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Learning Institute at NEC | LINEC
Become a Member of LINEC!
The Learning Institute of New England College (or LINEC) is a program created to educate, entertain, and enhance life. This program offers non-credit, peer-led and peer-taught courses, totally volunteer, for the sheer pleasure of learning. It is open to both retired and younger adults.
LINEC classes are sponsored by the Learning Institute at New England College in Henniker, New Hampshire, for the benefit of its members and offers three terms each academic year, lasting approximately five to six weeks:
Fall (October and November)
Spring (April and May)
Summer (July)
Contact Us
email@example.com: NEC Box 75, 98 Bridge Street, Henniker, NH 03242 registrar at 603.717.9632
What's New?
LINEC Spring Courses 2015 is now available with classes starting March and April.
Reregistration Coming Soon
LINEC Spring Registration Form
Membership and Registration Fees
Membership fees for the academic year (September to August) are:
$35 for an individual
$50 for a household
After membership fees are paid each year, registration for each term is $15. Members may take as many courses as they desire during that term. Fees and registration costs cover the expenses of printing, mailing, and administering the LINEC program.
Note: Summer registration is $15 per person, valid for the summer semester only.
Membership Benefits
- Catalogs describing all LINEC courses to be offered for each term
- Invitation to LINEC's annual meeting held every September at NEC
- Borrow LINEC course tapes and videos that are stored in the Danforth Library
- Reduced fee for per-credit NEC courses
- Ability to audit one NEC course per semester on a space-available basis at no cost
- Invitations to special college events at NEC
- Use of the resources at the NEC's Danforth Library
Questions or to request a catalog:
LINEC, NEC Box 75, New England College Henniker, NH 03242603-717-9632 to Fran Philippe, Curriculum Chair
Here's What Members Say About LINEC:
"LINEC assures lifelong learners that there is no end to inquiry, no end to education, no end to the pleasure of learning."
– Heleen Kurk, Weare
"LINEC is a great way to share one's love of learning with others."
– Gail Beckett, Henniker
"As a retired teacher I thoroughly enjoyed presenting material to a class of other retirees. I found that I learned far more than I anticipated due to the questions raised by a roomful of mature inquiring minds with varied backgrounds."
– George Chase, Hopkinton
"Each spring and fall I can't wait for classes to begin. And the "Current Issues" course I look forward to throughout the year."
– Sally Chase, Hopkinton
"LINEC courses have enriched my life and given me the opportunity to meet people I really enjoy."
– Sandy Dallaire, Concord
"LINEC is a wonderful way to keep learning, spending time and making friendships."
– Judith Eliasberg, Concord
"LINEC 's classes have given me the chance to fill in a lot of the courses there just wasn't time for in college. It has been wonderful to learn with LINEC's lively students."
– Rosanne Fisch, Bow
"It's the opportunity to enjoy, be entertained and enrich the next stage of one's life."
– Helen Moffatt, Contoocook
History of LINEC
New England College has been involved in providing educational opportunities for older adults since the beginning of the Elder-hostel program which had roots at NEC. The College wanted to create an institute for learning in retirement for those adults who live within commuting distance of the College. The Institute would provide non-credit college-level courses.
In the early fall of 1989, an invitation to attend a planning meeting for the new institute was issued by Professor of Economics, Thea Braiterman, and Professor of Education, Marvin Seperson. Jim Verschuren, then the Director of Elderhostel's Office of Support and Development, was the principal speaker.
Two meetings followed in November. Eighteen people paid the first membership dues – on good faith! The late Marvin Braiterman was the first Chair. Committees were formed and the first statement of policy was drafted.
Classes started in the spring of 1990. The rest is history, which is well documented in course brochures, Steering Committee and Annual Meeting minutes. At our Annual Meeting in the fall of 20`4 LINEC will celebrate its 25th Anniversary. We continue to be inspired by the dedication of those who guided LINEC through its formative years and by the talents and gifts of its members since that time.
LINEC continues to offer courses in most disciplines: science and technology, philosophy, literature, art and music, social sciences, mathematics and film. Members are invited to offer suggestions for future courses.
LINEC is a member of the Road Scholar Institute Network (RSIN)
Steering Committee 2013-2014
This committee administers the programs and tends the business of the organization.
Chair: Stephen Waters, 746-1079
Vice Chair : Lee Marcroft
Secretary: Charlotte DeBell
Treasurer: Lee DeBell
Auditor: Judy Eliasberg
Registrar/Membership: Helen Moffatt, Chair
Nominating: Fran Philippe, pro tem
Curriculum : Fran Philippe, Chair, 717.9632 or email@example.com
Catalog : Edda Poggio, (Chair), Dave Wasilew, Fran Philippe, Tamara Craig, Gail Beckett
Information Technology: Dave Wasilew, Editor/Layout
Mailing : Abbyann Wasilew
Nominating: Heleen Kurk, Chair
Publicity/Marketing/Website Liaison: Tamara Craig, Chair
College Liaison: Sachiko Howard
25th Anniversary: Gail Beckett, Susan Feltus
Other Contributing Members: Sally Chase, Jane Waters
With the permanent green parking permits displayed, LINEC members can park anywhere on campus. Parking registration forms are available the first week of classes each term.
From the North: Take routes 89 or 93 South to Route 202. Travel West on Route 202 to Route 114, which is the Henniker exit. Take Route 114 South into Henniker.
From the East: Take Route 202 West to Route 114, then Route 114 South into Henniker
From the South: Take Route 114 North to Henniker or get on Route 202 and proceed East to Route 114. Take Route 114 South to Henniker.
From the West: Take Route 31 or Route 9 to Hillsboro and get on Route 202 East to Route 114. Take Route 114 South to Henniker.


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Gig of the Week: PSC's 25th Jazz Fest
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Orbert Davis will perform at Prairie State College's 25th annual Jazz Fest on Feb. 22 in Chicago Heights. | Michael Jackson photo
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♦ 202 S. Halsted St., Chicago Heights
♦ Tickets, $15 for general admission, $10 for students and seniors
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When she started Prairie State College's Jazz Fest, Valerie Nicholson was a part-time faculty member.
Now, 25 fests later, she's a professor of music and the coordinator of performing arts at PSC in Chicago Heights.
"I had no idea what I was doing," she said of the first festival.
"Fortunately, Bunky Green and the other clinicians who were here the first year were very supportive, as were the directors and the students and the school itself."
Calling Green one of the finest alto saxophonists in the United States, Nicholson shared how the then-Country Club Hills resident had a high fee for music clinic work.
Luckily, Green's wife, Edith, was able to work with Yamaha, which sponsored him at the time, to bring him in for the festival.
"He's not a household name like Charlie Parker, but he is definitely one of the most important American musicians," Nicholson said of Green.
The idea for Jazz Fest came after she was asked to judge a festival at Bloom High School in Chicago Heights where Roland Rose was the band director at the time.
That Bloom event was also where Nicholson met saxophonist Ed Petersen, who will be performing at the Jazz Fest on Feb. 22.
"I was so impressed with him," Nicholson said of Petersen, who was then teaching at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
"He was very thorough with his critique of the high school bands and had this wonderful university band he was leading."
That mentoring spirit is integral to Jazz Fest, which includes daytime instrumental clinics for local junior high and high school jazz musicians, with some picked to perform at the concert.
"Ed Petersen has been mentored very closely by the great Von Freeman," Nicholson said.
"So if it were not for Von taking Ed under his wing when (Ed) was a teenager, Ed wouldn't sound like he does now.
"We have in the arts this idea of looking forward and embracing the past."
The 25th annual Jazz Fest will feature performances by Petersen, Nicholson on piano, Orbert Davis on trumpet, Ernie Adams on drums and Larry Gray on bass.
"This year, for the first time, the Southland Jazz Ensemble is performing," Nicholson said.
"The musicians for the most part are drawn from the south suburbs and the South Side of Chicago.
"It's building on this thought of 'Hey, look what's here. Did you know that your next-door neighbor could honk away on the trombone like this?'
"I think we just aren't aware of what we have here."
The Jazz Fest also will feature the fourth annual Howard Luckey Excellence in Jazz Leadership Award being presented to PSC adjunct music faculty member Phillip Crews.
The director of the Prairie State Community Concert Band, Crews also has nurtured jazz musicians at Thornton Township High School in Harvey and Rich Central High School in Olympia Fields.
"(He) is just a phenomenal musician and teacher, and certainly one of the country's finest," Nicholson said.
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How do teen boys honestly feel about sex and relationships? Seventeen Magazine and The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy partnered on a survey of 1,200 15-22-year-old guys to find out!
By Seventeen Magazine
Sex Isn't Necessarily the First Thing on a Guy's Mind
45% of guys in this sample are still virgins and 40% are not looking for sex or hook-ups.
Many are not in a rush and may actually regret moving too fast:
45% have had sex with someone and regretted it afterward, and almost half say it's good to wait to have sex until you're married.
They're More Interested in Relationships Than Sex
Two-thirds (66%) agree that they, personally, could be happy in a sex-free relationship.
Their future is more important to them:
58% would rather get into their dream college than have sex with their dream girl.
But the Pressure Is On
From society: 78% say there is way too much pressure from society to have sex.
From friends: 14% have lied to stop friends from pressuring them to have sex.
Even from girls! 21% have been pressured by a girl to go further sexually than they wanted to and 56% often feel relieved when a girl wants to wait to have sex.
So many say they lie to appear cooler or protect their reputation:
60% admit theyve lied about something related to sex and 30% have lied about how far theyve gone sexually.
Being Intimate Is Actually Quite Significant to Boys
53% say they wont have sex with someone unless they really love her.
The first time is a big deal for guys, too:
80% of virgins / 67% of non-virgins say their first time will be / was a big deal and 95% would rather have sex with someone they love than a random girl.
75% would choose to WAIT to lose their virginity to someone they love than to lose their virginity as soon as possible.
Though Some Admit to Being a "Player..."
40%* had sex with someone when they knew it meant more to her than it did to them.
11% pressured a girl to go further sexually than she wanted to.
*the percentage of guys who have had sex
Teen Guys Actually Really Want Relationships (Even if There is no Sex Involved!)
49% are looking for a serious relationship.
66% would rather have a girlfriend with NO sex than have sex but NO girlfriend.
Guys Know Sex Can Change Everything
35% worry that sex will change their relationship.
Sex can make someone stay in a relationship for the wrong reasons
22%* stayed in a relationship, strictly for the sex.
Or it can send them running:
28%* say having sex with someone for the first time had a negative effect on the relationship: 24%* lost interest in her, 11%* lost respect for her, and 9%* broke up with her.
74% say having sex with someone wont make them stay in a relationship they dont want to be in.
*the percentage of guys who have had sex
Double-Standards Still Exist Between Guys and Girls
53% say having lots of hook-ups makes guys more popular (but 76% don't think the same of girls.)
Though more than half of guys describe girls who carry condoms as
Safe (57%), Responsible (55%), Careful (54%)
A large percentage also describes them as
Promiscuous (42%), Easy (34%), Aggressive (23%)
Guys Actually Respect Girls Who Say No
84% say they have more respect for girls who stop a hook-up if they arent ready or comfortable and 73% have more respect for girls who say no to sex.
Even though guys are, admittedly, risk-takers
69%* admit to risky behavior when it comes to sex.
57%* admit to having had unprotected sex.
44%* have had a pregnancy scare with a girl theyve had sex with.
*the percentage of guys who have had sex
Guys Will Listen to Girls When it Comes to Birth Control
83% would gladly wear a condom if a girl asked (Only 6% would refuse).
66% would gladly go get birth control with a girl if she asked (Only 11% would refuse).
Even when it comes to pregnancy
93% would claim equal responsibility with a girl if he got her pregnant.
83% say both the guy and girl are equally responsible to get birth control or protection to prevent pregnancy.
It Doesn't Take Much to Convince Him to Use Protection
Many would be persuaded by
87% their own desire to prevent pregnancy.
80% to prevent STDs.
But Guys Are Confused About Their Role
Guys admit to being confused about
70% are confused about how to know whether or not a girl wants them to initiate sex.
70% are confused about what a girl expects from them after sex.
63% are confused about whats pleasurable for a girl.
48% are confused about what to do during sex.
Education Is Needed!
42% didnt know that a girl can get pregnant during her period.
34% didnt know that wearing two condoms at the same time is not more effective than wearing one.
20% didnt know that a girl can still get pregnant if shes on the pill.
Some Guys Also Don't Know
21% how to prevent STDs.
18% how to prevent pregnancy.
Guys Admit to Being Anxious About Sex
Guys admit to feeling worried or anxious about
73% the possibility of getting a girl pregnant.
77% say sex can be intimidating for a guy.
Girls Have a Powerful Influence Over Their Boyfriends
78% of guys say their girlfriend influences their decisions about sex.
*1,200 15- to 22-year-old males were surveyed online because of its high penetration (93%) among this population, but also because of the sensitive nature of the content of this survey, allowing young people to answer candidly (i.e., no adult interviewer) within the context of their preferred communications method.
Talk to Them -- They're Listening!
Parents are the third greatest influence of guys decisions about sex
78% Girlfriend
62% Friends
53% Parents
You really can make a difference:
53% have ever had a conversation with a parent about preventing pregnancy.
Though only 65% of those whove had a conversation say it was somewhat or very helpful to them.
Guys are more comfortable talking to mom about relationships, but more comfortable talking to dad about sex.


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Welcome to the new HarrisburgPA.gov. This site is continually undergoing upgrades and is designed to grow from feedback and suggestions provided by our citizens. This site provides accurate and easy to use information on our city's services and programs. We hope that you find it useful and helpful. Your ideas are welcome!
Harrisburg is a town with a rich history that spans more than 200 years. As the capital of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, we attract thousands of people to our city to live, work and play. Our city is poised for a great economic recovery, and there is a palpable optimism on our streets as we look forward to the next four years under new administration.
Our city is on the move. Our future will be even greater than our past!
Some cities end up on the ash heap of history; others, like Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, are undone by ash heaps. Harrisburg's foolhardy investment in its aging incinerator over a decade ago nearly bankrupted the city. Propelled by profligate politicians and unscrupulous developers, the project forced Harrisburg into state receivership, turning Pennsylvania's capital city into a nationalRead more →
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That's ridiculous. When I press Info, I want info on the program I'm watching. Not CC selections.
The suggestion isn't ridiculous. What is ridiculous is having the yellow button, which used to bring up CC control, now bring up a caption with Info as the default option.
I modify my suggestion to have CC as the default when the yellow button is pushed and Info when Info button pushed.


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The Coolest Nails From New York Fashion Week
The clothes might get most of the attention on the runways at Fashion Week, but backstage, it's all about the nails. Check out the coolest manis (past and present!) we can't stop obsessing over!
By Kara McGrath
Who: Katie Jane Hughes, butter LONDON Global Colour Ambassador
What: Holographic foil, crystals, studs, and pom-poms piled on top of shiny black polish.
Why we love it: We might not wear all this bling at once, but foil or studs layered over black is definitely doable for back-to-school!
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Horizon 6 now supports:
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Unified Workspace with Great User Experience
With Horizon 6, IT can deliver desktops and applications (inclusive of hosted RDS apps, packaged ThinApps, SaaS apps and even virtualized apps from Citrix) to end users through a unified workspace with Blast Performance to enable consistently great experiences across devices, locations, media, and connections.
- XenApp 5.0 and above, Microsoft hosted RDS apps and desktops for Windows Server 2008 and above, SaaS applications and packaged applications with ThinApp 5.0
Blast Performance includes:
- Blast Adaptive UX. Optimized access across the WAN and LAN through an HTML browser or our purpose-built desktop protocol PCoIP
- Blast Multi-media. High performance multi-media streaming for rich user experience
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- Blast Live Communications. Fully optimized unified communications and real-time audio and video support. Horizon 6 now includes support for Microsoft Lync with Windows 8
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- Horizon Clients with Blast. Unified client for consistently great experience across devices and locations
Central Image Management of Physical Images
Centrally manage physical images to simplify operations, reduce costs, and maintain compliance. With Horizon (with View), IT can deliver Windows services at the speed end users expect with the efficiency business demands.
- Central image management is supported for physical desktops running Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, and 8.1
- Full-clone persistent virtual desktops running Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, and 8.1
Closed-Loop Management and Automation
Horizon 6 ensures that IT can consolidate control, automate delivery and protect user computing resources.
Horizon 6 now includes support for:
Real-time Application Delivery and Management
- Instantly provision applications at scale.
- Dynamically attach applications to users, groups or devices, even when users are logged onto their desktop.
- Provision, deliver, updat, and retire applications in real time.
Policy and Image Management
- Support for desktop and application provisioning and entitlement through View
- Support for Mirage unified image management for streamlined management across virtual datacenters of physical and full clone virtual machines
- A cloud pod architecture that allows IT to easily move and locate View pods across datacenters and sites
Analytics and Automation
- Cloud analytics with VMware vRealize™ Operations for Horizon® provides comprehensive visibility across a desktop environment, allowing IT to optimize the health and performance of desktop and application services.
Orchestration and Self-Service
- vCenter provides a centralized platform to manage your desktop workloads
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I know there are people on this forum who know a lot of history of world war II guns, so I would ask you to recommend me a good book to find out about the issue, thanks!
About Guns, Tanks and war machines
Posted 17 December 2011 - 02:23 AM
Posted 17 December 2011 - 03:12 AM
Crikey, an actuall book, made out of paper and stuff? Don't know if one exist I have a whole shelf of them. If you are after date then you can't go wrong with a set of WW2 wargame rules as these will have all the gun and armour characteristics for you. There are good online sites such as this: javascript:void(0);/*1324134763549*/
Posted 17 December 2011 - 04:51 AM
There is always the great Wiki. If you really want a book through, it will be hard. I cannot think of just one that covers so much. You would need several, and they would be divided by type (tanks, guns) and then by country. Perhaps a WWII encyclopedia?
I would try wiki and google first though.
Posted 17 December 2011 - 04:58 AM
I have a feeling this is a topic for Gimp.
Posted 17 December 2011 - 05:06 AM
Hanomag said:
There is always the great Wiki. If you really want a book through, it will be hard. I cannot think of just one that covers so much. You would need several, and they would be divided by type (tanks, guns) and then by country. Perhaps a WWII encyclopedia?
I would try wiki and google first though.
Don't you feel dirty saying 'Wiki' and 'Great' in the same sentence?
Actually, I have found wiki to be a reasonable source for WW2 vehicles, just one where I check any facts if their validity is important. Sometimes, wiki is enough to help me remember which book to check in my library. I have an armor historian friend who depises wiki overall, but still will look things up to jar his memory sometimes. Sometimes the jarring might be because he found something he knows is wrong, but it still does the job.
There are some nice technical encyclopedias of WW2 vehicles and armor, but they tend to be written in a shorthand you need to understand to be able to decipher. Otherwise, I'd also suggest going online, and starting to build a library if you find you enjoy it.
An important thing to remember on any source is that most WW2 vehicles went through some significant changes during the course of the war, so if a book references the Panzer IV, realize there were multiple versions of the Panzer IV that varied significantly. The Panzer IV went from a short barreled 75mm HE firing support tank to several long barreled 75mm tank killer with a lot more armor before things were done. The most common variants were the F & G, for the 6th and 7th versions, but they didn't stop there. The Panzer III went through over fourteen variations. Lots of books fail to mention variations, and concentrate on a limited set of parameters.
Posted 17 December 2011 - 05:45 AM
Loophole Master said:
I have a feeling this is a topic for Gimp.
You should play the lottery.
Gimp: I think of using the wiki akin to asking my friendly neighbor something. It's probably right but not to be taken as true fact.
Posted 17 December 2011 - 08:20 AM
Thanks, but I like paper books! jaja. I don't care if are dificult to undertand. I want the best books about infantry guns, about vehicles, so tell me please, even if they are ten or more different books. I am a journalist, so I'm used to investigate topics that do not know, history is not uknown to me, although weapons.
Posted 17 December 2011 - 11:18 AM
I've got these as a good start for organisation and development, they are not a list of vehicles and stats though: www.amazon.co.uk/purnells-history-Books/s
A good set, but old, WW2 rules that give good representation of tank abilities www.amazon.co.uk/World-Wargaming-Airfix-Magazine-Guide/dp/0850592305/ref=sr_1_13
Airfix also had books on tanks in the same series, German, Russian, American/British which are a great reference list most if not all varriants of tanks. www.airfixcollector.co.uk/guides.htm
Yeah, my collection of books is over 30 years old
Posted 17 December 2011 - 06:06 PM
My library is more directed at aircraft and naval vessels but this is a pretty useful website for all things German (well, German Army)
I'll poke around and see what I can turn up.
Posted 19 December 2011 - 06:21 AM
Hanomag said:
Gimp: I think of using the wiki akin to asking my friendly neighbor something. It's probably right but not to be taken as true fact.
I thought you probably did, but couldn't resist the chance to tease. Wiki is a social forum, instead of verified research, but it can be a good place to start. Not something to trust, but as you said, it's like asking opinions from people around you, with the advantage of having access to people who at least think they know the answers on just about any topic.
On this topic:
I'm not really sure what you want. Are you considering deployment, capabilties, TO&E's, tactics, or what?
A publisher I ran into that's a nice basic set of info is put out by Amber Books:
I have some books from their Essential Vehicle Identification Guide series that give a nice basic overview of units fighting in WW2. I have the books on the Panzergrenadier Divisions 1939-45, Wehrmacht Panzer Divisions 1939-45, Soviet Tanks 1939-45, and Western Allied Tanks 1939-45. They give deployment information, basic TO&E info, and a brief history of different units through the war.
Amber puts out some other decent reference books on types of small arms and artillery.
Iron Ivan Games puts out Disposable Heroes/Coffin for Seven Brothers as an historical WW2 game that gives fairly accurate weapon penetration information and armor values for multiple facings on a large number of vehicles. I haven't found anything that didn't match the other references I've used, so their books come as a very cheap, but fairly accurate, representation of weapon capabilities, but they don't list things like weight or actual travel speeds.
I've actually used The Military Book Club:
As a nice clearing house to find titles and references several times. That's where I found the Amber Books titles, as well as several other references.
Several of my favorite books are no longer in print, with a couple in friends' libraries I have to pillage on occasion.
People can list a lot of titles, but there's a lot of different kinds of information in those titles, so we need to know what you are looking for, and realistically, what you want it for. Books with penetration data for anti-tank guns won't help if you're trying to find out how many of each different gun were made, etc...
Posted 19 December 2011 - 01:29 PM
What I'm looking for are books about guns, in general term, the guns used by each faction. No details. Example, flamethrower, machineguns, rifles, etc.
Posted 19 December 2011 - 09:28 PM
Those Old Airfix books will be ideal.
Posted 20 December 2011 - 12:18 AM
Thanks! Search and Destr... ehh, and Buy
Posted 20 December 2011 - 03:19 PM
bigoc said:
What I'm looking for are books about guns, in general term, the guns used by each faction. No details. Example, flamethrower, machineguns, rifles, etc.
That's a lot more clear. I'm an old soldier, so saying 'guns' means tube artillery, as opposed to small arms and support weapons for infantry.
Airfix or Osprey will have good books to check out. The Disposable Heroes game books I mentioned also cover all of the weapons in a fairly cheap format, as well as giving you a historical game for when you want something different.
On a quick note, all armies used rifles, SMG's, individual and crew served machine guns (weapon with someone carrying extra ammo vs tripod mounted with a bigger crew), flamethrowers, pistols, and grenades. Most armies also wound up using captured equipment sometimes.
Most armies used bolt action rifles, though the US relied mostly on the M1 rifle and carbine that were semi-automatic. The Germans deployed a semi-automatic rifle, but not widely. The Soviets did as well, but again in very limited quantities. The Germans deployed the first assault rifle with the StG44 (sometimes noted as the MP44). Everybody used accurate rifles for snipers, but not purpose built sniper rifles like those used today.
The British used the Piat launcher for infantry anti-tank work, while the US used the bazooka, and the Germans the various panzerfausts and the panzerschrek. Russia used lend-lease bazookas and captured German weapons. The Japanese had no rocket launchers, though they did deploy anti-tank charges on poles. Everyone also used rifle grenades, both for anti-tank and anti-personnel work.
The Germans, Russians, and British had good anti-tank rifles, that wound up usable more against light vehicles and as sniper weapons towards the end of the war.
Everyone used mortars in a variety of sizes, from 50mm up over 120mm. Close support mortars were normally 50-82mm.
If that's all you were looking for, great, but the sources noted give you some nice places to look for more.
Posted 21 December 2011 - 07:02 AM
A lot of the Osprey books are available for my Kindle Fire! AWESOME sauce!
Posted 21 December 2011 - 03:19 PM
Thanks a lot, I have Disposable heroes, but never read it, I'm going to do it!
Posted 31 October 2012 - 03:57 AM
Reviving an old thread here.
Dust Tactics has inspired me to read up on various WW2 weapons.
I'm interested mostly in German small arms, tanks, artillery, aircraft, etc. I don't mind buying different books for different topics.
What I'm most interested in, I suppose, is the development history. Stuff like how encounters with heavy Russian tanks affected the development of the Tiger tank or how the Sturmgewehr 44 was developed to replace both submachine guns and rifles.
I'd also like to read about operational history. Stuff like how the Tiger's treads ended up being problematic from a reliability standpoint. I find that kind of thing fascinating.
I already have Cormack and Smedley's "German Small Arms of World War 2" which has lots of photos, but not enough text.
Posted 01 November 2012 - 01:17 AM
I find that most WWII books on small arms and artillery are picture heavy and not a whole lot of text or scholarly research. To get a deeper understanding of their use and why, you may need to check out "tactics" books like the many Stephen Bull books from the Osprey series (of which there many titles are pretty thin and not cheap) or his SECOND WORLD WAR INFANTRY TACTICS: The European Theatre from Pen and Sword, or maybe Panzer Tactics: German Small-Unit Armor Tactics in World War II by Wolfgang Schneider or the two Panzertruppen books by Thomas Jentz for armor tactics and battle reports.


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Being adaptable in your career requires courage, clarity and the willingness to face and navigate change. We can be blind-sided by a layoff, disappointed by a poor review or stressed by increasingly difficult responsibilities. Standing in the face of difficulty and having the courage to acknowledge it can be tough, but how do you even know when something isn't working?
Sometimes the handwriting is on the wall; you need to do something different. My first job out of college was as a counselor at a men's correctional facility. My father had been a superintendent for several of them throughout his career and thought it a good idea I be exposed to this kind of work. In spite of my exposure to this environment growing up (we lived on the grounds of an institution when I was in elementary school), it wasn't appealing to me.
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Delta Pig BBQ opened in July and has been receiving rave reviews about their barbecued specialties.
Local pastor David Kerry worked with his mother, Gail Dunn, and aunt Sarah Woods, to open the restaurant previously occupied by The Southern Grill on 122 North Street.
Pulled pork, butts, baby back ribs, rib tips, whole chickens, turkey and even pulled pork barbeque pizza make the cut on the extensive menu.
Customers can also choose from a variety of starters, sides, sandwiches, meal plates, deserts and daily specials.
"We had a booming start and we still have a steady flow of new people all the time," said Woods. "We get nothing but good reviews.
"Our goal is to make everyone feel comfortable and serve great food."
Fans of the Delta blues and good southern food will feel right at home with music in the background and the welcoming décor.
"Everybody really loves the atmosphere, and of course the food," said Dunn. "Part of our focus now is getting the word out and letting people know about our location."
Gail, David and his brother, Chris, share a passion for barbecuing and have significant experience in the restaurant industry.
Gail once owned a restaurant in Nashville and Chris is in the restaurant business in Houston.
"We love to barbecue and we love to cook," said Gail. "We felt the need for some good barbeque here in Cleveland."
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Of course there will be hang out time after both the Middle School Youth group time in the pool room, and after High School Youth group time throughout the summit.
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Brush and forest fires are a part of Los Angeles' natural ecosystem, and we've grown accustomed to —indeed sometimes complacent about — the annual cycle of panic, evacuations, loss of property, and the mudslides and flooding that follow.
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The unprecedented magnitude of this fire — the largest in the history of the county— may have compromised the Angeles National Forest's ability to continue to provide the LA Basin with up to 35% of its water, and protection from floods, for years to come.
Fire recovery is usually the job of government. But this time, because of the magnitude of this event, ordinary citizens have a huge role to play in helping to heal the damage and respond to the immediate threats to our well-being. TreePeople is preparing to help with this massive response, and not only in the mountains where, when the time is right, we'll work with the Forest Service to plant in areas that are most severely damaged or where the flood threat is greatest.
And, surprisingly, the action we need to take is also around our homes and neighborhoods throughout the city.
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To further encourage you to take a look at the USC/workshop site and think about these issues, I'm going to mention a little story about myself and a fellow named Carl Blum. Carl is a nationally recognized civil engineer, and he is a central figure in the history of infrastructure in our county. Carl is also a man who once looked at me with great skepticism, but ultimately came to see the value of green infrastructure in Los Angeles, and a man who has helped enormously to bring it back into prominence.
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TreePeople started by planting smog-resistant seedlings in local forests. We wanted to help our forests recover from air pollution from the city and from devastating fires. But after several years of planting, we realized our work was essentially putting band-aids on damage that started in the city. To really heal the forests, we needed people in the city to care more deeply. To do that, we engaged them in planting trees in their neighborhoods.
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Kazaz et al Present First of its Kind Research on Pricing Wine Futures
In a recently accepted paper in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Dr. Burak Kazaz, the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence and associate professor of supply chain at Syracuse University's Martin J. Whitman School of Management, and his co-authors, Dr. Tim Noparumpa (Syracuse Ph.D. '12) and Dr. Scott Webster (Arizona State University, formerly Syracuse University), examine the impact of wine tasting experts and their reviews when it comes to selling wine before it is bottled, known as "wine futures."
Their research shows how to price wine futures, as well as what proportion of the wine should be sold in advance versus through retail chains. It demonstrates that Bordeaux grand cru wineries increase their profit by approximately 10%; they estimate that small and artisanal winemakers in the U.S. can benefit from such financial markets by improving their profits by 14-15%. This work is significant as it is perceived as the first of its kind in pricing wine futures. Earlier research thoroughly examines the pricing of bottled wine but has not explored a model for pricing wine not yet bottled.
Research by Professors Brandes and Dharwadkar to Appear in the Strategic Management Journal
Research by Pamela Brandes, associate professor of management, Ravi Dharwadkar, professor of management, and SangHyun Suh, PhD (Whitman, 2009), at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, has been accepted for publication by the Strategic Management Journal. The paper, titled "I Know Something You Don't Know! The Role of Linking Pin Directors in Monitoring and Incentive Alignment," found that linking pin directors, those serving simultaneously on the audit and compensation committees, play an essential role in information exchange between board committees.
Using data from S&P 1500 firms, the researchers found linking pin directors are associated with lower executive compensation and influence pay mix. In studying the dynamics behind this process, they discovered that newly created linking pins improve monitoring effectiveness whereas recently dissolved linking pins decrease it. The researchers also found that linking pins are all the more important when managers make less conservative accounting choices.
Byron's Research on Female Board Representation's Effect on Firm Financial Performance to Appear in the Academy of Management Journal
Research by Kris Byron, associate professor and chair of the department of management at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, has been accepted for publication by the Academy of Management Journal. The paper, titled "Women on Boards and Firm Financial Performance: A Meta-Analysis," aggregated results from 140 studies, examining the relationship between a firm's financial performance and female board representation. The co-author was Corinne Post (Lehigh University).
They found that having women on boards of directors is positively related to accounting returns. This relationship is more positive in countries that have stronger shareholder protections, which the researchers say could be due to the fact that shareholder protections can motivate boards to use the varied experience, knowledge and values each member brings to the board.
The findings show that, in general, no relationship between female board representation and market performance exists. However, in countries with high gender equality, there was a positive relationship; in countries with low gender parity, a negative relationship. "Societal gender differences in human capital may influence investors' evaluations of the future earning potential of firms that have a higher number of female board members," according to Byron.
Albring's paper on how Regulation Fair Disclosure effects Financing Decisions to appear in Management Science
Research by Susan Albring, associate professor of accounting in the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, has been accepted for publication by Management Science. The paper, titled "Does the Firm Information Environment Influence Financing Decisions? A Test Using Disclosure Regulation," finds that the quality of a firm's information environment impacts their choice between debt and equity financing within the context of Regulation Fair Disclosure (Reg FD). Co-authors are Monica Banyi (University of Virginia), Dan Dhaliwal (University of Arizona), and Raynolde Pereira (University of Missouri).
According to Susan, the goal of this work is to evaluate whether a firm's information environment impacts the choice between debt and equity financing within the context of Regulation Fair Disclosure (Reg FD), which prohibited the use of selective disclosure. The authors find that firms with high proprietary costs of public disclosure are more likely to use debt financing after Reg FD. They also evaluate changes in firm disclosure policy and find firms that adopted an expansive public disclosure policy are more likely to use equity financing. Overall, "the evidence is consistent with theory: firms with deteriorated firm information environments increase their use of less information-sensitive debt, while firms with improved information environments favor equity financing," says Albring.
McKelvie's research on Entrepreneurial Exit Strategies to appear in Journal of Business Venturing
Research by Alex McKelvie, associate professor of entrepreneurship at the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Business Venturing. The paper, titled "MAKING SENSE OF ENTREPRENEURIAL EXIT STRATEGIES: A TYPOLOGY AND TEST," identifies three high-order exist strategies and identifies different predictors of each of these strategies. Co-authors are Dawn DeTienne (Colorado State University) and Gaylen Chandler (Wichita State University).
According to the authors, entrepreneurial exit is a major event in the development of a venture, but there is little understanding of the factors that drive the development of the founder's exit strategy. Exit strategies are often developed at a stage when many of the important imprinting and future orientations of the firm are formed, and therefore they influence future decisions and behaviors by the firm. The authors map exit strategies identified in the literature (IPO, acquisition, independent sale, employee buyout, etc.) to three higher-order strategies: financial harvest, stewardship, and voluntary cessation. Based on a sample of 189 founders in the plastic products and pre-packaged software industries they find that each of these three exist strategies has different predictors. For example, founders with a voluntary cessation strategy have less innovative opportunities, fewer employees, and are less likely to utilize a causation-based decision making process. In contrast, those with financial harvest strategies have highly innovative opportunities and employ causation-based decision-making processes. Their work, the authors contend, is the first to provide a systematic analysis of the factors that will predict the type of exit strategies different founders will pursue.
Fay's probabilistic selling, inventory management research to appear in Management Science
Research by Scott Fay, associate professor of marketing at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, and Jinhong Xie, professor and JCPenney Eminent Scholar Chair at the Warrington College of Business Administration at the University of Florida, has been accepted for publication by the academic journal Management Science.
The paper, titled "Timing of Product Allocation: Using Probabilistic Selling to Enhance Inventory Management," examines whether probabilistic selling (PS) can help a seller better manage their inventories. While it's intuitive that PS can help in inventory management when allocations are not made until the seller learns which item is less appealing to consumers, the researchers demonstrate that PS can be effective even if the firm allocates products before knowing which product will be more popular, and thus, scarcer.
"It can be more profitable to allocate products to consumers before, rather than after, learning the true demand for a product because it enables the firm to charge higher prices," says Fay. "Early allocation effectively allows the seller to commit to random assignments, whereas under late allocations, consumers expect to receive a less popular item."
Fay and Xie also explore how optimal inventory levels change as a seller introduces probabilistic goods, and show that PS can simultaneously increase both profit and social welfare.
You are what you put on display: Byron's research examining personalized workspaces to appear in Academy of Management Journal
Research co-authored by Kris Byron, associate professor and chair of the Department of Management at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, and Greg Laurence, an assistant professor of management at the University of Michigan, Flint, has been accepted for publication by the Academy of Management Journal.
The paper, titled, "Diplomas, Photos, & Tchotchkes As Symbolic Self-Representations: Understanding Employees' Individual Use Of Symbols," examines, through interviews, workspace inventories and observations, employees' tendency to personalize their workspaces with photos, memorabilia and other objects—even when rules prohibit it—and what this practice tells us about an individual's self-expression, and work relationships.
According to the researchers, "…these objects symbolize who employees are and who they want to be. Through these symbolic self-representations, employees find common ground through shared non-work experiences, establish a common understanding of work roles, and share personal information about the self—all of which contribute to relationship development at work. Additionally, they focus attention on goals and establish a desired boundary between work and non-work both of which contribute to employees self-regulation."
Byron, who received her PhD from Georgia State University, is a 2012-2014 Whitman fellow and an affiliated faculty with the Department of Psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University. Laurence received his MA (2004) from Syracuse's Maxwell School, and his MBA (2003) and PhD (2011) degrees from the Whitman School of Management.
Mazumdar research, examining star power and film success, to appear in Management Science
A research paper authored by Tridib Mazumdar, Howard R. Gendal professor of marketing at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, has been accepted for publication in the journal Management Science. Mazumdar's co-authors are Angela Liu and Bo Li, assistant professor of marketing and associate professor of statistics, respectively, at the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing. Liu earned her PhD from the Whitman School in 2010.
The paper, titled, "Counterfactual Decomposition of Movie Star Effects with Star Selection," examines the effects casting has on the financial success of a film. Specifically, the study asks, what would a film's outcome be if an unknown actor/actress had the lead role, given that individual possessed the same influence on the film's production characteristics (e.g., script, budget, distribution, genre, etc.) of a well-known actor/actress, or vice versa?
According to the researchers, "The counterfactual analysis shows that the presence of a star does ensure wider release of the movie. However, the movie's box office revenue is determined almost entirely by the movie characteristics, and stars have no direct residual effect on revenue. The stars' effect on revenue is therefore indirect, and it comes from the wider release of the movie and the stars' judicial choices of movie characteristics."
In addition to his research and teaching, Mazumdar is also director of the Earl V. Snyder Innovation Management Center, dedicated to the study and understanding of innovation management and providing Whitman students with the opportunity to delve into the diverse fields of business, law, engineering, and industrial design through an interdisciplinary curriculum. The innovation management program at the Whitman School was established in 1981, with the dedication of the Snyder Center occurring in 1993 through a generous endowment from the estate of Earl and Josephine Snyder.


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A Spectacular and Scary Promise: Assurance, Suffering and Our Great Inheritance
John Piper
Romans 8:9-17
Preparing to Know Christ Deeply Through Suffering
John Piper
Philippians 3:4-11
A Tender Word to Pharisees
John Piper
Luke 15:25-31
Sorrowful Yet Always Rejoicing
John Piper
2 Corinthians 5:20 - 6:13
God Created Man Male and Female: What Does It Mean to Be Complementarian?
John Piper
Genesis 1:26-31
God in Christ: The Price and the Prize of the Gospel
John Piper
Romans 5:1-11
God Is Most Glorified in Us When We Are Most Satisfied in Him
John Piper
Philippians 1:12-26
Why Did God Create the World?
John Piper
Isaiah 43:1-7
He Cannot Deny Himself
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