Part III of My Story continues. Part II Part I Today, we continue on after the Bank of America was graced with my presence for the first time. Working the night-owl shift was a real hoot. We got there at eleven o'clock, at least that's when we were supposed to get there, but the first night I found out the owl-shift had some leeway. There were about 100 women pounding on IBM...

Part II of 12 Parts The City of SMOG & Warm Weather Los Angeles, CA We resume this story from Part I, Why I Fled Ohio & Went West, and begin with first things: get a job, and find a place to live. Now that I know I can't be a HVAC Estimator, and my $200 dollars is down to less than $100 dollars, the business who says, "Yes," will be my first employer in the city which we now...

Part I of XII parts. Several of you asked if I would write some more of what I started with my story about Who Charlie Courtois was? On the other place many of you hung out for a number of years I published 12 stories which some of you may have already read, but the chances are it was so long ago that you forgot. There are no personal bits in those stories, and I...

Newsvine was one of the leaders of the blog arena for at least a half a decade from about 2006 to 2011 and then management decided , apparently, to fix something that was not broken. From 2011 to to now I was simply there, wrote a few articles, wrote a few comments on articles of interest, but something had happened, and I lost interest. In fact I lost interest in the whole blogging...

Published on Dec 6, 2012 Speakers: Chris Anderson, CEO, 3D Robotics Carl Bass, President and CEO, Autodesk, Inc Thanks to 3D printers and other increasingly cheap and easy digital desktop fabrication machines, the Web generation is now turning making physical things on a global scale. This is more than just tinkering and DIY; it's also spawning a new sort of manufacturing...

A Catholic Priest, a Baptist Preacher and a Rabbi all served as Chaplains to the students of Northern Michigan University at Marquette in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. They would get together two or three times a week for coffee and to talk shop. One day, someone made the comment that preaching to people isn't really all that hard, a real challenge would be to preach to a...

In The Week article below the indisputable evidence of greed for: gun sales, push-money donated by the gun-makers to the NRA, are fighting for more gun users to buy not just hunting weapons, but every conceivable type of hard-core weaponry by taking advantage of the fear of stricter laws. This media frenzy began at the same time the Newtown Massacre was first reported by Nicholas...

The Arc of the Covenant Above If anyone says, "I love God," but hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God who he has not seen. 1John 4:20 Often times we imagine we see God in nature, or in Church, or in others. But John writes here if you don't love one of your brothers or sisters for whatever reason you are a...

Bernard Courtois Born 8 February 1777 Dijon, France Died 27 September 1838 (Age 61) Nationality French Occupation chemist Knownfor discovering iodine Spouse(s) Madeleine Morand Parents Jean-Baptiste Courtois Marie Ble Fairbanks Bernard Courtois , also spelled Barnard Courtois , (12 February 177727...

I was born in Beth Page, New York, Charles Bernard Courtois, into an august heritage that I will never live up to in this lifetime. On Dad's side my great-great-grandfather, Bernard Courtois, the source of my middle name, discovered Iodine in 1811 in France. He also sold ammunition to Napoleon. On Mom's side she traced her lineage back to William Henry Harrison, our former...