Sunday, March 26
Saturday, March 25
On Being Informed
For me, that is called CENSORSHIP
I want to know the news good, bad, or indifferent. I want to know the news whether it supports my political views or not... it is up to me, not network news agency to decide what I should or should not know...
The Liberals say that Black Lives Matter... and, I agree but what about all the other lives? Do they not matter? Only Blacks?
Is this how we want to stay informed?
The Liberals say that ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION is ok, despite what our laws say...
Does this mean that we should just ignore all the laws with which we disagree?
And what of all the UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCS of all this ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, should we just ignore that as well?
Do we even know what those consequences might entail? Do we really care?
The Liberal say that CHINA is just a friendly competitor and that we should treat this with kindness...
BUT...
our own military says that China might be stronger than us and that they want to TAKE OVER THE WORLD...
Who do we believe?
Who cares if China takes over the world?
China just might be a better GLOBAL LEADER than the USA?
You never thought of that, did you?
Is is because you are not INFORMED?
Our US Constitution and The Bill of Rights, provides us with the FIRST AMENDMENT... which is bascially FREEDOM OF SPEECH.... that freedom entails knowing both sides of what is going on in the world today... which means, we should know the LIBERAL SIDE as well as the CONSERVATIVE... if one side is censored, then we are NOT INFORMED...
How ignorant do you want to be for the rest of your life?
A Second Big Bang
Dark matter, represented as blue light in this Hubble Telescope image of galaxy cluster Cl0024+1654, may have exploded into the universe one month after the Big Bang, new research suggests. (Image credit: European Space Agency, NASA and Jean-Paul Kneib (Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, France/Caltech, USA))
The Big Bang may have been accompanied by a shadow, "Dark" Big Bang that flooded our cosmos with mysterious dark matter, cosmologists have proposed in a new study. And we may be able to see the evidence for that event by studying ripples in the fabric of space-time.
After the Big Bang, most cosmologists think, the universe underwent a period of rapid, remarkable expansion in its earliest moments, known as inflation. Nobody knows what triggered inflation, but it’s necessary to explain a variety of observations, like the extreme geometrical flatness of the universe at large scales.
Inflation was presumably driven by some exotic quantum field, which is a fundamental entity that soaks all of spacetime. At the end of inflation, that field decayed into a shower of particles and radiation, triggering the "Hot Big Bang" that physicists commonly associate with the beginning of the universe. Those particles would go on to coalesce into the first atoms when the cosmos was around 12 minutes old and — hundreds of millions of years later — begin clumping into stars and galaxies. READ MORE...
Budget Thinking
My gas can is 5 gallons and it lasts about 3 tanks so I will fill it up about 8-10 times. At $3/gallon, I will spend $150 mowing the lawn this spring-summer-fall.
While that may not seem like much money, for some people it is a lot of money. It takes about an hour to mow and another hour to weed eat. So, 26 weeks times 2 hours is a total of 52 hours spent on lawn maintenance. If I paid myself $10/hour, I would spend another $500 and if I paid myself $20/hour, it would be $1,000+/-...
By thinking this through, I am able to prepare a budget that will incorporate lawn maintenance and gasoline... Do I use the cost of labor or just the supplies?
I ask this because the two hours that I spend working on lawn maintenance are two hours that physically impact my body negatively. The riding lawn mower that I use, goes over rippled ground, so I am constantly bouncing up and down which is bad for the disks in my back. When I weed eat, the eater is not long enough for my body and I must bend over just slightly and that puts a strain on my body as well.
My cancer treatments require that I stay out of the sun, so I must wear UV protective clothing, otherwise my skin turns pink and red and I am not sure what other impact it may have on my cancer cells that are trying to grow inside me.
So, several things must be taken into consideration when planning out a budget, just for lawn maintenance. Of course, there is wear and tear on the riding lawn mower and each year of usage, the wear and tear increases just like with the human body. Lawn mower maintenance cost is about $150 each year as well.
Then one must also consider grass seed, straw, fertilizer, and water. Then there again is the labor when using these things as well as the labor watering the grass seed.
I don't rake leaves, I mow them up so I am saving myself some physical exertion there. Many of my neighbors rake up their leaves... not sure why they do that.
When you think about budgets, figure out your total annual cost for something, then prorate it over 12 months... for example, car insurance comes out twice a year, but if you spread it out over 12 months, you will already have that money set aside.
More budget tips in future articles...
Time Reflections
The explanation of spatial reflections—whether by light or by sound—are pretty intuitive. Electromagnetic radiation in the form of light or sound waves hit a mirror or wall, respectively, and change course.
This allows our eyes to see a reflection or echo of the original input. However, for more than 50 years, scientists have theorized that there’s another kind of reflection in quantum mechanics known as time reflection.
This term might conjure up images of a nuclear-powered DeLorean or a particular police box (that’s bigger on the inside), but that’s not quite what scientists mean by the term.
This term might conjure up images of a nuclear-powered DeLorean or a particular police box (that’s bigger on the inside), but that’s not quite what scientists mean by the term.
Instead, time reflections occur when the entire medium in which an electromagnetic wave travels suddenly changes course. This causes a portion of that wave to reverse and its frequency transforms into another one.
Because these time reflections require a uniform variation across an entire electromagnetic field, scientists assumed it would require too much energy to actually observe time reflections in action.
Because these time reflections require a uniform variation across an entire electromagnetic field, scientists assumed it would require too much energy to actually observe time reflections in action.
But scientists from the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center (CUNY ASRC) in New York City successfully observed time reflections by sending broadband signals into a strip of metal filled with electronic switches that were connected to reservoir capacitors. READ MORE...
American Education
There was an increased emphasis on going to college and making high grades so you would be accepted. Students started memorizing for the tests without retaining knowedge or remembering what they memorized. Those graduates ended up in college and found that they were not properly prepared. Pressure was placed on the faculty to retain student and not loose revenue so the professors lowered their standards.
In the business world in the 1970s realized their employees did not know basic high school math even though they had graudated. These companies had to spend millions to educate the workforce and consequently passed those costs onto the consumer with high prices.
Businesses also started realizing that college graduates were coming out of college uneducated and instead of putting pressure on the educational institutions, they just started hiring international students who were better prepared academically. Many of these well educated student were Asians and/or from India.
Throughout my 45 year career and while I was mainly in administration, I logged a substantial amount of hours in the classroom teaching both degree seeking and non-degree seeking students. I have noticed over the years a decline in the retention of knowledge, problem solving skills, reading, communications, and presentation skills. I also have noticed that students do not want to drill down on a subject to learn more or learn more than they have to learn for the grade.
THESE LACK OF SKILL IS WHAT THEY ARE BRINGING TO THE MARKETPLACE AS THEY SEARCH FOR EMPLOYMENT...
Friday, March 24
DaVnci's Mother an Enslaved Teenager
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A new collection of documents found within the State Archives of Florence suggests that da Vinci's mother was an enslaved girl kidnapped from the Caucasus.
Leonardo da Vinci's mother was kidnapped and enslaved as a teenager in the Caucasus and sent to Italy, a new analysis of nearly 600-year-old documents suggests.
The documents, discovered by an Italian historian, suggest that da Vinci's mother, Caterina, was kidnapped and torn from her home by the Black Sea in Circassia before being shipped to Venice.
If they're accurate, it would mean that Leonardo da Vinci, considered to be one of the greatest painters and scientists of the Italian Renaissance, was only half-Italian. Carlo Vecce, the documents' finder and a professor of Italian literature at the University "L’Orientale" of Naples, has used the discovery as the subject of a historical novel.
The book — called "Il Sorriso di Caterina(opens in new tab)," or "The Smile of Caterina, the Mother of Leonardo" — contains factually accurate details from his research, Vecce said. The findings, however, have yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal. READ MORE...
Taking Care of Business
In 1987, at the age of 40, I quit smoking cigarettes, consciously decreased my intake of alcohol, sugars, fried foods, and red meat. I also consciously and with determination began an exercise program that began with running 3-5 miles a week that abruptly changed into walking those same miles because my knees could not tolerate the asphalt on which I was running.
THIRTY-FIVE years later, at the age of 75, I am still following the program I started in 1987. I really enjoy eating a cheeseburger, and a few slices of a meat lover's pizza and do so about 2-3 times a year. I probably eat a steak once a year and have not even had a glass of wine since 2015 or about 7 years ago.
BTW, my total cholesterol count (both bad and good) is 84...
My Cardiologist loves that level and wants me to keep it up...
I also have made a determined effort to eat less than 2,000 calories each day with the focus on staying between 1,500 to 1,800... it is not all that easy but very manageable... My eating habits increase when I do not keep myself busy or when I am watching a movie or a series. Knowing that weakness, I try to snack as healthy as possible or fill my belly up with 8 ounces of coffee and french vanilla mix. I sip slowly to extend the consumption.
My height is 6'1" and my weight is 220 which is down from 250 and I would like to get to 200 but these last 20 pounds are not that easy... at least for me.
My main diet revolves around chicken, turkey, salmon, cod, tuna, white rice, and all sorts of veges that are mainly beans, peas, limas, broccoli, onions, green onion, mushrooms, leeks, bell peppers, celery, garlic, Pita bread, and English Muffins. My meats are cooked in an air fryer, or in a soup along with rice.
If the contents of my cooking exceed 3 meals, then the overage is frozen to be eaten later.
One of the best ways to loose weight is not through exercise but by reducing the amount of food that is eaten at each meal. Some experts believe that 5 small meals should be eaten each day instead of 3. I eat 3 meals and try to keep my portions small. Perhaps, 2 snacks a day.
Do I miss smoking cigarettes? NO
Do I miss not drinking alcohol? NO
Both of these vices cost lots of money... and, while many people use them as a way of reducing stress, there are other ways to reduce stress that are HEALTHY.
My personal opinion is that SMOKING and ALCOHOL are CRUTCHES rather than relying on yourself and your own internal controls to enjoy life and reduce stress. Exercise is a good stress reducer, but do you walk or exercise inside a gym or is it done outside, where you can expose yourself to the beauty of nature and fresh air...
Of course, if you live inside a city, there is very little fresh air... unlike the fresh air found out in the countryside.
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