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Seen Beauty and the Beast yet? Here's your next read!
We were as excited as the kids queuing beside us to go and see the new Beauty and the Beast film, and it's got us in the mood for more fairytales. Sweeping love stories, horrible villains, heroines who save themselves – if you've been inspired by Beauty and the Beast, take a look at five more of our fairytale favourites below.
And, if your kids are still mad about Belle, Chip and co., make sure you don't miss the Disney Beauty and the Beast: Book of the Film and, for younger readers, pick up Belle's tale – ideal for kids just starting to read on their own.
In this beautiful book of classic fairy tales, master writer Philip Pullman chooses his fifty favourite stories from the Brothers Grimm. From the romantic quests of Rapunzel, Snow White and Cinderella to the danger and wit of lesser-known tales such as Godfather Death, Pullman's unique and brilliant voice taps into the timeless heart of each tale.
A magical new retelling with glorious colour artwork, we fell in love with Michael Morpurgo and Emma Chichester Clark's version of Pinocchio at first sight. Perfect for older children reading on their own, or to read aloud with younger kids, this is the kind of book that's so lovely, you'll keep it on your bookshelves forever.
Another new classic from the series by Michael Morpurgo and Emma Chichester Clark. Witchy, scary, beautiful: a work of genius. Lyrical writing. Vibrant art. The witch, the breadcrumb trail, the house of sweets in the forest. Every moment of the classic Grimm fairy tale sings afresh in the hands of these two master creators.
Something slightly faster-paced for middle-grade readers, this is one of our favourite new series this year. Things aren't going too well for Elliot. His mum is ill, and they're in danger of losing their home. But things change in a big way when a shooting star crashes to Earth. It's Virgo: a Zodiac goddess. And when Virgo and Elliot set free Thanatos, a wicked death daemon trapped under Stonehenge, they're forced to beg the Greek gods for help. Problem: Zeus and his crew have spent centuries in cushy retirement. Are these old-timers up to the task of saving the world?
One for teen readers, you won't find any damsels in distress here. A modern day update of Snow White, this is a much darker version of the classic tale. We loved it – not least because there's never any doubt that there's only one hero in this book (and it's not Prince Charming).
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Your tooth enamel is a layer of densely packed microscopic crystals that provide your teeth with the strength to bite and chew and withstand dental problems. Regardless of the immense durability of tooth enamel, unfortunate circumstances such as chewing pencils, grinding your teeth or being struck in the face can cause a chip in the tooth enamel. A chipped tooth usually requires restorative dentistry such as a dental crown to prevent a cavity from occurring.
If the chip in a tooth is minor, it may not cause any pain and may not receive treatment before it develops tooth decay. When this happens, the chip can become a harbor for substances such as food particles and plaque that lead the tooth to receiving a cavity.
At Dakota Ridge Dental, we strive to provide conservative dental treatment such as a dental filling for a chipped tooth, but if the tooth is at risk because of a significant tooth chip, a dental crown may be more appropriate. We are pleased to provide restorations that mimic your tooth's original appearance and can be made with high-quality dental materials such as base metal alloy, gold or porcelain. The hollow insides allows the crown to cover the whole of the tooth and provide long-lasting protection.
At your first appointment, we remove the layer of tooth enamel from the tooth to form it into an abutment that supports the crown, and then we take a detailed impression of the area so that a dental lab can create the new crown to match your natural smile. While it's in process, a temporary crown can protect your tooth.
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"Hair perfume you say? Why would you have perfume just for your hair? Wouldn't you just use your normal day-to-day perfumes that I own?"
I'll be honest, I wasn't too sure on what to think about the whole hair perfume and did think what I wrote above. I was contacted by Bait Hair Perfume to try out some samples and give some feed back. **Im not being sponsored or paid to write this review, I was just sent 4 samples of the perfumes they sell, with no obligations to review or nothing**.
I was extremely intrigued before these arrived and was nervous on the scents they would be as I am quite sensitive to some perfumes.
So just a little bit about these perfumes and what makes them different to normal perfume, and worth the buy.
- Retail for $38.00 for a 50ml bottle
- Also available in a pack of all 4 bottles for $152.00
- The mini samples are available for $12.00
- Only need 2-3 sprays
- Comes in 4 addictive scents to suit any mood or occasion
- Lasts up to 12 hours getting you through every work day, gym class, and night on the town.
- Conceals odors and refreshes hair in-between washes
- Non-greasy & won't wreck your 'do
- Suitable for ALL hair types
- Free of parabens and sulfates
- Cruelty-free
- Ships World wide
- Only has three ingredients – alcohol, silicone, & fragrance
- Safe for hair extensions
- 60 day return if you aren't loving it
Here is the http://www.baithairperfume.com/pages/faqs if you are interested in reading more!
There is 4 scents to choose from:
1. Femme Fatale
2. Skinny Dipper
3.Day Dreamer
4. Heart Breaker
Femme Fatale is my FAVOURITE – I LOVE this scent! I do not own anything that smells like this one, and I really am enjoying, and have to say have worn this the most and I am complimented on the way I smell when I wear this. The scents within this fragrance are an exotic forbidden fruits, warm vanilla, and hints of dark amber. It's honestly amazing and I really love this!
Skinny Dipper is your real "sitting by the poolside drinking cocktails" type of aroma. It has a strong coconut scent, sun tan lotion scent to it and a hint of floral to balance it out. When I put this on, I do feel like I am on holiday, sitting around outside in the sun.
Day Dreamer is a lovely mixture of a creamy orange sherbet, coconut and soft vanilla – Something completely different to what I have ever tried that's for sure! It is a fun, girlie scent! Love it!
Heart Breaker smells like a sugar rush of pink cotton candy with a hint of a vanilla cupcake, a very sweet and flirtatious scent! A perfume you would wear on a first date for sure!
Overall Verdict – I really am loving these, I think the different scents are great, and when you smell each one they really do take you to the place they are meant for. I did spray in my hair the Femme Fatal in around 10am and was out doing errands, in the sun running around with my son, and then caught up with some friends around 9pm for some drinks and my best friend did comment saying I smelt amazing, so they must last for 12 hours!! I love that the alcohol used is not a harsh alcohol and won't dry out your hair. So now I understand why you use hair perfumes that are designed for your hair, rather than normal perfumes that have the harsher alcohol and other ingredients within them that aren't meant to be used for your hair!
If you want to look at Bait Hair Perfume website I will link it down below.
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I have been pondering a simple sentence this week. It has no big words in it yet it is for me packed with weighty meaning. Here it is: 'I am no longer on my own.' It is one way to sum up the whole Christian life. I no longer have to go it alone.
Let me illustrate. I have served as interim pastor at Abundant Grace this past year but I did not have to 'go it alone.' I had a coach to talk to every week and seek advice from. How comforting it has been for me to have this weekly call to my mentor who would speak wise counsel into my life. I don't have full knowledge. I need others to guide me.
Similarly, a person calls out to God when he realizes how inadequate he is in dealing with all the challenges and troubles of life. It takes an honest person to admit that he has failed to measure up, that he truly knows very little about himself, other people and how to succeed in the world in ways that matter. Such a person, out of the depths of weakness cries out to God for help, forgiveness, wisdom, love, and a deeply satisfying purpose in living. And God answers that call for help. Every time.
Being a Christian means that we are united with God! 'I am no longer on my own.' God is with me, in me, around me, in front of me, behind me, over me and for me. And if God is for me, who can be against me?
So reader if you are still with me, stop trying to live 'on your own.' You can't do it. Call upon God. All the time. He is your Father and your Friend. He unites Himself with you! Amazing! And if God is with you, you can become a beautiful person who does beautiful things, just like Jesus.
Here is the way Thomas a Kempis states it.
When Jesus is with us, all is well and nothing seems insurmountable. But when Jesus is absent, everything is difficult. If Jesus does not speak to us inwardly, all other comfort is meaningless. But the slightest communication from him brings consolation.
Life without Jesus is like a dry garden, baking in the sun. It is foolish to want anything that conflicts with Jesus. What can the world give you without Jesus? His absence is hell; his presence, paradise. If Jesus is with you, no enemy can injure you. Whoever finds Jesus has discovered a great treasure, the best of all possible good. The loss of him is a tremendous misfortune, more than the loss of the entire world. Poverty is life without Jesus, but close friendship with him is incalculable wealth (Imitation of Christ, paraphrase by Bernard Bangley).
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Red Hot Chili Peppers' bassist Flea led the audience in a Polish football chant during the band's headline set at Open'er Festival tonight (June 30).
Poland's national team went on to lose on penalties in the Euro 2016 quarter-final that was taking place concurrently in Marseille.
The Californian band had opened their set with 2002 hit 'Can't Stop' as the second-half of the game kicked off, with thousands of fans running across the festival site from where the match was being shown on big screens. After second track 'Dani California', frontman Anthony Kiedis asked: "How we doing in that football match? Are we up?" although the score was in fact level at 1-1.
As well as singing football chants in Polish on two occasions during the set, Flea also thanked the audience by saying that the band: "treasure being alive, and treasure being able to play music for you." After 'Detroit', the bassist played and sang a brief snatch of The Stooges' 'I Wanna Be Your Dog'.
Earlier in the day, rain-clouds had cleared in time for Foals to play the Main Stage. After running through tracks including 'Spanish Sahara', 'Total Life Forever' and 'Mountain At The Gates' in the dying sunlight, frontman Yannis Philippakis told the audience: "You guys are a badass crowd. We've played a few times at Open'er. We played after Pulp and the rain was apocalyptic, but you guys were still great."
After 'Inhaler', Philippakis promised that their final two songs would be "two of the most intense songs you've ever seen." The band closed with 'What Went Down', the title track from their most recent album, and 'Two Steps, Twice', from 2008 debut 'Antidotes'.
South London rap group Section Boyz then made their Polish debut on the Alter Stage. At the end of their set, the group told the crowd: "If you've enjoyed yourselves today, make some noise and don't forget the name: Section Boyz."
Open'er Festival began yesterday with performances by The Last Shadow Puppets and Florence & The Machine. It continues this week with headline sets from LCD Soundsystem tomorrow and Pharrell Williams on Saturday.
Red Hot Chili Peppers played:
'Can't Stop'
'Dani California'
'We Turn Red'
'Nobody Weird Like Me'
'Snow (Hey Oh)'
'Dark Necessities'
'She's Only 18'
'Go Robot'
'Around the World'
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We are delighted to offer for sale this charming 3 bedroom semi detached home which is located within one of Bramhall`s popular residential developments. Delfur Road offers easy access to local Primary Schools, with both of the nearest currently rated as "Outstanding" in their Ofsted Reports at the time of typing this. (12.07.2019) You also have Bramhall High School close by, and shops and transport links accessible on the development plus a short distance to the Village for the Train Station and the wide range of amenities on offer. The property occupies a plot offering driveway parking to the front leading to the attached garage plus has a lawn area adjacent to the drive and pathway leading down the side of the property to the enclosed rear garden which has lawn with pathway around and a patio area abutting the home. If you need space for two cars, the lawn to the front could easily be changed to hard standing and therefore creating a double width driveway. We trust our floor plan will give you a good indication of the shape, size and layout of the accommodation however we strongly advise you view this home for yourself to fully appreciate the many benefits on offer within this home. In brief the accommodation comprises: There is a entrance porch before you enter the main accommodation which is good for outdoor footwear storage and coats whilst also providing extra weather and sound insulation from the outside. Then you have the spacious lounge with open way to the dining area (Lounge Thru Diner) this room has views to the front aspect and patio doors leading out to the rear garden plus access into the modern kitchen which has a range of base and eye level units plus space for appliances and a window overlooking the rear gardenIf you wanted extra space, many of these home owners convert the garages into extra living space which could be consider one of the cheapest form of extensions with the brick work already in space all you have to do is fit the interior following planning permission and building control regulations. You could also, open up the kitchen to the lounge diner, if open plan space is preferred, the choice is yours and it is brilliant there is choice to adapt this home. Upstairs you have 3 bedrooms which are all good sized rooms plus the spacious family bathroom which has a modern suite and finished off with modern tiling and chrome fittings. The home is warmed by gas central heating and has double glazed windows.NoticePlease note we have not tested any appliances, including gas, electric, heating, water, showers, lights, boilers etc. We recommend if you have a particular concern, you consult a professional who is qualified in inspecting the type of appliance you are concerned about. Measurements are approximate and could change if a vendor has altered the property and failed to inform us of the change.
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The site now occupied by Naval Air Station Pensacola has a colorful history dating to the 16th century when Spanish explorer Don Tristan de Luna founded a colony on the bluff where Fort Barrancas is now. In the ensuing years, the flags of Spain, France, Great Britain, the Confederacy and the United States have flown over the strategic port of Pensacola.
The U.S. purchase of the Floridas from Spain in 1821 spawned government realization of strategic importance of Pensacola Bay as a site for a support facility for naval squadrons operating in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean.
Realizing the advantages of the Pensacola harbor and the large timber reserves nearby for shipbuilding, President John Quincy Adams and Secretary of the Navy Samuel Southard made arrangements in 1825 to build a navy yard on the southern tip of Escambia County, where the air station is today. Navy Capts. William Bainbridge, Lewis Warrington and James Biddle selected the site on Pensacola Bay.
Construction began in April 1826, and the Pensacola Navy Yard became one of the best-equipped naval stations in the country. In its early years, the base dealt mainly with the suppression of slave trade and piracy in the Gulf and Caribbean.
With a large, wet basin, a floating dry dock and other facilities for building, docking and repairing the largest warships of the time, the yard turned out such masterpieces as the steam frigate USS Pensacola, which saw Civil War action at both the Battle of Mobile Bay and the Battle of New Orleans.
Eighty acres in the southeast corner of the yard, around which a brick wall was built, was set aside for use as an arsenal. Portions of the wall are still standing.
When the Union forces captured New Orleans in 1862, Confederate troops, fearing attack from the west, retreated from the navy yard and reduced most of the facilities to rubble. After the war, the ruins at the yard were cleared away and work was begun to rebuild the base. Many of the present structures on the air station were built during this period, including the stately two- and three-story houses on North Avenue.
In 1906, however, a great hurricane and tidal wave destroyed many of the newly rebuilt structures, and less than two years later, an epidemic of yellow fever brought reconstruction to a standstill. In October 1911, the yard was decommissioned.
Meanwhile, great strides were being made in aviation. The Wright brothers, and especially Glenn Curtiss, were trying to prove to the Navy that the airplane had a place in the fleet. Curtiss began construction of a seaplane design, and in January 1911, civilian pilot Eugene Ely landed a frail Curtiss Pusher airplane on a makeshift wooden flight deck onboard the USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco Bay, demonstrating the value of the airplane to the Navy.
The Navy Department, now awakened to the possibilities of naval aviation through the efforts of Capt. W.I. Chambers, urged Congress to include a provision for aeronautical development in the Naval Appropriation Act, enacted in 1911 to 1912. Chambers was ordered to devote all of his time to naval aviation.
He contracted for three planes, one from the Wright brothers and two from Curtiss, with the provision that the builders train a pilot for each plane. Navy Lt. Theodore G. Ellyson was given instruction by Curtiss and became the first naval aviator. Lt. John Rodgers and Lt. John Towers, former chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, became the second and third naval aviators, respectively. A camp was established at Groonbury Point near Annapolis, Maryland, and the first naval flight organization began operations.
The first successful catapult launching made by Ellyson in 1912 suggested even broader applications, and in 1913, extensive experiments involving fleet and aerial scouting planes were conducted with astounding and gratifying results. The Navy was convinced.
In October 1913, Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels appointed a board, with Capt. Chambers as chairman, to make a survey of aeronautical needs and to establish a policy to guide future development. One of the board's most important recommendations was the establishment of an aviation training station in Pensacola. The recommendation was approved, and the first U.S. naval air station was created in 1914 on the site of the abandoned navy yard.
Cmdr. Henry C. Mustin became the first base commander, and all pilots and planes were ordered for duty. A row of 10 tent hangars was set up along the sandy beach, with wooden ramps running from each tent to the water. Naval aviation consisted of nine officers, 23 mechanics and eight airplanes.
Upon entry into World War I, Pensacola, still the only naval air station, had 38 naval aviators, 163 enlisted men trained in aviation and 54 airplanes. Two years later, by the signing of the armistice in November 1918, the air station, with 438 officers and 5,538 enlisted men, had trained 1,000 naval aviators. At the war's end, seaplanes, dirigibles and free kite balloons were housed in steel and wooden hangars stretching a mile down the air station beach.
In the years following World War I, aviation training slowed. From the 12-month flight course, an average of 100 pilots were graduating yearly. This was before the day of aviation cadets, and the majority of the students included in the flight-training program were Annapolis graduates. Thus, Naval Air Station Pensacola became known as the "Annapolis of the air."
In 1928, envisioning great expansion at Pensacola, the Navy Department ordered the construction of an auxiliary field 5 miles northwest of NAS Pensacola in honor of Lt. Cmdr. William M. Corry Jr., Pensacola's 23rd flight student, who served with distinction in World War I.
With the inauguration in 1935 of the cadet-training program, activity at Pensacola again expanded. When Pensacola's training facilities could no longer accommodate the ever-increasing number of cadets accepted by the Navy, two more naval air stations were created, one in Jacksonville, Florida, and the other in Corpus Christi, Texas. In August 1940, a larger auxiliary base, Saufley Field, named for Lt. j.g. Richard C. Saufley, Naval Aviator No. 14, was added to Pensacola's activities. In October 1941, a third field, named after Lt. Ellyson, was commissioned.
As the nations of the world moved toward World War II, NAS Pensacola once again became the hub of air training activities. After the fall of France in 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt called for 126,000 planes. Under the administration of its commandant, Capt. A.C. Read, Naval Aviator No. 24, NAS expanded again, training 1,100 cadets a month, 11 times the amount trained annually in the 1920s.
To help produce the quota of men for the emergency, NAS added three more auxiliary fields, Bronson, Barin and Whiting, all named for early naval aviators. During World War II, the number of pilots trained by NAS reached an all-time high in 1944, when 12,010 men completed training and flew a combined total of almost 2 million hours. The growth of NAS from 10 tents to the world's greatest naval aviation center was emphasized by then-Sen. Owen Brewster's statement: "The growth of naval aviation during World War II is one of the wonders of the modern world."
The record achieved by naval pilots during World War II pays tribute to the excellence of their training. Navy carrier planes shot down 6,444 Japanese planes, losing fewer than 450 of their own, a 14-to-1 superiority in aerial combat. The total number of enemy aircraft destroyed by the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps was 15,401.
In 1948, the Naval Air Basic Training Command (NABTC) headquarters moved from Corpus Christi, Texas, to Pensacola. Working with the Naval Air Training Command, which also was located there, NABTC was instrumental in expanding naval air training and coordinating all basic flight, ground and specialized training. New aircraft designed strictly for training appeared, and jets became part of the training syllabus. Helicopters, having proven their value in the Korean War, increased in importance.
The war in Korea presented problems, as the military was caught in the midst of transitioning from propellers to jets, and the air station revised its courses and training techniques. Nonetheless, NAS Pensacola produced an impressive 6,000 aviators from 1950 to 1953.
Pilot training requirements shifted upward to meet the demands for the Vietnam War, which occupied much of the 1960s and 1970s. Pilot production was as high as 2,552 (1968) and as low as 1,413 (1962).
In 1971, NAS Pensacola was picked as the headquarters site for CNET, a new command that combined direction and control of all Navy education and training. The NABTC was absorbed by the Naval Air Training Command, which moved to Corpus Christi.
NAS Pensacola today has myriad activities, including the headquarters and staff of the Chief of Naval Education and Training; Training Air Wing 6 and subordinate squadrons; Naval Aviation Schools Command; Center for Naval Technical Training; Center for Information Dominance; Marine Aviation Training Support Group; Naval Air Technical Training Center; Naval Operational Medicine Institute; Naval Recruiting Orientation Unit; and the world-renowned Blue Angels Flight Demonstration Squadron. A continuing attraction for visitors to the Southeast is the National Museum of Naval Aviation.
The Pensacola Naval Complex in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties employs more than 16,000 military and 7,000 civilian personnel and contributes approximately $1.2 billion to the local economy annually.
An aura of mystery and splendor pervades "Admiral's Row." Significant on Johnson Street is Quarters A, a stately home where the air station's most senior officer, the chief of naval education and training, and family reside. When this area was built in 1874, the commandant of the old navy yard lived there.
Now, for a haunting good yarn to spellbind you, and former Quarters A residents say it is true:
Commodore Melanchton B. Woolsey was the first commandant to live here. He was terrified of contracting yellow fever, since an epidemic had already claimed thousands of lives and he didn't want to be the disease's next victim.
He erroneously believed, as others did, that disease-carrying mosquitoes could only fly a few feet high. So, Woolsey moved into the third-story cupola. He got his meals, rum (which he claimed was a "tonic" against the fever) and tobacco for his pipe by lowering a basket on a rope from one of the cupola's windows.
One day, his servant forgot the rum. Woolsey died soon thereafter. Yet, as residents believe, his spirit stayed on in the house. Perhaps to stay with a lovely lady, transparent and clad in white, who also resides in Quarters A, forever.
Building 16 is another certified haunted place. This octagonal-shaped building was the Officers' Quarters during the 1920s, and today some say the building is haunted by a patron from that decade.
In 1924, Marine Capt. Guy Hall, a flight instructor, enjoyed playing poker when he wasn't flying. While playing, he had a habit of picking up his poker chips, then letting them fall to the table.
Hall died during a training mission in the 1920s, and on more than one occasion since that fateful day, people in Building 16 have heard what sounds like poker chips hitting the table.
This classic ghost story begins in 1857 with the construction of the Pensacola Lighthouse and two of its early keepers, a husband and wife.
For some reason, the wife murdered her husband while he slept in their quarters adjacent to the lighthouse. The violent stabbing left a large pool of blood on the floor.
A psychologist who stayed there several years ago alleged there are actually three lighthouse ghosts. Two, he said, are probably keepers who died there of natural causes. The third is either the murdered keeper or his mistress.
Take a walk up the lighthouse's 178 steps, late at night, and perhaps you'll be "greeted" by its "keeper."
Corry Station
Corry Station is one of the Navy's technical training showplaces. The base is about 5 miles north of NAS Pensacola.
The original Corry Field had its beginnings in 1923, in a remote area north of Pensacola. By 1926, it became apparent that the meager facilities of this site would no longer suffice. The number of pilots being trained was on the increase, and a growing city of Pensacola began to encircle the flying field. In 1927, a 530-acre tract of land was acquired by the government, the gift of Escambia County, for relocation of the landing field. The present site was dedicated Corry Field on Nov. 1, 1928. Construction of permanent buildings began in 1933, and on Dec. 8, 1934, the field was commissioned as an auxiliary base field under the Naval Air Training Center.
The station's name honors the memory of Medal of Honor recipient Lt. Cmdr. William M. Corry Jr., who died as a result of burns received while attempting to rescue a fellow officer from a crashed and burning aircraft. Corry was one of naval aviation's pioneers, having been among the first aviators to receive the Navy's wings of gold.
In its early years, Corry Field was an active Navy aviation training command used for advanced fighter plane training. Redesignated as a Naval Auxiliary Air Station in 1943, the field continued to serve as a training center for naval aviators throughout World War II and the Korean hostilities until its decommissioning in 1958.
The site, once dedicated to flight training, shifted gears in 1960 with the arrival of the first class of communications technicians — later called cryptologic technicians. Hangars were converted to classrooms, and laboratories were stocked with sophisticated communications training equipment. Corry was commissioned the Naval Communications Training Center, Corry Station as the facility's mission became more diversified with the addition of the Naval Schools of Photography and the Consolidated Navy Electronics Warfare School.
The command was among the first Navy technical schools to achieve accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Since 1975, this accreditation has assured that instruction is of the same quality as that offered in the best civilian vocational institutions and that students may receive college-level credit for completed courses.
In January 1990, the center's training capability expanded even further as the first classes convened at the Optics, Instrumentation, Instructor and Information Systems School. From 1995 to 1999, Corry Station served as host of multiservice electronic warfare training with the addition of the Joint Aviation Electronic Warfare School.
The primary mission of the commands at Corry Station today is to provide technical and military training in information operations, cryptology, information technology, information warfare and instructor training to produce well-trained, motivated and disciplined personnel in support of U.S. and allied operational forces.
The Center for Information Dominance (CID) is the most senior staff on Corry Station. The CID headquarters' offices and largest learning site are onboard Corry Station, with other detachments throughout the continental U.S., Hawaii and Japan. CID graduates approximately 16,000 students annually.
Corry Station also hosts the Navy Information Operations Command (NIOC) Pensacola and various other staff.
Its role has changed over the years, but traditional pride still dwells within the Corry Station education complex as it continues to provide the finest and best-trained personnel in the military.
Saufley Field
The field was named in honor of Lt. j.g. Richard Caswell Saufley, designated Naval Aviator No. 14. Saufley was instrumental in setting up the rudiments of naval flight training at its inception in Pensacola around 1914. He set an altitude record of 16,072 feet in early 1916, flying an open-air seaplane. Saufley also set an endurance record of 8 hours, 43 minutes of continuous flight.
Saufley was killed in a crash off Santa Rosa Island in June 1916 while attempting to break his own endurance record. He had been flying for 8 hours, 51 minutes at the time of his crash. Saufley is enshrined in the National Museum of Naval Aviation's Hall of Honor.
One month after the base opened in August 1940, an instrument flying school was transferred to Saufley Field bringing with it 50 SNJ Texans and 35 "Link" trainers. Two months later, the first primary training squadron was based there.
The outbreak of war in December 1941 brought increased numbers of student naval aviators. Soon the base was swarming with Sailors, and flying went on 24/7.
Saufley's stature grew as the tempo of flying increased. On March 1, 1943, the base was commissioned Naval Auxiliary Air Station (NAAS) Saufley Field and provided every phase of flight training except preflight.
Following World War II, the Navy began closing numerous Naval Auxiliary Air Stations, but Saufley remained open, and full operations continued for tactical and carrier qualification training.
In 1959, flight instructors were assigned to, and flying for, VT-1 and VT-5. These aviation-training squadrons were commissioned in May 1960 and designated tenant commands at Saufley Field. Saufley's mission was revised to provide support for the training squadrons. VT-1 instructors, flying T-34Bs, provided flight indoctrination for NROTC and United States Naval Academy midshipmen. VT-5 provided primary flight training for pilots, flight officers and flight surgeons.
During the height of the Vietnam War, Saufley Field became a full-fledged naval air station July 31, 1968. The training squadrons and NAS Saufley Field were decommissioned by late 1976. Saufley became an outlying landing field. Saufley Field was reactivated in 1979 when Naval Education TrainingProgram Development Center moved from Ellyson Field.
Saufley Field celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2015. Today, there are about 900 acres and 60 buildings and structures at Saufley Field. There are approximately 1,400 military and civilian personnel assigned to NETPDC and tenant commands.


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This response is rather lengthy so I have broken it into two parts. Part I follows.
This chapter will detail the argument for the following thesis, "The essence of God is neither love nor holiness, but rather the essence of God is perfection." Geisler declares, "Another attribute of God is that of absolute moral perfection. God is morally impeccable: He is not simply an infinite Being; He is an infinitely perfect Being."[1] The concept of the perfection of God is nothing new.
A Historical Examination
Justin Martyr
"And God, the Father of the universe, who is the perfect intelligence, is the truth.[2]
Neither is there straitness with God, nor anything that is not absolutely perfect."[3] Justin Martyr saw nothing in God that was not perfect.
Clement of Alexandria
"And is it not the Saviour, who wishes the Gnostic to be perfect as 'the heavenly Father [is perfect].'"[4]
For the sun is a type of God, and the moon of man. And as the sun far surpasses the moon in power and glory, so far does God surpass man. And as the sun remains ever full, never becoming less, so does God always abide perfect, being full of all power, and understanding, and wisdom, and immortality, and all good. But the moon wanes monthly, and in a manner dies, being a type of man; then it is born again, and is crescent, for a pattern of the future resurrection.[5]
"I pass over those who lacerate with knives and scourges of bones, and shall not attempt to describe all the kinds of demons; for it is not the part of a god to incite to things against nature. . . But God being perfectly good, is eternally doing good."[6] God's perfection was a common position among the early church fathers. Whether one continues with more sources of the period or expands on the position, the early church fathers believed in God's perfection.
Since you ought to be "perfect, as (is) your Father who is in the heavens."[7] Tertullian, the historian of the church, agrees with the position of God's perfection.
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Augustine of Hippo
"For certainly He would not be the perfect worker He is, unless His knowledge were so perfect as to receive no addition from His finished works."[8] Augustine declares, "In this we know that we are in Him, if in Him we are made perfect. Touching the very perfection of love of enemies, the Lord admonishing, saith, Be ye, therefore, perfect, as your Heavenly Father is perfect."[9] Augustine saw God as perfect. Augustine was not only influential in his period but influenced others through even the current time.
Anselm of Canterbury
Anselm argues everything that exists, exists by relying on something else that already exists. Anselm asserts, "And yet thou art only one supreme good; thou art all-sufficient to thyself, and needest none; and thou art he whom all things need for their existence and well-being."[10]
Anselm defines good by something that substance can produce. First, a robber is bad because he creates swift, strong, harm. Second, a horse is good because he is quick and vigorous. Third, something is beautiful because it promotes beauty. Therefore, anything that is good is good because of something it relies on and not of itself. Anselm states:
But if a horse, because he is strong and swift, is therefore good, how is it that a strong, swift robber is bad? Rather, then, just as a strong, swift robber is bad, because he is harmful, so a strong, swift horse is good, because he is useful. And, indeed, nothing is ordinarily regarded as good, except either for some utility—as, for instance, safety is called good, and those things which promote safety—or for some honorable character—as, for instance, beauty is reckoned to be good, and what promotes beauty.[11]
Therefore there can and must be something that is good unto itself, that substance Anselm refers to as the supremely good, "Great Thou art without quantity, and therefore infinite; good without quality, and therefore the truly and supremely good; and none is good but Thou and Thou alone."[12] Just as there is only one supreme Deity, then there can be only one supreme good.
There are no examples in the universe of more than one perfect substance. There are not two fingerprints alike. There are no two DNA samples that are alike. There are no two planets in the universe that are alike. Therefore there can be one and only one perfect being.
Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas, considered one of the most significant theologians of the Middle Ages, wrote extensively about God's perfection. Geisler summarizes Aquinas' five reasons for the existence of God:
We can argue: (1) from motion to an Unmoved Mover; (2) from effects to a First Cause; (3) from contingent being to a Necessary Being; (4) from degrees of perfection to a Most Perfect Being; and (5) from design in nature to a Designer of nature (ibid., 1a, 2, 3). Behind these arguments is the premise that all finite, changing beings need a cause outside themselves.[13]
Reason #4 speaks to the degrees of perfection until one reaches a Most Perfect Being. Aquinas refers to this as degrees of graduation. Different beings have reached various levels of perfection within their lives. Actualization occurs when someone obtains their highest level of perfection. Examples of these are Gandhi and Abraham Lincoln, not to say they were perfect, but they had reached the closest to perfection as compared to other men. Aquinas states:
Now God is the first principle, not material, but in the order of efficient cause, which must be most perfect. For just as matter, as such, is merely potential, an agent, as such, is in the: state of actuality. Hence, the first active principle must needs be most actual, and therefore most perfect; for a thing is perfect in proportion to its state of actuality, because we call that perfect which lacks nothing of the mode of its perfection.[14]
Aquinas' fourth reason to defend the existence of God relates to absolute graduation. Aquinas states, "Therefore there must also be something which is to all beings the cause of their being, goodness, and every other perfection; and this we call God."[15] Aquinas strongly supported the perfection of God.
Current Era Reformation and Beyond
John Calvin
It must be acknowledged, therefore, that in each of the works of God, and more especially in the whole of them taken together, the divine perfections are delineated as in a picture, and the whole human race thereby invited and allured to acquire the knowledge of God, and, in consequence of this knowledge, true and complete felicity. Moreover, while his perfections are thus most vividly displayed, the only means of ascertaining their practical operation and tendency is to descend into ourselves, and consider how it is that the Lord there manifests his wisdom, power, and energy,—how he there displays his justice, goodness, and mercy.[16]
Rene Descartes
Descartes, both a philosopher and a mathematician, states, "For it is not a dictate of Reason that what we thus see or imagine is in reality existent; but it plainly tells us that all our ideas or notions contain in them some truth; for otherwise it could not be that God, who is wholly perfect and veracious, should have placed them in us."[17]
Stephen Charnock
Charnock declares, "Since man knows he is an imperfect being, he must suppose the perfections he wants are seated in some other being which hath limited him, and upon -which he depends. Whatsoever we conceive of excellency or perfection, must be in God. For we can conceive no perfection but what God hath given us a power to conceive."[18]
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
Leibniz was a philosopher, theologian, and mathematician. He announces:
The conception of God which is the most common and the most full of meaning is expressed well enough in the words: God is an absolutely perfect being. The implications, however, of these words fail to receive sufficient consideration. For instance, there are many different kinds of perfection, all of which God possesses, and each one of them pertains to Him in the highest degree.[19]
Leibniz continues his discourse on the perfection of God:
Whence it follows that God who possesses supreme and infinite wisdom acts in the most perfect manner not only metaphysically, but also from the moral standpoint. And with respect to ourselves it can be said that the more we are enlightened and informed in regard to the works of God the more will we be disposed to find them excellent and conforming entirely to that which we might desire.[20]
Karl Barth
Barth sets an entire volume[21] aside to discuss the perfections and perfection of God. Barth states, "God lives his perfect life in the abundance of many individual and distinct perfections. Each of these is perfect in itself and in combination with all the others. For whether it is a form of love in which God is free, or a form of freedom in which God loves, it is nothing else but God himself, His one, simple, distinctive being."[22] Barth declares further, "But that is identical with a multitude of perfections, if the term is taken strictly, is something which is an attribute of God and God alone."[23]
- I. Packer
- I. Packer theologian, author, and pastor declares:
The biblical judge is expected to love justice and fair play and to loathe all ill treatment of one person by another. An unjust judge, one who has no interest in seeing right triumph over wrong, is by biblical standards a monstrosity. The Bible leaves us in no doubt that God loves righteousness and hates iniquity, and that the ideal of a judge wholly identified with what is good and right is perfectly fulfilled in him.[24]
Goodness, in God as in human beings, means something admirable, attractive and praiseworthy. When the biblical writers call God good, they are thinking in general of all those moral qualities which prompt his people to call him perfect, and in particular of the generosity which moves them to call him merciful and gracious and to speak of his love. All the particular perfections that are mentioned here, and all that go with them— God's truthfulness and trustworthiness, his unfailing justice and wisdom, his tenderness, forbearance and entire adequacy to all who penitently seek his help, his noble kindness in offering believers the exalted destiny of fellowship with him in holiness and love— these things together make up God's goodness in the overall sense of the sum total of his revealed excellences.[25]
[1] Geisler, Systematic Theology, vol. 2, p. 345.
[2] Justin Martyr, "Fragments of the Lost Work of Justin on the Resurrection," in The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe, trans. M. Dods, vol. 1, The Ante-Nicene Fathers (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Company, 1885), p. 294.
[3] Ibid., p. 300.
[4] Clement of Alexandria, "The Stromata, or Miscellanies," in Fathers of the Second Century: Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, and Clement of Alexandria (Entire), ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe, vol. 2, The Ante-Nicene Fathers (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Company, 1885), p. 546.
[5] Ibid., Theophilus of Antioch, p. 100.
[6] Ibid., Athenagoras, p. 143.
[7] Tertullian, "On the Apparel of Women," in Fathers of the Third Century: Tertullian, Part Fourth; Minucius Felix; Commodian; Origen, Parts First and Second, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe, trans. S. Thelwall, vol. 4, The Ante-Nicene Fathers (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Company, 1885), p. 19.
[8] Augustine of Hippo, "The City of God," in St. Augustin's City of God and Christian Doctrine, ed. Philip Schaff, trans. Marcus Dods, vol. 2, A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, First Series (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Company, 1887), p. 216.
[9] Augustine of Hippo, "Ten Homilies on the First Epistle of John," in St. Augustin: Homilies on the Gospel of John, Homilies on the First Epistle of John, Soliloquies, ed. Philip Schaff, trans. H. Browne and Joseph H. Myers, vol. 7, A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, First Series (New York: Christian Literature Company, 1888), p. 465.
[10] Deane, p. 28.
[11] Ibid., p. 39–40.
[12] Saint Anselm Archbishop of Canterbury, Saint Anselm's Book of Meditations and Prayers (London, UK: Burns and Oates, 1872), p. 184.
[13] Geisler, "Thomas Aquinas," in Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics, p. 725.
[14] Aquinas, Summa Theologica, 1.4.1.a1.
[15] Ibid., 1.2.A3.
[16] John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, Volume 1 & 2 (Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software, 1997), p. I, v, 10.
[17] Rene Descartes, The Works of Rene Descartes trans. John Veitch (London, UK: M. Walter Dunne Publishing, 1901), Kindle Edition (Loc 5997).
[18] Stephen Charnock, The Existence and Attributes of God (Grand Rapids, MI: Robert & Carver Brothers, 1874 Edition), Kindle Edition (Loc. 972).
[19] Leibniz, Leibniz: Discourse on Metaphysics Correspondence with Arnauld and Monadology, p. 3.
[20] Ibid., pp. 3–4.
[21] Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics, Vol. II/I trans. T. H. L. Parker, W. B. Johnston, Harold Knight, and J. L. M. Haire. (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1957).
[22] Ibid., p. 322.
[23] Ibid.
[24] Packer, pp. 159-160.
[25] Ibid., pp. 182-183.


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- It's a sad fact but official figures show approximately 85,000 women are raped in England and Wales every year, thats 11 rapes every hour.
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'Secret Token' examines white America's fascination with the Lost Colony
I'm old enough to recall an elementary school reader that referred to Virginia Dare as "the first white child born in the New World" rather than the first English one. The Virginia-born but University of North Carolina-educated writer Andrew Lawler, whose "The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke" was just published by Doubleday, wasn't surprised when I told him about that racist phrasing.
"That seems odd since the Spanish and Portuguese had been procreating in the New World long before Roanoke," wrote Lawler in a recent email, "but in the 1800s, non-English typically were not thought of as white." And in certain communities proud of their colonial heritage, including the Norfolk of his youth and the Fayetteville of mine, White Anglo-Saxon Protestant prejudices persisted well into the 20th century.
One of the things I found fascinating (if disturbing) about his book is his account of how that girl born in 1587 became a symbol of white nationalism. Lawler wrote that this was one of the biggest surprises in his search for the cultural meaning of the Lost Colony. "Virginia Dare became a symbol of the triumph of Anglo-Americans in conquering the continent—and of anxiety about the flood of Irish, German, and, later Jewish and Italian immigrants."
By the Jim Crow era, he wrote, Dare had transformed into "a romantic figure and a warning—if whites were not careful, then they would be overwhelmed by all those dark peoples. Implicit in the story is a disgust with racial mixing, which was, after all, illegal in Virginia until 1967." Which was 15 years after Andy Griffith played Sir Walter Raleigh at the outdoor drama in Manteo, and about the time I first heard her name.
Lawler also observed that, although the first English colony in North America was established in 1585 and deserted by 1590, it was not considered "lost" until almost 250 years later.
"Before then," Lawler wrote me, "it was an obscure and largely forgotten event." He described how that changed when an 1837 article in The Ladies' Companion coined the phrase "the Lost Colony." The article's author, Eliza Lanesford Cushing, made Dare a popular sensation. "This was a moment when women's magazines first appeared, and women writers like Cushing finally had outlets for their work." Whereas men had previously gotten the credit for "taming the wilderness," Lawler explained that the very ambiguity of Roanoke lent itself to literary re-interpretation. "It was these tales, not the dry history, which captured the public's imagination."
Nobody in the Elizabethan era would have considered the fate of the colony's settlers particularly mysterious, and would have drawn conclusions similar to the consensus one of contemporary historians, Lawler said. To a 16th century colonist, apparently abandoned by his or her native country, joining a local tribe, adopting their ways, and intermarrying with them would have seemed the obvious way to survive.
"If I were hungry, and knew [the colony's founder and Dare's grandfather] John White might never return with supplies, I would start practicing my Algonquian and learning Indian methods for hunting, fishing and farming." Doing that meant abandoning English ways, and intermarrying with the indigenous population. This, Lawler wrote, was exactly what Elizabethan writers assumed had happened.
Despite seeming obvious to both the 16th-century English and 21st-century historians, this idea was "so repellant to white Americans in the 19th and 20th centuries, that they made the colonists' disappearance a mystery, rather than as a first step toward the multicultural nation that we increasingly are becoming."
That antiquated worldview, along with the perennial human tendency to imaginative speculation, is why the colonists' fate has inspired so many bizarre theories over the centuries. I asked Lawler if he had a favorite one.
"It's a tie between aliens and zombies," he replied. "Deep down, I think we don't want the mystery solved. After all, you don't solve a myth; you simply retell it in a new way. That's the beauty of the Lost Colony; it is always morphing into something new. And that is the beauty of America as well, isn't it?"
"The Secret Token," the title of which refers to the word "Croatoan" found carved into a tree on the abandoned Roanoke settlement, is Andrew Lawler's second book after his acclaimed 2016 debut "Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?" He will be at Scuppernong Books in Greensboro at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 7, and at Bookmarks in Winston-Salem at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 9.
Ian McDowell is the author of two published novels, numerous anthologized short stories, and a whole lot of nonfiction and journalism, some of which he's proud of and none of which he's ashamed of.


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Harvard Agrees: Meditation Can Help You Lose Weight (And Sleep Like a Drunk Baby)
If you think that losing weight by counting calories, skipping meals, or pumping iron is the way to go, you've already lost the battle.
There's more to weight loss than meal plans, exercise, and supplements. Much of what we experience in life has something to do with the way we think:
If you think that you're not going to be able to pay your student loans…
If you think that you'll always be cheated on…
If you think that you can't stop yourself from eating too much…
…those things will most likely happen, even if you really don't want them to.
The story we tell ourselves shapes our reality.
Oftentimes, these stories have a pattern that reveals itself through the events in our lives. And sometimes, in the size of our waistline.
Healing a Broken Relationship With Food
When you think about all the stresses of life–school, family, work, relationships–it's hard not to get frustrated.
How do you calm your nerves when challenges come your way?
Some people drink tea to relax. Some call their friends. Some travel solo to get a new perspective.
But when food becomes a way to feel better, it becomes difficult to control your weight.
You're not hungry, but because you're sad, you go ahead and stuff yourself.
Sometimes, people don't eat a lot just because they're depressed – you do it even when you're happy.
Sometimes, people use food as a reward like, "Oh, I got a new promotion. I might as well get a tub of ice cream on my way home."
One practice that's surprisingly effective at gaining self awareness (and improving your relationship with food) is meditation.
Now, you might be thinking that meditation is way too woowoo.
But studies have proven time and time again that meditation, or mindfulness, is a tool that can help curb weight gain.
Mindfulness Works To Help Binge Eating. Here's How.
Have you ever wondered why some people manage to remain slim even when there's plenty of food "temptation" around?
Well, some have their parents' genes to thank. But others just have a better way of handling food cravings, and gaining self-awareness over what's happening in the moment.
If you're bored and use food as a way to ease the boredom, guess what will happen?
It's easy to stuff yourself with food that you're not even hungry to eat.
With binge eating, it's much more complex because you don't just reach for a couple bags of chips. But you stuff yourself with excessive amounts of food.
One of the treatments used for Binge Eating Disorder is transcranial direct current stimulation or tDCS. With tDCS, the patient receives continuous low-current electricity to the brain.
Although the treatment shows promising results according to a study, it's probably not for everyone. 1 1. http://www.uab.edu/news/research/item/7287-researchers-find-potential-breakthrough-in-binge-eating-disorder-treatment ×
Personally, I'll pass on someone poking my head with some device to deliver electricity to my brain.
Meditation works just as effectively and is not invasive like an electric treatment. In a study conducted among 18 obese women with Binge Eating Disorder (BED), the subjects went through eating-specific mindfulness meditation exercises.
After three weeks, the researchers noted that the women had binge eating episodes less frequently. 2 2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22021603 ×
Additionally, their depression and anxiety also decreased, and the women had a better subjective sense of control.
Meditation helps people tune in better to internal cues (i.e. Are you really hungry or just bored?).
Finally, it also creates a present-state awareness, which is helpful in resisting food cravings.
Breakups, Office Reports, and Death: How Stress Makes Our Appetite go Haywire
Imagine you're in the office rushing to finish a report. Or you're in the process of breaking up with a boyfriend or girlfriend.
These situations are very stressful.
You feel your heartbeat get faster, your palms sweat, and your mind whirs with so many thoughts that it keeps you up at night.
Everybody goes through stressful events in life. But how you respond to the stressors has an impact on your overall health.
In fact, some studies suggest that stress – by itself – isn't bad, as we've been taught.
Whether a person believes stress is good for them, or bad for them, will manifest this in their physiology. There's an interesting book, The Upside of Stress, by Kelly McGongial, Ph.D. that looks at the research on this more.
On the other hand, according to Harvard Health, stress can strongly affect your appetite – by increasing it, or decreasing it. 3 3. https://www.health.harvard.edu/healthbeat/how-stress-can-make-us-overeat × But only when the stress doesn't last for a long time.
Adrenaline pumps us up in the moment of stress, and this decreases our appetite.
Long-term stress, on the other hand, releases the hormone cortisol, which increases the motivation to eat. The effects of cortisol tends to linger much longer, and it's this hormone that tells our body to replenish food.
Think of a time when you're tired and don't get much sleep—it's easy to compensate for that by eating more food than usual. And not just any food, but foods that are high in fat and sugar.
When you're stressed out, the will to eat healthy often goes out the window.
This is one of those perfect moments for an intervention – and a meditative technique called the relaxation response can help.
The Relaxation response is the exact opposite of the fight or flight response that we experience when we are anxious. It counteracts the effects of stress in the body and mind. 4 4. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/heart-and-soul-healing/201303/dr-herbert-benson-s-relaxation-response ×
Dr. Herbert Benson, a cardiologist and founder of the Harvard's Mind/Body Medical Institute, helped make meditation mainstream. According to his studies in the 1960s and 1970s, people experience lower stress levels when they meditate. 5 5. https://www.bensonhenryinstitute.org/about-us-dr-herbert-benson/ ×
Committing To Your Weight Loss Goals Through Meditation
By now, you might be thinking:
"C'mon. How am I going to lose weight by sitting down and closing my eyes?"
You don't. Unless you make a conscious effort to do so.
Meditation is like training a muscle to lift heavier weights. It's hard to do at the beginning, but gets better the more that you do it.
People who are able to lose weight are the ones who do inner work. That is, they confront whatever thought, feeling or narrative that keeps coming up in their life.
Meditation is a useful habit to help you dig deeper and understand what's going on behind the scenes, and help you create a better relationship with food.
Have you ever tried meditation to lose weight? How did it work out for you?


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Collaborative Helping is a principle-based, integrative practice framework grounded in family-centered values and principles
Collaborative, family-centered practice has become an influential approach in helping efforts across a broad spectrum of human services. This article draws from previous work that presented a principle-based, practice framework of Collaborative Helping and highlighted the use of Collaborative Helping maps as a tool to both help workers think their way through complex situations and to provide a guideline for constructive conversations between families and helpers about challenging issues.
Este artículo ofrece un encuadre para la práctica clínica colaborativa centrada en la familia que puede energizar nuestro trabajo con las familias que no han respondido a enfoques más tradicionales. La Ayuda Colaborativa está basada en principios que se centran en la familia e incluye: el esfuerzo por desarrollar curiosidad cultural, fe en el ingenio humano, trabajo en equipo y capacidad para asumir responsabilidad hacia los clientes que servimos.
This article highlights "disciplined improvisation" as a metaphor for communitybased work with multi-stressed families. It introduces Collaborative Helping maps as a tool that both helps workers think their way through complex situations with families and provides a structure to support constructive conversations between workers and families about challenging situations.
This article offers a framework for collaborative family-centered practice that can reinvigorate our work with families who have not responded to more traditional approaches. Collaborative Helping is grounded in family-centered principles that include: striving for cultural curiosity, believing in resourcefulness, working in partnership, and making our work more accountable to the clients we serve. The article introduces collaborative inquiry as an organizing metaphor for clinical practice and offers a five-step practice framework with clinical illustrations and sample questions.
Collaborative Helping: A Strengths Framework for Home-Based Services
By William Madsen and Kevin Gillespie
This upcoming book highlights a practice framework of "collaborative helping" for family support workers, case managers, and milieu workers.
Available now, by FCSP's William Madsen
Collaborative Therapy with Multi-Stressed Families
Anyone working with families in crisis, especially in settings where time and resources are scarce, will gain valuable insights and tools from this book.
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Bill and Beth have been working together to experiment with new ways of approaching the challenges and dilemmas of Child Protection Work in ways that support both workers and families. This article is the first to describe some of those efforts.
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