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Ivory Tower

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Where the money is Source  me  Downtown St. Petersburg

What face to show and when

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The promise of Facebook was to create a more open and connected world. But from the company’s failure to protect millions of users’ data, to the proliferation of “fake news” and disinformation, mounting crises have raised the question: Is Facebook more harmful than helpful? This major, two-night event investigates a series of warnings to Facebook as the company grew from Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard dorm room to a global empire. With dozens of original interviews and rare footage, The Facebook Dilemma examines the powerful social media platform’s impact on privacy and democracy in the U.S. and around the world. An encore presentation will air Dec. 11 and 18. Source    https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/facebook-dilemma/    FRONTLINE

Tampa aerial view

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View of Tampa Florida from several hundred feet above my boyhood neighborhood 

The issues are the issues

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  Mirror mirror on my wall Whose reality makes the call From my gut I know it all Only loosers don't see wall    Vocal   Phoebe Snow   I Don't Want the Night to End

Fake views

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Greek artifact found off the coast of Thirassia .    The graphic made with fractal generator program and is intended for interest only  

“the best book by far..."

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"A close read of Robert Mueller's 448-page report on Russian interference and potential Trump obstruction yields some fascinating tidbits." Win Mcnamee/Alamy     source   https://www.wired.com/story/mueller-report-donald-trump-takeaways   A democratic decision is not keeping an impending impeachment on the move.  What the public doesn't know about the state of affairs is the most likely culprit.  What Donald Trump has done is to redefine the highest office in America.   Blogger opinion 

Carbon emissions vs electrical distribution

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More important than the vehicle comparison is the information related to the source of carbon emissions and the source of power production  My personal conclusion is   the problem remains a regulation and distribution of power  as opposed to the source of production  Nicola Tesla's idea for electrical redistribution seems to be the answer  We have yet to find the solution   Will electromotive force be obsolete by the time a conclusion is developed  Source  John Petersen https://seekingalpha.com 

Money

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"God bless the child who has his own"

Sundown on Gateway

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A Florida Homes catches the sun's rays at the end of the day

Business as usual

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 Will the real Dilbert please be seated What one man exposes as workplace quirks another man makes a reality with threats - and we listen Cartoonist and creator Scott Adams

Empty

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“At a time when the public’s confidence in our elected officials and our institutions is especially low, the specter of big corporations avoiding all income taxes on billions in profits sends a strong and corrosive signal to Americans: that the tax system is stacked against them, in favor of corporations and the wealthiest Americans,” writes Matthew Gardner, the lead author of the Institute on Taxation report. https://static.nytimes.com  Op-ed columnist  David Leonhardt

In harms way

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Mother duck lays eggs in your driveway Alligator in your back yard   Florida USA old saying  don't believe everything you hear and half of what you see

The butcher of Moscow

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Vladamir Putin's brother runs a meat market in Moscow.  His specialty is Polish sausage  I thought I would give the browser of this blog some time off from all the esoterica.  Of course Vlad's brother isn't a butcher, he is the butcher. 

I think I think

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Entry by chuck mistretta

LIGO Hears Gravitational Waves Einstein Predicted

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Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, detected the collision of a pair of distant black holes Source   newyorktimes.com   By Dennis Overbye

The duck who came to dinner

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I'm not friendly   just hungry Photo credit  me

Prayer

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When your thoughts are all you want The day as intruders say Who do you invite into Which one is left behind Why be kind and give away A solitary self to You Deserver of all is mine

Hebron: Tomb of the Patriarchs

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This entry is here like all other entries for personal interest   It is also a link to Jewish history which is a favorite subject of on going study   The catholic faith was derived from Judaism and is therefore relevant to me  Leah is also one of the biblical matriarchs who is buried here  

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