Wikipedia vs. Neo-Tech®
by
Mark Hamilton
(Son of the late FRW)

In the early Internet days, back in the mid-90s, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales used to post on our alt.Neo-Tech® newsgroup.  You can see Jimmy Wales’ posts on alt.Neo-Tech from the early Internet days by going to https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alt.neo-tech and keying in the search bar “Jimmy Wales” (and you will get another set of his posts when you key in “Jimbo”).  He was somewhat interested in my father’s, Dr. Frank R. Wallace’s Neo-Tech® philosophy, which grew out of Ayn Rand’s Objectivism.  So when I sent Mr. Wales an email several years ago, after my father died, informing him that a Wikipedia editor who went by the name of “Bi” was destroying my father’s Wikipedia page, Wales called me.  I explained that someone with a strong stalker-like obsession can destroy a person’s Wikipedia page, and that my father’s Wikipedia page and the Neo-Tech® Philosophy Wikipedia page provide examples.  Mr. Wales said he looked over my father’s page and the Neo-Tech® page and saw nothing wrong, saying he saw an open debate.  Yet the comments on my father’s Wikipedia Talk page today, several years later, indicate that, indeed, there was something wrong: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Frank_R._Wallace .  Below I copy/pasted from my father’s Wikipedia Talk page at the time of this article:

Neo-Tech®[edit]

“Neo-Tech®_(philosophy)” forwards here but the section makes almost no explanation of the philosophy. gwinkless (talk) 13:29, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

I agree.  Its really inadequate. Dramatizer (talk) 20:44, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Reading the archives of the discussion page, one can see the problem.  Old edit wars of the past obliterated large sections of the explanation of what Neo-Tech® is.  That said, there was little in the way of third party sources to discuss the issue.  This was despite the MOS for citations, which point out that strict citation is only necessary for disputed points.  A short, uncontroversial explanation of Neo-Tech® should be acceptable.  Unfortunately, no one seems to be adding it.  I certainly don’t know anything of the philosophy, and so I cannot contribute anything myself; so there’s your explanation. —Cast (talk) 04:29, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

Biological Immortality[edit]

I have not noticed a single mention of Wallace’s strongly held belief in and promotion of the concept of biological immortality, very strange since it is the whole raison d’être of his philosophy and business pursuits.  Now I’m no longer a hardcore follower, fan, or even admirer, but surely this warrants inclusion, don’t you agree?–Shanoman (talk) 21:53, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Well, the problem isn’t that those who know of Wallace are unaware of this.  The problem is that there is little or no third party references to him and his work, so that we have little mandate to add this information to the article.  Until a third-party reference to his opinions on biological immortality is made, we can’t include it here. —Cast (talk) 18:45, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

You don’t need third party references for this article.  Wikipedia: Verifiability says “Self-published or questionable sources may be used as sources of information about themselves, especially in articles about themselves…” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Source#Sources So you can use books by Wallace, published by Wallace, in an article about Wallace to describe his views and philosophy.  Dramatizer (talk) 20:36, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

You could do that, but within minutes, yes, minutes, some Asperger’s riddled nitwit would spring into action and edit it out, calling it “original research.”  Forty-four minutes to Wapner…. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.171.176.138 (talk) 02:28, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

The edit wars described on my father’s Talk page above largely implicate Wikipedia editor “Bi”.  After my father died, this “Bi” harbored an obsession to destroy my father, his works, credibility, reputation and legacy.  “Bi” proliferated across the web the idea that Neo-Tech® was “a scam”.  In fact, “Bi” had become so blatantly over-the-top vicious against Neo-Tech® and Frank R. Wallace that the watchdog blog scam.com eliminated the entire, massive thread of “Bi” attacks on Neo-Tech® and Frank R. Wallace.  I doubt that the removal of an entire thread had ever happened before or since on scam.com.  Just a quick browse through Wikipedia Talk pages for Frank R. Wallace, Neo-Tech® Philosophy, and Neo-Tech® Publishing clearly reveals “Bi’s” bizarre obsession to undermine Frank R. Wallace and Neo-Tech®:

FRW Talk Page Archive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Frank_R._Wallace/Archive_1

Neo-Tech® Philosophy Talk Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Neo-Tech_(philosophy)

Neo-Tech® Publishing Talk Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Integrated_Management_Associates

Neo-Tech® Mediation Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_mediation/Frank_R._Wallace

After browsing through those four Talk pages (four links directly above), remember that Jimmy Wales saw all this yet seemed blind to the obvious: a person obsessed with destroying someone featured on Wikipedia, stalking his page and finding excuses to remove positive or even neutral remarks, can cause a much greater negative force at work than a positive or neutral force.  I tried to explain this to Wales, but he would not see the obvious.  The Wikipedia community needs to recognize this imbalance and step in to remove a negative fanatic.  Some tried to no avail as seen on those Talk pages.  But the top man, Jimmy Wales, saw no problem in letting the fanatic “Bi” rage on.  Again, even the anti-business blog scam.com saw the “Bi” obsession to destroy Neo-Tech® and Wallace despite the facts, and therefore scam.com made the remarkable move of deleting the entire thread of “Bi” against us.  Yet pro-business Wales saw no problem at all.

Wikipedia resists relatives, friends, and employees from contributing to an article out of concern that the subject would be favored, yet Wales saw no problem with a negative force so strong that it overwhelmed the Neo-Tech® and Frank R. Wallace Wikipedia articles with negativity.  When I articulated this shortcoming to Jimmy Wales, he simply shrugged it off indicating that others can debate against the negative.  But he missed the fundamental point: that even with the rigorous debate on my father’s and Neo-Tech®’s Wikipedia pages, a fanatic can overwhelm the Wikipedia articles with relentless persistence…with an obsession to destroy as evidenced today, years later, by the comments on my father’s Talk page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Frank_R._Wallace .  After reading the comments on my father’s Talk page (as shown above), you can see that the value of Wikipedia was diminished by the fanatical efforts of “Bi”.

Here is another reason, beyond his obsession, that “Bi” had the upper hand in those edit wars: an idea system such as Neo-Tech® that exposes the rampant dishonesties in journalists, politicians, the academe, the clergy…you can imagine the attacks on Neo-Tech® in the media and blogosphere.  Moreover, there will be no positive articles written about Neo-Tech®, only attack articles.  And because of the dishonesty throughout the media, my father established a written company-policy to never talk to mainstream journalists.  We refused to speak to several reporters, for they were out to besmirch Neo-Tech®.  They showed up, and we turned them away.  For decades we turned down all requests for interviews, for they were only attempting to smear us.  So there are no articles, other than the attack articles.  Well, those published attacks make it too easy for those out to discredit the idea system and its creator to overwhelm those Wikipedia articles with negativity using Wikipedia’s sacred policy of third-party sourcing and citations — Wikipedia’s Holy Grail: third-party sourcing from published sources…yes, articles written by the very journalists and bloggers who deeply dislike Neo-Tech®, the very journalists and bloggers whom Neo-Tech® aggressively criticizes as largely dishonest.

Furthermore, those out to destroy Neo-Tech® too easily remove legitimate representation of the idea system by calling it “too much original material” as evidenced today, years later, on my father’s Talk page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Frank_R._Wallace, a section from the Talk page shown below:

You don’t need third party references for this article.  Wikipedia: Verifiability says “Self-published or questionable sources may be used as sources of information about themselves, especially in articles about themselves…” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Source#Sources So you can use books by Wallace, published by Wallace, in an article about Wallace to describe his views and philosophy.  Dramatizer (talk) 20:36, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

You could do that, but within minutes, yes, minutes, some Asperger’s riddled nitwit would spring into action and edit it out, calling it “original research.”  Forty-four minutes to Wapner…. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.171.176.138 (talk) 02:28, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Anonymous “Bi” and occasional ally (he used sock puppets) overwhelmed the edit wars by easily, repeatedly stating there are no third-party sources supporting original material or obvious facts.  Citations are supposed to be used for questionable material.  But “Bi” relentlessly removed even the most obvious, non-questionable material using his weapon of “no third-party sourcing.”  He knew that the media and bloggers (he himself was a blogger) want nothing to do with Neo-Tech®.  He knew you would find no third-party articles favorable or even neutral or so much as acknowledging Neo-Tech®.  Although Wikipedia does have language to allow equal-weight and allow original material on self-published works such as Neo-Tech®, which was the only counterforce, it could not stay up with a “Bi” at work.

To demonstrate how the establishment recoils from Neo-Tech®, let’s shift to the legendary DC Comics writer Alan Grant (Batman, Judge Dredd) who created the comic character Anarky based on my father’s Neo-Tech® philosophy.  (Of course, “Bi” tried to remove this fact from my father’s and Neo-Tech®’s pages.)  Firstly, here are links to interesting reading about Grant’s work on Anarky and an interview that reveals Grant’s love for Neo-Tech®:

Wikipedia on Anarky: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarky

Alan Grant interview: http://web.archive.org/web/19980218141349/http://gocomics.com/alangrant.htm

Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarky_(comic_book)

More on Anarky http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publication_history_of_Anarky

More http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_Anarky

Grant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Grant_(writer)

Now, to demonstrate the establishment’s dislike for Neo-Tech®, consider this taken from Wikipedia regarding the consequences of Anarky, the character developed from the Neo-Tech® philosophy:

Impact on creators[edit]

In the years that followed the creation of Anarky, both Norm Breyfogle and Alan Grant experienced changes in their personal and professional lives which they attributed to that collaboration.  Each man acknowledged the primary impact of the character to have been on their mutual friendship and intellectual understanding.  In particular, their time developing the Anarky series led to a working relationship centered on esoteric debate, discussion, and mutual respect.[5][6][105][106][107]

Over time, Anarky emerged as each man’s favorite character, with Grant wishing he could emulate the character,[5][21] and complimenting that Breyfogle “draws Anarky as if he loves the character.”[58]  While Breyfogle acknowledged that Anarky was his favorite of the creations they collaborated on,[23] he felt that his own appreciation was not as great as Grant’s, commenting that Anarky was “Alan’s baby”.[107]

With the cancellation of the Anarky series, and the eventual departure of each artist from DC Comics— first by Grant, followed by Breyfogle— their mutual career paths split, and Anarky entered into a period of obscurity.  During this period, Breyfogle came to suspect that the treatment each man, and Anarky, had received from their former employer was suspect.[6]  While acknowledging that he lacked evidence, he held a “nagging feeling” that he and Grant had each been “blacklisted” from DC Comics as a result of the controversial views expressed in the Anarky series’ second volume.[106]

Neo-Tech® is a pariah.  I see it in the treatment from Wikipedia; I see it in the treatment toward Alan Grant from DC Comics; I see it in the treatment from mainstream media and the establishment.  Today we have Wikipedia editors who skim the Google search engine on Neo-Tech® and find mainstream journalists (whom Neo-Tech® exposed since 1976 as largely dishonest people) lashing out at Neo-Tech® dishonestly calling it a “scam” and “a cult”, strong catch-words that are the opposite of reality.  The eager Wikipedia editors who do not care for Neo-Tech® or never read a page of Neo-Tech® then find those articles by anti-Neo-Tech® dishonest journalists and embrace their anti-Neo-Tech® message including those discrediting catch-words “scam” and “cult”.  For example, Wikipedia editor alf laylah wa laylah recently went to the Integrated Management Associates (i.e., Neo-Tech® Publishing Company) Wikipedia page and filled it with negative citations from anti-Neo-Tech® journalists and bloggers.  He even planted a non sequitur by citing a person who went to prison, and he dishonestly used it as a reference for one of IMA’s dba’s (and this citation is a non-Internet reference so the reader cannot link to the article and discover the dishonest non sequitur).  That shameful “guilt by association” tactic maliciously and immorally provokes negative feelings toward Neo-Tech® Publishing Company.  Furthermore, the wiki editor dishonestly deleted honest facts such as the statement that Neo-Tech® Publishing Company has an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau, and he removed its citation-link directly to the third-party BBB’s website showing Neo-Tech®’s A+ rating!  (The BBB afterwards changed Neo-Tech® from an A+ to a No Rating, largely because of these negative online attacks.)  That blatant act of removing the positive and shoving in the negative is a glaring shortcoming of Wikipedia toward Neo-Tech®.  I know Wikipedia has a statement about fair and weighted, but as you can see, it has never applied to Neo-Tech®.

Moreover, there may be evidence that indicates the Wikipedia community, including its top man, does not care for Neo-Tech®, which may be influencing their treatment of anything Neo-Tech®, as follows:

Wikipedia has very strong Objectivist roots.  Jimmy Wales named his daughter Kira after the heroine in Ayn Rand’s “We the Living”.  In the early days of the Internet, Wales was very active in the Usenet newsgroup alt.philosophy.objectivism, and he had a hand in starting humanities.philosophy.objectivism.  The latter newsgroup was formed with a moderator specifically to keep Neo-Techers out, as shown here in a Jimmy Wales post from 1996: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.neo-tech/HIKUMYErSL4 .

Neo-Tech®, which grew out of Ayn Rand’s Objectivism, pushed the idea of exerting the Objectivist philosophy into dynamic business, going beyond static intellectual gymnastics.  (Neothink®, which later grew out of Neo-Tech®, provides breakthrough business techniques, systems, and paradigms.)  Many objectivists who preferred low-effort, ivory-tower intellectual exercises on Usenet as opposed to in-the-trenches business efforts in the real world…who preferred showing off their “brilliance” in the low-effort, sum-zero online debate world instead of actualizing Objectivism in the challenging, value-building business world as Neo-Tech® did…developed a strong dislike for Neo-Tech®.  The historic “flame wars” erupted between alt.Neo-Tech® and alt.philosophy.objectisim, and they can be seen by going to those newsgroups https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alt.neo-tech and https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alt.philosophy.objectivism.  Look at the posts made in both newsgroups back in the mid-90s.

In December of 1996, the Objectivists formed the new humanitarian.philosophy.objectivism newsgroup that ended the “flame wars” by censoring out Neo-Tech®.

From about 2004 to current day I can feel Wikipedia censoring out Neo-Tech® with attitudes stemming back to those Objectivist/Neo-Tech® conflagrations in the mid-90’s.  Even one of the leaders of the Objectivist movement, Harry Binswanger, attacked Neo-Tech® calling us “a bunch of crackpots”.  Wikipedia Administrator Doug Weller posted on the Objectivist newsgroups, and I believe he favored the formation of Neo-Tech®-banned humanities.philosophy.objectivism back in the 90’s.  Doug Weller is the same Wikipedia Administrator who deleted the Twelve Visions Party Wikipedia page recently (i.e., Neo-Tech®/Neothink®’s political party).  In the deletion debate page, Weller wrote, “Link 42 above is to Ballot Access News which in turn links to an article in The Sun (Lowell)[50] which discusses Heos in some depth.  Interesting to see that ‘According to Heos, the party is based on the economic thinking of Ayn Rand’.  That can be used in the article if we keep it. Quote about Ayn Rand”.  In other words, Ayn Rand/Objectivism is worth keeping; Frank R. Wallace/Neo-Tech® is not.  Weller ended up deleting the Twelve Visions Party.

My deeper concern beyond the “Bi” stalkers on Wikipedia is whether the Wikipedia founder and a top administrator could be bias down deep….perhaps doing to Neo-Tech® on Wikipedia what they did to Neo-Tech® on humanitites.philosophy.objectivism.  At first, that accusation seems paranoid, but then I noticed on the same day that Doug Weller deleted Neo-Tech®/Neothink®’s Twelve Vision Party, he put up for deletion this article on someone’s user page (not in mainspace) that provides more material on the Neo-Tech® Philosophy : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shlomif/Neo-Tech

Remember, on my father’s Talk page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Frank_R._Wallace users repeatedly request for more material on the Neo-Tech® philosophy itself.  Well, user Sholmif on Wikipedia did spend the time to do exactly what is being asked for by different users today on FRW’s Talk page.  In fact, it appears from Sholmif’s Talk page that he saw the destruction of the Neo-Tech® Philosophy Wikipedia article during the “edit wars” years ago (which Wales gave his approval to during our phone call) and anticipated what was going to happen to that article.  Apparently Sholmif pulled this valuable information off the live mainspace article http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neo-Tech_%28philosophy%29&oldid=70356066 in order to preserve it, and he placed it under his user page.  Objectivist Doug Weller found this Neo-Tech® article on Sholmif’s user page and put it up for deletion the same day after deleting the Twelve Visions Party Wikipedia page and the same day user alf laylah wa laylah shoved negative citations into the Neo-Tech® Publishing page.  Do we really want to wipe clean Neo-Tech® knowledge?  Of course, this is lowering the value of Wikipedia as evidenced by the comments on my father’s Talk page.  “Bi” and Wikipedia have already removed most of what Neo-Tech® actually is, and Sholmif was trying to save it.  Ironically, this reminds me of wiping clean knowledge as described in Ayn Rand’s “Anthem”.  Many Objectivists are very upset toward Neo-Tech®, reaching back to the flame-wars on usenet, going back twenty years ago.  Even Leonard Peikoff and Harry Binswanger took shots at us.  Doug Weller put up for deletion Sholmif’s user page on Neo-Tech®.  Could personal feelings, even subconsciously, be affecting him? Does Wikipedia want this sort of ruling class?  Why do a few rulers of Wikipedia have this power to wipe clean Neo-Tech®…and why did the co-founder years ago tacitly approve of my father’s Wikipedia pages being attacked and destroyed by a hater such as “Bi”, certainly to the disservice of Wikipedia users as shown on my father’s Talk page today?  Do Weller and Wales simply not see past the third-party haters who write the catch-words “scam” and “cult”?  Can they not see that Neo-Tech® is a notable and real idea system that has positively affected millions of people all over the world over the past forty years?  In almost every language that Wikipedia offers exists a Wikipedia article on Neo-Tech®, for Neo-Tech® is translated into 13 different languages.  Wikipedia users deserve to get a proper, encyclopedic explanation of Neo-Tech®.  Or do Wikipedia Administrators, at least down deep, harbor personal feelings that influence their treatment of Neo-Tech®?

I would hate to see Wikipedia become used as a tool to harm or hurt someone or diminish an idea system that irks the administrators.  Instead of a tool for education and knowledge, Wikipedia could sink into something dark.

The Wikipedia community does seem to blindly follow the sacred yet flawed “third-party sourcing” policy, perhaps doing so ignorantly or perhaps consciously to nullify or delete Neo-Tech® from Wikipedia.  Jimmy Wales himself participated in the Neo-Tech®/Objectivist flame wars culminating in the objectivists setting up a newsgroup that banned Neo-Tech®.  Could Wikipedia behind objectivists such as Jimmy Wales and long-time administrator Doug Weller be doing the same now as Neo-Tech® and Neothink® grow?  Indeed, the attacks run rampant throughout the media and blogosphere against Neo-Tech®, Neothink®, Frank R. Wallace and Mark Hamilton, giving those who want to discredit us ample ammunition via Wikipedia’s sacred “third-party sourcing” standards to overwhelm our Wikipedia pages with negative reporting while removing our real representation such as user Sholmif’s efforts.  It seems to me Wikipedia is both wiping itself clean of and enabling a diminishing of Neo-Tech®, Neothink®, and anything related such as the Twelve Visions Party (here is the link to that deletion debate page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Twelve_Visions_Party ).

This next link goes into deeper detail as to why Neo-Tech®, Neothink®, the Twelve Visions Party, Frank R. Wallace and Mark Hamilton have been repeatedly attacked by the media and blogs on line: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/mhnet08/markhamilton-neothink-tvp/pdfs/Neothink_Nugget.pdf .  Journalists and bloggers especially like to attack Neo-Tech® and Neothink® by criticizing what we charge for our expensive Neo-Tech® and Neothink® Manuscripts, as though today, to charge money for a value makes the businessman a bad person.  Neo-Tech® and Neothink® both expose the criminal mind of those who attack business as something inherently evil.   Consider how bad this anti-business philosophy has gotten in America: I took my youngest son to see the children’s Lego movie (February of 2014).  To my disbelief, the villain of the movie was named President Business!  I am not kidding!  I looked around the theater and saw a sea of little innocent children being fed this dishonest philosophy, and it made me sad and angry.  Our Neo-Tech® and Neothink® Manuscripts expose the dishonesty of that dangerous, destructive philosophy spreading throughout America today, sparked and fanned by our government and the media.  Neo-Tech® and Neothink® provide immense value found nowhere else that has helped thousands upon thousands of people.  Yes, our invitation letter (i.e., our advertisement) emphasizes the potential value of these expensive gold-embossed library-edition large leatherettes (1200 to 2800 pages).  But today it is open-season on profitable business — especially a profitable business that exposes the immense dishonesty among journalists, politicians, bureaucrats, academics, certain lawyers and certain mid and upper-management big business.  Not only can the information in Neo-Tech® and Neothink® help you avoid pitfalls and help you become wealthy, competitive and, yes, attractive to the opposite sex, but in today’s suppressive business environment, Neo-Tech® and Neothink® offer the only  path to break free from and rise out of our sinking stagnation traps…up toward the wealthy elite class.  The Neo-Tech® and Neothink® literature has the liberating secrets — yes secrets — hidden from the ordinary person for centuries by the ruling class.  With Neo-Tech® and Neothink®, you no longer remain part of the subjugated “ruled over class”.  You break free and leave that subjugated life far behind.  The Neo-Tech® and Neothink® invitation letter actually understates the value of the literature and leaves a valuable “awareness remnant” in the non-buyer.

By the way, notice that no journalists actually challenge the Neo-Tech® philosophy itself.  Moreover, no journalist actually reads Neo-Tech®!  They avoid it because Neo-Tech® exposes the soul of those who boost their own journalistic careers by attacking business and values.  Instead they like to attack the easy target – the marketing/business process of selling this immense value.  That way they do not have to take on the philosophy itself; they just sidestep it altogether, the very thing they are calling a scam, and take the easy “evil profitable business” angle of attack calling Neo-Tech®/Neothink® “a scam”, “a con”, “a cult”, which are cheap shots from people who never put out the effort to read what they are accusing.  They fail to read the material and challenge us on that front.  It all kind of reminds me of high-school “mean girls” who do not like the new pretty and kind girl, so they label her “a slut.”  Catch words stick, and soon everyone is saying them.

I challenge journalists and bloggers to go beyond their low-effort, safe-and-easy cheap-shot “evil business” attacks on our marketing and pricing ($139 for our 1200-page gold-embossed leatherette library-edition Neothink® Manuscript) and instead put out effort, read my father’s Neo-Tech® Discovery or my Neothink® Manuscripts, and then let us see what they write about us.  Most will write nothing.  They accuse and convict us of being a scam without so much as glancing over the product that they label a scam!  They lazily never even read what they accuse and convict as guilty.  What kind of “journalism” is that?  That is like someone being accused and convicted of a crime without having a trial!  And THAT is the dishonesty inherent in so many journalists today who glibly attack businesses and values as a quick way to promote themselves.

My father was an enormous value to mankind.  Neo-Tech®/Neothink® has been a lifesaver to many thousands upon thousands of ordinary people.  To get some feel for the value that our readers receive from the literature, browse through thousands of testimonials: http://www.markhamilton-neothink-tvp.com/testimonials/  and www.neo-tech.com.  I believe that our marketing success of the Neo-Tech® philosophy fills certain people with envy, including the establishment, attack-business journalists, certain Wikipedia Administrators and low-action objectivists.

I cringed when I saw Doug Weller’s comment on the Twelve Visions Party deletion-debate page; he wrote, “…  I think that it is probably Neothink® that is notable, with a mention of the party in an article on the movement behind it.  Dougweller (talk) 14:53, 25 March 2014 (UTC)” I can just imagine the negativity toward Neothink® on Wikipedia as we saw with Neo-Tech®…Wikipedia editors grabbing articles by journalists and bloggers, those Neo-Tech® haters, as the Wikipedia community sanctimoniously cite those so-called “neutral 3rd-party” sources while deleting Neothink®’s “original research.” … You know, I find it ironic that Jimmy Wales found nothing wrong with “Bi” distorting and destroying Frank R. Wallace and Neo-Tech®, yet Wales was caught editing and adjusting his own Wikipedia page — a violation of Wikipedia standards.  I guess under real-world pressures, Wales succumbs to Wikipedia’s shortcomings when it hits him personally.  Meanwhile, my father’s legacy was destroyed after his death by Wikipedia’s shortcomings.

 Because of Wikipedia’s treatment toward Neo-Tech®/Frank R. Wallace, I have asked my readers for years NOT to put up a Neothink®/Mark Hamilton Wikipedia page.  Whereas I have broadly expanded the Neo-Tech® idea-system into the Neothink® operating-systems, I receive the same journalist and blogger attacks on Neothink®.  The Neothink® movement includes the Twelve Visions political party, a grassroots movement, which was put up on Wikipedia by a political enthusiast — NOT by one of my readers — and then three months later was debated and deleted by Wikipedia Administrator Doug Weller.  The debate was going strong and the Wikipedia Administrator Doug Weller had said he was “going back and forth on this article.”  Then suddenly came the so-called “neutral” third-party journalist and blogger “sources.”  (You can see that debate at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Twelve_Visions_Party. )  TVP was then promptly deleted, and alf laylah wa laylah went to IMA (Neo-Tech® Publishing) and filled the citations with those Neo-Tech®/Neothink® haters as “neutral” third-party sources, and Doug Weller went to user:Sholmif’s Neo-Tech® page and put it up for deletion…the deleting and diminishing of anything Neo-Tech®/Neothink®.

I will share this with you: a coterie of Neothink® scholars put together an article on Mark Hamilton and the Neothink® Movement a while ago for Wikipedia.  They loyally update the article every few months, yet I repeatedly ask them not to put it on Wikipedia after seeing what Wikipedia did to my father and Neo-Tech®.  Here is a link to their original article written for Wikipedia (but never posted) that presents who I am, my Neothink® Movement, and the values my father and I have delivered to millions of people (without Wikipedia editors searching the Internet for and loading the article full of attack articles and attack blogs on Neo-Tech®, Neothink®, Frank R. Wallace and Mark Hamilton while simultaneously deleting context and explanations either in the name of “original material” or, as “Bi” relentlessly did, deleting NON-questionable material while justifying the deletions as “no third-party-source citations”).  www.AboutMarkHamilton.com.

I still shake my head over how ridiculous “Bi’s” attacks were on anything Neo-Tech® or Frank R. Wallace…yet Jimmy Wales of all people saw NOTHING WRONG.  Once again, here are links to some of “Bi’s” handiwork.   Remarkably, these are the same pages Jimmy Wales looked over, too:

Talk page for Neo-Tech® Philosophy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Neo-Tech_(philosophy)

FRW Talk page archive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Frank_R._Wallace/Archive_1

Neo-Tech® Publishing talk page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Integrated_Management_Associates

Neo-Tech® mediation page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_mediation/Frank_R._Wallace

RationalWiki.org: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Neo-Tech

 There are more Wikipedia pages, more web sites and blogs throughout the Internet that suffer from “Bi” trashing Neo-Tech® and Frank R. Wallace, but you can get enough insight on the links above of the voluminous dishonest attacks Neo-Tech® has endured on Wikipedia, with the approval of Wales.  This needs to change.  As I said earlier, even anti-business blog scam.com recognized the insanity in “Bi’s” (and sock puppet Barbie Zirconia’s) attacks on us and took the unprecedented action of removing his entire attack thread.  Today Wikipedia’s value to the people is diminished, for it does not reflect what Neo-Tech® is and who Frank R. Wallace was.

Closing Word

Although Neo-Tech®, my father, Neothink®, myself have been harmed by Wikipedia, I would be remiss without saying that I believe Wikipedia is today an enormous educational value for the entire world, brought to us from a brilliant visionary, Jimmy Wales.  He is now pushing this enormous value into the developing world.  I admire Mr. Wales immensely.  I wrote this article to bring to light a shortcoming of Wikipedia that can cause a person and his creation injustice.  I also wrote this article in hopes that Wikipedia will take an honest look at itself, the role of its administrators and the reach of their personal agendas.  I wrote this with the hope that these flaws in Wikipedia can be addressed and fixed.  And a final word on Mr. Wales, in the “flame wars”, I saw strength and honesty in this man as exemplified by this Usenet post in 1996 that begins with my father (think999) complimenting Jimmy Wales: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.neo-tech/z-5bP1FwYHk

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  1. And P.S. – Don’t quit posting at 14,000 please, Wayne … I think that number is approaching, so maybe you’ll wake up on a new day in the morning in a better mood about it all … and just pick it back up! See? Even after Forest thought I (and others) have just ‘abandoned’ this effort, it still hasn’t happened. I just could not go on right then. Stuff happens. So, just remember, anything imaginable is possible. So, let’s just go with that more positive thought, shall we?

    You all are the greatest! Judith

  2. Health and wellness and Big Pharma . You never know what to believe! From Tech Inside. The FDA just approved the first direct competitor to a billion $ cancer drug. (ROG<VY<AMGN) which is a version of Avastin , a blockbuster CHEMOTHERAPY drug. (Sorry, but its still Chemo) made by Genentech that brought in $6.7 billion in sales alone in 2016. The newly approved drug made by Angen, will go by the marketing name Mvasi, and is a type of medication called a "biosimilar". Biosimilars are a bit more complicated than your average competing medicine. Unlike generics for chemical -based drugs like antibiotics that can be interchangeable with branded versions. As it stands right now biosimilars can't be used interchangeably with branded versions meaning if you were to geta prescription for a branded biological , you wouldn't be able to opt for the "generic" one at the pharmacy as easily as you could if the drug was say a statin. However biosimilars in the U.S. would be a big deal: It might be the best way to drive down the cost of biologic medications that have been around for awhile. " Bringing new biosimilars to patients , especially for diseases while the cost of existing treatments can be high, is an important way to spur competition that can lower health care costs and increase access to important therapies." FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said in a news release. The savings of putting people on biosimilars — even just new patients who have taken the original are estimated to billions of dollars Express Scripts , a pharmacy benefit manager , that the US could be saving $250 billion over the next 10 years because of biosimilars , but pointed out that the response to biosimilars entering the market has been very disappointing so far though. Not sure if this is really a break through or a lot of double talk by you know who!

  3. Hey there, Cowboy, Pete, Forest and others! Thanks so much for keeping this all going, guys … I’ve been going back and reading through the posts and it’s like sitting down with an old friend to visit. If apologies are needed for me bailing out for awhile here, please accept them. Wayne, even through your medical challenges, you’ve continued and that is really great! I’m proud of your achievements here and in your determination to heal and get through that darn physical therapy. Thank goodness you’re halfway through … Forest, I’m proud of your participation on the Golden Nugget call. You should step forward and help take over that call, sir!! You would be the perfect person, in my very humble opinion!!!

    My eyes and too much time on the computer screen really got me and I guess I also just needed a break to focus and concentrate on other efforts pushing to the top of priorities. I have continued my messages on the School of Genius – Rise of NeoTech call, as well. So, be sure many other things have filled my days with productivity, challenges and the business of moving forward in life. I’ve been taking care of requirements for membership in the Business Alliance and that included my power-thinking just what I do want in the coming near future to get it done. I put together our Executive Summary Two-Year Business Plan for Bounty Group Enterprises and I will announce that when Mike and I formed a Partnership, Wayne came on board with us, too!! Exciting and fun. We’re all three researching and working on some prototypes of a product to hopefully begin producing at some point here.

    I’ve spoken about synchronicities around me constantly. This week came up an amazing one. Michael had to travel (out of the blue) to Rapid City, South Dakota! Guess who needed to have their Business Plan and now it’s been hand-delivered to them who lives over there? Yep … Mike got to sit down with Wayne, bring him his copy and break bread with him this past Weds night!? Now, that is a strange one making way for the two new ‘partners’ to meet!! We were all scratching our heads a bit over that happening … for sure!! There is no way to compute the odds of that … for sure!! (Too early for a rebel yell … vocal chords not up to it yet)!

    Plus, I’ve been working a lot over the summer on completing a financial project begun some years ago that is going to change my life a great deal. Also, continuing my vigilance on my daily nature walk, meditating, breathing and earthing routines. I had to move that into a prominent position on my mini-day schedule in the past few years to push the discipline on myself. It’s the best time of my day really as I have such a beautiful place to walk, pick flowers and sit under a canopy of trees in the woods along the clearing to commune with nature.

    Everything seems to take a lot of time. I’ve also worked a great deal on getting ready to attend the Summit and present my products this year as I had to cancel last year the night before I was to leave (which was a huge disappointment). So, this year I am prepared and excited to be able to attend. My packages shipped out this Wednesday and will arrive on Monday. I will also be speaking Sunday morning, so that’s a rush for me! I’m looking forward to that new experience. I sure will miss you, Cowboy, and know you’ll soon be out riding and roping once more! The Summit will be going on next year, too. Pete is coming, of course, but I also wish Forest and Carol could come. I’m going to have to get in touch with some people I ‘owe’ a call or two! That’s for sure. I’ve been in a bit of ‘overwhelm’ mode at times, plus all these storms and people I know in harm’s way both in Houston area and on the Florida coast. It siphons off energy. Also trying to stay off the news circus media as much as possible and let it all flow by.

    Anyway, thanks for keeping this going. I’ll come back when I can and post progress and say hello if nothing else. Maybe I’ll get on another roll and jump back in. I said I’d always come back and I will until Digger or the Universe declare this officially a ‘done deal’! I love all you guys and appreciate your efforts here!! Have a great Friday as onward and forward we go in the Neothink Society!! Keeping on keeping on. All is well and all will be well.

    Judith

  4. Some powerful words from the Prime Discovery program tonight, such as a value creator will most likely not be able to succeed with out a business mentality, and the key is that the highest power is the conscious being of our own rational mind. Although terms of expression are different, In Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged is a line quoted by John Galt where he said ” I swear by my life and my love for it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine”. To my mind, that pretty much sums up the difference between a value producer and
    a value producer , as that is what happens we only work to produce values for others rather than ourselves. We become value destroyers. Lots to think about here. Thanks Dr. Wallace for your insights, and Thanks Digger and Charlie for delivering to us.

  5. For those on Steve “Digger” Fagan’s healing list, this is not good news, but factual. According to THE WEEK, a periodical ,pharmaceuticals in the S & P 500s spent more returning dividends to their shareholders than on research over the past decade. They spent $516 billion in buy backs and dividends, compared to only $465 billion for research and development. The message here I would guess is be happy for the investors, but not so much for our ailing population. The underlying theme here is Big Pharma wins again?

  6. As conscious human beings we all know that most folklore and legends are unrealistic illusions and pure fantasies, yet they can be fun to read and gives our minds a peaceful moment to relax and just enjoy. Such is the following tale.
    “: Bucephalus— A Pegasus? Bucephalus was Alexander the Great’s horse. According to legends about his life, he was the child of a god. As such, no ordinary horse would do as his mount. Friends of Alexander’s mortal father found a giant man-eating colt, described as “more beautiful and faster than Pegasus”. They named the horse Bucephalus, which means “bull headed”. Prophecy proclaimed the one who could ride the horse would rule the world. When Alexander met Bucephalus, the horse bowed, signifying Alexander’s mastery over him”. (from Historybuff.com)

  7. A couple of things to ponder. We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies………. On coming out of the shadows, another way of explanation, Do not be like the cat who wanted a fish but was afraid to get his paws wet. and finally “The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. Live and love life!

  8. I picked the Neo-Think word of the day to be “FEAR’. The subject comes up regularly in the weekly mentoring sessions, and Digger and Charlie often refer to it as being the reason many remain in the shadows and never progress forward. While some may suffer from that problem, others such as my self prefer to believe that before we speak it takes time for our 2 sided bicameral brain to digest and separate valuable information first. Maybe it is an indicator that no matter how many books you have read or how many meetings and seminars you have attended, if you have not risen your conscious level beyond a certain level, then you might need to revert back to an existence in a world of mysticisms and chaos . At any rate this is what Webster’s says about Fear. (1) an unpleasant often strong emotion caused by expectation or awareness of danger. (2) An existence of or a state marked by emotion. (3) To have a reverent awe of God. (I guess that goes along with the old adage about “putting the fear of God” in someone.) Or a profound reference especially toward God. Funny, but never thought of fear in that particular context, not to say I have never experienced fear before. My thinking may not be right but al least I am thinking. So without biases or prejudices, love we need to love each other forever.

  9. September 9, 1965
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    On this day in 1965, Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax pitched the eighth
    perfect game in major league history, leading the Dodgers to a 1-0 win over the
    Chicago Cubs at Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles.

    Sandy Koufax was a talented all-around athlete from Borough Park in Brooklyn, New York.
    His first love was basketball, and he attended the University of Cincinnati on a basketball
    scholarship. His impressive left arm, however, attracted the attention of major league
    ball clubs and in 1954 he was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers. Despite his promising
    talent, Koufax won just 36 games to 51 losses from 1955 to 1961, and was incredibly
    inconsistent, blowing hitters away one game and walking in runs the next. Finally,
    advice from veteran catcher Norm Sherry turned Koufax around. As Koufax
    recounted in his autobiography, Sherry told him to “take the grunt out of
    the fastball.” It worked: From 1962 to 1966, Sandy Koufax executed what
    are arguably the five greatest seasons by a pitcher in baseball history.
    His newfound control limited his walks from 4.8 per game to just 2.1,
    and he pitched no-hitters in three consecutive years–1962, 1963 and 1964.

    On September 9, 1965, at the peak of his baseball career, Koufax took the mound against
    fellow lefty Bob Hendley of the Chicago Cubs, and a pitcher’s duel for the ages ensued.
    The Cubs were held scoreless, while the Dodgers scored just one run, in the fifth inning.
    Dodger Lou Johnson walked to lead off the inning, and then advanced to second on a
    sacrifice. He stole third and then scored when the Cubs catcher fumbled one of Hendley’s
    throws. As it turned out, one run was all Koufax needed to bring home the victory. His
    fastballs, which seemed to rise as they reached the plate, whizzed past batters. His curveball
    was typically devastating, buckling batters at the knees, almost always crossing the plate
    as a strike after following its parabolic path. As he closed in on a perfect game, Koufax faced
    the middle of the Cubs order. He struck out Ron Santo and Ernie Banks in the eighth
    before striking out the side in the ninth to secure his first perfect game.

    In addition to throwing his first and only perfect game, Koufax struck out a total
    of 382 batters in 1965, shattering Rube Waddell’s 1904 record by 32. He retired
    after the 1966 season at just 30 years old because of arthritis in his elbow.

    Koufax won three Cy Young Awards (1963, 1965 and 1966), all of them unanimous.

    He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1972. In 2007, the Modi’in Miracle of the Israel
    Baseball League made the 71-year old Koufax the final pick in the league’s inaugural
    player draft as a tribute to his legendary career and Jewish heritage.
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  10. The Tsimane are an indigenous group of people who live on an Amazon River tributary in Bolivia. According to research published in the medical journal The Lancet, these people may be among the healthiest on Earth. As hunter-gatherers, they are active four to seven hours every day, and they eat a diet that is low in fat, sugar, and processed foods. For the study , doctors examined 705 individuals . They were found to be five times less likely to have heart disease than the average American. I attended a class this morning on salt, and as a way of demonstration, they used test tubes to show how much sodium is in different kinds of food.. It’s not just a matter of putting the salt shaker down, they got different ways of killing you ! I was astounded as to how much is in a simple piece of ham. Ok , every body, diet and exercise if you love yourself. That’s today’s advise from me.

  11. Monday, 9/11/17/ Ramblings. Every American who loves this country will never forget this day in our life time. Several thoughts about HAARP. Interesting that it is supposed to be so secret that there are 10 different versions of what those initials actually stand for. Also interesting that they claim they are supposedly a research Ionspheric program jointly funded by the United States Air Force, United States Navy, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. They now have facilities in every country in the world and have bragged that they will completely OWN the weather by the year 2025. So in essence, We, the good old tax payers are financing our own demise. Not to sound like a bleeding heart liberal, but don’t you think we could better spend our tax money on something else?

  12. The Detroit Area Clubhouse is holding a GALA EVENT
    —————————————————
    Where?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Greenfield Village.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dearborn, Michigan.
    When?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saturday October 14, 2017.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9:30 am – 3 pm.
    What. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$20 includes parking, entry
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .to the park, and a ride pass
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .for train, model-T, horse and
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .buggy, and carousel rides.
    Why?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Why not?
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  13. September 8, 1998
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    On September 8, 1998, St. Louis Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire hit his 62nd home run
    of the year, breaking Roger Maris’ record for most home runs in a single season. McGwire
    was celebrated as a hero at the time, though allegations that he used performance-enhancing
    substances have since led some to question the legitimacy of his accomplishments.

    McGwire had hit 52 home runs with the Oakland Athletics in 1996 and a combined 58 in 1997
    after a mid-season trade to the “red birds” in St. Louis. As the 1998 season began, speculation
    ran rampant among baseball fans about whether or not McGwire, known as “Big Mac” for
    his bodybuilder physique, would be able to break the 27-year-old record of 61 home
    runs in a season. By June, it became clear that both McGwire and Sammy Sosa of
    the Chicago Cubs were on pace to hit the target, and fans watched intently as
    the sluggers traded the home-run lead back and forth between them. On August 10,
    Sosa tied McGwire by hitting his 46th of the season. Nine days later, he took the lead with
    his 48th homer in a game against McGwire’s Cardinals. It didn’t take long from McGwire to
    respond: He hit his 49th home run of the year in the 10th inning of the same game.

    Finally, on September 7, in front of an exuberant home crowd in St. Louis in a game against
    their archrival Cubs, McGwire hit his 61st home run to tie the record while Sosa stayed
    stuck on 58 home runs. The next night, McGwire’s Cardinals again faced Sosa’s Cubs
    in Chicago. In the fourth inning, with Sosa in right field, McGwire hit his shortest
    home run of the season, 341 feet into the left-field stands. The slugger was
    cheered on by Cubs infielders as he circled the bases, and as he crossed
    home plate, he was greeted by his son, who was serving as a bat boy for the game,
    before being surrounded by his celebrating teammates. Meanwhile, Sosa ran in from
    right field to offer his congratulations. After the game, McGwire declared to reporters,
    “My bat is going to the Hall of Fame alongside Roger Maris’ bat – and I’m damn proud of it.”

    On September 25, Sosa took over the major league lead and set his own record with his 66th
    home run. That would be Sosa’s last, while McGwire would hit five more home runs in his
    final three games to finish the 1998 season with 70 home runs, a record many thought
    would last longer than Maris’. However, it stood for only three seasons: Barry Bonds
    of the San Francisco Giants broke it in 2001 on his way to 73 home runs.

    McGwire was known to be on androstenedione, a then-legal performance-enhancing
    supplement, in 1998 but denied using any illegal substances. In 2003, the publication of
    retired baseball star Jose Canseco’s book Juiced, in which he pointed fingers at a number
    of well-known baseball players and alleged that he and McGwire had used steroids together,
    resulted in a firestorm of steroid-related controversy. The U.S. Congress responded by holding
    a hearing on the subject. By then retired, McGwire’s eyes welled with tears as he repeatedly stated
    to the committee, “I’m not here to talk about the past.” Many disappointed fans saw his refusal to deny
    outright that he had used performance-enhancing drugs as tantamount to an admission of guilt.

    While McGwire was once considered a shoo-in for the Baseball Hall of Fame,
    he was passed over in 2006-07, his first year of eligibility.
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  14. September 7, 1036
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    If you took out a map of the United States and traced a line beginning at New Orleans and
    running up the Mississippi River to Memphis, the tip of your finger would pass through the
    very birthplace of rock and roll — a region where nearly every step in its early development
    took place and where nearly every significant contributor to that development was born.
    But if the foundation of rock and roll was mostly laid down within 100 miles of the
    Mississippi River in the mid-1950s, the blueprint for what would follow required the further
    contributions of a young man born 700 miles to the west on this day in 1936: Charles Harden
    Holley. Writing and performing under the name Buddy Holly, this Lubbock, Texas, native
    would have an influence on rock and roll that would far outlast his tragically shortened career.

    Buddy Holly spent his west Texas youth learning the piano, the violin, the banjo and the guitar. He
    formed his first group while still in junior high school. Performing as Buddy & Bob, Holly and his
    school friend Bob Montgomery played what they called “western and bop” — one of the many
    creative names used in the mid-1950s to describe the various hybrids of blues, R&B and
    country & western that would later coalesce into rock and roll. When Buddy & Bob
    opened in Lubbock for a young kindred spirit named Elvis Presley in 1955, Holly
    saw very clearly in what direction he wanted to go. And while Holly would
    never be able to compete with Presley in terms of good looks and
    charisma, he would far outdo Elvis in terms of purely musical creativity.

    By 1956, Elvis had become a superstar performing material originally written by others, and though
    Buddy Holly was still an unknown, he was blazing a trail that future giants like the Beatles would
    follow by writing, performing and eventually producing his own material. Both the Beatles and
    the Rolling Stones would draw heavily on the Buddy Holly catalog either for cover material or
    direct songwriting inspiration, and Holly would be a tremendous formative influence on the
    young Bob Dylan, among many others.

    In a recording career that lasted little more than 18 months, Holly contributed an astonishing
    number of classic songs to the rock-and-roll canon, including “That’ll Be The Day,” “Peggy Sue,”
    “Not Fade Away,” It’s So Easy,” “Everyday,” “Oh Boy!” and “Maybe Baby.” Born on this day in 1936,
    he died in 1959 at the age 23 in rock and roll’s most famous plane crash.
    ===============
    PEGGY SUE
    by Buddy Holly

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfu_gfPBPWc
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  15. September 6. 1995
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    On this day in 1995, Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken Jr. played in his
    2,131st consecutive game, breaking “Iron Horse” Lou Gehrig’s record for most
    consecutive games played. “The Iron Man” was credited with reviving interest
    in baseball after a 1994 work stoppage forced the cancellation of the World
    Series and soured fans on the national pastime.

    Ripken’s father, Cal Sr., was a former minor league journeyman catcher who, along with his
    mother Vi, instilled the “perfect practice makes perfect” philosophy in Cal and his younger
    brother Billy. Cal was a high school pitcher and shortstop for Aberdeen High School in
    Maryland while his father coached for Manager Earl Weaver’s Orioles, one of the
    most successful teams in baseball from the 1960s through the early 80s. Cal Jr.
    often got to take infield with the team, and learned the tricks of the trade
    from the best in the business. In 1978, the O’s made Cal their
    second-round pick in the amateur draft. He made his major
    league debut three years later, and on May 30, 1982,
    began a streak of consecutive games played that
    would last 17 seasons. Later that year, Weaver
    switched the 6’4″ Ripken from third base to
    shortstop, a position that was at the time
    typically played by smaller men. Ripken’s
    quickness and great baseball instincts
    made him a natural, and his success
    redefined the shortstop archetype.
    Ripken was named Rookie of the
    Year in 1982 and American
    League MVP in 1983 and 1991.

    On September 6, 1995, 13 and a half seasons and 2,131 games into his streak, Ripken took his
    familiar position at shortstop. President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, baseball legend
    Joe DiMaggio and Ripken’s family were among the notables in attendance. In the fourth
    inning, Ripken ripped a 3-0 fastball from California Angels pitcher Shawn Boskie into the
    left-field stands, touching off a celebration from the Baltimore faithful, and inspiring even
    President Clinton to pump his fists in the stands. When the fifth inning began and the game
    became official, the Orioles unfurled a banner that read 2131 on the brick wall of the B & O
    Warehouse overlooking right field as camera flashes lit the night. Ripken emerged from the
    dugout and doffed his cap to thank the crowd, but the celebration in the stands continued.
    Teammates urged Ripken once again onto the field, where he took a spontaneous victory
    lap, shaking hands with Orioles fans around the stadium.

    Ripken went on to play 2,632 games in a row before ending the streak by voluntarily
    removing himself from a game against the New York Yankees on September 19, 1998.

    Ripken retired after the 2001 season with the lifetime record for home runs by a shortstop
    345) and a record for fielding percentage by a shortstop in a season (.9956, 1990). He played
    in 19 All-Star Games, and was awarded the All-Star MVP in 1991 and in his last All-Star Game
    in 2001, in which he hit a solo home run. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2007.
    A record 75,000 fans attended his induction ceremony.
    ============

  16. September 6. 1995
    ===============
    On this day in 1995, Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken Jr. played in his
    2,131st consecutive game, breaking “Iron Horse” Lou Gehrig’s record for most
    consecutive games played. “The Iron Man” was credited with reviving interest
    in baseball after a 1994 work stoppage forced the cancellation of the World
    Series and soured fans on the national pastime.

    Ripken’s father, Cal Sr., was a former minor league journeyman catcher who, along with his
    mother Vi, instilled the “perfect practice makes perfect” philosophy in Cal and his younger
    brother Billy. Cal was a high school pitcher and shortstop for Aberdeen High School in
    Maryland while his father coached for Manager Earl Weaver’s Orioles, one of the
    most successful teams in baseball from the 1960s through the early 80s. Cal Jr.
    often got to take infield with the team, and learned the tricks of the trade
    from the best in the business. In 1978, the O’s made Cal their
    second-round pick in the amateur draft. He made his major
    league debut three years later, and on May 30, 1982,
    began a streak of consecutive games played that
    would last 17 seasons. Later that year, Weaver
    switched the 6’4″ Ripken from third base to
    shortstop, a position that was at the time
    typically played by smaller men. Ripken’s
    quickness and great baseball instincts
    made him a natural, and his success
    redefined the shortstop archetype.
    Ripken was named Rookie of the
    Year in 1982 and American
    League MVP in 1983 and 1991.

    On September 6, 1995, 13 and a half seasons and 2,131 games into his streak, Ripken took his
    familiar position at shortstop. President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, baseball legend
    Joe DiMaggio and Ripken’s family were among the notables in attendance. In the fourth
    inning, Ripken ripped a 3-0 fastball from California Angels pitcher Shawn Boskie into the
    left-field stands, touching off a celebration from the Baltimore faithful, and inspiring even
    President Clinton to pump his fists in the stands. When the fifth inning began and the game
    became official, the Orioles unfurled a banner that read 2131 on the brick wall of the B & O
    Warehouse overlooking right field as camera flashes lit the night. Ripken emerged from the
    dugout and doffed his cap to thank the crowd, but the celebration in the stands continued.
    Teammates urged Ripken once again onto the field, where he took a spontaneous victory
    lap, shaking hands with Orioles fans around the stadium.

    Ripken went on to play 2,632 games in a row before ending the streak by voluntarily
    removing himself from a game against the New York Yankees on September 19, 1998.

    Ripken retired after the 2001 season with the lifetime record for home runs by a shortstop
    345) and a record for fielding percentage by a shortstop in a season (.9956, 1990). He played
    in 19 All-Star Games, and was awarded the All-Star MVP in 1991 and in his last All-Star Game
    in 2001, in which he hit a solo home run. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2007.
    A record 75,000 fans attended his induction ceremony.
    ============

  17. Looking into the face of all the adversity surrounding us today, here is more sad news. Unhappily we lost two of our remaining ‘true” country music stars today. I once went to a Don Williams concert and you truly had to admire him for his music because he sat on a stool in the middle of the stage and sang his ballads with no other movement to speak of. Troy Gentry, half of Montgomery- Gentry died in a helicopter crash in New Jersey So this brings us to my week-end report.
    After five or six years of living and being in the presence of our Neo-Think family, much has been said about mysticisms as being one of the biggest causes of failure in our society. Most of them (mysticisms) are related to religions and politics, or both. So when our dedicated mentors tell us we have been brainwashed from our youngest child of the past it’s true! For instance, being a true son of the South, Daddy was a veteran and a Southern Democrat, ought to get a rich man to vote like that ( Stole that from Alabama), We were told never to believe anything the GOP (Goofy Old Party) had to say, but as I have began to mature I have been recently subjected to a healthy new diet that I have lost 26 pounds on thus far, and finally have to admit that former president George H. W. Bush was right on when he made this famous statement in 1999. ” I don’t like broccoli” That was the first time we ever agreed on anything!. Of course at the time he was President of United States, and got to fly around on Air Force One so he refused to eat it. but this is me fellow Neo-Thinkers, sitting here diligently but begrudgingly munching on one stalk at a time. ….When the TVP finally becomes reality after being perfected by Mark Hamilton, shouldn’t there still be at least a spot for one last amendment that says we don’t have to eat that yucky stuff to stay healthy anymore? Note: Please take this with a grain of salt, and tell everybody around you “I love You”!!!!

  18. September 5, 1957
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    One of the first novels of the Beat movement of the 1950s -On the Road, by Jack Kerouac – was
    published on this day in 1957. The novel chronicles the cross-country wanderings of a
    Kerouac-like hero, Sal Paradise, and his pal Dean Moriarty, and their free-ranging
    encounters with drugs, free love, and the budding counterculture. The book,
    which Kerouac wrote in just three weeks, became an instant classic.

    Although a credo of the Beat-inspired Hippie movement of the 1960s was “Never trust
    anyone over 30,” Kerouac was 35 when the book came out. He had long been associated
    with the Beat movement when On the Road came out, and the novel is filled with
    characters based on Beat figures like Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs.

    Kerouac was born in March 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts. The son of French-Canadian
    parents, he learned English as a second language. In high school, Kerouac was a football
    star and won a scholarship to Columbia University. In World War II, he served in the
    Navy but was expelled for severe personality problems. He became a merchant seaman.
    In the late 1940s, he wandered the United States and Mexico and wrote his first novel,
    The Town and the City. His later novels included The Dharma Bums (1958), The
    Subterraneans (1958), and Lonesome Traveler (1960). Kerouac was a heavy drinker
    when he died in Florida from an internal hemorrhage, at the age of 47, on October 21, 1969.
    ==============

  19. September 5, 1847
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    Seen by some as a vicious murderer and by others as a gallant Robin Hood, the
    famous outlaw Jesse Woodson James was born on this day in 1847, in Clay County, Missouri.

    Jesse and his older brother Franklin lost their father in 1849, when the Reverend Robert James
    abandoned his young family and disappeared forever into the California gold fields. Their
    mother, Zerelda, quickly remarried, but rumor had it that their new stepfather treated
    Jesse and Frank poorly, and a third husband soon followed. Perhaps it was a violent
    and unstable family life that led the young Jesse and Frank into lives of crime.
    Regardless, it is certain that the brothers first learned to kill during the
    Civil War. As Confederate sympathizers, both Jesse and Frank joined
    William Quantrill’s vicious Missouri guerilla force, and Jesse participated in
    the cold-blooded murder of 25 unarmed Union soldiers in August 1863.

    When the war ended, neither man felt any enthusiasm for the drab life of a Missouri
    farmer – earning a living with their guns seemed easier and more exciting. Joining a
    motley band of ex-soldiers and common thieves, Jesse and Frank staged the first
    daylight bank robbery in U.S. history on Valentine’s Day in 1866, making off with
    $57,000 of the hard-earned cash of the citizens of Liberty, Missouri. For the next
    decade the James Gang would steal many thousands more from banks, stores,
    stagecoaches, and trains.

    The boldness of their crimes and the growing resentment among westerners of big railroads
    and robber barons led some to romanticize Jesse and Frank, a process that was encouraged
    by the authors of popular dime novels who created largely fictional versions of the James
    brothers as modern-day Robin Hoods who stole from the rich to give to the poor. In reality,
    the James brothers’ crimes preyed as much on the common folks as on the very rich, and
    they did little to spare the lives of innocents caught in the crossfire. The Robin Hood myth
    conveniently ignores the little girl shot in the leg during a botched robbery at the Kansas
    City Fair, the train engineer killed when the James Gang derailed his locomotive, or the
    dozens of other innocent bystanders murdered or maimed by Jesse, Frank, or their gang.
    Nonetheless, the myth that Jesse James was a good-hearted hero of the common folk
    remains popular to this day. Robert Ford shot James in the back of the head– killing
    him on April 3, 1882.
    ================
    FRANK AND JESSE JAMES
    by Warren Zevon

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hk41aq2Klk
    —————–

  20. Did you know…….Some fancy mansions might have expensive bathrooms with gold – plated toilet seats, but that is not nearly expensive as the toilet on the International Space Station, which cost about $19 million. (US)….( At some of today’s inflationary prices that’s about equal to a tank of gas in the old Chevy and a Big Mac.) My brother stands in front of the mirror with his eyes closed to see how he looks when he’s asleep. Any way, I just called to say I love You!!!

  21. September 4, 2014
    ==============
    On this day in 2014, Joan Rivers – one of the best-known comedians of her era – died at
    age 81 in a New York City hospital, a week after she went into cardiac arrest while
    undergoing a medical procedure on her vocal cords at a Manhattan clinic. During a
    showbiz career that spanned more than five decades, Rivers blazed a trail for women
    in stand-up comedy and turned “Can we talk?” into a national catchphrase. No topic
    was taboo for the irreverent, sharp-tongued performer, who poked fun at her personal
    life and affinity for plastic surgery, skewered Hollywood celebrities and once said,
    “I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.”

    Born Joan Molinsky on June 8, 1933, to Russian immigrants in Brooklyn, New York, the entertainer
    graduated from Barnard College in 1954. Interested in becoming an actress, she scored parts
    in Off-Broadway plays and worked office temp jobs to support herself. In the late 1950s,
    she started performing stand-up comedy in nightclubs as a means to earn money – at
    the time, there were few other female stand-up comics. In the early 1960s, she did
    a stint with the Chicago-based Second City comedy troupe. Along the way, at
    the suggestion of an agent, she changed her last name to Rivers. In 1965,
    her career took off after she made her first appearance on “The Tonight Show,” hosted
    by Johnny Carson, who told her she was going to be a star. Rivers went on to rack up numerous
    guest spots on the program, while also appearing on other TV comedy shows and doing her stand-up
    act around the country.

    In 1983, Rivers was tapped as the permanent guest host on “The Tonight Show.” Three years later,
    she inked a deal for her own late-night TV show on another network. Afterward, Carson, who
    reportedly felt betrayed, never spoke to Rivers again (she was blacklisted from “The Tonight
    Show” until 2014, when host Jimmy Fallon invited her on as a guest). “The Late Show
    Starring Joan Rivers” debuted in October 1986 but soon sank in the ratings, and
    Rivers was fired in May 1987. That August, Rivers’ husband, Edgar Rosenberg,
    who served as a producer of her show, committed suicide.

    Rivers’ career temporarily stalled but she eventually signed on to host her own daytime talk show,
    “The Joan Rivers Show,” which aired from 1989 to 1993. Next, the raspy-voiced comedian added
    fashion maven to her resume and helped revolutionize red-carpet coverage and popularize
    the question “Who are you wearing?,” after she and her daughter, Melissa, began hosting
    E! Entertainment’s pre-award shows for the Golden Globes, Academy Awards and other
    events, starting in the mid-1990s. From 2010 until her death, Rivers was a co-host of
    the TV program “Fashion Police,” on which she cattily critiqued the style choices
    of celebrities. Rivers also published a dozen books during her career, produced
    a jewelry line for TV shopping channel QVC and supported a variety of
    charitable causes. After starting out in the 1950s with dreams of
    working in theater, she earned a Tony Award nomination in
    the best actress category in 1994 for her role in the Broadway play
    “Sally Marr…and her escorts,” which she co-wrote.

    Rivers gave what turned out to be her last stand-up performance, in Manhattan, on August 27, 2014,
    the night before the medical procedure that led to her death on September 4. Three days later,
    the legendary funny woman was memorialized at a star-studded service in New York City.
    As Rivers had noted in her 2012 book “I Hate Everyone … Starting With Me,” she wanted
    a send-off that was “a huge showbiz affair with lights, cameras, action.”
    ===============

  22. September 4, 2002
    ===============
    On this day in 2002, Kelly Clarkson, a 20-year-old cocktail waitress from Texas, won Season One
    of American Idol in a live television broadcast from Hollywood’s Kodak Theater. Clarkson came
    out on top in the amateur singing contest over 23-year-old runner-up Justin Guarini after
    millions of viewers cast their votes for her by phone. She was awarded a recording
    contract and went on to sell millions of albums and establish a successful music
    career. (Clarkson and Guarnini also co-starred in the 2003 box-office bomb
    From Justin to Kelly, which was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award
    for that year’s worst film but lost to the Jennifer Lopez-Ben Affleck vehicle Gigli.)
    Starting with its first season, American Idol became one of the most popular TV programs
    in U.S. history and spawned a slew of talent-competition shows.

    American Idol was based on a British TV show called Pop Idol, which was developed by the
    English-born entertainment executive Simon Fuller and debuted in the U.K. in 2001. The Idol
    concept was shopped around in the United States and reportedly rejected by several TV
    networks before Fox picked it up. The American Idol premiere, which aired on June 11, 2002,
    was co-hosted by Ryan Seacrest and Brian Dunkleman (who was dropped from the program
    after Season One) and starred a trio of judge–the acerbic British music executive Simon
    Cowell, the singer-choreographer Paul Abdul and the musician-producer Randy Jackson.
    The show followed the judges as they selected contestants, who were required to be
    teens or young adults, from open auditions around the United States. Contestants who
    made the cut were flown to Hollywood, where they were eventually narrowed to 10 finalists,
    who performed live on television and were critiqued by the judges. Home viewers phoned
    in their votes for their favorite performers and each week the contestant who received
    the lowest number of votes was eliminated from the competition.

    Following Clarkson’s Season One victory, subsequent American Idol winners–Ruben Studdard,
    Fantasia Barrino, Carrie Underwood, Taylor Hicks, Jordin Sparks and David Cook–have had
    varying degrees of success in their music careers. In some cases, American Idol runner-ups,
    such as Clay Aiken (Season Two, second place) and Chris Daughtry (Season Five, fourth place),
    have sold more records than certain A.I. winners. Jennifer Hudson, who finished seventh
    in Season Three of the show, later won an Academy Award for her supporting performance in
    Dreamgirls (2006), the film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical.
    ==================

  23. September 3, 1991
    ==============
    On this day in 1991, Frank Capra – a leading Hollywood director in the 1930s and 1940s whose
    movies include the now-classic You Can’t Take It With You, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
    and It’s a Wonderful Life – died at the age of 94 at his home in La Quinta, California.
    According to his obituary in the New York Times: “Capra movies were idealistic,
    sentimental and patriotic. His major films embodied his flair for improvisation
    and spontaneity, buoyant humor and sympathy for the populist beliefs of the 1930s.”

    Capra was born in Sicily, on May 18, 1897, and as a young boy sailed to America in steerage with
    his family, who settled in Los Angeles. After graduating from the California Institute of
    Technology and serving in the U.S. Army, Capra worked his way up through the
    movie industry; he had his first big success as a director with 1933’s Lady
    for a Day, which received a Best Picture Academy Award nomination.
    The following year, Capra helmed the comedy It Happened One Night, starring
    Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. The film took home Oscars in five categories: Best
    Director, Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actor and Actress. Capra won a
    second Best Director Oscar for Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), which starred Gary Cooper as
    a man who inherits a large fortune and wants to use it to help Depression-era families. Capra received
    a third Best Director Oscar for You Can’t Take It With You (1938), a movie about an eccentric family that starred James Stewart, Jean Arthur and Lionel Barrymore and was based on the Pulitzer prize-winning play of the same name by Moss Hart and George Kaufman.

    In 1940, Capra took home a fourth Best Director Oscar for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939),
    which featured Stewart as an incorruptible U.S. senator. After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941,
    Capra joined the Army again and during his time in the service made several well-received
    propaganda films, including Prelude to War (1943), which earned an Academy Award for Best
    Documentary. Capra went on to co-write and direct 1946’s It’s a Wonderful Life, perhaps his
    best-known work. The film again starred Stewart, this time as George Bailey, a small-town man
    who is saved from suicide by a guardian angel. Although the film was considered a box-office
    disappointment when it was first released, it garnered five Oscar nominations, including one
    for Best Picture, and eventually gained widespread appeal when it was broadcast annually on
    TV around Christmastime, starting in the 1970s.

    Capra’s final film was Pocketful of Miracles (1961), a remake of
    Lady for a Day starring Bette Davis as a street vendor who needs
    to remake herself into a society dame in order not to disappoint her daughter.
    =================

  24. September 3, 1982
    ==============
    No company has done more than Apple, Inc., to bring the world of technology together with
    the world of music. But those who are too young to remember the world before the iPod may
    never appreciate how just how far apart those worlds were back in 1982, when Apple
    co-founder Steve Wozniak hatched an ambitious (and expensive) musical plan:
    Committing a sizable chunk of his sizable fortune to a musical event billed
    as the biggest thing since Woodstock, Wozniak staged a three-day
    concert in the mountains of San Bernardino County that
    featured some of the day’s biggest names in music.
    The “Us Festival” kicked off under scorching
    conditions on September 3, 1982.

    The temperature was over 110 degrees when the first band took the stage on the opening day
    of the Us Festival. The group was Gang of Four, a radically political and hugely influential
    British band followed on Day One by a lineup of punk, post-punk and New Wave heavies:
    The Ramones, The English Beat, Oingo Boingo, The B-52’s, Talking Heads and The Police.
    The torrid conditions persisted as a mainstream rock lineup including Santana, The Kinks,
    Pat Benatar and Tom Petty took to the stage on Day Two. Day Three brought 60s legends
    The Grateful Dead and a headlining performance by Fleetwood Mac. Relief from the heat
    over the course of that Labor Day weekend came in the form of giveaway spray bottles, a
    half-acre of free showers and roving tanker trucks mounted with water cannons. And for
    those still suffering under the sweltering conditions, there was relief in the form of the
    Us Festival Technology Exposition, housed in five tents behind the main stage and
    offering not just a glimpse into the future, but the only air conditioning on the concert site.

    Inside those tents, you still couldn’t find an Apple Macintosh. That groundbreaking
    machine, developed by Wozniak’s Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, was still 18 months
    away when the Us Festival kicked off. You could, however, find treasures that would
    cause today’s hipster nostalgia enthusiasts to swoon as much as the kids at the 1982
    Us Festival did: props from the movies E.T. and Empire Strikes Back; arcade games
    like Zaxxon, Defender, Krazy Kong and Centipede; and newly introduced “Games
    of the Century” for the home such as Worm War 1 from Fox Video Games, fully
    compatible with the Atari Video Computer System and the long-forgotten Sears
    Tele-Games machine.
    ===============
    MARY JANE’S LAST DANCE
    by Tom Petty

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aowSGxim_O8
    —————

  25. Since my story I tried to send a few days ago and failed, and since the house is full of family week end guests , but are out attending various car shows, (Mustangs in Sturgis, and Studebakers in Hill City), I took a break to do something I like to do also. Almost finished the “Bloodline of the Holy Grail” that has segments that blow my mind. Your thoughts and sorrow are etched in my mind about the devastation and chaos that is happening in S.E. Texas. but not to worry though, Ted Cruz , since he voted against any disaster funding , said he would pick up that extra 90 Mil. for clean up expenses with his “out of pocket ” change. So herein is my story. Sometime in the 70’s I was employed as a loan officer for a small financial institution in Ft. Leavenworth, Kas., but continued to live on the Missouri side of the river in a small town called Smithville, The drive back and forth required more time and traffic, but we were renting a really nice old brick home with a nice yard in a great neighborhood, and it had a plus as the Platte River ran rambled quietly down to the Missouri. This particular summer day brought on a massive amount of thunderstorms and as the torrents of rain came, the more nervous I become. I had already witnessed a few hurricanes and the most frightening was a typhoon in the Azores that consisted of straight winds of over a 100 MPH for 3 straight days, and when we finally were able to go outside, every tree on the island was lying on there side.(Up to that point, I had wondered why all the buildings were Quonset huts.) Anyway, my instincts were telling me to get the hell out of there, so I drove approximately 60- 70 miles North to my in-laws farm and returned with a big grain truck. The house itself was built on a 3 or 4 foot level than the rest of the lawn, and by the time I arrived back, catfish were swimming around in a moat like circle. All my neighbors sat on there porches and decks and laughed as this new resident city boy panicked and drove away. There were the comments like, “We have lived here for 50 years, and after awhile , you get used to this because all the time, but we’ve never flooded out before, etc, . Okay, shorten up the story, That night those beautiful old stately homes were later estimated to have been submerged with water up to the depth of 10-12 feet over the top of them, completely disappeared never to be seen again. Not even the foundations and drive ways remained. Today, people under the age of 50 know that area as Smithville recreational area, with modern day facilities and a beautiful lake area, and have no idea how all that land was obtained and how that facility came about. Some thoughts? Even in the 70’s our government was learning how to control weather patterns and population levels. What is taking place today didn’t just happen overnight. While Texas is flooding, Montana, Wyoming, Dakota’s are being destroyed by man made catastrophes , One section of our planet is being destroyed at a time. While we are concentrating here at home, Bangladesh is facing the same consequences as we are. So who is next? and who profits from these disasters? Unfortunately not the working poor who need the relief. A hint of a problem with oil facilities in the gulf region automatically raised the price of fuels across the nation. The !% elite never loose. Hopefully the turn around is near. For the sake of humanity I sincerely hope so. This article wasn’t written for bicameral minds. Hope I didn’t take up too much of your time.

  26. September 2, 1969
    ===============
    On this day in 1969, America’s first automatic teller machine (ATM) made its public debut,
    dispensing cash to customers at Chemical Bank in Rockville Center, New York. ATMs went
    on to revolutionize the banking industry, eliminating the need to visit a bank to conduct
    basic financial transactions. By the 1980s, these money machines had become widely
    popular and handled many of the functions previously performed by human tellers, such
    as check deposits and money transfers between accounts. Today, ATMs are as
    indispensable to most people as cell phones and e-mail.

    Several inventors worked on early versions of a cash-dispensing machine, but Don Wetzel,
    an executive at Docutel – a Dallas company that developed automated baggage handling
    equipment – is generally credited as coming up with the idea for the modern ATM.
    Wetzel reportedly conceived of the concept while waiting in line at a bank.
    The ATM that debuted in New York in 1969 was only able to give out
    cash, but in 1971, an ATM that could handle multiple functions, including providing
    customers’ account balances, was introduced.

    ATMs eventually expanded beyond the confines of banks and today can be found everywhere
    from gas stations to convenience stores to cruise ships. There is even an ATM at McMurdo
    Station in Antarctica. Non-banks lease the machines (so-called “off premise” ATMs) or own
    them outright.

    Today there are well over 1 million ATMs around the world, with a new one added
    approximately every five minutes. It’s estimated that more than 170 Americans over
    the age of 18 had an ATM card in 2005 and used it six to eight times a month. Not
    surprisingly, ATMs get their busiest workouts on Fridays.

    In the 1990s, banks began charging fees to use ATMs, a profitable move for them and an
    annoying one for consumers. Consumers were also faced with an increase in ATM crimes
    and scams. Robbers preyed on people using money machines in poorly lit or otherwise
    unsafe locations, and criminals also devised ways to steal customers’ PINs (personal
    identification numbers), even setting up fake money machines to capture the information.
    In response, city and state governments passed legislation such as New York’s ATM Safety
    Act in 1996, which required banks to install such things as surveillance cameras, reflective
    mirrors and locked entryways for their ATMs.
    =============

  27. September 2, 1973
    ==============
    On this day in 1973, J.R.R. Tolkien, the author of the best-selling fantasy novels The Hobbit
    and The Lord of the Rings – the source of the award-winning blockbuster movie trilogy
    directed, co-produced and co-written by Peter Jackson – died at the age of 81 in
    Bournemouth, England. With legions of fans worldwide, The Lord of the Rings
    has had a significant impact on pop culture in the last century. It has also
    been adapted for radio, television and theater and has inspired video
    games, music and even a housing development. (Located in Bend, Oregon, and
    dubbed The Shire, the planned community of homes featuring unique stonework and
    artificial thatched roofs reportedly faced foreclosure in 2006.)

    John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892, in Blomfontein, South Africa, and raised
    primarily in England. He graduated from Oxford, served in World War I and went on to become
    a linguist and professor at his alma mater. One day when Tolkien was grading exam papers, he
    reportedly was inspired in a moment of boredom to write across the top of one page, “In a hole
    in the ground there lived a hobbit.” From there, he began developing the story into his novel
    The Hobbit, which was first published in 1937. A sequel, The Lord of the Rings, was published in
    three volumes between 1954 and 1955. The books are set in a place called Middle Earth and
    revolve around the adventures of a hobbit named Frodo Baggins who must destroy a powerful
    ring and save the world from evil.

    In December 2001, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, the highly anticipated
    first film in Jackson’s big-screen trilogy, debuted in theaters; it was followed by The Lord of
    the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003).
    The three films received a combined total of 30 Oscar nominations and 17 wins, including
    Best Picture for Return of the King. Shot in New Zealand, the movies starred Elijah Wood as
    Frodo, along with a large ensemble cast that included Sean Astin, Viggo Mortensen, Ian
    McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Liv Tyler and Cate Blanchett. The Lord of
    the Rings is one of the highest-grossing franchises in movie history.
    ==============

  28. September 1, 1985
    ==============
    Seventy-three years after it sunk to the North Atlantic ocean floor, a joint U.S.-French
    expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic. The sunken liner was about 400 miles
    east of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic.

    American Robert D. Ballard headed the expedition, which used an experimental, unmanned
    submersible developed by the U.S. Navy to search for the ocean liner. The Argo traveled just
    above the ocean floor, sending photographs up to the research vessel Knorr. In the early
    morning of September 1, Argo was investigating debris on the ocean floor when it suddenly
    passed over one of the Titanic‘s massive boilers, lying at a depth of about 13,000 feet. The
    wreck was subsequently explored by manned and unmanned submersibles, which shed new
    light on the details of its 1912 sinking.
    ===============

  29. Good Evening to you Wayne and Cheryl,

    As I was reading your last Posts, I have to say that “I AGREE” with you — 100 %. I could not have said it better than YOU did, my dear friend. It appears that “NO ONE” is very interested in Posting anything on this site, other than YOU, ME, and PETE. It seems that everyone else has totally “ABANDONED” those of us who still make an effort to write anything here anymore. I don’t know what their reasons may be, but if this is their decision, then I don’t blame you one little bit — for saying that you will continue to write until the goal of 14,000 Posts is reached, and then you will call it a day!!

    Did you receive an email from Mark Hamilton, inviting you to write about your Life Experiences — on a totally different site which he recently created?? I will not spell out its name here on this site, because it is obviously just for Neo-Thinkers to see it. He never mentioned it on this site at all. Therefore, I will also contribute to his secrecy.

    You also wrote a longer Post regarding the corruption in the A/C world, and how Eric Flame related to it in the book which Dr. Wallace wrote. Were you listening to the Panel Discussion which Steve, Kay, Vincent and I presented on the School of Genius Call Tuesday night??

    I believe that you made an honest statement regarding how we should relate to the A/C world, just like Eric Flame related to it. Here is your statement:

    “So what do you suppose would happen if this planet were devoid of politicians, religious zealots and greedy elitists. Would it still be possible for people helping and sharing with each other to turn this planet toward the ultimate direction of the Civilization of the Universe, or is that just a pipe dream of mine?. Love to all!

    Wayne, — I believe that there may be “MANY” Neo-Thinking Members out there, hiding in the shadows, who are asking this same question. With the Terrible Trend of Corruption going on in this A/C world we live in, people are going into a Spiral Nose Dive — heading for DEATH, — with no way to escape. They are “FEARFUL” beyond measure, and it is difficult to determine whether we can turn them back toward the SKY and into the Freedom and Happiness which all of them are “Longing to have. All we can do — is the “Best that is Possible.” I believe that there is an ANSWER to this question, — but will they “LISTEN??”

    Sincerely, and with Much Love,

    Carol and Forest

  30. DETROIT AREA CLUBHOUSE GALA EVENT
    —————————————-
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    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9:30 am – 3 pm.
    Where?. . . . . . . . . . . . .Henry Ford Museum.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dearborn, MI.
    What .. . . . . . . $20 – This includes parking
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and an I-max movie.
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    ====================

  31. August 31, 1959
    ============
    On August 31, 1959, Brooklyn Dodgers left-hander Sandy Koufax struck out 18
    batters, setting a new National League record for most strikeouts in a single game.

    Sandy Koufax was a talented all-around athlete from Borough Park in Brooklyn, New York.
    His first love was basketball, and he attended the University of Cincinnati on a basketball
    scholarship. His impressive left arm, however, attracted the attention of major league ball
    clubs and in 1954 he was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers. Despite his promising talent,
    Koufax won just 36 games to 51 losses from 1955 to 1961, and was incredibly inconsistent,
    blowing hitters away one game and walking runs in the next. Finally, advice from veteran
    catcher Norm Sherry turned Koufax around. As Koufax recounted in his autobiography,
    Sherry told him to “take the grunt out of the fastball.”

    On August 31, Koufax and the Dodgers faced their rivals the San Francisco Giants in Los Angeles. The Dodgers entered the game two games behind the Giants in the race for the National League pennant, and Koufax came out firing, whizzing fastballs and breaking off curveballs to strike out the first two Giants batters. However, Willie Mays and Orlando Cepeda then hit back-to-back doubles to give the Giants a 1-0 lead in the top of the first. The Dodgers quickly tied the game in the bottom of the inning, but in the fifth, Willie McCovey, the Giants star slugger, hit a home run to put the Giants up 2-1. The Dodgers tied it up, and Koufax continued to throw strikes. Finally, in the ninth, Koufax and Jim Gilliam singled before Wally Moon sent a 1-1 fastball from relief pitcher Al Worthington over the left-field fence. The capacity crowd in Chavez Ravine erupted, and the Dodgers won 5-2. Koufax’s total of 18 strikeouts in the game broke Dizzy Dean’s 26-year-old National League record, and tied the major league record held by Cleveland Indian ace Bob Feller. Koufax also broke the record for strikeouts over two consecutive games, fanning 31 men combined, having struck out 13 batters in his previous start. That year, the Dodgers went on to win the National League pennant. Though Koufax lost his only start in the 1959 World Series in spite of giving up only one run, the Dodgers brought home the championship.

    From 1962 to 1966, Koufax executed what are arguably the five greatest seasons by a
    pitcher in baseball history. Newfound control limited his walks from 4.8 per game to
    just 2.1. He threw no-hitters in 1962, 1963 and 1964, and led the Dodgers to World
    Series wins in 1963 and 1965 and the National League pennant in 1966. He won four
    World Series games, with a .95 earned run average and 61 strikeouts for his postseason
    career. Koufax won three Cy Young Awards (1963, 1965 and 1966), all of them unanimous.
    In 1965 he struck out 382 men, breaking Rube Waddell’s 1904 record of 350 by 32.
    According to longtime Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully, Koufax was so well-regarded that
    he would often receive a standing ovation from fans while just warming up for a game.

    Sandy Koufax retired after the 1966 season at just 30 years old
    because of arthritis in his elbow. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1972.
    ================
    TALKIN’ BASEBALL
    by Terry Cashman

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfAvHXKGfh8
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  32. August 30, 1965
    =============
    On this day in 1965, New York Mets Manager Casey Stengel announced his retirement,
    ending his 56-year career in professional baseball. The 75-year-old Stengel had broken
    his hip in a fall the previous month, and was instructed by his doctor that resuming the
    duties of manager would take too great a toll on his health.

    Charles Dillon “Casey” Stengel made his big league debut as an outfielder with John McGraw’s
    New York Giants in 1912. He parlayed his guts and guile at the plate into a 14-year playing career
    in the National League. His greatest moment as a player came in the 1923 World Series with the
    Giants. With two outs in the ninth inning, Stengel won Game 1 with an inside-the-park home run.
    He also hit a game-winning homer in Game 3, and for the series, Stengel hit an impressive .417
    with two home runs and four runs batted in, though the Giants lost to the Yankees four games to
    two. For his career, Stengel hit a respectable .284, with a .393 average in his three World Series
    appearances.

    Stengel’s real fame came as a manager. Though he had only middling success with the Brooklyn
    Dodgers (1934-1936) and Boston Braves (1938-1943), he managed to score a job with the
    New York Yankees in 1949 to replace the retiring Joe McCarthy, the winningest
    manager in major league history. Where he had previously managed only
    struggling teams, Stengel now had a roster of great players at his disposal.
    He made great use of platooning players, sitting right-handed hitters against
    right-handed pitchers and vice versa. His record of 1149 wins versus 696 losses
    with the Yankees over the next 12 seasons was among the greatest in managerial history,
    and included 10 American League pennants and seven World Series victories. After a heartbreaking
    loss in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series to the Pittsburgh Pirates, however, the Yankees replaced the
    70-year-old skipper with Ralph Houk, believing Stengel was simply too old to manage. Stengel responded:
    “I’ll never make the mistake of being 70 again.”

    In 1962, the New York Mets, an expansion team, hired Stengel as manager. That team went
    40-120, the worst record in major league history. They simply did not have good players,
    but Stengel held on for four seasons, trying to craft a contender out of a mix of young
    players lacking major league skill and washed-up veterans. All the while, the “Ol’ Perfesser,”
    as he was known, confounded and amused the press with his trademark doublespeak or
    “Stengelese,” including lines like, “They say it can’t be done, but it don’t always work.” It was
    no use, however: the Mets remained a losing team, and Stengel, exhausted by a long career,
    could sometimes be found napping on the bench.

    Stengel was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame as a manager in 1966.
    His record of five World Series victories in a row from 1949 to 1953
    remains a standard for excellence in the major leagues.
    ====================

  33. So, What is Immunotherapy? Quick answer. It is a broad category of cancer therapies that use the body’s immune system to recognize and attack cancer cells, and may be used in a combination with the other cancer treatments such as Chemo, Radiation and Surgery. This week’s headlines brought forth the following news. “Gilead Sciences buys Kite Pharma in cancer drug mega-deal in an ALL-CASH deal valued at 11.9 Billion.” Gilead is an American biopharmaceutical Co. that discovers, develops and commercializes therapeutics. They have concentrated primarily on anti-viral drugs used to treat patients with pulmonary diseases and are currently producers of a range of commercially available products , most notably the Hepatitis C drugs Harvoni and Sovaldi. Kite Pharma mfg. made a cutting edge cancer treatment . It is supposed to be an exciting advance that involves a patient’s cells, engineering those cells to identify them and infuse those cells in the patient to kill cancer. All right, it’s a lot of reading and language above my head, but I do understand when they say they have a single product that will sell for $500,000 annually. I would assume at prices like these, it should not take long to expect a reasonable profit on there “Cash” investment.

  34. My summation of “Eric Flame”. Was Eric and Dr. Wallace the same person? It”s what our interpretation wants it to be, but on the other hand the story line is just one of a million stories that defines the anti-civilization we are living in today. Like a huge black ominous shadow or cloud , the characters depicted in this story represent approximately 99 % of the present bicameral mind sets of the population of our planet in present day. We all know and can identify them through our current lives. Starting with the greedy cheating guardians who coincidently were family members, and the so called religious who justify there greed by trying to convince their followers that what they do is righteous and by manipulating the words written about an external authority to fit any purpose they like. Educators whose brainwashing techniques that are designed to turn thinking students to become sheep or followers who are not supposed to think for themselves, because you have a political system and an outside authority that will do it for you. From time to time, stories surface about the greed of the wealthy stockbrokers and the unmistakable tactics that exits there. Eric taught us the importance of diagnosing and using the brain to form and create charts for positive gains in an honest and substantial way. Being a person who worked with the materials made available by governmental contractors on life saving equipment, the story of Eric’s principals to insure it was all tested the same almost cost him his life. has been a way of life we suspect has occurred for ever. The loss of human life is not a problem with big business and unions as long as no one can place the blame to any specific reason. The moral of the story line is that as long as mysticisms exist, people do not display a consciousness. and don’t in some fashion become self-leaders, this planet can not exist in it’s present state of existence. So what do you suppose would happen if this planet were devoid of politicians, religious zealots and greedy elitists. Would it still be possible for people helping and sharing with each other to turn this planet in the ultimate of Civilization of the Universe or is that just a pipe dream of mine?. Love to all!

  35. We are within 34 posts of reaching 14,000 . I have come to the conclusion that there is no need do beat a dying dog to death, and let sleeping dogs lie ,or what ever they say. As much as this society keeps talking about moving forward it seems to throw obstacles in the path to its ultimate goals and destroying the dreams of those who care the most. Presumably this portion of the program has gone from newsworthy and reliable tools to bring valuable information to the existing and newer members to being no longer useful and of any interest. Therefore I will continue to the 14,000 mark and call it a day. Thanks for reading my articles for the past few years. Continue to be true to your self and be kind and loving to others.

  36. August 29, 2005
    Hurricane Katrina makes landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, as a Category 4 hurricane
    on this day in 2005. Despite being only the third most powerful storm of the 2005 hurricane
    season, Katrina was the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States. After briefly
    coming ashore in southern Florida on August 25 as a Category 1 hurricane, Katrina gained
    strength before slamming into the Gulf Coast on August 29. In addition to bringing
    devastation to the New Orleans area, the hurricane caused damage along the
    coasts of Mississippi and Alabama, as well as other parts of Louisiana.

    New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered a mandatory evacuation of the city on August 28, when
    Katrina briefly achieved Category 5 status and the National Weather Service predicted “devastating”
    damage to the area. But an estimated 150,000 people, who either did not want to or did not have
    the resources to leave, ignored the order and stayed behind. The storm brought sustained winds
    of 145 miles per hour, which cut power lines and destroyed homes, even turning cars into projectile
    missiles. Katrina caused record storm surges all along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The surges
    overwhelmed the levees that protected New Orleans, located at six feet below sea level, from
    Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River. Soon, 80 percent of the city was flooded up to the
    rooftops of many homes and small buildings.

    Tens of thousands of people sought shelter in the New Orleans Convention Center and the
    Louisiana Superdome. The situation in both places quickly deteriorated, as food and water
    ran low and conditions became unsanitary. Frustration mounted as it took up to two days
    for a full-scale relief effort to begin. In the meantime, the stranded residents suffered from
    heat, hunger, and a lack of medical care. Reports of looting, rape, and even murder began
    to surface. As news networks broadcast scenes from the devastated city to the world, it
    became obvious that a vast majority of the victims were African-American and poor,
    leading to difficult questions among the public about the state of racial equality in the
    United States. The federal government and President George W. Bush were roundly
    criticized for what was perceived as their slow response to the disaster. The head of the
    Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Michael Brown, resigned amid the
    ensuing controversy.

    Finally, on September 1, the tens of thousands of people staying in the damaged Superdome
    and Convention Center begin to be moved to the Astrodome in Houston, Texas, and another
    mandatory evacuation order was issued for the city. The next day, military convoys arrived
    with supplies and the National Guard was brought in to bring a halt to lawlessness. Efforts
    began to collect and identify corpses. On September 6, eight days after the hurricane, the
    Army Corps of Engineers finally completed temporary repairs to the three major holes in
    New Orleans’ levee system and were able to begin pumping water out of the city.

    In all, it is believed that the hurricane caused more than 1,300 deaths and up to $150 billion
    in damages to both private property and public infrastructure. It is estimated that only about
    $40 billion of that number will be covered by insurance. One million people were displaced
    by the disaster, a phenomenon unseen in the United States since the Great Depression. Four
    hundred thousand people lost their jobs as a result of the disaster. Offers of international
    aid poured in from around the world, even from poor countries like Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
    Private donations from U.S. citizens alone approached $600 million.

    The storm also set off 36 tornadoes in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia,
    Pennsylvania, and Virginia, resulting in one death.

    President Bush declared September 16 a national day of
    remembrance for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
    ===============

  37. Hey Pete, you lucky old dog you. All this talk about attending the Summit is depressing me and I am so sad but still have 24 sessions of Rehab to do and ends (of all days) Oct. Friday the 13th, Maybe after this next spurt of energy things will be better. Enjoy, and take care of our friend Judith will ya? I had my 30 day review today, and lost another 5 pounds making 26 so far. So here I am wasting away, ( but not in Margaritaville) darn it! Wish I was there, Wayne.

  38. Hey Wayne —
    It’s Monday – 8/28/18.
    I liked the post about energy coming in — the Eclipse, the Asteroid (September first
    supposedly), and the Equinox on September 22 as well. I’m flying to Newark that day
    via Boston, so I don’t anticipate any problems whatsoever, and the meet and great
    happens that evening, followed by two days of THE SUMMIT. !!! pez

  39. August 28, 1955
    ============
    While visiting family in Money, Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American
    from Chicago, was brutally murdered for flirting with a white woman four days earlier.
    His assailants – the white woman’s husband and her brother – made Emmett carry a
    75-pound cotton-gin fan to the bank of the Tallahatchie River and ordered him to
    take off his clothes. The two men then beat him nearly to death, gouged out his
    eye, shot him in the head, and then threw his body, tied to the cotton-gin fan
    with barbed wire, into the river.

    Till grew up in a working-class neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, and though
    he had attended a segregated elementary school, he was not prepared for the level of
    segregation he encountered in Mississippi. His mother warned him to take care because
    of his race, but Emmett enjoyed pulling pranks. On August 24, while standing with his
    cousins and some friends outside a country store in Money, Emmett bragged that his
    girlfriend back home was white. Emmett’s African American companions, disbelieving
    him, dared Emmett to ask the white woman sitting behind the store counter for a date.
    He went in, bought some candy, and on the way out was heard saying, “Bye, baby” to
    the woman. There were no witnesses in the store, but Carolyn Bryant–the woman
    behind the counter–claimed that he grabbed her, made lewd advances, and then
    wolf-whistled at her as he sauntered out.

    Roy Bryant, the proprietor of the store and the woman’s husband, returned from a business
    trip a few days later and found out how Emmett had spoken to his wife. Enraged, he went
    to the home of Till’s great uncle, Mose Wright, with his brother-in-law J.W. Milam in the
    early morning hours of August 28. The pair demanded to see the boy. Despite pleas
    from Wright, they forced Emmett into their car. After driving around in the
    Memphis night, and perhaps beating Till in a toolhouse behind Milam’s
    residence, they drove him down to the Tallahatchie River.

    Three days later, his corpse was recovered but was so disfigured that Mose Wright could
    only identify it by an initialed ring. Authorities wanted to bury the body quickly, but Till’s
    mother, Mamie Bradley, requested it be sent back to Chicago. After seeing the mutilated
    remains, she decided to have an open-casket funeral so that all the world could see what
    racist murderers had done to her only son. Jet, an African American weekly magazine,
    published a photo of Emmett’s corpse, and soon the mainstream media picked up on the story.

    Less than two weeks after Emmett’s body was buried, Milam and Bryant went on trial in a
    segregated courthouse in Sumner, Mississippi. There were few witnesses besides Mose
    Wright, who positively identified the defendants as Emmett’s killers. On September 23,
    the all-white jury deliberated for less than an hour before issuing a verdict of “not guilty,”
    explaining that they believed the state had failed to prove the identity of the body. Many
    people around the country were outraged by the decision and also by the state’s decision
    not to indict Milam and Bryant on the separate charge of kidnapping.

    The Emmett Till murder trial brought to light the brutality of Jim Crow
    segregation in the South and was an early impetus of the African
    American civil rights movement.
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  40. August 27, 1967
    ============
    On August 27, 1967, Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles, was found dead of an accidental drug overdose in his Sussex, England, home. The following day, the headline in the London Daily Mirror read
    “EPSTEIN (The Beatle-Making Prince of Pop) DIES AT 32.” Brian Epstein was, by all
    accounts, the man who truly got the Beatles off the ground, and in John Lennon’s
    estimation, it was difficult to see how they’d manage to go on without the man
    who had managed every aspect of the Beatles’ business affairs up until his
    unexpected death. “I knew that we were in trouble then,” John later
    recalled. “I didn’t really have any misconceptions about our ability
    to do anything other than play music. I was scared. I thought, ‘We’ve ******* had it.’”

    The relationship between Brian Epstein and the Beatles dated back to Liverpool in late 1961.
    Entirely self-managed and without a recording contract, the Beatles had just recently
    returned from Hamburg and begun playing Liverpool’s Cavern Club. Epstein was
    then running his family’s record and musical instrument shop on Walton Road,
    just blocks away from the Cavern, but as he would later tell the story, he
    hadn’t heard of the Beatles until he had two young customers in quick
    succession enter his store looking for a copy of a record they’d
    made in Hamburg as the backing group for vocalist Pete
    Sheridan. Based on this rather modest “buzz,” Epstein
    arranged to go see the future Fab Four several weeks later.

    The band that Epstein saw the first time he laid eyes on the Beatles was very different from
    the one that would soon conquer the world. They dressed in black leather, they played only
    cover tunes and they would freely eat and drink onstage during and between songs. Yet
    Epstein was immediately taken with their charisma and the crowd’s response to it. On
    January 24, 1962, he was officially hired by John, Paul, George and drummer Pete Best
    in a deal that gave Epstein a 25 percent cut of the band’s gross earnings for the next five years.

    As a business deal, that management contract may seem to have been tilted very much in
    Epstein’s favor, but it is fair to say that the world might never have heard of the Beatles
    were it not for their manager and good friend. Epstein put the Beatles in suits, had them
    bow in unison after each number and, just a few months after being hired, got them their
    first recording contract with Parlophone Records.
    ==================
    CAN’T BUY ME LOVE
    by The Beatles

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxha1IUsSPI
    —————

  41. August 27, 2007
    ============
    On this day in 2007, Michael Vick – a star quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons – formally
    pleaded guilty before a Richmond, Virginia, judge to a federal felony charge related to
    running a dogfighting ring. That December, the 27-year-old Vick – once the highest-paid
    player in the NFL – was sentenced to 23 months in federal prison.

    In April 2007, law-enforcement officials raided a 15-acre property owned by Vick in rural
    Surry County, Virginia, and discovered dozens of pit bulls, some of them neglected, along
    with evidence of illegal dogfighting activities. That July, Vick and three other men, Purnell
    Peace, Quanis Phillips and Tony Taylor, were charged with engaging in competitive
    dogfighting, obtaining and training pit bulls for fighting, and carrying out the enterprise
    across state lines. All four men pled not guilty to the charges. However, Vick’s three
    co-defendants later changed their pleas to guilty and agreed to testify that the quarterback
    had participated in the execution of a number of dogs and had bankrolled the gambling and
    operating funds for the venture, known as Bad Newz Kennels, which had reportedly been
    in existence for about five years. Animal-rights organizations as well as the general public
    expressed outrage against Vick and the barbaric details of the case—dogs that under-
    performed in fights were put to death by such means as drowning, electrocution and hanging.

    On August 27, Vick, the Falcons’ starting quarterback since 2002, pled guilty to one count
    of “conspiracy to travel in interstate commerce in aid of unlawful activities and to
    sponsor a dog in an animal fighting venture.” Vick, who in 2004 signed a record
    10-year, $130 million contract with the Falcons, was suspended indefinitely
    without pay by the NFL and lost his lucrative endorsement deals.

    In December 2007, a judge sentenced Vick to 23 months in federal prison. Because the judge
    believed the football player had refused to accept responsibility for his actions (Vick failed
    a drug test after his August 2007 guilty plea and also flunked a lie-detector test about
    his role in the executions of underperforming dogs), the sentence was stiffer than
    the 12 months to 18 months suggested by federal guidelines. In July 2008, while
    in prison, Vick filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. That November,
    he pled guilty in Virginia to state dogfighting charges and received a
    three-year suspended sentence.

    In May 2009, Vick was released from prison in Leavenworth, Kansas. That July, he was
    conditionally reinstated by the NFL and the following month signed a two-year deal
    with the Philadelphia Eagles. While his public image remained tarnished, Vick went
    on to make a strong comeback on the football field.
    ==============

  42. Hi guys: With all the hoopla lately about the solar eclipse, it seems all that excitement has not worn off yet, and there’s still more to come. Stole this from F.B. but still interesting news.. “Ten signs you are going through major changes following the recent energetic waves, all of which has impacted us in many ways. We are going to be experiencing another wave of energy soon and this is going to cause a great shift. Whether you are aware of it or not September 22(the equinox) will be the marker for the next round of energy, thus being the great shift mentioned above. You could very well still be experiencing the effects of our last energy wave currently, and if you are then you know all to well what to expect with the upcoming equinox. Energy waves are messages sent to us from universal beings that hold potential to help us grow and develop as human beings on this planet. That meaning they are information for the Universe sent to help us become more of what we need to be. Once you realize how these energy waves can affect our lives you will begin to notice lots of people going through them. Some signs you are going through energetic changes associated with recent waves. (1) You notice a change in eating habits: During a shift like this you will either eat a lot more or a lot less depending how the shift affects you. (2) You notice rapid change. Things you have not thought about in ages keep coming up and everything is changing. (3) You no longer enjoy the things you used to. You are changing inside and out. Things that you ight of found fun in the past just don’t do it for you anymore. (4) Endings bring about amazing things while old things are coming to an end and greater things are just coming up. (5) Intense emotions–You are going through something that will bring on a lot of emotions and you feel each one deeply. (6) You are no longer content with the way things are, and you will want them to change. (7) Your sleep patterns change, you either need more sleep or less sleep. (8) Dry mouth: your body is going through many changes and you find yourself experiencing cotton mouth. (9) You feel more inclined to do good, you feel as if changing things for the better is necessary to move forward in your life. (10) You no longer fit into the status quo. If this is your first shift you begin coming out of your shell. If your dealing with energy waves it is best to embrace everything that comes along with them. Do not worry about becoming overwhelmed by the energy that is flowing through you, nothing will become of it. Seek out people who are experiencing this as well and grow together. Remember that when these things happen it is not to hold us back but to push us forward in life to a place we need to be. I want to thank Digger for the 30 second pauses to pass this energy on to all those who need help with their healing processes. Good Job! Love yourself and your fellow man.

  43. August 26, 1074
    ============
    Charles Lindbergh – the first man to accomplish a solo nonstop
    flight across the Atlantic Ocean – died in Maui, Hawaii, at the age of 72.

    Charles Augustus Lindbergh, born in Detroit in 1902, took up flying at the age of 20.
    In 1923, he bought a surplus World War I Curtiss “Jenny” biplane and toured the
    country as a barnstorming stunt flyer. In 1924, he enrolled in the Army Air Service
    flying school in Texas and graduated at the top of his class as a first lieutenant.
    He became an airmail pilot in 1926 and pioneered the route between St. Louis and
    Chicago. Among U.S. aviators, he was highly regarded.

    In May 1919, the first transatlantic flight was made by a U.S. hydroplane that flew from
    New York to Plymouth, England, via Newfoundland, the Azores Islands, and Lisbon.
    Later that month, Frenchman Raymond Orteig, an owner of hotels in New York, put up
    a purse of $25,000 to the first aviator or aviators to fly nonstop from Paris to New York
    or New York to Paris. In June 1919, the British fliers John W. Alcock and Arthur W. Brown
    made the first nonstop transatlantic flight, flying 1,960 miles from Newfoundland to
    Ireland. The flight from New York to Paris would be nearly twice that distance.

    Orteig said his challenge would be good for five years. In 1926, with no one having attempted
    the flight, Orteig made the offer again. By this time, aircraft technology had advanced to a
    point where a few people did believe such a flight might be possible. Several of the world’s top
    aviators — including American polar explorer Richard Byrd and French flying ace Rene
    Fonck — decided to accept the challenge, and so did Charles Lindbergh.

    Lindbergh convinced the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce to sponsor the flight, and a
    budget of $15,000 was set. The Ryan Airlines Corporation of San Diego volunteered to
    build a single-engine aircraft to his specifications. Extra fuel tanks were added, and the
    wing span was increased to 46 feet to accommodate the additional weight. The main
    fuel tank was placed in front of the cockpit because it would be safest there in the
    event of a crash. This meant Lindbergh would have no forward vision, so a periscope
    was added. To reduce weight, everything that was not utterly essential was left out.
    There would be no radio, gas gauge, night-flying lights, navigation equipment, or
    parachute. Lindbergh would sit in a light seat made of wicker. Unlike other aviators
    attempting the flight, Lindbergh would be alone, with no navigator or co-pilot.

    The aircraft was christened The Spirit of St. Louis, and on May 12, 1927, Lindbergh flew it
    from San Diego to New York, setting a new record for the fastest transcontinental flight.
    Bad weather delayed Lindbergh’s transatlantic attempt for a week. On the night of May 19,
    nerves and a newspaperman’s noisy poker game kept him up all night. Early the next
    morning, though he hadn’t slept, the skies were clear, and he rushed to Roosevelt Field on
    Long Island. Six men had died attempting the long and dangerous flight he was about to take.

    At 7:52 a.m. EST on May 20, The Spirit of St. Louis lifted off from Roosevelt Field, so loaded with
    fuel that it barely cleared the telephone wires at the end of the runway. Lindbergh traveled
    northeast up the coast. After only four hours, he felt tired and flew within 10 feet of the
    water to keep his mind clear. As night fell, the aircraft left the coast of Newfoundland
    and set off across the Atlantic. At about 2 a.m. on May 21, Lindbergh passed the
    halfway mark, and an hour later dawn came. Soon after, The Spirit of St. Louis
    entered a fog, and Lindbergh struggled to stay awake, holding his eyelids
    open with his fingers and hallucinating that ghosts were passing through the cockpit.

    After 24 hours in the air, he felt a little more awake and spotted fishing boats in the water.
    At about 11 a.m. (3 p.m. local time), he saw the coast of Ireland. Despite using only rudimentary
    navigation, he was two hours ahead of schedule and only three miles off course. He flew past
    England and by 3 p.m. EST was flying over France. It was 8 p.m. in France, and night was falling.

    At the Le Bourget Aerodrome in Paris, tens of thousands of Saturday night revelers had gathered
    to await Lindbergh’s arrival. At 10:24 a.m. local time, his gray and white monoplane slipped out of
    the darkness and made a perfect landing in the air field. The crowd surged on The Spirit of St. Louis,
    and Lindbergh, weary from his 33 1/2-hour, 3,600-mile journey, was cheered and lifted above their
    heads. He hadn’t slept for 55 hours. Two French aviators saved Lindbergh from the boisterous crowd,
    whisking him away in an automobile. He was an immediate international celebrity.

    President Calvin Coolidge dispatched a warship to take the hero home, and “Lucky Lindy” was given
    a ticker-tape parade in New York and presented with the Congressional Medal of Honor. His place I
    n history, however, was not complete.

    In 1932, he was the subject of international headlines again when his infant son, Charles Jr., was
    kidnapped, unsuccessfully ransomed, and then found murdered in the woods near the Lindbergh
    home. German-born Bruno Richard Hauptmann was convicted of the crime in a controversial trial
    and then executed.

    In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Lindbergh became a spokesperson for U.S. isolationism and
    was sharply criticized for his apparent Nazi sympathies and anti-Semitic views. After the
    outbreak of World War II, the fallen hero traveled to the Pacific as a military observer and
    eventually flew more than two dozen combat missions, including one in which he downed a
    Japanese aircraft. Lindbergh’s wartime service largely restored public faith in him, and for
    many years he worked with the U.S. government on aviation issues. In 1954, President
    Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed him brigadier general in the Air Force Reserve.
    He died in Hawaii in 1974.
    ============

  44. August 25, 0325
    =============
    The Council of Nicaea – the first ecumenical debate held by the early Christian
    church – concluded on this day with the establishment of the doctrine of the
    Holy Trinity. Convened by Roman Emperor Constantine I in May, the council
    also deemed the Arian belief of Christ as inferior to God as heretical, thus
    resolving an early church crisis.

    The controversy began when Arius, an Alexandrian priest, questioned the full divinity of Christ
    because, unlike God, Christ was born and had a beginning. What began as an academic
    theological debate spread to Christian congregations throughout the empire,
    threatening a schism in the early Christian church. Roman Emperor
    Constantine I, who converted to Christianity in 312, called
    bishops from all over his empire to resolve the crisis
    and urged the adoption of a new creed that
    would resolve the ambiguities between
    Christ and God.

    Meeting at Nicaea in present-day Turkey, the council established the equality of the Father,
    the Son, and the Holy Spirit in the Holy Trinity and asserted that only the Son became
    incarnate as Jesus Christ. The Arian leaders were subsequently banished from
    their churches for heresy. The Emperor Constantine presided over the
    opening of the council and contributed to the discussion.
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  45. August 25, 2009
    ============
    On this day in 2009, Edward “Ted” Kennedy, the youngest brother of President John F. Kennedy
    and a U.S. senator from Massachusetts from 1962 to 2009, dies of brain cancer at age 77 at his
    home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. Kennedy, one of the longest-serving senators in
    American history, was a leader of the Democratic Party and a spokesman for liberal
    causes who also was known for his ability to work with those on both sides of the political aisle.

    Edward Moore Kennedy was born in Boston on February 22, 1932, the youngest of nine children of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., a wealthy financier who served as the first chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and later as ambassador to Great Britain, and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, the daughter of a Boston politician. After serving in the U.S. Army in the early 1950s, Kennedy graduated from Harvard University in 1956 and earned a law degree from the University of Virginia in 1959. While still a student, he managed his brother John’s successful 1958 re-election campaign to the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts. Also in 1958, Ted Kennedy married Joan Bennett, with whom he later had three children. The couple divorced in 1982, and in 1992, Kennedy married Victoria Reggie, a Washington attorney with two children.

    In November 1960, John Kennedy was elected America’s 35th president. The following month, a Kennedy family friend was appointed to fill the president-elect’s vacated Senate seat until a special election was held. In November 1962, Ted Kennedy, who earlier that year had turned 30, the minimum age requirement for a U.S. senator, won the special election in Massachusetts to serve out the remainder of his brother’s Senate term, ending in January 1965. Massachusetts voters re-elected Kennedy to the seat eight more times, in 1964, 1970, 1976, 1982, 1988, 1994, 2000 and 2006.

    Kennedy came from privileged background, but his family was no stranger to tragedy. His oldest brother, Joseph Kennedy Jr., a Navy pilot, died in World War II, while his second-eldest sister, Kathleen, was killed in a 1948 plane crash. President John Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. The following year, Ted Kennedy was seriously injured in a plane crash that left him hospitalized for six months. In 1968, U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy was also assassinated. With Robert’s death, Ted Kennedy became the family patriarch and a substitute father to his two slain brothers’ 13 children.

    On July 18, 1969, Kennedy was involved in a controversial event that would mar the rest of his career, when he accidentally drove his car off a bridge on Massachusetts’ Chappaquiddick Island, killing his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, who drowned. Kennedy failed to report the incident to the authorities for nearly 10 hours, claiming the delay was due to the fact that he had suffered a concussion and was exhausted from attempting to rescue Kopechne. He later pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and received a two-month suspended sentence. However, Kennedy was plagued by questions about his behavior, as well as his relationship with Kopechne, a former campaign worker for Robert Kennedy. He later referred to his actions as “inexcusable,” and said Kopechne’s death “haunts me every day of my life.” In 1980, Kennedy made a failed bid against President Jimmy Carter for the Democratic presidential nomination. He never again ran for the White House, instead focusing on his work on Capitol Hill, where he was dubbed the “liberal lion of the Senate.” During his nearly 47-year-career in Washington, D.C., Kennedy successfully fought for legislation concerning education, immigration reform, health care, increases to the federal minimum wage, voting rights, various consumer protections and equal rights for minorities, the disabled, women and gay Americans. In foreign policy matters, he was an opponent of the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, and a champion of human rights in such places as Africa and South America.

    In May 2008, Kennedy was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. That August, despite his poor health, he made a rousing speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver in support of Barack Obama, who he had endorsed for president.

    After his death in August 2009, Kennedy was buried at Virginia’s Arlington
    National Cemetery, near the graves of his brothers John and Robert.
    =============

  46. Good Morning: 8/25/17, Today’s subject: SELF – EFFICACY.
    . A person’s belief in their ability to change their behavior
    . The degree of belief that you can perform the behavior required to reach your goals
    . Confidence is the ability to exert control over your own motivation ,behavior, and social environment in
    order to reach your goals
    . People with a strong sense of self-efficacy:
    . Seek out challenging tasks
    . Have more interest and commitment in the activities in which they participate
    . Recover quickly from setbacks and disappointments
    . People with a weak sense of self-efficacy:
    . Avoid challenging tasks
    . Believe that difficult tasks and situations are beyond their capabilities
    . Quickly lose confidence in personal abilities and focus on negative outcomes

    . How do you develop a strong sense of self-efficacy?
    (1) Successful performance leads to increased self-efficacy
    . Set realistic and attainable goals!
    (2) Observing others in similar life situations overcome obstacle enhances elf-efficacy
    . Watch how others perform as they overcome difficulties and reach goals
    (3) Verbal encouragement can improve self-efficacy
    . Don’t be afraid to encourage each other
    (4) Perceived ability to perform
    . Try not to get discouraged if you have a bad day, we all have them

    BELIEVE IN YOURSELF !

  47. August 24, 0079
    =============
    After centuries of dormancy, Mount Vesuvius erupted in southern Italy, devastating
    the prosperous Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum and killing thousands.
    The cities -buried under a thick layer of volcanic material and mud – were never
    rebuilt and largely forgotten in the course of history. In the 18th century, Pompeii
    and Herculaneum were rediscovered and excavated, providing an unprecedented
    archaeological record of the everyday life of an ancient civilization, startlingly
    preserved in sudden death.

    The ancient cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum thrived near the base of Mount Vesuvius at the Bay of
    Naples. In the time of the early Roman Empire, 20,000 people lived in Pompeii, including merchants, manufacturers, and farmers who exploited the rich soil of the region with numerous vineyards and
    orchards. None suspected that the black fertile earth was the legacy of earlier eruptions of Mount
    Vesuvius. Herculaneum was a city of 5,000 and a favorite summer destination for rich Romans.
    Named for the mythic hero Hercules, Herculaneum housed opulent villas and grand Roman
    baths. Gambling artifacts found in Herculaneum and a brothel unearthed in Pompeii attest
    to the decadent nature of the cities. There were smaller resort communities in the area
    as well, such as the quiet little town of Stabiae.

    At noon on August 24, 79 A.D., this pleasure and prosperity came to an end when the peak of
    Mount Vesuvius exploded, propelling a 10-mile mushroom cloud of ash and pumice into the
    stratosphere. For the next 12 hours, volcanic ash and a hail of pumice stones up to 3 inches
    in diameter showered Pompeii, forcing the city’s occupants to flee in terror. Some 2,000
    people stayed in Pompeii, holed up in cellars or stone structures, hoping to wait out the eruption.

    A westerly wind protected Herculaneum from the initial stage of the eruption, but then a
    giant cloud of hot ash and gas surged down the western flank of Vesuvius, engulfing the
    city and burning or asphyxiating all who remained. This lethal cloud was followed by a
    flood of volcanic mud and rock, burying the city.

    The people who remained in Pompeii were killed on the morning of August 25 when
    a cloud of toxic gas poured into the city, suffocating all that remained. A flow of rock
    and ash followed, collapsing roofs and walls and burying the dead.

    Much of what we know about the eruption comes from an account by Pliny the Younger,
    who was staying west along the Bay of Naples when Vesuvius exploded. In two letters to
    the historian Tacitus, he told of how “people covered their heads with pillows, the only
    defense against a shower of stones,” and of how “a dark and horrible cloud charged with
    combustible matter suddenly broke and set forth. Some bewailed their own fate. Others
    prayed to die.” Pliny, only 17 at the time, escaped the catastrophe and later became a
    noted Roman writer and administrator. His uncle, Pliny the Elder, was less lucky. Pliny
    the Elder, a celebrated naturalist, at the time of the eruption was the commander of the
    Roman fleet in the Bay of Naples. After Vesuvius exploded, he took his boats across the
    bay to Stabiae, to investigate the eruption and reassure terrified citizens. After going
    ashore, he was overcome by toxic gas and died.

    According to Pliny the Younger’s account, the eruption lasted 18 hours. Pompeii was buried
    under 14 to 17 feet of ash and pumice, and the nearby seacoast was drastically changed.
    Herculaneum was buried under more than 60 feet of mud and volcanic material. Some
    residents of Pompeii later returned to dig out their destroyed homes and salvage their
    valuables, but many treasures were left and then forgotten.

    In the 18th century, a well digger unearthed a marble statue on the site of Herculaneum.
    The local government excavated some other valuable art objects, but the project was
    abandoned. In 1748, a farmer found traces of Pompeii beneath his vineyard. Since then,
    excavations have gone on nearly without interruption until the present. In 1927, the Italian
    government resumed the excavation of Herculaneum, retrieving numerous art treasures,
    including bronze and marble statues and paintings.

    The remains of 2,000 men, women, and children were found at Pompeii. After perishing from
    asphyxiation, their bodies were covered with ash that hardened and preserved the outline of
    their bodies. Later, their bodies decomposed to skeletal remains, leaving a kind of plaster
    mold behind. Archaeologists who found these molds filled the hollows with plaster, revealing
    in grim detail the death pose of the victims of Vesuvius. The rest of the city is likewise frozen
    in time, and ordinary objects that tell the story of everyday life in Pompeii are as valuable to
    archaeologists as the great unearthed statues and frescoes. It was not until 1982 that the first
    human remains were found at Herculaneum, and these hundreds of skeletons bear ghastly
    burn marks that testifies to horrifying deaths.

    Today, Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano on the European mainland.
    Its last eruption was in 1944 and its last major eruption was in 1631. Another
    eruption is expected in the near future, would could be devastating for the
    700,000 people who live in the “death zones” around Vesuvius.
    =================

  48. August 23, 1989
    ============
    On this day in 1989, as punishment for betting on baseball, Cincinnati Reds manager
    Pete Rose accepted a settlement that included a lifetime ban from the game. A heated
    debate continues to rage as to whether Rose, a former player who remains the game’s
    all-time hits leader, should be given a second chance.

    Although gambling on a sport you play or coach is now considered unacceptable in nearly all
    levels of sport, it was relatively common among those connected with baseball in the early
    20th century. Some of baseball’s most talented and well-known players, such as “Turkey”
    Mike Donlin and Hal Chase, as well as manager John McGraw, who publicly won $400 dollars
    when his New York Giants won the World Series in 1905, were often suspected of gambling
    on their own games. Chase was considered a dangerous man to have on a team because of
    his willingness to make extra money by dropping fly balls or misplaying first base. This all
    changed, however, after the White Sox purposefully lost the World Series in 1919 for a payoff
    from gambler Arnold Rothstein. Outraged, a group of baseball’s faithful – including American
    League Commissioner Ban Johnson, former player and manager Christy Matthewson and
    White Sox owner Charles Comiskey, among others – made it a priority to clean up the game
    and repair its reputation. Kenesaw Mountain Landis, a former federal judge, was hired as
    Major League Baseball’s first commissioner to crack down on corruption.

    One of Landis’ first moves was to ban eight White Sox players found to be involved in the World
    Series betting scandal from the game for life, including Chase and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, one
    of the greatest players in baseball history. Major League Baseball Rule 21(d) now states that
    a player faces a ban of one year for betting on any baseball game, and a lifetime ban for
    betting on his own team. In addition, signs posted prominently in every clubhouse
    remind players that gambling is not permitted.

    It was known in baseball circles since the 1970s that Pete Rose had a gambling problem.
    Although at first he bet only on horse races and football games, allegations surfaced in
    early 1989 that Rose was not only betting on baseball, but on his own team. Major League
    Baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti began an inquiry, and hired Washington lawyer
    John Dowd to head the investigation. Dowd compiled hundreds of hours of testimony from
    numerous sources that detailed Rose’s history of gambling on baseball while serving as the
    manager of the Cincinnati Reds, including betting on his own team.

    Although Rose continued to proclaim his innocence, he was eventually persuaded to accept
    a settlement that included a lifetime ban from the game. At a subsequent press conference,
    Giamatti characterized Rose’s acceptance of the ban as a no-contest plea to the charges against him.

    In 2004, after years of repeated denials, Rose published My Prison Without Bars,
    in which he finally confessed to gambling on the Reds, though he added that had
    always bet on the Reds to win. Because of the lifetime ban, Rose cannot work in
    Major League Baseball and, despite his stellar playing career, he is not eligible for
    the Hall of Fame
    ==============

  49. August 22, 1992
    ============In the second day of a standoff at Randy Weaver’s remote
    northern Idaho cabin, FBI sharpshooter Lon Horiuchi wounded Randy
    Weaver and Kevin Harrison, and killed Weaver’s wife, Vicki.

    Randy Weaver – a white separatist -had been targeted by the federal government after failing to
    appear in court to face charges related to his selling of two illegal sawed-off shotguns to an
    Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) informant. On August 21, 1992, after a period of
    surveillance, U.S. marshals came upon Harrison; Weaver; Weaver’s 14-year-old
    son, Sammy; and the family dog on a road near the Weaver property.
    A marshal shot and killed the dog, prompting Sammy to fire at the marshal.
    In the ensuing gun battle, Sammy and U.S. Marshal Michael Degan were shot and
    killed. A tense standoff ensued, and on August 22 the FBI joined the marshals besieging Ruby Ridge.

    Later that day, Harris, Weaver, and his daughter, Sarah, left the cabin, allegedly for the purpose of
    preparing Sammy’s body for burial. FBI sharpshooter Lon Horiuchi, waiting 200 yards away,
    opened fire, allegedly because he thought Harrison was armed and intending to fire on a
    helicopter in the vicinity. Horiuchi wounded Weaver, and the group ran to the shed
    where Sammy’s body was lying. When they attempted to escape back into the
    cabin, Horiuchi fired again, wounding Harrison as he dove through the door
    and killing Vicki Weaver, who was holding the door open with one hand
    and cradling her infant daughter with the other. Horiuchi claimed he
    didn’t know that Vicki Weaver was standing behind the door. Harris,
    Weaver, and Weaver’s three daughters surrendered nine days
    later.

    In 1993, Weaver and Harris were acquitted by a federal court on murder, conspiracy,
    and other charges related to Degan’s death, but Weaver was convicted of failing to
    appear for trial on the firearms charge. In 1994, the two men filed federal civil rights
    cases against the FBI and U.S. marshals stemming from the siege, and in 1995 the
    government settled Weaver’s case for $3.1 million.

    The controversial standoff spawned a nationwide debate on the use of force by federal law
    enforcement agencies, and a U.S. Senate panel accused the federal agencies involved of
    “substantial failures” in their handling of the Ruby Ridge operation. Of particular
    controversy was an FBI “rule of engagement” implemented at the beginning
    of the Ruby Ridge siege that stated “any armed adult male observed in
    the vicinity of the Weaver cabin could and should be killed.” Many
    condemned this policy as unconstitutional. Rumors that the
    FBI had engaged in a cover-up regarding the Ruby Ridge
    operation were verified when E. Michael Kahoe, former chief
    of the FBI’s violent crimes section, pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice
    in 1996. Kahoe, who had destroyed an official bureau critique of the standoff, was
    sentenced to 18 months in prison.
    ================

  50. Tired of bad news? Here is 13 amazing things that are happening in the world right now. While world news may not seem upbeat @ this current moment in time, that doesn’t mean there aren’t any good things going on. Despite all the bad, there are quite a few monumental good things happening in current times that you need to know about! Lately it seems that the people doing good in this world do not get anywhere near as much press as they should , and that makes it extremely important for us to bring them to light. Below you will find a list of some of the amazing things happening right now.
    (1) Scientists have classified a new type of aurora called Steve. This new aurora looks like a ribbon of light, and it was spotted in the northern hemisphere.
    (2) Doctors were finally successful in reversing brain damage.
    (3) We are close to sustainable nuclear fusion.
    (4) NASA has released all it’s research to the public, and it’s free!
    (5) Hyperloops are well on the way. (Thanks to Elon Musk.
    (6) We can now listen to the universe.
    (7) We are close to getting rid of the Guinea Worm parasite for good.
    (8) We are close to turning sea water into drinking water.
    (9) Alzheimer’s disease might be reversible.
    (10) We now know how to repair spinal cord injuries.
    (11) A treatment for Autism is on the way
    (12) Polio is now a thing of the past.
    (13) A vitamin has been found that can reduce miscarriages and prevent birth defects using vitamin B-3 during pregnancies. All news is not bad, we are slowly reaching toward the cures for aging, and illnesses. Love makes the world go round and around.

  51. Okay, slow news week here at home, however, yesterday we had a little celebration at my Cardiac Rehab center. Two of our “classmates” graduated successfully from the 36 session program. The rules for this course is that you are allowed to skip up to three sessions with reasonable excuses, but if you miss three in a row without permission , you have to start all over again and have to be recertified. So your saying what’s the big deal here?. One of our mates has successfully completed this seven times since 1999. Now that is determination! If all Neo-Thinkers had that kind of stick to it-ness- what a wonderful world this would be. (That’s a lot of work for a drinking mug and a Tee-shirt! ) Thought you might enjoy that little story.

  52. DETROIT ARE CLUBHOUSE GALA EVENT
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    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9:30 am – 3 pm.
    Where?. . . . . . . . . . . . .Henry Ford Museum.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dearborn, MI.
    What .. . . . . . . $20 – This includes parking
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and an I-max movie.
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  53. August 21, 1959
    ============
    The modern United States received its crowning star when President Dwight D. Eisenhower
    siged a proclamation admitting Hawaii into the Union as the 50th state. The president also
    issued an order for an American flag featuring 50 stars arranged in staggered rows: five
    six-star rows and four five-star rows. The new flag became official July 4, 1960.

    The first known settlers of the Hawaiian Islands were Polynesian voyagers who arrived sometime
    in the eighth century. In the early 18th century, American traders came to Hawaii to exploit the
    islands’ sandalwood, which was much valued in China at the time. In the 1830s, the sugar industry
    was introduced to Hawaii and by the mid 19th century had become well established. American
    missionaries and planters brought about great changes in Hawaiian political, cultural, economic,
    and religious life. In 1840, a constitutional monarchy was established, stripping the Hawaiian
    monarch of much of his authority.

    In 1893, a group of American expatriates and sugar planters supported by a division of U.S. Marines
    deposed Queen Liliuokalani, the last reigning monarch of Hawaii. One year later, the Republic of
    Hawaii was established as a U.S. protectorate with Hawaiian-born Sanford B. Dole as president.
    Many in Congress opposed the formal annexation of Hawaii, and it was not until 1898,
    following the use of the naval base at Pearl Harbor during the Spanish-American
    War, that Hawaii’s strategic importance became evident and formal annexation
    was approved. Two years later, Hawaii was organized into a formal U.S.
    territory. During World War II, Hawaii became firmly ensconced in
    the American national identity following the surprise Japanese
    attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941.

    In March 1959, the U.S. government approved statehood for Hawaii,
    and in June the Hawaiian people voted by a wide majority to accept
    admittance into the United States. Two months later, Hawaii officially
    became the 50th state.
    ==============
    HAWAII
    by The Beach Boys

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIDHK9-gSS0
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  54. August 20, 1920
    ============
    On this day in 1920, seven men – including legendary all-around athlete and football
    star Jim Thorpe – met to organize a professional football league at the Jordan and
    Hupmobile Auto Showroom in Canton, Ohio. The meeting led to the creation of the
    American Professional Football Conference (APFC), the forerunner to the hugely
    successful National Football League.

    Professional football developed in the 1890s in Pennsylvania, as local athletic clubs engaged
    in increasingly intense competition. Former Yale football star William “Pudge” Heffelfinger
    became the first-ever professional football player when he was hired by the Allegheny
    Athletic Association to play in a game against their rival the Pittsburgh Athletic Club in
    November 1892. By 1896, the Allegheny Athletic Association was made up entirely of paid
    players, making it the sport’s first-ever professional team. As football became more and
    more popular, local semi-pro and pro teams were organized across the country.

    Professional football first proved itself a viable spectator sport in the 1910s with the establishment
    of The Ohio League. Canton, the premiere team in the league, featured legendary decathlete
    and football star Jim Thorpe. From his play with the Carlisle School to his gold medal in
    the decathlon in Stockholm in 1912 and his time in the outfield with John McGraw’s
    New York Giants, Thorpe was an international star who brought legitimacy to
    professional football. The crowds that Thorpe and the Canton team drew
    created a market for professional football in Ohio and beyond. Still,
    the league was struggling due to escalating player salaries, a
    reliance on college players who then had to forfeit their
    college eligibility and a general lack of organization.

    On August 20, 1920, the owners of four Ohio League teams – the Akron Pros, Canton Bulldogs,
    Cleveland Indians and Dayton Triangles – met to form a new professional league. Jim Thorpe
    was nominated as president of the new league, as it was hoped Thorpe’s fame would help
    the league to be taken seriously. On September 17, the league met again, changing its
    short-lived name to the American Professional Football Association (APFA) and
    officially electing Jim Thorpe as the league’s first president.

    The APFA began play on September 26, with the Rock Island Independents
    of Illinois defeating a team from outside the league, the St. Paul Ideals, 48-0.
    A week later, Dayton beat Columbus 14-0 in the first game between two
    teams from the APFA, the forerunner of the modern NFL
    =============

  55. August 19, 1964
    ============
    The Beatles took America by storm during their famous first visit, wowing the millions who
    watched them during their historic television appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show in
    February 1964. But after the first great rush of stateside Beatlemania, the Beatles
    promptly returned to Europe, leaving their American fans to make do with
    mere records. By late summer of that same year, however, having put
    on an unprecedented and still unmatched display of pop-chart
    dominance during their absence, the Beatles finally returned. On August 19, 1964,
    more than six months after taking the East Coast by storm, the Fab Four traveled to
    California to take the stage at the Cow Palace in San Francisco for opening night of their
    first-ever concert tour of North America.

    Although in retrospect it would seem a laughable underestimation of their drawing power in
    America, Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein chose venues like the 17,000-seat Cow Palace for the
    1964 tour expressly because he feared that the Beatles might not sell out large sports stadiums
    like San Francisco’s Candlestick Park, where they would play their final official concert in 1966.
    Suffice it to say that the Beatles had no difficultly filling the Cow Palace, which was packed with
    17,130 screaming fans when the group bounded to the stage shortly after 9:00 p.m. on this day
    in 1964 and launched into “Twist And Shout.”

    The Beatles’ set that night and throughout the tour that followed featured only 12 songs, most often in this order: ”Twist and Shout” — “You Can’t Do That” — “All My Loving” — ”She Loves You” —
    “Things We Said Today” — “Roll Over Beethoven” — “Can’t Buy Me Love” –“If I Fell” —
    “I Want to Hold Your Hand” — “Boys” — “A Hard Day’s Night” –“Long Tall Sally”.

    At other stops on the tour, the Beatles’ performances would last approximately 33 minutes, but
    the show that night in San Francisco lasted some five minutes longer—not because of any
    difference in the Beatles’ performance, but because of police intervention to stem the
    growing pandemonium. Within the first few seconds of the first song that night, at
    least one radio journalist traveling with the Beatles had been trampled to the
    ground along with a young female fan who broke a leg in the melee. And
    thanks to an offhand comment by George Harrison about the group’s
    favorite candy in the days leading up to the show, the Beatles
    themselves were pelted with flying jelly beans throughout that night’s set.
    Though John, Paul, George and Ringo were uninjured, they left the Cow Palace
    that night by ambulance after their limousine was swarmed by berserk fans. It was a
    scene that would become familiar to them as they continued on their first historic tour
    of America in the months ahead.
    ==============

  56. August 18, 1940
    ============
    Walter Percy Chrysler, the founder of the American automotive corporation that bears
    his name, died on this day in 1940 at his estate in Great Neck, New York, after suffering
    a cerebral hemorrhage. He was 65 years old.

    Born in 1875 in Kansas, Chrysler was the son of a locomotive engineer. He began working himself
    when he was 17, earning seven cents an hour as an apprentice in a railroad machine shop. He
    worked his way up quickly, becoming a plant manager for the American Locomotive
    Company by the time he was 33 years old. In the early years of the automobile,
    Chrysler became fascinated: At a 1905 automobile show in Chicago, he
    borrowed $5,000 to purchase his own car, taking it apart and
    putting it back together again before taking a single ride.
    In 1911, Chrysler accepted a job as a manager at the
    Buick Motor Company at half his former salary.
    Within five years, he rose to become the company’s president,
    and to make Buick into the strongest unit of William C. Durant’s General Motors (GM).

    Durant and Chrysler clashed over policy, however, and Chrysler left GM in 1920 to work with
    the Willys-Overland Company and with Maxwell Motors Company. A car designed by Chrysler
    and featuring a high-compression engine sold $50 million worth in its first year replaced the
    existing Maxwell car. In 1925, he emerged as president of the Chrysler Corporation, consisting
    of the former Maxwell and Chalmers car companies. After acquiring Dodge in 1928 and
    introducing the Plymouth that same year, the Chrysler Corporation would go on to become
    one of the Big Three of American automakers, alongside Ford and GM.

    Aside from automobiles, Chrysler was chiefly known for financing the 77-story Art Deco
    skyscraper in midtown Manhattan (at the corner of Lexington Avenue and 42nd Street)
    that bears his name. To complete the distinctive ornamentation around the spire of the
    building, its architects used elements from Chrysler’s automobiles, including radiator
    caps, hubcaps and stainless steel that evoked the chrome shine on a car. When it was
    completed in 1930, the Chrysler building was the tallest building in the world and the
    first man-made structure to top 1,000 feet. Surpassed by the Empire State Building a
    year later, the building remains one of New York City’s most distinctive skyscrapers.
    ===============

  57. One of my FNE’s is to find a permanent cure for those who are giving up hope that today’s incurable diseases will ever be curable in there lifetime. So is there hope? This news from USA today, leaves one with some encouragement but at the same time contains a lot of the double talk and illusionary contradictions that comes from Washington these days.. This comes from newly appointed FDA chief Scott Gottlieb who claimed to have targeted Big Pharma by calling them out for ” gaming the system and gaming the rules” in order to keep the prices high and eliminate competition from a patient safety program that allows them to keep generic drug companies out of the market. At present these generic companies are forced to provide up to 5000 doses to do the studies needed to prove their products are truly equivalent . Also, the current review time for generic products is 4 (FOUR) years!. He did state that he would like to see that time limit cut to 10 months. One drug was used as an example. In 2011 , a drug called Revlimid went from an out of pocket cost of $42 a month to $250 a month, and last year had risen to $11,500 a year. (That’s $959 if you don’t want to do the math) So, is it all rhetoric and a way to calm the masses or is he REALLY trying to accomplish this.? The under lying statement may sum it up as best it can. He’s trying to do what he can in shaming them and push every level he can, but he will probably need congressional action to deal with it once and for all. Did any one see a big rush by our nations politicians to cash in their stock while trying to hide their so called political donations? Me either. Remember it’s going to take a lot more love to reach our ultimate goal.

  58. The weekend is here again. After another disgusting week of being brain washed with lies, delusion , chaos and hatred by the news and social media, it was hard to find anything positive to report about, so when all else fails, I turn to humor no matter where it comes from. Something I am noticing is that even the A/C people are getting more creative in there posts and criticisms. I almost missed this article here, and had to read it twice to get the full impact. From “Your 2 Cents worth” , in the local paper comes this statement……If anyone is wondering why the leaders from the South Dakota delegation has not spoke out about Trump’s pathetic reaction to the tragedy that occurred in Charlottesville it is because all three are at the Mayo clinic waiting to receive new spines.” (This is in reference to U. S. Senators Thune and Rounds and congress woman Kristi Noem) OK, I don’t care if your political or not , that’s funny right there!

  59. Hey Pete: I think one of the common threads between my story and your post regarding Paper Lace’s “The night Chicago died” is that in this A/C world we live in today, it doesn’t matter if any research has ever been done, because the followers will believe any thing you say if you the teller can exhibit just a little bit of imagination. It also proves what you and I know that anyone including politicians and religious leaders can profit from ill gotten and unearned gains by painting the right illusion with a good story whether it be fact, fiction or anything in between. Were going to get to 14000 posts this month even after we were so rudely pushed under the bus. No, I will not apologize for that remark. Wish I could make the Summit. Stay in touch.

  60. Hey Wayne –
    It’s Thursday afternoon – 8/17/17.
    I liked your post about tourist traps. Here in America there are some, like Gatlinburg, TN,
    Niagara Falls, and of course Wall Drug Store – not to mention ROUTE 66 – which had it’s
    share of legitimate, as well as dubious businesses. !!! pez

  62. August 17, 1915
    ===========
    Charles F. Kettering, co-founder of Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company (DELCO)
    in Dayton, Ohio, was issued U.S. Patent No. 1,150,523 for his “engine-starting device” – the
    first electric ignition device for automobiles – on August 17, 1915.

    In the early years of the automobile, drivers used iron hand cranks to start the internal combustion
    process that powered the engines on their cars. In addition to requiring great hand and arm
    strength, this system was not without certain risks: If the driver forgot to turn his
    ignition off before turning the crank, the car could backfire or roll forward,
    as at the time most vehicles had no brakes. Clearly a better system was
    needed, and in 1911 Cadillac head Henry M. Leland gave Charles
    Kettering the task of developing one.

    Before founding DELCO with his partner Edward Deeds in 1909, Kettering had worked at the
    National Cash Register Company, where he helped develop the first electric cash register.
    He drew on this experience when approaching his work with automobiles. Just as the
    touch of a button had started a motor that opened the drawer of the cash register,
    Kettering would eventually use a key to turn on his self-starting motor. The
    self-starter was introduced in the 1912 Cadillac, patented by Kettering
    in 1915, and by the 1920s would come standard on nearly every new
    automobile. By making cars easier and safer to operate, especially
    for women, the self-starting engine caused a huge jump in
    sales, and helped foster a fast-growing automobile
    culture in America.

    United Motors Corporation (later General Motors) bought DELCO in 1916, and Kettering
    worked as vice president and director of research at GM from 1920 to 1947. Other
    important auto-related innovations developed during Kettering’s tenure were
    quick-drying automotive paint, spark plugs, leaded gasoline, shock absorbers,
    the automatic transmission, four-wheel brakes, the diesel engine and safety glass.
    He helped develop the refrigerant Freon, used in refrigerators and air conditioners,
    and the Kettering home in Dayton was the first in the country to be air-conditioned. In
    the realm of medicine, Kettering created a treatment for venereal disease and an incubator
    for premature infants, and in 1945 he and longtime General Motors head Alfred P. Sloan established
    the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research in New York City. Kettering died in 1958.
    ====================

  63. August 17, 1974
    ============
    In America, it is a fairly well-known historical fact that the legendary mob boss Al Capone
    was brought to justice not by uniformed officers of the Chicago Police Department, but
    by the punctilious accountants of the FBI. However, in England there were at least a
    few young men that didn’t have all the facts straight, and in the 1970s their pop
    group from Nottingham turned their romantic misunderstanding of American
    history into a historically dubious yet gloriously catchy hit record. Though
    it was never intended for the American market, Paper Lace’s “The Night
    Chicago Died” crossed the Atlantic and became a #1 hit on the U.S.
    pop charts on this day in 1974.

    “The Night Chicago Died” was a story-song chronicling a deadly 1930s gun battle between
    Chicago cops and Al Capone’s foot soldiers on the “East Side of Chicago” — a battle that
    never happened on a side of Chicago which, if it existed, would lie beneath the surface of
    Lake Michigan. But if “The Night Chicago Died” failed to go through a rigorous fact-check
    process prior to its release, it was certainly understandable. Just weeks before their sole
    international hit topped the Billboard pop chart, Paper Lace had watched another potential
    hit stolen from them by an American group called Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods.

    The song that should have made Paper Lace a two-hit wonder in the United States was
    “Billy Don’t Be A Hero,” a Civil War epic pop song written by Paper Lace’s Mitch Murray
    and Peter Callandar. Though it was a #1 hit for Paper Lace in the UK in March 1974,
    before their version of “Billy Don’t Be A Hero” could be released in the United States,
    the song was snatched up and re-recorded by Bo Donaldson and they Heywoods, who
    turned it into their one and only smash hit in June of that year.

    Paper Lace took no chances with “The Night Chicago Died,” which was released in the United
    States before any competing cover version. Songwriter Mitch Murray later acknowledged,
    however, that Bo Donaldson’s “theft” of what could have been Paper Lace’s #1 hit may have
    helped them eventually to get there. As he later told Billboard magazine, “People took notice
    of us because we were beaten to the post. It made more of a story for DJs to talk about.”
    ====================
    THE NIGHT CHICAGO DIED
    by Paper Lace

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryVh9BuwOs4
    ——————-
    BILLY DON’T BE A HERO
    by Paper Lace

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cdFuMgMkBM
    ——————

  64. Today I decided to try putting a little humor in your day. this post has some religious connotations in it, but we are supposed to be Neo-Thinkers, right? We will call this article “Fraud @ it’s best. The first known tourist trap.” I reside in the beautiful Black Hills of S. Dakota. To live in an area like this is indeed a privilege and a pleasure, We have clear lakes, protruding cliffs and gushing waterfalls cool refreshing streams full of some of the best fishing on earth. AND “yeah, you guessed it, Tourist traps. Even Deadwood with all it’s interesting history is basically a gambling town with lots of casinos, restaurants and bars, hotels and entertainment centers that draw the “city folk” to the area. But then there is Mt. Rushmore, Crazy Horse, Bear Country, Reptile Gardens, and the list goes on. This leads me to a story that would Mark Hamilton proud and enforces the “Forces of Nature”. Will try to keep the story easy to follow, so we begin. On the Isle of Avalon in the year 1191, the Monks of Glastonbury made use of an Arthurian tradition in a manner that would truly impress today’s marketing specialists. It seems their actions were out right fraud. They saved their Abbey from extinction , but gave birth to a whole Glastonbury tradition. The abbey had been badly damaged by a fire in 1184, and King Henry II began reconstruction , but he died in 1189, and his Richard I came to the throne but was more concerned about using the treasury resources to the crusade, so he cut off there funding , so the monks simply dug a hole between a couple of Saxon monuments, and BEHOLD! accidently found the remains of King Author and Guinevere ! along with a cross that positively identified the bodies and coffins. They soon discovered that people were willing to pay good money to view these coffins, so once again they again accidently found the bones of St. Patrick and St. Gildas , And Archbishop Dunstar. So by the time Henry the VIII’s dissolution of the monastery , they boasted of dozens of relics , including a thread from Mary’s gown, a sliver from Aaron’s cane , and even a stone that Jesus himself had refused to turn into bread! So this is possibly the first known Tourist trap. When the monastery was closed , all those impressive items simply disappeared never to be seen again. Therefore the first tourist trap. Thanks for reading. Share the love,

  65. August 16, 1958
    ============
    On this day in 1958, Madonna Louise Ciccone – the entertainment icon later known around
    the world by her first name only – was born near Detroit, Michigan. After rising to stardom
    as a pop singer and dancer in the 1980s, Madonna added acting to her resume, with roles in
    such films as Desperately Seeking Susan, Dick Tracy, A League of Their Own and Evita. The
    provocative performer, who often tackled sexual and religious themes in her work, also
    became famous for her ever-changing hairstyles and fashion sense as well as her personal
    life, which remains an ongoing source of fascination to the tabloid media.

    Madonna was raised in a Catholic family in the suburbs of Detroit. After dropping out of the
    University of Michigan in 1978, the future “Material Girl” moved to New York City to become
    a dancer. She burst onto the music scene in 1982 with her dance single “Everybody,” which
    was followed by her self-titled debut album in 1983. She performed the title track of her
    second album, Like a Virgin, at the first MTV Video Music Awards in 1984, wearing her
    trademark “Boy Toy” belt. Like a Virgin, Madonna’s first album to reach the No. 1
    spot on the music charts, was followed by True Blue (1986) and Like a Prayer (1989),
    both of which also reached the top of the charts and helped establish her
    as one of the best-selling artists of the 1980s. Other albums have
    included Bedtime Stories (1994), Ray of Light (1998), Music (2000),
    American Life (2003), Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005) and Hard Candy (2008).
    In March 2008, the chameleonic hitmaker was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

    Madonna made her acting debut in Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), which was followed by
    Shanghai Surprise (1986), co-starring her first husband, Sean Penn, and Who’s That Girl (1987).
    In Dick Tracy (1990), Madonna acted opposite Warren Beatty, with whom she became
    romantically involved during filming. In 1991, she starred in Madonna: Truth or
    Dare?, a behind-the-scenes documentary about her “Blonde Ambition” tour.
    In 1992, Madonna caused a scandal with her Erotica album as well as a controversial,
    adult-themed book of photos titled Sex. Also that year, she appeared on the big-screen
    in A League of Their Own, a well-received movie about an all-female baseball league, co-starring
    Tom Hanks, Geena Davis and Rosie O’Donnell.

    In 1996, Madonna took on her most ambitious role yet, playing Eva Peron, the celebrated former
    first lady of Argentina, in the film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Evita. She
    received a Golden Globe for Best Actress for the performance. In 2000, Madonna
    appeared in the critically derided The Next Best Thing, playing a woman who
    has a child with her gay best friend (Rupert Everett). In 2002, she starred
    in another bomb, Swept Away, directed by her second husband, Guy
    Ritchie (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch).

    In addition to her acting credits, Madonna’s music has been
    included on numerous movie soundtracks, including Die
    Another Day (2002) and Get Smart (2008). She made her
    directorial debut in 2008 with a film titled Filth and Wisdom.
    =================

  66. Auguet 16, 1987
    ============
    A plane crash at Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Michigan killed 156 people on this day in 1987.
    A four-year-old girl was the sole survivor of the accident, which was caused by pilot error.

    Northwest Flight 255 was headed to California with a stopover in Phoenix when it pulled away
    from the gate in Detroit. While the DC-9 Super 82 taxied out to the runway, the pilot and
    co-pilot failed to conduct their pre-flight checks according to procedure and, as a
    result, the takeoff-warning system was never turned on. Later, there was
    speculation that the pilots may have been rushing the checks to
    avoid incoming bad weather.

    A lack of communication between the pilot and co-pilot turned into a deadly mistake when
    neither extended the wing flaps prior to takeoff. The extended flaps work as a lifting surface
    on the leading edge of the wings. As the plane rushed down the 6,800-foot runway, it lifted
    only 40 feet off the ground when it should already have been 600 feet in the air. At the end
    of the runway, the plane hit lampposts and a rental-car office. The plane then crashed onto
    a road a half of a mile away. On the I-94 Bridge in Romulus, the plane hit a car and killed
    both people in the vehicle.

    The fiery crash that ensued killed 154 other people, including Nick Vanos, a center for the
    NBA’s Phoenix Suns. Remarkably, one person survived the accident, four-year-old
    Cecelia Cichan of Tempe, Arizona.
    =================

  67. August 16, 1977
    ============
    Popular music icon Elvis Presley died in Memphis, Tennessee. He was 42. The death
    of the “King of Rock and Roll” brought legions of mourning fans to Graceland, his
    mansion in Memphis. Doctors said he died of a heart attack, likely brought on by
    his addiction to prescription barbiturates.

    Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, on January 8, 1935. His twin brother, Jesse, died during
    the birth. Elvis grew up dirt-poor in Tupelo and Memphis and found work as a truck driver after
    high school. When he was 19, he walked into a Memphis recording studio and paid $4 to record a few
    songs as a present to his mother. Sam Philips, the owner of the studio, was intrigued by the rough,
    soulful quality of his voice and invited Presley back to practice with some local musicians. After
    Philips heard Elvis sing the rhythm-and-blues song “That’s All Right,” which Presley imbued with an
    accessible country-and-western flavor, he agreed to release the rendition as a single on his Sun
    Records label. The recording went to the top of the local charts, and Presley’s career was launched.

    During the next year, Elvis attracted a growing following in the South, and in 1955 Sun Records sold
    his contract to a major record label, the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), for a record $40,000.
    His first record for RCA was “Heartbreak Hotel,” which made him a national sensation in early 1956.
    He followed this up with the double-sided hit record “Hound Dog”/”Don’t Be Cruel.” In September
    1956, Elvis appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, a national variety television show, and teenagers
    went into hysterics over his dynamic stage presence, good looks, and simple but catchy
    songs. Many parents, however, were appalled by his sexually suggestive pelvic
    gyrations, and by his third appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, Elvis
    was filmed from only the waist up.

    From 1956 through 1958, Elvis dominated the music charts and ushered in the age of rock and roll,
    opening doors for both white and black rock artists. During this period, he starred in four successful
    motion pictures, all of which featured his soundtracks: Love Me Tender (1956), Jailhouse Rock (1957),
    Loving You (1957), and King Creole (1958).

    In 1958, Presley was drafted into the U.S. Army and served an 18-month tour of duty in West Germany
    as a Jeep driver. Teenage girls were overcome with grief, but Elvis’ manager, Colonel Tom Parker, kept
    American youth satiated with stockpiled recordings that Presley made before his departure. All five
    singles released during this period eventually became million-sellers.

    After being discharged as a sergeant in 1960, Elvis underwent a style change, eschewing edgy, rhythm-
    and-blues-inspired material in favor of romantic, dramatic ballads such as “Are You Lonesome
    Tonight?” He retired from concerts to concentrate on his musical films, and he made 27 in
    the 1960s, including G.I. Blues (1960), Blue Hawaii (1961), Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962), Viva
    Las Vegas (1964), and Frankie and Johnny (1966). In 1967, he married Priscilla
    Beaulieu, and the couple had a daughter, Lisa Marie, in 1968.

    By the end of the 1960s, rock and roll had undergone dramatic changes, and Elvis was no longer
    seen as relevant by American youth. A 1968 television special won back many of his fans, but
    hits were harder to come by. His final Top 10 entry, “Burning Love,” was in 1972. Still, he
    maintained his sizable fortune through lucrative concert and television appearances.

    By the mid 1970s, Elvis was in declining physical and mental health. He divorced his wife in 1973
    and developed a dangerous dependence on prescription drugs. He was also addicted to junk
    food and gained considerable weight. In the last two years of his life, he made erratic stage
    appearances and lived nearly as a recluse. On the afternoon of August 16, 1977, he was
    found unconscious in his Graceland mansion and rushed to the hospital, where he
    was pronounced dead. He was buried on the grounds of Graceland, which
    continues to attract fans and has been turned into a highly successful tourist attraction.
    ===================
    IN THE GHETTO
    by Elvis Presley

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ox1Tore9nw
    ——————-

  68. August 15, 1969
    ============
    On this day in 1969, the Woodstock Music Festival opened on a patch of farmland in
    White Lake, a hamlet in the upstate New York town of Bethel.

    Promoters John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfield and Michael Lang originally envisioned
    the festival as a way to raise funds to build a recording studio and rock-and-roll retreat near
    the town of Woodstock, New York. The longtime artists’ colony was already a home base
    for Bob Dylan and other musicians. Despite their relative inexperience, the young
    promoters managed to sign a roster of top acts, including the Jefferson Airplane,
    the Who, the Grateful Dead, Sly and the Family Stone, Janis Joplin, Jimi
    Hendrix, Creedence Clearwater Revival and many more. Plans for the
    festival were on the verge of foundering, however, after both
    Woodstock and the nearby town of Wallkill denied permission to hold the
    event. Dairy farmer Max Yasgur came to the rescue at the last minute, giving the
    promoters access to his 600 acres of land in Bethel, some 50 miles from Woodstock.

    Early estimates of attendance increased from 50,000 to around 200,000, but by the time
    the gates opened on Friday, August 15, more than 400,000 people were clamoring to get
    in. Those without tickets simply walked through gaps in the fences, and the organizers
    were eventually forced to make the event free of charge. Folk singer and guitarist Richie
    Havens kicked off the event with a long set, and Joan Baez and Arlo Guthrie also
    performed on Friday night.

    Somewhat improbably, the chaotic gathering of half a million young “hippies” lived up to its
    billing of “Three Days of Peace and Music.” There were surprisingly few incidents of
    violence on the overcrowded grounds, and a number of musicians performed
    songs expressing their opposition to the Vietnam War. Among the many
    great moments at the Woodstock Music Festival were career-making
    performances by up-and-coming acts like Santana, Joe Cocker
    and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; the Who’s early-morning set featuring
    songs from their classic rock opera “Tommy”; and the closing set by Hendrix,
    which climaxed with an improvised solo guitar performance of “The Star Spangled Banner.”

    Though Woodstock had left its promoters nearly bankrupt, their ownership of the film and
    recording rights more than compensated for the losses after the release of a hit documentary
    film in 1970. Later music festivals inspired by Woodstock’s success failed to live up to its
    standard, and the festival still stands for many as a example of America’s 1960s youth
    counterculture at its best.
    =================
    WOODSTOCK
    by Crosby, Stills, and Nash

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKdsRWhyH30
    ——————

  69. August 14, 2003
    =============
    On this day in 2003, a major outage knocked out power across the eastern United States and parts of Canada. Beginning at 4:10 p.m. ET, 21 power plants shut down in just three minutes. Fifty million people were affected, including residents of New York, Cleveland and Detroit, as well as Toronto and Ottawa, Canada. Although power companies were able to resume some service in as little as two hours, power remained off in other places for more than a day. The outage stopped trains and elevators, and disrupted everything from cellular telephone service to operations at hospitals to traffic at airports. In New York City, it took more than two hours for passengers to be evacuated from stalled subway trains. Small business owners were affected when they lost expensive refrigerated stock. The loss of use of electric water pumps interrupted water service in many areas. There were even some reports of people being stranded mid-ride on amusement park roller coasters. At the New York Stock Exchange and bond market, though, trading was able to continue thanks to backup generators.

    Authorities soon calmed the fears of jittery Americans that terrorists may have been responsible for the blackout, but they were initially unable to determine the cause of the massive outage. American and Canadian representatives pointed figures at each other, while politicians took the opportunity to point out major flaws in the region’s outdated power grid. Finally, an investigation by a joint U.S.-Canada task force traced the problem back to an Ohio company, FirstEnergy Corporation. When the company’s EastLake plant shut down unexpectedly after overgrown trees came into contact with a power line, it triggered a series of problems that led to a chain reaction of outages. FirstEnergy was criticized for poor line maintenance, and more importantly, for failing to notice and address the problem in a timely manner–before it affected other areas.

    Despite concerns, there were very few reports of looting or other blackout-inspired crime. In New York City, the police department, out in full force, actually recorded about 100 fewer arrests than average. In some places, citizens even took it upon themselves to mitigate the effects of the outage, by assisting elderly neighbors or helping to direct traffic in the absence of working traffic lights.

    In New York City alone, the estimated cost of the blackout was more than $500 million.
    ===============

  70. DETROIT ARE CLUBHOUSE GALA EVENT
    —————————————-
    When?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . September 9, 2017.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9:30 am – 3 pm.
    Where?. . . . . . . . . . . . .Henry Ford Museum.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dearborn, MI.
    What?. . . . . . . . $20 – This include parking
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  71. August 13, 1995
    ============
    Former New York Yankees star Mickey Mantle died of liver cancer at the age of 63.
    While “The Mick” patrolled center field and batted clean-up between 1951 and 1968,
    the Yankees won 12 American League pennants and seven World Series championships.

    Mantle was born in Spavinaw, Oklahoma, on October 20, 1931. He grew up in nearby Commerce,
    and played baseball and football as a youth. With the help of his father, Mutt, and grandfather,
    Charlie, Mantle developed into a switch-hitter. Mutt pitched to Mantle right-handed and
    Charlie pitched to him left-handed every day after school. With the family’s tin barn
    as a backstop, Mantle perfected his swing, which his father helped model so it
    would be identical from either side of the plate. Mantle had natural speed
    and athleticism and gained strength working summers with his father
    in Oklahoma’s lead mines. “The Commerce Comet” eventually won
    a scholarship to play football for the University of Oklahoma.
    However, baseball was Mantle’s first love, so when the
    New York Yankees came calling, Mantle moved to the big city.

    Mantle made his debut for the Yankees in 1951 at age 19, playing right field alongside aging
    center fielder Joe DiMaggio. That year, in Game 2 of the World Series, Willie Mays of the
    New York Giants hit a pop fly to short center, and Mantle sprinted toward the ball.
    DiMaggio called him off, and while slowing down, Mantle’s right shoe caught
    the rubber cover of a sprinkler head. “There was a sound like a tire blowing
    out, and my right knee collapsed,” Mantle remembered in his memoir,
    All My Octobers. Mantle returned the next season, but by then his
    blazing speed had begun to deteriorate, and he ran the bases
    with a limp for the rest of his career.

    Still, Mantle dominated the American League for more than a decade. In 1956, he won the
    Triple Crown, leading his league in batting average, home runs and runs batted in. His
    output was so great that he led both leagues in 1956, hitting .353 with 52 home runs and
    130 runs batted in. He was also voted American League MVP that year, and again in 1957
    and 1962. After years of brilliance, Mantle’s career began to decline by 1967, and he was
    forced to move to first base. The next season would be his last. Mantle was elected to the
    Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974 in his first year of eligibility.

    Mantle’s father and son both died in their 30s, the result of Hodgkin’s disease. Mantle was sure the
    same fate would befall him, and joked he would have taken better care of himself if he knew he
    would live. In 1994, after years of alcoholism, Mantle was diagnosed with liver cancer, and
    urged his fans to take care of their health, saying “Don’t be like me.” Although he
    received a liver transplant, by then the cancer had spread to his lungs, and he
    died at just after 2 a.m. on August 13, 1995, at the Baylor University Cancer
    Center in Dallas.

    At the time of his death Mantle held many of the records for World Series
    play, including most home runs (18), most RBIs (40) and most runs (42).
    ====================

  72. August 12, 1988
    ============
    On this day in 1988, director Francis Ford Coppola’s critically acclaimed biopic
    “Tucker: The Man & His Dream” premiered in U.S. theaters, starring Jeff Bridges
    as the brash Chicago businessman-turned-car-designer Preston Tucker who
    shook up 1940s-era Detroit with his streamlined, affordable “Car of Tomorrow.”

    Remembered by some as a visionary and others as a flamboyant but failed opportunist,
    Preston Tucker (born in 1903) was inspired to build cars by his friendship and
    pre-World War II business partnership with the race car driver and auto
    designer Harry Miller. In the renewed prosperity following the war,
    Tucker believed that Americans were ready to take a chance on
    a new kind of car, and that he, as an independent entrepreneur, was in
    the position to take risks that the big, established car companies were unwilling
    to take. He hired a skilled team including designer Alexander S. Tremulis and chief
    mechanic John Eddie Offuttas and leased an old Dodge aircraft engine plant in Chicago
    with plans to design and produce his dream cars.

    Based on clay mock-ups built to scale, the Tucker team produced a metal prototype, dubbed the
    “Tin Goose,” in June 1947. The following spring, the teardrop-shaped, 150-horsepower rear-engined Tucker “Torpedo” began rolling off the line, accompanied by the memorable advertising slogan
    “Don’t Let a Tucker Pass You By.” Among the Torpedo’s innovations were a padded dashboard,
    a pop-out windshield and an innovative center-mounted headlight.

    Despite rave reviews in the automotive press, Tucker’s company fell under harsh scrutiny from
    the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), who investigated the automaker for mail fraud
    and other charges. The investigation caused a flood of negative publicity for the company, while
    Tucker struggled to keep producing cars with a fraction of his staff. His efforts were in vain; in
    March 1949 the company fell into receivership and its assets were seized.

    Tucker was ultimately acquitted of all charges, but his dream car would never rise again; only 51
    were produced after that initial prototype. Forty-seven of those still exist, and a number of them
    were used in the making of Coppola’s movie, which revived interest in the Tucker ’48 and the
    story of the man behind it. At the time of his death in 1956, Preston Tucker was working on plans
    for a sports car, the Carioca, to be produced in Brazil.
    =================

  73. August 12, 1990
    ============
    On this day in 1990, fossil hunter Susan Hendrickson discovered three huge bones jutting
    out of a cliff near Faith, South Dakota. They turn out to be part of the largest-ever
    Tyrannosaurus Ret skeleton ever discovered, a 65 million-year-old specimen
    dubbed Sue, after its discoverer.

    Amazingly, Sue’s skeleton was over 90 percent complete, and the bones were extremely
    well-preserved. Hendrickson’s employer, the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research,
    paid $5,000 to the land owner, Maurice Williams, for the right to excavate the dinosaur
    skeleton, which was cleaned and transported to the company headquarters in Hill City.
    The institute’s president, Peter Larson, announced plans to build a non-profit museum
    to display Sue along with other fossils of the Cretaceous period.

    In 1992, a long legal battle began over Sue. The U.S. Attorney’s Office claimed Sue’s bones had
    been seized from federal land and were therefore government property. It was eventually found
    that Williams, a part-Native American and member of the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe, had traded
    his land to the tribe two decades earlier to avoid paying property taxes, and thus his sale of
    excavation rights to Black Hills had been invalid. In October 1997, Chicago’s Field Museum
    purchased Sue at public auction at Sotheby’s in New York City for $8.36 million, financed
    in part by the McDonald’s and Disney corporations.

    Sue’s skeleton went on display at the Field Museum in May 2000. The tremendous
    T-Rex skeleton – 13 feet high at the hips and 42 feet long from head to toe–is displayed
    in one of the museum’s main halls. Another exhibit gives viewers a close-up view of Sue’s
    five foot-long, 2,000-pound skull with its 58 teeth, some as long as a human forearm.

    Sue’s extraordinarily well-preserved bones have allowed scientists to determine many things
    about the life of T-Rex. They have determined that the carnivorous dinosaur had an incredible
    sense of smell, as the olfactory bulbs were each bigger than the cerebrum, the thinking part
    of the brain. In addition, Sue was the first T-Rex skeleton to be discovered with a
    wishbone, a crucial discovery that provided support for scientists’ theory that
    birds are a type of living dinosaur. One thing that remains unknown is
    Sue’s actual gender. In order to determine this, scientists would
    have to compare many more T-Rex skeletons than the 22 that
    have been found so far.
    ==============

  74. August 12, 1973
    ============
    On August 12, 1973, American golfer Jack Nicklaus won the Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA)
    championship for his 14th major title, surpassing Bobby Jones’ record of 13 major championships.
    Nicklaus shot a seven-under-par 277 at Canterbury Golf Club in Beachwood, Ohio, to win $45,000
    and his third PGA National championship. The “Golden Bear” went on to win a total of 20 major
    tournaments, a record that still stands today. (Although it aptly describes his golden-colored hair
    and large build, Nicklaus’ famous moniker is actually derived from his high school alma mater, the
    Upper Arlington Golden Bears.)

    Regarded as the greatest golfer of the 20th century, Nicklaus was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1940.
    He began playing golf at the age of 10 and at the age of 16 won his first significant tournament,
    the Ohio Open. In 1959, he won the U.S. Amateur championship, which at the time was still
    considered one of golf’s major tournaments. Two years later, he repeated the feat and
    announced he was turning professional. His first major professional title was the
    1962 U.S. Open at the Oakmont Country Club in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
    He was derided by spectators for beating fan-favorite Arnold Palmer,
    and a rivalry was born between the two American golfers
    that lasted through the 1960s.

    Nicklaus was a major force in professional golf from 1962 through 1986. He won six Masters
    tournaments, five PGA championships, four U.S. Open titles, and three British Open titles.
    He was a member of the winning U.S. World Cup team six times and was a record three-time
    individual World Cup winner. Nicklaus demonstrated remarkable composure under
    competitive pressure. On August 12, 1973, he surpassed the record of most major
    championships set by American golfer Bobby Jones in 1930. Nicklaus’ last
    major title was in 1986 when, at age 46, he became the oldest Masters
    winner in history. By that time, he had played in 100 major
    championships, finishing in the top three nearly 50 times.

    A member of the World Golf Hall of Fame since 1974, the PGA named him Golfer of the Century
    in 1988. He joined the Senior tour in 1990, winning the U.S. Senior Open in 1991 and 1993.
    Throughout his career, Nicklaus also designed many noted golf courses, including
    Muirfield Village Golf Course in Ohio, site of the Nicklaus-sponsored Memorial
    Tournament. In 1993, 10 of the courses he designed were included by Golf
    Digest on its list of the 100 best golf courses in America.

    Until the late 1990s, it seemed unlikely that any golfer would ever break Nicklaus’ record
    of 20 major championships (or 18 major professional titles if his two U.S. Amateur victories
    are not taken into account). However, Tiger Woods, who won his first major championship
    in 1997 at the age of 21, seems on track to surpass the record.

    In 2005, Nicklaus announced he was retiring from
    professional tournament play after that year’s British Open.
    =================

  75. On Sunday night’s Powers call many came forward and changed the topic of the evening to a much more personal subject which was racism . Today’s Washington Post published an article by a William Wan and Sarah Kaplan about why are people still racist? , and what Science says about America’s race problem. (Speaking of Science) This is a rather lengthy post for our Wiki page, but am going to forward it. “Torch- bearing white supremacists shouting racist and anti-Semitic slogans. Protesters and counter protesters colliding with violence and chaos. A car driven by a known Nazi sympathizer mowing down a crowd of activists. Many Americans responded to this weekend’s violence in Charlottesville with disbelieving horror. How could this happen in America in 2017? ” This is not who we are <" said Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine. (D).———–And yet, this is who we are.———-Amid our modern clashes , researchers in psychology , sociology and neurology have been studying the roots of racism. We draw on that research and asked two scientists to explain why people feel and act this way toward each other. What causes people to be racist? "In some ways, it's super simple. People learn to be whatever their society and culture teaches them. We often assume that it takes parents actively teaching their kids, for them to be racist, The truth is that unless parents actively teach kids not to be racists, they will be," said Jennifer Richeson, a Yale University social psychologist. "This is not the product of some deep-seated , evil heart that is cultivated. It comes from the environment , the air all around us." Richeson compares children's instinctive formation of biases to a student at a new school. When you arrive at a new school, you are instinctively trying to figure out who's cool, who's not, who's a nerd, who gets beat up? Kids acquire these associations , " she said. To get a sense of just how pervasive and imperceptibly our environment can effect us, one study at Tufts University found that even with a TV show on mute displaying scenes with no explicit discrimination, the non verbal language of black and white actors interacting was enough to cause watchers to test higher for implicit bias afterward. "An us-them mentality is unfortunately a really basic part of our biology," said Eric Knowles, a psychology professor at New York University who studies prejudice and politics. "There's a lot of evidence that people have an ingrained even evolved tendency toward people who are in our so-called "in group". But how we define those groups, and the tendency to draw divisions along racial lines , is social, not biological, he added. "we can draw those lines in a number of ways that society tells us;" he said. So, when does racism drive people to commit violence? "The most likely predictor of that is exposure to a kind of ideology ." Knowles said. Most if not all people carry implicit biases and unexamined prejudices, he said, and some may harbor feelings of fear or resentment that they don't express in public. "But when people come into contact with an organized ideology that valorizes or glorifies an intergroup struggle like a race struggle– that scaffolds from people's everyday prejudices into something altogether more violent," he said. White supremacist groups promote a "siege mentality" among their followers, Knowles said– rhetoric that aims to lend legitimacy to people's racial and ethnic fears. He pointed to the slogans shouted by participants in the Charlottesville rally: "You will not replace us" and White Lives Matter." "I think that one thing that these violent ideologies are communicating to people , and people are receptive to, especially people who are struggling, is that whites are actually the ones being discriminated against in society, Knowles said. Charlottesville was hardly the first time this thinking has led to violence, Dylann Roof, who shot and killed nine people at a historic African Methodist Episcopal church in Charleston, S. C., justified the killing with a hate-filled rant in his journal in which he wrote that he wanted to "take action for my race." Knowles has been studying what he calls "everyday racism " for nearly two decades. He said he hasn't seen significant change in baseline levels of bias among Americans, instead he thinks , more virulent forms of racism are being "unleashed"- Particularly by Trump, He noted the president did not explicitly condemn the hate groups that organized the Charlottesville rally until two days after it was held. "The fetters are coming off," Knowles said, "When you have a president who won't specifically signal out Nazis and white supremacists for opprobrium that communicates something to people with racial resentment…. That's a powerful message that these feelings you have been having, these racial and ethnic fears that are inside of you are okay to express." —Can you teach people not to be racists? "The only way to change bias is to change culture,' Richeson said. "You have to change what is acceptable in society. People today complain about politically correct culture, but what that does is provide a check on people's outward attitude, which in turn influences how we think about ourselves internally. Everything we're exposed to gives us messages about who is good and bad. Knowles agreed that norms can serve as a check on expression of violent racism. But to challenge the deep-seated prejudices that shape our behavior, to unlearn our implicit biases, "we need contact." he said. "It's absolutely the opposite of what white nationalists want, which is a segregated society," "We need an integrated society, and at the same time need to create as much socioeconomic fairness as we can, so what relationships people have across group lines are egalitarian relationships…That's the one thing that can create trust between people on each side of an us-them divide, and the only thing in the long term I would put my money on to reduce prejudices."…….Will racism disappear over time? Aren't older people more racists and younger generations more progressive?….. "It's a myth that our country will somehow become more progressive and egalitarian . But that's usually on issues like climate change or gay marriage, usually not in their level of implicit bias," Richeson said. In fact, Richeson in recent years has been studying how white people react to the fact that America is shifting into a majority minority country(where minorities make up more than 50% of the population) . In those studies , young white subjects responded just as strongly as older white ones with anxiety and uncertainty, expressing more negative explicit and implicit racial bias in tests. After reading about the coming demographic change, for example, white subjects, including college students, were more likely to agree with statements like "I would rather work alongside of same ethnic origin," Richeson said, "Yes, there have been gains in policy like allowing interracial marriage and discrimination laws, but when it comes to our interpersonal biases, it's simply not true that we just need to wait for the few old racist men left in the South to die off and we will be fine. The rhetoric for racism is still in place, The environment for racism is still there , unless we change that, we can't lessen racism. (End of article) Unfortunately, discrimination is still alive and thriving in almost every segment of our daily lives also. I cant think of any individual or group not subjected to one form of discrimination or another. More on that subject later. Thanks for reading. Don't discriminate and share your love with every body.

  76. August 11, 2014
    ===========
    On this day in 2014, actor and comedian Robin Williams – who rose to prominence in
    the late 1970s in the hit TV sitcom “Mork & Mindy” then went on to star in dozens of
    films, including “Dead Poets Society” (1989), “Mrs. Doubtfire” (1993) and “Good Will
    Hunting” (1997), was found dead at his home in Tiburon, California, after committing
    suicide. As a performer, the versatile, inventive Williams was known as both a comic
    genius with a rapid-fire delivery and talent for impressions, as well as an accomplished
    dramatic actor who took on a broad range of roles. After his death, it was announced
    the 63-year-old entertainer had been suffering from severe depression and was in
    the early stages of Parkinson’s disease.

    Born on July 21, 1951, in Chicago, Williams – whose father was an auto executive – spent much
    of his childhood in the Detroit area. As a teen, he moved with his family to Northern California
    and graduated from Redwood High School in 1969. Williams attended Claremont Men’s College
    and the College of Marin before studying acting at the prestigious Julliard School in New York City.
    It was there he became lifelong friends with actor Christopher Reeve (“Superman”). In 1978,
    Williams, who began performing stand-up comedy in the 1970s, made a guest appearance
    on the long-running TV sitcom “Happy Days,” playing an alien called Mork from the
    planet Ork. The character soon got his own spinoff series, “Mork & Mindy,” which
    aired from 1978 to 1982 and skyrocketed Williams to fame as a rainbow
    suspenders-wearing extraterrestrial whose catchphrases
    included “nanu nanu” and “shazbot.”

    On the big screen, Williams made his debut in the 1977 low-budget comedy
    “Can I Do it ‘Til I Need Glasses?” then went on to appear in films such as “The World
    According to Garp” (1982), “Moscow on the Hudson” (1984) and “Good Morning, Vietnam” (1987),
    for which he earned his first Academy Award nomination, in the best actor category, for his
    performance as an Armed Forces Radio disc jockey. Williams also received best actor
    Oscar nods for his role as an influential English teacher in “Dead Poets Society”
    and his role as a delusional homeless man in “The Fisher King” (1991).
    Among the prolific performer’s other credits are “Aladdin” (1992),
    in which he voiced the part of the genie, “Mrs. Doubtfire,” in
    which he portrayed a British nanny and “Good Will
    Hunting,” for which he won an Oscar, in the best supporting actor
    category, for his role as a therapist. Williams followed these projects with films I
    ncluding “One Hour Photo” (2002), “The Night Listener” (2006), the “Happy Feet”
    series (2006-11) and the “Night at the Museum” series (2006-14). The actor made a comeback
    to network TV in 2013 with “The Crazy Ones,” in which he starred as an eccentric ad exec; however,
    the series was cancelled after one season.

    On the big screen, Williams made his debut in the 1977 low-budget comedy
    “Can I Do it ‘Til I Need Glasses?” then went on to appear in films such as “The World
    According to Garp” (1982), “Moscow on the Hudson” (1984) and “Good Morning, Vietnam” (1987),
    for which he earned his first Academy Award nomination, in the best actor category, for
    his performance as an Armed Forces Radio disc jockey. Williams also received
    best actor Oscar nods for his role as an influential English teacher in
    “Dead Poets Society” and his role as a delusional homeless man
    in “The Fisher King” (1991). Among the prolific performer’s
    other credits are “Aladdin” (1992), in which he voiced
    the part of the genie, “Mrs. Doubtfire,” in which he portrayed a British
    nanny and “Good Will Hunting,” for which he won an Oscar, in the best supporting
    actor category, for his role as a therapist. Williams followed these projects with films including
    “One Hour Photo” (2002), “The Night Listener” (2006), the “Happy Feet” series (2006-11) and the “Night at the Museum” series (2006-14). The actor made a comeback to network TV in 2013 with “The Crazy Ones,” in which he starred as an eccentric ad exec; however, the series was cancelled after one season.

    Williams was involved in a number of charitable causes, such as co-hosting telethons,
    along with Billy Crystal and Whoopi Goldberg, for Comic Relief, an organization that
    helps homeless people. The actor also was a regular on USO tours, entertaining
    American troops around the world. In his stand-up routines, Williams spoke openly
    about his experiences with substance abuse and sobriety.

    After Williams committed suicide by hanging on August 11, 2014, tributes poured in from the Hollywood community and beyond. President Barack Obama said of the enterainer: “[He] was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan and everything in-between. But he was one of a kind. He arrived in our lives as an alien—but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit.”

  77. . .The Detroit Area Clubhouse. . . .
    ———————————
    When?. . . . . . . . Saturday August 12, 2017.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 pm to 6 pm.
    Where?. . . . . . . Kerby’s Koney Island.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Livonia, MI.
    What?. . . . . . . . .The Four Pillars.
    Why?. .. . . . . . . . Why not?
    ===========================
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  78. August 10, 1846
    ============
    After a decade of debate about how best to spend a bequest left to
    America from an obscure English scientist, President James K. Polk
    signed the Smithsonian Institution Act into law on this day.

    In 1829, James Smithson died in Italy, leaving behind a will with a peculiar footnote. In the event that his only nephew died without any heirs, Smithson decreed that the whole of his estate would go to “the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an Establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge.” Smithson’s curious bequest to a country that he had never visited aroused significant attention on both sides of the Atlantic.

    Smithson had been a fellow of the venerable Royal Society of London from the age of 22, publishing numerous scientific papers on mineral composition, geology, and chemistry. In 1802, he overturned popular scientific opinion by proving that zinc carbonates were true carbonate minerals, and one type of zinc carbonate was later named smithsonite in his honor.

    Six years after his death, his nephew, Henry James Hungerford, indeed died without children, and on July 1, 1836, the U.S. Congress authorized acceptance of Smithson’s gift. President Andrew Jackson sent diplomat Richard Rush to England to negotiate for transfer of the funds, and two years later Rush set sail for home with 11 boxes containing a total of 104,960 gold sovereigns, 8 shillings, and 7 pence, as well as Smithson’s mineral collection, library, scientific notes, and personal effects. After the gold was melted down, it amounted to a fortune worth well over $500,000. After considering a series of recommendations, including the creation of a national university, a public library, or an astronomical observatory, Congress agreed that the bequest would support the creation of a museum, a library, and a program of research, publication, and collection in the sciences, arts, and history. On August 10, 1846, the act establishing the Smithsonian Institution was signed into law by President James K. Polk.

    Today, the Smithsonian is composed of 19 museums and galleries including the recently announced National Museum of African American History and Culture,nine research facilities throughout the United States and the world, and the national zoo. Besides the original Smithsonian Institution Building, popularly known as the “Castle,” visitors to Washington, D.C., tour the National Museum of Natural History, which houses the natural science collections, the National Zoological Park, and the National Portrait Gallery. The National Museum of American History houses the original Star-Spangled Banner and other artifacts of U.S. history. The National Air and Space Museum has the distinction of being the most visited museum in the world, exhibiting such marvels of aviation and space history as the Wright brothers’ plane and Freedom 7, the space capsule that took the first American into space. John Smithson, the Smithsonian Institution’s great benefactor, is interred in a tomb in the Smithsonian Building.
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  79. August 10, 1981
    ============
    On this day in 1981, Pete Rose of the Philadelphia Phillies got the 3,631st hit of his
    baseball career, breaking Stan Musial’s record for most hits by a National Leaguer.
    The record-breaking hit came in a game against the St. Louis Cardinals, the team
    with whom Musial had spent his entire career, and the former hits king was on
    hand to congratulate Rose.

    August 10 marked Major League Baseball’s return to play from a seven-week player strike.
    The strike had begun on June 12 over the issue of team compensation for free agents.
    Owners wanted a player from the free agent’s new team as compensation, while
    the player’s union felt that such a concession would compromise the value of
    free agency as well as make signing free agents less appealing for teams.
    The players were largely supported by the media and fans, who
    believed that the owners were trying to wrest back the
    iron-fisted control they’d had over players’ contracts and careers
    for the first 106 years of professional baseball. Finally, on July 31, the two sides
    reached a compromise: Any team losing a premium free agent would receive a player
    from a pool of unprotected players throughout the majors.

    When the season was suspended, Pete Rose was in the midst of a 15-game hitting streak,
    leading the National League in hits with 73. When play resumed on August 10, a capacity
    crowd at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia had to wait until the eighth inning to see Rose
    make the record-breaking hit. After he led off the inning with a single between third base
    and shortstop, the crowd rewarded him with a standing ovation, and Musial ran out to
    first base to offer his congratulations. Amazingly, it was only Rose’s 2,886th game; it had
    taken Musial 3,026 games to set the mark.

    A side note: Musial’s 3,630 career hits were notable for the fact that he acquired exactly half
    of them (1,815) of them playing at home and the other half (1,815) on the road. The last two hits
    of his career came in a game against the Reds, and their rookie second baseman Pete Rose, in 1963.
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  80. Hey Wayne —
    It’s Thursday afternoon – 8/10/17 – and The PGA Golf Championship just
    started at Quail Hollow in Charlottesville, NC, but I digress. Interesting
    posts of late regarding quantum physics, politics, and especially
    neutrinos and gold in South Dakota — very interesting. !!! pez
    ———————
    ALL THE GOLD IN CALIFORNIA
    by The Gatlin Brothers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8YdlJMQy-8
    —————-
    SHE’S A BROKEN LADY
    by The Gatlin Brothers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yJOcp32p9g
    —————-

  81. August 10, 1937
    ============
    Versatile, inexpensive, and relatively easy to play – the acoustic guitar was a staple of American rural music in the early 20th century, particularly black rural music such as the blues. But a significant physical limitation made it a poor fit in ensembles made up of brass, woodwind and orchestral string instruments: The acoustic guitar was simply too quiet. What transformed the guitar and its place in popular music, and eventually transformed popular music itself, was the development of a method for transforming the sound of a vibrating guitar string into an electrical signal that could be amplified and re-converted into audible sound at a much greater volume. The electric guitar—the instrument that revolutionized jazz, blues and country music and made the later rise of rock and roll possible—was recognized by the United States Patent Office on this day in 1937 with the award of Patent #2,089.171 to G.D. Beauchamp for an instrument known as the Rickenbacker Frying Pan.

    Inventor G.D. Beauchamp, partner with Adolph Rickenbacher in the Electro String Instrument Corporation of Los Angeles, California, spent more than five years pursuing his patent on the Frying Pan. It was a process delayed by several areas of concern, including the electric guitar’s reliance on an engineering innovation that dated to the 19th century. When a vibrating string is placed within a magnetic field, it is possible to “pick up” the sound waves created by that string’s vibrations and convert those waves into electric current. Replace the word “string” with the word “membrane” in that sentence, however, and you also have a description of how a telephone works. For this reason, Beauchamp’s patent application had to be revised multiple times to clarify which of his individual claims were truly novel and which were merely new applications of existing patents.

    On August 10, 1937, the Patent Office approved the majority of Beachamp’s claims—primarily those relating to the unique design of the Frying Pan’s “pickup,” a heavy electromagnet that surrounded the base of the steel strings like a bracelet rather than sitting below them as on a modern electric guitar. Unfortunately for the Electro String Corporation, Beauchamp’s specific invention had long since been obsolesced by the innovations of various competitors, rendering the patent awarded on this day in 1937 an item of greater historical importance than economic value.
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  82. Part II. The local impact on the community. A lot of this is known and is my view point on what happened in Lead, S. Dakota. A bigger % of hospital and medical facilities in both North and South Dakota, and including Home stake mine, has one man’s name attached to it. Denny Sanford is reportedly the wealthiest individual in the entire state. This is my home turf since 95. My neighbor for many of those years was fortunate enough to have retired as a supervisor from Home Stake. Some of this report is fact and some is purely hear say. To start with, The mine was still producing gold. the initial reason they gave at time of closing was the product (gold) had dipped to an all time low and some one determined the profit margin wasn’t up to standard. That move to close put a whole community of miners and other support employees out of work. They determined that to keep any one from having access , they would flood the shafts to a depth of a mile or more. Deadwood and Lead are sister cities, and Deadwood has been a huge tourist destination for years. It’s history, gambling casinos and recreation bring on mostly seasonal traffic and has been half-way stable, but Lead has been a not so striving community for some years now, so when news came that Home Stake was becoming this big under ground lab, excitement grew @ the prospect of new jobs, new growth, and better wages etc. Well, it never happened! All those good jobs were filled before they got to Lead, just as they mentioned a 1000 scientists . these people are mostly “in transit” preferring to keep there permanent residences back home, as witnessed by all the out of state vehicles in town. Even security forces bring in and rotate the massive security surrounding the place.. This was another major blow to this community and many older people , retired , widows and widowers, who own there homes there are left in a precarious position as the area can’t even support a super market with substantial food. Those who do not drive are forced to use mass transit and travel miles to a store, a lot of my friends who stayed are forced to work 2 or 3 jobs to survive. Many of the casinos and hotels etc. are owned by a host of celebrities and wages are low and many can only supplement there income through tips. I could go on all day, so to sum this up , I just want to say that the person who makes his wealth from establishments like Big Pharma and the insurance industry seems to continue to get wealthier off the same people who he compromised in the first place. Bleeding heart Liberal? Maybe a little, but at least I still have some compassion and love for my fellow man. I am always open for debate. (All that’s gold does not glitter?) Thanks for sharing my thoughts today.

  83. Hi to what few readers we have on this page now days. This story comes from my home turf, and I may do two parts on it. The topic of this piece is—- “Secrets of universe may lie in South Dakota gold mine.”
    The universe as we know it shouldn’t exist. Unlocking the reasons why may depend on once again on striking gold in a mine buried a mile underground in Lead (pronounced Leed,) South Dakota. The largest U.S. based particle physics experiment ever is under construction in an old goldmine in Lead , S. D. breathing new life into a small town more than 140 years after the Black hills gold rush drove it’s founding. The international collaboration involving 1000 scientists from more than 30 countries aims to answer the questions : Are mysterious particles called neutrinos the reason we are here? Scientists believe equal parts of matter and anti-matter should have been created during the formation of the universe but that didn’t happen, and no one knows why. Instead, the visible universe is dominated by matter. Neutrinos may be the reason why—- physicists just need a ,well, everything to find out. Once complete, the deep underground neutrino experiment will beam the particles through the earth from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory outside of Chicago to Leads Sanford underground research facility . Sanford Lab. which opened in 2012 after it repurposed the gold mine for scientific research, has run experiments involving neutrinos and dark matter, but nothing close to this scale. To embark on it’s grand experiment, Sanford must first expand it’s foot print by carving out a long-base line neutrino facility amid the tunnels that once housed the deepest and most productive gold mine in the western hemisphere. Over the next 10 years, workers will remove more than 870,000 tons of rock and install a 4 story high 70,000 ton neutrino detector, while the lab’s Illinois counter part also under goes significant renovations. The project will cost more than $1 billion, but scientists hope the payoff from about 12 million neutrinos per second passing through the detector will be far larger, tantamount to striking gold on a universal scale. “If history is our guide we may learn the answers to questions we don’t even know to ask right now” said Bonnie Fleming, a physics professor @ Yale , and deputy research officer on neutrinos @ Fermi labs . Intense beams , giant detectors , neutrinos are tricky little things. The extremely tiny particles are among the most abundant in the universe. They don’t interact much with anything and travel close to the speed of light. In fact , 3 trillion neutrinos just flew through you body while you read these last 2 sentences—– and that’s the big challenge for researchers. “Maybe if it makes you feel better that they only pass through you, but if your actually trying to measure them it means that you need these really intense beams and gigantic detectors to be able to have just a couple interact and measure them”, Fleming said. ” Experiments already under way on neutrinos lack the sensitivity and massive scale needed when you’re essentially looking for a needle in a haystack so to do this kind of measurement you need all the right ingredients. ” Essentially, to measure the smallest things, everything must be bigger. Scientists require more neutrinos, larger detectors, more powerful beams and a greater distance to travel , and everything needs to be located underground to shield it from cosmic rays. Also required: the international physics community coming together in one spot. Hope you enjoyed this, Part II will about the impact this has had on the local community. Thanks for reading.

  84. From the book entitled “Biocentrism : How life and consciousness are the key to the Universe”, by Dr. Robert Lanza MD……… A new theory based on quantum physics proves there is life after death. Since the beginning of time, man has questioned what happens after death. Of course, there are a variety of typical answers to this question, but scientists may have added an infinite number of other possibilities , just to shake things up. According to Dr. Lanza , death is actually a door to an endless number of universes. Furthermore, during our life, he asserts that anything that possibly can happen in some Universe. He continues to explain that death does not exist in these scenarios since all of these possibilities are taking place at the same time. The only reason we associate our consciousness with our physical body is due to energy operating in our brain. He has stirred up quite a bit of controversy on the internet, as his theory regarding everlasting line is quite a bit different than the typical theories surrounding life and death. Lanza’s background in regenerative medicine and as the science director of the Advanced Cell Technology Company has provided him with an extensive background in dealing with stem cells, and recently, he has become more involved in physical, quantum mechanics. and Astro-physics . It was during his studies regarding those topics that he stumbled upon his new theory of biocentrism . Biocentrism asserts that life and consciousness are both fundamental to the ways of the universe. He further theorizes that it is our consciousness that creates the material universe, instead of being the other way around. He believes that when we die, we experience a break in the string that binds the mind and body together as one and once this takes place, we also experience a break with our connection of times and places. (Sorry this is such a long article) “Indeed , biocentrism suggests it’s a manifold that leads to all physical possibilities, and more and more physicists are beginning to accept the “many worlds” interpretation of quantum physics, which stated that we are in an infinite number of universes . Everything that can possibly happen occurs in some universe. death doesn’t exist in these scenarios since all of them exist simultaneously regardless of what happens in any of them. The “ME” feeling is just energy operating the brain. but energy never dies: It can not be destroyed.” Of course , his beliefs are just theory, but are pretty fascinating to think about, don’t you think? And while we can never be certain of what lies ahead on the other side, it appears that our number of possibilities may have just infinitely expanded. No matter what you believe, quantum physics provides a number of viable theories regarding the unknown aspects of the world. (Sorry, but I found this to be interesting as heck.) Love- Now and forever.

  85. August 9, 1995
    ===========
    Like his band the Grateful Dead, which was still going strong three decades after its
    formation, Jerry Garcia defied his life-expectancy not merely by surviving, but by
    thriving creatively and commercially into the 1990s–far longer than most of
    his peers. His long, strange trip came to an end, however, on this day in 1995,
    when he died of a heart attack in a residential drug-treatment facility in Forest
    Knolls, California. A legendary guitarist and true cultural icon, Jerry Garcia was 53 years old.

    Jerome John Garcia was born on August 1, 1942 and raised primarily in San Francisco’s Excelsior
    District, about five miles south of his and his band’s famous future residence at 710 Ashbury
    Street. Trained formally on the piano as a child, Garcia picked up the instrument he’d
    make his living with at the age of 15, when he convinced his mother to replace the
    accordion she’d bought him as a birthday gift with a Danelectro electric guitar.
    Five years later, after brief stints in art school and the Army, and after
    surviving a deadly automobile accident in 1961, Jerry Garcia
    began to pursue a musical career in earnest, playing with various
    groups that were part of San Francisco’s bluegrass and folk scene. By 1965, he
    had joined up with bassist Phil Lesh, rhythm guitarist Bob Weir, organist Ron “Pigpen”
    McKernan and drummer Bill Kreutzman in a group originally called the Warlocks and later
    renamed “the Grateful Dead.”

    From their early gig as the house band at Ken Kesey’s famous Acid Tests, the Dead was a
    defining part of San Francisco’s burgeoning hippie counterculture scene. They would
    go on to play at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and at Woodstock in 1969, but
    as big as they were in the 60s and 70s, the Grateful Dead grew even more
    popular and successful as the decade they helped to define slipped
    further into the past. Indeed, during the final decade of Jerry
    Garcia’s life, following his recovery from a five-day diabetic coma in 1986,
    the Dead played an average of 100 to 150 live shows per year, frequently to sold-out
    audiences that included a significant proportion of tie-dye-wearing college students who
    were not yet alive when the Grateful Dead first made their name.
    ===============
    SUGAR MAGNOLIA
    by The Grateful Dead

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWuQiGaIsso
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  86. August 9, 1995
    ===-========
    Like his band the Grateful Dead – which was still going strong three decades after
    its formation – Jerry Garcia defied his life-expectancy not merely by surviving, but
    by thriving creatively and commercially into the 1990s – far longer than most of his
    peers. His long, strange trip came to an end, however, on this day in 1995, when he
    died of a heart attack in a residential drug-treatment facility in Forest Knolls,
    California. A legendary guitarist and true cultural icon, Jerry Garcia was 53 years old.

    Jerome John Garcia was born on August 1, 1942 and raised primarily in San Francisco’s Excelsior
    District, about five miles south of his and his band’s famous future residence at 710 Ashbury
    Street. Trained formally on the piano as a child, Garcia picked up the instrument he’d
    make his living with at the age of 15, when he convinced his mother to replace the
    accordion she’d bought him as a birthday gift with a Danelectro electric guitar.
    Five years later, after brief stints in art school and the Army, and after
    surviving a deadly automobile accident in 1961, Jerry Garcia began
    to pursue a musical career in earnest, playing with various
    groups that were part of San Francisco’s bluegrass and folk scene. By
    1965, he had joined up with bassist Phil Lesh, rhythm guitarist Bob Weir, organist
    Ron “Pigpen” McKernan and drummer Bill Kreutzman in a group originally called the
    Warlocks and later renamed “the Grateful Dead.”

    From their early gig as the house band at Ken Kesey’s famous Acid Tests, the Dead was a
    defining part of San Francisco’s burgeoning hippie counterculture scene. They would
    go on to play at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and at Woodstock in 1969, but
    as big as they were in the 60s and 70s, the Grateful Dead grew even more
    popular and successful as the decade they helped to define slipped
    further into the past. Indeed, during the final decade of Jerry
    Garcia’s life, following his recovery from a five-day diabetic coma in
    1986, the Dead played an average of 100 to 150 live shows per year, frequently
    to sold-out audiences that included a significant proportion of tie-dye-wearing college
    students who were not yet alive when the Grateful Dead first made their name.
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    Like his band the Grateful Dead, which was still going strong three decades after its formation, Jerry Garcia defied his life-expectancy not merely by surviving, but by thriving creatively and commercially into the 1990s–far longer than most of his peers. His long, strange trip came to an end, however, on this day in 1995, when he died of a heart attack in a residential drug-treatment facility in Forest Knolls, California. A legendary guitarist and true cultural icon, Jerry Garcia was 53 years old.

    Jerome John Garcia was born on August 1, 1942 and raised primarily in San Francisco’s Excelsior District, about five miles south of his and his band’s famous future residence at 710 Ashbury Street. Trained formally on the piano as a child, Garcia picked up the instrument he’d make his living with at the age of 15, when he convinced his mother to replace the accordion she’d bought him as a birthday gift with a Danelectro electric guitar. Five years later, after brief stints in art school and the Army, and after surviving a deadly automobile accident in 1961, Jerry Garcia began to pursue a musical career in earnest, playing with various groups that were part of San Francisco’s bluegrass and folk scene. By 1965, he had joined up with bassist Phil Lesh, rhythm guitarist Bob Weir, organist Ron “Pigpen” McKernan and drummer Bill Kreutzman in a group originally called the Warlocks and later renamed “the Grateful Dead.”

    From their early gig as the house band at Ken Kesey’s famous Acid Tests, the Dead was a defining part of San Francisco’s burgeoning hippie counterculture scene. They would go on to play at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and at Woodstock in 1969, but as big as they were in the 60s and 70s, the Grateful Dead grew even more popular and successful as the decade they helped to define slipped further into the past. Indeed, during the final decade of Jerry Garcia’s life, following his recovery from a five-day diabetic coma in 1986, the Dead played an average of 100 to 150 live shows per year, frequently to sold-out audiences that included a significant proportion of tie-dye-wearing college students who were not yet alive when the Grateful Dead first made their name.

  87. August 8, 1988
    ===========
    On this day in 1988, the Chicago Cubs hosted
    the first night game in the history of Wrigley Field.

    The first-ever night game in professional baseball took place nearly 60 years earlier, on May 2, 1930, when a Des Moines, Iowa, team hosted Wichita for a Western League game. The match-up drew 12,000 people at a time when Des Moines was averaging just 600 fans per game. Evening games soon became popular in the minors: As minor league ball clubs were routinely folding in the midst of the Great Depression, adaptable owners found the innovation a key to staying in business. The major leagues, though, took five years to catch up to their small-town counterparts.

    The first big league night game took place in Cincinnati, Ohio, on May 24, 1935, and drew 25,000 fans. The crowd stood by as President Franklin D. Roosevelt symbolically switched on the lights from Washington, D.C. To capitalize on their new evening fan base, the Reds played a night game that year against every National League team–eight games in total–and despite their lousy record of 68-85, paid attendance rose 117 percent. Over the next 13 seasons, the rest of the major league parks followed suit, with one exception, Wrigley Field, which by 1988 was the second oldest ballpark in use after Boston’s Fenway Park. For 74 seasons, the Cubs played only day games at home. Finally, on August 8, 1988, the Cubs played the Philadelphia Phillies in the park’s first night game. Ninety-one-year-old Cubs fan Harry Grossman was chosen to turn on the lights. After counting to three, he flipped the switch, and announced “Let there be light.”

    Rick Sutcliffe started the game for the Cubs, and gave up a home run to Phil Bradley of the Phillies on his fourth pitch. The Cubs’ star second baseman Ryne Sandberg answered with a two-run home run in the bottom of the first inning, and with the Cubs leading in the bottom of the fourth inning 3-1, the game was called due to rain. Because the five innings needed for the game to be official were not completed, Wrigley’s first night game is officially recorded as a 6-4 win over the New York Mets on August 9, 1988.

    Today, the Cubs are the only major league team that still
    plays the majority of its home games during the day.
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    TALKIN’ CUBS BASEBALL
    by Terry Cashman

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5POqzbaVZ0
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  88. NEOTHINK SOCIETY
    SCHOOL OF GENIUS – RISE OF NEO-TECH
    August 8, 2017
    Judith Curless

    CORAL CASTLE MYSTERY AND SCIENCE

    Hello, everyone! This evening, we’re sitting outside Aladdin’s Cave entrance in a lovely late summer blooming field. Our cave stream cascades out from the side of the mountain, where it seems to plunge into infinity over the cliff-edge in a long waterfall. It flows out past the tiny, quartz crystal and rock well inside where the silver-chalice message first told us, ‘Drink from the Well of the Purest Essence of the Water of Life and Wisdom’. So, we’ve quenched our thirst and now I see our circle has grown as we look around at all the eager smiling faces in a radiant golden sunlight. How blessed to be together in this awe-inspiring high place with the soaring mountaintops surrounding and protecting us as we share and grow in wisdom!

    But first, let’s get a quick Energy Update! I wanted us to come outside in order to share that today is August 8th – a very powerful day each year when the Earth is in cosmic alignment with the Great Galactic Center (27 degrees Sagittarius) and the Star Sirius, opening a cosmic portal between physical and higher dimensional realms. Called ‘The Lions Gate’, it activates cosmic light Codes of Awakening.

    We know light is information. An intense surge of light activating the human energy field is further awakening DNA by transmitting high vibrational frequencies and Codes of Awakening. Also, light Codes of Ascension, mastery and evolution from Sirius pour toward Earth, aligning yet another activation. Ongoing increasing high-energy waves of light and codes of Awakened Consciousness are causing huge life-altering changes to unfold in one way or another for most everyone now. This energy that is returning to us is one that left this world a long time ago that can be used to catapult us into healing and more third eye connection.

    Everything is up for review to keep or let go – relationships, life purpose, health, home, travel, I-ness integrations, and releasing material things. The big questions: ‘Does it serve my Authentic Truth? Is it in alignment with Pure Love and my I-ness growth of Awakening?’ So many things are in a state of flux! Just trust the Universe, your Higher Self, and meditate to picture light streaming into your body, filling you up! This Lions Gate is a time to transcend perceived limitations and transition more out of density into the paradigm of Crystalline Consciousness Being and Light. Can’t you just feel that sunlight soaking in to benefit you?

    The energy has triggered a new harmonic alignment and deep balance between the wisdom of the heart, mind and Higher Self. Realize what these really desire and cry out for and what’s out of alignment with this, your True Authentic Self intention. Let this Gateway help you turn a page, reach higher to a new level of greater harmony and realization that you can have and be anything you truly desire! This boost, along with the unbelievable burst of energetic photon-bearing light we are going to receive on the 21st of this month during that solar eclipse is truly unbelievable! You don’t have to be directly in the path to receive the powerful benefits, so celebrate it personally however you wish. We’re progressing rapidly now into Peace, Freedom and highest vibration of authentic expression of our unique gifts, unique energy and highest light which is essential and aids the entire collective, as well.

    Okay now, let me just reach in our Aladdin’s Cave treasure chest carried out to see the light of day for the first time since who knows when? Oh, tonight’s message is really fun! It’s full of surprises about the astonishing powers of one single man and his genius legacy. This message is titled Coral Castle Mystery and Science!

    CORAL CASTLE – A GEOMANTIC WONDER!

    “I have discovered the secrets of the pyramids, and have found out how the Egyptians and the ancient builders in Peru, Yucatan, and Asia, with only primitive tools, raised and set in place blocks of stone weighing many tons!”
    – Edward Leedskalnin

    The sign carved into rock at the entrance states: “You Will Be Seeing Unusual Accomplishment”. ‘Geomantic’ is the adjective derived from the word ‘geomancy’. This is divination by geographic features, figures or lines; the art of divination by means of signs derived from the Earth; and prophecy from a pattern made when a handful of Earth is cast down into dots, drawn at random and connected with lines.

    Often equated with the engineering feats of Stonehenge and the Great Pyramid of Egypt, Coral Castle was built by reclusive eccentric Edward Leedskalnin, who single-handed erected gigantic quarried stones resulting in his enigmatic castle. Originally located in the tiny town of Florida City in the l920’s, the site was later moved to it’s current location just south of Miami. Ed is said to have built the Castle for his “Sweet 16” – supposedly, a woman from his native Latvia who had promised to marry him, but changed her mind at the last minute. Sweet 16 is actually a shielded allusion to his discovery – the ability to redirect the forces of gravity using Earths’ magnetics, utilizing uncanny knowledge of Hyperdimensional Physics. ‘Physics’ is a science that deals with matter and energy and their interactions;’ Hyperdimensional’ is an adjective of or relating to space of more than three dimensions ie; hyperdimensionality.

    A feast of coral imagery, the site lies behind massive 8-foot high coral rock walls on a 10-acre tract, protecting it from the sprawling suburban city of Homestead. The coral walls fit together with amazing accuracy even though they were constructed without cement. These technical accomplishments have astounded engineers and scientists.

    A small-statured man barely weighing 100 pounds, Ed quarried one piece of coral from the Earth weighing over 28 tons and then erected it himself! His accomplishments include a rocking chair weighing thousands of pounds that can be rocked with a finger, and an underground structure reached by climbing down a one-piece spiral stone staircase to a subterranean refrigerator. A five thousand pound heart-shaped coral rock table with a red blooming ixora growing from its center, is believed to be the world’s largest valentine (according to Ripley’s). Ed liked to read and would sit in a group of stone chairs which caught the morning, afternoon and evening light as the sun traveled over the horizon. There’s a table fashioned from solid rock in the image of the State of Florida, complete with a water basin at the position of Lake Okeechobee. Ed reckoned the governor could sit there and figure out how to raise taxes.

    Much of the site is calibrated to celestial alignments, including an ingenious 30-ton telescope towering 25 feet above the complex, perfectly aligned to the North Star. A working sundial calibrated to noon of winter and summer solstice is so accurate it tells time within 2 minutes.

    An area known as the Moon Pond comprised of three 18-ton pieces of coral represents the first quarter, last quarter and the full moon. Nearby stand Mars, which Ed believed sustained life, and a ringed Saturn, each the size of an automobile. An obelisk taller then the great monolith at Stonehenge stretches forty feet toward the sky weighing 57,000 pounds! A series of concentric coral circles is said to represent the solar system itself.

    Energy-sensitive people will often report headaches while standing inside the archway of the nine-ton swinging gate, thought to be erected over a vortex. This was the case when I visited in the early 1990s, dowsing the site during and after a full solar eclipse. (This is the author speaking). Locating key points (ie; 9-Ton Gate), I found telluric energy literally disappear during the passage, later returning to normal, as my signal showed. Did Ed place his Castle over a convergence of key “energy leys” in order to harness the electro-magnetic signature of the land – an invisible web of energy concentrated at points of telluric power, the convergence of which create unusual phenomena, anti-gravity? The word ‘telluric’ derives from Latin telus, the Earth. It means of or relating to the Earth; terrestrial. Also, of or relating to or originating in or on the Earth or soil, especially in reference to electrical or magnetic fields.

    The original site remained in Florida City until the mid-l930’s at which time, the story goes, someone planned to build a sub-division nearby. A fanatic for privacy, Ed packed up his entire quarry and moved it to the present location in Homestead. No one saw him load or unload the massive tonnage from a friend’s truck he used to transport the gigantic stones. The relocation progressed easily and the entire complex was re-erected at its new location.

    In total, Ed quarried over 1100 tons of coral rock for his Castle using tools fashioned from wrecking-yard junk, never revealing just how he managed to rise and position the massive coral blocks that make up his compound. An air of mystery surrounded the two story monolith known as The Tower, which housed his workshop and living quarters. He was secretive and almost always worked at night; so again, no one ever saw him.

    Ed seemed to have a sixth sense with which he could detect when he was being watched, often the hallmark of an intuitive. Ed stated, “If I concentrate on somebody’s back while that person doesn’t know it, they’re liable to get restless and look around. I’ve noticed, I can chase the mosquitos away with this same, concentrated look.”

    Ed disputed contemporary science and believed, “All matter consists of magnets which can produce measurable phenomena, and electricity.” Ed would say he had “re-discovered the laws of weight, measurement, and leverage,” and that these concepts “involved the relationship of the Earth to celestial alignments.” He claimed to see ‘beads of light’ which he believed to be the physical presence of nature’s magnetism, and life force; what we term today ‘chi’.

    An air of secrecy pervaded the Castle. At one time Ed erected a massive grid of copper wire poised above his quarried stones. Another time one of Ed’s neighbors found him singing to the stones with his hands placed on their surface as if he were somehow making them lighter. A group of young people claimed that they saw him float coral blocks through the air “like hydrogen balloons.”

    Ed’s few notebooks are laden with schematics for magnetism and electrical experiments. Although he possessed only a fourth-grade education it seems he had discovered a means to reduce the gravitational pull of the Earth. He wrote a series of pamphlets which included his theories on magnetism and cosmic force, still available today, including ‘Magnetic Current’.

    Researchers have speculated that Ed learned the secret of levitation and one theory in particular caught the imagination of many. The planetary grid hypothesis postulates that the Earth is covered by an invisible web of energy which is concentrated at points of telluric power, the convergence of which create unusual phenomena.

    These telluric grid dynamics played a vital role in the construction of the Castle according to author Ray Stoner in his book, “The Enigma of Coral Castle.” Stoner speculates that the complex was originally moved from Florida City to Homestead not because of privacy issues (as most historians suggest), but because Ed realized he had made a mathematical error in his original positioning, and moved the entire structure to take advantage of an area with greater telluric force.

    According to author B.J.Cathie, an authority on grid dynamics, “There exists an all-encompassing global grid with direct harmonic relationship to the speed of light, gravity, magnetics and Earth mass. All major changes of the physical state are brought about by harmonic interactions of these manifestations. The controlled manipulation of these forces would make it possible to instantaneously move mass from one point to another in space/time.”

    Cathie states, “Measurements from Coral Castle yield harmonics related to Light and Gravity. The distance between Coral Castle and Grid Pole A (in the North) dispel any doubt about the site being an ideal position to allow Ed to erect the huge blocks of coral with relative ease. Measurements indicate the harmonics necessary for the manipulation of anti-gravity.” Researcher and author, Richard LeFors Clark, concurs, and believes the Earth grid is made up of a network of “20 magnetic reversal points” along which can be found specific sites of anomaly known as Diamagnetic Vortex Points.

    In his work “Diamagnetic Gravity Vortexes” found in the book ‘Anti-Gravity and the World Grid’ Clark postulates that the area of South Florida at Coral Castle, considered part of the Bermuda Triangle, “is a powerful diamagnetic levitator. Leedskalnin demonstrated magnetism and the mechanism of levitation by applying Natural Earth Grid principles of diamagnetism. He could easily levitate huge pieces of coral by using the center of mass for the needed slight uplift launching pressure.”

    Obviously, this had to be knowledge of the force of levitation, which is defined as “the raising or rising of a body or object in air by supernatural means; also, the act or phenomenon of levitating.” Equating this technique to the same process used in “party levitation,” Clark believes that Coral Castle could no longer be built where it is today, as the Grid Point has shifted to the area inside Homestead Air Force Base, a few miles away.

    Ed Leedskalnin showed every indication of being a natural Geomancer, one who senses the unique telluric forces of the Earth. He was highly intuitive and knew how to observe nature for signs of anomaly, ultimately leading him to the discovery of vortex energy, and the ability to harness the natural elements of magnetism. He understood the critical nature of identifying the most energetic location to erect his massive Castle, and seemed to have known the secrets of anti-gravity and its relation to cosmic events. Ed proceeded to develop a means of leverage power, generated from the geo-magnetic grid, and produced a system to generate anti-gravity waves. He knew exactly what he was doing when he created his fantastic Castle.

    In 1951 Ed took his secrets to the grave. The mystery of Coral Castle was never revealed. Rumor persists that a plaque was found in Ed’s bedroom that read, “The Secret to the Universe is 7129 / 6105195”, an allusion to a sequence of Prime Meridian numbers. Inspired by his visit to the complex rock singer Billy Idol wrote and recorded “Sweet 16” in honor of Ed’s achievement. By – Kathy Doore. Labyrinthina

    THE CORAL CASTLE WEBSITE
    CoralCastle.com

    ‘YOU WILL BE SEEING UNUSUAL ACCOMPLISHMENT’ reads Ed’s greeting sign carved into stone at the entrance of his beloved castle. And after more than 65 years, it still greets visitors today. If you had visited Coral Castle in the 1940’s, you would have been greeted enthusiastically by a man weighing a mere 100 pounds and standing just over 5 feet tall. He would have asked you for ten cents admission and introduced you to his fantasy world. As you moved around his sculpture garden in stone, and the significance of each piece was explained, you would have been witness to the great pride Ed Leedskalnin took in his work.

    Since it is documented that no one ever witnessed Ed’s labor in building his beloved Coral Castle, some have said he had supernatural powers. Ed would only say that he knew the secrets used to build the ancient pyramids and if he could learn them, you could too. Today, you can tour the Coral Castle using our audio stands, with narration available in English, Spanish, French or German. Knowledgeable guides are available to conduct tours. Features of the Coral Castle Museum include a 9-ton gate that moves with just a touch of the finger, a Polaris telescope and functioning rocking chairs – all entirely made of stone.

    We wonder what was the real inspiration that could cause a man to spend 28 years to carve a Coral Castle from the ground up using nothing but home made tools. An homage to unrequited love? Was it just sheer, raw human determination? Or perhaps to illustrate ancient sciences that defy gravity? The Coral Castle is an everlasting mystery to those who explore it. How did he do it? To this day, no one truly knows how Ed created it. Built under the cover of night and in secret, at a time when there were no modern construction conveniences, Ed would only say that he knew “the secret of the pyramids.” When he died, his secrets died with him, and to this day scientists and thinkers still debate Ed’s methods.

    CORAL CASTLE BOOK

    And a final reference, the ‘CORAL CASTLE BOOK’ was written by Col. Carrol A. Lake in the mid-1950’s. It’s housed at the Miami Historical Museum of Southern Florida. In front, there is a commemorative City Banner that was hung in 2010 that says, “Who’s Ed?” The book is available online in a printable pdf format.

    BOOK FORWARD: How the huge mysterious creations in stone were built is still baffling engineers and scientists from many lands. With the death of their creator on Dec. 7, 1951 the mystery of the construction of this Coral Castle and the perfectly balanced rock gates moves each year further back into the shadows of a knowledge gone for many thousands of years, just as legends about this amazing little stonemason from Latvia are increasing. The favorite story is he was jilted by his “Sweet 16” on the eve of marriage, then built works of genius out of his frustration.

    Whatever the reason, Ed proved for all the world to see today that he knew the construction secrets of the ancients. He quarried and moved into place, alone and without modern machinery, rocks weighing three times the largest blocks in the Great Pyramid. In all, he cut and put into place over 1000 tons of rock, the greatest achievement in all history by one man! Yet, except for the vision and understanding of another single man, even this proof would have been lost to the world.

    The more Col. Lake studied the massive work of the little immigrant, the more convinced he became that here is one of the great Wonders of the World, ranking with the Pyramids of Egypt, Stonehenge in England, the fabulous Temple of Jupiter and Baalbek near Damascus in Syria, and the giant mysteries in stone on Easter Island. Ed proved, by his own work, that he had the engineering knowledge of moving huge blocks of stone that has eluded builders since the days of Ancient Egypt. So, Julius Levin stepped in to save Ed’s Coral Castle and Rock Gate Park from being broken up for building rock and a night club rendezvous spot.

    When Ed died in December 1951 in a Miami hospital, his Coral Castle and his strange stone garden were left wide open to vandals and to mischievous boys. His living quarters were ransacked, his shrubbery dug up, everything that was movable was taken before several neighbors and friends, headed by John Neafsey, moved in to save what was left. The search for notes and papers went on. Nothing was ever found or revealed as to how Ed did his amazing feats of construction. He left a few notes and several published bits of writings – on electrical and cosmic theories and on philosophy – but not one word about his greatest achievement in stone; neither did he ever tell or show to anyone how he did his work.

    In the search for heirs, a priest turned up a nephew, Harry Leedskalnin, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. A court struggle began to clear title to the property. Finally, the nephew obtained title, through the untiring efforts of Roscoe Brunstetter, a former Mayor of Coral Gables, Florida. The present owner came forward, along with a night club operator and several others, to buy the 10-acre Rock Gate Park and Coral Castle. Julius Levin was successful in January, 1953, immediately dedicating himself to the task of restoring Coral Castle Park, which is 25 miles south of Miami on U.S. 1 (as Ed wanted it) and then opening the Park to the public.

    Thus, this is the story of Ed Leedskalnin, his work and his struggles to make that Park what it is today. Ed knew he was creating something great – and he did! All who visit within the massive walls of the Park, enter the Coral Castle, or open – with their little finger – the perfectly balanced 9-ton rock gate are thoroughly convinced they have seen one of the Greatest Wonders of the World!

    PUBLISHER’S NOTE: This book by Carrol A. Lake relates the story of Edward Leedskalnin, an obscure Latvian immigrant, who single-handed created from monolithic limestone (coral) rock indigenous to South Florida, what has become recognized as probably the finest example on the North American continent of massive stone construction, which is definitely a modern wonder of the world!

    A careful examination of Ed’s work reveals that he understood and put to practical use many facets of the ancient knowledge of leverage believed known by the Pyramid builders of Antiquity, and he used this knowledge to construct his “Coral Castle of Florida”. He cut from the ground huge blocks of coral limestone weighing up to 35 tons, and then moved these single-handed using simple pulleys, and an uncanny knowledge of the principles of leverage.

    Modern day engineers stand in awe of Ed’s work, and are unanimous in praise of his engineering skills, believed lost somewhere in the past history of mankind. Architecturally, he was the first in America to incorporate the modern concept of outdoor living in a semitropical zone! His carvings, in beautiful settings, are artistic creations of the first magnitude reflecting a keen imagination, combined with a practical and utilitarian nature to take full advantage of natural forces.

    Artistically, his creation is refreshingly unique. The rare beauty of the individual carvings set in the overall, breathtaking beauty of Ed’s eternal masterpiece, will inspire untold future generations. This priceless work in South Florida has been compared from an engineering standpoint to the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, and architecturally and artistically with the same conception that gave birth to the Taj Mahal of India, plus is a cultural gem worthy of the genius of a Leonardo Da Vinci and a Michael Angelo.

    Col. Carrol A. Lake, engineer and author, spent two years interviewing the people of the Redlands area of South Florida to obtain the material used in the book. It is essentially factual and is all that is known of Edward Leedskalnin. The story is told in the 1st and 3rd person to give the reader an intimate feeling and rapprochement with the man’s actual life during the thirty years he spent building his masterpiece.

    There are pictures and drawings all throughout this information, plus a video tour. One full-page picture of the castle lit at night looks like a painting from a fairy tale. And one I saw years ago is Ed on a ladder holding a little black box! Originally named Rock Gate Park, the complex now known as Coral Castle is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

    I hope so much this information has excited your imagination! It’s fun learning about actual, physical supernatural-appearing realities which exist for our eyes to behold. This type knowledge can expand your mind and heart into higher consciousness levels. I will post it on Wikipedia vs Neo-Tech website tonight. Thanks Digger and Charlie, my gratitude to Mark – and a sweet-dreams goodnight to all you wonderful Neothinkers. Just levitate Aladdin’s rug into liftoff within your lovely merkaba light-body ships and sail home in a glorious mountainous sunset of twilight falling and stars twinkling on … Thank you and goodnight all!

    Judith

    Sources: “Coral Castle: A Geomantic Wonder!” by Kathy Doore at Labyrinthina.com/coral; also, “KathyDoore.com; Coral Castle Website at CoralCastle.com; 1950’s “Coral Castle Book” by Col. Carrol A. Lake, Free pdf version online; Ray Stoner Book “The Enigma of Coral Castle”; Richard LeFors Clark’s work “Diamagnetic Gravity Vortexes” found in his Book “Anti-Gravity and the World Grid”; B. J. Cathie, Expert on Telluric Grid Dynamics; “Leedskalnin’s Magnetic Current” and other papers, free PDF version online; Idea for Energy Update information at “888 Lions Gate Activation” by Melanie. Word definitions were added by me for more clarity.

    **Note: Thanks to everyone on the call who took the time to listen and also to comment. I’m so glad it inspired you! Judith

  89. Forest, I don’t do Facebook and haven’t been able to figure out how to transpose the picture, etc. My apologies, sir. I will be calling you momentarily … Love you and Carol – Thanks so much for being on the call and connecting tonight. I’m posting my talk on Wikipedia and thanks for asking. The system dropped me and Charlie didn’t see me come back on. Proud of you for stepping up to do the Golden Seekers call with Steve and Kay. Blessings.

    Judith

  90. On Sunday’s Powers call dated 8/6/17. Our very own celebrity poet and value creator Donna Ritch, read one of her thought provoking writings regarding getting in touch with the child of the past. ( Hey, if you want to read it for yourself, give Donna a call!) I guess I have reached the time in my life when nostalgia sort of over runs my 2 sided somewhat bicameral brain and some old thoughts creep in. This was my thought. For most of us the child of the past has never completely disappeared but had been laid aside and become dormant for a number of years. We, as value producers were so entrenched in the current A/C world, we would not or did not allow ourselves the luxury of thinking back to times of innocent LOVE and fun that we had experienced as that child in our past. Only a few that I have known would admit that they actually felt like they had accomplished all there goals in life or lived up to there true potential. But then a strange phenomenon occurs in many of us. perhaps we reach a place in our lives where our memories become engaged in a higher level of consciousness, and in reaching back to our childhood, (Including the teen years) we begin to have emotional thoughts of that feeling of joy, jubilation, and innocent honest love, even euphoria, we begin re-connecting with our child of the past again. A few years ago I was able to attend a( 60th?) year class reunion. Sadly a lot of faces were no longer there, but what I felt was honest pure unadulterated LOVE. The years of competitiveness, jealousy , envy, financial status or whatever had magically disappeared and the main topic of the night was “Do you remember when?” Aside from being with my Neothink family , that two or three hours was the closest I had been to the C of U for years. Just wanted to share that thought. Thanks.

  91. Hi guys. So this is kind of what’s on my mind today. If you are a new member or old member who has never attended a summit, you really should consider it. For 30 years plus, as a business person and entrepreneur my life evolved around those personal friendships that had been established over that exciting part of my life. Then came time to move on as these friendships disappeared due to premature and unnecessary deaths and the business world making it’s choices to decide that we “old timers” had outlived our usefulness. (There choices, not ours) The A/C had taken it’s toll, and an emptiness and a void was created. Then along come that first letter from Neo-Think, and in my case I was mostly motivated by curiosity and such talk about the cure for aging and biological immortality, since I had been battling the government over my daughters health issues. (And yes, we won the battle but have not won the fight!) Unlike some I guess, I did read the books and felt I had a grasp on the contents, but being isolated in the middle of the prairie with no one to talk to left me feeling defenseless and helpless. Then I mustered the courage to attend the “Face to the World” summit in Newark a few years back, and it changed my life forever! I met like minded people that I immediately felt comfortable with. I felt love, compassion and understanding. To admit that I am an introvert and a loner , yet in the business world was able to talk and negotiate with CEO’s of corporations amazes many , but it was role playing and took lots of practice to pull that off. The summit was MY catalyst to a new life , and friendships were developed that will hopefully last through out eternity. So once again, my advice is that if you are able , be there, you will NEVER regret it. Remember, LOVE is the most important ingredient.

  92. Steve and Kay; Thanks for a great Golden Seekers call on this 8/8/17. I thoroughly enjoyed hearing people with some of the same problems and challenges I find myself facing everyday in this age of anti-civilization. Forest it was good to hear your voice also. Look what you stirred up! “Too many times we stand aside and let the waters slip away ‘Til what we put off ’til tomorrow has now become today . So don’t you sit upon the shoreline and say you’re satisfied , Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tide…… Thanks.

  93. August 7, 1997
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    In 1979, folk-pop icon James Taylor became the first major popular-music figure to
    draw a crowd numbering in the hundreds of thousands to a free concert in New York
    City’s Central Park. On August 7, 1997, country-music giant Garth Brooks became the last.
    The reason for the abrupt end to six-figure crowds at concerts in the park? It wasn’t a
    change of policy with regard to allowing such gatherings — but a dramatic shift in
    how the crowds were counted.

    The crowd that turned out to hear Garth Brooks in Central Park on this day in 1997 was truly
    enormous, filling the park’s North Meadow to capacity and spilling out into seemingly every
    available patch of grass and asphalt within earshot of the stage where Brooks stood and
    belted out hits like “Ain’t Goin’ Down (‘Til the Sun Comes Up).” But was the crowd
    really as large as the astonishing figure of 750,000 that was widely claimed in
    media coverage of the event? Thanks to an unrelated political controversy
    that arose seven years later, we now know that it almost certainly wasn’t.

    In the summer of 2004, a group opposing the war in Iraq applied for and was denied a permit to stage a protest rally of approximately 75,000 people on Central Park’s Great Lawn, just a few dozen blocks from the site of the Republican National Convention. Concern over damage to the recently renovated lawn was the reason given by the City Parks Department, but a lawsuit alleging political motives was filed against the City of New York, with the enormous size of previous concerts crowds cited in support of the case. After all, James Taylor’s 1979 performance at Sheep Meadow was reported to have drawn 250,000, and Elton John’s appearance on the Great Lawn the following year was estimated at 50,000 more. In 1981, some 400,000 saw Simon and Garfunkel in the park, and 10 years later, an estimated 600,000 saw Paul Simon play solo.

    So just how did those ever-escalating crowd estimates come about? In 2008, Doug
    Blonsky – former Parks Department administrator and then president of the
    Central Park Conservancy – told The New York Times, “You would get
    in a room with the producer, with a police official, and a person
    from parks, and someone would say, ‘What does it look like
    to you? The producer would say, ‘I need it to be higher
    than the last one.’ That’s the kind of science that went into it.”

    Thanks to the city’s need to defend itself against the RNC protest lawsuit, Garth Brooks would be the last superstar to benefit from this fuzzy math. In the summer of 2008, the capacity crowd at a heavily promoted free concert by Bon Jovi on the same spot as Brooks’ 1997 show was hand-counted at only 48,538-plus. As New York City Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe told the Times, “You look out at the sea of people from the stage, and your mind tells you, ‘That’s what hundreds of thousands of people looks like.’ Now we know it’s 48,500.”
    =============
    THE RIVER
    by Garth Brooks

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1sSFLFYllY
    —————

  94. August 6, 1911
    ===========
    On this day, Lucille Desiree Ball – one of America’s most famous redheads
    and beloved comic actresses – was born near Jamestown, New York.

    At age 15, Ball went to New York City to attend drama school and become an actress. However,
    she received little encouragement and was rejected multiple times from Broadway chorus
    lines. After waitressing and working as a hat model, Ball was hired in 1933 as the
    Chesterfield Cigarette Girl. Around this time, she began playing bit parts in
    Hollywood movies. She went on to leading roles in dozens of B-movies
    in the late 1930s and 1940s. In 1940, Ball met the Cuban bandleader
    Desi Arnaz while shooting Too Many Girls and the couple soon eloped.

    From 1947 to 1951, Ball starred as a ditzy wife on the radio program My Favorite Husband. When CBS
    decided to launch the popular series on the relatively new medium of TV, Lucy insisted that Arnaz
    be cast as her husband in the TV version. Network executives initially argued against the idea,
    arguing that no one would believe the couple were married. However, Ball and Arnaz were
    eventually cast as Lucy and Ricky Ricardo in I Love Lucy, which aired from 1951 to 1957
    and became one of the most popular TV sitcoms in history. According to Ball’s
    obituary in The New York Times: “It was a major national event when, on
    Jan. 19, 1953, Lucy Ricardo gave birth to Little Ricky on the air the same
    night Lucille Ball gave birth to her second child, Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha 4th.
    The audience for the episode was estimated at 44 million, a record at the time, and CBS said 1 million
    viewers responded with congratulatory telephone calls, telegrams, letters or gifts.”

    The success of I Love Lucy turned the couple’s production company, Desilu, into a multimillion-dollar
    business. Ball and Arnaz divorced in 1960, and their professional collaboration also ended. Arnaz
    died in 1986. Ball also starred in several other “Lucy” programs, including The Lucy Show,
    which debuted in 1962 and ran for six seasons, and Here’s Lucy, in which she starred
    with her two children. The show was cancelled in 1974. A later show, Life with Lucy,
    featuring Lucy as a grandmother, was cancelled after only eight episodes in 1986.
    Lucille Ball died at age 77 on April 26, 1989. In 2001, the U.S. Postal
    Service honored her with a commemorative stamp.
    ================

  95. August 6, 1945
    ===========
    The United States became the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during
    wartime when it droped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Though
    the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the end of World War II, many
    historians argue that it also ignited the Cold War.

    Since 1940, the United States had been working on developing an atomic weapon, after having
    been warned by Albert Einstein that Nazi Germany was already conducting research into
    nuclear weapons. By the time the United States conducted the first successful test
    (an atomic bomb was exploded in the desert in New Mexico in July 1945),
    Germany had already been defeated. The war against Japan in the
    Pacific, however, continued to rage. President Harry S. Truman,
    warned by some of his advisers that any attempt to invade
    Japan would result in horrific American casualties, ordered that the
    new weapon be used to bring the war to a speedy end. On August 6, 1945,
    the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city
    of Hiroshima. A blast equivalent to the power of 15,000 tons of TNT reduced four square
    miles of the city to ruins and immediately killed 80,000 people. Tens of thousands more died
    In the following weeks from wounds and radiation poisoning. Three days later, another bomb was
    dropped on the city of Nagasaki, killing nearly 40,000 more people. A few days later, Japan announced its surrender.

    In the years since the two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, a number of historians have
    suggested that the weapons had a two-pronged objective. First, of course, was to bring the
    war with Japan to a speedy end and spare American lives. It has been suggested that the
    second objective was to demonstrate the new weapon of mass destruction to the Soviet
    Union. By August 1945, relations between the Soviet Union and the United States had
    deteriorated badly. The Potsdam Conference between U.S. President Harry S. Truman,
    Russian leader Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill (before being replaced by Clement Attlee)
    ended just four days before the bombing of Hiroshima. The meeting was marked by
    recriminations and suspicion between the Americans and Soviets. Russian armies were
    occupying most of Eastern Europe. Truman and many of his advisers hoped that the U.S.
    atomic monopoly might offer diplomatic leverage with the Soviets. In this fashion, the
    dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan can be seen as the first shot of the Cold War. If U.S.
    officials truly believed that they could use their atomic monopoly for diplomatic advantage,
    they had little time to put their plan into action. By 1949, the Soviets had developed their
    own atomic bomb and the nuclear arms race began.
    ===================

  96. August 5, 1981
    ===========
    On August 5, 1981, President Ronald Reagan begins firing 11,359 air-traffic controllers
    striking in violation of his order for them to return to work. The executive action,
    regarded as extreme by many, significantly slowed air travel for months.

    Two days earlier, on August 3, almost 13,000 air-traffic controllers went on strike after negotiations
    with the federal government to raise their pay and shorten their workweek proved fruitless. The
    controllers complained of difficult working conditions and a lack of recognition of the
    pressures they face. Across the country, some 7,000 flights were canceled. The
    same day, President Reagan called the strike illegal and threatened to fire
    any controller who had not returned to work within 48 hours.
    Robert Poli – president of the Professional Air-Traffic Controllers
    Association (PATCO) – was found in contempt by a federal
    judge and ordered to pay $1,000 a day in fines.

    On August 5, an angry President Reagan carried out his threat, and the federal government began
    firing the 11,359 air-traffic controllers who had not returned to work. In addition, he declared a
    lifetime ban on the rehiring of the strikers by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). On
    August 17, the FAA began accepting applications for new air-traffic controllers, and on
    October 22 the Federal Labor Relations Authority decertified PATCO.
    ==============

  97. August 5, 1962
    ===========
    On August 5, 1962, movie actress Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her home in Los Angeles.
    She was discovered lying nude on her bed, face down, with a telephone in one hand. Empty
    bottles of pills – prescribed to treat her depression – were littered around the room. After
    a brief investigation, Los Angeles police concluded that her death was “caused by a
    self-administered overdose of sedative drugs and that the mode of death is probable suicide.”

    Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jean Mortenson in Los Angeles on June 1, 1926. Her mother
    was emotionally unstable and frequently confined to an asylum, so Norma Jean was reared
    by a succession of foster parents and in an orphanage. At the age of 16, she married a fellow
    worker in an aircraft factory, but they divorced a few years later. She took up modeling in
    1944 and in 1946 signed a short-term contract with 20th Century Fox, taking as her screen
    name Marilyn Monroe. She had a few bit parts and then returned to modeling, famously
    posing nude for a calendar in 1949.

    She began to attract attention as an actress in 1950 after appearing in minor roles in the
    The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve. Although she was onscreen only briefly playing
    a mistress in both films, audiences took note of the blonde bombshell, and she
    won a new contract from Fox. Her acting career took off in the early 1950s
    with performances in Love Nest (1951), Monkey Business (1952), and
    Niagara (1953). Celebrated for her voluptuousness and wide-eyed
    charm, she won international fame for her sex-symbol roles in
    Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), and
    There’s No Business Like Show Business (1954). The Seven-Year Itch (1955) showcased
    her comedic talents and features the classic scene where she stands over a subway grating
    and has her white skirt billowed up by the wind from a passing train. In 1954, she married baseball
    great Joe DiMaggio, attracting further publicity, but they divorced eight months later.

    In 1955, she studied with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio in New York City and subsequently
    gave a strong performance as a hapless entertainer in Bus Stop (1956). In 1956, she married
    playwright Arthur Miller. She made The Prince and the Showgirl – a critical and
    commercial failure – with Laurence Olivier in 1957 but in 1959 gave an
    acclaimed performance in the hit comedy Some Like It Hot. Her last
    role – in The Misfits (1961) – was directed by John Huston and
    written by Miller, whom she divorced just one week before
    the film’s opening.

    By 1961, Monroe, beset by depression, was under the constant care of a psychiatrist.
    Increasingly erratic in the last months of her life, she lived as a virtual recluse in her
    Brentwood, Los Angeles, home. After midnight on August 5, 1962, her maid Eunice
    Murray noticed Monroe’s bedroom light on. When Murray found the door locked
    and Marilyn unresponsive to her calls, she called Monroe’s psychiatrist, Dr. Ralph
    Greenson, who gained access to the room by breaking a window. Entering, he found
    Marilyn dead, and the police were called sometime after. An autopsy found a fatal
    amount of sedatives in her system, and her death was ruled probable suicide.

    In recent decades, there have been a number of conspiracy theories about her death,
    most of which contend that she was murdered by John and/or Robert Kennedy, with
    whom she allegedly had love affairs. These theories claim that the Kennedys killed her
    (or had her killed) because they feared she would make public their love affairs and
    other government secrets she was gathering. On August 4, 1962, Robert Kennedy, then
    attorney general in his older brother’s cabinet, was in fact in Los Angeles. Two decades
    after the fact, Monroe’s housekeeper, Eunice Murray, announced for the first time that
    the attorney general had visited Marilyn on the night of her death and quarreled with
    her, but the reliability of these and other statements made by Murray are questionable.

    Four decades after her death, Marilyn Monroe remains a major cultural icon.
    The unknown details of her final performance only add to her mystique.
    ==================
    CANDLE IN THE WIND
    by Elton John

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoOhnrjdYOc
    ——————

  98. August 7, 2017, @ 1:12 p.m.

    Good afternoon Wayne & Cheryl, —

    First of all, I want to THANK YOU for responding to my first email and Photo of Carol and Me. I sent the same email to Pete and to Judith, but so far I have not received any response from them. That was sent out on July 22, 2017.

    They must be “REALLY BUSY” and maybe somehow they MISSED my email to them. Judith has been GONE a whole lot lately, but it sounds like she will be giving a presentation on the School of Genius Call on Tuesday, August 8th. I am looking forward to that call.

    How are you and Cheryl doing yesterday and today? It appears that YOU, Pete, Judith and I – are the only ones who are making any effort to post on this site, and this has been going on for quite a while now. At this rate, we will not be getting anywhere close to making 14,000 Posts – anytime soon. Carol and I have SO MANY APPOINTMENTS to meet that it is getting very “TIRESOME” for me, and my patience with it is getting very thin!!

    Another thing that is frustrating to me is – that because of the different “TIME ZONES” across the United States, nearly all of the Mentor Calls take place “AT MEAL TIME” here in Oregon, and we eat only “TWICE EACH DAY.”

    The appointments we need to meet take place almost every working day of the week, and as a result, we are away from home between 4 and 6 hours per day. I am not a person who is a complainer, and most of the time I am very patient, but for Carol and Me, — “SOMETHING HAS TO GIVE!!”

    Right Now, — I don’t have all these things figured out, but I am hoping to adjust my Mini-Day- Schedule to accommodate all of these things which take up so much of our time. “TIME IS “PRECIOUS” TO US,” because we cannot bring back even “ONE SECOND” of time – in order to do these things ALL OVER AGAIN!!

    I would like very much to be on EVERY ONE of the Neo-Tech/Neo-Think Calls, but it is just NOT POSSIBLE under our present daily schedules.

    I don’t know if anyone else out there is dealing with this kind of thing, but at least those of you who are living in Central America or on the East Side of this Country may not have the same challenges “AT MEAL TIME” when the Mentor Calls are taking place. I cannot eat a meal after 6:00 p.m. because every time I DO IT, — I just do not sleep well at all during the night. I have Sleep Apnea, and so getting enough sleep is extremely important for my health and well being.

    Well enough of this rambling for now, — I just felt like “venting” a little bit. I hope that I didn’t bore you to tears.

    Love to ALL of you, — Carol and Forest

  99. Wayne, that last post really does bring home the great advances in genome editing, messing with embryos to influence DNA, and other stuff relating to getting to Biological Immortality! Really interesting. Thanks for posting it. I’m so glad you’re coming back strong, Cowboy!! Take care of yourself and look forward to being younger, healthier and stronger than before!

    Love ya,
    Judith

  100. I see Wayne and Pete have been by. I have to go back and spend some time catching up, too! Thanks for the shout-out yesterday, Pete! Pretty cool that we may hit 14,000 by the Summit. I’ll toast to that one for sure! Also caught your hello and message today on the Business Alliance call. Hope everything is going great for you and I look forward to catching up a bit for sure. Life keeps right on moving on over here in Austin-Land! Trying to keep up with it all is a challenge. Take care.

    Love and later,
    Judith

  101. Hi everyone!! August 5th – Wow time is going by so fast I can’t keep up with it. Just wanted to quickly stop in to invite you all to the School of Genius – Rise of Neo-Tech this Tuesday at 6:00 CT. It’s going to be a fairly short, simple message about a phenomenal creative genius man whose legacy is something magnificent and at the same time very mysterious! Only one hint – it very much does involve the Laws of Physics. So, come journey with me to discover this fascinating topic and step up and add to it with your comments, please.

    I hope to see and hear from you all then! YA’ALL COME!!!

    Love ya! Judith

  102. Another week has gone by again and aside from all the social and news media bs, only a few articles I read contained any thing of any significance , however this came from a piece written by Kim Painter @USA Today.
    “Disease gene is “edited” out of human embryos.” Embryos develop after the co-injection of a gene-correcting enzyme and sperm with a genetic mutation. Experiment looks promising , but legal , ethical issues remain. (My words and thoughts here, but what would one expect legal referring to government and politics, ethical referring to all the religious heretics .) back to article. For the first time , scientists working in a U.S. lab have used gene “editing” to correct a disease -causing mutation in viable human embryos, according to a scientific paper published Wednesday. The work, reported in NATURE , could be a step toward genetically modified babies, but the altered embryos created in the study were quickly destroyed and never intended to be transplanted— a step that would be ILLEGAL under current regulations in the U.S. and other countries. Still , the experiment moves the idea of tinkering with genes before birth “from future fantasy to the world of possibility,” said Peter Braude , an emeritus professor of obstetrics and gynecology at King’s College of London. Safety and ETHICAL questions remain, Braude and other experts not involved in the research said. And the technique has not been perfected. “We still have room to improve,” said Shoukhrat Mitalipov, a researcher at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland and lead author of the paper. Here’s what Mitalipov and his colleagues did: They recruited several healthy egg donors and one sperm donor who carried a gene for a common heart condition, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, that can cause heart failure and premature death. Under normal conditions . half the man’s children would inherit the gene and risk passing it on. They fertilized the eggs with the man’s sperm. At the same time, the eggs were injected with gene editing tools that include an enzyme to target and snip out the bad gene. They found that 42 of the 58 embryos (72.4%) were free of the disease – causing gene a clear improvement over 50%. Also the repaired embryos appeared free of unintended changes, such as mish-mash of healthy and unhealthy target genes. And they found the embryos repaired themselves with DNA from the healthy egg, not a synthetic snippet. The technique would need to approach 100% effectiveness for clinical trials aimed at producing pregnancies, Milipov said. but he said, the ultimate goal would be eliminating inherited risks for everything from cystic fibrosis to breast cancer. (End of article)) My thoughts: (If I am thinking in the right direction.) What a wonderful step this would be if future generations of children could brought into this world disease free. Think how far would that go toward OUR ultimate goal for the cure for aging and biological immortality! Also aware that there will be a certain % of Neo-Thinkers in this society would not agree with this, but keep the love in your heart for all mankind.

  103. . . .The Detroit Area Clubhouse. . . .
    ———————————
    When?. . . . . . . . Saturday August 12, 2017.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 pm to 6 pm.
    Where?. . . . . . . Kerby’s Koney Island.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Livonia, MI.
    What?. . . . . . . . .The Four Pillars.
    Why?. .. . . . . . . . Why not?
    ===========================

  104. August 4, 1927
    ===========
    The Father of Country Music Jimmie Rodgers was recorded for the very
    first time on August 4, 1927 during the legendary Bristol Sessions.

    The term “country music” did not exist in the summer of 1927, when Ralph Peer, an engineer
    and talent scout for the Victor Talking Machine Company of Camden, New Jersey, set up
    a makeshift recording studio in the upper floors of an empty warehouse in Bristol, Tennessee.
    He was preparing for what Johnny Cash would later call “The single most important event
    in the history of country music.”

    The historic 12-day marathon now known as “the Bristol Sessions” began on July 25 with a
    recording session with Ernest Stoneman, one of the few established names in what was
    then known as “hillbilly music.” It continued with a string of mostly unknown musicians
    drawn to the railroad town of Bristol, on the Virginia-Tennessee border, by newspaper
    stories and advertisements promising $50 for any song Ralph Peer chose to record.
    Peer’s efforts would have been judged a resounding success even if he’d stopped after
    August 1, when he recorded an unknown act called the Carter Family — a group that
    would come to be known as the First Family of country music. But on August 4, 1927,
    the Bristol Sessions took on truly historic dimensions when an itinerant, tubercular
    blues yodeler from rural Mississippi named Jimmie Rodgers walked into Peer’s studio.
    The recording session that followed would lay the foundation for Rodgers’s undisputed
    status as the “Father of Country Music.”

    Born in 1897 and raised back and forth between southeast Mississippi and southwest
    Alabama, Jimmie Rodgers followed his father into the railroad business, where he
    would earn one of his several famous nicknames, “the Singing Brakeman.” When
    tuberculosis forced Rodgers off the railroad in the mid-1920s, he began to
    pursue his longstanding passion for music professionally, first making
    a name for himself in western North Carolina through weekly
    appearances on WWNC out of Asheville. It was his decision
    to travel roughly 100 miles north through the Blue Ridge
    Mountains to the Bristol Sessions, however, that
    would make his career.

    In his first-ever recording session on this day in 1927, Rodgers cut two test recordings,
    “The Soldier’s Sweetheart” and “Sleep, Baby, Sleep,” which were released two months
    later on the Victor label to moderate success. His follow-up session in October 1927
    in Camden, however, yielded “Blue Yodel,” his first smash hit and the song that
    launched him on a short but brilliant career as a recording, radio and movie star.
    Rodgers died at the age of 35 of a lung hemorrhage on May 26, 1933.
    ==================
    WAITING FOR A TRAIN
    by Jimmie Rogers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbzc77Tz6PA
    ——————-
    WILDWOOD FLOWER
    by The Carter Family

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewnfWoSQz3o
    ——————

  105. August 3, 1977
    ===========
    On this day in 1977, “The Spy Who Loved Me,” starring Roger Moore as the suave superspy James Bond, known for his love of fast cars and dangerous women, was released in theaters across America. The film features one of the most memorable Bond cars of all time – a sleek, powerful Lotus Esprit sports car that does double duty as a submarine.

    As “The Spy Who Loved Me” begins, Bond is sent to investigate the hijacking of British and Soviet submarines loaded with nuclear warheads. To defeat his adversary, shipping tycoon Karl Stromberg (Curt Jurgens), and avert global nuclear war, Bond must free the captured submarines. In one of the film’s key sequences, Bond skillfully maneuvers his Lotus Esprit in order to save himself and his Soviet counterpart, the beautiful KGB agent Anya Amasova (Barbara Bach), from the attacks of Stromberg’s henchmen. With the sultry helicopter pilot Naomi (Caroline Munro) in pursuit along the coastal roads of Sardinia, Bond drives the Lotus off a pier into the ocean. The car transforms into a submarine, complete with tail fins and a periscope, and Bond is able to blast Naomi’s helicopter out of the sky with a sea-to-air missile.

    Two different Lotus Esprits were used in the production of “The Spy Who Loved Me,” including a specially modified model, dubbed “Wet Nellie,” for the filming of the underwater scenes, in Nassau, Bahamas. At the time of filming, the Lotus Esprit was the latest innovation by the Lotus Engineering Company, founded in 1952 by the British engineer and race car driver Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman. After debuting the original styling concept at the Turin Motorshow in 1972, Lotus unveiled the Esprit at the Paris Motor Show in October 1975 and launched its production the following year. Renowned designer Giorgetto Giugiaro (chosen by more than 100 automotive journalists around the world as the winner of the Car Designer of the Century award in 1999) provided the Esprit’s sleek styling. While critics praised the car’s lightweight frame and superior steering and handling, they gave it lesser marks for power, noise and other more minor points.

    In 1980, Lotus launched the Esprit Turbo, which made its own star turn in the 1981 Bond movie “For Your Eyes Only.” The company made continued improvements to the Esprit line throughout the next two decades, and in 1992 celebrated the 20th anniversary of the car’s initial introduction in Turin and its place among the world’s fastest and most respected sports cars. Esprit production ended in 2003.
    ——————–
    THE SPY WHO LOVED ME
    by Carly Simon

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaV-6qerkqI
    ——————-
    YOUR’E SO VAIN
    by Carly Simon

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQZmCJUSC6g
    ——————-

  106. August 3, 1949
    ===========
    On this day in 1949 – after a damaging three-year battle to win both players and
    fans – the rival Basketball Association of America (BAA) and National Basketball
    League (NBL) merged to form the National Basketball Association (NBA).

    The BAA incorporated in 1946, challenging the hegemony of the nine-year old NBL.
    The BAA established itself in bigger cities than the NBL, which existed only in small
    Midwestern cities like Fort Wayne, Sheboygan and Akron. While the NBL held its g
    ames in small gymnasiums, the upstart BAA played its games in large major-market
    arenas such as the Boston Garden and New York City’s Madison Square Garden. By
    the 1948-49 season, the BAA had begun to attract some of the country’s best players,
    and four NBL franchises – Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, Minneapolis and
    Rochester – moved to the BAA, bringing their star players with them. George Mikan,
    the biggest attraction in either league who by himself could virtually assure a team’s
    success, defected to the new league with the Minneapolis Lakers.

    On August 3, 1949, representatives from the two leagues met at the BAA offices in New York’s
    Empire State Building to finalize the merger. Maurice Podoloff, head of the BAA since its
    inception, was elected head of the new league. The new NBA was made up of
    17 teams that represented both small towns and large cities across the
    country. Through the 1950s, though, the number of teams dwindled,
    along with fan support, and by the 1954-55 season, only eight
    teams remained. That year, the league transformed the game with the
    creation of the 24-second clock, making play faster-paced and more fun to watch.
    Fans returned, and the league, now financially solvent, expanded throughout the 1960s
    and 70s. Today, the NBA has 30 franchises and attracts players — and millions of fans — from
    countries around the world.
    =============

  107. Hey Judith –
    It’s Friday afternoon — 8/4/17 — and we should go over 13,900 posts today.
    I think 14,000 should hit before the Summit in New Jersey – how cool is that. !!!

    I finished reading your last batch of posts, and some exciting stuff is going on – from
    exposing the junk medical ‘science’ as well as the new and beneficial things being
    explored and discovered. Thanks for the information. !!! pez

  108. August 2, 1982
    ===========
    Bassist James Jamerson – who laid the foundation of the Motown sound – died
    of pneumonia on this day in 1983.

    There was a time in pop history when you could hear a record for the very first time and
    have a pretty good chance of guessing where it was recorded. Record labels like Stax,
    Chess, Atlantic and Philadelphia International made the distinctive sounds of Memphis,
    Chicago, Muscle Shoals and Philadelphia internationally famous in the 1960s and early
    1970s. But for every fan of that era’s music who can pick out a record made in those
    cities, there are probably more who can pick out one that was made in Detroit, home of
    Motown Records and “The Sound of Young America.”

    When you think of Motown in the 1960s, you tend to think of performers like the Temptations
    and Marvin Gaye or legendary songwriters like Smokey Robinson and Holland/Dozier/Holland.
    But unless you’ve seen the 2002 documentary Standing In The Shadows of Motown, you
    probably don’t think of bassist James Jamerson. Along with men like drummer Benny
    Benjamin, pianist Earl Van Dyke, guitarist Richard White and percussionist Jack
    Ashford, James Jamerson was a member of the Funk Brothers — a rotating cast of unsung,
    uncredited and non-royalty earning studio musicians drawn from the cream of Detroit’s jazz scene
    who laid the foundation of the Motown sound.

    It was the Funk Brothers, working in a studio they called the Snake Pit in the basement of Motown’s
    Hitsville U.S.A. headquarters, who arranged, orchestrated and performed nearly every instrumental
    track of nearly every classic Motown record. It was James Jamerson’s unconventionally melodic
    bass lines that made many of those records great. “My Girl” by the Miracles, “You Keep Me
    Hangin’ On” by the Supremes, “What’s Going On?” by Marvin Gaye, “Dancing In The Street”
    by Martha and the Vandellas—these are among the dozens of timeless Motown hits to which
    Jamerson made a critical contribution.

    Unlike many of his fellow Funk Brothers, Jamerson moved west with Motown Records when it
    pulled up stakes and left Detroit for Los Angeles in 1972. His relationship with Motown ended
    shortly thereafter, however, and 10 years later, when the company celebrated its anniversary
    with the Motown 25 concert and broadcast, Jamerson was a paying member of the audience
    sitting in the back rows rather than an honored guest performing onstage.

    After a long struggle with alcoholism, James Jamerson died on August 2, 1983, at the age of 42.
    He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 17 years later, in March 2000.
    ==============

  109. August 1, 1981
    ===========
    “If advertisers make the video disco channel a success, the implications for cable television
    and the recording industry could be far reaching,” wrote a New York Times business columnist
    in the summer of 1981 about the upcoming premiere of a new cable television network dedicated
    exclusively to popular music. This prediction proved to be an understatement of historic
    proportions, though not exactly overnight. Though the premiere of MTV on this day in 1981 would
    later be seen as the beginning of a whole new era in popular culture, only a few thousand night-owl
    subscribers to a single northern New Jersey cable system were able to witness the televised revolution.

    It was just after midnight in the early morning hours of August 1, 1981, that the fledgling Music Television
    network flickered to life. “Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll” were the words that preceded on
    opening montage featuring a chunky guitar riff playing over the familiar image of an American
    astronaut planting an unfamiliar flag on the surface of the moon — a flag emblazoned with
    a big, block capital “M” and the smaller, handwritten letters “TV.” The video that followed
    was, famously and prophetically, “Video Killed The Radio Star” by the little-known
    English electronic new wave duo, the Buggles. Pat Benatar’s “You Better Run”
    followed, and from there a rotation that featured several songs and videos
    that might be considered classics of the early MTV era (e.g., “Rapture”
    by Blondie and “Love Stinks” by the J. Geils Band) and many more
    that might not (e.g., “Can’t Happen Here” by Rainbow and “Little
    Susie’s On The Up” by PhD).

    The roughly 80 different videos that made up that first week’s rotation on MTV probably
    represented nearly every promotional music video then available. This would change, of
    course, as MTV proved its ability to break new artists and as record labels responded
    with ever larger budgets for lavish video productions. But on that first night, as several
    employees of the fledgling MTV gathered to watch their creation in a New Jersey bar, it
    is impossible to say how many others actually joined them. Soon enough, however, MTV
    would spread to cable systems nationwide and begin to exert the cultural influence that
    has since been credited (or blamed) for everything from Flashdance and Miami Vice to
    Rick Astley and Attention Deficit Disorder
    ==============.

  110. Final thought of the day.
    Inspiration can come from all forms of expression. This comes from the actor LL Cool J,( who coincidently shares the same real name as my youngest brother Jim (James) Smith) , He was being interviewed on an Oprah show and asked how he done it with all the success he has had in life, and his only comment was “DDHD”. Translation: “Dreams don’t have deadlines……..Sounds like good advice to live by .

  111. Part II . On reincarnation. Earlier in the day I seen yet another story about a young child who says he can prove his reincarnation. Perhaps it was “fake news” as it disappeared almost as fast as it had appeared, so decided to do some follow up on these stories and settled on the two, one that came from a child too young to have much knowledge of the world, and the other you may find amusing. (1) Patricia Austrian’s 4 year old son Edward had a phobia of drizzly grey days. Then he developed a problem with his throat and started complaining of severe pain whenever he had a sore throat. He said that “his shot was hurting”. Edward then told very detailed stories about his previous life in the trenches in what was apparently WW1. He told her he had been shot in the throat and was killed. At first Drs. couldn’t find a cause for his sore throat and removed his tonsils as a precautionary measure. A cyst had developed in his throat and Drs. did not know how to treat it. As soon as Edward was prompted to tell his parents and others more details about his previous life and talk about how he was killed, the cyst disappeared and his Drs. never found out why or how the cyst had vanished. (2) A software engineer called Tony Tseung, an employee at Apple sent an E-mail to a Buddhist group in Thailand asking them if they could tell him what happened to founder Steve Jobs after he died. The answer was that Jobs is now a celestial philosopher in a glass palace that hovers over Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California. In Malaysia, a group of Jobs admirers performed a religious ceremony after his funeral. During the ceremony, the group each took a bite from an apple before throwing it into the sea to speed up the process of reincarnation. Phra Chaibul Dhammajoya. one of abbots at the Dhamakakaya Temple is convinced that Jobs has already been reborn and is a divine presence with a specified interest in science and art. His followers claim they have received this info through a special message that was broadcast world wide and more specific detail will be communicated when Jobs feels the need to pass on any knowledge or messages. (My personal message: Steve , the way things are going on down here, if you know something, don’t be holding out on us now!)

  112. The post today is a brief snippet from a book I am currently reading, and I found to be interesting .
    “Immortality of the soul, rather than the body , was around as a concept long before Jesus’s time. In the ancient Greek world it was promoted by the followers of the Athenian philosopher SOCRATES. ( 469-399BC) . PLATO maintained in the 4th century BC that mind, not matter , was the root of reality. . Even earlier , Pythagoras (570-500BC) expounded the doctrine of reincarnation : The idea that upon death in one life, the soul enters another body, and begins life anew, indeed, belief in reincarnation is common place to many religions including Hinduism and Buddhism.” Hopefully Part 2 of this post will be coming shortly. Meanwhile LOVE is the answer !

  113. July 31, 1990
    ==========
    Nolan Ryan won the 300th game of his career, throwing 7 2/3 strong innings with
    eight strikeouts to lead the Texas Rangers to an 11-3 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers.

    Lynn Nolan Ryan, Jr. was born January 31, 1947, in Refugio, Texas and raised in Alvin, southeast
    of Houston. As a high school sophomore, he was scouted by Red Murff of the New York Mets.
    Ryan’s coach told Murff of the young pitcher’s intimidating fastballs, so powerful they had
    broken catchers’ bones. Murff was impressed: His report to the Mets said Ryan had the
    “best arm I’ve ever seen in my life.”

    Ryan’s work ethic was the secret to his success. A believer in the theory that pitching power,
    as well as consistency and endurance, comes from the legs, not the arms, Ryan ran every day.
    In 1983, he broke the legendary Walter Johnson’s career strikeout record. His historic 300th
    victory came in his 24th season in the majors, his second with the Texas Rangers.

    Ryan had failed in his first bid for a 300th win the week before, pitching at his home stadium
    in Arlington, Texas. His second attempt came against the Brewers in front of a friendly crowd
    in Milwaukee. Ryan improved as the game went on, and by the fifth inning, the Rangers had
    taken a 5-1 lead. Ryan rung up two strikeouts in the fifth, one in the sixth and two more in
    the seventh inning. With two outs in the eighth, a defensive error put two runners on base,
    but with a crowd of 55,000 rooting him on, Ryan once again summoned the fastball that had
    won him 299 previous games. The talented young Gary Sheffield popped-out on a 96
    mile-per-hour fastball to end the inning. After the Rangers tacked on insurance runs and the
    bullpen closed it out for an 11-3 win, Ryan became the fourth-oldest 300-game winner in
    baseball history after Phil Neikro, Gaylord Perry and Early Wynn.

    Nolan Ryan pitched for 27 years in the big leagues, with the Mets, Angels, Astros and Rangers.
    He struck out 5,714 batters in his career, breaking his own record 2,206 times. Ryan went
    324-292 for his career, with a 3.19 career ERA. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999.
    ======================

  114. July 31, 1975
    =========
    On July 31, 1975, James Riddle Hoffa – one of the most influential American labor
    leaders of the 20th century – disappeared in Detroit, Michigan, never to be heard
    from again. Though he is popularly believed to have been the victim of a Mafia hit,
    conclusive evidence was never found, and Hoffa’s death remains shrouded in
    mystery to this day.

    Born in 1913 to a poor coal miner in Brazil, Indiana, Jimmy Hoffa proved a natural leader
    in his youth. At the age of 20, he helped organize a labor strike in Detroit, and remained
    an advocate for downtrodden workers for the rest of his life. Hoffa’s charisma and talents
    as a local organizer quickly got him noticed by the Teamsters and carried him upward
    through its ranks. Then a small but rapidly growing union, the Teamsters organized
    truckers across the country, and through the use of strikes, boycotts and some more
    powerful though less legal methods of protest, won contract demands on behalf of workers.

    Hoffa became president of the Teamsters in 1957, when its former leader was imprisoned
    for bribery. As chief, Hoffa was lauded for his tireless work to expand the union, and for
    his unflagging devotion to even the organization’s least powerful members. His caring
    and approachability were captured in one of the more well-known quotes attributed to
    him: “You got a problem? Call me. Just pick up the phone.”

    Hoffa’s dedication to the worker and his electrifying public speeches made him wildly
    popular, both among his fellow workers and the politicians and businessmen with
    whom he negotiated. Yet, for all the battles he fought and won on behalf of American
    drivers, he also had a dark side. In Hoffa’s time, many Teamster leaders partnered with
    the Mafia in racketeering, extortion and embezzlement. Hoffa himself had relationships
    with high-ranking mobsters, and was the target of several government investigations
    throughout the 1960s. In 1967, he was convicted of bribery and sentenced to 13 years in prison.

    While in jail, Hoffa never ceded his office, and when Richard Nixon commuted his sentence
    in 1971, he was poised to make a comeback. Released on condition of not participating in
    union activities for 10 years, Hoffa was planning to fight the restriction in court when he
    disappeared on July 31, 1975, from the parking lot of a restaurant in Detroit, not far from
    where he got his start as a labor organizer. Several conspiracy theories have been floated
    about Hoffa’s disappearance and the location of his remains, but the truth remains unknown.
    =================

  115. July 30, 2003
    ===========
    On this day in 2003, the last of 21,529,464 Volkswagen Beetles built since World War II rolled
    off the production line at Volkswagen’s plant in Puebla, Mexico. One of a 3,000-unit final
    edition, the baby-blue vehicle was sent to a museum in Wolfsburg, Germany, where
    Volkswagen is headquartered.

    The car produced in Puebla that day was the last so-called “classic” VW Beetle, which is not to
    be confused with the redesigned new Beetle that Volkswagen introduced in 1998. (The new
    Beetle resembles the classic version but is based on the VW Golf.) The roots of the classic
    Beetle stretch back to the mid-1930s, when the famed Austrian automotive engineer
    Dr. Ferdinand Porsche met German leader Adolf Hitler’s request for a small,
    affordable passenger car to satisfy the transportation needs of the German
    people Hitler called the result the KdF (Kraft-durch-Freude)-Wagen
    (or “Strength-Through-Joy” car) after a Nazi-led movement
    ostensibly aimed at helping the working people of Germany; it would later
    be known by the name Porsche preferred: Volkswagen, or “people’s car.”

    The first production-ready Kdf-Wagen debuted at the Berlin Motor Show in 1939; the
    international press soon dubbed it the “Beetle” for its distinctive rounded shape. During
    World War II, the factory in Kdf-stat (later renamed Wolfsburg) continued to make
    Beetles, though it was largely dedicated to production of war vehicles. Production
    was halted under threat of Allied bombing in August 1944 and did not resume until after
    the war, under British control. Though VW sales were initially slower in the United States
    compared with the rest of the world, by 1960 the Beetle was the top-selling import in
    America, thanks to an iconic ad campaign by the firm Doyle Dane Bernbach. In 1972, the
    Beetle surpassed the longstanding worldwide production record of 15 million vehicles,
    set by Ford Motor Company’s legendary Model T between 1908 and 1927. It also became
    a worldwide cultural icon, featuring prominently in the hit 1969 movie “The Love Bug”
    (which starred a Beetle named Herbie) and on the cover of the Beatles album
    “Abbey Road.”

    In 1977, however, the Beetle, with its rear-mounted, air-cooled-engine, was banned in America
    for failing to meet safety and emission standards. Worldwide sales of the car shrank by the late
    1970s and by 1988, the classic Beetle was sold only in Mexico. Due to increased competition
    from other manufacturers of inexpensive compact cars, and a Mexican decision to phase
    out two-door taxis, Volkswagen decided to discontinue production of the classic bug in
    2003. The final count of 21,529,464, incidentally, did not include the original 600 cars
    built by the Nazis prior to World War II.
    ==============
    MAXWELL’S SILVER HAMMER
    by The Beatles

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVVMBxkZvX0
    ————

  116. NEW EM DRIVE ENGINE

    After months of speculation and leaked documents, NASA’s long-awaited EM Drive paper has finally been peer-reviewed and published. And it shows that the ‘impossible’ propulsion system really does appear to work. The NASA Eagleworks Laboratory team even put forward a hypothesis for how the EM Drive could produce thrust – something that seems impossible according to our current understanding of the laws of physics.

    The EM Drive, or Electromagnetic Drive, is a propulsion system first proposed by British inventor Roger Shawyer back in 1999. Instead of using heavy, inefficient rocket fuel, it bounces microwaves back and forth inside a cone-shaped metal cavity to generate thrust. According to Shawyer’s calculations, the EM Drive could be so efficient that it could power us to Mars in just 70 days.

    But, there’s a not-small problem with the system. It defies Newton’s third law, which states that everything must have an equal and opposite reaction. According to the law, for a system to produce thrust, it has to push something out the other way. The EM Drive doesn’t do this. Yet in test after test it continues to work Laboratory team got their hands on an EM Drive to try to figure out once and for all what was going on. And now we finally have those results.

    The new paper is titled “Measurement of Impulsive Thrust from a Closed Radio-Frequency Cavity in Vacuum“, published online in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)’s Journal of Propulsion and Power.Thrust data from forward, reverse, and null suggested that the system was consistently performing at 1.2 ± 0.1 mN/kW. It’s likely that the EM Drive can get a lot more efficient.

    “The supporting physics model used to derive a force based on operating conditions in the test article can be categorized as a nonlocal hidden-variable theory, or pilot-wave theory for short.” But in recent years, the pilot-wave theory has been increasing in popularity, and the NASA team suggests that it could help explain how the EM Drive produces thrust without appearing to propel anything in the other direction. “If a medium is capable of supporting acoustic oscillations, this means that the internal constituents were capable of interacting and exchanging momentum.”

    “If the vacuum is indeed mutable and degradable as was explored, then it might be possible to do/extract work on/from the vacuum, and thereby be possible to push off of the quantum vacuum and preserve the laws of conservation of energy and conservation of momentum.” The next step for the EM Drive is for it to be tested in space, which is scheduled to happen in the coming months. If it produces thrust there, the scientific community will need to sit up and take note.

    Excerpt from Filer’s File #29
    George A. Filer III
    July 15, 2017

    New technology arising! Thought some of you guys might like. Yay … jc

  117. CHEMICALS BANNED IN KIDS’ TOYS FOUND IN MAC AND CHEESE

    By HumansAreFree

    Boxed macaroni and cheese is often a favorite food among youngsters, but a recent study suggests the packaged food contains dangerous, endocrine-disrupting chemicals that have been banned in toys: phthalates. [1]

    Phthalates are a group of toxic additives in plastics.

    They’re used to make plastics soft and flexible, and are commonly found in artificial fragrances, inks, coatings, adhesives, and other consumer and industrial products, the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) explains.

    These chemicals are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in equipment and materials for food handling, processing, and packaging.

    Because of this, phthalates often wind up in high-fat, highly-processed foods.

    The Coalition for Safer Food Processing & Packaging – which includes the NRDC – recently sent a small sample of mac and cheese and other popular cheese-food items for laboratory testing, and received some unsettling results.

    Phthalates were found in 10 varieties of macaroni and cheese, including 8 out of 9 Kraft products. [2]

    It’s Time to Remove Phthalates from Food Products.

    The coalition believes the federal government should step in to regulate and ultimately ban phthalates, but since that is unlikely to happen anytime soon, the onus is on Kraft Heinz to remove phthalates from its food products.

    Kraft not only has the largest market for powdered cheese in the industry, but the company has taken action in the past to remove unsafe ingredients from its products (largely due to increasing consumer pressure).

    For example, in 2016, the company quietly removed artificial dyes from its Mac & Cheese recipe and replaced them with paprika, annatto, and turmeric.

    In total, the coalition tested 30 samples – 10 cheese powder, 5 sliced cheese, and 15 natural cheese samples – and 29 of them were found to contain phthalates.

    Some of the products tested were labeled organic. The highest levels of phthalates were found in the powdered macaroni and cheese samples.

    Mike Belliveau, the executive director of the Environmental Health Strategy Center, said:

    “The phthalates concentrations in powder from mac and cheese mixes were more than 4 times higher than in block cheese and other natural cheeses like shredded cheese, string cheese, and cottage cheese.” [3]
    These chemicals are accidentally making their way into the food system, via processing and packaging. It’s not that Kraft workers are standing over giant vats of powdered cheese, dumping phthalates into them.

    The key to keeping dangerous substances out of the bellies of hungry kiddos is to ensure safer food processing and packaging methods are in place. [2]

    The European Union (EU) has already taken the crucial step of banning phthalates in food contact materials.

    Coalition member Peter Lehner said in a statement:

    “Parents and their children should not have to wait longer to know that their food does not contain toxic chemicals. We are asking manufacturers to act now.”

    No word from Kraft Heinz just yet.

    Tom Neltner, the chemicals policy director for the Environmental Defense Fund, said:

    “A chemical is not allowed in food unless there is a reasonable certainty it will cause no harm. We don’t think the FDA can say there is a reasonable certainty of no harm.” [3]

    Phthalate Dangers:

    Once you consume phthalates, they can travel through your bloodstream to your organs.

    Prenatal phthalate exposure is especially concerning, since the chemicals can easily cross from the mother’s body into the placenta. Phthalates can also wind up in breast milk. [1]

    Researchers have linked prenatal phthalate exposure to impaired neurological development in children, lower IQ, learning and memory impairment, and antisocial behavior.

    Boys that are exposed to phthalates in-utero run the risk of genital defects.

    In 2008, Congress prohibited the use of DEHP, a chemical known to negatively affect the development of the testicles and the production of normal sperm in young animals, in toys and childcare products.

    It is considered a “gender-bending” chemical because it can cause males of all species to adopt more female traits.

    In 2015, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) proposed a ban on several additional phthalates used in toys and other children’s products, but the proposal has yet to be finalized.

    A report released in late 2015 showed that more than 81% of 164 dollar-store products tested contained concerning levels of at least 1 toxic chemical.

    Everything from toys to jewelry, to personal care products contained chemicals that were carcinogenic, or otherwise hazardous.

    By Julie Fidler, Guest author / Sources:
    [1] Natural Resources Defense Council
    [2] New York Daily News
    [3] Popsugar

    Judith

  118. ORIGINAL 13TH AMENDMENT WITH CONNECTICUT
    STATE LIBRARY EMBOSSED SEAL

    I’m looking at a copy of the Original Article 13 to the Constitution, which I will quote here:

    “Citizenship forfeited by the acceptance, from a foreign power, of any title of nobility, office or emolument of any kind.” (See ante, art. 1, S 9, cl. 2).

    “If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive, or retain any title of nobility or honor, or shall, without the consent of congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office, or emolument of any kind whatever, form any emperor, king, prince or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them.”

    This included excluding judges, lawyers, etc. from holding an office of trust in the Congress or Senate of the United States. To keep our government from being hijacked. Although all the states did ratify it legally, it took time and was ‘overlooked’ for awhile in the course of dramatic national events of the time. Of course, when ‘somebody’ realized the grave error and deceit, somehow it was ‘replaced’ in history with the 13th Amendment that supposedly “freed the slaves” (which is really the 14th Amendment). All we have to do is reinstate this to its full correctness and enforce it, and it could be viable to possibly let a few of them go, wouldn’t you say? President Trump would have more fun pointing his finger while saying his most famous line yet, “You’re fired!” and draining the swamp by quite a few more personalities all at once. He’s had some more practice just this week! Bye bye.

    There will be change and peace and prosperity coming in our futures. But first we must get through the rest of all this chaos and collapse of our hijacked and out-of-control Big Brother government. Bring on the TVP!!

    Judith

  119. SCIENTISTS HAVE FOUND A WAY TO REVERSE
    ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE

    The Rumor Mill News Reading Room
    Posted by Lymerick
    January 30, 2017

    In Brief: At least 50% of antibiotic use in the United States is estimated to be inappropriate and unnecessary, which contributes to the antibiotic resistance pandemic. Antibiotic resistance continues to be an increasing concer, primarily in children and the elderly.

    The Fight Against The Superbug: When Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928, it was one of the world’s first true antibiotics to ever be successful in eliminating infectious disease. Since then, antibiotics have been essential to preventing avoidable diseases.

    But a troubling reality faces us all. Throughout all of Earth’s evolutionary history, multicellular organisms have continually changed and adapted. But unicellular bacteria evolve so quickly, that a majority are now resistant to a wide array of antibiotics. The problem of antibiotic resistance is so serous, that the United Nations placed it at crisis level, along with HIV.

    As a response, scientists have taken on the challenge to solving this global pandemic. One group of scientists from Oregon State University (OSU) recently discovered a weapon in fighting antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Their findings were recently published in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. (End)

    For anyone facing this challenge, getting ahold of this information might be crucial. I have no idea if this publication would be available online or not!?

    Judith

  120. CHEMOTHERAPY MAY SPREAD CANCER AND TRIGGER
    MORE AGGRESSIVE TUMORS, SAYS NEW RESEARCH!

    Alex Pietrowski, Staff Writer
    WAKING TIMES
    July 8, 2017

    The world spent over $100 billion a year on cancer drugs in 2015, a year in which the world’s highest paid CEO made his killing from cancer patients. Much of this is spent on chemotherapy, which is well-known to weaken patients, sacrifice their immune systems and make them susceptible to co-infections, diseases and other complications.

    In addition to these side-effects, it has now been discovered that while chemotherapy does kill cancer cells, it can also trigger cancer cells to disperse throughout the body triggering more aggressive tumors to develop in the lungs and other vital bodily systems.

    A new research study conducted by Dr. George Karagiannis of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in New York explains how this works. Entitled, Neoadjuvant chemotherapy induces breast cancer metastasis through a TMEM-mediated mechanism, Dr. Karagiannis’ study focused on breast cancer patients, looking at the unintended consequences of chemo.

    Many are given chemotherapy before surgery, but the new research suggests that, although it shrinks tumours in the short term, it could trigger the spread of cancer cells around the body.

    It is thought the toxic medication switches on a repair mechanism in the body which ultimately allows tumours to grow back stronger. It also increases the number of ‘doorways’ on blood vessels which allow cancer to spread throughout the body.

    In short, chemotherapy is now shown to in some cases increase the likelihood that cancer will spread throughout the patient’s body. The cancer cells are reacting to chemotherapy by dispersing throughout the body to look for new hosts.

    By studying the process of intravasation or entry of cells into the vasculature, Karagiannis et al. discovered that, in addition to killing tumor cells, chemotherapy treatment can also increase intravasation. Groups of cells collectively known as tumor microenvironment of metastasis (TMEM) can serve as gateways for tumor cells entering the vasculature, and the authors discovered that several types of chemotherapy can increase the amounts of TMEM complexes and circulating tumor cells in the bloodstream.

    Karagiannis discovered that mice exposed to chemotherapy saw an increase the number of cancer cells circulating throughout the body and lungs. This research finally offers a scientific explanation of why so many patients see their cancer spread into other parts of their bodies once chemo/radiation treatment begins.

    Having isolated this effect in breast cancer cases only, the research opens the door to examine the possibility of this happening in patients with other types of cancer who choose chemotherapy.

    “In this study we only investigated chemotherapy-induced cancer cell dissemination in breast cancer. We are currently working on other types of cancer to see if similar effects are elicited.” ~ Dr. George Karagiannis

    FINAL THOUGHTS

    There are many approaches to treating cancer, and shockingly many of the natural approaches which require few if any drugs are actually illegal in our society. Furthermore, regarding breast cancer, mammograms are known to be dangerous, the number of false positive cancer test results is shockingly high, and in many cases women are being treated for cancer when they don’t even have it.

    The preferred mainstream cancer treatment has become a means of capitalizing on human suffering, and while it has long been suspected that chemo can do more harm than good, we now have research indicating that this is indeed the case. Dr. Karagiannis’ study adds a very significant piece of the puzzle of why the contemporary model of cancer care should be abandoned in favor of natural treatments. (End)

    We must demand naturopathic, organic treatments as much as we can!! Thanks for reading.

    Judith

  121. FOR AMERICA TO SURVIVE, WE MUST DECLARE INDEPENDENCE
    FROM BIG PHARMA’S FAILED MEDICAL MONOPOLY!

    NATURAL NEWS
    July 6, 2017

    Although suddenly everyone is aware of the looming financial collapse of the State of Illinois, almost no one is aware of why it’s actually happening. And the lying mainstream media — purveyors of fake news— won’t dare tell you the real truth: Illinois is being bankrupted by Big Pharma and the failed “sick care” medical establishment.

    With a current payables backlog of $15 billion it owes to contractors that include “sick care” providers, Illinois also owes $251 billion in future pension benefits that include health care coverage. That’s a quarter of a trillion dollars for a state that is so far beyond broke that even mainstream news organizations are calling its financial situation “catastrophic.”

    On top of that, a recent court ruling demands the state now pay $586 million per month to catch up on all the unpaid Medicaid bills it owes doctors, hospitals, cancer clinics and drug companies. State comptroller Susana Mendoza says, “Friday’s ruling would cause her to likely have to cut payments to the state’s pension funds, state payroll or payments to local governments,” according to the Chicago Tribune. “As if the governor and legislators needed any more reason to compromise and settle on a comprehensive budget plan immediately, Friday’s ruling by the U.S. District Court takes the state’s finances from horrific to catastrophic,” said Mendoza.

    LIKE ALL THE OTHER STATES, ILLINOIS HAS FLUSHED BILLIONS DOWN THE TOILET TO ENRICH BIG PHARMA’S FAILED “SICK CARE” TREATMENTS.

    The real reason Illinois is going broke is because the health care system in America is technically a legal drug cartel … a profiteering monopoly that transfers economic wealth from the citizens to the pockets of drug companies.

    A literal conspiracy across the FDA and state medical boards criminalizes natural medicine while pushing high-priced prescription drugs that cure nothing and only guarantee repeat business for the pharma drug cartels. The result is a massive, nationwide “wealth extraction” operation run by the drug companies, and Illinois is just the first of many states that will financially crumble under the burden of monopoly-priced medicine that fails to prevent disease in the first place.

    Even as we’re watching Illinois implode under the financial burden of a failed health care system, almost no one is talking about the real source of the problem: The drug cartels and their monopoly over medicine. In the same way that Colombia was transformed into a “narco state” in the 1980s by the lucrative cocaine trade cocaine, today’s United States of America has collapsed into a “pharma state” where drug company interests dominate the politics.

    TO SAVE AMERICA, WE MUST DECLARE INDEPENDENCE FROM BIG PHARMA’S DRUG CARTELS.

    America spends almost one out of every four dollars of its GDP on “sick care” services. This is largely money that’s spent on a broken health care system dominated by Big Pharma’s toxic drugs that simply don’t work to prevent sickness and disease. This disastrous drug cartel serves only to transfer wealth from the population to the pockets of drug company shareholders and CEOs, and if America is to financially survive, it must reject this failed system of unaffordable, toxic medicine.

    The FDA’s federally-enforced drug monopoly must end, and we as a nation must legalize natural medicine for everyone, including protecting doctors and health practitioners who wish to prescribe natural medicine to their patients (but will currently lose their medical licenses if they attempt such things).

    The primary enforcer of the toxic pharmaceutical cartels that are bankrupting America — the FDA — must be gutted from top to bottom. The agency serves as nothing but a drug-pushing protection racket enforcer, targeting natural medicine manufacturers for destruction while colluding with drug companies to keep dangerous, costly prescription medications widely available even when they are killing hundreds of thousands of Americans each year. Thanks to the FDA, for example, prescription opioid deaths have now surpassed all gun-related deaths in America. The result is the acceleration toward bankruptcy at every level of our economy: Cities, states and even nations are facing imminent financial collapse because they’ve spent fortunes on monopoly-priced medications that have accomplished nothing other than enriching the Big Pharma drug cartel.

    When a single state in America must now pay over half a billion dollars per month just to barely keep up with what it owes the medical system, you know something has gone terribly wrong and the system is unsustainable.

    Big Pharma is a dangerous parasite on the U.S. economy and it will bankrupt everything if we don’t stop it. All the Republican talk about health care reform and “free market” solutions is just smoke and mirrors unless you address the pharma drug cartels and the FDA-enforced monopoly that criminalizes natural medicine, a safe, affordable and highly effective alternative to toxic prescription medications.

    In fact, I’ll make a bold prediction here: Any state or nation that does not free itself from the economic death grip of the pharma drug cartels will eventually face financial collapse. Paying more and more money to a monopoly-protected corporate monstrosity that sells toxic chemicals to sick people is not merely unsustainable, it is stupid beyond belief. Yet this remains the default plan of both Republicans and Democrats in Washington, nearly all of whom are prostitutes for the pharmaceutical industry.

    Listen to my podcast videos to learn more details about why the Big Pharma drug cartels are so dangerous to America. (End)

    It’s a sad state of affairs and I’m sure we can all agree with this assessment. What are they going to do when we all have our healing devices and they can’t touch us and we don’t need them any more? The C of U is coming! A new day is dawning …

    Judith

  122. THE ROOT CAUSE OF CANCER AND WHY IT HAS BEEN KEPT A SECRET!

    By CORESPIRIT
    July 16, 2017

    The Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Otto H. Warburg, had devoted his life to the study of and cause of cancer.

    Dr. Warburg was one of the 20th centuries leading biologists, and he discovered that the root cause of cancer is too much acidity in the body, meaning that the pH in the body is below the normal level of 7.365, which constitutes an “acidic” state.

    Warburg investigated the metabolism of tumors and the respiration of cells and discovered that cancer cells maintain and thrive in a lower pH, as low as 6.0, due to lactic acid production and elevated CO2. He firmly believed that there was a direct relationship between pH and oxygen.

    Higher pH, which is Alkaline, means higher concentration of oxygen molecules, while lower pH, which is acidic, means lower concentrations of oxygen…the same oxygen that is needed to maintain healthy cells.

    In 1931 Dr. Warburg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for this important discovery. He stated, “Cancerous tissues are acidic, whereas healthy tissues are alkaline. Water splits into H+ and OH- ions, if there is and excess of H+, it is acidic; if there is an excess of OH- ions, then it is alkaline”.

    In his work ‘The Metabolism of Tumours’ Warburg demonstrated that “all forms of cancer are characterized by two basic conditions: acidosis and hypoxia (lack of oxygen). Lack of oxygen and acidosis are two sides of the same coin: where you have one, you have the other.”

    “All normal cells have an absolute requirement for oxygen, but cancer cells can live without oxygen – a rule without exception. Deprive a cell 35% of its oxygen for 48 hours and it may become cancerous.”

    Dr. Warburg has made it clear that the root cause of cancer is oxygen deficiency, which creates an acidic state in the human body. Dr. Warburg also discovered that cancer cells are anaerobic (do not breathe oxygen) and cannot survive in the presence of high levels of oxygen, as found in an alkaline state. (End)

    I had published this fact here quite some time back on the site, however, here is the article that shows it. I had read about it somewhere else. Important information to have. One can check their pH daily with test strips you can get at the pharmacist and take steps to bring it back up if the level has dropped. I don’t see where the article gave the reason WHY this major news has been withheld for so long, however, I believe we may all be able to ascertain that for ourselves, right? Big Business – Big Pharma …

    Time for us to bring about our new world, the C of U, where none of this type of lies will ever exist again! Thanks to Mark Hamilton and Dr. Wallace for their genius.

    Judith

    Judith

  123. CANADIAN STUDY GIVES MORE EVIDENCE CANCER
    IS A LIFESTYLE DISEASE LARGELY CAUSED BY FOOD

    Alex Pietrowski, Staff Writer
    Waking Times

    Shockingly, worldwide cancer rates are predicted to rise even further, and that by the year 2020, 1-in-2 women and 1-in-3 men will be diagnosed with some form of cancer. It is so common already, in fact, that it getting cancer is more common than getting married or having a first baby.

    The cancer industrial complex is negligent in warning people who chemotherapy is now known to actually make some cancers spread and make some tumors more aggressive. Government and its myriad regulatory agencies work diligently to prevent access to natural or alternative cancer treatments, and doctors and the mainstream media give the impression that the causes of cancer are a mystery.

    In reality, one can significantly reduce the likelihood of getting cancer by making lifestyle changes, and according to a recently published study out of Canada found that the total proportion of cancer rates which can be attributed to lifestyle and environmental factors is quite high, nearing 41%.

    Regarding the methods used in the study:

    We estimated summary population attributable risk estimates for 24 risk factors (smoking [both passive and active], overweight and obesity, inadequate physical activity, diet [inadequate fruit and vegetable consumption, inadequate fibre intake, excess red and processed meat consumption, salt consumption, inadequate calcium and vitamin D intake], alcohol, hormones [oral contraceptives and hormone therapy], infections [Epstein-Barr virus, hepatitis B and C viruses, human papillomavirus, Helicobacter pylori], air pollution, natural and artificial ultraviolet radiation, radon and water disinfection by-products) by combining population attributable risk estimates for each of the 24 factors that had been previously estimated.

    The list above essentially outlines the wide range of personal choices we know can increase the risk of cancer, mainly pointing out that food causes cancer. Along with exercise, and common avoidable environmental factors, cancer is somewhat preventable.

    Overall, we estimated that 40.8% of incident cancer cases were attributable to exposure to the 24 factors included in the analysis (Table 2). Tobacco smoking was responsible for the greatest cancer burden, accounting for an estimated 15.7% of all incident cancer cases (2485 cases), followed by physical inactivity and excess body weight, which were responsible for an estimated 7.2% and 4.3% of incident cancer cases, respectively. All other exposures of interest were estimated to be responsible for less than 4.0% of incident cancer cases each. [Source]
    Within this information is the revelation that so much of our food system works against good health. Perhaps the greatest secret here in all of this is the growing awareness of the negative affects that consumption of sugar has on human health. Now, some 80% of all packaged products contain some form of fructose, and sugar has been identified as a top cause of the global cancer epidemic.

    FINAL THOUGHTS
    In the face of such frightening statistical evidence on rising cancer rates, it is imperative to remember that the individual has more control over their health than the mainstream would have us believe.

    About The Author:
    Alex Pietrowski is an artist and writer concerned with preserving good health and the basic freedom to enjoy a healthy lifestyle. He is a staff writer for WakingTimes.com and Offgrid Outpost, a provider of storable food and emergency kits. Alex is an avid student of Yoga and life.

    Yes, we have more control as there are cures for every known cancer! And the power of our mind to cure ourselves. Worth taking some time to learn about. Hope you found this information to be helpful.

    Judith

  124. July 29, 2017 – Thanks for keeping this site going, you guys. Still major Pete and his history lessons, etc. – David, Forest and Carol … and yay! Wayne’s back posting as of last weekend. I’m so happy you made it through all your many challenges that week as we all rooted for you, our brother. You are one tough Cowboy!! YOU called on all the forces and powers in the Universe to help you and they answered. This is a real (and still living) example of Epigenetics, my Neo-Friends. Mind over matter – and not the “if you don’t mind, it don’t matter” kind – since it mattered so very much. I’m enjoying your posts as much or maybe much more than ever before … and good subject matter, as well.

    Just a note to say hi and express my gratitude that we members support each other the way we do and it works! I hate to use the lyrics of an old tune, but “SO GLAD YOU MADE IT!” REBEL YELL FOR WAYNE!!! Plus a little Wahoooo on the end for good measure! Have a great Saturday, everybody!

    Love sent out to you all and the world! Judith

  125. 7-YEAR-OLD BOY FINDS MASSIVE PREHISTORIC SHARK TOOTH AT SOUTH CAROLINA BEACH
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    A young shark enthusiast vacationing with his family in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, stumbled upon the find of a lifetime — a tooth belonging to the largest shark to ever exist.

    Virginia-native Foster Frazier, 7, was digging along the side of a stream at the tourist hotspot when he uncovered the nearly 5-inch tooth, which reportedly belonged to a prehistoric megalodon.

    The megalodon, which went extinct 2.6 million years ago, is estimated to have been between 52 and 59 feet long, which is nearly three times the size of an average great white shark.

    The beasts could weigh up to 110 tons and had a bite more powerful than a Tyrannosaurus rex, making them quite a terror for ocean dwellers.

    Tina Frazier, Foster’s mother, said her entire family couldn’t even believe their eyes when her son held up his prehistoric find, which they first thought was just a large, sand-covered rock.

    “His father, myself, and his younger brother were downstream from him at the time and heard him yelling what he’d found and saw him holding it up,” Frazier told the Sun News. “We were speechless.”

    Photo of Tooth of Megalodon vs. Great White Shark. For comparison: The tooth of a Great White Shark (left) next to the tooth of a Megalodon (right). It’s about ten times the size!
    Photo: Getty

    “Foster has always loved sharks, every book he reads is about sharks, every shirt he wears has a shark in it, and he has always told us he was going to find a megalodon tooth one day,” Frazier told the local outlet. (End)

    Wow, that baby boy attracted that by calling it to him … that’s amazing! My son is a total shark nut, as well. A shark was his first drawing and he became an aquatics expert with fresh and saltwater tanks. Pretty cool!

    Thanks Mark Hamilton for this venue to bring forward knowledge and information! It’s still going – sorry I’ve been gone a lot lately, guys!

    Judith

  126. July 29, 1996
    ==========
    On this day in 1996, track and field legend Carl Lewis won his fourth consecutive Olympic
    gold medal in the long jump. It was the ninth and final Olympic gold of his storied career.

    Frederick Carlton Lewis was born July 11, 1961, in Birmingham, Alabama, and raised in a middle-class
    community in New Jersey. As a teenager, Lewis met Olympic champion Jesse Owens, who became
    his hero. He participated in track and field, but was undersized until high school, when he grew
    the long legs that help a sprinter cover ground and underwent a huge growth spurt that
    forced him to walk with crutches for three months while he fine-tuned his gait. Once
    fully developed at 6 feet 2 inches tall, Lewis set a national high school record in
    the long jump with a 26-foot-8-inch leap.

    After a standout career at the University of Houston, Lewis won the 100 meters, 200 meters and
    the long jump at the 1983 National Championships, and entered the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles
    as the top-ranked sprinter in the world. There, he met his goal of four gold medals, winning
    the long jump, the 100 meters, the 200 meters and anchoring the victorious U.S. team
    In the 4 x 100 meter relay.

    Four years later, at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, Lewis lost the 100 meters to Canada’s Ben
    Johnson but won gold in the long jump with a distance of 28’ 7 ”. After it was found he had
    used performance-enhancing drugs, Johnson was stripped of the gold medal, which was
    then awarded to Lewis. The 1992 Olympics – the third of his career – was another triumph
    for Lewis. He again brought home gold in the 4 x 100 meter relay and in the long jump – his
    third long jump gold in a row – this time with a distance of 28’ 5;”.

    By the time the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta rolled around, Lewis was 35 years old. Though he
    was still admired around the world for his previous Olympic triumphs, he had barely
    managed to qualify for the U.S. team in the long jump and most experts believed
    he’d be lucky to medal, let alone win another gold. Going into the last of his
    three jumps, Lewis trailed Emmanuel Bangue of France and his leading j
    ump of 26’ 10” by two inches. Lewis took off cleanly after a smooth
    sprint and landed face down, but knowing instinctively that
    the jump had secured him first place, he quickly got to
    his feet and raised his arms in triumph. His mark
    of 27’ 10” was his longest in two years – a full foot ahead of
    Bangue — and good enough for his fourth consecutive gold in the long jump.

    The win at Atlanta made Lewis the first Olympian since American
    discus thrower Al Oerter to win the same event four times. His
    career is considered among the greatest in track and field history.
    ==============

  127. July 29, 1967
    ==========
    By the beginning of 1967, The Doors were well-established members of the Los Angeles
    music scene. As the house band at the Whiskey a Go Go on the Sunset Strip, they had
    built a large local following and strong industry buzz, and out on the road, they were
    fast becoming known as a band that might typically receive third billing, but could blow
    better-known groups like The Young Rascals and The Grateful Dead off the stage. It
    would have been poetic if their popular breakthrough had come via their now-classic
    debut single, “Break On Through,” but that record failed to make the national sales
    charts despite the efforts of Jim Morrison and his bandmates to fuel the song’s
    popularity by repeatedly calling in requests for it to local L.A. radio stations. It was the
    follow-up release from their debut album, The Doors, which would become their first
    bona fide smash. “Light My Fire,” which earned the top spot in the Billboard Hot 100
    on this day in 1967, transformed The Doors from cult favorites of the rock cognoscenti
    into international pop stars and avatars of the 60s counterculture.

    As “Light My Fire” climbed the charts in June and early July, The Doors were out on the
    East Coast, still plugging away as an opening act (e.g., for Simon and Garfunkel in Forest
    Hills, Queens) and as sometime-headliners (e.g., in a Greenwich, Connecticut, high-
    school auditorium). When the group topped the charts in late July, Jim Morrison
    celebrated by buying his now-famous skintight black-leather suit and
    beginning to hobnob with the likes of the iconic model/muse Nico
    at drug-fueled parties held by Andy Warhol.

    Attempting to keep Morrison grounded were not only his fellow Doors Robby Krieger,
    Ray Manzarek and John Densmore as well as the professional manager they had hired
    in part to “babysit” him, but also his longtime girlfriend Pamela Courson, who is quoted
    in Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman’s Doors biography No One Here Gets Out
    Alive (1980) as greeting the sight of Jim Morrison preening in front of a mirror
    at home before a show in the summer of 1967 with, “Oh Jim, are you going
    to wear the same leather pants again? You never change your clothes.
    You’re beginning to smell, did you know that?”

    In the end, of course, Morrison’s heavy drinking and drug use would lead to increasingly
    erratic behavior over the next four years and eventually take his life in July 1971. During
    that period, The Doors would follow up “Light My Fire” with a string of era-defining
    albums and songs, including “People Are Strange,” “Love Me Two Times” and
    “The End” in 1967; “Hello, I Love You” and “Touch Me” in 1968; and “L.A. Woman” and
    “Riders on the Storm” in 1971.
    ===============
    LIGHT MY FIRE
    by The Doors

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deB_u-to-IE
    —————
    L.A. WOMAN
    by The Doors

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JskztPPSJwY
    ————–

  128. July 28, 1991
    ==========
    On this day in 1991, Dennis Martinez of the Montreal Expos pitched a
    perfect game to lead his team to a 2-0 victory over the Los Angeles
    Dodgers. Martinez was the first Latino ever to pitch a perfect game.

    When he debuted with the Baltimore Orioles in 1976 at age 21, Martinez,- nicknamed
    “El Presidente” – became the first-ever Nicaraguan player to make the major leagues.
    He made both starting and relief appearances in his first two seasons with the club,
    and in 1978, earned a permanent spot in the O’s starting rotation alongside Hall of
    Famer Jim Palmer and Cy Young Award winner Mike Flanagan. He went 16-11 in his
    first year as a starter with a 3.52 ERA and tossed 15 complete games. The next year,
    he led the major leagues with 18 complete games and 292 1/3 innings pitched. His
    efforts helped the Orioles win the 1979 American League pennant, though they lost
    to the Pittsburgh Pirates in that year’s World Series.

    In 1983, the Orioles again won the American League, and this time the World Series, but
    Martinez, suffering from an erosion of his pitching talent due to alcoholism, had the
    worst year of his career, with a 7-16 record and a 5.53 ERA. The Orioles turned to
    more effective pitchers in the playoffs, and he sat the bench throughout the
    post-season. In 1986, in the midst of a fourth mediocre season, the O’s
    traded Martinez to Montreal for a player to be named later. After
    having to tryout for the team in 1987 on a minor league contract,
    Martinez bounced back in his first year in the National League with the
    Expos, and went on to start more than 30 games every year for eight years and
    rack up a winning record in seven of his eight seasons in Montreal.

    When the 36-year old Martinez took the mound on July 28, 1991, he faced a Dodgers team l
    ed by veteran pitcher Mike Morgan, who threw a perfect game through five innings. For
    his part, Martinez cruised through the game until the sixth inning when second baseman
    Delino Deshields nearly committed an error, throwing low to first baseman Larry Walker.
    Walker somehow managed to keep contact with the bag, keeping the perfect game alive.
    In the seventh, the Expos scored their first runs in 30 innings, taking advantage of two
    errors by Dodger shortstop Alfredo Griffin and a triple by Walker. With two outs in the
    ninth and the Expos leading 2-0, the Los Angeles crowd rose to their feet, hoping to see
    the 15th perfect game in major league history and the first in Los Angeles since Sandy
    Koufax’s on September 9, 1965. Dodger Chris Gwynn hit a pop fly to center field for the
    last out, and Martinez was mobbed by celebrating teammates at the mound.

    1991 turned out to be El Presidente’s best year as an Expo: He led the National League
    with nine complete games, five shutouts and a 2.39 ERA, in addition to his perfect game.

    Martinez retired during the 1998 season after 22 years in the big leagues,
    with a solid 245-193 career record and a 3.70 ERA
    ==============

  129. July 28, 1978
    ==========
    On this day in 1978, National Lampoon’s Animal House – a movie spoof about 1960s college
    fraternities starring John Belushi – opend in U.S. theaters. Produced with an estimated
    budget of $3 million, Animal House became a huge, multi-million-dollar box-office hit,
    spawned a slew of cinematic imitations and became part of pop-culture history with
    such memorable lines as “Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.”

    Set at the fictional Faber College (the University of Oregon served as a stand-in during filming),
    Animal House centered around the disreputable Delta House fraternity, whose members
    enjoyed beer-soaked toga parties and crude pranks such as putting a horse in the
    dean’s office. Animal House was the first big hit for director John Landis, who
    went on to film The Blues Brothers (1980), Trading Places (1983) and Coming
    to America (1988). The film’s cast included a then-unknown Kevin Bacon
    (Footloose, Mystic River), Karen Allen (Raiders of the Lost Ark) and
    Tom Hulce (Amadeus), all of whom were then just beginning their
    movie careers.

    Animal House was co-written by Doug Kenney, Harold Ramis and Chris Miller, whose days
    at Dartmouth College in the early 1960s served as an inspiration for the film. Animal House
    marked the first film produced in affiliation with National Lampoon, a college magazine
    that was first published in 1970 and known for its dark humor. Other National Lampoon
    movies included Vacation (1983), which was written by John Hughes, directed by Ramis
    and starred SNL alum Chevy Chase.

    At the time Animal House was released, John Belushi – who played party animal Bluto
    Blutarsky – was starring on the TV sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL).
    Belushi, who was born January 24, 1949, appeared on SNL from 1975 to 1979 and
    co-starred in the hit movie Blues Brothers with his SNL castmate Dan Akroyd.
    Belushi died of a drug overdose at age 33 on March 5, 1982, at the Chateau
    Marmont hotel in West Hollywood, California.
    =================

  130. This integration will most likely notto be to everybody’s liking. Dr. Wallace and Mark were very explicit about mysticisms and how from the child of our past as to how and why we developed them. The following letter below comes from the editorial section of our local paper. I couldn’t help but wonder if there is becoming an awakening of at least semi consciousness starting to emerge from the A/C world.
    Article as written: Noah’s Ark story hard to believe.—- Noah’s Ark was only 510 ft. long. The ark was supposedly afloat for 378 days. On board there would have been 10,832 mammals, 20,000 birds, thousands of reptiles and 1,900.000 insect species. There would have to have been food on board for all of them. The flood would have drowned all the trees, plants, foliage, crops and grasses, and it would have taken a crew of thousands to care for all species. After the flood, the earth would have been devoid of all terrestrial forms except what was on the Ark, after reaching dry land , the carnivores would have to have eaten many of the mammals from the Ark and for the rest of the species, there would have been no food available, They would have starved to death.
    I used to believe that the bible was the inerrant word of God, now I know that much of it is untrue. As an example , it says in the bible that on the 3rd day God created the vegetation, and on day 4 he created the sun and the moon. This is nonsense. The old testament is full of fallacies written by fallible humans. There is no evidence of a world wide flood.( End of article. ) Well, maybe that explains why nobody has proven they ever found the Ark yet. Another slightly amazing breakthrough is just the fact that the free press and social media is allowing the article to be printed . A few years back such items would not have made it to print plus the author would have been committed for heresy. So, slowly the winds of change are coming, Thanks for reading this, and Love to the Universe and not just a few .

  131. July 27, 1993
    ==========
    On this day in 1993, Boston Celtics star Reggie Lewis collapses after suffering cardiac
    arrest while shooting baskets at Brandeis University in Boston, Massachusetts. Two
    hours later, Lewis was pronounced dead at Waltham-Weston Hospital.

    Reggie Lewis grew up shooting baskets every day in his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland.
    He attended Dunbar High School, where he played on one of the greatest high school
    basketball teams in history. The team went 31-0 and won the national championship in
    1983 with four future NBA stars in the line-up: David Wingate, who went on to play for
    Georgetown and the New York Knicks; Reggie Williams, who starred as a guard at
    Georgetown before being drafted by the Los Angeles Clippers; Tyrone “Muggsy” Bogues,
    the 5-foot-3-inch standout point guard for Wake Forest and later the Washington Bullets
    and Charlotte Hornets; and Lewis. Lewis was the team’s sixth man and, coming out of
    Dunbar, was the least heralded of the four. He went on, however, to become the all-time
    leading scorer at Northeastern University in Boston, and was drafted by the Celtics in
    the first round of the 1987 NBA draft, the 22nd pick overall.

    Lewis was beloved in Boston, where he developed a reputation as a humanitarian and positive
    role model and had the brightest NBA career of any of the Dunbar boys. In his second year
    with the Celtics, a team that featured future Hall of Famers Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and
    Robert Parish, Lewis scored 18.5 points per game. By 1991-92, still playing alongside the
    Celtic legends, he upped his average to 20.8 points per game and led the Celtics in
    scoring. Bird then retired, and Lewis became team’s star, again averaging 20.8
    points per game.

    To the dismay of fans and teammates, Lewis collapsed on the court during the Celtics’
    first game of the 1993 playoffs against the Charlotte Hornets and did not return to
    the game. A skilled team of cardiologists soon diagnosed him with a dangerous
    form of cardiac arrhythmia that they said had led to severe heart damage and
    advised him to end his basketball career. Frustrated, Lewis hired his own
    doctors, who assured him, incorrectly it turned out, that he could
    continue to play. At the time of his death, Lewis was planning
    to rejoin the Celtics for the upcoming 1993-94 season.

    Red Auerbach, general manager of the Celtics, was said to be devastated by the death
    of his young star. “This was the damndest shame you ever heard of. This is a wonderful
    kid. My heart is broken.” The Celtics retired Lewis’ No. 35 jersey in March 1995. In the
    wake of Lewis’ death, his widow, Donna Harris-Lewis, began the Reggie Lewis
    Foundation to continue his charitable efforts in the Boston community, including
    an annual turkey giveaway at Thanksgiving. Reggie Lewis was 27 at the time of his death.

  132. July 27, 2003
    ==========
    On this day in 2003, the legendary actor-comedian Bob Hope died at age 100 in
    Toluca Lake, California. Known for entertaining American servicemen and
    women for more than five decades, Hope had a career that spanned the
    whole range of 20th century entertainment, from vaudeville to
    Broadway musicals to radio, television and movies.

    He was born Leslie Townes Hope, the fifth of seven sons, on May 29, 1903, in
    Eltham, England. In 1907, Hope’s family moved to Cleveland, Ohio. As a young
    man, he began his entertainment career as a dancer and vaudeville performer.
    During the 1930s, he appeared in Broadway musicals, along with such
    performers as Fanny Brice and Ethel Merman. In 1934, Hope wed the nightclub
    singer Dolores Reade; the marriage would endure until his death. In 1938, Hope,
    who became known for his snappy one-liners, rose to national fame with his
    own radio show on NBC and his first feature film, The Big Broadcast of 1938.

    In 1940, Hope co-starred in the box-office hit Road to Singapore with Bing Crosby.
    The film, about a pair of singing, wisecracking con men, was the first of seven “Road”
    movies the pair would make. Hope appeared in more than 50 feature films during
    his career. He hosted the Academy Awards 18 times, although he never won an
    Oscar himself, an occurrence he turned into a long-running joke. However, he
    did receive five special awards from the Academy, including two honorary Oscars.
    Hope was also a top entertainer on TV and from 1959 to 1996 he made 284 “Bob
    Hope specials” for NBC.

    Starting with World War II, Hope began entertaining American troops at military bases
    around the world. His USO tours traveled to military bases during times of war (Vietnam,
    the Persian Gulf), as well as times of peace. He was so beloved for his work with the
    military for more than half a century that Congress passed a resolution in 1997 making
    Hope an honorary veteran. It was one of the countless honors that Hope received
    throughout his career. In 1998, he was granted honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth.
    ===============

  133. July 26, 1943
    ==========
    On this day in 1943, the musician, actor, film producer and Rolling Stones
    front man Mick Jagger was born in Dartford, Kent, England.

    Raised in a middle-class English family, Michael Philip Jagger attended the London School
    of Economics but left without graduating in order to pursue a career in music. In the early
    1960s, Jagger, along with Brian Jones, Keith Richards and Ian Stewart, founded the Rolling
    Stones, which would become one of the world’s most popular and enduring rock and roll
    bands. The group’s many hit songs include “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” “Jumpin’ Jack
    Flash” and “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.” In his personal life, Jagger became
    famous for his wild rock-star lifestyle and glamorous girlfriends and wives.

    Although best known as a singer and songwriter, Jagger has also acted in movies. He made his
    film debut in Performance (1969), which he followed with the title role in 1970’s Ned Kelly,
    about a real-life Australian outlaw. Among his other film credits are Freejack (1992),
    Bent (1997) and The Man from Elysian Fields (2002), co-starring Andy Garcia, in
    which Jagger played the owner of an escort service.

    In addition, Jagger and the Rolling Stones have been featured in numerous documentaries, I
    ncluding 1970’s Gimme Shelter, Albert and David Maysles’ film about the notorious 1969
    Alatamont music festival, and 2008’s Shine a Light, directed by Martin Scorsese. In 1995,
    Jagger formed his own film company, Jagged Films, which produced the World War II
    code-breaking film Enigma (2001), directed by Michael Apted.

    In addition to his on-camera appearances, Jagger’s music has been featured in a long list of
    movie soundtracks, including Apocalypse Now (1979), Goodfellas (1990) and Jerry Maguire (1996).
    Jagger won a Golden Globe award for Best Original Song for “Old Habits Die Hard,” which was
    featured on the soundtrack of Alfie (2004).
    =================
    HONKY TONKY WOMAN
    by The Rolling Stones

    Honky Tonk Woman/utube
    ————–

  134. July 26, 1952
    ==========
    On this day at the XV Olympiad in Helsinki, Finland, American Bob Mathias
    on his second straight gold medal in the Olympic decathlon.

    Bob Mathias was born on November 17, 1930, in Tulare, California. After a series of boyhood
    growth spurts left him underweight and anemic, his physician father prescribed for him
    liver and iron supplements. The regimen worked, and by the time Mathias was 17, he
    was 6 feet 2 inches tall and 190 pounds. He competed on the track team in high
    school before trying the decathlon at the request of his coach, who was so
    green he trained Mathias for the event out of a manual. Just three
    months before his high school graduation, Mathias competed
    in his first meet, in Los Angeles, and won, which qualified
    him for the national championship. To his great surprise,
    he won that as well, which gave him for a spot on the
    U.S. Olympic team.

    The decathlon at the 1948 London Olympics took place in miserable cold and rainy conditions.
    Mathias was forced to huddle under a blanket between events, many of which were delayed
    by downpours. The lousy weather, however, didn’t stop Mathias: With a score of 7,887, he
    broke the world record and became the youngest man in Olympic history to medal in
    a track and field event. “There was no pressure on me the first time because I didn’t
    know any better,” Mathias would later recall. For his performance, Mathias won
    the Sullivan Award as the nation’s top amateur athlete.

    In 1952, while a senior at Stanford University, Mathias traveled to Finland to defend his
    title. Despite struggling with a strained thigh muscle and intense media pressure,
    Mathias managed to beat out American Milton Campbell by more than 900
    points, breaking his own world record and becoming the first repeat
    winner of the decathlon in Olympic history.

    Mathias starred in The Bob Mathias Story in 1954 before enrolling in the Marines.
    Later, he served four terms in Congress as a representative from California.
    Mathias died of cancer in 2006 at the age of 75.
    =================

  135. Look into yourself with honesty
    and

    You shall find God

    Look into each individual with honesty

    and

    You shall find the Civilization of the Universe

    Look into the future with honesty

    and

    You shall find the end of dishonest government

  136. Following what Pete posted above regarding the Prime Law, also known as the Constitution of the Universe.

    The Neo-Tech Constitution rests on six axioms:
    1. Values exist only relative to life.
    2. Whatever benefits a living organism is a value to that organism. Whatever harms a living organism is a disvalue to that organism.
    3. The basic value against which all values are measured is the conscious individual.
    4. Morals relate only to conscious individuals.
    5. Immoral actions arise from individuals choosing to harm others through force , fraud, deception, coercion—
    or destroy values earned by others.
    6. Moral actions arise from individuals choosing to benefit others by competitively producing values for them.

  137. July 25, 1965
    ==========
    Before he took the stage at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival—the annual event that had
    given him his first real national exposure one year earlier—Bob Dylan was introduced
    by Ronnie Gilbert, a member of The Weavers: “And here he is…take him, you know him,
    he’s yours.” In his 2004 memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, Dylan would write about how
    he “failed to sense the ominous forebodings in the introduction.” One year later, he
    would learn just how possessive the Newport audiences felt toward him. On this day in
    1965, Bob Dylan went electric at the Newport Folk Festival, performing a rock-and-roll
    set publicly for the very first time while a chorus of shouts and boos rained down on
    him from a dismayed audience.

    Six weeks earlier, Bob Dylan had recorded the single that marked his move out of acoustic folk and
    into the idiom of electrified rock and roll. “Like A Rolling Stone” had only been released five days
    before his appearance at Newport, however, so most in the audience had no idea what lay in
    store for them. Neither did festival organizers, who were as surprised to see Dylan’s crew
    setting up heavy sound equipment during sound check as that evening’s audience
    would be to hear what came out of it.

    With guitarist Al Kooper and The Paul Butterfield Blues Band backing him, Dylan took to the
    stage with his Fender Stratocaster on the evening of July 25 and launched into an electrified
    version of “Maggie’s Farm.” Almost immediately, the jeering and yelling from the audience
    grew loud enough nearly to drown out the sound of Dylan and his band. It has been stated by
    some who witnessed the historic performance that some of the yelling from the audience that
    night was about the terrible sound quality of the performance — overloud in general and
    mixed so poorly that Dylan’s vocals were unintelligible. But what prompted the outright
    booing — even over Dylan’s next number, the now-classic “Like A Rolling Stone” — was a
    sense of dismay and betrayal on the part of an audience unprepared for the singer’s new
    artistic direction.

    And what did the man himself think of the unfriendly reception he received from what should
    have been the friendliest of audiences? Some say he was extremely shaken at the time, but
    with four decades of hindsight, his feelings were clear. Reflecting on Ronnie Gilbert’s
    “Take him, he’s yours” comment, Dylan wrote, “What a crazy thing to say! Screw
    that. As far as I knew, I didn’t belong to anybody then or now.”
    =================
    MAGGIE’S FARM
    by Bob Dylan

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFv3sRnmHB0
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  138. July 27, 1897
    ==========
    On this day, Jack London left for the Klondike to join the gold
    rush where he wrote some of his first successful stories.

    London was born in San Francisco in 1876. His father – an
    astrologer named Chaney – abandoned the family, and his
    mother – a spiritualist and music teacher – remarried.
    Jack assumed his stepfather’s last name, London.

    From an early age, London struggled to make a living, working in a cannery and as a
    sailor, oyster pirate, and fish patroller. During the national economic crisis of 1893,
    he joined a march of unemployed workers. He was jailed for vagrancy for a month,
    during which time he decided to go to college. The 17-year-old London completed
    a high school equivalency course and enrolled at the University of California at
    Berkeley, where he read voraciously for a year. However, he dropped out to join
    the 1897 gold rush.

    While in the Klondike, London began submitting stories to magazines. In 1900, his first
    collection of stories, The Son of the Wolf, was published. Three years later, his story
    The Call of the Wild made him famous around the country. London continued to write
    stories of adventure amid the harsh natural elements. During his 17-year career, he
    wrote 50 fiction and nonfiction books. He settled in northern California about 1911,
    having already written most of his best work. London, a heavy drinker, died in 1916
    ============

  139. THE PRIME LAW
    =============
    (The Fundamental of Protection)
    ——————————-
    Preamble
    -=-=-=-=-
    *The purpose of human life is to prosper and live happily.

    *The function of government is to provide the conditions
    that let individuals fulfill that purpose.

    *The Prime Law guarantees those conditions by forbidding
    the use of initiatory force, fraud, or coercion by any person
    or group of persons against any individual, property, or contract.
    ————————————–
    ARTICLE 1

    No person, group of persons, or government shall initiate force,
    threat of force, or fraud against any individual’s self, property, or contract.
    ———-
    ARTICLE 2

    Force is morally-and-legally justified only for protection from those who violate ARTICLE 1.
    ———-
    ARTICLE 3

    No exceptions shall exist for ARTICLES 1 and 2.
    ——————————————–

    *The Prime Law is the fundamental, natural law (that directs all decisions and actions
    of THE TWELVE VISIONS PARTY) and is not open to amendment or change.
    ===================================================================
    ————————————————
    …………………………………………………
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  140. Hey Wayne-
    It’s Monday July 24, 2017.
    I’ve gotten a little off track in my reading/studying for classes etc.
    I’m reading Miss Annabelle cover to cover (finished Chapter 75 this morning), but
    the advantages are always nearby, so I appreciate your writing connecting
    the AC with the C of U. If we don’t know where we’re coming from, how can we
    expect to know where we’re going? JUST SAYIN’. !!! pez

  141. July 23, 2005
    ==========
    On this day in 2005, American cyclist Lance Armstrong won a record-setting seventh
    consecutive Tour de France and retired from the sport. After Armstrong survived
    testicular cancer, his rise to cycling greatness inspired cancer patients and fans around
    the world and significantly boosted his sport’s popularity in the United States. However,
    in 2012, in a dramatic fall from grace, the onetime global cycling icon was stripped of his
    seven Tour titles after being charged with the systematic use of performance-enhancing drugs.

    Born on September 18, 1971, in Plano, Texas, Armstrong started his sports career as a triathlete, competing professionally by the time he was 16. Biking proved to be his strongest event, and at age 17 he was invited to train with the U.S. Olympic cycling developmental team in Colorado. He won the U.S. amateur cycling championship two years later, in 1991, then finished 14th in the road race competition at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. He turned pro later that year but finished last in the Classico San Sebastian, his first race as a professional. In 1993 he bounced back to win 10 titles, including his first major race, the World Road Championships. That same year, he also competed in his first Tour de France, the grueling three-week race that attracts the world’s top cyclists, and won the eighth stage. In 1995 he again won a stage of the Tour de France, as well as the Tour DuPont, a major U.S. cycling event.

    Armstrong began 1996 as the number-one-ranked cyclist in the world, but he chose not to race the Tour de France and performed poorly at that year’s Olympics. After experiencing intense pain during a training ride, he was diagnosed in October 1996 with Stage 3 testicular cancer, which had spread to his lungs and brain. He underwent surgery and chemotherapy, then began training again in early 1997. Later that year, he signed with the U.S. Postal Service team. After he quit in the middle of one of his first races back, many thought his career was over. However, after taking some time off from competition, Armstrong came back to finish in the top five at both the Tour of Spain and the World Championships in 1998.

    In 1999, to the amazement of the cycling community, Armstrong won his first-ever Tour de France and went on to win the race for the next six consecutive years. In addition to his seven overall wins (a record for both total and consecutive wins), he won 22 individual stages and 11 individual time trials, and led his team to victories in three team time trials between 1999 and 2005. After retiring in 2005, Armstrong made a comeback to pro cycling in 2009, finishing third in that year’s Tour and 23rd in the 2010 Tour. He retired for good from the sport in 2011 at age 39.

    Over the years, Armstrong’s intense training regimen and his famed dominance in the difficult and treacherous mountain stages of the Tour de France inspired awe among both fans and opponents. His cycling cadence, which averaged 95 to 100 rotations per minute (rpm) but reached as high as 120 rpm, was considered remarkable, particularly during climbs. In addition to being an exceptionally talented climber, Armstrong performed extremely well in time trials.

    Throughout his career, Armstrong, like many other top cyclists of his era, was dogged by accusations of performance-boosting drug use, but he repeatedly and vigorously denied all allegations against him and claimed to have passed hundreds of drug tests. In June 2012 the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), following a two-year investigation, charged the cycling superstar with engaging in doping violations from at least August 1998, and with participating in a conspiracy to cover up his misconduct. After losing a federal appeal to have the USADA charges against him dropped, Armstrong, while continuing to maintain he had done nothing wrong, announced on August 23 that he would stop fighting the charges. The next day, USADA banned Armstrong for life from competitive cycling and disqualified all his competitive results from August 1, 1998, through the present.

    On October 10, 2012, USADA released hundreds of pages of evidence, including sworn testimony from 11 of Armstrong’s former teammates, that the agency said demonstrated Armstrong and the U.S. Postal Service team had been involved in the most sophisticated and successful doping program in the history of cycling. A week after the USADA report was made public, Armstrong stepped down as chairman of his Livestrong cancer awareness foundation, and also was fired from many of his endorsement deals. On October 22, Union Cycliste Internationale, the cycling’s world governing body, announced that it accepted the findings of the USADA investigation and officially was erasing Armstrong’s name from the Tour de France record books and upholding his lifetime ban from the sport.

    After years of denials, Armstrong finally admitted publicly, in a televised interview with Oprah Winfrey that aired on January 17, 2013, he had doped for much of his cycling career, beginning in the mid-1990s through his final Tour de France victory in 2005. He admitted to using a performance-enhancing drug regimen that included testosterone, human growth hormone, the blood booster EPO and cortisone.
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  142. July 23, 2007
    ==========
    During the week ending on July 23, 2007, Honda Motor Company Ltd. produced
    its 6 millionth Civic in North America, according to an article in Automotive News.

    Honda’s history goes back to 1946, when the engineer Honda Soichiro founded his namesake technical research institute near Hamamatsu in order to produce internal-combustion engines. Incorporated as Honda Motor Company two years later and headquartered in Tokyo, it began producing motorcycles in 1949 and later expanded to automobiles. The first-generation Honda Civic, a subcompact, two-door model, made its debut in July 1972, followed by a three-door version that September. As suggested by its name, Honda saw the Civic as its car for the people; in this way, it was similar to the original “people’s car,” the Volkswagen Beetle. The Civic was an immediate success in its home country, winning Japan’s Car of the Year award for three consecutive years in 1972, 1973 and 1974. Honda began exporting the car to the United States in 1972, and to Canada the following year. In Canada, the Civic became the best-selling import car for 28 consecutive months from 1976 to 1978.

    The small, fuel-efficient Civic arrived at an opportune time, as the 1972 oil crisis had thrown a wrench in the existing American car market, with its emphasis on big, powerful, gas-guzzling vehicles. Beginning in the 1980s, Honda made the localization of the Civic’s production in America a cornerstone of its efforts to expand its U.S. business overall. Honda had begun operations in the United States in 1959 with the establishment of American Honda Motor Co., Inc., the automaker’s first overseas subsidiary. In 1986, Honda began making the Civic (it had already started production of the mid-size Accord) at its plant in Marysville, Ohio. The following year, Honda built a second U.S. plant in East Liberty, Ohio. In 1989; its production was largely focused on the Civic.

    In 2002, Honda added the Civic to its gasoline-electric hybrid lineup, which began with the Insight in 1999. Within a year, hybrid Civics accounted for some 10 percent of the car’s total sales. By July 2007, when the 6 millionth North American Civic rolled off the line, Honda was operating 12 manufacturing plants and employed more than 30,000 people in North America; more than 75 percent of all Honda and Acura (the automaker’s higher-end brand) vehicles sold there were produced and assembled locally. In May 2008, on the brink of a growing economic crisis that would send the automotive industry reeling, American Honda Motor Co., Inc., announced that Civic sales that month (53,299) had shattered the previous monthly record for any car in its lineup.
    ===========

  143. July 22, 1991
    ==========
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin, police officers spot Tracy Edwards running
    down the street in handcuffs, and upon investigation, they find one
    of the grisliest scenes in modern history – Jeffrey Dahmer’s apartment.

    Edwards told the police that Dahmer had held him at his apartment and threatened to kill him.
    Although they initially thought the story was dubious, the officers took Edwards back to
    Dahmer’s apartment. Dahmer calmly explained that the whole matter was simply a
    misunderstanding and the officers almost believed him. However, they spotted a
    few Polaroid photos of dismembered bodies, and Dahmer was arrested.

    When Dahmer’s apartment was fully searched, a house of horrors was revealed. In addition to
    photo albums full of pictures of body parts, the apartment was littered with human remains:
    Several heads were in the refrigerator and freezer; two skulls were on top of the computer;
    and a 57-gallon drum containing several bodies decomposing in chemicals was found in a
    corner of the bedroom. There was also evidence to suggest that Dahmer had been eating
    some of his victims.

    Neighbors told both detectives and the press that they had noticed an awful smell emanating
    from the apartment but that Dahmer had explained it away as expired meat. However, the
    most shocking revelation about how Dahmer had managed to conceal his awful crimes
    in the middle of a city apartment building would come a few days later.

    Apparently, police had been called two months earlier about a naked and bleeding 14-year-old
    boy being chased down an alley by Dahmer. The responding officers actually returned the
    boy, who had been drugged, to Dahmer’s apartment – where he was promptly killed.
    The officers, who said that they believed it to be a domestic dispute, were later
    fired.

    A forensic examination of the apartment turned up 11 victims – the first of whom disappeared
    in March 1989, just two months before Dahmer successfully escaped a prison sentence for
    child molestation by telling the judge that he was desperately seeking to change his
    conduct. Dahmer later confessed to 17 murders in all, dating back to his first
    victim in 1978.

    The jury rejected Dahmer’s insanity defense, and he was sentenced to 15 life terms. He survived
    one attempt on his life in July 1994, but was killed by another inmate on November 28, 1994.
    ================

  144. It’s Monday 7/24/17. Charlie’s portion on the powers call last night was excellent. and I have been re-reading the Neo-Think bible recently. (and thinking) of all things!
    So, A nanosecond is one billionth of a second. My dictionaries show no definition for” Googloth” (Maybe I should have checked the Neo-Tech- Think dictionary) However the “googol” is described as a word coined by a Milton Sirotta b ab 1929 nephew of Edward Kasner– 1955 American Mathematician as “the figure 1 followed by a 100 zeroes equal to 10-10-100. Ok, don’t recall any class at Fillmore High in 56 teaching me this stuff. (maybe I was just not paying attention, as I had other things on my mind those days) nor at U. of N. Omaha. And so as Pete says, what’s my point? In the overall scheme of things where at current rate mortality a life span is at most 100 years what do I do to make a difference ? Entropy, I will not even get into that, but still I wonder if my nanospeck of existence will end up being attached to proton or a quark, or an electron, or am I overthinking all this stuff again??? Share the love while your here, who knows where it will be in a million years from now.

  145. I found this article by a local resident here in S. Dakota to be interesting. “Congress– Source of the problem.
    You and I don’t propose a federal budget.—The president does.
    You and I don’t have the constitutional authority to vote appropriations.— The House of Representatives does.
    You and I don’t write the tax code.—Congress does.
    One hundred senators,435 congress men and women and one president equates to 536 humans out of 320 million who are directly , legally , morally and individually responsible for all the problems that plague this country. If the tax code is unfair, it’s because these 536 people want it to be unfair. If the budget in the red, then it’s because these 536 people want it to be unfair. If our military personnel are in Iraq or Afghanistan and our air force is bombing Syria, It’s because these 536 supposedly elected people WANT them there. Those 536 people and they alone are responsible . They and they alone have the power. It seems inconceivable that a nation of 320 million can not replace 536 people who stand convicted of incompetence and irresponsibility. The article was good as far as it goes, but Neo-Thinkers are aware that the problem goes much deeper than that. That is because the average bicameral general public is not aware nor understands the terminology such as neo-cheaters, mysticism, unearned or usurped power or creative values etc. Can we spread the word before it becomes too late?

  146. From readings in the Neo-Think bible. Frankly I have the book “The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind” by Julian Jaynes in my kindle, and found it to be slightly difficult to absorb or understand it’s full content, but with the aid of Neo-Tech/Neo-Think it has become more clear . Explanation in part 3: The unchanging eternal nature of consciousness — The concept of how the conscious mind works has always been the same, but is up to the individuals mind to develop or retard their capacities through either conscious efforts or mystical defaults. Conscious itself is either there to be used or abused — or it is not there.” Coupled with the fact that you have come into this once secret society and have been enticed to stay with it because you believe what the teachings say indicates your bi-cameral mind has finally discovered or invented the capacity for consciousness and you are capable of doing anything within the immutable laws of physics through out the world! So, in simple terms, it is up to us to carry out the creation cycle in table one into the next evolution cycle. Hope some of my ramblings made sense. Only fully conscious people like our group has the power to finally bring peace and love to this Universe someday.

  147. Week-end 7/22/17. I suppose this post falls under the category of awareness, but recent articles published regarding the governments determination to kill any type of funding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and NPR actually makes sense from their standpoint, and is a continued effort toward the dumbing down of America, and why not? The very fact that it doesn’t fall into there criteria, because it’s really difficult for them to manipulate decent honest programming such as excellent music and accurate HISTORY programs that are constructive as educational, or programs that would be beneficial to the public. As many (or most) people now follow face book, twitter etc, quite sadly every piece of brain washing that is posted there is paid for by just a few opposing organizations with a —- pot full of money and intent on destroying the fiber of the trust and unity of our nation, and both with the same evil and greedy motives. Remember when we used to chuckle about the politics and religious rivalry coming from Keillor’s home on the prairie on Lake Wobegon? My how the time’s and the mood of this great nation has changed. Thanks for indulging an old man’s memories of happier days. Love to all.

  148. July 21, 1899
    =========
    On this day in 1899, Ernest Miller Hemingway – the author of such novels as
    “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and “The Old Man and the Sea” – was born in
    Oak Park, Illinois. The influential American literary icon became known for
    his straightforward prose and use of understatement. Hemingway, who
    tackled topics such as bullfighting and war in his work, also became famous
    for his own macho, hard-drinking persona.

    As a boy, Hemingway – the second of six children of Clarence Hemingway, a doctor, and Grace Hall Hemingway, a musician – learned to fish and hunt, which would remain lifelong passions. After graduating from Oak Park and River Forest High School in 1917, he worked as a reporter for the Kansas City Star in Missouri. The following year, as a volunteer ambulance driver for the Red Cross in Italy during World War I, he was wounded by mortar fire and spent months recuperating.

    During the 1920s, Hemingway lived in Paris, France, and was part of a group of expatriate writers and artists that included F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound. In 1925, Hemingway published his first collection of short stories in the U.S., which was followed by his well-received 1926 debut novel “The Sun Also Rises,” about a group of American and British expatriates in the 1920s who journey from Paris to Pamplona, Spain, to watch bullfighting.

    In 1929, Hemingway, who by then had left Europe and moved to Key West, Florida, published “A Farewell to Arms,” about an American ambulance driver on the Italian front during World War I and his love for a beautiful English nurse. In 1932, his non-fiction book “Death in the Afternoon,” about bullfighting in Spain, was released. It was followed in 1935 by another non-fiction work, “Green Hills of Africa,” about a safari Hemingway made to East Africa in the early 1930s. During the late 1930s, Hemingway traveled to Spain to report on that country’s civil war, and also spent time living in Cuba. In 1937, he released “To Have and Have Not,” a novel about a fishing boat captain forced to run contraband between Key West and Cuba.

    In 1940, the acclaimed “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” about a young American fighting with a band of guerrillas in the Spanish civil war, made its debut. Hemingway went on to work as a war correspondent in Europe during World War II, and release the 1950 novel “Across the River and into the Trees.”

    Hemingway’s last significant work to be published during his lifetime was 1952’s “The Old Man and the Sea,” a novella about an aging Cuban fisherman that was an allegory referring to the writer’s own struggles to preserve his art in the face of fame and attention. Hemingway had become a cult figure whose four marriages and adventurous exploits in big-game hunting and fishing were widely covered in the press. But despite his fame, he had not produced a major literary work in the decade before “The Old Man and the Sea” debuted. The book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1953, and Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954.

    After surviving two plane crashes in Africa in 1953, Hemingway became increasingly anxious and depressed. On July 2, 1961, he killed himself with a shotgun at his home in Ketchum, Idaho. (His father had committed suicide in 1928.)

    Three novels by Hemingway were released posthumously — “Islands in the Stream” (1970), “The Garden of Eden” (1986) and “True at First Light” (1999) — as was the memoir “A Moveable Feast” (1964), which he penned about his time in Paris in the 1920s.
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  149. . . .The Detroit Area Clubhouse. . . .
    —————————————
    When?. . . . . . . . Saturday August 12, 2017.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 pm to 6 pm.
    Where?. . . . . . . Kerby’s Koney Island.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Livonia, MI.
    What?. . . . . . . . .The Four Pillars.
    Why?. .. . . . . . . . Why not?
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    …………………………..

  150. Hey Dawud,
    It’s Friday – 7/21/17 – and as always it’s good to hear from you.
    The posts on this site are approaching 14,000 – probably before
    the Summit in Newark at the end of September. !!! pez

  151. July 20, 1973
    ==========
    On this day in 1973, the actor and martial-arts expert Bruce Lee died in Los Angeles
    at age 32 from a brain edema possibly caused by a reaction to a prescription painkiller.
    During Lee’s all-too-brief career, he became a movie star in Asia and, posthumously, in America.

    Jun Fan (Bruce) Lee was born on November 27, 1940, in San Francisco, California. At the time, his father, a Chinese opera star, was on tour in the United States. The family moved back to Hong Kong in 1941. Growing up, Lee was a child actor who appeared in some 20 Chinese films; he also studied dancing and trained in the Wing Chun style of gung fu (also known as “kung fu”). In 1959, Lee returned to America, where he eventually attended the University of Washington and opened a martial-arts school in Seattle. In 1964, Lee married Linda Emery, who in 1965 gave birth to Brandon Lee, the first of the couple’s two children. In 1966, the Lees moved to Los Angeles and Bruce appeared on the television program The Green Hornet (1966-1967), playing the Hornet’s acrobatic sidekick Kato. Lee also appeared in karate tournaments around the United States and continued to teach martial arts to private clients including the actor Steve McQueen.

    In search of better acting roles than Hollywood was offering, Lee returned to Hong Kong in the early 1970s and successfully established himself as a star in Asia with the action movies The Big Boss (1971) and The Way of the Dragon (1972), which he wrote, directed and starred in. Lee’s next film, Enter the Dragon, was released in the United States by Hollywood studio Warner Bros. in August 1973. Tragically, Lee had died one month earlier, on July 20, in Hong Kong, after suffering a brain edema believed to be caused by an adverse reaction to a pain medication. Enter the Dragon was a box-office hit, eventually grossing more than $200 million, and Lee posthumously became a movie icon in America.

    Lee’s body was returned to Seattle, where he was buried. His sudden death at the young age of 32 led to rumors and speculation about the cause of his demise. One theory held that Lee had been murdered by Chinese gangsters while another rumor circulated that the actor had been the victim of a curse. The family-curse theory resurfaced when Lee’s 28-year-old son Brandon, who had followed in his father’s footsteps to become an actor, died in an accidental shooting on the set of the movie The Crow on March 31, 1991. The younger Lee was buried next to his father at Seattle’s Lake View Cemetery.
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  152. July 20, 1969
    ==========
    At 10:56 p.m. EDT, American astronaut Neil Armstrong was 240,000 miles from Earth, and spoke these words to more than a billion people listening at home – “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Stepping off the lunar landing module Eagle, Armstrong became the first human to walk on the surface of the moon om this day in 1989.

    The American effort to send astronauts to the moon has its origins in a famous appeal President John F. Kennedy made to a special joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961:
    ———–
    “I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this
    decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth.”
    ———–
    At the time, the United States was still trailing the Soviet Union in space developments, and Cold War-era America welcomed Kennedy’s bold proposal.

    In 1966, after five years of work by an international team of scientists and engineers, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) conducted the first unmanned Apollo mission, testing the structural integrity of the proposed launch vehicle and spacecraft combination. Then, on January 27, 1967, tragedy struck at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, when a fire broke out during a manned launch-pad test of the Apollo spacecraft and Saturn rocket. Three astronauts were killed in the fire.

    Despite the setback, NASA and its thousands of employees forged ahead, and in October 1968, Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, orbited Earth and successfully tested many of the sophisticated systems needed to conduct a moon journey and landing. In December of the same year, Apollo 8 took three astronauts to the dark side of the moon and back, and in March 1969 Apollo 9 tested the lunar module for the first time while in Earth orbit. Then in May, the three astronauts of Apollo 10 took the first complete Apollo spacecraft around the moon in a dry run for the scheduled July landing mission.

    At 9:32 a.m. on July 16, with the world watching, Apollo 11 took off from Kennedy Space Center with astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin Jr., and Michael Collins aboard. Armstrong, a 38-year-old civilian research pilot, was the commander of the mission. After traveling 240,000 miles in 76 hours, Apollo 11 entered into a lunar orbit on July 19. The next day, at 1:46 p.m., the lunar module Eagle, manned by Armstrong and Aldrin, separated from the command module, where Collins remained. Two hours later, the Eagle began its descent to the lunar surface, and at 4:18 p.m. the craft touched down on the southwestern edge of the Sea of Tranquility. Armstrong immediately radioed to Mission Control in Houston, Texas, a famous message: “The Eagle has landed.”

    At 10:39 p.m., five hours ahead of the original schedule, Armstrong opened the hatch of the lunar module. As he made his way down the lunar module’s ladder, a television camera attached to the craft recorded his progress and beamed the signal back to Earth, where hundreds of millions watched in great anticipation. At 10:56 p.m., Armstrong spoke his famous quote, which he later contended was slightly garbled by his microphone and meant to be “that’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” He then planted his left foot on the gray, powdery surface, took a cautious step forward, and humanity had walked on the moon.

    “Buzz” Aldrin joined him on the moon’s surface at 11:11 p.m., and together they took photographs of the terrain, planted a U.S. flag, ran a few simple scientific tests, and spoke with President Richard M. Nixon via Houston. By 1:11 a.m. on July 21, both astronauts were back in the lunar module and the hatch was closed. The two men slept that night on the surface of the moon, and at 1:54 p.m. the Eagle began its ascent back to the command module. Among the items left on the surface of the moon was a plaque that read: “Here men from the planet Earth first set foot on the moon–July 1969 A.D–We came in peace for all mankind.”

    At 5:35 p.m., Armstrong and Aldrin successfully docked and rejoined Collins, and at 12:56 a.m. on July 22 Apollo 11 began its journey home, safely splashing down in the Pacific Ocean at 12:51 p.m. on July 24.

    There would be five more successful lunar landing missions, and one unplanned lunar swing-by, Apollo 13. The last men to walk on the moon, astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt of the Apollo 17 mission, left the lunar surface on December 14, 1972. The Apollo program was a costly and labor intensive endeavor, involving an estimated 400,000 engineers, technicians, and scientists, and costing $24 billion (close to $100 billion in today’s dollars). The expense was justified by Kennedy’s 1961 mandate to beat the Soviets to the moon, and after the feat was accomplished ongoing missions lost their viability.
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    ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
    by The Beatles

    http://www.zapkolik.com/video/the-beatles-across-the-universe-558529
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  153. July 19, 1942
    =========
    On this day in 1942, the agricultural chemist George Washington Carver – head of
    Alabama’s famed Tuskegee Institute – arrived in Dearborn, Michigan at the
    invitation of Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company.

    Born to slave parents in Missouri during the Civil War, Carver managed to get a high
    school education while working as a farmhand in Kansas in his late 20s. Turned away
    by a Kansas university because he was an African American, Carver later became the
    first black student at Iowa State Agricultural College in Ames, where he obtained his
    bachelor’s and master’s degrees. In 1896, Carver left Iowa to head the department of
    agriculture at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, a school founded by the
    leading black educator Booker T. Washington. By convincing farmers in the South to
    plant peanuts as an alternative to cotton, Carver helped resuscitate the region’s
    agriculture. In the process, he became one of the most respected and influential
    scientists in the country.

    Like Carver, Ford was deeply interested in the regenerative properties of soil and the potential
    of alternative crops such as peanuts and soybeans to produce plastics, paint, fuel and other
    products. Ford had long believed that the world would eventually need a substitute for
    gasoline, and supported the production of ethanol (or grain alcohol) as an alternative
    fuel. In 1942, he would showcase a car with a lightweight plastic body made from
    soybeans. Ford and Carver began corresponding via letter in 1934, and their
    mutual admiration deepened after Carver made a visit to Michigan in 1937.
    As Douglas Brinkley writes in “Wheels for the World,” his history of Ford,
    the automaker donated generously to the Tuskegee Institute, helping
    finance Carver’s experiments, and Carver in turn spent a period of
    time helping to oversee crops at the Ford plantation in Ways, Georgia.

    By the time World War II began, Ford had made repeated journeys to Tuskegee to convince
    Carver to come to Dearborn and help him develop a synthetic rubber to help compensate
    for wartime rubber shortages. Carver arrived on July 19, 1942, and set up a laboratory
    in an old water works building in Dearborn. He and Ford experimented with
    different crops, including sweet potatoes and dandelions, eventually
    devising a way to make the rubber substitute from goldenrod, a
    plant weed. Carver died in January 1943, Ford in April 1947, but the relationship
    between their two institutions continued to flourish: As recently as the late 1990s,
    Ford awarded grants of $4 million over two years to the George Washington Carver School at Tuskegee.
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  154. July 18, 1929
    =========
    Pioneer of “gonzo” journalism Hunter S. Thompson was born on this da in Louisville, KY.

    By age 10, Thompson was publishing his own two-page newspaper, which he sold for four cents.
    By his early teens, he had already launched on the life of drinking, vandalism, and pyromania that
    would turn him into a bestselling writer. At age 18, he was jailed for robbery. After serving 30 days
    of his 50-day sentence, he was released after promising to join the Air Force.

    While serving on a Pensacola, Florida Air Force base, he became sports editor of the base newspaper
    and later went to work for a paper in New York, where he was fired for kicking a vending machine.
    He wrote conventional journalism pieces for various magazines, and in 1967 he expanded one
    of his articles into his first book – Hells Angels – which became a bestseller. In 1970,
    while covering the Kentucky Derby, Thompson went on a weeklong bender
    and developed severe writer’s block. He handed his scrawled notes to
    the copy boys his editors sent after him, and the result, “The
    Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved,” was hailed
    as a landmark in journalism. One of his editors dubbed
    the new style “gonzo,” for its wild, careening style.

    In 1972, Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas became a bestseller, as did his 1972
    Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, about the Nixon-McGovern presidential election.
    Thompson died at his home in Woody Creek, Colo., on February 20, 2005, of a self-inflicted
    gunshot wound to the head. He was 76 years old.
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  155. July 18, 1925
    ==========
    Seven months after being released from Landsberg jail, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler
    publishesd the first volume of his personal manifesto MEIN KAMPF. Dictated by
    Hitler during his nine-month stay in prison, Mein Kampf – or “My Struggle” – was
    a bitter and turgid narrative filled with anti-Semitic outpourings, disdain for
    morality, worship of power, and the blueprints for his plan of Nazi world
    domination. The autobiographical work soon became the bible of Germany’s Nazi Party.

    In the early 1920s, the ranks of Hitler’s Nazi Party swelled with resentful Germans who sympathized
    with the party’s bitter hatred of Germany’s democratic government, leftist politics, and Jews. In
    November 1923, after the German government resumed the payment of war reparations to
    Britain and France, the Nazis launched the “Beer Hall Putsch” – their first attempt at
    seizing the German government by force. Hitler hoped that his nationalist
    revolution in Bavaria would spread to the dissatisfied German army,
    which in turn would bring down the government in Berlin. However, the
    uprising was immediately suppressed, and Hitler was arrested and sentenced to
    five years in prison for high treason.

    Sent to Landsberg jail, he spent his time dictating his autobiography Mein Kampf and working
    on his oratorical skills. After nine months in prison, political pressure from supporters of
    the Nazi Party forced his release. During the next few years, Hitler and the other
    leading Nazis reorganized their party as a fanatical mass movement that
    was able to gain a majority in the German parliament – the Reichstag – by legal
    means in 1932. In the same year, President Paul von Hindenburg defeated a presidential
    bid by Hitler, but in January 1933 he appointed Hitler chancellor, hoping that the powerful
    Nazi leader could be brought to heel as a member of the president’s cabinet.

    However, Hindenburg underestimated Hitler’s political audacity, and one of the new
    chancellor’s first acts was to use the burning of the Reichstag building as a pretext
    for calling general elections. The police under Nazi Hermann Goering suppressed
    much of the party’s opposition before the election, and the Nazis won a bare majority.
    Shortly after, Hitler took on absolute power through the Enabling Acts. In 1934,
    Hindenburg died, and the last remnants of Germany’s democratic government were
    dismantled, leaving Hitler the sole master of a nation intent on war and genocide.
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  156. Dr. Wallace explain that mysticism destroys man’s relationship with existence. also it is the unintegration of reality and the disintegration of thinking. the universe by itself is static, business in the universe becomes dynamic it represents the widest form of fully integrated thinking and action possible business is the process of creating, elevating, or expanding values and enhancing life through consciousness. Dr. Wallace demonstrates though the long wave how the cosmos, all existence, all reality, is controlled by value producers functioning within the dynamics of business Thank to Dr. Wallace for his Contribution to Human Civilization.

  157. THANK YOU, FOR THE REPORTS YOU SENT TO US REGARDING THE LIVES OF JOHNNY CASH, JOHN F.KENNEDY JR. AND JOE DiMAGGIO.

    i WAS VERY INTERESTED IN ALL THREE OF THESE PEOPLE, AND JOHNNY CASH WAS ONE OF MY FAVORITE SINGERS. i ENJOYED LISTENING TO ALL OF HIS MUSIC, AND ESPECIALLY THE ONE TITLED “ONE PIECE AT A TIME.” I THOUGHT IT WAS A “FUNNY” SONG, AND LAUGHED EVERY TIME i HEARD HIM SING IT. “I WALK THE LINE” AND “THE RING OF FIRE” WERE ALSO AMONG MY FAVORITES.

    WHAT A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IT WAS WHEN JOHN F. KENNEDY JR. HIS WIFE CAROLYN BESSETTE KENNEDY, AND HER SISTER LAUREN BESSETTE, WERE KILLED IN THAT SMALL PLANE CRASH.

    I REMEMBER IT WELL, WHEN PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY’S DEATH AND MEMORIAL WERE CONCLUDING, i SAW HIS SON, “JOHN JOHN” AND, HIS DAUGHTER CAROLYN WERE STANDING BESIDE THEIR MOTHER, AND JOHN JR. WAS SALUTING HIS FATHER. SO SMALL, AND SO CUTE, BUT MY HEART JUST ACHED OVER THIS TRAGEDY WHEN ALL OF THEM DIED AND WERE REMEMBERED SO WELL.

    I REMEMBER JOE DiMAGGIO VERY WELL, AND ESPECIALLY WHEN HE MARRIED MARYLYN MONROE. JOE WAS ONE YEAR OLDER THAN MY MOTHER, AS SHE WAS BORN IN 1915.

    THANK YOU FOR SHARING THESE LIFE STORIES.

    LOVE, CAROL AND FOREST

  158. July 17, 1941
    =========
    On this day in 1941, New York Yankees center fielder Joe DiMaggio failed to get a hit against the Cleveland Indians, which brought his historic 56-game hitting streak to an end. The record run had captivated the country for two months.

    Joseph Paul DiMaggio was born November 25, 1914, in Martinez, California. In 1891, his father Giuseppe had emigrated from Sicily to the Bay Area, where he made his living as a fisherman (he was later made legendary by Ernest Hemingway’s 1952 novel The Old Man and the Sea.) The DiMaggio family moved to San Francisco’s Italian-dominated North Beach neighborhood the year Joe was born. Joe was the eighth of nine children, the fourth of five boys, two of whom – his older brother Vince and younger brother Dominic – joined him in the major leagues. His two brothers had successful major league careers, but “Joltin’ Joe,” arguably the best player of his generation, and one of the greatest of all time.

    In 1941, DiMaggio was in his sixth season as center fielder for the New York Yankees. He had already helped lead the team to the American League pennant and World Series wins alongside first baseman Lou Gehrig in 1936, ’37 and ’38. In 1939, Gehrig fell ill with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, later known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, and DiMaggio picked up the slack. That year, he led the American League with a .381 batting average and helped the Yankees to their fourth championship in a row; they were the first major league team ever to four-peat. In 1940, DiMaggio led the American League in hitting again at .352, but the Yankees finished two games behind Hank Greenberg’s Detroit Tigers.

    On May 15, 1941, DiMaggio began his record-breaking streak against the White Sox in Yankee Stadium with a single and an RBI. As the streak continued, fans across the nation took notice. DiMaggio broke George Sisler’s American League record of 41 consecutive games with a hit on June 29 at Griffith Stadium in Washington, and four days later, on July 2, DiMaggio broke “Wee” Willie Keeler’s major league record streak of 44 games. As the nation followed DiMaggio’s progress and he continued to hit in game after game, the Les Brown Orchestra scored a hit with the popular tune “Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio.”

    Finally, on July 17 in Cleveland, in a night game in front of 67,468 fans, DiMaggio went hitless against Cleveland pitchers Al Smith and Jim Bagby, Jr. In his first three at-bats, DiMaggio grounded out to third twice against Smith, both on hard-hit balls, and then walked. With Bagby pitching in the eighth inning, DiMaggio hit into a double play, ending a Yankee rally and the greatest hitting streak in major league history. DiMaggio confided to a teammate after the game that by failing to get a hit he had also lost the $10,000 promised to him by Heinz ketchup for matching the number “57” featured on their labels.

    DiMaggio won the 1941 American League MVP over Red Sox slugger Ted Williams in spite of the latter’s .406 batting average that season, the last time any major league player hit over .400. DiMaggio retired after the 1951 season after 13 seasons with the Yankees that included 11 pennants and 10 World Series wins. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955.
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  159. July 16, 1999
    ==========
    On July 16, 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr. his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy; and
    her sister Lauren Bessette died when the single-engine plane that Kennedy
    was piloting crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.

    John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr., was born on November 25, 1960, just a few weeks after his father
    and namesake was elected the 35th president of the United States. On his third birthday,
    “John-John” attended the funeral of his assassinated father and was photographed
    saluting his father’s coffin in a famous and searing image. Along with his sister,
    Caroline, he was raised in Manhattan by his mother, Jacqueline. After
    graduating from Brown University and a very brief acting stint,
    he attended New York University Law School. He passed
    the bar on his third try and worked in New York as an assistant
    district attorney, winning all six of his cases. In 1995, he founded the political
    magazine George, which grew to have a circulation of more than 400,000. Unlike
    many others in his famous family, he never sought public office himself.

    Always in the media spotlight, he was celebrated for the good looks that he inherited from
    his parents. In 1988, he was named the “Sexiest Man Alive” by People magazine. He was
    linked romantically with several celebrities, including the actress Daryl Hannah, whom
    he dated for five years. In September 1996, he married girlfriend Carolyn Bessette, a
    fashion publicist. The two shared an apartment in New York City, where
    Kennedy was often seen inline skating in public. Known for his
    adventurous nature, he nonetheless took pains to separate
    himself from the more self-destructive behavior of some
    of the other men in the Kennedy clan.

    On July 16, 1999, however, with about 300 hours of flying experience, Kennedy took off
    from Essex County airport in New Jersey and flew his single-engine plane into a hazy,
    moonless night. He had turned down an offer by one of his flight instructors to
    accompany him, saying he “wanted to do it alone.” To reach his destination of
    Martha’s Vineyard, he would have to fly 200 miles–the final phase over a
    dark, hazy ocean–and inexperienced pilots can lose sight of the
    horizon under such conditions. Unable to see shore lights
    or other landmarks, Kennedy would have to depend on his instruments,
    but he had not qualified for a license to fly with instruments only. In addition,
    he was recovering from a broken ankle, which might have affected his ability to pilot
    his plane.

    At Martha’s Vineyard, Kennedy was to drop off his sister-in-law Lauren Bessette, one of
    his two passengers. From there, Kennedy and his wife, Carolyn, were to fly on to the
    Kennedy compound on Cape Cod’s Hyannis Port for the marriage of Rory Kennedy,
    the youngest child of the late Robert F. Kennedy. The Piper Saratoga aircraft
    never made it to Martha’s Vineyard. Radar data examined later showed the
    plane plummeting from 2,200 feet to 1,100 feet in a span of 14 seconds,
    a rate far beyond the aircraft’s safe maximum. It then disappeared
    from the radar screen.

    Kennedy’s plane was reported missing by friends and family members, and an intensive
    rescue operation was launched by the Coast Guard, the navy, the air force, and
    civilians. After two days of searching, the thousands of people involved
    gave up hope of finding survivors and turned their efforts to recovering the
    wreckage of the aircraft and the bodies. Americans mourned the loss of the “crown
    prince” of one of the country’s most admired families, a sadness that was especially poignant
    given the relentless string of tragedies that have haunted the Kennedy family over the years.

    On July 21, navy divers recovered the bodies of JFK Jr., his wife, and sister-in-law from the
    wreckage of the plane, which was lying under 116 feet of water about eight miles off
    the Vineyard’s shores. The next day, the cremated remains of the three were
    buried at sea during a ceremony on the USS Briscoe, a navy destroyer.
    A private mass for JFK Jr. and Carolyn was held on July 23 at the Church of
    St. Thomas More in Manhattan, where the late Jackie Kennedy Onassis worshipped.
    President Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, were among the 300 invited
    guests. The Kennedy family’s surviving patriarch, Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts,
    delivered a moving eulogy: “From the first day of his life, John seemed to belong not only to our family,
    but to the American family. He had a legacy, and he learned to treasure it. He was part of a legend, and he
    learned to live with it.”

    Investigators studying the wreckage of the Piper Saratoga found no problems
    with its mechanical or navigational systems. In their final report released in
    2000, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded that the crash
    was caused by an inexperienced pilot who became disoriented in the
    dark and lost control.
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  160. July 17, 1986
    ==========
    The critically acclaimed 2002 biopic Walk The Line depicts the life and career of Johnny Cash from his initial rise to stardom in the 1950s to his resurgence following a drug-fueled decline in the 1960s. The selection of this time span made perfect sense from a Hollywood perspective, but from a historical perspective, it left out more than half of the story. There was still another dramatic resurgence to come in the second half of Johnny Cash’s 50-year career, which reached another low point on this day in 1986, when Columbia Records dropped him from its roster after 26 years of history-making partnership.

    Columbia first signed Johnny Cash in 1960, using a lucrative contract to lure him away from his Sun Records, his first label and also the early home of Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins. Cash’s first Columbia single, “All Over Again,” made the country Top 5, and his second, “Don’t Take Your Guns To Town” made it all the way to #1, while also crossing over to the pop Top 40. But the biggest hits of Cash’s career were yet to come, including an incredible eight #1 albums in an eight-year span: Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash (1963); I Walk The Line (1964); Johnny Cash’s Greatest Hits (1967); At Folsom Prison (1968); At San Quentin (1969); Hello, I’m Johnny Cash (1970); The Johnny Cash Show (1970); and Man In Black (1971). During this period, Johnny Cash established himself as a titanic figure in American popular culture while selling millions upon millions of records for Columbia, but by the mid-1980s, fashions in country music had shifted dramatically away from his old-school style, and the hits simply stopped coming.

    In 1986, having also recently dropped jazz legend Miles Davis from its roster of artists, Columbia chose to end its no-longer-profitable relationship with Johnny Cash. Cash did not remain professionally adrift for long, however, releasing four original albums and numerous re-recordings of earlier material over the next seven years on Mercury Records. But it was not until 1994 that Cash truly found his creative bearings again. That was the year that he released the album American Recordings, the first in a series of albums on the label of the same name headed by Rick Rubin, the original producer of the Beastie Boys and the co-founder, with Russell Simmons, of Def Jam Records.

    Under Rubin’s influence, Cash moved to a raw, stripped-down sound that proved to be enormously successful with critics, with country traditionalists and with hipster newcomers to country music. When his second Rubin-produced album, Unchained, won a Grammy for Best Country Album in 1998, American Recordings placed a full-page ad in Billboard magazine featuring a 1970 photo of Cash brandishing his middle finger under the sarcastic line of copy, “American Recordings and Johnny Cash would like to acknowledge the Nashville music establishment and country radio for your support.”

    Johnny Cash went on to have two more massively successful solo albums with American Recordings prior to his death in 2003. Rick Rubin went on to become co-head of Columbia Records in 2007.
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    I WALK THE LINE
    by Johnny Cash

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq0fUa0vW_E
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  161. Shades of Miss Annabelle!! Marks book that fascinated all of us with various parts of fact and fiction known as faction may be becoming reality!
    There’s news of Ross 128, a red dwarf star located in the constellation galaxy of Virgo, which is not visible with the naked eye, seems to be emitting some mysterious radio signals that are coming from 11 light years away. A statement made by Business Insider said, ” It’s very unlikely that intelligent alien life is responsible for the signals, but the possibility can’t be ruled out.” These signals were picked up on the 14th of July and today, the 16th, they will be trying to clarify the nature of these radio emissions. Ok, I am just an old country boy and all this jargon in technological and scientific terminology is beyond my apprehension but doesn’t it make you wonder if we should be building a rescue ship just in case we make contact with a Beorapparaus out there waiting? Wouldn’t that be something if Mark’s story were to materialize in my lifetime. What if ? it could be a series of messages from the Universe that could move us to the C of U. before it becomes too late to turn back. So love your self and all those around you in the interest of mankind.

  162. TO: All my Neo-Think family and friends.
    Sunday morning coming down! 7/16/17. What a glorious day to be alive! Also a quiet and peaceful time to reflect before the rest of the world wakes up and turns to it’s usual day of chaos and disruptiveness. The A/C is such an unforgiving place! I missed a big part of the past weeks activities at Neo-Think central. It was a tough week full of challenges both physically and mentally but I (WE) made it through, and I would like to think it was not an invisible god that made the difference , but the power and strengths of my Earthly friends, (Some who are extra special to me) who’s beliefs and strengths come from the realm of a higher consciousness and combined love for humanity which gives them an amazing healing power , plus the will from within myself that enabled me to post these thoughts on this page today.
    This morning there was a picture on F.B. of a young child wearing a shirt with the following inscription .
    Birth Place: Earth
    Race: Human
    Politics: Freedom
    Religion: LOVE!
    That about sums it up from this end. Thanks to my Family! I am totally amazed at what you do!

  163. ——The Detroit Area Clubhouse——
    =================================
    When?. . . . . . . . Saturday August 12, 2017.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 pm to 6 pm.
    Where?. . . . . . . Kerby’s Koney Island.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Livonia, MI.
    What?. . . . . . . . .The Four Pillars.
    Why?. .. . . . . . . . Why not?
    =================================
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  164. July 14, 1968
    ==========
    Atlanta Braves slugger Henry “Hank” Aaron hit the 500th home run of his
    career on this day. The Braves won 4-2 over the San Francisco Giants.

    Henry Aaron was born February 5, 1934, in Mobile, Alabama. The third of eight children, Aaron was a star football player, third baseman and outfielder in high school, and signed with the Negro League’s Mobile Black Bears while still a teenager. He joined the Indianapolis Clowns in 1952 at age 18 and helped them win the Negro League World Series. The next year, his contract was sold to the Milwaukee Braves of the National League. On April 13, 1954, Aaron became the last former Negro League player to make his debut in the major leagues.

    Aaron broke camp with the big league Braves in 1954 after a year of thorough domination in the minor leagues. In that and many future seasons with the Braves, Aaron shared the spotlight with third baseman Eddie Matthews. For their careers, the two men hit a record 863 home runs as teammates and hit home runs in the same game 75 times. In 1957, Aaron won his only MVP award, hitting .322 with 44 home runs and 132 RBIs. Aaron, Matthews and pitchers Warren Spahn and Lew Burdette led the Braves to a World Series victory that year over Manager Casey Stengel and his perennial favorite New York Yankees. In 1958, the Braves won their second National League pennant in a row, but lost a World Series rematch to the Yankees.

    On July 14, 1968, with 499 career home runs under his belt, Aaron hit a three-run shot in the third inning off Giants’ pitcher Mike McCormick. Aaron was mobbed at home plate by his teammates and presented with an award by Braves President Bill Bartholomay honoring him as the seventh man in baseball history to hit 500 home runs.

    Aaron was already 34 years old in 1968, the age at which players of his era usually began a rapid decline. Although 1968 was a slightly off year for the slugger–he hit .287 with 29 home runs and 86 RBIs–Aaron was not yet slowing down. Naysayers ate their words as they watched him hit 203 home runs between 1969 and 1973. On April 8, 1974, after a winter of hate mail containing threats from racist fans, Aaron broke Babe Ruth’s record for career home runs when he hit his 715th off Cincinnati’s Jack Billingham. Aaron retired from baseball in 1976 with 755 home runs. After a career of remarkable offensive consistency, Aaron retired as the all-time leader in runs batted in, extra base hits and total bases. He was named to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982.
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  165. Bet you won’t find this information on Wikipedia Anonymous!
    From: Neo-cheating-Neo-Tech-Neo-Think by Mark Hamilton. The three sucker traps identified by Japanese philosopher Yasuhiko Kimura. Those sucker traps explain how master cheaters pulled the world into the Dark Age and how master cheaters pull nations into totalitarian regimes. The SAME sucker traps are used today by the white collar hoax in business to hold you down.
    The Three sucker traps : #1 . Systematically destroy the foundations of knowledge (I e REASON) by forming misinforming or not informing the populace of crucially important knowledge.—Sucker trap #2 : Systematically train those who are intellectually endowed and bright enough to be a potential threat to master cheaters to become specialized scholars and advance knowledge in a manner that serves the purpose of the power structure for their physical survival. —Sucker trap #3 : Restrict commercial activities to the extent that the producers produce just enough to support the continuance of the power structure while completely controlling the line of life support, such as food and money, by the power structure itself–so that no incentive will ever arise to advance knowledge amongst the populace.. ………….As to the validity of Yasuhiko Kimura, my limited research shows he is a philosopher, ordained Zen Buddhist priest and scholar; Teacher of Eslateric spiritual philosophers of both the East and West: Creator of transformational programs; consultant and advisor to leaders and business , science, and cultural organization’s researches of science and a scientific paradigm translator. (As one who lives in a rural area, We see these sucker traps used daily in the flow and cost of petroleum products, and our nation’s food supply. )
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  166. Beam me up Charlie! It may be happening sooner than we think.
    Scientists teleport first object EVER from Earth to space. It is considered a quantum physics break through! Chinese scientists successfully teleported an object from the Earth’s surface to an orbiting satellite for the first time ever. A photon — A tiny substance particle was “transported ” from the Gobi desert to China’s Mieius satellite some 300 miles above the surface of the Earth. The Guardian reported it’s a new record distance for quantum teleportation, which occurs when the complete properties of one particle are instantaneously transferred to another: In effect teleporting it to a distant location, The article goes on to say that the technique has been in use since the 90’s but it’s the first time this has been done from Earth to space over such a long distance. It’s hard to comprehend , but the photon wasn’t physically transported Oxford University physicist Ian Walmsley explained, Instead he said the info from one photon on Earth was transferred to a 2nd photon up in the satellite. “It’s certainly a scientific breakthrough ” Walmsley said. Teleporting like this is a building block for a wide range of technologies, the study said. There are a number of applications for this procedure ,”Everything from secure long distance communications through eventually using it as part of a cloud-based computing network that allows you to send the information from one party to another in a way that’s secure and can’t be tapped into” . Teleportation has become a standard operation in quantum Optus labs around the world according M.I.T.—The technique relies on the strange phenomenon of entanglement M.I.T. said and this occurs when two quantum objects such as photons form the same instant and point in space and so share the same existences. (Now the sad part) Physically transporting anything large like a human , however could still be a long ways off. “To construct an entire human being at the destination is even the SAME human being at the destination is even the same person as the one you began with at the source –is a different problem entirely” Astrophysicist Ethan Sigel said . Ok that said, It would be one of my personal dreams come true if they could spend more time perfecting this program using Washington D.C. as it’s potential target , and we could teleport those turkeys to a far away planet and see how long it would take them to come up with a viable and affordable health care plan to protect their own scroungie butts and destroy that planet, but then with my luck they would just show up in my parallel universe. Thanks for reading and love your self but pass some of it around. There are plenty who really need it!

  167. July 13, 2010
    ==========
    On this day in 2010, George Steinbrenner – the larger-than-life, longtime owner of
    the New York Yankees – who re-established the team as one of baseball’s most
    successful franchises, died of a heart attack at age 80 in Tampa, Florida. Under
    Steinbrenner, who owned the team from 1973 until his death, the Yankees won
    even World Series championships and 11 American League pennants. Nicknamed
    “the Boss” – the influential, demanding and controversial owner also built the
    Yankees into baseball’s first billion-dollar team.

    George Michael Steinbrenner III was born on July 4, 1930, and raised in Bay Village, Ohio, near
    Cleveland. After graduating from Williams College in Massachusetts in 1952, he served in the
    Air Force, earned a master’s degree in physical education from Ohio State University and
    did brief stints as an assistant college football coach at Northwestern and Purdue. In 1957,
    Steinbrenner joined his family’s Great Lakes shipping business and went on to grow it
    substantially. In the early 1960s, he became an owner of the short-lived Cleveland
    Pipers professional basketball team, and later invested in horse racing and
    Broadway shows, among other ventures.

    In 1973, Steinbrenner headed an investment group that bought the Yankees for less than
    $10 million. (At the time of his death, the team was worth an estimated $1.6 billion.)
    Although he initially promised to be a hands-off owner and “stick to building
    ships,” Steinbrenner soon became heavily involved in running the team,
    even dictating the length of his players’ hair and sometimes directing
    post-game traffic outside Yankee Stadium. He had contentious
    relationships with a number of his players and staff, and famously
    hired and fired manager Billy Martin five times. Steinbrenner himself
    was suspended from the sport twice – first, in 1974, after pleading guilty to making
    illegal corporate contributions to President Richard Nixon’s re-election campaign – and
    a second time, in 1990, for paying a small-time gambler to dig up damaging information about
    Yankee outfielder Dave Winfield, with whom Steinbrenner was feuding. Beyond baseball, Steinbrenner
    became a pop-culture figure, hosting “Saturday Night Live” and being portrayed as a recurring character on “Seinfeld.”

    When Steinbrenner purchased the Yankees, the team was struggling and hadn’t won a World Series
    since 1962. He began spending record-breaking sums to acquire the game’s top players and soon
    got results: -the Bronx Bombers won the World Series in 1977 and 1978, and again in 1996, 1998,
    1999 and 2000. Steinbrenner and the Yankees also raked in millions from lucrative licensing
    and marketing deals. However, the Yankees’ long-term dominance and colossal payroll
    earned them detractors, who charged Steinbrenner with “buying” championships
    and driving up salaries (and ticket prices) across the sport. In an effort to level
    the playing field for teams with fewer financial resources, Major League
    Baseball in 2002 instituted a luxury tax in which teams whose payroll
    goes over a certain threshold are taxed on the excess amount.

    In 2009, the Yankees won their 27th World Series – more than any other team in baseball history.
    By then, Steinbrenner’s health was in decline and he had ceded day-to-day management of
    the team to his sons Hal and Hank. Following Steinbrenner’s July 13, 2010, death,
    baseball commissioner Bud Selig said, “He was and always will be as much
    of a New York Yankee as Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey
    Mantle, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford and all of the other Yankee legends.”
    ==================

  168. ——The Detroit Area Clubhouse——
    =================================
    When?. . . . . . . . Saturday August 12, 2017.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 pm to 6 pm.
    Where?. . . . . . . Kerby’s Koney Island.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Livonia, MI.
    What?. . . . . . . . .The Four Pillars.
    Why?. .. . . . . . . . Why not?
    =================================

  169. July 12, 1979
    ==========
    As the 1970s came to an end, the age of disco was also nearing its finale. But for all
    of its decadence and overexposure, disco didn’t quite die a natural death by
    collapsing under its own weight. Instead, it was killed by a public backlash that
    reached its peak on this day in 1979 with the infamous “Disco Demolition” night at
    Chicago’s Comiskey Park. That incident, which led to at least nine injuries, 39 arrests
    and the cancellation and forfeit of a Major League Baseball game, is widely
    credited — or, depending on your perspective – blamed with dealing disco its death blow.

    The event was the brainchild of Steve Dahl and Garry Meier, popular disk jockeys on Chicago’s
    WLUP “The Loop” FM. Dahl had only recently moved to WLUP from rival station WDAI
    when that station switched to an all-disco format — a relatively common reformatting
    trend in American radio in 1979. Many other rock DJs were displaced by disco.
    However, only Dahl was inspired to launch a semi-comic vendetta aimed
    at “the eradication and elimination of the dreaded musical disease.”

    On May 2, the rainout of a game between the Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers led to the
    scheduling of a doubleheader on July 12. Dahl and Meier approached the White Sox with a rather
    unorthodox idea for an attendance-boosting promotion: Declare July 12 “Disco Demolition”
    night and allow Dahl to blow up a dumpster full of disco records between games of the
    doubleheader. White Sox executive Mike Veeck embraced the idea in the same spirit
    with which his father – legendary team-owner Bill Veeck – had once sent a midget
    to the plate in a major league ballgame in order to amuse the fans and draw a walk.

    The first mistake organizers made on Disco Demolition night was grossly underestimating the
    appeal of the 98-cent discount tickets offered to anyone who brought a disco record to the
    park to add to the explosive-rigged dumpster. WLUP and the White Sox expected perhaps
    5,000 more fans than the average draw of 15,000 or so at Comiskey Park. What they
    got instead was a raucous sellout crowd of 40,000-plus and an even more raucous
    overflow crowd of as many as 40,000 more outside on Shields Avenue. The
    second mistake was failing to actually collect those disco records, which
    would become dangerous projectiles in the hands of a crowd that was
    already out of control by the time Dahl detonated his dumpster in
    center field during warm-ups for the evening’s second game.

    What followed was utter chaos, as fans by the thousands stormed the field and began to
    wreak havoc, shimmying up the foul poles, tearing up the grass and lighting vinyl bonfires
    on the diamond while the stadium scoreboard implored them to return to their seats.
    Conditions were judged too dangerous for the scheduled game to begin, and the
    Detroit Tigers were awarded a win by forfeit.
    =================
    TALKIN’ BASEBALL
    by Terry Cashman

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNhOYgq49sU
    —————–

  170. July 11, 1914
    On this day – his major league debut – George Herman “Babe” Ruth pitched seven
    strong innings to lead the Boston Red Sox over the Cleveland Indians, 4-3.

    George Herman Ruth was born February 6, 1895, in Baltimore, Maryland, where his father worked as a saloon keeper on the waterfront. He was the first of eight children, but only he and a sister survived infancy. The young George, known as “Gig” (pronounced jij) to his family, was a magnet for trouble from an early age. At seven, his truancy from school led his parents to declare him incorrigible, and he was sent to an orphanage – St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys. Ruth lived there until he was 19. In 1914 he was signed as a pitcher by the Baltimore Orioles.

    That same summer, Ruth was sold to the Boston Red Sox. His teammates called him “Babe” for his naiveté, but his talent was already maturing. In his debut game against the Indians, the 19-year-old Ruth gave up just five hits over the first six innings. In the seventh, the Indians managed two runs on three singles and a sacrifice and Ruth was relieved. His hitting prowess, however, was not on display that first night – he went 0 for 2 at the plate.

    Ruth developed quickly as a pitcher and as a hitter. When the Red Sox made the World Series in 1916 and 1918, Ruth starred, setting a record with 29 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings in World Series play. His career record as a pitcher for the Red Sox was 89-46.

    To the great dismay of Boston fans, Ruth’s contract was sold to the New York Yankees before the 1920 season by Red Sox owner Harry Frazee, so that Frazee could finance the musical No, No, Nanette. Ruth switched to the outfield with the Yankees, and hit more home runs than the entire Red Sox team in 10 of the next 12 seasons. “The Sultan of Swat” or “The Bambino,” as he was alternately known, was the greatest gate attraction in baseball until his retirement as a player in 1935. During his career with the New York Yankees, the team won four World Series and seven American League pennants. After getting rid of Ruth, the Red Sox did not win a World Series until 2004, an 85-year drought known to Red Sox fans as “the Curse of the Bambino.”
    ===================

  171. GOOD MORNING TO YOU WAYNE, —

    I TRUST THAT YOU ARE RECOVERING NICELY FROM YOUR HEALTH-RELATED ISSUES. i KNOW THAT YOU STATED EARLIER THAT YOUR ENERGY LEVEL HAS BEEN AT A LOW POINT SINCE YOU WERE IN THE HOSPITAL.

    ARE YOU BACK AT HOME NOW??

    i HAVE A REQUEST TO MAKE FROM YOU WAYNE, AND i HOPE THAT YOU CAN DO THIS FOR ME, — O.K.??

    I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR “YOUR NAME” ON THE “REACH OUT” LIST WHICH CHARLIE MOORE, HAS EMAILED TO ALL OF US. — BUT I HAVE NOT YET “SEEN” YOUR NAME, PHONE NUMBER AND EMAIL ADDRESS ON THAT LIST.

    I WOULD LIKE VERY MUCH TO CALL YOU, OR EMAIL YOU, AND ENJOY A LITTLE CONVERSATION WITH YOU, — AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

    WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO DO THIS WAYNE?? JUST CALL CHARLIE, AND GIVE HIM YOUR INFORMATION SO HE CAN PUT YOU ON THE LIST WITH THE REST OF US.

    WITH MY BEST WISHES AND LOVE FOR YOU AND CHERYL.

    CAROL AND FOREST

  172. July 10, 1925
    =========
    In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called “Monkey Trial” begins with John Thomas
    Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution
    in violation of a Tennessee state law.

    The law, which had been passed in March, made it a misdemeanor punishable by fine to
    “teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the
    Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals.
    ” With local businessman George Rappalyea, Scopes had conspired to get charged
    with this violation, and after his arrest the pair enlisted the aid of the American Civil
    Liberties Union (ACLU) to organize a defense. Hearing of this coordinated attack on
    Christian fundamentalism, William Jennings Bryan, the three-time Democratic
    presidential candidate and a fundamentalist hero, volunteered to assist the prosecution.
    Soon after, the great attorney Clarence Darrow agreed to join the ACLU in the defense,
    and the stage was set for one of the most famous trials in U.S. history.

    On July 10, the Monkey Trial got underway, and within a few days hordes of spectators
    and reporters had descended on Dayton as preachers set up revival tents along the
    city’s main street to keep the faithful stirred up. Inside the Rhea County Courthouse,
    the defense suffered early setbacks when Judge John Raulston ruled against their
    attempt to prove the law unconstitutional and then refused to end his practice of
    opening each day’s proceeding with prayer.

    Outside, Dayton took on a carnival-like atmosphere as an exhibit featuring two chimpanzees
    and a supposed “missing link” opened in town, and vendors sold Bibles, toy monkeys, hot
    dogs, and lemonade. The missing link was in fact Jo Viens of Burlington, Vermont, a
    51-year-old man who was of short stature and possessed a receding forehead and
    a protruding jaw. One of the chimpanzees – named Joe Mendi – wore a plaid
    suit, a brown fedora, and white spats, and entertained Dayton’s citizens
    by monkeying around on the courthouse lawn.

    In the courtroom, Judge Raulston destroyed the defense’s strategy by ruling that expert scientific
    testimony on evolution was inadmissible – on the grounds that it was Scopes who was on trial,
    not the law he had violated. The next day, Raulston ordered the trial moved to the courthouse
    lawn, fearing that the weight of the crowd inside was in danger of collapsing the floor.

    In front of several thousand spectators in the open air, Darrow changed his tactics and as
    his sole witness called Bryan in an attempt to discredit his literal interpretation of the
    Bible. In a searching examination, Bryan was subjected to severe ridicule and forced
    to make ignorant and contradictory statements to the amusement of the crowd.
    On July 21, in his closing speech, Darrow asked the jury to return a verdict of
    guilty in order that the case might be appealed. Under Tennessee law,
    Bryan was thereby denied the opportunity to deliver the closing
    speech he had been preparing for weeks. After eight minutes of deliberation,
    the jury returned with a guilty verdict, and Raulston ordered Scopes to pay a fine
    of $100, the minimum the law allowed. Although Bryan had won the case, he had been
    publicly humiliated and his fundamentalist beliefs had been disgraced. Five days later, on
    July 26, he lay down for a Sunday afternoon nap and never woke up.

    In 1927, the Tennessee Supreme Court overturned the Monkey Trial verdict on a technicality
    but left the constitutional issues unresolved until 1968, when the U.S. Supreme Court
    overturned a similar Arkansas law on the grounds that it violated the First Amendment.
    ==================

  173. . . .The Detroit Area Clubhouse. . . .
    —————————————
    When?. . . . . . . . Saturday August 12, 2017.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 pm to 6 pm.
    Where?. . . . . . . Kerby’s Koney Island.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Livonia, MI.
    What?. . . . . . . . .The Four Pillars.
    Why?. .. . . . . . . . Why not?
    —————————————

  174. July 9, 1062
    =========
    “This here ain’t no protest song or anything like that, ’cause I don’t write no protest songs.”
    That was how Bob Dylan introduced one of the most eloquent protest songs ever written
    when he first performed it publicly. It was the spring of his first full year in New York City,
    and he was onstage at Gerde’s Folk City in Greenwich Village, talking about a song he
    claims to have written in just 10 minutes: “Blowin’ In The Wind.” A few weeks later, on this
    day in 1962, Dylan walked into a studio and recorded the song that would make him a star.

    Dylan’s recording of “Blowin’ In The Wind” would first be released nearly a full year later, on
    his breakthrough album, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. This was not the version of the song
    that most people would first hear, however. That honor went to the cover version by
    Peter, Paul and Mary — a version that not only became a smash hit on the pop
    charts, but also transformed what Dylan would later call “just another song” into
    the unofficial anthem of the civil rights movement.

    “Blowin’ In The Wind” bore little or no resemblance to the highly topical, highly literal protest
    songs of the day, but that may have been precisely what made it so effective as a protest song.
    A lyric like “How many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a man?” lends itself
    perfectly to those seeking racial justice, just as “How many seas must a white dove sail, before
    she sleeps in the sand?” does to those seeking peace. The moving, vaguely spiritual, clearly
    dissatisfied, yet ultimately ambiguous nature of “Blowin’ In the Wind” made it the quintessential
    protest song of the 1960s — ”A song that the times seemed to call forth” in the words of critic
    Greil Marcus.

    It also represented a significant breakthrough for Bob Dylan as a songwriter. From
    “Blowin’ In The Wind” onward, Dylan’s songs would reflect a far more personal
    and poetic approach to self-expression—an approach that would lead him
    away from songs like “The Times They Are a-Changin’” and toward songs
    like “Like A Rolling Stone.” And Dylan’s development as a songwriter
    would, in turn, have a similar effect on The Beatles, whose own
    move from “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” to “A Day In The Life”
    can be traced directly to their exposure to The Freewheelin’
    Bob Dylan in the spring of 1964.
    ================
    BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND
    by Peter’ Paul. and Mary

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld6fAO4idaI
    —————-

  175. July 8, 1941
    =========
    On this day in 1941, with his team trailing 5-4 with two outs in the ninth inning,
    Ted Williams hit a three-run home run to lead the American League to a 7-5
    victory in the All-Star Game at Briggs Stadium in Detroit.

    The summer of 1941 provided two of the biggest storylines in the history of baseball:
    In New York City, Joe DiMaggio was assembling a hitting streak that is considered
    by many to be unbreakable. In Boston, Ted Williams was on his way to hitting .400
    for the season. He was the first player to do so since 1925, and the only player since.

    By July 8, 1941, DiMaggio, the American League batting champ in 1939 and 1940 and sterling
    center fielder for the New York Yankees, was through game 48 of his eventual 56-game
    hitting streak. Ted Williams, the third-year Red Sox outfielder who had led the American
    League in runs in 1940, was hitting .405.

    The early star of the 1941 All-Star Game, though, was Cleveland Indians pitcher “Bullet”
    Bob Feller, a six-year veteran at 22 years old, who faced the minimum nine batters in
    his allotted three innings to cement his status as the premier pitcher in the game.
    Another notable performance was turned in by Pittsburgh Pirates slugger Arky
    Vaughn, who hit a two-run homer to the upper deck in the seventh inning
    to give the National League a 3-2 lead. Vaughn followed that with another
    two-run shot in the eighth.

    The American League trailed 5-3 entering the bottom of the ninth inning. With one out
    and the bases loaded and Chicago Cub Claude Passeau on the mound, Joe DiMaggio
    came to the plate. DiMaggio hit a hard line-drive to Boston Braves shortstop Eddie
    Miller, who flipped the ball to Brooklyn Dodgers second baseman Billy Herman.
    Though it looked to be a tailor-made double play, Herman threw wide to first,
    allowing the American League to score a run and bring another man to the
    plate. Ted Williams promptly hit a three-run home run to win the game
    for the American League, 7-5.
    ===============

  176. July 8, 1972
    ========
    Bill Withers stepped into a recording studio for the very first time at the age of 32,
    and two years later, he’d written and recorded one of the most beloved pop songs
    of the modern era – “Lean On Me” – which began its first stay at #1 on the pop
    charts on this day in 1972.

    Bill Withers was born in 1938 in the coal-mining company town of Slab Fork, West Virginia, where
    he left school at age 13 to help support his family following the death of his father. The Navy took
    Withers out into the wider world at the age of 17, and he settled in California following his
    discharge nine years later. At age 29, he set his mind to pursuing a career in music, but
    he hedged his bets with full-time factory jobs in various Southern California defense
    plants. It took three years for anyone to show an interest in him, but in 1970,
    Sussex Records signed Bill Withers and paired him with producer Booker T. Jones
    of Booker T. and the MG’s fame. While Withers continued to work in an aircraft factory
    assembling toilet seats, his 1971 debut album, Just As I Am, became a major critical success,
    yielding the Grammy Award-winning hit single “Ain’t No Sunshine” and the minor R&B classic
    “Grandma’s Hands.”

    Withers was still a full-time factory worker when he wrote the song whose success would finally
    convince him to give up his day job. “For a long time I didn’t really accept my new career,” he
    told the Los Angeles Times in 1975. “It was like I was on vacation from the factory and at
    some point I would have to take my tool box and go back to work.” Withers’ “Lean On Me”
    became a simultaneous #1 hit on the Billboard pop and R&B charts on this day in 1972,
    and it returned to the #1 spot on the pop charts in March 1987 in a hip-hop inflected
    remake by Club Nouveau. It has also been covered by artists as diverse as Michael
    Bolton (1994), Anne Murray (1999) and Limp Bizkit (2005).
    ===============
    LEAN ON ME
    by Bill Withers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEXQkrllGbA
    note – [over 67 million utube hits]
    ————–

  177. Every thing you do is based on the choices you make. It’s not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy , the weather, an argument, or your age that is to blame. YOU and only you are responsible for everyday decisions and choices you make. PERIOD!
    (Concerning the state of affairs in Washington today.) “A 4th grade teacher asked the children what their father did for a living. All the typical answers came up. Fireman, Mechanic, Business man, Salesman and so forth. , however little Peter was uncharacteristically quiet, so the teacher prodded him about his father. He replied “My father is an exotic dancer in a cabaret. He takes off all his clothes and people put money in his purse. Sometimes if the offer is really good, he will go home with people and stay with them for money.” The teacher, obviously shaken by this statement, hurriedly sent the other children to work on some exercises and took little Peter aside. “Is that really true about your father?” the teacher asked. “No” the boy said,” He’s a congressman, but that’s too embarrassing to admit in public.”

    A Pastor, a doctor, and a politician were waiting one morning on the golf course for a particularly slow group of golfers a head of them. Politician: What’s with these guys? We must have been waiting for 15 minutes. Doctor: I don’t know, but I have never seen such ineptitude. Pastor: Hey here comes the greens keeper, let’s have a word with him. Hi George, Say what’s up with the group ahead of us? they’re rather slow aren’t they? George: Oh yes, that’s a group of blind fire fighters. They lost their sight saving our club house from a fire last year, so we always let them play for free any time.—– The group was silent for a moment. Pastor: That’s so sad, I think I will say a special prayer for them tonight. Doctor: Good idea, and I am going to contact my ophthalmologist buddy and see if there is anything he can do for them.—Politician: I DON’T GET IT!!! WHY CAN’T THESE JERKS PLAY AT NIGHT ? Thus politics in 2017!!! Keep a little love in your heart for you fellow man.

  178. July 7, 1930
    =========
    On this day in 1930, construction of the Hoover Dam began. Over the next five years,
    a total of 21,000 men worked ceaselessly to produce what would become the largest
    dam of its time – as well as one of the largest manmade structures in the world.

    Although the dam took only five years to build, its construction was nearly 30 years in the
    making. Arthur Powell Davis, an engineer from the Bureau of Reclamation, originally
    had his vision for the Hoover Dam back in 1902, and his engineering report on
    the topic became the guiding document when plans were finally made to
    begin the dam in 1922.

    Herbert Hoover – the 31st president of the United States and a committed conservationist – played
    a crucial role in making Davis’ vision a reality. As secretary of commerce in 1921, Hoover devoted
    himself to the erection of a high dam in Boulder Canyon, Colorado. The dam would provide
    essential flood control, which would prevent damage to downstream farming communities
    that suffered each year when snow from the Rocky Mountains melted and joined the
    Colorado River. Further, the dam would allow the expansion of irrigated farming
    in the desert, and would provide a dependable supply of water for Los Angeles
    and other southern California communities.

    Even with Hoover’s exuberant backing and a regional consensus around the need to build
    the dam, Congressional approval and individual state cooperation were slow in coming.
    For many years, water rights had been a source of contention among the western states
    that had claims on the Colorado River. To address this issue, Hoover negotiated the
    Colorado River Compact, which broke the river basin into two regions with the water
    divided between them. Hoover then had to introduce and re-introduce the bill to build
    the dam several times over the next few years before the House and Senate finally
    approved the bill in 1928.

    In 1929, Hoover, now president, signed the Colorado River Compact into law, claiming it
    was “the most extensive action ever taken by a group of states under the provisions of
    the Constitution permitting compacts between states.”

    Once preparations were made, the Hoover Dam’s construction sprinted forward: The
    contractors finished their work two years ahead of schedule and millions of dollars
    under budget. Today, the Hoover Dam is the second highest dam in the country and
    the 18th highest in the world. It generates enough energy each year to serve over a
    million people, and stands, in Hoover Dam artist Oskar Hansen’s words, as “a monument
    to collective genius exerting itself in community efforts around a common need or ideal.”
    ===============

  179. Hey Judith,
    It’s Friday afternoon — 7/7/17.
    I’ve been catching up on your posts yesterday — good reading! My favorites were BLANK
    CHECK FOR ENDLESS WAR bill, Smart Phone Stupidity, the newly discovered planets, and
    of course Zuckerberg finding salvation — it’s always good to laugh from time to time. !!!! pez

  180. This post was submitted by an everyday citizen in the opinion column of our local newspaper. I pondered to print it, asking myself if this is really newsworthy and up to the higher standards of our Neo-Think “Face to the world”, and decided it was because it says so much we are all concerned with. Letter as written.
    I glanced down at the receipt. “WISDOM” is knowing what path to take; INTEGRITY is taking it.”. If we exchanged “MORALITY” for “WISDOM” and “ETHICS” for “INTEGRITY” it would work just as well. The fact that the quotation was on a grocery receipt leads me to believe that maybe a lot of other people are as concerned as I.—- When “MORALITY” is mentioned to Americans we all get in a dither about sex, forgetting , If we ever cared, that it also means knowing the difference between right and wrong. Reportedly Jesus said “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”, and his contemporary Rabbi Hillel said. “Do not to others what you would not have done to you.” —- Aristotle said “Do what is good, don’t do what is bad.” Don’t judge others , don’t take cheap shots in public forums because of gender,, race, ethnicity, religion, education, disability , political, philosophy or even the mole on some one’s nose. Don’t dishonor “free speech” . If someone in highest office is dishonoring some of us he is dishonoring all of us, and if others in highest office keep silent, they are complicit . Silence gives consent , no political “yeah-but! Speak out –the silence is deafening.

  181. FOREST!! Thanks for the input about my last School of Genius – Rise of Neo-Tech call! I was so happy to hear your voice when you greeted me … and it was so cool to be able to send a greeting to your lovely wife, Carol. Again, I appreciated it very much that you came. However, I was super disappointed with the sound quality and we had to diagnose just what had happened. I was in process of changing the phone if the battery was failing but hadn’t ascertained that it was until (of course, Murphy’s Law) I was already on the call. It would have cut me off after starting. So, I had to quickly get a training session on Mike’s much-smarter-than-I-am phone in about 3 minutes time! However, a situation occurred I would never in one million years have even thought of (being a bit technologically challenged, you see).

    All was okay except forgetting to mention that I needed to keep the screen on ‘black’ so that it wouldn’t bump my face and open apps. So, that was what was going on – Steve & Charlie were picking up on the phones doing ‘their’ own thing as apps were opening. That was the clicks. When Digger put his phone on mute, it helped lessen the sound on my side. But to me, it was a train wreck. I claim responsibility as I should have nitty-gritty detail made sure all was okay (which I thought I had sufficiently, but never mind). Live and learn life’s lessons. Michael kept saying it was the information that’s important, however, if people can’t hear you, that’s a moot point … what information? It was disappointing to me because I felt it could help somebody. So, that experience just has to go into the category of a ‘big oh well’ … SIGH.

    I heard a rumor you’re going to be speaking on Kay and Digger’s new Golden Seekers call … I am so glad you are coming forward! Hurray! You have so much knowledge to share. I will do my best to be on, but may have to listen later. I’ve been super busy lately as things are changing here. Also, I’ve been ‘seeing’ that maybe Carol will be involved with reshaping Neothink children’s lives at some point in the future, as I know that is her FNE. I hope she will start meditating on that idea. One can never tell what’s coming around the next corner as we stay in the flow – I guess could be considered an example of that fact – and I wish you both success in all you do.

    Anyhow, I will speak to you soon. I appreciate you guys and your support a lot! Love and light,

    Judith

  182. July 6, 1933
    =========
    On this day in 1933, Major League Baseball’s first All-Star Game took place at Chicago’s
    Comiskey Park. The brainchild of a determined sports editor, the event was designed
    to bolster the sport and improve its reputation during the darkest years of the Great
    Depression. Originally billed as a one-time “Game of the Century,” it has now become
    a permanent and much-loved fixture of the baseball season.

    Between 1930 and 1933, attendance at major league baseball games, which had skyrocketed
    during the 1920s, plummeted 40 percent, while the average player’s salary fell by 25 percent.
    Fans who could still afford tickets migrated from the more expensive box seats to the
    bleachers, which cost 50 cents. Owners of baseball teams across the country
    economized by shrinking their rosters, firing their coaches and slashing
    wages. Many teams also experimented with discounts and other
    innovations designed to woo back fans, including free
    admission for women, grocery giveaways and
    the first night games in baseball history.

    Surprisingly, the most enduring promotional event to emerge during this period — the midseason All-Star Game between the American and National Leagues — was the brainchild of several people with no direct connection to baseball. In 1933, Chicago hosted a World’s Fair known as the Century of Progress International Exposition, an event devised to celebrate the city’s centennial while cultivating a sense of optimism during the depths of the Depression. Mayor Edward Kelly, newly elected and intent on making the fair a success, approached Colonel Robert McCormick, the powerful publisher of the Chicago Tribune, with the idea of holding a major athletic event in conjunction with it.

    McCormick turned the matter over to his sports editor, Arch Ward, who proposed a one-time “Game of the Century” that would pit the finest players of the American and National Leagues against each other at Chicago’s Comiskey Park. As an added twist, fans would have the opportunity to vote on the lineup. Ward was so certain the game would be a hit that he told McCormick to take any losses out of Ward’s own paycheck. With his boss on board, Ward made his case to the presidents of both leagues and the various team owners, assuring the skeptics among them that the event would help pull baseball out of its slump. By donating all proceeds to a charity for retired players, he argued, they could show the country that Major League Baseball was not, as some had suggested, embracing a culture of “decadence” while ordinary Americans suffered financial ruin. Eventually, the persuasive editor’s lobbying won over the baseball commissioner, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, and the game was set for July 6, 1933.

    As the date drew near, Ward wrote story after story in the Tribune, hyping the game and encouraging the public to participate. Ballots were printed in 55 newspapers across the country, and fans cast several hundred thousand votes for their favorite players, with Babe Ruth drawing 100,000. Along with the Bambino, fans elected the likes of Lefty Grove, Jimmy Foxx, Lou Gehrig, Al Simmons and Joe Cronin to the roster.

    On July 6, 47,595 fans packed into Comiskey Park, where some of baseball’s most historic moments had taken place. This would be another. The game, which ended in a 4-2 victory by the American League, did not disappoint, thrilling the crowd with its star-studded roster, built-in drama and unprecedented matchups. Indeed, for many of the players, this was their first chance to meet and compete with their counterparts from the other league.

    Arch Ward’s All-Star Game proved so popular that its organizers held another “midsummer classic” the following year. Since then, it has become an annual fixture of the baseball season, bringing together the sport’s most talented and beloved players every year with the exception of 1945, when it was cancelled due to wartime travel restrictions.
    ============

  183. July 6, 1971
    ========
    Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong – one of the most influential musicians of the
    20th century – died in New York City at the age of 69. A world-renowned
    jazz trumpeter and vocalist, he pioneered jazz improvisation and the style
    known as swing.

    Louis Daniel Armstrong was born in New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz, in 1901. He grew
    up in poverty and from a young age was interested in music. In 1912, he was incarcerated
    in the Colored Waif’s Home for Boys, allegedly for firing a gun into the air on New
    Year’s Eve. While there, he played cornet in the home’s band. Upon his release,
    he dedicated himself to becoming a professional musician and soon was
    mastering local jazz styles on the cornet. He attracted the attention
    of cornetist Joe “King” Oliver, and when Oliver moved to Chicago
    in 1919 Armstrong took his place in trombonist Kid Ory’s
    band – a leading group in New Orleans at the time. He later teamed
    up with pianist Fate Marable and performed on riverboats that traveled the Mississippi.

    In 1922, King Oliver invited Armstrong to Chicago to play second cornet in his Creole Jazz Band,
    and Armstrong made his first recordings with Oliver the following year. In 1924, he moved
    to New York City and demonstrated his emerging improvisational style in the Fletcher
    Henderson Orchestra. In 1925, Armstrong returned to Chicago and formed his own
    band – the Hot Five – which included Kid Ory, clarinetist Johnny Dodds, and
    pianist Lil’ Hardin – Armstrong’s second wife.

    This band, which later grew into the Hot Seven, recorded some of the seminal pieces in the
    history of jazz, including “Savoy Blues,” “Potato Head Blues,” and “West End Blues.” In these
    recordings, Armstrong abandoned the collective improvisation of New Orleans-style jazz
    and placed the emphasis on individual soloists. He switched from cornet to trumpet during
    this time and played the latter with unprecedented virtuosity and range. In the 1926
    recording “Heebie Jeebies,” he popularized “scat singing,” a style in which jazz vocalists sing
    musical lines of nonsensical syllables in emulation of instrumental improvisation. His joyous
    voice, both coarse and exuberant, was one of the most distinctive in popular music.

    In 1929, Armstrong returned to New York City and made his first Broadway appearance. His
    recordings, many of which were jazz interpretations of popular songs, were international
    hits, and he toured the United States and Europe with his big band. His music had a
    major effect on the swing and big band sound that dominated popular music in
    the 1930s and ’40s. A great performer, Armstrong appeared regularly on
    radio and in American films, including Pennies from Heaven (1936),
    Cabin in the Sky (1943), and New Orleans (1947). In 1947, he
    formed a smaller ensemble, the All-Stars, which
    he led until 1968.

    Louis Armstrong had many nicknames, including Satchmo, short for “Satchelmouth”; “
    Dippermouth”; and “Pops.” Because he spread jazz around the world through his
    extensive travels and hit songs, many called him “Ambassador Satch.” Although
    in declining health in his later years, he continued to perform until his death
    on July 6, 1971.
    ============
    WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD
    by Louis Armstrong

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWzrABouyeE
    —————-

  184. AFTER 16 YEARS, HOUSE PANEL TAKES STEP TO CANCEL
    “BLANK CHECK FOR ENDLESS WAR” …

    ACTIVIST POST
    By Andrea Germanos
    July 3, 2017

    A House committee on Thursday took a surprising—yet welcome—step towards canceling the “blank check for endless war.”

    That’s because the Republican-controlled House Appropriations Committee passed a repeal of the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), which has been used justify ongoing military actions in regions around the world spanning the George W. Bush, Obama, and now Trump administrations.

    The amendment to the 2018 Defense Appropriations Bill was put forth by Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.)—the sole member of Congress to vote against the AUMF passed in the wake of the Sept. 11 attack—and would repeal the AUMF 240 days after enactment of the appropriations bill.

    On Twitter, Lee said the vote “was 16 years in the making,” adding — “Whoa. My amdt to sunset 2001 AUMF was adopted in DOD Approps markup! GOP & Dems agree: a floor debate & vote on endless war is long overdue.”

    — Rep. Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) June 29, 2017
    “At long last, I am pleased that my Democratic and Republican colleagues supported my effort to put an end to the overly broad blank check for war that is the 2001 AUMF,” Lee said in a statement Thursday.

    “If passed into law as part of the DOD bill, it would repeal the 2001 AUMF eight months after enactment of this legislation. That would allow plenty of time for Congress to finally live up to its constitutional obligation to debate and vote on any new AUMF. It is far past time for Congress to do its job and for the Speaker to allow a debate and vote on this vital national security issue,” she said.

    Writing at Lawfare blog, Robert Chesney called the amendment’s near-unanimous passage a “pretty remarkable development.” Politico adds: “Even Republicans with military experience embraced Lee’s defense spending bill amendment, which would repeal the 2001 authorization.”

    Committee member Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) for her part, said the passage meant her “colleagues on both sides of the aisle finally said ‘enough is enough.’” Indeed, according to The Hill, “Lawmakers applauded when the amendment was added by voice vote to the defense spending bill.”

    Foreign Policy writes that the amendment’s adoption “could signal Congress’s increasing willingness to straitjacket the Trump administration’s ability to wage war against terrorist organizations without prior congressional approval.”

    Addressing that issue, Robert Naiman, policy director at the advocacy organization Just Foreign Policy, said his group hopes “that it will set the stage for Congress to block President [Donald] Trump from using military force that Congress has never authorized against actors in Yemen and Syria that are clearly not associated forces of Al Qaeda, including the Houthi-Saleh alliance in Yemen and Syrian government and allied forces in Syria.”

    The development was praised by anti-war organizations.

    “Over the past sixteen years, the 2001 AUMF has provided three administrations with a blank check for war. Not only does Rep. Lee’s amendment stand as a strong statement against endless warfare, but we hope that it will also promote debate and compel Congress to reckon with its history of inaction on this issue,” saidYasmine Taeb, lobbyist for human rights and civil liberties at Friends Committee on National Legislation.

    Peace Action welcomed the development as “an opportunity to course correct after a decade and a half of failed U.S. policy in the Middle East.”

    “THE 2001 AUMF IS THE REASON THE U.S. HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN MILITARY CAMPAIGNS IN AT LEAST SEVEN COUNTRIES. IT’S THE REASON WE’VE ALLOWED THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN TO BECOME AMERICA’S LONGEST WAR. IT’S THE REASON A WHOLE GENERATION HAS GROWN UP NOT KNOWING A TIME WITHOUT WAR,” SAID JON RAINWATER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE PEACE ORGANIZATION.

    “Rep. Lee has championed opposition to endless war brought on by the 2001 AUMF since day one with her sole vote to oppose it. The adoption her amendment to repeal it gives Congress a chance to reclaim its constitutional role as an arbiter of war and peace,” he continued.

    The amendment’s passage is no sure thing, “as the defense appropriations bill will have to be eventually reconciled in the Senate, giving congressional leaders the ability to strip the AUMF language from a final spending bill,” CNN notes.

    Thus, Win Without War director Stephen Miles called on Congress to keep the provision as it continues to weigh the appropriations bill, saying: “The men and women elected to serve us have no more important duty than deciding whether to send the American military to war. This important legislation is the only way to finally force Congress to once again fulfill that solemn duty.” )End)

    This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License
    Andrea Germanos is a staff writer for Common Dreams, where this article first appeared.

    Wow! Amazing … when I saw this last week it brought tears to my eyes … a patriot in our midst who has introduced this bill every year since 2001 who now is victorious. Now to see what happens to the bill and keep our hopes up! No more war on the horizon for humanity is one of our goals in the Neothink Society. This could be a sign of an awakening consciousness – let’s hope! PEACE IN OUR TIME – NOW!

    Judith

  185. HIDDEN TROVE OF SUSPECTED NAZI ARTIFACTS FOUND IN ARGENTINA

    AP NEWS
    June 20, 2017

    BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — In a hidden room in a house near Argentina’s capital, police believe they have found the biggest collection of Nazi artifacts in the country’s history, including a bust relief of Adolf Hitler, magnifying glasses inside elegant boxes with swastikas and even a medical device used to measure head size.

    Some 75 objects were found in a collector’s home in Beccar, a suburb north of Buenos Aires, and authorities say they suspect they are originals that belonged to high-ranking Nazis in Germany during World War II.

    “Our first investigations indicate that these are original pieces,” Argentine Security Minister Patricia Bullrich told The Associated Press, saying that some pieces were accompanied by old photographs. “This is a way to commercialize them, showing that they were used by the horror, by the Fuhrer. There are photos of him with the objects.”

    Among the disturbing items were toys that Bullrich said would have been used to indoctrinate children, a large statue of the Nazi Eagle above a swastika, a Nazi hourglass and a box of harmonicas.

    Police say one of the most-compelling pieces of evidence of the historical importance of the find is a photo negative of Hitler holding a magnifying glass similar to those found in the boxes.

    “We have turned to historians and they’ve told us it is the original magnifying glass” that Hitler was using, said Nestor Roncaglia, head of Argentina’s federal police. “We are reaching out to international experts to deepen” the investigation.

    The photograph was not released to the public, but was shown to The Associated Press on the condition that it not be published.

    The investigation that culminated in the discovery of the collection began when authorities found artworks of illicit origin in a gallery in north Buenos Aires.

    Agents with the international police force Interpol began following the collector and with a judicial order raided the house on June 8. A large bookshelf caught their attention and behind it agents found a hidden passageway to a room filled with Nazi imagery.

    Authorities did not identify the collector who remains free but under investigation by a federal judge.

    “There are no precedents for a find like this. Pieces are stolen or are imitations. But this is original and we have to get to the bottom of it,” said Roncaglia.

    Police are trying to determine how the artifacts entered Argentina.

    The main hypothesis among investigators and member of Argentina’s Jewish community is that they were brought to Argentina by a high-ranking Nazi or Nazis after World War II, when the South American country became a refuge for fleeing war criminals, including some of the best known.

    As leading members of Hitler’s Third Reich were put on trial for war crimes, Josef Mengele fled to Argentina and lived in Buenos Aires for a decade. He moved to Paraguay after Israeli Mossad agents captured Holocaust mastermind Adolf Eichmann, who was also living in Buenos Aires. Mengele later died in Brazil in 1979 while swimming in a beach in the town of Bertioga.

    While police in Argentina did not name any high-ranking Nazis to whom the objects might have originally belonged, Bullrich noted there were medical devices.

    “There are objects to measure heads that was the logic of the Aryan race,” she said.

    Ariel Cohen Sabban, president of the DAIA, a political umbrella for Argentina’s Jewish institutes, called the find “unheard of” in Argentina.

    “Finding 75 original pieces is historic and could offer irrefutable proof of the presence of top leaders who escaped from Nazi Germany,” Cohen told the AP.

    Associated Press video journalist Paul Byrne contributed to this report.(End)

    Thanks for reading! More discoveries … Judith

  186. BIG ANNOUNCEMENT FROM NASA: 200 NEW PLANETS FOUND,
    10 PLANETS LIKE EARTH MAY HAVE LIFE …

    AscensionWithEarth.Com
    June 19, 2017

    NASA made a big announcement today as they continue with their soft disclosure about E.T. life on other worlds. Over 200 new planets have been documented with 10 of these planets considered earth like and may support life. Viewers of this blog are most aware of this type of “drip drip drip” disclosure from NASA and realize this is not really a major announcement. These disclosures from NASA are mostly for the “sleeping” public who still need time to adjust to the shifting reality.

    Here is a quick summary about this latest disclosure……

    (AP) — NASA says its planet-hunting telescope has found 10 new planets outside our solar system that are likely the right size and temperature to potentially have life on them.

    As the Kepler telescope finished its main mission, NASA announced Monday that it has seen a total of 49 planets in the Goldilocks zone for possible life. And it only looked in a tiny part of the galaxy.

    Kepler scientist Mario Perez says that means that “we are probably not alone” because four years of data show how common Earth-like planets can be. Outside scientists agreed that this is a boost in the hope for life elsewhere.

    NASA says several of the 10 new potentially habitable planets circle stars similar in size to our sun.

    NASA also announced 219 new planets.

    http://www.apnews.com

    Getting ever closer to some sort of disclosure … let’s hope it is full disclosure so that more of the secret programs can just go away. Exciting news! Thanks Dr. Frank Wallace and Mark Hamilton for helping us keep open minds. Come join us in the Neothink Society where you can express your true Self!

    Judith

  187. U.S. TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE SPARKS SPECTATOR EXCITEMENT!

    REUTERS
    By Irene Klotz
    Cape Canaveral, Florida

    The first total solar eclipse across the continental United States in a century is expected to spark watching parties and traffic jams as it darkens skies from Oregon to South Carolina, authorities said on Wednesday.

    During the Aug. 21 eclipse, the moon will pass between the sun and Earth, blocking the face of the sun and leaving only its outer atmosphere, or corona, visible in the sky.

    It is the first coast-to-coast total eclipse since 1918.

    Weather permitting, people can watch as the moon’s 70-mile (113-km) wide shadow crosses through 14 states from 10:15 a.m. PDT (1715 GMT) around Lincoln Beach, Oregon, to 2:49 p.m. EDT (1849 GMT) in McClellanville, South Carolina.

    With 200 million Americans within a day’s drive of the path, national parks and highways officials are bracing for a travel surge.

    “Be prepared,” Martin Knopp of the Federal Highway Administration said at a news conference, cautioning drivers against simply showing up. “It’s not the time to pull over and be on the side of the road.”

    Travel groups and many scientists will be heading to Oregon’s northwest desert seeking favourable weather for viewing, according to the website eclipsophile.com.

    Total solar eclipses occur somewhere on Earth every year or so, but most cast their shadow over oceans or remote land. The last total eclipse over part of the contiguous U.S. was in 1979.

    All of North America will experience a partial eclipse, though the difference between a full and partial eclipse is “literally the difference between night and day,” said astronomer Rick Fienberg of the American Astronomical Society.

    He noted that even a 99 percent eclipse will not reveal the sun’s corona. And during a total eclipse, the temperature drops and the horizon is ringed by the colours of sunset.

    “The sky gets deep twilight blue and bright stars and planets come out,” Fienberg said. “Animals and birds behave strangely, like it’s the end of the day.”

    NASA said it plans to fly high-altitude research balloons and airplanes for solar physics and other experiments. Nearly a dozen U.S. science satellites will observe the sun and Earth.

    The U.S. space agency will also broadcast the eclipse live from locations along the path.

    Experts caution that the only safe time to look at the sun without special eclipse glasses is during totality when the surface of the sun is completely blocked by the moon.

    (Editing by Letitia Stein and Cynthia Osterman) End.

    Exciting and strange events continue to abound. The sun is coming up now so far ‘off’ East to the North now, sometimes when I gaze at it in the wee hours as sunrise occurs, it raises the hair on my arms. The farther off the horizon it goes as it rises, the less noticeable it is, I guess. People have told me I’m crazy … but have they looked up at our sun in the early morning lately? Or watched as it went down in the ‘South’ West now? With a sense of wonder I ask how could I ever have imagined that in my lifetime the way our world works from morning to night would change!?

    We were brought up on the phrase “The sun always comes up tomorrow” – which it still is coming up. It’s just that now our world appears to be on tilt and our heavens adjusting toward something brand new! Just as we are evolving more rapidly now, as well. Since it’s been happening, I’ve had to adjust any fear to excitement at these unfolding historical events! How about you? We’ve also heard “Tomorrow’s another day” … giving us opportunities to make things better when it’s been a tough day. Well, now the reality is it’s truly a brand new day dawning on into our future! It will bring what we all decide together.

    Judith

  188. July 5, 1975
    =========
    On this day in 1975, Arthur Ashe defeated the heavily favored
    Jimmy Connors to become the first black man ever to win
    Wimbledon, the most coveted championship in tennis.

    Arthur Ashe began playing tennis as a boy in his hometown of Richmond, Virginia.
    After winning a tennis scholarship to UCLA, Ashe was taken under the wing of tennis
    star Pancho Gonzales, who recognized the young player’s potential. In 1968, Ashe became
    the first black man to win the U.S. Open. Two years later, he captured the Australian Open
    for his second Grand Slam title. Over the next seven years, Ashe won his share of tournaments,
    but no more majors, and, frustrated, he set his sights on victory at Wimbledon, one of the
    most celebrated championships in tennis.

    Arthur Ashe was 31 years old in 1975, and seemingly well past his prime, so his advancement
    to the 1975 Wimbledon finals came as somewhat of a surprise to the tennis establishment.
    While Ashe’s best finishes at Wimbledon had been losses in the semi-finals in 1968 and 1969,
    his opponent, the brash 22-year-old Jimmy Connors, was the defending Wimbledon champion.
    In their three previous meetings, Connors had handled Ashe easily. Furthermore, Connors
    was coming off an impressive semi-final win against Roscoe Tanner, whose intimidating serve
    observers called the hardest hitting ever at Wimbledon.

    Though many thought he didn’t have a chance, Ashe formulated a game plan for the
    match – hit nothing hard. He planned to serve strongly and then give Connors nothing
    but “junk” as Ashe himself described it. Connors won the first game of the first set, but
    then dropped the rest of the set in just 20 minutes, 6-1. Although Connors won just one
    game off Ashe in the second set, he took the third set 7-5. His confidence restored,
    Connors strutted around the court, while Ashe closed his eyes between sets,
    concentrating on the moment at hand. Finally, with the shocked crowd cheering
    him on, Ashe finished Connors off in the fourth set, 6-4.

    Ashe retired from competitive tennis in 1980 after suffering a heart attack. For his career,
    he won 51 tournaments. In retirement, Ashe wrote the three-volume book A Hard Road to
    Glory, first published in 1988, which detailed the struggle of black athletes in America.
    In 1983, after double-bypass surgery, Ashe was infected with HIV during a blood transfusion.
    After revealing his disease to the world in 1992, he set about educating the public about HIV
    and AIDS. He died of AIDS-related complications on February 6, 1993. In 1997, the U.S. Open’s
    new home court was named Arthur Ashe Stadium.
    =================

  189. . . . .. . . . . .THE SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN
    . . . . . .. . . . . . .NEOTHINK CLUBHOUSES
    …………….ARE HOSTING A GALA EVENTS IN JULY…………..
    ============================================
    When?. . . . . . . . . . . Saturday June 8, 2017.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:30 am – 3 pm.
    Where?. . . . . . . . . .The Henry Ford Museum.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dearborn, Michigan.
    What?. . . . . . . . . . . $20 includes entry into the Museum
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . plus Imax Movie – plus dessert.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bring lunch, or food can be purchased.
    WHY?. . . . . . . . . . . . Why not.
    =============================================
    -. – . – . – . –

  190. July 4, 1776
    =========
    On this day in 1776, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence, which proclaims the independence of a new United States of America from Great Britain and its king. The declaration came 442 days after the first shots of the American Revolution were fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts and marked an ideological expansion of the conflict that would eventually involve France’s intervention on behalf of the Americans.

    The first major American opposition to British policy came in 1765 after Parliament passed the Stamp Act, a taxation measure designed to raise revenues for a standing British army in America. Under the banner of “no taxation without representation,” colonists convened the Stamp Act Congress in October 1765 to vocalize their opposition to the tax. With its enactment in November, most colonists called for a boycott of British goods, and some organized attacks on customhouses and homes of tax collectors.

    After months of protest in the colonies, Parliament finally voted to repeal the Stamp Act in March 1766. Most colonists continued to quietly accept British rule until Parliament’s enactment of the Tea Act in 1773, a bill designed to save the faltering British East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and granting it a monopoly on the American tea trade. The low tax allowed the company to undercut even tea smuggled into America by Dutch traders, and many colonists viewed the act as another example of taxation tyranny.

    In response, militant colonists in Massachusetts organized the “Boston Tea Party,” which saw British tea valued at some £18,000 dumped into Boston Harbor. Parliament, outraged by the Boston Tea Party and other blatant acts of destruction of British property, enacted the Coercive Acts, called the Intolerable Acts by the colonists, in 1774. The Coercive Acts closed Boston to merchant shipping, established formal British military rule in Massachusetts, made British officials immune to criminal prosecution in America and required colonists to quarter British troops.

    In response, the colonists called the first Continental Congress to consider united American resistance to the British. With the other colonies watching intently, Massachusetts led the resistance to the British, forming a shadow revolutionary government and establishing militias to resist the increasing British military presence across the colony. In April 1775, Thomas Gage, the British governor of Massachusetts, ordered British troops to march to Concord, Massachusetts, where a Patriot arsenal was known to be located. On April 19, 1775, the British regulars encountered a group of American militiamen at Lexington, and the first shots of the American Revolution were fired. Initially, both the Americans and the British saw the conflict as a kind of civil war within the British empire. To King George III, it was a colonial rebellion, and to the Americans, it was a struggle for their rights as British citizens. However, Parliament remained unwilling to negotiate with the American rebels and instead hired Hessians, German mercenaries, to help the British army crush the rebellion.

    In response to Britain’s continued opposition to reform, the Continental Congress began to pass measures abolishing British authority in the colonies. In January 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense, an influential political pamphlet that convincingly argued for American independence and sold more than 500,000 copies in just a few months. In the spring of 1776, support for independence swept the colonies, the Continental Congress called for states to form their own governments and a five-man committee was assigned to draft a declaration. The Declaration of Independence was largely the work of Virginian Thomas Jefferson. In justifying American independence, Jefferson drew generously from the political philosophy of John Locke, an advocate of natural rights, and from the work of other English theorists. The declaration features the immortal lines, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” It then goes on to present a long list of grievances that provided the rationale for rebellion. On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted to approve a Virginia motion calling for separation from Britain. The dramatic words of this resolution were added to the closing of the Declaration of Independence.

    Two days later, on July 4, the declaration was formally adopted by 12 colonies after minor revision. New York, the 13th colony, approved it on July 19. On August 2, the declaration was signed. The American War for Independence would last for five years. Yet to come were the Patriot triumphs at Saratoga, the bitter winter at Valley Forge, the intervention of the French and the final victory at Yorktown in 1781. In 1783, with the signing of the Treaty of Paris with Britain, the United States formally became a free and independent nation.
    =================
    INDEPENDENCE DAY
    by Martina McBride

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VPpAZ9_qAw
    —————-

  191. July 3, 2012
    =========
    On this day in 2012, Andy Griffith – famous for his role as the good-hearted, small-town
    sheriff of fictional Mayberry, North Carolina, on the iconic 1960s TV sitcom “The Andy
    Griffith Show” – died at age 86 at his North Carolina home. The actor also was known
    for his starring role in the 1980s-1990s TV drama “Matlock,” in which he portrayed a
    shrewd Atlanta defense attorney.

    Andrew Samuel Griffith was born on June 1, 1926, in Mount Airy, North Carolina. He
    majored in music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating in 1949.
    Griffith went on to teach school for several years before finding success as a stand-up
    comedian. In 1957, he made his feature film debut in the critically acclaimed drama
    “A Face in the Crowd,” starring, in a serious role, as a drifter who becomes a
    manipulative, power-hungry celebrity.

    “The Andy Griffith Show” premiered in the fall of 1960 and quickly became a hit. Griffith
    played the amiable Sheriff Andy Taylor, a widower raising his young son Opie, played
    by Ron Howard (now a successful Hollywood director, whose credits include
    “A Beautiful Mind” and “The Da Vinci Code”). Set in the small, idyllic
    community of Mayberry (based on Griffith’s hometown of Mount
    Airy), the show included an ensemble of eccentric characters such as bumbling
    Deputy Barney Fife (played by Don Knotts), prim Aunt Bee (Frances Bavier), gas-station
    attendant Gomer Pyle (Jim Nabors), Floyd the barber (Howard McNear) and Otis the town
    drunk (Hal Smith). The folksy sitcom, memorable for its whistled theme song, which played over
    opening credits featuring Andy and Opie on their way to go fishing, continues to air in reruns. Additionally,
    the program spawned the TV shows “Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.” (1964-69) and “Mayberry R.F.D.” (1968-71).

    During the 1970s and 1980s, Griffith appeared in several short-lived TV series and various
    made-for-TV movies before again finding success in the legal drama “Matlock,” which
    originally aired from 1986 to 1995. The actor’s final role was in the 2009 feature film
    “Play the Game.” Also in 2009, the Andy Griffith Museum opened in Mount Airy.
    The TV legend died of a heart attack on July 3, 2012, at his home on Roanoke
    Island in North Carolina.
    =============

  192. July 3, 1992
    =========
    Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking breaks British publishing records on this
    day in 1992. His book A Brief History of Time has been on the nonfiction bestseller
    list for three and a half years, selling more than 3 million copies in 22 languages.

    A Brief History of Time explained the latest theories on the origins of the universe
    in language accessible to educated lay people. The book was made into an acclaimed
    documentary in 1992, which focused largely on Hawking’s own story. Diagnosed
    with Lou Gehrig’s disease in his 20s, Hawking was told he had only two years
    to live. Despite the sobering prognosis, Hawking pursued his studies in
    theoretical physics, married, and had a son. Eventually, his disease
    left him paralyzed except for his left hand. He was able to speak,
    although his speech was difficult to understand, until he
    underwent a tracheotomy in 1985 during a bout with
    pneumonia. Afterward, he relied on a mouse-controlled voice synthesizer,
    which improved the clarity of his speech. His familiar, synthesized voice can be
    heard in the Brief History of Time documentary, a popular Pink Floyd song, and an episode of The Simpsons.

    A recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and numerous other honors, Hawking
    has written several additional popular science books, including Black Holes and Baby
    Universes and Other Essays (1993) and The Grand Design (2010), which he co-wrote
    with fellow physicist Leonard Mlodinow. He is known for his scientific contributions
    to cosmology and quantum gravity and is affiliated with the University of Cambridge
    and the California Institute of Technology, among other institutions.
    =======================

  193. June 2, 1992
    =========
    Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking broke British publishing records on this day in 1992. His book A Brief History of Time had been on the nonfiction bestseller list for three and a half years, selling more than 3 million copies in 22 languages.

    A Brief History of Time explained the latest theories on the origins of the universe in language accessible to educated lay people. The book was made into an acclaimed documentary in 1992, which focused largely on Hawking’s own story. Diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease in his 20s, Hawking was told he had only two years to live. Despite the sobering prognosis, Hawking pursued his studies in theoretical physics, married, and had a son. Eventually, his disease left him paralyzed except for his left hand. He was able to speak, although his speech was difficult to understand, until he underwent a tracheotomy in 1985 during a bout with pneumonia. Afterward, he relied on a mouse-controlled voice synthesizer, which improved the clarity of his speech. His familiar, synthesized voice can be heard in the Brief History of Time documentary, a popular Pink Floyd song, and an episode of The Simpsons.

    A recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and numerous other honors, Hawking has written several additional popular science books, including Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays (1993) and The Grand Design (2010), which he cowrote with fellow physicist Leonard Mlodinow. He is known for his scientific contributions to cosmology and quantum gravity and is affiliated with the University of Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology, among other institutions.
    ==============

  194. SHOCKING STUDY SHOWS MERE PRESENCE OF SMARTPHONE
    REDUCES BRAIN POWER — EVEN WHEN IT’S OFF!!

    TheFreeThought Project
    By Matt Agorist
    June 28, 2017

    Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin recently completed a comprehensive study illustrating the effects of smartphones on the human brain. What they found was that ‘smart’ phones actually make us dumb.

    According to the study, Brain Drain: The Mere Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity, having a smartphone around is a definitive way to lower our cognitive ability

    According to the study’s authors, Adrian F. Ward, Kristen Duke, Ayelet Gneezy, and Maarten W. Bos, results from two experiments indicate that even when people are successful at maintaining sustained attention—as when avoiding the temptation to check their phones—the mere presence of these devices reduces available cognitive capacity. Moreover, these cognitive costs are highest for those highest in smartphone dependence. We conclude by discussing the practical implications of this smartphone-induced brain drain for consumer decision-making and consumer welfare.

    The study points out the fact that smartphones are a revolutionary way for people across the world to access information and stay connected with the simple tap. They note that this state of constant connection would not have even been possible, just ten years ago. They also note the massive contribution to humanity that smartphones have brought us

    However, according to the study, the ease of completing simple tasks in the presence of our smartphones is hindered — even if our phones are off.

    As SCIENCE DAILY reports, In one experiment, the researchers asked study participants to sit at a computer and take a series of tests that required full concentration in order to score well. The tests were geared to measure participants’ available cognitive capacity — that is, the brain’s ability to hold and process data at any given time. Before beginning, participants were randomly instructed to place their smartphones either on the desk face down, in their pocket or personal bag, or in another room. All participants were instructed to turn their phones to silent.

    The researchers found that participants with their phones in another room significantly outperformed those with their phones on the desk, and they also slightly outperformed those participants who had kept their phones in a pocket or bag.

    The findings suggest that the mere presence of one’s smartphone reduces available cognitive capacity and impairs cognitive functioning, even though people feel they’re giving their full attention and focus to the task at hand.

    “We see a linear trend that suggests that as the smartphone becomes more noticeable, participants’ available cognitive capacity decreases,” Ward said. “Your conscious mind isn’t thinking about your smartphone, but that process — the process of requiring yourself to not think about something — uses up some of your limited cognitive resources. It’s a brain drain.”

    Dependency on one’s phone is also a factor in determining the level of cognitive degradation, according to the study.

    Researchers asked the nearly 800 smartphone users to self-report on their level of smartphone dependency — or how strong of an urge a person feels to use their phones to simply get through the day.

    As SD reports, participants performed the same series of computer-based tests as the first group and were randomly assigned to keep their smartphones either in sight on the desk face up, in a pocket or bag, or in another room. In this experiment, some participants were also instructed to turn off their phones.

    The researchers found that participants who were the most dependent on their smartphones performed worse compared with their less-dependent peers, but only when they kept their smartphones on the desk or in their pocket or bag.

    The fact that the researchers found that it didn’t matter whether the phone was on or off is a telling sign over the power of technology. Merely having a smartphone nearby reduces our ability to focus and perform tasks because part of our brain is constantly devoted to the phone and actively working to not pick it up or use it.

    “It’s not that participants were distracted because they were getting notifications on their phones,” said Ward. “The mere presence of their smartphone was enough to reduce their cognitive capacity.” (End)

    If YOU were too distracted to get through this article, you may want to give this some thought! Thank you, Mark Hamilton, for this space to bring forward critical information that affects all of our health!

    Judith

  195. Wowee!! July 5, 2017. Intense stuff going on here … it’s so great! My thanks to Wayne, Pete and Forest (RRR”S) for your most recent discussions which were very informative, thought-provoking and interesting, to say the least! Also, thanks Shelly for discussing a recent church experience that was very good. Concerning the ‘anonymous’ poster who enlightened us all with such a brilliant two-line denigrating comment/question – my quick response is it was to get feedback and create some minor ripples somewhere. Boy, it took some power-thinking brain power effort to come up with that one now, didn’t it?! Hope no circuits burned out in the process. But that’s okay, as feedback IS occurring, but in a positive and powerful way. And I wonder if they also realized that by the very fact that they took their precious one minute of time to post that – they HELPED THIS SITE!?

    YES, IT’S TRUE – because the most obvious ANSWER is that the people spending their precious time posting here are adding value creations to the Society’s (Dr. Wallace and Mark Hamilton and others’) reputations – plus, also helping other members with topics that may or may not interest them (everyone here being a self-leader enough to just scroll past things that don’t interest them). But the MAIN POINT (I would point out) is that at the same time, they are ADDING TO THE NUMBERS of posts here – that total number which will one day arrive at the gigantic number of 20,000!! KISS Philosophy – it’s all about the numbers! So, I simply THANK anonymous for their imaginative input which has now impressively added one more number. Wonder what else they’ve done lately?

    Judith

  196. FORMER ATHEIST MARK ZUCKERBERG WANTS FACEBOOK TO BECOME
    MORE LIKE A ‘CHURCH’ TO BRING WORLD ‘CLOSER TOGETHER’

    BY Investment Watch Blog
    Geoffrey Grider
    June 28, 2017

    MARK ZUCKERBERG SAYS HE WANTS FACEBOOK USERS TO START PLAYING A SIMILAR ROLE TO PASTORS IN CHURCHES. HE RECENTLY ANNOUNCED A NEW MISSION FOR THE SOCIAL NETWORK, WHICH IS SET TO FOCUS ON GROWING GROUPS AND COMMUNITIES TO “BRING THE WORLD CLOSER TOGETHER”.

    EDITOR’S NOTE: Last year, the former atheist Mark Zuckerberg announced that he had ‘found religion’ and celebrated Christmas for the first time. Now, he envisions Facebook as a ‘church’, and its nearly 2 billion users as ‘pastors’. Now I don’t know about you, but given Facebook’s overpowering influence around the globe, I find this new direction to be than just a little creepy. Is Zuckerberg selling…or buying? Since these are the end times, I’m thinking he’s buying.

    He believes the site can be used to unite what he sees as a “divided” society, and make users feel like they are “part of something bigger”. Facebook has been using artificial intelligence to recommend groups to users, and Mr Zuckerberg says the approach led to a 50 per cent increase in people joining them, within six months.

    However, while the site has almost two billion users, Mr Zuckerberg says “only” 100 million of them are currently part of “meaningful communities”. He wants that figure to rise to a billion.

    “If we can do this, it will not only turn around the whole decline in community membership we’ve seen for decades, it will start to strengthen our social fabric and bring the world closer together,” he said.

    AS OF THIS MORNING, THE FACEBOOK COMMUNITY IS NOW OFFICIALLY 2 BILLION PEOPLE!” WROTE ZUCKERBERG IN HIS POST. “WE’RE MAKING PROGRESS CONNECTING THE WORLD, AND NOW LET’S BRING THE WORLD CLOSER TOGETHER. IT’S AN HONOR TO BE ON THIS JOURNEY WITH YOU.” ZUCKERBERG ALSO NOTED THAT IT TOOK FROM 2004 UNTIL 2012 FOR FACEBOOK TO REACH ITS FIRST BILLION USERS BUT THAT THE SECOND BILLION USERS WERE REACHED IN JUST UNDER FIVE YEARS. SOURCE

    “As I’ve traveled around and learned about different places, one theme is clear: every great community has great leaders. Think about it. A church doesn’t just come together. It has a pastor who cares for the well-being of their congregation, makes sure they have food and shelter.”

    He added, “Leaders set the culture, inspire us, give us a safety net, and look out for us.”

    He singled out a number of administrators for praise, including the leader of a support group for women and the leader of a locksmith group.

    “Communities give us that sense that we are part of something bigger than ourselves, that we are not alone, that we have something better ahead to work for,” he said.

    A TYPICAL DAY IN THE LIFE OF MARK ZUCKERBERG

    “We all get meaning from our communities. Whether they’re churches, sports teams, or neighbourhood groups, they give us the strength to expand our horizons and care about broader issues. Studies have proven the more connected we are, the happier we feel and the healthier we are.

    “People who go to church are more likely to volunteer and give to charity — not just because they’re religious, but because they’re part of a community.

    “That’s why it’s so striking that for decades, membership in all kinds of groups has declined as much as one-quarter. That’s a lot of people who now need to find a sense of purpose and support somewhere else.” (End)

    MORE ON RELIGION’S CONTROL: Their matrix of deception, corruption and satanic culture continue – now not in the name of ‘Jesus’ – but in the name of ‘Mark Zuckerberg’ – reformed sinner who now has ‘gotten religion’. We were all better off when he was simply an atheist! But reformation happened last year – Yes, that was after the first billion followers had signed up, so he’s now using Christianity to quickly gain two. And there’s NO ‘typical day’ in his life – believe that. But he didn’t sell out, folks, because he did that long before he ever began this venture.

    HELP!! Check out the no-religion philosophies held in Neo-Tech (Dr. Frank R. Wallace) and Neothink (Mark Hamilton). It sure does simplify so many things in life! However, I do believe their matrix is collapsing right this minute more each day! And I’d shout out “hallelujah”! … but I don’t live there any more.

    Judith

  197. THREE THINGS TO REMEMBER ON INDEPENDENCE DAY!

    MISES
    By:Ryan McMaken
    July 4th 2017

    It’s difficult to say what most Americans commemorate or celebrate on Independence Day nowadays. Many appear to focus on some vague notion of “America.” Others even take to jingoism equating the United States government with the very notion of “freedom.”

    Lost in all of this is the fact that the Declaration of Independence — the document we’re supposed to remember today — is a document that promotes secession, rebellion, and what the British at the time regarded as treason.

    On the other hand, those who do recall the radical nature of the Declaration often tend to romanticize the American Revolution in a way that is neither instructive nor helpful today.

    So, what should we remember about Independence Day, and what can it teach us? For starters, here are three things about the history and context of this holiday that should continue to inform us today and into the future.

    ONE: IF YOU CAN’T SECEDE, YOU’RE NOT REALLY FREE

    The very first sentence of the Declaration of Independence lays it out. Sometimes, “it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another…”

    The document then goes on to list in detail why 1776’s specific act of secession was justified and necessary for preserving the rights of the colonists.

    By the 19th century, this philosophy of self-determination would become a foundational element of the ideology now known internationally as liberalism — or “classical liberalism” in the United States.

    Not surprisingly, we find this idea in the later writings of liberals such as Ludwig von Mises who, writing in Vienna in 1927, concluded:

    It must always be possible to shift the boundaries of the state if the will of the inhabitants of an area to attach themselves to a state other than the one to which they presently belong has made itself clearly known…

    [W]henever the inhabitants of a particular territory … make it known … that they no longer wish to remain united to the state to which they belong at the time … their wishes are to be respected and complied with.

    Mises, like Jefferson, understood that without this right of self-determination, there is no freedom.

    Nevertheless, modern opponents of self-determination and secession will claim that secession cannot be tolerated because it is not “legal.”

    This is scarcely relevant. After all, the colonial uprising against the King was not “legal,” and it hardly matters whether political victors consider any breakaway secession movements legal. Times and societies change, and nothing is forever or written in stone.

    For Mises, secession must be tolerated for pragmatic reasons. It is “the only feasible and effective way of preventing revolutions and civil and international wars.” But For Jefferson, as for his fellow secessionists, it was a moral imperative, whether “treasonous” or not.

    TWO: INDEPENDENCE DAY IS NOT A MILITARY HOLIDAY

    For obvious reasons, government institutions have little motivation to emphasize the Declaration of Independence or the philosophy it represents. This would amount to the government undermining itself. Consequently, many have attempted to turn the Fourth of July into a holiday that embraces vague notions of celebrating “America.”

    These ahistorical interpretations notwithstanding, Independence Day recalls resistance and a withdrawal of fealty to a hostile political power. We should not twist it into a celebration of our current rulers in Washington, the federal government, or the troops that work for and represent the federal government.

    It should be a celebration against government and a reminder that Americans can once again walk away from tyranny, even if force of arms is required.

    This does not defame or insult the American troops, but rather reminds us that we are a civilian nation and the government (and its troops) is supposed to be our servant rather than our master. Slavish displays of patriotism and loyalty to the state are inimical to the real meaning of the holiday.

    THREE: ARMED REVOLT IS A SERIOUS AND RARE EVENT

    Among those who do wish to commemorate the true resistance offered by the revolutionaries, there is a different error: thinking that armed resistance is always right around the corner.

    In some corners of America, it’s become almost commonplace to hear claims that surely the Second American Revolution will come with just a few more outrages committed against life, liberty, or property. All it will take is a few more no-knock raids committed against peaceful families sleeping in their beds. Or perhaps the government need only seize a few more guns before the American people “wake up.” Or perhaps once someone reveals the extent to which the US government spies on us all — as Edward Snowden has already done — then Americans will simply refuse to tolerate it any more.

    In truth, armed resistance tends to only materialize in the midst of poverty or foreign invasion. Not surprisingly, over the past century, despite decades of immense growth in government power, rising taxes, and stifling government regulations, virtually no Americans have been taking up arms against the American state.

    Some of this may stem from admirable prudence. After all, the American Revolution was an exceptionally bloody conflict, and such conflicts should not be started lightly. As noted by the Library of Congress, “[t]he Revolution … was, after the Civil War, the costliest conflict in American history in terms of the proportion of the population killed in service. It was three times more lethal than World War II.” The poverty, property destruction, and loss of life was immense given the tiny size of the American population at the time.

    Most Americans are unaware of these specifics, but most people instinctively know that armed conflict can bring with it a very high price.

    This doesn’t mean armed resistance is impossible, of course. It’s simply worth recognizing that so long as Americans enjoy some of the world’s highest standards of living few will be motivated to take up arms.

    IDEAS ALWAYS MATTER

    It is also helpful to remember that armed conflict can be especially disastrous when motivated by the wrong ideas and the wrong ideologies. Who can say with confidence that if the US government were wiped away today, that it would not be replaced with something even worse? Under such circumstances, we must never abandon the important work of laying the foundations first for a revolution in ideas. Without a true respect for the freedoms outlined in the Declaration of Independence, political resistance is of little value.

    Moreover, in a society where true freedom is valued — and where a majority embraces liberal ideals — violence will prove to be totally unnecessary. And this would be the best outcome of all!!

    Come on, Twelve Visions Party!! RISING!!! There may be no ‘Freedom’ now, but it’s coming! Let the very idea and core Essence of Freedom ITSELF ring across your consciousness field so that your energy will help to bring it about! And We The People WILL take back control of our lives, our governments, our planet and our Universal standing … I believe this truly IS what Dr. Frank R. Wallace wanted when he originated Neo-Tech and what his son, Mark Hamilton, is bringing forward now with Neothink! I am so grateful. HAPPY 4TH OF JULY TO FELLOW NEOTHINKERS AND ALL AMERICANS!

    Judith

  198. July 4, 2017 @ 10:55 a.m.

    Good Morning to you Wayne,
    It is partly cloudy here today, and the Temperature is predicted to be 94 degrees. Tomorrow it is predicted that it will reach 104 degrees.

    We are not going “ANYWHERE” today, because the Highways will be full of Holiday Drivers who are Celebrating with Drugs and Alcohol. Too many chances of getting into Accidents and Death Traps created by those who take NO ACCOUNTABILITY for their Careless Indifference toward Human Life!!

    It is not likely that we will be driving anywhere TOMORROW, either, because all these crazy drivers will be heading home while they are still in a Drunken Stupor!! Carol and I VALUE our lives as something too precious to place ourselves among drivers who are using their cars as a bunch of TWO-TON “RAM-RODS” on the Highways!!

    Wayne, I read your last post with “Great Interest,” and I have noticed that NO ONE has yet made any effort to respond to your words. I DON’T consider myself to be any kind of “ANSWER MAN,” and I don’t claim to know all the answers which would fit in with your statements and questions. However I believe that your words deserve a response, and I trust that I will not be the ONLY person who will respond to your Post.

    I am sorry to hear that you are having some Health Challenges Wayne, and I can most certainly Identify with your situation, because I have been through MY OWN share of Health Issues during the last year and a half. I have been in the Emergency Room at least Four Times, and have needed to be Hospitalized for an EQUAL amount of times.

    My Energy Level is not what it was 13 years ago, but I am trying to make every possible effort to REGAIN my Health and Strength.

    In your Post you stated that Steve (Digger) had asked if there has been “Anyone” including Jesus or Dr. Wallace, who has ever claimed to be “Mysticism Free??” (Dr. Wallace admitted that HE was NOT). You also stated that (Digger) also asked: “What specifically would it take – to be 100% free??

    Well, If Dr. Wallace made no claim to be free from Mysticism, then obviously the answer is – that NONE of “US” is free from it either. I cannot answer for the claims of Jesus, because “I Was Not There” to ASK HIM!! I was Not an Eye-Witness to anything he ever did, but to be Totally Honest with you, — having studied the Historical Accounts of Politics and Religion, I have concluded that because of all the CONFUSING IDEAS and BELIEFS which have been espoused by the Leaders in Politics and Religion, — and there have been SO MANY WARS and SO MUCH VIOLENCE and MURDER committed because of all these Disagreements and all of the STRIFE between them, I choose NOT to enter into discussion about these things with “ANYONE” who displays emotional discomfort or anger. I have seen the results of these things, and it is just too volatile, too much tendency toward defensive attitudes, and even close friendships have been lost. It is just NOT WORTH our time or effort to enter into these disagreements!!

    I read the account regarding the Famous Dahm triplets on the MSN computer page. Honestly, — I don’t see anything about them that is so difficult to understand. You wrote about the subject of DNA in relation to these three girls. It would SEEM to be a little “SCARY,” because they started out as 3 perfectly innocent triplets. However, — we all know, and have experienced these DIFFERENCES within our own families. In MY family, these differences were obvious, when “I” and one sister had Olive complexions, Dark Hair, and Hazel colored eyes. One brother had Red Hair, a Lighter complexion, and Brown Eyes. Another brother and sister had Dishwater-Brown Hair, complexions that were somewhere between Olive and Lighter skin color, and eyes that were a different color than all the rest of us. “WHY??” – what “Creates” these differences?? Was it Genetics, or DNA??

    I have read scientific accounts about people who experienced “CHANGES” in their DNA, and if I remember it correctly, it was stated that these “CHANGES” were “Created” by differences of ATTITUDES and THOUGHTS which these people had decided to Accept and adopt into their lives.

    You wrote that these 3 girls had their eyes on BECOMING “NURSES,” – but the TEMPTATIONS of FAME and FORTUNE has a way of “CHANGING” the best of intentions, — and the A/C world “TEMPTS GOOD PEOPLE” to become “Neo-Cheaters” and to become “POLITICIANS” and RELIGIOUS ZEALOTS!! These “Good People” learn that they can “Live The Good Life” WITHOUT having to EARN a living, and WITHOUT ever having to Create any Values!!

    Well, if people have NEVER HAD THE OPPORTUNITY to live in a way which PAYS THEM a WHOLE LOT OF MONEY, — how many of them will JUMP AT THE CHANCE to grab hold of this and HOLD ON TO IT, until they are FILTHY RICH??

    AGAIN, — you wrote that one of the Dahm Sisters is Married to Dr. Phil’s SON, and either SHE or her husband proposed that they do a LIVE EPISODE where these 3 sisters were Given a DNA test.

    When I read THAT, — my thoughts began to wonder if these 3 girls might have had DIFFERENT FATHERS!
    When the DNA results came in, it was Discovered that EACH of them contained “Different Strands of Ethnology,” as One Sister showed “12% More Scandinavian” than her sisters, and ANOTHER showed More Italian etc.

    You wrote that PART of this show’s MESSAGE was DONE TO “DE-BUNK” all the SO CALLED organizations “Who Offer Great Results” for those SIMPLE HOME TESTS!!

    Well, — there TRULY ARE “Simple Home Tests” for just about anything you want to know, (but they offer these “TESTS” for a fee), — and it is most likely a huge SCAM to Cheat you out of your Hard-Earned Money.

    One of your last questions was about whether or not Mysticisms could be Linked in some way to our DNA – such as the day of our BIRTH.

    Because of Prenatal influences, many traits of Character, addictions to alcohol, drugs, or our chosen foods which we eat, are TRANSFERRED to the UNBORN CHILD!! You asked: were we “BORN” with different degrees of Mysticism?? I would reason that “TO SOME EXTENT” the answer may be “YES,” because there are SO MANY things about our Physical, Mental and Emotional state, which are TRANSFERRED to the UNBORN CHILD, and for the most part, — we do not yet understand all the things about the Human Mind and Body which will be discovered in the future.

    As you stated; “EACH ONE” of us has Different Thresholds of “EMOTION and PAIN from the time of conception. I don’t know if these things are linked to Mysticism, but for now, I don’t choose to believe so.

    Every Man and Woman TRANSFERS many of their own Habitual Characteristics and Attitudes into the lives of their children. Some parents are NOT STRICT – to teach their Children how to behave, — they just let them RUN WILD, to choose the way of the STREET EDUCATION!! Other Parents raise their Children to become RESPONSIBLE ADULTS, who are TRUSTED by the Society in which they live.

    RESPONSIBLE parents do all that they possibly can, to shape the lives of their children – to become JUST LIKE “THEM!!” No matter whether parents are CATHOLIC, JEWISH, MORMON, REPUBLICAN, DEMOCRAT, or INDEPENDENT, — “CHILDREN LEARN what they “LIVE.”

    These children may not choose to REMAIN within these Religions as they grow into ADULT MATURITY, because they are “FREE to CHOOSE” the life that they WANT!! They can “CHOOSE” the Employment Position, the Business, and the “PROFESSION” which they like.

    They can “CHOOSE” to be a member of any Religious Organization within their community, and sometimes OTHER religious groups will try to CONVERT them to “THEIR WAY” of thinking and beliefs.

    However, — when this is done, many times the individual is NOT CONVINCED that this DIFFERENT WAY of thinking or believing is CORRECT, and they have STRONG RESERVATIONS within their minds.

    There is a Statement that is worth consideration, and it says: “A man convinced “AGAINST HIS WILL” – is of the “SAME OPINION” – STILL!!”

    Another statement of Wisdom says: “LET EVERY MAN, BE CONVINCED – IN HIS OWN MIND!!”
    In other words, — Let him read and study FOR HIMSELF, and determine HIS OWN COURSE OF ACTION.

    Your “WILL” – is nothing more, and nothing less, — than your POWER of “CHOICE!!”

    I don’t know whether this answers any of your thoughts and questions, however, I have shared my thoughts with you.

    Love, Carol and Forest

  199. It’s the 4th of July, what can I say? I watched a short film titled the dumbing of America on FB, and many of the younger bi-cameral mind sets believe it is a designated day for picnicking , partying, eating and enjoying their favorite foods and beverages. Most were unable to answer any questions regarding the constitution, or were unable to tell the interviewer how many stripes and stars are on the American flag. I live in a military neighborhood . It was obviously quiet and void of the annual fireworks displays. Most of our residents are seasoned officers and non-coms who already know the sound of fireworks, and it could be a reminder of a noise that may have sounded eerily similar to the sound of flack hitting the bottom of the fuselage of a C-123A and C-130A ‘carrying a precious cargo of perhaps 40 wounded soldiers stateside to various medical facilities. According to statistics, , Astronauts have erected six American flags on the moon. One was knocked over during Apollo 11’s takeoff. The others are thought to still be standing, but may have lost their colors or partially disintegrated because of the harsh conditions on the moon. So along with sharing your love, please take time to reflect what this day is really all about.

  200. Hi Guys and Ladies. Well I am stuck in a rut today. I am not used to having all this idle time on my hands or being still this long. My thoughts keep going back to last night’s Powers call and the discussion where Steve(Digger) asked if there has anybody including Jesus or Dr. Wallace (who admitted he was not) Mysticism free, and what specifically would it take to be 100% free? All this talk about DNA reminded me of a story on FB about the famous Dahm triplets from Minnesota . There life story to this point is a little scary, as it appears to have started out as 3 perfectly innocent triplets with an eye on being nurses but funny how the temptations of fame and fortune from all the media in the A/C has a way of changing the best of intentions and tempts good people into Neo-Cheaters and becoming content to join the ranks such as politicians and religious zealots who live the good life so to speak without having to earn a living and without never having to create any values. OK, back to my original thoughts. The article tells how the producer of a show the were on, One is Married to Dr. Phil’s son) ,proposed they do a live episode where they were given a DNA test. (OK, not a fan of Dr. Phil, and totally destroyed my life when I recently discovered that one of the few shows I watched, “Bull” with Michael Weatherly is loosely on Phil’s previous life). Back to the story line. It was discovered as the DNA results came in that in spite of obvious similarities, each of them contained different strands of ethnology, as one sister showed 12 % more Scandinavian than her sisters, and another showed more Italian etc. Part of this shows message was done to de bunk all these so called organizations who offer great results from those simple at home tests ( for a fee, of course) but if you are so inclined to do so, do it for entertainment value rather than for authenticity . Now back to mysticisms–Like DNA , are as a child (ZON) , were we born with different degrees of mysticism? True, they are influenced by the adults and family as we mature, and there forced quest to shape our lives to be exactly like theirs. (A form of brainwashing from day one) I E Catholicism , Judaism, Mormonism , Republican, Democrat, Independent etc. ,but like we each have different emotional and pain thresholds from the time of conception, so how about mysticisms? Judith, Forest, Pete, any body out there? Just wondering. Love is forever.

  201. My experience with religion and the church I got into my car this morning church was on the radio The pastor was telling a story about a man who walked into a church he had clothes that had holes in them and he looked and smelled like he had not showered for days . He was walking up to the front of the church trying to find a seat nobody would move over and offer him a seat. Finally the man found a place to sit . Then one of the Ushers who was wearing a suit came over and sat by him to accept the man into the church. The pastor said I do not know if this is true or not and then the pastor said would it be nice to show acceptance to people who are different from others or people who are going through hard times.
    I know from personal experiences that the story wasn’t true I went to the church where I live as I was walking in by myself there was a man with his daughters walking into the church he would not hold the door for me . Then I walked up to the balcony the priest said to greet each other nobody would greet me because I was an individual instead of a family. All of the families and couples were saying Hi to each other. People in church do not accept everybody that attends church . Yes church is a social gathering.

  202. Good Morning fellow posters! Saturday 7/1/17 already. First of all to our friend Forest (say good morning to Carol for me) Thanks for your great response to my post about our wiki- page. admittedly I have some strong emotions on this subject. So I was looking for a lead in for my today’s subject and all I done was flip on the computer the answer was staring in my face. My post was to be about how almost everybody now days seems to have some sort of disease, seeming Cancer leading the pack and what Mark said about the reasons for not having cures for them, and who is mainly responsible as to exactly why. So first I will print this article from CBS news first. (hopefully it’s not false news!)
    Headline reads—Washington– The science division of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) was unstaffed as of Friday as the 3 remaining employees departed this week. All 3 were holdovers from the previous administration – It is a long article so I am going to pick some of the highlights that were of interest to me. The departure from the division points out the difference in commitment to scientific research between Obama and Trump, and was originally staffed by 9 employees who led the charge on policy issues such as STEM EDUCATION, BIOTECHNOLOGY and crisis response. It went on to say the current administration the same commitment to science to date, most notably by naming skeptic Scott Pruitt to run the EPA. Now to my original post. It appears the current POTUS and his administration has chosen to desecrate every government agency that stands in the way of Big Pharma , Big Corporations , The Elite from making huge unearned profits, and no cancer or superbug cures are on the way. Mark Hamilton says this. Under the Neo-Tech periscope , 7 facts come into focus.
    (1) The FDA is indirectly responsible for more deaths of American citizens than ALL American wars combined.
    (2) The FDA is indirectly responsible for millions of death – WORLD-WIDE ,especially in 3rd world countries.
    (3) The FDA is more destructive to human health than all other government bureaucracies COMBINED!
    (4) The FDA delivers no honest values to anyone.
    (5) The FDA delivers great harm to EVERYONE’S health.
    (6) The FDA must always subvert medical success to maintain it’s empire of harmful and unearned power.
    (7) The FDA BLOCKS the only route to definitive Cancer/ Super bug cures to unhampered unsubsidized unsubscribed research.—— Why do the FDA and other regulatory bureaucracies exist? The SINGLE SECRET purpose of all value- destroying organizations is to provide a growing souse of unearned power and jobs. For who? For the value destroyers . For those seemingly responsible lives are rooted in that look good Neo -cheating hoax. Thanks for reading. My reason for posting this because too many of my friends and family are hanging by a thread and something needs to be done about it. Mean while, I send you super strong vibes and super bright rays of healing. Love .

  203. . . . .. . . . . .THE SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN
    . . . . . .. . . . . . .NEOTHINK CLUBHOUSES
    …………….ARE HOSTING A GALA EVENTS IN JULY…………..
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    When?. . . . . . . . . . . Saturday June 8, 2017.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:30 am – 3 pm.
    Where?. . . . . . . . . .The Henry Ford Museum.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dearborn, Michigan.
    What?. . . . . . . . . . . $20 includes entry into the Museum
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . plus Imax Movie – plus dessert.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bring lunch, or food can be purchased.
    WHY?. . . . . . . . . . . . Why not.
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  204. June 1, 2005
    ==========
    The last Thunderbird- Ford Motor Company’s iconic sports car – emerged
    from a Ford factory in Wixom, Michigan on this day in 2005.

    Ford began its development of the Thunderbird in the years following World War II, during
    which American servicemen had the opportunity to observe sleek European sports cars.
    General Motors built the first American sports car: the Chevrolet Corvette, released in 1953.
    The undeniably sleek Corvette’s initial engine performance was relatively underwhelming,
    but it was gaining lots of attention from the press and public, and Ford was motivated to
    respond, rushing the Thunderbird to the market in 1955. The 1955 Thunderbird was an
    immediate hit, selling more than 14,000 that year (compared to just 700 Corvettes). The
    success of the Thunderbird led Chevrolet to continue production of (and improve upon) the
    Corvette, which soon became a tough competitor in the sports car market.

    In addition to the powerful V-8 engine that Ford was known for, the Thunderbird boasted all the
    conveniences consumers had become accustomed to, including a removable hard convertible
    top, soundproofing and the accessories standard to most Ford cars. In 1958, to satisfy
    critics who thought the T-Bird was too small, Ford released a four-seater version
    with a roomier trunk and bucket seats. The Beach Boys elevated the
    Thunderbird to pop- culture-icon status in 1964 by including
    it in the lyrics of their hit single “Fun Fun Fun” (“she’ll have fun, fun, fun ’til her
    daddy takes the T-Bird away”). By that time, President John F. Kennedy had already included
    50 Thunderbirds in his inaugural procession in 1961, and a T-Bird would also feature prominently in the 1973 film “American Graffiti.”

    Thunderbird sales slowed during the 1990s, and Ford discontinued the Thunderbird in
    1997. In 2002, however, in an attempt to capitalize on car buyers’ nostalgia, the
    company launched production of a retro T-Bird, a two-seater convertible
    that took some of its styling from the original classic. The luxury retailer
    Neiman Marcus offered an early special edition version in their 2000 Christmas
    catalog, priced at just under $42,000; their stock of 200 sold out in two hours and 15
    minutes. Despite brisk early sales and good reviews, sales of the new Thunderbird couldn’t j
    ustify continued production, and Ford discontinued it again in mid-2005.
    ==============

  205. June 30, 1962
    ==========
    Sandy Koufax struck out 13 batters and walked five to lead the Brooklyn Dodgers
    to victory over the New York Mets 5-0 with his first career no-hitter on this day
    in 1962. Koufax went on to throw three more no-hitters, including a perfect game
    on September 9, 1965, in which he allowed no hits and no walks.

    Sandy Koufax was a talented all-around athlete from Borough Park in Brooklyn, New York.
    His first love was basketball, and he attended the University of Cincinnati on a basketball
    scholarship. His impressive left arm, however, attracted the attention of major league
    ball clubs and in 1954 he was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers. Despite his promising
    talent, Koufax won just 36 games to 51 losses from 1955 to 1961, and was incredibly
    inconsistent, blowing hitters away one game and walking runs in the next. Finally,
    advice from veteran catcher Norm Sherry turned Koufax around. As Koufax
    recounted in his autobiography, Sherry told him to “take the grunt out of
    the fastball.”

    From 1962 to 1966, Sandy Koufax executed what are arguably the five greatest seasons by
    a pitcher in baseball history. His newfound control limited his walks from 4.8 per game
    to just 2.1. His first no-hitter on this day in 1962 saw him walk five men, but after six
    innings he had already struck out 12 batters. He pitched a no-hitter every year
    after that until 1965 and led the Dodgers to World Series wins in 1963 and
    1965 and the National League pennant in 1966. He won four World
    Series games, with a .95 earned run average and 61 strikeouts
    for his postseason career. Koufax won three Cy Young
    Awards (1963, 1965 and 1966), all of them unanimous.
    In 1965 he struck out 382 men, breaking Rube Waddell’s 1904 record
    of 350 by 32. According to longtime Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully, Koufax
    was so well-regarded that he would often receive a standing ovation from fans while just
    warming up for a game.

    Sandy Koufax retired after the 1966 season at just 30 years old because of arthritis
    in his elbow. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1972.
    ==============
    TALKIN” DODGERS BASEBALL
    by Terry Cashman

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfAvHXKGfh8
    —————

  206. Saturday, July 01, 2017

    Good morning Wayne, — I want to comment on your posted answer to “Anonymous.” I do not know who this person might be, but because I have read some of the Posts written by “Digger” and Charlie Moore in months past, I remember that they stated that the Wikipedia Site was started by Mark Hamilton, — to give all of us the opportunity to write about our experiences, discoveries and successes we had from reading the Neo-Tech/Neo-Think Manuscripts and Books.

    However, I agree with you, that those of us who have been reading these books for a short period of time, or for MANY YEARS, — we have become accustomed to spotting the Success Stories of other men, women, and family groups who have achieved great things in their lives.
    Because of this, I believe that it is important to recognize the achievements of these people, due to the fact that they have applied the principles of success in their daily lives, — principles which are found within the Neo-Tech and Neo-Think books.

    Now, many of these people never heard of the writings of Frank R. Wallace, nor of Mark Hamilton, because their books had not yet been written, — and because we used to be a “Secret Society” – only a comparatively few people would have been aware that our Society even exists!!

    Pete, I applaud you for the research you have done to bring these Success Stories to our attention. They inform us about people who kept “Pressing Forward” in a relentless, undaunted, and consistent manner – until THEY ACHIEVED THEIR GOALS!! Thank you for sharing these stories with us.

  207. That said, I wanted to pass this on to PETE. Hi Pete, several of your recent posts with nuggets of information have caught my eye. Since one is a rather lengthy response , I will do one at a time. First, regarding an article involving the “Flying Wallenda family” and all there feats over the years. Although not a fan of regular TV, I happened to be flipping through the channels and stopped to watch a show called “little Big Shots” hosted by Steve Harvey. As it happened, he was interviewing his guest who was Carla Wallenda. This dynamic lady is 81 years old and performed on a 81 ft. swaying pole where she still performs death defying acts , and not only does she do it with style and grace, she does it without the use of a harness or safety net. She still at age 81 exudes beauty and class and is a splendid example of what all of us in the golden seekers class should be. Just thought I would throw that out there. Good article. Thanks.

  208. TO: Anonymous. Thanks for comment and evaluation regarding our Wiki- page, however it is my personal belief that if you are true blue honest follower and of the Neo-Think system your validity and your statement would be much stronger if you were to step out of the darkness into the light by identifying your self. (Remember , we are “Face to the World” now and one of our main goals is to unify and move forward as we are no longer a “secret” organization) . As for your statement, it may surprise you, but I happen to agree that not all the posts are jems and sometimes run off track but lets look at the positive side. Where would you get Judith’s or Myles great transcripts from the school of genius programs, and over the past 2 years there have been countless articles that have been both informative and educational covering a huge variety of Neo-Think subjects. Most of these subjects have shed light on what is relevant concerning the goings on in today’s chaotic upside down anti-civilization we are forced to exist in today. Most important to me personally has the many friendships that were and are being forged and the bonding of like minded people that will remain forever, so thanks Mark Hamilton for allowing this to happen. I personally have always tried to tie my posts to something constructive and relative to the members of the society. Question? Is this your first post? Myself, and I am sure the other original rebel-rousers personally invite your input so come show us the way. We value your positive thoughts and ideas, By the way, MY name is Wayne Smith and live in the Dakotas where corruption, child trafficking and drug related problems runs rampant within our borders, and which are all problems this unique society would like to fix. As we are not supposed to share too much personal info on this site, I am on Charlie Moore’s list of members who are reaching out to others in order to grow and spread the society’s message to the world, so I can be reached through there. I mean this in the most sincere way. Passing the message of LOVE to you and the rest of this society.

  209. I am curious as to how, many of these comments relate to the request of Mark Hamilton to comment on his post Wikipedia vs Neo-Tech.

  211. June 29, 1967
    ==========
    Blonde bombshell actress Jayne Mansfield was killed instantly on
    this day in 1967 when the car in which she was riding struck the
    rear of a trailer truck on I-90 east of New Orleans, Louisiana.

    Mansfield had been on her way to New Orleans from Biloxi, Mississippi where she had been
    performing a standing engagement at a local nightclub. She had a television appearance
    scheduled the following day. Ronald B. Harrison, a driver for the Gus Stevens Dinner
    Club, was driving Mansfield and her lawyer and companion, Samuel S. Brody,
    along with three of Mansfield’s children in a 1966 Buick Electra. On a
    dark stretch of road, just as the truck was approaching a machine
    emitting a thick white fog used to spray mosquitoes (which
    may have obscured it from Harrison’s view), the Electra hit the trailer-truck
    from behind. Mansfield, Harrison and Brody were all killed in the accident. Eight-year-old
    Mickey, six-year-old Zoltan and three-year-old Marie, or Mariska, had apparently been sleeping
    on the rear seat; they were injured but survived.

    Vera Jayne Palmer was born on April 19, 1933 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, Mansfield arrived in
    Hollywood as a young wife and mother (to daughter Jayne Marie) in 1954, determined to become an
    actress. From the beginning, she wasn’t afraid to make the most of her assets, particularly
    her curvaceous figure, flowing platinum blonde hair and dazzling smile. Cast in the
    Broadway comedy “Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?”, she turned heads as a voluptuous,
    dumb blonde movie star. In one famous scene she appeared in nothing but a white towel.
    She famously appeared nude in the 1963 comedy “Promises! Promises!”, and stills from the
    set appeared in Playboy magazine, but her best performance was generally believed to have
    been in 1957’s “The Wayward Bus,” based on the John Steinbeck novel and costarring Joan
    Collins. While her screen career amounted to about a dozen less-than-memorable films,
    off screen she played the movie star role to perfection, and became one of the most visible
    glamour girls of the era.

    In 1958, after her first marriage ended in divorce, she married Mickey Hargitay, a former
    Mr. Universe. They divorced in 1963, and Mansfield was married once more, to Matt
    Climber, in 1964. That marriage also ended in divorce and she was awarded custody
    of their child, Octabiano. Mariska Hargitay, injured in the accident that killed her mother,
    later launched her own acting career, most memorably starring in the long-running
    television drama “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.”
    ==============

  212. JESUS AND TOMATOES COMING SOON
    —————————————-
    As July is quickly approaching, and then August filled with fresh
    corn, tomatoes, and watermelons with seeds. here is a song by
    Kate Campbell – of the band THE NEW AGRARIANS -called
    Jesus and Tomatoes.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8_k7j7bu2A
    —————-

  213. June 28, 1953
    ==========
    On this day in 1953, workers at a Chevrolet plant in Flint, Michigan, assembled the
    first Corvette – a two-seater sports car that would become an American icon.
    The first completed production car rolled off the assembly line two days later,
    one of just 300 Corvettes made that year.

    The idea for the Corvette originated with General Motors’ pioneering designer
    Harley J. Earl, who in 1951 began developing plans for a low-cost American sports
    car that could compete with Europe’s MGs, Jaguars and Ferraris. The project
    was eventually code-named “Opel.” In January 1953, GM debuted the
    Corvette concept car at its
    Motorama auto show at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. It featured a
    fiberglass body and a six-cylinder engine and according to GM, was named
    for the “trim, fleet naval vessel that performed heroic escort and
    patrol duties during World War II.” The Corvette was a big hit
    with the public at Motorama and GM soon put the roadster into production.

    On June 30, 1953, the first Corvette came off the production line in Flint. It was hand-assembled
    and featured a Polo White exterior and red interior, two-speed Powerglide automatic
    transmission, a wraparound windshield, whitewall tires and detachable
    plastic curtains instead of side windows. The earliest Corvettes
    were designed to be opened from the inside and lacked
    exterior door handles. Other components included a clock, cigarette
    lighter and red warning light that activated when the parking brake was
    applied – a new feature at the time. The car carried an initial price tag of $3,490 a
    nd could go from zero to 60 miles per hour in 11 or 12 seconds, then considered a fairly average speed.

    In 1954, the Corvette went into mass production at a Chevy plant in St. Louis, Missouri. Sales
    were lackluster in the beginning and GM considered discontinuing the line. However,
    rival company Ford had introduced the two-seater Thunderbird around the
    same time and GM did not want to be seen bowing to the competition.
    Another critical development in the Corvette’s survival came in
    1955, when it was equipped with the more powerful V-8 engine. Its performance
    and appeal steadily improved after that and it went on to earn the nickname “America’s
    Sports Car” and become ingrained in pop culture through multiple references in movies, television and music.
    =============
    LITTLE DEUCE COUPE
    by Thw Beach Boys

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wklo_5AOLI
    ————–
    409
    by The Beach Boys

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKKP_cZuk54
    —————-
    FUN FUN FUN
    by The Beach Boys

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4FOiVM4bQc
    —————-

  214. Reading or hearing the news these days is a frightening thing! I found this page in Mark’s book called “Neo-cheating- Neo-Tech- Neo-Think , The 3 most important money/power/romantic love discoveries of our time”. Subject: “Replacing fakes”! Mark said “Much more limiting to a company than the hard working entrepreneur who can not break away from doing the work to evolve into integrating and coordinating the work is the white-collar-hoax CEO or PRESIDENT who PRETENDS to be integrating and coordinating the work but has no integration with the body of business. Similarly U.S. presidential candidates speak with BIG campaign promises but deliver only destructive results. For forced revenue collection protects the incompetent and their bogus livelihoods brimming with unearned prestige and income. Consider that the mind and body of government were split long ago. The politicians have no idea how to grind out details and tough business like integrations to provide real marketable values to the American people. Only by putting the politicians under competitive market pressures could they grind out real marketable values to society. Replacing force with the Neo-Tech system the Company without a country with Neo-Think tracking reports , brings together the mind and the body of government and forces the president to truly integrate and coordinate the U.S. government into honesty earned profits and genuine values.” My thought here is if they did have the knowledge to move our country forward into peace and prosperity , it is not in their best interests right now. We the people need to bring all these brazen selfish greedy self serving neo-cheaters to a sudden halt soon. Go TVP!!!!!

  215. This post may be a little lengthy and not to everybody’s liking, but if nothing else it should give reason to think. The article below was written by a Wes Criddle, Mineola , Texas. and not sure what his credentials are but found it to be quite interesting.

    The U.S. has entered into a contract with a real estate firm to sell 56 buildings that currently house US post offices. All 56 were built , operated, and paid for by tax paying American citizens. NOW ENJOY READING THE REST! The government has decided it no longer needs these buildings, most of which are located on PRIME land in cities and towns across the country. The sale of these properties will fetch about 19 Billion!!! A regular real estate commission will be paid to the company that was given the EXCLUSIVE listing for handling the sales. That company is CRI and belongs to a man named Richard Blum. Richard Blum is the husband of Diane Feinstein, (Most voters and many of the government people who approved this deal have not made the connection between the two because the have different last names, ) Senator Feinstein and her husband stand to make a fortune estimated at between 950 Million and 1.1 Billion from these transactions! His company is the SOLE real estate agent on the sale! CRI will be making a minimum of 2% and as much as 6% on each and every sale! All the properties that are being sold are FULLY PAID FOR with US taxpayers dollars. The USPS is allowed free and clear, tax exempt use and the only cost to keep them open is the cost is to keep the heat and lights on. The USPS doesn’t even have to pay county taxes on these subject properties. QUESTION? —Why would you put your house for foreclosure just because you couldn’t afford to pay the electric bill? Well the folks in Washington have given the ok to the post office to do it, Worse yet, most of the net proceeds of the sales will go back to the USPS, an organization so poorly managed that the have LOST 117 Billion dollars in the past 10 years. NO ONE in the MAINSTREAM MEDIA is even raising an eyebrow over the conflict of interest and the possibility ? of corruption on the sale of BILLIONS of dollars of public assets. So. how does a US senator from San Francisco manage to get away with organizing and lobbying such a sweet deal? —–Has our government become so elitist that they no longer fear any oversight? It’s no mere coincidence that these two public servants have different last names , a feeble attempt at avoiding transparency in these types of transactions. .So if this doesn’t upset you, don’t complain about the corruption and the ineptness in Washington D.C. ( I did try to verify the validity of this article, and did find evidence that good ole Diane stated she never talks about business, and had no idea about his business dealings . Wonder what THEY talk about over the dinner table?. ) My other thought was that just maybe its not that they no longer fear any oversight but feel the need to fill there coffers with that greedy unearned wealth before the whole thing comes crashing down . I confess to not being as aggressive and helpful toward helping the TVP, but if it was ever needed more than right now, I don’t know when it would be!. Meanwhile, thanks for reading, and I am concentrating real hard to send good vibrations and rays of white light with love to the entire world. Wayne

  216. June 28,1844
    ==========
    Joseph Smith – the founder and leader of the Mormon religion -was
    murdered along with his brother Hyrum when an anti-Mormon mob
    broke into a jail where they were being held in Carthage, Illinois.

    Born in Vermont in 1805, Smith claimed in 1823 that he had been visited by a Christian
    angel named Moroni who spoke to him of an ancient Hebrew text that had been lost
    for 1,500 years. The holy text, supposedly engraved on gold plates by a Native
    American historian in the fourth century, related the story of Israelite
    peoples who had lived in America in ancient times. During the
    next six years, Smith dictated an English translation of this text to his
    wife and other scribes, and in 1830 The Book of Mormon was published. In the
    same year, Smith founded the Church of Christ – later known as the Church of Jesus
    Christ of Latter-day Saints – in Fayette Township.

    The religion rapidly gained converts, and Smith set up Mormon communities in Ohio,
    Missouri, and Illinois. However, the Christian sect was also heavily criticized for
    its unorthodox practices, such as polygamy. In 1844, Smith announced his
    candidacy for the presidency of the United States. Although he did
    not have great enough appeal to win, the idea of Smith as
    president increased anti-Mormon sentiment. A group of dissenting
    Mormons began publishing a newspaper that was highly critical of the
    practice of polygamy and of Smith’s leadership; Smith had the press destroyed.
    The ensuing threat of violence prompted Smith to call out a militia in the Mormon town
    of Nauvoo, Illinois. He was charged with treason and conspiracy by Illinois authorities and
    imprisoned with his brother Hyrum in the Carthage city jail. On June 27, 1844, an anti-Mormon
    mob stormed in and murdered the brothers.

    Two years later, Smith’s successor, Brigham Young, led an exodus of persecuted Mormons
    from Nauvoo along the western wagon trails in search of religious and political freedom.
    In July 1847, the 148 initial Mormon pioneers reached Utah’s Valley of the Great Salt Lake.
    Upon viewing the valley, Young declared, “This is the place,” and the pioneers began
    preparations for the tens of thousands of Mormon migrants who would follow them to settle there.
    ================

  217. June 27, 1988
    ==========
    Heavyweight champion Mike Tyson knocked out challenger Michael
    Spinks 91 seconds into the first round. The decisive victory left the
    boxing world wondering if anyone could beat “Iron Mike” Tyson.

    Mike Tyson was born on June 30, 1966, in Brooklyn, New York. He had a troubled childhood in Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood, an area known for its poverty and high crime. As a child he often skipped school, spending his time on Brownsville’s streets engaging in petty crimes. Tyson responded violently to his peers’ teasing about his high, lisping voice, which led to several stints in juvenile detention centers. He was eventually sent to a reform school near Catskill, New York, where he was discovered by legendary boxing trainer Cus D’Amato. D’Amato became a father figure to “Iron” Mike and a stabilizing force in his life: He took the young fighter into his home and dedicated himself to Tyson’s training. D’Amato helped Tyson to focus his aggression and develop the discipline to become a champion.

    Tyson won his first 19 professional fights by knockout, 15 of those coming in the first round. It was during this run that D’Amato died, in November 1985, at the age of 77. D’Amato’s associate Kevin Rooney took over as Tyson’s trainer, and one year later, Tyson beat Trevor Berbick for the WBC heavyweight championship in his first title shot. On March 7, 1987, Mike Tyson defeated James “Bonecrusher” Smith to unify the WBA and WBC heavyweight titles. Already the youngest-ever heavyweight champion, Tyson became the youngest undisputed heavyweight champion in boxing history.

    Over the course of the next year, Tyson defeated four other opponents to retain his title and, in 1988, knocked out Larry Holmes, the only knockout of Holmes’ 76 fights as a pro. After Holmes, Michael Spinks was considered the only boxer with a chance against Tyson. Spinks had won Olympic gold in 1976 as a middleweight, beat Mustafa Muhammad for the light heavyweight championship in 1981 and later became the undisputed light heavyweight champ with a 1983 victory over Dwight Braxton. By 1985, he was struggling to find light heavyweight challengers, so he moved up a class to fight heavyweight Larry Holmes. Spinks outmaneuvered the bigger but older Holmes on his way to a 15-round decision and the IBF heavyweight belt on September 21, 1985. In the rematch a year later, Spinks won again.

    To beat Tyson, Michael Spinks knew he had to dodge and weave to avoid the young champ’s punishing blows. Tyson, meanwhile, planned to charge straight ahead and hurt his shifty challenger early. Tyson’s trainer, Kevin Rooney, said before the fight that he had bet his cut and Iron Mike’s purse on a first-round knockout. When the bell rang, Tyson charged forward, as expected. Spinks could not escape him, and he was battered by right hands until he decided to slug it out. After being hit with a right to the head, Spinks took a left hook to the jaw and was dropped to his knees. He took three counts from the referee, stood up, waited through the mandatory eight count and then was knocked unconscious by another left hook, this one followed by a right hand that landed Spinks flat on his back. Spinks was knocked out 91 seconds into the biggest payday and worst beating of his career.

    The fight was the peak of Tyson’s dominance, the apex of a promising career that
    turned sour, then tragic and eventually almost comic. Michael Spinks never fought again.
    ================

  219. Hey Wayne-
    May dad’s last sibling died a year ago, and her husband (my Uncle Jim ) was a school
    teacher (late elementary as I recall) and hunted on their 5 acre farm in Hesston, KS.
    I ate quail, pheasant, and other fowl that he shot once in my life (late 60’s – early 70’s).
    Also, my dad got busted by the game warden once for hand-fishing no less.

    If no one saw it, however, there is no statue of limitations. !!! pez

  220. . . . .. . . . . .THE SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN
    . . . . . .. . . . . . .NEOTHINK CLUBHOUSES
    …………….ARE HOSTING A GALA EVENTS IN JULY…………..
    ============================================
    When?. . . . . . . . . . . Saturday June 8, 2017.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:30 am – 3 pm.
    Where?. . . . . . . . . .The Henry Ford Museum.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dearborn, Michigan.
    What?. . . . . . . . . . . $20 includes entry into the Museum
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . plus Imax Movie – plus dessert.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bring lunch, or food can be purchased.
    WHY?. . . . . . . . . . . . Why not.
    =============================================
    . . . . . .

  221. June 26, 2003
    ===========
    Strom Thurmond – who served in the United States Senate for a record 46
    years – died on this day in 2003. Thurmond’s long and controversial political
    career had ended with his retirement one year earlier.

    Thurmond was born on December 5, 1902, in Edgefield, South Carolina, where he also died.
    He graduated from what is now Clemson University in 1923 with a degree in horticulture
    and became a teacher and coach, and, later, a superintendent of schools. While working
    in education, he studied law at night, and passed the bar in 1930. He worked as an
    attorney and, eventually, a judge, before serving in WWII, where he participated
    in the D-Day beach-storming at Normandy with the Army’s 82nd Airborne division.

    Thurmond’s political career began in 1946 when he became governor of South Carolina, a
    position he held for one term. As governor – as well as in the early part of his
    Congressional career – he was famously pro-segregation, even saying
    in a 1948 speech, “I want to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that
    there’s not enough troops in the army to force the
    Southern people to break down segregation and admit the
    Negro race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes,
    and into our churches.” It was also in 1948 that Thurmond made his one and only
    run for the presidency, as the candidate of the Dixiecrat party, in protest of Harry Truman’s
    nomination by the Democratic Party, of which he was a member. He was easily defeated, but did
    win the states of South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana, and their combined 39 electoral votes.

    In 1954, Thurmond ran for the United States Senate as a Democrat on a pro-segregation
    platform and became the only candidate ever elected to the Senate by a write-in vote.
    Three years into this first term, he notoriously staged a record-breaking one-man
    filibuster to defeat a civil rights bill that lasted more than 24 hours. Although it
    is unknown whether his personal beliefs regarding racial equality ever
    changed, his political behavior became more moderate in the
    1970s, perhaps as part of an effort to extend his political career in
    changing times. This change of heart, whether genuine or not, was exemplified
    by his endorsement of a renewal of the Voting Rights Act in 1982 and his vote in favor
    of creating the Martin Luther King, Jr. federal holiday in 1983.

    Throughout his career Thurmond was by any account a divisive force in American politics.
    His critics thought him to be an unabashed racist and condemned his alleged habit of
    skirt-chasing. Thurmond was married twice, the second time when he was 66
    years old to a 22-year-old former Miss South Carolina, but also had a
    reputation for making frequent advances on a wide variety of
    women who crossed his path. His fans, however, seemed
    amused by his reputation as a “rascal” and admired his feistiness
    and personal discipline –Thurmond never smoked or drank coffee and
    only rarely indulged in alcohol – as well as his personal strength. Even in his 90s
    when his health began to fail, Thurmond refused to use a wheelchair or hearing aid in
    public. He was well known for personally helping out his constituents on a regular basis.

    Thurmond retired from the Senate in 2002 and died about a year later in his South
    Carolina home. In December 2003, Essie Mae Washington-Williams announced
    that she was his illegitimate daughter, born to Thurmond and her mother
    Carrie Butler, a black maid who had worked in his family’s home.
    Thurmond was 22 when she was born; Butler was only 16.
    Although he never publicly acknowledged her while he
    was alive, a representative for his family did confirm Washington-Williams’
    statement and it was reported that the two had a relatively close relationship.
    =====================

  222. June 26, 1892
    ==========
    Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl Buck was born on this day in West Virginia to
    parents on furlough from their missionary work in China. The family soon returned
    to China, where Buck lived for the better part of 40 years. Her novel The Good
    Earth (1930), describing peasant life in China, became an international bestseller.

    Young Pearl learned to speak Chinese before English. She returned to the U.S. to attend college,
    then married an American agriculture specialist in China. The two settled down to live in the
    province where she later set The Good Earth. The couple later moved to Nanking to
    teach college.

    In 1930, Buck created a literary sensation with The Good Earth. Her novel won the Pulitzer
    and Nobel prizes and was translated into 30 languages. In the ’30s, The Good Earth and
    other novels and stories by Buck were more widely read in Europe than those of any
    other American author. However, today few of her 80 novels and books retain as
    much interest as The Good Earth.

    Buck created several charitable foundations for Asian-American children abroad, including
    an adoption agency. She spoke strongly against the internment of Japanese during
    World War II and wrote a letter of protest to The New York Times in 1954
    that helped change immigration policy. She received many a
    wards for her humanitarian activities. Buck died in 1973.
    ===================

  223. June 25, 2009
    ===========
    On this day in 2009, Michael Jackson – one of the most commercially successful
    entertainers in history – died at the age of 50 at his home in Los Angeles, California,
    after suffering from cardiac arrest caused by a fatal combination of drugs given
    to him by his personal doctor.

    Michael Joseph Jackson was born on August 29, 1958, in Gary, Indiana, the seventh of
    Katherine and Joe Jackson’s nine children. At the age of 5, Jackson began performing
    with his older brothers in a music group coached by their steelworker father. In 1968,
    Motown Records signed the group, which became known as the Jackson 5, and
    Michael Jackson, a natural showman, emerged as the lead singer and star.
    The Jackson 5’s first album, released in 1969, featured the hit “I Want You Back,” and
    the group’s brand of pop-soul-R&B music made them an immediate success. Their
    musical popularity even led to their starring in their own TV cartoon series in the early
    1970s.

    Jackson released his first solo album, “Got to Be There,” in 1972, while continuing to sing with
    his brothers. Six years later, in 1978, he made his big-screen debut as the Scarecrow in
    “The Wiz,” an adaptation of the Broadway musical of the same name. Directed by
    Quincy Jones, the film starred an all-black cast that included singer Diana Ross
    as Dorothy. Jones collaborated with Jackson on his 1979 album “Off the Wall,”
    which sold some 7 million copies worldwide. The pair teamed up again
    for Jackson’s now-iconic 1982 album, “Thriller,” which went on to
    sell 50 million copies around the globe, making it the best-selling studio
    album of all time. “Thriller” is credited with jump-starting the era of music videos
    and playing a key role in the rise of then-fledging cable TV network MTV, which launched in 1981.

    In 1983, Jackson created a massive sensation on a live Motown anniversary TV special when
    he performed his now-signature Moonwalk dance step while wearing a black fedora and
    a single white glove covered with rhinestones. According to The Los Angeles Times
    critic Robert Hillburn, the performance served as Jackson’s “unofficial coronation
    as the King of Pop. Within months, he changed the way people would hear
    and see pop music, unleashing an influence that rivaled that of Elvis
    Presley and the Beatles.”

    Jackson’s next solo effort, “Bad,” debuted in 1987. It sold 8 million copies and featured a
    music video from acclaimed movie director Martin Scorsese. By this time, however,
    Jackson had paid a high price for his massive success. According to The Los Angeles
    Times: “He became so accustomed to bodyguards and assistants that he once admitted
    that he trembled if he had to open his own front door.”

    By the 1990s, Jackson’s life was near-constant tabloid fodder. In 1993, he was accused of
    molesting a 13-year-old boy who had been a sleepover guest at his home. Jackson denied
    the allegations and the criminal investigation was dropped; however, the singer later
    settled a civil lawsuit with the boy’s family for a reported $20 million. In 2003, Jackson was
    accused of molesting another boy. Following a highly publicized trial in 2005, he was
    acquitted of all charges. During these years, Jackson also faced intense media scrutiny over
    his radically altered physical appearance, which included an ever-lighter complexion (which
    he attributed to a skin condition) and multiple plastic surgeries. Although Jackson himself
    was mostly close-mouthed on the topic, media sources alleged that Jackson developed
    an obsession with cosmetic surgery, in part, following an accident he suffered in January 1984
    while shooting a Pepsi commercial. During filming, a pyrotechnics mishap set the singer’s
    hair on fire, and he suffered burns on his head and face that required reconstructive surgery.
    In the aftermath of the surgery, Jackson reportedly suffered from an addiction to prescription
    painkillers.

    Jackson also made headlines with his brief marriage (1994-1994) to Lisa Marie Presley, the
    daughter of singer Elvis Presley. From 1996 to 1999, he was wed to Debbie Rowe, the
    former assistant of his dermatologist and the mother of two of his three children.
    (Jackson’s youngest child, a boy, was reportedly born via a surrogate.)

    On June 25, 2009, Jackson, who after a lengthy time away from the public spotlight was
    preparing for a series of summer concerts in London, was discovered unconscious in his
    Los Angeles mansion. The Los Angeles coroner’s officer later ruled the pop star’s death a
    homicide after lethal levels of the powerful sedative propofol, as well other drugs, were f
    ound in his system. Jackson’s personal physician, who was at the singer’s home when he
    died, had been giving him propofol as a sleep aid for a period of weeks.

    On July 7, 2009, more than 20,000 fans attended a public memorial for Jackson at the
    Staples Center in Los Angeles. Over 30 million viewers tuned in watch the event on cable
    TV, while millions more viewed it online.
    ===================
    BEN
    by Michael Jackson

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1dAQN5QcZU
    ————–
    THE GIRL IS MINE
    by Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHp0s2wKajw
    —————

  224. June 25, 1956
    ==========
    The last Packard – the classic American luxury car with the famously
    enigmatic slogan “Ask the Man Who Owns One” – rolled off the
    production line at Packard’s plant in Detroit, Michigan on this day in 1956.

    Mechanical engineer James Ward Packard and his brother, William Dowd Packard, built their
    first automobile – a buggy-type vehicle with a single cylinder engine – in Warren, Ohio in 1899.
    The Packard Motor Car Company earned fame early on for a four-cylinder aluminum
    speedster called the “Gray Wolf” – released in 1904. It became one of the first
    American racing cars to be available for sale to the general public. With
    the 1916 release of the Twin Six, with its revolutionary V-12 engine,
    Packard established itself as the country’s leading luxury-car manufacturer.
    World War I saw Packard convert to war production earlier than most companies,
    and the Twin Six was adapted into the Liberty Aircraft engine, by far the most important
    single output of America’s wartime industry.

    Packards had large, square bodies that suggested an elegant solidity, and the company was
    renowned for its hand-finished attention to detail. In the 1930s, however, the superior
    resources of General Motors and the success of its V-16 engine pushed Cadillac
    past Packard as the premier luxury car in America. Packard diversified by
    producing a smaller, more affordable model, the One Twenty, which
    increased the company’s sales. The coming of World War II halted
    consumer car production in the United States. In the postwar
    years, Packard struggled as Cadillac maintained a firm hold on the luxury car
    market and the media saddled the lumbering Packard with names like “bathtub” or
    “pregnant elephant.”

    With sales dwindling by the 1950s, Packard merged with the much larger Studebaker
    Corporation in the hope of cutting its production costs. The new Packard-Studebaker
    became the fourth largest manufacturer of cars in the nation. Studebaker was struggling
    as well, however, and eventually dropped all its own big cars as well as the Packard. In 1
    956, Packard-Studebaker’s then-president, James Nance, made the decision to suspend
    Packard’s manufacturing operations in Detroit. Though the company would continue to
    manufacture cars in South Bend, Indiana, until 1958, the final model produced on
    June 25, 1956, is considered the last true Packard.
    =================

  225. Hey Pete, good to hear from you also. Thanks so much for helping keep this site going. I actually was thinking the same thing. No chem-trails etc. so what’s going on. While spinning yarns about the past, another subject regarding todays discussions regarding gun control laws came to mind. I recall that in 40’s and post war days, almost every household in the rural areas had a passel of kids and at least one or two old 22 rifles and a small gauge shot gun propped against the wall in the corner of the kitchen or mud room. Lucky we are all still alive!.. Admittedly my immediate family were one of the fortunate ones because in spite of being dirt poor we had the luxury of having farm animals to butcher, and as the saying goes, “We ate pretty high on the hog”, however the bro-in-law I mentioned in an earlier post with the 12 siblings were not so lucky and sometimes had to resort to Mother nature to provide sustainable food just to survive. So, the dangerous weaponry was available to anybody as long as it was used to bring home any game. A box of shells was close to 25 cents ,so they had better not be used for anything as frivolous as target practice. I don’t recall if we needed a hunting and fishing license in those years. (but most probably were) and sure as I am typing this, none of these weapons of destruction were registered . One last story . My father was picking corn by hand. Every now and then, a big ring necked pheasant would pop his head up at the end of the corn row. This time he stuck his neck to crow, but a well aimed ear of corn hit on it’s exact target. As I recall the change in diet was a tasty experience, so after all these years I finally felt safe in telling this story, and hopefully the statute of limits has expired, but with my luck, game and fish will show up on my doorstep with a summons tomorrow. Hope you enjoyed the story. Love is in the air.

  227. Hey Wayne,
    Its Saturday afternoon (6/24), and I attended an outdoor yoga class this morning – 70 degrees
    and not a cloud or chem-trail in the sky. Very beautiful (and daunting) day in Detroit — what’s
    up with that? I need to read Judith’s presentation on epigenetics — probably before the
    weekend ends. Good to here from you as always. !!! pez

  228. . . . .. . . . . .THE SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN
    . . . . . .. . . . . . .NEOTHINK CLUBHOUSES
    …………….ARE HOSTING A GALA EVENTS IN JULY…………..
    ============================================
    When?. . . . . . . . . . . Saturday June 8, 2017.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:30 am – 3 pm.
    Where?. . . . . . . . . .The Henry Ford Museum.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dearborn, Michigan.
    What?. . . . . . . . . . . $20 includes entry into the Museum
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . plus Imax Movie – plus dessert.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bring lunch, or food can be purchased.
    WHY?. . . . . . . . . . . . Why not.
    =============================================
    ———

  229. June 24, 1953
    ==========
    On this day in 1953, Jacqueline Bouvier and Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy
    publicly announced their engagement. Kennedy went on to become the 35th president
    and Jackie, as she was known, became one of the most popular first ladies ever to
    grace the White House.

    Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy was born into a prominent New York family in 1929. She grew
    up an avid horsewoman and reader. In 1951, after graduating from George Washington
    University, Jackie toured Europe with her sister. That fall, she returned to the U.S.
    to begin her first job as the Washington Times-Herald‘s “Inquiring Camera
    Girl.” Her assignment was to roam the streets of Washington, D.C.,
    ask strangers man on the street questions and then snap
    their picture for publication. Shortly afterward, at a dinner party in
    Georgetown, she met a young, handsome senator from Massachusetts named
    John F. Kennedy. The two dated over the next two years, during which time Jackie mused
    to a friend that she might actually marry a man who was allergic to horses, something she never
    before would have considered. In May 1953, Kennedy proposed, giving Jackie a 2.88-carat diamond-and-emerald ring from Van Cleef and Arpels.

    The couple married on September 12, 1953, at St. Mary’s Church in Newport, Rhode Island.
    Twelve hundred people attended the wedding reception at Hammersmith Farm. The
    Kennedys then settled in Washington, D.C., where Kennedy continued to pursue his
    political career. Seven years later, he beat out Richard M. Nixon for the presidency.
    ===========

  230. June 23, 2013
    ===========
    On this day in 2013, 34-year-old aerialist Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to
    walk a high wire across the Little Colorado River Gorge near Grand Canyon National
    Park in Arizona. Wallenda wasn’t wearing a safety harness as he made the quarter-mile
    traverse on a 2-inch-thick steel cable some 1,500 feet above the gorge. In June of the
    previous year, Wallenda, a member of the famous Flying Wallendas family of circus
    performers, became the first person to walk a tightrope over Niagara Falls.

    Born in Sarasota, Florida, in 1979, Wallenda is part of a family that traces its history as
    circus performers back to the Austro-Hungarian empire in the late 18th century. His
    great-grandfather, Karl, who was born in Germany in 1905, developed an aerial act
    with several other performers in Europe in the early 1920s. By the late 1920s, the
    group, which eventually came to be known as the Flying Wallendas, was
    performing in America with Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey
    Circus. In 1947, Karl Wallenda invented the seven-person chair
    pyramid, a feat performed on a tightrope. After being
    performed for many years, the pyramid proved fatal in 1962, when
    two men died and one of Karl’s sons was paralyzed when the trick went
    wrong. In the aftermath of the tragedy, Karl turned his attention to “sky walks”
    between buildings and across stadiums on a high wire. In 1978, he fell to his death at
    age 73 while walking a cable between two structures in Puerto Rico.

    Nik Wallenda learned to walk on a wire as a young boy, and made his professional debut
    as an aerialist at age 13. He went on to set a number of Guinness World Records, including
    the longest tightrope crossing on a bicycle and the highest eight-person tightrope pyramid.
    In 2011, Wallenda hung from a high-flying helicopter above Branson, Missouri, by his teeth.
    That same year, he and his mother successfully completed the high-wire walk in Puerto
    Rico that had killed Karl Wallenda.

    On June 15, 2012, Nik Wallenda became the first person to walk directly over Niagara Falls
    on a high wire. He crossed an 1,800-foot-long, 7-ton wire from the U.S. side of the falls
    to the Canadian side at a height of around 200 feet in about 25 minutes. Because
    the event was televised around the world, broadcast officials required the
    famous funambulist to wear a safety tether in case he fell.

    The following June, Wallenda made his Grand Canyon traverse. Wearing jeans and a
    T-shirt and holding a 43-pound balancing pole, he prayed out loud as he walked
    untethered across a 1,400-foot-long, 8.5-ton cable suspended 1,500 feet above the
    Little Colorado River. It was the highest walk of his career, and he completed it in
    just less than 23 minutes.
    ===========

  231. June 23, 1972
    ==========
    On this day in 1972, Title IX of the education amendments of 1972 is enacted into law. Title IX prohibits federally funded educational institutions from discriminating against students or employees based on sex. It begins: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.” As a result of Title IX, any school that receives any federal money from the elementary to university level – in short, nearly all schools – must provide fair and equal treatment of the sexes in all areas, including athletics.

    Before Title IX, few opportunities existed for female athletes. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), which was created in 1906 to format and enforce rules in men’s football but had become the ruling body of college athletics, offered no athletic scholarships for women and held no championships for women’s teams. Furthermore, facilities, supplies and funding were lacking. As a result, in 1972 there were just 30,000 women participating in NCAA sports, as opposed to 170,000 men.

    Title IX was designed to correct those imbalances. Although it did not require that women’s athletics receive the same amount of money as men’s athletics, it was designed to enforce equal access and quality. Women’s and men’s programs were required to devote the same resources to locker rooms, medical treatment, training, coaching, practice times, travel and per diem allowances, equipment, practice facilities, tutoring and recruitment. Scholarship money was to be budgeted on a commensurate basis, so that if 40 percent of a school’s athletic scholarships were awarded to women, 40 percent of the scholarship budget was also earmarked for women.

    Since the enactment of Title IX, women’s participation in sports has grown exponentially. In high school, the number of girl athletes has increased from just 295,000 in 1972 to more than 2.6 million. In college, the number has grown from 30,000 to more than 150,000. In addition, Title IX is credited with decreasing the dropout rate of girls from high school and increasing the number of women who pursue higher education and complete college degrees.

    Despite these advancements, Title IX has not been without controversy. Critics point out that while it may be helping female athletes, it can hurt male athletes when schools are forced to cancel smaller men’s programs to meet the strictures of the law.
    =============

  232. Good Morning on this Saturday,6/24/17. What a gorgeous start in the hills today, with temperatures in the upper 40’s , only a few fluffy white clouds in an other words clear blue sky showing no traces of chem-trails so its a GREAT day to be alive! So if that is not inspiration enough, I re-read Judith’s excellent talk on ” The Higher Healings” again. My mind races to embrace all the things we can do to improve our odds of self healing and restoring life both mentally and physically from within. It even raised questions such as can we or do sense and feel the affects of such things as gamma rays etc,? I believe for me personally that my consciousness has taken on a higher urgency involving the vibrational frequency of unconditional love. I would like to believe that as a unique group of free thinking higher conscious Neo-Thinkers we are more alert and aware than the average population of bi-cameral mind sets, yet realize how easy it is to slip back into the anti- civilization mode of existence and become embroiled in in that negative self talk that pulls our existence into that realm of pain and existence.
    There are so many ways we can extend our lives. Some are beyond the comprehension of my limited range of knowledge , such subjects of telomeres and how they can harm us through our DNA, but the knowledge that we born to be healers and we have the power to do exactly that puts us way ahead of the game and is a huge plus. The very thought and knowledge that our minds can overcome dis- ease through the Thymus gland and breathing, or the benefits of meditation and yoga (Blue berry being my favorite) and vibration of music can be self- healing factors, and even grounding as we did as kids back in the hills of Missouri. My brother and law recently told me the story of how he came from a family of 13 kids, 12 were boys, and at the end of the school year they took off there shoes and put them in a closet for the summer, and as they grew only a few newer pairs would be added each year as the younger ones got the hand me downs. In spite of going all summer barefooted, they didn’t even know what a Doctor was. So I want to conclude with this. Even a smile or a hug or just a friendly greeting or a word of encouragement beats the heck out of a hand full of prescription drugs any old day!!! (much to the disappointment of Big Pharma of course) In Advantage # 98 , Dr. Wallace says through honest thinking and sustained efforts a person can self heal and strengthen his or her mind. Through such self-healing , that person re-takes control of life and reverses that mind atrophy caused by mysticism. OK, not EXACTLY what I was looking for, but in the end it is the mind we use to cure ourselves of mental and our physical defects healing body and soul. Hope I made sense and thanks if you read this. Thanks J.C. for bringing me back to Earth again, Extending my LOVE to each and everyone.

  233. From the lighter side. From Parting shots.
    A woman answered her front door to find a plumber standing there,
    “I am here to fix the leaky pipe,” he said.
    “I didn’t call a plumber,” the woman replied.
    “Aren’t you Mrs. Snyder?”
    ‘The Snyders moved out of this house more than a year ago.”
    “How do you like that? the plumber grunted.
    “They call you up and tell you it’s an emergency, then up and move away!.

    Be nice to other people: remember they outnumber you several billion to one.

    And finally this person needs a better mini-day schedule. Note on the door: “Out to lunch. If not back by 5: 00 , out to dinner also.”

  234. . . . .. . . . . .THE SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN
    . . . . . .. . . . . . .NEOTHINK CLUBHOUSES
    …………….ARE HOSTING A GALA EVENTS IN JULY…………..
    ============================================
    When?. . . . . . . . . . . Saturday June 8, 2017.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:30 am – 3 pm.
    Where?. . . . . . . . . .The Henry Ford Museum.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dearborn, Michigan.
    What?. . . . . . . . . . . $20 includes entry into the Museum
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . plus Imax Movie – plus dessert.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bring lunch, or food can be purchased.
    WHY?. . . . . . . . . . . . Why not.
    =============================================

  235. June 22, 2008
    ===========
    On this day in 2008, the influential comic writer, actor and stand-up
    comedian George Carlin died of heart failure at the age of 71.

    Born in New York City, Carlin dropped out of high school and joined the Air Force. While stationed in Shreveport, Louisiana, he got a job as a radio disc jockey. After his discharge, he worked as a radio announcer and disc jockey in Boston and Fort Worth, Texas. Carlin and his early radio colleague, Jack Burns, formed a moderately successful stand-up comedy duo, appearing in nightclubs and on The Tonight Show with Jack Paar. They soon parted ways, and Carlin made his first solo appearance on The Tonight Show in 1962. Three years later, he began a string of performances on The Merv Griffin Show and was later hired as a regular on Away We Go, 1967’s summer replacement for The Jackie Gleason Show. Carlin cemented his early career success with the release of his debut comedy album, the well-reviewed Take-Offs and Put-Downs, that same year.

    During the late 1960s, Carlin had a recurring role on the sitcom That Girl, starring Marlo Thomas, and made numerous TV appearances on shows such as The Ed Sullivan Show and Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show. Seeking to make a leap into big-time stardom, the relatively clean-cut, conventional comic reinvented himself around 1970 as an eccentric, biting social critic and commentator. In his new incarnation, Carlin began appealing to a younger, hipper audience, particularly college students. He began dressing in a stereotypically “hippie” style, with a beard, long hair and jeans, and his new routines were punctuated by pointed jokes about religion and politics and frequent references to drugs.

    Released in 1972, Carlin’s second album, FM/AM, won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Recording. A routine from his third hit album, Class Clown (also 1972) grew into the comic’s now-famous profanity-laced routine “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television.” When it was first broadcast on New York radio, a complaint led the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to ban the broadcast as “indecent.” The U.S. Supreme Court later upheld the order, which remains in effect today. The routine made Carlin a hero to his fans and got him in trouble with radio brass as well as with law enforcement; he was even arrested several times, once during an appearance in Milwaukee, for violating obscenity laws.

    More popular than ever as a countercultural hero, Carlin was asked to be the first guest host of a new sketch comedy show, Saturday Night Live, in 1975. Two years later, he starred in the first of what would be 14 comedy specials on the cable television station HBO (the last one aired in March 2008). Carlin had a certain degree of success on the big screen as well, including a supporting role in Outrageous Fortune (1987), a memorable appearance in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) and a fine supporting turn in the drama The Prince of Tides (1991). More recently, he played a Roman Catholic cardinal in Kevin Smith’s satirical comedy Dogma (1999).

    Though a 1994 Fox sitcom, The George Carlin Show, lasted only one season, Carlin continued to perform his HBO specials and his live comedy gigs into the early 21st century. He also wrote best-selling books based on his comedy routines, including Brain Droppings (1997), Napalm & Silly Putty (2001) and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? (2004). According to his obituary in the New York Times, Carlin gave his last live comedy show in Las Vegas just weeks before his death.
    =============

  236. June 21, 1970
    ==========
    On June 21, 1970, Brazil -led by soccer legend Pele -wins its third World Cup
    championship with a 4-1 victory over Italy. The game, at Aztec Stadium in
    Mexico City, was attended by 112,000 spectators, most of whom could but
    marvel at the spectacular play Pele and the Brazilians showcased in their triumph.

    The game was supposed to be a match between Italy’s counter-attacking style and Brazil’s
    “beautiful game,” but rain the night before the match had left the field damp and slow,
    limiting Brazil’s usual freewheeling style in the first half. Italy played with characteristic
    precision, but was stifled by Brazil’s defense, which was usually overshadowed by the
    team’s world-class attack. Brazil’s captain, Carlos Alberto Torres, directed the dominant
    defense from his left fullback position and continuously turned the ball upfield to his
    fabulous midfielders and forwards.

    Eighteen minutes into the game, Brazilian midfielder Roberto Rivelino directed a crossing
    pass towards the front of the goal, and Pele, just 5’7″, leapt over the Italian defenders
    to head the ball into the goal past the diving Italian keeper Enrico Albertossi. Not
    to be outdone, Italian midfielder Roberto Boninsegna stole the ball from
    Brazilian defender Wilson Piazza and scored in the 19th minute to
    tie the game at 1-1.

    The Brazilians began to dictate play in the second half, and in the 65th minute, Pele
    passed to a dashing Gerson Olivera Nunez for a goal and a 2-1 Brazil lead. Six
    minutes later, Gerson returned the favor, passing to Pele, who headed the
    ball to Brazilian striker Jair Ventura three feet from the goal. Ventura
    scored to put the Brazilians up 3-1 and from then on Brazil was in
    control, showing off its “beautiful game” to the delight of the
    crowd. With three minutes left in regulation, Pele dribbled
    toward the goal to draw the Italian defense, and then
    quickly dished the ball to teammate Carlos Alberto,
    who scored from 30 feet for a 4-1 lead.

    The 1970 World Cup was the third championship for Pele and the Brazilians; the first
    came in 1958, when Pele was just 17, and the second in 1962. Brazil was the first
    team to win three World Cup Championships and in recognition of the feat
    they were given the gold Jules Rimet Trophy, named for a former FIFA
    president, permanently. The Rimet replacement, the gold FIFA
    World Cup Trophy, was awarded for the first time in 1974 to
    World Cup champion West Germany
    ===========.

  237. June 20, 1975
    ===========
    The ominous tones of the now-famous “shark theme” (composed by John Williams
    and performed by tuba player Tommy Johnson) markd the arrival of Hollywood’s
    first major summer blockbuster on this day in 1975, when the director Steven
    Spielberg’s thriller Jaws debuts in U.S. theaters.

    Based on the best-selling book by Peter Benchley, Jaws takes place in the fictional resort town of Amity Island, where police chief Martin Brody (played by Roy Scheider) learns that a young woman has been killed in a probable shark attack. Though greedy town officials want to cover up the threat to tourist business, another attack forces Brody to enlist the help of a marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a shark hunter (Robert Shaw) to try to catch the lethal beast, which turns out to be an enormous great white shark.

    Producers Richard Zanuck and David Brown hired Spielberg for Jaws before the release of the then-27-year-old director’s first feature, 1974’s The Sugarland Express, which they also produced. The shooting, off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, went much longer than scheduled, and the film’s budget ballooned from $4 million to $8 million. According to a 1982 article about Spielberg in TIME magazine, executives at Universal (which co-produced the film with Zanuck and Brown) even threatened to shut down production at one point and put “Bruce”–the mechanical shark used in the film–on display as part of its Universal City tour.

    Instead, Universal opted to give Jaws a wide release instead of rolling it out to a small number of theaters first, as had been conventional practice up to that point. It opened nationwide on close to 500 screens (a small number compared to one of today’s big releases, which go out on 3,000-4,000 screens) but sizeable at the time. A $700,000 marketing campaign on network television preceded the film’s release, helping it to earn some $7 million in its opening weekend alone. Up until that time, summer had been seen as a period when producers would release films they considered weak, but Jaws ushered in the era of the summer blockbuster, as well as the studio practice of launching massive marketing campaigns to hype their films. Eventually shown in nearly 700 U.S. theaters, Jaws became the first summer mega-hit, racking up an impressive $260 million at the domestic box-office. All told, the film would gross some $450 million worldwide and establish Spielberg (who would strike more summer box-office gold with hits such as 1982’s E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial) as the pre-eminent creator of summer movie magic.
    ==========

  238. Hi Forest, Carol, Pete, and special friend, the Austin Palomino. Well I am bored and just the thought of being confined to the 12 x 12 spaces is driving me MORE insane, so I decided to fill up some spaces in the Wiki-page, so right or wrong, you will be getting some weird thoughts from a somewhat befuddled mind of a bi-cameral mind in need of the wisdom of Dr. Wallace and Mark Hamilton.
    As I understand it, the premise of the TVP and it’s Prime Law is to add an amendment to the original constitution but here is yet another thought worth some consideration. Our constitution was originally written by a group of older rich men during a time when they were till using parlor pots and firing muskets to kill wild game and each other. Wouldn’t one think the rest of us average citizens should be progressive enough to change with the times and let those rich men still use the parlor pots and muskets if they want to live by the meaning of the U.S. constitution? Just a thought! Love yourself and each other, because what the world needs now more than ever is Love!

  239. June 21, 2017
    7:45 a.m.

    Good Morning Judith,
    I want to THANK YOU for your presentation last night. When you initially began to speak, there was some kind of interference on the phone line, — like a loose phone wire, that kept connecting and disconnecting, which caused the sound of your voice to break up.

    I was SO THANKFUL that STEVE (digger) told you about this interference, and suggested that you speak louder. This helped a whole lot, even though that sound of a loose wire connection continued through your entire presentation.

    I am hard of hearing, so I am already at a dis-advantage with this current problem. It took me a while to find an electronics store, which sells a telephone amplifier, because all of the Radio Shack stores have closed down, — over 1,000 of them.

    I still have to hook it up to my phone and discover whether or not it is really going to work for me, but we will find out shortly.

    I copied and pasted your entire presentation into one of my files with your name on it, and then I printed it out, before putting it in a binder with all of your other posts.

    Thank you so very much – for asking me to say “HI” to Carol, which I immediately DID – after the Conference Call was finished. She had a big SMILE on her face when I told her it was from you.

    Love, — Carol and Forest

  240. NEOTHINK SOCIETY
    SCHOOL OF GENIUS – RISE OF NEO-TECH
    June 20, 2017
    Judith Curless

    THE HIGHER HEALINGS

    Once again, thanks Digger and Charlie for inviting me back to our beautiful hidden cavern where we share new and exciting facts with one another. By coming into this space away from all our cares, we sit in a circle so comfortably on our little Aladdin rugs with plush cushions to relax on. But the candles and lanterns flickering mysterious shadows is energizing and keeps us alert. Imagine for a moment the beauty here. Wow! I’ve pulled a topic from the treasure chest that is going to pick up from what Steve and I shared on May 23rd about “The Veils of Illusion Are Crumbling” … but most particularly concerning our health and future health options. Tonight’s message is titled “The Higher Healings”.

    I believe we’re moving more quickly toward our new reality Civilization of the Universe! We’re currently being bathed in and merging with the high vibrational frequency of gamma ray downloads and upgrades. The energy of light quotient entering our bodies now is off the charts! It’s a highly positive energy flow, or ‘feel-good’ energy! A pure vibrational frequency of unconditional love is flowing right through this surge and shift into higher awareness; heart connected to your third eye, crown chakra, bringing a dissolving of much density and replacing that with a light airiness of your Highest Self awareness. Unconditional love is the highest vibrational frequency in the Universe.

    It’s the vibration of creation and co-creation. Gamma rays are healing rays. In this pure frequency you become the alchemist who manifests your intention into reality very quickly … instantanteously, straight from your heart’s electromagnetic field to your third eye! You see it in your mind’s eye, you will hold it in your hand. The Holographic Field is merging into a One-Unity Consciousness Field. This will give us a boost as Neothinkers coming together to help bring about change.

    So, what are ‘higher healings’? you ask, thinking, “I’ve never heard of that”. I know, because I made it up just for us to connect with these concepts to integrate them more personally. Alan Watts said, “To understand the whole process of One-Self requires constant alertness, awareness in the action of relationship. There must be a constant watching of every incident, without choice, without condemnation or acceptance, with a certain sense of dispassion, so that the truth of every incident is revealed. But this Self-knowledge is not a result, an end. There is no end to Self-knowledge; it is a constant process of understanding, which comes about only when one begins objectively and goes deeper and deeper into the whole problem of daily living, which is the ‘you’ and the ‘me’ in relationship”.

    BREAKING THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ATTACHMENT TO ILLNESS

    The more an individual recognizes the power of their thoughts and emotions, the more they realize their role in creating and influencing the life that’s flashing before their eyes. The values a person establishes, their expectations and the template they create in their heart, have the power to pull entire experiences into their life. In this Awakening, one learns to have positive belief in who they are so that version of themselves manifests. In this awareness, one recognizes the negative self-talk that is trying to pull their existence into a realm of pain and frustration.

    When a person feels free inside and believes in that freedom, they will be given opportunities to exercise it. Envisioning good health brings health freedom to attract opportunities to see these realities express. We must protect our mental fortress from negative self-talk! The thought patterns and beliefs we hold dear are like the sail on a boat. It doesn’t matter if storms hit or unexpected problems arise; one’s strongest sail of thoughts and emotions will guide them to their valued destination. Instead of floating about aimlessly, one begins to consciously interact with universal energy. We’ve learned on this program how to put a guard at the gate of our two brains to literally force negative voices and degrading thoughts to depart (thanks to our Mentor Robert for that awesome, empowering fact!)

    An individual can be set free from psychologically attaching their ‘self’ to chaos and negativity in the world. One must stop claiming the existence of a flu season, an allergy season, or a depression diagnosis. Why would someone want to sail to desired destinations but make these fictional seasons a part of their life? When an individual adopts a health mindset of self-reliance, they no longer allow a medical doctor to diagnose them with some psychological condition. By shrugging off such diagnoses and seasonal sickness mindsets, one learns to correct the body’s imbalance holistically, thus avoiding a medical system adding health conditions with patchwork drugs and side effects that don’t get to the heart of the problems.

    Illness is perpetuated by bringing attention to it and its label. So, what about depression? Stop accepting depression as a label! This only gives it authority over a person by thrusting a new pattern of victim mentality onto their future reality. Claiming depression may make one feel comforted by the attention of a diagnosis, but that’s exactly how a person becomes trapped, by victimizing them-self mentally. An individual might not be aware of the power of their own words and how the negative connotation of their language ultimately feeds their problems. A person’s attitude toward sickness either perpetuates its existence or diminishes its stronghold. Likewise it’s easy to make excuses for staying ill from craving sympathy, so some people use their condition as an attention-getting badge.

    When it comes time to make the necessary changes to better personal health, don’t mentally settle by engaging in behavioral patterns that allow a fictitious diagnosis to persist. The only way to begin the healing process is to declaim illness and disassociate with the attention it gives. One must mentally train to charter a new course utilizing a new set of sails that values inner strength … and fly like the wind to new shorelines stripped of all victim mentality that’s perpetuated sickness or depression for so long. A choice … smooth sailing ahead?

    NEGATIVE THOUGHTS HARM HEALTH AND DNA

    “Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony” said Thomas Merton. Lose your temper on the road? Frustrated with co-workers? Can’t get over an event from your past? You may be cutting your life short, warns Molecular Biologist Elizabeth Blackburn, who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2009, and Health Psychologist Elissa Epel, who studies stress and aging.

    The authors claim in their new book, ‘The Telomere Effect’, that negative thoughts harm your health at the DNA level. Research has shown that a person’s “social relationships, environments and lifestyles” affect their genes. “Even though you are born with a particular set of genes, the way you live can influence how they express themselves.” Blackburn and Epel say components of DNA called Telomeres determine how fast your cells age. Short Telomeres are one of the major reasons human cells grow old, but lab tests have shown that they can also grow longer. In other words, aging “could possibly be accelerated or slowed – and, in some aspects, even reversed.” Dr. Christine Northrup has also discovered and proven that “Your thoughts can reverse aging!”

    The aging and lifespan of normal, healthy cells are linked to the so-called telomerase shortening mechanism, which limits cells to a fixed number of divisions. During cell replication, the Telomeres function by ensuring the cell’s chromosomes do not fuse with each other or rearrange, which can lead to cancer. Blackburn likened Telomeres to the ends of shoelaces, without which the lace would unravel.

    In one study Telomere length, an emerging biomarker for cellular and general bodily aging, was assessed in association with the tendency to be present in the moment versus the tendency to mind wander, in research on 239 healthy, midlife women ranging in age from 50 to 65 years.

    “People who score high on measures of cynical hostility tend to get more cardiovascular disease, metabolic disease and often die at younger ages. They also have shorter Telomeres.” Pessimism also shortens Telomeres. When pessimists develop an aging-related illness, like cancer or heart disease, the illness tends to progress faster. “They tend to die earlier,” warn the authors.

    Ruminating over a bad situation is also destructive. “Rumination never leads to a solution, only to more ruminating. When you ruminate, stress sticks around in the body long after the reason for the stress is over.” The resulting depression and anxiety only make your Telomeres shorter. Also, trying to suppress thoughts and feelings makes matters worse. “The more forcefully you push your thoughts away, the louder they call out for your attention. In a small study, greater avoidance of negative feelings and thoughts was associated with shorter Telomeres.” And even just lack of focus is bad for Telomeres because “when people are not thinking about what they’re doing, they’re not as happy as when they’re engaged.” Discipline, thought and control sound familiar? To reverse the harm to Telomeres, try meditation and long-distance running.

    YOU WERE BORN TO BE A HEALER!

    We are all healers by birthright. There is no rulebook on healing as we are simply created to heal ourselves. In order to appreciate that inherent quality, we have to see ourselves as part of nature. Nature is self-sustaining and self-healing. It is self-regenerating. And that’s what we are. To be a healer means to be all of our aspects, both physical and non-physical, to appreciate that we are body, mind and soul (essence) and to align those aspects. To align means: 1) to treat the body as a temple of the soul; 2) to say what we mean and mean what we say; 3) to listen to our body’s language; 4) to express, not suppress symptoms because symptoms show you what you already suppress; and 5) to feed and balance all your needs – physical, emotional, mental, spiritual.

    True medicine is to work in all our layers, as Body-Mind-Spirit Medicine. We need to remind ourselves that we are an expression of a greater Source or Universal Life Force. To be powerful creators is to see beyond the mirror, thus we can’t solely focus on physical traits as the body is an end product. The creative process means we’re always adjusting to the elements in our environment, and those elements aren’t only physical. They’re not only people, places and things, but thoughts, feelings and beliefs. As energy, we are always giving and receiving parts of our unseen selves to maintain balance and that manifests as our physical interactions and physical balance. So we need to go deeper than the surface. If we’re out of balance physically, then we’re also out of balance emotionally.

    Many ancient cultures believe that thought forms give rise to material forms. Hindu philosophy states that matter comes from thought. This ancient belief originated long before Bruce Lipton, PhD, Cellular Biologist, wrote his book ‘The Biology of Belief’. Dr. Lipton is a renaissance man, here to rebirth this idea and remind us of our inheritance. We’re here to remember and partake in knowledge that the Field (described as the aura or chakra system) brings about healing in the physical body. The Chinese call this energy Chi. Others call this Life Force, Prana (Breath of Life) or Kundalini.

    Energy healers such as shamans can see or feel this vibrational energy as light and can move it. They free up the body’s healing energy to flow. When this happens, our Essence reconnects with Source and energy is released for a breakthrough. Energy healers work with their hands or objects like a rattle and see where there’s a lack or an excess of energy or dis-ease and move it. We also can choose to create the best way to work with our own healing energy. How Shamanism works is to empower a person to heal herself/himself.

    True healing is an individual journey of self-empowerment. To realize that you are the creator of your health or disease is to be the healer. You don’t require a medical system or a white coat to fix you. Your power to heal comes not from a book or a doctor with a degree. Power comes from within and from your ability to make choices. The power to heal is the freedom to choose which equals liberty. We are our choices. To say others determine your choices says that you have no power and no freedom. If people feel disempowered it is because they’ve given their power away to others; that they’re not responsible for their choices, so are victims instead of victors.

    How do you manifest? Focus on what you want and not on what you don’t want. Do it deliberately with intent, consciously vs. unconsciously. Creative juice stems from your beliefs which become thoughts and feelings. Mind into matter. This is the nuts and bolts of how individual reality is created. If we want the collective reality to shift, then we each need to do our part because when enough of us are focused on what we want, then a tipping point is reached.

    Carl Jung said, “Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart.” We must now build a new heart-based reality! To heal the vampiric culture that takes without giving, we must stop playing the victim and be the innovator. Within each of us are the generative higher frequencies of caring, freedom, love – all heart-based frequencies. Healing the current disease-based reality is only possible by being kind and loving to ourselves. As within so without. We must accept ourselves unconditionally, flaws and all. As soon as we accept and love ourselves, the vampire-victim reality fades away. All darkness, war, destruction, disease we see around us is a reflection of the way we feel about ourselves. Knowing that manifestation is emotion-based gives us the power to reverse dis-ease. We have to be able to direct our emotions in a way that best serves us whenever we choose.

    Rumi said, “As you live deeper in the heart, the mirror gets clearer and clearer”. In whatever challenge you face, step back and visualize the bigger picture for clarity. Give yourself permission to find the positive aspects and start deciding what you are for, instead of against. You create with the tone of your vibration and resonance. Heal yourself and you also heal the planet. You are only as healthy and free as you believe yourself to be.

    EPIGENETIC MEMORIES PASSED DOWN FOR 14 GENERATIONS!

    In my last two messages, we looked at how scientists have made some incredible new discoveries on how our minds can literally affect our biology, especially through the study of Epigenetics. The term was coined in 1942 by Conrad H. Waddington (1905-1975) a British biologist studying genetics. “Epi” implies traits that are above, in addition to, or on top of the cell membrane. “Genetics” pertains to the study of the process by which genetic information is translated into the substance and behavior of an organism; the DNA in the nucleus or the library of blueprints, which is found inside of each living organism or individual cell. Thus, control or influence of DNA from above or outside of the gene.

    Basically, this is the branch of science that looks at how inherited changes of phenotype (appearance) or gene expression are caused by mechanisms other than changes in the underlying DNA sequence. Instead of looking at DNA as the only factor controlling our biology (Genetic Determinism) scientists are also looking at what’s actually controlling the DNA, which includes our thoughts. We receive genetic instructions from our DNA, passed down through generations, but the environment we live in can also make genetic changes. A more recent study that explored this concept was conducted by a team led by scientists from the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in Spain.

    Thanks to Charlie for sending me a fascinating article that states those scientists have now proven just how far environmental genetic changes can be passed down through generations (basis of religious term ‘genetic curse’). To figure out how long the environment can leave a mark on genetic expression, the scientists used genetically engineered nematode worms that carry a transgene fluorescent protein, allowing the worms to glow under ultraviolet light. They then put the worms in different temperature-controlled containers to observe how heat and cold affected their ability to glow.

    When the worms were in the colder containers (20° Celsius), the transgene showed low activity and the worms could barely glow. But when they put them in a warmer container (25° Celsius), the transgene became much more active, evinced by the worms’ bright glow. To test the worms even further, the scientists took the warm, glowing worms and put them back in the cold containers. To their surprise, the worms continued to glow, which to the scientists meant that they retained an “environmental memory” of the warmer temperature, allowing the transgene to remain active. When the worms had offspring, that memory was actually passed on to their children for seven generations, allowing them to glow brightly despite never having experienced a warmer climate!

    Further testing their Epigenetic capabilities, scientists kept five generations in a warmer climate of 25° Celsius and then separated their offspring from them, putting them in colder temperatures. Lo and behold, the worms still continued to have the highly active transgene for 14 generations! This study marks the longest ever witnessed of passing-down an environmentally induced genetic change, bringing us a step closer to knowing how environmental genetic change is passed down in humans.

    OTHER RESEARCH ON EPIGENETICS

    More research shows how environment can affect the development of our children, grandchildren and so on. Rachel Yehuda, an Epigenetics researcher with a special interest in the inter-generational effects of trauma, studied trauma survivors and their offspring. Their findings showed that the descendants of Holocaust survivors have different stress hormone profiles than the average human being.

    Similar to their parents, the offspring were found to have low levels of cortisol, the hormone that helps your body recover after trauma, especially if their mothers had PTSD. However, unlike their parents, the offspring were found to have higher than average levels of the cortisol-busting enzyme, which the researchers predicted developed in-utero. This is because the enzyme is typically present in increased levels in the placenta to protect the fetus from the mother’s circulating cortisol. If the Holocaust survivors had low levels of this enzyme in the placenta during pregnancy, the fetus could be exposed to more cortisol, and therefore develop greater amounts of the enzyme to protect itself.

    Again, Dr. Bruce Lipton, has shown how our emotions and overall health can regulate genetic expression. He said, “Medicine does miracles, but it’s limited to trauma. The AMA protocol is to regard our physical body like a machine, in the same way that an auto mechanic regards a car. When the parts break, you replace them – a transplant, synthetic joints, and so on – and those are medical miracles. The problem is that while they have an understanding that the mechanism isn’t working, they’re blaming the vehicle for what went wrong. They believe the vehicle, or our body, is controlled by genes.

    “But guess what? They don’t take into consideration that there’s actually a driver in that car. The new science, Epigenetics, reveals that the vehicles – or the genes – aren’t responsible for the breakdown. It’s the driver.” In other words, our minds and our lifestyles are in charge of our health. This can even be applied to many diseases, including cancer. “It used to be that we thought a mutant gene caused cancer,” Dr. Lipton explained, “but Epigenetics has changed that. I placed one stem cell into a culture dish, and it divided every ten hours. After two weeks, there were thousands of cells in the dish, and they were all genetically identical, having been derived from the same parent cell. I divided the cell population and inoculated them in three different culture dishes.

    “Next, I manipulated the culture medium – the cell’s equivalent of the environment – in each dish. In one dish, the cells became bone, in another, muscle, and in the last dish, fat. This demonstrated that the genes didn’t determine the fate of the cells because they all had the exact same genes. The environment determined the fate of the cells, not the genetic pattern. So if cells are in a healthy environment, they are healthy. If they’re in an unhealthy environment, they get sick.”

    The way we look at cancer is changing radically, as it’s clear the mind and our emotions play a role in causing, and (in some cases) treating it. Louise Hay is a very renowned author who discusses the emotional causes of cancer in her book ‘You Can Heal Your Life’. A cancer survivor herself, she cured her disease in only six months using a combination of affirmations, visualization, nutritional cleansing and psychotherapy. According to Hay, cancer is simply the manifestation of deep hurt, kept secrets, longstanding resentment, grief, and/or hatred. Her books give the underlying cause for all diseases.

    Furthermore, Dr. Lipton actually explains the relationship your mind has to the health of your cells, which relates to cancer: “Here’s the connection: With fifty trillion cells in your body, the human body is the equivalent of a skin-covered petri dish. Moving your body from one environment to another alters the composition of the ‘culture medium,’ the blood. The chemistry of the body’s culture medium determines the nature of the cell’s environment within you. The blood’s chemistry is largely impacted by the chemicals emitted from your brain. Brain chemistry adjusts the composition of the blood based upon your perceptions of life. So this means that your perception of any given thing, at any given moment, can influence the brain chemistry, which, in turn, affects the environment where your cells reside and controls their fate. In other words, your thoughts and perceptions have a direct and overwhelmingly significant effect on cells.”

    THE POWER OF MEDITATION

    Of course, the relationship between the mind and cellular health has been studied before. As mentioned in a prior message, the molecular signature of meditators has been proven to be significantly different from those who don’t meditate on a regular basis. The practice of silencing the mind and looking within can potentially decrease your risk of disease. Another study showed meditation can protect and lengthen chromosome Telomeres. If your chromosomes are healthy, your cells are healthy as well. Cancer involves abnormal cell growth, so the healthier your cells, the healthier your body.

    Meditation affects us so profoundly! Crystallized intelligence is your ability to utilize information, skills and experience already learned – cerebral knowledge increasing with age and easily tested. Fluid intelligence, by contrast, is your ability to identify patterns, solve novel problems and use logic in new situations. It’s not about how much you know, it’s about your ability to be creative, aware, innovative, and visionary. It can also make you significantly smarter. Dr. Othmer, former President of the Neurofeedback Division of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, used brainwave training in a study and those who meditated showed an average gain in IQ of 23%!

    A followup study a year later showed lasting effects of those still meditating as significant gains in creativity, concentration and self-awareness. Only four days of daily 20-minute meditation shows significant improvements in memory, cognition and lowered stress levels. Our brainwaves slow down during meditation to beta or theta level. Focused attention during the practice on breath, a mantra or music gives your brain the right kind of respite. Alan Watts calls meditation the literal key to freedom!

    THYMUS TAPPING FOR IMMUNITY BOOST

    Thymus tapping is a very simple but potent technique that helps to strengthen our immune system, increase our Life Force energy and help develop a better mind-body connection. Looking for a quick boost of energy or a ‘jump start’ to your system? Thymus tapping is an easy exercise that you can practice anywhere at any time of day. Dr. John Diamond says, “The Thymus gland serves as the link between mind and body. It’s the first organ to be affected by mental attitudes and stress. Hence, activation and stimulation of the Thymus is an essential, primary foundation of achieving and maintaining positive health.”

    The Thymus is said to be a center of rejuvenation in the body as its main integrating function is to regulate our immune system and control the production of white blood cells (t-cells). By tapping this tiny gland on a daily basis we help stimulate the production of t-cells that help fight infections and disease around the body to keep energy high and our health vibrant. It’s located in the center of the chest beneath the upper part of the breastbone. It also shrinks with age and lack of stimulation.

    Here’s how to do it: Create a fist or use the tips of your fingers and begin by tapping your thymus area with a waltz-like rhythm. ONE two three-ONE two three-ONE two three. Continue tapping for up to one minute at a time. An important tip when thymus tapping is to repeat a mantra or affirmation in your head. Any emotional or physical disturbance can cause the Thymus gland to shrink, causing depletion in this vital life energy. Say ‘I am radiantly alive’ or ‘I am love’ adding power, so that you may feel a sense of happiness or joy running through your body as a sign your Life Force has just increased. Dr. Diamond has written two great books about the Thymus gland I’ll add to the references. In today’s toxic world Thymus tapping offers a very useful puzzle piece of knowledge. So, happy tapping!

    RHYTHM OF BREATHING ON EMOTIONS

    In our now insane world with exposure to a deluge of stressors every day, as much as fear results from reacting to actual or perceived events in our lives, it’s also a biological function of the human body (for protection). When equipped with an understanding of how the body manages the emotional system, we can easily outsmart it, tricking ourselves into emotional balance. This perspective is scientifically validated by new research from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago with discovery of how the various rhythmic patterns of breath profoundly impact memory recall and the emotional body, specifically the fear response.

    The brain creates electrical impulses which link physical functions to emotional reactions, and the electrical activity of the brain is deeply affected by our breathing patterns. The outcome of this balance is determined by whether or not we are inhaling or exhaling, as well as if we we’re breathing through the nose or mouth, as each variable creates a different electrical response within the brain. In the study, participants were shown images of human expressions, some frightful, while engaging in various patterns of breathing. Researchers observed that people more easily process fear and more readily recall images while inhaling through the nose.

    Professor of Neurology Christina Zelano who was lead author said, “One of the major findings in this study is that there is a dramatic difference in brain activity in the amygdala and hippocampus during inhalation compared with exhalation. When you breathe in, we discovered you are stimulating neurons in the olfactory cortex, amygdala and hippocampus, all across the limbic system.”

    The amygdala is decisively linked to processing of emotions, especially fears, while the hippocampus is strongly linked to memory recall – and the breath, which originates in the diaphragm, plays the critical role of regulating their function. “Breathing is modulated at the diaphragm, and it is also the location where many physical symptoms associated with fear and anxiety manifest.” So, this distinctively heightened activity during inhaling can be highly advantageous when you realize your fear reaction is working overtime. If you’re in a dangerous environment with fearful stimuli, data indicates you can respond more quickly if you’re inhaling through your nose. “When you inhale, you’re in a sense synchronizing brain oscillations all across the limbic network.”

    The four-count breathing mentioned before is ideal. Breathe in four – hold four – breathe out four – hold four … this can be done anywhere, any time. I do it while walking, when anxious or before sleep. It brings you energetically into the ‘now moment’ to calm and quiet your mind and heart. This is a quantum space between a split second and it’s said this takes you into a 5d level, a higher consciousness reality we can access to inhabit by choice now (our Civilization of the Universe).

    THE BODY’S LONGEVITY POINT

    According to an ancient Japanese legend, one young man was lucky enough to be taught an invaluable piece of knowledge from his father about the longevity point of a hundred diseases. Using the instructions, he massaged this point every day, living long enough to see the birth and death of several emperors and then taught others. Our body has 365 points and 12 major meridians – the exact numbers of the days and months of the year. All these points can be treated with acupressure, based on the teachings about meridians and channels of energy connected to corresponding organs in the body. In Chinese medicine the body is considered an energy system, so massaging its points affects the flow of energy and function of each organ.

    Stimulate the Zu San Li point to heal and rejuvenate your body and prevent aging. In Chinese it’s known as ‘the point of longevity’ and in Japanese ‘the point of a hundred diseases’. And just where is this magical Zu San Li point located on our body? It’s right below the kneecap. Put your left hand on left knee, right hand on right knee, fingers together and stretched crossways. It’s located between the ends of your ring finger and the pinky, between the bones.

    Another way to locate the point is to sit on the floor with feet pressed flat and solidly in front of you (heels also flat). Check the area below your knee that is slightly higher. Locate its highest point and press your finger against it and this is your Zu San Li point. Wonder why the Japanese call it the point of a hundred diseases? It controls the work of the organs in your lower body. It regulates the parts of the spinal cord responsible for the proper function of the gastrointestinal and digestive tract, kidneys, reproductive system and adrenal glands. Oh, is that all? With massage of the Zu San Li point you can increase the function of the adrenal glands, the most essential glands when it comes to protecting your health. They bring adrenaline, hydrocortisone and other essential hormones in blood.

    Massage brings regulation of glucose, insulin, suppression of inflammation, regulation of immunity, stimulates digestion, treats gastrointestinal diseases, and treats damages caused by stroke. This simple massage will give you more confidence and inner balance, relieve stress and tension. It can also help you treat many health conditions – including impotence, hiccups, constipation, gastritis and urinary incontinence. There are regimens one can apply to bring the desired effects in the body.

    USING THE VIBRATION OF SOUND TO HEAL

    In my message “Tuning Into Sound – Harmonic Frequency, Resonance and Vibration”, I described using the vibration of sound to heal the physical and spiritual Self. Many healing modalities read your symptoms and then tell you what pill to take or surgery to undergo. But what if you could conduct ‘sound surgery’ on yourself – sending holistic, healing vibrations into every single cell in your body? With sound healing, it’s not required to fully understand what our symptoms are coming from – sometimes they’re so deep-seated, they may be caused by something we’ve not even thought of, so a deeper subconscious healing is needed.

    Sound has a way of finding its way into every nook and cranny of our bodies and etheric Selves, so we can start to resonate with a vibration that emits wholeness. Healing sound will automatically go where it is needed most and do its work. Our cells then gain their highest potential resonance! How exciting is that? A healthy human body frequency usually hovers around 62-72 Hz. When it drops, the immune system becomes compromised and illness usually ensues. All that is needed is the return to optimal frequency. (A vibrational frequency list of body areas was included with that message).

    The Science of Cymatics demonstrates how precise sound vibrations can structure matter into any form and by extension, how vibration stands behind the creation of the physical world itself! In Vibrational Medicine and Science, it imperically shows visually and completely the power of vibration to create and change physical structures. In studying Sound Frequency and how it affects the human organism and other forms of life – we find the world is teeming with holographic “bubbles of acoustic sound energy” moving at 700 miles per hour into the ether. This can be the sound of our own voice, from a musical instrument or the sirens sounding on a police car or ambulance passing by. Each of these “bubbles in a hurry” leaves a fleeting vibrational imprint on our cells. Our bodies absorb these sounds, and they can either be harmonious to our human form, or damaging.

    Seven vowel sounds can also be used – these are from ancient Gregorian chants – and correspond to the energy necessary to enliven the 7 chakras of the human energy body. Dr. Joseph Puleo decoded these Solfeggio frequencies in the mid 70’s examining the Bible in Genesis Chapter 7, Verses 12-83 that there exists a pattern of six repeating numbers around a series of sacred numbers 3, 6 and 9. When decoded using the ancient Pythagorean Method of reducing the verse numbers to their single digit integers, a series of six electromagnetic sound frequencies that correspond to the six missing tones of the ancient Solfeggio scale were revealed. These have been determined as such:

    DO – 396 Hz – Liberating Guilt and Fear
    RE – 417 Hz – Undoing Situations and Facilitating Change
    MI – 528 Hz – Transformation and Miracles (DNA Repair). Derives from the phrase Mi-ra gestorum (“Miracle”) in Latin. This is the exact frequency used by genetic biochemists to repair broken DNA – the genetic blueprint upon which life is based!
    FA – 639 Hz – Connecting Relationships
    SOL – 741 Hz – Awakening Intuition
    LA – 852 Hz – Returning to Spiritual Order

    Plus there’s the 432 Hz Healing Energy. So, the Binaural Beats to Solfeggio frequency music or nature sounds to meditate or in everyday life can bring phenomenal benefits to you, balancing right and left brain hemispheres. I hope you’ve tried it as there are lots of you-tube videos online. Thus, question answer is ‘yes’ you can truly conduct ‘sound surgery’ on your own, allowing a vibratory pattern to heal you in ways you didn’t even know you needed healing! The Bio-Resonance Technology Healing Computer Neil Keenan is helping bring to the world is this sound therapy healing that Rick has been describing to us on this program. Someday over the rainbow we’ll have them at home. Using this new medical technology, we can again vibrate at our optimum harmonic vibrational frequency resonance – and be healed! Power over disease, our very life and death will be in our own hands.

    BAREFOOT WALKING

    Known as Earthing or Grounding, I’ve recommended it in past messages for its super benefits. You place your bare feet directly on the ground without shoes or socks as a barrier. The logic behind the practice is to receive the intense negative charge carried by the Earth. This charge is electron-rich, theoretically serving as a good supply of antioxidants and free-radical destroying electrons. Our Child of the Past was well acquainted with this natural idea. It’s hard to keep shoes on little ones … and after a rain, ooey-gooey mud is a natural attractor of kids … like a magnet! Have some fun.

    Dr. James Oschman, a PhD in biology from the University of Pittsburgh and an expert in the field of Energy Medicine notes: “Subjective reports that walking barefoot on the Earth enhances health and provides feelings of well-being can be found in the literature and practices of diverse cultures from around the world. For a variety of reasons, many individuals are reluctant to walk outside barefoot, unless they are on holiday at the beach.” Dr. Joseph Mercola rates its benefits very high but then adds, “Unfortunately, many living in developed countries are rarely grounded any more.”

    The science includes a study published a couple years ago in the Journal of Environmental and Public Health titled “Earthing: Health Implications of Reconnecting the Human Body to the Earth’s Surface Electrons” postulates that Earthing could represent a potential treatment/solution to a variety of chronic degenerative diseases. It concluded that simple contact with the Earth … could serve as a natural and “profoundly effective environmental strategy” against chronic stress, autonomic nervous system dysfunction, inflammation, pain, poor sleep, disturbed heart rate variability, hyper-coagulable blood, and many common health disorders, including cardiovascular disease.

    The study concluded: “The research done to date supports the concept that Grounding or Earthing the human body may be an essential element in the health equation along with sunshine, clean air and water, nutritious food and physical activity”. We all spend most of our time walking wearing shoes with rubber or plastic soles. These materials are insulators used to insulate electrical wires.

    But they disconnect you from the Earth’s electron flow, which we’re supposed to naturally be connected to. If you wear leather-soled shoes, vegan leather, or walk barefoot on sand, grass, soil, concrete or ceramic tile, you will be grounded. Walk on asphalt, wood, rubber, plastic,vinyl, tar or tarmac you will not be grounded. Next time you’re outside, take off your shoes! You can also use conductive systems while sleeping, working or spending time indoors for a more convenient lifestyle-friendly approach. We may wish to investigate such systems further.

    IN CONCLUSION

    I hope you’ve found a nugget or two of information here that helps you in some way. I will post this online at wikipediavsneo-tech.com tonight. The paradigm of our health care is in a huge state of flux right now as part of many great advances occurring! Let’s be ahead of the giant wave rolling toward shore, so we can catch its momentum to thrust us toward new opportunities available with such powerful energies bombarding and transforming us. Understand that these type energies have never before been available on this planet and we can experiment with them. The new world of medicine awaits on the horizon’s shores to be explored. We can become younger, healthier and stronger!

    As Neothinkers, we can participate, actively taking time to work on ourselves as examples using techniques of “The Higher Healings” … all bringing humanity closer to curing disease, aging and death … as onward and forward we go toward our biological immortality goal in the C of U … and we will each be a part of that great coming tide that raises all ships!

    Have a super night dreaming in your merkaba light body everyone! You are greatly appreciated. And my gratitude to Mark Hamilton. Baton back to you, Digger and Charlie! Thank you,

    Judith Curless

    Sources: My-Self; Tiffany Stiles, Ascension Energies (5-19-17); Lance Johnson, NaturalNews.com (9-25-16); Rosanna Lindsay, Naturopathic Doctor, natural healing.org (11-14-16); April McCarthy, PreventDisease.com (5-19-17); Fireside Chats video with Bruce Lipton, PhD, Cellular Biologist, on ‘The Biology of Belief ‘ and Epigenetics (5-15-17); Kalee Brown, CollectiveEvolution.com (5-01-17); SimpleCapacity.com (7-08-16); Alex Pietrowski, Staff Writer, WakingTimes.com (3-01-17); Dr. John Diamond on Thymus Tapping, Book ‘Your Body Doesn’t Lie: How To Activate Your Thymus’ and Book ‘Increase Your Life Energy’; and numerous videos on You-Tube of Binaural Beats Music 528 Hz Miracle Healing (plus 432 Hz and other frequencies).

    *Note: I feel blessed to have the opportunity to express this information and I thank everyone who was on the call and who reads it here. I hope it helps you. jc

  241. Hello everyone! June 20, 2017 – Please drop in to the School of Genius – Rise of Neo-Tech tonight and share with us a new message about healing ourselves now and in the future. Great gains and enlightenment are occurring all around with new technology, plus by revisiting some ancient healing modalities to remind ourselves that we are in charge of our own health and can greatly enhance it with our thoughts and actions. The Study of Epigenetics to rise above the belief that our genes control our health can bring one into alignment with the new prevailing ‘realities’. It won’t be too long until we have the power in our hands to heal ourselves! The entire medical establishment is subject to change soon. So, I hope to see you there tonight!

    I have not been available lately to post here … my schedule as well as many other pressing time matters have taken me away for awhile. Also, dealing with the powerful energies now greatly affects me at times on my energy supply! I thank you Pete, Forest and others for continuing this important endeavor. I will be back soon, I hope.

    Judith

  242. June 19, 1970
    ==========
    Carole King began her career in music as a young newlywed and college graduate, working
    a 9-to-5 shift alongside her then-husband, Gerry Goffin, in Don Kirshner’s songwriting
    factory, Aldon Music. It was there, working in a cubicle with a piano, staff paper
    and tape recorder that she co-wrote her first hit song (the Shirelles’
    “Will You Love Me Tomorrow,” 1960), her second and third
    hit songs (the Drifters’ “Some Kind Of Wonderful” and Bobby Vee’s “Take
    Good Care Of My Baby,” both 1961), her 14th and 17th hit songs (the Chiffons’ “One
    Fine Day,” 1963, and Herman’s Hermits’ “Something Tells Me I’m Into Something Good,” 1964)
    and so on and so forth. It was not until 10 years after her songwriting breakthrough, however, that
    Carole King finally fulfilled her long-held dream of having her own hit record as both singer and songwriter.
    On June 19, 1971, she earned her first #1 single as a performer with the double-sided hit
    “It’s Too Late/I Feel The Earth Move.”

    King’s hit single came from one of the best and most popular albums of the singer – songwriter
    era — an era that Carole King helped usher in. Tapestry was a milestone not only for Carole
    King, but for women in rock and roll in general. As the critic Robert Christgau put it:
    “King has done for the female voice what countless singer-composers achieved
    years ago for the male: liberated it from technical decorum. She insists on
    being heard as she is…with all the cracks and imperfections that
    implies.” On the heels of Tapestry‘s success, up-and-coming
    solo female performers like Carly Simon and Rickie Lee Jones found an
    easier path to popularity, and the great Joni Mitchell entered the period of her
    greatest commercial success.

    The success of Tapestry and Carole King’s first #1 single launched her career as a solo
    performer, but a look around the pop charts of 1971 reveals just how big a force she
    remained behind the scenes. Among the artists who earned #1 pop hits that year,
    Tony Orlando and Dawn, Rod Stewart, Isaac Hayes, George Harrison and Paul
    McCartney all recorded a Carole King song at one point in their careers,
    and Donny Osmond and James Taylor owe their only chart-topping
    1971 hits (“Go Away Little Girl” and “You’ve Got A Friend,” respectively) to her

    songwriting talents.
    =============
    WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME TOMORROW
    by Carole King

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8KlYc0xG80
    —————–

  243. June 18, 1960
    ==========
    On this day, Arnold Palmer shot a 65 to win the U.S. Open at Cherry Hills Country
    Club in Denver, Colorado. It was the best final round in U.S. Open history.

    Palmer, from Ligonier, Pennsylvania was the son of a golf pro at the Latrobe Country
    Club in nearby Latrobe. His father taught him the game during the club’s off hours, as
    the young Palmer was not allowed to play when members were present. The training
    paid off: Palmer won the 1954 National Amateur while at Wake Forest College, then
    turned pro in 1955. As a professional, Palmer appealed to golf’s blue collar fans, who
    identified with his working class upbringing in Pennsylvania steel mill country. At the
    1958 Masters, Palmer’s gallery included local Army cadets, and the phrase “Arnie’s Army”
    was coined to describe his legions of fans on and off the course. Palmer won the Masters
    that year, cementing his golf stardom in the burgeoning age of televised sports.

    In 1960, Palmer won his second Masters, which gave him momentum going into the
    U.S. Open. After three rounds, however, Palmer was tied for 15th, seven shots
    behind Mike Souchak. Down but not out, he started the last round with an
    amazing four birdies in a row on his way to a record-tying 30 on the
    front nine. This put him in the race for the title alongside
    47-year-old Ben Hogan, vying for his fifth U.S. Open title, and Hogan’s
    playing partner, Jack Nicklaus, a junior at Ohio State who shot a 282 for the
    tournament, an amateur record. Palmer parred the last four holes for a 35 on the
    back nine and a total score of 65 to win his first and only U.S. Open title.

    Palmer was named PGA Player of the Year in 1960, and again in 1962. Over the course of his career, he won the Masters four times and the British Open twice. In 1968, Palmer became the first golfer to earn $1 million in a year. He remained one of the richest athletes in the world well into his 70s because of sound investments and a variety of profitable endorsements. In 1971, Palmer bought the Latrobe Country Club.

    Arnold Palmer passed away in 2016 at age 87.
    ===========

  244. June 17, 1885
    ==========
    On this day in 1885, the dismantled Statue of Liberty – a gift of friendship from the people of France to the people of America – arrived in New York Harbor after being shipped across the Atlantic Ocean in 350 individual pieces packed in more than 200 cases. The copper and iron statue, which was reassembled and dedicated the following year in a ceremony presided over by U.S. President Grover Cleveland, became known around the world as an enduring symbol of freedom and democracy.

    Intended to commemorate the American Revolution and a century of friendship between the U.S. and France, the statue was designed by French sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi (who modeled it after his own mother), with assistance from engineer Gustave Eiffel, who later developed the iconic tower in Paris bearing his name. The statue was initially scheduled to be finished by 1876, the 100th anniversary of America’s Declaration of Independence; however, fundraising efforts, which included auctions, a lottery and boxing matches, took longer than anticipated, both in Europe and the U.S., where the statue’s pedestal was to be financed and constructed. The statue alone cost the French an estimated $250,000 (more than $5.5 million in today’s money).

    Finally completed in Paris in the summer of 1884, the statue, a robed female figure with an uplifted arm holding a torch, reached its new home on Bedloe’s Island in New York Harbor (between New York City and Hudson County, New Jersey) on June 17, 1885. After being reassembled, the 450,000-pound statue was officially dedicated on October 28, 1886, by President Cleveland, who said, “We will not forget that Liberty has here made her home; nor shall her chosen altar be neglected.” Standing more than 305 feet from the foundation of its pedestal to the top of its torch, the statue, dubbed “Liberty Enlightening the World” by Bartholdi, was taller than any structure in New York City at the time. The statue was originally copper-colored, but over the years it underwent a natural color-change process called patination that produced its current greenish-blue hue.

    In 1892, Ellis Island, located near Bedloe’s Island (which in 1956 was renamed Liberty Island), opened as America’s chief immigration station, and for the next 62 years Lady Liberty, as the statue is nicknamed, stood watch over the more than 12 million immigrants who sailed into New York Harbor. In 1903, a plaque inscribed with a sonnet titled “The New Colossus” by American poet Emma Lazarus, written 20 years earlier for a pedestal fundraiser, was placed on an interior wall of the pedestal. Lazarus’ now-famous words, which include “Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” became symbolic of America’s vision of itself as a land of opportunity for immigrants.

    Some 60 years after President Calvin Coolidge designated the statue a national monument in 1924, it underwent a multi-million-dollar restoration (which included a new torch and gold leaf-covered flame) and was rededicated by President Ronald Reagan on July 4, 1986, in a lavish celebration. Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the statue was closed; its base, pedestal and observation deck re-opened in 2004, while its crown re-opened to the public on July 4, 2009. (For safety reasons, the torch has been closed to visitors since 1916, after an incident called the Black Tom explosions in which munitions-laden barges and railroad cars on the Jersey City, New Jersey, waterfront were blown up by German agents, causing damage to the nearby statue.)

    Today, the Statue of Liberty is one of America’s most famous landmarks. Over the years, it has been the site of political rallies and protests (from suffragettes to anti-war activists), has been featured in numerous movies and countless photographs, and has received millions of visitors from around the globe.
    ====================

  245. Hey Wayne —
    It’s Monday afternoon — 6/19/17 — and returned I home yesterday
    morning from a three-day business trip to Indianapolis, IN.

    Indy is a beautiful city, the weather was nice, the people are friendly, and so were the homeless people
    I spoke with.. In a world of abundance it still amazes me that allocation of resources poses such a dilemma.

    Make everyone rich including the poor sounds about right. !!! pez
    —————
    http://www.tvpnc.org

  246. On June 16, 1968
    =============
    Golfer Lee Trevino won the U.S. Open at the Oak Hill Country Club in
    Rochester, New York. His score of 275 for 72 holes tied a U.S. Open record.

    Lee Trevino was born in Dallas, Texas, on December 1, 1939, and raised along with two sisters
    by his mother and grandfather in a one-room house in North Dallas without plumbing or
    electricity. As a child, Trevino worked in the fields alongside his family and as a result
    attended school only intermittently. At age eight, he took a job on the public golf
    course near his home, where he developed the ball-striking skills that would
    one day awe his fellow professionals. Trevino enlisted in the Marines at 17,
    and played on the U.S. Marines golf team. After his discharge in 1960
    he returned to making a living at a golf course, clerking and
    hustling other golfers for money.

    Trevino, a Mexican-American, was one of a very few minorities in the PGA when he earned
    his tour card in 1967. Despite his awkward, self-taught brand of golf, he finished fifth at
    the U.S. Open that year, eight shots behind Jack Nicklaus, who shot a record 275.
    At the 1968 U.S. Open, Trevino played among the leaders throughout the
    tourney. On the last day, he was paired with Bert Yancey, an Army
    golfer who led the tournament. Trevino pulled away on the
    fifth hole and added to his lead the rest of the day to
    finish with a record-tying 275. (Jack Nicklaus
    finished with a 279.)

    Over the course of his career, Trevino earned a reputation as a scrappy player who
    knew how to finish big and always played to win. He won the U.S. Open again in 1971,
    the British Open in 1971 and 1972 and the PGA Championship in 1974 and 1984. For
    his career, he won 29 PGA tournaments and 29 tournaments on the Champions Tour.

    Lee Trevino is the only player to win three national titles in the same year,
    a feat he accomplished in 1971 by winning the U.S., Canadian and British Opens.
    ==================

  247. June 16, 1965
    ==========
    By the spring of 1965, Bob Dylan’s presence in the world of music was beginning to be
    felt well outside the boundaries of his nominal genre. Within the world of folk music,
    he had been hailed as a hero for several years already, but now his music was capturing
    the attention and influencing the direction of artists like the Byrds, the Beatles and
    even a young Stevie Wonder. With Dylan as a direct inspiration, popular music was about
    to change its direction, but so was Dylan himself. On June 16, 1965, on their second day
    of recording at Columbia Records’ Studio A in Manhattan, he and a band featuring electric
    guitars and an organ laid down the master take of the song that would announce that
    change: “Like A Rolling Stone.” It would prove to be “folksinger” Bob Dylan’s magnum
    opus and, arguably, the greatest rock and roll record of all time.

    It was the fourth of 11 takes that day that yielded the six-minute-and-34-second recording
    that very nearly didn’t become a revolutionary hit single. Returning to the CBS studios
    to hear “Like A Rolling Stone” several days after the recording session, Dylan and
    manager Albert Grossman were thrilled by what they heard, but the sales and
    marketing staff of Columbia Records — the gatekeepers who decided
    what songs would and wouldn’t be released as singles — did not
    agree. At 6:34, “Like A Rolling Stone” was nearly twice as long as the average
    single, and its raw rock sound was way outside the comfort zone of a label best
    known for artists like Andy Williams and Johnny Mathis. As release co-ordinator Shaun
    Considine recounted 40 year later in a New York Times Op-ed —
    —————–
    Dylan’s magnum opus was rejected as a single and resurrected only after Considine slipped a studio acetate
    to a DJ at a prominent Manhattan nightclub in mid-July. Two well-known radio DJs in the audience heard
    “Like A Rolling Stone” and the overwhelming crowd reaction to it that night and called Columbia the next day,
    demanding their copies of “the new Bob Dylan single.” Sales and marketing got its last dig in by chopping
    “Like A Rolling Stone” in half and putting it on separate sides of 45, but a re-spliced full version was what radio
    stations played and what climbed very nearly to the top of the Billboard pop charts. (It peaked at #2 in the
    week of September 4, 1965, blocked from the #1 spot by the Beatles’ “Help.”)
    —————
    The most important impact of “Like A Rolling Stone” was not commercial but creative.
    As Rolling Stone magazine wrote in 2004 in naming it the greatest song of all time,
    Dylan “transformed popular song with the content and ambition of ‘Like a
    Rolling Stone.’” Or as Bruce Springsteen said of the first time he
    heard it, “[it] sounded like somebody’d kicked open the door to your mind.”
    =================
    LIKE A ROLLING STONE
    by Bob Dylan

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F0ytNzHDj8
    ——————-

  248. . . . .. . . . . .THE SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN
    . . . . . .. . . . . . .NEOTHINK CLUBHOUSES
    …………….ARE HOSTING A GALA EVENTS IN JULY…………..
    ============================================
    When?. . . . . . . . . . . Saturday June 8, 2017.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:30 am – 3 pm.
    Where?. . . . . . . . . .The Henry Ford Museum.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dearborn, Michigan.
    What?. . . . . . . . . . . $20 includes entry into the Museum
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . plus Imax Movie – plus dessert.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bring lunch, or food can be purchased.
    WHY?. . . . . . . . . . . . Why not.
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  249. June 15, 1938
    ==========
    On this day in 1938, Cincinnati Red Johnny Vander Meer pitched his second
    consecutive no-hit, no-run game. Vander Meer is the only pitcher in baseball
    history to throw two back-to-back no-hitters.

    Johnny Vander Meer, a hard-throwing lefty, was just 23 in 1938, his first full season in the
    majors. In his one season in the minors, he had struck out 295 batters, but was prone to
    wild pitches. In spring training in 1938, Pitching Coach Bill McKechnie helped Vander
    Meer to harness his power into throwing strikes. The training quickly paid off:
    On June 11, Vander Meer pitched a Saturday afternoon game for the Reds
    against the Boston Braves. He didn’t allow a hit in nine innings, and
    of the 28 batters he faced, he walked three and struck out four.
    It was the first no-hitter thrown in the National League since 1934 and
    the first no-hitter by a lefthander since 1931.

    Four days later, Vander Meer pitched in the first night game in New York in big league history.
    Ebbets Field, home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, turned the lights on for the first time, drawing
    a sell-out crowd of 48,000. Although the lights overshadowed Vander Meer’s return to
    the mound, he soon pitched himself back into the story. In the seventh inning,
    Vander Meer walked Cookie Lavagetto and Dolph Camilli to put a runner
    on second, the first time the Dodgers had a runner on second all game.
    Vander Meer worked his way out of the jam, and headed into the
    ninth inning looking for his second no-hitter in a row.

    The crowd buzzed with anticipation in the bottom of the ninth, with the Reds leading 6-0
    and Vander Meer poised to make history. After fielding a lazy ground ball hit by
    Dodger left fielder Buddy Hassett to lead off the inning, Vander Meer
    began to show signs of nerves. He proceeded to walk the
    bases loaded with one out, bringing centerfielder Ernie Koy to the plate.
    Koy hit a dribbler to Reds third basemen Lew Riggs, who, afraid of making a
    mistake, threw home to catcher Dolph Camilli instead of turning a double play.
    With two outs and the bases loaded, Dodger shortstop Leo Durocher stepped up to
    the plate. Durocher had a habit of delivering clutch hits, but after walloping a foul ball
    into the stands in right field, Durocher managed only a slow fly ball to center field, where
    Harry Craft gloved it for the final out to secure Vander Meer’s place in history.

    The two no-hitters were part of a nine-game win streak for Vander Meer in 1938.
    Many believe that Vander Meer’s record of two consecutive no-hitters is the
    baseball record least likely to be broken, as to do so would require a pitcher to
    throw three consecutive no-hitters, a nearly unimaginable feat.
    ================

  250. June 14, 1998
    ==========
    On June 14, 1998, Michael Jordan lad the Chicago Bulls to an 87-86 win over the Utah Jazz in Game Six of the NBA Finals to clinch their third consecutive NBA title. Jordan scored 45 points and hit the winning jump shot with 5.2 seconds left on the clock in what seemed a fitting end to a historic career.

    The Chicago Bulls won the NBA title every year from 1991 to 1998, except a two-year gap in 1994 and 1995 when Jordan left the NBA to play baseball. In the 1997 and 1998 NBA Finals, the Bulls faced the veteran Utah Jazz, led by point guard and all-time assists leader John Stockton and power forward Karl Malone, second on the career points list. The Bulls, led by Jordan, were a colorful group that included small forward Scottie Pippen, the controversial rebounding champ Dennis Rodman and Phil Jackson, their Zen master coach.

    One year earlier, in Game Five of the 1997 NBA Finals, Michael Jordan had staged a performance for the ages. Though suffering from the flu, Jordan willed the Bulls to victory with 38 points, including the winning three-pointer with 25 seconds left. Afterward, the ailing Jordan was helped off the court by teammate Scottie Pippen. The Bulls went on to win the series in six games, with Jordan winning his fifth Finals MVP award.

    In the 1998 finals, Utah won Game One 88-85 in overtime, but lost the next three games, including a 96-54 defensive clinic put on by Chicago in Game Three. The Jazz then won Game Five in Chicago 83-81 to send the series back to Utah.

    Game Six in Utah was the final installment of the Michael Jordan show. Scottie Pippen – suffering from back spasms – was limited to just 26 minutes. The Jazz led by three in the last minute, but Jordan brought Chicago within one by driving to the basket and laying the ball in with 37.1 seconds left. Utah then brought the ball into their half-court setup, with the reliable veteran Karl Malone on the left post. With 18.9 seconds left, Jordan snuck along the baseline and punched the ball out of Malone’s possession. Jordan then brought the ball up the court, refusing to call a timeout. With 5.2 seconds left Jordan hit an 18-foot jumper from the top of the key after cagily nudging Utah’s Bryon Russell out of the way with his left arm. John Stockton missed a three-pointer near the buzzer to give Jordan and Chicago their third championship in a row and sixth NBA title. Jordan averaged 32.4 points per game in this series for a 33.4 points per game average in the playoffs for his career, an NBA record. He won his sixth Finals MVP after the game, also an NBA record. It was his last game with the Bulls.

    In January 2000, Jordan became general manager of the Washington Wizards and returned to play two seasons with the mediocre Wizards in 2001-02 and 2002-03. The Wizards did not make the playoffs in either season.
    ==========

  251. June 13, 1975
    ==========
    By the end of the 1970s – the decade of her greatest commercial success – Linda Ronstadt
    was being hailed with honors like “the First Lady of Rock” and “Top Female Pop Singer
    of the Decade.” But neither of those titles captured the true breadth of her musical
    pursuits or of her popularity. As synonymous as she was in the late 1970s with
    the pop mainstream, Ronstadt began her rise to stardom working in an
    idiom as compatible with country-music fashions as with rock. In
    fact, her first top-10 hit was with the Hank Williams song “I Can’t Help
    It (If I’m Still In Love With You),” and the biggest hit of her career was “When
    Will I Be Loved” – which became a #1 hit on the country-music charts on this day in 1975.

    “When Will I Be Loved,” a top-10 pop hit for the Everly Brothers in 1960, came from
    Linda Ronstadt’s 1975 breakthrough album Heart Like A Wheel, which yielded three
    top-10 hits each on the pop and country-music charts. [“When Will I Be Loved” was
    the only hit on both; “You’re No Good” was a #1 pop hit that did not make the
    country charts, and the aforementioned “I Can’t Help It (If I’m Still In Love With You)”
    and Neil Young’s “Love Is A Rose” were #2 and #5 country hits, respectively, but did
    not have an impact on the pop charts.] While Ronstadt’s dabbling in new wave and
    disco on her subsequent albums may have seemed to mark her as a trend-follower,
    in fact they reflected a natural eclecticism would become even more pronounced
    in future stages of her career.

    Over the course of 30 active years (and counting) since her 1975 breakthrough, Linda Ronstadt
    has recorded songs by such diverse songwriting giants as Hank Williams, Elvis Costello,
    Gilbert and Sullivan, Smokey Robinson, Sam and Dave and Cole Porter, as well as
    an entire album of traditional Spanish canciones. Her eclectic musical
    journey out of youth and into middle age also included a return to
    her country-tinged roots with the album Trio, recorded with country
    superstars Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris and a #1 hit on the country-music
    album charts in 1987.
    ===============
    WHEN WILL I BE LOVED
    by Linda Ronstadt

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iBgTqz_-vY
    —————-

  252. 6/17/2017. Hi fellow posters. In searching for something positive yet in the Neo-Tech- Neo-Think theme, I had pause to reflect on another FB video by a Meir Kay, called “Eating Twinkies with God.-” , and by brightening the world for just one individual , you brighten the world! Period! The scene depicts a young man , perhaps 8-9- or 10 or so raiding the kitchen cabinets in search of Twinkies, and the fridge for bottles of juice. Mom enters the room and says, ” and where are you off too? and he answered “I am going to find God. ” and mom says ” I see. Well dinner is at 6 , don’t be late”. He is then seen skipping and traveling along streets to a park , where he finds himself on a park bench with what appears to be smiling but homeless woman. He opens the back pack , pulls out the Twinkies , and offers to share. They laugh and talk , then he reached in the bag again producing the juice and says “here you go” and she thanks him and they resume talking, until he says to her “Gotta go, and hugs the homeless lady and with huge smiles he waves and says good-bye to her. At home, mom says “and did you find him?” and he said ” God is a woman mom, and she has the most beautiful smile I have ever seen.” The next scene shows the homeless wandering down the alley and as she sat down on a bench with another homeless lady, that lady says “and why are you in such a good mood” to which she replied “I just ate Twinkies in the park with God and he’s much younger than I expected”. The thing that struck me about this story was there was no mention of an invisible god floating on a cloud in an otherwise clear blue sky, but this young child could even distinguish the difference between fantasy and reality, and that god exists within the body and soul as real live flesh and blood. There are so many ways to define what people think god really is , but I will go with Advantage #1 , by Dr. Wallace who says human beings are by nature good, rational and productive or mankind could not exist. Human beings are competent to fill their needs and to achieve happiness by being free to act according to their own nature , then will best serve themselves and society without force or coercion from any authority or government. Thanks for reading, Share the love.

  253. THE SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN NEOTHINK CLUBHOUSES
    ——WILL BE HOSTING TWO GALA EVENTS IN JULY——
    ================================================
    When?. . . . . . . . . . .Saturday June 8, 2017.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:30 am – 3 pm.
    Where?. . . . . . . . . .The Henry Ford Museum.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dearborn, Michigan.
    What?. . . . . . . . . . . $20 includes entry into the Museum
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . plus Imax Movie – plus dessert.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bring lunch, or food can be purchased.
    =================================================
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    When?. . . . . . . . . . .Saturday July 15, 2017
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 am – 2 pm.
    Where?. . . . . . . . . . Detroit Institutes of Arts
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Woodward Ave. in Detroit, Michigan
    What?. . . . . . . . . . . The Four Pillars
    ==================================================

  254. June 12, 1963
    ==========
    In the driveway outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi, African American civil rights
    leader Medgar Evers was shot to death by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith.

    During World War II, Evers volunteered for the U.S. Army and participated in the
    Normandy invasion. In 1952, he joined the National Association for the Advancement
    of Colored People (NAACP). As a field worker for the NAACP, Evers traveled through his
    home state encouraging poor African Americans to register to vote and recruiting them into
    the civil rights movement. He was instrumental in getting witnesses and evidence for
    the Emmitt Till murder case, which brought national attention to the plight of
    African Americans in the South. On June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers was killed.

    After a funeral in Jackson, he was buried with full military honors at Arlington National
    Cemetery in Virginia. President John F. Kennedy and many other leaders publicly
    condemned the killing. In 1964, the first trial of chief suspect Byron De La Beckwith
    ended with a deadlock by an all-white jury, sparking numerous protests. When a
    second all-white jury also failed to reach a decision, De La Beckwith was set free.
    Three decades later, the state of Mississippi reopened the case under pressure
    from civil rights leaders and Evers’ family. In February 1994, a racially mixed jury
    in Jackson found Beckwith guilty of murder. The unrepentant white supremacist,
    aged 73, was sentenced to life imprisonment
    ===========
    I’ll BE RESTED
    by Mavis Staples

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONN0BkwMF1g
    —————

  255. June 11, 1949
    ==========
    In the tragically short life of country legend Hank Williams, Sr., there were many
    broken relationships – both personal and professional – that resulted from his
    self-destructive behavior. One such relationship was with the most important
    institution in his chosen field: The Grand Ole Opry. Shortly before it cost him his
    life, Hank’s drinking cost him his membership in the Opry, just three years after
    his triumphant debut. That debut, however, remains one of the most famous in
    the history of the live country-music performance program broadcast weekly on

    WSN Nashville since 1925. Hank Williams took to the microphone for his Grand Ole Opry
    debut on June 11, 1949, electrifying a live audience at Ryman Auditorium that called
    Williams out for six encores and had to be implored not to call him out for more
    in order to allow the rest of the show to go on.

    Hank Williams was only 25 years old when he was invited to appear for the first time on
    the Grand Ole Opry. As a young man growing up dirt poor in southern Alabama, he
    began supporting his family at the age of seven by shining shoes and selling
    peanuts, but by 14 at least, he was already performing as a professional
    musician. The life of a “professional musician” playing the
    blood-bucket honky-tonks of the Deep South bore little resemblance
    to the lifestyle that would later become available to him, but it was there, in
    country music’s backwater proving grounds, that Hank Williams developed his heavily
    blues-influenced style and began writing his own music. Williams left music behind during
    WWII, but then he went to Nashville in 1946 hoping to sell some of his songs. Quickly signed to a
    publishing contract by one of Nashville’s most prominent music publishers, Fred Rose, Williams soon
    had a recording contract with MGM and his first hit record with “Move It On Over” (1947).

    Williams’ heavy drinking had already earned him a reputation in the industry, however — a reputation
    that ruled out an invitation to appear on The Grand Ole Opry. It was the Opry’s biggest competition,
    The Louisiana Hayride, that first exposed Williams to a wide radio audience, but when his 1949
    record “Lovesick Blues” became a monumental popular hit, the powers that be in Nashville
    relented, and Williams made his Opry debut. His performance on this day in 1949, during
    which he performed six encores of “Lovesick Blues” for a wildly enthusiastic live
    audience, led to regular appearances over the next three years, until the
    Opry fired Williams in July 1952 over his heavy drinking. Two months
    later, Hank Williams died of alcohol-induced heart failure at the age of 29.
    ================
    LOVESICK BLUES
    by Hank Williams

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xu71i89xvs
    ————-
    MOVE IT ON OVER
    by Hank Williams

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lza3NVH6Ig
    ————

  256. June 11, 1950
    ==========
    Ben Hogan beat Lloyd Mangrum and George Fazio in an 18-hole playoff at the
    Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, to win the U.S. Open on this day in 1950.

    Sixteen months earlier – on February 2, 1949 – Ben Hogan and his wife Valerie had been involved
    in a near-fatal car accident when a Greyhound bus swerved out into oncoming traffic to pass
    a truck and crashed into Hogan’s car head on. Hogan dove across the passenger seat to
    shield his wife as the engine was driven into the driver’s seat and the steering wheel
    into the backseat. While Valerie suffered only minor injuries, Hogan suffered a
    broken collarbone, broken ankle, broken ribs and a double fracture of his
    pelvis. While in the hospital, a blood clot appeared in his leg, forcing
    doctors to tie off the surrounding veins to keep the clot from
    reaching his heart. Hogan’s legs atrophied, and doctors
    worried he would never walk again, let alone play golf.

    Amazingly, just eleven months later in January 1950, Hogan returned to competition for
    the Los Angeles Open, fittingly held at “Hogan’s Alley,” the Riviera Country Club in
    Los Angeles, where he had won the 1948 U.S. Open. Golf pundits predicted
    that Hogan would be able to compete, but only for the first day or
    two, as his weakened legs would not carry him for all four days
    and 72 holes of a tournament. They were wrong. At the end
    of regulation, he was tied with Sam Snead, but lost in a playoff.

    Six months later at the U.S. Open, Hogan was openly annoyed when reporters pestered
    him with questions about his legs. “I feel fine” was the most reporters could get out
    of the Texan, who was determined to win the championship for the second time
    in his career. Going into the final round, Lloyd Mangrum, the 1946 U.S. Open
    champion, had the lead, two strokes ahead of Hogan. Hoping to see a
    comeback many considered impossible, 15,000 people followed
    Hogan on the tournament’s last day, under a beating sun, as
    the former champion walked and played 36 holes. Hogan
    played consistently the first two rounds, putting himself
    in position for a championship push on the final day.

    To the fans’ great delight, Hogan clawed his way into the lead in the final round, and
    had a chance to win the tournament if he could par the last four holes. Instead,
    he bogeyed two of the four, and ended the round in a disappointing tie with
    Mangrum and George Fazio, a golf pro from Washington, D.C. In the
    ensuing 18-hole playoff, Hogan put on an inspirational show,
    turning in a 69 and besting Lloyd Mangrum by four strokes
    and George Fazio by six to take home his second U.S.
    Open title. In his career, Hogan would win the
    tournament two more times – in 1951 and 1953.

    Hogan is one of only five players – including Gene Sarazen, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and
    Tiger Woods – to win all four Grand Slam titles. He and Tiger Woods are the only golfers to
    have won three out of the four current majors in one year. Hogan accomplished the feat in
    1953, when he won the Masters, the U.S. Open and the British Open.
    =============

  257. What a story Wayne, — I REALLY ENJOYED READING IT!! At any period of time during our lives, it is possible that we could experience something like this, and FAIL TO RECOGNIZE IT!!

    Perhaps it is because we may not be AWARE of WHO it is that is sitting or standing in front of us. There may have been MANY famous people whom we have not recognized because our minds have been focused on OTHER things or people who are important to us.

    This famous musician acting as if he was NO ONE SPECIAL, or it may be that he was not dressed as a man of talent and importance – might have been the reason why he was not recognized. What is more, — he may have done this with a SPECIAL PURPOSE in his thinking.

    Many years ago, when I was still attending Church Services, — there was a WEALTHY MAN there whom I knew personally. We were both teachers of spiritual class studies, and often we would take turns at presenting these studies. The reason I am telling you about these experiences, is to clearly demonstrate an important lesson about our attitudes in human relationships, — and HOW VERY IMPORTANT IT IS, that we show the SAME KIND of LOVE and COMPASSION toward ALL OTHER human beings – other than the ones we know personally.

    This WEALTHY MAN performed an EXPERIMENT during one of the Church Services, which NO ONE THERE would ever forget!!

    He came to the Church dressed in RAGGED CLOTHING, which was not very clean. He made himself to APPEAR as if he had not taken a bath or a shower – for quite a while. He was wearing an old shoulder-length wig and an old hat on his head. He had put in a FAKE MOUTH-PIECE which made him appear to have protruding buck teeth – with a couple of teeth MISSING.

    He came into the Church looking like an old TRANSIENT, who was in DIRE NEED of help. The members who saw him – KEPT THEIR DISTANCE, and did everything possible to AVOID CONTACT with him!! He stayed in the services from 9:30 a.m. until Noon, and NO ONE made a single attempt to speak to him, nor to offer any kind of help whatsoever.

    Finally, — he walked out, and disappeared.

    Now, these Church members CLAIMED to be “CHRISTIANS” – but they did not “LIVE, nor CONDUCT themselves in a manner which DEMONSTRATED what they CLAIMED TO BELIEVE!!

    As Neo-Thinkers, — What kind of “LIVING DEMONSTRATION” are we giving to those who are less fortunate than ourselves?? Yes, there are individuals out there who will do nothing but ask for a hand-out, and never make any effort to better themselves, — and I have met PLENTY of these types of people. Yet there are A “FEW” people out there who will DO ANYTHING POSSIBLE to help themselves, but they had some VERY BAD BREAKS during their lives, and they just need a little help and encouragement – to get back on their feet.
    Are we “WILLING” to give them a little help?? These are just a few thoughts I can share with you.

    Here is a Special Quotation I will share with you:

    “What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the ELIMINATION of EGOISM and PRIDE which is always prone to plunge the world into Primeval Barbarism and Strife….

    Peace can only come as a natural consequence of UNIVERSAL ENLIGHTENMENT….”

    –{NicolaTesla}—

  258. Sunday 6/11/17 . Good Morning Gang! Sorry I haven’t been the bestest and strongest Neo-Thinker lately . 60 days of hospitalization, and half that in ICU, and the challenge of 2 more surgical procedures has a tendency to fog anyone’s mind. Today I have chosen an article I stole directly off FB, and you may have read it a thousand times, but it does give room for some thought. (Story) A man sat at a metro station in Wash.D.C. and started to play the violin. He played 6 Bach pieces for 45 minutes. During that time, it was calculated that 1100 people went through the station, and since it was rush hour most of them were on their way to work. A couple minutes later, the violinist received his first tip. A woman threw a dollar in the till and without stopping , and continued to walk. A few minutes later, someone leaned against a wall to listen to him, but the man looked at his watch and started to walk again, he was late for work it seemed. The one who paid the most attention was a 3 year old boy. The kid stopped to look at the violinist, but his mother hurried him along. In the 45 minutes the musician played only 6 people stopped and stayed awhile. About 20 gave him money but continued to walk at their normal pace. He collected $32 . When he finished playing and silence took over, no one noticed it, no one applauded, nor was there any recognition. No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the most talented musicians in the world and he had just played one of the most intricate pieces ever written on a violin worth 3.5 million. 2 days before his playing in the subway, Bell had sold out in Boston where the seats averaged $100. (The moral of this story.) In a commonplace environment do we stop to appreciate beauty? Do we recognize talent when it’s in an unexpected context. If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the greatest musicians in the world playing the best music ever written, HOW MANY OTHER THINGS ARE WE MISSING? Hope you enjoyed. By the way, Neo-thinkers are not that commonplace. Be aware!

  259. I was on Doc Morris virtual clubhouse call today he was reading from Pax neotech talking about how the world is full of hatred and he is right that is one of the reasons I stop watching TV.
    The hatred for our president is really pathetic . I was eating at a Subway restaurant and they had the TV on and The View was on the hosts of that show are a bunch of elementary school bullies the way they put Donald Trump down because they are mad that Hilliary Clinton did not win
    Then you have that picture of Kathy Griffin with a decapitated bloody head that was suppose to be Donald Trump . You can hate Donald Trump but he is a father and he is also a grandfather of young children if one of his young grandchildren saw that picture and they think that decapitated head is their grandpa they would need counseling . Donald Trump’s 11 year old was having a hard time with it. Now Kathy Griffin is trying to play the victim saying that Donald Trump is trying to ruin her career . If she can’t take then don’t hand it out.
    Doc Morris said that Pax means peace. He also explained the steps on how to get rich.

  260. —THE DETROIT AREA CLUBHOUSE—
    meets the second Saturday of the month.
    —————————————
    When? . . . . . . . . . .Saturday June 10, 2017.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .3 pm – 6 pm.
    Where? . . . . . . . . . .Kerby’s Koney Island.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Livonia, MI.
    What?. . . . . . . . . . . The four pillars.
    Why?. . . . . . . . . . . ..Why not?
    ———————-

  261. June 10, 1944
    ==========
    Fifteen-year-old Joe Nuxhall became the youngest person ever to play Major League
    Baseball when he pitched in a game for the Cincinnati Reds. Nuxhall threw two-thirds
    of the ninth inning in an 18-0 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals – he was pulled after one
    wild pitch and allowing five runs on five walks and two hits. The game was played
    during World War II, when it became common for adolescent and older players
    to fill in for big leaguers fighting overseas.

    In 1942, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt wrote to
    Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis to ask that baseball continue
    even though the United States was going to war: “I honestly feel that it would be
    best for the country to keep baseball going. There will be fewer people
    unemployed and everybody will work longer hours and harder than ever before.
    And that means they ought to have a chance for recreation and for taking their
    minds off their work even more than before.” Landis obliged, and play continued
    even as the stars of the era left to enroll in the armed forces. Detroit Tigers first
    baseman Hank Greenberg was among the players who had enlisted even before
    1941, in the prime of his Hall of Fame career. After the 1942 season, more than
    500 big league players enlisted, including stars Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Bob
    Feller, Dom DiMaggio and Pee Wee Reese.

    Meanwhile, the major leagues had to make do with whoever was available, and the
    15-year-old Nuxhall was just one of many new players who normally wouldn’t have
    come close to a shot at the big leagues. Others included Pete Gray, a one-armed
    outfielder who hit .218 and drove in 13 runs in 77 games with the St. Louis Browns
    in 1945, and 16-year-old Carl Scheib, who pitched for the Philadelphia A’s in 1943.
    Eighteen-year-old Vern Benson got to hit twice for the A’s that year, while
    17-year-old Cass Michaels began his 12-year major league career many years ahead
    of schedule playing third base for the White Sox. Older players also got in on the act:
    Mike Ryba and Al Simmons were among the former major leaguers who returned to
    fill in for their younger counterparts overseas.

    As for Nuxhall, though the June 10 outing was his only appearance in
    1944, he rejoined the Reds in 1952 when he was 23 years old and pitched
    15 seasons in the big leagues. He ended his career with a 135-117 record
    and a 3.90 ERA.
    =============

  262. June 9, 2006
    ==========
    On this day in 2006, the animated feature film “Cars,” produced by Pixar
    Animation Studios, roared into theaters across the United States.

    For “Cars” – which won the first-ever Academy Award for Best Animated Feature – Pixar’s animators created an alternate America inhabited by vehicles instead of humans. The film’s hero is Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson), a Corvette-like race car enjoying a sensational debut on the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) circuit. Arrogant and foolish, with talent to burn, McQueen thinks of himself as a one-man show. After he refuses a tire change during the prestigious Piston Cup race, McQueen blows a huge lead, setting up a three-way tie-breaking race with The King, a longtime champion, and Chick Hicks, an intimidating competitor with a chip on his shoulder. On the way to the race site in California, however, McQueen goes off course (and off the interstate) and ends up in Radiator Springs, a forgotten town on the now-defunct Route 66.

    At first desperate to escape, McQueen learns to appreciate Radiator Springs, especially after finding a best friend (the rusting tow-truck Mater, as in Tow-Mater), a love interest (Sally Carrera, a fetching Porsche) and a mentor (it turns out the town’s gruff doctor-mechanic, Doc Hudson, is actually the Hudson Hornet, a real-life NASCAR legend). Among the other memorable inhabitants of Radiator Springs are an aging hippie VW van; a military Jeep named Sarge; Flo, a glamorous show car and proprietress of the V-8 Café (a gas station); Ramon, a Chevy Impala low rider; and Guido, a Fiat who owns a tire shop and is obsessed with Ferraris.

    As director John Lasseter told The New York Times, he was inspired to make “Cars” by a cross-country road trip he took with his wife and five sons, as well as by a general love of automobiles. While researching the movie, the team of animators traveled along the historic Route 66, once the iconic route to the American West and now bypassed by interstate highways. (The “Mother Road” was decertified in 1985 and has been reborn as a tourist attraction.) In addition to the painstaking depictions of both classic and modern cars and their distinctive personalities, “Cars” features the voices of some of the leading figures in auto racing, beginning with the late Paul Newman, the legendary actor-turned-race car driver, as Doc Hudson. Racing legends Mario Andretti (as himself), Richard Petty (as The King) and Michael Schumacher (as a Ferrari) can also be heard, along with sports announcers Darrell Waltrip and Bob Costas.
    ===================

  263. June 9, 1973
    =========On this day in 1973, Secretariat won the Belmont Stakes to become the
    first Triple Crown winner since Citation in 1948. Secretariat ran the mile-and-a-half
    race in 2:24, a world record that many believe will never be broken.

    Secretariat, the son of Bold Ruler and Somethingroyal, was raised in Doswell, Virginia, at
    Meadow Stable by owner Penny Tweedy. He won seven of nine races started as a two-year-old
    and was the first horse of his age to be named Horse of the Year. After winning the first two
    races of his three-year-old career, he lost the third, which was also the final tune-up before
    that year’s Kentucky Derby. Afterward, a painful abscess was found under the horse’s lip,
    which supporters hoped was the reason for his unexpectedly slow performance.
    Secretariat did not disappoint at the 1973 Kentucky Derby, where he set a
    track record of just over 1:59 to beat Sham by two-and-a-half lengths.
    Secretariat then won the Preakness, and though unofficial timers
    and spectators insisted the horse had also set a new record
    there, the official time keeper clocked Secretariat a few
    seconds slower.

    Secretariat came into the Belmont Stakes in Long Island, New York, at 1-to-10 odds, making
    him the overwhelming favorite. Secretariat’s jockey Ron Turcotte, however, expected a
    close race with Sham at the longer Belmont. At the beginning of the race, Sham and
    jockey Laffit Pincay kept pace with the so-called “super horse” but expended too
    much energy in the process and eventually faded to last place, while Secretariat
    pulled away from the pack. Secretariat crossed the finish line an amazing 31 lengths
    ahead of My Gallant and Twice a Prince in a show of speed and endurance horse
    enthusiasts had never seen. Turcotte later said of the race, “I know this sounds crazy,
    but the horse did it by himself. I was along for the ride.”

    Years later, Secretariat’s dominance as a race horse was
    attributed to the size of his heart, which was found to
    weigh 22 pounds, more than twice that of a typical thoroughbred.
    ==================

  264. —THE DETROIT AREA CLUBHOUSE—
    meets the second Saturday of the month.
    —————————————
    When? . . . . . . . . . .Saturday June 10, 2017.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .3 pm – 6 pm.
    Where? . . . . . . . . . .Kerby’s Koney Island.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Livonia, MI.
    What?. . . . . . . . . . . The four pillars.
    Why?. . . . . . . . . . . ..Why not?
    ———————-
    ========
    ++++++

  265. June 7, 1986
    =========
    On this day, the Kansas City Royals drafted football star Bo Jackson – the 1985 Heisman
    Trophy winner out of Auburn University – in the fourth round of the Major League
    Baseball amateur draft. Jackson’s decision to pursue baseball instead of football
    shocked the NFL and football fans across the country.

    Jackson was drafted by the Yankees out of high school in the second round of the 1982 draft,
    but decided instead to attend Auburn, where he was a football sensation. In his senior
    year he racked up four straight games with over 200 rushing yards and won the
    Heisman Trophy, separating himself from the rest of his competitors as the
    best NFL prospect that year. The lowly Tampa Bay Buccaneers made
    Jackson the first overall pick in the 1986 NFL draft, but Jackson,
    who had also been a stand-out college baseball player and
    track star, chose instead to pursue baseball.

    Jackson made his major league debut with the Royals in 1986, and the next year decided
    to reignite his football career. He was selected by the Oakland Raiders in the seventh
    round of the 1987 NFL draft, and Al Davis, the Raiders’ owner and general manager,
    promised Jackson that he could complete his baseball season before joining the
    team. Jackson accepted the offer, which included full-time pay for a half-season of play.

    Jackson enjoyed his best year in baseball in 1989, when he made the All-Star team and hit
    a gargantuan lead-off home run to win the All-Star Game’s Most Valuable Player Award.
    At that time, Jackson – who was capable of spectacular catches, throwing runners out
    from deep in the outfield, running faster than anyone in the sport and hitting deep
    home runs — was considered one of the best players in baseball. He was also
    elected to the NFL Pro Bowl that year, making him the first person elected
    to the All-Star team in two major sports. He made the Pro Bowl again in 1990.

    Following the 1990 NFL regular season, Jackson injured his hip in a playoff game while
    running the ball for the Raiders, and missed that year’s Pro Bowl (held in early 1991)
    as a result. The injury led to a deterioration of the cartilage around his hip joint,
    which eventually necessitated a hip replacement and forced Jackson to retire
    from football after the 1990 season. He was also released by the Royals, but
    returned to the major leagues to play for the White Sox in 1993 and the
    California Angels in 1994. In all, he played 160 games in two seasons
    on an artificial hip.

    Still famed for his pioneering athletic feats in two professional
    sports and a hugely popular “Bo Knows” Nike ad campaign,
    Jackson finally retired from baseball during the 1994 season.
    =================

  266. June 8, 1966
    =========
    On this day in 1966, the rival National Football League (NFL) and American Football
    League (AFL) announced that they will merge. The first “Super Bowl” between the
    two leagues took place at the end of the 1966 season, though it took until the 1970
    season for the leagues to unite their operations and integrate their regular season schedules.

    In 1958, the National Football League championship game between the Baltimore Colts and
    New York Giants drew 45 million viewers on NBC and established pro football as an
    entertainment commodity to rival baseball. The NFL suddenly had a line of
    businessmen waiting to purchase new franchises in new markets, but
    most were arrogantly turned away. This prompted Lamar Hunt,
    the wealthy son of an oil tycoon, to recruit seven businessmen
    from cities hungry for pro football to form a rival league.
    The resulting American Football League was publicly
    welcomed by NFL Commissioner Bert Bell, who
    said that competition would stimulate both
    leagues. However, the NFL did not sit
    idly by and wait for the AFL to gain market share.
    Instead, it quickly expanded into Hunt’s hometown of Dallas
    and into Minneapolis, another of the cities the AFL had designated for a franchise.

    The American Football League chose Oakland as a replacement for Minneapolis, as well as
    Los Angeles, Dallas (for Hunt’s franchise, which moved to Kansas City in 1962), New York,
    Buffalo, Boston, Denver and Houston as the original eight AFL cities. The league piqued
    fan interest with an entertaining product on the field, a high-flying aerial brand of football
    that contrasted with the stingy defenses and running attacks of the older NFL. By 1962,
    the AFL had drawn 1 million fans to its games.

    In 1965, the AFL scored a television contract with NBC. That same year, New York Jets
    owner Sonny Werblin lured quarterback Joe Namath out of the University of
    Alabama to the AFL with the biggest contract in pro football history.
    The NFL’s prediction and hope that the AFL would field only
    second-rate players and washed-up former NFL players
    was not to be: Instead, the two leagues began to
    compete over fans, players and coaches. An unspoken
    agreement that one league would not sign the other league’s
    players was broken in 1966 when the NFL’s New York Giants signed
    place-kicker Pete Gogolak away from the AFL’s Buffalo Bills. As neither
    league could afford a bidding war, owners soon began to talk of a merger.

    Under the merger agreement announced on June 8, 1966, the new league would
    be called the NFL, and split into the American Football Conference (AFC) and
    the National Football Conference (NFC) All eight of the original AFL teams would
    all be absorbed by the NFL, unlike in 1946 when the NFL merged with the rival
    All-America Football Conference but only took in its Baltimore, Cleveland and
    San Francisco franchises and dissolved four other teams.

    The first two Super Bowls proved the NFC (the former NFL) to be the better league,
    with Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers handling their AFC challenger easily.
    In Super Bowl III, however, Joe Namath and the New York Jets upset the
    favored Baltimore Colts and ushered in a new era of greater parity
    between the two leagues.

    The Super Bowl, played between the AFC and NFC champions
    at the end of every NFL season, is now the most watched
    televised sporting event in the world with more than 140 million viewers.
    ==================

  267. A reflection from my memory regarding my child of the past. Being the eldest sibling and growing up in a rural backwoods area left little opportunity for bonding or visiting with other children my age, so being forced to live in a shadow of loneliness it made one use there imagination more but has proven to be a useful tool for survival and toughness in later years and in fact my entire life. We didn’t live on a busy country road and once you pulled onto a dusty country lane, you wound for several miles through a series of cattle gates to reach the house over the hill. Both my parents were from large families so I grew into puberty with a kazillion cousins ,but only 3 or 4 my age, and they lived far away in another world . Now and then the old crank phone on the wall would occasionally ring bringing news from an aunt or relative that we might be receiving “company” in a week or two, so with great anticipation and excitement ,, as the day was about to arrive, I would find my self nestled into a big fork in an old oak tree or sitting near an open rope drawn door in the loft of the faded old red hay barn, searching the horizon for any living sign of human life and fearing my disappointment if no one was to show. We had an old tube upright radio that provided an hour or so of entertainment but it was primarily used to get the weather and livestock and grain reports, and maybe if we were lucky, a couple of hours on Saturday night listening to WSM’s “Grand ole Opry ” or Louisiana Hayride. The rest of the time there was no time for recreation and WWII was in full progress so everybody worked. So, if you are reading this your probably saying to your self right now, what is the point of this story? They say repeats itself and instinctively and I found myself Seventy years later doing just that. It has been a long but not a difficult winter here in the hills, yet when I received a text from my sis-in law who still resides in Missouri, saying they were just leaving Sioux Falls and headed west (approx. 350 miles) a faint twinge of excitement popped up and I sat with my field glasses in my van eagerly awaiting for a glimpse of a Buick Rainier towing a familiar trailer coming down the freeway. No matter where we go in life we still look forward to repeating some of those early child hood memories that are still engrained in our brain. That was a little take on some of my past. Thanks for reading and think loving thoughts . Wayne

  268. June 7, 2017

    Review:

    “LIFE” is – and ‘Will Ever Remain’ an EQUATION — INCAPABLE of SOLUTION, but it contains CERTAIN KNOWN FACTORS.”

    “If you want to find the SECRETS of the Universe, “THINK” in terms of ENERGY, FREQUENCY and VIBRATION.”

    “But it is NOT an experiment…I have BUILT, DEMONSTRATED, and USED it. Only a little time will pass before I can give it to the world.”

    “Be ALONE, — THAT is the SECRET OF INVENTION; — be alone, — THAT is when IDEAS ARE BORN.”

    –[Nicola Tesla}–

  269. Pete Zerger says

    —THE DETROIT AREA CLUBHOUSE—
    meets the second Saturday of the month.
    —————————————
    When? . . . . . . . . . .Saturday June 10, 2017.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .3 pm – 6 pm.
    Where? . . . . . . . . . .Kerby’s Koney Island.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Livonia, MI.
    What?. . . . . . . . . . . The four pillars.
    Why?. . . . . . . . . . . ..Why not?
    ———————-

  270. June 6, 1933
    =========

    On this day in 1933, eager motorists park their automobiles on the grounds
    of Park-In Theaters, the first-ever drive-in movie theater, located on
    Crescent Boulevard in Camden, New Jersey.

    Park-In Theaters – the term “drive-in” came to be widely used only later – was the brainchild of Richard Hollingshead, a movie fan and a sales manager at his father’s company, Whiz Auto Products, in Camden. Reportedly inspired by his mother’s struggle to sit comfortably in traditional movie theater seats, Hollingshead came up with the idea of an open-air theater where patrons watched movies in the comfort of their own automobiles. He then experimented in the driveway of his own house with different projection and sound techniques, mounting a 1928 Kodak projector on the hood of his car, pinning a screen to some trees, and placing a radio behind the screen for sound. He also tested ways to guard against rain and other inclement weather, and devised the ideal spacing arrangement for a number of cars so that all would have a view of the screen.

    The young entrepreneur received a patent for the concept in May of 1933 and opened Park-In Theaters, Inc. less than a month later, with an initial investment of $30,000. Advertising it as entertainment for the whole family, Hollingshead charged 25 cents per car and 25 cents per person, with no group paying more than one dollar. The idea caught on, and after Hollingshead’s patent was overturned in 1949, drive-in theaters began popping up all over the country. One of the largest was the All-Weather Drive-In of Copiague, New York, which featured parking space for 2,500 cars, a kid’s playground and a full service restaurant, all on a 28-acre lot.

    Drive-in theaters showed mostly B-movies – that is, not Hollywood’s finest fare – but some theaters featured the same movies that played in regular theaters. The initially poor sound quality–Hollingshead had mounted three speakers manufactured by RCA Victor near the screen–improved, and later technology made it possible for each car’s to play the movie’s soundtrack through its FM radio. The popularity of the drive-in spiked after World War II and reached its heyday in the late 1950s to mid-60s, with some 5,000 theaters across the country. Drive-ins became an icon of American culture, and a typical weekend destination not just for parents and children but also for teenage couples seeking some privacy. Since then, however, the rising price of real estate, especially in suburban areas, combined with the growing numbers of walk-in theaters and the rise of video rentals to curb the growth of the drive-in industry. Today, fewer than 500 drive-in theaters survive in the United States.
    ================

  271. June 6, 1949
    =========
    On this day, George Orwell’s novel of a dystopian future, Nineteen Eighty-four,
    was published. The novel’s all-seeing leader, known as “Big Brother,” becomes
    a universal symbol for intrusive government and oppressive bureaucracy.

    George Orwell was the nom de plume of Eric Blair, who was born in India. The son of
    a British civil servant, Orwell attended school in London and won a scholarship to the
    elite prep school Eton, where most students came from wealthy upper-class
    backgrounds, unlike Orwell. Rather than going to college like most of his
    classmates, Orwell joined the Indian Imperial Police and went to work
    in Burma in 1922. During his five years there, he developed a severe
    sense of class guilt; finally in 1927, he chose not to return to
    Burma while on holiday in England.

    Orwell, choosing to immerse himself in the experiences of the urban poor, went to Paris,
    where he worked menial jobs, and later spent time in England as a tramp. He wrote
    Down and Out in Paris and London in 1933, based on his observation of the
    poorer classes, and in 1937 his Road to Wigan Pier documented the
    life of the unemployed in northern England. Meanwhile, he had
    published his first novel, Burmese Days, in 1934.

    Orwell became increasingly left wing in his views, although he never committed himself
    to any specific political party. He went to Spain during the Spanish Civil War to fight
    with the Republicans, but later fled as communism gained an upper hand in the
    struggle on the left. His barnyard fable, Animal Farm (1945), shows how the
    noble ideals of egalitarian economies can easily be distorted. The book
    brought him his first taste of critical and financial success. Orwell’s
    last novel, Nineteen Eighty-four, brought him lasting fame with
    its grim vision of a future where all citizens are watched
    constantly and language is twisted to aid in oppression.
    Orwell died of tuberculosis in 1950.
    ==============

  272. Neo-tech is a club not a scam and they will have workshops in New York parties in Florida , Nevada and if you do not live in those states and you have the time to drive to those states and attend the workshops and the parties and you have the money for the Hotel room then yes Neo-tech is for you. I live in Ohio I work all week full time and I do not have the money nor the time to drive to these states for the workshops and the parties. I was told I was one of the chosen ones I do not understand why??? . Like any club that you join there will be people who fit in and some that do not.

  273. June 5, 1968
    ==========
    At 12:50 a.m. PDT, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, a presidential candidate, was shot three times in a hail of gunfire in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Five others were wounded. The senator had just completed a speech celebrating his victory in the California presidential primary. The shooter, Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan, had a smoking .22 revolver wrested from his grip and was promptly arrested. Kennedy, critically wounded, was rushed to the hospital, where he fought for his life for the next 24 hours. On the morning of June 6, he died. He was 42 years old. On June 8, Kennedy was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, also the final resting place of his assassinated older brother, President John F. Kennedy.
    ===============

  274. June 5, 2004
    ==========
    On this day in 2004, Ronald Wilson Reagan – the 40th president of the United States – died after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s disease. Reagan, who was also a well-known actor and served as governor of California, was a popular president known for restoring American confidence after the problems of the 1970s and helping to defeat communism.

    Born on February 6, 1911, Reagan, who was nicknamed Dutch as a youngster, was born and raised in several small towns in Illinois. Despite a disadvantaged upbringing — his father abused alcohol and had trouble holding jobs — Reagan was a popular and outgoing student. He served as president of his high school’s student council and stood out at football, basketball, and track – as well as acting in several plays. During the summer, he worked as a lifeguard, reportedly saving 77 people over six years.

    After high school, Reagan enrolled at Eureka College, a small, Christian, liberal-arts school in Eureka, Illinois, from which he received a scholarship. There, he continued to show athletic prowess, playing football and swimming, as well as honing his skills in his two future pursuits: acting and politics. Reagan — then a Democrat — served as Eureka’s student-body president and acted in the college’s theater productions.

    In 1932, Reagan graduated from Eureka with a degree in sociology and economics and found a job as a radio sports announcer. He worked in radio for five years, before going for a screen test in Los Angeles while in California to cover the Chicago Cubs’ spring-training camp. Warner Brothers offered the future president a seven-year contract, but asked him to use his given name Ronald instead of Dutch in the movies.

    Although he never became an A-list star, Reagan spent 20 years in Hollywood and appeared in more than 50 films and several television programs. His oft-used nickname as president, The Gipper, came from his turn playing Notre Dame football star George The Gipper Gipp in the 1940 film Knute Rockne: All American. In 1940, Reagan married actress Jane Wyman. The couple had two children: Maureen, in 1941, and Michael, whom they adopted in 1945. Reagan and Wyman divorced in 1949.

    Although Reagan did not serve combat duty in World War II because of his poor eyesight, he began active duty in 1942 and made training films for the military until his discharge in 1945. Politically, it was during the 1940s that Reagan gradually became more conservative and also became involved in the country’s burgeoning anti-communist movement. In 1947, he testified to the controversial House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), naming elements in Hollywood that he felt were allied with communist causes. Later that year, he was elected president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), a position he held from 1947 to 1952 and again from 1959 to 1960.

    Through the course of his work with SAG, Reagan met Nancy Davis, an actress who looked to Reagan for help when she was incorrectly labeled a communist sympathizer. As he had done for others, Reagan assisted her in clearing her name. The couple also began a lifelong romance and was married in 1952. Their two children, Patricia and Ronald, were born in 1953 and 1959 respectively.

    After registering as a Republican in 1962 and campaigning for Barry Goldwater in his failed 1964 presidential campaign, Reagan decided to run for governor of California in 1966. He won handily, despite his lack of experience. His plan for California foreshadowed the one he ultimately brought with him to the national stage: lower taxes, cuts in spending, and an end to big government. Despite the student protests and forced tax hikes that occurred during his first term, he ran again and was easily re-elected in 1970. Just 18 months later, he announced his unsuccessful candidacy for president at the Republican National Convention. In 1975, he left office in California and ran again for the Republican presidential nomination, losing in a close race to Gerald Ford.

    In 1980, Reagan ran yet again and won the nomination easily, choosing George H.W. Bush as his running mate. Running on a platform of a return to American values, smaller government, a stronger military, and tax cuts, Reagan appealed to an American public frustrated with inflation and foreign policy problems, like the Iranian hostage crisis. He won, and at age 69, became the oldest man to be elected to the office. A talented and practiced public speaker, Reagan’s personal charm, warm manner, and optimistic message endeared him to many Americans. He was re-elected by a landslide in 1984.

    Just 69 days after taking office, Ronald Reagan was shot by John Hinckley after giving a speech at a hotel about one mile from the White House. After surgery to remove the bullet, which had lodged near his heart, he recovered quickly, which added to his image as a strong leader. Throughout his two terms in office, Reagan pursued his trademark economic program, Reaganomics — a supply-side economics theory that involved drastic cuts to both taxes and spending. At the time, and increasingly in the intervening years since his presidency, Reagan drew criticism for ruthlessly slashing social programs while building up a huge deficit with massive military expenditures. He is also criticized for his partiality to business interests, removing many regulations on big business that he felt were impeding growth, as well as authorizing the firing of striking air-traffic controllers in 1981.

    It was his campaign to end the Cold War, though, that defined the Reagan presidency for many Americans. His plan was to use an unprecedented military buildup to negotiate arms-reduction treaties from a position of strength. During a visit to Germany, he famously urged then-Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down that wall. By 1991, the Berlin Wall was torn down and the Soviet Union Reagan had once referred to as an evil empire was no more. While many credit Reagan for this historic turn of events, and it is certain he played a significant role, others point to internal problems in the Soviet Union for its ultimate demise.

    Reagan’s foreign policy included military interventions in Lebanon, Grenada and Libya, which had mixed results. He is also known for backing anti-communist rebels in Nicaragua and authorizing a secret CIA military operation there in the early 1980s. This led to the Iran-Contra scandal, in which it was found that illegal arms sales to Iran were used to fund the administration’s support of Nicaragua’s Contra rebels. No evidence was ever found to suggest that Reagan himself or Vice President Bush broke the law.Despite the scandal, George H.W. Bush succeeded Reagan to the presidency in 1988.

    Known as the Great Communicator, Reagan left the Oval Office as one of the most popular presidents in history, retiring to his much-loved California ranch, Rancho del Cielo. His announcement in 1994 that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease was greeted with great sadness by many across the country. He wrote, in an open letter to the American people, I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.

    He lived out the rest of his days on the ranch, with his wife Nancy,
    who remained devoted to him to the end, by his side. He was buried
    at the Ronald ReaganPresidential Library in Simi Valley, California.

  275. June 3, 1937
    =========
    On this day in 1937, The Sporting News reported that catcher Josh Gibson of the Negro
    League’s Homestead Grays hit a ball two feet from the top of the façade of Yankee Stadium,
    580 feet from home plate. If Negro League records were kept alongside those of the
    National and American Leagues, Gibson’s home run would eclipse Mickey Mantle’s
    record 565-foot home run hit off Chuck Stobbs in Washington’s Griffith Stadium
    on April 17, 1953 as the longest ever hit. This is not the only record Gibson might
    hold, and possibly not the only record for distance. Some credit him with crushing
    a fair ball out of Yankee Stadium in 1934, which if true would make him the only player ever to accomplish that feat.

    Born in Georgia on December 21, 1911, Josh Gibson and his family moved to Pittsburgh
    when he was a teenager. There, he played semi-pro ball and developed a reputation
    as a fearsome power hitter. Josh Gibson’s professional career began in 1930, when,
    while attending a Grays game, he was summoned out of the audience by players
    to replace the team’s injured catcher.

    Gibson became the Grays’ permanent catcher and cleanup hitter, and was soon the best
    power hitter in the Negro League. Many who saw him play said that he was the best
    power hitter of his generation, superior even to the more celebrated Babe Ruth.
    He hit tape measure blasts and homers in droves in spite of the fact he played
    his home games at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh and later at Griffith Stadium in
    Washington, D.C., two of the largest stadiums in baseball.

    There is no central authority on Negro League statistics, so precise numbers for Gibson’s
    career are impossible to determine. Most sources agree that his career average was at
    least over .350, and it has been put as high as .384. His Hall of Fame plaque says he
    approached 800 home runs for his career, but others have put the number as
    high as 900. Gibson is credited by some with having hit 84 home runs in a
    single Negro League season, which would be 11 more than the major
    league record of 73 held by Barry Bonds. Some have placed his
    slugging percentage in certain seasons at over 1.000. In
    integrated games between Negro League teams and
    all-white big league teams, Gibson hit .426.

    In the early 1940s, Gibson was diagnosed with a brain tumor. He slipped into a coma,
    and upon regaining consciousness refused to allow doctors to operate. On January 20, 1947,
    when he was 35, Gibson suffered a fatal stroke in his bed after asking to see his baseball
    trophies. He died three months shy of Jackie Robinson’s debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers
    and the integration of the major leagues.

    Gibson was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972 by
    the Committee on Negro Baseball Leagues.
    ==================

  276. June 6, 2017

    Good Morning Wayne,

    I “LOVED” your last two Posts which you wrote on June 3, 2017.
    Your quotations are as follows:

    “There will always be those who feel more comfortable not venturing from the warmth of the hearth, but there are those who prefer to look out the window and wonder what is beyond the horizon.”…….How many of us within this society are here because we always knew there was more to life and wanted a peek over the next mountain?

    An individual left free to follow his nature will not only best be able to handle the present, but will be able to handle future social technological and environmental changes. ( Foot note: As a self admitted environmentalist, I really needed this, considering all the crap that is coming of D.C. these days) Any person free to follow his nature need not fear the future. For the free individual , the future promises more growth, life and happiness……….not doom, gloom, or future shock.”

    Wayne, — for as long as I can remember, — I have always had this same mindset. I have never been satisfied with the Status Quo, nor will I EVER be, because there is ALWAYS MORE to be FOUND, DISCOVERED, INVESTIGATED, STUDIED, ANALYZED, DEVELOPED, PROVED, and USED, — BY PUTTING IT INTO ACTION!

    I have my mind “SET” on discovering SOMETHING NEW, and EXCITING, — something that NO ONE ELSE has ever seen. So I am always SEARCHING, READING BETWEEN THE LINES, and ANALYZING, and “THINKING” – in order to ACCOMPLISH something BEYOND what is presently known, and to do it all IN SECRECY, so that no other EVIL, GREEDY PERSONS in the A/C WORLD can ever do to ME, those things which they did to Nicola Tesla, or others like him.

    I have always Loved being SECRETIVE, and this is one of the reasons, I have invested my TIME, INTERESTS, and MONEY into the Neo-Tech/Neo-Think Society!! There are MANY THINGS which I have discovered – which CANNOT BE WRITTEN DOWN ON PAPER, because they are MENTAL in nature!! I will give you FOUR CLUES as to the kind of READING MATERIAL which I “LOVE” to study.

    FIRST BOOK – (of many)
    You may be interested in these four books – Titled – “PHYSICS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE” by Michio Kaku. {This book is a Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel}.

    Here are TWO statements from Very Interested Readers:

    A.} “A fascinating exploration of the interface between science and science fiction, extremely well researched, lively and Tremendously Entertaining.”
    –{Fritjof Capra, author of “The Tao of Physics and the Science of Leonardo.”}—

    B.} “Mighty few theoretical physicists would bother expounding some of these “Possible Impossibilities,” and Kaku is to be congratulated for doing so…. {He gets} the juices of future physicists flowing.” – Los Angeles Times

    SECOND BOOK – (of many)

    “MIND PROGRAMMING” – (From Persuasion and Brainwashing to Self-Help and Practical Metaphysics) by Eldon Taylor

    Here is a Statement from the Author:

    {“I believe in the human potential and its evolution toward love and peace. I believe in YOU. I think that within every one of us resides a VAST RESERVOIR of ABILITY that typically goes UNTOUCHED. When each of us awakens to our individual potential, we lead the way to a conscious awakening of the planet as a whole, for as Lao-tzu might have said, ‘The world awakens one person at a time.’ I trust that with knowledge comes power, that you will enjoy your highest best in all that you create for yourself, and that in some small way this book may assist you in doing so….
    “I believe you deserve to know what is possible, what is done, and what you can do to take back the power of your mind.” –{Eldon Taylor}—

    THIRD BOOK – (of many)

    “WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?” – (Exploring Mind, Meaning, and Mysteries) {by Eldon Taylor}

    “The primary person I’m thinking about while writing and sharing this work with you – is “YOU.” My life has unfolded in surprising yet common ways, and often I’ve simply overlooked the obvious. My experience suggests that I’m not alone, for most of us DISMISS the conspicuous and sometimes even the most important thing—the very meaning of life.

    It seems trite to suggest that an inquiry into the meaning of life is justified. After all, that’s the subject of religions, spiritual gurus, and even life coaches and psychologists; IT’S EVERYWHERE. That’s true, but unlike most volumes that are on the shelves of your local bookstores, I don’t claim to tell you any great secret. No, indeed. Rather, I’ll ask you to “THINK” about what you believe, to examine the common things in everyday life and ask: “WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?” –{Eldon Taylor}

    FOURTH BOOK – (of many)

    “CHOICES and ILLUSIONS” – (How Did I Get Where I Am, and How Do I Get Where I Want To Be?) –
    {by Eldon Taylor}

    The following is a quotation I took from the back cover of this book:
    This fascinating book holds an important Key. Whether you’re interested in the “Science of Thinking and Beliefs,” how your own mind operates, HOW OTHERS CONTROL YOUR THOUGHTS, why things just don’t work out for you, how you can CREATE the Life You’ve Always Wanted, how you can realize your True Potential, how you can find Peace, or, on a grander scale, how you can help make the world a better place, this book provides insights for all. Simply reading it will open your eyes to New Worlds of Possibilities. You’ll change once you’re exposed to the ILLUSIONS most live under and by, — and putting into practice any of these very simple teachings will open the door for you to achieve your highest potential.

    Personal note about the Author:

    ELDON TAYOLR has made a lifelong study of the human mind and has earned doctoral degrees in psychology and metaphysics. He is a Fellow with the American Psychotherapy Association (APA) and a nondenominational minister. He was a practicing criminalist for over ten years while completing his education and is now President and Director of Progressive Awareness Research. For more than 20 years, his books, tapes, lectures, and radio and television appearances have approached personal empowerment from the cornerstone perspective of forgiveness, gratitude and respect for all life.

    Wayne, as I have read his books, I found that Eldon was trained to do Sales Work, — with an Emphasis on the use of Audio and Visual Subliminal Suggestion. He explains how this SCIENCE has been used for many years to influence the Choices and Decisions of prospective customers. He explains how Neuro Linguistic Programming is used in so many Deceptive Ways to Create Positive Results in their interactions with others.

    I have purchased and read books by Authors who TEACH the principles of Neuro Linguistic Programming, and in their books they Clearly State that this SCIENCE can be used for the GOOD of others, or it can be used for EVIL purposes. This is determined by the CHARACTER of the individuals who are STUDYING this Science. This does not make this Science an Evil thing, no more than a Bulldozer can be called an Evil thing in its existence. It’s “USE” is either Good or it is Evil, because of the person who is OPERATING it!!

    I trust that these thoughts may be of help to many who may be reading these words.

    Love, Carol and Forest

  277. It is entirely possible I have posted this before as it was hand written on one of my old work pads but it’s simplified and worth repeating again.
    For those who believe there is life after death, this is for you. According to science, Quantum theory proves consciousness moves to another universe after death. A book titled “Biocentrism, how life and consciousness are the keys to understanding the nature of the universe” and contains a notion that life does not end when the body dies and can live forever. The author of this publication , scientist Dr. Robert Lanza who was voted the 3rd most important scientist alive by the New York Times , has no doubts that this is possible. Also in an unrelated article, this is what science is telling us about the hearts intuitive intelligence. Did you know? The human hearts magnetic field can be measured several feet from the body. In fetal development , the heart forms and starts beating before the brain begins to develop. POSITIVE emotions create physiological benefits in your body, where as negative emotions can create nervous system chaos, but positive emotions do the opposite. Positive emotions can increase the brains ability to make good decisions and you can boost your immune system by focusing on POSITIVE emotions. That’s my little tidbit for today. We sure could use some extra posts on here guys! Mean while, LOVE is in the air.

  278. In our AC world,it is disturbing that our morals and reason are gone, More people are fighting, stealing and killing because of misguided beliefs and laziness. We all need Neothink to solve this problem. love you folks. Andrew Young

  279. From the pages of the Rise of Neo-Tech, Concept 21 ( Fearless Future) Dr. Wallace says ” The need to know objective reality and create life sustaining values is a natural part of man’s biological nature. Because of his nature, man is dependent on his mind for survival . Man’s basic nature has never changed and will never change as long as man remains man. An individual left free to follow his nature will not only best be able to handle the present, but will be able to handle future social technological and environmental changes. ( Foot note: As a self admitted environmentalist, I really needed this, considering all the crap that is coming of D.C. these days) Any person free to follow his nature need not fear the future. For the free individual , the future promises more growth, life and happiness……….not doom, gloom, or future shock.” There you have it folks, no sex involved. Also some of the talks on the School of genius has been preparing us for this. Love abounds !

  280. Good morning on this 3rd day of June. It’s been awhile since my last attempt to find a suitable subject to post on the week-ends. In every thing I read or hear, I am always looking for little clues of wit and wisdom, and thanks to a good friend I found this one in a book written by none other than Jimmy Buffett. This is completely out of context but the words struck me as being truth and thought provoking at the same time…… “There will always be those who feel more comfortable not venturing from the warmth of the hearth, but there are those who prefer to look out the window and wonder what is beyond the horizon.”…….How many of us within this society are here because we always knew there was more to life and wanted a peek over the next mountain? May the power of love overcome all your problems in the coming days. A special thanks to Judith for the book..

  281. June 2, 1935
    =========
    On this day in 1935, Babe Ruth, one of the greatest players in the history of baseball,
    ended his Major League playing career after 22 seasons, 10 World Series and 714 home
    runs. The following year, Ruth, a larger-than-life figure whose name became
    synonymous with baseball, was one of the first five players inducted into the sport’s hall of fame.

    George Herman Ruth was born February 6, 1895, into a poor family in Baltimore. As a child,
    he was sent to St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys, a school run by Roman Catholic
    brothers, where he learned to play baseball and was a standout athlete. At 19,
    Ruth was signed by the Baltimore Orioles, then a Boston Red Sox minor
    league team. Ruth’s fellow teammates and the media began referring
    to him as team owner Jack Dunn’s newest “babe,” a nickname that
    stuck. Ruth would later acquire other nicknames, including
    “The Sultan of Swat” and “The Bambino.”

    Ruth made his Major League debut as a left-handed pitcher with the Red Sox in
    July 1914 and pitched 89 winning games for the team before 1920, when he was
    traded to the New York Yankees. After Ruth left Boston, in what became known
    as “the curse of the Bambino,” the Red Sox didn’t win another World Series until
    2004. In New York, Ruth’s primary position changed to outfielder and he led the
    Yankees to seven American League pennants and four World Series victories.
    Ruth was a huge star in New York and attracted so many fans that the team was
    able to open a new stadium in 1923, Yankee Stadium, dubbed
    “The House That Ruth Built.”

    The southpaw slugger’s final season, in 1935, was with the Boston Braves. He had j
    oined the Braves with the hope that he’d become the team’s manager the next
    season. However, this dream never came to pass for a disappointed Ruth,
    who had a reputation for excessive drinking, gambling and womanizing.

    Many of the records Ruth set remained in place for decades. His career homerun
    record stood until 1974, when it was broken by Hank Aaron. Ruth’s record of
    60 homeruns in a single season (1927) of 154 games wasn’t bested until
    1961, when Roger Maris knocked out 61 homers in an extended
    season of 162 games. The Sultan of Swat’s career slugging
    percentage of .690 remains the highest in Major League history.

    Ruth died of throat cancer at age 53 on August 16, 1948, in New York City. His body
    lay in state at Yankee Stadium for two days and was visited by over 100,000 fans.
    ================

  282. June 2, 1997
    =========
    Timothy McVeigh, a former U.S. Army soldier, is convicted on 15 counts
    of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 terrorist bombing of
    the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

    On April 19, 1995, just after 9 a.m., a massive truck bomb exploded outside the
    Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. The blast collapsed the north face of the
    nine-story building, instantly killing more than 100 people and trapping
    dozens more in the rubble. Emergency crews raced to Oklahoma City
    from across the country, and when the rescue effort finally ended
    two weeks later, the death toll stood at 168 people, including 19
    young children who were in the building’s day-care center at
    the time of the blast.

    On April 21, the massive manhunt for suspects in the worst terrorist attack ever
    committed on U.S. soil resulted in the capture of Timothy McVeigh, a 27-year-old
    former U.S. Army soldier who matched an eyewitness description of a man seen
    at the scene of the crime. On the same day, Terry Nichols, an associate of
    McVeigh’s, surrendered at Herington, Kansas, after learning that the
    police were looking for him. Both men were found to be members
    of a radical right-wing survivalist group based in Michigan, and
    on August 8, John Fortier, who knew of McVeigh’s plan to
    bomb the federal building, agreed to testify against
    McVeigh and Nichols in exchange for a reduced
    sentence. Two days later, a grand jury indicted
    McVeigh and Nichols on murder and
    conspiracy charges.

    While still in his teens, Timothy McVeigh acquired a penchant for guns and began
    honing survivalist skills he believed would be necessary in the event of a Cold War
    showdown with the Soviet Union. Lacking direction after high school, he enlisted
    in the U.S. Army and proved a disciplined and meticulous soldier. It was during
    this time that he befriended Terry Nichols, a fellow soldier who, though 13 years
    his senior, shared his survivalist interests.

    In early 1991, McVeigh served in the Persian Gulf War and was decorated with several
    medals for a brief combat mission. Despite these honors, he was discharged from
    the army at the end of the year, one of many casualties of the U.S. military
    downsizing that came after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Perhaps
    also because of the end of the Cold War, McVeigh shifted his
    ideology from a hatred of foreign communist governments
    to a suspicion of the U.S. federal government, especially
    as its new elected leader, Democrat Bill Clinton, had
    successfully campaigned for the presidency on a
    platform of gun control.

    The August 1992 shoot-out between federal agents and survivalist Randy Weaver at
    his cabin in Idaho, in which Weaver’s wife and son were killed, followed by the
    April 19, 1993, inferno near Waco, Texas, which killed some 80 Branch
    Davidians, deeply radicalized McVeigh, Nichols, and their associates.
    In early 1995, Nichols and McVeigh planned an attack on the
    federal building in Oklahoma City, which housed, among
    other federal agencies, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and
    Firearms (ATF) – the agency that had launched the initial raid on the
    Branch Davidian compound in 1993.

    On April 19, 1995, the two-year anniversary of the disastrous end to the Waco
    standoff, McVeigh parked a Ryder rental truck loaded with a diesel-fuel-fertilizer
    bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City and fled.
    Minutes later, the massive bomb exploded, killing 168 people.

    On June 2, 1997, McVeigh was convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy, and
    on August 14, under the unanimous recommendation of the jury, he was sentenced
    to die by lethal injection. In December 2000, McVeigh asked a federal judge to stop
    all appeals of his convictions and to set a date for his execution by lethal injection
    at the U.S. Penitentiary at Terre Haute, Indiana. McVeigh’s execution, in June 2001,
    was the first federal death penalty to be carried out since 1963.

    Michael Fortier was sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to
    warn authorities about McVeigh’s bombing plans. In a federal trial, Terry Nichols was
    found guilty on one count of conspiracy and eight counts of involuntary manslaughter
    and was sentenced to life in prison. In a later Oklahoma state trial, he was charged
    with 160 counts of first-degree murder, one count of first-degree manslaughter for
    the death of an unborn child, and one count of aiding in the placement of a bomb
    near a public building. On May 26, 2004, he was convicted of all charges and sentenced
    to 160 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.
    ==============

  284. June 1, 1967
    =========
    Bob Dylan’s instant reaction to the recently completed album Paul McCartney brought
    by his London hotel room for a quick listen in the spring of 1967 may not sound like
    the most thoughtful analysis ever offered, but it still to hit the nail on the head.
    “Oh I get it,” Dylan said to Paul on hearing Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band for the
    first time, “you don’t want to be cute anymore.” In time, the Beatles’ eighth studio album
    would come to be regarded by many as the greatest in the history of rock and roll, and
    oceans of ink would be spilt in praising and analyzing its revolutionary qualities. But
    what Bob Dylan picked up on immediately was its meaning to the Beatles themselves,
    who turned a critical corner in their career with the release of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely
    Hearts Club Band on this day in 1967.

    Writing in The Times of London in 1967, the critic Kenneth Tynan called the release of
    Sgt. Pepper “a decisive moment in the history of Western civilization,” but 30 years
    later, Paul McCartney called it a decisive moment of a more personal nature. “We
    were not boys, we were men,” is how he summed up the Beatles’ mindset as they
    gave up live performance and set about defining themselves purely as a studio
    band. “All that boy [stuff], all that screaming, we didn’t want any more,”
    McCartney said. “There was now more to it.” With Sgt. Pepper’s
    Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Beatles announced their
    intention to be seen “as artists rather than just performers.”

    Sgt. Pepper is often cited as the first “concept album,” and as the inspiration for
    other great pop stars of the 60s, from the Stones and the Beach Boys to Stevie
    Wonder and Marvin Gaye, to reach for new heights of creativity. For the Beatles
    themselves, 1967 marked not just a new creative peak, but also the beginning of
    a three-year period in which the group recorded and released an astonishing
    five original studio albums, including two — 1968’s The Beatles (a.k.a. “The
    White Album”) and 1969’s Abbey Road — that occupy the 10th and 14th
    spots, respectively, on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the Greatest
    Albums of All Time. Also in the top 15 on that list are Rubber Soul (1965)
    at #5, Revolver (1966) at #3 and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band at #1.
    ===============
    GETTING BETTER
    by Paul McCartney

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y925oc8bnOs
    —————

  285. May 30, 1930
    ==========
    Best known to his many fans for one of his most memorable screen
    incarnations – San Francisco Police Inspector “Dirty” Harry
    Callahan – the actor and Oscar-winning filmmaker Clint
    Eastwood was born on this day in 1930 in San Francisco, California.

    With his father, Eastwood wandered the West Coast as a boy during the Depression. Then, after
    four years in the Army Special Services, Eastwood went to Hollywood, where he got his start
    in a string of B-movies. For eight years, Eastwood played Rowdy Yates in the popular TV
    Western series Rawhide, before emerging as a leading man in a string of low-budget
    “spaghetti” Westerns directed by Sergio Leone: Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few
    Dollars More (1965) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). All three were
    successful, but Eastwood made his real breakthrough with 1971’s smash hit
    Dirty Harry, directed by Don Siegel. Though he was not the first choice
    to play the film’s title role – Frank Sinatra, Steve McQueen and Paul
    Newman all reportedly declined the part – Eastwood made it his
    own, turning the blunt, cynical Dirty Harry into an iconic figure
    in American film.

    Also in 1971, Eastwood moved behind the camera, making his directorial debut with the
    thriller Play Misty for Me, the first offering from his production company, Malpaso.
    Over the next two decades, he turned in solid performances in films such as The
    Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), Every Which Way But Loose (1978), Escape From
    Alcatraz (1979) and Honkytonk Man (1982), but seemed to be losing his star
    power for lack of a truly great film. By the end of the 1980s, after four
    Dirty Harry sequels, released from 1973 to 1988, Eastwood was
    poised to escape the character’s shadow and emerge as one
    of Hollywood’s most successful actor-turned-directors.
    In 1992, he hit the jackpot when he starred in,
    directed and produced the darkly unconventional Western
    Unforgiven. The film won four Oscars, including Best Supporting Actor
    (Gene Hackman), Best Film Editing, Best Director and Best Picture, both for
    Eastwood. He also found box-office success as a late-in-life action and romantic
    hero, in In the Line of Fire (1993) and The Bridges of Madison County (1995), respectively.

    As a director, Eastwood worked steadily over the next decade, making such films as
    Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997), Absolute Power (1997) and, most
    notably, the crime drama Mystic River (2003), for which he was again nominated
    for the Best Director Oscar. The following year, he hit a grand slam with Million
    Dollar Baby, in which he also starred as the curmudgeonly coach of a determined
    young female boxer (Hilary Swank, in her second Oscar-winning performance).
    In addition to Swank’s Academy Award for Best Actress, the film won Oscars for
    Best Supporting Actor (Morgan Freeman) and Eastwood’s second set of statuettes
    for Best Director and Best Picture.

    In 2006, Eastwood became only the 31st filmmaker in 70 years to receive a Lifetime
    Achievement Award from the Directors Guild of America (DGA). That year, he
    directed a pair of World War II-themed movies, Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
    and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006). The latter film, which featured an
    almost exclusively Japanese cast, earned an Oscar nomination for
    Best Picture and a fourth Best Director nomination for Eastwood (his 10th
    nomination overall).

    Off-screen, Eastwood has pursued an interest in politics, serving as mayor of
    Carmel, California, from 1986 to 1988. He was married to Maggie Johnson in
    1953, and the couple had two children, Kyle and Alison (who co-starred in
    Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil), before separating in 1978 and
    divorcing in 1984. Eastwood also had long-term relationships with the
    actresses Sondra Locke and Frances Fisher (with whom he had a
    daughter, Francesca). He married his second wife, Dina Ruiz
    Eastwood, in 1996. Their daughter, Morgan, was born that same year.
    ===============
    COCA COLA COWBOY
    by Mel Tillis

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYgmboayNqM
    ————-
    EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE
    by Eddie Rabbit

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3HkfnEXr8Q
    ————–

  286. May 31, 1859
    ==========
    The famous tower clock known as Big Ben, located at the top of the
    320-foot-high St. Stephen’s Tower, rung out over the Houses of
    Parliament in Westminster, London for the first time on this day in 1859.

    After a fire destroyed much of the Palace of Westminster – the headquarters of the British
    Parliament – in October 1834, a standout feature of the design for the new palace was a
    large clock atop a tower. The royal astronomer, Sir George Airy, wanted the clock to
    have pinpoint accuracy, including twice-a-day checks with the Royal Greenwich
    Observatory. While many clockmakers dismissed this goal as impossible, Airy
    counted on the help of Edmund Beckett Denison, a formidable barrister
    known for his expertise in horology, which is the science of
    measuring time.

    Denison’s design, built by the company E.J. Dent& Co., was completed in 1854 –five years
    later, St. Stephen’s Tower itself was finished. Weighing in at more than 13 tons, its massive
    bell was dragged to the tower through the streets of London by a team of 16 horses, to the
    cheers of onlookers. Once it was installed, Big Ben struck its first chimes on May 31, 1859.
    Just two months later, however, the heavy striker designed by Denison cracked the bell.
    Three more years passed before a lighter hammer was added and the clock went into
    service again. The bell was rotated so that the hammer would strike another surface, but
    the crack was never repaired.

    The name “Big Ben” originally just applied to the bell but later came to refer to the clock
    itself. Two main stories exist about how Big Ben got its name. Many claim it was named
    after the famously long-winded Sir Benjamin Hall, the London commissioner of works
    at the time it was built. Another famous story argues that the bell was named for the
    popular heavyweight boxer Benjamin Caunt, because it was the largest of its kind.

    Even after an incendiary bomb destroyed the chamber of the House of Commons
    during the Second World War, St. Stephen’s Tower survived, and Big Ben continued
    to function. Its famously accurate timekeeping is regulated by a stack of coins placed
    on the clock’s huge pendulum, ensuring a steady movement of the clock hands at all
    times. At night, all four of the clock’s faces, each one 23 feet across, are illuminated.
    A light above Big Ben is also lit to let the public know when Parliament is in session
    =============

  287. —THE DETROIT AREA CLUBHOUSE—
    meets the second Saturday of the month.
    —————————————
    When? . . . . . . . . . .Saturday June 10, 2017.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .3 pm – 6 pm.
    Where? . . . . . . . . . .Kerby’s Koney Island.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Livonia, MI.
    What?. . . . . . . . . . . The four pillars.
    Why?. . . . . . . . . . . ..Why not?
    ===========================
    ………………..

  288. May 30, 1911
    ==========
    On May 30, 1911, the inaugural Indianapolis 500 was run at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
    in Indiana. The 200-lap, two-and-a-half mile race has since become a Memorial Day weekend
    tradition. With the exception of a break in 1917 and 1918 for World War I and from 1942 to 1945
    for World War II, it has been run every year since, and is now the largest sporting event in the
    world, attended by about 270,000 spectators annually.

    When the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was designed, the track was meant to have a crushed
    rock and tar surface. That surface was abandoned after only a few races in 1909, due to fatal
    results caused by unevenness. The rock and tar was replaced by over 3 million street-paving
    bricks that were filled in with sand and then mortar for strength. The track has since been
    referred to as “the brickyard,” although subsequent resurfacing has covered all but about
    three feet of the bricks.

    At the first Indy 500 in 1911, 40 cars met the qualifications to race. Track founder Carl Fisher
    felt the large number could lead to danger, so he decided to lead the first lap around the
    track at about 40 or 45 miles per hour, before pulling off to the side. The “pace car” has
    since become standard practice at all auto races.

    In the 30th mile of the race, 80,000 spectators watched as a driver from Chicago lost a front
    wheel, which caused his car to turn over on the track. Both the driver and his mechanic,
    who rode in the front seat with him, were thrown from the car. The mechanic landed
    against a fence and was killed instantly, while the driver escaped with a broken arm.
    The race continued, and the crowd watched nervously as accidents piled up,
    knowing another fatality could take place at any moment. None did, and
    Ray Harroun, driving a Marmon, was declared the winner with a time
    of 06:41:08. Harroun was the only driver in the race who didn’t ride
    with a mechanic. Instead, he employed a rear-view mirror, his
    own invention, to keep an eye on the other cars on the track.
    ================

  289. May 29, 1917
    ==========
    One of America’s best-loved presidents – John Fitzgerald Kennedy – was born
    into a politically and socially prominent family in Brookline, Massachusetts,
    on this day in 1917. He was the first American president to be born in the 20th century.

    In 1935, Kennedy enrolled at Harvard University and received a degree in international affairs
    with honors in 1940. While there, he suffered a debilitating back injury that would have
    life-long repercussions. After college, Kennedy served on a Navy PT boat in World War II.
    In 1952, he won a seat in the House of Representatives and then served in the Senate for seven
    years beginning in 1953. Also in 1953, he married the lovely Jacqueline Bouvier. In subsequent
    years, Kennedy underwent several dangerous spinal operations; it was during his recuperation
    from one such operation that he wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning history Profiles in Courage.
    Unfortunately, the operations never succeeded in curing his persistent back pain and, for the
    rest of his life, Kennedy took a powerful combination of pain killers, muscle relaxants and
    sleeping pills, a fact he successfully hid from the public. The pain, however, did not prevent
    him from becoming a rising Democratic star in the Senate; he ran for the presidency in 1960.

    Kennedy’s support for liberal economic and social policies, such as civil rights and increased
    funding for education and public housing, in addition to his strong anti-communist stance,
    appealed to a broad cross-section of Americans during the presidential campaign. In
    addition to his political philosophy, Kennedy capitalized on his handsome features
    and charismatic personality to beat Republican candidate Richard Nixon to
    become the nation’s 35th president. In a televised debate, the well-groomed and
    relaxed Kennedy had appeared more presidential than a haggard-looking, unshaven,
    visibly nervous Nixon. Many observers believed this debate was critical to his success.

    President Kennedy was the youngest man ever elected to the office. His youth, intelligence
    and worldliness — along with his beautiful, stylish and much-admired wife – charmed
    Americans and Europeans alike. His children, Caroline and John Jr., were often
    photographed cavorting around the White House grounds with their pets
    or playing under their father’s desk in the Oval Office. Kennedy’s
    brother, Bobby, also young and enthusiastic, served as his
    attorney general and closest advisor. The American
    public increasingly saw the Kennedy family as a
    kind of American royalty and the press portrayed Kennedy’s
    administration as a sort of modern-day Camelot, with the president
    himself as King Arthur presiding over an ideal society.

    As president, Kennedy combined a fervent stance against communism with a liberal
    domestic agenda. He was a strong proponent of civil rights as well as a Cold War
    hawk. He authorized covert operations to remove Fidel Castro from power
    and, in 1962, challenged the Soviet Union to remove nuclear missiles
    installed on Cuba. The resulting Cuban Missile Crisis was a
    frighteningly tense showdown between JFK and Soviet
    leader Nikita Khrushchev that brought the two
    nuclear superpowers to the brink of war. JFK also
    sought peaceful means of fighting communism—he established
    the Peace Corps and funded scientific research programs to fight poverty
    and illness and provide aid to developing nations. By encouraging American youth
    to donate their time and energy to international aid, JFK hoped to provide positive democratic
    role models to developing nations. In a 1961 speech, Kennedy advocated for a vigorous U.S. space
    program and vowed to send an American to the moon by the close of the 1960s.

    In 1963, Kennedy was assassinated while driving through Dallas, Texas, in a convertible.
    Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy in the head from the second story of a book
    depository. Texas Governor John Connally and Jackie Kennedy were also
    in the car. Connally was hit in the back, chest, wrist and thigh, but
    eventually made a full recovery. Jackie was uninjured.

    A bystander named Abraham Zapruder happened to capture the shooting on his 8mm
    home-movie camera. Zapruder’s film provided graphic visuals of JFK’s death and has
    been endlessly analyzed for evidence of a potential conspiracy. In 1964, the federally
    appointed Warren Commission investigated the assassination and concluded that
    Oswald acted alone. Some scholars, investigators and amateur sleuths, however, still
    insist Kennedy’s death was a coup d’etat committed by hard-line U.S. anti-communists
    who feared Kennedy would pull out the U.S. advisors he had sent to Vietnam in 1962
    and act soft on the communist threat from the USSR. Another conspiracy theory
    involves a concerted effort by organized crime, the Pentagon, and the CIA to murder
    the president; this view was adapted by Oliver Stone into the 1991 film JFK.

    Kennedy is buried in Arlington National Cemetery, where an eternal flame burns in his memory.
    =============
    ABRAHAM, MARTIN, AND JOHN
    by Dion

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5hFMy4pTrs
    —————–

  290. May 329, 2003
    ============
    Some 35 U.S. states declared it to be Bob Hope Day on this day in 2003
    when the iconic comedic actor and entertainer turned 100 years old.

    In a public ceremony held in Hollywood, city officials renamed the intersection of Hollywood
    Boulevard and Vine Avenue – famous for its historic buildings and as a central point on the
    Hollywood Walk of Fame – Bob Hope Square. Several 1940s-era U.S. planes flew
    overhead as part of an air show honoring Hope’s longtime role as an
    entertainer of U.S. armed forces all over the world. Hope, who
    was then suffering from failing eyesight and hearing and
    had not been seen in public for three years, was too
    ill to attend the public ceremonies. Three of his children attended
    the naming ceremony, along with some of his younger show-business colleagues,
    Including Mickey Rooney.

    One of the leading talents on the vaudeville scene by the 1930s, the London-born,
    American-raised Hope met his future wife (of nearly seven decades) – the nightclub
    singer Dolores Reade – while he was performing on Broadway in the musical
    Roberta. They married in 1934, and four years later Hope launched his own
    radio program, The Bob Hope Show, which would run for the next 18 years.
    One of the country’s most popular comics, Hope had a successful film
    career largely thanks to the series of seven “Road” movies he made
    with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour, including Road to
    Singapore (1940), Road to Morocco (1942),
    Road to Utopia (1946) and Road to Rio (1947).

    In 1941, after America’s entrance into World War II, Hope began performing for U.S. troops
    abroad – he would play shows for more than a million American servicemen by 1953.
    Some 65 million people watched him perform for troops in Vietnam on Christmas
    Eve in 1966, in his largest broadcast. Hope also became a legend for his
    countless TV specials, which he would perform over the course of
    some five decades. He hosted the Academy Awards ceremony
    a total of 18 times, more than any other Oscars host.

    Dubbed “Mr. Entertainment” and the “King of Comedy,” Hope died on July 27, 2003,
    less than two months after his 100th birthday celebration. He was survived by
    Dolores, their four adopted children – Linda, Anthony, Nora and
    Kelly – and four grandchildren.
    ===============

  291. May 28, 1998
    ==========
    On this day in 1998, the comedian and actor Phil Hartman – famous for his
    work on Saturday Night Live and NewsRadio – was shot to death by his
    troubled wife, Brynn, in a murder-suicide. He was 49.

    Born on September 24, 1948, in Ontario, Canada, Hartman was raised in Connecticut
    and Southern California, and later became an American citizen. Early on, he found
    work designing record album covers (he created the official logo for the rock
    band Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young) but made the leap to acting in 1975
    when he joined the L.A. improvisational acting group, the Groundlings. With
    his fellow Groundlings alum, Paul Reubens, Hartman wrote the screenplay for the
    successful comedy Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985). Along with Reubens, Hartman had
    helped create the zany man-child character of Pee Wee Herman, though Reubens received
    most of the credit. From 1986 to 1990, Hartman portrayed Kap’n Karl on the Saturday morning
    children’s TV series Pee-Wee’s Playhouse.

    Also in 1986, Hartman earned a spot on the long-running NBC sketch comedy show
    Saturday Night Live. In his eight years on the show, Hartman became known for
    his spot-on impersonations of a variety of celebrities, notably President Bill Clinton.
    He also made frequent guest appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. In 1989,
    Hartman shared an Emmy Award for his writing contributions to Saturday Night Live.
    He went on to set a record for the most appearances (153) as one of the show’s regulars.

    Hartman joined the cast of the TV sitcom NewsRadio in 1995. He played the egotistical
    anchorman of an AM radio news station in New York City through four seasons of
    the show’s five-year run. The ensemble cast also included Dave Foley, Maura
    Tierney and Andy Dick. Hartman also notably provided the voices for a
    number of characters, including the has-been actor Troy McClure
    and the incompetent lawyer Lionel Hurtz, on the acclaimed
    animated series The Simpsons. In addition to his TV work
    as an actor and pitchman (for MCI, McDonald’s and
    Cheetos, among others), Hartman appeared on
    the big screen in Blind Date (1987), Jingle All
    the Way (1996) and Small Soldiers,
    released after his death.

    Off-screen, Hartman was popular among his Hollywood colleagues and known for
    being completely different from some of the more unlikable characters he had
    portrayed. The murder-suicide, which shocked fans and friends alike, occurred
    early on the morning of May 28, 1998, at the couple’s home in the Los Angeles s
    uburb of Encino. According to news reports, Brynn, Hartman’s third wife (two
    previous marriages ended in divorce) had a history of drug and alcohol problems.
    The couple had two children.
    ============

  292. Hi gang! WOW! our Judith’s pen has been hot and heavy, and she is on fire!!!! I need to get back to the routine of reading and absorbing our literature on a daily basis again. Also thanks to Clifford for your words of wisdom recently.
    My post today may be a little off beat, but hopefully still in the same vein as other subjects associated with Neo-Think. I am having some thought provocations passing through my somewhat diluted 2 sided bicameral brain, Questions such as if we are mostly mystic free and not accepting the illusion that we don’t need an imaginary image as an outside influence to carry our burdens, then do angels exist? Are we each other’s angel? Recently I have felt inwardly the power of others who gave me the rays of white light and positive vibrations. We believe the soul leaves the body, so does the spirit in good people have the power to morph into an angelic state? For some unknown reason I hope so. The age old subject of good vs evil. (Keep in mind I am once again trying to find myself so hallucinations could still occur occasionally).. There has been so much progress lately such as Steve’s Moss Hill and Judith’s and Digger and Charlie’s efforts and contributions to bring the members of the organization closer as a family who’s goals are for the benefit of all mankind, even those who fail to participate. Hope some of this made sense! Love.

  293. NEOTHINK SOCIETY
    SCHOOL OF GENIUS – RISE OF NEO-TECH
    May 23, 2017
    Judith Curless

    THE VEILS OF ILLUSION ARE CRUMBLING

    Thanks Digger and Charlie – I’m excited to be with you tonight. Good information, Kay and thank you. Wow! It’s so great to be here together snug and safe from outside distractions in our special Aladdin’s Cave contemplating creation of a better future for ourselves and the world.

    PENETRATING ILLUSION’S VEIL

    To begin, what really lies BENEATH the surface of all the chaos and disaster reactions? They’re going off all around us as we’re in way over our heads with the now out-of-control illusionary reality that feels like the world has truly gone crazy watching it all unfold before us. Subtitle for this message is, “Why Do I Feel How I Feel Right Now?” Everyone’s feeling disappointment, betrayal, anger and even a loss of hope at the total corruption of systems. At the root level deep down inside, you know these actions go against CORE values and ideals you hold for humanity and societies. It’s definitely not how people should treat one another. But is there more to it underlying all this chaos and madness on the worldwide stage and our escalating challenges?

    Take a little time to return to the base set of feelings/beliefs holding values like love, freedom and equality. Add to that a feeling of hope, love, joy or any other high vibrational quality you wish to experience as/with humanity. Let warmth bubble up within you nurturing all the places pain and fear have touched and project this out of you to create energetic space for the NEW. This now guides your thoughts and actions, grounding a new reality. We don’t dis-allow the pain or anger, as it’s led us to NOW – but our life’s journey continues.

    We’ve grown in understanding our own feelings and recognizing what we want as a collective. We’re at a stage where we realize the vibrational contributions we offer the world around us do shape our realities. We understand everything is made of ENERGY and we can create dramatic shifts in the reality around us using available tools of our minds and hearts that can even change Earth’s energetic structure! And also our own DNA/RNA structures as we recently learned about Epigenetics and self-healing. This topic is scheduled for more in-depth discussion as such an important breakthrough in medical treatment that YOU can create for yourself.

    TRUTHS REVEALED BY CHAOS

    The thing about chaotic situations like death, disasters, elections, accidents or major life change is they have the power to create such strong reactions which bring us to spaces where we have to re-evaluate who we are, what we’re participating in, and where it’s all going. In other words, it’s time to go within ourselves, do some power-thinking and deep searching of our Essence and Higher Self. Sometimes we see we need to make major changes. Thankfully, the malleability of energy allows us to create SHIFTS very quickly once we realize just what is no longer an option. By examining the roots of our own reaction in various situations, we garner truths to positively fuel future actions. So, here we are once again … back to heal, release … shift!

    BEING CATALYSTS FOR CHANGE

    Negative events that appear catastrophic in our lives happen to wake us up. No matter what it is, I think of it as a red light blinking in the lighthouse of my brain alerting it’s time to make an inner assessment. We have attracted the experience to ourselves no matter if it’s good or bad in appearance. In any event, change occurs dealing with effects of the events and emotional and mental fallout. Somehow we’ve momentarily gotten out of the flow with ourselves leading up to the experience. We’re pushing too hard, we’re moving too fast and might just need to intervene with ourselves to sloooow down! There are times when this just happens in fast-paced daily living racing the clock and even though we can feel something’s OFF with us, the momentum of ongoing events seems to just take on a life of its own that may culminate in an undesirable conclusion. If we’re smart, at that point after the wakeup call, we are more likely to take the time to intuitively listen to the message we need to hear.

    We are all experiencing escalating changes. So, what’s really going on? Last week for four days we had the strongest GAMMA RAYS to ever bombard this planet! I’ve mentioned that the white light crystalline Biophotons have been steadily increasing in intensity and we’ve been adjusting to them incrementally – and gamma rays had begun filtering in. These escalated greatly last week intensifying on May 15th, 16th, 17th and 18. Perhaps in the past several weeks you’ve sensed it. There’s no way to be alive right now without experiencing the new energies as they are our true catalyst key to the Awakening. Once our bodies, brains and minds integrate these, amazing things can happen! Gamma waves are the most powerful and beneficial lightwaves of the spectrum for us to tap into and work with for healing, becoming younger, healthier and stronger once more, raising our vibration and awakening our consciousness.

    MERGING DIMENSIONS AND TIMELINES

    In addition, according to Corey Goode, we’re experiencing a massive “confluence of energies” and have been for some time. Plus, soon we’re to experience a Particle Convergence. Now what’s that?! This is a really big occurrence for Earth and all Humanity, which essentially reflects a stronger merging of Dimensions and Timelines into ONE, while heralding in a swift MATRIX SHIFT for our planet. The Mandela Effect has been noticed increasingly as the individual and collective memories are ‘bleeding through’ to one another, and the many potentialities within are collapsing. The significance of this occurrence is that Earth continues to be pulled into the trajectory of zero point and the merged Timeline of its HIGHEST Dimensional potential. This can be envisioned as a complete re-write of all other non-serving Timelines to finally bring a firm close to the old system that is commonly called ‘Third Dimension’.

    Planet Earth is returning back to its original seeding and point of origination as a Higher Dimensional planetary body. This gives great meaning to the immense level of purging now witnessed from the collective mainframe and mass consciousness Morphogenetic Field. Time for a re-write of our own personal timeline possibly? It’s been postulated that every major decision we’ve ever made went ahead and played out that potentiality in another Timeline, even though we changed our mind and went in a different direction. What?! But this is another exciting subject to explore later about our multi-dimensionality, plus the now popular Multi-Verse Theory of many quantum physicists. Anything’s possible … Mind-boggling stuff, isn’t it?

    WHAT’S NEXT FOR HUMANITY?

    All that is happening on Earth is on purpose and as a result of Earth’s ascending pulse. In our physical Dimension, there will be a three-day solar ecliptic window beginning on August 21st when we are literally in the sweet spot for this particle convergence activity and grand seeding of new circuitry. This can be experienced in the Western regions of the United States and will involve three whole days of darkness. In the near future, we’ll look at this as one of the events leading up to the Big Shift. Everything within our field gets super magnified at the level of thoughts, feelings and creative action. What this means from an inner Essence perspective is an occurrence with monumental potential to propel and elevate our own Timeline TRANSITION into the reality of our highest held preferences! We can work with these energies! Just like the Earth, our bodies are making way for the new energetic foundation and crystalline hubs to come online. (All this upgrading of our new physical circuitry is detailed in a prior message).

    When this first massive wave of the Particle Convergence streams through from August through December, it will be like crystal rivers moving and flowing throughout the energy architecture of Earth to securely anchor the new circuitry that supports higher dimensional existence. The strongest places of Earth that this can be experienced are the main nodal points along the crystalline grid network, including the sacred sites, the leyline grid and geographical regions that hold a high level of crystal energy in the ground. As individuals and as a collective we are placing high priority on matching our vibration with Earth’s ascending rhythms. And remember that these new energies will no longer support the cabal or illuminati’s mean, hedonistic culture. We are experiencing the microcosm of the macrocosm of this huge and astounding collapse of their controlling agenda, or the ultimate DYSTOPIA discussed in the manuscripts. We’re dangling off a rope bridge between two worlds we’re all walking right now crossing from A/C to the C of U. I say, visualize and build your own special bridge and pathway to traverse to get there.

    One way to raise vibration includes getting yourself activated through GROUP COHERENCE BUILDING activities. Wait a second … Do you recognize that this is exactly what WE are doing right now as a group on this call and activities in the Neothink Society? We’re a group of like-minded but individual people who can work together to create change first in ourselves, our family and friends and then the world, utilizing our unity consciousness. This is an outcome long planned by Dr. Wallace and Mark Hamilton in their teachings. We’ll rise above the chaos and thrive as SELF-LEADERS with pure love in our hearts and total integrated honesty on our lips.

    We are the catalysts! Go deeper into your Essence to be the calm eye of the storm raging while unplugging yourself from the mainstream chaos. Surrender all unnecessary distractions and focus yourself in the pure clear light of your Higher Self. It’s also important staying grounded and centered while these higher energies anchor in. Take time to INTEGRATE, re-experience your SACRED WILD in nature, peaceful contemplation or whatever brings you into that place of inner quietude and meditation. Take hot salts baths to detox. Listen to binaural beat music at 528 Hz and 432 Hz to balance your hemispheres and calm your-Self, or favorite symphony. Also, the great value of rhythmic breathing cannot be over-emphasized as a primary method to neutralize fear and negative energy. But perhaps most important of all, listen to SIGNALS from your body or higher mind. During these times of great upheaval, our natural instincts and divine intuition are the unfailing homing beacons that will guide us safely through this planetary transition. The most powerful year of change ever to be experienced on Earth is right now-2017!

    OUR POWER TO CREATE!

    Can we influence this phenomenal time-frame window to bring outcomes we desire? Of course! We’re in charge of creating our life, so time to make some decisions about the future. Where do you put your focus? What you think about the most and envision is what you will get, so create the best scenario possible for yourself. Most important is the Universal Law of Intent drawing our attention to aligning our mental and emotional bodies – our thoughts and feelings – with Divine Thought, Mind, Will and Heart. It’s been said that intention is the beginning of creation and imbedded within intention is inspiration and imagination … not simply an idea, but the actions that are congruent, the behaviors, the heart’s desires that are congruent. Make the intention a feeling of great DESIRE while visualizing the outcome you want. A rocket taking off for a distant planet has to make many adjustments on its way. Be open, flexible and adjust.

    And when the thought of ‘you can’t do that’ emerges, as Robert has taught us, we all know we must replace it with the opposite positive one and repeat it at least 27 times before it will even begin to seep into our conscious mind for any lasting effect. Do one thing a day to bring change toward creation of desires of your heart, even if it’s just sitting thinking about it for a bit and feeling good. Just keep moving toward your goal, beginning with baby steps and making adjustments as necessary on your journey, but always taking just one more step!

    By going within and communing with your Higher Self, you set YOUR intent to the highest and best good for your own life in divine order. This radiates out to the rest of the world. And if it takes a noggin-bump or jolt or crash to wake up one of us, I have to ask myself in all seriousness just what is it going to take to wake up the rest of the 90% ASLEEP peoples of the world? As the awake and aware ones, just be ready to turn and help others when the trigger scenario arrives.

    So, now let me ask you … If you just knew in your heart or felt a stirring of intuition that the world as we ‘KNEW IT’ is definitely for-sure going away – what would you do differently? Celebrate life more and reacquaint yourself with your Child of the Past? Practice more being in the beauty of the moment? Seriously begin something new? Write it down, begin there and don’t give up! Set your intentional course for a new direction in your little merkaba ship that only you can guide and sail out to explore horizons of the new world you’re co-creating.

    I hope these words have helped you. Thank you so much every one of you for being here with us tonight. All is well and all will be well. That completes my message, Digger and Charlie.*

    Judith Curless

    Sources of Ideas: My-Self; Katie IndiCrow, In5d.com; Tiara Kumara, iamavatar.org; Tiffany Stiles, Ascension Consciousness Daily Blog.

    *Note: This was an interactive conversation call with Steve Fagan and the only way to get the full benefit of this information is to go and listen to it as his great feedback and viewpoint are interspersed with my comments added to this, too. It was a new format for tonight’s message. It was really exciting, so check it out (Archived #36).

  294. TO WAYNE: Hey Cowboy!! Thank you for letting me be part of your ‘trip’ you described here. That was not the way I wanted to become better acquainted with your sweet daughter, Cheryl. I am so happy you are doing better and hope the energy generated by the members helped you – from your allowing your extreme dire health challenges to be announced on some of the calls by Steve and Charlie. You have been bombarded with white light and love energies from the first day of your scare. We stand united in wishing you all the best! With your great attitude and just plain being the tough Cowboy you are – you will prevail to be younger, healthier and stronger!!

    Much Love, restored health and ‘good, good, good vibrations’ to you, my Neo-Friend! REBEL YELL !!!

    Judith

  295. EKG EVIDENCE THAT SMART METERS NEGATIVELY AFFECT THE HUMAN HEART

    Nathaniel Mauka, Staff Writer
    Waking Times

    There have been numerous whistleblowers to warn of the negative effects of smart meters on human health but perhaps none has been so successful in scientifically proving this claim as Warren Woodward of Sedona, Arizona. He recently put AMI ‘smart’ meters to the test, and using EKG technology, has PROVEN that smart meters throw the human heart off its balanced beat.

    A smart meter digitally sends information about your energy usage to utility companies, ostensibly, so that they can monitor your home remotely. Aside from giving companies access to a trove of information (which can then be used to manipulate energy prices, etc.), these meters infringe on our privacy, and have been said to cause numerous adverse health conditions.

    Smart meters often violate already high FCC limits on human exposure to microwave radiation, and are being installed despite the fact that people are developing “electro-sensitivity”.

    In a first-of-its-kind, video-taped, scientifically documented presentation, Woodward shows how a smart meter adversely affects the human heart in a YouTube video.

    Woodward sits next to a smart meter that is used in Arizona, but that are also commonly used all over the country. Many people have complained of adverse health conditions, among them:

    – Fatigue
    – Headache
    – Ringing in the ears
    – Insomnia
    – Eye problems
    – Leg cramps
    – Difficulty balancing
    – Heart problems

    EMF exposure has been documented as being harmful before, but this is the first time someone has shown what EMF in the form of smart meters do to the human heart directly.

    Woodward points out that in his rural location there is cell phone coverage, but that the EMF from cell towers is low intensity. Due to his location, there are no other forms of EMF that he is being exposed to.

    He also attempts to do a controlled test by hooking himself up to the EKG while not knowing when the smart meter is on or off, so that his body cannot anticipate a response, nor can he affect his heart rhythm with his own free will. He has no health conditions, and is on no medications, however, when he is exposed to the smart meter, his heart skips beats – literally.

    Any device that affects the functioning of the heart should be of profound concern. To wit, Pao L. Chang writes,

    “The heart is one of the most important organs in the human body, because it is one of the main mediums for connecting us to each other and the Universe. Conventional science has taught us that the main role of the heart is to pump blood to all the systems of our body. This definition of the heart is not very accurate. Besides pumping blood, the heart also has an intelligence of its own.

    According to neurocardiologists, 60 to 65 percent of heart cells are neuron cells, not muscle cells. This discovery has helped them develop experiments that have proved the heart works similar to the brain and in some ways is even superior to the brain. This may be the reason that the heart is the first organ to function after conception. Within about 20 days after conception, the heart starts to function, but the brain does not function until after roughly 90 days. This information tells us that the brain is secondary to the heart.”[1]

    Knowing what we do now about the intelligence of the heart, and how intimately it is linked to the endocrine system, the nervous system, and even to the signaling of the brain and gut – how would you imagine smart meters might be affecting your neuro-psycho-biology? Is this yet another (attempted) way to control the innate intelligence of the population at large?

    According to the Edison Foundation, there are more than 70 million smart meters currently installed, with 90 million expected to be up and running by 2020.

    Need another reason to go off-grid? (End)

    And more lack of privacy and surveillance. It has to end. There are several cities in Canada that are ripping them out of people’s homes now. Another reason for us to demand the release of the free energy ‘black box’ technology that is already available but kept from us. Sigh.

    Judith

  296. LUCIFER IS GOD DECLARED BY POPE FRANCIS
    News Guru – 2014

    Pope Francis and the Vatican has introduced the world to their god they been worshiping all along, Lucifer!
    According to Pope Francis and the Catholic Church, The Morning Star is the creator of the world and the father of Christ. He brought “light” to the human race. This announcement was made to the world April 27th, 2014 during a ceremony where Pope John Paul the 1st and Pope John Paul the 2nd.

    This declaration is unprecedented and should cause concern to the world. It’s no coincidence that the first Jesuit Pope would make such a shocking statement. He has been overhauling the Vatican since he got in. So far he has said Athiests will enter heaven as long as they do good works. He also stated Jesus is ‘just a man’ and prays to the Father and he is a co-mediator with mother Mary between God and man. This is their new statement made during Mass and other ceremonies:

    “His flame dawning his own son
    May, I say to you O’ lucifer who knows no setting
    Christ is your son who came back from the dead
    and shed his light to the human race
    and is alive and reigns for ever and ever.”

    In the 1970s, Father Jorge Bergoglio faced a moment of truth: Would he stand up to Argentina’s military neo-Nazis “disappearing” thousands including priests, or keep his mouth shut and his career on track? Like many other Church leaders, Pope Francis took the safe route, Robert Parry reports. The election of Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio as Pope Francis brings back into focus the troubling role of the Catholic hierarchy in blessing much of the brutal repression that swept Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s, killing and torturing tens of thousands of people including priests and nuns accused of sympathizing with leftists. (End)

    He’s Luciferian-Jesuit – and they all worship ‘satan’. KNOWING THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE!! So much for another of religion’s false prophets. Want him to ‘bless’ and/or ‘kiss’ your baby? Disgusting, as the truth hides in plain sight. Read my article on April 6th about the collapse of the False Light Construct from our 3d holographic matrix system – which with time will bring the end of ALL religion on this planet. Can never happen soon enough for me! As Neothinkers, we choose a different belief system brought to us by Dr. Frank Wallace and his son, Mark Hamilton … which I’m very thankful for.

    Judith

  297. NEW WIFI TECH CAN SEE THROUGH WALLS AND MAP
    THE INSIDE OF A BUILDING IN “20 TO 30 SECONDS”

    Most of us don’t pay much attention to the WiFi routers in our homes. It’s an innocuous technology that we all take for granted, and we don’t really think about unless it’s not working properly. However, WiFi has a unique property that might make you reconsider a land line.

    Like many frequencies on the electromagnetic spectrum, it can penetrate walls, which is what makes WiFi such a good signal for connecting our electronic devices to the Internet. But unlike most signals, WiFi can also be used to map every object in your home from afar. That’s because some of the signal will reflect off of objects rather than passing through them. This property has led to the creation of devices that can receive those bouncing signals, and allow the user to effectively see through walls.

    This technology has been around for a few years, but was pretty rudimentary. Recently researchers in Germany have taken it to a whole new level.

    German scientists have found a way to exploit this property to take holograms, or 3D photographs, of objects inside a room — from outside it.

    “It can basically scan a room with someone’s Wi-Fi transmission,” Philipp Holl, a 23-year-old undergraduate physics student at the Technical University of Munich, told Business Insider…

    …Holl says the technology is only in its prototype stage and has limited resolution, but he is excited about its promise.

    “If there’s a cup of coffee on a table, you may see something is there, but you couldn’t see the shape,” Holl says. “But you could make out the shape of a person, or a dog on a couch. Really any object that’s more than 4 centimeters in size.”

    Holl says that his method only utilizes two antennas that can pick up WiFi signals in a given area, and those antennas can be as small as what you’d find in a smartphone. One antenna is supposed to be a stationary reference point, while the other moves around. As it moves, the signals are fed into a computer to create multiple 2D images, which Holl’s software can then stack together to form a single 3D hologram.

    As is often the case when a company or an inventor comes up with an idea that may have military or surveillance applications, Holl is quick to point out how his technology could be used to save lives. However, I think we all know what this would really be used for.

    The applications for Holl’s Wi-Fi holography, he says, are pretty expansive. Adding an array of reference antennas, say, inside a truck, might help rescue workers detect people in rubble left by an earthquake — or spy agencies see whether anyone is home.

    “You could probably use a drone to map out the inside of an entire building in 20 to 30 seconds,” he said.
    If used by the government, this method could pick up a few stray WiFi signals in your home, and give the authorities a detailed, 3D holographic image of every significant object behind your walls, including you. It doesn’t sound very cumbersome either. It’s conceivable that all one would need is a couple of small antennas; one of which would be attached to a quadcopter, and the right software.

    In other words, soon the government is going to have a creepy and effective new way to invade your privacy, and it’s pretty convenient.

    Read More:
    WiFi Device Can See Through Walls: Track a Human by Using Body as an Antenna Array
    WiFi Can See You Through Walls: “Even Within Your House, Where You Go Can Reveal a Lot”

    By Marc Slavo, Activist Post
    May 23, 2017

    Oh boy, just what we needed … more surveillance. However, I am quite sure that we already have this in use by police (as reported being used in NYC) and in the Texas Jade Helm escapade last year. So, announcing the ‘possibility’ now is probably just desensitization. We just have no privacy and no protection any more, it seems. What a crock … Judith

  298. ALL TELESCOPES TRAINED ON ‘ALIEN MEGASTRUCTURE’ STAR
    PREVIOUSLY DISMISSED BY NASA

    A star in the constellation of Cygnus about 1,300 light-years away, said to have an alien civilization’s megastructure upon it, is giving off some strange light patterns again.

    The mysterious dimming and flickering of the star, first discovered in 2011, means something is passing in front of it. A range of theories have been put forward for this odd, light-flickering behavior, including one hypothesis which suggests an alien megastructure may have been built around the star to harvest its energy.

    The star’s strange behavior, and the subsequent uproar it has caused considering it likely proves an alien civilization is very close by, was discovered by citizen scientists scouring data available through the crowdsourced Planet Hunters effort. These dimming events kicked off a years-long effort by a team led by Tabetha Boyajian at Yale to figure out what was going on with the star.

    Stars normally dim and brighten over time, but this star was dimming at odd intervals and then becoming bright again. As the Atlantic reports, the astronomers who suggested it could be a megastructure causing the light changes stated, “No other star had shown such dimming before, and no natural explanation seemed forthcoming.”

    NASA practically dismissed the theory, but now the ‘alien megastructure star‘ is dimming oddly again. It’s such a big deal that astronomers are losing their minds on Twitter talking about it.

    Astronomers still don’t know what is causing the dimming on the star in Cygmus, known as KIC 8462852, but they’ll have spectra data to look at soon, and there is still a strong indication that the dimming is caused by alien life. Tabby Boyajian gave a seminar at the Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds when the light anomalies first began. She shared some crazy light curves from Kepler spotted by her team.

    Jason Wright, an astronomer from Penn State University, published a report on the “bizarre” star system several years ago – suggesting the objects could be a “swarm of megastructures”. Wright wrote about his theory. Just imagine what he’s thinking now:

    “One of the things that occurred to me is that a civilization that would build one megastructure would eventually build more. The star might be surrounded by them (a Dyson swarm). What would that look like?

    If they were small, it might be a flickering, or even just a general dimming. But if they were very large, you would get dips. It would look maybe like Kenworthy and Mamajek’s giant ring system, but without the obvious symmetries.

    The analogy I have is watching the shadows on the blinds of people outside a window passing by. If one person is going around the block on a bicycle, their shadow will appear regularly in time and shape (like a regular transiting planet). But crowds of people ambling by — both directions, fast and slow, big and large — would not have any regularity about it at all. The total light coming through the blinds might vary like — Tabby’s star.” He told The Independent: “I can’t figure this thing out and that’s why it’s so interesting, so cool – it just doesn’t seem to make sense.” (End)

    By: The Mind Unleashed
    May 21, 2017

    Wow!! Our Universe unfolding … thank you, Mark Hamilton for allowing us to share news with others.

    Judith

  299. A NEW FINANCIAL SYSTEM IS BEING BORN

    By: Michael Krieger, LibertyBlitzKrieg |
    May 25, 2017

    If BITCOIN blew you away when you first discovered it, and continues to do so to this day, Spiral Dynamics can help explain why. Bitcoin was an expression in the physical world of the newly emergent leading-edge INTEGRAL LEVEL CONSCIOUSNESS. It drew lessons from history and attempted to take the best of orange and green worldviews and incorporate them into an entirely new form of money. We see the clear presence of free markets and individualism, as well as the intentional separation of the system from dominator hierarchies (bureaucratic government meddling), which had corrupted all money before it. Its greenness is evident in the fact that by design no individual or company controls the network. Global, decentralized, revolutionary technology! This is perhaps the perfect example of Integral Consciousness operating on our planet at this time from an economics standpoint, and why it has captured the imagination of so many, while at the same time violently rejected by so many others.

    Although I had heard about it much earlier, I didn’t truly start investigating Bitcoin until the summer of 2012. The more I learned the more my mind was blown away, and for a while I couldn’t think about anything else. What truly solidified its real world usefulness to me was when I discovered it had been used by Wikileaks to accept payments in the midst of a financial services blockade against the renegade publisher. This realization inspired my first Bitcoin related post in August 2012 titled, Bitcoin: A Way to Fight Back Against the Financial Terrorists?

    In that piece, I linked to a Forbes article that detailed the revolutionary events taking place. We learned:

    Following a massive release of secret U.S. diplomatic cables in November 2010, donations to WikiLeaks were blocked by Bank of America, VISA, MasterCard, PayPal and Western Union on December 7th, 2010. Although private companies certainly have a right to select which transactions to process or not, the political environment produced less than a fair and objective decision. It was coordinated pressure exerted in a politicized climate by the U.S. government and it won’t be the last time that we see this type of pressure.

    Fortunately, there is way around this and other financial blockades with a global payment method immune to political pressure and monetary censorship.

    On its public bitcoin address, WikiLeaks has taken in over $32,000 equivalent in more than 1,100 separate bitcoin donations throughout the blockade (1BTC = $10.00). But these amounts may be significantly higher, because it does not even include the individually-generated bitcoin addresses that WikiLeaks provides for donors upon request.
    I knew right then and there that Bitcoin had the potential to change the world. My passion for Bitcoin was always framed by my ten years working in the financial industry. Many of us who lived through the 2008 crisis knew the financial system was dead. We knew it was corrupt, archaic and terminal, so many of us began bracing for what might come next. We did what we thought made sense at the time, which included buying precious metals like gold and silver given their historic track record of protecting wealth in periods of paradigm-shifting financial disruption. Others took more extreme measures to protect themselves from the end of the financial system, but a small group forward thinking geeks decided to do something much better. They decided to build an alternative.

    Thus, Bitcoin was born and early adopters in the field of technology immediately began to build on top of it. As soon as I realized what was happening much of the “doom and gloom” that had enveloped my thinking began to lift. I now knew that even if the financial system crashed and burned tomorrow, the early stages of a new and far more honest financial system were already in place. The emergence of Bitcoin literally changed my life for the better as it allowed me to emerge from a cave of gloom and become optimistic about our long-term future. While I knew the path would be long and hard since the current entrenched interests wouldn’t give up without a fight, I could see a very bright light at the end of the tunnel, and the continued development in this space has been extraordinary to watch ever since.

    The global financial system as it stands is completely archaic and corrupt. It enriches the wrong types of people for the wrong sort of behavior, and is entirely extractive and parasitic by design. If there’s sector in the economy that needs a total redesign and reboot for the sake of humanity, it’s the financial system!

    Being involved in the crypto world for the past five years has been a breath of fresh air and a shot of adrenaline to my system. Traditional markets are a rigged snooze-fest by comparison, grotesque financial Potemkin villages designed to make overly indebted, predatory economies look good. What I find so fascinating about the current environment is that many of the dreams we all read about in the very early days of Bitcoin are starting to be implemented and designed, slowly but surely. For those of you who still have a difficult time conceptualizing exactly what’s happening in the space, I think the following tweet may help.

    Michael Krieger @LibertyBlitz “If you think of the crypto coin world as the beginning of an entirely new financial system architecture it all makes a lot more sense”. (5-29-17)

    On that note, I want to talk about more than just Bitcoin, which I see as the reserve currency of the crypto world. Beyond Bitcoin, a lot of the buzz in the space right now revolves around a burgeoning phenomenon known as ICOs, or Initial Coin Offerings. So what are ICOs?

    Yesterday, TechCrunch published an interesting piece on the topic. Here are a few keys points:

    Because this editor was still confused (I’m not proud), I talked yesterday with Stan Miroshnik, a UC Berkeley grad with an MBA from MIT who today runs L.A.-based Argon Group, one of the first digital finance-focused investment banks. Miroshnik nicely answered an array of questions about ICOs, including how these things get staged, how companies establish a value for their offerings, and more. If you’re still trying to get a handle of this latest investing trend, too, read on.

    TC: ICOs are everywhere suddenly. When was the first ICO staged?

    SM: You have to go back to around 2013, when Mastercoin, a protocol on top the bitcoin blockchain, raised $500,000. Then you had a number of other milestone token sales, such as Ethereum in 2014, then the DAO, or Decentralized Autonomous Organization, which was built on the Ethereum blockchain and that stored and transmitted Ether and Ethereum-based assets and that raised the equivalent of $150 million last year.

    Momentum began to build after that, as a smaller group of [these offerings] grew in size, and by last fall, some companies were raising millions of dollars in minutes. That really kind of made people stand up and wonder if this is a new funding mechanism.

    TC: How many ICOs have there been to date?

    SM: There were 64 last year that collectively raised $103 million, excluding the DAO. So far this year, we’ve seen 25 offerings raise a bit more than $163 million, and we’re on track to see more than $210 million raised by the end of June.

    TC: So how do these ICOs work, practically speaking?

    SM: There’s a cadence to these things. You do the prep-work and get your project to a natural technical milestone. Then you pre-announce when you’re planning to have a token sale, describing some of the terms, and telling a story of the project and its goals. You publish a white paper and disclosure and give people a chance to read it and comment. There are also usually threads that develop on Reddit, Bitcointalk, Slack, Telegram and elsewhere, where people actively debate the merits of the product. Then, on the landing page on the aforementioned date, there’s typically a tool that enables purchasers to acquire the tokens in exchange for bitcoin or ether.

    TC: Is there a concern that U.S. regulators will crack down on these ICOs?

    SM: Lawyers are relying on case law that defines what a security is. The most well-known case is the “Howey Test,” created by the Supreme Court for determining whether certain transactions qualify as investment contracts. If they do, then those transactions are considered securities and are subject to certain disclosure and registration requirements. When tokens are structured basically as the sale of a service or product, they’re designed to make sure the various prongs of the test are not triggered.

    TC: What types of companies are primarily using ICOs?

    SM: It’s still a financing mechanism that’s very organic to the blockchain community.

    It all started with protocols like Ethereum raising funding through this mechanism, and it has stayed close to related projects, like the distributed storage company Storj and Civic, a company that provides identify through the blockchain and is announcing its token sale this Thursday. A lot of these founders and token buyers are part of bitcoin forums and Reddit, and that’s why [certain companies] are able to raise these large sums fairly quickly; they’re reaching out to thought leaders and getting their support and generating buzz about their projects. It’s basically the open source community, now with an open-source funding mechanism.

    TC: What happens when people want to sell the tokens they’ve bought?

    SM: Well, first, you can use them in a company’s ecosystem. With Storj, maybe you buy storage. You can also accumulate these tokens over time, as a bet that with more enterprise demand for storage capacity, the coins will become more valuable, after which you can sell your tokens to someone else who needs to purchase storage space.

    There are also a number of cryptocurrency exchanges where these tokens trade. In the case of Storj, you can sell or buy on Poloniex or Bittrex.

    TC: Should VCs be nervous about ICOs? You mention Civic, which is staging an ICO. Civic has also raised some venture capital previously. But plenty of other companies seem to be skipping the VC part.

    SM: To some degree they should, but we’ve also talked with a lot of very smart VCs who are looking at this space, including August Capital, Tim and Adam Draper, Blockchain Capital. Many are doing the work to understand how to be involved and active in the space and the fundamental value of these protocols. Union Square Ventures has said it now has a mandate from its LPs to hold these assets.

    For companies that raise funds through a token sale and that have had traditional angel or venture rounds previously, for example, their equity investors get to skip one or two rounds of dilution, which is great; it means their returns are hyper-levered.

    There are two points I want to emphasize from the above. First, just how early we are in the development of this area. The numbers are absolutely tiny at this point despite all the hype. Recall that in 2017, we’ve seen 25 offerings raise a bit more than $163 million. That’s an infinitesimally small number in the scheme of things, thus room for growth is massive. That being said, people considering getting involved in this space as a buyer of ICOs need to be extraordinarily careful.

    Investing in general is risky and challenging, but putting money into an ICO adds several other layers of complexity and risk. First, as noted above these things are not equity investments since they aren’t allowed to be under current regulations. Therefore, you’re not simply investing in a startup, which is always extremely risky, but you’re making a bet that the token itself is useful and will accrue in value over time. Therefore, not only do you need to be right about the success of the business or product itself, but the token also must have a real value-creating purpose to succeed in the long-run. Many people will not understand this and think they are buying into the equity of the underlying businesses, which sets up a perfect environment for fraudsters. You also need to bear in minds there’s a ton of Bitcoin liquidity flooding around the space given the massive run its had. Most early Bitcoin adopters and investors are very passionate and dedicated to this space. They don’t want to sell coin for dollars, but want to put it in new projects to keep the broader ecosystem growing. I think this is a fantastic thing, but it also means there’s a lot of crypto currency sloshing around trying to find a home.

    Despite the risks, I think the emergence of the burgeoning token market is a game-changing and extraordinarily empowering development. The only thing preventing the crypto-coin world from rapidly displacing the middlemen and bureaucrats of the traditional financial system are the barriers around the traditional financial world. While we’d like to think these barriers are there to protect the little people, we all know that the SEC and other such regulatory bodies largely exist to protect the rich and powerful and secure moats around their castles.

    We saw this under Obama’s Mary Jo White, and we will surely see it under Trump’s pick Jay Clayton, who seems to have all sorts of conflicts, including a wife who works at Goldman Sachs. The SEC doesn’t protect the people, but as long as it pretends to, it can continue to function as a gatekeeper for financial oligarchs and slow down the pace of displacement of the DYING FINANCIAL SYSTEM with the new parallel one currently being created.

    All of that is fine I suppose, and innovation in the crypto world will continue until one day we will actually see equity offerings in startups to regular people as opposed to just allocations to the wealthiest clients of brokerage firms. The innovation in this space has the potential to flatten the world of investing in a meaningful and powerful way, starting today with tokens, but ultimately in many other ways as well. It’s gonna take time, but it’ll happen.

    At this point, I just want to briefly address the common retort that “governments will never let this happen,” which I get all the time. Here’s what I had to say about it yesterday on Twitter, and I don’t really have much to say beyond this: “They didn’t want to let go of information control either, but the printing press and the internet still happened.”

    To conclude, I’d like to dedicate this post to all the brilliant geeks and the dynamic entrepreneurs pushing hard every day to realize this incredible dream of a decentralized future. A future that breaks down barriers, removes middlemen and empowers humanity to take its next evolutionary leap forward. You are the ones creating this brand new world brimming with potential and optimism; I want to thank for all you have done and continue to do.

    In Liberty,
    Michael Krieger

    Another emerging outlook of change advancing in the world. I may not have understood all I read about it, but I surely find it very interesting. Ha! Thanks for reading.

    Judith

  300. TheEventChronicle

    COMPILATION OF SOME OF THE DAVID WILCOCK NOTES
    FROM CONTACT IN THE DESERT EVENT LAST WEEKEND:
    MAY 27, 2017

    Jonathan Cathy, Truth Earth: A very kind and amazing individual, Joan, has taken and published some notes of David Wilcock’s talks at this year’s Contact in the Desert gathering that I will share below:

    ABOUT THE SOLAR FLASH

    The Solar Flash will be very bright, and will cause a transformation for our planet.

    Jesus is part of a group of people who agreed to come here to teach us. The group would all be in basic agreement with each other.

    There are two types of ET’s; angelic and Christ-like, and the really negative ones from the Draco Reptilian groups.

    Jesus represented the Hero Archetype.

    The Solar Flash is NOT a catastrophic event. It’s a benchmark in the evolution of any planet.

    We are living in a “laboratory” and the negative and positive beings are both playing a part in that.

    Doing dream-recall is better than any other form of therapy.

    David had many Solar Flash dreams where his body turned into light. In these dreams, he would roll up, like a ball of energy, and then ‘take off’ (leaving 3D and ascending; my note).

    If you are positive, you ascend. If you are negative, you are consumed.

    Frasco-Kereti is the name for the Solar Flash Event in Zoroastrianism. In the Vedas it is called the Samvartaka Fire. The Vedic writings speak of rainbow colored ‘clouds’ that will appear, like a rainbow display; the same as someone attaining the rainbow body. (Only now the whole planet is ascending; my note).

    Rainbow clouds are now appearing all over the Earth.

    “Before Enlightenment carry water and chop wood … after Enlightenment, carry water and chop wood …”

    Padmasambhava would levitate in the sky with his 25 disciples.

    During the Flash, unless you are very evil, you will be taken by a “relocation team” to a safe spot, if you’re not yet ready to ascend along with the Earth…

    Passage from the Vedas … “…I AM the flame known as Samvartaka. I AM the sun wearing that appellation…”

    The Egyptians and Greeks called the Solar Flash “the fire from heaven”.

    Apparently, the Flash happens every 25,000 years.

    The Book of Enoch (that was removed from The Bible) says about this that “the wicked and godless shall be removed from the Earth”, “the sun shall shine more brightly than accords with the order of light”, and, “the planets’ orbits and tasks will change”.

    When 3D disappears, the higher dimensions remain. 4D is actually located several miles above 3D.

    The Stoic Philosophers of Ekpyrosis spoke of the Flash. (Ekpyrosis means ‘solar flash; the fiery blast that comes from the sun’).

    The “Golden Age” really means the “Golden Race”. In ancient times it was known as a race, and it was only later that this was changed.

    All the Greek philosophers say that we are transforming into a golden RACE. They see through time, so they know that the SUN is going to do this.

    In the Mithraism Mystery Schools there was a lion-god statue that the students breathed through the back of and fire came out of the openings, symbolizing the Flash.

    The Sibylline Mysteries say, “the Golden One shall arrive again in the entire Earth”.

    FULL DISCLOSURE: THE DOWNFALL OF THE CABAL

    Henry the Eighth was the first Cabal king.

    The majority of the DOD is involved in a civil war right now. Films made under it’s influence are exposing the cabal.

    A small saucer appeared on President Reagan’s desk, and tiny people came out of it! They told Reagan to stop nuclear weapons.

    Eighty-six percent (86%) of Congress are members of NAMBLA (North American Man-Boy Love Association).

    NRA White-Hats created Bitcoin as an alternative to The Federal Reserve.

    Snowden was the “face man” for many others behind the scenes in the NSA.

    During a period when the Illuminati was trying to recruit David, they wanted him to portray Lucifer as a benevolent angel.

    The people behind Trump are not Cabal. Trump is the “battering ram” that smashes the castle so everyone else can rush in.

    David is hearing from insiders that Trump fired Comey because Comey supports Pizzagate.

    “We are co-creating all of this. You guys are my ground-crew. It is a battle that we are all in together. We are transforming what life is like on Earth.” – David

    “The cabal cannot win this. All we have to do is to not provide “loosh” (fear-energy) for them. The battlefield is your own mind and heart. Become a blessing. Become someone who creates good thoughts every second, not just during ‘Global Meditations’ and other isolated events.”

    Trolling is a drug addiction. Trolls get high off peoples reactions to their comments. This actually produces brain chemicals that are addictive. These trolls love to put people in categories, giving them ‘labels’ for their ‘files’.

    The entire system can change due to the actions of just one person (one guy created Craigslist and virtually wiped out the mainstream classifieds, one person started The Drudge Report).

    “Honoring yourself is honoring others … I love you because you ARE me.” – David

    Just because the Big Event didn’t happen in 2012 doesn’t mean it’s not going to happen.

    When you ascend, you’ll be given a golden light body and you can make it look however you want it to look.

    The next few years will determine whether we get full disclosure. Will we be sheep, or will we share our truth?

    “I AM UP HERE PRAYING THAT YOU LOVE YOURSELF, AS THAT IS WHAT WILL CHANGE THE WORLD!”

    Source: Joan Wheaton

    These are just a few of the notes. Thanks to Joan for taking them. And thank goodness for David, his genius, his integrity and curiosity that have led him as a searcher and seeker to find his Friday Night Essence and share his amazing information about the ancient history of this planet, the physics and quantum physics and the REALITY of what is going on in this Universe and our World. Will Full Disclosure be what truly jolts us and wakes up the world that brings us into our higher dimensional consciousness?

    Also, I wish to express my thanks to Dr. Frank Wallace and Mark Hamilton for bringing us Neo-Tech, Neothink, The Twelve Visions Party and plans to arrive in the Civilization of the Universe, our version of the Golden Age. What a dynamic time to be alive on this Earth it is!

    Judith

  301. MEMORIAL DAY 2017 … I have one comment about something I’ve noticed over the years, and especially these past few, concerning the celebration of this holiday. Hardly anyone flies the American Flag any more on Memorial Day. I took a long walk yesterday (Monday) and only saw two or three flags in the entire neighborhood! There was a time in our past when people were SO PROUD of being an American that they couldn’t wait to get out that flag and fly it as everyone SHARED in the momentous emotion in honoring of our Veterans and their families who have given so much to this country. Cars and trucks were even decorated with flying flags. It definitely gave me a sad feeling for a moment of nostalgia for us, our children and our grandchildren to live without that wonderful PATRIOTIC feeling that we had of living in this country of FREEDOM. Being excited and thrilled to be an American. Where has it all gone?

    Is it possible that all the social media and alternative media news, plus the rising consciousness field of We The People have come to realize that we are no longer FREE? The anger and upset about the evil and corruption that has now been exposed to the ever more awakening public has had the effect (especially in the younger generation) of greatly lessening our love of country? I hope not. It’s my belief that it will all change and we’ll get it all back. The patriotism, the tears when the flag goes by, the verbal honoring of our vets when we meet them in public, the appreciation of all that we have … but WE THE PEOPLE are the ones who have to do it. Beginning with us, let us hold and keep the VISION of our country coming back to be stronger and better than ever before!!

    Wake up, sleeping or indifferent Americans. We simply cannot give up. I hope you flew a flag on Memorial Day! Renew your passion for the U.S. A. to become great again, as Donald Trump is trying to help bring about. We can do this. This is not just a dream … it is REAL … Support the RISE of the Twelve Visions Party!!!

    Judith

  302. ON THIS MEMORIAL DAY: HONORING THE EXILES

    ACTIVIST POST
    By Janet Phelan

    At certain times, our thoughts veer northwards, flying like the eagle gods of this nearly destroyed culture of the country we now inhabit. Certain holidays, a birthday, a yahrzeit of an unaccountable death, and we drift through the clouds towards the land we fled, the land we forsook after it forsook its promise. In the minds’ eye, we can see the expanse and the breadth of the promise—from sea to shining sea—now littered with prisons, locked psychiatric facilities, drone fields and a shattered vision.

    Memorial Day is one of those holidays, for me. The day to commemorate the war dead might be celebrated somewhat differently, now, as America reels from over a decade of Middle Eastern wars. For this Memorial Day, can we also remember the exiles?

    Robert Finnegan, the former editor of the Jakarta Post, now runs an alternative website, ‘the5thestate.asia’. Finnegan has been in Asia for many years now and by his own testimony will not return to the US. Finnegan, who is a former Marine, has a disturbing story to impart as to his jailing in the US on muddled charges. Finnegan, who is diabetic, states that he was denied medical care during his incarceration, never brought up on charges and nearly died due to lack of attention to his diabetes. He recalls his jailers sneering at him, asking him, “How is the reporter doing now?”

    Catherine Oloughlin, MD, sits on the board of ITHACA, a human rights NGO, which has submitted a number of reports into the United Nations concerning human rights violations by the US. Catherine, who is living in Ireland, states she fears to return to the US. Catherine was hit with hundreds of thousands of dollars in sanctions when she tried to protect her mother and the estate from a brutal guardianship. Catherine has wondered if her failure to pay these sanctions would result in her imprisonment if she returned to California. She has decided not to find out.

    Ray Fernandez also left the US due to a guardianship battle. Ray was lucky enough to get his mother free from the court’s sticky fingers and took her to the Dominican Republic, for her own safety. From the DR, Ray now hosts a Facebook page, We Love a Good War! where he posts articles and news about what he terms “The Great Shitstorm of our Time.”

    Katherine Hine is a retired attorney and host of radio shows focusing on legal corruption. She does so from Uruguay. The behaviors that impelled her to leave the US were slightly more subtle but hardly less threatening. Writes Hine “….what I miss is a different America – possibly one that never existed except in my mind.” She goes on to say that “I think about torture a lot because I know and love people who are currently being tortured up there. I’m merely tortured by having to watch my son’s torture at the hands of the Ohio government’s state psychiatric system, backed up by the demons in black robes who also prey on him. I once seriously considered leaving here so that I could represent him myself—get it done right—but was told that my return would make things worse, that charges would be trumped up against me, that my own likely incarceration would only divert attention and resources from my son’s cause.”

    Russell Honicker showed up recently in Mexico trying to shake off the trauma of being jailed, following his speaking out about who was truly involved in his wife’s demise. Honicker had been an environmental activist and also a photographer for a number of publications. After being held for weeks in a jail in upstate New York, he was inexplicably released without being formally charged. He recalls taking off and “bouncing” from coast to coast then making the decision to leave the US.

    And while we are honoring the exiles, let’s not forget Edward Snowden. In his exile in Russia, he now faces a potential relinquishment of his person by Putin to President Trump, as a “gesture of good will.” The tendency by the powerful to treat human beings as parcels and commodities could not be clearer.

    I am sure there are others. Somewhere in America, today, someone has gotten a newly issued passport. Someone is wondering if it would be safer to flee. Someone has stepped on some toes, possibly inadvertently, and sees the future diminishing before her very eyes.

    This person believed in America, in the promise of freedom and justice for all. This person, through her projected flight, affirms this promise, clasps it to her breast as she boards the airplane. She intends to live free. She intends to carry on her efforts from a hopefully safer location. She may not believe she has other options left; yet, through her decision, she is manifesting the history of her land, her people—that of the pilgrim,the pioneer, the trailblazer. And for her, and for all the unknown exiles, this Memorial Day is dedicated to you.

    This is a bit of a different and interesting perspective on this holiday. So many truth-seekers jailed or exiled. Time for change and rise of the Twelve Visions Party! Thanks for reading.

    Judith

  303. WHITE HOUSE PETITION TO INVESTIGATE SETH RICH MURDER
    GOES VIRAL AS REWARD REACHES OVER $345,000

    THE FREE THOUGHT PROJECT
    May 28, 2017

    With the former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich asking questions about the bizarre killing of a Democratic National Committee (DNC) staffer in 2016, the murder mystery surrounding Seth Rich has taken an interesting turn. A White House Petition has been started demanding President Trump appoint a special prosecutor to find his killer.

    It is important to note that those of us asking for an investigation into the death of Seth Rich, are not some tinfoil nutjobs as the mainstream media attempts to claim. Since when is wanting justice for a murder ‘conspiracy theory’? No one at the Free Thought Project has ever attempted to claim to know who killed Seth Rich, we simply want an investigation. And, since this petition has gone viral — it appears that a lot of other Americans want the same thing.

    When Rich was killed in 2016, Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange called for an investigation into the homicide. Why would a wanted man, holed up in an Ecuadorian embassy in London care at all who killed the Washington, DC-based staffer? That question remains unanswered but some believe he was the source of the DNC database of emails which, arguably, cost Hillary Clinton the 2016 presidential election.

    Now, a petition has been created to force the president’s hand to open an official investigation, called, “WE THE PEOPLE ASK THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO CALL ON CONGRESS TO ACT ON AN ISSUE.” The petition is asking the president to “Appoint a Special Prosecutor to investigate the murder of Seth Rich, the alleged Wikileaks email leaker.” The petition was created by someone only known as “J.F.” on May 19, 2017. Already, over 25,000 signatures have been obtained of the needed 100,000, requesting the White House to open an official investigation into his killing. The petition reads;

    On July 10, 2016, Seth Rich was shot twice in the early morning as he walked back to his house in Washington D.C. Immediately after the crime, the death was called an armed robbery… but none of Seth Rich’s belongings were taken from him.

    Rod Wheeler, a private investigator hired by the family, said that there was evidence Seth Rich had contacted WikiLeaks and that law enforcement were covering this up. MSM is not covering this murder, instead pushing it to the side, so it is now up to us.

    The facts do not add up, law enforcement stopped covering the crime, and now it is time for us to fight for justice. Seth Rich deserves this.

    While the mainstream media appears to consider the matter of Seth Rich a murder driven by motives of armed robbery, the alternative media is camping out on the issue, refusing to let his name, and his possible contribution to transparency disappear. If the rumors were true Rich was the DNC mole, who leaked the database of emails to Wikileaks, he would likely have been targeted for discreditation, but, instead, he was found with gunshot wounds to his back, clinging to life, and later died from his injuries.

    According to One America News, which is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of his killer, members of Congress are now beginning to question whether or not Rich’s death may have been an inside job. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-California) told OAN, “Whoever it could be, we need to look into it and verify. The fact that the young man’s death has not been followed by an investigation that would even be in place for an ordinary murder is very suspicious to me.”

    Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-TX) told OAN, “I think it should definitely be a part of the investigation. It’s an alternative theory and any good investigation looks at alternative theories…We need to investigate all the options. A lot of the allegations about Russia and some of the allegations about President Trump now are all coming from un-named sources. Sources suggesting it was an inside job are probably just as valid as somebody not willing to give their name.”

    With OAN offering a $100,000 reward, Wikileaks donating $20,000, the DC Metropolitan Police offering $25,000, Republican donor Jack Burkman kicking in another $100,000, and even Martin Shkreli upping the ante with $100,000, the total reward for solving Seth Rich’s murder stands at $345,000.

    OAN’s Pearson Sharp concluded, “Solving this case could reveal important clues into the 2016 election and how high up corruption at the DNC really went. DNC officials have long pushed the views that Russia was behind their email leak, but this latest information casts doubt on those claims.”

    Go to The Free Thought Project’s extensive coverage of the mystery of Seth Rich’s death. Please share this article so that through the spreading of information we may be able to achieve justice for Seth Rich.

    Thank you for reading this. Let the unraveling continue … leading to the murderer(s) and who hired them. This is some justice that needs to happen. Appreciate this space to air this information, Mark Hamilton, and the continuation of this site.

    Judith

  304. May 27, 1963
    ==========
    On this day in 1963, Bob Dylan released his second album – The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan –
    which goes on to transform him from a popular local act to a global phenomenon.

    “Of all the precipitously emergent singers of folk songs in the continuing renascence of that
    self-assertive tradition,” wrote journalist and critic Nat Hentoff, “none has equaled Bob Dylan
    in singularity of impact.” Dylan’s impact on the folk scene stemmed at first from his mastery
    and idiosyncratic performances of a vast repertoire of traditional folk songs. His devotion
    to the music of the great Woody Guthrie is what brought Bob Dylan to New York in the
    first place, and his “Song To Woody” was one of only two original numbers on his
    widely ignored debut album, Bob Dylan (1962). The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan,
    on the other hand, included only two non-original numbers, and the
    speed with which Dylan’s own songs from that album were added
    to the repertoires of other musicians is what really turned him
    into a household name.

    In the summer of 1963, Peter, Paul and Mary turned the opening track of
    The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan into an international pop hit. “Blowin’ In The Wind”
    gave most future Bob Dylan fans their first exposure to his songwriting talents,
    and soon his work had found its way into nearly every genre of popular music
    via cover versions by artists like Sam Cooke, Johnny Cash and the Byrds. But
    the impact of the best-known songs on The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan — ”Blowin’ In
    The Wind,” “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right,” “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” — was
    not nearly as great as the impact of Dylan’s fundamental approach to music.
    By writing nearly all of his own material, and writing it from a distinctly
    personal point of view, Dylan created a template that would alter the
    course of many careers other than his. As John Lennon once said in
    discussing The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, which reached the Beatles
    in their Paris hotel fully a year after its release,” I think it was the
    first time I ever heard Dylan at all… And for the rest of our three
    weeks in Paris, we didn’t stop playing it.
    ==============
    DON’T THINK TWICE, IT’S ALRIGHT
    by Bob Dylan

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YnvUX9aU6Q
    —————–

  305. —THE DETROIT AREA CLUBHOUSE—
    meets the second Saturday of the month.
    —————————————
    When? . . . . . . . . . .Saturday June 10, 2017.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .3 pm – 6 pm.
    Where? . . . . . . . . . .Kerby’s Koney Island.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Livonia, MI.
    What?. . . . . . . . . . . The four pillars.
    Why?. . . . . . . . . . . ..Why not?
    ===========================
    ++++++++++++++++++

  306. May 26, 1959
    ==========
    On this day in 1959, Harvey Haddix of the Pittsburgh Pirates pitched 12 perfect innings
    against the Milwaukee Braves, only to lose the game on a two-run double by Braves’
    first baseman Joe Adcock in the 13th inning. It was the first time a pitcher threw
    more than nine perfect innings in major league history.

    Harvey Haddix was a left-handed pitcher from Medway, Ohio. In his 13-year career he
    pitched for the Cardinals, Phillies, Reds, Pirates and Orioles. He was named to three
    All-Star games, won three Gold Glove Awards and Game 7 of the 1960 World Series
    for the Pirates over the favored New York Yankees, but it was his 12-inning perfect
    stretch that cemented his place in baseball history.

    That day, Haddix dominated the game from the beginning. Thirty years later, he recalled
    his success: “Every batter it was zip, zip–two strikes. I’ve had a lot better stuff than that
    night, but I’ve never had control like that.” Unfortunately for Haddix, Lew Burdette of
    the Braves matched him inning for inning on the scoreboard, pitching 12 scoreless
    innings (allowing 12 hits and two walks) to Haddix’s 12 perfect ones.

    Haddix took the mound in the 13th inning after retiring 36 Braves in a row, nine more
    than usually required for a perfect game. The fleet-footed second baseman Felix
    Mantillia came to bat first. He hit a grounder to Pirate third baseman Don Hoak,
    who threw the ball across the diamond and into the dirt near first baseman
    Rocky Nelson. Mantillia was safe, and the perfect game was over, though
    the no-hitter remained intact. The next batter, Hall of Famer Eddie
    Matthews, sacrificed Mantillia to second base. Then Hank Aaron,
    who was leading the National League in batting, came to the plate. Haddix
    intentionally walked the future career home run king on four pitches. Adcock
    was up next, and he hit a drive that just cleared the fence in right-center field. In
    their jubilation over the win, the Braves became muddled on the base paths, and Adcock
    passed Aaron between second and third base. The umpire Frank Dascoli called Adcock out,
    changing his three-run homer to a two-run double after several minutes of deliberation.

    On June 3, 1995, Pedro Martinez of the Montreal Expos became the second pitcher to take
    a perfect game into extra innings against the Padres in San Diego. He gave up a double
    to left fielder Bip Roberts leading off the 10th inning, and though he eventually won
    the game, he lost the perfect game and no-hitter.
    ================

  307. May 26, 1927
    ————
    On this day in 1927, Henry Ford and his son Edsel drive the 15 millionth Model T Ford
    out of their factory, marking the famous automobile’s official last day of production.

    More than any other vehicle, the relatively affordable and efficient Model T was responsible
    for accelerating the automobile’s introduction into American society during the first quarter
    of the 20th century. Introduced in October 1908, the Model T— also known as the
    “Tin Lizzie” — weighed some 1,200 pounds, with a 20-horsepower, four-cylinder engine.
    It got about 13 to 21 miles per gallon of gasoline and could travel up to 45 mph. Initially
    selling for around $850 (around $20,000 in today’s dollars), the Model T would later
    sell for as little as $260 (around $6,000 today) for the basic no-extras model.

    Largely due to the Model T’s incredible popularity, the U.S. government made construction
    of new roads one of its top priorities by 1920. By 1926, however, the Lizzie had become
    outdated in a rapidly expanding market for cheaper cars. While Henry Ford had hoped
    to keep up production of the Model T while retooling his factories for its replacement,
    the Model A, lack of demand forced his hand. On May 25, 1927, he made headlines
    around the world with the announcement that he was discontinuing the Model T.
    As recorded by Douglas Brinkley in “Wheels for the World,” his biography of
    Ford, the legendary carmaker delivered a eulogy for his most memorable
    creation: “It had stamina and power. It was the car that ran before there
    were good roads to run on. It broke down the barriers of distance in
    rural sections, brought people of these sections closer together
    and placed education within the reach of everyone.”

    After production officially ended the following day, Ford factories shut down in early
    June, and some 60,000 workers were laid off. The company sold fewer than
    500,000 cars in 1927, less than half of Chevrolet’s sales. The Model A’s
    release beginning in select cities that December was greeted by
    throngs of thousands, a tribute to Ford’s characteristic ability
    to make a splash. No car in history, however, had the impact — both
    actual and mythological — of the Model T: Authors like Ernest Hemingway,
    E.B. White and John Steinbeck featured the Tin Lizzie in their prose, while the
    great filmmaker Charlie Chaplin immortalized it in satire in his 1928 film “The Circus.”
    ================

  308. May 25, 1977
    ==========
    Science-fiction fans and movie buffs in general have cause to celebrate on this day in 1977,
    when 20th Century Fox releases George Lucas’ space odyssey Star Wars.

    After Lucas’ second feature film, American Graffiti (1973), became a hit, Fox agreed to put
    up $9.5 million for the writer-director’s next project. After four years in production,
    including location shots in Tunisia and Death Valley, California, Star Wars was
    ready for its release. Its relatively unknown cast featured Mark Hamill as
    Luke Skywalker, who teams with the roguish Han Solo (Harrison Ford)
    to rescue Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) from captivity on a space
    station commanded by the menacing Darth Vader (voiced by
    James Earl Jones). The alien creatures, massive space
    tation, elaborate space battles and other special
    effects came courtesy of Lucas’ company,
    Industrial Light and Magic (ILM).

    Though Fox released Star Wars in only 42 theaters, it primed its target audience of
    science-fiction fans with a massive publicity campaign. By the end of its first week,
    the film had made $3 million, and by the end of the summer it would rake in some
    $100 million. Adjusting for inflation, its box-office haul was second only to Gone
    With the Wind. In addition to its commercial success, Star Wars was well received
    by critics and was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture. It
    won in six categories, mostly technical, and received an additional Oscar for Special
    Achievement in Sound Editing.

    The success of Star Wars was credited with reviving the science-fiction film genre,
    which had previously been considered highly unprofitable, and – along with Steven
    Spielberg’s 1975 hit Jaws – with introducing the concept of the summer blockbuster.
    It also sparked a Hollywood trend away from smaller films and toward big-budget
    action movies targeted at young audiences. Lucas would follow up on the success
    of his hit movie with two sequels, The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the
    Jedi (1983), fueling a huge marketing juggernaut that included clothing, toys, videos
    and other merchandise. The popularity of the Star Wars franchise lasted well into
    the 1990s, and was encouraged by a theatrical re-release of the trilogy in 1997.

    Starting in the late 1990s, Lucas released a new series of Star Wars movies, set in a
    time period before the original trilogy and featuring a new, younger cast (notably
    Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen) and an updated arsenal
    of special-effects technology. Though the three newer films–Stars Wars: Episode I – The
    Phantom Menace (1999), Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), and Star
    Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)–were all huge-box office hits, they
    failed to match the critical acclaim garnered by the original series.
    =============

  309. Wayne you have the CAPACITY to be who you want to be. What you are experiencing
    now is your turn to experience, someone before you has been through it, everyone has
    to go through that same experience. This is a part of our Growth and Development.
    EVERYONE WILL GO THOUGH SOME EXPERIENCES. This is your opportunity to
    decide to change what needs changing in your life.

    Remember, ACTION FALLOWS THOUGHT. YOU CREAT YOUR REALITY RIGHT NOW.

    NEGATIVITY BEGETS NEGATIVITY, BENEVOLENCE BEGET BENEVOLENCE.

  310. Mostly to Forest and Carol, but open to all to read. In answer to a previous post, you had mentioned I had 3 stents put in. You are correct . Imaging found 4 blockages on April 8, and on the 12th, what included a 3 hour procedure, the journey began. Things seemed to be going well however because of the thinners (Plavix , aspirin etc, we ran into some major complications that resulted in a lot of internal bleeding and for the next 11 days I was in ICU surviving on drip bags and plasma while they waited for the affects of the meds wore off. But there is always good news !!! in that 11 days I dropped almost 16 lbs. Hopefully I am now on the road to recovery, but am constantly being warned from every one from cardiology , ENT, PT, to the door greeter at Regional that is going to be a slow recovery. So that’s my story and I am sticking to it. The last leg of this journey started on 4/8 and I was finally released again on 5/26. so I am back home where Silly Simon the half blind cross eyed kitty cat in the process of bonding again. Right now I couldn’t even kick a fleas ass but better days are coming and hopefully I can make the summit but it’s too early to be making those plans.

  311. Good Morning!! From: the Rise of Neo-Tech. In concept 11, Dr. Wallace wrote about evaluating human relationships. He said ” The value of any relationship can be viewed in “good for me” or “bad for me” terms and can be measured by the extent the relationship lifts or lowers the wellbeing and happiness level of each person or partner in the relationship.” My take on this. Not all relationships need be based on psychuous sex. What comes to mind is a phone call I received yesterday from my old business partner, but more importantly one of my most closest and enduring friends for nearly 40 years. During that time never an argument or a harsh word ever occurred and we stood by each other through thick and thin, and believe me when I say there were plenty of obstacles such financial, health, and yes death to get in the way, but that’s life, and even though many miles have separated us, seems like on my cloudiest days he always shows up. I have similar feelings for my Neo-Think family who I deem “good for me” in those same terms. So, remember to love yourself, but spread it to others also.

  312. CREATIVITY is Essential to Personal Development. It helps us to welcome
    CHANGE with Confidence and to live our lives more in HARMONY with
    our hopes. From this perspective, let us remember that Humans become
    WHAT WE THINK and HARVEST WHAT WE SOW.

    – By I R C.

  315. Wednesday,May 24, 2017 –@ 1:53 p.m.

    Hey, Everyone out there!! I saw this on MSN just a couple of minutes ago, and I was SHOCKED when I read it. I did not know that they HAD such “REGULATIONS!!” This is an INSULT — ADDED to ANOTHER INJURY!! Talk about POLITICAL CORRUPTION, — GOOD GRIEF, — HOW, IN THE NAME OF COMMON SENSE are the FARMERS supposed to supply this country with FOOD — when such LAWS, REGULATIONS AND “FINES” such as these — are imposed on them?? This is MORE than “OUTRAGEOUS!!”

    RED BLUFF, Calif. — A farmer faces trial in federal court this summer and a $2.8 million fine for failing to get a permit to plow his field and plant wheat in Tehama County.

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    A lawyer for Duarte Nursery said the case is important because it could set a precedent requiring other farmers to obtain costly, time-consuming permits just to plow.

    “The case is the first time that we’re aware of that says you need to get a (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) permit to plow to grow crops,” said Anthony Francois, a lawyer for the Pacific Legal Foundation. The libertarian-leaning nonprofit fights for private property rights and limited government.

    “We’re not going to produce much food under those kinds of regulations,” Francois said.

    ► April: Wildlife groups petition to add giraffes to endangered species list

    ► March: Black Rock Desert is under water; what does that mean for Burning Man?

    However, U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller agreed with the Army Corps in a judgment issued in June. A trial, in which the U.S. Attorney’s Office asks for $2.8 million in civil penalties, is set for August.

    The case began in 2012 when John Duarte, who owns Duarte Nursery near Modesto, Calif., bought 450 acres about 10 miles south of Red Bluff.

    Duarte planned to grow wheat there, according to Francois and court documents.

    Because the property has numerous swales and wetlands, Duarte hired a consulting firm to map out areas on the property that were not to be plowed because they were part of the drainage for Coyote and Oat creeks and were considered “waters of the United States.”

    Francois conceded that some of the wetlands were plowed but not significantly damaged. He said the ground was plowed to a depth of 4 to 7 inches.

    The Army Corps did not claim Duarte violated the Endangered Species Act by destroying fairy shrimp or their habitat, Francois said.

    This particular freshwater species is unique to California and southern Oregon and has been classified as a threatened species since 1994 because much of its wetlands in California’s Central Valley were converted to cropland or became urban.

    Vernal pool fairy shrimp are about the size of salad shrimp and live in grassland pools that form in spring and dry up very quickly. The shrimp die then, too, but their eggs hatch when the pools refill. (Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

    Duarte’s wheat was planted but not harvested because in February 2013 the Army Corps of Engineers and the California Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board issued orders to stop work at the site. The agencies claimed Duarte had violated the Clean Water Act by not obtaining a permit to discharge dredged or fill material into seasonal wetlands considered waters of the United States.

    Duarte sued the Army Corps and the state, alleging they violated his constitutional right of due process by issuing the cease and desist orders without a hearing. The U.S. Attorney’s Office counter-sued Duarte Nursery to enforce the Clean Water Act violation.

    Farmers plowing their fields are specifically exempt from the Clean Water Act rules forbidding discharging material into U.S. waters, Francois said.

    ► April: Dow Chemical urges Trump administration to ignore pesticide findings

    ► March: Caviar in the Midwest? Yes, and it’s sustainable

    However, the tractor was not plowing the field, according court documents filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Sacramento. Rather, it was equipped with a ripper that had seven 36-inch shanks, which dug an average of 10 inches deep into the soil.

    Duarte disturbed portions of the property that included wetland areas, the U.S. attorney alleges.

    The ripping deposited dirt into wetlands and streams on the property in violation of the Clean Water Act, according to documents filed the U.S. attorney filed.

    ► September: Larger sea animals at higher extinction risk

    ► September: Joshua trees could be declared threatened species

    Assistant U.S. Attorney Gregory Broderick said he could not comment on the case and referred questions to his office’s public affairs department, which did not return phone calls.

    However, documents filed in court explain some of the rationale behind the government’s case.

    “Even under the farming exemption, a discharge of dredged or fill material incidental to the farming activities that impairs the flow of the waters of the United States still requires a permit because it changes the chemical, physical and biological integrity of the waters,” the U.S. attorney said in court filings.

    ► September: Giant panda off endangered list; eastern gorilla ‘critically endangered’

    ► May 2016: Why wolverines are so rare in the U.S., and what’s being done about it

    The creeks also flow into the Sacramento River, home to endangered chinook salmon.

    In addition to civil penalties, the U.S. Attorney’s Office is also asking the judge to order Duarte to repair the damage to the wetlands, including smoothing out the soil and replanting native plants in the wetlands.

    He also may be required to purchase other wetlands to compensate for the alleged damage to the property south of Red Bluff, according to the government’s proposed penalties.

    ► January 2016: Feds to reclassify manatees from ‘endangered’ to ‘threatened’

    ► November 2015: Great Lakes wolves no longer endangered

    Francois said he thought the proposed penalties were unfair. His client thought the plowing exemption allowed him to till the soil.

    “A plain reading of the rules says you don’t need a permit to do what he did,” Francois said. “How do you impose a multimillion penalty on someone for thinking the law says what it says?”

    Follow Damon Arthur on Twitter: @damonarthur_RS

    Love to ALL my Fellow Neo-Thinkers

    Carol and Forest

  316. May 24, 1553
    ==========
    On May 24, 1543, Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus died in what is now
    Frombork, Poland. The father of modern astronomy, he was the first modern
    European scientist to propose that Earth and other planets revolve around the sun.

    Prior to the publication of his major astronomical work, “Six Books Concerning the
    Revolutions of the Heavenly Orbs,” in 1543, European astronomers argued that
    Earth lay at the center of the universe, the view also held by most ancient
    philosophers and biblical writers. In addition to correctly postulating the
    order of the known planets, including Earth, from the sun, and estimating their
    orbital periods relatively accurately, Copernicus argued that Earth turned daily
    on its axis and that gradual shifts of this axis accounted for the changing seasons.

    He died the year his major work was published, saving him from the outrage of some
    religious leaders who later condemned his heliocentric view of the universe as heresy.
    By the late 18th century, the Copernican view of the solar system was almost universally accepted.
    ==========

  317. May 24, 1935
    ==========
    The Cincinnati Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1 on this night in 1935 in
    Major League Baseball’s first-ever night game, played courtesy of recently
    installed lights at Crosley Field in Cincinnati.

    The first-ever night game in professional baseball took place May 2, 1930, when a
    Des Moines, Iowa, team hosted Wichita for a Western League game. The game
    drew 12,000 people at a time when Des Moines was averaging just 600 fans
    per game. Evening games soon became popular in the minors: As minor
    league ball clubs were routinely folding in the midst of the Great
    Depression, adaptable owners found the innovation a key to
    staying in business. The major leagues, though, took five
    years to catch up to their small-town counterparts.

    The first big league night game on this day in 1935 drew 25,000 fans, who stood by
    as President Roosevelt symbolically switched on the lights from Washington, D.C.
    To capitalize on their new evening fan base, the Reds played a night game that
    year against every National League team – eight games in total – and despite
    their lousy record of 68-85, paid attendance rose 117 percent.

    Though baseball owners had a well-deserved reputation for being old-fashioned,
    most teams soon followed suit, as they knew night games would benefit their
    bottom line. Teams upgraded their facilities to include lights throughout
    the 1930s and 40s, and before long, most of the league had night games
    on the schedule. Wrigley Field, on Chicago’s North Side – the second
    oldest major league park after Boston’s Fenway Park – was the last
    of the parks to begin hosting night games. Wrigley’s tradition of
    hosting only day games held for 74 seasons until August 8, 1988,
    when the Cubs hosted the Philadelphia Phillies. That game
    was rained out in the third inning, so Wrigley’s first night
    game is officially recorded as a 6-4 win over the New York Mets
    on August 9, 1988. The Cubs are the only major league team that still plays
    the majority of their home games during the day.
    ==============

  318. May 24, 1883
    ==========
    After 14 years and 27 deaths while being constructed, the Brooklyn Bridge over the
    East River is opened, connecting the great cities of New York and Brooklyn for the
    first time in history. Thousands of residents of Brooklyn and Manhattan Island
    turned out to witness the dedication ceremony, which was presided over by
    President Chester A. Arthur and New York Governor Grover Cleveland.
    Designed by the late John A. Roebling, the Brooklyn Bridge was the
    largest suspension bridge ever built to that date.

    John Roebling, born in Germany in 1806, was a great pioneer in the design of steel
    suspension bridges. He studied industrial engineering in Berlin and at the age of
    25 immigrated to western Pennsylvania, where he attempted, unsuccessfully,
    to make his living as a farmer. He later moved to the state capital in Harrisburg,
    where he found work as a civil engineer. He promoted the use of wire cable and
    established a successful wire-cable factory.

    Meanwhile, he earned a reputation as a designer of suspension bridges, which at the
    time were widely used but known to fail under strong winds or heavy loads. Roebling
    is credited with a major breakthrough in suspension-bridge technology: a web truss
    added to either side of the bridge roadway that greatly stabilized the structure.
    Using this model, Roebling successfully bridged the Niagara Gorge at Niagara
    Falls, New York, and the Ohio River at Cincinnati, Ohio. On the basis of
    these achievements, New York State accepted Roebling’s design for a
    bridge connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan – with a span of 1,595
    feet – and appointed him chief engineer. It was to be the world’s
    first steel suspension bridge.

    Just before construction began in 1869, Roebling was fatally injured while taking a few
    final compass readings across the East River. A boat smashed the toes on one of
    his feet, and three weeks later he died of tetanus. He was the first of more
    than two dozen people who would die building his bridge. His
    32-year-old son, Washington A. Roebling, took over as
    chief engineer. Roebling had worked with his father
    on several bridges and had helped design the
    Brooklyn Bridge.

    The two granite foundations of the Brooklyn Bridge were built in timber caissons,
    or watertight chambers, sunk to depths of 44 feet on the Brooklyn side and 78 feet
    on the New York side. Compressed air pressurized the caissons, allowing underwater
    construction. At that time, little was known of the risks of working under such
    conditions, and more than a hundred workers suffered from cases of
    compression sickness. Compression sickness, or the “bends,” is
    caused by the appearance of nitrogen bubbles in the
    bloodstream that result from rapid decompression.
    Several died, and Washington Roebling himself
    became bedridden from the condition in 1872.
    Other workers died as a result of more
    conventional construction accidents,
    such as collapses and a fire.

    Roebling continued to direct construction operations from his home, and his wife,
    Emily, carried his instructions to the workers. In 1877, Washington and Emily
    moved into a home with a view of the bridge. Roebling’s health gradually
    improved, but he remained partially paralyzed for the rest of his life.
    On May 24, 1883, Emily Roebling was given the first ride over the
    completed bridge, with a rooster – a symbol of victory – in her
    lap. Within 24 hours, an estimated 250,000 people walked
    across the Brooklyn Bridge, using a broad promenade
    above the roadway that John Roebling designed
    solely for the enjoyment of pedestrians.

    The Brooklyn Bridge, with its unprecedented length and two stately towers, was
    dubbed the “eighth wonder of the world.” The connection it provided between
    the massive population centers of Brooklyn and Manhattan changed the
    course of New York City forever. In 1898, the city of Brooklyn formally
    merged with New York City, Staten Island, and a few farm towns,
    forming Greater New York.
    ==============
    NEW YORK, NEW YORK
    by Frank Sinatra

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMfz1jlyQrw
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  319. —THE DETROIT AREA CLUBHOUSE—
    meets the second Saturday of the month.
    —————————————
    When? . . . . . . . . . .Saturday June 10, 2017.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .3 pm – 6 pm.
    Where? . . . . . . . . . .Kerby’s Koney Island.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Livonia, MI.
    What?. . . . . . . . . . . The four pillars.
    Why?. . . . . . . . . . . ..Why not?
    ===========================
    ——————–=–

  320. May 23, 1939
    ==========
    On this day in 1934, notorious criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were shot to
    death by Texas and Louisiana state police while driving a stolen car near Sailes, Louisiana.

    Bonnie Parker met the charismatic Clyde Barrow in Texas when she was 19 years old and
    her husband (she married when she was 16) was serving time in jail for murder. Shortly
    after they met, Barrow was imprisoned for robbery. Parker visited him every day, and
    smuggled a gun into prison to help him escape, but he was soon caught in Ohio and
    sent back to jail. When Barrow was paroled in 1932, he immediately hooked up
    with Parker, and the couple began a life of crime together.

    After they stole a car and committed several robberies, Parker was caught by police
    and sent to jail for two months. Released in mid-1932, she rejoined Barrow. Over the
    next two years, the couple teamed with various accomplices to rob a string of banks
    and stores across five states – Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, New Mexico and Louisiana.
    To law enforcement agents, the Barrow Gang – including Barrow’s childhood friend,
    Raymond Hamilton, W.D. Jones, Henry Methvin, Barrow’s brother Buck and his wife
    Blanche, among others – were cold-blooded criminals who didn’t hesitate to kill
    anyone who got in their way, especially police or sheriff’s deputies. Among the public,
    however, Parker and Barrow’s reputation as dangerous outlaws was mixed with a
    romantic view of the couple as “Robin Hood”-like folk heroes.

    Their fame was increased by the fact that Bonnie was a woman – an unlikely criminal – and by
    the fact that the couple posed for playful photographs together, which were later found by
    police and released to the media. Police almost captured the famous duo twice in the
    spring of 1933, with surprise raids on their hideouts in Joplin and Platte City, Missouri.
    Buck Barrow was killed in the second raid, and Blanche was arrested, but Bonnie
    and Clyde escaped once again. In January 1934, they attacked the Eastham
    Prison Farm in Texas to help Hamilton break out of jail, shooting several
    guards with machine guns and killing one.

    Texan prison officials hired a retired Texas police officer, Captain Frank Hamer, as a special
    investigator to track down Parker and Barrow. After a three-month search, Hamer traced
    the couple to Louisiana, where Henry Methvin’s family lived. Before dawn on May 23,
    Hamer and a group of Louisiana and Texas lawmen hid in the bushes along a
    country road outside Sailes. When Parker and Barrow appeared, the
    officers opened fire, killing the couple instantly in a hail of bullets.

    All told, the Barrow Gang was believed responsible for the deaths of 13 people, including nine
    police officers. Parker and Barrow are still seen by many as romantic figures, however,
    especially after the success of the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde, starring Faye Dunaway
    and Warren Beatty.
    =========

  321. May 22, 1859
    ==========
    The is the birthday of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator
    of master sleuth Sherlock Holmes.

    Doyle was born in Scotland and studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh,
    where he met Dr. Joseph Bell, a teacher with extraordinary deductive reasoning
    power. Bell partly inspired Doyle’s character Sherlock Holmes years later.

    After medical school, Doyle moved to London, where his slow medical practice
    left him ample free time to write. His first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in
    Scarlet, was published in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887. Starting in 1891,
    a series of Holmes stories appeared in The Strand magazine. Holmes enabled
    Doyle to leave his medical practice in 1891 and devote himself to writing, but
    the author soon grew weary of his creation. In The Final Problem, he killed
    off both Holmes and his nemesis, Dr. Moriarty, only to resuscitate Holmes
    later due to popular demand. In 1902, Doyle was knighted for his work
    with a field hospital in South Africa. In addition to dozens of Sherlock Holmes
    stories and several novels, Doyle wrote history, pursued whaling, and engaged
    in many adventures and athletic endeavors. After his son died in World War I,
    Doyle became a dedicated spiritualist. He died in 1930.
    ============

  322. Good Morning. Ramblings from the Hills. Right after I watched Mike Modricks 7 day( not always so accurate) weather forecast, I flipped the TV off GMA in an effort to take at least one little step to make this world a better place. (There must be a word that contains hype and bullshit into one word) From SOS Roots their is a footnote that states “Most forms of “scientific” mysticism reflect wishful desires to discover OUTSIDE forces or “authorities ” to take over the thinking tasks of the human mind. The mystics wish is to be automatically and effortlessly guided to knowledge and through life by EXTERNAL forces. But no effortless guide exists. No outside force can take over and do what the mind and the individual must do for him or herself. Consider the Pres. of the US following the stupidity of astrology, or consider govt. of USSR directing funds for “research” efforts in ESP, Psychokinesis, PK, and other Pseudosciences , indeed through mystical stupidities, the intellectual importance of those govts. and their leaders are clowns. They are already being laughed out of existence through Neo-Tech competition.( guess I am still hung up a little bit re ESP) Mean while enjoy each day , and think LOVE to everyone.

  323. May 24, 2017 – 7:25 a.m.

    Good Morning Fellow Neo-Thinkers,

    It is a beautiful day, and we have another day of “APPOINTMENTS” ahead of us, as well as on Thursday and Friday. The first one is at 10:30 a.m. today, so I need to hurry through this Post to get it done.
    I have not been on the Mentor calls for a long time, and the Phone Numbers and access codes were a little different from what they were before, so they didn’t work for me.

    I called Steve (digger) on Monday morning and we talked briefly about a few things, and he was very gracious to me. He gave me all the New Phone Numbers so that I could get on the calls again.
    I joined in on the Level 3 call with Steve, Charlie, and Dave (12 visions Party) on Monday night, and it was “EXCELLENT.”

    I was going to Join in on the School of Genius call on Tuesday at 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time, but I ended up in the Emergency Room at the Hospital for a Weird event that happened while we walked into the entry of WalMart. My left knee went out on me, and it would not support my weight – for about 45 seconds. This had happened to me for the FIRST time, just 2 weeks ago, while we were going to an appointment for Carol.

    Consequently, I felt that I should go in for a check up—for a possible mini-stroke. We were there until almost 5:00 p.m. but they found no evidence of a Stroke at all. It is far better to be “SAFE” – than SORRY, and I was NOT taking ANY CHANCES. I trust that I will be able to get on ALL of the calls beginning on Friday, May 26th.
    Please keep me in your thoughts, my dear friends, and I am very much appreciative to you for this.

    Just another Gem of Thought to share with you:

    “If you want to find the Secrets of the Universe, think in terms of Energy, Frequency and Vibration.” –{Nicola Tesla}—

    Love, Carol and Forest

  324. So the question arises , When we shed ourselves of bad and indifferent memories, should we erase and give up the good memories too? Something as simple as clearing our saved messages in our phone can drudge up memories from the past, whether they be good , bad or noteworthy. After mulling through our Neo-Think literature , I decided this was my best answer. All these messages are essentially emotions. Perhaps Adv. # 35 regarding the value of emotions gives some clue saying our emotions and feelings are among a person’s most valuable assets and ALL pleasure and happiness are experienced through emotions and the final moral purpose of all human life is rational happiness. Adv. #94 says positive emotions deliver pleasure and happiness. Negative emotions provide warnings that something is wrong, thus our negative emotions & negative experiences should not be repressed, that honest open dealing with emotions are necessary for resetting harmful mystical actions, building mental health and most important , expressing psychous pleasures, romantic love and abiding happiness, so I conclude that without our memories we are nothing less than unfeeling programed robots, and we should hang on to our good memories as well and cherish them for a life time. Anybody is welcome to join this conversation. Love to all.

  325. Thanks Pete, Forest, Myles , Judith and others who have continued to our wiki page in recent weeks and apologize for my extended absence. I for one really appreciate your efforts and still feel OUR page has purpose and meaning worthy of moving forward. So, back to an old subject that our latest political regime has managed to bully and forcibly tried to sweep under the carpet . By lessening the rules and regulations or completely eliminating EPA standards, the situation in the Oil fields in the Dakotas continues to be as bad or worse than prior to Standing Rock. In defense of our Native American brothers who were accused of leaving what the media described as tragic disgusting mess upon forced departure, one should also keep in mind that clean up becomes virtually impossible when being under constant duress and intimidation by local, state and federal law enforcement. In my eyes that public display of Government power remains the true crime. …….So, what’s my point? Yesterday’s R.C. Journals front page news reported that since January, three(3) spills have already occurred in what was described a new and environmentally safe pipe line. Two spills were reported in North Dakota, one in Watford City on March 3, and another in Mercer County on April 4, and yet another on the same day in South Dakota, but no disclosure was made as to how large or where it exactly where it occurred. In spite of the accidents, the DAPL developers ETP, Texas based Energy Transfer Partners, was quick to point out that these spills were created mostly by connecting shippers, and no people or wildlife or waterways were affected according to new EPA standards. This glorious morning I sit here on the edge of our beautiful Black Hills under a clear and endless sky of blue, the Sun and the winds bathing my body as one of natures greatest healing properties bar none , and in this moment of illusionary peace and tranquility continue to wonder as to why we as supposedly the most intelligent species on Earth, still allow major corporation s such as big oil and a greedy government to pillage ,rape and destroy our great nation for the soul purpose of usurped power and greed. One last thing. I recently read where rather than searching for a solution to the energy crisis, our present congress found it easier to change the laws and now the health dept, is no longer required to report or notify the pubic of spills smaller than 150 barrels unless water contamination is involved. Pretty convenient huh! And that my friends are some thoughts for the day. Listen to Judith’s talk for tonight on the SOG segment , you will be sure to enjoy it. Love , Love, and more Love! Wayne.

  326. Hello Neothinkers!! I’ve been gone so much with accelerating schedules of activities … thanks so much for keeping this all going. I’ll be back to read the posts very soon!!

    Meanwhile – INVITATION TO SCHOOL OF GENIUS/RISE OF NEO-TECH tomorrow May 22nd at 6:00 CT!! It was spontaneously decided Friday to do an interactive conversational format to discuss the phenomenal changes occurring right now on our planet – and how it’s affecting us personally, as well as in the collective consciousness. Steve and Charlie will integrate with me on a message that is timely about wakeup calls we experience during this timeline of ongoing changes and shifts. Steve’s message bringing a personal side from a recent experience can be shown along with the more intentionally conscious underlying Neothinking perspective of the true reality. We’ll explore what lies beneath the surface of the chaos and disaster reactions the entire world is living by now — all predictions in Dr. Wallace’s and mark’s writings. And see why and how aspects of Universal changes are bringing these things to an end in our future.

    The sub-title of this message is: “Why Do I Feel How I Feel Right Now?” So, come join us for this powerful and fun informal discussion!! Look forward to your being there … YA’ALL COME!!! Thanks so much.

    Judith

  327. May 21, 1927
    ==========
    American pilot Charles A. Lindbergh landed at Le Bourget Field in Paris, successfully
    completing the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight and the first ever nonstop
    flight between New York to Paris. His single-engine monoplane, The Spirit
    of St. Louis, had lifted off from Roosevelt Field in New York 33 1/2 hours before.

    Charles Augustus Lindbergh, born in Detroit in 1902, took up flying at the age of 20. In
    1923, he bought a surplus World War I Curtiss “Jenny” biplane and toured the country
    as a barnstorming stunt flyer. In 1924, he enrolled in the Army Air Service flying school
    in Texas and graduated at the top of his class as a first lieutenant. He became an
    airmail pilot in 1926 and pioneered the route between St. Louis and Chicago.
    Among U.S. aviators, he was highly regarded.

    In May 1919, the first transatlantic flight was made by a U.S. hydroplane that flew from
    New York to Plymouth, England, via Newfoundland, the Azores Islands, and Lisbon.
    Later that month, Frenchman Raymond Orteig, an owner of hotels in New York, put up
    a purse of $25,000 to the first aviator or aviators to fly nonstop from Paris to New York
    or New York to Paris. In June 1919, the British fliers John W. Alcock and Arthur W. Brown
    made the first nonstop transatlantic flight, flying 1,960 miles from Newfoundland to
    Ireland. The flight from New York to Paris would be nearly twice that distance.

    Orteig said his challenge would be good for five years. In 1926, with no one having
    attempted the flight, Orteig made the offer again. By this time, aircraft technology
    had advanced to a point where a few thought such a flight might be possible.
    Several of the world’s top aviators – including American polar explorer Richard Byrd,
    French flying ace Rene Fonck – decided to accept the challenge, and so did Charles
    Lindbergh.

    Lindbergh convinced the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce to sponsor the flight, and
    a budget of $15,000 was set. The Ryan Airlines Corporation of San Diego volunteered
    to build a single-engine aircraft to his specifications. Extra fuel tanks were added,
    and the wing span was increased to 46 feet to accommodate the additional weight.
    The main fuel tank was placed in front of the cockpit because it would be safest
    there in the event of a crash. This meant Lindbergh would have no forward
    vision, so a periscope was added. To reduce weight, everything that was
    not utterly essential was left out. There would be no radio, gas gauge,
    night-flying lights, navigation equipment, or parachute. Lindbergh
    would sit in a light seat made of wicker. Unlike other aviators
    attempting the flight, Lindbergh would be alone, with no
    navigator or co-pilot.

    The aircraft was christened The Spirit of St. Louis, and on May 12, 1927, Lindbergh flew
    it from San Diego to New York, setting a new record for the fastest transcontinental
    flight. Bad weather delayed Lindbergh’s transatlantic attempt for a week. On the
    night of May 19, nerves and a newspaperman’s noisy poker game kept him up
    all night. Early the next morning, though he hadn’t slept, the skies were
    clear and he rushed to Roosevelt Field on Long Island. Six men had
    died attempting the long and dangerous flight he was about to
    take.

    At 7:52 a.m. EST on May 20, The Spirit of St. Louis lifted off from Roosevelt Field, so
    loaded with fuel that it barely cleared the telephone wires at the end of the runway.
    Lindbergh traveled northeast up the coast. After only four hours, he felt tired and
    flew within 10 feet of the water to keep his mind clear. As night fell, the aircraft left
    the coast of Newfoundland and set off across the Atlantic. At about 2 a.m. on May 21,
    Lindbergh passed the halfway mark, and an hour later dawn came. Soon after,
    The Spirit of St. Louis entered a fog, and Lindbergh struggled to stay awake,
    holding his eyelids open with his fingers and hallucinating that ghosts
    were passing through the cockpit.

    After 24 hours in the air, he felt a little more awake and spotted fishing boats in the water.
    At about 11 a.m. (3 p.m. local time), he saw the coast of Ireland. Despite using only
    rudimentary navigation, he was two hours ahead of schedule and only three
    miles off course. He flew past England and by 3 p.m. EST was flying over
    France. It was 8 p.m. in France, and night was falling.

    At the Le Bourget Aerodrome in Paris, tens of thousands of Saturday night revelers had
    gathered to await Lindbergh’s arrival. At 10:24 a.m. local time, his gray and white
    monoplane slipped out of the darkness and made a perfect landing in the air
    field. The crowd surged on The Spirit of St. Louis, and Lindbergh, weary
    from his 33 1/2-hour, 3,600-mile journey, was cheered and lifted
    above their heads. He hadn’t slept for 55 hours. Two French
    aviators saved Lindbergh from the boisterous crowd,
    whisking him away in an automobile. He was an
    immediate international celebrity.

    President Calvin Coolidge dispatched a warship to take the hero home, and “Lucky Lindy”
    was given a ticker-tape parade in New York and presented with the Congressional
    Medal of Honor. His place in history, however, was not complete.

    In 1932, he was the subject of international headlines again when his infant son,
    Charles Jr., was kidnapped, unsuccessfully ransomed, and then found murdered
    in the woods near the Lindbergh home. German-born Bruno Richard Hauptmann
    was convicted of the crime in a controversial trial and then executed. Then, in the
    late 1930s and early 1940s, Lindbergh became a spokesperson for the U.S.
    isolationism movement and was sharply criticized for his apparent
    Nazi sympathies and anti-Semitic views. After the outbreak of
    World War II, the fallen hero traveled to the Pacific as a
    military observer and eventually flew more than two
    dozen combat missions, including one in which he
    downed a Japanese aircraft. Lindbergh’s war – time service
    largely restored public faith in him, and for many years later he worked
    with the U.S. government on aviation issues. In 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower
    appointed him brigadier general in the Air Force Reserve. He died in Hawaii in 1974.

    Lindbergh’s autobiographical works include “We” (1927),
    The Spirit of St. Louis (1953) and The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh (1970).
    ====================

  328. May 21, 1955
    ==========
    John Lennon once famously said that “if you tried to give rock and roll another name,
    you might call it ‘Chuck Berry.’” That’s how foundational Berry’s contributions were
    to the music that changed America and the world beginning in the mid-1950s.
    Even more than Elvis Presley – who was an incomparable performer, but
    of other people’s songs – Chuck Berry created the do-it-yourself
    template that most rock-and-rollers still seek to follow. If
    there can be said to be a single day on which his profound influence
    on the sound and style of rock and roll began, it was this day in 1955, when
    an unknown Chuck Berry paid his first visit to a recording studio and cut the
    record that would make him famous: “Maybellene.”

    Berry was a part-time professional musician in his native St. Louis and primarily a
    performer of the blues, but an avid experimenter with other sounds. On a visit to
    Chicago in May 1955, Berry approached his idol, the great bluesman Muddy Waters,
    to ask for career advice. Waters pointed him in the direction of his record label,
    Chess Records, where Berry managed a face-to-face meeting with Leonard Chess
    and an invitation to return for an audition later that week. When Berry returned,
    he hoped that Chess would sign him on the strength of one of his blues numbers,
    but it was a strange rhythm-and-blues/country-western hybrid called “Ida Red”
    that caught Chess’s ear. Before it was recorded, “Ida Red’ got new lyrics to go
    with a new title — ”Maybellene” — but it retained the totally original sound that
    Berry had given it.

    Berry returned to St. Louis unsure of what would come of his Chicago recording
    session. In the meantime, Leonard Chess made a business deal that was
    commonplace at the time, trading co-songwriting credit and a third
    of royalties to the prominent DJ Alan Freed in exchange for his
    help in promoting “Maybellene.” While audiences legitimately
    went wild over the backbeat-meets-hillbilly sound of “Maybellene,”
    it surely did not hurt the record’s chances of success to have Freed play
    the single for two hours straight during his WINS radio show in the early summer
    of 1955. Chuck Berry had returned to his part-time job in construction and begun training
    to be a hairdresser when “Maybellene” hit the airwaves. After “Maybellene” became a #1 R&B hit
    and a #5 pop hit—the first hit rock-and-roll single by a black performer — Berry set down his hammer
    and scissors in favor of his Gibson ES-350T and major place in American cultural history.
    ===================
    MAYBELLINE
    by Chuck Berry

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjrQWU2EcsA
    —————–

  329. —THE DETROIT AREA CLUBHOUSE—
    meets the second Saturday of the month.
    —————————————
    When? . . . . . . . . . .Saturday June 10, 2017.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .3 pm – 6 pm.
    Where? . . . . . . . . . .Kerby’s Koney Island.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Livonia, MI.
    What?. . . . . . . . . . . The four pillars.
    Why?. . . . . . . . . . . ..Why not?
    ================================

  330. May 20, 1873
    ==========
    On this day in 1873, San Francisco businessman Levi Strauss tailor Jacob Davis are given
    a patent to create work pants reinforced with metal rivets, marking the birth of one of
    the world’s most famous garments -blue jeans.

    Born Loeb Strauss in Buttenheim, Bavaria, in 1829, the young Strauss immigrated to
    New York with his family in 1847 after the death of his father. By 1850, Loeb had
    changed his name to Levi and was working in the family dry goods business,
    J. Strauss Brother & Co. In early 1853, Levi Strauss went west to seek his
    fortune during the heady days of the Gold Rush.

    In San Francisco, Strauss established a wholesale dry goods business under his own name
    and worked as the West Coast representative of his family’s firm. His new business
    imported clothing, fabric and other dry goods to sell in the small stores opening
    all over California and other Western states to supply the rapidly expanding
    communities of gold miners and other settlers. By 1866, Strauss had moved
    his company to expanded headquarters and was a well-known
    businessman and supporter of the Jewish community in
    San Francisco.

    Jacob Davis, a tailor in Reno, Nevada, was one of Levi Strauss’ regular customers.
    In 1872, he wrote a letter to Strauss about his method of making work pants with
    metal rivets on the stress points – at the corners of the pockets and the base of
    the button fly – to make them stronger. As Davis didn’t have the money for the
    necessary paperwork, he suggested that Strauss provide the funds and that the
    two men get the patent together. Strauss agreed enthusiastically, and the patent
    for “Improvement in Fastening Pocket-Openings” – the innovation that would
    produce blue jeans as we know them – was granted to both men on May 20, 1873.

    Strauss brought Davis to San Francisco to oversee the first manufacturing facility
    for “waist overalls,” as the original jeans were known. At first they employed
    seamstresses working out of their homes, but by the 1880s, Strauss had
    opened his own factory. The famous 501 brand jean–known until 1890
    as “XX” – was soon a bestseller, and the company grew quickly. By
    the 1920s, Levi’s denim waist overalls were the top-selling men’s
    work pant in the United States. As decades passed, the craze
    only grew, and now blue jeans are worn by men and
    women, young and old, around the world.
    ============

  331. May 19, 1965
    ==========
    From the Bible to Oedipus Rex to King Lear, literature has long concerned itself with
    the difficult relations that sometimes arise between members of different generations.
    The Fifth Commandment — ”Honor thy father and thy mother that you may have a
    long life in the land which the Eternal, your God, is giving you” — is perhaps the
    earliest known acknowledgment of the human potential for intergenerational
    conflict. Yet it seems that every generation of humans has faced this
    dilemma, and perhaps never more so than during the 1960s, when
    a demographic time bomb loosed the largest generation of
    teenagers in history upon an unsuspecting world. With
    numbers on its side, this generation would set its own
    terms in the age-old conflict of youth vs. everyone
    else, and never were those terms more clearly
    expressed than in the lyrics of “My Generation” – the
    song that The Who’s Pete Townshend wrote on this day in 1965.

    Why don’t you all f-fade awayyy (Talkin’ ’bout my generation) And
    don’t try to dig what we all s-s-say (Talkin’ ’bout my generation).

    As Townshend has told the story, he wrote those lyrics on a train ride from London to
    Southampton — a train ride necessitated by the towing away of his 1935 Packard
    hearse from its parking spot in front of his house on Chesham Place, the road
    between Clarence House and Buckingham Palace. “One day I came back and
    it was gone. It turned out that [the Queen Mother] had it moved, because
    her husband had been buried in a similar vehicle and it reminded her of
    him. When I went to collect it, they wanted two hundred and fifty
    quid. I’d only paid thirty for it in the first place.” This was the
    great indignity that prompted Townshend to pen the
    immortal lyric, “Hope I die before I get old.”

    But while that lyric may have perfectly captured a youth’s-eye view of the Generation
    Gap, a more immediate concern for The Who in the spring of 1965 was whether
    they could survive their own internal conflicts long enough to record
    “My Generation.” The Who was famous for infighting even then,
    and lead singer Roger Daltrey was on his way out in a “You’re fired!
    You can’t fire me because I quit!” dispute until the runaway success of
    “My Generation” forced the entire band to reconsider the split. As it turned
    out, the song that Pete Townshend wrote on this day in 1965 is what kept The
    Who together and set them on a course toward becoming one of the most successful
    rock bands of the era
    ==============
    MY GENERATION
    by The Who

    .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN5zw04WxCc
    ————-

  332. GOOD AFTERNOON MY NEO-THINK FRIENDS AND FAMILY!!

    I HAVE BEEN DOING SOME READING AND SOME SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH RECENTLY, AND i CAME ACROSS A FEW QUOTATIONS WHICH WERE MADE BY ONE OF MY FAVORITE SCIENTISTS.

    I WILL SHARE ONE OF THEM WITH YOU OCCASIONALLY, JUST TO WHET YOUR APPETITE FOR MORE. I TRUST THAT EACH ONE OF THEM WILL GIVE YOU A LOT TO “THINK” ABOUT!!

    ________________________________________________________________________

    “LIFE” IS — AND WILL EVER REMAIN AN EQUATION INCAPABLE OF SOLUTION, BUT IT CONTAINS CERTAIN “KNOWN FACTORS.” –{ NICOLA TESLA}–

    LOVE, CAROL AND FOREST

  333. May 18, 1980
    ==========
    At 8:32 a.m. PDT, Mount St. Helens – a volcanic peak in southwestern
    Washington – erupted, killing 57 people and devastating some 210 square miles of wilderness.

    Called Louwala-Clough, or “the Smoking Mountain,” by Native Americans, Mount St. Helens
    is located in the Cascade Range and stood 9,680 feet before its eruption. The volcano has
    erupted periodically during the last 4,500 years, and the last active period was between
    1831 and 1857. On March 20, 1980, noticeable volcanic activity began again with a series
    of earth tremors centered on the ground just beneath the north flank of the mountain.
    These earthquakes escalated, and on March 27 a minor eruption occurred, and Mount
    St. Helens began emitting steam and ash through its crater and vents.

    Small eruptions continued daily, and in April people familiar with the mountain noticed changes
    to the structure of its north face. A scientific study confirmed that a bulge more than a mile in
    diameter was moving upward and outward over the high north slope by as much as six feet
    per day. The bulge was caused by an intrusion of magma below the surface, and authorities
    began evacuating hundreds of people from the sparsely settled area near the mountain. A
    few people refused to leave.

    On the morning of May 18, Mount St. Helens was shaken by an earthquake of about 5.0
    magnitude, and the entire north side of the summit began to slide down the mountain.
    The giant landslide of rock and ice, one of the largest recorded in history, was followed
    and overtaken by an enormous explosion of steam and volcanic gases, which surged
    northward along the ground at high speed. The lateral blast stripped trees from
    most hill slopes within six miles of the volcano and leveled nearly all vegetation
    for as far as 12 miles away. Approximately 10 million trees were felled by the blast.

    The landslide debris, liquefied by the violent explosion, surged down the mountain at
    speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour. The avalanche flooded Spirit Lake and roared
    down the valley of the Toutle River for a distance of 13 miles, burying the river to an
    average depth of 150 feet. Mudflows, pyroclastic flows, and floods added to the
    destruction, destroying roads, bridges, parks, and thousands more acres
    of forest. Simultaneous with the avalanche, a vertical eruption of gas
    and ash formed a mushrooming column over the volcano more
    than 12 miles high. Ash from the eruption fell on Northwest
    cities and towns like snow and drifted around the globe
    within two weeks. Fifty-seven people, thousands of
    animals, and millions of fish were killed by the
    eruption of Mount St. Helens.

    By late in the afternoon of May 18, the eruption subsided, and by early the next
    day it had essentially ceased. Mount St. Helens’ volcanic cone was completely
    blasted away and replaced by a horseshoe-shaped crater–the mountain lost
    1,700 feet from the eruption. The volcano produced five smaller explosive
    eruptions during the summer and fall of 1980 and remains active today.
    In 1982, Congress made Mount St. Helens a protected research area.

    Mount St. Helens became active again in 2004. On March 8, 2005, a 36,000-foot
    plume of steam and ash was expelled from the mountain, accompanied by a
    minor earthquake. Though a new dome has been growing steadily near
    the top of the peak and small earthquakes are frequent, scientists do
    not expect a repeat of the 1980 catastrophe anytime soon.
    ================

  334. May 18, 2004
    ==========
    On this day in 2004, 40-year-old Arizona Diamondbacks lefthander Randy Johnson became
    the oldest pitcher in major league history to throw a perfect game, leading his team to
    a 2-0 victory over the Atlanta Braves. A “perfect game” is when a pitcher faces a
    minimum 27 batters, recording 27 outs. Through the 2006 season, only 17
    perfect games had been thrown, including 15 in the modern era (post-1900).

    Johnson, known for his overpowering fastball, struck out 13 batters in the game. He led the
    National League in strikeouts for the fifth time that year; he had previously won four
    strikeout titles in the American League, even though managers routinely stacked
    their lineups with right-handed hitters to combat Johnson’s utter dominance
    of left-handers. The 6-foot-10-inch “Big Unit” used his height and length to
    full advantage, striding towards the plate and throwing the ball sidearm,
    so that left-handers could not see the pitch until it was on top of them or past them.

    Johnson had already thrown a no-hitter in 1990 for the Seattle Mariners; he missed a perfect
    game that day by walking seven batters. In 1995, still with Seattle, he won his first of five
    Cy Young Awards, given each year to the best American League and National League
    pitchers. His next four Cy Youngs came consecutively from 1999 to 2002, while he
    pitched for the National League’s Arizona Diamondbacks. In 2001, Johnson set a
    major league record with an average of 13.41 strikeouts per nine innings. He
    was also the fifth player to throw no-hitters in both the American League
    and National League after Cy Young, Jim Bunning, Nolan Ryan and Hideo Nomo.

    The oldest pitcher to throw a no-hitter in the major leagues
    was 44-year-old Texas Ranger Nolan Ryan in 1991.
    ================

  335. May 17, 2012
    ==========
    On this day in 2012, singer and songwriter Donna Summer – who rose to fame during
    the 1970s with such disco anthems as “Love to Love You Baby” and “Hot Stuff” died at
    age 63 in Naples, Florida, after battling cancer. Also known for such 1980s hits as “She
    Works Hard for the Money,” the five-time Grammy Award winner influenced scores of
    other artists with her music, which has been sampled by Pet Shop Boys, Beyonce and
    Ne-Yo, among others.

    LaDonna Adrian Gaines was born on December 31, 1948, in Boston. She grew up singing in
    church, and in the late 1960s moved to Germany after being cast in a touring production
    of the Broadway rock musical “Hair.” In the early 1970s, while continuing to work as a
    singer in Europe, she was briefly married to Austrian actor Hellmuth Sommer. When
    the two divorced, she kept a variation of his last name as her stage name.

    Summer shot to prominence with the 1975 release of “Love to Love You Baby,” which became
    a hit in dance clubs across Europe and the United States. She had another hit single with
    1977’s “I Feel Love,” whose synthesized sound is credited with helping to pioneer
    electronic dance music. In 1978 Summer had her first number-one hit in
    America with a disco arrangement of the Jimmy Webb song “MacArthur
    Park.” That same year, Summer played an aspiring disco singer in the
    movie “Thank God It’s Friday.” She won her first Grammy Award,
    in the best R&B female vocal performance category, for “Last
    Dance,” which appeared on the movie’s soundtrack. “Last Dance” also
    scored an Academy Award for best original song. In 1979 she had three more
    number-one singles: “Hot Stuff,” “Bad Girls” and a duet with Barbra Streisand, “No
    More Tears (Enough Is Enough).” Other hits that year for Summer, who had become
    one of the most successful singers of the disco era, included “Dim All the Lights” and “On the Radio.”

    After disco’s popularity peaked in the late 1970s, Summer began recording in a variety of musical
    genres, from new wave rock to gospel. She even penned a song, “Starting Over Again,” that
    became a number-one country single for Dolly Parton in 1980. In 1983 Summer released
    her 11th studio album, “She Works Hard for the Money,” which reached number nine
    on the U.S. Billboard chart and whose title track became a pop-rock feminist
    anthem. She had the last top 10 single of her career in 1989 with “This
    Time I Know It’s for Real.”

    Summer, who moved to Nashville with her second husband in the mid-1990s, continued
    to record and perform, earning her fifth Grammy in 1998, in the best dance recording
    category, for “Carry On.” In 2008 she released her 17th and final studio album, “Crayons,”
    which included three songs that made it onto the dance music charts. In 2009 Summer
    performed at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway, in honor of President
    Barack Obama. The music icon’s last single, “To Paris With Love,” was released in 2010.

    On May 17, 2012, Summer, the mother of three daughters, died from
    non-smoking-related lung cancer. She was buried in Nashville.
    =================

  336. May 16, 1975
    =========
    Via the southeast ridge route, Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei became the first
    woman to reach the summit of Mt. Everest – the tallest mountain in the world.

    Located in the central Himalayas on the border of China and Nepal, Everest stands
    29,035 feet above sea level. Called Chomo-Lungma, or “Mother Goddess of the Land,”
    by the Tibetans, the English named the mountain after Sir George Everest, an early
    19th-century British surveyor of the Himalayas. In May 1953, climber and explorer
    Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal made the first successful
    climb of the peak. Hillary was later knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for the achievement.
    Ten years later, American James Whittaker reached Everest’s summit with his Sherpa
    climbing partner, Nawang Gombu. In 1975, Junko Tabei conquered the mountain, and
    in 1988 Stacy Allison became the first American woman to successfully climb Everest.
    ================

  337. May 15, 1973
    =========
    California Angel Nolan Ryan struck out 12 Kansas City Royals and walked three to
    pitch the first no-hitter of his career. The game was played under protest, as
    Royals Manager Jack McKeon complained that Ryan wasn’t maintaining
    contact with the pitching rubber while throwing.

    Lynn Nolan Ryan, Jr. was born January 31, 1947, in Refugio, Texas and raised in Alvin, 12 miles
    southeast of Houston. As a high school sophomore, he was scouted by Red Murff of the
    New York Mets. Ryan’s coach told Murff of the young pitcher’s intimidating fastballs,
    so powerful they had broken catchers’ bones. Murff was impressed – his report
    said Ryan had the “best arm I’ve ever seen in my life.”

    Nolan joined the Mets in 1968, and was soon a highly regarded fireballer. In what is often
    pointed to as one of the most short-sighted moves in baseball history, the Mets traded
    Ryan to the Angels for third baseman Jim Fregosi after the 1971 season. Ryan went
    19-16 in 1972, striking out 328 batters. Fregosi hit a disappointing .232 in 1972
    then was sold to the Texas Rangers in early July 1973. Meanwhile, Ryan
    pitched his first no hitter on this day in 1973, and then followed it up
    with a second on July 15 versus the Detroit Tigers in Tiger Stadium.
    Ryan struck out a total of 383 batters in 1973, setting a new major
    league record. He went on to throw five more no-hitters in his
    career, with the last coming on May 1, 1991, when he was
    44 years old.

    Ryan’s work ethic was the secret to his success. A believer in the theory that pitching
    power comes from the legs and not the arms, Ryan ran every day and chalked up his
    consistency and endurance to his strong legs. In 1983, Ryan broke the legendary
    Walter Johnson’s career strikeout record. He pitched for 27 years in the big
    leagues, with the Mets, Angels, Astros and Rangers. He struck out 5,714
    batters in his career, breaking his own record 2,206 times. He was
    324-292 for his career, with a 3.19 career ERA.

    Nolan Ryan was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999.
    ===============

  338. May 14, 1998
    ==========
    On this day in 1998, the legendary singer, actor and show-business
    icon Frank Sinatra died of a heart attack in Los Angeles, at the age of 82.

    Sinatra emerged from an Italian-American family in Hoboken, New Jersey, to
    become the first modern superstar of popular music, with an entertainment
    career that spanned more than five decades. In the first incarnation of his
    singing career, he was a master of the romantic ballads popular during
    World War II. After his appeal began to wane in the late 1940s, Sinatra
    reinvented himself as a suave swinger with a rougher, world-weary
    singing style, and began a spectacular comeback in the 1950s.

    In addition to his great musical success, Sinatra appeared in 58 films – one of his earliest
    was Anchors Aweigh (1945). Playing a cocky Italian-American soldier who meets a violent
    death in From Here to Eternity (1953), co-starring Burt Lancaster and Montgomery Clift,
    Sinatra won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His film career flourished after
    that, as he starred as Nathan Detroit in the movie musical Guys and Dolls (1955) and played
    a heroin addict in The Man With the Golden Arm (1955), for which he was nominated for
    the Oscar for Best Actor. He also starred in the musicals High Society (1956) and Pal Joey (1957)
    and turned in a memorable performance as an Army investigator in the acclaimed film
    The Manchurian Candidate (1962).

    By the late 1950s, Sinatra had become the epitome of show-business success and glamorous,
    rough-edged masculinity. He even headed up his own entourage, known as the Rat Pack,
    which included Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop. The
    group had originally formed around Humphrey Bogart, who died in 1957. The Rat
    Pack first appeared together on the big screen in 1960’s casino caper Ocean’s
    Eleven. They would go on to make Sergeant’s Three (1962), Four for Texas (1963)
    and Robin and the Seven Hoods (1964). Onscreen and in real life, the Pack’s famous
    stomping grounds included Las Vegas, Los Angeles and New York (notably the Copacabana Club).

    Sinatra worked steadily in film throughout the 1960s, though many of his performances
    seemed almost perfunctory. His last major Hollywood role came in 1980’s The First
    Deadly Sin. A famous heartthrob, Sinatra married four times, divorcing his longtime
    sweetheart Nancy Barbato after a decade and three children (Nancy, Frank Jr. and
    Christina) to marry the actress Ava Gardner in 1951. Their marriage lasted less than
    two years, and in 1966 Sinatra married the 21-year-old actress Mia Farrow, 30 years
    his junior; they were divorced in 1968. In 1976, he married Barbara Blakely Marx (the
    former wife of Zeppo Marx), and they remained together until his death.
    ===============

  339. May 13, 1975
    ==========
    Bob Wills – one of the most influential musicians in the history of
    country-western music – died on this day in 1975.

    Born James Robert Wills in 1905, he was trained to be a musician from an early age. His father was a champion fiddle player, and he began giving Wills lessons as soon as the boy could hold the instrument. By the time he was 10, Wills was a skilled fiddler and a competent guitar and mandolin player.

    Wills left home at 16 and worked various jobs, like picking cotton and preaching. He eventually joined a traveling medicine show, where he played fiddle and met Herman Arnspiger, a Texas farm boy who had learned to play guitar from a Sears catalog guitar book. The pair began playing at dances and parties around Fort Worth, and after adding a singer, won a regular radio gig performing as the Light Crust Doughboys.

    In 1933, the group separated and Wills formed the band that would make him famous: Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. With the Playboys, Wills perfected his hard-driving country-western sound, which drew heavily on the rhythms of the popular jazz-swing bands of the era. Wills’ fiddle playing sounded nothing like the traditional folk music he had heard as a child. By using strong beats and syncopation, he produced a sound that seemed to cry out for dancing.

    Wills eventually added drums, brass, and woodwinds to the Texas Playboys, making himself into a country-western bandleader in the style of Benny Goodman or Artie Shaw. Several of his bands were as large as 22 pieces, and Wills worked with more than 600 musicians in his long career. In 1940, Wills took some of the Playboys to Hollywood, where the band appeared in a number of western movies that won them a nationwide following. Among their many hits were highly danceable tunes like, “Take Me Back to Tulsa,” “Bubbles in My Beer,” and the ever popular “San Antonio Rose.” All told, Wills has sold more than 20 million records to date

    Many critics have argued Wills and the Texas Playboys had a greater influence on the sounds of country-western music than any other performer or group. In recognition of his achievements, Wills was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1968. He believed his chances of winning were so slim he was backstage chatting with friends when the award was announced. When he was finally tracked down and brought on stage, he said, “I don’t usually take my hat off to nobody. But I sure do to you folks.”

    Stricken by a series of severe strokes, he died in 1975 at the age of 70.
    ===============
    SAN ANTONIO ROSE
    by Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5tIutyipSE
    ————–

  340. May 12, 1970
    ==========
    On this day in 1970, Chicago Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hit the 500th home run
    of his career. “Mr. Cub” was known for his engaging personality and love of the
    game – traits on display even as the dismal Cubs suffered through losing season
    after losing season.

    The Chicago White Stockings, as the Cubs were originally known, were a charter
    member of the National League, – founded in 1876.

    In the early years of the franchise, the nicknames “Orphans” and “Colts” were used as
    often as White Stockings. They were first called the “Cubs,” a reference to their
    burgeoning young talent, in 1902 and officially adopted the name five years
    later. In 1906, the team’s 116 wins set a big league record. Though they
    lost the 1906 World Series to their cross-town rivals the White Sox,
    they won the next two, overcoming the great Ty Cobb and his
    Detroit Tigers in 1908.

    The Cubs’ early success had evaporated by the time Ernie Banks joined the team in 1953.
    They had a losing record every year from 1946 to 1952, during which time they finished
    in last place three times. Despite Banks’ contributions, the Cubs went 64-90 in 1954.
    In 1955, Banks played brilliantly, manning shortstop and hitting 44 homers with
    five grand slams (a single-season record that stood for 20 years) – but the
    Cubs still finished the season at 72-81. Overall, only five of Banks’ 19
    seasons with the Cubs were winning efforts. These included 1969,
    when in late August, the team found itself in first place by
    nine-and-a-half games over the “Amazing’” New York
    Mets. The Mets rallied in September, and the Cubs
    collapsed, losing 10 of their final 11 games and
    missing the playoffs yet again.

    Banks was named the team’s most valuable player twice, in 1958 and 1959, and led
    the National League in RBIs twice and home runs twice, finishing with 512 home
    runs for his career. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1977. Despite a long
    and impressive career, Banks never got a chance to play in the post-season.

    The Cubs last won the World Series in 1908, and last won the National League pennant
    in 1945, a season the majority of major league stars missed because they were fighting
    in World War II. They recently, however, won a World Series.
    =============
    TALKIN’ CUBS BASEBALL
    by Terry Cashman

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5POqzbaVZ0
    ————-

  341. May 15, 2017

    Hello Myles,
    I just finished reading your most recent Posts, and I planned to respond to them yesterday, however, I always type my responses into a Word Document before pasting them into this Wikipedia Site. I opened the file to which I had attached your name, and many of your Posts from the Past appeared. I had SAVED these Posts which you wrote in the past, because in them you wrote about your “Child of the Past” and the Montauk Project. You also wrote about the Name you were given – RHINO!! You wrote about how that Name had been “Programmed” into your mind, and how it affected your life.

    Well, Myles, — I have read many reports regarding these kinds of things — which were written about within books I had purchased in the past.

    I have always had a suspicion that many of the Science Fiction Movies on Television were based on things which were “Actually Being Done” or “Experimented With” – SECRETLY, — within the Montauk Project, or in other Covert Projects in Underground Secret Military Locations. These ideas were presented in movies like “Brainstorm, The Time Tunnel, Stargate, The Time Machine, Television Documentaries about Area 51, Area 52, The Philadelphia Experiment, The X-Files” etc.etc.!!

    Your Current Posts deal with the subjects of becoming “IN TUNE” with the Vibrations of the Earth, the Solar System, the Universe, the Slowing down of the Earth’s Rotation, its REVERSAL, and the coming Polar Shift!! Some of these subjects were addressed in the Movies titled “THE CORE,” The Day After Tomorrow, and “2012.”

    I have studied OTHER SOURCES which deal with the subject of the coming Polar Shift, and some of these reports were published in 1970. The report stated that some of the “EFFECTS” could include Great Earthquakes and Gigantic Tsunamis.

    I believe that this Earth has experienced Polar shifts in the Past, resulting in Worldwide Earthquakes which literally caused the Earth’s surface to be turned inside out, and Gigantic surface plates to be driven ONE UNDER THE OTHER like shuffling playing cards. During this time, — “CONTINENTAL DRIFT” has taken place leaving HUGE BODIES OF WATER, called the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans!! Scientists have found the location of where the Giant Matterhorn Mountain was SHEARED OFF at its base, and MOVED about 400 MILES to its PRESENT LOCATION. They have found EVIDENCE of IMMENSE TSUNAMIS and FLOODS which left the remains of SEA SHELLS, and FOSSILS of many other forms of SEA LIFE at the TOPS of MOUNTAINS.

    I have PERSONALLY SEEN the evidence of these FLOOD WATERS which remained for MANY YEARS – HIGH IN THE HILLS above the COLUMBIA RIVER, and high in OTHER HILLS above the rivers moving through the Small towns in EASTERN WASHINGTON STATE and also in EASTERN OREGON STATE.

    I used to HIKE with a BACK-PACK on many mountain trails, and I would occasionally walk OFF of the trails and find un-expected places where HUGE ROCKS have been worn smooth by water which flowed over them — and downward toward the present day rivers which flow past the Small Towns I mentioned above.

    I have read reports that we could experience ASTEROID IMPACTS on the Earth and other Solar Disasters such as Gigantic Sun Spots which create HUGE SOLAR FLARES capable of SCORCHING THE EARTH with “FIRE!!”

    This is NOT going to be a PLEASANT experience for the Inhabitants of this Planet, but there WILL BE MANY who have “Prepared Themselves” for these events, and THEY will SURVIVE and LIVE ONWARD for many years!!

    THANK YOU MYLES – for your most recent Posts, They give us a WHOLE LOT to THINK about.

    Love to YOU, your FAMILY, and all our OTHER Neo-Think Members, —

    Carol and Forest

  342. May 11, 1981
    =========
    In what would prove to be the next to the last concert of his tragically short life, Bob
    Marley shared the bill at Madison Square Garden with the hugely popular American
    funk band The Commodores. With no costumes, no choreography and no set design
    to speak of, “The reggae star had the majority of his listeners on their feet and in the
    palm of his hand,” according to New York Times critic Robert Palmer. “After this
    show of strength, and Mr. Marley’s intense singing and electric stage presence, the
    Commodores were a letdown.” Only days after his triumphant shows in New York City,
    Bob Marley collapsed while jogging in Central Park and later received a grim diagnosis:
    a cancerous growth on an old soccer injury on his big toe had metastasized and spread
    to Marley’s brain, liver and lungs. Less than eight months later, on May 11, 1981, Bob
    Marley, the soul and international face of reggae music, died in a Miami, Florida, hospital.
    He was only 36 years old.

    Nesta Robert Marley was born on February 6, 1945, in rural St. Ann Parish, Jamaica, the
    son of a middle-aged white Jamaican Marine officer and an 18-year-old black Jamaican
    girl. At the age of nine, Marley moved to Trench Town, a tough West Kingston ghetto
    where he would meet and befriend Neville “Bunny” Livingston (later Bunny Wailer)
    and Peter McIntosh (later Peter Tosh) and drop out of school at age 14 to make
    music. Jamaica at the time was entering a period of incredible musical creativity.
    As transistor radios became available on an island then served only by a staid,
    BBC-style national radio station, the music of America suddenly became accessible
    via stateside radio stations. From a mix of New Orleans-style rhythm and blues and
    indigenous, African-influenced musical traditions arose first ska, then rock
    steady—precursor styles to reggae, which did not take shape as a recognizable style
    of its own until the late 1960s.

    Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer performed together as The Wailers throughout
    this period, coming into their own as a group just as reggae became the dominant sound
    in Jamaica. Thanks to the international reach of Island Records, the Wailers came to
    the world’s attention in the early 1970s via their albums Catch a Fire (1972) and
    Burnin’ (1973). Eric Clapton spread the group’s name even wider by recording
    a pop-friendly version of “I Shot The Sheriff” from the latter album. With
    the departure of Tosh and Wailer in 1974, Marley took center stage in
    the group, and by the late 70s he had turned out a string of
    albums — Exodus (1977), featuring “Jamming,” “Waiting In
    Vain” and “One Love/People Get Ready;” Kaya (1978),
    featuring “Is This Love” and “Sun Is Shining”; and
    Uprising (1980), featuring “Could You Be Loved”
    and “Redemption Song.”

    While none of the aforementioned songs was anything approaching a hit in the
    United States during Bob Marley’s lifetime, they constitute a legacy that has
    only increased his fame in the years since his death on this day in 1981.
    =============
    WAZLK AND DON’T LOOK BACK

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jneJBTo87jA
    —————-

  343. May 10, 1869
    ==========
    At Promontory, Utah, California Governor Leland Stanford pounds in a ceremonial golden
    spike that completes the nation’s first transcontinental railway. After failing to hit the
    spike on his first attempt, Stanford raised the heavy sledgehammer again and
    struck a solid square blow. For the first time in American history, railways
    linked together east and west, the realization of a dream that began
    two decades earlier.

    Americans had been enthusiastic railroaders long before the transcontinental line was built.
    In 1850, more than 9,000 miles of track covered the United States. By 1860, the number
    had risen to over 30,000 miles, more miles of rail than the rest of the world altogether.
    Initially, most of the construction had been in the nation’s growing industrial centers
    in the Northeast, but by 1860, railways were rapidly expanding into the upper Midwest.

    Congress began considering how best to support the building of a transcontinental line in
    the late 1840s. The discovery of gold in California in 1848 made the issue all the more
    urgent – only a transcontinental railway could effectively tie that far-off region to
    the rest of the nation. Northern and southern politicians, however, disagreed
    over where the line should be constructed, and the project stalled for more
    than a decade.

    The outbreak of the Civil War finally broke the stalemate. Unencumbered by southern
    objections, northern legislatures approved a central route from Omaha, Nebraska,
    to Sacramento, California. More importantly, in 1862 and 1864 Congress passed
    acts that gave huge cash subsidies and land grants to private companies that
    agreed to build the tracks across the continent.

    Recognizing a moneymaking opportunity, two companies took up the challenge. The
    California-based Central Pacific began laying tracks eastward from Sacramento.
    The eastern-based Union Pacific began in Omaha and built west. The laborers
    working for the Central Pacific faced the greater challenge-building across
    the rugged Sierra Nevada Mountains. As a result, their progress was
    naturally slower than that of the work force of the Union Pacific,
    who managed to average a mile a day over mostly flat terrain.
    The Central Pacific crew was primarily Chinese immigrants, while Irish
    immigrants dominated the Union Pacific. Toward the end of the project, the
    two sides engaged in a bitter rivalry that at times took on unpleasant racist overtones.
    Both groups, however, labored heroically in difficult and frequently dangerous conditions,
    often working as long as 15 hours each day.

    When the two lines connected at Promontory in northern Utah, it was the beginning of
    a dramatic transformation of the West. A 3,000-mile journey that had previously taken
    months to complete could now take only days by rail. More importantly, the abundant
    resources of the West could be shipped quickly and profitably to insatiable eastern
    markets, greatly spurring the development of the western economy. In years to
    come, thousands of emigrants rode the rails westward to homestead land,
    encroaching on Native American territories and hastening the demise of
    their way of life. Perhaps more than any other single event, the
    completion of the transcontinental railroad enabled the
    American conquest and settlement of the West.
    ================

  344. The Southeastern Michigan Neothink Clubhouses
    are holding our SECOND QUARTER GALA EVENT.
    =======================================
    When?. . . . . . . .Saturday May 13, 2017.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:30 am – 3 pm.
    Where?. . . . . . . Greenfield Village.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dearborn, MI.
    What?. . . . . . . . The Four Pillars
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . plus Model T Rides,
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and a whole lot more.
    Why?. . . . . . . . . Why not?
    ——————
    +++++++++

  345. May 9, 1950
    =========
    On this day in 1950, Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (1911-1986) published
    Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. With this book,
    Hubbard introduced a branch of self-help psychology called
    Dianetics, which quickly caught fire and, over time, morphed
    into a belief system boasting millions of subscribers: Scientology.

    Hubbard was already a prolific and frequently published writer by the time he penned
    the book that would change his life. Under several pseudonyms in the 1930s, he published
    a great amount of pulp fiction, particularly in the science fiction and fantasy genres. In
    late 1949, having returned from serving in the Navy in World War II, Hubbard began
    publishing articles in the pages of Astounding Science Fiction, a magazine that
    published works by the likes of Isaac Asimov and Jack Williamson. Out of
    these grew the elephantine text known as Dianetics: The Modern
    Science of Mental Health.

    In Dianetics, Hubbard explained that phenomena known as “engrams” (i.e. memories) were
    the cause of all psychological pain, which in turn harmed mental and physical health. He
    went on to claim that people could become “clear,” achieving an exquisite state of
    clarity and mental liberation, by exorcising their engrams to an “auditor,” or a
    listener acting as therapist.

    Though discredited by the medical and scientific establishment, over 100,000 copies of
    Dianetics were sold in the first two years of publication, and Hubbard soon found
    himself lecturing across the country. He went on to write six more books in 1951,
    developing a significant fan base, and establishing the Hubbard Dianetics
    Research Foundation in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

    Despite his fast-growing popularity from books and touring, strife within his organization
    and Hubbard’s own personal troubles nearly crippled his success. Several of his research
    foundations had to be abandoned due to financial troubles and he went through a
    divorce from his second wife.

    By 1953, however, Hubbard was able to rebound from the widespread condemnation
    beginning to be heaped upon him, and introduced Scientology. Scientology expanded
    on Dianetics by bringing Hubbard’s popular version of psychotherapy into the realm
    of philosophy, and ultimately, religion. In only a few years, Hubbard found himself
    at the helm of a movement that captured the popular imagination. As Scientology
    grew in the 1960s, several national governments became suspicious of Hubbard,
    accusing him of quackery and brainwashing his followers. Nonetheless, Hubbard
    built his religion into a multi-million dollar movement that continues to have a
    considerable presence in the public eye, due in part to its high profile in
    Hollywood.
    =========

  346. May 9, 1971
    =========
    On this day in 1971, the last original episode of the sitcom The Honeymooners,
    starring Jackie Gleason as Brooklyn bus driver Ralph Kramden, airs.

    Although a perennial rerun favorite in syndication, The Honeymooners actually
    aired only 39 episodes in its familiar sitcom format, running for just one season
    in 1955-56. The show debuted on October 5, 1951, as a six-minute sketch on the
    variety show Cavalcade of Stars, hosted by Jackie Gleason. Cavalcade of Stars
    evolved into The Jackie Gleason Show in 1952, and Gleason continued the
    sketches, playing the blustery Ralph Kramden. Regular cast member
    Audrey Meadows soon replaced the original casting choice, Pert
    Kelton, as Ralph’s long-suffering wife, Alice, who deflated his
    get-rich-quick schemes but often saved the day. Art Carney
    played Gleason’s friend and sidekick, Ed Norton, from the
    beginning, and Joyce Randolph was the most memorable
    incarnation of Ed’s wife, Trixie.

    In 1955, Gleason had tired of the hour-long variety-show format and wanted to try
    something new. He suggested creating two half-hour programs: The Honeymooners
    and Stage Show, a musical-variety show, which Gleason would produce. Among Stage
    Show’s many musical guests was the first-time TV performer Elvis Presley, who
    visited the show in January 1956.

    In a departure from most TV shows of the time, The Honeymooners was filmed in front
    of a live audience and broadcast at a later date. To allow Gleason more time to pursue
    other producing projects, he taped two episodes a week, leaving him free for several
    months at the end of the season. Shows were taped at New York’s Adelphi Theatre
    in front of around 1,000 people.

    Unfortunately, the two shows did not appeal to audiences as much as Gleason had
    hoped. He soon returned to his hour-long variety format, occasionally including
    Honeymooners skits. He sold the full Honeymooners episodes to CBS for $1.5
    million, and they would go on to earn the network a windfall in syndication.
    In 1966, Gleason began creating hour-long Honeymooners episodes, which
    he aired in lieu of his usual variety format. From 1966 to 1970, about half of
    Gleason’s shows were these hour-long episodes. In 1971, the episodes
    were rebroadcast as their own series, until May 9, 1971, when the
    final episode aired.

    Despite its brief life as a traditional sitcom, The Honeymooners remains one of the
    most memorable TV comedies of all time, rivaled only by I Love Lucy in its pioneering
    role in television history. Its influence has stretched into modern-day sitcom classics
    such as Roseanne (also a show focused on a working-class American family) and
    Seinfeld (another sitcom about wacky New York neighbors). The devotion of
    Honeymooners fans throughout the years has bordered on cultish worship,
    including the formation of a club known as RALPH: Royal Association for
    the Longevity and Preservation of the Honeymooners.
    ============

  347. May 7, 1901
    =========
    Gary Cooper, the star of High Noon and other classic
    Westerns, was born on this in Helena, Montana.

    Born Frank James Cooper, he was the son of well-to-do lawyer who eventually won
    election as a Montana Supreme Court Justice. The family owned a 500-acre ranch
    near Helena, where Cooper became a skilled horseman. As a young man, Cooper
    put his backcountry skills to good use as a guide at Yellowstone Park, but his
    real dream was to become a cartoonist for a big city newspaper.

    After attending Grinnell College in Iowa for several years, Cooper moved to Los Angeles
    in 1924. At the time, Hollywood was churning out countless low-budget western movies
    that catered to the American fascination with a mythic west of noble cowboys, brave
    cavalry soldiers, and vicious outlaws. In a city dominated by cars, however, the
    studios found it difficult to find skilled horsemen to ride in these so-called
    “horse operas.” On a lark, Cooper had applied for work as a movie extra.
    When producers discovered he had grown up riding horses on a
    Montana ranch, they quickly put him to work as stunt rider
    and a cowboy heavy. Soon after, he abandoned the dream
    of becoming a cartoonist for the glamorous world of Hollywood.

    Cooper appeared in a string of low-budget two-reel Westerns for the next two
    years before he finally caught the eye of Sam Goldwyn of the famous MGM studio.
    Goldwyn gave him a small role in the popular 1926 movie The Winning of Barbara
    Worth, which earned Cooper favorable reviews and bigger roles. Three years
    later, Cooper won the lead part in a movie version of the famous Owen
    Wister western novel The Virginian. Cooper’s laconic, understated
    style of acting was well suited to portraying the Virginian, a coolly
    competent cowboy who avoided trouble when he could but was
    quick with a gun when his honor was at stake. Generations of
    subsequent cowboy actors, from John Wayne to Clint Eastwood,
    borrowed many elements of Cooper’s Virginian for their own characters.

    The success of The Virginian made Cooper one of Hollywood’s leading male actors.
    He went on to star in a number of films, including A Farewell to Arms (1932), Beau
    Geste (1939), and The Pride of the Yankees (1942). Cooper never abandoned the
    genre that began his career, though, and he continued to appear in successful
    Westerns like The Plainsman (1937) and The Westerner (1940).

    Appropriately, one of Cooper’s last great roles was in a Western that is generally
    considered a classic of the genre. In High Noon, Cooper plays an aging town
    marshal who faces a showdown with four killers arriving by train at noon.
    Despite having honorably served the citizens of the town for years,
    Cooper’s marshal is unable to convince any of the cowardly
    townspeople to stand with him as he confronts the outlaws. As the
    hands of a loudly ticking wall clock inch towards high noon, the marshal
    prepares to fight alone. A profound meditation on the dangers of social conformity
    and cowardice, High Noon was also a hugely entertaining and successful western tale
    of suspense. Cooper won his second Academy Award for Best Actor with High Noon (his first
    had come in 1941 for Sergeant York), confirming his status as one of the most talented actors in
    western movies.

    Cooper was 51 years old when High Noon was released. During the next decade, he made
    several other films, though none were as successful as his earlier works. In 1961, the
    Motion Picture Academy gave Cooper a special Academy Award for career
    achievement. When his friend Jimmy Stewart rose to accept the award
    for Cooper, Stewart broke down and revealed that the actor was
    seriously ill with cancer. Cooper died shortly after at the age of 60.
    ============

  348. May 7, 1965
    =========
    In the early morning hours of May 7, 1965, in a Clearwater, Florida, motel room, a
    bleary-eyed Keith Richards awoke, grabbed a tape recorder and laid down one of
    the greatest pop hooks of all time: The opening riff of “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.”
    He then promptly fell back to sleep.

    “When I woke up in the morning, the tape had run out,” Richards recalled many years
    later. “I put it back on, and there’s this, maybe, 30 seconds of ‘Satisfaction,’ in a very
    drowsy sort of rendition. And then it suddenly—the guitar goes ‘CLANG,” and then
    there’s like 45 minutes of snoring.” It wasn’t much to go on, but he played it for
    Mick Jagger later that same day. “He only had the first bit, and then he had
    the riff,” Jagger recalls. “It sounded like a country sort of thing on acoustic
    guitar—it didn’t sound like rock. But he didn’t really like it, he thought it
    was a joke… He really didn’t think it was single material, and we all
    said ‘You’re off your head.’ Which he was, of course.”

    With verses written by Jagger—Richards had already come up with the line “I can’t
    get no satisfaction”—the Stones took the song into the Chess studios in Chicago
    just three days later, on May 10, 1965, and completed it on May 12 after a flight
    to Los Angeles and an 18-hour recording session at RCA. It was there that
    Richards hooked up an early Gibson version of a fuzz box to his guitar
    and gave a riff he’d initially envisioned being played by horns its
    distinctive, iconic sound

    Though the Stones at the time were already midway through their third U.S. tour, their
    only bona fide American hits to date were “Time Is On My Side” and the recently released
    “The Last Time.” “Satisfaction” was the song that would catapult them to superstar status.
    Forty years later, when Rolling Stone magazine ranked “Satisfaction” #2 on its list of the
    “500 Greatest Songs of All Time,” it put the following historical perspective on the riff
    Keith Richards discovered on this day in 1965: “That spark in the night…was the
    crossroads: the point at which the rickety jump and puppy love of early rock and roll
    became rock.”
    ===========
    TIME IS ON MY SIDE
    by The Rolling Stones

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzcWwmwChVE
    ————–
    SATISFACTION
    by The Rolling Stones

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrIPxlFzDi0
    ——————

  349. Sunday, May 07, 2017

    Good Morning Judith, Wayne, Pete, and all my other Neo-Thinking Family, — or should I say Happy Noon Day, since it is 11:45 a.m.

    Last week, I received another Invitation Letter from Mark Hamilton, introducing me to a New 1500 page Manuscript, and I am eagerly awaiting its arrival. The EXACT TITLE of these Manuscripts is never revealed within the Invitation Letters, and that is just fine with me, even though in some cases during the past, I discovered that I now have Three Triplicates of some very large books. When this New One arrives, I will then have a total of 29 Manuscripts in my Neo-Think Library. As I continue reading them, I do everything possible to preserve them in Mint Condition, but over time they will become well-worn, just as all my other books have become.

    It has been a very difficult Month and a Half which I have just passed through — due to a severe Lung Flu, however, It is ALMOST GONE, and I am nearly back to NORMAL!! Now, I can begin to resume my studies and Scientific Research again.

    Judith, Wayne, — I have really appreciated your most recent posts, on the subjects of “WALKING,” – “PYRAMID POWERS,” – and “ANXIETY DISORDERS.” I have printed these Posts in an enlarged font, and I will be putting them into 3-Ring Binders for future reference. I have already done this with OTHER posts which you have written.

    Pete, your daily Posts of information about different Theatrical Celebrities, Inventors, Sport Celebrities, and Musicians, have been very interesting to me, and I have often wondered how each one of them got their start in life. You have answered those questions. Thank you, so Very Much.

    Myles, — I was very sick and very weak at the time when you wrote your most recent Posts, and so I have not yet read them. I have a whole lot of catching up to do, but “I WILL” get all of them read, I PROMISE YOU. Judith gave you a huge SHOUT OF PRAISE, for what you wrote, and this has inspired me to get ALL of YOUR POSTS read as well.

    Soon, I will begin research on the subject of “LIFE,” its origin, development, growth to maturity, its maintenance, and preservation!! Frank R. Wallace and Mark Hamilton, have written extensively upon this subject, as you already know, and it has helped me immeasurably.

    My PERSONAL approaches and perspectives upon these subjects – are leading me to discover and understand aspects of these Sciences which are just never approached, or opened for discussion by anyone I have ever met. Each one of us is as different from each other as the variety of Snowflakes which have been seen. We all have similarities, but somehow we are just “WIRED” differently in our perspectives and in our THINKING!!

    This means that not a Single One of us should be yearning to be like SOMEONE ELSE!! I heard one speaker say in THESE WORDS. “Don’t sit or stand there and yearn to “BE” Some Special Celebrity that you admire. — Instead, — just be “YOU.” Reach for a HIGHER goal, and become “BETTER” than that person!! SEARCH, and DISCOVER things which no one else has ever done!!” My mind is “OBSESSED” with, and “THRIVES” on these kinds of Thoughts!!

    I am inviting YOU – to DO THE SAME, because you will become “THRILLED” by what you will discover.

    Thanks for Reading my Post, and thank YOU – Mark Hamilton for the space to share these thoughts.

    With LOVE for each and every one of you, —

    Carol and Forest

  350. The Southeastern Michigan Neothink Clubhouses
    are holding our SECOND QUARTER GALA EVENT.
    =======================================
    When?. . . . . . . .Saturday May 13, 2017.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:30 am – 3 pm.
    Where?. . . . . . . Greenfield Village.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dearborn, MI.
    What?. . . . . . . . The Four Pillars
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . plus Model T Rides,
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and a whole lot more.
    Why?. . . . . . . . . Why not?
    ————————

  351. May 6, 1940
    =========
    On this day in 1940, John Steinbeck was awarded the
    Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.

    The book traces the fictional Joad family of Oklahoma as they lose their family farm
    and move to California in search of a better life. They encounter only more difficulties
    and a downward slide into poverty. The book combines simple, plain-spoken
    language and compelling plot with rich description. One of Steinbeck’s
    most effective works of social commentary, the novel also won the
    National Book Award.

    Like The Grapes of Wrath, much of Steinbeck’s work dealt with his native state of California.
    He was born and raised in the Salinas Valley, where his father was a county official and
    his mother a former schoolteacher. Steinbeck was a good student and president of
    his senior class in high school. He attended Stanford intermittently between
    1920 and 1925, then moved to New York City, where he worked as a
    manual laborer and a journalist while writing stories and novels.
    His first two novels were not successful.

    He married and moved to Pacific Grove in 1930, where his father gave him a house and a small
    income while he continued to write. His third novel, Tortilla Flat (1935), was a critical and
    financial success, as were his subsequent novels In Dubious Battle (1935) and Of Mice
    and Men (1937) – both of which offered social commentaries on injustices of various
    types. His work after World War II – including Cannery Row and The Pearl –
    continued to offer social criticism but became more sentimental.
    Steinbeck tried his hand at movie scripts in the 1940s, writing
    such successful films as Forgotten Village (1941) and Viva
    Zapata (1952). He also took up the serious study of
    marine biology and published a nonfiction book,
    The Sea of Cortez, in 1941. His book Travels
    with Charlie describes his trek across the
    U.S. in a camper truck with his poodle,
    Charlie, and his encounters with a
    fragmented America. Steinbeck
    won the Nobel Prize in 1962
    and died in New York in 1968.
    =============

  352. May 6, 1954
    =========
    On this day in 1954, at the Iffley Road Track in Oxford, England, medical student Roger
    Bannister becomes the first person in recorded history to run the mile in under four minutes.

    Roger Bannister was born in Middlesex on March 23, 1929. His parents couldn’t afford to
    send him to school, so he ran his way in — Bannister won a track scholarship to
    Oxford – where he studied medicine and was a running sensation. He
    caused a furor in England when he declined to run the 1500 meters
    in the 1948 London Olympics so he could concentrate on his
    medical studies. He did run in the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, but
    finished fourth. Again, the British press scorned him. He then resolved
    to break track and field’s most famous barrier, the four-minute mile – a feat
    many believed to be impossible. Bannister had limited time to train, as he was
    enrolled at St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School. He would run 30 minutes most days,
    focusing the rest of his time on his study of neurology.

    On May 6, 1954, Bannister was running for the Amateur Athletic Association in Oxford
    against runners from the university in their annual match. He ran with two friends,
    who paced him, and then sprinted the last 200 yards, for a record time of 3:59.4.
    Later that month, Australian John Landy broke Bannister’s record by less than
    a second. The two were then made out to be rivals.

    In August, Bannister and Landy met face-to-face at the British Empire Games in
    Vancouver, British Columbia, where 35,000 spectators watched what was
    billed as the “mile of the century.” Landy led Bannister the entire race,
    but Bannister out-sprinted Landy down the straightaway to win by
    five yards and less than a second, 3:58.8 to 3:59.6. Their two
    times were the third and fourth recorded miles run in
    under four minutes in history.

    May 6, Bannister finished his medical degree and became a practicing neurologist and
    neuroscience researcher. Knighted in 1975, Sir Roger Bannister served as director of
    the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in London.

    Long after his career as a runner had ended – in an interview with Bill Heine of BBC’s
    Radio Oxford – Bannister called running a “powerful source of self expression” and
    said of his talent on the track, “I believe that as I grew up through adolescence,
    this capacity to run without pain or discomfort became part of me, and it
    found its expression in running in cross country races, running with
    friends, for the sheer enjoyment running across the countryside.
    Running, not walking, and, eventually this became a track event
    with more and more people watching and people concerned
    with stopwatches.”
    ============

  353. May 5, 1961
    =========
    From Cape Canaveral, Florida, Navy Commander Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. is launched
    into space aboard the Freedom 7 space capsule, becoming the first American astronaut
    to travel into space. The suborbital flight, which lasted 15 minutes and reached a height
    of 116 miles into the atmosphere, was a major triumph for the National Aeronautics and
    Space Administration (NASA).

    NASA was established in 1958 to keep U.S. space efforts abreast of recent Soviet achievements,
    such as the launching of the world’s first artificial satellite – Sputnik 1 – in 1957. In the late
    1950s and early 1960s, the two superpowers raced to become the first country to put
    a man in space and return him to Earth. On April 12, 1961, the Soviet space program
    won the race when cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was launched into space, put in orbit
    around the planet, and safely returned to Earth. One month later, Shepard’s
    suborbital flight restored faith in the U.S. space program.

    NASA continued to trail the Soviets closely until the late 1960s and the successes of the
    Apollo lunar program. In July 1969, the Americans took a giant leap forward with Apollo 11,
    a three-stage spacecraft that took U.S. astronauts to the surface of the moon and returned
    them to Earth. On February 5, 1971, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, became the
    fifth astronaut to walk on the moon as part of the Apollo 14 lunar landing mission.
    =============

  354. May 5, 1904
    =========
    Boston Red Sox pitcher Cy Young throws a perfect game against the Detroit Tigers,
    who had fellow future Hall of Fame pitcher Rube Waddell on the mound. This was
    the first perfect game of the modern era; the last had been thrown by John
    Montgomery Ward in 1880. It was the second of three no-hitters that
    Young would throw, and the only perfect game.

    Denton True Young was born March 29, 1867, in Gilmore, Ohio. Young began playing
    baseball professionally in Canton, Ohio, in 1890, making just $60 a month. He won
    his final Tri-State League game for Canton – striking out 18 men – before being
    acquired in August by the Cleveland Spiders, who paid $250 for his contract
    and gave him a raise to $200 per month. His teammates in Cleveland began
    calling him “Cyrus” to poke fun at his “country” ways — they eventually
    shortened it to “Cy.” In his first big league game, Young held Cap
    Anson’s Chicago White Stockings to three hits. His performance
    prompted the normally conservative Anson to make an offer
    for Cy’s contract on the spot; he was roundly refused. As
    Young continued to assert his dominance on the
    mound, the nickname Cy came to be short for “Cyclone.”

    Cy Young was among the 111 players lured away from the National League when the
    American League was founded in 1901. Young dominated the AL in its first year,
    winning the pitching Triple Crown with 33 wins, 158 strikeouts and a 1.62 ERA.
    In 1903, Young led the Boston Americans (called the Red Sox by their fans
    before an official name change) to the American League pennant and
    then to victory in the first World Series. Young won two games and
    lost one in the series, with 17 strikeouts and a 1.59 ERA. For his
    career, though, Young was not a huge strikeout pitcher,
    preferring to use the seven players behind him – as
    many of the most successful pitchers do.

    In his 906th and final game, Young lost 1-0 to a rookie named Grover Cleveland
    Alexander. Alexander went on to win 373 games in his career, but Young felt
    that if a rookie could beat him, it was time to retire. It was the 906th game
    Young pitched, the most games played by any pitcher to that time.

    Cy Young is the all-time leader in wins with 511 and in losses with 316. In his 22
    seasons in the major leagues, he threw 749 complete games, 110 more complete
    games than his closest competitor.
    ==============
    TALKIN” BASEBALL
    by Terry Cashman

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWKA9Zi5-_Y
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  355. From curious mind magazine, (4) powers that may be hiding behind anxiety disorders.( This has been a recent development in my life, honesty being the best policy.) Anxiety has been widely regarded as a very negative condition that tends to ruin peoples everyday simple pleasures and renders them incapable of facing new challenges. In short, anxiety is commonly associated with being a purely negative thing.— BUT- What if this curse comes with certain gifts that others don’t possess?

    Scientists have been exploring the effects of anxiety for decades and they have found that besides the commonly shunned upon negative effects, anxiety comes with a set of powers too. Anxiety comes with other things such as a sense of heightened perception, and is indeed this kind of perception that makes anxiety what it is.

    (1) Life-saving instinct. Anxiety has been traced back to a much older period of human evolution than you may think. It has it’s evolutionary roots and it served as a means to protect our ancestors from dangers that would lead to premature death(just like fear.) This survival mechanism used to help people stay alert and be able to detect dangers before they would happen, however today anxiety has remained and is seen as a response to non existent dangers, yet what if their response is still relevant and useful in certain vital cases. French scientists have discovered people with anxiety possess a unique life saving 6th sense. They have found some regions of these people’s brains possess to detect threats in just 200 milliseconds! This rapid detection ability allows people with anxiety to react appropriately in cases of social threats in the environment and thus the potential to save one’s life.

    (2) Increased I.Q. What if anxiety comes hand and hand with higher IQ? Researchers at Suny Down states Med Centre in New York confirms that it does. In the study people with a general anxiety disorder were tested for IQ and researchers found that anxiety correlates positively with intelligence.

    (3) Increased empathic ability. People with anxiety are constantly obsessed with how other people feel. What if this “obsession” is not so much an obsession, but rather heightened empathic ability? Psychologists @ the Dept, of Psychology , U. of Haifa , Isreal says that is true.—According to the research , highly socially anxious people exhibited elevated empathy tendencies. They discovered that these people not only possess an increased in empathy , but that they could tell peoples emotions wit a high level of accuracy. Perhaps this is why people with social anxiety prefer avoiding other people. Empathy can be a curse as much as a gift if left uncontrolled, but whatever the reason for avoiding people , know that a socially anxious person can read your mind and emotions like no other person.

    (4) Sensing other people’s energy. While this one has not been scientifically tested as measured like the previous ones, the likeliness of this ability is very high and plausible. People with social anxiety aren’t always affected by it when around people. In fact, certain people can trigger this anxiety, while others don’t thus it’s highly appropriate to assume that people with social anxiety are able to sense the vibrations from people and feel very uncomfortable by those who emit low- frequency vibes. So while there are many things people with anxiety needs to cope with, the one thing that is for certain , anxiety comes with a set of gifts that others don’t usually possess , and perhaps anxiety is not so much a disorder but rather a state of mind that other people are not used to.( And that’s a small peek into my world. ) So to paraphrase an old Dione Warwick Song, “What the world needs now is LOVE, SWEET LOVE. Wayne

  356. May 4, 1929
    =========
    On this day in 1929, Edda van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston – who would one day be
    better known to legions of film fans as Audrey Hepburn – was born near Brussels, Belgium.

    The daughter of an English banker and a Dutch baroness, Hepburn was attending school
    in London when World War II erupted in Europe. During the war, the Nazis occupied
    Holland, where the young Audrey and her mother were staying, and the family
    suffered many hardships. Hepburn continued to pursue her ballet studies,
    and at war’s end, she returned to London, where she modeled and began
    acting in small parts on stage and screen. In 1951, Hepburn was “discovered” by
    the French writer Colette while in Monaco shooting a film. Colette insisted Hepburn
    be cast in the title role of the Broadway version of her novel Gigi, and the young actress
    made her Broadway debut that same year.

    Hepburn’s success in Gigi led directly to her being cast as the lead in the 1953 film
    Roman Holiday. For her portrayal of a headstrong young princess who falls in
    love with a journalist (played by Gregory Peck) while on the loose in Rome,
    Hepburn won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She won a Tony
    Award for Best Actress the same year, for her starring turn in
    Ondine. Over the next decade, Hepburn proved herself more than
    a match for Hollywood’s top leading men in such hits as Sabrina (1954, with
    William Holden and Humphrey Bogart), Funny Face (1957, with Fred Astaire) and
    Love in the Afternoon (1957, with Gary Cooper).

    As the inimitable Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961), Hepburn earned her
    fourth Oscar nod for Best Actress (she was also nominated for Sabrina and 1959’s
    A Nun’s Story). She sparked a controversy when she was picked to star as Eliza
    Doolittle in the film version of the musical My Fair Lady (1964), beating out
    Julie Andrews, who had originated the role on Broadway. Three years
    later, Hepburn scored a fifth Academy Award nomination for Wait
    Until Dark, a film that was produced by her then-husband, Mel
    Ferrer (they married in 1954). She left full-time acting shortly
    thereafter (though she would continue to appear sporadically in movies,
    notably as Maid Marian opposite Sean Connery’s Robin Hood in 1976’s Robin and
    Marian) and spent most of her time at her home in Switzerland. Hepburn and Ferrer, who
    had two sons, divorced in 1968, and Hepburn married Andrea Dotti, an Italian psychiatrist, the
    following year; they had one son together. After divorcing Dotti, Hepburn began a relationship with Robert Wolders, a Dutch actor, in 1980.

    In her semi-retirement from acting, Hepburn devoted most of her energy to charitable causes,
    most notably UNICEF, the United Nation’s children’s fund, for which she was named a special
    ambassador in 1988. Hepburn’s field trips for UNICEF took her around the globe, from
    Guatemala, Honduras, Venezuela and El Salvador, to Turkey, Thailand, Bangladesh
    and Sudan. She was also an eloquent public voice for the organization, helping
    to raise money and awareness for its work by speaking before the U.S.
    Congress, among other venues. In 1992, she was awarded the
    Presidential Medal of Freedom.

    Hepburn made her final film appearance in Steven Spielberg’s film Always (1989), in
    which she played an angel. In 1992, shortly after returning from a UNICEF trip to
    Somalia, Hepburn was diagnosed with colon cancer. After undergoing surgery that
    November, she died on January 20, 1993, at her home near Lausanne, Switzerland,
    at the age of 63.
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  357. May 3, 1933
    =========
    “Soul Brother #1,”The Godfather of Soul,” “Mr. Dynamite,” “Sex Machine,” “The Minister of
    the New New Super Heavy Funk.” These are some of the names by which the world would
    eventually know James Joseph Brown, Jr. -the revolutionary musical figure who was born
    on this day in 1933. The story Brown himself would often tell is that he appeared stillborn
    when he first came into the world, but that an aunt attending his birth managed to breathe
    ife into him.

    Long before he changed the course of 20th-century popular music and crowned himself
    “The Hardest Working Man in Show Business,” little James Brown may well have been
    the hardest working boy in Augusta, Georgia, where he was sent to live with his
    Aunt Honey Washington at the age of six. He’d spent the previous several
    years with his father – James, Sr. – who scraped out a meager living
    selling pine tar to the local turpentine factory in the woods of
    Barnwell County, South Carolina, just down the Savannah
    River from Augusta. James’s mother had left with another man
    when James was only four, and while Aunt Honey would play something
    of a maternal role for James, the fact that she ran a brothel and sold moonshine
    for a living made for anything but a traditional upbringing.

    While other famous musicians of his generation would get their musical training in
    the traditional context of the church, James Brown would get his on the streets,
    where between jobs as a cotton-picker, coal-scrounger and shoeshine boy, he
    also danced and sang to attract clients to his aunt’s place of business. He
    honed his talents further in prison, where he was sentenced to serve
    8-to-16 years for stealing from parked cars at the age of 15. An
    experience that might have broken another man, however,
    instead inspired Brown to dedicate himself to music. He did his
    first gospel singing while in prison, where he earned the nickname
    “Music Box” and impressed his warden and the Georgia State Parole Board
    enough with his seriousness of purpose to win his release after only three years.
    At the age of 19, a highly motivated, worldly wise and ferociously talented James Brown
    walked out of prison and began his climb toward music greatness.

    Born on this day in 1933, James Brown died on Christmas Day 2006.
    ===============

  358. The Southeastern Michigan Neothink Clubhouses
    are holding our SECOND QUARTER GALA EVENT.
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    When?. . . . . . . .Saturday May 13, 2017.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:30 am – 3 pm.
    Where?. . . . . . . Greenfield Village.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dearborn, MI.
    What?. . . . . . . . The Four Pillars
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . plus Model T Rides,
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  359. May 2, 1939
    =========
    New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig benches himself for poor play and
    ends his streak of consecutive games played at 2,130. “The Iron Horse” was
    suffering at the time from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), now known
    as “Lou Gehrig’s Disease.”

    Henry Louis Gehrig was born June 19, 1903, in New York, New York, the only child
    of German immigrants to survive childhood illness. His doting parents were primarily
    interested in education, not sports, and he attended Columbia University on a
    football scholarship and studied engineering. After his freshman year, Gehrig
    played for New York Giants Manager John McGraw in a summer league
    under the name Henry Lewis andhe lost a year of eligibility at Columbia when
    his ruse was discovered. Gehrig was then signed by a Yankee scout while playing
    first base at Columbia, much to the consternation of Giants fans who believed their
    skipper had let the talented slugger get away. Gehrig joined the Yankees in 1923, but
    he didn’t see any action until 1925, when he backed up star first baseman Wally Pipp.
    According to legend, Gehrig stepped in at first base when Pipp benched himself with
    a headache, and Pipp never made it back on to the field. Gehrig didn’t miss a game for
    the next 13 years. To this day, to be “Wally Pipped” is to be replaced for good.

    Gehrig’s offensive output was as extraordinary as his consecutive games streak. The
    left-handed slugger led the American League in RBIs five times, driving in at least
    100 runs 13 years in a row. He led the AL in home runs three times, led in runs
    four times and led the league in hitting once. In the Yankees first golden era,
    Gehrig batted cleanup, right after Babe Ruth, the bigger star of the two. It
    was Gehrig, however, who was named American League MVP in 1927, on
    a Yankee team considered the greatest team in history. He won the
    award again in 1936 – another championship year for the Yankees.
    In all, Gehrig won six World Series titles with the Yankees.

    Gehrig began to experience symptoms of ALS during the 1938 season, but doctors
    initially struggled to diagnose him. He played the first eight games of 1939, removing
    himself mid-game after being congratulated for a routine play at first base. He sat
    the next day, ending his streak at 2,130 games played. He never played again.

    On July 4, 1939, the Yankees held Lou Gehrig Day at Yankee Stadium. With over 60,000
    fans in the stands and his former teammates there to honor him, Gehrig was overcome
    by emotion, and his legs shook from his developing paralysis. Gehrig stared hard at
    the ground, unable to speak, until his longtime manager Joe McCarthy and teammate
    Babe Ruth encouraged him. Then, in gratitude for his great career, and knowing he
    was dying from an unknown disease, he said: “Today, I consider myself the luckiest
    man on the face of the earth.”

    Lou Gehrig died on June 2, 1941, with his wife Eleanor by his side.
    ===================
    LOU GEHRIG’S FAREWELL SPEECH

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=626Dt9JdjQs
    —————–

  360. May 2, 1918
    =========
    On this day in 1918, General Motors Corporation (GM) – which will became the
    world’s largest automotive firm – acquired Chevrolet Motor Company.

    GM had been founded a decade earlier by William C. “Billy” Durant – a former carriage
    maker from Flint, Michigan – whose Durant-Dort Carriage Company had taken control
    of the ailing Buick Motor Company. On September 16, 1908, Durant incorporated
    Buick into a new entity, General Motors, which by the end of that decade had
    welcomed other leading auto manufacturers – including Oldsmobile, Cadillac
    and Oakland – into its fold. In 1910, with GM struggling financially, stockholders blamed
    Durant’s aggressive expansionism and forced him out of the company he founded. In
    November 1911, he launched Chevrolet Motor Company, named for his partner, the
    Swiss race car driver Louis Chevrolet.

    Still the owner of a considerable portion of GM stock, Durant began to purchase more
    shares in the company as his profits from Chevrolet allowed. In a final move to regain
    control, Durant offered GM stockholders five shares of Chevrolet stock for every one
    share of GM stock. Though GM stock prices were exorbitantly high, the market
    interest in Chevrolet made the five-for-one trade irresistible to GM shareholders. With
    the sale -concluded on May 2, 1918 – Durant regained control of GM. Just two years later,
    however, he was pushed out for good by Pierre S. DuPont, whose family’s powerful
    chemical company had begun investing in the fledgling auto industry by buying
    GM stock in 1914. Pierre DuPont subsequently rose to the chairmanship of
    GM’s board and became president in 1920. In an agreement made that
    same year, DuPont paid off all of Durant’s debt – in exchange, the
    controversial founder left the company.

    Durant refused to bow out of the automotive industry, however, founding Durant
    Motors in 1921 and producing a line of cars for the next decade. The onset of the
    Great Depression in the early 1930s put an end to Durant’s career in cars, and
    he threw his entrepreneurial energy behind a string of bowling alleys located
    near the Buick complex in Flint, Michigan. When this venture failed as well,
    Durant faded from the public eye. He died on March 18, 1947, at the age of
    85, just weeks before the passing of another automotive pioneer: Henry Ford.
    =============

  361. Russian scientists build and study pyramids and what they found could change the entire world. Did you know that Sudan has numerous pyramids? even more than Egypt but there are more pyramids in South America than all the remaining pyramids of the world combined. For some reason, ancient man created thousands of pyramids around the globe, and researchers today may have found an evidence what their exact purpose was. Pyramids are without a doubt one of the greatest global phenomenon to ever occur on our planet, but why did people create these megalithic structures in the first place? — and how is it possible that many of them share incredible similarities even though they were separated by tens of thousands of kilometers, and even though mainstream scholars suggests ancient cultures did not cross paths in the distant past? Ever since I heard David Wilcock mention the Russian pyramid studies I was fascinated by the shape and how it affects the entire reality around it. It is probably one of the most well recognized elements of megalithic structures , yet how these sites were constructed and what’s their true purpose remains, another ancient mystery, but was what was discovered about them might shed a light on their true purpose of creation. Dr. Volodymyr Krasnoholevets is a renown scientist from the Institute of Physics in the Ukraine , that spent over a decade building and researching many pyramids of varying heights and proportions . The Russian government even endorsed his work , producing a 144 ft tall pyramid outside of Moscow. What he discovered is truly remarkable and has implications that could completely transform society as we know it.

    A summary by David Wilcock shows some of the following results.

    1. Immune system of organisms improved (blood leakogite composition increased.)

    2. Improved regeneration of tissue.

    3. Seeds stored in the pyramid for 1 to 5 days showed a 30- 100 % increase in yield.

    4. Soon after construction of the Lake Seliger pyramid a marked improvement of the ozone was noted above the area.

    5. Seismic activity near the pyramid research areas are reduced in severity and size.

    6. Violent weather also appears to decrease in the vicinity of the pyramid.

    7. Pyramids constructed in Southern Russia (Bushkiria) appeared to have a positive effect on oil production with oil becoming lesss viscous by 30 % and the yield of the oil wells increased according to tests carried out by the Moscow Academy of Oil and Gas.

    8. A study was done on 5000 prisoners who ingested salt and pepper, and lived inside a prison made of marble, and the test subjects exhibited a greatly reduced violence rate and overall behavior was much improved.

    9. Standard tissue cultural tests showed an increase in survival of cellular tissue after infection and viruses and bacteria.

    10. Radioactive substances showed a decreased level of radiation inside the pyramid.

    11. There are reports of spontaneous charging of capacitors.

    12, Physicists observed significant changes in superconductivity temperature thresholds and in properties of semi-conducting and carbon nano-materials.

    13. Water inside the pyramid would remain liquid to minus 40 degrees Celsius but freeze instantly if jostled or bumped in any way.

    With the use of pyramids we could heal the planet from centuries of environmental pollution, vitalize once extinct planet species, heal the body and so on. These are just some of the things we’ve been able to verify, there are no doubt countless other uses that will be discovered once more extensive research has been done. I hope you found this report interesting and share the love, Wayne.

  362. THESE ARE 15 POWERFUL WAYS THAT
    HAPPY PEOPLE DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY …

    (bodymindsoulspirit) – April 18, 2017
    By Luminita Saviuc, Purpose Fairy

    What are the differences between happy people and unhappy people? Of course, it should be very obvious: happy people are happy while unhappy people are unhappy, right? Well, that is correct. But, we want to know what happy people do differently, so I here’s a list of things that happy people do differently than unhappy people.

    1. Love vs. Fear

    Well, I can tell you for sure that those people who are really happy, fear less and love a lot more. They see each moment, each challenge, each person as an opportunity to discover more about themselves and the world around them.

    2. Acceptance vs. Resistance

    Happy people understand that you can’t really change a situation by resisting it, but you can definitely change it by accepting that it is there and by understanding that there might be a reason for its existence

    When something unpleasant happens to them, they don’t try to fight it (they know that this will make the situation even worse), but they ask themselves questions like: What can I learn from this? How can I make this better? And then they focus on the positive, rather than on the negative. They always seem to see the glass half full, no matter what happens to them.

    3. Forgiveness vs. Unforgiveness

    Really happy people know that it’s not healthy to hold on to anger. They choose to forgive and forget, understanding that forgiveness is a gift they give to themselves first and foremost.

    “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” ~Buddha

    4. Trust vs. Doubt

    They trust themselves and they trust the people around them. Whether they are talking to the cleaning lady or the C.E.O. of a billion-dollar company, somehow they always seem make the person they are interacting with feel that there is something unique and special about them. They understand that beliefs are self-fulfilling prophecies.

    Because of that, they make sure to treat everyone with love, dignity and respect, and make no distinction between age, sex, social status, color, religion or race. These are the great men that Mark Twain was talking about:

    “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

    5. Meaning vs. Ambition

    They do the things they do because of the meaning it brings into their lives and because it gives their lives a sense of purpose. They understand that “Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life” as Wayne Dyer says.

    And they care more about living a life full of meaning than what, in our modern society we would call, living a successful life. The irony here is that most of the time they get both success and meaning because they choose to focus on doing the things they love the most and they always pursue their heart‘s desires. They are not motivated by money; they want to make a difference in the lives of those around them and in the world.

    6. Praising vs. Criticizing

    Happy people would probably agree with Carl’s Jung theory on resistance: “What you resist not only persists, but will grow in size.” They don’t criticize the absence of the behavior they want to reinforce, rather, they know by praising the person and the behavior they wish to reinforce (even if it’s not often), they will actually encourage the positive behavior.

    When a parent wants to make sure their 7 year old boy will learn to always put the toys back in the box after he’s done playing with them, they make sure not to focus on the many times the child didn’t do it, criticizing him and his behavior, but every time the little boy does put the toys back, the parent praises him and his behavior and that is exactly how they reinforce the positive behavior, and in the end get the wanted results.

    7. Challenges vs. Problems

    Happy people will see problems as challenges, as opportunities to explore new ways of doing things, expressing their gratitude for them, understanding that underneath them all lay many opportunities that will allow them to expand and to grow.

    8. Selflessness vs, Selfishness

    They do what they do not for themselves, but for the good of others, making sure that they bring meaning, empowerment and happiness to the lives of many. They look for ways to give and to share the best of themselves with the world and to make other people happy.

    “Before giving, the mind of the giver is happy; while giving, the mind of the giver is made peaceful; and having given, the mind of the giver is uplifted.” ~Buddha

    9. Abundance vs. Lack/ Poverty

    They have an abundant mindset, living a balanced life, achieving abundance in all areas of life.

    10. Dreaming Big vs. Being Realistic

    These people don’t really care about being realistic. They love and dare to dream big, they always listen to their heart and intuition and the greatness of their accomplishments scares many of us.

    “Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.” ~Goethe

    11. Kindness vs. Cruelty

    They are kind to themselves and others and they understand the power of self-love, self-forgiveness and self-acceptance.

    12. Gratitude vs. Ingratitude

    No matter where they look, no matter where they are or who they are with, they have the capacity to see beauty where most of us would only see ugliness, opportunities where most of us would only see struggles, abundance where most of us would only see lack and they express their gratitude for all of it.

    13. Presence/ Engagement vs. Disengagement

    They know how to live in the present moment, appreciating what they have and where they are, while still dreaming big dreams about the future.

    “When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it. The mind in itself is a wonderful tool. Dysfunction sets in when you seek yourself in it and mistake it for who you are.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

    14. Positivity vs. Negativity

    No matter what happens to them, they always keep a positive perspective on everything and by doing so, they tend irritate a lot of negative and “realistic” people.

    15. Taking Responsibility vs. Blaming

    They take full ownership over their lives and they rarely use excuses. Happy people understand that the moment you choose to blame some outside force for whatever is happening to you, you are in fact giving all your power away. They choose to keep their power and take responsibility for everything that happens to them.

    How many of these things are you doing in order to become a happier person and take ownership of your life? Some food for thought … Thanks for reading and thank you, Mark Hamilton.

    Judith

  363. HUMANITY HAS REACHED PEAK IDIOCY … WHAT
    HAPPENS WHEN THE IDIOCY BUBBLE BURSTS?

    This article validates a great many of the teachings and visions of Dr. Wallace and Mark Hamilton of the world we are now inhabiting. Both stated that there is NO reason nor rationality left in humans. As such, I thought it might bear noting how others ‘see’ and summarize the circumstances of our current reality. Just be clear that my view is that we will NOT self-destruct and that we’ve past that point of potentiality due to our individual and collective rising consciousness (including Neo-Tech and Neothink). We WILL succeed in reaching the goals set out in their writings to bring a new way to the Earth of peace, prosperity and happiness for Humanity. Thus, I truly believe all the things mentioned are remnants and symptoms of the quickly imploding and dying system.

    (Natural News) – April 30, 2017
    By: Mike Adams

    It has now become abundantly obvious to all thinking people that humanity has reached “peak idiocy.” This cognitive bubble of idiocy is reflected across all the following suicidal, destructive things that humanity does to itself in the name of power or profit:

    The ramping up toward nuclear war with Russia and China. “The insane, crazed monsters who rule over the West in Washington are bringing life on earth to an end,” explains Paul Craig Roberts.

    The mass poisoning of the human food supply with cancer-causing glyphosate weed killer (herbicide).

    The mindless pursuit of AI technology with no regard for what happens when AI systems decide humans are no longer needed.

    The mass injection of children and expectant mothers with mercury, a brain-damaging heavy metal formulated into flu shots.

    The total government lunacy of giving poor people food stamp money so they can buy processed junk food that causes cancer, diabetes and heart disease. (Food stamps should be limited to nutritious foods, not junk foods.)

    The devolution of the mainstream media into fake news distractions and fictional theories to occupy the minds of the gullible masses.

    The mass psychiatric medication of children and adults with mind-altering chemicals.

    The SWAT team assaults on raw milk retailers and farmers who only seek to offer real food to customers.

    The mass surveillance of the population by a totalitarian police state government that respects no rights, no laws and no privacy of its citizens.

    The total abandonment of logic and reason by the intolerant, irrational Left and its pursuit of “identity politics” above all else.

    The chemical suicide of humanity supported by the political Right, which has never met a profitable chemical it didn’t like.

    The widespread poisoning of public water supplies with brain-damaging fluoride.

    The economic insanity of running societies on unsustainable debt while pretending that debts don’t matter.

    The medical lunacy of a world which goes out of its way to suppress knowledge of natural, botanical remedies while pushing for the mass poisoning of the entire population with high-profit pharmaceutic chemicals that only make people more sick and diseased.

    The lunacy of the nuclear power industry which subjects all humanity to “global killer” nuclear meltdown risks due to the laws of physics (and poor power plant design).

    The ridiculous belief that pension and retirement funds — including social security — will be able to pay out all their obligations without going bankrupt.

    A public education system that refuses to teach children how to think for themselves and instead functions as an indoctrination system that demands obedience and conformity above all else.

    The runaway stupidity of those who are piling money into overvalued tech stocks in the current stock market bubble, oblivious to P/E ratios, the history of market bubbles and why all financial bubbles come to an end.

    The magical thinking of “scientists” who have created a mindless climate change cult of obedient zombies through a determined program of mass hypnosis of the population, which now hallucinates “climate change” causes behind every flood, drought, tornado or hurricane.

    The idiocy of betting the entire sustainability of modern civilization on a power grid that will be taken out by space weather (Coronal Mass Ejection) events which NASA predicts will occur at about a 12% chance every decade.

    The social structure of living in cities which are designed as “death traps” with no sustainable sources of food or water in the event of a catastrophic collapse.

    I could go on, obviously. “Peak idiocy” has now achieved never-before-witnessed levels of irrationality, delusion, magical thinking and denial in every sector of society. There isn’t a single thing in society today that isn’t touched by peak idiocy: Government, education, finance, food, medicine, science, history, housing, mental health, etc.

    IDIOCY IS SPREADING – DISGUISED AS POLITICAL CORRECTNESS

    It’s not hard to find examples of what happens when peak idiocy takes hold in a given nation, driving its citizens to irrationality and delusion. America is right now perched on that tipping point, where the nation could easily fall into an unstoppable, self-reinforcing cycle of runaway idiocy on the political spectrum, eventually descending into something a lot like China’s “Cultural Revolution” which mass murdered intellectuals and established that nation’s current communist regime (complete with mandatory organ harvesting, imprisoning those who speak of political dissent, and blocking all websites the government doesn’t like).

    Socialist Venezuela is a prime example of peak idiocy run amok. There, the population voted for exactly the idiot leadership they got: A mindless, moronic tyrant named Maduro who sits atop one of the world’s largest oil reserves but still can’t figure out how to enable his own people to not starve to death. Venezuela’s temperate climate allows abundant food production, yet the people there are digging through dumpsters in a desperate bid to stay alive. How can this be?

    The answer is that Venezuela has reached its own “peak idiocy” rooted in Left-wing socialist delusions about economics, liberty and private property. When the Left takes hold of anything, it quickly destroys it, leaving behind a wake of human suffering, violence and death. Today’s Venezuela is tomorrow’s America is we don’t stop the delusional Left at every opportunity.

    North Korea is another example of peak idiocy on parade. Under the iron fist of Kim Jong-Un, a sociopathic cult leader who has carried on his father’s tradition of demanding he be worshiped by his cult followers (i.e. Nork citizens), Kim Jong-Un has maintained political power by cutting off North Korea from the outside world and making his followers believe their misery is all America’s fault. Notably, North Koreans must adhere to the same kind of censorship, politically correct speech and delusional thinking that you now find spreading like a pandemic across California’s universities (like Berkeley).

    America’s peak idiocy is found in the suicidal failures of the country to protect its own borders, its inability to limit voting rights to legal citizens, Obama’s transformation of the U.S. military into a transgender social experiment, the government’s runaway debt spending and the astonishing inability of the Republican majority in power to stand up for any principle whatsoever. The nation seems to be run by the mindless memes of a deliberately anti-American corporate media that’s deliberately pushing for a kind of Cultural Revolution overthrow of the government (and a nationwide descent into communist rule). This, of course, is parlayed as “tolerance.”

    In all these cases, idiocy has been accelerated by the rush toward political correctness and so-called “tolerance” (which really means intolerance and the mass murder of those who do not conform to Leftist views). All the signs are already evident that America is careening toward the same outcome as China, North Korea or Venezuela, especially among Leftist student cultists who are just itching for a civil war so they can shoot and murder as many non-conformists as possible.

    WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE PEAK IDIOCY BUBBLE BURSTS?

    When “peak idiocy” is achieved by a critical mass of nations and leaders, insane things start to happen. Sadly, those “insane things” right now include the realm of nuclear weapons capable of obliterating tens of millions of people in a flash. Paul Craig Roberts sums it up nicely when he says:

    “The chances are high that life on earth could be approaching its end. The responsibility lies heavily on the American people, whose success, due to the mistakes of others, made Americans think that they are exceptional and privileged. Unaware of the inhumane threat to all life that is embodied in the neoconservative claim that Americans are exceptional and indispensable, the self-satisfied American public is unaware of the consequences of such hubris. Hubris is leading them, and the entire world, to slaughter in thermo-nuclear war.”

    Roberts, by the way, is one of the most rational and level-headed people who has ever served in Washington. A former official under the Reagan administration, he remembers a time when leaders in Washington behaved with rationality instead of runaway hubris and insanity. Those days, sadly, are long gone. Today, Roberts is vilified by the same mainstream media that attacks, defames and slanders any person who utters a single rational thought rooted in REALITY rather than DELUSION. In a world of deception, telling the truth has truly become a revolutionary act!

    CONCLUSION: PEAK IDIOCY LEADS TO APOCALYPTIC OUTCOMES

    We are all now living under the rule of truly delusional governments and dangerous, monopolistic corporate monstrosities such as Google, Facebook and Amazon.

    Many governments of the world are right now on the verge of being overrun by their own people who are finally waking up to the utter failure of government idiocy. Everywhere you look, governments are precariously situated on the edge of the abyss: Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador, the United States, Greece, Italy, France, Britain, Syria, Russia, North Korea, China and even Japan in some ways. Every one of these governments is just one critical event away from losing its grip — most likely through financial collapse — and being overthrown by its own angry, starving, impoverished populations who have been incessantly exploited, abused and lied to by corrupt government. Even Canada is about to undergo a brutal real estate bubble crash that will send many urban-dwelling Canadians into fits of anger and protest.

    Governments are, almost by definition, incompetent organizations rooted in the desire for self preservation. This tells you that when they begin to lose control, they will start as many wars as necessary to try to maintain power.

    International WAR is the ultimate demand mandate for domestic obedience. When governments begin to lose control, they ignite wars in order to keep their own people in line. This is “peak idiocy” achieving its full, glorious potential, where the mass destruction of entire foreign cities is deemed a necessary strategy for incompetent, corrupt government institutions to maintain power over their domestic populations.

    We have now reached that point in Human History. There is no walking this back, either, because the people of the world are increasingly coming to recognize that governments no longer serve the needs of human societies. The very idea of a centralized government, in other words, is becoming increasingly OBSOLETE.

    This is when large, national governments are the most dangerous: When they are approaching the possibility of their own extinction or abandonment. It is at this moment that we now face the greatest risk for the peak idiocy phenomenon to explode into a global suicide pact of nuclear exchange from which no nation can possibly emerge without severe damage to life, infrastructure, crop soils and the environment.

    ALL NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS ARE INSANE … THE VERY STRUCTURE
    OF CENTRALIZED GOVERNMENT IS A GRAVE THREAT TO HUMANITY!

    In other words, Kim Jong-Un isn’t the only insane leader on this planet. ALL governments are insane. ALL governments are suicidal. ALL governments are willing to murder tens of millions of innocent people if that’s what is necessary to stay in power.

    We The People now watch in bewilderment as our world spirals out of control, with widespread extinction at the hands of incompetent government colliding with the mass mental conformity and delusional thinking demanded by the intolerant, insane Left. This cannot end well. This will not end in peace, humility, compassion and love for thy neighbor. It is vastly more likely to end in war, destruction, suffering, violence and the rise of totalitarian governments worldwide.

    When peak idiocy has run its course, let us hope that whomever survives does not repeat the critical mistake in believing that centralized, tyrannical governments run by power-hungry, incompetent conformists can ever serve the interests of humanity. The REAL FUTURE belongs in the radical decentralization of all political power to the most “local” level possible. Only then can human civilization hope to live in anything resembling peace, sanity and sustainability. (End)

    Here’s a new definition for Wikipedia – “Peak Idiocy” – already previously defined in detail by Dr. Wallace and Mark Hamilton. Solution – The Twelve Visions Party. And though not even mentioned, simply add the tyrannical, controlling power of Religion, as well. TIME FOR CHANGE!!! WE ARE IT! Thanks for reading.

    Judith

  364. STUNNED RESEARCHERS DISCOVER THAT THE IMPACT OF WALKING DRAMATICALLY
    BOOSTS BLOOD FLOW TO THE BRAIN, BOOSTING COGNITIVE FUNCTION

    (Natural News) – April 27, 2017
    By S. D. Wells

    It’s spring time, with summer on the horizon, and many people are looking to get in shape, get back in shape, or just simply get outside and get some fresh air daily. There are several benefits to going for a brisk walk, especially in the morning, some of which you may not realize. Now, even science is proving that your feet’s impact increases blood flow to not only the heart and other muscles, but walking sends pressure waves through the arteries that increase the supply of blood to the brain.

    Did you know that walking just two miles daily reduces the risk of death by nearly 50 percent? Walking in the morning reduces that risk even more. Even the risk of cancer is reduced by walking. But wait, there’s lots more walking does for you. Let’s take an inside look at this simple, enjoyable way to increase longevity and cognitive function.

    Research presented at the Experimental Biology 2017 annual meeting shows walking dynamically regulates blood circulation to the brain

    Researchers at New Mexico Highlands University (NMHU) discovered something amazing. Until now, scientists and health researchers thought cerebral blood flow was only involuntarily regulated by the body, and that changes in blood pressure from exercise did not effect the blood supply to the brain.

    Using non-invasive ultrasound to measure carotid artery blood velocity waves and arterial diameters, the NMHU researchers measured cerebral blood flow on both sides of the brain. The effects were contrasted between the 12 healthy young adults while they were standing upright during rest and then while steadily walking about one meter per second. Though the blood circulation effects in the brain are less than those from running, they were greater than cycling, since cycling does not involve any foot impact.

    From brain power to self esteem to cancer prevention, a morning walk is proving to be a huge asset for mental and physical health! Get ready to jump-start your energy for the entire day. You don’t have to join a gym or cycle 10 miles to get in shape and get healthy. You don’t have to “cross train” or run in mini-marathons to lose weight, fight disease and get smarter. When people say, “there’s no easy way out,” they’re wrong, because walking is easy.

    Daily morning walks can help you regulate your sleep cycle, lower your risk of breast cancer, burn glucose, improve blood sugar levels, improve blood circulation, and increase the flow of oxygen to the brain. Want improved mental faculties? Walk. Want to raise your self-esteem? Walk. Want to reduce stress? Walk.

    Taking prescription medications to alleviate “symptoms” of deeper rooted health problems can complicate matters and lead to worsening health conditions. Prescription medications are nearly always made in laboratories with chemicals, and that is why there are so many horrific side effects and “adverse events” listed on the warning labels and reviewed on the commercials on television. There’s always the freedom of choice to eat organic food, consult a naturopathic physician, investigate natural medicine, and choose an easy daily workout that won’t injure your body. Go buy some good walking shoes today and choose to walk. It’s as essential to your health as clean food and clean water.

    Other benefits of walking every morning include beautiful skin, better vitamin D absorption by your body, better control of cholesterol levels, increased stamina, increased muscle strength and improved metabolism. Are you ready for some extra energy throughout the day, better mental alertness and psychological clarity?

    Drop the gluten, the GMOs, the tap water and the flu shots, they’re just polluting your body. Start walking every morning and experience clarity and longevity, the natural way. Now there’s science behind the “theory” that walking helps your brain!

    Learn more about the benefits of exercise at MensFitnessFocus.com and WomensFitnessFocus.com.

    Posted on In5d.com. Sources include:
    ScienceDaily.com
    Science.NaturalNews.com
    NaturalNewsBlogs.com
    GoodRelaxation.com

    My daily walk out in nature is absolutely the BEST thing I do each day and I wouldn’t trade it for anything!! The powerful and peaceful results are amazing. And although I will walk any time of day until late evening, I have found that for some reason, mornings pretty much rank as number one. Also, looking up toward the horizon is very beneficial to your brain as you are walking. I can change my ‘mood’ in a 45 minute walk from semi-depressed to joyful and positive without even trying! Thank you, Mark Hamilton, for this space to share news with each other that is of positive benefit!

    Judith

  365. Quotes on Overcoming Obstacles

    1. “One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.” ~ Albert Schweitzer

    2. “The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.” ~Moliere

    3. “It’s part of life to have obstacles. It’s about overcoming obstacles; that’s the key to happiness.” ~Herbie Hancock

    4.“There’s nothing like overcoming something that scares you so much. Nothing feels better.” ~Laura Wilkinson

    5. “Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing.” ~Alex Lowe

    6. “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” ~Helen Keller

    7. “We all have obstacles. The feeling of satisfaction comes by overcoming something.” ~Marta

    8. “Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.” ~Seth Godin

    9. “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” ~Booker T. Washington

    Reading Neo-Tech and the lessons of Neothink can also greatly enhance abilities to overcome obstacles and rise totally above all the fray and mayhem of our current reality as our existence morphs into the Civilization of the Universe reality!! With all the darkness has come the greatest light that ever existed on this planet and is now annihilating the old negative patterns – just as promised us by Dr. Wallace and Mark Hamilton. My gratitude and thanks to them!

    Judith

  366. May 1, 1941
    =========
    Months before its release, Orson Welles’ landmark film Citizen Kane began generating so
    much controversy that Radio City Music Hall eventually refused to show it. Instead, Citizen
    Kane, now revered as one of the greatest movies in history, made its debut at the smaller
    RKO Palace Theater on this day in 1941.

    By the time he began working on Citizen Kane, the 24-year-old Welles had already made
    a name for himself as Hollywood’s enfant terrible. He first found success on Broadway
    and on the radio; his October 1938 broadcast version of the science-fiction classic
    The War of the Worlds was so realistic that many listeners actually believed
    Martians had invaded New Jersey. Having signed a lucrative contract with
    RKO studios, Welles was struggling to find a subject for his first feature
    film when his friend, the writer Herman Mankiewicz, suggested that
    he base it on the life of the publishing baron William Randolph
    Hearst. Hearst presided over the country’s leading newspaper
    mpire, ruling it from San Simeon – a sprawling estate
    perched atop a hill along California’s central coastline.

    A preview of Citizen Kane in early February 1941 had drawn almost universally favorable
    reviews from critics. However, one viewer – the leading Hollywood gossip columnist
    Hedda Hopper – was incensed by the film and Welles’ portrayal of its protagonist,
    Charles Foster Kane. She took her concerns to Hearst himself, who soon began
    waging a full-scale campaign against Welles and his film, barring the Hearst
    newspapers from running ads for it and enlisting the support of Hollywood
    bigwigs such as Louis B. Mayer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was said
    Hearst was particularly angry over the movie’s depiction of a character based
    on his companion, Marion Davies, a former showgirl whom he had helped become
    a popular Hollywood actress. For his part, Welles threatened to sue Hearst for trying to
    suppress the film and also to sue RKO if the company did not release the film.

    When Citizen Kane finally opened in May 1941, it was a failure at the box office.
    Although reviews were favorable, and it was nominated for nine Academy Awards,
    Welles was booed at that year’s Oscar ceremony, and RKO quietly archived the film. It
    was only years later, when it was re-released, that Citizen Kane began to garner
    well-deserved accolades for its pioneering camera and sound work, as well
    as its complex blend of drama, black comedy, history, biography and even
    fake-newsreel or “mockumentary” footage that has informed hundreds
    of films produced since then. It consistently ranks at the top of film
    critics’ lists, most notably grabbing the No. 1 spot on the American
    Film Institute’s poll of America’s 100 Greatest Films.

    After Citizen Kane, Welles’ diverse works consisted of everything from Shakespearean
    adaptations to documentaries. Some of his most acclaimed films included The
    Stranger (1946), The Lady from Shanghai (1948) and Chimes at Midnight (1966).
    In his later years, he narrated documentaries and appeared in commercials,
    and he left behind several unfinished films when he died at the age of 70 on October 10, 1985.
    ——————–

  367. May 1, 1931
    =========
    On this day in 1931, President Herbert Hoover officially dedicates New York City’s Empire
    State Building, pressing a button from the White House that turns on the building’s lights.
    Hoover’s gesture, of course, was symbolic; while the president remained in Washington, D.C.,
    someone else flicked the switches in New York.

    The idea for the Empire State Building is said to have been born of a competition
    between Walter Chrysler of the Chrysler Corporation and John Jakob Raskob
    of General Motors, to see who could erect the taller building. Chrysler had
    already begun work on the famous Chrysler Building, the gleaming
    1,046-foot skyscraper in midtown Manhattan. Not to be bested,
    Raskob assembled a group of well-known investors, including
    former New York Governor Alfred E. Smith. The group chose the
    architecture firm Shreve, Lamb and Harmon Associates to design the
    building. The Art-Deco plans – said to have been based in large part on the
    look of a pencil – were also builder-friendly: The entire building went up in just
    over a year, under budget (at $40 million) and well ahead of schedule. During certain
    periods of building, the frame grew an astonishing four-and-a-half stories a week.

    At the time of its completion, the Empire State Building – at 102 stories and 1,250 feet high
    (1,454 feet to the top of the lightning rod) – was the world’s tallest skyscraper. The
    Depression-era construction employed as many as 3,400 workers on any
    single day, most of whom received an excellent pay rate – especially
    given the economic conditions of the time. The new building
    imbued New York City with a deep sense of pride – desperately
    needed in the depths of the Great Depression – when many city residents
    were unemployed and prospects looked bleak. The grip of the Depression on
    New York’s economy was still evident a year later, however, when only 25 percent
    of the Empire State’s offices had been rented.

    In 1972, the Empire State Building lost its title as world’s tallest building to New York’s
    World Trade Center, which itself was the tallest skyscraper for but a year. Today th
    honor belongs to Dubai’s Burj Khalifa tower, which soars 2,717 feet into the sky.
    =================

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  369. April 30, 1933
    ===========
    Willie Nelson’s sound and his look revolutionized country music – making him one of that
    genre’s most recognizable faces – and if his winning personality weren’t enough reason to
    like him, then his good-natured struggles with the IRS would be. But before Willie Nelson
    became a legend or an icon, he was simply one of the most talented singer-songwriters
    of his generation. He began his musical training at the age of six and wrote his first song
    at the age of seven in Abbott, Texas, where he was born on this day in 1933.

    Like so many other musicians of his generation – whether black or white – whether country
    or rock and roll – Willie Nelson started out performing gospel music. The grandmother
    and grandfather who raised Willie were music teachers, so he and his sister Bobbie
    were able to lead their small-town church from a very early age. “We were
    basically the only musicians in the church,” Nelson recalls. “We played
    every song every Sunday. Monday nights was choir practice,
    Wednesday night was prayer meetings, and Thursday
    night was singing conventions in Hillsboro. So every
    day was gospel music.”

    Given this environment, the subject matter of the first song Willie Nelson ever sold
    makes perfect sense. Nelson had traveled west to Vancouver, Washington, in 1956,
    following short stints in the Air Force, in college and in various Texas radio stations
    as a disk jockey. While working as a DJ in Vancouver, he had recorded a Leon Payne
    song called “Lumberjack” and hawked copies of it over the air. Though this did
    nothing to further his ambitions of being a performer, he soon returned to
    Texas and managed to sell a song he’d written himself called “Family Bible.”
    The country-tinged gospel song became a hit in 1960 for Claude Gray,
    and while it netted Willie Nelson only $50 in cash, it encouraged him
    to pursue songwriting rather than performing as a way into a musical
    career. Later that year, after one astonishing week in Houston when
    he wrote the eventual country hits “Funny How Time Slips Away”
    and “Night Life,” as well as the genre-crossing Patsy Cline classic
    “Crazy,” he moved to Nashville, where he landed a job in a
    music-publishing company and begin his slow road to stardom.
    ===============
    PANCHO AND LEFTY
    by Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbZ3VdYb90o
    ——————
    BLUE EYES CRYING IN THE RAIN
    by Willie Nelson

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA644rSZX1A
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  370. April 30, 1945
    ===========
    Adolf Hitler – dictator of Germany – burrowed away in a refurbished air-raid shelter,
    consumed a cyanide capsule, then shot himself with a pistol, on this day in 1945, as
    his “1,000-year” Reich collapses above him.

    Hitler had repaired to his bunker on January 16, after deciding to remain in Berlin for
    the last great siege of the war. Fifty-five feet under the chancellery (Hitler’s headquarters
    as chancellor), the shelter contained 18 small rooms and was fully self-sufficient, with its
    own water and electrical supply. He left only rarely (once to decorate a squadron of
    Hitler Youth) and spent most of his time micromanaging what was left of German
    defenses and entertaining such guests as Hermann Goering, Heinrich Himmler,
    and Joachim von Ribbentrop. At his side were Eva Braun, whom he married
    only two days before their double suicide, and his dog, an Alsatian named Blondi.

    Warned by officers that the Russians were only a day or so from overtaking the chancellery
    and urged to escape to Berchtesgarden, -a small town in the Bavarian Alps where Hitler
    owned a home – the dictator instead chose suicide. It is believed that both he and his
    wife swallowed cyanide capsules (which had been tested for their efficacy on his
    “beloved” dog and her pups). For good measure, he shot himself with his
    service pistol.

    The bodies of Hitler and Eva were cremated in the chancellery garden by the bunker
    survivors (as per Der Fuhrer’s orders) and reportedly later recovered in part by
    Russian troops. A German court finally officially declared Hitler dead, but not until 1956.
    =============

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  374. April 29. 1863
    ==========
    The newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst was born in San Francisco. He
    was the only son and principle heir to western mining magnate George Hearst.

    George Hearst had made a fortune with his shrewd investments in successful western
    mining operations. His son William, however, had little interest in the mining industry.
    While attending Harvard, he became an admirer of Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World
    and briefly worked as a reporter for the paper after being expelled from college. In
    1887, he returned to San Francisco and convinced his father to put him in charge of the
    Examiner – a paper that the senior Hearst had bought to back his successful 1886 bid
    for the U.S. Senate.

    With a tremendous fortune at his disposal, William Hearst spared no expense in obtaining
    the best eastern reporters and techniques for the Examiner. Eager to give the people
    what they wanted, he filled the pages of the newspaper with sensationalism and
    scandal. Some complained that he showed poor taste, but many San Franciscans
    considered the paper to be required reading.

    Having made the Examiner a brilliant success, Hearst began acquiring newspapers elsewhere
    in the country. He soon controlled one of the largest newspaper empires in America. Like
    his father, Hearst also used his papers to promote his political ambitions. Relocating to
    New York, he twice won election to the House of Representatives, in 1902 and 1904.
    Although some championed him as a possible presidential candidate, Hearst’s
    failed attempt to win the New York governorship in 1906 raised questions
    about his chances in a presidential campaign. He tried to win the
    presidency by organizing his own Independence Party in 1908,
    but his third-party candidacy gained few followers. For all his
    wealth and influence, Hearst could not obtain the political
    power he craved.

    Returning to California, Hearst continued to expand his media empire and contented
    himself with being a behind-the-scenes political powerbroker. When his mother
    died in 1919, he inherited the family ranch at San Simeon. During the next six
    years, he built a massive castle on a hill at the ranch. In 1924, he became
    involved in the Hollywood movie industry by relocating his motion
    picture company to Los Angeles. A year later, he took charge of
    the Los Angeles Examiner, and he soon controlled many of
    California’s top newspapers.

    With a vast media empire at his disposal, Hearst exercised tremendous influence over
    California and national politics during the 1930s. Often the subject of news stories
    in his own right, Hearst was one of the most prominent Americans to emerge
    from the Far West during the first half of the 20th century.
    ———————-

  375. April 29, 1986
    ===========
    On this day, in a game against the Seattle Mariners at Fenway Park – Roger Clemens
    of the Boston Red Sox became the first pitcher in Major League Baseball to strike
    out 20 batters in a nine-inning game. Ten years later, Clemens repeated the
    feat, the only player in baseball history to do so.

    Clemens was drafted in 1983 by the Red Sox as the 19th pick overall and made his debut
    with the team on May 15, 1984. Two years later, on April 29, the 23-year-old Clemens
    broke St. Louis Cardinal Steve Carlton’s record of 19 strikeouts in a nine-inning
    game, which was set in 1969 and duplicated by the Mets’ Tom Seaver in 1970
    and the California Angels’ Nolan Ryan in 1974. In 1962, the Washington
    Senators’ Tom Cheney had 21 strikeouts in 16 innings. Kerry Wood
    and Randy Johnson each recorded 20-strikeout games after
    Clemens; however, the “Rocket” as Clemens is known, is
    the only pitcher in the history of baseball to do so twice.
    Clemens struck out 20 batters for a second time while
    pitching for the Red Sox on September 18, 1996, in
    a game against the Detroit Tigers at Tiger Stadium. He was
    so fond of striking out batters, he gave each of his four children
    names that started with the letter K, the symbol for strikeout.

    Clemens spent 13 seasons with the Red Sox, during which time he won three Cy Young
    awards, an annual honor given to the best pitcher in the Major League. He then pitched
    two seasons with the Toronto Blue Jays and took home the Cy Young award twice more
    while leading the league both seasons in strikeouts, ERA and wins. Clemens joined the
    New York Yankees in 1999 and won his first World Series that season. On June 14, 2003,
    while playing for the Yankees in a game against the St. Louis Cardinals, he recorded his 3
    00th win and 4,000th career strikeout. Clemens was the 21st pitcher in the history of the
    majors to become a 300-game victor and just the third pitcher (after Steve Carlton and
    Nolan Ryan) in baseball to rack up 4,000 strikeouts.

    In 2004, Clemens moved to the Houston Astros and won his seventh Cy Young award.
    In 2007, he returned to the Yankees for his final year of baseball.
    ==============
    TALKIN’ RED SOX BASEBALL
    by Terry Cashman

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEDsnu-Sjh4
    ——————–

  376. April 28, 1967
    ===========
    Boxing champion Muhammad Ali refused to be inducted into the U.S. Army on this
    day and was immediately stripped of his heavyweight title. Ali – a Muslim – cited
    religious reasons for his decision to forgo military service.

    Born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr., in Louisville, Kentucky, on January 14, 1942, the future
    three-time world champ changed his name to Muhammad Ali in 1964 after converting
    to Islam. He scored a gold medal at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome and made his
    professional boxing debut against Tunney Husaker on October 29, 1960, winning
    the bout in six rounds. On February 25, 1964, he defeated the heavily favored
    bruiser Sonny Liston in six rounds to become heavyweight champ.

    On April 28, 1967, with the United States at war in Vietnam, Ali refused to be inducted
    into the armed forces, saying “I ain’t got no quarrel with those Vietcong.” On June 20, 1967,
    Ali was convicted of draft evasion, sentenced to five years in prison, fined $10,000 and
    banned from boxing for three years. He stayed out of prison as his case was appealed
    and returned to the ring on October 26, 1970, knocking out Jerry Quarry in Atlanta
    in the third round. On March 8, 1971, Ali fought Joe Frazier in the “Fight of the
    Century” and lost after 15 rounds, the first loss of his professional boxing
    career. On June 28 of that same year, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned
    his conviction for evading the draft.

    At a January 24, 1974, rematch at New York City’s Madison Square Garden,
    Ali defeated Frazier by decision in 12 rounds. On October 30 of that same year,
    an underdog Ali bested George Forman and reclaimed his heavyweight champion
    belt at the hugely hyped “Rumble in the Jungle” in Kinshasa, Zaire, with a knockout
    in the eighth round. On October 1, 1975, Ali met Joe Frazier for a third time at the
    “Thrilla in Manila” in the Philippines and defeated him in 14 rounds. On
    February 15, 1978, Ali lost the title to Leon Spinks in a 15-round
    split decision. However, seven months later, on September 15, Ali
    won it back. In June 1979, Ali announced he was retiring from boxing.
    He returned to the ring on October 2, 1980, and fought heavyweight champ
    Larry Holmes, who knocked him out in the 11th round. After losing to Trevor Berbick o
    n December 11, 1981, Ali left the ring for the final time, with a 56-5 record. He is the only
    fighter to be heavyweight champion three times. In 1984, it was revealed Ali had Parkinson’s disease.
    =============

  377. The Southeastern Michigan Neothink Clubhouses
    are holding our SECOND QUARTER GALA EVENT.
    =======================================
    When?. . . . . . . .Saturday May 13, 2017.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:30 am – 3 pm.
    Where?. . . . . . . Greenfield Village.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dearborn, MI.
    What?. . . . . . . . The Four Pillars
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . plus Model T Rides,
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and a whole lot more.
    Why?. . . . . . . . . Why not?
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  378. April 27, 2009
    ===========
    On this day in 2009, the struggling American auto giant General Motors (GM)
    says it plans to discontinue production of its more than 80-year-old Pontiac brand.

    Pontiac’s origins date back to the Oakland Motor Car – which was founded in 1907 in
    Pontiac, Michigan – by Edward Murphy, a horse-drawn carriage manufacturer. In
    1909, Oakland became part of General Motors, a conglomerate formed the
    previous year by another former buggy company executive, William
    Durant. The first Pontiac model made its debut as part of the
    Oakland line in the 1920s. The car, which featured a six-cylinder
    engine, proved so popular that the Oakland name was
    eventually dropped and Pontiac became its own GM
    division by the early 1930s.

    Pontiac was initially known for making sedans; however, by the 1960s it had gained acclaim
    for its fast, sporty “muscle cars,” including the GTO, the Firebird and the Trans Am. The
    GTO, which was developed by auto industry maverick John DeLorean, was named
    after a Ferarri coupe, the Gran Turismo Omologato. According to The New York
    Times: “More than any other G.M. brand, Pontiac stood for performance, speed
    and sex appeal.” Pontiacs were featured in such movies as 1977’s “Smokey and
    the Bandit,” in which actor Burt Reynolds drove a black Pontiac Trans Am,
    and the 1980s hit TV show “Knight Rider,” which starred a Pontiac
    Trans Am as KITT, a talking car with artificial intelligence,
    alongside David Hasselhoff as crime fighter Michael Knight.

    By the mid-1980s, Pontiac’s sales reached their peak. Experts believe GM hurt the Pontiac
    brand in the 1970s and 1980s by opting for a money-saving strategy requiring Pontiacs
    to share platforms with cars from other divisions. In 2008, General Motors, which
    had been the world’s top-selling automaker since the early 1930s, lost the No. 1
    position to Japan-based Toyota. That same year, GM, with sales slumping in
    the midst of a global recession, was forced to ask the federal government
    for a multi-billion-dollar loan to remain afloat. On April 27, 2009, as part
    of its reorganization plan, GM announced it would phase out the
    Pontiac brand by 2010. A little over a month later, on June 1, GM
    filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, becoming the f
    ourth-largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.
    ==========
    SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZZPalUHlxc
    ————–

  379. WIKIPEDIA VS NEO-TECH® COMMENT 601.28 by Myles Conefrey (MENTOR SNIPPETS) –
    Earth Changes & Ascension Plan for Planet

    Creator Son CHRIST MICHAEL ATON/Sovereign of the Local Universe of Nebadon

    An Archive of Messages channeled through Candace Frieze and Jess Anthony and others – http://www.AbundantHope.Net

    Esu Update – Jess Anthony

    Political and religious upheavals will be exacerbated by the upheavals that are increasing at pressure points all over Earth’s surface. Additional energy from the Sun is causing a surge of new earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in places that are ripe for shifting. These disasters will almost certainly take place in California and other troublesome areas located on the so-called “Ring of Fire” around the Pacific Ocean. The land there has to move to allow the rise of what was once Lemuria. The former Continent of Lemuria’s remnants are seen now in isolated groups of islands, most notably the Hawaiian Islands.

    Esu, Planetary Prince of Earth/Urantia

    NEO-TECH® – THE LEAGUE – FOUNDER: Dr. Frank R. Wallace, Ph.D.
    NEOTHINK® – THE SOCIETY – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton
    (TVP) – TWELVE VISIONS PARTY® – THE VISIONARIES – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton

  380. WIKIPEDIA VS NEO-TECH® COMMENT 601.27 by Myles Conefrey (MENTOR SNIPPETS) –
    Judith Curless says

    Shout-out to Myles – Thanks for the information on the Shift, the changing timelines and the Earth’s magnetic pole reversal etc. Really good and I appreciate your demonstrating interest in the bottom line of all we’re experiencing – basically, the Ascension process. Pretty dynamic and exciting times we are living in! Take care. And again, thanks for the input on this often misunderstood, speculative and a bit scary topic.

    Earth Changes & Ascension Plan for Planet

    Creator Son CHRIST MICHAEL ATON/Sovereign of the Local Universe of Nebadon

    An Archive of Messages channeled through Candace Frieze and Jess Anthony and others – http://www.AbundantHope.Net

    Esu [Jesus] Speaks on the Coming New World – Jess Anthony

    This is a time for truth, as you say, and a time for moving into a new recognition of the purpose of your existence on Earth. You are incarnated here to learn to be Co-creators with your Cosmic Creator, or “God”, as you perceive Him. His purpose in creating this Planet and guiding it through all its history of turmoil and role as the seventh and final “Bestowal Planet” of Christ Michael was to provide a laboratory for his unique creations to grow and learn. This Planet has a distinctive purpose, and you all are here as his physical representatives to experience this dimensional paradigm. This experience is exacting, but you would not have volunteered to come here and experience it if you had had any qualms as to its power to overwhelm you ultimately. You knew it would be difficult, but you also knew that the lessons you would learn would be unlike anything you could experience anywhere else…

    I will now speak more specifically about certain issues and topics. The banking situation as it now appears is tenuous and built on an unreal foundation. There is no currency backing up the mountains of printed “fiat dollar-bills” that are substituted for real monetary exchanges. This happened at the instigation of the Federal Reserve System through the Federal Reserve Bank in America. The metal based assets that were constitutionally determined to be the fiscal foundation of your Republic have long since been spent or traded away for hidden agendas. The creation of the paper Reserve Note was planned to be a believable substitute for what was no longer available. The fiscal exchange system with its loans and credit packages was all a subterfuge to trick the general public into paying more than it owed.

    The only legitimate system of physical assets and metal based deposits is the vast collection amassed by the Office of International Treasury Control [OITC – A Bureau within the UN]. This sovereign entity is structured so that it can manage what truly is the bulk of global resources without governmental interference. This organization has only recently realized the need to have more efficient supervision of the management of its assets; an earlier, looser organizational structure allowed certain countries to manipulate OITC assets illegally. The money accrued through these fraudulent transactions has been confiscated and returned to the legitimate owners of the assets, the OITC. The governments, as a result, have been desperately trying to find substitute funds to continue programs they started with illegal investments. The amount of these illegal investments is extremely large and the amount of money now owed in exchange is beyond what is available for payment.

    The global economy and financial system based on American Dollars is ready to collapse at any moment. This is known in many international circles, and all aware of this crisis are taking steps to preserve what they can of their own resources. Without the underpinnings of an assumed financial foundation, many who have depended on their paper assets will be forced to rethink what their purpose is in the face of new circumstances.

    Warnings of this potential collapse have been consistently ignored. The only way to extricate many from the system will be for it to break up. Many are working with misgivings, and feel trapped in a system they did not design. These are ones that can have an invaluable role to play in a reorganized economic system based on fair exchange. Their contribution will take place as soon as the ground rules for a new system of payment have been established.

    The “Stasis Event” is still in operation. Your benefit will be a higher frequency of energy to connect with your new Fourth-Fifth Dimensional physical environment. You will automatically function more efficiently and your clarity of assessment of your situation will be greatly intensified. You will be aware of the unity of Mankind. You will see the necessity of developing sustainable communities that work in symbiosis with the environment and with cultural organizations. You will understand how your personal identity fits into the larger picture and will seek to find ways to align yourself with this vision.

    The redirection of Man’s approach to recreating his existence on a transformed Earth. Old patterns will not work as effectively, and the need for spiritual collaboration will suggest new approaches that involve group decision making. Cultural structures will form the core of large associations. Representatives of the core structures will speak for the community in large associated groups.

    Esu Immanuel Kumara [Jesus Christ/Sananda]

    NEO-TECH® – THE LEAGUE – FOUNDER: Dr. Frank R. Wallace, Ph.D.
    NEOTHINK® – THE SOCIETY – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton
    (TVP) – TWELVE VISIONS PARTY® – THE VISIONARIES – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton

  381. WIKIPEDIA VS NEO-TECH® COMMENT 601.26 by Myles Conefrey (MENTOR SNIPPETS) –.
    Earth Changes & Ascension Plan for Planet

    Creator Son CHRIST MICHAEL ATON/Sovereign of the Local Universe of Nebadon

    An Archive of Messages channeled through Candace Frieze and Jess Anthony and others – http://www.AbundantHope.Net

    Christ Michael Update – Candace

    We have only to tow “Planet X” and the whole Solar System comes with it. Every Solar System has its “Planet X”, and it is through these bodies that whole Solar Systems travel around their Central Stars. Your Central Star is Alcyone in the Pleiades. And in time, in your new energy stream, you will be much closer to Alcyone, and thus not in the long dark period [outside of the Photon Belt of Light] you have been in previously, of 11,000 years at a time. You will be “in the Light” all of the time, based on both the energy stream, and the effects of your three Suns, as Saturn will also be ignited in due time.

    Regards being in that Milky Way galactic ecliptic, you should be noticing some of the rather rapid effects regarding your Ascension syndromes, and that of your animals. Most of you who are around animals should be noticing they are getting smarter too. The God Particles remodel everything!!!! There will be a great surge in evolution upon your plane.

    The “Higher Self” knows, but the lower self personality of the incarnation has been most resistant to hearing “from Above.” Yea ones are not fully incarnated into the body, your energies are too high, and the communications that go through the “Silver Cord” [the connecting link from the Physical body to the Spiritual body], so to speak, develop “shorts”, and the message is not received. Usually the Ascension process of the DNA makes the communications more accessible, but this has not happened for many.

    The Earth is crying some more and the pollution continues to worsen, and we have to take into consideration the lives of other classes of Beings on this world as this is a Seed Planet, and it is going to be taken back to it’s original purpose. The DNA forms that are not in alignment will be removed by the process of the Magnetic Pole Reversal, DNA forms, NOT Souls, which include those Soul/Spirits in the plants and animals. Souls on Earth will then be able to move into healed forms.

    Namaste, Christ Michael of Nebadon.

    NEO-TECH® – THE LEAGUE – FOUNDER: Dr. Frank R. Wallace, Ph.D.
    NEOTHINK® – THE SOCIETY – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton
    (TVP) – TWELVE VISIONS PARTY® – THE VISIONARIES – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton

  382. WIKIPEDIA VS NEO-TECH® COMMENT 601.25 by Myles Conefrey (MENTOR SNIPPETS) –
    Earth Changes & Ascension Plan for Planet

    Creator Son CHRIST MICHAEL ATON/Sovereign of the Local Universe of Nebadon

    An Archive of Messages channeled through Candace Frieze and Jess Anthony and others – http://www.AbundantHope.Net

    Christ Michael & Monjoronson – “Correcting Time” – Stage 2 – Given to the Northern Colorado Students Team, #110, Loveland, Colorado

    Planet Earth awaits the impending appointment of Esu/Jesus Sananda as Planetary Prince before his “Second Coming” down on Planet Earth. There will also be a partnership with the Paradise Avonal Son Monjoronson, who will be involved with Spiritual Teaching on Earth.]

    Many are now coming to appreciate the charismatic side of their religions, to understand and feel the presence of God, and to know God personally, intimately. This, as you were told some years ago and repeatedly, is causing a separation between those who believe, and those who do not; those who are great in heart-energy, and those who are solely of the Mind Energy, those who aspire to the material gratifications of material existence. You will continue to see this separating, this shredding between individuals, families, cultures, communities and nations. This is part of the increase of Spirit pressure.

    This comes at a time in the history and the future of this Planet, as it undergoes tremendous change — through physical change, social change — and social change of all stripes and degrees, with its political, economic and commerce, or whether it is in family dynamics, or community enterprises. This social fabric of your world, will increase, improve, develop and mature. It is undergoing an evolution that you contribute to with your consciousness. We — meaning “us,” meaning “you” — together have brought your World almost to the position that we call the “quorum of consciousness,” where there is a quorum of strength, of energy, of consciousness sufficient to then sway the whole Planet forward and upward.

    Paradise Avonal Son MONJORONSON, am here to manage and execute decisions and actions and energies for the, generally speaking, the “Spiritual” development of your world. This is the Head and Heart, the Heart-mind of the Planet, between myself and Machiventa. We have worked closely together and our decisions were inseparable.

    NEO-TECH® – THE LEAGUE – FOUNDER: Dr. Frank R. Wallace, Ph.D.
    NEOTHINK® – THE SOCIETY – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton
    (TVP) – TWELVE VISIONS PARTY® – THE VISIONARIES – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton

  383. WIKIPEDIA VS NEO-TECH® COMMENT 601.24 by Myles Conefrey (MENTOR SNIPPETS) –
    Earth Changes & Ascension Plan for Planet

    Creator Son CHRIST MICHAEL ATON/Sovereign of the Local Universe of Nebadon

    An Archive of Messages channeled through Candace Frieze and Jess Anthony and others – http://www.AbundantHope.Net

    Earth is a living progression, just as each of you are working out your own pathway for personal growth. The changes that must come are outcomes of the choices Earth has made previously to allow her inhabitants to explore their systems of interaction. Their choices involved her physical nature, and Mother Earth has allowed herself to be damaged for an object lesson to others. It is now time for Planet Earth to begin to heal. The lessons learned through damage and destruction by manmade forces are at an end. The slate is about to be wiped clean, as it were.

    . Man’s perceptions and awareness will be reoriented, and this will affect the way he interacts with each other and with his plane of existence on Earth. This “Energy Shift” will have an impact much beyond the perimeters of your limited Solar System.
    Evolution is continual and Ascension is a part of it.

    NEO-TECH® – THE LEAGUE – FOUNDER: Dr. Frank R. Wallace, Ph.D.
    NEOTHINK® – THE SOCIETY – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton
    (TVP) – TWELVE VISIONS PARTY® – THE VISIONARIES – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton

  384. WIKIPEDIA VS NEO-TECH® COMMENT 601.23 by Myles Conefrey (MENTOR SNIPPETS) –
    Judith Curless says

    Shout-out to Myles – Thanks for the information on the Shift, the changing timelines and the Earth’s magnetic pole reversal etc. Really good and I appreciate your demonstrating interest in the bottom line of all we’re experiencing – basically, the Ascension process. Pretty dynamic and exciting times we are living in! Take care. And again, thanks for the input on this often misunderstood, speculative and a bit scary topic.

    Earth Changes & Ascension Plan for Planet

    Creator Son CHRIST MICHAEL ATON/Sovereign of the Local Universe of Nebadon

    An Archive of Messages channeled through Candace Frieze and Jess Anthony and others – http://www.AbundantHope.Net

    Esu/Jesus speaks further on the upcoming Stasis Period – Jess Anthony
    The Sun will move and Jupiter will appear as it actually is. Then you will know that “Stasis” is ready to begin.

    “Stasis” is a device that occurs whenever a Planet that is inhabited must undergo some sort of upheaval – be it galactic or geophysical. This allows the Planet’s Systems and its peoples to stop and reorganize themselves to adapt to the next level of vibrational intensity its surroundings demand. This presumes the evolution of its surroundings are linked to the evolutionary process the Body of the Planet itself is undergoing. The Planet’s evolution does or does not only take its Ecosystem into account. If it is beyond any sort of salvaging, then its environment and life-forms are removed and the system is begun again at a new level of Universal interaction. The problems and imbalances are not continued, even in an adapted form.

    The system with Earth is unique. Christ Michael wishes to maintain the remnants of the existence that has become established in accordance with his own vision, in order for it to evolve into the higher frequency [Fourth and subsequent Fifth Dimension] that the Planet itself is moving into. In order for this to take place, the Planet has to be adapted to suit the evolvement of the inhabitants that are staying, and vice versa. This involves changing the inhabitants and the existing ecosystem to accommodate the new frequencies. This change is most easily accomplished by a period of “Stasis” on the Planet. Existence as it is presently will be paused and be reacclimatized to a new vibration in a higher dimensional status.

    Man is nothing but a series of vibrational interactions that appear to be chemical in nature. Change his vibrational pattern and he will morph into a new vibrational sequence. This is the same process as entraining two frequencies vibrating at different speeds. The higher and faster one prevails and the two merge into one frequency, becoming two strings of the one.

    Man’s vibrational pattern will change and adapt to the new 4D frequency for Earth. This requires a strong and resilient physical body and a mental awareness that doesn’t challenge spiritual perception or experiential discoveries. Only a percentage of the Earth’s current population will be able to adapt. This requires a physical body that is connected to “Spiritual Awareness”. Spiritual insight automatically shapes the Physical and Mental bodies that function on this Earthly Plane. Only lately has Man’s understanding of this relationship been nourished enough to allow comprehension. Now is the time for Man to move ahead into his next evolutionary phase. This evolutionary status will involve a symbiosis with the evolution of the Earth. Man will interact with his environment on a much more “Conscious” level and will realize the importance of spiritual dialogue with his surroundings.

    We are looking to the appearance of Jupiter as a new Second Sun to provide sufficient shock and disruption to established scientific and religious belief systems to enable enough awareness of a difference to trigger a conscious desire for action.

    The Plan of the “Stasis Process” involves sending a beam of energy to Earth that is of such a frequency that it causes the basic speed of energy transfer to pause in its movement. When energy is not moving there is no sequence of interactions that characterize life on your Planet. This is different from what you regard as Death. That involves the Spirit leaving the physical shell and reuniting with its Family Soul assemblage. The physical shell continues to interact with its environment and energy exchange is still going on. Stasis stops this energy movement for a period of time. There is no aging as a result, and time seems to be halted in your perception. With time stopped, there is no perception by you, in fact, because observations or evaluations are based on your measurements of your physical context.

    To produce a more efficient structure that is more integrated with the Ascending Universal Manifestation.

    Those of you who intend to stay and work after the “Stasis Period” will be uplifted in vibration level and thereby redesigned and refashioned to accommodate the changes that the New 4D Earth will be going through.

    The Earth changes are linked to geophysical shifts and redirected energy from the Sun and Solar System. The Energy Changes coming to Earth affect the Magnetosphere’s operation and alter the system of Planetary rotation. These changes are necessary to re-circuit the grid pattern the Earth is operating in. This restructuring will provide the new environment for Earth’s inhabitants.

    Most of those staying will remain here and be transformed along with the Earth. Many others will choose to leave or will not be spiritually able to adapt to the higher dimensional frequency that will be necessary for Earth’s evolution. This change must be viewed as a necessary step in the Ascension. No Soul is destroyed unless he or she chooses that option; when someone ends existence on Earth, that Soul moves into another form in its progression. The inevitable grief you will experience here must be tempered by awareness and a realization of the larger picture of a Soul’s evolution.

    There will be a large group of inhabitants that will be assembled in “Retreat Centers” to continue their education. These are Members of the group that have been called “Lightworkers”, meaning those who have had awareness of the true nature of what is happening on Earth and have held out some form of insight to others. This group of Teachers and Workers will make up the large body of Facilitators who have chosen to help others accommodate their new forms to the new environment. These will be Leaders, Artists, Educators, Healers, and Workers who have committed themselves to building a sustainable society. They have special talents suited to the tasks that lie ahead and have incarnated at this time to take on those roles. They will be brought out of “Stasis” at the time that is necessary for their training to begin.

    NEO-TECH® – THE LEAGUE – FOUNDER: Dr. Frank R. Wallace, Ph.D.
    NEOTHINK® – THE SOCIETY – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton
    (TVP) – TWELVE VISIONS PARTY® – THE VISIONARIES – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton

  385. April 26, 1986
    ===========
    On this day in 1986, the world’s worst nuclear accident to date occurred at the Chernobyl
    nuclear plant near Kiev in Ukraine. The full toll from this disaster is still being tallied, but
    experts believe that thousands of people died and as many as 70,000 suffered severe
    poisoning. In addition, a large area of land may not be livable for as much as 150
    years. The 18-mile radius around Chernobyl was home to almost 150,000
    people who had to be permanently relocated.

    The Soviet Union built the Chernobyl plant, which had four 1,000-megawatt reactors,
    in the town of Pripyat. At the time of the explosion, it was one of the largest and oldest
    nuclear power plants in the world. The explosion and subsequent meltdown of one
    reactor was a catastrophic event that directly affected hundreds of thousands of
    people. Still, the Soviet government kept its own people and the rest of the
    world in the dark about the accident until days later.

    At first, the Soviet government only asked for advice on how to fight graphite fires
    and acknowledged the death of two people. It soon became apparent, however,
    that the Soviets were covering up a major accident and had ignored their
    responsibility to warn both their own people and surrounding nations.
    Two days after the explosion, Swedish authorities began measuring
    dangerously high levels of radioactivity in their atmosphere.

    Years later, the full story was finally released. Workers at the plant were performing
    tests on the system. They shut off the emergency safety systems and the cooling
    system, against established regulations, in preparation for the tests. Even when
    warning signs of dangerous overheating began to appear, the workers failed to
    stop the test. Xenon gases built up and at 1:23 a.m. the first explosion rocked
    the reactor. A total of three explosions eventually blew the 1,000-ton steel
    top right off of the reactor.

    A huge fireball erupted into the sky. Flames shot 1,000 feet into the air for two days,
    as the entire reactor began to melt down. Radioactive material was thrown into
    the air like fireworks. Although firefighting was futile, Pripyat’s 40,000 people
    were not evacuated until 36 hours after the explosion. Potentially lethal rain
    fell as the fires continued for eight days. Dikes were built at the Pripyat
    River to contain damage from contaminated water run-off and the
    people of Kiev were warned to stay indoors as a radioactive cloud
    headed their way.

    On May 9, workers began encasing the reactor in concrete. Later, Hans Blix of the
    International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that approximately 200 people
    were directly exposed and that 31 had died immediately at Chernobyl. The
    clean-up effort and the general radioactive exposure in the region, h
    owever, would prove to be even more deadly. Some reports
    estimate that as many as 4,000 clean-up workers died
    from radiation poisoning. Birth defects among people
    living in the area have increased dramatically.
    Thyroid cancer.
    =============
    has increased tenfold in Ukraine since the accident.

  386. April 25, 1917
    ==========
    On this day, Jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald is born in Newport News, Virginia.

    She was called “The First Lady of Song,” an honor whose meaning is captured
    in a compliment paid to her by the great composer Ira Gershwin: “I never knew
    how good our songs were until I heard Ella Fitzgerald sing them.” Quite apart
    from the quality of her voice, there was a warmth and intelligence behind it
    that gave even melancholy songs a plausible tilt toward optimism. Billie
    Holliday or Frank Sinatra might fully inhabit the dark side of a torch
    song, but Fitzgerald, in the words of the critic Frank Rich, “could
    turn any song into an oxygen rush of bouncing melody that
    reached the listener’s ears as pure, untroubled joy — the
    eternally young sound of a young country.”

    Ella’s own life as a young woman, though, was far from untroubled. Her mother,
    Temperance “Tempie” Fitzgerald, migrated north to Yonkers, New York, shortly
    after Ella was born, and Ella spent her childhood in Yonkers aspiring to be a
    dancer and traveling frequently into nearby Harlem, where she would one
    day get her big break. But Ella very nearly fell through the cracks. Tempie
    Fitzgerald died in 1932, leaving her 15-year-old daughter orphaned, broke
    and vulnerable at a very dangerous time in American history – the very
    low point of the Great Depression. Ella was taken in at first by an aunt
    in Harlem, but she soon dropped out of school and ran into trouble
    with the law while working as a lookout in a bordello and courier
    for a local numbers-runner. She was placed in the Riverdale
    Colored Orphan Asylum but soon ran away from that facility,
    which earned her a trip upstate to a tough reformatory
    near Albany called the New York State Training School
    for Girls.

    Ella Fitzgerald never spoke publicly about this period in her life, and she certainly
    never betrayed any hint of it in her performances. It lends an incredible backdrop,
    however, to the oft-repeated story of the Apollo Theater Amateur Night performance
    in 1934 that put her on a path toward stardom. Still technically a ward of the State of
    New York, Ella was officially paroled in 1935 to Chick Webb’s orchestra, the group
    she would make her name with over the next seven years.

    Born on this day in 1917, Ella Fitzgerald passed away
    in 1996 at the age of 79 in Beverly Hills, California.
    ==================
    IT DON’T MEAN A THING IF IT AIN”T GOT THE SWING
    by Ella Fitzgerald

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrVu9WKs498
    ————-
    BLUE SKIES
    by Ella Fitzgerald

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epRXoS_P0lk
    ————-

  387. WIKIPEDIA VS NEO-TECH® COMMENT 601.22 by Myles Conefrey (MENTOR SNIPPETS) –
    Earth Changes & Ascension Plan for Planet

    Creator Son CHRIST MICHAEL ATON/Sovereign of the Local Universe of Nebadon

    An Archive of Messages channeled through Candace Frieze and Jess Anthony and others – http://www.AbundantHope.Net

    I AM THAT I AM, the Sovereign of your Local Universe of Nebadon, Christ Michael.
    There will be a political and financial upheaval that forces the globe’s inhabitants into two camps of objective and subjective reactions.

    Jupiter is now carefully out in the Sun’s Corona all of the time.

    When Earth’s Magnetic Field collapses we shall go into “Stasis”. The Magnetic Field continues to go down when it must. At present it continues to weaken.

    Now, when we are in “Stasis”, as we have suggested before, every living thing on the Planet goes into the pausing of energies [suspended animation]. This protects them from the incoming radiation. The whole of the Pole Reversal will take a few weeks, on our time frame, and of course, no one in Stasis will be awake to that. The Planet is going to be rotated very slowly in the opposite direction. Even the slow-down is going to be further slowed down to decrease the possible destruction and there will be more and more anomalies of all sorts from this, primarily seen in the movement of the Sun through the sky, and also in many storms of strange nature and the like.

    In the meantime, the weather and earthquakes will continue to increase and this will be noticed by all, as the weather cannot be hidden from people. You will be forced to notice, Dear Ones, and this is how it will be done. The coming “Earth Changes” will start when the Sun begins to rise or set a half hour off or more, and this will be noticed by many and the word will quickly spread. There will be many sudden and severe storms.

    There will be other strange wonders in the Heavens, like auroras further South which have been occurring, but they may be seen all the way to the Equator and you folks in the Southern portions may see some emanating also from the Southern Pole.

    NEO-TECH® – THE LEAGUE – FOUNDER: Dr. Frank R. Wallace, Ph.D.
    NEOTHINK® – THE SOCIETY – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton
    (TVP) – TWELVE VISIONS PARTY® – THE VISIONARIES – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton

  388. WIKIPEDIA VS NEO-TECH® COMMENT 601.21 by Myles Conefrey (MENTOR SNIPPETS) –
    Earth Changes & Ascension Plan for Planet

    Creator Son CHRIST MICHAEL ATON/Sovereign of the Local Universe of Nebadon

    An Archive of Messages channeled through Candace Frieze and Jess Anthony and others – http://www.AbundantHope.Net

    The Magnetic Polarity will collapse and then reverse its Magnetic Poles to refresh the direction of energy circuitry. North becomes South and expectations will be changed.

    The movement of energy currents that make up the Magnetic Field will appear to be at a standstill. This is so that the “Pole Reversal” can happen and the currents can begin to flow in the opposite direction. This realignment is not something you should experience consciously. This Shift can be dealt with more easily within a lack of consciousness.

    The collapse of the Magnetic Field will have unpredictable effects on the delicate balance holding together the existing geophysical system of faults and internal pressure points. The pressure of the Solar Wind will be immense without the mitigating effects of the Magnetic Grid. Pressure pockets will be pushed beyond their balanced state and will erupt in earthquakes and volcanic explosions.

    Most of Earth’s inhabitants will be sheltered and overseen. They will be kept safe from upheavals that may happen on the Earth’s surface, and they will be assisted in transforming their physical Beings to accommodate the increased energy that will be coming to Earth. They will come out of the Stasis period to face a new world with a new and much higher energy frequency.

    NEO-TECH® – THE LEAGUE – FOUNDER: Dr. Frank R. Wallace, Ph.D.
    NEOTHINK® – THE SOCIETY – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton
    (TVP) – TWELVE VISIONS PARTY® – THE VISIONARIES – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton

  389. WIKIPEDIA VS NEO-TECH® COMMENT 601.20 by Myles Conefrey (MENTOR SNIPPETS) –
    Earth Changes & Ascension Plan for Planet

    Creator Son CHRIST MICHAEL ATON/Sovereign of the Local Universe of Nebadon

    An Archive of Messages channeled through Candace Frieze and Jess Anthony and others – http://www.AbundantHope.Net

    The Planet is going to “Ascend”, along with the rest of the Solar System. In fact much of the Solar System already has. The reason Mars does not seem to have a Magnetosphere is because it Ascended quite some time ago and has no need of one. And if you could better study Jupiter right now which remains “hidden” within the Sun’s Corona, you would know it is no longer bi-polar, having made its own Ascension up to a higher vibration rate.

    When the “Magnetic Pole Reversal” starts, the “Stasis Event” will commence in order to protect the life forms. There will be two basic phases of Stasis, an initial total Stasis for all Life Forms, while we take the Planet through the Magnetic Pole Reversal, and then some of the Life Forms will be awakened once the polarity is re-established in the opposite direction.

    NEO-TECH® – THE LEAGUE – FOUNDER: Dr. Frank R. Wallace, Ph.D.
    NEOTHINK® – THE SOCIETY – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton
    (TVP) – TWELVE VISIONS PARTY® – THE VISIONARIES – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton

  390. WIKIPEDIA VS NEO-TECH® COMMENT 601.19 by Myles Conefrey (MENTOR SNIPPETS) –
    Judith Curless says

    Shout-out to Myles – Thanks for the information on the Shift, the changing timelines and the Earth’s magnetic pole reversal etc. Really good and I appreciate your demonstrating interest in the bottom line of all we’re experiencing – basically, the Ascension process. Pretty dynamic and exciting times we are living in! Take care. And again, thanks for the input on this often misunderstood, speculative and a bit scary topic.

    Earth Changes & Ascension Plan for Planet

    Creator Son CHRIST MICHAEL ATON/Sovereign of the Local Universe of Nebadon

    An Archive of Messages channeled through Candace Frieze and Jess Anthony and others – http://www.AbundantHope.Net

    The shifts in Earth’s energy through its Magnetosphere. This connecting “skin,” to use that image, is frayed and unraveling, as we communicate. I honestly don’t see this lasting for more than several months, your time. I don’t like to make “predictions,” but this seems on the verge of happening. We are guiding it as best we can, with bursts of power to sustain a slower release of existing polarity. This allows Earth to put on additional brakes as it lets go of previous magnetic connections. The speed of this letting go is slowed down by Galactic Federation assistance, although the stages of its progress are determined solely by the Earth system it expresses. Until the Magnetosphere lets go completely.

    The letting go of the Magnetic Poles will result in climactic changes and disorientation as to the flow of Solar Energy. Existing electric circuitry will short circuit and cease to function as the inhabitants would expect. There will still be polarity once it reverses, but there will be a massive need to reorient all operations based on new magnetic forces and newly assumed polarity.

    The “Stasis Event” will be the time to sort out our needs and make plans on how this will function. Earth will be less problematic than now, even though still not fully understanding what is happening. Will create a more positive perception of the Universal Laws that will be integrated into cultural thinking. The political chaos and financial machinations will be stopped and replaced with workable examples of sustainable communities. These individual pockets of culture will determine the ways the larger groups react on a national and international scale.

    NEO-TECH® – THE LEAGUE – FOUNDER: Dr. Frank R. Wallace, Ph.D.
    NEOTHINK® – THE SOCIETY – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton
    (TVP) – TWELVE VISIONS PARTY® – THE VISIONARIES – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton

  391. WIKIPEDIA VS NEO-TECH® COMMENT 601.18 by Myles Conefrey (MENTOR SNIPPETS) –
    Earth Changes & Ascension Plan for Planet

    Creator Son CHRIST MICHAEL ATON/Sovereign of the Local Universe of Nebadon

    An Archive of Messages channeled through Candace Frieze and Jess Anthony and others – http://www.AbundantHope.Net

    Jupiter is back out within the Sun’s outer Corona again, to assist the Earth Changes process “naturally.” There are other “natural” processes also going on, which include large Gamma Ray blasts that are coming from INSIDE your Solar System and not from distant Creations, although of course the whole of Creation is always growing, and these events do occur.

    NEO-TECH® – THE LEAGUE – FOUNDER: Dr. Frank R. Wallace, Ph.D.
    NEOTHINK® – THE SOCIETY – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton
    (TVP) – TWELVE VISIONS PARTY® – THE VISIONARIES – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton

  392. WIKIPEDIA VS NEO-TECH® COMMENT 601.17 by Myles Conefrey (MENTOR SNIPPETS) –
    Earth Changes & Ascension Plan for Planet

    Creator Son CHRIST MICHAEL ATON/Sovereign of the Local Universe of Nebadon

    An Archive of Messages channeled through Candace Frieze and Jess Anthony and others – http://www.AbundantHope.Net

    All we are doing at this time is quieting the change a bit, so that the external rotation and internal rotation of the planet are synchronous which allows a slow and graceful stop of the rotation. This is close now.

    As the Earth graciously draws to a stop, you will start to notice. She will not slam on her brakes, but instead the Sun will move ever gradually to a halt, possibly over a few days time. Man will then begin to notice this, unless he is completely blind! The sunrises will start later, the sunsets earlier as if Fall and Winter are coming on, but much more rapidly. Your Sun now is rising and setting rather North for this time of year.

    Mother Earth is doing fine, we are pleased to note, and please live your lives in the meantime to the fullest possible.

    NEO-TECH® – THE LEAGUE – FOUNDER: Dr. Frank R. Wallace, Ph.D.
    NEOTHINK® – THE SOCIETY – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton
    (TVP) – TWELVE VISIONS PARTY® – THE VISIONARIES – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton

  393. The Southeastern Michigan Neothink Clubhouses
    are holding our SECOND QUARTER GALA EVENT.
    =======================================
    When?. . . . . . . .Saturday May 13, 2017.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:30 am – 3 pm.
    Where?. . . . . . . Greenfield Village.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dearborn, MI.
    What?. . . . . . . . The Four Pillars
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . plus Model T Rides,
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and a whole lot more.
    Why?. . . . . . . . . Why not?
    ————————
    ……………

  394. April 23, 1954
    ===========
    Hank Aaron hit the first home run of his Major League Baseball career. Twenty years later
    “Hammerin’ Henry” became baseball’s new home run king when he broke Babe Ruth’s
    long-standing record of 714 career homers.

    A native of Mobile, Alabama, Aaron began his professional baseball career in 1952 in the
    Negro League and joined the Milwaukee Braves of the major leagues in 1954, eight years
    after Jackie Robinson had integrated baseball. Aaron was the last Negro League player to
    compete in the majors. He played his first game with the Braves on April 13 and went
    hitless in his five times at bat. Two days later, he got his first hit, a single, in a game
    against the St. Louis Cardinals, and on April 23, 1954, pounded out his first major
    league home run off Cardinals’ pitcher Vic Raschi.

    Aaron quickly established himself as an important player for the Braves and won the
    National League batting title in 1956. The following season, he took home the league’s MVP
    award and helped the Braves beat Mickey Mantle and the heavily favored New York Yankees
    in the World Series. In 1959, Aaron won his second league batting title. Season after season,
    he turned in strong batting performances: “Hammerin’ Hank” hit .300 or higher for 14
    seasons and slugged at least 40 homers in eight separate seasons. In May 1970,
    he became the first player in baseball to record 500 homers and 3,000 hits.
    The achievement Aaron is best known for, though, is breaking Babe Ruth’s
    record of 714 career home runs, which he did on April 8, 1974, at Atlanta-Fulton
    County Stadium, when he hit his 715th home run in the fourth inning of a game against
    the Los Angeles Dodgers. Aaron played for the Milwaukee Braves from 1954 to 1965 and then
    moved with the team to Atlanta in 1966. On February 29, 1972, the Atlanta Braves signed Aaron to
    a three-year, $200,000 per year contract that made him baseball’s best-paid player. In November
    1974, the Braves traded Aaron to the Milwaukee Brewers, where he spent the final two seasons
    of his career. Aaron retired from baseball in 1976 with 755 career home runs, a record that
    stood until August 7, 2007, when it was broken by Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants.
    ===============

  396. April 23, 1961
    ==========
    She was one of the biggest and most popular movie stars of all time, making her first
    film appearance at the age of seven and earning the first of three Oscar nominations
    at 17 for her starring role in what may well be the best-loved American movie of all
    time – The Wizard of Oz. She was also a prolific recording star, selling millions of
    records and winning five Grammy awards in a single year nearly three decades after
    starting out as one of the youngest performers ever signed to a major record label.
    These accomplishments alone would be enough to impress anyone who was somehow
    unfamiliar with her work, but “to experience Judy Garland’s full power,” as the PBS
    series American Masters put it, “one had to be in the auditorium when she brought
    her God-given gifts to bear on a suddenly unified collection of strangers.” Never did
    Judy Garland so unify a collection of strangers than on this day in 1961 during the
    famous Carnegie Hall performance often called “the greatest night in showbiz history.”

    The raucous standing ovation that greeted Judy Garland when she took the stage that
    night at Carnegie Hall set the tone for the evening that followed. “They were on their
    feet even before the goddess grabbed the microphone,” wrote Lewis Funke for the
    New York Times. “And then she sang,” wrote Judith Christ for the New York
    Herald, “And she sang, let it be reported, as she hasn’t in years.” She sang
    27 numbers in front of the rapturous crowd that night and was
    frequently interrupted by extended ovations. Was it merely
    the quality of Garland’s performance that night that earned her
    such an incredible reception? Perhaps it was, but it is also fair to note
    that the concert took place on the one night a week that Broadway performers
    have off — Sunday night — and that the audience was therefore, to say the least, a friendly one.

    Judy Garland’s performance on this night in 1961 was captured on a live recording that
    would go on to spend 95 weeks on the U.S. album charts (including 13 weeks at #1) and
    sweep the 1962 Grammys. But the experience of seeing it live was clearly something else
    entirely. “She’ll be back in May,” wrote Frank Aston for the New York World-Telegram.
    “Try to get tickets. Just try. This kid is still a killer.
    ===============
    OVER THE RAINBOW
    by Eva Cassidy

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rd8VktT8xY
    ————-

  397. WIKIPEDIA VS NEO-TECH® RE-COMMENT 0601.16 by Myles Conefrey (MENTOR SNIPPETS) –

    Earth Changes & Ascension Plan for Planet

    Creator Son CHRIST MICHAEL ATON/Sovereign of the Local Universe of Nebadon

    An Archive of Messages channeled through Candace Frieze and Jess Anthony and others – http://www.AbundantHope.Net

    Before you can assume the restructured body, current aberrations in your DNA must be cleared, both from genetic damage and whatever you contributed through stress that you do not wish to carry to the new form, before your Higher Self. Your Monad or your Morontial Soul depending on your status at this moment. Those of you who are Angels or Ascending Sons within Nebadon have a Morontia Soul. Those Angels from realms beyond Nebadon, and those Ascending graduates of Nebadon or other Universes have a Monad [Higher Self].

    Individual Soul choices and the effects of the increased energy activity on both the people and the higher animals, as to whether the physical form survives or not. Actually, all life forms on the Planet will be affected by the enhanced [4D] vibration-rate, and the removal of the Ozone layer.

    These Snippets cover pages 01 through 60 of 192 pages.

    More to come later.

    NEO-TECH® – THE LEAGUE – FOUNDER: Dr. Frank R. Wallace, Ph.D.
    NEOTHINK® – THE SOCIETY – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton
    (TVP) – TWELVE VISIONS PARTY® – THE VISIONARIES – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton

  398. WIKIPEDIA VS NEO-TECH® RE-COMMENT 0601.15 by Myles Conefrey (MENTOR SNIPPETS) –

    Earth Changes & Ascension Plan for Planet

    Creator Son CHRIST MICHAEL ATON/Sovereign of the Local Universe of Nebadon

    An Archive of Messages channeled through Candace Frieze and Jess Anthony and others – http://www.AbundantHope.Net

    Many of you have noticed the increased energies for 6 months now, and this has prepared, along with the assistance of your Higher Self and your Guides, for your bodies to survive this Event. All those who are not prepared thusly are subject to possible removal, or not surviving. We can’t totally predict the degree of Polar Axis change, and we can’t totally predict the volcanic action.

    In order for Earth to move to a higher frequency of energy that level quickly, additional energy must be sent from a second small Sun. This also sets up a higher frequency of energy interaction within the whole Solar System that allows it to synchronize with the higher energy frequency being introduced by the Photon Belt and other surrounding Star Systems. The simple idea of two different energy frequencies synchronizing to the faster one is at the core of all these changes.

    NEO-TECH® – THE LEAGUE – FOUNDER: Dr. Frank R. Wallace, Ph.D.
    NEOTHINK® – THE SOCIETY – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton
    (TVP) – TWELVE VISIONS PARTY® – THE VISIONARIES – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton

  399. WIKIPEDIA VS NEO-TECH® RE-COMMENT 0601.14 by Myles Conefrey (MENTOR SNIPPETS) –

    Earth Changes & Ascension Plan for Planet

    Creator Son CHRIST MICHAEL ATON/Sovereign of the Local Universe of Nebadon

    An Archive of Messages channeled through Candace Frieze and Jess Anthony and others – http://www.AbundantHope.Net

    The many stories of the Anunnaki arriving on their Planet Nibiru are approximately correct. They intersected your orbit and decided to take control over Earth’s unsuspecting culture for their own selfish purposes.

    Jupiter is ready and can be given its final “Ignition” at any time, and it’s a very fast process, once the involution and other changes are complete.

    The Earth will be extensively depopulated during the Jupiter Event. You who have chosen to stay the course and serve the process will be protected no matter where you live, so do not be in fear. But do understand that many you know may not make this choice, or can’t make this choice because either they are not ready for a move up to the Fourth and Fifth Dimensions or they are those of the Soul-less Robotoid makeup.

    NEO-TECH® – THE LEAGUE – FOUNDER: Dr. Frank R. Wallace, Ph.D.
    NEOTHINK® – THE SOCIETY – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton
    (TVP) – TWELVE VISIONS PARTY® – THE VISIONARIES – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton

  400. WIKIPEDIA VS NEO-TECH® RE-COMMENT 0601.13 by Myles Conefrey (MENTOR SNIPPETS) –

    Earth Changes & Ascension Plan for Planet

    Creator Son CHRIST MICHAEL ATON/Sovereign of the Local Universe of Nebadon

    An Archive of Messages channeled through Candace Frieze and Jess Anthony and others – http://www.AbundantHope.Net

    Jesus/Esu Sananda will walk this plane, but not until a bit later, when things are stable and he can thusly be here safely, and we have the International Headquarters started up, where he will reside.

    This is Esu Immanual Kumara, a Sananda and the future visible Planetary Prince of Earth. At least I will be when the energy vibrations on this Planet are raised enough to allow me to interact with it comfortably.

    NEO-TECH® – THE LEAGUE – FOUNDER: Dr. Frank R. Wallace, Ph.D.
    NEOTHINK® – THE SOCIETY – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton
    (TVP) – TWELVE VISIONS PARTY® – THE VISIONARIES – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton

  401. WIKIPEDIA VS NEO-TECH® RE-COMMENT 0601.12 by Myles Conefrey (MENTOR SNIPPETS) –

    Judith Curless says

    Shout-out to Myles – Thanks for the information on the Shift, the changing timelines and the Earth’s magnetic pole reversal etc. Really good and I appreciate your demonstrating interest in the bottom line of all we’re experiencing – basically, the Ascension process. Pretty dynamic and exciting times we are living in! Take care. And again, thanks for the input on this often misunderstood, speculative and a bit scary topic.

    Earth Changes & Ascension Plan for Planet

    Creator Son CHRIST MICHAEL ATON/Sovereign of the Local Universe of Nebadon

    An Archive of Messages channeled through Candace Frieze and Jess Anthony and others – http://www.AbundantHope.Net

    Right now, we are on the edge of the Fourth Dimension, which is the “get off the fence” Dimension, meaning people have to choose to move forward in their individual evolution and become Service to Others, or remain in Service to Self. Those choosing to continue to experience in the Dimensions below the Fourth will move on to other Planets and realms, and will not be participating in the “Ascension of the Planet”. Many will leave during the “Stasis Period”, and many more over the coming five years or thereabouts. The Planet’s population may reduce as much as two-thirds. It is unknown at this time what will be the final figure.

    NEO-TECH® – THE LEAGUE – FOUNDER: Dr. Frank R. Wallace, Ph.D.
    NEOTHINK® – THE SOCIETY – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton
    (TVP) – TWELVE VISIONS PARTY® – THE VISIONARIES – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton

  404. I am so Grateful, Finally the Masses are Marching for the Breakthroughs in SCIENCE IN GOOD ORDER.

    Law is Order.

    “Good Law is Good Order”

    Alas…

  405. ” In all human affairs there are EFFORTS and there are RESULTS,
    and the strength of the EFFORTS is the measure of the RESULTS. “

  406. April 22, 1978
    ==========
    It was Marshall Checker, of the legendary Checker brothers, who first discovered
    them in the gritty blues clubs of Chicago’s South Side in 1969 and handed them
    their big break nine years later with an introduction to music-industry heavyweight
    and host of television’s Rock Concert, Don Kirshner. Actually, none of that is true,
    but it’s the story that Saturday Night Live‘s Paul Shaffer told on April 22, 1978 as he
    announced the worldwide television debut of that night’s musical guest, the Blues
    Brothers — the not-quite-real, not-quite-fake musical creation – of SNL cast
    members Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi.

    The characters and the band that Belushi and Aykroyd unveiled that night took more
    than two years to evolve. The first incarnation came during SNL‘s first season, in a
    January 17, 1976, appearance singing “I’m a King Bee” as “Howard Shore and his
    All-Bee Band.” There were no dark suits, skinny ties or Ray-Bans at that point,
    but the appearance did feature Aykroyd on the harmonica and Belushi on
    vocals belting out a blues classic very much in the style of the future
    Elwood and “Joliet” Jake Blues – albeit while wearing bee costumes.
    The Blues Brothers’ look — and much of their repertoire — would
    come together after Belushi’s trip to Eugene, Oregon, during the
    hiatus between SNL seasons two and three to film Animal House.
    It was there that Belushi -, a committed rock-and-roll fa – met
    a 25-year-old bluesman named Curtis Salgado, future harmonica
    player for Robert Cray, front-man for Roomful of Blues and a major
    figure on the burgeoning Pacific Northwest blues scene of the 1970s.
    Belushi became a regular visitor to the Eugene Hotel to catch Salgado’s
    act during the filming of Animal Hous – and it was from that act and from
    Salgado himself that he picked up a passion for the blues as well as the inspiration
    for the Blues Brothers’ sound and look .

    Back in New York for the third season of SNL, Belushi and Aykroyd honed their
    concept for the Blues Brothers Band and recruited an incredible roster of
    backing instrumentalists drawn from among the finest blues and R&B
    session musicians in the country. Even if their debut performance
    on this night in 1978 hadn’t been a huge hit, the band was far too
    good to break up after a single gig. Indeed, the closing portion
    of Paul Shaffer’s introduction that night — ”Today they are no
    longer an authentic blues act, but have managed to become
    a viable commercial product” — ended up being borne out
    in real life, with the Blues Brothers earning three top-40
    hits (“Soul Man,” “Rubber Biscuit” and “Gimme Some Lovin’”),
    a #1 pop album (Briefcase Full of Blues) and a piece of screen i
    mmortality via their 1980 film, The Blues Brothers.
    ============

  407. Last night, I found out, from my children of my past how I would figure things/problems out, even if I only got a couple hrs of sleep; step by step, they gave me tools of which to solve my problems that were keeping me up at night, but without doing a bad habit/mysticism. Once I was getting the hang of what they were giving me, I then kept going, until I knew I could finish it later; wow, I’m already for my next step, & will have my children of my past help me & guide me to solving my problem, which, in turn will help me in becoming the person I know I’m meant to be

  408. WIKIPEDIA VS NEO-TECH® RE-COMMENT 0601.07 by Myles Conefrey (MENTOR SNIPPETS) –

    Judith Curless says

    Shout-out to Myles – Thanks for the information on the Shift, the changing timelines and the Earth’s magnetic pole reversal etc. Really good and I appreciate your demonstrating interest in the bottom line of all we’re experiencing – basically, the Ascension process. Pretty dynamic and exciting times we are living in! Take care. And again, thanks for the input on this often misunderstood, speculative and a bit scary topic.

    Earth Changes & Ascension Plan for Planet

    Creator Son CHRIST MICHAEL ATON/Sovereign of the Local Universe of Nebadon

    An Archive of Messages channeled through Candace Frieze and Jess Anthony and others – http://www.AbundantHope.Net

    Planet Earth will eventually be going into a Magnetic Pole Reversal, either as part of the Planet’s eventual full entry into the Photon Belt, to merely keep it slowed down.

    This will be a cataclysmic event that will be recorded and preserved in Earth’s Archives.
    Now this is a Magnetic Pole Reversal, not a flip or Axis Change. This means the Sun will continue to slow down, maybe be more erratic in this process for up to perhaps a day, perhaps a bit longer. The Planet is already beginning a process of preparing to slow down her rotation. Then it will stop for a period of time, a few hours at most, and then the Sun will begin moving backwards to set again in the East, or nor rise at all for some of you. This would bring in the period known as “The Three Days of Darkness”, in which the Planet gradually stops, reverses and keeps up the reversal until the Sun rises in the West.

    To assist the majority of people with the catastrophes that will ensue from the new Jupiter Sun, the Jupiter transformation, has been developing for many years. The output of new energy from Earth has begun this transformation process, the re-establishing of the Energy Grid around Earth and the every increasing power of your own energy usage has amplified the level of energy in the Solar System and tipped the process in Jupiter to a new level of action.

    Everything in this process of change and initial stages of what will be the “Ascension of Earth” has interacted with everything else. It is a living process, and a change in one area forces a reaction in all the others that are connected with the one that changed, the balance of the energy shown throughout the World. The natural transformations that were going on in other Planets near you, this was all part of grander scheme of “Ascension”, and Earth had to tailor the schedule for its change to the larger Solar System picture. The time scale of these events is flexible enough to allow for delaying the start of the Ascension process to allow as many inhabitants as possible to awaken to the reality they were facing. The more involved the better, and more have returned to Universal Oneness.

    The events are ready; the characters are in place the concept of a Planet ready to start a shift in its thinking.

    NEO-TECH® – THE LEAGUE – FOUNDER: Dr. Frank R. Wallace, Ph.D.
    NEOTHINK® – THE SOCIETY – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton
    (TVP) – TWELVE VISIONS PARTY® – THE VISIONARIES – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton

  409. WIKIPEDIA VS NEO-TECH® COMMENT 601.11 by Myles Conefrey (MENTOR SNIPPETS) –
    Earth Changes & Ascension Plan for Planet
    Creator Son CHRIST MICHAEL ATON/Sovereign of the Local Universe of Nebadon

    An Archive of Messages channeled through Candace Frieze and Jess Anthony and others – http://www.AbundantHope.Net

    This whole process is the “Ascension of our Planet” and also the whole Solar System into what is called the “Fifth Dimension”. When Jupiter ignites into a Sun, it will enter its Fifth Dimension, and this will help bring the rest of the Solar System also into the Fifth Dimension. The highest Dimension on evolutionary Planets like Earth with organic life on them is the Ninth Dimension and we will gradually move into increasingly higher Dimensions over a long period of time. Our present Third-Dimension Plane of Planet Earth that we have been experiencing, will move temporarily up to the Fourth Dimension, before finally joining up with all the other Planets within our Solar System at the Fifth Dimension.

    NEO-TECH® – THE LEAGUE – FOUNDER: Dr. Frank R. Wallace, Ph.D.
    NEOTHINK® – THE SOCIETY – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton
    (TVP) – TWELVE VISIONS PARTY® – THE VISIONARIES – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton

  410. WIKIPEDIA VS NEO-TECH® COMMENT 601.10 by Myles Conefrey (MENTOR SNIPPETS) –
    Earth Changes & Ascension Plan for Planet
    Creator Son CHRIST MICHAEL ATON/Sovereign of the Local Universe of Nebadon

    An Archive of Messages channeled through Candace Frieze and Jess Anthony and others – http://www.AbundantHope.Net

    You will begin to see this bigger picture of Universal Truth with ever-increasing clarity. You will see why people are no longer here. This Planet is going through a tremendous renewal and restoration. You are staying here because you have agreed to help with this process. This process demands cooperation and ingenuity. This is the talent and power you have – those of you who are here. You know more about living in this type of creation than anyone. Your job is to use this knowledge.

    Your conscious perception is but one level of the activity that is ongoing. You sense the progress in all these levels. You have a sense that good is pervading much of your awareness. Creation results from an idea connecting with energy that connects with other existing energy to produce a new combination of energy aggregates with a different purpose and different configuration.

    NEO-TECH® – THE LEAGUE – FOUNDER: Dr. Frank R. Wallace, Ph.D.
    NEOTHINK® – THE SOCIETY – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton
    (TVP) – TWELVE VISIONS PARTY® – THE VISIONARIES – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton

  411. WIKIPEDIA VS NEO-TECH® COMMENT 601.09 by Myles Conefrey (MENTOR SNIPPETS) –
    Earth Changes & Ascension Plan for Planet
    Creator Son CHRIST MICHAEL ATON/Sovereign of the Local Universe of Nebadon

    An Archive of Messages channeled through Candace Frieze and Jess Anthony and others – http://www.AbundantHope.Net

    In actuality every country on every continent will undergo a form of change. Everyone’s Higher Self knows what they have determined is their agenda. The choices of how to achieve this agenda are the variables you find as you live on Earth. There are many options you can choose that are determined by your personal discernment and preconditioning memories. These choices affect how your life is shaped. You each select a life pattern that allows you to explore your individual purpose in whatever way seems most appropriate for you alone.

    NEO-TECH® – THE LEAGUE – FOUNDER: Dr. Frank R. Wallace, Ph.D.
    NEOTHINK® – THE SOCIETY – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton
    (TVP) – TWELVE VISIONS PARTY® – THE VISIONARIES – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton

  412. Judith Curless says

    Shout-out to Myles – Thanks for the information on the Shift, the changing timelines and the Earth’s magnetic pole reversal etc. Really good and I appreciate your demonstrating interest in the bottom line of all we’re experiencing – basically, the Ascension process. Pretty dynamic and exciting times we are living in! Take care. And again, thanks for the input on this often misunderstood, speculative and a bit scary topic.

    WIKIPEDIA VS NEO-TECH® COMMENT 601.08 by Myles Conefrey (MENTOR SNIPPETS) –
    Earth Changes & Ascension Plan for Planet
    Creator Son CHRIST MICHAEL ATON/Sovereign of the Local Universe of Nebadon

    An Archive of Messages channeled through Candace Frieze and Jess Anthony and others – http://www.AbundantHope.Net

    Esu Sananda has stated that the newly chosen Leaders would have to guarantee their integrity. What is being required of all those chosen at this time, Earth Citizens, in the Banking Industry, the Media, and the Government Leadership roles, is that they sign an actual Contract of Service. The Contract is voided by lack of cooperation and any under handed activity that does not suit the established goals, they are to be removed from the Planet immediately upon discovery of same.

    After the Stasis Event, the Media will be sufficiently controlled to allow it to be truly a free press. The Citizens of Planet Earth and their Leaders who have stepped into place, under Universal Law.

    The Stasis events will set the scene for the Government sweep what is necessary and allow the Banking system to be reborn. The Stasis Period and will also serve as a forum to introduce new methods of government and new financial systems. At the end of the Stasis Event the Government in the United States will be based on its original Constitutional intentions, and the Representative method of a true Republic will be put into action. Local groups will select Representatives who, in turn, will present their Electorate’s positions in a Group Forum much like the current Congress. The votes, however, must be exclusively representative of the People’s wishes that sent the Representatives in the first place. Any decision outside the will of the People will be disavowed and the Representative will be removed and sent home.

    That will give way to an unimaginable period of peace and regeneration that will begin to take you to the already determined period of Light and Universal Love. This will not be an overnight rapture, but will be a global project that you will pursue to achieve this Ascension yourself. Ascension means taking yourself to a higher level. You must find the path there yourself. Part of that involves finding closure on aspects of your lifetimes you have started but not finished.

    NEO-TECH® – THE LEAGUE – FOUNDER: Dr. Frank R. Wallace, Ph.D.
    NEOTHINK® – THE SOCIETY – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton
    (TVP) – TWELVE VISIONS PARTY® – THE VISIONARIES – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton

  413. WIKIPEDIA VS NEO-TECH® COMMENT 601.07 by Myles Conefrey (MENTOR SNIPPETS) –Judith Curless says

    Shout-out to Myles – Thanks for the information on the Shift, the changing timelines and the Earth’s magnetic pole reversal etc. Really good and I appreciate your demonstrating interest in the bottom line of all we’re experiencing – basically, the Ascension process. Pretty dynamic and exciting times we are living in! Take care. And again, thanks for the input on this often misunderstood, speculative and a bit scary topic.

    Earth Changes & Ascension Plan for Planet
    Creator Son CHRIST MICHAEL ATON/Sovereign of the Local Universe of Nebadon

    An Archive of Messages channeled through Candace Frieze and Jess Anthony and others – http://www.AbundantHope.Net

    Planet Earth will eventually be going into a Magnetic Pole Reversal, either as part of the Planet’s eventual full entry into the Photon Belt, to merely keep it slowed down.

    This will be a cataclysmic event that will be recorded and preserved in Earth’s Archives.
    Now this is a Magnetic Pole Reversal, not a flip or Axis Change. This means the Sun will continue to slow down, maybe be more erratic in this process for up to perhaps a day, perhaps a bit longer. The Planet is already beginning a process of preparing to slow down her rotation. Then it will stop for a period of time, a few hours at most, and then the Sun will begin moving backwards to set again in the East, or nor rise at all for some of you. This would bring in the period known as “The Three Days of Darkness”, in which the Planet gradually stops, reverses and keeps up the reversal until the Sun rises in the West.

    To assist the majority of people with the catastrophes that will ensue from the new Jupiter Sun, the Jupiter transformation, has been developing for many years. The output of new energy from Earth has begun this transformation process, the re-establishing of the Energy Grid around Earth and the every increasing power of your own energy usage has amplified the level of energy in the Solar System and tipped the process in Jupiter to a new level of action.

    Everything in this process of change and initial stages of what will be the “Ascension of Earth” has interacted with everything else. It is a living process, and a change in one area forces a reaction in all the others that are connected with the one that changed, the balance of the energy shown throughout the World. The natural transformations that were going on in other Planets near you, this was all part of grander scheme of “Ascension”, and Earth had to tailor the schedule for its change to the larger Solar System picture. The time scale of these events is flexible enough to allow for delaying the start of the Ascension process to allow as many inhabitants as possible to awaken to the reality they were facing. The more involved the better, and more have returned to Universal Oneness.

    The events are ready; the characters are in place the concept of a Planet ready to start a shift in its thinking.

    NEO-TECH® – THE LEAGUE – FOUNDER: Dr. Frank R. Wallace, Ph.D.
    NEOTHINK® – THE SOCIETY – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton
    (TVP) – TWELVE VISIONS PARTY® – THE VISIONARIES – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton

  414. April 21, 2017
    ==========
    The yellow ribbon has long been a symbol of support for an absent or missing
    loved ones. There are some who believe that the tradition of the yellow ribbon
    dates back as far as the Civil War era, when a yellow ribbon in a woman’s hair
    indicated that she was “taken” by a man who was absent due to service in the
    United States Army Cavalry. But research by professional folklorists has found
    no evidence to support that story. The Library of Congress itself traces the
    cultural ubiquity of this powerful symbol to the well-known song by Tony
    Orlando and Dawn: “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree” – which
    topped the U.S. pop charts on this day in 1973.

    “Tie a Yellow Ribbon” was a massive international hit, holding the top spot on both
    the U.S. and U.K. charts for four consecutive weeks and earning upwards of 3 million
    radio plays in 1973. It was sung from the perspective of a man returning home after
    three years in prison and looking anxiously for an agreed-upon sign that the
    woman he loves would welcome his return. Songwriters Irwin Levine and
    L. Russell Brown got the idea for the song from a story they’d heard while
    in the Army. New York newspaper columnist Pete Hamill sued Levine
    and Brown for copyright infringement because he believed they took
    the idea from a 1971 column of his relating a very similar story as fact.
    Hamill dropped his suit, however, when researchers uncovered
    multiple versions of the same general tale dating back at least as
    far as the 1950s. “Probably the story is one of these mysterious
    bits of folklore that emerge from the national subconscious
    to be told anew in one form or another,” Hamill said at the
    time. To use a more familiar term, it was an urban legend.
    ===========
    TIE A YELLOW RIBBON ROUND THE OLE OAK TREE
    by Tony Orlando & DAWN

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWn1Oj2V7Xw
    ———-

  415. On April 21, 1967
    =============
    General Motors (GM) celebrated the manufacture of its 100 millionth
    American-made car on this day. At the time, GM was the world’s largest automaker.

    General Motors was established in 1908 in Flint, Michigan, by horse-drawn carriage
    mogul William Durant. In 1904, Durant invested in the Buick Motor Company, which
    was started in 1903 by Scottish-born inventor David Dunbar Buick. Within a few
    years of forming his company, Buick lost control of it and sold his stock, which
    would later be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. (In 1929, Buick died at
    age 74 in relative obscurity and modest circumstances). Durant made
    Buick Motors the cornerstone of his new holding company, General
    Motors. He then acquired Oldsmobile, Cadillac and Reliance Motor
    Company, among other auto and truck makers.

    In 1911, Durant founded Chevrolet Motor Company, which by 1918 was part of GM.
    By the early 1930s, GM had passed the Ford Motor Company to become the world’s
    biggest automaker. Although Ford sold more than 15 million Model Ts between 1908
    and 1927, the company was criticized for not responding quickly enough to consumer
    demand for new models, as GM did. GM also offered financing options to consumers,
    while Henry Ford objected to credit.

    GM went on to experience decades of growth. The company pursued a strategy of
    selling a vehicle “for every purse and purpose,” in the words of Alfred Sloan, who
    became GM’s president in 1923 and resigned as chairman in 1956. In 1940, the
    company commemorated its 25 millionth American-made car, and by its
    peak in 1962, GM produced 51 percent of all the cars in the U.S. Its 75
    millionth U.S.-made car rolled off the assembly line that year, while
    the 100 millionth car followed in 1967.

    However, according to The New York Times, during the 1960s the automaker “began
    a long and slow process of undermining itself,” as it failed to innovate fast enough
    in the face of competition from foreign car manufacturers. In 2008 – hard hit
    by the global economic crisis – GM lost its title as the world’s top-selling
    automaker. That year, GM sold 8.356 million cars and trucks compared
    with Toyota’s 8.972 million vehicles. On June 1, 2009, GM filed for
    Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. It was a move once considered
    unthinkable for the company that became a giant of the U.S.
    economy in the 20th century.
    ==================
    455 ROCKET
    by Kathy Mattea

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQZV6q00sUc
    ————-

  416. OK, I’m back (sort of). Not sure if this is factual or not, but sounds about right ! If the top 7 pharmaceutical firms paid taxes on their “off Shore” profits, we could repair all the bridges in the USA.
    Re; Taxation as theft: Property taxes are just paying for something you already own. Now, that’s a hell of a scam.!
    My favorite smile of the day: Turns out an “At home” DNA test kit does NOT make a great baby shower gift. Make sure to share some love today.

  417. April 20, 2017
    ===========
    Two teenage gunmen kiledl 13 people in a shooting spree at Columbine High School in
    Littleton, Colorado. At about 11:20 a.m., Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris – dressed in long
    trench coats – began shooting students outside the school before moving inside to
    continue their rampage. By the time SWAT team officers finally entered the school at
    about 3:00 p.m., Klebold and Harris had killed 12 fellow students and a teacher, and had
    wounded another 23 people. Then, around noon, they turned their guns on themselves
    and committed suicide.

    The awful crime captured the nation’s attention, prompting an unprecedented search – much
    of it based on false information – for a scapegoat on whom to pin the blame. In the days
    immediately following the shootings, many claimed that Klebold and Harris purposely
    chose jocks, blacks, and Christians as their victims. In one particular instance, student
    Cassie Bernall was allegedly asked by one of the gunmen if she believed in God.
    When Bernall said, “Yes,” she was shot to death. Her parents later wrote a
    book entitled “She Said Yes,” and toured the country, honoring their
    martyred daughter.

    Apparently, however, the question was never actually posed to Bernall. In fact, it was asked
    of another student who had already been wounded by a gunshot. When that victim
    replied, “Yes,” the shooter walked away. Subsequent investigations also
    determined that Klebold and Harris chose their victims
    completely at random. Their original plan was for two bombs
    to explode in the school’s cafeteria, forcing the survivors outside and
    into their line of fire. When the homemade bombs didn’t work, Klebold and
    Harris decided to go into the school to carry out their murderous rampage.

    Commentators also railed against the so-called “Trench Coat Mafia” and “goths,” and
    questioned why these groups and cliques were not monitored more closely. However,
    further investigation revealed that Klebold and Harris were not part of either group.

    Columbine High School reopened in the fall of 1999, but the massacre left behind an
    unmistakable scar on the Littleton community. Mark Manes, the young man who sold
    a gun to Harris and bought him 100 rounds of ammunition the day before the murders,
    was sentenced to six years in prison. Carla Hochhalter, the mother of a student who
    was paralyzed in the attack, killed herself at a gun shop. Several other parents filed
    suit against the school and the police. Even Dylan Klebold’s parents filed notice
    of their intent to sue – claiming that police should have stopped Harris earlier.
    A senior at Columbine was arrested after he threatened to “finish the job.”
    And when a carpenter from Chicago erected 15 crosses in a local park
    on behalf of everyone who died on April 20, parents of the victims
    tore down the two in memory of Klebold and Harris.

    In an effort to show the world “that life goes on,” Columbine school board officials
    oted to replace the library where students were murdered with an atrium. The
    shootings at Columbine stood as the worst school shooting in U.S. history
    until April 16, 2007, when 32 people were shot and many others wounded
    by a student gunman on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia.
    ==============
    TICKING
    by Elton John

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So15b6XNuK0
    ————–
    FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND/LOVE LIES BLEEDING
    by Elton John

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p_xAToFzck
    ============

  418. The Southeastern Michigan Neothink Clubhouses
    are holding our SECOND QUARTER GALA EVENT.
    =======================================
    When?. . . . . . . .Saturday May 13, 2017.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:30 am – 3 pm.
    Where?. . . . . . . Greenfield Village.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dearborn, MI.
    What?. . . . . . . . The Four Pillars
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . plus Model T Rides,
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and a whole lot more.
    Why?. . . . . . . . . Why not?
    ————————
    @@@@@@@@@

  419. Hey Wayne –
    It’s Thursday April 20, 2017, and I enjoyed the hunting story.

    As for me, most of my hunting was shooting skeet and trap (I even reloaded shells for my
    20-gauge Mossberg in high school, but I digress). I started smoking cigars my junior year
    of high school (1976), but quit cold-turkey in 2001. I mainly chewed Kodiak, but tried it all
    at one time or another. I even smoked corn silk in Iowa once – which was the worst. !!! pez

  420. April 19, 1993
    ==========
    At Mount Carmel in Waco, Texas, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) launches a
    tear-gas assault on the Branch Davidian compound, ending a tense 51-day standoff
    between the federal government and an armed religious cult. By the end of the day,
    the compound was burned to the ground, and some 80 Branch Davidians, including
    22 children, had perished in the inferno.

    On February 28, 1993, agents of the U.S. Treasury Department’s Bureau of Alcohol,
    Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) launched a raid against the Branch Davidian compound
    as part of an investigation into illegal possession of firearms and explosives by the
    Christian cult. As the agents attempted to penetrate the complex, gunfire erupted,
    beginning an extended gun battle that left four ATF agents dead and 15 wounded.
    Six Branch Davidians were fatally wounded, and several more were injured, including
    David Koresh – the cult’s founder and leader. After 45 minutes of shooting, the ATF
    agents withdrew, and a cease-fire was negotiated over the telephone. The operation,
    which involved more than 100 ATF agents, was one of the largest ever mounted by
    the bureau and resulted in the highest casualties of any ATF operation.

    David Koresh was born Vernon Wayne Howell in Houston, Texas, in 1959. In 1981, he
    joined the Branch Davidians, a sect of the Seventh Day Adventist Church founded
    in 1934 by a Bulgarian immigrant named Victor Houteff. Koresh – who possessed
    an exhaustive knowledge of the Bible – rapidly rose in the hierarchy of the
    small religious community, eventually entering into a power struggle
    with the Davidians’ leader, George Roden.

    For a short time, Koresh retreated with his followers to eastern Texas, but in late 1987
    he returned to Mount Carmel with seven armed followers and raided the compound,
    severely wounding Roden. Koresh went on trial for attempted murder, but the charge
    was dropped after his case was declared a mistrial. By 1990, he was the leader of the
    Branch Davidians and legally changed his name to David Koresh – with David
    representing his status as head of the biblical House of David, and Koresh
    standing for the Hebrew name for Cyrus, the Persian king who allowed
    the Jews held captive in Babylon to return to Israel.

    Koresh took several wives at Mount Carmel and fathered at least 12 children from these
    women, several of whom were as young as 12 or 13 when they became pregnant. There
    is also evidence that Koresh may have harshly disciplined some of the 100 or so
    Branch Davidians living inside the compound, particularly his children. A
    central aspect of Koresh’s religious teachings was his assertion that the
    apocalyptic events predicted in the Bible’s book of Revelation were
    imminent, making it necessary, he asserted, for the Davidians to
    stockpile weapons and explosives in preparation.

    Following the unsuccessful ATF raid, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) took over
    the situation. A standoff with the Branch Davidians stretched into seven weeks, and
    little progress was made in the telephone negotiations, as the Davidians had
    stockpiled years of food and other necessities before the raid.

    On April 18, U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno approved a tear-gas assault on the
    compound, and at approximately 6:00 a.m. on April 19 the Branch Davidians
    were informed of the imminent attack and asked to surrender, which they
    refused to do. A few minutes later, two FBI combat vehicles began
    inserting gas into the building and were joined by Bradley tanks,
    which fired tear-gas canisters through the compound’s windows. The
    Branch Davidians, many with gas masks on, refused to evacuate, and by
    11:40 a.m. the last of some 100 tear-gas canisters was fired into the compound.
    Just after noon, a fire erupted at one or more locations on the compound, and minutes
    later nine Davidians fled the rapidly spreading blaze. Gunfire was reported but ceased as the
    compound was completely engulfed by the flames.

    Koresh and at least 80 of his followers, including 22 children, died during the federal
    government’s second disastrous assault on Mount Carmel. The FBI and the Justice
    Department maintained there was conclusive evidence that the Branch Davidian
    members ignited the fire, citing an eyewitness account and various forensic
    data. Of the gunfire reported during the fire, the government argued that
    the Davidians were either killing each other as part of a suicide pact or
    were killing dissenters who attempted to escape the Koresh-ordered
    suicide by fire. Most of the surviving Branch Davidians contested
    this official position, as do some critics in the press and elsewhere,
    whose charges against the ATF and FBI’s handling of the Waco standoff
    ranged from incompetence to premeditated murder. In 1999, the FBI admitted
    they used tear-gas grenades in the assault, which have been known to cause fires
    because of their incendiary properties.
    ===================
    ————
    April 19. 1995
    ————
    Just after 9 a.m., a massive truck bomb exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal
    Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The blast collapsed the north face of the nine-story
    building, instantly killing more than 100 people and trapping dozens more in the rubble.
    Emergency crews raced to Oklahoma City from across the country, and when the
    rescue effort finally ended two weeks later the death toll stood at 168 people
    killed, including 19 young children who were in the building’s day-care
    center at the time of the blast.

    On April 21, the massive manhunt for suspects in the worst terrorist attack ever committed
    on U.S. soil by an American resulted in the capture of Timothy McVeigh, a 27-year-old
    former U.S. Army soldier who matched an eyewitness description of a man seen at
    the scene of the crime. On the same day, Terry Nichols, an associate of McVeigh’s,
    surrendered at Herington, Kansas, after learning that the police were looking for
    him. Both men were found to be members of a radical right-wing survivalist
    group based in Michigan, and on August 8 John Fortier – who knew of
    McVeigh’s plan to bomb the federal building – agreed to testify
    against McVeigh and Nichols in exchange for a reduced
    sentence. Two days later, a grand jury indicted
    McVeigh and Nichols on murder and
    conspiracy charges.

    While still in his teens, Timothy McVeigh acquired a penchant for guns and began honing
    survivalist skills he believed would be necessary in the event of a Cold War showdown
    with the Soviet Union. Lacking direction after high school, he enlisted in the U.S. Army
    and proved a disciplined and meticulous soldier. It was during this time that he
    befriended Terry Nichols – a fellow 13 years his senior – who shared his survivalist interests.

    In early 1991, McVeigh served in the Persian Gulf War and was decorated with several
    medals for a brief combat mission. Despite these honors, he was discharged from
    the U.S. Army at the end of the year, one of many casualties of the U.S. military
    downsizing that came after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Another result
    of the Cold War’s end was that McVeigh shifted his ideology from a hatred
    of foreign communist governments to a suspicion of the U.S. federal
    government, especially as its new elected leader – Democrat William Jefferson
    Clinton – had successfully campaigned for the presidency on a platform of gun control.

    The August 1992 shoot-out between federal agents and survivalist Randy Weaver at his
    cabin near Ruby Ridge, Idaho – in which Weaver’s wife and son were killed – followed
    by the April 19, 1993, inferno near Waco, Texas, that killed some 80 Branch Davidians,
    deeply radicalized McVeigh, Nichols, and their associates. In early 1995, Nichols and
    McVeigh planned an attack on the federal building in Oklahoma City, which housed,
    among other federal agencies, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
    (ATF) – the agency that had launched the initial raid on the Branch Davidian
    compound in 1993.

    On April 19, 1995, the two-year anniversary of the disastrous end to the Waco standoff,
    McVeigh parked a Ryder rental truck loaded with a diesel-fuel-fertilizer bomb outside
    the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City and fled. Minutes later, the
    massive bomb exploded, killing 168 people.

    On June 2, 1997, McVeigh was convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy, and
    on August 14, under the unanimous recommendation of the jury, was sentenced
    to die by lethal injection. Michael Fortier was sentenced to 12 years in prison
    and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about McVeigh’s bombing
    plans. Terry Nichols was found guilty on one count of conspiracy and eight
    counts of involuntary manslaughter, and was sentenced to life in prison.

    In December 2000, McVeigh asked a federal judge to stop all appeals of his convictions
    and to set a date for his execution. Federal Judge Richard Matsch granted the request.
    On June 11, 2001, McVeigh, 33, died of lethal injection at the U.S. penitentiary in Terre
    Haute, Indiana. He was the first federal prisoner to be put to death since 1963.
    ==================
    REVOLUTION
    by The Beatles

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGLGzRXY5Bw
    ————–

  421. April 18, 1906
    ===========
    A devastating earthquake begins to shake the city of San Francisco
    in the morning hours of this day in 1906.

    The first of two vicious tremors shook San Francisco at 5:13 a.m., and a second followed
    not long after. The quake was powerful enough to be recorded thousands of miles away
    in Cape Town, South Africa, and its effect on San Francisco was cataclysmic. Thousands
    of structures collapsed as a result of the quake itself. However, the greatest devastation
    resulted from the fires that followed the quake. The initial tremors destroyed the city’s
    water mains, leaving overwhelmed firefighters with no means of combating the growing
    inferno. The blaze burned for four days and engulfed the vast majority of the city.

    By the time a heavy rainfall tamed the massive fire, the once proud city of San Francisco
    was in shambles. More than 28,000 buildings burned to the ground and the city suffered
    more than $500 million in damages. The human toll was equally disastrous – authorities
    estimated that the quake and fires killed 700 people, and left a quarter of a million people
    homeless. The famous writer and San Francisco resident Jack London noted, “Surrender
    was complete.”

    Despite the utter devastation, San Francisco quickly recovered from the great
    earthquake of 1906. During the next four years, the city arose from its ashes.
    Ironically, the destruction actually allowed city planners to create a new
    and better San Francisco. A classic western boomtown, San Francisco
    had grown in a haphazard manner since the Gold Rush of 1849.
    Working from a nearly clean slate, San Franciscans could
    rebuild the city with a more logical and elegant structure.
    The destruction of the urban center at San Francisco also
    encouraged the growth of new towns around the bay,
    making room for a new population boom arriving from the
    U.S. and abroad. Within a decade, San Francisco had resumed
    its status as the crown jewel of the American West.
    ==============

  422. April 18, 2012
    ==========
    On this day in 2012, Dick Clark, the TV personality and producer best known for
    hosting “American Bandstand from 1957 to 1989 (which helped bring rock `n’ roll
    into the mainstream in the late 1950s) died of a heart attack at age 82 in Santa
    Monica, California. The clean-cut, youthful-looking Clark – dubbed “America’s
    Oldest Teenager” – also was the longtime host of the annual telecast “New Year’s
    Rockin’ Eve” and headed an entertainment empire that developed game shows,
    awards shows, talk shows, made-for-TV movies and other programs.

    Richard Wagstaff Clark was born on November 30, 1929, and raised in Mount
    Vernon, New York. His father was a salesman who later managed a radio station.
    Clark graduated from Syracuse University in 1951 and moved to Philadelphia the following
    year to work as a radio disc jockey. In 1956, he became the host of a local, teen-oriented
    TV show called “Bandstand” (launched in 1952) after the original host was fired.

    In 1957, “American Bandstand,” as it was renamed, began airing nationwide. The program,
    which showcased ordinary teenagers dancing to records and musical acts introduced
    by Clark, quickly became a hit with millions of young viewers, who tuned in for the
    latest music, fashions and dance crazes. Clark helped end the then-standard
    practice of having white singers cover the songs of black artists on TV, and
    a number of African-American performers, including Chuck Berry and
    Chubby Checker, made their national TV debut on “American Bandstand.”

    In 1960, amidst the show’s success, Clark was called to testify before a congressional
    subcommittee investigating the practice of payola, in which record companies bribed
    disc jockeys in order to get airplay for records. At the hearings, Clark testified to holding
    an ownership stake in more than 30 different record labels, distributors and manufacturers,
    and featuring the acts from those labels on “American Bandstand.” He denied doing
    anything illegal and was never charged with a crime. However, prior to the
    hearings, ABC, which broadcast “American Bandstand,” directed Clark to
    divest himself of all his music-related businesses, a move said to cost
    him millions of dollars.

    “American Bandstand” originally aired every weekday afternoon before switching to a
    Saturdays-only schedule in late 1963. In 1964, the show relocated from Philadelphia
    to Los Angeles. In the ensuing years, as popular music styles changed, it continued
    to be a place for artists to launch or advance their careers. Among the multitudes
    of acts to appear on the program were the Beastie Boys, The Doors, Kiss, The
    Mamas & The Papas, Prince, Run-DMC, Michael Jackson and Madonna. Clark
    hosted “American Bandstand” until just months before it was cancelled in
    late 1989 (the show’s final installments were hosted by David Hirsch).

    The music impresario furthered his place in pop culture as the host and producer of
    “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve,” a TV special that debuted in 1974 and included
    musical performances and live coverage of the ball drop from New York City’s Times
    Square. Clark helmed the telecast every year until December 31, 2004, having suffered
    a stroke earlier that month. Though the stroke left him speech-impaired, he returned
    to the countdown special the following year, with Ryan Seacrest as co-host, and
    continued to make annual appearances through 2011.

    In addition to being an on-air personality, Clark became a media titan with his
    eponymous production company, formed in 1957. The company’s long list of
    credits range from “The $10,000 Pyramid” to “TV’s Bloopers & Practical
    Jokes” to the American Music Awards and the Golden Globe Awards.
    Clark also remained involved in radio throughout his career,
    hosting several national shows and co-founding a radio
    network. After half a century in the entertainment business, the
    thrice-married Clark suffered a fatal heart attack on April 18, 2012,
    following a surgical procedure at St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica.
    ============
    AMERICAN BANDSTAND
    by Barry Manilow

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6CAHwqAl9Q
    —————

  423. Good Morning to all of my Fellow Neo-Thinkers!!

    First, I want to welcome “YOU” back to this site Wayne; it seems that a LOT of us have slowed down on our Postings, most likely because of unforeseen challenges which have arisen. It is now the TWENTIETH DAY of my battle with the FLU in my bronchial tubes, and thankfully it is almost gone. I lost my voice for about 7-10 days, and it sounded like there was WATER in my lungs when I would attempt to say anything at all. I coughed so hard – for so long, that I could hardly breathe. The garbage that I expelled was enough to KILL a GIANT ANACONDA!!

    Wayne, — apparently, you had some STENTS implanted, and most likely they were inserted into the blood vessels of your heart. I say this because it is exactly what happened TO ME, back in January of 2007. They likely put you on about 6 or 7 prescription drugs, — to prevent ATRIAL FIBRILLATION, or to prevent the heart from RACING. On my most recent Doctor’s Appointment – he discovered that my heart was beating – at a REGULAR pace, and I really DID feel a lot better.
    Four days later, I had the FLU in my lungs. Even though Carol and I BOTH had taken the Flu Shots, for some reason, I PICKED IT UP ANYWAY, and if I HAD NOT taken the flu shot, — it could have been a whole lot WORSE!! My Doctor advised me to GET the flu shot, because people younger than me – were DYING from this nasty bug.

    Obviously this particular STRAIN of the Flu, is moving very fast through the population. Everywhere that Carol and I have been, — people have contracted this bug, and it is “EXTREMELY TENACIOUS” and DEBILITATING!! You don’t want to GET this nasty bug, my dear friends, and I URGE YOU to be very careful to use any and every kind of powerful germicide that you possibly can, when you go shopping, touch the Grocery cart, or even when touching Fresh Produce and Canned Goods. These things are handled by an enormous number of food handlers and grocery shoppers. It is also an AIRBORNE virus that can be picked up just about anywhere, especially inside Doctor’s Clinics where many people sit in the waiting rooms and patient observation rooms.

    I will write again soon, but until then, — Keep posting,– as often as possible, — it’s not easy when you are sick, or Bombed Out with the Flu.

    Love, to Every one of You,
    Carol and Forest

  424. First of all, I want to thank my fellow posters, especially Judith and Pete for continuing forward with the Wiki page even though enthusiasm seems to be waning, the embers are still smoldering so the fire has not completely gone out. Not one to want to go into details about my personal health issues, just let me say this. Got to stay away from metal detectors and magnets now that I have a chest full newly developed metal stents. Also the Cardiology Dept. accused me of not answering their silly questions to their satisfaction, so I am committed to 36 weeks of rehab. (Of course not sillies, I am a Neo-Thinker!!!) So, until I am able to pull myself together once more and become an independent Integrated thinker who can think and visualize those puzzle pictures without a few fuzzies and sparklies, I will pass this along. A few weeks ago my friend and mentor with a much higher consciousness than mine, sent me a post card reminding of “12 old Texas Sayings” and I sent her back the following response. The story attached may not be all that entertaining , but it is an honest from the heart assessment of that day’s situation. Thank You Judith, and Mark Hamilton’s Neo- Think for allowing me the space for such silliness. Meanwhile LOVE to you all. Wayne
    Hi! The one
    saying that needed to be added to # 1, is to always spit
    that tobacco down wind.!! I feel a story coming on. My
    old father-in-law never had much to say. He was a devious
    old fart at best. but we had a somewhat mutual respect for
    each other. Of his 3 son-in-laws, I was the one he
    could never buffalo or intimidate, So your saying where is
    this story going? He loved his chewin’ tobacco. Bags
    full of “Big Chief” or “Red Man”, and
    could stick half a bag in his cheek. In the middle of the
    hunt he walked a team hunting dogs at a pace most men would
    collapse from, and in the heat of the action, he could be
    seen with streams of tobacco juice running from both corners
    of his mouth. Not a particularly pretty sight. Or as Pete
    would say , but I digress! When I went to basic
    training at Lackland in the Mid-fifties, a lot of the
    recruits in my squadron was disgusted that a backward shy
    skinny 135 lb. plowboy from the hills of Missouri took all
    the sharp-shooter awards at the shooting range. That was
    my only claim to fame, but little did they know that I was a
    graduate of Grandpa Jones school of better cuisine, and when
    someone shouted “What’s for supper?” it might
    very well be what ever was shot and was still edible. Any
    way, back to the story at hand. The coyotes were having an
    extremely bad winter. They had decimated all the small game
    and any wildlife and been forced to turn to a different
    source of survival including lambs and calves from
    registered herds of Herford cattle . On one particularly
    cold but sun shiny morning , I threw my trusty old carbine
    into the cab of my old Chevy truck and decided to follow the
    hunt. In the far distance one could hear the bay of the
    hounds and I spotted several hundred yards ahead this mangy
    old coyote moving at a rapid pace just below the crest of
    the ridge, so taking aim I chanced one long out of range
    shot, took the rifle back to the truck and threw across the
    passenger seat, and settled down to a thermos of steaming
    hot coffee, convinced there was no way I could have hit that
    target at that distance, but had become aware that the dogs
    had quit barking and it was complete silence. In those days
    everybody had a CB in there vehicle. After a period of
    time, perhaps 10 minutes, I started up the rig to go back
    home, and this familiar voice said “Well are you going
    to leave the damn thing there or are going to pick it
    up?”. Bounty in those days was like $35 so that went
    along way in maintaining the hunting dogs food supply. So,
    you brought back some old memories that I thought I had
    forgotten for years. Thanks ! Now that I have bored you
    to death, you can get back to the important stuff. Luv
    You.

  425. April 17, 1964
    ==========
    The Ford Mustang – a two-seat, mid-engine sports car – was officially unveiled by
    Henry Ford II at the World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows, New York, on April 17, 1964.
    That same day, the new car also debuted in Ford showrooms across America and
    almost 22,000 Mustangs were immediately snapped up by buyers. Named for a
    World War II fighter plane, the Mustang was the first of a type of vehicle that
    came to be known as a “pony car.” Ford sold more than 400,000 Mustangs
    within its first year of production, far exceeding sales expectations.

    The Mustang was conceived as a “working man’s Thunderbird,” according to Ford.
    The first models featured a long hood and short rear deck and carried a starting
    price tag of around $2,300. Ford general manager Lee Iacocca, who became
    president of the company in October 1964 (and later headed up Chrysler,
    which he was credited with reviving in the 1980s) was involved in the
    Mustang’s development and marketing. The car’s launch generated
    great interest. It was featured on the covers of Newsweek and
    Time magazines and the night before it went on sale, the
    Mustang was featured in commercials that ran simultaneously
    on all three major television networks. One buyer in Texas reportedly
    slept at a Ford showroom until his check cleared and he could drive his
    new Mustang home. The same year it debuted, the Mustang appeared on
    the silver screen in the James Bond movie “Goldfinger.” A green 1968 Mustang 390 GT
    was famously featured in the 1968 Steve McQueen movie “Bullitt,” in a car chase through
    the streets of San Francisco. Since then, Mustangs have appeared in hundreds of movies.

    Within three years of its debut, some 500 Mustang fan clubs had cropped up. In
    March 1966, the 1 millionth Mustang rolled off the assembly line. In honor of the
    Mustang’s 35th anniversary in 1999, the U.S. Postal Service issued a stamp
    commemorating the original model. In 2004, Ford built its 300 millionth
    car, a 2004 Mustang GT convertible 40th anniversary model. The 2004
    Mustangs were the final vehicles made at the company’s Dearborn
    Rouge Production Facility, which had been building Mustangs
    since their debut. (Assembly then moved to a plant in
    Flat Rock, Michigan.)

    Over the decades, the Mustang underwent numerous evolutions,
    and it remains in production today, with more than 9 million sold.
    —————–

  426. April 17, 1970
    ==========
    With the world anxiously watching, Apollo 13 – which encountered a severe
    malfunction on its journey to the moon – safely returned to Earth.

    On April 11, the third manned lunar landing mission was launched from Cape
    Canaveral, Florida, carrying astronauts James A. Lovell, John L. Swigert, and
    Fred W. Haise. The mission was headed for a landing on the Fra Mauro
    highlands of the moon. However, two days into the mission, disaster
    struck 200,000 miles from Earth when oxygen tank No. 2 blew up
    in the spacecraft. Swigert reported to mission control on Earth,
    “Houston, we’ve had a problem here,” and it was discovered
    that the normal supply of oxygen, electricity, light, and
    water had been disrupted. The landing mission was
    aborted, and the astronauts and controllers on Earth scrambled
    to come up with emergency procedures. The crippled spacecraft
    continued to the moon, circled it, and began a long, cold journey back to Earth.

    The astronauts and mission control were faced with enormous logistical problems
    in stabilizing the spacecraft and its air supply, as well as providing enough energy
    to the damaged fuel cells to allow successful reentry into Earth’s atmosphere.
    Navigation was another problem, and Apollo 13‘s course was repeatedly
    corrected with dramatic and untested maneuvers. On April 17, tragedy
    turned to triumph as the Apollo 13 astronauts touched down safely in
    the Pacific Ocean.
    =========

  427. April 16, 1977
    ==========
    David Soul’s smash-hit single “Don’t Give Up On Us Baby” reached the top of the
    U.S. pop charts. But the story of a tough-but-sensitive TV detective’s journey to
    crossover success began a full 10 years earlier.

    Although the soft-rock style of “Don’t Give Up On Us Baby” was likely to prove
    irresistible to fans of “lite”-rock groups like Bread or Seals & Crofts, the song’s
    rise to #1 also owed quite a bit to the celebrity of the man who recorded it.
    David Soul, to the record-buying public of 1977, was better known as Detective
    Kenneth “Hutch” Hutchison, the sensitive and soft-spoken television cop who
    might lecture a drug-dealing Bay City pimp about his unhealthy eating habits
    while Detective David Starsky was busy beating a confession out of him. It was
    a plum role that Mr. Soul (née Solberg) had landed after a decade of yeoman’s
    work on such classic 70s cop shows as Ironside, Cannon, and The Rookies. But
    long before Starsky & Hutch provided the platform from which he launched
    his career in pop, David Soul had made another attempt at musical stardom—one
    of the strangest in pop history.

    In 1967, David Soul was an aspiring folk singer with an apparently debilitating
    problem: his blond and chiseled Scandinavian good looks made it difficult for
    audiences to focus on his music. And so it was that David Soul became “The
    Covered Man,” making 25 appearances on The Merv Griffin Show with a guitar
    in his hands and a black wool ski mask covering his face. No, this was not a
    comedy act, but it was certainly a brilliant gimmick, and it worked like a
    charm—until David Soul decided it was safe to doff the ski mask, that is.
    As it turned out, Griffin and his audience lost all interest in the Covered
    Man once he become uncovered. Luckily for David Soul, television is an
    industry that does not discriminate against the beautiful. A talent scout
    who watched his unmasking on Merv Griffin scooped Soul up and sent
    him out to California for acting and karate lessons, laying the foundation
    for the acting success that would allow his musical talent to reemerge
    some 10 years later and peak on this day in 1977 with a #1 pop single.
    ================
    DON’T GIVE UP ON US BABY
    by David Soul

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY8APrYU2Gs
    —————–

  428. April 16, 1940
    ==========
    The Cleveland Indians’ Bob Feller pitched his first no-hitter on this day. He
    went on to throw two more no-hitters in his career, Only two other pitchers
    in baseball history have recorded more no-hitters.

    Feller, who grew up playing catch with his father on his family’s farm in Iowa, made
    his major league debut at just 17 years old with the Cleveland Indians on July 19, 1936.
    His overpowering fastball quickly established him as a strikeout king. In September
    of his rookie year, in a game against the Philadelphia Athletics, he struck out 17
    batters. On October 2, 1938, in a game against the Detroit Tigers, the “Heater
    from Van Meter” (Feller was also nicknamed “Rapid Robert”) struck out 18
    players and set a major league record for strikeouts in a single, nine-inning game.

    On April 16, 1940, Feller threw his first no-hitter, against the Chicago White Sox on
    opening day at Comiskey Park. The Indians won the game, 1-0. Feller’s no-hitter
    remains the only one to occur on any opening day in baseball history. He pitched
    a second no-hitter against the New York Yankees on April 30, 1946, and his third
    no-hitter came on July 1, 1951, in a game against the Detroit Tigers.

    Nolan Ryan holds the record for most no-hitters, with seven. Sandy Koufax had
    four, while Cy Young and Larry Corcoran, along with Feller, recorded three in
    their pitching careers.

    After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor during World War II, Feller joined the
    Navy – the first big-leaguer to enlist in the armed forces. He spent the majority
    of his time aboard the U.S.S. Alabama in the gunnery department before being
    discharged in 1945, after missing four seasons of baseball. In 1946, Feller set a
    big league record for most strikeouts in a single season, with 348.

    After spending his entire career with the Indians, he retired from baseball in 1956,
    with 266 wins, 162 losses and a total of 2,581 strikeouts. He led the American League
    in strikeouts seven times and in wins six times. In addition to his three no-hitters,
    he recorded 12 one-hit games in his career. Feller was inducted into the Baseball
    Hall of Fame in 1962.
    ===========

  429. April 15, 1998
    ==========Pol Pot – the architect of Cambodia’s killing fields – died of apparently
    natural causes while serving a life sentence imposed against him by his own Khmer Rouge.

    The Khmer Rouge, organized by Pol Pot in the Cambodian jungle in the 1960s,
    advocated a radical communist revolution that would wipe out Western
    influences in Cambodia and set up a solely agrarian society. In 1970,
    aided by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops, Khmer Rouge
    guerrillas began a large-scale insurgency against Cambodian
    government forces, soon gaining control of nearly a third of the country.

    By 1973, secret U.S. bombings of Cambodian territory controlled by the Vietnamese
    communists forced the Vietnamese out of the country, creating a power vacuum
    that was soon filled by Pol Pot’s rapidly growing Khmer Rouge movement. In
    April 1975, the Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital,
    overthrew the pro-U.S. regime, and established a new government, the
    Kampuchean People’s Republic.

    As the new ruler of Cambodia, Pol Pot set about transforming the country into his
    vision of an agrarian utopia. The cities were evacuated, factories and schools
    closed, and currency and private property was abolished. Anyone believed
    to be an intellectual, such as someone who spoke a foreign language, was
    immediately killed. Skilled workers were also killed, in addition to anyone
    caught in possession of eyeglasses, a wristwatch, or any other modern
    technology. In forced marches punctuated with atrocities from the
    Khmer Rouge, the millions who failed to escape Cambodia were
    herded onto rural collective farms.

    Between 1975 and 1978, an estimated two million Cambodians died by execution,
    forced labor, and famine. In 1978, Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia, capturing
    Phnom Penh in early 1979. A moderate communist government was established,
    and Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge retreated back into the jungle.

    In 1985, Pol Pot officially retired but remained the effective head of the Khmer Rouge,
    which continued its guerrilla actions against the government in Phnom Penh. In 1997,
    however, he was put on trial by the organization after an internal power struggle
    ousted him from his leadership position. Sentenced to life imprisonment by a
    “people’s tribunal,” which critics derided as a show trial, Pol Pot later declared in an
    interview, “My conscience is clear.” Much of the international community hoped that
    his captors would extradite him to stand trial for his crimes against humanity, but he died
    of apparently natural causes while under house arrest in 1998.
    ==============

  430. April 15, 1947
    ==========
    Jackie Robinson became the first African-American in the major leagues on
    this day when he played his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

    Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born into a family of sharecroppers on January 31, 1919,
    in Cairo, Georgia. He attended UCLA, where he became the first athlete to letter in
    four varsity sports: baseball, basketball, football and track. He served in the U.S. Army
    from 1942 to 1944 and was honorably discharged after facing insubordination charges
    for refusing to move to the back of a segregated bus.

    After leaving the military, Robinson played shortstop for the Kansas City Monarchs
    in the Negro League. In 1945, he was recruited by Dodgers president and general
    manager Branch Rickey, who was determined to end the unwritten segregation
    rule in the majors. In 1946, Robinson joined the Dodgers’ farm team, the
    Montreal Royals, and went on to lead the league in batting. On April 15, 1947,
    28-year-old Jackie Robinson made his Major League Baseball debut with the
    Dodgers against the Boston Braves. In front of more than 25,000 spectators at
    Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York. Robinson played first base and went zero for
    three at the plate.

    During his first season in the majors, Robinson encountered racism from opposing
    teams and fans, as well as some of his own teammates. However, the abuse didn’t
    affect his performance on the baseball field. Robinson played in 151 games, hit
    .297, stole more bases than anyone else in the National League and was
    awarded the first-ever Rookie of the Year title. In 1949, Robinson, who
    had switched to playing second base, was named the National
    League’s Most Valuable Player. The next year he became the Dodgers’
    highest paid player, earning a salary of $35,000. In 1955, Robinson helped
    the Dodgers defeat the New York Yankees to win the World Series. He retired
    from baseball after playing his last game on October 10, 1956, with a career batting
    average of .311, 1,518 hits and 137 home runs.

    After leaving baseball, Robinson worked as a business executive and continued
    his involvement in civil rights causes. On October 24, 1972, he died at age 53
    from heart problems and complications related to diabetes. Robinson
    became the first African-American inducted into the Baseball Hall of
    Fame in 1962, his first year of eligibility. In 1997 – on the 50th
    anniversary of his historic first game in the majors – Robinson’s
    uniform number–42–was retired by Major League Baseball.
    ==================
    TALKIN’ BASEBALL
    by Terry Cashman

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfAvHXKGfh8
    ————-

  431. We must clear the clutter, before going after our Friday Night Essence; otherwise, we don’t have a clear mindset to work with.

    Thanks Mark Hamilton & Frank R. Wallace

  432. RE-POST FROM 2016:
    Wayne says
    Hi Gang. This being a busy time of the year, with family and friends preparing for travel to share time with loved ones, we should not to forget to apply the philosophies of Neotech- Neothink into our daily living. It is my hope to see us continue on to the next phase of this Wiki- Vs page, that goal being 20.000 and beyond. As like-minded conscientious and integrated people, we have so much to share with each other in our thoughts, integrations, ideas(TSM’s), and steps beyond as we continue to grow. If for no other reason, it gives us a place to escape to the C of U from all the chaos that is being created in the A/C which we are being subjected to on an ever present basis. I for one, hope to continue with my posts or blogs (or rants?) They will not all be that interesting or informative, and you are not asked to agree with them, after all they are just my thoughts. We are all individuals. We are only responsible,( with the exception our children) for ourselves. we are responsible for own actions in what we say or do, as in free will., YET, as a group-Society-Family-, WE ARE ALL ONE! Stealing a line from Bill Kyle’s playbook, I too love you, and keep on posting! Thanks

  433. RE-POST FROM 2016:
    Charlie says
    Exist

    Human-like consciousness is the only entity in existence that can alter the course of nature. Human consciousness quickly advances from building cities to utilizing nuclear power, to developing computers, to making astronautically flights, to corralling astro matter, to understanding the universe, to controlling existence and beyond forever.

    Throughout the universe, conscious beings pursue their natural goals and responsibilities by achieving biological immortality, limitless prosperity and eternal happiness. Thus, they forever preserve the supreme value of the universe: individual consciousness. For without conscious beings, no value or meaning would exist throughout the universe… Conscious beings free of mysticism never allow their precious lives – lives of limitless value – to end.

  434. RE-POST FROM 2016:
    Charlie says
    Conscious Mind

    What is a Conscious Mind? A person grasps a fact. Then he integrates other information with that fact. That information leads to an expanded or new concept.

    Consciousness, by its nature, involves a one-at-a-time integration of thoughts. Singular bits of knowledge are integrated into a wider, concept. Conscious thinking is the integration of several facts into a concept.

    The mind, by its nature, is a reality integrating device. The mind does not create reality, it can only perceive reality. The mind then integrates those perceptions to generate new knowledge.

    So what would stop the mind from integrations and coming up with new knowledge? Mysticism.

    The mind must be clear of mysticism to become integrated.

    Having accurate awareness of self and reality through honest, integrated thinking and pure love is a Conscious Mind. This type of awareness is necessity to live prosper and happy. This awareness will come to those who exert constant, rational thinking efforts toward understanding self and reality and the relationship between the two. No one can deliver that understanding to another. Developing an accurate understanding of self and reality is a crucial self-responsibility for personal power.

    While much is unknown, nothing is unknowable to the conscious mind. The first conscious minds on this planet 3,000 years ago are the same as the conscious minds on the planet today and the same as conscious minds in any galaxy ten millions years from now. All conscious minds have the same ability to understand anything in existence. Consciousness, therefore, does not evolve.

    Without mysticism, each individual consciousness has unlimited capacity to generate and utilize new knowledge at near the speed of light. For without conscious beings, no value or meaning would exist throughout the universe. Conscious beings free of mysticism never allow their precious lives – lives of limitless value – to end.

  435. RE-POST FROM 2016: It’s all about our consciousness going HIGHER in The Neothink Society!!
    Charlie says
    Conscious Break Thru

    In order to become Conscious, you have to want it, it has to be a goal for you, and you have to be ready for it. This might sound a little strange, but are you really ready for it? What is stopping you, what barriers are there and how do you break thru?

    Compare the human mind to a computer chip. That chip cannot release its mighty power until the last defect is removed. Remove that and bingo – the full power of that computer chip is suddenly released to obsolete all electronic circuitry of past history. That defect-free chip then provides the base for ever more-powerful integrating devices with ever-increasing capacities. The mystic free mind is healthy and consistent the exact opposite of the mystic contaminated mind, which is unhealthy and impotent. The mystic free mind is free of all defects or integration blockers. And those defect or blockers are what cause areas of blindness and stupid ness that make one incompetent or uncompetitive in those defective areas. We removed those defects and we can easily outcompete and outflank anyone with a mystic contaminated mind.

    So how do we get rid of these defects? This is the soul searching part, the tough part, the part you have to work hard at everyday. Taking 100% responsibility. The key to collapsing mysticism and eliminating its symbiotic neocheaters is not to focus on the specific evils or obvious destructions of professional mystics and neocheaters. Instead, the key is to focus on the most subtle, innocent forms of mysticism deep within one’s own mind. A person must first explicitly reject obvious, external mysticism and then eliminate internal, conscious mysticism. For the more one rejects the obvious, gross forms of external and conscious mysticism the more advantages accrue for that person to turn inward and purge or “edit out” the final traces of mysticism buried deep within the subconscious.

    In other words, we must get rid of the obvious mysticisms, like Government, God, and other non-existent authorities. Then rooting out other levels of mysticisms, is both possible and necessary to discover those final traces of mysticism. Removing those final traces of mystical contamination yields a super wide integrating Neothink mind. That final elimination of subconscious mysticism is what suddenly lets the mind integrate all knowledge over infinitely wide ranges. Finally the left and right brain can for the first time fully integrate together and propels the human mind into wide-open, super powerful, neothink integrations.

    Then, mysticisms has a last line of defense. Secret protection of the darkest, subconscious feeling produces a fatal virus: those dark feelings which everyone protects are the aversions to combining consistent, integrated thinking effort with fully integrated honesty. The cause of those protected feelings is laziness and dishonesty, which is the twin essence of mysticism. Almost everyone today including seemingly mystic free people, are inflicted with those most subtle, most protected feelings of mysticism. Those feeling produce a virus that causes short-circiting tumors. Such tumors block the mind from making limitlessly wide integration with all knowledge. That mysticism is present in human beings as a fatal virus transmitted from nature’s bicameral mind 3000 years ago. That virus works to damage and then destroy the protective elements of the man-created conscious mind. That destruction of those protective elements eventually engulfs and then undermines man make efforts to protect forever the physical body – undermines man make efforts to achieve biological immortality. In that way, mysticism has ended the life of every conscious being who has ever lived on the planet Earth.

    The computer chip on becoming free of defects suddenly breaks from being an inefficient curiosity into a super-efficient integrator of electronic power. Likewise, the human mind free of mystical defects suddenly breaks from being blocked or stagnated thinking device into a super-efficient integrator of knowledge.

    Once the final, most subtle mystical defects are identified and removed one immediately recognizes the explosive power of the mystic-free mind. For that person can suddenly use his or her newly freed left and right brain to execute unlimited integrations of knowledge in all directions and all dimensions – intellectually and artistically.

    When you enter this mind of conscious and mystic free mind you become much more powerful than the professional mystics, the professional neocheaters, and all their organizations combined. Suddenly the impotent nothingness of those who live parasitically through false power beco0mes obvious. Suddenly mystics and nowcheaters become hapless, pathetic, insignificant – a sick joke. The source of all their false power collapses as their tired old arsenal of guns, fists, prosecutors, blood and jails becomes obsolete, ineffective, ridiculous,,, Professional mystics and neocheaters suddenly become pip-squeaks and clowns.

    So, the bottom line is really how much do you want to become conscious and mystic free. Do you want to rise above something that you never thought you could me a self leader, a person who could change the world, a person who could help others, someone that you could be proud of. It’s your choice, break the chains that bind you or find the key to set you free. You have come this far, don’t stop now, we are closer than you think. The C of U. is near.

  436. RE-POST FROM 2015 – Was this a prelude to my ‘Higher Consciousness’ topic for messages on School of Genius/Rise of Neo-Tech? It’s great to look back at our evolvement and see how far we’ve come and recognize how far we still have to go! With Neo-Tech and Neothinkinking, we’re definitely evolving daily! jc
    Judith Curless says
    Duality Leaving Us:

    The more Darkness, the more Light! Been pondering this obvious fact for awhile now. But they must be in balance and harmony. This is in actuality a FACT of Existence that just IS because of the Duality Nature of the current matrix system. The Guardians watch the darkness as it is being eradicated such that a proper balance of the New Light and energies can enter Earth’s field and our bodies’ chakras. Holding the duality dark and light at a relatively even keel is very important, for without that aspect, at times we would be flooded with just too MUCH dark (bad) or light (good) to handle all at once! We exist amid a lot of bad, but TOO much good? Sounds strange, doesn’t it?

    Sustaining Earth and sentient life past the nuclear threshold is major and is destined to occur. We live in such a negativity vibration field and are accustomed to more darkness than light, so our receiving and accepting this new information light frequency can often be challenging. The blank ‘spaces’ left by negativity leaving us and our atmosphere must be filled in with positive, as gently and quickly as possible, to maintain mass humanity’s balance and equilibrium (if you will) as this occurs. Does this make sense to you? The yin and yang just fluidly balancing and adjusting, working very closely together in harmony. Edging toward the man-woman heart-meld of unity.

    I’m trying to explain this without using any ‘proven’ physics, though words I choose cannot limit this, as they aren’t ‘the thing’ and so can’t make it any less real. I believe Universal Laws apply. As our energy fields increase individually (and thus collectively) and the One-Unity Consciousness field increases daily, sometimes in surges, we are being protected from any harmful or negative influence this may bring to our bodies, minds and hearts. Many of us can FEEL all of this going on within our inner levels, but don’t quite know what’s up! The balancing act.

    Your genius cells know exactly what to do. They need no direction, just conscious acknowledgment and gratitude from you (to them-yourself). Each individual cell and atom holographically contains the entire universe. They’re doing the work and you’re along for the ride! The powerful solar flares of our Sun are massive these days and are one of the delivery vehicles of this New Light. Our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual consciousness Selves recognize the new energies and can either resist or embrace them in our own unique ways. We all realize something wonderful is happening because Neo-Tech/Neothink have opened us to clearly SEE IT and we know these teachings of Dr. Frank Wallace and Mark Hamilton are THE MAJOR VEHICLE carrying us forward.

    We’re futurists coming out of the darkness and into the light. If we are in ‘service to others’ we totally block ourselves from any positive growth and are stuck. If we are in ‘service to self’, we incrementally receive our help to move forward as fast as possible. This concept is very familiar within The Society. We long ago recognized from Dr. Wallace the great falsehood that reversed the true reality 180 degrees and created a deception that has lasted for centuries for our enslavement! To us it is a very ugly word indeed – the lie called Altruism. This is further confirmed in ‘The Law Of One’ Book Series of the 1980’s.

    The Sun is our life-giver, healer and transfiguration energizer that will help physically bring us into our Civilization Of The Universe. Sounds like The Golden Age prophesied for thousands of years with many names in ancient teachings. It was gifted with a new name for its dynamic NOW arrival!! Truly letting go of all your old “stuff”‘ and EVERYTHING from your past, forgiving yourself and others, and allowing your inner Essence to JUST BE are critical integrations to help your Higher Self advance. Not always easy, but taking even baby steps to begin will confirm you can do it. This is what we learn in Neo-Tech and Neothink.

    Connecting with Nature is most essential and elemental in this exhilerating process! The Earth is our grounding device and nurturer. Get back in touch … take off your shoes and get some mud or sand between your toes. That used to be a major fun event of your day once! Lie in the grass and gaze at the skies and identify some cloud shapes, even if just for a moment. Breathing deeply life in and love out. Experiencing some 10 second miracles.

    The GOLD in the Golden Age does not refer to the metal … it refers to US Humans. WE are the Golden Age Ones and this Neo-Tech/Neothink enlightenment is a MAJOR part of this process of becoming WHO we are truly meant to be on this journey. We recognize ourselves and others like us now and are reflecting to the world.

    It’s a fact no-one goes back through ALL their garbage from the past week just to take the trash out! Can we simply let go of our constant mind-talk review of all the trash and garbage of our past? It’s over and done but YOU and YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS are still here. In the present moment. Quietly go within and name a few spots that need clearing and just collect them together. Then, gently place them in a pretty mental bubble … use the little bubble-wand you can blow through while they happily dance in the wind around you and float away!

    As you stand in the sunlight of your New Life, they are shining bubbles in a myriad of colors. Bless all your past experiences and love their bright colors of life and all they’ve taught you, as you lower the the wand and observe their leave-taking from you. A tinge of grief will bring a momentary chill, but it’s okay to grieve as you let the OLD YOU turn and wave goodbye to the NEW YOU in this transfiguring moment. Your little child of the past is also standing to the side watching, while joyfully blowing some bubbles up in the air and laughing out loud – for all THREE of you! Quietly turn and walk inside, look in the mirror into your own peaceful, immortal eyes and behold the person you love most in the world and who is with you always … creating your universe. YOU.

    I offer this message from my own experience and study. You may agree or not. I’ve spent much precious time working to comprehend the wide range of the physics puzzle and what is really going on here. I don’t always ‘understand’ everything I ‘know’ about it, but I am compelled to seek the knowledge. ‘New’ physics is evolving and there is an entire new paradigm as old theories are thrown out and replaced by the great discoveries being made at light-speed now! Everything always advancing forward. As we in the Neothink Society are definitely doing.

    However, I feel one must also balance the presence in our lives of the Science Principles AND the Consciousness Energies, which have always been intertwined. They are One, as we are all One. Anything that doesn’t fit in that new mold now will begin to feel very uncomfortable to you, as you focus on that Oneness and go about your daily life. The discomfort is part of your transition from the A/C to the C of U!! Welcome it. It is the light of total integrated honesty and pure love, with no mysticisms present, activating in your consciousness field in perfect balance.

    Relaxing into this energy flow and knowing there are so many reasons you’re feeling SO weird on this up and down roller-coaster ride can help. Energy blasts and then free-fall. Acknowledge to yourself that it really is ALL okay and great forces for good are helping and balancing you. This is just simply MY truth and belief. I am always open. But perhaps you have a knowingness of this, as well. So, if that’s the case, let’s just sit quietly together for a moment and LET IT BE. And SO IT IS.

    Thank you Dr. Frank Wallace and Mark Hamilton for your help to many weary travelers on the road of Life. Your lanterns glow so brightly as you show us the right road to take and light the path so we can read the signs of progress along the way. These are our greatest blessing. We are glimpsing now our safe haven is directly ahead! And All Is Well … so Love to you All,

    Judith

  437. RE-POST FROM 2016:
    Judith Curless says
    “I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.” Edward Everett Hale

    “What one CAN be one MUST be.” Author Unknown

    Dr. Frank R. Wallace was only ONE. Mr. Mark Hamilton is only ONE. We are each only ONE, but our ONE’s are REALLY beginning to ADD UP now! Through law of attraction in action we Neothinkers are coming together more each day to help bring about a great thing created by these two gentlemen. Neo-Tech and Neothink are catching fire that’s clearing a path to bring the Twelve Visions Party to fruition, from out of the ashes following in their wake. Burning away the old to make way for the new. How exciting to be a part of this!!

    Won’t you check it out and come and join us? It will truly be the most liberating thing you’ve ever done for your life!! Come warm yourselves at our fire! And get ready to be totally amazed … Judith

  438. RE-POST FROM 2015 FOR EASTER 2017:
    Pauline says
    Easter Sunday is once again here. AS many of us, I was brought in a very religious strict Catholic family, attended Catholic school being taught by nuns from kindergarten to age 15. From there went to a public high school, which scared me to death at first, but eventually became the very happiest time of my teen years. We attended morning mass everyday, sang in the choir, went to confession close to every day of the week (most times didn’t know what to confess so pretty much repeated what I said the day before) and during the months of May and October we would attend mass morning and sing in the choir at night. At Christmastime time, we dressed as angels and sang in the choir and brought the crucifix upfront to the Jesus baby in the manger. It seemed like a magical time to me, but as I grew older I began questioning the Bible preachings, and wanted to know “how do we know what is written is the truth”. I began to distance myself from the church after I married because of the known and unbelievable pedophile stories that began to circle within our parish. Eventually I was able to see through the deceit and list perpetrated upon us, the mind control that embraced us all. So I just completely disctanced myself from any religion and began looking into astrology, numerology, and card reading. Never discussed my separation from the beliefs of the church with anyone in my family as most of them became born again Christians.

    So when I found Neothink and learned through the Breakthrough Enlightenment that mysticims and hoaxes consumed the religious world. So I grappled with myself to get to the bottom of my beliefs and was able to finally come to terms that all the teachings that I had loved (and yet questioned) are untruths, lies, deceit and I felt such a huge weight released from within me in being able to accept these mysticism that were so much part of my life.

    Now Good Friday and Easter are not a major factor in my life and I have removed revering/celebrating any part of it in my life.

    Rosa, from your postings, I noted you were raised with religion imposed on you to such a degree, that you could not express your real feelings as well. I understand you have searched within at great length, and I will only say that finding out the truth has impacted us both tremendously and positively. If not for Neothink, I would still be in a quandary over these mysticisms/illusions pounded into our minds. Thank goodness we have learned to remove that mind control and to think for ourselves and to see what really is. I find a connection with you because of this and it does sound like you are moving forward considerably as time goes on.

    Neo=Tech and Neothink have become a dynamic tool to help us know ourselves toward becoming self leaders.
    Thank you Dr. F R Wallace and Mark Hamilton. Your writings are invaluable. Love to all

  439. RE-POST FROM 2016:
    Elaine B says
    Happiness Attack … or a Happiness Bomb?

    Either way I’ll take it!!!, since it comes from a certain way of seeing, of looking, of thinking, of perceiving…of comprehending … No matter the appearance of the outer shell of what is occurring on our ball of Earth that can look like outer hell to a peace loving heart engaged in healing the hurts and disharmonies into their polar opposites, this Neo-tech/Neothink combo seeks to move through to playing a new song that will entice the new seeds planted by this Society into the maturity of the world to come from all this current chaos of seeming destruction. It is not easy to keep your aim and sense of what you are becoming, and what you are endeavoring to bring about as a new paradigm while ALL is so unstable. You find your freedom within!!! No matter what happens, the unwavering determination to LIVE and THRIVE survives all thrown at it as seeming obstacles.

    It is all worth it. I began reading my first book in 2005, and here it is 2015. I have developed so much, and so many abilities have been brought forward already. Even so, I still find room for further development which can still enthrall me even as I allow the realizations to come forward from within. These new levels of comprehension, all their puzzle pieces were gained slowly, fruitfully, through the years and are just now popping through. The process is amazing to observe and to experience—-> THEN comes the expression(s) of what I learn, which will appear to others to make of them what they may. No censorship from me anyway.

    All I can say is, What a way to LIVE. Life never stops and creations are happiness-giving. The Society gives you close ones to come to know, who do come to know your inmost thoughts because of the sharing that occurs, whether in private or on a Call with others.

    I keep reading all these beautiful posts, so revealing in so many ways of so much beauty of BEing and of heart!!!
    Love you, Elaine

  440. RE-POST FROM 2016:
    Elaine B says
    I am not alone, there are many here who have done what I’ve done in the beginning of my experience in this Society= My nature was a Searcher/Seeker of the great mysteries hidden in our midst, whether centuries ago or in the present. To me this meant of myself, of the world itself, and of a human’s relationship to this world, within the world’s context, and of the human to human relationship. The knowledge I have gained thus far I have discovered, parts of it are not within that world’s context=so I now have to include the cosmic in a manner I did not before…I was close, but did not know how the human was involved, and the extent of that involvement.

    I now know the Universe, the cosmic aspect of humanity, is interactive and in a quite personal way. The love that pervades this interactive energy, continually creating the present reality for/with that individual, is such that whatever the individual gives attention to most of the time=tells the Universe what it wants back, regardless if thought has been put in place or not, and even if the emotions are out of whack! We cannot point the finger at another/others as a cause of our pain and/or stagnation. No matter how the appearances appear.

    We have to look at our own lives and figure everything out for ourselves eventually. No matter how many friends and or mentors we each have here, it still will boil down to our most honest integrations with our own selves.

    How will it be for you? Your choice? If you are ready to take on that ultimate responsibility….

    Taking on that 100% Responsibility helps you to see the very finer efforts made to wiggle out of that responsibility and play “Let’s Pretend” with your life. That child of yours inside needs your honest efforts to help the child grow into strength of mind and maturity of emotions that you wish for your self, as you grow.

    Would that Wiki and Bi grow into the maturity that is beyond destruction, forever.

    Thanks for all the subtleties you, Dr. FRW, and you, Mark Hamilton have written into your books, so that I can be helped to grow in the ways most becoming to me….

    Love, Elaine

  441. RE-POST FROM 2016:
    Judith Curless says
    While still dealing with the Anticivilization world that is ALL duality, Neothinkers learn to deal with the negative, but mostly stay in the positive. I liken it to the fact that we wouldn’t ever just invite thieves into our house. So, why would we allow thoughts that steal our joy and harmony to reside in our minds? We wouldn’t. They might come to the door and knock, wishing to offer us some bogus reality or con-job just to get in … so we’re made aware of them. But they certainly won’t be invited in for tea and crumpets. Nor stay for a Sunday afternoon visit. No “make yourself at home here.”

    Our thoughts are centered in a One Unity Consciousness field that rises above the chaotic world of the moment. We’ve been taught this in Neo-Tech/Dr. Frank R. Wallace and Neothink-TVP/Mark Hamilton. These thoughts we make right at home. We’re headed in a straight line for a long visit in our Civilization Of The Universe reality. Thank you so much for helping us each raise our consciousness to achieve that.

    “Purpose”. I believe you come into the world to accomplish something, and not something small or insignificant. That’s not worthy of you. You came here to make a major contribution to life on this Planet.”
    Paul Solomon

    Judith

  442. RE-POST FROM 2016:
    Judith Curless says
    Benjamin Franklin said, “If you act like SHEEP, the Wolves will EAT you.” Wise man. He was looking ahead.

    We’re no longer the SHEEPLE … WE ARE … WE THE PEOPLE!! And we will prevail to Liberty and True Freedom. The Twelve Visions Party will bring back the Rule of Law in the United States and get America moving again. The people will voluntarily love and support their wonderful, business-run government who won’t lead them into war! Why wouldn’t they? They will have plenty of money from doing what they enjoy, true happiness, romantic love and super-health. What’s not to love?

    Thanks to the genius of Dr. Frank Wallace and his genius son, Mark Hamilton … who have created a GREAT thing that many people will help bring to fruition. No more helpless bleats coming from this sector. NEOTHINK RISES!! While even Wiki’s herd appears to be rapidly declining.

    Judith

  443. RE-POST FROM 2016:
    Judith Curless says
    To paraphrase a couple thoughts from memory (oh, boy, here we go) that penetrated the veil at one time or another:

    Harmony is the divine essence of all creation. Love is the experience of following your truest inner bliss. Use your heart as your compass and manifest your dreams. Let’s all sing together in harmony as we dance the cosmic dance of life!

    In the depth of winter, I found that within me lies an invincible summer!

    Neothinkers dance the happy dance in our value-creating lives. These inner truths have been discovered inside us because of the teachings of Dr. Frank R. Wallace and Mark Hamilton. Thank you again.

    Judith

  444. A RE-POST FROM 2016:
    Judith Curless says
    “IF” By Rudyard Kiping:

    If you can keep your head when all about you
    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
    If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
    But make allowances for their doubting too;
    If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
    Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
    Or being hated don’t give way to hating,
    And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;
    If you can dream and not make dreams your master,
    If you can think and not make thoughts your aim,
    If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
    And treat those two imposters just the same;
    If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
    Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
    Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
    And stoop and build’em up with worn-out tools;
    If you can make one heap of of all your winnings
    And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
    And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
    And never breathe a word about your loss;
    If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
    To serve your turn long after they are gone,
    And so hold on when there is nothing in you
    Except the Will which says to them: “Hold On!”
    If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
    Or walk with Kings, nor lose the common touch,
    If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
    If all men count with you, but not too much;
    If you can fill the unforgiving minute
    With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
    Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
    And which is more, you’ll be a Man, my Son!

    With Resilience — to such the World belongs!
    Thank you, Dr. Wallace and Mark Hamilton.
    Our Zon Powers Are Rising! Judith

  445. RE-POST FROM APRIL 2015 from our sweet Pauline – Miss that Lady!

    Pauline says
    IMAGINATION, SUCH EMPOWERMENT

    Here are the words of that beautiful song

    IMAGINE

    Imagine there’s no heaven
    It’s easy if you try
    No hell below us
    Above us only sky
    Imagine all the people
    Living for today…

    Imagine there’s no countries
    It isn’t hard to do
    Nothing to kill or die for
    And no religion too
    Imagine all the people
    Living life in peace…

    You may say I’m a dreamer
    But I’m not the only one
    I hope someday you’ll join us
    And the world will be as one

    Imagine no possessions
    I wonder if you can
    No need for greed or hunger
    A brotherhood of man
    Imagine all the people
    Sharing all the world…

    You may say I’m a dreamer
    But I’m not the only one
    I hope someday you’ll join us
    And the world will live as one

    IMAGINE, THE WORLD WILL LIVE AS ONE

  446. ON THIS GOOD FRIDAY 2017 THIS IS A RE-POST FROM GOOD FRIDAY 2015:
    We absolutely MUST break through the religiosity programming and mysticisms surrounding them! So, these were my comments two years ago and I stand by them now. With Neo-Tech and Neothink you CAN do this …

    Judith Curless says
    “GOOD FRIDAY”:

    I never understood even as a little girl that this day could ever be celebrated as “Good”. That was a contradiction for me, especially as i got older, that I couldn’t ever quite reconcile with my heart and spirit. My sister and I were taken to church by our Grandmother because my Mother was a professed Atheist (a secret I never learned until I was 15 years old – gee, thanks, Mom). She supported our going and played the giant pipe organ at our church for choir, made robes, and got us there every Saturday morning for music theory. The Music Director was the Director of the Army/Navy Band in D.C., so he was ‘qualified’ to teach us in her mind. We were Methodists according to our birth certificates. My Dad was a free spirit, who simply said nothing and attended the big musical performances during holidays.

    Both of them kept their distance from the church house doors as much as possible. Talk about mixed messages and contradictions going on in that family dynamic. I walked away from it all at age 18 and when I went back, it was in more of a New-Age environment, so it was gentler. But it was all still a fake “system” to encourage us to hand over our powers. Apologies if this is offensive to anyone. We need to live In Reality and Create Values for ourselves and others. Expend our precious energies and lives working toward the New Way only — and if this is one of your issues right now, you can’t do that until you settle this with yourself in your own mind and heart to feel secure enough to move on.

    Once you’ve made a few simple “corrections” to your thinking about this controversial issue (for anyone leaving behind serious religious programming) it becomes easier and easier as you begin to just let it all go and feel comfortable in your own skin with your own beliefs, instead of having that foggy, misty-veil blocking you from seeing the world differently and better. It opens up huge spaces for you! I am writing this because it’s an important aspect of moving forward. I struggled with some of this and if it helps someone else, so be it. When you really become honest with yourself, your heart just tells you ‘don’t go back’ or ‘move on’ because there is a better way – and it’s here – a New Old Way! Some of these philosophies were originally taught by people like Jesus of Nazareth, Aristotle and brought forward, modernized and adapted with powerful upgrades into our current lives by Dr. Frank R. Wallace (Neo-Tech) and Mr. Mark Hamilton (Neothink).

    I basically loved Jesus from my earliest memories. When I got back in touch with Little Judy about this (years ago after joining N-T) I realized that began in my summer Bible School days. That feeling hasn’t changed. But for some time now I consider myself to be an active Recovering Christian. Usually I say nothing, but if pushed into it by well-meaning friends, I just say that I no longer participate in any way in “religiosity”. That the fact wars have been fought and divisiveness in humanity for thousands of years over this “subject” was not what Jesus came here to teach. And if you think you haven’t been mind-hacked and hi-jacked in this program, you better think again. You are IN IT … That’s why you’re having a problem … It’s an addiction like any other.

    And, yes, I’m going to say this. I’m glad I made the decision years ago, because what’s coming out for many years now about the Catholic Church is so disgusting and vile, it can’t even sustain itself anymore. It’s very walls are imploding and its loose foundation is crumbling to dust. I hope the Vatican soon becomes a historical spot for tourists and that the Great Libraries and stolen treasures are opened and given to the people, whom they really belong to. Pope Francis sent a letter to the U.N. last week mentioning that there are still 11,000 pedophile priests in the United States alone. Child-trafficking slavery. Snap a few puzzle pieces together on that one. Utter chaos. And the retired Pope is trapped in the Vatican City and can’t leave due to his crimes against humanity. You want to worship that “System” you’re free to do so (until that freedom could also be taken away if we don’t all wake up).

    If this shocks you and rattles your cage, no apologies. At some point, it just HAS to be enough and you can’t go back. You may want to face the truth of the history of religions by studying it yourself if need be. It’s all out there and not hidden. Really look at and “see” what is happening in the Vatican, the U.K. and within many churches. You have to make the commitment to go forward with a new way of looking at things such that it simply does not matter what religious days or holidays are being celebrated around you. The “Reality” is we can live with it or without it. We don’t NEED it. Life goes on. Have a holiday whenever YOU want to … it won’t be so crowded!

    There are more important issues to my mind. Like truly DOING what Jesus said and Love One Another and treat each other with dignity and respect. It’s so sad that humanity’s salvation did not lie in the man Jesus of Nazareth dying on a cross, but is in the very teachings he left and showed us — to simply live this life the conscious human being way. We have a chance to do that NOW! And this is the same with politics. Just get over it.

    The answer to BOTH these huge challenges is in the Neothink Society, and people are beginning to learn more and more that’s where my head is. And my room-mate’s also, whom they all admire as he really IS a quiet superman. I know Jesus as the Wayshower and Neothinker he came to this Earth to be, but I no longer CHOOSE TO WORSHIP ANY mystical being. I see the Bible stories in a new light and approach the issue as it says in Scripture: “The Truths will be revealed for those who have eyes to see and ears to hear.” I know who I am now.

    The Truths that have been revealed to me are those I was led to and have learned in Neo-Tech by Dr. Frank R. Wallace and Neothink by Mark Hamilton. I believe The Times we are in now have long been foretold on this planet by EVERY culture and religion. I believe that we chose to come here to raise the consciousness of Man and Wo-Man to help save this Earth and Every-One. And a One-Unity Consciousness simply can’t be created using an old, outdated, worn-out model — that really never worked for Humanity to begin with! Duality is finished.

    Let freedom ring across your consciousness field like lovely bells chiming in a church tower. Use the Bible to apply certain principles and moral values to your life. Take the good and just GO! We’ve awakened to a New System. I believe the teachings put forth by these Visionaries Father-And-Son are part of the ‘Original Design Concept’ for this World that has been getting ready and whose time has come! And they somehow knew it. The system that was designed for us to follow is worn out, so — throw it out like yesterday’s garbage! I’m not being harsh, but when there is a MAJOR flaw in the design of a system at its inception, all conclusions led to later are inherently flawed and thus are incorrect. Especially when they’ve been altered over and over by who-knows-what skewered consciousness. We’ve been running on a terribly flawed system for too long now.

    This is my Testimony. It’s not easy contemplating our Life sometimes. Religion isn’t the only way to be re-born and restored. Come study total-integrated honesty, value-creating and a true Love-Reality. Adjust your mind to take in new and exciting Truths for the 21st Century! You really were created for such a time as this. The hands on the clock of your Life read 12:00 O’clock High-Noon and this is OUR TIME TO RISE AND SHINE!

    Have a Good …. No … a GREAT Friday!! Love ya and T.G.I.F.! Judith

  447. You learn when you’re teachable; then how badly do you want it? I’m working on me & am finding out, I’ve been stagnating; however, that’s about to change, through my Mini Day, & my actions. In order to grow, we must all look at ourselves, & our Mini Day schedules, & make corrections, otherwise we stagnate

    Thanks Mark Hamilton & Frank R. Wallace

  448. April 14, 1865
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    At Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C., John Wilkes Booth – an actor and Confederate
    sympathizer -fatally wounded President Abraham Lincoln. The attack came only
    five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive
    army at Appomattox, effectively ending the American Civil War.

    Booth – who remained in the North during the war despite his Confederate
    sympathies – initially plotted to capture President Lincoln and take him to
    Richmond, the Confederate capital. However, on March 20, 1865 – the
    day of the planned kidnapping – the president failed to appear at the
    spot where Booth and his six fellow conspirators lay in wait. Two
    weeks later, Richmond fell to Union forces. In April, with
    Confederate armies near collapse across the South,
    Booth hatched a desperate plan to save the Confederacy.

    Learning that Lincoln was to attend Laura Keene’s acclaimed performance in
    OUR AMERICAN COUSIN at Ford’s Theater on April 14, Booth plotted the
    simultaneous assassination of Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson,
    and Secretary of State William H. Seward. By murdering the president
    and two of his possible successors, Booth and his conspirators hoped
    to throw the U.S. government into a paralyzing disarray.

    On the evening of April 14, conspirator Lewis T. Powell burst into Secretary of
    State Seward’s home, seriously wounding him and three others, while
    George A. Atzerodt, assigned to Vice President Johnson, lost his nerve and fled.
    Meanwhile – just after 10 p.m. – Booth entered Lincoln’s private theater box
    unnoticed, and shot the president with a single bullet in the back of his head.
    Slashing an army officer who rushed at him, Booth jumped to the stage and
    shouted “Sic semper tyrannis! [Thus always to tyrants] – the South is avenged!”
    Although Booth had broken his left leg jumping from Lincoln’s box, he succeeded
    in escaping Washington.

    The president, mortally wounded, was carried to a cheap lodging house opposite
    Ford’s Theater. About 7:22 a.m. the next morning, he died–the first U.S. president
    to be assassinated. Booth, pursued by the army and secret service forces, was
    finally cornered in a barn near Bowling Green, Virginia, and died from a possibly
    self-inflicted bullet wound as the barn was burned to the ground. Of the eight
    other persons eventually charged with the conspiracy, four were hanged and
    four were jailed.
    =========

  449. The Southeastern Michigan Neothink Clubhouses
    are holding our SECOND QUARTER GALA EVENT.
    =======================================
    When?. . . . . . . .Saturday May 13, 2017.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:30 am – 3 pm.
    Where?. . . . . . . Greenfield Village.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dearborn, MI.
    What?. . . . . . . . The Four Pillars
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . plus Model T Rides,
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and a whole lot more.
    Why?. . . . . . . . . Why not?
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  450. April 14, 1935
    ==========
    Loretta Lynn, -a singer who greatly expanded the opportunities for
    women in the male-dominated world of country-western music – was
    born on this day Butcher’s Hollow, Kentucky.

    Unlike some country-western stars that sang about a rural working class life but
    lived an urban middle class existence, Loretta Lynn’s country roots were
    unquestionably authentic. Born Loretta Webb in a log cabin nestled in the
    backwoods hills of Kentucky, she was the daughter of a coal miner who worked
    long hours to keep his family fed and clothed. She met her future husband,
    Mooney Lynn, when she was only 13. They married a year later, and she gave birth
    to her first child when she was 14 years old. Lynn had three more children before
    she was 21 and was a grandmother at 29.

    Lynn seemed destined for a hard life raising her growing family in a three-room
    house with no running water or indoor plumbing. However, while listening to her
    sing to the children, Mooney became convinced that Loretta sang as well as anyone
    on the radio. For her 26th birthday, Mooney bought Loretta a $17 guitar and encouraged
    her to learn to play. She eventually began to play and sing with local bands and in 1960
    released her first recorded single, “I’m a Honky Tonk Girl.” Mooney had a knack for
    public relations, and he shrewdly mailed copies of the song to radio stations
    before the couple went on tour. “Honky Tonk Girl” became Lynn’s first hit.

    By the mid-1960s, Lynn was one of the most successful female performers in
    country-western music. In previous decades, male performers and masculine
    themes had dominated country-western music. The themes reflected the
    supposedly virile nature of the American West and rural working-class life.
    Women performers largely conformed to these standards, usually portraying
    themselves as docile helpmates to a male star: the quintessential duo was Dale
    Evans’ partnership with the singing cowboy Roy Rogers.

    After World War II, a handful of female country-western artists began to challenge
    their subordinate status. Surprisingly, given her traditional rural background, Lynn
    became one of their leaders. Many of her songs expressed feminine strength and
    determination and a sense that women would no longer simply “stand by their man,”
    as some other singers liked to suggest they should. Her perceptive business sen
    and talent for self-promotion also demonstrated that women could thrive in the
    competitive music industry. In 1967, the Country Music Association recognized
    the new importance of women singers by giving Lynn its first-ever award for
    Female Vocalist of the Year.

    Lynn continued to enjoy great success in the 1970s, and the film account of her life,
    Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980), won her a new generation of fans. After an interlude
    during the 1990s, Lynn returned to the recording studio and released a new
    recording in 2000. She continues to bring a compelling female perspective
    to the world of country-western music.
    ==================
    YOU AIN’T WOMAN ENOUGH TO TAKE MY MAN
    by Loretta Lynn

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_wwP8UZR1o
    ———–
    LOUISIANA WOMAN, MISSISSIPPI MAN
    by Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaY2l-ZPLGU
    ———–

  451. Hey Judith,
    Its Friday – 4/14/17.
    I read the School of Genius transcript yesterday – incredible information. The main thing I took
    out of it was Epigenetics. It’s nice to know that nothing is predestined. As Dr. Wallace says, we
    come into the world with a clean slate. And even though our environment effects us, there’s
    hardly anything that can’t be changed or modified or altered if we make a decision to exert
    the effort to change it. Thanks for ALL the information you provided. !!! pez

  452. GaiaPortal

    Treasons exposed, closings follow.

    Knights of Illumination ride for the masses.

    Upliftments are communicated and experienced on all levels.

    Harbingers speak clearly, and remove the doubts.

    jc

  453. THE DISSOLUTION OF THE FALSE LIGHT CONSTRUCT
    April 6, 2017

    Over the past couple of months (in energy work sessions) something really interesting has been showing up. I wasn’t at all sure what I was seeing at first. Then, as it became clear, I was amazed at the scale of the process. What I was seeing in individual fields was the dissolution of the False Light Construct (FLC).

    This is a really big deal! The FLC has been operational for many thousands of years on this planet. I don’t pretend to know much of its history. But I’ll talk about what it is that I have come to understand.

    Basically, we, Humanity, have been fooled. Largely by the organized religions on this planet. We have been taught that there are a huge number of rules and regulations governing our morality, our behavior, our salvation. We have been taught that there are ways we need to behave if we want to get into “heaven”, if we want even the slightest chance of meeting god. The very natural process of spiritual evolution has been twisted and tainted with guilt, fear and shame, and made into something unnatural.

    Over many centuries, our connection to the earth has been deeply compromised. We have trained into an understanding that the earth holds the hell zones, and investigating those regions underneath us was dangerous.

    As a largely uneducated and superstitious population, we were a tricked into believing a natural connection with other dimensions, and psychic abilities to perceive other worlds, actually meant we were consorting with Satan. Our great nature spirit deva Pan became the devil. Sensuality, sexuality and a deep pleasurable relationship with our own body was twisted into something shameful and guilt ridden.

    Our capacity to receive energy rising naturally from the earth into our systems, to an able us to feel fully nourished and nurtured was minimized, so we would experience more lack, and come to hunger for wealth rather than experience true abundance, which is perpetual flow, moving through us.

    The connectedness we have had to the sun, another vast source of energy that sustains us, has also been massively diminished. Our worship of a being, a male deity that is jealous, vengeful, and wrathful, has been funneled through priests and organisations that have been among the most corrupt, dangerous and bloodthirsty institutions on the planet.

    We have been taught to believe that penance and suffering were ways to collect spiritual brownie points. Martyrdom was saintly, women are second class citizens, and that “man shall have dominion over the earth.” Look where that one has got us.

    These teachings have been layered artfully into the collective field over thousands of years. They have bound us in torturous constructs that have sapped vitality and well being, and literally siphoned off vast quantities of prayer energy and supplication into the FLC.

    This False Light Construct is now falling apart. It exists as a multidimensional piece of architecture, vast, seemingly all encompassing. It’s very clever in its architecture. It actually only exists in the 4th dimension. You simply have to climb into higher dimensions to realize it as an illusion. Trouble is, the 4th dimension is vast, and if you are bound into this 4th dimensional Construct, climbing higher is made much more difficult.

    Whole realms of purgatory and limbo have been created, along with Summerlands and heavens, and they are all illusory traps that exist as part of the False Light Construct.

    Why? Well, we, as humans are extraordinarily creative beings. We are Alchemical zones of creation, spinning vast fields of energy through our systems. We are also very easy to manipulate, if we don’t have access to the truth. And we haven’t for a long time. So the off planetary races that have been controlling things here for ages have infiltrated all of the systems of religion, perhaps even constructing them from their beginnings, as a way of binding humanity into knots. It has been a neatly devised system crafted in order to farm us for our vast output of creative energy.

    The energies of sex, shame, guilt, fear, prayer, supplication, sacrifice, obedience, powerlessness, all of these feed the FLC. It’s a breathtakingly well designed Construct. And now it’s dissolving.

    I’ve seen it happening in energy fields as I’m working with individuals. I know now that if I see something repeatedly, that I am being shown something that is available for the collective. Eric Raines also has seen this happening. This is truly liberating.

    We are shedding at last the systems of religion that have been used to suppress and diminish rather than set us free.

    We, of course, have been instrumental in the creation of these big constructs. How exciting it is to be present on the planet for their collapse?

    This dissolution of the FLC is a part of the greater emptying out of the whole of the 4th dimension, as we integrate, process and move through all that we stored there. Those of us choosing to become conscious are dealing with all our illusions, fantasies, projections and energetic creations that have been holding in the astral for thousands of years. Those that are not choosing to evolve at this time, will be projecting them onto others. We see this happening on a large scale across the planet. It is now more important than ever to do the work of refining our field, integrating the shadow, and accessing and anchoring the ever higher frequencies that are present for us. Any work we have to do becomes very clear very quickly, and is hugely supported. It moves through smoothly and with ease.

    The 4th dimension, the astral field, holds duality, and all the polarized states. We are moving beyond those now, and so 5th dimensional frequencies are where we need to anchor ourselves. From there, we can witness much of the coming chaos, with relative calm.

    By David Manning, Contributing Writer
    Website: HowToExitTheMatrix

    This is why I’ve mentioned we have to get past the ‘lower’ 4th Astral Plane and move on higher. Interesting view on this subject. It also validates teachings of Dr. Frank Wallace and Mark Hamilton in their descriptions of making changes in ourselves by removing mysticisms to move into our Civilization of the Universe. The very Universe itself is conspiring to help it happen! All these puzzle pieces will eventually click into place and bring into full view this new reality we’re creating! Thanks for reading.

    Judith

  454. TEXAS BILL TO ESTABLISH GOLD & SILVER AS LEGAL TENDER,
    DEALING MASSIVE BLOW TO FEDERAL RESERVE

    A bill recently introduced in Texas seeks to obliterate the Federal Reserve’s much-maligned monopoly on currency by establishing gold and silver as legal tender — but the groundbreaking legislation, if passed, would also prohibit those precious metals from being seized by State authorities.

    If passed, Texans would secure stability by reclaiming their purchasing power — without being subject to the whims of The Fed — an institution widely regarded as a devious manipulator of currencies and markets.

    Senator Bob Hall introduced the bill last month, which, the Tenth Amendment Center explains, “declares specifically that certain gold and silver coins are legal tender, and prohibits any tax, charge, assessment, fee, or penalty on any exchange of Federal Reserve notes (dollars) for gold or silver. The bill authorizes the payment of taxes and fees in gold & silver in certain circumstances. It would also prohibit the seizure of gold or silver by state authorities.”

    Further subverting the current economy’s fealty to Dr. Ron Paul’s Enemy Number One, SB 2097, as the legislation is better known, would prevent any contracts explicitly to be paid in silver or gold to be instead paid with Federal Reserve notes — if you agree to pay in precious coins, you cannot then proffer payment in dollars.

    Enforcing such contracts legally, the Tenth Amendment Center notes, would encourage their proliferation — and that of gold and silver coinage.

    Constitutional tender expert, William Greene, agrees. He explained,

    “Over time, as residents of the state use both Federal Reserve notes and silver and gold coins, the fact that the coins hold their value more than Federal Reserve notes do will lead to a ‘reverse Gresham’s Law’ effect, where good money (gold and silver coins) will drive out bad money (Federal Reserve notes). As this happens, a cascade of events can begin to occur, including the flow of real wealth toward the state’s treasury, an influx of banking business from outside of the state – as people in other states carry out their desire to bank with sound money – and an eventual outcry against the use of Federal Reserve notes for any transactions.”

    Texas law currently mandates all debts and taxes be paid in Federal Reserve Notes and coins issued by the Treasury — ironic, considering Article I, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution states,

    “No State shall … make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts.”

    It wasn’t until 1913, with the passage of the Federal Reserve Act — which only came after a concerted, covert campaign by U.S. banking magnates — that the loosely hybrid system placed massive control of money in the hands of Big Banks with little oversight from the government. But the ‘central banking’ system has failed to prevent further financial crises — and has been given even a greater chokehold and increased authority as compensation.

    Additionally, fiat currency has become a monster issue — once gold no longer backed U.S. dollars beginning in 1971, excuses to just print more bills naturally multiplied.

    Where the public has no voice in the value of Federal Reserve Notes, Texans — and any states to follow its lead — could theoretically eschew using dollars, altogether, in favor of payment in gold and silver coins.

    As it stands, officials of the Federal Reserve — a private institution — make decisions behind closed doors, where collusion and corruption can easily sway opinion away from the public’s, if not world’s, best interests.

    Notably, the most efficacious watchdog against such practices in any given industry — an independent audit — has never been required of The Fed.

    “While the debasement of the currency is the result of federal policy and banker collusion, the effect is broad and deep,” Tenth Amendment Center explains. “While there has been talk about reform, or at least an audit of the Fed, it is virtually a certainty that the federal government will never relinquish the power it enjoys through control of the monetary system. That said, there are practical steps that can be taken at the state level to promote the use and acceptance of sound money and undermine the Fed’s monopoly on money.”

    If passed, Texas would join a smattering of states instituting sound money policies by returning gold and silver to a status as legitimate currency the metals have enjoyed throughout much of recorded history.

    Last June, Texas paved the way for this new bill by establishing the first state-level gold depository, where an “account holder may transfer any portion of the balance of the holder’s depository account by check, draft, or digital electronic instruction to another depository account holder or to a person who at the time the transfer is initiated is not a depository account holder.”

    Should lawmakers side with the financial interests of Texans and pass this legislation, Texas would join Utah, which began recognizing gold and silver coins issued by the United States as legal tender in 2011. (End)

    TheFreeThoughtProject
    Posted on April 10, 2017 by Claire Bernish

    We have a lot being addressed in our current legislative session here in Austin, Texas! Between the gender-related bathrooms, the sanctuary cities issues, our border with Mexico concerns – this one is outstanding in the crowd for sure. A bit of sanity in the midst of the insanity and chaos of politics and their outcomes. States taking back their powers more could lead to a Constitutional Convention to begin the process of even greater change.

    Thanks, Mark Hamilton for this space to share news of our current times that reflects on building a better world for ourselves and future generations. Using Dr. Wallace’s teachings and yours, Neo-Tech, Neothink and the Twelve Visions Party are advancing into more and more people’s awareness and understanding as they check it out! Come join us.

    Judith

  455. Shout-out to Myles – Thanks for the information on the Shift, the changing timelines and the Earth’s magnetic pole reversal etc. Really good and I appreciate your demonstrating interest in the bottom line of all we’re experiencing – basically, the Ascension process. Pretty dynamic and exciting times we are living in! Take care. And again, thanks for the input on this often misunderstood, speculative and a bit scary topic.

    Quick hello to Forest and Carol – More challenges going on for you! Thanks for staying in touch and my wish for you is to Be Well Now. Love you and send healing energies of rejuvenation and restoration. Hang in there!

    Want to quickly mention that one of our dear Renegade Rebel Rousers wasn’t able to attend my call on Tuesday night due to an emergency experienced in the wee hours that morning. Our Cowboy from the Dakotas. Forest and Pete – and others who post together here – I thought you may wish to know. He texted he successfully completed ‘a procedure’ last night and I will let him share whatever he wishes from here.

    Don’t be concerned about my mentioning this please, Wayne. I would like to request that everyone who does read this send some white light healing energy your way! My message that night was about epigenetic healing and ways we can make ourselves better – seems synchronistic to me! My thanks to his daughter, Cheryl, for letting me know and staying in touch. We’re rooting for you, Babe! Younger, stronger and healthier than before!! Let us hear from you soon! Love to you …

    Judith

  456. April 13, 2009
    ===========
    On this day in 2009, former Major League Baseball all-star pitcher
    Mark “The Bird” Fidrych was found dead at the age of 54 following
    an accident at his Massachusetts farm involving a Mack truck he
    was working on. Fidrych, the 1976 American League Rookie of the
    Year, suffocated when his clothes got tangled in the truck’s power
    takeoff shaft.

    The New York Times Wheels blog referenced a report in 2009 from the
    National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on noncrash fatalities and injuries.

    “According to the report, in 2007 more than 168 people were killed by falling vehicles,
    and more than 10,000 people were injured in hoist or jack incidents. While Fidrych’s
    death did not seem to involve a jack, it was still a noncrash fatality that probably
    could have been prevented. ‘About 29 percent (168 of 588) of the noncrash
    fatalities involved people who were pinned or trapped under vehicles, usually while
    working on passenger vehicles that fell from their supports,’ says NHTSA in the report.”

    Fidrych – who was born on August 14, 1954, in Worcester, Massachusetts – became
    a national sensation during his rookie season with the Detroit Tigers. That year,
    his record was 19 wins and 9 losses with a league-leading 2.34 ERA and 24
    complete games. The 6’3” Fidrych – who reportedly earned his nickname
    for his resemblance to the “Sesame Street” character Big Bird – was a
    favorite with fans. However, after his spectacular rookie season, he
    was plagued by injuries and his career with the Tigers ended in
    1980. He attempted a comeback with the Boston Red Sox
    during the 1982-83 season then retired in July 1983.
    Following baseball, he went on to own a trucking business.

    On the afternoon of April 13, 2009, Fidrych’s body was discovered
    by a friend beneath a Mack truck at the former baseball player’s
    farm in Northborough, Massachusetts. According to the AP, the
    friend reported that it appeared as if Fidrych had been doing
    maintenance work on the truck at the time of his death.

  457. April 14, 1742
    ==========
    Nowadays, the performance of George Friedrich Handel’s Messiah oratorio at
    Christmas time is a tradition almost as deeply entrenched as decorating trees
    and hanging stockings. In churches and concert halls around the world, the
    most famous piece of sacred music in the English language is performed both
    full and abridged, both with and without audience participation, but almost
    always and exclusively during the weeks leading up to the celebration of
    Christmas. It would surprise many, then, to learn that Messiah was not
    originally intended as a piece of Christmas music. Messiah received
    its world premiere on this day in 1742, during the Christian season
    of Lent, and in the decidedly secular context of a concert hall in
    Dublin, Ireland.

    The inspiration for Messiah came from a scholar and editor named Charles Jennens,
    a devout and evangelical Christian deeply concerned with the rising influence of
    deism and other strains of Enlightenment thought that he and others regarded
    as irreligious. Drawing on source material in the King James Bible and The
    Book of Common Prayer, Jennens compiled and edited a concise distillation of
    Christian doctrine – from Old Testament prophecies of the Messiah’s coming
    through the birth, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ and then to the
    promised Second Coming and Day of Judgment. Jennens took his libretto to his
    friend George Friedrich Handel and proposed that it form the basis of an oratorio
    expressly intended for performance in a secular setting during the week immediately
    preceding Easter. “Messiah would be directed at people who had come to a theater
    rather than a church during Passion Week,” according to the Cambridge Handel
    scholar Ruth Smith, “to remind them of their supposed faith and their possible fate.”

    This didactic mission may have inspired Jennens to write Messiah, but it is fair to say
    that George Friedrich Handel’s transcendent music is what made the work so
    timeless and inspirational. Messiah gained widespread popularity only
    during the final years of Handel’s life – in the late 1750s – but it
    remains one of the best-known musical works of the Baroque
    period more than two centuries later. When you consider
    that Handel composed the score for Messiah in just
    24 days, you begin to understand the incredible
    esteem in which some of his followers held him.

    As Ludwig van Beethoven said of Handel: “He is the greatest composer
    that ever lived. I would uncover my head and kneel before his tomb.”
    ===============
    -HALLELUJAH CHORUS-
    performed on handbells

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPXCHI_zXmo
    ———–

  458. I love Neo-Tech literature and its TVP non political party . I am presently reading , The Neo-Tech World . The most beautiful literature ever written . Thanks Mark Hamilton for your wonderful literature . Neo-Tech is pure love and honesty . By the way my biggest picture puzzle is just about to snap together . Seeing into the future with Neothink is awesome . Again , thank you very much from the bottom of my heart .

  459. April 12, 1945
    ===========
    On this day in 1945, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt passed away after four
    momentous terms in office, leaving Vice President Harry S. Truman in charge
    of a country still fighting the Second World War and in possession of a weapon
    of unprecedented and terrifying power.

    On a clear spring day at his Warm Springs, Georgia, retreat, Roosevelt sat in the
    living room with Lucy Mercer (with whom he had resumed an extramarital affair),
    two cousins and his dog Fala, while the artist Elizabeth Shoumatoff painted his
    portrait. According to presidential biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin, it was
    about 1 p.m. that the president suddenly complained of a terrific pain in the
    back of my head and collapsed unconscious. One of the women summoned
    a doctor, who immediately recognized the symptoms of a massive cerebral
    hemorrhage and gave the president a shot of adrenaline into the heart in a
    vain attempt to revive him. Mercer and Shoumatoff quickly left the house,
    expecting FDR’s family to arrive as soon as word got out. Another doctor
    phoned first lady Eleanor Roosevelt in Washington D.C., informing her that
    FDR had fainted. She told the doctor she would travel to Georgia that
    evening after a scheduled speaking engagement. By 3:30 p.m. however,
    doctors in Warm Springs had pronounced the president dead.

    Eleanor delivered her speech that afternoon and was listening to a piano performance
    when she was summoned back to the White House. In her memoirs, she recalled
    that ride to the White House as one of dread, as she knew in her heart that her
    husband had died. Once in her sitting room, aides told her of the president’s
    death. The couple’s daughter Anna arrived and the women changed into
    black dresses. Eleanor then phoned their four sons, who were all on
    active military duty. At 5:30 pm, she greeted Vice President Harry
    Truman, who had not yet been told the news. A calm and quiet
    Eleanor said, “Harry, the president is dead.” He asked if there
    was anything he could do for her, to which she replied, “Is
    there anything we can do for you? For you are the one in trouble now.”

    Indeed, Truman had rather large shoes to fill. FDR had presided over the Great
    Depression and most of World War II, leaving an indelible stamp on American
    politics for several decades. He also left Truman with the difficult decision of
    whether or not to continue to develop – and ultimately use – the atomic bomb.
    Shockingly, FDR had kept his vice president in the dark about the bomb’s
    development and it was not until Roosevelt died that Truman learned of the
    Manhattan Project. It was also not until FDR died that Eleanor learned of her
    husband’s renewed affair with Lucy Mercer.

    Eleanor, in her own words, was trained to put personal things in the background.
    She swallowed the shock and anger about Mercer and threw herself into FDR’s
    funeral preparations. Thousands of Americans lined the tracks to bid Roosevelt
    farewell while a slow train carried his coffin from Warm Springs to Washington, D.C.
    After a solemn state funeral, he was buried at his family’s home in Hyde Park, New York.
    =============

  460. The Southeastern Michigan Neothink Clubhouses
    are holding our SECOND QUARTER GALA EVENT.
    =======================================
    When?. . . . . . . .Saturday May 13, 2017.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:30 am – 3 pm.
    Where?. . . . . . . Greenfield Village.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dearborn, MI.
    What?. . . . . . . . The Four Pillars
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . plus Model T Rides,
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and a whole lot more.
    Why?. . . . . . . . . Why not?
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  461. On April 12, 1954
    ==============
    Bill Haley and the Comets recorded “(We’re Gonna) Rock Around The Clock.”
    If rock and roll was a social and cultural revolution, then “(We’re Gonna) Rock
    Around The Clock” was its Declaration of Independence. And if Bill Haley was
    not exactly the revolution’s Thomas Jefferson, it may be fair to call him its John Hancock.

    Bill Haley put his enormous signature on rock and roll history during the final
    40 minutes of a three-hour recording session in New York City — a session set up
    not for the recording of “(We’re Gonna) Rock Around The Clock,” but of a song called
    “Thirteen Women (and Only One Man in Town).” It took the group nearly all of their
    scheduled session to get a useable take of “Thirteen Women,” a song that was
    entirely new to them but was chosen as the A-side of their upcoming single
    by their new record label, Decca. With time running out and no chance of
    extending the session, Haley and his Comets were eager to lay down the
    song they’d been playing live for many months to enthusiastic audience
    response. The lead guitarist brought in for the session – Danny Cedron – had
    not had time to work up a new solo for the instrumental break on “Rock Around
    The Clock,” so he repurposed one he’d used on a Haley recording two years earlier
    called “Rock This Joint.” Cedrone was paid $31 for his work that evening, which included
    performing what is still recognized as one of the greatest guitar solos of all time.

    Haley and the band had time for only two takes, and in the first, they played so loud that
    Haley’s vocals were almost inaudible on tape. In an era before multi-track recording,
    the only solution was to do a second take with minimal accompaniment and hope
    for the best. Later, a Decca engineer painstakingly spliced together segments
    from both takes — a near-miracle given the technology of 1954. The finished
    version was judged good enough to include as the B-side on “Thirteen Women,”
    which was released in May 1954.

    The single sold a respectable but underwhelming 75,000 copies in the coming months,
    and was destined to be forgotten until a 10-year-old kid in Los Angeles flipped
    “Thirteen Women” and fell in love with the now-famous -side.
    That kid – Peter Ford – happened to be the son of actor Glenn Ford,
    who was slated to star in the upcoming teenage-delinquency drama Blackboard
    Jungle. Peter turned his father on to “(We’re Gonna) Rock Around The Clock,” and
    soon enough, the song was chosen to play over the opening credits of Blackboard Jungle,
    which is how it became a pop sensation, selling a million copies in a single month in the spring of 1955.
    ===============

  462. WIKIPEDIA VS NEO-TECH® COMMENT 601.06 by Myles Conefrey (MENTOR SNIPPETS) –
    Earth Changes & Ascension Plan for Planet
    Creator Son CHRIST MICHAEL ATON/Sovereign of the Local Universe of Nebadon

    An Archive of Messages channeled through Candace Frieze and Jess Anthony and others – http://www.AbundantHope.Net

    It will be time to prepare for the “Big Sleep” [Stasis Period – suspended animation for all life-forms], as it has come to be called. The most practical way to prepare for this major Earth-changing event. The new Sun will rearrange the base alignment of the Planet, and will cause the seasons to begin to merge into one restful, calm extension of ever-ripening food.

    The timeframe for the Solar Occurrence with Jupiter, is when Jupiter is behind the Sun in regards to Earth’s orbit.

    After the “Big Sleep” [Stasis Period]. The Transition Period is the logical time frame for this to happen. They will be introduced in concept as you undergo the intensive education period after the announcement. That will occur during the several months before the Jupiter “Nova/Ignition”.

    Let’s speak of the Stasis Event, as you called it. These events will be the beaming of energy rays of a certain frequency towards the Earth that will cause certain frequencies of vibrations to stop their motion. This is not analogous to death, because in death circumstances the energy continues to move. It is reshaped into another form that is not representative of the physical body that it used previously. In this instance, the energy pauses its vibration. The power of the beaming vibration causes the other to mirror or entrain is own vibrational frequency to that of the new frequency. This only synchronizes with a certain range of frequencies and these are the ones that pause.

    In terms of your bodies, this is the energy “glue” that holds the parts of the atoms together. This is what is connected to the Universal energy that links Man with his Creative Sun. This energy has intelligence, and it creates the concept of Love that joins waves and pulses of energy into a coherent form. Love is the force that “convinces” random waves of energy to coalesce into a structure and become a unified force that materializes ultimately as a mental idea that takes a physical form. The new environment it will find when the Stasis is finished. There will be a new sense of environment when people wake up, much cleaner and more balanced and peaceful.

    Man can have a fair chance once he wakes up again from the Stasis Event to re-build his World on Earth.

    The Soul doesn’t “sleep” during this period, just the body and can still keep in touch with the Higher Realms.

    The Stasis Event will last as long as necessary. It could begin before the final Ignition of Jupiter.

    Many of you will during Stasis be gifted with new restructured bodies, looking exactly like you, based on your current DNA but improved as to what many of you label “psychic” skills.

    NEO-TECH® – THE LEAGUE – FOUNDER: Dr. Frank R. Wallace, Ph.D.
    NEOTHINK® – THE SOCIETY – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton
    (TVP) – TWELVE VISIONS PARTY® – THE VISIONARIES – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton

  463. WIKIPEDIA VS NEO-TECH® COMMENT 601.05 by Myles Conefrey (MENTOR SNIPPETS) –
    Earth Changes & Ascension Plan for Planet
    Creator Son CHRIST MICHAEL ATON/Sovereign of the Local Universe of Nebadon

    An Archive of Messages channeled through Candace Frieze and Jess Anthony and others – http://www.AbundantHope.Net

    Mother Earth is going ahead with her letting loose with the “Changes”. She has withheld her “Earth Changes” for almost too long to help you all get to the point you have reached.
    Mankind’s – progression in awareness and willingness to accept the Light we are shining on you and Earth in ever increasing amounts has made this “Plan” a non-issue at this time.

    As Mother Earth Gaia re-shapes herself to make her own guise able to accommodate the Changes she eagerly anticipates. The increasingly higher frequencies of Light and energy that are bombarding Earth from your Sun and from the Central Sun of your System and Universe. The alignment is occurring on a Galactic scale, and the changes that will come from this are incomprehensible to your present understanding.

    The “Light and Life” that have been determined to be the outcome. There are millions of possible outcomes that can be used as links in the chain of movement towards the final goal of Ascension and realization of your true self and complete purpose. The time now is for “closure” on the past and a moving into a new phase of your existence. Yet, this shift will not be an instant change. The first has become last, because of the delays they have contrived, and America will emerge from its dream of unawareness as the last step in the process.

    Earth must adjust herself in the way she can. She has accommodated Man longer than she had a right to, and now Man must accommodate her. There will be a time of “chaos and disaster”, to your way of thinking, before the way is clear for true Ascension to “Light and Love”.

    NEO-TECH® – THE LEAGUE – FOUNDER: Dr. Frank R. Wallace, Ph.D.
    NEOTHINK® – THE SOCIETY – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton
    (TVP) – TWELVE VISIONS PARTY® – THE VISIONARIES – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton

  464. WIKIPEDIA VS NEO-TECH® COMMENT 601.04 by Myles Conefrey (MENTOR SNIPPETS) –
    Earth Changes & Ascension Plan for Planet
    Creator Son CHRIST MICHAEL ATON/Sovereign of the Local Universe of Nebadon

    An Archive of Messages channeled through Candace Frieze and Jess Anthony and others – http://www.AbundantHope.Net

    I am in fact having a “Second Coming Event” through Sananda, and for two reasons; the first as a “Wake Up Call”, and helps Christians who are expecting an “Event”, often with the “Rapture” as part of it. The other reason is that during the Event, the Earth will be cleansed of the negative thought forms, all Lower Astral Worlds and entities who are up to no good and causing much harm and mischief. The worst and totally uncurable of those may well go into the “Sacred Fire” that uncreates/annihilates them; they shall be no more. 3D Earth will not see this visually. In a way, this is the “Hell Fire”, for all Eternity that is taught on Earth, but totally misunderstood, elements of their Soul personality will in fact be recycled to start over again.

    Situations that are unique, and your solutions are providing vast new archives of information that others can use in similar situations if something of this magnitude happens again. Patience gives you breadth of thought, and insight comes from thinking broadly.

    NEO-TECH® – THE LEAGUE – FOUNDER: Dr. Frank R. Wallace, Ph.D.
    NEOTHINK® – THE SOCIETY – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton
    (TVP) – TWELVE VISIONS PARTY® – THE VISIONARIES – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton

  465. WIKIPEDIA VS NEO-TECH® COMMENT 601.03 by Myles Conefrey (MENTOR SNIPPETS) –
    Earth Changes & Ascension Plan for Planet
    Creator Son CHRIST MICHAEL ATON/Sovereign of the Local Universe of Nebadon

    An Archive of Messages channeled through Candace Frieze and Jess Anthony and others – http://www.AbundantHope.Net

    Many of you are amongst the “Fallen” Angels. You are now Ascending Sons, because that is what you desired and I gave you that gift. I will not hold you hostage, that is not how I go about my business. I have given this to many in my Realm.

    Some “Descending Sons” [of the Paradise and Havona Central Worlds] chose to take an incarnational journey, to experience in various realms, including 3D, to understand their jobs, as “Descending Sons”, of raising up the newly created “Ascending Sons” of the lower evolutionary Worlds. Most chose to return again to Planet Earth as Descending Sons, continue the job for which they were originallly created on the higher Paradise Worlds.

    Some find they do not want to continue in that job description for which they were originally created, and would rather start over again as “Ascending Sons”, and this I grant also 100% of the time, if the wish is true and desired, and the long incarnational journey of study understood. A “Thought Adjuster/Higher Self” to guide them on a new and correct path back to the Center, that is their only choice, mission to inject the “Violet DNA” into Earth’s peoples. I came into the world with DNA from Gabriel. Sananda was healed, actually the special 3D body healed, and then Sananda carried the genetics to India where he married and fathered 5 children. He and Mary Magdalene also brought a female child, SaRa [Sarah] into the world, in Europe. Mary Magdalene was the incarnate Lady Nada, Sananda Immanuel’s Twin Soul. Mary Magdalene, as well as Mother Mary carried some improved DNA also, about preserving the DNA from SaRa.

    Since 2000 years ago, many E.T.s have come, bringing in the superior DNA from other Planets, raising up the DNA of this world. The Urantia Book [in 1934] could not discuss this, also it did not mention Reincarnation, because of the need to protect the “Star People” healing the Karma of this Planet in this manner.

    NEO-TECH® – THE LEAGUE – FOUNDER: Dr. Frank R. Wallace, Ph.D.
    NEOTHINK® – THE SOCIETY – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton
    (TVP) – TWELVE VISIONS PARTY® – THE VISIONARIES – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton

  466. WIKIPEDIA VS NEO-TECH® COMMENT 601.02 by Myles Conefrey (MENTOR SNIPPETS) –
    Earth Changes & Ascension Plan for Planet
    Creator Son CHRIST MICHAEL ATON/Sovereign of the Local Universe of Nebadon

    An Archive of Messages channeled through Candace Frieze and Jess Anthony and others – http://www.AbundantHope.Net

    Sananda is an Ascending Son of God, with a long history in Nebadon. He is a “Kumara”, a group of Beings originating long ago in Lyra Star System, and who successfully got themselves out of a matrix that had kept them there with “Weapons of Mass Destruction”, besides the mind control methods used to control a Planetary People by enslaving Races.

    Sananda is Immanuel Esu Kumara, originally born of Gabriel and of more recent times, the only son of Sanat Kumara. Sanat Kumara was Planetary Logos until around 20 years ago, and returned to Venus, where his offices are, and his home, as he became Solar Logos, of your Solar System.

    Descending Son missions to the Planets, whether Bestowal or Avonal/Magisterial.
    Hence, there are many here in support to the Avonal Paradise Son Monjoronson, and the Magisterial Mission.

    One very highly experienced in this arena, Immanuel Esu Kumara [Jesus/Sananda].
    Immanuel is a highly experienced warrior my friends, yes Sananda is indeed a warrior!

    The Planetary Prince, Caligastia Machiventa Melchizedek, Machiventa was Machiventa, the “Second Coming” Event, Sananda Immanuel.

    Jesus/Esu Sananda Immanuel has adopted Urantia, Earth Shan, as his home, for his future experiencing as a Planetary Prince.

    NEO-TECH® – THE LEAGUE – FOUNDER: Dr. Frank R. Wallace, Ph.D.
    NEOTHINK® – THE SOCIETY – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton
    (TVP) – TWELVE VISIONS PARTY® – THE VISIONARIES – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton

  467. WIKIPEDIA VS NEO-TECH® COMMENT 601.01 by Myles Conefrey (MENTOR SNIPPETS) –
    Earth Changes & Ascension Plan for Planet
    Creator Son CHRIST MICHAEL ATON/Sovereign of the Local Universe of Nebadon

    An Archive of Messages channeled through Candace Frieze and Jess Anthony and others – http://www.AbundantHope.Net

    We are not only Correcting the Times, through this joint experience, we all are together, even myself, the Creator Son, greatly adding to our combined experience, learning on a bigger learning curve, making known the unknown.

    NEO-TECH® – THE LEAGUE – FOUNDER: Dr. Frank R. Wallace, Ph.D.
    NEOTHINK® – THE SOCIETY – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton
    (TVP) – TWELVE VISIONS PARTY® – THE VISIONARIES – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton

  468. WIKIPEDIA VS NEO-TECH® COMMENT 601.00 by Myles Conefrey (MENTOR SNIPPETS) –
    Earth Changes & Ascension Plan for Planet

    EFFECT OF MAKING THE PHYSICAL EARTH CHANGES
    Creator Son CHRIST MICHAEL ATON/Sovereign of the Local Universe of Nebadon

    An Archive of Messages channeled through Candace Frieze and Jess Anthony and others – http://www.AbundantHope.Net

    We have the ability to draw up scenarios a bit faster and we drew up many. Then we chose from what seemed like the best to choose from. We created in thought, but it was necessary to return and do the work within the realm, in “3D,” in life.

    People on Earth have developed an awareness of the need for change, although most don’t understand what that literally entails.

    A recent decision was taken to interfere with Earth’s progression no longer and allow her to take the traditional course for change by reversing the Magnetic Polarity caused by the Sun’s interaction with Earth’s rotation.

    This reversal is typically caused by a slowing down of the speed of the rotation, which allows the direction of the polarity to be drawn in another direction. Stopping the rotation leads to a pause in the Sun’s apparent movement. The Earth is a ball, of sorts, and stopping it from spinning while it orbits around the Sun will cause one part to be dark and one part to be in the light until it begins rotating again. This resumption of spinning in a reverse direction will reverse Earth’s magnetic orientation to the Sun. The geographic North Pole of the Earth’s axis will remain positioned as it is, but the direction of the magnetic current will flow towards the South Pole.

    This shift and magnetic reversal was always scheduled to happen during the period of Earth Changes and Stasis.

    The time of Stasis is neraly here, it is safe to say. Its beginning will be timed by the schedule Earth takes in her “Transition” up to a higher Dimensional level [4D]. When the Sun stops moving, it will be time to prepare for Stasis being set in motion.
    Man and Earth are one energetic package that must operate in parallel ways to move higher spiritually.

    Slowing down the speed of the rotation is part of the process that prepares for this to happen. This planetary physical state is common but Man has no concept of this occurring. Rotation is caused by the pull of the dynamic currents generating the magnetic field. The attraction of the magnetic pull causes the Planet to move in a circular fashion. The orientation of the North and South polarities in opposition to the geographic poles creates the spin direction you call counterclockwise. Reversing the Magnetic Poles causes a reverse direction of magnetic pull — the rotation moves clockwise, with the Sun coming up in the West, as you describe it. Your Planet will now be rotating towards the Sun in a reverse way from what it has been.

    In order for this to happen, the current rotation process has to stop. This is complicated by the “wobble” in the geographic axis that is occurring because of weakening magnetic currents. The Earth’s magnetic counter force is out of balance with the charged polarity on the physical surface, and the tautly pulled energetic resistance normally in place with the Planet’s geographic axis begins to loosen and cause the angle of alignment of move around. This has been occurring for several years, but it now is intensifying.

    This is why the Galactic Forces have been monitoring Earth for years, and why they even now are still providing some guidance for the process.

    What we wish for is a “win-win” situation. The solution is a “dance” with Mother Earth, leading her the course that though leading to the Pole Reversal most quickly will cause the least possible havoc.

    The Lightworkers whom are still to be selected, will prepare the plans and the teaching.

    NEO-TECH® – THE LEAGUE – FOUNDER: Dr. Frank R. Wallace, Ph.D.
    NEOTHINK® – THE SOCIETY – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton
    (TVP) – TWELVE VISIONS PARTY® – THE VISIONARIES – FOUNDER: Mr. Mark Hamilton

  469. NEOTHINK SOCIETY
    School of Genius – Rise of Neo-Tech
    April 11, 2017
    Judith Curless

    INCREDIBLE BEINGS OF LIGHT!

    Happy to be here tonight! Look around a circle of happy faces hidden away from the world … where we share golden nuggets of wisdom and bring energies together with messages of integrated thinking and knowledge taken from our treasure chest. So, let’s enjoy ourselves again in this beautiful Aladdin’s cavern hideaway. Recently, we’ve discussed Quantum Jumping, Time and Time Travel, and Sound – Harmonic Frequency, Resonance and Vibration; the fact that our bodies are composed of the very stuff of the Universe and we’re all vibrating frequencies of light and hertz resonance! Now, let’s explore some basics about the nature and powerful activity occurring at the core of our Being – within our cells, atoms and DNA – the building blocks of Humanity. Tonight’s title is – Incredible Beings of Light!

    The Human body is a Universe onto itself; a vast, intricate system of incredible sensitivity and detail. It has been the subject of wonder, philosophy and scientific study for centuries, yet its most elemental design is still shrouded in mystery. What is the relation of biological life to the Cosmos – the fabric of space and time itself? Are we really locked in an endless struggle against the ticking clock of thermodynamic entropy – of increasing disorder – as is the view of contemporary physics? The fractal-holographic model sheds new light on these questions; a unified description of the Cosmos reveals its true relation to Humans; a relationship so entangled, so intimate that the two cannot be viewed apart.

    BIOPHOTONS: THE HUMAN BODY EMITS, COMMUNICATES WITH
    AND IS MADE FROM LIGHT!

    Nothing is more amazing than the highly improbable fact that WE EXIST! We often ignore this fact, oblivious to the reality that instead of something – there could be nothing at all. Or, why is there a Universe that is so poignantly aware of itself through us and not some void completely unconscious of itself? Increasingly, science agrees with the poetry of direct Human experience – that we’re more than just atoms and molecules, but Beings that emit, communicate with, and are formed from light! That makes us Beings of Light (as Jesus told us). Biophotons are emitted by the Human body, can be released through mental intention, and may modulate fundamental processes within cell-to-cell communication and DNA.

    Consider that from light, air, water, basic minerals within the crust of the Earth, and the at least 3 billion year old information contained within the nucleus of one diploid zygote cell, the human body is formed, and within that body a soul capable of at least trying to comprehend its bodily and spiritual origins. Given the sheer insanity of our existential condition, and bodily incarnation as a whole, and considering that our Earthly existence is partially formed from sunlight and requires the continual consumption of condensed sunlight in the form of food, it may not sound so farfetched that our body emits light.

    Indeed, the Human body emits Biophotons, also known as Ultraweak Photon Emissions (UPEs), with a
    visibility 1,000 times lower than the sensitivity of our naked eye. While not visible to us, these particles of light (or waves, depending on how you’re measuring them) are part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum (380-780 nano meters) and are detectable via sophisticated modern instrumentation. Technically speaking, a biophoton is an elementary particle or quantum of light of non-thermal origin in the visible and ultraviolet spectrum emitted from a biological system. They’re generally believed to be produced as a result of energy metabolism within our cells, or more formally as a “…by-product of biochemical reactions in which excited molecules are produced from bioenergetic processes that involve active oxygen species.”

    Our physical and ‘mental’ eye emits light. The eye itself, which is continually exposed to ambient powerful photons that pass through various ocular tissues, emit spontaneous and visible light-induced UPEs. It’s even been hypothesized that visible light induces delayed bioluminescence within the exposed eye tissue, providing an explanation for the origin of the negative after-image.

    OUR CELLS AND DNA USE BIOPHOTONS TO STORE AND COMMUNICATE INFORMATION

    Biophotons are used by the cells of many living organisms to communicate, which facilitates energy-information transfer that is several orders of magnitude faster than chemical diffusion. According to a 2010 study, “Cell to cell communication by biophotons has been demonstrated in plants, bacteria, animal neutriophil granulocytes and kidney cells.” Researchers were able to demonstrate that “…different spectral light stimulation (infrared, red, yellow, blue, green and white) at one end of the spinal sensory or motor nerve roots resulted in a significant increase in the biophotonic activity at the other end.” Researchers interpret this to suggest that “ light stimulation can generate biophotons that conduct along the neural fibers, probably as neural communication signals.” Even down to the molecular level of our genome, DNA is also identified as a source of biophoton emissions.

    Meditation affects Biophoton output. Research found an oxidative stress-mediated difference in biophoton emission among meditators vs non-meditators. Regular meditators have lower UPE, believed to result from the lower level of free radical reactions occurring in their bodies. Spectral analysis of Human UPE suggests that it’s probably a reflection of free radical reactions in a living system and various physiologic and biochemical shifts follow the long-term practice of meditation, inferring it may impact free radical activity.

    Interestingly, an herb well-known for its use in stress reduction (and inducing measurable declines in cortisol and associated heightened oxidative stress) has been tested clinically in reducing the level of biophotons emitted in human subjects. Known as Rhodiola, a study published in 2009 in the journal Phytotherapeutic Research found that taking the herb for 1 week significantly decreases photon emission in comparison with placebo group.

    HUMAN SKIN MAY CAPTURE ENERGY AND INFORMATION FROM SUNLIGHT

    Perhaps most extraordinary of all is the possibility that our bodily surface contains cells capable of efficiently trapping the energy and information from ultraviolet radiation. Data suggest that xeroderma pigmentosum cells that have insufficient DNA repair mechanisms, tend to lose the capacity of efficient storage of ultraweak photons, indicating the existence of an efficient intracellular photon-trapping system within Human cells. Measurable differences are also found in biophoton emission between normal and melanoma cells.

    Skin pigment may act like a natural solar panel, as we look at the role of melanin in converting light into metabolic energy. Melanin is capable of transforming ultraviolet light energy into heat in a process known as “ultrafast internal conversion”; more than 99.9% of the absorbed UV radiation is transformed from potentially genotoxic (DNA-damaging) ultraviolet light into harmless heat. Gerald Pollack, PhD, who wrote The 4th Phase of Water, has identified water molecules, which constitute 99% of the molecules in our body by number, as capable of storing the energy of sunlight like batteries and driving the majority of processes within our body as a primary, non-ATP-based source of energy. It’s been speculated as to whether Humans can harvest the sun’s energy directly like plants. I’ve mentioned this before about people who are doing this.

    The body’s biophoton outputs are governed by solar and lunar forces. Modern science is only now coming to recognize the ability of the Human body to receive and emit energy – information directly from the light given off from the Sun. There’s also growing realization that the Sun and Moon affect biophoton emissions through gravitational influences. Recently, biophoton emissions from wheat seedlings in Germany and Brazil were found to be synchronized transcontinentally according to rhythms associated with the lunisolar tide. The lunisolar tidal force, to which the Sun contributes 30% and Moon 60% of the combined gravitational acceleration, has been found to regulate a number of features of plant growth upon Earth.

    Light from the Cosmos and the Earth intensifies daily and right now at 150Hz has unimaginable power that can rip a quasar in half! This is creating a super elevation for us as we’re guarded and protected to evolve to a higher form. It’s been compared to 3 foot-long uranium bombs covering the Sun going off at once, filling the Cosmos and bombarding Earth and sentient life. When these nano-particles hit our auric field, they’re traveling and slam into us at 22 million miles per hour! This is what knocks you out for a bit, leaving no choice but to relax, rest or fall sleep. We’d be vaporized if we were vibrating at 150Hz! About 3 Billion people have crossed to 5d vibrating at 21Hz. By Spring 2016 5d could be experienced vibrating at 42-45Hz. Since gamma waves are rising, we could be 5d and 6d Beings soon? What took 1-1/2 million years to jump from a double helix to a 5 helix, will only take a few months to go from 5d helix to 6d helix DNA. Wow!

    INTENTION IS A LIVING FORCE OF PHYSIOLOGY

    Even Human intention itself, the so-called ‘Ghost in the Machine’, may have an empirical basis in biophotons. A commentary published in the journal Investigacion Clinica titled “Evidence About The Power of Intention” said:

    Intention is defined as a directed thought to perform a determined action. Thoughts targeted to an end can affect inanimate objects and practically all living things from unicellular organisms to Human Beings. The emission of light particles (biophotons) seems to be the mechanism through which an intention produces its effects. All living organisms emit a constant current of photons as a means to direct instantaneous nonlocal signals from one part of the body to another and to the outside world. Biophotons are stored in the intracellular DNA. When the organism is sick changes in biophoton emissions are produced. Direct intention manifests itself as an electric and magnetic energy producing an ordered flux of photons. Our intentions operate as highly coherent frequencies capable of changing the molecular structure of matter!

    Living Beings are mutually synchronized and to the Earth and its constant changes of magnetic energy. It’s been shown that the energy of thought can also alter the environment. Hypnosis, stigmata phenomena and the placebo effect are also considered as types of intention, as instructions to the brain during a particular state of consciousness. Cases of spontaneous cures or remote healing of extremely ill patients represent instances of an exceedingly great intention to control diseases menacing our lives. The intention to heal as well as the beliefs of the sick person on the efficacy of the healing influences promote his healing. Studies on thought and consciousness are emerging as fundamental aspects, not as mere epiphenomena that are rapidly leading to a profound change in the paradigms of Biology and Medicine.

    One strand of DNA from one single cell contains enough information to clone an entire organism. Obviously, understanding DNA allows us to understand much about life and the Universe around us. As mentioned, DNA begins not as a molecule, but as a wave form. Even more interestingly, this wave form exists as a pattern within time and space and is coded throughout the entire Universe! We’re surrounded by pulsating waves of invisible genetic information, whose waves create microscopic gravitational forces that pull in atoms and molecules from their surrounding environment to construct DNA. Wow!

    Scientist Dr. Sergey Leikin caught these micro-gravitational forces in action. In 2008 he put different types of DNA in regular salt water, marking each type with a different fluorescent color and DNA molecules then scattered throughout the water. In the experiment’s major surprise, matching DNA molecules were found pairing together. After a short time, entire clusters of the same colored DNA molecules had formed. Leikin believed some sort of electromagnetic charge allowed the same colored molecules to cluster, but other experiments proved this is not the case as it’s more likely gravity.

    In 2011, Nobel Prize winner Dr. Luc Montagnier demonstrated that DNA formed out of merely hydrogen and oxygen. He began with a hermetically sealed tube of pure sterilized water, placing another sealed tube next to it which had small amounts of DNA floating in water. Montagnier then electrified both tubes with a weak, 7 hertz electromagnetic field and waited. Eighteen hours later, little pieces of DNA had grown in the original tube which consisted of only pure sterilized water. The Universe is constantly conspiring to make biological life, whenever and wherever it can. In any given area of the Universe, these hidden micro-gravitational waves will begin gathering atoms and molecules together to create DNA – and thus, Life!

    Another phenomenal discovery was made when Dr. Fritz-Albert Popp caught DNA in the act of pulling in photons – tiny packets of energy that make up visible light. Photons are essential to the basic health and function of DNA and used to send and receive information throughout the body. He found each DNA molecule stores up to 1,000 photons within itself, similar to that of a tiny fiber-optic cable. The photons shoot back and forth at the speed of light inside the molecule and are stored until they need to be used.

    In 1984, Russian scientist Dr. Peter Fariaev discovered that when a DNA molecule was placed inside a small quartz container, it naturally absorbed every photon in the room! We learned before the only force that can bend light is gravity – done such that it appears DNA is generating a micro-gravitational effect that attracts and captures light. But most incredible was when he thought the experiment was over. He’d pulled the DNA out from the quartz container and looked back into it to see photons were still spiraling in the exact same place where the DNA had been. Apparently, some sort of gravitational influence was holding photons in place, this later becoming known as the “DNA Phantom Effect”. DNA creates an energetic force that absorbs photons and pulls them right into the molecule, but the DNA itself isn’t even needed. The invisible force or wave attracts and holds the light photons there.

    He could blast the photons with supercold liquid nitrogen gas and they would all escape from the force field. But within 5 to 8 minutes, new photons would keep appearing. In fact, it was only after doing this for 30 days straight that the photons finally did not reappear. Did you know this fact also applies to us physical Humans, as we leave an energy imprint for 30 days everywhere we have been?

    DNA CAN BE PROGRAMMED BY WORDS AND FREQUENCIES!

    The Human DNA is a biological internet highly superior in many aspects to the artificial one. Only 10% of our DNA is being used for building proteins and the other 90% considered “junk DNA”. Russian researchers have studied this other 90% extensively and found that our DNA is not only responsible for the construction of our body but also serves as data storage and in communication. No junk there. Russian Linguists found that the genetic code follows the same rules as all our Human languages! To this end, they compared the rules of syntax (the way in which words are put together to form phrases and sentences), semantics (the study and meaning in language forms) and the basic rules of grammar. They found that the alkalines of our DNA follow a regular grammar and do have set rules just like our languages. So Human languages did not appear coincidentally, but are a reflection of our inherent DNA! Steve has recently discussed use of words and the power of their meanings with us.

    In studying the vibrational behavior of DNA, the bottom line was, “Living chromosomes function just like solitonic holographic computers using the endogenous DNA laser radiation”. Meaning they modulated certain frequency patterns onto a laser ray and with it influenced the DNA frequency, and thus the genetic information itself. Since the basic structure of DNA alkaline pairs and of language are of the same structure, no DNA decoding is necessary. One can simply use words and sentences of the human language! This, too, was experimentally proven! Living DNA substance (in living tissue, not in vitro) will always react to language modulated laser rays and even to radio waves, if the proper frequencies are being used. This finally and scientifically explains why affirmations, autogenous training, hypnosis and the like can have such strong effects on Humans and their bodies. It is entirely normal and natural for our DNA to react to language. The Russians enthusiastically worked on devices that can influence the cellular metabolism through suitable modulated radio and light frequencies and thus can repair genetic defects.

    Esoteric and spiritual teachers have known for ages our body is programmable by language, words and thought, now scientifically proven. And this is why not everybody is equally successful or can do it with always the same strength. The individual person must work on the inner processes and maturity in order to establish a conscious communication with the DNA. The higher developed an individual’s consciousness is, the less need for any type of device, as one can achieve results on their own.

    THE IMMENSITY OF BIOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY

    The building block of Life, the biological cell, is an entity of astonishing coherency. Billions of chemical processes take place within it every second – metabolism, molecular transport, gene expression, DNA replication, extracellular communication, reproduction, cell differentiation – just to name a few. There are 50 Trillion cells in the Human body and their combined DNA unraveled would cover the distance from the Earth to the Sun well over 400 times! All of this cooperates beautifully to maintain a living, breathing organism adapted for interaction with an exterior Universe of innumerable physical processes. What underlying physics allows 50 Trillion cells to act in flawless symphony? Obviously, there is a self-organizing element present here, a naturally inherent movement towards order and coherency; left alone the Universe will produce incredible complexity on its own accord.

    The new physics proposes the Unified Field Theory should explain universal processes, from microscopic to macroscopic, including Life, consciousness and everything it entails. But our vision of ourselves is still incomplete. The notion of a Universe moving towards ever increasing disorder is disproven by our very existence; the living, breathing Human body is a system of incomprehensible interconnectivity, intertwined with the Universe at the very quantum level – the underlying matrix making this organization possible is the very space in which it exists.

    The fractal-holographic model propose that space is not empty but full, a plenum or zero-point field containing potentially Infinite Energy! Matter emerges as a function of space, not vice versa, and naturally condenses into toroidal/spherical systems; conforming to the topological structure of space-time itself – of expansion, contraction and spin. This is reflected at all scales, from atom to Universe, and naturally organizes matter at harmonic intervals defined by the underlying geometry of hyperspace. The atom itself is nothing but space in motion; like a tiny toroidal whirlpool in the vacuum sea which converts an infinitesimally small quanta of potential energy into kinetic energy, or mass.

    The source of material organization, intracellular coherency and even consciousness, lies not within physical processes of the body but are rather causal phenomena issuing forth from fundamental qualities of space-time itself, from the very field of energy sustaining the Universe. Yet as this field is nothing but a pure potential, being non-dimensional and infinite in nature, it is also by definition the pinnacle OF order and organization – ALL POINTS UNIFIED. Thus, the entropic, randomized Universe meets its counterbalance in the negentropic, coherent vacuum of space.

    APPLIED EPIGENETICS – THE ART AND SCIENCE OF
    DNA ACTIVATION, HEALING AND REPAIR

    The foundation of Epigenetic DNA activation is that Life is Energy. Einstein, Tesla, and the science of quantum physics have shown us that the fabric of the Universe is composed of vibrational strings expressed as energy. Every single cell and organ system, as well as our entire physical body, is encompassed and surrounded by its own individual energy field. The basis of every state of mind and matter, including conditions of disease or health, is their primary state of vibration. Therefore, the very life we live is a reflection of our own Vibrational Essence! We are the creative force in the unfolding story of our journey. Our world now is filled with higher consciousness and vibrational frequencies that will only be supporting our highest potential.

    In 1953, scientific research reported by Nobel Prize Winners James Watson and Francis Crick captured the attention and imagination of our modern civilization. Their studies on the nature of DNA, the blueprints for the structure of our cells, created the belief that genes control biology, the foundation upon which modern medicine is built. This belief evolved into the concept known as Genetic Determinism, the notion our physical and behavioral fates are encoded in the genes and we’re helpless victims of genetics. One of the biggest intellectual roadblocks to overcome in healing ourselves and initiating the process of DNA activation, or understanding the Universe fully, is based on the assumption our genes determine our reality or likelihood our lives and health will follow a predetermined path.

    The English scientist Crick states our genes were definitely brought here by Extraterrestrials. In his Book Life Itself he argues that there’s no possible way the DNA molecule could have gotten its start here on Earth and that it had to have arrived from somewhere else; that we’re the result of what is now known as Directed Panspermia. Crick and British chemist, Leslie Orgel, published a paper on this theory in July 1973 that says, “Organisms were deliberately transmitted to Earth by intelligent beings on another planet. We conclude that it is possible that life reached the Earth in this way, but that the scientific evidence is inadequate at the present time to say anything about the probability. We draw attention to the kinds of evidence that might throw additional light on the topic.” Since then, this has become a much more accepted probability.

    EPIGENETICS AND BEYOND

    A breakthrough research in cell biology and quantum physics by Cellular Biologist Bruce Lipton, PhD, shows that our genes and DNA are activated and influenced by signals from outside the cell membrane. This pioneering research in the field of vibrational medicine is known as the Science of Epigenetics. These studies show how forces operating outside the DNA sequence, including extracellular, environmental and energetic influences affect the development, functioning and evolution of biological systems. The Science of Epigenetics lies in tracing the signal outside the cell back to its origins. It looks for the energy flow that causes the DNA blueprint to activate a particular pattern, the driving force behind the way our DNA activates and expresses itself.

    “Epi” implies traits that are above, in addition to, or on top of the cell membrane. “Genetics” pertains to the DNA in the nucleus, the library of blueprints, which is found inside of each living organism or individual cell. Therefore epigenetics means control or influence of DNA from above or outside the gene. The food we eat, the air we breathe, the words we speak and the ecological systems in which we live influence the switches that turn on and off the expression of our genes and DNA. Additionally, the signals generated from our perceptions of the world we live in, our thoughts, beliefs, spirituality, meditations and intentions influence our inner environment, cause chemical changes in our body and brain and affect the way our genes communicate instructions to our cells – thus literally have the effect of altering and activating our DNA.

    Our thoughts, beliefs, emotions and intention have a profound effect on our level of DNA activation, in a positive sense, or genetic down-regulation, in a negative sense. Epigenetics is also showing us that through conscious intention we can change our quality of life from what we’ve been handed down from previous generations. The science confirms that it’s our individual choices, based on our degree of consciousness, that play a role and change our cellular structure and level of DNA activation.

    The research behind the science encourages us to abandon obsolete beliefs that we are victims of predetermined genetic codes. Epigenetics clarifies how perceptions of our inner and outer environments shape our biology and behavior and make us masters of our own lives, rewriting the rules of disease, heredity and wellbeing. While genes play an important part in organizing us into our individualized form and uniqueness, it’s still a mystery to science how the organization itself happens. After all, apes and humans, fruit flies and worms are all very different, but very similar, genetically. Amazing discoveries made in the last hundred years have opened scientists to possibilities that the primary components of life are orchestrated by something more.

    CONSCIOUSNESS IS A VIBRATION

    Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world’s most innovative biologists, revolutionized scientific thinking with his vision of a living, developing Universe with its own inherent memory or Morphogenetic Energy Field. Our genes reside in this morphic field, which plays an important role in the epigenetic control and activation of our DNA. It’s a field of energy containing certain frequencies of information or resonance. All living species, Human beings, animals and plants have a consciousness and therefore a morphic field that consists of atoms existing at a particular threshold of vibration.

    Through conscious intention, we can change our quality of life from what we’ve been handed down from previous generations. Illness occurs when these atoms comprising the Human body vibrate at unhealthy frequencies. The Morphogenetic Energy Field evolves, organizes, structures and resonates. It is influenced by epigenetic factors that translate into vibrational frequencies generated by our environment, perception, meditation, intention and beliefs, all of which influence the process of DNA activation.

    When our morphic energy field resonates with lower vibrations associated with fear or conflict, the signals are picked up and passed through the cell membrane. The informational frequencies travel to the nucleus of the cell and enter the chromosome, activating a particular strand of DNA. Our genes then communicate instructional functions to our cells based on the information they receive and then prepare to “fight or flight.” This DNA activation response represents a genetic wisdom designed to protect us from bodily harm and puts our physical and emotional health in a state of alert. Our consciousness is focused on fear, instead of love.

    Inside the body cell-signaling creates physiological changes during the fight or flight response. Transcending our fears by shifting our consciousness to one of trust, harmony and love opens us up to all possibilities. These higher frequencies support our DNA activation in creating profound healing to our body-mind. There is a vibrational pattern attached to each belief we hold. By releasing ego-based.limiting beliefs, we choose high frequency beliefs that are of Heart Consciousness to create frequencies that affect our bodies, our DNA, and enhance our ability to create a reality we choose to live within. What really is amazing is we can easily create an illness or enjoy vitality just by becoming aware of our environments, perceptions, beliefs, thoughts and intentions.

    Intention changes DNA expression. As Human Beings we actually choose our experiences by the way we resonate or vibrate as an energy field. Our perceptions and thoughts translate into vibrational frequencies. Energy follows thought – shaping our reality. It is that simple and profound. The Buddha declared years ago, “We are formed and molded by our thoughts.”

    The practice of conscious intention, combined with an energy field that is responsive by nature, can expand our gateways of awareness to experience our fullest expression as Limitless Beings! To be powerful our intent must be deeply, personally and sincerely engaged, where pure sincerity of heart is felt and expressed. Our consciously formed beliefs, thoughts, spirituality and intentions have a much stronger affect on our lives than our genes do. Nobel Prize winner Max Planck, a theoretical physicist and originator of quantum theory, believes that all matter originates and exists as a projection of a conscious and subconscious creative force, which brings the particles of an atom into vibration. This theory revolutionized human understanding of atomic and subatomic processes.

    DNA is a sort of ‘biological quantum field computer’ connecting us to the energies of what is now known as “Heart Intelligence.” The heart serves as a key access point through which information originating in the higher dimensional structures is coupled into the physical Human system including DNA. Rollin McCrathy, PhD, of the Institute of Heart Math in Boulder Creek, Colorado has proven that measurable molecular changes occur in the DNA molecule as a result of intention, meditation and prayer. Intention projected into the energy system from the consciousness of the heart can provide miracles of healing through the epigenetic effects of wellbeing on the cells of the body, shaping our genetic expression moment by moment and catalyzing DNA activation. When we engage in healing ourselves this way we activate a ‘tuning fork’ sending healing vibrations throughout the body.

    The applied practice of this new awareness is empowering, for now we learn to become masters of our own destiny instead of the victims of our genes. Epigenetic Therapy, correctly practiced, is potentially the most significant breakthrough in the fields of health and longevity! This approach addresses a predisposition to certain states of health and being. Raising one’s vibration, as a conscious focus, can do much to alleviate conditions that one was predisposed to manifest in physical form.

    Physician and best-selling author Deepak Chopra teaches we can actually modify our genes and initiate DNA activation through our actions and behaviors. Miraculous healing occurs as a result of shifts in the consciousness of belief, intention, and spiritual practice. Individually and collectively we constantly contribute to the development of our Universe with our thoughts and intention behind them. Conscious intention can bring global change.

    WHAT LIES AHEAD FOR HUMANITY?

    The planet is under reconstruction at the threshold of a new way of living life, where integrity and transparency are the building blocks for a new structure of life. The illusions and beliefs we perceive through the lenses of the ego–mind are falling away as we open our eyes to the new world we’re creating. There’s a higher energy frequency holding the information of a greater consciousness that’s now permeating all Life. Everything as we know it is shifting; the weather patterns, banking systems, governments, even the Earth itself. However, the utmost change being experienced is the shift taking place within each individual. The way life experiences and values are perceived leads one to awareness and a yearning for harmony, balance and love coming from the depths of our hearts as a priority.

    As we journey ever deeper into the transformation process, we become intensely aware of the signals provided by our life circumstances, our state of physical health and our vibrational levels relative to all that surrounds us. It will be quite easy to determine where we stand in our own process, at any juncture, simply by becoming aware of the ease or difficulty we experience in manifesting our heart’s desire in our day-to-day life. Every action, thought and choice we make contributes to the creation of the reality we experience AS our life.

    We find that we’ve become the observers and the object of that awareness, simultaneously. Our process of assessing our state of wellbeing and shifting our choices accordingly will become an integral part of living. This approach is what practitioners term as ‘conscious’. As the world reorganizes and as major participants on the playing field of life, we must now choose from a focused intention rooted in a consciousness of how we would like it to be, rather than watch from the sidelines caught in the mercy of the circumstances of our physical environment. In this group we call this being conscious Neothinkers who ARE masters of our own destinies.

    This major paradigm shift in Human Evolution has brought us to the doorway of a greater consciousness that transcends our antiquity. The way we navigate the terrains of life will be by conscious intention, encompassing the wisdom of the heart. The focus of this process is to bring us to our highest expression of Self. By honoring our own personal truth we succeed in helping Humanity by contributing to the energetic whole with which we are connected. A new chapter opens as we view life differently. We’re transcending from a world that reflects the strategies of the mind, the mentality of competition and world of material entrapment, into a global consciousness that embraces Unity. As Humankind goes through this process of transformation in raising its consciousness, the driving force will come from higher vibrational energetic signals that influence the expression of DNA, activating it on an individual level, thus fueling global change in the Evolution of Humankind!

    With intuitive guidance, energetic awareness and conscious intent, healing frequencies can be delivered to the morphogenetic fields that surround us in the shape of belief systems and energy patterns of behavior. This is the art of DNA activation and healing that allows us to make conscious choices influencing and shaping those fields. In addition to the resonance or energy pattern we may already carry, DNA activation draws to us enhanced experiences in our life and reflects the synergy and resonance of these higher frequency energies. Working consciously towards these goals, we begin to build and strengthen our own ability to connect with fabulous fields of higher consciousness, direct the expression and activation of our DNA and maximize purpose in physical form.

    Every cell in our body is functioning together for our benefit, for the whole of our bodies. This knowledge is very empowering because we gain the power to influence every biochemical event that occurs in our bodies! The Science of Epigenetics confirms that our intentions influence our health and cause DNA activation and regulation. “Every part of your body has its own consciousness or its own soul.” This was spoken by an indigenous medicine woman about the extraordinary healing capacity of the Human body.

    So, can we talk to our cells? Can we ask them to do their wonderful work with our appreciation, rather than indifference that they are us? I’ve mentioned before that I believe we can and I do it. We don’t need to tell them how to do their work, but your cells are listening and talking to your body can help you heal. Approach this with genuine compassion, understanding it’s made up of conscious cells that experience emotion. Tell them you love yourself and therefore them very much – thank them for giving you life and good health. Mention what you desire the two of you cooperate to overcome – with healing that you consider already done – declaring it shall be and so it is. Strong emotion transmits this more powerfully. Just take time to talk to your cells from the wisdom of your heart and they will hear you and respond. It is only Love that can shine through the clouds of the illusion.

    RESEARCHERS STORE DIGITAL DATA ON DNA!

    Do you know – 1 Gram of DNA can store 1 Billion Terabyte of Data for 1000+ years? Just last year Microsoft purchased 10 million strands of synthetic DNA from San Francisco DNA synthesis startup called Twist Bioscience and collaborated with researchers from University of Washington to focus on using DNA, and the results are marvelous. The duo successfully stored 214 Petabytes of data per gram of DNA, encoding a total number of six files, which include: A full computer operating system, A 1895 French movie “Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat”, A $50 Amazon gift card, A computer virus, A Pioneer plaque, and 1948 study by information theorist Claude Shannon. The new research, which comes courtesy of Yarniv Erlich and Dina Zielinski, has been published in the journal ‘Science’.

    Calling their process a “DNA Fountain,” the researchers first compressed all the data into a single master archive and split it into short strings of binary digits, made up of ones and zeros. Next, they used an “erasure-correcting algorithm called fountain codes” to randomly package the strings into droplets. Each droplet contains a barcode in the sequence that helped the researchers reassembling the file. They then mapped the ones and zeros in each droplet to the four nucleotide bases in DNA: A, G, C and T, and ended up with a digital list of 72,000 DNA strands that contained the encoded data. This code was then sent in a text file to Twist Biosciences (where Microsoft had purchased 10-million strands of synthetic DNA) who turned that digital information into biological DNA.

    Two weeks later, they received a vial holding a speck of DNA molecules. To retrieve their files, they used modern sequencing technology to read the DNA strands, followed by software to translate the genetic code back into binary. “They recovered their files with zero errors,” the Journal reads. The researchers believe that DNA is the perfect storage medium, as it is ultra-compact and can last hundreds of thousands of years if kept cool and dry, and suggests this is the “highest-density data-storage device ever created!”

    Since the digital universe is large and by 2020 containing nearly as many digital bits as there are stars in the Universe, the data will reach 44 Zetabytes or 44 trillion Gigabytes. So, DNA data storage could help big organizations store an enormous amount of information in a way that one can still read it far into the future. However, cost is an issue; researchers spent $7,000 to synthesize the 2 Megabytes of data and $2,000 to read that data. In time this will change, but don’t expect this technique to go mainstream anytime soon!

    SPIRITUAL CONNECTION WITH EARTH

    To conclude, much of Humanity has lost contact with the Earth. When we’re disconnected, we can’t hear the cries from Earth, or feel the urgency of the times, or accept the simple lessons and love that nature has to share with us. Once we re-connect our illusion of separation dissolves and we become aware of the Oneness that flows through all of Life. No matter where we live, we’re still breathing air and feeling sunshine, there are plants, trees, pets and birds – and therefore, nature is with us. We realize that nature has been there waiting for us all along and welcomes us with open arms and unconditional love. It’s there for us and we only have to open our hearts. It’s our Souls’ longing and purpose to be loving caretakers of our beautiful Earth.

    We know everything on Earth has a consciousness – every plant, animal, rock, mineral, snowflake, drop of water – absolutely all of it has a purpose and a role. We begin to understand and honor the role we play as we help each other through the Awakening process. Speak to trees, tell a bird you appreciate their song, let your pets know your love and are grateful for theirs. Stop to smell a flower or take a flight of fancy on the wings of a butterfly. Nature is telepathic, so just think it as you ask for healing. Walk barefoot and feel the Earth; notice the wind upon your face, the sun on your skin, the smell in the air after rain. Feel plants reaching out to you as they wish for your touch. Absolutely no act of kindness goes unnoticed by nature. Soon you’ll find yourself yearning to be outside more to enjoy the peace – and awakening your Child of the Past inside to feel like a kid again, seeing Earth as the extraordinary place it truly is.

    So, come on out in the Sun to play and let your luminescent Light shine! Recognize that the Sun in your cells IS Fifth Dimensional Consciousness! Goodnight, my fellow Neothinkers. Glide gently home through starfilled space in your merkaba lightships and sleep in peace tonight, all you Incredible Beings of Light! Thanks once again Digger and Charlie, gratitude to Mark – and my love to all of you for being here.

    Judith Curless …. Another great night of sharing! Appreciate each and every one of you!

    Sources: My-Self; Green Med Info, Sayer Ji, Founder; ‘Conscious Lifestyle Magazine’, Steven “Mana” Trink; Exceprt from David Wilcock’s Book ‘The Synchronicity Key’, By Lance Schuttler, Waking Times; Book ‘Vernetzte Intelligenz’ by Grazyna Fosar and Franz Bludorf; and In5d, Jessie Klassen.

  470. April 11, 1961
    ==========
    Who knows how many other young men arrived in New York City in the winter
    of 1961 looking like James Dean and talking like Jack Kerouac? It would have
    been difficult to pick Bob Dylan out of the crowd at first -considering how much
    he had in common with the other Bohemian kids kicking around Greenwich
    Village. Artistic ambition? Check. Antipathy toward mainstream culture? Yes.
    A desire to put his middle-class identity behind him? Definitely.
    But the singular creative vision that would separate Dylan from the rest of his peers
    and change the face of popular music wasn’t really in evidence yet. What Bob Dylan
    did have, though, in addition to his guitar and harmonica, was a unique stage
    presence and a vast library of American folk songs in his repertoire. On April 11, 1961,
    he got his first real chance to put those on display with his first major gig in
    New York City, opening for bluesman John Lee Hooker at Gerde’s Folk City.

    Bob Dylan had just arrived in town a few months earlier, but as the prominent
    producer/talent scout John Hammond would write in the liner notes of his debut
    album one year later, “The young man from the provinces began to make friends
    very quickly in New York – all the while continuing, as he has since he was
    ten – to assimilate musical ideas from everyone he met and every record
    he heard.” Dylan befriended not only his idol Woody Guthrie — whose
    hospitalization in New Jersey had been the initial impetus for Dylan
    to come east from Minnesota — but also some of the significant
    figures on the burgeoning Downtown folk scene, like Jack Elliot
    and Dave Van Ronk. Dylan would write about this period in
    “Talkin’ New York” (1962), which included a verse about
    his breakthrough gig at Gerde’s.
    —–
    After weeks and weeks of hanging around
    I finally got a job in New York town
    In a bigger place, bigger money too
    Even joined the Union and paid my dues.
    —–
    Gerde’s was probably the most important folk-music venue in New York City at
    the time — the club that every folk act with a national profile played when
    they were in town. Dylan had previously joined other unknowns like himself
    onstage at Gerde’s during the club’s Monday “Hootenanny Night,” but the
    invitation to appear on a regular bill presented a bit of an administrative
    problem. At just 19 years old, Bob Dylan was too young to obtain the
    necessary union card and cabaret license. One of the clubs owners, – Mike Porco –
    was interested enough in getting the young man on the bill that he signed on
    as Dylan’s guardian — ”the Sicilian father I never knew I had,” as Dylan put it.

    A number of major developments in the year that followed would set Bob Dylan
    on his road toward stardom, but the very first of those was his appearance
    at Gerde’s Folk City on this day in 1961.
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    TANGLED UP IN BLUE
    by Bob Dylan

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwSZvHqf9qM
    ————–

    Subterranean Homesick Blues
    by BOB DYLAN

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGxjIBEZvx0
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  471. The Southeastern Michigan Neothink Clubhouses
    are holding our SECOND QUARTER GALA EVENT.
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    When?. . . . . . . .Saturday May 13, 2017.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:30 am – 3 pm.
    Where?. . . . . . . Greenfield Village.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dearborn, MI.
    What?. . . . . . . . The Four Pillars
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . plus Model T Rides,
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  472. April 11, 2004
    ==========
    On this day in 2004, Phil Mickelson won the Masters Golf Tournament at Augusta National
    Golf Club, his first major championship in nearly 12 years as a professional golfer.

    A native of California, Mickelson graduated from Arizona State University, where he
    won three NCAA individual championships and three Haskins Awards as the nation’s
    outstanding college golfer. In 1991, while still an amateur, he won his first PGA Tour
    ournament, the Northern Telecom Open. Mickelson turned pro in 1992 and went on
    to win a number of tournaments; however, a victory in one of the four majors –the
    most prestigious tournaments in pro golf: the Masters, the U.S. Open, the Open
    Championship in Britain and the PGA Championship – eluded him. He finished
    in second or third place in eight majors and became known as the best player
    in golf without a major win.

    The Masters Tournament is the first of the four majors to be held each year. The
    inaugural Masters took place in 1934 – a year after Augusta National opened in
    Augusta, Georgia as a private golf club. On April 11, 2004, Mickelson’s majors
    losing streak ended when he sunk an 18-foot birdie putt on the final hole
    at the Masters Tournament to defeat Ernie Els by a single stroke.
    Mickelson – who finished with a nine-under-par 279 – won
    $1.17 million and was awarded the traditional green sport
    given to each Masters champ.

    In 2005, Mickelson won the PGA Championship and in 2006 he captured his
    second Masters victory. As of 2007, nine men, including Mickelson, have
    won the Masters twice. Four golfers have won the Masters three times
    each, while Arnold Palmer and Tiger Woods have claimed victory
    four times each. Jack Nicklaus holds the record for Masters wins, with six.
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  473. April 10, 1970
    ==========
    The legendary rock band the Beatles spent the better part of three years
    breaking up in the late 1960s, and even longer than that hashing out who
    did what and why. And by the spring of 1970, there was little more than a
    tangled set of business relationships keeping the group together. Each of
    the Beatles was pursuing his musical interests outside of the band, and
    there were no plans in place to record together as a group. But as far as
    the public knew, this was just a temporary state of affairs. That all
    changed on April 10, 1970 – when an ambiguous Paul McCartney
    “self-interview” was seized upon by the international media as an official
    announcement of a Beatles breakup.

    The occasion for the statements Paul released to the press that day was the
    upcoming release of his debut solo album, McCartney. In a Q&A format in
    which he was both the interviewer and the interviewee, Paul first asked
    and answered a number of straightforward questions involving the
    recording equipment he used on the album, which instruments
    he played and who designed the artwork for the cover. Then
    he got to the tough ones:
    —
    Q: “Is this album a rest away from the Beatles or the start of a solo career?”
    PAUL- – – – – “Time will tell. Being a solo album means it’s ‘the start of a solo
    career. . . . .and not being done with the Beatles means it’s just a rest. So it’s both.”
    —
    Q: “Is your break with the Beatles temporary or permanent, due to personal
    differences or musical ones?”
    PAUL- – – – – “Personal differences, business differences, musical differences, but most of
    all because I have a better time with my family. Temporary or permanent? I don’t really know.”
    —
    Q: “Do you foresee a time when Lennon-McCartney becomes an active songwriting partnership again?”
    PAUL- – – – – “No.”
    —
    Nothing in Paul’s answers constituted a definitive statement about the Beatles’ future,
    but his remarks were nevertheless reported in the press under headlines like
    “McCartney Breaks Off With Beatles” and “The Beatles sing their swan
    song.” And whatever his intent at the time, Paul’s statements drove
    a further wedge between himself and his bandmates. In the
    May 14, 1970, issue of Rolling Stone, John Lennon lashed
    out at Paul in a way he’d never done publicly: “He can’t
    have his own way, so he’s causing chaos,” John said.
    “I put out four albums last year, and I didn’t
    say a f***ing word about quitting.”

    By year’s end, Paul would file suit to dissolve the Beatles’ business partnership, a
    formal process that would eventually make official the unofficial breakup
    he announced on this day in 1970.
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    NORWEGIAN WOOD (This Bird has Flown)
    by The Beatles

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBb9rbSIG10
    ————
    THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD
    by The Beatles

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcFqXf8blNI
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  474. April 10/2005
    ===========
    Tiger Woods won his fourth Masters Golf Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club
    after a 15-foot birdie on the first hole of the sudden-death playoff against Chris
    DiMarco on April 10, 2005. The victory was Woods’ ninth major
    championship on the PGA tour.

    Eldrick “Tiger” Woods was born December 30, 1975, in Cypress, California. A golf prodigy,
    Woods began swinging a club at age two and went on to win three U.S. Junior Amateurs
    followed by three straight U.S. Amateur championships. After playing for Stanford
    University, he turned pro in August 1996 and that season was named the PGA
    Rookie of the Year. On April 13, 1997, Woods, then 21, won his first Masters
    at Augusta National in Georgia. Woods’ 72-hole score of 18-under-par
    270 was the lowest in the tournament history and shattered a
    record of 271 shared by Jack Nicklaus and Raymond Floyd.
    Additionally – Woods, who defeated Tom Kite by a
    record-setting margin of 12 stokes – became the
    youngest person to don the green sport coat
    given to each year’s Masters’ victor, as well
    as the first winner of African or Asian descent.

    Woods went on to win the Masters in 2001 and 2002. On April 10, 2005, he defeated
    Chris DiMarco in a sudden-death playoff and earned his fourth green sport coat
    at Augusta National. Woods also regained his No. 1 spot in the world rankings – replacing
    Vijay Singh. The victory ended a so-called “drought” in which Woods had failed to win
    any of his previous 10 major tournaments. Woods – then 29 – also became the first person
    to win four Masters before age 30. Arnold Palmer won four Masters in his career, while
    Jack Nicklaus holds the record with six wins.

    Augusta National opened in 1933 and hosted the first Masters tournament – one of pro
    golf’s four major championships – in 1934.

    Woods dedicated his win to his father Earl, who was unable to attend the tournament
    due to illness. His son’s earliest coach, Earl Woods died of prostate cancer on May 3, 2006.
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  475. CIA DOCUMENT CONFIRMS REALITY OF
    HUMANS WITH ‘SUPERHUMAN POWERS’!

    BY: COMMON SENSE EVALUATION

    Superhuman abilities have been studied for thousands of years in all walks of life. Religious ‘miracles’ often with hundreds of witnesses have been said to be due to psychic abilities, but studies in China have overwhelming proof that these stories are more than just speculation.

    For the past 20 years scientists have been studying subjects in China who appear to have superhuman powers, and the results have been published in many journals and books.

    It is thought that these gifted people have been able to tap into a quantum level, unobservable by the human eye..

    To understand properly, you need to be aware of the relationship between our consciousness and our physical reality. Both things are very real, and they have a very complicated relationship. Inventor of quantum theory Max Planck said we should regard consciousness as “fundamental” and matter as “derivative from consciousness.”

    Another physicist Eugene Wigner has said on the matter “it was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to consciousness.”

    The document containing the information about the events in China is called “Chronology of Recent Interest in Exceptional Functions of The Human Body in the People’s Republic of China.” The document talks about the Chinese government and it’s work with parapsychology, that is remote viewing, telepathy, psychokinesis.

    The document has only recently become available due to a Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA), and it includes interesting details of individuals who have purported superhuman abilities, and that they have been studies countless times by scientists all over the world. The document is on the CIA website, but can only be accessed by the ‘Internet Archives’.

    A brief outline of the important items in it the CIA document include:

    In 1979, a major Chinese science journal, Ziran Zachi, printed a report on “non-visual pattern recognition” where several accounts of exceptional human body function were confirmed.

    In 1980, the Journal and the Chinese Human Body Science Association held a parapsychology conference in Shanghai with participants from over 20 research institutes and universities from around the world.

    In 1981, there was a formation of over 100 special places to study children with exceptional abilities with over 100 formally trained scholars.

    In 1982, the Chinese Academy of Sciences sponsored a public hearing in Beijing and the sole purpose was to discuss humans with parasychological abilities, there were over 400 scholars in attendance.

    CHRONOLOGY OF RECENT INTEREST IN EXCEPTIONAL FUNCTIONS OF THE HUMAN BODY IN THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA – ZHANG BAOSHENG

    In April of 1982, the Party’s National Committee of Science at Beijing Teacher’s College held a trial to test the abilities of certain students. Most of the results came back negative, apart from Zhang Baosheng. The next year, Zhang was studied again, this time by 19 researchers led by Prof. Lin Shuhang of the physics department of Beijing Teachers college, positive results were recorded for his superhuman powers.

    Zhang was able to move objects in and out of sealed containers using only the power of his mind. Prof. Shuhang studied Zhang for six months and he was repeatedly able to place small pieces of paper into sealed test tubes, and then take them out again, without touching them. He repeated the tests with other small items like paperclips and insects, and Zhang could move these, too.

    A film was made by the Institute of Space-Medico Engineering in 1987 showcasing the results, which showed a medicine pill moving through an irreversibly sealed glass vial, which occurred in three frames of a 400 frame per second film.

    Another release from the CIA (Research Into Paranormal Ability To Break Through Spatial Barriers) contains this description of Zhang’s abilities:

    A wooden cabinet 120 by 180 by 60 centimeters was used as a sealed container. Sheets of papers and boards with one of a kind markings were used as the target objects and placed inside the cabinet on the upper shelf. Without damaging the cabinet or opening the door, the person with ESP was able to remove the target objects and also was able to put them back inside. This demonstrates that even when using especially large container it is possible to completely break through spacial barriers, however, the success rate was much lower and was exceptionally difficult. (source)

    According to Eric Davis, Ph.D, FBIS, there were other children like Zhang. A declassified US Air Force document obtained via the Federation of American Scientists, contained a report from Shuhuang that ‘gifted children’ could teleport small, physical objects from one place to another. Objects like watches, horseflies, other insects, radio micro-transmitters, photosensitive paper , without ever touching the objects beforehand. The research was carried out by the prestigious Department of Defense, and is a noteworthy case because it was deemed necessary that an unclassified Intelligence Information Report be prepared for public viewing.

    In a similar study, Dr. Dean Radin, Chief Scientists at the Institute of Noetic Sciences they were able to record pieces of paper being teleported into sealed plastic containers, the report was published in 2010 by retired research chemist Dong Shen. The most fascinating part of this study, is that the teleportation techniques were taught to other students with a success rate of 40%. This information is published in his book, Supernormal.

    Dr. Dean Radin, states:
    “Evaluating the details and credibility of these studies have been difficult because many of the papers appear only in Chinese. The techniques have not yet been reported outside of China, and the experimental methods employed in conducting such tests do not appear to be as rigorously controlled as compared to typical Western methods…”

    Although, Eric Davis has said,
    “The results of the Chinese Teleportation experiments can simply be explained as a human consciousness phenomenon that somehow acts to move or rotate test specimens through a 4th spacial dimension, so that specimens are able to penetrate the solid walls/barriers of their containers without physically breaching them.”
    The American Journal of Chinese Medicine has evidence of a similar, amazing story of a woman named Chulin Sun. The study in the US National Library of Medicine documents this lady’s ability to speed up the growth of seeds to an amazing rate.

    The study states:
    Chulin Sun is a woman with exceptional powers (Shen and Sun, 1996, 1998; Sun, 1998). A member of the Chinese Somatic Science Research Institute, she is a practitioner of Waiqi. Waiqi is a type of qigong that teaches the practitioner to bring the qi energy of traditional Chinese medicine under the control of the mind. Chulin Sun can induce plant seeds to grow shoots and roots several cm long within 20 min using mentally projected qi energy.

    This has been demonstrated on more than 180 different occasions at universities as well as science and research institutions in China (including Taiwan and Hong Kong) as well as other countries (e.g., Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, etc.) (Ge et al., 1998; Qin et al., 1998; Lee et al., 1999). We took part in and repeated the qi germination experiments seven times, and five of them succeeded (Ge et al., 1998). This remarkable effect on seed development has drawn widespread attention (Tompkins and Bird, 1973; Lee, 1998), but the biological mechanisms that underlie this phenomenon are unknown.

    Sun is thought to have been able to do this by tapping into a level of Qi.

    Qi is described as the ‘oneness’ that is flowing through everything all of the time. It is responsible for every good and bad thing that happens to you, and to harness it and use it for good, you must be free of the constraints of the physical world.

    These studies prove that ‘super-humans’ may exist and that they may not fully understood by mainstream science, The unwillingness by the government to allow them to be studied in the public eye means only the secret intelligence services are the ones who really understand the extent of these extraordinary human beings. (End)

    This information seems to have a synchronicity with and validate information we are being taught by Robert every first Tuesday on the School of Genius/Rise of Neo-Tech call! How we can have superhuman powers! Wow … and you can only get this class as a member of the Neothink Society (Neo-Tech, Neothink and the Twelve Visions Party). Perfect information for a group of like-minded powerful people in unity to expose the total mysticism of the world as we know it! A gateway to true freedom, prosperity and happiness that is indescribable!

    Judith

  476. THE FIFTY STATES CLAIM – UPDATE
    By Anna Von Reitz

    It has come to my attention that there are still a lot of people left out in the dark regarding the Fifty States Claim and even some who woke up in alarm and thought that we’d missed the boat.

    When all the crappola of the Civil War came down, there were people in America who were aware of the fraud and who objected to it.

    In order to make their own actions “legal” but not “lawful” the renegade Rump Congress agreed to “grandfather in” those who were already in this country, if they expatriated back to their original native state jurisdiction. Anyone who didn’t would be presumed to be a “citizen of the United States”.

    That’s how it came down in July of 1868 and that’s the way it remains to this day.

    So as the vermin were busy liquidating their most recent fabricated government services corporation and bankrupting others in 2015, the American states (together with the people living in those states) were presented as sureties backing all this nonsense and the actual states— our land jurisdiction states— were up for grabs. Unless the Priority Creditors showed up and claimed the states back, the Secondary Creditors would be allowed to come in and seize everything in sight.

    The banks and various other nations were slavering at the thought.

    So I put out the call for white males above the age of 21 (the requirement back during the Civil War Era) who could prove that their ancestors were here back then. I asked them to execute Acts of Expatriation— which they did. Volunteers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) researched the family genealogies and we invoked the Grandfather Clause and the Expatriation Act to reclaim every sand particle of the fifty organic states of the union for the actual American states and people.

    All that got done and done successfully. We made the international claim. We posted the Notices. We posted the Liens. We went back and recorded everything. We posted the sovereign bonds for each one of the fifty actual states and for all the people living in the states.

    We also turned our attention to asset recovery, because there were billions upon billions of dollars worth of fungible assets belonging to the actual states that were also in limbo and under threat of being lost. So we alerted the military (which is responsible for safeguarding our money) and they jerked awake.

    Since then, the military’s Asset Recovery Team has been responsible for repatriating billions of dollars worth of gold and silver to this country. It is estimated that it will take another six to nine months to collect our stuff back from all over the globe and from offshore accounts.

    Someone had to deal with the international and commercial issues and someone had to make the effort to get the counties and states organized and the people educated enough to run their own government again.

    Why do you think they had all those FEMA Camps set up, folks?

    They were getting ready to open the doors and let their Creditors come in and seize your homes and land and businesses and everything else in sight as payment for their corporate debts.

    We saved the land and its assets. We reclaimed the actual states. That much is done.

    What remains is to educate and organize the American people and get them back in condition to run their actual government— first at the county level, then at the state level, and finally at the national level.

    I have had to rely on volunteers to do this and they have not always known the right thing or done the right thing. It is also likely that to some extent the effort has been undermined by paid agents seeking to keep us all from regrouping and successfully reinstating our lawful government.

    Be that as it may, we stand on the cusp of a new era. Please visualize throughout this week in whatever way you can for the well-being of the land and the people of this nation and of all nations. (End)

    Come on, Twelve Visions Party! Thank you, Dr. Frank Wallace and Mark Hamilton for bringing us hope for a new way of governing in this country in Neo-Tech and Neothink. Check it out!

    Judith

  477. SCHOOL OF GENIUS/RISE OF NEO-TECH TUESDAY!

    Monday, Monday coming down … April 10th! Consider this your invitation to join Digger, Charlie and me tomorrow night, Tuesday, April 11th, for the School of Genius – Rise of Neo-Tech call (6:00 CT). This week we’ll be discussing the very building blocks of Humanity itself – our miraculous bodies and the spiritual evolution occurring right now with Humanity under construction! This information is all about light photons and the DNA upgrades going on right now on the planet so we can rise into a higher consciousness integration to a higher dimension of life and way of living! Learn how to ‘resurrect’ and restore yourself with NO mysticism involved …

    So, please stop by. I’m excited about another lesson of discovery with all of you! Hope to see you then!

    Judith

  479. April 9, 2017

    Good Morning my Fellow Neo-Thinkers, —
    I have had some challenging experiences during the last 3 weeks and those challenges are continuing to get in the way of my progress – until the present day, (April 9, 2017). My computer decided to crash and burn, making it impossible to communicate with anyone, and then on March 29th, I went to one of my 6 month regular medical check-ups, and was given an A-Plus rating, — not a single sign of anything wrong.

    The next day, I developed a slight congestion in my bronchial tubes, which continued to get worse – until it became a rip-roaring “WHOOPING COUGH!” I coughed so much that I could hardly get my breath, and there was NO WAY I would be able to lie flat on my back and get any sleep at all. So I began sleeping downstairs, so that Carol could sleep and have less chance of getting this miserable FLU which I have no clue as to “HOW I GOT IT!”

    I have not slept well for 3 weeks now, but it FEELS like this flu is starting to give up. I just got my computer back on Friday, April 7th, and my whole system is all “FOULED UP!” I am forced to start all over again, and figure out how to make all my files appear on my monitor – just as they used to do.

    I am doing the best that I possibly can, even though my energy level is at rock bottom right now. I will try to keep in touch with you as often as possible

    Love, Carol and Forest

  480. On this day in 1859, a 23-year-old Missouri youth named Samuel Langhorne Clemens
    received his steamboat pilot’s license.

    Clemens had signed on as a pilot’s apprentice in 1857 while on his way to Mississippi.
    He had been commissioned to write a series of comic travel letters for the Keokuk
    Daily Post, but after writing five, decided he’d rather be a pilot than a writer. He
    piloted his own boats for two years, until the Civil War halted steamboat traffic.
    During his time as a pilot, he picked up the term “Mark Twain,” a boatman’s call
    noting that the river was only two fathoms deep – the minimum depth for safe
    navigation. When Clemens returned to writing in 1861 – working for the Virginia
    City Territorial Enterprise – he wrote a humorous travel letter signed by
    “Mark Twain” and continued to use the pseudonym for nearly 50 years.

    Clemens was born in Hannibal, Missouri, and was apprenticed to a printer at age 13.
    He later worked for his older brother, who established the Hannibal Journal. In 1864,
    he moved to San Francisco to work as a reporter. There he wrote the story that
    made him famous – The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.

    In 1866, he traveled to Hawaii as a correspondent for the Sacramento Union.
    Next, he traveled the world writing accounts for papers in California and
    New York, which he later published as the popular book – The Innocents
    Abroad (1869). In 1870, Clemens married the daughter of a wealthy
    New York coal merchant and settled in Hartford, Connecticut,
    where he continued to write travel accounts and lecture.
    In 1875, his novel Tom Sawyer was published, followed
    by Life on the Mississippi (1883) and his masterpiece
    Huckleberry Finn (1885). Bad investments left Clemens
    bankrupt after the publication of Huckleberry Finn, but he
    won back his financial standing with his next three books. In 1903,
    he and his family moved to Italy, where his wife died. Her death left
    him sad and bitter, and his work, while still humorous, grew distinctly
    darker. He died in 1910.
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  481. April 9, (circa oo33 A.D.)
    ===================
    On this day (Palm Sunday), Jesus rode a donkey into town
    to prepare for dinner on Thursday night.
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  482. Several different concepts in discussions of science vs religion have come to light in recent days. From the School of Genius teachings , If I understood him right, Robert suggested that the bible was really a science book before it was twisted and re-written by mystics and neo cheating religious leaders, and then I ran into this statement. “When Jesus stood before Pilate, who claimed he had the power to him life or death, Jesus said, “You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above.,”. (John 19-11) meaning divine or higher consciousness. He affirmed this divine nature as the only power. And where did he say it was? Within us. This isn’t a religious statement : it’s a universal spiritual principle. All power is in you. Not some of the time or in some cases, but all the time , without exception. .Although the word Divine does mean relating to or being god, it also means supremely good or superb. Just trying to keep an open mind. Thanks Dr. Wallace and Mark Hamilton for raising our awareness and consciousness beyond the current Anti-civilization. Love to all. Wayne.

  483. –—THE DETROIT AREA CLUBHOUSE—–
    meets the second Saturday of the month.
    ======================
    When? . . . . . . .April 8, 2017.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 pm – 6pm.
    Where?. . . . . . .Kerby’s Koney Island
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Livonia, MI
    What?. . . . . . . .The Four Pillars.
    Why?. . . . . . . . .Why not?
    ———————–————-

  484. On April 8, 1974,
    ============
    Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit his 715th career home run to break the
    long-standing record held by Babe Ruth. Aaron’s record-breaking 715th
    homer came in the fourth inning of the Braves’ home opener against
    the Los Angeles Dodgers with over 53,000 fans in attendance at
    Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium. Aaron hit a pitch off lefthander
    Al Downing and the ball went sailing over the fence in left
    center field. After Aaron rounded the bases and reached
    home plate, he was lifted up and congratulated by his
    teammates. He then shook his father’s hand and hugged
    his mother. Sadly, in the months leading up to the new record,
    Aaron – who is African-American – received racist hate mail and death threats.

    Aaron began his professional baseball career in 1952 in the Negro League and joined
    the Milwaukee Braves of the major leagues in 1954 – eight years after Jackie
    Robinson had integrated baseball. Aaron was the last Negro League player
    to compete in the majors. He quickly established himself as an important
    player for the Braves and won the National League batting title in 1956.
    The following season, he took home the league’s MVP award and
    helped the Braves beat Mickey Mantle and the heavily favored
    New York Yankees in the World Series. In 1959, Aaron won
    his second league batting title. Season after season, Aaron
    turned in strong batting performances: “Hammerin’ Hank” hit .300
    or higher for 14 seasons and slugged at least 40 homers in eight separate
    seasons. In May 1970, he became the first player in baseball to record 500
    homers and 3,000 hits. Aaron played for the Milwaukee Braves from 1954 to 1965
    and then moved with the team to Atlanta in 1966. On February 29, 1972, the Braves
    signed Aaron to a three-year, $200,000 per year contract that made him baseball’s highest
    paid player. In November 1974, the Braves traded Aaron to the Milwaukee Brewers, where he
    spent the final two seasons of his career.

    Aaron retired from baseball in 1976 with 755 career home runs, a record that stood until
    August 7, 2007 when it was broken by Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants. Aaron
    still holds the records for most career runs batted in (2,297), most career total bases
    (6,856) and most career extra base hits (1,477). After retiring as a player, Aaron
    became one of baseball’s first black executives with the Atlanta Braves. In
    1982, he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
    ===================
    TALKIN’ BA$EBALL
    by Terry Cashman

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWKA9Zi5-_Y
    ——————

  485. April 5, 1947
    =========
    On this day in 1947, Henry Ford, the founder of Ford Motor Company – mass
    produced the Model T died at his estate in Dearborn, Michigan, at the age of 83.

    Ford was born July 30, 1863, on a farm located in present-day Dearborn. The eldest
    of six children, he was educated in a one-room schoolhouse and as a teenager trained
    as an apprentice machinist in Detroit. During the 1890s, while working as an engineer,
    Ford experimented with internal combustion engines and in 1896 built his first
    self-propelled, gas-engine vehicle, known as the Quadricycle.

    Ford made two failed attempts at establishing a successful auto manufacturing company
    before incorporating the Ford Motor Company in 1903. Though Henry Ford was interested
    in mass-producing an affordable car, his Detroit-based company initially made just a
    few cars per day. Then in 1908, Ford introduced the Model T, which was easy to
    drive and maintain and sold for around $850. The vehicle quickly became a
    huge success. Within 10 years, half of all cars in the U.S. were Model Ts
    and by 1927, when the last Model T came off the assembly line, more
    than 15 million had been sold.

    By 1913, Ford’s factory in Highland, Michigan, featured a continuous moving assembly
    line — Workers remained in place, each adding a standardized part to the vehicle
    as it proceeded along the line. The cost-efficient process, which soon enabled
    a new car to be churned out every 93 minutes, revolutionized the industry.
    Ford’s other innovations included the introduction, in 1914, of the $5 per
    day minimum wage and the eight-hour workday, at a time when most
    auto industry workers earned less than half that amount for a
    nine-hour day. Ford’s fair wage made it possible for ordinary
    factory workers to buy the cars they built and helped, in
    part, to create the American middle class.

    Despite Henry Ford’s vision and success, his company was criticized for not
    responding fast enough to consumer demands for new models in the
    1920s – which allowed General Motors to pull ahead and become
    the world’s biggest automaker until 2008 – when it was
    surpassed by Japan-based Toyota.
    =====================

  486. April 7, 1920
    ==========
    “East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,” goes the famous
    Rudyard Kipling quotation. It’s a statement that certainly applied in the world
    of pop music prior to the 1960s, when a handful of influential British groups
    brought the sound of Indian classical music into rock and roll. Experimentation
    with the sitar by Brian Jones and George Harrison gave songs like “Paint It, Black”
    and “Norwegian Wood” their distinctive sound, and that experimentation was
    inspired almost entirely by the work of one man: Ravi Shankar. A classically trained
    sitar virtuoso who influenced a generation of Western pop stars and introduced
    millions of listeners to the music of his native India, Ravi Shankar was born in
    Varanasi, India, on April 7, 1920.

    The Brahmin family into which Shankar was born had a tradition of involvement in
    music and the arts stretching back literally for centuries. Shankar’s brother,
    Uday – 20 years Ravi’s senior – was a famous classical dancer and
    choreographer. While on tour with Uday’s Compaigne de Danse et Musique Hindou,
    a 13-year-old Ravi Shankar met the instrumental performer and teacher
    Allauddin Khan – a titanic figure in classical Indian music in the early
    20th century. Shankar would apprentice under Khan for the next
    ten years, mastering the sitar and the traditional raga performance
    style and repertoire. He set out on his own in 1944, eventually building
    an enormous international reputation on the strength of his recordings,
    live performances and film scores — the most famous being those for
    Satyajit Ray’s Apu trilogy. By the mid-1960s, Shankar had recorded
    eight albums on the British HMV label and played prominent
    venues and festivals from Moscow to Edinburgh, but it was
    his “discovery” by the Beatles’ George Harrison that made
    him a household name and changed the very sound of the 60s.

    George Harrison was first exposed to Ravi Shankar’s music by David Crosby
    of the Byrds in 1965. He learned the sitar well enough on his own to record
    his part on “Norwegian Wood,” but his desire to learn directly from the
    master took him to India in September 1966. (The rest of the Beatles later
    followed after George became involved with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
    while there.) That association, in turn, brought Shankar to America, where
    he gave a four-hour performance at 1967’s Monterey Pop Festival that
    produced a bigger ovation than for many of the festival’s more famous acts.
    Shankar quickly became a darling of the hippie movement, but for his part,
    he found the counterculture’s embrace of Indian culture to be superficial.
    And while the droning sound of a sitar still evokes images of fringed leather
    vests and lava lamps for many Americans, Ravi Shankar’s performances on
    the ancient instrument are truly timeless.
    ==============
    COME AWAY WEITH ME
    by Norah Jones

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtm9jfUqHXY
    —————-
    CARRY ON
    by Norah Jones

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqA25Ug71Mc
    —————-

  487. Foothill Neothinkers Clubhouse is later today at the Barnes & Noble: The Kitchen, Folsom Palladio, 1-3/4pm, PDT; I hope to see you there & you can call me at: (530)903-0788, or email me: fotthillneothinkersedcw@gmail.com, for directions
    See you there, & please come early, due to parking

  488. THE SPIRITUAL CONSEQUENCES OF ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION

    Although it is mass produced, mass promoted, legal, and ingested by a multitude of people all over the world, most people don’t ever consider or understand the spiritual consequences of drinking alcohol.

    Let’s begin by taking a look at the etymology of the Word alcohol. Etymology means the root of the word … where it is derived from.

    The word “alcohol” comes from the Arabic “al-kuhl” which means “BODY EATING SPIRIT”, and gives root origins to the English term for “ghoul”. In Middle Eastern folklore, a “ghoul” is an evil demon thought to eat human bodies, either as stolen corpses or as children.

    The words “alembic” and “alcohol”, both metaphors for aqua vitae or “life water” and “spirit”, often refer to a distilled liquid that came from magical explorations in Middle Eastern alchemy.

    In the words of writer and health enthusiast, Jason Christoff – “In alchemy, alcohol is used to extract the SOUL ESSENCE of a person. Hence, its’ use in extracting essences for essential oils, and the sterilization of medical instruments. By consuming alcohol into the body, it in effect extracts the very essence of the soul, allowing the body to be more susceptible to neighboring entities, most of which are of low frequencies (why do you think we call certain alcoholic beverages “SPIRITS?”). That is why people who consume excessive amounts of alcohol often black out, not remembering what happened. This happens when the good soul (we were sent here with) leaves because the living conditions are too polluted and too traumatic to tolerate. The good soul jettisons the body, staying connected to a tether, and a dark entity takes the body for a joy ride around the block, often in a hedonistic and self-serving illogical rampage. Our bodies are cars for spirits. If one leaves, another can take the car for a ride. Essentially, when someone goes dark after drinking alcohol or polluting themselves in many other ways, their body often becomes possessed by another entity.”

    I became aware of this phenomenon years ago when I was given a spiritual vision. In this vision, I was transported as an observer above a popular bar and nightclub. Above the venue where a variety of ghoul-like entities. Inside the bar were people drinking alcohol, socializing, dancing, and so on. I watched as certain people became very drunk. I saw their souls, while connected through a thread, exited the body. I understood that the soul was leaving the body because of the great discomfort of being in a body highly intoxicated with alcohol. When the soul exited the body, other non-benevolent entities entered or latched on to their vacant shells. Once the entities took hold of the body, they used the body to play out all kinds of dark acts, such as violence, low-level sexual encounters, destructive behaviors, rape, and more.

    Years later, while reading a book called Mans Eternal Quest, by Paramahansa Yogananda, this spiritual master clearly explained the exact same thing as I was shown in the vision.

    I began to look back over my life and remember situations where I saw dark spirits hanging around people who had become very drunk. Let me elaborate a bit when I say I saw these entities … I have had the abilities of clairvoyance (the ability to perceive things beyond the natural range of the senses … which can include: ESP, extrasensory perception, sixth sense, psychic powers, second sight; telepathy, and more) , clairaudience ( the ability to perceive sounds or words from outside sources in the spirit world), and the experience of being a spiritual intuitive and empath since childhood. I have the ability to see energies and spiritual manifestations that most people don’t see. As I looked back over my life I could remember many incidents of encountering non-benevolent spirits in the presence of intoxicated individuals. I also have had experiences of looking into the eyes of a few people who were surely “possessed” by dark energies that were not their own.

    I also remember a psychology course I once took. In part of this course, we studied advertising and the effects on humans. We looked at the advertising for alcohol. A master teacher of this subject illuminated the fact that most alcohol advertisements are embedded with hidden messages and images – not typically perceivable to the common sight, yet perceived through the subconscious. Knowing how powerful the subconscious is in our decision-making, feelings, reactions, beliefs, etc., the slick sales teams of alcohol (as well as tobacco and other products) used this sinister technique to trick us into buying their products and joining the societal cult of mental apathy and cultural obedience. Many of these hidden messages and images were extremely sexual – working to influence some of the basest urges and primal nature of humans. Let this example bring you to a place of curiosity and questioning. Why have the marketing teams felt the need to trick us and coerce us through subliminal messages to buy products that are harmful to the human body and to our soul?

    How many times have you or someone you know, after becoming quite intoxicated with alcohol, behaved in a manner uncommon to them? Perhaps you experienced the changing of voice, violence, sexual promiscuity, ingesting of harmful substances, destruction to property, conflictual behavior, and other negative expressions. Consider these experiences and ask yourself – is this the manifestation of light, love, and positivity? Do these occurrences represent a path of consciousness and health?

    It is known by many that ingesting alcohol depresses the nervous system, kills brain cells, is toxic to the liver, weakens the immune system, and has many other harmful effects. We are taught that long-term alcohol use can lead to unwanted weight gain, diseases of the liver, lowering of intelligence, and negative effects on hormones. Drinking alcohol while pregnant can lead to birth defects, mental retardation, and deformities in the developing fetus. Yet still, it is mass promoted and supported by our mainstream culture. Have you ever considered that alcohol is a slick tool of the supporters of the Matrix (global mind control and oppression program) to keep people on a path of disempowerment and sickness?

    We have to ask WHY is alcohol legal throughout most of the world, yet in many countries, and specifically the United States, psychedelics are illegal. The conscious and safe use of psychedelics or “visionary medicines”are known to assist in mind expansion, to initiate spiritual experiences where people have communed with the divine, healed numerous physical and spiritual ailments, increase intelligence, help to re-pattern the brain in a positive way, assist people in aligning with their soul’s purpose, and have inspired many people to create great works of art and other innovative creations. It seems that these substances would definitely be banned and discouraged if there truly is an agenda seeking to oppress the human potential and keep us “in the dark” regarding who we are as spiritual beings, our innate potential, and the path to empowerment.

    As we strive to heal, awaken, and transform our world – we must wise up to the dirty trick played upon humanity in regards to alcohol. Non-benevolent forces have wanted to keep us oppressed, disempowered, and asleep.

    How many of us have seen families broken and lives lost because of alcohol and alcoholism?

    Do you think it makes us smarter or healthier or overall better people?

    It’s time to change things.

    Let’s stand behind replacing the rampant abuse of alcohol with more health enhancing practices and activities –
    and learn how to live awakened and empowered lives!

    Before I close this writing, I want to share a little more about the history of the word alcohol. There have been some people who look into the etymology and discover this explanation –

    “Alcohol (n.) – 1540s (early 15c. as alcofol), “fine powder produced by sublimation,” from Medieval Latin alcohol “powdered ore of antimony,” from Arabic al-kuhul “kohl,” the fine metallic powder used to darken the eyelids, from kahala “to stain, paint.”

    Paracelsus (1493-1541) used the word to refer to a fine powder but also a volatile liquid. By 1670s it was being used in English for “any sublimated substance, the pure spirit of anything,” including liquids. Sense of “intoxicating ingredient in strong liquor” is first recorded 1753, short for alcohol of wine, which was extended to “the intoxicating element in fermented liquors.” In organic chemistry, the word was extended 1850 to the class of compounds of the same type as this.”

    Upon further research, we can find that in ancient Egypt, the eyes of both men and women were lined top and bottom with a thick black powder known as kohl, kajal, or mesdemet. The outlined eye resembled the almond-shaped eye of the falcon god Horus observed in the Eye of Horus glyph. It was believed that this shape invoked the god´s protection and warded off evil spirits.

    Yet if one were to dig deeper, as a true scientist, researcher, or truth seeker does, you will also discover these interesting facts … Dr. Rachel Hajar, an accomplished modern-day editor, author and medical advisor, while researching an article on alcohol for her online medical journal, found additional meanings in ancient Arabic texts;

    Al kol: Genie or spirit that takes on varied shapes or a supernatural creature in Arabic mythology.

    Al kol: Any drug or substance that takes away the mind or covers it.”

    The word alcohol is also linked to the fixed star in astronomy known as Algol- also known as “the Demon’s head.”

    The current Arabic name for alcohol (ethanol) is الغول al-ġawl – properly meaning “spirit” or “demon”.

    It is not a coincidence that alcohol has often been referred to as SPIRITS. There is a deep history behind this intoxicating substance. There are layers of information throughout our culture. Sometimes we have to look below the surface of things to find the fullness of truth. I encourage you to deeply consider the information shared here, look at the effects of alcohol in your life, in the lives of the people you know, and in society at large. Make conscious, informed, and health-enhancing decisions. The more people who awaken to truth and seek health and liberation from mind control agendas, the more likely we are to make positive changes and co-create a world we feel good about living in.

    COSTA RICA NEWS
    By Zahrah Sita

    Judith

  489. THE CONTROL SYSTEM IS REVEALING ITSELF!

    WAKING TIMES
    Phillip J. Watt, Contributor

    This is the opportunity we’ve been waiting for! This is the moment when we can choose to be truly free, or choose our enslavement.

    We’re watching a split in the deep state which is undermining the oligarchical grip on our shared resources and systems, illustrating how weak they really are.

    We’re watching huge droves of people slip deeper into deception and delusion, whilst many others are enacting on their courage to face both personal and impersonal truths – as hard as it might be – to raise their level of awareness.

    And we’re also watching most of humanity unconsciously meander towards a crossroad; one path will lead us to decentralize and localize our management structures, and the other will ensure the further erosion of our personal and community sovereignty by a corporatocracy disguised as a government, which falsely alleges it takes care of ‘the people’.

    Which path will we collectively decide to walk? Will it go only one way, or will we have larger breakaway communities who choose sovereignty over enslavement, whilst the majority of people unconsciously bow to a global, centralized dictatorship?

    Unfortunately, the latter seems more likely at this point, but stranger things have happened.

    As hard as it might be to see, the truth and freedom network have more in their favour then the shadow control structures. Whilst it’s true we don’t have the political power, we don’t have the money, we don’t control important mechanisms of the system and we don’t have the support of the masses, we do have something more powerful.

    It’s called The Evolution of Energy.

    The most potent gift we have is the natural explosion of Consciousness which characterizes this moment of so-called time. Everybody is a part of it, everybody feels it, no matter how hard they fight to deny and suppress it. This is why so many people are experiencing so much inner and outer conflict, as they’re being forced to truly face themselves, and the world they live in.

    Then of course there is basic mathematics. Put simply, the conscious society has the numbers, so all we need to do is put our perceived differences to the side and we’d be unstoppable with whatever we wanted to achieve.

    The support of family and friends would come not long after too, ironically.

    Hopefully we will soon capitalize on this awesome power. In the meantime, there has and will continue to be so much good work done by independent researchers and grassroots movements. The false narratives have long been exposed, as has the theft of our public utilities. Solutions to the problems are being created and evolved as you read.

    There are also many people who add themselves to the list of authentic truthseekers every day, even though dogma and division is rampant among them. After all, this ancient fight for freedom is not without its own challenges and complications.

    For example, being conscious of both the spiritual and systemic components of The Awakening is vital.

    Unfortunately, many people choose one at the expense of the other, ensuring an imbalanced perspective and associated action. Yet the most problematic dysfunction is that we have been purposely distracted and divided, which we’ve unfortunately fell for. There’s simply no need for the gross amount of infighting, especially when we have the same fundamental goal.

    That goal is the pursuit of truth and freedom.

    As I’ve written about previously, we can unite over some primary focal areas to really amplify the momentum we’ve created:

    “In terms of the systemic issues, let’s see if we can at least agree on the Four M’s as our primary targets for change, which are Money, Medicine, Media and Management:

    Money should be a sovereign public utility, not hijacked by private stakeholders and converted into a transnational banking cartel.

    Medicine (including food) should be as natural as possible, as well as be inexpensively available to all who need it, not monopolized by the multinational giants and perverted into the toxin-rich, addictive and unnatural substances we have today.

    Media should be based on truth, authentic journalism and what’s best for the people, not propagandized to create minions of the failing system.

    Management of our society should be designed by and for the people, not by and for the corporate and oligarchical structures.”

    These four areas are the hegemonic mechanisms of the material control-matrix, which is why they deserve special attention. We can also use this template to help the uninitiated to become initiated, because most people would agree with it, regardless if they’re conscious of these realities or not.

    In any case, building unity within the consciousness expansion network can only be a good thing, regardless if we peripherally or even fundamentally disagree on where we should go and how to get there.

    There are other mechanisms for unification too, such as some simple values. Valuing love over hate, freedom over enslavement and truth over lies are three basic examples. Yet probably the greatest principle or philosophy we can connect over is that of natural law, meaning do no harm except in self-defence, as well as honor and respect the sovereignty of each other, just as we should for ourselves.

    Accordingly, all governments and their employees should be expected to uphold natural law – the only real law – and be held accountable for it too.

    So there are definitely some strategies that we could implement to make this process more efficient, but so far the divide and conquer tactic has us in its grip. Nevertheless, there is plenty to be hopeful about.

    The meltdown of the control-system is good fun to watch. It offers some hopeful relief for the activist community, even though we cannot lose our focus and become complacent. Yet we do deserve a laugh too; experiencing the core controllers and their brainwashed minions scramble to maintain their relevance is a damn good feeling.

    How do we know this is happening? We can tell by their actions. For example, the fake news attack has put the final nail in the coffin of the mainstream media, even though most people don’t yet understand it. History will show, however, that George Orwell’s ‘1984’ did manifest in many ways, and the propagandized press and their sell-out journalists had a lot to do with facilitating it.

    On that theme, recent algorithms by Facebook have suppressed independent media and researchers, clearly illustrating their panic regarding the truth getting out. YouTube is demonetizing channels that aren’t in line with the official narratives, or the hypnotism of specific entertainment. In addition, the droves of trolls hired to discredit researchers and therefore hide the truth is a reflection of how hard they’re trying to win the fight, even though they’re losing the battle.

    After all, we uphold the virtue of truth, which will ultimately set us free.

    Furthermore, political and corporate corruption is being exposed more frequently. The two-party tyranny is falling apart at the seams of support. The global paedophile network within the ‘excrete’ classes is under the microscope by a decentralized citizen investigation. Certain countries are attempting to detach from the transnational banking cartel and other tentacles of their slimy scam. Long established power structures, such as the unelected and anti-democratic institution called the European Union, are losing the faith of many people, even if its demise is a tricky agenda designed from the inside. And rising populism, which is simply the collective voice that ‘the people’ matter, is forcing the world to change, even if it’s not in the most ideal way.

    So the collapse of the control-matrix is very real, on so many levels. Even though it’s becoming more obvious, it’s been happening for a while and will continue to do so for some concept of time. It won’t be as calm as this moment right now either, so try to not just enjoy it, but capitalize on it too.

    The fact remains that the parasitically sick people at the top of the power pyramid – as well as many of the poor lost souls who implement their agenda – will fight to the very death, which means they’ll try anything they can, including more war, orchestrated disaster, economic collapse, societal destabilization or an array of other tactics to maintain and expand their empire. However, they will lose.

    In fact, when you’re fighting yourself, you already have.

    So from this point forward, our individual role has shifted dramatically. Get busy locally. Join forces with like-hearted people and play your part in ensuring that your family and community not only survives, but thrives, regardless of what happens in this sick, beautiful world.

    In the end, there is no greater legacy to leave behind.

    WAKING TIMES
    Phillip J. Watt, Contributor

    ABOUT THE AUTHOR
    Phillip J. Watt lives in Australia. His written work deals with topics from ideology to society, as well as self-development. Follow him on Facebook or visit his website.

    Our Consciousness IS rising higher and higher – along with Neo-Tech, Neothink and the TVP all RISING!!

    Judith

  490. COLOMBIAN TOWN REJECTS $35 BILLION GOLD MINE
    IN PREFERENCE OF CLEAN AIR, WATER, SIMPLE LIFE

    The World Bank wants its gold mining project in Cajamarc, Colombia badly, but the people of this small town just voted against the mammoth South African-sourced project which would have utterly changed their lives.

    Locals had been calling the project “Auntie Anglo-Gold,” which ironically isn’t just a stab at the ethnicity of the folks who were meant to profit most from the gold mining outfit, but is the actual name of the gold-mining company who has already ripped other small towns to shreds with its mining practices. AngloGold Ashanti is a company listed on the London Stock Exchange.

    AngloGold occupied Cajamarc for nearly ten years, simply in anticipation of moving forward on their billion-dollar project, but have been surreptitiously denied with a single vote among 22,000 locals.

    The national government had also been promoting the project as necessary to overcome a long history of battle with Marxist rebels. Thousands of illegal mining operations had been funding the acts of terrorists and drug smugglers for decades. Most of the gold mined in Cajamarc, and other South and Central American countries is purchased by U.S. companies.

    What many don’t know is that the simple, farming life is threatened by a gold-mine of such magnitude as AngloGold had in mind. In a report titled, LaColosa: A Death Foretold, the many negative outcomes of gold mining were outlined prior to the town’s vote. Here are some of the alarming findings they described:

    Foreign investors are almost always given preference for these mining operations over local communities.

    The foreign company often saturates the media with well-funded advertising to try to win over locals and sway politicians in their favor to get permits that allow the project to happen.

    The projects often divine local communities, purposely, and then create a dependency on the company’s activities.

    The mining company’s practices are always damaging to the environment on a grand scale, making it almost impossible for the town to recover once the mining project has been completed.

    Valuable, irreplaceable ecosystems as large as 100 hectares are usually destroyed in a single gold mining operation.
    A minimum of 100 million tons of waste rock is usually created, and then deposited in valleys, but they are usually full of mining chemicals.

    There is no place to put the toxic residue created by a gold mine, so it is usually put back into the environment.
    The water and electricity required for a project of any magnitude usually far exceeds the domestic consumption of any town.

    People who oppose a mining operation are considered a risk, often chastised, harassed, financially or socially ruined, and sometimes even murdered.

    “Exclusions” to Forest Reserve preservation rights have been granted for mining operations, and only after companies were given permission to tear down protected land are the residents informed.

    More than half of the members of political bodies have been found to have direct financial ties to mining companies like AngloGold.

    Despite promises of a better life, the residents usually have to face a higher cost of living, increased prostitution and violence, and horrid environmental and working conditions when a mining project gets underway.

    The people of Cajamarca, Colombia say they would rather continue to cultivate their beans, bananas and arracachas, the carrot-like vegetables they regard as a gold of their own. In a binding, legal referendum, they opted to ban all mining, fearing it will contaminate the water, destroy the mountains and hurt their community.
    We celebrate your choice, Cajamarca. May your lush forests remain unchanged by the greedy hands of corporate commerce and illegal drug trade.

    Posted by The Mind Unleashed
    April 4, 2017

    Wow! Their people united to stand against something this big must have taken courage, conviction and guts. More good news of signs of the rising consciousness and our changing world!

    Judith

  491. AFTER READING THIS YOU’LL NEVER THROW OUT AN AVOCADO SEED AGAIN!

    The flesh of an avocado (Persea americana) is already amazing. It is one of the most nutrient dense foods on the planet, containing 20 different vitamins and minerals that can help prevent obesity, heart disease, osteoporosis, cancer, and depression, but did you know that the seed of the avocado makes the flesh of this stone fruit pale in comparison? 70 percent of the antioxidants, amino acids, and other healing plant compounds are in the seed!

    After reading further, and learning how to consume the seeds of avocados which contain one of the highest sources of bioactive compounds imaginable, you’ll never want to throw them outagain.

    Here are just a few things the seeds of avocados can do for you:

    They’ve been used in Ayurvedic medicine for thousands of years for ailments such as monorrhagia, hypertension, stomach ache, bronchitis, diarrhea, and diabetes.

    The Mayans used the leaves, fruit, bark, seed and peel for different health promoting actions.

    The seed alone contains high levels of Vitamin E and unsaturated fatty acids that prevent against neurodegenerative disease, like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, cataracts, and rampant free radical damage.

    The active plant compounds found in the seed include: Peptone, b-galactoside, glycosylated abscisic acid, alkaloids, cellulose, polygalacto urease, polyuronoids, cytochrome P-450, phenolic compounds, and volatile oils all contribute to the prevention of cellular aging.

    In a study published in the journal Pharmaceutical Biology, researchers from the University of Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia found that extract from avocado fruit and seeds caused leukemia cells to self-destruct. Another study, published in the Cancer Research Journal found that avocado seeds contain a compound called vocation B which has proven to be extremely effective against acute myeloid leukemia. It was proven to be more effective than 800 other natural health products which were tested.

    They greatly boost our immune systems. Avocado seeds are rich in antioxidants like procyandis and catehchins which have anti-inflammatory properties. A whole list of diseases is caused due to a poorly functioning inflammatory response, from cardio disease, to depression, to cancer. These little seeds halt an over-active inflammatory response. Avocado seeds fight diseases caused by microbes, fungus, and parasites.

    The high levels of amino acids in avocado seeds prevent excess cholesterol and trigylcerides to prevent coronary disease. “Any heart disease patient must eat the avocado including the seed,” says Tom Wu.

    They are fat burning: avocado seeds contain more fat burners that the fruit’s pulp. It also contains soluble fiber, which improves the intestinal tract and makes you feel satisfied so that you don’t overeat.

    They are considered an aphrodisiac and increase libido.

    They ease arthritis and joint pain.

    The high levels of antioxidants and Omega 3 fatty acids reduce stress and curb depression.

    Avocado seeds halt cancerous tumor growth.

    Prevent epilepsy.

    Can be used to prevent blemishes on the skin.

    Extracts from avocado seeds can regulate thyroid disorders.

    They boost collagen formation in the skin.

    Avocado seeds are the ideal supplement for those who suffer from asthma.

    Here’s how to eat avocado seeds to get all these amazing benefits:

    First, allow your avocado pit or seed to dry out for approximately a week once it has been removed from the fruit. Then, remove the fine layer around the seed which separates it from the flesh of the avocado. Use a cheese grater, coffee grinder, or food processor, and grate the seed. If you like, you can also brown it with avocado, coconut, or olive oil on very low heat. This will cause the seed to take on a reddish color, but the browning part isn’t necessary to consume it.

    You can either sprinkle the grated avocado seed on salads, rice, and vegetable dishes, use it in smoothies, or make an infusion by boiling the grated seed for a few minutes and then letting it sit to cool. Once it has cooled down, you can simply sip on the avocado seed “tea” you’ve made throughout the day.

    The Mind Unleashed
    April 4, 2017

    Hmmmm … don’t know about the tea, but this is good information for anti-aging and healing!

    Judith

  492. Wayne, I meant to mention I enjoyed the train-ride together analogy post. You knew I would love it as I had visioned the trainride together to the top of the world for the Ten Thousand Gathering and onward. I’ve been thinking we slowed back down to the speed of the Little Engine That Could again, but it’s okay because we’re still moving! Also, fun to see that Big Air Force One plane … what a display of prestige and power!

    The posts have been super good lately. Pete, such a steady flow always and thank you. Music, history and great progress on the clubhouses, as usual! Clifford, your reminder “To everything there is a season” quote is helping me immensely this week as I learn another dear friend battling leukemia for the past 16 years is likely to leave this place in the next couple days or so. She’s the strongest woman I’ve ever known. The healing technologies need to get here NOW! for the heartbreak of disease, aging and death to end.

    Great days lie ahead for us all. Thank you, Dr. Frank Wallace (Neo-Tech) and Mark Hamilton (Neothink and the Twelve Visions Party) for making our visions of the Civilization of the Universe come to life!

    Judith

  493. In a post above, I mistakenly said Insurgence when I met Emergence by Derik Rydall. My bad. In every day words, it is hard to explain Advantage # 10 in any other way but as written. Each of us is an individual or a minority of one. No one has the power to rule over another otherwise they are violating that individuals rights. The anti-individual views are such as government (politics) and religion who force and use mind control over the individual , while the pro-individual Neo-Tech view describes what is moral such as individuals free from external authorities, as the moral purpose of life is to achieve rational happiness and remain proud and be a value creator. Thanks Dr. Wallace.

  494. THE WASHINGTON POST -WONKBLOG
    April 5, 2017

    THE IRS TOOK MILLIONS FROM INNOCENT PEOPLE BECAUSE OF HOW
    THEY MANAGED THEIR BANK ACCOUNTS, INSPECTOR GENERAL FINDS

    The Internal Revenue Service has seized millions of dollars in cash from individuals and businesses that obtained the money legally, according to a new Treasury Department inspector general’s report.

    The report covers IRS cash seizures against businesses and individuals suspected of deliberately trying to avoid federal reporting requirements for large bank deposits.

    To combat criminal activity, individuals and businesses are required to report all bank deposits greater than $10,000 to federal authorities. Intentionally splitting up large sums of cash into sub-$10,000 amounts to avoid that reporting requirement is known as “structuring” and is illegal under the federal Bank Secrecy Act.

    But many business owners engaged in perfectly legal activities may be unaware of the law. Others are covered by insurance policies that don’t cover cash losses greater than $10,000. Still others simply want to avoid extra paperwork, and keep their deposits less than $10,000 on the advice of bank employees or colleagues.

    While structuring is technically a crime, it’s something of a secondary one. The reporting requirements were enacted to detect serious criminal activity, such as drug dealing and terrorism. They “were not put in place just so that the Government could enforce the reporting requirements,” as the IG’s report puts it.

    But according to the report, that’s exactly what happened at the IRS in recent years. The IRS pursued hundreds of cases from 2012 to 2015 on suspicion of structuring, but with no indications of connections to any criminal activity. Simply depositing cash in sums of less than $10,000 was all that it took to arouse agents’ suspicions, leading to the eventual seizure and forfeiture of millions of dollars in cash from people not otherwise suspected of criminal activity.

    The IG took a random sample of 278 IRS forfeiture actions in cases where structuring was the primary basis for seizure. The report found that in 91 percent of those cases, the individuals and business had obtained their money legally.

    “Most people impacted by the program did not appear to be criminal enterprises engaged in other alleged illegal activity,” according to a news release from the IG. “Rather, they were legal businesses such as jewelry stores, restaurant owners, gas station owners, scrap metal dealers, and others.”

    More troubling, the report found that the pattern of seizures — targeting businesses that had obtained their money legally — was deliberate.

    “One of the reasons why legal source cases were pursued was that the Department of Justice had encouraged task forces to engage in ‘quick hits,’ where property was more quickly seized and more quickly resolved through negotiation, rather than pursuing cases with other criminal activity (such as drug trafficking and money laundering), which are more time-consuming,” according to the news release.

    In most cases, the report found, agents followed a protocol of “seize first, ask questions later.” Agents only questioned individuals and business owners after they had already seized their money.

    In many cases, the property owners provided plausible explanations for their pattern of deposits. But these explanations appeared to have been disregarded or ignored.

    “In most instances, we found no evidence that attempted to verify the property owners’ explanations,” according to the report.

    It is unclear whether structuring forfeiture cases make up a small or large percentage of all IRS forfeitures, because the IRS does not publish that information and denied requests filed under the Freedom of Information Act to make it public.

    “Today’s report confirms that the IRS used civil forfeiture to seize millions of dollars from innocent business owners,” said lawyer Robert Everett Johnson of the Institute for Justice, a legal firm fighting for forfeiture reform, in a statement. “The IRS’s own internal watchdog found that the IRS had a practice of seizing entire bank accounts based on nothing more than a pattern of under-$10,000 cash deposits.”

    The Treasury report comes on the heels of a separate Department of Justice report finding that the DEA has seized billions of cash from individuals never charged with criminal wrongdoing.

    “When seizure and administrative forfeitures do not ultimately advance an investigation or prosecution,” that report concluded, “law enforcement creates the appearance, and risks the reality, that it is more interested in seizing and forfeiting cash than advancing an investigation or prosecution.”

    More news coming from the three letter gang. A friend gave me the article yesterday, but said later it was also reported on a main segment on Fox News! Mainstream on the ills and crimes against U.S. citizens by these guys? What is going on? Somebody somewhere must have noticed for a change.

    Judith

  495. COLLAPSING THE FRAUD – APRIL 15TH IS A NATIONAL HOLIDAY!
    By Anna Von Reitz (Judge Anna)
    April 6, 2017

    If someone stole your identity, would you have any trouble reporting it to the bank and whoever else was impacted by the swindle? Would it take more than a nanosecond for you to object to paying someone else’s bills? Accepting the blame for someone else’s crimes?

    Well, come on, now, that is what has happened here.

    The criminals in Congress swindled your grandparents and parents, stole our national identity, grabbed our credit cards, set up millions of phony escrow ACCOUNTS benefiting themselves and have spent their ill-gotten gains and time in the District of Columbia cobbling up another gigantic swindle they are attempting to unleash on you and your kids right now.

    It’s time to wake up and pull the plug on this.

    How?

    For starters, if you aren’t a federal civilian or military employee, an elected officer of a federal corporation, a voluntary franchise operator of a federal corporation, an African American, a federal welfare recipient, or a federal political asylum seeker— if you are Joe Average American working in the private sector, a farmer, an unincorporated business owner, etc.,—you can revoke your election to pay Federal Income Taxes.

    April 15 can be a holiday. Imagine that?

    That’s what it has been for me, since 1998. I have a party. We drink cheap champagne. We recite bad poetry. We hurl Shakespearian insults— “Thou burly, flap-jowled, goatish, howling miscreant! How darest Thou imply a bottomery debt!”

    Get started. There is no time like now.

    You write an old-fashioned letter to the Commissioners of the IRS and the Internal Revenue Service and you simply tell them that you are eligible for exemption and are revoking your election to pay Federal Income Taxes. Please adjust your records accordingly and honor my exemption.

    Send the revocation letter via US Certified Mail, Return Receipt Requested.

    Keep a copy of the letters and the mailing receipts. That’s it.

    If anyone from the IRS or Internal Revenue Service asks about your tax status or sends you anything in the mail insinuating that you owe them money or have to file any reports, send copies of your copies of the revocation letter and mailing receipts. Certifiy that the copies are true, complete, and correct, sign and date. Stuff it in the mail, U.S. Certified, Return Receipt Requested—- and down their tubes.

    If anyone calls you “Mr.” or “Mrs.” or “Miss” from now on, inform them that you are not a Warrant Officer in the Merchant Marines (that is, a Withholding Agent) and you will happily object if anyone presumes that you are.
    You may have to give your employer a written and notarized Waiver absolving them of any responsibility to withhold federal taxes from your paycheck. You might have to fill out a W8 BEN for that purpose.

    My point is that millions upon millions of innocent Americans can avoid paying a third or more of their earnings (which are private property, not corporate income) as a “gift and estate tax” that they don’t owe, in support of an organization that has practiced fraud, usurpation, kidnapping, press-ganging, theft, inland piracy, copyright and trademark infringement and conspiracy to murder against them.

    Send those letters effective with October 1, 2015 (or on that date up to ten years prior) and keep your credit at home where it belongs.

    Then, kick back. Inform your friendly local banker that you have retired from all federal service and your PERSONAL bank account is in fact a private bank account and all funds deposited in or transferred from that account are private funds that must be denominated as lawful money. Send that U.S. Certified Return Receipt Requested, too. Every time they try to foist off some new agreement, resend the same information.

    This keeps them and the IRS from presuming that the digits in your account are Federal Reserve Notes and that in turn prevents them from confiscating your money, issuing bogus liens against it, and otherwise seeking to defraud you.

    Once your revoke your “election” to pay, you can never file federal income taxes again. By law. So nobody, including Junior Woodchuck IRS Agents, can accuse you of having any such obligation or of failing to file or any of that clap-trap again.

    It’s a lovely feeling to know the truth and know who you are and how to stuff corks in the mouths of those who have been extorting money out of you.

    It’s downright glorious to tell an IRS Agent, “Who gave you permission to even speak to me?”

    Ah, yes, sweet freedom.

    It’s what our people have fought and died for, for generations. It’s what you deserve and what you have been denied.

    So, why wait another ten seconds?

    Join me. On April 15th this year, take off your manacles and chains. Stretch your bent back. Take a deep, deep breath…. and begin a whole new and different relationship with the IRS.

    From now on, they don’t collect from you. They collect for you.

    Go forth, America, and conquer.
    —————————–
    See this article and over 500 others on Anna’s website annavonreitz.com

    Since it’s tax time once again (comes faster every year, doesn’t it?) I thought I would offer this information if anyone may be interested. Of course, I know we are ALWAYS excited to read those three little letters and become more informed … Ha! Since Dr. Wallace (Neo-Tech) paid the price of doing nothing wrong but being sighted in their scopes, we in Neothink are conscious of their ways. Thank you, Mark Hamilton (Neothink) for this venue to share news with each other, while making the point with Wikipedia that we’re still around.

    Judith

  496. —THE DETROIT AREA CLUBHOUSE—
    eets the second Saturday of the month.
    ======================
    When? . . . . . . .April 8, 2017.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 pm – 6pm.
    Where?. . . . . . .Kerby’s Koney Island
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Livonia, MI
    What?. . . . . . . .The Four Pillars.
    Why?. . . . . . . . .Why not?
    ———————–————-
    =-=-=-=-=-=-=-

  497. I Chose this statement from the book Insurgence in which the author says ” When we tap into our TRUE vision, the possibilities are endless because true vision is not something you make up, it’s something you’re MADE OF. It’s your true nature and essence, the seat of your soul, and the source of your power—–BEYOND what the world thinks about you—–BEYOND even what you think about yourself.” Vowing to keep this page on a continuous positive attitude in the future. Thanks for the space Mark Hamilton, and happy vibes to everyone.

  498. April 6, 1968
    ==========
    On this day in 1968, Stanley’s Kubrick’s science-fiction classic 2001: A Space
    Odyssey made its debut in movie theaters.

    Kubrick had first gained prominence as a director for the World War I-era drama
    Paths of Glory (1957). After helming the big-budget Roman epic Spartacus (1960),
    he made a 1962 screen adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Lolita before
    turning to an even more controversial topic–nuclear warfare–in the darkly
    bizarre satire Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and
    Love the Bomb (1964). In the spring of 1964, Kubrick met with Arthur C. Clarke,
    a former officer in the Royal Air Force and chairman of the British Interplanetary
    Society, who had begun a full-time science-fiction writing career in 1951. Over
    the next year, Clarke and Kubrick worked closely to adapt the former’s short
    story “The Sentinel” into a movie screenplay as well as a full-length novel.
    Clarke also worked as a general scientific adviser on the film.

    Originally entitled A Journey Beyond the Stars, Kubrick’s film was released in
    April 1968 as 2001: A Space Odyssey. Jumping seamlessly from Africa in the
    Pleistocene Era to a space-shuttle cabin some 4 million years later, the
    film clocked in at around three hours and contained less than 40 minutes of
    dialogue. Stretches of absolute silence or of the sound of human breathing
    (mimicking the external and internal experience of being inside a space suit)
    were interspersed with grand orchestral scores, including work by both
    Richard and Johann Strauss. Kubrick intended 2001 to be a primarily
    visual – rather than verbal – experience, and the scarcity of dialogue and
    languid pacing only enhanced the impact of the film’s impressive visual effects.

    Though 2001 received many negative reviews when it was released–The
    New Yorker’s Pauline Kael, for one, called it “monumentally unimaginative” – its prestige
    grew over the years and it is now regarded by many as Kubrick’s masterwork and one
    of the most significant films of the 20th century. Its sweeping visual style and
    psychedelic special effects directly influenced space blockbusters such as
    George Lucas’ Star Wars movies. At the 41st annual Academy Awards
    in April 1969, the film did not receive a nomination for Best Picture,
    though Kubrick was nominated in the Best Director category; he
    lost to Sir Carol Reed for Oliver! Of four nominations, 2001 won
    one Oscar, for Best Visual Effects.
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