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WAYS TO GO GLOBAL ON MISSION
We long to see key people in our church trade-in their life in the states to move into a global community that is not reached or resourced in the gospel of our Lord. We are not staffed or equipped to send folks ourselves, so we have compiled a list of groups we recommend for placing you in a global setting. Of course, we will be behind you as a church in prayer and financial partnership. If you are a member in good standing at DRC and want to go global as a formal vocational missionary, then let us know (talk to a pastor) and start researching the below groups prayerfully. This list is in no way an endorsement of everything each group believes or does, not to mention an endorsement of their staff. This is simply a list of groups we think partnering with would be strategic for missionary work.
Adventures in Missions
www.adventures.org
Adventures in Missions (AIM) is an interdenominational missions organization that focuses on discipleship. We emphasize prayer and relationships in our work amongst the poor. Since we were established in 1989, we have taken over 90,000 people into the mission field, some for as short as a week and others for as long as a year or longer. In several places around the world, we minister year-round ministry to "the least of these." We believe that by giving people the opportunity to hold orphans, bring hope to the hopeless, and pray for the sick, lives are transformed.
Africa Inland Mission
www.aimint.org/usa
AIM is an evangelical Christian mission agency dedicated to the vision of seeing Christ-centered churches established among all African peoples. We have over 1,000 personnel ministering in Africa and to Africans living around the world. Our ministries include evangelism and church planting efforts among unreached and least-reached peoples, leadership development, youth ministry, medical ministry, community development and community health, and a broad range of support and logistical ministries.
AVANT Ministries
www.avantministries.org
At Avant, we are passionate about planting the church where it does not yet exist through church planting and church support ministries. Founded in 1892, Avant Ministries (formerly known as Gospel Missionary Union) is one of the oldest missionary sending agencies in the United States. As the first evangelical mission to enter Ecuador in South America and the Republic of Mali in West Africa, innovative methods have always been part of our culture. Today, Avant is moving into new territories with new initiatives to preach the unchanging gospel of Jesus Christ. We believe nationally-led churches have the opportunity to spread the gospel in their unique cultural context, and we're committed to partnering with national believers who can carry on the work and multiply the results.
Buckner International
www.buckner.org
Buckner International is a global Christian ministry dedicated to the restoration and healing of children, families and senior adults. Established in 1879 as the Buckner Orphans Home in Dallas, Texas, Buckner is one of the third oldest businesses in continual operation in Dallas and currently serves more than 400,000 people each year in more than 69 countries around the world.
Buckner makes life better for orphans, vulnerable children and families through the following programs:
• Family programs: foster care, adoption, residential care and transition programs
• Empowerment programs: self-sufficiency programs, education and job readiness training
• Community programs: after-school programs, counseling and apartment ministries and transformation centers
• Aid and support: global humanitarian aid, medical clinics, short-term missions support and Shoes for Orphan Souls®
• Retirement Services: independent living, assisted living, memory care at The Harbor, skilled care, hospice care and ElderCare in seven locations in Texas.
Café 1040
www.cafe1040.com
Café 1040 is a 3-month mentoring program inside the 10/40 Window. Through this intense program abroad, you will be deeply immersed into the culture, experiencing what day-to-day ministry overseas could look like for you. While living in a closed country, you will become a confident learner of language, culture, history, religion, and technology. More importantly, you will discover how YOUR skills, passions, talents, and abilities can play a part in reaching the 2.5 billion people who don't have access to the Good News of Jesus Christ.
Café 1040 was founded to solve two problems:
1. Help a generation identify and overcome the obstacles that the world has put in front of them that are keeping them from following God's call on their generation.
2. Help guide and direct those students to think strategically about where they serve, aligning themselves with God's heart for "every tribe, tongue, and nation."
CAM International
www.caminternational.org
The reason for CAM's existence is to produce and empower committed followers of Jesus Christ in Spanish-speaking areas to reach the world. This is our compelling motivation and passion. And supporting this mission is the focus of every CAM missionary.
Transformation is at the core of all of the activity in which our CAM family is engaged. At the end of the day, after outreach strategies are discussed, after ministries are planned, and after significant energies are exerted, our heart's desire is to see lives changed. We long to see individuals, families, even cities and nations transformed for Christ's glory. Our efforts are aimed at making disciples among Spanish-speakers globally.
Chosen People Ministries
www.chosenpeople.com
Chosen People Ministries exists to pray for, evangelize, disciple and serve Jewish people everywhere and to help fellow believers do the same.
The mission was founded in Brooklyn, New York in 1894 by Rabbi Leopold Cohn, a Hungarian Jewish immigrant with a zeal to share the knowledge of Yeshua (Jesus) the Messiah with God's chosen people.
Today, Chosen People Ministries serves in thirteen countries across the globe. Our outreach programs include evangelism and discipleship, Messianic Centers and congregations, equipping the local church for Jewish evangelism, print and web publications, and benevolence work.
Christar
www.christar.org
On January 1, 1930, Christar (known then as the India Mission) was founded by a 70-year-old Scotsman named Benjamin Davidson. The original focus was ministry among least-reached people of South Asia. Since then, our work has expanded to encompass over 25 countries and 70 people groups. We seek to glorify God using a variety of skills in areas such as education, medicine, engineering, business and media to communicate His love to people around the world.
As followers of Christ we have a treasure in God and His Kingdom (Matt. 13:44). The good news is that this treasure is not limited to certain places or people—it is for ALL peoples—from every language, people group and nation. At Christar, it is our joy to communicate the unsurpassed value of this treasure by serving the needs of others through our lives, professions, skills and words! As we do so we are privileged to see churches established among peoples who have never had one in their own language, culture or proximity.
Crescent Project
www.crescentproject.org
Crescent Project's mission is to inspire, equip and serve the Church to reach Muslims with the Gospel of Christ for the Glory of God. It is our vision to see a day when fear is replaced with love and millions of Christians are actively sharing the truth of Christ with millions of Muslims for the glory of God. We do this through prayer, training, local outreach, and short-term trips.
Crescent Project was founded in 1993 by Fouad Masri to enable Christians to reach out to the Muslim community. Because of his experience as a Lebanese student living in the U.S., he realized that internationals in America often have many unmet needs. Crescent Project was founded to prepare American Christians to reach out to the growing Muslim community in the U.S. Since 1993, Crescent Project instructors have trained over 15,000 Christians throughout North America.
www.ccci.org
Cru (formerly known as Campus Crusade for Christ International) exists to help fulfill the Great Commission by winning, building and sending in the power of the Holy Spirit. We also help the body of Christ do evangelism and discipleship.
To that end, we are emphasizing several key objectives:
• Student Movements: We want to see students everywhere embrace the purpose, love and forgiveness that God offers them in a relationship with Jesus Christ.
• Leader Movements: We want to help build spiritual movements among leaders so their influence can be used by God to draw people everywhere to himself.
• Church-based Movements: As innovators in tools for evangelism and discipleship, we help the body of Christ win, build and send people. We are also helping to plant churches in the most unreached regions of the world through JESUS Film translations and mission trips.
• Virtual Movements: Recognizing that many people worldwide are using the Web to explore spirituality, we see Internet evangelism and discipleship as a key component to helping people begin a relationship with God and truly follow Jesus.
CURE International
www.cure.org
It's not an overstatement to call ourselves CURE International. Our goal is to bring 100% physical and spiritual healing to children with disabilities in the developing world.
We are transforming the lives of children with hydrocephalus, cleft lip and palate, spine deformities, clubfoot and other crippling orthopedic conditions. Their conditions are treatable, but without CURE, they have nowhere to turn for proper care. These children and their families often feel great shame and face rejection from their relatives and communities. At CURE, they find acceptance and hope as our hospital staff members express God's love for them.
www.deltaministries.com
DELTA Ministries International is an interdenominational evangelical organization that supports U.S. and international local churches by specializing in Short-Term and Mid-Term missions. DELTA Ministries International assists the local church by training and deploying short-term mission teams throughout the world to assist national pastors, on-field missionaries, church planters and others who request a team with their ongoing ministry efforts and long-term ministry goals.
With over 30 years of cross-cultural ministry experience, DELTA specializes in a variety of services that help churches ensure their short-term mission team is prepared and ready to serve when they arrive on the field. These services include, but are not limited to:
• Logistical Support
• Pre-field Orientation
• Comprehensive Training
• On-Field Management
• Debriefing
e3 Partners
www.e3partners.org
Since 1987, e3 Partners has brought a unique, biblically-based approach to world missions that has produced significant results in cultures around the world. The focus is church multiplication, incorporating all the key elements of Christ's commission of going, making disciples, teaching and baptizing in order to plant and grow new churches.
We equip God's people everywhere to share what Christ has done, develop Christ followers/leaders, and establish thriving churches that multiply and make a real, lasting impact on their surrounding communities. We do this around the world, using national leaders in 20-plus countries supported by hundreds of field ministry staff, along with thousands who annually take short-term trips for evangelistic, church-planting, and other outreach efforts. We have pioneered the most durable low-tech tool for sharing Christ- the Evangecube, and a high-profile, high-tech method of lifting up Christ- I Am Second.
East-West Ministries
www.eastwest.org
East-West Ministries International exists to evangelize and equip nationals to establish grace-oriented churches. Our goal is that the leaders we train and the churches we help plant and develop be doctrinally sound, grace-oriented, spiritually thriving and multiplying.
East-West Ministries International helps indigenous church leaders in strategic locations around the world fulfill the Great Commission by: around the world fulfill the Great Commission by:
• Evangelizing the lost
• Training church planters, pastors and other ministry leaders
• Planting new churches
• Developing mature churches
Engineering Ministries International
www.emiworld.org
EMI is a Christian ministry that designs facilities that serve the poor in developing countries. These facilities (including hospitals, orphanages, schools, clean water projects and more) directly impact communities by meeting physical needs and communicating God's love in a practical way. We partner with Christian workers, pastors, and other non-profits who have a vision to help the poor and preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. To produce our designs, we blend our team of in-house project managers with talented volunteer architects, engineers, land surveyors and construction managers recruited from around the world. These volunteers donate their time and travel costs to join our teams, adding their expertise and insight to give our clients the best designs possible.
English Language Institute/China
www.elic.org
Since 1981 we have been placing passionately committed people in teaching roles across Asia, who primarily serve through the medium of English instruction. We accomplish this through recruiting, training and sending men and women from the USA, Canada and other countries, to meet the ever-growing demand for quality English education in Asia. Ongoing professional development opportunities for our teachers include earning Master's Degrees, graduate certificate programs, and two Ph.D. options.
We have vibrant programs for college students, graduates, singles, couples, families and second-career adults. Our present countries of service include China, Mongolia, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. In most cases we maintain both year-long and summer programs. While we are focused primarily on university campuses and teacher training, we teach in a variety of other settings designed to best serve our host countries and government entities.
Focus International
www.focusinter.org
FOCUS is an international non-profit organization of caring people dedicated holistically to children and youth worldwide. At FOCUS, our primary mission is the physical, social and spiritual wellbeing of young people. Our mission and goals foster these same young people who hold the torch of hope for their own future and that of our world.
FOCUS International's three areas of concern are:
• Children's health, especially access to nutritional and holistic healthcare
• Children's cultural well-being, including safety, nurturance, celebration, and dignity
• Children's access to world information via communications technology
Global Aid Network
www.gainusa.org
As the relief and development aid arm of Campus Crusade for Christ International, Global Aid Network works in partnership with existing Campus Crusade for Christ ministries, local churches, missionaries, and other agencies to help distribute compassionate aid to impoverished countries around the world and mobilizes mission teams for aid distribution, disaster response, evangelistic outreach, medical mission and orphan care.
Global Aid Network operates through three key strategies:
• Relief Assistance – responding to catastrophic disasters and providing ongoing humanitarian relief through aid distribution including food, water filtration systems and hygiene kits.
• Development – providing training and resources to promote lasting and ongoing efforts such as agricultural projects, water wells and medical clinics. Our Compassionate Care Unit addresses the emotional, social, and spiritual well-being of people following disasters and crisis events.
• Mobilization – organizing people, churches, and other agencies both nationally and internationally to partner with us through advocacy programs, campus initiatives and mission trip teams.
Global Outreach Mission
www.missiongo.org
Global Outreach Mission is solely concerned with the propagation of the gospel of the grace of God as revealed in the Word of God. Our primary objective is the winning of souls for Jesus Christ. We enjoy fellowship with Christians of like faith, crossing many denominational lines. In all of our programs, the Gospel is to be proclaimed, the Scriptures are to be taught, converts are to be discipled and indigenous churches are to be organized.
Global Outreach missionaries serving around the globe are engaged in a wide variety of ministries including: church planting, Christian camps, personal work, literature, radio broadcasts, community development and medical work. Global Outreach Mission representatives have liberty to follow their conviction and the direction of the Holy Spirit in choosing methods for communicating the message. Around the world we are using mobile chapels, bookshops, camps, street evangelism and other methods depending on each situation.
iGo Global
www.igoglobal.org
Through teaching, training and sending, iGo Global calls students to embrace an on-mission lifestyle. This isn't just a mission statement it's our strategy. At the core of what we do, we want students to grasp the reality that missions is not a trip, but a way of life.
Our strategy also involves a commitment to the completion of the Great Commission. Because of this commitment, we are focused on sending students to the least-reached peoples on the planet. We believe God is raising up a generation to complete the task and therefore we are strategically placing students in situations where they can work towards completion.
International Development and Educational Associates (IDEAS)
www.ideasworld.org
IDEAS is a non-profit humanitarian and development organization that sends Christian professionals (Associates) to work around the world using their skills, education and experience. Our Associates use their professional skills and experiences to see holistic transformation occur socially, intellectually, physically and spiritually.
IDEAS Associates develop relationships, assess the needs of communities and design projects to specifically meet those needs tangibly. These projects fall under five categories:
• Community Development
www.ijm.org
IJM seeks to make public justice systems work for victims of abuse and oppression who urgently need the protection of the law. IJM investigators, lawyers and social workers intervene in individual cases of abuse in partnership with state and local authorities.
By pushing individual cases of abuse through the justice system from the investigative stage to the prosecutorial stage, IJM determines the specific source of corruption, lack of resources, or lack of good will in the system denying victims the protection of their legal systems. In collaboration with local authorities, IJM addresses these specific points of brokenness to meet the urgent needs of victims of injustice.
In all of its casework, IJM has a four-fold purpose:
1. Victim Relief
2. Perpetrator Accountability
3. Victim Aftercare
4. Structural Transformation
www.sportsmissions.com
Established in 1993, ISF is a faith-based non-profit organization that seeks to change the world through sports. The universal attraction of sports encourages a connection among people. Through that connection, our volunteers are able to share their faith and reach out to people in other cultures.
ISF has developed an international and national network for sports missions with more than 750 missionaries around the world. We work with Christian individuals and organizations to fulfill God's call to take the Gospel to all the nations.
International Students Inc
www.isionline.org
International Students, Inc., exists to share Christ's love with international college students. Since 1953, ISI has been training Americans to meet international students' needs. These Americans befriend international students and help them adjust to American culture.
Our culturally sensitive and concerned staff and volunteers are reaching out to thousands of the more than 876,000 international students who study in the United States each year. These students, separated from family and friends, often feel lonely and isolated and are unsure about how to relate to America's culture and its people.
ISI works closely with international student advisers and other college and university officials to help students. We offer friendship to any student, regardless of race, nationality, or religious preference.
www.iteams.org
International Teams is a global, evangelical organization that brings people together to help the oppressed. We are committed to seeing lives and communities transformed by the power of God.
We partner with schools, churches and individuals to bring change to the lives of the poor, the slave and the blind. We come from a wide variety of churches and backgrounds. We serve in teams. While our ministry is designed locally, we are organized by areas of ministry focus and by geographic regions.
Leadership Development International
www.ldius.org
LDi helps people succeed – both personally and professionally – with education and training programs that combine innovative learning techniques with the principles of character and truth.
We believe in leadership from the inside out, so we focus on internal change as a way for people to meet their goals. By developing this inner awareness, students and professionals find that they are better able to overcome the external challenges they face.
Livada Orphan Care
www.livada.org
Livada is the Romanian word for orchard. It serves as a symbol of the type of care that every vulnerable child needs and Livada orphan Care wants to give – nurturing Romanian orphans and at-risk kids to bear fruit that will last.
Livada Orphan Care is committed to helping these wounded kids find their place in this world, through a blend of Christian social work, humanitarian aid, and ministry. Our holistic approach begins by nurturing orphans in the cradle and ends with them becoming interdependent, contributing members of society.
Livada is focused on sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ in three main ways:
• Orphan Outreach to abandoned kids in state care facilities
• Family-Style residential care in group homes, mentor apartments and private foster care
• Prevention of Abandonment efforts in Gypsy villages and baby hospitals
Missions to Unreached Peoples
www.mup.org
We are an interdenominational, evangelical Christian ministry with a clearly defined strategic focus of reaching the last remaining unreached people groups of the world with the transforming, life-giving gospel of Jesus Christ.
Mission to Unreached Peoples joins with Great Commission Christians, churches and ministries across the globe to equip, send and support "Strategy Teams" who prayerfully and strategically serve among unreached people groups. Our goal is to stimulate transformational church planting movements among many unreached people groups and to help other Great Commission Christians to catalyze movements among other unreached people groups as well.
Mission Year
www.missionyear.org
Mission Year is a year-long program where Christian young people live in an urban neighborhood volunteering, worshiping, and loving their neighbors.
It's an opportunity for anyone 18 and over, both single and married, to spend a year following Jesus' command to "Love the Lord your God, and love your neighbor as yourself." By partnering with a local church, volunteering at a service site, and spending time with neighbors, Mission Year Team Members effectively impact their communities while catching a deeper vision for what the Kingdom of God is like.
Network of International Christian Schools
www.nics.org
NICS Network of International Christian Schools is founded on the belief that a major thrust for world evangelism and discipleship for Christ can happen through the classroom with the impact made by committed Christian educators overseas. Children have many teachers in their lives, whether they be at home, in the classroom, on the street or elsewhere; none, however have a more powerful impact than educators in the classroom.
The mission of NICS is to establish a worldwide network of international Christian schools staffed by qualified Christian educators, instilling in each student a Biblical world-view in an environment of academic excellence and respect for people of all cultures and religions.
www.omf.org
We are OMF International (formerly the China Inland Mission and Overseas Missionary Fellowship), founded by James Hudson Taylor in 1865. We serve the church and bring the gospel to many of the countries in East Asia, and we have a pioneering ministry in the rest. We help place Christians with professional skills in China and other Asian countries, and share the love of Christ with East Asians worldwide.
Through God's grace, we aim to see an indigenous, biblical church movement in each people group of East Asia, evangelizing their own people and reaching out in mission to other peoples.
Operation Mobilization
www.omusa.org
Operation Mobilization works around the world with 6,100 missionaries from more than 100 nations working in more than 110 countries and onboard an ocean-going missions ship. OM seeks to demonstrate and proclaim the love of God through evangelism, church planting, discipleship, and literature distribution and also by providing relief and development in many areas of the world.
OM is one of the largest mission organizations working in Muslim outreach, and is also one of the largest mission organizations in India. OM's ship ministry welcomes more than 1 million people onboard our mission ships each year. Through their history, the ships have welcomed 38 million people in nearly 500 cities and distributed 50 million Scripture portions.
www.pioneers.org
Pioneers is an evangelical mission movement with 2,400 international members serving on 200 church-planting teams in 95 countries among 130 people groups in 70 languages.
For more than 30 years, Pioneers' passion has been to see God glorified among those who are physically and spiritually isolated from the gospel of Jesus Christ—from Muslim Bedouins in the deserts of North Africa and animist villagers in the jungles of South America to secular humanists in Eastern Europe and middle-class Buddhist urbanites in the sprawling cities of East Asia.
Pioneers' role is to recruit, train and support missionaries who serve in difficult environments around the world. Pioneers also provides an efficient way for many churches to partner by organizing resources for greater impact and providing benefits and services at a lower cost for each individual missionary.
Red Window Project
www.redwindow.org
Red Window exists to facilitate a process of economic, social, and spiritual reconciliation for survivors of trafficking and exploitation. Red Window is providing a revolutionary new approach to trafficking aftercare by focusing on training and equipping survivors to become economically self-sufficient and effectively re-integrated into society. We accomplish this by bringing together and supplementing existing services available to survivors in Cebu. Working with local aftercare homes, vocational training facilities, churches, counseling services, the business community, the social welfare department and other organizations we are able to coordinate holistic services that are capable of reconciling each trafficking survivor with God, the economy and their social environment. Our hope is to replicate this process in many locations around the world, ending vicious cycles of repeat human trafficking.
Ride Nature
www.ridenature.com
In November 2009, with a dream and vision to impact in the world in a large way….the Ride Nature Organization was born. With a mission and purpose to make a difference in the lives of individuals living in poverty, the organization was formed to bring the world of board sports alongside the Truth to change the lives of individuals around the globe. With a primary focus on third world countries and areas of extreme poverty, we are committed to bringing boards and hope to children everywhere.
But not only are we involved internationally, but we are also working in multiple communities here in the U.S. to see to it that ALL children have the opportunity to "Ride Nature".
Shelterwood (Doulos Ministries)
www.douloscorp.com
Doulos Ministries exists to disciple, train and place Christian servant leaders to disciple youth and their families. Since 1981, Doulos has contributed to the development of Christ-centered leaders in ministry, business, within urban centers, and within families.
Doulos Discipleship is a year-long ministry internship for young adults. This life-on-life experiential training enables you to influence this world for Christ, regardless of your vocational calling.
Shelterwood is a Christ-centered, residential care facility seeking to bring healing and reconciliation to families with at-risk teens. Located in Independence, Missouri, Shelterwood provides on-site school and a life-changing model of counseling for struggling families.
Teach Overseas
www.teachoverseas.org
TeachOverseas is a unique interdenominational ministry that offers you the wisdom of experience with a cutting edge sensibility. Since 1981, we have transformed lives in a dozen different countries through hundreds of summer and year-long programs teaching conversational English.
Each year, we train and send hundreds of Christians to teach English, Business and other subjects in: China, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, North Africa, Russia, Slovakia and Vietnam. To date, over 100,000 students around the world have benefited from our teachers' commitment to excellent teaching and Christ-like service. We are an openly Christian organization and have developed an excellent reputation with national governments and local school administrations.
www.teamworld.org
The Evangelical Alliance Mission's (TEAM) purpose is to help churches send missionaries to establish reproducing churches among the nations to the glory of God. We seek to establish reproducing churches wherever the most people have the greatest need in collaboration with churches anywhere.
Church planting is our focus. We are involved extensively in related ministries that include community development, ESL, counseling, sports, technology, healthcare, business, linguistics, music and education. We work together with numerous international an national partner organizations around the world, resulting in multi-agency, multi-ethnic and multi-national teams.
The Mission Society
www.themissionsociety.org
Since 1984, The Mission Society has been involved in recruiting, training and sending missionaries both overseas and within the United States. We currently support more than 200 missionaries who minister in more than 35 nations worldwide. We also partner with churches in an effort to help them realize and grasp their potential to have an impact locally, nationally, and internationally.
United World Mission
www.uwm.org
United World Mission helps grow disciple-making communities around the world that worship God, love each other, serve out in the world, and proclaim the good news of Christ everywhere. We love to see the beauty and hope of the Kingdom of God lived out in cities and nations as God's people live as salt and light. We love the word "missional" because it captures what we believe about the church: The church is the people of God sent out on a mission with God in the world.
Our missionaries partner with leaders and churches in 30+ nations, helping them fulfill their missional calling in the world–especially as they equip leaders and establish new churches.
US Center for World Mission
www.uscwm.org
The U. S. Center for World Mission (USCWM) is a mission agency that helps to improve strategic decision-making and practice on the frontiers of mission, surmounting the barriers that hinder God's kingdom from coming among all peoples.
The USCWM seeks to avoid doing what others can or will do, to focus its resources on strategic contributions to the mission effort that others can't or won't make, and to encourage collaboration within the cause.
In this context, the USCWM:
• studies the global mission effort for new insights
• promotes awareness of new insights
• identifies what is missing
• proposes answers to unresolved problems
• pilots solutions for others to follow or adapt
World Orphans
www.worldorphans.org
World Orphans is committed to rescuing millions of orphaned and abandoned children, strengthening the indigenous church, and impacting communities with the gospel of Jesus Christ through church-based orphan prevention, rescue, care and transition programs in the least reached areas of the world.
When a community sees a local church feeding the hungry, providing medical care and taking in orphans, they see the love of Christ. As the church becomes the "hands and feet" of Christ, the community is transformed and the church becomes an integral part of that society. As the children are cared for by the church, they become a living example of the power of Christ's love and a powerful witness to their friends and neighbors.
World Relief
www.worldrelief.org
Our calling at World Relief is to stand for the vulnerable. Every second of every day children are orphaned by disease, women are widowed by conflicts, families are devastated by natural disasters and refugees are relocated to new countries. These are the heartbreaking stories of the vulnerable.
We believe God has equipped the church – the most diverse social network on the planet – to be at the center of these stories, leveraging time, energy and resources to join the vulnerable in their time of need.
With initiatives in education, health, child development, agriculture, food security, anti-trafficking, immigrant services, micro-enterprise, disaster response and refugee resettlement, we work holistically with the local church to stand for the sick, the widow, the orphan, the alien, the displaced, the devastated, the marginalized, and the disenfranchised.
World Team
www.worldteam.org
World Team is an interdenominational mission agency with sending centers in Australia, Canada and the US. Our 350+ members serve in 28 countries among 59 distinct people groups.
Our hope-filled future is bound up in sharing the story of Jesus, in discipling others, in bringing those disciples together into communities of believers, and in developing and releasing those believers to create other communities …until Jesus comes again.
Our strategy is to focus on those areas with the least access to a culturally-relevant gospel witness. We are committed to the spiritual and physical wellbeing of the communities where we serve, and include business and community development efforts as part of our overall church planting ministry where needed.
One of our greatest joys has been providing assistance to newly forming missionary sending organizations in the Caribbean, Romania, Indonesia, Africa, France and the Philippines.
World Venture
www.worldventure.com
WorldVenture is a network of partners working together with a shared vision to see people of all nations transformed by Jesus Christ.
We live out our vision by pursuing these five worldwide objectives:
1. Evangelizing the People of the World – We communicate the full scope of biblical truth—especially the Gospel—in word and deed, desiring to see as many people as possible become fully engaged disciples of Jesus Christ.
2. Extending Grace – We alleviate human suffering and minister to practical needs by providing food, clothing, medicine, shelter, education, economic development and other necessities wherever we share the Gospel, as did Jesus.
3. Establishing Churches – We establish vibrant local churches. Since building His church is central to Jesus' purposes on earth, the churches we develop are devoted to planting other churches, fostering church-planting movements all over the world.
4. Equipping Leaders – We train dynamic and passionate leaders—missionaries and pastors, as well as in business, education, government, mass media, the arts and the sciences—well-equipped to make disciples locally, regionally and globally.
5. Encouraging Mission Movements – We partner with believers, churches and other Christian organizations to create international networks and mission movements actively engaged in spreading the Gospel "from everywhere to everywhere."
Worship Foundations
www.worshipfoundations.com
Description: Worship Foundations International is an organized group that desires to help musicians understand, be prepared for, and flourish in what God has called them to do. Our hope is to see musicians everywhere stirring the heart's longing for God.
We will see this happen by strengthening and encouraging musicians and worship leaders for Kingdom impact through experience and relationship in spiritual formation, character development, worship theology, leadership skill, biblical worldview, and personal wholeness.
We do this through experiential and relational leadership development by:
• Global Impact Teams – impacting culture worldwide through music relationships
• Songwriters' Journey – improve your craft. write songs. see God. see Europe.
• Worship Mentor Network – facilitating mentoring relationships among artists worldwide.
www.yfc.net
YFC reaches young people everywhere, working together with the local church and other likeminded partners to raise up lifelong followers of Jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the Word of God and prayer, passion for sharing the love of Christ and commitment to social involvement.
Every day at thousands of community centers, high schools, middle schools, juvenile institutions, coffee shops, and local hangouts, YFC staff and volunteers meet with young people who need Jesus. We are rural and urban and we are always about the message of Jesus.
www.youthworks.com
YouthWorks' purpose is to provide life-changing, Christ-centered youth mission opportunities. We create extraordinarily fun and significant mission adventures, targeted to the needs and capabilities of youth, ages 12-19. By crossing the borders of race and culture and by placing students outside their comfort zones, we find something wonder happens: God gets their attention. Without the distractions of everyday life, God uses YouthWorks to work in the lives of thousands of teenagers. By attempting to be faithful to our purpose, we find God is also at work in each of the communities we serve.
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Man's Maker & Meaning


The latest issue of Idealog magazine has hit the shelves. This issue I took the opportunity to experiment with media and play with some atmospheric effects which was a great learning curve! Its always so satisfying to finish something and feel like you have learn a lot from it. Love my job!
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Ashley Wallace Jones
Director, Integrated Marketing | Boston, MA
If you build it, they will come.
A succinct yet powerful statement that's been prominently referenced for nearly four decades, since we all heard the hauntingly inspiring whispers in 1989's "Field of Dreams." But unlike a magical baseball diamond in Iowa where the masses unwittingly flock, social media is a different animal entirely. However, if you think about those now famous words through the lens of starting or using social media, it couldn't be more accurate—especially for brands and the executives who lead them.
Social Media: A Storytelling & Engagement Channel
The truth is social media success revolves around building an engaged community—building being the keyword here. It takes work. But when it's done right, it can also work for you.
In fact, 93% of consumers believe that CEO engagement on social media helps communicate company values that, in turn, shape a company's reputation. What's more, according to a recent report by the Brunswick Group—spotlighting how executives should adapt to a world that now demands authenticity, transparency, accessibility and leadership—employees prefer to work for a CEO who uses digital and social media by more than a 5 to 1 ratio, and that 60% of employees research a CEO's social media accounts when considering employment at a company.
"93% of consumers believe that CEO engagement on social media helps communicate company values that, in turn, shape a company's reputation."
The Power of Executive Thought Leadership on Social
Social media is more than vanity metrics and cutesy videos of dogs and cats. It's the way over 3.6 billion people (and growing) connect, communicate, learn and engage, and that number is anticipated to grow to 4.41 billion by 2025.
For brands and executives, that creates an incredible opportunity to directly connect not only with current employees, customers, and partners, but also with a world of potential prospects—meeting them where they are. Additionally, beyond being a powerful channel to amplify thought leadership, when used in strategic alignment with other corporate communications channels—like public relations, marketing and even sales—social media can help executives tell a holistic brand story to build awareness and even help grab market share.
"Beyond being a powerful channel to amplify thought leadership, when used in strategic alignment with other corporate communications channels—like public relations, marketing and even sales—social media can help executives tell a holistic brand story to build awareness and even help grab market share."
Fostering Transparency Through Executive Social Strategies
Beyond business KPIs, CEOs can bolster stronger transparency efforts via social media, helping them embrace their vulnerability and not hide behind a title—i.e., humanize how others view them.
In fact, one-third of consumers say they would purchase more from brands whose CEOs demonstrate transparency on social. And executives, especially the CEO, who are known for setting the tone for the entire business, can be intimidating for some. But with social media, employees, customers, partners and prospects alike can better understand what these executives are about; how they view the industries they serve and even the world around them. By setting an example of openness, Sprout Social agrees that "CEOs can lead the charge in empowering their employees to share and advocate authentically for the brand on social." It's like having a gigantic microphone for potentially billions of people to hear what you have to say!
That said, it's important to keep in mind that a social media feed is a carefully curated personal world, which those who use it take pride in—only following things and people whom interest, inspire, educate and motivate them. So, when an executive on social media gains a follow, it's because that follower cares about what they have to say and wants to hear and learn more from them.
Here are a few incredible executive examples who know what it means to share their voice and build an engaged community that's adding value:
Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO of VaynerMedia
Bozoma Saint John, Global CMO of Netflix
Mark McClain, CEO & Founder of SailPoint Technologies
Melanie Perkins, Co-Founder & CEO of Canva
"Social media is a place where people discuss life, news and industries, connect and celebrate with family, friends and colleagues, and share opinions and personal experiences with brands they buy from and businesses where they work."
As a baseball fan it saddens me to say that social media has become the world's pastime, but it's a fact that cannot be denied. Social media is a place where people discuss life, news and industries, connect and celebrate with family, friends and colleagues, and share opinions and personal experiences with brands they buy from and businesses where they work. Not being on social media at this point is likened to not having a smartphone. But in all honesty, not being on social media as a business executive is a missed opportunity. Not only to help further your business brand, but your personal brand.
So, why not join the conversation? You just might hit it out of the park.
Want to learn more about how an executive social strategy fits into your brand storytelling efforts? Download our guide.
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Bank of America has launched a social network. Sort of. It's a site for small business owners to be part of the Small Business Online Community, where they can share stories with each other, find experts in various topics, and network with each other. Wow.
This online community is set up somewhat like LinkedIn, where business info such as location, website, annual revenue and other information is shared on the profiles. The purpose of this site is to allow Bank of America be that singular resource for small businesses. You don't need to be a Bank of America user in order to join the site, so what you'll get once you log on to this community is a network of business people that are sharing their stories with each other, as well as access to articles from industry experts.
This format of "mentorship" is pretty straight forward, and those that provide the most amount of quality content will be promoted throughout the site. And guess what else will be promoted here? Bank of America products. This form of online networking has been used time and time again for drug companies looking to create hubs of potential and existing patients, do a little market research, and get new ways to push products to consumers. Coca Cola and Reebok have also launched social networks under a similar guise.


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Funny people, the Austrians. If you're Kurt Waldheim – a former Nazi military officer linked to a genocidal massacre during World War II – they elect you president. But if you're David Irving – a British author who claimed that there never was a Nazi genocide during World War II – they throw you in the slammer.
On second thought, not funny at all. Austria disgraced itself when it elected Waldheim president in 1986, apparently unconcerned by the revelation that he had served in a German military unit responsible for mass murder in the Balkans and been listed after the war as a wanted criminal by the UN War Crimes Commission. In a very different way it disgraced itself again last week, when a Vienna court sentenced Irving, a racist and an anti-Semite, to three years in prison for denying that the Nazis annihilated 6 million European Jews.
Irving is a man of great intellectual gifts who devoted his life to a grotesque and evil project: rehabilitating the reputation of Hitler and the Third Reich.
Necessarily, that meant denying the Holocaust and ridiculing those who suffered in it, and Irving has long done so with relish. ''I don't see any reason to be tasteful about Auschwitz. It's baloney, it's a legend," he told a Canadian audience in 1991. ''There are so many Auschwitz survivors going around – in fact the number increases as the years go past, which is biologically very odd to say the least – I'm going to form an association of Auschwitz Survivors, Survivors of the Holocaust, and Other Liars, or A-S-S-H-O-L-S."
Presumably Irving had in mind people like my father, whose arm bears to this day the number A-10502, tattooed there in blue ink on May 28, 1944, the day he and his family were transported to Auschwitz. My father's parents, David and Leah Jakubovic, and his youngest brother and sister, Alice, 8, and Yrvin, 10, were not tattooed; Jews deemed too old or too young to work were sent immediately to the gas chambers. His teenage siblings, Zoltan and Franceska, were tattooed and, like him, put to work as slave laborers. Zoltan was killed within days; Franceska lasted a few months. Of the seven members of the Jakubovic family sent to Auschwitz in the spring of 1944, only my father was alive in the spring of 1945.
So on a personal level, the prospect of David Irving spending his next three years in a prison cell is something over which I will lose no sleep. He is a repugnant, hate-filled liar, who even as a child (so his twin brother told the Telegraph, a British daily) was enamored of the Nazis and had a pronounced cruel streak.
But as a matter of law and public policy, Irving's sentence is deplorable. The opinions he expressed are vile, and his arguments about the Holocaust – perhaps the most comprehensively researched and documented crime in history – are ludicrous. But governments have no business criminalizing opinions and arguments, not even those that are vile or ludicrous. To be sure, freedom of speech is not absolute; laws against libel, death threats, and falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater are both reasonable and necessary. But free societies do not throw people in prison for giving offensive speeches or spouting historical lies.
Austria, the nation that produced Hitler and cheered the Anschluss, may well believe that its poisoned history requires a strong antidote. Punishing anyone who ''denies, grossly trivializes, approves, or seeks to justify" the Holocaust or other Nazi crimes may seem a small price to pay to keep would-be totalitarians and hatemongers at bay. But a government that can make the expression of Holocaust denial a crime today can make the expression of other offensive opinions a crime tomorrow.
Americans, for whom the First Amendment is a birthright, should understand this instinctively. ''If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought," wrote Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. in 1929. ''Not free thought for those who agree with us, but freedom for the thought that we hate."
It is popular in some circles to argue that the United States should do certain things -- adopt single-payer health insurance, abolish capital punishment, etc. – to conform to the practice in other democracies. Those who find that a persuasive argument might consider that Irving is behind bars today because Austria doesn't have a First Amendment. Neither do Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Israel, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, or Switzerland – all of which have made Holocaust denial a crime.
"Freedom for the thought we hate" is never an easy sell, but without it there can be no true liberty. David Irving is a scurrilous creep, but he doesn't belong in prison. Austria should find a way to set him free – not for his sake, but for Austria's.
Jeff Jacoby is an Op-Ed writer for the Boston Globe, a radio political commentator, and a contributing columnist for Townhall.com.
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Leonard Wells Volk was an American sculptor known for making one of only two life masks of President Abraham Lincoln. In 1857 he helped establish the Chicago Academy of Design, and he served as its president until 1865.
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Q: what is the minimum memory required for executing mldeploy in marklogic I am running mldeploy in VM is having 3GB memory but it is failing due to insufficient memory.What is the minimum memory required to run mldeploy in marklogic or if there is any settings allow to run ml deploy in 3GB memory

A: This is a function of the memory required by Gradle and the JVM that it runs in, along with the memory consumed by the ml-gradle plugin itself. By default, Gradle runs in "daemon" mode - you can find out more information at https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/gradle_daemon.html , including information on understanding how much memory Gradle is consuming.
3GB is on the low side - I can't remember the last time I used a JVM-based development tool like Gradle on a machine with less than 8GB. I'd want to guess that 4GB should suffice, but I don't know, and there's also the matter of what else is running within your VM and consuming memory.

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Lee Davis and Ann Rowe obtained a jury verdict in favor of the defense on September 21 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District in a case that began on September 8 and was asserted against the City of Statesville and two Statesville Police Officers. The Plaintiff alleged violations of 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1983 and claims under the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution as well as state law claims for false arrest. The 12 person jury deliberated approximately 2 hours before returning a verdict in favor of the Defendants on all counts. The Plaintiffs have appealed to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. (Carpenter v. Statesville, 5:14-cv-00016-RLV-DSC).


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Bujanovac, Presevo, Vranje, Pirot, 30 April 2019 – Employees of the Asylum Protection Center (APC/CZA) make regular visits to the camps in Vranje, Bujanovac, Pirot and open locations in Presevo. Here, APC conducted informal interviews with many refugees between January and April 2019. In these interviews, APC was able to gain information about illegal push-backs conducted by the Serbian police and gendarmerie. APC's refugee informants described their being forced back into Macedonia, the territory from which they arrived in Serbia, and the maltreatment and hardships they endured as a result from such a procedure.
H.K.M. (25, Iraq), his brother H.K. (35) his wife A.A.M. (28) and their three children, all of whom from Iraq, arrived in Serbia at the end of March 2019 from Macedonia. The APC team first came into contact with them at the beginning of April in Bujanovac. H.K.M. told the team that they managed to enter Serbia after their third attempt, as the Serbian police illegally returned them back across the border two times. Both times they were caught by the police near the border and were told to return to Macedonia.
The next case on which the team gathered information is about the push back of two refugees from Afghanistan: A.S. (35) ad S.M. (19). Successfully making it to Serbia on February 18th, A.C. and S.M. told APC that the Serbian police returned them to Macedonia when they attempted to cross the border earlier that February. When they succeeded in crossing the border without a push back, they were caught gain by the Serbian police near Miratovac. The police registered them and sent them to Bujanovac camp.
APC heard similar quotes from I.J.M. (20) and A.H. (19), both from Pakistan. They were illegally sent to Macedonia twice by the Serbian police before they were able to cross the border and come to Belgrade. From Belgrade, they were sent to Vranje by the police, where our employees met and spoke with them in January 2019.
According to Z.D. (27), an Afghan arriving in Serbia via Bulgaria, and I.J.M. (21), a Pakistani coming to Serbia through Macedonia, there was an incident in Vranje that resulted in a collective deportation of six Afghan refugees on January 31st. These refugees were approached by the camp manager and police and asked whether they intended to seek asylum in Serbia. They responded that their intention was to continue their path towards the European Union. They next morning (January 31, 2019 around 6am) the police entered the room where this group of Afghans slept and took six people from the group. The refugees were not told why or where they were being taken, and according to Z.D. and I.J.M., the camp was surrounded by police and there was no possibility of escape. All 6 refugees were put into police vehicles and taken away. When they were released they found themselves in the mountains, and when they got back in touch with their friends in Vranje, they revealed that they were taken to Bulgaria.
APC recorded a total of 75 migrants that the Serbian police illegally pushed back into Macedonia from January to April of this year. The good news is that this number is declining. In 2017, the number of illegal push backs was estimated to be around 450.
Examples of refugees who return voluntarily to Greece through Macedonia
Through APC's fieldwork in refugee camps across Serbia during the first quarter of 2019, it was revealed that approximately 50 refugees, mostly Iranian, voluntarily decided to return to Greece through Macedonia. According to the refugees with whom we spoke, the most common reason for returning to Greece is the lack of money, that is, refugees go to Greece to work and raise money, enabling them to continue their journey to the European Union. The second reason why these refugees are voluntarily returning to Greece is to begin the asylum procedure in Greece, a member of the European Union, and win refugee status. Further, there is the possibility that some refugees may be able to illegally obtain a Greek ID card from smugglers and continue their journey to other EU countries.
APC/CZA employees in Preševo were able to speak to Indian refugees who decided to return to Greece by ways of Macedonia. M.A. (25) and V.C. (28) arrived in Serbia by plane in early February. After three days of staying in a hostel, they tried to enter Croatia near the Sid border. The migrants made it about 7 kilometers deep into Croatia before the country's border patrol spotted them. Thankfully, the police did not use force on this occasion, rather they put the migrants in a car, drove them to the border, and ordered them to return to Serbia. After this unsuccessful attempt, they went to Greece through Macedonia in hopes of earning money before their next journey.
H.V. (24, Algeria), entered Serbia from Macedonia in late December 2018. He quickly moved to Bosnia, where he lived for four months, during which he was attempting to enter Croatia. When this crossing continued to prove unsuccessful, he returned to Presevo on April 20 with the intention of continuing his journey to Greece through Macedonia.
M.F. (30, Palestine) entered Serbia via Macedonia in early 2018 and stayed in the Presevo camp. He later spent a year in Bosnia (from April 2018 to early April 2019). After several unsuccessful attempts to cross Bosnia's border with Croatia, he returned to Presevo. Here, the APC team met him and learned of his plan to go to Greece through Macedonia.
A.N. (44, Iran) stayed in the Sid camp from April to October 2018, before going to Bosnia. He spent 5 months in Bosnia trying to cross the Croatian border. When his money ran out, he decided to return to Serbia in mid-March and continue to Greece where he could be reunited with his family. The APC team met him at the railway station in Presevo where he was waiting for the train. APC informed him that he would be unable to enter Greece by train due to his lack of documents. He then decided to reach Greece through Macedonia.
N.A. (17, Syria) entered Serbia in December 2018 through Kosovo. Her parents began the asylum procedure in Greece but encouraged her to continue ahead to Europe. She began her journey accompanied only by her 43-year-old friend. After a short stay in the Bujanovac camp, her companion decided to continue the journey alone, leaving N.A. completely on her own. As a result, N.A. decided to return to Greece and reunite with her parents. She moved back to Greece in early March 2019.
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Agree with the comment that the human aspect adds so much. Great capture!
Matt, simply awesome shot. Very moody and well done…the human aspect of this shot adds so much.


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Average rent in Dayton's Bluff, St. Paul, MN
$1,408/mo Dayton's Bluff, St. Paul, MN average rental price, January 2023
The average monthly rent for an apartment in Dayton's Bluff, St. Paul, MN is around $1,408.
Dayton's Bluff, St. Paul, MN apartment rent ranges
A share of 14% of apartments in Dayton's Bluff, St. Paul, MN have the cheapest rents between $701-$1,000. Around 11% of rentals are in the most expensive price range of > $2,000. Around 55% of Dayton's Bluff's apartments have monthly rents between $1,001-$1,500. There are 19% of apartments with rents between $1,501-$2,000.
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The national average price of rental apartments is $1,727, while the average monthly rent in Dayton's Bluff, St. Paul, MN is $1,408.
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Prices and availability in Dayton's Bluff, St. Paul, MN were last updated on 26 Jan 2023.
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The best apartments in Dayton's Bluff, St. Paul, MN are: Eastside 1276, English Conway Place, English Street Apartments, The Cambric Senior Apartments and Eastside 1256.
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The average rent in Dayton's Bluff, St. Paul, MN is $1,408. Start your search for apartments in Dayton's Bluff, St. Paul, MN now.
What is the price range for a 1-bedroom apartment in Dayton's Bluff, St. Paul, MN?
The price range for a 1-bedroom apartment in Dayton's Bluff, St. Paul, MN is between $839 and $1,294. Browse all available 1-bedroom apartments in Dayton's Bluff, St. Paul, MN now.
The price range for a 2-bedroom apartment in Dayton's Bluff, St. Paul, MN is between $937 and $1,548. Browse and find a 2-bedroom apartment in Dayton's Bluff, St. Paul, MN.
What type of rental buildings are in Dayton's Bluff, St. Paul, MN?
In Dayton's Bluff, 49% of the residents are renting compared to 51% owning a home, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Large-scale apartment buildings with more than 50 units represent 29% of Dayton's Bluff's rentals, 53% are small-scale complexes with under 50 units, and 18% are single-family rentals.
Dayton's Bluff, St. Paul, MN demographics
In total, Dayton's Bluff, St. Paul, MN has 18,113 residents, 9,112 women and 9,002 men, per U.S. Census recent estimates. Statistics show that the median age of Dayton's Bluff's population is 33.
Dayton's Bluff, St. Paul, MN households
There is a total of 5,927 households in Dayton's Bluff, St. Paul, MN. Of these, 2,270 have children and 3,657 are without children. Per Census Bureau's most current estimates, 3,514 family households and 2,413 non-family households live in this area. The size of a household in Dayton's Bluff is 3.15 people, on average. The median household annual income in Dayton's Bluff equals $58,434, and the monthly housing costs equal $1,232.
Dayton's Bluff, St. Paul, MN education statistics
According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, 11% of the population in Dayton's Bluff, St. Paul, MN have no high school education, 36% went to high-school, and 23% have partially completed college. Moreover, 8% of the population hold an Associate Degree, 15% hold a Bachelor Degree, and 7% hold a Graduate Degree.
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2023 Wildfire Mitigation for Utilities Conference
Electric, Environment, Environment, Environment and Emissions, Regulation and Compliance, Safety, Safety, Transmission and Distribution
March 7-8, 2023 | San Ramon, CA
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"The caliber of guest speakers and their presentations is unrivaled. Details of historical, present, and future strategies and technologies employed were covered, including deep dives into forecasting modeling. This is a must for individuals in the utility industry to keep up with wildfire mitigation strategies!" Electrical Engineer, California Department of Water Resources
"Really enjoyed hearing the lessons learned from other utilities in the west and things they are doing to move the wildfire and PSPS programs forward." Project Manager, EWEB
"Good event for getting up to date on the impact of wildfires on the electrical systems of the western U.S." Vegetation Supervisor, Pacificorp
Wildfires are bigger and more common than they were 35 years ago, and fire seasons are getting longer according to data from the National Interagency Fire Center and the USDA Forest Service. Electric Utilities operating in wildfire-prone areas will continue to face significant risks. Utilities must take additional measures to reduce exposure and mitigate financial liability.
This summit will bring together utility personnel & wildfire experts to discuss:
Regulatory Views of Proposed Mitigation Plans
De-energization to Minimize Risk
Wildland-Urban Interface and Challenges of Vegetation Management
System Hardening
Technological Advancements in Wildfire Mitigation
Register now for this unique event to hear lessons learned, the latest data collected, and best practices for wildfire mitigation in the utility setting. You'll also discover innovative techniques that are working in the changing wildfire landscape.
This conference will provide attendees an opportunity to:
Discuss regulatory views of successful utility wildfire mitigation plans
Demonstrate best practices on how to revise wildfire mitigation plans based on lessons learned from the latest wildfire season
Examine strategies for grid hardening, situational awareness, & vegetation management
Identify lessons learned from case studies of recent wildfires
Explore new and traditional ways of forecasting and planning for wildfire risk
Review best practices for public safety power shutoff events
Discuss how to collaborate with customers, community groups, federal agencies and other stakeholders to stay ahead of impending disasters
Detail current undergrounding projects
Discover how utilities can best position themselves to receive funding from grant programs
Registration & Continental Breakfast
9:00 – 9:10 a.m. :: Welcome Message & Opening Remarks
9:10 – 10:00 a.m. :: Panel Discussion: Regulatory View of Proposed Mitigation Plans: Key Objectives
This panel brings together regulators from various states and British Columbia to discuss key objectives they are looking for in comprehensive utility wildfire mitigation plans. It is imperative for utilities to develop a clear action plan for the upcoming fire season, and to ensure efforts are building toward increased resiliency. This session will detail objectives and goals for successful mitigation plans.
Melissa Semcer, Deputy Director, Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety, California
David Morton, Commissioner, British Columbia Public Utilities Commission
10:00 – 10:30 a.m. :: Networking Break
10:30 – 11:00 a.m. :: 2022 Wildfire Recap
Wildfire indices suggest the potential for more frequent and severe fires across the U.S. It is imperative for utilities to develop an action plan for increasing fire threats and to ensure efforts are building toward increased resiliency.
Rajdeep Roy, Director, Wildfire Safety, Southern California Edison
11:00 – 11:30 a.m. :: Case Study: System Hardening Practices
In this session, a representative from San Diego Gas & Electric will describe their strategies for system hardening and current project implementation.
Tim Knowd, Electric System Hardening, Program Manager, San Diego Gas & Electric
11:30 – 12:00 p.m. :: Case Study: 10,000-Mile Undergrounding Program
In this session, attendees will get details of PG&E's major initiative to expand the undergrounding of electric distribution power lines in High Fire-Threat Districts (HFTD) to further harden its system and help prevent wildfires.
Jamie Martin, VP Undergrounding, Pacific Gas & Electric
12:00 –1:00 p.m. :: Group Luncheon
1:00 – 1:30 p.m. :: Public Safety Power Shutoffs/Public Safety Outage Managment
Investor-owned utilities have the authority to shut off the electric power to protect public safety. Utilities do this during severe wildfire threat conditions as a preventative measure of last resort through public safety power shutoffs. What factors need to be taken into consideration when adding PSPS procedures to a utility wildfire mitigation plan?
Communication Before, During, and After
Mark Regan, Wildfire Specialist, NV Energy
1:30 – 2:15 p.m. :: Panel: Wildland/Urban Interface and Challenges of Vegetation Management
Increased development in the wildland urban interface has resulted in higher risk and more suppression needs, costing billions every year. Vegetation management is a critical issue. It is one of the largest expense items associated with maintaining overhead transmission and distribution systems. NERC sets vegetation management requirements for transmission, but clearance requirements differ from state to state. This panel bring together WUI and vegetation management experts to discuss best practices for these critical steps in wildfire mitigation.
Jessica Morse, Deputy Secretary of Forest Resources Management, California Natural Resources Agency
Jeff Wissing, Vegetation Management Supervisor, Holy Cross Energy
Dave Sapsis, Senior Environmental Scientist Supervisor, CAL FIRE
2:15 – 2:45 p.m. :: Networking Break
2:45 – 4:15 p.m. :: Technological Enhancements and Tools for Utilities
This session will be a showcase featuring a series of presentations and/or case studies spotlighting the latest tech and tools available for utilities that will simplify forecasting, operational decision-making, and modeling fire behavior.
Tim Barat, Co-founder & CEO, Gridware
Brian Trager, Director of Technology & International, Marmon Utility LLC
Kyle Gertridge, Co-Founder & Head of Business Development, Salo Sciences
4:15 – 5:00 p.m. :: FEMA and IIJA Funding
Recent wildfire and extreme weather events have had a devastating impact on communities throughout the West. Federal and state grant funding provided through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and other agencies, provides utilities with an unprecedented opportunity to fund grid modernization, renewable energy, and multi-hazard resilience initiatives while limiting costs passed on to customers. How can utilities best position themselves to "win" national and statewide competitive grant programs?
Meredith Derr, Senior Director, Disaster Management, ICF
Ryan Arba, Senior Manager, Disaster Recovery, ICF
9:00 – 9:30 a.m. :: Best Practices for Wildfire Coordination and Collaboration
Wildfire mitigation planning requires collaborative efforts of local emergency management experts, community members, climate adaptation specialists, and utility employees. This presentation will examine how coordinated planning can increase awareness improve response and outcomes in impact communities.
Jeff Fuentes, Assistant Chief, CAL Fire Utility Wildfire Mitigation Program
Patrick Haggerty, Forestry Program Manager, Cascadia Conservation District
9:30 – 10:30 a.m. :: Technological Enhancements and Tools for Utilities
Kate Burson, Head of Business Development, Overstory
David Buckley, COO, Technosylva
11:00 – 11:30 a.m. :: Infrastructure and Grid Enhancements to Reduce Risk of Wildfire
This session will examine the benefits and challenges of infrastructure and grid enhancement programs that are being deployed by utilities to reduce wildfire risks.
11:30 – 12:00 p.m. :: Operational Fire Prevention
Many utilities are making significant enhancements in system design to minimize the threat of wildfires, but operational procedures, supplemental inspection, and maintenance work is imperative as well. What are best practices for employees and facilities relative to day-to-day operations? How is the culture changing for utility operations?
Matt Pender, Sr. Director, Electric Operations Projects & Construction Programs, Pacific Gas & Electric
12:00 p.m. :: Conference Adjourns
Digital Twin Technology for Utilities
Digital Twins are quickly becoming critical in several areas and deep learning can extract information on the fly. Democratizing critical internal data for utilities is here to stay and is used across organizations and with vendors/partners to harness the power of not only conditions but assisting with predictive analytics and preparedness. Join Sharper Shape for an in-depth look at how utilities are leveraging high resolution digital twins to support engineering, maintenance, planning and vegetation management within organizations.
Check-in/Registration
Workshop Timing
Breaking down a Digital TWIN
The term Digital Twin is commonly being thrown around but there are some misconceptions about what a digital twin actually is and what it can do. During this session, we will break down different types of digital twins and discuss the functions.
Drone Data Collection Tools
We will discuss a digital platform equipped with features required to successfully plan, coordinate, manage and deliver data collections for drone services.
The Power of Mobile LiDAR Collection
These sophisticated capabilities are rapidly replacing traditional processes. Manual work of assessing the built and natural environment is being automated and digitized. We will provide use cases on this technology and how this technology can change the way utilities look at inspection.
Workshop Instructor:
James Conlin, Product Manager, Sharper Shape
James Conlin is a product manager for Sharper Shape. He joined the company in 2019, participating in some of the world's largest UAV operations, and quickly progressed to become a valued member of the project management team, where he oversaw the planning of operations. He holds a bachelor's degree in Popular and Contemporary Music and possesses a unique combination of technical expertise, creative problem solving and an ability to understand and anticipate consumer needs.
He is committed to using technology to empower individuals and is passionate about software development and customer feedback. Under his leadership, he has achieved several notable accomplishments, such as:
Developing advanced tracking and management tools for quality assurance, which have been used to manage petabytes of data across multiple projects.
Meeting exact utility functional business requirements across leading edge geo-content cloud platforms within a lean software development team.
Coordinating the day-to-day logistical operations of a large number of UAV field teams.
Working with large quantities of proprietary data across many projects to create predictive models in order to assess and evaluate global market trends and growth opportunities.
Creating guidelines and tools for monitoring safety, leveraging data from the field to measure and control risks in order to facilitate safe operations.
San Ramon Valley Conference Center
3301 Crow Canyon Road
San Ramon Marriott
2600 Bishop Dr, San Ramon, CA 94583
Hyatt House San Ramon
2323 San Ramon Valley Blvd, San Ramon, CA 94583
Residence Inn by Marriott San Ramon
1071 Market Pl, San Ramon, CA 94583
Individual attendee(s) - $ 1395.00 each(early bird rate)
(price after February 17, 2023 is $ 1,595.00)
Buy 4 in-person seats and only pay for 3! For this event every fourth in-person attendee is free!
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Individual attendee(s) - $ 495.00 each
EUCI is authorized by IACET to offer 0.9 CEUs conference, 0.4 CEUs workshop.
Participants must sign in/out each day and be in attendance for the entirety of the course to be eligible for continuing education credit.
Case Studies, Panel Discussions and PowerPoint presentations will be used in the program.
Course CPE Credits: 10.0 conference, 4.5 CEUs workshop
There is no prerequisite for this event.
Delivery Method: Group Live
Individuals working in the following areas will benefit from attending this event:
Electric Utility Leaders
Utility Risk Management Professionals
Utility Grid Planning and Operations Specialists
Utility Transmission and Field Services Personnel
State and Federal Agencies
Mitigation Specialists
Corporate Communications Specialists
Fire Prevention & Mitigation Technology Providers
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Defender who? New Ineos Grenadier revealed … and it's coming to SA!
Ineos Automotive has revealed its new Grenadier's exterior design.
Production is expected to start late in 2021.
The Grenadier can accommodate a Euro pallet.
Note the small rear door to enable easy loading and unloading of compact items.
It will run on an all-new ladder-frame platform.
The first official images showing the new Ineos Grenadier's exterior design have been revealed, with the firm describing the newcomer as a "no-nonsense 4×4 vehicle for the world".
Created by Ineos Automotive, a subsidiary of a petrochemical company called the Ineos Group, the new Grenadier will be "built from the ground up on an all-new platform" (with engineering help from Magna Steyr). Production is slated to start in "late 2021" in Wales, with South Africa already identified as a potential market and local sales expected to start in early 2022 (interestingly, the firm sees the Grenadier as fresh competition for high-end double-cab bakkies).
Ineos Group CEO Sir Jim Ratcliffe came up with the idea after identifying a gap in the market (once the original Land Rover Defender went out of production) for a "stripped back, utilitarian, hard-working 4×4 engineered for modern day compliance and reliability".
Power for the ladder-frame vehicle (which will feature solid axles) will come from a detuned BMW inline-six engine, with the automatic transmission courtesy of the folks over at ZF (there are no plans to offer a manual gearbox). Ineos promises the Grenadier will offer "best-in-class off-road capability, durability and reliability". Expect a one-tonne payload and a braking towing capacity of 3 500 kg.
Despite the rugged exterior styling, Ineos says the newcomer will be "comfortable" and meet the expectations of the 21st century consumer in terms of equipment levels and safety systems.
"The brief was simple. We set out to design a modern, functional and highly capable 4×4 vehicle with utility at its core," said Toby Ecuyer, head of design.
"A design that is 'easy-to-read', with no ambiguity about the Grenadier's role in life. There to do everything you need, and nothing you don't. Nothing is for show. Modern engineering and production techniques ensure the Grenadier is highly capable, but we have been able to stay true to the essence of creating a utilitarian vehicle that will stand the test of time".
Dirk Heilmann, Ineos Automotive CEO, said he was "delighted to be able to share the design of the Grenadier so early in the process".
"Most manufacturers would hold back, but we are a new business, building a new brand, and we want to take people with us on this exciting journey. Showing the design now allows us to focus on the critical next phase of the vehicle's development, testing its capability and durability," said Heilmann.
"We have a very challenging programme ahead, as we put prototypes through their paces in all conditions, on the way to accumulating some 1,8 million test kilometres over the coming year. From today the covers are off. Testing 'in plain sight' without the need for camouflage wrapping, foam blocks or fake panels is an added benefit."
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3008 SUV ACTIVE 1.6 THP
Micra 84kW turbo Acenta Plus
Mazda2 1.5 Active
Polo hatch 1.0TSI Comfortline R-Line auto
Sorento 2.2CRDi LX
T-Roc 1.4 TSI Design Triptronic
Tucson 1.6T Elite
Kwid 1.0 Expression
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Paul McCartney Announces US Tour – Tickets on Sale Now!
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The one and only Sir Paul McCartney has just announced United States tour dates. The 2019 Paul McCartney Freshen Up tour will kick off in May 2019 in Raleigh, NC and will hit four more cities along the way. This announcement comes just before the legendary former beatles member released, Egypt Station and hit song, "Come On To Me". View the full list of Paul McCartney tour dates below and purchase Paul McCartney tickets here.
If you don't feel like waiting until 2019 you can catch Paul McCartney this year in Canada in September, or at Austin City Limits festival in October.


If you're a Mastercard holder in the US, Google has reportedly been tracking whether your buying habits are influenced by online ads in your offline purchases for the past year. The secret deal between the two companies was brokered after four years of negotiation, according to a Bloomberg report published today.
Neither Google nor Mastercard have publicly announced the partnership, and neither company let its customers know that their offline purchases made in stores are being tracked through Mastercard purchase histories and correlated with online ad interactions. Both Google and Mastercard say that the data is anonymized in order to protect personally identifiable information.
Google reportedly paid Mastercard millions of dollars for data on what people have been buying. It used that data to build a tool for advertisers that would break down whether people who had clicked online ads later went on to purchase a product at a physical retail store.
Bloomberg reported in detail how the process works. It starts with a customer who's logged into a Google account on the web clicking a Google ad. That person browses a certain item, but doesn't purchase it. Later on, if they use their MasterCard to buy that item in a physical store within 30 days, Google will send the advertiser a report about that product and the effectiveness of its ads, with a section for "offline revenue" listing the retail sales.


The Delta National Small Prints Exhibition, an annual juried print competition, was founded in 1996 by Evan Lindquist. Each year a nationally known expert in the field of printmaking is invited to select the works of art for that exhibition and to determine which works will receive awards, including purchase prizes. The prints that you see here were chosen from the award winners that have become part of the Arkansas State University Permanent Collection of Art.