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Now I know what they did last summer
I just read a detailed account of the backstage negotiations during last Spring and the dramatic, for the EU and especially for Greece, months that followed. It's a must read for anyone interested. It is the product of a Wall Street Journal investigation, based on more than two dozen interviews with euro-zone policy makers. It reveals how the currency union floundered in indecision—failing to address either the immediate concerns of investors or the fundamental weaknesses undermining the euro. The consequence was that a crisis in a few small economies turned into a threat to the survival of Europe's common currency and a menace to the global economy. Enjoy the reading. It's long, even though slightly reduced by me, so go get some coffee and a couple of cigarettes.
At a closed-door meeting in Washington on April 14, Europe's effort to contain its debt crisis began to unravel.
Inside the French ambassador's 19-bedroom mansion, finance ministers and central bankers from the world's largest economies heard Dominique Strauss-Kahn, then-head of the International Monetary Fund, deliver an ultimatum.
Greece, the country that triggered the euro-zone debt crisis, would need a much bigger bailout than planned, Mr. Strauss-Kahn said. Unless Europe coughed up extra cash, the IMF, which a year earlier had agreed to share the burden with European countries, wouldn't release any more aid for Athens.
The warning prompted a split among the euro zone's representatives over who should pay to save Greece from the biggest sovereign bankruptcy in history. European taxpayers alone? Or should the banks that had lent Greece too much during the global credit bubble also suffer?
The IMF didn't mind how Europe proceeded, as long as there was clarity by summer. "We need a decision," said Mr. Strauss-Kahn.
The dispute at the Washington meeting divided two of the Continent's grand old men, both of them born in 1942 and both among the fathers of the euro.
Wolfgang Schäuble, Germany's ascetic and irascible finance minister, understood the IMF's ultimatum. The euro zone would have to draw up a second bailout package for Greece by summer, just a year after a loan deal for €110 billion, or $140 billion.
But this time, Mr. Schäuble said, "We cannot just buy out the private investors" with taxpayer money. That would reward reckless lending, he said, and it would never get through an increasingly impatient German parliament. Greece's bondholders would be required to lend more money, Mr. Schäuble proposed, rather than take payment for their bonds at maturity.
Jean-Claude Trichet, the urbane French head of the European Central Bank, warned against forcing bondholders to put in more money, which would effectively delay repayment. "This is not a good way to go in a monetary union," Mr. Trichet said. "Investors would avoid all euro-area bonds."
Mr. Trichet, in the twilight of a 36-year career as a finance official, feared that if Greece didn't honor its bond debts on time, the implicit trust that kept credit flowing to many weak euro-zone governments would shatter. More countries and their banks would lose access to capital markets, in a chain reaction with incalculable consequences.
The April meeting ended inconclusively.
Meanwhile, the cost for fixing Greece was rising. The Athens government's budget deficit was stuck at a stubbornly high level.
Italian and Spanish borrowing costs were still affordable and stable. The yield on Spain's 10-year bonds hovered around 5.3%; on Italy's, around 4.6%.
The debate over making bondholders contribute to the new funding package for Greece—known as private-sector involvement, or PSI—divided euro-zone countries.
Germany had allies. In the Netherlands and Finland, new governments had promised voters they wouldn't pay for problems in less-frugal Mediterranean countries. Breaking those promises would risk rebellions in parliament.
But France joined the ECB in resisting burden-sharing by bondholders. France's banks had lent more heavily than Germany's to Greece and other indebted euro nations, and France fretted about a Lehman Brothers-style banking-system meltdown. Italian officials also feared that a precedent for losses in Greece would scare investors away from Italy's bonds.
Three weeks after the Washington gathering, on Friday, May 6, panic erupted. German news weekly Der Spiegel reported that Greece was thinking of leaving the euro zone, with policy makers heading to a secret meeting that night in Luxembourg.
The report was half-right. There was a meeting, but Greece was staying put.
Inside a country chateau, top euro-zone officials told Greece's finance minister they expected deeper austerity and faster reforms in return for a new aid package.
Then Mr. Schäuble said he wanted to discuss how bondholder burden-sharing would work. The usually smooth-mannered Mr. Trichet lost his patience. "I want to put my position on the record," he said: "I don't agree with private-sector involvement, so I won't take part in a discussion about the practicalities." He stormed out.
Mr. Trichet's assent was vital. If the ECB were to stop accepting Greek bonds as collateral for its lending to banks on the grounds that the bonds were in default, then Greece's banks, which were stuffed full of their government's bonds, would quickly run out of cash and collapse. That would radically drive up the cost of a rescue.
In Greece, a new wave of mass strikes and demonstrations was starting. Protesters, angry about Europe's imposition of extra spending cuts and tax hikes, clashed with police in front of the Athens parliament in the biggest and most violent protests in a year.
Spanish and Italian bond prices remained stable. But Europe was at a dangerous impasse over Greece.
Many euro-zone governments hoped Mr. Strauss-Kahn could find a way to relax the IMF's summer deadline. The IMF chief was due to discuss the matter with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on May 15, and with euro-zone finance ministers in Brussels the next day.
Mr. Strauss-Kahn couldn't attend. Police in New York pulled him off his Paris-bound flight and charged him with sexually assaulting a hotel chambermaid. (The charges were later dropped, and prosecutors said they doubted the maid's reliability.) An aide phoned Ms. Merkel at her central-Berlin home that Saturday and told her the news. The astonished chancellor responded with a German idiom that translates roughly as: "You couldn't make this up."
The IMF sent a lower-ranking official to Brussels in his place who had no latitude to deviate from the IMF's deadline.
In Athens, meanwhile, a tent city of the "Indignant" protest movement—a groundswell of anger at the country's impoverishment—sprang up outside parliament. Spain's bond prices began to wobble as investors worried that other countries might also face debt restructuring.
On June 1, Mr. Schäuble's deputy, Jörg Asmussen, presented a German plan at a meeting of finance officials in Vienna, at the Hofburg palace of the former Habsburg emperors. It involved pressuring Greece's bondholders to swap their Greek debt for new IOUs that would come due far in the future. That would cut the amount of European taxpayer funding Greece would need.
After a meal in a palace banquet hall, the officials quarreled into the wee hours.
For the ECB, Mr. Trichet's deputy Vitor Constâncio, of Portugal, denounced the German plan as "dangerous." Credit-rating agencies would declare Greece to be in default on some of its debts—a so-called selective default. In that case, Mr. Constâncio warned, the ECB would refuse to accept Greek government bonds as collateral, dealing a death blow to Greek banks. France, Italy and Spain all supported Mr. Constâncio.
Germany's Mr. Asmussen shot back with a threat of his own. Europe needed Germany's money to fund a new program of Greek loans. "Without private-sector involvement," he said, "there will be no program."
Greece was descending into chaos. Embattled premier George Papandreou's slender majority in parliament was fraying. On June 15, a swelling demonstration in Athens's central square veered out of control.
Alone in his office, Mr. Papandreou phoned the parliamentary opposition leader and offered to make way for a national-unity government. Talks broke down, and the Greek government limped on badly wounded.
Even Ms. Merkel had some doubts about her finance ministry's hard-line insistence that Greece's bondholders take a loss. On June 17, she discussed a softer plan with French President Nicolas Sarkozy: a gentleman's agreement under which Greek bonds would be honored but the bondholders would volunteer to buy new ones.
Mr. Schäuble pushed back. The veteran conservative politician was Berlin's biggest supporter of the European dream, but he was also the keeper of Germany's purse. He was determined to make banks share the burden with German taxpayers, and he didn't trust them to keep a gentleman's agreement.
When finance ministers met again on June 20, Mr. Schäuble pushed harder. Greece's bondholders should be told not merely to accept a delay in repayment, he said, but also to forgive some Greek debt—a so-called haircut.
As Greece's economy moved toward free fall, its debts were soaring beyond the country's ability to pay, the Germans and their northern allies argued. Mr. Trichet and the southern countries resisted. Talks dragged on for hours. The ministers knew they couldn't leave without some agreement.
They tried to please everyone: Greece would get more aid. Bondholder losses would be substantial, to placate the Germans, Dutch and Finns. But as the ECB insisted, they would avoid pushing Greece into selective default.
Investors knew you couldn't have it both ways. As the threat of a Greek debt restructuring sank in, Southern Europe's bond markets grew volatile. Spain's 10-year bond yield rose above 5.6%. Italy's reached 4.9%.
Greece's parliament debated the extra austerity measures that Europe demanded. Central Athens erupted in violent protests. Anarchist youths tore up chunks of paving stone and threw them at riot police, who fired back with tear gas and stun grenades. Café parasols burned.
Europe hadn't resolved how to keep Greece afloat. The IMF—whose demand for a decision had set off the whole argument—softened its ultimatum. IMF officials said they were satisfied that Europe would sort out some kind of new bailout, and wired Greece its summer aid payment on July 8.
It wasn't enough to calm markets. Spain's bond yield hit 6.3%. Italy's rose to over 5.8%. Such borrowing costs, if sustained, would make it hard for both countries to rein in their debts.
The selloff in bond markets forced leaders to call an emergency summit for July 21.
Determined not to let the summit pass without an agreement, Ms. Merkel invited the French president, who objected to the German push for bondholder losses, to Berlin. The pair and their advisers met for dinner in the German chancellery the night before the meeting.
Few of them had time to touch the duck breast and vegetables on their plates as they searched for a compromise. Finally, Mr. Sarkozy said he would accept the private-sector involvement—if Ms. Merkel dropped her resistance to giving the euro-zone bailout fund broad new powers to buy debt of weak countries directly and move to protect such countries as Spain and Italy from bond-market contagion. Ms. Merkel agreed.
One more person needed to sign off. Ms. Merkel phoned Mr. Trichet at his Frankfurt office. He took the last Lufthansa flight to Berlin and arrived at the chancellery around 10 p.m.
Reluctantly, Mr. Trichet gave his OK. But he set conditions. Governments would have to insure Greek bonds against default so that the ECB could continue to accept them as collateral. And they would have to make plain that no other euro country but Greece would have its debts restructured.
The trio's deal was both complicated and vague. Their staffs had little time to flesh out details before the next day's summit in Brussels. As leaders trickled into the European Union's boxy headquarters, Ms. Merkel faced a challenge to placate the euro zone's south, which thought private-sector involvement was dangerous, and its north, which thought it didn't go far enough.
When the leaders assembled at the sprawling summit table, Ms. Merkel admitted that the specter of bondholder losses was causing market unrest. But, she said, some Greek debt relief was essential. Without it, the bailout's tough austerity conditions—made tougher by Greece's missing its budget goals—would be seen as unbearable.
"If Greece had met its program parameters in April," she snapped, "that would have helped."
All 17 euro nations had to agree to private-sector involvement. But presented with a calculation that the plan would reduce Greece's debt by only about €19 billion out of more than €350 billion total, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte balked. If it's only €19 billion, he said, "I'm out. I need more."
Finnish premier Jyrki Katainen also complained. His parliament wanted collateral in exchange for more Finnish lending to Greece. "No collateral, no agreement from me," he said.
Mr. Sarkozy was peeved. "All our parliaments can cause problems," he said.
Then it was Slovakia's turn. Prime Minister Iveta Radičová was fighting to keep her coalition together over aid for Greece—a richer country than her own. Adding more powers to the bailout fund "would be suicide," she said.
Greece's Mr. Papandreou pleaded for help. "If we can't solve even Greece, we won't be seen as being able to solve anything else," he said.
Hours later, the leaders had a communiqué. To appease the holdouts, it left key points broad and noncommittal, offering the possibility of collateral to Finland and describing the complex bondholder deal in a few strokes, vague language that would return to haunt the bloc.
Officials struggled to explain the new Greek bailout and the bondholder losses. Amid the confusion, Mr. Rutte dispensed muddled numbers. Bank analysts put out flawed reports.
Investor confidence faltered as it became clear that Europe's compromise achieved the worst of all worlds. Greece would be pushed into a historic default—the first time in nearly 60 years that a developed, Western country wouldn't honor its debts. But the default was so small that Greece was still left with a crushing debt burden.
And then official Europe went on vacation: Ms. Merkel to the Italian Alps, Mr. Sarkozy to the French Riviera.
Bondholders didn't. They went on a rampage.
This article was written by Charles Forelle and Marcus Walker. Stephen Fidler, David Gauthier-Villars, Sudeep Reddy and Brian Blackstone contributed to it.
Wall Street Journal also produced this documentary, called "Europe at the Brink" in which WSJ editors and reporters examine the origins of Europe's debt crisis and why it spread with such ferocity to engulf much of the continent and threaten the entire world.
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Everton 'not selling in January' says David Moyes
Last updated on 28 December 201228 December 2012 .From the section Football
Everton do not intend to sell any of their stars during the January transfer window, says boss David Moyes.
Hinting that money was tight, he told BBC Radio 5 live that meant he did not expect any major signings either.
However, he said he could bring in a couple of players on loan or possibly sign a free agent.
Moyes was also dismissive of fresh speculation concerning left-back Leighton Baines, who has been linked with Chelsea.
Moyes brought in striker Nikica Jelavic and midfielders Darron Gibson and Steven Pienaar during last January's transfer window, but doubts whether this winter's business will be anywhere near as brisk.
The Scot explained: "Last year, we sold (Diniyar) Bilyaletdinov for £5.5m back to Russia and that gave us the opportunity to go and buy.
"We brought in Steven Pienaar on loan from Spurs, we bought Jelavic from Rangers for £5m and Darron Gibson from Man Utd for £500,000. We spent the money we got in. That is the way we have tended to work."
There has been much speculation surrounding the future of attacking midfielder Marouane Fellaini, who has scored eight goals this season.
But Moyes said: "My intention is not to sell anyone this January."
Asked about the chances of signing Spain striker David Villa from Barcelona, Moyes added: "If he was loanable and he wanted to join Everton, we'd be more than happy to have him."
Premier League: Everton v Aston Villa - first of five games
EFL: Nottm Forest v Derby & Bristol City v Cardiff in early games
Watch: Scottish Cup - Auchinleck Talbot 0-1 Hearts - Halliday gives top-flight side lead

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Len Barry (born Leonard Borisoff, June 12, 1942, West Philadelphia) was an American vocalist and musician.
In 1958 he first appeared on record as the lead vocalist with The Boss-Tones, singing "Mope-Itty Mope". Barry also was a member of the singing group, The Dovells from 1957 to 1963, before going solo.
As a predominately blue-eyed soul singer, he recorded two hits in 1965 and 1966 for Decca Records: "1-2-3", and "Like a Baby", both of which made the Top Ten of the UK Singles Chart. Those songs also peaked at 2 and 27 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart respectively. Both songs were part composed by Barry and Dave White, one of the original Juniors from Danny & the Juniors.
When the hits dried up, Barry continued performing his entertaining stage act, and later moved into songwriting and production work with WMOT Productions.
The song "1-2-3" was featured on the soundtrack for the film, Mr. Holland's Opus. "1-2-3" was one of the songs that appeared in John Lennon's jukebox. Motown Records sued the songwriters, Barry and Dave White, claiming that "1-2-3" was a reworked copy of Holland-Dozier-Holland song "Ask Any Girl". The songwriters did not admit to taking the composition but the lawsuit led to Holland-Dozier-Holland getting equal credit for writing "1-2-3" as noted on the Billboard Top 10 official CD. In December 2005, Welsh singer-songwriter Cerys Matthews recorded a new version of "1-2-3" in Nashville, Tennessee.


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10 Things About NKOTB That Are Definitely The Right Stuff
By Meg | Dec 18, 2017
Since the late '80s, New Kids On The Block have been keeping us entertained with their slick dance moves and their even slicker hairstyles. When they disbanded in 1994, it was a dark time for us all. Thankfully, they've reunited multiple times since then so we can get our fix of "Step by Step" year after year.
But even though it feels like we know all about NKOTB, there are some things that will surprise even the biggest fan.
1. What's in a name?
Have you ever seen the movie The Lost Boys? Well then you've heard the original name of New Kids On The Block. Maurice Starr, their manager, originally named the band "Nynuk" (pronounced na-nook) after the film's dog. The name was later changed, and it's probably for the best.
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The first member of NKOTB was 15-year-old Donnie Wahlberg, who brought his 12-year-old brother, Mark, and best friend Danny Wood. They convinced two other classmates to hop on as well, both Jordan and Jonathan Knight. After Mark left (before anything really began), Joey McIntyre was brought in to fill his role. The group rehearsed on weekends and after school, and it eventually scored them a recording contract with Columbia Records.
3. April 24th
Other than being a day before the perfect date, April 24th is known as "New Kids On The Block Day" in Massachusetts. In 1989, the governor made the day official, making NKOTB one of the only boy bands to have their own official day.
4. Secret Love
Jonathan Knight and Tiffany Darwish (known as Tiffany), were forced to keep their relationship a secret.
"It wasn't acceptable then because if you were a teen heartthrob, they wanted to see you be very available so I think we really had a harder time back then. I'm sure there is still some backlash when the younger teens start to date, but (for us) it was on the down-low," Darwish said of her time with Knight.
5. Low-Quality
Their second album, Hangin' Tough, is arguably what launched NKOTB to fame. But according to Jordan Knight, the production on that album was pretty low-quality. It was recorded in Starr's home studio, which was under construction, and had plastic over the windows to drown out any sound.
"If you solo the tracks on Hangin' Tough, you'll hear babies crying, you'll hear sirens, you'll hear a lotta stuff in the background," said Knight.
6. Big Money
Even with Madonna, Prince, and Michael Jackson dominating the music scene, NKOTB managed to be 1991's highest paid entertainers of the year! Thanks to a 100-date tour in the United States, Forbes reported that the boy band was raking in over $1 million a WEEK! In 1991, they're rumored to have earned over $400 million.
7. Interesting Promotions
When the band was first getting started, Jordan Knight says they were mainly promoted to black radio stations.
"Starr had so many connections in the black market. Even when we went to CBS, we were in the black division," said Jordan Knight. "No one ever though, 'Um, these kids are white. Maybe white kids would like 'em too.'"
8. Jenny From The Block
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Before she was an international superstar, Jennifer Lopez was just trying to make ends meet. She did this, naturally, as a backup dancer for the biggest boy band of the 80s and 90s. She performed with them at the American Music Awards.
9. Knight's Depature
When Jonathan Knight left the band in 1994, everyone left with him. Many people thought he left due to his panic attacks and anxiety, but the reality was that he left because of his sexuality.
"I was so run down. I had just been in a couple relationships with guys, and nobody knew. I knew I didn't want to be confined anymore. I think I was dealing with my inner demons," he said.
Knight was publicly outed by a former boyfriend in 2009, and then again in 2011 by his former girlfriend, Tiffany.
10. Batman Imposter
Even though everyone thought Jordan Knight was a huge Batman fan because of his shirt in the "I'll Be Loving You (Forever)" music video, it turns out he didn't care for it at all.
So why did he wear the shirt?
"The stylist brought it, and I just gravitated toward that shirt. I like the colors, it was cool and young, and so I wore it," he said. "Honestly, when the [1989] Batman movie came out, I actually fell asleep in the theater because I didn't like it."
What's your favorite NKOTB song?
McDonald's Rekindles 90s Spirit by Bringing "Throwback Thursday" Prices in App
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If you love McDonald's, you're not alone; according to Wikipedia, McDonald's operates almost 40,000 stores in more than 120 countries. When you've got a hankering for a Big Mac, you'll likely be able to walk down the street to get your meal instead of driving to the next town over.With how popular the fast-food chain has become, it's no wonder that their prices have steadily risen since the 90s. But recent concerns over McDonald's ever-growing prices has meant that some consumers have gone elsewhere for their fast-food fix. The answer? Throwback Thursdays.And we don't just mean that
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When a Hong Kong celebrity is found brutally murdered, his body floating in the middle of the ocean, hardheaded detective Lam (Simon Yam) is called in to take charge of the investigation. As Lam zeroes in on a killer from the past, the murder appears to be a straightforward case of revenge. But the more that Lam pursues his suspect Wang (Nick Cheung), the deeper he falls into a web of lies. To find the truth, Lam must dig into a 20 year-old case for answers, the one link tying the suspect to the celebrity. But in doing so, Lam will uncover a dark secret so shocking, it will turn the investigation upside down. Who is the victim and who is the killer? Just as Lam believes he has everything figured out, he will discover that there's a fine line between love and hate.


We all know that eating a healthy breakfast is essential to good health. I know lots of times we can get stuck in a rut, eating the same breakfast over and over again, and getting bored, even though we may be making healthy choices.
One of my favorites for a breakfast choice is avocado on toast. Avocado is a superfood for a variety of reasons. This green superfood is known to lower your cholesterol due to the mono saturated fats found in avocado. It provides you with 30 percent of this healthy fat every day. It will also keep your bad cholesterol at bay, which in turn helps reduce strokes and heart disease, which by the way is rising in women.
Avocado also works to boost your brain. Loaded with vitamin E, and omega 3 fatty acids, these are critical to keep your brain working optimally.
This green superfood also helps with weight loss. They are rich in fiber, and monounsaturated fatty acids. It helps you to experience hunger less often, and helps your body digestive system work more properly. With less hunger, you will stave off more calories.
Avocados help your blood pressure stay in tact, and helps maintain overall good health. Avocados are loaded with potassium, which in turn plays a huge role in keeping your blood pressure down. It provides you with approximately 14 percent of what your body needs daily.
Toss up your breakfast options weekly, and try an avocado on toast. Sprinkled with a little pepper, it's a great breakfast option, or add an avocado to your egg whites. There are many ways to incorporate that superfood into some of your meals. Your health will thank you.
I wanted to do a few posts this week on superfoods, and power greens because this is the time of season when we need to stay well through the cold months, and stay at the top of our game physically, and mentally. The weather months can drain you in so many ways, especially when it comes to your health, so I wanted to do some posts on what superfoods were, and why we should incorporate them into our daily diet. One of the superfoods that is one of my ultimate favorite is Spirulina. This super power green has so many advantages when it comes to staying healthy.
Spirulina is loaded with so many nutrients, and grows in both salt and fresh water. This green can be taken in either powder form or tablet form. The powder form seems to be more potent , in the aspect, of being able to mix it with a lot of different fruits and vegetables. You can even mix it with wheatgrass, and add to your daily green juice for more added benefits. The standard daily dose of spirulina is 1-3 grams daily. In this does, it contains 4 grams of protein , along with Vitamin b1 , Vitamin B2, B3, copper, omega 3, and omega 6, and iron. The quality of spirulina is on the excellent side, but you need to find a good brand , that either comes in powder form or tablet form.
Spirulina offers so many great health benefits. The anti-inflammatory properties are wonderful. This super green can fight off free radicals , and oxidative damage. It can lower your triglycerides, and lower your LDL, while raising your HDL. This green works at such a high level.
It appears to have anti-cancer properties as well. In many studies, it has shown to stop lesions of the mouth from forming and growing bigger. This is huge for anyone who runs the risk of any type of cancer.
Studies have shown that it can reduce Blood pressure. The minimum grams daily, can be mixed in a quick juice for those added benefits. High blood pressure is on the rise, and if any of you run the risk, or already have it, please look into taking the daily amount of spirulina. Always consult with your doctor first.
Spirulina can also help your muscle strength improve. This green is a super green for a reason. Adding this daily will only help you health, and keep your healthy optimally.
yogurt and granola is a perfect morning starter.
I hope all of you are getting up in the morning, and eating a healthy breakfast. You know you need that fuel for the day, and did you know that eating a good healthy breakfast prevents you from over eating through out the day? Research has shown that people who have shed weight over a years time, ate breakfast daily, without skipping out on the most important meal. An even better research statistic, they kept the weight off. People that have breakfast in the morning , didn't overcompensate later throughout the day. If you decide that you aren't going to eat breakfast, believe me when I say this, you WILL eat more through out the day, by snacking .
Did you know that eating a good healthy breakfast is good for your overall health? Studies have shown that eating breakfast every day decreased the risk of type 2 diabetes in women, because of the simple fact of limiting snacking later in the day.
Eating breakfast can really keep your energy going through out the day. If you are eating a breakfast high in fiber , and lower in the carb area, you will not get as tired as you would carbing up first thing in the morning. Try adding fruit to your oatmeal, or having some light greek yogurt with some fresh fruit. You will realize that you will feel so much energetic, once you have eaten a good breakfast.
Eating breakfast will allow you to consume more minerals and nutrients. You are getting more calcium and fiber.
You WILL burn more calories through the day. Eating smaller meals throughout the day, your metabolism is constantly burning, and in the long run, you will weight less , than compared to those that do skip out on breakfast. They best thing you can do for your health is eat your breakfast each morning, and skip the so -called breakfast foods, that aren't real breakfast items , such as sugar filled cereals, do-nuts, ect. Those aren't real foods. Eat wholesome breakfast items that are going to give your body all that it deserves.
We all know that keeping our bodies healthy, keeps our immune system happy. Having a good balnaced PH in our blood, keeps us away from disease, and illness, and you can keep that immune system strong by following a strong Alkaline Diet. Alkaline rich foods give your body the important minerals that it needs to keep you functioning at your highest level. Balance is the most important key when trying to adjust to this type of lifestyle. The Alkaline Diet is not a fad, its a way of life, and Im the first to admit, that since I switched over 6 monthes ago, I have never felt better.
This is just the name of a few. There is a whole array of alkaline forming foods out there, and it truly is important to eat atleast 60-80% alkaline, and 20-40% acid, ( if you truly need acid forming foods). I know we all are in situations where we are at a gathering , or function, and those are the foods served.
Acid Forming foods are the foods including, grains, beans, meats, dairy, fast-food, pesticide ridden foods, processed foods that have horrible ingredients added to them ( which these foods include all the middle aisles in the grocery store. Acid forming foods are constantly compromising our immune systems, which in turn makes us more suseptible to illness and disease. Its best to keep these foods to a minimum because believe me they are not doing our bodies any justice at all.
You always want to try to keep your body at a slightly alkaline PH of 7.3.This is very important, and can be done with adding more fresh fruits and vegetables to your daily diet .
Start your morning off with some hot lemon water with added organic lemon juice.( this is not only liver cleansing, but also highly alkalizing.
Cut down on the processed foods. ( They are NOT good for you).This is deli meats, packaged chicken, bacon, processed snacks, ect.
Try finding pure fresh fruit and vegeatble dishes, and smoothies, and slowly adjust to them daily. Start out with just having one juice a day, and then increase it daily.
I sarted using The Super Elixir about 3 monthes ago, and I'm not kidding when I say this, It's the Best super powder on the market.
Alkalize your body starting Today! There is no need to wait!
That time of year is coming with bonfires, sweaters , hot chocolate, and wearing your favorite boots, but it doesn't have to stop there. I tried the most amazing smoothie this past weekend, and its wonderful, with added pumpkin, and the best fall spices around. This is perfect for that chilly morning and super healthy.
THIS IS A FAVORITE OF MINE THAT I PICKED UP OUT OF pilbooks recipe book.
Combine almond milk, banana, pumpkin, ice, honey, flaxseed, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg in your blender, and blend until its smooth. Serve. Enjoy this wonderful season drink.


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Switzerland brings back circuit racing with Formula E
The FIA Formula E Championship will once again make history in the upcoming season - bringing circuit racing back to Switzerland for the first time in over 60 years, with the inaugural Zurich E-Prix set to take place on June 10.
The updated calendar was published following the FIA World Motor Sport Council meeting in Paris, with Zurich adding to the list of new destinations on the 2017/18 schedule - joining Santiago, Sao Paulo and Rome who are also hosting Formula E for the very first time.
Racing had previously been forbidden in Switzerland for decades, with the last event taking place at Bremgarten circuit in 1954. However, a law change in 2015 lifted restrictions on fully-electric racing and paved the way for Formula E to bring electrifying wheel-to-wheel action to the streets of Zurich.
After the success of the previous three seasons, Formula E will also return to Berlin as the German round is confirmed at Tempelhof Airport on May 19. The dates for the New York City E-Prix have also moved one week later - now taking place over the course of two days on July 14 & 15.
Round City Country Date
1 Hong Kong China December 2, 2017
3 Marrakesh Morocco January 13, 2018
4 Santiago Chile February 3, 2018
5 Mexico City Mexico March 3, 2018
6 Sao Paulo Brazil March 17, 2018
7 Rome Italy April 14, 2018
8 Paris France April 28, 2018
9 Berlin Germany May 19, 2018
10 Zurich Switzerland June 10, 2018
11 New York City USA July 14, 2018
13 Montreal Canada J July 28, 2018
14 Montreal Canada July 29, 2018
All events remain subject to FIA track homologation
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WO1 Kenneth D. Brown was a VHPA member who died after his tour in Vietnam on 07/06/2020 at the age of 70.6 from Esophageal Cancer
De Queen, AR
Flight Class 69-13
Served in Vietnam with A/1/9 CAV 1 CAV in 69-70
Call sign in Vietnam APACHE 33
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More detail on this person: Kenneth David Brown, age 70, passed away Monday, July 6, 2020, after a hard fought, four-year battle with esophageal cancer. He was born Dec. 14, 1949, in Hot Springs, Ark., to the late Calvin Clem Brown and Maxine Inez Norman Brown. He is preceded in death by his only sibling, Norma "Su" Brown Warner. Ken is survived by his wife of 25 years, Terri Lambeth Brown, and three children, Jeremy (and Nikki) Gingery, of De Queen, Jessica (and David Jensen), of Georgetown, Texas, and Kelli (and Darrell) Williams, of Texarkana, Texas. He also leaves behind six grandchildren, who love him dearly and brought him much joy. Kylee and Kaden McGaha, Presli and Bristol Jensen and Grady and Ava Gingery. Other family to cherish his memory are brothers-in-law Dave Braughton, of Hot Springs, Gary (and Bonnie) Lambeth, Barry (and Charlene) Lambeth, of De Queen; a special cousin, Larry Fikes, of Norman, Okla.; numerous nieces and nephews, as well as a host of friends, colleagues and comrades in arms. He graduated high school in Denver, Colo., began private flight training and started college in the fall. He made the decision to leave school after the first semester and volunteered for Vietnam. There he earned several medals, including the Bronze Star with oak leaf clusters, two Distinguished Flying Crosses, as well as other medals. He served one term "in country," 1968-1969, as a Huey helicopter pilot, during which his ship was shot by enemy fire on two occasions and his flying skills were instrumental in the capture of an enemy machine gun. After his tour in Vietnam, Ken was a flight instructor at Fort Rucker. Upon his Honorable Discharge from the Army, he made a civilian career of flying helicopters, ending with a 15-year stint at Weyerhaeuser Aviation based in De Queen, Ark. The discipline, loyalty and patriotism he learned in the Army never left him. He is a true Patriot, as friends and family will attest. Due to COVID-19, there will be a come-and-go public visitation from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, July 11, in the Wilkerson Funeral Home chapel. Outdoor services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, July 13, at the Beacon Hill Seventh-Day Adventist Cemetery. The family would like to thank the honorary pallbearers, Jack Eller, George Anzelmo, Larry Fikes and Barry Lambeth, all Vietnam veterans, the Army, and the Arkansas Chapter of the Patriot Guard Riders for escorting our American Hero. Flowers may be sent to Wilkerson Funeral Home or you may choose to honor Ken by donating to the Esophageal Cancer Action Network or the Wounded Warrior Project. You may register online at http://www.wilkersonfuneralhomes.com.
Burial information: Beacon Hill Seventh-Day Adventist Cemetery, DeQueen, AR


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"Native American Vietnam-era Veterans' Access to VA Healthcare: Vulnera" by Carol Ward, Michael R. Cope et al.
As a growing segment of the military, Native Americans are expected to increase enrollment in Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare. Currently, 20% of Native American veterans are aged 65–74, which means they served during the Vietnam era. This study explores the experiences of rural American Indian veterans from two Montana reservations with accessing VA health services. Utilizing detailed data obtained in focus group and individual interviews, we examine the experiences, attitudes, barriers and needs of rural Vietnam-era veterans. Analyses indicate that while Native American Vietnam-era veterans experienced a poor reception returning to the US after military service, they had more positive receptions in their home reservation communities. However, reintegration was often impeded by poor local opportunity structures and limited resources. As they have aged and turned to the VA for healthcare, these veterans have encountered barriers such as lack of information regarding eligibility and services, qualifying for care, excessive distances to health services, the cost of travel, and poor quality of assistance from VA personnel. Despite variations in their resources, tribal community efforts to honor veterans have begun to facilitate better access to healthcare. Focusing on the roles and importance of place–based resources, this study clarifies challenges and obstacles that Native American Vietnam-era veterans experience with accessing VA health services in rural, reservation communities. Additionally, findings show how tribal efforts are facilitating access as they begin to implement the 2010 agreement between the VA and Indian Health Services to better serve Native veterans.
Ward, Carol; Cope, Michael R.; and Elmont, Lindsey, "Native American Vietnam-era Veterans' Access to VA Healthcare: Vulnerability and Resilience in Two Montana Reservation Communities" (2017). All Faculty Publications. 2814.


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Brittany has been a lifelong activist whose work centers on supporting girls of color's sexual and reproductive health. She shares how she reclaimed innovation, after many years of building activism as a tool for resistance and resilience. She used the CoreAlign fellowship to build her own innovation mindset, redefining technology with community stories of survival.
Social change work found me. In my young adult life there was so much I couldn't change or have control over. My answer was to change the world. My mom died before my second birthday and my dad died right as I was turning four. I was bounced from household to household, and everyone had a different idea of what they thought was most important for me, a child that had undergone serious grief and trauma. I was rebellious because there was so much I didn't understand. In third grade, I got kicked out of my girl scout group for questioning how race and class played into cookie sales. In high school, I was part of an anti-sexual violence group at my Catholic school. Everytime we got shut down, we rebranded to make sure it stayed present. While I didn't have the words to say 'I am an activist,' I was clear that I had some mission in the world to shift the status quo. It was something I was called to do.
The summer before my senior year of high school, my best friend Nigel was stabbed on his way home, and it took the ambulance about an hour to arrive. I researched and found out that the EMT's response is dependent on your neighborhood. I begged my mom to give me money so I could take EMT classes. I was the only black person and the youngest person in my EMT class. I decided that I wanted to be a doctor who responded to emergencies in places where trauma existed, and entered a pre-medical program.
During a pre-medical school program on diabetes in which a medical team ignored the impact of the prison system on an individual's health and wellness (instead focusing on his choice to eat French fries), I decided to become a public health practitioner. I started working on sexual and reproductive health specifically to address disparities among people of color. I fell in love with reproductive justice, but struggled to find where reproductive justice is actualized in the sexual health world. I found myself in a very lonely place trying to support girls of color who were experiencing extreme health disparities around sexual reproductive health, without leaning on deficit based work.
I was looking for a place to support me in shifting mindsets around young people and sexuality and applied to CoreAlign's Generative Fellowship to build a curriculum. I wanted help producing a tangible deliverable and didn't even see the innovation part of the application. But the fellowship became less about my curriculum as I fell in love with learning how to solve problems in different ways. My mind was blown by innovation. I was trying to learn what it means to be generative. I have always been innovative, but I wanted to know what these design principles meant in my life. What if I don't hold my ideas so close to my chest? What if ideas don't grow that way?
It felt like I was at CoreAlign to figure out what innovation meant, and the program allowed me to see innovation in so many ways. People have a mindset of production or bust, and I found myself asking "Who teaches you this?" I released the idea that technology or innovation has to do with a screen. Innovation is an embodied practice, it's not a theoretical thing. The way that your grandmother makes chicken is technology, right?
I always tell people the story of jerk chicken and how it came to be. Enslaved people in Jamaica would get a chicken, cover it in hot spices to get rid of bacteria, wrap it in banana leaves, and bury it when they were on the run from slaveholders. Then, other enslaved people would find it. It would have been in the ground cooking for hours and when slaveholders came after them, they would be able to get this chicken and eat while they were on the run. How fucking innovative is that? Survival.
CoreAlign allowed me access to those stories and to the many ways in my own life that I was innovative in order to survive, in order to thrive, and in order to create new possibilities. I had the idea that I never finished my fellowship because I didn't finish the curriculum. But at the end, I was like "Yo, you actually did finish the fucking fellowship. Brittany, you got the thing. You got the thinking."
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The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) is a Mainline Protestant denominational group in North America. It is often referred to as The Christian Church, The Disciples of Christ, or even more simply as The Disciples. It has made significant contributions to worldwide Christianity through the evangelistic work of its missionary societies and through its participation in the ecumenical dialogue of the 1900s. The Christian Church was a charter participant in the development of both the World Council of Churches and the Federal Council of Churches (now the National Council of Churches), and it continues to be engaged in ecumenical conversations.
The Disciples' local churches are governed by the congregation. Currently, there are 691,160 members in 3,754 congregations in North America.
The early history of The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) is shared by two other groups: the Churches of Christ and the independent Christian Churches/Churches of Christ. All three of these groups emerged from the same roots.The Stone-Campbell movement began as two separate threads, each without knowledge of the other, during the Second Great Awakening in the early 1800s. The first, led by Barton W. Stone, began at Cane Ridge, Bourbon County, Kentucky. The group called themselves simply Christians. The second began in western Pennsylvania and Virginia (now West Virginia), led by Thomas Campbell and his son, Alexander Campbell. Because the founders wanted to abandon all denominational labels, they used the biblical names for the disciples of Jesus that they found in the Bible.
The defining event of the Stone wing of the movement was the publication of the Last Will and Testament of The Springfield Presbytery at Cane Ridge, Kentucky in 1804. The Last Will is a brief document in which Stone and five others announced their withdrawal from Presbyterianism and their desire to be solely part of the body of Christ. The writers called for the unity of all who follow Jesus, suggested the value of congregational self-governance, and lifted the Bible as the source for understanding the will of God. They denounced the divisive purpose of the Augsburg Confession.
Soon, they adopted the name "Christian" to identify their denominational group. The remnants of the Springfield Presbytery thusly became the Christian Church. It is estimated that the Christian Church had about 12,000 adherents by 1830.
Independently of Stone, the Campbell wing of the movement was launched when Thomas Campbell published the Declaration and Address of the Christian Association of Washington in 1809. The Presbyterian Synod had postponed his ministerial credentials. In Declaration and Address he set forth some of his convictions about the church of Jesus Christ, as he organized the Christian Association of Washington, not as a church but as an association of persons seeking to grow in faith. However, on May 4, 1811, the Christian Association constituted itself as a congregationally governed church. It constructed a church building at Brush Run which later became known as Brush Run Church.
When their study of the New Testament led the reformers to begin to practice baptism by immersion, the nearby Redstone Baptist Association invited Brush Run Church to join with them for fellowshipping purposes. The reformers agreed, provided that they would be "allowed to preach and to teach whatever they learned from the Scriptures."
Thus began a journey for the reformers among the Baptists within the Redstone Baptist Association (1815-1824). While the reformers and the Baptists shared the same beliefs in baptism by immersion and Congregational polity, it was soon apparent that the reformers were not traditional Baptists. Within the Redstone Association, the differences became intolerable to some of the Baptist leaders, when Alexander Campbell began publishing a journal, The Christian Baptist, promoting reform. Campbell anticipated the contention and moved his membership to a congregation of the Mahoning Baptist Association in 1824.
The Mahoning Association appointed reformer Walter Scott as an Evangelist in 1827. Through Scott's efforts, the Mahoning Association grew quickly. In 1828, Thomas Campbell visited a number of the congregations formed by Scott and heard him preach. The elder Campbell realized that Scott was bringing an important and new dimension to the movement with his approach to evangelism.
Several Baptist associations began disassociating congregations that refused subscription to the Philadelphia Confession. The Mahoning Association came under attack. The Mahoning Baptist Association disbanded in 1830. Alexander halted publication of the Christian Baptist. In January 1831, he initiated publication of the Millennial Harbinger.
Both movements sought to end the divisiveness that had arisen with denominational disagreements. They wanted to found the unity of the church in the simple acknowledgment that Jesus is the Christ and the Messiah, and an acceptance of Him as Lord. Both were opposed to the application of creeds as a test of faith. They believed that the simple confession that Jesus Christ is Lord was sufficient to unite all Christians. They considered man-made creeds to be divisive.
Both groups looked to the New Testament to discover behavior that united the early church. The term "the Restoration Movement" has been used to describe their interest in restoring the New Testament church. In their reading of the scriptures, both groups discovered that the early church gathered on the first day of the week (Sunday) "for the breaking of bread." They began to celebrate the Lord's Supper each week, rather than on a less regular basis as was common on the frontier because of lack of ministers. They left behind the practice of morning prayer and some other original traditions of Anglicanism and the Presbyterian Church.
In their study of the Bible, both groups determined that baptism as shown in the New Testament was for adult converts and accomplished by immersion in water. They adopted the practice in their churches and abandoned the baptism of infants.
The two groups united at High Street Meeting House, Lexington, Kentucky with a handshake between Barton W. Stone and "Raccoon" John Smith on Saturday, December 31, 1831. Smith had been chosen by those present to speak on behalf of the followers of the Campbells. While existing accounts are clear that the handshake took place on Saturday, some historians have changed the date of the merger to Sunday, January 1, 1832. This 1832 date has become generally accepted. The actual difference is only about 20 hours.
Two representatives of those assembled were appointed to carry the news of the union to all of the churches: John Rogers, for the Christians and "Raccoon" John Smith for the reformers. Despite some challenges, the merger was successful.
With the merger, there was the challenge of naming the new movement. Finding a Biblical, non-sectarian name was important. Stone wished to continue to use the name "Christians." Alexander Campbell insisted on "Disciples of Christ." Walter Scott and Thomas Campbell agreed with Stone, but the younger Campbell had strong reasons and would not yield. As a result, both names were accepted. The confusion over names has continued ever since. Prior to the separation in 1906, congregations would typically be named "Disciples of Christ," "Christian Church," and "Church of Christ."
The first National Convention was held at Cincinnati, Ohio in 1849. Alexander Campbell was concerned that holding conventions would lead the movement into divisive denominationalism and therefore did not attend the gathering. Among its actions, the convention elected Alexander Campbell as its President and created the American Christian Missionary Society (ACMS).
The formation of a missionary society set the stage for future "co-operative" efforts. By the end of the century, the Foreign Christian Missionary Society and the Christian Women's Board of Missions were also involved in missionary activities. Forming the ACMS did not reflect a consensus of the movement in its entirety. Sponsorship of missionary activities became a divisive problem. In the following decades, for some congregations and their leaders, co-operative work through missionary societies and the adoption of instrumental music in church worship was straying too far from their conception of the early church. After the American Civil War, the division grew.
From the beginning of the movement, the free exchange of ideas among the people was fostered by the journals that were published by its leaders. Alexander Campbell published The Millennial Harbinger and TheChristian Baptist. Stone published The Christian Messenger. In a respectful way, both men routinely published the contributions of those whose positions were radically different from their own.
After Campbell's death in 1866, journals continued to keep the discussion and conversation alive. Between 1870 and 1900, two journals emerged as the most prominent. The Christian Standard was edited and published by Cincinnati's Isaac Errett, while J. H. Garrison from St. Louis edited and published The Christian Evangelist. The two men enjoyed a friendly rivalry and kept the dialog going within the movement. A third journal became part of the conversation with the publication in 1884 of The Christian Oracle, later to be known as The Christian Century, with an interdenominational appeal. Later, in 1914, Garrison's Christian Publishing company was purchased by R. A. Long, who then established a non-profit corporation, "The Christian Board of Publication" as the Brotherhood publishing house.
In 1906, the U.S. Religious Census listed Churches of Christ for the first time as a group that was separate and distinct from the Disciples of Christ. However, the division had been growing for several years, with published reports as early as 1883. The most obvious distinction between the two groups was the Churches of Christ forbidding the use of musical instruments in worship. The controversy over musical instruments began in 1860, when some congregations introduced organs, which were traditionally associated with wealthier, denominational churches. More basic were the underlying approaches to interpretation of the Bible. The Churches of Christ allowed only those practices found in accounts of New Testament worship. They could find no recordings in the New Testament of the use of instrumental music in worship. The Disciples considered all practices that were not expressly forbidden in the New Testament.
After the division, Disciples churches used "Christian Church" as the dominant designation for its congregations. While music and the approach to missionary work were the most obvious issues, there were also some deeper problems. The process that led to the division had begun prior to the American Civil War.
Following the Churches of Christ's separation in 1906, additional controversies arose. Should missionary efforts be cooperative or should they be congregations independently sponsor them? Should new methods of Biblical analysis that were developed in the late 19th century be embraced in the study and interpretation of the Bible? The "cooperative" churches were more likely to adopt the new biblical study methods.
During the first half of the 1900s, these opposing factions among the Christian Churches coexisted but with growing discomfort and tension. In 1920, the three Missionary Societies of the cooperative churches merged into the United Christian Missionary Society. Human service ministries expnded through the National Benevolent Association and provided assistance to the orphaned, the elderly and the disabled. By the mid-century, the cooperative Christian Churches and the independent Christian Churches were following different paths.
Following World War II, it became obvious that the organizations that had been developed in previous decades no longer efficiently met the needs of the postwar era. After a number of discussions throughout the 1950s, the 1960 International Convention of Christian Churches accepted a process to plan the "restructure" of the entire organization. On October 30 & November 1, 1962, the Commission on Restructure, chaired by Granville T. Walker, held its first meeting. The International Convention of Christian Churches (Disciples of Christ) adopted the Commission's proposed "Provisional Design of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)" in 1968. As time passed, the Provisional Design became "The Design."
Under the Design, all of the churches in the 1968 yearbook of Christian Churches (Disciples of Christ) were automatically recognized as part of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). In the years that ensued, many of the Independent Christian Church Congregations requested formal withdrawal from the yearbook, several of such becoming part of the Independent Christian Churches and Churches of Christ.
The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) is a church of the Lord's Table. Each week, members of the Christian Church gather around the Table in local congregations to celebrate the Lord's Supper, sing hymns, read the word of God from the Bible, hear the word of God proclaimed, and extend Christ's invitation to become His Disciples. Each congregation determines their own nature of worship, study, Christian service, and witness to the world. At the Lord's table, individuals are invited to acknowledge their faults and transgressions, to remember the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, to remember their baptism, and to give thanks for God's redeeming love. The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) believes that it is in the local congregations where people come, discover, and know God as they gather in Christ's name. Because Disciples believe that the invitation to the table comes from Jesus Christ, communion is open to all who confess that Jesus Christ is the Lord, regardless of their denominational affiliation. For most Disciples, communion is understood as the symbolic presence of Christ within the gathered community. Disciples practice believer's baptism in the form of immersion, beliving it to be the form that was used in the New Testament. The experiences of yielding to Christ in being buried with him in the waters of baptism and rising to a new life have profound meaning for the church.
For modern Disciples, the one essential is the acceptance of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, and obedience to him in baptism. There is no requirement to give assent to any additional statement of belief or creed, nor is there any "official" interpretation of the Bible. Hierarchical doctrine was initially rejected by Disciples as human-made and divisive, and subsequently, freedom of belief and scriptural interpretation allows many Disciples to question or even deny beliefs common in doctrinal churches such as the Incarnation, the Trinity, and the Atonement. Beyond the essential commitment to follow Jesus, there is a tremendous freedom of belief and interpretation. As the basic teachings of Jesus are studied and applied to life, there is the freedom to interpret Jesus' teaching in various ways. As would be expected from such an approach, there is a wide diversity among Disciples in what individuals and congregations believe. It is not rare to find individuals who seemingly hold diametrically opposed beliefs within the same congregation affirming one another's journeys of faith as sisters and brothers in Christ.
Members and seekers are encouraged to take being disciples seriously, meaning that they are student followers of Jesus. Often the best teaching comes in the form, "I will tell you what I think, but read the Bible for yourself, and then study and pray about it. Decide in what ways God is calling you to be a follower of Jesus."
Modern Disciples reject the use of creeds as "tests of faith," i.e., as required beliefs, necessary to be accepted as a follower of Jesus. Although Disciples respect the great creeds of the church as informative affirmations of faith, they are never seen as binding. Since the adoption of The Design of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), in 1968, Disciples have celebrated a sense of unity in reading the preamble to the Design publicly. It is as a meaningful affirmation of faith, not binding upon any member. It was originally intended to remind readers that this Church seeks God through Jesus Christ, even when it adopts a design for its business affairs. Some of the denomination's best scholars have noted the inadequacy of the "Preamble" as a balanced theological statement.
The Disciples celebrate their unity with all who seek God through Jesus Christ, throughout time and regardless of location. That unity is symbolized in the open invitation to communion for all who have professed faith in Christ without regard to church affiliation.
In local communities, congregations share with churches of other denominations in joint worship and in community Christian service. Ecumenical cooperation and collaboration with other Christian Communions has long been practiced by the Regions.
At the General Church level, the Council on Christian Unity oversees the ecumenical activities of the church. The Disciples continues to relate to the National Council of Churches, of which it was an original founding member. It shares in the theological endeavors and dialog of the World Council of Churches. The Disciples has been a full participant in the Consultation on Church Union since it began in the 1960s. It continually supports those ongoing conversations which have taken on the title "Churches Uniting in Christ." The goal of these endeavors is not to merge into some "Super Church", but rather to discover ways to celebrate and proclaim the unity and oneness that is Christ's gift to his church.
Congregations of the Christian Church are self-governing in the tradition of congregational polity. They choose their own leadership, own their own property, and manage their own affairs.
In congregations of the Disciples, the priesthood of all believers finds its expression in worship and Christian service. Typically, the Lay Elders, rather than ordained ministers, preside at the Lord's Table in celebration of Communion. The Lay Elders, as well as selected Pastors, provide spiritual oversight and care for members in partnership with one another.
The Regional Churches of the Christian Church provide resources for leadership development and opportunities for Christian fellowshipping beyond the local congregation. They have taken responsibility for the care and support of those individuals seeking to discern God's call to service as ordained or licensed ministers. Typically, they organize summer camping experiences for the children and youth.
Regional churches assist congregations who are seeking ministers and vice versa. Regional leadership is available on request to aid congregations that face conflict. Although they have no authority to direct the life of any congregation, the Regional Churches are analogous to the middle judicatories of other denominations.
The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) at the "General Church" level consists of a number of self-governing organizations, which focus upon specific Christian witnesses to the world that have emerged in the dialog within the movement since before the first convention in 1849. Generally, these ministries have a scope that is larger than Regional Ministries, and often have a global perspective. The church organizations report to the General Assembly, which meets biennially in odd numbered years. The General Minister and President (GMP) is the designated leader for the General Church, but does not have the administrative authority to conduct any of the general church agencies other than "The Office of General Minister and President." The GMP has influence that derives from the respect of the church, similar to how the pastor of a local church leads a local congregation.
One highly popular and respected General Agency of the church is the "Week of Compassion," named for the special offering to fund the program when it started in the 1950's. The Week of Compassion is the agency for disaster relief and Third World development. It works intimately with Church World Service and church related organizations in countries around the world where disasters strike, providing emergency aid.
Seeking racial justice, which is described as anti-racism.
Forming 2,000 new congregations across the United States and Canada.
Seeking God's transformation of 2,000 existing Congregations in ways that will renew their witness.
The relationship between the congregations, regions, and the general church are detailed in The Design of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
At the 2005 General Assembly, over 3000 delegates voted nearly unanimously to elect the reverend Dr. Sharon E. Watkins as General Minister and President of the denomination. She was the first woman to be elected as the presiding minister of a mainline Protestant denomination.
The Logo of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) is a red chalice with a white Saint Andrew's Cross. The chalice symbolizes the centrality of Communion to the life of the church. The cross of St. Andrew is a reminder of the ministry of each person and the viatlity of evangelism, and recalls the denomination's Scottish Presbyterian ancestry. The symbol was first designed in 1969.
After the General Assembly of 1968, the Administrative Committee charged a sub-committee with the task of generating a symbol for the church. Hundreds of designs were submitted, but none seemed to fit. By November, the Deputy General Minister and President, William Howland, suggested that the committee's staff consultant and chairperson decide on a specific proposal and bring it back to the committee: that meant Robert L. Friedly of the Office of Interpretation and Ronald E. Osborn.
On January 20, 1970, the two men met for lunch. With a red felt-tip pen, Osborn began to draw a Saint Andrew's cross circumscribed inside a chalice on his placemat.
Immediately, Friedly dispatched the crude drawing to Bruce Tilsley of Denver with the plea that he prepare an artistic version of the idea. Tilsley responded with a few sketches, from which was selected the now-familiar red chalice. Use of the proposed symbol became such a dominant concern that there was little debate when official adoption was considered at the 1971 General Assembly.
The chalice logo is a registered trademark of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Congregations and ministries of the Christian Church are free to use the chalice in publications, web sites and other media. Organizations not affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) are asked to obtain permission before using the logo.
Because most congregations call themselves "Christian Churches," the chalice has become an easy way to identify Disciples of Christ Churches through signage, letterhead, and other forms of publicity.


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Q: Picker View with image Im trying to implement a Picker View but instead of text I want it to have images, so the user scrolls the images to select one, for example a country picker with flags instead of text.
Is there a way to do this??

A: Using UIPickerViewDelegate and UIPickerViewDataSource you can specify the height, and a custom view for each row.

A: You can use this method:
- (UIView *)viewForRow:(NSInteger)row forComponent:(NSInteger)component

in your delegate and datasource class for a custom view in your picker. Just add the image to your UIView.

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Luckily (in this case only) my part in Hanuman was downgraded from the initial promises of 6 weeks work to only 3 days - get used to broken promises when you work as an actor.
They needed me free for 3 days - 2 of which I was already shooting B.A. Fortunately one of those days was a night shoot. So I told them I had a short day that I could work and a normal (12 hour) day to act as well.
So I signed up for a day shoot followed by a night shoot followed by a day shoot. I managed about 2 hours sleep from the time I started to the time I finished. And food that was non-energising and not quality.
Luckily after that I got in a solid 4.5 hours before we started shooting again the next day.
That leaves 7 hours for sleep. Except I have to eat before I go to sleep and upon awakening. Another 1 hour gone. Plus I have to train at the gym too, 1.5 hours a day. If I don't weight train then I get flat and watery, and small as the glycogen drains from my muscles. So for action movies where my physique is important then it is a certainty that I must go to the gym.
That leaves 4.5 hours for sleep every night. Except my girlfriend wants 1/2 an hour of my time - fair enough. 4 hours sleep a night, it's getting very tiring.
Also add in I moved apartments this week too, in my 'spare time'.
And people wonder why I get annoyed (and annoying) on set when they tried to feed me spicy, stinky pig intestine soup with as much congealed blood as you wanted for the rest of the night and no solid food in sight.
BUT I am only an actor.
Between days the Director has to plan the next days filming sequencing, reshedule for unforeseen circumstances and follow up on extras, stuntmen and equipment for next days shooting.
Ray Huber, now taken over as Director after the unforeseen departure of Eric, has been averaging 2 hours a night sleep for the last 4 weeks.
He said for the first 2 weeks he felt like crap, but now he is over that and is just high on lack of sleep all the time, but functional and feels OK.
I reckon on the day we finish it'll only take 2 beers to knock him out and send him into a 48 hour coma.


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His career took a new turn when he started working with Alison Krauss and created the multi-award winning album Raising Sand in 2007, leading to the formation of a new Band of Joy with Patty Griffin two years later, and the release of their self-titled album in 2010.
"How fantastic was that for me? I can't tell ya," Plant said of his collaboration with Krauss. Saying she had been "very patient" as he learned new techniques, he explained: "I'm singing away and she's harmonizing with me, and the next time we did it, I sing it a little bit different. And she says, 'Now, wait a minute, if we're going to sing together, you've got to sing the same thing every time,' and I said, 'Oh. I didn't realize that.' That's why the Everley Brothers sounded good: because neither of them ever deviated from the part that they got.


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Airbus Group NV (AIR) Ahead of Boeing Co (BA) In Delta Air Lines, Inc. (DAL)'s 50 Jet Order
Airbus Group NV (EPA:AIR) is likely to win against Boeing Co (NYSE:BA) in Delta Air Lines, Inc. (NYSE:DAL)'s 50 Jet order. The overall deal is valued at $13 billion and Airbus is at the front with its efficient jet portfolio.
Airbus Group is likely to consider this deal an indication of Delta Air Lines' inclination towards the company over their previous jet provider, Boeing. According to the sources, this deal would include A330neo and A350-900 planes from Airbus and Delta Air Lines, Inc. (NYSE:DAL) is likely to make an announcement as soon as next week. The airliner ordered 40 planes from Airbus in 2013 with net transaction value of $5.6 billion.
This is not the first time in recent months when Airbus Group NV (EPA:AIR) succeeded over its rather stronger rival Boeing Co (NYSE:BA). Earlier this week, the national airline of Morocco, Royal Air Maroc, said that A380 from Airbus is in place to compete against the Boeing 747 superjumbo jet. The jet is likely to undertake Hajj trips and Airbus is all set to bag a new buyer for A380 lineup.
Among other news, Airbus Group NV (EPA:AIR) announced new base design for its Beluga Transport fleet. The earlier Beluga fleet was designed with extensive modification of the A300 model but the company is likely to replace it with widebody A330 jet. The company is under extreme pressure to increase production of A350 long-range jets and A320 single-aisle planes.
Airbus Group is likely to use as many A330 body parts as possible and these 5 Beluga jets would be ready by 2025. The airplane manufacturer said,
"The distinctive looking lowered cockpit, the cargo bay structure and the rear-end and tail will be amongst the items which will be newly developed."
It arch rival Boeing Co (NYSE:BA) uses 747 Jets (modified) for the production of its 787 Dreamliner jets.
This article has been written by Prakash Pandey.
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One Comment;
GarryGR - November 20, 2014 said:
Prakash, since Delta took over NorthWest, who was an Airbus customer, Delta has been ordering Airbus planes, so that's not a big surprise; and Boeing still has a significant lead in orders, for the year. It was reported elsewhere that Delta needed the planes sooner than Boeing could deliver 787s and 777s to them and that that was the primary reason they went with Airbus. Airbus hasn't overtaken Boeing in orders, as one might think from the headline. Airbus is not likely to do that this year, although, as I like to point out, aircraft orders are not what many might think, based on other businesses. Both Airbus and Boeing are taking orders for delivery in and after 2020! And that's then the planes are paid for. It's a normal part of the aircraft business for there to be order cancellations; this year, Airbus cancellations are approaching 300! One airline, I forget which one, is even saying they might be forced into bankruptcy, unless Airbus allows them to cancel without paying the contractual penalty. They can't afford to pay the penalty, much less come up with the money to take delivery of the six A380s! So, those are examples of why aircraft orders are not as meaningful as in orders in other businesses. Another is that Airbus has a larger order backlog than Boeing but Boeing has been delivering more planes than Airbus, since 2012, and will do so again this year.


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Q: Issues sending tag and value to shopping cart I currently am working on a site within shopify. I have setup the order form i wish to use and currently everything works fine however i also need to add in a customer text field that relays the teams name to the shopping cart.
Shopify.itemsToAdd = [];
Shopify.addItemstoTheCart = function() {
  if (Shopify.itemsToAdd.length) {
    var item = Shopify.itemsToAdd.pop();
    $.ajax({
      url: '/cart/add',
      dataType: 'json',
      type: 'post',
      data: item,
      success: Shopify.addItemstoTheCart,
      error: Shopify.addItemstoTheCart
    });
  }
  else {
    window.location.href = '/cart';
  }
};
jQuery(function($) {
  $('table .quantity:first').focus();
  $('.add-to-cart-order-form').click(function() {
    $('.add-to-cart-order-form').addClass('disabled').attr('disabled','disabled');
    // Resetting.
    Shopify.itemsToAdd = [];
    $('.quantity').each(function() {
      var quantity = parseInt($(this).val(), 10);
      if (this.checked) {
        Shopify.itemsToAdd.push( { id: $(this).attr('data-id'), quantity: quantity} );
      }
    });
    if (Shopify.itemsToAdd.length) {
      Shopify.addItemstoTheCart();
    }
    else {
      alert('All quantities are set to zero.');
      $('.add-to-cart-order-form').removeAttr('disabled').removeClass('disabled');
    }
  });
});

as such i need to send the name from the following inputs name as the variable and the input from the customer as the variable data.
<input type="text" class="tname" name="properties[tname]">

it needs to accompany at the end of this line in the code above.
Shopify.itemsToAdd.push( { id: $(this).attr('data-id'), quantity: quantity} );

the data that is sent to the shopping cart is id, quantity, and properties[tname]
i have tried to input this to no success.
Shopify.itemsToAdd.push( { id: $(this).attr('data-id'), quantity: quantity, properties[tname]: "walker"} );

listing "walker" as test data for the variable. it continues to error i believe do to the [] but they have to be there for the shopify system to acknowledge the listing and populate the to the cart.
if you can provide any help i would be grateful.
EDIT
ok i can get the teamname to post in the cart but i can only get the first text field to be sent. i have aligned the text fields id tag to match the check boxes data-id tag. and my function works but only for the first pair. after that everything else is sent to the cart without the team names.
jQuery(function($) {
  $('table .quantity:first').focus();
  $('.add-to-cart-order-form').click(function() {
    $('.add-to-cart-order-form').addClass('disabled').attr('disabled','disabled');
    // Resetting.
    Shopify.itemsToAdd = [];
    $('.quantity').each(function() {
      var quantity = parseInt($(this).val(), 10);
      var did = $(this).attr('data-id')
      var idname;
      if (did == $('.tname').attr('id')) {
        var idname = $('.tname').val();
      };
      if (this.checked) {
        Shopify.itemsToAdd.push( { id: $(this).attr('data-id'), quantity: quantity, properties: { tname: idname}} );
      }
    });
    if (Shopify.itemsToAdd.length) {
      Shopify.addItemstoTheCart();
    }
    else {
      alert('All quantities are set to zero.');
      $('.add-to-cart-order-form').removeAttr('disabled').removeClass('disabled');
    }
  });
});

A: Should be:
Shopify.itemsToAdd.push( { id: $(this).attr('data-id'), quantity: quantity, properties: { tname: "walker"}} );


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