For Immediate Release May 25, 2005

Cut-Rate Batteries has entered the on-line two-way radio battery market with the launch of its new site, www.cutratebatteries.com. Our website provides consumers with a better alternative to original battery manufacturers of two-way radio equipment such as Motorola and Kenwood on both price and quality. Business consumers have shown enthusiasm for the new site as an easy way to stock up on battery inventories.

Cut-Rate Batteries, an international distributor of batteries for two-way radio and barcode scanning equipment announced the launch of its online store, last week, at . Targeting business consumer markets for two-way radio and barcode scanner batteries, Cut-Rate Batteries is hitting some of the biggest players in the industry where they are least able to compete: Price.

Like the printer and printer-ink markets, batteries for specialized portable and wireless devices such a two-way radios and barcode scanners have been a very lucrative and continuous revenue source for companies such as Motorola, Kenwood, Symbol and Intermec. Consumers, until now, had very little choice in the purchase of batteries for such products. They could either pay the inflated prices of the original manufacturers, or accept lower quality, generic batteries with little assurance that the expensive batteries would work as well, or last as long.

Cut-Rate Batteries has come onto the scene with a completely different model. Even after shaving prices down — sometimes by as much as 70% — it still is able to back its high-quality batteries with a full, 12-month warranty and 100% money back guarantees.

It’s a good mix and business consumers have wasted no time showing loyalty to their new bottom line.

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Contact:

Monika Wencek, Media Relations Cut-Rate Batteries, LLC Forest Lake, MN (P):651-204-9990 wencek@cutratebatteries.com www.cutratebatteries.com

One of the big questions every home theater enthusiast has to
face when planning a new home theater is whether to invest in a
rear projection TV, or to opt for the two piece video projector
- screen setup.

Both approaches have got their pros and cons. In this article,
we discuss the advantageous and limitations of rear projection
systems as a big screen solution in the home theater.

Rear Projection Television - An Affordable Option

A great deal of consumer appeal for Rear Projection TV systems
arise out of the shear simplicity that this product offers as an
immediate solution to getting a bigger TV.

No mess, no fuss, if you have the space, either visit your
local big screen retailer - or better still, check at your
favorite online electronics superstore - to order your product
and get it delivered in just a few days; unpack the product and
there you have a big screen TV in your living room ready for
immediate use!

Rear Projection TV Facts:

As already stated, rear projection offers a most immediate
solution to getting a bigger TV. Probably, this is also one of
the main drivers behind rear projection television sales.

Yet the real ‘culprit’ behind the popularity of rear projection
TV systems does not arise out of some particular benefit
associated with rear projection, but out of the fact that most
big screen retailers seem to give the impression that rear
projection systems are cheaper than a front projection setup.

This may be true in retail stores, but not necessary so when
buying online. The reality is that for a given budget level,
prices online are such that front projectors will deliver a much
more cinema-like experience for the same price bracket.
Therefore, do not base your decision on price alone to decide
between a front projection setup and a rear projection TV box.

Clearly, there is a market for both - the primary decisive
factor should be your room size. If you don’t have a large
viewing room, a 40″ to 60″ diagonal TV will probably be more
than adequate rendering a rear projection TV the ideal
affordable solution - as long as it fits in the available space.

Size - or rather unit depth - is becoming less of a
problem with modern LCD and DLP rear projection TV units. A
typical 52″ diagonal widescreen DLP or LCD rear projection TV
set requires no more than 15-inches in depth; this contrasts
heavily with a similar size CRT rear projection model which
would normally require between 22 and 24 inches in depth.

What’s more, considering that a similar size Plasma TV is still
out of reach of most average household budgets, today’s
slim-styled LCD and DLP rear projection TV sets, with their
lower prices yet high performance, are becoming the affordable
‘immediate’ big screen TV option in the television mass-market.

However prior to committing yourself to a rear projection
TV, it is important to be fully aware of a few limitations
associated with rear projection systems, namely: limited screen
size, limited viewing angle, glare problems, poor aspect ratio
management, poor use of floor-space, etc.

We take a look at each of these limitations in further detail
below:

Screen size: Rear projection TV systems come in screen
sizes ranging from typical 42″ up to a maximum of just over 70″.
This may or may not be a limitation. It is true that you can get
a 100″ projection with a home theater projector for the price of
a high quality digital 50″ rear projection TV, yet the screen
size should be dimensioned to suit your room. If your room size
does not support such big projections, rear projection is
probably the way to go.

Viewing angles: Rear projection TV systems used to have
a rather limited viewing angle - with the optimum viewing
position being one directly in front of and eye-level with the
unit. Move away to either side, and color, contrast, and
brightness will degrade substantially. A narrow viewing angle
will limit the number of people who can watch the set due the
lowering in picture quality at the extreme viewing angles. Most
modern systems support a viewing angle of circa 150 degrees -
which should be adequate for normal home theater use. However,
it is always best to check on this prior to your purchase as
some products are worse than others.

Reflections: It is common that any light source at a
complementary angle to your viewing-angle will result in glare -
in particular if the unit makes use of a screen-saver (a clear
protective material that covers the fragile screen itself).
Glare can seriously degrade the picture quality. The only real
solution is to take away the offending light source; in some
cases the situation can improve if one removes the screen-saver
- BUT remember that an unprotected screen is fragile and
expensive to replace if damaged.

Floor-space: Any rear projection TV is literally a large
box with a relatively large footprint. It is true that modern
slim-type models do exist that are no more than 15 to 18 inches
in depth - depending on the screen size, yet the cheaper
CRT-based rear projection TV sets will stand out by at least 24
to even 30 inches to allow for the necessary air-space between
the back of the unit and the wall.

Remember to take this into your calculations when
planning your home theater as these two feet or so will have to
be deducted from your available viewing
distance.

Rear Projection TV Speakers: Forget all about them! Do
not give any weighting to the speaker system coming with your
rear projection unit. You would not be using them as you will
surely want to replace these with your dedicated home theater
surround receiver speaker system. Do not even think of using the
build-in speakers of your rear television set as a center
channel replacement. They will just interfere with the sound
coming out of your dedicated system - hence do not pay anything
extra for this as you will surely be switching off your TV sound
completely during a movie show.

Aspect ratios: We have already mentioned a number of
limitations associated with rear projection television, yet in
comparison, these are just minor issues. The real serious
limitation with a rear projection TV is aspect ratio
management.

This is the trickiest of it all. Standard television comes only
in 4:3 but rear projection TV systems come in both standard 4:3,
and in the 16:9 widescreen format. Once you choose your format
however, you have to live with it - so once again, you have to
choose wisely.

The 4:3 (1.33) or 16:9 (1.78) referred to as the aspect ratio,
is the ratio of the screen width with respect to the height of
the image. All standard non-HDTV material is in the 4:3 format
while most modern films come in one of the many widescreen
formats - the most common being the 2.35, which in itself is not
compatible with any of the fixed aspect ratio TV systems.

There are various ways to deal with this -
including:

• Image stretching to fill the
  available screen.
• Use of black or gray bars on top
  and bottom of a 4:3 screen to show the movie in its correct
  aspect ratio as originally filmed, but then the effective film
  display will be smaller.
• Pan and scan editing where
  only the most important portion of each frame is shown with the
  rest being discarded.

Image stretching and horizontal bars can be
extremely irritating while in the ‘pan and scan’ you are
giving up film information to have a full screen view. Worst of
all, prolonged use of horizontal bars - especially black bars -
leads to tube burn-out in CRT based systems at huge costs to you.

The incompatibility between screen formats renders the decision
on aspect ratio a rather complicated issue when choosing a rear
projection TV set. Surely, there is no such dilemma with a front
projection setup, but if your only way forward is rear
projection, then you will have to choose wisely.

Here no one can help you in your decision - it is simply a
matter of preference. The best way to decide on aspect ratio is
by first determining what you will be viewing most.

Making the Choice:

Surely, there is a market for both front and rear projection
TVs - it is all a question of knowing what are the advantages
and limitations of each with respect to your specific needs.

(c) 2004/2005 www.practical-home-theater-guide.com. All rights
reserved.

A car alarm is a device installed in a car in an attempt to discourage theft of that car. Most alarms work by making a loud sound. Other alarms disable the ignition of the car, or send a signal to the owner (by way of a beeper) that his or her car is being disturbed Car alarms are set off by vibrations, tilting of the car (to prevent unauthorized towing), or touching the car. The vast majority of car alarms which sound are accidental. They are caused by the passing of large trucks, the vibration of thunder or people touching the car (as to tie one’s shoe on a bumper).

Since most car alarms are accidental, most people in American cities are numbed to the sound of alarms, and do nothing to prevent theft. The New York City Police Department claims that car alarms are actually making the crime problem worse (see their booklet called “Police Strategy No. 5: Reclaiming the Public Spaces of New York,” City of New York, New York, 1994) because since nothing is done about the alarms, the general impression is that no one cares about the neighborhood.

Because of the large number of false alarms with car alarms, many vehicle manufacturers no longer factory fit alarms, offering silent - but effective - immobilizers instead. As an after-market fitting, a vehicle tracking system, which allows the police to trace stolen vehicles is considerably more effective. Both of these class of devices cover the event of someone attempting to take the vehicle without consent; but do not cover theft from, or vandalism of, the vehicle.

If you want to think about a car alarm in its simplest form, it is nothing but one or more sensors connected to some sort of siren. The very simplest alarm would have a switch on the driver’s door, and it would be wired so that if someone opened the door the siren would start wailing. You could implement this car alarm with a switch, a couple of pieces of wire and a siren. Most modern car alarm systems are much more sophisticated than this. They consist of:

An array of sensors that can include switches, pressure sensors and motion detectors A siren, often able to create a variety of sounds so that you can pick a distinct sound for your car A radio receiver to allow wireless control from a key fob An auxiliary battery so that the alarm can operate even if the main battery gets disconnected A computer control unit that monitors everything and sounds the alarm — the “brain” of the system

The brain in most advanced systems is actually a small computer. The brain’s job is to close the switches that activate alarm devices — your horn, headlights or an installed siren — when certain switches that power sensing devices are opened or closed. Security systems differ mainly in which sensors are used and how the various devices are wired into the brain.

The brain and alarm features may be wired to the car’s main battery, but they usually have a backup power source as well. This hidden battery kicks in when somebody cuts off the main power source (by clipping the battery cables, for example). Since cutting the power is a possible indication of an intruder, it triggers the brain to sound the alarm.

The most basic element in a car alarm system is the door alarm. When you open the front hood, trunk or any door on a fully protected car, the brain triggers the alarm system. Most car alarm systems utilize the switching mechanism that is already built into the doors. In modern cars, opening a door or trunk turns on the inside lights. The switch that makes this work is like the mechanism that controls the light in your refrigerator. When the door is closed, it presses in a small, spring-activated button or lever, which opens the circuit. When the door is opened, the spring pushes the button open, closing the circuit and sending electricity to the inside lights.

All you have to do to set up door sensors is add a new element to this pre-wired circuit. With the new wires in place, opening the door (closing the switch) sends an electrical current to the brain in addition to the inside lights. When this current flows, it causes the brain to sound the alarm.

As an overall protective measure, modern alarm systems typically monitor the voltage in the car’s entire electrical circuit. If there is a drop in voltage in this circuit, the brain knows that someone has interfered with the electrical system. Turning on a light (by opening the door), messing with electrical wires under the hood or removing an attached trailer with an electrical connection would all cause such a drop in voltage.

Door sensors are highly effective, but they offer fairly limited protection. There are other ways to get into the car (breaking a window), and thieves don’t actually need to break into your car to steal it from you (they can tow your car away). In the next couple of sections, we’ll look at some of the more advanced car alarm systems that protect against craftier criminals.

These days, only the cheapest car alarm packages rely on door sensors alone. Advanced alarm systems mostly depend on shock sensors to deter thieves and vandals. The idea of a shock sensor is fairly simple: If somebody hits, jostles or otherwise moves your car, the sensor sends a signal to the brain indicating the intensity of the motion. Depending on the severity of the shock, the brain signals a warning horn beep or sounds the full-scale alarm.

There are many different ways to construct a shock sensor. One simple sensor is a long, flexible metal contact positioned just above another metal contact. You can easily configure these contacts as a simple switch: When you touch them together, current flows between them. A substantial jolt will cause the flexible contact to sway so that it touches the contact below, completing the circuit briefly.

The problem with this design is that all shocks or vibrations close the circuit in the same way. The brain has no way of measuring the intensity of the jolt, which results in a lot of false alarms. More-advanced sensors send different information depending on how severe the shock is. The design shown below, patented by Randall Woods in 2000, is a good example of this sort of sensor.

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One of the most common uses of Global Positioning System (GPS) technology, by businesses and consumers alike, is to ensure security from theft, as well as human safety.

Using a GPS tracking system is an excellent way for an individual or small business to keep track of important equipment including vehicles, machinery, and portable electronic devices, such as laptops and cell phones.

A prime example of the usefulness of GPS technology for security purposes is its abilities in the fight against vehicle theft. If you car or truck were stolen, and it had a GPS vehicle tracking system installed, then you would be able to pinpoint the exact location of the vehicle, and see its exact coordinates on a map. You could then turn this information over to the police, allowing them to retrieve the stolen vehicle, and apprehend those responsible for the theft.

GPS technology can also be instrumental in ensuring basic human safety. This is especially true with children, as every parent’s worst fear is their child getting lost or kidnapped. Fortunately, with the help of a child GPS tracking device, you can always know the exact location of your child. In the event of a kidnapping, you would be able to determine the exact location of the kidnapper and notify police and other emergency authorities of this information.

All in all, there is little doubt that GPS can be an excellent way to fight crime, and ensure the safety of your belongings and of your family.

What’s common about a car window, a glass panel, solar cells, a basket ball backboard and an F-15 fighter jet cockpit? These are just some of the end products that can be made from a state of the material that is tougher ordinary glass but is as light as the stuff it was from.

Fiberglass, a composite material made from glass but is toughened like steel and hardened like rock. And although the process of heating and drawing glass has existed for thousands of years now, using glass or fiberglass for more applications other than car window or a mirror was more recent.

And thanks to a company known as Owens-Corring Fiberglass Corporation the use of fiberglass for textile applications was formally introduced in 1938, when the Owens and Corring decided to be partners.

Although the first commercial manufacturing of fiberglass had been two years before, in 1936, their efforts to promote it and label it as continuous filament glass fibers was what started it all for the fiberglass industry. Even today their company is still one of the major manufacturers of fiberglass in the market.

Fiberglass is formed in two ways or process. One of it is the direct melt process by which the sand is heated and then formed into fibers that will be molded together to form a fiberglass panel. This is the easier and less time consuming method of producing fiberglass.

The product of this process is already manufacturer grade. Which means it has met all the standards for it to be considered a Grade A product. The fiberglass yielded from this process is the normal basketball backboards, glass panels, and other end products that are for commercial consumer use.

Meanwhile, there is a specialized way of making fiberglass that takes more effort and time. In the marble remelt process, the molten material is sheared and rolled into marbles then placed in cans and shipped at a manufacturing facility to be remelted and formed into fibers.

The end products of the marble remelt process are more flexible than the fibers that are manufactured using direct melt process.

This is the case because the fiber obtained from the marble remelt process are often times used for specialized purposes or are deployed for government research or other specialized needs of non commercial and commercial entities. But what makes fiberglass a very sought after commodity now a days.

Well for one fiberglass has a great weight to surface ratio. That means that it could take considerable amounts of weight without breaking or cracking. Because of the process from which fiberglass is formed it developed the characteristic of flexibility.

This happens when the molten glass is spun into fibers, each fiber has the capacity to bend and flex to whatever the size or weight. And this has been proven as a matter of fact that the thinner the fibers are the easier for each fiber to bend. But even he toughest of materials has its Achilles heel.

The fiberglass fibers are still susceptible to cracking. And the larger the surface area of a fiberglass panel the more likly to crack. The surface area is a very key component in finding out the exact weight displacement that it can handle.

Besides that, humidity also plays a significant role in the deterioration of the fiberglass. Because moisture in the air are easily absorbed by the microscopic components of a fiberglass panel and the more moisture a panel absorbs the more likey the cracks at the microscopic will worsen.

I’m sure that at one time or another every one of us has been told to journal. “What is so important about journaling?” you may ask. “I’ve already had to live with it going over and over in my head, why would I want to write it down?”
You’ve answered your own question. A lot of us have found that keeping a journal is a way of stopping the cycle of a memory or an “old tape” going round and round in your head giving itself more and more importance through pure repetition is by writing it down. Sometimes just the act of writing it down gives us a sense of relief of having documented the “event” thus eliminating the need to continuously relive it. It also is a way of looking at things from a bit more of an objective view. I have written things in a fit of misery that at the time seemed to me a very relevant and impending problem. I then went back to the entry, not even a full 24 hours later to see that I had 1) over-reacted to the situation. 2) The situation was not as charged with emotion as I had previously seen it. 3) I was over-reacting due to some old tape from my childhood playing itself back in my head in response to a stimulus triggered by the situation. Other wise I was freaking out over nothing. It was also a way of getting out of my system angry letters that I needed to write but would not be in my best interest to send, or couldn’t send if I wanted to. One of the ways I was able to confront my primary abuser that had died when I was 12 was through my journal. Like with any illness it is a great way of spotting patterns of deterioration in your symptoms. When I was getting back an old memory that was coming back in bits and pieces, I found journaling helped me fill in the pieces much faster and more accurately than relying only on my memory. You can also track cycles of moods that correspond to hormonal cycles, anniversary dates, or trigger events that cause certain behaviors of self-destruction. Types of journals vary as much as the people that keep them. You decide what type of journal works best for you. Some use poetry, art, dream journals, daily journals, crises journals, or even journals for the rage and anger letters. For some these journals will remain personal and private mementos for the rest of their lives and they will leave instructions in their wills what is to be done with them upon their death. For others, they will eventually get to a point in their healing that they are ready to let go of these memories, anger, etc. and may use a ritual such as burning or shredding them in a way that allows them to let go of the journals contents.
Often when I’ve suggested journaling to people they tell me “I wouldn’t know what to write. I can’t write….etc.” there is no end to different excuses why they can’t do it. I just smile at them and say if all you can write for the first few days, weeks, or even months is “I can’t think of anything to write down here,” and go from that, do it, but at least give it a month or two before giving up on it. Journaling is the best way I know of communicating with that “inner you” whether it be the inner child or just your sub-conscious. Journaling can be a great outlet for anyone no matter what his or her mental stability or state may be. I truly believe, however, that those of us who are still troubled by our past that journaling is one of the most healing tools we can use. For those of us with MPD/DID I believe that journaling is a must. It is the one private place that we,( the personalities), can all talk to one another clearly without the presence of another human being to react to. Without having to worry about that other person reacting to you or judging you, I’ve found I’ve had the most pure form of communication between my alters (personalities), during journaling sessions.
If you have noticed, I keep harping on the word personal and private journal. Do not even attempt to journal if you have no expectation of privacy. I’ve suggested inexpensive locked safe boxes which you are the only one with a key, or a really great hiding place. I was very lucky that I had a good expectation of privacy and my family knew to leave my journals alone or there would be an extremely high price to pay, (they weren’t sure what that price was going to be but they never seemed to want to find out). Later on, I kept them in a locked safe box with a key. Your journals are sacred and only you can decide if you want someone to read a part of them or if you never want anyone to read them ever. It’s a good feeling to finally have control over at least one thing in our life.

About the Author

Kay is 46 y.o. artist/author who lives in Nebraska with two grown sons. See more of her writing at www.mdmkay.blogspot.com see/buy her artwork at www.jdkimports.com or www.artwanted.com/mdmkay

Technology has two faces: the creator, and the destroyer.

Recently, I came across an article on the latest cell phone model complete with upgraded services…another technological breakthrough.

Technology never ceases to amaze me. It has made lives, including mine, a lot easier with the introduction of push buttons. Even fashion is woven into technology.

Who can resist it? I am even fascinated with one of its products, the Internet.

Centuries ago, who would have thought humans could fly or talk with a person miles away? What power; what prowess!

But technology’s benefits are nullified by its Pandoran gifts.

Weapons like guns and nuclear bombs, created to protect and defend, can bring annihilation if they fall into the wrong hands.

Look at automated machines, which are threatening workers’ employment. Machines are taking the place of many laborers.

Technology gives us the perception of a bright future for mankind. But it also brings about destruction.

Technology can save lives and enhance our way of living. It is an expression of human intelligence, thirst for advancement and restlessness.

Technology is only good or evil once defined by the hands that hold its reins. It entails, therefore, a great sense of responsibility.
About the Author

Sheryl is a junior editor of publishing company CannonCreek Asia Inc., currently dealing with business news, and is a contributor to the Sun Star Daily Cebu, goarticles, ezinearticles, writing village, writing.com, and poetrypoem. A journalism graduate, she writes short stories, poetry, essays and few novels.

Traffic exchanges… that eternal clicking and surfing, has for a long time interested me.

I never quite understood why they were supposed to work in the first place, given the greed and selfishness of people in general.

The premise is that you earn visits to your offer/business from other surfers/clickers and you also return the favor. Hence the term, traffic exchange!

From the beginning, I saw a problem with this model of promoting.

Self-interest and rule breaking seems to be the only way that some people know how to do business.

So they spend their energy and skills finding ways around having to view other marketers’ website..in effect, they cheat!

As well, just about every Traffic Exchange program on the Internet has an upgrade.So now you can buy thousands of page/website views without having to surf, click on or view others’ website.

So who is supposed to be looking at your offer?

I have written to many of the owners of these Traffic exchanges, asking them why people should spend all this time surfing.The ones who answered, have either been vague or sent me more of the same hype that they use to advertise their program.

Recently, I have seen several articles, written by acclaimed “gurus” citing the demise of the Traffic Exchanges.

But were they ever “alive”?

Did traffic exchanges ever work, as promised or as they should have?It is my personal belief and experience that as a marketingtool, Traffic Exchanges, are not effective now and unlikely to become so in the future.

The only reason anyone would surf any of these programs would be to find a business offer, but this can be done moreefficiently by visiting one of the search engines, such as Google.

If you have a business, whether e-commerce or “brick and mortar”, you want to make money.Your time is one of the best investment that you can make in your business.Spend it wisely!Pursuing unproductive methods will soon grind you down and undermine your confidence.

Learn some of the truly effective methods and formulas that will get you and business noticed and respected on the Internet.

Write helpful articles, use an autoresponder, put up a well designed website as soon as you are able to.Join and contribute sensibly to forums that match your business theme. Buy advertisement or use free tightly targeted free classifieds.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Yvonne is always on the lookout for more effective and affordable ways to help you and herself market her business.
Here is her latest find!
Try it here:
For new, extremely targeted free classifed advertising go here:
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You may have heard about the media coverage of the Wright Brother’s flight and how it took three years before Scientific American stopped trying to debunk it. You may already know about the early 20th Century Patent Office Official who declared ‘everything that could be discovered was discovered’. You may even know about the Paris Academy of Sciences official who throttled the presenter of the phonograph claiming he was a ventriloquist. These things are funny in a way, but they are not unusual. Unfortunately you are going to have to think if you read this book. You will have to ask yourself how stupid we have been to allow a lot of lies to pass for truth.

Sir William Crookes - Generalist Deemed Weird:

“The Chemist Sir William Crookes Proved Survival With Repeatable Experiments Under Laboratory Conditions - by Michael Roll

Adrian Berry, the science correspondent of The Daily Telegraph, says that few subjects more infuriate scientists than claims of paranormal phenomena, because if confirmed, “the whole fabric of science would be threatened.”

This statement is not correct because nothing can threaten science - the Latin name for seeking after knowledge. The only thing that is threatened by uncomfortable discoveries in physics are pseudo-scientists. Their reputations will be destroyed immediately ordinary people find out that Sir William Crookes proved that we all survive the death of our physical bodies with repeatable experiments under laboratory conditions.

Following this revolutionary discovery in 1874 this outstanding British scientist was knighted, made President of the Royal Society, and King Edward VII gave him the highest decoration in the land - The Order of Merit.

Sir William Crookes was able to wipe the floor with contemporary professional wreckers who dared to attack him. The following is how he dealt with Professor W.B. Carpenter, a biologist from London University, who made a very unfair and anonymous attack upon him in the ‘Quarterly Review’. Carpenter had been unfortunate enough to describe Crookes as “a specialist of specialists”.

‘My greatest crime (he wrote in his reply to Carpenter’s diatribe in the ‘Quarterly Journal of Science’) seems to be that I am a ’specialist of specialists’. It is indeed news to me that I have confined my attention only to one special subject. Will my reviewer kindly say what that subject is? Is it General Chemistry, whose chronicler I have been since the commencement of the Chemical News in 1859? Is it Thallium, about which the public have probably heard as much as they care for? Is it Chemical Analysis, in which my recently published Select Methods are the result of twelve years work?

Is it disinfection and the ‘Prevention and Cure of Cattle Plague’, my published report on which may be said to have popularized Carbolic Acid?

Is it Photography, on the theory and practice of which my papers have been very numerous? Is it Metallurgy of Gold and Silver, in which my discovery of the value of Sodium in the amalgamation process in now largely used in Australia, California and South America?

Is it Physical Optics, in which department I have space only to refer to papers of some Phenomena of Polarized Light, published before I was twenty one; to my detailed description of the Spectroscope and labours with this instrument, when it was almost unknown in England; to my papers on the Solar and Terrestrial Spectra; to my examination of the Optical Phenomena of Opals, and construction of the Spectrum Microscope; to my papers on the Luminous Intensity of Light; and my description of my Polarization Photometer?

Or is it my speciality Astronomy and Meteorology, in as much as I was for twelve months at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, where, in addition to my principal employment of arranging the meteorological department, I divided my leisure between Homer and Mathematics at Magdelen Hall, Planet-hunting and transit tracking with Mr. Pogson, now Principal of the Madras Observatory, and celestial photography with the magnificent heliometer attached to the Observatory? My photographs of the Moon, taken in 1855, at Mr. Hartnup’s Observatory, Liverpool, were for years the best extant, and I was honoured by a money grant from the Royal Society to carry out further work in connection with them. These facts, together with my trip to Oran last year, as one of the Government Eclipse Expedition, and the invitation recently received to visit Ceylon for the same purpose, would almost seem to show that Astronomy was my speciality. In truth, few scientific people are less open to the charge of being a ’specialist of specialists’.’

There is a vast conspiracy to make sure exciting scientific discoveries never come to the attention of the general public. Genuine scientists are banned from supporting the work of Sir William Crookes in the press and on every radio and television programme that is made on the so-called paranormal. People are only allowed access to the views of “experts” who can be relied upon to play the Establishment game - suppress anything that could embarrass the orthodox scientists who hold the reins of power.

Nobody is allowed to balance the opinions and conclusions of these self-styled experts on the “paranormal”. These professional wreckers have unrestricted access to all media outlets, while my colleagues and I have been refused permission to write and broadcast by almost every editor and producer that we have approached. The British people are not allowed to hear the secular scientific case for survival after death in this “free” country of ours!

Recent discoveries in subatomic physics confirm that Sir William Crookes was correct in his conclusions, and that he was not a liar, cheat, crank, a fraud or a sex maniac as we have been criminally led to believe. His only “crime” was to tell the truth.” (1)

Do we need to allow the matter in our bodies dictate the relationship we have with the air around us as well as the earth that this matter sends photonic pulses of energy from to effect what we call gravity? Needless to say ‘levitation’ and ‘people who can fly’ or walk through walls like the book Marcus Bach’s son Richard wrote (called ‘Illusions’) do document many fantastic ‘possibilities’ in fiction; aren’t normal. Does this ability entitle one to be named a saint? Theresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross are interesting studies in how to become a saint. Let’s read a little about a man who was able to do this in front of scientist/investigators who knew the ways of ‘mind-fogging’ or projected hallucinations, from Reader’s Digest:

“Home in the AIR

The medium Daniel Dunglas Home was observed to levitate numerous times over a period of 40 years and was never discovered in any fraud. The first account of his unusual ability was given F. L. Burr, editor of the ‘Hartford Times’:

‘Suddenly, without any expectation on the part of the company (or on Home’s part - he was 19 years old, and this was his first, involuntary experience of levitation) Home was taken up in the air. I had hold of his hand at the time and I felt his feet - they were lifted a foot from the floor! He palpitated from head to foot with the contending emotions of joy and fear which choked his utterances. Again and again he was taken from the floor, and the third time he was taken to the ceiling of the apartment (the Connecticut home of Ward Cheney, a silk manufacturer), with which his hands and feet came into gentle contact.’

That was in 1852. Later Home learned to control his flights and demonstrated them before audiences including such notables as the emperor Napoleon III and Mark Twain. His popularity was enormous, and he habitually moved in the aristocratic circles of society, especially in England, where he gave one of his most celebrated performances. Those present were Lord Adare, his cousin Capt. Charles Wynne, and the master of Lindsay, later earl of Crawford and Balcarres. Lindsay told the story:

‘I was sitting on December 16, 1868, in Lord Adare’s rooms in Ashley Place, London, S.W., with Mr. Home and Lord Adare and a cousin of his. During the sitting, Mr. Home went into a trance, and in that state was carried out of the window in the room next to where we were, and was brought in at our window. The distance between the windows was about seven feet six inches, and there was not the slightest foothold between them, nor was there more than a 12 inch projection to each window, which served as a ledge to put flowers on. We heard the window in the next room lifted up, and almost immediately after we saw Home floating in the air outside our window. The moon was shining full into the room; my back was to the light, and I saw the shadow on the wall of the windowsill, and Home’s feet about six inches above it. He remained in this position for a few seconds, then raised the window and glided into the room feet foremost and sat down.

Lord Adare then went into the next room to look at the window from which he had been carried. It was raised about 18 inches; and he expressed his wonder how Mr. Home had been taken through so narrow an aperture. Home said (still in trance) ‘I will show you’, and then with his back to the window he leaned back and was shot out of the aperture head first, with the body rigid, and then returned quietly. The window is about 70 feet from the ground.’

{Do you think if there is some intelligence in the cosmos who was trying to open our eyes that they find it funny how dense and unwilling to even believe our own eyes the ‘normal’ people of this earth can be, when they try to think they know it all?}

The hypothesis of a mechanical arrangement of ropes or supports outside has been suggested, but does not cover the facts as described.

Some researchers have considered this event suspect for a number of reasons. In the first place, there are several discrepancies between the accounts given by Adare and Lindsay. Some of these concern the dimensions and configuration of the windows and their height above the ground and whether the night was dark or moonlit. {How about whether the coffee was spiked with hallucinogens or why the force didn’t tell them how it was done?} Lord Adare, moreover, gave inconsistent accounts of the event at different times. Captain Wynne’s statement was simple and straightforward: ‘The fact of Mr. Home having gone out of one window and in at another I can swear to: anyone who knows me would not for a moment say I was a victim of hallucination or any other kind of humbug.’

But the omission of any reference to flight or levitation is regarded by some as significant–perhaps Captain Wynne was not convinced that Home had levitated and confined his statement to the simplest fact of the exit and entry. Finally, an examination of what seems likely, though not certain, to have been the house in question has shown that a tightrope could have been stretched between the two balconies.

Researchers have therefore questioned whether or not Lindsay and Adare were too bemused on the evening of December 16 to know what Home was really up to or whether he had resorted to trickery.

But although their versions of the event differed, Adare and Lindsay clearly agreed on the most important feature–that Home ‘flew’, and was seen to fly in through the window and, later, to fly both out and in. They may have been bemused and imagined the whole thing, but at least they agreed on what they imagined.

As for Captain Wynne’s terse statement and its omission of any direct reference to flight, it seems clear that he understood himself to be describing something quite out of the ordinary–for he denied being the victim of a hallucination or of humbug.

The suspicion that a mechanical device such as a tightrope {Remember he was doing this for decades and other things like holding his hand in flames.} might have been used was dismissed by Lindsay at the time: it ‘does not cover the facts as described.’ In particular, such an explanation does not answer the assertion that Home floated through the window feet first or that he later leaned backward and shot out of the window head first.

This leaves us with the more usual objections to reports of levitation: that the witnesses were lying or were bewitched, hysterical, too imaginative, or not really observant.

And since it can never be proved that a hallucination has not taken place, this objection can never be fully answered. But when numerous people of good faith and good reputation testify to having seen a certain thing, and when no certain proof is found that what they saw was achieved by trickery, we must suppose–according to the hallucination theory–that all these people were weak-minded or that the subject of the reports possessed a supernatural gift {The court of what I call ‘easy’ answers.} for inducing mass hallucinations or a talent for persuading large numbers of people to lie on his behalf with no gain to them.

{Meanwhile the paradigm has much to gain by keeping people in the darkness like mushrooms while feeding them appropriate excrement to make them edible or malleable to their purpose.}

In 1871, the year in which Lindsay wrote his account of the Ashley Place levitation, Home was observed to levitate by Sir William Crookes, an eminent scientist who later became president of the prestigious British Association for the Advancement of Science. His statement, printed in the ‘Quarterly Journal of Science’, concisely describes the dilemma into which honest people were put by Daniel Dunglas Home:

‘The phenomena I am prepared to attest are so extraordinary, and (so) directly oppose the most firmly-rooted articles of scientific belief— amongst others, the ubiquity and invariable action of the force of gravitation–that, even now, on recalling the details of what I witnessed, there is an antagonism in my mind between ‘reason’, which pronounces it to be scientifically impossible, and the consciousness that my senses, both of touch and sight, are not lying witnesses. (Jean Burton, ‘Heyday of a Wizard’, pp.36-38,213-30; ‘The Unexplained: Mysteries of Mind Space & Time, ‘Vol. 2, Issue 20).” (2)

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