Covid was transforming daily life, vehicle crashes surged. By the start of this year, the death rate had jumped about 20 percent from prepandemic levels. It has been the sharpest increase since the 1940s.
Source: National Safety Council
How did Covid lead to more crashes?
At first, researchers thought that emptier roads might be the main answer. Open roads can encourage speeding, and speeding can be fatal. But even as traffic returned to near-normal levels last year, traffic deaths remained high. That combination weakens the empty-road theory, as Robert Schneider, an urban-planning expert at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, said.
The most plausible remaining theories tend to involve the mental health problems caused by Covid’s isolation and disruption. Alcohol and drug abuse have increased. Impulsive behavior, like running red lights and failing to wear seatbelts, also seems to have risen (as my colleague Simon Romero has reported). Many Americans have felt frustrated or unhappy, and it seems to have affected their driving.
“They’re a little bit less regulated — they might not be considering consequences,” Kira Mauseth, a clinical psychologist at Seattle University, has said. Frank Farley, a psychologist at Temple University, put it this way to The Los Angeles Times: “You’ve been cooped up, locked down and have restrictions you chafe at.”
Ken Kolosh, who oversees data analysis at the National Safety Council, a nonprofit group, told me that researchers would need years to tease out all the causes. Confusingly, vehicle deaths did not surge in most other countries during the pandemic, suggesting that stress was a particularly American problem. “The world really felt upside down,” Kolosh said.
One encouraging data point that’s consistent with this theory: The most recent data shows that vehicle deaths declined modestly this spring, as Covid restrictions continued to recede.
An unequal pandemic …
Still, the surge in crashes has become one more way that the pandemic has hurt lower-income Americans and people of color the most — as did the early wave of Covid deaths and the consequences of closed schools.
As I mentioned above, vehicle fatalities have long been unequal. Poorer people are more likely to drive older cars, which can lack safety features. Low-income neighborhoods are also much more likely to have high-speed roads running through them. “We have systematically put these arterial roadways in areas where people had less political power to fight back,” Rebecca Sanders, the founder of Safe Streets Research & Consulting, said.
The pandemic probably exacerbated the gaps because many professionals have begun working from home, while many blue-collar Americans kept driving, biking or walking to work. Some lower-income workers also drive as part of their jobs.
… and some solutions
Even if the full explanation of the surge in crashes is murky, many experts believe that the most promising solutions remain clear.
“Making streets safer doesn’t require designing new solutions in laboratories,” John Rennie Short, of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, has written. Jeffrey Michael, another expert, told The Washington Post, “This is an issue for which answers are known.”
Those answers include: stricter enforcement of speed limits, seatbelt mandates and drunken-driving laws; better designed roads, especially in poorer neighborhoods; more public transit; and further spread of safety features like automated braking.
Continuing to leave behind the disruptions of Covid — and the loneliness and stress they have caused — seems likely to help, too.
Dani Bracha Yardley
Reg nurse, Ph.D Psych from University of Birmingham (Graduated 1982)
Why do more people put their parents in nursing homes even though the elderly don’t want that?
At 60 my dad retired from a power position “to do nothing” and that unfortunately is exactly what he did.
He sat in his chair, drank copious amounts of coffee, smoked like a chimney and barked orders to anyone who would respond – I didnt..
By 65 my previously highly intelligent, motivated, speaker of 7 languages father was diagnosed with dementia. His balance went, in one yr the ambos were called 27 times to pick him up because his 128kg mass was too great for my mom – he had forgotten even how to bend to sit down in his seat.
He soon lost all bladder control, he hadnt a clue he needed to go until sopping wet when he would laugh and giggle whilst saying “oops I did it again”. He had almost forgotten how to hold a cup or glass. If handed a drink he’d ask how then proceed to until it became to heavy and it slipped out of his grasp.
Next he was diagnosed with colitis, diarrhoea and constipation became unmanagable but also became all he could think or talk about. Nothing like having Shabbat guests and dad relishing every moment holding centre stage whilst discussing in minute details the contents of his pants..
He then had the mother of all falls, managing to break an arm, wrist – opposite sides if you please.. cheek bone and numerous ribs.
This time the hospital social worker said he needed to go into care, he argued and manipulated mom, she cried whilst saying she could manage and us kids all said about time and thank Gd for that!.
The first care home was hideous, it resembled a prison cell so my brother and I looked around for something nicer. 2 months later we moved him into his own apartment within a care home but it had its own ensuite bathroom, kitchenette ( we had to remove everything but the fridge because of the risk ) lounge and bedroom which both opened out onto a patio fenced wee garden.
The staff still had to toilet, shower, shave and accompany him walking with a frame.
But he now wasnt denying he was wet or dirty like he did mom, the staff would just go in and do as necessary.
A yr later he developed skin cancer on his head which spread to his liver and ultimately took him.
in hindsight the care home was the only option. He couldnt look after himself, he got dementia, his nasty horrible side came out ( the fists in the face I experienced as a child returned ) he became overtly sexual, threatened to divorce my long suffering mother, threatened to disown me for being a “ know all nurse & shrink”, got ideas of grandeur and generally there was nothing nice left about him. His manipulation increased 10 fold, he set the staff up against one another, became racist and sexist. In fact I am embarrassed to say hes my father – those horrible traits arent dementia related. They were present as far back as I can recall but when compos mentis he was able to hide them to a degree, well, outside of the home. Inside the house he had terrorised whoever he could.
Now my mom needs care, shes actually eligible for a assisted home set up but shes not obnoxious, isnt a bully, will listen to reason, still knows how to shower and toilet herself. I can hold a decent conversation with her but she has a severe OCD and depression, going into care would kill her. Shes managable for me, so I’m building onto my house so she can have her own space ( doesnt like me having music on ) but if needed I am close by.
Cleopatra are you listening? We know that you are out there.
Cleopatra ascended the throne at the age of 17 and died at the age of 39. She spoke 9 languages. She knew the language of Ancient Egypt and had learned to read hieroglyphics, a unique case in her dynasty. Apart from this, she knew Greek and the languages of the Parthians, Hebrews, Medes, Troglodytes, Syrians, Ethiopians, and Arabs.
With this knowledge, any book in the world was open to her. In addition to languages, she studied geography, history, astronomy, international diplomacy, mathematics, alchemy, medicine, zoology, economics, and other disciplines. She tried to access all the knowledge of her time.
Cleopatra spent a lot of time in a kind of ancient laboratory. She wrote some works related to herbs and cosmetics. Unfortunately, all her books were destroyed in the fire of the great Library of Alexandria in 391 AD. C. The famous physicist Galen studied her work and was able to transcribe some of the recipes devised by Cleopatra.
One of these remedies, which Galen also recommended to her patients, was a special cream that could help bald men regain their hair. Cleopatra’s books also included beauty tips, but none of them have come down to us.
The queen of Egypt was also interested in herbal healing, and thanks to her knowledge of languages she had access to numerous papyri that are lost today. Her influence on the sciences and medicine was well known in the early centuries of Christianity. She, without a doubt, is a unique figure in the history of humanity. 🇪🇬
Amazing how Western literature has maligned this woman. What would you expect from white men?
Will Putin be overthrown after his invasion of Ukraine?
Yes. But the question is who will get to him first. The odds on it being a billionaire oligarch just got better.
Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich and Ukrainian peace negotiators suffered symptoms of suspected poisoning earlier this month after a meeting in Kyiv.
Abramovich, who accepted a Ukrainian request to help negotiate an end to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and at least two senior members of the Ukrainian team, were affected, Monday’s report said, citing people familiar with the matter.
The sources blamed the suspected attack on “hard-liners in Moscow who they said wanted to sabotage talks to end the war,” the WSJ quoted. A person familiar with the matter confirmed the incident to the Reuters news agency but said Abramovich had not allowed it to stop him working.
So the oligarchs are trying to end the war. Certain hard liners want it to continue. As the war boys down and sanctions impose a tighter grip on the Russian economy, look for internal tensions to get hotter.
I have predicted before. Putin gone by June 1.
Gosh, can he be gone in in two months, instead of TEN?
What do White narcissists usually regret when they’re old?
I come from a cluster b family. We are all narcissists, antisocials, borderlines, histrionics, psychopaths.
Every narcissist in my family died of Alzheimer’s.
My mother, a narcissist antisocial, has signs of dementia now in her 60s. My father is a covert narcissist and still very sharp.
Neither of them have any regrets.
They believe they are victims wronged by the world. They deeply hate feminists and black people, who they credit with ruining the world and keeping them poor. They see themselves as exceptionally smart. They are constantly at war with each other and angry and miserable. Both of them struggle with addiction. When I bring up childhood abuse, they don’t remember a thing. They say I was a bad kid who deserved it and they were ideal parents.
There’s a strong correlation between NPD and Alzheimer’s. A lifetime of false reality does a number on the brain. The narcissists in my family that died of Alzheimer’s were cruel and abusive until the death, constantly asserting that their reality was THE REALITY, no matter how delusional. They’d swear the squirrel outside was their dog and slap you for disagreeing.
The disorder makes their brains shame-avoidant. They never experience regret. They don’t have empathy. And they don’t see their misery as their fault.
They die as they lived: toddlers in adult bodies. Fuck’em all.
If there was a nuclear explosion in space, how far would the shockwave go?
The US did this as an experiment in the early 1960s. A 1.4MT warhead was detonated 250 miles above the surface of the Pacific Ocean as part of the Starfish Prime tests. As other have said, there isn’t enough matter in space to create a shockwave.
One immediate effect of the blast was a huge aurora seen for thousands of kilometers around. Electrons are lightweight and travel rapidly away from the explosion. A moving electron is affected by a magnetic field, so these electrons actually flowed quickly along the Earth’s magnetic field lines and were dropped into the upper atmosphere. At a height of roughly 50 – 100 kilometers they were stopped by the atoms and molecules of Earth’s atmosphere. Those atoms and molecules absorbed the energy of the electrons and responded by glowing, creating an artificial aurora.
Heavy ions (atoms stripped of electrons) are also created in the blast, and get absorbed somewhat higher up in the atmosphere. Imagine Radiating the world to see what would happen? That’s one of the reasons that the power of the atom had to be shared. If it hadn’t been the whiteboy in the US would never have shared the US with the rest of us, non whites or women.
Game or Thrones Trivia:
‘Game of Thrones’ prostitute actress admits she was a ‘sex worker’ before the show:
Josephine Gillan, who plays the prostitute Marei on Game of Thrones, revealed that she made a living as a “sex worker” before the series. The actress also said that she has done porn movies, was abused as a child and was addicted to drugs.
“I was working as a prostitute and at the same time making pornographic films, using the name Sophie O’Brien, when I saw an advertisement on a website for actresses in the film industry. They were looking for young women with natural breasts, no tattoos and who didn’t mind filming nude,” Josephine told the Daily Mail.
It was then that Josephine decided to submit a photo to apply. “They wrote back saying they wanted me and I was thrilled because it was such an amazing opportunity. But I had no idea how much it would change my life.”
What are some strange facts about Sigourney Weaver?
Iconic Space Underwear
Sigourney Weaver’s big break was as Ripley, the warrant officer aboard the Nostromo. The role was originally written for a man, but Sigourney, who stands 5′11″ in bare feet and was relatively unknown in film, impressed the directors with her audition and won the role. Not a single line of the script was changed when she came on board
While Alien is lauded as a paradigm of female empowerment, some found the scene where Ripley (played by Sigourney Weaver) strips down to her undershirt and panties offensive. James Cameron, thought that Ripley’s “striptease” crossed a line into voyeuristic objectification.
Sigourney’s role as Ripley earned her nominations for a Saturn Award for Best Actress and a BAFTA award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Role. It also won her the runner up prize for the most Iconic Space Underwear (coming second only to Jane Fonda for her role as Barbarella).
When a group of tourists visited a crocodile farm, the owner of the place launched a daring proposal. “Whoever dares to jump, swim to shore and survive, I will give 1 million dollars.”
Nobody dared to move, but suddenly a man jumped into the water and desperately swam towards the shore while he was chased by all the crocodiles. With great luck he arrived, taking the admiration of everyone. The owner announced “We have a brave winner.”
After collecting their reward, the couple returned to the hotel, and upon arrival, the manager told him “he was very brave to jump” the man replied, “I didn’t jump, someone pushed me!”
His wife smiled…
Moral of the story — Behind every successful man, there is a woman who pushes him.
JOKE:
Walking home after a girls’ night out, two women pass a graveyard and stop to pee.
The first woman has nothing to wipe with, so she uses her underwear and tosses it.
Her friend, however, finds a ribbon on a wreath, so she uses that.
The next day, the first woman’s husband phones the second woman’s husband, furious: “My wife came home last night without her panties!”
“That’s nothing,” says the other. “Mine came back with a card stuck between her butt cheeks that said, ‘From all of us at the fire station, we’ll never forget you.'”
I went to Walmart today, and I was there for literally 5 minutes.
When I came out there was a state trooper writing a parking ticket for being in a handicap spot.
So I went up to him and said, “Come on, buddy, how about giving a guy a break?”
He ignored me and continued writing the ticket. So I called him a pencil-necked cop. He glared at me and started writing another ticket for worn tires!
So I then asked him if his psychiatrist makes him lie face down on the couch cause he’s so ugly.
He finished the second ticket and put it on the windshield with the first. Then he started writing a third ticket!
This went on until he had placed 5 tickets on the windshield… the more I insulted him, the more tickets he wrote. I didn’t care. My car was parked around the corner.
An elderly man 82, just returned from the doctor only to find he didn’t have long to live.
So he summons the three most important people in his life to tell.
1. His Doctor
2. His Priest
3. His Lawyer
“Well, today I found out I don’t have long to live. So I asked you three here because you’re the most important persons in my life. And I need to ask a favor. Today I am going to give each of you an envelope with $50,000 dollars in it. When I die, I would ask that all three of you throw the money in my grave.”
Well a few days later the man passed on, The doctor said, “I have to admit I kept $10,000 dollars of his money, he owed me lots of medical bills. But I threw the other $35,000 in.”
The Priest said, “I have to admit also I kept $25,000 dollars for the church. It’s all going to a good cause. And I threw the rest in.”
Well, the Lawyer just couldn’t believe what he was hearing, “I am surprised at you two. I wrote a check for the whole amount and threw it in.”
I recently spent $16,500 on this registered Black Angus bull.
I put him out with the herd but he just ate grass and wouldn’t even look at a cow.
I was beginning to think I had paid more for that bull than he was worth.
Anyway……I had the Vet come and take a look at him.
He said,, the bull was very healthy, but possibly just a little young, so he gave me some pills to feed him once per day.
The bull started to service the cows within two days……. all my cows!
He even broke through the fence and bred with all of my neighbor’s cows! He’s like a machine!
I don’t know what was in the pills the Vet gave him …
… but they kind of taste like peppermint. 🙂
A little boy came home from the playground with a bloody nose, black eye, and torn clothing.
It was obvious he’d been in a bad fight and lost. While his father was patching him up, he asked his son what happened.
“Well, Dad,” said the boy, “I challenged Larry to a duel. And, you know, I gave him his choice of weapons.”
“Uh-huh,” said the father, “that seems fair.”
“I know, but I never thought he’d choose his big sister!”
Sounds familiar, but opposite for me, I was 19 years old, slightly drunk, being held by this guy and being threatened to have my lights put out, when unexpectedly a fist came from nowhere, connected to his nose which splurted blood on me, and then he dropped to the floor, then I heard my 17 year old sisters voice saying, “No fuck threatens my brother.”
I found out the next day why the guy got irate. I accidentally sat on his girlfriend’s lap instead of the chair next to her, I was aiming for. An honest mistake, but he took extreme offence to it apparently. That’s why my sister waded in and punched his lights out.
LMAO. Thank you. 🤣
🤠😂 A cowboy, who just moved to Wyoming from Texas, walks into a bar and orders three mugs of Bud.
He sits in the back of the room, drinking a sip out of each one in turn.
When he finishes them, he comes back to the bar and orders three more.
The bartender approaches and tells the cowboy, “You know, a mug goes flat after I draw it. It would taste better if you bought one at a time…”
The cowboy replies, “Well, you see, I have two brothers. One is an Airborne Ranger, the other is a Navy Seal, both serving overseas somewhere.
When we all left our home in Texas, we promised that we’d drink this way to remember the days when we drank together.
So I’m drinking one beer for each of my brothers and one for myself.”
The bartender admits that this is a nice custom, and leaves it there.
The cowboy becomes a regular in the bar, and always drinks the same way.
He orders three mugs and drinks them in turn.
One day, he comes in and only orders two mugs. (I know, a tear is coming to my eye too)
All the regulars take notice and fall silent.
When he comes back to the bar for the second round, the bartender says, “I don’t want to intrude on your grief, but I wanted to offer my condolences on your loss.”
The cowboy looks quite puzzled for a moment, then a light dawns in his eyes and he laughs.
“Oh, no, everybody’s just fine,” he explains, “It’s just that my wife and I joined the Baptist Church and I had to quit drinking.”
“Hasn’t affected my brothers though….”
A Jesuit was out for a drive and crashed into another car, only to discover that the other driver was a Franciscan.
“It was my fault,” each insisted—as is only right and proper with religious men.
Concerned, the Jesuit said, “You look badly shaken up, Father. You could probably use a good stiff drink right now to calm down.”
He produced a flask and the Franciscan drank from it and said, “Thank you, Father; I feel much better now. But you’re probably shaken up too. Why don’t you have a drink as well?”
“I will,” the Jesuit replied, “but I think I’ll wait until after the police have come.”
A Sergeant was addressing a squad of 25 and said: “I have a nice easy job for the laziest man here.
A Sergeant was addressing a squad of 25 and said: “I have a nice easy job for the laziest man here.
Put up your hand if you are the laziest.”
24 men raised their hands, and the sergeant asked the other man “why didn’t you raise your hand?”
The man replied: “Too much trouble raising the hand, Sarge.”
A guy walks into the bar of a restaurant and goes to the bartender and asks:
“how much for a beer?”
The bartender replies “$1”.
The customer completely amazed, orders a beer and then asks the bartender “Well then how much for a NY sirloin, with a side of mashed potatoes and salad, and an entire cheesecake for desert?”
The Bartender replies “$5”.
The guy still amazed then orders everything and after he is done eating his meal then says
“Wow, this place is amazing, I really wish I could meet the owner of this place”.
The bartender then says “Oh well, he’s upstairs in his office with my wife”.
The guy looks all confused and then asks “What is he doing upstairs in his office with your wife?”
The bartender then says “The same thing I’m doing to his business”.
If you were a soldier and a fellow soldier is about to rape and kill an entire family for fun, would you shoot him if this was the only way to stop him?
Someone did stop his fellow Americans from continuing to do just that. To me it is the greatest American act of heroism in the Vietnam War.
Hugh Thompson, a Huey gunship pilot, was flying over the village of My Lai to offer, as he thought, air support for Charlie Company. He and his crew started seeing heaps of bodies. Men, women, children, babies, old people.
And when they figured out what was going on, he landed and told Charlie Company if they killed anyone else, he’d order his men to open up on them with the chopper’s .50 caliber machine guns. They stopped. He reported them, and Lt Calley was convicted of war crimes. Thirty years later they gave Thompson a medal.
Some men are just horrible. Given the chance, they will torture, rape, and kill anyone they have the power to abuse.
The human you deposited on Saturn’s moon Titan was a failure for these reasons.
1. Titan’s atmosphere is 94.2% nitrogen, 5.65% methane, and 0.099% hydrogen. Atmospheric pressure is 1.45 atm, so in theory it was possible to allow him to be put there without a pressure suit without problems for a short period of time.
2. On the other hand, the temperature is around -179.2C or -290F on average. Human beings can survive at this temperature for only 1.1 minutes before completely freezing. Yes, they can still enjoy a full minute before completely freezing and they wouldn’t need any sort of space suit.
3. But if you really wanted him to exist in that environment for a whole day, you should have provided him an oxygen tank and a special suit made from airgel materials—the best known to humans for insulating the cold.
He could have used a tank with 70% of the available nitrogen by mixing it with oxygen. Then he would have been able to walk around with a small tank. The low gravity would have given him the impression that as strong as a bull.
But you failed miserably. He didn’t last a minute. Your reward will be to be stationed on a distant star without a suit. Please tell us how long and well you survived in your AAR before you expire.
To that woman,
I saw you. I saw you elbow your husband when we sat down. I saw you stare a hole through the woman that was trying to have a family dinner with the two of us. I saw you laugh. I saw you talk. I smiled at your daughter who made a point to look at us.
I held back hurt. I held back mean words. I also held back the basket of chips I wanted to throw at your table. I’m not oblivious to racism. I’ve sadly prepared myself for that. What’s even more sad is that he is the most gentle, kind hearted, loving man I’ve ever met & he will constantly have to try to prove himself because he chose me.
I don’t give a rats how old you are, how your generation was raised, or where you grew up. WHERE in your upbringing did someone corrupt you so badly that you believe a skin tone sculpts someone’s morals? “It hurts the children.” You’re right it does. It’s not my kids that’s hurting though. It’s the kids having to be raised by people like you.
And to the next person who tries my life: I’m not holding back the chips.”
Credit: Kayla Cofield
Congratulations, sounds as if you have found a good man to go through life with! Haters are always going to hate, ignore them and let God sort it out, he has this little friend we call karma and sooner or later she visits us all. It’s up to us to determine the type of visit she pays us!
Blessings to you both! Jehovah God our Great Creator caused we humans to be unique and be different colours of skin, hair, eyes, etc. The Bible says our God is a god of variety! I rejoice at the fact that our skin/haircolours are so diverse. Celebrate the diversity and love each other!
On your worst day, you both are so far above those sad, rude, judgmental people who miss so much in this life. Enjoy each other and smile…and don’t waste your chips or another thought on bigotry.
Very well said!
I’ve often wondered, and have wanted to ask two questions to people who have a problem with interracial couples.
I got that chance a couple of years ago. At lunch with a few people from work, a couple walked in and were seated.
The dumb ass who surprised me with her stupidity, did a “tsk-tsk” and shook her head, (really? A early twenty something doing the tsk tsk? I was 59 at the time and I never even heard my grandmother tsk tsk!)…so I ask what that was about, she gestured her head towards the couple. I ask, “and? What about them?” She started in about how wrong it is blah blah blah. I was thinking, yes! I get to ask my questions 😁.
I tilted my head and asked her, “so, tell me, just how many nights sleep have you lost over interracial couples?” She looked at me, got indignant and says, “I’ve never lost sleep over those kinds of people, or why they choose to ruin their lives!” Just what I wanted to hear, it opened the door for my next question, then she shut the hell up.
I asked, “then why are you wasting your waking hours worrying about it?”
Such a simple thing, but it felt good to shut, the real ignorant, up.
You’re right about the chips,lol. Bigotry on the other hand is unfortunately a part of daily life for some of us, and difficult to ignore. If more people thought as you do, the world would be a better place.
I am a 67 year old white women who has been married for 46 years to my very handsome Afican American Husband. Most of my friends have gotten divorced, yet, many of them still tell me it was not a good idea to marry a black man. When I ask them how their white ex husbands were so much better, they frown and say he was a serious mistake. Go figure.
Live your life as it’s true onto you……no energy should be wasted on others such as the ones you’re describing…BLESSINGS….:-)
Thomas, Good for your sister to defend you. You made an honest mistake and he should of let it go. He deserved is lights punched out by your sister.
Dennis Rader delivered one of the most terrifying royal sentences I have ever read.
In my opinion, for something to be truly terrifying, it has to have happened in real life or at least have a chance of it happening .
Rader, was nicknamed the “BTK Assassin” letters corresponding to “Bind, Torture and Kill” (Tie, Torture and Kill).
Before being captured, Rader wrote the following sentence in one of his letters to the police:
“I never knew when this monster entered my brain. But what I do know is that it is here to stay…Society can be thankful that there are ways in which people like me can relieve myself, whether in dreams or with imagining that some victim is tortured and mine It is a big complicated game that my friend the monster plays to write down the number of victims, follow them, watch them waiting in the dark, waiting, waiting… Maybe you can stop it. I, I can’t because he has already chosen his next victim.”
A phrase that would make anyone’s hair stand on end. Above all, because it is loaded with sincerity. I’m sure when he wrote those words, Rader was just saying what was happening to him.
When Patricia Stallings’ baby became violently ill in 1989, she immediately took him to the hospital. She was then accused of poisoning him after a test showed high levels of ethylene glycol in his blood — and she was later imprisoned for murder after he died. But an episode of “Unsolved Mysteries” showed that there was more to the case than met the eye.
At the time of Stallings’ arrest, she was expecting another baby, who was instantly placed in protective custody after he was born. But despite having no contact with his mother, he too began to show high levels of ethylene glycol in his blood.
The second child was soon diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder called methylmalonic acidemia. Though this diagnosis should have opened up questions about the death of Stallings’ first child, her lawyer failed to present evidence related to the disorder during her trial. Stallings was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life without parole.
In 1991, “Unsolved Mysteries” aired an episode about her case, and one man who watched the show happened to be a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology. He soon got the opportunity to conduct additional tests on Stallings’ deceased child, confirming that he also had methylmalonic acidemia — and most importantly, that he had not been murdered.
The sad story of how a mother was wrongfully accused of killing her own child
Did You Know?
The arrector pili are small muscles attached to hair follicles in mammals and responsible for goosebumps—when you get goosebumps, the minute muscles pull on the follicle, creating the bump on your skin and raising the hair upwards.
Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called ‘vital interests’. ~Albert Camus
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Most of you don’t know who she is but she’s important. Her name is Latasha Harlins. In 1991, at the ripe age of 15, Latasha went to her local Korean owned food mart and never made it out.
The store owner’s wife, Soon Ja Du, mistook her for trying to steal a bottle of orange juice and a minor struggle ensued. Du grabbed Latasha and ended up getting pushed to the ground. Du then went and got her gun and pointed it at Latasha.
Latasha bends down, picks up the orange juice, and places it on the counter. As Latasha had walked away to leave the store, Du shot Latasha in the back of the head at a 3 foot distance, killing her immediately.
Du tried to claim self defense, but there were 2 eyewitnesses and the store’s security camera showed otherwise. The jury convicted Du and advised the judge to go with the maximum sentence of 16 years.
Du walked away with 400 hours of community service, 5 years probation, and a $500 fine, as the judge said although Mrs. D acted inappropriately, her actions were justified.
Judge Joyce Karlin states that Mrs. Du was the victim, Latasha is the criminal and would be standing in front of her for assault on a store clerk had she not died.
The slaughter of Latasha Harlins is one of major factors in the initiating of the LA Riots. We only hear about Rodney King but she is the original #SayHerName. Tupac had an affinity for Latasha and has mentioned her name in several songs as well as dedicated the iconic song “Keep Ya Head Up” to Latasha.
So today we say Latasha Harlins, you’re a pillar baby girl, whether they realize or not. And today, someone heard ya story❤️
Thank you for sharing this.
When my wife and I married we felt madly in love. Our relationship was perfect. Nothing else in the world mattered. We’d live happily every after.
Then we came home from the honeymoon. And launched full speed into real life.
My first big surprise. Those little idiosyncrasies you thought were so cute when you were dating? They become really annoying. Insanely annoying. Some drove me crazy.
Which brings me to my wife’s first big surprise. How me going crazy over sweating the small stuff was such a short trip.
My second big surprise. How could I feel so madly in love before we were married and some mornings wake up feeling so blah about the whole marriage thing now.
I never asked my wife if she woke up that way. Really didn’t want to know. And she pretends well anyway.
My third big surprise. What great a mother she is to our two kids. She’s amazing.
I bumble around doing my best as dad. She just instinctively knows exactly what to do.
Though, she’s not always sure what to do with her third child. Her husband.
Fourth, big surprise. How we could get so angry with each other over something trivial. Argue. Talk it out. Make up. Oh yeah, make up. And then feel so in love with each other again.
I mean, you can’t make this stuff up. In a movie it’d never be believable.
Fifth, big surprise. After all these years together I’m glad I married her. She’s still the one. And I can’t imagine life without her.
When she leaves for a few days to go babysit our grandson, well shall we say, I don’t do well. But then that’s another story.
My biggest surprise? That marriage is one continual surprise. But then I guess life is too.
Great marriages aren’t built in never changing relationships but in constant surprises.
So Charles say hello to my sister. And how do you like the blog?
Why can’t a pilot just change course or turn sharply to evade an incoming missile?
A very important element that movies and television do not usually show is that anti-aircraft missiles do not explode when they hit the plane.
They explode when close enough for the air blast and shrapnel to destroy the target (61 kg of explosive with a proximity fuse for the AIM 54, for example).
Airplanes are very vulnerable machines, (except the heavily armored ones, but then they aren’t really fast or fly much and are usually dealt with more by air-to-ground guns than missiles (even ATG and AT missiles)), you just need to detonate around than 9 meters to mortally damage them. The direct hit is excessive.
What this means is that much of what Hollywood shows us is dead wrong. It also means that while a pilot can change course or evade a direct hit from an incoming missile, it’s a much more difficult task to get the plane safely out of the blast radius.
There is also the fact that missiles, compared to fighter planes, are very light and do not have any human factors that limit the G-force they must undergo.
They have a higher rate of turn, much faster too, and only need to close in, not hit directly to take out an enemy aircraft.
In conclusion, evasion is more of a last ditch effort and an attempt to minimize damage.
Scott:
A man walks out of a bar and a policeman stops him.
“Sir,” says the cop, “Your eyes look bloodshot – have you been drinking?”
“Officer,” the man slurs, “Your eyes look glazed – have you been eating donuts?”
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John C. Anderson
Cop in southern city or maybe Chicago,responds, “No, but you are going to be eating some ‘Pig’s Knuckles’!”.