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It’s Getting Close to February-

Lincoln’s Ghost to be seen at the Veterans Home

(Just click on the photo for the Center’s web page complete with a map.)

Southern Utah Veterans Home
160 N. 200 E Street
Ivins, UT 84738
Phone: 435-634-5220
Fax: 435-673-5839

February 8 at 6pm 2016

I’m looking forward to bring Lincoln’s Ghost to life for some

of the resident veterans for their Monday night Family Home Evening.

If you’re a Veteran of the Military, come and learn about Mr. Lincoln from Lincoln’s Ghost.

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There’s a New Santa Claus in Town 

Santa Jay
St. George, Utah area
call 435-628-7809

Beth Simpson of North Carolina asked,   “.you will be playing Santa this year somewhere right? If not…you sure should! You would be PERFECT! “ 

Here’s a video song: Santa Claus Is Coming To Town”

 

http://www.singsnap.com/karaoke/r/c09d8a6de

 

Stephen Hamilton of Northern Ireland said,

Jay my daughter has just said to me ,you look like Santa.

 

 Ben Arnold said, “I want to fly you out here to Thailand, the kids here would love you so much!”

 call now to schedule

 435-628-7809

see some photos of live events at Jay Beacham Services on facebook::

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 This Santa, Santa Jay sings, the singing Santa.

you can purchase the following cds:

The Fun of Christmas   –  27 song recordings – $20 per cd bulk pricing applies after 5 cds

The Real Meaning of Christmas – 24 song recordings and Luke 2 -$20 per cd bulk pricing after 5 cds

read the playlist mid-page at: http://jaybeacham.com/products-page/

send check or money order to  Santa jay 85 East Center Street  Ivins, Utah 84738

or via pay pal :   https://www.paypal.me/alBeacham

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A friend on the SingSnap Karaoke  site commented on one of my recordings, wondering what I’d been doing.

He’d been writing and recording all summer.

Hear his “What have they done?” Musical

See Act 3 at:  http://www.singsnap.com/karaoke/watchandlisten/play/ad93eaa79

He lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee.

I wrote back:

Thanks Randy for the inspiring comment.

Besides the English songs on SingSnap, I’ve recorded about 80 songs in German
(my foreign tongue) and I’ve tried  Hawaiian,  Spanish, Italian, Japanese,
Yiddish and Hebrew(much like German), Gulah and Cajun, and even the tough
one for me-French.    http://www.singsnap.com/karaoke/member/jaybeacham
A number of years ago, I wrote a song called “Go To The Light”.
This summer a great local music teacher, Jacob Nielsen made a new and
better arrangement of it. As soon as I can get a recording of the music,
I’ll record it here on SingSnap and send it to you to get your opinion about it.
Besides work which sometimes is hectic but the last 2 months has been almost none existent but has started up again, I’ve done a few things that I’ll send you links to if you don’t mind.
Finally some voice work in June narrating for two fine new products to the market place (actually improvements to old ideas).
Make it Easy Toothpaste Dispenser
https://www.gofundme.com/z2u43w
Gozunder Toilet Seat Riser
https://wellsfargoworks.com/project?x=us-en_viewentriesandvote_16182_21
And a few flicks and commercials I’ve had a part in:
My Lincoln’s Ghost collection and book:
http://jaybeacham.com/2015/06/12/the-lincolns-ghost-collection/

Two independent films I had parts in as Jacob Hamblin and Temple Elder:
http://jaybeacham.com/2015/05/18/which-movies-were-you-in/
Other videos done over several years at:  https://www.youtube.com/user/leobennachoben1/videos
And made by my son James I’m in the Lincoln’s Ghost ones, You’ve been Warned, It’s a Terrible Life, Night Before Christmas:
https://www.youtube.com/user/Titandusk/videos
And a few non-speaking seconds in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghdlcqo9zVE
And
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_jWCoQGbfI
Other videos I’ve made are at:
https://www.youtube.com/user/leobennachoben1/videos?view_as=public
Sounds like a lot but not really.
Hope it won’t bore you to view some of them.
Jay

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The next Presidential election is well under way.
It has raised some questions in my mind.

A letter from the Paul campaign:

With the September 30th deadline just one week away my campaign needs the resources to bust my message through the noise the media is generating.

That’s why, with the September 30th End of Quarter Fundraising Deadline rapidly approaching,

(with the September 30th fundraising deadline rapidly approaching)
But unlike other candidates, Rand isn’t depending on Wall Street fat-cats and banksters who want more special treatment, bailouts and stimulus packages to bankroll his candidacy.

Rand is depending on patriots like you who are willing to fight to take our country back.

jay, this is by far the most important fundraising deadline of Rand’s entire campaign.

My Questions:
So who decides who can run for President?
The FEC (Federal Elections Commission)?
Who are they?
Do we get to vote for them and their policies? Do our representatives?

Here is a guy with an idea:

Step Up Stand Up and Stand Together!
by Stephen Oberan

“Call to action”
I see many people and groups like this, of like minds, that are stepping up trying to awaken the American public to what is happening to our freedoms and what we need to do the stop this effort and to restore our country back to a free country with moral values. I see efforts to teach and engage others to help them step up and become engaged. I see others supporting those they feel best to represent our positions and desires for a positive change.
My question to all of you would be this. How do we get people to “Step up” then “Stand up” and then “Stand together” in our current economic society? How can we give people on tight budgets a voice at the table of conservative ideas? It takes time and action to be engaged which has a cost associated.
We all are aware that the “life blood” of all public efforts, to teach correct principles and influence opinion, comes from the financial strength behind the cause or candidate. It has been proven in the past with many of our promising candidates that it’s not the high roller or whale that brings enough donations to the cause but it’s the everyday American that can, will and do contribute small amounts every month that has caused positive changes and has been most effective. This simple act by many empowers the people and stimulates the cause or candidate by moving them forward.

Our family business has developed a means over the past several years, since the huge Washington mall event on 8/28, that will allow millions more of us on tight budgets to donate once a month with funds not from the pocket or budget of these hungry for change Americans. We are seeking your involvement by first seeing what it is we are providing and how simple it is to implement. Can we count on you?

We are looking for the right medium for advertising and for the right endorsements of people who are the point of the spear who are leading the charge or opening the eyes of those that need to be educated or awakened. We are ready and willing to pay for the advertising and endorsements if required but we need to have the identify few, we believe in and know are engaged, take a look at our campaign and vet it for its honesty and veracity. Are you willing to step up and see what is being made possible to give those living on tight budgets a financial voice?
We are reaching out to those that have a real love for freedom and this country to give them a voice at the table of ideas. People know that we need to retain our rights to choose and to pursue life liberty or happiness by becoming involved by stepping up. Good people everywhere are ready to step up and stand-up together with all of us who are stepping-up. This can be accomplished where ever you live and no matter your circumstance. We know it is the uncommon common people that cherish freedom that can and will make a difference.

A comment on the above idea::
ARK C. HARRIS
As a retired military officer, throughout my career, I heard people say things like this about the Battalion, Brigade, or Division and/or overall leadership. The inquiry was always followed by…”you’re preaching to the choir because the authority and power to change is at the NEXT echelon of command. Only the commander can do it or the complainers will just be eliminated from the ranks.” Even Boyd K. Packer told me in a meeting “it is true the squeaky wheel gets the grease but in the church it is easier to just replace the wheel!” This is the exact problem. A strong, powerful leader with authority, credibility, respect, and, yes, money is needed or self serving, politicians will dismiss and disregard citizens’ ideas as insignificant, uneducated, jealousy, or just disgruntled, noises. Consider for example: Do you really think the majority of USA citizens approve of atheism, abortion, homosexuality, unbridled immigration, working people supporting welfare of those who contribute nothing to society, arming hateful nations w/ nuclear weapons etc etc.? I don’t think we do……..Yet sadly those influences of Satan dominate the ridiculously named political “correctness”….only BECAUSE no such dominant, outspoken, crusader, and credible political voice and leader has yet emerged. Trump has the right idea but lacks substance. We definitely need a Captain Moroni or Helaman. Yes, millions of LDS and straight thinking people and stripling warriors (?) have the desires to fight the battles and make the corrections but without organization we are powerless against the political, cultural, status quo. With a touch of sad humor I even notice “For God so loved the world He sent his only begotten son”….not a committee or political party! It will take a political savior. It seems to me the best use of time, money and DISCERNMENT is to find him….because,,,,. a person who does the same thing over and over (even politically) and expects the results to be different, is one definition of “crazy.”

My questions:

But why should I the taxpayer have to fund political campaigns?
Has this become a country of rich ruling elite?
One must raise massive amounts of money in order to have a spot in elections?
Polls tell what is to be?  Do polls determine the truth of what happens?                                                                              Was the polling public behind Columbus? 

What does “We the people” mean?
Any answers?

Answers are needed?

This former president says:

Source http://sputniknews.com/us/20150924/1027435567.html )

Former US President Jimmy Carter Democracy is Dead, US Turns Into ‘Oligarchy’ – Jimmy Carter © Randy von Liski
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The need of at least $200 million for any would-be Presidential candidate in the US marks the transformation of the country from a democracy to an oligarchy. This irrecoverably undermines the country’s moral and ethical basis, Nobel Peace Prize winner and 39th US President Jimmy Carter claimed.

In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, former US President Jimmy Carter claimed he would not be able to run for president in today’s political landscape, since every contender needs sky-high finances.
“There’s no way now for you to get a Democratic or Republican nomination without being able to raise $200 or $300 million or more,” Carter told Winfrey for her “SuperSoul Sunday” special. “I would not be inclined to do that, and I would not be capable of doing it.”

Letting huge sums of money affect elections — and by extension, policy — has transformed what was once a democratic country into an oligarchy, the form of state structure in which power is held by a small group of wealthy people.

“We’ve become now an oligarchy instead of a democracy, and I think that’s been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I’ve ever seen in my life.”

(Oligarchy (from Greek meaning “to rule or to command”) is a form of power structure in which power effectively rests with a small number of people. These people could be distinguished by royalty, wealth, family ties, education, corporate, religious or military control. Such states are often controlled by a few prominent families who typically pass their influence from one generation to the next, but inheritance is not a necessary condition for the application of this term.
Throughout history, oligarchies have often been tyrannical, relying on public obedience or oppression to exist. Aristotle pioneered the use of the term as a synonym for rule by the rich, for which another term commonly used today is plutocracy.)

He went on by saying that there is now an impassable gulf between Republicans and Democrats, one that wasn’t there 25 or 30 years ago, during his time in office.

“When you get to Washington, you’ve already alienated Democrats from Republicans and Congress from the president, and red states and blue states,” Carter said.

The 90-year-old said that when he was running for president in 1976, the situation was completely different, claiming he was almost equally supported by both Republicans and Democrats.
Jimmy Carter served as president between 1977 and 1981 after serving two terms as a Georgia governor. He later became a humanitarian, founding the internationally renowned Carter Center, specializing in health care and democracy issues around the world.

In 2002, Carter received a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts “to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.”

Read more: http://sputniknews.com/us/20150924/1027435567.html#ixzz3miYdKmaf

A letter for the Huckabee campaign:
Huckabee 2016 9/27/2015

Friends,
The September 30 FEC Report is by far the most important of our campaign. Everything we’ve accomplished together fighting for our issues will be overshadowed if we fail to reach our fundraising goal – and that’s sad but true.
That’s why I am emailing you today, because right now our campaign is 4,695 donations or $154,936 away from reaching our end of quarter goal — that’s an average donation of $33 and we as a campaign cannot fail to get there.
Our records indiciate that you’ve not contributed to our campaign this month and I am asking you as a personal favor to chip in $33, $50, or $100 right now – because your support is needed now more than ever.
We are building real momentum in states like Iowa and South Carolina but we must keep the campaign fully gassed to take advantage of our momentum.
Will you help me keep fighting for our principles?
God bless America,
Mike Huckabee
P.S. This is the most critical fundraising report yet so please make a contribution of $33, $50 and $100 today!

A letter from the Rand Paul campaign:
Rand Paul <rand.paul@randpaul2016.com>
To jay beacham Sep 27 at 11:20 AM
Dear jay:

I’ll be direct and to the point.

In just a moment I’m going to ask you to chip in a contribution of $20.16 to my End of Quarter Fundraising Push.

I’m being direct with you because the truth is, money really is that important. It’s a big deal.

Lack of funding is the primary reason two Republican candidates have dropped out of the race in the past few weeks.
My questions:

What are the funds needed for?
Advertising?
Who says so?
Media?
Does the media run the show?
Who voted for them?
Why must one raise millions of dollars in order to get to the conventions to be nominated?
And then to get into office?

Debates do just what?

Is President Carter right about money running the show?
Does one have to be independently wealthy like a Perot, Romney, Trump?
Does that assure success?
Do big money special interests determine who runs?
Why must the average citizen pay for candidates to run for office?

America the home of the ? the land of the ?

Must one become very rich or take money from many or a few in order to grow up to be President.

Lots of answers are needed.

What do you think?

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“THAT WAS NICE, JAY! YOU ARE SO TALENTED! YOU REALLY ARE! YOUR SONGS AND YOUR SPEAKING VOICE ARE  SO MESMERIZING SOMETIMES…..JUST GET LOST IN YOUR SONGS….  NOT MANY DO THAT… “-Bee Armstrong

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The Lincoln’s Ghost Collection

“Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves.” So said Mr. Abraham Lincoln.

I’ve assembled a collection of my one man show of Lincoln’s Ghost and the short book “Facts about Abraham Lincoln”.
This group of 4 dvds and 1 audio cd and 1 book is for sale for $100.00 for all or individually or any combination thereof…..

Lincoln’s Ghost show 2009 dvd                                                                                  is an overview of the life of Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln’s Ghost Returns the new show for 2010 dvd
This performance goes over speeches and much sage advice from the 16th president of the United States of America.

Thoughts on Life by Lincoln’s Ghost 2011 dvd
October of 2010, Ghost Tours in Santa Clara, Utah featured Lincoln’s Ghost, experiences with deaths in Lincoln’s life,
some of it in verse much of which Lincoln wrote is an expansion of the short five minutes Ghost Tours talk.

Lincoln’s Ghost Tells Stories–2014 dvd                                                              February 22, 2014 live show at the Opera House in St. George, Utah of Lincoln’s Ghost tells stories.

Lincoln’s Ghost Tells Stories–2014 audio cd
is about Mr. Lincoln’s propensity for storytelling

Buy separately or together:

Just $20 each ( plus $3 shipping);
$75 for all 4 ($6 Shipping) 
$85 with the book                                                                                                     $100 with the cd

Get the book
“Facts about Abraham Lincoln”
for $10

Jay Beacham
85 East Center Street
Ivins, Utah 84738
435-628-7809

pay pal : beachamj82@yahoo.com
money order or check

Get them all and watch, listen and read.
(Inquire about obtaining exclusive re-publishing rights in your country.)

Jay Beacham

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written 11/27/1990
Romanian Freedom Fighter

When in Vienna, Austria the fall of 1970, I lived and worked with Mark W.
in the 17th Bezirk. Our apartment was right over a sourkraut factory. Mornings
early, we could look down on the wagons coming in from Lower Austria to dump
their loads of huge cabbages down a chute under our window.
The toilet we shared with all on our floor, had no light so a candle had to be used
at night.
Mark W. and his former companion seemed to be drawn to characters of
espionage and international intrique.
So when I joined Mark, we visited some of those contacts.
One Czech was being dogged by the KGB but got a visa to Australia and
left the country.
One lady seemed to be a spy or something.
All their contacts seemed to be that way for awhile.
(We visited several elderly ladies and as all Austrians do, they served us a meal
or herb drink. 2 old ladies were surprised to see me return after poisoning my food
one evening.)
Either the area or the people attracted them(Mark W. and companion.)
One evening we met a man from Romania.
The apartment was drab, table, chairs, single bed-that’s about it.
He was very talkative and knew Mark W. from previous visits.
‘No, not interested in religion but please keep coming.’
He’d just received a letter from Bucharest: “…snow on the green leaves of September.”
It was an omen he said that Romania was soon to be free. He was working in the
“west to support the Romanian underground and he was going back to fight against
the communists.” If he wasn’t there at our next appointment, he would have
already left. He left two days later, not to return.
That was 20 years ago.
Did he make it?
Did he help in last year’s overthrow?
Or was he killed or imprisoned long ago?
I’ll never know but I know that as long as freedom means more to men than home, jobs, even
life itself, communism along with all slave regimes must eventually crumble and fall
into oblivion.

posted 9/6/2015

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How to learn a language?
It depends on who you are, the way that is best for you.
Berlitz said learn the words you already know in a language.
Some are the same as in your language, some you’ve picked up over the years.
I find watching movies is a good way to become familiar with a language.
I’ve found that often subtitles are wrong.
Singing songs is the best for me but I’ve used all methods.

Let’s look at my learning German.
I started with a record course that my Aunt Jewel gave me and my brother.
I don’t think I learned anything from listening to it.
Then I took German in 8th and 9th and10th grades.
The lady teacher in 8th and 9th grades lived two blocks from me and she was a native born German.
I learned a little. We had readings and tests and a language fair at a distant university( I recited a German poem I think)
We learned some songs that I remembered later. By 8th grade the school had a language lab that consisted of tape recorded lessons that we listened to through earphones. I used those too.
In 10th grade, the man instructor had learned German as a soldier in Germany.
His methods were different but I saw that the things he taught had been in the course work in the earlier grads but I’d not remembered
the information.

Then when I was 19, I was called as a missionary and assigned to the German Zone of the Language Training Mission at BYU in Provo,Utah.
I was there for two months.
They wanted everyone to “live the language” meaning to just speak it.
How? by learning two phrases: “How do you say this?” “Wie sagt man das?”
and “What is this?” Was ist dass?”
We attended morning and afternoon classes.
The teachers were returned missionaries proficient in the language.
Part of the instruction included standing and the instructor saying a phrase and then telling us to repeat it aloud after him.
“Wiederholen”
That worked well for most of the students.
But one fellow who’d been there longer than me, a Brother McOmber, never got very excited when his progress was slow.
He was older than the rest of us. He’d been a welder by profession.
His brother had been here too. The brother was a straight A student in school
and on scholarship to the University before the mission.
He failed at this “repeat me” method and left in mental breakdown because he couldn’t learn that way.
And we had classes in the evenings with native speakers who taught us the culture and their particular dialect.

Then I lived for 22 months in Austria speaking mostly German as a missionary.
Much of the German I spoke was about religion.
By the end of the 22 months, I found it difficult to speak in English
and two years later failed an English proficiency exam at BYU but got a B+ in German.
I’d not spoken or read much in German in those two years.

Later while living in Cottage Grove, Oregon, I met a retired railroad man.
He was from Italy and of course spoke Italian.
At 17 he and his family moved to Brazil so he learned Portuguese.
When he moved to the US and started work for the railroads, he learned English and Spanish.
The company would send all new Spanish speaking employees to him or English speakers wanting to learn Spanish.
He taught them those two questions (What is this? and How do you say this?) in the two languages
and the sent them to speak only the language to be learned for two weeks.
At the end of which time, they could get by in the new language.
Then it was just a matter of learning more vocabulary and phrases.

I’ve taken a French course and viewed courses in French, Japanese, German, Spanish and Italian on TV public broadcasting.
some are better than others. Now there are things online like courses, podcasts, translations, pronunciation, etc.
Some are better than others.
I’m learning other languages by learning to sing songs in those languages.
I ask for help with the pronunciation from native speakers who are also singers.
This is like the native speakers at the language training school.

I’ve looked at the Spanish and English  and French courses some have.
The phrases would be well to learn but without a pronunciation guide of little value.
I know some Spanish but other words I’ve no glue how to say them.
A child copies what it hears but if it never hears, it can’t copy.
For adults learning another language, it must be heard or spelled phonetically.

I even need help sometimes with German words that are new to me as I’ve never heard those word spoken.
If I just fake a pronunciation, then I sound like a Japanese friend told me, I’d be speaking Niglish(a derisive term for Americans speaking Japanese like Americans) when with the heard voice most of the time a person can get their tongue around the word and sound like a native.
As a radio announcer in English, there were times when people corrected my pronunciation and they were right, I’d just not heard the words said right and hadn’t practiced saying the words the right way.
Japanese is easy if spelled phonetically.
Chinese or any other languages that has say squares, tells no one what is being said or how it should be said. It’s just squares to a non-speaker.

How to learn a language?

Well that’s different for each person but there are many ways to learn a language.

Find what works for you and start.

And find a Native speaker who you can practice with.

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A friend posted on fb that he thought the posting of political items was negative and
shouldn’t prevade our thoughts.
Of course, he brought religion in to prove his case.
We all do that to prove our point.
Saying that it is raining or that one is hungry, tired, jobless, homeless, moneyless,
or that some policial issue should be attended to is the statement of fact.
Negative maybe but fact none the less.
Should we ignore all facts not to our liking?

Consider this scripture?

10 Which dark and blackening deeds are enough to make hell itself shudder, and to stand aghast and pale, and the hands of the very devil to tremble and palsy.

11 And also it is an imperative duty that we owe to all the rising generation, and to all the pure in heart—

12 For there are many yet on the earth among all sects, parties, and denominations, who are blinded by the subtle craftiness of men, whereby they lie in wait to deceive, and who are only kept from the truth because they know not where to find it—

13 Therefore, that we should waste and wear out our lives in bringing to light all the hidden things of darkness, wherein we know them; and they are truly manifest from heaven—

14 These should then be attended to with great earnestness.

15 Let no man count them as small things; for there is much which lieth in futurity, pertaining to the saints, which depends upon these things.
– Doctrine and Covenants 123:10 -15

Enough said.

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Have you listened to these demos for your voice needs?
Jay Beacham
“pleasant guy next door”
http://voice123.com/jaybeacham
On April 22, 2011
“Just visited your Voice123 web site my friend and had a listen to all your demo’s.
What a great speaking voice and personality you have.
I am very impressed with your voice but also the fact that you speak different languages and seem to be able to arise to most any occasion.
Your natural flow when speaking and understanding how to place emphasis on key words is amazing.
I loved all the demo’s.
You have a great voice my friend.
I enjoyed all your demo’s but especially announcing the Baseball game…You sounded like a pro for sure.”
-Raymond

June 2015
The Dixie Business Alliance just used my voice for two of their clients’ videos with
the narration for two new products coming to the marketplace.

A toothpaste dispenser

https://lnkd.in/eFUms3j

A toilet seat riser

https://lnkd.in/evFgFKa
You can use my narration to introduce your business to the world.

Call or email me now

435-628-7809

beachamj82@yahoo.com (this is also my pay pal number to make your payments easy)
Check the demos out for yourself
http://voice123.com/jaybeacham

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