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Gospel Supplement: Lyrics & Chords for Pickers -- cover pages

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Gosspel Supplement: Lyrics & Chords for Pickers -- inside pages

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Gospel Supplement: SATB Scores for singers and keyboard -- cover pages

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Gospel Supplement: SATB Scores for Singers & Keyboard -- inside pages

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Country Pathos/Country Soul -- cover pages

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Country Pathos/Country Soul -- inside pages

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Future of manned space flight

  In my opinion there should be very little manned-space-flight future –  for several reasons.

The scientific value of sending people beyond our atmosphere was gained some years ago.  It’s time to cease our manned space program.

We will never colonize another planet.  We will never send people to another star system.  We will never create a self-sustaining, habitable satellite.

We know all we need to know about the physiological and psychological effects of weightlessness – most of which were predicted.  We have devised methods of slowing and limiting those effects – methods for which there is no compelling need.

Our expertise in space flight can remain sharp with more practical programs like GPS and meteorology, and scientific programs like geology and astronomy – and military programs like ICBMs and scuds.  So the space-flight technology will advance after manned space flight ceases.  One might imagine a time when ICBMs can be abolished.

Earth’s resources are limited.  It is unethical for our generation to consume far more than needed. 

Political preference

 

Here is why I prefer the Democratic Party:

Suffering matters.  More suffering is bad.  Less suffering is good.  Nothing else matters.

Overpopulation increases suffering.  Republicans did the gag rule, preventing international family planning.

Resource depletion increases suffering.  Republicans belittle efforts to slow consumption of nonrenewable resources.  Drill baby drill!

Climate change increases suffering.  Republicans oppose efforts to limit global warming – Paris Accords.

Ignorance increases suffering.  Republican media spread many lies every day, every hour.  Few if any scholars or experts appear in Republican broadcasts.

Hate increases suffering.  Listen to Republican pundits a few hours, eg Mark Levin, Sean Hannity.

Poverty increases suffering.  Republican tax policies favoring  the wealthy have decimated the middle class.

Injustice increases suffering.  Democrats are more hospitable to social justice.

It seems to me that:

 

1.  Our society is embracing technologies that will diminish total human satisfaction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh6iuXmJ6uM

2.  Several financial services unjustly transfer wealth from ordinary people to oligarchs.

3.  The dollar could be preserved by judicious taxation of total wealth (realized and unrealized).

4.  Republicans Made America Greedy Again.  We now leave food rotting in fields and in shipping containers while brown children starve.

What if we were ethical?

By “we” I mean my tribes, kind, ilk and generation: American, white, Christian, male, middle class, contemporary.

By “ethical” I mean honest, respectful, just, restrained, considerate, kind, not criminal.

I want us to be more ethical.  I get a thrill when I see or hear of ethical or virtuous acts.  I feel shame when I consider the people that I have failed or abused and when I consider the crimes that my tribes have committed – against non-white foreigners, against non-white American citizens, against foreign peoples, against non-Christians, against our descendants.

We are much more sensitive to harm to our tribe (Pearl Harbor, 9/11) than to harm done by us to other tribes – genocide of native Americans, theft of Mexican territories, abuse of southern neighbors.  Until recently, conquest and exploitation were noble pursuits.

Today I want to consider the counterfactual reality, if America had avoided its many post-war crimes.  What if we had not bombed and poisoned Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and their neighbors?  What if we had not interfered in the struggles of Iran, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Israel, Lybia, etc?  I believe that those actions prevented their maturation, corrupted our leaders and sullied our reputation.  All of our post-war leaders are guilty of this, including my favorites.  I can not see how those crimes have improved our lives.

These foreign actions appear to have been directed by mega-rich arms dealers for their profit.  Greed is insatiable.

The counterfactual is, of course, the impossible, since events of one moment follow inevitably from those of the preceding moment.  Yet I wish otherwise.  I wish we were ethical.

Then there is the question of my generation's over-exploitation of resources and environmental destruction, including global warming.  Can we treat future generations more ethically?

Antijackknife/Antispinout Module

  We have designed a system that disables a semi-truck’s front-wheel brakes while the tractor is skidding sideward and steered in the direction of skid, allowing the front wheels to roll freely and restore alignment of the tractor with its trajectory.  Braking responds to the brake peddle normally when sideward skidding stops or steering ceaces to be in the direction of skid.

The system consists of a control module mounted on the steering column and an effector valve in each front-brake hose, these with appropriate wiring.  The control module is equipped with a steering-direction sensor, a lateral-acceleration sensor and a relay.  The sensors pass current from the brake-light circuit to the relay trigger when inertia and steering are both rightward or when inertia and steering are both leftward.  The relay when so triggered passes current from the key-on circuit to both effector valves (left front and right front).  The activated valves block their respective brake hoses and deflate respective front-brake chambers.

We believe the module can be manufactured for less than $100 and installed for less than $200 and that it could sell for more than $500, considering the anxiety and danger associated with jackknifes and spinouts.  It is possible that the antijackknife/antispinout system can use the ABS valves.  Otherwise it would require a dedicated three-way valve on each front brake hose.

We welcome inquiries from possible manufacturers at:

Mary Norberg 

Product Licensing Agent 

Pacific World Marketing, LLC. 

50 Sand Creek Rd.  Suite 210 

Brentwood, CA 94513 

T. 925.634.1140 

F. 925.634.1149 

Ingrid Regen: ingrid@dimp.com

Sam Regen:  bogus_id@comcast.net

Brian Hoffman: brian.hoffman.123@gmail.com

Population Collapse and Spiritual Suffering

  By several measures, the earth is overpopulated.  In just 200 years, we have run through most of the easily extractable fossil fuels and metal ores, we have decimated numerous animal species, and we have polluted the atmosphere and waters beyond the tipping point where global warming became self accelerating, resulting in run-away global warming, widespread aridification and flooding storms.  The Amazon is drying up and southeast USA suffered epic floods last week.

Lately several factors have conspired to inhibit population growth of advanced nations.  Significant are women’s education, women’s employment and social media.  Numerous experts find the fertility deficit regrettable.  Economists warn that declining fertility results in too few working citizens to support the retired citizens, financially and practically.  Social security will go broke and caretakers will not suffice.  Also important is the social pathology associated with mating failure.  Finally, neighborhoods, even cities with abandoned homes quickly become socially dangerous bankruptcy hot spots.

In my opinion, the ecological benefits of reduced population justify the unavoidable suffering associated with it.  I challenge fellow julepers to imagine ways to minimize that suffering.  Here are some random thoughts:

1)  Social Centers scattered liberally among neighborhoods.  These would be spaces to facilitate innocent interactions among neighbors – board games, music making, dancing, theater.

2)  Community gardens and garden-support clubs.

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