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One: Marriage benefits men much more than women.
Contrary to earlier and widely publicized reports, recent research finds men and women to benefit about equally from marriage, although in different ways. Both men and women live longer, happier, healthier and wealthier lives when they are married. Husbands typically gain greater health benefits while wives gain greater financial advantages.
Having children typically brings a married couple closer together and increases marital happiness.
Many studies have shown that the arrival of the first baby commonly has the effect of pushing the mother and father farther apart, and bringing stress to the marriage. However, couples with children have a slightly lower rate of divorce than childless couples.
The keys to long-term marital success are good luck and romantic love.
Rather than luck and love, the most common reasons couples give for their long-term marital success are commitment and companionship. They define their marriage as a creation that has taken hard work, dedication and commitment (to each other and to the institution of marriage). The happiest couples are friends who share lives and are compatible in interests and values.
The more educated a woman becomes, the lower are her chances of getting married.
A recent study based on marriage rates in the mid-1990s concludes that today's women college graduates are more likely to marry than their non-college peers, despite their older age at first marriage. This is a change from the past, when women with more education were less likely to marry.
Couples who live together before marriage, and are thus able to test how well suited they are for each other, have more satisfying and longer-lasting marriages than couples who do not.
Many studies have found that those who live together before marriage have less satisfying marriages and a considerably higher chance of eventually breaking up. One reason is that people who cohabit may be more skittish of commitment and more likely to call it quits when problems arise. But in addition, the very act of living together may lead to attitudes that make happy marriages more difficult. The findings of one recent study, for example, suggest "there may be less motivation for cohabiting partners to develop their conflict resolution and support skills.
People can't be expected to stay in a marriage for a lifetime as they did in the past because we live so much longer today.
Unless our comparison goes back a hundred years, there is no basis for this belief. The enormous increase in longevity is due mainly to a steep reduction in infant mortality. And while adults today can expect to live a little longer than their grandparents, they also marry at a later age. The lifespan of a typical, divorce-free marriage, therefore, has not changed much in the past fifty years. Also, many couples call it quits long before they get to a significant anniversary: half of all divorces take place by the seventh year of a marriage.
Marrying puts a woman at greater risk of domestic violence than if she remains single.
Contrary to the proposition that for men "a marriage license is a hitting license," a large body of research shows that being unmarried—and especially living with a man outside of marriage—is associated with a considerably higher risk of domestic violence for women. One reason for this finding is that married women may significantly under report domestic violence. Further, women are less likely to marry and more likely to divorce a man who is violent. Yet it is probably also the case that married men are less likely to commit domestic violence because they are more invested in their wives' wellbeing, and more integrated into the extended family and community.
Married people have less satisfying sex lives, and less sex, than single people.
According to a large-scale national study, married people have both more and better sex than do their unmarried counterparts. Not only do they have sex more often, but they enjoy it more, both physically and emotionally.
Cohabitation is just like marriage, but without "the piece of paper."
Cohabitation typically does not bring the benefits—in physical health, wealth, and emotional wellbeing—that marriage does. In terms of these benefits cohabitants in the United States more closely resemble singles than married couples. This is due, in part, to the fact that cohabitants tend not to be as committed as married couples, and they are more oriented toward their own personal autonomy and less to the wellbeing of their partner.
Because of the high divorce rate, which weeds out the unhappy marriages, people who stay married have happier marriages than people did in the past when everyone stuck it out, no matter how bad the marriage.
According to what people have reported in several large national surveys, the general level of happiness in marriages has not increase and probably has declined slightly. Some studies have found in recent marriages, compared to those of twenty or thirty years ago, significantly more work-related stress, more marital conflict and less marital interaction.


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Don and Kookie met in Kookie's sophomore year of high school (Don was a jr.) and they were the very best of friends.
They had their first date about a year later on Halloween (maybe that's why they both loved that holiday so much).
Don graduated one year before Kookie and during the summer entered the A F, training at Lackland AFB in San Antonio. After basic and a leave he was sent to Indiana University to study the Russian arts, life, and became a linguist. Kookie did not see Don for 10 months while he was at Bloomington, Indiana. However, they always knew they were going to be married.
Don wrote many letters and when he saved up enough to call Kookie he would. Of course they weren't very long conversations! So, through correspondence with his parents (they didn't have a phone) he got them to give permission for a legal document which they signed in order for Kookie to go to the court house and get the license. Since Kookie was under aged, she and her mother went and got it. Don arrived home by bus from Indiana at 5:30 PM on August 6, 1960 and by 7:30 PM they were having a church wedding at the Belcher Baptist Church, Belcher, LA.
Kookie's best friend was her maid of honor; Don's brother, Jesse, was his best man and Kookie's sisters, Judy and Kitty were the candle lighters. They were married 33 years at the time of Don's death.

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This week, we present a new feature - a selection from the many new bills introduced in the New York City Council that have not yet been passed. At the last meeting on March 22, 2006, the City Council introduced more than 50 bills, only a few of which will ever become law.
After being introduced, a new bill (called an "Intro") is sent to one of 27 committees. If the chair of the committee chooses, it can receive a public hearing and be considered. If a bill passes out of committee, it is sent to the full council. If passed by a majority (at least 26 of the 51 council members), the bill is sent to the mayor who has 30 days to sign or veto it. If the mayor vetoes the bill, the City Council can override it with a two-thirds majority. (Click here for a more detailed explanation of how a bill becomes a law).
Many of the bills that never became laws in the last session (only 137 of the 774 bills introduced in 2005 were passed) are now being re-introduced by council members who drafted them.
Speaker Christine Quinn introduced three bills aimed at overhauling lobbying regulations in New York City. These bills are the first steps of an effort announced by Quinn and Mayor Michael Bloomberg earlier this year.
Intro 190 would require that the City Clerk educate lobbyists on existing regulations and undertake random audits to ensure that lobbyists who also raise money for candidates or serve as political consultants are reporting their activities properly.
Intro 191 would outlaw any gifts from lobbyists to elected officials. Currently, officials are allowed to receive gifts valued at up to $50. Violators would be subject to a fine of up to $30,000.
Intro 192 would change the city's campaign finance law so that contributions from lobbyists can no longer be matched with public funds. Currently, contributions are matched $4 to $1.
"We will ensure that the scandals of Washington and Albany do not happen here at City Hall," said Quinn.
The council will holds its first hearing on these bills on April 3.
Many New Yorkers first learn about the city's "red light cameras" after running a streetlight, thinking they got a way with it, and then a few weeks later getting a ticket in the mail. The city has about 150 cameras that take photos of a car's license plate after it goes through a red light.
But some have figure out how to foil the cameras, and the council is looking to stop them.
A bill, Intro 197, introduced by Councilmember Tony Avella, would ban the sale of chemicals that people can put on their license plates to prevent them from being photographed. The chemicals create a clear hi-gloss reflective finish over the license plate, which acts as a mirror to overexpose the photo, rendering it unreadable.
"There are companies that are selling chemicals just for the purpose of making license plates invisible to red light cameras," said Avella.
Under the legislation, businesses that sell the chemicals could be fined $250,000 or more.
Intro 240, introduced by Councilmember Al Vann, would increase fines for stores or companies that sell realistic-looking toy guns.
The council argues that toy guns are used to commit crimes, and that there have been tragic incidents involving young people carrying imitation guns who were wounded or killed by police officers who mistook toy weapons for real ones.
The legislation would raise the fines to between $1,000 and $5,000 for a first offense.
"We think that the sale of all toy guns should be prohibited in the City of New York," said Vann.
Intro 210, introduced by Councilmember Vincent Gentile, would replace the current bullet-proof vests used by police officers. In 2005, Officer Dillon Stewart was killed when a bullet went through a small gap in the left underarm of his protective vest.
"Recently there have been new technologies and new vests that would cover areas on the torso that were previously uncovered," said Gentile.
The City Council is planning a series of hearings on a piece of legislation ( Intro 180-A) known as the "Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Bill," introduced by Councilmember Diana Reyna.
The purpose of the bill is to create more opportunities for specific companies to win government contracts. The legislation would add new categories to the existing Minority and Women Owned Business Enterprise Program.
In order to qualify a business owner must prove that they are either "socially disadvantaged," which the legislation describes as "experiencing social disadvantage in American society" or "economically disadvantaged," a person "whose ability to compete in the free enterprise system has been impaired due to diminished capital and credit opportunities."
Even those who helped draft the bill admit that the bill is still in its beginning stages. But the goal is to create a "race-neutral" category that would help business owners who might not qualify for other programs have a better shot at earning a government contract.
The council has scheduled a hearing on the bill for April 5.


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Sun Belt also-ran Louisiana-Monroe shocked the world by beating a depleted Arkansas 34-31 in overtime in Little Rock tonight.
The Warhawks scored a touchdown to tie the game with two minutes remaning, then allowed an Arkansas field goal in the opening stanza of overtime. Facing a fourth-and-one situation at the 11, ULM elected to go for it rather than attempt a field goal to tie. The result? Quarterback Kolton Browning scrambled to the end zone and sealed their first win over an SEC team since beating Alabama in 2007. [ESPNU]


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From SOPA and PIPA to ACTA to CISPA to the TPP and now back to CISPA, internet activists have been caught up in a deliberately bewildering game of whack-a-mole with freedom-crushing legislation. Now, ISPs are doing an end run around the whole legislative process altogether and voluntarily collaborating with the entertainment industry to spy on their own customers. All of this is enough to leave concerned netizens demoralized, and in the war of attrition that is exactly the goal. Join us today on The Corbett Report as we explore a real, grassroots, alternative solution to the problem of internet censorhip that can help to end this government/corporate control over our communication once and for all.


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(CNN) -- The pilot of Continental Flight 61 died Thursday as the plane flew from Brussels, Belgium, to Newark, New Jersey, the Federal Aviation Administration and Continental Airlines said.
Pilot Craig Lenell is shown with daughter Jennifer Lenell-Small, a former Continental employee.
The 60-year-old Newark-based pilot died of "apparently of natural causes" about halfway through the flight, the airline said. He had 32 years of service with Continental, it said.
The pilot's family identified him to CNN as Craig Lenell.
The airline said the crew on the flight included an additional relief pilot who took the place of the deceased man, and "the flight continued safely with two pilots at the controls." The Boeing 777 landed safely at Newark International Airport at 11:49 a.m. ET Thursday, the airline said.
No further details were given. Continental did not release the pilot's name.
Asked whether the plane's 247 passengers had been told of the situation, a Continental spokesman said only that the plane had arrived safely.
Passengers told CNN that they were not informed, and that the only indication of a problem was that an announcement for a doctor was made during the flight. Watch a report about airline procedures »
"I haven't heard anything." passenger Chris Balchuas, from Houston, Texas, told reporters after the flight. "They just said there was a medical emergency and were there any doctors aboard."
Another passenger, Dr. Julien Struyzen, said he responded to the request for a doctor and pronounced the pilot dead.
"He was clinically dead when I came in," Struyzen said. Flight personnel asked him if anything was possible, and he said "it was not."
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Struyzen said all flight personnel were "very professional." Watch the doctor talk about his experience »
Balchuas, after being told what had happened, said, "Oh, that's scary. I didn't know anything about that."
He said nothing was unusual about the flight, just that about "four or five fire trucks and a whole bunch of medical emergency teams" met the plane when it landed.
Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the New York and New Jersey Port Authority, said the FAA told Newark airport officials to have emergency crews standing by for the landing. Watch emergency vehicles respond »
The plane landed without any problem, he said, and a medical examiner met the plane to help handle the situation.
CNN's Mike Ahlers, Mark Norman, Mary Snow, Kiran Khalid, Jason Kessler, Allan Chernoff and Eden Pontz contributed to this report.
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EMILY's List is the most influential special interest group in the United States, channeling tens of millions of dollars each election cycle to politicians who support taxpayer-funded abortion as well as partial-birth abortion. The name "EMILY" is an acronym for "Early Money Is Like Yeast Rising," which recognizes the increased influence that early political donations have in influencing election outcomes, because the need by candidates for early donations to get their campaigns started is particularly great.
"For a candidate to be considered for funding from EMILY's List there are three requirements: The candidate must be a woman; she must be a Democrat; and she must support unrestricted access to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand."[1]


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Let cheesecake batter stand at room temperature 1 hour.
Mix graham crumbs, sugar and butter; press onto bottoms of 4 (9-inch) springform pans (or onto bottom of 1 [9-inch] springform pan for trial recipe), adding 11 oz. crumb mixture to each pan.
Bake in 325ºF standard oven 10 min. Cool.
Combine remaining ingredients in large bowl. Add cheesecake batter; mix well. Pour evenly over crusts. Place in water bath, using separate water-filled pan for each cheesecake. (See directions on tub of Cheesecake Batter for how to prepare water baths.)
Bake 1 hour 50 min. to 2 hours or until centers are almost set; cool completely. Refrigerate several hours or overnight.


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Day 29: Favorite video game developer.
It is with intense annoyance that I have to say Square Enix or as I like to call them Squeenix. Beginning as Squaresoft, the company nearly became defunct and on the verge of declaring bankruptcy back in the 80s when they released what they thought would be their last game, aptly titled Final Fantasy. Fortunately for them (but unfortunately for avoiding irony), the title was a huge success and not only for saving the company, but also defined/redefined the genre of (J)RPG.
More than thirty years later, now as Square Enix, they're still going strong at least in terms of still being active and relevant. I believe a good fan should also be a good critic, and I have been quite critical of some of Squeenix's decisions.
But like Nintendo, we keep getting caught…hook, line, and sinker.
Though I do have to admit, I've fallen victim to the fad of judging based on other's accounts, which is what I did with Final Fantasy XIII. I've never played it, but not long after it came out, I hopped on the bashing bandwagon due to listening to people whose opinion I thought was worth something, since they, too, were huge Final Fantasy (especially VII) fans, but I should have known better, based on the derisive things they said about Final Fantasy IX Thankfully, I've met people (and one specific person) who've shown me the error of my ways, and though I've yet to play XIII, I'm at least going to give a chance. You'd think by this point in my life I would've learned not to judge things entirely on other's opinions until I try them myself, but that pesky "J" in INFJ likes to rear its head in all instances even when it is most inopportune.
I love to judge, but I need to make sure when I do so, I have all the facts.
So while Squeenix might annoy the hell out of me at times, I still have to begrudgingly admit that they're my favorite developer.
Honorable mentions to Nintendo and BioWare.
Who is your favorite developer? Do you have as complicated a history as I do with mine?


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Large-scale, regional competition features more than 4,000 student-athletes from 114 different schools in 58 scheduled events
RALEIGH, N.C. (March 27, 2014) – The ETSU track & field program will continue the newly-started outdoor season with a trip to the North Carolina State University campus to compete in the Raleigh Relays, Friday – Saturday, at the Paul Derr Track & Field Facility.
Following a productive season-opening meet last week at the Charlotte 49er Classic - where the Bucs placed in the top-five in nearly 10 seeded events - ETSU heads to NC State with some momentum. After competing a reduced number of student-athletes at the Classic, the Blue & Gold will compete some new faces this weekend in a meet that ETSU will compete in for the second-straight season.
"We will compete some people for the first time this season," said ETSU Director of Track & Field George Watts, "and I look forward to seeing how they respond."
Last year, a number of strong performances were turned in by ETSU's student-athletes in Raleigh, including Dede Edgecombe (Spartanburg, S.C.) setting a new ETSU school record in the women's 100 meter hurdles with a time of 13.64 and a fourth-place finish.
"We set two school records last week and I feel more will get broken as the season progresses," said Watts. "The kids have broken 16 school records since last year. That is very impressive."
Action at the Relays will kickoff on Friday morning with the 3000 meter steeplechase - with various sections of distance running events throughout the day - concluding with the 10,000 meter run around 10 p.m. In addition on Friday, field events will start with the men's discus throw at 10 a.m. and will end with long jump events at 2:30 p.m.
Events will pick back up on Saturday, beginning first with distance and relay events like the 10,000 meter run and the 4x1500 meter relay in the late morning. Relay events will run until 4:45 p.m. with the 4x400 meter relay ending track events. Competition in the field will commence with the men's hammer throw at 10 a.m. and action at the Relays will conclude with the women's triple jump at 2 p.m.
Meet information and schedules for the Raleigh Relays can be accessed by visiting GoPack.com, while live results can be viewed at FlashResults.com. Complete recaps of ETSU's performances each day will be available at ETSUBucs.com.
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