Année : 2024

Opinion | Insurance is what makes U.S. health-care prices so high  The Washington Post
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The Week 17 schedule of the 2024 NFL season rolls on with the Chicago Bears hosting the Seattle Seahawks at Soldier Field for Thursday Night Football.
Here’s what you need to know about how to watch the Bears vs the Seahawks on Thursday Night Football, the NFL Week 17 TV schedule and more.
Bears-Seahawks predictions for TNF:Odds and lines
Here is the NFL schedule for Week 17. All times are Eastern:
The Seattle Seahawks and the Chicago Bears will play at 8:15 p.m. ET Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024.
The Seattle Seahawks and the Chicago Bears will air on Amazon Prime at 8:15 p.m. ET Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024.
The Seattle Seahawks and the Chicago Bears will stream on Prime Video at 8:15 p.m. ET Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024. The app is available in the Apple App Store or on Google Play.
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Congress stripped IRS of another $20 billion in government shutdown fight  The Washington Post
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Mexican Cartels Are Using Animals And Poor People To Test Their New Fentanyl Products  LatinTimes
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(LOOTPRESS) – The holiday season just got even more exciting for lottery enthusiasts, as the Mega Millions® jackpot has surged to an estimated $1.15 billion ($516.1 million cash).
With no ticket matching all six numbers in the Christmas Eve drawing, this massive prize now ranks as the fifth-largest jackpot in the game’s history.
The next drawing is scheduled for Friday, December 27.
The numbers drawn on December 24 were 11, 14, 38, 45, and 46, with a gold Mega Ball of 3.
“We know that many people will likely receive tickets to Friday’s drawing as holiday gifts, and what a gift that would turn out to be if you ended up with a ticket worth a $1.15 billion jackpot,” said Joshua Johnston, lead director for the Mega Millions Consortium.
“I can’t think of a better way to celebrate the holidays – whether Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, the Winter Solstice, or any other way people choose to celebrate the season – than by helping fulfill the dreams that come with a prize like this and prizes that will be won at all levels of the game.”
In the Christmas Eve drawing alone, there were 4,292,338 winning tickets across non-jackpot prize tiers.
Four tickets matched the five white balls, earning second-tier prizes. These tickets were sold in California, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and Wyoming.
Additionally, 106 tickets matched four white balls and the Mega Ball, securing the third-tier prize. Of these, 13 included the Megaplier, increasing their winnings to $30,000 each, while the other 93 tickets won $10,000 each.
The jackpot has been climbing since it was last won on September 10 in Texas, with a prize of $810 million.
Over the course of 30 drawings, more than 25.7 million tickets have won prizes across various tiers. These include 60 second-tier prizes of $1 million or more, claimed in 25 different states across the country.
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Lorraine Besser received funding for this research from the Templeton Foundation, in coordination with St. Louis University, and from Middlebury College.

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Imagine it’s Monday morning, too cold and too dark, but once that alarm goes off, you know you’ve got to rally. The kids have to get to school. You’ve got to get to work. And, of course, your ever-growing to-do list hangs over your head like a dark cloud, somehow both too threatening to ignore and too threatening to start its tasks.
On days like this, you may be grateful simply to make it through. But then it begins, all over again.
While you can’t escape the grind, you can transform it. The latest psychological research on the good life points the way: By shifting your mindset, you can make your day-to-day more interesting and create psychological richness within your life. Psychological richness describes a robust form of cognitive engagement. It’s distinct from happiness and meaning, but just as important to the good life.
In collaboration with Shigehiro Oishi and his research lab, I’ve investigated whether the field of positive psychology has largely overlooked an important dimension of the good life. As the philosopher on our team, I had two directives. First, I helped to define the concept of psychological richness and understand what distinguishes it from happiness and meaning. Second, I set out to explore why psychological richness is valuable.
Our initial studies found that people value experiences that stimulate their minds, challenge them and generate a range of emotions. Many would choose a life full of these experiences, which we describe as psychologically rich, over a happy life or a meaningful life.
This insight points to the important role psychological richness can play within the good life, but it stops short of explaining why it’s good and why people ought to make space for psychological richness within their lives. These are value-laden questions that can’t be answered through empirical research. Their answers are found instead through philosophical analysis.
My philosophical analysis suggests that psychological richness is good for you because it’s interesting. My book, “The Art of the Interesting: What We Miss in Our Pursuit of the Good Life and How to Cultivate It,” shows how to add psychological richness to your life by making it more interesting.
One of the easiest ways to do this is by embracing a mindset characterized by curiosity, creativity and what I call “mindfulness 2.0.” When you bring these three perspectives to your day-to-day, you transform the grind into endless opportunities to experience the world as interesting. You develop the capacity to enhance your own life.
What I call “mindfulness 2.0” means bringing nonevaluative awareness to the world around you – paying attention without judging.
Familiar from mindfulness practices, it’s a form of noticing that brings forth details you typically overlook: the texture of a houseplant’s leaves, the faces of the strangers you pass on the sidewalk, the differing heights of the cans on a store shelf. By bringing these details into your awareness, you stimulate your mind, allowing you to engage mentally with your surroundings in an active manner. Noticing things through mindfulness 2.0 is the first step toward having an interesting experience.
A good place to practice mindfulness 2.0 is during your morning commute. Because it’s routine, you probably don’t feel the need to engage much with the details of what you are doing. Instead you’ll find other ways to pass the time, such as listening to the news or your favorite podcast. These activities distract you from the otherwise boring commute by disengaging you from it.
But you can also get through the commute by engaging with it to make it less boring. Here’s where the power of mindfulness 2.0 kicks in. Through actively noticing things around you – be it the people clustered at the bus stop, or the traffic patterns created by a stoplight, or a flock of birds swooping overhead – you engage your mind and set yourself up to experience the interesting.
Curiosity isn’t just for kids. No matter how much you know, there’s always something to be curious about – especially if you’ve learned to notice the details through mindfulness 2.0.
Say you’ve noticed, during your commute, the group of people gathered around the bus stop. Now let your curiosity take off: Was that bus stop always there? How long has that exceptionally weird real estate advertisement been stuck on the seatback? So many people lined up this cold morning. You might wonder if you’d feel a little more connected if you were with them. But then you notice that no one is talking. Do they ride the same bus together, every day, without acknowledging each other?
Through asking questions, you ask your mind to consider something it hadn’t before. You create new thoughts, and if you let your mind keep going, you’ll have an interesting experience, all the while making that same commute. Even better, you’ll have created that interesting experience on your own. You’ve harnessed an ability to enhance your life, an ability that’s completely within your control.
While people often think of creativity as a talent, native only to artists or inventors, everyone has the ability to be creative. Creativity is a skill that involves forming new connections with your mind. You’re creative whenever you do something new or different. Whether it is painting a brilliant landscape or wearing a new color combination, developing a new dish or simply tweaking a recipe, it all falls under the umbrella of creativity.
When you are creative, in big or small ways, you generate novelty within your life, and this puts you on the path toward experiencing psychological richness. Novelty all but forces the mind to think and feel in new ways, stimulating that robust form of cognitive engagement that brings the interesting.
Even just a little bit of creativity will bring novelty to your day-to-day routine. Wear something you don’t normally wear. Add a little flair to your handwriting or choose a different colored pen to write with. Change the patterns on your screen saver. Notice the impact these little tweaks have on your day. Little by little, they’ll add up to make your day just a little more interesting.
Everyone’s experience of what’s interesting is unique. There’s no one interesting experience for all of us, because the interesting depends entirely on how our minds engage, react and respond. Through developing mindfulness 2.0, and bringing curiosity and creativity to your experiences, you train your mind to engage, react and respond in ways that will transform any experience into an interesting one.
This is the power a mindset can bring. It’s a capacity to enhance our lives that anyone can develop.
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Soldier Field: a historic icon of American sports  dazn.com
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In 2024, the Defense Department built on its efforts to deepen ties with the commercial sector, including releasing its first formal strategy to govern cooperation with industry and expanding its use of commercial space imagery.
Here are five of our top national security space stories for the year:  
Pentagon Releases First Commercial Space Strategy: The Pentagon released its first strategy for working more closely with the commercial space sector, which includes plans to boost cooperation during times of peace and protect commercial assets in times of conflict. 
Space Force Turns to TAP Labs To Bridge Tech Gaps: If the Space Force is going to figure out how to get eyes on orbital bogies, it needs the most advanced software devs working on the challenge. But there’s a problem: The military’s launch alert data is too highly-classified to hand over to a bunch of programmers in a start-up. Enter Space Systems’s Command’s Space Domain Awareness Tools, Applications, and Processing Lab.
A Controversial Pilot Program is Expanding the Military’s Use of Commercial Space: A Defense Department pilot program hired private satellite operators to provide intelligence directly to battlefield commanders—and became the newest flashpoint in an argument between the defense and intelligence communities over who should fill the military’s commercial space imagery demands.
The DoD Is Ramping Up Its Commercial Satellite Spend: The Pentagon opened up the spigot for satellite internet providers, increasing the spending ceiling on commercial satellite services over the next four years from $900M to $13B, a Space Systems Command official told Payload.
Space Force Backs Multi-Vehicle Commercial RPO Demos: Rocket Lab and True Anomaly will square off in orbit next year under a demo mission funded by the Space Force, the two companies said.
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As commercial and scientific traffic picks up in space from actors around the world, the US military space community has spent 2024 making sure they’re prepared to secure the flourishing domain.
Rep.-elect Jeff Crank (R-CO) is excited about the future of space—especially, what he can do as a freshman lawmaker to help the commercial space community keep growing.
The combined constellation gives governments the ability to gather insights on multiple geographies at once, while balancing image resolution and cost.
The award suggests that cyber security and broadband SATCOM services have become a central aspect of the DoD’s overall defense strategy.
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