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Builders Care is a 501c(3) Tax Exempt Public Charity
A Community Outreach program called Builders Care was initiated, effective November 1, 2005, as a result of a commitment made by the Home Builders & Contractors Association of Brevard (HBCA) .
The purpose and goal of the HBCA of Brevard, Builders Care program is to help provide low-income, elderly, disabled and/or disadvantaged people in Brevard County with construction services and building materials not available or affordable to them by traditional means.
Builders Care was initially begun by working with and assisting the effort of the Brevard Long Term Recovery Coalition (BLTRC) with its hurricane relief efforts from the 2004 storms and most recently Hurricane Wilma. Our first project with them began in November of 2005. Recently we completed the renovation of a youth center building at Country Acresin Titusville. Currently we are assisting the Space Coast Early Intervention Center with their move to their new home on Dairy Road.
Since the programs beginning, Builders care has leveraged tens of thousands of dollars in building materials and volunteer labor. While not all situations fit within our parameters at least we assess the situation try and stabilize any damage to prevent further damage and point people in the right direction for additional support.
All this is accomplished with the help of the county, HBCA members, public donations and the Future Builders of America (FBA)




SPACE COAST JAZZ FESTIVALSaturday OCT. 25th & Sunday OCT. 26th 11:00AM to 9:00PM www.SpaceCoastJazzFestival.com 321-722-4100 GENERAL ADMISSION $25ENTIRE WEEKEND GENERAL ADMISSION $45 VIP TICKETS (ADVANCE ONLY) $75 Includes Lunch & Dinner, Private VIP tent, exclusive front stage lawn syle seating area (bring your chair or blanket), and other conveniences! SMOOTH JAZZ CARES
NAJEE With two platinum and four gold albums, Najee is one of the pioneers of what is commonly known as contemporary jazz. A combination of jazz improvisation and R&B, this genre forms a bridge from the jazz fusion of the late 70s to the jazz pop of the mid 80s. Performing Saturday Night October 25th.

WARREN HILL See Legendary Smooth Jazz Saxophonist Warren Hill live at the Space Coast Jazz Festival on Saturday October 25th. Hear his latest collection of music from his newest and 11th National CD - "La Dolce Vita". The title track is climbing the Smooth Jazz Charts and sure to be his next big hit.
KEN NAVARRO Top charting & award winning contemporary jazz guitarist and composer Ken Navarro is recognized as one of today's leading musicians. His impressive discography of 18 top charting albums showcase his appeal to a wide range of listeners with inspiring compositions and superb guitar performances.
Buy Ken Navarro's brand new CD The Grace of Summer Light at the Space Coast Jazz Festival and have him personally autograph it for you.

MICHAEL LINGTON With his debonair looks, charm, and charisma to burn, MICHAEL LINGTON defines the contemporary jazz experience. Since the late 90s, he has scored hit after Top Ten hit while seducing fans with passionate performances that turn sax into a celebration of love and life.
Hear Michael's first single "You and I", from his brand new CD "Heat" at the Space Coast Jazz Festival.


BRIAN SIMPSON

A longtime studio musician, musical director, and touring keyboardist to stars as diverse as Janet Jackson and Dave Koz, Brian Simpson's breakthrough as a solo artist with his Rendezvous Entertainment debut It's All Good was the genre's major story of 2006. Focusing once again on compelling acoustic piano melodies, bright jazz improvisations and spirited funk grooves, Simpson keeps the extraordinary momentum hopping--and, true to the moniker he chose for the new album, soaring--with Above The Clouds. Performing Saturday October 25th.


GREG ADAMS Former "Tower Of Power" member Greg Adams' career has included success as an arranger, composer, conductor, and performer and earned him both Grammy and Emmy nominations and an International Broadcasting Award from The Hollywood Radio and Television Society. It has been a musical travelogue that has spanned nearly four decades, taking him on worldwide tours and contributing to some of the most important recordings in pop culture. Performing Sunday October 26th.

JEFF KASHIWA One of the most diverse, in demand sax players in all of contemporary jazz, Jeff Kashiwa finds pure joy at the heart of his increasingly fast-paced touring schedule by reminding himself, every time he gets on stage, that he's there to do one thing: Play! Performing Sunday Afternoon October 26th.


BLAKE AARON Blake is a guitarist who is known best for his passionate musical style, his memorable compositions, his soul and technical expression on the instrument, and his ability to connect with an audience. His recent CD "Desire" has produced a #1 and Top 5 song...his new single "Shine" is sure to be his next big hit. Performing Sunday Afternoon October 26th.


DEE LUCAS 'Something To Ride 2' is the brand new CD from Atlanta born and based saxophonist Dee Lucas. This album is rich, tasty, classy, and I could just keep adding positives! This truly is a first-rate collection of soprano sax-driven music, and it should indeed be a breakout release.

JACKIEM JOYNER 26-year-old Jackiem Joyner is the latest saxophonist in contemporary jazz history to musically chronicle the experience of emerging from the ranks of extraordinarily busy sideman to center stage on his first recording.
Jackiem was the 2007 Smooth Jazz Debut Artist Of The Year.
MARION MEADOWS A tenor saxophonist, soprano saxophonist, composer, and smooth jazz recording artist of Native American, African American and Caucasian descent. Marion Meadows has released a total of 9 albums to date. He began playing the clarinet and studying classical music at the age of eight. Performing Sunday afternoon October 26th.



NICK COLIONNE With a jazz style that is both urban and contemporary, Nick Colionne has blazed a trail to the top of the ranks of today's stars. Nick takes the guitar to unexpected places every time he performs. He is one of a kind. His new CD "No Limits" is a true musical journey and a must to any CD collection. The title track is climbing up the charts, sure to be another #1 hit for Nick. Performing Saturday October 25th.



TIM BOWMAN The ninth of a dozen children, growing up his life revolved around the International Gospel Center Church in Ecorse, MI. "There was a guitarist at church who just blew me away," Bowman says of that day in 1970 when his eleven-year-old hands were first inspired to pick up a guitar. The release of Bowman's fifth album is sure to top the charts. This self-titled collection features the current #1 hit song "Sweet Sundays".


WILL DONATO Pure Southern California style, Will Donato is a natural showman and entertainer. His latest CD "Laws Of Attraction" continues to showcase why Will has loyal fans worldwide. What you see is what you get with Will Donato, a fun and warm personality with a natural gift to perform.
MATT MARSHAK The next big superstar of Smooth Jazz. With a sound and style of his own...Matt has the fusion of a Bruce Springsteen/Peter White mix. "Guitarist Matt Marshak's lively and very hip new CD "On the Rocks" just smokes. He has certainly paid dues, and this CD should establish him firmly among the format's best, once and for all"


DAVID WELLS One of the best known Fluglehorn Trupmet players in the industry. His first cross-over single "Strawberry Letter 23" was a Top 10 smash on the charts. Currently his new CD "Friday Afternoon" has produced several popular tunes. David has had several hit songs on the Contemporary Christian charts.
NILS His debut CD "Pacific Coast Highway" was the #1 CD of 2005 and had several #1 songs. The Title track "Pacific Coast Highway" hit became the number 1 song on radio in only 13 weeks. Stayed there all summer and became the most played smooth jazz song in the US and Canada for 2005. Nils worked as a session guitarist for acts like The Temptations, and George Benson, before his solo carreer took off. Performing on Sunday October 26th.

NELSON RANGELL One of the most exciting and diverse performers in the genre, equally adept at soprano, alto, and tenor saxophone, as well as being a genuine virtuoso on flute and piccolo. Nelson has now released 15 CDs nationally and internationally...and has a sting of hit songs. He is a must see concert. Performing Saturday October 25th.


TOM HUESTON BAND Home grown and extremely popular local talent from Melbourne, FL. Sure to be one of next big Smooth Jazz groups.

A big, ugly Ramon Noodle With Fangs

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A Big, Ugly Ramon Noodle With Fangs

1.
The phone rang.
I was sleeping on the floor to avoid the numbing electrical current running from the base board to the head board. Evidently there was another surveillance device in the bedding in case I talked in my sleep or there was a variance in my night flatuli routine.
Things like that are evidently important in any investigation. Patterns beget pictures like little Light Bright screens. As a possible Federal witness in several cases, credibility also figures in.
On the second ring I startled to wakefulness.
I jumped up twisting my ankle, kicking my guitar off the stand.
The stand itself fell forward on the front of my foot.
I could hear the small bones of the arch crack off like iced celery does when you break it in half. The ligaments snapped like rubber bands.
The pain shot up my leg like a lead puck and binged a bell in my head.
Everything caboodled and went dark.
I went down again, out cold.
I woke sometime later hearing a knock on my door.
It was the X-ray woman I’ve been dating.
She wore black scrubs and looked like a ninja standing there as I crawled up to her moaning like a cat in heat.
She’s used to that.
I had just been in the emergency room a week before.
I evidently was going back.

2.
I come out of the sliding glass doors on crutches.
My foot was in a bright blue boot.
I dragged it where ever I went.
It was like parking a Volkswagen every time I sat down.

3.
“It takes a long time to heal” the Doctor said.
I spent the next week sleeping before pulling several more tendons getting up.

4.
I realized the terrible truth.
I was alone.
If something should happen to me, I’d have to handle it on my own.
I missed my recently diseased cat, Nadine.
I had gotten a bird and two cats to replace her.
The bird is good. She hangs upside down and spreads her grey and white wings out wide when she is happy.
I’m trying to teach her to recite The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe, the “never more” part.
I’m moody.
The kitten is a dark tiger stripe that cries all night long and runs from me when ever I show up. The other is a beautiful tortoise shell Siamese that practices invisibility.
I haven’t seen her since she moved in.

5.
Intimidation is a job that never ends.
As you may recall I got bit by a snake a couple of months back.
This followed several weeks of threats.
The threats have started up again, though they are more subtle.
“Remember the snake?”
The likely snake in this rainy season is probably a water moccasin.
They are big and ugly from my point of view. Not as big as the Burmese Pythons that have come up the river from the Everglades after the hurricanes, but nasty crackers just the same.
I take all threats seriously.
I have to.
As I go through my daily routine in terror, chasing cat and bird around the cage of my apartment saying “never more, never more ( the bird is the one I’m trying to get to talk to me, the cat I’m merely trying to calm)” I have time to think about things.
What if they really put a snake in my apartment?
It could happen.
It did happen.
What do I do?
So much of it is keeping cool and having the right tools.
What do you use?
Two giant chop sticks to grab it on either side of the head like a big ugly Ramen noodle with fangs?
I don’t know.
I’m doing research.

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DNA fingerprinting could reveal your surnameReuters via Yahoo! News Thu, 09 Oct 2008 6:38 AM PDTPolice could one day predict the surname of male suspects or victims of crime from DNA alone, researchers said on Wednesday.

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Surfing tourney in La UnionYehey! Wed, 08 Oct 2008 3:05 PM PDTTHE Department of Tourism will host the third La Union Surf Break on October 24 to 26 at the Urbiztondo beach in the town of San Juan. The three-day competition will also feature Ultimate Frisbee, Beach Volleyball, Wall Climbing and beach parties.

Naval base opening surf contest to publicThe Malibu Times Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:09 AM PDTNaval Base Ventura County will host a surfing contest at Point Mugu on Oct. 25. It is open to the public to enter and watch. "Point Mugu is one of the best surfing spots in California so a lot of people want to come and surf on it," Kent Blankenship, NBVC athletics director said in a press release.

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Boater Knocked Unconscious By Leaping Dolphin
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DNA Forensics For Sexual Abuse

Entry for October 02, 2008 Eyes On Sexual Abuse

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Editors Note: I'll be re-running autobiographical notes at this blog site. As a Journalist and Psychologist I try to stick to things that I can verify. In the case of things that I can not verify be advised that I am speculating. "Speculating" is another word for guessing. If I present something as fact, it is. If I am speculating you'll know it. If you have specific questions or comments please leave them. I present the following in context and as a discription of my life "at the time." My intention is personal history and fun, though some of the events are indeed crazy. These reprints are raw, unedited and hacked. I've had some problem with discrediting and hacking of my prose for palagerism and sport.

Entry for September 10, 2006 A Choice Of Poisons
Let’s keep it relevant.
In terms of fact there is nothing new here. Everything mentioned in these next few posts can be found in the text and content of Federal Lawsuit No. 03-15367, Lower Court No 00-99-0072 DAE-KSC. The information here was filed as evidence. The lawsuit was filed in Honolulu, Hawaii, in the 9th Circuit Court. It progressed to the Supreme Court of the 9th Circuit in San Francisco where I officially lost the case.
It was not a total loss. The decision reaffirmed that I was guilty of “no misconduct” in terms of how I left my position as a manager in a federally funded program. I was given unemployment insurance. The defendant admitted in summary judgment arguments there were toxins in the work environment and that there was a “possibility” of exposure. This was good. In terms of OSHA reporting that’s all that’s required for further action. I reported it.
During this time period the OSHA investigators were denied access to the property to conduct tests.
I had done what I set out to do. I had entered evidence into the public record for later investigation. I felt an obligation to my clients, my friends, my coworkers and my clients to do so.
Why did I lose?
In short, my lawyer failed to file on time. As a point of fact no evidence was heard. As I have mentioned, before, I had an admission from the clinic that there were toxins in the building. I had gotten this confirmation in mediation and in court by the opposition. I had a termination contract that was clearly illegal under the ADA. I had a mandate under executive order to report all crimes. I had financial discrepancies documented. Some of missing money came directly from my salary. That amounted to about $10,000 a year. The clinic had no insurance per se. They had a million dollar slush fund held in reserve in case of liability. Insurance had been denied.
Everything was in place.
As my financial resources dwindled, I could no longer justify borrowing money for a lawyer. After I lost the summary judgment I took on the case myself. I ended up representing myself. I felt more in control. Over all, the process was more satisfying. I learned a lot about the courts. I had motivation to do more investigation while the case dragged on. It was another year before I had exhausted lower court options.
As stated, my goal was simply to document what happened. I was very sick by this time. I remember the absolute low point as being after a consult with my lawyer in Honolulu. On the way back from the meeting I could not find my car in the parking structure. I was in a state of profound physical and mental exhaustion. The parking garage looked like a slaughterhouse, a long series of multi-leveled mazes with stalls. I wandered from floor to floor in confusion. It took me two and a half hours to find the car.
I was in tears by the time I found it. It was sitting right where I left it. My memory was shot. My cognition was weak. Breathing was very difficult. I looked terrible. I had to count pennies from my change bank to pay for parking and gas. It was a thirty mile drive back home in rush hour traffic. It was like going from one maze into another.
How the hell did I get there?
Clearly the end of my employment was death-knelled by a visitation of Federal Monitors in 1997. I worked under CASP grant at a mental health agency. I had excellent evaluations. I ran two pilot projects on the Leeward coast. One program was a therapeutic foster care program and the other provided in-home intensive therapy for families in crisis. I worked with kids. I was not prepared by management as to what to discuss at this meeting. I was not told what to say or not to say to the monitors. I was on my own. That’s the way it usually was. So I put together a culturally appropriate presentation and answered their questions. I brought clients and employees in to be available for the monitors.
One of my foster parents, a Native Hawaiian women chanted. The prayer was O’ he'emai. It was a prayer to “be heard,” for the federal monitors to "hear our cry.”
I viewed this as an opportunity to tweak Federal involvement. I thought that was what it was all about. The monitors wanted to know about problems. I told them that I had no access to budget information and little or no supervision. I pretty much ran the program on my own. I didn’t like the home intensive model. I felt it was culturally inappropriate and not as effective as a less intensive intervention. The monitors appreciated our candor.
I got a good mention and write up in the federal monitors report on the Leeward Coast of O’ahu in 1997. The report is available from the Health Department in Washington D.C.
It felt good. We felt good. I cared deeply about what I was doing as did the people who worked for me and the clients we served. I was committed to the community and to working in Hawaii. After all, I lived in the community I worked in.
Management, however, was livid.
I got my budget and supervision. A casual examination of the budget was enough to tell me that the figures did not crunch. I had rewritten the RFP for funding that year for the state. I spent about twenty hours nonstop editing the thing. I got very familiar with how things were set up. It wasn’t right. Things were getting increasingly uncomfortable at work. In the lawsuit I made the allegation that management used every trick in the book to get me to quit from that point on. Their tactics, according to my affidavit, involved racist jokes, attacks on my religion and violations of my disabilities contract with the agency.
There were other concrete legal issues.
We were working in a brand new building. It was built on ceded land granted to the agency by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. The agency was responsible for the building. OHA retained control of the land. There were clear care taker issues as well.
In the previous year, the administrative staff had moved into the building. The clinical staff soon followed. I was placed in a small office in the Children’s section of the clinic. It was the room that was the least ventilated in the complex. I of course had my faithful negative ion generators going at full blast. I spent a lot of time on the carpet with the kids. I was newly in love and happy with my job.
I was usually the first person to arrive at management meetings on Monday mornings. On one particular morning, one of the administrators had already arrived and was setting up equipment. He had with him a safety report on the building. He told me I could read it. As he fiddled with his laptop and projector, I did. It stated that the carpet had been installed wrong and there were toxic fumes in the building. They had run short of the adhesive used to hold it in place and had mixed chemicals. The resulting fumes were extremely dangerous. It listed some of the results of exposure to the fumes as blindness, dementia, liver, kidney, brain, and lung and heart damage.
One of the administrators, the grant writer, had gone to her doctor to get details on what these chemicals did to the human body and forced the issue in the management meeting. She was very concerned. She left the agency shortly afterwards. Administrative staff talked about the impact on the carpet workers who glued the carpet in. They were temporary workers hired for the job, local people. They were very sick. In the meeting we were assured that everything was under control and the situation could be effectively dealt with by “leaving the windows open” over a couple of weekends, letting the place air out. They passed the report around.
We accept this information at face value. But it nagged at me. It still does.
Things had gone from good to bad overnight. When I was fired I filed a complaint with the EEOC. The agency did not cooperate with the EEOC investigators. They provided none of the requested documents. They did provide a copy of the termination agreement. The EEOC agent spotted the ADA problems immediately. We went into a federal mediation sponsored by the EEOC.
As we entered this phase of the negotiations, I was feeling increasingly sick. I wondered if my illness was connected to exposure to the toxins in the clinic. I had also received the anthrax filled letter from Nigeria. Things were going wrong with my body.
In mediation the management was prepared in advance to talk about toxins. They had a version of the safety report with them. It was used as a bargaining chip in negotiations. If I settled, I would get the medical information I needed to seek treatment. I was offered a small sum of money for settlement and references. I considered it. In a fit of consciousness, the mediator provided the names of the chemicals to me on the phone. He also provided the name of the company that did the safety report. He had a strong ethical base and a federal obligation under law to do so. It was enough information to keep me going.
I felt like I was being held hostage for medical information. I filed the lawsuit.
The EEOC signed off and promptly lost all records pertaining to the case. They were obligated to retain them until the legal process had completed. To date, the whereabouts of those files remains a mystery.
I was truly and completely on my own.

Entry for September 09, 2006 A Slight Digression
I went to high school in Bellevue Nebraska. In the summer I did Ag work one year. I detasseled corn in 110 degree weather. Not for very long though. I came home exhausted and wrung out. One day I got separated from the rest of the crew I was working with. Up ahead as far as I could see was the muddy row and the corn towering above and arcing over my head. In back of me the same infinite tunnel of corn. I broke into a blind panic and began to run. I tripped, and tumbled face down into the mud, regaining my senses. It was a satori of sorts, an awakening of something deep inside of me. A nameless dread. The next summer I worked as a janitor for the school system. I worked at a little elementary school with an elderly man who seldom spoke to me. He listened to easy listening radio station KFOR. I remember the haunting, ascending electric piano of Stevie Wonder on "You are the sunshine of my life" all summer long, the chills that tingled up my spine when the piano hit G# and twinged the central nervous system. I was lost in a dream, pushing my mop bucket down the long empty hallways. The next year I started selling records and stereos at the Brandies department store. That's where by chance I met radio announcer Jimmy O'Neill. Jimmy O'Neill was working at WOW in Omaha. He was famous. He had been the host of the ground breaking 1960s show Shindig on TV. I use to watch him in Spanish when I lived in Puerto Rico. I watched him work intensely on the phone doing a remote for the store. He gestured fanatically as he delivered the commercial. He enunciated every word. Boxed with the consonants. He literally shook when he talked he was so intense. He was as kinetic as hell even planted in the corner of the record shop. Between stop sets I asked him how to get into radio. I wanted to do what he did. I was already shaking. He told me I should go to the Columbia School of Broadcasting in Kansas City. I almost went. I got the catalog. I got some broadcast training in a special program in high school. I had decided that I wanted to be on the radio. That much I knew. I played guitar in the church choir. I played in a USO band. I played in a basement band called Queen Anne's Revenge which morphed into Grunt. I spent all my time playing guitar and piano. Don Fawn, a friend and guitar player in all those incarnation contacted me recently. He has a tape of us playing Carl Perkins’s "Honey Don't." I didn’t. We played the state prison once. We got paid in cake. Another job one night promised real cash. It was at a church dance somewhere out in the country. We climbed into the van and did the dance. When it came time to be paid, the minister scratched his head and shrugged his shoulders. He mumbled bible words. We didn't get cash. We got a carton of hot dogs and a case of Orange Crush. We drove the van to the local drive in and watched "Fritz the Cat" from the back of the open van. All night we gorged ourselves on the best hot dogs and orange soda I ever had. We had it made. That is my work experience, summed up in three stories. I was still playing guitar and singing in a weak voice when I went to college. It was a big part of my self image and identity. The Italian blues kid. I sought out opportunities to play. At the Centennial education program, Jeff Table let me sit in with his bands, Crumbhunger and the Permanent Waves. Ric Marsh, my advisor and friend tolerated my lack of focus, timing and pitch and jammed with me. At the University one night I went solo. I played did a night in a little coffee house in the student union. It was big time. And truly awful. I decided that night that I would never be a great performer. Music went from 100% of my life to zero overnight. I decided to write instead. I got hired by the Daily Nebraskan in 1975.Vince Boucher was the editor at that time. I could write music and art pretty well. I was groomed to replace the star writer of that time, Dave Wood. My parents moved to Florida that year, leaving me at school in Lincoln. I started off at the University of Nebraska majoring in Journalism and Political Science. I was in the School of Broadcasting where I was told by the head of the department that there was something wrong with my voice. I didn't sound like anybody else there. I didn't have the pipes. My instructor sent me off to a doctor to get the vocal nodes sliced off my vocal chords like deli baloney. After the doctor stuck a mirror down my throat and noodled around for awhile, I passed on the operation. Despite the alleged grunge in my throat I carried on. I did OK in broadcast news and photography. I did good interviews and framed things well. I learned my base radio skills on the air at KRNU, the University of Nebraska radio station. A friend of my brothers, Dennis Dorgherty, who was the resident manager at my dorm, knew Doug Agnew, the station manager at KFMQ. He was the son of Steve Agnew, the owner of the progressive rock station. Dennis got me an interview. He knew they were desperate for an overnight personality. They had just lost their night announcer. Doug was going down to the station with a case of beer and a couple of friends to keep the station on the air. He usually shut it down by 3 a.m. They hired me for the midnight shift. I didn't have the pipes, but I was the first one in my class to get a radio job. Steve Agnew, the extraordinary air personality and engineer hired me. They told me not to talk. Maybe it was the uncut baloney on my vocal cords, I don't know. I do know I ended up talking anyway. They let me. I played good sets and segued records really well. Roger Agnew, who had the best radio voice I ever heard, got me up to speed. He said they had hired someone from California to come and take over, but after he got to the station I could do weekends. He told me to have a good time. I was sad, but exhilarated to be on the air at all. I was working seven days a week, midnight to six in the morning. The guy from California finally arrived. He got off a bus in the middle of the night and came down to the station. It was over just like that. Or so I thought. It turned out that he had a few problems. He was at the station 24 hours a day telling people how to cut commercials, how to run the station, and what music to play and how to be on the air. He had all the signs of someone with a strong PTSD. He drank all the time. He didn't sleep. He couldn't stand to be alone. He was locked into his anger. He was a control freak. They fired him and hired me. I continued to work seven days a week. I'd sleep two hours in the morning and get up and go write and edit for the Daily Nebraskan. The fired guy called me a couple times a night. I could not get him off the phone. He said he didn't want me to get fired like he did. He’d tell me how to survive. He started off friendly and got increasingly hostile. He broke into the station one night drunk. And stole records. He threatened to castrate me. I was getting to the point where I was carrying empty coke bottles into the parking lot in case I needed something to defend myself. As Senator Dave Landis said, "a coke bottle, now there's the weapon of choice." Dave did a jazz show on the weekends. David Kappy, Captain Classics, the guy who did the weekend classical show agreed. I finally told the program director and the station called the police. It turns out he had just gotten out of prison for assault and did not want to go back. That was my introduction to radio. KFMQ was a one hundred and fifty watt station, one of the last in the country. The big ones were usually a hundred thousand watts. What you would call a stick station. We covered a tri-state area, and sometime were heard as far away as Canada and Wyoming. I was there for ten years. That is my fourth and final telling work tale.
I left ten years later to the day I was hired.
That was my work experience going into grad school. I worked in a library, built a bridge, washed dishes, managed a gift shop, and was a file clerk and a telephone operator.
I worked as an audio tech for work study. I sold what I wrote.
That’s what I learned from work.
Nothing could prepare me for the year 1997.

Entry for September 08, 2006 How the elephant got into my pajamasDespite a somewhat notorious civil rights history in the 1960s, the condos attracted a variety of people. It is filled with retirees and newlyweds. Built on a spot sacred to the Hawaiian Royalty. It is said that the buildings are haunted and cursed by the amakua of those kapuna who came before. The condos have survived mudslides and shifting real estate prices and still captivate the mind and spirit. It is a holy spot. Despite the curses. The view is killer. The condos are surrounded on three sides by Volcanic Mountains that crumble like German chocolate. About three hundred wild goats live up there. There are waterfalls that cascade behind the condos in the winter. They are generally followed by mud. Peacocks parade the idyllic. Down the valley two miles is the ocean.
The cable lanes that ties the condos together is a subject of some speculation. Exactly how private are these condos? What kind of intrigues fills this place? The famous have stood at the railing and looked down the valley at the rising moon. Are there spies lurking about? Did the population of the two entire buildings narrowly escape eradication in 1998 by an anthrax attack from a foreign power? Its' a wild tale indeed. "A ripping good tale" as Earnest Hemmingway wrote. But let’s start here. 1998.
Prelude
Let me review what I know to be true.
In the late summer or early fall of 1998 I received a letter from Nigeria.
The letter was a type-written document. The body of the letter was an attempt to recruit me to set up a bank account. It offered a base fund of $150,000. I was not to touch the money in the account but could have the interest accrued on an interest baring account.
In the folds of the letter was a little more than a gram of white powder.
I called the FBI immediately. In a phone interview with the FBI agent (who did not identify himself) the agent said that the letter was of a type that he was receiving reports on. The letter was similar to letters received by others. It was regarded as a scam. The unidentified white powder was most likely talcum powder. Talcum powder, he explained, was used to obscure finger prints.
In the previous decade, the first cases of anthrax exposure in 50 years had been reported in the United States. There had been fatalities. The anthrax was of a weapons grade, stolen from a secure government facility. The accused perpetrator was an employee of the facility, who evidently smuggled the anthrax out of the facility. The first cases were apparently random mailings. One of the victims, an elderly woman, is perplexing. The victims in Vero Beach, employees of the Globe Newspaper in Vero Beach, are evidently more explainable. The Globe is a Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper which does investigative reporting. I believe it also does stories on tea parties with aliens. It is what my mother would call a “scandal sheet.” The current issue has the following headlines:

HILLARY ATTACKS BILL’S SECRET LOVER. HE FORCES HILLARY INTO SEX THERAPY.
JACKO WAS FRAMED
BRAD AND ANGELINA MOVING IN TOGETHER
KENNY CHESNEY’S OTHER WOMAN REVEALED

The magazine describes itself as publishing “true life stories and fun.”
Their Web Site is http://www.globemagazine.com/
It is clear that these individuals were highly traumatized by their experience and have researched what happened extensively.
The incident itself is more explainable. No one likes journalists.
According to my cardiologist, who was informed on the initial attack, the weapons grade anthrax was lethal within a couple of seconds.
In short, a typical knowledge of such exposure would indicate that this powder was not of the same variety of anthrax in those initial attacks. It came from outside the country. All known cases of anthrax exposure originated in the United States, with stolen United States government-issue anthrax as a likely source of contamination.
According to the 70 year old Berkley study on negative ions, as well as standard operational procedures for medical and research facilities, negative ions contain or kill anthrax. The following site is by no means definitive, but it is simplified to a degree that you can quickly absorb the information. It will give you enough grounding to do further research. http://www.superforce.com/
I lived in a high-density, negative ion infused environment. I had two high density negative ion generators going full blast for seven years prior to the getting the letter. I lived in a controlled, air conditioned environment. The floors space was of a studio type.
It consisted of a single room condo, a hall way, and a two chambered bath and dressing room. It was inter-connected to nineteen or twenty floors of other occupied condos.
The FBI agent had me fax a copy of the letter and the envelope to him. I had to remove the white powder from the envelope in order to do this. No sample of the white powder was collected.
So what happened to the letter?
I was working at radio station KCCN AM at the time. A newswoman, Mandy Armstrong, was interested in what had happened. She later became the News Director on the FM side of the band. I gave the letter to her. I don’t remember if there was powder in the envelope or not. We can assume that there was some residue in the envelope. I’ll attempt to call Mandy today to find out if there is additional information.
I got progressively sicker, culminating in a congestive heart failure. I almost died. Organ damage was such that a heart transplant was recommended for my survival. I am currently on 100% disability for toxic exposure and well.
That’s another story.
Is there another explanation for the illness? That’s next.
Alternative speculation as to the nature of the crime:
It is a frequent organized crime and espionage tactic to create the appearance of a pattern crime with many victims. It is used to mask specific crimes. In this way the whys of the crime can be covered up. Attacks appear to be part of a random splattering of violence or criminal aggression. It’s explainable by a wider pattern of events.
If so, why was I targeted? To what end?
Was I meant to be disabled by a lower quality anthrax exposure?
Was the offer based on truth?
Is there a link to a financial network, or “battle funds” set up for unnamed parties to pull on while remaining anonymous?
I was out of work. I was engaged in a Federal Lawsuit against my former employer.
I was economically vulnerable. That vulnerability was increased by an increasing inability to work and isolation.
The plot, as it is unfolded like the letter from Nigeria.
In the folds of the letter is the unknown white powder of whys, whose and whereas. Contained in it is the spore of events that set the next seven years in motion.
These are the known facts of these events as I know them. I do for swear it.
Addendum:
What is anthrax? Anthrax, named after the Greek word for coal because of the dark skin lesions it causes, is a caused by the Bacillus anthracis bacterium. Spores can exist in the soil for years and, herbivores such as cattle, sheep and goats are most likely to become infected while grazing. Human cases are rare.
How dangerous is it?
The bug can infect humans through a cut on the skin, more rarely by inhalation of spores or, even more rarely, by eating infected meat. Inhaling spores in sufficient numbers is likely to lead to death, although early antibiotics can reduce the risk. Ingested anthrax is similarly deadly, but more than 80 per cent of those with a skin infection survive.
What are the symptoms?
Generally feeling unwell with a flu-like illness and breathing difficulties are the early signs of inhaled anthrax. Skin infections cause an itchy, inflamed pimple that turns into a blister with extensive swelling. Several days later this turns into an ulcer with the classic black marks.
Can it spread between humans?
Anthrax does not spread person-to-person, although there have been extremely rare reports of skin infections apparently transferring from one person to another.

New From The FBI: Twelve Additional Court Documents on Anthrax Case Posted Online

Twelve Additional Court Documents on Anthrax Case Posted Online

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:08:29 -0500
Twelve more documents related to the investigation of Bruce Edwards Ivins have been released and posted.

Attorney General Guidelines for Domestic FBI Operations

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Read Katie Hood's Blog on The Huffington Post: The Patient Empowerment Revolution
In the wake of Google co-founder Sergey Brin's disclosure that he carries a genetic mutation increasing his risk for Parkinson's disease, Katie Hood blogs on the potential of genetic research to empower all of us to take ownership of our medical futures.

Katie Hood Appointed to NINDS Council
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Save the Date: Research Roundtable in Chicago on October 21
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LT. GOV, LEGISLATORS, KSC DIRECTOR TO SPEAK
AT FLORIDA SPACE & TECHNOLOGY FORUM

COCOA, Fla. – Florida Lieutenant Governor Jeff Kottkamp and Kennedy Space Center Director Bill Parsons will be the keynote speakers at the Florida Space and Technology Forum to be held Monday, September 29 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Florida Solar Energy Center in Cocoa .
Space is Florida ’s original high-tech industry, with space contractors in 47 of Florida ’s 67 counties. When the Space Shuttle fleet is retired in 2010, Florida could lose up to 10,000 high-wage jobs, further impacting the state’s fragile economy.
Congressman Tom Feeney, Florida senators Mike Haridopolos and Bill Posey, and Florida representatives Sandy Adams, Thad Altman, Dean Cannon, Ralph Poppell, Steve Precourt , and Tony Sasso will join moderator John Thrasher to discuss and create a legislative agenda to advocate for Florida ’s space industry.
Industry presentations will be made by ASRC Aerospace Corporation, The Boeing Company, ITV Group, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Northrop Grumman, United Launch Alliance, Wyle Laboratories, and Zero Gravity Corporation.
The goals of the forum are to asses Florida’s assets and limitations and develop a public policy agenda to increase the state’s competitive advantage; determine how the State of Florida and its advocacy groups can assist Florida’s congressional delegation in promoting space and technology; develop a state budget request for space, to be submitted to the governor and state legislature for the 2008 legislative session; identify roles and improve relationships of all groups supporting Florida’s space industry; and create a master calendar for coordination of Florida’s space advocacy activities at the state and federal level.
Issues such as Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education; university-based research and applied technology; space infrastructure; employment; business development; and state and federal partnerships will be discussed.
This program is free and open to the public. The Florida Solar Energy Center is located at the northeast corner of Brevard Community College ’s Cocoa Campus.

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VA quadruples payment to vets with brain injuriesAP via Yahoo! Finance Wed, 24 Sep 2008 6:08 AM PDTThe government is more than quadrupling monthly payments to some veterans suffering brain injuries, as the number of such war wounds mounts from the roadside bombings of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Balancing the brainEurekAlert! Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:21 AM PDT( Children's Hospital Boston ) Neuroscientists at Children's Hospital Boston have identified the first known "master switch" to orchestrate the formation and maintenance of inhibitory synapses on neurons, essential for proper brain function. The switch, called Npas4, regulates more than 200 genes that calm over-excited cells, restoring a balance that is thought to go askew in neurologic ...

Independent brain pathways generate positive or negative reappraisals of emotional eventsEurekAlert! Wed, 24 Sep 2008 9:21 AM PDT( Cell Press ) Scientists now have a better understanding of how the human brain orchestrates the sophisticated pathways involved in the regulation of emotions. The research, published by Cell Press in the Sept. 25 issue of the journal Neuron, identifies brain pathways that underlie reinterpretation of aversive images in ways that reduce or enhance their negative emotional intensity.

Anthrax Case Documents UnsealedNew York Times - United StatesDr. Ivins, 62, an anthrax vaccine specialist at Fort Detrick, Md., killed himself with an overdose of medication in July after learning that he was likely ...See all stories on this topic

The Associated Press
Documents: Ivins bragged he knew anthrax killerThe Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — Bruce Ivins, the Army scientist accused of carrying out the 2001 anthrax attacks, e-mailed himself last year saying he knew who the killer ...See all stories on this topic
The Scarlet A: Links between the Anthrax Attacks and 9/11OpEdNews - Newtown,PA,USAIf the Florida anthrax doesn’t link back to Ivins’ Ft. Detrick flask and Ivins, who worked on vaccines (bio-defense) and not its weaponization (bio-offense) ...See all stories on this topic

U.S. News & World Report
Water Chlorination and 12 Other Lifesaving Innovations That Rarely ...U.S. News & World Report - Washington,DC,USALater researchers developed vaccines for a wide range of diseases, from cholera and anthrax to mumps and measles. Recently, however, critics have howled ...See all stories on this topic
Full Year Statutory AccountsSydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,AustraliaExamples of the purified antigen approach include vaccines for Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pneumococcus, Meningococcus, H. influenzae B, Pertussis and Anthrax. ...See all stories on this topic

Victims of crime programs get $7.4MManitowoc Herald Times Reporter Wed, 24 Sep 2008 2:14 AM PDTMADISON Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced the awarding of $7.4 million in Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) grants to programs throughout the state that serve victims of crime, including Holy Family Memorials Sexual Assault Resource Center in Manitowoc which received $45,332

Surfing: Slater second in France, but moves closer to another world titleHonolulu Advertiser Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:06 PM PDTFlorida's Kelly Slater placed second in the Quiksilver Pro France men's surfing contest today, and is on the brink of clinching an unprecedented ninth world championship.

Unraveling 'math dyslexia'EurekAlert! Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:21 AM PDT( University of Western Ontario ) Research at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada could change the way we view math difficulties and how we assist children who face those problems.Daniel Ansari is an assistant professor and Canada Research Chair in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience in the department of psychology at Western. He is using brain imaging to understand how

Measles worries as MMR vaccination rates stallTelegraph.co.uk - United KingdomBy Kate Devlin, Medical Correspondent Take up rates for the jab plummeted following claims a decade ago that it could be linked to autism. ...
See all stories on this topic 82-Year-Old Pleads Guilty To "Mercy Killing" WFTV 9 Orlando - Sep 24 4:53 PM EDT
Brevard approves reduced budget Sep 24 1:37 AM EDT Brevard County's new operating budget for 2008-09 chops the equivalent of 104.6 full-time jobs from the books, County Manager Peggy Busacca
Fugitive arrested after more than 25 years on run
Sep 24 4:30 PM EDT
A fugitive who faked his own death and has been on the run for more than 25 years was arrested in Central Florida on Tuesday, where he apparently has been living for the past decade, the U.S. Marshals Service announced
Flu shots recommended for all children older than 6 months Sep 24 4:15 PM EDT The U.S. government is now recommending that all children older than 6 months be vaccinated against influenza -- expanding previous guidelines that focused on kids age 6 months to 2 years old.
Movie review: National Lampoon Presents Robodoc -- 1 out of 5 starsOrlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USAYears in the making, written and coaxed to the screen by Space Coast radiologist and sometime-comedy writer Dr. Doug Gordon, Robodoc has Central Florida ...See all stories on this topic
Painting a sense of self-controlThe Sarasota Herald-Tribune Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:19 PM PDTTouch drawing, a form of expressive arts therapy introduced in the 1970s, helps Sarasota resident Charles Jursa cope with Parkinson's Disease.

University of Iowa Officials Fired Over Handling of Sexual Assault ...WHO-TV - Des Moines,IA,USAThe two former Hawkeye football players at the center of the alleged sexual assault will be in court November 3rd. Cedric Everson is charged with one count ...See all stories on this topic

Report: Anthrax Suspect Barred From Labs After SpillFox News Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:28 AM PDTAnthrax mailing suspect Bruce E. Ivins' access to Army biodefense laboratories was yanked after he spilled anthrax on his pants and went home to wash them instead of immediately reporting the accident, Army report says.

Critics of Anthrax Inquiry Seek an Independent ReviewNew York Times Tue, 23 Sep 2008 7:10 PM PDTAbill by Representative Rush D. Holt would create a national commission on the anthrax attacks, a scaled-down version of the commission that studied the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Documents: Ivins Bragged He Knew Anthrax KillerCBS News Wed, 24 Sep 2008 3:24 PM PDTBruce Ivins, the Army scientist accused of masterminding the 2001 anthrax attacks, e-mailed himself last year saying he knew who the killer was, according to court documents unsealed Wednesday. "Yes! Yes! Yes!!!!!!! I finally know who mailed the anthrax letters in the fall of 2001. I've pieced it together!" Ivins wrote in the e-mail dated Sept. 7, 2007, according to an FBI affidavit.

Anthrax enquiry to undergo independent reviewNature Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:12 AM PDTOn the request of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, experts convened by the US National Academy of Sciences will review the FBI's scientific evidence against bioweapons researcher Bruce Ivins, who committed suicide earlier this year, in the anthrax bioterrorist attacks of 2001.

Anthrax suspect was barred from labs after spillThe Charlotte Observer Wed, 24 Sep 2008 6:10 AM PDTAnthrax mailing suspect Bruce E. Ivins' access to Army biodefense laboratories was revoked in March after he spilled anthrax on his pants and went home to wash them instead of immediately reporting the accident, according to an Army report. The accident occurred March 17 at Fort Detrick while the microbiologist, who died of an apparent suicide July 29, was working with the relatively mild strain ...



Judge declines to recuse himself from a 9/11 trialMiami Herald Thu, 25 Sep 2008 1:00 AM PDTGUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- Confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed called his military commission an ''inquisition'' Wednesday in a failed effort to get his Marine Corps judge to stop presiding at the 9/11 mass murder trial

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THE NEXT 50 YEARS (Science Show: 20/09/2008) http://abcmail.net.au/t/263715/685626/5273/0/CALL FOR SCIENTISTS TO FOCUS ON BIG PROBLEMS (Science Show: 20/09/2008) http://abcmail.net.au/t/263715/685626/5274/0/

Court: Monitoring Muslim visitors was legalUSA Today Wed, 24 Sep 2008 2:00 PM PDTA post-9/11 rule that required visitors from two dozen Arab and Muslim countries and North Korea to register with immigration authorities was constitutional, an appeals court said Wednesday
CORRECTIONS: Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor and Obesity in the WAGR SyndromeNew England Journal of Medicine Wed, 24 Sep 2008 2:30 PM PDTBrain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor and Obesity in the WAGR Syndrome . The abstract (p. 918) included a trial-registration number, but since the article reported a further analysis of trial data, not ...

Whole Brain Radiation Not Best for Cancer That Has SpreadMedicineNet.com Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:39 PM PDTTitle: Whole Brain Radiation Not Best for Cancer That Has Spread Category: Health News Created: 9/24/2008 2:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 9/24/2008

VA quadruples payment to vets with brain injuriesAP via Yahoo! Finance Wed, 24 Sep 2008 6:08 AM PDTThe government is more than quadrupling monthly payments to some veterans suffering brain injuries, as the number of such war wounds mounts from the roadside bombings of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Balancing the brainEurekAlert! Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:21 AM PDT( Children's Hospital Boston ) Neuroscientists at Children's Hospital Boston have identified the first known "master switch" to orchestrate the formation and maintenance of inhibitory synapses on neurons, essential for proper brain function. The switch, called Npas4, regulates more than 200 genes that calm over-excited cells, restoring a balance that is thought to go askew in neurologic ...

Independent brain pathways generate positive or negative reappraisals of emotional eventsEurekAlert! Wed, 24 Sep 2008 9:21 AM PDT( Cell Press ) Scientists now have a better understanding of how the human brain orchestrates the sophisticated pathways involved in the regulation of emotions. The research, published by Cell Press in the Sept. 25 issue of the journal Neuron, identifies brain pathways that underlie reinterpretation of aversive images in ways that reduce or enhance their negative emotional intensity.

Anthrax Case Documents UnsealedNew York Times - United StatesDr. Ivins, 62, an anthrax vaccine specialist at Fort Detrick, Md., killed himself with an overdose of medication in July after learning that he was likely ...See all stories on this topic

The Associated Press
Documents: Ivins bragged he knew anthrax killerThe Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — Bruce Ivins, the Army scientist accused of carrying out the 2001 anthrax attacks, e-mailed himself last year saying he knew who the killer ...See all stories on this topic
The Scarlet A: Links between the Anthrax Attacks and 9/11OpEdNews - Newtown,PA,USAIf the Florida anthrax doesn’t link back to Ivins’ Ft. Detrick flask and Ivins, who worked on vaccines (bio-defense) and not its weaponization (bio-offense) ...See all stories on this topic

U.S. News & World Report
Water Chlorination and 12 Other Lifesaving Innovations That Rarely ...U.S. News & World Report - Washington,DC,USALater researchers developed vaccines for a wide range of diseases, from cholera and anthrax to mumps and measles. Recently, however, critics have howled ...See all stories on this topic
Full Year Statutory AccountsSydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,AustraliaExamples of the purified antigen approach include vaccines for Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pneumococcus, Meningococcus, H. influenzae B, Pertussis and Anthrax. ...See all stories on this topic

Victims of crime programs get $7.4MManitowoc Herald Times Reporter Wed, 24 Sep 2008 2:14 AM PDTMADISON Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced the awarding of $7.4 million in Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) grants to programs throughout the state that serve victims of crime, including Holy Family Memorials Sexual Assault Resource Center in Manitowoc which received $45,332

Surfing: Slater second in France, but moves closer to another world titleHonolulu Advertiser Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:06 PM PDTFlorida's Kelly Slater placed second in the Quiksilver Pro France men's surfing contest today, and is on the brink of clinching an unprecedented ninth world championship.

Unraveling 'math dyslexia'EurekAlert! Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:21 AM PDT( University of Western Ontario ) Research at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada could change the way we view math difficulties and how we assist children who face those problems.Daniel Ansari is an assistant professor and Canada Research Chair in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience in the department of psychology at Western. He is using brain imaging to understand how

Measles worries as MMR vaccination rates stallTelegraph.co.uk - United KingdomBy Kate Devlin, Medical Correspondent Take up rates for the jab plummeted following claims a decade ago that it could be linked to autism. ...
See all stories on this topic 82-Year-Old Pleads Guilty To "Mercy Killing" WFTV 9 Orlando - Sep 24 4:53 PM EDT
Brevard approves reduced budget Sep 24 1:37 AM EDT Brevard County's new operating budget for 2008-09 chops the equivalent of 104.6 full-time jobs from the books, County Manager Peggy Busacca
Fugitive arrested after more than 25 years on run
Sep 24 4:30 PM EDT
A fugitive who faked his own death and has been on the run for more than 25 years was arrested in Central Florida on Tuesday, where he apparently has been living for the past decade, the U.S. Marshals Service announced
Flu shots recommended for all children older than 6 months Sep 24 4:15 PM EDT The U.S. government is now recommending that all children older than 6 months be vaccinated against influenza -- expanding previous guidelines that focused on kids age 6 months to 2 years old.
Movie review: National Lampoon Presents Robodoc -- 1 out of 5 starsOrlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USAYears in the making, written and coaxed to the screen by Space Coast radiologist and sometime-comedy writer Dr. Doug Gordon, Robodoc has Central Florida ...See all stories on this topic NASA clears hurdle on SoyuzOrlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USAHe said the retiring Space Coast congressman is pushing a compromise that would couple a short-term extension of the waiver with more shuttle flights after ...See all stories on this topic

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The novelist, journalist and psychologist Michael Zangari http://zangarijournalism.com