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Internet influence

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grpahic credit chuck mistretta (Byrne et al., 2016). The four most popular online activities among Internet users were: banking (72%), social networking (72%), purchasing goods or services (61%), and entertainment (e.g., gaming or watching movies) (60%) (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2018).   no registration fee required  

Through the minds eye

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If you have a mind to come back and view this photo again   It may not appear the same  The real camera is encased in bone

Resilience

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Photo credit chuck mistretta How we keep on keeping-on in the face of rediculous adversity, social, personal and consequencequential   Deep Patel Vip Contributer news host  www.entrepreneur.com

The couple

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Where are you  Glad you could make it

Drone flight

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The drone looking at me while hovering over a creek Flight return over the creek  Aerial view of the neighborhood near Tampa Bay which was once a salt marsh View the flight here        click to start

Arms Trader

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The U.S. government spent two years on a sting operation trapping an Indian man named Hemant Lakhani, whom they suspected of being an illegal arms dealer. Photograph    https://www.flickr.com/photos/roonster/2373911173/

Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection - Linux or Windows

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Puzzles available in Ubuntu 16.04 and possibly for other versions with the name sgt-puzzles found in the synaptic package manager   click here for Windows users manuals for all games  Have fun!!

Political opinion

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Democrats would term this fun Republicans would call it terrorism    Source   this gif has been around a while   This is what digital creativity can do that is not harmful

How to be a US presidential candidate

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"Another possibility is that Cruz is a windmill and O’Rourke is Don Quixote, engaging in a dreamlike quest of his own devising. He can’t count on much support from his weakened party, he has no experience with statewide politics and he’ll be enormously outspent and out-organized by his opponent. The question of what he’s likely to do with this opportunity hinges on a question many are pondering: Who is this dude?" source   https://www.texasobserver.org    Brad Tollefson If money were not an essential asset for winning a government position this guy might have a chance.  blogger source    www.vanityfair.com  Photograph by Annie Leibovitz

Nasa Earth Observatory

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The earth speaks through NASA photographs

Drones can be fun

view of local neighborhood and church

Origin of man

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the body comes from a body

David Leonhardt

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The title of this blog is the name of the op-ed reporter who reports what we are all feeling - an inequality between market and labor.  Please read, it is important, more importantly, is your vote for public officials who allow a  growth trend in favor of powerful corporations. Source:  nytimes.com

Fairy

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I'm the queen of the fairies  If you believe Then romantic is your wish A life long pursuit your dish

Bullshit?

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Presidential rhetoric at a new all-time low

Looks like a fish

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If numbers can make a fish   so can molecules

Do you see what I see

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The sky is His pallette

A child emerges

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As all children do without notice   but aware   the hands an elbows always there

Are we becoming transparent

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Transparent in the light of overwhelming demands from those who matter and others who can't   but should be ignored

Something to chirp about

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http://luellassouthernkitchen.com/gospel-bird/

Fractals

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You don't need to be mathematically minded to produce these images  The programs are almost always free and only require your imagination

Wall Wall Wall

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The Democrat Congressman Ted Lieu tweeted : “One thing that makes America great is that people can laugh at you without retribution.” Source:   https://www.theguardian.com/us-news

A garden in a painting

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A painting in a garden Artist not recorded  St. Petersburg Museum

Stuck to the screen

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I also hangout @chuckmistretta or @chuck_mistretta

Drone Views

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In the grass looking at children play  Further to the west are ponds and a view of Tampa Bay in the distance  To the south is Downtown St. Petersburg and a creek that winds to the bay  Manatees can sometimes be seen here

No taste

Early Apple Microsoft rivalry

My first car

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Seventy years later I'm still driving and enjoying it like it was my first car.

entertainment center

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Cat Tv Stereo Headphones 

Statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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Catholics do not adore statues  they are a reminder of those who came before us

Do you play

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The Piano   This a musical sketch caught on the fly  I used to do this all the time 

The table

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A place to hold what you are using until you can use them again   Failure to reuse these items results in clutter  Everything in the foreground has been recently used  The background is what has been forgotten and has no place to be   It remains as a history of interest past  Maybe one day they too will be of use again  Maybe not    The sketch is a photo filter  Like some items on the table my sketching skills go unused 

What's in your camera

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A point in shoot that fits in your shirt pocket  The Nikon SO 1  

Presidential hopefull

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qualifications   Big Mouth  Sticky Fingers

The passage of time

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"And this too shall pass "

Family

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Keep family close by

Yemen overpowered

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It appears obvious to me that Yemen wants control of sea traffic entering and leaving the Red Sea.  This forgotten war is ongoing and real.  People suffer at the hands of a power that knows no limits.  Is it important that we (the US) profit from the hands of destruction? Source   By DEREK WATKINS and DECLAN WALSH DEC. 27, 2018   www.nytimes.com

Ticket to ride

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These guys are everywhere in tropical climates.  Add a cat and many are without tails. 

Regret

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I climb the lader of regret not knowing what to expect. What's done is done I live with that there's lost respect that won’t come back. For those, I say God bless you all and wait for heaven's judgment call.      

A moth

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By any other name is still a moth  like so many other creatures real and imagined is bound to die

The Jolly Green Go

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  Donde quieres este muro señor presidente

Debt and the Rosetta Stone

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Debt forgiveness in prebiblical times was handled more humanely  by assigning debtors to public works or the military  Today economies both personal and public are in need of debt redemption without strife or chaos  What is unpaid weighs on the backs of everyone  A healthy economy suggest that all work to their capacity when given the opportunity by just governors   Source   And Forgive Them Their Debts  by Michael Hudson    distribution  delanceyplace.com

Fake views

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"He was here a moment ago, then he said the mother ship was coming and he was gone"  Sharing a little bit of silliness isn't harmful.  What alarms is the possibility that he has been lifted away by his own imagination.  Photo source not recorded

Where's the smile

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"“In the Balkans the transition is over,” Remzi Lani, an Albanian political analyst, told me some time ago. But unlike in many post-Communist countries, Mr. Lani didn’t mean a transformation from dictatorship to democracy. “We transitioned from repressive to depressive regimes.”" "He is right. The old Communists and radical ethnic nationalists are largely gone; in their places is stagnation — economic, social and political." There are approximately fifty thousand Serbians in the Tampa, St. Petersburg area of the United States.  People move outside their national borders for improved living conditions.   A better life meant leaving their country, and sometimes family behind. Vladimir Zivojinovic/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Source By Ivan Krastev Contributing Opinion Writer for www.nytimes.com