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A short note that the CSE will no longer accept listing applications from reporting issuers that have been established by way of a Plan of Arrangement ("POA"). The CSE were bombarded by marginal companies that were set up to meet minimum listing requirements and then turn, either fail, or turn around and do something entirely different by way of RTO than they were represented to pursue as their business.
Meanwhile, there is a continuing shift of listings from the TSX Venture Exchange including its NEX Board as the CSE provides more flexibility with acceptable businesses (eg: marijuana related deals), less red tape particularly with straightforward securities transactions, and ongoing Exchange fees are drastically less.
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From Voice of America
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is stepping down after 18 years as the party leader of the center-right Christian Democratic Union.
In her farewell speech at the CDU congress Friday in Hamburg, Merkel thanked her staff and said the party "is never just one person by him or herself, but always all members together."
Merkel reminded her fellow party members that experience has shown "how much strength and momentum we can develop" when faced with difficulties.
During her half-hour speech she received several standing ovations. Some delegates held up placards saying, "Thank you, boss!"
Merkel announced in October she would not run for re-election as the party chairperson, but she planned to remain chancellor until the end of the current term ending in 2021. However, it is possible that elections could be called before then.
Merkel, 64, is stepping down after a series of polls have shown a decline in popularity because of her liberal refugee policy.
The two main contenders for the leadership post are CDU General Secretary Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (AKK), 56, and corporate lawyer Friedrich Merz, 63.
A third candidate, Health Minister Jens Spahn, 38, an outspoken critic of Merkel's 2015 decision to welcome more than 1 million asylum-seekers to Germany, is running a distant third.
Merkel has led Germany since 2005, and has moved the CDU steadily toward the political center.

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Joe Vendramini, Ann Blount, and Paul Mislevy2
Establishment of perennial pastures is critical and there are several basic steps that are important to minimize the risk of establishment failure and to guarantee effective stand growth. Overlooking any of these steps may result in reduced returns. Florida warm-season perennial grasses are the foundation for Florida's livestock industry. In south Florida, these grasses are represented by: bahiagrass, digitgrass, hybrid bermudagrass, and limpograss. Except for bahiagrass, all require vegetative propagation for establishment. This publication describes the different steps that minimize establishment failure and lead to a favorable outcome of dense stand of perennial pasture grass.
Reestablishment or total renovation appears to be the most effective way to renovate unproductive pastures that have been lost to mole cricket damage, overgrazing, prolonged drought, and instances of multiple freezing temperatures during late winter, etc. This practice destroys the entire sod, allowing for a clean seedbed for reestablishment to new, desirable grasses. Mechanical chopping or aeration practices appear to have little effect on forage yield. Studies in Florida, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Alabama have shown that various types of aeration machines did not increase forage yield.
While replanting damaged bahiagrass pastures with alternative improved grasses such as stargrass, bermudagrass, or limpograss is expensive and will normally cost $350 to $500/A, the investment should pay for itself with greater forage production and carrying capacity.
One reason for preparing a seed bed is to control weeds. Preparing a clean seedbed (Figure 1) for perennial grass planting can take several forms. The preferred option is to seed a winter annual crop, such as ryegrass, during the fall of the year on the pasture that needs renovation. This is accomplished by moldboard plowing, disking, seeding, and packing. The following spring, when the winter annual dies and dry conditions prevail, the land should be tilled at 2- to 3-week intervals until planted to the desired perennial grass. Another land preparation choice is to spray at least 2 qt/A of Roundup® (2lb/A glyphosate) on the deteriorated pasture in early spring (March) when vegetation is about 6 inches tall, followed by another application of 2 qt/A 3 days later. Allow 3 to 4 weeks for plants to die, followed by tillage during the dry season. A third method would be to completely turn over the sod with a moldboard plow in April to desiccate the sod, followed by repeated disking until planting.
Planting material should be obtained from a pure grass stand with no common bermudagrass or weeds and preconditioned as follows: a) Apply 400 lb/A of a 20-10-20 (P2O5-K2O) analysis fertilizer in March to increase top-growth and b) Two weeks before cutting plant material, apply 50 lb N/A to initiate growth of shoots at the base of each leaf node (Figure 2). These shoots develop into new plants faster when planted if they receive N fertilizer prior to cutting. One acre of preconditioned plant material should provide enough planting material to cover 13 to 15 planted acres.
It is best to wait for at least 2 to 3 inches of rainfall before planting vegetative cuttings (tops) of perennial grasses. Generally, good rainfall should prevail in the immediate period-to-weeks after planting. In south Florida, early July plantings work in most years.
Preconditioned grass material must be cut and baled fresh within 5 minutes (Figure 3).
Material must be loosened and uniformly spread on a prepared seedbed (1500 lb/A) (Figure 4) the same day as baled and followed within 15 minutes by disking or crimping material into the soil with a crimper machine also called a "pizza cutter" (Figure 5).
Finally, the land should be rolled firmly in two directions immediately after disking or crimping material into the soil. The objective of step 4 is to minimize drying of planting material and improve plant-soil moisture contact. This will allow for a successful establishment even if no rain is received for two to four days after planting.
Weedmaster will control seedlings of many sedges and broadleaf weeds in vegetatively planted stargrass, bermudagrass, and pangolagrass. Spray newly planted fields of those species with Weedmaster® at 2 pt/A, 7 days after planting. Young limpograss shoots are killed by Weedmaster®; hence, 1.5-2 pt/A of Banvel™® herbicide should be applied to control sedges and broadleaf weeds in newly planted limpograss. Fertilize establishing grasses 7 days after planting with about 350lb/A 10-10-10 (N-P2O5-K2O) and an additional 50 lb N/A at 35 days after planting.
The steps outlined allow new stargrass and bermudagrass fields to be grazed or harvested for hay within 60 to 70 days after planting (Figure 6). This will ensure long-term, clean, pure fields if managed properly thereafter.
Prepare a clean seed bed
Precondition clean, pure planting material by:
Applying 400 lb/A of a 20-10-20 (N-P2O5-K2O) fertilizer 90 days before harvest
Applying 50 lb N/A at 15 days before harvest
3. Plant in early July to coincide with good rainfall or after adequate rainfall.
4. Practice good planting techniques by:
Cutting and baling planting material within 5 minutes.
Uniformly spreading 1500 lb planting material/A.
Crimping or disking-in plant material within 15 minutes after spreading on clean seed bed.
Rolling land firmly in two directions immediately after crimping or disking.
5. Adopt good weed control and fertilization programs by:
Applying Weedmaster® (2 pt/A) on bermudagrass, stargrass, and pangolagrass or Banvel® (1.5-2 lb/A) on limpograss 7 days after planting.
Applying 350 lb/A of a 10-10-10 (N-P2O5-K2O) fertilizer 7 days after planting.
Applying 50 lb N/A at 35 days after planting.
This document is SSAGR24, one of a series of the Agronomy Department, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date October 2001. Revised June 2019. Visit the EDIS website at https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu for the currently supported version of this publication.
Joe Vendramini, professor and forage specialist, UF/IFAS Range Cattle Research and Education Center; Ann Blount, professor, UF/IFAS North Florida REC; and P. Mislevy, professor emeritus, Agronomy Department, UF/IFAS RCREC; UF/IFAS Extension, Gainesville, FL 32611.
The use of trade names in this publication is solely for the purpose of providing specific information. It is not a guarantee or warranty of the products named and does not signify that they are approved to the exclusion of others of suitable composition.
All chemicals should be used in accordance with directions on the manufacturer's label. Use pesticides and herbicides safely. Read and follow directions on the manufacturer's label.
The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) is an Equal Opportunity Institution authorized to provide research, educational information and other services only to individuals and institutions that function with non-discrimination with respect to race, creed, color, religion, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, political opinions or affiliations. For more information on obtaining other UF/IFAS Extension publications, contact your county's UF/IFAS Extension office.
U.S. Department of Agriculture, UF/IFAS Extension Service, University of Florida, IFAS, Florida A & M University Cooperative Extension Program, and Boards of County Commissioners Cooperating. Nick T. Place, dean for UF/IFAS Extension.


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UB professor of biochemistry and pediatrics was on the team that pioneered newborn screening programs worldwide
Newborn screening programs to detect serious metabolic disorders before they become symptomatic are now well-established in all developed countries and have been introduced to a greater or lesser degree in just about every inhabited region of the earth. And it all began at UB in the 1960s.
Robert Guthrie, MD, PhD (1916-1995) was a research microbiologist at Roswell Park and UB's medical school when he invented a simple test for phenylketonuria (PKU), a rare inherited disorder that causes severe brain damage unless it can be treated before symptoms appear.
The test begins with a pin prick to the baby's heel and a drop of blood on filter paper. After it dries, the sample can then be sent to a lab for analysis. Millions of such dried blood samples have been collected on so-called "Guthrie cards" since he invented the technique in 1961.
"By collecting the sample as a dried blood spot on a piece of filter paper rather than liquid blood in a tube, he really came up with something that was simple but brilliant," said Michael Garrick, PhD, a professor of biochemistry and pediatrics in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Department of Biochemistry. He was recruited to UB by Guthrie in 1970.
Guthrie himself compared it to the invention of the safety pin: something simple and useful that seems obvious, but only in hindsight.
"It was obvious by the time I was hired that you were going to have newborn screening everywhere," said Garrick. In addition to PKU, Guthrie's lab was searching for other disorders that could be detected through neonatal screening. "I worked on a number of tests," said Garrick. "We succeeded in the sickle cell test."
Having the technology to detect hemoglobin SS (the defective form) wasn't enough to ensure that it would translate into a workable therapeutic, however. "I knew from Guthrie that we ought to get the parent-physician advocate groups involved in order to gain acceptance," said Garrick. "That was the model when I got here: you tried to associate with the people who care."
Guthrie and his wife were active in the Erie County chapter of an organization that was then called the National Association for Retarded Children (NARC). Their son John had been born with a serious cognitive impairment and a niece was diagnosed with PKU too late for help. He became a zealous proponent of newborn screening, and he knew how to sell it.
Some colleagues at Children's Hospital put Garrick in touch with a physician who could help implement the "Guthrie model" for sickle cell testing. Lydia Wright, MD, was a pediatrician well known in Buffalo's African American community.
"We hit it off right away," recalls Garrick. "She was taking a lot of patients where she wasn't going to get paid. A lot of these patients couldn't afford to have a sickledex test (the standard sickle cell screen), even though it's not that expensive."
So Garrick struck a bargain with Wright. "Anytime she sent us a dried blood spot, we would check it out for sickle cell. And in turn, any time we found someone that we thought might be SS, we would refer them to her. She would introduce herself to the parents, verify the diagnosis, educate them about the disease, and begin treatment."
In time, Garrick and Wright helped launch the Niagara Frontier Association for Sickle Cell Disease, a patient support and interest group. Wright (1922-2006), the first African American pediatrician in Buffalo and the first to serve on the Buffalo Board of Education, was a tireless community activist. Public School 89 was renamed the Dr. Lydia T. Wright School of Excellence in her honor in 2000.
When the New York State Assembly was holding hearings to determine whether or not to add sickle cell anemia to the list of disorders that all New York newborns would be tested for, Garrick and Guthrie were called to testify. "I argued against my own test," Garrick said.
Some people had been calling the screen a "bad news test," since there is no cure. He argued that the state should conduct a controlled experiment to see if early diagnosis actually benefited patients.
Guthrie, on the other hand, had no such qualms. "Guthrie believed that we should just have the government order it and we should do it," said Garrick. "He went in there and he said, I think black parents care just as much for their kids as whites do, and I've seen how much white parents care." Based on his experience with NARC and PKU, Guthrie was convinced public pressure would force improvements in disease management once universal screening was implemented.
He won. The test was mandated for all New York newborns in 1975. Since that time, approximately 250,000 New York babies have been tested annually for hemoglobin SS, resulting in about 100 to 150 diagnoses a year, according to the New York State Department of Health.
Ironically, Garrick's test was soon subjected to the controlled experiment he wanted, albeit not under ideal conditions. That was the year President Ford refused to bail out New York City from a severe fiscal crisis. Testing for sickle cell disease was mandated, but follow-up with patients was not.
"After New York City emerged from bankruptcy, they cooperated through Albany to go track down all the kids that they had detected for several years and not done anything about," said Garrick. "Meanwhile they compared them to all the kids in the rest of the state who had received medical attention following their diagnosis. Not one had died in the rest of the state; 10 percent did in New York City."
Children with SS are at high risk for pneumonia. With an early diagnosis, they can be treated with pneumovax in time to forestall the complication. Parents who are educated about their children's disease are better able to cope with other complications, too. Splenic sequestration crisis, another common side effect of sickle cell disease, can require an emergency blood transfusion to save the patient's life.
"That was the beginning of the improvements," said Garrick. "Obviously, the more cases you get the better the clinics get at managing these things. They know that the early diagnosis is helpful to them because they don't need time to figure out in many of these cases what's causing the problem."
Nationally, about 1,000 cases of sickle cell disease are diagnosed through newborn screening per year. Given a 10 percent fatality rate for kids left untreated, that means something in the neighborhood of 4,000 lives have been saved thanks to Garrick and Guthrie's efforts to mandate screening.
Ellen Goldbaum
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Office of University Communications
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Watching the Tide Come In
A New Year. The year of our Lord 2017. Two thousand and seventeen years – more or less – since God's Son was born into this world. One thousand nine hundred and eighty-seven years since he died, rose from the dead, ascended into heaven and poured out his Spirit on his disciples.
What an exciting time this is to be alive! Some Christians here in the UK are deeply depressed by the things that are happening in our country and in the world. And indeed there are many sad and disturbing things in the news. But if we look more widely and more deeply, there are thrilling and awesome things being reported from all around the globe. The gospel is being preached in places where it was never preached before. Vast numbers of people are coming to faith in Christ. New churches are being planted every day in cities and in the remotest villages.
Our sad decline
Yes, in the UK and in western Europe generally, the tide of the gospel has been going out for many years. If someone asked me when high tide was in the British Isles, I would probably point to the middle years of the 19th century. There appears to have been an extraordinary outpouring of God's Spirit in the year 1859. In that year, hundreds of thousands of people from all classes of society were brought under spiritual concern and thronged to hear the gospel preach. Throughout that year, Spurgeon preached each Sunday at the Surrey Music Hall. The building could accommodate 10,000 – a thousand more were turned away each week for lack of space. Almost every night in the week he preached at other venues to crowds of thousands. (This at a time when the population was less than half its present size). Nor was he alone. Gospel preachers of all denominations saw vast numbers of people brought under conviction of sin and professing faith in Christ. Spurgeon looked back as that year came to an end and rejoiced:
"The times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord have at last dawned upon our land. There are signs of aroused activity in increased earnestness. A spirit of prayer is visiting our churches, and in its path is dropping fatness. The first breath of the rushing mighty wind is already discerned, while on rising evangelists the tongues of fire have evidently descended…"
By the end of his ministry, Spurgeon was talking in different tones. Speaking thirty years later:
"I will mention only one more sad evil of the times; that is, the stolidity of the people outside with regard to the gospel. Compared with what it used to be, it is hard to win attention to the Word of God. I used to think that we had only to preach the gospel, and the people would throng to hear it. I fear I must correct my belief under this head…
We all feel that a hardening process is going on among the masses. In this vast city, we have street after street where the people are living utterly regardless of the worship of God. Those who attend church or chapel are marked men; and if you were to enquire for them, they would be pointed out to you as remarkable individuals…. there is a sort of heaviness in the air. Do you not feel it?… Things are not now as in our early ministry… The times are out of joint. The world may well be careless, for the Church in many places is full of unbelief… the good ship of the Church is now tossed about with contrary winds…"
Britain and Europe today
Well, what would he say if he could see our country today? London in 1900 was regarded as the most secularised city in Britain. Yet one in five Londoners still attended church regularly. Today, less than 5 % of people across the UK attend any place of worship. Biblical Christianity is derided by politicians, journalists, educationalists and entertainers. Christians who quote the Bible on matters of lifestyle are liable to be sacked from their jobs, or if they do it in public, arrested.
And things are no better across much of Western Europe. It is much easier to find a Bible-believing church in the UK than in most countries across Europe. Countries like France, Germany and Belgium, measured by most criteria, are more secularised than Britain. There are many areas of France where you would have to travel for three or four hours to find a church where the Bible is preached and the message of salvation through Christ clearly explained.
So yes, for us in the West, the picture may seem very grim. But Europe is not the world. The UK is one small country with a population of around 65 millions. The world population stands somewhere around 7.5 billion people. When we look at the people who make up our British society, we are looking at less than one in every thousand human beings. The whole population of Europe amounts to around 11% of the world's population. And if the cause of the gospel here seems to be in retreat, in many parts of the world it is surging forward. Let me give you some examples.
The first Protestant missionaries arrived in China in the early nineteenth century. Robert Morrison began his work in 1807; three more workers arrived before his death in 1834. But in those twenty-seven years of faithful labour, he had seen few if any Chinese people come to faith in Christ.
W C Burns arrived in 1847, Hudson Taylor in 1854. Such pioneering missionaries as these worked sacrificially but progress was slow. It is reckoned that there were about 350 Chinese converts in the country when Taylor arrived. He founded the China Inland Mission in 1865 and recruited dozens of new workers. And slowly the tide began to come in. By 1873, there were around 8000 Chinese people who professed faith in Christ; ten years later there were around 22,000. In 1900 the number was estimated at 100,000.
In the years that followed there were huge setbacks and the price paid was very high. In 1900 the Boxer Rebellion broke out. Fifty-eight CIM missionaries and twenty-one of their children were killed by the rebels. But the work of the gospel went on. By 1950 the number of Protestant Christians in China had risen to 700,000. Yes, the number seems impressive but remember, that was still less than one per cent of the Chinese population. And in 1953 the Communist government expelled the last missionaries from the country. They left behind them many young churches which were to face ferocious persecution in the years ahead. Many observers here in the West feared that the cause of the gospel in China would be crushed.
Well, what is the story now – sixty years on? A 2014 headline from the Daily Telegraph tells it all. "China on course to become 'world's most Christian nation' within 15 years". And the subtitle declares:
"The number of Christians in Communist China is growing so steadily that it by 2030 it could have more churchgoers than America".
Another writer sums up the situation like this:
"Seldom, if ever, in the annals of Christian history have so many professed faith in Christ in such a short time from so few original believers.
In the vast hinterland where 800 million peasants dwell, isolated, tiny meetings in humble homes have multiplied into vast networks with thousands of churches and millions of members governed by strong leaders. Meanwhile, as urban migration has swelled the population of hundreds of cities, small Bible studies have mushroomed into a veritable forest of congregations, many of them comprised of intellectuals from the most prestigious universities.
Once closed churches have been opened, and now offer multiple services to standing-room-only crowds of Christians and eager seekers from all walks of life, every age group, and both sexes – contradicting communist propaganda that religious faith is the futile refuge of old women and their gullible grandchildren".
China is officially an atheistic country with a population of around 1.3 billions. How many of those are Christians? No-one knows but it runs into many millions. According to the Telegraph article, "in 2010 there were more than 58 million Protestants in China". Some researchers say the figure may be much higher. One well-informed organisation estimates that 10,000 Chinese people become Christians each day.
Since 1982 the Chinese constitution has guaranteed freedom to engage in "normal religious activities". But registered churches which meet legally are carefully monitored. Individual church-goers are tracked and preachers must be careful not to say anything which the Communist Party considers unacceptable.
Bibles can be sold legally but only at bookshops attached to the officially recognised churches and severe restrictions are imposed on evangelism.
Many observers note that the government seems uncertain what its stance should be. On the one side, students at Beijing University attend classes on Christian theology; on the other hand, churches which step out of line may have their buildings bulldozed.
Many Christians have decided that conforming to the state's demands is not an option. Therefore they choose instead to gather in illegal house churches. The price they pay is often very high. Individual believers may find that they are penalised in many ways. Leaders are frequently arrested, tortured, imprisoned – and many have been killed.
Persecution is a reality for Chinese believers and churches. And the churches have many problems and weaknesses – many of them generated by the very fact that growth has been so rapid. Relative to the number of churches, there are very few well-equipped Bible teachers and a very limited selection of sound resources. Churches are vulnerable to all sorts of false teaching, not least China's own version of the health, wealth and prosperity heresy. For many Chinese Christians, the great attraction of Christianity is that it offers a better model for society, and the hope of a happier lifestyle. And if it does not deliver that lifestyle, they will be left disillusioned. As one report put it, "millions of Chinese Christians are one unanswered prayer away from apostasy."
So yes, many challenges and dangers. And yet, when we look at what God has done in China in sixty years, we are amazed and thrilled.
Evangelical witness in Brazil began many years ago. John Calvin sent missionaries to the country as far back as 1557. And yet for 400 years Brazil was almost totally dominated by Roman Catholicism, accompanied by many local superstitions. Protestant missionaries from Britain and North America were active throughout the nineteenth century but they saw little success in breaking down the barriers of entrenched Romanism. In 1914 it was reckoned that there might be around 50,000 Protestant Christians in Brazil.
The next couple of decades saw remarkable progress. By 1930 the number of Protestants had risen to 700,000. But that still made them only an insignificant proportion of the population. But from the 1960s onwards the situation began to be transformed. According to the 2000 census, more than 15% of the population now identify themselves as Protestant Christians. That means that there are around 44 million people who have abandoned the false claims of Rome and embraced some sort of Protestant religion.
Of course, we're not saying that all of these are true believers. The words "Protestant" and even "evangelical" are used in Brazil for any form of Christianity other than Romanism. The "Protestant" movement in Brazil is very much coloured by Pentecostal and charismatic doctrine and practice. There's much confusion and many abuses. The Guardian back in 2014 reported on the birth of a new Pentecostal mega church:
"As the curtains part to reveal a giant gold replica of the Ark of the Covenant, a preacher in a skullcap walks on to the stage and extols family values to a congregation of thousands. The believers raise their hands and rock their heads in a communal prayer that starts in a whisper and builds to a crescendo. Female ushers in flowing white robes, gold waistbands and gold shoes smile serenely in the aisles as they collect donations.
Brazil's newest and most spectacular Pentecostal church, the Temple of Solomon, has been drawing throngs of worshippers and curious onlookers to its daily services since the $300m (£185m) building opened earlier this year and immediately became a symbol of the rising power of evangelical Christianity in this largely Catholic nation".
And yet the fact is Roman Catholicism has lost its grip on millions of its adherents. And they are now open to the Bible. They may not know very much about what it teaches but they believe that it's true, and they know that it's to Jesus, not the Pope or the Virgin to whom they must look.
The beginning of reformation
And many of these converts from Rome are now beginning to discover the true gospel. Richard Denham, a veteran British missionary told the story of his own discovery of the reformed faith in the Evangelical Times in 2007:
"God used articles in the early issues of the Banner of Truth magazine… to help us understand more clearly the need of a sovereign work of God's grace in the salvation of a soul…
Having witnessed first-hand the miraculous saving power of God to transform lives — and having experienced our own weakness — we felt a pressing burden to share these truths with Brazilian believers.
We sold our boat and opened a gospel bookstore in Manaus, the capital of Amazonas. While we rejoiced in the sale of thousands of Bibles published by the Brazilian Bible Society, we felt the lack of solid reformed literature…
By 1966 it was clear that God would have us begin publishing reformed literature in the Portuguese language… more than 150 titles have since been published, that personal word and contribution continue to encourage us…
In 1985, through the encouragement and participation of Bill Clark and Edgar Andrews of Evangelical Press, FIEL began holding an annual leadership conference with a focus on the great truths of the Reformation… For the past four years also, FIEL has held annual youth conferences in Brazil…
A quarterly magazine Faith for today, begun seven years ago, is currently sent free to more than 20,000 leaders. Hundreds of letters have been received from pastors whose hearts have been moved to gratitude for the gift of salvation by grace alone…
Encouraged by FIEL conferences and publications, a Presbyterian pastor has been holding a reformed conference for the past few years in Manaus, the city where our vision to spread the reformed faith began…
Some fourteen years ago we were invited to visit a Presbyterian group in Recife who sought encouragement in promoting the faith of the Puritans. Since that time the Puritan Movement has published many good books and a magazine, and has held regional Puritan conferences in Brazil. One of their leaders has spoken at FIEL conferences in Brazil, Portugal, Mozambique and Angola…
For the past few years a Reformed Baptist conference has been held in the State of Rio de Janeiro — which has also ministered to a number of Assembly of God pastors who see the need of sound doctrine…
…Reformed Baptists have been encouraged by the formation of the Brazilian Baptist Reformed Fellowship led by Gilson Santos, the pastor of our local church here in Sao José dos Campos. For the past two years an annual conference has been held…
… we rejoice at having witnessed a revival of the reformed faith in Brazil and around the world during the past forty years…"
The last ten years
That was ten years ago. And in those ten years, what amazing things have happened! One reformed (Presbyterian) pastor wrote four years ago about:
"the surprising growth of Reformed faith among Pentecostals. There are innumerable examples of Pentecostal pastors turning to the Reformed understanding of Scriptures. Sometimes even entire Pentecostal churches have gone through this change. I quote here an e–mail I received some weeks ago from a former Pentecostal pastor:
'Your book Spiritual Worship made our whole church stop speaking in tongues and changed our whole liturgy. We even had to change the sign on our building from "Assembly of God" to "Reformed Church." We have become Calvinists within the Pentecostal tradition, a unique movement that has arisen in our day. Because of this bold move on our part, our small church began to grow numerically as never before. The first basic change we made was to create a theological seminary, free, every Tuesday from 20:00 to 22:00. We have students from many denominations: Assembly of God, Foursquare Gospel, and many from neo–Pentecostal, prosperity gospel churches. Our Sunday evening worship is very simple: prayer, worship, preaching of the Word, not to mention the fact that on Tuesday and Friday, because of the great enthusiasm for the Word of God, we are dividing the service into two parts with two messages, and sometimes some brothers stay until five in the morning studying and praying'."
That story could be multiplied many times over. The FIEL conference now brings together more than two thousand earnest listeners. Thousands of reformed books are sold and read each year. Countless Brazilian Christians are listening to Bible preaching on the internet. Reformation is coming to Brazil.
And Brazil is not unique in Latin America. All across that continent, the power of Rome is being broken and people are turning to seek for a religion of the heart. The work of Reformation is perhaps more advanced and moving more quickly in Brazil than in other countries, but the same power is at work in many places.
How much do I need to say about Iran? We have had the opportunity to hear first-hand evidence of a great work of the Holy Spirit among Muslims in Iran in our own time. When did it begin? It was in the 1970s that we began to hear reports of Iranian Muslims turning to Christ. It is illegal to preach the gospel to Muslims in Iran; to leave Islam and become a Christian is a capital crime. And yet in the last twenty-five years many thousands of Iranians have done just that. No-one knows exactly how many. Some estimate a hundred thousand; some reckon it may be five times that number. CBN news is prepared to talk about three million Christians in Iran today, most of them ex-Muslims.
Many, of course, have fled from Iran, having become Christians. And many more have exited the country because they want to become Christians. Iranians arrive in Denmark, Germany, Turkey, the UK or further afield – and they seek out churches and ask to be taught the way of salvation. All across the UK I am hearing from evangelical pastors about the Iranians in their congregations who are seeking and finding salvation. Many of the converts report that their first interest in Christianity came as the result of a dream. It was a dream that moved Cornelius to send for Peter. It seems that God is using the same means to draw many Iranians today.
Iran has been perhaps the most notoriously hard line anti-Christian Muslim state in the world. But there – in the stronghold of Satan – Christ the Messiah is breaking the power of Islam.
Well, there are three examples for you. But we could talk about many more…
Africa – India – Sri Lanka – Albania – Romania…
Across many parts of Africa, Bible believing churches are growing at an extraordinary rate. We hear from Kenya how open people are to the gospel and how many are coming to faith. We hear from Zambia about the progress of the reformed faith. The Lord has raised up powerful reformed preachers and teachers in that country who are leading many churches into the whole counsel of God.
Some parts of India are seeing astonishing awakenings. We were visited a few years ago by an evangelist from Andhra Pradesh, a true gospel preacher – he has himself baptised around 10,000 new believers, many of them converts from Hinduism. The evangelists he has trained have baptised many more. The vast majority of those converts have remained faithful despite intense persecution.
What about Sri Lanka – and the churches of the Lanka Evangelical Fellowship? That whole movement began with the conversion of a single man. What about Albania? As far as we know there were no more than a handful – yes maybe five – believers alive in that country in 1990. Today, there are scores of gospel churches throughout the country and new ones being planted every year. What about Romania and the thrilling growth of gospel witness after the fall of Communism there?
The tide is coming in. I believe there are more evangelical Christians in the world than ever before. There are more Bible churches in more places than ever before. Yes, across the world, and especially here in the West, we are seeing intensifying opposition to the kingdom of Christ. But still the kingdom grows.
Promises and Prospects
And isn't that what we should expect? "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. Though it is the smallest of all your seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and perch in its branches" (Matthew 13:31-31).
How tiny the seed of the kingdom was at its beginning – a single convicted criminal hanging on a cross. But it grew – a hundred and twenty believers meeting in an upstairs room. And then it became a church of more than three thousand devoted believers. And then it broke out from its Jewish shell to become a network of churches across the Roman Empire. Today, the tree of the kingdom can be seen all across the earth. And it is still growing.
Believers are forbidden to despair. The promises that the Father made to his Son still stand:
"Ask of me and I will make the nations your inheritance and the ends of the earth your possession. You will rule them with an iron sceptre. You will dash them to pieces like pottery" (Psalm 2: 7-8).
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Argo's founder and CEO, Jason Levesque, said 80 jobs will move from space the company now leases down the street, and the company plans to hire another 150 full-time employees by April 2014.
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On March 1, 1862, Confederate president Jefferson Davis declared martial law and suspended both the writ of habeas corpus and civil jurisdiction. Following these decisions, Confederate authorities were forced to deal with an overwhelming number of prisoners charged with such crimes as treason, desertion, intoxication, theft, murder, espionage, and fighting for the Union. In order to remedy the situation, Richmond's provost marshal, John H. Winder, established Castle Thunder Prison in August by commandeering three buildings on the same block of Cary Street: Gleanor's Tobacco Factory, Whitlock's Warehouse, and Palmer's Factory. Guards separated the prison's inmates according to sex, race, and sectional affiliation, imprisoning these groups separately in the facility's three buildings. Confederate deserters and political prisoners were housed in Gleanor's; black and female prisoners in Whitlock's; and Union deserters and, later, Union prisoners of war, in Palmer's. A brick area in the back of the prison was used to carry out punishment on convicted deserters, which included lashings and execution.
The details of her capture were reported in the Richmond Sentinel on April 22, 1864: The female Yankee surgeon captured by our pickets a short time since, in the neighborhood of the army of Tennessee, was received in this city yesterday evening, and sent to the Castle in charge of a detective. Her appearance on the street in full male costume, with the exception of a gipsey hat, created quite an excitement amongst the idle negroes and boys who followed and surrounded her. She gave her name as Dr. Mary E. Walker, and declared that she had been captured on neutral ground. She was dressed in black pants and black or dark talma or paletot. She was consigned to the female ward of Castle Thunder, there being no accommodations at the Libby for prisoners of her sex. We must not omit to add that she is ugly and skinny, and apparently above thirty years of age.
By January 1863, the 1,400-capacity prison housed 3,000 men and women, and diseases such as dysentery and smallpox were prevalent. Struggling to maintain order among such a large and diverse population, prison officials—including its commandant, Captain George W. Alexander—often resorted to violence. In April 1863, the Confederate Congress authorized an investigation and heard accusations of unauthorized lashings and Alexander's use of his large dog Nero to intimidate prisoners. In the end, however, Congress sanctioned the violence, which continued until Alexander was replaced by Dennis Callahan in February 1864.
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March 1, 1862 - Confederate president Jefferson Davis declares martial law and suspends both civil jurisdiction and the writ of habeas corpus in Richmond.
August 1862 - Confederate authorities establish Castle Thunder Prison by commandeering three buildings on the same block on Cary Street in Richmond: Gleanor's Tobacco Factory, Whitlock's Warehouse, and Palmer's Factory.
October 27, 1862 - Richmond provost marshal general John H. Winder appoints George W. Alexander commandant of Castle Thunder Prison.
January 1863 - The 1,400-capacity Castle Thunder Prison in Richmond houses 3,000 men and women, and diseases such as dysentery and smallpox are prevalent.
April 1863 - The Confederate Congress authorizes an investigation into the treatment of inmates at Richmond's Castle Thunder Prison, hearing accusations of unauthorized lashings and Commandant George W. Alexander's use of his large dog Nero to intimidate prisoners.
February 1864 - Dennis Callahan replaces George W. Alexander as commandant of Castle Thunder Prison in Richmond.
April 1864 - New York–born abolitionist and Union surgeon Dr. Mary Edwards Walker is captured and accused of spying. She is transferred to Castle Thunder Prison in Richmond.
August 12, 1864 - New York–born abolitionist and Union surgeon Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, held as a spy at Richmond's Castle Thunder Prison since April, is exchanged.
March 1865 - Inmates at Castle Thunder Prison in Richmond are transferred south to Danville.
April 17, 1865 - Castle Thunder Prison's commandant, Dennis Callahan, and its clerk, Edward Folks, turn themselves in to Union authorities in Richmond.
1879 - Fire destroys the buildings that comprised the Civil War–era prison Castle Thunder in Richmond.
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Zombek, A. M. Castle Thunder Prison. (2011, June 7). In Encyclopedia Virginia. Retrieved from http://www.EncyclopediaVirginia.org/Castle_Thunder_Prison.
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Jim Bandag took over his family's auto supply business in 2005, after helping his father, who founded the business, run it for about 10 years. Based in Auckland, Bandag employs about 300 people, and distributes auto supplies (replacement mufflers, bulbs, engine parts, and so on) through two divisions, one that supplies service stations and repair shops, and a second that sells retail auto supplies through five "Bandag automotive" auto supplies store.
Jim's father, and now Jim, has always endeavoured to keep Bandag's organization chart as simple as possible. The company has a full time-controller, managers for each of the five stores, a manager that oversees the distribution division, and Jim Bandag's executive assistant. Jim (along with his father, working part time) handles marketing and sales.
Jim's executive assistant administers the firm's day-to-day human resources management tasks, but the company outsources most HR activities to others, including an employment agency that does its recruiting and screening, a benefits firm that administrates its 401(k) plan, and a payroll service that handles its pay checks. Bandag's human resource management systems consists almost entirely of standardised HR forms purchased from an HR supplies company. These include forms such as application and performance appraisal forms, as well as an "honesty" test Bandag uses to screen the staff that works in the five stores. The company performs informal salary surveys to see what other companies in the area are paying for similar positions, and use these results for awarding annual merit increases (which in fact are more accurately rate cost-of- living adjustments).
Jim's father took a fairly paternal approach to the business. He often walked around speaking with his employees, finding out what their problems were, and even helping them out with an occasional loan - for instance, when he discovered that one of the children was sick, or for part of a new home down payment. Jim, on the other hand, tends to be more abrupt, and does not enjoy the same warm relationship with the employees as did his father. Jim is not unfair or dictatorial. He's just focused on improving Bandag's financial performance, and so all his decisions, including his HR -related decisions, generally come down to cutting cost. For
example, his knee-jerk reaction usually to offer fewer days off rather than more, fewer benefits rather than more, and to be less flexible when an employee needs, for instance, a few extra days off because a child is sick.
It's therefore perhaps not surprising that over the past few years Bandag's sales and profits have increased markedly, but that the firm has found itself increasingly enmeshed in HR/equal employment-type issues. Indeed, Jim now finds himself spending a day or two a week addressing HR problems. For example, Henry Jacques, an employee at one of the stores, came to Jim's executive assistant and told her he was "irate" about his recent firing and was probably going to sue. Henry's store manager stated on his last performance appraisal that Henry did the technical aspects of his job well, but that he had "serious problems interacting with his co-workers." He was continually arguing with them, and complaining to the store manager about working conditions. The store manager had told Jim that he had to fire Henry because he was making "the whole place poisonous," and that (although he felt sorry because he'd heard rumours that Henry suffered from some mental illness) he felt he had to go. Jim approved the dismissal.
Gavin was another problem. Gavin had worked for Bandag for 10 years, the last two as manager of one of the company's five stores. Right after Jim Bandag took over, Gavin told him he had to take a sick leave to have hip surgery, and Jim approved the leave. When Gavin returned from leave, Jim told him that his position had been eliminated. Bandag had decided to close his store and open a new, larger store across from a shopping centre about a mile away, and had appointed a new manager in Gavin's absence. However, the company did give Gavin a (no managerial) position in the new store as a counter salesperson, at the same salary and with the same benefits as he had before. Even so, "This job is not similar to my old one," Gavin insisted. "It doesn't have nearly as much prestige." His contention is that the Employment Relations Act 2000 requires that the company bring him back in the same or equivalent position, and that this means a supervisory position, similar to what he had before he went on leave. Jim said no, and they seem to be heading toward litigation.
In another sign of the times at Bandag, the company's controller, Miriam, who had been with the company for about 6 years, went on pregnancy leave for 12 weeks in 2005 (also under the Parental Leave and Employment Protection Act 1987), and then received an additional 3 weeks' leave under Bandag's extended illness days program. Four weeks after she came back, she asked Jim Bandag if she could arrange to work fewer hours per week, and spend about a
day per week working out of her home. He refused, and about 2 months later fired her. Jim Bandag said "I'm sorry, it's not anything to do with your pregnancy-related requests, but we've got ample reasons to discharge you - your monthly budgets have been several days late, and we've got proof you may have forged documents." She replied "I don't care what you say your reasons are, you're really firing me because of my pregnancy, and that's illegal."
Jim felt he was on safe ground as far as defending the company for these actions, although he didn't look forward to spending the time and money that he knew it would take to fight each.
However, what he learned over lunch from a colleague undermined his confidence about another case that Jim had been sure would be a "slam dunk" for his company. Jim was explaining to his friend that one of Bandag's truck maintenance service people had applied for a job driving one of Bandag's Distribution Department vehicles, and that Jim had turned him down because the worker was deaf. Jim (whose wife occasionally said of him, "No one has ever accused Jim of being politically correct") was mentioning to his friend the apparent absurdity of a deaf person asking to be a truck delivery person. His friend, who happens to work for another company, pointed out that the NZ Court of Appeals, had recently decided that this company had violated the Employment Relations Act 2000 by refusing to consider deaf workers for jobs driving the company's smaller vehicles.
Although Jim's father is semi-retired, the sudden upstick in the frequency of such EEO-type issues troubled him, particularly after so many years of labour peace. However, he's not sure what to do about it. Having handed over the reins of the company to his son, he was loath to inject himself back into the company's operational decision making. On the other hand, he was afraid that in the short run these issues were going to drain a great deal of Jim's time and resources, and that in the long run they might be a sign of things to come, with problems like these eventually overwhelming Bandag Auto. He comes to you, who he knows consults in human resource management, and asks you the following questions.
Using your knowledge of management theories and HR. models, explain 4 major
challenges affecting this company?------------------------------------------------
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Critically analyse the management theories used by Jim and Jim's father identifying 2
strengths and 2 weakness of each of the management theory that seem to influence
Jim and Jim's father's management style-----------------------------------------
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In light of the challenges facing the organisation, which management theory do you
think is the best to use in this organisation as a way forward? Support your
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Explain 3 reasons why Miriam has a legitimate claim? --------------------------
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At Ngaio we offer two main components to help your preschool child transition to school happily; Prospective Parents Information Sessions and the Ngaio School Link Programme.
I would like to invite you to participate in Ngaio School's transition to school programme, held every Tuesday and referred to as the Link Programme.
The purpose of this programme is to share with you and your child some of the learning experiences that will form part of their daily routine once they begin school. It is designed to promote understanding of expected literacy and numeracy practices. The intention also is to build links between home and school in a non - threatening environment. During these afternoon sessions we will walk around the school, ensuring that it is a familiar environment. You will also have the opportunity to meet Raewyn Watson, the school Principal. Short visits to our new entrant classes will complement this programme.
We value your child's preschool portfolio and will use this as a catalyst for designing future learning pathways. Therefore, if you would like to share this with me, I'd be pleased to view this.
What do we require of you?
A parent or caregiver to accompany the child to as many of the Link Programme afternoons as possible. We offer up to four sessions for each child.
Support with encouraging your child to participate in the activities.
Free exchanges of information about your child that will help teachers facilitate a smooth transition to school.
A willingness to network with parents of similar aged children and to enjoy the process!
To have your child enrolled for Ngaio School before starting the Link Programme.
To inform Nicki Mitchell in the office of your attendance. email@example.com or alternatively you could ring: 939 6455
When: Tuesday afternoons 1.30-2.45 p.m.
Where: Report to the school office on arrival
What do you need? Yourself, your nearly five year old, plus a preschool portfolio if you have one.
You can attend up to four sessions, less if your child is due to begin school before that.
New Entrant Stationery Packs are available from the office at a cost of $46.10. This pack contains all the stationery your child will need for their first year at school.


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New Zealand Hotel Mapper Deals
Hotels in New Zealand
New Zealand Hotel Guide & Local Info
New Zealand is a land of many climates, vistas, and unique species of flora (plants) and fauna (animals) which made it the prime location for the filming of the 'Lord of the Rings' Trilogy. New Zealand is located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean just southeast of Australia, and it is comprised of two main landmasses of islands, in addition to many other smaller islands. New Zealand is a rather small country with a population of only four million people living on the North and South Islands making it similar in size to Great Britain or Japan.
New Zealand – Things to Do
Aoraki / Mt Cook – Follow the steps of New Zealand's most famous son to the country's highest mountain, visit the Sir Edmund Hilary Alpine Centre and explore this beautiful Alpine region.
Bay of Islands – Pack up a rod and follow the big fish up to the Russell peninsula. Super-size your catch with a chartered fishing trip or kick back and enjoy the surf.
Otago Rail Trail – Follow in the tracks of steam trains from yesteryear with a leisurely cycling holiday or walking trip in the golden region of Otago.
Punakaiki National Park – It's always Pancake Day at Punakaiki… Here you can view stunning limestone rock formations and blowholes on the rugged and wild West Coast of the South Island.
Queenstown – The 'Adventure Capital' of New Zealand offers truly great walks, as well as bungy-jumping, jet boating, horse-riding, rafting, paragliding and more.
Rotorua – Literally a visitor hotspot, view natural geothermal waters, geysers and mud pools and indulge in activities such as cycling, zorbing, fishing and walking.
Southern Sounds – Take scenic cruises to savour the waters and hanging valleys of Milford and Doubtful Sounds and enjoy viewing their abundant marine and birdlife.
Waitangi – Soak up the history at the birthplace of modern New Zealand and stand in the spot where the Treaty of Waitangi was signed.
Waitomo – Get ready to glow.. Explore the labyrinths of Waitomo's many caves and be enchanted by the mesmerizing lights of thousands of glowworms.
Whakaari – Adventure on Whakaari (White Island), home to New Zealand's largest active volcano, walking tracks and world-famous scuba sites.


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My youngest boy is starting to say a lot of words now, some in English and some in Spanish. Like most kids just learning to talk, he doesn't speak very clearly, but you get a clear understanding of what he's saying.
I guess I'd always assumed that when kids are first learning how to talk, they still don't know how to formulate phrases very well, which is why they don't talk clearly. I never thought much about it; I just took it for granted. But the other possible explanation, which I hadn't consciously considered, is that babies do know how to say things correctly in theory, but the mechanics of moving their mouth doesn't allow them to articulate the phrase exactly.
My experience with Paulo is making me think that this second explanation is more accurate. Because dig this: Paulo conjugates things correctly in Spanish. When he can't do something, he says, "No puedo". Not very clearly, not with thespian diction, but there's no confusing it for "no puede", "no podemos", etc. When a thing falls, he says, "se cayó", again conjugated perfectly. One could assume this is because these are set phrases he hears a lot, so he's just repeating the most common conjugation he knows. But no, because he sometimes uses these and other verbs with other pronouns and in other tenses, and still conjugates them correctly.
To anyone who's studied another language, you'll know that it's really difficult to learn all the right conjugations and nail them every time. It's a mix of conscious and unconscious effort, but if you're doing it correctly, there's no doubt that there is a complex, abstract mental process involved. So hearing my little boy gurgle out correct conjugations really blows me away, because it means that in his mind he is speaking complete, perfect phrases, and it's just the physical speech apparatus that needs to catch up. The mental part, which we'd normally assume is the more difficult and the later to bloom, is way ahead of the physical part in this case.
Anyway, I just thought that was a cool discovery. Thanks Paulo.
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Third World Green Daddy 58: A reflection on baby language
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HelpAge global network members in north America are based in the following countries:
Canada | United States of America
HelpAge Canada
Established in 1975, HelpAge Canada is a non-denominational, non-profit national and international development organisation. It is the only registered charity in Canada dedicated to supporting and promoting older people's rights in Canada and the developing world.
Nationally, they support disadvantaged older people by working with a number of national and local organisations. Internationally, they collaborate with other NGOs to support programmes in 11 countries worldwide. The focus is on healthcare, food aid, emergency assistance, training and sponsorship.
HelpAge Canada supports eyecare for older people in India, community development and humanitarian assistance in Haiti and livelihoods programmes in areas affected by HIV and AIDS in Kenya.
All international programmes are coordinated through local charitable organisations, including the Oblate missionaries, the Salvation Army and the St. Vincent de Paul Society.
HelpAge Canada has been working with HelpAge International since 1983 and became a HelpAge global network member in 2004.
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.helpagecanada.ca
United States of America
American Association of Retired Persons
Founded in 1958, the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) is a non-profit, non-partisan organisation of 40 million members that supports people aged 50 and over to improve the quality of their lives.
AARP's mission is "to enhance the quality of life for all as we age", to lead social change and deliver value to their members through information and public services. AARP conducts research on ageing issues and publishes major reports on issues affecting older people. Their international programme exchanges ideas and finds solutions to achieving older people's goals of dignity and purpose.
AARP and HelpAge International collaborate on various projects to support older people in developing countries. They have improved access to healthcare in Bolivia and Tanzania and increased the number of people receiving pensions in Bangladesh.
AARP has been working with HelpAge International since 1991 and became a HelpAge global network member in 2004.
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.aarp.org
HelpAge USA
Established in 2009, HelpAge USA builds awareness of global ageing issues among US audiences. It has been a HelpAge global network member since 2009 and works to empower older, vulnerable adults in the developing world.
They also raise funds to support HelpAge international's programmes in various areas, including building resilience in humanitarian disasters and providing support to older people and their families affected by HIV and AIDS.
Other international work includes supporting older people to gain access to benefits such as free healthcare. They have also helped the African Union develop social protection plans, provided small business loans and grants to older people, provided eye care services to 37,000 people in six countries and helped governments introduce social pensions.
HelpAge USA also take part in the Age Demands Action campaign to raise awareness of older people's needs.
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.helpageusa.org


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The Mockingbird book continues to create concern for both proponents and critics of curriculum materials that enrich the learning process for our youth. Schools are choosing to distance themselves from using books that create uninvited complications. The Mockingbird book controversy provides schools an opportunity to reevaluate potential textbook problems.
According to the article, Mississippi school district's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' ban raises old censorship debate, a Mississippi School Board has decided to remove the classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird from the eighth-grade curriculum. The Biloxi School District pulled the book from Language Arts classes due to complaints that some of the language in the book made some students feel uncomfortable.
To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It won the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on Lee's observations of her family, her neighbors and an event that occurred near her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, in 1936, when she was 10 years old. The story is told by the six-year-old Jean Louise Finch.
In the story, Judge Taylor appoints Atticus to defend Tom Robinson, a black man who has been accused of raping a young White woman, Mayella Ewell. Although many of towns citizens disapprove, Atticus agrees to defend Tom to the best of his ability. Other children taunt Jem and Scout for Atticus's actions, calling him a "nigger-lover". This is the statement that can make students feel uncomfortable.
When the book was released, reviewers noted that it was divided into two parts. The first part of the novel concerns the children's fascination with Boo Radley and their feelings of safety and comfort in the neighborhood. The second part of the novel deals with what book reviewer Harding LeMay termed "the spirit-corroding shame of the civilized White Southerner in the treatment of the Negro".
In the years following its release, many reviewers considered To Kill a Mockingbird a novel primarily concerned with race relations. Claudia Durst Johnson considers it "reasonable to believe" that the novel was shaped by two events involving racial issues in Alabama. The first incident was Rosa Parks' refusal to yield her seat on a city bus to a White person, which sparked the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the 1956 riots at the University of Alabama after Autherine Lucy and Polly Myers were admitted to the university.
Schools can benefit from the Mockingbird book by evaluating other curriculum materials at all levels. The Cooperative Children's Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison looked at 3,200 children's books published in the United States last year, it found that only 14 percent had black, Latino, Asian, or Native American main characters. Meanwhile, industry data collected by publisher Lee & Low and others suggest that roughly 80 percent of the children's book world—authors and illustrators, editors, execs, marketers, and reviewers are White. One book that has received much criticism is A Birthday Cake for Washington because it portrays slaves as being happy.
Schools can benefit from that Mockingbird book by ensuring that their librarians are sensitive enough to ensure that the library has an ample supply of diverse books that are used by teachers and the librarian.
Teachers and librarians can use the following as guidelines for selecting book:
- What percentage of books highlight minorities as heroes or the main character in a positive manner?
- What percentage of books highlight minorities as negative?
- What percentage of books degrade or use language that degrade the color black
- What percentage of books use the color white in a positive man
- What percentage of books highlight minorities as lazy, gang members, oversexed, or underemployed?
- What percentage of poor people are highlighted as invisible or passively needing help from others?
- What percentage of books highlight American Indians as living in teepees, carrying bows and arrows, or are half-naked in winter?
- What percentage of books highlight minorities as subservient?
- What percentage of books have a copyright older than 5 years?
The Mockingbird Book provides schools an opportunity to evaluate their curriculum materials to ensure that the lack of diversity does not complicate the education process.
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Osamu Nomura
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"I told you nothing is coming out my mouth, Lucas." The Captain of Interpol sat down at his desk, swiveling around to face Lucas, the reporter for the Stockholm Gazette.
"Captain, you must tell me who is twenty. He is world-famous, and he doesn't work for you and Interpol. I think the man could get away with murder as popular as he is now."
"No one is above the law, not even Twenty," the Captain said.
"Come on, give me something to put in my story. I'll be sure Interpol gets all the credit." Lucas pulled his note pad out of his pocket along with a pen and posed himself ready to write down what the Captain said.
"I don't know anything more than you do. I got my knowledge from the Commissioner. You are wasting your time. You'll have to find yourself another source."
"There is another question for you, Captain, and it has nothing to do with Twenty. Answer it for me, and I'll go away. Lucas had his pen ready to write.
The Captain straightened out in his chair and put both hands together on top of his desk. "Okay, ask your question and then get out."
Lucas smiled as he looked at the Captain. "You are a lead Captain at this joint. Why did they put you in this shitty office?"
Looking around the room, the Captain chuckled. "This room is not bad; I've had worse. It's everything I need: my desk, computer, printer and a couple of bookshelves. There is even artwork on the wall. That tapestry came out of my ancestral castle in Scotland. Just because it doesn't look like it came of HQ Magazine doesn't mean it isn't a great office. Now, if there is nothing else, I want to get to work."
"You didn't answer my question completely," Lucas stated.
"What did I leave out?"
"Why were you put in here when I know the other offices are professionally decorated." Lucas swung his arm around in a circle indicating the entire office.
"They put me in here because I asked them to. It's what I wanted. Now get the hell out of here and let me work." The Captain smiled as Lucas stood.
"I know this is not your style, so something else is behind you having this office."
"Lucas Arnold, if you do not leave this second, I will make you pay."
"Now, now, dad, don't get your Jockeys all twisted. I'm going. Thanks for letting me talk to you," Lucas said. He opened the door and stepped out. He was sure to close it behind himself.
The Captain wanted to be sure Lucas left the building before he spoke. "All right, Twenty, you can come out now."
The tapestry fluttered and then pushed out into the room. A man with jet black hair and baby blue eyes stepped out from behind. He had females panting after him as if they were in heat. "That secret room is a godsend for people like me who wants to keep hidden."
"That's all well and good, Twenty, but what do you have to report?" The Captain asked.
"The only thing I found out for certain is the Russian Prime Minister flew to the Seychelles to meet with the Vice President of America once a month for the past six months. Something big is in the works, but I don't know what yet," Twenty said.
"You have to go to the Seychelles and stay till you find out what is going on," the Captain said.
"Are you sure you want me to stay. I think I should follow the Prime Minister. Especially since I'm already established in Russia."
"You can follow him if you want, but you be on that island whenever there is a meeting. Do I make myself clear?"
"Yes, loud and clear. I'm to play the part of a spy instead of an assassin. Maybe you can change my nickname from Twenty to Killer."
"That will never happen, Twenty. Your job is whatever I tell you to do. You've assassinated twenty world leaders over the years without any questions. You're excellent on the job, and there won't be any changes to your name."
"Well, Twenty is a great number. I'll leave now and get back to my dull life of bookkeeper for Putin."
"Goodbye, Twenty, and please leave by the same route you came in."
The tapestry fluttered, and Twenty was gone.


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Haydenville native Bob Toski has been named to the Massachusetts Golf Hall of Fame's Class of 2014.
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It's Hall of Fame time again for Haydenville native Bob Toski.
One of the greatest golfers from Western Massachusetts will be part of an exclusive class inducted into the Massachusetts Golf Hall of Fame this fall.
Toski has already been inducted into the World Golf Teachers Hall of Fame (1990) and PGA Golf Professional Hall of Fame (2013).
That he wasn't yet part of an exclusive group closer to "home,'' was no fault of his own.
The Massachusetts Golf Hall of Fame has one existing class, inducted as part of the Massachusetts Golf Association's Centennial Celebration and Golf Museum opening a decade ago. There was no formal induction ceremony for that class of Francis Ouimet, Donald Ross, Pat Bradley and Fred Corcoran.
"When I got the call, I couldn't understand that the state of Massachusetts did not already have a golf Hall of Fame,'' Toski said. "Being one of the first recipients is a great honor. I'm so glad I'm alive, can be part of it and can enjoy it.''
The other honorees in the Class of 2014 include: Ted Bishop; sisters Margaret and Hariot Curtis; Joanne Goodwin; Paul Harney; and Fred Wright.
"Massachusetts has arguably the richest golf history of any state and we are honored to recognize the contributions of these deserving inductees," said Tom Bagley, chairman of the Massachusetts Golf Hall of Fame Committee. "Their impact on the game was felt both on and off the golf course and their individual legacies are second to none."
An induction ceremony is scheduled for later this year.
Toski, who grew up just west of Northampton, won five times on the PGA Tour and was its leading money winner (1954) before retiring at age 30.
"I was 118 pounds and the leading money winner at age 27,'' Toski said. "I probably would have won a major, if I had kept playing.''
Toski, now 87 and a teaching pro in Boca Raton, Fla., is also hopeful of his induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame.
"I'd be the only person in the world to be in all three Halls of Fame,'' Toski said. "I am in as a teacher, a club pro and I think I should be as a player. That would be difficult for anyone to do now, because no one does all three anymore.''
Russ Held can be reached at email@example.com and followed on Twitter at @RussHeldGolf