[GPSCC-chat] Proposed: International Center For Monitoring Conflict Evolution

[Spencer Graves]

Hello, All:


       If you have 2:00 minutes (1:53 to the start of the credits) for 
some light entertainment about something very serious, please view the 
YouTube video on a "Proposed: International Center For Monitoring 
Conflict Evolution" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5re7Q0GXBDM).  This 
is a video that Sunny Dhillon, Professors Katerina Bezrukova of Santa 
Clara U., Chester Spell of Rutgers, and I submitted for a "Dream Meets 
Reality Challenge" for a conference next Tuesday and Wednesday, Apr. 26 
and 27.  Professors Bezrukova and Spell and I are looking for funding to 
create this center.  If we win this challenge, it may help us get money 
for this center.  I don't know the evaluation criteria, but I suspect 
that the number of views on YouTube might be one criterion.


       My goal in this is to end war as we know it.  That sounds so 
impossible it seems ridiculous.  However, I've been working on this 
nights and weekends for 15 years, and this is only the latest thing in 
this area I've produced (see also material on "violence and nonviolence" 
at "www.prodsyse.com").  I've convinced professors Bezrukova and Spell 
to work with me on this, and they paid Sunny Dhillon to produce the 
video after I provided the vision and the script.


       If you like my "impossible dream" and the video, please share it 
with as many people as you can, encouraging them to do the same.


       As Arlo Guthrie said in 1966, "If you want to end war and stuff 
you got to sing loud" (http://www.arlo.net/resources/lyrics/alices.shtml).


       Best Wishes,
       Spencer


-- 
Spencer Graves, PE, PhD
President and Chief Operating Officer
Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc.
751 Emerson Ct.
San José, CA 95126
ph:  408-655-4567