Right after visiting a few historical websites, particularly soon after seeing the tiny mattresses; just one is usually left asking a question. Why is the bed so modest? As contemporary beds get larger and larger is seems odd that even presidents would have such tiny beds.

The major factor was not height that drove the bed size, but health. Very first of all, a bed mattress was not the hygienic, clean, comfortable foam and stuffing of our globe. Innerspring mattresses will not be invented till right after Planet War 1. Rather, mattresses can be filled with cotton, wool, straw, as well as other “soft” filling. Buttons along with other quilting strategies could be employed to keep the stuffing in place. These mattresses would most likely closer resemble today’s contemporary sleeping bags rather than the inner spring structures 1 sleeps on daily.

With less than ideal cleaning strategies this stuffing could most likely be infested with a variety of insects. Would a single have felt rested knowing what was probably to be in that mattress? Adults consequently would sleep sitting up in bed. Depending about the size in the home and number of rooms in it young youngsters may well even be sleeping at the end on the bed. If this sounds uncomfortable, don’t forget that an additional bed mattress was usually placed for the floor at the end on the bed for the favorite servant or slave in the family.

For servants or slaves outside the home a quilt would need to suffice. Functioning slaves have been usually given 1 quilt per year. Think how long even a well made blanket would last, if it was all one particular had for bedding. Little children would perhaps not even get this ration, but would rather share those of their parents or siblings. Others inside the community may possibly attempt to sew their very own blankets, but this will be done right after functioning a full day for the masters and then any cooking or cleaning of their very own homes. Servants had been paid wages, but would most likely have been completely responsible for purchasing their very own bedding and food.

Some contemporary physicians have also speculated that lying down could possibly are already viewed as harder for the heart which would are already additional susceptible to heart disease due to the rich and fatty foods prevalent in a wealthy persons diet. There may well have been completely superstitions at play too regarding laying flat on ones back in bed as being the position from the dead. Lower class persons would have surely had to share any soft bedding they did have with the entire household making any raised bed for laying oneself out a true luxury.

So whatever the considering behind it, a single can see from historical evidence that though the bed mattress are generally quite short the folks who rested in them had been absolutely not remarkably little. Considering back to George Washington (who was a career soldier); following Valley Forge, and also the other battle beds he slept in, would not the bed mattresses of Mount Vernon been luxurious indeed. It would not probably have mattered to him how modest they seem these days.

Witches are popular inhabitants of children’s books. However, like most, perhaps all, historical witches, the Witch of Windermere was not a witch at all, but just an unfortunate woman who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Entertainment was scarce in Old England, and it was the popularity of witch burnings that kept the cult going for so long. So when the fishermen of Bowness found they were catching fewer fish in the great lake, they found a witch to blame for their misfortune, and their wives greeted the news with eager anticipation.

George, patron saint and minister for the environment, stumbled upon the situation on his way back from Scotland with his man, Jack. He had the misfortune to be seized by the mob and incarcerated in the accused witch’s cell, where he learned of the ordeal she would face on the morrow. It transpired that in those parts it was the custom to test a witch by tying her right thumb to her left big toe and throwing her into Lake Windermere. If she floated, she was judged to have rejected the holy water and to be a witch, but if she sank, she was judged to be innocent.

George sought a way to ensure that the woman would sink but it was the intervention of Jack and a pair of fire-breathing monsters emerging from the lake that eventually made possible her escape. One of the incendiary megafauna was a Loch Ness Nellie that George was bringing back from Scotland, but the second creature appeared to be native to the Lake and was reasoned to have been the cause of the fish famine. George petitioned the government in London, and the fishermen were paid a weekly allowance until the fish stocks recovered. George and Jack set out, in line with current legislation, to take the two biological blowlamps back to George’s menagerie in Gloucestershire where they could do no more harm.

They hadn’t gone far, however, when the Windermere Winnie wandered off during the night and the two monster minders had to break their journey to mount a search. They followed the absconder to a remote farm where they realised the creature had been reared from an egg and then introduced to the lake. And the person who had perpetrated this crime was none other than the accused witch. So she had really been responsible for the fishermen’s plight, concluded the patron saint and minister for the environment, but not by being a witch, only a grumpy green.

George Grant Blaisdell was born in Bradford, Pennsylvania on June 5, 1895. He was the son of Philo and Sara Blaisdell. He stopped attending school in fifth grade when he walked out and told his family he wasn’t going to go back. His father then sent him to a military academy, he attended school there for 2 years before we was dismissed for reasons unknown. Upon coming home he immediately started working in the family business, a machine shop where he learned metal work and the skills that later help him develop the Zippo lighter. He eventually took over the family business and sold it to invest in oil. He did very well in the Oil industry until the Great Depression hit and the oil market came to a dead halt.

One night he was on the porch of the Bradford County Club and he asked businessman Dick Dresser why he was using such a strange lighter. Dresser responded “Well, it works.” The lighter had been produced in Austria and was windproof. This is where his idea for the Zippo came from. Blaisdell had always liked the word zipper, which he used for inspiration in coming up with the “more modern” name Zippo. Blaisdell wanted to make an affordable windproof lighter which was the key to having it succeed during the great depression.

He immediately started working on this and 1 year later, in 1933 the first Zippo lighter was born. It was on the market for $1.95 and was guaranteed for life, just like it is today. Since then Zippo has made over 400 million Zippo lighters. Blaisdell died on October 3, 1978 in Miami Beach Florida, but the quality of the product and service of the company is still the same as he had it since the beginning.

Belzoni, Mississippi, a small Delta town once known for lynching and Saturday night gun fights, survived a tornado following Hurricane Katrina.

“We’re up here in the Delta, away from the coast where they really got it. We didn’t get the hurricane but we did get a tornado and it was pretty bad,” said the owner of a used car lot at the northern edge of this cotton hamlet once known as “Bloody Belzoni.”

Katrina’s subsequent winds and severe rains did in fact hurt most businesses in this community that has been slowly lifting itself up by the bootstraps since earlier days of civil rights violence.

In recent years Belzoni leaders created a marketing plan, hoping to bring in new business: colorful five and six-foot acrylic statues of smiling catfish wearing polka-dot bow ties advertise Belzoni’s newly self-acclaimed status of Catfish Capital of the World.

The catfish are scattered throughout downtown. And a catfish barbecue and Delta blues celebration takes place each summer.

For many Belzonians memories of past violence will never be erased despite marketing efforts, and it is near downtown, in a poor and vandalized neighborhood, where African Americans have placed a granite block at the beginning of a city street.

Only “George Lee Avenue” is etched into the cold stone.

But this tribute is to a beloved leader who died a violent death fifty years ago for their right to vote.

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Rev. George Washington Lee, the first black person to register to vote in Humphreys County since Reconstruction, was shot to death on a neighborhood street while driving his car on the night of May 7, 1955.

Some who knew Lee and have remained to grow old in this Delta town say their friend was a kind and brave man who was brutalized and killed by white men angered over his voting rights advocacy.

LEE AND THE SECOND of Belzoni Citizen Council’s prime targets, Gus Courts, both lived and ran small grocery businesses. Citizen’s Councils were private Klan-influenced organizations formed in the Delta in 1954 to scare black citizens away from the polls and keep integration from taking place.

Lee also preached, often using his pulpit and his printing press to urge others to take action and vote.

White officials once offered Lee protection on the condition he end his voter registration efforts, but Lee refused.

Heading the town’s new NAACP Chapter, Courts was ordered by his banker to turn over all NAACP books and when he refused, Courts was told to leave town. But he stayed.

Once Courts was handed a list of ninety-five blacks registered in Humphreys County by a Citizens Council member who warned that anyone not removing their name from the voting list would lose their job. He later testified about his experiences before a Congressional Committee.

Both Courts and Lee had tried for years to pay poll taxes in order to vote and were finally allowed to sign the register only after the county sheriff feared federal prosecution. Casting a ballot required a separate battle.

The day of his murder, almost a year after Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education and three months before the lynching of Emmett Till in nearby Sunflower County, Rev. Lee visited with Courts to talk about the latest warning.

Lee reported getting an earlier anonymous death threat demanding he remove his name from the voting list. He told Courts that he had a strange feeling about this particular threat.

That night as Reverend Lee drove his car along Belzoni’s Church Street, two gun blasts shattered the night stillness, and the minister’s Buick sedan swerved over the curb and rammed into a frame house.

With the lower left side of his face gone, Rev. George Lee staggered from the wreckage but died during transportation to the Humphreys County Memorial Hospital.

When NAACP leader Medgar Evers arrived in Belzoni to investigate the murder of Rev. Lee, he was told by Sheriff Ike Shelton that Lee lost control of his car and died from the crash; the lead pellets found in his jaw tissues were dental fillings.

An autopsy was not necessary for the “freak accident,” Shelton said.

But at Mrs. Lee’s insistence, two black physicians examined her husband’s body and reported the tissues contained pellets “fired at close range from a high-powered gun.” They also found powder burns.

Over the next few days, Evers and two national NAACP representatives met with eyewitnesses and the full story emerged:

Lee had been followed by three men in another car.

His right rear tire was punctured by a rifle shot and as he slowed, the second car “pulled parallel and a shotgun was fired point-blank into his face. There were also descriptions of the three men, with tentative identifications.”

Evers always doubted that any FBI investigation took place, since there was never any public report “or even a solid rumor” as to what was in the report.

Rev. Lee’s murder was a cold-blooded answer to demands for equal treatment coming from more Mississippi blacks and was backed by the lies of the sheriff and local police, Evers later reported; Evers was assassinated ten years later in his Jackson driveway by a Delta Klansman and member of the white Citizens Council.

Recalled Aaron Henry of Clarksdale also a black Mississippi leader: “We felt we needed protection because the past had taught us that when one Negro is killed, stay out of town if your skin is black.”

Yet surprisingly for one of the first times, no protection was needed at the public funeral that took place in Belzoni.

“There wasn’t a white man on the streets the day of the service, except for the press. There was a great turnout of Negroes for the funeral. This large presence of Negroes and absence of whites marked a turning point,” Henry said.

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As Aaron Henry predicted, the murder of Rev. Lee became a critical turning point back in 1955; his untimely death would help prompt later passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) – one of the most successful civil rights laws in American history, guaranteeing millions of minority voters the equal opportunity to participate in elections and have their voices heard.

VRA ended literacy tests, poll taxes and other methods of keeping blacks from voting that had long poisoned the roots of this country’s democracy. In 1964, only 300 African Americans served in public office nationwide, including just three in Congress.

But today, more than 9,100 black elected officials serve, including 43 members of Congress, the largest number ever, according to the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. often simply called Inc.

The VRA also opened politics for more than 6,000 Latino public officials including some 260 elected at the state or federal level, with 27 serving in Congress. Native Americans, Asians and others who have historically encountered harsh barriers to full political participation also have benefited greatly.

Yet violations of the VRA still occur and the United States has yet to achieve the constitutional goal of equality of political opportunity.

Inc. leaders and other who support voting rights reauthorization point to three crucial sections of the Voting Rights Act that will expire in 2007 unless Congress votes to renew them:

*A requirement that states and local jurisdictions with a documented history of discriminatory voting practices submit planned changes in their election laws or procedures to the U.S. Department of Justice or the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. for pre-clearance. A bipartisan Congressional report in 1982 warned that without this provision, discrimination would reappear “overnight.”

* Requirements that communities with concentrations of voters who are Limited English Proficient provide them with bilingual election assistance including bilingual ballots, election materials, and pollworkers.

*The authority to send federal examiners and observers to monitor elections.

Inc. leaders and others involved in voting rights see these provisions as critical to ensuring fairness and equal opportunity for minorities in American politics:

“At a time when America is vigorously engaged in promoting the ideal of multi-ethnic democracy in Iraq and across the globe, we need to ensure that lawmakers preserve and strengthen the necessary tools to ensure the continued success of democracy here at home. Reauthorization of the 1965 Voting Rights Act is a first step.”

Remember George Bailey, the down on his luck protagonist in Frank Capra’s Christmas classic “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946)? For those not familiar, it’s essentially a story of conflict and redemption centred on the Bailey Building and Loan Association, the only small town institution with the strength to withstand the pressures of powerful banking interests. Bailey (brilliantly played by Jimmy Stewart) has sacrificed his entire adult life to keep the company alive, because he believes in a vision of regular people escaping Depression-era slums to finance and own their homes, beyond the clutches of the ruthless banker Mr. Potter.

Can you see where we’re headed with this story?

Leaving aside the “Hollywood” ending, “It’s a Wonderful Life” has been called “the greatest financial services movie in history” for demonstrating how folks can overcome huge obstacles if they are ready, willing and able to work for it. Don’t crawl to a bank or remain captive to a heartless landlord – get the housing you deserve!

Now, back to reality…

Lease to Own Basics.

In response to the banks’ iron grip on the Canadian housing market, some people boldly put forth the ‘Lease to Own’ home financing concept many years ago. Also known as ‘Rent to Own’, this alternative offers prospective home owners who are considered too risky by traditional lenders (i.e. banks, credit unions, etc.) an opportunity to build equity over a short period. Lease to Own allows people to immediately move into their own home, improve their credit rating and demonstrate through reasonable monthly payments that they are responsible enough to handle a regular mortgage.

‘Lease to Own’ can be viewed as short-term bridge financing (i.e. 1-3 years) that helps make you a better candidate for conventional borrowing options later on. Some unique “Lease to Own” features include:

• Dealing directly with the company/person who owns the home.

• Creative but realistic financing arrangements not offered by established mortgage companies or banks.

• You are the owner from day one right after moving in; move in right away and make improvements to your home without seeking outside permission (within standard rules).

• Simultaneous credit repair and home equity growth throughout the period of your lease, to allow you to obtain your own financing as quickly as possible.

• Flexible options at the end of your initial lease, including the right to walk away if life circumstances dictate another direction for you and your family.

Reasons for Choosing ‘Lease to Own’.

Renters have so much to gain from entering into a ‘Lease to Own’ arrangement, we could probably write a book on that subject alone! For now, we’ll limit ourselves to the best reasons to stop putting your hard-earned income into the landlord’s pockets:

1. Earn Monthly Credits.

Why use your monthly rent money to build your landlord’s equity when you can use it to build up your own? By teaming up with qualified Lease To Own or Rent To Own companies, you immediately start building up a down payment that will be used to eventually purchase your home.

2. Enjoy Immediate Home Appreciation.

Any improvements that you make to your home will increase its value above and beyond your final price. This increase in the home’s value is yours to keep because most lease-to-own arrangements will lock the price of your home at the start.

3. Move In Right Away.

Why put your home ownership dreams on hold because you didn’t qualify for a mortgage? With the right innovative lease to own program, you move into your home first and deal with the bank afterwards.

4. Improve Your Credit Rating.

Partnering with an established lease-to-own company today means working with real estate professionals to improve your credit score immediately, so that you can obtain conventional financing at the end of your lease.

Who Can Benefit from Lease to Own?

• Probationary Workers.

• Seasonal Workers.

• Recent immigrants to Canada.

• Anyone looking to buy a home but in need of credit repair.

Bank monopolies just aren’t fair to regular folks. That’s why progressive home purchasing solutions like lease-to-own are growing in popularity throughout Canada. And while we may not be in Bedford Falls, nor are we living in the Depression, but one can’t help but to draw inspiration from George Bailey and his willingness to stand up to bankers and landlords on behalf of people seeking to own their homes.

“…what’d you say a minute ago? They had to wait and save their money before they even ought to think of a decent home.

Wait? Wait for what? Until their children grow up and leave them? Until they’re so old and broken down that they… Do you know how long it takes a working man to save five thousand dollars [in the Depression Era]?

Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you’re talking about… they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath?”

– George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart) confronting Mr. Potter (Lionel Barrymore) at the Bailey Building and Loan, “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946).

If you find yourself with the same spirit running through your body, coupled with the wanting to own your own home, but under your circumstances, traditional lenders aren’t your best solution, you might just think about contacting a Lease To Own company in your area to ask some questions.

George Patton was the most brilliant commander of an army in the open field that our or any other service produced. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in World War II and the 34th President of the United States.

“Old Blood and Guts” was the moniker by which he was known. George Smith Patton, Jr. was the name by which he was born. A fiery, flamboyant, charismatic, courageous, dynamic, eccentric warrior whose name is legend, Patton, born on 11 November 1885, lived a destiny built for war.

• What master number gave Patton his command ability and generalship destiny?
• What number pattern revealed his “team” mentality?
• What missing number almost cost Patton his career?
• Patton’s flamboyance and eccentricity are divulged in which numbers?

44-8: The Generalship Master Number

No number is more powerful for manifesting command and executive ability than the master number 44-8. This is the Lifepath and life script of George Patton. This was the first clue that his life would be centered in the lessons and experiences of orchestration and administration (8) centered in organization and regimentation (4). Other famous extraordinary individuals with the 44-8 in their charts are: Thomas Jefferson (3rd President of the United States), Jefferson Davis (President of Confederate States during the American Civil War), Ulysses S. Grant (18th President of the United States and Commanding General of the United States Army from 1864 to 1865), General Douglas MacArthur, Tony Blair (Prime Minister of Great Britain), Mother Teresa (Nobel Peace Laureate, 1979); Helen Keller and Pearl S. Buck (Nobel Laureate, Literature, 1938) among others. Obviously, this is an esteemed group of historic icons illustrating the power of the 44-8 master generalship energy.

11-2/8: Team and War Management

While most numerology charts are comprised of three to four numeric Challenges in the Life Matrix, the only numeric Challenge in Patton’s Life Matrix (the superstructure of his 44-8 Lifepath) is the 11-2/8. This signifies the intensity of others, relationship, contention, confliction, opposition, combativeness, war and peace (11-2) playing itself out in the arena of execution, connection, interaction, involvement, orchestration, management (8). Combined with his 44-8 Lifepath, this 11-2/8 Influence/Realty (IR) set was a powerful addition to the Patton generalship legacy. As Old Blood and Guts exclaimed, An army is a team. It lives, sleeps, eats and fights as a team. “Team” is a function of the 2 of “others” in “relationship.” The number 8 depicts the management of the relationship.

The 3 Void

In the birth name George Smith Patton, Jr. there is no C, L or U-the letters associated with the number 3, the energy of vanity, image, communication, art, health and words. Patton was well known for his fiery but often blue-flamed speech, an asset as well as a liability. Patton could inspire ordinary men to do extraordinary things with his words and image. Yet, the lack of thought and wisdom in using abusive language, coupled with a lack of constraint, created enormous trouble for him in a famous incident involving Private Charles H. Kuhl. Patton thought Kuhl was feigning illness to avoid combat and perceived this behavior as cowardly. Patton slapped, cursed and kicked Kuhl in the backside, creating an international incident drawing ire and fire from many Americans and forcing Patton to apologize to Kuhl publicly.

Although voids are problematic, a 3 void by itself won’t create this kind of extreme negative behavior. There has to be more. In Patton’s case, his 2nd Pinnacle and 4th (Crown) Pinnacle were both a 33-6/3. The 33 is a master number of extreme communicative power. With the 3 being voided, it can be written as 3v3v-6/3v, giving rise to problems related to words, speech and communication. No doubt this 33-6/3 (or more precisely, 3v3v-6/3v) was a two-edged sword for Patton and served as the basis for both his extraordinary inspirational speeches as well as his abusive language faux pas.

Flamboyance and Eccentricity

Patton had a reputation for being both eccentric and flamboyant. He loved donning ivory-handled nickel-plated revolvers and over-sized stars encased in a larger-than-life swashbuckling superstar persona that shouted confidence and victory. If the military had a rock star, Patton was it.

Several number combinations are worthy of note in this aspect of the Patton mystique. His Soul (desire energies) and life performance PE were both 5s. The number 5 is the energy of flamboyance. Yet, there had to be something else to create such a dominate personality. That is the number 1, the energy of the ego. Not only was Patton’s Nature (basic personality) a 1, but his 3rd Pinnacle (the center and core of his Life Matrix) is a 55-1-the most unique, original and independent of all the master numbers. This 1 energy combined with Patton’s 6 Expression (from his full birth name), to generate a 7 PE or outcome (1 + 6 = 7), thus giving Patton a sense of eccentricity. This characteristic of egocentric eccentricity can be noted as 55-1/7. Add all this to the powerful image-creating master Influence Reality set of 33-6/3 and the result was Patton.

Summary

General George Smith Patton, Jr. was one of America’s greatest and most well-known military generals, a living legend in his own time and arguably the most memorable American hero of World War II. His 44-8 Lifepath and 11-2/8 IR sets in his Challenges reflected his war management skills and martial destiny. The 33-6/3 Crown Pinnacle and 2nd Pinnacle played a major role in his language usage and image. The 55-1/7 Grand Pinnacle was a prominent factor in his flamboyance and eccentricity. Together, these numeric puzzle pieces created the fabric that helped mold the Patton Mystique, making him one of history’s most intriguing personalities. ~finis

God is at work in our world. A COMMANDING VOICE tells a mother, “Put the carriage back on the sidewalk!” So she does not hesitate and pulls the baby carriage back up on the sidewalk. Immediately a truck speeds around the corner and comes right over the curb, just missing the mother and baby and carriage. To Albert, a man praying–“God, is there no help for me?” a MYSTERIOUS, ENCOURAGING VOICE says, “God isn’t done with you yet, son. God isn’t done with you yet.” Before Albert heard this voice, he had the feeling he was being cradled, completely enfolded by the wings of a bird. What a salvation for a man who was about to jump off the bridge.

Before George Ritchie was a psychiatrist, he had a NDE [near-death experience.] His report of witnessing the behind-the-scenes workings of a vast angelic system is very helpful. Christ escorted him on a tour of the various realms of existence.

First, he was shown an earthly environment in which living people were individually enveloped by a sort of electrical field, which George called an AURA. Also, in this environment he saw “gray, colorless souls with no light or aura, who were deceased persons that couldn’t [or wouldn’t] leave the earthly plane. Some were bonded to living people through love. Others were earthbound by addictions, compulsions and worldly attachments. These gray souls were seen to gravitate to living beings with similar addictions or affinities. For example, George saw real [living ] people getting drunk at a bar. As the drinkers’ aura was weakened by the alcohol, holes would actually open up in their electrical field. When that happened George could see other souls, who had been milling about the bar, rushing into the defenseless body “trying to vicariously experience the sensation of being drunk.”

Next, he was taken to yet another area of this earthly environment were more colorless souls seemed to be consumed by their own selfishness. They appeared to have “the most hateful, vengeful, self-centered, know-it-all attitudes” he had ever seen. “They were bludgeoning one another and committing all kinds of lewd acts on one another.” He saw angels there, too, trying to offer help and occasionally getting through to these self-absorbed souls. George added, “the condition of these lost souls seemed to nearly break the heart of the Christ, who was there beside me.”

Finally, George was shown an angelic realm. These beings emitted a “glow much brighter than the auras of humans, though not as brilliant as that coming from Christ Himself.” They seemed to be doing research of all kinds and studying the holy books of the universe. And the music was amazing with musical instruments we do not even have on earth–yet.

George was conducted through centers of higher learning where he could not even understand the scientific instrumentation these beings were using. Later, during WWII, he saw pictures in LIFE magazine of the first atomic power plant and realized he had seen the same set-up ten years earlier.

George makes the astounding suggestion that ideas come into the human brain by “angelic messengers who impart subconscious suggestions to receptive persons in dreams or other heightened states of awareness.” These angels are giving out the results of their research. Is this why multiple inventors come up with the same device at the same time, nearly bumping into each other in the patent office?

This book is filled with many examples of supernatural happenings which seem to echo the biblical record. I pray that we will benefit from these continuing revelations by spending time in WONDER and LOVE of the ALMIGHTY.

Many people fear to tell these special and precious events because of our callous reactions. But we are hearing a flood of these spectacular ACTS OF GOD. Let us benefit from them.

The George Green Magnet Motor is a piece of history in some circles. It was introduced by Green at a UFO conference where delegates could not believe their eyes – a motor moving indefinitely without any assistance. In this article, I will tell you all about this motor and how you could have a similar one sitting in your home within days that generates electricity for free.

George Green’s UFO Conference

Green demonstrated the device several years ago at an ordinary UFO conference. He produced a small hand-held device and proceeded to demonstrate that he could keep a rotor spinning despite no energy input. This device was basically producing free electricity.

George Green Project Camelot Interview

The wider world was not present at the UFO conference and there is no video footage or even photographic evidence of Green’s motor. Of course, there is plenty of witness testimony.

A few years later, in April 2008, Project Camelot (an investigative media organisation) visited Green with a video camera and he demonstrated the device once more.

It consisted of little more than a small speaker magnet (acting as the rotor) and then a section of PVC pipe around it. The interior of the pipe is coated in magnets which go all the way around except for a small sector. Once the motor is spinning, the operator needs to move the pipe to keep up with it and keep it in equilibrium. Otherwise the rotor would lose speed and also career off the surface.

Of course, Green’s motor was not designed to generate electricity for the home – it was intended as a simple, basic and yet clear example of zero point magnetic motor technology. It was designed to show the world that there is another energy source out there, right under the tips of their noses. The only reason that few people, even today, know about it is because magnetic motors were suppressed in traditional media by commercial and governmental interests who see this technology as a major threat to their existing activities.

How To Generate 7 Kilowatts For Your Own Home

Green’s motor looks cool but it is not practical for home use. Probably it generates barely a few milliwatts. The average home needs a few kilowatts.

These motors are still not commercially available but are anticipated to be in around 5 years or so. Until then, your best bet is to do what Green did and build one yourself. Even a larger scale device suitable for domestic use is still very simple and easy to make because it consists only of a rotor, the magnets and some electrical wiring – not much more advanced that Green’s tiny version.

If you are serious about building your own motor within a couple of days then I strongly advise investing in a good set of reliable and working plans. This will save you a lot of time and a lot of headaches. You will be generating electricity within days rather than months or longer.

George Barna is the founder of The Barna Group, a marketing research company. Barna has written other books about leadership and church growth, such as, The Power of Team Leadership and Grow Your Church from the Outside In, however Barna stated in the introduction to The Power of Vision that he had never before, “had a book that seemed to be written through me rather than by me.” In this book, Barna stresses the importance for pastors and church leadership to discover God’s vision for their ministry and the church. Although, “vision” is a popular topic both in business and in church administration, Barna states that few churches, believers or even senior pastors have an understanding of God’s vision for ministry. This book contains simple, direct principles for discovering God’s vision, for casting the vision and helping others catch it and for implementing the vision for the glory of God.

Barna’s main purpose in writing The Power of Vision is to challenge pastors and leaders to discover God’s vision for their ministry and then to develop and implement the vision. In this writer’s opinion, Barna does a good job of accomplishing the intended purposes of the book. Barna defines “vision” as, “a clear mental image of a preferable future imparted by God to His chosen servants and is based upon an accurate understanding of God, self and circumstances.” He then breaks the definition down into four more detailed components: A clear mental image; a preferable future; a future focus; an impartation by God. Throughout the book, Barna refers to the different components of this definition but he continually stresses the most important component; vision is imparted by God.

Barna also paints a clear picture of a visionary leader by listing the requirements for catching God’s vision and describing the characteristics of a visionary. Vision requires knowing God, knowing self, and understanding circumstances such as needs, opportunities and barriers. Visionary pastors have, “an urgent need to seek god’s glory by doing His work, His way, according to His vision.” It is common for leaders to confuse mission with vision so Barna emphasizes the difference between a mission statement and a vision statement. A mission statement defines ministry and outlines the objectives. It is a general statement about what the church hopes to accomplish. A vision statement is, “specific, detailed, customized, distinctive and unique to a given church.” The vision statement puts the ministry objectives into action. There are many myths related to the development of vision so Barna list twenty of the most common myths and dispels these with the reality of true vision.

The book also goes into great detail to discuss the benefits to having vision and also covers the barriers and cost to implementing the vision. Most importantly, Barna reminds leaders that the vision should be God centered and not based on personal abilities because “man’s vision is flawed”. The values and desires of the leader must align with the heart of God. A vision produced by God will be perfect, blessed, and inspired and it has only one goal, which is to glorify Him.

The things about this book that I consider to be strengths are first of all, it is easy to read. The book is short and it written in simple language instead of being filled with confusing jargon. Second, the book gives detailed, precise information in a very direct, straight forward manner. Third and most important, Barna gives God the glory for the inspiration for this book.

Anyone with a serious desire to be an effective leader will look for ways to enhance their skills but few people have time to wade through large books cluttered with technical, confusing jargon. Barna offers relevant information in a simple format. Although the book is reasonably short in length, it is not short on substance. Barna begins with a definition of vision that helps to bring a better understanding of what “vision” truly means. Vision is having a clear idea, or picture in one’s mind of the future that they prefer. However, the key to vision is that it must be God’s vision given to a leader rather than just the preferred future that an individual may have for the church. All pastors want the best for their church and may have grand ideas and plans for the future but only God’s plans for the future will succeed. Barna not only explains the process of catching, casting and implementing vision, he also provides information about common misconceptions regarding vision. In chapter three, Barna explains the difference between vision and mission because the two are often confused. He then corrects twenty of the most common myths about vision. It is often easier to understand how to do something correctly if one first understands what they were doing incorrect.

Although, I am not a pastor, nor am a in a leadership position in a church, I enjoyed reading The Power of Vision. Anyone seeking for direction regarding God’s call for them in ministry should read this book. As a part of the body of Christ, all Christians have a purpose and a work to do within the ministry. Discovering God’s vision for life and ministry is important for all of God’s people. It is especially important for pastors because they are called to lead the flock. Having a clear vision imparted by God will give pastors direction to lead effectively. This book is inspiring and challenging and would make a valuable addition to any pastor’s library.

BIBLIOGRAPY

Barna, George. The Power of Vision. 3rd ed. Ventura, CA: Regal/Gospel Light, 2009.