If I tried to list the ten best days of my life, no doubt among them would be my birth, a few graduations, marriage, and assorted other great ones, including maybe even travel, where the  best could well have been that one day in Venice  when I first met my Blue-bar Pigeon, had lunch at Quadri of white truffles and several glasses of wine ( this is the dessert, and count the number of glasses ), topped off with a special concert of  Four Seasons , in the theater where Vivaldi partially composed them. Well, yesterday featured the TEDx program hosted by Blue Revolution Hawaii, that was beamed to the entire world.  Some day the TED organization will again present this effort by adding it to their system package.  You can go to the  BRH website  for other information.  Should you wish to watch my presentation, click on  THIS .  In this 18-minute talk, I only lightly touched on the  Pacific International Ocean Station , our proposed $150 million floating structure to initiate at-sea technol

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I keep referring to Ray Bradbury's 1953  Sound of Thunder , for merely stepping on a butterfly in his short story significantly altered the future of humanity.  Of course, this also means that every breath you take, every move you make, would likewise do so.  But purposeful action can particularly make that crucial difference. From this tale came the term  butterfly effect , a concept of chaos theory not made popular until a decade later.  While any accidental act can drastically alter the future, a more specific decision can most surely affect the future regarding that topic.  Incidentally, the movie,  The Butterfly Effect , a 2005 film starring Ashton Kutcher, garnered 33/81 ratings from  Rotten Tomatoes , which attracted my interest because I usually side with the viewers. While Senator Joe Manchin will sign off on the Democratic wish-list bill, which has dropped in value from $3.5 trillion to less than half that value, gaining a last gasp life support to the incubative-state of