Gardening According to the Bible

The why of this book “Gardening According to the Bible” We have tried to find a book that is totally dedicated to defining the direct relationship to core biblical theology precepts to the physical plant and crop growing seasons and thus, to the seasons of our lives. We could not find this book and thus, we were inspired to write Gardening According to the Bible (GAB). As you will see below, GAB is not the traditional style of book. We purposely resisted making it like a technical document. We wanted GAB to reflect the variations, blessings, and hardships of the garden of our lives.. Like the most beautiful of gardens and on the richest of farms, GAB is more of a feeling and a warm journey for our souls and hearts as we understand how Jesus loved the garden and used so, so many examples of the garden to teach us how to be good human beings. We hope you will sense and feel this approach as you walk through presentation within GAB and feel that GAB is much like the garden itself where seeds and plants found their own way. We are sure you will find multiple logic points to debate, misspellings, poor document structure and other editing needed improvements. But, like a summer day at the Seashore, we hope that your walk in the GAB will bring you happiness, joy and understanding

Space Radiation Analysis for the Mark III Spacesuit

NASA has continued the development of space systems by applying and integrating improved technologies that include safety issues, lightweight materials, and electronics. One such area is extravehicular (EVA) spacesuit development with the most recent Mark III spacesuit. In this paper the Mark III spacesuit is discussed in detail that includes the various components that comprise the spacesuit, materials and their chemical composition that make up the spacesuit, and a discussion of the 3-D CAD model of the Mark III spacesuit. In addition, the male (CAM) and female (CAF) computerized anatomical models are also discussed in detail. We combined the spacesuit and the human models, that is, we developed a method of incorporating the human models in the Mark III spacesuit and performed a ray-tracing technique to determine the space radiation shielding distributions for all of the critical body organs. These body organ shielding distributions include the BFO (Blood-Forming Organs), skin, eye, lungs, stomach, and colon, to name a few, for both the male and female. Using models of the trapped (Van Allen) proton and electron environments, radiation exposures were computed for a typical low earth orbit (LEO) EVA mission scenario including the geostationary (GEO) high electron environment. A radiation exposure assessment of these mission scenarios is made to determine whether or not the crew radiation exposure limits are satisfied, and if not, the additional shielding material that would be required to satisfy the crew limits

A catalogue of the collections of Mexican amber at the Natural History Museum, London and National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, UK

A catalogue is here provided of the pieces of Mexican amber with inclusions in the collections of the Natural History Museum, London, and National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, both in the United Kingdom. There are 32 pieces in the Natural History Museum and 101 pieces in National Museums Scotland which contain a combined total of 557 arthropod and 13 plant inclusions. Four orders and 11 families of arthropods are additional to a taxonomic list of Mexican amber arthropods published in 2010

The Long Road to Software Process Improvement: A Chronology of One Company\u27s Efforts

In late November 1996, AA Company (AAC) formed a \u27methodology team\u27 that began looking at ways to improve the company\u27s development environment. Currently (circa February 2000), AAC is following a plan for improvement based on the Capability Maturity Model (CMM). AAC\u27s initial effort to use CMM as a software process improvement (SPI) framework was somewhat flawed and, as a result, AAC has invested more than three years on the process; they still have a long way to go. This paper chronicles the route taken by AAC in their quest to improve software development and highlights some of the triumphs and traps along the way