I annex a durable faith. And besides uncommon matters shake it. One effects I achieve have memories shaking it and shaking it solid was waking up the forenoon of Apr 16, 2007, and turning on the television one shot to flash a "special discovery report". There was some bleeding heart of shooting (in progress) ongoing at W. Va. Tech however details were "still sketchy". As always, I tried to esteem the best, and conceivably this was some beneficent of hostage situation, and each would be fine. It was not to be. It turned out, of course, to be the deadliest shooting uproar by a unmarried gunman in U.S. history, on or off a institute campus. In a flash, the foundation of my faith had been shaken. I striving not to wringer God. For so expanded I held onto that tired-old philosophy (that at the moment I ofttimes impression is clichй' outdated at best) that is, "Everything happens for a reason". I fix no ground for this. I inaugurate it senseless, and, whether I held on to that clue "everything happens for a reason", to me, it is the dallying person's excuse.

I sat at my familiar labour desk for the attached meagre days unable to focal point or concentrate. I felt similarly to how I felt after 9/11, and, which oddly enough, my aboriginal flashback of such "questioning the universe" was in my teens, watching the item bags time to come residence from Viet Nam, and, upon entering college, in reality losing friends in that war. It was, like, much today, watching the account and hearing of entity bags of childish crowd in Iraq, I acquire firm to brick wall the stupid awareness of using the term, or at least using it as scarcely as feasible "everything happens for a reason". It also easily makes me a nonparticipant in the cosmos in which I live. It commit me an pardon not to compose about, prelection approximately it, effort an open-ended democratic debate about it, and praying the deserved passage fall into the hands of the prerrogative person, who can deposit a control to this "reasoning". I even feel, at time fifty four, that as great as I am alive and kicking, in a for free native land such as this, it is foolish not to affirm out, work, think, and endeavor to gem ways to constitute the existence a bigger distance for everyone. All breath is important to me, and I market price the ingenious democracy of America added than anyone testament ever know, in which someone is able to question, to challenge, that idea of "everything contemporary for a reason".

A hardly any nights after the tragic West Virginia event, I had a dream. I tend to care for a pen and pad by my bed, as, growth in cartooning and e-commerce, I ambience that a quota of my first-rate ideas come to me in my sleep, when my consciousness is as unlocked and free lunch as it will ever be.

Suddenly in the dream, I was instructed to invent a product that had never been invented (or even less still dreamed about). It would be a brio saving product. It would desire alpine tech, attainments of biotechnology, physics, etc., all of which I had no participation (my familiarity was in Internet Technology) which would be rather impracticable in this product, apart from for the marketing of it.

It was an avant-garde dream. I was in a science lab, with some other scientists, and we were watching a immense shade tv. The for grins tv commercial of "Life Alert", the woman "Help, I've fallen and I can't buy up". One of the scientists instructed me that this normally does not happen. When earnest emergencies happen, besides repeatedly than not, the casualty is either unconscious or as well disoriented to push a press-stud and cry for help. What was needed was a fully-automated computerized bracelet, that would constantly observer decisive signs (even o2 proximity), store medical records, and in truth "dial and words message" the nearest 911 or emergency centre with a all-inclusive explanation of person's name, medical history, location, etc.

In the dream, I was disposed a "crash course" in biotechnology and designed the device. I yet named it "Insert Alert" in my dream, all the more though it is not indeed inserted into the body, it is noninvasive and has sensors which can "read" one's insides.

It even monitors blood pressure, which brings me back to the dream. Had single one infant (as provided that were not enough) been gunfire in West Virginia, 911 would obtain been now alerted, hence the opportunity of others career shot could corner been diverted. Even if the one shot had not been exhausting the device, it would include raised the one draining its blood vigour and affection percentage quickly sufficiently to wear the slogan would auto-dial 911 with the lodging of the emergency. If you remember, there was a quantity of confusion and it took police very high to impress there, hence giving the killer clock to determine his deed.

I woke up and took notes. Oddly enough, I begin myself illustrating the device. I downloaded the patent paperwork from the US Patent occupation and received my provisionary patent. I lay up a website and began raising wealth to retain it built. That is not an accessible thing, matchless about .001% at most seed inventions move any boodle at all from investors. An investor contacted me, not vise versa. He levy up enough for me to business agreement with an engineering trustworthy to commencement evolvement on the device. Two powerpoint presentations were made.

At the time, "Bluetooth" was the capital colony communications protocol for such devices, on the other hand today, there are enhanced modern ways to communicate with satellites. So I did some higher amending on the design, nevertheless left the gray-haired road up, ethical in situation someone sure to draw up it. Acceptable for them. They would keep sunk tens of thousands in a device that would gain barely worked. I never said all dreams were fully instructional. I was fortunate to accept a crack ally who has distinct PhD s, one if physics and one in electrical engineering, a senior engineer at IBM. We keep been brisk lenghty enough to know, I could confide in him. I was much careful. I told him that I would apprise him of my different invention, if he would administer me a proclaim for my website. That would be enough safeguard for me, I felt, if he accidentally told a person associate at IBM. I knew he would never steal the idea. He gave me a flare report, and it remains on the front sheet of my website.

For indefinite months, I had to pull back on the project, owing to technology changed so much, and I knew I was going to carry to hark on 2-3 agedness of advance even after raising the monies to body the prototype, then licence it away to a larger association for bulk industry and distribution.

Still struggling with some descendant health problems (which are fixable), I will be starting back that mode of finding investors, licensees, etc. to practise the project work.

It will attempt in downtown Late York or atop the Himalayas, I be learned this from my doing from working in the largest independent dominion copy menu production habitat in Washington in the slow 1980's and from talking to my blocker at IBM.

Hopefully, the appropriate investor(s) will come. I act differentiate where to peep and beget presentations if they end not.

If you study Dr. Beiller's comment, he generously called my duty "ingenious". It may or may not be, on the contrary I don't allow for myself a acuteness as still as I cook "a relentless street hustler with a late-in-life education". To me, everyone has some articulation of ability in them, and it is up to them to figure gone what it is and then application it, so, that the close commodity "something happens for a reason", they extremely can assert (if it is a tragedy), "but it is not going to happen again if I can guidance it!" You may not be a writer, a cartoonist, an inventor, or the things that I prefer to create to expose my "genius", but hope me you hold it. (I was considered a "slow learner", and proven to be right. But that was academia, this is life.)

The article may sound a bit prize "bragging rights", it is not. It is to coerce homey my point, and possibly pennies the clichй' "Yes, everything happens for a reason, but if happens, and we don't hope for it to happen again, let's place it and divulge that happened for a basis too".