Sunday, December 10, 2017

A favorite passage

12-10-17

"Even youths grow tired and weary,and young men stumble and fall

but those who who hope in the lord, will renew their strength

They will soar on wings like eagles;

they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

Isaiah 41:30

Friday, December 1, 2017

Dr. Julie Holland, Psychiatric Doctor, extraordinaire, who understands why are we pounding, for sport, to depreciate their fellow man

December 1, 2017

Dr. Julie Holland, extraordinary individual and brilliant scientist, circa 2017-20xx, .

Thursday, November 30, 2017

From YouTube

Remembering decades ago : A great one,, Thanks Jackson

Sunday, November 26, 2017

Done too Soon Thank you Neil

Nov 26, 2017

Saturday, November 25, 2017

My Second Wind

November 25, 2017

I cannot stay silent any further. This is an issue to give pause to every American citizen.

I am 68 years old, and have apparently been misinformed  by our American school systems that taught that our form of government is superior to others, since it was based on the rule of law, not of men or women.

This was certainly what our forefathers had in mind crafting The Bill of Rights, and amendments to the United States Constitution. Granting each citizen inalienable rights.

We never think of having to defend those rights because its rarely needed. This is one of those times.

The bank, and crooked Ocwen, the loan servicer, sold my home of 26 years, while I was in a bankruptcy proceeding with my start up company, Residential Fire Sprinklers. This was a serious violation of federal law under the bankruptcy code (11 USC 362(a) )

Then incredibly, even after learning , that they had never rescinded the unlawfully issued deed by recording such a document, when and after my new loan, was approved at Indy Mac Bank, could not close because of this unlawful deed, which had been recorded at the county recorder. Almost two week after my bankruptcy. Then, continuing through the appeals process, it happened again, when the storage operator sold all of my asset, and the same judge denied my motion for sanctions which was denied, But justiced prevailed when I appealed to the appeals court reversed the court.

But now, the full, en banc court decided , without asking me on question, decided i was the bad guy, trying to short cut the appeals court. The Supreme court, declined to review it.

Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Truth for my Pal in Toronto

Sunday, November 12, 2017

Airbus Suffers Early Dubai Blow as Boeing Wins Surprise 787 Deal

November 12, 2017
From Bloomberg

Anurag Kotoky
and
Benjamin D Katz

November 12, 2017, 1:40 AM PST Updated on November 12, 2017, 8:38 AM PST

Emirates’ Dreamliner pact spells doom for competing A350 pitch
European planemaker is still seeking lifeline for A380 jet

A Boeing Co. 787-10 aircraft. Photographer: Marlene Awaad/Bloomberg

The press release was printed, the media invited, the first dignitaries began filing into the room. Such was the scene on the first day of the Dubai Air Show, when Airbus SEhad planned to unveil a keenly awaited lifeline for its A380 super jumbos from the aircraft’s biggest fan: Emirates.

Instead: nothing. In fact, worse than nothing. An initial delay, not unusual at these major signing ceremonies, gave way to confusion. Bewilderment turned to humiliation when a model aircraft was carried into the briefing room and the gray cloth covering it slipped off -- revealing the Boeing Co. logo on its tail.

Out of nowhere, the U.S. planemaker suddenly conquered Room 6 on the upper level of the main exhibition hall, with its representatives taking the stage. Airbus officials who dominated the room on arrival quietly slipped out during the press conference as their rival landed a stinging blow: Emirates committed to buying $15.1 billion of Boeing’s 787-10 Dreamliners. That was similar to the order value that Airbus had planned.

It was a surprise twist in the air show’s first-day choreography and one that marked twin setbacks for the European planemaker. With scant demand from other airlines for the double-decker A380, Airbus is more dependent than ever on Emirates. Boeing’s Dreamliner pact added insult to injury since the Dubai-based carrier had originally ordered 70 Airbus A350 jetliners before pulling out of the deal in 2014 to review its requirements.

“Boeing has scored an absolutely huge victory here. You can’t play it down,” said Saj Ahmad, an analyst at StrategicAero Research in London. “That all the talk was about the A380 and nothing materializing for Airbus was a bit of a dampener for the opening.”

Comeback Knack

Emirates said it would buy 40 Dreamliners. A separate 787 order from Azerbaijan Airlines, valued at $1.9 billion, brought Boeing’s first-day tally to $17 billion.

Even with the first-day setback, Airbus has a knack for staging high-profile comebacks at major air shows. Airbus and Emirates declined to comment on the back and forth of the negotiations.

Emirates is set to order about 36 A380s, according to people familiar with the negotiations -- a deal that would carry a list value of about $15.7 billion and which would push the order book for the giant jetliner to more than 170.

Earlier this month, Emirates President Tim Clark took delivery of the 100th A380, cementing Emirates’ de facto status as the only buyer of Airbus’s biggest and most expensive aircraft.

The biennial Dubai expo is an important venue for both manufacturers to secure deals for their biggest and most expensive jetliners. Two years ago, orders slowed to just $4 billion, compared with more than $170 billion at the previous event, placed largely by the three major carriers in the region: Emirates, Qatar Airways Ltd. and Etihad Airways PJSC.

Regional Barometer

The mood was more upbeat at this year’s event, with Clark saying demand remains strong, even for the most expensive seats. Clark unveiled a new first-class suite that will feature on its Boeing 777 models and will gradually rolled out across its entire fleet.

The air show is also a barometer for the region’s economic resilience following slumping earnings at the major carriers and political shocks that include Saudi Arabia’s recent purge of billionaires and princes in Saudi Arabia and a blockade of Qatar.

Because of the blockade, Qatar Air is absent from the event, which cuts out a prolific buyer of aircraft. Etihad is retrenching after a strategy to buy stakes in ailing airlines across the world backfired and the chief executive officer quit.

Saturday, November 11, 2017

Honoring Staff Sargent JW Boyd, who fought in the Battle of the Bulge

November 11, 2017

JW Boyd, (and yes, JW , is his first name) was a Texas boy born in the 1920's who lived in Texas with his family through the depression .

As so as he was old enough, he was drafted, sent to basic and infantry training, he soon on the Queen Mary , to take soldiers across the Atlantic.

On the front, moving towards Paris, crossing a river, JW was hit with shrapnel in several parts of his body, and was awarded a purple heart, and sent to Paris to recover.

In May, JW, now recovered, and was sent back to the front.

It must have been approximately May 9-14, because when bouncing around in a Jeep,on there way to the front, like a miracle, on the same road, were GI's who were driving jubilant, happy although seeming going the wrong way but smiling with a joyous sounds of exaltation, 'The war is Over' they screamed.  Go back ! We won !

JW was returned to the US to get jungle training for the anticipated invasion of Japan.

Harry Truman resolved everything with two bombings. After August 1945, JW returned to America.

Salute to you Sir :

Thursday, November 9, 2017

November 9, 2017

Youtube

Apache

Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Shortest Landing - Amazing

from youtube

So true George, even more than a decade later

from youtube

Surfing Safari

from youtube

Now Tom's out, at least in this animated form of energy, change is relentless

from youtube

Another Rock Hit

The Beginning of 'Muscle Cars' in So. Cal

November 8, 2017

from : youtube.com

Sunday, November 5, 2017

Interesting video on Millennials

From Youtube

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Rep. Jeb Hensarling, staunch opponent of financial regulations, says he will retire

By Mike DeBonis October 31 at 3:36 PM

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-Tex.) at a March 2016 hearing. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

Rep. Jeb Hensarling, a Texas Republican who led conservative opposition to the Troubled Asset Relief Program and has been among Congress’s fiercest foes of federal regulations, said Tuesday he will retire after his term ends.

Hensarling is set to leave the House as his term as chairman of the Financial Services Committee expires. In his six years in that post, he has pushed numerous conservative bills to pull back the federal role in overseeing the financial sector, including a bill that passed the House earlier this year repealing major parts of the Dodd-Frank law passed after the financial crisis of 2008.

“Although service in Congress remains the greatest privilege of my life, I never intended to make it a lifetime commitment, and I have already stayed far longer than I had originally planned,” he said in a statement. Noting the loss of his committee gavel, he said that “the time seems right for my departure.”

Hensarling has seen several of his legislative priorities frustrated by the Senate or by the wishes of more-moderate Republicans. The Dodd-Frank repeal bill, known as the Financial Choice Act, has not gotten Senate consideration. He has been unable to unravel the powers of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency he has strongly opposed. And a bill he supported this year to reconfigure the National Flood Insurance Program was placed on the back burner after the devastation of Hurricane Harvey.

[Republicans launch effort to roll back the Dodd-Frank banking regulations]

Hensarling is known more generally as an outspoken conservative. He is a former chairman of the House Republican Conference and the Republican Study Committee, and he has been a frequent subject of conservative members’ whisper campaigns for higher leadership posts — including majority leader and House speaker.

Rep. Mark Walker (R-N.C.), the current chairman of the Republican Study Committee, said in a statement that much of that conservative group’s “modern legacy can be attributed to Chairman Hensarling’s grit and wisdom” while he served in the role from 2007 to 2009. “It is not often that we get champions in Congress for limited government and fiscal discipline like Jeb,” he said. “He will be missed.”

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), a close friend of Hensarling’s, hailed him as “a true constitutional conservative who understands that free enterprise is critical to a thriving America.”

“I am going to miss him and this institution will miss him, but knowing Jeb, I’m positive he has a great chapter ahead,” Ryan said.

Hensarling said he will use the remainder of his term to “continue the fight for individual liberty, free enterprise, and limited constitutional government” and to lead his committee “in the areas of housing finance reform, regulatory relief, cyber security and capital formation to name just a few.”

Texas’s 5th Congressional District is solidly Republican, comprising the eastern outskirts of Dallas as well as rural areas southeast of the city. The nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates the seat as having a 16-point GOP lean; President Trump won the district by 28 points last year.

Hensarling is the 12th sitting House Republican to announce plans to forgo seeking reelection.

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Mike DeBonis covers Congress and national politics for The Washington Post. He previously covered D.C. politics and government from 2007 to 2015.

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Monday, October 30, 2017

Long Flight

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/todayinthesky/2017/10/30/uniteds-new-18-hour-flight-longest-ever-u-s-airline/812690001/

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

A message of hope from the 1950's Good one Billy V.

Monday, October 23, 2017

WiKi Tim article

Oct 23. 2017

Timothy Francis Leary (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996) was an American psychologist and writer known for advocating the exploration of the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs under controlled conditions. Leary conducted experiments under the Harvard Psilocybin Project during American legality of LSD and psilocybin, resulting in the Concord Prison Experiment and the Marsh Chapel Experiment. Leary's colleague, Richard Alpert (Ram Dass), was fired from Harvard University on May 27, 1963 for giving psilocybin to an undergraduate student. Leary was planning to leave Harvard when his teaching contract expired in June, the following month. He was fired, for "failure to keep classroom appointments", with his pay docked on April 30.^[1] National illumination as to the effects of psychedelics did not occur until after the Harvard scandal.^[2]

Leary believed that LSD showed potential for therapeutic use in psychiatry. He used LSD himself and developed a philosophy of mind expansion and personal truth through LSD.^[3]^[4] He popularized catchphrases that promoted his philosophy, such as "turn on, tune in, drop out", "set and setting", and "think for yourself and question authority". He also wrote and spoke frequently about transhumanistconcepts involving space migration, intelligence increase, and life extension (SMI²LE),^[5] and developed the eight-circuit model of consciousness in his book Exo-Psychology (1977). He gave lectures, occasionally billing himself as a "performing philosopher".^[6]

During the 1960s and 1970s, he was arrested often enough to see the inside of 36 different prisons worldwide.^[7] President Richard Nixon once described Leary as "the most dangerous man in America".^[8]

Monday, October 16, 2017

Stevie Winwood, Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and more

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Don't Worry Baby

from youtube

Monday, October 9, 2017

George Harrison The Traveling Wilburies

from youtube

At least 1,000 homes evacuated as others burn in fast-moving Orange County brush fire

from latimes

Anh Do, Victoria Kim and James QueallyContact Reporters

Orange County fire officials have evacuated at least 1,000 homes as a fast-moving fire in the Anaheim Hills spat smoke into the air and scorched several structures early Monday afternoon, according to fire officials and television footage.

The fire raced up a ridge and hit a tract homes at the top of a hill. Several caught fire, and firefighters were trying to prevent the fire from spreading further into the subdivision.

Firefighters sprayed homes with water, but it was too late for several structures that were fully involved.

Canyon fire No. 2 broke out around 9:20 a.m. near the 91 Freeway and Gypsum Canyon Road, and quickly leapt the California 241 toll road, according to Sgt. Daron Wyatt, a spokesman for the Anaheim Fire Department.

As of 2 p.m., the fire had grown to approximately 2,000 acres, fire officials said. In a video posted to the Anaheim Fire Department’s Facebook page, Wyatt said he had received “unconfirmed reports” of one firefighter suffering a minor injury and five structures sustaining fire damage.

At least 200 firefighters from multiple fire task forces are battling the blaze. Television footage showed several homes on fire early Monday afternoon.

Evacuations were ordered south of the 91 Freeway, west of the 241 toll road, north of Nohl Ranch Road and east of Serrano Avenue. The eastbound 91 Freeway was closed, with small spot fires reported along the roadway.

Several elementary schools in the area were evacuated as well, with students moved to Canyon High School. Several regional parks have also been closed and strong winds were pushing smoke into Orange and Santa Ana areas.

The fire comes as a series of wildfires claimed one life and destroyed 1,500 homes in Northern California, and just weeks after another blaze forced the evacuation of at least 1,500 homes in the Corona area.

At a strip mall downhill from the evacuated neighborhoods, a line snaked out from a nearby gas station. Residents of an assisted living facility were filing into buses, and ambulances could be seen transporting residents away.

Families cast concerned glances up toward the smoke-covered hills, over which helicopters were ferrying water from a reservoir. Some used the area as a rendezvous point.

By the time Eric Schmidt, 48, had driven home from his job at Disney on Monday morning, police wouldn't let him back into his neighborhood. Parents frantic to pick up their children at a nearby elementary school had taken to abandoning their cars and going to grab their children on foot.

Schmidt’s wife, Marigold, left their home with only their three dogs. His son Ethan walked from his high school and the family reunited at the strip mall parking lot.

"It came so fast you couldn't even grab anything," said Schmidt, who added his family didn't even have a change of clothes. A neighbor at the end of the cul-de-sac had told him the flames were up in his back yard. Houses lower on the hill were burning. For the moment, though, he could see his home was safe based on the image from the doorbell cam app installed on his phone. It was the second time he's had to evacuate from a wildfire in 18 years of living in the neighborhood.

"With the Santa Ana winds, the fire just funnels out from the canyon," he said.

John Carmona, a retired welder in his early 60s, had to race out of his duplex near State College Boulevard and Ball Road as the smoky odor from the blaze "became worrisome.”

“This intense wind doesn't help. It's only going to get worse. I have no choice but to walk away," he said.

Carmona got to safety, but he had to leave behind his cocker spaniel, Cali, after he was unable to find the dog’s collar and leash.

Late Monday morning, Wyatt, the Anaheim fire spokesman, said the fire had jumped the California 241 toll road and was threatening approximately 1,000 homes. An evacuation order has been issued for all homes east of the intersection of Weir Canyon Road and Serrano Avenue, Wyatt said. Evacuations were also underway in Orange as well as much of the Orange Park Acres area.

“You need to be prepared to evacuate and now is the time to do so,” Wyatt said in a video posted to the Anaheim Fire Department’s Facebook page. “Take everything that you can that will sustain you for the next couple of days.”

As of 1 p.m., Wyatt said the fire was moving toward the Orange Park Acres area of Orange. City officials there had issued evacuation orders to all of their residents who live east of Serrano Avenue, he said. Fire officials asked evacuees to go to the Anaheim Downtown Youth Center at 225 Philadelphia St.

Bob Hill said his trip to the pharmacy to pick up cold medication was cut short by a text message from city officials warning him of the fire on Monday morning. He immediately contacted his wife.

"Get out. Get the pictures and get out,” he wrote in a frantic text.

Hill, 66, said he already lost a home in Chatsworth during a 2008 wildfire, adding that the trajectory of Monday’s blaze gave him a sinking feeling as he tracked its movements via TV images. His neighborhood near Weir Canyon and Serrano Road is full of pine trees that can catch fire "in a flash," he said.

"All we can do is wait," he said as other evacuees monitored the television at the Anaheim Downtown Community Center.

Outside, the cloud cover took on a muddy quality as residents young and old made their way into the downtown gym, where workers distributed water and set up extension cords for people to recharge their phones.

Hill, whose wife escaped the fire’s path and had stopped at an area Mormon church to volunteer, managed to remain calm despite the risk of seeing another of his homes destroyed

"I've faced this before,” he said. “What else can I do?"