July 4th is linked to the Masonic [mother sound] Program in which we experience, which takes us back to the Middle East and the original insert. It's about creation and default.

Create Fireworks Click the image. Click on the sky many times quickly.
The image used on the website shows my home
on the Brooklyn side of the Verrazano Bridge

The redesigned Freedom Tower at Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan, planned to become America's tallest building, will be a 'monolithic' glass structure reflecting the sky and topped by a sculpted antenna. Plans for completion are 2012.

Symbolic of the Declaration of Independence, the reworked 1,776-foot (541-meter) centerpiece of the World Trade Center site unveiled by architect David Childs will have a 186-foot tall (57 meter) base sheathed with rolled, heat-treated glass over concrete. The tower is planned as a symbol of New York's revitalization after the September 11 attacks in 2001, which claimed more than 2,700 lives at the World Trade Center. Rebuilding has been dogged by almost five years of acrimony over designs, security, insurance and control of the 16-acre (6.5-hectare) site at Ground Zero.

Developer Larry Silverstein, who leased the World Trade Center shortly before September 11, told reporters that if everything now goes according to plan, "By 2012 we should have a completely rebuilt World Trade Center more magnificent, more spectacular than it ever was."

The new Freedom Tower design uses a high-tech laminated safety glass, which if attacked by a truck bomb would shatter into falling pebbles, not break into flying shards. The previous design featured a 200-foot (61-meter) metal and concrete base, added after New York police said the building would be vulnerable to truck bombing. The design was also criticized for looking too bunker-like. Childs noted there had been fears that security concerns would result in a stone building "with very small windows." But he said the new glass base would create an entirely different feeling. "You will see that light fracture, bounce back out at you, giving you a wonderful, light artistic space, giving you a warm, friendly space," he said. The new plan for the building -- construction began in April -- was made after consulting New York police counterterrorism experts as well as state and city officials. "They've reviewed it and have given it their blessing," Childs said. "This is the finished design."

The exterior glass's triangular rib motif will be echoed throughout the building and on the antenna. The tower will be surrounded by groups of steps leading to four entrances, serving as a public plaza and buffer zone. A series of thigh-high rectangular slabs on the site's perimeter -- resembling tombstones in an artist's rendering -- will guard against truck bombs. The antenna, to be used by radio and television broadcasters, has been given a more sculptural feel by Kenneth Snelson, a sculptor best-known for his Needle Tower, installed in New York's Bryant Park in 1968. The antenna raises the building from 1,368 feet (410 meters) -- the height of the original World Trade Center's 110-story twin towers -- to the full 1,776 feet.

Unlike most other glass-clad office buildings, the Freedom Tower will appear clear because they will remove the iron, which tints glass green, Kenneth Lewis of architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill said.

"We've tried to make it more monolithic," he said. "It's reflecting the sky and the changing light's character as the day goes on." The architects have drastically rethought Daniel Libeskind's original twisting design for the Freedom Tower because it would have been too hard to build and too vulnerable to attack.

Black and white monoliths at Ground Zero, Zero Point in 2012 ...

How cool is that!? Duality and more

2001, Thus Spaketh Zarathustra Z
I had just returned from my trip to Egypt.

Back in Egypt they are now calling Zahi Hawass, "The Big Z"! (big laugh) You may recall that Zahi is a very close friend of 30 years with Sherif, the man I met on my flight home from Egypt in December 2000, who remains a close friend of mine. Zahi and I have spoken on the phone. I told him that he is driven by a need to find something that links to a past life in which he had great prominence and power, and once found, he believes, will change the face of humanity. He asked if I knew where it is and I said, "No. But you will not find it now. Keep searching." He will never find it, as it is all about the quest, not something discovered in the physical. Everything of importance is above, not buried below. Further ....let's not forget that Zahi barely tolerates people in the esoteric realms, and as women go ... no comment, though he was very polite to me.

Let's combine the energies of Egypt with creation, July 4th, Z, monoliths, the return of Superman on 28 June and this quote ...

Man is a rope stretched between the animal

and the Superman,

a rope over an abyss.

Friedrich Nietzsche

This takes us to Friedrich Nietzsche, a most interesting man indeed, who wrote the first part of Thus Spoke Zarathustra in 10 days. Nietzsche links to "2001 A Space Odyssey" and the WW II Germany grid insert, a metaphor for humanity as a biogenetic experiment suffering and sacrificing for freedom, linked to the ... [male] 'He'brew/'Her'brew [female] bloodline ... its alphabet and symbology linked with the Star of David, Flower of Life, Merkabah Vehicle, which returns us to the Middle East insert in the cycles of time, the Gods of Sumer creating a biogenetic program to experience

The next story out of Egypt is important ... Woven Flowers ...

Egypt tomb reveals ancient woven flowers AP - June 28, 2006

Luxor, Egypt, Archaeologists hoped the first tomb discovered in the Valley of the Kings in 80 years would hold the mummy of King Tut's mother. They opened the last of eight sarcophagi Wednesday, revealing no mummies but finding something almost as valuable: embalming materials and ancient woven flowers.

Hushed researchers craned their necks and media scuffled inside the stiflingly hot underground stone chamber as Egyptian antiquities chief Zahi Hawass slowly cracked open the coffin's lid, for what scientists believe is the first time in more than 3,000 years.

But instead of a mummy, as archaeologists had expected, the coffin revealed a tangle of fabric and rusty-colored dehydrated flowers woven together in laurels that looked likely to crumble to dust if touched.

"I prayed to find a mummy, but when I saw this, I said it's better, it's really beautiful," said Nadia Lokma, chief curator of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. "It's very rare. There's nothing like it in any museum. We've seen things like it in drawings, but we've never seen this before in real life. It's magnificent."

The flowers were likely the remains of garlands, often entwined with gold strips, that ancient Egyptian royals wore around their shoulders in both life and death, she said.

Dug deep into white rock, the tomb is known only by the acronym KV63, the 63rd tomb found in the Valley, a desert region near the southern city of Luxor used as a burial ground for pharaohs, queens and nobles between 1500 and 1000 B.C.

The burial chamber was discovered accidentally last year by U.S. archaeologists working on the neighboring tomb of Amenmeses, a late 19th Dynasty pharaoh. It was the first uncovered since the famed tomb of King Tutankhamun in 1922.

"For decades, archaeologists have been cleaning up tombs that were found earlier, so it's very exciting to discover something new," said Otto Schaden, an Egyptologist from the University of Memphis, who found the tomb and heads excavations there.

Scientists cut a hole in the tomb's door and got their first glimpse into the 12-foot-by-15-foot chamber in February. At the time, they believed it contained seven sarcophagi, but Lokma said a total of eight were inside.

Since then, the lids of seven of the coffins, including a tiny one built for an infant and filled with feather-stuffed pillows, were peeled back one by one, revealing pottery shards and fabric but no mummies.

With the last opened Wednesday, the tomb still had more mysteries than answers. He hoped hieroglyphs would help scientists identify who the coffins and tomb were made for and what happened to the bodies.

Termites had long ago devoured the wood of the final sarcophagus, leaving only a tenth-of-an-inch-thick crust of resin frozen in the likeness of its anonymous owner. Archaeologists strengthened the coffin by coating it with white strips before opening it.

They will now begin analyzing the contents and transport the newly opened coffin and two others up a steep shaft to higher ground, where the five other sarcophagi have already been placed and where guards stand watch 24 hours a day, Lokma said.

Sixteen of the 28 funeral jars found in the tomb also have yet to be opened. The discovery broke the long-held belief that nothing is left to dig up in the Valley of the Kings.

Hawass, who heads the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, said he believed the new tomb could have belonged to King Tut's mother. Closely related Egyptian royals tended to be buried near each other and graves of the rest of Tut's family have already been found, he said.

The tomb may also have been used as a secret embalming chamber under later pharaohs before being forgotten for centuries, Lokma said. Though the new discovery did not compare with the marvels of golden masks, jewels and statues found in Tut's tomb, experts said it was a major scientific discovery that could ultimately catapult understanding of ancient Egypt. "These discoveries are always very thrilling, because they give us a new glimpse into the ancient Egyptians' universe, and can push scientific research forward," Lokma said.