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It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… Granny? One grandma took her family by surprise by getting on the indoor zip line at her great-grandson’s birthday. Based on the adorable video her granddaughter posted, it looks like the elderly lady had the best time! A TikTok user shared the most incredible footage of her grandma fearlessly riding a zip line at a birthday party. The look of pure delight on the woman’s face as she soared over the room was just too precious. Imagine being that gutsy in your eighties! “It’s all fun and games til your 84-year-old grandmother decides to go zip lining at her great grandson’s birthday party,” wrote the elderly woman’s granddaughter in her video. “She’s not your average granny.” @mrswacha Everyone should live a day in Granny’s world. The men are all handsome and she doesnt feel a day over 30. ♬ Live Your Life – T.I. In her caption, the creator added that her grandma has an amazing outlook on life in general. “Everyone should live a day in Granny’s world,” she joked. “The men are all handsome and she doesn’t feel a day over 30.” This zip-lining grandma is going viral the internet! There were so many wholesome comments on this viral video. Lots of users wrote that they wanted to be just like this brave, zip line-riding grandma. Additionally, many others added sweet stories about their own courageous grandparents. “I wanna be her when I get older,” one person wrote. “She looked so happy.” “Granny is living her best life,” said another. “I want this level of happiness when I’m old.” Screengrab from TikTok One proud grandchild chimed in with a few words about their great-grandmother, who had a similar lust for life. “My great grandma went parasailing in Mexico at 82,” they commented. “She died at 104 1/2. She said the 1/2 was important.” It’s so inspiring to watch this grandma get right on the zip line without being scared. We want to be just like her when we grow up! You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Forever Young: 84-Yr-Old Grandma Hops On Zip Line At Grandson’s Birthday Party appeared first on InspireMore.

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It is expected that powerful solar storms could significantly disrupt the operation of communications satellites and could even damage the Hubble Space Telescope. On May 10 and 11, the Earth was covered by a strong geomagnetic storm of level G5, which caused multiple disruptions in the operation of communications and energy systems on Earth. But scientists believe that more powerful solar storms are expected in the near future. In this case, a geomagnetic storm may occur, which is comparable in power to the event that occurred in 1859, which caused the collapse of communications on the planet. Perhaps new storms will lead to even worse consequences, writes the Daily Mail. According to Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, powerful eruptions on the Sun will continue until 2025. It is in the middle of next summer, as the scientist suggests, that the so-called solar maximum will occur. That is, the peak of solar activity, when a huge number of sunspots appear on the surface of the star, provoking the most powerful solar flares. According to McDowell, in the next year or more, we can easily expect the emergence of the strongest geomagnetic storms on Earth, which are caused by emissions of radiation and plasma from the surface of the Sun. Scientists who monitor space weather believe that by July 2025, more than 100 sunspots will appear on the Sun, while at the solar minimum, which occurred 5 years ago, there were almost none Given that the last major geomagnetic storm was caused by eruptions in a sunspot that was even larger than the one that triggered the 1859 geomagnetic storm, the scientist expects that a similar event could happen again in the near future. 165 years ago, due to a severe geomagnetic storm throughout the Earth, telegraph communications were turned off and the operation of compasses on ships was disrupted. It is believed that future impacts of the Sun on the Earth may be comparable to this event or even cause greater damage. Scientists who monitor space weather believe that by July 2025, more than 100 sunspots will appear on the Sun, while at the solar minimum, which occurred 5 years ago, there were almost none. But now the number of sunspots on the Sun is growing and thus an increasing number of flares and plasma ejections (coronal mass ejections) are occurring. The stronger the eruptions on the Sun, the greater the negative impact they have on the operation of communication satellites and energy systems on Earth. According to McDowell, satellites are already feeling this impact, because the density of the upper atmosphere increases and it is more difficult for satellites to move, which can lead to their fall, or at least to a change in their trajectory. Even the Hubble Space Telescope, due to strong solar storms, as scientists have found, will most likely end its work earlier, because its orbit is decreasing. Also, strong radiation negatively affects the operation of telescope instruments. McDowell believes that in the near future, due to increased solar activity, we can expect even more negative consequences for technologies on Earth and in low-Earth orbit. The post Strongest solar storm in 165 years predicted to hit Earth appeared first on Anomalien.com.

On the front page of Saturday’s New York Times came the headline “Some Christians Seek Truce in the Gender Wars.” A better headline: “Some Christians Seek Surrender in the Gender Wars.” Online, the Times headline is trying to suggest that the surrendering Christians are still “conservative” somehow as they “create space”: Some Conservative Christians Are Stepping Away From the Gender Wars Far from the shouting, Christian therapists, writers, parents and their trans children are trying to create a space within conservative circles to acknowledge differences in how people experience gender. The overwhelming theme of this Ruth Graham article is that the conservative Christians need to “Embrace the Journey” away from traditional Christianity, to cite a group that’s prominently featured. The story began with the journey of evangelicals Andrew and Debbie James and their trans “daughter” and how they had to leave the church they were in. The Times pitched the war as “vociferous opposition” versus quiet, “earnest searches for understanding.” Apparently, the Left can never be "vociferous." They are "far from the shouting." Some Christians have fought against expanding gender norms with vociferous opposition to everything from drag shows to hormone treatments. In churches and Christian schools, transgender people have been mocked, kicked out and denied communion. Transgender young people from conservative Christian families have shared stories of being banished from homes and relationships, often with devastating effects on their mental health. In many ways, conservative Christians have become the face of the American anti-trans movement. But in the quieter spaces of church sanctuaries, counseling offices and living rooms, there are earnest searches for understanding. The story is almost unanimous with counselors and LGBTQ "Christians" pushing transgenderism against tradition. Mary Rice Hasson is the only nod to actual conservatism, surfacing in paragraph 26: “You can see something happening that’s shaping how we understand the nature of the human person,” said Mary Rice Hasson, a senior fellow at the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center, where she directs a program whose aim is in part to help parents “counter gender ideology.” Ms. Hasson, who is Catholic, described recent cultural shifts around gender as upending fundamental assumptions about the universe: “Can you trust your senses? When you see something, can you name it, does it have an objective reality? Or is there no truth?” Before that, Graham acknowledges where the Bible is clear about God's creation of male and female, but also goes looking for wiggle room:  Christian advocates for transgender people point out that the Bible depicts a surprising range of gender diversity without apparent judgment. Jacob, a patriarch of the nation of Israel, is described as a “smooth” young man who stays in the family’s tent and is favored by God over his more traditionally masculine brother, the hunter Esau. Jesus says in the Gospel of Matthew that some men are born eunuchs. The Times sees their mission as leading the formerly conservative Christians like Andrew and Debbie James into a compassionate sense of confusion. The story ends like this:  Their worries now are about the political climate hostile to their daughter, and the fact that both their children have walked away from Christianity. For so long, “we were good little soldiers,” Mrs. James said. Now, “we live in the gray.”

The housing crisis continues to worsen in the U.S. and flatten young Americans' hopes of buying a home, but a new proposal being touted by President Joe Biden would actually make it worse, at least according to some experts. Housing affordability in the U.S. is at its worst level in 40 years, according to a report from Redfin. Higher mortgage interest rates, low housing inventory, and skyrocketing housing prices have forced more and more Americans to give up their dream of owning a home. A Redfin survey of homeowners and renters found that 64.2% of respondents said that the lack of housing affordability makes them feel negative about the economy. A majority, 53%, said that housing affordability will affect who they vote for in November, which likely hurts the incumbent president. While Biden acknowledged the housing crisis in his State of the Union address in March and claimed that Democrats were working to "bring housing costs down for good," one of his policy prescriptions is likely to make the situation far worse. 'Housing prices will increase and mortgage payments will increase.' Blaze Media spoke to real estate economist Ken Johnson, who explained why the president's plan would almost certainly lead to housing being less affordable, not more. The plan as outlined by Biden is to give first-time and repeat homebuyers a tax credit that amounts to $400 per month for two years in order to help them pay the mortgage. The Biden administration estimates the program could help as many as 3.5 million families in the middle class. "This is just providing money to a segment of the society that perhaps rightfully needs the extra funding, but it allows them to go out and bid more. That just means the government will be pumping money into the economy," said Johnson. "So some buyers will able to go out and pay more, and as a consequence prices will rise very quickly. It's going to be inflationary, and it's going to be inflationary in the face of high interest rates," he added. "What is going to happen is housing prices will increase and mortgage payments will increase." Johnson addressed the argument that the subsidy would target personal home buyers and give them an advantage over corporations and other companies that purchase single-family homes. "The problem is that the vast majority of home buyers are already individuals; it's going to be families, it's going to be households," he explained. "If you give everyone $400 to buy automobiles, then the price of automobiles will rise by $400. It will all be inflationary." Others agree with this assessment. "In a best-case scenario, this tax credit gives builders enough confidence to keep building," said Realtor.com chief economist Danielle Hale, according to SFGate. But, she adds, "without the supply boost, this tax credit could bring out more buyers, there aren’t more homes for sale, and home prices go up."Ed Pinto, the co-director of the Housing Center at the American Enterprise Institute, added to the criticism. "Over the years, the government has done a great job at juicing demand but has failed miserably at increasing supply. This is especially true when housing supply is as tight," Pinto said, according to SFGate. Johnson also pointed out that the proposal runs counter to what the Federal Reserve Board is trying to do by forcing inflation higher when the Fed is actively trying to keep inflation from rising above a 2% rate while keeping unemployment steady. "We'll get there eventually, but this would not help, and it would work against the Fed mandates, quite honestly," he added. He went on to say that the Biden administration is banking on the proposal not passing and just wants to mollify the public into believing Democrats tried to do something to help the housing crisis. "I don't think this will pass," said Johnson. "Both sides make these kinds of electioneering promises that never pass. It's really a coin toss between the two parties as to which side actually has the better housing record."Is there any solution to the housing crisis? Johnson says the key to easing the housing crisis is simply building more housing units. "What would help more than anything else would be for the government to make it easier to build units that are for sale or for rent. We simply need to be able to build more units," he explained. While there are many obstacles to increasing housing, Johnson said previously successful efforts in doing so could be a guide for today. "We've solved these problems once before. In the decades after World War II, we came up with the Fair Housing Act and funded Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, in order to fund mortgages on houses built to improved standards," he continued. "You know how people say homes aren't built the way they used to be? Well, it's true, because the old ones all fell down!" Johnson joked.He went on to explain that federal plans in the past had succeeded in increasing housing stock but that the current situation made it almost impossible to replicate. "If I could wave a magic wand, I think I would increase the number of major developers. In the old days before the last housing crash, we had tens of thousands of builders around the country. Okay, they're not there today. They're just not there today. So we don't have the ability to gear up and produce massive numbers and to be competitive, quite honestly," he continued. He said the federal government should focus on easing restrictions on developers and providing incentives for large-scale building. "Now all of a sudden, we have tens of thousands more of small builders that are out there, that could be competitive, and they could be more responsive to market needs. It certainly would help to be able to bring a home to to actual construction in a shorter period of time," Johnson said. "But, you know, that's a lot of wishful thinking right now," he added. "There's really nothing we can do in the short term right now, except for to encourage the construction of more properties, whether it be multi-family rentals or single-family residences. We just need more units." Johnson has concluded that Biden's housing plan was unserious at best and counterproductive at worst."This is simply an inflationary proposal," he said. "This was just a political promise that both sides know they won't actually have to deliver on." While many were hopeful that the Fed would lower rates in 2024 after inflation slowed, mortgage interest rates have remained stubbornly high. Without a magic bullet to ease the housing crisis immediately before the election, it is likely that housing will continue to be a thorn in Biden's presidential campaign. Blaze Media reached out to Biden's top economic adviser for comment but did not receive a response. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!