Field of Dreams is one of my all-time favorite movies. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best picture, it was the feel-good film of 1989. If you believe the impossible, the movie’s tag line said, then the incredible can come true.
This wonderful movie tells the story of Iowa novice farmer Ray Kinsella (played by Kevin [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Helping The Heartland
June 25, 2008
Surveillance Cameras and Weather
June 10, 2008
It used to be that the only place you’d find a surveillance camera was inside a bank snapping fuzzy, black and white photos of anyone moronic enough to attempt a robbery. Today, surveillance cameras are everywhere, capturing crystal clear, often color, images of nearly every aspect of our society.
Cameras monitor roads, highways and interstates, keep [...]
Tornado Trouble
June 2, 2008
“The scariest place on earth is earth is directly in the path of an onrushing category 5 hurricane.” That is the prologue to David E. Fisher’s 1994 book The Scariest Place on Earth, Eye to Eye with Hurricanes (Random
House) It is a wonderful book, full of hurricane history and the personal story of Fisher’s ordeal [...]
Hurricane Season Begins
June 2, 2008
By now, you’ve probably heard that the experts think the 2008 hurricane season will be a busy one. Last week, forecasters with the National Weather Service released their predictions for this season calling for “a 65 percent probability of an above normal season and a 25 percent probability of a near normal season. This means [...]
