Thursday, Sept. 22, 2005 Today is the birthday of Frodo and Bilbo Baggins -- LOTR fans are invited to send their favorite quotations from Frodo, Bilbo or Tolkien. Please send to francis@planetwaves.net for posting here later today. Thanks! It's also the equinox, exact overnight. Here is the chart: http://planetwavesweekly.com/twdco99~/open/equinoxautumn05_io.html "In the fallen state of consciousness, each human being functions in disregard of the song of Life that is going on the others. There is no harmony, no direction, no arrangement. You are like the random notes of an orchestra before the conductor unifies the instruments in symphony. The Grand Conductor is calling everyone to attention, calling now to remembrance of unity and purpose, reminding all that the time has come to stop tuning separate instruments and begin to accept the direction of the One who understands the whole." -- from The Starseed Transmissions, scribed by Ken Carey ---------------------------- Special Feature -- Sent by Gale McGovern of New Paltz. Verified by Jude, editor of Political Waves. Timeline of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake  The earthquake struck at 5:13 AM.  By 7 AM federal troops had reported to the mayor.  By 8 AM they were patrolling the entire downtown area and searching for survivors.  The second quake struck at 8:14 AM.  By 10:05 AM the USS Chicago was on its way from San Diego to San Francisco; by 10:30 the USS Preble had landed a medical team and set up an emergency hospital.  By 11 AM large parts of the city were on fire; troops continued to arrive throughout the day, evacuating people from the areas threatened by fire to emergency shelters and Golden Gate Park.  St. Mary's hospital was destroyed by the fire at 1 PM, with no loss of life, the staff and patients having already been evacuated across the bay to Oakland.  By 3 PM troops had shot several looters, and dynamited buildings to make a firebreak; by five they had buried dozens of corpses, the morgue and the police pistol range being unable to hold any more.  At 8:40 PM General Funston requested emergency housing - tents and shelters - from the War Department in Washington; all of the tents in the U.S. Army were on their way to San Francisco by 4:55 AM the next morning.  Prisoners were evacuated to Alcatraz, and by April 20 (two days after the earthquake) the USS Chicago had reached San Francisco, where it evacuated 20,000 refugees.