The Paranoia of the Ultra-Rich

https://www.salon.com/2018/07/16/we-asked-psychologists-why-so-many-rich-people-think-the-apocalypse-is-coming/

Interesting article about what the 1% are thinking about.  Not only are the ultra-rich paranoid about some doomsday apocalypse, they are concerned about how to best control their private security personnel.  The ultra-rich are studying how to become warlords. 

3 Nephi 7:2 And the people were divided one against another; and they did separate one from another into tribes, every man according to his family and his kindred and friends; and thus they did destroy the government of the land.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014

Nick Hanauer warns, “the pitchforks are coming!”

Heartland “Con’s” List

https://www.deseretnews.com/article/705384447/Pros-cons-of-Book-of-Mormon-geography-theories.html

Thank you for your article comparing the Mesoamerica vs. Heartland model for Book or Mormon geography in 2010.  I stumbled across your post and wamted to adreess your “con’s” list for the Heartland model.

A. River Sidon

"The Book of Mormon makes it abundantly clear that the river Sidon runs from the south to the north," Sorenson said. And in Alma 2, Alma and his army wade across the river to fight the invading Lamanites The river Sidon in the heartland model is considered to be the Mississippi River.

The direction of the river Sidon is based on a misunderstanding of the “head” of the river.  Anciently, a river’s head is at its “fall-line” and not its source.  Also, the Mississippi could be easily crossed on foot at the Des Moines (Keokuk) Rapids which lies at the ancient and supremely strategic “head” of the Mississippi river and just downstream from Zarahemla. 

B. Hills
There are hills in the land of Nephi. Sorenson said it is always described as "up" in relation to everything else. "Where is the 'up' (in the heartland model)? Is it the hills of Kentucky?" Sorenson said.

According to the Heartland model, the Land of Nephi is around Knoxsville, TN which is “up” in elevation from Nauvoo and Zarahemla. An Egyptian-style temple has been identified in the Clinch River as well as numerous ancient “cyst burials”. 

C. A West Sea
The Narrow Neck of Land has a west side on a West Sea. The border by the West Sea is where Nephi and Lehi and their party landed. If the West Sea is one of the Great Lakes, Sorenson wonders how Lehi sailed to it from Asia.

Lehi’s party rounded the horn of Africa and landed on the shores of Georgia or Florida.  The “narrow neck” may have referred to the small area between the tip of Lake Michagan (West Sea) and the Great Black Swamp area of Lake Erie (East Sea). 

D. Climate
"Where is the snow in Zarahemla?" Sorenson said. "Where is the snow in the Book of Mormon? Where is the cold in the Book of Mormon? Not a single word that indicates anything other than warmth and even tropical heat."

The North American climate was warmer during the Book or Mormon time period. Images of the Carolina Parakeet and feathers are routinely found in northern Hopewell burial mounds. 

E. Lack of Civilization
The evidence of the type of high civilization described in the Book of Mormon is less prevalent than in Mesoamerica.

The Adena and Hopewell cultures were arguably even more “civilized” than the ancient Maya despite the laters impressive, but likely slave-constructed stone temple complexes. 

Book of Mormon Heartland Model 2

Thanks again for your kind responses.  Sorry for my long emails, but I’m having fun writing them.  Yes, you made an excellent point about 3 hour EQ not being continuous shaking but a series of shocks. 

Heartland is not a solved puzzle by any means.  Interestingly, upstate New York isn’t immune from seismic activity. The Adirondacks, Montreal and Charlevoix, Quebec have recorded moderate quakes along the St. Lawrence rift system. It would be nice to see a healthy 8.0+ quake in recent history and not a bunch of 5-6’ers.  (not nice if you live there) But, like New Madrid, these quakes are felt over large areas.

1944 Cornwall-Massena EQ:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944_Cornwall–Massena_earthquake

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/08/nyregion/tremors-from-adirondack-quake-shake-northeast-us-and-canada.html

http://bigfrog104.com/earthquake-hits-upstate-new-york/

http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2000/03/4637.html

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/alt.culture.ny-upstate/Yb4Nfdx5xYI

https://newyorkhistoryblog.org/2013/12/09/new-york-states-most-destructive-earthquake/

Yes, volcanic activity, pyroclastic flows, etc would easily satisfy the destructive elements of 3 Nephi.  It’s too bad scripture never just specifically refers to volcanism (Judges 5:5, Nahum 1:5-6, Isa 64:2).  Another natural phenomenon that could account for caraclysmic destruction in the land northward is a Tungusta-like asteroid impact. While ancient shatter cones are found at Charlevoix, science hasn't recorded any corresponding impact events like Tunguska during the Book of Mormon period.

The problem in searching for evidence of a singular cataclysmic event may be because it may be a “singular” event.  I do believe God uses natural law and phenomenon but when it comes to “acts of God”, I’m not sure we need perfect explainations any more than we need precise explainations for others miracles like parting the Red Sea, Joshua’s long day, or Hezakiah’s sundial. I don’t think sufficiently explaining “Acts of God” as a serious impediment to faith in the Book or Mormon for the average person. 

When it comes down to it,  I think my partiality to the Heartland model is because I find it easier to deal with the shortcomings of the Heartland model (horses, east sea, west sea, etc) than the shortcomings of the Mesoamerican model (tapirs, macuahuitl, etc).  Again, I don’t think most believers need all the plagues of Egypt explained.  But people tend to want swords when the account specifically says swords, and horses when the story specifically mentions horses. 

I’ve heard that Dr. Stephen E. Jones is recently returned from the mission field and is interested in doing more research on North American horses. 

“I'm still very interested in studies regarding Equus in early America. Is anyone here interested?” —Dr. Stephen E.Jones, Jul 27, 2018, ldsfreedomforum.com

Book of Mormon Heartland Model 1

You raised some very excellent points in your last email.  As I have admitted previously, (at the present time), I am a  totally biased “Heartlander”. While I confess my bias, I don’t think I have any self-interested agenda. I’ve tried to be a thoughtful student of the Book of Mormon and I have been a long-time fan of all Book of Mormon studies. Here are a few of my thoughts on why I am partial to the Heartland model. I am sure you are well acquainted with all these arguments.

[I do blog at the presumptuous ldsdoctrine.blogspot.com.  But I blog strictly for myself and not for readership.]

[Also, I grew up with a full-color “Book of Mormon Lands” Isthmus of Tehuantupec poster/map on my bedroom wall, which I got from my next-door neighbor, best-friend’s Dad, mentor, and bishop, Dr. Michael J. Preece (published with FARMS/Maxwell). ]

Times and Season articles:

I think whomever wrote those articles (Smith or Taylor) may have been understandably dazzled by the admittedly excellent and provocative scholarship by Catherwood and Stephens. —- specifically the lines of opinion that:

“these wonderful ruins of Palenque are among the mighty works of the Nephites”

“The city of Zarahemla, burnt at the crucifix- ion of the Savior, and rebuilt afterwards, stood upon this land”

“We are not agoing [sic] to declare positively that the ruins of Quirigua are those of Zarahemla, but when the land and the stones, and the books tell the story ... “

https://publications.mi.byu.edu/publications/jbms/22/2/7RoperFieldsNepal_JS%20Times%20and%20Seasons%20and%20CA%20Ruins.pdf

Joseph Smith Letter

“The whole of our journey, in the midst of so large a company of social honest men and sincere men, wandering over the plains of the Nephites, recounting occasionaly the history of the Book of Mormon, roving over the mounds of that once beloved people of the Lord, picking up their skulls & their bones, as a proof of its divine authenticity”

http://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/letter-to-emma-smith-4-june-1834/3

mtDNA Haplogroup X2a

I served a mission in Wisconsin and now live in Augusta, GA.  Maybe my connection with Wisconsin is why I like Wayne May. I’ve been following the mtDNA migration data from early on; well before Rod Meldrum’s presentation.  I had always found the mtDNA Haplogroup X2a data compelling. The most popular scientific claims are that mtDNA divergence occurred 100,000 - 200,000 years ago but Rohde et al suggests mitochondrial Eve could have lived only between 2000-5000 years ago. “Nature” is no second-tier publication. Of course, these minority conclusions support my biases. 

Rohde, DLT , On the common ancestors of all living humans. Submitted to American Journal of Physical Anthropology. (2005) 

Rohde DLT, Olson S, Chang JT (2004) "Modelling the recent common ancestry of all living humans". Nature 431: 562-566. 

I suppose main-stream science discounts the mtDNA migration evidence because it claims the mtDNA migration far pre-dated the Book of Mormon time periods.  But, I’m not so sure it does.  Also, I’m not sure how religious/scientific people who accept the Adam and Eve story on one hand, but argue for 150,000-year-old human DNA divergence on the other.  Also, we have other evidence of much more recent transatlantic human migrations. The Algonquins have the genetic markers and the oral history (turtle island) and the very-real archeological cover-up of Archaic/Hopewell(Woodland)/Mississippian history thanks to US political policy of Manifest Destiny. 

My wife’s uncle is BYU Professor Dr. Allen J. Christenson who is a precolumbian Mayan art, literature, and culture expert. He maintains that he sees zero connection between the Book of Mormon and the Maya. I took Dr. Christenson’s art history ar BYU and he really can read Maya like he’s reading the newspaper. 

Heartland Model Distances: 

Knoxsville (Clinch River) to Nauvoo =  613 miles (direct), 645 miles (indirect).

Knoxsville to Nashville = 185 miles.

Nashville to Nauvoo =  460  miles.

Nashville to Cairo, Il (Little Egypt) = 168 miles

Mosiah’s 16 explorers travel from the city of Zarahemla to Lehi-Nephi in 40 days = 15 miles/day = 600 miles.  (perfect mileage and pace)

Alma fled 8 days from the Waters of Mormon to the “Land of Helam” and 12 days from Helam to the “Land of Zarahemla”.  Traveling from the city of Nephi to the city of Zarahemla could represent over 600 miles / 20 days = 30 miles/day.  That would be an unrealistic pace on foot with their flocks and grain.  

However, this daily mileage could be increased significantly if Alma’s group were 1. on horseback/wagons 2. travelled downriver on barges, and 3. were “fleeing” the armies of King Noah and not pacing themselves for a months-long migration.  4. generally younger and healthy.

Average Daily Mileage:

LDS handcart pioneer  = 15.7 miles/day.

Appalachian Trail Thru-hiker = 2200 miles/5 months = 15 miles/day, (20-25 max daily miles)

Horse-Mounted Company = 30 miles/day

Alma traveling with flocks and grain suggests the refugees were utilized domesticated beasts of burden, carts and wagons. Therefore, it’s not out of the realm of possibility that Alma’s  likely energetic group could have pushed near 2.5 mph for 12 hr/day for 8 days = 240 miles max range.  Knoxville to Nashville is a very doable 185 miles (23 mil/day, 2.3 mph for 10 hours/day) 

Also, the Book of Mormon may be counting the distance from the Waters of Mormon only to the borders of the “land of Helam” (Mos 23:3), and not the city of Nephi itself to the city of Helam. (ie adjacent river valley).  Also, Mormon reports that it was only 12 days from the city of Helam to the “Land of Zarahemla” and does not specify the city of Zarahemla itself (Mos 24:25). Nashville to the border of the Land of Zarahemla (Cairo, Il) would only be a leisurely 168 miles. (1.5 mph x 10 hours/day = 10.5 mil/day x 12 days).  

So, considering the text, we may save on total distance needed to traveled. And, while Alma’s numbers are tight, they are not an order of magnitude off reality.  Also, the Limhi detachment running into the Ohio River instead of the Mississippi and mistakenly following the Ohio River up to Upstate New York (Land of Desolation) is a good fit. 

Book or Mormon Cardinal Directions:

It seems to me that according to directions Lehi traveled away from Jerusalem through the Arabian Peninsula, that the Book of Mormon is presenting standard cardinal directions. 

1 Nephi 1:13 And it came to pass that we traveled for the space of four days, nearly a south-southeast direction, and we did pitch our tents again; and we did call the name of the place Shazer.

Book of Mormon Seismology: 

If a moderate 6.0 1895 New Madrid and Wabash Seismic Zones EQ lasting less than 1 minute caused damage along the Mississippi amd Ohio R. valleys to this extent, one can only imagine what a 3-hour EQ would do. 

https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2003/fs017-03/images/madrid.jpg

EQ not only cause significant liquefaction along the river valleys which would gave been significant at Nauvoo in sandy areas above the Des Moines Rapids. Destruction associated with New Mardrid: “general ground warping, ejections, fissuring, severe landslides, and caving of stream banks.”  Associated physical phenomenon include: sand boils, tar balls, EQ lights, warm water, EQ smog, EQ thunder/booms, animal warnings. 

A least 16-18 percent oxygen is needed to start a fire and for a flame to be maintained.  Healthy humans will begin to become symptomatic with an oxygen concentration below 15% experiencing significant exertional intolerance but can survive lomg-term exposures to oxygen concentrations of 10%. Darkness woukd develop following the EQ while significant burning could have occured diring the 3 hour event.

“We were visited by a violent shock of an earthquake, accompanied by a very awful noise resembling loud but distant thunder, but more hoarse and vibrating, which was followed in a few minutes by the complete saturation of the atmosphere, with sulphurious vapor, causing total darkness.” — Eliza Bryan

“My maw tried to light the lamps; but the darkness was so dense they didn’t help at all.” 

– Eliza Bryan

A dense black cloud of vapor overshadowed the land.” – Godfrey LeSieur

Severe EQ exibit many physical phenomenon now associated with Lithospheric-Tropospheric and Lithospheric-Ionospheric Coupling.  LAIC can also be assiciated with severe thunderstorms/tornados as this phenomenon is often triggered by cosmic rays bombarding and interacting with the ionosphere.  LAIC phenomenon can also be associated with vulcanism. 

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1407.5979.pdf

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2002RS002683

Gadiandi, Gadiomnah, Jacob, Gimgimno 

— sunk in the Earth

Jacobugath (northernmost) Laman, Josh, Gad, Kishkumen  — burned with fire

While the sinking of Gadiandi and Gimgimno would require seismic activity (wherever they were), the burning of Jacobugath in the far north would not. Cities founded by Gadianton were said to have been located in the “mountains” (Hel 11:31).

Heartland Potential Parallels:

Joseph Smith +/-

Adena/Hopewell + (Jaredites/Nephites)

Haplogroup x2a +/-

Cumorah + (upstate NY was end of Hopewell)

D&C 125:3 +/- (Zarahemla)

Alma 46:17; 2 Nephi 10:10-11 +/- (“this land”)

Advanced Agrarian Civilization +

Battle Mounds +

Earth and Timber Hilltop Forts + (Captain Moroni fortifications)

Writing +/- (bat creek, mi’kmaq)

Grapes + (scuppernongs) 

Sheep and Goats +

Migrating Beasts + (bison) 

Swords +

Copper, Iron, Gold, Silver +

Cement +

Horses -  (pinto?)

Elephants - (Hopewell elephant effigy pipe) 

Algonquin Oral Tradition +/- (turtle islands = boats?)

Zelph/Manti +/-

Nephites didn’t build in stone +

No steps to temple +

Wheel/chariots -

Egyptian Style temple  +/- (Clinch River)

3 Nephi Destruction +/- (New Madrid, LAIC)

East Sea vs West Sea +/- (Superior-Michigan-Huron vs Erie-Ontario)

River Sidon vs. River Bountiful  +/- (Mississippi and Ohio)

Lachoneas Fortress +/- (Cairo, Ill)

South Wilderness +/- (Ozarks)

Narrow Neck +/- (Great Black Swamp vs. Cleveland)

Not all the questions have been answered, but for me the heartland model seems like it has some nice potential and momentum at the current time.  Call me a fair-weather fan. Maybe I just like my Georgia scuppernongs.  

Medical Humor

Lunar Audio Delay

https://wiki.tfes.org/No_Delay_in_Communication_Between_Astronauts_and_Mission_Control

Audio recording at mission control should have picked up 2.8 seconds of silence before hearing responses. But it did not.  Additionally, the speed of light calculations do not account for the fact that Apollo 11 signals were allegedly received at a dish in Australia, which was then relayed to Houston vis land lines significantly slower than speed of light as anyone who has made an international phone call across an ocean can attest), causing an even greater delay than 2.8 seconds.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth–Moon–Earth_communication

Conspiracy Quotes

“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”

Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom

The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it... 

For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.

Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed.    - JFK

“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years......It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries.” 
― David Rockefeller

“For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure--one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.” 
― David Rockefeller, Memoirs, 2002

Thank you for that wonderful tribute to Henry Kissinger yesterday. Congratulations. As the most recent National Security Advisor of the United States, I take my daily orders from Dr. Kissinger, filtered down through Generaal (sic) Brent Scowcroft and Sandy Berger, who is also here. We have a chain of command in the National Security Council that exists today.  

U.S. National Security Adviser James L. Jones gave these remarks at the 45th Munich Conference on Security Policy at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof on February 8, 2009.

Awan Brothers

1. Awans were paid twice the median salary of congressional staffers in similar positions.
2. Jackie Speier and Debbie Wasserman Schultz also procured top secret clearance for the Awan brothers. 

3. The Awans are Pakistani Nationals not US citizens.
4. Awans worked under congressional members who work for top secret level congressional committees (DHS, Foreign affairs, Select intelligence committee).
5. External Server

The brothers, Abid, Jamal and Imran Awan, worked as shared employees for various members of the House, covering committees relating to intelligence, terrorism and cybersecurity, which included the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Homeland Security and the Subcommittee on Tactic

Awan Brothers may have used 'dummy' routers and wiretaps to procure sensitive government information that could be passed to operatives in conflict zones as a sort of warning system for the rat-lines. These rat-lines include drug smuggling, human trafficking, organ harvesting, information, and weapons.

Kidney vs. Heart

Admittedly, there isn’t as much concrete archeological evidence to support the Book of Mormon, like the Bible.  While we can visit Jerusalem, there are no ruins or artifacts which say “Zarahemla was here”.  Also, we haven’t discovered the burials of Book of Mormon prophets like Nephi, Jacob, King Benjamin, King Mosiah, Alma the Younger, Helaman, Mormon or Moroni. Nevertheless, there are plenty of historical accuracies and consistencies.  These accuracies and consistencies are only recently being appreciated. But, for the tens of millions who believe in the Book of Mormon as scripture equal with, and in harmony with the Bible; our belief is based in revelation from God by the Holy Ghost. 

The Bible teaches that that the Holy Ghost would lead the believer into all truth. However, critics of the Book of Mormon commonly attack the LDS testimony as only miss-guided “good feeling in our hearts”. Critics of the Book or Mormon deny the testimony and witness of the Holy Ghost claiming the Bible condems the “heart of man”

Gen 6:5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Jer 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Proverbs 28:26 He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.

However, the Old Testament doesn't ascribe the same meaning to the vital organs as we do today or in the New Testament.  In modern times, appetites are assigned to the stomach, pure love and restraint to the heart, and thoughts are assigned to the brain. Despite our more advanced knowledge of anatomy and physiology, we know feelings are not actually generated by or emanate from the heart. The heart pumps blood.  But we ascribe feelings to the heart because many intense emotions are felt in the breast over the heart.

In contrast, the Old Testament actually assigns thoughts and imagination to the heart and not feelings (search: thoughts and heart). 

Deut 15:9 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand;

1 Chron 8:9 And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

Daniel 2:30 But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but for their sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the king, and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart.

The feelings of restraint and love in the Old Testament emanates from the kidneys or “reins”. In the Bible, the kidneys and not the heart are the seat of emotion and affection.  

Job 19:27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

Proverbs 23:16 Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.

Psalms 16:7 I will bless the Lord, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.

Psalm 73:21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.

Jer 12:2 Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins.

Jer 11:20 But, O Lord of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

Jer 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

10 I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

Westinghouse Bankruptcy

The US Nuclear industry was about to experience a renaissance with a new safe passively cooled Westinghouse AP1000 reactor design.  All US nuclear reactors are the inherently unsafe GE Mark I built from the 1950-70’s.  The last US reactors where that Watts Bar and River Bend reactors started in the 1970’s and completed in the 1990’s.  Westinghouse got approval for 4 new reactors to be built in South Carolina and Georgia Plant.  Only several years into the job, the jobs were already over budget resulting in Westinghouse bankruptcy and the cancelation of the South Carolina reactors at VC Summer.  The plant Vogtle reactors are still under construction but some say only a few years away from cancellation as well. 

I am trying to understand with the issues behind the failures of this project.  This is a monumental failure with significant long-term economic impact on the US.  I don’t think I’ve heard much in the media about this issue. 

https://www.enr.com/articles/43325-witness-to-the-origins-of-a-huge-nuclear-construction-flop

Christopher Hartz says the problem was with Shaw Nuclear Service having an inefficient process to make design changes.  Shaw Neclear Services is located in Lake Charles, LA and had to send changes to offices in Charlotte and Pittsburg. The NRC regulators were not located in Lake Charles and getting changes approved required sending plans to outside offices for approval. 

One of the issues in making sense of this is understanding all the subsidiary companies:

1. Shaw Nuclear Services

2. Shaw Modular Solutions

3. Stone and Webster

4. Chicago Bridge and Iron 

4. Westinghouse

5. Toshiba

6. Southern Company

7. Souhern Nuclear

8. Fluor

9. Bechtel

I am a bit suspicious of Christopher Hartz, a safety officer, and the NRC who might have purposely torpedoed the US nuclear industry. From what I understand, Westinghouse had initial approval for its reactor design but the NRC changed requirements requiring Shaw to change design and manufacturing midstream. This change in requirements I think created the problems with getting design and process changes approved.  Shaw and Westinghouse found it impossible to get plan modifications approved and signed off by PE’s.  Also Hartz was making a big issue about  Shaw not having inferior “nuclear welds”. 

Shaw Modular Solutions and Westinghouse were trying to set up a pre-fab operation where sections of the reactors were constructed in LA and then shipped to SC and GA for instillation. If the process had worked out, Shaw would be set up to build another 150+ reactors. Bechtel is now completing work on Plant Vogtle units 3 and 4 in Georgia. 

https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN17Y0CQ

Mesoamerica vs. Heartland

http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/1377256/24363457/1392219176997/Joseph+Smith+editor+of+Times++Seasons.pdf?token=%2Fm8RXBbedNsym3xjOTyKpt3ePhs%3D

Did John Taylor ot Joseph  Smith write Times and Seasons article.  The Oct 1, 1942 article is the critical. Word primt analysis says Jossph Smith did author all Stevens and Catherwood articles.  Word print says Joseph wrote all articles but my question is if there is a deviation with the Sept 15, 1942 and Oct 1, 1942 only and that if John Taylor authored and edited that edition. 

https://youtu.be/8_MIfG6pCV8

https://books.google.com/books?id=1C4_-Fz3eFsC&pg=PA173&lpg=PA173&dq=muskogee+meaning+from+the+sea&source=bl&ots=dbjw4olpJE&sig=mmzg7ubELflcUB0-V4QQw-eEk44&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjxveOo0MbcAhUEUt8KHU4MBv84ChDoATADegQIAxAB#v=onepage&q=muskogee%20meaning%20from%20the%20sea&f=false

origin of creek tribes

Generating Light From Darkness

Heat can be transferred by conduction, convection, and radiation, and evaporation (phase change), and expansion.   This talk discusses the ability to cool a surface and water by being reflective at visible wavelengths and emmittimg light in the infrared wavelengths.  The emission of heat via thermal IR radiation was the secret the ancients used in the desert to produce ice in the desert at night.