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The button to open the leaderboard is at the bottom of the chatbox pane, tournament and alliance box, and troops and supplies box of the main window, basically the bottom center of the screen. Brown with white lettering.
The default view shows you the top ten players on your domain. Originally it was set up as a paged set, so you can page to 11-20, 21-30 and so on. Since then, the developers have changed it in which you can only go one page at a time. At the bottom of the page, you can search for players by name, or search for alliances altogether.
When you view the top ten list or search for a player, you get a listing on player names by might. Each player has a "view" button on the far right that you can click to view more. More info, in this case, includes the names and coordinates of each of their cities.
When you search by alliance, you get a similar list of players. This feature comes in handy when in war with another alliance.
Apparently the solution to hacking was to just start giving the city information out to everyone.
- Players under the effect of Potion of Mist will not be found by this tool. Their city coordinates are protected in this list.
- During war time, when alliances have each other marked as hostile towards another then those Alliance cannot search each other for coords in the Leaderboard.


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Hunting, fishing or recreational off-road riding--if you participate in any of these activities, you're likely familiar with issues affecting access to our nation's public lands. Three years ago, Yamaha Motor Corp., U.S.A., which also recognizes these issues, launched an innovative program called the Yamaha OHV Access Initiative, which is designed to promote safe, responsible OHV riding and open, sustainable riding areas. This nationwide, proactive grassroots program provides GRANTs (Guaranteeing Responsible Access to our Nations Trails) to fund deserving projects that support the overriding goal of responsible, open access. Through these GRANTs, the company has shown its continuing commitment by investing more than $1.5 million to help stewards of America's Great Outdoors successfully continue the mission of building and maintaining trails and creating OHV education programs. Recent projects supporting public lands included bridge construction and trail sign enhancement in Oregon and Pennsylvania, as well as tree-planting projects in California. Please visit www.yamaha-motor.com/ohvaccess for more information.
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The omens were not good right from the start of the day when several of our academy and 12 Boys were late having been caught up in heavy traffic in the Northern Suburbs. Both our Boys and Girls Development teams got a hit out with games played in good spirit and fairy even.
Our 12 Boys faced a very young and inexperienced Pheonix side still searching for their first win of the season and it was the Taipans that hit the court running scoring a couple of early goals to settle things. Up 4-1 at the break, the Taipans continued their relentlessness despite trying some new combinations which ultimately led to a comprehensive 8-1 win.
The 13 Girls were coming in off a barnstorming finish last week which seems to have instilled a new sense of belief. It showed as they put on a ruthless display against a young Pheonix side who were scrambling most of the game. The Taipans raced to a 7-0 lead at the break and probably took their foot of the accelerator in the second on their way to an 11-0 whitewash.
The 14 Boys had a surprising last start loss last week and were hoping to get back on track against a much improved Pheonix side. Despite waves of pressure and chances, the Taipans could not find a way through the resilient defence from Pheonix who took the lead against the run of play. The Taipans were playing catch up from there and they found themselves two down after conceding another on the break. The boys threw bodies forward, but it was to not avail as Pheonix were good value for the points in a match that also saw the Taipans keeper sent off for handling the ball outside his area.
The 15 Girls as they have done for more than half their games hit the lead through a Zoe Anderson tap in and kept that advantage to half time. Two goals back to back saw Phoenix take the lead midway through the second before the Taipans stormed back nabbing an equaliser through sustained pressure which saw a shot deflected an in. The game ended 2-2 which was perhaps fitting given the context of the match. The draw looked to have dented any hopes the girls had of finishing in the playoffs.
The 16 Boys competition is proving to be tough. There are literally no easy games and when you are on top of the ladder in a competition like this, every other team raises their effort another 20%. The win last week was big and despite having a depleted side this week, the boys were looking to stay in pole position. It was a cagey start and both sides seemed to be cancelling each other out with scrambling defence. It was Pheonix however they broke through first and took that lead into the break. The Taipans side is full of character and they grinded away at the opposition forcing an equaliser through Josh Montgomery before an amazing solo effort from Giovanni Pannuccio saw the Taipans hit the lead for the first time in the match. Pheonix threw everything at the Taipans late in the game but it was not enough as we held on for a gritty win and a crucial three points.
On to the 18 Girls who took the lead inside the opening half of an evenly contested game. The game opened up a little more in the second as Pheonix went in search of a result. Chances went begging for both sides and the Taipans missed a couple of great looks. It came back to haunt them as Phenoix found an equaliser and then went ahead courtesy of a controversial free kick. The Taipans rallied and forced Pheonix on the back foot however time beat them as we went down 1-2 which saw the ladies drop (on goal difference) out of the top four.
The AWD boys travelled to Raiders and were looking to effectively wrap up the league championship. Things started as hoped with the boys racing to a 2-0 lead midway through the half before a late rally from Raiders saw them incredibly take the lead at the break. Down on troops, the Taipans tried in vain however the heat and tired legs got the better of them as the Raiders went on a second half rampage running out 10-2 winners.
The Youth Men were looking to bounce back after a 2 week break and they started brightly taking a 2-1 lead into the break. The second half livened up with both teams going hammer and tong. The game also got a little fiery as both teams were determined to get the three points. A third goal was added for the Taipans before an extraordinary sequence of events saw Pheonix pull a goal back through power play and moments later, they did levelled the scores with just minutes left to leave the Taipans shell shocked. Just as we thought we'd have to settle for a draw, the home club scored a cracker at the death to leave the Taipans wondering just what went wrong. The boys played well enough to get something from the game however as happens in sport, extraordinary things happen. That's futsal.
Back at Hornsby, the Women's team was looking to bounce back from their last hit out loss against a Phoenix side that was clearly growing in confidence. It was a positive start for the Taipans as they Danielle Wise and Emi Skopal put them 2-0 up at the break and seemingly in cruise control. There were no great signs of things to come however a couple of bombed opportunities seemed to change the momentum and when Pheonix pulled a goal back, it was game on. Another Taipans error was swooped on by the home side to level it up and moments later, Pheonix got their third in 5 minutes to flip the game upside down. Try as the might, Taipans couldn't break down Pheonix as they "grew another leg" with their confidence and momentum and the Taipans were stung late in the game going for broke amazingly going down 2-4 in a game they controlled for so long.
It was now up to the men to rescue something from what was an ailing day. Things didn't start well as Pheonix hit the lead inside 2 minutes and they had a few more chances early to extend it however some fine keeping from Brad Peryman kept the Taipans in touch. That proved crucial as the Taipans began to create some momentum and chances. Just before half time, Mitch Ferraro finally beat the keeper to level it up. It was all to play for in the second half and both keepers were kept busy repelling shots. Kyle Del needed two goes to beat the keeper and put Taipans ahead before Matthew Mazevski extended the Taipans lead to 3-1. Pheonix went power play and scored twice to level it up with just 5 minutes left and they smelled blood as they continued that ploy. The Taipans learned to contain it better and a couple of intercepts led to goals which saw the men eventually run out 5-3 winners.
All teams were now required to back it up on Sunday as we hosted West City Crusaders.


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text: Foods That Are Secretly Hurting Your Brain Almost all of us are familiar and have heard a lot about such smart foods that boost and provides immunity to our IQ but are you aware of the fact that some of the daily use of the most common food items are somewhat less-healthy options to opt as it can cause a damage to your brain.BetterRead has gathered a list of such food items that are suspiciously damaging your brain.Let us have a look at all of them and how are they creating such a havoc to our mental health?Sugar It is a fact that excess sugar must not be considered sweet enough when it comes to your health. It may directly make a negative impact on your waistline and brain as well, according to the latest research. The researchers came across the point that the fructose-rich diet reduces brain performance as it impacts the tendency of insulin that provides an aid to our brain cells to use sugar related products that process our emotions and thoughts. Omega-3 fatty acids may halt the brain from the negative effects of fructose. It is recommended to reduce the intake of excessive sugar and get yourself boosted with foods that are rich in omega-3s. Foods that include flax seeds, walnuts, salmon and soybeans to your meals must be added.Diet soda Sticking to artificial sweeteners might not be helpful in your case. People are more prone to diabetes as they tend to reach out artificial sweeteners. Moreover, most people with the intake of artificial sweeteners are most likely to be diagnosed with dementia as well. As the link is certain with the beverages containing artificial sweeteners. This study proves the fact that it is best to swap your soda with regular sparkling water.Baked goods It isn't the sugar that you need to be panicked about. Adults that intake the most trans fats on a daily basis tend to have memory loss in terms of remembering memory task. The majority of trans fats are present in the processed foods. Apart, we can't blame dessert doesn't make bad news as various researchers prove that chocolate is good and nutritious for your brain, but we must not forget that excess of anything is bad to our health.Red meat and butter A rich diet that contains high saturated fats may be the reason to hurt your overall brain functionality, according to a research from Harvard that was published by Neurological stats. The people who eat more saturated fat are immune to have a low brain function and memory. You do not need to avoid saturated fat sources completely, but you need to select low or non-fat variants of animal products such as dairy ones that include milk, cheese, and yogurt. But, you must avoid processed meat and stick to lean meat. You need to intake more proteins from veggie sources such as legumes, and soy etc. These types of foods will keep your brain sharper.Chips, pizza, and other junk food Is the junk food a reason for rotting your child's brain? A recent study has proven that kids who ate a lot of junk foods had a drop in their IQ levels as compared to those who ate nutritional diets. Smart and healthy diet during early years of childhood is really important for rapid brain development. Make sure to add cheese and yogurt to the diet of your child, instead of giving them the processed food.Gum Is blowing the chewing gum good or bad for your brainpower? Many researchers are convinced to the fact that chewing may interrupt in the way of concentration on memory-related tasks. Make it sure to add other brain booster habits to your daily diet routine, such as drinking plenty of water, an adequate amount of sleep and playing brain games as well.Hope you find this article a worth it to read. 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Saturn is at opposition this month, beckoning to future explorers with its beautiful rings and varied, mysterious moons. The Moon prominently passes Saturn mid-month, just in time for the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11!
Saturn is in opposition on July 9, rising in the east as the Sun sets in the west. It is visible all night, hovering right above the teapot of Sagittarius. Saturn is not nearly as bright as Jupiter, next door in Scorpius, but both giant planets are easily the brightest objects in their constellations, making them easy to identify. A full Moon scrapes by the ringed planet late in the evening of the 15th through the early morning of the 16th. Some observers in South America will even see the Moon occult, or pass in front of, Saturn. Observe how fast the Moon moves in relation to Saturn throughout the night by recording their positions every half hour or so via sketches or photos.
While observing the Saturn-Moon celestial dance the early morning of the 16th, you can also contemplate the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Apollo 11 mission! On June 16, 1969, Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida on a journey of almost a quarter million miles to our nearest celestial neighbor, a mission made possible by the tremendous power of the Saturn V rocket – still the most powerful rocket ever launched. Just a few days later, on July 21, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the lunar surface and became the first people in history to walk on another world. The astronauts set up equipment including a solar wind sampler, laser rangefinder, and seismometer and gathered up 22 kilograms (48 pounds) of precious lunar rocks and soil samples. After spending less than a day on the Moon's surface, the duo blasted off and returned to the orbiting Columbia Command Module, piloted by Michael Collins. Just a few days later, on July 24, all three astronauts splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean. You can follow the timeline of the Apollo 11 mission in greater detail at bit.ly/TimelineApollo11 and dig deep into mission history and science on NASA's Apollo History Site: bit.ly/ApolloNASA.
Have you ever wanted to see the flag on the Moon left behind by the Apollo astronauts? While no telescope on Earth is powerful enough to see any items left behind the landing sites, you can discover how much you can observe with the Flag on the Moon handout: bit.ly/MoonFlag
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Caption: Observe the larger details on the Moon with help from this map, which also pinpoints the Apollo landing site. Full handout available at bit.ly/MoonHandout
Caption: Earth-based telescopes can't see any equipment left behind at the Apollo 11 landing site, but the cameras onboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) can. This is Tranquility Base as seen from the LRO, just 24 kilometers (15 miles) above the Moon's surface, with helpful labels added by the imaging team. Image Credit: NASA Goddard/Arizona State University. See more landing sites at: bit.ly/ApolloLRO
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Nazi nurses who helped breed 'Super Race Children' – Pinterest History
The nurses behind the Nazi 'Super Race Children': Inside the Aryan breeding wards where boys and girls were given UV treatment if their hair turned brown
Nazi nurses who helped breed 'Super Race Children' – Pinterest History
Like other wartime nurses, those in Nazi Germany selflessly tended to wounded soldiers in some of the toughest conditions imaginable.
But they also had a more sinister side to their job – assisting with Third Reich's 'experiments' including euthanizing the mentally handicapped and other groups Hitler deemed 'undesirable' and assisting in the creation of 'Super Race Children.'
A collection of photographs has captured these women, probably in the nursing profession's darkest hour.
The actions of the Nazi doctors throughout the war are well documented but the actions of the nurses and others who assisted them in their controversial endeavors are often ignored.
Probably the most disturbing project the nurses of Nazi Germany assisted in was the Lebensborn Program, where scientists, on orders of Heinrich Himmler, attempted to breed an elite race of pure Aryans to lead the Third Reich.
Under the plan, children who didn't measure up were sent to concentration camps, according to the website Best Certified Nursing Programs.
In 1939, the Nazis went even further, traveling to occupied territories such as Poland to steal hundreds of thousands of Aryan-looking children.
Experiments: Nurses put babies under a sunlamp at the NSV, the welfare organization of the Nazi party during World War II
Gas mask: A Nazi nurse fits a young girl with a government-issue gasmask, in 1937
Orphans: Three young orphaned homeless German children are led by a nurse to the Lichterfelde children's home, Berlin, in 1945
Lebensborn: A nurse at a Lebensborn nursing home tends to children involved in the 'Super Race' project
The youngsters were transferred to Lebensborn clinics where they were 'Germanized' and then adopted out to SS families.
Children who refused to be indoctrinated were beaten, and often sent to concentration camps where many were killed.
Nurses performed tasks such as treating brown-haired children's hair with UV light in a bid to make it fairer.
Whether they were simply following orders, or trying to help out, or fight for a cause they believed in, these nurses are part of the diverse history of the nursing profession.
Support: Troop support by nurses of the German Red Cross at a fast train with front vacationers at Saalfeld station, in 1941
Babies: Nurses with the National Socialist People's Welfare checking the health of two babies
Assisting the cause: Nazi General Erwin Rommel greets nurses in 1943
Flirting: A German nurse chats with an allied war correspondent while stationed at the fighting in France in 1944
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If you're a dedicated cycling fan and haven't been living under a rock for the last couple of years, you'll have probably heard something about the thrills of gravel riding; indeed, there are a plethora of websites devoted to exactly this genre of cycling. And if you are willing to take your bicycle off the tarmac, Berlin has considerably more to offer than you might have imagined.
Listed below are 5 gravel roads/trails we recommend riding in and around Berlin. This is by no means an exhaustive list, so if you have suggestions for others, feel free to get in touch. We have marked the beginning of the routes on the map under each description. Sometimes the paths are not immediately obvious, so zoom in if you have to. While you don't need a special bike to ride them, something with wider, knobbly tires would certainly make riding these roads more comfortable.
1. Königsweg
Starting in the western end of Zehlendorf at Benschallee and running through the Düppeler Forst to near S-Bahn Griebnitzsee, Königsweg is part of the Mauerweg, the route that runs where the Berlin wall once was. Interesting, but we're not here for a history lesson; most importantly around three quarters of the the Königsweg is crunchy gravel with a couple of minor hills that might even necessitate a gear change. Go nice and early or at a quiet time and you will be rewarded with a great stretch of stones to sink your teeth into. Follow the Mauerweg after you finish to the picturesque Babelsburg Park before riding into Potsdam to get some grub and a beer.
2. Der Bienenschreck
Bizarrely named the Bienenschreck by somebody on Strava, this is a fire road that cuts through the forest between Tegeler See and the river Havel. It can be a bit tricky to find if you don't know the area – the best way to reach it is from Alt Tegel: cross over the Humboldtinsel via the cute little bridge and start riding around the lake, anti-clockwise on the path. After about 300m, you'll find the fire road on your right as the road forks into two. This long, straight stretch offers some fine, fast riding and was very quiet when we rode it. After you finish there are other options to ride through the Tegeler Forst or even take a small ferry over the Havel and ride along the picturesque Havel up to Henningsdorf.
3. Grunewald Gravel
Even if your Berlin geography isn't great, you probably know that there's a large forest in the west of the city called Grunewald. Luckily for you, within this forest there are ample opportunities to ride fine Schotterstraßen (translate that). We suggest entering the forest from the east side at Harbigstrasse, behind S-Bahn Heerstrasse. Keep going straight until you come to a small Kleingarten colony on your right. After this you'll see the gravel road Schildhornweg on your right. Follow it all the way until you reach Havelchaussee. If you want more, turn left onto Havelchaussee and get onto the next gravel road on your left after about 50m, this one will take you all the way down to the AVUS motorway where you can either right along the paved Königsweg back to civilisation or explore yet more of the stony stuff.
4. Pankeweg
The Panke is a small river which starts in Bernau and eventually empties into the Spree, about 30km later. Before it reaches urban Berlin, the riverside path offers plenty of opportunity for fun, speedy gravel/singletrack riding. Take the S2 (if you're not riding) right to its northern terminus at Bernau and ride south out of town on Lohmühlenstrasse. A little after going under the railway tracks, you'll see the Panke path on your right. The path takes you along the river for most of the way back to Berlin, where it is eventually canalised and goes underground. We suggest riding the whole thing from Bernau right down to Berlin. There are several gravel highlights mixed in among paved paths. Our favourite stretch is probably the part between the Karower Teiche nature reserve and Bahnhofstraße near Blankenburg (see map).
5. Schönower Heide
Although it's just outside the city limits, no article on gravel riding in Berlin is complete without mentioning Schönower Heide: a nature reserve just northwest of the suburb Bernau. Here you'll find some of the best gravel riding available in the local area. The paths are in fantastic condition, the scenery is great and there are wild animals to watch (if you ride slow enough!). By riding from Berlin along the Panke and via the Karower Teiche nature reserve, you can pretty easily put together a longish, mostly gravel ride. Highly recommended for both nature and cycling fans alike!


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According to a study by the Cooperative Children's Book Center at the University of Wisconsin, only 93 out of 3,200 children's books published last year were about African Americans. The numbers are equally dismal for children's books about Latinos, Asians and Native Americans. Christopher Farley, a senior editor at "The Wall Street Journal" and the author of "Game World", a fantasy adventure featuring an ethnically diverse cast of characters, explains why there are so few kids of color in children's books.


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Top-ranked junior and Bay Area native CiCi Bellis has accepted a wildcard to compete at the 2016 Bank of the West Classic, July 18-24 at the Taube Family Tennis Center on the campus of Stanford University.
Bellis is scheduled to play China's Zhaoxuan Yang on Wednesday in her first match.
Sacred Heart Prep's Sara Choy lost in the qualifying round of the tournament, 6-2, 6-1, to Mexico's Giuliana Olmos.
The 17-year-old Bellis, who resides in Atherton, won the 2014 USTA Girl's 18's National title at age 15, the youngest winner of the event since Lindsay Davenport in 1991. She has won four career ITF singles titles and currently ranks 220th in World while playing a limited schedule due to age requirements.
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Lady Zay. Players must gather information from him during the Lunar Diplomacy quest. He is responsible for keeping the ship at the Pirates' Cove, using magical runes marked across the ship's interior. During the quest, Davey-Boy will give the player a Bullseye lantern with a emerald lens to locate and erase the runes.
- Davey mentions a set of pirate regulations, for which he gives the number #445-328.
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Smith chairs hearing on Christians under attack
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), co-chairman of Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission along with Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), today held a bipartisan hearing on the perilous state of religious freedom for Christians in China, Nigeria, Iran and other places around the world.
Ambassador-at-Large for Religious Freedom Sam Brownback, head of the U.S. State Department's Office of International Religious Freedom, led the witness panels, followed by the Vice Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom Nadine Maenza. David Curry and Tom Farr, the presidents of Open Doors USA and the Religious Freedom Institute, respectively, rounded out the hearing.
"Like many of you, the news that Christians in Sri Lanka were killed in a series of coordinated bombings on Easter Sunday saddened and sickened me," said Smith. "As shocking as such news was, I cannot say it was surprising." Citing John Allen, the author of the Global War on Christians, Smith said Allen observed "the shocking thing about the carnage is that it is not shocking - and instead forms part of an ugly, predictable global pattern."
The April 2019 Sri Lanka attacks reminded Smith of Christmas Eve 2000, when a series of coordinated explosions killed Indonesian Christians in Jakarta and elsewhere. "Easter and Christmas-the two holiest days of the Christian calendar, days when I am sure many of the people in this room have been to Church with their families," Smith said. Click here to read Chairman Smith's remarks.
Brownback's first testimony before the Commission follows the June 21 release of the State Department's report on the state of international religious freedom globally. It also comes in the wake of the Easter Sunday attacks on April 22 in Sri Lanka which killed more than 250 and wounded more than 500 innocent worshipers, including many children.
From North Korea, viewed by Open Doors USA as the worst country in the world in terms of Christian persecution, to Syria, where Christian minorities were viciously targeted by ISIS, the hearing offered a global overview of the issue, with attention to several countries of particular concern. It examined sources of anti-Christian bias and U.S. policy responses.
Citing a recent study by Pew, Brownback said, "Christians face the most wide-spread harassment of any religious group, targeted in 144 countries globally." The Ambassador and former Kansas governor singled out Iran and Nicaragua for their particular abuse of people of faith, and also took aim at China's especially brutal treatment of its own citizens. "In addition to its systematic and well-documented repression of Muslims in Xinjiang, Buddhists in Tibet, and Falun Gong practitioners throughout the country, the government has recently accelerated efforts to repress Christians." Click here to read Brownback's statement.
Vice Chair Maenza told the congressional panel that USCIRF monitors religious freedom abroad and makes policy recommendations to the President. She focused her remarks particularly on Pakistan, as well as Eritrea and Burma.
"Pakistan is a country where both the government and nonstate actors have long committed egregious abuses against Christians," she said. "Over the past year, state security forces have disappeared dozens of young Christian men in Karachi. While many have been released, there is widespread fear in the community that the government will escalate these arbitrary arrests. Forced conversion of young Christian and Hindu women into Islam, often through bonded labor, remains a systemic problem. Many are kidnapped, forcibly married, and raped." Click here to read Maenza's testimony.
For over 25 years the Christian advocacy group Open Doors USA has released its World Watch List (WWL) documenting violations against Christians. It found, conservatively, that last year 4,146 Christians were killed for their faith, meaning that 11 Christians were killed, on average, every day. Additionally 2,625 Christians were detained without trial, arrested sentenced and imprisoned. Over 1,266 churches were attacked.
"Sadly, the number of violent incidents against Christian's documented last year represents a dramatic rise over recent years," testified Dr. David Curry, President, Open Doors USA. His organization believes the increase can be attributed to the spread of Islamic jihadist ideology in such places as Nigeria, Somalia, Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq where theologies of hatred toward Christians are widely propagated. The rise of extreme nationalism in Asia is another factor, with India listed as 10th on the WWL because nationalistic Hindu leaders promote the idea that Muslims and Christians cannot be truly Indian. "It's resulted in a shocking rise of attacks in Christian churches, with nearly 300 churches attacked thus far in 2019 and hundreds of cases of pastors held without trial-just for being Christian pastors," Curry said.
Additionally, Curry said communist countries such as North Korea are hostile toward their citizens who practice their religion, stating that North Korea "is the most oppressive place on earth to practice religious faith." Click here to read Curry's statement.
Like Brownback, hearing witness Thomas Farr, President of Religious Freedom Institute and past head of the State Department's International Religious Freedom office, condemned Chinese President Xi's brutality.
"Three Chinese religious communities are suffering increased, systematic, and fierce persecution by the Xi regime," Farr said. "They are Uighur Muslims, Tibetan Buddhists, and Christians, both Protestant and Catholic. The Muslims of Xinjiang province are being subjected to a massive anti-Uighur and anti-Muslim campaign that is staggering in its sweep and totalitarian sophistication." Click here to read Farr's statement.
In addition to the above testimony, the Commission received two written submissions, one from former USCIRF Commissioner Elizabeth Prodromou on religious freedom violations in Turkey and Turkish-occupied Cyprus, and another from the Government of Hungary on its humanitarian efforts to help rebuild Christian communities in Iraq that had been targeted for destruction by ISIS.
For the most updated version of this release, click here.
SOURCE Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ)


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The idea of setting up a museum dedicated to cats was born after the donation of Count Francesce di Montreal, which consisted of a large number of paintings. This material has been added to the international collections of cats "Badoer". When You walk around the Old town of Kotor You will see a large number of cats on the streets popular among the local population, so the idea of forming this museum is not so unusual. The museum collection has been enriched for years, and the museum itself does not only stop on cats, but invests in its work in the interest of a greater respect for nature, animals and space that is increasingly threatened by people every day. To help the operation of this museum, You can donate a certain amount of money during Your visit.
Category: Crna Gora što posjetiti, Kotor što posjetiti, Museum-art-palace,
Old town, Kotor 85330, Montenegro
00382 (0)68 628 582
During the season 10:00-18:00h, winter period 10:00-13:00h
GPS Coordinates: 42.425004, 018.770232 (42°25'30.0″N, 018°46'12.8″E)
The Cats Museum is located in the Old town of Kotor across the Church of St Mihail, around 70 m from the main Sea Gate.
Address: Old town, Kotor 85330, Montenegro
If you are driving with a car, show this translation to the taxi driver:
Molim Vas da me odvezete do starog kotorskog grada i ostavite kod glavnih ulaznih vrata, Vrata od Mora. Hvala!
You must also show to the taxi driver that he must turn on the taximeter:
Molim Vas da uključite taksimetar. Hvala!
Additional translation:
Please, can you tell me how to find this sight:
Molim Vas da me uputite prema Muzeju mačaka koji se nalazi u starom kotorskom gradu (prekoputa crkve Svetog Mihaila), od glavnih ulaznih Vrata od Mora udaljen je oko 70 metara. Hvala!
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The Texans suffered their sixth consecutive loss, blowing a lead that reached 18 at halftime and in the third quarter before falling 27-24 to the AFC South-leading Colts.
The Texans (2-6) built a 21-3 lead in the first half on quarterback Case Keenum's three touchdown passes to Andre Johnson, who finished with nine catches for 223 yards - the second-best output of his career.
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I had the privilege this month to come up with a sketch for The {Paper} Trailmakers second March challenge.
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Supplies: cardstock: Best Creations; patterned paper: Colorbok; Graphic 45-Once Upon a Sprintime; chipboard: Thickers; flowers: Prima, Recollections; ink: Tim Holts Vintage Photo; pens: Sharpie; glitter glue: Stickles; other: ribbon, 3D paint, doily
I fuzzy cut the inside of the wonderful Graphic 45 12"x12" paper, distressed and inked the edges, and stickled the flowers, leaves, bunnies and fairy. I kept the circle from the sketch by adding a white doily that I found in the dollar store. I omitted the horizontal strips of paper from the sketch because I didn't wanted to cover the pretty Graphic 45 paper. Plus the paper is busy enough that you don't need a horizontal element.
I used a Recollections flower from my stash and a Prima rose, ribbon and tag from the kit to make the cluster in the bottom right side of the layout. Remember that if a sketch has flowers as embellies you do not need to use flowers in your layout. It just means that you should have embellishments of some sort in there. I finished this corner off with some handmade pearl bling using 3D paint.
Finally, I added some pretty butterflies in the top left corner to balance the layout.
If you like this sketch, come and play with us at The {Paper} Trailmakers this month! You have until the end of this month to upload our creations to the Mr. Link on the blog. I can't wait to see what you all do using this sketch!
Monday, March 21, 2011
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Bitcoin Doesn't Exist – 2
Bitcoin Doesn't Exist – 2 by Raúl Ilargi Meijer – The Automatic Earth
Chapter 1 of this five-part series by Dr. D is here: Bitcoin Doesn't Exist – 1
Chapter 3 will follow shortly.
Dr. D: You have to understand what exchanges are and are not. An exchange is a central point where owners post collateral and thereby join and trade on the exchange. The exchange backs the trades with their solvency and reputation, but it's not a barter system, and it's not free: the exchange has to make money too. Look at the Comex, which reaches back to the early history of commodities exchange which was founded to match buyers of say, wheat, like General Mills, with producers, the farmers. But why not just have the farmer drive to the local silo and sell there? Two reasons: one, unlike manufacturing, harvests are lumpy. To have everyone buy or sell at one time of the year would cripple the demand for money in that season. This may be why market crashes happen historically at harvest when the demand for money (i.e. Deflation) was highest. Secondly, however, suppose the weather turned bad: all farmers would be ruined simultaneously.
Suppose the weather then recovered: the previous low prices are erased and any who delayed selling would be rich. This sort of random, uncontrolled, uninsurable event is no way to run an economy, so they added a small group of speculators into the middle. You could sell wheat today for delivery in June, and the buyer would lock in a price. This had the effect of moderating prices, insuring both buyers AND sellers, at the small cost of paying the traders and speculators for their time, basically providing insurance. But the exchange is neither buyer, seller, nor speculator. They only keep the doors open to trade and vet the participants. What's not immediately apparent is these Contracts of Wheat are only wheat promises, not wheat itself. Although amounts vary, almost all commodities trade contracts in excess of what is actually delivered, and what may exist on earth. I mean the wheat they're selling, millions of tons, haven't even been planted yet. So they are synthetic wheat, fantasy wheat that the exchange is selling.
A Bitcoin exchange is the same thing. You post your Bitcoin to the exchange, and trade it within the exchange with other customers like you. But none of the Bitcoin you trade on the exchange is yours, just like none of the wheat traded is actual wheat moving on trucks between silos. They are Bitcoin vouchers, Bitcoin PROMISES, not actual Bitcoin. So? So although prices are being set on the exchanges – slightly different prices in each one – none of the transfers are recorded on the actual Bitcoin Ledger. So how do you think exchanges stay open? Like Brokers and Banks, they take in the Bitcoin at say 100 units, but claim within themselves to have 104.
Why? Like any other fractional reserve system, they know that at any given moment 104 users will not demand delivery. This is their "float" and their profit, which they need to have, and this works well as far as it goes. However, it leads to the problem at Mt. Gox, and indeed Bear Sterns, Lehman and DeutscheBank: a sudden lack of confidence will always lead to a collapse, leaving a number of claims unfulfilled. That's the bank run you know so well from Mary Poppins' "Fidelity Fiduciary Bank". It is suspected to be particularly bad in the case of Mt. Gox, which was unregulated. How unregulated? Well, not only were there zero laws concerning Bitcoin, but MTGOX actually stands for "Magic The Gathering Online eXchange"; that is, they were traders of comic books and Pokemon cards, not a brokerage. Prepare accordingly.
The important thing here is that an exchange is not Bitcoin. On an exchange, you own a claim on Bitcoin, through the legal entity of the exchange, subject only to jurisdiction and bankruptcy law. You do not own Bitcoin. But maybe Mt.Gox didn't inflate their holdings but was indeed hacked? Yes, as an exchange, they can be hacked. Now you only need infiltrate one central point to gain access to millions of coins and although their security is far better, it's now worth a hacker's time. Arguably, most coins are held on an exchange, which is one reason for the incredibly skewed numbers regarding Bitcoin concentration. Just remember, if you don't hold it, you don't own it. In a hack, your coins are gone.
If the exchange is lying or gets in trouble, your coins are gone. If someone is embezzling, your coins are gone. If the Government stops the exchange, your coins are gone. If the economy cracks, the exchange will be cash-strapped and your coins are frozen and/or gone. None of these are true if YOU own your coins in a true peer-to-peer manner, but few do. But this is also true of paper dollars, gold bars, safe deposit boxes, and everything else of value. This accounts for some of the variety of opinions on the safety of Bitcoin. So if Polinex or Coinbase gets "hacked" it doesn't mean "Bitcoin" was hacked any more than if the Comex or MF Global fails, that corn or Yen were "hacked". The exchange is not Bitcoin: it's the exchange. There are exchange risks and Bitcoin risks. Being a ledger Bitcoin is wide open and public. How would you hack it? You already have it. And so does everybody else.
So we've covered the main aspects of Bitcoin and why it is eligible to be money. Classically, money has these things:
1. Durable- the medium of exchange must not weather, rot, fall apart, or become unusable.
2. Portable- relative to its size, it must be easily movable and hold a large amount of value.
3. Divisible- it should be relatively easy to divide with all parts identical.
4. Intrinsically Valuable- should be valuable in itself and its value should be independent of any other object. Essentially, the item must be rare.
5. Money is a "Unit of Account", that is, people measure other things, time and value, using the units of value to THINK about the world, and thus is an part of psychology. Strangely that makes this both the weakest and strongest aspect of:
6. "The Network Effect". Its social and monetary inertia. That is, it's money to you because you believe other people will accept it in exchange.
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1. Bitcoin is durable and anti-fragile. As long as there is an Internet – or even without one – it can continue to exist without decay, written on a clay tablet with a stylus.
2. Bitcoin is more portable than anything on earth. A single number — which can be memorized – can transport $160B across a border with only your mind, or across the world on the Internet. Its portability is not subject to any inspection or confiscation, unlike silver, gold, or diamonds.
3. Bitcoin is not infinitely divisible, but neither is gold or silver, which have a discrete number of atoms. At the moment the smallest Bitcoin denomination or "Satoshi" is 0.00000001 Bitcoin or about a millionth of a penny. That's pretty small, but with a software change it can become smaller. In that way, Bitcoin, subject only to math is MORE divisible than silver or gold, and far easier. As numbers all Bitcoin are exactly the same.
4. Bitcoin has intrinsic value. Actually, the problem is NOTHING has "intrinsic" value. Things have value only because they are useful to yourself personally or because someone else wants them. Water is valuable on a desert island and gold is worthless. In fact, gold has few uses and is fundamentally a rock we dig up from one hole to bury in another, yet we say it has "intrinsic" value – which is good as Number 4 said it had to be unrelated to any other object, i.e. useless. Bitcoin and Gold are certainly useless. Like gold, Bitcoin may not have "Intrinsic value" but it DOES have intrinsic cost, that is, the cost in time and energy it took to mine it. Like gold, Bitcoin has a cost to mine measurable in BTU's. As nothing has value outside of human action, you can't say the electric cost in dollars is a price-floor, but suggests a floor, and that would be equally true of gold, silver, copper, etc. In fact, Bitcoin is more rare than Rhodium: we mine rare metals at 2%/year while the number of Bitcoins stops at 22 Million. Strangely, due to math, computer digits are made harder to get and have than real things.
5. Bitcoin is a unit of account. As a psychological effect, it's difficult to quantify. Which comes first, the use of a thing, or its pricing? Neither, they grow together as one replaces another, side-by-side. This happened when gold replaced iron or salt or when bank notes replaced physical gold, or even when the U.S. moved from Pounds and Pence to Dollars and Cents. At first it was adopted by a few, but managed to get a critical mass, accepted, and eventually adopted by the population and entirely forgotten. At the moment Bitcoin enthusiasts do in fact mentally price things in Bitcoins, especially on exchanges where cross-crypto prices are marked vs BTC. Some never use their home currency at all, living entirely according to crypto-prices until home conversion at the moment of sale, or as hundreds or thousands of businesses are now accepting cryptocurrencies, even beyond. For them it is a unit of account the way Fahrenheit is a unit within the United States.
6. Bitcoin has the network effect. That is, it is widely accepted and publicly considered money. It's in the news, has a wide following worldwide, and exchanges are signing up 40,000 new users a month. It's accepted by thousands of vendors and can be used for purchases at Microsoft, Tesla, PayPal, Overstock, or with some work, Amazon. It's translatable through point-of-sale vendor Square, and from many debit card providers such as Shift. At this point it is already very close to being money, i.e. a commonly accepted good. Note that without special arrangements none of these vendors will accept silver coins, nor price products in them. I expect if Mark Dice offered a candy bar, a silver bar, or a Bitcoin barcode, more people would pick the Bitcoin. In that way Bitcoin is more money than gold and silver are. You could say the same thing about Canadian Dollars or Thai Bhat: they're respected currencies, but not accepted by everyone, everywhere. For that matter, neither are U.S. dollars.
Note what is not on the list: money is not a unit created or regulated by a central authority, although governments would like us to think so. In fact, no central authority is necessary or even desirable. For centuries the lack of monetary authority was historic fact, back with medieval markets through to private banks, until 1913, 1933, 1971, and the modern evolution into today's near-total digital fiat. Besides the technical challenge, eliminating their overhead, oversight, control and corruption is the point of Bitcoin. And right now the government's response to Bitcoin is a strange mixture of antipathy, ignorance, oppression, and opportunity. At $160 Billion it hardly merits the interest of a nation with a $500 Billion trade deficit, and that's spread worldwide.


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Bharatiya Jukta Christo Prachar Mandli (BJCPM), the Indian United Christ Evangelistic Church, is the offspring of the United Missionary Church of North America (Asheervadam, I. P. et al., 2011). Dating back to 1896, interest in serving in India began after publication in the Gospel Banner, a United Missionary Church magazine, about the prevailing famine conditions in India (Storms, 1948). After receiving a call from God to serve in India, Frances Matheson and Ruby Reeves of Aylmer, Ontario arrived in India in 1908 as missionaries under the Methodist Episcopal Church (Storms, 1948). Matheson worked in Bengal for fifteen years, focusing her efforts on orphanages, schools, and women's work (Storms, 1948). Following the organization of the United Missionary Society in 1921, Matheson transferred her efforts and labors directly under her own church, the United Missionary Church, and became the denomination's first missionary (Lageer, 1979). In 1924, the denomination acquired its own territory in the Purulia District of West Bengal (S. D'Souza, personal communication, November 23, 2014). Matheson collaborated with another missionary, Reverend W. E. Wood, to establish the first mission station in the area (Lageer, 1979). Matheson went on to open a Christian Training Center for Girls in 1926 (Lageer, 1979). In 1927, Woods baptized the mission's first convert (Lageer, 1979). Recognizing the need for medical assistance, Dr. and Mrs. Stahly came to India as missionaries to provide treatments for blindness, malaria, TB, and leprosy in 1929 (Lageer, 1979).
In 1948, the United Missionary Society merged with the Hephzibah Faith Mission, a missionary program that ministered to India for over 36 years (Lageer, 1979). Emma Landis, a member of the Hephzibah Faith Mission and mother to many in the orphanage, brought Reverend Pronoy Sarkar, a future leader of BJCPM, to the mission with her (Lageer, 1979). In 1955, the first United Missionary Church in Calcutta, Emmanuel Chapel, was established by Alfred Rees and his family (Lageer, 1979). It was here that Sarkar began designing courses for non-Christians that could be read and easily understood (Asheervadam, I. P. et al., 2011). Sarkar's efforts eventually led to his position as principle at the Calcutta Bible Institute with 10,000 enrolled students in the first year (Asheervadam, I. P. et al., 2011). As the mission continued to grow, the United Missionary Society acquired Hastings Chapel in 1961 (Lageer, 1979). By 1962, two Bengali-speaking churches, three English-speaking churches, and one Telugu-speaking church emerged from the mission's efforts in Calcutta (Asheervadam, I. P. et al., 2011). BJCPM continues to this day in Hastings Chapel where Sarkar became the first Indian pastor to serve (Asheervadam, I. P. et al., 2011). As president of the Missionary Church in India, chair of the Evangelical Fellowship of India and the Union Biblical Seminary, and representative at the Mennonite Christian Service Fellowship of India (MCSFI) at major conferences in Brazil, Japan, France, Argentina, the Philippines, and Taiwan, Sarkar was an important leader of BJCPM for several decades (Sarkar & Lageer, 1993).
Although its parent body of North America is the Missionary Church, BJCPM is affiliated with Mennonite World Conference (MWC) (India GAMEO). Identifying itself as a Missionary church, BJCPM does not identify itself directly as a Mennonite church (S. D'Souza, personal communication, November 23, 2014). The United Missionary Church in India has been active in Mennonite circles and has become a member of MWC as Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) facilitated coordination between the various Mennonite-related church groups in response to the humanitarian crisis and trend toward independence in the Indian churches (Zimmerman, 2011).
Annotated Timeline
1899: Rev. D. W. Zook and his family were sent by the Hephzibah Faith Missionary Association (HFMA). In response to news of the devastating famine in West India, missionaries visited the area and brought back 100 orphans to feed, educate, and bring up in the knowledge of Christ(Sarkar & Lageer, 1993).
1903: UMC mission moved to Raghunathpur in the Purilia district, where the mission bought several buildings that would be converted into hostels for boys and girls (Asheervadam, I. P. et al., 2011). -Miss Emma K. Landis arrived in India as part of the Hephzibah Mission. She would later play a major role in the life of the Missionary Church of India. During the same time, Rev. and Mrs. C. L. Eicher arrived and began their work under the Christian and Missionary Alliance (Sarkar & Lageer, 1993).
1908: Miss Frances Matheson of the formed United Missionary Church arrived to work in Bengal with the Methodist Episcopal Church (Sarkar & Lageer, 1993).
1914: The Hephzibah Faith Missionary Association began its mission work in Balarampur, and expanded to Ahmadabad in response to severe famine conditions. The mission established an orphanage and schools for boys and girls, focusing on education and Christian caring. The mission eventually received faithful workers in the church from the original group of orphans. When the original missionaries of Hephzibah Faith Mission returned to the U.S., they approached BJCPM (UMC) with a proposal to take over the Hephzibah Faith Missionary Association (Asheervadam, I. P. et al., 2011).
1916: Rev. and Mrs. Walter Wood from the UMC joined the HFMA.
1920: Missionaries in Orissa responded to severe famine conditions by returning with a number of orphaned boys and girls, as well as some elderly people, and provided them with home, shelter, and Christian nurture. Many of these people were later converted and have served faithfully in church ministries (Asheervadam, I. P. et al., 2011).
1921: The UMC organized its own sending agency in 1921 and Miss Matheson and the Woods returned to India as its first missionaries to the land.
1924: The denomination acquired its own territory in the Purilia district of West Bengal, where a mission station was opened at Balarampur by Matheson and W. E. Wood (Asheervadam, I. P. et al., 2011).
1927: W. E. Wood baptized the mission's first covert (Lageer, 1979).
1945: The United Missionary Society was formed as UMC and HFMA merged together. Immediately following World War II, the Hephzibah workers were sent home and the work of the church was carried on solely by nationals. Miss Landis envisioned "United Missionary Society" as a way to "multiply the strength" of the two missions (Sarkar & Lageer, 1993, p. 3) -John and Helen Blosser arrived in India and became involved in village evangelism among the Bengalis and Santals. John would later become field chair and director of the work. -All of the properties belonging to the Hephzibah Faith Missionary Association were legally handed over to the BJCPM mission to increase the strength of the two groups (Asheervadam, I. P. et al., 2011).
1947: Richard and Ruth Reilly arrived and were recognized for their evangelism and organization ability. They worked with Youth for Christ, establishing crusades in Calcutta, and attracting many to Christ. A Bible correspondence course, Light of Life, was started as a supplementary evangelist program. The new program brought "nine hundred letters flooding in," (Sarkar & Lageer, 1993). -India's independence from Britain. The Indian government gradually increased its resistance to missionary activity, and began to refuse visas in the 1960s (Sarkar & Lageer, 1993).
1948: In response for the need of trained national pastors, the Bengali Bible Institute was established. It became the only Bengali Bible training program in all of the Bengal Province, and the "Mennonite Mission" was considered the greatest evangelical witness in Northeast India. It was at this school that students were trained and sent out to establish new congregations (Sarkar & Lageer, 1993).
1949: Weyburn and Dorothy Johnson arrived and served in the Evangelical Literature Depot when its production began to decrease. Weyburn became the director and, within five years, sales increased 150%, literature was published in twelve different languages, and thousands of mail order customers were being served (Sarkar & Lageer, 1993).
1951: John and Lydia Gamble arrived who and contributed to the goal of evangelism by directing "Every Creature Crusade" which sought to reach every home in the region with the Word of God (Sarkar & Lageer, 1993). -First Annual Conference following the 1948 merger (Asheervadam, I. P. et al., 2011). -BJCPM officially organized (Asheervadam, I. P. et al., 2011).
1952: Dick Reilly began to play programs in the Bengali language that were broadcast into India by the Far Eastern Broadcast Company and later Trans World Radio in Sri Lanka. The programs were produced by John Blosser, John Gamble, and Pronoy Sarkar (Sarkar & Lageer, 1993).
1954: Alf and Lela Rees arrived to specialize in evangelistic work and took over the mission on Royd Street to create a local congregation called Emmanuel Chapel (Sarkar & Lageer, 1993).
1956: While Alf Rees continued his pastoral work at Emmanuel Chapel in Calcutta, he was also asked to direct the correspondence work. The Light of Life headquarters was moved to Emmanuel Chapel and the correspondence program became known as "The Calcutta Bible Institute." With the assistance of Pronoy Sarkar, recent graduate of UBS, and many missionaries over the years, thousands of lessons were designed for non-Christians that could be read and understood easily. By 1963, 72,000 students had enrolled, and the program averaged 1,500 letters a month. The Missionary Church was becoming known in many regions of India. (Sarkar & Lageer, 1993).
1962: Emmanuel Chapel acquired its first national pastor, Noel Baker. The UMS restored the historic Hastings Chapel in Calcutta that was built in 1862 by the London Missionary Society to serve the non-conformist British soldiers in a nearby army camp. John Blosser served as the first pastor in Hastings Chapel, as it grew in numbers and strength. Pronoy Sarkar went on to pastor the congregation for decades. Joren Basumata is currently the pastor of BJCPM. -John Blosser appointed full-time director of the Bible courses. Thirty to forty students were baptized into the church every year, helping to establish the Bengali Church in Calcutta (Asheervadam, I. P. et al., 2011).
1973: All foreign missionaries were withdrawn, and the entire church and mission work fell into the responsibility of the national Indian leaders. At that time the work consisted of 18 churches with a membership of 1,000, a boarding school for girls and one for boys, the Bengali Bible Institute, and the Calcutta Bible Institute. The leadership was indigenous, though some help came from the North American Missionary church. The ministry now became known officially as "the India United Missionary Church. (Asheervadam, I. P. et al., 2011).
1976: Radio equipment was imported from the United States and Dan Blosser was sent to India to install a studio in Hastings Chapel to broadcast programs in Bengali language. Today an average of about 200 letters are received each month in response to the radio messages (Sarkar & Lageer, 1993).
1989: 29 organized and six house churches with a membership of 3,500 baptized believers in East India and Bengal Province (Sarkar & Lageer, 1993).
Identity within the Anabaptist-Mennonite Tradition
Although BJCPM does not identify itself directly as a Mennonite church, it is affiliated with Mennonite World Conference (MWC) and is a member of Mennonite Christian Service Fellowship India (MCSFI). One of the eight conferences in India, BJCPM has become involved in four workshops with Mennonite churches in India over the last six years to discuss their identity within MWC (Peacock, C., personal communication, November 11, 2014). Cynthia Peacock, chairperson of MWC Deacons' Committee, explained that missionaries from the United States and Canada did not share the history and identity of Anabaptists to the newly established congregations in India (personal communication, November 11, 2014). Although some of the older generations had a limited understanding of Anabaptist history, the information was not passed down to subsequent generations. Peacock identified the workshops as a tool to learn more about BJCPM's identity within an Anabaptist context. One of the main objectives of the workshops is to promote peace. They also discussed differences in baptismal practices, as BJCPM practices baptism by immersion (Peacock, C., personal communication, November 11, 2014). She identified, however, that many members of the congregation are still hesitant to change the names of the churches from Missionary to Mennonite, as there is still limited understanding of how they fit into a Mennonite identity (Peacock, C., personal communication, November 11, 2014). Peacock stated that there is work being done by individual conferences and the larger group to increase communication and understanding of BJCPM within the Anabaptist-Mennonite tradition (personal communication, November 11, 2014).
The UMC identified five special kinds of ministry with one goal to enrich the Church of Christ in India: evangelism, church growth, secular education, theological education, and social ministry (A Brief History of India United Missionary Church, 1993). Evangelism acts as one of the congregation's top priorities. In 1989, ten trained evangelists sold literature to the Purulia district and contacted 1,850 villages (Sarkar & Lageer, 1993). This resulted in the baptism of five families. Young people are also encouraged to engage in evangelistic work. The "Purulia Outreach Project" was an attempt to contact every family in the area with the message of the Gospel (Sarkar & Lageer, 1993). Radio has also played a large part in BJCPM's program of outreach, receiving 200 letters each month (Sarkar & Lageer, 1993). Youth retreats, youth conferences, family camps, and retreats also serve as methods for evangelism. "It has been said by other denominations that the India UMC is known far and wide as giving outstanding leadership among evangelicals throughout India" (Sarkar & Lageer, 1993, p. 9).
Major Challenges
Peace Emphasis: "Although BJCPM follows many Mennonite practices, Pronoy Sarkar feels that the MCSFI should provide literature on Mennonite faith to all the BJCPM churches, because the congregations are not aware of the Mennonite positions. He also feels that MCC and MCSFI should work on promoting peace, since all churches are very weak in this area, and pastors do not preach on the subject. In his view, church disputes take place because of a lack of teaching on peace values" (Asheervadam, I. P. et al., 2011, p. 209).
Role of Women: "The role of women in BJCPM is somewhat limited. They are allowed to pray publicly, but they are not allowed to preach from the pulpit. However, there are some exceptions, such as Mrs. Margaret Devadson, who was treasurer of her church; she sometimes even preached in the church. Cynthia Peacock has also provided leadership in BJCPM Women's Conference and as chairperson of MWC Deacons' Committee. In her view, BJCPM should be open to women and invite women preachers" (Asheervadam, I. P. et al., 2011, p. 210).
Economics: Extreme poverty remains a critical social problem in India. "According to World Bank figures, extreme poverty declined from 60 percent of the population in 1981 to 42 percent in 2005. However, the total number of people living below the extreme poverty benchmark of U.S. $1.25 a day increased from 421 million in 1981 to 456 million in 2005" (Zimmerman, 2011). Mennonite, Brethren in Christ, and Missionary efforts in India can focus on providing education to the children in families of poverty to help alleviate economic disparity.
"Whatever the future may hold, the global fellowship of Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches can learn from, and draw on, the rich legacy of the past mission efforts. The centrality of service is part of that legacy which can inspire renewed activity today. For example, while India has made enormous social progress since independence, masses of people still live in debilitating poverty. Working with these people and helping to empower them will remain central to Mennonite service in India in the foreseeable future" (Zimmerman, 2011).
In the next five to ten years, "Mennonites and Anabaptists will become more familiar and visible as a major part of the mainstream churches in India." BJCPM will more readily recognize their own identity within an Anabaptist/Mennonite context as their sister Mennonite churches become less isolated and modest, and more open in sharing their history and identity. Peacock states, "We have things to share and it is important to show what we believe. First we need to learn about our history to work together and share gifts" (Peacock, C., personal communication, November 11, 2014).
Shane D'Souza, General Secretary of BJCPM, stated that in the future, "We hope to establish a more comprehensive relationship with our Mennonite brothers as a peace church both in India and worldwide" (personal communication, November 23, 2014).
BJCPM identified the following as their "Goals for Next Five Years" in 1993: Establish at least one church in every district town in the province of West Bengal. Establish one house church in every village in the District of Purulia. Cooperate with North East India Conference in mass evangelism and their goal to establish anther 30 churches in that area. Help build primary schools attached to every church of the denomination. Meet at least 50% of the total budget through local resources Train as many young people as we can for ongoing ministry. Build preventive medical clinics wherever it is possible. (A Brief History of India United Missionary Church, 1993).
Important Individuals in the Life of the Church
Pronoy Sarkar became the first Indian pastor to serve at Hastings Chapel (Asheervadam, I. P. et al., 2011). As president of the Missionary Church in India, chair of the Evangelical Fellowship of India and the Union Biblical Seminary, and representative at the Mennonite Christian Service Fellowship of India (MCSFI) at major conferences in Brazil, Japan, France, Argentina, the Philippines, and Taiwan, Sarkar was an important leader of BJCPM for several decades (Sarkar & Lageer, 1993).
Shane D'Souza is the General Secretary of BJCPM.
Joren Basumata is the current pastor of BJCPM.
Cynthia Peacock serves as chairperson of MWC Deacons' Committee and is the regional representative of South Asia, India, and Nepal. Part of her Deacon's commission work focuses on Anabaptist women of India and women of Asia. Peacock has been accepted as a leader in her own church and conference, and has drawn other women from her region into leadership roles (C. Peacock, personal communication, November 11, 2014). In her view, BJCPM should be open to women and invite women preachers (Asheervadam, I. P. et al., 2011).
Margaret Devadson was treasurer of BJCPM and occasionally preached in the church, contributing to the increased role of women in the Indian church (Asheervadam, I. P. et al., 2011).
Electronic Resources
Malagar, Pyarelal J., John Thiessen and Harold S. Bender. (May 2014). India. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 9 December 2014, from http://gameo.org/index.php?title=India&oldid=122293
Zimmerman, E. (2011). Calcutta connections: Mennonite service in India. The Conrad Grebelreview, 29(1). Retrieved from https://uwaterloo.ca/grebel/publications/conrad-grebel-review/issues/winter-2011/calcutta-connections-mennonite-service-india
Key Documents
Annotated Bibliography
Asheervadam, I. P. et al., Churches Engage Asian Traditions. (2011) Good Books, Intercourse, PA.
A Brief History of India United Missionary Church. (1993). Written by members of BJCPM. No information available. Retrieved from the Bethel College library.
D'Souza, Shane. (November 23, 2014). E-mail Interview.
Imbach, David. (Nov. 18) "Pass It On" "What's Happening" at the West Valley Missionary Church, CA
Lageer, Eileen. (1979). Merging Streams: Story of the Missionary Church. Elkhart, Indiana: Bethel Publishing Company.
Letter to Dr. Everek R. Sotrm from Pronoy Sarkar (Dec. 10, 1982)
Letter to Dr. and Mrs. Storms (April 10, 1979)
Malagar, Pyarelal J., John Thiessen and Harold S. Bender. (May 2014). India. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 9 December 2014, from http://gameo.org/index.php?title=India&oldid=122293
Meet a Church Leader in India. What's Happening. The Missionary church. Fort Wayne, Indiana. (July 1973)
Peacock, Cynthia. (November 11, 2014). Skype Interview.
Sarkar, Pronoy. (1978, November 15). God's Leading in My Life. Emphasis, 12.
Sarkar, P., Lageer, E. (1993). Missionary church in India. Fort Wayne, IN: World Partners.
Storms, Everek Richard. (1958). History of the United Missionary Church. Elkhart, IN: Bethel Publishing Company.
Storms, Everek Richard. (1948). What God Hath Wrought. Springfield, Ohio: The United Missionary Society.
Zimmerman, E. (2011). Calcutta connections: Mennonite service in India. The Conrad Grebel review, 29(1). Retrieved from https://uwaterloo.ca/grebel/publications/conrad-grebel-review/issues/winter-2011/calcutta-connections-mennonite-service-india
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Total TimePrep/Total Time: 30 min.
Makes4 servings
- 4 cups frozen french-fried potatoes
- 1 envelope brown gravy mix
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1/2 cup white cheddar cheese curds or cubed white cheddar cheese
- Prepare french-fried potatoes according to package directions.
- Meanwhile, prepare gravy mix according to package directions. Stir in pepper. Place fries on a serving plate; top with cheese curds and gravy.
Nutrition Facts1 serving: 244 calories, 13g fat (4g saturated fat), 17mg cholesterol, 465mg sodium, 26g carbohydrate (2g sugars, 2g fiber), 7g protein.
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Proper poutine is made with white cheese curds and home made french fries with fresh potatoes not peeled potatoes. The gravy is made using both beef stock and chicken stock. If you can't find curds then you can use white Chedder cheese chunks or the mozzarella. I prefer the white cheddar cheese because we can't get the white cheddar curds in FL
Nov 27, 2017
Isn't this just french fries with gravy? I've eaten this since the mid '60s. Good stuff, though!
Sep 7, 2017
I made this for dinner tonight using fresh mozzarella cheese, cubed, since I couldn't find cheese curds. It turned out well, is an interesting recipe, my son liked it, I thought it was OK, but my husband didn't care for it.
Aug 16, 2017
love poutine!!! in Canada far east or far west. I order it.hot fresh fries, flavorful beef or (?) gravy and those cheese curds, oh my.will have to give this a try and SOON but will make fries from scratch, where to find cheese curds
Jul 1, 2014
No self respecting Canuck would use frozen french fries though! I love my poutine even though it is also called "heart attack on a plate" here in SW Ontario. And I always sprinkle lots of salt and white vinegar on top --using homemade fries. Then the poutine is "to die for" and I guess that is where its "other" name comes from!
Apr 8, 2014
My daughter and I really liked this (I used cheese since cheese curds don't seem to exist here in TX). My husband and son refused to try it.
Sep 11, 2012
We loved these fries!!! I've seen them featured on Food Network a bunch of times and always wanted to try them... They may not be exactly like how they make them in Canada, but they were delicious! We used a bag of shoestring fries and two packets of gravy... My daughter wanted to add some sliced green onion to them so we added some to the gravy when it was done so the onion would cook through a little bit. Embarrassed to admit, but we polished off the whole thing in one sitting between two adults and two teenagers:)
Aug 2, 2012
We had Poutine at a Wedding recently and it was a huge, late night buffet success. The Canadian secret is to use a light gravy, so modify any store bought gravy accordingly and to use very fresh cheese curds; no more than one day old, which may be a problem for some, but important for authenticity. Enjoy.....skeptical guests were hooked after the first bite and you will be too!


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Thank you for the blog and thank you for bringing this issue to this under-discussed topic to the fore. However, in response and in defense, I think the link between health and housing is well establish and find it difficult to accept that before things change (and I think you mean radically) we need invest significant amounts of money and effort to prove the link. If this action is truly needed, before the said investment is made, then I don't believe it will happen.
In these times of austerity, pressing budgets and increasing need, I can't really see practitioners surging ahead, spending/diverting vital resources on proving the need for the investment, rather than spending the monies on those in most need of it!
Like you, I believe that we need closer links between academia, policy and practice. I thought that this was the role of the NIHR public Health Research Funding Board, where knowledge and intelligence could truly come together with local authorities etc. and create synergies. Create policies that would really make a difference to the lives and life expectancies of those least fortunate.
However, after a long crusade striving to help make the links to the Social Determinants of Health and research, trying to change the direction of the tiller, only slightly away from a barrage of behavioral change projects, there has been no change.
The NIHR continue to fund (in the millions, not a few thousand that your article suggests), investigations into how pupils respond after joining a 8 week dance groups, or persuading older people to take exercise whilst visiting bingo hall, or creating endless APP's to stop school aged children to stop using screens and even trying to help homeless people to stop smoking (the only thing in life they thing they have) and I could go on and on and on!
Mention housing, the distribution of wealth, improving education levels and social mobility, linking work with where people live and the tumbleweed blows through the building. More importantly, the lack of existing evidence validates the lack of a willingness to invest in evidence.
We have a mechanism that is tasked (those with a vested interest in behavioural science) with the search for evidence, but until those with the responsibility and the authority to invest and value research other than 'proving the nudge theory', those in most need and those without the hope of being heard will continue to be a pipe dream!


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Pull Yourselves Together. Damian Wayne is not DEAD!
Well, maybe he's dead in the literal sense, because he did have a sword driven through him and he did cease living due to horrific injuries, and he did die. But that is without a doubt not the end of his story. Grant Morrison still has three more issues, and if there is one thing that is perfectly clear about his career other than that he is a pretty amazing writer, it is that he cares for his creations the same way that a parent does their children.
Through a series of precedents established in other Morrison books, I will hopefully convince you beyond a shadow of a doubt that Damian Wayne will live again before the last page is turned in Morrison's epic Batman run.
I present my case:
Exhibit 1 – Buddy Baker's family is brutally murdered in Animal Man #19, leaving the character depressed and shattered. Morrison's next few issues feature explorations of what reality actually is, in a revenge fueled trip through the limbo of forgotten characters and abandoned story-lines. Ultimately Buddy actually crosses over into our reality and meets and converses with Morrison tête-à-tête. Morrison explains the whys and wherefores of the torture that Buddy has gone through, and how it is all for the sake of drama. His last act as the writer, whether it be an act of kindness to Buddy or to the next writer who took over the book, Morrison resurrects Buddy's wife and kids and erases all memories of his crazy trip through the backstage of reality, comics, and both of our universes. Morrison can be a brutal man to his creations, but he can also be very kind and nurturing.
Exhibit 2 – All Star Super Man – the entire story hinges on the looming DEATH of Superman, which never comes to pass. Yes, he disappears into the heart of the sun, seemingly for all time, but he's alive, and where there is life there is hope.
Exhibit 3 – Batman in Final Crisis issue 6: Batman is seemingly killed by Darkseid's Omega beams and experiences the "Death that is life!" BATMAN IS DEAD!?! Yes. For one whole issue Batman was dead. At the end of issue 7 Bruce Wayne turns up in Prehistoric times drawing on the wall of a cave. (I've heard that Morrison didn't want to end it that way, but don't recall where, but the fact is that the ending took back the death, and Batman was alive.) Morrison let the character cool off for sometime before penning the Return of Bruce Wayne, in which the character actually fights his way back home through time and space.
Exhibit 4 – Mister Miracle in 7 Soldiers: Shilo Norman, super escape artist, seemingly dies more than once over the course of 7 Soldiers. The first time was when trying to escape an artificial black hole. The second, after surrendering himself to Darkseid in exchange for the ancient hero, Aurakles. BUT, once again, at the last moment, Morrison can't help but offer the audience a last sliver of hope with an image of Mister Miracle clawing his way out of his own grave, escaping death itself (again) in the last image of the series.
Exhibit 5 – Zauriel in JLA: Zauriel is killed in JLA #38 (page #21 Which I own the art of!) when the watchtower is destroyed by a series of nuclear missiles launched by Lex Luthor. Zauriel remained dead for less than half an issue. His story picked up immediately in Heaven, where he hoped to enlist divine assistance in the fight against Mageddon. He was denied and offered the option to stay or return to Earth. He returned to Earth and had a few more adventures before fading into obscurity and is probably now a resident of character limbo.
Exhibit X – New X-Men: Morrison brought the merry mutants into the new millennium by discarding their silly costumes and embracing the soap opera-y aspects of Marvel's flagship mutant book. Over the course of his run we would see at least three main characters (Some of their names rhyme with Green Gray and Lag-Neato!— sort of) seemingly perish, only to be re-born bigger, brighter, and more dangerous than ever.
Exhibit 7 – One last piece of evidence, unrelated to precedents established by Morrison's prior work: Doesn't anyone find it suspicious that Batman is currently telling the "Zero Year" storyline? I'm sure Snyder and Capullo will tell a fantastic origin in the new 52, but the timing seems pretty convenient. Maybe they're excusing themselves from continuity for 11 issues so they don't spoil anything, or be forced to play by whatever crazy rules and plot lines that will be established in the coming 3 issues of Batman Inc?
In closing, I'd like to point out that the trick that Morrison likes to pull again and again is convincing you that all hope is lost, and then he goes one step further and shows you that hope is never lost. Even though it is a hard fought journey, and quite a few characters go to hell and back, when the dust settles good always wins. And you can rest assured that by the end of Batman Inc. #13, out this July, SOMEHOW Damian will be among the living, because Morrison likes to see the good guys win.


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