This poem and the accompanying pictures awaken in one the spirit of our home town. The pictures are vibrant and make you feel like gyrating to the music as you read the poem. Yvonne Moore This book is very informative and captures the enthusiasm and splendor that pervades the greatest festival in Brooklyn during the summer, the West Indian Labor Day parade. I believe that it should be placed in the libraries and other community outreach locations where it can be accessible to visitors and other residents of the five boroughs. Clyde Henry I was born in the United States but my mother has always instilled in me a love of my West Indian roots and culture including an appreciation of the West Indian Day parade. Her poem "Labor Day in Brooklyn", brings back fond memories of my childhood when I looked forward to going out to the parade on Eastern Parkway and watching in awe the beautiful costumes, seeing the enthusiastic masqueraders and remembering how we danced to the scintillating rhythms of the steelband and brass bands as they blasted away the latest calypsos from the trucks. Congratulations Mother. Andrea Marques

To the reader, Listen, beloved. Words have special meanings, and our little chats in Tween Talk will help you to keep on believing in yourself and to know how special you are as a child of God. I encourage you to keep on praying and believing that you can do great things if you put your mind to it. Here’s to a life full of fun, interesting adventures and great success. You can do it. Yes, you can, by the grace of God. I believe in you. Believe in yourself. God loves you, and he wants you to have the best that life has to offer. You deserve it. Get going now. Up, up, and away!

There are certain special people who pass through your life and touch your soul like no others can. There are some who come to help you grow and to know yourself as you really are. This book is dedicated to all who have impacted my life and even those whom I cannot wait to meet for each one brings a blessing in disguise. As you read, you too will recognize them in your own life and give hohor to them as I do even now.

Under the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Aviation Climate Change Research Initiative (ACCRI), non-CO2 climatic impacts of commercial aviation are assessed for current (2006) and for future (2050) baseline and mitigation scenarios. The effects of the non-CO2 aircraft emissions are examined using a number of advanced climate and atmospheric chemistry transport models. Radiative forcing (RF) estimates for individual forcing effects are provided as a range for comparison against those published in the literature. Preliminary results for selected RF components for 2050 scenarios indicate that a 2% increase in fuel efficiency and a decrease in NOx emissions due to advanced aircraft technologies and operational procedures, as well as the introduction of renewable alternative fuels, will significantly decrease future aviation climate impacts. In particular, the use of renewable fuels will further decrease RF associated with sulfate aerosol and black carbon. While this focused ACCRI program effort has yielded significant new knowledge, fundamental uncertainties remain in our understanding of aviation climate impacts. These include several chemical and physical processes associated with NOx-O3-CH4 interactions and the formation of aviation-produced contrails and the effects of aviation soot aerosols on cirrus clouds as well as on deriving a measure of change in temperature from RF for aviation non-CO2 climate impacts -- an important metric that informs decision-making.