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On channel 7 this morning, he was again identified as one of JWs.  His name is Judah, and is going home today. 

SEATTLE — Seattle police detectives identified two suspects wanted in the downtown Seattle shooting Wednesday night that killed a woman and hurt 7 other people, including a 9-year-old boy
 
https://mobile.twitter.com/garykiro7/status/1220511478018498561?ref_url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.kiro7.com%2fnews%2flocal%2fmultiple-people-shot-downtown-seattle-police-say%2fiecnirbvozfytaejndduuqi4qi%2f
Read full article: 
https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/multiple-people-shot-downtown-seattle-police-say/IECNIRBVOZFYTAEJNDDUUQI4QI/
I couldn't insert the tweet but it says:
A close family friend of the 9-year-old boy who was wounded in yesterday’s downtown shooting says his left femur is shattered, but the boy is remarkably poised and positive. “He has never cried once,” he told us. The boy was on an outing w/ a group of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Prevention
How to protect yourself
There are currently no vaccines available to protect you against human coronavirus infection. You may be able to reduce your risk of infection by doing the following
wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds avoid touching your eyes, nose, or mouth with unwashed hands avoid close contact with people who are sick How to protect others
If you have cold-like symptoms, you can help protect others by doing the following
stay home while you are sick avoid close contact with others cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze, then throw the tissue in the trash and wash your hands clean and disinfect objects and surfaces Treatment
There are no specific treatments for illnesses caused by human coronaviruses. Most people with common human coronavirus illness will recover on their own. However, you can do some things to relieve your symptoms
take pain and fever medications (Caution: do not give Aspirin to children) use a room humidifier or take a hot shower to help ease a sore throat and cough If you are mildly sick, you should
drink plenty of liquids stay home and rest If you are concerned about your symptoms, you should see your healthcare provider.

An outbreak of a novel coronavirus was initially identified during mid-December 2019 in the city of Wuhan in central China, as an emerging cluster of people with pneumonia with no clear cause. The outbreak was linked primarily to stallholders who worked at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, which also sold live animals. Chinese scientists isolated a new strain of coronavirus – given the initial designation of 2019-nCoV – which has been found to be at least 70 percent similar in genome sequence to SARS-CoV. With the development of a specific diagnostic PCR test for detecting the infection, a number of cases were confirmed in people directly linked to the market and in those who were not directly associated with it. Whether this virus is of the same severity or lethality as SARS is unclear

The World Health Organization (WHO) acknowledged that the respiratory illness is an emergency in China, but said it is too early to declare it a global one. - Thursday, January 23, 2020 (Evidently they were waiting to see "person to person spread outside of mainland China" before calling it "global") Nyka Alexander explains in this video - Then they finally call it a Worldwide Emergency a week later but that no travel should be inhibited. 
Virus Expert On The Wuhan Coronavirus Outbreak: 'We Must Treat It Extremely Seriously' | TIME Video
Video of a Chinese medical doctor in the city of Wuhan in tears announcing that there are too many cases of sick people
Stillshot photo of a hospital waiting room with dead bodies on the floor causing many to question the official current # of fatalities seen above
Doctor comments on the never before seen virality of this virus - It appears to double in size every 2 days (based on suspected low Chinese #'s)
Age distribution of fatal cases in China
Comparison w/ the Spanish Influenza of 1918 which killed 50,000,000 people
Could this be a bioweapon that got loose?

People queueing outside a Wuhan drug store to buy face masks and medical supplies
This is a patient who had a high fever in the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital (Wuhan Eleventh Hospital) a few days ago, convulsing!
VIDEO: Entire family with Coronavirus is escorted to an ambulance
In general, coronaviruses spread like the flu:
Through the air by coughing or sneezing. Through close personal contact, such as touching a person or shaking hands. By touching a contaminated surface then touching your mouth, nose or eyes. The same precautions you’d take for the flu generally apply to coronaviruses:
Wash your hands well and often. Cough or sneeze into your sleeve — not into your hands. Keep your distance from sick people. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is studying the new virus and may be making specific recommendations if needed. Carole Mathews and Mike Cotey of Employment Security’s Safety Program are monitoring news and will pass on any new information.

The electron micrograph (100 nm) of the first virus strain collected in Wuhan, China
Debunking some medical rumors

 
 

Wow... that might be the world's biggest cheeseburger ever!

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Oh it isn't just Lebanon who are is desperate for USD. It's the entire world.
 
Hong Kong is China's main way of getting USD since Hong Kong is an important area of trading with USD.
 
The repo markets are going absolutely insane with the Fed selling mortgage backed securities and buying treasuries from banks:  

US banks need cash as well. It's a lot closer to home than some would suspect. It's most likely at your own bank.

Ummm... for all the vegetation in space? LOL
Here are some better ideas that higher ups have proposed. 😉

via .ORGWorld News

Sad to hear of this event. Jehovah will remember them in his new system, when his Son will speak to the wind and say "Be still". Nothing like that will ever occur again.
Accept sincere condolences and deep regret. 

Muy buen ejemplo.

Era noche de viernes, la mayoría de los hidrómilos descansaban en sus casas mientras la temperatura descendía ante el ingreso de un frente frío, en tanto que un nutrido grupo de hombres, mujeres y niños trabajaban codo a codo para rehabilitar algunas calles de la colonia Kilómetro Dos.Son integrantes de la comunidad religiosa denominada como “Testigos de Jehová”, quienes tienes su salón en el cruce de las calles del Maestro y Nicolás Bravo, siendo precisamente la calle del Maestro la que se encontraba plagada de baches.
COMPRARON MATERIALLuego de varias solicitudes que no tuvieron respuesta ante autoridades locales, los integrantes de dicha comunidad decidieron cooperarse para comprar un camión con 14 metros cuadrados de asfalto, el cual tuvo un costo de 2 mil 500 pesos.
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Blink twice to select an object?
How do you cut and paste? 😉
Reboot = cross-eyed?

A Future with Less Screens
Mojo Vision is all about "invisible computing." The company, whose founders include industry veterans from the likes of Apple, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, wants to reduce our reliance on screens. Instead of pulling out your phone to check why it buzzed in the middle of a conversation, look to the corner of your eye to activate an interface that will tell you in a split second.
"We want to create a technology that lets you be you, lets you look like you; doesn't change your appearance; it doesn't make you act weird walking down the street," said Mike Wiemer, cofounder and chief technology officer at Mojo Vision. "It's very discreet and frankly, substantially, most of the time it doesn't show you anything."
Making smart contact lenses is no simple task, though—even Alphabet's Verily subsidiary had to refocus its Smart Lens program after hitting a few snags. You need to have the right sensors at the right sizes, the power to make it all work, and a display and image sensor, too. These sensors range from custom wireless radios to motion sensors for eye tracking and image stabilization.
https://www.wired.com/story/mojo-vision-smart-contact-lens/

As it turns out, the ubiquitous wireless technology’s name has nothing to do with being blue or tooth-like in appearance and has everything to do with medieval Scandinavia.
Harald Bluetooth was the Viking king of Denmark between 958 and 970. King Harald was famous for uniting parts of Denmark and Norway into one nation and converting the Danes to Christianity.
So, what does a turn-of-the-last-millennium Viking king have to do with wireless communication? He was a uniter!
So his name was given to the wireless link that unites and connects so many devices together.
The Bluetooth logo is also a combination of “H” and “B” , the initials of Harald Bluetooth written in the ancient letters (runes) used by vikings (picture below)

CARROLLTON, Ala. (WIAT) — Three people who were killed during a tornado last Saturday will be laid to rest in the coming weeks.
Tyrone Spain, 51, will have a funeral at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Aliceville City Hall.
On Jan. 25, there will be a memorial service Albert and Susan Barnett at Jehovah’s Witnesses Kingdom Hall in Duncanville that will start at 1 p.m. Albert was 85 years old while Susan was 75.
The Barnetts and Spain all lived on Settlement Road outside Carrollton and were in their separate homes when the tornado hit. The three were the only people in the state killed during the weekend storms.
https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/funerals-set-for-victims-of-pickens-county-tornado/

Bengaluru doctors save life of 4-year-old boy with bloodless bone marrow transplant
The boy belongs to the Jehovah’s Witnesses faith, the followers of which cannot take blood transfusions as treatment.

It is not rare for doctors to take young children for bone marrow transplants. In fact, it is one of the most effective treatments for certain forms of leukaemia and other disorders. However, when the individual in question belongs to a faith which doesn’t permit them to get a normal blood transfusion, how do doctors tackle such a challenge? Bloodless bone marrow transplants are given to individuals belonging to the Jehovah’s Witnesses faith, and this was exactly the method used by doctors in Bengaluru to save a 4-year-old boy.
Ittai James Moshi and his parents hail from Tanzania. The boy’s parents are both IT professionals who moved to Bengaluru in 2018 for his treatment. He was diagnosed with a form of abdominal cancer and required a bone marrow transplant to treat him. However, the standard procedure to initiate a bone marrow transplant involves getting a blood transfusion. As Ittai and his parents belong to the Jehovah’s Witnesses community, it was not allowed for him to undergo the routine transplant.
https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/bengaluru-doctors-save-life-4-year-old-boy-bloodless-bone-marrow-transplant-116255

UPDATE: Friday, Jan 17, 2020
I just talked to an Elder at my old congregation, and he said that the assailant fired two bullets into the car of the Congregation Coordinator, Lance Keel, and his wife threw her daughter to the seat as a bullet passed over her head.  She was grazed by one bullet on her rib area, .... "merely a flesh wound", that created a groove, but not a hole.
The Elder said that the whole congregation was, and continues to be  traumatized (the police kept them in place at the Kingdom Hall until 11PM, to try and find the assailant, who got away.) This Saturday they are having a special needs meeting with the whole congregation to decide on new cameras and lighting to put up, as this event happened in the middle of the parking lot, away from the Kingdom Hall.
I mentioned that I knew the glass door was NOT bullet resistant, but he said one of the Brothers was putting a layer of plastic film on the glass (?)  I mentioned to him that they make transparent aluminum now (mostly nitrogen, actually..)  which will stop a 50 caliber machine gun bullet at point blank range, at which his eyes glazed over.
I suppose they will also formulate a plan (satire alert!) so that if anything like this happens again, the congregation will throw their cell phones at the shooter.

I was not there, Wednesday night, as my wife and I started attending a different congregation that attends the same Kingdom Hall about three weeks ago, but the Sister was shot at...not shot.
The report I got when I asked a Gastonia police officer this Thursday night, was that the Sister had just gotten into her car, and closed the door, when one of three suspects who had just robbed a nearby store, and were escaping on foot, tried to hijack her car, and shot the car twice, attempting to get her to relinquish it, which she did not, and she was hit with "shrapnel", which was not specified, but which might have been fragments of bullets, or broken glass.
Very minor injuries.
The front door of the Kingdom Hall is a plate glass door, in a steel frame, and inside are normally stationed two Brothers who sit in chairs, one directly inside the door, which is locked during the meetings, as a doorman, to open it for congregants coming late, etc.,(he can of course, see who is on the other side ...), and another Brother in a chair, just inside the auditorium. 
I have referred to them as "Brothers Bullet Catchers", in the past.
The door is NOT "bullet proof", according to an Elder I asked, about  six months ago.
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To paraphrase a common saying,
"Stuff Happens"".
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" You only need four things to win a gunfight.
Excellent reflexes and a working handgun of appropriate caliber,
To be able to hit what you aim at, and
The will to take another man's life.
The rest is up to divine providence, and pure dumb luck."
James B. Hickok,  1874
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But then again, Four Sisters were killed in an automobile accident in Grand Prairie, Texas, WHILE ENGAGED IN FIELD SERVICE, Texas, years ago, when a vehicle ran a stop light and T-boned their car in an intersection.
Jehovah does not interfere with ANYTHING in the modern day.
"chance and circumstance befall us all. ..."
....... be careful out there, if you can manage it, and decide to do so.
Even at least several of the  Apostles were armed with their personal weapons, in an upstairs room, in downtown Jerusalem at the last congregational meeting, and the Memorial of Christ's impending execution, and it was not to defend against rogue bears that climb stairs.
Luke 22:36
"Stuff Happens".
.... be careful out there .....
 

Parts of my story I wrote here on this forum in defence of our blood stance - not the entire story.  Cancer is a horrible disease - especially in babies. 
I was fortunate, South Africa at that time had some of the best infrastructure and surgeons in the world.
They wanted to give her blood during surgery (secretly) but one of the nurses was a JW. She protested.
She had an operation at 8 and half months that lasted the whole day!  It was on the spinal cord on both sides of the chest - 5 cm - large for a small baby.  They did a thoractomy - cut half the body open and removed it in this way.
The surgeon cauterized all the blood vessels as he worked..... she was so close to death, I was not allowed to see her until late that night.  The next day she breathed without machines. She healed fast after that..... usually these patients bleed for at least 21 days...... but after 2 days she stopped. They took the pipes out.
Directly after the surgery they gave her blood boosters.  She was a miracle - she went home on 5 or 6th day....( I cannot remember... accurately).
Afterwards I studied what happens in the body when you take blood. It was then I realized that if she had taken a drop of blood on such a major surgery she would have had anaphalactic shock and died.  Obedience to jehovah saved my child.....

Now it is much easier than 40 years ago when my daughter had her surgery!  Thanks to the excellent doctors who found a way to do it! 
 

Bonus Point: Some pearls form naturally in clams and oysters. However, cultured pearls are different. They are formed when someone intentionally puts an irritant into an oyster triggering the defense mechanism. Similarly, some of our brothers and sisters may have suffered physical, verbal or sexual abuse. They did nothing wrong, something wrong was done to them. In these instances it can take years for them to learn to cope with the pain. Still, with God’s love and spirit, even such deep scars from the actions of others can create pearls. If this has happened to you, others who have suffered may see your pearl of strength and be encouraged to keep pressing on as well. Most importantly, Jehovah sees your pain and all you have done to keep moving forward despite it. In his eyes, that has more value than any pearl that has ever been found.

Hi @Queen Esther, it is a link from Youtube to one of his concerts in 2019