Danny Thomas Books

...i've read numerous conspiracy books, but this one is certainly one of the better. very well written. ... good read.

Danny Casolaro was a relatively wealthy individual who decided he wanted to become a writer. He already had a few articles published in various magazines when he first learned about the PROMIS software. Basically, PROMIS is a database program with amazing flexibility and statistical abilities and can also be used to predict future trends, submarine locations, etc. This software was developed by private individuals with some help in funding by the U.S. Department of Justice. However, the government decided to [take] the program instead of paying for it and began to market it as their own. This information is widely known and well-accepted and much documentation of this exists (including a successful lawsuit by the software developers that was later overturned on the flimsiest of grounds through the interference of the powers that be). However, when Casolaro set out to write an article about the robbery of the PROMIS program by the government, potentially to sell it to a computer magazine, the deeper he dug, the more sinister things became.

First of all, he learned that the DOJ had a backdoor added into the program so that the U.S. could access the files of whoever they sold the PROMIS program to, including the governments of Israel and Canada. This led to further revelations and meetings with various informants that further revealed a complex web of deceit leading down some surprising avenues. Casolaro now changed his plans to writing a novel, perhaps even presenting it as fiction in order to avoid scaring off publishers. But before this happened, Casolaro was found dead from what was an obviously staged suicide and many of his notes disappeared.

This very well documented book (that also verifies and is verfied by information published elsewhere) chronicles Casolaro's story, citing many excellent sources, including court records and affidavits. It also attempts to recover and recount some of the information about the conspiracy Casolaro began to call "the Octopus" because of its many, long-reaching tendrils. While it is not always clear Casolaro was on the right track (Casolaro himself often took note of what information seemed manufactured to mislead and discredit him), it is clear he was onto something big given his subsequent murder and its sloppy coverup.

Casolaro might have led a comfortable life as a mediocre writer publishing the occassional article, but because of his sense of justice and the need he felt to uncover the truth, he was ruthlessly murdered. This book is a wonderful epitaph to two courageous men (including co-author Keith who mysteriously died from knee surgery).

...i've read numerous conspiracy books, watched the videos, et. cetera, but i dare say this is one of the better!!! certainly, a must read for any conspiracy bluff! go get 'em, tiger.

Jim Keith died after knee surgery on September 8, 1999. He was a dear friend of mine and an important person to the world. The loss is immeasurable. He was not just the co-author of The Octopus, but a dharma combatant who demonstrated time and again that the world is far more multi-dimensional, far more interesting, than the pablum that usually passes for news, information and normal discourse. Unfortunately, it is also far more dangerous.

Rumor has it that Jim may have been killed because he mentioned the name of the physician who declared Diana was pregnant at the time of her death. I have long noted the connections between Diana's death and the Octopus. Diana was the subject of Jim's last column for Nitro News, which has been linked via the web site of my magazine, Steamshovel Press, for the past couple of weeks. Nitro News has not been accessible since Jim's death, although I reached it just before receiving word of his passing.

This rumor may be nonsense. Casolaro may have committed suicide. It is the way of the Octopus. It exists but it doesn't exist. These are blood clots or suicides or non-suspicious homicides or real accidents. They just happen to cluster coincidentally around a certain set of facts or a certain perception of an organized conspiracy.

And if Jim Keith did not die as a result of a conspiracy, then I'm sure he would want us to make it look that way!

I hope all will remember Jim Keith for his good humor and for his fearlessness. He wrote what he knew and he let the chips fall where they might. He lived on the edge, where I usually tried to catch up with him. I hope he taught me enough about the place to keep up the work to which we were both committed.

Thank you again. Remember Jim!

Kenn Thomas

Kenn and Jim's magnum opus. (RIP, beloved friend to humankind.) This book is as scary as they come, and stranger than fiction. As a conspiracy writer, I found myself shaking while reading it. THEY are real, and THEY can do and have done horrifying things. The Octopus is the Matrix vivified.

This book is especially important for anyone who still naively believes "there are no conspiracies." The word "conspiracy" means "to breathe together." Only two people are needed to make a conspiracy, and this book will leave you breathless.

Danny Casolaro is a heroic figure who bravely and, perhaps, foolhardily attempted to foil the Octopus, whose tendons reach into the most intimate parts of all our lives. He should never be forgotten. Thank goodness for the valiant likes of Kenn Thomas and Jim Keith for telling his story. Movie studios should be clamoring for this highly untold story - but they are no doubt part of the Octopus. Danny, Kenn and Jim should be lauded for their audacity and courage in bringing forth this treacherous tale of murder and mayhem. Such valor is akin to that of Gary Webb in his expose of CIA drug-dealing.

Carry on, fellow warriors for truth.

Acharya S; Archaeologist, Historian, Mythologist, Linguist; Member, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece; Associate Director, Institute for Historical Accuracy; Director, Center of the Research and Study of Theology; Author, "The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold"

This is one great book. Fabulous design (odd shape) with extraordinary examples of guitars built and designed by one of the most talented and creative luthiers ever. Danny Ferrington builds wonderful instruments. World-class musicians play them. Here you get to see AND HEAR (with the included CD, which you can't live without) some of Danny's most beautiful creations made specifically for some of the world's best players. The disc includes recordings of the players that the guitars were built for playing the instruments displayed in the book (my personal favorites include David Hidalgo, Ry Cooder, and Richard Thompson). Any guitar lover will cherish this exceptional treasure...now, just try to find one of the collector's batch which include a tweed "guitar" case made to form fit the book!!! WOW!

Terrific coffee table book featuring unusual guitars from luthier-to-the-stars Danny Ferrington. Ferrington's work is about 180 degrees from the traditional approach of luthiers such as William Cumpiano. On most acoustic guitars Ferrington's method of neck-to-body attachment is via four bolts a la Fender electric guitars. The best thing about this book is the delightful smorgasbord of shapes, colors and sizes of Ferrington's guitars. As an amateur luthier I never tire of leafing through the book as it is so stimulating to the imagination. The photos are very well done, with many nice close-ups of design features or hardware. There is a 6-page montage of Ferrington's construction methods but this is not really a book on lutherie methods.

This book was given as a gift. It was the best book I ever ordered and the best book I ever gave,,,,thank you

Don't buy this book unless you are sure it comes with the Sampler CD. The CD is quite amazing and has some tracks that can be used as audiophile-level references. These guitars don't just look great - apparently, they sound great too!

It is becoming clear that epigenetic mechanisms are responsible for a large number of "genetic" events in the organism, both under normal and pathological circumstances. This advanced text (suitable for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students) brings together, in a very readable way, the various mechanisms of epigenetic heredity.

Epigenetics is a scientific textbook written to teach advanced undergraduate and graduate college students about epigenetic mechanisms, which regulate gene expression in many biological processes. Chapters cover histone modifications, chromatin remodeling, DNA methylation, siRNAs and gene silencing, X-chromosome inactivation, epigenetics in microbes, plants, insects and mammals, and much more. An in-depth, scholarly, and informative instructional reference, interspersed with occasional color photographs and diagrams, featuring an extensive list of references and a general summary at the end of each chapter to aid comprehension. An invaluable educational tool for specialized college science courses, as well as for professionals in the field of biology seeking to sharpen their understanding of modern epigenetics.

Wikipedia says: 'Epigenetics is the study of epigenetic inheritance, a set of reversible heritable changes in gene function or other cell phenotype that occur without a change in DNA sequence (genotype).'

That's a pretty general definition, and you can get into some pretty good arguments that this or that word should be changed.

The fundamental discoveries that began the field began to be discussed in 1941, but it grew slowly until fairly recent years. By 2004 the science had developed enough that the 69th Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology covered the topic. Many of the authors of this book attended that symposium and the seeds for this book were sown.

The book was written by about forty of the preeminent researchers in the field. It consists of 24 chapters covering virtually all known aspects of the subject. It can serve as a reference work for the current state of the art, or could be used as a text for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses on gene regulation.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR


Reverend Danny Lynchard

Danny Lynchard was ordained as a Baptist Minister at age twenty and has been in the ministry for more than thirty years. Lynchard pastors at Fisher Baptist Church in Sand Springs, OK. He is a licensed private pilot and the Director of the Tulsa Police/Fire Chaplaincy Corps, where he has served for over 20 years. In this capacity he oversees a high number of volunteer chaplains who work with 1000+ law enforcement and firefighter personnel. He directly observes investigations and has personally dealt with over 800 families during times of catastrophic grief. His chaplaincy role has placed him in the living rooms of virtually every faith in America. He received training in Critical Incident Stress Debriefing, Mass Fatality Incident training through Federal Emergency Management Authority, and multiple law enforcement related operations. He founded the Peace Officer Prayer Partners which went worldwide. He is a dynamic speaker, an accomplished musician and a freelance writer for several Christian publications.

I received this book from my mom as a christmas present in 1993. I could not believe the guitars that Mr. Ferrington has created. For instance, a single-neck guitar that is both regular electric and a baritone. Or the beautiful mini accoustics built for Linda Rondstadt and Crystal Gayle. There are pictures of his accoustic basses as well as classical string instruments that show quite clearly the he is a master of his arts. If you are musician or just enjoy instruments as art, you will definitely like this book.

This book is a delight. The secret of Danny Thomas's long career comes through in this fascinating book. He clearly loved and took great pride in his wonderful family, thoroughly enjoyed his career, was grateful to all those who helped him on his way, gave back to the community -- and of course, he knew how to tell a great story! The details of his early show business career were particularly interesting as was the story about the founding of St. Jude's hospital. I don't usually read celebrity biographies but this is a good account of a life well spent and I'm glad I happened to read it.

There is no faulting this film, but the version offered here is the full-frame version. Significant percentage of the picture has been cropped to achieve an aspect ratio of 1.33:1. This is a shame, as The Thin Red Line has some of the most stunning cinematography of any film I have seen.

It is really worth the money if you want to know some of the background story lines.

Exceptionaly well directed. Chow Yun-Fat and Mira Sorvino work well together. Get it if you like a steady stream of action for that adrenalin rush.
Expect more amazing things from director Antoine Fuqua in the future. He's capable with the gun-play as well as with the smoother, non-gunplay tender moments.

Hi folks! This film is having a good stuffs of non stop action and presented in 1080P with beautiful transfer and blowing sound. You will enjoy the evening with a bag of popocorn disappearing just like that as the action scenes. Yun fat is known to us and become famous in USA with this film and recently we saw him hin at Pirates at Worlds end. Folks you can try this one for your collection and never fails.

This is a great "action/adventure" flick as it is. This "Blu-ray" version is "fantastic". The added scenes add to the film's "cohesion" and the "high def" definitely comes through. Yea, even if you already have this in your regular DVD collection, this Blu-ray cut absolutely belongs in your library. This is one of those movies I'll watch at least once a year so why not have the best format availably. Yes, well worth it.

Replacement Killers stars Chow Yun-Fat(John Lee) & Mira Sorvino(Meg Coburn) in an action packed blastfest. Those who are familiar with Chow Yun-Fat(Killer & Hard Boiled)knows what he brings to the table. Lots of gunplay and high body counts. Even though this pales in comparison to his other two movies it still delivers.

John Lee works as a hitman until he decides not to pull off his last hit. This angers his employer and now he wants John dead. Meg Coburn finds herself caught in this feud and has to defend herself as well. The acting is ok but it's the action that counts. And you get a good dose of it. Cheesy at times but it never gets weak.

If you're new to Chow Yun Fat, his earlier movies The Killer and Hard Boiled are Gun-Fu at it's finest. I recommend those first but this is still good.

The Net (1995) is a movie that may have been ominous and clever back when computers were relatively unknown and 56K modems were lightning fast, but within ten years, much like ten-year old computer technology, it has become severely dated.

Angela Bennett (Sandra Bullock) is a reclusive, paranoid computer expert who fixes virus problems for game manufacturers. The highlight of her evenings consists of pizza ordered online and some cyber-banter with guys living in their mom's basements. Her idea of a dream-man is, "butch, beautfiul, brilliant, Captain America meets Albert Schweitzer who spends all day dashing into fray while making the world safe for democracy, at night play Bach cantatas while curing cancer"

She has recently discovered a new, cheesy game called Mozart's Ghost. When in the program, she holds down ctrl-shift and clicks on a pi symbol icon that takes her to secret information on secure mainframes throughout the internet. Oh, and this whole thing is on an old-school 3.5 inch floppy. Riiiiiiiight.

Well, no big deal because she's going on a beach vacation the next day, and she could care less about the program or the virus. Of course, she's not safe from those who would cyberstalk her just because she's on a remote beach. Their plan to take care of Angela Bennett is to accomplish the first case of identity theft in history, starting a trend that would soon scare thousands of old woman who would otherwise fall victim to Nigerian prince scammers needing financial "help".

In the end, Angela has to match wits with the bad guys, preposterously cracking a billionaire's security system - called Gatekeeper - used to protect major corporations, DOD health care records, airlines, and banks.

I loved this movie so much I downloaded it off Limewire and emailed it to twenty-thousand of my best friends!

The Net starring Sandra Bullock was a great thriller when it was released in 1995. Bullock was at the height of her career and this film was probably only a hit for that reason alone. And yes I was and still a huge fan of Bullock but I have to admit The Net is very dated and silly now. The plotline is a little far fetched and contrived but Bullock's spunky and fearless performance saves this boring little film.

The movie wasn't good and the disc they sent didnt even work. It would cost me more to send it back than the actual movie cost. NOT worth the money.

If you're into computers and you like a suspense movie, you'll probably love The Net. It combines the two quite well and Sandra Bullock does one of her best movies imo. In the film, she lives alone, spending most of her time fixing her company's computers on line. She seems to rarely go out or socialize except with others by computer. She even orders her food over the computer, and it's delivered. Because she keeps to herself, hardly anyone knows her personally, and her mother is in a nursing home with Alzheimer's Disease, so she doesn't remember her. Her only friend is an ex boyfriend, who happens to be a psychiatrist, and she's broken up with him. The fact that she's so incognito has a lot to do with the film. Before leaving for her first vacation in years, she get's a call from a friend in her company who is confused about a weird disk that's come into his possesion, and wants her to help him. Not willing to figure it out over the phone or on the computer, he tells her he needs to see her in person and he's flying to her home in LA. He never arrives.

She takes her vacation, but while at the beach she meets a hacker. Both are lying on the beach with computers clicking away. He seems like a nice enough guy, but beware, maybe he's not. The real plot actually begins at this point. From then on it's a mystery and a chase. This hacker works for a shady crime syndicate whose trying to take over the government by hacking into their computers.

She's chased all over the movie by this underground bunch, and I won't tell you the ending, but it's pretty exciting. Bullock is really good in this one.

The Net (1995) is a movie that may have been ominous and clever back when computers were relatively unknown and 56K modems were lightning fast, but within ten years, much like ten-year old computer technology, it has become severely dated.

Angela Bennett (Sandra Bullock) is a reclusive, paranoid computer expert who fixes virus problems for game manufacturers. The highlight of her evenings consists of pizza ordered online and some cyber-banter with guys living in their mom's basements. Her idea of a dream-man is, "butch, beautfiul, brilliant, Captain America meets Albert Schweitzer who spends all day dashing into fray while making the world safe for democracy, at night play Bach cantatas while curing cancer"

She has recently discovered a new, cheesy game called Mozart's Ghost. When in the program, she holds down ctrl-shift and clicks on a pi symbol icon that takes her to secret information on secure mainframes throughout the internet. Oh, and this whole thing is on an old-school 3.5 inch floppy. Riiiiiiiight.

Well, no big deal because she's going on a beach vacation the next day, and she could care less about the program or the virus. Of course, she's not safe from those who would cyberstalk her just because she's on a remote beach. Their plan to take care of Angela Bennett is to accomplish the first case of identity theft in history, starting a trend that would soon scare thousands of old woman who would otherwise fall victim to Nigerian prince scammers needing financial "help".

In the end, Angela has to match wits with the bad guys, preposterously cracking a billionaire's security system - called Gatekeeper - used to protect major corporations, DOD health care records, airlines, and banks.

I loved this movie so much I downloaded it off Limewire and emailed it to twenty-thousand of my best friends!

The Net starring Sandra Bullock was a great thriller when it was released in 1995. Bullock was at the height of her career and this film was probably only a hit for that reason alone. And yes I was and still a huge fan of Bullock but I have to admit The Net is very dated and silly now. The plotline is a little far fetched and contrived but Bullock's spunky and fearless performance saves this boring little film.

The movie wasn't good and the disc they sent didnt even work. It would cost me more to send it back than the actual movie cost. NOT worth the money.

If you're into computers and you like a suspense movie, you'll probably love The Net. It combines the two quite well and Sandra Bullock does one of her best movies imo. In the film, she lives alone, spending most of her time fixing her company's computers on line. She seems to rarely go out or socialize except with others by computer. She even orders her food over the computer, and it's delivered. Because she keeps to herself, hardly anyone knows her personally, and her mother is in a nursing home with Alzheimer's Disease, so she doesn't remember her. Her only friend is an ex boyfriend, who happens to be a psychiatrist, and she's broken up with him. The fact that she's so incognito has a lot to do with the film. Before leaving for her first vacation in years, she get's a call from a friend in her company who is confused about a weird disk that's come into his possesion, and wants her to help him. Not willing to figure it out over the phone or on the computer, he tells her he needs to see her in person and he's flying to her home in LA. He never arrives.

She takes her vacation, but while at the beach she meets a hacker. Both are lying on the beach with computers clicking away. He seems like a nice enough guy, but beware, maybe he's not. The real plot actually begins at this point. From then on it's a mystery and a chase. This hacker works for a shady crime syndicate whose trying to take over the government by hacking into their computers.

She's chased all over the movie by this underground bunch, and I won't tell you the ending, but it's pretty exciting. Bullock is really good in this one.