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MOWW SCRIPTURE AND COMMENTARY February 2013, Chaplain Ernie Dean Choose The Good Deed     Do not deceive yourselves; no one makes a fool of God. A person will reap exactly what he plants. If he plants in the field of his natural desires, from it he will gather the harvest of death; if he plants in the field of the Spirit, from the Sprit he will gather the harvest of life. So let us not become tired of doing good; for if we do not give up, the time will come when we will reap the harvest. So then, as often as we have the chance, we should do good to everyone. (Galatians 6:7-10)     "You be good, you hear?" Those words come tumbling into my mind ever so often; they were a big part of my early years. Every region on the country has its peculiar sayings. This was comes from North Carolina. Perhaps your parent, or you yourself, said, "Remember, you are a [insert your last name]; act accordingly." These words may sound like a warning or a threat, or even hint of suspicion that you were a potential trouble-maker who needed to be cautioned. Not so! These are actually words of deep caring and endearment: "I love you and know you love me. I honor you and know you honor me. I trust you and know you trust me." We are family is how it all boils down. As a child I wanted to know my mother, and other important persons in my life, thought about me and my well-being. To hear these words was to feel affirmation, encouragement, and personal words of blessing. The folks I am remembering cared deeply for me, not just at that moment the words were uttered; I believed they cared all of the time. Now let's make a comparison and try to grasp the magnitude of God's abiding love. God is a loving and nurturing Creator-Parent and never allows a moment to pass in idleness. God shows in the majesty of creation what good looks like and charges us to come on board with God--choosing the constructive and avoiding the destructive. We believe God is good and cherishes the reality of our goodness, evidenced in how we choose to live. God does not have to say to us, "You be good, you hear?" With grateful hearts we respond to God's love in our good living.

When we say we want a safe world for our children, it starts now. When we declare we desire clear air, pure water, safe food for our children, it starts now. The harvest we reap has to have a time of preparation, planting, tending-then the harvest. Good builds upon good. We do a good deed today, and the positive aspects begin to multiply. There is no such thing as an action with a reaction. The reaction God expects and hopes for in our lives, is that we do that which is good and proper and uplifting, nurturing and healing; anything less is unproductive. God, we are thankful we have in us the potential for good. Thank you for not giving up on us, and may we not give up on ourselves. May the circumstances and events of our lives culminate in a bountiful harvest of wholesome relationship for the whole of creation. Amen Patients with a life expectancy of less than 10 years derive little benefit from screening for breast or colorectal cancer, a meta-analysis of randomized trials suggested  Hazard Wilson's new cellmate is a hairy bundle of energy whose playful zeal can't be contained by steel doors: a five-month-old golden retriever. Yardley is one of three canines assigned since September to inmates at a maximum-security prison in western Maryland for training as service dogs for disabled military veterans. The number of programs nationwide using inmates to train service dogs is growing, but the program at Western Correctional Institute might be the first to use incarcerated veterans to train dogs for other veterans. Professional trainers say prison-raised dogs tend to do better than those raised traditionally in foster homes, because puppies respond well to consistency and rigid schedules. That's just what they get in prison. "I just love to see him be a puppy," said Wilson, 53, serving a life sentence for first-degree murder. "We're putting them through some very stringent training - 90 percent of their time is training - so it gives me great joy just see them romp and roll around and be puppies."

 

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Schedule: 1830-1900 - Social  1900-1905 - Invocation  1905-1945 - Dinner 2000-2045 - Program 2045-2100 - Adjourn. "I changed my iPod name to Titanic. It's syncing now. "I tried to catch some fog. I mist.

Battle of Midway... ala "Shattered Sword" It is a book written largely from the Japanese perspective by Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully.  The following quotes were found on the WEB about the book or the battle.   "The Imperial Japanese Navy is presented as far from the united, unstoppable juggernaut it was painted as. Instead, there were personality clashes and more intrigue than the entire run of “The Sopranos”.  Yamamoto was placed in command of the Combined Fleet to avoid getting assassinated by warmongers in Tokyo.      "Unlike previous accounts, Shattered Sword makes extensive use of Japanese primary sources. It also corrects the many errors of Mitsuo Fuchida’s Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan, an uncritical reliance upon which has tainted every previous Western account. It thus forces a major, potentially controversial reevaluation of the great battle. The authors examine the battle in detail and effortlessly place it within the context of the Imperial Navy’s doctrine and technology.     "Because of the remarkably small cannon-magazine capacities of the Zero fighter, defensive CAP operations necessitated frequent landing, rearming, and launching of engaged fighters."

 

 

Japanese carrier design is also notable for its use of enclosed hangar decks. In contrast to U.S. carriers, whose hangars could be opened to the elements by rolling up metal screens along their sides, Japanese hangars were fully enclosed by storerooms, workshops, and crew spaces, with no natural ventilation. This meant that aircraft engines were never warmed up below.4 This is in direct contrast to American practice, where aircraft commonly were warmed up in the hangars, brought to deck, and immediately launched. These factors had important ramifications during the battle of Midway and imposed severe restrictions on Japanese operational tempos.     In order to spot a strike force on the flight deck and launch it against the Americans (assuming it was already armed), Nagumo’s ships had to perform a SET AND DRIFT 141 Until the coast was reasonably clear, and his CAP well stocked with fresh fighters, Nagumo cannot have been expected to spot his strike.  complex series of operations. Some tasks could be done in parallel, some only sequentially, and each entailed fixed or variable time costs. These included: • Bringing the aircraft up to the flight deck ( approximately one minute per plane). • Spotting the aircraft, unfolding its wings, and chocking wheels (conducted mostly in parallel with elevator movements, but five sequential minutes are added to account for these movements). • Warming up engines (sequential: fifteen minutes minimum for the entire force). • In the case of dive-bombers, arming the aircraft (largely concurrent with engine warm-up, but could take as long as twenty minutes). • Delivering final briefings to the pilots (again, mostly in parallel with elevator movements, five sequential minutes minimum for the entire force). • Moving crew to planes and performing final preflight checks (five minutes). • Launching the strike (sequential: fifteen to thirty seconds per plane). Taken together, it is apparent that spotting a twenty-one-plane strike for launch would take around forty minutes total, and another five to ten minutes would be required for the launch ( Naval War College Review) 0705-0725 TBFs and B-26s from Midway attack 30 minute pause 0755-0835 SBDs and B-17s from Midway attack 40 minute pause 0915-0935 Hornet TBDs attack 5 minute pause 0940-1010 Enterprise TBDs attack 01010-1040 Yorktown TBDs attack 1020-1035 Enterprise SBDs and Yorktown SBDs attack Three carriers afire and out of action      General attitude. The Japanese were arrogant and bigoted when assessing the American forces facing them, just as the Americans were with assessing the Japanese before Pearl Harbor. This allowed them to dismiss problems when war gaming, dismissing the question what would they do if the Americans were already at Midway by stating, basically, they would handle it. In addition, American forces were highly energized in meeting the threat, while the Japanese was taking it in stride after months of impressive successes.      Commanders. You need to read the book. To me, the American commanders were aggressive and pounced when the prey was sighted. The Japanese did not believe they could be the prey and failed to adequately prepare. (review by Davparir)  Jokes about German sausage are the wurst. "A soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran. "I know a guy who's addicted to brake fluid. He says he can stop any time. "How does Moses make his tea? Hebrews it. "I stayed up all night to see where the sun went. Then it dawned on me.