What Is "Google My Business"?
It is a Google-powered platform where businesses can manage their online presence in full on Google Search and Maps.
A company can add in all its crucial information such as contact details, business hours, website URL, products categories etc… and simultaneously reach multiple Google Platforms. This means that a company will gain not only increased visibility in search results, but will also be shown in reviews, maps and in locations. This will multiply a company's exposure in Google search results.
Claiming your Google My Business profile is the easiest first step in building your online visibility, which can make or break your company. When people search for a product or service near them, they're usually very close to making a purchase -- one in two people who conduct a local search (think "watch repair near me") visit a store that day.
Business listing on one of the biggest search engines on the internet helps put your business in front of many potential customers. Your GMB listing gives potential clients easy access to your hours of operation, phone number, website and directions with a click of a button. Your GMB profile also gives customers an inside look at your business by giving insight into your busiest hours as well as review ratings.
One of biggest benefits of your profile on Google My Business is the prime real estate it can occupy in search results.
A GMB profile that is optimized and up to date signals to Google that your profile is relevant for users searching for your product or service and can potentially show your profile in the Google local 3-pack.
Whether on a phone, tablet or desktop, your GMB listing will consistently appear in search results, no matter which device your potential customers are using to look for your business online. This is extremely important because, recently, mobile search has slowly been taking over desktop search and the assurance that your listing will show independently from the device used for the search is really important for your long-term online growth.
A business that does not appear in search results is non-existent in the eyes of Google!


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Q: npm deprecated warnings – do I need to update something? After doing npm install to fetch a project's dependencies, I regularly get a lot messages like this:
npm WARN deprecated lodash@1.0.2: lodash@<2.0.0 is no longer maintained. Upgrade to lodash@^3.0.0
Obviously I don't understand node good enough to conclude what I should do – the project doesn't even include lodash directly.
Do I need to update something on my side? Or is it the package maintainers task?

A: In general that is the package maintainer's task. You could open an issue on their github repo (if it is on github) and even better would be to make a pull request with the internal dependencies updated.

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Ana Sayfa Foto Manipülasyon Photo Manipulation Progression: Imagination.
Hey guys this is my very first time doing any photo manipulation. It's very basic but comes out with a great finish. Hope you like it.


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The teachings of the Old and New Testaments tell us that the Messiah comes with the authority of the Father to meet the person in the position of God the Mother, who is the substantial form of the Holy Spirit, and restore the position of the True Parents.
I realized that I wasn't alone: when I faced some difficulties, I heard the absolute voice in the air that said "Don't move." So I became a person who could live with the absolute voice, which no one else knew.
The day will come when the coming Lord can establish the bond of lineage linking God to His sons and daughters. Suppose that when Jesus came to the earth as God's only begotten Son, he had not died on the cross. Since he was God's only begotten Son, God surely would have sent His only begotten Daughter to him.
In the Bible we read a passage, "My soul still seeks but I cannot find: One man among a thousand I have found, But a woman among all these I have not found." (Eccl. 7:28) God has searched for 2,000 years to find the Bride.


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Iron, the substantia nigra and related neurological disorders
Amanda Snyder, James Connor
Background: Iron status is higher in the substantia nigra than in other brain regions but can fluctuate as function of diet and genetics and disease. Of particular note is the compartmentalization of the iron-enrichment in this region; the pars reticulata contains higher levels of stainable iron as compared to the pars compacta. The latter area is where the dopaminergic neurons reside. How this compartmentalization impacts the interpretation of data that iron contributes to cell death as in Parkinson's disease or iron deficiency contributes to altered dopaminergic activity is unknown. Nonetheless, that iron can influence neuronal cell death and dopamine function is clear. Methods: The mechanisms by which iron may be managed in the substantia nigra, particularly in the neuromelanin cells where minimal levels of ferritin the iron storage protein have been detected are addressed. The current approaches to detect iron in the substantia nigra are also reviewed. In addition, the potential mechanisms by which iron enrichment may occur in the substantia nigra are explored. General Significance: This review attempts to provide a critical evaluation of the many avenues of exploration into the role of iron in one of the most iron-enriched and clinically investigated areas of the brain, the substantia nigra.
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - General Subjects
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbagen.2008.08.005
Dopaminergic Neurons
Ferritins
Snyder, A., & Connor, J. (2009). Iron, the substantia nigra and related neurological disorders. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - General Subjects, 1790(7), 606-614. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbagen.2008.08.005
Snyder, Amanda ; Connor, James. / Iron, the substantia nigra and related neurological disorders. In: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - General Subjects. 2009 ; Vol. 1790, No. 7. pp. 606-614.
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Q: apt search is not finding programs in the repositories I recently used debootstrap to create an Ubuntu container on a Fedora machine. Most everything works, but I can't use apt to install new packages. At first, my /etc/apt/sources.list was empty but following stackoverflow advice I added:
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy restricted main universe multiverse
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-updates restricted main universe multiverse
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security restricted main universe multiverse
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-proposed restricted main universe multiverse

Now when I do apt update I see in wireshark that it is reading the InRelease file from each of those repositories. Now apt would seem to know about thousands of packages:
 # grep 'Package: python-pip' /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 /var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_jammy_universe_source_Sources:Package: python-pip
 /var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_jammy_universe_source_Sources:Package: python-pipdeptree
 /var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_jammy_universe_source_Sources:Package: python-pipx

And yet apt search and apt install do not know about such packages:
# apt search python-pip
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
# apt install python-pip
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package python-pip

In fact it appears to me the only packages that can be found by apt search are those in /var/cache/apt/archives which appear to be just the packages that are already installed.
What do I need to change in my apt config so apt can find and install packages from all of the repositories in sources.list?
Thanks! -- Bob


Jimmy Song, Bitcoin Core developer and a partner at Blockchain Capital, a venture capital company, talks about MimbleWimble, a privacy and fungibility focused cryptocoin transaction structure proposal. According to the project's website, its main differences to bitcoin: no scripts, cross-block mergeable transactions, confidential account balances. Current development is heading towards having an altcoin instead of a bitcoin layer/side-chain for now, the website adds.


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package azgo

import (
	"encoding/xml"
	"reflect"

	log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
)

// AggrInodeAttributesType is a structure to represent a aggr-inode-attributes ZAPI object
type AggrInodeAttributesType struct {
	XMLName                     xml.Name `xml:"aggr-inode-attributes"`
	FilesPrivateUsedPtr         *int     `xml:"files-private-used"`
	FilesTotalPtr               *int     `xml:"files-total"`
	FilesUsedPtr                *int     `xml:"files-used"`
	InodefilePrivateCapacityPtr *int     `xml:"inodefile-private-capacity"`
	InodefilePublicCapacityPtr  *int     `xml:"inodefile-public-capacity"`
	InofileVersionPtr           *int     `xml:"inofile-version"`
	MaxfilesAvailablePtr        *int     `xml:"maxfiles-available"`
	MaxfilesPossiblePtr         *int     `xml:"maxfiles-possible"`
	MaxfilesUsedPtr             *int     `xml:"maxfiles-used"`
	PercentInodeUsedCapacityPtr *int     `xml:"percent-inode-used-capacity"`
}

// NewAggrInodeAttributesType is a factory method for creating new instances of AggrInodeAttributesType objects
func NewAggrInodeAttributesType() *AggrInodeAttributesType {
	return &AggrInodeAttributesType{}
}

// ToXML converts this object into an xml string representation
func (o *AggrInodeAttributesType) ToXML() (string, error) {
	output, err := xml.MarshalIndent(o, " ", "    ")
	if err != nil {
		log.Errorf("error: %v", err)
	}
	return string(output), err
}

// String returns a string representation of this object's fields and implements the Stringer interface
func (o AggrInodeAttributesType) String() string {
	return ToString(reflect.ValueOf(o))
}

// FilesPrivateUsed is a 'getter' method
func (o *AggrInodeAttributesType) FilesPrivateUsed() int {
	r := *o.FilesPrivateUsedPtr
	return r
}

// SetFilesPrivateUsed is a fluent style 'setter' method that can be chained
func (o *AggrInodeAttributesType) SetFilesPrivateUsed(newValue int) *AggrInodeAttributesType {
	o.FilesPrivateUsedPtr = &newValue
	return o
}

// FilesTotal is a 'getter' method
func (o *AggrInodeAttributesType) FilesTotal() int {
	r := *o.FilesTotalPtr
	return r
}

// SetFilesTotal is a fluent style 'setter' method that can be chained
func (o *AggrInodeAttributesType) SetFilesTotal(newValue int) *AggrInodeAttributesType {
	o.FilesTotalPtr = &newValue
	return o
}

// FilesUsed is a 'getter' method
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	r := *o.FilesUsedPtr
	return r
}

// SetFilesUsed is a fluent style 'setter' method that can be chained
func (o *AggrInodeAttributesType) SetFilesUsed(newValue int) *AggrInodeAttributesType {
	o.FilesUsedPtr = &newValue
	return o
}

// InodefilePrivateCapacity is a 'getter' method
func (o *AggrInodeAttributesType) InodefilePrivateCapacity() int {
	r := *o.InodefilePrivateCapacityPtr
	return r
}

// SetInodefilePrivateCapacity is a fluent style 'setter' method that can be chained
func (o *AggrInodeAttributesType) SetInodefilePrivateCapacity(newValue int) *AggrInodeAttributesType {
	o.InodefilePrivateCapacityPtr = &newValue
	return o
}

// InodefilePublicCapacity is a 'getter' method
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	r := *o.InodefilePublicCapacityPtr
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// SetInodefilePublicCapacity is a fluent style 'setter' method that can be chained
func (o *AggrInodeAttributesType) SetInodefilePublicCapacity(newValue int) *AggrInodeAttributesType {
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// InofileVersion is a 'getter' method
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}

// SetInofileVersion is a fluent style 'setter' method that can be chained
func (o *AggrInodeAttributesType) SetInofileVersion(newValue int) *AggrInodeAttributesType {
	o.InofileVersionPtr = &newValue
	return o
}

// MaxfilesAvailable is a 'getter' method
func (o *AggrInodeAttributesType) MaxfilesAvailable() int {
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// SetMaxfilesAvailable is a fluent style 'setter' method that can be chained
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// SetMaxfilesPossible is a fluent style 'setter' method that can be chained
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	r := *o.MaxfilesUsedPtr
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}

// SetMaxfilesUsed is a fluent style 'setter' method that can be chained
func (o *AggrInodeAttributesType) SetMaxfilesUsed(newValue int) *AggrInodeAttributesType {
	o.MaxfilesUsedPtr = &newValue
	return o
}

// PercentInodeUsedCapacity is a 'getter' method
func (o *AggrInodeAttributesType) PercentInodeUsedCapacity() int {
	r := *o.PercentInodeUsedCapacityPtr
	return r
}

// SetPercentInodeUsedCapacity is a fluent style 'setter' method that can be chained
func (o *AggrInodeAttributesType) SetPercentInodeUsedCapacity(newValue int) *AggrInodeAttributesType {
	o.PercentInodeUsedCapacityPtr = &newValue
	return o
}

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Gerald Graham Valentine (September 13, 1914 - October 1983) was an American jazz trombonist and arranger.

Valentine received formal training in music when he was young, learning piano, composition, and music theory; he learned to play trombone on his own. In the early 1940s he composed and arranged for Earl Hines and worked in Chicago with Dallas Bartley and King Kolax; he also booked shows for the Club DeLisa. He then joined Billy Eckstine's band from 1944 to 1947 and worked later in the decade with Wynonie Harris and Buddy DeFranco.

From 1950 to 1952 Valentine was an artist and repertory man for National Records. He played with Gene Ammons in 1954, and in 1958-1959 wrote arrangements for Pepper Adams, Art Farmer, and Coleman Hawkins in the group Prestige Blues Swingers.

Discography
Outskirts of Town (Prestige, 1958)
Stasch (Swingville, 1959)

References

American jazz trombonists
Male trombonists
Musicians from Chicago
1913 births
1984 deaths
Jazz musicians from Illinois
20th-century trombonists
20th-century American male musicians
American male jazz musicians

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We love Avalon Pockets! The new ownership is awesome, the food is great, and they are very family friendly.
Tried it today for lunch; great food at a surprisingly reasonable price. Beware of the hummus; once you start eating some, you will have a hard time stopping! We also tried the falafel and gyros, all very good.
Everything is delicious and made fresh, it's family owned and operated. My family is there at least once a week, and we love it!
Best gyro I've had in so long! Our first time to stop in and we are new fans!
Very friendly staff, awesome service and great quality food. If you're in the mood for a Mediterranean lunch, Avalon Pockets is the spot to be. I'd recommend to everybody.
I had the best gyro and hummus today and also had the pleasure of meeting the new owners who were so friendly! I am so glad I decided to pick up lunch here today. I can't wait to go back with my parents, whom are Greek, and will appreciate this place making great Greek food.


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Didierea madagascariensis, commonly known as the octopus tree, is a species of Didiereaceae endemic to the spiny thickets of southwestern Madagascar. It was first described scientifically by the French botanist Henri Ernest Baillon in 1880 and is the type species of the genus Didierea.

It is known in Malagasy as sohongy, sony and soribarika. Sohongy and sony come from the Tanosy dialect word songo meaning "lock of hair" or a rooster's crest or comb possibly referring to its branches that sprawl upwards.

Description
As with all members of the sub-family Didiereoideae, this is a semi-succulent woody, shrub to small tree. It is densely spiny and can grow up to  tall. Spines are arranged in whorls, mostly of four. Leaves are small and narrow-lanceolate and arranged in rosettes.

References

External links

Didiereaceae
Endemic flora of Madagascar
Flora of the Madagascar spiny thickets
Plants described in 1880
Taxa named by Henri Ernest Baillon


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Allure's Latest Issue Celebrates 'The Beauty of Diversity,' And These 3 Supermodels Explain Why It's So Important
"I'm comfortable in my skin and I want you to see that right now."
Claire Peltier @clairecpeltier
This April, international supermodels Dilone, Aamito Lagum, and Imaan Hammam will appear on the cover of Allure magazine. For this particular month, the publication celebrates "The Beauty of Diversity," in which "41 women of color get real about beauty and diversity."
The publication explains: "Allure asked 41 women of color to tell us the story of their lives through their skin — and skin tone. Because our skin can be both a vulnerability and a defense. But most importantly, it can be a source of celebration."
And on Tuesday, the magazine released a video to its YouTube channel featuring an interview with the cover models as they speak to the current state of the fashion industry and the need for inclusivity.
"I think everybody's beautiful and they deserve a chance to be represented in the fashion industry," one of the women begins at the start of the video.
As the video continues, the models call for more representation of women from all around the world, more inclusion and tolerance, acceptance, and diversity in the industry.
Finally, in a post featuring the latest cover, Lagum writes: "So in love with these shades of awesome."
In the past, we've covered various fashion influencers who've made strides towards such issues within the fashion industry. For example, in 2016, models Charli Howard and Clémentine Desseaux's "All Woman Project" showed everyone that all women are beautiful. And at New York Fashion Week this year, designer Anniesa Hasibuan cast immigrant models for her show, telling Elle we shouldn't be afraid of our differences. These examples, and Allure's latest issue, are all steps in the right direction — but there's still work to be done.
You can hear more from Dilone, Lagum, and Hammam in the video above.
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Home » Re-Emerging:
Providing Vermont granite to a worldwide market
Stone Column
Re-Emerging:
Jennifer Richinelli
Based in the quaint New England city of Barre, VT, Rock of Ages Corp. is tightly linked to the history of its surroundings. While Barre has a population only slightly under 10,000, the city is certainly not one to be overlooked. Rich in granite, the first-known quarry began operating on a farm around 1814. Soon, Barre granite became a standard building material for memorials, mausoleums and architecture. Through the years, Rock of Ages has capitalized on this growing market, and many years ago became the exclusive quarrier of Barre granite. Currently, it owns over a dozen of quarries in the U.S., Canada and Ukraine - one of them being its Bethel White granite quarry in Bethel, VT.
The company first came about when three gentlemen - James M. Boutwell, George B. Milne and Harvey W. Varnum - pooled their resources and formed the Boutwell, Milne & Varnum Co., which was only involved in the quarrying of granite. The company soon ran a national marketing campaign to promote the quality of its product. It then adopted the logo "Rock of Ages," which it registered with the federal government in 1914. In 1925, it was decided that this slogan would be the company's new name, due to the positive response it had received.
Despite the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and other uncertain times, Rock of Ages pressed on and has continually expanded its business. Today, Rock of Ages Corp. is a publicly held company traded on the NASDAQ Exchange (ROAC), and is considered to be among the largest memorial manufacturers. "Rock of Ages is the largest quarrier of dimension stone in North America - quarrying over 1 million cubic feet of saleable material annually," said Robert Campo, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, adding that the Bethel quarry produces 225,000 cubic feet of blocks per year.
Surrounded by rolling green mountains in Bethel, which was the first town chartered in Vermont in 1779, the site encompasses approximately 50 acres and sits in the middle of more than 250 acres owned by Rock of Ages. With 20 workers, the company runs one shift from 7 a.m .to 3:30 p.m. with a half hour for lunch and overtime as required, according to Campo. "Our quarry operations worldwide employ 250, and company-wide about 1,000 people," he said.
At the Bethel quarry, drilling is performed with Tamrock equipment, and Pellegrini diamond wire saws are used to make cuts. Additionally, waterjets from Ned-Jet are employed, and Caterpillar 992 loaders move the granite blocks around the site.
Channeling methods
Rock of Ages employs three different methods of channeling in its quarry operations. Each method has specific advantages and disadvantages that determine under what conditions it is best utilized, according to the company. Water is used in conjunction with each cutting method to suppress dust, control heat and wash detritus from the cut.
In one method, a slot drill is used to drill a series of vertical holes 2 1⁄4 inches in diameter approximately 4 1⁄2 inches apart. Once these holes are drilled, a 3-inch-diameter bit is then used to drill or core the "web" - the small amount of granite that remains between the previously drilled holes. According to the company, this "coring" process removes all of the granite between the holes, creating a channel between the mass being quarried and the quarry walls. As a result of this method, the channel has a corrugated appearance.
A second method of channeling used by the company is done with a diamond wire saw. "We have been utilizing the wire saws more to cut channels and speed up production," said Campo.
Channeling is also done with a waterjet - a process involving oscillating nozzles shooting water at a pressure of 40,000 pounds per square inch. The pressure of the water is the sole cutting agent, and the automated wand containing the nozzles moves vertically, cutting at speeds of up to 40 square feet per hour, according to Rock of Ages.
After the vertical channeling process is completed with one of the three methods, a horizontal cut - called the "lift" - is completed with pneumatic drilling. The work is conducted from a ledge below the work site if one exists or from a staging platform that is suspended against the face at the point where the cut is to be made. Next, a pneumatically powered drill, called a "lift hole" drill, is placed so that it is perpendicular to the quarry wall. A series of holes that are about 6 inches on center are then cut, and the resulting row of holes extends completely beneath the block being cut. It stretches from the face of the quarry to the channel line at the back of the block, meeting the channel line at approximately a 90-degree angle. Once this series of holes has been completed, every other hole or every third hole is filled with primer cord - a type of explosive. The controlled detonation is set off electrically, causing the granite to crack along the drill lines, separating the large block from the quarry wall, reports the company.
On average, a bench at the Bethel White quarry measures 40 feet long, 30 feet wide and 15 to 17 feet high. To divide up the large block into smaller pieces so it can be lifted from the quarry, a double deep-hole drill is used to cut the block along the "hardway," the direction in which it is hardest to cut the granite. A series of vertical holes - 15 to 17 feet deep - are drilled approximately 4 inches apart. The resulting row of holes forms a "hardway line." A series of hardway lines are cut, with the rows being spaced about 5 feet apart, according to Rock of Ages. Once these rows of holes have been completed, long, tapered metal wedges - known as "gluts" - are driven into the holes with a jackhammer. The stress causes the granite to split along the hardway lines, which divides the bench into more manageable pieces.
According to the company, after the hardway lines break free, the resulting pieces are drilled one more time along the "rift" or "grain." Small, pneumatically powered plug drills sink holes of about 3⁄4 inch in diameter and 6 inches in depth about every 3 inches to form a row of holes or "rift line." Wedges and shims are inserted into these holes and driven with an 8-pound sledgehammer to split the block along its rift.
A standard block removed from the Bethel site is about 10 x 5 x 5 feet and weighs more than 20 tons. Blocks are then carried on trucks and fork loaders to storage areas, where each one is meticulously graded and then inventoried.
Bethel White granite is widely recognized for its even grain and purity of color, reports Rock of Ages. The material has an average absorption of 0.256%, compressive strength (CL70) of 34,027, average modulus of rupture (psi) of 1,937, and average flexural strength (psi) of 1,687.
The material produced by the Bethel White granite quarry has been used for many high-profile projects around the world. The Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City, UT, which was built to serve as a conference center for the 2002 Winter Olympics, features an exterior clad with over 300,000 square feet of Bethel White. Rock of Ages quarried about 5,000 tons of the material for this project, which recently was awarded a 2003 Marble Institute of America Pinnacle Award. Additionally, Bethel White was supplied for the Mormon Bountiful Temple, also in Salt Lake City.
When looking to the future, Rock of Ages plans to continue increasing its production at its existing quarries as well as searching out new sites. "We are actively looking for additional quarry properties around the world that will fit into our product line of exclusive high-quality granites," said Campo. "Rock of Ages is also committed to building its retail monument distribution, which currently boasts 100 company-owned stores throughout America."
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For farmers, plenty of uncertainty accompanies planting season
Posted May 7, 2013 10:00 am
A slow start to spring and shifty grain markets have left some farmers feeling anxious get planting underway. Larger image. Photo courtesy of ISU College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
AMES, Iowa – The first week of May is traditionally thought of as the ideal time for Iowa farmers to begin planting, but a slow start to spring and volatile grain markets in recent weeks have left producers with a lot of questions, agronomy and grain markets experts at Iowa State University said.
Excessive moisture, especially in the eastern half of the state, and a cool spring may keep farmers out of the fields for a while longer, said Elwynn Taylor, a professor of agronomy and an ISU Extension and Outreach climatologist.
Taking heavy farm machinery into the fields while they're too wet can cause the soil to become compacted, which makes it more difficult for crops to develop a strong root system, Taylor said. Waiting until the soil dries out may be the prudent decision, but waiting too long shortens the growing season and can lessen yields when harvest comes around, he said.
"So that first week of May is historically the best and ideal time to plant," he said. "People realize that, and they'll do so but only if the conditions are right."
A look ahead
Taylor said predicting the weather for an entire growing season is a tricky business, but studying past weather cycles can offer a few clues that may point toward below-trend-line yields this year. For instance, the La Niña event that has just ended was the second strongest in history. It began in July 2010 when the Pacific Ocean off the west coast of South America cooled significantly and ended in 2012, but the weather pattern it influenced was still apparent into 2013. History shows the fourth year after the beginning of such a strong La Niña usually produces lower-than-expected yields in Iowa, Taylor said. La Niña events are usually associated with a severe drought similar to what Iowa experienced last year, he said.
"During the five events that have been similar to what we've seen the past three years, the fourth year was a below-trend yield year," he said. "So all we're looking at is what's happened before when we had similar circumstances."
Taylor said this year is shaping up like 1947, in which a wet and cool spring kept crops from developing sufficient roots systems to handle the hot and dry conditions that came along in late summer. That year ended with yields that were as bad as those experienced during the Dust Bowl. The sooner the weather pattern shifts away from similarity to 1947, the better, Taylor said.
Grain markets have shown volatility in recent months, adding more uncertainty for farmers, said Chad Hart, an ISU Extension and Outreach grain markets specialist and associate professor of economics.
The price of corn dropped about 80 cents in early April but jumped 40 cents early last week. Planting delays account for at least some of the ups and downs in the market.
"The market is ready to make a run, but it doesn't know which direction to go yet," Hart said.
American farmers are expected to plant 97 million acres of corn this year, according to the most recent surveys. That's an increase of about 100,000 acres over last year, Hart said. If yields are close to trend-line or above, it would likely be a record harvest, he said.
Although farmers may be growing a bit antsy to begin planting, the price of corn in recent weeks is still healthy and allows for profit.
"Even with all the uncertainty, farmers are still seeing a good price for corn on average," Hart said. "So there's some cause for optimism in the middle of all this volatility in the market."
Elwynn Taylor, Agronomy, 515-294-7839, setaylor@iastate.edu
Chad Hart, Economics, 515-294-9911, chart@iastate.edu
Kristin Senty, Economics, 515-294-9849, ksenty@iastate.edu
Fred Love, News Service, 515-294-0704, fredlove@iastate.edu
The first week of May is traditionally thought of as the ideal time for Iowa farmers to begin planting, but a slow start to spring and volatile grain markets in recent weeks have left many producers anxious to get in the fields, agronomy and grain markets experts at Iowa State University said.
"During the five events that have been similar to what we've seen the past three years, the fourth year was a below-trend yield year. So all we're looking at is what's happened before when we had similar circumstances."
Elwynn Taylor, professor of agronomy and ISU Extension and Outreach climatologist


"A year after the war ends" – Darwish.
She said: when will we meet?
She said: When will the war end?
Static is what comes to mind. He wants the war to wait for a year after the war to end for them to meet, but the war officially ends when he meets her. Is the war internal? Is the war a matter of unfortunate circumstances that becomes a hurricane because she's not by his side?
In some ways, the character has accepted the futility of his fate. You can imagine him writing to his love at 1am with a cigarette in one hand and the other resting on his head with the pen in between his fingers. A paper in front of him and Turkish coffee to the right. You can imagine his eyes fixated with numbness and his heart letting out an occasional sigh.
You imagine his lover seeking his comfort and finding strength in his words. It's clear there's history. There's passion. History and passion that's locked beneath this "war." They thought they'd make it by now. They thought the wait would be over. Her palms have been sweating in anticipation, whereas his have dried up with his hope.
The older we get, the less purpose we seek. We seek to float. To merely exist and to enjoy each moment as it comes. The bigger picture matters less as it becomes an abstract fog into the distance that distracts us from now.
When we come to this realisation, we resist. We summon the energy that life has sucked out of us and we do it with such drive that we fail to foresee the logic that we will need to fall back on and forget to pick our battles.
We recognise futility and become numb again.


For an appeal that Linus Torvalds thought was a waste of money by Oracle, the Android-Java copyright case has actually drawn a whole lot of interest, and the effort that Google, its funded friends and its few other supporters put into this shows that the outcome is far from the foregone conclusion that some people suggested a year ago.
There's another amicus curiae brief that I didn't list in my Friday post on the filings made last Thursday. It was filed by a group of intellectual property professors and uploaded to SSRN by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Vice Chairwoman Professor Pamela Samuelson. This suggests that she leads this group, so this may be the third (!) amicus curiae brief to have been orchestrated by the Google-funded and Google-loyal EFF. But I recognize that not all of the signatories are EFF activists or as Google aligned as, for example, Professor Mark Lemley, who supports Google's baseball extortion proposal to resolve FRAND disputes. In particular, I noted that New York University Professor Katherine Strandburg, who does support Judge Posner's FRAND ruling, is among the amici. That's a good sign, really.
"[T]he interface procedures were unprotected aspects of the Sega program under § 102(b). [...] Nor did it undercut Accolade's defense that Sega had a licensing program for Genesis-compatible videogames in which Accolade declined to participate."
No one would ever argue that the existence of a licensing program is relevant to copyrightability. (You can only license what's copyrighted, but by offering a license you don't satisfy copyrightability criteria.) It's a "fair use" argument. But the professors say this right after citing to copyrightability law.
The unique part of the professors' brief, however, is its third section, which relates to my second point: large parts of Google's argument become irrelevant if the question of what constrained Google's design choices (after it made the fundamental decision to arbitrarily co-opt parts of the Java APIs, but anyway) is separated from what constrained the choices of Sun's programmers who created Java, and if the latter determines copyrightability, while the former may have a bearing on "fair use" (or FRAND, if antitrust were an issue, which it isn't because FRAND as well as GPL-based licenses are available and Google declined both). I will, therefore, focus in this post on the unique focus of the professors' brief, but before this I'll say only a few things about the narrow-scope argument.
If Oracle were asserting against Google its copyrights in a book on object-oriented programming and claimed infringement by using and/or teaching OOP techniques described in that book, then Baker v. Selden would already have given the answer in the 19th century, and that answer would indeed favor Google. But the use of 7,000+ lines of declaring code from the asserted Java APIs is, in my opinion, far more on the "expression" than "idea" side of things.
I, too, would have a problem with the scope of software copyright if it became so broad that developers might infringe it inadvertently, or that they couldn't work around what it protects. I'm not afraid that I'd inadvertently write 7,000 lines of declaring code the same way someone else did, and/or to independently come up (or to be forced to come up) with the structure, sequence and organization of such a body of work.
Every software copyrightability case is about where to draw the line between function and expression. But no one can deny that the purpose of copyright is to protect originality, and if the structure, sequence and organization of 7,000+ lines of highly creative declaring code ended up being unprotectable, I believe copyright would fail to serve its stated purpose.
With all the legal argument about what different statutes and decisions say, the professors don't give even one example of a case in which a similarly complex body of original, highly creative code was denied copyrightability. There are "fair use" cases in which you could either copy small amounts of code or just make copies for your own development/testing purposes; there are cases in which non-original, preexisting data like the content of telephone directories was denied copyrightability despite being huge ("sweat of the brow" is not a substitute for creativity); but no U.S. court, before Judge Alsup's decision in question, found something like those 37 Java APIs uncopyrightable. If this ruling is affirmed, it's a game changer; but if it's reversed, then it just means that a new level of non-copyrightability is not reached.
This is a Supreme Court decision that is central to Oracle's argument, and the professors' brief doesn't mention it even once -- maybe because it's inconvenient.
When a Computer Program Interface Constrains the Design Choices of Subsequent Programmers, the Merger Doctrine Precludes Copyright Protection for that Interface Design.
What's key here is the word "subsequent". Java's programmers were subsequent to other programmers, and Android's programmers were subsequent to Java's. What's not in dispute is that Oracle can't claim copyright in what was dictated at the time Java was created; what it disputes is that constraints on Android's developers, after they chose to copy some Java APIs, determine copyrightability.
Altai established, and other courts later followed, the rule that external factors such as the 'compatibility requirements of other programs with which a program is designed to operate' limit the scope of copyright in programs because these factors constrain the freedom of design choices of subsequent programmers. Altai, 982 F.2d at 709-10.
"Professor Nimmer points out that 'in many instances it is virtually impossible to write a program to perform particular functions in a specific computing environment without employing standard techniques.' [...] This is a result of the fact that a programmer's freedom of design choice is often circumscribed by extrinsic considerations such as (1) the mechanical specifications of the computer on which a particular program is intended to run; (2) compatibility requirements of other programs with which a program is designated to operate in conjunction; (3) computer manufacturers' design standards; (4) demands of the industry being serviced; and (5) widely accepted programming practices within the computer industry."
I honestly can't interpret that part as implying the word "subsequent" in the way in which Google's amici interpret it. All five items listed in that sentence undoubtedly make sense for constraints that affected both parties, CA and Altai.
"The district court also found that the overlap exhibited between the list of services required for both ADAPTER and OSCAR 3.5 was 'determinated by the demands of the operating system and of the applications program to which it [was] to be linked through ADAPTER or OSCAR.' Id. In other words, this aspect of the program's structure was dictated by the nature of other programs with which it was designed to interact and, thus, is not protected by copyright."
So there was a third program here -- the operating system -- and dictated elements that both programs, the allegedly-infringing and the allegedly-infringed one, needed. It doesn't say that the asserted works dictated anything to the alleged infringers.
"The court found that the similarity in services required by the operating system was due to the nature of the operating system, thus it was not protected by copyright."
Copyright, by definition, protects an original creator against subsequent copying. It doesn't help you against your predecessors. It wouldn't make sense to me if a copyist could get too much mileage out of the mere fact of being subsequent. And I don't think that that's what Altai meant.
There are IP professors supporting both parties' positions. Software companies and creatives are overwhelmingly in favor of Oracle's position. The Federal Circuit will think about what's the best policy to balance innovation and competition, and it will interpret such cases as Altai, so further down the road we'll know which professors are right in the Federal Circuit's opinion.


Jennifer Lynn Davison and Timothy Allen Vought are announcing their engagement.
Miss Davison is the daughter of Kimberly Panaro, Meyersdale. She is a 2002 graduate of Meyersdale Area High School and is attending Allegany College of Md., Cumberland, taking the business management course. She plans to graduate in 2005 with an associate's degree.
Her fiance is the son of Tabatha Vought, Meyersdale. He is a 2002 graduate of Meyersdale Area High School and is attending California University of Pa. He plans to graduate in 2006 with a bachelor's degree in social work. He is employed at Burger King, Somerset.
A summer 2006 wedding is planned.


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In 2016, the Irish Government introduced the new Irish Knowledge Development Box (KDB) regime. Similarly, the UK has their own development programme, which they refer to as the Patent Box.
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Get to know – Anna Viinapuu, Economics student at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Aug 2, 2021 | Main news, News
Recently the chamber had the pleasure of talking to Anna Viinapuu, Economics student at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Anna shared with us what the last couple of years in Hong Kong have been like; what got her interested in Hong Kong in the first place, and her plans for the future.
Anna moved to Hong Kong in August 2019 and despite political unrest, Anna describes her first years at university and in Hong Kong as anything but compromised. Anna's firsts impression of the city was the contrast between real jungle and concrete jungle. Anna also shared what it was like to arrive during the protests:
Anna: it was interesting to gain insight into the political system, what questions are important and how they are dealt with. Of course, there was certain unrest but luckily I managed to avoid the worst of it due to the somewhat peripheral location of my university. The protests did not deter me and I still felt like I wanted to give Hong Kong a chance.
When it comes to her studies (major in professional accounting and minor in China studies) Anna describes the study culture as highly motivational, ambitious, driven, and open. She was positively surprised by how international the community was on campus, making friends from all corners of the world. She also tells us about the slight shock she got when she realised that it is common to study between 12.00-03.00!
We were curious about how someone with seemingly little connection to the city came to consider Hong Kong as a place for further education. Beyond the obvious high standard and strong reputation enjoyed by universities in Hong Kong, Anna shares how she came to consider Hong Kong in the first place.
Anna: during my high school studies at Viktor Rydbergs Gymnasium, Odenplan, I gained more insight into the opportunity to study abroad. I considered the USA but there was something that didn't feel completely right about the USA for me. I started studying Mandarin, which gave me quite a good understanding of the culture. My teacher was from Hong Kong and everything from the structure of the language to the stories my teacher would tell me about her hometown were very exciting to me. This is what made me very curious about Hong Kong.
From Anna's first encounter with the language, culture and history to her experience at university and in Hong Kong we were very eager to hear what Anna plans to do in the future.
Anna: I want to stay in Hong Kong or the Greater Bay Area, and would gladly be working for a Scandinavian company. There are already strong connections between Hong Kong and Scandinavia but my ambition is to help build even more.
Lastly Anna gives us advice for those in their early twenties how are curious about Hong Kong.
Anna: Go for it, apply to all the universities that interest you and get ready for a learning experience you won't forget.


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Which team is worth more, the Carolina Gamecocks or the Clemson Tigers?
Dec 28, 2018 09:58AM ● By Kathleen Maris
By Richard Breen
Although the University of South Carolina football team has had some success over the past several years, fans of Clemson University would tell you that, bottom line, they're better.
They would be wrong.
When it comes to the actual bottom line—the one on the financial statement, not the scoreboard or the Top 25 rankings—the Gamecocks own a decisive advantage over Clemson, at least in the eyes of some business experts.
Forbes ranks USC No. 15 on its 2018 list of the most valuable college football teams, which focuses on annual revenue. The Gamecocks generate an estimated $90 million. The Tigers don't make the top 25. Meanwhile, a USA Today report covering the 2016-17 academic year ranked the University of Texas No. 1 with $214.8 million in revenue. USC was 16th ($136.0 million) and Clemson came in at No. 26 ($112.6 million).
Dr. Ryan Brewer, a finance professor at Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus and not the former Gamecocks running back, produces an annual ranking that explores the market value of each football program as if it were to be sold on the open market, like a pro sports franchise.
In 2017, he had Ohio State University at No. 1 (worth $1.5 billion), with USC at No. 15 ($484.8 million) and Clemson at No. 24 ($328.4 million).
TV truths
Where is the money coming from and why are the Gamecocks getting more than the Tigers?
"First, it's those long-term TV deals that are done with all those super five conferences other than Notre Dame," says Dr. Tom Regan with the USC College of Hospitality, Retail, and Sport Management. "Then you start to take a look at anything they can generate in-stadium. Everything gets driven in those major markets by that TV deal."
The Atlantic Coast Conference, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12, and Southeastern Conference are the five major college football conferences. The SEC is a leader in signing big media deals. Its latest is a 15-year contract with ESPN worth a reported $2.25 billion. As a result, 10 Southeastern Conference schools are in the Forbes top 25.
"There is a significant difference from conference to conference," Brewer says.
The University of Notre Dame is loosely affiliated with the ACC but has its own TV deal with NBC. The Tigers are in the ACC. The Gamecocks are in the SEC.
Raymond Sauer, a Clemson professor and chairman of the school's economics department, says most rankings are too dependent on revenue. "It's not a measure of the value of the program to the university," Sauer says. "You have to think about why schools have a football team in the first place."
Brewer says his value ranking sheds light on the "bifurcated mission statement" of universities with lofty academic goals and business-minded athletic departments.
"They show universities how expensive it is—and how lucrative it can be," he says. "It also shows the marketing power of what athletics do for a university as far as driving admissions."
Power of pride
Allen University revived its football program this season.
"One reason was to boost enrollment," says Chad Washington, athletic director at the historically black school in Columbia. "It's also giving the alumni something they really wanted back."
Allen's $500,000 football budget comes entirely from alumni and other supporters. Thanks to the influx of football players and marching band and dance team members, enrollment has jumped from 600 last fall to 720 this fall. Washington says adding football to Allen's campus life will also begin attracting students who don't dance, tackle, or play an instrument.
Sauer says students and alumni simply want a program they can be proud of. "You have to look at the output measures that really matter," he says.
For that, the ranking Sauer prefers is the "Grid of Shame," published by The Wall Street Journal. It's a spray chart that concentrates on won-loss records and the amount of trouble a team and its players get into.
For 2017, Clemson and USC both did well in terms of off-the-field admirability versus embarrassment. On the field, the Tigers were on the "powerhouse" end of the axis while the Gamecocks were halfway between "powerhouse" and "weakling."
"Athletics is a window into the university," Sauer says. "Winning, doing it with integrity, providing opportunities for students and alumni to celebrate what's great about a university. That's what really matters."
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Taylor, Thomas named to USA softball team
June 20, 2011 By Bill Pollock
Missouri Tiger softball players Rhea Taylor and Chelsea Thomas have been named to the roster for the 2011 USA Softball Women's National Team. Taylor and Thomas join an 18-person roster that begins competition in less than a week in a two-game exhibition series against the USA Softball Junior Women's National Team in Plant City, Fla., on Saturday, June 25.
After the matchup in Florida, the team will travel to Salem, Va., for another exhibition series on June 29. The final tune-up before International play will be in Bowie, Md., on July 1. All exhibition games will be a doubleheader format against the Junior National Team.
The first International tournament for the two Tigers will run from July 9-17, as Team USA heads to Surrey, B.C. for the Canadian Open Fast Pitch International Championship. From there, the squad returns home for the World Cup of Softball VI, held from July 21-25 in Oklahoma City, Okla. Tickets are available for the World Cup at www.softballoutlet.com.
The USA Softball Women's National Team will seek its ninth Pan American Games title, Oct. 17-23, in Guadalajara, Mexico for the final competition of 2011. Team USA has won six straight Pan American titles.
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´Wherever Life Takes You - Erol Güney´s Story´ will be Shown in the Museum
The documentary about the life of Erol Güney ´Wherever Life Takes You - Erol Güney´s Story´ will be shown on Sunday, March 8th in the Quincentenial Foundation Museum of Turkish Jews.
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The documentary about a romantic traveler, a real citizen of the world, a journalist and a translator Erol Güney's life story 'Wherever Life Takes You - Erol Güney's Story' will be screened in the Quincentenial Foundation Museum of Turkish Jews on Sunday.
Directed by Banu Yalkut Breddermann, a co-production of Turkey, Israel, and France, the 103 minutes long documentary, while shedding light on Erol Güney's fascinating life story, also brings a different point of view to the recent history.
Erol Güney who was born as Michel Rottenberg in 1914, as the son of a Jewish family in Odessa, moved to Istanbul with his family after the October 1917 Russian Revolution. Güney is also known by the famous poet Orhan Veli Kanık's poem 'Erol Güney's Cat' in Turkey.
Erol Güney who had also won people's hearts for his great contributions in arts and culture, together with his close friends, Orhan Veli, Sabahattin Eyüboğlu, Melih Cevdet Anday, Nurullah Ataç, Necati Cumalı, and Abidin Dino, was translating the French and Russian literature classics into Turkish from their originals in the Translation Bureau founded by Hasan Ali Yücel, Minister of Education of the time.
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Seyfi Işman´s New Art Exhibition at Bariş Manço Culture Center
The art exhibition titled ´Encounters/Intersections´ by dentist Seyfi Işman who is interested closely in many fields of art, can be visited all through January at the Bariş Manço Culture Center in Kadiköy, Istanbul.
3rd International Balkan Music Festival at Grand Synagogue of Edirne
The Historic Edirne Synagogue has hosted the third of the International Balkan Music Festival, the first of which had been organized in 2019.
CRR Saying Goodbye to 2021 with Two Concerts
Istanbul CRR Concert Hall is saying goodbye to 2021 with two concerts.
Violin Virtuoso Gidon Kremer Performed with Cem Mansur
Gidon Kremer, the classical violinist and a master of contemporary classical music who is considered one of the best violin virtuosos alive, performed on the stage of CRR Concert Hall together with Cem Mansur who had studied music in London and then Los Angeles Philharmonic Association as the student of Leonard Bernstein.
From the Museum of Turkish Jews: ´Besamim´
The ´Besamim´ selected from the Quincentenial Foundation Museum of Turkish Jews collection...
´Trails of the Jews´ Documentary
The ´Trails of the Jews´ documentary was screened on November 16th, via Zoom and the Facebook account of the Quincentenial Foundation Museum of Turkish Jews.
Vitali Hakko Creative Industries Library at Atatürk Cultural Center
Vitali Hakko Creative Industries Library, which had been established in 2011 by Vakko Chairman of the Board, Cem Hakko, in memory of Vitali Hakko and his inspiration for art and education, is now moved to Atatürk Cultural Center (AKM) on its 10th year anniversary.
´Gift for Tevfik Fikret´ Exhibition @ Schneidertempel Art Gallery
Koç University Publications, to commemorate the famous poet Tevfik Fikret, is forming an exhibition titled ´Gift for Tevfik Fikret´ on his 154th birth anniversary, at the Schneidertempel Art Gallery.
´Tango and the Dancing Body in Istanbul´
Eslin Sinan´s Artworks @ ´The Dance of Colors´ Exhibition


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Q: How to bypass TFS error regarding character path limits for directories that have been removed? (Visual Studio 2013) I am using TFS to source control my c# ASP.NET MVC projects. I have a project called ProjectA, It has two branches (i.e ProjectA and ProjectA-Dev.) ProjectA is my production branch, and ProjectA-Dev is my development branch. ProjectA-Dev contains lots of new code for my project's upcoming release.
I am at a stage that I need to merge any change from production into dev. My production version received a few bug fixes while I was working on my next release in ProjectA-Dev. I want to merge the added bug fixes into my ProjectA-Dev branch.
To merge ProjectA into ProjectA-dev, I opened "Solution Control Explorer", right clicked on ProjectA then on "Branching and Merging" then on "Merge".
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tf destroy "$/MyPath/To/Project/node_module"

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You could find the specific changeset which you deleted the node_modules files first. Then just use tf merge command with /discard option.

/discard Does not perform the merge operation, but updates the merge
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In the early 1900s, Alaska drew more than just prospectors and explorers. Missionaries also ventured into the area and many churches were built in the remote villages. More than a century later, most of these church buildings sit empty and only eight percent of Alaskans attend an evangelical church (Pew Research, 2014).
Roger and Melissa Holl started VisionAlaska in 2013 as a way to meet the need for Gospel proclamation in Alaska. In the 1970s Ed Jackson, a Charis Fellowship pastor, had a similar vision for reaching Alaska and he helped plant four Charis Fellowship churches, but expansion efforts have stalled in recent decades. Since 1984 that has been one Charis church plant in Alaska, and there are currently four Charis churches ministering in Alaska, a state more than twice the size of Texas.
The mission of VisionAlaska is to start Charis Fellowship churches using Charis prescribed church models, as well as train and coach lay leaders, missionaries, pastors, and anyone desiring to serve ministries in the Charis Fellowship. "Churches start when someone loves the Lord and has a desire to reach out to others and bless them with the Word of God," Melissa said.
Melissa was born and raised in Alaska and she attended Eagle River Grace Brethren Church, a Charis Fellowship church. "My church was my family support system," she said. "As an adult I wondered, why can't that family be all over the world?" Melissa and Roger met at Eagle River and took their desire to spread church family culture with them into the full-time ministry they now carry out in Alaska and other regions.
Roger's circuitous journey to becoming a pastor gave him a background lay church ministry, and his work as an attorney, College Dean, Commissioner, and Commanding General helped him build strong connections with the community. In 2014 he earned his Doctorate of Ministry and PhD, and in 2015 Roger and Melissa planted Sterling Grace Community Church through VisionAlaska.
Sterling Grace Community Church has a sister church in Kenya that has adopted their statement of faith, and they are in the process of planting a second church. Along with the church, VisionAlaska helps support a local school and an orphanage that is serving 41 kids. VisionAlaska has provided a water well and has leased farmland for the church and orphanage. The farmland is utilized to grow maize to support and feed the children in the orphanage. They also have recently gifted them with Bibles in both English and Swahili.
Striving to be a ministry without borders, VisionAlaska is reaching people far and wide for the Gospel. One way they do this is through the Christian Radio Division which broadcasts the Word of God to Yupik Eskimo villages throughout Alaska. In 2015 a translation of the Bible into the local language of Yupik was completed, a project that took 100 years, and the radio now broadcasts reading of the Bible in the common language of the region. Solar-powered audio Bibles in Yupik are also available for the first time.
VisionAlaska works to build relationships for Gospel impact on individual and organizational levels. They have partnered with more than 40 ministries and churches to provide training, coaching, and workshops. VisionAlaska also hosts the Alaska High Adventure Wilderness Program for fathers and sons involved in Skywatchers. "I'm so glad to be part of what's going on here," Melissa said. "This is my home, and I love the purpose of the Charis Fellowship." Roger and Melissa have true hearts for discipleship, and they long to see others join their mission.
Find more information about VisionAlaska and how you can get involved on their website here, and connect with Roger and Melissa here.
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