Many countries have special days to celebrate their armed forces, and the patriotism of those who sacrificed for their country with bravery and honor. The most prominent of these days in the United States are: Memorial Day (last Monday of May) Veterans Day (November 11) Independence Day (July 4) Armed Forces Day (third Saturday in …
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The Cross is a Portal, not a Destination
It’s clear to me that to live in the Kingdom of God, which in the Gospels Jesus mentions regularly as the end-goal, you must look past your temporal environment. To live in the Kingdom and be with Jesus, you start with a spiritual approach to the Holy Spirit—similar to the way you view the image …
Physical Aspects—Tires on the Pavement
This is the fourth of four follow-on articles to Do Smart Highways Now—Delay is Not Smart, in which an integrated automated highway system is envisioned. This article will describe what might be called the kinetic component of the system—the movement of physical steel on wheels, with people and cargo inside. Before automating anything that affects personal …
Communications Infrastructure for Vehicle Control
This is the third of four follow-on articles to Do Smart Highways Now—Delay is Not Smart, in which an integrated automated highway system is envisioned. This article will describe the communications infrastructure for the system. The Layer 1 (radio link) component that carries signalling and control to and from the cars themselves arguably could be provided …
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Data and Control Between Vehicles and the System (and each other)
This is the second of four follow-on articles to Do Smart Highways Now—Delay is Not Smart, in which an integrated automated highway system is envisioned. This article will describe how the vehicle flow system and all the cars connected to it communicate with each other. For the system to guide each car through an efficient …
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Vehicle Flow Concept and Architecture
This is the first of four follow-on articles to Do Smart Highways Now—Delay is Not Smart, in which an integrated automated highway system is envisioned. This article will describe how such a system would work and what its architecture would look like. Imagine you’re driving your car. It doesn’t matter what type of road you’re …
Do Smart Highways Now—Delay is Not Smart
Anyone who travels on the roads, whether as driver or passenger, has experienced the discomfort, inconvenience, and danger from deteriorated highway infrastructure. Traffic congestion, not only in major cities but also in small towns, is dysfunctionally severe. Besides the potholes and crumbling pavement in too many places, the level of traffic most everywhere exceeds the …
Some Initial Thoughts (for the Theophilus section)
Be reverent toward God, because it is the proper and essential thing to do, and because of the blessings associated with it; so to be confident toward your fellow humans. Some groundwork is in order especially regarding the relationship of Christian orthodoxy (lower case “o”), or anything else religious or spiritual, to skepticism and also …
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The Role of Belief in the Christian’s Life of Faith
Do you believe this stuff? Really? “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.” (John 6:29) Consider Belief as one leg of a three-legged stool supporting the life of faith. The other legs are Love (Agape, as in “if I do not have love, then I am nothing”) and …
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Spirit Based Life
Consider what our reality is based on. Hint: It is not the tangible temporal world we see and touch every day, the energy and matter around us, the stuff of Newtonian, Relativity, and Quantum physics. Ponder how many Big Bangs are encapsulated in eternity. Here is a rhetorical question, as the answer is patently obvious: …