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ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) — As cities up and down the East Coast shut down and prepare for the worst from Hurricane Sandy, Southern Baptist Disaster Relief leaders are preparing for a large-scale SBDR response once the storm clears.
"This has the potential to be an unusual storm," said Fritz Wilson, disaster relief team leader for the North American Mission Board. Wilson said SBDR leaders began preparation for response last week.
"We worked through the weekend to make sure we have a solid plan in place," Wilson said. "And not only a plan, but we have already begun to make sure the people to work the plan will be in place to respond and meet needs. This storm could bring a hurricane response and a winter storm response in the same event."
Wilson transported one of NAMB's recovery units to Harrisburg, Pa., Monday (Oct. 29). The Pennsylvania-South Jersey state convention's mission house in Harrisburg will serve as the area command center for the storm response. Given the wide range of possible damage and the potentially large area affected, Wilson said he fully expects multiple incident command centers to be established for the response.
Wilson said SBDR volunteers in all the affected states, and those in line to give first partnership response, were on standby Sunday, ready for activation. State Baptist conventions prepared to respond include the Baptist General Association of Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland-Delaware, New England, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania-South Jersey, Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia, Tennessee and West Virginia.
Hurricane Sandy's effects were felt along the U.S. Atlantic coast over the weekend with high winds and localized flooding, even though the storm's center was still more than 300 miles off the coast. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Sunday that Sandy is expected to entail a life-threatening storm surge flooding to the Mid-Atlantic coast, including Long Island Sound and New York Harbor, along with coastal hurricane winds and heavy Appalachian snows. Landfall is expected Monday night or early Tuesday morning between New Jersey and New York. Predictions call for possible landfall in Atlantic City with storm surge as high as 11 feet.
Wilson said another aspect of the storm damage could be power outages from heavy snowfall on trees that have yet to drop all of their leaves. Snowfall also could make travel for responding SBDR volunteers challenging. He asked for the continued prayers of Southern Baptists as the preparation for the storm response continues.
From its disaster operations center in Alpharetta, NAMB coordinates and manages Southern Baptist responses to major disasters through a partnership between NAMB and the SBC's 42 state conventions, most of which have their own state disaster relief programs.
SBDR assets include 82,000 trained volunteers, including chaplains, and some 1,550 mobile units for feeding, chainsaw, mud-out, command, communication, childcare, shower, laundry, water purification, repair/rebuild and power generation. SBDR is one of the three largest mobilizers of trained disaster relief volunteers in the United States, along with the American Red Cross and The Salvation Army.
Southern Baptists and others who want to donate to the disaster relief operations can contact their state conventions or access NAMB's disaster relief fund via namb.net/disaster-relief-donations. Other ways to donate are to call 1-866-407-NAMB (6262) or mail checks to NAMB, P.O. Box 116543, Atlanta, GA 30368-6543. Designate checks for "Disaster Relief."
Joe Conway writes for the North American Mission Board.


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TAC and TVR Slalom Series Event 7
SCCA - Tennessee Valley Region - Solo
Registration closed September 23, 2016 11:59 PM on September 23, 2016 11:59 PM CDT Registration ends September 23, 2016 11:59 PM on September 23, 2016 11:59 PM CDT Registration opens August 22, 2016 12:00 AM on August 22, 2016 12:00 AM CDT Registration runs from August 22, 2016 12:00 AM to September 23, 2016 11:59 PM
The 2016 Twickenham Auto Club and Tennessee Valley Region SCCA Slalom Series
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text: Manu Abraham wrote: > frankio wrote: >> Manu Abraham wrote: >>> Francesco Schiavarelli wrote: >>> >>>> Johannes Stezenbach wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Sat, Nov 03, 2007, Manu Abraham wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> If you see H.2 and H.3, the difference is between CCM and VCM >>>>>> (Note: that both are cases of multiple "TS's") >>>>>> >>>>>> H.2 (CCM) is applicable for DVB-T muxes. Here there is a HP/LP stream >>>>>> selection in some fashion combined with the merger/slicer where >>>>>> stream id is used. >>>>> What makes you think there is HP/LP involved? All H.2 says >>>>> is that two DVB-T streams are transmitted using one >>>>> DVB-S2 transponder to a DVB-T transmitter. The DVB-T transmitter >>>>> could then transmit them on two different frequencies in >>>>> non-hierarchical mode. >>>>> >>>>> (Indeed H.2 says "two DTT MUXes at 24 Mbit/s each" indicating >>>>> they are not hierarchical because you can't get that >>>>> bitrate in DVB-T hierarchical mode. But even if it were DVB-T >>>>> hierarchical mode it has nothing to do with DVB-S2 backwards >>>>> compatible mode hierarchical modulation.) >>>>> >>>>> >>>> I agree with you, Johannes. >>>> There is no evidence of hierarchical modulation, nevertheless the two >>>> streams I was looking at had the same channel protection that is no >>>> HP/LP, and I was told it was DVB-S2 CCM. >>>> >>>> When the transponder will be up again I'll be able to do more tests. >>>> >>> Yeah, looks more like that, will have a patch soon to do some tests >>> for it. >>> STM's comments confirm that. >>> >>> Manu >>> >>> >> Now the beam is up on 13.0E 11373 H 27500 8PSK 2/3 >> It is made up of 2 DTT muxes (no HP/LP) >> ISI1 16QAM 1/2 1/4 9.953 Mbps >> ISI2 64QAM 5/6 1/4 24.882 Mbps >> >> Unfortunately I don't know how long it will last, so let the tests >> begin! :-) >> I'll wait for the patch. >> > > In the meantime, can you please pull a copy of the multiproto tree > http://jusst.de/hg/multiproto/ > Just try whether you can acquire a lock. > and try to parse the S2 satellite delivery system descriptor ? > dvbsnoop, or even libucsi will be able to do this. > Was too fast about this one. :-( Regards, Manu