Edwin M Basye

A great 2008 performance! Mark, you might like this one...

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A nice short interview of Rodger about this song's origins...

Compare these two videos of Mark Knopfler:

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I am now teaching high school students Computer Essentials and also Web Design at Omega Alpha Acadamy!

My cousin  recently  gave me a copy of The Case for a Creator by Lee Strobel at a family reunion. I am currently reading it. I am pretty well into the book and so far, everything in it is eloquently and devastatingly refuted by Ken Miller in the video lecture below.

Have you heard of Directive 51? It hasn't gotten much mainstream press. I found out about it from a friend, and looked into it. Here is some results of my brief research.

A worst-case scenario of what Directive 51 could mean.

Some YouTube perspectives on Directive 51:

What I didn't mention in my last blog is that Agriculture uses 81% of the water actually consumed in the U.S. See 2nd link in previous blog. This obviously means that agriculture dominates water usage and even a 10% savings could more than double the water available for domestic use.

What are some ways water can be conserved?

According to the USGS,  FORTY EIGHT PERCENT of our water  (39% of fresh water) withdrawals goes to thermoelectric (nuclear, coal, oil, natural gas) power plants. See http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/2004/circ1268/htdocs/text-total.html  and http://www.netl.doe.gov/technologies/coalpower/ewr/water/power-gen.html for details. According to the 1995 statistics (how about some more recent statistics, folks!), about 3% is actually consumed through evaporation, the rest is returned to the source. Domestic water use is about 6 percent of actual consumption. .

Synchronicity

I just finished a book entitled Synchronicity by F. David Peat. It explores Jungian psychology and philosophy, examines world views of different cultures, including a number of Eastern divination practices. He identifies synchronicity with meaning and explores some anecdotes of synchronicity. Synchronicity is a bringing together of events that have meaning without any mechanistic cause.

This past Saturday I was privileged to drive one of the Art Car Museum's art cars -- "Miss Vicky". It was fun honking at everyone as we drove the 3 or 4 miles to the Airport to display  the cars at the  Border  to Border Airshow. Thanks, Hunter Mann, for  letting me participate!

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