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    1. Flashes of Light on the Faith
    2. black.horizons
    3. In this article of mine, the believer will find incontestable historic- archaeological support to his Faith, the undecided one will perhaps be capable of making a decisive step forward to live the "Blessed Hope", the atheist will get irritated at seeing his thought being based absolutely on nothing. In this site, there are links with other writings of mine, which have had more than 100.000 readers all over the world. Nowadays, we are living on the surface and on the loss of information. Let us think of the Vinci's Code which, even among many other anti- historical events being therein described, makes reference to documents being recognized as falsified from the authors themselves. In spreading the Truth, we will honour Our Lord, we will help all the people who are in need of consolation and hope, we will give our contribution to fight against the darkness closed in upon us and trying to steal our eternal destiny of life, to give us an equivalent eternal destiny of death. To everybody who will read this article, I wish a profitable reading, with my best regards. www.lorenzocrescini.it/archeo - ricercapap@lorenzocrescini.it Lorenzo Crescini

    06/29/2007 04:25:05
    1. New Group: Russian Historical and Genealogical News.
    2. Cuirassier
    3. Here we will publish information about the most interesting facts and news of Russian History and Genealogy from different Russian sources. You are welcome to join! http://groups.google.com/group/rusgenealogynews

    06/29/2007 12:18:15
    1. Slovakian Names beginning with - K; Douglas A. Kukucka
    2. Anonymous
    3. Slovakian Names beginning with "K" Douglas A. Kukucka Kabat Kachurik Kacik Kacir Kaclik Kacmar Kacmarcik Kacmarsky Kacsmar Kacur Kacvinsky Kadelak Kadlecik Kakacka Kalata Kalavsky Kalena Kalovcsak Kalus Kamenca Kamenicky Kamensky Kan Kancza Kanda Kandra Kandrick Kanski Kantor Kanuch Kanya Kapinus Kapitan Kaprak Kapura Kapusta Karaba Karabin Karabinos Karas Karhnak Karovic Karpac Karpiscak Kascak Kashnik Kasik Kasin Kasina Kasinak Kasper Kasprisin Katana Katrak Katuh Kavka Kayda Kazimir Kekely Kenderes Kepic Kerecman Kernasevich Kicin Kicko Kidon Kiliany Kilik Kindya Kiral Kirschbaum Kisel Kisela Kisly Klc Klco Klcso Klein Kleinj Klembara Klesken Klima Klimek Kliment Klimko Klosterman Klucho Klucka Klukan Kmec Kmet Kmetz Knapik Knapo Knapp Knaze Knis Knizacky Knurowski Koban Kobina Kocak Kocerha Kochan Kochera Kocian Kocis Kocserhan Kocur Kocurek Koczak Koczur Kohut Kohutka Kojis Kokoska Kolar Kolarcik Kolarik Kolarsky Kolcun Kolenic Kolenich Kolesar Kollar Kolnik Kolodzej Kolonay Komanca Komar Kona Konecnik Konecny Konic Konik Konkol Konopeus Kontros Konus Kopach Kopacko Kopanicak Kopas Kopasz Kopcik Kopco Kopehak Kopera Kopesky Kopkas Kopnicky Kopper Kopral Kopronica Korabik Korbelic Korbul Korchnak Kordik Korecko Koreni Korim Korman Kornos Korski Kosar Kosc Koscak Kosco Kosela Kosicka Kosik Kostelnik Kostival Kostura Kosturko Kosztura Kotalik Kotian Kotlar Kotleba Kotrady Kotyuha Kotzun Kovac Kovach Kovacik Kovacs Koval Kovalak Kovalcik Kovalcin Kovalic Kovarik Kozacek Kozacik Kozak Kozel Kozeny Kozlak Kozsir Krachun Krajci Krajicek Krajnak Krajni Krajnik Krajsa Kral Kralik Kralovansky Kramoris Krapacs Kravcik Kravec Kravecz Kraynik Krcmarik Krehel Krehely Krempaska Krestes Krhla Krichtik Krigovsky Krisak Krisko Kristof Kristofek Krivosik Krizovensky Kropinak Krovina Krul Krupa Krupitzer Kruppa Krupsky Krynak Kubacka Kubala Kubancsek Kubani Kubas Kubasak Kubatko Kubek Kubicek Kubicko Kubik Kubina Kubinsky Kubla Kubla Kubov Kubovic Kubuscek Kucavik Kucera Kuchera Kuchta Kucik Kucko Kudic Kudlica Kudravy Kudrick Kudzma Kuharik Kuhorik Kukel Kukucka Kukucka Kukula Kulic Kulich Kulifaj Kunas Kundak Kundek Kunderna Kundis Kundra Kundrat Kupca Kupcsik Kupka Kurator Kurcina Kurej Kurian Kuric Kurila Kurimsky Kurinec Kuritz Kurnat Kurta Kurtek Kuruc Kurucz Kushner Kushnir Kusnir Kusnirik Kusnyir Kutney Kuzila Kuzma Kuzmik Kvartek Kvazsnica Kvorjak Kysel

    06/28/2007 08:55:09
    1. Courage
    2. purtybird0
    3. Living in the Hell my own people allowed the Illuminati to build for me. Courage is a strange thing, sometimes people say you don't have it when you do . Other times absolute fear enables one to change reality by manipulating the matter around them. In my experience, when this happens one has no fear nor, conscious control over the matter manipulation they administer. I have learned in recent years that matter and energy are one in the same, but that's a hole other subject I will not discus at this point. Heaven forbid the allowed for general public science world wake up, It is as if you become one with God or the collective conscious of this reality and are able to effect it's change. People often refer to one in this state as being a Witch or Psychic, when one sees future possibilities, or past that was before their time. I Lawrence Lapadat, have had many of these experiences, and would like to share one very important one with you at this point. I believe I was about 11,or 12 years old, and I was walking home from school one day when I was confronted by a kid named Johnny Bench. He stepped in front of me and asked me if I wanted to fight. I not wanting to show fear, even though I was afraid agreed. He was about my height but way stockier, and quite a bit heavier. I had never really boxed before and my experience with fighting had usually been wrestling, at which I was quite good. My approach to the task at hand was to reach out to get Johnny in a headlock, this had usually been my best result in past wrestling matches. To my surprise , Johnnies response was a good hard punch to my nose. In shock of what I thought at the time was a cruel unfair way of fighting I got upset and went crying home looking for sympathy. My fathers response was even more shocking to me, when he turned on me with anger and stated, well put up your dukes and fight. The next time I saw Johnny I was angry with him and let him, know by ignoring him, but he persisted, so I let him know I was not happy about him punching me. He apologized , and explained he had only done it because he wanted to be friends. He asked me to play with him, so we went over to his house and played. At one point he asked me why I did not like fighting. I explained that I did not mind wrestling,but did not like punching, so he asked me to wrestle with him. He still got the best of me in wrestling, and he was holding me down and not letting me go when I gave up. I can't recall weather he tried to kiss me or what he did but, I do know something sexual was going on. His mother I believe had been watching us, and ran out scolding Johnny. He let me up, and I yelled out in anger, I never want to play with you again, and I don't want to be your friend. Johnny at this point spurted out in a hurt voice, but I love you, you have to be my friend. Johnnies father had come out the side door at this point, and hollered out get in here right now. My next meeting was with Johnnies father, he stopped me one day explaining he was an ex military drill Sargent or something, and that Johnny had killed himself because I would not be friends with him. This made me extremely angry, and I started yelling at him, well it's your fault, you taught him be a fighter. You probably beat him up too. Then he got mad at me too , I don't recall who threatened to kill who first. But I do recall Johnnies dad admitting to beating Johnny, and crying before he ran off. When I looked up a huge creature was standing behind where Johnnies dad had been. You have found your lizard DNA, it stated. I backed off in terror. I do not recall shape shifting in my encounter with Mr Bench although I may have. This entity I would now describe as an inter- dimensional Lizards. As a 11, or 12 year old boy I assumed this must be the Devil I was talking to. They had not approached me with anger but they exuded much power. I recall Mr Romeo had come out to check on my tiff with Mr Bench and had broken the Illuminati mind control lock on me. I remember backing Mr Romeo off with the statement watch out he will kill you. In some form the Lizards had communicated frustration with the interference Dave Romeo had posed on it's communications with me. We had communicated what had happened with Johnny Bench, He asked me about girls , and had told me we are going to breed you. He told me I would have a very hard life, and that my adversary would be very strong and power full and a Mayor. He then told me that I would be very strong too. He warned if I did not back off my fight against chem trails they would have to kill me. I was backed right back up onto the street by now as I had chased Mr Bench down the trail into the woods. The Lizard then slipped as if talking to a second Lizard beside us. he stated oh no we won't be able to kill him he will be some kind of folk hero, we are just going to have to find another way to kill people. From what I understand today the Illuminati have dominated us for thousands of years. They have done this by several methods. Control of the money supply, forming groups of allegiance, turning man against man, mind control over the weak, drugging us both medically and the illegal trade. Their biggest fear is being out numbered, when and if the Vail drops we will kill them off. What do I mean by Vail dropping. All matter resonates at a certain hertz with in it's domain, and all in harmony. Right now the Lizards have the ability to make themselves seen or not seen by slight phase shifts. As with all things certain cycles bring change our solar system is moving towards a denser part of the Galaxy, this could cause the sun to speed up the hertz at which matter resonates allowing us to see the Lizards as they are. Or perhaps the Sun is just at a point in it's cycle where it will speed up. My self personally I would rather walk down the street and see a 12 foot Lizard then be poisoned off with chem trails or war or mercury lased vaccines, fluoride poisoned water systems or killed by NSA, CIA, FBI, M17, SS terror scams to sell war. Peace is only possible when we understand and communicate those understandings in a rational way. Covering truth is our biggest enemy. Yet we live in a society that is, turned to acceptance of the lie. Adolf Hitler, the brain child of The New World Order, was controlled by these same Lizards that, have ran from me. Are their any People left out there that will stand beside me, or will you all just keep persecuting me to cover your own crimes against me, and God. We could all just keep sleeping as the new gas chambers from the skies rain down on us. Send more hit men cops and Military cowards to kill the messengers. Keep watching the hard sell of their agendas on TV, or get our asses off the couch. and do something. Call a friend , call your political Representatives, and complain. It's never going to change if we don't participate. Educate yourself ,get on the Internet, search Google video for these Authors. Jordan Maxwell , Eustace Mullins, Alex Jones , Michael Tsarion, David Icke, Stan Monteith. These topics, New World Order, 911 , chem trails, codex. The Great Global warming swindle. Devils may pay well at times , but we can win. Not all victories are on the fields of battle , most begin in the heart, and mind of man. We are a great species join me, in our continued struggle to remain so. Show the courage God gave you, and stand to truth, where God can be found. Please view these provided links as well to understand their excuses http://video.google.com/url?docid=-3028847519933351566&esrc=sr26&ev=v&q=the+great+global+warming+swindle&vidurl=/videoplay%3Fdocid%3D-3028847519933351566%26q%3Dthe%2Bgreat%2Bglobal%2Bwarming%2Bswindle%26total%3D117%26start%3D20%26num%3D10%26so%3D0%26type%3Dsearch%26plindex%3D5&usg=AL29H21RJmZqTtZqfd8kIq2vwlVEs-sy7w http://video.google.com/url?docid=2804238542173218531&esrc=gvre&ev=v&q=angels+don%27t+play+this+haarp&vidurl=/videoplay%3Fdocid%3D2804238542173218531%26q%3Dangels%2Bdon%2527t%2Bplay%2Bthis%2Bhaarp&usg=AL29H22TZwhiaSdcuJ5btmfWOHyjIZZz6Q ChemTrails-THE METHODIC DEMISE OF NATURAL EARTH THE EMERGENCE OF THE FOOD WEAPON. "THE NATURAL EARTH BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS ARE SLOWLY BEGINNING TO FAIL. RHIZOBACTERIA, A CRITICAL BACTERIAL ORGANISM IS BECOMING EXTINCT IN SOILS DUE TO BARIUM AND ALUMINUM HEAVY METAL TOXICITIES." "ONCE IS HAPPENSTANCE. TWICE IS COINCIDENCE. THREE TIMES IS ENEMY ACTION." http://www.wildchildmagazine.com/display.php?id=75 THE METHODIC DEMISE OF NATURAL EARTH ~An Environmental Impact Overview~ By Dr. R. Michael Castle Posted: 27 March 2004 In this century, we believe we are witnessing the gradual, purposeful demise of the Earth's Natural System. There are those who will debunk/dis-info all that is written regarding the subject of this paper: ChemTrails. What's this? ChemTrails are only a vague description, in lay-terms, of a greater theater of toxic materials being released into the atmosphere/stratosphere, for a myriad of crude and toxic agendas. The author, Dr. R. Michael Castle, will attempt to put this Global debacle into a profile of events. Technical specificity of all the identified components would require at least a book in length, to recite them all. A short Bibliography follows, and links to various pertinent documents of unquestionable validity. First Rule of Understanding: There are very large, winner-take-all games orchestrated by the Global Interests of the World. We have investigated, researched and found substantial evidence of a multiplicity of Global operations designed to mitigate various and theoretical Global catastrophes, as defined by a late 1980's and 1990's International Panel of Conferees. (The value of who are they, what's the politics smell like and all that is not of the utmost importance in our attempt, herein, to describe what serious destruction they have caused and are causing to Humans and our Finite Environment. 1 Many of the operations we have collectively found in our investigations of this debacle have remained a secret, classified and not for general populace information or knowledge. You must answer the question, Dear Reader as to why someone would possibly deploy these Geo-weapons. Just follow the money trails. We will yield all of our voluminous data, information and all references we have used in our validation of facts surrounding this Global atrocity. The recipients of this information must be interested enough in what we are trying to expose, the Human-health risks, the Environmental risks and the plain, simple "wrongness" that prevails. We must determine first if you are provoked to really care, because the research and development of this information for a Major Media whistle-blowing expose will require passion and dedication. Our research work has spanned almost five years of....watching and discovering, with disgust, the scenarios which follow. This is not a small task.....but the Mission is simple. Expose and Stop the Methodic Demolition of our Natural Earth and its inhabitants. Executive Summary Dr. Edward Teller wrote a white paper in the late 1990's describing a remedial operation, strategy, epic-in-proportion, to change the predicted course of what was believed by an International group of Scientists, including Dr. Edward Teller, Livermore National Laboratories, et al, to be the cataclysmic certainty from the results of global-warming, crisis level Ultra-Violet/Cosmic radiation, crisis Ozone-layer depletion and other theoretical doom. 2Demonstrating here, that the same mind, Dr. Edward Teller, Father H- Bomb, was responsible for many ill-conceived strategies and not one gave considerations to the consequences in the Human realm. Safety, toxicity, lethality, exposure, Environmental Impact, morality, were not words with which Dr. Teller had a high-degree of familiarity. 3 These Global-Warming Mitigation Strategies, UV Mitigation and the cessation of the effects of Atmospheric Greenhouse-gases were given a commonality by Teller, et al, and this was the use of a sub-micron particulate. Barium, Aluminum, Thorium, Selenium were to be processed into a sub-micron particle dispensed from high- altitude aircraft, ionized with a specific electrical charge. 4(Chemtrails and Barium - absorption & inhalation .. see links below )5We must surmise that ionization keeps the specific heavy metal particulate aloft for longer periods of time. This electronically charged particulate matrix might also be the perfect RF control field. Theoretically, the heavy metals would block and reflect the sunlight from entering the Earth's atmosphere and reflect 1-2% back into space. UV radiation levels would decline. Teller also recommended the use of Commercial Aircraft as-well-as-Military Aircraft to carry out the enormous and epic task of coverage to the Earth's Stratosphere. We believe that the weaponization use of these technologies has been well demonstrated for a US DOD program entitled "RF Dominance". The US Air Force VTRP and the Navy's RFMP are other military programs utilizing aerosolized heavy metal particulates, including aluminized fiberglass or chaffe are characteristic of current military operations. 6 CIA-led Project Cloverleaf was one of the initial "aerosolized heavy- metal particulate" operations. Massive spraying of the upper-atmosphere/Stratosphere commenced. The U.S. DOD operations soon followed, as the US Air Force became embedded in the overall operations, strategically. The U.S. Air Force would also play significantly into the expansion of a significant Global-Warming Mitigation strategies in the form of Weather Modification and Geo-Engineering practices. 7, 8 Federally Approved Contractors became involved in this massive, Global effort to save Earth from certain doom. Federal Approved Contractors, FAC's, were part of the research, Development and deployment aspects of these projects, and many of them have visited the premiere website 9(See - Visitors) FAC Academia, multi- National Corporations, U.S. Military/Industrial Complex/Corporations, became eager partners in this effort. One in particular, Hughes Aircraft Corporation of California turned research efforts towards this endeavor. Thorium and oxides, Aluminum and Silicon carbide have been identified in a special mixture referred to generally as Welsbach Refractory Seeding Agents US Patent 5, 003,186 . - March 26, 1991 10 This patent was assigned and awarded in 1990 to Hughes Aircraft Corporation. The Welsbach Refractory Seeding under unrestricted deployment operations began in the early 1990's over a vast area of Stratosphere above the North American Continent. 11 Expanding over the entire western hemisphere, many operations were believed to have been enjoined in Ozone Depletion Mitigation Aerial operations of the US Air Force, connected to the HAARPs (High Frequency Active Aural Research Project) for Ionospheric Heating, located in Alaska ) Ozone Remediation was 1 of 3 active mission parameters for HAARPs, as defined by Dr. Bernard Eastlund, Inventor and Director of HAARPs. The Ionospheric Heating Research Facility was manned and operated by the US Air Force (Reserve) and the US Navy. HAARPs had been weaponized; therefore, all operations were and remain classified. 12, 13 Weather Modification/Climate Change HAARPs is utilized for many clandestine missions, of which Weather Modification is a fundamental objective. Microwave, ELF (Extreme Low Frequency), VLF (Very Low Frequency) and other EMR/EMF-based systems are transmitted into the atmosphere and reflected by the ionosphere, back through the Earth's Stratosphere/ Atmosphere where various airborne chemical particulates, polymer filaments and other electromagnetic frequency absorbers and reflectors are used to push or pull the prevailing Jet-Streams, changing Weather patterns. ( Note: Vast files of our research are available on the particulate, polymers, Microwave, ELF, VLF & EMG, etc ) In many instances, Drought Inducement Technologies have been found in patented systems. Drought Inducement occurs, according to reviewed technologies by heating the Stratosphere with Microwaves, placing airborne chemical particulates in the airspace and thereby changing the base-line moisture gradients via microwaves from HAARPs and desiccating chemically with Barium Titanates, Methyl Aluminum and Potassium mixtures. 13 HAARPs punches massive holes in the open-air column Ozone, electronically. This is the basis for the Ozone Remediation/Mitigation Strategies found associated with HAARPs. However, "patching" the holes in the Ozone layer has become a standard practice for US Air Force and FAC flight operations. The US Air Force has recently, 2001-2002, resorted to the utilization of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV's) technology. High-flying Stratospheric Robotic Platforms negate the manned operation factors. Robots don't complain and never talk and remain, forever, non-union. Welsbach Seeding and Ozone Hole Remediation sciences utilize chemistries that are toxic to Humans and the Environment. Welsbach Refractory Agents use Aluminum, Thorium, Zirconium and other emissitivity- refractive metals and metals oxides. Thorium is elementally, 98% purity. The remaining 2% are identified radioactive materials. Ground-fall includes Thorium. Mid and Eastern Canada are suffering from what has been clinically identified as Thorium poisoning. There are no other base-line resources for Thorium, all from residuals of aerosolized heavy metal particulate spraying into the Stratosphere. Alaska Flight 261 One other observation has been made regarding Welsbach refractory agents - the extreme abrasion characteristics of some of the other patented components, namely, Aluminum Oxide and Silicon Carbide. These materials are extremely high MOH's Hardness and only second in abrasativity to Diamond. These 1 micron and sub-micron dusts, upon falling through the Atmosphere, could conceivably find deposition onto a somewhat, adhesive surface, inside the working flight components of all aircraft traveling through the "grit-plume". The greases used on the Horizontal and Vertical Stabilizers, Ailerons, Flaps and Landing Gear trucks may be seriously damaged with abrasion of metals on the aircraft. A horizontal-stabilizer Jack-Screw continuously coated with these highly abrasive dusts from the Welsbach Refractory materials will cause a gradual milling of the jack-screw metals and cause complete failure, jamming the flight controls into an uncontrollable down or up attitude configuration. We believe that Alaska Airlines Flight 261 was a victim of this unforeseen circumstance. Alaska Flight 261 made daily passage through heavy grit plumes from ChemTrails operations associated with Welsbach Refractory Seeding operations, principally along the West Coast of the US, down throughout Dallas, Texas. Other aircraft, Commercial and Military, Civilian have also suffered these flight- component failures and attributed them to sub-standard Aviation Machinist's quality. As did the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) in the Alaska Flight 261 aviation fatalities. These conclusions could not have been farther from the Truth in these matters. Collateral damage or just another consequence of ChemTrails? Ozone-Hole Remediation - The composition most notably utilized in Ozone-hole patching is elemental Selenium and an Aromatic Hydrocarbon such as Toluene (Benzene component of Gasoline) and mixed isomers of Xylene. Sprayed from Stratospheric flying Aircraft, films of this toxic mixture fall into the area just above the Troupopause, the Ozone Layer. Ozone or triatomic Oxygen forms rapidly upon the irradiation of the Selenium and the Hydrocarbon with Ultra-Violet/Actinic sunlight. This is the identical photon/chemical reaction that causes Ozone Alert Days and is problematic. The solid- state reaction of Selenium and Ultra-violet radiation is the same as the reaction that occurs during Xerography. Copy machines generate minute amounts of Ozone when the Selenium Toners are irradiated with UV light sources. The US/NASA TOMS (Total Ozone Mapping) Satellites have verified these Ozone Patching operations that occur principally over the northern sectors of the North American Continent. We have been studying these phenomena since the early 2000 time line. 14 Ground-fall Impacts of Selenium/Aromatic Hydrocarbons - The aromatic Hydrocarbon, when ground fall occurs, (there is substantial evidence that this has repeatedly occurred in the United States and Canada) is causative of Benzene over-exposure. Carcinogenicity of Benzene is known, not suspect. Surface water pollution with Benzene is a continuous threat. Selenium poisoning is characteristic of most heavy metals including Lead (Pb). Weather Modification - An integral part of the US Department of Energy's (US DOE) Global-Warming/UV Mitigation/Climate Change, Strategies. Led by the US Air Force, as a distinct Geo-Weapons method, Weather Modification is occurring on a Global basis. 15 This Executive Summary will be confined to ChemTrails deployment in the United States and Canada due to the expansive nature of a global theatre. Professional independent investigators have retrieved numerous samples of soils and waters; these were analyzed and documented. Extensive testing has demonstrated the highly suspicious toxic levels of Barium and Methyl Aluminum in many areas of the United States and Canada that have no extraneous sources of these heavy-metals. The sample retrieval areas have been documented for extreme ChemTrails observation. Accompanied by verbal and written complaints to many Public Health Care Agencies, causes for the elevated levels of Barium and Aluminum found in the bloodstream were not forthcoming; just another clinical conundrum. ( See Attachment - Chemtrails Pertinent Links ) Conclusions - Although this summary is only a fraction of the overall ChemTrails debacle, we encourage impartial investigators and/or credible news journalists to assess this core information and either validate or refute our findings, thus far. The entirety of the Human Health suffering and the Environmental Impacts are staggering and too voluminous to write at this time. Other aerosol-related programs will be discussed at a follow-up session. Moreover, biological materials and genetically mutated fungi used as biocontrols may even be more damaging and egregious to Humans or the Environment than chemical-based aerosolized chemical materials sprayed into the atmosphere. 16 All of the chemical spraying operations have been conducted and deployed without public knowledge and not one Human Health Risk Assessment nor Environmental Impact Study has been submitted for Public and Civil scrutiny or for comments. This alone is an egregious violation of Civil, Environmental and International Laws, with respect to Treaties. The Natural Earth's biological systems are slowly beginning to fail. Rhizobacteria- endomycorrhizae, a critical microbial organism, is slowly becoming extinct in soils due to Barium and Aluminum heavy-metal toxicities. This microbe is responsible for the transfer of nutrients from soils-matrix to the plants/trees feeder- root system. The Barium/Aluminum heavy-metal salts are alkaline, i.e. Barium Hydroxide, and are shifting the base-line pH of surface soils and waters to new highs - elevated enough that certain plant species cannot survive. According to our experts in this field, without this microbe, natural plant growth is impossible. The ChemTrails are spoiling our Infinite Natural Eco- System and no one is watching , albeit the evidence for microbial extinction events abound. The events of the 1990's were characterized with phrases such as; "re- inventing" Commerce, Government, etc., are uniquely defined by the clandestine operations carried forth by the embedded personnel of US Agencies, in collaboration with International Alliances with subjects such as Weather Control, Food and Water Control and expansion of pharmaceuticals treating new diseases, all having direct linkage to what we have compressed into something that is called ChemTrails. Does this story interest you in the least? We, a group of concerned individuals from around the World, numbering in the millions, are now extremely convinced that we are witnessing the methodic demise of the Natural Earth in the name of Commerce and Control, big Corporate and a hideous form of Socialism via the Military Industrial Complex. The technologies identified in ChemTrails are crude, poisonous and lethal. The bankrupt independent Farmer of the United States and Canada never knew that the Drought that had-no-end and destroyed their businesses was actually contrived. Seems though, all their properties were purchased for pennies-on- the-dollar by either International Farming interests or International Grain-Farming interests and all that is grown and harvested on these farms are genetically mutated grains and foodstuff, most likely with a Monsanto Patented Product. These farms do not take USDA Subsidies either. Well, that's good for the US Taxpayer, right? This is the emergence of the Food Weapon . Our ultimate mission is to develop Legislation for the United States Congress to pass that will halt, prohibit and forever abate the practices of deploying, dispensing or otherwise releasing any chemical into the Atmosphere/Stratosphere of the airspace above the entire North American Continent. Such a Draft Law has been written by the Author, R. M. Castle, entitled: The Unified Atmospheric Preservation Act of 2003 (UAPA3) , has been reviewed by other ChemTrails Investigators and seems to be the only method of intervention to halt these insidious methodologies. However, the US Congressman we hoped would carry our cause, tends to back off when it becomes clear that the US Government is strategically involved in many aspects of the debacle. We are not asking for this legislation to be considered, we will demand its passage. Once in force, who will then become bankrupt? We will shut down the HAARPs Electromagnetic radiation machine with UAPA3. I would be very honored if anyone would like to receive a copy of the draft legislation UAPA3, for review and/or endorsement. Author - Dr. R. Michael Castle is an Environmental Professional whom holds a National Certification for Environmental Risk Assessment with 15 years of field practice in Environmental Risk Assessment, Investigation, Analyses and Remediation. A Polymer Chemist for 22 years prior to establishment of the Environmental Consulting and Engineering Firm, Castle Concepts Consultants, Inc., and is on the International Advisory Board of the World Natural Health Organization, (Bio of Dr. R.Michael Castle, http://www.wnho.net/bio-mcastle.htm ) Dr. Castle may be contacted at the following email address: pilot1...@voyager.net REFERENCES: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: http://www.ipcc.ch Edward Teller's "Sun Screen" Document - PDF: http://www.rense.com/general18/scatteringEdTellerwithnotes.pdf Edward Teller's "sun screen" document: Global Warming and Ice Ages: I. Prospects for Physics-Based Modulation of Global Change, E. Teller et al., August 15, 1997, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, as PDF Presented at: 22nd Intl. Seminar on Planetary Emergencies, Erice (Sicily), Italy WHO IS EDWARD TELLER?: http://tms.physics.lsa.umich.edu/214/other/news/042401HBomb.html This is the same Dr. Edward Teller known as Father-H-Bomb. (The same person that once recommended "nuking" a prominent East Coast U.S. harbor in order to make it deeper for ships of International flags' commerce. In the Super-Port that would result, International Commerce and Trade would be exceptional; especially one that would not be a Union controlled port. None-the-less, someone nixed that idea after they reviewed the potential lethality of the residual radiation for at least 1,000 years. 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    1. Re: Genealogy and tracing people in Russia and CIS countries
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    1. Genealogy and tracing people in Russia and CIS countries
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    05/20/2007 11:57:02
    1. Re: Q: historical document preservation - ideal resolution
    2. singhals
    3. Yeoman wrote: > Can anyone suggest an appropriate resolution for scanning old > documents? They are from around the 1850s and are written in slightly- > faded quill pen. I want to preserve as much of the detail as possible > without the scans taking up a huge amount of space. Is there a happy > medium between quality and size? > See: Saving Our Digital Heritage Jim Barksdale and Francine Berman, A15 (Post) 05/16/2007 Article ...care millions of printed works, some on stone or animal skin that have survived for centuries. The challenges underlying digital preservation led Congress in 2000 to appropriate $100 million for the Library of Congress to lead the National Digital Information... > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/15/AR2007051501873.html Cheryl

    05/19/2007 05:53:00
    1. Re: Q: historical document preservation - ideal resolution
    2. John
    3. On Fri, 18 May 2007 05:29:52 GMT, Dennis Lee Bieber <bieber.genealogy@earthlink.net> wrote: >On Thu, 17 May 2007 20:26:29 -0800, Vampire Slayer ><Don'tHaveOne@nowhere.net> declaimed the following in >soc.genealogy.misc: > > >> >> I also usually scan documents at 300 dpi. Depending on what the >> original looks like I'll do gray scale if it is black and white and >> color if it is either in color or detail can be seen better in color. >> Unless it's a pristine printed page I've found that black & white >> scanning usually loses a lot of detail. >> >> I normally scan photo's at 600 dpi. That seems to be the sweet spot >> for me on quality versus file size. Normally the file size is between >> 5MB to 100MB depending on the physical size of the photo and whether >> it's black & white or color. 600dpi enables me to zoom in and see >> details that you can't normally see in the physical photo. >> > That's almost the opposite of what I might recommend. But then, I'm >looking at future output capability. > > A pristine, high contrast, document -- B&W @ 600 (720)... Most >modern printers have a native resolution of 600 (720 for Epson), and >since B&W only requires paper and pure black dots, a scan at that >resolution is effectively a "photocopy". > > Photos, if intended to be printed at "same size" get scanned at 300. >300PPI is considered optimal for high-end photoprinting (it's the >resolution used by NatGeo grade magazines). The convention is to have >the "source data" PPI at 2x the (halftone) LPI. On an old (non-photo) >CMYK printer, it requires a 16x16 dot "cell" to emulate full color >halftone. 150LPI (high grade photo halftone) means a printer putting out >2400DPI. Of course, modern photo printers with CcMmYK, or more, or with >variable size dots, can produce the color variations in less than a >16x16 cell. > > So... photos scan at 300*scale (where scale is the intended output >magnification: say a 4x6" photo to be printed at 8x12" => 2x -- scan at >600, reset resolution [Photoshop, say] to 300PPI. An 8x10" to be printed >at 4x5", scan at 150DPI, reset resolution to 300PPI). > > This applies to grey scale too, as producing full 256 levels of grey >(from white to black) also requires the 16x16 matrix (unless you have a >printer with half-black ink). Long, rambling response ;-) Some of the oldest photos don't even have 200dpi resolution. Hand-coated glass plate negatives did not have consistent resolution across the image. On the brighter side, there's little quality lost in making a contact print - assuming the negative plate is emulsion side down... The photos of my wife's grandparents' 65th wedding anniversary were taken with a 120 film camera (for the larger negatives) and 100 speed film (for finer grain) and a big flash unit (to use a small aperture for better depth of field). The 8x10 prints are very good and the inscription on the cake in the corner of the pictures can be read easily. Unfortunately, the majority of the family pictures I've acquired were made with inexpensive snapshot cameras (think plastic lenses) and "cheapest available" or "most convenient" processing - usually "when the roll is finished", so pictures with a processor-imprinted date of May include a snowball fight in Georgia. These prints are notable for their lack of resolution - and the number that are under/over exposed and/or out of focus and/or show camera/subject movement. If the negatives were available, I might be able to do more with the improperly exposed images (I have a negative scanner). In the current project of nearly 2000 pictures, there may be 30 negatives. Unfortunately, the outlook seems to have been "If you have the pictures, why do you need the negatives?" And the few remaining negatives are, at best, only marginally useful because they were loose in a drawer somewhere and have been nicked and scratched repeatedly. I plan to scan the negatives of pictures I have taken, probably at 1800dpi (higher would be better, but we're talking about thousands of 35mm negatives), with a thumbnail positive image for the image database (haven't decided on which one yet). The B&W negatives are sleeved and in 3 ring binders with at least some information about date/place/event. The color negatives are mostly in sleeves and stored with the prints still waiting to be put in albums. Most of these have date/place/event info with them. And then there are the digital-only images. The early digital cameras produced 300KB images on a par with tintypes (except that they're color). Will anyone have historically important pictures taken wih a cell phone? The current crop of 6MegaPixel and up cameras are capable of better images than most of the snapshot cameras of the 20th century - but how will those images be archived? Think how excited some genealogist will be in 2095 to find a memory card that's marked "Weathers Family Reunion - 2007" - and the letdown when there is no way of retrieving the data... I've tried to maintain backward compatibility as I've upgraded computers (usually by building my own). The latest machine (with dual format, double layer DVD writer) will also have a CD writer (not all DVD writers can produce a universally readable CD) plus 3.5 and 5 1/4 drives. John

    05/18/2007 12:38:45
    1. Re: Q: historical document preservation - ideal resolution
    2. Vampire Slayer
    3. On Thu, 17 May 2007 18:45:32 -0400, John <look@sig.net> wrote: >On 16 May 2007 21:39:01 -0700, Yeoman <sleepingrass@gmail.com> wrote: > >>Can anyone suggest an appropriate resolution for scanning old >>documents? They are from around the 1850s and are written in slightly- >>faded quill pen. I want to preserve as much of the detail as possible >>without the scans taking up a huge amount of space. Is there a happy >>medium between quality and size? > >I scan most paper (pictures or documents) in color at 300dpi; my >latest project has currently has 1500 scanned images (out of about >2000 total pieces) and is 5.6GB. The thumbnail files (no more than >600 pixels in width or height) aggregate to about 300MB (so it will >fit on one CD for distribution to others). The old pix and newspaper >clippings seem more "real" to other people if the original sepia/brown >tones are maintained - any prints made from these scans also look more >"real" to other people (my preference is gray, but there are about a >dozen relatives who have some interest in the family history; having >color images of non-color documents caters to them. > >I find that gamma changes (usually reducing it to 0.3 to 0.6) increase >the contrast enough to make handwritten notes legible - sometimes >changing the gamma for each color separately gives the best image (as >long as you don't care about color accuracy .;-) > >John I also usually scan documents at 300 dpi. Depending on what the original looks like I'll do gray scale if it is black and white and color if it is either in color or detail can be seen better in color. Unless it's a pristine printed page I've found that black & white scanning usually loses a lot of detail. I normally scan photo's at 600 dpi. That seems to be the sweet spot for me on quality versus file size. Normally the file size is between 5MB to 100MB depending on the physical size of the photo and whether it's black & white or color. 600dpi enables me to zoom in and see details that you can't normally see in the physical photo. With the documents that you describe I probably would treat them as photos and scan at 600dpi either in gray scale or in color depending on what the document looks like. I have a small portable Canon scanner that I take with me with my Tablet PC that does the job for me. I haven't tried the camera method. I've got a 4 mega pixel camera so that may work well on large documents or when I don't have my scanner. Hope this gives you another perspective. Good luck on your scanning.

    05/17/2007 02:26:29
    1. Re: Q: historical document preservation - ideal resolution
    2. John
    3. On 16 May 2007 21:39:01 -0700, Yeoman <sleepingrass@gmail.com> wrote: >Can anyone suggest an appropriate resolution for scanning old >documents? They are from around the 1850s and are written in slightly- >faded quill pen. I want to preserve as much of the detail as possible >without the scans taking up a huge amount of space. Is there a happy >medium between quality and size? I scan most paper (pictures or documents) in color at 300dpi; my latest project has currently has 1500 scanned images (out of about 2000 total pieces) and is 5.6GB. The thumbnail files (no more than 600 pixels in width or height) aggregate to about 300MB (so it will fit on one CD for distribution to others). The old pix and newspaper clippings seem more "real" to other people if the original sepia/brown tones are maintained - any prints made from these scans also look more "real" to other people (my preference is gray, but there are about a dozen relatives who have some interest in the family history; having color images of non-color documents caters to them. I find that gamma changes (usually reducing it to 0.3 to 0.6) increase the contrast enough to make handwritten notes legible - sometimes changing the gamma for each color separately gives the best image (as long as you don't care about color accuracy .;-) John

    05/17/2007 12:45:32
    1. Re: Q: historical document preservation - ideal resolution
    2. Denis Beauregard
    3. On 16 May 2007 21:39:01 -0700, Yeoman <sleepingrass@gmail.com> wrote in soc.genealogy.misc: >Can anyone suggest an appropriate resolution for scanning old >documents? They are from around the 1850s and are written in slightly- >faded quill pen. I want to preserve as much of the detail as possible >without the scans taking up a huge amount of space. Is there a happy >medium between quality and size? This depends on the document. I scanned a lot of records with a 2 megapixel digital camera and most are fully readable while it is near the lower limit. However, there are some small entries (in small letters) and this is not enough. Also, I was using a portable computer to do that My camera is connected directly to the computer which takes a picture each 8 seconds (7 is too short in my opinion) so all I have to do is to turn each page. But the computer is nearly complete. I will repeat that task with a better camera (only the pages with small notes) but it would be not possible to do all the pages with the better resolution because that portable PC is overloaded ! So, whatever they say about cheap storage, the best set up depends on what you are scanning (quality, size and quantity) and on your tools. As for your problem of faded pen, I was able to scan a set of notes (taken from the 1920s to 1950s), something quite light and on thin paper, using a digital camera (which is much faster than a scanner, average is 250 pages/hour, lunch time included) and nearly lateral light (about 20 degrees, the camera being at 90 degrees), with a black paper in the back. Denis -- 0 Denis Beauregard - /\/ Les Français d'Amérique du Nord - www.francogene.com/genealogie--quebec/ |\ French in North America before 1721 - www.francogene.com/quebec--genealogy/ / | Maintenant sur cédérom, début à 1765 oo oo Now on CD-ROM, beginnings to 1765

    05/17/2007 09:15:16
    1. Re: Q: historical document preservation - ideal resolution
    2. Yeoman
    3. On May 16, 11:04 pm, "Dr. Brian Leverich" <lever...@linkpendium.com> wrote: > On 2007-05-17, Yeoman <sleepingr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Can anyone suggest an appropriate resolution for scanning old > > documents? They are from around the 1850s and are written in slightly- > > faded quill pen. I want to preserve as much of the detail as possible > > without the scans taking up a huge amount of space. Is there a happy > > medium between quality and size? > > I'd tend to err on the "huge amount of space" side. > > Why? > > Storage space has been falling dramatically in price, and there's > every reason to expect it to continue to fall. I remember not so > many years ago when my (single) drive was 10 MB, and any file over > a 100 KB seemed like a space hog. > > These days my desktop has a terabyte of space in a RAID-5, and > 2+ GB files don't really seem very large. (And my current machine > cost less than that original PC!) > > While disk capacities are skyrocketing, a man-hour is still > precisely the same size. > > Once you've digitized the documents, that's the quality for all > time. We don't get better copies unless the originals survive and > somebody does all your work over again. > > So ... > > Do the very best quality that you can store today. Storing it > tomorrow will be easier, and you'll be glad you did the better > job in the first place. > > BTW, be sure to archive the originals, rather than "image- > enhanced" versions. Many "enhancements" are irreversible, and > it's better to have the raw data and then be able to enhance it > as desired in the future. > > Cheers, B. > > -- > Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L > Angeles Chapter LTC Admin Chair http://angeles.sierraclub.org/ltc/ > P.O. Box 6831, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6831 lever...@mtpinos.com Thanks for your help.

    05/17/2007 05:54:37
    1. Re: Q: historical document preservation - ideal resolution
    2. Dr. Brian Leverich
    3. On 2007-05-17, Yeoman <sleepingrass@gmail.com> wrote: > Can anyone suggest an appropriate resolution for scanning old > documents? They are from around the 1850s and are written in slightly- > faded quill pen. I want to preserve as much of the detail as possible > without the scans taking up a huge amount of space. Is there a happy > medium between quality and size? I'd tend to err on the "huge amount of space" side. Why? Storage space has been falling dramatically in price, and there's every reason to expect it to continue to fall. I remember not so many years ago when my (single) drive was 10 MB, and any file over a 100 KB seemed like a space hog. These days my desktop has a terabyte of space in a RAID-5, and 2+ GB files don't really seem very large. (And my current machine cost less than that original PC!) While disk capacities are skyrocketing, a man-hour is still precisely the same size. Once you've digitized the documents, that's the quality for all time. We don't get better copies unless the originals survive and somebody does all your work over again. So ... Do the very best quality that you can store today. Storing it tomorrow will be easier, and you'll be glad you did the better job in the first place. BTW, be sure to archive the originals, rather than "image- enhanced" versions. Many "enhancements" are irreversible, and it's better to have the raw data and then be able to enhance it as desired in the future. Cheers, B. -- Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L Angeles Chapter LTC Admin Chair http://angeles.sierraclub.org/ltc/ P.O. Box 6831, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6831 leverich@mtpinos.com

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