Star forts, or bastion forts, are 15th- to 19th-century, low-profile, star-shaped fortifications designed with angular bastions to counter cannon fire. Emerging in Italy, they feature thick, earth-filled walls and interlocking fields of fire, allowing defenders to eliminate blind spots and withstand artillery.
So David took up residence in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built it up all the way around, from the supporting terraces inward.
Ice Cellar Experimental Research Tunnel (ICERT) in Fairbanks, Alaska will address the urgent need for food security in Arctic regions where ice cellars are being compromised by permafrost thaw due to global warming.
A permafrost tunnel will be excavated and a bermed pond created above a portion of the tunnel to measure and computer model the thermal effects from adding water to the surface, and storing ice inside the cellar.
The design will incorporate thermal siphons, and air vents to draw-in cold winter air and evacuate heat.
Ice blocks will be harvested from the fresh water pond, and placed inside the ice cellar to maintain below freezing temperature.
Indigenous knowledge of food preservation will be built upon to advance research and fill gaps in science for food and fresh ice security.
Four main opportunities will be investigated at Ice Cellar Experimental Research Tunnel (ICERT), that are not available at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Region Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) in Fox, Alaska:
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Arctic Encounter Symposium
April 15 – 17, 2026 in Anchorage, Alaska
https://www.adn.com/alaska-travel/video/our-alaska-video-wainwright-ice-cellar/2011/07/16
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=527374305689483
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1931-0846.2016.12204.x?journalcode=utgr20
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3222289
“https://www.arctictoday.com/an-oil-giant-backs-a-high-tech-rescue-for-collapsing-arctic-ice-cellars-in-alaska/
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/15/3/972
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGX4a_FFL0t
https://www.grida.no/resources/2622
http://ankn.uaf.edu/IARC/course/view.php?id=3
https://www.gi.alaska.edu/news/students-fight-ice-cellar-failure
https://arctic-russia.ru/en/article/reaping-the-ice-harvest
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7421499719517962240
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTl4sHcAc9h
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTsAcm-gRJg
https://www.facebook.com/fossbytes/videos/the-ancient-art-of-ice-harvesting/1396806518705372
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DEW Design Studiooo work produced at the University of Arkansas, School of Architecture, 2d & 3d Art studios, and Special Topics in Architecture at Prairie View A & M University, School of Architecture 1982 – 2002.
and simple.
A plane is a flat surface that extends into infinity. It is also known as a two-dimensional surface. A plane has zero thickness, zero curvature, infinite width.
Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall. 31 But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.
Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program Landowner Agreement (PLA)
BOG RESERVOIR TO RESTORE CRIPPLE CREEK, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) may enter into pursuant to authority contained in the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Act (P.L. 109-294), the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (16 U.S.C. 661 et seq.), and the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 (16 U.S.C. 742a-j), as amended.
TO RESTORE CRIPPLE CREEK
Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passed. 21 For behold, the LORD is coming out of His dwelling to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth will reveal her bloodshed and will no longer conceal her slain.
According to Google, an Arch is a curved symmetrical structure spanning an opening and typically supporting the weight of a bridge, roof, or wall above it.
Arabicon Associated Consultants was a partnership formed in the sixties, to architect the town planning and engineering for the city of Abu Dhabi, Trucial States of the Oman Arabian Gulf, as commissioned by the Ruler H.H. Sheikh Shakhbout Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, prior to, and concurrent with it becoming the capital of the newly established United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Alfred George‘s Initial Draft
Alfred George‘s Initial Draft
Draft Agreement Between Arabicon Associated Consultants and George and Davies – January 25, 1965
Arabicon Associated Consultants Deed of Partnership – June 1, 1966
Memorandum of Agreement between Arabicon Associated Consultants and Alfred George and Derek Crawford Davies – June 1, 1966
First Draft Deed of Partnership for Arabicon Associated Consultants between Alan Barnett Grant, Alfred George, Derek Crawford Davies and Ian Duncan Stuart Cuthbert – June 22, 1966
Draft Agreement Between Arabicon Associated Consultants and Alan Grant & Partners – December 15, 1966
Draft Release and Discharge – December 16, 1966
Draft Partnership Agreement for Arabicon Associated Consultants – December 16, 1966
Solicitor’s Letter to Mr. Davies regarding Arabicon – Abu Dhabi – June 22, 1966
Solicitor’s Opinion regarding Arabicon Associated Consultants Constitution ( Residence ) – January 25, 1967
Solicitor’s Opinion regarding Arabicon Associated Consultants Constitution – January 25, 1967
Solicitor’s Note regarding Arabicon Associated Consultants Constitution – January 25, 1967
“When I designed this road (Airport Road) there was not a tree in sight.” ~ Alfred George Architect and Town Planner
Solicitor’s Cover Page to Engrossments of Agreements regarding Arabicon Associated Consultants – April 7, 1967
Is Line #4 “A. G. (Alfred George) to arrange replacement for J. E. soonest”, a reference to (John Elliot) mentioned in the paper Planning Abu Dhabi: From Arish Village to a Global, Sustainable, Arab Capital City ?
Fair Use Disclaimer under Section 107, Copyright Act of 1976. Disseminating the archive folder of Alfred George, Architect of Arabicon Associated Consultants – for Educational Purposes.
In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets.
The Alaska School of Permafrost Architecture (ASPA) will advance food and fresh ice security, by urgently filling gaps in scientific knowledge, pertaining to the dynamics of permafrost freeze and thaw, due to added surface and subsurface hydrology, within a Permafrost Tunnel / Ice Cellar in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.
Not only was the Teacher wise, but he also taught the people knowledge; he pondered, searched out, and arranged many proverbs. 10 The Teacher searched to find delightful sayings and to record accurate words of truth.
U. A. E. Food and Water Security
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When Jesus had washed their feet and put on His outer garments, He reclined with them again and asked, “Do you know what I have done for you? 13 You call Me Teacher and Lord, and rightly so, because I am. 14 So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.
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Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ. 2 I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for solid food. In fact, you are still not ready, 3 for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walking in the way of man? 4 For when one of you says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere men? 5 What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, as the Lord has assigned to each his role. 6 I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.
The Lord will give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, but your Teacher will no longer hide Himself— with your own eyes you will see Him.
The goal of our instruction is the love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith. 6 Some have strayed from these ways and turned aside to empty talk. 7 They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not understand what they are saying or that which they so confidently assert. 8 Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it legitimately.
“How can this be?” Nicodemus asked. 10 “You are Israel’s teacher,” said Jesus, “and you do not understand these things? 11 Truly, truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, and yet you people do not accept our testimony
If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. 4 Each one should test his own work. Then he will have reason to boast in himself alone, and not in someone else. 5 For each one should carry his own load. 6 Nevertheless, the one who receives instruction in the word must share in all good things with his instructor. 7 Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return. 8The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.
But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers. 9 And do not call anyone on earth your father, for you have one Father, who is in heaven. 10 Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Christ. 11 The greatest among you shall be your servant.
“As for what you see here, the time will come when not one stone will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.” 7 “Teacher,” they asked, “when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that they are about to take place?” 8 Jesus answered, “See to it that you are not deceived. For many will come in My name, claiming, ‘I am He,’ and, ‘The time is near.’ Do not follow them.
The Jews were amazed and asked, “How did this man attain such learning without having studied?” 16 “My teaching is not My own,” Jesus replied. “It comes from Him who sent Me. 17 If anyone desires to do His will, he will know whether My teaching is from God or whether I speak on My own.
Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.” 39 Jesus also told them a parable: “Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit? 40 A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher. 41 Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?
Jesus replied, “This is the most important: ‘Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One. 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.” 32 “Right, Teacher,” the scribe replied. “You have stated correctly that God is One and there is no other but Him, 33 and to love Him with all your heart and with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, which is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those in darkness, 20 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth— 21 you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?
We have different gifts according to the grace given us. If one’s gift is prophecy, let him use it in proportion to his faith; 7 if it is serving, let him serve; if it is teaching, let him teach; 8 if it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is giving, let him give generously; if it is leading, let him lead with diligence; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully.
We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain, because you are dull of hearing. 12 Although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to reteach you the basic principles of God’s word. You need milk, not solid food! 13 For everyone who lives on milk is still an infant, inexperienced in the message of righteousness.
Behold, God is exalted in His power. Who is a teacher like Him?
These are the words of the Teacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem: 2 “Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”
“Bare necessities” refers to the most basic and essential items or conditions needed for survival or to accomplish a task. It implies having only what is absolutely required, without any extras or luxuries. In essence, it’s the minimum needed to get by.
Aaze visit to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska
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As Jesus was sitting opposite the treasury, He watched the crowd putting money into it. And many rich people put in large amounts. 42 Then one poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which amounted to a small fraction of a denarius. 43 Jesus called His disciples to Him and said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more than all the others into the treasury. 44 For they all contributed out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.”
Wrong!
“Flat wrong” implies something is demonstrably inaccurate or incorrect. It signifies that the information, statement, or argument is clearly and completely false. It’s a strong term indicating a lack of validity or truth.
Psalm 12:1 -5
For the choirmaster. According to Sheminith. A Psalm of David. Help, O LORD, for the godly are no more; the faithful have vanished from among men. 2 They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart. 3 May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue. 4 They say, “With our tongues we will prevail. We own our lips— who can be our master?” 5 “For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”
