Bi Polar People

 Nothing exist in isolation  Memory is not a page torn from history  Democracy is neither a thought nor a recollection  It is an active way we live despite the need to redefine it to suite the needs of those who do not act  "Do you remember how, just a few short months ago, supporters of Donald Trump staged a violent insurrection? How they stormed the Capitol in an attempt to overturn the results of last November’s presidential election, looting and vandalizing the seat of American democracy? The fact that they carried firearms, explosives and handcuffs, some wanting to kill Vice-President Mike Pence, and others to run the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, over with a car? And how the whole thing was incited by the former president, Donald Trump, who told the mob beforehand to “ fight like hell ”?"

 Here is a quickie   Editing is part skill and some luck  This was a trial flick to learn the drones editing tools  Many of today's movies rely on drones for shots that don't ride on a dolly or hang from an extended boom   The flexibility of aerial or more accurately three dimensional ground mobility places the viewer with the action, rather than being just a spectator       

  Because we are sleeping   OK your not retired, or you got up at 4 Am and missed it anyway - gotta have a reason for waking up.  This is mine.    In case you were looking for something on the political side, read this article .  " A pair of industry groups is suing to stop a Florida law that would open social media companies up to fines and lawsuits over their content moderation decisions."    Hmm, isn't America already great!  More work for the supreme court.   source   By Cat Zakrzewski with Aaron Schaffer   Washington Post

 The differences are the demands that an era makes   Anyone in any time will react according to the norms of the day and be labeled a Gen x,y,z...  The successful generation is one that is left with a chance to become what they aspire to

      Why this song   The pandemic is not over for everyone, some continue to suffer  Who will help the countries without means or foresight to fight what may linger for a time to come Source: Youtube    Song   While My Guitar Gently Weeps   Live Artist   Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton   Writers   George Harrison

  Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to physical appearance and can be divided based on the superiority of one race over another. It may also mean prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against other people because they are of a different ethnicity. Wikipedia Today the term racism takes on many cultures to keep the idea of discrimination alive.  OK I get the idea.  How about media that shows how we are suppose to treat each other in a humane way.  Equality, and equity are fictitious terms that are not realistic and cause more tension.  We are all different but we expect the same measure of Respect.   That's it.  I can be better than the next man but I should allow  him personal dignity because we must share the similar values that allow us to coexist.   Racism will remain a fact of life as long as one group of people feel the need to feel superior to the next. ...

  More buildings with magnificent views  Shanghai Financial center and other buildings in Shanghai    Source:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_World_Financial_Center  

 This Getty Image shows Palestinians assessing the damage in Gaza after a night of air strikes by Israeli forces  It is real and horrible with no end in sight  "We cannot sleep at home, we are not feeling safe. Air strikes all over Gaza. There are not any places safe." BBC News  " The latest round of violence between Israelis and Palestinians is happening because the long and unresolved conflict between the two sides has once again been left to fester. It is an open wound in the heart of the Middle East and it is why violent face-to-face confrontations have escalated into rocket-firing, air strikes and death." source By Jeremy Bowen BBC Middle East editor https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-57074460   © 2021 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the U.S./Middle East Project.     This paper is the culmination of an extensive series of convenings and consultations, which took place between October 2019 and February 2021, to examine...

Images are the way we express or provide insight into how we think and feel   We could read a book or engage in some activity that takes more than a few seconds to satisfy the need for stimulation   I pose these figures to my satisfaction just for the fun of seeing the human form exaggerated  This blog is nothing more than my will exposed to the world at large   It is nothing more than expression   We all have our own way of living for the sake of attention  

This is a translation from the Voice of America and may vary from the original   Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said the United States still has a long way to go to recover from the coronavirus pandemic. Her opinion is based on the recently published employment data, which turned out to be worse than expected. A leading Republican in the House of Representatives has signaled that he will vote to withdraw Liz Cheney, party member and critic of Donald Trump, from the party leadership. SpaceX will accept dojcoins to fund a flight to the moon. A man shot and killed six adults at a family birthday party in Colorado Springs. Police said the shooting occurred after midnight last Sunday in a mobile home parking lot. The attacker opened fire on the party participants and then committed suicide. In the bay that separates the states of New Jersey and New York, there are three famous islands: Liberty Island with the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, where immigrants from all over the world ar...

    There are interesting and exciting things to do in Mogadishu from Pizza Express for fine dinning the whole family will enjoy to the military museum that sports some remains of the now famous movie Black Hawk Down   The beaches are legendary  It has been recommended by those who vacation here to hire security for your next stay   Local accommodations should be acceptable to most   See a list of things to do in Mogadishu and remember to read the disclaimer at the top of this blog Source  tripadvisor.com

 “The problem with ‘I’m entitled to my opinion’ is that, all too often, it’s used to shelter beliefs that should have been abandoned. It becomes shorthand for ‘I can say or think whatever I like’ and, by extension, continuing to argue is somehow disrespectful,” he explained in The Conversation. Who do we believe and why?  This is a moral call not a matter of who you are.  The authors reviewed seven “well-established” types of cooperation to test the idea that morality evolved to promote cooperation.  Without morality, then there is little if any cooperation? By Akshat Rathi Senior reporter December 4, 2016 This article is more than 2 years old.   Quarta qz.com

  Is the apocalypse here yet mommy? No, the end of days is not coming anytime soon.   Then why are people so unhappy? Maybe it was someone they voted for, or a meal they missed. Don't people eat everyday? Not everyone is able to eat everyday.  There isn't enough food or medicine all over the world for everyone .  Can we help? We can try, that's all we can do.  There a good people with the power to help doing their best right now, as soon as they take care of their own personal problems.  Somebody To Love     Queen   Youtube   Photo credit   John Mistretta 

  A day in a life is the whole life one day at a time   Trying to make sense of what is yours and only yours, something you can't change, sell or discard   Life in a day is all there is to it, one day at a time  Enjoy and let it live  let it live   let it live   live Source YouTube  Beatles  A Day In a Life

 By living in a country that speaks the l anguage you want to learn you learn it faster  Not being able to leave that country once you have mastered the mother tongue is of course a bummer   To navigate to this  place practice Boca Grande   A Spanish tradition usually followed by to much vino  Or the need to inform people concerning matters they already suspected but weren't sure of until you opened your big mouth   Sorry Robert  your  expose didn't change much did it "We hack network backbones - like huge internet routers, basically - that give us access to the communications of hundreds of thousands of computers without having to hack every single one," Mr Snowden was quoted as saying.

  IN ESSENCE THERE WAS AN OLD LADY WHO LIVED IN A FROCK SHE HAD SO MANY CHILDREN SHE DID NOT HAVE STOCK NOT STOCK DID SHE TAKE FOR THE FROCK IT WAS FREE NOR CHILDREN WERE SENT FAR AWAY FROM THEE BUT ONCE THERE DID HAPPEN A GENTLEMEN MAN WHO GAVE A KIND WORD WHO HAD A SLIGHT HAND HIS NAME SHE BELIEVED WAS HIGH ON THE LAND HE GAVE NOT CHILDREN BUT STOCK FROM HIS HAND ALL WAS WELL FOR A WHILE IN MANY DAYS COME UNTIL THE MAN SEWED AWAY ALL HE HAD BRUNG HOW THE OLD LADY SAD IS GIVEN FOR FREE CHILDREN FROM STOCK FOR GENTLEMEN TO SEE THE PLANTED SEED FLOURISHES NOT FOR YOU AND ME BUT FOR THOSE WHO BRING STOCK TO THE OLD, THE CHILDREN, AND THEE. JUNE 27, 1980 TAMPA FLORIDA    A poem from an early blog entry  This one is probably repeated, but heritage deserves to be reintroduced   The picture shows my grandparents and the youngest is my mother  Poetry is my way of understanding what was never taught or appreciated until the word...

      Social media tends to be unsociable   So I post what I like and if you see it and agree with my choices   well that's great  Posing programs are an area that lends itself to distortion (art)?  At least it is expression without permission   The whole idea of the forum currently the illusive good or bad internet

  Circumstance, circumspect, suspect, just get the black man,  Quick trigger, finger poison last rest for no reason, Time is the hunter and it never stops, ask you mother ask your pops, Black lives matter and then they don't, can't say why, just stop and point, At someone who is afraid and wants to know why from you, Bang your dead again.

  In 1995 the home shopping club was visited by a Microsoft representative to showcase their latest operating system, Windows 95  The computer support team was gathered in an upper room to see the marvels of the latest technology  It was fantastic  A big leap for the user in relative ease of EXEcution This clip Good Times was among the demo files included with the new OS  It marked an era when the process of automation was just beginning  Now the public uses technology with ease and who knows how it has effective our culture   

 This is a video about a seven year project to build a helicopter that flies in an atmosphere unlike our own. R&D is fascinating work if you can get it.  Once the project proves successful the job is usually over and production begins.   I hope the small company that developed Ingenuity continues to receive contracts... Source www.wsj.com Wall Street Journal Video

 How astronauts spend time and how duty has changed over the years since we have been in space   Major Tom Source  www.supercluster

Dante Wright   The family of Daunte Wright, a Black man who was fatally shot on Sunday by a police officer in Brooklyn Center, Minn., expressed grief and anger over his killing and recounted his final moments. Credit... Victor J. Blue for The New York Times    The walk through a hospital lobby was met with a police officer who was on duty As I approached  him I noticed the gear hanging on his duty belt like the one seen below I asked the officer how he knew what equipment was located on the belt  He just said after years on the force you just know  It is easy to see how a mistake can be made with so much hanging on his belt  Knowing the difference between a lethal weapon and an impairment device under duress does not look like a matter of "you just know"    Is it easy to make a mistake and draw the wrong weapon    Should it have happen at all   Mistakes can kill people   People make mistakes    

 Eve didn't eat the apple  she was the apple

    Facility for the mentally impaired Latest Scientology acquisition Miami republican headquarters American historical document museum       Any of the above might be a correct answer, only time will tell...  

    "Meanwhile, Russian troops are gathering to the Ukrainian border, which are moving in cars with unreadable numbers. Moscow does not give clear explanations on this score." "Also, alarming reports come from Donbass, where violent shelling has resumed, as a result of which there are deaths on both sides. As Reuters reports on Tuesday, citing representatives of the Ukrainian military, two Ukrainian servicemen were killed by pro-Russian separatists over the previous 24 hours, which further exacerbated the situation." "According to media reports, in the territories not controlled by Ukraine, the population is actively instilled with the idea that a new war is not far off." "The State Department is concerned about the "escalation of Russian aggression in the east of Ukraine", including by reports of the movements of Russian troops near the borders of Ukraine and in the occupied Crimea." From   Новости "Голоса Америки" - 06.04.20...

  " The legality of cannabis for medical and recreational use varies by country, in terms of its possession, distribution, and cultivation, and how it can be consumed and what medical conditions it can be used for. " Wikipedia Cannabis is an effective antidepressant  When dosage and frequency of use is difficult to manage then a psychological dependence may occur  Prescription non narcotic neural stimulants are slower acting, but also regulate mood  (blogger opinion, not a recommendation)   Cartoon property of the NewYorker

    Zen and The Art of Model Making - The Story of Philip Reed In the fifties model making was something kids did more often than I suppose they do today   Then there was not an internet, computer, video games or cell phone for us to pour our time over   Model making took concentration, planing and a degree of dexterity that pushed you to the final finished moment that was so rewarding   I used similar skills working for a microwave company   The outcome was seen on equipment that would buy a nineties era house.  It was also delicate and rewarding   It was a living for over a decade   Since then all forms of my art have taken the place of reproducing, or producing precision objects  Instead they manipulate instruments that fly, photograph, or create art   From this page and each that precede it, model builder skills make graphic detail and other written commentary to capture a time, a place or just a memory  The object is to un...

  Years ago a photographer friend of mine asked me if I wanted to rent a helicopter and take aerial photos   I asked him,  "What for?"   Now I do it for sport using drones  The Weedon Island dock in this picture was once a road that ran over Tampa Bay to...  see picture below and check out the residential pool

    By John Blake, CNN Updated 2011 GMT (0411 HKT) March 9, 2013  "During World War II, Second Lieutenant Charles Brown was the pilot of a B-17 and after a tough aerial battle, his plane was the only one left behind in German air space. His plane was running dangerously out of fuel, half of his crew was wounded, his tail gunner was killed, and his plane was rattling from all the gunshots it had taken." "German ace, Franz Stigler, was only a kill away from earning The Knight’s Cross, Germany’s highest award for valor. He was on the ground when Brown’s B-17 passed over him and he took off on his Bf-109 to chase after the American plane." "When he got behind the B-17, he was about to press the trigger to take down the plane, but noticed that no one from the B-17 was shooting at him, he flew closer to see that the tail gunner was dead and the crew inside were injured and huddling together." Reader further from CNN, listen to the account, or buy the book  

    Satire snagged from the New Yorker  Thanks guys for letting a very few more people feel the pain of being a Floridian in the shadow of the elect  

  Being a parent and aspiring teacher I learned that children have capabilities that exceed our expectations  This video is evidence that kids like challenge   Source:  CNN/Youtube   And some fantastic parents

  Why, how, if and what does it matter that our eyes see, not see A look at what makes our field of view anything but a coherent conclusion of our choosing  We welcome the discord as it may annoy sometimes but often amuses our sense of humdrum repetitious reality  Click the link above to see what this all means       That goes for me too because I use a lot of other peoples' images, but I give them credit  When no credit is given the image or graphic is mine  Like this low orbit commercial transport     software:  Bryce  Bryce is a 32 bit scenery application and a good 64 bit version is hard to find  The software was developed twenty years ago when larger word bits where science fiction   

  Republicans are making it harder for black voters to express their choice of government  Declining the right to vote by mail for all except those over sixty-five is wrong and another racial inequality that has lingered for hundreds of years  The minority populations only serve the interest of big money by helping it to flourish without a fair share in their efforts   Government chooses to regulate not represent those who are the machinery of commerce " The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson during the height of the civil rights movement on August 6, 1965, and Congress later amended the Act five times to expand its protections." source wiki

"Letting off steam might be more important in social life than we’ve recognized. Suppressing what we really think is widely understood to be bad for our emotional health. People who have had to hide their thoughts in order to appear as conformists to the prevailing orthodoxies have often developed deep psychological problems, which in turn can lead to ‘explosions’. Meanwhile, if people can express themselves, even only clandestinely, they might be relieved of this pressure." I dare not write my feelings, for they appear as a fog in a dark place that no one bothers to enter   Nor do I give entrance because of my shield and sword of Benzodiazepines  For years I have taken Klonopin to regulate or annihilate feelings that no longer linger because they are no more than dead ghost   Most feelings have become mere experiences that visit and disappear, like teenagers who are becoming self emancipated   However memory is as fine or finer than I deserve and I use it as a tool ...

    What is the party line... is it the right thing to do for your constituents,  meaning you satisfy those who vote you in office  Can there be a consensus outside of the party philosophy, that sphere of influence or the self indulgence of personal intuition - the gut feeling with no basis other than popular approval  On the other hand is racial equity fair   I got mine   Did you get yours  Only the another four years will tell as the fiscal pendulum swings left then right  God(?) forbid there is no swing  

    Ubuntu 20.04.2.0 LTS desktop for those who don't use a Mac OS or Windows, includes free software in almost any category and in some cases is easy to use  Your computer is old  Then this OS will give it new life for free and a small learning curve   If you code you will find other ways to benefit, though coding is not a prerequisite  If all you do is browse the internet then there is virtually no learning curve           Shoot from the hip  take any shot as you see them  something the persistent photographer does  This doesn't appeal to everyone or maybe one hundred years from now someone will find it quaint     Do you peruse local thrift shops  Some give their stuff away, others think of them as timeless gems and expect a price for curiosity  This one works and is a handsome addition to any collection  A horologists is interested in the study of time keeping devices  Now you ...

To fast for a decent photograph, faster than most fighter jets, steady Mach 2 transatlantic transportation    The way people are packed into planes today that use more muscle than air frame to move from point A to B pale in comparison to the Concorde - Lucky are those that can afford the ticket to fly so fast, I'm not sure why  It still sounds inviting   Source  Andrei Kucharavy · February 24    Works at Bioinformatics   The articles following this submission are interesting as well

 A poem by Lewis Carol  'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. Have you been jabbed yet    Keep trying    Maybe your area will be supplied with enough vaccine to satisfy the needs of seniors and those with conditions or jobs that allow a chance at a jab  Its all the rage on the news   In my opinion the vaccine is currently in short supply    FEMA to the rescue    Please visit your state's patient portal or online access account for vaccination appoint information  Know Before You Go Demand for the COVID-19 vaccine is far in excess of the supply the state has received so far. It is anticipated that additional supplies will be coming soon. Florida has many sites that are providing COVID-19 vaccines, but supplies are limited and appointments may not be available at many of these sites. The state is prioritizing: Persons 65 yea...

“I think right now there’s no need for individuals to know their strains,” Well that may be a good way to contain hysteria but will it help when vaccines don't prove effective against variants   "Amid limited testing to identify different strains , more than 1,900 cases of three key variants have been detected in 46 states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s worrisome because of early reports that some may spread faster, prove deadlier or potentially thwart existing treatments and vaccines." By Christina Jewett and JoNel Aleccia and Rachana Pradha   February 25, 2021   marketwatch.com

  Today's selection -- from  The World's Greatest Book of Useless Information  by Noel Botham & the Useless Information Society.  Facts about the human brain  from  https://www.delanceyplace.com/ People who study the brain are like any other mechanic.  How something works tells you how to fix it or how to live with it - especially if your skills demand this knowledge.  Bipolar people have always been in aaugh of the mechanism of thought that creates intentions that are not of their choosing.  People make a living trying to explain what goes on in the brain, though they rarely have insights as to how these goings-on are within our control without medication.  Cynical you say? How now brown cow, or pink elephant or education for the sake of self enlightenment when your candle is always in the wind~ Welcome.  

    source:  https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/worldwide-graphs/#countries-cases  

 " ...the UAE (United Arab Emirate) has a long way to go. Just a handful of its 100 or so higher-education institutions do research, and Al Amiri estimates that there are perhaps only a few hundred full-time academic researchers."     " When the United Arab Emirates’ Mars mission takes off , it will be a victory for the entire country, but particularly for women, who make up 34% of the mission team and 80% of the science team. Women’s representation in the Emirati workforce overall is lower, at 28%, but this is changing despite traditional gender and family roles."         "Sharaf and Al Amiri on the grounds of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre. Credit: Natalie Naccache for Nature."   Encouraging the population that is rich in oil, a depleting resource, to learn new skills that will allow a country to sustain itself is the real reason behind the march into space.  "But for Emiratis, space-science goals come second. Faced with economic a...