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Virgin Disruptors: Your chance to win a seat
Amy May 17, 2017 Virgin News 0
Our friends over at Virgin Media and disability charity Scope are teaming up to highlight disability discrimination in football grounds. On Wednesday 17 May, Southampton FC – whose shirts are sponsored by Virgin Media – will wear a special Scope branded shirt to highlight issues faced by disabled football fans, which was brought to light in some new research on accessibility …
Antony January 10, 2017 Virgin News 0
Hasn't time flown! It's been 5 years since Virgin Money and Northern Rock came together and we launched our quest to make banking better. It was this week five years ago that we set out on this quest and today we've published an update on the five promises we made back then. So much has happened in such a short amount of …
Antony January 6, 2017 Virgin News 0
In January 2012, we set out on our quest to make banking better. We promised to do five things. Now five years on, we wanted to share how we've done. Our five promises in 2012 1. We'll genuinely care about you and your money. Not rush in to sell to you. Five years on… No one at Virgin Money has …
Amy September 19, 2016 Virgin News 0
Ever wondered how people who create change do it? Virgin Disruptors brings together Richard Branson and other innovative thinkers and doers in London to talk about how they create change. At this event you'll hear tips and tricks from Richard and other leaders from Google, Atlassian, Blockchain, Red Bull, Virgin plus many more and we have one ticket to give away! All you need to do is …
Happy 30th birthday Virgin Holidays
My Virgin Money Magazine January 12, 2016 Virgin News 0
We celebrate highlights since 1985 – how much do you remember? Back in 1985 it was the latest bold Virgin start-up, launched with a passionate ambition to provide a new range of competitively priced holidays to exciting locations. Virgin Holidays started with just three destinations – New York, Miami and Orlando (all using Virgin Atlantic routes from the UK, the …
Virgin Does Pride
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On Saturday 27 June 2015, Virgin Group colleagues from across the UK were lucky enough to take part in Virgin's first participation in a Pride March. Scott tells us more about the day: If I'm being quite honest, I wasn't sure why I was marching. I guess I've been very fortunate. I came out at 21 and have been surrounded by family …
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My Virgin Money Magazine March 3, 2015 Virgin News 0
He shares his experiences from life and business With over forty years' experience in starting new businesses and shaking up whole industries, Sir Richard Branson's entrepreneurial skills are renowned. His approach to achieving isn't restricted solely to business – it can be applied to life in general too. Here, he shares his tips for success. Many of these quotes are …
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John Minsheu (* 1560 in London; † 1627 ebenda) war ein britischer Linguist, Anglist, Romanist, Hispanist und Lexikograf.

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Minsheu (oder Minshew) war Sprachenlehrer in London. Er trat als Bearbeiter der Grammatik und des Wörterbuchs von Richard Perceval hervor. Seine bedeutendste Leistung ist das elfsprachige Wörterbuch Ductor in Linguas von 1617.

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A Dictionarie in Spanish and English, first published by R. Percivale. Now enlarged  by J. Minsheu. Hereunto is annexed an ample English Dictionarie, with the Spanish words  adjoyned, London 1599, 1623; A dictionarie in Spanish and English  (London 1599). Estudio preliminar de Gloria Guerrero Ramos y Fernando Pérez Lagos, Málaga 2000
A Spanish Grammar, first collected by R. Percivale, now augmented  by J. Minsheu . Hereunto are annexed Speeches, Phrases, and Proverbes, etc. (Pleasant Dialogues in Spanish and English, etc.), London 1599, 1623
Ἡγεμων εἰς τας Γλωσσας, id est, Ductor in Linguas. The Guide into Tongues. Cum illarum harmonia, et etymologiis, Originationibus, Rationibus, et Derivationibus, in omnibus his undecim linguis, viz. 1. Anglica, 2. Cambro-Britanica, 3. Belgica, 4. Germanica, 5. Gallica, 6. Italica, 7. Hispanica, 8. Lusitanica seu Portugallica, 9. Latina, 10. Græca, 11. Hebræa, London 1617, Nachdruck New York 1978
Vocabularium Hispanico-Latinum et Anglicum copiosissimum, etc. A most copious Spanish Dictionarie, with Latine and English, (and sometime other Languages) and enlarged with divers thousands of Words, London 1617
Pleasant and delightfull dialogues in Spanish and English, London 1623; hrsg. von Jesús Antonio Cid, Madrid 2001, Alcalá de Henares 2002

Literatur
Daniel W. Noland, John Minsheu's "Ductor in linguas" and the beginning of English historical lexicography, Ann Arbor 1989 (PhD Austin, Texas, 1987)
Daniel W. Noland, The Sources and Methods of John Minsheu's A Dictionary of Spanish and English (1599), in: Dictionaries. Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 11, 1989, S. 41–52
Roger Jacob Steiner, 308. Bilingual Lexicography: English-Spanish and Spanish-English, in: Wörterbücher. Dictionaries. Dictionnaires. Ein internationales Handbuch zur Lexikographie. Dritter Teilband, hrsg. von Franz Josef Hausmann,  Oskar Reichmann, Herbert Ernst Wiegand und Ladislav Zgusta, Berlin. New York  1991, S. 2949–2956
Vivian Salmon, Some Notes on the Life and Work of John Minsheu (1560–1627), in: Historiographia Linguistica 30, 2003, S. 259–272
William Arthur Jobson Archbold: Minsheu, John, in: Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 38, S. 47–48

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Q: No output of a code that counts characters of a string I faced a problem while writing a code that counts the characters
of a string.
Generally the code looks right but when i try to run it it gives me no output!
I don't know exactly where is the problem, hope you can help me to figure it out.
Here is the code:
    String S1;
    char letter=0,number = 0,space=0,Schar=0;

    System.out.println("Enter the string:");
    S1=input.nextLine();

    int size=S1.length();

    for(int index=0; index<size;index++){
    char ch=S1.charAt(index);

    if(Character.isLetter(ch)){
    letter++;
    }else if(Character.isDigit(ch)){
    number++;
    }else if(ch==' ')
    space++;
    else
    Schar++;

    }

    System.out.println("The string is: " +S1);
    System.out.println("Letter: " +letter);
    System.out.println("Number: " +number);
    System.out.println("Space: " +space);
    System.out.println("Other: " +Schar);

The output:

enter image description here

A: This ASCII table explains your empty output. The characters mapped to the first integers aren't visible. The first visible character seems to appear at number 32. If you had written a longer string you would probably have seen some output.
Change char to int and everything should be fixed, as follows:
int letter = 0, number = 0, space = 0, Schar = 0;

These variables are made to count the number of occurrences of each type of character and should therefore be of the type int, not char.

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I Didn't Write a Word in 2020, But I Did Dare Mighty Things
Thursday, June 17th–one day before I head to the airport for a flight to Italy. Did you ever think you'd vacation again? I can tell you that for a long while, I certainly didn't think so. The last year and a half has been filled with worry, depression, joblessness, sickness,…
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COVID, Life, Works in Progress, Italy, And Everything In Between
February feels like years ago, doesn't it? Since then, we've launched and completed our first successful Kickstarter (which Marzio will tell you more about in a later blog post), shipped out hundreds of hardcover first editions of The Unseen Hand around the globe, and yeah… we've been hit by a…
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Our Epic Fantasy Novel The Unseen Hand is Published!
Our Epic Fantasy Novel The Unseen Hand is Published! Woohoo! And one lucky winner will win a copy! I wrote about the decision to self-publish in my last post— We Are On The Road To Self-Publishing. That update covered the reasons for our decision to print The Unseen Hand ourselves….
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We're on the Road to Self-PublishingFeatured
Perhaps another query might have done it, or the one after, or the one after that. Who knows? However, after banging our heads on the barred gates of traditional publishing, Narcisse and I had to make a decision. What do we really want to happen with our book? Sure, we would love…
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The Death of a Witch, the Inspiration Behind My NaNoWriMo 2019 Story
Not too long ago, a tweet in my Twitter feed polled, "How do you come up with ideas for stories?" The thing is, there really is no singular way inspiration strikes. At least not for me. Most of the time, my ideas stem from one of two sources. Primarily, I…
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The Unseen Hand by Narcisse Navarre and Marzio Ombra is an Epic Fantasy novel set in a fresh new fantasy world where daemons and magic are real. The book is only available on Wattpad.
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Daevil's Tears: A NaNoWriMo Journey
The weekend before Halloween, Marzio came over my house and we started tinkering with a silly online program that generates plots. I said to Marzio that I was going to base my next big novel on this Emily Brönte insta-book plot generator that spit out a story about an old…
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The Tendrils of Fate is on Wattpad!
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DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/54xbql/global_adhesives) has announced the addition of the "Global Adhesives & Sealants Market Report: 2013 Edition" report to their offering.
Adhesive is a broad term as it incorporates various materials like cement, glue, mucilage, and paste among others. Adhesives majorly comprise of polymers, which harden either in a physical manner or as a result of a chemical reaction, and are generally classified on the basis of their curing, or bonding, mechanism. On the other hand, a sealant is a soft, pliable material that changes state to become solid after application, and is chiefly employed for the prevention of air, noise, dust, fire, smoke, and liquid penetration, where structural strength is not required. Sealants fall between the higher-strength adhesives and extremely low-strength putties and caulks. Adhesives and sealants are categorized on the basis of whether the bonding involves a physical or chemical mechanism.
Adhesives and sealants are utilized in several industries including packaging, automotive, electronics, footwear, construction repair and remodeling, textiles, consumer goods, shipbuilding. Among all the applications, construction industry and durable assembly accounts for the maximum consumption of adhesives and sealants, followed by packaging and transportation. North America and Europe have been the largest markets for adhesives and sealants, together accounting for about two-thirds of the global market. The share of the emerging economies like Asia-Pacific, Africa, and the Middle East is expected to increase in the near future.
The end-use markets for the adhesives and sealants are highly correlated with the global economic conditions and the GDP. The global adhesives and sealants market is likely to be driven by the ameliorating the emerging economies, skewed trends in the US transportation sector and increasing demand for more environment friendly products. In addition, the growing application of adhesives in the medical applications is expected to bring new opportunities to the market.


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02/10/2014 05:54 pm ET Updated Feb 11, 2014
Here's What Bothers Keith Ellison About Obama's National Security Programs
By Ibrahim Balkhy
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) said Monday that the "assassination" of American citizens under President Barack Obama's drone warfare program is unacceptable, and called the scope of surveillance activities carried out by the National Security Agency "disturbing."
"Assassination, we shouldn't do it," Ellison told HuffPost Live's Zach Carter. "If there is somebody violating the law, we should arrest them and try them in a court of law. The problem is that the technological ability to carry out war and assassination has far surpassed the rules that we govern our society by."
WATCH Ellison's comments in the video above.
The Associated Press reported Monday that the Obama administration is currently seeking a legal justification to carry out a drone strike against an American citizen believed to be a member of Al-Qaeda. The administration has already killed at least two Americans with drones. One targeted radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, while another separate strike killed his teenage son.
Ellison, who co-chairs the House Progressive Caucus, said, "I think this binary thing -- either you have to have drones, or you have to have boots on the ground -- is a false choice, and I resist it."
Ellison also took issue with the NSA's surveillance activities, saying the programs need to be subjected to greater Congressional oversight.
"Right now, I'm a little concerned about the fact that theres a lot of things going on that members of Congress don't know about that are not subject to any accountability," Ellison said.
A new report from journalists Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald revealed that the Central Intelligence Agency is increasingly relying on so-called cell phone "metadata" -- call logs showing who individuals call, how long they talked, and other information -- instead of traditional human intelligence sourcing. The Obama administration has repeatedly defended the gathering of such data by the NSA as consistent with constitutional privacy rights.
Below-The-Belt Political Attacks
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Lee Atwater: Smear Pioneer
Negative campaigning has become more effective since 1828, though at times no less brutal. Many attribute this growing efficiency to the legacy of Republican strategist Lee Atwater. The former RNC chairman may have been best known as a driving force behind political ads such as the iconic Willie Horton commercial against Michael Dukakis in 1988, but his past involvement in smear campaigns is much deeper. Slate reports on Atwater's earlier career: In 1973, the 22-year-old protégé of South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond began his consulting career by publicizing the fact that Tom Turnipseed, a candidate for the state Senate, had undergone shock therapy as a young man: "They hooked him up to jumper cables" became the catchphrase that sunk Turnipseed's candidacy. Five years later, Atwater helped to defeat Max Heller, a Holocaust survivor running for U.S. Congress, by secretly enlisting a third candidate to enter the race and stir up anti-Semitic sentiment. Atwater finagled his way into a minor post in the Reagan administration, but it was as the director of George H.W. Bush's 1988 presidential campaign (and mastermind of the Willie Horton TV ads) that he found his true Machiavellian voice.


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949 Green Bay Rd,
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This is the thirteenthentry in the Third Annual Summer Book Club at Juvenile Instructor. This year we are reading Laurel Thatcher Ulrich?s A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women?s Rights in Early Mormonism (Knopf, 2017). Check back every Sunday for the week?s installment! Please follow the book club and JI on Facebook.
Significantly, Caroline Barnes Crosby was one of the few women in Ulrich's cohort of A House Full of Females who was NOT a polygamist. The fact becomes important as Laurel summarizes, ?Caroline?s diary offers a useful counterpoint to those kept by polygamous wives. When combined with a series of letters between Caroline?s niece Ellen Pratt and a friend living as a plural wife in Salt Lake City, it creates a dialogue between two marriage systems." Indeed, "Caroline?s description of her own efforts to care for other people?s children, and the hearing stories that other women told her, allow us to see monogamy in conversation with polygamy during a time of crisis for both Utah and California Saints.? (p. 315) Indeed, just as the Church was experiencing the zeal of the Reformation in 1857 that encouraged its members toward more polygamous practice, Caroline and her niece, Ellen (daughter of Louisa and Addison), remained steadfastly monogamous. San Bernardino even became a kind of refuge for those members who struggled with and even rejected the doctrine of plurality. These "wanderers" against polygamy pushed against the fabric of the Mormon theology that was forming back in Utah.
San Bernardino served as a crossroads for many wanderers in the American West, positioned as it was along the Old Spanish Trail, on El Cajon Pass and the site of a large Mexican rancho, and within a 60-mile proximity to the Mission San Gabriel and the Pueblo of Los Angeles. Mormons encountered the area through the activities of the Mormon Battalion, and as an end settlement on the Mormon Corridor between 1851 and 1857. I often tell my students that early westerners were always "running into each other," following the same migratory routes that humans had followed for thousands of years, facilitating serendipitous encounters between individuals and groups along those highways. Caroline found herself on one of these crossroads, and her diary provided a window to the comings and goings of Mormons and gentiles, white Americans, Indians, Mexicans, slaves and freedmen, and others. She even ran into ?Mr. Bidaman from Nauvoo,? who arrived in California to partake of the gold rush (unsuccessfully). Many Mormons came and went along the Corridor, some even seeking San Bernardino specifically for its distance from Salt Lake City and the possibility to escape the controlling arm of Brigham Young.
In San Bernardino, Mormon women were mostly kept far away from the intimate connections of the Relief Societies that were a carryover from their Nauvoo beginnings, and which began to define Utah women?s charitable and religious work in the Mormon capital. In spite of this distance, Caroline maintained a strong connective thread to her sisters in Utah, especially through epistolary community that helped forge a kind of vicarious Relief Society. When Caroline received a letter from Eliza R. Snow, it ?added another layer of identification with the Church. It not only ?cheered and comforted? her heart, but gave her some renown among their friends. One day, a neighbor came to Caroline?s house to hear a letter from Eliza read. Then she and Caroline carried the letter to a gathering at the Pratt house, where Louise and half a dozen women ?thought it quite a pleasure to hear from our beloved poetess.?? (p. 321) In this way, Mormon women also managed to ?run into each other? in this distant outpost of Mormon gathering. Receipt of the Deseret News also fostered that community spirit, access to the context and messaging of community that was coming from Salt Lake. Even the Reformation of 1856-57 touched San Bernardino through this transmission of fervor, via the printed speeches and challenges to recommitment by church leaders that came in letters and the news.
Caroline formed her own personal Relief Society, in her "efforts to care for other people's children," (p. 315), and found herself managing the troubles of San Bernardino Mormon society in other ways: caring for the children of an alcoholic mother; harboring women who separated or fled from neglectful and abusive husbands, testifying in divorce cases, and assisting with members? return migration back to Salt Lake City. And with that role, she was creating her own system of female spiritual empowerment. She and Jonathan even ?jointly laid their hands on [one woman's] head for a healing blessing.? (p. 326) Caroline?s diary was a witness to the external pressures and internal fracturing of Mormon society.
Caroline was also known for taking in native children in various situations. In this, like most Mormons of her generation, she was a contradiction between being capable of physical racial inclusion in her home, and mental racial exclusion in her beliefs. When encountering people of color, Caroline marked their presence with note, but not alarm, suggesting the normalcy of diverse peoples coming together in western communities, while not protesting or challenging their discriminated status. Caroline's experiences showed how the Saints could simultaneously encounter different peoples, and accept and live with that diversity as standard community interaction, while also accepting and promoting the racist assumptions that defined those relationships.
In the end, San Bernardino failed to achieve success as a micro-community of Mormonism. Caroline?s departure for Salt Lake City after two years in San Bernadino, occurred as the Saints were called home amidst tensions with the federal government and internal tensions over plural marriage. Caroline?s journey as a ?wanderer," as well as questions of race, sexuality, and plurality, brought her full circle back to the core of Mormon community. These, like Caroline herself, became symbolic "wanderers" within Mormonism, still following and plaguing Mormon group identity, even today.
Beautiful! I really enjoyed this chapter. It brought some balance between the two groups of women. Remarkable that they wrote letters to one another and those letters have survived. Our good fortune to hear their stories.
I lent out my book before I got to this chapter, and it sounds like I'm really missing out. The distinction between pioneer and traveler on the one hand and wanderer on the other sounds like a really fruitful and interesting one!
Thanks, Andrea. I like how you contextualize Caroline's experience in San Bernadino within the West as a place of convergence. I thought this was an interesting counterpart to my chapter in terms of differing racial interactions. Well done.


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OF THE BIBLE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH
1858 -- 1988
by Roy Hertzog
Approximately six years after our fellowship of churches began on November 3, 1864 at the Eleventh Semi-Annual Conference, a Committee was formed to formulate a constitution that was to be called "The Home and Heathen Missionary Society of the Evangelical Mennonites." This seems to mark the beginning of the foreign mission endeavor.
In the 1914 Yearbook of the Thirty-first Annual Conference, Rev. C. H. Brunner writes in retrospect.
The first congregation of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ (at that time called Evangelical Mennonites) was organized near Zionsville, Pennsylvania in 1858. For the first twenty-five years from this date there is no record of any offerings for Foreign Missions. About this time the few churches then existing fastened two tin boxes at the door, marked "For the Heathen" and "For the Poor," respectively. That year the contributions for the heathen amounted to$12.64. Thus, during the first eight years, up to 1890, the sum of $80.36 accumulated, which was then sent to Rev. A. B. Simpson of New York, President of the Christian and Missionary Alliance.
On November 1 of this year (1890) Brother Eusebius Hershey left New York for Monrovia, Africa. He had been the pioneer Foreign Missionary to stir up the Church in this great work. Brother Hershey died in Africa, May 24, 1891. Although to many it appeared at that time as a rash and foolish move for an old man of sixty-eight (sic - actually 67) years to go to the hardest field in the world, yet it was the strongest rebuke to the inactivity of the Church and a loud call for a definite forward step in this direction.
The figures following this report tell the rapid strides the Church made after the death of her first representative on heathen soil. With the exception of $30.00 sent to John Washington, of Monrovia, for the burial expenses of Brother Hershey and a trifle for Missionary Receipt Cards, all the money expended to the present date was sent out to the foreign field through the Christian and Missionary Alliance except what was received for Armenia, as noted in the summary which follows (noted in his report but not noted here).
At a Sunday School Convention held at Allentown in the spring of 1893, the subjects of instructing the Sunday Schools along the line of Foreign Missionary work and receiving offerings from them was discussed. And although this aggressive step was opposed by a few of the older and more conservative members, it was decided that each Sunday School should hold an Annual Missionary Day and take up an offering for this cause. As the Sunday School at Graterford had already adopted the barrel system it was recommended that the system be adopted throughout. At the next Annual Conference, held in February, 1894, the offering from the various Sunday Schools amounted to $83.88 already. These offerings are still rising steadily so that by this date (October 1914 or for 31 years) the Sunday Schools of the Conference have contributed $33,286.46, while all the foreign Missionary offerings of the Conference amounted to the grand total of $80,159.37 Surely this the Lord has done.
The Conference supports sixteen missionaries in the foreign field, or one missionary abroad to every hundred members at home. The average contributions for Foreign Missions per member for 1914 was $4.08. (Conference Journal; 1914, pages 40-41)
So we note that there were no offerings for the first 25 years (1858-1882) and no missionaries for the first 32 years(1858-1890). Eusebius Hershey was a traveling evangelist and for many years carried a burden for Africa and then he was challenged by a missionary from India. He made a commitment to go to India as a missionary then requested and received authorization from the Annual Conference in 1890 to go to India. Exactly what transpired to change that commitment from India to Africa I do not know. His daughter wrote, "He had a great desire for Africa all his life." He said, "God is calling, I must go." He left from New York on November 1, 1890 and arrived in Sierra Leone 38 days later (about December 8, 1890). He died May 23 or 24, 1891 at the age of 67 (having been born August 14, 1823). His actual time of ministry in Liberia was less than six months. "...Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit" (John 12:24 NASB). C. H. Brunner says of Hershey's death, in the1911 Yearbook, "This stirred up the church and the seed commenced to grow, and the offerings about doubled each year, for several years until today the Conference supports seventeen missionaries on the field. Several applicants are under consideration who maybe accepted and sent during the coming year. The Foreign Mission Board is not in debt as so many are, but has a nice balance on hand." (Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference,1911, page 28)
At the Annual Conference in 1895 there again was a resolution to send the Heathen Missionary Treasury amounting to$386.37 to the "International Missionary Alliance" of New York through the conference Secretary (C. H. Brunner). I have not been able to discern how the relationship developed between the International Missionary Alliance (later to be known as the"Christian and Missionary Alliance). On several occasions we see that C. H. Brunner was the one that was to transfer money to that organization and it has been noted that he visited their office and they in turn have visited in his home and with "The Home and Heathen Missionary Society of the Evangelical Mennonites" "The Home and Heathen Missionary Society" later became known as "The Home and Foreign Missionary Society of the Evangelical Mennonite Society of East Pennsylvania." The Constitution of this Society can be found in ...What Mean These Stones? pages 41 and 42.
At the same Annual Conference in 1895, it was stated that the importance of missionary work was freely discussed. The following quote was then placed in the Minutes of this meeting.
The Presiding Elder (W. B. Musselman) gave a touching address concerning the increasing interest in the missionary work manifested in our church. At the close of his address he made the question, "How many of those present are willing to go to the foreign field as missionaries if the Lord calls you, will you rise to your feet?" Whereupon a dozen or more rose to their feet under a deep impression through the Holy Ghost. Many were moved to tears under the operation of the Spirit. Brother William Gehman, our dear Ex-Presiding Elder, who has founded the work here in Pennsylvania, and has been at the head of it for more than forty years until within the last few years, rose to his feet, after the others sat down, and said, "If I were a young man again and would see the great need of the missionary work as I see it now, I would go myself. I have often wondered," he said, deeply moved, "Why some of our young men are not called to go as missionaries." Brother A. Strawn then rose up and made about the same expression. (Unpublished Minutes)
At the Annual Conference in 1896, "The Home and Foreign Missionary Society of the Evangelical Mennonite Society of East Pennsylvania," became two separate entities--the "Foreign Mission Board" and the "Home Mission Board." The Foreign Mission Board (hereafter called the "FMB") was to be made up of five men. The Annual Conference Chairman would appoint three and the three appointed would appoint the other two. The Chairman appointed C. H. Brunner, L. B. Taylor, and M. Kaufman. The other two were: W.B. Musselman and William Gehman.
Within the Yearbook of the Thirteenth Annual Conference there was a list of "Business Rules of the Conference." There were two items that related to special service for foreign missions.
D. FOREIGN MISSIONS, HARVEST HOME -- Each Minister-in-charge shall hold a Harvest Home Service at each appointment annually, and speak on Foreign Missionary Work. The Annual Foreign Missionary Offering shall be received on this occasion.
E. MISSIONARY DAY -- The Ministers-in-charge shall see that the Superintendent of each Sunday School appoint a"Missionary Day" annually. In this service the necessity of establishing and supporting Foreign Missions shall be impressed upon the minds of the children, and a collection taken up for the same. (Enacted February 3, 1894). (Conference Journal,1896, pages 4-5)
It might be added here that in Dec. 1899 at an Extra Session of Annual Conference, a further resolution was adopted, "RESOLVED, that we recommend the Sunday Schools to hold an extra 'Missionary Day' whenever they deem it advisable." (Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference, 1897, Extra Session, no page number)
The first report of the FMB was submitted to Annual Conference in 1897 and reads as follows:
The Board met twice during the year. At its first meeting, February 13, 1896, it pledged $300 for the support of Fred. Sodaborg, of Africa, for one year. At its last meeting, December 21, 1896, it accepted C. F. Snyder, H. L. Weiss, and Mrs. H. L. Weiss as students of the New York Missionary Training Institute, making itself responsible for the tuition of one term each, on condition that they go as missionaries under the International Missionary Alliance on the first opportunity, or refund the money. --C. H. Brunner, Secretary. (Proceedings of The Fourteenth Annual Conference, 1897, Page 19)
In the Treasurer's Report that followed the above report it indicates that Fred Sodaborg was on the field under the I.M.A. and the implication that the FMB was assuming his full support. The full cost for keeping one missionary on the field for one year seems to have been $300.
In 1898 there is no further mention of Fred Sodaborg and we assume that the FMB specified support for one year knowing that they would have the responsibilities of some of our own missionaries the next year. Fred Sodaborg is the first example in our fellowship of churches of a "surrogate missionary" or one who is not one of us but has become our representative in missionary outreach. In future years we see the concept of surrogate missionaries being employed when more funds were available than people to send into missionary work. Many surrogate missionaries were supported of which Earl and Pirkko Poysti are probably the last remaining.
In the Report to Annual Conference, which it states is the "Second Annual Report of the Board of Foreign Missions," we see the authorization of transfer of funds from the FMB to the Christian and Missionary Alliance (the name must have recently been changed) for Brother and Sister H. L. Weiss (Henry L. Weiss and Kate Weiss). The support for the two was $600 per year. It further stated:
Brother C. F. Snyder, after attending the New York Missionary Training Institute for one term, was accepted by the Foreign Missionary Board of the Christian and Missionary Alliance as a candidate for Thibet in the Fall. We accordingly accept him as our representative in that dark land, pledged his support for the first year and took him into our home mission work until ready to leave.
We also pledged one year's support for one missionary in Africa, the President being authorized to make the selection.
At the second meeting of the Board, Oct. 7, the President reported that he had selected a candidate of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, who expected soon to leave for the Congo. But for various reasons she had not been able to leave yet, neither knew when she could, therefore the resolution concerning the support of her or any other missionary in Africa for the present was withdrawn. (Proceedings of the Fifteenth Session of the Pennsylvania Annual Conference, 1898, page 23)
Again we have indication of a close relationship with the C&MA and that we are using them as our Sending Board. The FMB chose not to be a Sending Board but to use existing agencies. A pattern established from the very beginning, debated on various occasions and yet always returning to this same policy. We also note the importance that the FMB places on formal Bible and missionary training for missionary work. The training may seem minimal to us today but in that day they thought it to be sufficient. Also worthy of note from the Report of the FMB in 1898 was a quote from a letter from H. L. Weiss from Victoria, Chile dated Dec. 3, 1897. They sailed from New York on March 10, 1897 and arrived in Chile on April 19 where they immediately began language studies. They go on to state:
On July 23 I started on my first trip to the south. In the latter part of August we moved to Victoria, our present headquarters. From this point we are branching out among the various settlements. The work among the Germans is going on nicely, We organized a society called the "Evangelische Missions-Gemeinde von Sud Amerika." They have pledged a certain amount for the support of Brother Valdivia, a native who is going out in the work." (Ibid., page 24)
When they call Brother Valdivia a "native" they mean that he is a national from Chile or a Chilean. There were many German colonies that were established in Chile as well. They immediately began language studies in Spanish but capitalized on their knowledge of German and immediately began a work among the German colonies. It is noteworthy that this German society immediately committed finances for the support or partial support for a Chilean for missionary outreach to the Spanish speaking people. In the years following we see growing parallel ministries with the Chilean and German peoples.
In 1899 H. L. Weiss reported the growth of both the Spanish and German works and indicated that they were now supporting 5 nationals and that the income, seeming to be primarily from the German communities, was increasing. The FMB began supporting nationals formally in 1904 when H. L. Weiss recommended the support of David Mancilla in Chile. The FMB probably supported more than a dozen nationals and missionaries from other countries during those early years under the leadership and oversight of Weiss. It should be mentioned that these nationals came under the general oversight of one of our own missionaries. When they were deemed no longer worthy of support, they were dropped. This in fact occurred with the first national, David Mancilla after two years.
Weiss's report to Annual Conference in 1900 indicated both the progress and the problems in the ministry in Chile.
We have organized the work in North Chile into a German Missionary Society, which is self-supporting besides assisting the work in the south. I visit these churches several time a year, hold their Conferences and Conventions.
We have now taken possession of the unoccupied southern part of Chile, having a parish of 200,000. Our work here is Spanish. We have our own printing press and print 1,000 copies of our Spanish paper, 'La Alianza Cristiana,' weekly for free distribution, besides a large number of tracts. (Proceedings of The Seventeenth Annual Conference, 1900,page 27)
In that same Yearbook of 1900 we have this quote from a letter of his dated Jan. 6, 1900, of some of the persecutions and hardships they were facing.
Several of our converts died triumphant in the faith. Three of the brethren have been put to jail for the Gospel's sake. Another, a Chileno convert, was compelled to kneel down and pray, and was then shot and killed. (Ibid., page22)
The comments in the Minutes to the reading of this report, of which the above is only a partial report, was as follows.
The report of the Secretary of the Foreign Mission Board was read and received. (See report.)
The Lord touched hearts, and a real glory-cloud of the missionary spirit hovered over the Conference. (Ibid.,page 12)
During the 18 years that Brother and Sister Weiss served in Chile (1897 - 1915), there was a continued growth to the point where there were 14 missionaries working in 3 countries, Argentine Republic, Chile, and Venezuela for a period of 4 years, with 11 national workers. The missions team concept began among the BFC missionaries and was well developed by Weiss. From various Yearbooks we have some excerpts from the letters of Weiss and condensations from his letters by the Secretary, C. H. Brunner, that give some interesting characteristics of the ministry in South America.
Nearly all our churches are supplied by native pastors, as you will notice by my report. (Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Conference, 1915, page 38)
Though the work is under the supervision of the Christian & Missionary Alliance, yet their organization and form of church government is patterned after our work herein Pennsylvania." Brother Weiss' position as Superintendent is similar to that of our Presiding Elders at home; in fact he is elected as such. They have divided their work into a Spanish and German division. Brother Weiss is presiding Elder of the Spanish District and Brother O. Barkowitz, of the German work. Brother M. P. Zook, a convert of the Gospel Worker Society and later a member of the Gospel Herald Society is Secretary. (Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference, 1911, pages 29-30)
My object is to make the work self-supporting, gradually as soon as possible. (Conference Journal, 1913, pages 33-34)
As you look through the officers and leaders of the Spanish and German divisions, you will find a very healthy mix in nationalities. In many parts of the world, missionaries were building ministries that were basically led by expatriates. Governments were building their empires and colonialism was prospering. This had overtones in the way churches and movements abroad were led. Even though the indigenous church principles were taught and encouraged for many years, many churches and organizations were in fact NOT indigenous (self-supporting, self-propagating, and self-governing). From every indication that we have and the comments from Weiss, we see a truly indigenous church and associated ministries being established. We see a ministry of Americans, Germans, Norwegians, and Spanish that had a good mix in leadership and joint ventures. He and his missionary co-workers traveled much and strove for local leadership and support as soon as it was possible. Dr. Ralph Winter indicates that the most obvious outward trait of the period following World War II, "was the unprecedented "Retreat of the West" -a "collapse of four hundred years of European empire building in the non-Western World." Governments and religious ministries had to be turned over to the nationals. Many ministries had ensuing problems of nationalizing their ministries. From all indications that we have, this was not a problem in the ministry that was developed in South America, basically under the leadership of H. L. Weiss.
In the summer of 1899, at Camp Meeting at Quakertown, two under appointment to Armenia (Sisters Marianne Gerber and Rose Lambert from Missionary Society "Light and Hope" from Berne, Indiana) and a native Armenian, spent several days in ministry at the Camp Meeting. Their ministry was much appreciated and as a result Rose Lambert was adopted "as our missionary in Armenia." She became the first missionary who was not sent out through the C&MA. These two women sailed from New York on Nov. 2, 1898 (90years ago today) and settled at first in Constantinople (now Istanbul), Turkey. Here they had charge of an orphanage. Evidently they moved shortly after their arrival and the address became Hadjin in Asia Minor. In 1904 Rose Lambert said, "The heaviest burden is not the work we do, but the work we constantly see remain undone."
In the year 1900, two more missionaries, Mr. & Mrs. J. E. Fidler were sent to Turkey and evidently involved in orphanage work. Various personal and inter-relational problems ensued and the FMB was faced, probably for the first time, with a problem solving situation that involved missionaries and another sending board (variously named "Armenian Orphanage and Mission Board" and sometimes "Armenian Relief Committee"). The Fidlers were returned to the States after about 3 years on the field. Repentance seemed to have taken place and it seems that they were transferred to the Canadian Conference and at some later date were seemingly involved in orphanage work in Turkey once again.
From 1898 to 1914 offerings were received for the work in Armenia even though there may not have been any of our missionaries working in Turkey. It appears that the Canadian Conference was doing work with orphans in Turkey and perhaps they took responsibility for the work when we did not have any missionaries in Turkey. This is not very clear.
Rose Lambert came to the U.S. for furlough about 1905 or1906. The Presiding Elders established her deputational meetings throughout the Conference. (FMB Minutes of May 29, 1906. These unpublished minutes are found in the Archives of the Bible Fellowship Church located at Wallingford, Pennsylvania.) It was also noted that Rose Lambert had no church membership in our fellowship and the two Presiding Elders were commissioned to determine where her membership should be held. In the FMB Minutes of Oct. 12, 1906, it was indicated that "Rose Lambert was admitted as a member in the Allentown class."
We indicated previously that a close working relationship with the C&MA was established from the very beginning. This relationship grew stronger during the early 1900's. Some of the contacts that were developed with leaders in the C&MA were such men as: Rev. A. B. Simpson, President; Rev. A. E. Funk, General Secretary; Rev. J. D. Williams, Secretary; and Dr. R. H. Glover, Foreign Secretary.
Another field that was developing along with Soputh America and Armenia, was China. C. F. Snyder, one of our men, had a burden for Tibet and Chine and set sail in 1897(?) and served there until the U. S. State Department ordered evacuation sometime at the end of 1940, about 43 years of service for him and about 32 years for Mrs. Snyder. He, I believe, has the longest time of ministry abroad as one of our missionaries, although some of that time had been spent in ministry in the United States. The ministry in China with the Chinese, Tibetans and Muslims was indeed most difficult because of the opposition and the attacks of the enemy in many different forms. One attack on them that was very life threatening was in May of 1914--it was the raid of the "White Wolf." (See 1915 Yearbook for some details and photos of the destruction of Taochow with only 37 houses left standing.) The mission station was completely burned down. At one time he mentions going through some very difficult times financially and apologizes for mentioning it and said, "It cannot be termed faith."
At another time there was a movement afoot to exterminate all foreigners. Placards were posted to that effect primarily on the homes of foreigners. Snyder indicated that he traveled in one year almost 2,000 miles on foot and on horseback selling Gospels and distributing tracts. Most of his traveling was done alone. Snyder was most faithful in his communication with the FMB by letter and sending them diaries and photographs. Some of this information is quoted in the yearbooks with some of the photographs and we assume that much of the other material is lost.
C. F. Snyder was able to get some assistance but not as much as he would have liked. There were as many as 6 missionaries that were working with the C&MA that were supported by the FMB. They also worked very closely with workers of the China Inland Mission even assuming much of their work in that area during the furlough period of CIM missionaries. The FMB also began sending missionaries out under the CIM.
Through the years our missionaries have ministered in many different countries. Probably more than we can account for. I shall include a list of such countries in the appendices.
Let 's return to missionary support. Contributions for foreign missions, according to C. H. Brunner started in the existing churches in about 1883 by the tin box on the door marked "For the Heathen." From the tin box it went to the barrels that came into existence in Graterford some time prior to 1893. In the Spring of 1893 it was agreed that this method would be used in all of our Sunday Schools. It is conjectured that the barrels continued in some Sunday Schools into the 1930's when they faded away. It should also be noted that there was a decline in missions offering about this time and we are sure that other factors entered into it, such as the great depression period in the early thirties. Tin boxes in 1883 progressed to missionary barrels in 1893 which later led to Foreign Missions giving commitment cards that were to be filled out and turned in annually. I believe that this was basically a Faith Promise giving, In the early 1970's progressed to the General Budget where all missions giving was to be included in this budget. In later years there is a trend to go to a Faith Promise method of giving. Presently churches that are giving the most per member to missions are using variations of the Faith Promise plan. This is probably the most prominent reason for the increase in giving to missions coupled together with a new motivation to support a growing number of missionaries that were raised in the BFC churches. As people have been made aware of world needs and missionary support and projects, the people have responded. The Faith Promise is a official vehicle of the church that permits people to immediately to respond to felt needs.
The Faith Promise is used in different ways. Sometimes to indicate how much the General Budget should be increased. Sometimes all missions giving is excluded from the General Budget and the church maintains two different accountings. And yet again sometimes the Faith Promise is used in addition to the General Budget in order to supplement missions giving to meet the needs that cannot be met through the budget.
We might also note that as of 1970 foreign missions offerings from Sunday Schools were dropped from the statistical charts in the Yearbooks. One may note from the statistical chart and the graphs in the appendices that the number of our missionaries on the field also decreased from 1928 to 1939.
It is encouraging to see the graphs and chart and to note the considerable increase in missionary giving and number of missionaries since 1939. Notable years for change are 1908 for a decrease in the percentage of money given to foreign missions; 1928 for a decrease in the number of our missionaries; and 1939 and 1981 for increases in missionaries.
In 1981 the FMB recognized that the work load for the General Secretary of the Bible Fellowship Church Board of Missions, was increasing to the point that he was unable to acceptably carry out his responsibilities in a part-time capacity. A special committee was formed and new legislation for first reading was submitted to Annual Conference to divide the responsibilities between two part-time persons and then as needed to increase to one full-time Executive secretary and a part-time Financial Secretary. Included in this legislation was a change of name from the Foreign Mission Board to the Board of Missions. The full official name would be the Bible Fellowship Church Board of Missions. In October 1983 Annual Conference approved legislation and two part-time men were elected - Paul G. Zimmerman, Executive Secretary; and David E. Thomann, Financial Secretary. New applicants became more numerous and the work load continued to increase and in October of 1985 the Executive Secretary position was increased to a full-time position. In that Paul Zimmerman, then the pastor of the Harleysville Bible Fellowship Church, became an applicant of the BOM for missionary work under the AIM in Kenya, he declined nomination for the Executive Secretary position. Roy A. Hertzog was elected previous to October 1985 and Annual Conference ratified the election.
There have been at least ten pastors or pastoral assistants in the BFC who have gone to the mission field. The men that we are aware of would be: Walter Frank, Brian Butler, Robert Draper, Richard Gehman, Herb Lee, William Mull, Lou Prontnicki, David Riddell, Philip Yerrington, and Paul Zimmerman. The BFC is following the example of the Church at Antioch in that they have sent out some of the best leaders within the church to represent them in world outreach. May it ever be in the days ahead! May we never forget God's global cause to seek to give the Gospel message to those of "every tribe and tongue and people and nation." May each of us realize the truth of Acts 1:8 "But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; AND you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, AND in all Judea AND Samaria, AND even to the remotest part of the earth." The word is not OR it is AND! He has not given us a choice not to be involved in world missions - it is our mandate to be vitally involved in world evangelization at home and abroad. "God be gracious to us and bless us, and cause His face to shine upon us--That Thy way may be known on the earth, Thy salvation among all nations" (Ps 67:1 & 2).


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Fired Ferguson Spokesman Devin James Dubs Himself "Voice of the Voiceless" In New Book
by Danny Wicentowski
Devin James.
Devin James is back.
In a memoir published earlier this month, the fired PR representative for Ferguson blames city leaders, police officials and politicians for their failures in the aftermath of Michael Brown's death. Marketed with his characteristic flair, the book, Inside Ferguson: A Voice for the Voiceless, also appears to function as a public relations vehicle for James himself (as memoirs usually do).
The publisher touts the book as "an explosive missile of truth from a man uniquely positioned to uncover the real mechanics of damage control and race relations.... James's account will make you question the progress America has made in the quest for racial equality and reflect upon the true meaning of 'Black Lives Matter.'"
James, readers may recall, served as Ferguson's point-person for media inquiries and public relations until September 26, 2014, the day when the St. Louis Post-Dispatch revealed James had been convicted of a felony for fatally shooting an unarmed man in 2004. After the news broke, the St. Louis Economic Development Partnership, which had officially hired him, cancelled James' contract.
James' firing, however, was hardly the first bump in his employment with Ferguson. He was the mastermind behind former Ferguson police chief Thomas Jackson's disastrous (and widely mocked) video apology to Michael Brown's family.
James also did himself no favors when he engaged in an ill-advised Twitter spat with Post-Dispatch reporter Paul Hampel, who remarked that "Ferguson could not have chosen a more tone-deaf spokesman."
Ten months later, James now seems to be doing a bit of re-branding. In the book's promotional blurb, James' firing is described as "character assassination that occurred when James refused to play along" with Ferguson's inept and duplicitous city leaders.
Here's the book's trailer, which presents James as a kind of savior figure against scenes of burned-down Ferguson businesses.
We should note that James is currently suing St. Louis public relations firm Elasticity for breach of contract. He alleges that the firm failed to pay his company, Devin James Group, for its work in north county St. Louis. The case will go to trial next month.
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Are you really ready to be a major player, NC State?
This was the team we all thought it would be, coming up with a smart, effective game on the road to beat Florida State, and now it's Game On. Now, if this really is the team that's good enough to win a game like that, it's time to start believing it's a good enough team to beat anyone and everyone on the schedule.
There's time off to rest after this before a Thursday night game against Louisville, and then comes a run of four road games in five weeks, with Clemson in the middle.
There can't be a misfire at home against Syracuse.
The Orange can't seem to get their season going, alternating the two wins with two losses, but the defense hasn't been bad, the team put up a good fight on the road against LSU, and there's just enough hope to think this might be a bowl season with an upset or two along the way.
This might need to be one of them.
One Reason Why Syracuse Will Win
It might seem boring in a game between two teams with decent firepower, but there's a shot the Orange can stay in the game – or change it around – with the punting game.
It's part of the reason the Wolfpack lost to South Carolina in the opener, and it should be a problem this week with a punting game that's averaging just 35 yards per boot and can't do much on punt returns.
The Orange offense might be having problems, but the Sterling Hofrichter is averaging over 46 yards per boot. Considering the SU defense is seventh in the nation in coming up with third down stops, pin State deep, make it go on long drives, make it get to third down, get off the field.
One Reason Why NC State Will Win
Ryan Finley has been special.
He hasn't received a whole lot of national love because he doesn't put up a bazillion yards, but few quarterbacks have been more effective so far. He's hitting 74% of his passes averaging over 300 yards per game with eight touchdowns with no picks.
He's not forcing anything, and while Syracuse might be doing a good job on third down defense, Finley is hitting his passes to keep things moving.
The Orange D doesn't have a pass rush. Give Finley time, and he'll pick apart a defense. If he can handle the Florida State secondary, he can deal with Syracuse.
NC State will make it 4-0 in the series, but it'll be NC State and struggle a little too much when the pressure is on.
The Orange are okay, but they aren't going to be able to control Bradley Chubb and the Pack pass rush.
Finley and the offense will be fine, the State defense will bring it when it has to, and it'll be effective enough when it needs to be. It'll be underwhelming, but it won't blow it after beating the Noles.
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A Versatile Mismatch Recognition Agent: Specific Cleavage of a Plasmid DNA at a Single Base Mispair
Jackson, Brian A. and Alekseyev, Viktor Y. and Barton, Jacqueline K. (1999) A Versatile Mismatch Recognition Agent: Specific Cleavage of a Plasmid DNA at a Single Base Mispair. Biochemistry, 38 (15). pp. 4655-4662. ISSN 0006-2960. doi:10.1021/bi990255t. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20160407-115523781
[Rh(bpy)_2(chrysi)]^(3+) is a novel, sterically bulky DNA intercalator that has been designed to bind specifically in the destabilized regions near DNA base mismatches and, upon photoactivation, to cleave the DNA backbone. Here the molecule is shown to be both a general and remarkably specific mismatch recognition agent. Specific DNA cleavage is observed at over 80% of mismatch sites in all the possible single base pair sequence contexts around the mispaired bases. Moreover, the complex is highly site-specific; it is shown to recognize and photocleave at a single base mismatch in a 2725 base pair linearized plasmid heteroduplex. Sterically demanding intercalators such as [Rh(bpy)_2(chrysi)]^(3+) may have application both in mutation detection systems and as mismatch-specific chemotherapeutic agents.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bi990255t DOI Article
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Barton, Jacqueline K. 0000-0001-9883-1600
© 1999 American Chemical Society. Received February 3, 1999; Revised Manuscript Received February 26, 1999. Publication Date (Web): March 23, 1999. Support from the National Institutes of Health (GM33309) is gratefully acknowledged. B.A.J. acknowledges the NSF and the Parsons Foundation for predoctoral fellowships, and V.Y.A. acknowledges the HHMI and the Caltech SURF program for sponsorship of a summer undergraduate research fellowship.
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Caltech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) UNSPECIFIED
10.1021/bi990255t
A Versatile Mismatch Recognition Agent: Specific Cleavage of a Plasmid DNA at a Single Base Mispair Brian A. Jackson,Viktor Y. Alekseyev, and, and Jacqueline K. Barton Biochemistry 1999 38 (15), 4655-4662 DOI: 10.1021/bi990255t
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Beyoncé Has Two More Netflix Specials In the Works
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Following the release of her concert film Homecoming earlier this week, Beyoncé has reportedly signed on for a three-project deal with Netflix.
Netflix's deal with Beyoncé follows lucrative agreements with Shonda Rhimes and Ryan Murphy, who are making $100 million and $250 million, respectively, and comedians like Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle (raking in $40 million and $60 million, respectively).
According to Variety, the Lemonade singer will reportedly make $60 million from the projects, as Netflix seems to be focusing on adding more music content. Netflix's most prominent releases in terms of musical films include a Springsteen on Broadway special, Lady Gaga's 2017 documentary Gaga: Five Foot Two, and the Quincy Jones documentary Quincy.
Homecoming, which gave fans a behind-the-scenes look at the singer's 2018 Coachella performance, is supposedly the first of the three specials headed to the streaming platform. Beyoncé spearheaded the project as executive producer, writer, and director, banking around $20 million.
While Homecoming landed at Netflix, HBO was reportedly interested in the film since the network has had a longtime relationship with the singer, says Vulture. HBO aired Beyoncé's 2016 film Lemonade film, her 2014 "On the Run Tour" concert special with husband Jay-Z and her 2013 documentary Life Is But a Dream.
Alongside the documentary on April 17, Beyoncé shared a surprise 40-track album featuring two bonus tracks including "Before I Let Go," a cover of a Frankie and Beverly & Maze song that plays in the documentary's closing credits, and "I Been On," which is a new version of a track that was posted on Soundcloud in 2013.
And there's more music on its way: Variety recently revealed that the audio to her Lemonade film, which had only been available on Jay-Z's subscription service Tidal, will be available on all streaming services beginning April 23.
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The Animals' Battalion is holding a series of demonstrations in New York City, for the third year in a row. They are demonstrating outside the South Korean Consulate, to make that government aware of how strongly we abhor their indifference to the mass cruelty and suffering inflicted on sentient animals, within the dog and cat meat trades; and also of the failure of their government to bring about an end to this evil trade which makes profits from the suffering of animals.
Friday, July 21, was Day 2. Thank you to The Animals' Battalion for organizing this demonstration, especially Noelia and Roberto and all the animal advocates who came to help. We are thankful to Susan who has helped with promoting this event by sponsoring an advertisement in the local Korean American newspaper inviting Korean Americans to help out as well as leading the chants in the Korean language. It's so great to see Korean Americans join us in this very urgent and important fight to save the dogs. I believe the New York Korean Consulate staff have been put under pressure and we hope they are embarrassed about their nation's profound indifference to this cruel and shameful practice.
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SIDNEY, Iowa — His farm is still cut off by floodwaters, so Iowa soybean farmer Pat Sheldon had to view the damage from the air. On a helicopter ride over what seemed like an endless stretch of water, he came to a place he recognized as his own land — and saw that one of the grain silos had burst open, spilling yellow soybeans into the dingy, toxic water.
"It was like a punch in the gut," Sheldon said.
Although the water has yet to recede enough for a true examination, Sheldon says more than $350,000 of his corn and soybeans is in jeopardy, and he worries he may lose the farm that's been in his family for generations.
Before the terrible "bomb cyclone" sent warm rain down on frozen ground, resulting in catastrophic flooding throughout the Midwest and displacing thousands, American farmers were already struggling after several seasons of low commodity prices and the continuing trade war with China. In towns along the overflowing Mississippi and Missouri rivers, farmers are seeing their crops — and their futures — swept away by floodwaters.
In Nebraska, Gov. Pete Ricketts (R) has called the flooding "the most widespread destruction we have ever seen in our state's history." Iowa has more than 100,000 acres of farmland still underwater. Officials from both states say the damage estimates are more than $1 billion and counting.
Some farmers had more soybeans in storage this year than normal, according to Frayne Olson, a crop economist and marketing specialist with North Dakota State University. The government estimates there are more than 3.7 billion bushels of soybeans still in storage — a record — partly because Chinese purchases of the grain have plummeted in recent months during the ongoing tariff war.
Iowa farmers have about 528 million bushels in storage, up 8 percent from the previous year, while Nebraska had 13 percent more grain stored, according to the U.S. Agriculture Department's estimate.
"A lot of farmers have not been selling, hoping for better prices and some kind of trade agreement," Olson said.
The Missouri River is continuing its destructive course south into Missouri where Gov. Mike Parson (R) declared a state of emergency, as governors have already done in Iowa, Wisconsin and hard-hit Nebraska.
The river is expected to crest this weekend in Atchison, Kan., and state officials urged residents of at-risk towns to evacuate.
Threats are emerging from the north over the next week, where warmer weather is causing snow to melt rapidly in the Dakotas and Minnesota, releasing vast quantities of water into streams and rivers, meaning some areas will have little chance to dry out before a new deluge arrives.
In Sioux Falls, S.D., the Big Sioux River is expected to have two crests — one late Monday and another on Friday. The Mississippi will likely peak later in the week in St. Paul, Minn. Ten miles to the south, the city of Cottage Grove declared an emergency in anticipation of flooding from the river, which is expected to peak there on March 30.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warned people to prepare for a prolonged disaster.
There are some 40,000 soybean farmers in Iowa. In the past several years, 1 in 3 rows of soybeans have been sent to China, meaning farmers were heavily impacted after China virtually stopped buying American soybeans last year, according to the Iowa Soybean Association.
But some of the farmers who gathered Thursday at the Silver Spur Bar and Grill in Iowa's Fremont County — a population of about 7,400 — didn't want to talk about tariffs, saying they felt their plight was being used to fuel political debate on cable news shows and by Washington.
The farmers said they were more concerned with the way the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was handling the management of the river. They said they received little warning from the Corps before levees breached and their land was flooded, and many did not have time to move their grain to safety.
The Army Corps of Engineers has long been criticized for a plan to control the Missouri River that farmers say prioritizes wildlife protection over flood control. A federal claims court judge ruled last year that Corps policies contributed to some flooding. After touring flood damage in Missouri last week, Parson said it was time to "reevaluate" the Corps' management of the Missouri River.
A spokesman for the Corps' office in Omaha did not return calls for comment.
"We've had no real communication from the Corps of Engineers since this started," said Mike Crecelius, the emergency management coordinator for Fremont County.
He estimates that there have been 14 breaches in their levees alone, causing $147 million in damage — more than $100 million from farm crops and equipment.
"It's been one big nightmare," he said.


"Christ's love is an active, working love. Just as the shepherd did not sit still bewailing his lost sheep, and the woman did not sit still bewailing her lost money, so our blessed Lord did not sit still in heaven pitying sinners.
He left the glory which He had with the Father, and humbled Himself to be made in the likeness of man. He came down into the world to seek and save that which was lost.
He never rested till He had made atonement for our transgressions, brought in everlasting righteousness, provided eternal redemption, and opened a door of life to all who are willing to be saved.
Christ's love is a self-denying love. The shepherd brought his lost sheep home on his own shoulders rather than leave it in the wilderness.
The woman lighted a candle, and swept the house, and searched diligently, and spared no pains, till she found her lost money.
Christ's love is a deep and mighty love. Just as the shepherd rejoiced to find his sheep, and the woman to find her money, so does the Lord Jesus rejoice to save sinners. It is a real pleasure to Him to pluck them as brands from the burning.
It was His 'meat and drink,' when upon earth, to finish the work which He came to do. He felt straitened in spirit till it was accomplished. It is still His delight to show mercy. He is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.
Let us strive to know something of this love of Christ. It is a love that truly passeth knowledge. It is unspeakable and unsearchable. It is that on which we must wholly rest our souls, if we would have peace in time and glory in eternity.
–J.C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on Luke, Vol. 2 (New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1879), 175-76. Ryle is commenting on Luke 15:1-10.


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Singapore: Video captures entire riot at Duxton Hill car parking, 9 arrested
By Bhaswati Guha Majumder
July 15, 2019 18:26 +08
A group of men rioting at Duxton Road on 14 July, YouTube grab
Police arrested nine men for their alleged involvement in a brawl at Duxton Hill on Sunday, July 14.
As per the police they were alerted to the riot at 5 Duxton Hill on Sunday evening at around 5.48 pm. Later they arrested suspects who are aged between 20 and 35.
The New Paper published a video of the incident on social media platform that showed almost 20 people, including men and women, who had gathered near the car parking. The video also captured a woman, who could be seen trying to stop some men from entering the car park.
Some groups of men were also caught on camera as they were shouting loudly at the car parking area. Full details will be known once the police complete the initial investigation in the case.
However, under Penal Code section 147, rioting is considered a criminal offence and a convict in rioting can face a penalty of a mandatory imprisonment sentence of up to seven years and with caning.
Indian origin man faces jail term for rioting in Singapore that involved over 50 men
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What Makes A Super Bowl Ad Super? Five Act Dramatic Form.
January 28, 2015 August 21, 2018 ~ Kquesen	~ 35 Comments
When I was an advertising copywriter I had an intuition about what type of ads worked and which did not, but mainly I and many of my colleagues stumbled into them. Sometime we would have a hit and other times we missed the mark. This pressure to perform becomes intense this time of year as over 111 million people tune into to watch a Super Bowl match between the top NFL teams, but also to watch the TV ads.
There are even advertising polls and show dedicated to which are the "best" ads. Being one of the best pays off in additional attention, views and buzz. The more buzz you get for the TV ad before and after the big game the more you are getting for the 4.5 million investment. It makes those 30 seconds go a lot further.
So what makes one ad more likable to finish in the top ten of USA Today Ad Meter versus the bottom ten? When I became a professor at Johns Hopkins University my research colleague Michael Coolsen from Shippensburg University and I asked ourselves that very question. Then we conducted a two-year analysis of 108 Super Bowl commercials to find the answer. Is it humor or emotion? Sex appeal or cute animals? What is the secret ingredient to helping ensure a Super Bowl commercial is liked and talked about?
Remember studying five-act Shakespearian Plays in high school? There was a reason Shakespeare was so popular and why he used to tell a story in five acts. It is a powerful formula that has drawn people's attention for hundreds of years. Starting with Aristotle's Poetics in 335 B.C., dramatic theory was first developed. Aristotle consider plot, having a beginning, middle and end, to be the most important element in drama – even more important than character. Much later, in 1863, German novelist and playwright Gustav Freytag developed his theory of dramatic structure advancing Aristotle's to include a more precise five-act structure as seen below.
We coded the over 100 Super Bowl ads in a two-year span for the number of acts developed in the commercial. Then we compared that number with the ratings number those commercials received in the top consumer Advertising Super Bowl Polls. After analysis we found a correlation between number of acts and higher ratings. In other words, the more acts in a commercial (a more complete story with a plot) the higher the ratings or likability. The results of the study were published in The Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice in the Fall of 2014. What about all those other factors like sex appeal, humor, emotion or animals? They didn't matter. We found these variables all over. They appeared at the top and bottom of the polls with no discernible pattern.
Does story and likability sell? Likable ads are more likely to be viewed and shared multiple times increasing viral buzz and generating greater awareness. Other research has proven that online buzz increases ad recall, recognition and emotional response. The latest research claims a direct connection. Advertisers can buy consumer attention for those 30 seconds during the game, but when advertising hits social media, it is all about likability. People are drawn to and give their attention to story. Beyond Super Bowl ads where else have you seen story have an impact?
Twitter: A Fine Day To Start Again.
December 1, 2014 August 20, 2018 ~ Kquesen	~ Leave a comment
I was listening to Mark Schaffer discuss the update of his book The Tao of Twitter on Michael Stelzner's podcast the other day and realized that I have been using Twitter all wrong for the past 6 years. Maybe I shouldn't say ALL wrong. Twitter is one of my favorite social channels. I use it to stay connected with the latest developments in the industry and share valuable articles and resources with followers and via hashtags. I have even added it as required participation (#SocialMedia453) to my Social Media Marketing course at JHU.
Learning and sharing and finding are all part of Twitter, but the big piece I have been missing is real time conversation. No channel gets closer to real time socializing like Twitter. This is perhaps its greatest value and I have been missing out on it for 6 years! The closest I have gotten to this step is at conferences where I have had wonderful Twitter conversations with audience members of talks. I have found that the most meaningful professional relationships and opportunities tend to come from conferences where real time, in person conversations happen.
In Twitter I have had too much of a publishers mindset. I have been viewing tweets as a set of blog posts that will be viewed somehow like a table of contents. I also worry about direct comments feeling out of context for others who see them. Now I am realizing that these thoughts are merely misconceptions. There are over 350,000 tweets sent per minute, 500 million tweets per day and around 200 billion tweets per year. A Twitter user on average has over 200 followers and follows over 100 people. With this sheer amount of activity, rarely do we see someone's stream in its entirety.
Twitter is not about more information or perfect information. Twitter's strength is making mini one-on-one connections that can build up to more meaningful relationships. To do this we must cut through the clutter with real conversation. This is what Gary Vaynerchuk was talking about in The Thank You Economy. I know all these things. I've read the books. How did I miss it for so long?
As I have attempted to build up social media knowledge I have tried to be everywhere and learn everything. I have jumped on every new and old social channel and have tried to do it all. Do you do this too? Yet most of the social media experts tend to be experts in one or two channels. Generalists are few and far between. Community managers are hired to be active in one social channel. To be more effective and get greater results from what Mark Shaeffer calls, "The most popular real-time conversations in the world" we may need more of a focused approach.
Personally, this may mean letting go of some of the other channels for a while. For marketers this may mean cutting channels to the ones that make the most sense or dedicating people to individual communities. Really get to know what makes a specific channel tick and put that effort into each interaction. On Twitter, Shaeffer says it's about "People sharing, connecting, teaching, and entertaining each other in the moment." For Twitter tactics I turn to Jay Baer at Convince & Convert. He reports that 92.4% of all retweets happen within the first hour a tweet is sent out and he makes the following suggestions for success:
1. Find Influencers. Not all Twitter followers can amplify messages equally. Find the most influential followers and concentrate efforts there. Interact with them when you have something relevant and valuable to add to the conversation.
2. Repeat Tweets. Tap into multiple Twitter audiences throughout the day. Jay tweets posts 3 times a day with different headlines. Research suggests that the best times to tweet in general are 10am – 3pm – when most people are active on Twitter.
3. Test Tweet Times. Give yourself the best chance of being retweeted by knowing when influencers are on Twitter. Try different times, track response, and look for patterns. Or simply think about possible patterns in your audience's day. Breaks between meetings, lunch, morning, night – when are they most likely to be on Twitter?
4. Manage Expectations. Only 6% of all tweets are retweeted. Don't expect everything you send to get shared to the world. Focus on quality versus quantity. Build more one-on-one relationships that will build to more influence over time.
Shaffer says Twitter is the most powerful business networking system that has ever existed (via 140 characters) yet 60% of people who try Twitter quit after the first week. To truly get these benefits we must use the network the right way – the real time way.
For one last insight, Vaynerchuck's latest book Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook says, "link clicks do not create stories." Real time conversation is about sharing stories. People are moved by stories. How do you use Twitter? Are you missing out on its greatest potential?
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In this Feb. 18, 2018 file photo, Syrian refugees line up to register their names at an employment office, at the Azraq Refugee Camp, 100 kilometers (62 miles) east of Amman, Jordan (AP Photo)
Around 153,000 Syrians have returned to their country from Jordan since the reopening of a key border post last October, the interior ministry said Tuesday.
Of the 153,000 who returned via the Jaber post, around 33,000 had refugee status with the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR, it said.
The ministry reiterated its commitment to "voluntary returns of Syrian refugees" and to easing "necessary steps for their departure from the kingdom".
More than 650,000 Syrian refugees are registered with the UNHCR in Jordan, which shares a 370-kilometer (230-mile) border with Syria.
Amman says it has welcomed as many as 1.3 million Syrian refugees since the start of the neighboring Arab country's conflict in 2011.
The Jaber border post, called Nassib on the Syrian side, is the main passage between the two countries and used to serve as a hub for regional trade.
In July 2018, it was retaken from rebels in a Russian-backed offensive by Assad regime forces.
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When it comes to sacred, it is always difficult to search a perfect definition of the concept.
In our times, everything can be sacred: a love, a religion, a celebrity, an object, everything can be the centre of a personal cult and sacration.
So, in the story of literature, we had several examples of how something can be assured as sacred – and how religion's not what it seems.
Here we are, so get on your knees and pray.
A sacred book for Italian culture, Manzoni wrote the tormented story of Renzo and Lucia and their unrequited love. The book is about what is sacred and what is not, what religion really hides and what we can do with virtues and vices to nobilitate our minds and souls.
God is the main fil-rouge of the story, everything is permeated with Him, but is not the main sacred thing: Manzoni taught us how even love and temperance can be our sacred cult.
A beautiful and magisterially written epic poem about the biblical Fall of Men: from the Temptation of Adam and Eve to their loss of the Eden, Milton warns us about the difficulties we can go through not conciliating sacred and profane, not understanding what being a man is and what religion truly means to a society.
Underrated book from one of the most famous Italian author, this novel is about the story of a love triangle between three kids with the background of a church and the catholic religion.
Everything is not what it seems and secrets will be unveiled, but also is a beautiful book about the hidden sides of cult, religion and what can be sacred to a human being.
Please, read this book in your twenties.
My love for Carrere is not a secret for you readers, so when it came to write the bookworm for this issue I was pleased to introduce this particular book from the French author.
Here, our Carrere introduce to us his experience about being a Christian for twenty years and what he discovered and learned in that time. Recalling Bible and Catholic history, this book is an anthology that can't be missed when it comes to understand and trying to discover what sacred means today.
Scandalous and atypical, this book is the personal concept of sacred for Baudelaire, telling us about the magical and miraculous powers of drugs and addiction.
What will happen when old and new gods confront themselves?
Gaiman asked himself about and this was the result: a beautiful and entertaining novel about what religion and sacred icons maned through the time for the evolution of us as a population and human beings.