Bi Polar People

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson

Worlds' Fairs prompted the theme parks we enjoy today Jessie Tarbox Beals / Missouri Historical Society Alan Taylor   Sep 9, 2019  42 Photos  In Focus  www.theatlantic.com

An American Tradition NYtimes.com

Night on the townhouses overlooking a golf course in Seminole Florida on Friday the 13th.  If you're still around in thirty years you'll see this same moon on this same date.  Photo  self

Sleeping Eyes will stop for you Know cars   This one is four years old 

A repost of early 20th-century life in America.  Henry Ford documented everything that moved with the new motion picture camera.  Mechanization was just beginning to be a part of everyday life.   Source US National Archives

They know how to grow food.  So do we (us) .

Could it be a fractal, an expensive work of art or something found in the back of a refrigerator?  None of these.  Slime molds are able to select direction, maintain themselves by rejecting what is not beneficial and reshape themselves. They behave as though they have intelligence .  Article source Quanta Magazine

Depression is something you live with, not by choice, an uninvited guest who visits unannounced and makes you wish you were dead!  Be it chemical, or social, self imposed or impossible to ignore, it lingers on with no permanent cure.  Suicide is not a cure it is a way out with a high price.  Think of going to a theater and watching a performance you think a waste of  your time.  You leave before it is finished.  Have you not missed anything? Was it worth staying for?  I watched The Last Picture Show when it appeared in theaters in 1971.  I was so disillusioned with the movie I left, then came back, and I was glad I returned.  The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards.  I was looking at a slice of life I felt uncomfortable with.  Real life, the one you live everyday, is no different. If you leave before the end you might miss something terrific. 

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Cavuto of Fox News corrects President Trump

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"The first practical design of a submarine-based launch platform was developed by the Germans near the end of World War II involving a launch tube which contained a V-2 ballistic missile variant and was towed behind a submarine, known by the code-name Prüfstand XII. The war ended before it could be tested, but the engineers who had worked on it went on to work for the United States and for the Soviet Union on their SLBM programs. These and other early SLBM systems required vessels to be surfaced when they fired missiles, but launch systems eventually were adapted to allow underwater launching in the 1950-1960s. A converted Project 611 (Zulu-IV class) submarine launched the world's first SLBM, an R-11FM (SS-N-1 Scud-A, naval variant of the SS-1 Scud) on 16 September 1955.[1] Five additional Project V611 and AV611 (Zulu-V class) Submarines became the world's first operational ballistic missile submarines (SSBs) with two R-11FM missiles each, entering service in 1956–57...

Nuclear propulsion was first tested in the 50's as a means to land men on Mars.  The nuclear propellant is twice as efficient as chemical propellent. Source   US National Archives

A re-post from a fond past - image is a reflection in a store window

I made a friend today. We acted garish, strange and gay. What was on our minds, so foolishly sublime? I can't tell you! What I do know is is this: I want to share those feelings grand again. Invite my soul, sins and all. Let's make company no need to call. We'll jiggle, juggle, giggle and cry, Share stories, lips and lies. And always be friends as the crow flies. St,. Petersburg Florida 1999.   The word gay in this poem uses the traditional meaning of happy.

The future of above ground travel  or just a colorful picture Render Software  Bryce

Looking for a home in the heart of the country

An individual viewpoint leads one to suspect individual interest   Who are these leaders  Article source    www.huffpost.com

My first born child was two weeks old when I was asked by a friend to go to Woodstock   I didn't think it was a good time for me   It was definitely a good time for over four hundred thousand who did make the historic concert Source   www.pbs.org

Is whatever you can imagine  but mostly more than you can anticipate

Ransomware works because people pay for what they already own.  There are alternatives that can retrieve your data, but there are no guarantees.  This site may be the beginning of your data recovery.   The best strategy is to keep at least three backups of your data on removable drives. Source https://www.nomoreransom.org

President Trump  Credit  Samuel Corum for The New York Times  photo edited "We need someone who could stand up, look the president in the eye and say: “Enough, sir. We’ve had enough of your indecency. We’ve had enough of your lies, your bullying, your cruelty, enough of your insults, your daily drama, your incitement, enough of the danger you place this country in every single day. We don’t want any of this anymore, and the country certainly can’t stand four more years of it.”" When we stop objecting to the outrage of political power then we become the consequence of that agenda.  I am an American and do not align my self with the values of those who would profit for profit's sake.  Source  nytimes.com   By Joe Walsh   Mr. Walsh is a former Republican member of Congress from Illinois.

When I was a child a toy like the one in this movie would have been the stuff of science fiction.  In the hands of someone with curisosity this little drone will give a new view to the world we live in.

Vladimir Putin is encouraging Russian citizens to drive motorbikes instead of cars and thus reduce the effect of US Oil Sanctions.   Of course this is not a fact, but the real story can be found here .  Leaders of countries will do anything to remain at the center of world attention.  Why don't they spend their energy solving social and economic problems rather than drawing attention to themselves?  This proposition is very difficult for autocrats who do not tolerate any kind of opposition.  Source  https://news.yahoo.com

"Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló has announced that he will leave his office on Aug. 2. This brings an end to a political stand-off with tens of thousands of Puerto Rican protesters who demanded he leave after sexist, homophobic and offensive text messages that he exchanged with his inner circle were made public." Other countries appear as other worlds that are hard to comprehend.  Social media helps others in other places to feel the need to empathize and relate in more than a pitiful way.  This podcast will help in understanding the plight of the Puertorican people. 

Oversized engines cause this plane to fly unreliably  The position of the engines on the 737 is above the wings resulting in an uncontrollable vertical acceleration that was impossible to correct using the MCAS software solution  Software modifications to date will not correct the problem without hardware modifications  The  diameter of the fans within the engines determine thrust  Is it possible that aerodynamic integrity has been compromised in order to compete with other aircraft manufacturers

Sama tells the story of filmmaker Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict rises around her. For Sama will air on FRONTLINE this fall. Credit  FRONTLINE is produced by WGBH Boston and is broadcast nationwide on PBS. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

The search for life on evolving planets  Why water is hard to find While all of this is theory it remains an exciting look at what may have been the formation of planets we see today

 A cormorant on a dock irritated by a close flying object     Eventually flys away

Style and song  Prince Source  youtube.com   Prince

Old postcard from Vladivostok The above is a photo link Sputnik (Russian pronunciation:  [ˈsputnʲɪk] ; formerly The Voice of Russia and RIA Novosti ) is a news agency , news website platform and radio broadcast service established by the Russian government -owned news agency Rossiya Segodnya . [2] Headquartered in Moscow , Sputnik has regional editorial offices in Washington , Cairo , Beijing , Paris , Berlin , London and Edinburgh . Sputnik focuses on global politics and economics and is geared towards a non-Russian audience. [3] Source  sputnik.ru  wikipedia This blog entry is probably all we have in common Donald   I must admit I find the people and the territory interesting  

No matter what field I have entered, all usually technical, I end up in finance That's where the money is or isn't  Any attempt to correct obvious flaws are costly  This reblogged article states the obvious  We spend more than we make and pay more than we should for basic needs  blogger Source only   written by Team Warren Official Medium of Warren for President. We’re building a grassroots movement to fight for big, structural change. Join us at www.elizabethwarren.com

A fun hobby for people with a knack for learning, patience and a few sheckles to rub together Here is an example of hardware mismatch  a slow video card

"Justice" is a felt need in our world today and a controversial topic. But what is justice, exactly, and who gets to define it? In this video, we'll explore the biblical theme of Justice and discover how it's deeply rooted in the story-line of the Bible that leads to Jesus. Source   The Bible Project Published on Oct 27, 2017

Chant follows Trump’s racist tweets targeting Omar and three other Democratic congresswomen of color Beloved: We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers. Whoever does not love remains in death. Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that anyone who is a murderer does not have eternal life remaining in him. The way we came to know love was that he laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If someone who has worldly means sees a brother in need and refuses him compassion, how can the love of God remain in him? Children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth.   1 Jn 3:14-18 Source:   https://www.theguardian.com

China does block some content coming into the country   The search engines to use are listed by Ervis Micukaj   Living in China since September 2013

A Florida bird  an egret strolls on the shore in a never-ending search for food  This little guy blends into his environment - I'll bet he doesn't tweet either

“Chasing the Moon,” a film by Robert Stone, reimagines the race to the moon for a new generation, upending much of the conventional mythology surrounding the effort. "   A history of space exploration from the launching of Russia’s Sputnik I satellite to the United States’ effort at a peaceful competition.  Politically as daunting as the technical advance acquired in a short time, the American people worked together to make this historical effort work.  Blogger Made possible with funding from The Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

“The Kremlin propaganda and disinformation machine operates on new platforms and continues to grow both in Russia and internationally,” Lansing said. - Russia is trying to destroy the very idea of objective, verifiable facts, trying to influence opinions about the United States and its allies. It would not be an exaggeration to say that this new form of struggle in the information field of battle may be the main battle of the 21st century. ” Disinformation is in part the result of our (USA) inability or desire in some cases to defend ourselves against foriegn advisaries who use social media as a weapon of mass delusion.  Blogger Source   VOA  https://www.golos-ameriki.ru/

A drone is a camera with wings  I like to take pictures  Welcome to my blog

Plantains grow in tropical climates like in my back yard. Scuzzi almost forgot   Sung by  Andrea Bocelli

Time travelers invade the present to undermine the absolute control of everyone's identity . Source http://bit.ly/2aqc5vh   REPOST Short Sci Fi flics from Dust

Just 15 miles from the beach and the sunset is blocked by land.  Fly 175 feet up and the camera sees what a person on the beach sees.  This shows how quickly the earth's curvature effects view of distant objects, even one (the sun) ninety-three million miles away.  This is a relatively simple example of how our earth is not what it seems to be without assistance.  Then take into account something more complex like atmospheric changes which should make people think about the long term outcomes of their actions.

The boyfriend's car