Bi Polar People

" Only one person knows whether the Ukraine crisis will lead to war, the man who started it: Vladimir Putin. But so far the Biden administration has reacted to Putin’s military escalation intelligently, with an appropriate mix of deterrence and diplomacy. It has rallied European countries to stay together, provided more weapons to Ukraine and put some troops on heightened alert to signal greater resolve. It has also publicized the kinds of hybrid warfare Russia is engaging in and signaled the sanctions that Russia would face if it went ahead with an invasion." Checking for weaknesses amongst the west Putin puts everything on the border line.  What will he take back with him when and if he retreats?  Knowledge that there is unity in Europe and abroad?  A perceived weakness becomes a strength for countries that border Russia.  A lesson for another potential aggressor  Xi Jinping 主席   Source By Fareed Zakaria washingtonpost.com

  Where are the sanctions against Russia promised by the Western allies   “We’re grateful to the United States for its constant support of our sovereignty and territorial integrity,” Zelensky said . “But I am the Ukrainian president. I’m located here. I know … deeper details than any president.”   Russia's leader is waging a war of fear   His undelivered intentions are meant to cause psychological fear and confusion      Putin is allowing time for a full scale conflict that he believes he can easily win   He has no real advantage because no one knows for sure how the outcome will unfold  The longer he waits the greater will be the impact of the consequences Should he lose this contest of wills his loss will be almost impossible to recover from  No one wants war   Putin puts many in harms way to satisfy his will and a vision to regain sovereignty of the Ukraine    

PBS News Hour   Most allies prepare for war while Germany is reluctant to advance

"Essential Writing Advice from J.G. Ballard "  Having lived on this planet for a lifetime I can't imagine what hell would be like. (me) Cultivate ambiguity.  “[O]ne’s become used to these overlong novels in which everything is explained and tidied up. At the heart of every good short story lies a certain ambiguity, a sort of ‘Yes, but.’ That’s very seldom found in novels. And yet this ambiguity is the very stuff of life.”   source    Literary Hub     Emily Temple

The children are gone The dock is gone The parrot is gone The youth of life is gone The dog is here The cat is here The fish are here The beauty of nature is here The wife is here (thank you) Where the hell is my yard man  

If you are as old as this video you won't remember it  

 " "2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal" was an article published in Time Magazine in 2011 by Lev Grossman. The article features Ray Kurzweil, Director of Engineering at Google Inc., who describes how we are approaching a moment when computers will become intelligent, and not just intelligent but more intelligent than humans. When that happens, humanity - our bodies, our minds, our civilization - will be completely and irreversibly transformed"    " Slaves of Time , recorded in collaboration with soprano Rebecca Nelsen and rapper Olly Hodding, reflects on the fleeting nature of life, about the idea of having limited time on earth to achieve our dreams. It's about living life as if it every day was our last." Retiring at the age of seventy-five during a pandemic follows the title of this blog   The difference being the life lived up to this point   We and all those like myself are fortunate to have been born when we did  Of all the years given to me   I...

  While mortals grumble Race place to place I suspend in stationary space. Unseen unheard observant though The dull long snake where does it go? Below the roar is but a din It satisfies all within Those tiny cans that rush nowhere And never end without a care.

 Ever find yourself looking at online oddities and wonder, why me   Whats so compelling about the content that grabs my attention - GET A LIFE - but thank you for stopping by

" Cormorant" Phalacrocoracidae is a family of approximately 40 species of aquatic birds commonly known as cormorants and shags." Wikipedia Birds are not the only things that fly    check out this monster (Youtube) Photos - me  

  A cloud's view no sun to bright at night Man's lights populate the evening but the sun will not delight Move away bright star and find a fertile field in sight You share your brilliance the cosmos is ever right   Source - my stuff

  Vitality and Virtuosity played by Ivan Ilic' and hosted by Magnatune.com

 A list of hand gun manufacturers How hand guns work This blog does not encourage the use or ownership of hand guns without a legal purpose.  My weapon training was by the military, and target shooting for sport.  When I left the service I sold my Rugger target pistol.  It was replaced by BB guns, mechanical and CO2 powered.  Neither one of these guns can kill.  They feel and look like the real thing which satisfies my need to fire a weapon.  The gun in the picture above is a water pistol.  If you own a parrot it may be a gentle necessity.  If you still have the desire to kill something buy a computer game.  As you know, guns don't kill people, people kill people.   Source:  https://www.genitron.com/

"Freedom is just another word for nothing left to loose?" photo source: The scene near the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. (Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post)  

Eastern Music Source             مصدر الموسيقى الشرقية   Willow Castle in Zayo... Ruins awaiting investment in local development – video قلعة الصفصاف بزايــو.. أطلالٌ تنتظر الاستثمار في التنمية المحلية – فيديو  

1 If you buy something from a charity shop, pay double. 2 Carry stress balls to squeeze when you feel under pressure. 3 Use your umbrella with manners. 4 Buy your electricity from a supplier who uses only sustainable resources. 5 Give your Lottery money to a good cause (only 28p of every £1 you spend goes to charity). 6 Pay compliments. 7 Switch off your mobile phone before going into the cinema or theatre. 8 Tell someone their label’s sticking out. Especially if you don’t know them. 9 Stop yourself saying ‘I’. 10 Bring birds into your life; get a bird-table, and make sure your cat has a bell around its neck. 11 Join a union. 12 Volunteer. Try www.idealist.org for ideas. 13 Make your own compost. Vegetable peelings, leftovers, garden waste, tea bags all do it. 14 If you’re buying a car, consider the new breed of zero-emission vehicles. 15 Put a brick in your toilet’s cistern to reduce the amount of water used in flushing. 16 Give your old computer to someone who can us...

By Dr. Vishnu Reddy Apr 11  This article is a Reblog   Graphic by this blogger  "So many of us are still grappling with the effects of 2020. Whether it’s finance related, home ownership, personal health or..really anything. It’s safe to say that we have all been affected in one way or another. Now there is a looming phrase in the media that threatens to delay an end to our collective dilemma — mutation. So what is a mutation exactly? Is it dangerous? And what does a mutant strain mean for you? Here, we’re going to break down these three ideas and the medical information behind them to better equip you moving forward." What is a Mutation? A m u tation is essentially a random change in the genetic code of the virus. The genetic code is essentially a blueprint for the virus that tells itself how to build new virus particles after it infects our bodies. So when there is a change, or a mutation, in the blueprint the structure of the virus and the particles on the v...

 Santa came early and brought me a little hungry friend who insisted on sticking around while I ate a hot dog   ba -hum-bug

SANTAHOOD IS COMING TO TOWN a strange and wondrous tale by charles mistretta         ONCE UPON A MIDNIGHT DREARY,         I GRABBED MY BAG IN SUCH A FURY,         WANTING TO PLEASE LITTLE GIRLS AND BOYS.         THOSE REINDEER GROANED, AND MUSED WITH RANCOR,         THEN NEVER WAS HEARD, SUCH SNORTS OF BANTER,         QUIVERING I FILLED MY SACK WITH TOYS.         THE NIGHT SO FULL, ANTICIPATING,         WONDROUS DONATIONS, COMMISERATING,         DID I DESERVE THIS GIFT TO PLEASE?         OLD BONES RACKED, WITH ARDOR SENSING,         AN AWESOME RIDE A...

 Blessed Virgin Mary Illusion is the cousin of imagination. An idea permeates a person’s reality until it becomes real. New insights are born from the weeds embedded in the mind. Nurtured by misfortune entertaining thoughts ideas take shape that would have gone unnoticed. The artist is the master of illusion, so is a magician or a politician who seeks undeserved gain for himself, leaving his constituents to wonder when the moment of truth will pop up. If religion is an illusion it keeps the soul alive. All civilizations have created deities, something or someone to worship other than themselves. What we believe is our reality and it becomes with time the truths, laws and customs that define our people.

 "What is a code talker? A code talker is the name given to American Indians who used their tribal language to send secret communications on the battlefield." Today computer code is the backbone of commerce and military security.  The accepted language that many software packages use is Apache.  “This is one of the worst vulnerabilities in the history of vulnerabilities,” Tom Kellermann, a former member of an Obama administration cybersecurity commission and the head of Cybersecurity Strategy at technology company VMware, told The Hill on Monday." "The vulnerability in an Apache logging framework, known as “Log4j ,” that could allow hackers to obtain access to targeted systems remotely sent experts running to update systems. Apache put out a security advisory warning of the threat and recommending steps to help organizations protect themselves."    Read the full article here from The Hill     

  The title of this blog is Bi-Polar People  There is very little information about this manic depressive state, how to cope medically and methods of  mindfulness that work for some  Instead you get to see an eclectic collection of interest that is the result of having an appreciation for almost anything (as represented by the blog entries) Here are a few examples.  Photographs unless sometimes credited... are mine as well as graphics and sketches   Another world as influenced by NASA picture galleries   The state of utter confusion with a glimpse of the mind in the upper right hand corner  Four faces with different emotions competing for attention     Wonderment of a four year old grandson    "One of the great successes of the early American space program, the Mariner 4 mission journeyed to Mars -- making its closest approach on July 15, 1965 -- and took the first photos of another planet from space."  Image credit: NAS...

 This documentary from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL and the Space Age displays the efforts that finally allowed the first ever photographs of Mars from orbit to landing While Russia put the first satellite in space we landed men on the moon, and also performed the historic fly by with a digital photo of Mars, the first orbit and landing  Two decades later the space age program continues to teach us about the worlds around us  Mariner 4  First photograph of Mars surface that confirmed the presence of rivers that no longer exist Initial photos of Mars from the planet's surface  

                                              At least I got two wings  

                                         Annie  eight year old Dalmatian Originally a swamp marsh   Ponds dot St. Petersurg neighborhoods   Egret suns on the dock   ducklings in the background   Lolita the family parrot - R.I.P.     To the beach    Supervised reptile birthday for my grandson   Forlorn face on a palm tree These are all my shots - enjoy    This link is about deep learning - face on tree, etc. 

Roger Gilmartin   says, "This is a topic of great interest to me, especially since Voyager 1 is the most remote craft we have ever sent forth. After 40 years of travel, it has reached the light distance of only 20 hours. In evaluating this result, it tends to place a large damper on our ultimate ability to reach anywhere that is significantly outside the solar system."   "This graphic (which represents a logarithmic scale, based on AU) was created in 2013, and so Voyager is ever so slightly more to the right. Voyager is estimated to reach the Oort cloud in about 300 more years." "It will be many generations of us to come and go, before Voyager, then dark and cold, reaches the Proxima Centauri or Alpha Centauri neighborhood." "We have to work on the next generation (or two) of propulsion, otherwise we are restricted to the Solar System." "Update: As of 2 March 2021, Voyager 1 has traveled a distance of 21...

A working class family home were three children and some of their friends were raised  It is the tree house covered in shade from the Florida sun  Thirty years have passed since my mother found this home around the corner from here own home  With a pond view and numerous species of water birds to photograph, not to mention occasional turtles and the rare otter  and yes, if there is water there is a gator lurking nearby       Source  blogger  aerial view