| Statement |
C'est moi served on the Local Advisory Board of the most powerful FM radio station in America (112k watts) from late 1999 until early 2004, almost two years as Board Secretary (this post i occupy today). During half that time we were locked out of the station, prevailing in four lawsuits against the National Board of Directors in December 2001.
Present member, KPFK Finance Committee & Personal Committee.
Assistant Treasurer, the Green Party of Los Angeles County.
Co-Clerk, Los Angeles Monthly Meeting of The Religious Society Of Friends.
I am "Warden" of the meeting house in South Central Los Angeles , have been therbout 17 years. http://www.rsof.org.
Board member & Secretary, Pacific Ackworth Foundation (a four acre $6,000,000 pre-school).
Two elected terms (four years) on the Acton Town Council.
Owner, "The Plant", a factory to build electric limousines from 1994 to 96.
The entire uni-body design was to be oven brazed in a single melt Hydrogen atmosphere oven, all running gear and motor-control from existing OEMs.
Sole owner, POVscreenworks, a television commercial/ special effects film company from 1978-84 at 11118 Ventura Boulevard, West of the KPFK studio. Ghost Busters, Tron, Conan et al. I personally brought Swartzniger back from the dead.
Engineered a hand layup polypropylene-cloth & polyester-resin golf cart powered with eight wheels at it's four corners & driven by a quickly replaced CO2 cylinder.
Ran, at my home, an in-patient clinic for the only actual (built in the studios in England) R2D2, C3P0 et.al. during 1977-79. Film credits for the first StarWars, StarTrek, MetalStorm, et.al.
Three years jobs in aerospace. Owned a personal machine shop, Tree vertical mill, 20"x 48"& 8"x36"engine lathes and extensive quality control measuring instruments most of my life.
Volunteered for the draft in 1969-71. In the Army I was a Combat Medic, Illustrator and eye, ear, nose and throat (EENT) Specialist. Graduated second in my class of 80.
Essentially no education: too many years in collage repertory theater.
My father invented. Most of the prototypes were built illegally within the house or the back yard: patent numbers 2,852,727 2,909,096 2,933,008 2,988,953 3,010,024 3,049,588 3,397,859 3,049,588 3,157,882 4,164,677 and more.
I lost two acres of my equipment, records and warehouses to a forest fire in 1999.
I am presently converting what is left of my Dassault Falcon-20 French business jet into a demonstrator for carbon-free air travel using liquid NH3. Anhydrous ammonia is a common fuel, 40 Billon pounds were sold in this country in 2008. info@terraplane.info, http://www.energy.iastate.edu/Renewable/ammonia/ammonia/ammoniaMtg09.htm
Such are the days that Shall be.
But what are the deeds of today?
In the days of the years that we dwell in that wear our lives away?
Why then,
And for what
are we waiting?
There are but Three words to speak:
We will it.
And what is the ferment
but the dreams
strong wakened
and weak
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| Biography |
1. Why do you want to be on the Local Station Board?
Most of my education has come from KPFK. It's payback time.
2. How do you envision the Local station Board working the Pacifica Foundation, KPFK, and the community?
With the relationships that are definied by Pacifica's bylaws, many of which were written in my house.
3. How could the station better serve its listeners?
Cut away that which does not produce better radio.
4. Describe some actions you would take to increase the influence of the station in under-represented communities and to increase the diversity of the listening audience?
Bring in programmers from under-represented communities to replace KPFK programmers that already have a voice in colleges, print, and broadcast media.
5. What sources of funding, other than listener donations, do you feel KPFK should solicit?
None
6. Please state briefly the skills, experience, educational background, work history, organizational affiliations, areas of community service, areas of interest and expertise that you would bring to the Pacifica network as a member of the Local Station Board.
See Candidate Statement.
7. On which Local Station Board Committees are you interested in actively serving? If you are a current Local Station Board member, on which committees do you currently serve?
The committees I am serving on presently: finance and personnel. |
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