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- Cortech AA Dyneema Riding Jeans Review
Riding the 2026 Indian Chief Vintage while wearing Cortech AA DyneemaJeans. (Photo by Garth Milan) For the past year, a pair of Cortech AA Dyneema Jeans has been my go-to riding pants. Made of dark blue denim with a classic five-pocket, straight-leg design, they look good and feel good on and off the bike. But they don’t sacrifice safety for style; these riding jeans offer serious protection. Not long ago, if you wanted to wear jeans on a motorcycle, you had to go with regular ol’ Levi’s or Wranglers, which offered no crash protection whatsoever, or you needed to buy specialized riding jeans that were reinforced with Kevlar. Large Kevlar panels were stitched inside the denim – typically along the entire front of the jeans and in the seat where impacts were most likely to occur – adding a tough, abrasion-resistant layer. But that layer made the jeans heavy, and in hot weather, they were uncomfortably warm. Depending on the brand or style, Kevlar-lined jeans often lacked armor too. We now live in more interesting times, when AI does the thinking for us and our smartphones track every move we make and word we speak. We also have access to state-of-the-art materials and manufacturing processes. The Dyneema in the name of Cortech’s jeans refers to the brand name of a fiber made of ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene. Claimed to be the world’s strongest fiber, Dyneema is 40% stronger than aramid fibers (like Kevlar) and – listen up, Superman! – 15 times stronger than steel. A nifty thing about Dyneema is that it can be woven into fabric. The Cortech AA Dyneema jeans are made of 12.75-oz. single-layer denim comprised of 93% cotton, 2% polyester, 4% Dyneema, and 1% Lycra. That small percentage of Dyneema makes a big difference in terms of protection – these jeans are CE-certified AA to EN 17092-3:2020 standards for abrasion and impact resistance. And that 1% Lycra makes a big difference in terms of comfort – these jeans have just enough stretch to make them easy to wear anywhere. More protection comes courtesy of Armanox CE Level 1 knee and hip armor, which is thin, flexible, and perforated for breathability. The armor pockets attach via buttons so they can be removed when not on the bike, though I’ve worn these jeans all day while sitting on airplanes or walking around… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago - I Recognize the Look on Liam Ramos’s Face
When the first photo of 5-year-old Liam Ramos went viral in January, it became an instant symbol of the Trump administration’s mass-deportation campaign: his blue bunny hat, his Spider-Man backpack, his hunched shoulders, his scared eyes as ICE detained him and his father outside their home in a Minneapolis suburb.The second photo of Liam, a week later, enraged people who were now invested in his story: Lying on his father’s lap at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, about 70 miles south of San Antonio, Texas, he looked pale and lethargic. His eyes were open a tiny slit. His mother told reporters that Liam had a fever, was vomiting, and refused to eat.What struck me about the second image, and his mother’s update, was how familiar his transformation was. I’ve visited Dilley several times, and have seen many children go from bright-eyed to listless.With his move to Dilley, Liam became part of an ongoing national experiment in detaining immigrant families. George W. Bush’s administration briefly used the practice to provide respite to asylum seekers who had just crossed the border and had no plans for where to go next. But ICE officials soon argued that family detention should be used as a deterrent. In a former medium-security prison surrounded by razor wire north of Austin, young children and their parents wore jumpsuits and were confined to cells for up to 12 hours a day; it closed in 2009 after lawsuits and government inspections showed that children there were sick and malnourished.The Obama administration eventually opened Dilley on a remote patch of Texas flatland where temperatures can hit 90 degrees even in December. Its open-air layout of trailers was supposed to be more humane. But for years now, in interviews and court filings, families have described an emotionally crushing atmosphere, with revolting food, foul water, and a dangerous lack of medical care. They say bright bedroom lights that never turn off make it almost impossible to sleep, compounding their misery.[J. Weston Phippen: Is it an immigration detention facility or a child-care center?]In 2016, a government advisory panel recommended that ICE end the practice of family detention, and instead use monitoring programs that allow people with pending asylum cases to settle and work in the United States. But under Donald Trump, the agency has twice backtracked on plans to do that, arguing that housing children at Dilley is safe and necessary in order… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago - Key fitness measure is strong predictor of longevity after certain age, study fi...
For women over 60, muscle strength plays a critical role in longevity, a new study confirms.Researchers at the University at Buffalo, New York, followed more than 5,000 women between the ages of 63 and 99, finding that those with greater muscle strength had a significantly lower risk of death over an eight-year period.The findings were published in JAMA Network Open.EXERCISE AFFECTS THE HEART IN A HIDDEN, POWERFUL WAY BY REWIRING NERVES, STUDY FINDSMuscle function was measured using grip strength and how quickly participants could complete five unassisted sit-to-stand chair raises. These are two tests commonly used in clinical settings to evaluate muscle function in older adults, the researchers noted."In a community cohort of ambulatory older women, muscular strength was associated with significantly lower mortality rates, even when we accounted for usual physical activity and sedentary time measured using a wearable monitor, gait speed and blood C-reactive protein levels," study lead author Michael LaMonte, research professor of epidemiology and environmental health at the University at Buffalo, told Fox News Digital.Many earlier studies did not include those objective measurements, making it difficult to determine whether muscle strength itself was linked to longevity, according to LaMonte. "Our study was able to better isolate the association between strength and death in later life," he added.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTEREven for women who don’t get the recommended amount of aerobic physical activity, which is at least 150 minutes per week, muscle strength remained important for longevity, the researchers found."The findings of lower mortality in those who had higher strength but were not meeting current national guidelines on aerobic activity were somewhat intriguing," LaMonte said.CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE STORIESFederal guidelines recommend strengthening activities one to two days per week, targeting major muscle groups.Resistance training does not have to require a gym membership, LaMonte noted. These exercises can be performed using free weights, resistance bands, bodyweight movements or even household items, such as soup cans."Movement is the key — just move more and sit less," he said. "When we can no longer get out of the chair and move around, we are in trouble."TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZLaMonte acknowledged several limitations of the study. The researchers assessed muscle strength in older age, but did not explore how earlier levels in adulthood might influence long-term health outcomes."We were not able to understand how strength and mortality relate in younger ages," he said,… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago - AI Layoffs Are a Self-Fulfilling ProphecyLate last month, at an event in Washington, D.C., Andrew Yang delivered a bleak message. “I have bad news, America,” he told the crowd. “The Fuckening is here.”The Fuckening is the name that Yang, a former presidential candidate, has given to AI’s disembowelment of the workforce. As he sees it, millions of knowledge workers will soon lose their job, personal-bankruptcy rates will spike, and entire downtowns will turn vacant as offices hollow out. Yang has talked with computer-science majors, he said onstage, who can’t find a job and are instead “driving Ubers to make ends meet.” His doomsaying is extreme but familiar: Fears of job losses are mounting as AI continues to rapidly advance. A new generation of AI agents are more capable than traditional chatbots of assisting with sophisticated computer work. Bots are no longer limited to searching the web and answering questions—they can create financial models, generate slide decks, and much more.Perhaps the most concerning sign yet of an impending jobs crisis came one day after Yang’s announcement. The payments firm Block, which operates Square and Cash App, announced that it was laying off roughly 4,000 workers—nearly half of the company’s workforce—due to AI. “The intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working,” Block CEO Jack Dorsey, who also co-founded Twitter, wrote. Going forward, he added, the company will be laser-focused on integrating AI across layers of its operations.Although other companies have also blamed AI for job cuts, Block’s layoffs were unusually drastic. “The dreaded AI jobs wipeout got real,” The Wall Street Journal declared. Other companies could soon follow Block’s lead—not necessarily because the technology is ready to replace workers, but because it’s become fashionable to make such cuts. In that sense, AI-induced job loss risks becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.Dorsey’s explanation for the layoffs at Block might not be the whole story. The company could be engaged in “AI-washing,” or using the technology as a convenient excuse to lay off workers when other factors may be to blame. Like many other tech companies, Block became bloated during the pandemic—its workforce more than tripled from 2019 to 2022. Perhaps the cuts offered Dorsey a way to shed workers while also signaling to the world that he is taking AI seriously. “It is hard to imagine a firm-wide sudden 50%+ efficiency gain that justifies massive organizational cuts,” Ethan… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago
- A Never-Ending Conspiracy Theory in Remote AlaskaThe guy pouring my beer in Anchorage told me that he knew there was no truth to decades-old rumors about a research facility 200 miles to the northeast. Nobody was up there talking to aliens or controlling people’s minds. “They just do the aurora,” he said, cheerfully, while tearing up pieces of mint.The comment didn’t surprise me. Many people who don’t believe one conspiracy theory about that station—known as the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or HAARP—believe another. A common misconception is that it can manufacture northern lights, a natural wonder typically most visible in or near the Arctic Circle. It cannot (and neither can any man-made instrument). Still, late last year, when a geomagnetic storm caused aurora sightings as far south as Texas, Facebook was studded with posts warning that these lights were not “natural” and that they were created by the scientists at HAARP for possibly sinister reasons.I’ve been curious about HAARP for a while because of rumors such as this one. The lab has also been erroneously credited with various supernatural occurrences (backward-walking caribou) and secret contact with extraterrestrials (covered up by “men in black”). Most commonly, it’s blamed for events caused by nature. The office phone rings after hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, wildfires, tornadoes, and typhoons, no matter where in the world they occur. A 2024 study found that HAARP was the subject of more than a million conspiracism-inflected posts on Twitter from January 2022 to March 2023, primarily about natural disasters. In early 2024, the far-right influencer Laura Loomer suggested that HAARP created a snowstorm to dampen turnout at the Iowa caucuses and thwart the Trump campaign. And when I visited HAARP this past November, calls were coming in about whether the facility had caused Hurricane Melissa, which had recently swept through Jamaica and Cuba, resulting in at least 88 fatalities and billions of dollars in damage.[Adam Serwer: Gullible, cynical America]All of this anxiety is focused on a unique research instrument housed at HAARP, which is owned by the University of Alaska at Fairbanks and was originally built by the military for the cost of $290 million. “The array,” as the instrument is called, is a grid of 180 transmitters that each sit atop a 72-foot-tall post, arranged in a clearing and surrounded by Alaskan wilderness. You could call it the world’s highest-powered radio transmitter, but it’s more precisely its most powerful ionospheric heater (which sounds… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago
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Riding the 2026 Indian Chief Vintage while wearing Cortech AA DyneemaJeans. (Photo by Garth Milan) For the past year, a pair of Cortech AA Dyneema Jeans has been my go-to riding pants. Made of dark blue denim with a classic five-pocket, straight-leg design, they look good and feel good on and off the bike. But they don’t sacrifice safety for style; these riding jeans offer serious protection. Not long ago, if you wanted to wear jeans on a motorcycle, you had to go with regular ol’ Levi’s or Wranglers, which offered no crash protection whatsoever, or you needed to buy specialized riding jeans that were reinforced with Kevlar. Large Kevlar panels were stitched inside the denim – typically along the entire front of the jeans and in the seat where impacts were most likely to occur – adding a tough, abrasion-resistant layer. But that layer made the jeans heavy, and in hot weather, they were uncomfortably warm. Depending on the brand or style, Kevlar-lined jeans often lacked armor too. We now live in more interesting times, when AI does the thinking for us and our smartphones track every move we make and word we speak. We also have access to state-of-the-art materials and manufacturing processes. The Dyneema in the name of Cortech’s jeans refers to the brand name of a fiber made of ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene. Claimed to be the world’s strongest fiber, Dyneema is 40% stronger than aramid fibers (like Kevlar) and – listen up, Superman! – 15 times stronger than steel. A nifty thing about Dyneema is that it can be woven into fabric. The Cortech AA Dyneema jeans are made of 12.75-oz. single-layer denim comprised of 93% cotton, 2% polyester, 4% Dyneema, and 1% Lycra. That small percentage of Dyneema makes a big difference in terms of protection – these jeans are CE-certified AA to EN 17092-3:2020 standards for abrasion and impact resistance. And that 1% Lycra makes a big difference in terms of comfort – these jeans have just enough stretch to make them easy to wear anywhere. More protection comes courtesy of Armanox CE Level 1 knee and hip armor, which is thin, flexible, and perforated for breathability. The armor pockets attach via buttons so they can be removed when not on the bike, though I’ve worn these jeans all day while sitting on airplanes or walking around… [TheTopNews] Read More.
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When the first photo of 5-year-old Liam Ramos went viral in January, it became an instant symbol of the Trump administration’s mass-deportation campaign: his blue bunny hat, his Spider-Man backpack, his hunched shoulders, his scared eyes as ICE detained him and his father outside their home in a Minneapolis suburb.The second photo of Liam, a week later, enraged people who were now invested in his story: Lying on his father’s lap at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, about 70 miles south of San Antonio, Texas, he looked pale and lethargic. His eyes were open a tiny slit. His mother told reporters that Liam had a fever, was vomiting, and refused to eat.What struck me about the second image, and his mother’s update, was how familiar his transformation was. I’ve visited Dilley several times, and have seen many children go from bright-eyed to listless.With his move to Dilley, Liam became part of an ongoing national experiment in detaining immigrant families. George W. Bush’s administration briefly used the practice to provide respite to asylum seekers who had just crossed the border and had no plans for where to go next. But ICE officials soon argued that family detention should be used as a deterrent. In a former medium-security prison surrounded by razor wire north of Austin, young children and their parents wore jumpsuits and were confined to cells for up to 12 hours a day; it closed in 2009 after lawsuits and government inspections showed that children there were sick and malnourished.The Obama administration eventually opened Dilley on a remote patch of Texas flatland where temperatures can hit 90 degrees even in December. Its open-air layout of trailers was supposed to be more humane. But for years now, in interviews and court filings, families have described an emotionally crushing atmosphere, with revolting food, foul water, and a dangerous lack of medical care. They say bright bedroom lights that never turn off make it almost impossible to sleep, compounding their misery.[J. Weston Phippen: Is it an immigration detention facility or a child-care center?]In 2016, a government advisory panel recommended that ICE end the practice of family detention, and instead use monitoring programs that allow people with pending asylum cases to settle and work in the United States. But under Donald Trump, the agency has twice backtracked on plans to do that, arguing that housing children at Dilley is safe and necessary in order… [TheTopNews] Read More.
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For women over 60, muscle strength plays a critical role in longevity, a new study confirms.Researchers at the University at Buffalo, New York, followed more than 5,000 women between the ages of 63 and 99, finding that those with greater muscle strength had a significantly lower risk of death over an eight-year period.The findings were published in JAMA Network Open.EXERCISE AFFECTS THE HEART IN A HIDDEN, POWERFUL WAY BY REWIRING NERVES, STUDY FINDSMuscle function was measured using grip strength and how quickly participants could complete five unassisted sit-to-stand chair raises. These are two tests commonly used in clinical settings to evaluate muscle function in older adults, the researchers noted."In a community cohort of ambulatory older women, muscular strength was associated with significantly lower mortality rates, even when we accounted for usual physical activity and sedentary time measured using a wearable monitor, gait speed and blood C-reactive protein levels," study lead author Michael LaMonte, research professor of epidemiology and environmental health at the University at Buffalo, told Fox News Digital.Many earlier studies did not include those objective measurements, making it difficult to determine whether muscle strength itself was linked to longevity, according to LaMonte. "Our study was able to better isolate the association between strength and death in later life," he added.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTEREven for women who don’t get the recommended amount of aerobic physical activity, which is at least 150 minutes per week, muscle strength remained important for longevity, the researchers found."The findings of lower mortality in those who had higher strength but were not meeting current national guidelines on aerobic activity were somewhat intriguing," LaMonte said.CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE STORIESFederal guidelines recommend strengthening activities one to two days per week, targeting major muscle groups.Resistance training does not have to require a gym membership, LaMonte noted. These exercises can be performed using free weights, resistance bands, bodyweight movements or even household items, such as soup cans."Movement is the key — just move more and sit less," he said. "When we can no longer get out of the chair and move around, we are in trouble."TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZLaMonte acknowledged several limitations of the study. The researchers assessed muscle strength in older age, but did not explore how earlier levels in adulthood might influence long-term health outcomes."We were not able to understand how strength and mortality relate in younger ages," he said,… [TheTopNews] Read More.
1 week ago
Late last month, at an event in Washington, D.C., Andrew Yang delivered a bleak message. “I have bad news, America,” he told the crowd. “The Fuckening is here.”The Fuckening is the name that Yang, a former presidential candidate, has given to AI’s disembowelment of the workforce. As he sees it, millions of knowledge workers will soon lose their job, personal-bankruptcy rates will spike, and entire downtowns will turn vacant as offices hollow out. Yang has talked with computer-science majors, he said onstage, who can’t find a job and are instead “driving Ubers to make ends meet.” His doomsaying is extreme but familiar: Fears of job losses are mounting as AI continues to rapidly advance. A new generation of AI agents are more capable than traditional chatbots of assisting with sophisticated computer work. Bots are no longer limited to searching the web and answering questions—they can create financial models, generate slide decks, and much more.Perhaps the most concerning sign yet of an impending jobs crisis came one day after Yang’s announcement. The payments firm Block, which operates Square and Cash App, announced that it was laying off roughly 4,000 workers—nearly half of the company’s workforce—due to AI. “The intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working,” Block CEO Jack Dorsey, who also co-founded Twitter, wrote. Going forward, he added, the company will be laser-focused on integrating AI across layers of its operations.Although other companies have also blamed AI for job cuts, Block’s layoffs were unusually drastic. “The dreaded AI jobs wipeout got real,” The Wall Street Journal declared. Other companies could soon follow Block’s lead—not necessarily because the technology is ready to replace workers, but because it’s become fashionable to make such cuts. In that sense, AI-induced job loss risks becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.Dorsey’s explanation for the layoffs at Block might not be the whole story. The company could be engaged in “AI-washing,” or using the technology as a convenient excuse to lay off workers when other factors may be to blame. Like many other tech companies, Block became bloated during the pandemic—its workforce more than tripled from 2019 to 2022. Perhaps the cuts offered Dorsey a way to shed workers while also signaling to the world that he is taking AI seriously. “It is hard to imagine a firm-wide sudden 50%+ efficiency gain that justifies massive organizational cuts,” Ethan… [TheTopNews] Read More.
1 week ago
The guy pouring my beer in Anchorage told me that he knew there was no truth to decades-old rumors about a research facility 200 miles to the northeast. Nobody was up there talking to aliens or controlling people’s minds. “They just do the aurora,” he said, cheerfully, while tearing up pieces of mint.The comment didn’t surprise me. Many people who don’t believe one conspiracy theory about that station—known as the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or HAARP—believe another. A common misconception is that it can manufacture northern lights, a natural wonder typically most visible in or near the Arctic Circle. It cannot (and neither can any man-made instrument). Still, late last year, when a geomagnetic storm caused aurora sightings as far south as Texas, Facebook was studded with posts warning that these lights were not “natural” and that they were created by the scientists at HAARP for possibly sinister reasons.I’ve been curious about HAARP for a while because of rumors such as this one. The lab has also been erroneously credited with various supernatural occurrences (backward-walking caribou) and secret contact with extraterrestrials (covered up by “men in black”). Most commonly, it’s blamed for events caused by nature. The office phone rings after hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, wildfires, tornadoes, and typhoons, no matter where in the world they occur. A 2024 study found that HAARP was the subject of more than a million conspiracism-inflected posts on Twitter from January 2022 to March 2023, primarily about natural disasters. In early 2024, the far-right influencer Laura Loomer suggested that HAARP created a snowstorm to dampen turnout at the Iowa caucuses and thwart the Trump campaign. And when I visited HAARP this past November, calls were coming in about whether the facility had caused Hurricane Melissa, which had recently swept through Jamaica and Cuba, resulting in at least 88 fatalities and billions of dollars in damage.[Adam Serwer: Gullible, cynical America]All of this anxiety is focused on a unique research instrument housed at HAARP, which is owned by the University of Alaska at Fairbanks and was originally built by the military for the cost of $290 million. “The array,” as the instrument is called, is a grid of 180 transmitters that each sit atop a 72-foot-tall post, arranged in a clearing and surrounded by Alaskan wilderness. You could call it the world’s highest-powered radio transmitter, but it’s more precisely its most powerful ionospheric heater (which sounds… [TheTopNews] Read More.
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