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Iowa State University did a study that I could have told them the answer to and I don't have a college education.

The key to happiness in marriage can pretty much be summed up like this: A husband says to his wife, "Yes, dear." (A lot.)

Men may hold the power and wealth of the workplace, but women rule the home. That's the word from a team of researchers at Iowa State University, who have determined that women take the lead on solving the problems of the marriage and household -- and men are basically happy to let them do that.

The study: The participants were 72 couples who had been married an average of seven years. All were relatively happy in their marriages. Each spouse independently completed a questionnaire about relationship satisfaction and did an assessment of overall decision-making within the relationship. Separately, each person was asked to identify a problem in the relationship. Couples were reunited and discussed those problem topics for 10 minutes. After the researchers left the room, these conversations were videotaped.

The results: The researchers rated each couple's interaction for demand and withdraw behaviors, including avoidance, discussion, blame, pressure for change and withdrawal. Overall, the wives not only talked more, but also got their husbands to agree with them.

"The women were communicating more powerful messages, and men were responding to those messages by agreeing or giving in," study co-leader David Vogel said in a statement. "The study at least suggests that the marriage is a place where women can exert some power. Whether or not it's because of changing societal roles, we don't know. But they are, at least, taking responsibility and power in these relationships."

The women were communicating more powerful messages and men were responding to those messages by agreeing or giving in. Of course the men give in or they never will get sex.

Women take the lead on solving the problems of the marriage and household -- and men are basically happy to let them do that. The wives talked more, the men just want sex!!

The University had to do a study to know this, geez. Those are those facts of life fathers pass on to their children.




Obviously the heads of the F. D. A. don't have a high school education!!

FDA Looks at Wrong Plant in China

WASHINGTON - U.S. health officials evaluated the wrong factory when assessing the safety of a Chinese-made drug ingredient that may be a source of problems with a blood thinner, the Food and Drug Administration said Monday.

Baxter International's heparin has been linked to four deaths and hundreds of reports of allergic reactions. An investigation will take FDA inspectors to China this week.

The Chinese manufacturer was not inspected because it was confused with another company in the agency's database with a similar name, said Joseph Famulare, deputy director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research's compliance department. The FDA evaluated that firm, which had a history of positive inspections and was not re-inspected.

The agency discovered within the past month that the wrong factory was evaluated, Famulare said, adding that as far as the FDA knows, it is an isolated incident.

Investigators will travel to China this week to inspect the company that produces the drug's active ingredient, according to Michael Rogers, director of the division of field investigations within the FDA's office of regulatory affairs. The team will include a chemist fluent in Chinese and an expert in drug manufacturing technology.

"We've given this team the flexibility to extend this inspection as long as it takes as well as investigate the appropriate leads within China," he said.

So they have to go to China as the F.D.A. has no one stationed there to check what China poisons us with.

What, who ever heard of a Chineese business with similar names?

So when they arrived at the wrong factory, just what did they inspect?

The team will include a chemist fluent in Chinese and an expert in drug manufacturing technology. So this means the previous inspectors spoke English and had no idea what they were inspecting.

Does this bother anyone besides me?



OK now a story my dog Zoe' insisted I read.

German Police Dogs to Wear Shoes

BERLIN - Police dogs in the western city of Duesseldorf will no longer get their feet dirty when on patrol - the entire dog unit will soon be equipped with blue plastic fiber shoes, a police spokesman said Monday.

"All 20 of our police dogs - German and Belgian shepherds - are currently being trained to walk in these shoes," Andre Hartwich said. "I'm not sure they like it, but they'll have to get used to it."
The unusual footwear is not a fashion statement, Hartwich said, but rather a necessity due to the high rate of paw injuries on duty. Especially in the city's historical old town - famous for both its pubs and drunken revelers - the dogs often step into broken beer bottles.












Alright, my dog Zoe' read this and is now insisting she wants several pairs of shoes to make a fashion statement.

She mentioned looking at purses as well!!!

I wonder where she got the shoe idea from?

I have to end this now as Zoe' is hounding me to teach her how to tie shoes!!!