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ICMSA has provided a comprehensive up-to-date report on how the Covid-19 crisis is impacting farmers in Cork and across the state.
The Association is satisfied that these details are correct at time of writing but are happy to immediately work on behalf of individual Cork members with problems falling outside these areas.
In the first instance, Cork members should contact their local Area Development Officer, Barry O'Keefe, at 087-1622049.
Milk Collection
Milk collection continues to go ahead with drivers and farmers expected to adhere to HSE guidelines in terms of social distancing and hygiene. Co-ops have procedures in place to adhere to these guidelines.
Cross Compliance Inspections
Cross compliance inspections are still going ahead. Farmers who have an underlying condition, elderly or have concerns can defer or nominate another person to stand in for them.
Inspectors are advising farmers of the documents that are needed before the inspection, this is to ensure that minimum contact is needed and there is minimum contact in enclosed areas. Social distancing will be applied in all cases. The Young Farmer inspection involves the most contact in terms of asking questions to determine if the YF is involved in the farm. DAFM are advising common sense and if contact could take place outdoor or open sheds. Any inspection that is deferred will not result in that payment being processed until the inspection has taken place.
Sustainable Dairy Assurance Scheme and Beef and Lamb Sustainable Scheme
Bord Bia made the decision to postpone Quality Assurance Schemes audits for two months and extend the validity of current certificates where applicable for an initial period of 60 days. Such an extension scenario is already provided for within the standard. On the resumption of a regular auditing schedule, where an extension had been granted, the new certification validity period will start on the Certification Decision Date and run until the expiry date of the previous certificate plus 18 months, in accordance with procedure.
Bord Bia will conduct audits for new applicants or re-applicants to the SBLAS and the SDAS where requested to by farmers. Under the Quality Payment System, a bonus for in-spec cattle will only be paid if the cattle are also Quality Assured by Bord Bia. Bord Bia recognises the economic importance to farmers of receiving this bonus and wishes to continue to assist farmers in joining the scheme where possible during the Covid-19 pandemic. Farmers who have requested to be audited as new members are advised to increase their biosecurity measures and follow HSE advice to mitigate against the risks of contracting or transmitting Covid-19. Auditors visiting their farms have been issued with bio-security guidelines by Bord Bia.
Illness Benefit
If you have been diagnosed with COVID-19, or are medically certified to self-isolate as a result of COVID-19, you can apply for Illness Benefit for COVID-19 absences paid at a rate of €305 per week. This is available to employees and the self-employed including farmers.
How to Apply
If you are suffering from COVID-19 or a doctor advises that you self-isolate, the doctor will then complete a medical certificate on your behalf and send this directly to the department.
To receive a payment, you will need to provide your doctor with your:
- name
- PPS Number
- date of birth
You now need to complete an application form for Illness Benefit (Form IB 1).
There are three ways that you can make an application:
- you can call 1890 800 024 or 01 2481398 between 9.00am and 5.00pm Monday to Friday to get an application form by post
- organise someone to pick up a form at your doctor's surgery or at your local Intreo Centre
- an online application process will be available by the end of March
Send your application form by Freepost to:
PO Box 1650, Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Dublin 1
Once both the application form and the medical certificate are received payment will be processed.
To be eligible for this payment a person must be confined to their home or a medical facility.
Revenue Commissioner advice for Businesses
Revenue has provided the following updated advice which will further assist businesses that are experiencing trading difficulties caused by the impacts of COVID-19.
Information for SMEs
- Tax Returns: businesses experiencing temporary cash flow difficulties should continue to send in tax returns on time.
- Application of Interest: the application of interest on late payments i rs s suspended for January/February VAT and both February and March PAYE (Employe) liabilities.
- Debt Enforcement: All debt enforcement activity is suspended until further notice.
- Tax Clearance: current tax clearance status will remain in place for all businesses over the coming months.
Revenue will continue to closely monitor the evolving situation regarding COVID-19 and will issue further updated guidance for businesses when required and particularly in good time before the March/April VAT returns, and other future returns are due.
ICMSA President, Pat McCormack, confirmed the Association is continuing to work on behalf of its family farm membership and he urged farmers with any specific problems to contact their aread development officer in the first instance or email [email protected].


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?Barcelona have revealed their new home kit for the 2019/20 campaign, and it sees a significant departure from their traditional vertical stripes.
Revealing the kit on Twitter, the new shirt features an outlandish chequered design, the first time since 2016 they have departed from their traditional pattern, and it has certainly divided fans.
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While the reveal was polarising to an extent, however, club captain Gerard Pique stands by it, insisting it is '100% Barca' via manufacturer's ?Nike's reveal of the kit.
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"Barcelona is a club with a bold and adventurous philosophy and that resonates throughout the city," he said.
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Back in January, the sports world watched the Kansas City Chiefs make their way to a second consecutive Super Bowl after beating the Buffalo Bills in the AFC Championship game. It was during this game that Trey Songz was arrested for fighting with a police officer. The incident was captured on video, which quickly made its rounds on social media. Months later, Kansas' Jackson County prosector's office revealed that they will not press charges against the singer for the fight.
According to Billboard, Mike Mansur, a spokesperson for the prosector's office, said there was "insufficient evidence" to bring charges against Trey. The fight led to Trey spending a night in jail after a statement from police said attendees at the game complained about a man who was not following COVID-19 protocols and other rules, including being disruptive, intoxicated, or using obscene language. It later says that the individual punched and placed an officer in a headlock when he was asked to leave, and while the statement did not identify the man as Trey, both parties delivered a punch and a headlock.
That claim goes against a witness' account that was shared with TMZ after his arrest. They told the publication that the fight began when fans heckled Trey and he told them to stop. It was here that an officer approached and, without warning, grabbed him which caused the singer to fight back.
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Ecoles Centrale Group
Published on December 16, 2016 – Updated on March 16, 2023
The five Ecoles Centrale - Lille, Lyon, Nantes, Supélec (Paris) and Méditerranée - share the same vision of excellence in general engineering higher education.
The members of the group, which came into being in 1990, pursue a number of joint objectives:
- harmonise their pedagogical projects and recruitment at home and abroad
- increase exchanges between final year engineering students
- co-ordinate their research policies and ensure their complementarity
- broaden their industrial collaboration
- develop their international relations policies
- promote the Ecoles Centrale image at home and abroad through increased visibility at institution level, but also in the business world.
The Ecoles Centrale share the same practices for recruiting French and international students and for the engineering training programme. Their complementarity allows students to complete their final year in another of the group's schools.
In terms of its size and potential, the Ecoles Centrale Group is on a par with MIT, Technische Universität Berlin or other major European or American universities.
The group is expanding, notably with the opening of schools internationally.
Centrale Beijing
Centrale Beijing has welcomed around 100 Chinese engineering students per year since it opened its doors in September 2005. After one year of intensive study of French, each student follows a five-year programme to obtain a double diploma (French and Chinese).
Mahindra Ecole Centrale
MEC was founded in September 2013, officially opening its doors in August 2014. It is the fruit of collaboration between Tech Mahindra, an Indian company, Centrale Paris and Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad. The school is based on the same model as the Ecoles Centrales in France.
Centrale Casablanca
Founded in 2013, this establishment is built on the Centrale model. Successful completion of the three-year Centrale Casablanca engineering programme - coming after two years of post-secondary study - confers the Moroccan state diploma. Centrale Casablanca is the first engineering school in Morocco whose innovative teaching programme aims to train engineers of high scientific level, with a multidisciplinary culture and a international openness.


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Guatape is a tourist spot with a two-hour drive from the city of Medelin, Colombia. to be precise in the city is a beautiful town two hours from Medellin, Colombia. What's interesting about this city is the giant rock that towers high with hundreds of steps made to get to the top of the large rock. This giant rock is called The Rock of Guatape.
This big rock has been around for millions of years. Previously, the inhabitants of this place were familiar with the name of the Tahamies tribe, they became this big rock as a god who was worshiped.
This giant rock has its own history. To the north of the rock, there is a painting depicting the letters G and U. If we look at wikipedia, Guatapé and El Peñol have long been arguing over who owns the big stone. Later, the inhabitants of Guatape painted the large rock as a sign that it was theirs. They want to write GUATAPE with a big hurtuf on the rock. However, only G and part of U are resolved. After this was discovered by the residents of El Penol, they mobilized large masses to stop the work of the GUATAPE people. So, only the letter G and part of the U have been drawn.
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At the highest point above this boulder, on the southeast side to be precise, the altitude reaches 2,135 meters (7,005 ft) above sea level. To get to the top of this giant rock, we have to go through 659 steps. This peak is called the peak of La Piedra Del Peñol (Spanish for "The Rock of Guatapé"). When you reach the top, you can see an extraordinary view, all sides of the city will appear and look beautiful as far as the eye can see.


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Dr. Maurice Eastridge, Extension Dairy Specialist, The Ohio State University
The 2005 Ohio 4-H Dairy Quiz Bowl contest was held on May 14 on the OSU campus in Columbus. There were seven junior teams that competed, with teams coming from Champaign, Mahoning, and Wayne Counties. Champaign County was the champion junior team, and one of the Wayne County teams was the reserve champion junior team (see pictures below).There were not enough seniors this year to conduct a senior division contest, thus Ohio will not have a team at the national contest held in November at the North American International Livestock Exposition held in Louisville, KY. However, Ohio will have a senior team consisting of youth from Wayne and Fairfield Counties at the Quiz Bowl Contest held in October at the World Dairy Expo in Madison, WI. The Quiz Bowl program is an excellent opportunity for youth to focus on learning about the broad scope of the dairy industry in a fun, competitive environment. The Ohio Quiz Bowl Contest is sponsored by American Dairy Association & Dairy Council Mideast, Farm Credit Services, Ohio Purebred Dairy Cattle Association, and Vreba-Hoff Dairy Development. You are encouraged to consider becoming a leader in your area to foster youth to participate in this excellent program.
Champaign County (First Place) - Back row: Ann Randall, Rachel Townsley,
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The beginning of the end of the Hunger Games movie franchise arrives today. Mockingjay Part-1, the first installment in the series' two-part finale, hurtles into theaters like one of Katniss Everdeen's arrows.
It's been six years since readers — and then viewers — were first introduced to the "Girl on Fire," and in that time, Katniss and the franchise have become household names.
But maybe you're just getting into The Hunger Games. That's cool — and you have some awesome books and movies to catch up with. Here are some questions you might have.
1) What are The Hunger Games books and movies?
The Hunger Games is a trilogy of young adult, dystopian novels written by Suzanne Collins, a woman previously known for writing for Nickelodeon's early '90s sitcom Clarissa Explains It All. The books envision a dystopian, futuristic United States-like country called Panem that's divided into 12 districts, with a Capitol that rules them, and the terrible game of bloodsport the Capitol makes those districts take part in.
Collins's books have been immensely popular — in 2012 Scholastic announced that 50 million copies of the books had been sold — and are now movies. The first book, The Hunger Games, was published in 2008 and was turned into a movie in 2012. The sequel, Catching Fire, was released in 2009, with a movie following last year. The final book, Mockingjay, will actually be split into two movies with the first chapter hitting theaters today.
2) What are the Hunger Games? What is a Mockingjay?
They are the crux of Collins's book. In order to keep its stranglehold over the other districts, the Capitol enacts a life-or-death competition called the Hunger Games. Two children — one boy and one girl — from each of the 12 districts are sent into the Games, where they have brutal fights to the death. The Games finish when there's only one child left standing.
The children sent into the Games are called tributes. Tributes can either volunteer or are picked by a random draw. Collins's book explores what happens when Katniss, a girl from impoverished District 12, volunteers in her sister's place in the 74th Hunger Games.
Without giving too much away, the Mockingjay, named for a futuristic bird, is a symbol of rebellion in the third book.
3) Who is Katniss Everdeen?
Katniss Everdeen, a.k.a. The Girl on Fire (so named for a dress she wears that appears to engulf her in flames), is the heroine and protagonist of the Hunger Games trilogy. Jennifer Lawrence plays her in the movies. The role has brought her the immense fame she now has.
4) What is Katniss Everdeen like?
Katniss is stubborn, savvy, and paranoid. She is selfless and strong.
She's also not inherently likable — and likability is key to the Games. A constant struggle for Katniss is how to make the audience watching like her, and she's aware of this. This weakness leads to her essentially putting on a show and a perosona. These aspects of the books and films make for a canny satire on celebrity culture.
5) Is the Hunger Games trilogy feminist?
Though the most pronounced theme in The Hunger Games is a distrust of adults, authority, and the government, there's also an underlying theme of feminism woven throughout the books.
To fully understand The Hunger Games, you have to consider cultural movements that preceded it. One of the biggest was the Twilight series, Stephenie Meyer's four-part series about a girl named Bella who falls in love with a vampire who wants to spend his eternal life in high school. Bella pinning her hopes and dreams on an immortal, undead man-boy has drawn criticism for being anti-feminist.
Wrote The Guardian's David Cox:
Bella's fate isn't only dispiriting; it's also deceptive. On the whole, beguilement by a teenage bad boy, however courtly his manner, doesn't lead to eternal love; nor is self-abnegation a reliable route to bliss.
Thus, The Hunger Games series felt even more seismic than it might have otherwise. It features a love triangle, sure, but it's much less important to the book's overall story. Katniss is independent. She's a bit abrasive. And she's less interested in love.
There's also the world that Collins has created. In the Games, girls are as feared as boys and keep up with them both physically and mentally. Katniss is one of the most fearsome and tactical tributes. But she isn't the only strong female competitor. Johanna Mason (Jena Malone in the films), a major character in the second and third books, wins her games because people think she's weak and keep her around. Enobaria, a past victor, ripped someone's throat out with her teeth to win the games — a move that's as ruthless as the book describes. And there are other female champions like Mags and Wiress, who managed to win the Games in unconventional ways.
Women and girls in the Games are pillars of strength, symbols of hope. They are independent. They're not necessarily perfect — even Katniss is flawed — but they're quite an improvement from many of the works they followed.
6) Does anyone actually go hungry during the Hunger Games?
Yes. The Hunger Games live up to their name.
In her books, Collins focuses on food as a symbol of wealth and inequality. Katniss and others who live in the outer Districts starve, while the Capitol has an abundance of food. The contrast between these different situations constantly appears in the first two books and is part of the series' political allegory.
The relationship people have with food bleeds into the actual Games. Collins points out that the tributes from districts closer to the Capitol, who are used to plenty of food, have a tough time in the Games, because of the general lack of it throughout the competition. Some past winners win solely because they know how to find food, while others have lost because they ate the wrong thing, like poison berries.
7) What is a Peeta?
Peeta, pronounced like the pocket of bread that you fill with hummus and falafel, is a boy from District 12 who goes into the Hunger Games with Katniss. He's a baker. As you can imagine, a baker isn't the kind of person who would be good in a last-man-standing competition.
8) Why does everyone in this book have funny names?
Collins has never explicitly explained why the characters in her books are named the way they are. But that hasn't stopped people from coming up with theories. The best theory out there belongs to Slate's Miriam Krule:
Characters from the poor, depleted districts are named after plants or other earthy items; those from the regal capital have a Roman influence … The Roman-themed names play on Collins' critique of imperialism — the nation of Panem gets its name from panem et circenses, or "bread and circuses" — while the plant names highlight the natural goodness of the books' heroes.
The names are also part of Collins's world-building. In the world of Panem, gems and precious stones come from District 1. And names for tributes from District 1 are "showy", like Glimmer, Marvel, Cashmere, and Gloss. Betee and Wiress are from District 3, a district that excels in technology, so their names reflect that.
There's also some phonetics at work. Cinna, Katniss's stylist, sounds like the word "sinner," which is how he's viewed in the eyes of the Capitol. And Peeta sounds like pita, which makes sense considering his profession.
9)What happens to tributes who win the Hunger Games?
Victors get to live and retire in a village. That might sound great — and certainly an improvement over near certain death. But there are some drawbacks.
Collins makes clear that a life of a victor is damaged. Finnick O'dair, a good-looking victor introduced in the second and third books, became tangled in a life of prostitution after the Games, for instance.
"I wasn't the only one. If a victor is considered desirable, the president gives them as a reward or allows people to buy them for an exorbitant amount of money. If you refuse, he kills someone you love. So you do it," he says in Mockingjay.
Still other victors become addicted to drugs after they win. And there's also PTSD, which affects Katniss greatly. "Winning" the Hunger Games doesn't really feel like winning at all.
10) Isn't it gross to watch movies about kids killing kids?
It's not like the kid killing is for "fun." These children are put into this terrible situation by a government that doesn't care for them. The deaths are supposed to shock and disgust readers and viewers.
When reviews started arriving for the films, in fact, there was actually a bit of controversy over the lack of violence.
"It's too bad that, like its predecessor, Catching Fire doesn't convey the full horror and injustice of each combatant's death at the moment of killing," David Edelstein wrote in New York magazine. "That's what you feel in a great war movie, whereas, in the end, The Hunger Games trilogy is just good dystopian pulp."
Critics like Edelstein argued that the movies didn't show enough violence or the terror of the Games, which ended up dulling Collins's points. It's possible the movie would have been more effective with an R-rating, which would have allowed more brutal violence.
11) How much have the movies made?
Lots. The first Hunger Games movie grossed $408,010,692 domestically. And the second movie, Catching Fire, was the top-grossing film of 2013, besting the first movie by around $16 million.
12) What are the biggest differences between the books and the novels?
The biggest difference is that the book is written from a first-person perspective and peppered with Katniss's inner monologues. There are no voiceovers in the movies, which means it's up to Jennifer Lawrence to convey Katniss's confusion, paranoia, and conflicting feelings.
The other big change from the books actually surfaced during Lawrence's casting. The books don't mention Katniss's ethnicity, but hinted that she has olive skin and dark hair. Indeed, Katniss could very well be multiracial. The casting of Lawrence, blonde and blue-eyed, initially caused a furor. But the actress's portrayal of the character has been generally been lauded.
13) Is there a Hunger Games theme song?
There are a couple. In the movie, there is a four-note whistle that becomes prominent as a signal that everything is okay.
As for official songs, Taylor Swift created a moody, somber track called "Safe and Sound" for the first album:
Lorde takes over the reins in Mockingjay, with a more vindictive, booming song called "Yellow Flicker Beat":
14) How is the film dealing with the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman?
Philip Seymour Hoffman, who played an important supporting character in Catching Fire, died during the filming of the final two movies. Production was halted as producers decided between rewriting the script to change Hoffman's role or creating a CGI image of Hoffman to act out his remaining parts.
Director Francis Lawrence told HuffPo Live that Hoffman's remaining scenes were rewritten:
He had two scenes with dialogue that were left, and we decided we didn't want to try any kind of digital trickery with him, so we rewrote his scenes and gave his dialogue to other actors. So there was one scene from Part 1 and one scene from Part 2, so we shot both movies back to back.
15) What is the lasting impact of The Hunger Games?
Katniss Everdeen and everything she stands for —independence, ferocity, kicking ass — are pop culture fixtures. Collins's story about a girl coming into her own and finding her worth ended up inspiring many.
The Hunger Games has also impacted the young adult genre. While there are still books being written with girls and young women who resemble Twilight's Bella, there are even more characters who resemble Katniss. Look no further than the dystopian young adult Divergent series, or the Beautiful Creatures series. Both were wildly successful, as was a movie based on the first Divergent book.
The success of The Hunger Games also changed the way movie executives thought about young adult and female audiences. Its huge box office draw shattered the myth that no one would want to see a movie with female leads. But it also had a more immediate effect.
After The Hunger Games dominated the box office, a bevy of young adult movie adaptations were greenlit and produced (see: Divergent, Beautiful Creatures, City of Bones). Studios wanted to tap into that market, but none of those movies came close to cashing in the way the Hunger Games did, though Divergent was quite successful.
16) What details can I use to help me seem superior to my friends by arguing that the books were better?
The symbolism of big government and feminism might be low-hanging fruit, considering how much the movies utilize those themes. What the movies ignore is how important food is in the novel.
Peeta throws a loaf of bread at Katniss, showing that he loves her. Katniss shares food with Rue to show that she cares. Katniss's concept of currency is in the squirrels she hunts. The Capitol feeds the tributes exorbitantly before sending them off to their deaths. And Katniss and Peeta share a "lamb stew" that is never reflected in the movies.
"Guys, I really liked the movie. But I found it curious that for a movie with Hunger in the title, it never really stressed the importance of food like Collins does in the book," is something you could say. But be warned, this might make you look like a pretentious jerk — unless that's what you're going for.
17) Hypothetically, how do I survive a Hunger Games scenario?
If you're athletic, it helps to be good at throwing knives. Cashmere and Gloss, the brother-sister victors from District 1, and Clove, the fifth-place finisher in the first book, all got pretty far thanks to excellent knife-throwing skills.
Going off the fuzzy data (though there are 74 victors, the book doesn't go into detail into how each winner won and skips over a few), throwing knives (two winners, one fifth-place finisher) is a better choice than a bow and arrow (one winner, one idiot who died getting stung by genetically modified bees), trident (one winner), or battle axe (one winner).
If you're fragile but really smart, just get really good at starving (one winner). Or, even better, learn how to camouflage yourself (three winners).
If you're neither, just hope the world never descends into a politically resonant dystopia. And if it does, hope you're never picked.
Mockingjay Part-1 opens on Friday.


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Email UsCourse Goals
- Understand why industries fund research
- Understand how industries fund research
- Learn how to find and apply for industry funding that fits your needs
- Know how to cultivate and maintain industry relationships in attaining funding
Designed as an introduction to industry funding mechanisms, this online course will focus on acquiring industry funding and the unique aspects of this process. The course will specifically highlight and differentiate between investigator-initiated research (IIR) and industry-sponsored research (ISR) initiatives, networking, mentorship, and communication.
Course participants will receive helpful tips and hints from members of both academia and industry on how to engage with industry and succeed in obtaining funding to further research endeavors.
Interested in diversifying your funding portfolio even further? Register for the Grant Funding for Researchers Certificate and learn the skills needed to meet grant application requirements from multiple funding sources. This comprehensive program combines five existing grant writing courses:
- Techniques to Writing a Competitive Grant
- NIH Funding: Navigating the R01 & K Grant Submission Process
- Non-NIH Government Agency Funding: Grant Submission Process
- Industry Funding: Application Process & Establishing Industry Relationships
- Funding Your Research: How to Obtain Foundation & Philanthropic Funding
Session dates
February 28 – May 8, 2024
Time commitment
Online course work/assignments require an average of two to three hours per week over nine weeks.
Clinical professionals with little or no experience in obtaining industry funding.
We believe that the research community is strengthened by understanding how a number of factors including gender identity, sexual orientation, race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, culture, religion, national origin, language, disability, and age shape the environment in which we live and work, affect each of our personal identities, and impacts all areas of human health.
MD, PhD, DMD, ScD, DNP, or doctorate-level degree, or involvement in a grant-writing team.
- Free for Harvard-affiliated institutions
- Non-CTSA member: $600.00
- CTSA member: $450.00
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To inquire about available discounts, contact us.
- Additional 10% off for nurses and Allied Health Professionals (can be combined with other discounts)
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The Harvard Catalyst Education Program is accredited by the Massachusetts Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Harvard Catalyst Education Program's policy requires full participation and the completion of all activity surveys to be eligible for CME credit; no partial credit is allowed.
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Church leaders face the unenviable task of making responsible decisions during these trying times while navigating the strong opinions of many of their congregants. For these challenging days ahead, I offer a word of encouragement and challenge. Jesus believed unity among his followers was of the utmost importance, so much so that he prayed multiple times that we may be one even as he and God the Father are one (John 17:11, 21, 22, 23). Paul also made unity a priority in his ministry. In his letter to the Philippians, Paul calls the church to complete his joy "by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind" (Phil 2:2). Why was it important? There are many reasons, but one stands out. Jesus prayed, "that they may be perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me" (John 17:23). Unity among believers is evangelistic. In times such as these, when our country is so deeply divided, unity would serve as a powerful witness.
How do we foster unity among believers? Let us continue with Paul's word to the Philippians: "do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others" (Phil 2:3-4). As Americans, we value our individualism and personal freedoms. We are fiercely passionate about our rights, so these words from Paul may strike a jarring chord with us. They are jarring because much of the division we witness, experience, or perhaps take part in is due to doing things out of selfish ambition or conceit. Paul makes it clear: if we value and desire unity among one another, we cannot act selfishly or conceited. Paul calls the one to consider the many. He challenges the individual to think of the community. We are obligated to one another.
This self-sacrificial ethic of our faith is founded on the example of Jesus Christ, "who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross" (Phil 2:6-8). Our salvation is secured by the second person of the Trinity, the Alpha and Omega, who was willing to empty and humble himself all the way to the cross. Shouldn't our lives embody that same self-sacrificial love?
Jesus died on the cross and rose from the grave to bring together, to unify, all people who confess him as Lord. That unity is more important that our individual comforts, desires, opinions or freedoms.
Our unity is a powerful witness to a divided world, so instead of seeing this as an inconvenience or what we've been reduced to, we should see this season as an opportunity. We have an opportunity to point people to Jesus in new, creative ways. We have an opportunity to show love to others in a way that may save lives and souls. All of this can be ours if we consider others more significant than ourselves and look to the interest of others and not just our own. Let's not waste the opportunity.
Rev. Christopher Walk is the Assisting Priest at Resurrection Church in Hope Mills. He is also the co-host of the podcast, Anglicans at Breakfast Reading Scripture. He can be reached for comment at email@example.com.


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Developing Your First Mobile App: A Step by Step Guide
The past few years have seen mobile app development skyrocket in all areas and revenues earned via the same have been on a steady rise. This is because mobile apps have become essential tools to help us navigate our fast paced lives as well as because we spend so much time performing phone based activities.
Among the many apps available, you have gaming apps that seem to be the most popular followed by video streaming, dating and shopping apps as well as others according to statistics. Building a great app that users are going to love and return to in this day and age is a tough job but it's not impossible. You just need to know what to do and how to do it!
App Building for Beginners in 10 Easy Steps
The first thing you're going to need if you want to build an app in today's competitive market is to focus and get started on it. Following the steps below should help give you some direction and drive your app building process in a manner that is beneficial.
- Build on an Idea or Solve a Known Problem
A great app starts with a great idea. If you already know what kind of app you're building, jump right to the next step. If you don't, one way to do it is to look around you for situations and common problems that may need solving. Most services and products that do well start as solutions to common problems. Look around for everyday problems and maybe base your app on a viable solution.
- Need Identification
To ensure that your idea is viable or that the solution you're providing is one that is needed, do your homework. Do people really need an app like yours? Are there others around like it? How many people would you expect to download it?
You may answer these questions via email surveys, focus groups, social media questionnaires and so on. If you find the responses to your idea positive proceed. If not, it may be back to the drawing board.
- Formulate a Flow and Layout
This part of your process can be done using a wireframing tool or simply using a pencil and paper! You need to have a basic sense of how your app interface will appear, what it will do, which buttons lead where and what features it offers.
The physical plan for the particulars mentioned above are what become your flow and layout.
- Clear the Deadwood
Once the above is complete, review your app and look for features that might not be necessary as well as those that deviate from the core intentions behind your app.
- Consider App Design
You have a number of entrepreneurs and professionals with no experience in app building who claim they are happy with simple design. We do not recommend this. Design in app development is not just how your app looks. It dictates the quality of user experience.
If you struggle with app design, it's time to take your idea to a professional app developer.
- Hire or Collaborate
The best way to find the right developer to work with is to shop for one. Look at previous work done by developers, ask about their work style and put out feelers to see which team agrees with your vision and work ethic best.
- Developer Account Creation
Selling an app in the Apple or Play Store requires prior registration of a developer account. You could do this on your own or ask the developers you are working with if they can generate one for you and share the credentials.
- Analytic Integration
Use analytic tools if you want to track and improve on things like user interest, engagement, satisfaction and retention. Analytic tools are available online in both free and paid versions.
- Quick Feedback and Revision
Be quick with taking on, understanding and working on the feedback you receive as soon as your app hits the store. You can address most of the bugs and other glitches that may come up soon after release via app updates. This is always good practice.
- Final Touches
Once you have a solid, running and relatively bug free basic app model that has survived the feedback stage, it is time to put on the frills. Add features you feel users will appreciate via analytics, see if you can make your app more efficient and remove anything that seems to be becoming obsolete.
In Conclusion
Though these are the basic steps you will need to take when developing an app, they aren't necessarily linear. App development can be a back and forth process but as long as you take on feedback, update and implement, you should be good to go!


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CHARLESTON, S.C. — Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg took aim at Democratic front-runner Bernie Sanders on Tuesday for refusing to support the elimination of the 60-vote rule to pass legislation in the Senate — a rare issue on which he's out of step with many progressive activists.
At the debate here four days before the South Carolina presidential primary Saturday, Warren, a senator from Massachusetts, said scrapping the filibuster and allowing legislation to pass by simple majority votes is essential to "get something done" in the Senate over the objections of Republicans and powerful industry groups.
"I've been in the Senate, and I've seen gun safety legislation introduced, get a majority and then doesn't pass because of the filibuster," Warren said. "Understand this: The filibuster is giving a veto to the gun industry. It gives a veto to the oil industry. It's going to give a veto on immigration."
She added, "If Mitch McConnell is going to do to the next Democratic president what he did to President Obama, and that is try to block every single thing he does, then we are going to roll back the filibuster."
The filibuster is a longstanding Senate rule at the heart of the chamber's robust minority rights. It requires a majority of votes in the chamber to be eliminated. The 60-vote rule has in recent years been scrapped for presidential nominations to the executive branch and to the judiciary, but it remains for legislation.
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"Many people on this stage do not support rolling back the filibuster," Warren said, referring to Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont, and former Vice President Joe Biden, a former longtime senator.
The remarks elevate a line of attack that Warren, who has fallen behind in polls, recently debuted against her progressive rival after months of reluctance to criticize him. As she spoke, her campaign issued a press release titled "We Need to Get Rid of the Filibuster."
Sanders has proposed to use a budget procedure known as reconciliation to bypass the 60-vote rule and approve his tax and spending plans.
Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, was more explicit. "How are we going to deliver a revolution if you won't even support a rule change?" he asked Sanders, drawing cheers from the crowd.
Buttigieg noted that the late Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina used the filibuster to try to block civil rights legislation.
"No less a Senate traditional figure than [former Democratic leader] Harry Reid has called for it to go," Buttigieg said. "It has got to go, because otherwise Washington will not deliver."


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I believe congratulations are in order.
Big Up to Chelsea forward Nicolas Anelka for securing the Premier League's Golden Boot on Sunday against Sunderland. The French striker burned the Black Cats' defense just after the halftime interval with a phenomenal 20-plus yard drive past Marton Fulop. This surely has to be a late nominee for Chelsea goal of the season. Throw it amongst those on the card for League tally of the campaign as well.
Anelka finished with 19 Prem goals. Puppet Ronnie closed on 18.