ello, my name is Ed Connelly, and here is a little bit about myself:

     I'm a night manager at a restaurant in Virginia. I'm currently taking courses at the Church of Scientology in Washington D.C. I do volunteer work for The Citizen's Commission on Human Rights established in 1969 by the Church of Scientology to investigate and expose psychiatric violations of human rights.

      I have a brother and two sisters who have quite a few children. I have ten nieces and nephews and eight grandnieces and grandnephews.

     My interests in life are singing, guitar, photography, skiing, acting, movies, martial arts, cooking and chess.

     I've sung in my Church choir, put together and played in Rock and Roll bands, made money taking pictures of models, been in a few community theatre productions, studied six different martial arts, cooked professionally and worked various administrative positions in Churches of Scientology contributing to it's expansion.

     I once had to put together a band for a variety show. I got a couple of talented friends and we put together a couple of songs and performed them at this show. It was at a Church of Scientology. I was in love at the time and the girl was in the audience. I couldn't see her but I sang to where I thought she might be in an audience of about 300 people. We were good. We did 3-part harmony and played guitar, bass and piano. They applauded us enthusiastically after our first song but during our 2nd song the microphones went dead. I had told the guys during our dress rehearsal the day before, after a bad mistake, that during the performance we keep going no matter what. We did. Some technicians quickly got the microphones working after scrambling around a bit. We not only sounded very beautiful. But we had a stage presence that was unshakeable. We got a standing ovation for about a minute. This was a pretty cool experience in my life that I wanted to share. I've had quite a few like this due to my use of Scientology technology in my life.