Nick Menza RIIP: Backwards Alien and Michael in the Middle

The Deaths in 2016 site lists under May 21:

Nick Menza, 51, German-born American drummer (Megadeth), heart failure.

That he was a drummer for the band Megadeth, is particularly meaningful given that my recent May 15 post, Lasse Mårtenson RIIP: Jackson and Berners-Lee, references another Megadeth member:

Oh and one of the band members that stands out Chuck Behler a cryptic "beller" (one who sounds the wake up alarm bell ).  Note from his wiki page: 

•  Charles Conrad "Chuck" Behler (born June 13, 1965)

 June 13 is also my birthday  !!   The name "Chuck" also jives, it is also a word that means "throw/toss".

Note from Nick's wiki page:

Nick Menza (July 23, 1964 – May 21, 2016)  was a professional drummer 

His birthday is an addition to the "Targeting Family Deaths" pattern-cluster given that on July 23, 2015, my mother passed away.  As well, Behler and Menza were both drummers for Megadeth, so we now have a "Megadeth Drummers" pattern-cluster.  

  Note the etymology of Nick's surname: 

Menza Name Meaning : Italian: from a feminine form of Menzo, from Sicilian menzo ‘middle’, possibly in the sense ‘middle son’, presumably applied to the older of twin boys who have an older brother, or possibly a nickname for someone of small stature, from the same word in the sense ‘half’.

I decided to investigate other Megadeth Drummers:

• Chris Adler (born November 23, 1972) 
• Charles Conrad "Chuck" Behler (born June 13, 1965) 
• Lee Rausch (September 10, 1964)
• Gary C. "Gar" Samuelson (February 18, 1958 – July 14, 1999)
• Shawn Drover (born May 5, 1966)
• Vincent "Vinnie" Colaiuta (born February 5, 1956) 
• Dirk Verbeuren (born January 8, 1975)
• Tony Laureano (January 25, 1973)
• Jimmy DeGrasso (born March 16, 1963) 

So in the "Middle" of the list of nine is Shawn Drover.  What stood out as well is his day of death being the 5th... Given that 5 and 6 on my computer keyboard are in the "middle" of the numbers 1-0.  And then we have another "5th Day" occurring immediately after with Vinnie's birthday.

 I had no sooner completed the above list when I received a message via messenger from my son in law, Nick.  Hmmm, Nick and Nick!!   He had sent a cartoon image of an alien with the caption: Neil Armstrong was the first person to land on the moon, Neil A. spelled backwards is "Alien".   This is an addition to the "Cryptic/Hidden Meanings" pattern-cluster.  Considering this an inner twin prompt, note from his wiki page:

Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) 

He died on my granddaughters birthday, hence an addition to the "Targeting Family Birthdays" pattern-cluster.   Not only that, I just returned from visiting my granddaughter just last night.  As we were eating supper, her mother encouraged her to eat the meat because protein will help build muscle... And she loves gymnastics so she eagerly complied and then proceeded to flex the muscles in her arms... So do you get it-- Armstrong!!  This is precisely how the inner twin world works.  Note as well, his birthday, it connects with the other 5th day's mentioned above, hence we now have a "_, February 5, _, _, May 5, _, _, August 5,_, _, _, _, / 5th Day Sequence" pattern-cluster.

Note this next excerpt from Armstrong's wiki page:

He applied at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) High-Speed Flight Station at Edwards Air Force Base.

Note from the wiki page of the Edwards Air Force Base name sake:

• Captain Glen Edwards (March 5, 1918 – June 5, 1948) 

So the cluster expands into a "_, February 5, March 5, _, May 5, June 5, _, August 5,_, _, _, _, / 5th Day Sequence" pattern-cluster.  
So continuing the investigation of notable persons on Armstrongs wiki page, there were many names and dates to consider (see below), butt one in particular stands out:

George Michael Low (born George Wilhelm Low; June 10, 1926 – July 17, 1984)

And this is where "Middle" comes in, note he had changed his "Middle" name from Wilhelm to Michael!!  Which makes sense when you read the following excerpt from the very first post in this blog made on June 19, 2012, Censoring Around Michael Jackson's Death (RIIP): 

Amid all the attention about the death of the world's most famous Michael, we noticed the curious fact that Michael is the middle names of all three of his children. 

A few weeks prior to Michael Jackson's death, Trish and I had noticed a cluster of Michaels in our life. It seemed that everyone who works behind the desk at our gym was named Mike. Three of them. There was also a Mark for awhile, but he left--didn't fit in. So around the time we were talking about all the Michaels, a former employee at the gym showed up to pick up his wife, who is a trainer. What's his name? Mike. 

Also about that time - and still before the death of Michael Jackson - we received the following comments from May-Monique Ocean that began by noting something Trish had written in a comment.***

>"... and sometimes name synchronicities and numbers will cluster together."I had given my son the middle name Michael and my daughter the middle name Michelle (French equivalent).A few years later, while at a trade show, the owners of a gift shop called “Michelle and Michelle” had approached me. The owners are husband and wife, and each share the same first name-- Michelle.Then Alan Butler, in his book The Goddess, the Grail and the Lodge remarks: “I continue to receive detailed email messages from individuals who are not known to me, usually carrying snippets of information that contribute to my research and invariably these unknown contacts sign their name Michael.” He goes on to say that while giving talks at various seminars—“Three of these individuals have introduced themselves to me as “Michael” and all claim to be ex-Jesuit Catholic priest... In each case their conversations made it abundantly clear to me that they knew far more about my research than had been published or spoken about openly.  

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 Buzz Aldrin (born Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr., January 20, 1930)
 David Randolph "Dave" Scott (born June 6, 1932)
Michael Collins (born October 31, 1930)
Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager (born February 13, 1923)
Milton Orville Thompson (May 4, 1926 – August 6, 1993)
William Harvey "Bill" Dana (November 3, 1930 – May 6, 2014)
William John "Pete" Knight (November 18, 1929 – May 7, 2004)
Donald Kent Slayton (March 1, 1924 – June 13, 1993)
Elliot McKay See, Jr. (July 23, 1927 – February 28, 1966)
Charles Arthur "Charlie" Bassett II (December 30, 1931 – February 28, 1966),
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (born 6 March 1937) 
Ronnie Walter Cunningham (born March 16, 1932)
Eugene Francis "Gene" Kranz (born August 17, 1933
William Alison "Bill" Anders (born October 17, 1933)
Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr. (June 2, 1930 – July 8, 1999)
Richard Francis "Dick" Gordon, Jr. (born October 5, 1929)

George Michael Low (born George Wilhelm Low; June 10, 1926 – July 17, 1984) 

Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973)
Alberto Santos-Dumont (20 July 1873 – 23 July 1932) 
The Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912)
Leroy Gordon "Gordo" Cooper, Jr. (March 6, 1927 – October 4, 2004)
James Arthur "Jim" Lovell, Jr. (born March 25, 1928)
Malcolm Scott Carpenter (May 1, 1925 – October 10, 2013),
 Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom (April 3, 1926 – January 27, 1967)
Edward Higgins "Ed" White II (November 14, 1930 – January 27, 1967), 
Roger Bruce Chaffee (February 15, 1935 – January 27, 1967)
Eugene Andrew "Gene" Cernan (born March 14, 1934)
Robert Rowe Gilruth (October 8, 1913 – August 17, 2000)
Christopher Columbus "Chris" Kraft Jr. (born February 28, 1924) 
Günter F. Wendt (August 28, 1923 – May 3, 2010) 
George Ames Plimpton (March 18, 1927 – September 25, 2003) 
Andrew L. Chaikin (born June 24, 1956^[1]) 
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) 
Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003)
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (26 October 1919 – 27 July 1980)
Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin (21 February [O.S. 5 March] 1904 – 18 December 1980) 
Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev ( 5 September 1929 – 3 July 2004) 
Edgar Maurice Cortright (July 29, 1923 – May 4, 2014) 
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary(20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008)
Peter Edmund Hillary (born 26 December 1954)
James Stephen "Steve" Fossett (April 22, 1944 – c. September 3, 2007) 
Patrick Allan Morrow (born October 18, 1952 
John Herschel Glenn, Jr. (born July 18, 1921)
Harrison Hagan "Jack" Schmitt (born July 3, 1935)
Andrew Smith (born 10 February 1961)
Diana Jean Krall (born November 16, 1964) 
John Coburn Stewart (September 5, 1939 – January 19, 2008) 

So the cluster expands into a "_, February 5, March 5, _, May 5, June 5, _, August 5, September 5, October 5, _, _, / 5th Day Sequence" pattern-cluster.  


James Houston "Jimmie" Davis (September 11, 1899 – November 5, 2000) 
James Goldstone (born June 8, 1931 in Los Angeles, California; died November 5, 1999 

• 1666 – Francesco Scarlatti, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1741)
• Francesco Scarlatti (5 December 1666 – c. 1741)
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