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GBM began as the Strict Baptist Mission, founded in 1861 by a small group of Strict Baptist churches, mostly in London. The Indian mutiny had just been brutally suppressed, and India was very much on people's hearts.
At first, funds raised were sent to support Anglo-Indian workers who were based in what was then Madras. The work was always done through Tamil, and Baptist churches began to be planted across Tamil Nadu.
A day of prayer on 19 November 1894, which ran from 8am to 8pm, led to the first two missionaries being sent to India. Samuel Hutchinson (as superintendent) and Ernest Booth sailed the following year, and Booth would become the first pioneer missionary in the work.
Over the early years of the 20th century, the work grew, and spread from Madras into the Salem district, and into the deep-south. Churches were planted, schools were built, medical work was a vital part of what was done, and a pioneering work was begun by Jesse and Evelyn Brand among the animistic tribes who lived on the Kolli hills. Alongside the SBM, the gloriously named Ladies Zenana Auxiliary was a women's missionary movement that reached out as women to women in a culture where the sexes were commonly separated.
The work of the Mission went through a major transition after Indian independence. The property of the Mission was vested in Indian trustees, often a painful and difficult process. New ministries of literature and radio had their beginnings in India.
When in 1967 Mrs Gandhi announced severe limitations on missionary visas, it was clear that the work of the Mission had to change. But God was certainly in this process from the beginning.
Frank Ellis had been taken on as Assistant General Secretary with a new vision to take the work of the Mission 'into all the world', and events in India only served to precipitate this process.
Nellie Hawes, having served twenty years in India, came home on furlough announcing that God was calling her to Spain! Roger and Helen Cook also joined the Mission in 1966 to continue their work in Belgium.
Finally, when Colin and Carole Howells were refused visas for India, they concluded that God was calling them to serve in France.
The 1970s were therefore a time of readjustment. A new Mission Centre was built in Abingdon, with a suite of radio studios where we began to record programmes in English, and then also in French. New workers were sent to Spain, Peru and the Philippines, but for some years there were no new workers.
The 1980s was the decade of change, not least with the SBM becoming Grace Baptist Mission, a name change that expressed better our commitment to the doctrines of grace that are at the heart of our ethos. New missionaries were sent out, with Theo and Sonja Donner going to Colombia and Stuart and Dol Olyott to Switzerland, while others went to France, Kenya, and the Arab world, and a whole team of workers went to Austria.
The missionary workforce doubled to about sixty missionaries, and then in 1989 the Iron Curtain came down, opening up massive opportunities in Eastern Europe.
Today GBM is a Mission working on four continents, in more than a dozen countries, in ministries of evangelism and church planting, training leaders, Bible translation, partnering with national pastors and churches, reaching the poor through holistic gospel mission, and connecting with a much larger audience through radio and literature.
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Billboard Top Country & Western Records of 1955 is made up of three year-end charts compiled by Billboard magazine ranking the year's top country and western records based on record sales, disc jockey plays, and juke box plays.

Webb Pierce's "In the Jailhouse Now" ranked as the year's No. 1 song on all three charts. His record of "I Don't Care" ranked No. 2 on the disk jockey and juke box charts and No. 3 on the retail chart. In all, Pierce had four records that ranked in the top 10 on at least one of the year-end charts.

Kitty Wells' "Making Believe" ranked No. 2 on the year-end retail chart and No. 3 on the juke box chart. The year's other top hits included: (1) Carl Smith's "Loose Talk" which ranked No. 4 on all three charts; and (2) Porter Wagoner's "A Satisfied Mind" which ranked No. 3 on the disk jockey chart and No. 5 on the other two charts.

See also
List of Billboard number-one country songs of 1955
Billboard year-end top 30 singles of 1955
1955 in country music

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1955 record charts
Billboard charts
1955 in American music

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Foundation Fighting Blindness - The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc., is an agency researching the prevention, cures and treatments for people affected by retinal degenerative diseases.
Glaucoma Foundation, The - Discussion regarding Glaucoma as one of the leading causes of blindness in adults over 40. Proper management and detection can prevent Glaucoma.
Guide Dogs for the Blind - Oregon Campus - Located in Boring, Oregon. Training guide dogs, educational materials suitable for classroom awareness of blindness activities, schedule of O&M seminars.
Helen Keller Worldwide - International NGO - Promotes the prevention of blindness and malnutrition worldwide.
How to study.com - Vendor of educational materials, not vision specific - Website is accessible in Spanish, topics include: transition to college, study skills, language arts, math, note taking, test taking, listening skills, time management, and parent tips.
Incight - Resources for Self-empowerment - Non-profit advocacy for people with disabilities headquartered in Portland, Oregon - Website not vision specific, promotes educational, employment, networking, and independence for persons with disabilities. Getting Ready for Life at College- College and Career Planning Guide for Students with Disabilities available. Website resources include scholarships, transition guides, career fairs, employment resources.
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Junior Blind of America - Non-profit serving blind and visually impaired adults in Los Angeles, CA - Ca,mp Bloomfield in Santa Monica - summer residential camp program open to students from the Western U.S. Fee for campers who are visually impaired - $25, they can invite a sighted Buddy -$125. Annual Jr Blind Olympics every April - includes students from around the Western U.S.
National Agenda -Texas School for the Blind and Visually impaired information on the National Agenda, with related topics and resources.
National Association for Parents of Children with Visual Impairments (NAPVI) - non-profit advocacy for parents - National association for parents of children with visual impairments; Spanish accessible website; quarterly publication "Awareness"; national support and information network; links for: parenting, specific diagnoses, list serves, chat rooms, Schools for the Blind.
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National Consortium of Deaf-Blind - Government funded advocacy - The National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness (NCDE) is a national technical assistance and dissemination center for children and youth who are deaf-blind. Funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) - Links for parents, professionals- self study modules and Washington Sensory Disabilities Project - library of videos demonstrating educational strategies and practices for children who are deaf-blind; link to Oregon "Deafblind Perspectives" newsletter.
National Eye Institute - Governmental/research - Part of the National Institute of Health (NIH); A-Z glossary of eye terminology; Research; Newsletter; list of their educational brochured fact sheets available; "See all you can See" -fun, interactive educational site for children 7 - 10years, about the eye, including printable handouts.
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The case for LeVar Woods as an Iowa assistant football coach
Dec. 27, 2011 7:29 pm
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Kirk Ferentz didn't have to think long and hard about what to do when defensive line coach Rick Kaczenski left the Hawkeyes last week to take a similar job at Nebraska.
Ferentz inserted LeVar Woods, who played linebacker on Ferentz's first two Iowa teams (1999 and 2000), as the fill-in for Kaczenski. Last year, when defensive coordinator Norm Parker was hospitalized and away from coaching for several weeks, Woods moved from his job as administrative assistant to help coach Iowa's defense.
"When I was a freshman walk-on at Iowa," Arizona Cardinals safety Sean Considine said Tuesday after Iowa's practice at Chaparral High School, "Coach (Ferentz) was trying to build this program to what it is, to get guys to become a certain kind of player. They told everybody to watch a guy like LeVar Woods.
"The guy's a professional, he works hard, he's a real strong leader, and it doesn't surprise me he's coaching at Iowa. I guarantee you he's an asset to the program."
Woods grew up in little Larchwood, Iowa, and attended West Lyon High School. He wasn't drafted out of Iowa in 2001, but signed a free agent contract with the Cardinals and played here in Phoenix with the Cardinals for four years, then played three more years in the NFL before joining Iowa's staff in September 2008.
"It's been years since he's been down here (with the Cardinals)," Considine said, "but people with the team talk about him quite a bit. He must have made a good impression."
I don't know that Ferentz will add Woods to the coaching staff after the bowl game, but I'd be very surprised if he doesn't. This seems like an ideal candidate. Woods is 33, so he's young which isn't a drawback. Kaczenski was the team's youngest coach, at 36. Now the youngest is Eric Johnson, 39. Iowa could use a younger coach on an old staff.
Of the other coaches, Reese Morgan is 61, Ken O'Keefe 58, Darrell Wilson 53, Phil Parker 48, Erik Campbell 45, Lester Erb 42.
Woods has a pleasant personality, mature and smart. He is charismatic without being overbearing. He's someone who I think would relate to recruits and their parents.
If you want something on his resume that says a lot, go no further than the fact he was a Walter Payton Man of the Year finalist while an NFL player. If you do some research and see who has won that award and for what reasons, you'd say anyone who's been as much as a finalist has the right stuff.
Look at the people who served as instructors at his football camp in northwest Iowa last summer. That'll tell you something.
Woods is active in the Iowa City community. He and his wife, Meghann, have two children. Given his druthers, he'd prefer to raise them in Iowa City than elsewhere.
Tuesday on the practice field, Woods was working his defensive linemen just like a coach. Which he may soon be. If so, it will be a good move for the program.
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The Institute for Mathematics and its Applications located at the University of Minnesota is an organization established in 1982 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) of the United States.

Mission
The primary mission of the IMA is to increase the impact of mathematics by fostering interdisciplinary research and linking mathematics  and scientific and technological problems from other disciplines and industry.

Activities
The IMA hosts long-term visitors, funds postdoctoral research positions, and holds several conferences annually. The NSF has granted the IMA $19.5 million over the period 2005–2010, the largest single mathematics grant the NSF has ever awarded.

Prize in Mathematics and its Applications

The IMA annually awards a prize to a mathematician who has received their PhD within the last 10 years. This award recognizes an individual who has made a transformative impact on the mathematical sciences and their applications.

 2019: Jacob Bedrossian
 2018: Anders C. Hansen
 2017: Jianfeng Lu
 2016: Rachel Ward and Deanna Needell
 2015: Jonathan Weare
 2014: David F. Anderson

Organization with similar names
Sharing a very similar name and the acronym IMA, it should not be confused with the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, a professional body for mathematicians in the UK.

References
IMA Celebrates 20 Prodigious Years, SIAM News, October 31, 2003.

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External links
Institute for Mathematics and its Applications

Mathematical institutes
University of Minnesota
Research institutes established in 1982
Research institutes in Minnesota
National Science Foundation mathematical sciences institutes
1982 establishments in Minnesota


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Q: Odftoolkit Paste document with TextUserFieldDeclElement I'm using the Odtftoolkit library in Java, and I have a process that uses a template document with TextUserFieldDeclElement. My process makes two diferents documents from the same template, and I need to show both pages in the same document. My problem is that TextUserFieldDeclElement of the first page shows the same value that the second page.
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14:10:37 Dave jonasw, SamWhited - Just running through the Council Agenda for tomorrow - is it only my two ProtoXEPs come in since last time?
15:09:36 Dave The state of isr-sasl2 seems confused - Council voted, that vote has presumably timed out, but no votes at all are recorded in Trello?
15:19:11 Kev It wasn't clear to me which of the several versions of ISR we were voting on from the minutes. So I sent out a vote based on what I thought we were voting on, and a -1 otherwise.
15:19:20 Dave Looks like Daniel, Kev and I all voted for.
15:19:52 Dave Kev, I think his latest advertised is what's in the inbox. I was assuming we were voting for the isr-sasl2.html in the inbox anyway.
15:20:08 Ge0rG I think the general idea is to accept something that looks generally implementable and to finish the spec afterwards?
15:20:09 Kev Ah, ok. I thought his latest wasn't in the inbox yet.
15:20:29 Kev Ge0rG: As long as it doesn't look harmfully the wrong approach for some reason, I accept generally, yes.
15:20:42 Ge0rG So the exact version in the inbox doesn't matter too much?
15:20:50 Kev There is an argument to be made for that, yes.
15:20:51 Dave Ge0rG, Yes, although ironically I thought I'd implement this afternoon and found I can't because he's tied it into the SASL mechanism, which I hadn't really appreciated.
15:28:27 Dave Ge0rG, Why? The immediacy can be achieved simply enough without tying it into a SASL mechanism, and gives us flexibility over authentication.
15:28:58 Kev And I'm interested in using 'instant re-auth with this key' without involving 198, FWIW.
15:29:19 Kev Because I think fast resync is a worthwhile problem to solve, without 198.
15:29:32 Dave Kev, CLIENT-KEY can do that, longer-term. But it does mandate an atomic counter at both ends, which might be painful in a cluster.
15:30:00 Dave Kev, Flow's HT-* mechanism family should manage it, but it's tied into 198 quite heavily.
15:48:59 Dave Ge0rG, Well, you connect, do *magic* and then the server knows who you are.
15:49:18 Dave Ge0rG, Which makes me suspect that *magic* includes an authentication.
18:47:53 Ge0rG Dave: so I have a TCP session with TLS on top of it that I didn't send any data over for half an hour, and then I send another packet, and the other side knows it's from me - is that authentication as well?
18:49:11 Ge0rG How often do I need to enter an OTP code?
18:49:54 Zash With every TCP segment!
18:50:18 Ge0rG Zash: TCP is a stream of bytes. So I think you mean with every byte.
18:50:24 Ge0rG But then again, there is TLS overhead.
18:51:41 Ge0rG Now you made me wonder how TLS operates. Does it fill up its data up to the MSS? Is it playing weird games with Nagle?
18:51:52 Ge0rG Do I really want to know?
18:51:54 Zash You probably don't want to know.
18:52:32 Ge0rG So back to my original question. When does it stop to be the continuation of an ongoing authenticated session and begins to be a new authentication?
18:53:51 Ge0rG Does it need to run in the same TLS session? Same TCP session? Same pair of entities? What if I export the TLS state from one entity to another?
18:53:52 Zash There's some framing, padding to the cipher block size and a MAC.
18:55:01 Ge0rG Zash: that totally doesn't answer my question.
18:55:17 Zash I was just telling you what you don't wanna know.


Oh No! New Envirokidz Cereal Not gluten-free!
Whole foods just FINALLY opened up, just 5 miles from my house . . the first one in Richmond, VA . . ugg . .anyways, I saw they had more than twice as many envirokids cereals as my grocery store and smaller hfs - but also noticed that one of them didnt say gluten-free on it. I thought it was pretty lame that WF had that one righ in the center of the display and all the others were gluten-free and that one wasnt. I also believe the potato flour is 30 cents cheaper at my grocery store . . . geesh. Still, NO one carries the super-fine brown rice flour that Annalise Roberts recomends . . .
I kinda want to try NAET, but havent gotten there yet. Lots of people insist it sounds like quakery (and it does sound like quackery) but others swear it worked for them.
I have Annalise Robert's Gluten Free Baking Classics and her sandwhich bread has been my biggest success. I had a total failure w lorka's bread as well, and we didnt even like the flavor. The first time I made Robert's sandwhich bread, it fell badly, but my son still ate 3 pieces while it was warm. I finally gave in and bought a smaller (8x4) pan and a thermometer, so I can be sure the bread is done in the middle before I take it out of the oven. I think I also tried putting a pan of water in the oven. I did use her variation w sweet rice flour to make it taste and feel more like white bread, and I had to sub soy flour for the garfava because my son is allergic to garbanzo. Anyways, this has become his bread. He eats it as a treat w cinnamon sugar and takes it to school for sandwhiches. I also made her sub sandwhich bread in small mini-cake-pans i purchased at Target. The dough made 5 rolls and i put them on a pizza pan with the 6th pan half-full of water in the center - he said they beat the rolls I used to make w chebe hands down. I made her pizza dough, and made my own nomato sauce (he's allergic to tomatos AND to beets, the most comon sub) and soy cheese . . .and he said it was the best pizza sub he's had so far. btw, I did end up buying a breadman bread machine - the black one w the gluten-free setting - mostly becuase the yeast was making me sick every time i made bread. It works well except if you dont take the paddle out at the beginning of the rise cycle, it tears the bread pretty badly. But as I said before, putting a pan of water in the oven, using the right size pan, and using a thermometer to make sure the bread is really done, has given me a real success in sandwhich bread.
If you want to try baking - just be patient! I was an avid baker for my whole life (i'm 43) and my first dozen bread attemps (well, at least half dozen) were totaly flops. I finally have had success with the sandwhich bread recipe in Annalise Robert's book, 'Gluten Free Baking Classics'. I did buy a thermometer, and at first, a smaller bread pan. Now i'm using the bread-man machine with the gluten-free cycle. I cant eat the bread because i'm allergic to yeast, but my son loves it - he makes cinnamon toast w it all the time as a treat - must be good!
I was using chebe for rolls for my son when we first went Gluten-free Casein-free, because my earliest yeast breads were flops. He was happy w the chebe shaped as sub rolls - i did not use cheese, kneaded in the machine a long time, added the baking soda, and they came out kinda flat and somewhat chewy in the middle. I read on this forum that you should leave them out for 24 hours, wrapped in a 'tea towel', to let them dry out before wrapping them in plastic. I did make the cinnamon rolls once, and my son LOVED them However, since i finally got regular bread working, we havent made chebe. He much prefers the yeast rolls and breads, now.
Good Tasting gluten-free Bread For Sandwiches?
After 8 mo of trying, i've managed to make bread. Well, I cant eat it, but my son says its absolutely the best gluten-free bread he's had (he's been gluten free for about 3 months). I used the sandwhich bread recipe from gluten free baking classics, no bread machine, but i did have to buy a bread pan and a thermometer. He's been eating cinnamon toast . .. i cant imagine doing that with awful bread.
I've been subbing soy for garfava flour, for my garbanzo-allergic son. I've only managed to make a few bread items i can eat w/out tapioca, but i cant eat yeast either. You can try various other starches - but tapioca seems to be one of the best. Any specific recipes you need help w?
My sister had them, had surgeries and tons of antibiotics and nothing cleared it up. She was also allergic to corn, but never really went corn free. I recently read that corn allergy can cause utis. I'm a big fan of a sensitivity test called A.L.C.A.T (if you spell w/out the dots, it gets altered ...) you could use that to look for problem foods and see if taking them out helps. Corn, however, is a really hard one . ..
Good Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix Or Recipe?
I made the recipe from the book gluten free baking classics, and thought it was the best chocolate chip cookie i'd ever had. You do have to make sure to use extra-fine rice flour.
Inability To Properly Absorb Water?
Anyone Have A Recipe For Sub Sandwich Bread?
How funny, as sson as I tear myself away from the computer, I plan to make rolls (from the sub sandwhich roll recipe in the gluten free baking classics) in the 4-inch cake pans I bought at target. I did try making french bread once (we hated the taste and texture tho) - i took tin foil and shaped pans out of the foil, folding the ends over to make them keep their shape. I make the chebe rolls for my son, but i cant handle tapioca - or yeast for that matter. I just eat everything plain with corn chips on the side.


The agency has struggled to recruit foster families. Last year, Alford said there were more children in need than homes available for them. On Wednesday, Alford said the shortage was a crisis similar to the agency's problem retaining and recruiting child-welfare caseworkers.
Haley said the goal of the Champions for Children recruitment drive is "to find families who are willing to share their love, share their homes and share their life with children that are in need. These children are vulnerable.
"They've been through a traumatic situation, but they are lovable and they want a home and they want a place that they will feel protected," Haley said, calling on families to think about whether they could take in one more child.


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Alcohol consumption among university students: a typology of consumption to aid the tailoring of effective public health policy
Public Health - Journal Articles
Davoren, Martin P.; Cronin, Mary; Perry, Ivan J.; O'Connor, Karl
Copyright: © 2016, The Authors. This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work noncommercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Copyright information: http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Citation: Davoren, M. P., Cronin M., Perry I. J. and O'Connor, K. (2016) 'Alcohol consumption among university students: a typology of consumption to aid the tailoring of effective public health policy', BMJ Open, 6:e011815. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2016-011815
Published Version: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-011815
Objective: Elevated levels of alcohol consumption among university students are well documented. Policymakers have attempted to combat this issue at a university, national and international level. Tailoring public health policy to effectively tackle alcohol use is crucial. Using Q-methodology, the current study aims to develop a typology of alcohol consumption in the Irish university student population. Setting: A large Irish university. Participants Hundreds of possible statements on types of consumption were generated from a systematic review and a set of one-on-one interviews. These were reduced to 36 statements, 6 statements which define each of the 6 previously defined consumption types. Participants were advised to scan through the 36 statements and fill the statements into a 'forced choice, standardised distribution'. Following this, a 45–90 min interview was conducted with students to illuminate subjectivity surrounding alcohol consumption. Analysis was conducted using PQ Method and NVivo software. Principal component analysis, followed by varimax rotation, was conducted to uncover the final factor information. Results: In total, 43 students completed the Q-study: 19 men and 24 women. A typology describing 4 distinct groupings of alcohol consumer was uncovered: the guarded drinker, the calculated hedonist, the peer-influenced drinker and the inevitable binger. Factor loadings of each of the consumer groupings were noted for type description. Conclusions: This is the first study to propose ideal types of alcohol consumption among a university student population. Further research is required to investigate the degree to which each of these ideal types is subscribed. However, this typology, in addition to informing public policy and strategies, will be a valuable analytic tool in future research.
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Except where otherwise noted, this item's license is described as © 2016, The Authors. This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work noncommercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/


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Q: User not being deleted upon click of delete button I am developing a simple phonebook application and whenever I type in some characters into the filter search bar, users should populate if they at least include some of the characters being typed into the filter search bar. Whenever their name pops up, their numbers pops up as well with a delete button next to their phone number.
However, whenever I click the delete button - nothing happens and the user is still present. I am trying to implement functionality to have a user be deleted, or disappear from the screen upon clicking the delete button.
Here is the code to the logic behind the searching and deleting of users:
import { useEffect, useState } from 'react'
import phoneService from '../services/information'

const handleDelete = (i, persons, setPersons, name2, setFilterChecker, setErrorMessage, setCounter, counter, findNames) => {
    if (window.confirm(`delete ${name2} ?`)) {
        const newArrayOfPeople = persons.filter(person => person.number !== findNames.number)
        console.log(newArrayOfPeople)
        const newArrayOfNames = newArrayOfPeople.map(person => person.name)
        setFilterChecker(newArrayOfNames)
        setPersons(newArrayOfPeople)
        phoneService.remove(persons[i].id)
        setErrorMessage(`You have successfully deleted ${name2} from the list.`)
        setCounter(counter + 1)
    }
}

const Display = ({persons, setPersons, setFilterChecker, setErrorMessage, filter}) => {
    const [counter, setCounter] = useState(0)
    const findNames = []
    const findNumbers = []
    const copy = [...persons]

    for (let j = 0; j < copy.length; j++) {
        if ((copy[j].name).includes(filter)) {
            findNames.push(copy[j].name)
            findNumbers.push(copy[j].number)
        }
    }

    if (filter) {
        return (
        findNames.map((name, i) =>
<nobr key={name}>{name} {findNumbers[i]}</nobr> <button onClick={() => handleDelete(i, persons, setPersons, name, setFilterChecker, setErrorMessage, setCounter, counter, findNames)}>delete</button>
)
        )
    } else {
        return ''
    }

}

export default Display

A: It is because you are looking for number in findNames instead of findNumbers
import { useEffect, useState } from 'react'
import phoneService from '../services/information'

const handleDelete = (i, persons, setPersons, name2, setFilterChecker, setErrorMessage, setCounter, counter, findNames) => {
    if (window.confirm(`delete ${name2} ?`)) {
        const newArrayOfPeople = persons.filter(person => person.number !== findNumbers.number)
        console.log(newArrayOfPeople)
        const newArrayOfNames = newArrayOfPeople.map(person => person.name)
        setFilterChecker(newArrayOfNames)
        setPersons(newArrayOfPeople)
        phoneService.remove(persons[i].id)
        setErrorMessage(`You have successfully deleted ${name2} from the list.`)
        setCounter(counter + 1)
    }
}

const Display = ({persons, setPersons, setFilterChecker, setErrorMessage, filter}) => {
    const [counter, setCounter] = useState(0)
    const findNames = []
    const findNumbers = []
    const copy = [...persons]

    for (let j = 0; j < copy.length; j++) {
        if ((copy[j].name).includes(filter)) {
            findNames.push(copy[j].name)
            findNumbers.push(copy[j].number)
        }
    }

    if (filter) {
        return (
        findNames.map((name, i) =>
<nobr key={name}>{name} {findNumbers[i]}</nobr> <button onClick={() => handleDelete(i, persons, setPersons, name, setFilterChecker, setErrorMessage, setCounter, counter, findNames)}>delete</button>
)
        )
    } else {
        return ''
    }

}

A: I had to filter out the specified individual to be removed via a filter method on persons, and once I isolated that individual, I placed him inside the phoneService.remove() method which properly removed the individual.
Here is the updated code:
import phoneService from '../services/information'

const handleDelete = (i, persons, setPersons, name2, setFilterChecker, setErrorMessage) => {
    if (window.confirm(`delete ${name2} ?`)) {
        const newArrayOfPeople = persons.filter(person => person.name !== name2)
        const removedPerson = persons.filter(person => person.name === name2)
        const newArrayOfNames = newArrayOfPeople.map(person => person.name)
        setFilterChecker(newArrayOfNames)
        setPersons(newArrayOfPeople)
        console.log(removedPerson[0].id)
        phoneService.remove(removedPerson[0].id)
        setErrorMessage(`You have successfully deleted ${name2} from the list.`)
    }
}

const Display = ({persons, setPersons, setFilterChecker, setErrorMessage, filter}) => {
    const findNames = []
    const findNumbers = []
    const copy = [...persons]

    for (let j = 0; j < copy.length; j++) {
        if ((copy[j].name).includes(filter)) {
            findNames.push(copy[j].name)
            findNumbers.push(copy[j].number)
        }
    }

    if (filter) {
        return (
        findNames.map((name, i) =>
<nobr key={name}>{name} {findNumbers[i]}</nobr> <button onClick={() => handleDelete(i, persons, setPersons, name, setFilterChecker, setErrorMessage)}>delete</button>
)
        )
    } else {
        return ''
    }

}

export default Display

Performing it this way, alot of lines of code were removed and states and use effects were not required!


ST. IGNATIUS —Assistance in reviewing and changing Medicare related plans will be available in the St. Ignatius Senior Citizens Center on Tuesday, Nov. 27. Consultations will be available by appointment only beginning at 9:30 a.m. The Area VI Agency on Aging is providing the service. To sign up for an appointment, stop by or call the senior center.
This month the center will host a movie day and an activities day. The movie, "The Magic of Bella Isles," will be shown on Tuesday, Nov. 13, at 2:30 p.m. Refreshments will be available. Activities day will begin on Tuesday, Nov. 27, at 2:30 p.m.
Bingo is played after almost every lunch. Ayleen's Quilters quilt in the center most Thursdays.
• Wednesday, Nov. 7: roast pork dinner, 5:30 p.m.
• Monday, Nov. 12: pinochle 7 p.m.
• Tuesday, Nov. 13: chili and taco salad lunch; movie, 2:30 p.m.
• Tuesday, Nov. 27: Medicare plan changes consultations; roast beef sandwiches lunch; games, 2:30 p.m.


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Updated on November 18, 2016 March 5, 2015 Stuart
The Cochin Jews, also known as Malabar Jews, are the oldest group of Jews living in India. The received their name because they live in the city of Cochin (now part of Kerala) in South India. It is thought that these Jews have been living in India since the time of King Solomon. However, some believe that they moved here from Lost Tribes, and others believe that they arrived in India after being exiled from Israel by Nebuchadnezzar. One thing that most agree on, however, is that the Cochin Jews arrived in the area in different waves; there was not one single immigration.
The oldest documented evidence of a Jewish community in southwest India dates from 1000 CE, when a Jewish leader named Joseph Rabban received a set of engraved copper plates from the Hindu ruler of Cranganore. These plates, which are still preserved in the Cochin synagogue, list economic and ceremonial privileges of the Jews, including exemption from paying taxes, the right to collect tolls, and the honor of using particular lamps, umbrellas, drums, and trumpets associated with high ritual status. Because of these plates, it is clear that by this time the Jews were firmly established in the area.
However, it is unclear as to which group of Cochin Jews were presented with the copper plates. You see, the Cochin Jews are divided into three groups. The biggest group is called Meyuhassim meaning "privileged" in Hebrew. This group's forefathers are considered to have arrived in India as merchants during the period of King Solomon. The second group is called Pardesi, meaning "foreigner" in some Indian languages. The Pardesi Jews are those who came to Kerala at different periods from different countries, mainly from Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Iran, Spain, and Germany. These two groups of people were merchants who had slaves. These slaves were converted to Judaism, then later on released from their status as slaves. They then became known as Meshuhararim, meaning "released" in Hebrew. The Pardesi Jews are sometimes referred to as White Jews, whereas Meyuhassim are sometimes referred to as Black Jews. One may assume that this distinction is based on skin color, although this is another fact that is not necessarily historically clear.
The population of Jews living in Kerala, an area named for the kera, or coconut palm tree that flourishes here, has greatly fluctuated over the last 2 millennia. By the 1700s there were 8 different synagogues in 5 different towns within Kerala. The community was said to be largest in the 1940s, when the population reached about 3,000. After 1948, however, many emigrated, and Cochin aliyah began in the 1950s.
One of the most interesting things about the Cochin Jews is that they have lived in southwest India for so long without experiencing anti-Semitism or threats of persecution from neighbors of India. Today, there are no more than 60-70 Jews living in Kerala. But you can still find evidence of a Jewish community and neighborhood here, along with a synagogue. However, there are as many as 4,000 Cochin Jews living in Israel, where they carry on their proud traditions and heritage as Jews of India.
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Got questions about French language and culture? Every week on the Talk in French newsletter, I answer questions sent by readers.
Here I'm sharing one that I answered a while ago, but it's quite relevant at this time of the year.
La citrouille and le potiron are very similar actually. But there are some differences.
First, le potiron is a bit smaller and flat. La Citrouille, on the other hand, is bigger--it is the one you use for Halloween.
While both are varieties of squash, the scientific name of la citrouille is cucurbita pepo and it is often referred to as citrouille véritable (true pumpkin). Le potiron is cucurbita maxima or winter squash.
Le potiron tastes a bit sweeter and in general, tastier than citrouille. La citrouille is stringier (fliandreux) than le potiron. Le potiron is more popular for cooking in France. In fact, I am a big fan of « la soupe de potiron ».
I hope this clarifies the difference between la citrouille and le potiron. Just remember, le potiron is smaller and more elongated while la citrouille is bigger and rounder. La citrouille is often used for Halloween while le potiron is popular for cooking different dishes such as la soupe de potiron.
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Linux Line
By Keir Thomas, PCWorld |
Linux and open-source news and advice
Switching My Dad to Linux--Part Two
As mentioned in my last posting, I'm not a very good Linux evangelist. I don't try and convert family and friends to Linux.
Therefore, as surprising as it sounds, putting Ubuntu on my dad's new laptop--as I did a week ago--was the first time I've ever directly converted another individual to Linux. It's safe to say I've indirectly converted 100s of thousands of people with my books (Ubuntu Pocket Guide) has been downloaded over 500,000 times, for example). But this was my first "hands on" experience.
It was fun. To my dad, a computer is primarily a magical eBay machine. Like many in the older generation, he loves online auctions. He knows practically nothing about how computers or operating systems work. He just has no interest. A computer is a tool, not an end in itself.
He also browses a lot and sometimes prints off letters using OpenOffice.org. I switched him to Firefox and OpenOffice.org years ago on his old XP laptop. As it transpired, this made the transition to Ubuntu a lot easier because I didn't have to deal with Microsoft's proprietary file formats. Additionally, everything on Ubuntu looked mostly the same as far as he was concerned.
My father's computing demands might sound trivial but are actually quite demanding. He has to be able to get photographs off his digital camera, for example, so he can put them online for his eBay auctions. He needs to be able to tweak them if necessary. He has to be able to print his letters. Like most people nowadays, he has DSL and a wifi router, so it was necessary to get wifi working.
Let's update from an Ubuntu perspective the points raised in the previous posting that drove him (and me) away from Windows Vista:
Updates, Updates, Updates
I set his new Ubuntu 9.04 install to update automatically and invisibly (System > Administration > Software Sources, and make the selection under the Updates tab). Very few system updates under Ubuntu require a reboot. That's just not the way Linux works. If the update does require a reboot, it can wait until the computer is shutdown at the end of the session. My father certainly won't be nagged by a pop-up dialog box that won't take no for an answer.
The end result is that I sleep safe at night knowing that my father's computer is as secure as it can be. He gets invisible security. That's how it should be.
Where is everything?
From my father's perspective, things look mostly the same because he's been using Firefox and OpenOffice.org for years under WinXP. I altered the color scheme to a Windows-like blue, and I also installed the msttcorefonts package, so fonts looked the same on websites. I even compared his old XP laptop alongside his new Ubuntu laptop, to ensure everything looked as familiar as possible!
The only slight stumbling block for him was locating his digital camera snaps after he imported them. I had to teach him to use the Places menu to open a file browsing window, and also teach him about the concept of the Home folder, where his personal data lives. To my surprise, he understood this easily. I guess the metaphor of a Home folder is actually pretty intuitive.
From my point of view, I know Ubuntu backwards so I'll be able to help him out over the phone without having to sit in front of the computer to fix problems. (Techies might be interested to know that for security reasons I didn't enable SSH, as useful as it might have been.)
Confirm or deny?
I created a "desktop" user account for my father, which means that he'll never come into contact with any software that requires him to authorise it. Therefore, there shouldn't be any mysterious password prompts appearing that will cause him to reach for the phone and my speed-dial number. As mentioned above, updates are automatic and invisible.
This is an important point -- a well setup Ubuntu system really will be fuss-free compared to Vista, which has a very bad habit of nagging the user. Ubuntu is very good at keeping in the background, like a good operating system should do. It's a shame Microsoft have forgotten this.
We ran into a problem here. Generally speaking, printers work out of the box with Ubuntu, and it has built-in support for 100s of models. However, my father has an old Canon MP130 multifuction printer and, for some reason, Canon have not produced Linux drivers for it.
The first thing I did was search Ubuntuforums.org. This is the community forum that's essentially a massive hub of knowledge. It is always the first port of call whenever I encounter a hardware issue. It took seconds to find a solution, which is to install a driver for the iP1500 printer, for which Canon has produced a driver. Luckily, this is entirely compatible.
The solution given at Ubuntuforums.org involved typing commands, although it's also possible to do the same thing using the Software Sources and Synaptic programs on the Administration menu. However, the solution was provided as a step-by-step guide, so even if I didn't understand what I was doing, I would be able to get things working quickly, and it only needs to be done once.
[ Further reading: 4 Linux projects for newbies and intermediate users ]
Antivirus programs
There are no viruses for Linux, so no antivirus program is necessary. This alone means that my father is getting a speedier and better-performing computer.
Ridiculous Wi-Fi program
In the last blog posting I mentioned how my father's laptop (a Fujitsu-Siemens Li2727) has a crazy system whereby wifi is always deactivated at boot. Because of this, the user must run a program when Windows boots to activate Wi-Fi manually. Under Windows there's no way of automating this.
It goes without saying that this program isn't available for Linux. That's a good thing, because it is an abomination, and Fujitsu-Siemens should feel ashamed for ever have produced it.
I once again hit Ubuntuforums.org for a solution. I found many. This was initially heartening, but some solutions were ridiculously complicated, and also a few years old. I suspected a better solution was out there so I kept searching and found a tutorial that was written just six months ago. It's worth mentioning that, although packed with information, Ubuntuforums.org can be like a huge library that lacks a card system. It can be difficult work searching for a solution, but persistence nearly always pays off. Solutions created recently are often far better than those that are a few years old because of the fast-moving nature of Ubuntu.
Again, the solution to the wifi woes involved typing commands, but there's a full step-by-step tutorial and it needs to be done only once. The end result is that wifi activates automatically at each boot, just like any other laptop. No user intervention required! This is a good example of how Linux gives the freedom to create solutions. With Windows, you're effectively on rails, and must do things the way Microsoft or hardware vendors want you to.
My dad's been happy with his new system. Lots of small details seem to please him. For example, Ubuntu's font rendering means text is easier for him to read compared to Windows (although he's always used slightly larger fonts).
The biggest stumbling block that I didn't see coming was working with digital photographs. Bearing in mind he doesn't entirely understand the concept of files, my father previously relied on Windows XP's wizard-based system that appeared when he plugged in the camera. This let him rotate pictures during the import procedure. Under Ubuntu, I had to teach him to open the relevant photos individually, rotate them, and then save them. This was slightly outside his area of comfort, but he took to it very well. He also had to learn how to unmount the camera when he'd finished with it -- under Windows he'd been used to simply yanking it. Now he has to right-click the desktop icon and select "Unmount Volume" (nice beginner-friendly language there, Ubuntu guys!).
Here again, however, there were things my father liked -- the way Nautilus provided thumbnail previews of pictures, for example, and how he could make the thumbnails bigger by using the zoom controls. He liked how there was a large thumbnail preview of the image in the "file open" dialog box when he uploaded his photos to eBay.
The only other issue he encountered was printing a highlighted selection, a feature he uses on eBay auctions to avoid printing all the junk at the top and bottom of the page. The option to print only selected text is hidden under the Options tab of Ubuntu's print dialog box -- a baffling decision by developers considering how useful that option is.
The key thing throughout the experience has been that Ubuntu is genuinely a better choice for my father's laptop. It has to be said that a large part of this is the failings of Windows Vista. If the laptop had come with XP installed, I would probably have suggested he stick with it, although I'd have installed Firefox and OpenOffice.org for him. But Vista is a turkey of an operating system that works against its users.
However, his experience also shows how far Ubuntu has come. The wrinkles have been entirely smoothed out compared to Linux of just a few years ago. Yes, we encountered a handful of issues, and having the author of several Ubuntu books at hand is a luxury few other people have. But installing any kind of operating system from scratch will present almost identical issues to those we encountered, regardless of whether it's Linux or Windows. It's a matter of spending a little time finding solutions, and learning to adapt to slightly different ways of working. In my father's case, the rewards really were worth the effort.


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Fünf Freunde 4 ist ein deutscher Spielfilm, der am 29. Januar 2015 in den Kinos startete. Als Drehbuchvorlage diente die Kinderbuchserie Fünf Freunde von Enid Blyton. Nach Fünf Freunde 2 und Fünf Freunde 3 ist der Film die dritte Fortsetzung zu Fünf Freunde aus dem Jahr 2012. Der Film wurde von Juni bis August 2014 in Tunis und Marokko, Bayern und in Schleswig-Holstein gedreht.

Handlung
Bernhard, der Vater von Julian, Dick und Anne organisiert eine Ausstellung zum alten Ägypten. Dabei entdecken die Freunde nach einem versuchten Einbruch ein altes Goldamulett. So fliegen sie mit Elena, einer Kollegin des Vaters, nach Kairo. In Kairo gerät der Vater der drei in eine Falle und wird danach des Diebstahls beschuldigt. Bis zur Gerichtsverhandlung kommt er ins Gefängnis. Die Fünf versuchen, Bernhards Unschuld zu beweisen und nehmen sich Auni, einen jugendlichen Taschendieb, zu Hilfe. Gemeinsam können sie Bernhards Unschuld beweisen und ihn befreien.

Rezeption
kino.de urteilte, durch die reiferen Darsteller würden die "Probleme und zwischenmenschlichen Beziehungen etwas erwachsener" ausfallen als in den Vorgängerfilmen. Gleichbleibend seien jedoch "der Spaß am Erzählen" und an "exotischen Schauplätzen" sowie "wohl dosierte Actionmomente" geblieben.

TV Spielfilm attestierte dem Film, dass er "extrem aufregend" und "nichts für schwache Nerven" sei. Vor allem das Finale in der Sahara sei "an Dramatik kaum zu überbieten". Die Spannung würde in "einigen Szenen bis an die Grenze des Erträglichen" ausgereizt, das Abenteuer "klingt nicht nur wie ein Roman von Dan Brown", es sei "auch genau so spannend".

Weblinks

 Fünf Freunde 4 bei Constantin Film

Einzelnachweise

Filmtitel 2015
Deutscher Film
Abenteuerfilm
Familienfilm
Kinderfilm
Enid-Blyton-Verfilmung


One of the reasons I love working with small businesses is that it gives me the chance to really see how much of a difference we can make. This particular story is about a client who didn't have a large budget when we started, but is now able to expand on her old campaign with the new breathing room we've given her. This case study proves that concentrated local strategies can make a big difference even on a lean budget.
In early 2016, Loganix was approached by a young female entrepreneur looking for a way to grow her wedding & event planning business in a certain large North American city. Due to local competition and the age of the site, traffic arrived by way of social channels and word-of-mouth. There was only a small amount of search traffic coming from branded keyword searches.
Her goal was to increase local search traffic to her site for all types of event-related keywords, including weddings, corporate parties and proposals. By setting her up to work closely with one of our account managers, we were able to determine exactly where she wanted us to focus our attention.
During consultation, we were able to create a plan for the year that took into account her modest budget and where our work would create the largest impact on her business. By tracking the types of events happening throughout the year, we were able to create a search strategy that targeted the evergreen and seasonal keywords immediately before the biggest season for booking these services.
After speaking with our account managers about the different options, she decided on our Loganix Premium product—A complete local-oriented SEO solution for small business owners.
Our team started with an SEO audit covering all on & off page factors for organic and local SEO.
We made an effort to understand her core products and seasonal offerings. This allowed us to research the highest value keywords to rank for within 3, 6, 9 and 12 months from the campaign start date. These terms would provide the most value in the short term, and allow her to rank for summer terms in May/June and fall terms in August/September, etc.
After laying out our keyword targeting gameplan, we made some important adjustments to her site. By rewriting some existing website copy, creating additional content and pages for newly identified terms, and optimizing the site for speed across desktop & mobile browsers, we were able to dramatically improve the user experience. We had very little analytics data when we started, so our team installed various tools for tracking site visitors and conversions to help us guide decisions moving forward.
We optimized the Google My Business profile for her single location, including a small citation cleanup campaign, followed by a build campaign. We put together a strategy to get reviews on various profiles/review sites from her existing base of satisfied clients. We also utilized these ratings/reviews on the website and on other marketing materials.
Once all on-page tasks were taken care of, we set out to create a customized link-building campaign using high-quality editorial links from local and niche-specific publications and national news outlets. This helped to not only generate high-value links but also bolster the value of her brand by association with these outlets.
During the process she was able to monitor the results from our proprietary tracking dashboard. Here, she could find data that included traffic, ranking changes, conversions, backlinks placed and more. Access to our project management dashboard allowed her to see an overview of everything our team was working on week-to-week.


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Witness of Denman winners inspires others
'Oh, how I want to be more like her'
Look to the Christian love shown daily by the 2015 Denman Award winners to inspire your response to the Lord's question "Who will go for us?" (Isaiah 6:8).
Sam Powers, Marcia Martin, and Shirley Adams surely reply, "Here am I. Send me."
Oklahoma needs more United Methodists to answer affirmatively, Bishop Hayes told delegates at the 2015 Annual Conference. During the Discipleship Ministry Team report, the laywoman and two pastors received the prestigious award for evangelism.
Reasons for their selection pack statements by people who nominated them.
Shirley Adams
"Simply put, Shirley radiates God's love. The fruits of the spirit are so evident in her life," said Donna Tonubbee of Shawnee-Wesley UMC.
"When Shirley Adams is aware of a place where God's church is not reaching out, not being salt and light, Shirley doesn't just talk about it or spend months in discussion. She says, 'Here I am, Lord!'
"Oh, how I want to be more like her."
Adams, a member of Shawnee-Wesley for over 35 years, currently leads the Welcome Team, serves as Lay Leader, and facilitates a weekly Bible study. She founded and for 17 years led the church's fruitful after-school ministry with children.
"She taught me and other church members how important it is to be that adult, that teacher in the lives of children who need to know that God loves them and their church family loves them, too," Tonubbee said.
On applications for food and utility help from the church, some families mark "Yes" on the question "Would you like to know more about our church?" Adams saw follow-up falling behind and took the lead in making contacts.
"Prayer is priority in every area of her life," Tonubbee noted. "Every time she is in a leadership role in any group, opening devotional and prayer (are) essential. We all benefit by that model."
Pastor Ben Williams said, "A forward-thinker, Shirley got help in hanging a Dream Board in the fellowship hall. Her vision is that the board will help Wesley members think about the forward momentum of the church's ministries. She gives a presentation to each succeeding class of new members."
About 200 people worship weekly at the church.
Rev. Marcia Martin
When Marcia Martin, Vian UMC's first female pastor, arrived in 2012, attendance was 35, with no youth ministry.
Worship draws 85 people now. Among 38 new members, all but two joined by Profession of Faith.
Church member Daniel Reid celebrated, "For the first time, the church has a second adult Sunday School class, a class for youth, and full-time nursery."
He noted that Rev. Martin endorsed five members to attend the basic Lay Servant course in April, bringing to eight the total Lay Servants at Vian UMC. Because of her encouragement, Reid also enrolled in the Part-Time Local Pastors Academy.
Now Vian UMC hosts Fifth Quarter after school football games and a Wednesday evening meal and worship. A chapter of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes was established in the community.
This pastor effectively uses Facebook and email — and provides automated phone messages for members who don't utilize the Web.
District Superintendent Emery Mason said Martin "clearly believed that the church was intended to be more than 'dead and dying' and set out to give of herself to a vision that God had given her of a church that is 'resurrected and alive.'"
Martin previously served as youth director at Cookson UMC, pastored by Rudy Freese. He recalled that her efforts there grew "a few youth to a bustling youth group with more than 40 kids."
Rev. Freese said, "One only needs to follow her on Facebook to see that she is walking hand-in-hand with the people in the community and her church."
Rev. Sam Powers
"You ask that I describe the spirit of the man I have nominated. There is also a man in the Spirit. This is Sam Powers!" wrote Jim Swaim of Piedmont UMC.
"His was the first face I saw when the debris was cleared and our storm cellar door opened" after a tornado ravaged that city in May 2011.
Before his 2014 appointment as senior pastor for Edmond-First UMC, Rev. Powers had pastored at Piedmont since 2001. His community-wide service included the fire department's chaplaincy.
Swaim also applauded Powers' leadership in Piedmont's partner ministries with Cashion UMC, a smaller congregation. "Through the combined efforts of Sam, the church committees, volunteers, and support of the Oklahoma Conference, a rural Methodist church will not die," he wrote.
Superintendent Rockford Johnson remembered seeing the pastor at district youth camp in 2013.
"I found Sam there in his hiking clothes, with dirt and perspiration on him and a genuine smile on his face … Sam not only leads the church in good programming, but also leads by example and by active, relational presence in the lives of people," Rev. Johnson said.
"The consistently high numbers of professions of faith at the Piedmont church, with 44 in 2013, is a telling witness to the priority of evangelism in Sam's ministry and leadership."
— Compiled by Holly McCray
From left, the 2015 Denman Award recipients are Shirley Adams of Shawnee, Rev. Marcia Martin of Vian, and Rev. Sam Powers of Edmond. At back are Revs. Stephen Hale and Janelle Brammer, of the Discipleship Ministry Team's evangelism committee.


COLLIN COUNTY, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – A driver and passenger were killed in a single-vehicle crash on State Highway 121 near Anna, northeast of McKinney Monday night.
Witnesses said the Camaro was in a passing zone and was passing another vehicle.
That's when the driver of the Camaro lost control, went off the road and struck a tree around 7:30 p.m.
Both the driver and passenger died at the scene.
The highway was shut down to all traffic for hours.
On Tuesday the victims were identified as driver Chris Perkins, 34, of Whitewright. The passenger has been identified as Kylan Krick, 8, from Whitewright.


Chuck Jordan is one of the most famous car designers of all time and, like all enthusiasts, he loved his Ferraris. The only problem was he was the lead designer for General Motors, not Ferrari, so one day his employees at the GM Design Center decided to have a little fun with his prized Daytona.
Here's the rarely heard story of an incredible car prank.
If you've ever daydreamed about being a car designer, and let's face it, we all have, you've probably mostly been imagining the exciting early and late stages -– the exciting early concept sketches, and the rapture of seeing your design in metal. All that crap in the middle — the measuring, the math, the tedium — that's probably not what you're imagining.
Still, being an auto designer is hard work, and to break that tension pranks get played. Not just pranks, but auto designer pranks, which are even better. Like the one in that photo, played on legendary GM design head Chuck Jordan, the man who brought GM's design into the modern age with cars like the Buick Reatta and before that with icons like the Opel GT and the tailfin-zenith '59 Eldorado.
Besides all the great cars Paul worked on and his wonderful personality, the most memorable thing about Paul was his infamous mock-ups. Who else would mock up a broken brick wall around a rear end buck push against it as if it crashed through, or remember the door you mocked up in the hall under the EXIT sign that had no door and weren't you one of those who mocked up Chuck Jordan's Ferrari Daytona into a Super Fly car?
Long story short: Chuck Jordan loved Ferraris, and Chuck Jordan loved parking them in GM Design garages (and having GM Design staff occasionally tend to them). Doing so meant they were occasionally accessible to the designers...who then would pull stunts like this. Priceless.
Take that, Chuck! How's that sleek Ferrari look with a "heritage" grille, big fog lights, side pipes, and opera windows slapped on it? Ah, that's good. To clarify what exactly was done, it seems that Jordan's Ferrari was taken to the design studio, where it was severely debased by the designers festooning it with the absolute worst crap they had laying around from other projects— the grille, wheel skirts, side pipes, all that, some of it custom made to fit the Daytona, and even painted to match. I don't think anything was permanently affixed. Sadly?
Still, it's all fun until someone snaps and starts to think this looks good. When this happens, we get things like the Blackhawk.
So have fun, car designers, but, you know, be careful.


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ABC News Fellowship: Journalists of Diverse Backgrounds Apply Now
By Rebecca Aguilar | May 28th, 2012
ABC News is starting a fellowship program aimed at preparing up-and-coming journalists for television news. The news network plans to choose participants from a variety of different racial, ethnic, socio-economic and geographic backgrounds. Each fellow will work closely with an experienced ABC News mentor.
I have high hopes for this fellowship. Kudos to ABC News for making an effort to find fellows from diverse backgrounds.
The chosen fellows will be offered:
Rotation among several ABC News departments and broadcasts.
Development of editorial, news gathering and production skills.
Work closely with assigned news mentor at ABC.
ABC News President Ben Sherwood says the network is committed in recruiting, developing, empowering and promoting the industry's future leaders. The news network hopes to start this program on July 2, 2012.
What you need to qualify:
Solid writing skills
Shooting and video editing experience
Minimum two years experience
Proficient in Spanish is preferred
Fellows will be employees of ABC News for one year. For more information: ABC Fellowship.
Rebecca Aguilar is an Emmy award winning freelance reporter based in Dallas, TX. She's a board member with the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and SPJ Fort Worth Chapter. She's also the vice chair of the SPJ Diversity Committee.
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Forbes Under-30 Media List: No Latinos, No Blacks, and No Native Americans
By Rebecca Aguilar | December 24th, 2011
The issue about diversity is burning up the web right now, because journalists of color are upset with the latest Forbes Under-30 Media List. Not one person is Latino, African American or Native American. There are a few Asian Americans.
Forbes unveiled its list stating:
"These are the people who aren't waiting to reinvent the world. FORBES, leaning on the wisdom of its readers and the greatest minds in business, presents the 30 disrupters under 30, in each of 12 fields, making a difference right now."
Robert Hernandez made me aware of the issue when he posted on Facebook "Apparently Forbes does not know any Black or Latino journos under 30….let's introduce them to some. Please tweet them some names."
Hernandez is assistant professor at USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism. He's also a current board member with the Online News Association and past board member with the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
Soon after Hernandez put out that call on Twitter; journalists started tweeting suggestions to Forbes. Alexandra Talty, a spokeswoman with Forbes talked to Richard Prince who blogs about journalists of color for The Maynard Institute. Talty told Journal-isms:
"While there are over fifty people of color on our other 30 Under 30 lists, diversity in media remains a national issue, which this list reflects."
WHO DID THE CHOOSING?
Forbes asked its readers to nominate candidates for the list. The staff also submitted names. I just can't believe that when they laid out the photos and bios of the top 30—no one said "wait a minute, what's missing here?"
I'm wondering who were the judges. Was it a diverse group that included Latinos, African Americans and Native Americans?
DON'T IGNORE THE ISSUE
An effort has to be made to make everyone feel "included." That's the bottomline. Today no magazine, newspaper, online news site or television station can afford to lose readers and viewers. Not when we have so much news at our fingertips.
If journalists of color are upset that Forbes did not include one African American, Latino or Native American on its media list; don't you think they will let others know?
On a broader look, if people of color do not feel included in a story; they will stop buying your newspaper or magazine or they'll change the television channel. Forbes thought this golden list of people under 30 was going to be a wonderful way to end 2011, but for journalists of color—it was a slap in the face.
My suggestion to Forbes; DIVERSIFY in all areas. Your spokeswoman said "diversity in media remains a national issue." There you have it! Do a story on the lack of diversity in the media and start with your magazine. Take an inside look.
Learn what Forbes is learning today from bad press: Diversity matters!
Rebecca Aguilar is an Emmy Award winning reporter with 30 years in the business. She's a member of the SPJ Diversity Committee and a board member with the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and the SPJ Fort Worth Chapter.
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Journalism in Belize: Different practices, different standards
By Holly Edgell | January 7th, 2010
Between seeing friends and family, snorkeling, going to the Belize Zoo, and various other activities, I have been watching and reading the news in Belize.
One of the big stories right now is a controversy about comments made by the Minister of Foregin Affairs, Wildred "Sedi" Elrington. As far as I can make out, Mr. Elrington — speaking about the on-going Belize-Guatemala dispute — called the border between these two countries "artificial." He says he was using the terms in the diplomatic/geo-political sense. The leading opposition party and some media observers are calling Mr. Elrington a traitor, saying he is advocating for a dissolution of the border between the countries. This strikes fear in the hearts of most Belizeans, who are very aware that Guatemala claims Belize as its own territory.
Yesterday on the morning show, "Open Your Eyes" (which airs on Channel 5), Mr. Elrington explained his position, conceding the term he used (artificial border) was probably misleading, since most Belizeans are not familiar with the meaning he had in mind. He defended his bona fides as a staunch opponent of giving an inch on the Guatemala question.
It struck me that the show's hosts gave the minister wide latitude to expound and expand. He used the opportunity to criticize a leading newspaper for failing to seek "his side of the story," an explanation or context. Furthermore, he praised both Channel 5 and rival Channel 7 news operations for giving him the chance to comment.
There is something to be said for giving newsmakers enough time to fill in the gaps. But it's a fine line between that and allowing the newsmaker to run away with the interview. Co-hosts William Neal and Marleni Cuellar did a pretty good job to keep things balanced.
Another big story is the tossing of a grenade on the Belize City street recently, which killed a teenage boy. On Monday a suspect was arraigned and, taking a stroll downtown, my cousin and I watched as local media gathered outside Magistrate's Court for the "perp walk." There is something very comforting about see journalists in action, no matter where in the world they may be! The family of the accused was outside the court too, along with various gawkers.
Coverage about this story has included, "He didn't do it" and "It's a police frame-up job," from relatives members of the community. One of the most interesting stories last night asked the question: "How did a grenade get onto the streets?" The reporter asked pointed questions of the Commander of the British Army Training Support Unit in Belize (BATSUB), who admitted that somehow 25 grenades disappeared from BATSUB facilities. That means someone out there has quite a few grenades to lob in the future.
Good stuff. The coverage, not the grenades.
Here are a few more media items about Belize:
* Channel 5 launched a brand new studio for its newscasts and other programming this week. Channel 5 is a technological and journalistic pioneer in Belize, having aired the first independent (non-government) television newscast in the country, back in 1991. Channel 5 also recently re-launched its web site, allowing for easier perusal and sharing.
* I was reminded that local television news airs at 6:30 pm on both Belize City stations. They record and re-air their shows at 10:00 pm. Morning shows are also re-aired later in the day.
* There's a new radio station to add to the list in my previous blog, MORE-FM. It's run by Rene Villanueva who also owns other media outlets. Mr. Villanueva was a Radio Belize stalwart back in the day and I worked as intern for him one summer when I was in Belize. Also added to list of media in Belize: PlusTV, KREM-TV, and LOVE-TV.
* Belize does not have a daily newspaper. At least two, The Guardian and The Belize Times are tied to political parties (see photo below). Newspapers come out on a weekly or twice weekly basis, although the web now allows more frequent news updates. At least two television stations offer streaming video (not live) as well as verbatim text of their newscasts. They do not rework the content as many US stations and networks do for online versions of their stories.
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Blogging from Belize
By Holly Edgell | January 1st, 2010
On Sunday I depart for Belize, so my two weeks as writer for this blog will be coming to you from the tropics. It's the only English-speaking nation on the Central American mainland and gained independence from Great Britain in 1981.
So why I am going to Belize? Well, I was born there and have lots of family and friends who still live there. I plan to do plenty of the cool stuff you can do in Belize, including visiting a Maya ruin I have not yet seen, hanging out on the beach, and — I hope — cave tubing. But, there will be some journalism involved as well. I will be meeting with two faculty members at theUniversity of the West Indies branch in Belize City, with an eye to returning later in the year to run a journalism seminar over two or three days.
Not only is Belize the definition of diversity in terms of its people, the local media scene is rich and varied and vigorous. For a country with a population of around 300,000 there are plenty of opinions and voices on air, online, and in print.
Based in Belize City are the following outlets:
The Belize Times
Channel 5 (News 5)
Channel 7 (Channel 7 News)
KREM-FM
LOVE-FM
WAVE-FM
In the districts one can find:
EstereoAmor (Radio)
CTV3
Fiesta FM
San Pedro Daily
Toledo Howler
Placencia Breeze
And these are just the ones I know of! Radio is especially vibrant, with news, local culture, music, and talk shows that hit hard at politicians and business big wigs. Before independence there was just one station called "Radio Belize," which was run by the government. It used to air everything from news and music, to death announcements (radio and TV stations still do this), and messages to and from lost or missing persons from concerned family and friends. Several Belizean newspapers today are associated with one political party or another. The Reporter (which my mother Zee Edgell founded in the 1960s) and Amandala tend to be the most independent, but bias is apparent at times.
In short, Belize's media scene — like its democracy — is messy, imperfect, well-intentioned, and — as I've mentioned — diverse. There is no code of ethics for Belizean journalists to follow, at least none that I know of. Recently, both TV news outlets in Belize City showed the dead bodies of an adult and an infant on the air. When I commented about this on Facebook, I got more than a dozen comments from Belizeans — journalists and non-journalists — criticizing the stations. Information in the same story can diverge wildly from outlet to outlet, from name spellings and ages to the actual facts. Opinion and bias are rampant in Belizean newspaper stories; I'm talking about fact pieces here, not columns or editorials. Newspapers also print press releases verbatim. These are just a few of the issues that I've run across as I follow Belizean news coverage from here in the USA.
So, I ask myself: What, if anything, I can I contribute? I don't think it's up to me to "fix" or change Belizean journalism. So, I did a little survey last year about what journalists there might like to see in a journalism seminar or conference. Respondents variously characterized the Belize media as amatuer, intensely competitive, fair and balanced, and biased. They described journalists as self-taught, amateur, and dedicated to their profession. One-hundred percent of the respondents said they would like to see continuing education for journalists (there are no formal university journalism curricula). More than sixty percent wanted to see a strong professional organization for journalists and a code of ethics. The top subject areas that interested the journalists? Investigative techniques, interviewing techniques, media management, the laws of Belize on open records, and multimedia basics.
The thing that resonated with me the most was that more than ninety percent of the respondent said they love their profession and can't see themselves doing anything else.
So, this seminar that I may do later this year could turn out to be part skills-based, part conversation about what Belizean journalism is all about and what it can be in the future.
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Pieter Schoolwerth, proprietor of Wierd Records and promoter of the Wednesday night New York City club of the same name, has some allies at L.A.'s Chinatown-based monthly party M/R/X-Wolfpak. Both follow a similar path, championing the minimal synth sounds that are developing in pockets of young artists living across the globe. And so it only makes sense that M/R/X-Wolfpak, who previously promoted live performances from Wierd artists Xeno & Oaklander and Martial Canterel, would host the listening party for the label's most ambitious project yet. The Wierd Compilation Volume II: Analogue Electronic Music 2008 is a four-piece vinyl compilation (a digital version is also available on iTunes) featuring 39 tracks from 30 bands performing on analog equipment and including a 32-page book filled with photos and band information.
The M/R/X-Wolfpak DJs will be playing the entire compilation tomorrow night (Saturday, August 2) beginning at 9 p.m. Also on schedule for the evening are live sets from Magick Daggers and VV Morgue.
M/R/X-Wolfpak is at Roberto's Sports Bar, 686 N. Spring Street, Second Floor.
MP3: Xeno & Oaklander "Celeste" from The Wierd Compilation Volume II. Posted with permission from Wierd Records.