JEDC's Life's Achievements

by James Edward David Cline SSN# 525-82-1047 Upgraded 19961215.

My achievements, roughly in reverse chronological order, starting at the present, are listed here. And here is a 1993 photo of me:

• Doing temporary work as a rework technician on surface mount logic PCBAs in electronics.
• Learning Basic 1 and Basic 2 of Chinese Energetic Healing processes, taught by Dr. Kam Yuen of Sholin West International.
• Employed 6 months as a Test Technician at Plexcom, Inc in Simi Valley, CA, testing and repairing complex ethernet switching circuit boards involving combined surface mount and through-hole components. (March 1996-to Sept-1996 RIF.)
• Making my own web pages here as you see them. They are improving each day, as I learn more of the html language. My main focus is on an alternate space program for the near future, involving large-scale human habitation in the Earth's Clarke Belt (GEO), made possible by the development of Kinetic Energy Supported Transportation Structures, potentially able to bridge the gap between the earth surface and the Clarke Belt. (1996.)
• Shifted to the Apple Macintosh world of computers, when upgrading to finally enable my home personal computer hardware to access the internet world wide web. Signed up for earthlink.net connection to the internet. Initially used my new Performa to look for a job and to begin making my web pages. Began e-mail address "jedcline@earthlink.net".
• Worked 9 years as an Electronics Technician / Sr. Engineering Tech, for Vehicle Security Electronics in Chatsworth, CA., doing production test and repair on analog-digital-RF devices, customer service repair, designing and building test equipment and fixtures, preparing engineering documents using Ventura Publisher and EE Designer software, and special testing of components.(1986 to Dec 1995)
• Combining my electronic skills and holistic interests, built and tested research microcurrent devices as described in Hulda R. Clark's books, and found no adverse effects observed even with daily use for over 5 months, and major improvements to well-being did occur as described in her book (aptly named "The Cure for All Diseases), including disappearance of chronic sinus infection and sub-clinical discouragement feelings.(1995)
• Learned " Resonance Balancing " holistic well-being process, as taught by Dr. Bill Eidelman on videotape, a powerful well-being process involving special breathing at 2 sec inhale, 20-30 sec exhale (continuously for at least 20 minutes) while hands are on body area needing benefit. This basic process has been used for hands-on healing by nearly all religions for over the past 3,000 years, and still works.
• Completed the 12 week course of the "Artist's Way" process from the book.(1995) Have continued the "morning pages" and "artist date" processes continuously since then, well worthwhile.
• Presented my concept of using "wet-launch" technology (using habitat modules as their own fuel tanks during launch) to economically and safely create a near-earth-normal-interior research home for 1,000 people, to the Space Studies Institute's Space Manufacturing conference at Princeton, NJ, in May 1995, and published as Wet-Launch of Habitat Modules in "Space Manufacturing 10: Pathways to the High Frontier", pp.88-91, published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. I also prepared the original camera-ready copy for that paper on my home computer, learning how to as I did it.
• Did workshop writing my Spiritual Autobiography , taken at the Onion (SUUS Church in North Hills, CA). Developed a "story snapshot" writing technique while doing this. (1995)
• Imaginatively conceived and wrote of an integrated space program which would start in the present time and within a generation enable economical exodus of humanity into high standard of living space habitation in the Clarke Belt orbing the earth, and restoration of earth ecosystems. These KESTS to GEO Habitat Ring concepts were uploaded to the GEnie Space and Science Library. (Dec. 1, 1988 to 1995)
• Conceived of an economical, safe way to build a research prototype in the near future, of a true near-earth-surface-normal-interior space habitat for 1,000 people in a balanced ecosystem in LEO. Keys to it were the sub-concepts of constructing it on the ground first, and doing as much of the mechanical/living system harmonious integrations there; the unmanned launch of the segments of that wheel-like habitat using the wet-launch concept where each prefabricated segment is designed to be also its own fuel tank during its launch, using reuseable boosters and reuseable flyback main engines. This habitat wet-launch concept was subsequently presented to a Space Studies Institute conference in Princeton, NJ, in May 1995, and published as Wet-Launch of Prefab Habitat Modules in "Space Manufacturing 10: Pathways to Space", pp.88-91, published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. I managed to prepare the camera-ready copy for this paper on my home computer, too. This project would prove-out the long accepted assumptions about large-scale closed cycle ecosystems in space, necessary for the afore-mentioned massive space colonization possible in the near future, enabling the restoration of the earthsurface ecosystem while greatly expanding human civilization. (1989 to present 1996)
• Survived the Northridge earthquake, 6 miles from the epicenter. My loft bed, built to survive an earthquake, was the only part of my apartment which remained relatively intact. Chest of drawers was emptied of its drawers and then thrown atop them, TV and VCR thrown against wall at far side of room, for example. However, my computer's mainframe, on my childhood's relic wobbly child's table also survived under my loft, the very wobbly legs buffering the relatively heavy mass of the computer atop it.
• Wrote a "Parting-Grief Energy Recycling" meditation process, still resolving the rejection by last girlfriend.
• Did the CODA (Co-Dependents Annonymous) 12-step group process. (Circa 1990)
• Initially attempting to get people to follow up on Rod Hyde's and Keith Loftstrom's concepts of space transportation structures, I began to generalize a new class of space transportation systems based on kinetic-energy supported transportation active structures. This transporation system would bridge from the earth surface to as high as the geosynchronous orbit, and provide its own power from solar energy powered thrusters to support itself and move its payloads, once built. Could provide and deliver large amounts of solar-energy-derived electrical power to earth surface electrical power grids, pollution-free. Conceived of several techniques for emplacing such structures. Linked the earthsurface with the Clarke Belt, where primarily lunar resources would be built to provide agricultural/residential/industrial sites for many times the present earth human population. KESTS transportation systems were the keys to this civilization-expanding, earth-surface ecosystem balancing, megaproject. (Sept 24, 1988, to present 1996)
• Workshop on the "Way of the Peaceful Warrior", including publically breaking a 3/4" x 11" x 11" board into two pieces, hitting it with one of my hands in the correct way.
• Took courses in Psychosysnthesis, taught by Patrick Harbula, and attended special psychosysnthesis organizational management meetings conducted by Dr. John Cullen.
• Wrote and uploaded 35 files on space technology to the General Electric GEnie Space and Science Library, 1985-1995. Done mostly with my Adam computer, some later written and uploaded with my Asean 386 PC clone computer.
• Continuing the search for well-being, de-fragmenting (even sometimes improving) myself, I learned and tested many holistic processes on myself. Many meditations, guided visualizations, positive affirmations, energy work attunements, psychosynthesis processes, kinesiological balance workshops and exercises... Humpty Dumpty gets glued back together, piece by piece. (1972 to present 1996)
• Learned some sophisticated energy balancing proceses, particularly those of the Christ Light Centers' "Lovestream" series. Received certificates of attunements of Lovestream Practitioner 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th degree; and Nature Essences of plants and minerals (Sol Ta Triane); Radiant Touch attunement (Tefferli Powers), through Christ Light Centers, Sonoma, CA. (to 1995)
• Learned educational kinesiology processes in workshops "Brain Gym I and II" (taught by the Pacifici group), "Edu-Kinesiology In Depth" (by Pamala Curlee and repeating by Dr. Paul and Gail Dennison), "Vision Circles" (by Dr. Paul and Gail Dennison), "Brain Organizational Profiles" (by Sylvia Sue Greene, 1994) and "Repatterning" (By Jan Cole and Lana Muehling).
• Achieved my first connection with the GEnie Space and Science Library via computer modem access at 300 baud with my Adam computer, began writing and uploading my concepts for space transportation and large-scale habitation. (July 7, 1988)
• Correspondence course in Metaphysics (mostly positive thinking processes including positive affirmations), completed including certification as Metaphysical Practitioner, and Bachelors degree in Metaphysics, through the University of Metaphysics International, Studio City, CA.
• Volunteer staff member of Meditation Magazine, 5 years.
• Began employment as an Electronics Technician at Vehicle Security Electronics, in Chatsworth, CA. Company hired me on basis of tested skills, did not ask for a resume. Job lasted 9 years, although at low pay and no insurance benefits... a 9-year-long "temporary" job.
• Somehow survived a year of unemployment folowing closure of Shugart Corp: typically personnel offices said that they had plenty of degreed EEs to choose from, and they assumed I wouldn't remain in a technician job since I'd been an engineer. Did some minimum wage work delivering flowers (Conroy's), peeling pineapples (Dole research), and putting security tags on store clothing (Broadway).
• Testified before the National Commission on Space, on the civilian space program for the 21st century, Technological Inspiration at the California Academy of Science, Golden Gate Park, CA. Described the need for international cooperation in space; five unusual forms of space transportation; and the need for whole-brain thinking in space planning and operations. (Nov. 14,1985.)
• My first real computers are two TI CC-40's, and an Adam Coleco computer.
• Conceived of, designed, built and used a car-top rigid camper (on a Ford Maverick), capable of freeway travel. (1984-86)
• Searching for ways to integrate the left and right hemispheres of the brain, I developed a process for writing, which uses a choice-modified step through each of the Jungian experiential function pairs. In its first test, I wrote "Magnetic Footprints" , a unique technological poem about the inner workings of a disk drive. In a writer's group including high school students, they acclaimed it as a desireable way to learn such things as automobile mechanics. (June 1984)
• Member of the "Golden Voices of San Jose" choir of the Church of Religious Science in San Jose, CA. High point was when we opened up Asilomar conference, getting a standing ovation from 1,000 people. (1984-85)
• Became a non-degreed 2nd level Design-Development Electronics Engineer at Shugart Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA, in read/write/media test R/D. (1982-84) Total of 6.5 years employed at Shugart, Sr Engineering Tech earlier part of employment, in the Advanced Technology Department.
• Learned the wonderful "cluster writing" process from the book "Writing the Natural Way", by Gabrielle Rico.
• Suggested a fluid-amplifier form of floppy disk drive, where the ferrite film disk was spun like a whirligig by an airstream of a fluid amplifier in a feedback loop, also the disk was moved radially in relationship to the read-write heads through the air jets; position feedback was through using track following methods. But employer Shugart/Xerox was not interested in the concept.
• Solved a problem in another department, where a hard disk drive with plastic cover was having rare but troublesome read errors when running for a long time in heated environment: by placing a simple metal foil outside where the head wires might be rubbing intermittently generating possible electrostatic electricity, I was able to correllate voltage spikes on the foil just prior to the read error, using digital delay dual trace scope. (Shugart Corp., 1981?)
• Basic and advanced workshops on "Touch For Health" (taught by Katy Waite.)
• Proposed several disk drive improvements to Shugart Corp, though none were patented. Designed and built and demonstrated, with Byron Wong, their first track following servo, though this type was abandoned in favor of embedded servo techniques.
• Onion Singles group, 1975-78
• Began frequent volunteer blood donations to American Red Cross, especially in Van Nuys.
• Religious involvements, 1972-78: St. Martin's In the Fields Episcopal church, Winnetka; First Baptist Church in Van Nuys; Church on the Way (Foursquare), Van Nuys; Sepulveda Unitarian-Universalist, Sepulveda.
• Following 10 weeks of training as a crisis line counselor for the Valley Hot Line, did volunteer work as a crisis hotline "listener" for two years, 1975-78.
• Proposed a read/write disk drive head with edge pickups for track following. (Pertec,1977)
• Co-author, with Senior Engineer Bob Abraham, of US Patent # 4,055,814 for a phase detector circuit for a discontinuous data phase lock loop. (Patent granted Oct. 25, 1977), assigned to Pertec Computer Corporation, Chatsworth, CA. Contributed numerous other working designs for read-write circuitry and test equipment there, even though employed only as a technician working in test equipment construction, disk drive early MFM read/write development. Was employed by Pertec Computer Corporation for 5 years as a Sr Engineering Technician. (1973-78)
• Conceived of way to computer control the construction of a concrete structure, by using its program to scan a pair of nozzles across the construction restrainer housing, placing either concrete or wet sand at each location scanned, with layers being built up to form a three dimensional structure. When completed, and time for concrete to harden had been completed, the sand would be washed away, leaving the complex concrete structure. Steel wire could be injected where tensile reinforcement was necessary. Built several concrete/wire art objects using this basic sand/concrete mold concept. (circa 1975)
• Received a "soft rejection" for a "science fact" article I wrote about my Mooncable Project concept, submitted to Analog SciFi magazine. The editor, Stanley Schmidt, suggested I team up with outstanding writer Donald Kingsbury to make it into a science fiction story, but my life was too difficult to cope with increased stuff.
• Began conceptualization of a high efficiency ground commute system , using circulating pull-bands around each block to move lighweight motorless streamlined individually-owned vehicular shells from street near individual's home garage, transfering via clamps to faster through-street pull-bands, further transferring to airsledding enclosed guideways for very high speed intercity runs; started conceptualizing when the foreign oil shortage caused gas lines; concept is still evolving. (Concept was used in an attempt at writing a short story, Unfinished Transportation Story , written years later.) (1974-present)
• Began daily journal writing, following departure of wife, mid-1972- still ongoing.
• Survived a traumatic divorice. The leggy racehorse socialite smartly went to greener pastures; probably because I was used up, grazed out. Her lawyer told me I did not need a lawyer, and I believed him. I would do anything she wanted, even this. My former wife then re-married to a fine man, a pilot for Northwest Airlines, a family friend always nearby during my marriage to her... he gives her a much better life than I could have given her. I began the long slow process of de-fragmenting myself. The problem is that my own needs aren't filled. (1972-74-to present 1996)
• Employed as a contract ("Job Shop") Electronics Technician at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena (La Canada), Ca, 18 months, including breadboarding and environmentally evaluating the video amplifier and sweep generators for orbital imaging system, built both slow-scan test systems for the flight hardware, and helped characterize the flight camera imaging tubes. High point was the ceremonial soldering of each of the sweep scanning coils eventually used on the flight cameras, which eventually took pictures (still unequaled) of the planet Mars. (But marriage counselling wasn't successful, and so wife left me early after I got this job, so remainder of job was under severe personal hardship conditions.)
• Conceived, calculated design parameters, and informally proposed a space transportation concept for economically transporting lunar material to earth orbit and earth surface use of zero-gee high vacuum foamed steel products made at L-1. Used a fiberglass tether from the lunar surface up through L-1 and deep enough into the earth-dominated gravitational field to support it in place; had electrical conductive tracks along its length so as to transfer dynamic electrical braking energy from payload decending on earthward side, over to lift more payload up from lunar surface to the balance point L1. At L-1 nickle-iron was melted in solar furnaces and foamed at zero gee into molds in the shape of giant re-entry gliders; the gliders were payload down the earthward end of the giant tether, loosed for re-entry into atmosphere for ocean retrieval and sawing up into material for non-flammable wood-density construction material and for freeway crash shock absorbers. NASA advised they could not help financially since it was proposed as a profit making project: upon reading that, my wife divoriced me. (1971-72)
• At my mountain home in Topanga, California, using scavenged supplies including used power poles, arms, hardware, and used 1/2" steel cable, designed, built and used an inverted kingpost type car-carrying bridge 40 feet long, 10 feet wide, 13 feet above the canyon bottom, designing it so as to survive flood disaster conditions... which it did in subsequent years. Had studied bridge building from library books for years, so as to do this. Took 4-1/2 years to build. The bridge is still in use by others, 25 years later, even though significantly damaged by canyon flood conditions years ago. (1967-70)
• Employed as a Sr Engineering Tech at Bisset-Berman Corp, in Culver City, CA, helping develop new commercial uses for their electroplating current-integrator device, the E-Cell.
• Concieved of using a phase lock loop locking on the dashed lines on a roadway, comparing with a radio-transmitted universal clock signal, so as to provide precise speed control and vehicle locating in an automatic traffic guidance system. Optically read bar codes would identify identity and position of off-ramps. Vehicles would be driven from home to a parking lot at a freeway on-ramp, park in an open parking slot, transfer guidance and control over to the automatic system; vehicle would be accellerated/braked on the on-ramp to test its mechanical condition prior to insertion into the freeway system and would be diverted back onto a surface parking lot for repair if it did not meet the performance criteria. The vehicle would be thusly guided through a pre-programmed sequence, to its destination off-ramp parking lot, and bell sounded to arouse the driver if sleeping, to take over command of the vehicle on surface streets to final destination. Found no one interested, however. (1970?)
• Suggested putting a digital divider in a phase lock loop feedback path, to make it a frequency multiplier, as a more accurate substitute for a temperature tracking open loop frequency multiplier used in a wire welded jet engine computer I had been assigned to make environmental tests on. In response to irration at the company's lack of acknowledging my idea, this idea was subsequently submitted by a friendly co-worker engineer to Electronic Design News and won the idea-of-the-month award with it. The use of a digital frequency divider has become a popular standard circuit since then, now even incorporated in integrated circuit PLL designs. (Sr. Engineering Technician, Teledyne CSD, El Segundo CA, 1969 or 1970)
• Suggested using paralleled liquid crystal images as optical correllators in a vehicular automatic control system, but technology not yet able to make such devices.
• Proposed, designed, built, tested, a reading machine for the blind, producing distinct acoustic signatures for printed characters by optically observing a moving slit moving across the printed field, driving interlocked oscillators to product pleasing logarithmic step tone patterns using early RTL integrated circuits; proposed subsequent neural simulator optical pre-processing, all done in a 6 week project (assisted by the company librarian and machine shop). (EHPA, Santa Monica, CA, 1967)
• Received Top Secret clearance on electro-optical ARPA projects at EHPA, Santa Monica, CA. (October 1966)
• Suggested integrating the doppler effect to measure distances in terms of wavelengths, and 3 of such quantities as a function of time on a moving vehicle, enabling a feedback path for subsequent similar trips of a vehicle. Also suggested using laser beam in two-dimensional closed path as an optical gyroscope. None of these suggestions, from a mere research assistant, were appreciated by highly-degreed co-workers. (EHPA, 1965)
• Employed at E H Plesset Associates, Santa Monica: various classified R/D work in electro-optics, including early measurements and data reduction using analog computer elements of the effect of the atmosphere on long distance laser light transmission. Electro-OcculoGram measurements. High point of the job was a 6-week project in which I conceived, designed, built the electronics, and demonstrated a slit-scanning multitone visual to audio pattern reading machine for the blind; and wrote report including follow-up research recommendations.
• Employed by the Federal Aviation Agency as an Electronics Maintanance Technician, 6 years. High point: became the first sector chief of a one-man remote facility sector, FAA TNP VORTAC, Twentynine Palms, California. Maintained this 24-hr a day responsibility for 22 months. (FAA, 1961-62)
• Conceived of an ink-jet printer, using electrostatic position control of a moving dot of ink, analogous to an oscilloscope's electron beam, wrote it in my journal. (1960) This was eleven years before the first reported intent to do research on ink-jet printers, which resulted in present-day ink-jet printers.
• Certified for CE, VOR, TACAN -- Communications Equipment, Very high frequency OmniRange and TACtical Air Navigation equipment -- at the Federal Aviation Agency Academy, Oklahoma City. (1960-61)
• Met and quickly married a Malibu girl, in Pacific Palisades, California (1960). At last I had a lover, wonderful! But unknown to me at the time, our biorhythms were 92% physical, 10% emotional, and 12% intellectual ... and 12 years of marriage relationship were eventually described exactly by that, although I worshipped her the whole time.
• Worked 3 months as a museum technician at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. My main task was to set up, create a procedure, and train others in the use of a new photographic silk screen processing machine, for use in making the museum display panel silk screens. However, not knowing how to date without a car, I gave up trying to find a girlfriend there and returned to the West.
• Switched from a physics major to a psychology major in college (struggling with tinnitus and mateless co-dependency), then dropped out of college to go look for a wife.
• Joined Sigma Alpha Epsilon college fraternity.
• Member of rifle team, Army ROTC, NMSU. ROTC Squad Leader, second year.
• Entered co-op educational program with White Sands Missle Range, working there 6 months alternating with 6 months of college at New Mexico State University, as a physics major. Did 2 years of these work periods working in radio telemetry, helping man a ground station during rocket launches.
• Graduated high school with four majors: science, math, english, and social studies.
• Took IQ test in high school, while sick with the flu, score 120.
• President of the Science Club, senior year of high school.
• Conceived idea of "growing" a house by planting appropriate trees and other vegitation, forming it as they grew, molding its growth into the shape of a house walls, floor, ceiling, rooms, and roof.
• In high school, read a book a day besides my studies; most of these books were science fiction, science, or philosophy. I was measured 2nd fastest reader-with-comprehension in my high school class, about 700 words per minute.
• Starting with an X-acto set received at age 9, carved many balsa wood models of aircraft and rockets/spaceships. Some were made using magazine drawings of real aircraft; others were made from drawings I made of imaginary aircraft and spaceships.
• Fascinated by the shapes of the Buck Rogers' spaceships in cartoon adventures in the paper, became proficient with modelling clay making clay replicas of those spaceships.
• Survived being a premie at birth.

Copyright C © 1996 James Edward David Cline

I can be contacted at:
Dave Cline, 9800-D Topanga Cyn Blvd #118, Chatsworth, CA 91311, USA
Telephone 818/886-8059 E-mail at: jedcline@earthlink.net
E-mail also at: j.e.d.cline1@genie.geis.com