Switched gears here!  Now more deeply exploring non-mon neuron for improving feature extraction for better generalization.  See Projects 1-6 in Evernote.  Just completed preliminary code versions for Project6.1 and Project6.2.  It looks like prj 6.2 might be working, but need to do considerably more variations...  Need to more accurately simulate the model proposed in project6.2.  The good news: it appears to be working!!