WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Though U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will not meet formally this week on the sidelines of the APEC summit, when they do meet, Russians would prefer Putin act firmly rather than try to improve relations. The majority of Russians (52%) say it is important for Russia to act firmly with the U.S., while 29% say it is important for Russia and the U.S. to have good relations. At the same time, only 7% say Russia should terminate all relations with the U.S.
Russians Want Strong Hand in Dealings With U.S.
There are different opinions about the relationship between Russia and the United States. Which of the following statements do you MOST agree with?
It is important for Russia to act firmly with the U.S.
It is important for Russia to have good relations with the U.S.
Russia should terminate all relations with the U.S.
Beginning his trip to Asia this week, Trump had said he expected to meet with Putin at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit to urge him to help resolve the crisis with North Korea. However, on Friday, the White House nixed a formal meeting, citing "scheduling conflicts." The meeting would have been the first between the two men since July.
Since then, Congress has imposed new sanctions on Russia to punish it for meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, and Moscow responded by expelling hundreds of U.S. diplomats -- increasingly straining relations. Gallup surveyed Russians this summer as these events unfolded and in the fallout afterward.
While the majority of Russians prefer a firm approach to dealing with the U.S., their attitudes differ by generation and by education, and not in the way that might be expected. Russians aged 60 and older -- most of whom lived through decades of the Cold War, when the U.S. was portrayed as their main enemy -- are the most likely of any age group to say that improving relations with the U.S. is important (38%). At the same time, support for acting firmly rises with education, reaching 60% among Russians with the highest level of education.
While both Moscow and Washington had hoped to forge better relationships when Trump took office, most Russians now do not expect relations to get worse -- but they don't expect them to get better either. Given the state of relations before and since Trump became president, just 16% expect them to get worse under Trump. The remaining Russians are divided into three camps: those who say they don't know (30%), those who feel relations will stay the same (29%) and those who think relations will improve (25%).
Do you think the relationship between Russia and the United States will strengthen, remain the same or weaken with the new U.S. president Donald Trump?
Unlike their views of their country's approach to relations with the U.S., key subgroups of Russians are fairly unified in their expectations for future relations under Trump. There are no major differences by demographic group.
Even though news about Trump and Russia has made headlines from day one of his presidency, less than a year into his first term, he is still somewhat of an "unknown" in Russia. Nearly half of Russians (48%) do not know enough about Trump to rate the job he is doing as president of the U.S. However, those who do have an opinion are slightly more likely to disapprove (30%) than to approve (22%).
Now thinking of the president of the United States, do you approve or disapprove of the job performance of Donald Trump?
Americans, on the other hand, are very familiar with Russia's longtime president and hold him in even lower esteem than Russians do Trump. At roughly the same time the survey was conducted in Russia, Americans were being asked to rate Putin's favorability (rather than his job performance). At the time, just 13% viewed him favorably, and 74% viewed him unfavorably. The unfavorable rating this past summer was the highest in Gallup's trend.
If Putin and Trump do eventually meet formally, they will have much to discuss on both international and bilateral fronts. But if Putin does not attempt to mend relations with the U.S., it will likely not disappoint the majority of Russians, who prefer a firm approach. Further, it would likely live down to Russians' already low expectations, who for the most part don't think relations will get worse under Trump.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's favorable rating has dropped since February, among both Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. Putin's favorability has remained low for the past four years.


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The other morning when I was out and about the conditions were very blustery. I noticed the raptors were spending time on the ground. They were tucking themselves up against bushes or positioning themselves in the lee of mounds facing the sun. They were more approachable, and as a result I managed to get a few close up images.
Female Montagu's Harrier sitting very low to the ground.
Common Kestrel. I like how this front on shot turned out, a pose I struggle to capture well.
Then the exception to prove the rule. A Female Pallid Harrier quartering for prey.


Linda LaGanga, who works in a community mental health service in Denver, has written a useful summary of her service's experience of applying Lean.
Their use of Lean is shaped by the economic context of US health care, but there are several useful lessons in their work. The Mental Health service's interest in Lean began, as is often the case, by serendipity. The service had a problem – low attendance at out-patient clinics – and a manager attended a Rapid Process Improvement event in another service, and saw a set of techniques which offered a solution.
This initial problem is a classic Lean opportunity: it involves patient flow, numerous administrative processes and, in most services, considerable unproductive effort, related to systems that may not quite gel. In this case, the efforts of the people who worked in the service led to a 27% increase in completed appointments in the following year – a significant achievement, and one which resulted in the decision to use Lean techniques again.
The pattern here is obvious. Lean is supposed to help produce rapid change, but in the experience of this service, change became more and more difficult to implement with each successive project, and took longer each time.
The outcome of the project was, according to the service's account, a three day reduction in the length of time to hire new staff. At face value, this seems a relatively modest trade off for the work involved.
Their fourth project was intended to improve reporting on spending. Quite rightly, the project team wanted to avoid multiple stand alone spreadsheets, with potential for error and confusion, so designed a new electronic system to gather the required data. The development of the system took a year, because of issues over sequencing of other work, the time required for system development, and a lack of clarity over which staff were accountable for implementation.
In the last example, training of new staff, the project team concluded that tasks such as teaching people to access their e-mail could be done more efficiently by developing new on-line modules.
These are all worthy projects, and it is easy to see why an organisation would want to work on these problems. The bigger question may be whether these were Lean projects at all.
Most people agree that Lean is intended to focus on value, and to decrease non-value added activity by decreasing various kinds of waste. There is an interesting discussion of the challenge of defining added value in office processes here.
To me, most of the projects described by the Denver service sound like Business Process Reengineering. There is a great discussion of the differences between Lean and Process Reengineering in this Forum discussion. One of the posts, by Bill Roper, seems particularly relevant.
The Denver work, after the first couple of examples, seems to have focused on producing a perfect process. This is an unarguably admirable aim, but in these cases producing the perfect may have been at the expense of the 'good enough'. Once the IT solutions were delivered, it's still necessary to then make them work in practice. I've written previously about Virginia Mason's 'Pursuit of the Perfect Patient Experience' – but perhaps the key word is pursuit – it depends on continuous quality improvement and a willingness to go on changing over time.
In these projects, would it have been better to have engaged staff in rapid, small cycle change, or to aim for the perfect solution? What do you think?
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Mythos in Children's Literature
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There is a vast amount of literary technique to be learnt from writers of children's literature: how to condense character, how to form intimate adventure, how to elucidate on complex issues with simple yet profound illustration. Regarding the symbolism of seasons, in external and internal frames, the following excerpt from Virginia L. Wolf's article considers what we can learn from their use in classic children's narratives.
The Cycle of Seasons: Without and Within Time (except)
Virginia L. Wolf
"Seeds grow to plants, yield their harvest, and die, the earth lying dormant and barren until the cycle begins anew. Within a year an animal may also progress from birth to full maturity, producing its own offspring. Similarly dependent upon the natural cycle, people find in the seasons multi-leveled and universal symbols. We see spring as childhood, summer as adolescence, fall as maturity, and winter as old age. On the religious or mythic level, the cycle of the seasons becomes the birth, death, and return of a divine being. In literature, according to Northrop Frye, there are mythoi, or generic plots, associated with the seasons—comedy with spring, romance with summer, tragedy with autumn, and irony with winter (162). The full cycle may suggest permanence, promising transcendence as spring follows winter or threatening endless repetition as summer leads to fall. Or, it may capture continuous change as each season offers new and unique experiences.
"In a children's novel whose primary setting is home, formal requirements often necessitate the use of the cycle of the seasons. Novels using this setting differ enormously, depending on their individual content, especially the age of their protagonists, but besides their use of the seasons, they share other characteristics. Typically, they concentrate on a very small setting, introduce very little conflict, and celebrate a way of life. They may seem a collection of episodes with no clear-cut order. But, as I intend to demonstrate, the cycle of the seasons gives them form and, in the process, meaning.
"Four such novels are E. B. White's Charlotte's Web, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House in the Big Woods, Eleanor Estes's The Moffats, and Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Part I. All four are relatively stationary in space, focusing on their respective protagonists' homes, and all four have a strong female emphasis. None of them, furthermore, introduces serious conflict. On the other hand, there are many differences among them. Charlotte's Web runs from spring to spring, The Moffats from summer to summer, Little House in the Big Woods from autumn to autumn, and Little Women from winter to winter. Also differing are the seasons emphasized, Charlotte's Web and The Moffatsstressing summer and Little House in the Big Woods and Little Women stressing winter. The most significant differences, however, are those created by the age range of the protagonists. Wilbur is one at the end of Charlotte's Web, Laura six at the end of Little House, Janey nine at the end of The Moffats, and Jo sixteen at the end of Little Women. The age of the protagonist is, of course, an essential factor in determining the age of the child reader of a novel and the form this novel can take. In their similarities and differences, in other words, these novels should provide the critic with the opportunity for increased understanding of the ways children's novels vary for the sake of audience.
"At the same time, they also reveal the potential of the cycle of the seasons for structuring children's novels set in homes. In Northrop Frye's terms, Charlotte's Web and Little House in the Big Woods are romance, both very nearly becoming myth, and The Moffats and Little Women are comedy. Frye uses the term myth to refer to a communal vision controlling a work of literature. "Undisplaced myth, generally concerned with gods or demons" (139) he sees as the center of all literature, which often displaces, or adapts, myth to varying degrees for the sake of plausibility. To the extent that the techniques of mimesis—verisimilitude, fullness and accuracy of description, for example—characterize a literary work, in other words, myth is displaced (51, 139-140, 365-367). Romance Frye defines as "the mythos of literature concerned primarily with an idealized world" (367), and as the one which least displaces myth. Both similar and different, comedy is the mythos of literature in which myth is greatly displaced, resulting in romantic comedy to the extent that the ending represents an ideal, and ironic comedy to the extent that it does not (163-186)."
Wolf's full article can be found in the Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Volume 10, Number 4, Winter 1986 through subscription to Muse.
A condensed overview of Northrop Frye's Theory of Archetypes can be found here, and his full work, The Anatomy of Criticism, here.
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The DLIW team were pleased to present a cheque for £1000 to Aaron Rolf towards the islands kissy Puppy charity in memory of Sophie.
Money was raised by donating £1 per Test pass and Donations from our mock test day.
A massive congratulations to all the students who passed their driving test in 2017. You all helped us at DLIW to raise £500 towards our chosen charity Freshwater bay independent lifeboat. Added to the £450 already donated last summer from our highly successful mock driving test day 2017 was a fantastic year.
Following on from our highly successful mock driving test day in April, we were extremely pleased to be able to present Freshwater Independent Lifeboat with a cheque for £415 earlier today. Accepting the cheque from Paul Durbridge is Tom Stafford, also present were Sid McLaren and Kai Hall from the lifeboat together with Paul Buckland and Kevin Allen from DLIW.
For every pupil that passes with an DLIW Instructor we will donate 1 Pound to a local cause. This year we are supporting the Freshwater Independant Lifeboat.
Freshwater Independent Lifeboat operates 2 boats 24/7 at the weekends and 18:00 to 06:00 Mon to Fri in an area up to 30M off shore from Hurst Point to St Catherine's point on the Isle of Wight. Entirely independent they rely on donations and fundraising by their volunteers to run the service. More Information
2016 ~ Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance
The air ambulance is usually airborne within four minutes. It flies at 140mph and from Thruxton Air Base it reaches most locations in Hampshire in fifteen minutes. Flights to Isle of Wight take a little longer. A typical mission lasts about ninety minutes. Helipads exist at Basingstoke, Bournemouth, Salisbury, Southampton General Hospital, St Mary's Hospital (Isle of Wight) and Portsmouth Queen Alexandra. More Information
The Air Ambulance costs in excess of £125,000 per month to maintain the service – approximately £4,000 per day.
Amount Donated: £720.00, figure is made up of £378 in respect of test passes, £122 from DLIW funds and £220 which was raised by Paul Durbridge from his sponsorship for the Great South Run.
2015 ~ Remember Evey
Remember Evey is a road safety charity whose aim is to reduce the number of road traffic incidents on the Isle of Wight through campaign and education.
The ten year old Islander died on 25th August 2012 after the car she was a passenger in was hit by a driver over the alcohol limit.
A 31 year old man from Sandown was sentenced to ten years in prison after pleading guilty to causing Evey's death whilst driving under the influence of alcohol.
Evey's parents also suffered life threatening injuries during the incident, but survived and have since campaigned to raise awareness for anti-drink drive campaigns.
A donation of £500.00 was made to the charity on the 26th January. We had 337 passes last year and this has been rounded up by DLIW.
Amount Donated: £500.
2014 ~ Street Pastors
Street Pastors are Christian volunteers who provide care, support and practical help to people out on the streets of Ryde, Newport and Ventnor. Volunteer teams patrol the town centres and provide help and assistance to people who are suffering the effects of over consumption of alcohol, are at risk of violence, feel unsafe, are lonely, hurt and abused, or just value the extra feeling of safety that comes from having volunteer Street Pastors around. More Information


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Third Michigan high school pauses basketball after positive COVID-19 case
Tecumseh head coach Jamison Webster runs over plays with his team during a timeout at Ypsilanti Community high school on Friday, Dec. 20, 2019. Jenna Kieser
Greg Wickliffe |gwickliffe@mlive.com
All three levels of the Tecumseh High School boys basketball program will have to quarantine after a positive COVID-19 test within the program.
The boys freshman, junior varsity and varsity teams will go on a two-week pause are not scheduled to play again until at least March 1 after a confirmed test within the program, Vic Pratt, Tecumseh Public Schools Director of Communications told MLive in an email Thursday afternoon.
Tecumseh joins Genesee County programs Carman-Ainsworth and Linden, which also went on pause Thursday amid coronavirus exposure concerns,
Pratt said the exact number of active cases within the Tecumseh program was unknown and the school was waiting for more information from the Lenawee Health Department.
Tecumseh's junior varsity and varsity teams played against Adrian Madison Wednesday night and all three levels of the program were expected to face Jackson on Thursday before cancelling.
Adrian Madison athletic director Kristen Isom told MLive on Thursday that Madison's teams would not have to quarantine because the person within the Tecumseh program that had the positive case was not present at Wednesday's game and hadn't be present for several days.
Tecumseh's postponement comes on the same day that Carman-Ainsworth and Linden's varsity boys basketball teams also chose to quarantine for 10 days after an official tested positive for the virus on Wednesday after their game on Tuesday.
It's unknown how many other schools around the state may have also paused sports due to exposure concerns.
Michigan High School Athletic Association communications director Geoff Kimmerly told MLive doesn't anticipate the MHSAA being able to track COVID-19-involved postponements and quarantines during the regular season due to the high number of basketball teams in the state and added the expectation is those cases will be handled locally.
"I'm sure we'll hear from people because they'll be looking for advice on what to do next, but I don't know that we'll necessarily hear from everybody who will be taking time off," Kimmerly said. "People are going to take care of this in house and within their districts and go from there."
Sights and sounds are eerie, but players revel in return of high school basketball
Officials shortage big concern as Michigan winter contact sports return
Ann Arbor Public Schools lifts pause on contact winter sports
As Michigan high school contact sports return, the battle to finish the winter season begins
Questions remain, but start of winter sports has MHSAA eyeing another finish line


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The 100th Infantry Battalion began as part of the Hawaii National Guard. On June 5, 1942, 1,432 men left Hawaii for training at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, and later at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. The 100th shipped out to North Africa on August 23, 1943, and saw heavy action in Italy. Because of its heavy casualties and many honors, the 100th became known as the "Purple Heart Battalion." The 442nd Regimental Combat Team was initially formed in 1943 from Japanese American volunteers from Hawaii and the mainland. Perhaps not surprisingly, only about 1,250 Japanese Americans volunteered from the concentration camps. In Hawaii, where there was no mass removal, almost 10,000 volunteered. The 442nd arrived in Italy in June 1944 where the battle-tested 100th Infantry Battalion became its 1st Battalion. In seven major campaigns, the 442nd became the most decorated unit for its size and length of service; the unit suffered 9,476 casualties, more than 300 percent of its original strength.
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Sacking managers is something Arsenal fans will have to get used to
It is time Arsenal fans are realistic with their expectations.
We have had a long period of stability and success. From the day George Graham took over the club in 1986 to Arsene Wenger's departure in 2018. 32 years, 3 managers (with Bruce Ricoh splitting the 2 with a year in charge) and consistent success.
During that 32 years we won:
5 league titles
8 FA Cups
2 League Cups
1 ECWC
Add in the memories of 1989 and the 2004 unbeaten season, it was a glory period where we averaged a major trophy every other season.
16 of Arsenal's 30 major honours came during that 32 years.
Arsenal fans, like myself, born in the late 70s / early 80s have been spoilt by only ever knowing success, and never really seeing a turnover of managers.
What is the worst season under Graham or Wenger? 1995 when we made a European final? Finishing 6th under Arsene Wenger? These are not huge failures. Many teams would take these as a sign of a successful season.
We had a period of success and consistency, and not we are on a downward curve and those fans who grew up only knowing success will have to re-adjust their mind set.
When you speak to older fans, they talk about the 70s and 80s when Arsenal barely had a sniff- a single FA cup win in 1979 from the 1971 double to when Graham took over. 15 long seasons.
During that 15 years there was not a huge turnover in managers.
Terry Neill and Don Howe the only two appointments between Bertie Mee's departure and George Graham's appointment.
Football has changed dramatically since those days, and with the increased money and accountability, it is now a "fast food" game where fans demand instant success or changes.
In a recent interview, Jose Mourinho was asked whether long-term managers like Wenger and Sir Alex Ferguson are now a thing of the past, Mourinho said: "Twenty years in a club? I don't think it is possible.
"Modern life, new technology, social media – I think everything has an influence.
"Even people's mentality, faster relations, getting tired more easily, so many things that are changing. Not just football, but changing the world and the perception of things.
"I think Wenger was the last one."
Mourinho is absolutely spot on.
In the Premier League, just 2 managers have bene in their job for longer than 5 years – Eddie Howe at Bournemouth and Sean Dyche at Burnley. Jurgen Klopp has now been at Liverpool for over 4 years. Just two more have spent more than 3 years at their respective clubs: Pep Guardiola and Chris Wilder at Sheffield United.
At the other end of the scale, 9 Premier League sides have had their current manager for less than a year (including Watford who currently have a vacancy for their 3rd manager this season.
The average life span of current Premier League managers is just 2 years, 14 days.
Manchester United are now onto their 4th manager since Sit Alex Ferguson retired.
Liverpool have had 9 managers since King Kenny left – including Dalglish returning for a 2nd stint.
Tottenham have had 21 since Bill Nicholson
Chelsea are on to their 2nd new manager since their last league title – just 2 seasons ago.
Chelsea sum up how the world of football has changed.
Since Jose Mourinho left for the 1st time back in 2007, they have changed manager 13 times. They have won 11 trophies in that time.
Tottenham and Liverpool aside, no other "big 6" side has kept a manager for 2 consecutive trophyless seasons since Sir Alex Ferguson retired.
Jurgen Klopp has shown the benefit of keeping with a manager who you think is the right man even when not winning trophies. It was 3 and a half seasons until he finally lifted a trophy – and he is on to win the Premier League in his 4th full season. But Klopp was Liverpool's 5th different manager this decade!
The fact is that a new manager at Arsenal will not guarantee an instant change of fortunes on the pitch. And chances are unless we lift a trophy come 2021, Emery's full-time replacement will be sacked.
Football has changed a lot since George Graham was appointed in 1986. Arsenal fans are going to have to get used to a new man coming in, it not working out and change.
With the state of our team at the moment, it could take 2 or 3 more manager changes and a huge playing turnover in playing personnel until we have a competitive team once more.
We as fans need to realise that football is now a volatile place where instant success is demanded but not realistic.
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Associate Professor Alvin Chan is the Academic Director of a university in Asia. In addition to his academic role, he is also a sought-after Brand Management Consultant in Asia.
For his contribution towards Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurialism, Prof. Chan was awarded an Advisory Board Membership with the Cambridge Philosophy Institute in 2003.
In the year 2008, Prof. Chan was awarded "Outstanding Foreign Experts 2008 of Jilin Province" by the Education Department, Foreign Experts Bureau and Foreign Affairs Office of Jilin Province for his contribution to the province as a foreign expert.
Prof. Alvin Chan graduated with a BA (Merit) in Economics and Southeast Asian Studies from the National University of Singapore, a Post-graduate Diploma in Education from Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and an MBA from Edinburgh Business School (UK). In addition, Professor Chan read his Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA) at California Coast University.


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Lexus Forum of North America
Michelin Invents Wheel & Tire With No Air Pressure
By Lexusfreak,
January 7, 2005 in General Chat
Lexusfreak
First Name:Brenden
Lexus Model: 2005 Lexus ES 330 & 2003 Subaru Forester XS
Thought this was intresting everyone......enjoy! :)
Michelin invents combined wheel and tire without air pressure
Vancouver, British Columbia - Michelin has released details of its new Tweel, a combined tire and wheel. Developed in the U.S. at the company's technology centre in Greenville, the non-pneumatic Tweel has the potential to transform the automotive, military, construction and personal mobility industries in the years ahead, said the president of Michelin research.
"Major revolutions in mobility may come along only once in a hundred years," said Terry Gettys, president of Michelin Americas Research and Development Centre. "But a new century has dawned and Tweel has proven its potential to transform mobility. Tweel enables us to reach levels of performance that quite simply aren't possible with today's conventional pneumatic technology."
The heart of the Tweel innovation is its simple looking hub and spoke design that replaces the need for air pressure while delivering performance previously only available from pneumatic tires. The flexible spokes are fused with a flexible wheel that deforms to absorb shock and rebound.
The Tweel still delivers pneumatic-like performance in weight-carrying capacity, ride comfort, and the ability to "envelope" road hazards, said the company.
Michelin has also found that it can tune Tweel performances independently of each other, which is a significant change from conventional tires. This means that vertical stiffness (which primarily affects ride comfort) and lateral stiffness (which affects handling and cornering) can both be optimized, pushing the performance envelope in these applications and enabling new performances not possible for current inflated tires.
The Tweel prototype, demonstrated on the Audi A4, is within five percent of the rolling resistance and mass levels of current pneumatic tires. That translates to within one percent of the fuel economy of the standard production application. Additionally, Michelin has increased the lateral stiffness by a factor of five, making the prototype unusually responsive in its handling.
Sadistic
Lexus Model: SC300 1JZ-GTE 5 Speed
Leave it to Michelin to invent a cybernetic uber alien tire. That actually sounds like it might be a cool thing, but I doubt we'll see anything close to that for years. Wheel Manufacturers would have to merge with tire companies (the ones that haven't already) just to get wheel designs on 'Tweels.'
I'd like to see the cops try and stop stick you with those ;)
lol sad....agreed! B)
Plus I'm sure after they come out, they'll be known to the state of California to cause Cancer, like the rest of an Automobile. ;)


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January 2023 – How God is Using Your Sacrifices in Ukraine and Around the World
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December 2022 – Merry Christmas from your ITMI Partners
We asked our partners to share some of the ways Jesus' kingdom was advanced this year. We hope you are encouraged by their answers and the special messages they have for you!
November 2022 – Your Gifts Shine Jesus' Light into Darkness
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April 2022 – Heroes for Such a Time as This
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Pastor Maxim and his wife, Elena, have three school-aged children. They live and minister one kilometer from Ukraine's border with Russia.
February 2022 – Reaching 50 Kids from Unbelieving Families Near Ukrainian Front Lines!
Pastor Ilya shepherds a church just a few miles from the battlefront in eastern Ukraine.
January 2022 – What Stone Hill's Early Childhood Development Center Means to Akhanyile, Buhle and Owethu
Stone Hill sounds like it could be the name of a planned neighborhood, like one you or I might live in. But in reality, Stone Hill or Kliphuewel in the local tongue, is just the opposite. …
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When ITMI Director, Steve Evers visited Stone Hill, Dr. Kuhn expressed his desire to…
October 2021 – Saving Frank: How the Lord Chased Down a New Family Member!
It was 12:30pm on Saturday, September 11 in Zambia's capital city, Lusaka. ITMI's Steve Evers should have been about to board the third and last flight in the journey home…
September 2021 – I Never Thought I'd Own a Blanket!
Blankets are commonplace for many of us. We have extras hiding in our closets and attics. They aren't difficult to come by here in America. But for the impoverished in South Sudan, where inflation drives the price of this "luxury" out of reach for most of the population, a blanket is something they never imagined they could own. …
August 2021 – Riots, Looting and Chaos in South Africa
For the past 3 days there have been mass looting, rioting and burning of buildings in the provinces of Gauteng and KwaZulu Natal. …
July 2021 – Crisis in India: Your Response
The believers delivering the food were so excited to help others they were crying. In an environment where even the young and healthy have succumbed to COVID-19, these believers that Paul has discipled were eager to risk their health and their lives to share Jesus with the hurting. "Let us go to the streets!" they beg.
June 2021 – Crisis in India
The pastors Paul meets with regularly to disciple and train via Zoom have been hit hard. Most have no income right now. Their families are hungry.
May 2021 – How the Fleeting Has Led to Lasting Impact
When word of pandemic-related lockdowns first reached us, it seemed for a moment that many of our partners' ministries would grind to a halt. Schools that were the main point of contact with needy families would be closed. Churches wouldn't be able to gather. But quickly, ITMI's role became clear: help our partners make the most of these God-orchestrated opportunities. Project Joseph was born.
April 2021 – The Fruit of Your Giving: Learning to Center our Daily Activities on Christ
Twelve South Sudanese women sat on hard, wooden benches, their shoes on the cement floor of Living Word of God Church in the Buluk section of Juba, South Sudan. …
March 2021 – Spring of Love School Opens in Zambia
What once seemed like a dream is now reality!" This is how our long-time partner, Eugene Kalunga of Zambia describes what happened on February 1, 2021 in the village of Lubemba in Zambia. …
February 2021 – Project Joseph: Sharing the Gospel through food in South Africa and Zambia
"I can't afford groceries this month," Onthalie* mumbled, her eyes were glued to the tops of her shoes as she confessed her situation…
January 2021 – The Internet Pastor: Wielding Digital Tools and Connections to Expand the Gospel's Reach
Filip* was surprised by the realization. After years of claiming there was no God, he now believed there was one after all.
He glanced at the copy of the psychoanalysis book on the table next to him. The archetypes explored in the book had made sense to him, and the book had played an important role in opening up this new perspective.
November 2020 – Meet Project Joseph's New Believers!
Kuluda Aziza stared at her palms as they rested in her lap. The complex white and cornflower blue pattern of her dress behind her hands went blurry, reminding her to blink.
What she'd just heard struck her in a way nothing had before. …
October 2020 – Retired Arizona Couple Honors Riot Victims in India
David Raj Kumar turned to look at his wife, Taru, as the video call with ITMI Director, Steve Evers, concluded and his face disappeared from the screen of their phone. "Are we really going to do this?" her raised eyebrows said.
September 2020 – Provide a Loving, Christian Home for Romanian Orphans
"The only happy time we had at the orphanage was when we slept," remembers Visinel Balan, now an adult. Visinel grew up in one of the many state-run orphan institutions during Nicholas Ceausescu's dictatorship in Romania." …
August 2020 – 3 Stories that Reveal Much about Our Partners
Piotr's church does baptismal services on a regular basis, but the one last month was particularly special because…
July 2020 – "I was completely lost, and at the same time, so excited!"
"Andzia had never seen anything like what she was experiencing. She stood in the balcony of the large concert hall, tears spilling down her cheeks."
Plus, several in our circle test positive for COVID-19, food parcels lead to equipping local believers to share Jesus with Muslims, and Casa Dorca Children's Home thanks an ITMI supporter for help with a money-saving solution.
June 2020 – The Gospel is Advancing in Ways We Never Thought Possible
"The Kingdom of God is now advancing in ways we never thought possible; hope is being restored daily and none of this would've happened without your special donation, we truly appreciate the partnership," writes Pastor Vuyo of Gugulethu, outside Cape Town, South Africa. Pastor Vuyo's church ministers in a tough area, known as "gangster land." Last month…
May 2020 – Opportunities to Share Jesus are Pouring in from Around the World
These are not families who have pantries full of supplies from Costco.
These are people who leave their homes each morning in hopes that they will earn a few cents to purchase food for that day.
Not being able to leave means not being able to eat.
April 2020 – How the Coronavirus is Affecting Our Partners
Though most of their churches have been unable to gather, our partners are continuing to minister. Now is most certainly a time when the people of God worldwide need to be reminded to put their trust in Him.
March 2020 – 5 Years Later: The Difference Discipleship Makes
Adanna (name changed for privacy) stared at her four-year-old grandson. His eyes were turned up at her earnestly. He had just uttered the words that would mark a critical turning point in her life.
February 2020 – How Our Partners Declared the Gospel at Christmas With Your Help
"There's no life in gangsterism – what you see on the outside is not what you get on the inside, I gained nothing out of it except a criminal record, pain and regrets."
Vuyo Anta pounded the side of his hand into his other open, flat hand for emphasis. Anta had served a 12 year sentence for a murder committed while part of a gang. Now…
January 2020 – How Support Opens Doors in Poland
When Jim LaRose returned home after serving at a weeklong summer camp for youth, an email was waiting for him, and it meant big changes. An American by birth and a school teacher by trade, Jim's role at camp was to provide English lessons as part of the daily camp activities.
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December 2019 – Merry Christmas from Your Partners
During this season of giving, we asked ITMI partners to share their heartfelt answers to several questions. May their answers bless and encourage you!
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November 2019 – One Year Later, What Difference Does Clean Water and the Gospel Make?
ITMI's Kent Reisenauer arrived at the Lusaka airport, weary after over 24 hours of travel.
With some trepidation, he began to search the baggage claim area for the black, plastic tubs that bore cargo important to the ministries of several ITMI partners as well as his own personal baggage.
October 2019 – 3 Haunting Stories You Can Help Change
Fear rose inside his chest as Bilal ducked under the door of his home – a mud hut where his family was squatting. At night, he still woke in a fearful sweat, remembering what happened the last time he and his brother had come home empty-handed.
September 2019 – "This is the First Time I Have Hope!" – How You Were Involved and Why it Matters
"Perhaps it's hard to believe, (or understand) but the misuse and wrong interpretation of the Bible often leads to domestic neglect and abuse in India," writes our partner, Molly. Molly continues…"
Steve shares from his heart with regard to 3 things we think you'll want to know about in this letter to the ITMI team.
August 2019 – How South Sudan Supporters are Helping Traumatized Families
Dorca is a widow in Juba, South Sudan. She and her handful of children live like most of the just under half a million residents of the capital city. There were no others stepping up to feed Dorca's children. The pressure and responsibility had been unceremoniously dumped on her shoulders. It was up to her – and the Lord. It wasn't like she could just go get a job.How would she keep these children entrusted to her alive?
July 2019 – How ITMI Supporters are Changing Lives in Poland
One young polish pastor saw this deep need. The Lord called him to "translate the Bible for revival." But as a young pastor in a post-communist economy, he simply didn't have the resources to do what needed to be done.There were no organizations of Bible scholars who could tackle this task. Anyone with the qualifications was buried by trying to make ends meet as teachers or pastors. And that might have been the end of the story if not for…
June 2019 – Witchcraft and Corruption: 3 Eye Opening Stories
As Dora watched the boys yelling and throwing stones, she wondered what kind of snake they were trying to kill. She decided she had better go make sure it wasn't a big one that would end up biting them or a spitting cobra that could injure their eyes. As she approached she heard…
May 2019 – The Perils of Following Jesus in India
His wake was a sad affair. Paul's wife, Molly, described it this way, "all the guests and family came to ridicule the widow and blame the death [of her husband] on her faith as they do here."
April 2019 – Why We're Going Back
After narrowly escaping arrest in South Sudan, many might decide not to go back. But a return mission trip to Uganda and South Sudan is currently in the works for ITMI's Steve Evers and Kent Reisenauer. Why risk entering a corrupt third world country where you can get arrested for recording a video interview with a friend at her house? Simply stated, the benefits are far-reaching and numerous.
March 2019 – The Remarkable Feats of God's Word
The village dashed madly for their huts. They had caught one glimpse of the initial brownish-grey clean-out water spilling from the head of the newly drilled well. Moments later, they returned with the various makeshift containers, ready to collect the contaminated water.
February 2019 – Why We're Better Together
When believers connect, it makes a difference. When we look back over 2018, we're jazzed at what the Lord did through the connection between you and our partners. That last part is important. What the LORD did. It's His mission, but graciously, He lets us be part of it. This month, we're hoping you'll be encouraged by some of the highlights from 2018 that He let us collectively be part of.
January 2019 – What We Can't Tell You
Unfortunately, we can't tell you what ITMI's Director, Steve Evers, saw when he visited the Indian village inhabited by people stripped of all value and called "untouchable" by the rest of their countrymen, because many parts of it are too graphic. This is a family-friendly publication. But we can tell you…
December 2018 – Eleven Partners Share Their Hearts (Latest)
November 2018 – 16 Bonus Byproducts of Your Investment in ITMI Partners
Several of our partners' kids are grown and choosing to become involved in ministries of their own. Others are choosing to minister alongside their parents! It's exciting to see a new generation of national workers equipped and ready for ministry!
Seventeen-year-old Jason van Wyk, the son of ITMI's Charl van Wyk…
October 2018 – 3 New Places We're Sharing the Good News
It was a November afternoon in Uganda. From inside the walls of Mukono Prison, ITMI's Muhindo Kawede was in tears.
For two hours, 300 prisoners listened as Kawede and two other teachers shared the salvation message and encouragement with them.
September 2018 – What Everyone Ought to Know About Fifi Smith
Why would she return, over and over again, to love and serve those who dish out verbal lashings?
When asked, she said simply…
August 2018 – An Expedition on the Zambezi
They are terrified of the idea. A group of grown men, scared of getting in a boat.
But you wouldn't know it to look at them. They move intently…
July 2018 – Remembering Dasha
Fifteen-year-old Dasha Kazimirova of Toretsk, Ukraine, was like any other teenager in the world in some respects. Her life lay before her full of promise and potential.
But in other ways, she wasn't at all like your average youth.
June 2018 -Hungry and Impoverished Returning Refugees Want One Thing: "Teach us more from God's Word!"
What would you do if you found yourself living in a war-zone? If you regularly saw your neighbors' homes pierced with bullet holes? If you didn't feel safe in your home but felt even more at-risk outside of it. If the threat of tribal violence threatened your children?
May 2018 – Intervention.
Standing between the broken system that creates a cycle of poverty and hurting families.
Eight-year-old Ayan thrashed and yanked violently against the chains his mother restrained him with. But it was futile. He couldn't free himself from the chains that kept him inside the run-down shed…
April 2018 – A Last-Minute Change of Plans
by Adrian Ban
We received the message days prior to our departure for Ukraine. It was a plea for help. The request was accompanied by images of rubble and destruction. It came from a small church of 20 members in Novolugansk. Novolugansk is right on the fighting line between Ukraine and the Russian separatists' region of Lugansk. Our planning was already done, our routes and places to visit were already scheduled…
March 2018 – Just in Time
After three long days of labor, Laizah was experiencing complications and still had not given birth. The doctor ordered a C-section procedure. "If you don't have money, they usually use student doctors or nurses to do the operation," her husband, Cozmore, explains.
February 2018 – Almost Arrested
It dawned as normal as a morning can be for Americans visiting Juba, South Sudan. But it turned out to be a day we'll never forget.ITMI's Kent Reisenauer and I waited in our hotel's small restaurant. Vicky Waraka, our long-time South Sudanese partner, was late for our breakfast meeting.
January 2018 – A Tragedy Interrupted
Confusion, fear, uncertainty swirled inside little Kamil's four-year-old heart and mind. Why was this happening? Where was he going? How long would he be gone?
In hindsight, it was best that Kamil didn't know the answers to these questions.
December 2017 – Nine Stories of Your Direct Impact in 2017 (Latest)
During this season of giving, we asked ITMI partners to give you their heartfelt answers to several questions. May their answers bless and encourage you!
November 2017 – A Small Church Reaches Far
It was the morning 100 Indian pastors and their wives had looked forward to with anticipation for a long time. But things weren't going as planned.
October 2017 – A Simple Solution to a Complex Problem
Yonela pressed her fingertips into the corners of her eyes. She ran them across her dark eyebrows and shook her head in fatigue and frustration. From the front of the South African high school classroom, her algebra teacher was explaining a complicated concept in Afrikaans, Yonela's third language. At home, Yonela speaks Xhosa and English. Yonela was desperately trying…
September 2017 – Roaring Lion: Everyone Needs to be Saved
It's 1:30am. Traveling through the Kafue Game Park in central Zambia, I become aware of the most beautiful lion I have ever seen. Saying that I'm isolated in the middle of the night in the middle of the African bush, is an almost humorous understatement.
August 2017 – Last February Piotr Shocked Us…then God Led Him to Do the Impossible
It was shocking.
When ITMI's Piotr Zaremba was in the US last February (2017), he was telling people he was "greedy."
But Piotr is…
July 2017 – Sometimes We Wait on God for 400 Years. But This Time…
Sometimes we are asked to wait on God's timing longer than we'd like. Israel waited on God to rescue them from slavery in Egypt for 400 years. This time, God did something different.
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June 2017 – The "Other Side" of the Tracks – How Paul Crossed the Tracks and Gained Trust
Many have died just attempting to cross the mainline train tracks and return home from getting water, but no safety precautions – not even a simple caution sign – have been enacted. Because those lives "don't matter." Slum residents literally live among the trash, as if they've accepted that it is what they are. They were completely forgotten and devalued. Trash. Until…
May 2017 – They Win. You Win
5 Things Our Partners Get from Seeing You, and What Their Hosts Got, Too!
Hosting an overseas worker while they are here in the U.S. may not seem like a big contribution to God's Kingdom. BUT IT IS! Here are just five of the many ways our partners have benefitted from their time in the States.
April 2017 – Haunted After Captivity: A Real Story of Honest Struggle
Jahim's mother, Rebecca, was taken captive. She endured years of slavery and abuse before being reunited with her family in an incredible turn of events. It would be tempting to put a neat bow on this story and say they lived happily ever after as a big happy family.
But that wouldn't have been quite accurate. Not yet anyway.
March 2017 – I Couldn't Believe People Like That Exist!
Viola couldn't believe her ears. Could this be for real?
February 2017 – A Not-So-Typical Day in the Pasture
Gerhard le Roux and four of his kids took their sheep to pasture in the typical way, but what happened next was anything but typical.
January 2017 – Completely Now – "In His Grip"
ITMI Founder, William Bathman, or Bill as most know him, has experienced dying for the final time. He graduated to Glory on December 11th, 2016.
Bill's life was a story of dying. Dying to self, dying to safety, dying to his dream of missionary piloting, dying to pastoring in the States, dying to comfort, to finances and security.
December 2016 – Six Stories from Around the World You Won't Want to Miss
November 2016 – The Story of Stone Hill's Soldiers for Christ
Several years ago, Stone Hill was a forgotten squatters' camp outside Durbanville, South Africa. But now…
October 2016 – How God Opened a Door That Was Once Firmly Shut
Twelve years ago, the city of Gniezno, Poland wanted ITMI's Bread of Life and the Gniezno Church to open a soup kitchen and transition home for men. But after Bread of Life paid for renovations on the building they'd been given, the city that asked for help from a Christian organization would no longer allow that same organization and partner church to hold Bible Studies in that location. Fast forward to present day…
September 2016 – Exposed: How Religion Steals the Gospel
"I was very religious," says Daria Przybyla, "but at the same time as a teenager, I was suicidal and depressed."
August 2016 – Out of the Ashes: What Will Rise?
What Dule's sister was worried about turned out to be the answer to his prayers.
July 2016 – Celebrating 35 Years of Keeping You In Touch
ITMI was founded by Bill and Harriett Bathman 35 years ago as a link between believers in America and the persecuted church behind the Iron Curtain. In doing this, we discovered how effective national believers were at reaching the people around them. That's where you came in. At one time or another, you responded with a gift that empowered a national to make a huge impact. It's that impact we're celebrating. Your impact. You've put Bibles in people's hands, bikes under evangelists and pastors, medical supplies and relief in skilled hands, cared for the orphaned, widowed, elderly, poor and forgotten, equipped pastors, planted churches and shared the Good News around the world! God has allowed us to do so many exciting things over the years. One of the biggest projects we have poured into is…Read More Here.
June 2016 – 5 Ways We Are Influencing a Community and Building Trust
"When we came to Onseepkans, the Lord gave me a portion of Scripture over and over again," ITMI's Gerhard le Roux said in a recent interview.
May 2016 – The Truth About Growing Old in Romania
The images were forever branded into her memory. Elderly women, abandoned by their children in icy, un-heated homes. Soiled sheets and meager blankets, their only defense against a bitter winter. Bedsores and other ailments unattended to. Limp legs and arms, frail with age and hunger.
April 2016 – The One Idea You Must Embrace to be a Kingdom Builder
ITMI Monthly chats with ITMI partner, Charl van Wyk, for a behind-the-scenes look at what happened a couple years back that turned his ministry around.
March 2016 – Why a Ugandan Bible School Director Roughs it in the Bush Between Terms
What does ITMI's Muhindo Kawede ("Kawede" as he is called by most) do with his "time off" between terms at the International School of Missions? Something you wouldn't expect.
Also, read Steve's letter: Dear Team, What I Wouldn't Have Seen if I Didn't Go to South Sudan.
February 2016 – A Nebraska Family Makes a Mountain of Difference
Christmas is a time of year when many who would otherwise be uninterested in things of God are more receptive to His message. So whatever their resources, ITMI partners are often found creatively designing ways to reach people around them this time of year. The result?
Read all about it here.
January 2016 – 4 Things I Learned from ITMI Partners (Latest)
On a recent trip to Southern Africa with Director Steve Evers and ITMI board member Jon Dekkers, I learned some very important things about missionaries, things which will help me appreciate them forevermore.
1. Work Hard
"Being a missionary is hard, physical work," said Johan Leach. He knows, because…" Read More.
December 2015 – He Comes to Make His Blessings Flow
"Why are you drinking?" Her answer, "I drink so that I can forget what I have gone through all the years was a slave."
This and many other stories of God's provision were shared by one ITMI partner this Christmas, including direct messages for you! Enjoy.
November 2015 – God's Unique Camouflage
Last month on the ITMI team's trip to Zambia, God clearly showed He is still providing and caring for His faithful even today, even in Africa, even against all earthly logic.
October 2015 – A Life-Changing Trip
ITMI partner, Gerhard le Roux, serving in Onseepkans, South Africa shared this story. Gerhard had the opportunity to bless, invest in and build a relationship with a local Christian leader in a neighboring town, Pofadder. Gerhard shares how Manie's worldview and understanding of Christian living was expanded through experiencing Christians from other parts of Africa and the world. Enjoy Gerhard's story!
September 2015 – What Happened When an ITMI Partner Asked Trespassing Vandals to Come Back Next Week
Gerhard le Roux surveyed the down cast eyes of the trespassers and the police who had been called to the situation. He realized the hopelessness of the situation.
August 2015 – Keeping Company with God's Saints
Dr. Nick was a brilliant doctor serving the medical community in a vital position and well known internationally. The communist authorities had grudgingly tolerated his Christian activity, but when he resigned his practice to pastor a Baptist Church, serious problems began.
July 2015 – 5 Unexpected Things Happened Under a Blue Tarp
"Salvation comes primarily through works, not by grace through faith."
"God's main mission is for His people to prosper, and you can purchase this benefit through financial contributions to organizations bearing "Christian" in the name, particularly mine."
These are the heresies that African pastors claiming to represent Jesus often proclaim. To make things worse…
June 2015 – Loving the Unloved
Its hard being a woman in India. Women are expected to be quiet and respectful, never speaking out or disagreeing. But it gets worse.
May 2015 – A Faraway Place Brought Near
India really is a far, faraway place. Visualize a place, an excessively hot, sticky, humid place with 1.3 billion people crammed together who are empowered by generations upon generations' permissions to judge and even openly oppress those around you who don't happen to be like you.
April 2015 – Reunited
A long-lost son hears from his mother after 20 years. Then she tells an unbelievable story. She was bone tired, but sheer terror of her captors kept her from collapsing…
March 2015 – Why We Do What We Do
"Why do we feed the poor? They stink. Why do we go to dangerous and semi-closed countries to evangelize and disciple the persecuted? We could get a disease or be killed. Why do we do all that?"
February 2015 – An Insider's Story
ITMI Monthly catches up with our own Daniel Machlowski. Raised in America but 100% Polish, Daniel uses his past to build bridges into people's future with Christ. Enjoy his unique perspective, from inside our dynamic team!
January 2015 – God's Miraculous Protection
December 15, 2013 a fierce tribal conflict created upwards of 500,000 to 600,000 homeless refugees that now struggle to survive on a daily basis. Jahim Buli was himself one of the "lost boys of Sudan"…
December 2014 – A Very Blessed and Merry Christmas
The Christmas season has been hijacked! This reality was never more apparent to me than last year when I visited Piotr Zaremba in Poland just before the end of the year. …
November 2014 – 3 Unexpected Things God Used to Provide
Steve and ITMI partner, Timothy Keller, were on an overland mission from South Africa to Sudan. They stopped at a roadside stand to make a purchase. Part of the purchase included Steve throwing in two small LED flashlights he had in his pocket. Daylight was waning. They still had to cross the border into communist Zimbabwe. Tim said, "Let's go!" Steve left mid-deal. It disappointed him, but God had something else in mind for those two flashlights.
October 2014 – Unknown: the untold stories of persecuted believers
It happened to me in 1972. A friend of mine in Ecuador wrote to his Christian friend in Czechoslovakia and casually mentioned, "Brother Bill is bringing Bibles soon." The border guards were waiting. I was arrested, declared persona non grata, deported and on a 'black list' until the Berlin Wall came down 17 years later.
September 2014 – Shattered: How moving 300 miles away from his family brought them together
Not long ago, Slawek's alcohol-induced tantrums estranged him from his family. He was unable to hold a steady job. His entire life's work, everything he's been working so hard to build, turned into a million tiny, almost un-reconstructable pieces. He was doing his best to kick the addiction on his own. "The longer I went without drinking, the harsher the blow was for my family when I inevitably got wasted and reset the clock all over again."
August 2014 – How Enemies Became Friends Through Death Threats
After Jahim delivered food to one of the refugee camps, the political leaders from the other tribe were convinced he was against them. Jahim was being watched and threatened with harm to his family. They read his email. They tracked his activities.
July 2014 – Saved from Mob Justice
"The people of Cankozo were fed up with the witchcraft practices of Mr. Buyongwe. One day the community decided to (punish) his witchcraft lies by setting him on fire."
June 2014 – 3 Ways Bread of Life Ivory Coast is Doing a Lot
She darted toward the path of an oncoming vehicle. Acting quickly, Bread of Life's Benoit Ouatara picked her up, preventing the deadly accident. "You can have her." He looked around. An older woman, who appeared to be the girl's grandmother was watching the whole scene from nearby. "If you want her you can have her," she said again. He stared at her, then gently put the child down.
May 2014 – More Powerful than Dark Spirits
When ITMI's Muhindo Kawede was a boy, his mother told him to behave or else the ghosts of his ancestors would eat him. And she meant every word. He was constantly afraid of the dark and the ever present ancestral spirits.
April 2014 – How a Miraculous Deathbed Prayer led to Something Unexpected
"I don't think he knows who we are," Pastor Mlungisi Zuma told ITMI's Kelly Smith. They were in a well-lit, non-private hospital room near Zulu Natal, South Africa. The two men were visiting a man they knew as Mr. Cele.
"He is mumbling and saying a lot of things, but he is making no sense at all," the pastor observed. Kelly and the new South African pastor of his church continued chatting with the delirious patient.
March 2014 – 5 Humble Heroes
These 4 heroes paved the way for something amazing to happen in Poland. And the 5th hero of this story may come as a surprise!
February 2014 – Home Alone in Refugee Camp
Last month ITMI's Steve Evers sat out under a Ugandan shade tree, seeking some refuge from the intense equatorial sun, while at a small guest house in Kampala, Uganda. Jahim was really glad to see Steve, and he was wanting to discuss what opportunities there were in South Sudan, but Jahim wasn't Jahim.
January 2014 – Hope for South Sudan
"I'm hiding on the floor with my family." "We didn't sleep much last night with all the bullets and artillery…."
"Two hours ago [Monday, December 16th] a military truck with soldiers came to my neighbor's house, pulled him out and shot him dead. He is still laying out there and no one can go out to get the body [because all were afraid to show their faces in public]." These were the chilling comments ITMI's Director Steve Evers heard over a long distant phone, in broken South Sudanese English on that fateful Monday morning.
December 2013 – Merry Christmas!
"Glenn is not going to live," the doctor said. But eight-year-old Glenn did live through crippling and consuming burns that devastated his lower body. Then the doctors insisted it would be impossible for Glenn to walk again. But Glenn never gave up. It didn't matter what the doctor said. He decided no matter how much it hurt, he was going to walk again. Even more, he was going to run.
November 2013 – Slaying the Monsters
Spring had finally arrived to the southern hemisphere and more specifically to the Northern Cape of South Africa. There were signs of growth and new life everywhere. God's yearly quilt of unlimited color blankets the otherwise barren sheep-land which borders the 185+ kilometer dirt road "shortcut" that leads to the Orange River and the outpost called, Onseepkans, South Africa. This is where ITMI's Gerhard and Elmane le Roux and family are fighting the monsters that come from an almost forgotten and godless society.
October 2013 – How Anyone Can Impact a Village in Zambia
Where once there were many deaths by crocodile, now there is safety. Where once there was risk of disease from contaminated water, now there is a greater chance of living longer. Where there once was hardship, now there is relief. Where there once was witchcraft and animism, now there is freedom and community. Where there once was darkness, now there is hope. What happened?
September 2013 – Why Did a Church in "Gangland" Move Their Pews Outside?
He was one of several bystanders who hovered near the courtyard gate of an old church building. Across the street behind him, "Welcome to Gangland" sarcastically welcomed all to the area where no one really wants to go. He wanted to go in, but remained outside, uncertain whether he should enter – or could enter.
August 2013 – More Than Conquerers
ITMI's John Jere is fearless. He willingly goes where the Spirit of God leads him. It doesn't matter that he is a poor swimmer as he steps down into a small, unstable and tipsy hewn out log canoe that is the only way to cross the wide, crocodile and hippo filled Zambezi River in Western Zambia. John does this so that…
July 2013 – New Beginnings
Among all the other daily pressures and challenges of spreading God's good news in a Hindu and Muslim dominated India, Paul and Molly and family have lived under the added pressure of not knowing if they could keep their family together.
June 2013 – The Salt Shaker
Jahim's passenger slid off the back of his small motor scooter, or bota bota as it came to a stop, eager to distance himself from the morning heat the motor was adding to the already sweltering temperature. Jahim Buli wiped his hands, sweaty from navigating the insanity of African roads on his pants and took the meager payment for the transportation he'd just provided.
May 2013 – Sight for Sarah
When Sarah Phiri's grandmother brought her to ITMI's Samaritan Children's Home, she was in bad shape. Born with HIV/AIDS and a lame right foot, she was very weak. A Tuberculosis-like cough shook her frail frame, which was covered in sores.
April 2013 – Destructive
The sound of glass fragments raining down on the concrete floor caused the group of young boys to laugh loudly. Makalo, the rock throwing culprit, threw his hands in the air triumphantly as the other boys dropped their rocks. Makalo had just broken what was probably the last unshattered window of abandoned buildings in Onseepkans, South Africa.
March 2013 – Transforming Minds
A low groan came from the cot in the corner of the room. Her three-year-old son tossed restlessly, entangling himself in the thin covering she'd placed over him. There was no relief from the Zambian heat, and the fever just kept rising. Lily felt so powerless, watching him suffer. She knew the people of her church were praying for her son, but thought, "I need to do something more." Gathering him into her arms, she set out…
February 2013 – Poland to the World
It had taken him years of studying and hard work, an international move from America to Poznan, Poland and many sacrifices, but he was finally about to taste the reward. Bruno was in his last weeks of medical school at Poznan University in Poland. Nonetheless, when the phone rang, he answered.
January 2013 – An Extreme Short-term Missions Trip
Hell on earth. Literally. The worst living conditions you could imagine. No, scratch that. Worse living conditions than an American could probably imagine. It's not the mission field anyone really wants God to call us to. But God called a young, thirty-year old Sudanese believer to live according to the Biblical story of redemption in the midst of a Sudanese prison for 10 weeks.
December 2012 – Merry Christmas
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Children's screams pierced the forsaken calmness of the cold, biting air that hung over the desolate and remote area outside Onseepkans, South Africa. ITMI's Gerhard le Roux quickly rolled out from under his family's 1994 Land Rover. He and his ministry partner, Eric, were muddling through repairing it – again. The two men sprinted to the house where the screams were coming from. As they reached the door, they saw…
October 2012 – Beautiful Feet
"Good news!" was all the young boy could manage between breaths. The women, most balancing heavy jugs of water on their heads while carrying one in each hand, kept walking toward their village just a few steps ahead. They moved only their eyes toward the boy, who again heralded breathlessly, "Good news!"
2012 September – A Preview of the Kingdom
The meager change landed next to her with a short clang. Twenty-two-year-old Magashwari had just finished washing the clothes of an upper caste family in Southern India in exchange for a few coins they tossed her way. Because of her blindness, she'd been told and treated like she didn't matter by her family and society for so long that she believed it. And then one day there was a knock at her door.
August 2012 – Building Strong Marriages
Ana followed her fiance, Mihai, up to the stoop of ITMI's Adrain – Adi as they knew him – and Ema Ban's home in Oradea, Romania. As the couple welcomed them in with smiles, Ana immediately felt safe and warm. She fidgeted nervously with her fingers, hair and anything else she could find. She and Mihai were there for a diagnosis of their relationship. Ana knew the Bans wrote and published a book on marriage – she assumed they were a picture of perfection.
July 2012 – Knock! Knock!
ITMI's Anna Gorski stood in front of a group of strangers in Phoenix, Arizona. She could feel their eyes glued on her – and it was almost as if she could physically feel them stuck to her skin. She wiped her clammy palms on her jeans then reached up to play with her dark brown hair, only to realize she had pulled it back to keep it from the roving reach of her nervous hands. She was scared to death.
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It was an intense 103 degrees Farenheit. There were about 2000 people gathered for an Easter service. Most were sitting in plastic chairs crowded underneath sheets draped on hefty tent poles that were erected each Sunday for the young church's gathering. Those that couldn't find seats under the awning – or should we say oven – were sprinkled in any inkling of shade that could be found outside the structure.
May 2012 – From Suicidal to Saved
It was hard to believe that it all came down to this. Moses could hear his pulse pounding in his ears. The chaotic bustle of the city was a muted rustle, as if he was far, far away. Though standing still next to a busy road in an African city, he was breathing hard, gasping for breath like a drowning victim. He took a deep breath. Before anyone could stop him, Moses darted in front of the next speeding vehicle, intending to end it all.
April 2012 – Siya's Story
"Then glaring at her 10-year-old son, she threatened, 'Don't come back here!' then turned on her heal and left."
2012 March – Un-Godforsaken
Barren. Wasteland. Godforsaken. Or is it?
We don't think so. Neither did Gerhard Le Roux. In fact, he bet the farm on it. Literally.
February 2012 – From Despair to Love and Life
"I come from a broken family. My parents- father addicted to alcohol and handicapped mother struggling with depression- couldn't give me the love, care and safety I needed as a child. I wasn't aware of the destruction that was going on in me- I was emotionally damaged, spiritually dead and physically suffering from epilepsy.
January 2012 – Removing the Millstone
The realization hit Pastor Raj [name changed for security] like a millstone and a heaviness sank deep into his stomach. He felt sick. The American's words, "You are not God," rang in his ears. He had been playing god.


A tasty and convenient way to keep you topped up with carbs, this chocolate coated fruit and cereal bar is a big hit with your tester. It's chewy without being tough and, when eaten during a long run, it feels like a treat rather than a chore.
A blend of dates, nuts, syrup, natural flavouring and other goodies, these bars are light, yet filling. Healthy, nutritious and tasty, they're an excellent pre- and post-run treat.
Your tester tried these out during long runs, and found them good and not too sweet, but they do take some chewing so probably not something to be taken without water to hand.
Despite the health benefits, you're unlikely to reach into your pack for a mid-run beetroot. These flapjacks, however, are easier to transport and pack concentrated beetroot juice with oats and raisins. They do dye your hands (and your wee) pink but the potential impact on fatigue levels make that a worthy trade off.


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Q: Categorical independent in logistic regression R - how do I understand overall effect? I have a logistic regression with multiple independent variables, one of which is categorical. This variable is education level, and it has six different levels from least educated to most educated.
I know that R defaults to using a reference level (in this case the lowest education level), and then I get coefficients / p-values etc for the 5 other levels individually, as well as all the coefficients for all my other independent variables. I also get separate results for each level (except 1) when calculating marginal effects.
Is there a way I can get R to not present 5 separate results for education level, and instead give me one result for the statistical significance and marginal effect of education level? I've been looking for previous posts that may answer this, and can't find a solution.
An example of my code and output is presented below.
summary(logit.example2 <- glm(obese13 ~ gender + factor(wgt9) + smoke +
bfeed + pcgwgt1 + factor(pcgeducation), data = gui2, weights = wgt,
family = binomial(link = "logit"), na.action=na.omit))

Output from R:
Deviance Residuals:
    Min       1Q   Median       3Q      Max
-3.9342  -0.1968  -0.0984  -0.0656   6.2956

Coefficients:
                      Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|)
(Intercept)           -5.79632    0.35844 -16.171  < 2e-16 ***
gender                 0.25759    0.13594   1.895  0.05811 .
factor(wgt9)2          2.27494    0.18490  12.303  < 2e-16 ***
factor(wgt9)3          4.46575    0.19359  23.068  < 2e-16 ***
smoke                  0.47266    0.14618   3.233  0.00122 **
bfeed                  0.01011    0.14851   0.068  0.94573
pcgwgt1                0.66464    0.08803   7.551 4.34e-14 ***
factor(pcgeducation)2  0.19437    0.25597   0.759  0.44765
factor(pcgeducation)3 -0.75131    0.26892  -2.794  0.00521 **
factor(pcgeducation)4 -0.60424    0.30015  -2.013  0.04410 *
factor(pcgeducation)5 -0.59703    0.35817  -1.667  0.09553 .
factor(pcgeducation)6 -0.57877    0.49763  -1.163  0.24481
---
Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1

(Dispersion parameter for binomial family taken to be 1)

    Null deviance: 2701.2  on 6238  degrees of freedom
Residual deviance: 1644.3  on 6227  degrees of freedom
  (1056 observations deleted due to missingness)
AIC: 1664.6

Number of Fisher Scoring iterations: 7

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"Isildur1" Won't Show Up to PartyPoker.com Big Game IV, "durrrr" Up $8 Million on FTP Since December 1
1. "Isildur1" a no-go for PartyPoker.com Big Game IV.
According to Tony G, "Isildur1" will not be participating in the PartyPoker.com Big Game IV, which gets under way on Sunday.
Tony G was thought to have lured the mysterious Swede to the event by promising him an all-expenses paid trip to London, as well as some sort of a staking arrangement for the game.
According to Tony G, the two sides had agreed to a 50/50 staking deal. In addition, Tony G was going to fly "Isildur1" and three of his friends out to London for the game. "Isildur1" then pulled out of the arrangement at the last minute, citing "personal reasons".
Maybe this was just a marketing ploy from the beginning - who knows. I guess the "unmasking" of "Isildur1" will have to wait..
2. Tom "durrrr" Dwan Continues to Roll.
How about this for an upswing - since December 1st, 2009, Tom "durrrr" Dwan is up over $8 million on Full Tilt Poker, according to HighStakesDB.com.
This upswing has come over a total of 177,182 hands, meaning that "durrrr" has made over $45 for every hand that he has played on Full Tilt Poker since the beginning of December.
This upswing also means that "durrrr" has completely recovered from his horrific Jan'09 to Nov '09 performance that saw him lose about $7 million on FTP. Not only that, but Dwan also has a stranglehold on the "durrrr Challenge", plus he has also seemingly fared very well in live cash games over the past six months or so.
Life is good for "durrrr"..
3. Chris "Jesus" Ferguson Gets Into The Movie Business.
According to Deadline.com, Chris "Jesus" Ferguson and Ray Bitar have decided to become the lead investors in a new film/TV venture called "RCR Pictures".
Ferguson and Bitar were apparently lured into investing in the company due to their "love of films".
The company's first project will apparently be a remake of "Nevada Smith", which was a "1966 Western that starred Steve McQueen".
Source: Deadline.com - Vegas Poker Star Chris Ferguson Raises Stakes for New Film Venture RCR Pictures
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How did a young rebel, who seemed doomed to fail, overcome rejection to become the world's most famous scientist? In plain English, what do his theories mean? And how do they impact our lives through DVDs, GPS, computers, digital cameras, and smarter energy?
Robert graduated from Caltech, has a Ph.D. in high-energy physics from Stanford University, and was on the research faculty of Harvard University. He is an expert on Einstein's theories and cosmology. Robert ran eight high-tech companies and holds patents in medical equipment, microelectronics, and smart energy. Since "retiring", Robert's mission is making science accessible. He teaches at the Osher Institute and hosts an online radio show "Guide to the Cosmos". Robert is the author of two books that were selected Best Popular Science Book of the Year in national and international competitions.


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Q: 2Checkout 2pay.js and token in test mode? Is there a test mode for 2pay.js? I'm trying to build an integration and getting an error that my transaction is forbidden, which leads me to believe I unfortunately need to wait for them to review a SAQ-A questionnaire to give me test access... But perhaps there's a magic incantation I'm just missing.
We have an account in demo mode.
{
  "error_code": "FORBIDDEN",
  "message": "You need to contact support in order to have this feature enabled"
}

Here is the request we are submitting:
curl --location --request POST 'https://api.avangate.com/rest/6.0/orders/' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Accept: application/json' \
--header 'X-Avangate-Authentication: code="xxx" date="2020-03-24 23:52:45" hash="yyy"' \
--data-raw '{
"BillingDetails": {
"FirstName": "Joe",
"LastName": "Sullivan",
"Address1": "123 Easy St",
"City": "Anywhere",
"State": "GA",
"Zip": "70403",
"CountryCode": "US",
"Email": "somebody@gmail.com"
},
"Currency": "usd",
"ExternalReference": "REST_API_AVANGTE",
"Items": [
{
"Code": "xxx",
"Quantity": "1"
}
],
"Language": "en",
"PaymentDetails": {
"Currency": "USD",
"PaymentMethod": {
"EesToken": "190f2d9c-0bbc-4ad0-a902-770adb8e7f90"
},
"Type": "EES_TOKEN_PAYMENT"
}
}'

They are telling me that I have to use the TEST type, but that results in an error about the PaymentMethod being empty:
{
    "error_code": "ORDER_PAYMENT_METHOD_INVALID",
    "message": "The payment method [] is not supported."
}

I'm pretty confident that the TEST type only has to do with using actual card data in the PaymentMethod just like you would with the CC type.
Anyone know if there's a way to test token payments with 2pay.js?

A: As of 4/5/2020 there is no test mode for the 2pay.js / EES_TOKEN_PAYMENT.
Unfortunately this means you cannot actually test any code you write to interact with this method, because you end up having to send the entire BillingDetails as well as a complete PaymentDetails object, with card holder data (CHD), and a fairly different rest of the JSON. At that point you've not done anything useful with 2pay.js itself, and you are just implementing the full POST order creation process per:
https://app.swaggerhub.com/apis-docs/2Checkout-API/api-rest_documentation/6.0#/Order/post_orders_
So, this is a big mess and hopefully they'll come out with a test mode soon.


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Lord Carlile: "Peace is in no small way the result of these efforts by PSNI and MI5 personnel."
Pete Baker on March 26, 2015, 7:33 pm | Readers 1691
On 20th March the Order in Council extending the operations of the UK National Crime Agency to Northern Ireland came into power – despite the challenge that presents to the Speaker of the NI Assembly – bringing us into line with the rest of the UK in the process. On the same date the NI Secretary of State of State, Theresa Villiers, made a written statement to the House of Commons on the report by Lord Carlile, the independent reviewer of national security …
"Something, Something, Something, Dark Side…" – redux
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More sound and fury from Sinn Féin over the continuing, agreed, questioning of party president Gerry Adams, TD, about the abduction, murder and secret burial of Jean McConville in 1972. This time the Northern Ireland deputy First Minister, Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness, is recycling a 2011 phrase from his party chairman, Declan Kearney. And, apparently, he has super-sekrit sources… Mr McGuinness, Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister, told a press conference at Stormont that the arrest of his party leader and "friend" was politically …
"the war against British rule must continue until freedom is achieved…"
Pete Baker on April 10, 2012, 4:21 pm | Readers 89
Dissenting republicans gave their response yesterday to Sinn Féin's various Easter messages – Declan Kearney's "there is no other IRA", Gerry Adams' seven step 'plan', or Martin McGuinness' "We are on the road to freedom" [and his responsibility "to defend and promote the integrity of our struggle" – Ed]. And it was delivered to a reported audience of "several hundred people" at Londonderry's City Cemetery. It's of a more traditional flavour… From the Derry Journal report "The IRA will continue to attack …


The dollhouse is one of the most popular and enduring toys of all time. Why you ask? Because it fulfills so many needs: creativity, invention, psychological exploration, and self-discovery. Let's Play House explores the collection's dollhouses and the little girls that played with them, including Mamie Burt and Josephine Bird. These nineteenth-century homes are from the great age of dollhouses. During this period, affluent parents commissioned the houses as a training tool for their daughters' future roles as wives, mothers, and household managers. That's some big shoes to fill!
By the twentieth century, dollhouse play focused more on imagination than household management (thank goodness!). The museum's Tynietoy dollhouse is now on display with recent acquisitions to the collection, including a 1974 Fisher-Price Play Family "A" Frame and a 1950s Louis Marx and Company "L" Shaped Ranch Dollhouse complete with a swimming pool!


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Have heard from a friend in Istanbul that there were Newcastle scouts at Galatasaray's game against Gaziantepspor.
I have no idea who they were watching, but I can only hope that it was Semih Kaya, one of the best up and coming CB's in Europe and has had Van Persie and Cristiano Ronaldo in his back pocket in games for Turkey against Holland & Portugal respectively.
Or it could be Burak Yilmaz the goal machine, although he is nearly 28.
Really how much is he worth?
Hooper isn't anywhere near being worth 8 million. I know he's scored goals in Scotland but Barry Ferguson looked good up there and Samaras!
Scunthorpe sold him for 160k to Celtic cos he not good enough for English football. Scores goals up there cos of standard of the league!
Barry Ferguson at his prime was a sensational player there is no doubt about that and you would've said the same about jelavic but look how decent a signing hes turned out to be.
Just been told Ba to Liverpool is complete with us having first chance to sign Carroll in the summer.
Would rather have big Andy back so it's good news!
No way would carroll want to play championship football next season.
So you want a guy who has scored 70% of our goals this season out in favor of a guy who hasn't scored any?
Remy would at least compliment the FWD line with a bit of pace and flair, two big lads just doesnt seem to work no matter how much we want it to. he could play with either ba or cisse!
About time Jonas got dropped, give Marveaux a run of games and lets see what he can do. He seems very good from what little weve seen of him so far.
Marveaux seems quite creative but someone should have a word in his ear and tell him to never shoot on goal unless he is practically stood with the goal gaping, the guy cannot shoot to save himself.


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Must-Hear Music Podcast: A$AP Rocky, Mumford & Sons, Tyler the Creator & More
As is bound to happen on occasion, we've got a divisive Must-Hear Music podcast on our hands (or ears) this week.
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As is bound to happen on occasion, we've got a divisive Must-Hear Music podcast on our hands (or ears) this week.
And it's all Mumford & Sons' fault. While Jason Lipshutz says the band's move into straight-rock territory is producing their best material yet, Joe Lynch and (first-time podcaster) Natalie Weiner aren't as sold on the new sound.
One thing we can all agree on, however, is that the new A$AP Rocky track "M'$" is a total banger, and we're lucky to have Rocky returning with summer on the horizon.
Tyler, the Creator dropped Cherry Bomb this week, and we talk about its buzziest track: "Smuckers" featuring Lil Wayne and one of Kanye West's most socially-conscious verses in a minute.
Also: We talk about The-Dream's "Throw It Back," Lightning Bolt's destructive-on-the-headphones jam "Over the River and Through the Woods," and Erik Hassle's "No Words," a disco-indebted song that's probably his best yet.
Listen to the Must-Hear Music podcast below and/or download it on iTunes. Beneath the SoundCloud, check out the songs we're talking about.
Mumford & Sons, "The Wolf"
A$AP Rocky, "M'$" Tyler, the Creator ft. Kanye West and Lil Wayne, "Smuckers"
The-Dream, "Throw It Back"
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Lightning Bolt, "Over the River and Through the Woods"
Erik Hassle, "No Words"