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True Repentance and President Clinton's Confession?
Dear Thursday Theology folks,
This week I've asked Dr. Robert Schultz to do a piece for us in regard to the latest presidential crisis. Al Jabs, one of our Crossings board members, wrote to some of us asking about the issues of confession and repentance in relation to this current situation and Dr. Schultz graciously accepted my invitation to reply to Al's questions.
DOES THE CHURCH'S UNDERSTANDING OF TRUE REPENTANCE
EQUIP IT TO ADVISE THE NATION ON RESPONDING
TO PRESIDENT CLINTON'S CONFESSION?
President Clinton's admission of inappropriate behavior in his relationship with Monica Lewinsky has encouraged efforts to revive what would once have been called the Constantinian alliance between church and state but in a democracy is more properly called an alliance between church and society. Proponents of such a revival rejoice that politicians and those in control of the media actually agree that some legal behavior is morally wrong and to be condemned. Even better, secular forces are actually calling on the president to engage in a kind of public act of apology, a secular act of public contrition and repentance in the hope of receiving forgiveness from a graciously understanding public. Even the New York Times ponders whether the president has really apologized, demonstrated true repentance of the kind that permits forgiveness. When the chips are down, many "evangelical" theologians conclude that this demonstrates that the USA is more Christian than we thought. Some "evangelical" theologians have rushed to clarify the standards of "true repentance" and to specify what the president still needs to do if he really wants to qualify for forgiveness.
Two weeks after the event, such hopes seem less frequent, but the residue of the discussion of repentance remains and has stimulated many Christians to think about the nature of repentance. Some have proposed marketing golden "A's" to wear as pendants or lapel-pins (there seems to be a large market). Others have shared e-mails proposing that we advise how Christians ought to deal with this. Some like Stephen L. Carter (a law professor at Yale and the author of "Civility: Manners, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy") wrote an op-ed piece "A Chance to Reset our Own Moral Course," New York Times, Sunday, August 23, 1998, Section 4, p. 15. Large sections of this piece present assertions about the nature of Christian repentance.
I have no reason to quarrel with Carter's hope that our nation will reset its moral course. I even agree that our society must clarify its moral standards. I too would like to see it begin with our politicians. I personally wish that every ballot choice included the category "none of the above" and that campaign addresses were made under oath. If Carter were describing a definition of a necessary social process, I might even be willing to settle for it as inadequate but as the limit of the politically possible. I refer to Carter only because I question his definition of "true" or "Christian" repentance:
The President, as an evangelical Christian, surely understands that the premise of forgiveness is true repentance.
True repentance begins with a forthright and nonaccusatory admission of wrongdoing.
True repentance requires a determination to turn and walk the path of good.
Still, the President's predicament might be a godsend….sometimes getting caught is the only way to learn the lesson….He will never have a better opportunity to seek the spiritual solace of true repentance.
The danger in Carter's piece is twofold:
Most importantly, by claiming to offer advice to the nation on the basis of Christian repentance as he describes it, he misinforms his reader about Christian repentance.
Less importantly, he makes people like me who think we ought to decide what to do about Clinton on the basis of its effect on the next election conclude that we are not Christians. Maybe not, but I think that Republicans have more to gain from forgiving Clinton in order to keep him in office.
As Lutherans, we have confessional precedence for the discussion of repentance:
"Now we must compare the false repentance of the sophists with true repentance so that both may be understood" (Smalcald Articles III, III, 9; BC, ed. Tappert, p. 304).
Carter becomes an ally of the sophists when he offers his definition of repentance as "true repentance." To clarify this assertion and to discourage the imitation of Carter, I offer the following theses for discussion:
THESES FOR DISCUSSION
It is useful to distinguish repentance under the law from repentance under the gospel, repentance in the system LAW from repentance in the system GOSPEL. I find it useful to define each of these systems in terms of INPUT (who should repent) THROUGHPUT (how does repentance happen), and OUTPUT (what do repentant people look like to themselves and to others). This helps me identify the issues in making this distinction. As I pursue this task, I hope that the reader will note a series of corresponding differences in each part of the process and a comparable disparity of emphasis on each part of the process as well as of the whole process. In my opinion, Carter describes repentance under the law. In that sense, it may be called "true repentance." However, Carter does not describe Christian repentance as he seems to claim when he speaks of "true repentance."
REPENTANCE UNDER THE LAW
Carter describes repentance as a social act. Society uses repentance under the law in order to manage the behavior of its members, including the setting and enforcing of social moral standards, confession of violations, and varying forms of punitive responses intended to change future behavior. In this system, the shaming process of public confession and forgiveness is an alternative to other forms of punishment. Different societies have tested various responses to misbehavior. At different times and places, wide varieties of behaviors have been rewarded with death, mutilation, imprisonment, public disgrace, and/or forgiveness. Sometimes society has simply ignored the misbehavior. Various inappropriate behaviors require different levels of confession, apology, and humiliation.
The purpose social repentance is always to prevent future misbehavior on the part of the violator and discouragement of similar misbehavior by others who have not committed or not yet been found out in similar transgressions.
One enters the system of repentance under the law as the subject of repentance only by violating a social standard and by becoming known either though "being caught" and convicted (in a court of law or of public opinion) or being compelled to confess on his/her own initiative as a result of internalizing the social system.
As President Carter learned, when he confessed to adultery in his heart, it is not possible to enter the system of repentance under the law and to become the subject of confession in repentance under the law by simply thinking about or even desiring an immoral action. That is one of the many trivia that the law is not concerned about. The primary function of deterrence is to make potential violators afraid of being caught up in the system of punishment.
Society is concerned only about actual violations of previously defined standards or standards defined in response to actions which it has not previously condemned but has now determined to prevent in the future (for example, the Nuerenberg trials and the redefinition of "crimes against humanity" during the current trials of war criminals at The Hague).
In any nation, there are not only national standards of behavior but many standards of behavior set and enforced by a variety of subgroups. The church as a social institution is one of these social subgroups and itself includes a variety of its own subgroups.
Society encourages the variety of moral standards and uses it to permit behaviors by some subgroups which would become intolerable if accepted in and practiced by the whole society by forbidding them to the members of other subgroups. Consider, for example, the different values placed on citizens' lying to the government and police and the government and police lying to citizens, on the church's need for financial sacrifice by pastors and the concurrent emphasis on the financial need of the church's executives. It is not only the political community that needs to reconsider its moral course. I remember a discussion with more than one bishop present in which it was suggested that a moral level of financial compensation for a pastor was the average income of the congregation. The discussion of this standard was ended abruptly when someone suggested that the bishop's salary should be the average salary of the pastors' salaries. All societies allow moral perquisites to those who are in power. Only the rich raise their children to behave according to the moral standards of the rich, only the powerful to behave as powerful people. Sometimes one member of a group is expected to incorporate a group's public standard in order to detract attention from the behavior of other members of the group.
The standards governing the admission of various subgroups to the system of repentance and/or forgiveness under the law, the conditions under which behavior is forgiven or punished, and the varying levels of punishment are determined by economic and political factors. The setting of standards of behavior by society is a serious matter and properly takes political and economic realities, including mass disobedience and revolution, into account. For example, legislation determining taxes is only fair, just, or consistent by accident.
Anything that works or is merely claimed to work has been tried. The shaming and humiliation of public exposure and confession; forgiveness; being shunned socially and excommunicated ecclesiastically, fear of hell, hope of heaven, mutilation, castration, sterilization, tarring-and-feathering, removing the roof the offender's house, exile, fine, imprisonment, torture, execution; brainwashing, moral reeducation, etc. Society's reluctance to define its moral standards is paralleled by uncertainty about the relative value of retribution and rehabilitation, about the balance of fitting the punishment to the crime and to the criminal. Since nothing works very well, there is hardly any limit to creative imagination.
What Stephen J. Carter calls "true repentance" describes society's freedom to ignore behavior or to choose to forgive it if the miscreant meets a standard of contrition. As Carter says: "True repentance requires a determination to turn and walk the path of good." If society determines that the necessary level of determination is not present or strong enough, it will probably attempt to stimulate it by punishment or social sanctions. The church as a social institution often demands a higher level both of shame over the past and determination to improve in the future than secular society does.
However, if society finds the penitent to have exhibited the appropriate level of shame and humiliation and if the inappropriate behavior is common enough so that many fear that it could happen to them, society will probably choose to forgive without any transformation process. This is not the forgiveness of the gospel. This social forgiveness consists of the decision not to punish on condition that the behavior not be repeated, at the very least, that it not again become public but remain private. It is expected that one not violate the social standard by revealing one's own behavior or exposing the behavior of someone else. No one wants Ken Starr spending forty million dollars on their biography; no one wants the president to defend himself by exposing behaviors of members of Congress. For many, the crime is either not confessing what could no longer be concealed or publicizing what should remain private.
The quality of output is measured by recidivism. Are those who have passed through the system caught committing new crimes and once again qualified as input to the system (required to reenter the system)? In this system, repentance and forgiveness is most effective when there is never again behavior to repent of.
From this perspective, the death penalty when actually administered is the most effective throughput. It may, however, be the least valuable in terms of deterrence.
When I was young, I worked the night shift in a very stressful environment. My sole companion was a man recently released after spending thirty years in a military prison because he had killed his sergeant in World War I. Since he was in charge, I was safe for many reasons.
REPENTANCE UNDER THE GOSPEL
Repentance under the gospel is quite different from repentance under the law. The purpose is not to create more right behavior (although that is sometimes a byproduct) by changing people who do what is wrong into people who do what is right, but by changing people who do not fear, love, and trust in God into people of faith. The quality required of input is quite different, as are the transformation process, and the desired changes in the output.
Everyone, even the most righteous person, qualifies as input for this system. The question as to whether one has done what is right or wrong is irrelevant. We are all qualified by reason of what the Book of Concord calls "original sin," that is, we do not fear, love, and trust in God (Smalcald Articles, III, III, 10; Tappert, Book of Concord, p. 305). Actual sins, transgressions of the law, identify us as good quality input; so do good works. No investigative work is necessary. It is enough to be a sinner. It is a good sign when someone no longer keeps score by classifying some works as good, others as bad.
Nor is any specific level or kind of sorrow or apology necessary. Fearing, loving, trusting something else more than God qualifies us all. If we are concerned about our misdeeds, it does not matter if that concern is motivated by love of the good or fear of punishment. If we are not concerned about our misdeeds and relatively confident in our own righteousness, we are especially in need of repentance. The quality of input is measured in terms of relationship to God rather than of behavior.The Book of Concord emphasizes this difference over against the penitential practice of those it calls "sophists." These sophists were concerned about the quality of contrition. Later Lutheran pietists would make the same shift and require "true" contrition or "true" sorrow for sin, an emotional qualification like that required of the real sorrow and shame required by society for a real apology.
Throughput aims at changing the person rather than the behavior. Original sin — not fearing, loving, and trusting in God — is replaced not by a comprehensive pattern of righteous behavior (or good works) but by faith. This faith is trust in God. The process is not time-limited but on-going. The whole life of the Christian is to be a life of repentance. The work of the Spirit is apparent only in the conflict between original sin and faith and this conflict ends only in death. The process is always life-long. Death is not the end but only the transition to a new (as yet unknown) stage of the process.
Society's forgiveness responds to the sensed level of intensity of shame and of the intention to amend. Many found Clinton's admission of guilt an inadequate foundation for forgiveness. A greater depth of personal shame, of personal abasement, and of certainty that he would not only not do it again, but was so changed that he would never have done it (for some, "it" would be a sexual involvement, for others, "it" would be denying having done it). Forgiveness depends on differentiation. In contrast, God's forgiveness rests on God's identification with us as sinners. on God's concern for our need, and on God's concern to change us in ways that we probably wouldn't agree to if we were asked to sign a statement of informed consent. I can function as a minister of forgiveness only as I know myself to be capable of whatever actual or original sin is forgiven.
Output under the gospel is not measured by the absence of original sin. On the contrary, the Christian remains totally a sinner; original sin does not diminish but is rather now accompanied by faith. The presence of the transformation process is measured by the simultaneous total presence of both, by the inner conflict in which the Christian is totally involved on both sides (simul totus iustus et peccator). This means that faith is not identified by the absence of original sin, but rather by life in conflict with it. All that we can hope to identify is the presence of the conflict. Terrors of conscience and anxiety as well as spiritual indifference, agnosticism, certainty are all disturbing symptoms in pastoral care and need to be more carefully evaluated than overt misbehavior.
SUMMARY: COMPARE AND CONTRAST
Little more needs to be said. Having compared the two systems and their corresponding processes, significant differences in in-, through-, and out-put have appeared.
PASTORAL REFLECTION
It is a common pastoral difficulty that we would like to see more convincing results than the conflict between original sin and faith. Many of the pastors with whom I speak tell me that they wish they could identify even one person or one social system in which they have generated measurable irreversible change. Society's system of repentance under the law becomes an attractive greener pasture in which to minister.
I must confess that I too fall victim to that desire. In one form or another it appears to be the metabolic state of Lutheran theology. Pietism is theoretically so attractive; its promise of something more than the conflict between original sin and faith, some transcendent emotional, doctrinal, moral, or rational position. I have found no antidote except for active participation as a subject of pastoral care and not merely a minister. We are fortunate to live in a church in which pastors love to share the holy communion of the bread and wine with one another. We are less blessed to live in a church in which pastors do not seek pastoral care, do not trust one another to provide this care, and are pastored by bishops who are sometimes too busy to exercise their pastoral office. Undoubtedly, such pastoral care, the mutual conversation of the brethren, would sometimes be inept, sometimes destructive, sometimes liberating. It has often been the Holy Spirit's school of experience in which pastors can learn what pastoral ministry is all about and not about. As our people know, the art of distinguishing law and gospel is always a process of pastoral ministry, of always trying and never fully succeeding, a never-ending lesson taught by the Holy Spirit in the school of experience. The pastor best experiences the conflict between original sin and faith in ministry in the difficulty of distinguishing law and gospel in the constantly changing, never repeated context of pastoral encounter both as subject of ministry and as minister.
The theologians gathered at Smalcald in February, 1537 to review and edit Luther's preparatory draft of the Smalcald articles seem to have already experienced the same kind of difficulty as do pastors today. Perhaps they needed to generate measurable changes in people's behavior that would convince their princes they were being effective. In any case, apparently with Luther's active participation, they made a significant addition to the draft:
It is therefore necessary to know and to teach that when holy people, aside from the fact they still possess and feel original sin and daily repent and strive against it, fall into open sin (as David fell into adultery, murder, and blasphemy), faith and the Spirit have departed from them. This is so because the Holy Spirit does not permit sin to rule and gain the upper hand is such a way that sin is committed, but the Holy Spirit represses and restrains it so that it does not do what it wishes. If sin does what it wishes, the Holy Spirit and faith are not present, for St. John [1 John 3:9 and 5:18] says, "No one born of God commits sin; he cannot sin." Yet it is also true, as the same St. John [1 John 1:8] writes, "If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us." (Smalcald Articles, III, III, 43-45).
The authors of the Smalcald Articles asserted that they had a way to conclusively prove that some people who had once been involved in repentance were no longer repenting. These were people who committed "public" sins. In these people, the conflict had ended prematurely and the Holy Spirit had left. Some sins were compatible with the ongoing conflict between the flesh and the spirit (Smalcald Articles, III, III, 42) but "public" sins, such as those committed by David, murder, adultery, and blasphemy are incompatible with repentance and demonstrate that the Holy Spirit has left (III, III, 43-45). This brief catalog of sins describes most of the sins that can be "public" in a agrarian society and would require substantial additions in a capitalist context. I think that the addition of this paragraph is an unfortunate attempt to make a decision in theory that can be made — whether rightly or wrongly — only in the pastoral administration of the office of the keys. As a result, the discussion of repentance concludes with unresolved dithering around the question of whether and how people who true-ly repent can be described as sinners.
Before the confessors at Smalcald attempted the preceding theoretical decision in which I think they transgressed the boundary between theological theory and pastoral care, they affirmed what was once the last sentence of the draft. It remains as a warning to all of us who think we understand more than we really do, including present company:
This is something about which the pope, the theologians, the jurists, and all people understand nothing. It is a teaching from heaven, revealed in the gospel, and yet it is called a heresy by godless saints. (Smalcald Articles, III, III, 41).


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Ādams Kāpostiņš (Latgalian: Odumeņš Kopusteņš, 27 July 1905 – 7 February 1987) was a Latvian and Latgalian ceramicist.

Biography
Ādams Kāpostiņš was born at Puša village in Puša Parish, Russian Empire in 1905. He became a ceramicist in 1919, at the age of 14, continuing the family tradition. His grandfather and father were also ceramicists.

One of Kāpostiņš trademarks were face jugs and ceramic figures. His works were selected for the exhibitions since 1955. Kāpostiņš had a personal exhibition in Rēzekne at his 75th-anniversary in 1980 and his works were also displayed in exhibitions outside the Latvian SSR.

Kāpostiņš died in Puša on 7 February 1987.

Legacy
In 2015, there was an exposition in the Rainis Museum in Jasmuiža Manor, dedicated to the 110th jubilee of Kāpostiņš. It featured a renovated unique tile stove that was relocated from ceramicists house in Puša, originally made by Kāpostiņš.

Honors
 1981: Andrejs Paulāns Medal

References

External links

 Works by Kāpostiņš @ Latgale Culture History Museum

1905 births
1987 deaths
20th-century Latgalian ceramists
20th-century Latvian ceramists
Soviet ceramists

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After a steady stream of spy photos, we've snagged another glimpse at the 2023 BMW M4 CSL.
Expected to be the most hardcore and lightweight version of the current G82-generation M4, this will be the first car to get the full CSL treatment since the E46 M3 CSL.
Compared to previous spied photos, there's a different tail light design on this prototype compared to the regular M4 and 4 Series. BMW previously used the M4 GTS to debut OLED tail light technology, and the last M4 CS featured unique lights.
This tail light design features a straight line rather than the curved LED shape seen elsewhere. It's most apparent in the photo where the camouflaged prototype along with a bright green M4.
Apart from the different tail lights, everything else has been seen before.
There's an over-the-top aero package with a prominent chin spoiler that's longer, lower and wider than the front bumper, as well as new air intakes.
Reminiscent of the E46 M3, there's a ducktail spoiler that's plonked on the rear of the prototype.
Up front there's an interesting take on the BMW kidney grille with a unique insert that shows off a lot of the intercooler lurking behind.
Standard M4 and M4 Competition models have a grille with chunky horizontal bars.
The headlights are camouflaged in the exact same way as previously seen with three separate openings.
Also, the two rear windows are still camouflaged in this prototype hinting towards either a roll cage behind the front seats or a different type of weight-saving glass.
It's speculated this M4 CSL will have carbon ceramic brakes, given the gold painted brake calipers seen hiding behind the black wheels.
This prototype seems to have reached production-ready status according to our spy photographer, and could expect a debut in the first quarter of 2022.
Similar to the upcoming CSL, the CS badge was introduced on the previous, F82-generation in 2017 and was a limited run of 3000 examples globally.
At the time it was seen as a model that fell in between the M4 Competition and the GTS model.
This CS was 35kg lighter than the Competition and had 7kW and 50Nm more from its inline-six engine. It also had a $50,000 higher asking price.
BMWBlog reports not only will the current-generation coupe get a lighter, faster M4 CS model, it'll get the full-on CSL treatment for the first time since the E46.
As for the M4 CS we expect to sit below the CSL?
Like the previous-generation car, it's likely to be more track-focused than the Competition, with a slightly more pared-back cabin that doesn't go quite as far as the CSL.
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Stephen Peters (December 27, 1912 – November 29, 1976) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.  He served in the Manitoba legislature from 1958 to 1966, as a representative of the social-democratic Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and its successor, the New Democratic Party.

Peters was born in Winnipeg. The son of John Peters, he was educated at Winnipeg and the neighbouring suburb of Elmwood (later a part of the amalgamated city of Winnipeg), and worked for several years as a mechanic.  Peters served in the Canadian military during World War II. He worked for Canada Packers, retiring in 1975. In 1939, Peters married Doris Marjorie Greustad. He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1958 provincial election, defeating incumbent Liberal-Progressive MLA Alexander Turk in the newly created riding of Elmwood, by a margin of about 800 votes.

Peters faced a strong challenge from Progressive Conservative candidate Emerson Snyder in the 1959 general election (in which the PCs won a majority government under the leadership of Dufferin Roblin).  Peters was re-elected, but his majority was reduced to under 200 votes; Turk finished a distant third.  Peters again faced a difficult re-election in 1962; he was again victorious, but the difference between himself and the third-place candidate was less than three hundred votes.

Peters's electoral strength in Elmwood was based on his strong connection to unionized labour in the community.  He resigned from the legislature in 1966; the riding was subsequently held by Russell Doern, who turned it into a safer seat for the NDP.

He died in Winnipeg at the age of 63.

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5 Great Spielberg Moments by Fran Del Pizzo
Guest blogger, Fran Del Pizzo lists five great Steven Spielberg moments
I've Lost Him (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, 1989)
A sequence which elicits simultaneous heartbreak and laughter over three minutes, this is the climatic ending to the tank chase scene which sees Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) saving his father Henry (Sean Connery) and Marcus Brody (Denholm Elliott) from the clutches of Donovan's (Julian Glover) men. When Henry, Marcus and Sallah (John Rhys-Davies) peer over the side of the cliff believing that Indy has perished, we are treated to a wonderful moment of dramatic irony as our hero drags his exhausted body back over the peak of the cliff out of view of his friends and father.
Every single comedic beat here feels flawless and each one perfectly captures the personality of the characters in an instant: Indy looking over the cliff himself next to his oblivious friends to see what the fuss is all about, Sallah respectfully removing his Fez, Indy nodding and silently acknowledging his own luck, Henry's double take when he sees his son, Marcus confusingly pointing to Indy and then to the ground in order to figure out how his friend survived (to be fair he got lost in his own museum once so of course he's perplexed), Henry's almost embarrassed reaction after hugging his (at this point, estranged) son… the list goes on. Aside from the father-son relationship that Last Crusade is characterised by, it is these comedic elements which make this my own personal favourite of the Indiana Jones films.
As well as simply being funny, the moment is a true turning point in the relationship between Henry and Indy. It's Sean Connery's shattered reaction here which makes it even more of a memorable scene when it dawns on him that he never told his son how much he loved him. Time is precious and Henry has realised that (seemingly) too soon as he laments the fact that he didn't take advantage of their recent time together. As Henry embraces Indy and a smile emerges from his son who finally realises that his father does truly love him (not to mention Sallah's quiet elation) it's difficult not to get teary-eyed. Not content with letting Indy get some well-deserved rest and recovery (another humorous moment sees Henry pretty much letting him fall back to the ground like a sack of potatoes), the three men push on and return to their horses to finish their adventure just as the wind blows Indy's iconic hat perfectly into frame.
Joey Runs through No Man's Land (War Horse, 2011)
Truly one of those spine tingling moments that only films are capable of achieving, this scene from Spielberg's 2011 film War Horse finds our four-legged hero Joey desperately alone following the death of Topthorn, a horse with whom he had bonded with since being sold to the British army. After a German retreat, Joey is trapped between an oncoming tank and the barbed wire surrounding him, until the steed leaps on top and runs through the front lines of the trenches. When watching this short but no doubt painstakingly filmed moment in the cinema when I was 18, it felt like a moment akin to witnessing the end bike chase in E.T. for the first time.
It's an emotional pay-off for many reasons. Whilst he has learnt to plough and recognise the sound of Albert's (Jeremy Irvine) owl whistle (abilities which save his life at different points), Joey has been reluctant to learn how to jump when in the care of various people on his journey. An extraordinary animal in every sense of the word, this is the one skill he seems incapable of succeeding in, something that one of his carers, Émilie (Céline Buckens) is determined to set right. After Joey has escaped the tank, editor Michael Kahn cuts to the precise moment of a flare being released when to our surprise, the horse emerges from the right side of the frame to heroically leap over a German trench. Unfazed or perhaps spurred on by the surrounding explosions, Joey doesn't stop running when he falls down, continuing to sprint within the trenches themselves and eventually through the obstacle-ridden hell of no man's land. Early on it's made obvious that very few people believe Joey to be a horse of much use due to his short stature, a clever visual joke at the start of the film sees a gallant shire horse at auction being lead away only to reveal the comparatively tiny Joey behind it. Perhaps no scene in the picture better encapsulates the themes of both courage and perseverance, characteristics that this initially unremarkable animal possesses and that are also mirrored in his owner Albert, who has just demonstrated his own bravery in combat.
John Williams' soaring score is here to accompany Spielberg's technical prowess, which itself is impossible to ignore as you question just how in the world this sequence was filmed. It really is a breathtaking moment of cinema on par with Spielberg's most iconic scenes. Despite the absolutely desperate setting on the front lines of WWI, it manages to be majestic and inspiring, setting up another memorable segment where a British and German soldier must put their differences aside to save the life of Joey after he gets trapped in barbed wire.
Saluting Japanese Pilots (Empire of the Sun, 1987)
A scene now all the more poignant considering the recent passing of cinematographer Allen Daviau, but also a moment acting as a perfect, ever lasting testament to his talent. Spielberg's adaptation of J.G Ballard's 1984 novel follows a precocious young boy called Jamie (Christian Bale) who is separated from his parents during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, becoming a POW and learning to fend for himself in an unforgiving world without his Mum and Dad. Shortly after being taken prisoner, he spots a fighter plane on the runway near his camp. While admiring it, a nearby prison guard readies his rifle as three Japanese pilots approach Jamie. Paying no attention to the guard's warning, Jamie slowly turns to face the pilots and salute them, who all return his show of respect by saluting themselves.
Jamie's obsession with aviation is one reason why this scene is so powerful. Amongst the devastation of war and the fear that he may never be reunited with his parents again, Jamie is able to find brief solace by embracing the aircraft, something he is utterly fascinated and moved by. It's also a perfect encapsulation of Jamie's unwillingness to be prejudice against others. Unlike the adults in his life, Jamie's innocence allows him to look beyond the shallow negative perceptions of the Japanese enemy that others have and instead admire their bravery and fortitude. Whilst he is naive in many ways, Jamie's unique respect for his captors saves his, and other people's lives at several points throughout the film and by learning their language and customs, this child is able to survive in an environment that most of the adults aren't even capable of. Just like his later, near wordless relationship with the young Kamikaze pilot on the other side of the camp's barbed wire, this is a moment which transcends any language barriers existing between its subjects. No sound is required besides John William's (as usual) beautiful score which peaks just at the second that these people, who seem very different on the surface, are captured saluting each other in the same frame.
When rewatching Empire of the Sun, this fleeting moment of joy is made more moving when considering the tribulations to come, which extinguish this childish sense of wonderment. Jamie's childhood has prematurely ended by the time he meets his parents again and as he hugs his Mum, his eyes seem almost empty; only exhaustion and weariness fill his face as he is barely even able to register who the two people stood before him are. Whilst family and aviation once defined Jamie, he now seems unrecognisable compared to the boy on that runway, his school uniform now replaced with a bomber jacket and a green camouflage outfit as if a veteran himself (he even discards his name and is known by "Jim" when in the camp). Empire of the Sun is a bittersweet and melancholy picture acting as a vivid precursor to Spielberg's darker works that were to come in his career.
Air Traffic Control (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1977)
We know Spielberg is an expert at building tension and creating suspense (the masterful, dialogue empty cat-and-mouse opening of 2015's Bridge of Spies could have easily been on this list), and here he crafts a scene a little over three minutes long building around a potential mid-air collision between two aircraft and a, well… no one knows. Like Jaws, whose notorious technical problems on set benefited the psychological horror of the picture by reducing how often audiences actually saw the shark, this scene may not have been as effective as it is had it not been for a happy little accident. In his definitive behind the scenes book on the making of Close Encounters, Matt Morton writes that for tax reasons which would ultimately help to secure much of the film's budget, production had to start before January 1976 - but how could the crew do this in time if they had no principle actors or sets constructed? Simple, use an existing air traffic control facility which would not only solve their problem but also inject an air of authenticity to the scene, something that may not have been achieved to the extent it is had they constructed the set themselves.
It's a chaotic sequence, but on a small scale as Spielberg refuses to move beyond the walls of this one room, instead jumping between reaction shots of the workers and glimpses of the radar system which soon buzzes with danger to warn of a conflict incoming (sometimes, even when we see a shot of the radar screen, it is captured in a way that gives us an uninterrupted view of the actor's performance in the reflection). We are invited to use our imagination here and imagine the panicked faces on the pilots as they navigate the skies trying to avoid a flying object that they aren't able to identify. Spielberg will pull a trick like this again in the next scene, when the young Barry (Cary Guffey) sees one of the extra-terrestrials standing off-screen; while we see the starstruck reaction on the boy's face, we don't see the alien ourselves. This constraint to not show too much, too soon is prevalent in many Spielberg films (it's about an hour until we get our first glimpse of the T-Rex in Jurassic Park), and the ability to hold back is what makes the reveal of both the mothership and the aliens at the end so special, since it's been denied to us for so long prior.
Picking just one scene from Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a near-impossible task (I don't think I'm alone when I say that I think about the last 20 minutes of this film on a daily basis) but it doesn't seem like a stretch to say that this scene is so well-crafted that it could be released as a short movie and stand up on its own as a masterpiece of storytelling in spite of the restrictions in its location. The final frame which sees the now gathered workers huddled around one another with their eyes fixed to the computer screens echoes how the scientists greeting the mothership at the end will similarly be united in their shock, relief and amazement. We are also shown in only this short scene, how important the theme of communication will be to the overall narrative. At two points, the characters are forced to talk over one another as well as the chatter and alarms coming from the radio, in stark contrast to the perfect harmony of the musical conversation at the climax which unites both extra-terrestrials and humans.
High School Teacher (Saving Private Ryan, 1998)
Although rightly lauded for its epic battle sequences, Saving Private Ryan is just as effective in its quieter, contemplative moments. Perhaps not more so than in the scene when Captain Miller (Tom Hanks) defuses an argument amongst his soldiers by revealing his peacetime profession (a topic that his own men are having a pool on). He not only exposes their supposed secret bet to the wider group, but justifies his reasoning for sparing a German solder, giving them a rare insight into his personality which he feels is now unrecognisable when compared to the man he was before WWII. What occurs here is the result of the fallout from the death of one of the squad's most beloved members, a consequence of what some may see as an ill-advised tactical decision on Miller's part.
The death of medic Wade (Giovanni Ribisi) is a devastating scene in its own right considering the slow, painful, drawn out nature of his demise and the fact that his own squad mates are forced to intentionally put him out of his misery with an overdose of morphine, but it hits home in particular because he was very much the compassionate being of the group. Whilst Miller, a man tasked with an unthinkable responsibility, is the leader of the squad, he still makes questionable moral choices such as refusing to take a civilian child to the next town over in Neuville as well as joining in as his squad are mocking the dogtags of KIA soldiers. On the other hand, Wade is the first to remark upon how much Ryan's (Matt Damon) safe return will mean to his mother who has lost three of her sons, the one to copy Caparzo's (Vin Diesel) blood soaked letter to his father as well as the person to break up the insensitive joking around of the aforementioned dogtag scene. The death of this virtuous character and the presence of a German prisoner that most of his squad believes should be killed has such ramifications for Miller that he is forced to reflect upon his own humanity while the group starts to crumble apart and debate the futile nature of their mission.
Miller's initial unwillingness to intervene in the argument between Reiben (Edward Burns) and Horvath (Tom Sizemore) shows, for a brief moment, his refusal to take on any more responsibility given how much guilt, burden and pressure is already heaped upon him. It's a subtle show of vulnerability where we are given the impression that Miller feels as though he may not be up to the task of leading his men any more. The revelation that he had such a normal job before the war makes any errors he might have made all the more understandable; he is not, as Rieben suggests, a super soldier made up from the body parts of dead G.I's, but a schoolteacher with weaknesses and regrets just like anyone else. Who wouldn't snap under the toll of his experiences? All of this adds such depth to Miller, who is ultimately a great leader as well as incredibly courageous but also made to be both occasionally morally grey and most importantly, human. All of this in a genre that could have so easily painted its characters as invincible, flawless people, which was indeed something Spielberg wanted to avoid: "The Second World War seems really cut and dried, or black and white. But inside a war, and inside combat, it's technically chaotic and personally chaotic and personally very contradictory", he said to critic Richard Schickel. When Miller tells Ryan to "earn" the sacrifice that has been made for him in his last dying breath, audiences are given a stark reminder that we too must live up to the sacrifices of the veterans of WWII, which was won at the hands of people like Miller who were as ordinary as any of us, battling not just the enemy but the realisation that they would have to live with what they saw and did forever.
Guest post by Fran Del Pizzo: http://dialmformovies.co.uk/
If you enjoyed Fran's guest post, why not read this amazing article on Steven Spielberg's Always which is also written by Fran Del Pizzo?
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d-HealthyLife was invited to contribute to the event with a unique session using the principles of co-creation through gamification to develop health promoting games.
Within the frame of the HEALTHIO event, and as a practical application of the elements featured in the d-HealthyLife training course, d-HealthyLife organised a 'game jam' in which teams of stakeholders with mixed backgrounds competed to develop viable health promoting games.
The winning team's game was titled "Los Gurús del Amor" (The Love Gurus)!
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Do You Know How To Develop A Fan Base??
In last week's post, we looked at how Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift got their start in the music industry. Today we're going to take a deeper look at what gave Ed Sheeran his biggest push towards stardom and how he developed his fan base.
Writing Your Own Music
Let's do a short recap. Ed Sheeran started playing his guitar at an early age. When he was 11, he went backstage to meet Damien Rice who encouraged him to start writing his own music.
At age 14 Sheeran went to London for the summer to see if he could generate interest in his music. Then at age 16, he moved to London gigging continuously, sleeping on fan's sofas. He also began recording his songs.
How much it costs to cut an album? According to Recording Connection, an album takes between 60 to 100 hours to finish depending on the musician's skill level. One song can cost from $50 to $500 with a full album costing around $2000.
The next question is "How much can you make gigging?" Payscale.com states that pay for gigging can range for $50 to $1000 depending on the type of gig. A local musician playing for a few fans in a coffee shop, restaurant, or bar can range from $50 to $250 depending upon the artist and if they've developed a good fan base.
Let's look at this. Sheeran started seriously gigging in 2006. At the same time, he recorded an album, with another one in 2007, and the third in 2009. He also played 300 live shows in 2009.
I know prices were different in 2006 and 2007, but as a new musician on the scene, he had to develop his fan base to be able to start bringing in more money gigging. Most of what he made had to go towards his recording. He did not sign with Atlantic records until after he had been No.1 on the iTune charts.
Create Your Fan Base
The big question is, "How do you build a fanbase?" and "What's the difference between a fan base and a super fanbase?"
It doesn't matter "whether you're a musician, a movie star, a celebrity chef or a health and wellness guru," Lawrence Court of disciplemedia.com states that "building, engaging and retaining your fanbase is essential."
Court states that you need to go beyond a fanbase and build a community, a community that is highly engaged and inspired. But, you must start with a fan base.
The first step is to get your first fan on social media. A good place to start is Facebook. You can create a page, not your profile, that represents your music or whatever you are trying to promote. Facebook allows you to invite your friends to like your page. You can also communicate with your friends through Facebook's Messenger.
With all the content available, people have become blind to all the ads that we see on television, internet, etc. etc. Ads today have to be exceptional to even get our attention. The new marketing style is called "Conversational Marketing" or "Relational Marketing."
Conversational marketing is a one-on-one conversation, where you learn about your potential customers or fans and create a more human engagement experience. This is the approach we have taken when marketing LarrySWarfieldMusic.com.
We first created a website then a Facebook page connecting the two with graphics, images, and blog posts. Samples of Larry's music was placed on both the website and the Facebook page. The likes increased on his page by increasing our friends' list and asking them to check out his music. His page likes increased from 70 to 231 in about two weeks.
It was a challenge conversing with people worldwide, some of the people you talk to on Facebook have ulterior motives. You also need to offer something free for an engagement incentive. If you've been on the internet you've seen offers for free eBooks, free courses, free music, you name it and you can find it free. We all like to get free stuff, don't we?
We put a sample of Larry's song on his Facebook page with a free full MP3 for those who went to his website and registered, giving us their name and email address. The free MP3 is a limited time offer. When the song is released online then the free MP3 goes away.
Sheeran began building his fan base by gigging and putting videos of his performances on YouTube. In 2006, when Sheeran started gigging, Facebook had only been around for two years. Now, in the age of social media, there are many more options available.
Be Your Own PR Person
According to Court from disciplemedia.com, one of the most important things in building your fan base is public relations (PR). Establishing a positive public image is just as important as creating your brand, that we hear so much about today. Public Relations includes establishing contacts with the press and media to help get your name out to the public.
Turning Your Fan Base Into A Super Fanbase
Your fan base becomes your super fan base or community, however, you want to say it, when they follow all your posts or concerts, buy your albums and merchandise, but mostly, interact with you on a regular basis.
One musician on Facebook has about 400K likes but has a super fan base of around 40K. She interacts with them on her website, Facebook, Twitter and other sites. She's always putting out challenges or questions that keep her fans interacting with her. One important part of her interaction is email. She recently put out a new album. She started weeks before the release with asking questions, requesting suggestions. Her music is Celtic so she had a big release party planned in Ireland, I believe, where her super fans traveled to be part of her celebration. She is the perfect example of turning her fanbase into a tight-knit community.
I hope this has given you ideas to start pondering about how to get started building your fan base online.
In the next post, we will delve deeper into the subject of what is needed to create an online following to get your music heard.
by Dena Warfield
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490 Kwapis Boulevard is a Brick Detached Bungalow home with frontage to the North. The home's closest main intersection is Yonge And Davis Dr. The lot dimensions of this property are 44.95 x 95.14 Feet. The property is located in the Woodland Hill neighbourhood in the city of Newmarket, in the regional municipality of York. Nearby neighbourhoods are Summerhill Estates, Bristol-London, Glenway Estates, Gorham-College Manor, Stonehaven-Wyndham.
This home has 3 beds and 3 bathrooms . The ground level contains the living room, dining room, kitchen room, breakfast room, family room, master room, 2nd br room, 3rd br room. The bsmt level contains the rec room, family room, office room.
This home has a finished, full basement. In Area laundry is located on the Lower floor of the property. The garage is attached and there are 2 parking spots. The property has central air for air conditioning and does have a central vacuum.
490 Kwapis Boulevard has a total of 7 rooms. This home was listed by HOMELIFE/BAYVIEW REALTY INC., BROKERAGE according to MLS® Reciprocity.
This Bungalow for rent on Home.ca is located at 490 Kwapis Boulevard, Newmarket, L3X3K6 and is situated in the neighbourhood of Woodland Hill. This property is a bungalow. This home does not have a fireplace. Air conditioning is provided via central air. It's located near Yonge And Davis Dr. This home has 2 Attached garage spaces for parking. Lot depth is 95.14 and width is 44.95.
While Kwapis Boulevard has 3 homes currently available, the district of Woodland Hill has 64 postings available. That's just 11.4% of the 561 total properties for sale in the city of Newmarket.
Homes in Woodland Hill are listed for an average asking price of $864,249, or an estimated monthly mortgage of $2,928. That is 1.3 times less the average list price of $1,106,651 in Newmarket. Woodland Hill listed properties average 1114 sq ft, 3.3 beds, and 3.4 baths. Apartments make up 0% of homes for sale in the neighbourhood around 490 Kwapis Boulevard. If this home is not to your liking check out other condos for sale in Woodland Hill or in other areas of Newmarket. *Monthly mortgage payments are an estimate based on a 20% down payment on a home.


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Spectacular Colleen McGill designed centre hall home in North Rosedale. Superb room proportions throughout house with light steaming in as situated on ideal south facing lot. Featured in House & Home and much admired home on the "Douglas Circle" this is a one of a kind opportunity.


Agrasen Ki Baoli by Sandeep Pandey - 10.000" x 7.250"
Agrasen Ki Baoli framed print by Sandeep Pandey. Bring your print to life with hundreds of different frame and mat combinations. Our framed prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and delivered "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
This is simply stunning! What a captivating perspective, so arresting. I can't stop staring into this beautiful world.
oh WOW!!!! fascinating depth ... wonderful point of view!!!!!
I am an starting my carrier in professional photography and trying to give world a different perspective from things around us.


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import javax.swing.*;

public abstract class Vars {
	JTextField txtKontoNummer = new JTextField();
	JTextField txtPinEingabe = new JTextField();
	JTextField eingabeBeitrags = new JTextField();
	JButton btnNewButton = new JButton("Karte eingeben");
	JButton btnNewButton_1 = new JButton("Pin bestatigen");
	JButton btnNewButton_2 = new JButton("Kontostand");
	JButton btnNewButton_3 = new JButton("Geld abheben");
	JButton btnNewButton_4 = new JButton("Karte ausgeben");
	JButton btnNewButton_5 = new JButton("Geld ab");

	JLabel infoPanel = new JLabel();
	JLabel test4 = new JLabel("Test4 ist erfolgreich. Karte raus",SwingConstants.CENTER);
	JLabel test4No = new JLabel("Test4 nicht bestanden. Keine Karte",SwingConstants.CENTER);
	JLabel test3 = new JLabel("Test3 ist erfolgreich. Pin war richtig",	SwingConstants.CENTER);
	JLabel test3No = new JLabel("Test3 ist nicht bestanden. Pin ware falsch",SwingConstants.CENTER);
	JLabel test2 = new JLabel("Test2 ist erfolgreich. Sie konnen ihren Pin setzen",SwingConstants.CENTER);
	JLabel test2No = new JLabel("Test2 ist nicht bestanden. falsch",SwingConstants.CENTER);
	JLabel test1No = new JLabel("Test1 ist nicht bestanden. Wenig geld auf dem Konto",SwingConstants.CENTER);

	JDialog diaBu = new JDialog();
	ButtonGroup bgroup = new ButtonGroup();
	JPanel radioPanel = new JPanel();
	JRadioButton auswahl = new JRadioButton("Auswahl");
	JRadioButton freier = new JRadioButton("Freier");
	JFrame frame = new JFrame("Unser Swing Bank Program");

	JComboBox<Integer> comboBox = new JComboBox<Integer>(
			new DefaultComboBoxModel<Integer>(new Integer[] { 50, 100, 200,
					500, 1000 }));

	CashMachine<Account> cashMaAccountList = new CashMachine<Account>();
}

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We cannot believe you're already 15 months old. We love you so much!
-You are walking EVERYWHERE! You love it much and get a big smile on your face when we catch a glimpse of you walking. Sometimes you'll walk right into us and fall in our laps. Then you giggle. It's so funny.
-You go to the doctor next week, but we're guessing you weigh between 21-22 lbs. You're getting much taller though!
-Still wearing size 12-18 month clothes and 12 month pj's. In size 4 diaper. We're about to switch you up a size in clothes because you're getting so long.
-You absolutely adore your sister. Wanting to do everything she does. You will play chase in the family room with her and you'll both laugh nonstop. Then eventually one of you falls and cries, but it's fun while it lasts!
-Going down at night around 7 and getting up around 8. Occasionally taking a morning nap for about an hour, but definitely an afternoon nap for a couple hours.
-You're eating pretty much everything we give you. Your favorite is hands-down, bananas. We just started giving you a spoon and fork to play around with and you're really enjoying that.
-You have 7 teeth all the way in with molars on the way and another bottom tooth.
-You were sick a couple weekends ago. Just a virus, but you had a fever of 102 and just wanted to sleep and cuddle all day.
-Still sucking that thumb. Walking has helped you put it down a little more. Here's hoping this continues!
-You are definitely all boy. Throwing things-big or small! Mommy calls you her little baseball player. You get into everything. Definitely the opposite of your dainty big sister.
-You're starting to talk a little bit. Saying dadda, ball, momma, yum-yum and a few other words we can't catch. Your sister interprets for you though.
I love our Bubby and his thumb-sucking!


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The picture of barbie and her cat coloring pages is really beautifull cat coloring pages for your son. You have authorization to download free by clicking the DOWNLOAD button under the collection. It will open a new window. Do right click on the image, then choose save picture as… After that you have permission to revise the file name and the folder where you want to store the file. Then click the save button.
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Have you ever dreamed of winning the big race? Gaining the big break in your job or business? As a child did you dream of being on the big stage?
Feeling like I did as a boy I dreamt of winning the NBA title as a Boston Celtic. I feel just like that now only I'm a 61-year-old grandfather. My zest to win has never diminished.
My first Ironman was on April 15, 2007. My fifteenth Ironman was on October 10, 2015, the Ironman World Championship. My only goal in all 15 of these Ironman triathlons was to finish. Thankfully, with the grace of God, I was able to finish.


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Q: A tag with no link and onclick listener and appropriate hand icon I'm using a template that includes an image that is link that when clicked takes the dashboard view to its home.
The HTML code is written like this:
 CompanyName

I need to do a simple modification. When this is clicked, instead of its current action it should open up a dialog and show some text. I will do this with a JS function. So I've modified the HTML so that it looks like this:
 CompanyName

This works just fine, but when the mouse hovers over the image the mouse icon changes to I instead of the hand.
To fix this, I tried modifying the HTML so like so:
 CompanyName

This works makes the mouse change into a hand, but clicking it reloads the page.
So my question is, how can I get the behaviour of the second option, but in such a way that the mouse, when hovering, changes to a hand and not to a I?

A: If you aren't linking somewhere: don't use a link.
Use a <button> instead.
Apply CSS to make it look the way you want.
The cursor property determines what the mouse pointer will look like:
button {
    cursor: pointer;
}

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Champey Restaurant is located in the heart of Siem Reap overlooking the famous Old Market in town. One one side, iur restaurant overlooks the market and at the other end we open up onto the Pub Street Lane.
We're one of the oldest running restaurants in Siem Reap and we've been for more than a decade. We made our name by serving high-quality Khmer food fit for a king. One of our previous chefs uses recipes from the royal chef and we've taken these royal recipes and we serve them to the world.
We are also proud of our Cambodian heritage. As Cambodian is a developing country, things are changing quickly. However, we don't always like change. We saved our historical building from being knocked down. The building is now a World Heritage site and will be preserved forever.
We are perfectly located to watch the world pass by and see the daily life of the locals and tourists who come to visit this very history part of the town.


According to Currency ISO (http://www.currency-iso.org/en/shared/amendments/iso-4217-amendment.html), ISO 4217 has been amended with the following, with immediate effect.
It is proposed that these amendments are included in IATI's non-embedded codelist, assuming approval.
With immediate effect, the following changes are made to "Table A.1 – Currency and funds code list"
The Croatian National Bank requested the currency name change from Croatian Kuna to Kuna.
The National Bank of Romania requested the currency name change from New Romanian Leu to Romanian Leu.
The effective date for the Azerbaijanian Manat was 1st January 1994 and not 25th August 1994 (according amendment number 78).


Movies screen at the Grand Theaters at 3:00 and 5:30 on Thursdays.
$25 to see all 12 may be the best entertainment investment of the year in Bismarck/Mandan. Even if you only make it to three, you come out ahead. Plus, I'm crazy excited about all of them. It's a rich and diverse collection with seven foreign films, two documentaries, two animated films, and two classics.


Bernie Sanders visited the University of Central Florida on Wednesday to whip up support for Andrew Gillum, a black socialist Democrat running for governor, and it was a truly pathetic sight.
Dozens turn out at Bernie Sanders rally in support of Andrew Gillum.
"Dozens turn out at Bernie Sanders rally in support of Andrew Gillum," Praying Medic posted to Twitter, along with a video of the event that showed a very small crowd gathered around Sanders as he spoke.
There was literally one person in the stands, and plenty of room on the floor inside the CFE Arena, which was partitioned to gather everyone on one half of the venue.
Other videos confirmed the abysmal turnout, which featured just four folks half-heartedly waving campaign signs as the crowd of a few dozen waited near the stage for the big event.
Sanders told the mostly college-aged crowd they're personally responsible for whether Gillum becomes the state's first black governor, and preliminary results show they're failing miserably.
"There are 2,900 eligible voters from this university, all of 81 have voted so far. That is pathetic," Sanders told the crowd, according to Fox 13.
Sanders urged students to vote to back his socialist policies, which he said Gillum supports, including "Medicare for all" government run health care, government funded college, and $15 minimum wage, among others.
Sanders claims the president is "trying to gain political points by dividing us up, by trying to get one group to hate another group," and mocked Trump for visiting Florida to support Gillum's opponent, Republican Ron DeSantis, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
At the conclusion of the event, which featured other Democrats running for state office but not Gillum himself, Sanders and company literally walked students to an early voting site on the UCF campus.
The scene at UCF paled in comparison to the packed DeSantis rally at the 8,200-seat Hertz Arena in Fort Meyers headlined by President Trump Wednesday night. Lines formed for the Trump-DeSantis rally at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, a full 34 hours before doors opened, the News-Press reports.
The massive sea of red MAGA hats also spilled outside the arena, where supporters who arrived too late to get a ticket tailgated around a massive projector screen in the parking lot, according to the Naples Daily News.
Andrew Pierce, a 53-year-old who didn't make it inside, told the news site that the overflow crowd in the parking lot speaks for itself.
Inside, the energy and enthusiasm was "palpable," according to Politico.
"Who voted?" (Trump) asked, watching with disbelief as thousands raised their hands.
The Trump-DeSantis rally was held in a county where 36 percent of voters have already cast their ballots, many of them for Republicans.
That should make Sanders, Gillum and other Democrats very nervous.