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U.S. Tells Southeast Asian Leaders Summit Marks New Era for Ties
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ILUSTRASI. Joe Biden with leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
Reporter: Anna Suci Perwitasari | Editor: Anna Suci Perwitasari
KONTAN.CO.ID - WASHINGTON. U.S. President Joe Biden said on Friday a first summit in Washington with leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) marked the launch of a "new era" in the relationship between the United States and the 10-nation bloc.
Addressing ASEAN leaders on the second day of a two-day meeting, Biden said "a great deal of history of our world in the next 50 years is going to be written in the ASEAN countries, and our relationship with you is the future, in the coming years and decades."
The summit marked the first time ASEAN leaders gathered as a group in Washington and their first meeting hosted by a U.S. president since 2016.
Biden's administration hopes the effort will show that the United States remains focused on the Indo-Pacific and the long-term challenge of China, which it views as its main competitor, despite Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
"We're launching a new era - a new era - in U.S.-ASEAN relations," Biden said, calling the U.S.-ASEAN partnership "critical."
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Earlier, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said the United States would remain in Southeast Asia for generations and stressed the need to maintain freedom of the seas, which the United States says is challenged by China.
"The United States and ASEAN have shared a vision for this region, and together we will guard against threats to international rules and norms," Harris said.
Neither she nor Biden mentioned China by name. The United States has accused China of using coercion against its neighbors.
Harris said the United States would continue to respond with ASEAN to the threat of COVID-19, having already donated more than 115 million vaccine doses to the region. Harris also said the United States and ASEAN need to show collective ambition on the climate issue, accelerate the transition to clean energy, and meet infrastructure needs sustainably.
ASEAN groups Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, though Myanmar's leader was excluded from the summit over a coup last year and U.S. treaty ally the Philippines is in transition after an election and is represented by its foreign minister.
Biden hosted a dinner for the leaders at the White House on Thursday, and his administration promised $150 million for areas including infrastructure, security, pandemic preparedness and clean energy.
New U.S. commitments will include deployment of a U.S. Coast Guard vessel to the region to help counter what the United States and regional countries have described as China's illegal fishing.
U.S. spending pales in comparison to that of China, which in November alone pledged $1.5 billion in development assistance for ASEAN over three years to fight COVID-19 and fuel economic recovery.
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Biden on Friday announced the nomination of a new ambassador to ASEAN, Yohannes Abraham, currently chief of staff on his National Security Council, to fill a post vacant since the start of his predecessor Donald Trump's administration in 2017. Biden also is working on more initiatives, including "Build Back Better World" infrastructure investment and an Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF). Neither is finalized.
Gregory Poling, a Southeast Asia expert at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank, said the summit was largely about symbolism but economics remained the missing component, with IPEF not expected to be launched until Biden visits Japan later in May.
"Everyone seems happy and the diplomatic message of commitment is landing. But ... a modest, to put it kindly, $150 million isn't going to impress anyone," Poling said. "That leaves a lot riding on IPEF."
Russia's invasion was also on the agenda with ASEAN, with the United States hoping to persuade ASEAN countries to do more to push back against Moscow.
ASEAN countries share many U.S. concerns about China's assertiveness, including its claim of sovereignty over vast swathes of the South China Sea where Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei and Malaysia have rival claims. They also remain cautious about siding more firmly with the United States, given their predominant economic ties with China and limited American economic incentives.
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They have been frustrated by a U.S. delay in detailing plans for economic engagement since Trump quit a regional trade pact in 2017.
Biden first announced the intention to create IPEF at a virtual summit with ASEAN leaders in October.
Analysts and diplomats have said only two of the 10 ASEAN countries - Singapore and the Philippines - are expected to be among the initial group to sign up for negotiations under IPEF, which does not currently offer the expanded market access Asian nations want given Biden's concern for American jobs.
Reporter: Anna Suci Perwitasari


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The Princess and The Pump: A Type 1 Diabetes Blog: Children's Congress: Awesome, Exciting, Inspiring!
Children's Congress: Awesome, Exciting, Inspiring!
How can I possibly put into words what Children's Congress was like?
So just know that no matter what I end up saying, it is not going to compare to awesomeness of the actual event. Like in no way.
But I'm going to do my best to bring it to life for you. Because - IT. WAS. AMAZING.
Sweets and I ended up being delayed out of our airport and coming thisclose to missing the Promise Song with Crystal Bowersox. For reals. We were over an hour late leaving, we got to DC and sat on the plane, we had to walk down steps from our plane to a bus - in the POURING rain, wait on that bus to get us to the terminal, wait on our luggage. I was all Amazing Race in the cab. "Get us to the JW Marriott AS FAST AS YOU CAN!
Sweets ended up throwing her CC t-shirt on over what she wore and was quickly ushered in to get in her line to sing. I was a still a little harried from all that morning excitement so walking into this big ballroom with tons of cameras and lights and a stage and all these parents and kids... was overwhelming.
As I stood there, looking around and taking it all in I thought to myself, "This is real. This is a big deal."
It was to my advantage in some ways to have a little one. She was in the front row! I ended up getting to the other side and standing right behind the cameras so I could see. And wow.
All these kids in their blue t-shirts.
And then they started signing.
I'm not sure anything can prepare you to hear 160 kids singing that song. It was pretty amazing.
I wondered who the cuties were that she was standing next to. Later, I learned that the boy next to her was Walker, Ray Allen's son. When I told Sweets she said, "Oh. So that's why the other boy kept asking to meet his Dad. I thought it was just because he was SOOOO tall!"
During the song, I was texting one of my blogging buddies that I have known for YEARS - but never met in person! After the song we did a beeline for one another! How great to share this experience with a good friend!
Sugar and Wendy of Candy Hearts!
Then it was off for state delegate pictures with Crystal Bowersox and Gary Hall!
After that, it was time for the opening dinner! Sweets was thrilled to see hot dogs on the menu and I was thrilled to see carb counts in our folders!
During the dinner, each delegate got up on stage to introduce themselves. It was so cute!
After dinner, Sweets immediately made some friends her age. These girls spent the some time doing cartwheels and playing together! After a long day of waiting and being still, they really needed to get some energy out!
The second day was the role models town hall! Sweets was excited to meet some of the T1 celebrities (so was I!). On the panel was Aaron Kowalski, Ph.D., chef and restaurateur Sam Talbot, broadcast journalist and writer Leslie Adkins, sportscaster and T1D dad Brian Kenny, Indycar driver Charlie Kimball, and actress Mary Mauser.
I thoroughly enjoyed listening to the celebrities! The kids were able to ask them questions and they talked about living with T1 and accomplishing great things with the disease! After the town hall, the celebs hung around to take photos and sign autographs for the kids. They were all so gracious!
I had to laugh at Sweets. A lot of the kids brought pins from their state or other items to hand out to the other delegates. I could not find reasonably priced pins so we made little cards with her picture on them and her email so she could stay in touch with new friends. That morning at breakfast, she went around with Sugar passing out their things. When it was our turn to get a picture with Charlie Kimball, Sweets handed him her card. He said, "Sweets! You already gave me one of these at breakfast!" I was like - "You already met Charlie?" And she was all, "Uh, yeah Mom. I've talked to him before. He was really nice." Oh, well ok!
But that's exactly how ALL the celebrities were! After meeting them, the kids felt like they were buds. Sweets would say, "HI CRYSTAL!!!" every time she walked by. She and Sugar asked Mary Mouser to sit with them at dinner! It was so sweet!
After the sponsor lunch, we had some time to hang out and talk in the ballroom. Wendy and I noticed Jeffrey Brewer, JDRF CEO and President, was available so we went over to say hello and see exactly what it was that he was showing people!
What he had was a piece of new technology!
This little thing is an encapsulation device that is implanted under the skin. See that little part in the middle? That's where the islet cells go! He told us that it had to be made out of special material with a special texture so that the body would not reject it and so no anti-rejection drugs would be needed. He also said that the T cells are larger than the islet cells so they would not be able to get it and destroy them! The device is said to last 18-24 months. He said he thought it might be in humans within a year.
It was REALLY cool! Of course, Sweets said she wasn't interested in that because it meant going to the hospital for a surgery! However, she did think twice when she realized that it would also mean no shots or pumps or things like that!
Mr. Brewer is very interesting to talk and listen to. I had heard him speak in person once before. He is super smart - but more than that - he's a Dad. He has a child with T1. So even though he may be the CEO of JDRF ... he has the same worries and hopes and dreams that the rest of us do. Every time I hear him, I can't help but think that we are in really good hands.
Who knows... maybe we were holding the future of Diabetes technology in our hands!!!
We had our blitz training that afternoon to prepare us for our Hill visits the next day. JDRF does an awesome job preparing you for these meetings. They make it so easy!
That night we had on our own. We hung out with Wendy and Sugar. We went to the American History museum, rode the subway, visited the Lincoln Memorial, and did LOTS OF WALKING! Sweets did not care what we were doing as long as she was with Sugar!
This was the day to go to Capitol Hill! We got up bright and early and picked up the scrapbook we had made for our visits. We had a later meeting so we hung out at the hotel for a bit and then took a cab over to the House side of the Capitol.
Our first meeting was with our Representative, Steve Chabot. We had met him a few years earlier when we visited for JDRF's Government Day. His staffer, who has T1, remembered us! He was happy to show Sweets his pump! We were thrilled that Representative Chabot took the time out of this busy schedule to meet with us! Sweets showed him her scrapbook and talked a little about what having T1D is like. We did our best to stress the importance of renewing the SDP and continuing funding for diabetes research. He seemed very interested in what we had to say and supportive to our cause! Representative Chabot has a niece with T1 so it is a disease that has affected him personally.
After that meeting, we booked it over to the Senate side for our next meeting with Senator Rob Portman's staff.
Posing as we walk past the Capitol!
All of the Ohio delegates met with the Senators. This was a nice meeting! I really enjoyed seeing all the kids get involved and talk to the staff about diabetes! These kids are incredible - truly! We had representatives of all ages and they ALL did a great job!
As soon as we were done, we had to hurry over to the Hart Senate building to have a picture taken with a special guest! Guess who it was?!?! Vice President Biden! Holy cow!!
The kids had to get in picture order again and they wanted the parents to move away and to the sides. No problem. Unless your T1 is low. All that walking was making Sweets LOW LOW LOW! In fact, LOW is exactly what her CGM was saying. She was really about 50 - not that that is so much better. Sweets was also a little nervous to be away from me. JDRF is on top of things. They have lots of helpers and medical staff right there to take care of these issues. I really didn't worry about her -- but she wanted me in her eyesight. And she was not the only little one feeling this way.
So what's a Mama to do? Squish her body up against a potted tree and stay in her kids line of vision, of course! I had to laugh... This picture was scheduled at 12:30. Lunch time. We had not eaten. We had no time between meetings. I had packed some snacks but obviously not enough. And I was obviously not alone in this! You would see parents running in to the group from all sides with meters and juice boxes and pudding and tabs and food! That was a great feeling - everyone gets it. No one had to explain what they were doing. In fact, people kept saying, "I have a juice if you need it" "I have some snacks." "Do you need anything?" "What's her bg? How is she doing?" LOVE.
FINALLY, Vice President Biden entered the room! He walked to the front of the group and talked to the kids. He was so kind to the kids! Again, be small is helpful because Sweets was right up front! I was behind her but managed to get some shots of her and the VP! You can always tell it's her because of the bow! He was very encouraging to all of us! And he took time to take pictures with the kids. I'm not really sure what I expected, but he was very nice, kind and personable. I was impressed!
See the bow on the left? Sweets!
Next we rushed down to the Senate Hearing. I had to leave Sweets with the kids - which she was NOT happy about. Until she saw Sugar and then she was fine! We were jammed into that room!
Sitting in the well at the Senate Hearing.
We had to leave the hearing a little early to make our next meeting with Senator Sherrod Brown. We were really excited to have the chance to meet him! He shared with us that his son had been dxd with T1 as an adult. He very personable and kind to the kids! And he was VERY supportive of our message!
Team Ohio with Senator Brown.
After that, our work was done! It was back to the hotel where Daddy was waiting for us to start our family sightseeing part of the trip!
It was sad to say goodbye to the new friends we had made! It was so much fun and so exciting that it was kinda hard to come back down to real life!
So I've told you all the facts about our trip. But what I can't seem to find the words for is explaining what it was like to be there and the emotions we felt.
Awesome. Amazing. Incredible. Overwhelming. Priceless. Wonderful. Fun. Exciting.
There is something about sitting in a room full of kids living with T1... just like your kid... that is pretty awesome. It's this major feeling of SAME. These people get it. They live it. You don't have to explain what you're doing. They're doing it, too.
It's seeing your T1 immediately bond with the other kids. And not just the ones her age but the older and younger kids, too! It was like a family - even though we had just met.
It was a feeling of HOPE. All these people are working toward the same goal we are. All these really awesome, smart, determined people!
It was "Strength in Numbers".
It was seeing your child using her voice to tell her story. Seeing her empowered - not beaten by her disease. It was showing her that SHE can make a difference. Her voice counts.
I moved to tears many times during our three days in Washington. Sometimes it out of awe. Sometimes it was out of joy. Sometimes love, understanding, overwhelmed-ness (is that a word?), excitement, and happiness.
I want to thank JDRF for this once in a lifetime experience. Thank you for making my daughter feel special. Thank you for showing her that she can make a difference. And showing that we ALL can make a difference.
This is the best I can do. All I've got left is to encourage you to apply for CC15 and go experience it yourself! And until then... get involved. Become an advocate. Attend your local Promise meeting. (We are!) Make a difference.
The same-same parts of these events is always what brings tears to my eyes. So glad you guys had the chance at this!!!
WOW! That was only 3 days!!?? Im so happy to hear you had a great time!! If there was anyone in the DOC I'd like to send to represent us, it was 100% Hallie and Sweets! Love you guys!!
So amazing! What a great chance to show strength in numbers and to feel the support of so many.
Totally need to look into CC15 for Bean!
Wendy let me look through her pictures when we were at FFL and I loved looking through all yours here too and hearing your take on all the events.
So awesome!!! Love all the pictures, and J is determined to go next year. How awesome if we were all together!?
Great that the legislators were supportive, and the picture of the implant gave me chills - who knows what might be available 5-10 years down the road?


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Air + Style: The Display of Charisma in Sport and Sound
Shaun White's fest continues its community driven ideals, bringing sports and music together.
The global skateboarding and snowboarding festival brought two days of tricks, falls, and music in the heart of Los Angeles and easily becomes a favorite as we head into April. Shaun White's annual celebration highlighted and brought the best to the area with "heat" rounds that narrowed down the competition to Sunday's finale. Regardless of the cloudy weather that surrounded Exposition Park, with a mild March shower on day one, nothing slowed down the festival.
Snow competitors graced the slopes, whizzing down while managing to utilize the wall and show off their charisma in a short amount of time. Notables included Ozzy Henning, who awed us with the most technical styling, as well as Drayden Gardner and Francis Jobin who each walked away in first place during the separate rounds of "Best Trick."
The usual festivities connected the worlds, as local artists spray painted and vendors graced us with food and beer. Yet, a particular highlight was within the realms of a skate park. The first time within the LA fest, a skateboarding competition took control with Patrick Ryan, Lizzie Armanto, and first place holder, Heimana Reynolds with an impeccable score of 88.33 closing day two. The course welcomed skaters for each of their 40 second rounds while artists such as SurfBort and Ex-Cult provided the adrenaline rush, sharing the platform as a unique stage truly separating them from other fests.
Musical acts such as D.R.A.M., Cashmere Cat, and WET allowed for a racucious, electronic party that vitalized the fest goers on opening day. Divided into two realms, the Summer and Winter Stage, Air + Style worked around these elements allowing for a centered focus of sport and sound. Providing one of the most entertaining performances during day one — aside from simply production — was Australian producer and multi-instrumentalist, Mura Masa. Surrounded with his weapons of choice, the artist dabbled from vocals, percussion, and keys, killing the visual and audible aspect. With help from Bonzai during a performance of "Nuggets", the two warmed up the night and without a doubt reassuring us that Mura Masa is performer that must be witnessed live.
Day two brought a livelier aroma of instrumental musicians such as BADBADNOTGOOD, Phantogram, Cloud Nothings, and Tinashe. Closers, such as Gucci Mane brought an immensely huge crowd that seemed impossible to catch view as Phoenix matched that size and blissfully ended the night, featuring nostaglic tracks such as "1901" and "Lisztomania." GRiZ and The Paranoyds generated a different amount of energy, each propelling the crowd with fast, high-tempo productions, regardless of genre.
The reason why Air + Style continues this momentum is due to the vast collection of diversity and fresh breath of air that stirs vitality within Los Angeles. With a well balanced selection of acts that hailed to the gritty punks, the slackers, and the eccentric ravers, there seemed to be a bit of relatable youth through various musical forms. Not only on the stage, but within the athletic realm, the fest's balance of male and female pro-skaters and snowboarders spoke louder than any line-up.
All photos: Martin Santacruz Jr.
TagsAir + Style • Live • Los Angeles • skate • snowboard

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The CJH3 Memorial Scholarship was formed in the Fall of 2011 to remember the life of Charles John Harbin, III by providing financial assistance to help college students with limited financial resources achieve high academic goals.
Charles found his calling in education and this scholarship will serve as a keynote remembrance of him and his dedication to his students.
The CJH3 Memorial Scholarship will be awarded annually to selected students in an amount ranging from $1000 – $1500 for each recipient, with ½ of the award given at the beginning of the academic year and ½ given at the midpoint of the academic year, upon maintaining GPA requirements and enrollment as a full-time student.
All grants must be applied to tuition and fees only and will be paid directly to the institution.
Candidates for the scholarship must meet all listed requirements and submit all requested materials to the CJH3MS Selection Committee by the appointed deadline. Late applicants will not be considered.
High school seniors entering accredited U.S. colleges or universities are eligible to apply for the scholarship. It is open to any field of study. Awards may only be used for undergraduate study and are limited to those seeking a first bachelor's degree.
Applicants must demonstrate financial need.
Applicants must be a resident of the state of Georgia; however, award recipients may attend college anywhere in the United States.
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In short, I am not a Scorcese buff. Nor had I, or have I since seeing the film, read the novel by Shūsaku Endō, a contemporary of Graham Greene, who is in some ways an instructive parallel to Endō as another mid-century Roman Catholic novelist. Both Greene and Endō are concerned with the strange cousinship that exists between faith and betrayal, blasphemy, and doubt; faith for both novelists is inflected by the questions posed by existentialism. That is about the extent of my knowledge; as a reviewer I can only claim general literacy, cinematic and theological, and I can only speak of my general reactions to the film. I hope that this is a plus: it is a rare thing for a director of Scorcese's stature to make a serious, earnest, deeply personal film about religion, and so most assessments of the work that I have seen have come from those already steeped in the oeuvre. This is the view from the cheap seats.
Silence is primarily the story of one Portuguese priest, Fr. Sebastian Rodrigues (Andrew Garfield), one of two Jesuits who have volunteered to go into 17th-century Japan to discover the truth of what has happened to their erstwhile mentor, Fr. Christovao Ferreira (Liam Neeson). Japan was not "open" to the West, and was reluctant to admit of the claims of any faith that also claimed social and cultural superiority. While Christianity had indeed arrived and initially spread and attracted large numbers of converts, it was now banned by the authorities, and those converts were forced to recant and to abjure their faith in a ceremony involving trampling on images of Christ and the Virgin.
Priests made particularly useful and attractive prizes to the government; at the beginning of the film, Fr. Ferreira has been captured and, under torture (or so the rumor has it), has become an apostate. His two young friends refuse to believe the rumor and are given reluctant permission by their superior to enter Japan. This is no easy task. First they must find a guide, the drunk Kichijiro (Kubozuka Yosuke), who leads them to Japanese Christians who continue, although themselves in desperate poverty, to preserve their faith in hiding. Immensely moved by the faith of these simple villagers, the priests initially remain with them but, eventually, become impatient with their confinement and inevitably come to the attention of the authorities.
What happens next deliberately and sardonically echoes the story early Christians told (and tell) of themselves in the face of Roman torture and persecution: martyrdom. But in Endō's Japan it is no foregone conclusion that the blood of the martyrs will be the seed of the Church. In Silence, Japan rots what is planted in its soil, and the priests endanger those to whom they minister: abjuration of their faith is the only way to save innocent lives, and the only way to keep the faith is to betray it.
The truly Christian way is to become Judas.
I found Silence to be a really difficult film, although there are moments that are genuinely profound and moving. The last half hour in particular is worth the price of admission; that said, several people walked out of the screening I was in and did not make it that far. I do not like watching extended scenes of violence, particularly torture, on screen: I have to this day refused to watch The Passion of the Christ. Although I knew what I was getting into and Scorcese is a different class of filmmaker than Mel Gibson, that does not make it any easier.
The film is very subtly scored, with long stretches of, well, silence and purely natural sounds; there is no softening or escaping the violence on screen that way. That means, however, that one's system is desperately seeking relief by hour three. As a result, in a film that plays itself very straight with the exception of the character of Kichijiro, things have a tendency to become unexpectedly funny simply because one is in a state of sensory overload. When Liam Neeson finally, belatedly, appeared on screen, my mind went straight to the Taken films and to Batman Begins and refused to take him seriously. The truly extraordinary performances of the Japanese actors, the world-wise inquisitors (Tadanobu Asanu and Issei Ogata), also land in this comic uncanny valley, sometimes through no fault of their own.
When Scorcese made The Wolf of Wall Street, the English film critic Mark Kermode's central problem with the film was that he did not feel that Scorcese distinguished clearly enough between the characters' understanding of their actions and what one might call the authorial voice behind those characters. In a film that encyclopedically detailed the excesses of the Wall Street lifestyle, it was not clear whether Scorcese disapproved of, celebrated, or merely depicted that lifestyle; this was problematic for Kermode, particularly with regard to how the film portrayed its female characters. In a related vein, Scorcese's children's film, Hugo, is a hymn in praise of the external mechanics of early silent cinema; Scorcese is a very technical filmmaker who is highly literate in the history of his chosen art form. (He does genre film very well for this reason.) Much of this technical brilliance is put to glorious use in Silence, in both composition and in execution: Scorcese knows and loves his Japanese cinema. But Scorcese, for good and for ill, has a tendency to become absorbed and invested in the surface of the story he is telling, and to elide his directorial sympathies with those of his central characters.
As with The Wolf of Wall Street, this is a problem for Silence because Rodrigues is apparently a much more ambivalent figure in Endō's novel than Scorcese's portrayal would lead one to believe, and in a strange way — for me, anyway — this throws off the entire trajectory of the film. In the novel, Rodrigues is poised between the sincere and well-meaning but dogmatic faith that he brings to Japan and the faith that he finds there, clinging desperately to the mercy of Christ in the midst of continual and repeated betrayal. He moves from confusing his ministry and mission with that of Christ to recognizing that he is not and never was Christ, but is Judas.
The problem does not lie in the casting — Garfield gives a powerful and perfectly competent performance, if perhaps almost too empathetic for his own good — but Scorcese does not sufficiently signal the audience that Rodrigues's empathy is mixed with pride. When one eventually hears such accusations, they are placed in the mouths of his Japanese inquisitors; what Scorcese thinks, or what Endō thinks, is never made clear. In one scene a slightly delirious Rodrigues sees the reflection of Christ in a rock pool. In the novel, by all accounts, it is clear that this is a sign of a Messiah complex, a delusion of grandeur, but to my innocent eyes I saw the scene only as a consoling vision of a suffering Christ appearing to his faithful follower, and only learned of the alternative interpretation later. Ironically, Scorcese's very sympathy for the conflicted Rodrigues makes the rest of the film, if not incomprehensible, then at least more difficult to follow: How is one supposed to understand him in relation to his fellow Jesuit, Fr. Garupe (Adam Driver), or to the villagers, or to the guide Kichijiro, or to the inquisitors? Scorcese seems reluctant to help us. This lack of obvious internal moral compass, coupled with an already absurd scenario dominated by a false and grotesque moral choice, creates a vacuum that the violence and the torture tend to fill.
But the end, though: hang in there. It's worth the wait.
Andrew: did you not feel that the ending left open the option that he apostatized only to the naked eye? And that his apostasy therefore laid the ground for the Kakure Kirishitan community to survive in secret, rather than be stamped out slowly by his refusal?


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Jaguar Land Rover said it won a case in China against local rival Jiangling Motors Corp. for making light trucks that copy features of the Range Rover Evoque.
The court ruled that all sales, manufacturing and marketing of the Landwind vehicle must stop immediately and Jaguar Land Rover be compensated.
The two SUVs have a similar shape, with the roof and windows tapering from front to back, and near-identical tail lights and character lines on the side paneling.
Britain's biggest carmaker sued Jiangling in a rare move in 2016.
Despite widespread and often blatant copying, global automakers generally don't take legal action in China as they feel the odds of winning against local companies are low.


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Ben Shockley is an alcoholic cop whose career is going nowhere when he is assigned to bring back a witness named Gus Malley from Las Vegas. When he gets to Vegas, he finds that Gus is a college-educated prostitute who is supposed to testify in a mob trial. She tells Shockley the chances of her making it to trial are slim because the mob has a hit out on them both. Unable to get help from his own department due to a mob informant, the two hijack a bus and turn it into a moving fortress. They must get past an army of police to get back to Vegas so that Malley can testify.


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On the Run at Farmers Boy, St Albans
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THE Runaway Boys will be playing at The Farmers Boy in London Road, St Albans, from 8pm tonight (Thursday). The three-piece band perform original renditions of rock and roll classics together with many of their own original numbers thrown in. They feature
THE Runaway Boys will be playing at The Farmers Boy in London Road, St Albans, from 8pm tonight (Thursday).
The three-piece band perform original renditions of rock and roll classics together with many of their own original numbers thrown in. They feature Ray Waters on guitar and vocals, Tom Waters on double bass and Duncan Clark on drums.
The Free Electric Band will be playing at the pub next Wednesday, December 23, and Elephant Shelf return on Boxing Day. The following night, December 27, there will be a visit from The Faith Stealers with Jim Rodford on bass.


As the world we live in continues to get busier, it is easier than ever to find yourself feeling overwhelmed by everything you have to do. This is extremely dangerous, as overwhelm is a major source of stress which can lead to anxiety and burnout. But what can you really do about it? Often we feel overwhelmed because we've lost a sense of control, but we have no idea how to get it back. In this post, we're going to show you what contributes to that feeling of overwhelm and give you some practical tips for how to escape it.
bury or drown beneath a huge mass; defeat completely.
If you've struggled with overwhelm in the past like I have, then you know exactly what this feels like. You know the anxiety that can come from having too much to do and not enough time to do it in. You feel exhausted before you even start your day. You go from one urgent responsibility to another just trying to keep your head above water.
The net result of all this information is a condition called FOMO, or the Fear of Missing Out. FOMO is the anxiety that an exciting or interesting event may currently be happening elsewhere. It's the driver behind the compulsion to check social media or see what other people are up to. FOMO feeds on the never-ending stream of potentially important information that is given to us by our computers, tablets, and smartphones. But at some point, we have to be ok with the fact that it's just not possible to keep up with everything.
Often when people are dealing with FOMO, the solution they strive for "work/life balance." But that's a unicorn they can never catch. Trying to achieve work/life balance just leads to frustration. They chase some vague form of their ideal future, not realizing that the whole idea of work/life balance is actually a myth.
You see, the work/life balance myth assumes there are very clear distinctions between your personal and professional lives. While that may be true for some people, technology has blurred these lines to the point where most of us can barely recognize them anymore. And it assumes that you have an unlimited supply of time and energy in order to do all the things you have to do.
But in reality, there is no work/life distinction. There is just "life," and it's up to you to manage it well. You must decide where "work" stops and "life" starts.
Awhile back, Thanh wrote a great article about using the Covey Quadrant cut out the urgent and focus on the important. We'll give you some tips to do this shortly, but for now, you need to understand that if you're dealing with overwhelm, it's not your fault. The deck is stacked against you. You have an endless supply of other people's demands for your time masquerading as "urgent and important." That's the bad news. But the good news is that you have the ability to take control and change things in your favor.
Now that we understand what overwhelm is and how we got here, it's important to note that it didn't happen overnight. The situation you find yourself in today is the product of the choices you've made. But that's actually GREAT news! It means that we can adopt a systems thinking mindset to manipulate the machinery in our lives and produce the results we want. In this case, we want to make some changes to our processes and inputs to eliminate overwhelm and create space or margin in our lives. We want to allocate time for the things that are important to us and be ok with delegating or deleting the things that aren't.
Here are 4 things you can do right now to help you get on the path to escaping overwhelm once and for all.
#1: Identify your roles & responsibilities.
Every 3 months, I take a day off for what I call my "Personal Retreat." I drive up to a cabin up north and spend an entire day just thinking about what I want to accomplish during the next 3 months. I don't see or talk to anyone – I just think.
One of the things I do every time is make a list of all the things I'm committed to. I write down all of my current roles and responsibilities, based on the commitments I've made. Then I re-evaluate every single one. I ask myself if I am still ok with each commitment. Often I find that something I committed to has evolved into something I am no longer comfortable with. If that's the case, I circle that role or responsibility as something that I need to stop doing. Almost always, I force myself to decommit to at least one thing per quarter.
You can't please everyone. At best you're randomizing who gets let down and at worst you disappoint all three. The tipping point for me was realizing that I could minimize the damage by taking control of the situation. By overcoming my feeling of not wanting to disappoint someone and choosing what I would say "no" to, I maximized the chances that everything else I was committed to would actually be successful. For example, I want to be successful as a husband and a father first. So that means I have to say "no" to an officer position for my local Toastmasters group. Even though I love Toastmasters and have grown tremendously from being involved, it's not as important to me as that extra time spent with my family.
#3: Get out of your email.
Email is a todo list that other people can write on. It's also a one-sided communication medium, which makes it more difficult to say "no" in the moment. You probably find yourself taking on tasks that are better suited for someone else because (you think) it is easier to just do it yourself. Maybe you just don't want to take the time and find the right person. Or maybe you work in a corporate culture where it is just expected that you do the task once the request is made.
Turn off your unread badge. Seeing how many messages are waiting for you will just stress you out. And unless you are intending to go into your email client, you really can't do anything about it (except worry and feed your FOMO).
Budget time for email. Some of the most productive people I know only spend 30 minutes per day in email. They do as much as they can, and after 30 minutes they just close their email client. They've made the decision to be bad at email so they can be good at something else.
Turn off notifications. You don't need to hear that ding every time you get a piece of spam. This will do wonders for your ability to focus, and you'll instantly feel more in control and less overwhelmed.
But what if you have a boss or some other important person that expects you to respond right away? In that case, maybe you can't completely turn off your notifications. You can still use something like SaneBox or VIP filters to only get notified of important messages.
Once you've eliminated the things you shouldn't be doing and taken control of your inbox, the next step is to implement rituals. Once you know what you should be doing, creating rituals makes it more efficient to prioritize the things that are important (but not necessarily urgent).
For example, I've implemented a morning ritual which helps me make sure that I put myself first. It doesn't take very long, but it makes sure that I am glowing green taking care of myself first so that I can pull others up more effectively.
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TYIOAZ – 20
Chapter 20: We Are Open! (2)
When many of the tourists heard that the monkeys were gesturing a heart, they all went there with great interest. They thought it was the kind of situation in which a monkey acted on an instruction given by the keeper. Unexpectedly, there was no animal keeper beside them, but a staff who was maintaining order.
Those monkeys were playing with the tourists through their cages. Everyone knew that monkeys were smart, so no one doubted anything.
Monkeys had always been the smarter animals. With the help of high-grade rations, their IQ had made a leap. Now they were considered to be intellectual among the monkeys.
For example, these monkeys could tell that in the zoo, the one with the highest combat power was Luya, followed by You Su, then followed by other humans, but the one making the decision was the Duan Jiaze who was somewhere in between. Therefore, they were cautious about Luya, but very flattering towards Duan Jiaze. Thus, they could be said to be very clever.
With such IQ, what was a mere heart gesturing?
They also knew to focus on gesturing the hearts towards the young girls. When they kept gesturing the hearts out, they were like an idol seeing his fans. The more tourists came to look at them, the more energetic they were.
The tourists were also very enthusiastic, they also rushed to gesture hearts at the monkeys, luring the monkeys to make all kinds of movements.
The most popular was still the little baby monkey, although it was not very sensible, but under the teaching of its parents, it learned how to gesture a heart shape. Anyway, the younger generations of monkeys in Lingyou all knew how to sell meng1 before they even eat banana.
The little monkey's fur was golden and soft with a hint of shine. It body was tiny with a pair big moist eyes. When it was held in the arms by its mother, it even gestured a heart toward the tourists. Or it would play with its own tail and learned how to hold its face like the children outside…
It could directly make people dizzy with this mengness…
This interaction was satisfying to the tourists. It was interesting enough and it did not bought discomfort akin from watching domesticated performances.
At this time, Duan Jiaze was inspecting the situation of the whole zoo and was at the Lion Exhibition Zone.
Today, the weather was good, the situation in the afternoon was not bad. So far, more than two hundred people had came in, and with the help of his college friends, the maintenance of order was not a problem, so Duan Jiaze relaxed a little.
It was his college classmates, especially the girls, who had been asking numerous questions about Luya, to the point that Duan Jiaze did not know how to answer them and ran away.
At present, there were about twenty or thirty visitors who were looking at the lion inside. They were all attracted by this unique lion.
By all accounts, male lions were the laziest. They slept most of the time and were too lazy to move at all.
But the lion in Lingyou Zoo was not the same. As it usually ate the high-grade ration, it was full of spiritual energy. It could not digest the food without doing much activity, so it was highly energized.
Moreover, in preparation of the opening, Duan Jiaze has asked You Su to order the lions to sell more meng to support the early opening of the zoo, which was also in consideration for their long-term feed.
So, at the moment, the lion was trying to be a cat. Although they had some similarities, there was probably no other lion that could learn to twist its ass first before making a jump, just like a cat. It even rolled on the floor…
In this way, it really attracted a lot of tourists to stop their footsteps and take out their mobile phones to shoot this scene.
A visitor waved to this big cat outside of the window. The lion turned its direction, whined and rushed towards the glass window!
Even though they knew the glass would not break, they could not help taking a step back. A child also screamed and stared tightly at the lion's movements.
Only to see the lion placing it paws on the glass and its face on it. However, its claws were tucked in the pad, and its furry mouth was pressed too tight and flatly against the glass.
Looking from the other side, even the twisted track of the whiskers could be seen clearly, while the two eyes stare outside with a strange angle at the human who started laughing inexplicably…
The Arctic fox Exhibition Zone had the largest number of people. This was beyond Duan Jiaze's expectations, but it also was reasonable.
In the exhibition area decorated like a outdoor scene, a silver-gray Arctic Fox squatted on a stump and used its forepaws to hold up a cooked dried fish for food. It ate delicately, to the point of being elegant.
The Arctic Fox ate the fish until there was only bone left. It started to clean its claws. It even washed its claws in the flowing drinking water. The audience's eyes moved along with its movements.
The atmosphere on this side was quite different from that on the other side of the lion. It was extremely quiet, but the people were equally attentive, watching the Arctic Fox doing some daily activities, as if they were not bored at all.
Duan Jiaze couldn't help talking to one of the tourists, "Is it nice to watch?"
The tourist woke up from surprise and looked at Duan Jiaze. He idiotly proclaimed, "Of course it is. I think I can stare at it all day. It's just as cute as a young panda. Look at its curled up appearance, its face and squinting eyes as if it were smiling…"
Duan Jiaze also watched seriously for a while. It was cute and lovely, but he couldn't understand the bewitched mood of the tourists. Even watching a fox washing its claw could deduce one to folly, as it they were watching farmers farming.
Not every tourist was so obsessed, it was not known what decided the conditions, but other tourists, even if they were not obsessed, they would be infected by this mood, quietly visiting the exhibition area, or with an unconscious prudence.
Duan Jiaze could not help doubting what kind of animal talent this was, but he was aware that this seemed ineffective against him, perhaps this was because of his identity of the head of the zoo.
Duan Jiaze was watching here and the photographer also wandered in.
As soon as he came in, the photographer was shocked. It was too quiet here, it was unlike a zoo, but more like a library. There were many people, but everyone looked at the fox seriously.
Looking carefully, these people, whether they were adults or children, were very attentive to the Arctic Fox inside the glass wall. Even those who were taking photos were silent. Occasionally, they sighed in their hearts, "Mom, it's so cute…"
But there were absolutely no noise or crowding, just like a pilgrimage.
The photographer couldn't help recording this scene. In his lens, the silver-gray Arctic Fox that was stared at by the public, was just like it had holy rays shining!!
The photographer sighed with emotions. In the past, he had to make the object of the camera more attractive. But today, he only vexed on how to perfectly reflect the characteristics of this animal and together with the atmosphere of this scene.
In the entire zoo, only the bird exhibition zone was opened for the tourists to enter.
Today more than half of the birds were in charge of accompanying tourists or were attracting tourists outside. The rest were left here, waiting to be visited, and these included the two peacocks.
They seemed to have their own schedules, opening their tails every one hour. Which attracted many tourists, desperately filming down their gorgeous tail. For the rest of the time, tourists were trying their best to tease them into open their feathers.
Some tourists secretly tried to feed the birds with breadcrumbs, but they were very particular, and they would not eat it. There was only one male keeper here maintaining order. He was not in charge of helping the tourists and bird to get more intimate. They might have to use their own way to attract the birds.
Generally speaking, children and women were more popular with the birds. The birds were more willing to be close to them, they flew down from the high ceiling and landed on their heads, shoulders or hands. Or they played on their own on the branches, not spending good time with the humans; it all depended on their mood.
Duan Jiaze also took a look here before he went out and saw the same scene showing the harmony between human and birds.
There were almost as many tourists at the open space of the entrance as there were inside, except that they interacted with the sparrows rather than birds in the zoo. The birds inside didn't eat anything, but the sparrows like to eat, which satisfied the tourists' feeding desire.
It just that, these sparrows were more shrewish; they were less friendly and kind.
Duan Jiaze's mouth twitched. He once heard that a tourist had been 'robbed'. The sparrows often came here to steal food. Now they had evolved into bullying and seducing the tourists. Was this a good thing or bad thing? He himself was not sure too…
Throughout the whole day, according to the rough statistics of the ticket office, there were about seven hundred tourists today. Duan Jiaze's college friends were all tired and had went back to rest. Xiao Su and the two of them had also got off work, and Duan Jiaze had to continue to work with the photographers, copywriter editors and so on.
They had to integrate the material filmed in the zoo today, compile the soft text, and then push it out to the public.
Duan Jiaze and the photographer picked out some pictures together, and the editor wrote the text at the side. As the draft had already been written, the process was very fast. They just needed to arrange the layout, and wait for the pictures they've chosen to be edited and then stick them on.
Although it was only this much, with today's material, they had been busy since five in the afternoon to eight in the evening.
Through the previous reporter that came to for interview, Duan Jiaze managed to contact an internet media with more fans. The photographer and editor were both employees from there. As soon as the soft text was written and checked correctly, it was published with their numbers. This was the peak time for many people to surf the Internet and brush their circles of friends.
Last time, the internet media reporter also told Duan Jiaze that if their content was well edited, they could also forward it there. After all, it was considered a follow-up report.
So after sending it out, Duan Jiaze also contacted them and sent them articles to see if they want to do it, and then he also let his friends and classmates help forwarded it.
After all this, the photographer and the text editor were sent home, and Duan Jiaze collapsed and sat down.
"Finally done with all these…"
Do him best and obey the destiny. The next step was to wait for the tomorrow to come. The second peak will be coming tomorrow. The flow of people between today and tomorrow basically determined whether the task could be accomplished or not.
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8 thoughts on "TYIOAZ – 20"
Raven White says:
Thank you for the update! I think I wasn't able to open this page because I was too early, ahahaha! Take care~
You are right 🙈
I schedule the timing wrongly 🙈
Blood says:
Thanks for the chapter! 💕💕💕
thanks 4 the chapter………
thank you for the chapter!! <3
Amandebw says:
I wish this zoo was real, I might actually leave my room if I got to witness these cute animals selling Meng. 😭
Queue says:
Late reader here. Great lion pics. 🦁 😆
RenTheWitch (@RenTheWitch1) says:
silly lion~


Submitted by Fred on Thu, 07/25/2013 - 8:38pm.
Louis Hayes from The Illinois Model pointed out this powerful piece "The Psychotic Militarization of Law Enforcement" that argues we in law enforcement have gone too far. And begs us in law enforcement to ask the question; have we gone to far in the utilization of military equipment and tactics? I wrote a piece "Police Militarization, Professionalism, and the Balance of Persuasion and Force" talking about the positive aspects of the police being prepared and ready with equipment, education and training for the evolving threats. I advocated that there is definitely a place for SWAT teams and more highly trained full spectrum street officers capable of handling the conventional and unconventional crisis situations they find themselves in with fluid small team tactical skills. The question is; are we using these units and tactics in appropriate ways? Due to the unpredictable nature of law enforcement encounters should we be using them in more routine type calls, in an effort to maintain safety or use only for worse case scenarios? Are cops doing their homework and developing enough actionable information prior to taking action when utilizing these techniques? Are the courts who sign off on warrants to search and arrest asking tough enough questions before they sign off and authorize raids?
The reality is we in law enforcement use force in approximately 1% of all our contacts and military style raids is only a small percentage of this. Perhaps when we do utilize dynamic type tactics we consider the type of strategy and tactics we use and consider how they effect the moral, mental and physical aspects of what it is we are trying to accomplish?
When you are dealing with adaptive challenges, such as what has been termed "Police Militarization" there is no obvious answer to the question "What is going on when it comes to police militarization?" Trying to define the problem at hand is a contentious act in itself. Are we considering more than 1 countermeasure to address the tactical dilemma? Are we seeking and then leveraging lessons learned from each operation? Was it deemed a failure or success in the three dimensions conflict unfolds in, the moral , mental and physical? If the plan failed are you going to use the AAR to go back through and adapt the necessary changes based on the lessons learned? If successful, have you involved everyone necessary or are you leaving out those people who may be critical? Will leaders "Go and See" and make leading from the front be a priority? Managing this ambiguity requires courage, tenacity, and an experimental mind-set: you try things out, see what happens, and make changes accordingly so we win at low cost, meaning we win and keep the publics support. Sid Heal in his outstanding book Field Command describes the importance of legitimacy. The principle of legitimacy is sometimes called the "10th Principle of war." It identifies the absolute necessity of maintaining the confidence of the community of the lawfulness and morality of actions. The U.S. military learned the significance of this principle the hard way when they lost the support of the American people for the Vietnam war and ultimately withdrew. The lesson should not be lost on domestic law enforcement who are constantly scrutinized as a matter of course."
I do not embrace all the ideas in this piece but I do believe they make some valid points.Every cops should read this piece whether law enforcement agrees with it or not there seems to be a growing increase in people who do believe we have gone to far, both in and out of the ranks of law enforcement.
World Net Daily offers a sad chronicle in the essay, The growing militarization of U.S. police.
Mr. Whitehead is correct as usual. Unfortunately, few other constitutional conservatives seem to have the courage to criticize the thin blue line of establishment regulators.
In a rare moment of real civil liberties concern, the ACLU in The Militarization of Policing in America, initiates a worthwhile project.
One of the "so called" unintended consequences of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is the intentional indoctrination of troops into the culture of excessive force, citizen combatant threats and indiscriminate brutality. The suppression of common law natural rights is the ultimate causality of this deranged and profane mind control.
The study Can a Veteran go into Law Enforcement after a PTSD Diagnosis?, inquiry provides a useful comparison chart of several police agencies. The summary concludes that several agencies stated that they had hired individuals with histories of PTSD and most agencies did not have specific protocols for evaluating PTSD. If military training becomes instinctive and reactive, treating civilians as expected terrorists, why would society presume that stateside transition into a police academy course will purge the damaging traits of urban warfare?
Behind the curtain of "public safety" the real controllers adopt and practice their perverse version of, The Psychopathic Influence, that dominates the domestic police mentality.
Often candidates with such a Napoleonic complex, demonstrate that they really are "little men", when it comes to their desire to become goons. The Police Are Paramilitary Thugs, makes a valid point.
The destructive role of federal involvement in local police functions is discussed in How Cops Became Soldiers: An Interview with Police Militarization Expert Radley Balko.
"It really just accelerated a process that had already been in motion for 20 years. The main effect of 9/11 on domestic policing is the DHS grant program, which writes huge checks to local police departments across the country to purchase machine guns, helicopters, tanks, and armored personnel carriers. The Pentagon had already been giving away the same weapons and equipment for about a decade, but the DHS grants make that program look tiny.
The predictable consequences of the dominance from DC, is that the district of criminals impose a system that inevitably results in Botched Paramilitary Police Raids. An interactive map of botched SWAT and paramilitary police raids, released in conjunction with the Cato policy paper "Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids," by Radley Balko, illustrates his contention.
"To Protect and Serve" is now an euphemism for breaking heads. Police Thugs Claim They're Here to "Serve" wants you to believe that "police are basically the same all over the world: they describe their role of carrying out the force and coercion required by those wanting to control others as being a role of "serving the people." Those who are at the receiving end of the force and coercion are usually submissive and question nothing." Tell that to Adam Kokesh.
The "Code of Silence" enables The Militarization of American Police, to blow smoke on a gullible public. Accountability and recourse is a myth. The SWAT system whacks the public as if they were nuisance flies.
The psychotic statists that have no problem with the militarization of law enforcement are enemies of the people. How far has this country fallen . . . Listen to the fateful words of the nature of the police by the original Godfather of the Chicago Gestapo. The demented and mentally deranged oligarchy, who is at war with the American public, is the true terrorist. Police need to examine, recite and act upon the Oath Keepers – Declaration Of Orders We Will Not Obey.


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Additional Coronavirus-Related Deaths Confirmed
Additional coronavirus-related deaths among Wyoming residents who have tested positive for COVID-19 have been confirmed, according to the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH).
An older adult Fremont County woman with health conditions recognized as putting patients at higher risk of serious illness related to COVID-19 died in late August. The woman had been hospitalized in another state for treatment.
An older adult Washakie County man died in July after being hospitalized. The man had been exposed to the virus during a previously identified local nursing home outbreak.
An older adult Lincoln County man with health conditions died in late June. The man had been hospitalized in another state for treatment.
And older adult woman who was a Park County resident died in July in an out-of-state hospital after being exposed to the virus in an out-of-state long-term care facility where she was receiving care.
It is not unexpected to experience delays in reporting deaths among Wyoming residents that occur in other locations.
Deaths among Wyoming residents are added to the state's coronavirus-related death total based on official death certificate information and the location of the person's permanent residence. Deaths among Wyoming residents who pass away in other states are not counted in both states. If death certificates do not describe COVID-19 as either causing or contributing to a person's death, those deaths are not included in Wyoming's count of coronavirus-related deaths.
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Among Wyoming residents, there have now been 41 coronavirus-related deaths, 3,282 lab-confirmed cases and 584 probable cases reported.


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FTI to be consolidated into Screenwest
22 May, 2017 by Jackie Keast
In the face of uncertainty around future funding, the Film & Television Institute WA (FTI) will be wound down and have its core screen programs transitioned to Screenwest.
FTI, a not-for-profit organisation, aimed to support the state's emerging and mid-level screen practitioners.
With the support of the Department of Culture and the Arts, the consolidation of roles and service delivery into Screenwest is already underway and will continue over the next few months. There is expected to be industry consultation throughout the transition period.
Most staff contracts at FTI are due to cease at the end of the current funding period, ending June 30. Post this date, some staff may have contracts extended in order to successfully wind the organisation down, FTI told IF.
FTI's financial woes have been known for a while now. In March, the organisation postponed the WA Screen Awards (WASAs) due to a lack of secured funding.
In a statement, FTI chair Mitchell Wells said the move to Screenwest would provide surety to emerging filmmakers.
"FTI's role in supporting independent and emerging screen sector practitioners over the past 45 years cannot be questioned", said Wells.
"We broke new ground in bringing screen culture to the community, providing access to tools and knowledge needed by screen practitioners, bringing a sense of community to the sector, celebrating the achievements and excellence of our best and brightest through the WASAs, or just being there to give guidance on projects and careers."
Wells said the move was not made lightly and various options had been examined closely.
"With the future funding environment in mind, it is clear that consolidating with Screenwest is the best way forward to ensure services to the emerging filmmaking sector continue to be delivered," he said.
"I would like to acknowledge the FTI Board and staff and thank them for their professionalism in what has been a tough few years."
Screenwest stated it is committed to ensuring FTI's historical annual funding allocation will continue to go towards supporting emerging practitioners.
"Screenwest funded FTI to run programs supporting emerging and early career filmmakers. Moving forward, Screenwest is committed to these funds continuing to go towards this sector in an effective, efficient and strategic manner. During the next six months we will consult with the emerging screen sector to ensure this occurs," said Screenwest chair Janelle Marr.
"Screenwest will provide a range of early career programs including short film initiatives; mentorships, coaching and advice; and skills development short courses. These programs are essential to developing a strong, viable and evolving local screen sector."
Marr said that any events or programs currently supported by FTI that sit outside Screenwest's remit will be reviewed with the FTI board.
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20-year-old Muscovite killed his grandmother forbade him to smoke in the apartment and in conflict with him because ofâ late return home. The incident occurred in the West of the capital, has informed in GSU SK the Russian Federation across Moscow.
Admissions granddaughter of the famous American actor Morgan Freeman Idina Hines, who killed even the godmother of his daughter in New York. The incident occurred in the night from Saturday to Sunday.


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The projects were completed within the scope of the Market Research course taught by Dr. Theofanis Varvoglis, Professor of Marketing at CBE.
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What Inspires Martin Scorsese
What Martin Scorsese Worries About
Jonathan Ballmer
Your films often have men in extraordinary situations. What is expected of the men in your films?
The bottom line is that gender is important. It's real. Can an actor like Leo DiCaprio, of his generation, can we be interested in the same aspect of human nature that happens to be embodied in these male characters? With Leo I've been very lucky. He's not afraid to go and touch those places that are vulnerable as a man. That's one of the key things: accepting vulnerability in men. De Niro has it. Keitel. Daniel Day Lewis, definitely. The harder he is in Gangs of New York, the weaker, in a way. It's very important to nurture the vulnerability and nurture the side of loving. That's something we always explore. Raging Bull is a lot about that. How is he supposed to act as a man? How does a man act? What is he expected to do? Well, a man would do this. Really? Does it always resort to violence? What happens after the violence? There has to be strength of character, where you're not afraid to open up and nurture.
Violence often seems like an unavoidable part of the response.
In this film [The Wolf of Wall Street] there's a violence of a different kind. It's about greed running rampant. They're taking advantage of people — it's pretty funny at times, but it's also pretty savage. I don't really see doing [violent] pictures anymore. We did The Departed. That's very matter of fact, the violence in that movie. You don't really see much camera movement. In fact, by the end, when the main characters all meet their fate, the shots are very simple. It all takes place almost like a piece of theater. There was nothing more to say.
We've reached a dead end in a way. At that time there was, I felt, a cultural dead end and a spiritual dead end in the country. Nicholson says in the car, "a country of rats" — the whole idea of not being able to trust anyone, which is part of the world we're in now. That just leads to one place: the elevator scene in The Departed. And it happens like that. You don't need handheld cameras and booming and tracking. It doesn't matter. That's where this madness of "might makes right" takes us.
What was your first inclination to make a film?
The context for me was a sickly kid who couldn't go anywhere, parents were working class, didn't read books, educated at Catholic school around the corner, St. Patrick's, down on Mott Street, and they took me to the movies. The only place I could fantasize, really let the imagination go, was through these films. My father was the one who usually took me. I'm talking about the ages 6 to 12. We really experienced these extraordinary stories, emotions, psychological effects — everything from a western to Sunset Boulevard to Rear Window — and he didn't say much about it. Every now and then, when one of his brothers or sisters would come home to talk in the evening, they'd all be sitting around, having a coffee or a shot of Scotch, talking. They'd be telling stories about what happened that day with them, about people around them, the history of the family, what's going on with this person, that person, what has to be done, what's the right thing to do, what's the wrong thing to do. That's the movie. One day there might be a movie like that. That was the first thing.
It all came together by the late '50s with Cassavetes making a film in 16 mm, which here in New York, there was no such thing as making independent films. All the equipment was there [in Hollywood]. So to get this Eclair, it's called, you go in a room and do it — this was the opening.
Archiving seems to be one of your passions. Why is that important?
We're working with the World Cinema Foundation, which we founded at Cannes four years ago, primarily for films in countries where they don't have the facilities to take care of them — for example, Mali and Senegal and other places in Africa. We're trying to preserve films by Africans about Africans. It's very hard to pull it together because there are very few archives. We're trying to preserve the cultural impact of cinema of the '60s and '70s and '80s. We have one film from India this year, one from Iran, the first film made in Indonesia, 1935.
In the American films, we've been involved in about 600 of them. We have a wonderful film that's been restored now that'll be at Cannes called Once Upon a Time in America. Sergio Leone. It's about 5 1/2 hours, this extraordinary gangster film that Leone made with De Niro and Jimmy Woods. It's quite an achievement. Many of them are orphan films, just sitting there rotting away. Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz. It says who we are. Even if some films say who we are and we don't feel particularly comfortable with it, it's still important to know that. If we hide it from future generations, we're not going to see the difference. Showing my daughter Pennebaker's film Crisis, a documentary, cinema verite style, of George Wallace refusing to let the African American students into the university. Bobby Kennedy on the phone arguing. Showing my kid the film, and I say, OK, now Obama is president. This is the distance.
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Empathy ability is impaired in alcohol-dependent patients
Luigi Janiri, Giovanni Martinotti, Marco Di Nicola, Daniela Tedeschi, S Cundari
Ambito disciplinare: Clinica Medica Specialistica
Empathy is a complex form of psychological inference in which observation, memory, knowledge and reasoning are combined to yield insights into the thoughts and feelings of others. The aim of this study was to evaluate the level of empathy in a sample of alcohol-dependent patients in comparison to a control sample. One hundred and fifty alcohol-dependent subjects were consecutively recruited. All of the subjects successfully detoxified have been evaluated with the Empathy Quotient (EQ) and then compared with 107 control subjects. The level of empathy was significantly lower in the group of alcohol-dependent subjects than in the control sample (p <.001). Differences with respect to gender and psychiatric comorbidity have also been observed. A low level of empathy could be a psychological trait typically observed in pre-morbid alcoholic personalities. Further, the lack of empathy could lead latent abusers to find in the alcohol misuse something enabling them to compensate for their intrinsic weakness.
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"We have interpreted much of the symbolism of Göbekli Tepe in terms of astronomical events. By matching low-relief carvings on some of the pillars at Göbekli Tepe to star asterisms we find compelling evidence that the famous 'Vulture Stone' is a date stamp for 10950 BC ± 250 yrs, which corresponds closely to the proposed Younger Dryas event, estimated at 10890 BC. We also find evidence that a key function of Göbekli Tepe was to observe meteor showers and record cometary encounters. Indeed, the people of Göbekli Tepe appear to have had a special interest in the Taurid meteor stream, the same meteor stream that is proposed as responsible for the Younger-Dryas event. Is Göbekli Tepe the 'smoking gun' for the Younger-Dryas cometary encounter, and hence for coherent catastrophism?"
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Biotech billionaire and Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong is talking to newspaper chain McClatchy about buying Tronc
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Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong is considering bidding for newspaper publisher Tronc, according to people familiar with the matter.
Soon-Shiong is considering a joint bid with newspaper publisher McClatchy. He had previously been in talks to team up with a hedge fund manager for Tronc, but those discussions are now seen as less likely.
Soon-Shiong spent $500 million in June to acquire the Los Angeles Times and The San Diego Union-Tribune along with a bunch of other community newspapers from Chicago-based Tronc.
Biotech billionaire and Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, who had been in talks to team up with a hedge fund manager for newspaper publisher Tronc, is now considering a competing bid, according to people familiar with the matter.
Soon-Shiong is considering a joint bid with newspaper publisher McClatchy, the people said, asking not to be named because the matter is private. McClatchy is in "early stage" discussions to buy Tronc, the Chicago Tribune reported Friday.
Soon-Shiong, through his investment firm Nant Capital, had been in talks to partner with Donerail Group, the private-equity firm led by hedge-fund manager William Z. Wyatt, which has been looking to acquire Tronc since early August.
But these talks, while not dead, are seen as less likely and Soon-Shiong is now considering a bid with McClatchy. The people cautioned that no bids are finalized and Soon-Shiong may choose not to go ahead with a deal in the end. Soon-Shiong has also been shopping for other partners, sources said.
A representative for Soon-Shiong could not be reached for comment. Representatives for McClatchy and Donerail declined to comment.
Soon-Shiong also remains Tronc's second-largest shareholder, with a nearly 25% stake. Michael Ferro, the Chicago entrepreneur who was formerly Tronc's chairman, is the largest shareholder, with a nearly 26% stake.
Soon-Shiong has access to Tronc's backend to manage the California newspapers' website operations for the next year, by which time he must either set up a new structure or acquire it. A partnership to acquire Tronc would enable Soon-Shiong to seize control of those operations and implement a smoother transition.
A 66-year-old South African native and former UCLA surgeon, Soon-Shiong amassed a fortune by building and subsequently selling two biopharmaceutical companies. Since taking over the Times, he has been on a mission to rebuild and revitalize the newsroom, which has seen three editors in 10 months and five publishers in four years.


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