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Independent Film Festival Boston 2013 Day 05: The Defector: Escape from North Korea, Remote Area Medical, The Act of Killing, and Berberian Sound Studio
10 days behind!
I suppose I should kick myself on buying tickets for the Red Sox game that I knew would conflict with the festival, but I don't remember if IFFBoston's exact dates were announced back when the Sox four-packs went on sale, and anyway, the Sunday game package is when it's easiest for my folks to come. So, I wound up missing my brother and his girls on the 28th, although that family is big enough now that they need the whole four. From the pictures, it looked like they had fun.
I had fun, too, although that's a funny thing to say about this line-up of movies, which involved human trafficking, large groups of Americans being unable to pay for health care, Indonesian death squads, and, in the one that was actually supposed to be entertaining rather than informative, a man going slowly mad from isolation. Really could have used a movie about cute puppies being adopted by the end there, but at least the movies about ugly things were interesting.
Unlike Saturday, I had plenty of time to get something to eat at Boston Burger Company between shows, in part because only one of the four had a Q&A that would tighten up the gap between shows.
That's Farihah Zaman and Jeff Reichert, the team behind Remote Area Medical. Like all of the day's films, it was pretty good, although somewhat like Oxyana, it wasn't too hard to get the feeling during the Q&A afterward that they sort of went soft in a few areas to make it palatable to an audience with somewhat broader political beliefs. For instance, you won't hear anybody mention "Obamacare" anywhere in the movie, although it was something that naturally came up while interviewing the subjects. Given the part of the country they were in (Tennessee), there was a lot of objection to it, although a lot of people they interviewed apparently said that they wanted a system like in Canada or the UK, having a hard time accepting that it's impossible to get there all at once. Or, arguably, at all; some parts of the country have a really deep, ingrained distrust of government.
(It also struck me that, not having been ill or just having had a check-up lately, I really have no idea what health care costs me as a consumer. Some of the numbers people floated as to what it "should" cast seemed ridiculously low to me for involving highly-trained professionals, but I just have no context.)
Anyway, they seemed like nice folks; doing this movie came from having worked with RAM before, so they were able to start with a fair amount of trust from everyone on that side, and I suspect that a lot of the patients would want their voices heard in this situation. It certainly felt like a doc with unusually good access for a subject that could have been uncomfortable.
Okay, three more to go. Four, kind of. Might not get to them until Sunday or Monday, but the chance of getting these movies written up before they fall out the back of my brain looks pretty good.
(To be fair: The end of Berberian Sound Studio is kind of hazy. Is it weird that I tend to forget the ends of movies pretty fast, especially in genres where the denouement is so important?)
The Defector: Escape from North Korea
* * * ½ (out of four)
Seen 28 April 2013 in Somerville Theatre #4 (Independent Film Festival Boston, digital)
The Defector is a documentary adventure of sorts - it embeds the filmmakers and audience in a situation that has very real danger as things happen, rather than having the filmmakers dig up what they can later. Sure, it's not a big action-movie sort of adventure, but there's plenty of very real tension as a group of North Korean defectors make a 3,000-mile trip to escape to the South.
Such a long trip may seem unnecessary, but the border between the two Koreas is the most guarded frontier in the world, effectively impassable. So what's more common is for people to escape to Yanji in northern China, take the highway via Xian to Kunming, where they can sneak into Laos, cross the mountains on foot, and finally make it to Chiyachi, Thailand, where they can apply for political asylum in various countries. They can't do that alone, obviously, which is why there are brokers such as "Dragon", who escaped North Korea in 2001 and has helped about 500 since. This group includes Sook-ja, who is seeking her missing sister, and Yong-hee, who was kidnapped by human traffickers eight years previous and sold as a mail-order bride.
Ann Shin's film can't quite be a narrative film with real people, for a number of reasons. What would be plot threads in a feature inevitably sputter out unresolved here, and conflict between the subjects will often result not in great cinema but significantly reduced access for the filmmaker. Safety concerns mean that Shin and her crew (presumably just cinematographer Stephen Chung) cannot accompany the defectors on the trek through Laos, which is potentially the most cinematic leg of the journey. And while she does well with recreations when they're necessary, moments when she states her emotions in voiceover because it was prudent to hide them while she was filming are somewhat flat.
Full review on eFilmCritic.
Remote Area Medical
* * * ¼ (out of four)
Remote Area Medical takes great pains to separate itself from partisan politics as much as possible, but its very premise - that a service designed to bring basic medical treatment to people in areas without any sort of infrastructure like the middle of the Amazon rain forest now spends 60% of its time tending to small-town America - must at least suggest a need for action, no matter what one feels the action is. And even without having that argument, it's an intriguing look at just how this massive-but-mobile free clinic works.
In this case, the RAM team is spending a weekend in Bristol, Tennessee, not terribly far from their Knoxville headquarters. They set up shop at the racetrack, hand out tickets at 3:30am - which would seem early except that some cars have been waiting for days - and then at 7am sharp they take people in the order that they arrive. Many are there for routine checkups, mammograms, and the like, while some have more specific symptoms. A large number are there for eye exams and dental care; there are facilities on-hand to manufacture glasses and dentures. Roughly two thousand people will be examined by the volunteer physicians on-hand.
That dental and vision are so prominent may be surprising to some in the audience, but perhaps it shouldn't be. As much we often tend to think of health care in reactive terms - not necessarily emergency services, but something done after a problem has shown itself - filmmakers Jeff Reichert and Farihah Zaman have the patients receiving that kind of assistance explain how a degenerative gum disease that leave's one's teeth a mess can certainly make it difficult to get a job that involves dealing with people, or how not being able to see well enough to read can undermine a person's confidence. There are bits where people talk about what health care costs and what it should cost, sure, but if Remote Area Medical makes any contribution to the debate about affordable health care, it's in framing it as something that improves everyday life as opposed to just something needed in bad situations.
The Act of Killing
The Act of Killing opens with a group of dancing girls emerging from a covered bridge shaped like a fish. This may not seem like a particularly apt way to start a film about the criminal and paramilitary gangs who systematically murdered dissidents during and after Indonesia's 1965 military coup, but in this case, the absurd is called for. This is one of the most self-referential, strange documentaries one can imagine, and a rare one that uses that inward gaze to find power rather than express ego.
What director Joshua Oppenheimer does is to have his subjects shoot their own movies about what happened back then, while his behind-the-scenes video captures them speaking about murder, intimidation, and other injustices in plain view. The killers take on various roles behind the camera and in front of it, sometimes portraying themselves, sometimes playing accomplices and victims, while Oppenheimer, co-director Christine Cynn, and their collaborators (many of them anonymous) fill the audience in with details about the country's recent history and present.
The men he works with.. Well, they're a transfixing group of people, if nothing else. Anwar Congo quickly emerges as the central figure; he's a rail-thin, dark-skinned, silver-haloed fellow who dresses like a pimp, cheerfully talks about having been a "movie-theater gangster" who later moved up to torturing and killing the government's enemies, and how he was inspired by a desire to top the violence of Hollywood movies. Herman Koto is like his sidekick, a tubby former paramilitary fighter who winds up cross-dressing when the picture needs a weeping mother and undertakes an ill-advised run for government in the middle of production. The less-flamboyant Adi Zulkadry flies in from where he's been living abroad for many years, and newspaper publisher Ibrahim Sinik brags about people being tortured in his office. Then there are the more conventional monsters, including a paramilitary group founded by Congo and now led by Safit Parede; gangsters like Congo and public figures like Vice President Jusuf Kalla mingle at their rallies.
Berberian Sound Studio
Seen 28 April 2013 in Somerville Theatre #4 (Independent Film Festival Boston After Dark, digital)
Berberian Sound Studio brought a film called "Amer" to mind, even though the two are spectacularly different in the way they pay tribute to Italian giallo movies. What they have in common is a deep affection for the genre, a remarkable attention to detail, and an incredible ability to create atmosphere from sound and a barely suggested plot. This movie just takes those qualities into post-production.
Post-production on a film called "The Equestrian Vortex", to be specific. Gilderoy (Toby Jones), an English audio engineer, has been hired to record and mix the movie's soundtrack, but he didn't quite know what he was getting into - aside from the bloody, violent content of the script taking him by surprise, he's a quiet Englishman surrounded by brash Italians; he doesn't speak the local language; and he's having a hard time finding someone to reimburse him for his airfare. Producer Francesco (Cosimo Fusco) switches from ingratiating to domineering at the drop of a hat, and the director who specifically requested him is mostly absent and eccentric when he is around. The closest thing he finds to a friend is Silvia (Fatma Mohamed), one of the actresses dubbing the film, though some of the other men on set claim she's trouble.
If I were producing next year's Academy Awards, I'd look into using clips from this movie to illustrate just what is meant by Sound Editing and Sound Mixing; a fair amount of time is spent on showing how Gilderoy and his colleagues go about their work, whether it be smashing vegetables to approximate the sounds of the human body being abused, carefully raising and lowering sound levels to just so, and watching women scream their hearts out while standing in a booth with nothing to react to. It's great fun to watch for those who like to see how things work and how movies are made, but the way writer/director Peter Strickland uses this environment to tell the story is kind of brilliant. Certainly, it's dark and claustrophobic and kind of run-down; that's kind of a given. But it's Gilderoy that grabs the attention; Jones and Strickland let us get to know the man by how he goes about his work, usually separated from the girl he may fancy by glass. The machines he uses are analog, mechanical things, an extension of his actions in the way that digital interfaces can only approximate, and the instinctive way he is able to manipulate them stands in stark contrast to how nervous he is in his interaction with the other people.
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Kuwait: Preface
Country Study > Preface
This edition of Persian Gulf States: Country Studies replaces the previous edition, published in 1984. Like its predecessor, the present book attempts to treat in a compact and objective manner the dominant historical, social, economic, political, and national security aspects of the five contemporary states of the Persian Gulf covered in this volume -- Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. Sources of information included scholarly books, journals, and monographs; official reports and documents of government and international organizations; and foreign and domestic newspapers and periodicals. Available economic data for these countries are not always complete or may be inconsistent.
Chapter bibliographies appear at the end of the book; brief comments on some of the more valuable sources for further reading appear at the conclusion of each chapter. Measurements are given in the metric system; a conversion table is provided to assist those who are unfamiliar with the metric system. The Glossary provides brief definitions of terms that may be unfamiliar to the general reader, such as the use of amir/emirate, shaykh/shaykhdom, and Al/al.
The transliteration of Arabic words and phrases posed a particular problem. For many of the words -- such as Muhammad, Muslim, Quran, and shaykh -- the authors followed a modified version of the system adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names and the Permanent Committee on Geographic Names for British Official Use, known as the BGN/PCGN system; the modification entails the omission of all diacritical markings and hyphens. In numerous instances, however, the names of persons or places are so well known by another spelling that to have used the BGN/PCGN system might have created confusion. The reader will find Mecca rather than Makkah, Oman rather then Uman, and Doha rather than Ad Dawhah. In addition, although the five governments officially reject the use of the term Persian Gulf -- as do other Arab governments -- and refer to that body of water as the Arabian Gulf, the authors followed the practice of the United States Board on Geographic Names by using Persian Gulf or gulf.
The body of the text reflects information available as of January 1993. Certain other portions of the text, however, have been updated. The Introduction discusses significant events that have occurred since the completion of research; the Country Profiles include updated information as available; and the Bibliography lists recently published sources thought to be particularly helpful to the reader.
Data as of January 1993
Last Updated: January 1993
Editor's Note: Country Studies included here were published between 1988 and 1998. The Country study for Kuwait was first published in 1993. Where available, the data has been updated through 2008. The date at the bottom of each section will indicate the time period of the data. Information on some countries may no longer be up to date. See the "Research Completed" date at the beginning of each study on the Title Page or the "Data as of" date at the end of each section of text. This information is included due to its comprehensiveness and for historical purposes.
Note that current information from the CIA World Factbook, U.S. Department of State Background Notes, Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Country Briefs, the UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Country Profiles, and the World Bank can be found on Factba.se.
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"She came in with chemical burns on top of her head and running down towards her left eye. Her left eye is severely damaged and needs to be removed, but unfortunately she is also suffering from other issues that don't allow her to have the surgery yet. The lady pug also has pneumonia and will not be eligible for surgery until she has recovered from her illness. She also has severe chemical burns on the back of her body as well. Due to the fact she came in as a stray, we have no idea who did this to her or what happened. We're just trying to do our best to save her life."
The little pug, named Misty, has been struggling in the week she has been in the rescue but continues to put up a good fight for her life. She was put into the emergency vet last night but made it through the evening and is still showing signs of wanting to live. As long as she keeps fighting, the El Paso Pug Rescue will keep fighting for her too. If you would like to donate to help the El Paso Pug Rescue for Misty mounting medical bills, please check out their Facebook Donation campaign. People can also call in donations to the East El Paso Animal Hospital at (915) 593-1712. Just let them know it's for Misty and the El Paso Pug Rescue. Please help them save the life of a little pug in need.


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Memphis Volunteers fixed 20000 N95 masks for hospital, Report
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A group of volunteers has been working to repair 27,000 desperately needed N95 protective masks for a Memphis, Tennessee, hospital battling the coronavirus pandemic — and they got most of them done in a weekend.
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis recently found dozens of cases of the masks in storage but couldn't use them because the elastic straps had dry-rotted and needed to be replaced.
It was a huge job that organizers Stephanie Lepone and Ginna Rauls stumbled into almost by accident. The women are longtime friends and have regular sewing get togethers, Lepone told CNN.
Lepone said she works full time as an engineer and has three kids, but she wanted to do something to help while she's quarantined at home.
They had started making cloth masks for a pediatrician's office and Lepone asked a friend, who's a director at Baptist Memorial Health Care, to see whether they needed cloth masks.
"He texted back and he said, 'I might have something else for y'all to do if you're interested … would you guys be willing to sew new straps on the masks?'" she said.
They originally agreed to fix 6,000 masks and started rounding up volunteers, Lepone said.
Lepone and Rauls recruited 15 or 20 team leaders, who invited friends, church members and other people to help.
They ended up with 410 volunteers.
Some of the helpers didn't know how to sew, so they had online training lessons on Zoom and Lepone posted YouTube tutorials on how to replace the straps with a sewing machine or by hand.
Once they had volunteers lined up, Lepone told the hospital to deliver the 140 cases of N95s.
"Just bring them to my house. I have a place for for all of them. We've got enough people helping that we think we can do them all in one weekend," she told the hospital. " And they were like, 'What? No,' they couldn't believe it."
The hospital purchased 16,000 yards of replacement elastic.
It came on 50-yard rolls, so an attorney used his office's paper cutters to slice it into thousands of 11-inch-long strips. Lepone says she doesn't know how he heard about the project, but he ended up working all night.
"It was a true community community effort and I was floored by how the word got out and how many people wanted to help," she said. "So it's really it was really exciting."
Everyone wore masks and gloves while they worked to limit any potential contamination.
The N95s went out to the volunteers on Friday and 20,000 of the repaired masks were back at Lepone's house by Monday, she said.
The boxes were stacked up almost to the ceiling of her office until the hospital picked them up on Tuesday.
The volunteers are finishing up about 5,000 remaining masks, which should be ready later this week.
A hospital spokeswoman told CNN that the masks had been purchased to prepare during previous SARS and Ebola events and had been in storage for years.
She said that the masks were still in good shape and would be given to patients and visitors at Baptist Memorial to protect them and hospital staff from exposure to the virus.
"I mean, there's such a need, they're running out of masks," Lepone said "So it was exciting to be able to help. It just snowballed into this huge effort and if it happened so quickly, I'm still trying to process everything."
Lepone said they made spreadsheets and Google documents to keep track of all the volunteers and supplies. She hopes they can all have a big barbecue together once it's safe to be in be in big groups.
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When Duke basketball phenom Zion Williamson was injured due to a sneaker malfunction in a recent game, the ramifications extended beyond the court and sent ripples through the marketing world.
Time well tell what impact sneakergate has on the Nike brand and its ability to sign Zion to a lucrative sponsorship deal when he joins the NBA. But now is a great time to reflect on the decision-making process for celebrity endorsements.
As I wrote in Adweek, "The key for brands is understanding their customers and ensuring that core values are aligned with athletes' personas." 4C's Brand Compass tool is an invaluable resource for assessing the values that each brand's audience holds dear.
When the Kaepernick campaign launched we noted that racial equality was at the top of the list for Nike based on social affinity. In terms of interests, sports news is in the top 5 which means that this shoesplosion could help Nike transcend #JustBlewIt into the annals of #JustDoIt lore.
The biggest question is how Zion will choose to use his platform once he gets to the professional level. The challenge for brands competing to sign a sponsorship deal is that they'll have to commit to a long-term contract for Zion without knowing how he will develop off-the-court and which values he will support. Perhaps it will be s self-fulfilling prophecy and Zion will adopt the values exhibited by the brand he signs with. Wouldn't that be a fine case of the shoe on the other foot?
Now it's time for the other shoe to drop with the rest of 4C's Insights.
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Die Liste der Biografien führt alle Personen auf, die in der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia einen Artikel haben. Dieses ist eine Teilliste mit 64 Einträgen von Personen, deren Namen mit den Buchstaben "Coro" beginnt.

Coro

Corob
 Corobca, Liliana (* 1975), moldauisch-rumänische Literaturwissenschaftlerin und Schriftstellerin

Corol
 Coroli, Eliseu Maria (1900–1982), italienischer Ordensgeistlicher, römisch-katholischer Prälat von Guamá
 Coroller, Victor (* 1997), französischer Hürdenläufer

Corom
 Coromina i Bartrina, Vicenç (* 1943), katalanischer Kunsthändler und Kunstmäzen
 Coromina, David (* 1974), spanischer Fußballspieler
 Corominas, Ferran (* 1983), spanischer Fußballspieler
 Corominas, Mari Pau (* 1952), spanische Wettkampfschwimmerin und Olympiateilnehmerin
 Coromines, Joan (1905–1997), katalanischer Linguist
 Coromines, Júlia (1910–2011), spanische Kinderärztin und Psychoanalytikerin

Coron
 Coron, Béatrice (* 1956), französische Künstlerin
 Coron, Jean-Michel (* 1956), französischer Mathematiker
 Corona († 177), Märtyrin und Heilige
 Corona Muñoz, Guillermo (* 1927), mexikanischer Botschafter
 Corona y Corona, Nicolás (1877–1950), mexikanischer Geistlicher und römisch-katholischer Bischof von Papantla
 Corona, Achille (1914–1979), italienischer Politiker
 Corona, Alessandro (* 1972), italienischer Ruderer
 Corona, Eduardo (1921–2001), brasilianischer Architekt
 Corona, Franco (* 1936), italienischer Filmschaffender
 Corona, Frida (* 1995), mexikanische Leichtathletin
 Corona, Heriberto Jara (1879–1968), mexikanischer Revolutionär
 Corona, Jesús (* 1981), mexikanischer Fußballtorhüter
 Corona, Jesús (* 1993), mexikanischer Fußballspieler
 Corona, Joe (* 1990), US-amerikanisch-salvadorianischer Fußballspieler
 Corona, José Llopis (1918–2011), spanischer Fußballspieler
 Corona, Juan Vallejo (1934–2019), US-amerikanischer Serienmörder
 Corona, Lauro (1957–1989), brasilianischer Schauspieler
 Corona, Leonora (* 1900), US-amerikanische Sängerin
 Corona, Manuel (* 1983), deutsch-mexikanischer Fußballspieler
 Corona, Mauro (* 1950), italienischer Alpinist, Bildhauer und Schriftsteller
 Corona, Pio Alberto del (1837–1912), italienischer Geistlicher, römisch-katholischer Bischof von San Miniato, Seliger
 Corona, Yasser (* 1987), mexikanischer Fußballspieler
 Coronado Caro, Jesús María (1918–2010), kolumbianischer römisch-katholischer Ordensgeistlicher und Bischof
 Coronado Romaní, Florencio (1908–2006), peruanischer Geistlicher, römisch-katholischer Bischof von Huancavelica und Quechua-Bibelübersetzer
 Coronado, Adan (* 1990), US-amerikanischer-mexikanischer Fußballspieler
 Coronado, Carolina (1820–1911), spanische Schriftstellerin, Dichterin, Dramatikerin und Salonnière
 Coronado, Gilles (* 1966), französischer Jazz- und Fusionmusiker (Gitarre, Komposition)
 Coronado, Santiago (* 1988), uruguayischer Fußballspieler
 Coronaeus, Martinus (1539–1585), deutscher Pastor
 Coronaeus, Martinus (1588–1665), deutscher evangelisch-lutherischer Pastor im Herzogtum Holstein
 Coronas, Giovanni Rinaldo (1919–2008), italienischer Politiker
 Coronato, Martina (* 2001), uruguayische Sprinterin
 Coronda, Walter (* 1974), argentinischer Gitarrist des Gypsy-Jazz
 Coronel Aispuro, Emma (* 1989), mutmaßliche mexikanische Drogenhändlerin, Schönheitskönigin
 Coronel Arroyo, Pedro (1923–1985), mexikanischer Künstler
 Coronel Arroyo, Rafael (1931–2019), mexikanischer Künstler
 Coronel Zegarra y Castro, Enrique (1851–1919), peruanischer Politiker
 Coronel, Antonio F. (1817–1894), US-amerikanischer Politiker mexikanischer Herkunft
 Coronel, Carlos Miguel (* 1996), brasilianischer Fußballspieler
 Coronel, Ignacio (1954–2010), mexikanischer Drogenbaron
 Coronel, Mace (* 2004), US-amerikanischer Schauspieler
 Coronel, Mariela (* 1981), argentinische Fußballspielerin
 Coronel, Tom (* 1972), niederländischer Automobilrennfahrer
 Coronel, Uri (1946–2016), niederländischer Fußballfunktionär
 Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria (1650–1718), italienischer Kartograf, Kosmograf und Hersteller von Globen
 Coronini, Carmen (1885–1968), österreichische Anatomin
 Coronini-Cronberg, Franz (1833–1901), österreichischer Politiker
 Coronini-Cronberg, Johann Baptist (1794–1880), Militär- und Zivilgouverneur in der Woiwodschaft Serbien und Temeser Banat (ab 1850)
 Coronini-Cronberg, Karl (1818–1910), österreichischer Politiker

Corot
 Corot, Jean-Baptiste Camille (1796–1875), französischer Landschaftsmaler

Corov
 Ćorović, Nataša (* 1999), montenegrinische Handballspielerin
 Ćorović, Svetozar (1875–1919), serbischer Schriftsteller

Coroz
 Corozo, Ian (* 1998), ecuadorianischer Hürdenläufer
 Corozo, Washington (* 1998), ecuadorianischer Fußballspieler
 Corozo, Yason (1987–2015), ecuadorianischer Fußballspieler

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I first came to the Orewa Medical Centre as a student nurse on placement for my final year of training.
I graduated from Massey University in 2015 and completed my first year as a registered nurse at a practice in Auckland when an opportunity came up for me to return to work at the Orewa Medical Centre.
Although I have already grown so much as a nurse since graduating, I feel being back with the team at Orewa has enabled me to expand my skills even further.


Protecting our students is extremely important.
Providing safe schools for students and teachers is of critical importance to school districts around the nation. In fact, creating environments where students feel safe helps students succeed in school overall. As a result, ensuring proper security measures are in place throughout school districts becomes even more critical as schools continue to be large targets for attack. Therefore, it is imperative that school districts begin embarking on stricter school safety initiatives that take student safety into account.
Where Should A School District Begin?
The first step any school district needs to do when determining the best way to protect students is to observe where the holes are in any security measures. Conducting a school facility assessment is a great place to begin. These assessments allow school districts to gain insight into any issues with access control systems. As a result, this information may trigger school districts to implement better training procedures for faculty members who may need it. Just like any other secure facility, schools that have access control systems have digital systems that may require extensive training so that nothing goes unnoticed. This will ensure that students are safe within the confines of their school.
One of the best things that school districts can implement that will ensure school safety is more instructional training for all students and teachers. In fact, training staff and students the proper way to handle an emergency situation is a critical component of any school safety plan.
School districts need to be prepared for a variety of worst case scenarios. In fact, coordinating with local law enforcement can be a great way to help ensure school safety. Schools need to ensure that their communication protocols with local fire departments and police departments are set in place so that they can work well in any emergency situation that may arise.
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--Soak in this sentence for a minute:
"Prized prospect Andrew McCutchen made a splashy major-league debut with a 3-for-5 showing that included three runs, an RBI and a stolen base as a leadoff batter."
Pirates 11, Mets 6. Nate McWho?
--After tweaking his knee yesterday, Large Ben returned to practice today. You can get down from the ledge. [Trib]
--A Pens fan got an octopus in the mail from a Wings fan, then promptly sent it back after giving it an official Primanti's treatment. Because as you know, Primanti's sandwiches are the only thing we eat in Pittsburgh. [WPXI]
--Hopefully Dan Byslma will eat a lucky burrito from Qdoba today [96.1 Kiss Freak Show]
--Here's your chance to buy a true piece of baseball history: it's an auction for the ball thrown by Baba Booey at his infamous first-pitch disaster against the Pirates. And you get his worn jersey too! [Charity Buzz]
--Bob Smizik calls the McLouth trade a "bold gamble worth taking". This follows yesterday's column, "Pirates give up on present by trading McLouth". I'm confused. [Bob Smizik Blog]
--ESPN 1250's next Lunch with a Legend has been announced: you can dine in the presence of James Farrior and Deshea Townsend at Morton's on June 10. [ESPN 1250]
Labels: Andrew McCutchen, Ben Roethlisberger, Dan Bylsma, Gary Dell'Abate, James Farrior, Nate McLouth, New York Mets, Pittsburgh Pirates, Pittsburgh Steelers
I wouldn't be shocked if McCutchen is dealt to the Yankees for 4 prospects within the next 48 hours.
Just kidding, I think.
Steve G. said...
I thought the McLouth trade was just outright rape, and in favor of the Pirates, oddly enough. (Shocking, I know.) I doubt he ever has a year as good as he did last year, and the Pirates already have this year's version in Morgan and the future up in McCutchen.
Christ. Is there any reason why people still read sports writers like Smizik, Cook, and the others who do nothing but write articles that contradict each other? No wonder people turn to the blogs---to some of them at least---for commentary that's actually, like, well-informed.


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Marine Corps makes $1.9 million arms deal with Brunei
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Wyatt Olson Stars and Stripes Marine Corps Forces Pacific has sold Brunei $1.9 million in small-arms ammunition, the first such sale the service has...
Wyatt Olson
Marine Corps Forces Pacific has sold Brunei $1.9 million in small-arms ammunition, the first such sale the service has ever made to the tiny Southeast Asian nation nestled on the northern coast of Borneo.
The 5.6- and 9-mm ammo was delivered on two Air Force C-17 flights, the first arriving Oct. 4, followed by a second load on Oct. 10, the Marine Corps said in a statement Thursday.
The sale was conducted under terms set by the Acquisition and Cross-Serving Agreement between Brunei and the United States, which allows U.S. armed forces to conduct the military-to-military exchange of logistics and supply services with that nation, the statement said.
"This is a tangible demonstration of the close relationship the United States and the Marine Corps have with Brunei, a relationship that grows stronger as we work together toward a more stable and secure Indo-Pacific," Marine Corps Col. Boyd Miller, who conducted the arms transaction, said in the statement.
While Brunei is tiny — just slightly smaller than the state of Delaware — its coastline lies on the contentious South China Sea. Brunei, China, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia maintain varying claims of sovereignty over islets and unsubmerged coral reefs in the sea.
While taking no official stance on ownership of the disputed areas, the U.S. in recent years has pushed back on China's claims of sovereignty over virtually the entire sea and militarization of certain islands.
The Navy routinely sails near disputed islands in what it calls freedom-of-navigation operations to maintain "a free and open Indo-Pacific."
China intermittently woos with financial assistance and intimidates with naval shows of force the other claimant countries.
Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Brunei last year, after which the two nations announced greater economic cooperation.
America, however, has deep military-to-military ties with the country, at its core being the annual Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training exercise, or CARAT. The country's military personnel routinely attend U.S. armed forces academies.
Brunei participated in the first maritime exercise involving the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and U.S. forces last month in the South China Sea. Brunei in past years sent ships to Hawaii for the biennial Rim of the Pacific maritime exercise.
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"The Role of Self-Efficacy and Effort Regulation in Student Achievement in Online Courses"
It is important for students to master self-efficacy and effort regulation to work efficiently and effectively, especially in online classes. Self-efficacy refers to students' perception of their abilities to finish different tasks. Self-regulation signifies the levels of commitment to manage different challenges when it comes to learning. The purpose of this study is to explore the levels of self-efficacy and effort regulation in relation to students' achievement (final course grade) in a lower-division Engineering course. The research involved 243 undergraduate students in an Introduction to Engineering course in the 2016 Fall quarter at UC Irvine. Students completed a pre-course survey and post-course survey. The students answered specific questions about self-efficacy and effort regulation such as "I keep a record of what my assignments are and when they are due" and "I often feel so lazy or bored when I study that I quit before I finish what I planned to do." Students could select the response, on a scale from 1 to 5, that best describe how they feel with 1 as not as all true and 5 as very true. In the pre-survey, students rated themselves either high or low on the scale regarding self-efficacy and effort regulation. Toward the end of the quarter, students rated themselves again to monitor the correlation between the level of self-efficacy and effort regulation with performance in the class. Overall, students with better skills in self-efficacy and effort regulation have better performance in comparison to those who have lower levels.


In a recent article for Forbes, Glenn Llopis outlined six leadership mistakes that are commonplace in the corporate world, and are ultimately detrimental to firms' competitive edge.
"In today's rapid-paced, globally competitive marketplace, your company's leadership must adopt a new mindset and accept the fact that without strategy, change is merely substitution – not evolution," he wrote.
He added that employers need to create a sense of urgency as a way of stretching the firm's thinking capacity. Creating an optimistic environment will create an environment of competition without motivating people by using fear.
"When leaders are not receptive to change, and reflect negativity in their tone, body language and attitude, it's a crisis waiting to happen," Llopis wrote.
Without the ability to be a change agent, he said, leaders will "face extinction".
In today's world of work, courageous leaders are needed to ensure that risky or unpopular decisions are made when necessary.
According to Llopis, if your senior leadership team lacks the courage to "explore endless possibilities for your company", then its ability to grow will be limited.
Senior leadership must have the belief in its people – it's their responsibility to build high performance teams and push boundaries in order to see and seize opportunities.
Llopis said that leaders need to be willing to invest in relationships both within the organisation and externally.
He added that workforces can be hindered "if your senior leadership team is not investing in relationships and resources to strengthen the company's foundation".
In order to grow and compete, Llopis argued, senior leadership must encourage "a spirit of trust and transparency where communication is strong, consistent and boundary less".
Selfish and territorial leadership builds silos, creating an environment of hidden agendas.
Llopis claimed in his article that success comes most readily to those who are surrounded by people who want their success to continue.


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Derick Hutchinson, Senior Web Producer
Published: June 22, 2021, 1:39 PM
Tags: Gretchen Whitmer, Michigan, Michigan Coronavirus, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID, Michigan COVID, COVID Michigan, Health, Good Health, Local, Coronavirus Restrictions Michigan, Reopening Michigan, Michigan COVID Restrictions, Detroit, Wayne County, Mike Duggan, Garlin Gilchrist, Joneigh Khaldun
11 takeaways from Gov. Whitmer's briefing as Michigan officially lifts COVID restrictions
State fully reopens for first time in 15 months
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer at a June 22, 2021, COVID-19 briefing to announce the lifting of restrictions in Michigan. (WDIV)
DETROIT – Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer held a briefing Tuesday to officially lift the state's COVID restrictions and fully reopen for the first time in about 15 months.
Here are our takeaways from the briefing.
Restrictions lifted
"We are now dropping the (epidemic) orders," Whitmer said. "Effective today, there is no more mask or gathering order. Effective today, there are no more capacity limits -- indoors or outdoors. Effective today, our Pure Michigan summer is back, and we can realize it."
Whitmer's comments were greeted by cheers from the small crowd gathered on Belle Isle. The tone of the briefing was, unsurprisingly, much different that most others throughout the pandemic. At times, it was a celebration.
Whitmer called it a "momentous moment."
"It has been a tough, awfully hard year for all of us," she said.
The governor said "grueling" is a perfect word for the past 15 months.
"This pandemic was relentless, and exposed and exacerbated so many underlying challenges that were there before the pandemic and will continue to be there after the pandemic," Whitmer said.
"But let's take this moment and celebrate the end of the epidemic orders, the opening of a Pure Michigan summer and the opportunity that lies ahead as we gin this economy back up."
Power to impose future restrictions
Even though the current epidemic orders are being lifted, Whitmer said she believes the governor of Michigan should retain the power to take action in the future.
"I've told the Legislature I'm willing to have all sorts of conversations about improvements we can make to epidemic orders in the future," Whitmer said. "It will probably never, ever, never have to be used again under my watch -- and I hope no governor in the short-term will ever have to even visit these powers.
"But if they do, they're going to need to act swiftly to save lives, just as we did, and that's why I'm going to make sure that governors going forward will have the ability to take action to save people's lives.
"There'll be a Republican governor in the future. There'll be a Democratic governor in the future. Every governor before me had these abilities to take action if we needed to. Everyone after me should, as well, because the people of Michigan need their chief executive to act when their lives are on the line."
Rewards for frontline workers
Whitmer spoke about rewarding the people who worked throughout the pandemic and helped Michigan get through the last 15 months.
"It was thousands of essential workers that stayed on the front line," Whitmer said. "We've got to more than just thank our essential workers."
Last year, Michigan introduced the Futures For Frontliners program that offered tuition-free college to those who provided essential, frontline services during the pandemic. Whitmer said 85,000 have already been accepted, and more than 15,000 are currently enrolled in classes.
"Today, I'm proposing that we use $100 million, which is a fraction of the billions that the Biden Administration has sent to Michigan, to fully fund Futures For Frontliners," Whitmer said.
She said the money would fully fund two years of college for the more than 15,000 recipients who are already taking classes and allow Michigan to expand the program to cover those who are unemployed because of the winter COVID surge.
"Every day throughout this pandemic, our frontline workers woke up, they put on their masks, they got to work on behalf of their fellow Michiganders," Whitmer said. "They saved and contributed to the saving of countless lives in our state. So it's not just gratitude -- it's opportunity that we want to create."
Hero Pay
The governor also reiterated her support for "Hero Pay" in Michigan. On Thursday (June 17), Whitmer backed a one-time payment for essential employees who worked through the pandemic.
"A one-time dispersement of Hero Pay would honor essential workers who selflessly stayed and put themselves at risk to help others," Whitmer said.
She said the one-time payment would go a long way toward acknowledging the sacrifice Michigan essential workers made in the last year.
Spending $3.5 billion surplus
According to Whitmer, Michigan has a $3.5 billion surplus to spend as the state emerges from the pandemic.
She said she wants jobs that offer higher wages to attract applicants, small business capital to ramp up hiring and boost investment and make childcare more affordable.
"To address these changes, we've introduced the economic jumpstart plan," Whitmer said. "This is a plan to boost wages to at least $15 per hour by giving businesses grants to cover the difference between the wage they pay and $15 for the next three months. This is an investment of $1.4 billion, in addition, and childcare -- so to boost this industry so that we can pay providers and childcare professionals more, make 150,000 more kids in our state eligible for no-cost or low-cost childcare and give all student-parents enrolled in Reconnect or Futures For Frontliners access to free or reduced-cost childcare."
Grants of up to $20,000 will be available for Michigan small businesses for rent, taxes, payroll, mortgage or operating expenses.
Back-to-work incentive
As part of her plan to spend the state's surplus and help Michigan emerge stronger from the pandemic, Whitmer said she's announcing the "back-to-work incentive."
Under this incentive, eligible laid-off employees can earn $300 per week in addition to their salary.
"This is an incentive to draw down these federal dollars and use it for people who get back into the workforce," Whitmer said. "We should expand this so it's not just people returning to the job they had pre-pandemic, but getting into any job. We need the legislature to help us on that front."
The governor said people have been laid off or needed to leave their jobs to take care of children. She believes people have been through an incredible amount of stress while unemployed.
"The fact of the matter is, so long as we've got lack of access to childcare, that's a complete barrier for people getting back to work," Whitmer said. "So long as people are worried about their health and safety, they're going to have a lot of misgivings about getting back into work.
"What we wanted to do was not say we're going to penalize you for going back to work, but we're going to support you, and you can still draw down this $300, and you can use it as an incentive in addition to your paycheck."
Whitmer said "to wage the class warfare" on people who are on the fringes and trying to get by is wrong, and they should not be penalized.
Khaldun updates COVID metrics
Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, the chief medical executive of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, received applause from those in attendance when she stepped up to the podium.
Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, the chief medical executive of MDHHS, at a June 22, 2021, COVID-19 briefing to announce the lifting of restrictions in Michigan. (WDIV)
"The past 15 months of fighting this pandemic has been grueling, and certainly something that I never imagined that I would be doing, and I think none of us could have ever imagined that we would have to experience," Khaldun said. "Over 893,000 Michiganders have been infected by this terrible virus, and over 19,000 Michiganders have lost their lives."
Khaldun said the virus has not spared "anyone of any age" and has devastated communities of color.
"But because of the work of all of us -- of people all across the state -- we are now at the lowest case rate that we have seen since this pandemic started," Khaldun said. "Under 18 cases per million people. Our percent positivity is under 2%, and we've seen about 9 million doses of the safe and effective vaccines in arms across the state."
Rescinding orders, but staying vigilant
Khaldun said this pandemic taught us the importance of epidemiology, especially in terms of hand washing, mask wearing and getting vaccinated.
"Michiganders have shown up," Khaldun said. "You have shown grit. That is why we're able to stand here today and rescind our broad epidemic orders. So I'm pleased with how far we've come.
"For those of you who are vaccinated, your risk of getting the virus is very low, and I'm so pleased to see all of us here, many of us without masks on because we are confident. We are comfortable because we are outside, we are vaccinated and we are protected."
Khaldun said Michigan's work isn't completely over. She said while the metrics are low, the pandemic hasn't ended.
"There are still many people who have not been vaccinated, and we have not yet achieved herd immunity," Khaldun said.
She said social distancing and mask wearing is still recommended for people who haven't gotten vaccinated.
One of the greatest remaining concerns for experts is the possibility of COVID variants causing another spike in cases and deaths.
Khaldun specifically pointed to the delta variant, which now accounts for about 10% of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. It's the dominant form of COVID-19 in India and the United Kingdom.
The mutation (B.1.617.2) was first detected in India, and scientists are still studying it.
"We still have the more easily transmitted variants across the United States and here in Michigan," Khaldun said. "We've identified the new delta variant here in the state, and this variant is even more easily transmitted than the alpha variant."
Khaldun said it's possible the delta variant could potentially cause more severe cases of COVID-19 and be unaffected by monoclonal antibodies.
Vaccination progress
The governor said she's pleased with Michigan's vaccination numbers, but would still love to see the state get to her original goal of at least 70% of residents 16 and up vaccinated.
"We're doing a lot of work to meet people where they are working, to get right into neighborhoods, partnering with churches, for instance," Whitmer said. "There's a lot of work on that front that is happening."
Right now, about 61% of Michiganders 16 and up have received at least one dose of the vaccine, according to Khaldun.
Whitmer said vaccinations are even more important as the delta variant spreads. She criticized the Michigan Legislature for failing to support efforts to get people vaccinated.
"These vaccines are still the best tool that we have to stay safe," Whitmer said.
Khaldun said decreased demand for the vaccine was always expected, and that now the state has more supply than demand.
"But I'm confident that we will eventually get to 70% of Michiganders 16 and up," Khaldun said. "I can't give you an exact date, but I'll tell you that we are working very hard."
Duggan defends Whitmer
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan joined the briefing to talk about the pandemic and how he believes it was handled in Michigan.
"Throughout this process, we have had great leadership from Gretchen Whitmer," Duggan said. "And it hasn't always been easy."
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan at a June 22, 2021, COVID-19 briefing to announce the lifting of restrictions in Michigan. (WDIV)
He said being governor is a tough job because one week people were angry that Whitmer hadn't resumed high school sports, and the next they were upset that restrictions were loosened too quickly.
"No matter what you do, you get second-guessed," Duggan said. "But now we're reopened. People can begin to re-engage and we're going to have to still be vigilant."
Duggan said it's still important for everyone to get vaccinated to avoid another spike in cases.
Derick Hutchinson
Derick is a Senior Web Producer for ClickOnDetroit and has been with Local 4 News since April 2013. Derick specializes in breaking news, crime and local sports.


drafted into the U.S. Army during the Korean War and stationed in Germany.
lobster Carle had created for an advertisement, asked him to illustrate a story.
the Zoo, followed quickly by The Very Hungry Caterpillar.


There's something about a captive audience that makes them willing consumers, and something about high altitude that makes people irrational. In a similar vein as my page about the Oriental Trading Company catalog, this page is a showcase of even MORE things you didn't know you didn't need. But the Skymall magazine, available on domestic airlines right next to that safety card you never read, takes irrelevance a step further by making an earnest effort to make you think you DO need this stuff. You might think your life is pretty grand, but you simply don't realize how messy, difficult, boring, or ugly it actually is. Many of these products even solve multiple problems.


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The Spirit of the Creator
Last time I wrote about the Star Wars aspect of the above image…
We are not 'a long time ago' nor 'far away'.
We are here, and now. Governed by an American government that is every bit as corrupt as the Galactic Empire. The Rebel Alliance here seems to have trouble getting their stuff together.
A question raised by Season Four of Madame Secretary: why would one follow the Muslim path when the world hates you? The question in that story is brought about by the plight of the Rohingya People; and the plight of the Muslim people in Palestine; the Muslim people in China; the Muslim people in the Middle East and across the globe. The Muslim people in the United States of America. Here we celebrate 'Freedom of Religion' while our President wants to ban all Muslim people from our country.
This was the same question raised about the first followers of Jesus. Why would you believe, when to believe means that you will die as entertainment in the Roman Coliseum?
I believe there is one Creator of the entire Universe. The God that the Muslim people pray to, five times a day, is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; the One God of the Jewish race; the One God of those who follow the Christian Way. I believe that anyone who worships the Eternal, who worships the Divine, worships the One God, worships with equal devotion, regardless of the name they pray to. The Jewish nation was taught that the Name of the Creator is unpronounceable. The Name of the Creator in Hebrew, if this Name was ever written, uses characters that are four 'breath' sounds, in Hebrew; the Name of our Creator is the sound of our breathing.
The Creator is within every person who has ever lived; the Gift given to all; but understood by so very few. When I asked the Creator into my life, there were no 'tongues of fire'—not even a business card falling from the sky. Nothing entered me from the outside. I simply became 'woke'. I experienced some of the 'religious circus' stuff in the years that followed, but nothing came into me from the outside.
The Creator gives us the power of Choice, Knowing the Human Propensity to F*ck things Up. The Creator gives us the Choice to see the world with new eyes [the actual meaning of the word translated as repent]. And yet, so many encounter a religion that divides people by rules.
Some Biblical language instruction:
In the Hebrew scriptures, aka The Tanakh, Creation happens by means of the Spirit of the Creator, who is described as 'ruach,' a wind…
Hebrew | ruach: breath, wind, spirit | Original Word: רוּחַ |Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Transliteration: ruach | Phonetic Spelling: (roo'-akh) | Definition: breath, wind, spirit
The New Testament was written in Greek [or translated from the Aramaic, into Greek]. In the Book of the Acts of the Apostles, the Spirit of God promised by Jesus arrives among the followers of Jesus in the sound of a rushing wind, with 'tongues of fire' [there are no mentions of fires being started, or people being injured by flames]. The Greek word for 'wind' is pneuma [from which we get the word 'pneumatic']…
Πνεῦμα
Greek | pneuma: wind, spirit | Original Word: πνεῦμα, ατος, τό | Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: pneuma | Phonetic Spelling: (pnyoo'-mah) | Definition: wind, spirit, breath
In traditional Chinese culture, qi or ch'i is believed to be a vital force forming part of any living entity…
Qi translates as "air" [wind] and figuratively as "material energy", "life force", or "energy flow". Qi is the central underlying principle in Chinese traditional medicine and in Chinese martial arts. The practice of cultivating and balancing qi is called qigong.
If humans miraculously survive for another thousand years, Star Wars will have become a legend, as well as a fantasy. The Star Wars saga may become a fairy tale read to children [possibly Star Trek, as well…].
The stories found in Holy Books will become a thousand years older…
Here's where I get in trouble, according to many:
While the Tanakh and the New Testament, are said to be 'the Word of God', it is important to realize that when the events described in these books occurred, there were no journalists, no voice recorders, no pencils for that matter, nor were there notepads.
It was not unusual for ancient narratives, poetry and rules to have been transmitted orally for several generations before being committed to writing. Before the Aramaic-derived modern Hebrew alphabet was adopted circa the 5th century BCE, the Phoenician-derived Paleo-Hebrew script was used instead for writing, and a derivative of the script still survives to this day in the form of the Samaritan script…The oldest manuscripts discovered yet, including those of the Dead Sea Scrolls, date to about the 2nd century BCE. The common traditional dating of the Pentateuch suggests it was written between the 16th century and the 12th century BCE…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Hebrew_writings
In short, men [probably] whose only job was memory, told stories around campfires; and it was believed that these stories told the histories of people of Faith. Eventually these stories were written down on various non-acid-free scrolls, parchments, scraps of leather; and none of the original documents exist. Scripture that exists today are copies of copies of copies of copies, translated from one language to another. The Hebrew and Greek texts were translated into Latin in the early centuries of Christian history; Martin Luther was the first person to translate scripture from Latin into his colloquial language: German. Martin Luther, with the help of Gutenberg, invented the first wall posters—illustrated passages of Scripture printed on large pieces of paper, to decorate houses. The King James version of the Bible was translated from Latin into the colloquial English of the time. At present there are MANY versions of the Bible:
The Bible has been translated into many languages from the biblical languages of Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. As of October 2018, the full Bible has been translated into 683 languages, the New Testament has been translated into an additional 1,534 languages and Bible portions or stories into 1,133 other languages. Thus at least some portion of the Bible has been translated into 3,350 languages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_translations#Differences_in_Bible_translations
The Prophet Isaiah
The Point: The point is that good people, with the best intentions, do things poorly; because 'poorly' is the best they can do. From a lot of reading, I've learned that English is a crummy language for translating ideas. My usual example: Greek has four separate and distinct words for connections between people that get translated in the English version of the New Testament as 'love'. My love for ice cream is entirely different than my love for my children.
There are a lot of religious people who believe that a particular version of the Bible is the only correct version [because they believe someone who told them this]. There are a lot of religious people who believe that because 'the Bible is the Word of God,' they can pick out any verse in the Bible, by itself, and expect other people to believe that the sentence is absolutely correct, and appropriate to any given situation—'a teaching from the mouth of God'. Language does not work that way. The fact that someone talking to me believes they are correct, does not make it so.
I believe that the Bible is entirely true, in the original languages, for the purpose that was intended; and the time for which it was written. I cannot think of a single instance today for which these verses are true [Psalm 137: 8,9]:
8 O Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.
9 Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.
And yet, they are in the Word of God. And there is probably someone in the world who takes these verses to heart; probably as they perform genocide. They are 'excused by god'.
There are religious people who are cheerfully heading down the Road to Armageddon, because there are specific prophetic passages in Scripture that 'state' that at the Right Time, Jesus will return, and the entire world will be made new. And the Right Time is 'very close' [it was very close, forty years ago; and long before that]. There is nothing in Scripture that presents the idea that Jesus would be returning in 2000+ years from Jesus' resurrection; the authors of the New Testament never expected that two millennia would pass before the prophecies take place. Many of the peoples of the New Testament had expected that Jesus would raise an army to kick the Romans out of Palestine.
There are people in Congress who believe that 'there is no need to worry about Climate Change, because Jesus is going to fix everything at the second coming'. I heard the statement myself.
Religious people do tremendous harm by making verses from the Bible apply to current events in the Americas. No one east of the Pacific Ocean in Biblical times, had a clue that there was land on the west side of the Pacific Ocean. The Americas might have even seemed like Heaven; until the invaders showed up.
Enough of that.
Illustration Tip #16: Self-Image
The hardest work that someone can do is to decide to change 'who I am' into 'who I want to be.' Frequently, the internal message is, 'there must be something wrong with me, because I feel like I'm failing.' In my opinion, you are too close to the problem to see it clearly. It is necessary to somehow 'step back' from the situation, so that you can gain perspective.
Remember/realize that everything that you struggle with/against is a construct of your brain; a construct of your mind. The fact that you are reading these words is a demonstration of the problem.
If you are like me, you are looking at this screen as if there is somehow a hole in the front of your brain, that is projecting these words onto the screen; and you are reading a projection.
There is no hole. Light enters your eyeballs; the lenses in your eyeballs flip the image of this screen upside down [the nature of lenses]; light shines on your retinas; light-sensitive 'neurons' turn the information about the light into electro-chemical signals to your brain; portions of your brain turn that electro-chemical information into a construction which appears to your mind as if you are seeing through your eyes—as if you were looking through binoculars. What you see, what you are reading, is constructed inside your brain. When you close your eyes, the light stops; the message isn't retained for more than a moment, inside the mind associated with the closed eyes.
Because of the 'magic' of computers, you are probably reading something that doesn't really look like what I'm typing. I'm typing in a specific font, with 'black' 'ink,' on 'white' 'paper'. You may be bored with black on white, and instead have your computer set to show these words as dark green on beige 'paper' in some sort of font that looks like calligraphy.
Who you are, to a large degree, is a construction in your brain.
Commercial Art is very much like Performance Art. You create your work for an audience of some sort. The results of that performance [often measured in dollars] determine your sense of 'success'.
I received another Award this last week. The third Award this year from the same organization. My Amazon KDP royalties for this month total… [drum roll]
I can usually buy a cup of coffee with my royalties, as long as I don't do it at Starbucks.
Back when dinosaurs ruled the earth, there was a clear distinction between Commercial Art and Fine Art. Art created for commerce was somehow beneath the 'great' artists. Norman Rockwell, easily one of the great illustrators in America, was always ashamed that he created Commercial Art. He was taught to be ashamed of his success. As time went on, the necessities of printed magazine art required him to use tools [like an opaque projector] and photographs, in order to meet deadlines. He loved his work; but always felt that he should be painting from life, as his heroes did.
When I ventured out on this Illustrator gig, I wanted to illustrate Adventure Stories. I studied the great illustrators of the 19th and 20th Centuries; and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. I wanted to use realism to illustrate adventure stories. The sort of books one could find in libraries, back when dinosaurs ruled the earth.
I spent about 10 years, honing my skills, and learning to illustrate digitally. Sadly, the Children's Illustration market left me behind. There are few illustration opportunities for Adventure illustration for children, using adult characters. There was a time when Children's Books were just about the same as books for adults, but with illustrations and less gore.
I have an improbable goal of bringing it back.
Artie Shaw [his anglicized name] was one of the most popular musicians in the 'Swing Era' of the 1930s.
Well, the minute you became a big, big, smash hit, it became very confusing. Nothing in life can prepare you for stardom. Success is a very, big problem. Bigger than failure. You can deal with failure; it's tough, it's hard, you fight like Hell to get going. But success is an opiate. You get very confused.
Things happen that you have no preparation for. Money comes in, and popularity, and people throw themselves at you. You don't know what you're in to. I couldn't handle it. I didn't know what to do with it.
The basic truth is that popular music has very little to do with musical value at all. I still wanted to play music. And the audience was saying 'play what you've been playing. Play the same thing over and over. We like that.' They could never get it through their heads that what they liked was what I was playing on my way to getting better. That record that they liked, "Begin the Beguine," was like an albatross. It became a millstone around my neck.
The overwhelming success of "Begin the Beguine" would eventually propel Artie Shaw past Benny Goodman in popularity. But in 1939, Shaw disbanded his orchestra in frustration. "I'm unhappy in the music business," he said. "I like the music; love and live it, in fact. But for me, the business part plain stinks."
Artie Shaw, "Ken Burns' Jazz"
During World War II, Shaw re-formed his band and toured Army and Navy bases throughout Europe. The reactions of the soldiers and sailors, as they heard swing music from home, stunned Shaw. He had no idea what he had created.
Vincent van Gogh, one of my heroes, was a total failure as a painter. He sold only one painting in his lifetime. He started his career as an evangelist; he found that he identified so closely with the people working to survive, that he could no longer see a path out of that life. He thought he could capture the life of the people in his paintings and show the world what he saw. The world wasn't ready to see what he saw.
"Prices realised for just his nine paintings listed below, when adjusted for inflation to 2017, add up to over US $900 million."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_paintings
Portrait of Dr. Gachet This painting is the first version of this motif Portrait of Dr. Gachet was painted in June 1890 at Auvers-sur-Oise, during the last months of van Gogh's life, before his suicide. He made two versions of the painting, which differ in color. Both are oil-on-canvas and measure 67 by 56 cm (26″ by 22″) in size. The first (this picture) was sold to a private collector in 1990 for $82.5 million; the second painting is currently on display at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, France.
This is one of the most expensive paintings created by
We mostly do not know the importance of our lives. Your importance is not measured in money. Your importance is measured in the quality of your living. Your importance is measured in what you bring into existence.
A message to the President of our country; one he will not read; and may not even be able to understand:
"Tonight, there will be few Americans who will go to bed without carrying with them the sense that somehow they have failed.
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"That's the way it is, Monday Nov. 25, 1963. This is Walter Cronkite, good night."
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Kohli open to day-night Test at Gabba or Perth
Virat Kohli (Photo by RANDY BROOKS/AFP via Getty Images)
India skipper Virat Kohli said Monday that his side are ready to play a day-night Test at Australia's formidable Gabba ground or in Perth when they tour Down Under later this year.
Kohli's men played their first day-night Test in Kolkata last year, thrashing Bangladesh in just over two days, and are set to take on Australia in a three-match one-day series starting Tuesday in Mumbai.
Australia have pushed for more day-night Tests and face the hosts again later in the year, with a four-match series starting at the Gabba in Brisbane.
India had knocked back overtures to play the format in Adelaide at the end of 2018, but Kohli now appears more at ease with pink ball cricket.
"We played the day-night Test here and were pretty happy with how it went. It's become a very exciting feature of any Test series, so we are absolutely open to play a day-night Test," Kohli told reporters in Mumbai.
"We are ready and up for the challenge. Whether it's Gabba or Perth, doesn't matter to us. We do have the skill sets as a team now to compete against anyone in the world anywhere. In any format of the game, whether it's white ball, red ball, pink ball."
India are looking to sharpen their act ahead of the T20 World Cup in October, and the three ODI matches at home will be a key part of the preparation.
– 'Tough challenge' –
Aaron Finch-led Australia edged out hosts India 3-2 last year after losing the opening two games and Kohli believes a new close-fought battle will be fought this week.
"It is always 3-2, 2-1 kind of series," Kohli said on the eve of the opening game.
"Having played a lot against each other, we know the strengths and weaknesses of either side. So it's always good and a tough challenge playing Australia purely because of the skill set and mindset they bring on to the field."
And he warned: "The way they are playing their cricket now after Steve (Smith) and David (Warner) — after ball-tampering bans — have come back, it's pretty intense.
"They are challenging every team, they are dominating a few teams as well. So I think, we along with Australia are probably the top two sides in the world as far as balance is concerned."
Kohli said India will need a top performance in every game.
"As players we are excited to play a full strength Australia in our conditions, also to test ourselves against the best," said Kohli.
"In the year of the World Cup as many games as we play together as a team, it's going to benefit us, especially the white-ball cricket."
Kohli also said he is open to playing three opening batsmen — KL Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma — in the same team, even if it means dropping himself down the batting order.
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therefore, hence, thence, thus, so
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Singapore adds $5.8bn of COVID aid as 'hub' economy stutters
Aviation and tourism sectors take priority in fifth round of stimulus
DYLAN LOH, Nikkei staff writer August 17, 2020 19:08 JST | Singapore
SINGAPORE -- Singapore on Monday earmarked a further SG$8 billion ($5.8 billion) worth of support for businesses and residents after the city-state's economy saw its worst quarter on record -- contracting 13.2% on the year in the three months through June.
Gross domestic product is forecast to shrink by 5% to 7% for the full year, and the government is rushing to shore up the most vulnerable sectors as the coronavirus pandemic leaves a trail of business closures and job losses in its wake.
Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat held up aviation, aerospace and tourism as the areas that needed the most help, as he announced extended wage subsidies for these industries until next March.
"These sectors are important parts of our economy, and they are multipliers for other sectors," he said in a televised address. "In particular, Singapore's position as a global business node depends on our connectivity as an air hub."
The three sectors stand to get 50% wage offset payouts. The construction industry will receive 50% payouts in September and October, before that drops to 30% from November to March. Other hard-hit segments -- retail, food services and the arts -- will receive 30% offsets.
"Seven more months is quite generous and will help tide [over] distressed companies during this challenging time," said Selena Ling, head of treasury research and strategy at OCBC Bank, in a note. "Hopefully, by March 2021, there may be greater clarity that things are turning around, especially if a vaccine has been found and more economic activities have normalized."
This comes on top of the more than SG$90 billion in support already introduced in four rounds of stimulus. The finance minister unveiled the new plans about a month after his ruling People's Action Party won a general election in which the opposition made unprecedented gains. During the campaign, the PAP had made steering Singapore out of the COVID-19 crisis a key part of its platform.
The pressure to deliver on the promises only mounted after the second-quarter GDP figures came out. The slide into recession coincided with a broad, weekslong economic shutdown to contain coronavirus transmissions.
"Regardless of your circumstances, the government will help you to rebuild from this crisis," Heng said on Monday. "Together, we must continue to adapt to the rapidly changing situation. We designed our measures to give us flexibility for adjustments as the crisis progresses."
In aviation, an extra SG$187 million has been set aside to provide cost relief for airlines, ground handlers, cargo agents and airport tenants. Businesses in the sector are struggling to stay afloat under prolonged border restrictions -- though the city-state's border with neighboring Malaysia partially reopened on Monday.
To revive tourism, SG$320 million will be used for what the government is calling SingapoRediscovers Vouchers -- credits locals can use to explore their small home city.
In growth sectors like biomedical sciences and financial services, the government is also launching a billion-dollar scheme to help companies hire local talent over the next six months.
It will co-pay up to 25% of salaries for all new Singaporean hires for a year, subject to a limit. For mature workers aged 40 and above, the co-payment scheme will be cranked up to 50%. Heng said the Manpower Ministry will give more details on the initiative later in August.
"It is a difficult journey ahead, but you will not walk alone," Heng assured Singaporeans. "We have the resilience to weather the difficulties, turn challenges into opportunities, and prepare for the future."
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MUMBAI, India (CNN) — More than a day after gunmen stormed ashore and attacked at least seven locations in Mumbai, killing 125 people, members of India's premier counterterrorist force early Friday were seeking to end standoffs at the two luxury hotels and Jewish center that were attacked late Wednesday.
Indian army commandos are shown on the rooftop of Nariman House in Mumbai on Friday.
Fighting broke out early Friday between government soldiers in a helicopter and gunmen holed up inside a Jewish center where two or three gunmen were believed to be remaining.
The helicopter dropped off seven or eight soldiers onto the roof of the Chabad house, and then moved away from the line of fire, CNN sister station CNN-IBN reported.
The operation followed after grenades had been tossed from inside the structure toward anyone approaching the building — three such explosions occurred in four hours.
But movement appeared imminent shortly before dawn, when several jeeploads of police, firetrucks and at least one ambulance pulled up to the five-story structure.
The fighting at Chabad house comes as Indian security forces appear to be gaining control of two Mumbai five-star hotels attacked by gunmen in a wave of violence that has lasted more than 24 hours and killed at least 125 people.
A gunman was killed around 1 a.m. in the Oberoi hotel, where commandos were going room-to-room, trying to flush out attackers and rescue people, J.K. Dutt, the director of India's National Security Guard, told CNN-IBN, CNN's sister network in India.
Dutt said he could not say how many gunmen remained in the Oberoi, where hostages have been trickling out of the building for hours.
Security forces used in-house telephones to ask guests holed up in their rooms to switch on lights and open curtains, so that they could provide cover, CNN correspondent Andrew Stevens reported.
A siege at the nearby Taj Mahal hotel was over, CNN-IBN reported, but one gunman remained holed up there early Friday morning, Dutt told IBN.
Police sources said at 2 a.m. Friday that they believed the gunman was wounded and getting tired.
Dutt said his teams had rescued most of the hostages inside the Taj, but an undetermined number of people remained inside.
One woman expressed frustration over the lack of information regarding her sister and niece, who have been trapped inside the Taj for nearly 30 hours.
"I have whatsoever no information as to what's being done to rescue them," said the woman, who did not give her name to CNN.
Deepak Datta told CNN that he waited in his room at the Taj, listening to gunfire, for almost 24 hours before commandos rescued him.
Elsewhere in the city, a standoff continues at a Jewish center in the city, a spokesman for the Israeli foreign ministry said.
For hours, gunfire and grenades were tossed from inside at anyone approaching the building, with three such explosions occurring in four hours.
It is unclear who was responsible for the series attacks, which hit several high-traffic landmarks in the city, including the hotels, a hospital, a train station and a popular tourist cafe.
But whoever planned the attacks spent months coordinating them, even setting up "control rooms" in the two hotels targeted, the Press Trust of India reported, citing Union Cabinet Minister Kapil Sibal.
"Enormous planning went into the incident. The terrorists were dropped by a mother ship and traveled in rubber boats which they docked (at Mumbai)," Sibal said.
The death toll from the series of coordinated attacks was at 125, by Friday morning, authorities said. Among the dead were at least six foreigners, three top law enforcement agents, including Hemant Karkare, the chief of the Mumbai police's anti-terror squad, and 14 police officers.
Another 327 people were wounded in the attacks, including seven British, three American and two Australian citizens.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh suggested the group behind the terror attacks was based outside the country.
"It is evident that the group which carried out these attacks, based outside the country, had come with single-minded determination to create havoc in the financial capital of the country," Singh said.
At least nine gunmen were killed in fighting with police. IBN quoted police sources as saying they believed there were around 26 gunmen, most of them young.
Indian officials have told Canada that they believe six Canadians are being held hostage, according to a senior aide to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
The French Foreign Ministry said 15 to 20 French nationals were trapped in the two hotels.
Authorities found 8 kilograms (17 pounds) of RDX, one of the most powerful kinds of military explosives, at a restaurant near the Taj, indicating that the attackers may have been planning more violence.
Gunmen also remained holed up in a building called Chabad House, where several Jewish families live. Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, the city's envoy for the community, was being held inside with his wife, a member of the Hasidic Jewish movement said.
Two women and a child were seen escaping from the building, said Johny Joseph, chief secretary of Maharashtra state. CNN-IBN reporter Raksha Shetty said three people escaped — apparently a caretaker, a cook and a child.
Israel's Haaretz newspaper reported later that Sandra Samuel — a cook for the center who had barricaded herself in a room in the house — told them she grabbed a toddler whom she identified as Holtzberg's son and fled the building, along with another person.
"I just grabbed the baby and ran," Samuel told Haaretz.
Police said gunmen fired indiscriminately from the building. Stray bullets killed a couple in their home and a 16-year-old boy who stepped outside, police said.
A standoff at a fourth location — the Cama Hospital for women and infants — appeared to have been resolved by Thursday morning, CNN-IBN reported.
The Indian navy, stepping up patrols on the country's western coast after the attacks, boarded a cargo vessel Thursday afternoon, officials said. They and the Indian coast guard were also searching for a small boat in the Arabian Sea.
Nine suspects were arrested in connection with the attacks, including seven fishermen. Police also found a boat loaded with explosives near the Taj's waterfront location.
"Those men were wearing jackets and they carried big big bags," one fisherman told CNN-IBN.
"We asked, 'Where are you coming from?' They said, 'Go do your work,'" another witness said.
The gunmen then hijacked cars — including a police van — and broke up into at least three groups to carry out the attacks, police said.
As police rushed to the scene of the attacks, gunmen attacked the Cama Hospital. Two other groups attacked the Oberoi and Taj hotels.
Several Indian news outlets reported receiving e-mails from a group calling itself the Deccan Mujahideen, claiming responsibility for the attacks. CNN was not able to verify the reports.
Reaction from the United Nations, United States and United Kingdom was swift as world leaders joined in condemning the attacks.
CNN's Andrew Stevens, Mallika Kapur, Phil O'Sullivan, Phillip Turner, Ravi Hiranand, Yasmin Wong and Harmeet Shah Singh contributed to this report.