Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Ice by Shane Johnson Seattle Immigration Court. To find the status of your case and to whom your case is assigned, please check the Automated Case Information System Portal at https://portal.eoir.justice.gov/InfoSystem/ or call the Automated Case Information Hotline at 1-800-898-7180 / 304-625-2050 (TDD 800-828- 1120). You may also call the immigration court at the phone number listed below. About the Court. The Seattle Immigration Court falls under the jurisdiction of the Office of the Chief Immigration Judge, which is a component of the Executive Office for Immigration Review under the Department of Justice. ADDRESS: Seattle Immigration Court 915 2nd Ave., Suite 613 Seattle, WA 98174. Note: When visiting the court, please use the entrance on 1st Avenue. Please see Google Maps for a map and directions to the immigration court. 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When necessary, information on immigration court closures or changes to the immigration court’s operating hours is available at the following links: (1) Twitter and (2) Facebook. Shane Johnson. Shane Johnson (born January 1, 1974 in Brandon, Manitoba) is a retired Canadian-born British ice hockey defenceman. Playing career [ edit | edit source ] Johnson spent four seasons at Boston University before spending a year with the Canadian National Ice Hockey Team. In 1998, Johnson moved to the United Kingdom's British Ice Hockey Superleague with the London Knights. He then moved to the Bracknell Bees and won the Superleague title with the team. Johnson then moved to the Belfast Giants in 2000 and became a huge fan favourite during a six-year spell which saw him win another Superleague title in 2002, the playoff cup in 2003 and the Elite League title in 2006 as well as becoming an all-star. In 2006, Johnson moved to the Sheffield Steelers, but midway through the season, Johnson signed with the Slough Jets. In 2007, Johnson returned to Sheffield for a brief spell and had another brief spell with the Cardiff Devils before he rejoined the Giants. Johnson retired at the end of the 2009- 2010 season. Johnson also played for the Great Britain national ice hockey team and is now a British citizen. Johnson experiences thrill of narrow win in Magnolia event. Most competitive fishermen have endured the deflated feeling of losing a tournament by a fraction of an ounce. ACC pro staff member Shane Johnson got to experience the opposite feeling Saturday (Feb. 27). Fishing in the Magnolia Crappie Club tournament on Lake Washington in the Mississippi Delta, Shane and team partner Scott Ryals experienced the thrill of victory by a razor-thin margin. When the final fish had been weighed, Shane saw that his team had won by less than an ounce. Their winning seven-fish limit weighed 14.60. The second-place team weighed 14.56. “We’ve been beat like that before too,” Shane said. “Every hundredth of an ounce counts.” Indeed it does in ultra-competitive Magnolia events. For the last 30 years, the Magnolia club, which bills itself as the largest in North America, has brought together a collection of some of the best crappie fishermen in the country. Shane said he was in his third year of competing in Magnolia events. “Last year, we just hoped to finish in the top 10,” he said. “This year, our goal was to try and win one. Here we are.” The 54-boat event was fished about a week after ice and snow disappeared from the region, leaving the water cold and muddy. Shane, of Madison, MS, had spent a little time on Washington earlier in the week helping with a media event, and Thursday, he managed to get in some serious pre-fishing. “Pre-fishing was tough earlier in the week,” he said. “I took a couple of the guys (from the media event) out, but we didn’t have very good luck.” His fortunes began to turn on Thursday, however. “I filled the boat up with fish,” he said. “I caught them one after another. It was unbelievable.” The fish were in the same places Saturday. Shane said he cranked the big motor at the launch area at Cordell’s Landing, ran a few hundred yards down the lake, and didn’t crank up again until time for weigh in. “We knew it was going to be a numbers game,” Shane said. “We had to go through numbers of fish to find the quality ones. We probably caught 60 fish during the tournament.” Shane said he knew they had deposited some decent fish in the livewell but wasn’t sure about the weight. “My partner was really helping me taking fish off and putting minnows on,” Shane said. “I kept telling him that if we could just get a couple of those bigger fish, those 2 1/2-pounders, then we might have a chance. We never did find any that I thought were super fish. We had some quality in the boat but thought we needed a little bit more.” Shane helps with the weigh-in for Magnolia tournaments, so he made a quick dash back to the ramp and immediately started his duties there. “We didn’t weigh any of the fish that we took to weigh-in,” he said. “We just put our seven best in a bucket and didn’t know what we had. Because we were helping, we were next-to-last to weigh in. “We weighed our two biggest fish. When we put our biggest fish on the scales, they weighed something like 2.50 and 2.51. We already had a couple of those bigger fish that I thought we needed and just didn’t realize it.” Shane said he found the best fish in open-water sections of the middle of the lake. “Every time we went somewhere else, the quality was just not as good,” he said. “We’d go back to fishing the middle.” Shane normally uses a 16-foot ACC Crappie Stix trolling rod even when LiveScoping. While ACC makes a variety of jigging rods, Shane sticks with the longer trolling rod, especially in open-water or shallow-water situations. It’s light enough to sub as a day-long jigging pole. Shane also using the longer rod was pivotal in keeping the jig away from the boat in the shallow water of Lake Washington. Most of the better fish were caught in water about seven feet. Another key on tournament day was tipping with a minnow. Shane and his partner tie their own jigs and normally don’t use minnows unless forced to spider rig. Shane said he wasn’t sure what the wind would do Saturday, so he brought along some minnows just in case. He had used just a jig in pre-fishing and “caught so many, they destroyed it. Part of the body was halfway down the hook.” He preserved the frazzled jig for use in the tournament and decided to tip with a minnow. “They were annihilating it,” Shane said. The winning fish were caught on a 1/16 th -oz. silver jig with a 1/2-oz. weight secured up the line. “There’s a lot of good crappie fishermen in this club, and a lot of good fish weighed in Saturday,” Shane said. “I’m happy to win one against this competition.” The sequal to Ice. Any idea when Fire, the sequal of Ice will be ready? I am on the edge of my seat waiting. Post by Gary on Nov 16, 2006 21:19:58 GMT -5. I have read the book Ice several times, what a great ending, are you really considereing a sequal? Post by powrwrap on Nov 17, 2006 10:26:53 GMT -5. Any idea when Fire, the sequal of Ice will be ready? I am on the edge of my seat waiting. Me too. This week I finished reading a book called The Orion Protocol which is about testing the Orion Device, a photon laser which is supposed to provide a planetary defense and about the Apollo 18 astronauts finding alien artifacts on the moon. I immediately thought of Shane's book "Ice" and was wondering about the sequel, which prompted me to visit this forum again. In case you are curious, The Orion Protocol was only so-so. It took forever for the story to get to the point and I thought the author handled the multiple plot lines kind of clumsily. It got a lot better in the last third of the story and finished strong. Lots of cussing and sex, so be warned. Michelle Beale Guest. Post by Michelle Beale on Nov 27, 2006 19:36:30 GMT -5. I recently finished ICE and would love to know when the sequal is going to be published! The best part is the end when Shane gets into the unique theory on Noahs Ark. It really is quit thought provoking theory, I loved it. Have you guys read QUEST FOR ATLAN by Douglas Hirt? it's pretty good. Post by powrwrap on Nov 29, 2006 17:31:12 GMT -5. Quest for Atlan is the 2nd book of a trilogy called the Cradleland Chronicles. There was in order of release, Flight to Eden, Quest for Atlan, and Fall of the Nephilim. I liked the trilogy. It's about pre-flood earth. I thought the first book was the best. The writing in Quest got kind of simplistic and predictable. Fall of the Nephilim was an improvement on Quest but by the time I had finally gotten through it I was glad it was over. Except there is another book coming out. Post by Stuart on Dec 4, 2006 16:15:00 GMT -5. I'm guessing Shane doesn't actually answer questions posted on this site? Looks like there has been alot of hits on this topic and several responses from readers, I sure hope Shane will let us know something. Post by powrwrap on Dec 5, 2006 12:05:24 GMT -5. He used to answer question back when this forum was more active. I would hope he'd check into his own website at least on a weekly basis. Maybe he doesn't have anything new to tell us, but for fans of his work even that would be news. Shane? Post by LastGuardian on Jan 18, 2007 1:02:28 GMT -5. I've been away for a while (as touched upon elsewhere), but hope to be back with some semblance of regularity. The sequel to ICE, entitled FIRE, as of now still has not been sold to a publisher. A few have shown an interest, but most do not wish to publish a follow on to another publisher's release. But, one never knows. I'll keep you posted should any change occur. Post by Rita on May 24, 2007 8:15:10 GMT -5. Post by LastGuardian on May 31, 2007 13:03:52 GMT -5. It all comes down to money. Though it did pretty well, in the eyes of its publisher ICE simply didn't sell well enough to warrant a sequel. Perhaps at some point another publisher will acquire the rights to ICE . If so, they may then go ahead with FIRE . We'll see. Post by Ted M on Sept 30, 2007 22:06:23 GMT -5. I just finished Ice and would like to see the sequel published. If money is a problem, I would be willing to help. Are you willing to divulge a brief synopsis? Will it be about a base on Mars? A friend of mine published a novella through PublishAmerica and they have a high acceptance rate. Post by LastGuardian on Oct 6, 2007 3:27:29 GMT -5. Thank you for reading the novel, Ted. I'm glad you enjoyed it and your offer is very generous, but money really isn't the issue. it's a matter of getting a publisher to release the sequel to another publisher's book. Seems no one is willing to do that. And yes, the follow-up story does involve Mars. Post by Rokenbok on Oct 9, 2008 22:40:08 GMT -5. If money isn't an issue, then would you consider making Fire into a free ebook download? I ask because another Christian author, seen at this site: voxday.blogspot.com/ is providing a few of his books as free ebook downloads. (His Eternal Warriors trilogy -- War in Heaven, World in Shadow, Wrath of Angels -- is very good.) It works more or less like the computer shareware model. if people like the book, a donation is appreciated, but not required. (And a hard-copy of the book can be ordered as well, for the regular price.) It would be a shame for Fire to never see the light of day simply because no publisher could be found for it. Especially since the web makes it very easy for a person to self-publish. Post by Rick on Oct 17, 2008 11:03:54 GMT -5. Post by LastGuardian on Oct 20, 2008 3:04:48 GMT -5. Thank you for your interest in FIRE. I'd love to get the book out there for all to read. At this point, since the book never sold for publication, only the first few chapters have been written. There is a full synopsis, but the remainder of the book was shelved pending a contract. The good news is that ICE is now out of print. meaning it is available to me again, perhaps to be sold to a publisher interested in doing the sequel, as well. We'll see. If no interest is shown, then yes, I may go ahead and devote the months necessary to complete the manuscript for online distribution. I'm so sorry to make everyone keep waiting. that was never my intent. I'd have loved to have written FIRE and have it on the shelves years ago, but it wasn't up to me. Ice : The Greatest Truths Hide in the Darkest Shadows. In the late 1960s, NASA proposed hardware and mission parameters for an extended Apollo program that never materialized. Decades later, the existence of ice beds at the lunar south pole was discovered by NASA’s space probe Clementine and confirmed by the lunar satellite Lunar Prospector . Now, author and Apollo missions historian Shane Johnson explores the fantastic possibilities of what might have transpired, had the more ambitious version of the Apollo program gone forward as originally planned. It is February, 1975. Apollo 19, the last of the manned lunar missions, has successfully landed. Exhilarated and confident, Commander Gary Lucas and Lunar Module pilot Charlie Shepherd set out to explore a vast, mysterious depression at the lunar south pole. There, in the icy darkness–where temperatures reach 334 degrees below zero–the astronauts search for the fragments of crystalline bedrock the scientists back home had hoped for. But when tragedy strikes, the men are driven deeper into the lethal realm, where they find much more than they bargained for, including a strange machine that seemingly transports Lucas back to a pre-flood Earth, and startling evidence that could transform mankind’s perspective on all creation and its Creator– if only the men could miraculously make their way back home to earth to reveal it.