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The story of #ReinventHorton
When 88-year-old World War II veteran Kenneth Knudson, a resident and business owner of Horton, Kan., was jailed the day after Christmas in 2013 for repairs he could not afford to complete on his building. The story went viral. This is not the kind of headline news on Fox 4 News you wish for your city. However, the story caught the attention of Marcus Lemonis, host of The Profit on CNBC, who called the mayor of Horton with a desire to pay for the repairs on the man's building. The mayor ...
United Methodist Mexican-American Ministries (UMMAM)
The inaugural print edition of GPconnect, mailed to Great Plains United Methodists in early May, 2014, included a story on the work of United Methodist Mexican American Ministries (UMMAM) in southwest Kansas. Here's the rest of the story plus photos. Can't see the photo slideshow above? Check out the entire album of UMMAM photos on Flickr. UMMAM's History, Present and Future from Great Plains UMC on Vimeo. Sarah Trapp, the enabling services manager at United Methodist Mexican-American ...
Disaster response underway in Baxter Springs
Click here for updates. Disaster response is underway in Baxter Springs, the southeastern Kansas town struck by a tornado on Sunday. Great Plains Conference disaster response coordinator, Linda Stewart, and our disaster response chair, Steve Burnett, are working with the Rev. Wayne Handle of First UMC in Baxter Springs and multiple agencies to coordinate rescue, relief and recovery efforts. Bishop Scott Jones is issuing a conference-wide appeal for contributions. Give through your local church ...
When disaster strikes, who do you call?
Spring is here and we have already had turbulent weather: large hail, high winds and a few small tornados. In the Great Plains area how do we get involved in helping when a disaster has damaged properties and wounded lives? When a disaster strikes After a disaster strikes communication at all levels is extremely important. Whoever learns of the disaster first is encouraged to initiate the call and all persons called make sure others in this list are notified. Calls would typically progress as ...
Connecting Council recap: from becoming to growing
Topeka District Superintendent Kay Scarbrough said it well when she said, "We need to change our language from becoming one, new conference to growing as the new Great Plains Conference." The Connecting Council met in the spirit of growing the conference and living into the new structure and Great Plains missional priorities. What is the Connecting Council? The Connecting Council held its spring meeting at Grace UMC, in Olathe, Kan., on Friday and Saturday, Mar. 21-22. The Connecting Council is ...
"Seeing is believing" at historic joint AU/GBHEM Board Meeting
For the first time in the nearly 22 years since Africa University was founded by The United Methodist Church, the boards of the university and the agency that spearheaded the founding of the Pan-African educational institution met together on the campus in Old Mutare, Zimbabwe. "This is a historic meeting," Bishop David Yemba said of the joint meeting of the governing bodies of the United Methodist Board of Higher Education and Ministry and Africa University. "This was a week very rich in events...
The Twenty Components of an Evangelistically Effective Congregation
The Gretna United Methodist Church hosted Bishop Scott Jones on Saturday, March 8, to discuss successful evangelism in the fastest-growing area in Nebraska. Jones' workshop, titled "The Twenty Components of an Evangelistically Effective Congregation," focused on the United Methodist Church's mission to reach out and welcome new members and strategies for churches to successfully grow. Missouri River Superintendent Dr. Dan Flanagan organized the event. A dozen members of the Gretna UMC attended ...
Bishop Scott Jones speaks out against discrimination
In a letter addressed to Kansas Senate President Susan Wagle, Bishop Scott Jones, bishop of the Great Plains United Methodist Conference, suggests that House Bill 2453 be killed, as to not legitimize discrimination against gay and lesbian individuals. House Bill 2453 seeks to allow public or private employees to refuse service based on religious views about marriage. In his letter, Bishop Jones, commends Senator Wagle's statement expressing her concerns about the measure. "It is hard to imagine ...
Burdett, Rozel youth group brightens children's Christmas
Youth from Burdett and Rozel pack shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child as the group's first mission project. (photos by Jolene McCoy) On Nov. 20, 16 members of the new G3 (God's Good Gang) Youth Group from Burdett and Rozel had a party to fill shoeboxes with small gifts for Operation Christmas Child. Pastor Brad McCoy and his wife, Jolene, are the group leaders, and they had asked members from the United Methodist church in each town for donations to purchase items for the boxes. ...
College Hill UMC youth host annual Thanksgiving food giveaway
By Brian Sutton, special contributor College Hill UMC youth packed 335 bags of food for a giveaway that included feeding breakfast to 320 people at the Wichita church. (photos by Brian Sutton) On Nov. 22, 26 youth gathered at College Hill United Methodist Church for the sixth annual turkey giveaway. During the evening after some fun and games, the youth put together 335 bags of food for the giveaway in the morning. At 7 a.m. as the youth and volunteers began preparing breakfast and ...
Celebrate Recovery program shows promise
By Marvé Ralston, special contributor What is the outcome or result of one changed life? I think that is what "It's a Wonderful Life," the well-known Christmas classic, was based upon. One life and all the people one life touches. Sometimes we focus on the numbers, while many of the most dramatic changes we cannot see immediately. They begin one often-painful and time-intensive change in one person at a time. The changes continue producing fruit for generations and touching unlimited numbers ...
Kingman UMC works to 'strike out malaria'
By Rev. Patrick Broz, special contributor Members of the Kingman United Methodist Church converged on the Kingman Lanes bowling alley Oct. 26 for an event called Strike out Malaria. Kingman Lanes donated five lanes, two with bumpers, to the church to use for four hours to raise money for Imagine No Malaria. Twenty-seven bowlers laced up shoes and threw bowling balls down the lanes. Several of the bowlers were able to receive sponsorships from neighbors, co-workers, church members and friends to ...
St. Francis UMC uses thought-provoking obstacle course to raise money for Imagine No Malaria
By Rev. Warren Cico, special contributor St. Francis United Methodist Church used the information on the Imagine No Malaria DVD to educate the congregation about the need to help fight malaria in Africa. The information was presented to the congregation, the Sunday-school classes and the UMYF. Participants take on the challenges of an obstacle course at St. Francis UMC to raise money for Imagine No Malaria. (photos by Sherry Schultz) For the Oct. 20 fundraiser, we decided to have ...
December is a great month to 'Imagine No Malaria'
Imagine No Malaria (INM) is an extraordinary ministry of The United Methodist Church, putting our faith into action to end preventable deaths by malaria in Africa, especially the deaths of children. Every 60 seconds, malaria claims a life in Africa. It kills an estimated 655,000 people each year, most of them children younger than five and pregnant women. Malaria is caused by a parasite transmitted through the bite of a female anopheles mosquito. However, malaria is preventable, treatable and ...
Saving a slowly dying church
By Susan Cooper, Kansas communications associate director The scenario at Epworth United Methodist Church in southeast Wichita was a familiar one to many mainline denominations — an aging, dwindling congregation in a changing neighborhood. Churches in this situation generally have two choices. They can change, or they can die. More than two years ago, their pastor, Rev. Jimmy Taylor, knew the church had to change. He encouraged the congregation to engage the people in the neighborhood. Epworth ...
Kansas West Conference among UMCOR disaster-response grant recipients
By Linda Unger, General Board of Global Ministries The board of directors of the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) approved on Oct. 11 nearly $700,000 in new grants to sustain long-term recovery efforts in localities across the United States still dealing with fallout from tornadoes, floods, hurricanes and an explosion. During their semi-annual meeting at UMCOR headquarters in New York City, the directors approved six grants for ongoing disaster- recovery work in five United Methodist...
Prayer beads raise money for roof at Camp Norwesca
Recently the charge conference was held at McCook Memorial UMC where the vision statement "Making disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world" was approved. Two parishioners are leading examples in following the vision of Memorial UMC. Through many hours of making prayer beads, praying and attending many events, Ann Trail and Patty Keene have sold $6,655 worth of prayer beads to repair the roof on the chapel at Camp Norwesca after fire damage that happened one year ago — the ...
Semitrailer and time donated to transport goods
Throughout the year, United Methodists from Kansas and Nebraska create and donate care packages to be sent all over the world through United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR). However, once the goods are donated, transportation can often create challenges. According to Mary Ann Bede, a former member of the board of directors and current volunteer for the Midwest Mission Distribution Center (MMDC) in Chatham, Ill., shipping containers cost a lot of money. In fact, the United Methodist Church...
Chapel Hill expands for growth
By Cindy Nolte, special contributor An addition to Chapel Hill Fellowship UMC is being built to accommodate the current and anticipated growth of the congregation. (photo by Cindy Nolte) Chapel Hill Fellowship in Wichita is growing! With a major capital expansion project, the United Methodist congregation is looking forward to welcoming hundreds of new members in the upcoming years. The new building addition will be able to host nearly 900 people with a 200-seat balcony, which is ...
Grants Help Prevent Malaria in South Sudan
United Methodists fund education, training and medicine Nashville, Tenn.: Thanks to two first-time grants, vulnerable people in malaria endemic South Sudan will get the training and medicine needed to prevent deaths from malaria. Imagine No Malaria recently awarded a grant for nearly $50,000 to the South Sudan District of UMC Health Board, as well as a $325,059 grant to the UMCOR Field Office in South Sudan. These two programs in South Sudan are working together in a successful effort to fight ...
Dodge City District welcomes superintendent, raises $10K for Imagine No Malaria
New Dodge City District Superintendent Rev. Don Hasty, left, with Gabriel Marrero's assistance, delivers the message in English and Spanish at Hasty's installation service. (photo by Patti Craghead) Bishop Scott Jones, right, shakes Dodge City District Superintendent Rev. Don Hasty's hand at the installation service at Dodge City First UMC. (photo by Patti Craghead) The Dodge City District turned Sept. 22 into a daylong celebration. Rev. Don Hasty was installed as the district's ...
United Methodists golf for EmberHope
A team playing for Cedar Chapel UMC won a golf tournament that raised money for the United Methodist agency EmberHope. Team members are, from left, Mike Smith, Steve Hysom, Rev. Jim Graves and Pat McCarthy. (courtesy photo) Four United Methodist men golfing as the Cedar Chapel United Methodist Church team participated in a charity golf tournament Sept. 20 to raise money for EmberHope, the United Methodist agency formerly known as Youthville. EmberHope will receive approximately ...
Kansas West UMW meet for final time
By Diane Thompson, special contributor Four past presidents of the Kansas West Conference United Methodist Women were recognized when the group met for the final time Sept. 28 in Wichita. From left, Jo Eva McClellan, Thelma Miller, Betty Hodson and Anita Turner. (photo by Jo Lynn Lewis) Members of the Kansas West, Kansas East and Nebraska United Methodist Women met in a uniting conference Oct. 12 in Kearney, Neb. The current presidents of the three conferences' UMWs are, from left, ...
Zimbabweans share disciple-making with Kansans
By Susan Cooper, Kansas communications associate director In the spirit of the Chabadza Covenant, four United Methodists from Zimbabwe travelled to Kansas to share how they make disciples of Jesus Christ. The trip was sponsored by the Wichita East and Wichita West districts. Portia Kanoyangwa explains Zimbabwean section meetings at Wichita Woodland UMC. (photo by Susan Cooper) Daniel Mutidzawanda talks about the things Jesus commands Christians to do during the class meeting at ...
Valley View UMC displays spiritual growth, outreach, fellowship
By Jeanette Grenz, special contributor Valley View UMC's Mission Fair provided information on what the congregation is doing to make a difference in the world. (photos by Ken Grenz) More than 40 church groups participated in a ministry fair at Valley View United Methodist Church in Overland Park on Oct. 27. Representatives from each group staffed the displays and answered questions in order to encourage others to join. There were three categories of displays: Spiritual Growth, ...
United Methodists help flood victims in Kansas
By Sandy Hendrickson, special contributor Torrential rains in late July and early August caused flash flooding in central Kansas and devastated many homes in Lindsborg, Ellinwood and Hutchinson. In Lindsborg and Ellinwood, the flood waters came and flowed out of the towns within a few hours, leaving many basements filled with water and more than 200 homes damaged. Hutchinson had 333 homes affected, many with floodwater not receding for several days. United Methodist volunteers from the ...
Asbury UMC hosts author, blogger
By Eva Hedtke, special contributor Rachel Held Evans, author and blogger, speaks at Asbury UMC in Prairie Village. (photo by Eva Hedtke) Rachel Held Evans, center, poses with Rev. Gayla Rapp, Asbury UMC senior pastor, and Rev. Jeff Prothro, Asbury UMC associate pastor. (photo by Eva Hedtke) On Oct. 15, Asbury United Methodist Church in Prairie Village welcomed Rachel Held Evans, a New York Times best-selling author and renowned blogger. Evans discussed her book, "A Year of Biblical...
Enroll in health-insurance plan by Nov. 15 to be covered in 2014
Cigna health insurance forms and information for open enrollment period By Susan Cooper, Kansas communications associate director The Jan. 1 merger of the Kansas West, Kansas East and Nebraska conferences into the new Great Plains Conference will have an impact on health-insurance coverage. For the Kansas West and Nebraska conferences, it will bring a change in providers, from HealthFlex to Cigna. The HealthFlex health-insurance plans will end on Dec. 31. All eligible clergy and some ...
Parsons District festival raises money for 2 causes
The Parsons District Fall Festival was Sept. 15 at Wesley United Methodist Church in Parsons. The theme was "A Time of Celebration." There were 22 tables that individuals or groups had "adopted" to decorate. Jars were placed on each table for people to vote for their favorite decorated table by putting money in that jar. The three tables with the most money in their jars were the Hamilton Chapel-Ladonna Melton table, the Coffeyville Trinity-Lee and Liz Passwater table and the New Albany-Susan ...
Smith Center UMC takes ongoing approach to help fight malaria
By Susie Buckley, special contributor Pipe-cleaner mosquitos decorate a net as part of a display in the window of the Smith Center UMC's Hardly Used Shop to raise money for Imagine No Malaria. (photo by Marilyn Schwertfeger) Smith Center United Methodist Church held a kick-off campaign for Imagine No Malaria on Mother's Day in May. Members of the congregation were urged to donate $10 to the campaign in honor of their mothers or other influential women in their lives. At the end of July,...
Guest Quest can help your church
By Rev. Patrick Broz, special contributor Looking for a way to create, resurrect or enhance your church's hospitality ministry? Searching for ways to increase weekly worship attendance not just for Christmas and Easter but throughout the entire year? Having trouble reaching your Vital Congregations goals in 2013 and beyond? If your answer to any of these questions is "yes" or even "maybe," then your church can go on a Guest Quest. Guest Quest is an instructional resource to assist churches ...
Krusing the Capital
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Argonia UMC skips service, performs service
By Bill Mock, special contributor Major storm damage was sustained in Argonia in July. As an outreach to the community, the Argonia United Methodist Church decided to do a community-wide cleanup on Sunday morning, July 28, instead of having the regular worship service and Sunday school. Members and friends of the congregation met at the normal 9 a.m. worship time with rakes, brooms, chainsaws and gloves and began cleaning yards full of tree debris. Members of Argonia UMC clean up storm...
Project Revolution brings youth together for 6th time
By Marvé Ralston, special contributor September brings many things, and, in the Five Rivers District, one of them is Project Revolution, the annual youth rally and lock-in. This year was the sixth Project Revolution. As is customary with this event, it was youth led, planned and executed by the District Council of Youth Ministry. Youth take the stage at the 2013 Project Revolution, an annual youth rally and lock-in. (photo by Marvé Ralston) For the past two years, the rally has been ...
Justice agency board approves $100,000 for Imagine No Malaria
Money will help expand field coordinator work in 10 new conferences CHEVY CHASE, Md. — The governing body of the United Methodist General Board of Church & Society (GBCS) voted unanimously at its fall meeting to contribute $100,000 to the denomination's Imagine No Malaria (INM) campaign. Bishop Robert Hoshibata, president of GBCS's Board of Directors, said he was extremely pleased at the vote to support the Imagine No Malaria Initiative. "Our board has been deeply involved in INM primarily ...
Golfers raise nearly $6K for Camp Horizon
A four-person-format golf scramble Aug. 10 at the Quail Ridge golf course in Winfield raised $5,874 for Camp Horizon, a United Methodist camp near Arkansas City. The funds will help pay for kitchen appliances in the new sanctuary building at the camp. A team from Chapel Hill Fellowship United Methodist Church won the traveling trophy for the best church-team score and the lowest net score of all teams. Larry Harris, one of the fundraiser organizers, expressed appreciation to all who played, ...
Kansas West UMM hosts inaugural MITour
By George Houle, special contributor The first ever Mission Impact Tour (MIT) sponsored by the Kansas West Conference United Methodist Men was a huge success! The UMM initiated MIT as a bridge to the future. The tour showed young men not only the blessings of serving others in ministry but also how we are connected through the ministry of men in the local churches. Twenty-two men participated in the first MITour hosted by the Kansas West Conference UMM. (photo by Brian Hopper) The tour...
We're not done yet
By Bev Weber, special contributor Bishop Scott Jones has announced a goal of every Kansas United Methodist congregation doing something by Dec. 31, 2013, to fight deaths from malaria by raising money for the United Methodist initiative Imagine No Malaria. Instructions for making pipe-cleaner mosquitos are available from the Imagine No Malaria website at http://inm.larryhollon.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/PipeCleaner-Mosquito-Instructions.pdf. (photo by Susan Cooper) The disease ...
Holton Evangel UMC co-sponsors wrestling match, raises money for INM
By Rev. Dennis Paschke, special contributor Holton Evangel UMC co-sponsored a wrestling invitational to raise money for Imagine No Malaria. (photo by Rev. Dennis Paschke) Over the Aug. 3-4 weekend, the Evangel United Methodist Church in Holton focused on how we all can be a part of changing the world by raising money for Imagine No Malaria. We had a special guest, Carol Russell who is a missionary from Africa. She shared her story with us. We also took a special offering and held a ...
Bishop Jones speaks at immigration roundtable
Editor's note: On Aug. 21, UMconnect ran an article about Bishop Jones' participation in the Bibles, Badges and Business (BBB) roundtable discussion on Immigration. In case you missed it, we are rerunning the article with the addition of video links. Great Plains Area Bishop Scott Jones joined another church leader and two business leaders in a roundtable discussion for Bibles, Badges and Business (BBB) on immigration reform. BBB is a national organization that aims to create an alliance ...
Dodge City VBS collects more than $1,200 for Imagine No Malaria
More than 100 children gathered for Vacation Bible School at Dodge City First United Methodist Church this summer and learned about the frightening disease in Africa and other parts of the world called malaria. Children attending VBS at Dodge City First UMC donated to the Imagine No Malaria initiative. (courtesy photo) As the children learned that mosquitoes cause malaria and that they could help stop the mosquitoes, they became very excited to help. Over the course of the ...
St. Paul's builds community garden in Lenexa
St. Paul's UMC in Lenexa created a community garden to help feed the hungry and build community involvement. (photos by Rob Reiman) St. Paul's United Methodist Church in Lenexa was awarded a $5,000 grant through the Kansas Community Gardens Project, a joint initiative of the Kansas Health Foundation and K-State Research and Extension. St. Paul's Lenexa Community Garden is one of 35 community garden projects in the state to receive this funding, which will help support the group'...
Conferences approve plan of organization for Great Plains Conference
SALINA, Kan.—More than 1,700 United Methodists from the Kansas East, Kansas West and Nebraska annual (regional) conferences met in simultaneous sessions Aug. 22 and 23 in Salina, Kan., to consider the Plan of Organization for the new Great Plains United Methodist Conference. The final section of the plan was adopted just before noon Aug. 23, a full half-day ahead of schedule. A final resolution summarizing the three separate conferences' actions was adopted unanimously. "Friends, we've done ...
Faithfulness requires change
By Stuart Davis, special contributor Urging the congregation in his benediction at the closing worship of the United Methodist Great Plains Uniting Conference Friday night to embrace the motto, "Great Churches, Great Leaders, Great Disciples, Transformed World" and go out in Jesus' name to change the world, Bishop Scott Jones ended the final session of the Uniting Conference on a high note. In his message, Jones used illustrations from the struggles of African-Americans to bring home his point...
Keep focus through change
By Susan Cooper, Kansas communications associate director During opening worship at the Uniting Conference Aug. 22 in Salina, Great Plains Bishop Scott Jones called upon United Methodists in Kansas and Nebraska to look to a new beginning. The conference session begins the final process of joining the Kansas East, Kansas West and Nebraska conferences to officially become the Great Plains Conference on Jan. 1, 2014. With an emphasis on what transpired at Pentecost, Jones acknowledged the ...
Abilene Emmanuel partners with Kenyan pastor to fight malaria
By Tiffany Roney, special contributor Shane Britt, pastor of Emmanuel United Methodist Church in Abilene and James Murunga, pastor and speaker from Nairobi, Kenya, used a basketball free-throw contest this past spring to raise funds to fight malaria in Africa. The Emmanuel Missions Committee invited church members to make pledges to Imagine No Malaria that were based on the pastors' free-throw results. Imagine No Malaria is an effort of the United Methodist Church to end preventable deaths by ...
Christian clowning, service highlight North Central Youth Camp
By Jim Rice, special contributor Youth got to experience Christian camping in new and exciting ways at the 2013 North Central Youth Camp, hosted this year by Trinity United Methodist Church in Jewell. This was a first-time experience for nearly all of the campers. Carl Warner leads Christian-clown campers during worship at the 2013 North Central Youth Camp at Jewell Trinity UMC. (photo by Amy Topliff) This year, the campers were introduced to Christian clowning, which consists of ...
METour offers life-changing experiences
By Jalynn Nolte, special contributor When you mix 31 teen-age girls, six sponsors, a great bus driver and the backing of the United Methodist Women, you get the 2013 Mission Education Tour (METour). The 2013 METour was May 31-June 9. The 2013 METour visits the Kansas West Conference office. (photo by Susan Cooper) One of the first stops was Omaha, Neb., and framed the whole trip by emphasizing dealing with justice and poverty. Lisa Maupin and Rev. Stephanie Ahlschwede from United ...
Plan of Organization awaits final vote
By Lisa Diehl, Kansas communications director More than 1,500 people from the Kansas West, Kansas East and Nebraska conferences will gather Aug. 22-24 at the Bicentennial Center in Salina for the Uniting Conference for the new Great Plains Conference. The theme for the event is "Coming Home Again" because the first Kansas/Nebraska conference session was held in October 1856. With the theme, we recognize our roots run deep to give us a firm foundation from which our future will grow. Our roots as...
Bicycle challenge raises more than $38,000
By Lisa Diehl, Kansas communications director The 2013 Bishop's Bicycle Challenge raised more than $38,000 for United Methodist Open Door in Wichita thanks in part to some friendly competition between Bishop Scott Jones and some "uppity" clergywomen. Cyclists start out on the 2013 Bishop's Bicycle Challenge ride to raise money for Open Door. (photo by Gary Stephenson) Jones started the bicycle challenge in 2010 to raise funds for United Methodist Open Door's homeless ministry center in...
Chapman UMC gets creative to raise money for Imagine No Malaria
Pipe-cleaner mosquitos placed on a net represent donations to Imagine No Malaria as part of a three-week fundraiser at Chapman UMC. (photos by Joyce Leach) To raise money for Imagine No Malaria, the Chapman United Methodist Church got creative for a three-week project this summer. A net was hung in the narthex of the church with a baby doll inside the net. Each time $10 was donated, a mosquito made of pipe cleaners was placed on the net. To encourage donating, the congregation was ...
Get your congregation Safe Gatherings compliant
The online Safe Gatherings abuse-prevention and boundary-awareness program was initiated in the Kansas West and East conferences last year, replacing the in-person Boundary Awareness and Safe and Sacred Space trainings used previously. The 2012 Kansas West Annual Conference adopted a policy that mandates each local church in the conference adopt a policy for the protection of children, youth and developmentally disabled dependent people to be implemented by each church by 2013. The Kansas East ...
So now what? cancelled
So now what? has been cancelled due to low registration numbers. Bishop Schnase will still preach at Hastings First UMC on Oct. 6, at 10 a.m. Hotel accommodations Local restaurants Robert Schnase serves as resident bishop of the Missouri Area of The United Methodist Church. Bishop Schnase was ordained deacon in 1981 and elder in 1986 in the Southwest Texas Conference. He has authored three books by Abingdon Press. He has served as delegate to General and Jurisdictional Conferences and worked...
Lay pastor Raphaël Aboua serves Ebenezer Beago United Methodist Church in Abidjan and 10 other United Methodist Churches in Côte d'Ivoire. Photo by Isaac Broune, UMNS. Raphaël Aboua oversees 11 United Methodist churches in Côte d'Ivoire, serves as president of its United Methodist lay pastors' group and also shares the gospel via United Methodist radio in his native language, Abouré. With his salary of $140.15 a month, he's trying to support his elderly parents and put a daughter through ...
ABIDE program helps Blue Mound UMC revitalize
Nestled in a small town consisting mainly of a gas station, café, bar and two churches is Blue Mound United Methodist Church. The church's restoration, both physically and spiritually, began in February 2008. A small team of three couples began attending the ABIDE program for small church leadership training. Worship attendance has increased by 40 percent, and the congregation is more visible to the community as well.
Board of Ordained Ministry revises scholarship policies
At its May meeting, the Great Plains Board of Ordained Ministry revised its scholarship policies, including implementing new awards from combined trust funds for our legacy conferences. The board is responsible for making awards for seminary students from two different sources. The first is the Ministerial Educational Fund (MEF). According to the United Methodist Church, "The Ministerial Education Fund is one of seven apportioned funds of The United Methodist Church. The Ministerial Education ...
Congregational Excellence: Tornado destroys building, revatilizes church
The evening of Feb. 28, 2012, started off like any other Tuesday night in Harveyville, Kansas. The small community about 35 miles southwest of Topeka was enduring an evening of rain, and a Bible study was taking place at the home of a Harveyville United Methodist Church member. But the storm that night would turn out to be far more than a simple rain shower. "It really wasn't much of a storm," said the Rev. Dennis Irwin, pastor at Harveyville UMC. According to a story in the Wichita Eagle ...
WORD speaks to 900-plus youth, leaders at sixth-annual OneEvent
Whether they grooved to the music, learned from the message or enjoyed the fellowship and fun, more than 900 youth and their leaders spent a full weekend at the Tony's Pizza Events Center in Salina on Jan. 5-6. Big Al Cherry introduces Rev. Michelle Manuel at The OneEvent. Photos by Todd Seifert, David Burke "We're all United Methodists, and we're all worshipping together," said the Rev. Nicole Conard, young adults and campus ministry coordinator for the Great Plains Conference. "Seeing 900 ...
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Eva Marcelle Koreman (Abbekerk, 10 juli 1984) is een Nederlandse radio-dj bij NPO 3FM. Sinds juni 2017 is Koreman een van de stemmen in de vormgeving van 3FM.

Biografie
Koreman volgde haar middelbareschoolopleiding aan het Sint Ignatiusgymnasium in Amsterdam. Nadat ze was uitgeloot voor geneeskunde volgde ze de studie 'Bèta-Gamma' aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. In die periode kwam ze terecht bij AmsterdamFM en studeerde ze af als Bèta-Gamma Bachelor in de Sociologie.

Na haar studie volgde ze de V-Academy van Veronica en bleef ze werken bij AmsterdamFM. Ze werkte aanvankelijk op de nieuwsredactie en werd daarna 'sidekick' van Joost van der Velde. Vervolgens nam ze verschillende programma's voor haar rekening, zoals  het ochtendprogramma Amsterdam Wordt Wakker, Het Radioavontuur en Het Generatieconflict.

Van 1 oktober 2010 tot en met 18 juni 2015 was Koreman te horen op het Nederlandse radiostation Qmusic. Eerst met een dagelijks nachtprogramma, twee jaar later met een weekendprogramma en een paar nachtprogramma's en vanaf maart 2013 werd ze sidekick bij het programma Van Inkel in de Middag. Vanaf november 2013 presenteerde ze een aantal maanden op de vrijdagavond een programma met Niek van der Bruggen, maar vanaf februari 2014 kreeg ze weer een eigen programma in de nacht van vrijdag op zaterdag.

In juni 2014 vertrok Jeroen van Inkel bij Qmusic. Vanaf augustus 2014 presenteerde Koreman samen met Joep Roelofsen van maandag tot en met donderdag het programma Joep & Eva van 21.00 tot 24.00 uur. Verder presenteerde ze sinds 2015 ook iedere vrijdagmiddag een programma op KX Radio. Op 18 juni 2015 presenteerde ze haar laatste uitzending bij Qmusic. Vanaf 1 augustus 2015 is ze te horen bij BNN op NPO 3FM. Hier presenteert ze samen met Giel Beelen het programma Eva en Giel op vrijdag van 18.00 tot 21.00 uur. Daarnaast krijgt ze in de nacht van vrijdag op zaterdag een eigen nachtprogramma van 00.00 tot 03.00 uur en een zaterdagavondprogramma van 21.00 tot 00.00 uur. Bij het ingaan van de nieuwe programmering op 14 november 2016 zit Koreman voortaan iedere zaterdag en zondag van 12.00 tot 14.00. Verder was ze in 2016 de achtervang van Frank van der Lende of Domien Verschuuren tijdens 3FM Serious Request 2016. Sinds september 2017 presenteert Eva doordeweeks de lunchshow op 3FM van 12.00 tot 14.00 uur. Tijdens het RadioRing Gala op 19 januari 2017 heeft Koreman de Zilveren RadioSter Vrouw gewonnen als beste vrouwelijke radio-dj.

In 2011 was Koreman genomineerd voor een Marconi Award, de Marconi Talent Award. Ook won ze in 2011 een RadioBitches Award voor Aanstormend Talent.

Tot 2012 drumde Koreman in de door haar en Celine Prins opgerichte poprockband The Fox. Door tijdgebrek moest ze ermee stoppen. In 2013 schrijft zij een jaar lang columns voor de online variant van het AD. In december 2015 was ze deelneemster bij De Slimste Mens. Koreman was in maart 2017 voor het eerst te zien als presentatrice van het televisieprogramma Jules Unlimited. Op 23 mei 2017 was ze ook voor het eerst te zien in het programma Radio Gaga samen met Chris Zegers. Op 17 februari 2018 deed ze mee aan het spelprogramma Weet Ik Veel op RTL 4.

Vanaf september 2018 tot 2020 was Koreman namens de VPRO de vaste presentator van 3voor12Radio op NPO 3FM. Van 2020 tot 2022 presenteerde ze elke werkdag van 16:00 tot 19:00 uur de middagshow "Frank & Eva: Welkom Bij De Club" samen met Frank van der Lende.

In 2019 was Koreman een van de deelnemers van het twintigste seizoen van het RTL 4-programma Expeditie Robinson, ze viel als zeventiende af en eindigde op de 4e plaats. In 2022 was Koreman te gast in het televisieprogramma Ik hou van Holland. In 2023 deed ze mee aan het televisieprogramma Weet Ik Veel.

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import com.intellij.openapi.project.Project;
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import git4idea.commands.GitHttpAuthService;
import git4idea.commands.GitHttpAuthenticator;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;

import java.util.Collection;

public class GitHttpAuthTestService extends GitHttpAuthService {

  @NotNull private GitHttpAuthenticator myAuthenticator = STUB_AUTHENTICATOR;

  @NotNull
  @Override
  public GitHttpAuthenticator createAuthenticator(@NotNull Project project,
                                                  @NotNull Collection<String> urls,
                                                  @NotNull GitAuthenticationGate authenticationGate,
                                                  boolean ignoreAuthenticationRequest) {
    return myAuthenticator;
  }

  public void register(@NotNull GitHttpAuthenticator authenticator) {
    myAuthenticator = authenticator;
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  public void cleanup() {
    myAuthenticator = STUB_AUTHENTICATOR;
  }

}

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Biden administration reverses Trump's ban on rainbow flags at embassies
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken authorized the rainbow flag at all American outposts, in time for Pride Month.
Trump has turned U.S. diplomacy over to the religious right
Ralph Drollinger is the latest Trump associate with an anti-LGBTQ history, openly willing to cozy up to bigots and dictators. What else is new?
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Germany is furious with new gay US ambassador who says he will 'empower' the far right
As long as your willing to wreck international relationships and break norms, being gay is no barrier in the Trump administration.
Australian Prime Minister brushes off snub to diplomat's same-sex partner
Ambassador Stephen Brady offered to resign after a disagreement involving Prime Minister Tony Abbott's reception at an airport tin Paris.
Report: Pope rejected gay French diplomat over displeasure with same-sex marriage in France
A French newspaper reports that Pope Francis met France's nominated ambassador to the Holy See, who is openly gay, and told him that the Vatican would not accept his appointment.
Vatican mum on why France's appointment of a gay diplomat has stalled
The Vatican has yet to approve the appointment of an openly gay French ambassador to the Holy See, prompting observers to interpret the silence as a rebuke of the man's sexual orientation.
State Department to establish LGBT envoy to advocate for rights overseas
The U.S. Department of State will announce the appointment later this month of a special envoy to advocate for the rights of LGBT people overseas.
Ted Osius III becomes first openly gay U.S. ambassador to East Asia
As the U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam, Ted Osius is the seventh openly LGBT person named as an ambassador under the Obama administration.
OSCE Ambassador Daniel Baer marries partner in Vienna
Daniel Baer, the U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), married his partner Brian Walsh in Vienna, Austria on Saturday. Baer is the seventh openly LGBT person appointed by President Barack Obama and the first to a multilateral institution.
Obama nominates sixth openly gay diplomat to ambassador post
President Barack Obama has nominated Ted Osius as the next Ambassador to Vietnam, the White House has announced.
India political party leader says gay U.S. diplomats should be 'arrested, punished'
NEW DELHI, India — The leader of India's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said Wednesday that India should "arrest and punish" U.S. diplomats in India who have "same sex companions" as same-sex acts is illegal in the country.
Senate confirms James 'Wally' Brewster as fifth openly LGBT ambassador
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate has confirmed James "Wally" Brewster to serve as the country's ambassador to the Dominican Republic.
U.S. Senate conducts hearing for possible fifth openly LGBT ambassador
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate on Thursday conducted a confirmation hearing on the appointment James "Wally" Brewster to serve as the country's ambassador to the Dominican Republic.
U.S. Senate confirms appointments of four openly gay diplomats
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate of Thursday confirmed a number of President Barack Obama's nominations to diplomatic posts, including Daniel Baer to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, John Berry as the Ambassador to Australia, Rufus Gifford as Ambassador to Denmark, and James Costos as Ambassador to Spain.
William Murray: Homosexual elitist diplomats are to blame for Middle East turmoil
William Murray of the Religious Freedom Coalition not only told the American Family Association's Sandy Rios that Islam is not a religion, but also that the U.S. fails to understand Muslims because our diplomats are homosexual elitists.

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OMV, which last month became operator of the field from Shell, plans a range of interventions in the field's offshore wells to optimise their production.
OMV has booked China Oilfield Services' Boss rig for the work. The 10-year-old jack-up rig, capable of operating in 120 metres of water, is in transit from Singapore on the heavy-lift vessel Red Zed 1 and should arrive in Admiralty Bay in the first week of February.
Once at the Pohokura platform, the rig will be used to perforate new production zones in the existing wells and shut off parts of them that have watered-out over time, OMV said.


A good thing to do when you become disabled is to make some survival ground rules for yourself. They can be anything that works for YOU. The only key is that they must be totally achievable at least 95% of the time, and very realistic.
I was disabled in 1998 by four failed back surgeries causing nerve damage and constant pain, along with a neuromuscular disease called myasthenia gravis. Between those two things, I can never tell in what shape of strength or pain level I will get up with on a given day. I can never count on getting a full night's sleep either. With the diagnosis of Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome (APS) after I had my DVT in 2001, it explained many of the symptoms we had previously attributed to the MG – double vision, etc. When you take all that combined with my short term memory problems from APS, any way you slice it I'm not predictable enough to work. I had a great career and I loved every minute of it (well, almost!) but that part of my life is OVER.
I went through the usual grieving process after I became disabled – I had to learn that the person I was before existed no more. I was still me, but in a changed body. One I didn't like very much. I had to learn that I am who I AM, not what I DO. Once I got my head around that, I learned to appreciate a different way of life and find happiness in it despite a lot of bad times. There are a lot of tradeoffs, good for bad; for example, I am in constant pain but I have time now to do many things that I always wanted to and never had time for before.
4) I have to do a minimum of one "productive thing" every day.
Now, a lot of days obviously I accomplish a lot more than just one thing. Other days, it is pushing it to find something I can call a "productive thing!" If something big's going on, I may have CNN on in the background all day. But just having the rules in the back of my head has kept me from just shutting down totally on many bad days and kept me from going into a "couch potato" routine.
1) It is okay to invest in pets, crafts, hobbies, reading, music, any distraction that will keep my mind active and detract focus from pain.
2) It is good to give something back to the universe – sort of a "pay it forward" philosophy.
3) I must keep all doctor appointments and keep prescriptions current, etc.
My health is a priority.
This article shows good sense. Thanks for sharing! I have autoimmune symptoms and will maybe come up some rules for myself in the future.
to push forward. I know it is hard, it's not going to walk away so hanging in there and keeping in a routine is the best for me. Love to all who are disabled, You are good, kind and compassionate always in your heart keep it their. sharing my love to all.
In the last few years my body has fallen apart and I am serching for guidance about how to go on long term disability and SS and still maintain health Insurance for the two years before I can get medicare. I have Fibromyalgia, MMP (Mucus Membrane Pemphigoid) Osteoarthritis, Psoriatic Arthritis and I am Diabetic. There is not a moment in any given day I am not in severe pain. I have a standing perscription for Norco 10/325 and Tramadol monthly, not to mention a whole host of other meds.
You seem knowledgeable about what to do after giving up on working, but do you have wisdom you can impart about the best way to stop working and be able to survive financial changes? I know my doctors would take me off work if I asked them to. I know I can get Temp disability and apply for SS disability, but I worry about being able to maintain health insurance. I take too many drugs ( Embel for instance that costs $10,000 a month ) and medical doctor bills not to have health insurance for any amount of time. They want to start me on a chemotherapy for my MMP that costs over $150,000 a year in addition to my Embrel.
Every night I am lucky to get 5 hrs sleep and often dream horrible pain dreams about being operated on with no anethesia or being attacked by someone with a knife. I have to sit on the edge of the bed and convince myself that I can do another day. I think I am running out of this time and need to know how to survive a transition into permant disability. Can you offer advice?
Hi, I'm Sheila, the author of this article – I just stopped in to look at the article. Oh my goodness, I was so gratified to see the many wonderful comments! I just wanted to thank you for them, and I am so glad you found the article helpful!
a week's worth of spoons all at once. It is so nice to find people who understand!
My hubby is a cancer survivor and as you know chemo has after effects even years later and so we laughed at some of the sick humor section on this site or found it encouraging inspiring and depressing all at the same time, how much we can both relate to it all!
Thank you all so much! I have felt isolated in a way since I have been so sick and so sincerely appreciate this virtual place!
Wonderful message! Very timely and encouraging. I will retweet, repost and restatus!
It is so powerful to feel as if we still have purpose and that we have much to offer, even with all of the labels (boo-hiss) of our multiple dx, meds, "Disabled" and such.
It is what has happened, not who we are. Bless you all in your challenges, and in your victories.
I have very similiar rules for myself. It would be very easy to just give up and stay in the pj's all day. All that would do is make me more depresseed.
Yes it bothers me that I have to give up so much from being what I call a SAHM(stay at home mom). I sleep when the kiddos are in school since I dont really sleep at night. A good day for me is to shower, put on my face and hair, make my bed and maybe do dishes.
Depression is always lurking in the dark corner of every corner of my house. Its call is so tempting, but I have to resist as much as possible. I have enough on my plate I tell it. I only eat once a day, which is dinner. After I take my pills at the correct time, I really don't have much room for lots of food. I feel like a beached whale. Thanks to the steriods, I look like I work in a junk food factory. There goes the dream of being a size six!
When you are dealt a hand that has any chronic illness, you have to change nearly deverything in your life. The biggest thing for me is changing my thought process. You have to be positive at all times it seems.
And for that next person that tells me that I dont look sick, I wish I had enough energy and strengh to beat them up and then ask them to go thru my day. Yes it's wrong, but geez people. Just because you cannot see the pain, I feel the pain. The pain of feeling like a Mac truck is running over me and backing up just to make sure it got me!
Love your rules I will really start trying them..
I'm afraid I've fallen into despair. I don't go anywhere or do anything. I don't shower, get dressed or talk to anyone.
I'll try harder to do better. starting tomorrow.
Those same rules are my life.
I think a component to go along with this is that if you find yourself too ill to accomplish your daily goal, forgive yourself and try again tomorrow. Some days, my motto is: I am up and dressed, what more do you want? Another item I consider a daily requirement is laughter.
I have dispensed with any self-care rituals that are not necessary to my health. I just don't have the energy to spare. So I don't do make up and have cut my hair short enough that it only needs washing but no conditioner or styling.
I shower and put on clean clothes daily whenever possible. I exercise my mind by reading. I engage in mild exercise (water therapy, non-impact glider) when possible. These are goals that are not only usually achievable, they are good for my health too.
Our goals probably vary depending on our priorities and our ailments, but it is good to have them.
For me, the critical issue is scheduling. If I don't get my important tasks done FIRST, I might not feel well enough to do them later.
Great idea!!1 I just recently left my job due to my disability. I have not made survival rules, however that is a great thing. My trouble is I surf the interent a lot. I am just so tired. I hate to get up, but thanks for the push to do more.
I think that the best thing for someone on SS to do is VOLUNTEER. Volunteering may be the one thing that gets you out of the house on a regular basis, gives you something to look forward to and be appreciated for.
I love these rules. I plan to print them out and post them on my refrigerator!
Sheila, this was AWESOME!!! I was also diagnosed in 2007 with APS after clotting during a mastectomy and later having two pulmonary embolisms (emboli?). I have multiple kinds of arthritis also, so I went on disability a couple of years ago after losing a VERY accomodating job.
Your rules are really important. There are days I don't shower, but I try to do at least something. I keep up with my Tae Kwon Do training (no sparring or board breaking) for the fitness of it, and I try to not feel bad if I skip a workout because I'm just not up to it. I just can't QUIT. I am also REALLY into crafts, and I spend any extra money on supplies for quilting, painting, jewelry and the like. It keeps me thinking and doing something other than just sitting there.
I have 9-year-old twin boys, one of which has Aspergers and ADHD. They have become my focus. We set rules, especially for this summer, of things we have to do – go to the pool at least twice a week, take them to their scouting events, take them to the dojo for Tae Kwon Do.
It's hard, especially when people look at how young and healthy-looking you are, to make others understand that sometimes you are top of the world and other days you are just trying to keep it from crushing you.
LOL Robert! And I have no probs with grungy guys either!
I'm a true spoonie. If I use a spoon for one thing, it means I don't have it for anything else.
I worked with handicaps for decades before my body finally gave out. I'm at the stage now where I'm trying to figure out what I actually can do every day 95% of the time.
Your rules aren't the same ones as mine, but I have one of them — try to do something each day, anything, something that I feel good about and can look at as what I did that day. It may only be a three minute gesture sketch of my cat but I manage daily art.
I don't bother with your level of grooming, but I'm a guy. It doesn't hurt my self esteem to get grungy or dirty or make me think less of myself. I'm not going to do it before doing anything that'd be messy, that's a huge waste of energy.
It's rough when things most people do without thinking and treat as minor become major challenges. But having something more interesting than those day to day activities to do is worth a lot.
THAT'S how I stared my day.
Showering and makeup are biggies for me too.
Interesting article. I am in the not-quite-unique situation of having my disability since infancy. Virtually everyone in my brain injury group had their incident as an adult, some as a teen. I guess that means at least some can look back to a "before" time that they will never have again, but one that never existed with me. I don't know if I should be glad or not. But I am trying to take a more assertive approach – when possible – to my rights instead of people walking all over me, per se. My disability was supposedly totally hidden until recently – dizzy spells have forced me to use a cane for balance and I now make use of mobility scooters at shopping malls when I can. Getting up every day remains a challenge but I made it my job to get my daughter up and out to school each morning so until the end of June, I have a reason to get up. One productive thing a day… that is a major challenge as I don't know if anything I do can be considered productive. But I try.
Thanks so much for this post! I have recently become permantly disabled due to Mitochondrial Myopathy and chronic asthma. Before my illness, I was a work-a-holic, and my job was my identity. You are right. I am the same person just in a changed body. I must admit that I have not been good at setting ground rules for myself. I guess I am still in the grieving process.
Thanks for lighting a fire under me. This is just what I needed.
Love these "survival rules", Having Lupus, Fibro, and Sjogren's has changed my daily rountine in a big way. For me, I felt a great sense of lose when my job was gone and my career goals/dreams seemed to move to the back-burner. I do admit I miss dressing up and being productive, but I am working on finding a new definition of "myself". Somedays this is easier than others. I remain hopeful that I can still make a difference just not in the way I started out. Great topic.


Strawberries in December | Something Odd!
It's a sign of the times. We eat fresh strawberries in the middle of winter. They may have travelled thousands of miles and be overpriced but there's a ready market here for fresh fruit all year round.
They are lovely in porridge first thing in the morning or even with Corn Flakes. They make the milk all creamy and delicious and in the mouth the taste and texture of the fruit just melts on your tongue!
We usually buy in M&S but there we were in Super Valu, and strawberrys are on display. It's a cruel world when food that's good for you is so nice too!
The point of this post and my interest in winter fruits is the origin of said produce. They come from Palestine. We hear so much bad news from that part of the world so something as mundane as strawberries is a reminder that life goes on no matter what.
Happy Christmas to you, may you have a nice day tomorrow, I hope with family or friends.
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Officially opened in 2015, The National Water Center (NWC) is a world-class, 65,000-square- foot "green" facility designed to be the nation's research, development, and operations hub for hydrologic modeling, water prediction, and related decision support services. The NWC is a component of the National Weather Service's Office of Water Prediction, whose mission is to collaboratively research, develop, and deliver state-of-the-science water information, services, and guidance to support and inform essential emergency services and water management decisions. The NWC facilitates collaboration across the water resources enterprise, including federal water science and management agencies and the academic community, to achieve a shared vision of improving water-related forecasting, preparedness, response, and planning activities.
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Jacobsen Announces 2002 Award Winners
With an international crowd in attendance, Jacobsen presented Dealer of the Year Awards during their annual Dealers Award Dinner held in conjunction with the 74th Annual GCSAA Show in Atlanta. Dealer of the Year winners for 2002 were Delta States Turf, Inc., Baton Rouge, La.; Bob Ladd & Associates, Memphis, Tenn.; Baker Vehicle Systems, Inc., Macedonia, Ohio; Kilpatrick Turf Equipment, Inc. Boynton Beach, Fla.; Steven Willand, Inc., Brookfield, Conn.; and Wilfred MacDonald, Inc., South Hackensack, N.J. Kilpatrick Turf Equipment also received recognition with the Top Volume Award.
The company also presented the 2002 Pacesetter Awards to dealer sales representatives for outstanding performance in both sales and customer satisfaction. Awards went to Mike Drury of Delta States Turf, Inc., Baton Rouge, La.; Jeff Mullins of Sun Turf, Inc., St. Paul, Minn.; Mike Skiera of Golf Ventures, Inc., Lakeland, Fla.; Paul Helbling of Malvese Equipment Co., Inc., Hicksville, N.Y.; Rick Baker of Baker Vehicle Systems, Inc., Macedonia, Ohio; and Ron Moore of Jacobsen E-Z-GO, Bermuda Dunes, Calif.
International Awards: Mikuni Shoko Corporation of Tokyo, Japan was awarded distributor of the year, Asia-Pacific, while Shinhan World Trading Company, Ltd. of Seoul, Korea received the award for outstanding sales and service achievement, Asia-Pacific.
Ernest Doe & Sons, Ltd. of Maldon, Essex, United Kingdom, was named Distributor of the Year. Also receiving recognition at the dinner was Scottish Grass Machinery LTD of Inverkeithing, Fife, Scotland as United Kingdom Turf Dealer of the Year, and CSE Equipment of Cape Town, South Africa was named International Turf Dealer of the Year.


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Prince Harry Will Be "Tough" on William and Kate in His Book But Won't Criticize King Charles, Insider Claims. "Everything Is Laid Bare"
A source maintains that a reconciliation between Prince Harry and Prince William is unlikely due to what the scorned royal has to say.
By Sharon Naomi Blacksmith
The publication of Prince Harry's highly anticipated tell-all, Spare, is just a week away, and there is one question on everyone's mind: What will the son of the King reveal about the Royal Family in the pages of his book? Ever since announcing that he was writing a memoir, rumors have been swirling about what to expect.
This week, clips from two high profile interviews the 38-year-old did to promote his book were dropped, offering a hint of what is to come. And now, an insider claims that Harry will majorly lash out at two people in particular: His brother, Prince William, and sister-in-law, Kate Middleton.
William Is Attacked in Harry's Book, Says a Source
An insider maintains that despite Prince Harry's claims that he wants to reconcile with his brother and father, that it is unlikely. Especially because William is one of the main targets of Harry's book.
In His ITV Interview Harry Maintains He Wants His Family Back
In clips from one of two interviews set to air on Sunday, Harry maintains that his family prefers to keep him and Meghan as "the villains," but that he would very much like to be back in the good graces of his family. "I would like to get my father back. I would like to have my brother back," he tells Tom Bradby in his ITV interview.
"I Want a Family. Not an Institution," Harry Says
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However, he takes a major swipe at both of them. "They've shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile," he continued. "They feel as though it's better to keep us somehow as the villains." He also accuses them of "the leaking and the planting" of news stories. "It never needed to be this way," he said. "I want a family. Not an institution."
He Adds to Anderson Cooper That the Palace "Spoon-Fed" Stories to the Press
And, in his "revealing" and "explosive" CBS interview with Anderson Cooper, he claims that he is going public with everything because "every single time I've tried to do this privately there have been briefings and leakings and planting of stories against me and my wife," adding that royal correspondents had been "spoon-fed information" by Buckingham Palace. "So when we are being told for the last six years we can't put something out to protect you, but you do it for other members of the family, there comes a point when silence is betrayal."
An Insider Claims the Book Will Be "Worse" Than Expected for the Royal Family
A source who has knowledge about what is in the book told The Sunday Times that they are doubtful Harry and William's relationship will recover after publication. "Generally, I think the book [will be] worse for them than the royal family is expecting," they said.
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"Everything is laid bare," they continue. "Charles comes out of it better than I had expected, but it's tough on William, in particular, and even Kate gets a bit of a broadside. There are these minute details, and a description of the fight between the brothers. I personally can't see how Harry and William will be able to reconcile after this."ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb
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Mother Lucina (Irma Karimali) the first born and the daughter of Joseph and Leticia was born in a village called Rosathe, in Milan, the ancient city of silk. Coming from an ordinary background she had to take up on herself the arduous task of looking after her brothers and sisters, Joseph Mario, Emili and Carla respectively soon after her studies. Basically a peasant girl attuned to a world of love and tranquility, she found the experiences of the second world war devastating and her inner peace blown into smithereens. She felt the war her left anguishing impression on the life of people in distress. To this desire prompted her to join a convent. She opted out it of the Presentation congregation and entered it on 10th August 1945. Irma did her first profession on the 11th August 1947 and accepted a new name as Sr. Lucina which means 'Light'.
Thus she started her humble work as a teacher dissipating the darkness of ignorance and radiating the light of joy and knowledge among her children. She committed herself totally to God on the 11th August 1950 by doing her final profession. in 1960 she was assigned the new and challenging assignment of forming her young sisters. Thus she entered her activities at Como, the capital of the congregation. Our first Indian sisters had the privileged opportunity to be formed by her. It was in December 12, 1968 that she first stepped into Indian soil having been invited and supported by the Bishop of Tellichery. It was the irresistible missionary zeal enthusiasm of Mother Theo dalinda that stirred up her interest in setting foot in India. She was also supported by the Arch Bishop, Mar Valiyamattam, to overcome the initial crisis. her team had been permitted only a temporary visa. They had to return to Italy on the expiry of the visa. But persistent effort helped her to return to India 3rd October 1970. She bore the dual responsibilities of the religious formation of the sisters as well as the delegation, from 1971 to 75. It was in the year 1972 that the congregation opened its branch in Kozhikode. From that time onwards she had been very cooperatively associating with the Bishops of Kozhikode Rev. Fr. Patroni and Rev. Dr. Maxwell Noronha respectively. She had very cordial relationship with the priests of CMI congregation, of the Jesuit provincial house and also the Bishops of the diocese of Kozhikode and Tellichery. She administered Indian mission successfully and unselfishly and sometimes heroically, for 25 years. It was in her time that we could extend our mission to Andra Pradesh and Gujrat too!
She had an uncircumscribed love towards humanity which was a feather on her crown. As a religious superior, the Daughters of Presentation were greatly nourished by her exceptional devotion to the Holy Eucharist, the Blessed Virgin, her spouse St. Joseph and undaunted in the intercession of the Holy souls. She had been spending the rest of her time in extending humble service to her sister after her retirement, staying at the regional house, the house which she loved most dearly. Her heart had been vibrating throughout with the joy of dedication. The journey of life which was flowing very smoothly and gently was suddenly cast ashore on the 9th August 2002. Her living presence is still being poured on her dear ones in the guise of showers of blessings.
Presentation Higher Secondary School, Kozhikode


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21Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me. 22But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions. 23Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. 24And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. 25When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved? 26But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
At a recent family gathering, the Lord quickened this passage of scripture to me regarding the rich man and the eye of the needle. As I listened to the conversations around me, I was wondering why it is that the unsaved members of my family were so resistant to the Gospel. The Lord spoke into my spirit that it is their riches that keep them out of the kingdom. He was not referring to material wealth in regard to my family and, I believe, if we examine the scripture above carefully, we have to conclude that He wasn't necessarily referring to material riches in Matthew 19.
The fact of the matter is that Jesus had some rich followers who were not required to give all their possessions away. Although the rich young ruler in the teaching had evidently made an idol of his material wealth, the disciples understood that Jesus was getting at something more universal and insidious: anything we value more than our relationship with Him or anything that keeps us from moving higher in Him constitutes our riches. The deepest strongholds are actually not material, but in the mind: intellectual pride, political ideologies, world views, theologies, philosophies, paradigms, religious doctrines of men. These are the riches that keep the unsaved and many Christians from entering into the kingdom. The eye of the needle is like the birth canal from which we emerge stripped of all our riches in the process of being born again – the prerequisite for even seeing the kingdom. As for entering the kingdom, we need to have an open heart and unfettered mind like the little child who has no intellectual or doctrinal baggage.
An interesting twist to all this is that the scripture quoted above, along with some other sayings of Jesus regarding "the poor" and some verses in James, has been the foundation for the Catholic theology of poverty which glorifies poverty as a means to a closer relationship to God. (The exceptions, of course, were the popes and bishops, who had the obligation of manifesting and surrounding themselves with the wealth of the "kingdom"). Unfortunately, the Holiness/Pentecostal movement adopted the theology of poverty by teaching that poverty was God's way of keeping us humble and protecting us from worldliness. In the Pentecostal theology of poverty, everything connected with prosperity becomes suspect.
This development is an ironic twist and a clever ploy of the enemy because the very theologies of poverty – based as they are on a limited and superficial understanding of the teachings of Jesus - become an example of the "riches" that keep Christians from entering into the kingdom or even understanding what or where the kingdom is. Instead of ministering an entrance into the kingdom of God, these theologies, for Protestants and Catholics alike, keep our focus on outward things. Ultimately, they block entrance into the kingdom of God by becoming an obstacle to understanding the fullness of the mind of Christ.


This video shows the process of break apart case on the mobile scanner using our software. The process convert or "break apart" product in case form to individual units. For example, you make break apart a case of Coke into 12 individual cans of Coke. This is a feature that not many people are aware of but can be a very useful tool to implement.
Hello, it's Mike, Finale Inventory. This short video we're gonna cover a new feature on the mobile scanner many of you may not be aware of. It's called break apart case on the mobile scanner.
So this is definitely for the scenario where if you've got items stored in cases and you need to break it and get it back into the eaches [SP], you can do that with the scanner now. Let's give you an example on how that would work. So let's go here into Finale. I'm going to show you an example, so I'm gonna do a view stock. And on my screen here you'll be able to see this one item here, this PID1. We have no open stock right here, so the open stock is empty. So on this one there's no onhance [SP] and no eaches, no units. But there are four cases, so over here on the case stock we've got four available. And if we looked at this data, you can see that in the M0 sub-location there is cases 12 to one, so meaning there's 12 items in one box. So we got four of them, that means there's 48 units here on this item.
And we wanna break apart case. We wanna take one case away from here and get 12 individual units. Okay? So I'm gonna show you how to do that with the scanner. So if I was to go down here and bring up my scanner for you guys to see here, what we're going to be doing is using a stock change feature. So we'll click on stock change, and now you'll notice there's a new feature here called break apart case. So we will click on this item. Of course it's asking us where are you in the warehouse? We're going to either scan a barcode for M0 or we can just pick it from the list, it's what I'm going to do here. So I'm going to find that M0 sub-location, and then I'm gonna proceed to scan a barcode for PID1. That's what I'll do here.
Now if you notice, at the bottom of the screen it even says last 12 of that item. And if I wanted to review this transaction you're gonna see what really is going on behind the scenes here. You'll see that we're gonna take away one case of 12/1 and then we're gonna add 12 units. So that's the thing we wanna do. It combines kinda two transactions in one.
So we'll do an exit to main menu, and let's transmit this back up the cloud. And as we do keep your eyes on the stock level right here. So you're gonna see this go to three, and this to 12. So as I sync that, keep an eye up here. There you go. That's how you break apart a case with the barcode scanner.


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Matthew Sleeth (born 1972) is an Australian visual artist and filmmaker. His often collaborative practice incorporates photography, film, sculpture and installation with a particular focus on the aesthetic and conceptual concerns of new media. The performative and photographic nature of media art is regularly highlighted in his work.

Early life
Sleeth was born in 1972 in Melbourne.

Career
Matthew Sleeth's early career is defined through three photographic monographs. Roaring Days, is the only one showing his work with black & white photography, played with nostalgia and politics. The Bank Book is a response to the making of a feature film. Tour of Duty, explores the performance/performative aspect of armed conflict as seen during the 1999 East Timorese crisis.

In 2001, he was named one of the 30 most influential artists under 30 in PDN Magazine.

In 2005/6 Sleeth lived in Tokyo as part of the Australia Council's studio residency program. Then, in 2007, he was featured on the cover of Australian Art Collector magazine.

Following the publication of Opfikon in 2004, Sleeth's practice became more conceptually driven. His work expanded from photography and video to include sculpture, print-making and installation. Pattern Recognition, an exhibition of public billboards for the 2008 Melbourne International Arts Festival, was described as exploring "ideas about photography itself and the way it has historically been used to order and categorise life". The Aperture Foundation's Exposures Blog described his New York solo exhibition, Various Positions (parts 1 through 6), as "working toward a new photographic aesthetic". It opened at Claire Oliver Gallery in Chelsea, Manhattan on 18 March 2009.

Sleeth has consistently embraced new technologies and methods of production, working with 3D printing, aerial drones, electronics and computer programming.

His work with 3D printing and CNC fabrication led to Sleeth's sculptural installation, The Rise and Fall of Western Civilization (And Other Obvious Metaphors). This concrete freeway combined photography, metal, plywood and micro-computers with LED displays.

As his film practice evolved, Sleeth's interest in performance became more apparent, particularly in video works such as I Don't See God Up Here and Kerobokan Portraits [Andrew and Myuran].

In 2015 Sleeth co-wrote and directed A Drone Opera. Presented by Arts House and Experimenta, the live performance combined opera singers, laser set-design and purpose-built drones to bring together the sense of surveillance and menace that explores our relationship with new technologies. In June 2019, a cinematic version of A Drone Opera was screened at the Sydney Film Festival and a three-channel film installation was presented at Carriageworks, Sydney.

Sleeth's work with Myuran Sukumaran at Kerobokan Prison and the campaign to save Sukumaran and Andrew Chan from execution, fuelled the development of 2017's Guilty. In his feature film debut, Sleeth highlighted the final 72 hours of Sukumaran's life and questions the use of execution as a means of punishment. Guilty premiered at the Adelaide Film Festival on 8 October 2017 and was released by Madman Entertainment on DVD in April 2020.

Filmography

Films

Short films

Film festivals
 Guilty, Adelaide Film Festival, premiere, 2017
 Guilty, Human Rights Film Festival, 2018
 Guilty, Dili International Film Festival, 2018
 A Drone Opera, Sydney Film Festival, premiere, 2019

Live performance
 A Drone Opera (Director, Writer, Performer) - commissioned by Experimenta Media Arts and presented by Arts House at Meat Market, Melbourne, September 2015.
 Prize Fighter (Performer) - presented by La Boite Theatre and Melbourne International Arts Festival, October 2018.

Monographs
 Roaring Days  (M.33, Melbourne, 1998)
 Tour of Duty  (Hardie Grant Books, Melbourne, 2002)
 home + away  (M.33, Melbourne, 2003)
 Survey (Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 2004)
 Opfikon  (M.33, Melbourne, 2004)
 Ten Series/106 Photographs  (Aperture Foundation, New York, 2007)

Collections
Sleeth's work is held in the following public collections:

 Artbank
 Australia Council for the Arts
 Australian War Memorial
 Brandts Museet for Fotokunst
 Campbelltown Arts Centre
 La Trobe University Art Museum
 Monash Gallery of Art
 Monash University Museum of Art
 Museum of Photographic Arts
 Lyon Housemuseum
 National Gallery of Australia
 National Gallery of Victoria
 National Portrait Gallery (Australia)
 Town Hall Gallery

Solo exhibitions

 Short Stories, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne 1996
 Boys, Prostitutes Collective of Victoria, Melbourne 1997
 Silvers Circus, Leica Gallery, Solms, Germany 1998
 Roaring Days, Stills Gallery, Sydney 1998
 Roaring Days, Photographers' Gallery, Melbourne 1998
 Roaring Days, Saba Gallery, New York 2000
 Tour of Duty, Boccalero Gallery, Los Angeles 2001
 Roaring Days, Leica Gallery, Tokyo 2001
 Tour Of Duty, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne 2002
 Feet, Citylights, Melbourne 2003
 Survey, Josef Lebovic Gallery at The Depot, Sydney 2004
 Tour Of Duty, Galerie Lichtblick, Cologne 2004
 Red China, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne 2005
 Rosebud, Fremantle Prison, Fotofreo Festival, Fremantle, Western Australia 2006
 Pictured, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne 2006
 Call Of The Wild, Fyrtøjet, Odense Photo Triennial, Denmark. 2006
 12 Views of Mount Fuji, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane 2007
 Mixed Tape, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne 2007
 Ten Series, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney 2007
 Ten Series, Aperture Gallery, New York 2008
 Matthew Sleeth, Claire Oliver Gallery, Next 08 @ Art Chicago, USA 2008
 Pattern Recognition, Sophie Gannon Gallery & multiple site specific public installations Melbourne International Arts Festival, Melbourne 2008
 Various Positions Parts 1-6, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York 2009
 The Rise and Fall of Western Civilization (And Other Obvious Metaphors), Claire Oliver Gallery, New York 2011
 The Generative Freeway Project, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney, (ISEA) 2013
 The Last Carpark, WestSpace, Melbourne (Liquid Architecture Festival of Sound Art) 2013
 Representation and Reproduction: a love story, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 2014
 Intentionally Left Blank, Trocadero Art Space, Melbourne 2014
 Magnificent Obsessions, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York 2015
 Rules to Live By, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York 2016
 The End, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne 2017
 It Was All A Dream, Pulse, Miami 2017
 Rosebud, Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne 2018
 A Drone Opera, Carriageworks, Sydney 2019
 A Drone Opera, Lyon Housemuseum, Melbourne 2020
 A Drone Opera, Ars Electronica, Austria 2020

References

External links
 Matthew Sleeth represented by Claire Oliver
 National Gallery of Victoria website
 Matthew Sleeth website

1972 births
Australian photographers
Living people
Australian contemporary artists