The Following video , belongs to MediaPromos and fall under fair use according to the copyright act of 19 76 . Please make sure to subscribe and like. Maggie's elated to see her daughter Sarah at the mansion. They embrace and talk about Sarah working with Doctors Without Borders. Maggie's proud and knows Neil, her father would be too. Sarah reveals she's engaged to the most incredible man - Rex Brady. Maggie's stunned. She asks for details. Sarah says as a med student, it was her worst day ever. She was hiding in a supply closet after the attending reamed her out for something and Rex found her, took her out and they learned they had a lot in common. Maggie goes to get cookies. At the hospital, Kayla is with the mystery patient as Eric and Sami watch through the window, concerned. They head to the waiting room and Eric mentions that Holly keeps asking for her mommy. Sami thinks Marlena can help him to move forward. Kayla appears and updates that the man is critical yet stable. He needs rest. His burns are severe - around 90% of his body is burned. Eric goes to get Holly and Sami asks if she'll recognize him when his bandages come off. Kayla says not right away but eventually, they may be able to do skin grafts. Sami is frustrated and wonders if they can check his fingerprints. Kay calls the risk of infection too high. She asks for a blood test. Suddenly, the mystery man's blood pressure spikes and they rush into his room. It lowers on its own and Kay reluctantly allows Sami to spend time with him. She talks to him. At the DiMera house, Chad and Jenn are rocked to learn that Stefan and Abigail got married. Chad can't commit her now. He asks if she's Gabby. She isn't. Chad tells her it's impossible. She's married to him. "Not anymore," she says, deadpan. Stefan shows Chad some papers and Chad stumbles over his words, trying to figure out how this happened. He accuses Stefan of using her to get to Gabby. Stefan suggests they leave since it's been a stressful day for his wife. Abby kicks him out. He tries to guilt her out by asking, "What about Thomas?" Stefan tells Chad not to try to get sole custody or they'll fight it. Jenn has to hold Chad back from beating on Stefan, who assures that the divorce and their marriage is real. Jenn stares at her kid before following Chad out. Brady walks into the pub and sits down beside Rex. "Brady?" Rex asks. Brady stares. He reminds him it's Rex. "Brady. Rex. Rex Brady," Brady says. It's been a while. Rex offers a beer but Brady lost a woman he once loved and isn't in the mood. He takes off. Rex walks into the Kiriakis mansion, startling Sarah. They kiss and talk about how right it feels being home, that the price of clam chowder went up and that Rex ran into Brady who is having a bad day after losing someone he loved. Maggie returns and Rex is thrilled to see her. He flatters her looks and admits he felt odd at returning to Salem at first because everyone thought he was the Salem Stalker. They agree not to discuss it and he apologizes for not asking Maggie's permission to marry her daughter. Maggie's fine with that. She can't wait to discuss the wedding. Eric turns up alone and tells Maggie that Holly's outside playing with the other kids and that Nicole's dead. Maggie starts crying before Eric can even get the words out. He holds her as she whispers, "No. No." Eric walks her into the lounge and Maggie tells them about Nicole. They're shocked. Rex introduces Eric to Sarah. Sarah follows Maggie outside while Rex gives his sympathy. Eric opens up to Rex about being unsure he can care for Holly. Rex vows he'll help. They all will. They're family. Eric's grateful to have a brother he can count on. Brady goes to Salem Inn to see Eve. Eve's unhappy to see him. Stefan has been looking for him. Brady admits he left town with Kristen, voluntarily. Eve's shaken by his words. Are they an item again? Brady says no. He tells her Nicole's dead and fills her in on the details that he saved Eric and Holly. Brady cries. He feels he's to blame for Nicole's death. Eve doesn't believe that. She blames Xander and Kristen. Brady tells her she was right and he was wrong and he's sorry for being unfair and hypocritical for judging her when he's done worse. Eve still loves him. They kiss passionately and move to the bed.
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The Actress Who Plays L3-37 In Solo Is Gorgeous In Real Life - Duration: 7:45.
L3-37, the droid from Solo: A Star Wars Story, is more known for her spunk than her good looks.
But in real life, she's played by the gorgeous and accomplished British playwright Phoebe
Waller-Bridge.
Here's a look at some of her other work.
Stage to screen
Born in West London in 1985, Phoebe Waller-Bridge first came to prominence as a stage performer,
making her debut in 2009 at London's Soho Theatre.
She started out as strictly a performer, but soon branched out to writing and directing
her own plays.
As her stage work received more attention, Waller-Bridge also began a career on screen
with small appearances in TV shows and movies, starting with bit parts in films like The
Iron Lady and Albert Nobbs.
Her first major breakthrough came when she joined the award-winning series Broadchurch
during its second season, playing a straight-laced junior barrister named Abby Thompson.
The series significantly raised her profile as an on-screen talent on the international
stage.
"I looked through the file on the way up the train.
There are discrepancies."
"What sort of discrepancies?"
"Your sort."
One-woman show
As Phoebe Waller-Bridge began scoring better and more substantial roles in films and television,
her stage career continued to grow as well.
According to The Guardian, she and friend Vicki Jones founded the theater company DryWrite
in 2007.
As part of the company, Waller-Bridge wrote and produced a series of short plays called
Good.
Clean.
Fun. in 2014.
Waller-Bridge's most consequential creation during this time was a one-woman show called
Fleabag, which she wrote and first performed in 2013.
The stage production proved a great success, making a major impression for its tone of
filthy frankness.
Even as Waller-Bridge became more successful in other arenas, the stage version of Fleabag
continued to tour around the United Kingdom and beyond, eventually featuring other actresses
in the role.
The success of Fleabag and other projects brought Waller-Bridge her first serious awards
attention, winning a Stage Award for Best Solo Performance for Fleabag, and the distinction
of Most Promising Playwright from the Critics Circle Theatre Awards in 2013.
Crashing into notoriety
In 2016, Phoebe Waller-Bridge took to TV with the comedy series Crashing, which she created
and starred in.
The six-episode series centers on a group of young Londoners living together in an out-of-use
hospital as sanctioned "property guardians," providing "live-in security" for the abandoned
building in exchange for reduced rent.
Waller-Bridge played Lulu, a ukulele-wielding weirdo trying to carve out a place for herself
in an unconventional environment.
"Uh, homeless people!"
"I sometimes feel bad if they have scabs on their faces-oh!"
"What?"
"I think my tampon just came out a bit."
Waller-Bridge has said that the series showcases the compromises young people make in order
to make a living in a big city.
She told the Guardian,
"Six people in their 20s living in a flat - that kind of Friends set-up – is not really
relatable anymore.
Everyone I know is struggling with where to live.
It's just become part of reality that most people don't expect to be owning their own
place by the time they're 30 any more."
World-famous Fleabag
Although Crashing was a strong start, Phoebe Waller-Bridge's major career breakthrough
happened largely thanks to her next project, Fleabag, a television adaptation of her one-woman
show of the same name.
The show portrays the performer as a nameless young woman referred to only as Fleabag, navigating
life in London in a frank and profane way.
"My farts used to be like 'pah', and now they're just sort of fighting their way out."
"I haven't farted in about three years."
The six-episode show won a large number of awards both for the production as a whole
and for Waller-Bridge herself, who was lauded for her writing and her performance.
Naturally, a second season was commissioned and is in the works for a 2019 release.
Killing Eve
In 2016, Phoebe Waller-Bridge was hired to develop a TV series adaptation of the Luke
Jennings-written novella series, Codename Villanelle.
The result was the eight-episode series Killing Eve.
The series stars Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer as a government agent and assassin wrapped
up with each other in a deadly game of cat and mouse.
Killing Eve premiered in April 2018 to massive critical success, with specific praise for
the series' tension, humor, and off-beat tone.
"Did you have a party or something?"
A second season of the series is in the works, although Waller-Bridge has announced that
she'll be stepping back from her role as lead writer to simply be an executive producer
for the next season.
L3-37 lifestyle
It was more than just a thriller show that made 2018 Phoebe Waller-Bridge's biggest year
yet.
In May, she starred in Solo: A Star Wars Story, bringing the droid pilot L3-37 to life with
biting wit and energy.
The character, a one-of-a-kind independent robot, was one of the more notable creations
of the Star Wars spinoff.
L3-37 was created via a combination of CGI, motion-capture, and live-action effects, with
Waller-Bridge standing in for the wiry droid that would take her place in the final movie.
She spent the production in full-body suits with plastic robot parts attached to her frame,
which gave her a real physical presence in the movie.
The human element
Phoebe Waller-Bridge didn't get her role in Star Wars thanks to any passionate fandom
for the series.
On the contrary, she earned the role despite a lifelong indifference to the franchise.
Prior to scoring her part in Solo, Waller-Bridge had never seen a Star Wars movie.
You'd think that that lack of knowledge would make an audition for the series stressful
enough, but it turns out that Waller-Bridge took things a step further.
On the Graham Norton show, she revealed that her lack of Star Wars knowledge almost ruined
her audition.
"This character's amazing, she's a revolutionary, she's really cool, and the dialogue was amazing.
But it kind of said just in one of the stage directions, 'droid.'
So I was like, 'droid, droid…
What's a droid?'"
Waller-Bridge says she didn't put the robotic nature of her character's identity together
until she was already in the middle of performing the audition.
After delivering a very human take on the character, she was asked if she could try
it more "droidy," at which point she said she realized,
"It's a f---ing robot."
Doctor...
Who?
Star Wars isn't the only geek property that Phoebe Waller-Bridge's name has been attached
to.
Following the success of the Fleabag TV series, rumors swirled that Waller-Bridge would next
make history as the first female to play the role of the Doctor in the beloved British
program Doctor Who.
The rumors began after the Twelfth Doctor, Peter Capaldi, announced that he would be
leaving the series in 2017.
Some fans, having long argued for a woman in the role after decades of male Doctors,
began speculating that the Fleabag star would cash in on her newfound notoriety by taking
over the role.
Bookmakers in the UK took bets on who would replace Capaldi, and Waller-Bridge was a favorite
for the role.
The role ultimately ended up going to Jodie Whittaker, who previously starred with Waller-Bridge
on Broadchurch.
"You're a woman?"
"Am I?
Does it suit me?"
Regardless, Waller-Bridge didn't take the decision as a snub.
She told TV Guide,
"[It was] so cool to have my name in that mix."
The next job
Post-Solo, the future seems to be full of opportunity for Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
While the underperforming Star Wars movie isn't currently slated for a direct sequel,
that doesn't really matter for Waller-Bridge.
Her true purpose is returning to the series that gave her such a global platform in the
first place, working to write and produce the next season of Fleabag.
2018 also saw some changes in Waller-Bridge's personal life, as she divorced her husband
of four years and began dating In Bruges director Martin McDonagh.
Speaking in an interview with The Guardian, she said she plans to follow the second season
of Fleabag with an extended break, the first she's taken since her career took off.
"Since Fleabag, I've been in a bedroom under a duvet, writing."
Now that she's reached a place of success, she's finally ready to enjoy it, travel the
world, relax, and seek inspiration for new projects to come.
"Jogging."
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Because Super Junior is Super Junior💙 - Duration: 2:10.
[Peeking]
[The mic cord got tangled]
- It's not this, right? - What is?
It's not supposed to be like this.
- You have to do it like this. - What is?
To the back, so you can't see it.
How am I appearing on camera?
You're appearing like yourself.
We're greeting you again after a long time through "SJ Returns".
[Feeling slightly shy] Please officially say hi to your fans.
We are Super Junior.
- Do you have a D&E greeting? - We always do this.
Regardless of the unit activity we do, we want to remember we are Super Junior.
[That's right] So you really don't have one?
[We really don't have one] Yes.
No, we really don't!
Hello, we are Super Junior D&E.
We are Super Junior!
What are your roles in D&E?
Visuals and music...and...
Hair length. [Flutter]
I'm in charge of teeth.
My teeth
Who is the main vocalist?
The main vocalist?
The main vocalist is Yesung.
Of course, it'll be Donghae.
Why do you think it's Donghae for certain?
He's pretty decent.
I'm the main in my parts, and he's the main for his parts.
We sing our parts separates as the main vocalist!
How much do you get to sing in D&E songs?
- It's half-half. - Exactly half-half?
He has a bit more.
If we had to nitpick over that,
Donghae is in charge of the vocals.
And I'm in charge of the rap and performance.
- We're in Japan, right? - Yes.
What's the exactly reason why you're in Japan?
We're doing our 3rd Japanese tour as Super Junior D&E.
Yokohama, Kobe, and today is our 3rd city, Tokyo.
This is like "Entertainment Relay".
[Tomorrow, 11am KST] [The second teaser piece to be revealed!]
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Jesus People with Danielle Strickland: The Time is Now - Duration: 41:16.
- Oh my friends we are in for such a treat this morning.
It is a gift and we have a privilege
of having Danielle Strickland teach
with us this morning. (applause)
Yeah and she is very worthy of applause.
You haven't even said anything yet!
Look at this, before we talk a little bit
about Danielle I want to highlight
and remind you that starting next week
we enter phase two of our meditation series.
Still Hear, but this time it's H-E-A-R.
And we're gonna continue in understanding
the practices of meditation, focusing
on the words of Jesus as we look
at the things that he has spoken.
So we're very excited to pick that up next week.
And this morning as we listen to Danielle,
I've actually had the privilege
of hearing her speak several times
in the last 10 days and yet, I have yet
to not be captivated by literally
every word that comes out of her mouth.
You saw in the quotes the things
that she's involved in, the history
that she has, she is a ruthless advocator
and ambassador for those in the margins.
She has co-founded organization
after organization that moves these things forward.
And the words that she is about to speak
to us this morning on how we live
our discipleship lives is one I'm so excited for.
So let me pray for Danielle, let us all pray
for Danielle and we'll begin.
Jesus we thank you that you are present here.
And we pray for Danielle that you
just fill her with your spirit.
That the words that you would have
her speak, you infuse her with now.
Thank you for the passion that you've given her
and made that pour out of her this morning
as we sit and listen to her teach.
And we pray this in your name, amen.
- Amen, good morning beautiful people.
It's an absolute honour for me to be
at The Meeting House and my husband actually is really
excited 'cause he listens to the podcast regularly.
So maybe he'll listen to me finally.
(audience laughs)
That's what I was like (yells) this is my opportunity.
Anyway Stephen honey I love you, okay.
(audience laughs)
I wanna talk about following Jesus
'cause really I'm figurin' it out.
I'm still figurin' it out, one of the things
that I've learned in the practice
of following Jesus is that it is a practice.
It is an intentional decision that I've been making
to try to align my life in ways that look like Jesus
in real life and that's really difficult.
In my family, I have three sons.
And one of them is this really amazing active imagine guy.
His name is Judah, he is a deep thinker
but he's also like in another realm most of the time.
So like when we're coloring we're not just coloring.
We're coloring a rocket ship that's gonna go
to outer space and when we're playing
in the backyard we're not just playing in the backyard,
we're hunting tigers in some kind of a jungle.
And I remember saying to him one time,
just something fairly normal like you wanna go swimming?
Just something, you wanna go to the pool?
And he looked at me with these wide eyes.
I could almost hear his brain working
and he goes, for real life Mom? (laughs)
For real life, and I feel like I find myself
asking God that same question a lot, you know?
And when it comes to following Jesus
I'm asking myself question that as well.
Like for real life, we're gonna love God
with all of our heart and all
of our mind and all of our soul?
We're gonna love our neighbors as ourself?
Life for real life or is this just like a hallmark thing?
Is this just like a postcard, is this
just some kind of a super spirituality
that we're gonna like, yes, but not really live out
in our practical day-to-day lives?
And so for me I've been on this journey
of following Jesus for real life.
And what does that look like to make Jesus
sort of the center of my life on a daily basis?
What does it mean to take the words of Jesus
in Matthew's Gospel where he breaks down
to this lawyer what the essence of it all is?
And he breaks that down to say
the essence of it all is this love relationship
with God and then this love relationship with other people.
But what does love look like?
Or maybe Tina Turner asks it well, right?
"What's love got to do with it?" In the culture
in which we live where love is so distorted
and love is so messed up and love
is so broken in our own everyday hyper sexualized culture.
What does love look like in today's world?
And so for me a bunch of friends and I really,
we got together even after years
of being what I would call professional Christians.
You know I'm paid to be good, even that isn't enough right?
There's no payment enough to make me good, right?
Even that isn't enough, we got together and said
like are we really still following Jesus for real life?
Is this something that we're really doing?
Is this happening on a daily basis?
Are we sensing the direction of God?
Are we hearing the invitation of Jesus,
towards living like him?
And so we had this real sober conversation
about whether or not we were just doing
the things that we needed to do.
Doing religious things better than ever before.
Doing those things that we're paid to do
or whether we were really in this fascinated discovery
of who Jesus is and how Jesus invites us to live.
Now this for me is really cool because I grew up
in a Christian context but really
kind of grew up thinking that Christianity
was safe and boring, it was sort of like ordering
a vanilla, non-fat, no-foam latte, sugar free vanilla syrup
which actually was my favorite drink for a long time.
And I used to go in and order it
and I remember a Starbucks barrister saying
shouting out "one why bother", you know?
(audience laughs)
And that's kind of what Christianity felt like for me.
As like a one why bother, you know?
Just kind of flavorless almost and
nothing really... (laughs)
And what I discovered in my own experience
of Jesus is that actually that road,
that invitation that Jesus gives us
is into this much wider, spacious, beautiful,
colorful, adventurous, painful, filled with all
of the ups and downs of passion and love personified.
And pain and joy and this awakening agency in my life.
And so I traded in the why bother
for this full bodied experience of discipleship.
And I wanted to just break down three postures
that I've been practicing on a daily basis
and then finish with a prayer and then
have some questions and answers after that
if there's anything that I didn't explain clearly.
The first posture is a posture of surrender.
This is an alignment that helps me on a daily.
This is like, for lack of a better word,
this is like spiritual chiropractic.
This is free by the way, this chiropractic treatment.
This spiritual alignment to say like
sometimes my alignment gets out
of place and I need God to help me.
And I need to participate with God
helping me get back into a right alignment.
A right way of living and surrender
is kinda the first of those things.
The first posture that is a right alignment
when it comes to the Kingdom of God.
Surrender is the posture that we see
Jesus assuming on a regular basis.
He aligns himself in a posture
of surrender over and over and over again.
One of my favorites, you'll have
in your notes in Matthew's Gospel,
his baptism into a baptism of repentance.
This is a fascinating idea because Jesus
of course we know, knew no sin.
He never did anything wrong and John the Baptist
was baptizing people into this baptism
of repentance for their sin and so when Jesus came
and said yeah do it for me, John's like uh,
I feel weird about this because you
actually have nothing to repent of.
Like I actually know you, you're my cousin.
If there was some dirt on you I would have found it.
This doesn't feel right, and Jesus is like
no it is right because this is a way
by which I can fulfill what it is
that God's desire is for me which is
this full identification which is
this surrendering of his own rights
and his own even holiness, his own even apartness
from humanity so that he can be part of the human condition.
It's a surrender posture, it's a letting go
of his life and a surrendering
into the life that God has for him.
In Matthew's Gospel it says that when he does this,
that right at this act of this surrender
the Heavens are opened the Scripture says.
And the spirit it descends like a dove
and the voice of the Father, you know.
So this is a Trinity, the whole family's there.
And kind of like this is my, and the father says
this is my son, this is my son in whom I'm well pleased.
You know in Mark's Gospel when he recounts
this exact same instance when he uses
the word open, the heavens were open,
the word open that he uses is actually ripped open.
It actually, this is what I love
to remind myself of every day is that surrender
is a power posture in the Kingdom of God.
See many of us grow up, especially in Christian traditions
or in religious backgrounds where we
just kinda have this like, I think I can, I think I can.
If only we tried harder, if only we grabbed more.
If only we fought harder for our own individual rights.
If only we just gave it a little bit more effort
and just drag ourself up by our bootstraps kind of a thing.
If only we made better choices
and maybe those things are all true
for like life decisions but actually
when it comes to a relationship with God
there is no trying harder, there's a letting go.
There's a willingness to say this is not about me.
There's a willingness to open up our lives
and surrender ourselves to the purpose of a God.
If you come from a 12 Step tradition at all
or in the version of recovery in any,
you'll know that one of the power steps,
like the most essential step in the 12 Step series
is the step that is number three, it's surrender.
It's that I get that I can't do it.
I get that this is beyond me but there has gotta be
a power greater than me, there has
to be somebody who could do what I cannot do.
And the only way you can access that power
which of course we know is Jesus, the only way
you can access that power is to stop trying so hard.
To actually let go to the purposes of God.
Now I remember God reminding me of this.
I was trying to give my son some medicine.
He was three at the time, my middle son Judah.
And his favorite words were no way (laughs)
in particular he did not like taking medicine.
I went to the doctor, I said doc, please help me.
Like help a mother out and he gave me
what all the kids loved, he told me
it was liquid flavored, it was
banana flavored liquid penicillin.
And so I took it home armed with this like, the good stuff.
And my eldest son and I created
a little skit trying to convince Judah
to take his medicine so we're like monkeys
pretending like we wanted this medicine.
You know we're like (imitating monkey call).
Who's got the banana and we're giving each other
this medicine and we say to Judah,
Judah are there any monkeys in this room
that might want some medicine?
You know that might want some banana flavored medicine?
And Judah looks at us completely
unimpressed and says no way.
And so we switched our tactics up
to like a tiger and we're like (imitating tiger roar).
Are there any, this medicine's so good
that the tigers eat the monkeys
who eat this medicine you know?
This is, are there any tigers in the house
that want this medicine and Judah
looks at us and says no way.
So I resorted to the deep kindness
that mothers have, you know that well
of love and compassion and loving care
and I just held that little sucker down.
(audience laughs)
Right, I remember I sat on his writhing little body
and I strong-armed his shoulders to the ground
and he's like no way, no way!
And I said Zion quick grab his head!
So my son grabs his head and I like
ever so gently lovingly kindly take that syringe
filled with banana flavored penicillin
and I shove it down his little throat.
(audience laughs)
And I say yes way. (audience laughs)
And that's when God spoke to me.
(audience laughs)
That's partly how you can tell
the Holy Spirit's probably a woman.
(audience laughs)
She's always interrupting. (audience laughs)
But I said what, you know guys I felt God say to me
oh I see you do your salvation like you do your medicine!
And at first I was like well of course.
Hello, people are dying of an infectious disease.
I don't care if they don't like the taste
of it, I'm gonna get that down their throat
for the love of God let's shove it down their throat!
And I felt like God said to me no, no, no,
it's not the quality of the salvation
that's the problem it's the quantity.
See, God has this plan he has this redemptive plan.
I mean Jesus when he came to the disciples,
you'll know this, he didn't say
is there any room in your boat for me?
That's not what Jesus said, Jesus said
I've got this idea, I have this capacity.
I have this plan called redemption
for the whole entire world, as a matter of fact
there's a song that says oh boundless salvation.
It's the founder of the Salvation Army wrote it.
It was this picture that God reminded him
of of the scriptural plan of this ocean
of love, this mighty ocean of justice.
This ocean of salvation that was gonna come
and it was gonna change the whole world, all of it.
And we were invited at this discipleship
posture of surrender to let go of our lives.
To leave our boats, to put down the nets
of what used to concern us and to actually join Jesus
on this redemption plan for the whole world.
As a matter of fact, John 3:16,
even the word world there is under-translated.
It actually means created cosmos.
For God so loved the creative cosmos.
The love of God, so rich, so free,
so filled with mercy for the whole entire world.
And I felt like God asked me on
that occasion one more time, do you really want a syringe?
Do you really want a syringe filled
with banana flavored salvation?
Just enough for what ails you?
Or would you like an ocean of God's love?
Would you like to give yourself
to something greater than your own self?
And to do that is a posture of surrender.
Surrender is a power posture in the Kingdom of God.
When Jesus surrenders himself to the will of God,
every single time it rips heaven open.
If you're interested in heaven opening,
if you're interested in salvation,
you're interested in light and possibilities
and hope and all of the axises of heaven
coming over your family or your community
or your life, the way that you open
heaven is very clear in Scripture.
It happens through acts of surrender.
It happens when you let go of the life
that you want and you let God direct
your life for what he wants.
The posture of surrender has been a key one in my life.
The other posture is a posture of generosity.
This one I've also found confusing in my life.
I learned for many many years
that generosity was just giving more,
giving more, giving more, I come from a giving tradition.
Giving is kinda like this expectation.
You give more, you give more, you give more.
And I never understood that generosity
as a scriptural practice was reciprocal.
I never understood that generosity
from a scriptural standpoint in the way of Christ
is both receiving and giving.
This has been a really fascinating
experience for me but you remember
when Jesus sent out the disciples
on their first mission, he said this to them.
This is, it's written in your notes.
He says this, freely you've received, now freely give.
What are they giving exactly?
What are they giving, like is Peter
giving theology lessons? (laughs)
'Cause he hasn't quite sorted that one out yet in his life.
You know what I mean, like what are they giving?
'Cause Jesus told them not to take
anything with them so like what are they giving exactly?
Like what is it that they have to give?
And Jesus says everything I've given you.
Everything you've received from me.
What is that, what have you received from God?
Because Jesus' generosity principle
is that everything that you've received
so freely from God is what actually you are to give.
We see this at work in Jesus' own life, remember?
When he has, he hints about it all the time.
He says I have food that you know not of, right?
What is he talking about, what is his food?
Jesus will spend all night in prayer.
Jesus will say this, I never do anything
that I don't hear the father already saying to me.
What is that about, this is a posture
that Jesus lives, it's reciprocal all the time.
Constantly receiving from Heaven,
constantly receiving resources.
I mean when we think to ourselves,
how did he bring himself to forgive people
that were literally killing him, how did he do it?
Well I have a hunch that he gave away
what he freely received, that he was constantly
a conduit of the ways of God and the practices of God.
I was at a leadership conference one time
and I ended up helping a homeless couple.
A leader gave me a credit card
and said hey look we have this homeless couple
in the next town, would you help them?
And I wasn't that thrilled to help them.
I was busy and I was tired and I had just finished working
and I really just wanted something to eat.
I had just gone for a run and all kinds of things.
But I was like sure, okay, fine.
Kinda dutifully doing what it was
that a Christian should do, at least
I'm a professional Christian, I'm at least paid
to be good, I might as well try my best.
So I remember sticking this credit card
in my back pocket and picking up this homeless couple.
It was in northern British Columbia
so literally we were nowhere, you know?
It's not even listed on a map.
And I remember saying to them what do you need,
and them saying I need some food and I need a bus ticket.
So I was like okay fine, so we go
to this grocery store and we walk
into this grocery store and I was hungry,
I'd just been traveling, they were hungry, they're homeless.
And we walk into this store and we all smell it
at the same time, it's the smell of strawberries.
I mean these fresh strawberries,
it was like (inhales sharply).
You know your mom said never to shop when you're hungry?
Right? (audience laughs)
It was one of those moments where
I was like nuts, I did the wrong thing.
And I remember all of us panning over
to the strawberry section, you know.
We saw the sign that was like one strawberry $10, you know?
(audience laughs)
And I remember all of us at once
just at the same time just going ahh,
you know that sinking feeling where
what you really want you know you're never gonna get?
And I just remember going ah,
those strawberries smell amazing and then I remembered.
I had the credit card of the organization in my back pocket.
And I remember going, like literally going
like let's get strawberries. (laughs)
This homeless couple was like are you sure?
And I was like I'm positive, let's get the strawberries!
And then like not just the strawberries
but when we went to the bread section
we said 99 cent Wonder Bread can wait for another day.
Today we're getting the olive-encrusted,
the almond, be like we're getting
the bread that we've dreamed about getting,
you know what I'm saying, we're getting that!
And then when we went to the cereal aisle
we said goodbye to the Cornflakes
and yes to the Lucky Charms, I mean
we were just like come on, it was
the best shopping I've ever done.
And we check out of there and I get
to the bus station and we get bus tickets
and I say, you know, I'm hooking them up with snacks
and we're just having a good time.
We're eating in the store, we're just
having such a fun time and I load them
on the bus and I say is there anything else I can get you?
And they said yeah we'd like you to pray for us.
And I remember thinking oh yeah, I forgot, you know?
'Cause that's Ministry 101 but I was like,
I was so enraptured with those strawberries I forgot.
What would you like me to pray for you for?
And they said we would like more of this.
I said what do you mean, they said we want what you have.
And I said well you can't have the credit card.
(audience laughs)
Like I'm literally keeping that for as long as possible.
(audience laughs)
But I'm like you can't have that but what do you mean?
And they said no we don't want the credit card,
we want this, we want joy, we want love.
We want this thing that we've encountered.
We want community, like what is this thing
that we've just been a part of today?
And I was able to explain to them
that this thing that they've been a part
of today is what Jesus brings to people.
It's what Jesus invites people into,
is this life that's kind of larger
than our everyday normal lives.
And they said we would like to follow Jesus
and I was able to pray for them
to be followers of Jesus and then I was driving
back to this leadership thing in the car
and I remember God speaking to me again.
Saying Danielle, what changed?
In this experience you weren't really that excited
to do this job in the first part.
But on the way back you're really excited
about what just happened so what changed?
What was the thing that made
the difference in this experience?
And I realized that the only thing
that changed in this encounter
was that I realized I had a resource beyond my own.
See somewhere in the middle of that encounter
I realized that I had some resource bigger
than my own personal resource.
If there was something I could tap into
that was greater and it was just economics.
I understand and that's a real thing.
Some of us need to tap into economic resources
bigger than ourselves but in the Kingdom of Heaven,
in the ways of Jesus this is what Jesus did all the time.
See when you're running out of forgiveness
you can tap into a resource where the Scripture says
forgiveness is like, it's like covering the whole Earth.
God has already purchased your forgiveness.
You need forgiveness, you can receive forgiveness.
You need mercy, the Scripture says
that mercy is new every single morning, it's fresh.
Like you ran out of mercy today, it's okay.
It's topped up, it's paid off.
Do you need hope, are you lacking in hope?
'Cause there's a resource called hope
that is inexhaustible that Heaven
has these inexhaustible resources
that Jesus taps into all the time.
And this is what he's telling his disciples.
Everything that you've received from me,
vision, hope, forgiveness, love, grace, faith.
Give that away, give that away.
This is the posture of generosity, see it's reciprocal.
And here's one of the ways that I realized
that I need to readjust my posture of generosity.
It's usually when I start getting stingy.
It's usually when I start getting judgemental.
It's usually when I start going like no. (laughs)
I don't have that, no they're gonna want stuff.
It's usually when I see needy people
running towards me and instantly go like
look away, look away, it's too hard, it's too hard.
I realize that I'm actually just giving
out of my own resources and I haven't taken
a generous posture today to receive
the inexhuastable resources of Heaven.
And then freely share them with everybody that I meet.
It's a posture of generosity, the third posture
in my chiropractic treatment is a posture of mission.
This is when I've quoted in the Scriptures
when Jesus is saying to the disciples
like you're gonna receive power.
And you're gonna be my witnesses.
And it's gonna be in where you are.
And then it's gonna be in the regions
where you're a little less comfortable
and then it's gonna be in regions
where literally on the map you've marked out
and you write these are where the dragons live.
I mean it's gonna be places where you're absolutely
frightened to go to, this is gonna expand your world.
And this is what I call a missional posture.
This is when your life from a posture
of surrender and a posture of generosity
keeps expanding and keeps expanding until you realize
that you're living for something beyond your own requests.
You're living what I would call an others-focused life.
I remember 19, 20 years old I was volunteering
with the Salvation Army when they were
reopening their work in the Soviet Union
after the collapse of the government.
The invitation of the church to come back there.
And I remember meeting this guy,
just having this privilege to meet
this guy named Vladimir Mikhaylovich.
He was 88 years old at the time.
And I mean the guy was just, he had spent
his whole life just staying missional.
Just really telling other people about Jesus.
Literally in the gulag, writing,
putting the Bible inside of his clothes.
He was arrested over and over and over again
for preaching the Gospel and still
at 88 years old he was still like
we're alive and well, thank you very much.
The church never went anywhere except in the prison!
And he's like I'm good, and I got to interview him
day after day after day he told
me story after story after story
of these incredible encounters he had
with God doing these incredible things.
One encounter he told me about
in a jail cell, a secret jail in Moscow
where somebody miraculously got him a Bible into the prison.
And he ended up at 17 years old
not even really knowing much.
He was just really became a follower of Jesus at 16 himself.
And he shared the Gospel with all
of these 70 criminals in this cell
and they all get saved and sentenced
to solitary confinement for singing hymns
illegally against the prison rules.
He's telling me story after story after story
and I remember thinking at 20 years old
I wanna live a life like Vladimir Mikhaylovich.
I wanna live this adventurous amazing big awesome life.
God please, and I was traveling
to this with a translator and the translators
that we were using at the time,
it was so fresh that we were hiring them
from the university and most of them were still atheists.
They were very dismissive of this idea of Christianity.
And the one that I had, her name was Anna
and she was very dismissive of Christianity.
And I was thinking to myself this is awesome
because surely one of these stories,
surely this man, Vladimir got through to her.
Like surely, so I was saying to Anna
on the train on the way back to Moscow
I was saying Anna, what was most impactful?
What was the story that impacted you the most?
What was the thing about Vladimir Mikhaylovich
that really really impacted you?
And I'm like waiting, 'cause I,
there was like a whole buffet.
And she said to me, you know Danielle
it's gonna be really hard to explain this to you.
But the thing that impacted me most
about Vladimir Mikhaylovich was the way he loved his wife.
I said to her, were you even listening?
(audience laughs)
That guy got whole prison cells saved.
He got sentenced to the gulag, I'm pretty sure
he got Solzhenitsyn saved, that's a whole other story.
But I'm like this guy, he is revolutionary!
He's literally been changing the world.
Were you even listening?
She said it wasn't even the words to me.
She said see I grew up in a home that was pretty aloof.
She said in the culture that I grew up in
there wasn't a lot of tenderness,
not a lot of intimacy, certainly not a lot of love.
She said but that man, I have never seen
a man so tender, so kind, so patient,
so servant-hearted, so loving towards a woman.
And then this is what she said to me.
If that's what Jesus is like, if that's
what Jesus is like, I'd like to follow him.
See I'm so glad I had that experience
so early on in my discipleship.
Because I feel like it's so tempting
to think that a mission-focused life
is some big glorious outward-focused life.
And to forget that a mission-focused life
is just an others-focused life.
In other words there will be these moments
that are glorious and opportunities
that are public that maybe are like awesome
and we're like ah, remember that?
Remember that happened, remember I was part of that?
But there will also be these moments
every single day where we have opportunities
to love one another in ways that are sacrificial.
In ways that are authentic, in ways
that are honest and that people will know Jesus
by the way we love each other.
In other words, how's your relationships?
See these postures of surrender
and generosity and mission, I align myself.
I get into the right posture every day
so that I can practice living in the way of Christ.
So I can practice living like Jesus in real life.
And one of the ways I do that is an actual daily prayer
that I do and I wondered if you might
risk it and join me in this prayer this morning.
And if you want to you can just stand up where you are.
It's a posture prayer so I invite you
to assume these postures with me.
So you wanna stand up, I know it's a little mean
on a Sunday morning but it's a spiritual
chiropractic alignment so you need your body for this.
I hold up my fists like this.
And if you wanna repeat after me you're welcome to do so.
I say, I confess. - [Congregation] I confess.
- My natural human posture.
- [Congregation] Natural human posture.
- Is to fight for my right.
- [Congregation] Is to fight for my right.
- To try to make something happen.
- [Congregation] To try to make something happen.
- But I choose. - [Congregation] But I choose.
- As a follower of Jesus. - [Congregation] As a follower
of Jesus. - A posture of surrender.
- [Congregation] A posture of surrender.
- I hold up my hands. - [Congregation] I hold
up my hands. - I say I give up.
- [Congregation] I say I give up.
- And I give over.
- [Congregation] And I give over.
- To the leadership of God.
- [Congregation] To the leadership of God.
- You're in charge of me.
- [Congregation] You're in charge of me.
- And then I hold my hands out in fists in front of me
and I say I confess. - [Congregation] I confess.
- My natural human posture.
- [Congregation] My natural human posture.
- Is to take. - [Congregation] Is to take.
- It's to keep. - [Congregation] It's to keep.
- It's to hold. - [Congregation] It's to hold.
- But I choose. - [Congregation] But I choose.
- As a follower of Jesus.
- [Congregation] As a follower of Jesus.
- To open up my hands.
- [Congregation] To open up my hands.
- And my life. - [Congregation] And my life.
- Freely I receive.
- [Congregation] Freely I receive.
- Let's take a couple minutes
to ask for what you need today.
And then I pray everything that I've received.
- [Congregation] Everything that I've received.
- I choose to give.
- [Congregation] I choose to give.
- And the final posture is to cross my arms
and I say I confess. - [Congregation] I confess.
- My natural human posture.
- [Congregation] My natural human posture.
- Is to spectate.
- [Congregation] Is to spectate.
- To criticize. - [Congregation] To criticize.
- To say it's not my problem.
- [Congregation] To say it's not my problem.
- But I choose. - [Congregation] But I choose.
- As a follower of Jesus.
- [Congregation] As a follower of Jesus.
- An open posture of mission.
- [Congregation] An open posture of mission.
- I say to the lost. - [Congregation] I say
to the lost. - I say to the deep needs
of the world. - [Congregation] I say
to the deep needs of the world.
- Here I am. - [Congregation] Here I am.
- Amen, amen you may be seated.
And now it's time for the beloved Q and Eh.
And I'm here, available to answer
any questions you might have.
It's crystal clear? Oh here's one.
- [Man] It seems that you're making...
When you're giving to others it seems
like you're making things happen.
How do you differentiate between surrendering
and making things happen for others?
- Yeah I think that's a really good question.
How do you differentiate between surrendering
and making things happen for others?
Yeah and I think that's probably a tension
that has to do with discernment.
So I think it's practice, here's where I figure it out.
Usually in hindsight. (audience laughs)
Do you know what I mean, usually I figure it
out in hindsight and it usually
is accompanied by like agenda.
Often I find that I've made something happen
for somebody and then they're on the hook for it.
If I have this sense of betrayal
if they don't live up to what it is that I've done for them,
I realize I haven't done that in a posture of surrender.
So I feel, and even generosity.
It's been sort of this agenda.
So for me that's why I think using language
like practice is so helpful 'cause I think
we often have a lot of pressure to get it right every time.
And I don't get it right every time.
I get it wrong a lot but I think
that God is helping us to learn in those spaces.
You'll, even if you just take a quick look
through the disciples' journey,
they get it wrong a lot too. (laughs)
and it's like Jesus is just helping
readjust, re-position, re-posture.
And then the next time I get it,
I recognize what's happening a little sooner
and I get it before I actually jumped all the way in.
Does that make, there are definitely
some times where it's work and effort
to push through for other people.
There's no question, it's just
whether or not I'm doing that in the right posture.
That's the question, and that really
is one of those things just like a chiropractic appointment
where you don't know you need it 'till your back hurts.
It's kind of one of those, I feel like
you don't really quite know that you got it wrong
until you realize oh, wow, that's out of alignment, yeah.
That's my best one on that.
Any other questions?
- [Man] Hi, as I was seeing your CV scroll
in front of us at the beginning,
I thought to myself there's a high achiever.
And I guess my question is how
do you, there's always so much need in the world.
And there's always so much opportunity around us.
How do you know how much of yourself
to give and when is it too much?
- Yeah, yeah obviously I don't. (laughs)
(audience laughs)
I just, no I think for me the rule
of thumb has been what's in front of me.
And that journey has changed and I think
different seasons of your life
require different efforts in different areas.
But for me the rule of thumb is like
what is that think that's in front of me to do?
What is that presenting, I mean,
lots of Scriptural ideas around this.
But where is that thing that's right here?
That's deeply impassioned, it's connected
to my gift mix and the opportunity is open.
So whether or not in someone else's life
that means they have a friend who went
through a domestic violence situation
and they're highly sensitive to
the domestic violence conversation
and then discover that there's a domestic violence shelter
in their neighborhood and they need volunteers,
then I'm always like that's not a rocket science decision.
That's, you give yourself 'cause your heart's already there.
Your gift mix is there, your experience
is there and the opportunity's there.
I feel like that's one of the,
those are some of the rules of thumb
that I used for how to discern what to do
at what time and at what effort, yeah.
But I'm still figuring that one out too. (laughs)
I'm a padawan. (audience laughs)
All the, I feel like this section listened.
(audience laughs)
Like all the, I don't wanna make it a competition
but I'm just saying. (laughs) (audience laughs)
- [Woman] I have a question, can you tell us
how you got involved in human trafficking work?
- Yeah, actually this is one of those exact
discernment areas where I lived incarnationally
in a community called the Downtown East Side.
Which is in Vancouver so I moved
in there with my family and we started
making friends with folks who lived in that neighborhood.
Most of them marginalized and exploited
for many many generations.
And I made friends with some women
who were sexually exploited and I heard their stories.
And at first I just was kinda like
trying to be a good neighbor, trying
to be like Jesus with skin on in the community.
Trying to learn what that looked like.
But then I started realizing that every single person
I talked to didn't just have a personal story.
That all those stories looked similar.
And soon I realized that this is not something
that was just happening to one person.
There was a systemic nature to this.
And that maybe there was a way
of fighting this whole thing, not just one story at a time.
Or at least both together so really
it became something that hurt my friends.
And then I got defensive about it.
Because I was like why are you doing this to her?
And then why are you doing this to her?
And then really just started stumbling
through like what we could do and in those days,
it really was about making people
even aware this was happening, right?
This was 20 years ago so this was like
even just talking about there is this thing
called human trafficking, now I feel
like we're way past that and we're
onto like okay what do we all do about it?
And if you're looking for ways
to get involved to stop human trafficking,
there are many on my website.
There's a campaign I've just launched
in Canada called Brave Global which is trying
to reach vulnerable girls before they're trafficked.
That happened out of a conversation
in the back of a massage parlor which again
was me trying to be a neighbor in a local community
that had places where women were being sold.
So we got a couple folks to bake some goods
and went over and introduced ourselves
as neighbors who cared and tried
to kind of create some friendships
that might lead to some form of empowerment
or at least some sense of camaraderie.
So that was a fascinating discovery.
In the back of one of those massage parlors
with the very hardened madame,
she asked me, told me her story of exploitation
that started at 11 and she asked me
a very pointed question that said
where were you when I was 11?
And that question I couldn't get out of my mind.
I felt like God was like this is,
where were you when, like it was one
of those and then my passion, my experience,
my expertise and then this question
that I couldn't get out of my head.
And all led to this opportunity
of mobilizing churches to reach
vulnerable girls before they're trafficked.
So that kinda was an indicator
that I needed to give my attention to that now.
So I think that's kinda just how God draws us,
doesn't he, into this beautiful boundless salvation.
Yeah thanks guys great questions, great time, God bless you.
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Help! My Hair Is Falling Out! - Duration: 4:54.
(upbeat music)
- Morning, how are you?
I hope you've had a fantastic week.
Now I should really have my hair down for this video
because what I'm talking about today is your hair health.
So clients come in for all different reasons,
all different symptoms,
from some acne breakouts
to dry hair, to hair falling out,
to gut, to bloating, all sorts of things.
You name it, and we all come in for different reasons.
Stool health, energy, fatigue, sickness, chronic conditions,
auto immune conditions, thyroid health.
But for women especially, a very big concern
and one that really upsets women is hair.
When the hair is either dry, splitting
or you're losing big clumps of it.
Every lady wants healthy hair, myself included.
And while it feels like vanity,
and clients will often apologize to me afterwards
and say, "I'm really sorry for talking about my hair
"and being so upset about it,
"when there's so many other issues."
I get it.
We want good hair.
I want you to have good hair.
Nobody wants to be losing their hair.
I don't see it as vanity.
I just see it as another sign that your body is telling us
that it's out of balance.
So it can mean all sorts of things
and I say never ignore your symptoms.
It's your body talking to you
and your body wanting to be in balance again.
So if your hair is falling out,
there can be a few reasons why.
It can be lack of zinc.
It can be lack of vitamins, minerals.
Split ends is often lack of vitamin C.
It could be you're iron deficient.
It can also be you don't have enough hydrochloric acid.
So hydrochloric acid makes sense
if you're going root causes.
If you don't have enough vitamins and minerals
or if you don't have enough hydrochloric acid,
you're not able to break down those vitamins and minerals
so that your body can actually absorb them
and use the nutrients.
You also need good protein and collagen.
So going backwards though, further north,
'cause you know we're always
about getting to the root cause,
if you don't have enough hydrochloric acid, why not?
What is causing your body stress
that it is not producing enough hydrochloric acid?
Are you sympathetic dominant?
Remember when your sympathetic, stress is on,
everything else is off.
Have you got parasites?
Have you got gut bacteria?
Have you got yeast?
What is going on in your gut?
Is there an infection, a chronic infection in your body?
Are you being exposed to mold?
Any of these reasons can be why your hair's falling out.
It can also be that you've been through
a really stressful time
and a really stressful experience.
For some of us, we will lose hair during that time.
Another reason is, do you have heavy metals?
Is your body detoxifying,
but it's detoxifying through your hair
'cause it's trying to get out through your skin or your hair
and it's causing hair loss?
Are you using a lot of chemicals in your hair?
Hair dye, hair products, all sorts of different things.
So you're allowed to cry,
you're allowed to cry about any symptom.
Clients come to me and some sessions,
we do cry together.
Some sessions, you just cry.
And so it doesn't matter what your symptom is.
If it's upsetting you then it's upsetting me.
But more importantly, never feel embarrassed
about what your body's telling you.
It's talking to you because it wants to be in balance
and it always wants to heal itself.
So something like hair loss,
oh the other thing sorry, with hair loss,
it can be your thyroid.
Is your thyroid not functioning properly?
Is that the reason?
And when I'm talking about hair loss,
we're talking about clumps of hair
falling out in the shower,
or getting bald patches.
But just remember your body's always talking to you.
So on that note,
some of you have already got friends and family
that have signed up for the online nutrition course
which is so fantastic,
we're so excited to share it with you.
If you haven't already, spread the love,
because these are the basics.
Remember those first few appointments
that you came to me with?
We started going through hydration
and working out your diet, your macronutrients,
explaining to you, sipping your water,
all sorts of different things.
This is what the course if covering.
So that anybody that has friends or family
that wanted to come to see me
and can't for affordability reasons,
or just location reasons,
sign them up, they are absolutely gonna love it,
you are gonna love it,
and remember, listen to your body,
it's always talking to you.
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Twilight of Merkel era is already closely watched in EU World news
German chancellor's struggles brought home to the rest of Europe that her authority is ebbing away
German chancellor's struggles brought home to the rest of Europe that her authority is ebbing away
When Angela Merkel announced she would not seek another term as German chancellor, for Brussels it was more like lengthening shadows at the end of the day than a storm out of the blue.
The the twilight of the chancellor – is already closely watched in the EU. Merkel's struggles to form a coalition government in 2017 and skirmishes with her CSU coalition partners over migration in the summer, brought home to the rest of Europe that her authority is ebbing away.
The decline of the EU's longest-serving leader is discombobulating for other member states and with uncertainty over her successor and when they will take over, Germany is seen as a weaker actor in the EU.
"You will have a certain vacuum in Berlin, a chancellor who has already been weakened over the last months and years, who will not be strengthened by this," said Janis Emmanouilidis, director of studies at the European Policy Centre.
Some EU diplomats had hoped that a summit in December would be the moment to make progress on a common European asylum policy and changes to the eurozone before European elections in 2019. "There are decisions to be taken in Brussels – tough ones. This won't make things easier, it will make things more complicated," Emmanouilidis said.
The fragility of the German government has already been evident in Brussels. Strains in the grand coalition mean Germany had no position on a law to reduce CO<sub>2</sub> emissions from cars for eight months, too late for Berlin to exert much influence on proposals critical to a key industry.
Germany's EU commissioner, Günther Oettinger, who was appointed by Merkel, alluded to similar problems. "We need an effective federal government without constant debates within the grand coalition, which weaken the ability to act in the EU."
Some senior officials believe Merkel's weakness is part of a wider pattern across Europe: declining trust in traditional parties, surging support for the radical left and right, and political fragmentation. All these factors make it even harder for the EU's 28 governments to make decisions.
The sense of disquiet is heightened because Merkel was seen in 2016 as a bulwark for the liberal, free-trading order. In the immediate aftermath of the Brexit vote, she was quick to defend the EU's four freedoms, a position the EU has stuck to ever since. A few months later in her congratulatory message to US president-elect Donald Trump, Merkel promised cooperation on the basis of democracy, respect for the law and human dignity.
However, the weakening of the chancellor is unlikely to have an impact on Brexit. "Even among those who are critical of Angela Merkel, they are not critical of the chancellor with respect to Brexit: that's not even an issue," Emmanouilidis said.
László Andor, a former European commissioner, cautions over exaggerating Merkel's significance. "The drama is not the fall of Merkel, the drama is the collapse of the SPD," he said of Germany's weakening centre-left party. "The structural importance of Germany will remain without her."
Andor, an economist affiliated to Hungary's Socialist party, said Merkel's piecemeal approach would not be missed. "In economic governance it has meant a preference of muddling through as compared to a systemic reform … Ending this may not be such a big problem."
Judy Dempsey, long-term Berlin watcher at the Carnegie Europe thinktank, said other Europeans were worried about the chancellor's departure. "Merkel has kept anti-Americanism at bay in Germany and she has kept Europeans united over sanctions on Russia," she said. "The Europeans know that she is very important, but all these things have to be underpinned by a long-term strategy of what you want from Europe."
She contends that Merkel has not been bold enough in setting out her vision for Europe and missed the chance to respond to French president Emmanuel Macron's ambitious agenda, especially on eurozone reform.
"There was a great opportunity to respond to Macron once her coalition was formed, but she let the time slip by," Dempsey said. "Merkel believes in technocratic Europe … but in terms of looking ahead to what kind of European architecture she would like, she has never spelt it out."
However, the weakening of the chancellor is unlikely to have an impact on Brexit. "Even among those who are critical of Angela Merkel, are not critical of the chancellor with respect to Brexit: that's not even an issue," Emmanouilidis said.
Despite absence of a Merkel philosophy in Europe – perhaps because of it – the chancellor is often touted to take on one of the EU's big jobs; either the next president of the European commission or European council. Both positions fall vacant in late 2019.
David McAllister, a senior CDU MEP and close Merkel ally, said the chancellor's announcement had come as a surprise to everyone. "What she did today is give our party a chance for a fresh start," he said.
He said he would welcome the continuation of the grand coalition, but urged all parties to put aside their differences. McAllister said: "It is important that we now learn from the mistakes of the last months: all three coalition partners should stop fighting in public and concentrate on the issues. That is what Germans expect from their governments."
Even if Merkel's final term ends sooner rather than later, Emmanouilidis does not see her making a move to Brussels. "Imagine that president of the commission Merkel, or president of the European council Merkel will have to call Berlin and ask her successor for favours. I don't see her doing that."
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What Leicester helicopter crash pilot said before death is just so tragic - Duration: 6:15.
What Leicester helicopter crash pilot said before death is just so tragic Thai billionaire Vichai was among five people killed when his helicopter crashed shortly after taking off from the King Power Stadium on Saturday evening. Leicestershire Police said the other four people to be two of Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha's staff, Nursara Suknamai and Kaveporn Punpare, pilot Eric Swaffer and passenger Izabela Roza Lechowicz, his partner.
Mr Swaffer is described as a private jet and helicopter pilot with 'over 20 years of flying experience' by privatefly.com. And in an interview with the very same site, Mr Swaffer revealed all on life as a helicopter pilot before his tragic death. Asked the car he drove, Mr Swaffer said: "Audi A4 - in driving as in flying, safety and reliability is everything to me." And in another tragic revelation, Mr Swaffer explained how he would always ensure adequate medical kit was on board whenever he flew. : UPDATES FROM TRAGIC KING POWER SCENE He said: "I always carry my Macbook Pro and my Blackberry.
If the flight is involves an oceanic crossing or when you are expected to be several hours from a diversion airfield, I like to check the aircraft has a medical kit and defibrillator as well as the mandatory first aid kit." As for his top flying tip, Mr Swaffer said: "Use all available assets, including people, to help you, flying is all about teamwork." While he added he loved his job because 'the travel is incredible, as well as the fantastic people you meet along the way', Leicester vice chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha visited the King Power Stadium to pay tribute to his father and club owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha following his tragic death this morning.
The emotional Leicester squad also paid their respects to the 60-year-old at the ground on Monday. Thai billionaire Vichai was among five people killed when his helicopter crashed shortly after taking off from the King Power Stadium on Saturday evening. Manager Claude Puel joined his players while vice chairman Aiyawatt returned to see the tributes after arriving earlier in the morning while around 200 fans broke into spontaneous applause.
Aiyawatt had been joined by his mother and Vichai's wife Aimon at the ground and they laid a floral tribute. Club officials, including director of football Jon Rudkin and chief executive Susan Whelan, also attended as they viewed the floral tributes and the family laid their own. The president of the Thai FA, Somyot Poompanmoung and his wife, Potjaman Poompamoung, were also among the group, while various personalities from sport and showbiz - including Kasabian singer Tom Meighan - also arrived.
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch has recovered the helicopter's black boxes, voice and data, and are working on them at their Farnborough base. Goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel was visibly upset at the scene, having earlier paid an emotional tribute to the man who "changed football forever." Denmark international goalkeeper Schmeichel, who was reported to have witnessed the accident, thanked Srivaddhanaprabha for making his football dreams come true in an emotional post on his Instagram account.
I cannot believe this is happening. I am so totally devastated and heartbroken. I just cannot believe what I saw last night. It just doesn't seem real," he wrote. "It is difficult to put into words how much you meant to this football club and to the city of Leicester. Never have I ever come across a man like you. So hard working, so passionate, so kind and so generous in the extreme. Forever! You gave hope to everyone that the impossible was possible.
You literally made my dreams come true. "We now have a responsibility as a club, as players and fans to honour you. From knowing you we do this by being the family you created." Schmeichel's powerful words were echoed by his team-mates, who arrived at the stadium later on Monday. "Words can't describe how I feel. A truly great, kind, loving man who will be missed so much by everyone. I will never forget the Chairman's support, not only during my time @LCFC but also during the World Cup," England defender Harry Maguire wrote on Twitter.
Fellow City defender and England left-back Ben Chilwell hailed "one of the best people you could wish to meet". Writing on Twitter, he said: "I can't believe it. I am heartbroken to hear that no-one survived the crash yesterday." Jamie Vardy - whose meteoric rise through the leagues was matched step-by-step by the club as they came from nowhere to win the Premier League in 2016 - called Srivaddhanaprabha a "legend".
He said on Instagram: "Struggling to find the right words, but to me you are a legend, an incredible man who had the biggest heart, the soul of Leicester City Football Club. Thank you for everything you did for me, my family and our club. I will truly miss you, may you rest in peace.".
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