Wednesday, September 29, 2021
How to Manage Your Small Business Finances
Posted By Business Consultant Michael Webster at mvwsr@aol.com
Managing funds can be tough for any small business owner. Your small business’s success is frequently due to the abilities you bring to the table whether creating a product or providing a service. If you don’t have much experience managing business finances, it might feel like a chore, and you might find yourself getting into terrible financial habits that will harm your firm in the long run. For each business owner, the most critical step is to educate yourself. Small business owners can build a stable financial future and avoid collapse by learning the essential skills required to run a small business, such as simple accounting duties, asking for a loan, and preparing financial statements. Staying organized, in addition to education, is an important element of good money management.
As a small business owner, there are a few things you should do to stay on top of your money. I have written in this article important points as a guide in managing your finances.
Compensate Yourself
When you’re running a small business, it’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day operations. After all, that extra cash might go a long way toward helping your company expand. Small business owners should not forget their own position in the company and should be compensated appropriately. You want to make sure your business and personal finances are in good working order. Many small business owners, particularly at the start, fail to pay themselves thinking that getting the business up and running and paying everyone else is more important. But what if the business fails? You will have never paid yourself. You can opt to use a corporate card as your compensation. Remember that you are a part of the company, and you must compensate yourself in the same way that you compensate others.
Invest in Growth and Development
Though it’s critical to set money away and investigate development options, this can help your company grow and go in the right manner financially. Always keep an eye on the future as a business owner. A small firm that wants to keep growing, innovating, and attracting the best personnel should show that they are willing to invest in the future. The improved level of service will be welcomed by customers and employees will respect your commitment to the organization and their careers. In the end, you will add more value to your company than if you spent all of your income on personal issues.
Don’t be Scared of Loans
Loans can be frightening. They can cause you to be concerned about the financial consequences of failure. However, if you don’t have access to the funds that loans provide, you can have a hard time buying equipment or expanding your crew. You can also use the loan funds to boost your cash flow and make sure you pay your employees and vendors on time.
Maintain a Solid Company Credit Score
To facilitate all of these endeavors, you may wish to purchase more commercial real estate, obtain additional insurance policies, and take out more loans as your firm grows. Getting clearance for all of these trades and acquisitions can be tough if your business has bad credit. Pay off all of your debt funding as quickly as possible to maintain good credit. Allowing your business credit cards to run a balance for more than a few weeks, for example, is not a good idea. Don’t take out loans with interest rates you can’t afford, either. Only look for funding that you can return fast and simply manage your money without compromising the future of your business.
Develop an Effective Billing Approach
Every company owner has a client who is perpetually late on payments and invoices. Managing small business finances also include managing cash flow to ensure that your company runs smoothly on a daily basis. It may be time to get creative with how you bill particular consumers or clients if you’re having trouble collecting from them. Having too much cash locked up in unpaid bills can generate cash flow issues, which is a leading cause of business failure. If you have a habitual late-paying customer, which we all have, adopt an alternative tactic instead of badgering them with repeated invoicing and phone calls.
Pay Your Taxes Where You Are Convenient
If you’re having difficulties saving for your quarterly estimated tax payments make it a monthly payment instead. Tax payments can then be treated as any other monthly operational expense.
Establish Sound Financial Practices
Internal financial protocols, even if they’re as simple as setting aside time to analyze and update financial data, can go a long way toward maintaining your company’s financial health. Keeping track of your finances might help you avoid fraud and other risks. We often run out of time, money, and technology skills as a small firm, but it shouldn’t stop any small business owner from implementing some type of internal control. If you have staff, this is very vital. Weak internal controls can lead to employee fraud or theft, as well as legal issues if you or an employee are found guilty.
Plan Ahead of Time
There will always be business difficulties that need to be addressed immediately, but you must plan for the future when it comes to your finances. You’re behind the competition if you’re not looking five to ten years ahead so conquer your market as early as possible.
Pay yourself a salary from your company’s earnings, plan ahead, pay off debt on time, and focus on your return on investment to effectively manage small business finances. It’s crucial to remember that your business finances aren’t just about how much money you make but they’re also about how you spend it and where you acquire it. When it comes to money, you should have the foresight and the courage to look into all of the options.
At Least $72 Million in Coronavirus Bailout Loans Went to Big Oil and Gas Companies
Back by Popular Demand. Posted By Michael Webster
At least 16 drillers, fuel transporters, oil technology firms and service providers tapped the Small Business Association’s Paycheck Protection Program.
WASHINGTON — The oil business is in rough shape these days, but it’s got friends in high places. And they’re coming with cash.Multimillion-dollar companies in the oil and gas sector scored at least $72 million in federally-backed loans earmarked for small businesses, according to financial records reviewed by VICE News. And that’s despite warnings from Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin that big companies should look elsewhere for funds to survive the pandemic, and could face audits or even “criminal liability” if they misstate their needs.
At least 16 drillers, fuel transporters, oil technology firms and service providers tapped the Small Business Association’s Paycheck Protection Program, which was created by the $2.2 trillion CARES Act in March, the records show. Most of those borrowers are valued at over $10 million on the stock market.The Trump administration has been outspoken about supporting America’s oil industry, which has grown so large that the U.S. now pumps more oil than Saudi Arabia or Russia and has begun to see itself as more of a global oil supplier than just a big consumer.The industry is buckling in the crisis: Widespread stay-at-home orders mean nobody’s using fuel to go anywhere. The glut has pushed oil futures into negative territory for the first time in history and sent fear rippling through executive suites. Trump ordered his officials to help U.S. oil companies on Twitter in April.
Democrats say dirty energy doesn’t deserve a bailout, and delivering one via the small business loan program would be “unconscionable,” Rep. Nanette Barragán (D-Calif.), who has pushed the Trump administration to resist throwing rescue funds at oil and coal companies, told VICE News on Friday.
“It was never intended to make it easier for giant fossil fuel corporations to drive us closer to climate catastrophe.”“The PPP is about helping small businesses — mom-and-pop type Main Street stores — struggling to make it through the COVID-19 public health crisis,” she said. “It was never intended to make it easier for giant fossil fuel corporations to drive us closer to climate catastrophe.”But the numbers show some energy companies have already gotten millions. At least a few of those who did were in trouble even before the virus struck, and some recently approved spending millions on corporate share buybacks, a move that effectively passes the company’s wealth to stockholders.
In a statement to VICE News on Friday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) called for an investigation of these loans by the Small Business Administration’s internal watchdog.“The SBA Inspector General indicated to us that they will conduct the investigation we requested on waste, fraud, and abuse in the program,” Warren said. “These loans should be reviewed as part of that investigation.”Who's getting cash
Independence Contract Drilling, which operates some 20 oil rigs and is headquartered in Houston, TX, took a $10 million PPP loan on April 27.The company’s board approved a $10 million stock repurchase program last summer even though the firm lost money in 2018 and 2019. Its stock price has fallen from over $180 per share four years ago to below $2 per share in March. In early April, Independence announced layoffs and pay cuts in response to the crisis.Laredo Oil Inc., which specializes in recovering oil from mature fields, has seen its shares plummet 97% since 2015. As a result, the company’s $1.2 million PPP loan is roughly the same size as its total market valuation, according to Reuters data.Other borrowers seem to be in much stronger shape — but they took crisis loans anyway.Profire Energy, an oilfield technology company, raked in $39 million in revenue and spent $2.7 million repurchasing its own shares in 2019. The company ended 2019 with almost $19 million on hand and zero debt, but announced taking a $1.1 million PPP loan on April 21 anyway.
Profire’s CEO said in a press release that the funds would be used to retain employees until energy markets recover.“Our company has been able to withstand the impacts of economic slowdowns, price wars within the oil and gas industry and global disruptions. Fortunately, we have never had to operate in an environment in which all three occurred simultaneously,” CEO Brenton Hatch said in a statement.Some of the biggest borrowers in the oil patch have begun returning the money, after the Treasury Department warned big companies about audits and the Small Business Association adjusted the rules of the program.DMC Global, a Nasdaq-traded company worth more than $320 million whose business includes providing oilfield services, said it repaid the $6.7 million small business loan that it took on April 14.“DMC believes that at the time it borrowed the money, it fully complied with the language of the PPP legislation,” the company said in a press release.“Subsequent guidance from the [Small Business Administration] made after DMC had received the proceeds of the loan states that public companies may not be eligible for the program,” the company wrote. “In view of these new guidelines and to avoid any further disputes at a time when the business environment is the most difficult it has seen, the company has repaid the loan.”Natural Gas Services Group, valued at more than $70 million on the New York Stock Exchange, announced Thursday it had repaid its $4.6 million PPP loan.
The company cited the Treasury Department warning that “public companies that applied for and received PPP loans may be subject to increased scrutiny and potential liability if it is determined that such companies had access to alternative sources of capital.”Graham Engineering, which sells equipment to oil refineries, took a $4.6 million PPP loan shortly after reassuring investors that it began the year with $72 million in cash, virtually no bank debt and the ability to borrow up to $25 million. The company returned the loan — along with two weeks’ worth of interest.At least one company, though, decided to give just some of the money back.Energy Services of America Corporation, which lays natural gas pipelines among other lines of business and reported $175 million in revenue last year, borrowed a total of $13.1 million from the small business loan program. But the board voted to give $3.3 million of it back on April 27 after a discussion about the company’s financing needs.“That would leave the company and subsidiaries with $9.8 million in PPP Loans to fund operations,” the firm said.
Cover: An aerial view of a crude oil storage facility is seen on May 4, 2020 in Cushing, Oklahoma. (Photo: JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images)
Saturday, September 25, 2021
New Mexico Treasure. How the gold was found & how it got there
Stories of lost and buried treasure abound in the West. In New Mexico alone there are dozens of legends and stories dealing with gold and silver hidden away in the recesses of one mountain chain or another.One of the newer and most popular stories (it comes close to rivaling the Lost Dutchman in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona) deals with Victorio Peak, right here on White Sands Missile Range. It is typical of all lost treasure stories in that there is little or no hard evidence, there are a few facts mixed in with an avalanche of rumor and for some reason the location is lost or it is somehow now inaccessible.The Victorio Peak story begins in November 1937 when Milton E. Noss went hunting in the Hembrillo Basin of the San Andres Mountains. By the way, Noss is also called "Doc" because he often passed himself off as a doctor. He was not and was reportedly arrested in Texas for practicing medicine without a license.While hunting Noss supposedly climbed Victorio Peak to take a look around. On his way up it began to rain and he took shelter in a natural opening on top. In a small room there he moved a large boulder and discovered a shaft leading down into the mountain.He came back later with his wife Ova and climbed down into the shaft. He supposedly followed the faults in the peak down several hundred feet until he found a large room. After exploring the large room and several other small ones he returned to the surface.By most of the accounts, he reported to Ova he had found a room large enough to drive a train into. Through it, a stream of cold water ran. There were chests filled with Spanish coins, jewelry and religious artifacts. Also, there were Spanish documents, Wells Fargo chests and thousands of gold bars stacked like wood. Finally, there were 27 skeletons tethered to the floor.Understandably, the value of this treasure has grown over the years with inflation and the increased value of gold. Years ago some estimated its value at 26 million dollars. Now the Noss family says it may be worth three billion dollars. Funny thing about inflation though. All those original reports say there were 27 skeletons. Now, in one report, the family is saying there are 79 bony guardians down there.From 1937 to 1939 Noss and his wife supposedly worked to bring the treasure to the surface. During this time Noss worked diligently hauling up bars and hiding them all around the region. He never let Ova go down into the treasure chamber and he always hid the bars himself. Some say he didn´t trust anyone. She claimed he was worried about her getting hurt or kidnapped.Apparently there was some sort of choke point in the fissure which made it difficult getting out with the loot. So Noss hired a mining engineer to dynamite that point and enlarge it. Too much explosive was used and the "squeeze" was blasted shut. Efforts to open the shaft or bypass it proved futile.Before we continue this story we have to consider where this alleged treasure may have come from. The most written about and talked about source has to be the legendary Padre La Rue mine.This legend is usually associated with the Organ Mountains, but what the heck, Victorio Peak is only 40 miles to the north. Around 1800 there was a young priest named La Rue working with a small Indian tribe in Mexico. He befriended an old Spanish soldier who, on his deathbed, told La Rue about a fabulous vein of gold just two days north of Paso del Norte (El Paso).Because the crops were failing and the Indians starving, the padre led the group to this area and found the rich vein. What they found to eat I don´t know, but the story says they did mine the gold for several years.The Spanish sent soldiers to find out what had happened to the padre. When La Rue heard they were coming he had the Indians hide the gold and all evidence of the mine. They were then captured by the Spanish who killed the padre and all his followers in a vain attempt to find the location to the mine.Many people will have you believe that Noss found the original mine, while others say it is just the secret hiding place. Ova did produce a photograph of some gold bars which Doc brought up and one is clearly stamped with the name "La Rue." Could Victorio be the site of the original mine or the hiding place with the mine located somewhere in the vicinity? I like numbers---let me throw some at you.Expeditions Unlimited had an assay done of the sandstone in Victorio Peak and it came back showing one tenth of an ounce of gold in each ton of rock. To get 100 tons of gold (a number usually cited by supporters based on the number of bars reported) from a site with this concentration of gold would require crushing and processing 32 million tons of rock. In South Dakota, the Homestake Mine is the most profitable and longest lived gold mine in the Western Hemisphere. There the gold assay is two and a half times richer than the sample from Victorio Peak and it has taken them a century to extract 1,000 tons of gold---using modern explosives and equipment, I might add.According to my Time-Life book on rare metals, a ton of ore in the South Dakota mine is equal to about 19 cubic feet. If rocks are similar in the Victorio Peak area we are talking about removing and processing over six hundred million cubic feet of rock or a pile of rock the size of a football field and over two miles high. Where do you suppose the padre hid it?OK, OK, maybe ore that poor isn´t a fair test. Let´s say the ore the padre mined was 100 times richer. No, let´s say it was 1,000 times richer or had an assay of 100 ounces of gold per ton of rock. Doing the same calculations we end up with a pile of mine tailings the size of a football field and 12.5 feet high. If it was in the San Andres Mountains, I bet we could find it.Another story which avoids these unpleasant numbers deals with Emperor Maximilian of Mexico. According to this story, he was trying to flee Mexico with all of his riches. The mules made it and the stash was hidden with the porters being left to die in the cave. Unfortunately for Maximilian, he didn´t make it out of Mexico.A third story has the German government sending a shipment of gold over to Pancho Villa and the gold being waylaid in New Mexico. The gold was supposed to be used by Villa to pay for his attacks against the United States and draw the U.S. into war with Mexico so the Americans would not go to Europe and fight in World War I.The fourth explanation for gold in Victorio Peak is the one about it being a repository for Apache raiders. This would explain the Wells Fargo chests found down there by Noss.Then there are the combo explanations which marry a couple of these into one story. One of the most persistent is that La Rue´s gold is down there and the Apaches also used it to store their loot. This explains the Mescalero Apache interest in the gold hunts at Victorio Peak. They claim any gold found in the peak rightly belongs to them since they stole it and then hid it in the peak during the 19th Century for safekeeping.Once Noss blew up the entrance to the treasure room the story of the peak gets more complicated with a variety of helpers, witnesses and financial backers. Noss is reported to have already removed hundreds of gold bars from the mountain as well as a great deal of jewelry and other artifacts. Sure, it was illegal to own gold in those days but no one has really explained why Noss needed financial backers to dig out the debris in the tunnel. The jewelry, including those uncut rubies Letha mentioned, surely could have been turned into lots of instant cash.Anyway, Noss had a number allies working at the peak. In 1941 a group of about 20 people, who had furnished money and labor, formed a company to raise money to straighten up and timber the shaft.During the war Noss disappeared and divorced Ova while he was living in Arkansas. He came back in 1945 and the small group wanted to incorporate but Noss refused.Noss turned up again in 1949 working for Charley Ryan in Alice, Texas. Noss supposedly talked Ryan into traveling with him to New Mexico to check on "the mine." When they got to Victorio Peak they found Ova controlling the site with a state permit which allowed her to prospect there. Noss allegedly told Ryan not to worry and they filed claims on sites north of Victorio Peak which contain some lead bearing ore.According to court testimony, Ryan finally realized he was being duped by Noss into providing money for nothing. Ryan testified he stopped his lead mining operations on March 4 and 5, 1949 and told Noss he was leaving New Mexico after he called the sheriff to come and arrest Noss for fraud.Noss struck Ryan and ran out of the Ryan house in Hatch and shouted he would kill them all. Ryan stepped out on the porch and fired two shots from his own pistol. The second shot hit Noss in the head and killed him instantly.Ryan´s murder trial was held on May 25 and 26 in Las Cruces. The jury brought in a verdict of not guilty based on self defense.There wasn´t much testimony about buried treasure during the trial. Ova supposedly claimed there was a conspiracy of silence and Doc was killed over gold bars he didn´t deliver. One source says Ryan later went to Ova and proposed a partnership in Victorio Peak. She refused.The press reports all say Ryan killed Noss because he wouldn´t turn over gold he promised to sell to Ryan. The trial testimony doesn´t raise this issue. I suppose there could have been a cover up but it seems just as plausible that Ryan told the truth during the trial. There is probably a little bit of truth in both sides.We do know Ryan later received lease payments from White Sands for the lead mining claims. He had 13 claims when the missile range took over the land around Victorio Peak and he was paid $300 per year.Next---more Victorio Peak stories with Capt. Fiege and the Air Force connection and hard rock mining with the Gaddis Mining Company.---Interlaced with the historical information in these articles are statements of personal opinion by the author, Jim Eckles, which are not necessarily the official position of White Sands Missile Range or the U.S. Army- After Doc´s death Ova Noss inherited the story of treasure at Victorio Peak and its inherent benefits and curses. She continued to work at the peak with the help of supporters and family members and to sell shares.In 1952 she visited the Denver Mint and inquired if Milton Noss had made any deposits of gold at the Mint from November 1937 to March 1949. Mint records showed none was made. Interestingly she wrote the Mint in 1939 asking officials what they should do if they found gold. She indicated they had an old map showing the location of gold bars and they were searching for them. She was told to notify the Mint immediately if they found anything.Another interesting fact from 1939 involving the Mint is a "gold brick" which was submitted to the U.S. Treasury for assay by Charles Ussher of Santa Monica, Calif. He supposedly paid $200 for the brick which he obtained from a man named Grogan. The assay revealed the bar contained 97 cents of gold. In an investigation conducted by the Secret Service, Grogan revealed he obtained the "gold brick" from Doc Noss in New Mexico.On July 13, 1950 the Army entered a lease agreement with Roy Henderson for the land where Victorio Peak is located. Many people don´t realize there was a goat ranch right at the foot of Victorio Peak. The Henderson family lived there and before that it was grazed periodically by the Gilmore family. In fact, in 1973, Mart Gilmore said he took Noss to Hembrillo Basin in 1936 to show him a cave---at the request of Noss.This was originally state land and the U.S. Government was granted the use of the land "for any military purpose whatsoever."A search of records by officials in December 1950 revealed there were no existing legal mining claims in the area. On November 14, 1951 Public Land Order No. 703 was issued which withdrew all WSMR lands from prospecting, entry, location and purchase under mining laws and reserved their use for military purposes.Interestingly, on January 5, 1953 Ova Noss assigned four percent of her Victorio Peak interests to J.L. Fowler of Enid, Oklahoma, who, in turn, sold parts to at least 10 persons in Oklahoma and Kansas. In February 1955, a Mrs. Miller of Caldwell, Texas wrote to the Mint concerning the purchase of gold mining stock from Ova Noss. This is intriguing since public records showed Ova had no legal claims at the peak. There is some correspondence showing the Treasury Department was concerned about the possibility of fraud and an investigation was made.The next highlight in the story of Victorio Peak is the Fiege episode. Leonard Fiege was an Air Force captain assigned to Holloman AFB in 1958. He later claimed in 1961 that he and three men--Berclett, Prather and Wessel--went hunting in the Hembrillo Basin in 1958 and stumbled upon a tunnel in Victorio Peak. Fiege and Berclett claimed they crawled through it into a small room which contained a stack of gold bars. Berclett recently admitted in a press interview they were hunting gold to begin with, not wildlife.Not to jeopardize their positions with the military, these two bright guys claimed they did not remove any of the gold. NOTE: Lost treasure stories always have a lot in common with horror movies. The participants never seem to be too bright and they never learn from past stories which clearly tell us not to open the closet door when creepy things are happening and to take some of the gold with you when you find it.Berclett still claims he scratched his initials on one of the bars. They then spent several hours caving in the entrance to the little room so no one would find it.In May 1961 the WSMR commander received a letter from the Holloman commanding general requesting Fiege and partners under a Col. Garman´s supervision be allowed to enter Victorio Peak to "get evidence which they will then provide to U.S. Treasury activities." On May 29 Fiege and group met with Maj. Gen. Shinkle, the WSMR CG, and Fiege stated it would be a simple matter to recover a few bars of gold. The request was denied.At the end of June a group which included Fiege, Berclett and Colonels Garman and Gasiewicz from Holloman visited the director of the Mint and pleaded their case. As a result of that meeting the director sent a letter to the Secretary of the Army stating the Mint had been bothered a great deal by the gold story at Victorio Peak. He told the secretary they might be able to put an end to the rumors if the group was allowed to dig in the supposed tunnel.The Secret Service had indicated earlier that there might be a cache of non-gold bars on the site which they said may have been placed there by Doc Noss to further his bunco game.An old timer from El Paso calls me periodically to talk about Victorio Peak. He claims he knew Noss and that Noss used to buy copper bars in Orogrande and have them electroplated with gold in El Paso. When asked why he doesn´t tell his story to the press, he says he doesn´t think they would care. It would spoil the story.Another old timer who ranched near Victorio Peak claims Noss used to salt the sand at the springs around the base of the peak. When prospective investors showed up, Doc would be panning flakes of gold out of the sand at the spring.When the Department of Army received the letter from the Mint, officials asked for the WSMR CG´s comments. He said, "My stand has been that I shall deny entry...unless I obtain such permission. I desire this permission...and would like these rumors laid to rest." On July 30, 1961 Shinkle received permission to allow the investigation.As we go through this scenario, you might want to keep in mind that this is the same operation which television´s "Unsolved Mysteries" claimed only four people knew about.So, on August 5 a group including Shinkle, Garman, Fiege, Berclett, Prather, Wessel, Major Robert Kelly, a number of WSMR military police and Special Agent L.E. Boggs of Treasury went to Victorio Peak. For five days Fiege and his three partners worked to enter the tunnel but failed. At that point Shinkle told them to go away.The Fiege group came back to Shinkle in August and September stating they would like to continue and was willing to work on weekends only. On September 20 Shinkle notified the Secret Service he was going to give Fiege more time but they would be restricted to the same tunnel. No new excavations would be allowed.Work then continued on an intermittent basis for about five weeks under the surveillance of Capt. Swanner. In late October WSMR records indicate two men named Bradley and Gray entered Hembrillo Basin and approached the workers. Swanner supposedly ordered them to leave the missile range since they were trespassing. They demanded a piece of the action or they said they would tell Mrs. Noss. Swanner told them to leave.On November 1 the state land commissioner notified the Army that Mrs. Noss was accusing them of mining her treasure. Things came quickly to a head and Shinkle ordered all work to stop on November 3.Shinkle communicated with the Secretary of the Army and local officials that work was stopped and that the Fiege group had found nothing. The Secret Service already knew it since they had a man on site. The Noss lawyers pushed for access for Mrs. Noss. On December 6, with advice from a long list of other agencies, Shinkle excluded all persons from the range not directly engaged in conducting missile tests.By the way, the fact that Capt. Swanner´s name is on the walls of one of the fissures in Victorio Peak is not the big deal that "Unsolved Mysteries" made it to be on Sunday night. According to Don Swann of Las Cruces, who was stationed at WSMR in 1956, soldiers were always spending weekends and free time in places like Victorio Peak. He says he put his name in one of the peak´s tunnels as did the soldiers with him. It is sometimes called "soldiers hole."At this point we need to make a clarification or fine distinction involving the Army´s activity during the Fiege episode. The press pounces on this and often says the Army admits it did work at the site. This is not the case. The Army allowed a claimant to do work at the site. The Army does not admit that it conducted any kind of official or unofficial search at the peak for its own benefit.After this the Noss group continued to seek permission to enter. The range´s position was that the group had no legal claim, therefore there was no reason to grant such an entry.In late 1962 the Gaddis Mining Company and the New Mexico Museum approached the missile range seeking permission to enter and dig at Victorio Peak. The state of New Mexico sponsored the request and the Army recognized the state´s interest in a possible historical find. Rumors flew during the dig saying Harold Beckwith, son of Ova Noss, was financing Gaddis. On June 20, 1963 a license was granted by the Army for a 30-day exploration.The work began with simultaneous archaeological, seismic and gravity surveys. According to Chester Johnson, a museum rep on site, nothing was found. He added that "a D7 caterpillar was used to cut and build roads where ever they were needed, even on top of the peak." Most of the scars on the peak are a result of this activity, not any Army work at the site.The roads and platforms were necessary for placing a drilling rig. According to Johnson, the rig, "using a 4.5 inch rock bit and drilling with air, was used to test the anomalies (those places indicated by survey that might be caverns). Drill holes varied from 18 to 175 feet in depth, depending on location....There were about 80 holes drilled during the project."In addition to this work the company drove their own tunnel 218 feet into the side of Victorio Peak in an attempt to gain access to the lower regions. This failed.To accomplish all this the state had to request an extension which was granted. The 30-day extension made the exploration period July 19 through September 17.In the end the company found nothing and reportedly spent $250,000. As part of it White Sands filed a claim with the state for reimbursement for support during the quest. The claim for $7,640.54 was filed in October 1963 and finally paid in November 1964.Next---a look at the 1977 gold search.---Interlaced with the historical information in these articles are statements of personal opinion by the author, Jim Eckles, which are not necessarily the official position of White Sands Missile Range or the U.S. Army You might theorize after a mining company had spent two months on Victorio Peak without results, most people would realize gold bars don´t grow out of the ground there. On the contrary, more dreamers rushed into the breach and came forward seeking quick riches from the uncooperative Army.In 1964 and 1965 the Museum of New Mexico and Gaddis Mining were both back seeking permission to reenter the range. In the same period D. Richardson and R. Tyler visited White Sands requesting permission to locate "lost treasure."Also, Violet Yancy, Doc Noss´ second wife, showed up asking to get onto the range. Violet popped up again in 1969 making headlines in Texas and New Mexico. She hired two Fort Worth lawyers and was trying to establish her right to the treasure. She indicated there was documentation showing Doc left her 76 percent of the treasure and Ova the other 24 percent.One person conspicuously missing from the recorded requests during the sixties is Ova Noss. More than likely she was operating through various backers at this time. A hot rumor during the Gaddis search was that Harold Beckwith, Ova´s son, was financing the Gaddis operation. Reporters pressed the question at the time but could not confirm it. It may be the family was operating through some other group.In 1968 E. F. Atkins and party started a series of requests and petitions which carried on for years. This was a persistent group which pulled out all the stops in trying to get in.Senator Barry Goldwater wrote requesting permission for the Birdcage Museum of Arizona to explore for treasure. It was determined the museum and Atkins were one in the same. They supposedly also sought entrance through the cooperation of a man named Gill with ABC-TV.Then the range received a letter from the Great Plains Historical Association of Lawton, Oklahoma which stated they had accepted scientific sponsorship of a treasure project at WSMR as outlined by an E.F. Atkins.When all this was denied, Atkins asked for reconsideration and stated several Washington Army Authorities and senators and representatives had recommended approval. On checking with the Department of Army, WSMR learned the Secretary of Army had made no commitment and would back WSMR´s decision 100 percent.This cat and mouse game went on for years. In August 1971, The Department of Army indicated it had already received 55 Congressional inquiries that year on the behalf of Atkins and his request to search for gold. In a 1972 memo for record one range official noted he had received another request from Atkins to explore for gold. He indicated Atkins wanted to get together on a friendly basis and maybe something could be worked out so Atkins did not have to exert Congressional pressure on the Department of Army to gain access to WSMR. He did not get on White Sands.This brings us to the point where Victorio Peak gained national exposure through the Watergate hearings and the likes of Jack Anderson and F. Lee Bailey.On June 2, 1973, Jack Anderson reported in his syndicated column the story of noted attorney F. Lee Bailey´s involvement with gold bars in New Mexico and specifically, White Sands Missile Range. According to Anderson, Bailey was authorized by a consortium to gain legal possession of the golden treasure at WSMR. The group promised to pay taxes and then sell the rest of the gold at a profit to themselves.Bailey was supposedly skeptical at first so he asked for proof. The group came up with a gold bar about four inches long and promised hundreds more to prove their claim. Bailey sent it to the Treasury Department and had it assayed. It proved to be 60 percent gold and 40 percent copper. Anderson´s article quickly pointed out ancient gold ingots often were not pure and this percentage shouldn´t be viewed as significant.A Bailey spokesman later stated the consortium knew the location of 292 gold bars, each weighing about 80 pounds. However, Treasury and Army expressed disinterest in Bailey´s proposals.Just a few numbers at this point. The bar given to Bailey was obviously not one of the alleged 80 pounders. An 80-pound bar with the stated proportion of gold and copper would be about 12 inches long, five inches wide and three inches thick. Interestingly, modern 14-karat gold jewelry is 58 percent gold and 42 percent other metals such as copper. In 1974 the same bar was examined by Los Alamos which came to the same conclusion. The press dutifully reported experts saying the bar was basically the same as jewelers gold. Hmmmm, maybe some old rings melted down?I suppose because he is well connected, Bailey took his problems to U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell. Mitchell then repeated much of it at a lunch with H.R. Haldeman and John Dean. Finally, Dean, during his Senate Watergate Investigation testimony, mentioned something about Bailey, gold bars in New Mexico and making a deal for his client to avoid prosecution for holding gold.As with any story repeated several times, by the time Dean told it there was some distortion---according to Bailey´s people. After a storm of Watergate headlines linking treasure to the investigation, Bailey´s people said there were actually two groups of people. One was a small group which had stumbled onto the gold and the other was a group of businessmen supporting them.Bailey never would reveal who his clients were but it later came out one was a Fred Drolte wanted by authorities on an arms smuggling charge. Bailey later was quoted as saying that given a helicopter and access to White Sands he could have gold bars in 30 minutes.At this point things really started to get interesting. In late 1973 several people stole into the Hembrillo Basin and set off a dynamite charge in a side canyon east of Victorio Peak. They supposedly blasted the Indian pictographs off of a rock wall. Some people claimed if you knew how to read the drawings they would guide you to the treasure.After the trespass, security was beefed up and a house trailer was put in at HEL site just west of Victorio Peak. It was to house range riders and military police. In July 1974 the range announced it was making more improvements to the site with the addition of a helicopter pad, a 30-foot antenna and portable generators. The additional work was done in anticipation of approval for another gold search.At this point Victorio Peak was in the news all the time. There was lots of maneuvering by various groups trying to gain entrance. The Bailey group signed a deal with the state(New Mexico would get 25 percent) to allow them first crack at the peak. The Army didn´t buy it and New Mexico battled the Army in the press for quite a while. At the time it must have been very serious for the two sides. But looking back on it and seeing how it was played out in the press, it looks pretty humorous---especially when you consider no one ever came up with anything approaching a whole gold bar and the basis for the whole argument anyway was the story of a man arrested for practicing medicine without a license.As the story grew in the mid 70s a kind of gold fever or hysteria developed with it. The Bailey group starting claiming thousands of bars of gold, not just 292. Maybe it was the oil crisis, but somehow inflation kicked in and the treasure´s worth grew to 225 billion dollars. The Washington Post came to the rescue and rationally pointed out Fort Knox only stored 6.2 billion dollars in gold reserves.As the story spread the missile range started receiving letters from people all over the world asking for information or permission to explore. Perfect strangers came forward to offer their ESP capabilities, their divining rods, their great grandfather´s knowledge and their old maps.Some supposedly legitimate claimants emerged from this. In August 1973 White Sands received a letter from a lawyer named W. Doyle Elliott. It turns out he was retained by Roscoe Parr to get himself a piece of the action. Elliott stated in his letter that Parr, "alone possesses all of the necessary information and instructions from Dr. Noss to," settle the issue. The letter goes on to say Noss had an insight he might die before gaining access into the peak again and gave Parr all the necessary instructions to access the gold. Also he supposedly told Parr how to divide the treasure and generously offered Parr the balance after it was divided. Elliott solemnly pointed out Parr, "accepted and agreed to fulfill the requests made of him by Dr. Noss." None of this was apparently in writing.By the end of 1974 you needed a program to keep all the claimants straight.Someone reported Fiege had gone into partnership with Violet Noss Yancy. There also was the mysterious Bailey group, Ova Noss, Parr, the Shriver group, the "Goldfinder" group and Expeditions Unlimited headed by Norm Scott. Ova Noss took the bull by the horns and sued the Army for one billion dollars. The case was dismissed.The Army was reluctant to deal with any one group for fear of showing favoritism. A number of solutions were proposed which included a lottery drawing to determine order of entry and a free-for-all gold rush which probably would have ended in a blood bath. None of these approaches was acceptable. Then Scott was able to organize the various claimants and he proposed Expeditions Unlimited represent the various groups and deal with exploring their claims.The Army accepted and the search was set for mid 1976. This was postponed twice and, finally, "Operation Goldfinder" got underway in March 1977. It was put up or shut up time for most of the claimants.Before it even started the range had to battle the rumors. Just a few days before the start word got around that the search was open to the public. Public Affairs scrambled to get the word out that only authorized searchers and press would be allowed in.A press conference was held on March 18 and the actual search began the next day. Each day, press and searchers were registered at the peak and searched. At one point there was a report one of the claimant groups was going to try to salt the site. They were asked to leave by Scott. The searchers went site to site seeking the elusive gold bars. Eventually, an extension was granted to run the operation until April 1.To say there was some press interest in the event would be an understatement. The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, London Daily Mail, Newsweek, Time Magazine, Rolling Stone and the National Enquirer were all there along with the local and regional print media. Of course, the television and radio stations showed up in force too. Probably the most notable, or, at least, most famous reporter attending was Dan Rather then with "60 Minutes." He attracted almost as much attention as the peak itself.In the end most of the claimants had their time on Victorio and failed to turn up any gold bars---or anything of value. Immediately following the 1977 search there was a flurry of requests to reenter the range but the Department of Army emphatically stated, "That no exploration for lost treasure on WSMR will be permitted for the foreseeable future."With the "foreseeable future" now behind us it is going to be interesting watching what happens during the next year at Victorio Peak. Recently, several people have said Doc Noss must be laughing in his grave. Henry James, in his book The Curse of the San Andres, said Victorio Peak was a haunting place with unusual sounds. Maybe he was only hearing a distant chuckle.To view black and white photo of Ova Noss on Victorio PeakFOR MORE INFORMATION: Three books have been published on Victorio Peak and it is easy to tell one from another. They all refer to the peak by a different name. The first is The Curse of the San Andres by Henry James. This book was published in 1953 and may still be available. He calls the peak Soledad.The second book is 100 Tons of Gold by David Chandler. This was written right after Operation Goldfinder and is noted for Chandler´s gullibility. He seems to swallow whatever claimants tell him, hook, line and sinker. And he shows some paranoia by having the Army steal the gold about four different times. Just can´t get it right, I guess. He calls the peak Victorio and his book is probably out of print.The third book is Treasure of Victoria Peak by Phil Koury. Koury was once Ova Noss´ lawyer and his book went on sale in 1986. It is still available and was being sold by the Ova Noss Family Partnership in January. The title tells you what Koury calls the peak.---Interlaced with the historical information in these articles are statements of personal opinion by the author, Jim Eckles, which are not necessarily the official position of White Sands Missile Range or the U.S. Army--See more articles by Michael Webster: journaldeskblog
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Will the human body sustain itself indefinitely can humans live forever
by Michael Webster Investigative Reporter and Scientific Researcher
Medicine and science have come a long, long way in the last hundred years. When we think of the possibilities people had during the 1900’s when we suffered heart failure, kidney failure, liver disease, polio, tuberculosis, smallpox, almost any kind of illness, there is no arguing with the undeniable truth that advances in medicine due to science have lengthened many lives that otherwise we now in the 21st century feel they had ended prematurely.
I would like to predict the limitless future of science and technology and how it is, affecting us now and for the years beyond. In fact, many predictions of the future are often nothing more than the narrow viewpoint of the predictor. Predictions are very hard to make with any real accuracy in regards to not only the future, but, how the future will affect us and our way of life and life itself. Since the beginning we as human beings knew very well about pain and suffering that was associated with horrible diseases and many of those diseases are still with us even after the profound transformation of the unleashing of the industrial revolution and still today in the 21stcentury we fear and suffer from many of the same modalities cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer’s and other incurable known and unknown diseases. Not so very long ago people on earth lived to be only about thirty and even now our life expectancy is a mere 75 for males and 78 for females.
Many of us humans living today have a deep seated natural desire to live. Even though some claim otherwise. I think they are just in denial or don’t know the facts. For the first time in mankind’s history we have real reasons to be optimistic about long lives and even perpetual life. Most of us also possess a keen sense of time and have a perception of eternity. Under favorably health and normal circumstances we want to keep living indefinitely. It appears we want life with no expiration date. For the first time humans not only desire to live indefinitely but also have the great potential to remain healthy, busy and productive forever.
According to the Watchtower from earliest times, mankind has dreamed of living forever. Yet, that dream remains unfulfilled—no one has found a way to conquer death, yet. Recently, however through, medical research it has renewed the hope that a dramatic extension of the human life span might really be possible. Consider what is being pursued in various fields of scientific study.
Interestingly there seems to be no limit to a person’s capacity to learn. Science now believes that nothing in nature compares with the human brain when it comes to complexity and resilience. Most Scientist thinks we have barely scratched the surface when it comes to really understanding the potential of the human brain. Amazingly enough much of this potential remains as we grow older. The question then is why?
Neuroscientists have recently learned that most brain functions remain unharmed by the aging process and the horror stories we hear about Dementia Alzheimer’s and other feebleness of the brain is over blown.
Researchers working for The Frankly Institute’s Center for Innovation in Science Learning indicate current research is very positive about the longevity of our brains according to the researchers there: “The human brain is able to continually adapt and rewire itself. Even in old age, it can grow new neurons. Severe mental decline is usually caused by disease, whereas most age-related losses in memory or motor skills simply result from inactivity and a lack of mental exercise and brain stimulation.” So if we can keep the brain intellectually stimulated and free from disease, it could keep working indefinitely. “The brain, declares molecular biologist James Watson, co-discoverer of the physical structure of DNA, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. “ Neuroscientist Gerald Edelman says “ that a section of the brain the size of a match head contains about a billion connections that can combine in ways which can only be described as hyperastronomical –on the order of ten followed by millions of zeros.”
Then we must ask does it seem logical that although endowed with such potential, humans should live just a few decades?
By the end of the 20thcentury a period of intense scientific discoveries like unlocking the secrets of the atom and how to spit it creating the atom bomb, unraveling the molecules of life and building the computer. And remarkable advancements in medicine helped cure deadly and crippling diseases. The dynamic era of science marches on and as such we are on the brink of still another great revolution the hydrogen revolution, which will be, our next main source of energy. Everything from cars, trucks, buses, ships, airplanes, power generating plants and all industrial energy will come from efficient water and steam producing hydrogen. Dirty fossil fuels will be a thing of the past.
This revolution will change the entire economic structure of the world, as we now know it. As human knowledge doubles every ten years, computer power is doubling every eighteen months and the Internet is doubling every year. Perhaps the most important to human health and longevity is the doubling of DNA analyzing, and sequencing every two years. We have now mapped the human genome consisting of about 100,000 human genes that are hidden among 23 pairs of chromosomes in our cells. This was all accomplished years before researchers predicted they would and it was no doubt one of the most ambitious projects in medical history.
Francis Collins who headed up that project for the U.S. National Center for Human Genome Research said, “There is only one Human Genome Project. It will only happen once in human history, and this is that point in time. Without sounding corny, I do believe this is the most important scientific project mankind has ever mounted this investigation into ourselves." The techniques of molecular biology will allow us to read the genetic code of life as we would read a book. Already, the complete DNA code of several living organisms, such as viruses, single-cell bacteria, and yeast, has been completely decoded, molecule-by-molecule. Embryonic and adult stem cells will heal most of man kind’s illnesses. Already new advancements in DNA research are making possible a new type of computer, molecular computers, which perform calculations on the atoms themselves, which computes with organic molecules, as a tiny living chip, much smaller than anything today with much more information capability. In fact the size of microchips will be on the scale of a molecule and will end the so-called Age of Silicon. Remarkably, DNA computers have already been built which can solve problems in mathematics faster than supercomputers. Even some visionaries predict an optical computer which will compute on dancing beams of laser light. Already we have computers capable of 3 trillion calculations per second (3 teraflops per second, with 2.5 trillion bytes of memory). Science is on the verge of computers which will calculate even more.
Robots soon will develop common sense and be able to converse with humans and will recognize and manipulate things in their environment as we do. Only they'll be able to always learn from their mistakes. This will give them the ability to make independent decisions and perform other complicated duties such as shopping, housekeeping, cooking, providing secretarial services, companionship and assist humans in many other untold and unknown ways.
Many other advancements are expected in biotechnology, telecommunications and space travel. Without exception, every one of the technologies singled out to lead the twenty-first century are deeply rooted in the quantum, computer, and DNA revolutions.
Quantum theory revolution discovered in 1925 in the twentieth-century by Werner Heisenbery, Erwin Schrodinger and others were able to reduce matter to some few postulates. So with this new knowledge they were able to mathematically predict properties of substances before they were created. These calculations are now the standard that predicts the properties of everything from microscopic subatomic quarks to the colossal supernovas in the known universe. That then makes it possible for the other two great scientific revolutions, the computer and the biomolecular revolutions.
Although the laws of computers are well known, only some of the basic laws of artificial intelligence and the human brain are known. At present, computers are our main and in some cases is our only way to determine if the buildup of carbon dioxide will starve us of oxygen in the atmosphere and will cause us to be bomb barded by the suns radiation. That will endanger and change human life as we know it. At this point in time our computers are telling us that our weather is being disrupted by the greenhouse effect, causing among other things global warming. If that result is as many experts now believe the health of humans and economy of the entire planet will be adversely affected.
The quantum theory, too, will have a powerful influence in the 21st century in the area of badly needed energy production. And will create machines the size of molecules, these machines will become known as nanotechnology and micromachines. Nanotechnology promises the very smallest of molecular machines because of the enormous advances in manipulating those atomic-size micromachines. They will be able to scavenge molecules from within our system by patrolling in our bloodstream and removing plaque from our arteries, and will be able to destroy infectious microbes of all kinds. They will be able to kill tumor cells, repair damaged cells and reverse the aging process altogether. They will be able to resolve engineering problems by cleaning up the environment by devouring hazardous wastes, eliminating world hunger by growing wondrously inexpensive but plentiful nutritious well balanced foods. Nanotechnology will enable us to build supercomputers the size of atoms, and build other types of machines, from booster rockets to microchips. These tiny machines will be able to multiply into trillions of molecular robots which will converge on site and destroy viruses and bacteria at will and will be able to solve other biological problems and reshape life as we know it. With the advent of new ways to power rockets through ionic engines we will see the beginnings of rockets that will reach nearby stars, and we will start developing colonies in deep space, and interplanetary travel will become commonplace.
All of this will have profound effects on biology and medicine. Most if not all genetic diseases like cancer will be eliminated. Chemotherapy, invasive surgery, and painful testing will all be things of the past. In fact life itself may well become perpetual by conquering death altogether.
What is helping to drive this quantum leap in biomolecular research is our remarkable ability to decode the secrets of life, using computers and robots to automate the sequencing of DNA. That means someday all organisms will have their complete DNA code unraveled. By then we will be reading the Encyclopedia of all life. It well soon be possible for anyone on earth to have their personal DNA code stored on a CD. Imagine going to your doctor for a routine checkup, he draws some blood without punching the skin, then places it into a computer, which instantly gives a personalized DNA read out including any of the then known genetic diseases. They well even be able to predict the mathematical chances of your getting a disease. Then preventive measures will be taken years before any symptoms appear. Gene and cloning therapy will then cure what ever ails you. Medicine is basically going to change from a treatment-based to a prevention-based discipline.
This shift to polygenic diseases will be the key for overcoming chronic diseases such as heart disease, strokes, diabetes, arthritis, Alzheimer's, aids and other autoimmune diseases, as well as mental diseases like schizophrenia.
But the bottom line is we know that Ian Wilmut of the Roslin Institute at Edinburgh, Scotland has already cloned Dolly the sheep. Monkeys, mice, pigs, cats and many other animals have also been cloned. That animal cloning will lead to human cloning, if it hasn't already and that alone will give control over the aging process and will extend our life time into the future where human cloning and cloning therapy will be run of the mill. Some believe that human cloning has already taken place some where in the world. And that only high net worth individuals and highly placed government officials are privy to this secret science.
Cloning raises serious moral and ethical questions which we will leave to the clergy, politicians and humanity in general.
The Watch Tower reports that Therapeutic cloning, a controversial field of research, could theoretically provide patients with new and perfectly compatible livers, kidneys, hearts and most other organs for transplantation. Such organs would be cultivated using the patient’s own stem cells.
Researchers in nanotechnology foresee a time when doctors will introduce cell-size robots into the bloodstream to find and destroy cancer cells and harmful bacteria. Some believe that this field of science, along with gene therapies, will eventually allow the human body to sustain itself indefinitely.
We will someday soon be able to grow entire organs in the laboratory such as hearts, livers, lungs, and kidneys for cloning therapies as replacement parts for our diseased or warn out vital organs. And through molecular DNA restructuring we will be able to grow new organs within our own bodies. But until than we must do all we can to stay healthy and try to stick around so we ourselves may one day be able to take full advantage of these wonderful new advancements in our lifetime. Of course if we fell, and if the world is allowed to go on long enough science someday in the distant future may be able to bring us all back from the dead.
So what is the latest scientific developments happening today that can save and/or extend human life?
Since 2005 there has been another major advancement available to people who are suffering from end-stage heart disease and failure from all other human organs. The major difference between this breakthrough and current medically-accepted treatments and surgical procedures is that this modality does not require pharmaceuticals, major surgery, immune-suppressants or organ transplantation. This leap forward uses the wisdom and healing power of the human body itself. And even better than that, it uses the healing power of your body. Not a cell, not an organ, not a blood product comes from another person’s body, and thus there is no problem of rejection and attack by your immune system to a foreign invader. What is this amazing natural process, where does it come from and why haven’t you heard of it? Well, maybe you have heard of it, but in another context: it is stem cells.
You may or may not know that there are two types of stem cells: embryonic (that comes from human embryos) and adult (which reside in the bone marrow of every man, woman and child) which play a major factor in healing of illness and injury. This true story we are telling is about adult stem cells, the ones every human being carries around in their bone marrow. These cells might be thought of as the body’s National Guard, each one just waiting for the order to rush in where disaster has struck to rebuild and restore order. Each cell goes out what might be called “anonymously” and is open to become whatever it needs to become. The ultimate in adaptability, the adult stem cell responds to a signal put out by the affected area, charges to the site and morphs into a heart cell, or a kidney cell or a liver cell, or even a brain cell or whatever is needed. If you think about it, this is not only the wisdom of the body it is a marvel, certainly a miracle (from the Latin mirari“to wonder at”).
There’s only one problem: where there is a catastrophic event (such as heart attack, congestive heart failure, peripheral artery disease (PAD), or any major damage or breakdown in the systems of the body, there are not enough stem cells to provide the restorative actions needed to recreate health, especially as the body ages. Without a way to restore the cellular structure of the damaged organ, deterioration and eventual death must ensue.
However with adult stem cells (ASCs), harvested from the bone marrow, thigh, and blood and from other parts of the human body are less invasive. The least invasive is using the patient’s own blood (much like a blood transfusion) to regenerate a diseased heart (which is only the beginning of the possible applications).
Dom Margoles a pioneer in this new industry says “Today in America and around the world manypatients have been told that there is little the current medical profession can do to help them. There is real hope for people who refuse to accept that they must live their remaining days condemned to being incapacitated and restricted in their activities and pleasures because they cannot avail themselves of the latest medical technologies in their own country. www.TheraVitae.com
Hundreds of people’s lives (many of which are Americans) suffering from end-stage heart failure, congestive heart failure and its related diseases (like Peripheral Artery Disease – “PAD”) have now been saved with this new treatments. If they rely on undergoing old conventional medical treatment that is currently available, they will undoubtedly go behind the veil of mystery that is death.”
According to Margoles “Today right now the truth is that end-stage, no-option heart patients DON’T have to die. But you would never know that from reading the American medical press now controlled by embryonic profiteers.”
According to these same cutting edge experts “75 of out of the first 100 American and Australian patients, in 2005 said “No, not ME doctor; tell the next guy to go to a hospice!” and came to Thailand and got lucky”. Yes, three out of four got better, while the less fortunate one-fourth suffer no-gain, no-harm, and no foul. Almost half of those 75 have given up their right to medical privacy so that they can help you as they were helped before you!”
The choice for end-stage heart patients is not easy, but it is clear. Ask yourself if you are getting any better? Or, are you not getting any better? When your cardiologist says there is nothing more he can do for you, your choices become very limited.
Cutting edge hospitals in Asia alone have treated over 500 patients since 2005. About 300 Americans are at least four months past their treatment, and 200 of them have reported significant improvements in their heart symptoms, especially higher energy levels and better breathing both at night and after exertion. Some of these have become the "Patient Volunteers" who are eager and willing to share their stories with anybody who is interested enough to ask. If you’re a heart patient, these volunteers were once like you. They weren't getting any better with standard treatments and were "wondering if this treatment in Bangkok, Mexico and elsewhere is for real."
Recent discoveries from all over the world, but few in the USA, are unleashing the power of adult stem cells (ASC) in novel ways that already provide the scientific community a platform on which it can, over time, develop cures for Parkinson’s, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, heart failure and a host of other debilitating disease.
Adult stem cells (ASC) harvested from the patient’s bone marrow or blood, have been saving and improving lives for over five years with no safety issues.
This new cutting edge current treatment uses only a half-pint of the patients’ blood. They then harvest the stem cells and multiply them into therapeutic numbers before injecting them into the heart. It has provided a safe and effective therapy NOW for tens of thousands of soon-to-be-dead, no-hope heart patients.
The best available estimates of Embryonic stem cell treatment is several years away at best while Adult stem cell treatment is available now in many other countries and may be available in the United States with in the next couple of years. The U.S. Already has clientical trails moving forward and is having amassing results.
Biologists are also experimenting with the enzyme telomerase in an attempt to overcome an apparent limit to the number of times that cells regenerate themselves. Scientists know that old, deteriorating cells are eliminated and replaced by new ones. In fact, most of the body is renewed several times during a person’s lifetime. If the process of renewal could be extended, researchers theorize, “the human body could regenerate itself for a very long time—even eternally.”
Proponents of cryonics deep-freeze the bodies of those who have died. The idea is to preserve them until medical breakthroughs enable doctors to cure diseases, reverse the effects of aging, and restore both life and health to the dead. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatrycalls this concept “a present-day counterpart to the mummification of the ancient Egyptians.”
Man’s relentless quest for immortality shows how hard it is to accept the idea of an end to his existence. Is it really going to be possible for mankind to attain everlasting life?
Mankind is well on the way to curing many things that kill us. In the not to distant future we will be extending life far be on our wildest dreams. Even some day perpetual life will be common place. Someday we will learn and develop how to even resurrect the dead and bring the dead back to life for those who wish to. According to the Bible Jesus had that ability and He was not the only one to receive such a gift. Spirit-anointed Christians chosen to rule as kings in heavenly glory received the same kind of resurrection that Jesus did. (Romans 6:5) The apostle John shows that this privilege is granted to thousands of individuals. (Revelation 14:1) They too receive immortality. Regarding their resurrection. Death has no hold on those who receive such a resurrection.—1 Corinthians 15:50-53; Revelation 20:6.
http://www.watchtower.org
Life Extension Foundationis a good example of an organization focusing primarily on the biological approach to immortality. Medical nanotechnology entails the control of large groups of molecular-scale machines, which could enter the body noninvasively and regularly repair biological damage on a fine-grained level, before it can accrete. The Foresight Institute, most notably the researcher Robert Freitas Jr., is widely known for studying the technical and political aspects of medical nanotechnology, among other types of nanotechnology. Creating benevolent self-improving artificial intelligenceis the pursuit of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, a research project aiming to create genuine transhumanity by exploiting the unique cognitive advantages a general AI would have relative to humans. These cognitive resources could rapidly be applied in humanitarian areas, such as life extension research, with rapidly effective results (from the human perspective.) The Immortality Instituteand the Extropy Institute.
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by Michael Webster Investigative Reporter and Scientific Researcher
Medicine and science have come a long, long way in the last hundred years. When we think of the possibilities people had during the 1900’s when we suffered heart failure, kidney failure, liver disease, polio, tuberculosis, smallpox, almost any kind of illness, there is no arguing with the undeniable truth that advances in medicine due to science have lengthened many lives that otherwise we now in the 21st century feel they had ended prematurely.
I would like to predict the limitless future of science and technology and how it is, affecting us now and for the years beyond. In fact, many predictions of the future are often nothing more than the narrow viewpoint of the predictor. Predictions are very hard to make with any real accuracy in regards to not only the future, but, how the future will affect us and our way of life and life itself. Since the beginning we as human beings knew very well about pain and suffering that was associated with horrible diseases and many of those diseases are still with us even after the profound transformation of the unleashing of the industrial revolution and still today in the 21stcentury we fear and suffer from many of the same modalities cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer’s and other incurable known and unknown diseases. Not so very long ago people on earth lived to be only about thirty and even now our life expectancy is a mere 75 for males and 78 for females.
Many of us humans living today have a deep seated natural desire to live. Even though some claim otherwise. I think they are just in denial or don’t know the facts. For the first time in mankind’s history we have real reasons to be optimistic about long lives and even perpetual life. Most of us also possess a keen sense of time and have a perception of eternity. Under favorably health and normal circumstances we want to keep living indefinitely. It appears we want life with no expiration date. For the first time humans not only desire to live indefinitely but also have the great potential to remain healthy, busy and productive forever.
According to the Watchtower from earliest times, mankind has dreamed of living forever. Yet, that dream remains unfulfilled—no one has found a way to conquer death, yet. Recently, however through, medical research it has renewed the hope that a dramatic extension of the human life span might really be possible. Consider what is being pursued in various fields of scientific study.
Interestingly there seems to be no limit to a person’s capacity to learn. Science now believes that nothing in nature compares with the human brain when it comes to complexity and resilience. Most Scientist thinks we have barely scratched the surface when it comes to really understanding the potential of the human brain. Amazingly enough much of this potential remains as we grow older. The question then is why?
Neuroscientists have recently learned that most brain functions remain unharmed by the aging process and the horror stories we hear about Dementia Alzheimer’s and other feebleness of the brain is over blown.
Researchers working for The Frankly Institute’s Center for Innovation in Science Learning indicate current research is very positive about the longevity of our brains according to the researchers there: “The human brain is able to continually adapt and rewire itself. Even in old age, it can grow new neurons. Severe mental decline is usually caused by disease, whereas most age-related losses in memory or motor skills simply result from inactivity and a lack of mental exercise and brain stimulation.” So if we can keep the brain intellectually stimulated and free from disease, it could keep working indefinitely. “The brain, declares molecular biologist James Watson, co-discoverer of the physical structure of DNA, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. “ Neuroscientist Gerald Edelman says “ that a section of the brain the size of a match head contains about a billion connections that can combine in ways which can only be described as hyperastronomical –on the order of ten followed by millions of zeros.”
Then we must ask does it seem logical that although endowed with such potential, humans should live just a few decades?
By the end of the 20thcentury a period of intense scientific discoveries like unlocking the secrets of the atom and how to spit it creating the atom bomb, unraveling the molecules of life and building the computer. And remarkable advancements in medicine helped cure deadly and crippling diseases. The dynamic era of science marches on and as such we are on the brink of still another great revolution the hydrogen revolution, which will be, our next main source of energy. Everything from cars, trucks, buses, ships, airplanes, power generating plants and all industrial energy will come from efficient water and steam producing hydrogen. Dirty fossil fuels will be a thing of the past.
This revolution will change the entire economic structure of the world, as we now know it. As human knowledge doubles every ten years, computer power is doubling every eighteen months and the Internet is doubling every year. Perhaps the most important to human health and longevity is the doubling of DNA analyzing, and sequencing every two years. We have now mapped the human genome consisting of about 100,000 human genes that are hidden among 23 pairs of chromosomes in our cells. This was all accomplished years before researchers predicted they would and it was no doubt one of the most ambitious projects in medical history.
Francis Collins who headed up that project for the U.S. National Center for Human Genome Research said, “There is only one Human Genome Project. It will only happen once in human history, and this is that point in time. Without sounding corny, I do believe this is the most important scientific project mankind has ever mounted this investigation into ourselves." The techniques of molecular biology will allow us to read the genetic code of life as we would read a book. Already, the complete DNA code of several living organisms, such as viruses, single-cell bacteria, and yeast, has been completely decoded, molecule-by-molecule. Embryonic and adult stem cells will heal most of man kind’s illnesses. Already new advancements in DNA research are making possible a new type of computer, molecular computers, which perform calculations on the atoms themselves, which computes with organic molecules, as a tiny living chip, much smaller than anything today with much more information capability. In fact the size of microchips will be on the scale of a molecule and will end the so-called Age of Silicon. Remarkably, DNA computers have already been built which can solve problems in mathematics faster than supercomputers. Even some visionaries predict an optical computer which will compute on dancing beams of laser light. Already we have computers capable of 3 trillion calculations per second (3 teraflops per second, with 2.5 trillion bytes of memory). Science is on the verge of computers which will calculate even more.
Robots soon will develop common sense and be able to converse with humans and will recognize and manipulate things in their environment as we do. Only they'll be able to always learn from their mistakes. This will give them the ability to make independent decisions and perform other complicated duties such as shopping, housekeeping, cooking, providing secretarial services, companionship and assist humans in many other untold and unknown ways.
Many other advancements are expected in biotechnology, telecommunications and space travel. Without exception, every one of the technologies singled out to lead the twenty-first century are deeply rooted in the quantum, computer, and DNA revolutions.
Quantum theory revolution discovered in 1925 in the twentieth-century by Werner Heisenbery, Erwin Schrodinger and others were able to reduce matter to some few postulates. So with this new knowledge they were able to mathematically predict properties of substances before they were created. These calculations are now the standard that predicts the properties of everything from microscopic subatomic quarks to the colossal supernovas in the known universe. That then makes it possible for the other two great scientific revolutions, the computer and the biomolecular revolutions.
Although the laws of computers are well known, only some of the basic laws of artificial intelligence and the human brain are known. At present, computers are our main and in some cases is our only way to determine if the buildup of carbon dioxide will starve us of oxygen in the atmosphere and will cause us to be bomb barded by the suns radiation. That will endanger and change human life as we know it. At this point in time our computers are telling us that our weather is being disrupted by the greenhouse effect, causing among other things global warming. If that result is as many experts now believe the health of humans and economy of the entire planet will be adversely affected.
The quantum theory, too, will have a powerful influence in the 21st century in the area of badly needed energy production. And will create machines the size of molecules, these machines will become known as nanotechnology and micromachines. Nanotechnology promises the very smallest of molecular machines because of the enormous advances in manipulating those atomic-size micromachines. They will be able to scavenge molecules from within our system by patrolling in our bloodstream and removing plaque from our arteries, and will be able to destroy infectious microbes of all kinds. They will be able to kill tumor cells, repair damaged cells and reverse the aging process altogether. They will be able to resolve engineering problems by cleaning up the environment by devouring hazardous wastes, eliminating world hunger by growing wondrously inexpensive but plentiful nutritious well balanced foods. Nanotechnology will enable us to build supercomputers the size of atoms, and build other types of machines, from booster rockets to microchips. These tiny machines will be able to multiply into trillions of molecular robots which will converge on site and destroy viruses and bacteria at will and will be able to solve other biological problems and reshape life as we know it. With the advent of new ways to power rockets through ionic engines we will see the beginnings of rockets that will reach nearby stars, and we will start developing colonies in deep space, and interplanetary travel will become commonplace.
All of this will have profound effects on biology and medicine. Most if not all genetic diseases like cancer will be eliminated. Chemotherapy, invasive surgery, and painful testing will all be things of the past. In fact life itself may well become perpetual by conquering death altogether.
What is helping to drive this quantum leap in biomolecular research is our remarkable ability to decode the secrets of life, using computers and robots to automate the sequencing of DNA. That means someday all organisms will have their complete DNA code unraveled. By then we will be reading the Encyclopedia of all life. It well soon be possible for anyone on earth to have their personal DNA code stored on a CD. Imagine going to your doctor for a routine checkup, he draws some blood without punching the skin, then places it into a computer, which instantly gives a personalized DNA read out including any of the then known genetic diseases. They well even be able to predict the mathematical chances of your getting a disease. Then preventive measures will be taken years before any symptoms appear. Gene and cloning therapy will then cure what ever ails you. Medicine is basically going to change from a treatment-based to a prevention-based discipline.
This shift to polygenic diseases will be the key for overcoming chronic diseases such as heart disease, strokes, diabetes, arthritis, Alzheimer's, aids and other autoimmune diseases, as well as mental diseases like schizophrenia.
But the bottom line is we know that Ian Wilmut of the Roslin Institute at Edinburgh, Scotland has already cloned Dolly the sheep. Monkeys, mice, pigs, cats and many other animals have also been cloned. That animal cloning will lead to human cloning, if it hasn't already and that alone will give control over the aging process and will extend our life time into the future where human cloning and cloning therapy will be run of the mill. Some believe that human cloning has already taken place some where in the world. And that only high net worth individuals and highly placed government officials are privy to this secret science.
Cloning raises serious moral and ethical questions which we will leave to the clergy, politicians and humanity in general.
The Watch Tower reports that Therapeutic cloning, a controversial field of research, could theoretically provide patients with new and perfectly compatible livers, kidneys, hearts and most other organs for transplantation. Such organs would be cultivated using the patient’s own stem cells.
Researchers in nanotechnology foresee a time when doctors will introduce cell-size robots into the bloodstream to find and destroy cancer cells and harmful bacteria. Some believe that this field of science, along with gene therapies, will eventually allow the human body to sustain itself indefinitely.
We will someday soon be able to grow entire organs in the laboratory such as hearts, livers, lungs, and kidneys for cloning therapies as replacement parts for our diseased or warn out vital organs. And through molecular DNA restructuring we will be able to grow new organs within our own bodies. But until than we must do all we can to stay healthy and try to stick around so we ourselves may one day be able to take full advantage of these wonderful new advancements in our lifetime. Of course if we fell, and if the world is allowed to go on long enough science someday in the distant future may be able to bring us all back from the dead.
So what is the latest scientific developments happening today that can save and/or extend human life?
Since 2005 there has been another major advancement available to people who are suffering from end-stage heart disease and failure from all other human organs. The major difference between this breakthrough and current medically-accepted treatments and surgical procedures is that this modality does not require pharmaceuticals, major surgery, immune-suppressants or organ transplantation. This leap forward uses the wisdom and healing power of the human body itself. And even better than that, it uses the healing power of your body. Not a cell, not an organ, not a blood product comes from another person’s body, and thus there is no problem of rejection and attack by your immune system to a foreign invader. What is this amazing natural process, where does it come from and why haven’t you heard of it? Well, maybe you have heard of it, but in another context: it is stem cells.
You may or may not know that there are two types of stem cells: embryonic (that comes from human embryos) and adult (which reside in the bone marrow of every man, woman and child) which play a major factor in healing of illness and injury. This true story we are telling is about adult stem cells, the ones every human being carries around in their bone marrow. These cells might be thought of as the body’s National Guard, each one just waiting for the order to rush in where disaster has struck to rebuild and restore order. Each cell goes out what might be called “anonymously” and is open to become whatever it needs to become. The ultimate in adaptability, the adult stem cell responds to a signal put out by the affected area, charges to the site and morphs into a heart cell, or a kidney cell or a liver cell, or even a brain cell or whatever is needed. If you think about it, this is not only the wisdom of the body it is a marvel, certainly a miracle (from the Latin mirari“to wonder at”).
There’s only one problem: where there is a catastrophic event (such as heart attack, congestive heart failure, peripheral artery disease (PAD), or any major damage or breakdown in the systems of the body, there are not enough stem cells to provide the restorative actions needed to recreate health, especially as the body ages. Without a way to restore the cellular structure of the damaged organ, deterioration and eventual death must ensue.
However with adult stem cells (ASCs), harvested from the bone marrow, thigh, and blood and from other parts of the human body are less invasive. The least invasive is using the patient’s own blood (much like a blood transfusion) to regenerate a diseased heart (which is only the beginning of the possible applications).
Dom Margoles a pioneer in this new industry says “Today in America and around the world manypatients have been told that there is little the current medical profession can do to help them. There is real hope for people who refuse to accept that they must live their remaining days condemned to being incapacitated and restricted in their activities and pleasures because they cannot avail themselves of the latest medical technologies in their own country. www.TheraVitae.com
Hundreds of people’s lives (many of which are Americans) suffering from end-stage heart failure, congestive heart failure and its related diseases (like Peripheral Artery Disease – “PAD”) have now been saved with this new treatments. If they rely on undergoing old conventional medical treatment that is currently available, they will undoubtedly go behind the veil of mystery that is death.”
According to Margoles “Today right now the truth is that end-stage, no-option heart patients DON’T have to die. But you would never know that from reading the American medical press now controlled by embryonic profiteers.”
According to these same cutting edge experts “75 of out of the first 100 American and Australian patients, in 2005 said “No, not ME doctor; tell the next guy to go to a hospice!” and came to Thailand and got lucky”. Yes, three out of four got better, while the less fortunate one-fourth suffer no-gain, no-harm, and no foul. Almost half of those 75 have given up their right to medical privacy so that they can help you as they were helped before you!”
The choice for end-stage heart patients is not easy, but it is clear. Ask yourself if you are getting any better? Or, are you not getting any better? When your cardiologist says there is nothing more he can do for you, your choices become very limited.
Cutting edge hospitals in Asia alone have treated over 500 patients since 2005. About 300 Americans are at least four months past their treatment, and 200 of them have reported significant improvements in their heart symptoms, especially higher energy levels and better breathing both at night and after exertion. Some of these have become the "Patient Volunteers" who are eager and willing to share their stories with anybody who is interested enough to ask. If you’re a heart patient, these volunteers were once like you. They weren't getting any better with standard treatments and were "wondering if this treatment in Bangkok, Mexico and elsewhere is for real."
Recent discoveries from all over the world, but few in the USA, are unleashing the power of adult stem cells (ASC) in novel ways that already provide the scientific community a platform on which it can, over time, develop cures for Parkinson’s, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, heart failure and a host of other debilitating disease.
Adult stem cells (ASC) harvested from the patient’s bone marrow or blood, have been saving and improving lives for over five years with no safety issues.
This new cutting edge current treatment uses only a half-pint of the patients’ blood. They then harvest the stem cells and multiply them into therapeutic numbers before injecting them into the heart. It has provided a safe and effective therapy NOW for tens of thousands of soon-to-be-dead, no-hope heart patients.
The best available estimates of Embryonic stem cell treatment is several years away at best while Adult stem cell treatment is available now in many other countries and may be available in the United States with in the next couple of years. The U.S. Already has clientical trails moving forward and is having amassing results.
Biologists are also experimenting with the enzyme telomerase in an attempt to overcome an apparent limit to the number of times that cells regenerate themselves. Scientists know that old, deteriorating cells are eliminated and replaced by new ones. In fact, most of the body is renewed several times during a person’s lifetime. If the process of renewal could be extended, researchers theorize, “the human body could regenerate itself for a very long time—even eternally.”
Proponents of cryonics deep-freeze the bodies of those who have died. The idea is to preserve them until medical breakthroughs enable doctors to cure diseases, reverse the effects of aging, and restore both life and health to the dead. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatrycalls this concept “a present-day counterpart to the mummification of the ancient Egyptians.”
Man’s relentless quest for immortality shows how hard it is to accept the idea of an end to his existence. Is it really going to be possible for mankind to attain everlasting life?
Mankind is well on the way to curing many things that kill us. In the not to distant future we will be extending life far be on our wildest dreams. Even some day perpetual life will be common place. Someday we will learn and develop how to even resurrect the dead and bring the dead back to life for those who wish to. According to the Bible Jesus had that ability and He was not the only one to receive such a gift. Spirit-anointed Christians chosen to rule as kings in heavenly glory received the same kind of resurrection that Jesus did. (Romans 6:5) The apostle John shows that this privilege is granted to thousands of individuals. (Revelation 14:1) They too receive immortality. Regarding their resurrection. Death has no hold on those who receive such a resurrection.—1 Corinthians 15:50-53; Revelation 20:6.
http://www.watchtower.org
Life Extension Foundationis a good example of an organization focusing primarily on the biological approach to immortality. Medical nanotechnology entails the control of large groups of molecular-scale machines, which could enter the body noninvasively and regularly repair biological damage on a fine-grained level, before it can accrete. The Foresight Institute, most notably the researcher Robert Freitas Jr., is widely known for studying the technical and political aspects of medical nanotechnology, among other types of nanotechnology. Creating benevolent self-improving artificial intelligenceis the pursuit of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, a research project aiming to create genuine transhumanity by exploiting the unique cognitive advantages a general AI would have relative to humans. These cognitive resources could rapidly be applied in humanitarian areas, such as life extension research, with rapidly effective results (from the human perspective.) The Immortality Instituteand the Extropy Institute.
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Michael
( Mick) Webster Syndicated Investigative Reports are read
worldwide, in 100 or more U.S. outlets and in at least 136 countries
and territories. He publishes articles in association with global
news agencies and media information services with more than 350 news
affiliates in 136 countries.
He served as a trustee on
trade Union funds. A noted Author, Lecturer, Educator, Emergency
Manager, Counter-Terrorist, War on Drugs and War on Terrorist
Specialist, Newspaper Publisher. Radio News caster. Labor Law
generalist, Teamster Union Business Agent, General Organizer, Union
Rank and File Member Grievances Representative, NLRB Union
Representative, Union Contract Negotiator, Workers Compensation
Appeals Board Hearing Representative. Mr. Webster represented
management on that side of the table as the former Director of
Federated of Nevada. Mr. Webster publishes on-line newspapers at
www.lagunajournal.com
and www.usborderfirereport.com
and does investigative reports for print, electronic and
on-line News Agencies.
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