The Friendship Angle

Years ago, a tiny shop on Haight Ashbury Street in San Francisco, CA, was known as the 'Circle of Friends' handmade gifts. The shop was located near a 'special' historical palm tree in Golden Gate Park, which was at that time non-documented and yet an occult image of the tree when it was a babyplant, mentally tranmitted, has been the impetus for hordes and entire families to aim towards that peninsula region from northeastern North America.

The premise that initiated 'Circle of Friends' ws simple -- that homemade arts and crafts were displayed and offered for sale. Regretably, a telephone influence network was also operating in the region, whereby callers demanded to know what respondents were thinking at any given point in time; the strategy and methodology were claimed to support the Naval Forces' right to know what was happening in the region. What did happen is that any original ideas were elicited/extracted from respondents and worked-up among strangers to fill the store and "benefit the community", so that the brain-drain was akin to organized crime.

What resulted was termed "gang warfare" and also the earthquake of 1989 which damaged the Bay Bridge that held commuters traveling to and from Oakland, CA.

o Among those using the telephone, as directed by the influence-network participants, to contact city of San Francisco residents/tenants were a group of people from New York City -- efforts to explain that there were many hazardous features in the region and that transplanted flora from different countries attracted ocean-going wildlife to the harbor environs, such that the Golden Gate Bridge swayed and bounced people over the ever-slippery railing, was intended to advise that localized business schemes were not always appropriate. Anticipating a documentary from the influence-network, which should have explained the unique human-made hazards of that northern CA region, those callers were instead routed into TV sitcom roles such as the realistic 'Friends' broadcasts. The suicide rate while walking upon the Bridge to and from Marin County was addressed statistically and as a presumed function of mental illness within subsequent TV and book/newspaper-publishing domains.

o In northwestern PA, the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford campus was the focus to compel an activity known yet as 'The Friendship Table', which provided free meals to those who needed nourishment. The UBP campus is situated in the unique Tun'a Valley region of PA, near the NY State border, where local water-streams flow northward and upward along the mountainsides. The UPB campus offers standard academic coursework and credits, but has not been able to offer the kind of region-specific teaching which many enrollees expect; the UPB memberships are willing to offer oil-industry coursework upon occasion, but the campus is fundamentally a 'stepping-stone' school. The UPB is located in northeastern North America.

o Today's Stuart News presents an ad/notice describing the "Friends' Book Depot" at the "B&A Flea Market" here in Stuart, FL, addressed on U. S. Highway One, which is an extensive flesh-peddling restaurant zone also featuring many retail-chain businesses. Admission and academic-degree studies completion with the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania is believed to assure acceptance within other watershed regions such as this St. Lucie River/Indian River Lagoon watershed. Already battered by multiple consecutive hurricanes, what else can Martin County expect from the 'friendship' influence-networking that focuses upon a 'special' regional palm tree and demands cooperation from inhabitants as well?