Saturday, December 13

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5Mar By adminNo Comments
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Tom Llamas Will Take Over For Lester Holt On ‘NBC Nightly News’

“Anchoring “NBC Nightly News” is a profound honor and one that carries tremendous responsibility,” Llamas said in a news release. “I look forward to working with the world class journalists at ‘Nightly News’ and ’Top Story′ to bring viewers the most important stories every night.” Llamas called Holt, who is stepping down to go full time at NBC’s “Dateline,” a “great man” and “one of the most trusted broadcasters.” Llamas said he will be “devoted” to viewers and “dedicated to the truth,” “just like” Holt. Llamas began his career with NBC News 25 years ago. He rejoined NBC News in 2021 as a senior national correspondent. He is a regular fill-in anchor on “NBC Nightly News” and a reporter on “Today.” Previously, he worked as ABC’s chief national affairs correspondent and anchored the wee...
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27Feb By adminNo Comments
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You’ve heard all about artificial intelligence and its amazing capabilities. Here’s how you can put it to work in your home

ChatGPT brought artificial intelligence into the mainstream. It's one of the fastest-growing apps of all time, and has led the way for millions of other AI products to emerge. AI has fundamentally changed the way we search online, with Google's lucrative top front page real estate now dedicated to the AI Overview -- and people are even using ChatGPT to answer their queries instead of Google. AI chatbots like ChatGPT will continue to transform how we consume, create and communicate online. While AI innovation is progressing quickly, it's important to understand the fundamentals of how ChatGPT works to navigate the ecosystem of tools. With that in mind, here's your ChatGPT 101 class. 
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27Feb By adminNo Comments
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Retired teacher, firefighter, police officer or recipient of a public pension? You’ll be getting big bucks from new benefits of Biden’s Social Security Fairness Act

Millions of retired teachers, firefighters, police officers and others with public pensions will be reaping the benefits of the recently passed Social Security Fairness Act sooner than first projected, federal officials announced. The Social Security Administration (SSA) said it was immediately beginning to pay retroactive benefits and will increase monthly payments starting in April to the more than 3.2 million people affected by a law signed in January by former President Biden, who said it would mean an average monthly increase of $360 for more than 2.5 million Social Security recipients. Decades in the making, the Social Security Fairness Act expanded benefits for millions by eliminating two federal policies that barred employees with a public pension from collecting their full be...
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24Feb By adminNo Comments
Elders Voice

“I won’t be out on the street with a tin cup if I sell my apartment, but I don’t want to have to do that.”

Dorri Olds, a 61-year-old freelance writer and graphic designer, says she has spent nearly all her savings to refurbish her New York City apartment. In an emergency, she says she would sell it and consider retiring outside the U.S., possibly in a country like Costa Rica.But she is also a caretaker for her 89-year-old mother, who lives a half hour away in Manhattan's Upper West Side. Olds sees how her mother's health is declining, and worries that she, too, may have health issues as she ages."Ideally, I would wait until 70 to collect Social Security; that's when you get the most money," Olds says. "But I'm also panicked that politicians may gut it. I'm working harder to get more freelance jobs."Running Out of Money in RetirementOlds' concerns about waiting to collect Social...
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26Dec By adminNo Comments
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It is the stress of life’s difficulties that creates our ‘diamond self.’ 

Without pressure, carbon can never become diamond.  If you think you cannot stand the pressure, then you do not know that you are a human being.  The human body has been made to withstand extreme pressure to crystalize the consciousness.As Buddha reminds us, we are all born to suffer, not in the sense of living a life of misery, but in recognition that we are unlikely not to experience great sorrow and painful disappointment in the course of our lives.  Loss is inevitable.  Our capacity for responding to it with resiliency is up to us.The challenge is to surrender to reality.  We can focus on what is lost, or we can put our emphasis on the possibilities that might open to us.The pressures inherent to the realities of life are ever present, as are the choices...
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15Feb By adminNo Comments
The Senior Slant

What tech gadgets should every home have?

The world is changing and evolving at a tremendous pace. Technology has changed the way we work, how we communicate and socialize with one another, and the way we get information. Technology has even opened up new avenues for making money or breaking into a new industry. It seems like there’s no end to what technology can do to improve our lives. So what about in our homes? Every year, new tech products can make life at home so much easier. This article will look at some of the tech gadgets that everyone should have in their home! [Read more]
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8Feb By adminNo Comments
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Sentimentality is not the source of love

The romantic myth of Valentine’s Day would have you believe that your love is delivered in a box of chocolates or bouquet of flowers. The cards offer rhymes and flowery prose, proclaiming how wonderful it is to be in love; gushing over times together when feelings are so intense, we feel overwhelmed in bliss.  And therein lies the myth and the danger of Valentine sentimentality.It is self-love that provides the foundation for loving others.Self-love does not mean being a narcissist, overly involved with yourself and lacking compassion for others.  Self-love is about being aware of your needs, setting boundaries and believing you are both loveable and worthy of being loved.Your love for yourself allows you to feel positive about the person you are, enabling you in turn...
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26Jan By adminNo Comments
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Pretend you are dying; then don’t

Do you remember your life, the all-encompassing chronology of buoyant first kisses and rancorous last words, grateful births and grievous deaths, promises made and vows un-kept?Supposedly, just before you die, your entire life flashes in front of your eyes, the scenes blinking like strobe lights as the years roll by.  “My Life,” the movie, playing for the final time in Death’s screening room, unabridged, nothing left out.According to the Hindu-Buddhist philosophy of soul transmigration, the life you’re about to exit contains within it a lesson to be learned before you can take the next step along the path to enlightenment.  In the nanosecond of linear time that it takes to pass from human to humus God has to determine if you need Remedial Compassion 101 or if you’re ...
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