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On my 40th birthday, I quit smoking, drinking, eating red meat, and fried foods. I also allowed myself to cheat with 3-4 cheeseburgers a year, 3-4 hotdogs a year, 3-4 pizzas a year, and something fried once or twice a year. NO SMOKING and maybe 1-2 glasses of wine at Christmas.
Not only did I put the above into action, but I made sure I got 6-8 hours of sleep as well as exercised at least 20 minutes each day. I ended up exercising about 50-60 minutes each day which included treadmill, bike, and strength machines. No dead weights.
At the age of 60, I experienced severe heart attack while walking on the treadmill at home but because of my health my body had already created its own bypass which save my life. I had 5 stents put into three arteries over a period of two years. Never had any problems since then.
My cardiologist said my heart attack should not have happened... it was an anomaly.
That was refreshing to hear.
Doing everything right is not going to prevent you from having something bad go wrong with your body. In fact, an orthopedic surgeon recently told me that exercise is the main reason (along with arthritis) for hip, shoulder, and knee replacements.
Staying active was more important than exercise... staying active is mowing grass, working in the yard, standing more than sitting, etc.
The University of Seville’s SMART tokamak has achieved a critical milestone by creating its first tokamak plasma, utilizing a unique negative triangularity that increases stability and efficiency.
This advancement signals a promising future for fusion energy, potentially revolutionizing how we generate power.
Breakthrough in Fusion Energy The SMART device has achieved a major milestone by successfully generating its first tokamak plasma, marking a significant step toward the goal of sustainable, clean, and virtually limitless fusion energy. This achievement brings the global fusion research community closer to making controlled fusion a practical energy source.
SMART is a cutting-edge experimental fusion device developed and operated by the Plasma Science and Fusion Technology Laboratory at the University of Seville. What makes SMART unique is its advanced ability to flexibly shape plasmas, setting it apart as the only spherical tokamak of its kind in the world.
It is specifically designed to explore the physics and engineering potential of negative triangularity plasmas, a promising approach for developing compact fusion power plants based on spherical tokamak designs. READ MORE...
Dumas was born in 1953 in Cape Town, South Africa and grew up in Kuils River in the Western Cape, where her father had a vineyard. Dumas witnessed the system of apartheid during her childhood.
Dumas began painting in 1973 and showed her political concerns and reflections on her identity as a white woman of Afrikaans descent in South Africa. She studied art at the University of Cape Town from 1972 to 1975, and then at Ateliers '63 in Haarlem, which is now located in Amsterdam.
She studied psychology at the University of Amsterdam in 1979 and 1980. She currently lives and works in the Netherlands and is one of the country's most prolific artists.
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Everyone thinks about that as a child... then, overlooks it again until high school when they exposed to the potential of college... or not college.
College is expensive so unless you are going to be a doctor, engineer, Teacher, scientist, physicist, lawyer, or some kind of professional, there is little need to go.
What do you want to be when you grow up is a misleading question because we are growing up throughout our entire career, and as we age, so too does our expectations of what having a good life is or is not.
Many of us do not like how we are being treated by our employers so we find ways of owning our own business, that we never thought about earlier in our lives.
Or, similarly, we find ourselves getting a degree in nuclear engineering, spend some time on a nuclear submarine, then spend the rest of our career as a nuclear consultant.
Of course, there are all sorts of variations to that, it was just a friend of mine shared that career path with me a while back.
Some of us work for 20-30 years and at the age of 50, decide we want out of the rat race and become a chicken farmer or invest in a vineyard.
The point is, what you want out of life changes as you grow older, so it is not that important, for some of us, to decide right away.
Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider tested whether top quarks, the most massive known elementary particles, comply with Einstein’s theory of relativity.
Despite theories suggesting potential deviations at high energies, the experiments confirmed that Lorentz symmetry remains intact, offering no evidence of variation in particle behavior due to the experiment’s orientation or the time of day.
Lorentz Symmetry and Relativity In a groundbreaking study at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the CMS collaboration has investigated whether top quarks follow the rules of Einstein’s special theory of relativity.
Einstein’s special relativity, along with quantum mechanics, forms the foundation of the Standard Model of particle physics. A key principle of this theory is Lorentz symmetry, which states that experimental results should remain the same regardless of the experiment’s speed or orientation in space. READ MORE...
Julie Mehretu (born November 28, 1970) is an Ethiopian American contemporary visual artist, known for her multi-layered paintings of abstracted landscapes on a large scale. Her paintings, drawings, and prints depict the cumulative effects of urban sociopolitical changes.
Mehretu was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 1970, the first child of an Ethiopian college professor of geography and a Jewish American Montessori teacher.
Her father is Ethiopian and her mother is Jewish American. They fled the country in 1977 to escape political turmoil and moved to East Lansing, Michigan, for her father's teaching position in economic geography at Michigan State University.
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A "free enterprise economic system" is an economic system where individuals and businesses have the freedom to operate with minimal government intervention, allowing market forces to determine prices and production, essentially meaning businesses can make decisions about what to produce, how much to produce, and who to sell to without significant government regulation; it's often synonymous with a "free market" or "capitalist" system.
Free market or capitalism is causing a lot of concern in the USA because Trump, a billionaire, has brought in several billionaires to help not just reduce the size of government but set it up to act more like a for profit organization than a non-profit.
The liberals think that in so doing they will destroy democracy and are trying to resist this as much as possible.
The free market enterprise system operates best when there is little involvement from government and will govern itself by what is called THE INVISIBLE HAND. This means that business is self regulating and will not intentionally allow companies to destroy themselves.
While the Invisible Hand has some merit, it does not prevent the accumulation of wealth to grow out of hand due to Marketplace Greed.
In fact, the invisible hand has nothing to do with controlling GREED.
Greed is the single biggest factor that is destroying this system because companies have literally ignored the worker while generously rewarding management and upper level executives with high salaries and bonuses while offering the workforce pennies on the dollar wage increases.
Consequently, the workforce is now considering SOCIALISM or a modified version of socialism where companies are owned by the employees, and everyone make the same based upon the level of their job. However, everyone gets bonuses and everyone shares in the profits. There is no 125:1 salary ratios anymore.
Socialism does not reward trying to make things better, so growth can be severely limited if any growth happens at all.
Whatever happens in this country, will be a direct result of what Capitalism did for management but did not do for labor.
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