As the planets move through the signs of the Zodiac so move our thoughts, emotions and experiences. While our Sun sign gets all the attention, we are all the signs of the Zodiac. In understanding the energy that each sign presents, we can better understand ourselves.

Pisces reigns supreme from February 19 through March 20. During this time we are enveloped in the Fish’s emotional and imaginative nature. A Water sign, Pisces is kind, sensitive and compassionate. You can expect to feel more sentimental during this time. Do not be surprised if you tear up easily or feel the need to read poetry.

Embrace this powerful energy and you may even be able to tap into Pisces intuitive and psychic abilities. Pisces can be an excellent time to hold a séance or undergo hypnotherapy.

Of course, as with coins, there are two sides to every sign and Pisces’ watery element can be deep, dark and foreboding. The sign’s sensitive nature can prompt a need to withdraw from loved ones and escape the demands and responsibilities of daily life.

You may feel overly sad or melancholy during Pisces’ passing. Knowing that forceful and self-assured Aries is just around the corner can help alleviate the weight of any such negative feelings.

Pisces and the Power of Love

Pisces is a true romantic and the archetype for male heroes in many good romance novels. Pisces make devoted partners but the dreamer does not always carry an equal load in the relationship. Cut your partner and yourself some slack during this time if daydreams and wishful thinking interfere with taking out the trash or balancing the checkbook.

In Pisces, you can fall deeply in love or lust. You can get your heart broken or find someone who will repair the hurt. Do not be surprised if during this time you have a strong desire to love and be loved on a more spiritual or idealistic level. If in a relationship, you can expect more support, empathy and devotion from your partner.

While Pisces’ energy can bring more love and romance your way, watch out! You will be thinking with your heart not your head during this time and could get involved with the wrong type for you. In Pisces, you risk an affair even if in a committed relationship. If you have found your soul mate, this is a fabulous time to tie the knot but so not the time to run off to Las Vegas with someone you just met!

Understanding how each sign influences you and those around you will make life a little less challenging and a lot more interesting. The next step is to learn which House in your horoscope each sign resides. It is then that you will discover a more personal relationship with all the signs of the Zodiac.

What if I told you there was a perfect romance novel for you, one, that would keep you on the edge of your seat and until you were through reading it? Would this be of interest to you? Because it just so happens that I know such a romance novel, from a great author that will bring out your desires and will re-passion-ate your love life.

Would it be too to bold as to recommend;

“Petals in The Storm” by Mary Jo Putney; Topaz Books division of Penguins Book Publishing, New York, NY; Date: 1993

Now then, let me discuss with you what I enjoyed most about this book:

First off, Mary Jo Putney is one of the greatest romance novelists of our time and I see she has written all over 30-books many of them bestsellers. This particular book takes place during the times of Kings and Queens of Europe. We see the cruelty of Machiavellian rule and the passion and desire, all love and lust that goes on behind the scenes and are much a part of what is going on, as much as the actual ruling over the people.

This scene takes place within the Kings Court in the castles and beautiful landscape that permeate the scenery, mountains and beautiful countryside of old Europe. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is easily hot and bothered by a beautiful romance novel that contains suspense, intrigue and passionate desire, the kind that mesmerizes the soul. This is one romance novel you must read if you enjoy this is genre.

Anyone who lived through any war, but especially WWII, needs to read this greatly detailed and informative book that gives details, stories, actions, and facts many of which were never published. The author writes in a way that draws you to each page because, while the book is fact, it never gets boring. From the very beginning of the book where, in April 1934, Hitler met with the German minister of Defence to make a secret pact where the army would support Adolph Hitler upon the death of Paul von Hindenburg (then leader of Germany). Most of us have in our minds that the war started in 1939 when Germany invaded Poland but the plans for Hitler’s demonic plans to control the world had started with the plans for his leadership years earlier.

Several things I advise to all readers of this complete book; remember to refer to the maps at the front of the book as campaigns in different areas occur, and do not think you will skip through a page because the book is extremely long. If you skip you will miss some important and interesting tidbit. I had forgotten the maps and now I wish I had remembered them to allow me to know exactly where certain battles occurred. I also tried to read by skipping and I found out it doesn’t work. How Andrew Roberts garnered all the information and wove it into a terrific resourceful book I will never know. There is no way a review could ever do this book justice. I will hit a few highlights but you must physically read it to gain the knowledge it contains.

Hitler had been a corporal in the German army in WW I so he had felt war first hand and was twenty-nine years of age when that war ended in 1918. Hitler had a huge war machine in place. Two major factions were the OKH and the OKW, both strategic in running the military. Many leaders changed throughout the book. Hitler would have high expectations for various campaigns and when the result was not to his liking he took no remorse in immediately changing generals. Hitler controlled all the many units of might such as the Wehrmacht, the SS, the Luftwaffe (air), the Panzers (tanks), and a naval branch that, had Hitler allow it to develop fully, could have made the war much longer and given Germany a huge advantage. The German Generals, some of whom were Field Marshall’s, were many; Jodl, Keitel, Himmler, von Runstedt, von Manctein, Goebbels, Rommel, and, in general were very brilliant men but too many times Hitler forced them to do his method, not theirs.

One section of the book that was about a subject I thought I did know but the author gave some details that blew my mind of how humans could treat other humans as they did. Excerpts of the authors words; “After they were rounded up in their local communities from all across German-occupied Europe, Jews were transported by train to Auschwitz or one of the other five extermination camps in Eastern Europe.” “Once the transports arrived at the siding at Birkenau, there would be the first selection, where SS officials would choose the able-bodied men and women – numbering roughly 15% – who would be taken to the camp barracks to join work details, leaving the old, the weak, the infirm, the children, and the mothers of children, who would be immediately walked to the gas chambers and exterminated.” This is only a small part of the inhumane things the Germans carried out in order to “cleanse” the world of Jews.

The inhumane actions of war do not lie just with the Germans. Their allies, as well as the allies of the United States, Great Britain, France, and many other nations, performed many actions that killed many innocent civilians. In many cases the Germans surrounded their factories with these civilians making the bombing of the weapon producing buildings also kill those civilians. This, along with civilians being in the wrong place at the wrong time, caused many more killings. Military casualties for all the nations involved were immense. Some of the numbers are unbelievable but also undeniable.

The many battles of WW II were brutal and lasted far too long. So many new recruits were rushed to the front and into battle before they knew what they were getting into. This occurred with all nations involved, not just the Germans. The details of the Russian war involvement are quite extensive. At first they didn’t know whom to fight with, allies or axis, but eventually chose the allies because they, like Germany, wanted to control the world, especially all of Europe. Because Russia is so huge with a large population, they suffered many casualties and had so many more to fill in for those killed.

This review is too large now so I must put a halt to it and tell you to read the book. If you have no interest in war, especially WW II, don’t start it. If you have any like of the subject you must read “The Storm of War” from front to end.

10. Hurricane San Ciriaco 1899

Hurricane San Ciriaco, also known as the 1899 Puerto Rico Hurricane, San Ciriaco Hurricane, or 1899 Hurricane San Ciriaco, was an intense and long-lived Atlantic Cape Verde-type hurricane which crossed Puerto Rico over the two day period August 8 to August 9, 1899, causing many deaths from the flooding.

It kept tropical storm strength or higher for 28 days, which makes it the longest duration Atlantic hurricane on record and the second-longest anywhere in the world.

The tropical storm that later ravaged Puerto Rico developed on August 3 in the tropical Atlantic. It moved in a west-northwest direction, becoming a hurricane on the 5th. As it neared the northern Lesser Antilles, it strengthened into a major hurricane, bringing heavy winds to Dominica, St. Kitts, and Guadeloupe on the 7th. It continued to intensify to its peak of 150 mph before hitting southeast Puerto Rico on the 8th. It crossed the island in an east-southeast to west-northwest direction, causing maximum wind speeds between 110 and 140 mph throughout. After it passed Puerto Rico, it brushed northern Dominican Republic as a Category 3 hurricane, but passed north enough to not cause major damage.

It passed through the Bahamas, retaining its strength as it moved slowly northward. After drifting northeastward, the hurricane turned northwestward, hitting the Outer Banks on August 17. It drifted northeastward over the state, re-emerging into the Atlantic on the 19th. It continued eastward, where it became extra-tropical on the 22nd. The extra-tropical cyclone turned southeastward where, on August 26, it became a tropical storm again. Like most of the rest of its lifetime, it drifted, first to the northwest then to the east. It strengthened as it moved eastward, and on September 3, as it was moving through the Azores, it again became a hurricane. The intensification didn’t last long, and the hurricane became extra-tropical for good on the 4th. It dissipated that day while racing across the northeastern Atlantic. Estimates of people killed range from 3,100 to 3,400, with millions of dollars in crop damage in Puerto Rico. North Carolina fared a little better, but still had considerable tobacco and corn damage from the longevity of the strong winds and rain, making this hurricane the 10th deadliest in history.

9. 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane

The Okeechobee Hurricane or Hurricane San Felipe Segundo was a deadly hurricane that struck the Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, and Florida in September 1928.

It was the first recorded hurricane to reach Category 5 status and as of 2006, it remains the only recorded hurricane to strike Puerto Rico at Category 5 strength. The hurricane caused devastation throughout its path, as many as 1,200 people were killed in Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico struck directly by the storm at peak strength, killed at least 300 and leaving hundreds of thousands homeless. The 160 mph (260 km/h) wind measurement from Puerto Rico was taken by a cup anemometer in San Juan, 30 miles (50 km) north of the storm’s center, which measured 160 mph (260 km/h) sustained winds three hours before the peak wind speed was reached; however, the instrument was destroyed soon after and could not be calibrated. The hurricane was also extremely large as it crossed Puerto Rico. Hurricane-force winds were measured in Guayama for 18 hours; since the storm is estimated to have been moving at 13 mph (21 km/h), the diameter of the storm’s hurricane winds was estimated very roughly to be 234 miles (376 km). At least 10 inches (250 mm) of rain was dropped over the entire island. Official reports stated that “several hundred thousand” people were left homeless, and property damages were estimated at $50 million 1928 US dollars.

The eye of the hurricane passed just south of Grand Bahama as a strong Category 4 hurricane, again causing very heavy damage. Unlike Puerto Rico, authorities in the Bahamas were aware of the hurricane’s passage well ahead of time, and preparations minimized the loss of life in the islands.

In south Florida at least 2,500 were killed when storm surge from Lake Okeechobee breached the dike surrounding the lake, flooding an area covering hundreds of square miles. Coastal damage in Florida near the point of landfall was catastrophic. Miami, well south of the point of landfall, escaped with very little damage; Hollywood and Fort Lauderdale suffered only slight damages.

Northward, from Pompano Beach to Jupiter, buildings suffered serious damage from the heavy winds and 10 ft (3 meter) storm surge, which was heaviest in the vicinity of Palm Beach; total coastal damages were estimated as “several million” dollars. Because of the well-issued hurricane warnings, residents were prepared for the storm, and the loss of life in the coastal Palm Beach area was only 26.

Inland, the hurricane wreaked much more widespread destruction along the more heavily populated coast of Lake Okeechobee. Residents had been warned to evacuate the low ground earlier in the day, but the hurricane did not arrive on schedule so people returned to their homes. The worst of the storm crossed the lake with winds measured on the ground at around 140 mph (225 km/h) — the south-blowing wind caused a storm surge to overflow the small dike that had been built at the south end of the lake. The resulting flood covered an area of hundreds of square miles with water in some places over 20 ft (6 m) deep. Houses floated off of their foundations and destroyed hitting any obstacle they encountered. Most survivors and bodies were washed out into the Everglades where many of the bodies were never found. As the rear eye wall passed over the area, the flood reversed itself, breaking the dikes along the northern coast of the lake and causing a similar but smaller flood.

Floodwaters persisted for several weeks, impeding attempts to clean up the devastation. Burial services were quickly overwhelmed, and many of the bodies were placed into mass graves. The Red Cross estimated the number of fatalities as 1,836, which was taken as the official count by the National Weather Service for many years; older sources usually list 3,411 as the total count of fatalities, including the Caribbean. However, in 2003 this was revised as “at least” 2,500, making the Okeechobee hurricane 9th deadliest hurricane. In total, the hurricane killed at least 4,075 people and caused around $100 million 1928 US dollars in damages over the course of its path.

8. Newfoundland Hurricane of 1775

A letter from New Bern, North Carolina recounted, “We had a violent hurricane…which has done a vast deal of damage here, at the Bar, and at Matamuskeet, near 150 lives being lost at the Bar, and 15 in one neighborhood at Matamuskeet.”

The Newfoundland Hurricane of 1775 is also known as the Independence Hurricane. It was a hurricane that hit Newfoundland in September of 1775 and is believed to have killed at least 4,000 people.

A storm struck the eastern coast of Newfoundland on September 9, 1775. It is uncertain if this storm was the remnants of the hurricane that had crossed the Outer Banks over a week earlier; if so, it was probably extra tropical by this time.

Newfoundland’s fisheries “received a very severe stroke from the violence of the wind, which almost swept everything before it,” the colonial governor Richard Duff wrote shortly after it struck. “A considerable number of boats, with their crews, have been totally lost, several vessels wrecked on the shores,” he said. Ocean levels rose to heights “scarcely ever known before” and caused great devastation, Duff reported.

A total of 4,000 sailors, mostly from England and Ireland, were reported to have been drowned, a localized storm surge is reported to have reached heights of between 20 and 30 feet. Losses from the hurricane include many fishing boats and two armed schooners of the Royal Navy, who were on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland to enforced Britain’s fishing rights.

The hurricane is Atlantic Canada’s first recorded hurricane and Canada’s most tragic natural disaster (and by far the deadliest hurricane to ever hit Canada), as well as the eighth deadliest hurricane in history.

7. Atlantic hurricane 1766

In 1766 there was a severe hurricane in Jamaica around the islands of the West Indies. Captain John Leaycroft, who was a member of the Leaycraft family of Beaufort North Carolina, was in Jamaica days afterwards and his report was published in the Virginia Gazette on 24th October 1766. His claim says “it came in at 10am continued without abating until 5pm and has done considerable damage”.

The hurricane moving northward through the Carolinas affected a Revolutionary War battle in Virginia; it caused supply ships to sink in the Chesapeake Bay area.

September 4th, 1766: The hurricane hits Galveston.

A mission named San Augustine de Ahumado, located in what is now considered Chambers County, was destroyed. Storm surges of 7 feet flooded the area. A richly-laden treasure fleet of 5 galleons en route from Vera Cruz to Havana was driven ashore and had to wait many weeks for assistance to come. Fortunately, much of the treasure and people aboard were saved.

The powerful hurricane hit Martinique on September 5.

It hit Pointe-a-Pitre Bay, Guadeloupe the next day, and caused 6000 fatalities making it the 7th deadliest hurricane in Atlantic history..

6. Hurricane Flora 1963

Hurricane Flora blasted through the Caribbean in September and October 1963.

The Category 4 system struck the southwest peninsula of Haiti on October 4, causing heavy rains and flooding. Flora hit southeast Cuba near Guantanamo Bay also on the 4th, but a high pressure system to its north and another to its west caused Flora to drift over Cuba. It reached the Caribbean again on the 6th, but it again hit Cuba on the 7th. Flora was pulled to the north-east by a trough, bringing the hurricane into the Atlantic Ocean on the 8th. Flora steadily strengthened to a 115 mph major hurricane on the 10th, but cooler water temperatures weakened Flora until it became extra tropical on the 12th.

The hurricane caused such great damage in Tobago that it changed the economy of the island from cash-crop agriculture towards tourism and fishing. Heavy crop damage was reported in Haiti, with smaller amounts of damage in Dominican Republic.

Flora left 7,193 people dead in Haiti and Cuba, making it the 6th deadliest hurricane in Atlantic history.

In addition, Flora caused a total of $528 million (1963 dollars) in damage.

5. 1930 Dominican Republic Hurricane

The 1930 Dominican Republic Hurricane was a small but intense Category 4 storm during the 1930 Atlantic hurricane season.

On August 25, a tropical storm was observed to the south of the Cape Verde islands. It moved steadily westward and attained hurricane status on August 31 while located about 495 miles east of Guadeloupe. It moved just south of due west, and strengthened into a hurricane later on the 31st. The hurricane continued to slowly strengthen, and reached winds speeds of 95 mph as it crossed the northern Lesser Antilles on September 1.

The hurricane quickly strengthened over the Caribbean Sea, and reached major hurricane status just off the southern coast of Puerto Rico on September 2. It slowed to a west-northwest drift and intensified, peaking as a Category 4 hurricane with 150 mph winds on September 3. Soon after, the intense hurricane struck southern Dominican Republic near Santo Domingo. The city experienced very intense wind gusts estimated from 180-200 mph.

While crossing Hispaniola on September 3 and September 4, the hurricane rapidly weakened over the mountainous terrain to a 70 mph tropical storm as it entered the Windward Passage. After spending less than 12 hours over waters with a severely disrupted circulation, the storm hit southeastern Cuba late on the 4th, and paralleled the southern coast of the island. It briefly emerged into the Caribbean Sea on the 5th, but moved back ashore as it continued its west-northwest motion.

On September 6, the small tropical storm reached the Gulf of Mexico. Its motion changed to a northeast drift, where it crossed Florida near Tampa Bay on September 9. It accelerated to the northeast, where it was finally able to strengthen over the warm Gulf Stream waters. On September 12, it became a hurricane again to the east of South Carolina, and reached a secondary peak of 95 mph on the 14th as it turned eastward. It weakened over the Northern Atlantic, and dissipated on September 17.

While crossing the Lesser Antilles, the hurricane had a relatively minor effect; Puerto Rico received heavy rains up to 6 inches, though an unusual occurrence happened when the southern part of the island, the part nearest to the hurricane, felt only 1-2 inches of rain.

The city of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic was nearly destroyed from the hurricane’s strong winds. The damage was estimated at $50 million USD. This tropical cyclone killed as many as 8,000 people when it crossed Hispaniola, making it the fifth deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record.

4. Hurricane Fifi 1974

Hurricane Fifi (or Hurricane Fifi-Orlene) was a catastrophic storm during the 1974 Atlantic hurricane season that made landfall in Belize. Fifi was one of the most costly hurricanes in history, causing $3.7 billion USD in damages. It was also one of the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes, killing as many as 10,000 people. Fifi was one of the few storms that crossed from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean.

Fifi, only a Category 2 hurricane at its strongest, skirted the north coast of Honduras, causing massive flooding from the inflow of southerly winds. The rains collected in rivers, which caused enormous amounts of physical and economic damage to poor villages, small towns, and commercial banana plantations when it skimmed Honduras. Most of the country’s fishing fleet was destroyed. Although estimates of the number killed range from 3,000 to 10,000, a figure of 8,000 dead is generally accepted. Most deaths may have been caused by freshwater flooding from the rainfall that accompanied the hurricane.

Hurricane Orlene

The remnants of Fifi encountered a depression and interacted with it. This triggered the development of another system. After it was named Orlene, it paralleled the coast of Mexico before reaching hurricane intensity on September 23. It made landfall near its secondary peak strength on September 23 southeast of Culiacan and dissipated shortly after that.

Hurricane Fifi is usually considered the fourth deadliest hurricane in history, though uncertainty about the number of deaths caused by Fifi and the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 could place it as the third deadliest ever.

Fifi caused a total of $900 million 1974 USD in damage

3. Galveston Hurricane of 1900

The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 made landfall on the city of Galveston, Texas, on September 8, 1900. It had estimated winds of 135 miles per hour (215 km/h) at landfall, making it a Category 4 storm. The hurricane caused great loss of life with the death toll estimated to be between 6,000 and 12,000 people. The number most cited in official reports is 8,000, giving the storm the third-highest number of casualties of any Atlantic hurricane.

Common names for the storm include the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, the Great Galveston Hurricane, and in older documentation, the Galveston Flood.

At the time of the 1900 storm, the highest point in the city of Galveston was only 8.7 feet (2.7 m) above sea level. The hurricane had brought with it a storm surge of over 15 feet (4.6 m), which washed over the entire island. The surge knocked buildings off their foundations, and the ocean pounded them to pieces.

Over 3,600 homes were destroyed, and a wall of debris faced the ocean. The few buildings which survived, mostly solid built mansions and houses along the Strand, are today maintained as tourist attractions.

2. Hurricane Mitch 1998

Hurricane Mitch was one of the deadliest and most powerful hurricanes ever observed, with maximum sustained winds of 180 mph (290 km/h). The storm was the thirteenth tropical storm, ninth hurricane, and third major hurricane of the 1998 Atlantic hurricane season. At the time, Mitch was the strongest Atlantic hurricane ever observed in the month of October.

Mitch formed in the western Caribbean Sea on October 22, and after drifting through extremely favorable conditions, it rapidly strengthened to peak at Category 5 status.

After drifting southwestward and weakening, the hurricane hit Honduras as a minimal hurricane. It drifted through Central America, reformed in the Bay of Campeche, and ultimately struck Florida as a strong tropical storm.

Due to its slow motion from October 29 to November 3, Hurricane Mitch dropped historic amounts of rainfall in Honduras and Nicaragua, with unofficial reports of up to 75 inches (1900 mm). Deaths due to catastrophic flooding made it the second deadliest hurricane in history; nearly 11,000 people were killed with over 8,000 left missing by the end of 1998.

The flooding caused extreme damage, estimated at over $5 billion (1998 USD).

1. Great Hurricane of 1780

The Great Hurricane of 1780 is considered the deadliest Atlantic tropical cyclone of all time. About 22,000 people died when the storm pounded Barbados, Martinique, and Saint Eustatius in the Lesser Antilles between October 10 and October 16. Thousands of deaths also occurred offshore.

The death toll from the 1780 storm alone exceeds that for any other entire decade of Atlantic hurricanes. The hurricane struck the Caribbean in the midst of the American Revolution and took a heavy toll on the British and French fleets. British Admiral George Rodney arrived from New York after the storm, finding eight of twelve warships left in Barbados totally lost and most of their crews drowned. The storm also scattered and damaged most of the fleet under his command.

The storm killed nine thousand on Martinique. While in the Lesser Antilles, it killed several thousand sailors of the Spanish, Dutch, British, and French fleets. The storm also took many lives on other islands, including Saint Lucia.

Four to five thousand lives were lost on Saint Eustatius. The storm then passed over the southwestern corner of Puerto Rico heading northwestward. It probably ranked as the most devastating in the history of the island at the time.

The hurricane passed east and north of Hispaniola around 16 October and apparently approached Florida on 17 October. It continued to produce strong northerly gales off Charleston, South Carolina as it passed to the east of the coast.

At home in his topic’s habitat, History-Geography Professor and author Dailey makes his home in Bethlehem, Israel; he attempts to correlate modern expectations with his perception of first century fulfillment! Thus, he commends Revelation’s great Armageddon to a ‘future world end.’

Dr. Dailey recounts his experience as a West Bank Christian living amidst Jewish and Islamic neighbors and mightily stretches to write an apologetic for Islam devotees. At the same time, he illuminates Islam’s quest for world evangelism. Additionally, walking a tightrope between prophecy praise and condemnation, the Doctor’s precarious course tilts toward desire as he attempts to balance biblically exampled ‘propositional truths’ with futurist ‘end time’ projections; from which extractions he evinces traditional applause but without syllogistic credence.

In preface, Dailey confirms his academic prejudice early on; where, he conforms his own supernatural leanings to traditional renderings but bereft symbols and numbers recourse; thus, he applies a narrow viewpoint toward world end. Including his wife, Rebecca, as insightful prognosticator, Dailey establishes early on: “As Christians living and working in Israel, we ‘knew well’ the prophecies of the Bible regarding the battle of Armageddon at the close of human history… Who really are Gog, Magog and company?… what can we know about the mysterious figure known as the Antichrist?“

Certainly, to ‘know well’ or to ‘know incontrovertibly’ are entirely different intellectual accomplishments! To ‘know well’ is to know tradition; but ‘knowing incontrovertibly’ is to know truth. There is a great difference.

Futuristically, we cannot ignore the Bible theme’s pointedly reference toward a generational event, pending and at hand; which book does not forecast ‘end of the world or end of human history (end of time)’ but rather end of the Age (time to the end). Notwithstanding, as we address questions raised in preface, Gog/Magog and company cannot be associated as confederate armies but differentiated, as Gog from Magog, thus properly conformed as principal and principality. We paraphrase the author’s question: ‘What can we know about the mysterious figure, the Antichrist?’ Surely, many Antichrists were present in first century ambiance via I John 2:18, circa A.D. 60. As a history professor, it should present no great task to the author to identify those forces at work in A.D. 60 environs. To correlate first century Antichrist(s) as a future but singular entity might border on eschatological naiveté!

Regarding the enemies of organized religion, which terrorist philosophy condemns even peaceful infidels, Dailey admits the ambition practically confines himself and wife to house arrest, along with their pseudo-friendly Muslims. Coexistence alarms the shabiba (younger set), and they become increasingly incensed, proving efficacy of Mohammed’s philosophy: punish Muslim citizenry enough and they will capitulate-and will serve the terrorists to thus insure their own and family survival.

We can treat monotheism as an honorable institution, only up to a point, and by judging conformance via idealized ethics and ethos. All three monotheisms inhere ideological par: that is; each was established to benefit one and disenfranchise another. Islam, the most militant, mandates a continuous jihad to effect world conquest. Yet, in the USA, evidently, radical leftists defend Islam’s first amendment rights to incite our own destruction! Political sycophants also busily abet Islam’s cause – not unlike the servility exhibited in more lenient writings.

Much in politics, religion, and literature earns little or no commendation and policy comes to fruition strictly as a commercial enterprise. Yet, confirmed by syllogistic conclusions, some exegetical results are worthy of investigation. Such hard-won conclusions are available to those with the need to know.

Last century, before sealed roads linked North West Australia to areas of population, dusty dirt roads were used by mining exploration companies, which passed through huge station properties where underground water sustained a thriving cattle industry. One of the popular tales told in those days was about how flocks of white cockatoos, sensing that rain was coming to their area, became very excited, flying about in a frenzy of screeching excitement. In some arid areas it may have been well over a year since rain had fallen, but those birds always seemed to know days beforehand, that a rare storm was approaching. Some biological mechanism had been triggered that 20th Century science was unable to explain.

Admiral Robert Fitzroy, during Charles Darwin’s Voyage on HMS Beagle, had concocted a mixture of chemicals, which he had sealed inside glass jars called storm glasses. In 1859 The British Crown issued them to many fishing villages throughout Britain. Captains of ships at port were to read them before going to sea. The formation of crystals, cloudy fluids, thread like formations, spotting or star clots, indicated future weather conditions. Because the jars were sealed the science of their day could not explain how they functioned.

The Molecule of Emotion, discovered by Dr Candace Pert in 1972, is now considered an expression of fractal logic and provides explanations as to why the flocks of cockatoos reacted to the approaching arrival of flooding rains. Within the present scientific world-view, the association of infinite fractal purpose, although an accepted logic, cannot be associated with any biological process. Einstein’s Premier Law of all of Science, the universal heat death law, forbids it. All evolutionary processes are understood to lead to the total heat death extinction of life and cannot be part of any infinite fractal process.

The properties of Carbon 70, which functions beyond the entropic limitation of Einstein’s world-view, have been discovered and are inspiring new concepts of ethical quantum biological energy technology under the guidance of the new Platonic-Fullerene Chemistry. Fullerene Chemistry has been established by the three 1996 Nobel Laureates in chemistry and is basic to their new medical institute called C 60 Inc., suggesting that Carbon 70 is also relevant to a medical science, as is suggested herein. The term ‘ethical’ arises from the Platonic Science for Ethical Ends, from which Buckminster Fuller derived his synergistic theories, which balanced Einstein’s entropic world-view, as did also Sir Isaac Newton’s unpublished papers discovered last century.

In Australia the governmental understanding of the way carbon functions is so confused that Australian voters can be seen to be about to bring down the present government over issues that appear to many to belong to an international debt enforcement global rationalism. The use of Kantian Aesthetics to maintain a Moral Jurisprudence Law to somehow depict perpetual economic growth and development is illogical. Only fractal logic can possibly be used to develop such a line of reasoning and that logic belongs to Kantian fractal logic electromagnetic Ethics, banished from science due to its paganorigins within the Platonic Science for Ethical Ends. If Platonic-Fullerene Chemistry were to clearly demonstrate the principles upon which Admiral Fitzroy’s storm glass was enabled to forecast the weather, the entropic logic of global economic rationalism could not possibly grasp them.

Homo Entropicus, by scientific definition, can only bring about an acceleration of the chaos associated with the extinction process. It is a shocking thought that the ones attacking the logic of the existing entropic death sentence mentality, might be the confused unethical thugs who seem to find some need to run amok in our urban environment. The point that might need to be examined is, is it possible that we need to gain an understanding of what Plato’s engineering ethics of a spiritual reality are all about, now that Platonic-Fullerene Chemistry is presenting them as the basis of a new holographic environmental science?

How to Create Your Own Prayer Storm

The “Prayer Storm Study Guide” is a valuable instruction manual and resource tool to accompany the book by the same title. Together this material will help the reader catch the vision of Prayer Storm. This is a call to become engaged in a consistent, persistent, prayer life.

Each chapter of the study guide includes an expansion of the material provided in the earlier book which includes a treasure trove of helpful material leading into four expressions of prayer. At the end of each chapter there is a brief summary statement, thought provoking questions for contemplation, and stimulating personal application questions. These questions encourage openness and total honesty on the part of the reader as they consider family, local, and global prayer needs.

“Prayer Storm Study Guide” provides practical guidance which will help the reader ready themselves for spiritual battle and will give them the necessary boldness to join other worshippers and intercessors to impact change in the world today.

The “Prayer Storm Study Guide” is formatted to coordinate with the book by the same title. The study guide includes an index which supplies resource materials for intercessors, websites, e-mail addresses, and end-notes with references for additional reading and further study.

James W. Goll writes with compassion as he delivers a message and vision for and unbroken prayer chain for: revival in the church, the greatest youth awakening ever, for Israel, and for all the descendants of Abraham, and for God’s intervention in times of major crisis.

Destiny Image Publishers, Inc., 978-0768427172

As Reviewed for Midwest Book Review

For those who live in an area that could be affected by a storm, there is a risk of water damage to the home, especially if it is in a flood zone. Flood restoration can be overwhelming. The following is a guide to help homeowners through the process of cleaning up after a storm.

Make an Insurance Claim

One of the first things to do after safely returning home is to make a claim with the insurance company. They will want a general description of the damage to the property. The insurance company, depending on the level of destruction, should get back in touch within a few days.

Have an Insurance Adjuster Look at the Damage

After making a claim, make sure an adjuster visits the property to evaluate the issues. They will determine if the problems were caused by wind or water. This decision will greatly affect what the agency will cover. For example, if a homeowner does not have flood insurance as part of their policy and the problems were due to water invading the home, you may have to fight for your flood restoration damages to be covered. This is because the insurance company may try to say that the water in the home was a result of flooding rather than flood water.

Document All Damage

Before making any repairs, be sure to document all of the destruction that was done to the property. This includes the destruction of furniture, flooring, walls, ceilings, and so on. Also, if the water rose significantly, be sure to take note so things like the electrical system can be checked as well. Take photographs and video of any structural destruction as well as any contents that were affected.

Take Measures to Prevent Further Damage

Water damage can continue to cause problems as it sits. After making an insurance claim, it is important to make temporary repairs to the home to prevent additional issues. If the roof is compromised, cover the area with a tarp or some type of strong covering. Broken windows and doors should be covered with plywood. If it is too dangerous to make these temporary repairs, hire a service. Be sure to save the receipts for this work as to recoup the costs.

Keep the doors and undamaged windows open as often as possible to ventilate the air and allow the house to dry out. This is crucial in preventing mold growth.

Schedule Permanent Repairs

Once everything has been evaluated, the next step is to begin scheduling the repair work. If the area was heavily affected by a storm, it might be necessary to wait. Also, make sure to work with a reputable contractor. After a crisis like a storm, disingenuous contractors show up and try to take advantage of vulnerable storm victims. This often results in shoddy work that will need to be replaced.

Storm and flood restoration can be significant and overwhelming. Taking everything step-by-step will help ease the process. Be sure to keep in constant contact with the insurer and don’t make any permanent repairs until all evaluations have been completed.

Blame AT&T greed for me having to part with my Blackberry Storm. It hurts. Now that I have switched to Sprint’s $69.99 per month for unlimited everything, and my unlocked Blackberry Storm won’t work on the Sprint network, I had to get a different phone from Sprint.

Then it dawned on me: It was not enough to yank my SIM card from the Blackberry; I still had many contacts on the phone’s hard drive. And I didn’t want all that information in the wrong hands, especially when I was thinking of giving my the Blackberry to my daughter, to my son, selling it or recycling it. Whichever choice I made, I needed to erase all data from the phone.

If you have a reason to erase data from your Blackberry Storm, here are the simple steps – the process is called a Wipe as in “wipe clean”.

1. Press the Menu button with the blackberry logo.
2. From your Blackberry’s home screen, select Options.
3. Scroll down and select Security Options.
4. Select Security Wipe.
5. Select the Data option or whatever the equivalent is. If you used your phone for emails and want to erase Emails, Contacts, etc, check that box too.
6. Press menu button to select Show Keyboard.
7. Type the word blackberry in the text box, and press the return.
8. Click Wipe.

I am not certain if this process works on other Blackberry models. If you have a model other than the Storm, you may want to check the user’s manual or check the Blackberry website for online help.

I’m always amazed by political pundits who tell us that there is a bright side after some natural disaster or in the case of civil unrest in some country. They tell us that after the damage has been done, just think of all those people who will be employed rebuilding it all? I disagree with this concept, because I understand free-market capitalism and how economies actually grow and operate. Disruptions, especially large-scale disruptions as we witnessed in late October of 2012 with Hurricane Super Storm Sandy, hurt commerce, supply chains, and took a big bite out of the Big Apple and out of our economy.

On October 31, 2012 there was an interesting article in Reuters titled; “Storm Keeping Millions From Work May Slow Economic Growth,” by Jeff Kearns which stated; “Sandy may cut U.S. economic growth as it keeps millions of employees away from work and shuts businesses from restaurants to refineries in one of the nation’s most populated and productive regions. The storm may cut by $25 billion in the 4th quarter. That could reduce the fourth quarter pace of growth to a range of 1 percent to 1.5 percent, from the earlier estimate of 1.6 percent.”

Do you remember when France had those big riots, where everyone was taking Molotov cocktails and burning all the automobiles in some 400 different cities? There were protests and riots lasted for almost 90-days straight. The autoworkers of France told the government not to do anything about it, because they realized they would have lots of people wishing to buy more automobiles, new ones, which would help them stay gainfully employed building.

Look, the way to increase economic productivity, and spur on economic growth and employment is not to tear down your civilization and society as it is. Super Storm Sandy was no godsend for economic growth or to help with unemployment figures. Those left-leaning political pundits who think otherwise are sadly mistaken, but they are all over the news every time there is a large disaster whether it is a big tornado, hurricane, earthquake, or some other calamity. While there is opportunity in crisis, generally speaking the overall crisis takes its toll on the economy, so there is no net gain.

Nine times out of 10, it is a severe net loss. In this case, it will hurt us in the fourth quarter of 2012, and we still might be feeling some pain into 2013. This was a big event, and not only a natural disaster, but in many ways an economic hit right when we did not need it. Please consider all this and think on it.