Morgan Gliedman, Baby break for Village ‘bomb’ gal

This Dalton School grad was too busy giving birth to be charged with stashing an arsenal of explosives and guns in her posh Greenwich Village pad.

The arraignment of 27-year-old Morgan Gliedman, the privileged daughter of a top city doctor, was postponed yesterday as she delivered a girl at St. Luke’s Hospital, sources said.

The arrival of baby Melody capped a roller-coaster 48 hours that began with Gliedman’s arrest Saturday along with her Harvard-grad boyfriend, Aaron Greene, 31, in their West Ninth Street apartment.

Gliedman is the daughter of Beth Israel Brooklyn radiation oncology chief Paul Gliedman and Realtor Susyn Schops Gliedman.

 

Baby daddy Greene was being held on Rikers Island without bail during the blessed event.

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said cops — acting on a tip from a couple whom Gliedman and Greene let use their shower after meeting them in Washington Square Park — found seven grams of HMTD, a highly explosive white powder, in the apartment.

“It’s very powerful,” Kelly noted.

“It could do significant damage.”

He said cops also found a 12-gauge shotgun, a Ruger over/under shotgun, 60 shotgun shells and written manuals with titles such as “Terrorist Encyclopedia,” “FM 5-25 Explosives and Demolition,” “FM 5-31 Booby Traps,” “Improvised and Modified Firearms: Deadly Homemade Weapons,” and “The Do It Yourself Submachine Gun.” Police also found handwritten formulas.            







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Wonderful Life with the Elements: The Periodic Table Personified Book Review by ChristineMM

My Star Rating: 5 stars out of 5 = I Love It

My Summary Statement: Whimsical Visual Personified Explanation of the Periodic Table of Elements

Title: Wonderful Life with the Elements: The Periodic Tale Personified
Author: Bunpei Yorifuji
Genre: Nonfiction, Science, Chemistry
Publication: No Starch Press, 2012 (English translation of the original Japanese book)

Originally published in Japan this small, whimsical book personifies the elements into men with characteristics assigned for the various facts. Odd hairstyles represent the chemical families, facial hair or lack thereof shows when it was discovered, thin, medium or fat bodies tell the atomic weight, the leg type shows the matter state (gas, liquid, or solid), and clothing shows the element’s utility type. What the element stands upon gives a clue to its use in our lives (a space shuttle, a yen, a transistor).

Each element has a page or a two-page spread of writing and illustration to inform the reader, which makes up the bulk of the book.

The arrangement of the periodic table is explained in the beginning. The chapter “how to eat the elements” explains that the human body needs minerals and the only way to get them is through eating or drinking them. Having originally been published in Japan the two sample meals shown to illustrate what to eat to get important minerals are Japanese meals such as miso, nori, and sardines. Eight pages at the end talk about the problem that will occur if we run out of minerals to mine on Earth, since minerals are so essential to our bodies and are used in our everyday lives. A poster of the periodic table with Yorifuji’s illustrations for each element is included.

This is a cool, fun, and educational book that discusses the periodic table in a non-threatening, non-boring and non-traditional way. Visual (in picture) learners will like this approach. Any book lover who loves the periodic table and enjoys seeing it written about or illustrated in different ways will find this book a “must own”. Those are the reasons I rate this book 5 stars = I Love It. I know my sons will enjoy reading and learning from this book in our family's homeschool.

Disclosure: I received one unit of this product from Amazon.com's Vine program for the purpose of reviewing it on the Amazon.com site. I was not paid to write the review or to blog it, nor was I under obligation to review it favorably.