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hank you for joining us online this weekend! Message Notes: http://bible.com/events/48681801 2 Corinthians 10:12 NLT 12 Oh, don’t worry; we wouldn’t dare say that we are as wonderful as these other men who tell you how important they are! But they are only comparing themselves with each other, using themselves as the standard of measurement. How ignorant! Comparison kills Contentment John 20:2-8 NLT 2 She ran and found Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved. She said, “They have taken the Lord’s body out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!” 3 Peter and the other disciple started out for the tomb. 4 They were both running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5 He stooped and looked in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he didn’t go in. 6 Then Simon Peter arrived and went inside. He also noticed the linen wrappings lying there, 7 while the cloth that had covered Jesus’ head was folded up and lying apart from the other wrappings. 8 Then the disciple who had reached the tomb first also went in, and he saw and believed— John 21:20-22 NLT 20 Peter turned around and saw behind them the disciple Jesus loved—the one who had leaned over to Jesus during supper and asked, “Lord, who will betray you?” 21 Peter asked Jesus, “What about him, Lord?” 22 Jesus replied, “If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? As for you, follow me.” 1 Corinthians 7:17 NLT 17 Each of you should continue to live in whatever situation the Lord has placed you, and remain as you were when God first called you. This is my rule for all the churches. You can’t be who God has called you to be if you are constantly comparing yourself to someone else. Hebrews 12:1-2 NLT 1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. 2 We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and perfects our faith. Because of the joy awaiting him, he endured the cross, disregarding its shame. Now he is seated in the place of honor beside God’s throne. RUN YOUR RACE! STAY FOCUSED! Philippians 4:8 NLT 8 And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. Livestream Schedule: SUNDAY 9 AM To get to know us more, be sure to check out our website: http://www.coastalcommunity.tv ▼ ▽ Kids Resources at https://coastalcommunity.tv/kids Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE to our channel for weekly video messages that will change your life! If you were impacted by this message in any way, please email us at mystory@coastalcommunity.tv ▼ ▽ Location Parkland | 6800 N University Dr, Parkland, FL 33067 ▼ ▽ Get Social Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/coastalchurch/Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/CoastalCommunityChurch/ ▼ ▽ Contact Us Email | info@coastalcommunity.tv Get Involved | https://coastalcommunity.tv/nextsteps ▼ ▽ Giving https://www.coastalcommunity.tv/give ▼ ▽ Coastal Community Church We exist to reach people and help them become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ! We believe that healthy people grow, that we can’t do life alone, that saved people serve people, that we should live generously and that found people find people. Episode analytics All time

Thank you for joining us online this weekend! Message Notes: http://bible.com/events/48681801 2 Corinthians 10:12 NLT 12 Oh, don’t worry; we wouldn’t dare say that we are as wonderful as these other men who tell you how important they are! But they are only comparing themselves with each other, using themselves as the standard of measurement. How ignorant! Comparison kills Contentment John 20:2-8 NLT 2 She ran and found Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved. She said, “They have taken the Lord’s body out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!” 3 Peter and the other disciple started out for the tomb. 4 They were both running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5 He stooped and looked in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he didn’t go in. 6 Then Simon Peter arrived and went inside. He also noticed the linen wrappings lying there, 7 while the cloth that had covered Jesus’ head was folded up and lying apart from the other wrappings. 8 Then the disciple who had reached the tomb first also went in, and he saw and believed— John 21:20-22 NLT 20 Peter turned around and saw behind them the disciple Jesus loved—the one who had leaned over to Jesus during supper and asked, “Lord, who will betray you?” 21 Peter asked Jesus, “What about him, Lord?” 22 Jesus replied, “If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? As for you, follow me.” 1 Corinthians 7:17 NLT 17 Each of you should continue to live in whatever situation the Lord has placed you, and remain as you were when God first called you. This is my rule for all the churches. You can’t be who God has called you to be if you are constantly comparing yourself to someone else. Hebrews 12:1-2 NLT 1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. 2 We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and perfects our faith. Because of the joy awaiting him, he endured the cross, disregarding its shame. Now he is seated in the place of honor beside God’s throne. RUN YOUR RACE! STAY FOCUSED! Philippians 4:8 NLT 8 And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. Livestream Schedule: SUNDAY 9 AM To get to know us more, be sure to check out our website: http://www.coastalcommunity.tv ▼ ▽ Kids Resources at https://coastalcommunity.tv/kids Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE to our channel for weekly video messages that will change your life! If you were impacted by this message in any way, please email us at mystory@coastalcommunity.tv ▼ ▽ Location Parkland | 6800 N University Dr, Parkland, FL 33067 ▼ ▽ Get Social Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/coastalchurch/Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/CoastalCommunityChurch/ ▼ ▽ Contact Us Email | info@coastalcommunity.tv Get Involved | https://coastalcommunity.tv/nextsteps ▼ ▽ Giving https://www.coastalcommunity.tv/give ▼ ▽ Coastal Community Church We exist to reach people and help them become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ! We believe that healthy people grow, that we can’t do life alone, that saved people serve people, that we should live generously and that found people find people. Episode analytics All time

POLICY SEMINAR Tackling child undernutrition at scale: Insights from national and subnational success cases Co-Organized by IFPRI and Exemplars in Global Health APR 1, 2021 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM EDT Childhood undernutrition remains a major global challenge, with profound consequences for the health, well-being, and long-term development of millions of people. Strategies to tackle malnutrition have often focused on small-scale programs and specific interventions. To improve nutrition outcomes at scale, nutrition policymakers and leaders need evidence on what works. Drawing on the experience of policymakers, nutrition leaders, and program managers, two global research programs are now providing practical insights on large-scale solutions to child undernutrition in different countries. In this event, we bring together IFPRI’s Stories of Change and Exemplars in Global Health, which have both been studying successes in reducing childhood stunting. Lessons from these deep research programs, featured in the newly released Lancet 2021 Series on Maternal and Child Undernutrition, offer hope that big change is possible and provide specific direction for countries striving to accelerate progress on nutrition. Opening Remarks: Johan Swinnen, Director General, IFPRI Speakers: Niranjan Bose, Managing Director, Health & Life Sciences, Gates Ventures Zulfiqar Bhutta, Co-director of the Center for Global Child Health and Founding Director of the Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health at the Aga Khan University Stuart Gillespie, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI Rasmi Avula, Research Fellow, IFPRI Drishti Sharma, Manager, Access and Health Policy Research, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) Moderator: Purnima Menon, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI Links: Maternal And Child Undernutrition Progress (Lancet Series): https://www.thelancet.com/series/maternal-child-undernutrition-progress Exemplars In Global Health: https://www.exemplars.health/topics/stunting/cross-country-synthesis Stories Of Change In Nutrition: https://www.exemplars.health/topics/stunting/cross-country-synthesis More on the seminar: https://www.ifpri.org/event/tackling-child-undernutrition-scale-insights-national-and-subnational-success-cases Subscribe IFPRI Insights newsletter and event announcements at www.ifpri.org/content/newsletter-subscription

POLICY SEMINAR Towards Resilient Livelihoods, Food Security, and Nutrition for All: Confronting the Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 Co-Organized by IFPRI, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the World Bank MAR 23, 2021 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM EDT The COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns continue to have devastating effects around the globe, including in rural areas of developing countries, where people have been affected by livelihood and supply disruptions, income shocks, and food and nutrition insecurity. While the overall impacts are becoming clear, less attention has been paid to the differential impacts on men and women and their ability to cope with the multiple shocks associated with the pandemic. For example, women tend to experience more lingering income shocks and have greater difficulty accessing food than men. Understanding these gender differences can offer important insights to decision-makers designing and implementing policies and programs aimed at providing much needed relief to the most vulnerable communities. At this seminar, researchers from IFPRI, the World Bank, and the Center for Global Development will share insights from phone surveys in 7 countries on the gendered impacts of COVID-19, discuss operational entry points to mitigate negative gendered impacts, and highlight the extent to which policies and programs addressing COVID-19 incorporate a gender lens. Panelists will also discuss the challenges of learning about the impacts in real time, given difficulties in reaching rural women. Panelists: Elizabeth Bryan, Senior Scientist, Environment and Production Technology Division, IFPRI Patricia Van de Velde, Gender Focal Point for the Food and Agriculture Practice, The World Bank Megan O’Donnell, Assistant Director, Gender & Senior Policy Analyst, Center for Global Development Moderator: Greg Collins, Deputy Assistant Administrator and USAID Resilience Coordinator, Bureau for Resilience and Food Security, USAID Links: IFPRI Resources And Analyses Of COVID-19 Impact: https://www.ifpri.org/covid-19 United States Agency For International Development (USAID): https://www.usaid.gov/ CGIAR COVID-19 Hub: https://a4nh.cgiar.org/covidhub/ More on the seminar: https://www.ifpri.org/event/towards-resilient-livelihoods-food-security-and-nutrition-all-confronting-gendered-impacts Subscribe IFPRI Insights newsletter and event announcements at www.ifpri.org/content/newsletter-subscription

POLICY SEMINAR Socio-Technical Innovation Bundles for Agri-Food Systems Transformation: Implications for research and the One CGIAR agenda MAR 19, 2021 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM EDT “Innovations do not diffuse independently of enabling market, regulatory, and sociocultural environments. Scaling promising technological advances requires sociotechnical innovation bundles of context-dependent, customized combinations of mutually reinforcing innovations.” > Expert Panel report on “Socio-Technical Innovation Bundles for Agri-Food Systems Transformation” convened by the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and Nature Sustainability IFPRI is pleased to host a conversation with Professor Christopher Barrett and other experts on what is required to bring about healthy, equitable, resilient, and sustainable (HERS) food systems and the pressing need to bundle social and technological innovations to most effectively accomplish this. Introductory Remarks: Johan Swinnen, Director General, IFPRI Speaker: Christopher B. Barrett, Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley Professor of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University Panelists: Channing Arndt, Director, Environment, and Production Technology Division, IFPRI Enock Chikava, Deputy Director, Agricultural Development, Global Growth & Opportunity, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Karen Macours, Chaired professor, the Paris School of Economics (PSE); Senior Researcher, French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE); and Chair of CGIAR's Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA) Claudia Sadoff, Executive Management Team Convener and Managing Director, Research Delivery and Impact, CGIAR Moderator: Charlotte Hebebrand, Director of Communications and Public Affairs, IFPRI Links: Socio-Technical Innovation Bundles For Agri-Food Systems Transformation (Full report): https://www.nature.com/documents/Bundles_agrifood_transformation.pdf Socio-Technical Innovation Bundles For Agri-Food Systems Transformation (Summary): https://www.nature.com/documents/Bundles_agrifood_transformation_Summary.pdf More on the seminar: https://www.ifpri.org/event/socio-technical-innovation-bundles-agri-food-systems-transformation-implications-research-and Subscribe IFPRI Insights newsletter and event announcements at www.ifpri.org/content/newsletter-subscription

SPECIAL EVENT The 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit: How to Incentivize Food Loss and Waste Reduction? Co-Organized by the International Food Policy Research Institute, Embassy of Denmark in Washington D.C., World Resources Institute, and Champions 12.3 MAR 12, 2021 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM EST The ongoing COVID-19 health crisis continues to expose vulnerabilities in food systems, highlighting the insecurity of rural livelihoods, the tragedy of food loss and waste, and the stark inequities in access to healthy food. The upcoming, first-ever UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), presents a unique opportunity to bring together stakeholders from across the food value chain to address these challenges and unlock barriers to sustainable food systems transformation. Absurd quantities of food are lost and wasted every year in a world where 700 million people go hungry each day and where planetary boundaries are being exceeded by unsustainable food production. Drastic reduction of food loss and waste is therefore imperative and will be an essential part of the UNFSS agenda. This policy seminar will serve as a platform to discuss actionably, “game-changing” solutions to reduce food loss and waste on a global scale (SDG 12.3) and provide inputs to the UNFSS agenda. Built around the Champions 12.3 Initiative and the Technical Platform for the Measurement and Reduction of Food Loss and Waste, the seminar will be held, fittingly, on March 12 (12.3). Welcome: Troels Vensild, Minister Counsellor of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Embassy of Denmark, USA Opening Remarks: Johan Swinnen, Director General, IFPRI Keynote Speakers: Agnes Kalibata, UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy to the 2021 Food Systems Summit Rasmus Prehn, Minister for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Denmark Rapid Fire Presentations: Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu, CEO, Coldhubs Nigeria Richard Swannell, Director, WRAP Global Maximo Torero, Chief Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Jessica Vieira, Director of Sustainability, Apeel Sciences Closing Remarks: Craig Hanson, Vice President For Food, Forest, Water & The Ocean, World Resources Institute Moderator: Rob Vos, Director, Markets, Trade and Institutions, IFPRI Related Publications: Reducing Food Loss And Waste: Five Challenges For Policy And Research: https://www.ifpri.org/publication/reducing-food-loss-and-waste-five-challenges-policy-and-research Reducing Food Loss Is Key To End Hunger And Undernutrition By 2025: https://www.ifpri.org/blog/reducing-food-loss-key-end-hunger-and-undernutrition-2025 Three Steps For Tackling Food Loss And Waste:https://www.ifpri.org/blog/three-steps-tackling-food-loss-and-waste Measuring And Reducing Food Loss In Developing Countries: https://www.ifpri.org/blog/measuring-and-reducing-food-loss-developing-countries Links: The 2021 Food Systems Summit: https://www.un.org/en/food-systems-summit Embassy Of Denmark, USA: https://usa.um.dk/ World Resources Institute: https://www.wri.org/ Champions 12.3: https://champions123.org/ More on the seminar: https://www.ifpri.org/event/2021-united-nations-food-systems-summit-how-incentivize-food-loss-and-waste-reduction Subscribe IFPRI Insights newsletter and event announcements at www.ifpri.org/content/newsletter-subscription

POLICY SEMINAR Food systems lessons from COVID-19: From understanding fragilities to building resilience Co-Organized by IFPRI and the CGIAR COVID-19 Hub MAR 2, 2021 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM EST COVID-19’s impacts on our global food system have affected the food security and nutritional wellbeing of millions of people worldwide, with market closures, supply disruptions, and income and employment losses. Understanding the extent and nature of these impacts will be critical to building resilience to future shocks. At this seminar, researchers from the CGIAR COVID-19 Hub present results from the first global assessment of the impacts of COVID-19 on food systems and their actors. The analysis highlights points of vulnerability and resilience, identifies who suffered and who benefitted, and examines how lockdowns and other policies shaped outcomes. Considering these findings, a panel discussion will offer insights and suggestions on what steps must be taken to avoid these negative impacts in future emergencies. Speaker: Christophe Béné, Principal Scientist, Sustainable Food Systems, the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT Panelists: Namukolo Covic, Senior Research Coordinator, CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health and IFPRI Sophia Murphy, Executive Director, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Thomas Reardon, Professor, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Michigan State University Closing remarks: John McDermott, Director, CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) and co-lead, CGIAR COVID-19 Hub Moderator: Ekaterina Krivonos, Deputy Director, Programs, CGIAR System Organization and co-Chair, CGIAR COVID-19 Hub Links: CGIAR COVID-19 Hub: https://a4nh.cgiar.org/covidhub/ CGIAR Research Program On Agriculture For Nutrition And Health (A4NH): https://a4nh.cgiar.org/ Impacts of COVID-19 on people’s food security: Foundations for a more resilient food system: https://a4nh.cgiar.org/2021/02/25/new-report-from-cgiar-covid-19-hub-offers-food-systems-lessons-from-the-pandemic-insights-for-building-resilience/ More on the seminar: https://www.ifpri.org/event/food-systems-lessons-covid-19-understanding-fragilities-building-resilience Subscribe IFPRI Insights newsletter and event announcements at www.ifpri.org/content/newsletter-subscription

BOOK LAUNCH Resetting the Table: Straight talk about the food we grow and eat FEB 10, 2021 - 09:30 AM TO 10:30 AM EST Consumers want to know more about their food–including the farm from which it came, the chemicals used in its production, its nutritional value, how the animals were treated, and the costs to the environment. They are being told that buying organic foods, unprocessed and sourced from small local farms, is the most healthful and sustainable option. In his new book, Paarlberg delineates the ways in which global food markets have improved our diet, and how “industrial” farming has recently turned green, thanks to GPS-guided precision methods that cut energy use and chemical pollution. Join us to hear from the book’s author and discussants on solutions that can make sense for farmers and consumers alike through the rapidly changing worlds of food and farming. Book Overview: Robert Paarlberg, Adjunct professor of public policy, Harvard Kennedy School; & Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University Discussants: Robert Bertram, Chief Scientist, Bureau for Resilience and Food Security, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Claudia Ringler, Deputy Director, Environment and Production Technology Division, IFPRI Moderator: Rajul Pandya-Lorch, Strategic and communications leader in food policy and agriculture development LINKS: Resetting The Table: Straight Talk About The Food We Grow And Eat: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/606873/resetting-the-table-by-robert-paarlberg/ Two Books On The Future Of Farming: Nutritional, Environmental And Economic Priorities Collide Wherever Seeds Are Sown: https://www.wsj.com/articles/two-books-on-the-future-of-farming-11611936602 More on the seminar: https://www.ifpri.org/event/resetting-table-straight-talk-about-food-we-grow-and-eat Subscribe IFPRI Insights newsletter and event announcements at www.ifpri.org/content/newsletter-subscription

BOOK LAUNCH An evolving paradigm of agricultural mechanization development: How much can Africa learn from Asia? FEB 9, 2021 - 09:30 AM TO 10:30 AM EST Agricultural mechanization in Africa south of the Sahara — especially for small farms and businesses — requires a new paradigm to meet the needs of the continent’s evolving farming systems. Can Asia, with its recent success in adopting mechanization, offer a model for Africa? An Evolving Paradigm of Agricultural Mechanization Development analyzes the experiences of eight Asian and five African countries. The authors explore crucial government roles in boosting and supporting mechanization, from import policies to promotion policies to public good policies. Hear from the authors and discussants on the book’s recommendations and insights, which are beneficial to national policymakers and the development community who can adapt this knowledge to local contexts and use it as a foundation for further research. Book Overview: Xinshen Diao, Deputy Division Director, Development Strategy and Governance Division, and Theme Leader, Agricultural Transformation, IFPRI Hiroyuki Takeshima, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI Xiaobo Zhang, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI Discussants: Geoffrey C. Mrema, Professor, Department of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Sokoine University of Agriculture Thomas Daum, Research fellow, Institute of Agricultural Science in the Tropics, University of Hohenheim Moderator: Katarlah Taylor, Events Manager, IFPRI LINKS: An Evolving Paradigm Of Agricultural Mechanization Development: How Much Can Africa Learn From Asia?: https://www.ifpri.org/publication/evolving-paradigm-agricultural-mechanization-development-how-much-can-africa-learn-asia An Evolving Paradigm Of Agricultural Mechanization Development: How Much Can Africa Learn From Asia? Synopsis: https://www.ifpri.org/publication/evolving-paradigm-agricultural-mechanization-development-how-much-can-africa-learn-0 More on the seminar: https://www.ifpri.org/event/evolving-paradigm-agricultural-mechanization-development-how-much-can-africa-learn-asia Subscribe IFPRI Insights newsletter and event announcements at www.ifpri.org/content/newsletter-subscription

BOOK LAUNCH Agricultural Development: New Perspectives in a Changing World FEB 4, 2021 - 08:30 AM TO 09:30 AM EST The changing global landscape, combined with new and better data, technologies, and understanding, means that agriculture can and must contribute to a wider range of development outcomes than ever before, including reducing poverty, ensuring adequate nutrition, creating strong food value chains, improving environmental sustainability, and promoting gender equity and equality. Agricultural Development: New Perspectives in a Changing World is the first comprehensive exploration of key emerging issues facing developing country agriculture today, from rapid urbanization to rural transformation to climate change. In this four-part volume, top experts offer the latest research in the field of agricultural development. Hear from the book’s editors and discussants on policy options and strategies for developing sustainable agriculture and reducing food insecurity and malnutrition. Book Overview: -Keijiro Otsuka, Professor of Development Economics, Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University, Japan & Chief senior researcher, Institute of Developing Economies, Tokyo -Shenggen Fan, Chair professor, College of Economics Management & Dean of the Academy of Global Food Economics and Policy, China Agricultural University, Beijing; and CGIAR System Board Member Discussants: -William Masters, Director, IMMANA Fellowships Program & Professor, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University -Will Martin, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI Moderator: -Charlotte Hebebrand, Director of Communications and Public Affairs, IFPRI LINKS: Agricultural Development: New Perspectives In A Changing World: https://www.ifpri.org/publication/agricultural-development-new-perspectives-changing-world Agricultural Development: New Perspectives In A Changing World: Synopsis: https://www.ifpri.org/publication/agricultural-development-new-perspectives-changing-world-synopsis More on the seminar: https://www.ifpri.org/event/agricultural-development-new-perspectives-changing-world

POLICY SEMINAR Virtual Event - Building back better: How can public food and agricultural research institutions be strengthened and rebuilt after the COVID-19 pandemic? Co-Organized by IFPRI and the International Consortium on Applied Bioeconomy Research (ICABR) FEB 2, 2021 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM EST The COVID-19 pandemic presents new challenges and new opportunities for publicly funded food and agricultural research in the global South. Growing government deficits related to the pandemic threaten funding for research needed for sustainable and healthy food systems. Yet, the pandemic and current health research could also spur greater investment in agricultural research. Spillovers from government and industry research and investment to fight COVID-19 may benefit agricultural research. This work has raised government and public awareness of the importance of biological research and of the links between agricultural and human health. In addition, new tools such as genomics, CRISPR, and information technology have created new opportunities for agricultural research and innovation, including for control of crop diseases and pests. In view of these opportunities and growing demand, national agricultural research systems—and their funders—may need to rethink research priorities. The future will require a more systemic view of food systems, one that links agriculture, nutrition, and health to prevent future pandemics. Introductory Remarks John McDermott, Director, CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) and co-lead, CGIAR COVID-19 Hub Speakers​​​ Ben Durham, Director Chief, Bio-innovation, National Department of Science and Innovation, South Africa Ruben Echeverria, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI Vish Nene, Co-leader, Animal and Human Health Program, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) B.M. Prasanna, Director, Global Maize Program and the CGIAR Research Program on Maize, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) Delia Grace Randolph, Professor of Food Safety Systems, University of Greenwich Moderator Carl Pray, Distinguished Professor, Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics Department, School for Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers University LINKS: Book: COVID-19 And Global Food Security: http://bit.ly/IFPRICovidBook ICABR: https://icabr.net/ IFPRI Resources And Analyses Of COVID-19 Impact: https://www.ifpri.org/covid-19 More on the seminar: https://www.ifpri.org/event/virtual-event-building-back-better-how-can-public-food-and-agricultural-research-institutions Subscribe IFPRI Insights newsletter and event announcements at www.ifpri.org/content/newsletter-subscription

POLICY SEMINAR Local vs Global? The role of trade in building food system resilience JAN 13, 2021 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM EST As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the global economy and put pressure on food supply chains, debate has resurged about the role of trade in protecting food security. Though food supply chains have proved fairly resilient during the outbreak, many countries have faced both severe disruptions in supply and shifts in food demand. A few have responded with protectionist measures—namely export bans on key staple foods—with the intent of protecting domestic consumers, but depriving those abroad. These measures raise the question: Are food systems strongly connected with global value chains more vulnerable to disruptions or more resilient than more localized food systems? This seminar will bring together food system experts from the research community, policymaking organizations, and the private sector to discuss whether localized food systems with shorter supply chains are more resilient and sustainable than those with longer supply chains and greater integration in global markets. Speakers: Guido Landheer, Deputy Vice-Minister of Agriculture, The Netherlands Robbert de Vreede, Executive Vice-President Global Foods, Unilever Jeroen Elfers, Corporate Director Dairy Development & Milk Stream, FrieslandCampina Marion Jansen, Director Trade and Agriculture Directorate, OECD Johan Swinnen, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Maximo Torero, Chief Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Moderator Rob Vos, Director, Markets, Trade and Institutions Division, IFPRI LINKS: Book: COVID-19 And Global Food Security: http://bit.ly/IFPRICovidBook IFPRI Resources And Analyses Of COVID-19 Impact: https://www.ifpri.org/covid-19 More on the seminar: https://www.ifpri.org/event/virtual-event-local-vs-global-role-trade-building-food-system-resilience Subscribe IFPRI Insights newsletter and event announcements at www.ifpri.org/content/newsletter-subscription

Virtual Event - CGIAR COVID-19 Hub: Supporting National Responses to a Global Pandemic Co-Organized by IFPRI and CGIAR COVID-19 Hub JAN 12, 2021 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM EST As the global leader in agricultural research, CGIAR took action in the earliest days of the pandemic to counter the potentially devastating impact on food security and nutrition worldwide. The CGIAR COVID-19 Hub mobilizes multidisciplinary research and innovation in support of national response efforts. This seminar brings together researchers and national partners from Bangladesh and Ethiopia, the Hub’s pilot countries, to reflect on progress made and lessons learned. Looking ahead, they will also consider key priorities for mitigating threats to food systems that could arise from similar shocks in the future. Representatives from Malawi, Myanmar, and Nigeria will also share reflections on national priorities, as the three countries begin working with the CGIAR COVID Hub. Opening Remarks -John McDermott, Director, A4NH and co-lead, CGIAR COVID-19 Hub -Kundhavi Kadiresan, Managing Director for Global Engagement and Innovation, CGIAR Speakers -Zubairu Abdullahi, Director, Planning and Policy Coordination Department, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Nigeria -Amjath Babu, Agricultural Economist, Modeling and Targeting, (CIMMYT) -Shaikh Mohammad Bokhtiar, Director, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council -Godfrey Chingoma, Director of Crop Development, Ministry of Agriculture, Malawi -Siboniso Moyo, Director General’s representative in Ethiopia, (ILRI) -Ekaterina Krivonos, Deputy Director, Programs, CGIAR System Organization -Thanda Kyi, Deputy Director General, Department of Planning at the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation, Myanmar (via pre-recorded video message) Closing Remarks -Kundhavi Kadiresan, Managing Director for Global Engagement and Innovation, CGIAR Moderator -John McDermott, Director, A4NH and co-lead, CGIAR COVID-19 Hub LINKS: Book: COVID-19 And Global Food Security: http://bit.ly/IFPRICovidBook IFPRI Resources And Analyses Of COVID-19 Impact: https://www.ifpri.org/covid-19 CGIAR COVID-19 Hub: http://a4nh.cgiar.org/covidhub/ More on the seminar: https://www.ifpri.org/event/virtual-event-cgiar-covid-19-hub-supporting-national-responses-global-pandemic Subscribe IFPRI Insights newsletter and event announcements at www.ifpri.org/content/newsletter-subscription

Virtual Event - The African Continental Free Trade Area: How will economic distribution change? DEC 15, 2020 - 09:30 AM TO 10:45 AM EST In early 2021, African countries will begin implementing the much-anticipated African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). The Africa-wide elimination of tariffs will encourage regional integration to a degree never before seen on the continent. As intra-African trade unifies, will regional agricultural production and food supply chains change drastically? How will the agreement affect poverty and food security? And what types of political resistance might arise? Join three specialists in a discussion about the political and economic distribution effects we anticipate as the AfCFTA unfolds. Introduction: Nalishebo Meebelo, Senior Program Coordinator, Regional Network of Agricultural Policy Research and Institutes (ReNAPRI) Speakers: David Laborde Debucquet, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI Maryla Maliszewska, Senior Economist, World Bank Group Andrew Mold, Chief, Regional Integration and AfCFTA Cluster, Office for Eastern Africa, ECA, UNECA Closing Remarks: Antoine Bouet, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI Moderator: Julie Kurtz, Research Analyst, IFPRI LINKS Food And Agricultural Trade In The New Policy Environment: How Can WTO Members Support Economic Recovery And Resilience? - https://www.ifpri.org/spotlight/food-and-agricultural-trade-new-policy-environment-how-can-wto-members-support-economic Book: COVID-19 & Global Food Security - http://bit.ly/IFPRICovidBook IFPRI Resources And Analyses Of COVID-19 Impact - https://www.ifpri.org/covid-19 Akademiya2063 - https://akademiya2063.org/ International Institute For Sustainable Development (IISD) - https://www.iisd.org/ Commerce Alimentaire Et Agricole Dans Le Nouvel Environnement Politique : Comment Les Membres De L’OMC Peuvent-Ils Appuyer La Re - https://www.ifpri.org/event/%C3%A9v%C3%A8nement-virtuel-commerce-alimentaire-et-agricole-dans-le-nouvel-environnement-politique More on the seminar: https://www.ifpri.org/event/virtual-event-african-continental-free-trade-area-how-will-economic-distribution-change Subscribe IFPRI Insights newsletter and event annoucements at www.ifpri.org/content/newsletter-subscription

Virtual Event - Food and Agricultural Trade in the New Policy Environment: How Can WTO Members Support Recovery and Resilience in Africa (English panel)? Co-Organized by IFPRI, Akademiya2063, and International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) DEC 8, 2020 - 09:30 AM TO 10:30 AM EST The coronavirus outbreak has affected trade in food and farm goods, imperiling efforts to reduce hunger and malnutrition and adding to pressure already on the farm sector from climate change. The pandemic-induced postponement of the WTO’s next ministerial conference and ongoing tensions among major economies have affected both the substance and process of updating the global trade rulebook. As governments revisit priorities in this new context, they should engage with various constituencies in their region and beyond to build an inclusive public policy vision – one that can contribute to economic recovery and improve resilience to future food system shocks. In Africa, continentwide economic integration under the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) will transform food and agricultural markets, with policymakers focused on increased value addition and value chain integration. Tariff and nontariff measures continue to affect trade in Africa’s agrifood sector, while the prevalence of informal trade makes it difficult for policymakers to access timely and accurate data. While food demand in urban areas will continue to grow and evolve, small producers in rural areas face serious obstacles in accessing markets and boosting yields sustainably. The increase in extreme weather events associated with climate change presents particular challenges and requires new thinking to ensure that trade policies and rules support improved resilience. This will be the third in a series of events on the same topic, each with a regional perspective. The events will cover Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Speakers: Doaa Abdel-Motaal, Senior Counsellor, WTO Agriculture and Commodities Division David Laborde Debucquet, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI Elizabeth M. Nderitu, Programme Manager, Standards Quality Infrastructure (SQI) and Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS), TradeMark East Africa Elizabeth Nsimadala, President of the Pan Africa Farmers Organization (PAFO) and Eastern Africa Farmers Federation (EAFF) Moderator: Jonathan Hepburn, Senior Policy Advisor, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) LINKS Food And Agricultural Trade In The New Policy Environment: How Can WTO Members Support Economic Recovery And Resilience? - https://www.ifpri.org/spotlight/food-and-agricultural-trade-new-policy-environment-how-can-wto-members-support-economic Book: COVID-19 & Global Food Security - http://bit.ly/IFPRICovidBook IFPRI Resources And Analyses Of COVID-19 Impact - https://www.ifpri.org/covid-19 Akademiya2063 - https://akademiya2063.org/ International Institute For Sustainable Development (IISD) - https://www.iisd.org/ Commerce Alimentaire Et Agricole Dans Le Nouvel Environnement Politique : Comment Les Membres De L’OMC Peuvent-Ils Appuyer La Re - https://www.ifpri.org/event/%C3%A9v%C3%A8nement-virtuel-commerce-alimentaire-et-agricole-dans-le-nouvel-environnement-politique More on the seminar: https://www.ifpri.org/event/virtual-event-food-and-agricultural-trade-new-policy-environment-how-can-wto-members-support Subscribe IFPRI Insights newsletter and event announcements at www.ifpri.org/content/newsletter-subscription

Virtual Event - Information Needs for Food Crisis Risk Early Warning: The Role of the Food Security Portal Co-Organized by IFPRI and the Food Security Portal (FSP) NOV 24, 2020 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM EST Persistent drivers of food insecurity and acute hunger—conflict, climate shocks, and environmental shocks—have been compounded in 2020 by the COVID-19-related health and socioeconomic upheaval and by the severe desert locust outbreaks in East Africa. The pandemic is expected to push as many as 132 million more people into chronic hunger in 2020, in addition to the 690 million who went hungry in 2019. To navigate the increasingly complex, interlinked causes of food crises, governments and other stakeholders require timely, high-quality information to increase the resilience of food systems and cope with future crises. The EC-funded Food Security Portal (FSP)( http://www.foodsecurityportal.org/), initiated in 2010 in response to lessons learned from the 2007–2008 world food crisis, seeks to improve governments’ ability to respond to and prevent food crises by bringing together policy-relevant tools and information in one place. The FSP is designed to pool timely, relevant, detailed and high-quality country-level information in a systematic way. This policy dialogue focused on data and information sharing and coordination for improving food security, with a focus on the role of the FSP in monitoring the drivers of food insecurity and food crises to inform policies. New tools and features of the FSP and the Africa South of the Sahara sub-portal have recently been added to the upgraded website. Opening remarks: Conrad Rein, Policy Officer, European Commission, and Co-Chair, Global Donor Platform for Rural Development Introduction to the Upgraded Food Security Portal: Rob Vos, Division Director, Markets, Trade and Institutions, IFPRI Panelists: Ousmane Badiane, Executive Chairperson, Akademiya2063 Arif Husain, Chief Economist, World Food Programme (WFP) Jessica Fanzo, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Global Food & Agricultural Policy and Ethics, Johns Hopkins University Máximo Torero, Chief Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Closing remarks: Philippe Thomas, Head of Sector, Food and Agricultural Systems, Crisis and Resilience, European Commission Moderator Teunis van Rheenen, Director of Business Development and External Relations & Acting Chief of Staff, IFPRI LINKS: Book: COVID-19 And Global Food Security: http://bit.ly/IFPRICovidBook Food Security Portal: https://www.foodsecurityportal.org/ IFPRI Resources And Analyses Of COVID-19 Impact: https://www.ifpri.org/covid-19 More on the seminar: https://www.ifpri.org/event/virtual-event-information-needs-food-crisis-risk-early-warning-role-food-security-portal Subscribe IFPRI Insights newsletter and event announcements at www.ifpri.org/content/newsletter-subscription

It takes a UNITED church to heal a DIVIDED world. Message Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/47296481 All the believers were united in heart and mind. And they felt that what they owned was not their own, so they shared everything they had. The apostles testified powerfully to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and God’s great blessing was upon them all. -Acts 4:32-33 Thank you for joining us online this weekend! Livestream Schedule: SATURDAY 6:15 PM SUNDAY 9 AM, 11:30 AM To get to know us more, be sure to check out our website: http://www.coastalcommunity.tv ▼ ▽ Kids Resources at https://coastalcommunity.tv/kids

Ephesians 6:4 says, "Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord." Message Notes: http://bible.com/events/44985584 Thank you for joining us online this weekend! ▼ ▽ Livestream Schedule: SATURDAY 6:15 PM SUNDAY 9 AM, 11:30 AM To get to know us more, be sure to check out our website: http://www.coastalcommunity.tv ▼ ▽ Kids Resources at https://coastalcommunity.tv/kids Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE to our channel for weekly video messages that will change your life! If you were impacted by this message in any way, please email us at mystory@coastalcommunity.tv ▼ ▽ Location Parkland | 6800 N University Dr, Parkland, FL 33067 In Person and Online

Virtual Book Launch Agricultural Extension: Global Status and Performance in Selected Countries SEPT 10, 2020 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM EDT This book provides a global overview of agricultural extension and advisory services, assesses and compares extension systems at the national and regional levels, examines the performance of extension approaches in a selected set of country cases, and shares lessons and policy insights. Drawing on both primary and secondary data, the book contributes to the literature on extension by applying a common and comprehensive framework — the “best-fit” approach — to assessments of extension systems, which allows for comparison across cases and geographies. Insights from the research support reforms — in governance, capacity, management, and advisory methods — to improve outcomes, enhance financial sustainability, and achieve greater scale. Hear from the book’s editors on how this book can be applied as a valuable resource for policymakers, extension practitioners, and others concerned with agricultural development. Welcome and Introduction: Frank Place, Director, CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) Overview: Kristin Davis, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI Remarks: Margaret Najjingo Mangheni, Professor, Makerere University Hur Ben Corrêa da Silva, State Coordinator, Personnel and Career Development, Paraná, Brazil Conclusions and Recommendations: Suresh Babu, Senior Research Fellow & Head of Capacity Strengthening, IFPRI Moderator: Catherine Ragasa, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI LINKS: Book: https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896293755 Websites: CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM): http://pim.cgiar.org/ More on the seminar: https://www.ifpri.org/event/virtual-event-agricultural-extension-global-status-and-performance-selected-countries Subscribe IFPRI Insights newsletter and event annoucements at www.ifpri.org/content/newsletter-subscription

Virtual Event - Evolving effects of COVID-19 on poverty and food security: What are we learning from China? JUL 28, 2020 - 09:30 AM TO 10:45 AM EDT After the COVID-19 outbreak began in December in Hubei Province, China locked down many areas to control the spread of the disease, and the economy ground to halt. Since the easing of restrictions in April, life has largely returned to normal and many economic activities have resumed. However, the lockdowns have had significant—and still not well-understood—impacts on livelihoods and food security. Join us for this session where presenters will explore short-term and mid-term impacts on Chinese SMEs, villages and rural households, vulnerable groups, and food value chains. Opening Remarks: Johan Swinnen, Director General, IFPRI Speakers: Kevin Chen, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI Xinshen Diao, Deputy Division Director, Development Strategy and Governance Division, IFPRI Scott Rozelle, Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow and the co-director of the Rural Education Action Program in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University Xiaobo Zhang, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI Concluding Perspectives: Shenggen Fan, Senior Chair Professor, China Agricultural University (CAU) Moderator: Katarlah Taylor, Events Manager, IFPRI Related websites: IFPRI Resources And Analyses Of COVID-19 Impact: https://www.ifpri.org/covid-19 More on the seminar: https://www.ifpri.org/event/virtual-event-evolving-effects-covid-19-poverty-and-food-security-what-are-we-learning-china Subscribe IFPRI Insights newsletter and event annoucements at www.ifpri.org/content/newsletter-subscription

Day One Hundred and Fifty Four, I am among the ministers of God.Lessons from A Course in Miracles, Read by Nat Rich.Personal website - Wheresnatat.comListen to my breakfast radio show every weekday morning 10 AM TO 12 PM UK timeListen live @ I AM SOUND RADIO

Day One Hundred and Fifty Three. In my defenselessness, my safety lies.Lessons from A Course in Miracles, Read by Nat Rich.Personal website - Wheresnatat.comListen to my breakfast radio show every weekday morning 10 AM TO 12 PM UK timeListen live @ I AM SOUND RADIO

Day One hundred and fifty. Recap miracles 139 and 140. How do they feel for you now?Lessons from A Course in Miracles, Read by Nat Rich.Personal website - Wheresnatat.comListen to my breakfast radio show every weekday morning 9 AM TO 11 AM UK time Listen live @ I AM SOUND RADIO

Day One hundred and forty-nine. Recap miracles 138 and 138. How do they feel for you now?Lessons from A Course in Miracles, Read by Nat Rich.Personal website - Wheresnatat.comListen to my breakfast radio show every weekday morning 9 AM TO 11 AM UK time Listen live @ I AM SOUND RADIO

Day One hundred and forty-eight. Recap miracles 135 and 136. How do they feel for you now?Lessons from A Course in Miracles, Read by Nat Rich.Personal website - Wheresnatat.comListen to my breakfast radio show every weekday morning 9 AM TO 11 AM UK time Listen live @ I AM SOUND RADIO

Day One hundred and forty-seven. Recap miracles 133 and 134. How do they feel for you now?Lessons from A Course in Miracles, Read by Nat Rich.Personal website - Wheresnatat.comListen to my breakfast radio show every weekday morning 9 AM TO 11 AM UK time Listen live @ I AM SOUND RADIO

Day One hundred and forty-six. Recap miracles 131 and 132. How do they feel for you now?Lessons from A Course in Miracles, Read by Nat Rich.Personal website - Wheresnatat.comListen to my breakfast radio show every weekday morning 9 AM TO 11 AM UK time Listen live @ I AM SOUND RADIO

Day One hundred and forty-five. Recap miracles 129 and 130. How do they feel for you now?Lessons from A Course in Miracles, Read by Nat Rich.Personal website - Wheresnatat.comListen to my breakfast radio show every weekday morning 9 AM TO 11 AM UK time Listen live @ I AM SOUND RADIO

Day One hundred and forty-four. Recap miracles 127 and 128. How do they feel for you now?Lessons from A Course in Miracles, Read by Nat Rich.Personal website - Wheresnatat.comListen to my breakfast radio show every weekday morning 9 AM TO 11 AM UK time Listen live @ I AM SOUND RADIO

Day One hundred and forty-three. Recap miracles 125 and 126. How do they feel for you now?Lessons from A Course in Miracles, Read by Nat Rich.Personal website - Wheresnatat.comListen to my breakfast radio show every weekday morning 9 AM TO 11 AM UK time Listen live @ I AM SOUND RADIO

Day One hundred and forty-two. Recap miracles 123 and 124. How do they feel for you now?Lessons from A Course in Miracles, Read by Nat Rich.Personal website - Wheresnatat.comListen to my breakfast radio show every weekday morning 9 AM TO 11 AM UK time Listen live @ I AM SOUND RADIO

Day One hundred and forty one. Recap miracles 121 and 122. How do they feel for you now?Lessons from A Course in Miracles, Read by Nat Rich.Personal website - Wheresnatat.comListen to my breakfast radio show every weekday morning 9 AM TO 11 AM UK time Listen live @ I AM SOUND RADIO

Day One hundred and forty. Only salvation can be said to cure.Lessons from A Course in Miracles, Read by Nat Rich.Personal website - Wheresnatat.comListen to my breakfast radio show every weekday morning 9 AM TO 11 AM UK time Listen live @ I AM SOUND RADIO

Day One hundred and thirty-nine. I will accept Atonement for myself.Lessons from A Course in Miracles, Read by Nat Rich.Personal website - Wheresnatat.comListen to my breakfast radio show every weekday morning 9 AM TO 11 AM UK time Listen live @ I AM SOUND RADIO

Day One hundred and thirty-eight. Heaven is the decision I must make.Lessons from A Course in Miracles, Read by Nat Rich.Personal website - Wheresnatat.comListen to my breakfast radio show every weekday morning 9 AM TO 11 AM UK time Listen live @ I AM SOUND RADIO

Day One hundred and thirty-seven, When I am healed, I am not healed alone.Lessons from A Course in Miracles, Read by Nat Rich.Personal website - Wheresnatat.comListen to my breakfast radio show every weekday morning 9 AM TO 11 AM UK time Listen live @ I AM SOUND RADIO

Day One hundred and thirty-six, sickness is a defence against the truth.Lessons from A Course in Miracles, Read by Nat Rich.Personal website - Wheresnatat.comListen to my breakfast radio show every weekday morning 9 AM TO 11 AM UK time Listen live @ I AM SOUND RADIO

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Sunday, Sept 22nd, 2019 11:00 AM To 12:15PM  We are loaded this Sunday  George Lopez will join us to talk about the LA Rams Joe Cardoso will join us to about the Washington Redskins Rico "Show me the Money" Graziano will tell us what games to bet on and who to start in your fantasy football lineup.  I will break down every game in the NFL. From Detroit to SF we got you covered We work hard on Sunday's so you dont have  #TheFullMonteFootballShow

Désiréby Megan Arkenberg   From Albert Magazine's interview with Egon Rowley: April 2943             Egon Rowley: It was the War that changed him. I remember the day we knew it. [A pause.] We all knew it, that morning. He came to our table in the coffee shop with a copy of Raum – do you remember that newspaper? The reviewers were deaf as blue-eyed cats, the only people in Südlichesburg who preferred Anton Fulke's operas to Désiré's – but Désiré, he had a copy of it. This was two days after Ulmerfeld, you understand. None of us had any idea how bad it was. But Raum had gotten its hands on a letter from a soldier, and Désiré read it to us, out loud, right there over coffee and pastries. [Full story after the cut.] Hello! Welcome to GlitterShip Episode 73 for June 13, 2019. This is your host, Keffy, and I’m super excited to be sharing this story with you. Our story for today is Desire by Megan Arkenberg, read by Dani Daly. Before we get to it, if you’ve been waiting to pick up your copy of the Tiptree Award Honor Listed book, GlitterShip Year Two, there’s a great deal going on for Pride over at StoryBundle. GlitterShip Year Two is part of a Pride month LGBTQ fantasy fiction bundle. StoryBundle is a pay-what-you-want bundle site. For $5 or more, you can get four great books, and for $15 or more, you’ll get an additional five books, including GlitterShip Year Two, and a story game. That comes to as little as $1.50 per book or game. The StoryBundle also offers an option to give 10% of your purchase amount to charity. The charity for this bundle is Rainbow Railroad, a charity that helps queer folks get to a safe place if their country is no longer safe for them. http://www.storybundle.com/pride And now for “Desire” by Megan Arkenberg, read by Dani Daly. Megan Arkenberg’s work has appeared in over fifty magazines and anthologies, including Lightspeed, Asimov’s, Shimmer, and Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year. She has edited the fantasy e-zine Mirror Dance since 2008 and was recently the nonfiction editor for Queers Destroy Horror!, a special issue of Nightmare Magazine. She currently lives in Northern California, where she is pursuing a Ph.D. in English literature. Visit her online at http://www.meganarkenberg.com. Dani loves to keep busy and narrating stories is just one of the things she loves to do. She’s a former assistant editor of Cast of Wonders, a retired roller derby player and current soap maker and small business owner. She rants on twitter as @danooli_dani, if that’s your thing. Or you can visit the EA forums, where she moderates the Cast of Wonders boards. You can find stories narrated by Dani on all four of the Escape Artists podcasts, at Star Ship Sofa, and on Audible.com (as Danielle Daly).   Désiréby Megan Arkenberg   From Albert Magazine's interview with Egon Rowley: April 2943             Egon Rowley: It was the War that changed him. I remember the day we knew it. [A pause.] We all knew it, that morning. He came to our table in the coffee shop with a copy of Raum – do you remember that newspaper? The reviewers were deaf as blue-eyed cats, the only people in Südlichesburg who preferred Anton Fulke's operas to Désiré's – but Désiré, he had a copy of it. This was two days after Ulmerfeld, you understand. None of us had any idea how bad it was. But Raum had gotten its hands on a letter from a soldier, and Désiré read it to us, out loud, right there over coffee and pastries.             Albert Magazine: And what did the letter say?             Rowley: The usual things. Blood and, and heads blown clean off, things like that. Horrible things. I remember…[Laughs awkwardly.] I remember Baptist Vogel covered his ears. We all felt it quite badly.             AM: I imagine. Why was this letter so important to Désiré?             Rowley: Who can say why anything mattered to him? Guilt, most likely.             AM: Guilt?             Rowley: Yes. He hadn't volunteered for the army, and that was something of an anomaly in those days. Everyone was so patriotic, so nationalist, I suppose you'd say. But he had his reasons. I mean, I don't suppose Désiré could have passed the examinations for enlistment – the psychological examinations.             AM: But it bothered him, that he hadn't volunteered?             Rowley: Yes. Very much. [A pause.] When he read that soldier's letter…it was the oddest thing. Like he was reading a love letter, you understand. But, like I said, there was nothing romantic in it, nothing at all. It was…horrible.             AM: What did Désiré say about it?             Rowley: About the letter? Nothing. He just read it and…and went back to his rooms, I suppose. That was the last we saw of him.             AM: The last you saw of him?             Rowley: Yes. [A pause.] Before Alexander.   A letter from Margaret von Banks to Beatrix Altberg: August 2892 Dearest Bea,             The scene: Leonore's drawing room, around nine o'clock last night. The moment I stepped through the door, Désiré came running up to me like a child looking for candy. "Thank goodness you're here," he said. I should add that it was supposed to be a masquerade, but of course I knew him by his long hair and those dark red lips, and I suppose I'm the only woman in Südlichesburg to wear four rings in each ear. He certainly knew me immediately. "I have a bet running with Isidor," he continued, "and Anton and I need you for the violin."             He explained, as he half-led, half-dragged me to the music room, that Anton had said something disparaging – typically – about Isidor's skills as a conductor of Désiré's music. Isidor swore to prove him wrong if Désiré would write them a new piece that very moment. Désiré did – a trio for violin, cello and pianoforte – and having passed the cello to Anton and claimed the piano for himself, he needed me to play violin in the impromptu concert.             "You're mad," I said on seeing the sheet music.             "Of course I am," he said, patting me on the shoulder. Isidor thundered into the room – they make such a delightful contrast, big blond Isidor and dark Désiré. Rumor is Désiré has native blood from the Lysterrestre colonies, which makes me wonder quite shallowly if they're all so handsome over there. Yes, Bea, I imagine you rolling your eyes, but the fact remains that Désiré is ridiculously beautiful. Even Richard admits it.             Well, Isidor assembled the audience, and my hands were so sweaty that I had to borrow a pair of gloves from Leonore later in the evening. Désiré was smooth and calm as can be. He kissed me on the forehead – and Anton on the cheek, to everyone's amusement but Anton's – and then Isidor was rapping the music stand for our attention, and Désiré played the opening notes, and we were off, hurtling like a sled down a hill. I wish I had the slightest clue what we were playing, Bea, but I haven't. The audience loved it, at any rate.             That's Désiré for you – mad as springtime, smooth as ice and clumsy as walking on it. We tease him, saying he's lucky he doesn't wear a dress, he trips over the ladies' skirts so often. But then he apologizes so wonderfully, I've half a mind to trip him on purpose. That clumsiness vanishes when he's playing, though; his fingers on a violin are quick and precise. Either that, or he fits his mistakes into the music so naturally that we don't notice them.             You really ought to meet him, Bea. He has exactly your sense of humor. A few weeks ago, Richard and I were at the Symphony, and Désiré joined us in our box, quite unexpectedly. Richard, who was blushing and awkward as it was, tried to talk music with Désiré. "This seems to tell a story, doesn't it?" he said.             "It most certainly does," Désiré said. "Like Margaret's uncle Kunibert. It starts with something fascinating, then derails itself talking about buttons and waistcoats. If we're lucky, it might work its way back to its original point. Most likely it will put us to sleep until someone rudely disturbs us by applauding."             All this said with the most perfectly straight face, and a bit of an eyebrow raise at me, inviting me to disagree with him. I never do, but it's that invitation that disarms me, and keeps the teasing from becoming cruel. Désiré always waits to be proven wrong, though he never is.             I should warn you not to fall in love with him, though. I'm sure you laugh, but half of Südlichesburg is ready to serve him its hearts on a platter, and I know he'd just smile and never take a taste. He's a man for whom Leonore's masquerades mean nothing; he's so wonderfully full of himself, he has no room to pretend to be anyone else.             That's not to say he's cruel: merely heartless. He's like a ruby, clear and dark and beautiful to look at, but hard to the core. How such a man can write such music, I'll never know.             Yours always,             Maggie   III. From a review of Désiré's Echidna in Der Sentinel: July 2894             For the life of me, I cannot say what this opera is about. Love, and courage. A tempestuous battle. I have the libretto somewhere, in a drawer with my gloves and opera glasses, but I will not spoil Désiré's score by putting a story to it. Echidna is music, pure music, so pure it breaks the heart.             First come the strings, quietly humming. Andrea Profeta enters the stage. The drums begin, loud, savage. Then the melody, swelling until you feel yourself lifted from your chair, from your body, and you are only a web of sensations; your heart straining against the music, your blood singing in your fingertips. Just remembering it, I feel my fingers go weak. How the orchestra can bear to play it, I can't imagine.             It is not Echidna but the music that is the hero. We desire, like the heroine, to be worthy of it. We desire to live in such a way that our world may deserve to hold something so pure, so strong, so achingly beautiful within it.   From the Introduction of Désiré: an Ideal by Richard Stele: 2934             Societies are defined by the men they hate. It is the revenge of an exile that he carries his country to all the world, and to the world his countrymen are merely a reflection of him. An age is defined not by the men who lived in it, but by the ones who lived ahead of it.             Hate smolders. Nightmares stay with us. But love fades, love is fickle. Désiré's tragedy is that he was loved.   From Albert Magazine's interview with Egon Rowley             AM: And what about his vices?             Rowley: Désiré's vices? He didn't have any. [Laughs.] He certainly wasn't vicious.             AM: Vicious?             Rowley: That's what the papers called it. He liked to play games, play his friends and admirers against each other.             AM: Like the ladies.             Rowley: Yes. That was all a game to him. He'd wear…favors, I suppose you'd call them, like a knight at a joust. He admired Margaret von Bank's earrings at the opening of Echidna, and she gave him one to wear through the performance. After that the ladies were always fighting to give him earrings.             AM: To your knowledge, was Désiré ever in love?             Rowley: Never. [A pause.] I remember one day – summer of 2896, it must have been – a group of us went walking in Brecht's park. Désiré, Anton Fulke, the newspaperman Richard Stele, the orchestra conductor Isidor Ursler, and myself. It was Sonntag afternoon, and all the aristocrats were riding by in their fine clothes and carriages. A sort of weekly parade, for us simple peasants. You don't see sights like that anymore.             [A long pause.] Anyway, Désiré was being himself, joking with us and flirting with the aristocrats. Or the other way around, it was never easy to tell. Isolde von Bisswurm, who was married to a Grand Duke at the time, slowed her carriage as she passed us and called… something unrepeatable down to Désiré.             AM: Unrepeatable?             Rowley: Oh, I'm sure it's no more than half the respectable women in Südlichesburg were thinking. Désiré just laughed and leapt up into her carriage. She whispered something in his ear. And then he kissed her, right there in front of everyone – her, a married woman and a Grand Duchess.             AM: [With humor.] Scandalous.             Rowley: It was, in those days. We were all – Fulke and Ursler and Stele and I – we were all horrified. But the thing I'm thinking of, when you ask me if he was ever in love with anyone, that happened afterward. When he jumped down from Isolde's carriage, he was smiling like a boy with a lax governess, and he looked so… I suppose you might say beautiful. But in a moment the look was gone. He caught sight of the man in the next carriage: von Arden, von Allen, something like that. Tall man, very dark, not entirely unlike Désiré, though it was very clear which of the two was better favored.             AM: Not von Arden.             Rowley: [Laughs.] Oh, no. Maggie von Banks used to call Désiré her angel, and he could have passed for one, but von what's-his-face was very much a man. Désiré didn't seem to notice. He stood there on the path in Brecht's park, staring like… well, like one of those girls who flocked to his operas.             AM: Staring at this man?             Rowley: Yes. And after kissing Isolde von Bisswurm, who let me tell you was quite the lovely lady in those days. [Laughs softly.] Whoever would have suspected Désiré of bad taste? But that was his way, I suppose.             AM: What was his way? [Prompting:] Did you ever suspect Désiré of unnatural desires?             Rowley: No, never. No desire in him could be unnatural.     From the pages of Der Sentinel: May 15, 2897             At dawn on May 14, the composer Désiré was joined by Royal Opera conductor Isidor Ursler and over fifty representatives of the Südlichesburg music 'scene' to break ground in Umerfeld, two miles south of the city, for Désiré's ambitious new opera house.             The plans for Galatea – which Désiré cheerfully warns the public are liable to change – show a stage the size of a race track, half a mile of lighting catwalks, and no less than four labyrinthine sub-basements for prop and scenery storage. For a first foray into architecture, Désiré's design shows several highly ambitious features, including three-storey lobby and central rotunda. The rehearsal rooms will face onto a garden, Désiré says, featuring a miniature forest and a wading pool teeming with fish. When asked why this is necessary, he replied with characteristic 'charm': "It isn't. Art isn't about what is necessary. Art decides what is necessary."   VII. From a review of Désiré's Brunhilde in Der Sentinel: February 2899             For once, the most talked-about thing at the opera was not Désiré's choice of jewel but his choice of setting. Südlichesburg's public has loved Galatea from the moment we saw her emerging from the green marble in Ulmerfeld, and, at last, she has come alive and repaid our devotion with an embrace. At last, said more than one operagoer at last night's premier of Brunhilde, Désiré's music has a setting worthy of it.             Of course Galatea is not Désiré's gift to Südlichesburg, but a gift to himself. The plush-and-velvet comfort of the auditorium is designed first and foremost to echo the swells of his music, and the marble statues in the lobby are not pandering to their aristocratic models but suggestions to the audience of what it is about to witness; beauty, dignity, power. However we grovel at the feet of Désiré the composer, we must also bow to Désiré the consummate showman.             As to the jewel in this magnificent setting, let us not pretend that anyone will be content with the word of Richard Stele, operagoer. Everyone in Südlichesburg will see Brunhilde, and all will love it. The only question is if they will love it as much as Désiré clearly loves his Galatea.             Finally, as a courtesy to the ladies and interested gentlemen, Désiré's choice of jewel for last night's performance came from the lovely Beatrix Altberg. He wore her pearl-and-garnet string around his left wrist, and it could be seen sparkling in the houselights as he stood at the end of each act and applauded wildly.   VIII. From Albert Magazine's interview with Egon Rowley             AM: They say that Désiré's real decline began with Galatea.             Rowley: Whoever "they" are. [Haltingly:] 2899, it was finished. I remember because that was the year Vande Frust opened her office in Südlichesburg. She was an odd one, Dr. Frust – but brilliant, I'll give her that.             AM: Désiré made an appointment with Dr. Frust that June.             Rowley: Yes. I don't know what they talked about, though. Désiré never said.             AM: But you can guess, yes?             Rowley: Knowing Dr. Frust, I can guess.             AM: [A long pause.] As a courtesy to our readers who haven't read Vande Frust's work, could you please explain?             Rowley: She was fascinated by origins. Of course she didn't mean that the same way everyone else does – didn't give half a pence for your parents, did Vande Frust. She had a bit of… a bit of a fixation with how you were educated. How you formed your Ideals – your passions, your values. What books you read, whose music you played, that sort of thing.             AM: And how do you suppose Désiré formed his Ideals?             Rowley: I don't know. As I said, whatever Désiré discussed with Dr. Frust, he never told me. And he never went back to her.   From Chapter Eight of Désiré: an Ideal by Richard Stele             Whether or not Désiré suffered a psychological breakdown during the building of Galatea is largely a matter of conjecture. He failed to produce any significant piece of music in 2897 or the year after. Brunhilde, which premiered at the grand opening of Galatea in 2899, is generally acknowledged to be one of his weakest works.             But any concrete evidence of psychological disturbance is nearly impossible to find. We know he met with famed Dr. Vende Frust in June 2899, but we have no records of what he said there. The details of an encounter with the law in February 2900 are equally sketchy.             Elise Koch, Dr. Frust's maid in 2899, offers an odd story about the aftermath of Désiré's appointment. She claims to have found a strange garment in Dr. Frust's office, a small and shapeless black dress of the sort women prisoners wear in Lysterre and its colonies. Unfortunately for the curious, Dr. Frust demanded that the thing be burned in her fireplace, and its significance to Désiré is still not understood.   From the report of Hans Frei, prostitute: February 12, 2900             Mr. Frei, nineteen years old, claims a man matching the description of the composer Désiré approached him near Rosen Platz late at night last Donnerstag. The man asked the price, which Mr. Frei gave him, and then offered twice that amount if Mr. Frei would accompany him to rooms "somewhere in the south" of Südlichesburg. Once in the rooms, Mr. Frei says the man sat beside him by the window and proceeded to cry into his shoulder. "He didn't hurt me none," Mr. Frei says. "Didn't touch me, as a matter of fact. I felt sorry for him, he seemed like such a mess."             No charges are being considered, as the man cannot properly be said to have contracted a prostitute for immoral purposes. The composer Désiré's housekeeper and staff could not be found to comment on the incident. One neighbor, a Miss Benjamin, whose nerves make her particularly susceptible to any irregularity, claims that on the night of last Donnerstag, her sleep was disturbed by a lamp kept burning in her neighbor’s foyer. Such a lamp, she states, is usually maintained by Désiré’s staff until the small hours, and extinguished upon his homecoming. She assumes that the persistence of this light on Donnerstag indicates that Désiré did not return home on the night in question.   From a review of Désiré's Hieronymus in Der Sentinel: December 2902             Any man who claims to have sat through Désiré's Hieronymus with a dry eye and handkerchief is either deaf or a damned liar. Personally, I hope he is the damned liar, as it would be infinitely more tragic if he missed Désiré's deep and tangled melodies. Be warned: Hieronymus bleeds, and the blood will be very hard to wash out of our consciousness.   XII. A letter from Margaret von Banks Stele to Beatrix Altberg: March 2903 Dearest Bea,             Richard says war is inevitable. His job with the newspapers lets him know these things, I suppose: he says Kaspar in the foreign relations room is trying to map Lysterrestre alliances with string and cards on the walls, and now he's run completely out of walls. That doesn't begin to include the colonies.             The way Richard talks about it, it sounds like a ball game. Bea, he jokes about placing bets on who will invade whom – as if it doesn't matter any more than a day at the races! I know he doesn't need to worry, that at worst the papers will send him out with a notepad and a pencil and set him scribbling. The Stele name still has some pull, after all – if he wants to make use of it.             I don't, Beatrix. If war breaks out with Lysterre, I want you to know that I am going to enlist.             Yours,            Margaret Stele   XIII. From Chapter Eleven of Désiré: an Ideal by Richard Stele             It was inevitable that the War should to some extent be Désiré's. It was the natural result of men like him, in a world he had helped create. Dr. Vande Frust would say it was the result of our Ideals, and that Désiré had wrought those Ideals for us. I think Désiré would agree.             We – all of us, the artists and the critics with the aristocrats and cavalrymen – might meet in a coffee shop for breakfast one morning and lay some plans for dinner. The cavalrymen would ride off, perhaps as little as ten miles from Südlichesburg, where the Lysterrestre troops were gathered. There would be a skirmish, and more often than not an empty place at the supper table. Désiré took to marking these places with a spring of courtesan's lace: that, too, was a part of his Ideal.             In this war, in our war, there was a strange sense of decorum. This was more than a battle of armies for us, the artists. Hadn't Lysterrestre audiences applauded and wept at our music as much as our own countrymen? The woman whose earring Désiré had worn one night at the opera might be the same one who set fire to his beloved Galatea. The man who wrung Anton Fulke's hand so piteously at the Lysterrestre opening of Viridian might be the same man who severed that hand with a claw of shrapnel. How could we fight these men and women, whose adulating letters we kept pressed in our desk drawers? How could we kill them, who died singing our songs?   XIV. From Albert Magazine's interview with Egon Rowley             AM: Do you think Alexander was written as a response to the War?             Rowley: I know it was. [A pause.] Well, not to the War alone. A fair number of things emerged because of that – Fulke's last symphony, which he wrote one-handed, and Richard Stele's beautiful book of poems. Who knew the man had poetry in him, that old newspaper cynic?             AM: His wife died in the War, didn't she?             Rowley: Yes, poor Maggie. It seems strange to pity her – she wouldn't have wanted my pity – but, well, I'm an old man now. It's my prerogative to pity the young and dead.             AM: But to return to Désiré –             Rowley: Yes, to Désiré and Alexander. You must have seen it. All the world saw it when it premiered in 2908, even babes in arms…How old are you?             AM: [The interviewer gives her age.]             Rowley: Well, then, you must have seen it. It was brilliant, wasn't it? Terrible and brilliant. [A pause.] Terrible, terrible and brilliant.   A letter from Infantryman Leo Kirsch, printed in Raum: September 2907 Gentlemen,             I cannot make you understand what is happening here, less than a day's ride from your parks and offices and coffee houses. I can list, as others have, the small and innumerable tragedies: a headless soldier we had to walk on to cross through the trenches, a dead nurse frozen with her arms around a dead soldier, sheltering him from bullets. I can list these things, but I cannot make you understand them.             If it were tears I wanted from you, gentlemen of Südlichesburg, I could get them easily enough. You artists, you would cry to see the flowers trampled on our marches, the butterflies withering from poisonous air. You would cry to watch your opera houses burn like scraps of kindling. Me, I was happy to see Galatea burn. Happy to know it would hurt you, if only for a day.             But I don't want your weeping. If I want anything from you, it is for you to come down here to the battlefields, to see what your pride, your stupidity, your brainless worship of brainless courage has created. It is your poetry that told that nurse to shelter her soldier with her body, knowing it was useless, knowing she would die. Your music told her courage would make it beautiful. I want you to look down at the headless soldiers in the trenches and see how beautiful dumb courage really is.             The Lysterrestre have brought native soldiers from their colonies, dark men and women with large eyes and deep, harrowing voices. They wear Lysterrestre uniforms and speak the language, but they have no love for that country, no joy in dying for it. Yesterday I saw a woman walking through the battlefield, holding the hands of soldiers – her people, our people, and Lysterrestre alike – and singing to them as they died. That courage, the courage of the living in the face of death, could never come from your art. For us, and for Lysterre, courage of that kind is lost.             I tried to join her today. But I did not know what to sing, when all our music is lies.   XVI. From a review of Désiré's Alexander in Der Sentinel: August 2908             Richard Stele has refused the task of reviewing Alexander for Der Sentinel, and it is easy to see why. Stele is a friend of Désiré, and it takes a great deal of courage – courage which Désiré brutally mocks and slanders – to take a stand against one's friends. But sometimes it must be done. In this instance, standing with Désiré is not only cowardly; it is a betrayal of what all thinking, feeling men in this country hold dear.             Nine years ago, after the premier of Brunhilde, Stele famously refused to summarize its plot, saying we would all see it and love it regardless of what he said. Well, you will all see Alexander regardless of what I say. And you, my friends, will be horrified by the change in your idol.   XVII. From Chapter Twelve of Désiré: an Ideal by Richard Stele             The War changed Désiré. Alexander changed us all.             It seems to be a piece of anti-Lysterre propaganda, at first. Alexander, a Lysterrestre commander, prepares for war against the native people of the Lysterrestre colonies. Shikoba, a native woman, rallies her people against him. The armies meet; but instead of the swelling music, the dignity and heroism Désiré's audience have come to expect, there is slaughter. The Lysterrestre fling themselves at the enemy and fall in hideous, cacophonous multitudes. At the end of the opera, Alexander is the last Lysterrestre standing. He goes to kill Shikoba; she stabs him brutally in the chest and he collapses, gasping. Shikoba kneels beside him and sings a quiet, subdued finale as he dies.             This is an opera about courage, about heroism. Its heroes turn to all the other operas that have ever been written and call them lies. When audiences leave the opera house, they do so in silence. I have heard of few people seeing it twice.             At some point during the writing of Alexander – in October 2907, I believe – Désiré announced at a dinner of some sort that he had native blood, and had been born in the Lysterrestre colonies. This did not matter much to the gathered assembly, and besides, it was something of an open secret. We took it, at the time, to be a sort of explanation, an excuse for the powerful hatred that boiled in him each time we mentioned the War. Not that we needed any explanations; my wife, Margaret von Banks Stele, had died at Elmerburg about a month before.             Now, of course, I wonder. Why did it matter to Désiré that the world he shaped so heavily was not his by blood? What exactly had the War made him realize – about himself, and about the rest of us?             It is significant, I think, that in Galatea's burning all the Lysterrestre army costumes were lost. "Fine," Désiré said. "Borrow the uniforms of our countrymen. They all look the same from where we'll be standing."   XVIII. From Albert Magazine's interview with Egon Rowley             AM: The War marked the end of an era.             Rowley: The death of an era, yes. Of Désiré's era. I suppose you could say Désiré killed it.   XIX. From the obituaries page of Raum: June 2911             The editors of Raum are saddened to report the death of the composer, architect, and respected gentleman Désiré. We realize his popularity has waned in recent years, following a number of small scandals and a disappointing opera. Nevertheless, we must acknowledge our debts to the earlier work of this great and fascinating man, whose music taught our age so much about pride, patriotism and courage.             Something of an enigma in life, Désiré seems determined to remain so hereafter. He directed his close friend Egon Rowley and famed doctor Vande Frust to burn all his papers and personal effects. He also expressed a desire to be cremated and to have his ashes spread over Umerfeld, site of both his destroyed Galatea and one of the bloodiest battles in the recent War.             No family is known, nor are Mr. Rowley and Dr. Frust releasing the cause of death. Désiré is leaving Südlichesburg, it seems, as mysteriously as he came to it.   From a report on Native Boarding Schools in the Lysterrestre Colonies: May 2937             Following almost twenty years of intense scrutiny and criticism from the outside world, Native Boarding Schools throughout the territories of the one-time Lysterrestre Empire are being terminated and their records released to the public.             Opened in the late 2870s, Native Boarding Schools professed to provide native-born children with the skills and understandings necessary to function in the colonial society. In the early years, the children learned the Lysterrestre language and farming techniques; over time, some of the schools added courses in machine operation. Criticism centers on both the wholesale repression of the students' culture and the absence of lessons in science or the fine arts.             "We went around in shapeless black dresses, like criminals in a prison," Zéphyrine Adam, born Calfunaya, says of her time in the Bonner Institute. "They say they taught us to speak their language, but they really taught us to be silent. They had rooms full of books, music sheets and phonographs, but we weren't allowed to use them. Not unless we were too clumsy to be trusted by the factory machines. They understood, as we do, that stories and music give us power. They were afraid of what we would do to them if they let us into their world."             In the face of such accusations, the majority of Native Boarding School instructors seem reluctant to speak, though some still defend the schools and their intentions.             "The goal was to construct a Lysterrestre Ideal for them, but not to hide their natural-born talents," says Madame Achille, from the Coralie Institute in what is now northern Arcadie. "We simply made sure they expressed them in the appropriate ways. I remember one girl, one of the first we processed back in 2879. An unhappy little thing most of the time, but a budding musician; she would run through the halls chanting and playing a wooden drum. Well, we set her down one day at the pianoforte, and she took to it like a fish to water. The things she played, so loud, so dignified! She had such talent, though I don't suppose anything ever came of it.             "A lot of them had such talent," she adds. "I wonder whatever became of them?" END   "Désiré” was originally published in Crossed Genres and is copyright Megan Arkenberg, 2013. This recording is a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license which means you can share it with anyone you’d like, but please don’t change or sell it. Our theme is “Aurora Borealis” by Bird Creek, available through the Google Audio Library. You can support GlitterShip by checking out our Patreon at patreon.com/keffy, subscribing to our feed, leaving reviews on iTunes, or buying your own copy of the Autumn 2018 issue at www.glittership.com/buy. You can also support us by picking up a free audiobook at  www.audibletrial.com/glittership. Thanks for listening, and we’ll be back soon with a GlitterShip original.

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Black-Eyed & Blues Show 341 Air Date October 3, 2018 Playlist: Chris Ruest, Henhouse To The Doghouse, Paul Edelman and Jangling Sparrows, Highway Jawn, Straw Family, It’s Cold Outside, Detonics, Swing King, Anthony Gomes, Stealin’ From The Devil, Bob Margolin, One More Day, Lindsay Beaver, You’re Evil, Vanja Sky, All Night, Miss Lily Moe, Hot Man, Mick Kolassa & The Taylor Made Blues Band, 35 Miles To Empty, The Swamp Stompers, Wishing I Had You, Eric McFadden, Long Gone, Paula Harris, Nick Of Too Damn Late, Athanor, Now I Know, Eric Johanson, So Cold, Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, So Good, David Julia, Hey There Sally, Sean Chambers, Welcome To My Blues, Damon Fowler, Ain’t Gonna Rock With You No More, Mat Walklate, The Sun Never Shines, Jim Allchin, Voodoo Doll, Wildcat O’Halloran Band, Van Wyck Expressway, Kirk Fletcher, You Need Me, Colin James, Dig Myself A Hole, Amanda Fish, Here We Are, Delta Moon, One Mountain At A Time, Dennis Herrera, Run With The Losers, Josh Smith, Burn To Grow, Eric Lindell, Appaloosa, Gina Sicilia, Brighter Day, Mojomatics, Soy Baby The 2018 Blues Blast Music Award Winners Contemporary Blues Album Danielle Nicole - Cry No More Traditional Blues Album Kim Wilson - Blues And Boogie Vol 1 Soul Blues Album Bettye LaVette - Things Have Changed Rock Blues Album Walter Trout - We're All In This Together Acoustic Blues Album Sonny Landreth - Recorded Live In Lafayette Live Blues Recording Muddy Waters - Live At Rockpalast Historical Or Vintage Recording Muddy Waters - Live At Rockpalast New Artist Debut Album Heather Newman - Burn Me Alive Blues Band Rick Estrin & The Nightcats Male Blues Artist Walter Trout Female Blues Artist Beth Hart Sean Costello Rising Star Award Heather Newman Many Thanks To: We here at the Black-Eyed & Blues Show would like to thank all the PR and radio people that get us music including Frank Roszak, Rick Lusher ,Doug Deutsch Publicity Services,American Showplace Music, Alive Natural Sounds, Ruf Records, Vizztone Records,Blind Pig Records,Delta Groove Records, Electro-Groove Records,Betsie Brown, Blind Raccoon Records, BratGirl Media, Mark Pucci Media and all of the Blues Societies both in the U.S. and abroad. 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Jammin On The Job goes into OVERTIME as Shani & Melz presents the first edition of The Jammin On The Job Podcast! In this episode, they discuss Ja Rule's failed Fyre Festival, R&B Star Calvin Richardson's Family cruise, and The 7 Times He'll Give You The Best "D" in Your Life. Join the discussion on twitter @ShaniScottOnAir and @MelzOnTheMIC and tune in for Jammin On The Job Weekdays from 9:00 AM TO 3:00 PM CST on 103.1 Kiss-FM, online at mykiss1031.com and on the Radiopup app!

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Mesquite, Hickory, Apple…each delivers a different flavor.FINALLY, SOMEONE IS TEACHING THE DELICIOUS DIFFERENCE! May is National BBQ Month and best-selling cookbook "Dadgum, That's Good" author John McLemore is the BBQ expert! From the wood, to the seasoning, to the right cuts of meat, your listeners WILL master their own backyard BBQ! WHEN:TUESDAY, MAY 3, 20167:45 AM TO 11:45 AM ET Everyone loves the taste of good BBQ, but no one wants to stand over a hot grill and babysit the food. Smoking is the key to a fool-proof BBQ. John will discuss all the different techniques they can use for making great BBQ - brining, dry rub seasoning, and the best sauces. John will tell what types of wood can be used for different flavor profiles and which woods pair best with which foods. What cuts of meat produce the best flavors for BBQHow wood can be used to enhance the flavor of your BBQThe seasonings that can be used to create different dishes this summer!

Mesquite, Hickory, Apple…each delivers a different flavor.FINALLY, SOMEONE IS TEACHING THE DELICIOUS DIFFERENCE! May is National BBQ Month and best-selling cookbook "Dadgum, That's Good" author John McLemore is the BBQ expert! From the wood, to the seasoning, to the right cuts of meat, your listeners WILL master their own backyard BBQ! WHEN:TUESDAY, MAY 3, 20167:45 AM TO 11:45 AM ET Everyone loves the taste of good BBQ, but no one wants to stand over a hot grill and babysit the food. Smoking is the key to a fool-proof BBQ. John will discuss all the different techniques they can use for making great BBQ - brining, dry rub seasoning, and the best sauces. John will tell what types of wood can be used for different flavor profiles and which woods pair best with which foods. What cuts of meat produce the best flavors for BBQHow wood can be used to enhance the flavor of your BBQThe seasonings that can be used to create different dishes this summer!

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Two dynamic guest for you today. Get to know both the featured Unstoppable Woman Of Power and the Unstoppable Man Of Power....you'll love listening to this show :) First my Unstoppable Woman Of Power is Deb Scott. Deb is a Certified Professional Coach, specializes in working with individuals, businesses, and corporate environments, transforming ineffective group and personal dynamics into high-powered, successful, dynamic individuals and teams. A biology major in college, Deb became an award-winning sales and leadership specialist. With 20 years of background in cardiac surgery sales, she now applies her sales and business background to motivational speaking, coaching, and consulting. She speaks and writes about how you can turn things around whether you’re in sales, marketing, advertising, hiring, or team building. Deb can help you turn your Challenges into Celebrations today, visit her at www.greenskyandbluegrass.com Next Unstoppable Man Of Power. Yes....be sure to tune in and listen to the re airing of one of my most popular interviews. Award winning Talk Show Host Montel Williams speaks to me from the heart and shares a chilling experience he had 10 years ago when he "thought" he was having a heart attack. You'll also hear Montel speak about the effect MS has on his body. The importance of not taking life for granted Montel talks about the day he got fired over the telephone and how he was forced to take control of the situation and create a new opportunity for himself and shares why we should to start paying attention (focus) to our physical and psychological well being .....starting today! Make sure you check my business show that airs on CBS Radio News(Talk 650 AM) To hear some of my previous shows go to www.careersfromthekitchentable.com and click on previous shows. If you want to listen live tune in on Saturdays 2-3 central by going to that same website and clicking on the banner that says Talk 650 powered by CBS. Enjoy your day! Raven

Abandon All Hope, Halloween in the Swamp 2010 – Episode 003 – The Myrtles Plantation  St. Francisville, Louisiana In this episode we talk with Mrs. Hester, Manager Of The Myrtles Plantation. She takes us back into the history of this beautiful, yet very haunted, home. Built in 1796 this current day bed & breakfast is nestled among the ancient oaks on it’s present 10 +/- acres, of its once 5000 acres. It’s present quiet, serene beauty is in contrast to the violence that the home has been witness to in it’s 214 years of existence. Mrs. Hester recounts the history of the home, grounds and stories relating to some of the plantation’s more “permanent” residents. The home, as we mentioned, is a functioning bed & breakfast and has a number of rooms both in the home and located around the grounds. It also has a wonderful restaurant & gift shop on grounds. In addition to overnight rooms the plantation offers both daytime standard tours & nighttime “mystery” tours. More information on the plantation can be found at: http://www.myrtlesplantation.com/. Hours and information can be found below:* HISTORIC TOURS DAILY:   9 AM TO 5:00 PM, EVERY HOUR AND HALF HOUR; $8 PER PERSON, $4 CHILDREN 12 & UNDER MYSTERY TOURS:   FRIDAY & SATURDAY EVENINGS AT 6, 7 & 8 PM; $10 PER PERSON, RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED   Accommodations  Information* Room Rates and Descriptions We would like to thank you for your interest in The Myrtles Plantation. We operate year round as a full service Bed & Breakfast. Below you will find a brief description of each room along with the current rates. All rates are based strictly on double occupancy, with the exception of The Caretaker's Cottage, which sleeps up to 4. All rooms include a continental breakfast and a historical tour of the home. There will be an 11% tax added to the total cost of all overnight stays. Guest room on the 1st floor of the home: We have one overnight guest room on the 1st floor of the home: The General David Bradford Suite has one large bedroom with a four-poster full size bed and a private sitting room. Two verandahs adjoin the suite. This room has a private bath with a shower.         $230.00 per night Guest Rooms located upstairs in the main house: The Judge Clarke Woodruff Suite is the only room with access to the foyer and main staircase at the close of the day. It has a large bedroom with a sitting area and a four-poster queen size bed. This room has a private bath with a tub.    $230.00 per night The Fannie Williams Room has a full size bed, private bath with a shower that is located in the hallway just a few steps away from the room.  $175.00 per night The Ruffin-Stirling Room has a large four-poster queen size bed, private bath with a shower also located a few steps away from the room, in the hallway.   $175.00 per night The William Winters Room has a four-poster queen size bed and private bath with a tub in the room.     $200.00 per night The John W. Leake Room has a four-poster full size bed and a private bath with a shower in the room.  $200.00 per night Guest Rooms located on the grounds: The Caretaker's Cottage is a rustic cottage with a queen size bed, a set of bunk beds and private bath with a shower. It has a fenced yard, a front porch and is located behind The General Bradford House.           $250.00 per night The Azalea, Camellia, Magnolia, and Oleander Garden Rooms each has a queen size bed and a private bath with an antique clawfoot tub.    $115.00 per night   Rates are current as of October 5, 2010 but are subject to change without notice. Please visit the Myrtles Plantation web site for current information.