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Sea Eagles Announce Trial Match With Ipswich Jets
Wed 4 Nov 2015, 11:35 AM
Manly Warringah Sea Eagles will play the 'Harlem Globetrotters of Rugby League', Ipswich Jets, in a pre-season trial match in February.
The Ipswich Jets, who captivated the Rugby League world with their unique attacking play under the Walker brothers, will tackle the Sea Eagles at Pittwater Park, Narrabeen, on Saturday, February 20.
This is a golden opportunity for Sea Eagles supporters to witness the Queensland Cup and National Champions play their entertaining style, which often comprises of short kick-offs and running backwards if needed when on the attack.
Ipswich hooker Matt Parcell will take on his former team-mates after signing with the Sea Eagles earlier this year.
CEO Joe Kelly said that with regular trial partners the Sydney Roosters competing in the World Club Challenge, the Sea Eagles were quick to open dialogue with Ipswich.
"Ipswich were one of the best stories of September, and they were our first choice for a trial partner when it became apparent that the Roosters would be heading to the UK," said Kelly.
The Sea Eagles are also thrilled to return to Pittwater Park after hosting a successful trial match at the venue earlier this year, and are now working hard with the Warringah Rugby Club, Pittwater Park's permanent tenant, to build on the success of the 2015 trial.
"We were astonished at the size of the crowd that turned up for our Pittwater Park trial against the Sharks earlier this year. It was an incredible atmosphere and wonderful to see so many mums, dads and kids enjoying the event. We're expecting an enormous turnout," Kelly said.
The Sea Eagles will play their first trial match against Cronulla Sharks at Remondis Stadium a week earlier.
Tickets for the trial match at Pittwater Park go on sale later this month.
2016 Trials
Cronulla Sharks v Manly Warringah Sea Eagles
Remondis Stadium, Cronulla
Manly Warringah Sea Eagles v Ipswich Jets
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Why Black Parents Aren't Joining the Push to Reopen Schools
"They're insinuating that we're ignorant…That's just gaslighting."
Melinda D. AndersonMarch 18, 2021
Annette Anderson of Baltimore with two of her three teenage children.SHAN Wallace
In the spring of 2020, with Maryland's stay-at-home order lifted, a new ritual was born on a cul-de-sac in North Baltimore's affluent Homeland neighborhood. A group of moms gathered on Friday evenings to commiserate about the sudden pivot to remote learning. Seated in physically distanced chairs under a maple tree, Annette Anderson and her friends talked about the stresses of managing their own jobs while overseeing their children's schoolwork. As summer arrived, the weekly conversations turned to speculation over the Baltimore City Public Schools plan for reopening in the fall. Other moms were clearly ready to turn their children back over to full-time teachers. But Anderson was a firm no.
The Black mother of three had watched her children blossom during the spring semester. Freed from transporting three teens—a sophomore, an eighth grader, and a seventh grader—to athletic games and extracurriculars, Anderson (no relation to me) was more engaged in their lives, and her children were thriving academically, more attuned to their online classes and more self-directed in their learning. She was also skeptical that Baltimore schools had figured out how to do in-person instruction safely. As the deputy director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Safe and Healthy Schools, she spends her days giving policymakers the tools they need to make evidence-based decisions. Conflicting research on safely reopening schools, coupled with a lack of direction from the federal level, told her it was better to sit this one out.
"At the same time that people were talking about reopening, we were seeing [COVID-19] case numbers go up astronomically," she recalled. "There was no clear guidance. It was just, 'Trust us, send the kids back, and it'll be okay.'" When Anderson queried other Black families to see how they were feeling, she discovered she was not alone.
"If they didn't keep my children safe before COVID, why would I think that they would now?"
Few issues this year have been as rife with division and drama as the on-again, off-again efforts of school districts to restart in-person learning. President Biden vowed to open most public schools in his first 100 days—but his pledge was quickly scaled back to only a majority of elementary schools. Both Republican and Democratic governors have directed schools to open; teachers unions have balked at returning until staff is vaccinated; and parents across the political spectrum have protested and petitioned to resume in-person learning. Citing the need to reduce COVID-related learning gaps and provide working parents some relief, education systems sought to bring at least some younger students back to classrooms.
Amid the fierce debate, Black parents across the country have largely resisted the push to return to public schools. According to a December report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 62 percent of white parents strongly or somewhat agreed that school should reopen this fall, while less than half of Black parents agreed. In a Pew Research survey conducted in mid-February, Black adults were the most likely of all racial groups to worry about the health risks of reopening—80 percent of Black adults wanted kids to stay remote until teachers were vaccinated, for example, while only 51 percent of white adults felt the same.
And no wonder: The pandemic has dealt a disproportionately heavy blow to Black Americans. According to CDC data published in September, Black youth accounted for 29 percent of COVID-19 deaths among people under 21, twice the percentage for white youth. The federal agency also found Black children under 18 at a significantly higher risk of hospitalization—almost four times higher than white children and teens.
Families across racial and ethnic groups are worried about the risks of returning to classrooms. But what sets so many Black parents apart is the acute distrust underlying their doubts—doubts shaped by generations of racial discrimination and institutional inequality. The long history of racism in public schooling—from de facto segregation and funding inequities to the overpolicing of Black bodies—as well as the systemic racism that impedes access to and delivery of quality health care for Black people, permeates their thinking and actions. As districts try to salvage this school year and reset for the next one with ramped-up testing, reconfigured classrooms, and refurbished ventilation systems, the overarching and unanswered question remains: Will Black parents return?
In Central Harlem, community activist Tanesha Grant said the track record of the city's Department of Education is abysmal, leaving her unconvinced that its schools are safe. "It's very hard to trust anything that DOE says because, dealing with them as an education advocate, they lie a lot," she said. Her 13-year-old son attends school in Manhattan's predominantly Black and Latinx District 5, which has been marked by decades of neglect. Grant was not persuaded by the district's pitch for in-person learning. After years of battling for equitable resources in one of the country's most segregated school systems, the promises rang hollow.
"If they didn't keep my children safe before COVID, why would I think that they would now?" she said. "All the pandemic has done is made a situation that was already horrible almost unbearable…These buildings are old and don't have proper ventilation. They don't have the supplies they need, and they don't even have nurses."
A noticeable race and class divide—between mostly white, affluent families and low-income communities of color—has surfaced in the discourse over opening schools. Yet Grant dismissed the argument made by some that schools should reopen for the sake of lower-income Black children whose academic progress is hindered by keeping them home. "There are single mothers out here teaching their children by themselves," she said, noting the suddenness of white parents' interest in equity. Grant knew that her son could work remotely; he just needed adequate technology. Well into November, some 60,000 New York City students were still waiting for devices to participate in remote learning. With many students in Harlem affected, Grant founded Parents Supporting Parents NY to supply laptops to Black families left unserved. The nonprofit has distributed more than 100 laptops this school year.
According to Pew's findings, a majority of white adults say the prospect of students falling behind academically and the negative impact of school closures on students' emotional well-being should weigh heavily in reopening decisions. But Black children's parents, grandparents, and extended family members are dying from COVID, Grant said, and "no one's even thinking about that. We're all talking about learning. How is a child going to learn anything when they're in constant grief?" She also rejected the notion—offered by the New York Times' David Brooks and others—that Black parents choosing to stay remote are victims of fearmongering. "I know too many people that have died. I saw the bodies piled up in the back of the trucks," Grant said, recalling the peak of the pandemic in April of last year when mobile morgues lined the city's streets. "They're insinuating that we're ignorant…That's just gaslighting." The COVID risk to Black families is real, she stated, noting that many live in multigenerational households and get very different care when they go to the hospital. "We know our child could bring this home to us."
Annette Anderson.
SHAN Wallace
Confronting the distrust of parents like Grant starts with acknowledging their lived experience. "You are coming up against the weight of 400 years of anti-Blackness and racialized caste-making in the United States," said historian Dan Royles, an assistant professor at Florida International University who has studied and written on the intersection of race, science, and medicine. The historical roots of Black parents' distrust can be traced to centuries of structural racism in the institution of public schooling. Educational apartheid has relegated Black children to underfunded and inferior schools from the emancipation of formerly enslaved people through today. Volumes of research reveal biased assumptions and beliefs about Black students' intellect and potential. And the overwhelming dissatisfaction with the quality of schooling Black children receive is a matter of record: A 2017 survey found that 74 percent of Black parents and family members believe the education Black students receive is worse than the education delivered to white students. Entrenched racism is a longstanding and persistent feature of American public education.
Black parents want to be heard, and beyond COVID protocols, they are now saying, "Fix the buildings, fix the school culture, fix the curriculum," Anderson said.
It's understandable that Black families would be wary of sending their children back to school, he said, when public policy decisions "at every level are made in ways that devalue Black life of all ages"—and, what's more, when "science has been used to justify your oppression."
Well-known stories of racist medical abuse, such as the Tuskegee Experiment—in which government researchers deliberately withheld penicillin from Black men to track the progression of untreated syphilis—and the case of Henrietta Lacks—in which a Black woman's cells were taken without her consent and used in biomedical research—resonate in Black communities because medical mistreatment is an everyday phenomenon, Royles explained. "Sending your kids back to school might lead to someone in your household getting infected, and you also know that if they do, they're likely to receive substandard care," he said. Underpinning Black parents' distrust is the fact that they won't get "the same quality of treatment that white folks with COVID get," he added. Schools should take the concerns of Black parents seriously rather than approaching them in a patronizing or transactional way—"'What can I do to signal that I understand for this moment, so that you'll do the thing that I want you to do?'" as Royles put it.
School districts have experienced a huge breakdown of trust with Black families and will need to put in a lot of energy and effort to coax them back, said Kayla Patrick, a senior policy analyst for the Education Trust, a national advocacy group focused on historically underserved students. This will involve more than delivering COVID-safe buildings. "'Safely' means making sure that there's a positive environment, that Black students feel welcome, and that they are treated with respect," she said, referring to recent incidents of school resource officers assaulting Black children on reopened school campuses.
Particularly in school systems where Black students make up a sizable portion of the enrollment, the fervor to reopen schools despite Black families' reluctance sends the unspoken message that schools aren't listening to the needs of many parents and children. As a case in point, Grant cited parents' unmet demands to improve remote learning in New York City with higher-quality devices and more mental health services. "Black children are not a monolith," Patrick said. She emphasized that there are Black children who may need in-person learning support, "but there are many Black children who are doing just fine" in this moment. "We need to make sure that we are giving each group of Black children exactly what they need."
Yolanda P. Corbett, a Black mother in Washington, DC, has watched the city's reopening preparations, and she worries that she and her three sons—ages 6, 13, and 14—will be penalized for her choice not to participate in in-person schooling. Will DCPS make adjustments for families like hers? "Where will the staff come from to give us that individual attention when our children are not understanding the work?" she asked. "Will the message be that in-person is the norm, we gave you an option, and you could've gotten better service if you came into the building?"
The apprehensions are justified. Corbett lives in Ward 7, a high-poverty, majority-Black section of DC that is routinely overlooked and underserved—what she described as "a discarded population." The single mom's decision to stay remote—despite the demands of work and educating her youngest—was informed by a yearslong struggle to revamp the neighborhood's aging schools. Black parents organized and complained about the lack of air conditioning in the schools, lobbying every budget cycle for more funding to improve HVAC units and other facilities. They were continually thwarted by other budgetary demands.
Given that her two youngest children are severely asthmatic, Corbett was unpersuaded by the arguments for returning. Parents "have a clear understanding that you couldn't have possibly fixed all of these issues," she said. "There's not enough solid evidence to see why, as an organizer, I should tell parents to really consider the in-person model."
At the same time, she wrestles with virtual schooling for her oldest son, who is autistic, and for whom remote instruction is difficult. "I don't want him to fail," she said, but "I do have just as much concern for his experience of being in-person as I do for my other two children." Conflicted about his going back to a school building once a week, she admits, "I just don't know where I fall."
In the Anderson household, the children are on the fence about returning in September—while they miss their friends, they've enjoyed the flexibility and safety of being home. School districts must reckon with how the pandemic has shifted what Black families expect and will accept from their public education systems.
Black parents want to be heard, and beyond COVID protocols, they are now saying, "Fix the buildings, fix the school culture, fix the curriculum," Anderson said. "That Fannie Lou Hamer spirit of 'I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired' is what's starting to rear its head."


When home video was still a luxury and Christmas specials were still appointment TV, children of the '80s turned to music albums for on-demand Christmas spirit. While waiting eagerly to watch our our favorite characters in action, we could still listen to them on LP record albums whenever our hearts desired.
I personally remember owning a couple Christmas records and digging them out of our end table cabinet each season. I was big into the Smurfs and vividly remember playing the Merry Christmas With The Smurfs album on our stereo. I also remember having one of the Chipmunks albums that I'm sure drove my parents crazy.
Of the dozens released throughout the decade, I've chosen 12 that '80s kids may have forgotten or totally missed altogether. My hope is that this list will jog your memory banks (as it did mine) of enjoying children's albums while anticipating the arrival of Christmas day.
Released in 1980, the Pac-man Christmas Album from Kid Stuff Records contained 8 tracks of Pac family entertainment. Pac-man would also get a Christmas read-along book and record set in 1983 titled The Pac-man Christmas Story.
The Care Bears would be featured on several albums released in 1983-84 on Kid Stuff Records. One of the earlier albums was A Care Bear Christmas that contained 12 tracks.
Kid Stuff Records released a total of 10 albums featuring Strawberry Shortcake from 1980-82. The Christmas album featured a continuous mix of spoken word and songs.
On the heels of the animated Christmas special with the same name, RCA released the Chipmink's 4th Christmas album titled A Chipmunk Christmas in 1981. At the time of the release, the high-pitched trio already had a 20 year career in the record business. Many of their albums would be re-released on CD in the '90s.
Kid Stuff Records brought a typically silent character to life when it released A Pink Panther Christmas in 1981. Henry Mancini had used the famous theme on several earlier albums, but was absent from the Christmas album. It was strictly a children's album which I imagine tried to springboard off the TV special which first aired in 1978.
The 4th US album featuring the Smurfs was a Christmas album released on Starland Records. Merry Christmas With The Smurfs contained 14 Christmas songs, most with a Smurfy twist to the lyrics.
With an Emmy award in its pocket, Will Vinton's Claymation Christmas Celebration also released a soundtrack album on Atlantic records. 6 tracks not featured in the TV special could be heard on the album while "O Christmas Tree" was omitted.
Disneyland Records has a vast library of children's albums including several Christmas albums released in the '80s. The recordings range from sing-a-longs to the soundtrack of Mickey's Christmas Carol, but the Family Christmas Album released in 1981 might be the best representation with popular characters singing Christmas classics.
Although released in December of 1979, I remember growing up with the TV Christmas special featuring John Denver and the Muppets in the '80s. It's counterpart album was just as good and has been re-released several times across multiple formats.
Back before barking Christmas carols was cool, the Pound Puppies howled their way through a 1985 album released by Peter Pan Records. 10 total tracks were featured on what would be their only album.
Most people will remember the TV special (and album) Christmas Eve On Sesame Street which debuted in 1978. Building on its success and the vast Sesame Street audio library, a sing-along album was produced in 1984 featuring 10 Christmas classics sung by the popular characters.
Rhino Records released a 6-track Christmas album in 1983 featuring the Three Stooges. The album was actually a re-release of their 1959 album titled Sing 6 Happy Yuletide Songs (With The Music Wreckers).


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LOCATION: Home » Section 3C
Home Office U-turn: Section 3C Leave Can Resurrect
By Alex Papasotiriou - Immigration Barrister
Almost 3 years ago, I wrote this article regarding the operation of section 3C of the Immigration Act 1971, in circumstances where leave extended by virtue of that section has ended by a decision that is subsequently...
withdrawn or quashed, as well as the Home Office's position on the matter. According to established public law principles, an unlawful decision has no legal effect, provided that it is quashed by...
Section 3C Explained: A Flowchart for Human Rights Applications
As direct access barristers working at Richmond Chambers, we have had countless lay clients approach us with one question: am I protected by section 3C of the Immigration Act 1971? This can at times be a complicated...
question, particularly when the Home Office guidance on section 3C appears to be at odds with the natural interpretation of statute, an example of which can be found here. Section 3C of the Immigration...
Human rights claims, the Same-Day Premium Service and the Section 3C trap
This is a word of caution for those who are considering the use of the Home Office's Same-Day Premium Service when making an extension or settlement application. When making a human rights claim to either extend...
leave to remain or to settle in the UK, there is an option to use the Home Office's Same-Day Premium Service for an additional fee. Many applicants prefer to use this service as applications are often...
Supreme Court decision on section 3C: Need for rationalisation and simplification of Immigration Rules
By Dr. Catherine Taroni - Immigration Barrister
The matter of R (on the application of Mirza, Iqbal and Ehsan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2016] UKSC 63 was heard by the Supreme Court on 19 October 2016...
and the judgment of Lady Hale, Lord Wilson, Lard Carnwath, Lord Hughes and Lord Hodge was given on 14 December 2016. The appealed Court of Appeal decision is here.


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Fatality Reported In North Carolina Due To Tropical Storm Michael
HUNTINGTON, UT - AUGUST 16: An Emery County ambulance leaves the Crandall Canyon coal mine August 16, 2007 near Huntington, Utah. Several ambulances and a MEDEVAC helicopter arrived at the mine in the evening as rescuers were injured during a collapse as they searched for six coal miners trapped 1,500 feet beneath the surface at the Crandall Canyon coal mine after an August 6 cave-in. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
qcwriter October 11th, 2018
The first fatality in North Carolina due to Tropical Storm Michael has just been reported.
According to WBTV, a tree fell on a car in Statesville this afternoon, as Michael continued to move inland through North Carolina.
One person inside the vehicle died due to injuries sustained during the ordeal.
Emergency crews were able to reach the car, however, they could not save the victim.
At this time, it's not known if there were any passengers inside the vehicle at the time the incident occurred.
The victim's identity has not been released to the public yet.
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Chronicling part of the evolution of the British Nuclear Defence Programme, Sonic to Stand Off traces the development of the British Blue Steel stand-off nuclear bomb. Included are the test phases in Australia and the work of Lord Penney, who had a leading role in the development of Britain's nuclear programme.
The book covers the work of the Tube Alloys, a code name of the research and development programme to develop nuclear weapons during the Second World War. The British efforts were kept classified and as such had to be referred to by code even within the highest circles of government. The book brings to light more information on the special relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States.
Starting from Germany in 1919 with gliding and the German flying school in Russia, the inventors Lippisch, von Braun and Dornberger and the HWK rocket, the Me163 and its rocket motor in the Vickers Trans-Sonic missile of 1947. Sonic to Stand Off introduces the Royal Air Force and the Victor, Vulcan, Valiant, Sperrin, Canberra and Washington bombers and the Silverplate B-29. The book ends on the banks of the River Clyde at Faslane, Scotland, when at midnight on 30th June 1969 the Royal Navy took over responsibility for the nuclear deterrent.


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The General Council launches the film festival on the seven founders of the SSVP
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During the annual meetings of the International General Council (CGI), held in Salamanca (Spain) in June 2018, we announced the rules for participating in the Festival "The Seven Founders", which seeks to focus on the moment when the first Vincentian Conference was founded.
The festival aims at stimulating the knowledge and research, in a playful and talented way, about the origin of the SSVP and the main role of the seven founders: Antoine Frederic Ozanam, Auguste Le Taillandier, Jules Delvaux, Paul Lamache, François Lallier, Félix Clavé and Emmanuel Bailly de Surcy.
Only the active Vincentians in the conferences can participate in the festival. The videos or films presented can be produced in three formats: short film (up to 40 minutes), medium-length film (from 41 to 69 minutes) and feature film (70 minutes).
The deadline for the submission of videos or films to the General Council is 15th May 2019. The audio-visual works will be evaluated by a special commission and the announcement of the winners will take place on 9th September 2019, date of the liturgical feast of Ozanam. The awards range from 1,000 to 2,000 euros.
"We hope that there will be very interesting productions, set in the Paris of 1833, when those seven visionaries had, under the inspiration of the Divine Providence, the brilliant idea of founding the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. The seven of them, without exception, were instrumental in the establishment of this important charity, which today provides relevant services to mankind", stated the fellow member Renato Lima, 16th President General.
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Jim, Nick, and Kirsten have always had a heart for their fellow believers behind the Iron Curtain. It's one thing to pray for their brothers and sisters in Romania, though, and another thing entirely to face hostile border guards with illegal Bibles hidden in their van. Only God can blind the eyes of those searching the vehicle so the three of them will be allowed to pass through safely.
Someone in the underground Romanian church is an informer, and the three Bible smugglers want to know who. The brutal dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu, the watching eyes of the secret police, and a personal vendetta being carried out by a colonel with a forty-year grudge have put them and all the believers in danger. As rumours of revolution swirl around them, Jim, Nick, and Kirsten face an impossible dilemma. If they can't trust those who call themselves Christians, who can they trust?
At Internet Monk there's an excerpt from the book.
Finally, at Word Alive Press, you can read the official contest announcement with winners and runners-up.
U.S. customers can inform their local bookstore that the title may be ordered through Anchor Distributors.
I got to know Peter and his family about ten years ago. Honestly, there wasn't anybody in Rickford County who didn't know them. His family was gifted musically, and they spread that gift around four churches.
His wife Marta was the organist and music director of the SBC church in the next town. Peter himself played keyboards and led worship at the Assemblies of God church. Their son Justin played guitar and led worship with his wife at the Foursquare church in town, and their daughter was the pianist at the United Methodist church.
"We control the music in four churches;" Peter frequently told me; though I bristled at the use of the word control.
"That's about 50 churches;" I reminded him.
But Peter was undeterred. He sent out emails to the other worship leaders telling them they could "buy their weekly song selection" from his informal organization.
For whatever reason, some took the offer. Whether these worship leaders and music directors were tired of choosing for themselves I do not know. Perhaps they felt Peter's family offered a degree of expertise beyond their own.
He emailed 52 churches and 13 (one quarter) took the offer. Combined with the four churches already under their family umbrella, they were choosing congregational sung worship songs for 17 churches, a few of which they'd never even visited.
Word started spreading beyond the area and he started getting requests from churches in other states.
I had told Peter that popular worship leader Tim Lonchris was my wife's second cousin, so when his tour came to our state, Peter asked if I could score us free admission. I did wonder why the guy who was raking in a small worship music stipend for nearly two dozen churches couldn't afford concert tickets, but I decided to let it go.
In fact, I did better. I got us backstage passes and a chance to meet Tim before the concert.
He then thrust a business card into Tim's hand and then he told Tim how much he enjoyed his music. Then we had to find out where we'd be seated backstage, so we left the dressing room, but as Peter left I circled back.
On Friday, Internet Monk ran two articles back-to-back by the site's founder, the late Michael Spencer. The subject was The Shack, both the movie and the book, though Spencer did not live to see the movie. I have reproduced the second of the two articles here because it deals with some general principles, but for added context, I encourage you to read both, which you may do so at this link: Fridays with Michael Spencer…On "The Shack" but for those who choose not to click, here is the second part.
I just finished doing another interview about my writing on The Shack. My posts on The Shack have attracted a lot of readers, which is good, because if nothing else, The Shack is a phenomenon that needs to be discussed and better understood.
It seems that a willingness to denounce The Shack has become the latest indicator of orthodoxy among those evangelicals who are keeping an eye on the rest of us. It's a lot less trouble than checking out someone's views on limited atonement, that's for sure.
Hear me loud and clear: it's every pastor and Christian's duty to speak up if they feel The Shack is spiritually harmful. I'd only add one point: it's equally the right of those who find The Shack helpful to say so.
Obviously, The Shack isn't for everyone. Like a lot of Christian fiction, it has a certain amount of gawky awkwardness. No one will ever call William Young a skilled wordsmith. I wouldn't teach The Shack in a theology class, even though I find Young's willingness to explore the Trinity commendable and personally helpful.
It's the presentation of God in The Shack that creates the controversy with the critics and the buzz with the fans, but the longer I've talked about this story with other Christians, I have to wonder if all the focus on Young's "Trinity" isn't missing the larger point of the book- a point that many theological watchblogs don't seem to see at all.
The Shack is a pilgrimage. It's an allegorical account of one person's history with God; a history deeply affected by the theme of "The Great Sadness." It's a journey, and overlooking what's going on in Mack's journey is a certain prescription of seeing The Shack as a failed critique of Knowing God.
I've come to believe that the most significant reason for The Shack's early success- certainly the reason I picked it up- is the endorsement from Eugene Peterson on the cover, an endorsement where Peterson refers to Young's book as another "Pilgrim's Progress." That's not a random compliment.
The Knights of Reformed Orthodoxy like to talk about Pilgrim's Progress as if it is Calvin's Institutes made into a movie. In reality, Bunyan's Book is a personal pilgrimage, one that illustrated his version of Christian experience and retold his own experiences.
Even Spurgeon realized that Bunyan's theology wasn't completely dependable. The loss of the "burden" comes after a long search for relief, a storyline that reflected Bunyan's own struggles with assurance and obsessive subjectivity. Few pastors today would endorse a version of the Gospel that left people wandering in advanced states of conviction, unable to find any way to receive forgiveness. Bunyan's particular personality has too much influence on his presentation of belief and assurance.
But what Bunyan does illustrate is valuable in a manner much different than a theological outline. He tells the story of a journey from guilt to forgiveness, the confrontation with worldly powers, spiritual conflict, imperfect fellow believers and the inertia and resistance within ourselves. We can measure Bunyan's book by measurements of correct theology, but I believe most of us know that this isn't the proper measurement for Pilgrim's Progress. We should measure it as a presentation of one Christian's life.
It's a story of a journey.
Be clear: I agree with Ben Witherington III that Young's book could use a theological revision, but I believe his adventurous exploration of God's character is set against "the Great Sadness," not "the Great Theological Examination." When someone analyzes The Shack and finds 13 major heresies, I'd suggest you look very closely at the list. Some are legitimate concerns. Some are brutal victims of context and some are not heresies at all, but the critic's discomfort with the medium.
Young is talking about a God who draws you out of your hiding place. If I understand Young's own journey, this is the primary image in the book: A God who invites you and meets in the the very place where "the Great Sadness" entered your experience in a way that you understand the love that comes to you from the Trinity.
This journey is what should capture the reader. In one sense, The Shack is a bit of Rorschach test, and if you put it in front of someone and what they see is "emerging church heresy!" and "God is a black woman," then you've learned what that person was most looking for in the book: a familiar and historically orthodox affirmation of God and a similar affirmation of who are the good guys.
But what about those who look at the book and see Mack's journey? The Great Sadness? The God who draws you out and meets you in the place of your greatest loss? What if that reader sees the theological awkwardness and occasional imprecision, but sees those problems in balance alongside Mack's journey to self-forgiveness, resolution and renewed intimacy with God? Maybe that's why so many people who know good theology STILL like The Shack?
There is enough in The Shack to give all of us plenty to blog about, so don't expect posts to end anytime soon. But I'm wondering if anyone is understanding that The Shack isn't selling because there's such a hunger for theological junk food. No, there's a hunger for someone to compellingly narrate the central mystery of God, the Trinity. There's a hunger for a God who is reconciling toward those who have believed and then turned away because they can no longer understand a God who allowed "The Great Sadness." There is a hunger for a God who comes into our life story and walks with us to the places that are the most hurtful.
In other words, the theological fact checkers are probably missing what is so appealing to readers of The Shack, even as they see some crimes in progress. It is a contemporary Pilgrim's Progress, but the pilgrim is a not a 17th century puritan, but a 21st century evangelical. The burden isn't sin, but the hurtful events of the past. The journey is not the way to heaven, but the way back to believing in a God of goodness, kindness and love.
If Paul Young writes a book of theology, it should be better than The Shack. But if he writes his story, it is The Shack. I don't buy it all, and most people I've talked to don't either. But that's not the point. It's Young's journey that he's recounting and we're reading, and that's how we're reading it: a story.
Note to writers: When it comes to fiction, don't listen to the critics who want to take you down for your theology. Tell the story that's in you, whether it passes the orthodoxy test or not. This isn't Puritan Massachusetts yet. WRITE THE STORY. The people who read stories as theology lectures are NEVER going to approve. -M.S.
Something we rarely do here is close comments; but if you have one, it is better posted at the original source.
The post title here is a quote from the first part of what ran Friday. I would have like to have run both, but it's a best practice to send them the internet traffic.
…Just because you heard the phrase, "Life is like a box of chocolates…" in the movie Forrest Gump, you shouldn't extrapolate the individual comparison in a single scene in the film to be a general guiding principle for life. In most respects, life is not at all like a box of chocolates. Nor, as Google might lead you to believe, is like an arrow, a bicycle, a camera, a deck of cards, an elevator, a football, a grapefruit, a hurricane, or… I'll let you work your way through the rest of alphabet. In my wife's opinion, life is more like a sushi bar, or the bag containing the Scrabble letters, or herding cats, but I'm willing to bet this month's rent that those don't work for you either.
Comparing things can be helpful to our understanding however. In Jesus' teaching ministry, he took examples from the world as his hearers knew it — mostly agricultural comparisons — and either made direct connections or taught the principles as parables because they were parallel to things his audience could relate to. In my world, I often will use computer jargon and terminology to create an analogy which teaches a Biblical principle.
Our language generally offers us two options: Metaphor and simile. (You'd have to be as dumb as an ox not to know the difference. Just kidding! That's an example of simile. And sarcasm.) A popular technique in the broad category of metaphor would be allegory, with the most recognizable examples in Christian literature being Pilgrim's Progress, or the Chronicles of Narnia books; along with a number of contemporary writers in the Christian fantasy fiction genre.
But there is another writing technique I would like to offer here as simply springboard. Skye Jethani does this in The Divine Commodity where he uses the art of Vincent van Gogh to get the discussion rolling, or in Futureville where the springboard is the vision of the future as offered by the 1939 New York World's Fair. Mark Batterson does this with The Circle Maker, beginning with the legend of Honi.
You could also argue that almost all Christian fiction — while some of it allegorical — is mostly springboard for further discussion; consisting either of internal deliberation, or discourse with friends in your book group, church library or at the Christian bookstore.
…Metaphors and allegories are easily misunderstood. Not everybody grasps the comparison first time around, especially if the chosen metaphor is something somewhat foreign.
Borrowing a theme or idea from another world — whether it's a legend from another religion or a principle of motorcycle repair — does not necessarily imply endorsement.
The placement of a metaphor or discussion springboard in mainstream Christian literature may result in it being seized upon by people on the fringes of mainstream Christianity who want to use the metaphor to say things the author never intended.
However — and this is so important — the use of parables and similar teaching forms by Jesus should be an encouragement to us to find similar redemptive analogies in our modern world. If you're a writer, avoid the pressure to be boringly precise and instead, introduce edge into your writing by finding the connection everyone else has missed heretofore.
Communication is only achieved when the hearer fully gets it, and that will involve drawing parallels between 'A' and 'B' rather than repeating the words of a definition over and over to someone who is missing the point.
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Health officials in rural Indiana are baffled by a plague-like upper respiratory illness that seems to be gripping the members of Cedar Ridge Evangelical Church, so they attend a service and witness the ritual of friendship that Episcopalians know as 'the passing of the peace,' where they realize the alpha person spreading the disease is Eric Winston, an overly friendly usher who likes to give hugs. As they try to halt the virus in its tracks, they discover an Amish family down the road from the church is involved in a murder over the contents of a treasure chest dating back to colonial America. Should Ginger, the blonde nurse with the health team confess her admiration for Derk, the handsome farmhand, even if it means revealing her deepest secret and true identity? Is something sinister happening when the team leader, Dr. Murton is playing golf with the pharmaceutical reps? Would you call the disease viral or bacterial? Should Timmy be playing that close to the abandoned well? And why don't the people of Cedar Ridge Church simply wash their hands more often?
After the huge success of The Shack, many publishers were after Paul Young's third novel, Eve. When first released, The Shack was a game-changer for Christian publishing, its commercial success rivaled only by the controversy it created, with many of the negative responses coming from people who had never read the book. It also was put in the rare situation of having various other books written about it.
Radio host Drew Marshall once quipped, "There are two kinds of people; people who like The Shack, and people who don't like The Shack;" indicative of the great divide the book's portrayal of God created.
After nearly five years, Young reappeared with Crossroads, followed by another three year gap that's about to change on September 22nd when Eve, a 320-page novel releases simultaneously in hardcover and paperback from Howard, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
…Eve is a bold, unprecedented exploration of the Creation narrative, true to the original texts and centuries of scholarship—yet with breathtaking discoveries that challenge traditional misconceptions about who we are and how we're made. As The Shack awakened readers to a personal, non-religious understanding of God, Eve will free us from faulty interpretations that have corrupted human relationships since the Garden of Eden.
You can read the full blurb at this link.
I think the thing that I am most proud of is that it's the product of decades of thought and perhaps even pain on Paul's part, and it's a very rich experience. Every read that I've done has brought out new levels of awareness and understanding. This is a story that has never been told before. I have been working on just novels – no non-fiction – for a decade, and so I know the tropes. I know what notes you have to hit with certain kinds of stories, and I'm faithful to make sure that authors hit those notes. This is a story I have never read before. It's a new approach to a story as old as our culture.
You can read more of that interview at this link.
For the most part, the Christian blogosphere takes itself all too seriously. When was the last time you saw anyone review a fiction title? And no, we don't count the bloggers who trashed The Shack without ever reading it.
I try to read at least one fiction title in the summer. If I can't actually go anywhere in the warm months, I can at least enjoy some small diversions or distractions.
The book is legal mystery that begins with a young woman who discovers a deposit receipt from a local bank when emptying out her late father's safety deposit box. The amount is a cool $10.3 million. She hires a lawyer and from the beginning — this isn't really a spoiler — you know the bank is as guilty as heck and covering the truth; but the remaining pages are needed to get everyone to what one expects to be a dramatic, final courtroom showdown.
The case has a variety of twists and turns, with a very fast-paced script based on the author's 30 years in legal practice. Though this isn't my usual genre, I was able to track most of the legalese.
The faith-focus in this novel is basically non-existent. Given its publication under the Bethany House imprint, a division of Baker Books, I checked a variety of other reviews to make sure I wasn't missing something.
*The following year the author released Critical Reaction which features a different cast of characters and this time around, a female lawyer. I enjoyed Deposit Slip so much that the 2nd book is currently in my pending stack of books.


Class operators on meshes and arrays on Path2D?
Trying to define path as an array of paths so I can loop through layers when building a 3d object. And similarly trying to extrude several Path2D into a single mesh to output.
This doesn't perform the anticipated combining of objects, it rather concatenates the class types?
Then you would make the Solid from the Mesh.
Creation.extrude requires an object as the argument, which you can choose to build first, or as you see in my code, make it as part of the method call.
I also found that, contrary to the documentation, none of the elements of the object are optional.


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The Sibling Support Project is a national program dedicated to the interests of brothers and sisters of people with special health and developmental needs. The Project's primary goal is to increase the availability of peer support and education programs for brothers and sisters of people with special health and developmental needs.
evaluate the effects of programs for siblings.
Sibshops: Workshops for brothers and sisters of children with special needs, 1994, by Donald J. Meyer and Patricia F. Vadasy (Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes). To order call (800) 638-3775. Also available at Barnes and Noble Bookstores.
Living with a brother or sister with special needs: A book for sibs, 1996, (2nd edition, revised and expanded) by Donald Meyer and Patricia Vadasy (Seattle: University of Washington Press). To order call 1-800-441-4115. Also available at Barnes and Noble Bookstores.
Uncommon Fathers: Reflections on raising a child with a disability, 1995, Donald Meyer (ed.). (Bethesda, Maryland: Woodbine House). To order, call (800) 843-7323. Also available from Barnes and Noble bookstores.
Views from our Shoes: Growing up with a brother or sister with special needs, 1997, by Donald Meyer (ed.) (Bethesda, Maryland: Woodbine House). To order, call (800) 843-7323. Also available from Barnes and Noble bookstores.
The National Association of Sibling Programs (NASP) Newsletter. The Sibling Support Project, CL-09, Children's Hospital and Medical Center, 4800 Sand Point Way, NE Seattle, WA 98105.
Sibling Support Project Web Page: <http://www.chmc.org/departmt/sibsupp>.
The SibNet and SibKids Listservs, email-type bulletin boards for brothers and sisters of all ages and others interested in the well-being of siblings.
It is a pleasure to present a Web version of the Sib to Sib! newsletter! To get to the Sib to Sib! newsletter go to <http://www.chmc.org/departmt/sibsupp/newsletters.htm>. Written, edited, and published by our Sibshop friends in Lynnwood, Washington, Sib to Sib! features articles written for and by brothers and sisters of kids with special needs.


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Elaine Horn-Ranney holds a sample of a gel, Perf-Fix, which the company is testing for use in eardrum repair surgery.
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Richmond startup awarded Defense Department contract grant to test eardrum repair gel
From staff reports
A Richmond startup company has received a Defense Department contract to test a gel patch for eardrum repair in field settings to treat military service members.
Tympanogen was awarded nearly $250,000 as a Small Business Innovation Research contract from the Department of Defense to support safety testing the company's gel patch for eardrum repair.
The Defense Department is interested in the product because military personnel sustaining perforated eardrums is one of the most common blast injuries.
"By making eardrum repair faster, easier, and more accessible at the time of injury, we can prevent the complications that lead to this disability for tens of thousands of service members," said Elaine Horn-Ranney, the company's co-founder and CEO. "We are excited to work with the DOD to develop our eardrum repair gel for field use."
Tympanogen was founded in 2014 by Horn-Ranney and Parastoo Khoshakhlagh, who both received doctorates in biomedical engineering from Tulane University. The company set up research operations in the Virginia Bio+Tech Park in downtown Richmond early in 2018 when Horn-Ranney moved to the Williamsburg area.
The company has developed a type of polymer hydrogel that it calls Perf-Fix, which can help with the repair of perforated eardrums by encouraging natural regeneration of the tympanic membrane.
It wants to simplify surgical procedures using the gel, which can be applied in an office setting without the need for surgery or general anesthesia.
The Defense Department contract comes after Tympanogen was awarded in August a $1.48 million Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders to help the company further its research.
The testing for that contract is expected to take about 12 months. The company's goal is to submit its product to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2020 and advance into clinical trials after that.
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Video: Booz Allen VP McConnell on Edward Snowden
By jim mcelhatton on July 11, 2013 Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Intelligence, Uncategorized
Nearing the end of a half hour talk on cybersecurity at a conference of contracting professionals in Alexandria, Va., Thursday, Booz Allen Hamilton vice president Mike McConnell had not uttered the name Edward Snowden. And Snowden, after all, is someone who has people talking a lot about cybersecurity these days. The now famous former Booz Allen employee stands charged with espionage and is still on the run from U.S. authorities after leaking details to the media on once secret government surveillance programs. As McConnell, a former director of national intelligence, was wrapping up his presentation, he said he'd take a…
Comey nomination draws positive reaction from two FBI employee groups
By on June 24, 2013 Intelligence, Justice
President Obama's choice of James Comey to head the FBI has been welcomed by two groups representing key elements of the bureau's workforce. The FBI Agents Association had previously backed a former special agent—House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich.—for the job. But in a Friday statement issued shortly after Obama formally nominated Comey, the association's president, Konrad Motyka, said the former Justice Department official has an "outstanding reputation" among agents. "We believe that Mr. Comey understands the centrality of the special agent to the bureau's mission of protecting our country from criminal and terrorist threats," Motyka said. "We look forward…
Snowden the whistleblower? Not exactly
By jim mcelhatton on June 11, 2013 Cybersecurity, Intelligence, Procurement
Dubbed a traitor by House Speaker John Boehner and yet hailed as a brave whistleblower by Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Snowden's leaks about National Security Agency data collection techniques have ignited public debate about privacy, security and the scope of U.S. government surveillance activities. But legally speaking, the 29-year old, self described high school dropout isn't really a whistleblower: "Whistleblowers are individuals who have engaged in lawful disclosure," said R. Scott Oswald, managing principal of The Employment Law Group, a DC-based law firm that represents whistleblowers, including some in the intelligence community. Snowden, however, leaked classified information subject to a court…
Obama administration still pondering proposed classification system changes
By on June 4, 2013 Intelligence
For anyone who's counting, this week marks six months since an advisory board released 14 recommendations for modernizing the national security classification system. The White House remains on square one—mulling the board's first recommendation to form a steering committee to guide implementation of the other 13. "Options for the creation of a senior-level group are currently being considered," said Laura Lucas, a National Security Council spokeswoman, who had no information today on the timetable for a decision. The Public Interest Declassification Board issued the recommendations Dec. 6 in response to a 2009 charge from President Obama for a "more fundamental transformation" of the…
New chief on board at classification oversight office
By on August 1, 2011 Intelligence, Uncategorized
As of today, the Information Security Oversight Office has a new director in the person of John P. Fitzpatrick, a former top security official at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. ISOO, part of the National Archives and Records Administration, is a small but critical cog in oversight of the government's security classification system. The agency has also been charged with bringing order to the mishmash of agency approaches for handling controlled unclassified information. "A strong advocate for information sharing and protection, he has demonstrated his ability to lead and oversee change both within and beyond the intelligence…
Obama picks Intelligence Community CIO
By on February 17, 2011 CIA, Information Technology, Intelligence, Uncategorized
Former CIA chief information officer Al Tarasiuk is President Barack Obama's top choice for CIO of the Intelligence Community. Tarasiuk served as the CIO of CIA from 2005 to 2010. Before that, he was director of the CIA's Information Service Center. "Al is well known for his leadership in information sharing and intelligence integration, and his experience, distinguished career and dedication to duty will greatly benefit the entire Intelligence Community," National Intelligence Director James Clapper said in a news release.
Fed rights at risk in WikiLeaks backlash, groups say
By on January 28, 2011 Executive Office of the President, Intelligence, OMB, Uncategorized
Just as agencies are wrapping up security reviews launched after the latest WikiLeaks breach, a coalition of open government groups is warning of possible consequences for federal employee rights. Although improving safeguards for classified information is laudable, "we urge you not to craft policies that encourage agencies to unduly restrict free speech, or otherwise distract agencies from actually improving information security," representatives of the American Civil Liberties Union and eight other organizations wrote Office of Management and Budget Director Jack Lew in a letter dated Friday. Ordered by Lew early this month and due to be finished Jan. 28, the…
Diplomacy FAIL: 'Taliban leader' in peace talks was phony
By on November 23, 2010 Intelligence
This one falls in the "laugh so you don't cry" category. The Afghan government and NATO has been negotiating for months with someone they thought was Taliban second-in-command Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, hoping to find a way to end the nine-year war. But it turns out — whoops! — this supposed militia leader was an imposter. In reality, he was just a shopkeeper from Quetta, Pakistan, who was running a scam. And according to the New York Times, it worked: "It's not him," said a Western diplomat in Kabul intimately involved in the discussions. "And we gave him a lot…
The Washington Post's 'Top Secret America'
By on July 19, 2010 Intelligence
The Washington Post this morning has a must-read story illustrating how massive, unwieldy and redundant the federal government's post-9/11 security mission has become — and questioning whether it's actually made us safer. Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Dana Priest and writer William Arkin's three-part, two year investigation found that "after nine years of unprecedented spending and growth": Some 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies work on counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence at about 10,000 locations nationwide. About 854,000 people hold top secret security clearances. In the Washington area, 33 complexes for top secret intelligence work — the equivalent of three Pentagons…
DNI Blair's resignation statement
By on May 20, 2010 Intelligence
Adm. Dennis Blair is officially stepping down as Director of National Intelligence. Here's the statement he just sent out to the intelligence community: It is with deep regret that I informed the President today that I will step down as Director of National Intelligence effective Friday, May 28th. I have had no greater honor or pleasure than to lead the remarkably talented and patriotic men and women of the Intelligence Community. Every day, you have worked tirelessly to provide intelligence support for two wars and to prevent an attack on our homeland. You are true heroes, just like the members…


Radiohead has released the music video for their newly released track, "Burn the Witch". The Radiohead Burn The Witch music video uses stop motion to tell a story influenced by the style of British children TV Trumptonshire trilogy Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Chigley and the plot of the 1973 horror film The Wicker Man. A visitor to the village, hosted by the mayor, discovers a sinister cult in a seemingly normal community. Everywhere the inspector goes it seems the residents have become obsessed with public execution and deathly rituals, with installations featuring the Iona cross, the painted plague cross, the witch dunking stool, a grisly beef wellington pastry, death by sword, a floral gallows. The mayor and the inspector visit Jobe's tomato farm. Finally the inspector finds himself trapped in the burning Wicker Man, the ultimate sacrifice for a village reliant on cropping success.
The release of Radiohead Burn The Witch comes after Radiohead deleted content on their web site, Facebook page and Twitter page. Fans received mail-out leaflets with the words, "Burn The Witch. Sing the song of sixpence that goes Burn The Witch. We know where you live".
The music video begins and ends with a bird singing in the trees. This may be a reference to "Dawn Chrous LLP" and "Dawnnchoruss Ltd", companies formed by Radiohead in the lead up to the release of their new album. Radiohead's social media shutdown took place on the first Sunday in May, International Dawn Chorus Day.
Filming was shot by director, art director, production designer and animator Chris Hopewell, at Jacknife with producer/animator Rose Lea Brind, editor/colourist Ben Foley at Buckloop, director of photography Jon Davey, key animators Virpi Kettu, Louie McNamara, Oli Putland, animators Aaron Hopewell and Andrew Stuart, set designer Holly Jo Beck.
Puppets and props were by Elaine Andrew, Virpi Kettu, Bonnie Griffin, Lucy Roberts, Ash Clarke, Ella Baraclough, Bec Coates, Rosie Lea Brind, Chris Hopewell, and Andrew Stuart.


While the Windows 10 Creators Update is set to start rolling out to desktop PCs on April 11, Windows 10 Mobile users will start seeing it roll out a bit later on April 25.
Windows Phone will follow the same phased approach, with rollout scheduled to begin April 25. Note that update availability may vary by manufacturer, model, country or region, mobile operator or service provider, specific installed software, hardware limitations and other factors such as feedback from customers.
Because of the phased rollout schedule, not everyone will see the update arrive on day one. Given the somewhat slow rollout that we saw with the Anniversary Update, it could be some time before all devices eligible for the update receive it.
Aside from the note on the Mobile release date, Microsoft has also given us a bit of good news for those eager to get their hands on the Creators Update for desktop earlier than April 11. For anyone who wants to take the dive, Microsoft says you can start manually upgrading to the Creators Update on April 5 through the Update Assistant.


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NRN services has the training, expertise, specialized cleaning agents and equipment to safely and thoroughly remove smoke odor and residue from your home or business and its contents. NRN would caution people against trying to do this work themselves unless the smoke is very light. It is extremely easy to smear soot deeper into carpets, upholstery, natural wood, walls and ceilings, much like setting a stain on clothing. In most cases smoke damage is covered by home owners insurance, so why not hire expert professionals fully trained in smoke and residue removal? It is better to hire professionals such as at NRN services of Iowa then to sweat and toil at a do it yourself cleaning job, only to find out after the fact that you damaged your home more trying to do it yourself.
NRN services used the most advanced equipment in the industry. We use ozone treatments via an ozone generator, which will attack the smoke odor. We use thermal fogging as well, which will effect and remove smoke at a molecular level. Thermal Fogging works by using fine particles to infiltrate the pores of affected home materials and contents. We steam clean carpets and clothing to bring them back to new condition. We use the best and latest Counteractant agents to clean everything in your home, and remove any and all smoke residue and odor.
We are available 24 hours a day 7 days a week to help and assist you. Give us a call at any time and provide us with any details about fire and smoke disaster, and we can send an IIRC certified technician out to your home or business to access the damage and give you a fair and accurate quote for the repair and clean up costs. We will also work with your insurance adjuster in regards to any claim you may be filing. Dealing with a fire is rough enough without taking on the insurance claims process on your own. Each and every client we treat like family and we strive to achieve 100% customer satisfaction. Since our founding we have always kept our eye on complete customer satisfaction and prompt service. We have over 20 years experience in restoring properties and lives. When disaster strikes we are on your team, when disaster strikes think NRN services of Iowa. Fire and smoke damage is devastating but restoration does not have to be.


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Девичанска острва () су архипелаг у Карипском мору. Острва су подељена у две зоне. Британска Девичанска Острва, на истоку и северу, су посед Уједињеног Краљевства. Америчка Девичанска Острва, на западу и југу, су територија САД.

Кристифор Колумбо је назвао острва "Свете Урсуле и једанаест хиљада девица" () по легенди о Светој Урсули. На њима су живели Кариб Индијанци, који су побијени када је Шпанија освојила острва 1555. Данска и Енглеска су преузеле власт на острвима у 17. веку.

Касније су на острва доведени црни афрички робови да раде на плантажама шећерне трске. Данас су њихови потомци већина становништва острва. Данска је продала свој део Девичанских острва САД 1917.

Главна острва у америчком делу су: Сент Томас, Сент Крој, Сент Џон и острво Вотер. Већа острва међу британским су: Тортола, Вирџин Горда, Анегада, и Јост ван Дајк. Острва су релативно мала, а број становника је око 110.000. Туризам је главна привредна делатност.

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The way people search for and find chemistry information is always in flux.
Right now, Open Access is a hot topic (e.g. Open Source Archivangelism post) and it is interesting to see how those seeking OA sources are connecting with those who choose to share information in that way.
This morning I noticed from our SiteMeter referrals that someone had found some of our experiments (EXP019) involving anisaldehyde by doing a Google search with the advanced features set to include only documents with usage rights set to "free to use or share". A nice benefit of using Wikispaces as our lab notebook is that the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license is applied by default to all content using the basic free account.


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The Huanca are a Quechua people of Peru.

Huanca may also refer to:

Huanca (monolith), a type of sacred stone monument
Huanca (mountain), in the Peruvian Andes
Huanca District, in Caylloma Province, Peru
Huanca language, or Wanka Quechua, a variety of Quechua spoken by the Huanca people
Huancas District, in Chachapoyas Province, Peru
Total Huancas, the Conservative Government of the UK

See also
Wanka (disambiguation)


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British Gas has selected IT consulting firm CGI to provide an interface that will simplify the management of energy smart meters as part of the Smart Metering Implementation Programme of the UK Government. This programme aims at providing every house with a smart meter. This will allow UK consumers to better manage their energy consumption and spending.
The UK Government has set the goal for every home in the UK to have smart energy meters that will allow UK consumers to better understand their energy consumption and control their bills. To achieve this, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has set up the Smart Metering Implementation Programme (SMIP) with the objective of installing an estimated 53 million smart electricity and gas meters in domestic and small non-domestic properties in the UK by 2020. The Data and Communications Company (DCC) will provide shared infrastructure underpinning mass smart meter rollout through communication services between the smart meters and the business systems of energy suppliers, network operators and service users.
Energy and home services provider British Gas, which is a subsidiary of utility company Centrica, has taken the lead in the 'Foundation Stage' of the smart meters and currently deployed more than one million smart meters to its domestic UK customers.
Just recently, British Gas selected IT consulting firm CGI to provide the DCC with an interface for the management of the smart meters. This Adapter solution will simplify the process of connecting to the DCC under the mass roll-out plans, as it meets the terms of connection set out in the Smart Energy Code. In addition, the Adapter will minimise changes needed to energy company's internal IT systems. Currently, half of British Gas' smart meters are supported by CGI through its Smart Data Services programme.
"The success of Britain's Smart Metering Implementation Programme in part rests on suppliers' ability to access and use the large volumes of data provided through the DCC. British Gas is already the largest installer of smart meters in the UK and this agreement sees them further demonstrate that commitment by taking an important step towards full rollout," comments Tara McGeehan, UK Utilities Director CGI on the contract.