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A Call to Prayer About the Impact of COVID-19
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(5 June 2020) Emerging From the Coronavirus Pandemic: Many of us are still adjusting to the changes that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to our lives. Some did not expect the results of the immediate crisis to spill over into months or years of change. Yet this is the place in which we now find ourselves. While some countries are easing lockdown measures others are experiencing the peak of the disease. We realise that the effects of this pandemic will be long-lasting and far-reaching.
We praise God for his grace and provision in this season. He is always worthy of praise, no matter what we face. We recognise that prayer remains an important response to all that is happening in this world especially in this time of pandemic. In addition to the specific requests in the updates listed below, please pray for Alliance leaders and staff during this phase of the pandemic.
Coronavirus Prayer Update 12 June 2020 (English only): From Eurasia to Central America to Africa, opportunities and challenges abound for Alliance organisations: Creating Scripture videos to post online. Training churches in communications tools. Adjusting fundraising efforts when group gatherings are not possible. Working virtually where internet is unreliable. Keeping translation efforts going when workshops, Scripture recording initiatives, and celebrations for completed Scripture are postponed. As we pray for colleagues in countries still experiencing significant challenges from the COVID 19 pandemic, ask God to remind each one that we are precious and he has us in the palm of his hand.
Coronavirus Prayer Update 5 June 2020 (English only): This update focuses on the concerns in the Americas due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In Psalm 62: David writes words of confidence in God written at a time when he was beset by enemies. May this be our prayer for ourselves and all those engaged in the Bible translation movement, no matter what type of enemy we face. O my people, trust in him at all times. Pour out your heart to him, for God is our refuge. (Psalm 62:8 NLT)
Coronavirus Prayer Update 22 May 2020 (English only): We started sharing these prayer updates as a response to urgent needs within the Alliance community around the Coronavirus pandemic. The purpose was to support one another through a crisis situation. Nearly three months have passed and we recognise that for many the most pressing part of the crisis is over and what is emerging is a new and challenging reality.
Please continue to pray for Alliance organisations, especially those operating in countries where the coronavirus is at its height. This is the case in Russia, much of Africa and parts of Latin America as well as India and elsewhere. Pray also for those struggling to move forward in the emerging reality. Ask God to help us all keep our eyes fixed on him in the months to come.
We join with the author of the Hebrews in chapter 12 and verses 1 and 2 to encourage each other: Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith.
Coronavirus Prayer Update 15 May 2020 (English only): Let's praise God that in parts of the world the pandemic is on the decline, but let's not forget to pray for the areas which are still badly impacted.
Broken satellite communication equipment has disrupted email communication for staff in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Translation work in the Philippines has been interrupted where translators and project facilitators had to quarantine outside of their assigned areas, especially for projects where there is no internet access.
Alliance organisation leaders in Europe face decisions for how best to move forward as restrictions are gradually lifted.
A literacy staff member in West Africa is coordinating the collection and sharing of COVID-19 awareness materials for Francophone Africa. She is also assisting with development of project funding proposals and training materials, a challenge given the uncertainties during the pandemic.
I urge you, first of all, to pray for all people. Ask God to help them; intercede on their behalf, and give thanks for them. (1 Timothy 2:1 NLT)
Coronavirus Prayer Update 8 May 2020 (English only): May everyone who knows your mercy keep putting their trust in you. (Psalm 9:10a TNT) A 24-hour prayer chain unites churches in Democratic Republic of Congo. An audio Scripture recording team from Ghana is unable to return home from DRC. Alliance communications staff across the Americas share creative ideas of how to engage people during the pandemic. Alliance organisations that cooperate globally in recruiting, sending and caring for staff need strengthened relationships and communication during COVID-19 times.
Coronavirus Prayer Update 1 May 2020 (English only): For our present troubles are small and won't last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! (2 Corinthians 4:17-18) Our troubles during the pandemic may not feel small, but Paul encourages us to fix our eyes on God. Alliance Organisation staff in Nigeria, Taiwan, Japan, and Europe seek God's wisdom for: ways to support and potentially reassign personnel who have returned home from their countries of assignment; decisions on how and when to conduct postponed trainings and workshops (and whether to postone or cancel future events); how to manage disruptions to finances; how best to train and process new staff members preparing for service.
Coronavirus Prayer Update 24 April 2020 (English only): Many in our family of organisations are facing great challenges. An ECS translation leader from Sudan is stranded by COVID travel restrictions. Wycliffe Malaysia strives to care for staff waiting to resume translation and literacy work. Working remotely is challenging for Connections Bangladesh and The Nigeria Bible Translation Trust (NBTT), especially where internet is limited. Let's continue to ask God to impact the lives of everyone in the Alliance with his love, grace and favour.
Coronavirus Prayer Update 10 April 2020 (English only): Wycliffe USA encouraging field staff, financial fallout for European Alliance organisations, Wycliffe Benin New Testament released without previously planned celebration, Wycliffe Caribbean continuing translation remotely and rethinking trainings, Wycliffe Norway resourcing both evacuated staff and those who remain in field locations. As we rejoice in Christ's resurrection we can find comfort that God is our great confidence and a place to shelter from this storm.
A Call to Prayer for the Alliance – Stephen Coertze (9 April 2020): A brief panorama of what we are experiencing and observing in the Alliance in the form of a prayer request.
Coronavirus Prayer Update 3 April 2020 (English only): A key linguistic training in Latin America must go online. European Alliance organisations evacuate field staff and strive to develop strategies for continuing translation work in a post-COVID world. Alliance staff in Cameroon and the Philippines help translate COVID materials into local languages, while translators unable to do community checks look to family members to test drafts. As you pray for this week's requests, pray for all Alliance organisations' leaders and staff to remain in the peace that passes all understanding (Philippians 4:6-7). It is a great comfort in this season of uncertainty and change.
Coronavirus Prayer Update 27 March 2020 (English only): Alliance organizations in Europe, Asia and Africa face decisions and challenges that affect their work during the Coronavirus pandemic. God is helping some to find creative solutions. Pray that leaders and staff all across the Alliance will find ways to "be still" (Psalm 46:10) before God during the pandemic.
Coronavirus Prayer Update 20 March 2020 (English only): AITB staff in Italy affected by the country's lockdown, BTL's annual 'Run for the Bibleless' postponed in Kenya, trainings affected in South Korea and Spain. The situation surrounding COVID-19 and responses to its impact are constantly changing around the world. God is sovereign and he is our place of safety, our protection and our strength.
Coronavirus Prayer Update 12 March 2020: Postponed workshops in Asia, meeting decisions in the Philippines, cancelled meetings in Kenya. Christians are not immune to the impact of COVID19. We have an opportunity to encourage each other to place our faith in God.
(6 March 2020) Initial Call to Prayer: COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) started in Asia and now has a widespread impact globally, with people contracting the illness in all regions of the world. Millions of people are suffering from fear and the effects on their daily lives from restrictions of many types. The economic impact is apparent in some countries. Some churches are choosing not to meet, and need prayer on how to best serve. In the Bible Translation movement, people planning conferences, workshops and meetings have to assess risk in a constantly changing situation.
God calls us to demonstrate his love for this world. Some of us can do this by supporting those who are sick or encouraging colleagues in the nations most affected by the virus. We can all join together in unity to pray for our world at this time of uncertainty, sadness and loss. We will share specific needs about the COVID-19 situation on this page in the coming weeks.
That God will stop the spread of the virus.
That those living in fear will find God's peace that passes understanding as they present their requests to God. (Philippians 4:6-7)
That God will provide for all those who are suffering economically.
For healing for individuals who have been infected with COVID-19. Ask God to comfort those who are mourning the loss of someone they love who has died as a result of this disease.
That the authorities in countries impacted will know how to best look after those who are ill from COVID-19 and contain the spread of the disease.
For leaders of the Alliance and of all partner organisations. Ask God to give them wisdom to respond in good stewardship, but not fear. Pray that he would guide them in implementing safety measures if meetings go forward as planned.
For all staff who are coping with challenges resulting from changed travel plans and cancelled meetings.
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Рогово — деревня в Судогодском районе Владимирской области, входит в состав Головинского сельского поселения.

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Деревня расположена на берегу речки Поль в 2 км к западу от центра поселения посёлка Головино и в 32 км на запад от райцентра города Судогда.

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В конце XIX — начале XX века деревня входила в состав Подольской волости Владимирского уезда. В 1859 году в деревне числилось 9 дворов, в 1905 году — 12 дворов, в 1926 году — 19 хозяйств.
В начале XX в. в деревне  располагалась приходская церковь Роговской старообрядческой общины. В ГБУВО "Государственный архив Владимирской области" частично сохранились метрические книги общины за 1909-1920 гг. ( Ф. 590. Оп. 24. Д. 2, 3.).

С 1929 года деревня входила с состав Головинского сельсовета Владимирского района, с 1965 года — Судогодского района.

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The deregulation of the maize industry in the 1997 had the opposite of the desired effect and competition actually decreased and milling and delivery costs increased. But there is a solution with more benefits than just immediate better prices.
My agriculture colleagues joke by telling me that grain milling is the second oldest industry in the world.
Their smiles reduce to a smirk as they explain how, after deregulation, South Africa's food oligopoly has reached its radical economies of scale and technological efficiencies at the expense of smallholder farming. To my surprise, I discover how important milling is to the heart of agriculture and food production and how the demise of its "profession and art" hurts all of society in some way.
They tell me this is a problem because with an ever-fluctuating globally based maize price, price increases in the local market are almost always immediately passed on to the consumer, while price decreases lag as long as possible and are absorbed as profit for the food industry.
They add that retailers would welcome new entrants, since there are effectively only three main suppliers to choose from, who are caught up in almost continuous price fixing scandals. … All while, the price of oil hits $100 per barrel, large-scale milling equipment starts to age and intense labour pressure is forcing government to assess whether serious structural changes to the agricultural sector aren't necessary to stem the tide of food price inflation.
At an emotional level, it is easy to look at this snapshot of South Africa's large agricultural problems and lay blame on South Africa's large commercial oligarchs. But, in fairness, the trend of industrialisation and consolidation was global in nature and anyway, we need the big players now more than ever to maintain stability in our economy. And for this reason, government will protect them in the short-term.
Solutions and innovation, however, won't come from the establishment. It will be new models and entrants that will shift the agriculture sector towards the future. A new wave of entrepreneurial innovation needs to grip the food value chain as it has the technology sector.
And so my agriculture colleagues' smiles return as they explain how "a silver bullet" that South Africa's agricultural sector needs, may be the reinvigoration of micro-milling industry and more broadly a return to "what once was" within the context of 21st century global value chains.
South Africa has the largest and most sophisticated industrialised farming and agri-processing capabilities in Africa and the country's strong road, rail and port infrastructure attest to why the industrial-scale model should work here. And it does for some, but not all.
When looking at the agricultural sector's employment statistics, we see that its share of total jobs has dropped from 10.6% in 2002 to 4.7% in 2012, equating to roughly 30,000 jobs lost each year over that period. This trend has been influenced by a variety of factors, but it has been fundamentally driven by the industrialised nature of the sector; small farms now only represent 10% of overall production in South Africa. In a country facing 25% unemployment nationally and 52% in rural areas, this is not a favourable trend.
What's more, agriculture's negative employment trends have had other negative impacts by fuelling a rural-to-urban migration. Today, over 60% of the country lives in urban centres compared to just over 50% in 1990. This rapid rate of urbanisation has brought increased demands for welfare support, urban food insecurity and rising crime levels. These migration patterns have been particularly problematic for smaller cities, which do not have the civil or economic capacity to absorb so many new entrants.
Agricultural industrialisation has hurt those that have stayed in the rural areas as well – primarily from a food affordability standpoint. Highly refined maize meal is the cornerstone of the South Africa's food industry and also the food staple for many South Africans and most poor South Africans, of which there are 11-million chronically poor in this country, 80% of whom live in rural areas. But because of how the maize milling industry has shifted and been restructured over time, those who rely most on this key food item end up paying more for it than their wealthier urban counterparts.
We've also experienced increased levels of protest action in municipalities such as De Doorns and the widespread use of seasonal workers on farms to reduce costs. Unions and agriculture sector bodies are starting to say that the long-term sustainability of agriculture is under threat in South Africa. As a society, we should stop looking at symptoms and putting Band-Aids on the problem. We need to start addressing systems, which need shifting.
An explanation starts with the deregulation of the maize industry in 1997. The government's intention was to increase competition across the value chain for maize products. The actual result was the opposite. Due to the capital intensity of maize-milling, deregulation solidified a 60-year-old oligopoly by forcing the concentration of the entire maize supply-chain around the country's three largest milling facilities, as owned by the big three located in Kroonstad, Krugersdorp and Randfontein. Existing privately owned mills were consolidated and merged onto larger, sites while regional mills gradually disappeared.
Randfontein, where the largest mill was based, became the centre for grain trading on the SAFEX grain market and a new maize pricing structure was set, based on the theoretical cost of delivering the product to Randfontein from its storage facility. As a result, maize silos started to consolidate around this new commercial centre and the rest of the industry followed suite. Small farmers across South Africa, who once provided maize to hundreds of local mills and the big three's former regional plants during regulation, were crippled under the new structure by the cost of transporting their product to the large commercial mills. In turn, the large mills found it inefficient to deal with small maize producers.
This is why today, in spite of South Africa's favourable climate for maize growing, approximately 83% of all of the country's maize comes from only three provinces – the Free State, Mpumalanga and North West – and why 65% of the nearly 5-million tons of maize meal consumed each year in South Africa by the domestic maize meal market is produced by only three companies.
However, the craziest thing is that transport and logistics can account for close to 35% of the final cost of maize products. Therefore consumers in rural Eastern Cape pay significantly more for a 5kg bag of super maize meal than patrons of a central Johannesburg grocery store. This results in roughly a 20% price differential, according to the National Agricultural Marketing Council's August 2012 report.
To me, there is something deeply wrong with our society if we consciously enable a system where the poorest in the population pay the highest prices for their staple food source.
But what if we began localising the maize (and wheat) value-chain, particularly in rural areas? This would significantly reduce transport needs and costs and positively impact final product prices for consumers by at least 20%.
What's more, putting up a network of micro-mills in rural South Africa could be a radical innovation, creating thousands of downstream jobs and driving job creation to South Africa's most poverty stricken areas, since on average, each new mill would need to be supported by 3,000 hectares of (ideally, within a 100km radius of each mill) farmed maize and 25 to 30 mill workers.
The South African Department of Trade and Industry has caught on. Recognising the potential benefits of micro maize-milling projects for food security and job creation, the DTI has made these projects a priority for its Manufacturing Investment Programme. So far, it has committed R60-million of grant funding and reports to have created 740 jobs and retained 1,100 more through these initiatives. But to shift our food system, an entire movement is required.
And even outside of the DTI, there is some localised infrastructure in place already. Not quite the couple thousand mills there used to be decades ago before industry regulation kicked in, but currently, there are an estimated 180 micro-mills dotted throughout South Africa. These can process one to five tons of maize per hour. The problem is they have not typically been able to produce the high quality super maize meal that sells to the consumer market. Rather, they have produced the less popular lower-quality "special" maize meal for sale to consumers and coarse animal feed, which sells at a much lower margin than consumer-quality maize products.
With improvements in technology over the past 10 years, micro-mills now have the potential to generate more than 60% premium quality "super" maize-meal and an additional 10% to 15% of the slightly more coarse "special" meal with the right equipment. The remaining product can still be sold on as animal feed.
Localisation in the context of agriculture cannot only be created through the re-distribution of inputs and products, but also the participation/shared ownership of local communities and emerging farmers. Agriculture, like mining, needs to shift to a construct of shared value creation. In reconstructing these value chains, we need to break the construct of employer vs labour and create the notion of "partnerships and shared interest".
At a structural level, if one recreates food value chains, it has to be done through a values-based and ethical approach. In the food value chains of the future, racism and abuse are punishable via access to opportunities and markets and incentives are rewarded through productivity and efficiency.
The bottom line is food localisation has to happen in South Africa to help alleviate some of the very serious socio-economic issues the country faces. Micro milling provides an opportunity to do this without charity or hand-outs, without heavy government intervention; rather, with a sustainable market-based solution… with the potential to make expansive financial returns and achieve social gains at the same time.


I called Eliza at her home outside Fylingdales near Scarborough in the middle of a busy day.
It's about songs on Eigg. Are you taking instruments?
I've read about how Eliza got into the fiddle at the age of 11 after her granddad's old fiddle was found in a cupboard after he died. With a family of mostly singers, plus her dad Martin on guitar, was the fiddle a bit of a departure?
You went from beginner to performer in such a short time? I saw you with Nancy in 1993. Your fiddle sound was established already?
Could I hear Dave Swarbrick in your playing at that time?
Eliza has a 'Best Of' compilation out called Wayward Daughter. I saw you with the Wayward Band on the Meadows in Edinburgh last Sunday. You looked in fine form?
You've had a rough time recently?
You're passionate about English music, but there are so many different kinds?
So we're all mongrels. I can't hear any Morris on your playing?
Last month I asked Chris Leslie, a prominent English fiddler with Fairport Convention, about your Symposium and he hadn't heard of it.
You say you'd like to do more teaching. You've got a job at The Sage?
All this ethnomusicology with no A-levels either?
I was reading about Tim Eriksen, the partner on your last CD, Bottle.
You're thinking about an English Fiddle School?
Sometimes traditions are started or revived by a single person, or by just a few, like John Doherty in Donegal?
It looks as if you've reached the level now where you've got the knowledge and ability. You can do these things off the cuff, with little preparation. I see that you recorded Bottle in one afternoon plus a live recording?
Tim sounds like a fellow spirit, a sort of punk folkie?
Tim's fiddle technique is very different to your classical technique. He has his fiddle on his left breast?
Lots of trad players and singers see modern music, young persons' music, mostly from America, as a threat, but you've embraced punk and club dance beats?
How about your daughters Florence and Isabella (aged four and six)? Are they wayward too - are they going to be musicians?


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A new idea: from January onwards we are going to serve coffee and biscuits from 10.30 before the Morning Praise services. These are the informal services usually held on the second Sunday of the month, and in January that's Sunday the 11th. This is just to provide a chance for a better welcome and chance to chat before the service gets underway. If you have young children this gives you time to explore the toys area with them and for them to feel comfortable in the environment if it is new to them. We hope this will be helpful and enjoyable for all.
For pre-school children, including babies, their parents and grandparents or carers.


I've been there twice, and both times the owner seemed unhappy to have us there, and definetly NOT CHEERFUL! The waitresses were nice, but upon entering, both times we got an unfriendly once over, as if we weren't 'tearoom material'. I love to go there with my daughter, who's 3, she thinks it's the greatest! And she's the perfect lady when we're there. I've even been complimented by other ladies, saying how good she was. Maybe the owners have had poor experiences with children, but maybe they should get over it, before they loose customers. After all, they are our/your future tea drinkers.


First Rate Property Management's current vacancy rate is 2.1%, down from last years numbers at this time at 2.6%. One reason our vacancy rate is lower is because of the lease renewal efforts. In the 2011 January through April time frame we had 205 leases ending and renewed 97 of them, a 47% retention rate. This year in the same time frame we had 171 leases ending and renewed 106 of them, a 62% retention rate.
The graph below shows the vacancy rates for the last three years.
The sales market also continues to improve for both single family and smaller multi-family buildings. It's a great sign to once again see so many construction vehicles on the road pulling equipment or trailers headed to a build job. To get an idea of what's going on, I thought I would share some of my own activity for the past 8 weeks through Swope Investment properties.


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require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../spec_helper')

describe OrganisationSuspender do

  describe "run" do
    before :all do
      Organisation.delete_all
      period = OrganisationSuspender::GRACE_PERIOD
      @one_day_past = Organisations.
        create_organisation!(:name => 'one day past')
      @one_day_past.update_attribute(:next_payment_date, (period + 1).days.ago)

      @at_start = Organisations.
        create_organisation!(:name => 'at start')
      @at_start.update_attribute(:next_payment_date, period.days.ago)

      @inside = Organisations.
        create_organisation!(:name => 'inside')
      @inside.update_attribute(:next_payment_date, (period - 1).days.ago)

      OrganisationSuspender.run
    end

    it "should suspend organisations past grace period" do
      @one_day_past.reload.should be_suspended
    end

    it "should suspend organisations exactly GRACE_PERIOD days ago" do
      @at_start.reload.should be_suspended
    end

    it "should not suspend organisations inside grace period" do
      @inside.should_not be_suspended
    end
  end

end

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