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4 class action lawsuit against Bella Collina (Part 4 of 15)
Despite knowledge of the illegality of its operation of the POA, the Conspirators, without property owner approval, appointed its agents, including at all relevant times Burman, Greene, Clarke and Lebreux, to act as unelected board members of the POA
THE FRAUDULENT RECORDED AND POA DOCUMENTS
Despite knowledge of the illegality of its operation of the POA, the Conspirators, without property owner approval, appointed its agents, including at all relevant times Burman, Greene, Clarke and Lebreux, to act as unelected board members of the POA and on the instruction of DCS, fraudulently recorded the Third Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions for Bella Collina on September 4, 2012, the Fourth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions for Bella Collina on October 25, 2013, the Fifth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions for Bella Collina on March 19, 2014, and subsequent amendments to the CC&Rs, all of which alleged declarations were illegal and used in furtherance of the hereinafter described conspiracy to deprive POA members of their lots and control of their POA. (These unauthorized amendments are recorded at Book Number 4208, Page 409, Book Number 4398 Page 1814, Book Number 4453, Page 1983 in the official records of Lake County, Florida and are incorporated herein by reference.)
On or about June 27, 2012, Greene, Burman and Arrighi, executed and included among the POA's records, a document entitled "'ACTION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE BELLA COLLINA PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., TAKEN BY UNANIMOUS WRITTEN CONSENT IN LIEU OF A SPECIAL MEETING," appointing themselves President, Vice President and Secretary, respectively, without any notice to the lot owners.
From 2005 to 2009, Ginn and Burman filed false documents with the Florida Divisions of Corporation, indicating that Mike Searles, and other agents or employees of Ginn, were officers of the POA.
On August 25, 2012, the Conspirators filed a document with the Florida Secretary of State falsely representing that the POA principle place of business was Burman and Aegis' address, that Aegis was the registered Agent, and that Greene, Burman and Luen Chan, a lot owner, were the officers and directors of the POA, which confirmed the illegal "Action of the Board of Directors of the Bella Collina Property Owners Association, Inc. Taken by Unanimous Written Consent in Lieu of a Special Meeting," on June 28, 2012 and contradicted the resolution illegally adopted the day before.
Almost immediately, Luen Chan resigned, giving the following reason in an email message dated September 19, 2012: "…all POA decisions and actions have been made without my involvements (sic) or even knowledge. It is clear that my position in the developer-controlled POA board is in name only."
However, Simonson had already executed an "Action of Declarant of the Bella Collina Property Owners Association, Inc." dated August 25, 2012, accepting Luen Chan's resignation and resolving that Paul Lebreux would serve as director in his place.
On September, 23, 2009, Burman and Aegis filed a false document with the Florida Division of Corporations, indicating that Aegis was the new registered agent of the POA and Aegis' address was the new "principal address".
From 2012 to the present, the Conspirators filed false documents with the Florida Department of State Corporations Bureau, the Lake County Departments of Zoning and Code Enforcement, and the Lake County Clerk of Courts representing that they were the authorized representatives of the POA and that they were authorized by the POA and its members to file the said documents, all for the benefit of the Defendants and to the detriment of the POA and its members as hereinafter described.
On August 20, 2012, Burman, filed a false record with the Florida Division of Corporations, indicating that he, Greene, and Luen Chan were the directors and officers of the corporation.
Every year since 2012, Burman, acting as an agent and at the direction of the Conspirators, filed false records with the Florida Division of Corporations, indicating that unelected agents or employees of the Conspiracy were the directors and officers of the POA.
Burman knew these filings were false and made the false representations in these filings so that the agents and officers of the Conspiracy appeared authorized to conduct the business of the POA, which false representations were essential to the success of the conspiracy.
Without Burman's false filings, the Conspirators could not have controlled the accounts or legal actions of the POA.
On September 4, 2012, within three months of DCS' acquisition of the assignment of developer's rights, Simonson, as an agent of the conspirators, and with the intent to fulfill the Conspiracy, filed the ..Third Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions for Bella Collina" (hereinafter the "Third Amended CC&Rs") at Book Number 4208, Page 409 in the Public Records of Lake County, Florida.
The Third Amended CC&Rs fraudulently asserted that, "pursuant to Article XII, Section 9(A) of the CC&Rs, Declarant may unilaterally amend the terms of the CC&Rs."
To the contrary, Article XII, Section 9 of the prior CC&Rs addresses '"Waiver of Subrogation" in an Article that exclusively deals with "Insurance and Condemnation."
Article XIII, Section 8 of the prior CC&Rs, which does address "Amendment and Modification," requires that "After the Turnover Date, this Declaration may be amended by: (i) the consent of the Owners owning two-thirds (2/3) of all Lots; together with (ii) the approval or ratification of a majority of the Board."
Simonson falsely represented that this amendment was joined in by the POA.
The fraudulent Third Amended CC&Rs illegally eliminated "asphalt bike paths, horsetrails,"…"Equestrian Property," added seventy nine (79) lots, eliminated the prohibition of amendments effecting the equestrian property, required notification to the Club Property Owner of any proposed lot sale so that DCS could interfere with such sale or demand payment of the illegal special assessment for club dues, reduced the soon to expire build compulsion from twenty-four (24) to eighteen (18) months, increased the expiration of the declarant's repurchase rights from ten (10) years to twenty (20) years, allowed construction and operation of a hotel and transferred the "Association's rights to enforce the lien and foreclosure provisions of Article VI" to the Club Property Owner, all to fulfill the illegal conspiracy.
Paul Simonson, acting on the instruction of the Conspirators, signed this amendment on August 28, 2012 as "manager" of DCS Capital Investments, LLC, DCS Investment Holdings, GP, LLC, The Golf Club and Bella Collina, LLC with the full knowledge that he lacked authority to file the third Amended CC&Rs illegal, and that they were in furtherance of the conspiracy.
The Third Amended CC&Rs added illegal and unreasonable new language to Article l, Section 16 of the Second Amended Declarations providing that "[a]ny facilities may be added or removed from the Club Property from time to time in the sole discretion of the Club Property Owner."
The Third Amended CC&Rs added illegal and unreasonable new language to Article II, Section 3, Subsection D of the Second Amended Declarations providing that "the Association reserves the right to transfer the Association's rights to enforce the lien and foreclosure provisions of Article VI to the Club Property Owner from time to time, in the Association's sole discretion."
The Third Amended CC&Rs added illegal and unreasonable amendments at Article X, Section 19, Subsection D, Paragraph 5 providing that DCS's repurchase rights are extended from I0 years to 20 years and added language to Article X, Section 21 which allows DCS to ""develop or create portions of the Committed Property as a hotel or resort."
The Ryans and the Ryan Law Firm, in furtherance of the Conspiracy, filed fraudulent lawsuits to selectively enforce the build compulsion contained in the Amended CC&Rs and the Second Amended CC&Rs, which had expired in 2014, but had been illegally extended for another ten (I 0) years in the fraudulent Third Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions for Bella Collina at Article X, paragraph 23, subparagraph 5, which states that the repurchase right shall expire '"…teR (IQ) twenty (20) years after the date of these CC&Rs are recorded in the Public Records.
The illegal enforcement of an expired build compulsion was a scheme that the Conspirators employed to selectively extort lots from Bella Collina lot owners.
The Third Amended CC&Rs added illegal and unreasonable amendments at Article X, Section 21, which allows DCS to "develop or create portions of the Committed Property as a hotel or resort."
The Third Amended CC&Rs, and all CC&Rs and legal documents filed in the Public records, were a violation of §712.08, Florida Statutes, which prohibits the assertion of "false or fictitious claims to land."
On January 28, 2016, Burman filed a false document (assigned document number N03000011005 and CC3513563321) with the Florida Secretary of State, Department, which indicated that Joseph P. Cross (hereinafter '"Cross"), a lot owner at Bella Collina, was President of the POA, Clark was the Secretary, Lebreux was the Vice President, Burman was a Director and Aegis was the Registered Agent, which document bore the electronic signature of Cross.
On information and belief, Burman, or one of the other Conspirators, forged Cross' signature, and Cross never consented to be President of the POA.
Also on January 28, 2016, the Ryans and The Ryan Law Group filed a false Document (InstrumentNumber2016009918)titled ..DECLARATION OF JOINDER AND RATIFICATION BY A SUPER MAJORITY OF THE BELLA COLLINA LOT OWNERS OF ALL PRIOR ACTS OF THE DECLARANT WITH REGARDS TO AMENDING OR SUPPLEMENTING THE COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS FOR BELLA COLLINA CC&RS" with the Lake County Clerk of the Circuit Court at Book 4734, Page 892, which was signed by Greene as President of the POA and Simonson as Manager of DCS and "on behalf of the Owners of the Lots Listed on Exhibit A."
The January 28, 2016 Declaration was a desperate act by the Conspirators in furtherance of the conspiracy objective of maintaining illegal control of the POA.
The January 28, 2016 Declaration falsely ratified "all prior acts of the Declarant with regard to the amending or supplementing the CC&Rs for BELLA COLLINA," including increasing the number of lots in the community to avoid the ninety percent (90%) turnover threshold, that the Declarant received the authority of 118 other Bella Collina lot owners and that "All acts done by DCS as Declarant are hereby ratified unanimously by the Board of the POA and by more than Two-Third (2/3) of the owners of lots in Bella Collina, including Declarant."
On April 6, 2016, Burman filed a false document (assigned document number N03000011005 and CCSO18089117) with the Florida Secretary of State, Department, which indicated that Dutch P. Holt (hereinafter ..Holt"), a lot owner at Bella Collina, Clark, and Lebreux were Directors of the POA, Greene was President of the POA, Burman was the Secretary, Burman was the Vice President, and Aegis was the Registered Agent, which document bore the electronic signature of Greene.
On June 7, 2016, Burman filed a false document (assigned document number N03000011005 and CC5018089117) with the Florida Secretary of State, Department, which indicated that Dutch P. Holt (hereinafter "Holt"), a lot owner at Bella Collina, Clark, and Lebreux were Directors of the POA, Greene was President of the POA, Burman was the Secretary, Burman was the Vice President, and Aegis was the Registered Agent, which document bore the electronic signature of Greene.
Prepared by: Don Juravin Education
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A flat work surface at a comfortable height.
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Dr. Thomas Sharpton's research is broadly directed towards ascertaining how commensal microbiota and their genomic characteristics (i.e., the microbiome) relate to health. His laboratory specializes in the development and application of high-throughput computational and statistical tools that characterize microbiome biology, and investigates how microbiomes are distributed across space, time, and host physiology. The Sharpton lab aims to develop testable hypotheses about how hosts and their microbiome interact, and strives to understand the evolutionary and ecological processes that influence community assembly, maintenance, and function within a host. Ultimately, this knowledge will be used to discover disease mechanisms, identify predicative and diagnostic biomarkers of disease, and develop tools to treat disease through manipulation of the microbiome. All of the data resources and software that his lab develops are freely available.
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Morelan, I.A., Gaulke, C.K., Sharpton, T.J., Thurber, R. Vega, and Denver, D.R. 2019. Microbiome variation in an intertidal sea anemone across latitudes and symbiotic states. Frontiers in Mar. Sci. 6:7.
Flannery, J. Callaghan, B., Sharpton, T., Fisher, P., and Pfeifer, J. 2019. Is adolescence the missing developmental link in Microbiome-Gut-Brain axis communication? Dev. Psychobiol. PMID: 30690712.
Kirchoff, N.S., Udell, M.A.R., and Sharpton, T.J. 2019. The gut microbiome correlates with conspecific aggression in a small population of rescued dogs (Canis familiaris). PeerJ. PMID: 30643689.
Gaulke, C.A., Martins, M.L., Watral, V.G., Humphreys, I.R., Spagnoli, S.T., Kent, M.L., and Sharpton, T.J. 2019. A longitudinal assessment of host-microbe-parasite interactions resolves the zebrafish gut microbiome's link to Pseudocapillaria tomentosa infection and pathology. Microbiome. PMID 30678738.
Gaulke, C.A., Rolshoven, J., Wong, C.P., Hudson, L.G., Ho, E., and Sharpton, T.J. 2018. Marginal zinc deficiency and environmentally relevant concentrations of arsenic elicit combined effects on the gut microbiome. mSphere. 3(6):pii:e00521.
Gaulke, C.A. and Sharpton, T.J. 2018. The influence of ethnicity and geography on human gut microbiome composition. Nat. Med. 24(10):1495-1496.
Kent, M.L., Gaulke, G.A., Watral, V., and Sharpton, T.J. 2018. Pseudocapillaria tomentosa in laboratory zebrafish (Danio rerio): Patterns of infection and dose response. Dis. Aquat. Org. (in press).
Wang, L., Shantz, A.A., Payet, J., Sharpton, T.J., Foster, A., Burkepile, D.E., and Vega-Thurber, R. 2018. Corals and their microbiomes are differentially affected by exposure to elevated nutrients and a natural thermal anomaly. Frontiers of Mar. Sci. 5:101.
Allan, E.R.O., Tennessen, J.A., Sharpton, T.J. and Blouin, M.S. 2018. Allelic variation in a single genomic region alters the microbiome of the snail Biomphalaria glabrata. J. Hered. Mar 16. PMID 29566237.
Burns, AR., Watral, V., Sichel, S. Spagnoli, S., Banse, A.V., Mittge, E., Sharpton, T.J., Guillemin, K., Kent, M.L. 2018. Transmission of a common gastrointestinal neoplasm in zebrafish by co-habituation. J Fish Dis.41:569-579.
Gaulke, C.A., Arnold, H.K., Humphreys, I.R., Kembel, S.W., O'Dwyer, J.P., and Sharpton, T.J. 2018. Ecophylogenetics clarifies the evolutionary association between mammals and their gut microbiota. MBio. 9:(5).
Torres, E.R.S., Akinyeke, T., Stagaman, K., Duvoisin, R.M., Meshul, C.K., Sharpton, T.J. and Raber, J. 2018. Effects of sub-chronic MPTP exposure on behavioral and cognitive performance and the microbiome of wild-type and mGlu8 knockout female and male mice. Front Behav. Neurosci. 12:140.
Sharpton, T.J. 2018. Role of the gut microbiome in vertebrate evolution. mSystems. 3(2). PMID 29629413.
Cheng, Y., Wang, Y., Li, Y., Zhang, Y., Liu, T., Wang, Y., Sharpton, T.J., and Zhu, W. 2017. Progressive colonization of bacteria and degradation of rice straw in the rumen by illumina sequencing. Front Microbiol. 8:2165.
Wilson, A.K., Watral, V.G., Kent, M.L., Sharpton, T.J., and Gaulke, C.A. 2017. Draft genome sequence of Pseudomonas sp. strain DrBHL1 (Phylum Proteobacteria). Genome Announc. 5(39):PMID 28963227.
Sharpton, T., Lyalina, S., Luong, J., Pham, J., Deal, E.M., Armour, C., Gaulke, C., Sanjabi, S., and Pollard, K.S. 2017. Development of inflammatory bowel disease is linked to a longitudinal restructuring of the gut metagenome in mice. newmSystems. 2(5). pii: e00036-17. doi: 10.1128/mSystems.00036-17.
Foster, Z.S., Sharpton, T.J., and Grünwald, N.J. 2017. Metacoder: An R package for visualization and manipulation of community taxonomic diversity data. PLoS Comput Biol. 13(2):e1005404. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005404.
Conley, M.N., Wong, C.P., Duyck, K.M., Hord, N., Ho, E., and Sharpton, T.J. 2016. Aging and serum MCP-1 are associated with gut microbiome composition in a murine model. PeerJ. PMID 27069796.
Kent, M.L., Watral, V.G., Kirchoff, N.S., Spagnoli, S.T., and Sharpton, T.J. 2016. Effects of subclinical Mycobacterium chelonae infections on fecundity and embryo survival in zebrafish. Zebrafish PMID 27031171.
Nayfach, S., Bradley, P.H., Wyman, S.K., Laurent, T.J., Williams, A., Eisen, J.A., Pollard, K.S., and Sharpton, T.J. 2015. Automated and accurate estimation of gene family abundance from shotgun metagenomes. PLoS Comput. Biol. 11(11)e1004573.
Sharpton, T.J. and Gaulke, C.A. 2015. Modeling the context-dependent associations between the gut microbiome, its environment, and host health. MBio. 6(5):e01367-15. doi:10.1128.
O'Dwyer J.P., Kembel, S.W. and Sharpton, T.J. 2015. Backbones of evolutionary history test biodiversity theory for microbes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 112(27):8356-61.
Quandt, C.A., Kohler, A., Hesse, C.N., Sharpton, T.J., Martin, F. and Spatafora, J.W. 2015. Metagenome sequence of Elaphomyces granulatus from sporocarp tissue reveals Ascomycota ectomycorrhizal fingerprints of genome expansion and a Proteobacteria-rich microbiome. Environ. Microbiol. 17(8):2952-68.
Skewes-Cox, P., Sharpton, T.J., Ruby, J.G., Pollard, K.S., and DeRisi, J.L. 2014. Profile hidden Markov models for the detection of viruses within metagenomic sequence data. PLOS ONE. 9(8):e105067.
Sharpton, T.J. 2014. An introduction to the analysis of shotgun metagenomic data. Frontiers in Plant Genetics and Genomics. 16(5):209.
Kent, M.L., Soderlund, K., Thomann, E., Schreck, C.B., and Sharpton, T.J. 2014. Post-mortem sporulation of Ceratomyxa shasta (myxozoa) after death in adult chinook salmon. J. Parisitol. PMID: 24725089.
Kidd, J.M., Sharpton, T.J., Bobo, D., Norman, P.J., Martin, A.R., Carpenter, M.L., Sikora, M.,Gignoux, C.R., Nemat-Gorgani, N., Adams, A., Guadalupe, M., Guo, X., Feng, Q., Li, Y., Liu, X., Parham, P., Hoal, E.G. Feldman, M.W., Pollard, K.S., Wall, J.D., Bustamante, C.D. and Henn, B.M. 2014. Exome capture from saliva produces high quality genomic and metagenomic data. BMC Genomics 4(15):262.
Finucane, M.M., Sharpton, T.J., Laurent, T.J., Pollard, K.S. A taxonomic signature of obesity in the microbiome? Getting to the guts of the matter. 2014. PLOS ONE. 8;9(1):e84689.
Ladau, J., Sharpton, T.J., Jospin, G., Kembel, S.W., O'Dwyer, J.P., Koeppel, A., Green, J.L., and Pollard, K.S. 2013. Global marine bacterial diversity peaks at high latitudes in winter. Intl. Soc. of Microbial Ecology J., March 1, DOI:10.1038/ismej.2013.37. PMC Journal, in process.
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2019 Indian Premier League: Complete IPL Betting Guide
Ed Hawkins
Wednesday, March 6, 2019 8:24 PM UTC
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The IPL is the glitziest and most dramatic cricket event of the year. It's also a massive betting event. We mark your card to make sure you're prepped for profits.

Daily Updates and Tips:

Complete Daily IPL 2019 Cricket Betting odds

Indian Premier League History

The Indian Premier League is 12 years-old this year. As it approaches its teenage years' it is comfortable in its skin having suffered a fractious beginning when it pretty much upset everyone with its demands, hissy fits and throwing its toys in the corner if it didn't get its way. By tempting players from every Test playing nation with big bucks there was a stand off as cricketers were asked to chose a newly-formed franchise over their country. Over time a happy medium has been reached.

It is arguably now the dominant force in the world game. International teams plan their schedule around it, the world's best players ensure they're fit for it and a television audience of 700 million can't wait for it.

Rajasthan Royals won the inaugural tournament – it was a major shock as they were the bookies' rags - but haven't won it since. This year's holders are Chennai Super Kings, who have dominated the tournament with Mumbai Indians. They both have three titles each.

Players to look out for

AB De Villiers: Cricket Player Profile

MS Dhoni: Cricket Player Profile

Chris Gayle: Cricket Player Profile

Virat Kohli: Cricket Player Profile

David Warner: Cricket Player Profile

Indian Premier League Facts and Stats

The IPL's international flavor is best summed up by the fact only two Indians have ever won the player of the series – Sachin Tendulkar in 2010 and Virat Kohli in 2016.

Chennai Super Kings, in 2010 and 2011, are the only team to have won back-to-back titles.

Rupert Murdoch's Star India paid $2.55billion for five-year Tv rights making it one of the richest sports events in the world

Suresh Raina, of Chennai, is the highest runscorer in IPL history with 4,985 runs

West Indian Chris Gayle, who plays for Kings XI Punjab, has hit the most sixes - an astonishing 292 in 111 innings. He also holds the record for most sixes (11) in an innings and the fastest century (33 balls).

Lasith Malinga, of Mumbai, has the most wickets with 154. He didn't even play last year.

IPL 2019 Team Profiles

Sunrisers Hyderabad: IPL 2019 Team Profile

Mumbai Indians: IPL 2019 Team Profile

Royal Challengers Bangalore: IPL 2019 Team Profile

Chennai Super Kings: IPL 2019 Team Profile

Kolkata Knight Riders: IPL 2019 Team Profile

Rajasthan Royals: IPL 2019 Team Profile

Delhi Capitals: IPL 2019 Team Profile

Kings XI Punjab: IPL 2019 Team Profile

Tournament Breakdown

The IPL is a Twenty20 over competition, meaning each team has the chance to bat for 20 six-ball overs. It is the shortest and most thrilling of cricket's three formats (one-day international of 50 overs each and five-day Test matches).

Eight teams will battle it out for glory playing each other home and away.

The city-based teams are: Sunrisers Hyderabad 9/2 (5.5) Ladbrokes, Paddy Power, Betway, Betfred; Chennai Super Kings 11/2 (6.5) Bet365; Royal Challengers Bangalore 6/1 (7.0) Bet365, Betfair, Paddy Power; Mumbai Indians 6/1 (7.0) Bet365; Kolkata Knight Riders 6/1 (7.0) Bet365; Rajasthan Royals 6/1 (7.0) Betfair, Delhi Capitals 8/1 (9.0) Bet365, William Hill, Betway, Betfred, Betfair, Paddy Power; Kings XI Punjab 10/1 (11.0) Betfred.

In a league format, two points are awarded for a win and one for a no result. The top four teams progress to the play-offs but there is an advantage to winning the league and finishing second. These two play in what is known as a qualifier with the winner automatically going through to the final. The loser survives, meeting the winner of a play-off between the third and fourth-best teams.

Indian Premier League Records

Chennai have the highest win percentage of 61. Not surprising when you consider that they have never failed to make it to the play-offs. No-one comes close to matching their consistency, not even big-city rivals Mumbai who have had a habit of following one good year with a stinker. After each victory they have failed to qualify the next year.

The coming force are Sunrisers Hyderabad, led by their talisman Rashid Khan. Rashid's ability to turn average franchise teams into world beaters is well-known now after his emergence from Afghanistan as the world's best spinner.

After their 2014 title win they have finished fourth and were runners-up to Chennai last time out. It is right that they are the bookies' favourites.

Kolkata are often the punter's friend. They are remarkably consistent and at good odds always give a good account. The Knight Riders have made the top four in five of the last seven seasons, winning the title twice.

The punter's enemy is Royal Challengers Bangalore. For almost every tournament they have been prohibitively priced – often going off as favourites – because they have splurged on batting talent. Yet they have been slow to learn that it is bowlers who win the thing. They remain without a title and finished a lowly sixth in 2018.

The Delhi and Kings XI Punjab teams are the only other two not to have tasted success. Delhi are so desperate they thought a change of nickname might help – they now play as the Capitals instead of the Daredevils.

It is seven years since Delhi even qualified for the play-offs. Punjab haven't made it since 2014.

Indian Premier League 2018 Winner

It is fair to say that Chennai's win last year was a shock. After a two-year ban for corruption, the franchise stuck with the old guard and picked one of the oldest squads ever seen. MS Dhoni, Harbhajan Singh, Shane Watson, Suresh Raina and Dwayne Bravo were great in their heyday but T20 is a young man's game right? Wrong. Chennai won nine of their 14 group games and then beat Sunrisers twice in the play-offs for a sensational comeback.

IPL Main Betting Markets

Outrights:
Betting on the IPL is big business with European bookies notching it down comfortably as cricket's largest annual event. On India's illegal market, total bets for the tournament are expected to total several hundred million.

The outright is everyone's best play whether that be because a punters has a favourite international star or a carefully honed strategy – as we said picking the team who has paid most attention to bowling economy rates instead of batting strike rates (runs per 100 balls) has paid off in the past.

Top Bowler

Sunriser Rashid will no doubt convince many to bet on his team again, alternatively punters will flock to bet him for top tournament wicket-taker. He finished joint runner-up last year on this market alongside team-mate Sidd Kaul with 21 wickets. AJ Tye, the Australian, was top with 24 wickets and he lines up once again for Kings XI.

Tye is a fancy because he has an opportunity to bowl at the start and end of an innings when wickets are easier to come by because batters are taking more risks. Rashid and Kaul likewise. Names to look out for this year are Chennai's South Africa import Lungi Ngidi and Bangalore's Aussie Nathan Coulter-Nile.

Top Batsman

Just behind the outright as most popular market, though, is the top tournament runscorer. It pays here to stick solely to those who open the batting, instead of being wowed by big names like Virat Kohli. Why? It's common sense. An opener (batting at No 1 or 2) will have the chance to bat in the powerplay overs where the field is up and runs easier to come by and, of course, have the chance to bat for the full 20 overs. No-one else in the team is guaranteed to bat apart from the openers.

So those who fit the bill are Rohit Sharma of Mumbai. Rohit is a machine and is arguably the best in the world. His India team-mate KL Rahul finished third last year and is expected to go close. Kane Williamson of Sunrisers topped last year but we think that was something of a fluke and we don't expect him to repeat.

As for Kohli, it is true he is the best batter in the world but he could manage only a seventh-placed finish last term.

Match Betting Odds

The day-by-day punting action is frenzied. That's because with teams able to field four international players as well as India superstars the matches are ferociously contested. Often they are better betting heats than the international matches themselves.

Betfair is an excellent port of call for the side markets. The sportsbook will offer individual player runs quotes and sixes match bets while the top bowler markets – pay attention to the strike rate statistics – offer plenty of value.

Indian Premier League News

Steve Smith, the sacked Australia captain after the ball-tampering scandal, is expected to be fit to start the tournament with Rajasthan Royals. His co-conspirator, David Warner, is also geared up for a return with Sunrisers but he will have to wait until the second week of the tournament. Both were discarded by their teams last season after the scandal broke.

Chris Gayle's slaying of England's bowlers in the 50-over series in the Caribbean will give renewed hope that Kings XI Punjab can end their drought. Gayle is a man possessed and his six-hitting shows no sign of slowing down. The veteran is tuning up nicely.

Rumours from the Sunrisers camp suggest that Rashid Khan, the Afghan leggie genius, might be asked to pinch-hit at the top of the order. His price will be huge for top tournament runscorer and although he has nowhere near enough quality to win long term, he will be early-bird value to top score for his team in their first match of the season against Kolkata on March 24.

2019 ICC Cricket World Cup

For once the IPL does not take centre stage in the cricket calendar. 2019 is a World Cup year and the world's best will be desperate to show their best form to impress their national teams ahead of the tournament in England from May 30. Faf Du Plessis, the South Africa captain, has suggested that pace bowlers set to compete in the global showpiece will be taking their feet off the gas in the IPL as the tournament approaches.

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Fortnightly Magazine - May 1 1995
Implementing Transmission Access: Getting the Genie Out of the Bottle(neck)
In tales of old, it was just a matter of finding the bottle, rubbing it the right way, and VOILA! (em out came the genie to grant our wishes. But that myth hasn't worked to fully open up transmission (em at least not to date. Some say the devil is in the details, but these details are truly devilish.
Richard P. Felak
FERC to Flesh Out Comparability
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has set for hearing issues related to a proposed, open-access transmission tariff for point-to-point service in Citizens Utilities Co.'s (CU) Arizona service territory. It also approved CU's agreement requiring a transmission customer, Aha Macav Power Systems, Inc., to pay a $190,000 contribution in aid of construction (CIAC) to interconnect to CU's grid (Docket No.
Lori A. Burkhart
Electric Reliability: How PJM Tripped on Gas-fired Plants
Just after the sun rose on January 19, 1994, the mercury fell to new record low temperatures. Lights went out, furnaces shut off, and computer screens went blank in parts of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia, Washington, DC, and Pennsylvania.
John Hanger
EPA Awards Bonus SO2 Allowances
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded 1,349 acid rain bonus allowances to 10 utilities: City of Austin; New York State Electric and Gas; Orange and Rockland; Western Massachusetts Electric; United Illuminating; Cincinnati Gas and Electric; Massachusetts Electric; Granite State Electric; Narragansett Electric; and Long Island Lighting. The awards are based on utility energy efficiency and use of renewable energy.
Pursuant to the acid rain requirements of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, an allowance licenses the emission of one ton of sulfur dioxide (SO2).
Using Hourly System Lambda to Gauge Bulk-power Prices
The electric power industry lies in the midst of major change, including a shift to market-based wholesale prices. Market players and regulators will recognize that competition requires a shift in thinking on key issues such as resource planning before the market is developed enough to provide adequate price information.
William C. Booth and Judah L. Rose
IEP Challenges BRPU Ruling
The Independent Energy Producers (IEP), a Sacramento-based independent energy advocacy group, has announced that it will petition for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to reconsider its ruling that the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) violated the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA) by requiring two utilities to purchase power at above avoided costs (FERC Docket Nos. EL95-16-000 and EL95-19-000).
If anyone ever asks about what you read in this column, tell them you heard it somewhere else.
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FERC Revamps Hydro Regulations
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has approved a final rule on charges and fees for hydroelectric projects. Annual charges will now be assessed beginning on the date construction starts rather than when a license is issued (Docket No. RM-93-7-000). The rule eliminates annual charges for minor licensees (em projects of 1.5 megawatts or less (em and caps annual charges at two percent of total costs incurred by the FERC. To update its regulation, the FERC also substituted kilowatts for horsepower to determine capacity.
Sherrie Rutherford was named v.p. and general counsel of NorAm Gas Transmission, the pipeline and gas marketing subsidiary of NorAm Energy Corp. She succeeds Dale Earwood, who was promoted to president, NorAm Field Services.
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Will we see 10,000 iPhone apps this year?
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O Campeonato Mundial de Esgrima de 1962 foi a 31ª edição do torneio organizado pela Federação Internacional de Esgrima (FIE). O evento foi realizado em Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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He retired from the Corps in 2006 and, a brief time later, the former field grade officer was working as an intern in a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital.
Blickwedel thought he was helping veterans, but the work environment seemed too bureaucratic, with excessive emphasis by leadership on administrative duties rather than clinical care.
Then in 2009, he found the Vet Center.
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But then things started to change. Upper management began requiring more direct service time with veterans but also continued to demand counselors complete the lengthy list of other tasks, from outreach to administrative work.
It was tough, but still manageable.
Then, two years ago, top leadership ratcheted up the requirements, pushing counselors to meet new visit count standards that forced them to make ethical choices about how much time they could spend with each client.
Cut the visits short to make your numbers, spend whatever time is necessary with veterans and fall short on your numbers, or work more hours to complete administrative duties.
This seemed the opposite of what the centers were built to be when they were formed in the late 1970s to help Vietnam War veterans — the answer to the VA's endless bureaucracy.
When Blickwedel began as a counselor, 16 hours of a 40-hour work week was expected to be spent counseling veterans. Around 2012, that rose to 20 hours, with no reduction in other duties such as outreach, paperwork and other administrative requirements.
In March 2016, Readjustment Counseling Services, which runs the 300 centers across the country, instituted a visit count mandate requiring counselors to have 30 visits per week in a 40-hour work week.
The stress mounted. And not just for him but for his colleagues at the Warwick, Rhode Island, center and elsewhere.
Blickwedel watched the environment change. What had been a warm, welcoming place to work, where counselors felt nurtured and fulfilled, had now become a high-stress environment with leaders who only seemed to care about the numbers, counting visits, and shoveling veterans through the system.
Everything became functionary. Counselors were not able to interact as much, and they mostly stayed in their offices, digging through work and taking lunch with the door closed to make the mandatory visit counts.
Other counselors confided in him that they'd begun seeking their own therapy for job stress, fear of reprisals or being fired for not making numbers. Some went on anti-anxiety or antidepressant medications for the first time in their lives.
He still wanted to help veterans in need, but the Vet Center had become the bureaucracy that he thought he had escaped.
Joe Chenelly, national executive director of American Veterans, or AMVETS, said that burnout at the centers has been an ongoing issue since at least 2012.
But the head of Readjustment Counseling Services points to increased care across the board and how most counselors are meeting the new standards.
RCS Chief Michael Fisher told Military Times that his staff has provided 9 percent more visits and outreach in 2017 as compared to 2016. RCS also provided services for more than 287,000 veterans and family – 10 percent more than in 2016.
"This is not about a hammer coming down," Fisher said.
Blickwedel was on his way out when, earlier this year, he decided to send an email to the more than 1,300 Vet Center counselors across the country. He wanted to see how other counselors were being impacted and how they were handling the new demands.
All counselors currently working with RCS asked not to be identified by name, fearing reprisal or reprimand from RCS leaders. Some, when contacted, declined to speak at all for that same reason.
In his email, Blickwedel laid out the problems he saw with the increased demands and metrics-based approach to counseling. It sought feedback from other counselors and management on how to meet veterans' needs without burning out dedicated staff.
In 24 hours, he received responses from 57 different counselors from 41 Vet Centers in 25 states, who all said the new measures were degrading their ability to provide quality services and contributing to burnout and fatigue.
His deputy district director told him to "cease and desist" his emails and instead wait and move his conversation to a VA-approved online forum.
Instead, he followed that email with an 11-question survey to gauge counselor concern with the increased demands being place on Vet Center staff.
He sent the survey on Jan. 27, a Saturday. Within a couple days he had received 27 survey responses - before district and national Vet Center leaders shut down his computer access and email account.
The survey asked questions about the well-being of counselors. More than three-quarters of respondents agreed that the productivity standards had "caused significant distress," "negatively affected my health and well-being," and "has degraded the quality of care I am able to provide to veterans," among other responses.
Blickwedel has since filed complaints with both the VA inspector general and the U.S. Office of Special Counsel.
RCS leadership said that while they continually evaluate counselor feedback, most of their staff are meeting the new expectations.
He said that three-quarters of all counselors are meeting the new standards – and the new standards are showing results.
But some counselors see the new demands and how they are being implemented by middle management as threats to their jobs if they don't make numbers.
One retired counselor, Jesse Coulter, a Vietnam-era veteran who worked in the Vet Center program from the early 1980s until his 2016 retirement, said he saw major changes in the center where he finished his career.
Despite years of outreach efforts and genuine improvements in VA health care, many newer vets still don't trust the often intimidating and hard-to-navigate system.
So, they continue to turn to a Vet Center.
And though the intent was always to maintain a separate but connected relationship between the centers and the VA, many counselors in the centers say that the VA's legendary bureaucracy has begun to creep into the center.
The centers long stood apart from Veterans Health Administration hospitals and clinics, and for good reason.
But in recent years, as the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan saw a spike in the number of combat veterans, and those vets began flowing into these small counseling centers, some taking up no more than a storefront with a handful of offices in an otherwise nondescript strip mall, the bulge began to strain the system.
As a result, the RCS program grew.
In 2000, there were 200 centers with a total of 900 employees, Fisher said. There are now 300 centers, 80 mobile centers and 2,200 employees.
But some say that still hasn't been enough.
Chenelly said that burnout at the centers has been an ongoing issue since at least 2012.
"As the number of veterans seeking mental health services rapidly grows, the number of staff and physical spaces for Vet Centers have not been expanded to meet the high demand," Chenelly said.
In 2015, a group of 14 team leaders and counselors, one from each of the system's seven regions, performed a detailed analysis of time spent by counselors working on their various duties.
Standards required counselors to spend 40 percent of their work week, or 16 hours, doing counseling visits; and 10 percent of their time in other clinical duties such as case consultation and supervision. The remaining time was reserved for administrative duties.
But, the standard was changed to require 50 percent of total time devoted to counseling veterans.
That left the other 20 hours of the week to accomplish every other task required of them, according to the report. The standard, which at an hour each would translate to four clients per day, was more demanding but still workable, multiple counselors said.
One year later, on March 1, 2016, following the report recommendations, Charles Flora, then the acting chief officer of RCS, sent a memo to RCS district directors and regional managers setting minimum expectations.
The expectation for counselors was set at 1.5 visits per hour, resulting in 20 hours of direct service, or 30 visits a week.
"We tasked the group with determining the maximum capacity of counselors, defined as the maximum amount of time a clinician should be in front of a veteran, service member or family member providing services, given all of the other tasks that the clinician has to do," he wrote.
The system allows RCS leadership to "understand local demand and increase resources to locations that are experiencing an increase in demand," he wrote.
The changes have been in place for nearly two years, based on the previous RCS head's 2016 memo.
Fisher emphasized that the goal is for a counselor to have 25 visits a week, and that most counselors are meeting that goal. He added that those who are not simply need to come up with a plan.
But the tension resides in what qualifies as a visit.
Counselors interviewed for this article said that they held to the accepted practice of an hour-long visit being the typical length of time to see a client. And those sessions often go over the hour mark.
A Southern Connecticut State University study published in 2004, which Blickwedel has cited in his grievance letter to the Office of Special Counsel and the VA IG, noted increased burnout among therapists with high caseloads.
The average counseling session for a recent period was 77 minutes long. When phone calls of 15 minutes or less were removed from that data, the average interaction was 84 minutes long, Cashour wrote.
Blickwedel said those average times proved his point. If an average session is that long, then a counselor can't manage 30 or even 25 visits in a week. There's not enough time.
Blickwedel and others admit that the industry standard for general counseling is about 50-60 minutes. But they argue that they often need more time when dealing with serious combat trauma, military sexual assault trauma, bereavement and family counseling, which are some of the most difficult cases in the field.
Sometimes veterans take longer to get into the core of what is ailing them. Reliving trauma isn't something many patients want to experience. And if a veteran feels like he or she is being rushed by a counselor or cut off, they know it and they'll shut down, he said.
But at least one counselor interviewed for this story disagreed with the complaints about productivity standards.
The counselor is a veteran who works at a center near a military base in the southeast United States. The counselor said the RCS demands are no greater than what civilian counselors would face in similar trauma-related care.
The counselor also said that the nature of treatment — combat trauma — isn't unique when counselors consider other types of treatment for traumatic cases.
"You can't tell me the client who picked up pieces of his buddy and put them in his pocket is any worse than that little girl who got raped by her father," the counselor said.
The counselor also said that the high volume of clients coming to the centers shouldn't stay in the them for treatment if they have serious mental health issues.
Coulter, the recently retired counselor, disagreed that the centers shouldn't be used for long-term care.
Though he spent most of his career at a center in West Virginia, he later transferred to a center in Florida.
There, his supervisors soon implemented a "business model" approach to tracking visits without much focus placed on the quality of care by mid- and upper-management, he said.
Coulter wasn't completely opposed to measuring how employees are doing.
One way to meet expectations is to hold group sessions. A 10-person group counts for 10 visits, for example.
A decades long social worker, veteran and counselor at a southeastern Vet Center zeroed in on problems with using group numbers as visit measurements.
"They want to book your sessions back to back all day long," the counselor said, adding that management is "indifferent or outright hostile" when counselors push back.
Blickwedel said evidence-based clinical practice shows that groups are usually focused and short-term, and last for only eight to 12 weeks.
But once the 12-week period is up, then what?
Then the counselor must come up with another group, even though coming up with new groups every eight to 12 weeks is not sustainable.
A national-level psychology expert said that while meeting productivity standards might balance a spread sheet, it may not be the best method for truly measuring patient care.
"None of this comes as a surprise to me," said Dr. Heather O'Beirne Kelly, director of military and veterans health policy with the American Psychological Association.
She said that studies show counselors who are dealing with patients with trauma and have high caseloads often experience burnout.
"Staffing levels for mental health providers are often too low, leading not only to access issues for veterans but to burnout for clinicians," O'Beirne Kelly said.
Running caseloads of more than 70 patients at a time was not unheard of. A counselor in the western United States, who has worked in two of the centers, heard from counselors at other centers who have caseloads of more than 150 veterans at a time.
The caseloads alone were forcing some to leave for private practice.
Clients pour out tragic stories, relive their traumas again and again, and then must start over with a new counselor.
And new patients keep coming in the door, as many as five a day, the counselor said.
"Management says 'deal with it,'" the counselor said.
But the centers are not lost, the counselors said. With some changes, officials could bring the centers back to what they were decades ago – a welcome place for vets that doesn't look or feel like the VA.
Coulter has met Fisher, and he has some advice for the chief.


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Neighborhood Tokyo
by Theodore C. Bestor
Hardcover, 1989
Urbanism, Japan, Sociology
Marjorie Rombauer
Stanford University Press, (1989)
In the vastness of Tokyo these are tiny social units, and by the standards that most Americans would apply, they are perhaps far too small, geographically and demographically, to be considered "neighborhoods." Still, to residents of Tokyo and particularly to the residents of any given subsection of the city, they are socially significant and geographically distinguishable divisions of the urban landscape. In neighborhoods such as these, overlapping and intertwining associations and institutions provide an elaborate and enduring framework for local social life, within which residents are linked to one another not only through their participation in local organizations, but also through webs of informal social, economic, and political ties. This book is an ethnographic analysis of the social fabric and internal dynamics of one such neighborhood: Miyamoto-chō, a pseudonym for a residential and commercial district in Tokyo where the author carried out fieldwork from June 1979 to May 1981, and during several summers since. It is a study of the social construction and maintenance of a neighborhood in a society where such communities are said to be outmoded, even antithetical to the major trends of modernization and social change that have transformed Japan in the last hundred years. It is a study not of tradition as an aspect of historical continuity, but of traditionalism: the manipulation, invention, and recombination of cultural patterns, symbols, and motifs so as to legitimate contemporary social realities by imbuing them with a patina of venerable historicity. It is a study of often subtle and muted struggles between insiders and outsiders over those most ephemeral of the community's resources, its identity and sense of autonomy, enacted in the seemingly insubstantial idioms of cultural tradition.… (more)
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Mission Speakers / DeputationBarb Summers2021-11-16T15:48:35-05:00
One of the primary ways the church engages in mission and ministry is through the generous support of Presbyterians Sharing, the national fund of The Presbyterian Church in Canada. In order to help congregations experience firsthand the impact of this support, mission speakers are available to share stories of the power of Christ's love and grace at work with global and national partners. The following speakers represent staff of International Ministries, national staff of ministries supported by Canadian Ministries, and participants in mission trips and international mission conferences.
Mission Speakers are available to connect with local congregations in following ways:
By videoconferencing
In person within a reasonable driving distance in their region
Speaking tours to other regions for events involving more than one congregation
Guidelines for having a mission speaker visit your congregation
To raise awareness of how our church carries out the work of God's mission in Canada and around the world.
To strengthen the bond between Canadian Presbyterians and our church partners.
To experience the power of Christ's love as exemplified in the lives of our church partners, and to learn from their stories.
To deepen the understanding of mission so that people will become engaged in mission — locally, in Canada and internationally.
To help people understand how their prayers and financial support of Presbyterians Sharing further the mission work of our church.
We encourage congregations to provide hospitality for in-person visits.
The cost of travel, food and accommodation are covered by the International Ministries and Canadian Ministries departments of The Presbyterian Church in Canada, through gifts to Presbyterians Sharing.
Congregations may contribute to the costs of having a speaker visit by making an additional gift to Presbyterians Sharing. A suggested minimum is $150. This helps mission speakers visit more congregations across Canada. Gift can be sent to The Presbyterian Church in Canada and marked to the attention of Lily Ko.
Read up on the speakers list to find out who is currently available.
Consult with others in the congregation about the projects and partnerships they are interested in hearing more about.
Consult with session and with the minister about an appropriate date and time of year to have a guest speaker.
Contact Lily Ko in International Ministries by email or phone (1-800-619-7301 ext. 254) to request a particular speaker.
When the speaker is confirmed, announce the date and topic in your congregation.
Begin to advertise; bulletin inserts, announcements to the congregation, postings on common bulletin boards etc.
For more information on how you can book one of the following speakers, email Lily Ko at lko [at] presbyterian [dot] ca or call 1-800-619-7301 ext. 254.
Mission Speakers
Rebecca Sherbino and Elena Haskell – The Raw Carrot
The Raw Carrot is a social franchise that believes that every person who WANTS to work should have the opportunity for a Hand Up (instead of just a handout) in life! The Raw Carrot partners with churches and nonprofits across Ontario to create meaningful employment for amazingly talented individuals living with disabilities and mental illness.
Elena Haskell – Elena is a valued member of The Raw Carrot Soup Enterprise Headquarters and loves growing God's work in local communities through supportive employment. Her own experiences being homeschooled and living with a brother with an intellectual disability have led to firsthand knowledge of what it's like to be an outsider and given her a desire to be an advocate for those who are vulnerable. In pursuit of where God is leading her, Elena is completing her third year in Spiritual Formation through the Emmaus Formation Center.
Rebecca Sherbino – With an undergraduate Degree in Global Development, Peace and Justice and a Master's Degree in International Development, Rebecca has always had a passion for working with people. Her past work in developing countries fueled a desire to pursue justice for people both overseas and at home, which resulted in community advocacy in Paris, ON. Frustrated by the lack of opportunities for work for teens and adults with mental health and learning disabilities in her church congregation, she and good friend (and co-director!) Colleen, were challenged to explore how to promote change within their local context. A late-night coffee date in May 2014 turned into a brainstorming session about the possibility of creating meaningful work for people with disabilities, and over the course of the evening, the idea of launching The Raw Carrot Soup Enterprise was born.
Elena Haskell
Rebecca Sherbino
Carolina Manganelli – Executive Director, Action Réfugiés Montréal
Carolina Manganelli is an experienced lawyer who has dedicated her career to social justice and the defense of the rights of vulnerable and underserved individuals and groups. Her involvement with refugeed people includes two years in Bosnia-Herzegovina and as a member of the Immigration and Refugee Board. Carolina is the proud mom of two bright and lovely girls for whom she strives to be a positive role model.
Action Réfugiés Montréal (ARM) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to seek justice and compassion for refugeed people. ARM has 3 main programs: as the only organization with regular access to the detention center, ARM visits with and provides support and services to persons detained for immigration purposes; ARM also sponsors refugeed persons abroad, reuniting them with their family here, and accompanies them during their first year in order to facilitate their adaptation; ARM's Twinning program matches recently arrived refugeed women with women from the greater Montreal area in order to create friendships and a social support network, which helps break the isolation and exclusion that they experience.
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The Rev. Margaret Mullin – Minister, Place of Hope Indigenous Presbyterian Church
Margaret Mullin is the Executive Director of Winnipeg Inner City Missions, which is supported through Presbyterians Sharing. She has been working in the inner city for eight years and has received a Woman of Distinction award for her work in inner city Winnipeg. Margaret is an ordained minister of The Presbyterian Church in Canada as well as a trained nurse. Ojibway and Irish/Scottish in origin, she follows both Christian and Aboriginal Traditional Spiritual ways.
The Rev. Margaret Mullin
Malawi – The Rev. Dr. Blair D. Bertrand
Blair Bertrand serves as full-time mission staff, staying connected with the PCC's partners in Malawi. Based in Ottawa, Ont., Blair works with the Principal of Zomba Theological College (ZTC), assisting with the development of curricula and policies of the College, coaching the Malawian PhD candidate who is a ZTC lecturer, developing the ZTC library and encouraging research and academic exchanges. At Theological Education by Extension in Malawi (TEEM), Blair assists with lay training materials, revisions to the Diploma workbooks and development of lay Bible curricula. As Blair continues to work with these inspiring partners from his home office in Canada, he will be the "living link," maintaining these important relationships.
The Rev. Dr. Blair D. Bertrand
Malawi – The Rev. Joel Sherbino
Joel Sherbino serves as the part-time Malawi Liaison with the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian, Blantyre Synod. Based in Paris, Ont., Joel provides year-round support by phone and email to local chaplains and volunteers who are sharing the love of Christ with inmates in Malawian prisons. Through Bible study, worship, personal counselling and occasional distributions of medicines, sleeping mats and Bibles, this prison ministry makes a positive difference for those living in incredibly difficult circumstances. During an annual two-week visit to Malawi, Joel accompanies the team on their daily prison visits. With the blessing of the Presbytery and his congregation, Joel is a living link that fosters the relationship we share in Jesus Christ.
The Rev. Joel Sherbino
Taiwan – The Rev. Dr. Paul McLean
Paul McLean has been serving as a Bible Translation Advisor in partnership with the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan (PCT) and the Bible Society in Taiwan since 2012. Paul is currently working with eleven teams, one Hakka and ten indigenous: 'Amis, Bunun, Paiwan, Pinuyumayan, Sediq-Toda, Tayal, Tsou, plus three small dialects of Ngudradrekai (Maolin, Tona and Wanshan). In August 2020, he began supporting the Tao NT revision project on Lanyu (Orchid Island) off the SE coast of Taiwan. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Paul has maintained contact with all his teams using the internet and screen-sharing software. He looks forward to the day when travel restrictions are lifted and he can resume regularly scheduled in-person visits to Taiwan, usually four month-long visits each year.
The Rev. Dr. Paul McLean
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Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI)
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Lyndon Turner has amassed more than 20 years' industry experience, including in claims, underwriting and broking as well as several senior management roles.
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