Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Why Men Should Seek Out Older Women
The argument below is broadly reasonable but, like all generalizations, falls short of covering all the cases. I have twice had memorable relationships with women 5 years older than me and I once married a fine woman 11 years older than me. So I have been there and done that. And little of the characteristics described below applied to my much older wife.
My own view is that if you get on well with a woman and share interests that is the main thing. My present girlfriend is 6 years younger than me and the "ex" I see most of is nine years younger than me. So I see a large age range as being workable in relationships. Age should rarely be a big factor. It is the individual that matters
In the US and other parts of the world, women who date younger men are referred to as Pumas or Cougars. Pumas are women under age 40 who date men at least ten years their junior. Cougars are women over age 40 who date men much younger. Some celebrity examples are Cher, Madonna, Jennifer Aniston, Tina Turner, and Julianne Moore.
I find it interesting that women have these titles, but men do not. Like men, mature women are free to explore and date whoever they choose (if the partner is of legal age, of course). As I quickly approach age 40, I have become more confident, free-spirited, and open. I absolutely love who I am in my late 30s. I wear a lot less makeup and a lot more cheetah print (wink).
I have a 32-year-old friend who is currently dating a 58-year-old woman. Yes, she is 26 years his senior (a real Cougar — growl). Interested in his opinion, I asked why he enjoyed dating an older woman. Not surprisingly, his answers mirrored mine. Below I outline why men should seek out mature women to date, marry, or have fun with.
We are better in bed.
Older women are better at sex because we know what works and what we want. Older women are great teachers and lovers in the bedroom. We are not shy about communicating what we need to climax. Additionally, we are no longer faking orgasms. Ain’t nobody got time for that.
Like our male counterparts, we have years of experience; we know what works and does not. If something is not working, we will let you know. If something is working, we will let you know. We know how to use our words. This is important for a pleasurable sexual experience. If you are tired of banging a dead fish, you might wanna get yourself a Cougar.
We are more refined.
Let me ask you a question. Do you prefer a wine that has been aging for 2 years or one that has been aging for 15 years? Women 40 plus are more refined, robust, confident, and bold. Like wine, women get better with age.
With age, our confidence grows, and we no longer need or desire the opinions of others for validation. We know who we are and do not turn to anyone for approval. This confidence is difficult to explain, but it is powerful and sexy.
We know what we want.
Unlike younger women, we know what we want and how to go after it. Like a Cougar in the wild, we snatch it up with confidence. We don’t play young girl games. We see it, we like it, and we go for it.
With this, we are very straightforward. If we want sex, a relationship, or marriage — we will inform you promptly. There is no need for guessing games. Women in their 20s are unsure of who they are, what they want, or where they want to be in life. We have been there, and done that.
Additionally, we are not as self-absorbed. Many women 40 plus have married, divorced, been in long-term relationships, or raised children. They are selfless, kind, and generous. This builds strong character and makes them more thoughtful and caring.
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Children who play video games are MORE intelligent than their peers, study suggests
There have been many studies with this conclusion but I suppose it does not hurt to mention another one
Parents often think of them as a waste of time, but playing video games may actually boost children's intelligence.
A study found those who game for three or more hours a day on average performed better in cognitive and memory tests than their peers.
Gaming has long been associated with violence, antisocial behaviors and health problems in young people.
But researchers have found it may actually be beneficial for the brain development of children.
Youngsters had their brains scanned while they performed a series of tests that tested their reaction time, problem solving and memory.
Not only did the children achieve better scores, they also had more activity in regions of the brain responsible for each function.
Dr Nora Volkow, the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), which funded the study, said: 'Numerous studies have linked video gaming to behavior and mental health problems.
'This study suggests that there may also be cognitive benefits associated with this popular pastime, which are worthy of further investigation.'
More than six in ten children in the US and UK are estimated to play video games.
In the study — published today in the journal JAMA Network Open — scientists at the University of Vermont analyzed data from 2,078 American children.
Children were asked how long they spent playing video games every day, and then were then divided into two groups.
In total, 1,278 said they never played video games, while 800 reported using them for at least three hours a day.
They're popular for getting adrenaline pumping, while carrying none of the risk of war.
But playing action-packed games like Call of Duty can be deadly for children with heart conditions, scientists warn.
Electronic gaming can kick-start life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias in children with no history of health problems, a landmark study has found.
Experts said adrenalin surges from the excitement of playing can prove lethal to some youngsters with often-undiagnosed heart problems.
Researchers from The Heart Centre for Children, Sydney, Australia, studied the cases of 22 children who suffered with sudden loss of consciousness while playing video games.
They found multiplayer war gaming was the most frequent trigger, resulting in an 'emotionally charged' state amongst players.
Some children having died following a cardiac arrest with several heart rhythm conditions later diagnosed, putting the surviving children at continued risk if they kept playing.
For comparison, the American Association of Pediatrics (AAP) says children should not game for more than two hours a day.
Every child was given a functional MRI scan to measure their brain activity.
In the scan, participants lay face-up in a long tubular magnet wearing a digital pair of goggles similar to a VR headset.
They completed two tests, which were shown to them using the goggles.
In the first — known as a stop-signal task — participants watched for arrows that were pointing left or right, pressing a corresponding button when they saw them.
They were also told to not press anything when they were shown an arrow that was pointing upwards.
In the second — known as an 'n-back' test —, children were asked to memorize an image of a building and then press a button when they saw a match for it in a stream of cards they were shown.
In the arrow test response times were significantly faster among gamers compared to non-gamers.
It took 307 milliseconds (ms) for non-gamers to stop when they were shown an upwards facing arrow on average, compared 299ms for non-gamers.
They also took about 550ms to press the right button after seeing an arrow facing left or right, compared to 515ms in the gamers group.
In the image test non-gamers took 1070ms to hit the button saying they had seen a match, while gamers took 1021ms.
There are 1,000 milliseconds in one second.
Scans showed children who played video games had more activity in the precuneus region of the brain on average — associated with attention and memory.
They also had more activity in the gyri — which can also be associated with suppressing impulses — than those in the non-gaming group.
The researchers said playing the games may improve attention and impulse control because the games require practicing these skills.
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No sugar-coating from Sunak as he warns Britain faces ‘profound’ economic crisis
London: After years of being told the “gloomsters”, “doomsters” and proponents of “project fear” were the real enemy of the public, British politics is about to get a healthy dose of reality.
Rishi Sunak, on his first day on the job, was no longer prepared to sugar-coat the contents of the in-tray he had just inherited.
Until recently, former prime minister Boris Johnson liked to boast that Britain was “the fastest-growing economy in the G7”. It was never really a statement worth taking seriously because if you bend and fudge numbers enough you can get them to tell you exactly what you want.
Standing outside No.10 Downing Street, Sunak was prepared to tell it straight. “Right now our country is facing a profound economic crisis,” he said. “The aftermath of COVID still lingers. Putin’s war in Ukraine has destabilised energy markets and supply chains the world over. “This will mean difficult decisions to come.”
Whether Britain falls into an outright recession or not, this year has already seen the biggest drop in living standards on record and a tough trading environment for businesses.
The OECD expects Britain’s economy to perform worse next year (zero per cent GDP growth) than that of any other developed country except for sanctions-hit Russia.
In its view, high inflation will continue to squeeze household incomes while the government raises taxes and the Bank of England hikes interest rates.
The result will be a downright dismal economic climate. Domestic spending is weighed down by falling real incomes, the export environment is tough and business investment is drying up as firms are ever more cautious about the outlook.
Sunak, of course, doesn’t have clean hands. He presided over the economy and massive spending for almost three years. But the 49 days of Liz Truss have made a bad situation even worse. And Britain, once again, looks like the sick man of Europe.
Former Bank of England government Mervyn King offered some free advice to politicians the world over at the weekend when he said it was “time to front up”.
“Have a narrative that explains to people the consequence of a) allowing inflation to pick up; b) confronting Russia and supporting Ukraine, which has reduced our national standard of living; and c) the need to help future generations cope with the increased national debt we are leaving to them,” King told the BBC, adding that taxes will have to rise if public spending remains at the same levels.
Sunak appears to have drawn a line under the delusion of the past few years and is setting out a narrative as to how he will deal with the problems at hand.
While acknowledging Truss’ “restlessness to create change” he said “some mistakes were made”. “Not borne of ill will or bad intentions. Quite the opposite, in fact. But mistakes, nonetheless,” he said, conceding it was now his task to “fix them”.
“The government I lead will not leave the next generation, your children and grandchildren, with a debt to settle that we were too weak to pay ourselves,” he said.
The task is immense because the underlying factors of Britain’s decline have been left unaddressed for too long. Economic growth for much of the past decade has been low.
Poor productivity has been a major factor behind the limited growth in gross domestic product, the measure of the quantity of goods and services produced, and a flat-lining of average real wages.
Britain is not the only country to face a slowdown in productivity growth, but the record of the UK is one of the lowest in the G20. All this has been somewhat masked by the fact unemployment has continued to fall and employment to rise.
Unemployment declined from almost 8.5 per cent in 2011 to just 3.9 per cent on the eve of the pandemic in 2020.
Sunak moving into No 10 is a step back to sanity but no one should be in any doubt about the scale of the challenges that lie ahead.
Putting aside the short-term issues, there are plenty of long-term concerns about the economy - the costs of Brexit, a lack of skilled labour, and a lack of investment in both public sector infrastructure and business investment, which would enable a boost in competitiveness and productivity.
Firms exporting to Europe are now faced with an increase in regulation, customs forms and charges for selling goods in the EU. The Office for Budget Responsibility claims the effects of Brexit will cut GDP by 4 per cent – this is up to £100 billion ($179b) in lost output and £40 billion ($71b) less revenue to the Treasury.
Sunak has acknowledged the task at hand. And at a time when Britons have grown tired of being treated as fools, getting on with the job and fixing everything is perhaps the only choice he has.
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Australian budget 2022: Treasurer Jim Chalmers warns of deep spending cuts, more taxes
Amid all the talk, the grim reality is obvious. The government continues to spend up big and there will be no halt to to the rise in cost of living. Given the spending committments that the government treated as baked-in, no other budget was possible.
The government will continue to print money to cover its excess spending so more inflation is coming. Australians are in for a grim trot. Only people who get their savings out of money (e.g. buy company shares) are going to have any hope of protecting them. Only a big cut in government spending could have stopped the rise in cost of living -- but that was never on the cards
The Treasurer laid the ground for deeper cuts in the future but provided no additional cost of living support for struggling households other than existing policies offering cheaper childcare and medicines that won’t begin until next year.
Delivering Labor’s first budget since 2013, Dr Chalmers told The Australian it was yet to be determined how the government would tackle the structural deficit but signalled there would be a combination of new taxes and spending cuts.
“We’ve always seen this as the first of three or four budgets this term,” Dr Chalmers said.
“We set that up deliberately. We’re putting the foundations down. There’s an element of conditioning people to understand that we’ve had budgets for a really long time now where there hasn’t been a savings effort.
“There hasn’t been an effort to return commodity-fuelled revenue upgrades. We’ve made a good start because we’ve done something different in those revenue upgrades; we’ve done something different on savings. That’s a good start.”
The budget papers paint a pessimistic debt and deficit picture over the decade, with $11bn in higher deficits expected in 2024-25 and 2025-26. As a proportion of GDP, the deficit is worse in 2032-33 than the current financial year. Treasury also warns the nation risks falling into recession should key budget assumptions prove too optimistic, with growth slumping to just 0.75 per cent next financial year if inflation peaks one percentage point higher in December or the global downturn is more severe.
Treasury warned of a double whammy effect, noting the downside scenarios for both growth and unemployment from higher inflation at home “would be greater if these risks occurred simultaneously with global risks”.
Treasury expects sharp spikes from 2026-27 in the cost of the ballooning NDIS and servicing debt, which will peak in mid-2026 at $1.16 trillion or 43.1 per cent of GDP.
In a shock for households and businesses, retail electricity prices will increase by an average of 20 per cent nationally in late 2022 and a further 30 per cent in 2023-24. Domestic wholesale gas prices will remain more than double their average prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with retail gas prices increasing by up to 20 per cent in both 2022-23 and 2023-24.
The budget said electricity and gas prices were expected to directly contribute 0.75 per cent and one percentage point to inflation in 2022–23 and 2023–24 respectively.
Dr Chalmers said the government would take action in the market to keep prices lower.
“Any responsible government facing these sort of price hikes needs to consider a broader suite of regulatory intervention than they might have considered in times gone by,” he said.
Peter Dutton said millions of Australians would pay the price for a “big-taxing, big-spending” budget. The Business Council of Australia, Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Australian Industry Group said more must be done to drive economic growth and tackle structural spending pressures.
Rental costs will jump “considerably” in the next two years and fuel inflation amid stronger population growth and limited housing stock. A new housing accord between governments, investors and industry announced by Dr Chalmers on Tuesday, backed with an initial $350m pledge, has an ambition of building “one million new, well-located homes over five years from 2024”.
Dr Chalmers said the accord must be driven by the market, despite concerns that cashed-up superannuation funds will struggle to deliver investment returns for members.
Finance Minister Katy Gallagher, whose pre-budget audit slashed $22bn from Coalition-era programs which were redirected to fund Labor policies, told The Australian the trajectory of budget pressures were “keeping her up”.
Senator Gallagher’s audit sets up a fight with Nationals and regional Liberal MPs after the budget canned dozens of Coalition projects and grants programs and redirected a chunk of $6.5bn in infrastructure savings to climate change projects.
In his first budget speech, Dr Chalmers told parliament that 92 per cent of the $132.5bn in upgraded tax receipts over the next four years had been banked.
But the budget sugar hit, which cut the 2022-23 deficit by $41bn to $36.9bn, is expected to unravel ahead of the 2025 federal election as unemployment and inflation spike and wages and economic growth stagnate.
Compared with the pre-election fiscal outlook, Labor’s policy decisions have added $9.7bn to the budget bottom line. Treasury projects tax-to-GDP levels of 24.1 per cent by 2032-33, which ends the Coalition-era policy of maintaining taxes within a 23.9 per cent tax-to-GDP cap.
Dr Chalmers painted a grim outlook for Australians who “know there are hard days to come and hard decisions to accompany them”, as Russia’s war in Ukraine, China’s slowdown, higher interest rates and inflation bite. He released a “five-point plan for cost-of-living relief” amid growing political pressure on Labor to deliver on their promises to slash $275 from electricity bills by 2025 and lift wages.
The $5.4bn changes to childcare subsidies start from July next year, cheaper medicines from January and the full paid parental leave scheme from 2026. Labor’s five-point plan also includes “more affordable housing and getting wages moving again”.
In his speech, Dr Chalmers lamented that real wages were lower now than 10 years ago.
“Wages are growing faster now than they were before the election, but that welcome news is tempered by rising electricity prices and grocery bills eating into pay packets,” he said.
“When that inflation moderates, real wages are expected to start growing again in 2024.
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http://dissectleft.blogspot.com (DISSECTING LEFTISM)
http://edwatch.blogspot.com (EDUCATION WATCH)
http://antigreen.blogspot.com (GREENIE WATCH)
http://australian-politics.blogspot.com (AUSTRALIAN POLITICS)
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http://jonjayray.com/blogall.html More blogs
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