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Serving and reaching youth.
The goal of the ASE District Youth Ministry is to promote shared growth for youth in your churches by offering support and resources for those serving in youth ministry.
WHY We Invest in youth
- Youth matter to God. Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these" (Mark 10:14).
- Youth are receptive to the Gospel. In the United States, most people who make a decision to follow Christ do so before the age of 18.
- We hope to reverse the trend of research that shows close to 50% of youth who express faith as adolescents will walk away from faith after graduation from high school.
- The local church is uniquely equipped to help parents pass on faith to their children and to develop a community that supports their faith development.
The Atlantic Southeast District collaborates with local churches to create events that directly impact youth. We believe we are better together, and that our shared ministry creates exciting contexts where youth can encounter Christ. These events are empower our students to meet others from and outside district churches and have access to speakers, worship, resources and experiences that they might not otherwise encounter. We are constantly evaluating the effectiveness of our shared ministry events as we seek to meet the needs of our churches in the best way possible. These events are led by our District Youth Minister.
To learn more about how you can prayerfully or financially support the District Youth Ministry, please connect with our Director of Youth Ministries, Marcus Harden (email@example.com).

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Every Woman With A Gun Has A Story
Gina Odom didn't like guns until she felt that her baby's safety was threatened.
Daniela Halliburton armed herself when she returned to a home ripped apart by Hurricane Katrina.
Susan Fowler and Mary (last name withheld) grew up with weapons in the house. Ask about their first guns, and their voices soften to describe cherished childhood memories.
Earlier this week, I posted a Facebook request to interview female gun owners. In two hours, more than 150 responded, including these four women. Like many who reached out, they are liberals, which is why I wanted to talk to them. We agree on many issues, but I do not share their comfort level with guns.
It is increasingly clear that for many — men and women, Democrats and Republicans — gun control is an issue of personal experience, not politics. We never are going to find common ground without trying to understand one another.
Odom is 40 and lives in Cordele, GA. She did not grow up with guns, but her husband did. To her initial dismay, when they bought a house, his guns moved in with them.
Odom changed her mind after an encounter with a stranger as she pushed her newborn daughter in a stroller.
"It was clear he'd been watching us," she said. "He could describe my furniture. I was terrified. My husband was working nights. I went into mama bear mode. I told him, 'I can't be here alone at night with no way to defend myself.'"
She researched and bought a .22-caliber pistol. Her husband hung a man's shirt for target practice. "If you can hit that shirt," he told her, "you can protect yourself."
Odom and her husband share the same politics, except on gun control. "We both voted for Obama, both times, but my husband is part of that culture of fear," Odom said. "Like a lot of his friends, he'll say, 'Obama's going to get our guns.'"
She blames the National Rifle Association. "I see the stuff he gets in the mail. They keep telling him, 'If you give up any little right, the government will take away your guns.' They're promoting fear, and it shuts down the conversation."
Mary, who asked that her last name not be used, is married, with one daughter and another on the way. She is an equities trader in Denver, but she grew up in rural Tennessee. Guns were a way of life. She has four, including a Winchester Special, which she bought with her own money at 16. In our interview, she used the word "responsible" nearly two dozen times.
"The whole gun culture has changed," she said. "It used to be you learned how to be responsible. Now it's, 'Get a gun.' They aren't learning self-defense. They're not taking gun safety classes. If you aren't willing to go to safety class, you're exactly the person who shouldn't have a gun."
Daniela Halliburton is a 42-year-old lesbian who works as a data analyst at Tulane University in New Orleans. She grew up in rural Louisiana. At 6, she was the proud owner of a BB gun. Her father gave her a "real gun" when she was 12 and taught her how to use it.
"He taught me how to aim, how to load and clean a gun, how to shoot better," she said. "It was part of family life."
After Katrina destroyed her home, she returned to salvage what was left of it. She carried a gun on her at all times. "Eight years later, I still think that was the right thing for me to do," she said.


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I have no memory on the first time I have heard of stromatolites, however, I have a very clear memory of their brief appearance on the game E.V.O. Stromatolites are mushroom-like structures resulting from the interaction between microorganisms and minerals in watery environment. They are a kind of Trace Fossil and they are used as models for the formation of some depositional systems.
Stromatolites are formed when algae and bacteria form a biofilm or a microbial mat underwater, mostly on the bottom. As the biofilm grows, sediments deposit over it and some minerals form within the biofilm causing it to lithify and forcing the microorganisms to move upwards no a new biofilm. This leaves a mineralized biofilm under the new one and the entire structure grows up. Stromatolites can have very complex structures, some of them so complex that they resemble living organisms; there is even a taxonomy for stromatolites.
Here I bring to you two approaches on stromatolite research. The first one is brought to us by Havemann & Foster (2008); they have collected some living stromatolites and tried to grow them in the lab. The second one is a numerical modeling of a stromatolite made by Drupaz et al. (2006) in order to understand how their morphology develops.
Living stromatolites can be found at Shark Bay (Australia) and some other place around the world. Havemann & Foster (2008) tried to replicate the environmental conditions found in these places and used biofilms brought from there to create stromatolites in vitro. The resulting structure cannot be called a stromatolite since it lacks the layered morphology typical of them (fig. 1). However, their work gave us insight on how the stromatolites form and organize. Their layered morphology is probably the result from the burial/dig up cycles found in their natural environment; a phenomenon which could not be recreated in the lab.
fig 1: The in vitro model showed main layers for the stromatolite: a crust, the cianobacteria layer and the biofilm itself. In the biofilm, most of the heterotrophic bacteria concentrate as the cianobacteria have a layer of their own. The crust is where the mineralization occurs and is probably where the microorganisms related to it are (from Havemann & Foster, 2008).
In order to create a numerical model one needs to see the stromatolite as a geochemical system powered by sunlight, where biological and environmental variables interact. In this system, the biological variables are the lesser-know and the model itself has showed that environmental variables like salinity, currents, nutrient distribution, granulometry and calcium concentration are the key factors for stromatolite formation. For instance, the currents regulate the nutrient distribution, which affects the biofilm growth and formation. Other point is that delicate columnar structures form only on calm and less disturbed currents while massive planar structures are prone to be found on turbulent and deeper waters. Simpler morphologies are less dependent of the biological variables and can be resulting of solely inorganic/geochemical processes while complex morphologies are strongly related to biological variables.
fig 2: Here we have many know stromatolite morphologies as they were first described and as Dupraz et al. (2006) recreated them using their model.
So, how such research can be useful? By understanding how such structures grow, we can make predictions on how their environment work. This has implications on current environments and on palaeoenvironments as well, where oil reservoirs can be formed. Understanding such deposits allow us to create safer and more efficient oil exploration technologies. On the other hand, both methods have limitations. For instance, in vitro models have time and space constrains, they also alter the composition of the community in the culture somehow and some environmental variables (like the burial cycle) are hard to recreate. Meanwhile the in silica model is constrained on how many variables can be modeled or understood at the same time.
Further Reading
Andres, M., & Pamela Reid, R. (2006). Growth morphologies of modern marine stromatolites: A case study from Highborne Cay, Bahamas Sedimentary Geology, 185 (3-4), 319-328 DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2005.12.020
Batchelor, M., Burne, R., Henry, B., & Watt, S. (2000). Deterministic KPZ model for stromatolite laminae Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 282 (1-2), 123-136 DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(00)00077-7
Dupraz, C., Pattisina, R., & Verrecchia, E. (2006). Translation of energy into morphology: Simulation of stromatolite morphospace using a stochastic model Sedimentary Geology, 185 (3-4), 185-203 DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2005.12.012
Havemann SA, & Foster JS (2008). Comparative characterization of the microbial diversities of an artificial microbialite model and a natural stromatolite. Applied and environmental microbiology, 74 (23), 7410-21 PMID: 18836014


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It's a plane. It's a drone. It's the new E-Flite Convergence VTOL (Vertical Take Off & Landing) aircraft, and it's in stock now!
Featuring three brushless motors, including two that tilt up, the Convergence blends the performance of a delta-wing airplane with the controllability of a multi-rotor drone. It's a great product for a drone pilot interested in fixed-wing aircraft, or vice-versa. It can even be set up for FPV flight!
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Zero Point Energy is a new source of energy that could change the world. Recently one scientist discover a way to tap into this nearly unlimited energy source…or at least he thinks he has. The machines extracting the energy have begun to cause earthquakes and fissures in tectonic plates and if Kurk Austin, Joe Zavala and the rest of the NUMA Special Assignments aren't able to destroy them the world will experience a terrifying era of earth tremors and volcanism.
Clive Cussler is back with another heart pounding thriller, Zero Hour is his latest book from the NUMA files.


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What To Wear On NYE?
It's nearly New Years Eve and if you haven't got your outfit sorted already then you've come to the right place.
I've searched through all of my favourite shops, picked out my favourite pieces from them and put them together for this blog post!
I hope that you get lots of inspiration from this and are also super getting excited for the new year!
I'd love to know what your plans are for this New Years Eve?


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Boom Splat Kablooey!
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Kids and adults alike have a blast with "Boom Splat Kablooey!", a package containing all the equipment needed for several explosive (yet non-destructive) science experiments and a book divided into three tabbed sections. I designed the book's 64 interior pages, with topics as far-reaching as D.I.Y. cola geysers and the creation of the universe. Published by the mad scientists at Klutz.


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I welcome new and returning students to Open Window Studio! The studio is a well stocked and open space for Maria, Ava, Grace, Aria, Lauren, Kiarra to do what they love - experience art adventures! Angie uses the space to further develop her talent and skill in watercolor seascapes. The studio anticipates the return of Kathy's beautiful pencil drawings. The studio also travels to the home of friends Shirley and Esther each week, so they might explore the new-to-them media of soft pastel, and Pat enjoys the by-weekly visits that bring some creative play to her life at the Lutheran Home. Homeshoolers enjoy the classes custom fit to their schedules, as well as the monthly workshops offered by Kelly Hughes at the Cape Public Library.
Make some room in your days to explore the wonder and joy of making art! Call Open Window Studio to begin today!


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This overview report summarises the findings of five case studies on the likely impact of game changing technologies on production and employment in the manufacturing sector in Europe up to 2025: advanced industrial robotics; industrial internet of things; additive manufacturing; electric vehicles; and industrial biotechnology. The adoption of these new technological possibilities will not only have consequences for the production process, but also for the working conditions of those employed on the process and on employment demands at company level. The report highlights the increase in digitisation, the greater demand for highly skilled workers, the expansion of value added to both ends of the product cycle, the even greater importance of data security, the possible reshoring of some production back to Europe, and the need to develop and observe industry standards and protocols.
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Although you may not remember all the words anymore, there's a high chance that, when you were younger, you were sung a number of different nursery rhymes. And there's a good reason for that!
Often sung to babies and children, nursery rhymes have a long and rich history in a number of countries, from Britain, France, Germany, and beyond. Nursery rhymes date back hundreds of years, with some found in existence even during the 13th century.
However, many of the popular nursery rhymes that are used today originated between the 16th and 18th century, although some popular nursery rhymes were created later during the 19th century, and, of course, nursery rhymes continue to be created today.
Given that nursery rhymes have been around so long, there must be a reason why they have proven so popular over the years. The below article highlights:
A book of popular nursery rhymes for kids. (Image: CC BY 3.0, Sailko, Wikimedia Commons)
There are so many reasons why nursery rhymes remain popular with young children. Some examples of why they are enjoyed include:
What's more, there can be a social aspect to nursery rhymes, which can help your child bond with other children and toddlers in a group through the act of singing nursery rhymes and songs together. This can be especially beneficial when your child is at pre-school age.
Finally, one of the great benefits of nursery rhymes is the fact that they can act as a stepping stone to introducing your child to different forms of written work, both short and long. Short poems, for example, can be great to move onto once your child is used to nursery rhymes, although there are no reasons why you can't also introduce your child to short fiction books as well.
Depending on your child's attention span and level of interest, you could also read them longer poems or stories, but it may be easier to keep storytime short at the beginning and increase its length as time goes on.
With all the benefits of singing or speaking nursery rhymes to your children in mind, below you can find a selection of popular nursery rhymes you may want to share with your children. Don't feel as though you have to go through every nursery rhyme. Rather, it might help to try out a few at a time with your child to see how they best react and to determine which nursery rhymes may become their favourites.
Row, Row, Row Your Boat is a popular nursery rhyme that has been around for over a hundred years. (Image: CC0 1.0, Free-Photos, Pixabay)
If you have gone through all of the above, or want to find more nursery rhymes, then you can find a huge number of nursery rhymes simply by going online and searching for them.
Some other nursery rhymes that could be easily found include rhymes such as Hickory Dickory Dock, Itsy Bitsy Spider, Pat-a-cake, Little Miss Muffet, Jack Be Nimble and the Muffin Man, Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush, Mary Had A Little Lamb, Little Jack Horner, and Little Bo Peep. There are, of course, many more that can be found online.
Should you want a more specific list of nursery rhymes, for example, a list that is tailored to your child and what they enjoy, then you could also try to reach out to an English tutor at Superprof for their input on which nursery rhymes would be well-received by your child. Superprof tutors can provide both in-person and online assistance, so it can be as easy as sending a few emails to your tutor in order to have a tailored learning plan for your child.
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star is one of the most famous nursery rhymes for kids. (Image: CC0 1.0, PublicDomainPictures, Pixabay)
To ensure your child gets the most out of nursery rhymes, try to put some time aside on a regular basis to sing your child a nursery rhyme or two. Great times to sing to your child could be at:
Try to sing the nursery rhymes as clearly and confidently as possible as well, as this will help improve your child's listening skills, and will also help to hold your child's attention for the duration of the song.
If your child is not responding too well to the nursery rhymes, you can use some props to try and engage your child further. If you don't have any props, then pictures, different voices, or acting out certain parts of the nursery rhyme could also be effective.
Once your toddler is comfortable with nursery rhymes, then a next great step can be to introduce them to short poems or books of poetry. There are so many charming poetry collections out there that have been written with young children and preschoolers in mind, so there's no lack of choice of quality and engaging works to choose from.
All poems for children, just like nursery rhymes, can be highly beneficial for a child's language learning, as they can also teach concepts such as sentence structure, the use of syllables, the flexibility of word order in English, among many other benefits.
Whether you think your child might enjoy some nonsense poems from the likes of Lewis Carroll or Edward Lear or would prefer something silly like Roald Dahl's poetry collection Revolting Rhymes, there is something out there for your child to enjoy. Equally, if you'd like to keep things short and sweet, then a haiku or limerick can be a great way to improve your child's English comprehension.
Aside from nursery rhymes and famous poems and new poetry, there are a number of different ways to can help develop your child's listening and speaking skills at an early age. If you are looking for ways to help improve your child's English comprehension, then you can also look at hiring an English tutor that specialises in teaching preschool age children and toddlers to give some tips and tricks.
If you enter your postcode on the Superprof website, you can be matched with local tutors as well as tutors that are happy to provide poetry lessons online. So it's a matter of whether you prefer one to one tuition, or remote learning for your child when it comes to finding a tutor that's a good match. Why not take a look for yourself, and find your perfect tutor today.


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NYCEDC has developed a plan to revitalize the Harlem River waterfront in Inwood.
Project Updates
NYCEDC developed this plan by working with a multi-disciplinary team of experts, as well as the City's Departments of Parks & Recreation and City Planning.
The plan builds on a study that the City conducted in 2004. In that study, the Inwood community expressed its desire for a waterfront esplanade to revitalize the area traditionally known as Sherman Creek.
Sherman Creek lies along the Harlem River within the neighborhood of Inwood, in Upper Manhattan. Once a hub for water-related recreational activities, Sherman Creek began to change in the early 1900s with the arrival of power generation, rail maintenance, and heavy industrial facilities to the area.
By the 1970s, Sherman Creek had become neglected and inaccessible to Inwood residents, and it has largely remained in this condition to this day.
In 2003, several City agencies joined together to conduct a year-long study to identify the community's main concerns regarding planning and development in Sherman Creek. The study found that there was a strong desire to reclaim and enjoy the waterfront once again.
At the public workshop that closed the study in 2004, the community recommended that a pedestrian esplanade, or "malecón," be created to bring new life to Sherman Creek. Download a summary of the workshop
Starting in 2004, NYCEDC and the City's Department of Parks & Recreation worked together to implement the study's recommendations that relate to waterfront access, parks, and recreation.
That work includes:
- The clean-up of the upland area just south of the Sherman Creek Inlet, in partnership with New York Restoration Project (NYRP), a local non-profit organization,
- The creation of a pedestrian trail next to P.S. 5, a local elementary school, also in partnership with NYRP, and
- The creation of five pocket parks at the Harlem River ends of West 202nd, 203rd, 204th, 205th, and 206th streets.
Sherman Creek Waterfront Esplanade Master Plan
NYCEDC launched this initiative in the fall of 2009 to continue advancing the 2004 study recommendations. NYCEDC engaged the local community through this planning process to identify a shared vision for a Sherman Creek waterfront esplanade. The resulting master plan builds on the work already completed in Sherman Creek and includes a conceptual design for the esplanade and an implementation strategy.
NYCEDC worked on this initiative with a team of planning, design, engineering, and other experts, as well as the City's Departments of Parks & Recreation, Transportation, and City Planning.
The Sherman Creek Waterfront Esplanade Master Plan has been made possible, in part, through a grant from the New York State Department of State's Division of Coastal Resources and was released in the Fall 2011.
Community Engagement
The NYCEDC team held several small-format meetings with community members and elected officials between December 2009 and March 2010 to present and gather preliminary feedback on this planning process.
The meetings were followed on March 20, 2010 by a public workshop where more than 70 people discussed their needs, desires, and concerns regarding a Sherman Creek waterfront esplanade. Please scroll down to download the presentation that was developed for the workshop.
At the public workshop, NYCEDC announced the creation of an Advisory Committee. The committee provided a forum for additional input from key stakeholders, including City agencies, local elected officials, community board members, residents, property and business owners, and non-profit organizations.
The Advisory Committee met for the first time on August 5, 2010, at the Dyckman Houses Seniors' Center. Please find below the presentation to the Advisory Committee.
At the meeting, the NYCEDC team presented a set of initial design options for the waterfront esplanade. Based on the Advisory Committee's valuable feedback, the NYCEDC team began to develop a preferred design direction for the waterfront esplanade.
On February 1, 2011, the NYCEDC team gave a preliminary presentation of this preferred direction to the Parks & Cultural Affairs Committee of Manhattan Community Board 12. Please find this presentation below.
NYCEDC presented the final design direction to the Advisory Committee on July 13, 2011. More than 60 people attended the meeting, which was held at P.S. 5 - Ellen Lurie, and provided valuable feedback on the final design and the overall planning process. Please find the final presentation below.
Sherman Creek Waterfront Esplanade Master Plan - Part 1 - Fall 2011
Sherman Creek Waterfront Esplanade Master Plan - Part 2 - Fall 2011
Sherman Creek Waterfront Esplanade Master Plan - Part 3 - Fall 2011
Sherman Creek Waterfront Esplanade Master Plan - Spanish - Part 1 - Fall 2011
Sherman Creek Waterfront Esplanade Master Plan - Spanish - Part 2 - Fall 2011
Sherman Creek Waterfront Esplanade Master Plan - Spanish - Part 3 - Fall 2011
Public Workshop Presentation - March 20, 2010
Advisory Committee #1 Presentation - August 5, 2010
Community Board 12 Presentation - February 1, 2011
Final Advisory Committee Meeting - July 13, 2011


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Vaccines are antigenic preparations used to stimulate the production of antibodies and providing immunity against a particular disease. The safety of vaccines is very important as they are given to prevent disease, and target all or many members of the population, most of them are healthy. Concerns about the manufacture and testing of vaccines mostly relate to the possibility of toxicity or harmful substances being contained in them or to biologic agents used in the manufacturing process.
Some of the myths and facts associated with vaccines are associated below:
• Myth # Vaccines are unsafe
Fact: All vaccines currently available must pass stringent safety testing before being approved for use. Some vaccines may provide some undesirable effects like pain or redness at the injected site or fever, but these are very mild and can be minimized by following proper guidelines.
• Myth # Vaccines are not adequately tested
Fact: Before vaccines are made available for use they are rigorously tested in thousands of people in progressively larger clinical trials. These trials are strictly monitored for safety.
• Myth # Vaccines contain toxic additives
Fact: All vaccines marketed are evaluated by the regulatory body of the concerned country to ensure they meet strict safety guidelines prior to being registered for use.
• Myth # Vaccines weaken or overwhelm the immune system
Fact: Vaccines don't weaken the immune system, instead they strengthen it by inducing protection against specific diseases of children and adults.
• Myth # Immunization is unnatural
Fact: One reason often given for vaccination refusal is that vaccination interferes with the body natural processes. However, choosing to unvaccinated, and have the disease rather than prevent it, can have serious consequences.
• Myth # Homeopathic preparations are an alternative to conventional vaccines
Fact: There is no scientific basis to support the use of any homeopathic preparation in preventing diseases targeted by conventional vaccines, whereas the effectiveness of conventional vaccines is well established through large scale studies of their safety and efficacy.


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MANHATTAN is an island of serious wealth, endless ambition and impossibly expensive real estate.
It is also an actual island, which means that some people are priced out for a variety of reasons and leave at the end of the day. That would include me. That means a bridge, a tunnel or a helicopter. (Then again, if you have enough money for a chopper, you can probably live where you like.)
In my case, I live in northern New Jersey and commute through the Lincoln Tunnel, either by bus or by car, traveling on the so-called helix. When it is not under construction, which is frequently, the helix is an engineering marvel, a nearly circular switchback straight out of the roller-coaster school of architecture that allows cars and buses to descend from the bluffs above to the shoreline below, and reverse in ascent.
There are a lot of us at the Lincoln Tunnel: Every weekday, over 100,000 cars, buses and trucks pay a significant toll in time and treasure to gain access from New Jersey to Manhattan, and then line up to flee at the end of the night.
It can be brutal. After a day of fighting for a place to stand on the island to get business done amid a thicket of self-important people in a hurry, we are again back in the queue, waiting our turn. But halfway up the helix, the city we just left roars into view in side profile. Big on top (Midtown), thinner in the middle (Chelsea and Greenwich Village) and big on the bottom (Downtown), the city is irresistible, a sexy colossus in Rubenesque recline. For a few brief seconds, we all stare at what many believe is the greatest city in the world.
It is, I have found, an easier place to love at this distance. Climbing the helix each evening used to be an ideal time to assess my day of scurrying about at the feet of those majestic behemoths. Twinkling against a glowing sky, the city said goodbye in its own way and I returned the favor. If on that day the city opened up before me like a giant, improbable rose — it happens — I would blow it a kiss. If, on the other hand, the city had had its way with me, punishing without mercy, I deployed one of my fingers as a gesture of rebuke. Most often, though, the city had both punished and uplifted. On those days, I still used the finger, but gave the finger a kiss as I did it.
The hybrid gesture, weird I know, was an acknowledgment that even though the city or some of its inhabitants may not have been kind to me, I still loved it anyway. New York doesn't beg for forgiveness, but I and many others offer it unbidden. Even if I don't own a piece of it, it owns a piece of me — while I am happy most nights to leave it, I never imagine saying farewell for good.
But that reverie has been reframed and mostly ruined. For the past several months, two new apartment buildings have been creeping up over the lip of the helix on the New Jersey side, obscuring what was once a million-dollar view. The buildings are ungainly in their nascent state and very much in the way. Regardless of how they will look once they are finished in shiny skin, they will be solid and opaque, stationed between the helix and Midtown across the river, smack dab in the way of New Jersey commuters who have, for decades, greeted the city in the morning or waved goodbye at night.
The Estuary Luxury apartment buildings in Weehawken will rise to 90 feet, according to an article in The Star-Ledger, enough to block the view for many precious seconds but lower than the 160-foot office-and-apartment proposal that was floated back in 1999. I'm sure it will be a lovely place to live, with amenities that include a rooftop deck, a golf simulator, a yoga room and a fire pit. And there is, of course, that incredible view.
I don't mention any of this in the belief that the township of Weehawken or the developers will come to their senses and stop in mid-hammer swing. What's done is done. (Speaking of which, after coming down the helix and seeing Downtown on fire after the attacks of Sept. 11, I have watched the city rebuild, a time-lapse of recovery the new buildings won't erase.)
But something glorious, a view held in common by thousands of people who come to New York for the same reasons people always have, will now belong to a precious few. It's not only a perfect metaphor for our times, but a cold fact that I stare at every day. I often mutter oaths, not at the men and women building it — everyone has to work at something — but at the people who decided that a view that is the visual equivalent of Wagnerian opera was something to be auctioned off.
Weehawken's mayor, Richard Turner, told The Star-Ledger that some of the view will be preserved and that for those who want the full expanse, "My answer always is, move here."
I'd prefer to stay put. And I will continue the slog into the city, but there will be something missing from my ride.
There's still a brief interlude of New York cityscape I can see from my bus or car seat if I pay attention, but I don't look that way so much anymore. When I look toward the city, I don't see the glorious handiwork of human hands — I see what happens when those hands don't know when to quit.
I keep my own hands in my lap and my kisses to myself.


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The last time Manchester City were top of the football tree at Christmas, Wall Street had just crashed, Tintin and Popeye were setting off on their first adventures (not together) and a Bugatti had just won the inaugural Monte Carlo Grand Prix. Roberto Mancini's men are certainly making history.
To guarantee their leadership in to the festive period for the first time since 1929, City will surely only need to take a point from Stoke City at home on Wednesday, which they should do on this evidence.
This was a victory rooted in a moment of match-winning opportunism by David Silva, Gareth Barry's assured performance in midfield, some athletic shot-stopping by Joe Hart and some resilient defending by Vincent Kompany, who refused to let Arsenal find any reward for their spirited late rally.
This was one of the most compelling games of the season, both sides contributing in equal measure. Adding to the entertainment was the post-match sight of a City official having to check with Mario Balotelli, the king of the unpredictable, whether it was true that he had dressed up in a blue Santa outfit and driven around Manchester dispensing cash.
Apparently he hadn't, although there was no confirmation of whether Santa was driving around town dressed as Balotelli (mad hat, snood, ill-fitting bib etc).
Balotelli certainly profited from an Arsenal gift here, exploiting unguarded space on the left to help create Silva's decisive touch eight minutes into the second half.
As the clock ticked down towards a damaging defeat, there was still much to admire in Arsenal's play, from Wojciech Szczesny's continued excellence in goal to the determination of leaders such as Thomas Vermaelen and Robin van Persie. They were also denied what looked a clear penalty when Micah Richards handled.
Yet the brutal truth for Arsenal is that they lost, that they lie 12 points behind the leaders and that the flame of their title dream has probably been extinguished in the Etihad breeze.
Arsène Wenger certainly said so. It is hard to see the City machine, for all its stalling at Chelsea, dropping sufficient points to allow Arsenal back in. Wenger's side must focus on retaining a Champions League place.
In midfield, Jack Wilshere cannot return soon enough. Wenger reiterated his belief that the England youngster will be fit for selection in February, although he has lost Alex Song and Mikel Arteta to suspension for Wednesday's visit to Villa Park.
So assertive late on, Arsenal had appeared nervous in the opening stages. Power and determination are required to live with City and Arsenal were found wanting. Some powder puff tackling allowed Kompany, Sergio Agüero and Silva briefly to advance unchecked.
Van Persie endured a strange start, even presenting the ball to Agüero, a combination City fans hope to see more of one day. "Van Persie is ours,'' they sang, taunting the visitors, "you're our feeder club, Van Persie is ours''. Samir Nasri was mercilessly booed for the way he left the Emirates.
There were Arsenal old boys all over. Kolo Touré and Nasri started for City. So did Yaya Touré, who once wore the red shirt in a trial. David Platt was in the City dugout. Brian Marwood and Patrick Vieira were in the smart seats.
Their former team were struggling early on. Mikel Arteta caught Balotelli. Kompany effortlessly dispossessed the alarmingly anonymous Theo Walcott.
City were creating chances, some of them engineered by Barry. Oft-criticised for his England displays, Barry has blossomed into an important player for Mancini. One of his deliveries released Pablo Zabaleta, whose inviting first-time cross was surprisingly squandered by Agüero. Still City pressed, Silva testing Szczesny.
Arsenal weathered the storm. Now it was Hart's turn to impress. Gervinho, Aaron Ramsey and Vermaelen were all denied. City hit back.
Richards lifted in a cross that Balotelli tamed brilliantly, bringing another good save from Szczesny.
However lively, the first half was merely a dress rehearsal for a pulsating second act. When Johan Djourou limped off with a groin injury two minutes into the second half, the Arsenal back-line had to rejig.
Vulnerability reigned during the reorganisation. Laurent Koscielny shuffled across to right-back but, revealing his centre-half instincts, got drawn inside when Nasri swept the ball through for Balotelli.
The Italian sped on, cutting into the area, slipping past Song, and unleashing a firm drive that Szczesny parried. Agüero leapt with Vermaelen, the ball squeezing across to Silva, who hooked the ball in. This was Poznan time, the fans celebrating the 150th Premier League goal under Mancini.
Even with the lead secured, City could not settle for the remaining 37 minutes. Arsenal refused to let them. Tension remained City's constant companion until the final whistle.
These are the periods when giant strides can be taken towards the title, when significant opponents are kept at bay.
This meant so much to City. You could hear it in the urging of their fans. You could see it in the anxious body language of Mancini, patrolling the dugout.
The game was too open for his liking. Arsenal were coming calling on the counter too frequently. Walcott's one contribution of note was a drive pushed over by the outstanding Hart, who then held a low effort from Van Persie. Still the game thundered between the areas, Zabaleta almost breaking a post.
Arsenal just would not go meekly into the icy night. Even though Mancini sent on James Milner to stiffen midfield, Arsenal still found gaps. Koscielny lifted in a cross that was handled by Richards. Phil Dowd waved play on, much to the consternation of Van Persie, who was close by.
Still Arsenal pushed and probed. Arteta kept dropping deep, collecting possession and attempting to launch moves. Vermaelen was now a major force at the other end, almost equalising with a majestic drive that Hart tipped over. Vermaelen then curled a shot just wide.
But then came the final whistle. City are on course to be top for Christmas. Getting there is one thing. City's history men must now show staying power.


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Through delivering a culture that promotes peace in thought, speech and action, we shall achieve peaceful individuals, societies and nations. Children think, speak and act imitating their immediate caretakers. Then, they copy their peers and other influences surrounding them either in their immediate environment or in the media. They do so because of their natural instinct for learning. But, how about if they are set on the right track from the very beginning, to avoid imitating all that does not serve them or the global community in their future. History will keep repeating itself if we do not learn from it. This is based on the fact that if you keep doing the same thing, you are most likely to get the same result.
In schools, we note that the sole focus is on acquiring information. Nurturing the human creative and intuitive element in individuals is too often overlooked. This is why the sense of creativity and the importance of the concept of humanity have lost touch in all global issues. The place of important values such as positivity, non-violent communication, compassion, understanding and wisdom has slowly been diminishing when it comes to decision making.
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Sunday, April 15, 2012
And the Winners Are...
YAY! I survived my first blog giveaway! I'm happy to announce the following winners...(drum roll, please!) Brynne, Stacey, Jodi, Krista, Kimberly, & Adrienne! See results here: NEW BLOG CELEBRATION GIVEAWAY WINNERS THANK YOU, THANK YOU for entering and helping me celebrate my new blog adventure. Don't be a stranger! I plan to have another giveaway soon! That was too much fun!
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Hi Michelle!
Thanks so much! This place value unit looks fabulous!!!
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I'm so happy you like it. Thanks again for entering! :-) Michelle
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The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-TX5 digital camera is a slim, stylish pocket digital camera that has a secret: It's waterproof. The Sony TX5 is based around the combination of a 10.2-megapixel CMOS image sensor and a 4x optical zoom lens. The Sony TX5's sensor is what's known as a backside illuminated (BSI) design, meaning that its circuitry is placed on the non-light-gathering side of the sensor, allowing the maximum area of the sensor's other side to be devoted to light gathering. This should translate to higher sensitivity, and to reduced noise levels when compared to a non-BSI sensor for the same sensitivity. Actual focal lengths vary from 4.43mm to 17.7mm, equivalent to a range of 25 to 100mm in still image mode. This equates to everything from a generous wide-angle to a moderate telephoto. When shooting high-def movies, the sensor crop raises the effective focal lengths to a range of 28 to 112mm, and for standard-def movies the range is equivalent to 34 to 136mm.
The Sony TX5 has a maximum aperture which varies from f/3.5 to f/4.6 across the zoom range. At wide-angle the minimum aperture is f/6.3. To help combat blur from camera shake, the Sony DSC-TX5's lens includes an optical stabilization mechanism which works in concert with a built-in gyro sensor to detect and correct for camera motion. As is sadly the norm for most compact cameras these days, the Sony Cyber-shot TX5 doesn't include any form of optical or electronic viewfinder. Instead, Sony has opted for a 3.0" Clear Photo Plus LCD display with a resolution of 230,000 dots, roughly equating to a resolution of 320 x 240 dots with three dots per color. Overlaid on the LCD display is a touch panel, allowing it to double as an input device with intuitive operations like flicking or drag and drop used to control camera functions.


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PHP is a server scripting language for making dynamic and interactive Web pages. Before writing, your first PHP script, you must know about Server Side Language. Server Side Languages like PHP runs on web server, before sending web page to the browser. It lets you building customized, creative and dynamic web pages. Once web server has executed the PHP code which is embedded in a web page, the output takes the place of the PHP code in a web page and it is viewed on the browser as we see normal HTML view. So, you need to install on your computer web server. Mostly, used web server as below:
- Apache Web Server
- WampServer
- Microsoft IIS
After installing web server on your computer and it's running perfectly. Now, it's time to write your first PHP script.Let's take a simple example to display a text. Create a file and put the below code. Save it with test.php.
<!DOCTYPE html>   <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>First PHP Script</title>
 <?php echo "Welcome !!"; ?>

In the above HTML code, PHP code has embedded. <?php marks the start of an embedded PHP script and ?> marks its end. The web server interprets everything between these two delimiters and converts it to regular HTML code before it sends the web page to the requesting browser. If you view HTML source code on the browser using View Source option (generally, this option comes when do right-click inside the browser). The source code as below:
<!DOCTYPE html>   <meta charset="utf-8"> <title> First PHP Script </title>
 Welcome !!

You will see, there is no PHP code displaying. In its place the output of the script has appeared, and it looks just like standard HTML.
A PHP script consists of a series of commands or statements. Each statement is an instruction that must be followed by the web server before it can proceed to the next instruction. PHP statements are always terminated by a semicolon ; .
A simple and typical PHP statement:
<?php echo "Hello World !!"; ?>
In the above PHP code, echo is a statement which is used to send output to the browser. This output may be simple string, values or HTML code. Suppose, we have to display value of a variable, only needs to do as below:
<!DOCTYPE html>   <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>First PHP Script::Display Value of Variable</title>
 <?php $name = "Array99"; echo $name; ?>

If you place this file on your web server and request it using a web browser, your browser will receive this HTML code:
<!DOCTYPE html>   <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>First PHP Script::Display Value of Variable</title>
 Array99

In above examples, we are printing string value directly and a variable with assigning a string value. These string values are incorporated with double quote " or may be single quote ' .
Now, create a file with name sqrt-test.php and put below code:
<!DOCTYPE html>   <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>First PHP Script::Functions</title>
 <?php echo sqrt(9); ?>

The above code will first run the built-in function sqrt() to generate a square root and then pass the result to the echo command. You may see function sqrt has parenthesis () with an argument. This parenthesis has two purposes. First, they indicate that sqrt is a function and second, they mark the beginning and end of a list of arguments.
PHP has many built-in functions that let you do everything, from sending email to working with information stored in various types of databases.


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Erin + John: A Summertime Elopement at The Mast Farm Inn, Valle Crucis, NC
I can't believe I'm just now posting this lovely summertime elopement on the blog! Erin + John eloped at The Mast Farm Inn this past August and I was absolutely in LOVE with their personalized details and sweet, intimate elopement ceremony! Here are some highlights from their session...
Venue - The Mast Farm Inn, Valle Crucis, NC
Officiant - High Country Ministers
Floral Design - Pearl's Garden
Dinner/Cake - Simplicity at The Mast Farm Inn
Bride Attire - BHLDN
"We Eloped" Sign - Etsy
Hair/Makeup - Shear Shakti, Boone, NC
Photography - Revival Photography


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Selling Strategies
Sales training, traditionally focused on the sales process, often neglects to explain 'what happens when you have to meet the customer?' Skills like rapport building, negotiating and closing are all valuable, but to progress sales opportunities forward sales people need the right sales strategies.
Our sales training courses target each stage of the selling process with up to date strategies to progress sales opportunities.
Our experience demonstrates refining existing sales strategies to match changing market environments, increases sale conversion rates, decreases wasted selling time and improves sales confidence.
Training without coaching reduces the impact of new selling skills.


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What Are The Best Supplements For Depression/
My top 7 natural supplements for depression:
1. Omega-3 Fatty Acids. New research has confirmed the positive effects of EPA on mood, even more so than DHA, as it provides a natural balance to omega-6 arachidonic acid. Lamberts or Eskimo are my favourite brands.
2. Probiotics. It is crucial to keep your bowels in good shape because your brain is only as healthy as your gut. The nerve cells in our gut manufacture 80 to 90% of our body's serotonin, the neurotransmitter we need to balance mood. That's more than our brain makes. The gut is in constant communication with the brain, sending it information that most definitely affects your mood. Good brands include Optibac and Bio-Kult.
3. Vitamin B-12. Bestselling author Mark Hyman, MD, calls Folate, vitamin B-6, and vitamin B-12 the "mighty methylators for mental health." He mentions a remarkable study in the American Journal of Psychiatry that found that 27% of severely depressed women over the age of 65 were deficient in B-12. I recommend professional strength B Complex from Lamberts
4. Turmeric (Curcuma longa). Used for thousands of years in Chinese and Indian medicine to treat a variety of ailments. Turmeric is your brain's best friend because of its ability to produce antioxidants and reduce inflammation, which then protect our precious mitochondria, the tiny organelles in our cells that generate chemical energy in the form of ATP (adenosine triphosphate). Again I prefer the Lamberts professional range.
5. Vitamin D. A deficiency in vitamin D will feel very much like depression. Lots of studies have found a close association between depression and vitamin D deficiencies. And as many as three-quarters of UK teens and adults are deficient. This one is so important that again, I suggest the professional dose of 4000IU from Lamberts.
6. Magnesium. Up to half of the UK today don't get enough of magnesium because stress, caffeine, sugar and alcohol all deplete it. Unless you eat lots of seaweed and green beans, it's wise to bulk up on magnesium because it is considered to be the most powerful relaxation mineral that exists. Solgar do an excellent magnesium supplement.
7. Melatonin. Anyone who has ever experienced insomnia knows about melatonin. It helps us get to sleep and regulates the sleep-wake cycle naturally without the use of sleeping pills. Unfortunately you need a prescription for this in the UK so speak to your GP about prescribing Pharma Nord to you.


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Huntsman Alumnus Clark Whitworth Promoted to President of Larry H. Miller Corporation
Huntsman alumnus Clark L. Whitworth, accounting, '82, recently was promoted to two top positions within the Larry H. Miller organization, one of the largest automobile operations in the U.S.
Mr. Whitworth now holds the positions of president of the Larry H. Miller Management Corporation and chief financial officer for the Larry H. Miller Group of Companies.
The Larry H. Miller Management Corporation is the service company for a number of Miller Organization businesses, such as Miller Automotive Operations, Miller Family Real Estate, Miller Retail Properties, Miller Sports Properties, Prestige Financial Services, and Total Care Auto. The Larry H. Miller Group of Companies — which includes 80 properties and businesses — conducts business in 43 U.S. states. The businesses and properties within this group consist mostly of automotive dealerships, retail operations, and sports and entertainment properties.
Mr. Whitworth has been part of the Miller Organization for more than 25 years in areas such as insurance, risk management, and banking relationships, and has served most recently as chief financial officer for Miller Automotive Operations and Miller Family Real Estate.


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MACHINES THAT WILL FIGHT THE Next War (Oct, 1934)
MACHINES THAT WILL FIGHT THE Next War
By Arthur Grahame
MANY writers have painted grim and lurid word pictures of the next war—pictures of mighty cities blown into reeking ruin by a hail of bombs from out of the sky; of the merciless slaughter of combatants and noncombatants alike with gases a hundred times more deadly than the mustard and phosgene of 1918, and with the stealthily sowed germs of malignant diseases; of gigantic tanks, land battleships that will crush thousands beneath their grinding tracks. They have drawn pictures of air armadas so mighty that they will decide the issue before ever a soldier marches across a frontier; of robots that will do the front-line fighting in place of flesh-and-blood men; of strange electrical weapons that will send dreadnaughts plunging to destruction and wipe out armies before they can fire a shot in defense; of war so terrible and so devastating that it will annihilate our civilization.
Will the dreaded, but prepared-for, next war, when and if it comes, really be like that?
Few of our military experts on duty at the War Department in Washington think so, but they do think future wars will be vastly different from the World War. They expect the next war to be a war of speed, surprise, and shock, rather than another 1914-1918 trench deadlock to be broken only by slow attrition. They expect the armies of the future to be considerably smaller than those of the recent past, but more highly trained, and provided by science with implements and weapons that will give them great speed of movement and terrific hitting power.
On the part that the airplane is likely to play in future wars, American military opinion is sharply divided. The General Staff opinion is that the airplane is an important and highly valuable weapon, but merely one of many weapons, and like all other weapons it will be used principally to help the infantry advance and conquer. Air Corps officers, however, are firmly convinced that the rapid development of the airplane has changed the entire aspect of warfare, and made armies and navies of decidedly minor importance and that it will be air power, and air power alone, that will decide the wars of the future.
Air-minded American military men have been profoundly impressed, as have the air-minded of all other nations, by the theories of air warfare advanced by General Gulio Douhet, an Italian soldier-scientist who died in 1930.
While the airplane was still in its experimental stage, Douhet realized that it would become an important factor in future wars. After the World War he became the prophet of the independent air force. The aviation forces, he preached, should not be under control of either military or naval commanders. At the very beginning of a war all of a nation's air power should be massed and used to win the mastery of the air at the earliest possible moment. Bombing planes should be armed so that they could defend themselves successfully against attackers, but enemy air power should be destroyed by bombing its hangars and factories out of existence, rather than by seeking combat with its planes. The mastery of the air won, it should be used to bomb cities and strategic points on transportation routes, so as to break down the morale of the enemy civilian population and make it unwilling to continue the war.
While no nation has gone the whole way in accepting Douhet's theories, Italy, Great Britain, France, Russia, and Germany have adopted his idea of the independent air force. The United States and Japan are the only top-flight military nations that still divide their air forces between the army and the navy.
News from many countries shows that their military authorities are really fearful of air attacks on their great cities. Somewhere deep under London—the exact location is a carefully guarded secret—work has been started on an immense bomb-proof and gas-proof subterranean chamber designed to be the nerve center of the British capital's defense against air attack. In Tokyo and other Japanese cities, military and municipal authorities are adopting measures intended to safeguard electric power plants, water works, and other vital public utilities from danger from the skies. France is working out an elaborate system for protecting her population against attacks by planes.
Air Corps officers are convinced that large-scale air attacks on great cities will be a development of the very early days of the next war. They emphasize the fact that Paris, Berlin, London, Rome, and Tokyo all are within easy striking distance of the air bases of possible enemies.
An air attack on a large city probably will not be an attempt to demolish the entire city with a rain of high-explosive bombs. The areas attacked will be limited in size in proportion to the number of planes available for the attack, and will be carefully selected for their strategic value. Air attacks of this character on two or three well-separated areas of a city such as New York or London would, Air Corps officers insist, result in the complete demoralization of its inhabitants. It is quite possible that they might result in the destruction of the entire city by fire.
No military expert doubts that in many cases massed air attacks on important cities will be possible, and few doubt that they will be made. But many students of modern war doubt that they will be anywhere nearly so destructive as the proponents of air power think, or that they will have a sufficiently strong effect on civilian morale to make them worth while. World War air raids were severe enough to prove that civilians don't scare easily.
Air bombs, however, have increased greatly in size since the World War. The largest that were dropped on London and Paris weighed 660 pounds. Today ordnance experts are experimenting with a two-ton bomb, and one-ton bombs are considered standard. One of these missiles, exploding on striking the ground, makes a crater fifty-seven feet in diameter and nineteen feet deep. But it would not penetrate very far into a modern steel-and-concrete building. If it struck the Empire State Building it would wreck two or three of the upper floors, and its terrific blast probably would kill everyone on them, but it would not destroy the building. It is certain that at present no nation has anything like enough planes to carry the number of explosive bombs that would be necessary to destroy a large city.
Incendiary bombs, especially thermite bombs, would be much more damaging. Thermite is a mixture of aluminum powder and oxide of iron. When a small part of the bomb's charge is raised to a high temperature by a primer, a violent reaction is set up which causes metallic iron to flow out as an incandescent liquid. When thermite is mixed with a high explosive, its driven drops will penetrate steel. Planes dropping 100-pound thermite bombs on a city, especially on a windy day, could start so many fires that the fire department might be unable to control them.
Although the use of poison gas in warfare has been outlawed by international agreement, it is so valuable a weapon that it probably will play an important part in future wars. But, valuable as it is, it is not nearly so effective as most of the next war writers have made it out to be. Our military experts say that no new gas has been invented since the end of the World War, and that mustard gas still is the most effective chemical-warfare weapon.
Undoubtedly, mustard gas will be used in air attacks on cities. A single plane could carry enough of it to kill every person in New York—provided each person was obliging enough to inhale a whiff of it. But they wouldn't be! Twelve thousand tons of mustard gas was used in the World War. It caused 350,000 casualties, and killed about 6,000 men. So it really takes about two tons of the most effective gas now known to kill a single soldier.
If the people of a city were trained to keep cool during an air attack—and the people of European cities are receiving such training—mustard gas released from bombs would cause few casualties. The civilians could take refuge on the second floors of their homes—mustard gas always stays close to the ground—and be perfectly safe from it until firemen and emergency crews wearing masks and protective clothing washed it down the sewers with streams of water.
Another bogey often trotted out by writers on future war is that of attack with disease germs scattered by airplanes. Army medical men who have studied the subject carefully say that there is little danger that any nation ever will attempt to use this biologic weapon. Bacteria are easily destroyed by heat, and so can not be used in bombs or shells. Modern sanitation probably would be able to keep the transmitted diseases under control.
And if the diseases did become epidemic they would be almost certain to have a boomerang effect, for it would be impossible to keep them from spreading to the forces of the nation that had unleashed them. Germs make no distinctions between uniforms.
It has been said that planes could drop deadly poisons on enemy cities. They could. Botulinus toxin is one of the deadliest of poisons. A single scout plane could carry enough of it to kill everyone in the world—provided that its lethal load could be administered directly to the prospective victims. But in warfare it couldn't be so administered, and released at random over a city it would have only a slight effect.
Separated by 3,000 miles of Atlantic and 6,000 miles of Pacific salt water from the nearest nations that could become formidable enemies, the United States has a much simpler air defense problem than have nations whose potential foes are within two or three hours' flying time of their capitals and industrial centers.
Although some Air Corps officers think that aircraft with a flying range of 7,000 miles while carrying a ton of bombs will be built in the near future, the present extreme radius of airplane action under war conditions is about 900 miles. Under existing conditions an Asiatic or European enemy attacking us from the air would have to launch his planes from sea carriers stationed off our coast.
To do that with any degree of safety he would first have to destroy or effectively bottle up our fleet. Air strategists suggest the possibility that the Panama Canal might be put out of operation by a sea-and-air attack before a formal declaration of war, leaving our navy helpless in the wrong ocean. If that ever should happen, our cities on and near the opposite coast would be in real danger of air attack.
WHAT we should have, Air Corps officers insist, is a third department of national defense—an Air Department. Air warfare, they say, is more different from land warfare than sea warfare is different from land warfare. Infantry can march three miles an hour. Even motorized infantry can't move more than ten times that fast. Specifications of the new attack planes now being built for the Air Corps call for a top speed of 250 miles per hour and a maximum endurance of eight hours of flying at a speed of 220 miles an hour. The air-minded contend that making the airplane a member of the old army team of infantry, cavalry, .and artillery is like putting a mounted polo player on a football team, and making him play according to football rules.
An independent land-based air force of 640 bombers, 640 patrol planes, and 200 heavily armed air cruisers with ten-man crews, on each coast, Air Corps officers say, would make us impregnable against attack from the air, and against invasion by a land army. The first cost of this huge air armada, with its necessary land facilities, would not exceed a half billion dollars, about one quarter of the first cost of our present navy, or of the amount we have spent on our land coast defenses, most of which are now of doubtful value.
While airmen are rather contemptuous of ground defense against air attack, land-force soldiers are confident that the improved anti-aircraft artillery developed during the past few years will bring down many a plane if it ever is fired against live targets.
The most modern three-inch antiaircraft guns have a vertical range of 9,000 yards and a horizontal range of 10,000 yards. Four guns, mounted in a battery and controlled by a robot fire director, can put up a barrage of 100 mechanical-fuse twenty-six-pound shells a minute. Any plane within fifty yards of the burst of one of these shells is likely to be put out of action. The guns are aimed electrically by the remote-control director, which is a stereoscopic instrument of high precision with which observers follow the course of the fast-flying planes across the sky. All the gunners have to do is to set their fuses and load their guns. At night tremendously powerful searchlights make it possible for the observers to sight aircraft flying at altitudes as great as 15,000 feet.
Listening devices enable anti-aircraft troops to hear the sound of approaching planes while they are about ten miles away, and so give searchlight operators and gunners time to prepare to repel their attack. Large-caliber machine guns are provided for defense against low-flying planes.
MODERN anti-aircraft artillery undoubtedly will prove more effective than did the archies of the World War, which registered one hit to about 6,000 shots. But no matter how effective it may prove to be, no nation will have enough anti-aircraft artillery to use it in defense of every city in danger of attack. Most of it will be devoted to the defense of important air bases and other vital strategic points.
A war between strong nations is almost certain to begin with a tremendous struggle for the mastery of the air. If one side wins that mastery, the next step will be violent bombing attacks on the enemy's airdromes, munition plants and transportation arteries and, perhaps, on his cities. If the rival air forces develop about equal strength, the initial air battle probably will end in a stand-off, and the job of fighting the war to its finish will pass on to the ground forces.
Army officers who feel no sympathy at all with the airman's desire for an independent air force have a strong appreciation of the airplane's value as an auxiliary of the ground arms, for reconnaisance, spotting artillery fire, low-flying attacks with machine guns and small bombs on ground troops, and for the bombing of vital communication points within 250 miles of the enemy's front line. No general would be willing to go into battle without having plenty of attack planes, pursuit planes, observation planes, and bombers at his disposal.
It is not only in the air that the gasoline engine has revolutionized warfare. Motorization will make the next war a war of speed. Armies probably won't be so large as they were in the World War, but they certainly will move faster. Doughboys will be carried close to the battlefield in fast motor trucks. The guns of the artillery will be hauled swiftly into action by motor vehicles. Horse and mule transport will be a memory of the dead past. Even if the cavalryman still rides a horse, which is doubtful, he and his mount will be taken to the jumping off place in a motor truck.
Armies will be able to hit harder than they have in any war of the past. Weapons invented or improved since 1918 will give even small units terrific fire power. For many years our Springfield was the world's finest military rifle. Now it is practically obsolete. It is capable of fifteen aimed shots a minute, but that isn't fast enough shooting for present-day fighting. A new arm has been developed for our infantry—the Garand .30-caliber semi-automatic rifle, which is capable of sixty aimed shots a minute. All other nations are arming their foot soldiers with semi-automatics. Efforts are also being made to perfect light air-cooled machine guns to replace the heavy water-cooled guns now in use. A model being tested by our Ordnance Department weighs only nineteen pounds.
In future wars, bringing up the gun will be a less picturesque but much speedier operation than it was in the past. Our standard field gun, the 75-mm., is now being equipped with balloon tires and spring suspensions which make it possible for a truck to tow it over roads at a speed of forty miles an hour without damage to its delicate mechanism. Even fifteen-ton howitzers are being built with mounts that make it possible to tow them at a speed of thirty miles an hour. Prophets who thought that the tank would eventually develop into a sort of nightmare land battleship, were badly mistaken. The first World War tanks weighed thirty-five tons and had a top speed of about three miles an hour. Their tracks broke easily, and more of them were lost through ditching and engine failure than were put out of action by enemy fire. Modern tank> are considerably lighter. Their fire power has been greatly increased, their armor improved, and radio communication makes their tactical control fairly certain. On roads, using wheels, they have a speed of forty miles per hour. Using tracks, which can be attached in a few minutes, they can do twenty-five miles per hour across country. To be of value, tanks must be able to move fast. Direct hits by shells from one-pounder semi-automatic guns, an infantry arm, will put any known tank out of action. Bullets from .50-caliber machine guns, also an infantry-arm, will penetrate their armor. Our army has only a hundred obsolete relics of the World War days, and a mere dozen of the modern tanks. Great Britain, Russia, and France have a great many modern tanks.
Robot warfare remains a dream of the distant future. Probably every important nation is doing secret experimental work in the radio control of ships, planes, and perhaps guns, but it is doubtful if anyone has invented a robot with the quality that the modern fighter most needs, intelligence.
At sea the next war probably will be less changed from previous wars than will the war on land. Aircraft will play a large part in it, but it has yet to be proved in actual warfare that air bombs can sink a warship. Submarines also will play an important part both as commerce destroyers and as fighters. But, so far as anyone knows, the battleship remains the backbone of naval power, even if the danger from submarines and mines makes the battle fleets spend most of their time in strongly defended harbors.
IT IS doubtful if the dreaded next war will be any more deadly than was the World War. It is extremely unlikely that great cities will be destroyed, and their millions of inhabitants slaughtered. The effort of each army will be to defeat the enemy army, and so win the war. The new weapons will be more efficient, and perhaps more deadly, than were the weapons of the past, but they will be no more cruel. Losses aren't likely to be heavier, for defense has improved as fast and as far as attack. And the next war will have at least one great advantage over the World War—it is almost certain to be much shorter. But it would be better to be sensible, and not have it.


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You might also remember them from our Spring Break trip to DC and Virginia...
The festivities started Thursday night with Kristen's Bachelorette Party. She had three bridesmaids and two "bridesmen," so it was a little untraditional! We started out at PF Changs, where we were surprised with free dessert and free champagne!
Then we headed back to Kristen's house, where there was a small little surprise lingerie shower and just some hanging out time before we went to bed.
On Friday, Kristen's parents hosted a luncheon for the wedding party:
Then it was time for the Rehearsal! I made Kristen a practice bouquet with all the bows from her showers:
Jeff was a reader for the wedding, so we both had to be at the rehearsal.
I practice my bouquet-holding duties!
Such a silly groom!
The rehearsal dinner was a Fajitas & Margaritas bash at a Mexican restaurant - so festive and fun!
After the Rehearsal Dinner we weren't quite ready to go to bed, so we all went out for a little longer:
When we finally did go to bed, we only had a few hours left to sleep before getting up at 5:30 for hair and makeup!
So tired.
So, so tired.
We had bagels and coffee for breakfast, and then we woke up a bit!
Time for hairdos!
This is what I look like after not enough sleep with no makeup. I must really love you guys to let you see such things!!!
Adorable flower girl!
After hair and makeup was all done, we headed to the wedding venue! I got Kristen into her beautiful dress, and we were ready!
Waiting in the bridal suite! We all had aqua (technically the color is "Pool") David's Bridal satin dresses with rose bouquets.
She was a little nervous, but all ready to go!
Kristen wore my birdcage veil as her "something borrowed." It was really special for me that she wore it down the aisle as well. It looked so different on each of us!
This is where my photo-taking stops because I was busy taking pro photos, keeping the flower girl and ring bearer happy, and walking down the aisle! I'll have to share some ceremony photos once the pro photos come in. For now, you'll just have to trust me that the ceremony was beautiful. :o)
After some more photos, we headed to the reception!
Texas Aggie Groom's Cake!
Amazing wedding cake - so cute, right?
Bouquets as centerpieces!
They cut the cake, they danced their first dance, I gave a toast, they threw the bouquet and garter, and all too quickly it was done!
The last song was Don't Stop Believin', and we rocked it out on the dance floor:
Their car was all ready to go:
We sent them off with a bunch of bubbles and a couple to-go boxes of the food they didn't have time to eat:
Yay Kristen and Dan!
I was so honored to be the Matron of Honor at y'all's wedding, and we are so, so happy for you two!
Oh, and by the way, check out these adorable videos! The first one is the ring bearer dancing, and in the second one the groom copies him:


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Here is the next generation of celtic knot Lazy Larry in solid timber… the main weave is Queensland Red Cedar with a Silver Ash accent and the background is Camphor Laurel .. while the border is New Guinea Rosewood…
Just under 600 mm [24 "] in diameter…
I have included a photograph of the pieces prior to the massive glue up…which took me all of 7 minutes.. getting quicker at this…. of course a dry fit up to ensure it all went together as planned and a test run helped…
And my thanks go to Big Tiny for a pic of the corner celtic knot that was the inspiration for this LL… and his thoughtful suggestion to square off any round bits… for ease of cutting.. although I have thoughts of making curvy ones some time…
-- Don't drink and use power tools @ lasercreationsbylarry.com.au
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#1 posted 07-08-2010 07:16 PM
Wow that's cool Larry but I get confused looking at it when it's together as to where all the pieces go
#2 posted 07-08-2010 07:20 PM
Wow, that would make for one heck of a Lazy Susan!
I'm just imagining what this thing looks like spinning around and around!
Please, Larry, I beg you… SLOW DOWN!
Actually, don't slow down, (but do remember to sleep) because every time I see that you've added a new project, I can't wait to see the pictures!
Another absolutely stunning piece.
I bet the 3-D Effect really pops in-person!
-- Jonathan, Denver, CO "Constructive criticism is welcome and valued as it gives me new perspectives and helps me to advance as a woodworker."
#3 posted 07-08-2010 07:21 PM
I absolutely LOOOOOOOOVE the celtic knotwork….......... They have always intrigued me.
-- Gene, Majestic Eagle Woodworks, http://majesticeagleww.etsy.com/, http://www.flickr.com/photos/majesticeagle/
#4 posted 07-08-2010 07:23 PM
You know, when I first looked at it, I thought the first picture was maybe the board.
That might make for an interesting board? What do you think?
You could maybe call it something like: "Shattered Larry", or "Deconstructing Larry", or "Lazy Larry, Deconstructed" or something like that.
-- Jonathan, Denver, CO "Constructive criticism is welcome and valued as it gives me new perspectives and helps me to advance as a woodworker."
#5 posted 07-08-2010 07:25 PM
Looking at your first picture, I thought you were trying to do one of my "pure random" boards after all! ;-)
As always, the board look fantastic – would you be willing to blog on your "tricks of the trade" that make your boardmaking seem so quick and painless? I, for one, would gain a huge amount of knowledge from something like that!
-- Robert Rhoades WoodWorks / Email: [email protected] / www.rhoadesclan.com
#6 posted 07-08-2010 07:26 PM
7 minutes? I knew there had to be some explanation for the number of beautiful projects you turn out. I believe you have ingested some dilithium crystals and are stuck in warp drive! (Okay, you Star Trek fans know what I'm saying.)
-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"
#7 posted 07-08-2010 07:35 PM
-- "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good." Voltaire
#8 posted 07-08-2010 07:39 PM
Terrible, just terrible!!
What am I supposed to do now! When my mom spots your project on here, she wiil want one, and the discount board I bought at the Dollar Store for Mother's Day will pale in comparison. Now I wii have to disable Mom's computer, so she won't come across your project. Next time do something just awfull, because you are making us look bad.
Nice job, When I first looked at the picture, I thought it was a design on a pillow since it looked wrinkled, but this made me look at what was going on in the rest of your photos. Very sharp indeed, look forward in your next projects.
-- Richard Boise, Idaho
#9 posted 07-08-2010 07:40 PM
thats really awesome – great Lazy Larry!!
-- Hey you dang woodchucks, quit chucking my wood!!!!
#10 posted 07-08-2010 07:42 PM
It is a Lazy Degoose. Wow. Very nice.
Leader: "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!"
-- tim hill www.newcalshop.com
#11 posted 07-08-2010 07:50 PM
Zowee, Larry!! Are you having fun yet?!
-- Mike in Concord, NH---Unpleasant tasks are simply worthy challenges to improve skills.
#12 posted 07-08-2010 08:19 PM
Beautiful! I love it, Larry. Each board you create is more beautiful than the one before. You are amazing in your artistry, craftsmanship, creativity, and SPEED!
I'm still working on it—but a LOT slower than you. Gotta take my time to get right and make you proud… yeah, that's a good excuse. Or maybe it will be my excuse to get a TW. Then THAT could be my excuse to build a bigger shop. LOL
#13 posted 07-08-2010 08:19 PM
just great (of course) !
small suggestion ,
well done ,
what did you do with the 3 minuets you saved ?
-- david - only thru kindness can this world be whole . If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure. Dan Quayle
#14 posted 07-08-2010 08:20 PM
AaaaaaaaaaaaaaHHH. so nice !
#15 posted 07-08-2010 08:26 PM
Another great board Larry. I love celtic knots, and this is amazing. Great wood selection and layout. Thanks for sharing.
-- RayCurtis
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Square One Part IV: Your anxiety of the future ends here.
It is entirely too easy to stress out about our futures. Can I get an amen? If you're anything like me, dreaming, constructing and planning my future is what I do on my down time. I generally have a couple handfuls of different futures planned out for myself at any given time. It all depends on which opportunities arise or don't arise, what the economic climate looks like, who I marry, what my job will be, how my interests change... the variables (and the resulting futures) are endless. For a lot of people this can be anxiety inducing as it reinforces just how out of control we are.
Here's where faith comes in. For each of us, God has a perfect will. A path that, if followed, would amount to a life of purpose, fulfillment, service and worship ending ultimately in His glorification and our enjoyment of Him. Obviously, we have a hard time following His will as we live in an imperfect world, in imperfect bodies, guided by imperfect minds and hearts.
To align our will with His is a constant battle against our nature. But if/when we succeed, the result is nothing short of beautiful.
There is no lack of stories of people who resigned themselves to seeking God first and saw the rest of the pieces of life fall into place as God moved. This struggle is perhaps more difficult for someone like me. Someone who isn't willing to relinquish control over their future. You see, I like constructing elaborate futures for myself. I like dreaming of the infinite possibilities. But right about the point that I begin flow-charting and diagramming my five year plan is when my head gets in the way of my heart. I'm a pretty confident guy - it's just my personality - so it's so easy for me to start believing that I know what is best for my life and that I can figure out how to make it happen. That thought process will be my downfall, I assure you.
If, on the other hand, I sought first the Kingdom of God, He would guide my path. And why shouldn't He? After all, He created me. I'm flabbergasted by how often I forget that. The unique combination of personality, character, genetic makeup, opinions, tendencies, strengths, weaknesses and aptitudes that make up Jacob were built by a creator who loves me and wants what is best for me. Yet I'm unwilling to surrender the reigns. It makes me laugh! How foolish can I be?
As I war against this urge to steer my own ship, I would commission you to do the same. Take inventory of your priorities and be brutally honest about what your eyes are set on. As you do, be intentional about refocusing on the Lord. For in His goodness, His love, His power and His divine will for our lives is a future that is peppered with miracles, opportunities and joys that makes it feel like Christmas every morning. No need to choose from your list of twenty possible futures. No need to live some life your parents forced upon you. No need to succumb to cultural norms and expectations. Just a life devoted to seeking Christ first and letting Him fill in the blanks. Simple.


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A second motion came from Councillor Corinne Scott at the Council Meeting on June 6th for the director of Engineering Services meet with the Advisory Commission for Persons with Disabilities to review the Handicapped Parking standards and report back to Council.
The Advisory Commission for Persons with Disabilities has been established and we have had two meetings. The group has decided they would like to address disability issues in Kitimat. They are handicapped stalls and when talking about people with disabilities, its about providing access to everyone that lives in Kitimat, said Scott.
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