Tuesday, August 5, 2025

D.O.A. singer Joe Keithley coined the word "hardcore" for music! Wow - we played same night at 1st Ave. 1986 Minneapolis

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEVb5HbQaOo

 D.O.A. played 1st Avenue main room Minneapolis 1986 while we played the 7th St. Entry new band night - I was 15 years old! I saw 7 Seconds and Bad Brains both live at the Entry. I wasn't into D.O.A. at the time so I didn't appreciate them as much. hahaha. Wow - that's wild that he coined the term hardcore. I always considered myself into Hardcore as part of Minneapolis music from 12 years old to 16 years old for myself - Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat...and of course local Minneapolis bands. thanks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.O.A._(band) 

 He considered D.O.A. to be "satirical, spiritual altruists", not scolds or evangelists.[11] The title track refers to both party crashing and disrupting the conservatism of the 1980s; it has also been interpreted as mocking straight edge.[8]

interview D.O.A.'s lead singer/songwriter Joe "shithead" Keithley 

 Something Better Change is a dynamic new documentary by Scott Crawford (Salad Days) and Paul Rachman (American Hardcore) that does an in depth look at Joe Keithley's activism through his trail blazing band D.O.A. and his 45 years of activism that helped Joe get elected as city councillor in his home town of Burnaby, BC, Canada.

 2018 interview with Joe Keithley

 

2003 Master's Thesis in Kinesiology on TotalGym! Cara Diane Tubbs & Vincent B. Bocchicchio, PhD & Chuck Norris!

 https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/downloads/h415pf83g

 

A comment on Total Gym's production history: 

 I worked in the factory that produced the very first runs of the Total gym ..made by WEST BEND CANADA in Barrie Ontario...Steve Podborski was the first endorsment guy.. i met him at the plant. ...In the 1980s West Bend Company acquired Total Gym.

 TG licensed their design to a company in Pennsylvania who started making the 1000, 2000, and 3000 infomercial models. Simultaneously, EFI (the parent TG company) made the 1100 and 2200 models for home and commercial use (respectively). I believe this caused confusion at some point because EFI on their website had a disclaimer they had nothing to do with the infomercial units, and would redirect infomercial unit owners who had issues to a phone number somewhere else. 

My assumption is around 2000-2002, EFI did a model refresh and, probably to preserve branding since there were numerous cheap ones being produced by the licensed companies at this point, named the new units 14000 and 26000 to distinguish themselves from the XX00 licensed models being sold at WalMart, Costco, Sears, etc. 

  the cheaper you go the cheaper the Material that it was made with. My Total gym is made out of aluminum and plastic. The higher models are made out of Steel.

These EFI models are directly descended from the 1100 and 2200 models (again, respectively). Also worth noting, many of the parts and attachments are interchangeable between the 14000 and 26000 (and for that matter, the GTS line). Personally, I started on a 1000 model and burned through 3 or 4 crappy Chinese WalMart models before I found a 14000 on craigslist in '09-10. It's the best machine I've ever owned and compared to the cheap infomercial models (including the supposed top of the line XL model), it's not even close. I'm such a believer in the 14000, today I drove 80 miles to buy a spare one for parts and accessories I didn't already own.

 

 I bought a Total Gym in 1999 or 2000, (the model then labeled TG 1100, later 11000), NOT the infomercial model. It was a sturdy and very heavy duty piece of equipment. The key factor that convinced me to buy it was Chuck Norris. I know that celebrities are paid to endorse products that they don't necessarily use, but I believed that Chuck Norris was a man of integrity. When he said he had been using Total Gym for 20 years (back in 1997),

 

 

 

 

 Dr. Ben grew up in New York, where he became an award-winning athlete in high school and college. His involvement in athletics inspired him to pursue a career in exercise science. He graduated in 1971 from Ithaca College with a bachelor’s degree in physical education, health, and science. Dr. Ben went on to earn a master’s degree in exercise sciences from Florida Atlantic University, a doctorate in exercise physiology from North American University, and a doctorate in health services, with a specialization in physical exercise, from Walden University. He also completed a post-doctoral program at Columbia University in body composition analysis and weight management.

  he served as the training program developer for Total Gym.™

 Chuck Norris healed his Rotator Cuff injury using the Total Gym - instead of getting surgery! awesome.

 

 

 

 

Jack Tusyznski Holographic Brain Memory research corroborates Andrija Puharich

 https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/25/4/2399

 Sizeable dipoles affect orientations of water dipoles [33]. Electric dipoles of tubulin dimers in a microtubule affect surrounding water dipoles due to their dipole-dipole interactions. Conversely, surrounding water molecules as a group also affect the dynamics of the cytoskeleton, especially in neutrons where microtubules form parallel bundles. Water dipoles and constituents of ions, proteins, and so on, are hence dynamically correlated. It should also be stressed that the cerebrospinal fluid is a high electric conductivity medium, very well suited for the transmission of electromagnetic signals across all areas of the brain. This, local events in the constituents might be readily and faithfully transferred via water dipoles across the whole brain.......

 a model of water molecules’ molecular conformational states involving super-radiant coherent photon emissions expected to achieve interference patterns in holography. Next, using the wavelength of super-radiant emission, we can estimate memory capacity in a holographic brain model.

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Werner von Braun Nazi UFOs being created by the U.S. military via the CIA psychological warfare ET alien coverup?

 "Dr. Killian next reported on the progress of the high-altitude, high-performance reconnaissance aircraft. Dr. Purcell said that it derives its low radar visibility from its shape. The best shape would be a FLYING SAUCER with no equipment on the under side; this is next best — a TRIANGLE with all equipment features on top." [7] https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/research/online-documents/aerial-intelligence/1959-02-13.pdf 

Wow - awesome find!! 

"prepared by Brigadier General AJ Goodpaster for President Dwight Eisenhower on February 13, 1959 and describes a meeting regarding reconnaissance technology." 

And this! https://www.archives.gov/files/publications/prologue/2009/winter/ike-spies.pdf 

"Goodpaster made sure that Killian and Land understood the President’s intention that the CIA would direct the intelligence phases of the program, which Eisenhower formally approved on April 21 as Project CORONA." 

And we know the CIA has psychological warfare as its top focus! 

 https://libertybirb.substack.com/p/wernher-von-braun-used-a-psychotronic?utm_campaign=reaction&utm_medium=email&utm_source=substack&utm_content=post

I was actually threatened by a professor at University of Minnesota - he happened to also be the director of my graduate program and he had to sign off on my master's thesis!! His name was Art Harkin and he bragged in our graduate program newsletter how Werner von Braun had been his personal mentor in military anthropology training.

My last op-ed - Truth Repressed by Psychic Vampires - was published by the MN Daily where I had been hired as an op-ed writer.  Professor Harkin emailed me stating only this:

I will personally make sure you are never published in the MN Daily again.
Why? He didn't like me exposing his mentor, Werner von Braun, as having personally supervised mass slave labor for the Nazis as a Nazi SS major. Harkins obit:

He served his country in the United States Army from 1954 to 1956 and the Air Force from 1959 to 1964 as an officer/pilot and first lieutenant.

https://elixirfield.blogspot.com/2025/05/truth-repressed-by-psychic-vampires-my.html Here is my final paid Op-Ed that I had published in the MN Daily, the university newspaper at University of Minnesota, wherein I exposed my graduate program director of Liberal Studies, promoting Werner von Braun as his "personal mentor." He emailed me after my op-ed was published, stating only this: "I will personally make sure you are never published in the MN Daily again." Strangely Peter Dale Scott warned me to "be careful if I were you" after I pointed out Art Harkin collaborating with fellow Liberal Studies graduate program director for the Duluth Minnesota university campus - James Fetzer, on a bogus JFK assassination conference that Peter Dale Scott attended in Twin Cities Minnesota.

Monday, August 4, 2025

My highschool hardcore band (Entry new night) played with the Butthole Surfers (Main Room) at First Avenue

 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/mar/25/butthole-surfers-psychedelic-art-rock-noise

I gotta confess - I was a bit scared by the Butthole Surfers -and still am!

 But they dumpster dived and so did I (for ten years)... so I guess I was more like them then I realized.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/116659851852 

Was this the show we played with them? Probably but I honestly can't remember if it was 1987 or 1988...

I remember the Twins played in the World Series in 1987 and I worked at Red Owl that summer. So we must have played in 1988 with the Butthole Surfers.

 

First Avenue Minneapolis, MN, USA
 
yep - that sounds right.
 
 They signed with Capitol for 1993’s Independent Worm Saloon, with John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin as producer. They had a hit with the somewhat MTV-friendly track Pepper in 1996, the accompanying album Electriclarryland reached the US Top 40, and they found themselves on the multimillion-selling soundtrack to Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet. But the remainder of the decade, as alt-rock waned in popularity and the band reached their 40s, was filled with management bust-ups, lawsuits with their old label, and an aborted album

 Yeah so the band just burned out after a decade of strangeness.

I quit my band when I realized it was too limiting - and too much of a control fest.

I was searching for the deeper meaning of music and the hardcore scene wasn't gonna do it.

 “I did too many drugs. I totally screwed up the deal. It’s my bad. It’s on me.” Leary adds: “We were some genuinely fucked up people. We’re good people, but we’re fucked up – we’re damaged.”

 The fact they survived is stunning!

Somebody once said our music was a front for us to manufacture and distribute LSD across the country. It’s like [adopts sarcastic voice]: ‘Sure, yeah, it was all a convoluted way to do that.’ But I’d rather encourage that than try to explain the influence of Yves Klein in our music.”

So will this group of sexagenarians ever reload the shotguns, stoke up the fires and hit the road again? “We’ve been getting six-figure offers to play live,” says Leary. “But I just don’t want to do it. We’re really lucky to not be in prison and I don’t want to push that any more.

 In Minneapolis - the one real "hardcore club" - Goofy's Upper Deck - is now a parking ramp!!

Tragic. I never went there - it shut down when I was in middle school - before my time.

 

 

Coathanger weight bar attachment hack for Total Gym squats

 Wow - this is very cool but how safe is it?

 

 Not sure how many pounds I am squatting with these bands - two of them rated to 330 lbs each? 

I just said 400 lbs to be safe - average out.

 https://clenchfitness.com/collections/in-stock-now/products/resistance-bands?variant=31591018823759

Says up to 330 lbs each.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday, August 3, 2025

Blue Whales wiped out by Algae blooming to sequester CO2 due to global warming heating up the Oceans and lakes

These heat waves have led to toxic algae blooms that poison https://phys.org/news/2025-07-climate-major-algae-surge-canada.html

 pecialized underwater hydrophones, meaning the aquatic version of microphones, to record and trace the sounds of marine life, allowing them to analyze the impact human activity is having on various species.

However, as detailed in a study published in the journal PLOS One, devastating heat waves have triggered worrying changes over the past decade, allowing toxic algae to bloom and undermine food sources for whales.

"It caused the most widespread poisoning of marine mammals ever documented," coauthor and Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute biological oceanographer John Ryan told NatGeo. "These were hard times for whales."

As a result, blue whale vocalizations dropped by almost 40 percent, according to the study, with populations of krill and anchovy collapsing.

"When you really break it down, it’s like trying to sing while you're starving," Ryan explained. "They were spending all their time just trying to find food."

Scientists are still racing to understand the causes of devastating marine heatwaves. An ominous pool of warm water in the ocean, nicknamed "The Blob" following its discovery in early 2013, confounded scientists.

 https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/scientists-alarmed-whales-suddenly-going-142738228.html

Climate change driving major algae surge in Canada's lakes, study finds

a dramatic uptick in lake algae production since the 1960s.

"Over the past 150 years, we've seen algae levels rise in most Canadian lakes, but in the 1960s, algae levels accelerated dramatically, increasing at a rate seven times faster than before," said Irene Gregory-Eaves, co-author and biology professor at McGill. "What was most surprising is that this happened even in remote lakes, far from any immediate sources of human pollution or development."

To identify the cause of these changes, the team combined the study of natural archives—lake sediment cores that date back to the 1800s—with machine learning techniques to detect long-term trends. They then compared those algae records with on air temperature, solar radiation, and nearby human activity.

"Our research points clearly to climate change as the primary driver of the algae dynamics," said Dermot Antoniades, co-author and limnology professor at Université Laval. "As climates warm, lakes are getting warmer too, which create ideal conditions for algal growth.".............

 local fixes alone, such as reducing fertilizer runoff, aren't enough anymore. Climate action is essential for protecting lakes in the long run," Ghanbari said.

Toxic algae blooms increasing in Arctic due to climate change, new study finds

 

The krill and copepods that ingest the toxins are then eaten by the bowhead whales, which are filter feeders.

Over the past century, sea surface temperatures in the region have been rising, causing the amount of sea ice to shrink significantly. The warmer waters combined with more open water is leading to the higher concentrations of at least two algal toxins: Alexandrium, which are dinoflagellates that produce saxitoxin -- a neurotoxin that can cause Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning; as well as domoic acid, which is produced by Pseudo-nitzschia, a needle-like group of single-celled algae, and causes amnesic shellfish poisoning, according to the study....

unclear how many whales in the Arctic have died as a result of harmful algae blooms, but walrus populations in the region, which feed on clams found at the bottom of the ocean, have been likely dying off as a result, Lefebvre said.

Lefebvre has been studying harmful algae blooms for her entire career and was involved in the first-ever study in 1998 that found domoic acid was impacting marine mammals in Central California.

 Southern California is currently recovering from its worst harmful algal bloom event,............

New research finds that globally algal blooms became 13% larger and 60% more frequent in the last 20 years alone, expected to get more severe due to climate breakdown

 https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/11g2cox/new_research_finds_that_globally_algal_blooms/

 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05760-y

  However, proliferations of algae that cause harm (termed harmful algal blooms (HABs)) have become a major environmental problem worldwide5,6,7. For instance, the toxins produced by some algal species can accumulate in the food web, causing closures of fisheries as well as illness or mortality of marine species and humans8,9,10. In other cases, the decay of a dense algal bloom can deplete oxygen in bottom waters, forming anoxic ‘dead zones’ that can cause fish and invertebrate die-offs and ecosystem restructuring, with serious consequences for the well-being of coastal communities1,11. Unfortunately, algal bloom frequency and distribution are projected to increase with future climate change12,13, with some changes causing adverse effects on aquatic ecosystems, fisheries and coastal resources.