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MacArthur Foundation Announces 2016 ‘Genius’ Grant Winners

The playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is one of this year’s 23 fellows.CreditCreditJohn D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Getting a phone call from an unidentified number in Chicago in late summer is a fantasy many artists, scientists and other creative people have entertained. But that doesn’t mean it seems real when it actually happens.

“I thought I was having a psychotic breakdown,” the playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins said of his reaction to learning several weeks ago that he was among the 23 people selected as 2016 fellows of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

“I went out on the street, and ran into a friend,” Mr. Jacobs-Jenkins continued. “I had him look at my cellphone, just to confirm that the call had been real.”

This year’s winners of the MacArthur fellowships, awarded for exceptional “originality, insight and potential,” and publicly announced on Thursday, include writers, visual artists, scientists, nonprofit organization leaders and others, who are chosen at a moment when the recognition and money — a no-strings-attached grant of $625,000 distributed over five years — will make a difference.

Maggie NelsonCreditJohn D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

“We want to give people new wind against their sails,” said Cecilia A. Conrad, a managing director of the foundation and the leader of the fellows program.

The honorees include relatively well-known figures in the arts like the poet Claudia Rankine, 53, whose book “Citizen,” (2014) which explored racism in everyday life, won numerous awards and made the New York Times best-seller list; the essayist Maggie Nelson, 43, who won the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism for “The Argonauts,” a hard-to-classify exploration of gender, motherhood and identity; and Gene Luen Yang, 43, who in January became the first graphic novelist named national ambassador for children’s literature by the Library of Congress.

The youngest fellow is Mr. Jacobs-Jenkins, 31, known for plays, like “An Octoroon” and “Neighbors,” that address race, class and history, sometimes through the remixing of charged stereotypes. The oldest is Joyce J. Scott, 67, a Baltimore-based artist whose work includes performance art and large-scale sculptural pieces that incorporate traditional beadwork into pointed commentaries on American culture, the black female body and other subjects.

If there’s a detectable theme to the group, it might be a willingness to cross borders and to work in the cracks among existing genres, disciplines and institutions.

Gene Luen Yang, a graphic novelist.CreditJohn D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

“A lot of the work I do has been in the in-between spots,” said Josh Kun, 45, a cultural historian at the University of Southern California, who was cited by the foundation for public humanities projects like “Songs in the Key of L.A.,” which explored the diverse cultural roots of the sheet music in the collection of the Los Angeles Public Library.

The MacArthur Fellowship, awarded since 1981, is one of the most prestigious prizes in the United States. Potential fellows are nominated by a shifting group of anonymous experts in various fields, then further winnowed by a committee of about 12 people, whose names are not released. The award has come to be known as the “genius” grant, a term that tends to provoke annoyance at the foundation.

“What we’re really focused on is creativity,” Ms. Conrad said. “Genius is a state, but creativity is an activity: It’s stuff you’re doing.”

The new fellows also include people working outside the spotlight, in fields that barely existed when they were starting out.

The artist Joyce J. Scott.CreditJohn D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Anne Basting, 51, a professor of theater at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, recalled that when she wanted to write her doctoral dissertation about the social performance of aging, her advisers tried to talk her out of it. She has since created performance pieces derived from stories generated by seniors with dementia, like “The Penelope Project,” based on “The Odyssey.” She also founded TimeSlips, an organization dedicated to using storytelling techniques to help cognitive-impaired seniors draw on imagination, rather than memory, to communicate and connect.

“My whole career, it’s always been, ‘What is the next, biggest question?’” Dr. Basting said. “With this fellowship, I can ask, ‘What’s the 15th question?’”

Winners in the sciences include those who do pure research, as well as those focused on applied work. Bill Thies, 38, a computer scientist at Microsoft Research India in Bangalore, works with local organizations to devise basic cellphone interfaces that help people in low-income rural areas gain better access to medical treatment, social media networks and other social goods.

“In technology, we tend to think of creativity as meaning futuristic, large, expensive things,” Dr. Thies said. “With my work, it’s the other way around.”

The poet Claudia Rankine.CreditJohn D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Coincidentally, the fellows also include two close colleagues at the California Institute of Technology: Dianne Newman, 44, a microbiologist who studies the co-evolution of microbial metabolism and environmental chemistry, in both the ancient Earth and the human body; and Victoria Orphan, 44, a geobiologist whose work on micro-organisms in deep-sea beds sheds light on their role in determining climate.

“We’re very good friends,” Dr. Newman said. “They told me before she knew. I had to exercise patience not to spill the beans.” (The fellows, who are each allowed to tell only one person ahead of the official announcement, are not informed who the other recipients are, though the rule was bent in this case, the foundation said.)

Dr. Newman said she hoped to use some of the money to encourage talented people to go into science. Others spoke of paying down mortgages, saving for children’s college or just buying themselves uninterrupted time.

But most said the simple validation of their work, and of the often unsung collaborators who make it possible, meant as much as any financial windfall.

José A. Quiñonez, 45, the founder of the Mission Asset Fund, a nonprofit group in San Francisco that helps people build credit history based on informal lending circles common in immigrant communities and among others without access to bank loans, said he saw the award as a boost for the people he serves.

“Our laws and our policies tend to be really ignorant of the beautiful ways that people are helping each other,” he said.

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Democrats Assail Environmental Nominees Over Climate Change

Kathleen Hartnett White was chosen by President Trump to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality.CreditCreditSam Hodgson for The New York Times

WASHINGTON — A Senate hearing on nominees for two top environmental posts on Wednesday quickly turned testy over the Trump administration’s ambivalence on climate change science.

Andrew R. Wheeler, a lobbyist for Murray Energy, which is owned by Robert E. Murray, an Appalachian coal mining magnate and prominent backer of President Trump, has been nominated to be the deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Kathleen Hartnett White, a former Texas environmental regulator who has described belief in global warming as “a kind of paganism,” has been tapped to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

Democratic members of the Environment and Public Works Committee focused much of their hostility on Mrs. White, a fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation and the former chairwoman of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Democrats assailed her past writings on climate change, including articles in which she called carbon dioxide “the gas of life” and described renewable energy as parasitic.

“Your positions are so far out of the mainstream, they are not just outliers, they are outrageous,” said Senator Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts. “You have a fringe voice that denies science, economics and reality.”

Asked if she stood by her previous statements, Mrs. White replied, “It’s likely that CO2 has some influence on the climate,” but added that carbon dioxide did not have the characteristics of a pollutant that directly affects human health. “It’s a plant nutrient,” she said.

The Trump administration last week issued a comprehensive report on climate science that said that the planet was definitely growing warmer and that human activities were the predominant cause. Despite those unambiguous findings, administration officials and nominees continue to question the validity of climate change science.

Mr. Wheeler, a former aide to Senator James M. Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican, faced lighter questioning. He declined to pledge to recuse himself from working on lawsuits that Murray Energy has filed against the E.P.A., saying he would abide by the guidance of the agency’s ethics advisers.

Midwestern Republicans, meanwhile, pressed Mrs. White on her past criticism of the renewable fuel standard, which requires refiners to blend corn-based ethanol with gasoline. White House officials last month directed the E.P.A. to halt efforts to weaken a federal biofuel mandate after pressure from Iowa politicians and others who threatened to hold up agency nominees.

Andrew R. Wheeler is the nominee to be deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.CreditFaegre Baker Daniels Consulting

Mrs. White said that her position had recently changed because she had read new data and that she now supported the fuel standard.

If the two are confirmed, it will go a small way toward filling the still largely empty ranks of senior energy and environmental posts, which are slowing the Trump administration’s ability to achieve its agenda. According to the Partnership for Public Service, a nonpartisan and nonprofit organization that tracks federal nominations, 28 key positions at the E.P.A., the Energy Department and the Interior Department that require Senate confirmation lack nominees.

That includes critical positions like the under secretary for nuclear energy at the Energy Department and the director of the United States Geological Survey, who essentially serves as the Interior Department’s chief scientist. At the E.P.A., only the administrator, Scott Pruitt, has been confirmed by the Senate. Five others are awaiting confirmation, including William L. Wehrum to lead the agency’s air office and Michael L. Dourson to head the chemical safety office. Lawmakers acknowledged that Mrs. White and Mr. Wheeler may not have a confirmation vote until the end of the year, and six other E.P.A. positions are still without a nominee.

Even Trump administration supporters who have applauded the E.P.A.’s moves to undo Obama-era climate change rules said they were frustrated.

“You can talk the talk, but you need people to actually walk the walk in rolling back these agendas,” said Nicolas Loris, a research fellow in energy and environmental policy at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative research group. “You need people and staff in place to get these through the process.”

Senator John Barrasso, the Wyoming Republican who is chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, blamed Democrats for holding up the 11 environmental candidates the panel has approved and some 100 Trump administration nominees across agencies. The Senate, for example, has yet to confirm the administrator of NASA.

“All year long Democrats have been putting up roadblocks to President Trump’s nominees,” he said. “It’s time to end this pointless spectacle.”

Mr. Trump has indicated many of the vacancies may be permanent. “I’m generally not going to make a lot of the appointments that would normally be — because you don’t need them,” he told Forbes. “I mean, you look at some of these agencies, how massive they are, and it’s totally unnecessary. They have hundreds of thousands of people.”

Max Stier, president of the Partnership for Public Service, agreed that in some cases confirmations for Mr. Trump’s nominees were taking longer than for other recent presidents. And, he said, Mr. Trump may be correct when he says the more than 4,000 appointments every new president must make are too many and largely unnecessary. Still, he said, with only about 440 people nominated to the 1,200 jobs requiring Senate confirmation, “the fault, bluntly, is predominantly with the executive branch.”

“Nobody has done this quickly or well,” Mr. Stier said. “President Trump is just doing it worse than anyone else so far.”

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American Capitalism Isn’t Working.

Not so long ago, corporate leaders understood they had a stake in the country’s prosperity.

Senator Elizabeth Warren spoke at American University in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.CreditT.J. Kirkpatrick for The New York Times

The October 1944 edition of Fortune magazine carried an article by a corporate executive that makes for amazing reading today. It was written by William B. Benton — a co-founder of the Benton & Bowles ad agency — and an editor’s note explained that Benton was speaking not just for himself but on behalf of a major corporate lobbying group. The article then laid out a vision for American prosperity after World War II.

At the time, almost nobody took postwar prosperity for granted. The world had just endured 15 years of depression and war. Many Americans were worried that the end of wartime production, combined with the return of job-seeking soldiers, would plunge the economy into a new slump.

“Today victory is our purpose,” Benton wrote. “Tomorrow our goal will be jobs, peacetime production, high living standards and opportunity.” That goal, he wrote, depended on American businesses accepting “necessary and appropriate government regulation,” as well as labor unions. It depended on companies not earning their profits “at the expense of the welfare of the community.” It depended on rising wages.

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These leftist-sounding ideas weren’t based on altruism. The Great Depression and the rise of European fascism had scared American executives. Many had come to believe that unrestrained capitalism was dangerous — to everyone. The headline on Benton’s article was, “The Economics of a Free Society.”

In the years that followed, corporate America largely followed this prescription. Not every executive did, of course, and management and labor still had bitter disputes. But most executives behaved as if they cared about their workers and communities. C.E.O.s accepted pay packages that today look like a pittance. Middle-class incomes rose faster in the 1950s and 1960s than incomes at the top. Imagine that: declining income inequality.

And the economy — and American business — boomed during this period, just as Benton and his fellow chieftains had predicted.

Things began to change in the 1970s. Facing more global competition and higher energy prices, and with Great Depression memories fading, executives became more aggressive. They decided that their sole mission was maximizing shareholder value. They fought for deregulation, reduced taxes, union-free workplaces, lower wages and much, much higher pay for themselves. They justified it all with promises of a wonderful new economic boom. That boom never arrived.

Even when economic growth has been decent, as it is now, most of the bounty has flowed to the top. Median weekly earnings have grown a miserly 0.1 percent a year since 1979. The typical American family today has a lower net worth than the typical family did 20 years ago. Life expectancy, shockingly, has fallen this decade.

The great stagnation of living standards is a defining problem of our time. Most families do not enjoy the “rapidly rising level of living” that Benton called for. Understandably, many Americans are anxious and angry.

The solution will need to involve a return to higher taxes on the rich. But it’s also worth thinking about pre-tax incomes — and specifically what goes on inside corporations. It’s worth asking the question that Benton asked: What kind of corporate America does the rest of America need?

Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts senator, is now rolling out a platform for her almost-certain presidential campaign, and it includes an answer to this question. It is a fascinating one, because it differs from the usual Democratic agenda of progressive taxes and bigger social programs (which Warren also supports). Her idea is the most intriguing policy idea to come out of the early 2020 campaign.

Warren wants an economy in which companies again invest in their workers and communities. Yet she doesn’t believe it can happen organically, as it did in the 1940s, because financial markets will punish well-meaning executives who stop trying to maximize short-term profits. “They can’t go back,” she told me recently. “You have to do it with a rule.”

She has proposed a bill in the Senate — and Ben Ray Luján, a top House Democrat, will soon offer it there — that would require corporate boards to take into account the interests of customers, employees and communities. To make sure that happens, 40 percent of a company’s board seats would be elected by employees. Germany uses a version of this “shared-governance” model, mostly successfully. Even in today’s hypercompetitive economy, German corporations earn nice profits with a philosophy that looks more like William Benton’s than Gordon Gekko’s.

Is Warren’s plan the best way to rein in corporate greed? I’m not yet sure. I want to see politicians and experts hash out her idea and others — much as they hashed out health care policy in the 2008 campaign.

But I do know this: American capitalism isn’t working right now. If Benton and his fellow postwar executives returned with the same ideas today, they would be branded as socialists. In truth, they were the capitalists who cared enough about the system to save it. The same goes for the new reformers.

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David Leonhardt is a former Washington bureau chief for the Times, and was the founding editor of The Upshot and head of The 2020 Project, on the future of the Times newsroom. He won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, for columns on the financial crisis. @DLeonhardt Facebook

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In the message, the 26-year-old singer said: "The "real world" can be cruel, why not try to change it into a better place? "My letter to Kelly Osbourne was open, because her statements on cyber-bulling were public & as a youth activist I'm compelled to be involved." The spat first started after Gaga's Little Monsters sent telly host Kelly death threats on Twitter after she commented on the singer's weight gain. On Alan Carr's Chatty Man, Kelly had said:  "I think she is pregnant because she has been covering up this part of her body recently."

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Becker College, USA

Title: An overview of RGD-containing peptides research and it’s potentials to the field of glaucoma therapy and/or vitreolysis

Janardan Kumar holds a Ph.D. degree in chemistry under kind supervision of Dr. C.M. Gupta, ex-director, CDRI, Lucknow, India. In the United States, first he received postdoctoral training on motor proteins in the laboratory of Michael P. Sheetz, a lasker award winner, at Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina. He published his work on kinectin, a myocilin like protein, in Science (1995), and an abnormality in myocilin has been predicted to be involved in the pathogenesis of glaucoma. Prior to coming to Becker College, while a research Assistant Professor at Tufts University, Kumar engineered a new real time perfusion system used for the discovery of drugs to treat glaucoma. Presently, Kumar is Chair of the natural sciences department, and is actively engaged in the advancement of course curriculum in microbiology, chemistry, and developing the biotechnology/biology major at Becker College.

Glaucoma is characterized by cupping of the optic nerve head and irreversible loss of retinal ganglion cells. Elevated intraocular pressure due to reduction in aqueous outflow facility is a major causal risk factor in glaucoma. The extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins form a matrix assembly outside the cells which are important for proper maintenance of resistance in the aqueous outflow pathway. Evidence is increasing that correlates increased outflow resistance with an excessive accumulation of extracellular matrix proteins, ECM/ECM-remodeling. However, the relationship of these events to the interaction of outflow pathway cells with their ECM is not fully understood. The most studied factors associated with glaucoma such as corticosteroids and TGF-beta, are also known for increased expression of integrins and ECM proteins in the trabecular meshwork, whereas integrins are a major determinant of ECM deposition in other cellular systems. Since it is well understood in other cellular systems that arginylglycylaspartic acid (RGD-peptide) competes with integrin-ECM interactions and inhibits ECM protein cross-linking, the RGD- containing peptides were perfused in the eyes ex-vivo. Several laboratories have shown inconsistent effects of RGD peptide perfusion on outflow facility either as increased outflow or as having no effects that could be species specific. Clearly, our findings and others support the hypothesis that outflow facility increased by perfusion of RGD-containing peptides in porcine eyes. Our research also suggests the significance, of RGD-containing peptides as potential therapy for glaucoma and/or induction to vitreolysis.

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Haiti for Christ

Haiti for Christ Ministries is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization run for more than 40 years by missionaries Joel and Yvonne Trimble. The Trimbles are independent missionaries not affiliated with any denomination or mission board.

God has called the Trimbles into a unique relationship with the precious people of Haiti, a country they have been proud to call home since 1975.

Haiti for Christ also produces the number one television show in Haiti, La Bonne Nouvelle, bringing the good news of Christ to Haitians both in Haiti and around the world.

Joel & Yvonne Trimble

Joel and Yvonne Trimble were married on December 9, 1977. They had known each other for ten weeks. By March of 1978 they were living on the mission field in Port au Prince, Haiti.

As non-denominated, missionaries Joel and Yvonne often worked to support the ministry. Joel would rise early to do a live radio show in Creole. Evenings he was often asked to act as interpreter for Americans visiting Haiti. Translation occasionally generated donations from visiting evangelists.

For the first five years of ministry, Joel and Yvonne lived in a house with no running water. Their second son, Paul, was born in that house at 28 Ruelle Lily.

The Trimbles had no personal vehicle until a team from Whitesburg Baptist Church, Huntsville, Alabama raised the funds to purchase a new Isuzu jeep.

By 1981 Joel and Yvonne lead evangelism team that traveled to villages with a flatbed truck loaded with sound equipment, courtesy of David Wilkersons World Challenge. Joel, the evangelist, would preach open-air services and show the Jesus movie in Creole, courtesy of Bill Bright’s Campus Crusade for Christ.

One afternoon Joel and Yvonne came home to a note asking to borrow their film projector. Later that evening thirty-year missionary to Mexico, Daniel Ost took young Joel Trimble by the hand and asked him, “Tell me what you do here?”

Joel explained that he preached the gospel four times a day on a local voodoo station and was a traveling evangelist. Danny encouraged Joel to open a church featuring nightly services.

With the financial support of Pastor Roy Stockstill, Bethany Baptist Church in Baton Rouge, La, Joel did and the Center of Faith, Hope and Love were born.

In 1987 the Center of Faith had grown to over 5,000 members worshiping under a large tent on government land. When the Duvalier government was deposed the Center of the Faith was forced to relinquish their land. With nowhere to go, the church closed, but the ministry to Haiti continued.

Today Joel & Yvonne Trimble produce La Bonne Nouvelle, Haiti’s most popular television show. Hundreds of thousands of viewers both in Haiti and around the world have heard the good news of Christ in the Kreyol language.

Four children, six grandchildren and decades later, evangelism in the US and Haiti, and Creole television broadcasts in the US and Haiti comprise Haiti for Christ ministries.

Website: https://www.haitiforchrist.net

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Aroundtw“Wow, what a generous gift! Thank you
very much.” As I said this, I wondered why the Haitian man who had once stolen from us offerered such a sacricial gift. I lifted potatoes, turnips, spinach and watercress from the piled high basket and admired each o ering; it was a beautiful and expensive gift for a poor truck driver with a family. “

Charles nodded and grinned, “When a man is healed he must go back and say, ‘Thank you for what you did for me. Thank you for healing me.’”

Immediately I knew Charles was referring to the ten lepers in Luke chapter 17. Jesus heals the ten lepers but only one comes back to thank Him.

One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him—and he was a Samaritan.

Jesus asked, “Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner?” Then he said to him, “Rise and go; your faith has made you well.” Luke 17:15-19

Charles lives in a two room concrete house with a tin roof on the Kenscoff Mountain. His brothers and mom have similar homes nearby. On Thursdays, peasant merchant women with heavy hand woven baskets balanced on their heads walk for miles to the market near Charles’ home. With the help of another merchant, the women lower their baskets to the ground and arrange lettuce, tomatoes, potatoes and other produce on a burlap sack or piece of carton spread on the packed earth and then they squat in a deep knee bend behind their wares as they wait for customers.

Charles drives a Mack truck up and down the mountain delivering sand and gravel for concrete construction projects. His salary provides for his children’s education and daily needs; the family is healthy and well fed. For ve years before his job as a truck driver, Charles drove a pickup for our mission Haiti for Christ. His happy go lucky, jovial face was always a welcome sight at the mission of ce; unfortunately his exuberance was a mask hiding a dis guring and deadly leprosy. (Leprosy is often a symbol of pervasive, addictive sin in the bible.)

One day my husband Joel left the mission checkbook on the pickup dash while he went into the of ce; Charles was in the driver’s seat. Hours later Joel discovered an entire page of checks missing from the checkbook! (Employee theft is rampant in Haiti.) We knew

our only option was to dismiss Charles immediately and pay his severance with no accusation or charges. Haitian law is Napoleonic Code thus to accuse someone without absolute proof, the checks in his hand, would jeopardize our mission. Since we did not have that eyewitness proof we knew the process was to send him home without explanation and stop the missing checks.

When Joel red Charles later that day, the driver did not object
or question the action; he knew why even though it was never mentioned. We did not see Charles for years after that but we often thought of his smiling face and warm greeting. Our forty years in Haiti have taught us to be wary of thievery but our hearts are always pained for the sin that enslaves Haitians.

Charles knows the gospel; he knows what we stand for as does all of Haiti. We host and produce Haiti’s favorite television show, a Creole Christian travelogue shot on location; it is our powerful pulpit to the nation. We lm a different Haitian village in each episode and show the beauty of the country and her people and then Joel ministers

a word from the Lord often about repentance from leprous sin. To date we have produced eighty-six shows and La Bonne Nouvelle, The Good News, is aired on eighty stations throughout Haiti, the Caribbean and Haitian markets in Montreal, Boston, New York

and South Florida. Our estimated viewing audience is two million Haitians every day!

Last month as we sat down to dinner, the doorbell rang; after years of not seeing him, Charles was at the gate. Joel went out to speak with him. Charles greeted him and said, “I have been watching your television show every day and it has changed me.”

Joel came to get me. “Yvonne, come and see this!” I went to witness the wonder my husband was so excited about.

Charles sat on the low wall beside our driveway, next to him
was a basket over owing with produce; he greeted me with his customary wide smile and strong hug. “Charles,” I said, “Look how fat you are!” (In Haiti, weight gain is a sign of prosperity and to notice it is a compliment.)

Charles beamed and pointed at the basket, “This is for you and Pastor Joel!”

I asked about his wife and children. “Everyone is ne; God is blessing us,” he happily assured me. Charles helped us carry the heavy basket into the house and then he again shook our hands.
“I am healed because of what you did for me.” He said, “Thank you.”

As we returned to our dinner table, Joel asked, “Can you believe what just happened? God healed him of his sin and he came back to thank us for it.”

I agreed. “It makes it all worth it. If he was the only one that got right with God, he just made it all worth it. Forty years of praying and preaching I would do it all for one soul, glory to God.” But to myself, I thought, “Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine?”

Yes, Christ is using us; yes, souls are being saved every day but until we get to heaven and see Jesus face to face, we cannot imagine the transforming power of the gospel – The Good News – that we practice and preach every day. We cannot imagine the convicting impact of our soul winning television show watched by young, old, rich, poor, voodooist, drug dealers and even politicians, but on that day we will see them in Heaven!

Our driver Charles was a thief, but now he is a blood- washed saint with his name written in the Lamb’s book of life. He is brand new, born again; old things are passed away and all things are new. I have often told friends, “When you get to heaven, I will be sitting in the Haitian section!” Now we are assured that happy go lucky, once leprous Charles will be there too!

Submitted by: Yvonne Trimble of Haiti for Christ

El Salvador Clubfoot Program 2014 Annual Review

On His Path has worked in El Salvador for three years with vulnerable children and families in the clubfoot program. The goal of the program is to give children the opportunity to live an active lifestyle and to play, run and kick a ball and be active members in their communities, as well as responding to Jesus’ example of healing the sick and his call to share the gospel.

On His Path is working for those whose physical disabilities can be corrected or alleviated through medical treatment. In our ve clinics around the country, we are providing training to doctors, the materials and braces for non-surgical treatment for children born with clubfoot by partnering with local public health care system so mothers and fathers do not worry that their children will never walk and give them the opportunity to celebrate their rst steps.

Highlights of Last year:

176 new children enrolled in treatment at On His Path clinics

571 casting visits

169 foot abduction braces distributed

539 follow-up visits in the ve clinics

A children’s book was created to encourage them to wear their braces at night which create the best results

More than 300 families received counseling and the opportunity to receive the good news of The Gospel

The Clubfoot Program was promoted in different spaces such as radio interviews in Agape Radio, Telemas TV, and in Health Units with Health Promoters to promote our work in the ve clinics

81 doctors trained at the Third Ponseti Training and Congress in San Miguel facilitated by Dr. Sequeira and Dr. Rosales

Video recordings of the Third Ponseti Training made available for doctors for training purposes as well as on YouTube

New print material created for parents to read explaining clubfoot treatment as well as the use and care of the clubfoot brace

Prayer Requests for El Salvador Clubfoot program:

• Additional health professionals trained

• Parent education and commitment to the treatment of children

• Patient data entered in a database

• Establish at least one more clinic to treat more children

• Persuade more doctors to adopt the Ponseti method to prevent disability caused by untreated clubfoot

In the year 2015, we want to trust God to ful ll his promise as stated in Isaiah 43:19: He will bless us with new opportunities, provision and direction in our organization as we continue looking for opportunities to expand our collaboration to make clubfoot treatment accessible to more children. Our goal is to help establish at least one more strategically located clinic across the country. This year, we will sponsor at least one medical training; our goal is to support the treatment of at least 175 children born this year with clubfoot in El Salvador.

We will continue working with responsibility and integrity of the Ponseti Method to serve more children with high quality care and reach as many children as possible with the promotion of the program.

We are immensely grateful to the Lord for allowing us to serve the little ones in our country and all the generous donors who make the program possible and for joining us in our dream to eradicate untreated clubfoot in El Salvador.

Submitted by Mayra Arteaga, On His Path Clinics


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Opelika Fire Department Remembers 9-11

Members of the Opelika and Auburn Fire Departments participated in the Alabama Remembers 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb Sunday, September 16, 2018.

The Stair Climb is a way to honor and remember the FDNY firefighters who selflessly gave their lives so that others might live on 9-11-2001. Each participant pays tribute to an FDNY firefighter by climbing the equivalent of the 110 stories of the World Trade Center. The firefighters climbed 22 stories of the RSA Tower five times. The support of the 9-11 Memorial Stair Climb events provides assistance to the surviving families and co-workers of the 343 firefighters who made the ultimate sacrifice on September 11, 2001.

2018 Stair Climb Finish Group

The front L-R; Auburn Battalion Chief Josh Datnoff, Opelika Fire Chief Byron Prather. Back Row L-R; Opelika Firefighter Brian Anyadike, Opelika Firefighter Michael Patterson, Auburn Firefighter Austin Clanton, Auburn Firefighter Cody Krauel, Auburn Lt. John Peeks, Auburn Firefighter Stephen Barnes, Auburn Lt. Josh Holley, Auburn Firefighter Andrew White, Auburn Firefighter Grant Robinson and Auburn Sgt. Bart Rumsey.

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Architect: Idle Architecture Studio

City of Yarra | Y12

Whether it was love-at-first-sight is hard to say, but it was definitely potential-at-first-sight when we inspected this derelict warehouse in 2013. Having purchased the property shortly after, we realised that what we had bought was simple – some bricks, a couple of trusses, some steel beams, an asbestos roof and an open, voluminous space. Located in Cremorne, the site had a long and chequered history having been home to the Village Belle Hotel, a malting plant, mechanics, glaziers, and in recent times, an illegal marijuana-growing facility. Idle Architecture tenure aimed to instil new life into this building, while respecting its layered past. The deep, lofty space presented numerous challenges and opportunities. Many in-house discussions followed, exploring endless possibilities – the task of designing their own workspace was equally exciting as daunting for the practice. In essence it needed to be rich in character and to facilitate their collaborative approach, while being flexible, functional and welcoming. The old warehouse has now transformed into a modern workspace. Expansive windows frame views of this historic precinct and welcome natural light and ventilation. Original components sit alongside thoughtfully inserted new elements to create a rich, textural, revitalized building.

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  • Special Note: There is no lift, so prams and wheelchairs will not be able to access first floor office area

  • Tour Details: Tours at 10.15am, 11.15am, 12.15pm, 1.15pm, 2.15pm, 3.15pm running for 15 minutes, in groups of 10

  • Special Programming: Guided tours by the architects

  • Building Type: Workplace

  • Facilities: Toilets

  • Access: Pram accessible, Limited mobility

  • Year Built: 2018

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“Puhahahaha! Is this it? Devil!”

Minamoto’s combat prowess went beyond the rumors. He was not only holding his own against a High Devil known to be as powerful as a Transcendent but even pushing him back.

“Ow! It hurts! Stop it!”

Elijah was being pushed back one-sidedly despite wielding the power of a High Devil. There were largely two reasons for this.

First was the difference in skill. As a seasoned fighter, Minamoto had seen through Elijah’s powerful yet simple attack pattern and negated every move he was making by keeping one step ahead; the follow-up counter-attack that came after was just a bonus. Another reason was simply that Minamoto was powerful. He had used just one arm to block the heavy swing of Elijah’s clawed attack.

Elijah flailed about desperately with all his effort, but Minamoto did not retreat a single step. Instead, he was scolding the Devil by shaking a single finger side to side.

“I am unbreakable. This sort of attack does not work on me.”

It was an unbelievable sight, for a mere admiral of the Human Empire’s Fleet who did not even manage to enter the lowest seat of the 13 Champions of the Continent to display such strength. Minamoto was performing a feat that was believed to be impossible with the exception of the Emperor of the Human Empire, Aquiroa the Executor, and Shamal Rajput, the head of the Assassin’s Guild. The soldiers who were watching the spectacle broke out into a cheer.

“My god… to stand toe to toe with a High Devil in terms of strength, Admiral Minamoto; he’s amazing.”
“Is this the strength of the man who was promoted by the Emperor because of his combat prowess?”
“It looks like the rumors that even the Enemy of the World was wary and envious of his skill wasn’t just hot air.”

Minamoto did not outwardly appear to be reacting to the sound of praise coming from behind him, but he was burning with passion on the inside.

‘Kekeke… more. Praise me more. Sing of my praises a bit louder!’

To the Summoned, the mass summoning was a tragedy on its own, but to some, it was a gift. This was especially true for people like Taeksu Kim or Minamoto Daisuke who had no outlook in life. Minamoto was subjected to izime before the word izime was adopted to Korean, and he had been a shut-in recluse long before the word hikikomori was coined. The Other World was like heaven that overflowed with milk and honey. Anyone could obtain overwhelming power through a bit of luck, regardless of the actual effort involved.

A smile formed on Minamoto’s lips. He was assured of victory.

‘This Devil. He’s weaker than me. I might not have been able to beat him before, but the Forbidden Technique sure is great!’

He allowed the sinister energy he had obtained via betrayal to run rampant inside of his body. The destructive power that he himself had no means to restrain filled every cell of his being.

“I am a High Devil! How dare a mere human stand against a High Devil! This doesn’t make any sense! Why do you think I have become a High Devil!”

Elijah began to reek of vile Demon Aura as he rushed forth. It was a charge that held enough power and speed to make even the most grizzled knights, who often boasted about having being trained in the battlefield, reel back in fear.

However, Minamoto evaded Elijah’s charge with light movements like that of a bullfighter. He recalled one of the scenes from pro wrestling that he saw at a young age as he dodged. The most popular figure on that show broadcasted by the American military: the muscled man in the yellow underwear. As an apostle of justice, the patterns of his matches were all the same. His repertoire was to be beaten up by the evil heel until he was awoken by the cheer of the crowd to some monstrous strength that allowed him to overwhelm his villain in a single move. It was simple but always evoked a thunderous applause.

A cruel smile formed on Minamoto’s lips.

‘I’ll strike back hard after playing with you for a little bit.’

He was planning on using this opportunity to show his true worth to not only the members of his fleet but also to the soldiers of the front lines of the Demon world, and correct his recently declining evaluation.

‘13 Champions of the Continent? Don’t make me laugh. The fact that I’m not on that list means that the list is worthless!’

He delayed the fight as he continued to block or barely evade Elijah’s relentless assault. Until the moment when people began to chant his name.

As Elijah began to gather his breath and prepare for his next attack, the cheer of the crowd fell into Minamoto’s ears.

“Human! You must get up!”
“You must defeat that demon!”

The words of cheer that he had been waiting for had arrived. Minamoto smiled as he recalled the man in yellow underwear that stood on the post of the ring in the crowd’s adoration.

“Now! You must get up!”

However, the voices were strange. Minamoto quickly looked around him.

‘Huh? It’s just Homunculi all over?!’

There was a crowd of homunculi. Each one of them had a hideous appearance as their limbs were torn off, clothes ripped away, or their hair singed off. They looked to be the group of homunculi that were used by the Mages who had met their ends in the hands of Elijah Breggas when he ran rampant here.

The cheer of the homunculi grew more intense as Minamoto turned to look at them.

“You must get up! Stand up and get rid of the evil Devil!”

It was then that Elijah headed toward him with the sound of metallic chains clanking. Minamoto did not hold it any longer. He put his strength behind the hand that held Yodo Kamaitachi and sliced through the High Devil rushing toward him with a single swing. It appeared as though a fog of blood had sprayed around Kamaitachi like a sprinkler before Elijah was felled like a giant tree.

“I-it can’t be true… I-I am a High Devil…”

Elijah wasn’t quite dead yet. He had just received a mortal blow that kept him on the floor; gasping for breath. The metal chain wrapped around his back had also been cut, freeing the corpse of the female which slid to the floor. A cheer broke out.

This time it was not just the homunculi, but also the soldiers in the rear, but Minamoto could only hear the loud and annoying sound of the Homunculi cheering. He walked toward the Homunculi with heavy steps.

“We’re really grateful!”
“Admiral Minamoto is our hero!”

The Homunculi put on a grotesque smile as they praised him. Minamoto suddenly lifted one up before throwing it back toward the floor.

The Homunculus was smashed onto the floor turning into a bloody mess.

“To receive praise from these half-made trashes. I can’t bear it! I won’t let anyone who was watching live!”

Yodo Kamaitachi danced once again. The homunculi’s heads and limbs flew dizzyingly in the air as bright red blood splattered in every direction. No one could stop him who was dyed in madness. His blade that had soaked his immediate surroundings in blood swung violently in the air seeking its next opponent. Elijah Breggas became its next target as the closest being around.

“I received this humiliation because of this trash-like Devil.”

However, Elijah’s movements were strange. The High Devil who had been gasping for breath after the mortal blow was now stretching his hand in an attempt to reach something.

Minamoto’s eyes moved and soon discovered what he sought. There was a corpse of a young woman tied in metal chains in the direction of the High Devil’s outstretched hand.

Minamoto’s face grew ugly.

“Is the so-called High Devil playing with a human corpse like a doll? Not only are you weak and repulsive, you are also perverted.”

Yodo Kamaitachi’s tip was pointed toward Sophia’s corpse.

“I will slice up this rotten corpse and feed it to the dogs!”

The blade exploded into a fog of blood and split the air. Just when the sword dyed in an evil aura was about to touch the corpse,

something stopped the blade. Minamoto’s eyes grew wide.

‘W-what is this?!’

The number of people that could stop him weren’t many. The only ones he expected to be able to block his attack with such ease were the higher ranked Devil Lords, and those with the title of ‘Transcendent’ within the human alliance. But the face that stood before him was someone he could have never expected.

‘K-kim Sungchul?!’

He had not been told that Sungchul was here. His panic-stricken face turned toward the distant Martin Breggas. Martin, who was now kneeling over his son’s torn corpse with a distant expression on his face, was lost in many ways.

The man who had stopped the sword smirked while Minamoto still stood in shock.

“Yo, Taeksu Kim.”

“E-enemy of the World!”

The atmosphere of the entire battlefield shifted with the presence of a single person. The fleet of the Human Empire who had been carpet bombing, the Civil Militia of Trowyn who had been sweeping up the remnants of the enemy army, the main forces on the ground, and even the Order of the Iron Blood Knights who had been surrounded and waiting for death were wholly focused on the appearance of this one man.

Silence that couldn’t have been imagined moments ago fell onto the battlefield. Minamoto pulled away his Yodo Kamaitachi from Fal Garaz that stood in its path and retreated.

“It’s been a while.”

Sungchul spoke with a bright smile. His smile picked away at a scar deep inside Minamoto… no, Taeksu’s mind. 15 years ago on the plains of La Grange, the humiliation of the time when he had been helplessly tied up without being able to do anything despite being much stronger than Sungchul appeared in his mind.

‘It’s different now. My strength has grown since then, and I have techniques and experience that I didn’t possess back then.’

Despite the fact that Sungchul’s infamy had swept across the world, Minamoto, with his sinister secret, believed that Sungchul’s reputation was nothing but hogwash.

‘I’ll kill you and place my name as the First Champion of the 13 Champions of the Continent. No, wouldn’t First Champion be too much? Since the one who gave me power is also on the list.’

Minamoto smirked. He had become panicked momentarily, but courage stemming from self-confidence quickly sprang forth.

“Yodo Kamaitachi, Blood Fiend Technique! You’re a dead man!”

Minamoto stood boldly before Sungchul and swung his katana. A fog of blood quickly began to spread from the blade’s body. It was the same blade that had cleaved through Elijah in a single slice.

However, Sungchul only looked at Minamoto with apathetic eyes.

Minamoto slowly began to move. It was at this moment that a voice of a young girl rang out from above Sungchul’s head.

“All done!”

A single book was gliding straight toward Sungchul’s head from the sharp mountain slope. Sungchul collected the falling book.

“I told you to wait.”

“It was scary waiting by myself!”

He smiled bitterly as to say “It can’t be helped” and pulled out the single drawing held between the pages of the book. It contained the image of a beautiful woman.

Minamoto’s face grew red.

‘Why… that’s my ideal woman!’

Sungchul pulled out the drawing, indifferent whether Minamoto looked or not, and placed it onto another portrait. The final drawing turned into fragments of light and disappeared leaving behind a single message in Sunghcul’s eyes.

[How was it? It couldn’t be that you’ve fallen for me now, right? It doesn’t matter if you did. We can never be.]

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1. Intuition +1
2. Portrait of Vestiare drawn on Jewel Papyrus

Sungchul immediately threw the portrait of Vestiare drawn on Jewel Papyrus onto the ground without hesitation. Minamoto ran over to the ground to pick up the portrait as quick as lightning.

“Oooh…! Sugoi!”

Sungchul checked his changed stats while Minamoto was preoccupied with the portrait.

Intuition – 500

A smile rose on Sunghcul’s lips, then…

A fearsome strike that couldn’t be seen struck Minamoto’s abdomen.

Minamoto let out an eerie scream and collapsed onto the floor. Sungchul took a sweep at the gazes of the soldiers filled with awe and fear before heading off. Martin had become a shell of a man, and Minamoto was dead. There was no one left to stop his path.

While he was thinking so, Minamoto’s body which lay on the ground began to squirm.

“Go… no further! Sungchul!”

Sungchul could now see it. The evil energy that surrounded Minamoto’s entire body. This thing that could be described as a black fog, or maybe mucus, was now popping Minamoto onto his feet.

He watched Minamoto who was now heading in his direction with a katana in hand with callous indifference.

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  1. Thanks for the chapter, I don’t know this one felt like out of place, first is all about the japanese guy, then for all the heat that the MC appearing got he did almost nothing. And the thing with the portrait, what was that???

    1. First scene is about Minamoto, his days back in earth where he gets bullied, is a shut in and sees shows where the hero fights evil and wins coz of the audience’s cheers. He does something similar to relive that here with the high devil.

      Sungchul appears in the second scene. Last chapter itself we came to know that he wants to finish Taeksu aka Minamoto for his betrayal. Bertelgia finishes the portrait, if you remember the rewards for the quest it was 1 intuition and a portrait on Jewel papyrus. So Sungchul throws the papyrus away, Minamoto who was approaching him sees the portrait and gets captivated (Vestiare is known to be one of the most beautiful woman in Other World). Sungchul smacks him away and leaves thinking Minamoto is dead but he is not and Minamoto charges at him again, end chap.

      The chapter might have felt a bit out of place due to the weabiness shown by Minamoto here but all in all plot wise it wasn’t. They might have chased to capture Sungchul but Sungchul 2-3 chapters ago did say he dosent bother with such pawns as they aren’t at fault but are simply following instructions. So him not harming them here fits his character as he is indifferent in general and would rather leave than waste his time here. He entered the battlefield only coz he was worried for Sophia’s remains and to kill Minamoto, otherwise he probably wouldn’t have bothered.

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The Organic Center is pleased to announce the launch of a project in collaboration with the Sustainability and Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise (SHINE) at the Harvard School of Public Health looking at the benefits of organic for the environment and human health.  Traditional models of examining environmental and health effects focus on ways to decrease negative impacts, known as our environmental or health footprints.  This project takes a different perspective: rather than looking at how organic decreases our footprints, it focuses on the benefits organic provides, known as our environmental or health handprint.  By combining decreased footprints with increased handprints, this project will be able to identify the net positives of organic food and farming.

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The research team at Harvard will develop a life cycle analysis with a statistical model that analyzes Net Positives to examine a thorough compilation of data over the last few decades.  They will focus their analyses on two areas: climate change and human health.  These two areas are hot topics in the media, and top reasons that consumers choose organic.  They also align with future policy decisions and Whitehouse action papers, so we will be able to get relevant science into the hands of policymakers as they develop critical decisions that organic might play a role in supporting.

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