Christian leaders in the city of Raqqah, Syria, have reportedly signed an agreement to pay the jizya protection tax and accede to the demands of radical Muslim rebels who now control their city.
The agreement was announced online by The Islamic state in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), one of the radical Sunni groups fighting against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. ISIS is attempting to put in place full Sharia law in the areas of Syria it controls, and has already enforced the wearing of veils by women in the area.
Islamic law teaches that Christians and Jews living in areas under Muslim control must pay a tax known in Arabic as jizya in return for the protection of the Muslim rulers, known in Arabic as dhimma.
The Christians in Raqqah also agreed to a list of conditions, including making no repairs on any church building, no public displays of crosses or other Christian symbols, and not holding Christian services outside of the church building. Even inside the church buildings, Christians are told not to sing or read Scriptures loud enough that a Muslim standing outside the building could hear.
The ISIS statements said they had met with Christian leaders and offered them the choice of converting to Islam, accepting the terms of the dhimma agreement, or risking being killed.
"If they reject…nothing will stand between them and ISIS other than the sword," the statement said.
Twenty Christian leaders reportedly signed the dhimma agreement, though online their signatures and names were shaded out so it is unclear the number or legitimacy of the signatures or the names of those who signed on behalf of the Christian community.
When the Syrian conflict started, Raqqah was a city of about 300,000 people, with only about 1% Christian. Many Christians fled the city and the area as the conflict grew, so it is unknown how many Christians are currently in the city.
Please pray for Christians in Raqqah and throughout Syria. Pray their faith will be strengthened, and that God will protect and watch over them. Pray also that radical Muslims, like the members of ISIS, will come to know Jesus Christ in a personal way.
The following information has been added to www.PrisonerAlert.com allowing people around the world to send letters of encouragement to the wife of a detained Christian worker, as well as sending letters of protest to North Korean officials.
John Short, a 75-year-old Australian missionary who lives in Hong Kong with his wife, was questioned and detained by North Korean police while visiting Pyongyang as part of a tour group. Officials detained him reportedly for being in possession of gospel tracts.
Short traveled to Pyongyang on Feb. 15 with the tour group, and police questioned him at his hotel the next day about the Korean-language gospel tracts that he was carrying. Officials reportedly asked him who translated the material into Korean, who sent him and to what organization he belongs.
Short's wife was informed of his detention by a member of the tour group who was allowed to leave on Feb. 18. This was Short's second visit to North Korea. His wife said that on his first tour he was very outspoken about his faith and even read the Bible in the presence of North Korean officials who accompanied him.
The tour company has made repeated calls to North Korea, but officials have refused to provide any information. The Australian government is working on Short's behalf through its embassy in South Korea and has also requested help from Sweden, which has an embassy in Pyongyang.
As a missionary to mainland China since 1964, Short has been arrested on several occasions by Chinese officials. In May 1996, he was arrested and his entry visa to the mainland was revoked. While he was allowed to stay in Hong Kong, he was prevented from helping spread the gospel to inland China for the next two years, until communist authorities determined he was no longer a threat.
Reverend Mikhail had seen eighty thousand of his fellow Russian Orthodox leaders and lay people murdered by the Communists. Amidst all of that pain and suffering, he decided that God, if he did exist, would not have allowed such misery.
The gang put a sack around his shoulders as a royal garment and used his fur hat for Jesus' crown of thorns. One of them, a former member of Mikhail's church, knelt before him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews." They took turns beating him and mocking his God.
The Christian faith is full of paradoxes. Die to live. Lose to win. Be weak in order to be strong. In fact, unless we are willing to embrace our own failures, we cannot experience God's strength. When we undergo hardship and trial or even witness the unjust suffering of others from afar, we may begin to doubt God's goodness. That is a human, natural response. However, God does not reject our human weakness. He restores our weakness with his strength. Therefore, we can rejoice in our failures because they remind us that human strength is no substitute for godly power. We may fail, but our God remains strong. What are you learning about your own weakness? What does that teach you about God's strength?
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[VOM:] Jesus taught us to pray. But he also taught us how not to pray. In Matthew, Jesus said, "don't pray on street corners so you can be seen by others." And also, "do not use meaningless repetition" as the heathen do.
A Vietnamese pastor said, "Don't pray that our border will be opened. Pray that heaven will be opened." For more on making your prayers powerful, go online to persecution.com.
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Government persecution of Christians living in China is on the rise, but "we won't lose heart," said Bob Fu, founder of ChinaAid.
According to ChinaAid's recent 2013 report, persecution cases increased by 38.82 percent from 2012 to 2013 when considering data in the following six categories: number of cases, number of people persecuted, number of people detained, number of people sentenced, number of abuse cases, and number of people abused. The most significant increase was in the number of people persecuted. In 2012, 4,919 people were persecuted for their faith, compared with 7,424 people in 2013, a 50.9 percent increase.
A government-sanctioned Three-Self Patriotic Movement church building in China.
The Chinese constitution guarantees freedom of religion. And visitors to the country can see that the church is certainly not absent in China. Bibles are available through government-approved churches, and people are allowed to attend services at government-approved locations and times. This, however, is not the reality for many evangelical Christians in China.
Churches that are not members of the state-run Three-Self Church are often viewed with contempt. Members of house churches are viewed as dissenters, and authorities try a variety of tactics to get them to conform. Pastors and church members alike have been persecuted for not conforming to policies of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM) and for refusing to give up their outspoken faith. In 2013, there were 1,470 people detained for Christian activities.
Among those detained in 2013 are two men who were trying to help local believers open a new Christian book store in Taiyuan, Shanxi province. On June 17, 2013, Wenxi Li was sentenced to two years in prison and Lacheng Ren was sentenced to five years in prison for their involvement with the Enyu Bookstore, which government authorities called an "illegal business." While awaiting trial, Wenxi led three people to Christ. His family plans to appeal the case.
While they risk their personal safety and sometimes face false imprisonment, they trust in God's future glory. They do not lose hope that God will continue to use them and many more will come to Christ. They won't lose heart.
This week VOM's Todd Nettleton was a guest on In the Market With Janet Parshall, broadcast nationwide on the Moody Radio Network and around the world online.
Todd and Janet discussed persecution in North Korea, Cuba and an answer to prayer for a Christian in Syria.
You can listen to the interview HERE (clicking will open another window with the broadcast audio file). The portion with Todd begins just after the 25:00 mark in the broadcast.
"I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints" (Jude 3).
These brothers traveled to meet with me in the shadow of the Hagia Sophia, the former church that witnessed the slaughter of Christian martyrs after the fall of Constantinople. As we talked about their own experience of persecution in their city, they lit up with joy as they related how God continues to work in the very city where Emperor Diocletian's palace was discovered following an earthquake in 1999. The brothers I met with are actively overseeing an indigenous-led community of Christians that meets just steps away from this palace.
Why is this so remarkable? The Roman Emperor Diocletian instituted an empire-wide persecution of Christians soon after he assumed leadership in 284 A.D. During a period that is now referred to as the "Diocletianic Persecution," or the "Great Persecution," he launched the most aggressive and far-reaching attempt to destroy Christianity in Roman history. He specifically issued four edicts in an attempt to destroy Christianity. Diocletian's first edict fiercely forbid Christians to assemble and ordered the destruction of Bibles and meeting places.
The day prior to Diocletian's first edict, he demanded that the church at Nicomedia, where he spent his winters, be burned along with all of its Bibles. Diocletian's dream was to wipe Christianity off of the face of the earth. But, of course, that is not the end of the story.
One of the Turkish brothers I met with is now pastoring a church literally feet away from Diocletian's winter palace. After foreign missionaries were forced to leave, he stepped up and is leading a thriving congregation in the same neighborhood where martyr's blood once stained the streets. He has been directly targeted by his adversaries, and he and his family have endured much suffering.
Join with me in praying for our brothers and sisters who are earnestly contending for the faith in Turkey, and let's pray that God will enable us to stand strong wherever He has called us.
Dr. Jason Peters serves in VOM's International Ministries department, traveling frequently to meet with our persecuted brothers and sisters around the world. He lived overseas for five years and has ministered in more than 30 countries as diverse as Cuba, Nepal, Iraq, Nigeria and Indonesia. He and his wife, Kimberly, along with their five children, count it a great honor to serve with the persecuted church.
This week the United Nations released a comprehensive report of human rights abuses inside North Korea, including evidence and first-hand testimony collected from hundreds of North Korean defectors.
In graphic detail the report characterizes a regime that draws comparisons with the terrible evils of the Nazis under Adolph Hitler.
Naturally, the North Korean Government dismissed the report as a political plot by their enemies.
If you are a Christian, it is important to remember as you read the report that among those facing these desperate conditions and abusive treatment are some of our Christian brothers and sisters, who are singled out as enemies of the regime because they refuse to acknowledge the deity of the Kim family.
CNN warns you that some of the scenes in this video may disturb you. Our hope is that disturbance will drive you to pray for our North Korean family.
Learn more about the church in North Korea through two VOM books: These Are the Generations and Restricted Nations: North Korea.
Today is Valentine's Day, a day Americans focus on love and romance. But most of those celebrating don't know that the man for whom this day is named was a Christian persecuted because of his Christian actions.
The following comes from the "Note from the Author to Parents and Educators" that is included in The Story of St. Valentine: More Than Cards and Candy Hearts, a book for children published by VOM that tells the true story of Valentine's Day.
Valentine's Day is celebrated every year on February 14th, but why? Many buy cards and candied hearts and do not know there was a man named Valentine. Who was the man behind this holiday that has become known for cupid, chocolate, roses and love notes saying, "Be my Valentine"?
Valentine, or Valentinus as he was known, was a leader in the church and lived in the Roman Empire during the third century. However, there are three Valentines who are noted as having lived in the late third century during Emperor Claudius II's reign. One was a priest in Rome, another a bishop of Interamna (modern Terni, Italy), and the third a martyr in a Roman province of Africa. Some believe the martyrdom of all three men named Valentinus occurred on February 14th. Many scholars believe two of them, the priest in Rome and the bishop of Interamna, are the same, suggesting the bishop of Interamna was a Roman priest who became bishop and was sentenced there and brought to Rome for his execution. It is believed Valentinus' martyrdom occurred about the year 269 A.D.
Even though some have questioned the existence of Valentinus, many would agree his life is a mystery. History proved his existence when archaeologists unearthed a Roman catacomb and an ancient church dedicated to him. He is mentioned in Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend, written about saints around the year 1260. (It is noted this was perhaps the most widely read book after the Bible during the late Middle Ages.) He was also featured in a woodcut in the illustrated book called The Nuremberg Chronicle, printed in 1493.
In 496 A.D., more than 200 years after Valentinus was executed, a church leader marked February 14th as a celebration to honor Valentinus' courageous life to replace a pagan Roman holiday. February 14th was the day the Romans honored Juno, the Queen of the Roman gods and goddesses and also known as the goddess of women and marriage. The following day, February 15th, started the Feast of Lupercalia, which honored Faunus, the god of fertility and forests. On the eve of Lupercalia, the names of Roman girls were written on pieces of paper and placed in jars. Young men would draw a girl's name and be partnered with that girl throughout the festival. Sometimes this pairing lasted the whole year, and often they would fall in love and later marry.
And what about cupid? Why does his image appear during Valentine's Day? Cupid was the Roman god of love.
Despite the mystery, legends and questions masking the man Valentine, this story was written to convey his courageous life and death. May The Story of St. Valentine: More Than Cards and Candy Hearts inspire children of all ages to boldly present Jesus Christ to a world in need of His hope (I Peter 3:15)!


Neuroscience is the scientific field of study of the activities and links between behavior and brain activity. Through neuroscience research we have come to understand that a great deal of human mood and other mental activity, originates through the activity of what are called neural networks or pathways in the brain. Biosynthesis Body Psychotherapy is increasingly able to draw on the findings of neuroscience to both increase its efficacy and to explain how it takes positive effect.
We now know that there are two forms of memory, explicit (consciously known) and implicit (unconsciously known).
According to Schore (2011), most impact and change happens in the right hemisphere implicit communication domain because pre-verbal experience, which is primarily right hemisphere based, makes up the core of the developing self.
From a scientific perspective, we understand explicit memory better and frequently use therapeutic methods such as CBT and other issue-focused counselling approaches to work at this level. When it comes to implicit memory however, there is a need for therapeutic methods that can access the unconscious triggers that underly entrenched, returning or profound difficulties, stuckness or developmental blocks.
As our earliest memories are implicit, this level of memory underpins all experiences and has already begun assimilating experience in uterus, before birth. Primary associations between intimacy, anxiety, love and shame are forged in early implicit memory and become the core of our attachment schema and our ability to regulate emotions.
Biosynthesis Body Psychotherapy helps us find ways and methods that reach this level of therapeutic engagement to redress traumatic or difficult experience.


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Saoirse Kennedy Hill 'Had Her Demons' but She 'Tried Not to Let Them Rule Her' and Spoke Openly of Her Time in Treatment
"She seemed happy," a friend recalls but then says, "I knew she had her demons. ... I knew she struggled with those for a while"
By Adam Carlson
Published on August 7, 2019 09:51 AM
They called her "Calamity Jane": Bright and energetic, even irrepressible, Saoirse Kennedy Hill, granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy, was remembered at her Monday funeral as a young woman for whom anything was possible.
Her uncle Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gave one of two eulogies at the Mass on Monday, where he shared the nickname for his niece, according to a Kennedy friend in attendance.
"There were lots of tears," says the friend.
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The family had gathered at Our Lady Victory, not far from the family's storied estate in Massachusetts where the only child of Courtney Kennedy Hill and Paul Hill was found unresponsive last week following a suspected overdose. She was 22.
"She was a rebel, and I loved her to death," Paul said at the Mass, according to the friend. Visibly emotional, he broke down in tears after brief welcoming remarks to the mourners.
Since her death — whose official cause and manner of death, whether it was accidental, is pending a toxicology report — Saoirse's loved ones have described her as warm and ready to take on the world but with a discerning eye about the things around her that could be changed.
Saoirse Kennedy Hill Stayed Up to See the Sunrise Before Being Found Unresponsive After Suspected Overdose
Saoirse Kennedy. Kerry Kennedy/Instagram
She had an activist streak, including joining the College Democrats at Boston College, where she was set to graduate next year with a degree in communications. And she had spoken openly about her own mental health issues, including years with depression.
In a candid 2016 essay for her school newspaper at the elite Deerfield Academy, where she had returned after time away in treatment and a suicide attempt, Saoirse pushed other students to de-stigmatize discussions of mental health.
"People talk about cancer freely; why is it so difficult to discuss the effects of depression, [bipolar], anxiety, or schizophrenic disorders?" she wrote. "Just because the illness may not be outwardly visible doesn't mean the person suffering from it isn't struggling."
"Let's come together to make our community more inclusive and comfortable," she wrote.
Scenes of Love & Loss at Saoirse Kennedy Hill's Funeral
At the time, she wrote that she had been dealing with depression since middle school but that a sexual violation from a close confidante, whom she did not name, had sharpened her emotional challenges.
At Monday's funeral, the family also spoke of her time in treatment. Uncle Robert, in his eulogy, shared some of her final hours, including how she had finished a paper for school and had dinner with grandmother Ethel Kennedy the night before her death before heading out on the town and then staying up to see the sunrise last Thursday.
Kerry Kennedy and Saoirse Kennedy.
"Her phrase was always, 'Can you believe what happened to me?' " the friend tells PEOPLE, recalling how Saoirse was eulogized. "And everybody would say, 'Yeah we can believe that happened to you,' because that was the history of what happened to her."
"I literally watched her social media stories earlier that day, less than 12 hours before the story broke," says a friend of Saoirse's from Boston College, Bill Stone.
"She seemed happy," Stone recalls but says, "I knew she had her demons. … I knew she struggled with those for a while." Still, "She tried to have a super positive attitude about the challenges she was facing and tried not to let them rule her."
• Reporting by COLLEEN CRONIN and LIZ McNEIL
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Goldman CEO eyes measured global growth
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein said Wednesday the nation's largest investment bank stands ready to capitalize on emerging market growth, but remains vigilant about risk.
Mr. Blankfein said he just completed a trip throughout a number of regions classified as emerging markets, including China, Russia and the Middle East. He said the environment around the world remains encouraging, and said Goldman is responding by opening offices -- ''things we would not do if we were at a peak.''
However, there are still stumbling blocks for any U.S. investment house trying to tap into emerging market growth. One example, he said, is that shareholder rights have not proliferated in younger capital markets.
''I have built my career in part by not being seduced by sudden fads of people investing in emerging markets,'' Mr. Blankfein said at The Wall Street Journal's Deal and Deal Makers conference at the New York Stock Exchange. ''The good side, if you're going to invest in a place where you'll outperform, maybe it is better to invest where everything is growing.''
He pointed out that the entrepreneurs approaching Goldman Sachs for advisory on mergers and acquisitions have been increasingly coming from emerging market countries.
''There are generations of entrepreneurs who are stepping outside of their own country,'' he said.
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Senda, Koreya 千田 是也. 1931 EUR 120,-
Sovêto dômei eiga kakumei ソヴェート同盟映画革命 [The movie-revolution of the Soviet Union].
Tokyo, Shunyôdô Shôwa 6 [1931].
(3), 347pp. and 24pp. with many illustrations.
22,5 x 15,5 cm. Original cloth and slipcase.
First edition, first printing. Koreya Senda (1904 –1994) was a Japanese stage director, translator, and actor. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Senda lived in Berlin where he was involved with underground theatre performances. He was involved with the community of Japanese artists living in Germany who was actively engaged with political activism. To supplement his income, in 1930 Senda founded the design studio Tomoe in Berlin, with the painter Osuke Shimazaki, lacquer artist Kotaro Fukuoka, photographer Hiroshi Yoshizawa, and the Bauhaus students Iwao and Michiko Yamawaki, a photographer and architect, and a textile artist, respectively. The studio produced posters, gift-wrap paper and leaflets, and undertook window dressing and interior design for Japanese restaurants. Senda and his wife, Irma, returned to Japan on January 1931 via Moscow.
The spine lettering of the cover is completely faded.


Priyanka Chopra Jonas has been a force to reckon with ever since she won the 2000 Miss World pageant. The actress tied the knot late last year with singer boyfriend, Nick Jonas, in a big fat Punjabi wedding, that grabbed headlines worldwide. In 2016, she was awarded a Padma Shri by the Government of India and even became a part of TIME magazine's most influential people. She became a part of the film industry post winning the Miss World pageant, however, what followed was a result of her hard work and determination.
Priyanka Chopra began acting in 2003 with The Hero: Love Story Of A Spy and went on to do several Bollywood movies before taking on the role of Alex Parrish in the American TV show, Quantico in 2015.
She appeared in Bollywood movies like Baywatch, A Kid Like Jake and is all set to star opposite Liam Hemsworth and Rebel Wilson in Isn't It Romantic? But her work doesn't end with just movies, she has also been working with UNICEF since 2006 and got appointed the national and global UNICEF Global Ambassador for child rights in 2010 and 2016.
And if all of this wasn't enough, she also has a production company called Purple Pebble Pictures which she founded in 2016. This multitasker has played some amazing roles on screen and here is a list of her real and reel life quotes that we can never forget!
Long before Priyanka Chopra found her real-life fairy tale romance, she was busy playing the perfect romantic character on screen. From the multiple roles she played in Teri Meri Kahaani to the carefree soul she played in Anjaana Anjaani, her movies have always given love priority. As she herself puts it, she is a romantic at heart, a true Cancerian.
So here is a list of romantic dialogues by Priyanka Chopra in her movies.
Priyanka Chopra might have begun her career with romantic movies like Mujhse Shaadi Karogi and The Hero: Love Story Of A Spy, but a lot has changed since then. She began picking up movies like Mary Kom and Bajirao Mastani, with strong female characters that gave her a chance to show off her acting skills.
Here is a list of dialogues from her movies which talk about the intricacies of life, success and everything in between.
"Passion toh woh hai joh har pal tumhari life ko meaning deta hai." - What's Your Rashee?
Priyanka Chopra is a brilliant actress, but we're more intrigued by her off-screen life. From feminism to success and love, there is nothing the actress hasn't spoken about out in the open. She is unapologetically herself, strong and bold with her statements, bashing fairy tales and not waiting around for a knight in shining armour. In an episode of Koffee With Karan in 2017, the actress stated she had miles to go before she slept and the statement has held true.
Here are the most motivational and empowering quotes by Priyanka Chopra.
"You can make time for anything, even love. We, women, are amazing at multitasking - if you want something you can get it. I am just someone who won't make it public."


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Well, I finished the book last night. I will give the most spoiler-free review I can manage.
Be aware, it's harsh. Twenty years in the waiting has made me keen.
for the tl;dr crowd: It was alright.
I understand what was mostly expected - I do. There was going to be someone, somewhere, that was butthurt if every single solitary character wasn't handled or mentioned. But really? This made for a clunky story. But if you've stuck through 13 books this is not surprising. It's a behemoth of action, but 75% of it doesn't even matter. It's just an end to that person's story and I realized I didn't care. And I don't. I couldn't even tell you about any of it.
There was almost no way to be satisfied. I was thinking this going in to the story. But halfway through the climactic ending it occurred to me, in my utter wrenching dissatisfaction - that I've readother books where the ending was satisfying. I then realized that I just never expected to be satisfied with whatever Jordan could come up with because he just isn't that great. Plain truth right there.
He succeeded in making it about as average as the rest of the series. But it had such potential. I felt about the ending about how I felt after watching the last Matrix film or the TV show Lost - embarrassed.
There were moments that were wonderful. But just a couple. They were far outweighed by the absolute cheese of the rest of them.
There was one single moment of perfect emotion and feeling that was drawn out of me - well two really but they happened one right after the other so it was blended together -- and it was stolen right away from me with a 'gotcha!' moment that I felt cheated, even in my pain. /rolls eyes.
I hope there are people out there who really like this book. As it stands for me right now I am glad it's over. I will cherish the memories I have of the world and the people in it (the half a dozen whom I like/will remember) and beyond that, I'm glad I experienced this for twenty years, despite the mediocrity of it all.
For the angry people who disagree: First let me say that, it's all good. To me, a book is a subjective endeavor. I thought of this metaphor last night as this dissatisfaction rolled around in my head. It's like ice cream. I wasn't very happy with chocolate. But you can like chocolate and I can like vanilla or strawberry. There is no reason to get angry about dissent over something so subjective as a book. It's your own journey experiencing it... and it's valid.
I will probably write a spoiler-filled review soon. Too much to talk about directly, but I may not.


Seeded 21st in the 24-team Gstaad Major qualifier, the Makhno twins posted victories Tuesday over 12th-seeded Manon Nummerdor-Flier/Marleen Van Iersel of The Netherlands 2-0 (21-16, 21-17) in 29 minutes and fifth-seeded Jagoda Gruszczynska/Kinga Kolosinska of Poland 2-1 (18-21, 22-20, 20-18) in 53 minutes.
The only other time the 22-year old Makhnos qualified for a FIVB World Tour Main Draw was in October 2015 in Antalya, Turkey where the Ukrainians eventually placed 17th. Playing in their fourth event this season, the Maknno sisters failed to advance to the money rounds in Moscow, The Hague and last week in Porec, Croatia.
Other women's qualifiers Tuesday at the Gstaad Major were first-seeded Taiana Lima/Elize Maia of Brazil, second-seeded Ekaterina Birlova/Nadezda Makroguzova of Russia, third-seeded Jolien Sinnema/Joy Stubbe of the Netherlands, fourth-seeded Kristina May/Taylor Pischke of Canada, sixth-seeded Kim DiCello/Emily Stockman of the United States, seventh-seeded Juliana Felisberta/Carolina Horta of Brazil, eighth-seeded Marta Menegatti/Rebecca Perry of Italy.


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Rapeseed powder receives novel food authorisation from EFSA
Posted: 7 August 2020 | Sam Mehmet (New Food) | No comments yet
After the favourable verdict from EFSA, the proposal will move forward to the European Commission, which will make a decision regarding the authorisation by the beginning of 2021.
Avena Nordic Grain Plc, part of the Apetit Plc Group, has received a verdict from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in favour of receiving novel food authorisation for its first new product innovation. BlackGrain from Yellow Fields is a rapeseed-based plant protein and fibre powder that is said to have great nutritional values and versatile product applications.
"Favourable opinion means that BlackGrain from Yellow Fields has been assessed safe by the authority. This opinion from EFSA is a positive and significant waypoint on this journey. We will continue taking steps forward in developing new BlackGrain rapeseed ingredients," said R&D Manager, Kaisu Riihinen.
EFSA has previously deemed the use of rapeseed protein powder to be safe, when the content of antinutrients typical to rapeseed – which are considered harmful in large quantities – are on a low level. Processing steps of the rapeseed powder are based on reducing the content of these antinutrients, glucosinolates and phytates.
"We've continued development in the second phase of the project, and our goal is to develop new ingredients based on the original ingredient with a customer-oriented approach," Riihinen said.
BlackGrain is made from one of Avena's main products, oil seed expellers. Until now, oil seed expellers have been utilised as animal feed, but through development, it can now reportedly be used in making rapeseed powder suitable for human consumption.
"Oil seed expeller is an existing, nutrient-rich raw ingredient. Using oil seed expeller in human consumption cuts down the food chain, and is a responsible choice", Riihinen noted.
"BlackGrain has been tested and adapted to be used in breads, cereal bars, snacks, granola, muesli, meat analogs and meatballs. Moreover, we are happy to take our customers' requirements into consideration and help them find the best way of incorporating BlackGrain into their product," added Product Development Manager, Leticia Valenzuela.
BlackGrain from Yellow Fields is also vegan, gluten-, GMO-, and soy-free. Dark in colour and mild in taste, BlackGrain is said to work especially well with grains, pea protein and starch.
"BlackGrain from Yellow Fields can improve the nutritional values of food products, especially the protein and nutritional fibre content. It is at the top of innovative product development, and a sustainable and safe choice," Valenzuela concluded.
Avena Nordic Grain Plc, European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
Kaisu Riihinen, Leticia Valenzuela


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Q: Fetching data into HTML from PHP and assigning id to it I have a php code i.e
<?php
$dbServername = "localhost";
$dbUsername = "root";
$dbPassword = "";
$dbName = "uppercase";
$con = mysqli_connect($dbServername,$dbUsername,$dbPassword,$dbName) or
die(mysqli_error());
mysqli_select_db($con,$dbName);
$sql = "SELECT * FROM urltable ;";
$result = mysqli_query($con,$sql);
$resultCheck = mysqli_num_rows($result);
if ($resultCheck > 0 ) {
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)){
$row['name'];
echo $row['url'];
}
}
mysqli_close($con);
?>

What I want to do is take the data stored in ($row['name']) and store it
into HTML and assign some id to it.
for eg:My javascript code
chrome.tabs.getSelected(null,function(tab) {
var tablink = tab.url;
var tabtitle = tab.title;
document.getElementById("lol").value=tablink;
document.getElementById("card").value=tabtitle;
});

HTML CODE

<input type="hidden" id="lol" name="lol" value="" />
<input type="hidden" id="card" name="card" value="" />
First Name: <input type="text" name="name1">
<input type="Submit">
</form>
<form action="http://localhost/retrieve.php" method="post">
<input type="text" id="lol2" name="lol2" value="" />

<input type="Submit">
</form>

This is a part of my javascript and HTML code. I took the value of variables(tablink and tabtitle) and assigned them id's like (lol and card) into HTML.
I want to do same with my PHP variable ($row['name']) and assign it id 'lol2'.
How should I do it?

A: If I understand correctly, you want to put the value of your variable $row['name'] into an input?
If so, you can output it in the value attribute of an input using echo:
<input type="hidden" id="lol2" name="lol2" value="<? echo $row['name']; ?>" />

Assuming you may have more than one row, you can add a counter that increments after every while loop creating lol2,lol3,lol4..., and move the loop into the body of the form that creates an input with every loop.

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Turtles have existed for over 200 million years and are more ancient than any other vertebrate animal. Turtles hear well, sense vibrations in the Earth and water around them, distinguish some colors, have a sense of smell and have amazing survival skills.
Even though these cool creatures have amazing survival skills, turtles are in serious trouble. They are among the world's most endangered vertebrates, with about half of their more than 300 species threatened with extinction.
According to The Turtle Conservation Coalition and the Turtles in Trouble report, turtles throughout the world are being impacted by a variety of major threats, to which many are gradually succumbing. They are being collected, traded, and eaten or otherwise used, in overwhelming numbers. They are used for food, pets, traditional medicine—eggs, juveniles, adults, body parts—all are exploited indiscriminately, with little regard for sustainability. On top of the targeted onslaught, their habitats are being increasingly fragmented, destroyed, developed, and polluted. Populations are shrinking nearly everywhere. Species worldwide are threatened and vulnerable, many are critically endangered, others teeter on the very brink of extinction, and a few have already been lost forever, with eight species and two subspecies having gone extinct since 1500 AD .
Never touch or destroy nesting habitats.
Report commercial fisheries who use longline fishing practices or gill nets.
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If wildlife is being sold for food in a live animal market in your state, contact your local and state legislators, asking that they ban the practice. You may also find it effective to contact state and local health departments (check the Centers for Disease Control web site for listings), which are responsible for sanitary conditions at live animal markets. Finally, contact state wildlife agencies about the dangers that non-native and diseased market animals may pose to local wildlife if released.
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Give Them a Brake. If you see a turtle or tortoise crossing a road, gently pick him up and carry him across in the direction he was headed. (Be watchful for cars in the process.) If the turtle is a large one, or a snapping turtle, use a stick to nudge him gently across the road without getting too close.
Enjoy Turtles and Tortoises in the Wild. Never keep wild turtles or tortoises as pets or buy them from a pet store. The trade in reptiles as pets is responsible for tremendous animal suffering and serious damage to turtle and tortoise populations. Learn to enjoy these animals by observing them in their natural habitat, where they belong. If turtles or tortoises live in your yard, why not keep them happy by building a pond and by landscaping with plants that provide protection and food? Edible plants such as tropical hibiscus, dandelion, geraniums, and Chinese lantern can be quite appetizing. (Make sure that your plants are free of pesticide and herbicide residue.) Piles of leaves, vines, and downed trees make perfect hiding places.
Do Not Disturb. Steer clear of the beach at night during the summer. Your presence will frighten nesting sea turtles back into the sea, preventing them from laying eggs and jeopardizing any eggs they have laid. Click here for information about what to do if you find a sea turtle that you think may be in trouble.
Turn Out the Lights. Do not shine bright lights on the beach at night. Oppose coastal development such as condominiums, houses, resorts, and hotels; they tend to expose beaches to excessive artificial lighting, which discourages female turtles from approaching the beach to lay eggs. The light also draws hatchlings away from the ocean, disorients them, and exposes them to predation and deadly dehydration.
Report Crimes. Tell local authorities if you see any person harassing or poaching a sea turtle, her eggs, hatchlings, or nests — or those of any other endangered turtles and tortoises. These activities are violations of U.S. state and federal laws.
Spread the Word. Educate others about the importance of protecting turtles and tortoises from commercial exploitation and abuse in your community and throughout the world. Be a voice for turtles.


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How nervous are you about your visit?
You'll be relieved to hear that I have recently been to the dentist.
Now, confession time. I know I do not go to the dentist as much as I should. One reason is because I am not looking forward to the lecture from the dentist (which doesn't actually happen) about how I do not go to the dentist as much as I should.
Moreover, having been thru 6 years of orthodontic treatment during my teenage years, I really cannot stand dental pain. This leaves me somewhat in a predicament as my avoidance of the dentist heightens my chance of worse dental pain. As it is, I only went to the dentist because a bit fell off one of my teeth. (It's all fixed now.) Then there's the cost for any decent amount of work. I imagine there are many folks out there who avoid dentists for financial reasons.
As I reflect on this, I cannot help think about how similar that is to the way many people view church. Ironically, the dental nurse I got chatting to at the surgery told me how she used to be super-involved in a church when she was young but hadn't been for years. I wondered if she stayed away because she was fearing some lecture from someone about how she should have been back sooner. Even in my own life, this pastor's kid actually started skipping the odd Sunday and in spite of going on to years of youth ministry, I never actually attended the teen youth group at my Dad's church. What got me back to church was, in a manner of speaking, a whopping great spiritual toothache. When I did get involved I re-discovered that yes, the cost of following Jesus was high. Maybe not financially straight away but I think you get where I am going.
Maybe it reflects the way our culture relates to God: a moral inconvenience to the materialistic, utilitarian lifestyle until all of a sudden the bottom falls out of it and it's at worst his fault, at best his job to fix. Or maybe, it's because so many people have had so many painful experiences of church that they simply can't bring themselves to give it another go.
There is a lot of things for people to get nervous about when they visit a dentist.
There may be even more things for people to get nervous about when the visit or indeed re-visit your church.
This is an extremely clever question. It's not just that it's trying to get information; it's that it communicates something quite deep about the dentist: that they actually care about how you're feeling as your sitting in that chair. In case you're wondering, after some honest thought I answered with a '4'. This led to a sit down conversation where I was stepped through every part of the procedure and assured that there would be minimal pain involved. The appointment took longer because of this but no extra charge was accured.
It's what you might call the personal approach. I did not feel rushed in any way. I felt like the dentist had my best interests at heart and that her time was worth my comfort. Now I'm not (just) writing a review here but pondering how we can be more like my dentist at church.
I wonder if we had a 'how nervous are you about your visit?' form in our info pac that people receive when they come thru the door at church? Would people fill it out? Would they fill it out honestly or tell us what they think we want to hear? Would it be more than just visitors, but also some regulars that would surprise us by filling it out?
I guess this is the main question; if every visitor did fill one out, what would be the average score? I'm guessing it would be far higher than we might expect. I think I have no idea just how nervous people are walking into a church for the first time, or in a long time. No. Utter. Clue. But I imagine they feel like I felt when I went to the dentist.
Assuming that's the case, what do we as God's people need to do about it?
people will know where to sit.
people people will know the general layout of the building and where the bathroom facilities are.
people will somehow instinctively know the face that is attached to the name on the random slide telling people to get in contact with person 'x' about ministry 'y'.
people will somehow know that kids ministries don't start straight away.
People will know that their kids should go down the front in view of all the scary adults should they wish to participate in the kids song…..that they wouldn't know.
people will somehow know where the 'boardroom' is should they want to pray with people beforehand.
people will somehow know that it's your responsibility to ensure someone comes and sits next to you.
people will know that the other people have seats that they normally sit on.
When I went to the dentist, the only way I could have been treated better and my nerves about the visit assuaged is if the dentist had literally taken me by the hand.
Maybe you are a door welcomer/usher or ministry leader at your church. Here's a question: would anyone out there be tempted to write an article on how much they were cared for and their nerves calmed by your ministry/explanations on a Sunday morning?
I think where we end up is the power of inter-personal relationship. Are we willing to walk past our mates, lean in and pursue interpersonal care of folks that maybe look a little confused or overwhelmed when they walk in on a Sunday morning?
That's what it really means to be a safe. Church.


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EU-US trade truce falters on day 1 over farming
Feedlot in Texas has about 46,000 cattle on feed
Politico | 27 July 2018
By Hans von der Burchard and Jakob Hanke
Only a day after the EU and U.S. struck a peace deal on trade, cracks are emerging over the sensitive topic of farming.
U.S. President Donald Trump and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker appeared in front of the White House on late Wednesday to parade a deal that would avoid extra American tariffs on EU cars in exchange for talks on "zero tariffs, zero non-tariff barriers, and zero subsidies on non-auto industrial goods."
Trump was also delighted that Europe would buy more liquefied natural gas and soy beans from the EU, and spoke of a newfound "love" for the EU.
His two most senior trade officials, however, soon enough insisted that all agricultural products (not just soybeans) should be part of the agreement — an anathema for the European Union.
"It's more than soybeans. All agricultural products are something that will be discussed [in the trade talks with the EU]," Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told Fox News on late Wednesday. "Soybeans was simply a very timely example of those [agricultural products]," he added.
Trump's chief trade enforcer, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, also demanded during a Senate hearing on Thursday that the EU deliver more. "Our view is we are negotiating about agriculture," he told lawmakers. "That's part of the project."
Brussels was quick to shoot down such suggestions. "Agriculture is not part of the scope of the talks," an EU official told reporters on Thursday.
"It's clear that the U.S. side would've liked [it] but it has not been agreed, and Mr. Ross can say what he wishes but it doesn't correspond" to the deal agreed, the official added. "There is no ambiguity in this regard."
The Commission's Director-General for Trade Policy Jean-Luc Demarty also told senior trade envoys from EU capitals on Thursday that agricultural products were out of the discussions, according to two people present at the meeting.
And Commission spokesperson Alexander Winterstein said Thursday that the EU wouldn't commit to a "trade off with food and environmental standards," in a reference to Washington's repeated demands over products such as chlorine-rinsed chickens and hormone-reared beef.
Another worm can
Ross and Lighthizer were not the only people to make additional demands to the deal reached on Wednesday.
French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said that if both sides were starting to talk about reducing tariffs and other trade barriers, this should also include the contentious topic of public procurement.
"The access to the American public procurement market is currently largely closed, and this must be part of the discussions," he said, referring to U.S. policies such as the 'Buy American Act' which requires the American government to prefer U.S.-made products in its purchases. European governments complain that this discriminates against foreign companies in large tenders for projects such as in the infrastructure sector.
André Sapir, a trade expert from the Bruegel think tank in Brussels, warned of "a broader problem" because the EU-U.S. statement was so vague.
"It's a very loose statement," he said. "What does it really mean for the future, what does it commit the two parties to?"
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Mario Romancini (Telêmaco Borba, 15 december 1987) is een Braziliaans autocoureur.

Carrière
Romancini reed in 2006 in het Braziliaanse Formule Renault kampioenschap en een jaar later in de Zuid-Amerikaanse Formule 3. In 2008 verhuisde hij naar Europa en ging hij rijden in de Formule Renault 3.5 Series. Hij sloot het jaar af met drie punten op negenentwintigste plaats in de eindstand.

In 2009 ging hij naar Noord-Amerika en ging hij rijden in de Indy Lights. Hij sloot het seizoen af met overwinningen op de Milwaukee Mile en de Homestead-Miami Speedway en eindigde het kampioenschap op de zesde plaats. In 2010 reed hij twaalf races in de IndyCar Series voor Conquest Racing.

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Richard Grenell speaks during a joint press conference with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade on September 22, 2020 (AFP / Andrej Isakovic)
Trump envoy uses 2019 photo to allege Biden hypocrisy on masks
AFP USA Published on Monday 2 November 2020 at 22:35
Richard Grenell, an envoy for US President Donald Trump, tweeted that Democratic candidate Joe Biden wears a mask outside but not on aircraft, including two photos as evidence. But the image of a maskless Biden on a plane is from 2019, before health authorities began recommending mask use to help curb the spread of the coronavirus.
"Washington, DC phony! @JoeBiden doesn't wear a mask on a plane - but wears one OUTSIDE!?" Grenell, Trump's special envoy for Serbia and Kosovo peace negotiations, who previously served as acting director of national intelligence, wrote in a November 1, 2020 tweet.
A screenshot of a tweet taken on November 2, 2020
Face masks -- which many state and local authorities are either requiring or recommending be worn to help curb the spread of the coronavirus -- have become a divisive political issue as well as a matter of public health.
Trump long refused to use a mask, and while he now says he supports them, he frequently appears in public without one, and has mocked Biden and other people for wearing one.
AFP Fact Check conducted a reverse image search of the photo of Biden without a mask that was tweeted by Grenell, and found a reference on Twitter to the image appearing in Vogue magazine.
A Google search then located the image, which is dated November 2019 and appears with this Vogue article.
A screenshot of a November 2019 photo that appeared with a Vogue magazine article
As of November 2, the novel coronavirus has killed more than 231,000 people in the United States.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention emphasizes the danger of asymptomatic transmission of the coronavirus and recommends cloth face coverings as a means to reduce this risk.
"You could spread Covid-19 to others even if you do not feel sick," it says, adding: "The cloth face cover is meant to protect other people in case you are infected."
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What about the seriously ill or disabled people who want to live?
http://doughtyblog.dailymail.co.uk/2012/10/what-about-the-seriously-ill-or-disabled-people-who-want-to-live.html
The "Liverpool Pathway": "It comes down to this: there are a lot of people who believe that, rather than trying to help their loved ones, hospitals have been keen to kill them off."
By Stephen Doughty, 12 October 2012 6:56 PM
We have heard an awful lot about the suffering of people who bear terrible afflictions or disabilities and who wish to die. We have heard very little about the desperately sick who want to live, and the families who stand by them in hope.
It is looking like we have got this the wrong way round.
The highly organised campaign for assisted dying has brought together pressure groups, think tanks, celebrities like Sir Terry Pratchett, and some fairly prominent politicians, notably in recent years Tony Blair's Lord Chancellor and one-time flatmate, Lord Falconer.
It has been based around a brilliantly conceived series of legal cases in which the judiciary have been presented with deeply affecting hard cases. Each one has asked for a modest legal concession, usually involving human rights and the 1961 law that makes helping with a suicide a serious crime.
The individuals who have brought these cases are sometimes merely sympathetic and at others pitiable, as in the recent instance of Tony Nicklinson, the 58-year-old victim of 'locked-in syndrome' who lost his call for help from his doctor to die in the High Court in August. Mr Nicklinson died a few days after his legal defeat.
Occasionally the legal campaigns have scored successes. The most notable was that of multiple sclerosis sufferer Debbie Purdy, who persuaded the Law Lords that the Director of Public Prosecutions should provide guidance on whether her husband might face prosecution for assisted suicide, were he to help her travel to the Dignitas clinic in Zurich to die.
As a result of the Purdy case, DPP Keir Starmer QC introduced rules on assisted dying prosecutions that mean no-one is likely to be prosecuted, with the risk of a 14-year-jail term, if they help in the death of someone who is a suffering relative or friend, and if they act out of compassion rather than malice or greed.
However you paint it, this is a major change in the law as set down by Parliament, a law which takes no account of the motives of the individual aiding and abetting the suicide.
Indeed, Mr Starmer has brought no prosecutions against anybody from the trail of stricken families who have helped members travel to Switzerland to die.
What is interesting is that, despite all the campaigning, all the high-profile court cases, all the BBC interviews, all the endless hand-wringing about the cruelty of keeping those who are suffering alive against their will, few people seem to want to take advantage of the new right to die.
We do not have very recent figures, but I would guess that no more than 200 British people have died at Dignitas since the clinic became well-known here in 2003.
It is a number small enough to raise the question of how big, really, is the demand for assisted dying?
The campaign for assisted dying has certainly been effective in influencing care of the incapacitated in the Health Service.
It was surely a factor in the successful passage of the Mental Capacity Act, pushed through by Lord Falconer in the teeth of a rebellion by backbench Labour MPs, which gave legal status to living wills. These mean people can leave orders for their doctors to kill them by withdrawing nourishment and fluid by tube if they become too sick to speak for themselves.
The assisted dying campaign formed the background to the introduction of the Liverpool Care Pathway into hospitals across the country. This, for those who have not noticed, is the system by which medical staff withdraw treatment from those judged to be close to death, in the cause of easing their passing. It often involves heavy sedation and the removal of nourishment and fluid tubes.
I do not wish to try to step into the shoes of those medical professionals and care workers who deal every day with people at the extreme end of life and in the depths of the worst illnesses. I have no qualifications or knowledge to second guess their decisions, and no intention of criticising those who work with great professionalism and compassion in jobs that are far beyond my capability.
But all the indications suggest there are many families who are unhappy with the way in which their relatives have died in hospitals, and that they are increasingly willing to complain about it.
Many of these people may be speaking out of misdirected grief. As one well-informed MP put it to me this week, very few expect a loved one who goes into hospital to die, but people do have the habit of dying. Some of those complaining may be troublemakers, some inspired by political or religious agendas.
Nevertheless there seem to be a lot of them. And they are not celebrities or legal grandees or Westminster faces. They are little people, people like you and me, not the kind you usually hear on the radio or see on the TV.
The courageous Professor Patrick Pullicino, the hospital consultant who defied the NHS consensus to speak out against the Liverpool Care Pathway this summer, reckoned it is used in around 130,000 deaths each year. That is a number that dwarfs the assisted dying lobby.
I think we are going to hear a lot more about the Liverpool Care Pathway, and I think the medical professions, the Department of Health, and a number of politicians are going to have to put some time into considering what has been happening.
It comes down to this: there are a lot of people who believe that, rather than trying to help their loved ones, hospitals have been keen to kill them off.
They believe that, while the assisted dying lobby has been parading in the courts and publicising itself on the BBC, assisted dying has quietly become a reality in our hospitals.
Labels: assisted dying, assisted suicide, Elder abuse, euthanasia, Liverpool Pathway, physician-assisted suicide
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Autism Spectrum Disorder can be truly devastating for both the victim and their family. I remember years ago visiting a co-worker's house and meeting his autistic son. The boy was angelic, gentle, and absolutely incapable of understanding normal human interactions. I have no idea how he would be able to get along without his parents and older sister.
It has been claimed that Autism is tied to consumption of sugar, but not for the reasons I've described for metabolic syndrome. In the journal Clinical Epigenetics, Dufault, et al, propose that high fructose corn syrup consumption by mother and child interfere with normal nervous system development for some chidren. Here's the actual article– Autism:HFCS. They say that HFCS solutions are contaminated with mercury in some cases and the HFCS interferes with riding the body of mercury. This can affect developing young nervous systems.
An epidemiological study published in 2015 points in the general direction of elevated sugar linking to autism. In the Journal of the American Medical Association, Xiang et al report a significant correlation between gestational diabetes mellitus and incidence of autism. Gestational diabetes in the pregnant mother is characterized by insulin resistance and elevated blood sugar in the mom, exposing the developing fetus to a high sugar environment. That's already well known to cause sometimes excessive growth of the developing fetus, resulting in larger than normal birth weights.
Can anything be done? There is evidence that "ketogenic diets," i.e. high fat diets could help. Here's an article from Trinity College about that research, and the actual research article in PLOS One.
Lots more work needs to be done to valid these ideas and findings. I really hope we see aggressive movement in this realm in the medical and public health community.