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P.'s Correspondence
P.'s Correspondence" is a short story by t Nathaniel Hawthorne, constituting a pioneering work of alternate history. Some consider it the very first such work in the English language.
The story uses the technique of the false document, common in literature of the period. It purports to...
An Old Woman's Tale
In the book the narrator relates a story that had been told to him previously by a witch-like old woman, who, professing to ” hold the substance” of the “account from one of those principally concerned in it,” asserted that all the inhabitants of a town in the Connecticut River valley...
The Village Uncle
The Village Uncle is a short story written by the acclaimed American Author Nathaniel Hawthorne. He is known for his rantings and writings to take a dark look at humanity.
The Old Apple Dealer
The Old Apple Dealer is a short story by acclaimed American author Nathaniel Hawthorne
Buds and Bird Voices
Buds and Bird Voices is a short story from acclaimed writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. Most of his stories involve a negative view on humanity, but this story takes a more lighthearted approach.
The Haunted Mind
In "The Haunted Mind", Hawthorne described an intermediate space between sleeping and waking. The story begins with the character's sudden waking from midnight slumber. The story describes people's mental activities between sleeping and waking.
Fanshawe
Grandfather's Chair
This volume isn't just a collection of wonderful stories, like so many others of Hawthorne's; it's a collection of true stories -- things that happened between 1620 and 1803, as seen by a chair supposedly owned by principals in each of the tales. It's Hawthorne -- delightful, insightful, wise...
The Wives of the Dead
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IT Market Research Firm Reveals 168% ROI with EDB Postgres Platform
Pierre Fricke I Vice President, Product Marketing, EDB Postgres
Singapore, 8 Sep 2016
The three-year return on investment of the EDB Postgres™ Platform is 168%, according to a new white paper on the comprehensive business impact of EDB Postgres based on interviews with EDB customers. The white paper titled The Economic and Business Advantages of EDB Postgres Database Solutions*, developed by International Data Corp (IDC), a leading IT market research and advisory firm. The white paper describes how EDB Postgres Platform customers are well positioned for meeting expanding business demands, while reducing costs across the board compared to previous or other database management systems (DBMS).
Click here to download the IDC white paper, The Economic and Business Advantages of EDB Postgres Database Solutions. Or, click here to watch the webcast, How to Realize 168% ROI with EDB Postgres, featuring Carl Olofson, Research Vice President, Application Development and Deployment, IDC.
To prepare the white paper, IDC interviewed EnterpriseDB® (EDB™) customers. The customers had an average of 18,400 employees, were located in the United States and Europe, and represented a cross-section of industries, including communications; financial and professional services; and transportation.
These customers reported that EDB provides a cost-effective, scalable, and flexible database platform that meets their evolving business demands for database resources. IDC calculates that these organizations will:
Achieve a three-year return on investment (ROI) of 168%
Spend an average of 42% less on operations over three years using EDB Postgres than alternative commercial and open source database solutions; and
Avoid vendor lock-in, a concern commonly expressed by the companies interviewed.
Each of the factors above has a significant effect on an organization’s ROI when implementing an EDB Postgres solution. Additional findings include:
The interval for payback on investment in EDB Postgres was an average of about four months for the organizations in the study.
EDB’s all-inclusive subscriptions, which frequently replace traditional up-front license fees and additional maintenance fees, resulted in the interviewed organizations spending 65% less on database-related costs and lowering ongoing maintenance costs by 32%.
Greater database reliability contributed to a 16% reduction in staff time for administration and support and 24% fewer unplanned database-related outages, while repairing them if they did occur took 50% less time than previous or alternative solutions. The impact on operations of unplanned outages was reduced by 62%.
These findings were with customers deploying EDB Postgres vs. leading, traditional DBMS systems as well as open source alternatives that were self- or consultancy-supported.
The white paper stated: “When most people consider migrating to an open source RDBMS, it is purely a matter of cost for them, and they are prepared to accept awkward administration and poor performance as the trade-off. IDC found that for the customers in this study, there were no trade-offs with EDB Postgres. The study found that EDB customers’ EDB Postgres systems run faster, are easier to administer, and provide more flexibility than the systems they had used previously. EDB Postgres is a target for new application development as well as a migration target not only for someone looking for the “typical” benefits of open source but also for anyone looking for a simpler-to-manage, high-performance, and lower-cost RDBMS that demands no compromise.”
About IDC’s Methodology
IDC used a tested methodology to conduct its ROI analysis. According to the IDC white paper, its three-step process was as follows:
“First, it gathered quantitative benefit information during the interviews using a before-and-after assessment. In this study, the benefits included database-related cost reductions, staff time savings and productivity gains, as well as increased revenue.
Second, it created a complete investment (three-year total cost analysis) profile based on the customer interviews. Investments go beyond the annual costs of using EDB Postgres and can include additional costs related to the database platform, including migrations, planning, consulting, configuration or maintenance, and staff or user training.
Finally, the analyst firm calculated the ROI and payback period. IDC conducted a depreciated cash flow analysis of the benefits and investments for the organizations’ use of EDB Postgres over a three-year period. ROI is the ratio of the net present value (NPV) to discounted investment. The payback period is the point at which cumulative benefits equal the initial investment.”
Sponsored by EDB, the white paper provides significant insight into the customer experience and savings resulting from using EDB Postgres. To download the white paper, click here.
– Pierre Fricke I Vice President, Product Marketing, EDB Postgres
Tags: Ashnik, edb, EDB Postgres, EDB Postgres Database Solutions, EnterpriseDB, open source database, RDBMS, singapore, traditional DBMS
Digital is the new Black!
The Millennials and Gen Z - and their 'Digital' habits!
Full Fledged DevOps: CI/CD with Docker, Jenkins and GitHub
Application Delivery Strategy : Key for Enterprises to move to Cloud
- Sandeep Khuperkar I Director and CTO, Ashnik
Government Open Source Mandates Drive Postgres Adoption Worldwide
- Keith Alsheimer I Chief Marketing Officer, EnterpriseDB
2016 Looking ahead...don’t forget to look inside!
Building Hybrid Data Store using PostgreSQL and MongoDB
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Haze spreads to Sulawesi as fires rage in Kalimantan
PHOTO: AFP
Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja
Forest and land fires in Indonesia's Central Kalimantan province have intensified in recent days with strong winds carrying the haze for the first time this year across to Sulawesi island to its east.
Central Kalimantan is one of the two worst-hit provinces during this year's haze season in Indonesia, the other being South Sumatra. Most Indonesian farmers and plantation firms opt to clear land by burning it to make way for planting, ahead of the rainy season that should have started in October but was delayed due to the El Nino phenomenon.
The spreading fires in Kalimantan come as massive firefighting efforts for the past week, with international help, have been focused on South Sumatra province.
The Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) in Palangkaraya, capital of Central Kalimantan, reached a peak of 1,889 last Friday at 9am before going down to 1,063 at 10pm the same day. Any measure above 350 is considered hazardous. PSI readings for yesterday were not available.
In Palembang, capital of South Sumatra, the PSI went up as high as 475 on Friday at 9am and improved slightly to 379 at night.
Haze from fires in Sumatra has regularly blown across the borders to Singapore and Malaysia, due to geographical proximity.
The focus of the water-bombing operations in Central Kalimantan has been Pulang Pisau, Kapuas and Seruyan regencies, where most of the hot spots are, said Ms Rani Anggraini of the Central Kalimantan governor's office. Another regency, Katingan, is easily reachable by ground firefighters.
Two water-bombing aircraft stationed in Palangkaraya were recently moved to Pangkalan Bun, about 260km to the south-west, as thick haze in Palangkaraya had prevented take-offs, said Mr Tri Budiarto, a deputy chairman in charge of emergency response at the national disaster management agency (BNPB).
Another aircraft from Palangkaraya was moved to Banjarbaru, some 150km to the south-east, according to Mr Tri, who was in Palangkaraya yesterday, where he spoke to The Sunday Times by phone.
"We have seen a concentration of haze building up in the past three days over Kalimantan. Fires were emerging on the left and right of the Trans- Kalimantan road as we drove through Pulang Pisau on Friday," he said.
He said the prevailing winds were blowing the haze from the surrounding burning land to Palangkaraya, which had very thick haze yesterday. The winds, blowing from west to east, had also caused the haze over Kalimantan to travel to Sulawesi last Friday and yesterday.
On the situation yesterday, Ms Rani said: "Fires had been put out but re-emerged and the winds were very strong on Friday, allowing the fires to spread faster."
"We are asking Jakarta to send in two more water-bombing choppers. Early last week, two water-bombing aircraft arrived here to add to the existing ones."
wahyudis@sph.com.sg
This article was first published on October 18, 2015.
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Cdale park-and-ride ready to roll
News | August 30, 2007
Valley Journal StaffAspen, CO Colorado
CARBONDALE The Roaring Fork Transportation Authoritys Carbondale park-and-ride lot on Highway 133 (across from Alpine Bank) will be put into use immediately following the Labor Day weekend, beginning Tuesday, Sept. 4.At that time, RFTA buses will begin using the park-and-ride instead of the Cowen Center stops. Passengers who previously used the Cowen stops should catch the bus at the new park-and-ride. The stops on Main Street (the pool and Subway stops) will continue to be served by all RFTA buses.Buses will stop for anyone standing at the former stop in front of Garcias, RFTA communications manager Silvia Cranmer said. However, that practice will be temporary, ceasing after riders get used to the new park-and-ride stop, she said.The traffic light at Village Road and the park-and-ride entrance was expected to be fully functional starting this week.Everything is all set as far as infrastructure, the emergency phone, lights and all that, project manager Tom Newland said.RFTA also worked with the town of Carbondale to alleviate a drainage problem on the corner of Highway 133 and Village Road in front of Buggy Works that wasnt part of the original project.We put in curb and gutter and drainage and alleviated that drainage problem, which is good for everyone, Newland said.Meanwhile, fall RFTA service is being cut back on weekends and evenings to hourly on Saturday and Sunday, and hourly after 8:30 p.m. on weekdays. The detailed fall schedule will be posted on http://www.rfta.com and at bus stops with specific departure times beginning Tuesday.Buses headed downvalley (toward Glenwood/Rifle) will serve the park-and-ride on the inbound, and upvalley buses will serve park-and-ride passengers on the way out of town. Service will be provided every 30 minutes Monday through Friday for most of the day. The schedule will be as follows:Upvalley busesCarbondale pool: 6:05 a.m., 6:35 a.m., 7:05 a.m., 7:35 a.m.Carbondale park-and-ride: 6:08 a.m., 6:38 a.m., 7:08 a.m., 7:38 a.m.Downvalley busesCarbondale park-and-ride: 7:08 a.m., 7:38 a.m., 8:08 a.m., 8:38 a.m.Carbondale pool: 7:11 a.m., 7:41a.m., 8:11 a.m., 8:41 a.m.For more information about all RFTA routes, call 925-8484.
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Will Malaysia’s Islamisation change course?
13 Mar 2018|Wong Chin-Huat
Malaysia is just a few months or even weeks away from its most contentious election in decades. Mahathir Mohamad—Malaysia’s longest-serving prime minister, whose rule ended in 2003—is, at 92, working with opposition figures he once repressed to prevent his former protégé, the controversial Prime Minister Najib Razak, from securing another term. But breaking the 61-year winning streak of Mahathir’s former party, the United Malays National Organization (UMNO), will not be easy.
In fact, the pundits are still betting on Najib, with one pollster predicting that the incumbent could regain a two-thirds parliamentary majority, enabling him to amend the constitution. Mahathir has just a few months to change the political dynamic, by leading the opposition coalition, Pakatan Harapan (PH), and replacing the Pan-Malaysia Islamic Party (PAS) with his new party, the Malaysia United Indigenous Party (PPBM), as the primary alternative to UMNO.
While the PAS has only about 15% electoral support, it has managed to push the UMNO to implement elements of its nationalist-religious agenda. A strong enough showing by PH in the next election, however, would expose the PAS as politically dispensable, potentially freeing Malaysia from a toxic game of Islamist one-upmanship.
The impact of that game should not be underestimated. In recent years, religious intolerance has been on the rise in once-secular Malaysia. For example, the Arabic word for God, Allah, widely used by Arab and Indonesian Christians, is now reserved for Muslim use only. More alarming, the Home Ministry has banned a wide range of books, from the Indonesian translation of Charles Darwin’s On the origin of species to the writings of the Islam-friendly Western scholars John Esposito and Karen Armstrong.
The rise of a strict and exclusivist Islam in Malaysia reflects international trends and domestic dynamics. Ethnic-majority Malays—who were marginalised during colonial times, but now enjoy constitutionally guaranteed preferential treatment in the economy and education—must, by definition, be Muslim. The persistence of their favoured status hinges on the UMNO’s political dominance, or so UMNO claims.
While early UMNO leaders were anti-clerical, the party’s success in eliminating its leftist and liberal rivals left PAS as the face of the Malay opposition. When the modernist Mahathir came to power in 1981, Islamism became the PAS’s most effective ideological weapon against the UMNO.
And, indeed, the PAS leader, Hadi Awang, then a young and charismatic cleric, advocated a radical stance, labelling any Muslim who supported the UMNO an ‘infidel’, because the UMNO government had supposedly ‘perpetuated the colonial constitution, infidel laws, and pre-Islamic rules’. Hadi’s message helped to create a deep divide between the two ‘kinds’ of Muslims, to the extent that villages would have two mosques, two cemeteries and two clerics to lead prayers and officiate at ceremonies.
But where Hadi did the most damage was in undermining the legitimacy of Malaysia’s post-colonial state and social structures. When Malaysia was under British rule, it faced mass immigration of ethnic Chinese and Indians, and the emergence of a Christian native minority on the island of Borneo.
From a Muslim nationalist’s perspective, pluralism—together with secularism and democracy—were colonial impositions. Full decolonisation would demand restoration of the dominance of Islam and Muslims. According to this narrative, the Ottoman Empire offers a model of segregated, unequal, but peaceful co-existence of multiple ethno-religious communities. Minorities lived autonomously in their ‘millets’, not as equal citizens, but as ‘dhimmis’ (protected minorities).
Having once championed the establishment of a full-fledged Islamic state, the PAS now demands at least expanding Sharia law and elevating the status of the Syariah court system, which now has limited jurisdiction over Muslims’ personal and family matters, to that of the civil courts. As the PAS’s brand of Muslim religious nationalism has increasingly overridden the UMNO’s Malay ethno-nationalism, these goals have gained the support of a growing number of Muslims.
While not known to be religious, Mahathir shrewdly co-opted Hadi’s more charismatic and visionary contemporary, Anwar Ibrahim, in 1982 to spearhead the UMNO’s own Islamisation projects. From Islamic higher education to Islamic banking to religious bureaucracy, Mahathir and Anwar stole the PAS’s religious thunder—that is, until the UMNO split. In 1998, Mahathir imprisoned Anwar, who had tried to replace him. After that, the PAS absorbed many of Anwar’s followers, expanding its influence from its stronghold in the north to the entire country.
Since the 2013 election, when Najib lost the popular vote but clung to power thanks to electoral gerrymandering, he has worked to bring Hadi on side, for example, by facilitating the potential introduction of harsh hudud punishments (mandated by God under Islamic law) for crimes like adultery, drinking and apostasy. It was a Machiavellian masterstroke that not only drew the PAS out of the opposition coalition, but also led Hadi to defend the scandal-plagued Najib.
The PAS has announced plans to contest about 60% of parliamentary constituencies. This may siphon Malay votes from PH, giving the UMNO many narrow victories. If the turnout among Malays is low, PH will suffer more than Najib, who could end up winning more seats with even fewer votes than in 2013.
As for the PAS, its continued political relevance hinges on eliminating the threat posed by Mahathir and its own splinter party, Amanah, formed by pro-Anwar moderates. If Mahathir cannot secure one-third of the seats in parliament, the PAS can claim that it is indispensable, even if it loses every constituency. In such a scenario, no Malay opposition leader would dare denounce the PAS’s Muslim nationalism. The UMNO, despite its electoral victory, would have even less of the moral courage needed to block the PAS agenda.
If Mahathir does secure one-third of the parliament, Malaysian politics will undergo significant changes, even if the UMNO remains technically in charge. If Amanah can supplant the PAS as the main Islamic party, the trend toward religious extremism would likely be reversed. And if the PPBM is established as a rival defender of Malays’ favoured status, the UMNO would lose its monopoly on the issue, making Malay politics more competitive.
So far, Malaysia’s nonagenarian comeback kid has been making inroads in many UMNO and PAS constituencies. But Malays alone will not decide the outcome of his battle with the PAS and Najib. As many marginal constituencies are ethnically mixed, low turnout among non-Malays may help the PAS—and hurt Malaysia.
Wong Chin-Huat is a political scientist at the Penang Institute in Malaysia. This article is presented in partnership with Project Syndicate © 2018. Image courtesy of Rama via Wikimedia Commons.
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Home / Resources / UK’s snap general election – a chance for a better Brexit for construction?
UK’s snap general election – a chance for a better Brexit for construction?
A little over ten months since the EU referendum, we are yet again thrown into the season of elections. Prime Minister Theresa May has called a snap general election on 8 June 2017, and this has already been dubbed the “Brexit election”, given that the Prime Minister has painted it at the outset as a fight for a mandate for Brexit negotiations. Sir Keir Starmer, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Exiting the EU and former Director of Public Prosecutions, described the snap election as offering “a choice of two visions of Brexits”, although that is an understatement given the wide spectrum of party manifestos the electorate is being presented with.
This development has created yet another layer of uncertainty, so much so that the RICS notes that there is a continuing deferral of investments and hiring decisions in the construction industry. Nevertheless, it would be helpful to understand some of the key implications of the snap election on Brexit and the construction industry.
Whilst all the major parties are hammering out their manifestos and soldiering on in their campaign trails, their policies on Brexit at a very high level of generality (as currently known) can be summarised as follows:
Party Leave Single Market
(“Hard Brexit”) Stay in Single Market
(“Soft Brexit”) Support Free Movement of Citizens/Workers Second referendum on Brexit deal
Conservative X
Labour X
Lib-Dem X X X
SNP X X
Plaid Cymru X X
Green X X X
UKIP X
All of the major parties accept that Brexit will take place, and although the recent YouGov poll suggested that more Britons think Brexit is bad decision than a good one (45% vs. 43%), that is unlikely to reverse the reality of Brexit – the die is cast. The snap election is therefore, as canvassed at the beginning, more a choice of the version of Brexit and the shape of the final deal with Brussels.
Indeed, the Prime Minister herself has admitted that the key purpose of calling this election is to get a stronger majority, a better mandate to negotiate and achieve the final deal, in order to ensure a smoother Brexit according to the Government’s vision. However, as noted in Building magazine, “the benefits to the [construction] sector of a strong parliamentary majority will only be felt if that majority is used to push for the right things”.
Other commentators such as the Economist have suggested more hopefully that a stronger majority could enable the Prime Minister to “face down ultra-Eurosceptic backbenchers” and “strike sensible compromises with the EU”. This coincides with interesting comments from John Callilan, Ireland’s top Brexit official, that there is “a gradual realisation that Brexit in many ways is an act of great self-harm, and that the focus now is on minimising that self-harm”.
As we are still waiting for the manifestos from all the major parties, it is premature to speculate too much on the result of the snap election and the likely policies which would ensue. However, as far as the construction and infrastructure are concerned, the snap election can be a chance for the industry to make its voice heard and elicit commitments to protect the industry from the significant risks posed by Brexit. As Lord Stunell has rightly observed, “now is the moment construction could actually have some leverage as party candidates try to impress voters with their various local infrastructure project wishlists”.
Two immediate issues spring to mind, namely securing labour and other construction resources, and a commitment to supporting housebuilding projects across the UK to stimulate the industry.
In terms of labour resources, there will inevitably have to be continuing efforts in pressing for measures to enable EU construction workers to continue coming to the UK and meet the current well-documented labour shortage, before the fruits of the new “T-levels” materialise in the long run.
As for housebuilding, a stronger majority could help accelerate current commitments as expressed by the Chancellor in the Autumn and Spring Statements, and ensure that there is a stable increase in construction projects and output for the near future. It would be helpful to have express policies in the manifestos on increasing housing supply, and this is a real possibility in the light of the Government’s ongoing initiatives and the constant clamour from the opposition in recent years.
Therefore, the obvious priority now is to give the next Government a strong mandate based on specific policy commitments supportive of the construction and infrastructure industry. As the Economist noted in a recent article, the danger is “a shortage of meaningful election promises to which she can later be held”, which “would put Mrs May in a freer position than any recent predecessor to do whatever she chooses when it comes to policy—for good or ill”.
Whilst anecdotal reports abound on Jean Claude Juncker’s supposed comments to the Prime Minister that Brexit “cannot be a success”, and there will inevitably be much posturing from both sides throughout the negotiations, none of that should change the industry’s fundamental focus. The construction industry should make active and constructive recommendations over the coming months and years, whilst carefully managing the potential risks of Brexit when taking up new building projects, with careful contract drafting and detailed advice of legal advisers.
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Phil Neville Names Anita Asante In The First England Women Squad
Anita Asante, one of the most capped players.
Head coach of England women, Phil Neville, named Anita Asante, Chelsea girl, in the initial squad for the SheBelieves Cup in the US in the coming month.
Defender in the Chelsea Team, Asante, who was called up in 2015, was one of seven players that had accused prior boss, Mark Sampson, of treating the poorly.
The SheBelieves Cup will begin against France on 1st March, and all three of the matches will be screened live by the BBC.
It is also planned for the Lionnesses to take on Germany on the
Skipper Steph Houghton is named in the squad despite having an injured foot.
England kick off the SheBelieves Cup against France on 4th March with all three matches live on the BBC.
It is also planned for the Lionesses to tackle Germany on 4th March, before they come head to head with the US a few days later on the 8th March.
According to BBC Sport, after selecting 32 year-old Asante, proud owner of 70 caps, who joined up with Chelsea after four years on the Swedish side, Neville said, "I hope this squad shows that the door is not closed to anyone [...] Those in form will always have a strong chance of being picked."
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New Zealand schools impress local educators
by Dave Perozek | November 6, 2017 at 1:00 a.m. 0comments
Daniel Birch, principal of Hobsonville Point Primary School in Auckland, New Zealand, speaks to a group of Arkansas educators visiting his school last month. The group of mostly teachers and school administrators traveled to New Zealand to tour schools and learn more about the country's educational system.
A recent trip to New Zealand gave some Northwest Arkansas educators a chance to observe how schools there approach teaching and learning, inspiring ideas for changes in their own schools.
Photo by Photo provided by Muhammad Ramadan
Jennifer Marien and Muhammad Ramadan, teachers at the Thaden School in Bentonville, stand outside the Kaurilands School in Auckland, New Zealand, last month. They were part of a group of mostly teachers and school administrators that traveled to New Zealand to tour schools and learn more about the country’s educational system.
The group of 36, mostly teachers and administrators representing one private school, one charter school and five school districts in Benton and Washington counties, spent the last full week of October touring schools in and around Auckland, New Zealand.
Capital: Wellington
Official languages: English, Maori, New Zealand Sign Language
Geographic area: 103,799 square miles (nearly twice the size of Arkansas)
Number of schools: 2,539
Famous natives: Lucy Lawless (actress), Ernest Rutherford (scientist, pioneer of nuclear physics), Lorde (contemporary singer/songwriter), Edmund Hillary (mountaineer, first nonnative to reach the summit of Mount Everest)
Fun fact: “Kiwi” is the nickname for a person from New Zealand. It comes from the name of a flightless bird native to the country.
Source: Staff report
The knowledge gained was well worth the time and money spent traveling halfway around the world, said Megan Slocum, associate superintendent of curriculum and instruction for the Springdale School District.
"You can read about things and see it on the Internet, but being there in person and being able to talk with students and teachers and pick the brains of administrators there is a unique experience," Slocum said.
The trip was arranged through a partnership between the Office of Innovation for Education at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and the Walton Family Foundation.
New Zealand is widely regarded as having one of the top education systems in the world. The trip was part of a two-year project meant to spur educational innovation in Northwest Arkansas, according to Kim Davis, a senior education program officer for the foundation's Home Region Program.
The foundation is providing $350,000 for the project, Davis said.
The Bentonville, Fayetteville, Rogers, Siloam Springs and Springdale school districts as well as Haas Hall Academy and the Thaden School sent teachers and administrators on the trip. Employees of the foundation, the Office of Innovation and the Arkansas Department of Education participated as well.
Core Education, a professional learning and development organization in New Zealand, facilitated the group's tours of seven public schools over five days. The group spent a few hours in each school.
Kimber Jungles, a math interventionist at Bentonville's Barker Middle School, jumped at the chance to go when Barker Principal Eric Hipp asked this summer for a staff member to join him. It was an opportunity few people ever get, she said.
"We got to sit down at a table with the teachers and talk to them," Jungles said. "We got to talk to principals, we got to talk to students. One principal opened the door, and said, 'Here's the school, you have an hour, go do whatever you want to do and come back.' We were able to really get in there and see what we wanted to see and ask questions we wanted to ask."
Hipp said the New Zealand schools focused on the process of learning and inquiry-based learning, an instructional model where students learn by coming up with questions they answer on their own through research and investigation.
The Northwest Arkansas educators came away impressed by New Zealanders' deep commitment to making children responsible for their own learning.
"They had certain parameters of what they had to learn, and they could tell you exactly what they had learned, what they were working on learning now and what they were getting ready to learn," Jungles said. "But they had a choice in how they were going to learn it. And they also had a choice in how they were going to prove that they mastered something."
Stacy Smith, director of curriculum and instruction at the Arkansas Department of Education, expressed amazement at seeing young children engaged in various activities in school without adult supervision.
At one school, Smith encountered some first-graders doing woodworking. They were wearing their safety goggles and using hammers and saws. No adults were in sight, she said.
Those students were doing what they were supposed to be doing. They had earned their teachers' trust and been taught how to manage themselves, Smith said.
Not everything she saw in New Zealand schools was better than in U.S. schools, Smith said.
"But there were some core principles I saw that I had to honestly say, they do it better."
Different approach
There are no school districts in New Zealand. Each school is autonomous and run by its own board. Principals oversee everything from curriculum to facility issues.
Denise Airola, director of the Office of Innovation for Education, said the New Zealand schools foster in their students great respect for diversity and the different cultures their students represent. People of European descent make up the majority of the population, but there are also significant numbers of Asians, Pacific islanders and Maori, the country's indigenous people.
"These kids are being taught that their cultural heritage is important and unique," Airola said.
Slocum recalled a very welcoming feeling in all of the schools they visited. Springdale does things to make other cultures feel welcome in its schools, but there is more the schools can do, she said.
Slocum also noted how even young students in New Zealand are encouraged to decide how they learn best. Students' interest level in learning was high because they had ownership of their learning, she said.
"We have been moving toward that, but seeing someone do it who has had it in place for the last 20 years is really exciting," she said. "It is a process. It doesn't happen overnight. Change can be scary, so I think [the trip] gave us the opportunity to be reassured the path we're on in terms of personalization of learning is right, and it's a better outcome for students."
Several who went commented on how the schools featured large rooms with more students and more teachers per room. Students weren't confined to one room, either.
At one primary school, you could stand in one place and see kids playing music, kids studying math and kids working on a science project, Slocum said. The environment reminded her of Springdale's Tyson School of Innovation, a technology-rich STEM -- science, technology, engineering and mathematics -- school designed for students to self-direct their learning, be creative and work with their peers.
Everyone who went to New Zealand will be asked to reconvene Dec. 20 to discuss what they learned and identify major themes they noticed. The aim is to help them design the next steps, Airola said.
Jungles likes that it's a two-year project.
"So it's not something where we're going to come back and implement everything next week. We have a lot of time to think and process. We have a long time to internalize and grow," Jungles said.
Hipp enjoyed the camaraderie of working with other educators from across the region.
"Everybody wants to be No. 1," Hipp said. "But it was important for me that Haas Hall is learning something that's going to help their kids. And Thaden's going to learn something that helps them. To have private, charter and public [schools] all together working -- not for a leg up, but for kids -- that is what I will remember."
NW News on 11/06/2017
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NW electric co-op gets USDA loan
by Nathan Owens | June 1, 2019 at 1:41 a.m. 0comments
A Berryville electric cooperative has been granted a $263 million loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to improve almost 1,000 miles of rural power lines, the department said.
It is the largest of 17 electric loan program investments totaling $858 million across several states, mostly in the Southeast. The loans should benefit approximately 450,000 residential and commercial customers, the USDA said Thursday. Total funding includes $64 million for smart grid technology improvements.
The loans will help electric cooperatives keep systems reliable and affordable for those who live and work in rural areas, said Joel Baxley, acting assistant to the USDA's secretary for rural development.
"Investing in our nation's electric infrastructure powers our economy, creates jobs and helps deliver services such as education, training and health care to build stronger rural communities," Baxley said.
Carroll Electric will use the $263,117,000 to improve 998 miles of transmission and distribution line, according to documents with the USDA. The Berryville utility plans to use $8.5 million of the loan to invest in "smart grid technologies" that can handle the deluge of smart devices and other newer technologies entering homes.
In Arizona, the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority is receiving a $94 million loan for a solar facility that provides renewable energy for 26,000 American Indians, documents show. Other states are receiving between $72 million and $5 million for various projects.
Last year, a USDA task force identified more than 100 actions the federal government should consider to improve agriculture and prosperity in rural America, including collaborating with state, local and tribal government. Key findings included improvements to rural Internet access, quality of life and workforces.
U.S. Rep. Steve Womack, R-Ark., issued a statement Friday supporting the USDA's decision to invest in Carroll Electric.
"Our electric infrastructure must be able to meet the energy needs of the future," Womack said. "This investment will unleash new opportunities, helping to enhance grid reliability, create jobs, grow economic opportunity and support our rural communities."
Carroll Electric officials did not return messages left by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for comment on Friday.
Carroll Electric services 97,275 customers across 11 counties in Northwest Arkansas and parts of Missouri. On Wednesday, the co-op reported more than 12,000 power failures in Benton County caused by severe weather.
Most of the town uses Entergy, said Berryville Mayor Tim McKinney, while Carroll Electric services most of Carroll County.
Carroll Electric's loan is intended to upgrade transmission and distribution lines, which carry electricity over poles and wires from generators to residences. Collectively, these lines found overhead or sometimes in the ground are called "the grid."
While McKinney was unaware of the co-op's exact plans for the money, he said Internet accessibility remains a big issue where he is.
"We've got to keep things up," he said.
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Damien Hirst As Part of Yorkshire Sculpture International
This summer Yorkshire Sculpture International (YSI) presents seven major sculptures by Damien Hirst as part of the inaugural edition of the festival taking place across Leeds and Wakefield until 29 September 2019. Works will be shown outdoors in Leeds city centre, at Leeds Art Gallery and at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
Image: Hymn, a 20ft (6m) high sculpture, has been unveiled on Briggate in Leeds city centre, photo courtesy BBC
‘The giant bronze sculptures at YSP are where they belong – they're just made for that setting.’
The Turner Prize-winning artist, who grew up in Leeds, is showing Hymn (1999–2005) and Anatomy of an Angel (2008) outdoors in Leeds city centre and Black Sheep with Golden Horns (2009) at Leeds Art Gallery. Charity (2002–2003), Myth (2010), The Hat Makes the Man (2004–2007), and The Virgin Mother (2005–2006) are shown at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP).
At YSP, four sculptures are placed in the newly revived 18th-century Deer Park and will be open to the public from 13 April. Hirst’s ten-metre tall The Virgin Mother will stand against the backdrop of the Lower Lake, a powerful presence in the landscape. Referencing the stance of Degas’s Little Dancer of Fourteen Years (c.1881) and considered a female counterpart to Hymn, the sculpture’s cross-section reveals the foetus curled within the womb.
The Virgin Mother, Damien Hirst, courtesy to YSP
Charity, on display near the recently opened Weston building, is recognisable as based on Scope collection boxes which were commonly seen on British high streets between the 1960s and 1970s. A young girl wearing a calliper forlornly cradles a teddy bear and a donations box which reads ‘please give generously’. The work questions historic and outdated ways of depicting disability and seeking charity.
Charity by Damien Hirst, courtesy to YSP
Outside The Weston, Myth presents a white unicorn with half of its skin flayed to reveal vibrant red, pink and yellow musculature and tissues. Hirst often takes religious or mythical figures as his subjects, unpicking and disrupting their familiar narratives. Horses have been an artistic subject for millennia and, referencing this tradition, Hirst’s unicorn stands high on a classical plinth. Like all works in this display, Myth makes a playful nod to art history.
Back towards Lower Lake, The Hat Makes the Man is based on a 1920 collage of the same name by Surrealist artist Max Ernst. Ernst’s work is comprised of cut-out images of hats absurdly reassembled in stacks with intentionally phallic-like supports. It is thought to have been inspired by Sigmund Freud’s book The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious (1905), in which Freud describes the hat as a symbol of repressed male desire. Hirst renders Ernst’s work in three dimensions, using bronze casts of wooden pallets as supports and thereby introducing the idea of sculptural collage or assemblage. As with The Virgin Mother, Hirst’s materials are hidden. In the former works, the bronze is painted to emulate plastic and with The Hat the casting precisely imitates painted wood. The artist thereby plays with the grandeur associated with bronze.
The sculptures on display in the city centre are positioned in well-known locations, making YSI a key part of the city experience in summer 2019. Standing at six metres high, the painted bronze sculpture Hymn is a monumental reinterpretation of an educational anatomical model intended for use by children, in which a cross-section reveals the internal organs of the male torso. Anatomy of an Angel, which will be on display in the Victoria Quarter arcade in the city centre, is a marble work which references classical sculpture. As in Hymn, The Virgin Mother and Myth, the vital organs beneath the skin are exposed.
Hymn by Damien Hirst, a 20ft (6m) high sculpture, has been unveiled on Briggate in Leeds city centre, photo courtesy BBC
Leeds Art Gallery is exhibiting Hirst’s Black Sheep with Golden Horns in the historic Arnold and Marjorie Ziff Gallery. Part of Hirst’s iconic formaldehyde series, the work features a black sheep with golden horns, positioned within a steel-framed vitrine. This sculpture is at the centre of the Ziff gallery display, in dialogue with the historic painting collection which covers the years 1888 to 1900.
Jane Bhoyroo, Producer of YSI: ‘One of the aims of YSI is to engage a mass audience through sculpture and Damien's works will play a key role in achieving this. YSI promises to be something special, memorable and game changing for Yorkshire’s growing art scene.’
Until 29 September, 2019
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Charles Thiefaine
Born on October 26, 1991 in Roubaix, in the North of France, Charles Thiefaine is a young photographer living in Paris.
Charles Thiefaine first studied architecture at the Saint-Luc School in Tournai (Belgium), but switched to journalism, which allows him to combine his two passions: photography and storytelling.
Most of his images are taken during his travels, particularly in Latin America, a continent which has particularly touched him. His intention, beyond an unconditional search for beauty, is to portray, through photography, what he sees, by putting himself in the position of a witness. He thinks that "taking photographs means describing, not showing. If a photograph was not intelligible, it would go back being a privilege to the insiders or those who practice it".
From the rough portrait to the harmonious landscape, from the freezing cold of the Baltic countries to the damp heat of the Amazon, Charles is in search of what is human, without excluding a more impersonal quest for the aesthetic elements.
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Wages and inflation 's Latvia's economic vicious circle
By Talis Saule Archdeacon
Teaching a lesson… Latvia's president has called for a nationwide wage freeze to stifle inflation, yet teachers and doctors are threatening to strike for higher salaries.
RIGA - The Latvian government is stuck between a rock and a hard place. On one hand, it has the Union of Doctors and Medical Workers and the Educators and Science Workers Union demanding higher wages. And on the other, inflation and government spending are spiraling out of control.
The government is trying to stall negotiations and play the situation out for as long as possible, but teachers and doctors are at their wits' end. They are fed up with struggling to earn livable wages and being constantly put off with promises of money to come.
"What we are fighting for is the quality, price and availability of medical services. If we would like to have good medical services, we need people who are ready to work, and we need to have good salaries for them. This was the conclusion from negotiations at the EU level, and this is what we need to see here," the doctors' and medical workers' union head, Valdis Keris, told The Baltic Times.
Keris said the union is prepared to take drastic action if their salaries are not raised in concurrence with previous agreements with the government.
"We have several government documents from 2005 and 2006 which contain certain guarantees about pay increases. The problem is that the government is not going to implement those in real life… we could take them to court over the documents, and this could eventually lead to a strike," he said.
The teachers and science workers union is also preparing to bring the fight for higher wages straight to the government's door.
"Teachers are not responsible for inflation. Why are we the victims of it? We are victimized because of the bad work of the government," said Ilze Trapenciere, a prominent member of the union. "When a student doesn't do their work they receive one less mark, but when the government doesn't do their work, we are the ones that get marked down."
The union organized a massive protest on Sept. 25 that drew more than 1,200 disgruntled teachers. Trapenciere said that the protest helped send a signal to both the government and the teachers themselves that they are unified in their demands for more pay.
The government has narrowly avoided a number of teachers' strikes in the past with promises of higher wages in the near future. They have not, however, yet followed through with those promises to the satisfaction of the union.
Trapenciere explained that most recently the teachers were promised a 60 lat pay-raise at the start of next year. During negotiations with the Ministry of Education, however, it became clear that would not be possible. They then agreed on a compromise of a 60 lat pay-raise in early September of next year, along with an 80 lat increase for the extra hours of work that go unrecognized.
During the protest, Kalvitis then said that he was happy to announce that wages would increase by 40 lats next September. The teachers were outraged.
The government is trying to resolve the issue by calling for wage freezes in an attempt to cool down the economy
Andris Vilks, macroeconomic analyst for SEB bank, said the government's talks surrounding wage freezes only concern the overall budget and are aimed at enforcing fiscal discipline in the ministries 's ideally freeing up money to satiate the teachers and doctors demands.
He said that government institutions need to be more transparent about the use of funds allocated for wages, and that a freeze could add 20 's 30 million sorely needed lats to next year's budget.
Meanwhile, President Valdis Zatlers has called for a voluntary wage freeze in all sectors, public and private. "The pace at which we're moving forward is too fast," Zatlers said in an interview during an official visit to Sweden. "If we're talking about freezing wages, they must be frozen in all sectors, not selectively."
"We have come to the point where the population needs to understand that it's the responsibility of each person, each family, each company and each ministry," the president said.
According to the figures of the Central Statistics Office, the average monthly gross salary in Latvia in the second quarter of this year reached 388.6 lats (553 euros), growing 33.4 percent 's or 97.2 lats 's from the same period in 2006. The average monthly net wage, meanwhile, grew 33.7 percent 's or 70.3 lats 's year-on-year to 278.93 lats in the second quarter of 2007.
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Impact of Camden Yards is debated as it turns 25
By Jeff Barker
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Impact of Camden Yards is debated. Officials say more can be done to ensure the 25-year-old stadium maximizes its impact on economy.
Before Mayor Kurt Schmoke walked through the cast-iron gates into Oriole Park at Camden Yards for the stadium's inaugural game in 1992, he said the new ballpark would "help fulfill our dreams not only on the athletic field but in the field of economic development."
Twenty-five years later, the Orioles have yet to get to a World Series playing there, but Schmoke, now president of the University of Baltimore, said he'll feel "old and happy" attending Monday's season-opening Orioles game, partly because of the ballpark's impact downtown and elsewhere.
The red-brick park's retro design, urban location and overnight popularity made it stand out, transforming how big league baseball fields have been built — and where they are located — ever since. But others question the extent of the stadium's economic boost, and current and former state officials say more can be done to capitalize on the stadium's appeal.
"Oriole Park without question changed the whole paradigm on how stadiums are built in America," said John Moag Jr., the former chairman of the Maryland Stadium Authority, which owns the ballpark. "It's time for a little refresher, though."
Many observers say Camden Yards has left some runners on base by not having more of an impact in the area around the ballpark, which loses some spirit and activity when the O's aren't playing there.
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With the team's lease ending in five years, the Orioles and the Maryland Stadium Authority expect to begin talks in the near future. Everyone expects the Orioles to continue playing at Camden Yards given the club's deep Baltimore roots and commitment to the city, but everything else is on the table, from the lease terms to updates in and around the stadium complex.
The Orioles say the team also wants to foster initiatives to generate more buzz in the area, particularly using Camden Station, a 19th-century former train terminal that holds promise because of its elegance and proximity.
While most agree the stadium area needs more activity, the ballpark nonetheless has had a sizable impact.
Since Camden Yards opened in 1992, Baltimore secured a new NFL franchise, the Ravens, in 1996, replacing the lost Colts. It tripled the size of the nearby Baltimore Convention Center in 1997; moved the Ravens to what is now M&T Bank Stadium, adjacent to the ballpark; reopened the Hippodrome Theatre a few blocks away; and opened the Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor Hotel, which looms over the left field, in 2008.
Camden Yards: Still a jewel at 25
By Childs Walker and Peter Schmuck
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Horseshoe Casino Baltimore debuted several blocks south along Russell Street in 2014, and the city hopes to develop an entertainment district south of the stadiums, where already the next iteration of club and concert venue Hammerjacks is underway.
Until Camden Yards' arrival, "a lot of growth momentum was going east towards the aquarium area, Little Italy, Fells Point," Schmoke said. "What I said in the '90s, which I think is coming true, is that the west side would start to develop also. You've got things like the Hippodrome. They are coming slowly."
Some of that development also limited options for fans, said Janet Marie Smith, who has overseen stadium improvements in Baltimore, Boston and Los Angeles.
"The kind of spirited neighborhood you see around Fenway Park in Boston, Petco in San Diego, [Chicago's] Wrigley, in Denver — that's the kind of urban energy that I think Camden Yards strives for but it is limited by its big-box neighbors," said Smith, the Los Angeles Dodgers' senior vice president of planning and development.
Since Camden Yards was built, other cities such as San Diego have helped surround sports venues with stores and vibrant nightlife, broadening the experience for fans and generating more tax dollars. Studies have shown fans, particularly millennials, increasingly prefer entertainment options beyond passively watching a game.
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"Up until the 1990s, team owners had the view of capturing all the revenues. You didn't want competition on the outside, which is kind of how casinos used to look at things," Moag said. "That really started to change. You want to make that experience as special as possible."
To address that, the stadium authority has begun discussing a number of proposals with the Orioles for attracting more people to the immediate stadium area, even on nongame days, said Thomas Kelso, the authority's current chairman.
"What we've done over the past 25 years has been great," Kelso said. "But I don't think we need to be in that box."
Expanded influence
Making the area more pedestrian-friendly and providing more activities would better link it to the downtown and to convention business, said William H. Cole IV, the former city council member who now leads the Baltimore Development Corp., which is leading efforts to spur the entertainment district.
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"If you look around the country, people are trying to make sure these type of complexes are not just used when the teams are in town," Cole said.
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Oriole Park's location was designed to enhance — in effect, expand — the reborn Inner Harbor while being convenient for fans in Washington, which did not then have its own team.
"The primary argument in favor of an urban location was that by attracting hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of patrons into the city they in turn would help generate economic activity to hotels, restaurants, retailers and boost the economic energy of the city," said Alan Rifkin, who is now counsel to the Orioles, but earlier served as chief counsel to then-Gov. William Donald Schaefer.
Schaefer was Baltimore's mayor when the Colts fled Baltimore for Indianapolis in the dead of night 33 years ago last week. The Colts left partly because the city and state wouldn't commit to replacing the aging Memorial Stadium, where both the Colts and the Orioles played, and Schaefer wasn't about to let the O's go.
"He knew what that meant to the civic confidence of the city," Rifkin said.
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After Edward Bennett Williams, then the Orioles owner, testified that a new sports complex was needed not only to attract an NFL team but to keep the Orioles economically viable, state lawmakers approved both stadiums in 1987.
The state built Oriole Park at a cost of $106.5 million, plus $99.9 million for site acquisition. Another $18.6 million was spent for related costs, including restoration of the warehouse and Camden Station. The Orioles leased the ballpark for 30 years — through 2021 — and have an option to extend the lease for five more years.
Weighing the benefits
A quarter-century after Camden Yards opened, there is still debate over the economic benefits of the state's investment.
"I wouldn't deny that there are real emotional, psychological and, I would call them, economic benefits because economics is about people's happiness as much as anything," said Dennis Coates, a professor of economics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. "It's just that these benefits are incredibly difficult to measure. And the things that we can measure don't show up. Number of jobs? It doesn't do anything for jobs. Income? It didn't do anything for income."
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Coates and others believe professional sports teams often hype expected benefits because "they're selling something."
"I do hear people say the opening of Oriole Park jump-started redevelopment for the entire city and I think that's an exaggeration," said Louis Miserendino, a visiting fellow with the Maryland Public Policy Institute. "You don't have to look far to see it hasn't translated into an influx of development even within a mile or quarter-mile of the ballpark."
Schmoke, who served three terms as mayor, has heard those arguments before, but said "there are certain types of activities that bring such important intangible benefits that they are worth investing in."
John Angelos, the Orioles' executive vice president, said: "If Camden Yards isn't a great investment, then no sports facility is because you're talking about it approaching 70 million people. No one ever projected that. If the Orioles had averaged a couple million a year, that would have been considered a success."
The stadium has drawn 67.3 million fans in 1,974 dates — an average of about 2.7 million a season and 34,000 per game, according to the club.
In their last 10 seasons at Memorial Stadium, the Orioles dipped below 2 million in attendance four times. The team topped 3 million in nine of its first 10 seasons at the new stadium. Attendance declined after that as the club endured 14 straight losing seasons ending in 2012.
"We're in the best sport for generating economic tourism. It's a high-volume, low price-point sport," said Angelos, citing the number of game days and the relative ticket affordability.
Spending associated with games at Oriole Park averaged $331.3 million in the 2014 and 2015 seasons, according to a recent study for the stadium authority by Crossroads Consulting, a Florida firm. The ballpark supported an average of 2,440 jobs each year, it said. And the games generated about $22.5 million in state tax revenues over the two years.
The authority is talking with the Orioles about jointly funding a new master plan focusing on the the stadium and warehouse area, Kelso said. The authority, he added, is open to working with the city to extend that planning outside Camden Yards' footprint.
For now though, the authority is talking about a number of proposals with the team in and around Oriole Park, Kelso said. One might be post-game concerts near Camden Station. The former home of the Sports Legends Museum, some of the building is currently leased month to month to Geppi's Entertainment Museum while the stadium authority considers its options.
Another proposal would relocate the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network's production studios from the warehouse to Camden Station so fans could watch programming.
The goal would be to create some of the energy found on game days on Eutaw Street, the plaza between the stadium and the warehouse, where fans mingle and the smell of barbecue and hot dogs permeates the air.
"It's not impossible that there could be a venue inside the stadium that is open every day of the year so that people can come, they can see into the stadium," Kelso said. "Maybe it's a bar or restaurant — something that gets people in the habit of coming to Camden Yards for something other than just a sporting event."
While Dempsey's Brew Pub & Restaurant in the warehouse opens onto Eutaw Street and offers a glimpse of the baseball field, Kelso is thinking of something even more connected to the ballpark.
In nearby neighborhoods, where there were fears about traffic congestion and noise before the ballpark opened, Oriole Park is generally perceived as an asset.
"Nothing really came true about what we anticipated — not being able to get home and having detours," said Sharon Reuter, president of the neighborhood association in Ridgley's Delight, a small neighborhood next to Camden Yards. "We are able to get in and out of the neighborhood pretty easily."
Reuter said the neighborhood relies on parking enforcement officers to keep fans from parking illegally. "As long as they have the manpower to do ticketing and towing, then that works out."
As for noise, she said, it's not all bad.
"Yes, you can hear the cheers and the crack of the bat if you're in the yard. But it's not like a terrible noise. It's like a party. We can almost tell what's a double, or what's a single and a home run."
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THE PURGE #216
March 25, 2017 by auspOp
• It’s your Saturday edition of The Purge and we kick off this week with the new single from former One Direction superstar Zayn. Hot on the heels of his Taylor Swift duet ‘I Don’t Wanna Live Forever’ and just over 12 months on from the release of his debut solo offering ‘Pillowtalk’, the British performer has dropped ‘Still Got Time’. The track sees Zayn teaming up with Frank Dukes and Murda Beatz, along with Canadian rapper PartyNextDoor. The track is the first taste of Zayn’s upcoming sophomore album, due later this year.
• Iggy Azalea is back with new music. The Aussie sensation (and recent ‘X Factor’ judge) yesterday dropped her new track ‘Mo Bounce’. Produced by Stereotypes and Far East Movement, ‘Mo Bounce’ is the fresh new cut from Iggy’s upcoming sophomore album ‘Digital Distortion’. The music video, shot in Hong Kong, is due to premiere this weekend.
• David Guetta has a new single out. ‘Light My Body Up’, which features Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne, dropped digitally yesterday, but it would appear from the comments about it on his Facebook page that not everyone is enamoured with it at this stage. He’ll no doubt be hoping to win a few more people over with the new track and that its fortunes improve in the coming weeks.
• Saint Etienne will release a new album called ‘Home Counties’ in early June. The British three piece has lifted the lead on its lead single ‘Heather‘, which proves they’ve lost none of their spark throughout their 27 year career. “We had so much fun writing for this album, drawing influence from our teenage years growing up in the home counties,” singer Sarah Cracknell says of the release. “Bob, Pete and I led almost parallel lives while I was in Windsor and they were in Surrey, developing our passion for music and London.” ‘Home Counties’ will land on June 02.
• UK singer Lucy Rose has a new album coming. The singer’s third long player is entitled ‘Something’s Changing’ and it was inspired by a trip to Latin America, where she toured through Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. A documentary, to be released alongside the new album, will shine a light on that very tour. ‘Something’s Changing’ will be released on Friday July 14.
• Country duo Tim McGraw and Faith Hill have released a new single called ‘Speak To A Girl’. The Grammy winners’ newest collaboration is the lead single from a forthcoming album release, due at some stage throughout this year. The pair will perform the track for the first time at the Country Music Awards in the US on Monday April 03. The track was serviced to Australian media yesterday.
• Ryan Adams’ upcoming Australian tour has just got a little larger, with the addition of a show in Byron Bay. With his May 23 gig at The Tivoli in Brisbane now sold out, he’ll make his way to the New South Wales country hamlet the following night for a show at the Northern Hotel. And it’s pretty much assured that this show will sell as quickly as the Brisbane gig. Tickets are on sale from 10am local time on Monday March 27.
• Mark Seymour’s upcoming best-of tour is going gangbusters; the Aussie performer confirming the addition of second shows in both Sydney and Brisbane to cope with demand. He’ll now play a second show at Old Museum in Brisbane on Saturday July 01, along with a new Sydney date at The Basement on August 19 after his first show (the previous night at the same venue) sold out. Tickets are on sale now.
• Northeast Party House have added a new show to their upcoming tour. Following on from their upcoming appearances at Groovin The Moo across the country, the band will dart through most of Australia’s capitals, but have added a second Melbourne show – on June 11 at the Croxton Hotel – after their first at the same venue eight days earlier sold out. Tickets are on sale now.
• And Sydney duo Boo Seeka have also added a second Melbourne shot to their upcoming national tour. The swing across the country kicks off at Manning Bar in their home town on April 07, but given their gig at the Corner Hotel in Melbourne on April 14 has sold out, they’ve added another the following night at the same venue. Tickets are on sale now.
• Ed Sheeran’s dominance of the UK singles chart seems to be subsiding this week, but he still has the top three firmly within his grasp. ‘Shape Of You’ is No.1 again for an eleventh straight week, while ‘Galway Girl’ and ‘Castle On The Hill’ remain at Nos. 2 and 3 respectively. Despite a mighty challenge and a surprise new album, the new Drake track ‘Passionfruit’ can only manage a No.4 debut as a result of Ed’s dominance. The new Clean Bandit/Zara Larsson single ‘Symphony’ enters the countdown at a respectable No.6 and Drake and Giggs’ ‘KMT’ is new at No.9. As a result of Ed’s other tracks exiting the UK top ten (only ‘Perfect’ still remains – No.7), Anne-Marie’s latest single ‘Ciao Adios’ leaps from No.20 to No.10. Further top 20 debuts from Drake are ‘Blem’ (No.14) and ‘No Long Talk’ (No.17).
• So Drake’s new album clearly has a number of people excited. But was the surprise drop enough to knock Ed Sheeran off the UK No.1 perch? Or should Drake perhaps have waited another week or two to really claim No.1 in merry ol’ England? He probably should have waited, it seems. Try as he might, there was just no escaping Ed Sheeran’s dominance in his home market. ‘÷’ remains at No.1 for a third straight week, while Drake’s ‘More Life’ has to settle for a No.2 debut. Vera Lynn’s ‘100’ (celebrating the UK legend’s 100th birthday) debuts at No.3, Depeche Mode’s ‘Spirit’ is new at No.5 and Zara Larsson’s ‘So Good’ enters the UK charts at No.7.
• Still no movement in the No.1 spot on this week’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart Stateside. Ed Sheeran’s still there with ‘Shape Of You’, which is spending its seventh consecutive week in pole position. But could Bruno Mars be the one to break his stay? Bruno’s latest single ‘That’s What I Like’ is hitting big time and inches ever closer to the peak this week (No.3 to No.2). With the video now out and about, The Weeknd’s ‘I Feel It Coming’ bullets from No.12 to No.5, The Chainsmokers and Coldplay rise from No.11 to No.8 with ‘Something Just Like This’ and Kyle & Lil Yachty improve from No.14 to No.10 with ‘iSpy’. The new Nicki Minaj, Drake & Lil Wayne song ‘No Frauds’ thunders into the top 100 countdown with a No.14 debut.
• Just like over on the singles chart, the US albums chart is still dominated by Ed Sheeran. His album ‘÷’ is shining in the No.1 spot for a second successive week, ahead of Metallica and a No.3 debut for the new ‘Beauty & The Beast’ soundtrack. There’s not really too much more to report in the top 20 this week, apart from a No.18 debut for ‘Deep South’ by Josh Turner and a No.20 debut for ‘Heartworms’ by The Shins.
• And, with the UK and US charts now wrapped, we move swiftly along to the matter of the Australian charts. Our weekly ARIA Chart Watch will be back tonight at 6pm on the East Coast; a full walk through the top 100s including new certifications, new entries and all the big moves. Catch you then!
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The Enlightenment And The Emergence Of Free Thinkers
The Enlightenment brought a wave of new thought and information into a society dominated by one controlling force: The Church. This final authority over the people in these dark times controlled them with religious dogma and powerful “suggestive” power over their state leaders. Being the largest and richest organization in the world for centuries gave The Church the ability to squash any free thinkers. Before the printing press, the majority of the educated and literate were the christian monks who controlled the information, mostly religious texts, and delivered this selected information to the ignorant masses. After the printing press, information could be massed produced and ...view middle of the document...
Voltaire condemns the hypocrisy of the inquisition and points out the unnecessary superstitions in A Treatise on Toleration when he states “perhaps you are reasonable; I am convinced that you wish to do me good; but could I not be saved without all that?”. He points out the irrelevant subject matter and also does an extremely radical move for his time: he poses the notion that “perhaps” you are right. He doesn't bow down without question to authority, he opens his mind to the possibility that THEY MIGHT BE WRONG. This kind of thinking led to a movement of information, science, and knowledge.
After Gutenberg's printing press opened up new avenues of information in books aside from religion, knowledge began to spread as literacy rates began to rise. New ideas from The Enlightenment about public schools, hospitals, and government began circulating and eventually became a reality with countries like The United States and France with Democratic Republics that were created of, by, and for THE PEOPLE. People's lives were no longer dedicated to the will of The Catholic Church, they were dedicated toward the betterment of the people. The Enlightenment provided real quantitative evidence of a better lifestyle.
With this revolution of ideals came a wave of new science and technology. The industrial revolution, a product of...
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Milan plane crash prompts fears, flashbacks, but tower still stands
Dave Barista
Last month's small plane crash into Milan, Italy's tallest building prompted unsettling flashbacks to Sept. 11, briefly shook world financial markets and revived calls in the U.S. for greater security in air space over cities.
Italian officials dismissed fears of a terrorist link to the April 18 accident, which killed the pilot and two others and injured dozens. When the four-seat, twin-engine private aircraft punched into the 25th floor of the 30-story Pirelli Tower, it triggered fire on several floors.
Mechanical problems were cited as the most likely culprit. Air traffic control officials said the 68-year-old pilot had been in contact, complaining of landing gear problems just moments before slamming into the tower.
Although the crash and fire gutted most of two floors, and caused the 27th to collapse onto the 26th, the tower appears to have escaped serious structural damage. Officials noted that the building's major load-bearing components are at its ends, not the center, where the plane hit.
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Architecture of Density,hong kong,Hong Kong Back Door,Michael Wolf,Obituary,Tokyo Compression
Michael Wolf, photographer, 1954-2019
written by Diane Smyth
Published on 3 May 2019
From the series Hong Kong Front Door Back Door © Michael Wolf
Whether photographing chairs or skyscrapers, or working with images from Google Street View, Michael Wolf had a knack for finding a sense of life
“Wherever I am, I need to work photographically,” Michael Wolf told BJP back on 04 March, 2011. And wherever he was could be all over the world, from Hong Kong to France, and from the United States to China, usually in the big cities in these countries.
Wolf’s life was international from the get-go, starting out in 1954 in Munich then growing up in the US and Canada, before returning to Germany to study visual communication at the Folkwang School in Essen with Otto Steinert, graduating in 1976. In 1994 he moved to Hong Kong to start work as a photojournalist, spending the next eight years taking photographs for German magazine Stern.
“Michael Wolf’s photography is that of an outsider,” states his website. “Born in Germany raised in the US and Canada, returning to Germany to study photography before spending the vast majority of his career in Asia, his work defied categorisation.”
Michael Wolf. © Gerrit Schreurs
In 2003 Wolf decided to expand his work beyond photojournalism; his breakthrough project – The Real Toy Story – was a radical extension of what was originally a Stern commission, China – Factory of the World. Returning to the US from China, Wolf collected 20,000 objects made in China in a month, creating a huge installation which was paired with images of factory workers back in the Asian country.
Like another early self-assigned project – photographs of chairs that had been repaired over and over again in China, which were published as Sitting in China in 2002 – The Real Toy Story put a human dimension into a stories with a wider sociological perspective. This became something of a trademark in his images, even as he moved on to consider life in metropolises, and set his series apart from the work of the Dusseldorf School to which it was sometimes compared.
“Michael Wolf’s work on life in cities was always driven by a profound concern for the people living in these environments and for the consequences of massive urbanisation on contemporary civilisation,” his family said, announcing his death. “This commitment and engagement remained central throughout his career, first as a photojournalist and then as an artist.”
From the series Informal Solutions, 2003-15. © Michael Wolf
His projects Informal Solutions (2003-2019) and Hong Kong Back Door (published by Thames & Hudson in 2005) both showed the human fixes, bodges, and innovations, that humanise life in the city. In 2006, meanwhile, Wolf photographed people at home in their rooms in Hong Kong’s oldest public housing complex, the Shek Kip Mei Estate, which was going to be demolished. Each room was about 100 square feet in size and, using wide angle lenses, he photographed as much of the room as possible, to show how each individual had personalised the identical space.
His 2010 book Tokyo Compression, meanwhile, showed Japanese commuters pressed against train windows in the crowded Tokyo underground. Wolf won a first prize in Daily Life in the 2009 World Press Photo competition for Tokyo Compression, and it was shown in the 2011 Nooderlicht Photofestival.
Tokyo Compression #18, 2010. © Michael Wolf
Wolf won first prizes at World Press Photo in 2005 and 2010, but it was the honourable mention he won in the 2011 competition that caused controversy. Wolf was picked out for a story called A Series of Unfortunate Events, in which he photographed accidents and mishaps recorded by the otherwise robotic eye of Google Street View cameras. “I thought it would be a wonderful project,” Wolf told BJP shortly afterwards.
“These things happen then actually quite rarely, how often have you walked down the street and seen a bicycle accident? It happens maybe twice in your life but here you have on Google five of them, or a person having a heart attack. I think that we tend to underestimate the amount of time that Google is on the street continuously photographing, and it’s just a matter of being and doing something long enough that you’re going to come across almost everything that happens in life.”
Far removed from traditional photojournalism, A Series of Unfortunate Events was a controversial awardee for World Press Photo but, with his eye for sociology and humanity’s ongoing evolution, Wolf took the criticisms in his stride. “I received a lot of emails and if you look at the blogs there are many reactions, mainly con very few pro,” he told BJP.
Architecture of Density #39, 2005. © Michael Wolf
The exception to this ability to find the human in the apparently monumental was Wolf’s best-known project, Architecture of Density, in which he photographed the skyscrapers of Hong Kong from 2003-2014. Deliberately framing the shots without any sky, his images seem to emphasise the sheer scale and anonymity of the blocks; even so, talking with BJP in 2011, Wolf seemed to suggest the sheer vivacity of this apparently inhuman landscape – the place in which he lived for so long, and in which he died suddenly on 24 April 2019.
“But it doesn’t matter. For me the thrill of it all is that there is a dialogue now and people are discussing this topic which would never have happened if the World Press hadn’t given me the honourable mention. I think the Google platform is a very interesting project and if we look at this in say 30 years I think Google should get a prize for doing this incredible documentary project.”
“I moved to Paris in 2008 and I very quickly realised that I do not like Paris very much,” he said. “Culturally and in a culinary sense it’s a wonderful city but architecturally it hasn’t changed in 100 years and I was used to this unpredictability of Asia – which is wonderful and is constantly pulling in surprises.”
Michael Wolf was born in 1954 in Munich, and died on 24 April 2019 in Cheung Chau, Hong Kong. He is survived by his wife Barbara and his son Jasper. photomichaelwolf.com
Architecture of Density #119, 2009. © Michael Wolf
Paris Rooftops 4, 2014. © Michael Wolf
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BMW Art Car Book to Launch in the US
April 26, 2014 By Philip Papeman
First comprehensive publication about the BMW Art Car Collection to launch in the United States
April 24th, 2014 | Woodcliff Lake, NJ — The BMW Group and publisher Hatje Cantz are pleased to announce the launch of the first comprehensive publication about the legendary BMW Art Cars in the US. The book will first be presented at the Art Fair Paris Photo Los Angeles on April 24, 2014 and will be available on amazon.com for $45.00 as of early June 2014 (ISBN 9789775799458).
On 195 pages the richly illustrated book presents a unique overview of the history of this automotive collection, launched in 1975, and designed by major modern and contemporary artists. Various portraits and interviews provide an insight into their creative processes while giving a descriptive account of the historical development of the collection.
All images Copyright © 2014 BMW
The BMW Art Car Collection
For over 40 years, the BMW Art Car Collection has fascinated art and design enthusiasts as well as lovers of cars and technology all over the world with its unique combination of fine art and innovative automobile technology. The collection first started when French race car driver and art aficionado Hervé Poulain, together with Jochen Neerpasch, then BMW Motorsport Director, asked his artist friend Alexander Calder to design an automobile. The result was a BMW 3.0 CSL which in 1975 competed in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, where it quickly became the crowd’s favorite: the birth of the BMW Art Car Collection.
Since then 17 international artists have designed BMW models, among them some of the most renowned artists of our time: Alexander Calder (1975), Frank Stella (1976), Roy Lichtenstein (1977), Andy Warhol (1979), Ernst Fuchs (1982), Robert Rauschenberg (1986), Michael Jagamara Nelson (1989), Ken Done (1989), Matazo Kayama (1990), César Manrique (1990), A. R. Penck (1991), Esther Mahlangu (1991), Sandro Chia (1992), David Hockney (1995), Jenny Holzer (1999), Olafur Eliasson (2007), Jeff Koons (2010).
These “rolling sculptures” offer a wide range of artistic interpretations. When David Hockney created his Art Car in 1995, he painted the inside of the car on the outside, revealing everything from internal engine parts to a dog in the back. Roy Lichtenstein on the other hand depicted the outer world on his car, from the sun to the tarmac. Robert Rauschenberg incorporated photographic transfers of classical paintings while Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons used the canvas of the car to portray the essence of speed.
Art Publishing House Hatje Cantz
The BMW Art Car publication featuring 200 pages and 148 images was released by art publishing house Hatje Cantz. A slip case provides the personal “parking space” for this book that was designed by Schmid+Widmaier Design. Its cover was created by Jeff Koons. The publication includes a wide range of significant articles by international experts and art historians. The co-founders of the Art Car series, Hervé Poulain and Jochen Neerpasch, are also having their say.
BMW Group Cultural Commitment
With more than 100 cooperations worldwide, BMW Group cultural commitment has been an essential part of corporate communications for over 40 years now. Unrestricted freedom of creative potential is of the utmost importance, as it is equally as crucial for the field of art as it is for groundbreaking innovations within a business enterprise. The BMW Group places the main focus of its cultural commitment on modern and contemporary art, jazz and classical music as well as architecture and design.
BMW Group in America
BMW of North America, LLC has been present in the United States since 1975. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars NA, LLC began distributing vehicles in 2003. The BMW Group in the United States has grown to include marketing, sales, and financial service organizations for the BMW brand of motor vehicles, including motorcycles, the MINI brand, and the Rolls-Royce brand of Motor Cars; DesignworksUSA, a strategic design consultancy in California; a technology office in Silicon Valley and various other operations throughout the country.
BMW Manufacturing Co., LLC in South Carolina is part of BMW Group’s global manufacturing network and is the exclusive manufacturing plant for all X5 and X3 Sports Activity Vehicles and X6 Sports Activity Coupes. The BMW Group sales organization is represented in the U.S. through networks of 339 BMW passenger car and BMW Sports Activity Vehicle centers, 139 BMW motorcycle retailers, 119 MINI passenger car dealers, and 35 Rolls-Royce Motor Car dealers. BMW (US) Holding Corp., the BMW Group’s sales headquarters for North America, is located in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey.
Information about BMW Group products is available to consumers via the Internet at: www.bmwgroupna.com
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Comparing Bexley in England and the United States
PUBLISHED: 10:13 02 November 2012
The grounds of Jeffrey Mansion in Bexley, Ohio
The Bexley Times compares the London borough with the town in Ohio
Hall Place in the London Borough of Bexley
Welling United Football Club is the highest level sport team playing in Bexley. The Wings play in the Blue Square Bet Conference South, the sixth tier of English football.
Bexley, OH, does not have any major sports teams but it is a suburb of the state capital Columbus, which plays home to Major League Soccer Team the Columbus Crew.
Ohio State University is also based in Columbus, which possesses one of the best college sports programmes in the United States. The Ohio State Buckeyes American Football team have won seven national championships and regularly sell out the whopping 102,000 capacity Ohio Stadium.
Charlton Athletic, Bexley’s nearest football league team, has a capacity of just over 27,000 with a top attendance of 26,185 this season.
The newspaper which covers Bexley is called This Week News.
Recent stories reported included setting the time of day residents are allowed to trick or treat on Hallowe’en and extensive coverage of local races and issues in the American presidential election.
The town was hit by a hurricane in July this year.
Population of Bexley, Ohio: around 14,000.
Population of the London borough of Bexley: 232,000.
London Borough of Bexley: athlete Steve Backley, singer-songwriter Kate Bush and illustrator Quentin Blake.
Television chef Delia Smith and Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards all went to school in Bexley.
Bexley, Ohio: Josh Radnor (plays Ted Mosby in American sitcom How I Met Your Mother) and Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt.
Mayor Kessler says Bexley has a slight Democratic (left wing) majority over the Republicans but the current Governor of the State of Ohio is Republican.
Ohio is noted as a ‘swing state’ in the American Presidential election, hence the campaigning by Obama and Romney.
OTHER BEXLEYS
Suburbs of the cities of Sydney, Australia, and Christchurch in New Zealand also bear the name Bexley.
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9 Sculptures March 31-May 14, 2016
Lisa Beck, Stacy Fisher, Ethan Greenbaum, Joanne Greenbaum, Jesse Greenberg, Emily Noelle Lambert, Michael Rees, David Shaw, Rachel Mica Weiss
Gallery Travels, Seen Around Town, Anne Russinof
Rachel Mica Weiss
Ethan Greenbaum
Jesse Greenberg
Joanne Greenbaum
Lisa Beck
Michael Rees
Stacy Fisher
Emily Noelle Lambert
Lisa Beck works with a variety of mediums and modes including painting, sculpture and installation, often in combination, on the themes of inner and outer space, landscape, reflection, and the paradoxical relationship of something and nothing. Her work has been exhibited in the United States and internationally in venues including Feature Inc. (NYC), Paula Cooper Gallery (NYC), de Pury & Luxemburg (Zurich), PS1 (Long Island City), White Columns, (NYC), and the New Britain Museum of American Art (CT). Recent shows include a 2015 solo at Circuit (Lausanne), group exhibitions at Anton Kern Gallery (NYC), Fredericks & Freiser,(NYC), Curator’s Office (Washington DC) , Galeries de Galeries (Paris). Upcoming exhibitions include a solo show at Galerie Samy Abraham in Paris and a two person show at CB1 Gallery in Los Angeles. In 2013, “Endless”, a survey show of over 50 works from 1985-2012, was presented in Lyon, France at the Fort du Brussin Contemporary Art Center. Her work has been included in several books including Painting Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting by Bob Nickas,(2009, Phaidon Press) and Are You Experienced? by Ken Johnson (2011, Prestel). In 2015 The Middle of Everywhere, a monograph on her work , was published in France by Galerie Samy Abraham and La Salle de Bains with help from the Centre national des arts plastiques.
Known primarily as a painter, Joanne Greenbaum started to make sculpture in 2003, primarily working in clay, cast aluminum, and other materials. Over the past twenty years she has participated in numerous shows in the U.S. and Europe. Most recently Greenbaum has exhibited her work at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Crone Gallery, Berlin, Van Horn Gallery, Dusseldorf, Texas Gallery, Houston, Richard Telles, Los Angeles, Greengrassi, London and Rachel Uffner Gallery in New York. Other recent solo shows include Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago and D’Amelio Terras, New York. Greenbaum has also been exhibited at The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas, PS1 MoMA, New York, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Kunsthalle, Basel, Whitechapel Gallery, London. A career-spanning survey of her was mounted by Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich and traveled to Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany in 2008/2009. She in included in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. She earned a BA from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Her upcoming show with Rachel Uffner is scheduled for May.
Ethan Greenbaum uses a range of digital and sculptural tools as filters for reimagining the built environment. His multimedia works explore the materials and symbols that trace our world and mask its operations. Greenbaum is a New York based artist. Selected exhibition venues include KANSAS, New York; Derek Eller Gallery, New York; Hauser and Wirth, New York; Marlborough Chelsea, Higher Pictures, New York; New York; Marianne Boesky, New York, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles; Steven Turner, Los Angeles; The Suburban, Chicago; Michael Jon, Miami, The Aldrich Museum, Connecticut; and Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City. His work has been discussed in The New York Times, Modern Painters, Artforum, BOMB Magazine, ArtReview and Interview Magazine, among others. Greenbaum is the recipient of Dieu Donne’s Workspace Residency, LMCC’s Workspace Program, The Robert Blackburn SIP Fellowship, The Socrates EAF Fellowship, The Edward Albee Foundation Residency and The Barry Schactman Painting Prize. He received an MFA in Painting from Yale School of Art.
Forthcoming projects include FACE TO FACE, A selection of international emerging artists from the Ernesto Esposito Collection, Palazzo Fruscione, Salerno and exhibitions at Stems Gallery, Brussels and Galerie Pact, Paris.
Working primarily with pigmented plastic, sculptor Jesse Greenberg pushes the material beyond its perceived limits. Through regimented experimentation and alchemical conjurings, he has developed a variety of objects via an evolution of accidents. These material experiments create a vocabulary which gives form to abstract ideas about connectivity, surveillance, and prosthetic technologies. Greenberg has had solo and two-person exhibitions at Loyal Gallery, Malmo, Sweden; White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MS; Kansas, New York, NY and Derek Eller Gallery, New York NY. His work has also been included in Control Lapse, Josh Lilley Gallery, London; Trouble Everyday, Vogt Gallery, New York; Queens International: Three Points Make a Triangle, Queens Museum of Art, New York; I Know This But You Feel Different, Marc Jancou, New York. Greenberg has recently been awarded the Shandanken residency at Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY.
Sculptor David Shaw combines manmade materials with found natural objects, most often tree branches without bark, into works that explore the indistinct boundaries between nature, technology, and consciousness. His recent foray into working with glass, facilitated by a grant from the Nancy Graves Foundation, culminated in his exhibition, “Eat Out” at Feature Inc., Oct.17—Nov.17, 2013. Shaw was born in Rochester, New York, in 1965, and received his BA in Fine Arts from Colgate University in 1987. He is represented by Feature Inc. in New York and Galleria Astuni in Bologna, Italy. His work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the Artphilein Foundation in Vaduz, Liechtenstein as well as numerous private collections around the world. In 2015, he received the Peter S. Reed Foundation award. Shaw lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Stacy Fisher makes abstract sculptures that are figurative and awkward; bulky and deflated. Suggesting tools, torsos, and other familiar things, her works are matter of fact yet strange. She is interested in gesture and marking the space where color and form intersect. Fisher studied sculpture at The Cleveland Institute of Art and The Ohio State University. She has received fellowships from the Edward F. Albee Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Chautauqua School of Art. Her work has been shown recently at Mass Gallery in Austin, Left Field in San Luis Obispo, and Tiger Strikes Asteroid in Brooklyn NY. Other venues in New York City include Cleopatra’s, Regina Rex, Thierry Goldberg, and Mixed Greens. She is currently a participant in Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Process Space program.
Michael Rees is an artist works in themes of figuration, language, technology, and the social to weave a sculptural mélange. He has shown his work widely including the Whitney Museum in the 1995 Biennial and again in “Bitstreams” in 2001, the MARTa Museum in Germany, Art Omi, The Pera Museum in Istanbul, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, and in private galleries such as 303 , Bitforms, Basilico Fine Art, Pablo’s Birthday, Favorite Goods and elsewhere. His works are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, and numerous private collections. Rees has received grants from Creative Capital, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He received his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and his MFA from Yale University. He also won a Deutscher Akademischer Austaushdienst for undergraduate study at the Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf, Germany, with Joseph Beuys. Rees is currently professor of sculpture and digital media at William Paterson University, and Director of the Center for New Art there.
Emily Noelle Lambert’s sculptures are created from found materials and scavenged objects that she piles together in totem like forms giving new life or context to discarded items. She predominately works with wood as the life is embedded in the very nature of the material. Also a painter, Lambert received her MFA from Hunter College and her BA in Visual Art from Antioch College. She has shown nationally and internationally. Solo exhibitions include Denny Gallery (NY), Lu Magnus (NY) and Priska Juschka (NY), Thomas Robertello in Chicago, and IMART in South Korea. Group exhibitions include the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, FL; The University of Michigan, Kalamazoo; The Torrance Art Museum, CA; Weekend Space, LA; and RH+Gallery, Istanbul. She has been awarded fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, The Yaddo Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, Dieu Donne, and the Lower East Side Printshop. Lambert’s work has been reviewed in The International New York Times, The Observer, The Brooklyn Rail, Modern Painters, The Washington Post, Art in America, and artforum.com. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons the New School for Design and adjunct faculty at Fordham University. She lives and works in New York City.
Rachel Mica Weiss is a sculptor and installation artist interested in tension, control, and the relationship between weaving and architecture. Her sculptures are composed of elements that balance uneasily, vie for dominance, or are hopelessly intertwined. Weiss holds a B.A. from Oberlin College, an M.F.A. in sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute, and is a (2011) recipient of the San Francisco Foundation Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship. Solo exhibitions include Countermeasures at Montserrat College of Art, MA (2015), In Place at Fridman Gallery, NY (2014) and Engulfing the Elusory at the San Francisco Arts Commission (2013). Recent projects include site-specific installations commissioned for the U.S. Embassy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan and MediaMath’s 4 World Trade Center location. Her work has been reviewed in the Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Hyperallergic, Bad at Sports, and several international publications. Weiss lives and works in Brooklyn as a resident of the chashama studio program.
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North Korea Inches Toward Market Reforms, Expert Says
By Wang Zili and Teng Jing Xuan
A man cycles past a railway in the Rason Special Economic Zone in North Korea on Nov. 21.. Photo: VCG
The North Korean government under Kim Jong Un is increasingly accepting and adopting market reforms, an academic at a top South Korean government think tank said.
South Korea’s isolated northern neighbor has in recent months surprised observers with unprecedented displays of diplomacy, including agreeing to a historic inter-Korean summit in April, and a planned meeting between Kim and U.S. President Donald Trump in May.
Although many outside of the country believe that North Korea’s recent diplomatic overtures were the result of international sanctions, the dictatorship’s economy has actually been growing since Kim came to power in late 2013, Joung Eun-lee, a research fellow at the Korea Institute for National Unification, told Caixin.
On April 20, Kim announced that his country would indefinitely pause nuclear tests and test-launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles, and instead shift its focus to economic development.
But the North Korean economy has long been transforming, moving away from the famine-plagued 1990s and gradually incorporating market reforms, Joung told Caixin.
The Korea Institute for National Unification was founded by the South Korean government in 1990 to study North Korea and issues related to Korean reunification. Joung’s research frequently takes her to the regions bordering North Korea, where she interviews business owners with long-term contact with the country. Joung has also interviewed North Korean defectors, including those who remain in contact with the families they left behind.
In the past, the North Korean economy was strictly planned, and the markets where farmers met to sell agricultural products were the only ones condoned by the government, Joung said. But in recent years, black market trading in other goods, including food and clothing, has received government recognition, Joung said — a change that extends beyond the capital, Pyongyang.
Kim Jong Un’s father and predecessor, Kim Jong Il, had an inconsistent attitude toward black market trading, sometimes accepting its existence but attempting to contain it at other times, Joung said. But “as far as I know, (Kim Jong Un) has never cracked down on the food and clothing markets,” Joung told Caixin.
Additionally, the rise of black market real estate transactions is an important indicator of North Korea’s changing economic outlook, she said. After decades of government failure to meet housing needs, “North Koreans today have begun to purchase privately renovated and privately built real estate, rather than just waiting for the government to allocate them a home,” Joung said, adding that although trading in real estate has not received official approval, its growth rate has been considerable.
Joung is optimistic that, in the aftermath of Kim’s recent meeting with South Korean president Moon Jae-in, “North Korea’s economic reforms and opening up to the outside world could happen very quickly.”
The “biggest obstacle to North Korea’s current economic development is the backwardness of its infrastructure,” Joung said. And updating this infrastructure will require investment from other countries.
Earlier foreign investment attempts in North Korea, including the Rajin-Khasan railway project involving South Korea and Russia, and the Kaesong Industrial Region, built in collaboration with South Korea, faltered amid increasing North Korean belligerence and international sanctions.
But Joung said North Korea’s involvement in projects like the Kaesong Industrial Park was mainly through providing cheap labor, meaning the country’s own industrial chains did not benefit from the investment. In the future, North Korea will probably have to change the way it cooperates with foreign investors, shifting its focus to infrastructure, mining and even emerging industries such as information technology, Joung said.
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Battle of Jumonville Glen
American history [1754]
Raymond K. Bluhm
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Battle of Jumonville Glen, (28 May 1754), opening battle of the French and Indian War and first combat action for George Washington. Imperial ambitions and competition for the rich fur trade with American Indian tribes brought England and France into conflict in the Ohio River Valley. When the French rebuffed a warning and began building outposts, the royal governor in Virginia sent an expedition to secure the Forks of the Ohio, leading to the Battle of Jumonville Glen. The battle was fought in an area southeast of present-day Uniontown, Pennsylvania, southeast of Pittsburgh.
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In January 1754, a company of the volunteer Virginia Regiment was sent to build a fort at the strategic confluence of the Monongohela and Allegany rivers (the "Forks," modern-day Pittsburgh) where the Ohio River began. The Virginians were driven away by French troops, who went on to construct Fort Duquesne on the site. In response, a larger expedition was dispatched in April. Lieutenant Colonel George Washington, the regiment’s deputy commander, led the advance element. On 24 May, his force reached Great Meadows, an open, marshy area about 60 miles (96 km) southeast of the Forks (near present-day Farmington, Pennsylvania) where camp was set up. Three days later, friendly Indians informed Washington that some 50 French soldiers and Indians were camped in a hidden ravine only 15 miles away. Convinced that the French intended to attack, Washington decided to strike first.
George Washington's sketch map of his journey (1753–54) from what is now Cumberland, Maryland, to Fort LeBoeuf (now Waterford, Pennsylvania), 1754. The Newberry Library (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
During the rainy night of 27 to 28 May, Washington led a raiding party of forty Virginians and Indians to the French location. At dawn, as they moved into position around the glen, a shot was fired. The surprised French, who claimed they were a diplomatic, not military, corps and who were led by Joseph Coulon de Villiers de Jumonville, returned the musket fire for fifteen minutes before they surrendered. Details of what happened next have long been debated, but the end result was that Jumonville, during his captivity and interrogation, was suddenly tomahawked to death by Washington’s ally, Mingo (Iroquoian) chief Tanacharison; according to legend, the latter then washed his hands in Jumonville’s brains. The rash attack spurred the other Indians to follow suit, whereupon nine additional captive French soldiers were scalped before a stunned Washington could intervene and stop the massacre.
One of the French survivors escaped into the woods, returned to Fort Duquesne, and reported on the attack. The French pilloried Washington as a war criminal, and their outrage helped spur their July 3 attack on Washington at the Battle of Fort Necessity, which ended in Washington’s sole surrender in his military career.
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Losses: French and American Indian, 10 dead, 1 wounded, 21 captured; Virginian, 1 dead, 2 wounded.
…on the heels of the Battle of Jumonville Glen (May 28), often cited as the opening battle of the French and Indian War. In the earlier battle Washington and his Indian allies had ambushed Joseph Coulon de Villiers de Jumonville and his French Canadian forces, which had earlier in the…
French and Indian War, American phase of a worldwide nine years’ war (1754–63) fought between France and Great Britain. (The more-complex European phase was the Seven Years’ War [1756–63].) It determined control of the vast colonial territory of North America. Three earlier phases of this extended contest for overseas mastery…
George Washington, American general and commander in chief of the colonial armies in the American Revolution (1775–83) and subsequently first president of the United States…
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Uniontown, city, seat (1784) of Fayette county, southwestern Pennsylvania, U.S. It lies along Redstone Creek, among the rugged foothills of the Allegheny Mountains, 45 miles (72 km) southeast of Pittsburgh. Settled in 1768 and laid out (1776) by Henry Beeson, a Quaker, it was first known as Beeson’s Town. Its…
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Fluxion, in mathematics, the original term for derivative (q.v.), introduced by Isaac Newton in 1665. Newton referred to a varying (flowing) quantity as a fluent and to its instantaneous rate of change as a fluxion. Newton stated that the fundamental problems of the infinitesimal calculus were: (1) given a fluent (that would now be called a function), to find its fluxion (now called a derivative); and, (2) given a fluxion (a function), to find a corresponding fluent (an indefinite integral). Thus, if y = x3, the fluxion of the quantity y equals 3x2 times the fluxion of x; in modern notation, dy/dt = 3x2(dx/dt). Newton’s terminology and notations of fluxions were eventually discarded in favour of the derivatives and differentials that were developed by G.W. Leibniz. See also calculus.
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Hamilton's Thomas Kail to Direct Oliver! Movie Remake Starring Ice Cube
by Andy Lefkowitz • Jan 18, 2018
Thomas Kail
(Photo: Emilio Madrid-Kuser)
It's a fine life, indeed! Hamilton's Tony-winning director Thomas Kail has signed on to direct a new film remake of Oliver! produced by Disney, Deadline reports. Rapper Ice Cube is slated to play the villainous Fagin in the movie musical that will feature a screenplay by Emmy winner Danny Strong (Empire, Game Change).
Featuring a book, music and lyrics by Lionel Bart and based on Charles Dickens' classic novel Oliver Twist, Oliver! follows a young orphan who escapes a workhouse and lands among a group of thieves headed up by Fagin. The show's beloved tunes include "Food, Glorious Food," "You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two," "As Long as He Needs Me," "Consider Yourself," "I'd Do Anything" and "It's a Fine Life."
Oliver! first debuted in England in 1960 prior to its 1963 Broadway debut for which Bart won the Tony Award for Best Composer & Lyricist. The 1968 movie version of Oliver! won four Oscars including Best Picture.
A previously speculated new movie version of Oliver! was reported to feature chart-topper Adele in the role of Nancy. Additional casting for Disney's Oliver! film will be announced at a later date.
Look back at the original film's trailer below.
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Head of a Guardian. Japan, Kamakura period, 13th century. Hinoki wood with polychrome, inlaid rock crystal eyes and filigree metal crown, 221⁄16 x 101⁄4 x 1315⁄16 (56 × 26 × 35.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alastair B. Martin, the Guennol Collection, 86.21
From India East: Sculpture of Devotion from the Brooklyn Museum
Drawing exclusively from the Brooklyn Museum’s celebrated collection of Asian art, the Rubin Museum of Art will present forty-seven sculptures in stone, wood, metal, and clay in a yearlong exhibition that coincides with the closing of Brooklyn’s galleries of Asian art for a major renovation. The sculptures represent the rich diversity of form given to the divine by artists in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Tibet, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, China, Korea, and Japan. Made primarily for Hindu and Buddhist devotion, the sculptures range in date from the third century B.C.E. to the eighteenth century. The exhibition traces the exchange of religious and aesthetic ideals across Asia and offers an opportunity to view some of Brooklyn’s best-known icons of Asian art in a new light. Masterpieces in the exhibition include the early depiction of Green Tara from Orissa, the Kamakura period Head of a Guardian, and the monumental bronze Head and Torso of a Buddha from Sukhothai.
This exhibition is organized by the Rubin Museum of Art in collaboration with the Brooklyn Museum.
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BullionStar’s Extensive Range of Royal Mint Gold Coins and Silver Coins
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The latest 2017 issue of the gold Britannia coin commemorates the 30th anniversary of the coin’s launch in 1987, so for some investors, this year’s issue may hold some extra historical significance.
1 ounce gold Britannia coin, 2017
The Royal Mint also issues a 1 ounce Britannia silver coin, which since 2013 has been minted in 0.999 pure silver. Prior to 2013, the silver Britannia was minted in 0.958 pure silver. The 1 ounce 2017 Britannia silver bullion coin is also the 20th anniversary of the coin’s issue as it was initially launched in 1997.
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The Britannia name is derived from imagery of Britannia featured on the reverse face of these coins. The current Britannia imagery displays a standing female symbol of strength embodied in the naval tradition and was designed by English sculptor and coin designer Philip Nathan.
1 ounce silver Britannia coin, 2017
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Officially called the Shēngxiào Collection, this series is more commonly known as the Royal Mint’s Lunar series. Each of the 12 coins in the series features imagery of animals of the Zodiac on the reverse face of the coins. The imagery has been designed by British Chinese artist Wuon-Gean Ho. The gold Lunar is minted from 99.99% pure gold and is issued in the 1 troy ounce and 1/10 ounce denominations. The silver Lunar coin is minted from 99.9% pure silver and is issued in a 1 ounce denomination.
Each of the gold and silver Lunar series consists of one new coin design per year. The series began with the Year of the Horse in 2014, the Year of the Sheep in 2015, the Year of the Monkey in 2016, and most recently the 2017 gold Lunar Year of the Rooster, a coin which features an attractive design of a Marsh Daisy Rooster. The forthcoming 2018 Lunar design will celebrate the Year of the Dog.
1 ounce gold Lunar coin, Year of the Rooster 2017
Royal Mint Lunar gold bullion and silver bullion coins are also legal tender in the UK, and, for example, the 1 oz gold Lunar coin has a face value of GBP 100.
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1 ounce gold Queen’s Beast coin, Red Dragon of Wales 2017
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2 ounce silver Queen’s Beast coin, Read Dragon of Wales 2017
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2017 September The Unicorn of Scotland
2018 March The Black Bull of Clarence
2018 September The Falcon of the Plantagenets
2019 March The Yale of Beaufort
2019 September The White Lion of Mortimer
2020 March The White Horse of Hanover
2020 September The White Greyhound of Richmond
Note that the Royal Mint has also issued a limited-edition proof 10 oz silver Lion of England coin dated 2017 which is the largest weight silver coin ever issued by the Royal Mint.
Obverse face of 1 ounce gold Britannia coin, 2017
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1 ounce gold Queen’s Beast coin, Griffin of Edward III 2017
Gold and silver Britannia coins, gold and silver Lunar coins, and gold and silver Queen’s Beast coins are all defined as Investment Precious Metals (IPM) by Singapore Customs, and so all of these bullion coins are exempt from Singapore GST.
The Royal Mint also produces the world-famous Gold Sovereign coin, a coin which has been minted in its modern form since 1817 and which has therefore been minted for some 200 years now. The Sovereign is legal tender in the UK with a nominal value of one pound sterling and features the famous imagery of St George slaying a dragon, imagery which was designed by the Italian engraver Benedetto Pistucci for the first modern Sovereign in 1817.
Currently the Mint produces both a Sovereign and a Half Sovereign denomination, however, both of these coins are minted in 22 carat gold, i.e. with a gold fineness of 91.67%. This unfortunately means that the Gold Sovereign does not qualify as IPM under Singapore Customs Rules because qualifying IPM is defined as containing 99.5% pure gold or higher. The Gold Sovereign is thus not currently on the Custom’s list of exempted precious metals coins.
Although there is strong potential interest among BullionStar’s customers in the Gold Sovereign, for most bullion coin buyers the lack of GST exemption currently makes the purchase of Sovereigns uneconomical relative to other bullion coins on the market. It is possible, however, that Singapore Customs may amend its IPM rules in the future as it considers and evaluates the worldwide popularity of the Gold Sovereign or if the Royal Mint raises this issue with Singapore Customs.
Royal Mint Gold Sovereigns
In the meantime, BullionStar does stock a number of Gold Sovereign proof sets, for example, here and here. These sets, which would be of interest to collectors, consist of 4 coins, namely, the Sovereign, the Half Sovereign, the Double Sovereign (twice the weight of the Sovereign with a nominal value of £2) and a very large ‘Five Pound’ Sovereign (5 times the weight and gold content of the Sovereign with a nominal value of £5).
Limited edition proof Gold Sovereign, 4 coin set, 2003
In total, this set contains 2 troy ounces of gold. This is because the Sovereign has a gold content of 0.2354 troy ounces, the Half Sovereign has a gold content of 0.1177 troy ounces, the Double Sovereign contains 0.4708 troy ounces, and the large ‘Five Pound’ Sovereign contains 1.177 troy ounces of gold, i.e. 0.1177 + 0.2354 + 0.4708 + 1.177 = 2 troy ounces.
Note also that all newly minted batches of Royal Mint coins, including all of the Royal Mint bullion coins discussed above, are also assayed and tested for metal composition, weight and size as part of the long-standing annual Trial of the Pyx held at GoldSmiths Hall in London which is both a practical and traditional quality control exercise that is presided over by the Master of the Mint and the UK Treasury’s Chancellor of the Exchequer. This Trial is a further guarantee that all Royal Mint bullion coins are of the highest possible quality and workmanship.
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Business Corporations Act (British Columbia)
Qualifications of Directors of British Columbia Companies
by Holly Crosgrey | posted in: BC Business Corporations Act, British Columbia, Directors, Incorporation, Incorporation in British Columbia, Maintaining Your Company | 0
Every BC company must have at least one director. A director is a person who has been appointed by the owners (shareholders) of the BC company to handle the business and affairs of the company on behalf of those owners. Very often the directors of a BC company are also the owners, who have appointed themselves to the role of director. In order for a person to act as a director he or she must meet the qualifications of directors of British Columbia companies.
Is there any Limit on the Number of Directors a BC Company May Have
The Business Corporations Act (British Columbia) which governs BC companies provides that every private BC company must have at least one director and every public BC company must have a minimum of three directors, although all BC companies can have as many directors as they wish.
Persons Disqualified to Act as Directors of a BC Company
If the individual who wishes to act as a director of a BC company falls under any of the following restrictions that person cannot act as a director of a BC company:
Is under the age of 18 years;
Has been found by a court, in Canada or elsewhere, to be incapable of managing the individual’s own affairs;
Is an undischarged bankrupt; or
Has been convicted in or out of BC of an offence in connection with the promotion, formation or management of a corporation or unincorporated business, or of an offence involving fraud.
Section 124 of the Act does provide for some exemptions with respect to these restrictions for those who may be interested.
Resident Canadian Requirement Does not apply to Directors of BC Companies – Directors do not Need to Live in Canada
Many provinces and territories in Canada have a resident Canadian requirement which provides that a certain number of directors of a company must be “resident Canadians”.
The requirement for a director of a BC company to be a resident Canadian does not exist. This is good news for Canadians who live abroad and wish to maintain a business in Canada. It is also good news for those individuals who are living outside of Canada and wish to open a business in Canada but would not be able to move to Canada.
Does a BC Director Need to be a Shareholder
A BC director can be a shareholder but there is no legal requirement for him to hold shares in the company.
BC Directors Must Consent to Act
The BC incorporation statute provides that all directors must consent to act as directors of a BC company. The directors of a BC company must consent either in advance of or at the same time of their election to the board.
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10 Things You Should Know about Catholics and the American Founding
In celebrating the 241th anniversary of American independence and the ratification of the Declaration of Independence, it’s worth remembering the role that Catholics and Catholicism played in 1776.
July 3, 2017 Bradley J. Birzer The Dispatch 4 Print
Left: Statue of Charles Carroll of Carrollton; right: “The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, 17 June, 1775” by John Trumbull [Wikipedia]
Editor’s note: This essay originally appeared on CWR on July 3, 2016.
In my essay “10 Things You Should Know About the American Founding” I focused on some little-known facts about the American Founding in general. The final three of those “10 things” mentioned Catholics and Catholicism, including how “every colony had some form of anti-Catholic law, except for Pennsylvania. The farther north one journeyed, the stronger the anti-Catholicism became.” This is not to suggest that Catholicism is incompatible with the Founding, but simply to note that Catholics were usually, at best, the odd men out and were to many colonists the dire symbol of all that was wrong with the world.
1. With the exception of Maryland—but only for a bit—each of the English colonies along the North American coastline despised and feared Roman Catholics as well as Catholicism. For most English Protestants, whether Reformed and Presbyterian or low-Church Anglican, Catholicism represented the corruption of the Christian faith. Catholics, far from being the brethren of Protestants, were the worst enemies—far worse than pagans or even Muslims. Why? Because Catholics, in the eyes of those Protestants, should have known better; that is, they should have seen the errors of their Catholic ways. In many respects, it was a case of nearness creating division. In New England, beginning in the 1640s, no citizen could enter a church on a Sunday morning without bearing both a bible and a firearm. When service ended, the men of the congregation secured the area before allowing women and children to leave the church, just in case Catholics might be out raiding that day. Even as late as the American Revolution, New England militia men screamed, “No king, no pope” as they charged into enemy lines.
2. Protestants, however, were rarely tolerant of even other Protestants; Calvinists, for example, often hated Baptists as much as they did Catholics. Far from the “land of the free” that our textbooks usually portray, colonies sought not religious freedom and liberty, but rather religious autonomy. That is, they wanted freedom to worship as they saw fit, but they certainly did not believe that other sects should have the same rights. In this, the first century and a half of American colonization (with only a very few exceptions) were defined by a whole variety of intolerances. Because the frontier was huge, however, such tolerances could be alleviated—at least as long as you were willing to move west, away from the respectable folks. From the 1600s through 1774, America was really a sea of intolerance with islands of tolerance. Your freedom was essentially the freedom to choose which intolerance you liked best.
3. Of the 13 original colonies, only Pennsylvania and Maryland offered anything that we might today recognize as religious toleration. Maryland, for an almost 30-year-long period prior to 1689, might very well have been the most tolerant place in the world when it came to religion. To enforce its religious toleration, however, it traded its freedom of speech. Society protected the diversity of religious communities by forbidding 1) blasphemy against the Holy Trinity; 2) mocking of Mary or any of the saints; and 3) referring to any Christian sect by a derogatory name. When radicals seized the provincial government in 1689, however, they undid all laws of religious toleration, demanding that every resident of Maryland honor the Church of England as the established Church. The new government of 1689, which lasted until 1774, for all intents and purposes outlawed Roman Catholicism, double-taxing Catholics, forbidding the education of Catholic children, and actually permanently removing children in danger of being “raised in a Catholic fashion” from their birth parents.
4. When it came to Catholics, most American Protestants could not decide if Catholics were brilliant or indolent. Supporting brilliance, they saw the Jesuits. Although one might hate a Jesuit, one never underestimated him. Yet, supporting indolence—at least by the lights of the Protestant work ethic—French men freely married native women. This, to good Englishmen, seemed an abomination. One might partake of such a relationship privately, but never in public.
5. The very first resolutions passed by the first Congress—meeting in the fall of 1774 and calling itself the First Continental Congress—were complaints against British tolerance toward and of Canadian Roman Catholics. In particular, Americans feared what the British called the “Quebec Act,” passed in June 1774. John Adams, never pro-Catholic (though he very much liked Charles Carroll of Carrollton), claimed that the Quebec Act was “a frightful system, as would have terrified any people, who did not prefer liberty to life.” On October 21, 1774, Congress issued the following, its first official pronouncement ever: the Quebec Act was passed by Parliament to place “in the hands of power, to reduce the ancient, free Protestant colonies” to slavery. “Nor,” it stated, “can we suppress our astonishment that a British parliament should ever consent to establish in that country [Canada] a religion that has deluged your island with blood, and superseded impiety, bigotry, persecution, murder and rebellions through every part of the world.”
6. Despite all of the bigotry against Catholics, two of the wealthiest men in America at the time of the signing of the Declaration of Independence were practicing Roman Catholics. The first, an actual signer of the Declaration, was Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a brilliant, patriotic, and republican Marylander. The other was the chief of the Miami Indians, Jean Baptiste Richardville, living near what is now Fort Wayne, Indiana. Controlling an eight-mile portage that connected the Great Lakes to the Ohio River, Richardville shrewdly made a fortune from trading, portaging, and treaty signing. A devout Catholic, his daughters attended Catholic school in Terra Haute, Indiana. He is buried at the cathedral in Fort Wayne.
7. Although few Catholics of any substantial number lived in the colonies at the time of the American Revolution, for all intents and purposes, the Carrolls of Maryland—John, Charles, and Daniel—became symbols and represented all American Catholics at the time of the founding. As a participant in the Constitutional Convention, Daniel held much weight, but he would never equal or offer the gravitas that Charles, as a signer of the Declaration, and John, as first archbishop in the United States, did.
8. One of the great mysteries of the time, and something no historian has been able to fully explain, is how many of the anti-Catholic laws and attitudes simply disappeared from local and state governments. In part, this certainly had to do with the Carrolls and their high standing, and, in equal part, a unifying republican spirit descended upon all who opposed what was regarded as blatant British tyranny. During his two terms as president, George Washington—who never had time for bigotries based on accidents of birth or choices of religion—spent much of his time in office attempting to unify all American peoples under the common banner of republicanism. His letters to the Catholics of the United States as well as to the Hebrews of Newport remain documents of highest thought and repute, models of how to overcome and dispel bigotry.
9. However much anti-Catholicism decreased during the early days of the Republic, it resurfaced with a wicked vengeance during the so-called “Second Great Awakening” of 1795-1844. The worst outbreak came in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1834, when a group of men—inspired by a sermon delivered by Lyman Beecher titled “The Devil and the Pope of Rome”—burned down an Ursuline nunnery. Additionally, throughout the 1830s stories of supposed Catholic infidelities became legion. Typically, the stories followed two plots. In the most popular, some poor Protestant girl would convert and become a nun, only to find that she had joined a sex cult as a slave. The most infamous of these stories involved a young woman named “Maria Monk.” The second plot involved priests as quasi-vampires who preyed upon the innocence of married women. Catholic priests eating dinner with a kindly family were depicted as leering at the mother, plotting how to seduce her. Novelists portrayed these priests as deeply charismatic and wielding irresistible sexual powers.
10. Finally, though many Catholics immigrated to America prior to 1846, they never did so in considerable numbers. Even when they migrated in fairly sizable groups they could not compete with the native Protestant population. Everywhere they lived they formed, at best, an interesting minority. All of this changed in the mid-1840s when famine and Revolution drove Irish and Germans (both Catholic and Lutheran) in huge numbers to the United States. Many of these Catholic immigrants were understandably poor, and the old English animosities against the Irish rose with ferocity. Many in the public sphere began to talk openly about a “papal takeover,” and even the level-headed of American society feared some kind of Vatican conspiracy to destroy the American republic from within and by her own laws and tolerance. Catholic immigration to the United States remained steady until the 1870s when huge numbers of Southern Europeans, Jews, and eastern Mediterraneans migrated across the Atlantic. In large part, the American Progressive movement arose as a way to halt the further Catholicizing and Hebrewization (my made-up word) of America, desiring to “yank the hyphen out of hyphenated Americans.”
In this, the progressives failed, though they did so while causing considerable harm to immigrant groups as well as to religious freedom. Since the 1960s, however, the progressives have continued to assault Catholics at nearly every level, especially against Catholic schools and hospitals. Still, in all of this, we Catholics have hope. No matter how alien Catholics might have been on the eve of the American Revolution, the philosophical principles and theological beliefs of Catholics fit with—not to mention uphold and defend—the natural law and natural rights traditions of the American Founding.
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About Bradley J. Birzer 13 Articles
Bradley J. Birzer is author of biographies of J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, and Christopher Dawson. He is Professor of History at Hillsdale College and was the second Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy at the University of Colorado-Boulder. His most recent book is the acclaimed biography Russell Kirk: A Conservative Life (University Press of Kentucky, 2015). Visit him online at his personal website "Stormfields".
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NATO Poll Finds Public Opinion in Western Countries Holds That US Is a Threat to Democracy
Beacon of democracy? More like the waterhose to its fires
Our Benevolent Empire
Leonid Bershidsky 2 Jul 19 Politics, Society 477 0
For decades, freedom and democracy have been part of the U.S. brand. That doesn’t appear to hold true any longer, at least not in established democracies.
A study commissioned by a group founded by Anders Rasmussen, the former Danish prime minister and North Atlantic Treaty Organization secretary general, showed that in many Western nations, U.S. foreign policy and well as two mainstays of its global power – the finance and technology industries – are regarded as threats to democracy.
The group, the Alliance of Democracies Foundation, and Berlin-based Dalia Research, polled 177,870 people in 54 countries about their perceptions of democracy as a concept, its state in their home nations, and in the world in general.
These are timely questions to ask: Influential thinkers, such as Johns Hopkins University professor Yascha Mounk and Cambridge University professor David Runciman have been writing about a crisis of representative democracy. In many countries, people are deeply unhappy with the political class. New technology, climate change and inequality are threatening established political systems.
The Democracy Perception Index, as the Alliance of Democracies and Dalia named their research project, shows that people haven’t lost faith in democratic government – rather, they want more of it. A whopping 79% said democracy was important to have in their country, while 41% said there wasn’t enough of it.
But the research also appears to show that people around the world have widely divergent notions about what it is and who promotes it. To people in 21 of the 54 countries, the U.S. has a negative impact on democracy throughout the world. While these countries include Russia, China and Turkey, where people might be expected to resent America’s global role, most of the 21 are established democracies, and 14 of them have higher scores than the U.S. from Freedom House – the think tank whose data are commonly used as an indicator of how free societies are.
Respondents were asked: “Overall, do you think the United States has a positive or negative impact on democracy around the world?” Then the percentage of negative answers was subtracted from the percentage of positive answers.
Rasmussen says he would like the study to be “a wake-up call to the U.S. that protectionism and isolationism chip away at the democratic rules-based order that has brought prosperity and peace to our modern world.”
That’s a transparent swipe at Donald Trump’s divisive administration. But data from the survey belie the convenient explanation that the president’s policies are the reason so many people no longer regard the U.S. as the “shining city on the hill,” as Ronald Reagan used to put it.
Negative perceptions about the U.S.’s impact are highly correlated with the belief that the finance industry, where the U.S. is the dominant player, hurts democracy. In Italy, France, Germany, Spain and a number of smaller European countries, the sector is seen having a large net negative impact. Of course, the correlation could mean that an increasing number of Europeans view the U.S. as a competitor to the European Union rather than an ally. But it’s more likely that the mistrust earned by the financial industry in the crisis of 2008 is still alive and well. Given the industry’s strong links with the U.S., this will remain a problem long after Trump leaves the White House.
There is a similarly high correlation – close to 0.7 – between those who view the U.S. as a threat to democracy and those who see social networks as a threat. In most countries, the likes of Facebook and Twitter, both U.S. companies, are still seen as net positive influences, but increasingly large minorities are alarmed by these companies’ political impact.
That won’t go away with Trump, either. The link in people’s minds between the U.S. and the so far unbridled aggression of its tech industry is obvious. It can only be broken by a successful regulatory effort to rein in or break up the big social media platforms.
The U.S. doesn’t just have a Trump problem. In much of the Western world – not least in America’s immediate neighbor, Canada, and such staunch allies as Australia and the U.K. – people appear to see a fundamental disconnect between unilateral U.S. leadership and democracy. That, perhaps, is the best indication that the Pax Americana may indeed be ending.
That doesn’t mean, however, that there aren’t still large parts of the world where the U.S. is seen as a beacon of democracy. In 34 of the 55 nations in the Democracy Perception Index, most of them developing countries, the U.S.’s perceived net impact is positive or neutral.
Of Western European countries the public only in Portugal and Italy regards the US as having a net positive impact on democracy around the world and at very thin margins.
Supporters of the U.S.’s efforts to promote democracy overseas should take heart from that part of the data. Even though countries with strong representative systems of their own have largely grown critical of U.S. democracy, much of the rest of the world is still enthralled by it. There, grateful recipients of American advice and pro-democracy efforts can still be found.
If that trend holds in the post-Trump era, it might be a good reason for the U.S. to seek closer alliances with those countries rather than stick with its traditional, but less appreciative, friends.[Bizarre conclusion by Bershidsky. Parts of the Third World to some extent idealize the US precisely because they have less dealings with it and less opportunity to see the Empire in action.]
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People will be able to fill up with water for free thanks to a public water fountain which has been installed at Chichester District Council's offices.
The council has installed the fountain as part of an action plan to reduce single use plastics which was agreed by Cabinet at its meeting on 2 October.
The fountain has been installed close to the reception area in East Pallant House. It is part of the national REFILL scheme which enables people to refill their water bottles for free at REFILL stations across the country. People can easily find REFILL stations using their smartphone by downloading the app.
The impact of single use plastics on the environment is an area of growing public concern, particularly when they are found washed up on beaches or in the sea.
The council's plan to reduce the use of single use plastics aims to address these concerns by committing to the following:
phasing out single use plastics from council premises
raising awareness through campaigns aimed at residents and businesses and promoting alternatives to single use plastics, and
continuing to support locally led community anti-pollution groups working towards making Chichester District and its coastline a single use plastics free area.
As part of the plan, businesses in the district will be encouraged to reduce their use of single use plastics and recycle using the council's Business Waste and Recycling Service. The council will also be working with the Chichester Business Improvement District (BID) to support their ambition to make Chichester plastic free.
The council will be working with West Sussex County Council to motivate young people and their families to reduce plastic usage and increase recycling. This will be done through our ongoing schools education programme, in association with the West Sussex Waste Partnership. This scheme provides educational resources to primary schools to enable children to explore plastics and recycling and learn how plastic pollution can be prevented.
The council will also continue to work with Southern Water to deliver the Selsey Bathing Water Enhancement Project. This will involve supporting local businesses near the coast to use alternative packaging, particularly for takeaway food, to reduce the amount of single use plastics found during beach cleans.
"Our plan to reduce single use plastics includes a wide range of initiatives, many of which are already well underway," says Councillor John Connor, Cabinet Member for Environment Services at Chichester District Council.
"Campaigns such as the council's Against Litter campaign have already had an impact on reducing plastic pollution by promoting community clean-up activities through the Adopt an Area scheme. This campaign has been included in the plan and will continue to be promoted with a stronger focus on plastic pollution and ways to tackle it.
"All of these activities combined will help us to create a plastic free Chichester for future generations and we look forward to continuing to work with residents, businesses and community groups to achieve this common goal."
Date of release: 3 October 2018
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Elder Quentin L. Cook of the Quorum of the Twelve tells graduating students at Brigham Young University—Idaho that they should be active participants, not silent observers, as they share knowledge and strengthen their families and communities.
“My purpose today is to challenge you to work with people of other faiths to improve the moral fabric of this nation and the world and to protect religious freedom,” Elder Quentin L. Cook of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles said to students graduating from Brigham Young University-Idaho.
“In order to do this, you need to understand and comprehend ‘things which have been’ with particular emphasis on certain knowledge and events which were precursors to the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ and still need to be protected,” Elder Cook continued.
He explained that understanding events leading up to the Restoration would help students protect, defend, and, with their own unique abilities, share those elements of knowledge, mostly within their families and communities, in a way that will bless mankind and prepare the world for the kingdom of God. Elder Cook issued his challenge during a commencement address at BYU-Idaho on December 16, 2011.
Graduating students at BYU—Idaho listen intently as an apostle reviews with them four events that opened the door for the restoration of the gospel.
Precursors to the Restoration
Elder Cook reviewed four major “things which have been” that paved the way for the restoration of the gospel and suggested an additional three courses of action, relevant today, that will “build on the great heritage that has been bestowed on each of us.”
The four major precursory events he spoke of were:
The King James Version of the Bible.
English Common Law and the United States Constitution.
The Industrial Revolution, Communication Revolution, and advancements in medicine.
Most essential, the return to Judeo-Christian moral principles.
Concerning the Bible, Elder Cook said, “This great book of scripture, the King James Bible, is as important to us today as it was 400 years ago. Significantly, we share with the vast majority of citizens a love and appreciation for the Judeo-Christian values set forth in the King James Bible.”
With regard to the Constitution, Elder Cook quoted Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, who was a prominent attorney and judge prior to his calling as an Apostle, and President J. Reuben Clark (1871-1961), who served as First Counselor and Second Counselor in the First Presidency and who also had an extensive legal career prior to his calling. Elder Cook said Elder Oaks and President Clark identify five elements of the Constitution as being particularly inspired:
The separation of powers into three independent branches of government.
The Bill of Rights guarantee of freedom of speech, press, and religion.
The equality of all men and women before the law.
The Federal System with division of powers between the nation as a whole and various states.
The principle of popular sovereignty.
As he speaks in the BYU-Idaho Center, Elder Cook’s image is also shown overhead on a large television monitor. He used the commencement address as an opportunity to counsel graduates to help insure that religious freedom is passed on to future generations.
“It does not require detailed analysis of the Constitution to see that these five basic fundamentals have been a great blessing to the United States and were necessary to the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ,” Elder Cook said.
Elder Cook briefly described advancements in communication and medicine by quoting Elder Gerrit W. Gong of the Seventy, saying that heaven’s hand could be seen in the affairs of men.
Finally, Elder Cook spoke of the return to Judeo-Christian moral principles that was especially necessary for the restoration of the gospel.
Then Elder Cook asked the graduates, “How can you help bring about this restoration of morality in our day and help preserve religious freedom?” He answered his own question by offering several suggestions.
Restoration of Morality
First, be a righteous example. You must not be in camouflage as to who you are and what you believe.
We need to be civil in our discourse and respectful in our interactions with our fellow citizens. Our faith requires that we treat our neighbors with respect. It is appropriate to disagree, but it is not appropriate to be disagreeable.
Be an advocate for religious freedom and morality. “This is a time when those who feel accountable to God for their conduct feel under siege by a secular world. You understand the moral principles that are under attack and need to defend morality. … It is important for your generation to become well educated [in religious freedom] and assume responsibility for ensuring that the religious freedom you have inherited is passed on to future generations.”
We must work together to both protect religious freedom and restore morality. “Please understand this is not an effort to coerce religious belief. As John Locke asserted, religious worship does not have value unless it is voluntary.”
Presidents of the Church have made it clear that all religions should work together for the common good.
“Our challenge is to help people without religious faith understand that the protection of moral principles grounded in religion is a great benefit to society and that religious devotion is critical to public virtue,” Elder Cook said.
“One of the reasons the attack on the moral and religious principles has been so successful is the reluctance of people of faith to express their views.”
Elder Cook closed by challenging again that “you join with people of all faiths who feel accountable to God in defending religious freedom so it can be a beacon for morality. … We ask you to do this on the Internet and in your personal interactions in the neighborhoods and communities where you live. Be an active participant, not a silent observer.”
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Venezuela is never far from minds of Cincinnati Reds players Eugenio Suárez, José Peraza
Reds players worry about their family as their homeland struggles.
Venezuela is never far from minds of Cincinnati Reds players Eugenio Suárez, José Peraza Reds players worry about their family as their homeland struggles. Check out this story on cincinnati.com: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/mlb/reds/2019/02/21/venezuela-never-far-minds-cincinnati-reds-suarez-peraza/2940314002/
John Fay, Cincinnati Enquirer Published 8:17 p.m. ET Feb. 21, 2019 | Updated 8:24 p.m. ET Feb. 21, 2019
GOODYEAR, Arizona – Eugenio Suárez and José Peraza occupy the left side of the Cincinnati Reds infield. Where they stand, it is not a place that you want to allow your mind to wander.
But there's more than baseball on their minds these days.
Suárez and Peraza are from Venezuela. The homeland is in turmoil.
“It’s something you try not to think about,” said Reds assistant trainer Tomas Vera, another Venezuelan. “You try to feel that everything is OK and concentrate on what you do here in the States. But the reality is when you call home and talk to someone, they let you know right away that it’s not good.
“It’s hard to get food. We’re missing this. We’re missing that. You try to help the best you can. It’s super hard to think about. You want it to end. It scares you when the phone rings because you don’t know what can happen.”
Venezuela is in the international headlines daily. Nicolas Maduro was re-elected president in May, but many countries, including the United States, dispute the election results and don’t recognize him as the leader. The U.S. instead backs opposition leader Juan Guaido.
The U.S. has sent aid, but Maduro is not letting it into the country. The situation may come to a head Saturday, according to Axios, when Guaido's followers will try to force Maduro to let the food and medicine across the Colombian border.
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Cincinnati Reds third baseman Eugenio Suárez is from Puerto Ordaz, a small town in the southern part of the country near the Brazilian border. (Photo: Kareem Elgazzar)
Suárez, Peraza and Vera all have extended family in Venezuela.
“I talk to them every day,” Suárez said. “They can’t get food, medicine. It’s tough. That’s what I think about. All my family is there. All my wife’s family is there. We need something different. We need this guy out of there.”
Suárez and Peraza both returned home in the offseason.
“At that time, it was good,” Suárez said, “maybe because it was December, the holidays. Everyone was quiet, not a big problem. I enjoyed myself. I was safe.
“When I came back here, everything was worse. It was terrible. We’ve got a new president – kind of.”
Venezuela is a big country – twice the size of California. Geography affects how safe the area is. Suárez is from Puerto Ordaz, a small town in the southern part of the country near the Brazilian border.
“The best thing is we live in a small town,” Suárez said. “They're safe. Not safe, safe, but they’re better than the other people. It’s bad but not like the city.”
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Cincinnati Reds third baseman Eugenio Suarez (7) and second baseman Jose Peraza (9) talk with first base coach Delino DeShields at the Cincinnati Reds spring training facility in Goodyear, Ariz., on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. (Photo: Sam Greene)
Peraza is from Barinas. He lives on a farm. When he stayed close to home, he felt safe. But big league players have to be cautious.
Wilson Ramos was kidnapped in 2011. Luis Valbuena and José Castillo were killed in an automobile crash caused by highway bandits in December.
“You need to know where you’re going,” he said. “You go somewhere not so good and you got a problem. Where I stay it’s safe. I’ve got a farm. It’s nothing like in the city.”
Vera is from the capital of Caracas, the most dangerous city in the world.
“There are places in the city where you can’t go,” Vera said. “The poverty and the lack of education is getting worse. That’s what they’ve found: ‘Let’s rob somebody.’
“In my case, my mom and two sisters are still there. They’re fine. When I say fine, they wake up every day and they have something to eat.”
Vera hasn’t returned to his home country since 2013. He’s a U.S. citizen.
“The reality is even as a U.S. citizen I need a Venezuelan passport to get in and out,” Vera said. “They don’t let you in because they know that you’re Venezuelan-born. I’ve been waiting for the website to give me an appointment to renew my passport for three years. That’s the type of government they are.”
It’s not the kind of thing you can put out of your mind.
“I worry about it,” Suárez said. “We don’t know what’s going to happen. We’re prepared. We know something is going to happen, but we don’t know what. We don’t know how big the problem will be.”
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Cincinnati Reds first baseman Joey Votto (19) takes his bat under some shelter from the rain at the Cincinnati Reds spring training facility in Goodyear, Ariz., on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. Sam Greene
Position players run through ladder drills at the Cincinnati Reds spring training facility in Goodyear, Ariz., on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. Sam Greene
Cincinnati Reds new signee Derek Dietrich talks with Eric Davis at the Cincinnati Reds spring training facility in Goodyear, Ariz., on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. Sam Greene
Jesse Winker's bat lays in the batting cages at the Cincinnati Reds spring training facility in Goodyear, Ariz., on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. Sam Greene
Cincinnati Reds third baseman Eugenio Suarez (7) and second baseman Jose Peraza (9) talk with first base coach Delino DeShields at the Cincinnati Reds spring training facility in Goodyear, Ariz., on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. Sam Greene
Cincinnati Reds relief pitcher Michael Lorenzen (21) takes batting practice at the Cincinnati Reds spring training facility in Goodyear, Ariz., on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. Sam Greene
Pictures warm up through ladder drills at the Cincinnati Reds spring training facility in Goodyear, Ariz., on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. Sam Greene
Cincinnati Reds starting pitcher Brandon Finnegan (29) finishes his warmup at the Cincinnati Reds spring training facility in Goodyear, Ariz., on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. Sam Greene
Cincinnati Reds relief pitcher Michael Lorenzen (21) talks with minor league pitchers after warming up at the Cincinnati Reds spring training facility in Goodyear, Ariz., on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. Sam Greene
Barry Larkin watches pitching drills at the Cincinnati Reds spring training facility in Goodyear, Ariz., on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. Sam Greene
Cincinnati Reds right fielder Scott Schebler (43) stands in the batters box for pitching drills at the Cincinnati Reds spring training facility in Goodyear, Ariz., on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. Sam Greene
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Miss Daisy, a simulator used to evaluate car technology, cognitive distraction, and the effects of disease and medication on drivers. MIT AgeLab
Prototyping the Age-Ready City
Amy Crawford
At MIT’s AgeLab, researchers work on autonomous wheelchairs, neighborhood design for the cognitively impaired, and a host of other strategies to prepare for the “silver tsunami.”
It only takes a few minutes for a team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to age me nearly 50 years, but the transformation, at least when it comes to getting around, is fairly complete.
After zipping me into a blue jumpsuit, they strap on bungee cords that make it impossible to move my arms above my shoulders and load me down with about 20 pounds of weights, mimicking the loss of muscle strength that comes by the time a person reaches her eighth or ninth decade. The outfit is accessorized with heavy gloves and specially-adapted Crocs to simulate arthritic hands and unsteady footing.
An intrepid reporter dons the AGNES suit.
“Choose your visual impairment,” says research associate Olivia DaDalt, offering me a selection of goggles labeled “central scotoma,” “impaired acuity,” “tunnel vision.” I go with “diabetic retinopathy,” which reduces my sight to a blotchy blur.
After stumbling down a hallway, I labor to open a stairwell door. A slight wave of panic arises as I think about how easy it would be to lose my footing and tumble down the concrete steps.
“AGNES has been very useful,” says director Joseph Coughlin, who founded the AgeLab. “It gives you that ‘aha’ moment to feel the friction, the fatigue and the frustration of what it might feel like to be older, with multiple chronic conditions.”
Low-tech though it might be, AGNES—an acronym for “Age Gain Now Empathy System”—is one of the most important research tools at MIT’s AgeLab, which since 1999 has been bringing together psychologists, engineers, urban planners, designers, and other specialists to improve the quality of life for people 75 and older.
The lab’s researchers—a good number of whom are actually in their 20s and 30s—use the suit to test products and environments for age-friendliness, wearing AGNES around the lab’s busy Cambridge neighborhood and even down into the subway, which, it turns out, is a much more treacherous environment than the young and spry might believe. Designers, planners, and marketers from the corporate world have also worn AGNES as part of consultations with the AgeLab. The national pharmacy chain CVS, for example, committed to a redesign of its stores after executives realized they were laid out in a way that older adults might find disorienting.
City Makers: Global Shifts
In the United States, thanks to the sheer size of the Baby Boom generation, one in four people will be 60 or older by 2025. The story is similar in most developed countries, as well as in pockets of the developing world. These graying societies will need to confront a daunting range of challenges, everything from a shortage of workers to an increasing number of cognitively- and visually-impaired drivers.
The generations entering middle and old age today will also have to rethink what it means to be old. Fewer will be able to rely on family caregivers, but many also have higher expectations about being able to remain active in their communities.
Fewer will be able to rely on family caregivers, but many also have higher expectations about being able to remain active in their communities.
“The older adults of today—it’s not your grandparents’ old age,” Coughlin says. “They’re more educated, they have more resources, and they’re also not as polite as their parents. They’re going to make this an issue. The Baby Boomers expect to not just live longer, but to live better.”
Coughlin, a transportation planner by training, turned his attention to the needs of older adults (the word “elderly” is now out of fashion) when he was in his 30s. Though at 54 he is still a couple decades away from being part of the AgeLab’s target demographic, in recent years he has become a sort of guru of aging, and his cultivated persona—relentless enthusiasm and a signature bowtie—now turns up everywhere from TED conferences to the Huffington Post, where he writes a regular column on the future of aging.
Joseph F. Coughlin, the director of MIT AgeLab
His message, to businesses, municipalities and the public, is that old age is coming, and we’d better plan for it now.
“As individuals and as policy-makers, we have a difficult time imagining the future,” Coughlin says. “Demographics is destiny, but we’ve done remarkably little to figure out what we’re going to do.”
Some of the research coming out of the AgeLab may help to chip away at the problem of what Coughlin calls “disruptive demographics.” Engineers are working on autonomous robotic wheelchairs and an in-home system to monitor people with dementia. Psychologists and designers work with regular focus groups, asking older people directly how they compensate for the losses that come with age, and what technologies or policies would make their lives better.
Researchers are partnering with colleagues in India and Japan to track the daily lives of older people in multi-generational households and to examine whether making appliances and electronics seem more human helps older people to use them.
For Coughlin, it was the issue of older drivers that first persuaded him to dedicate his career to aging. He is currently working on a book about the politics behind how long people stay behind the wheel, and AgeLab has created a number of tools, including a driving simulator called “Miss Daisy” to study the problem and assess various technological interventions. (The U.S. Department of Transportation is one of the lab’s major funders.)
Driverless cars might be the eventual solution, Coughlin says, but that transition will take longer than the current generation can wait. Older people might also be encouraged to move into big cities, where transit is well-developed, but despite the attractiveness of that idea, Coughlin says it’s small cities and college towns that are likely to see the greatest increase in older people. And these places will need to rethink their entire approach to planning if they are to accommodate their aging populations.
“We say, ‘Make the streets narrow to slow down traffic,’ but they’re worried about snow piling up and blocking their paths.”
What does an age-friendly community look like? It might be a bit different than a young urban planner would envision. Post-doctoral researcher Katharina König, who arrived at the AgeLab this past summer from Berlin, says older people often have concerns that conflict with the ideals of contemporary urbanism.
“They have a very different kind of view,” she says. “We say, ‘Make the streets narrow to slow down traffic,’ but they’re worried about snow piling up and blocking their paths. We want everyone to ride bikes, but they are afraid of bikes.” (Cyclists seem frighteningly quick and unpredictable, especially to people who came of age in a car-centric society like the United States, she explains.)
Older adults can be apprehensive about narrow streets and cyclists darting out in front of them, according to researcher Katharina König. Good lighting and street-facing businesses can help them feel safer. (Nejc Vesel / Shutterstock.com)
König, who holds a doctorate in psychology, is currently working to analyze, through interviews and GPS tracking, the impact of neighborhood design on the daily lives of older adults, and how cognitive decline and vision impairment affect one’s perception of the environment. While she has found that older people see the city differently than the young, König also believes that making cities work for older people can, if done right, lead to cities that work better for everyone.
Better lighting and more street-facing businesses would be a good start, she says, noting that older people are more concerned about their physical safety than younger people. Meanwhile, more benches and shade would help them cope with the fatigue that often prevents them from walking long distances. “We need to be more aware of how much effort it takes for people to move,” she says. “And if you think about older people, you keep everyone in mind.”
Flashier ideas—like replacing “Meals on Wheels” with drone delivery, or building robots to care for the sick—might get more attention, but much of what we’ll need to cope with what some have called the “silver tsunami” is fairly simple and, in some ways, more difficult.
The key, Coughlin and other AgeLab researchers say, is getting everyone, not only planners and policy-makers, to recognize that anticipating the needs of older people can make life better for all of us. This is where tools like AGNES are useful, and it’s why Coughlin has worked so hard to put the AgeLab’s work before the public eye.
“This is not about taking from the young and giving to the old,” Coughlin says. “The fact of the matter is, with any luck, all of us get to be old. So I don’t want us to be age-friendly. I want us to be age-ready. And then we’ll be ready for everyone.”
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Amy Crawford has written for Boston magazine, the Boston Globe, Slate, and Smithsonian. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Hurricane Barry: Lessons From a Disaster That Wasn’t
Hurricane Barry largely spared New Orleans, but it underscored that climate change brings complex impacts and hard choices.
Alexander S. Kolker
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A transgender female inmate has filed a complaint with B.C. Human Rights Tribunal regarding treatment at Alouette Correctional Centre for Women in Maple Ridge. (THE NEWS/files)
B.C. transgender inmate loses bid to appeal extradition at Canada’s top court
Hayden Patterson is an inmate at Maple Ridge women’s prison in relation to a 2014 U.S. murder charge
Neil Corbett
Jul. 11, 2019 11:35 a.m.
A transgender inmate in a Maple Ridge women’s prison will not have an appeal in her extradition fight heard by the Supreme Court of Canada.
The court dismissed an application by Hayden Patterson, formerly known as Kevin Patterson, who is being held on an extradition matter to face a murder charge in the U.S.
She was arrested in Abbotsford in 2014 as a suspect in a Washington State murder.
Patterson has alleged discrimination against government officials on the basis of her gender identity, arguing she was not given “diplomatic assurances” she would be housed in a women’s facility and protected from the risk of abuse if extradited.
She applied for a judicial review of the extradition decision, which was denied at the B.C. Court of Appeal.
On Thursday morning, the Supreme Court of Canada rejected Patterson’s application for leave to appeal, and, as usual, did not provide reasons.
Patterson, 25, has also filed a human rights complaint against the B.C. government. She said a behaviour contract she signed when she was transferred into Alouette Correctional Centre for Women in Maple Ridge is discriminatory because she is subject to tougher behaviour requirements than other female prisoners.
She was arrested at an Abbotsford hotel after she and her co-accused, Christopher Shade, allegedly used shovels to bludgeon to death Patterson’s roommate, Richard Bergesen, 57, who was found dead in his home in Sammamish, Wash., on Sept. 17, 2014.
The pair then allegedly stole the victim’s credit cards and 2013 BMW 328 sedan and fled to Canada, driving under a barbed wire fence on a road north of Spokane. The two then supposedly used the stolen credit cards to go on a shopping spree in Abbotsford and host a party at a hotel.
They were arrested later that day after U.S. authorities tracked the BMW from the vehicle’s GPS device.
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Sony's 'Demand Great' event: Join us Thursday (live blog)
Join CNET for live coverage of Sony's event on October 9 at 10:45 a.m. PT. Our live blog will bring you news, updates, photos and running commentary.
Roger Cheng
October 6, 2014 4:00 AM PDT
Sony has yet to make a big splash in the US with mobile devices. The company is hoping its "Demand Great" event on Thursday in New York will change that.
CNET editor Scott Stein and photographer Sarah Tew will join me there to bring you all the details live, with photos and commentary. Doors open for the event at 10:30 a.m. PT, with things beginning in earnest at 11. We'll start up the live blog about 15 minutes before that -- so plan to drop by CNET at 10:45 a.m. PT.
Sony is well known for its line of televisions and its PlayStation gaming franchise, but the company has struggled to make a name for itself in the smartphone business, a category dominated by Samsung and Apple. Sony is a virtual no-show in the US, where T-Mobile has been the lone supporter for its Xperia smartphones and where Verizon Wireless sells one of its tablets.
Smartphone business as a whole continues to be a drag on Sony. The company last month warned that it would post a loss of $2.1 billion, thanks largely to a $1.67 billion charge it had to take to write off the diminishing value of its smartphone unit. Still, Sony isn't likely to give up on mobile devices, given how central they are to any consumer-electronics company.
CNET's live blog of Sony's "Demand Great" event
Sony has rarely held large launch events specifically for the US market, so the company could have something big in store. Sony unveiled a huge slate of products at the IFA trade show in Berlin last month, and some of those products could be making their way to the states. T-Mobile has already confirmed its intention to carry the Xperia Z3 , and more partners could be on the way.
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The Xperia Z3 has won critical praise for its waterproof body and extended battery life.
Though Sony may just end up rehashing announcements for the products it unveiled last month, this time with US specifics, one surprise could be a demonstration of its products' deeper integration with the PlayStation 4. "Demand Great" sounds a lot like the PS4's slogan, "Greatness Awaits."
As usual, we'll be using ScribbleLive to bring you live text and photos, blow by blow. Join us Thursday at 10:45 a.m. PT.
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Prince Charles says he’ll keep views to himself when king
In an interview for a documentary marking his 70th birthday, the heir to the throne said he will have to act differently once king
Nov. 8, 2018 9:40 a.m.
Britain’s Prince Charles has pledged not to interfere in the affairs of state when he becomes king, seeking to dispel concerns about his past activism on issues ranging from global warming to architectural preservation.
In an interview for a documentary marking his 70th birthday, the heir to the throne told the BBC that he understands he will have to act differently when he becomes king. Britain’s monarch is barred from interfering in politics.
“I’m not that stupid,” Charles said when asked if his public campaigning would continue after he succeeds his mother, Queen Elizabeth II. “I do realize that it is a separate exercise being sovereign, so of course I understand entirely how that should operate.”
The prince has caused disquiet in the past by expressing his commitment to organic farming, traditional architecture and environmental causes. In 2015, he lost a long court battle to prevent the disclosure of 27 letters sent to government officials on matters such as badger culling, fish protection, military readiness and the preservation of historic buildings.
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The “black spider” memos, so called because of Charles’ cramped handwritten greetings and closings, were controversial because some saw them as inappropriate lobbying by the heir to the throne.
But Charles defended his past actions, including establishing the Prince’s Trust in 1976 to help disadvantaged young people, saying he had always steered clear of party politics. He wondered aloud whether his interventions were really “meddling.”
“If it’s meddling to worry about the inner cities as I did 40 years ago … if that’s meddling, I’m very proud of it,” he said.
The documentary captures the prince in both public and private, including images of him feeding vegetable scraps to his chickens and collecting their eggs at his Highgrove home.
It includes an interview with the prince’s wife, the Duchess of Cornwall, who said Charles is driven by a need to help others.
“He’s pretty impatient, he wants things done by yesterday as I think everybody who works for him will tell you. But that’s how he gets things done. He’s driven by this, this passion inside him to really help,” she said. “He would like to save the world.”
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Steve: "We Enjoy Visiting The Local Clubs"
Boss prepares for local pre-season fixtures.
Steve Davis says he is looking forward to the club’s local pre-season campaign that commence at Congleton Town this time next week.
The Alex boss will take his squad to the likes of Alsager, Nantwich, Kidsgrove Athletic and Altrincham in readiness for the visit of Port Vale on 8th August.
Crewe won’t be playing any pre-season friendly games at Gresty Road due to work being undertaken on the pitch this summer.
The Crewe boss told crewealex.net: “We enjoy visiting the local clubs and supporting them. We like to meet their coaches, the staff and supporters.
“We know we won’t have the pitch ready before the start of the season. Instead we will look to organise some behind closed doors games against some good opposition.
“With that it will allow us to do what we like. We could play three 30 minutes and take players off and put them back on when we want to.”
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Thurrock's Big Day
Girls team win Fair Play award.
On Saturday afternoon, Colchester United extended a warm welcome to Little Thurrock Dynamos U11s Girls, who enjoyed a VIP day out at the Weston Homes Community Stadium as part of their prize for winning an Essex County FA Fair Play Award in 2013/14, recognising their sportsmanship and impeccable behaviour on and off the pitch.
Earlier in the year, leagues made nominations in three categories - Youth, Saturday and Sunday clubs - and a specially-formed judging panel assessed every submission using a structured set of criteria. These included a team’s disciplinary record, their sportsmanship marks and any supporting statement provided by the league that put them forward.
FA guidelines highlight that everyone connected with football should show an understanding of, and respect for, the laws of the game as well as supporting the belief that it should be played in a positive way. Sporting behaviour towards others should be seen as paramount, both on and off the field, including players, officials or spectators, and irrespective of results.
"This is a wonderful opportunity to recognise teams who embrace fair play, making the football experience more enjoyable not only for their team but for their opponents," explained County Welfare Officer, Helen Hever.
"Football is, of course, a competitive game, so having an award for fair play gives us a chance to reward those who are nominated for their sportsmanship and attitude towards how the game should be played."
Dynamos were nominated by the Echo Junior League and another local side, FC Clacton U12s (Reds), won the boys’ category (nominated by the Colchester & District Youth League).
Clacton will be at the Weston Homes to watch the U’s against Coventry City on Saturday 22nd November. Further details on grassroots football can be found at www.essexfa.com.
Saturday Adult: Rayne FC
Sunday Adult: Ravens FC
Boys: FC Clacton U12s (Reds)
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Guy dealing with federal charges in deadly machete attack on Appalachian Trail – ABC News
May 12, 2019 Bastian Lehmann
A Massachusetts guy is facing a federal murder charge after authorities alleged he assaulted a set of hikers with a machete on the Appalachian Trail in Virginia, eliminating one and significantly hurting the other.
James L. Jordan, 30, of West Yarmouth, Massachusetts, was arrested early Saturday following the lethal attack in Wythe County, Virginia, that a federal prosecutor explained Sunday as “senseless and harsh.”.
Jordan was arrested on the path after 2 hikers called the Bland County Constable’s Office and reported “a guy with a machete assaulting individuals,” according to the Wythe County Sheriff’s Office.
Southwest Regional Prison
James L. Jordan in an authorities scheduling photo.
A motive for the attack is under examination by the FBI’s Richmond, Virginia, department.
The Wythe County Constable’s Office said deputies rapidly went to the Appalachian Path and discovered two badly hurt hikers, a male and a female. The victim’s names were not instantly launched and it was unclear which one had died.
Jordan was charged with one count of murder within the special maritime territorial jurisdiction of the United States, and one count of attack with the intent to murder within the unique maritime territorial jurisdiction of the United States, authorities stated.
The suspect is expected to appear in federal court in Abingdon, Virginia, on Monday, authorities stated. It’s uncertain if Jordan has actually maintained an attorney.
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Layers of blue mountains on the Appalachian Path.
” I commend regional law enforcement in Wythe and Smyth Counties for mobilizing successful rescue and tactical operations in this remote area. Thanks to their efforts, the suspect was securely captured and the seriously wounded victim received vital healthcare,” Thomas T. Cullen, U.S. lawyer for the Western District of Virginia, stated in a statement.
” We will continue to deal with our state and regional partners to bring the wrongdoer of this ridiculous and ruthless attack to justice,” Cullen included.
The slaying was the first murder on the Appalachian Trail, a 2,160- mile wilderness path that extends from Maine to Georgia, considering that 2011 when hiker Scott Lilly, 30, of South Bend, Indiana, was killed and left in a shallow tomb in Amherst County, Virginia. No one has actually been detained in the homicide.
The most infamous murder on the Appalachian Trail happened in May 1981 near Pearisburg, Virginia, when the bodies of two hikers, Robert Mountford Jr. and Laura Susan Ramsay, both of Maine, were discovered in their sleeping bags. Mountford had been shot three times in the face, while Ramsay was stabbed consistently with a long nail, authorities said.
Randal Lee Smith was detained in the double homicide. He pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder.
The slayings became the topic of the 1984 book “Murder on the Appalachian Trail” by author Jess Carr.
Smith was paroled in 1996 after serving 15 years of a 30- year prison sentence.
Smith returned to the Appalachian Path in May 2008 and was arrested for shooting and wounding 2 anglers near where he eliminated Mountford and Ramsey, authorities said. He later passed away in prison.
ABC News’ Ben Stein contributed to this report.
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Jaguar Land Rover to Develop Exciting New Models
Jaguar Land Rover are clearly keen to reinforce their status as a high end manufacturer with the announcements of Special Vehicle Operations and a relaunched Heritage division.
Special Vehicles Operations will be responsible for extreme luxury and high performance models and bespoke commissions, replacing the previous Engineered To Order team. The first car to be created by the division will be a Project 7 version of the Jaguar F-Type Roadster. Closely based on the concept car unveiled in 2013, the Project 7 will be produced in a limited run of 250 hand built cars.
The Jaguar F-Type Project 7 will be the fastest Jaguar production car ever built. The design concentrates on performance making it the most focussed F-Type yet. Power comes from a 575 ps (567 bhp) and 680 Nm 502 lb ft supercharged version of the 5 litre V8 engine. Acceleration from 0-60mph comes in just 3.8-seconds (0-100km/h in 3.9-seconds) and the electronically-limited top speed is set to 186mph (300km/h).
There will be no mistaking the Project 7 on the road thanks to distinctive graphics including number circles on the doors and a stripe across the front of the car. It also has a speedser-like cut-down windscreen to reduce drag and gloss black 20 inch alloy wheels at each corner.
Weight savings that aid performance include carbon fibre seats and removal of the heavy roof mechanism which is replaced by a temporary fabric roof that clips into place by hand. Suspension is tuned for ultimate handling and efficiency while the bodywork has added carbon fibre aerodynamic features including an enlarged front splitter and rear wing as well as a classic racing inspired fairing behind the driver which hides a roll-over bar. The design is said to reflect the classic D-Type racing car which celebrates its 60th Anniversary this year.
The Jaguar F-Type Project 7 will be offered globally with a slightly different specification for the US market to be revealed later this summer.
Heritage Division
Also within Special Operations’ territory is the Heritage. While Jaguar Heritage have long maintained and displayed a range of important classics from the marque they are now expanding the service to customers as well. This also means that classic Land Rovers will also be included.
The first Heritage division project will be to build six continuation Lightweight E-types at the historic Browns Lane site. The new cars will be hand built to the exact specifications of the original 12 and will complete the the 1963 build plan of 18 cars. The Jaguar E-type Lightweight are famed for their performance and their efforts to tackle the invisible Ferrari 250 GTO in long distance races. The original E-type Lightweights such as the one pictured above (courtesy of H&H Classic Car Auctions) are highly sought after and fetch very high prices at auction.
The cars will be sold to enthusiasts and collectors and Jaguar have noted a preference to sell to those who intend to enter the cars in racing and rally events. The first of the six will be revealed at the Pebble Beach Concours in California in August. Customers should expect a seven figure price tag.
The Heritage Division will also cater for servicing, repairs and restorations of the brands classic cars. Jaguar have declared that they will be keeping to standard specifications for which certification will be provided.
Jaguar Land Rover have shown clear signs of an intention to challenge luxury car brands such as Bentley and Aston Martin as well as the broader premium market. These latest step reinforce this move and set the group up for further steps into this market in the future.
Updated: 19th July 2014
Categories: Classic Convertible News, Future Cars
Tags: classic car, Jaguar, Land Rover
2 responses to Jaguar Land Rover to Develop Exciting New Models
Bob seward says:
19th Jul, 2014 at 8:01 am
You mean sought after not sort after. Fire your editor!
Editor says:
19th Jul, 2014 at 10:04 pm
Corrected and fired. Thanks.
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Methylchloroisothiazolinone and Methylisothiazolinone
Why is it used in cosmetics and personal care products?
Methylisothiazolinone (MI) and Methylchloroisothiazolinone (MCI) are preservatives. Preservatives are natural or man-made ingredients designed to help ensure the safety and quality of products by protecting them against the growth of microorganisms during storage and, most importantly, during use by consumers. Any product that contains water is particularly susceptible to being spoiled by microbial growth, causing problems such as discoloration, unpleasant odors or breakdown. Under certain conditions, microorganisms can even grow to potentially harmful levels. Preservatives are designed to help prevent these problems.
Although Methylisothiazolinone (MI) may be used in cosmetics and personal care products alone, it is often used as a mixture with Methylchloroisothiazolinone [(MCI). In cosmetics and personal care products historically, Methylisothiazolinone, or the mixture, Methylisothiazolinone and Methylchloroisothiazolinone, was used in various rinse-off and leave-on formulations including hair products, shampoos, skin care products, bath products, eye and facial makeup, wet wipes and suntan products. More recently, due to concerns being raised about potentially increasing rates of skin sensitivity to MI, some cosmetic and personal care product manufacturers have begun removing it from leave-on products such as lotions and wipes (see more under 'SAFETY' tab).
Follow this link for more information about how preservatives protect cosmetics and personal care products.
Cosmetic products can become contaminated through consumer use. The product itself may come into contact with the skin potentially exposing the product to bacteria and fungi naturally found on our skin. Consumers may also use and store cosmetic products, like shower gels, in warm and moist conditions, ideal for microbial growth. As such, the inclusion of ingredients which are capable of preventing or inhibit microbial growth is critical to assuring the quality and safety of cosmetic products.
Safety Information:
U.S. FDA
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) permits the use of Methylisothiazolinone (2-methyl-4-isothiazoline-3-one) and Methylchloroisothiazolinone (5-Chloro-2-methyl-4-isothiazolin-3-one) as indirect food additives, as antimicrobial agents, as components of adhesives and as components of coatings.
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRSearch.cfm?fr...
U.S. CIR
The safety of Methylisothiazolinone and Methylchloroisothiazolinone have been assessed several times by the Cosmetic Ingredient Review (CIR) Expert Panel. The CIR Expert Panel, (www.cir-safety.org) is an independent, non-profit scientific body. Established in 1976, the Personal Care Products Council (the Council) initiated the CIR program at the suggestion and with the support of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Consumer Federation of America (CFA). CIR assesses the safety of ingredients used in cosmetic and personal care products in the U.S. The CIR Expert Panel consists of world-renowned scientists and physicians who have been publicly nominated by consumer, scientific and medical groups, government agencies, and industry. The CIR and its review process are independent from the Council and the cosmetics industry, although the program is funded by industry to support the administrative staff. Members of the Panel must meet the same conflict of interest requirements regarding financial interests as special non-government advisory experts to FDA.
In 2010, the CIR Expert Panel assessed the safety of Methylisothiazolinone when used alone and concluded that it was safe for use as a cosmetic ingredient at concentrations up to 100 ppm.In 2013, the CIR Expert Panel reopened the safety assessment of methylisothiazolinone (MI) to gather and evaluate newly provided clinical data indicating a higher than expected frequency of individuals who have allergic reactions to MI when used alone. The Panel noted the numerous reports of contact allergy to MI in Europe and the increased incidences of contact allergy to MI observed in their own clinical experience.
The CIR also noted that the European Union’s Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety (SCCS) had recently updated its opinion on the use of MI and had found that in leave-on cosmetic products (including “wet wipes”) no safe concentration had been adequately demonstrated for preventing allergic skin reactions. In rinse-off cosmetic products, the SCCS had concluded that concentrations up to 0.0015% (15 ppm) MI are safe.
Based on the results of detailed scientific skin allergy risk assessments and human clinical tests, the CIR Expert Panel reaffirmed their 2010 conclusion that it was safe to use MI in rinse-off product categories at concentrations up to 100 ppm. However, they concluded that MI use in many leave-on product categories would be safe only at concentrations lower than 100 ppm and only when it could be demonstrated that the concentration used does not cause allergic skin reactions.
These recommendations for MI in rinse-off and leave-on cosmetic products were intended to prevent new cases of allergic skin reactions to MI. The CIR Expert Panel cautioned, however, that individuals who know that they are allergic to MI should avoid personal care products that contain MI.
The mixture of Methylchloroisothiazolinone and Methylisothiazolinone is also listed in the European Cosmetics Regulation and is authorized for use at a maximum concentration of 0.0015% (15 ppm).
The Scientific Committee for Cosmetic Products and Non-food products intended for Consumers (SCCNFP; now called the Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety, the SCCS, and is the European Commission’s independent committee of scientists which assesses ingredient safety) conducted a safety review of methylisothiazolinone when used alone and published their opinion in 2004. Following this, MI was authorized as a preservative for use in leave -on and rinse-off cosmetic products up to a maximum concentration of 0.01% (100ppm).
In more recent years, publications from the dermatology community reported clinical evidence of an increase in positive skin allergy test reactions to MI in patients suffering from dermatitis through cosmetic use, especially in Europe. After reviewing all available new data, in 2013, the SCCS updated its opinion on the use of MI and concluded that in leave-on cosmetic products (including “wet wipes”) no safe concentration had been adequately demonstrated. In rinse-off cosmetic products, the SCCS had concluded that concentrations up to 0.0015% (15 ppm) MI are safe.
The European cosmetics trade association, Cosmetics Europe, with the support of experts from the dermatological community, ingredient suppliers and cosmetic product manufacturers conducted their own review of the clinical, toxicological and post-market safety surveillance data for MI. They also conducted a quantitative sensitization risk assessment that supports safe use of MI in rinse-off products and leave-on hair products. In December 2013, the European Cosmetics industry voluntarily agreed to the removal of MI from leave-on skin products, including cosmetic wet wipes. This is expected to significantly decrease the incidence of new cases of skin allergy to MI.
SCCNFP Opinion on Methylisothiazolinone, 23 April 2004:
http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_risk/committees/sccp/documents/out270_en.pdf
SCCS Opinion on Methylisothiazolinone, Submission II (Sensitization Only), 12 Dec 2013:
http://ec.europa.eu/health/scientific_committees/consumer_safety/docs/sc...
Cosmetic Europe's Voluntary Decision to Stop Using MI in Leave-On Cosmetic Products:
https://www.cosmeticseurope.eu/news-a-events/news/686-cosmetics-europe-r...
Health Canada permits the use of Methylisothiazolinone/Methylchloroisothiazolinone, in combination, at concentrations equal to or less than 0.0015% (15 ppm) in rinse-off products and 0.00075% (7.5 ppm) in leave-on products. When used alone, Methylisothiazolinone may be used at concentrations up to 0.01% (100 ppm).
More safety Information:
Detailed assessments of available safety data for Methylisothiazolinone, both alone and when in combination with Methylchloroisothiazolinone, can be found in the following U.S. Cosmetic Ingredient Review Expert Panel reports:
Final Report on the Safety Assessment of Methylisothiazolinone. IJT 29(Suppl. 3) :187-213,2010: http://online.personalcarecouncil.org/ctfa-static/online/lists/cir-pdfs/PR486.PDF
Amended Safety Assessment of Methylisothiazolinone as Used in Cosmetics. Sept. 9, 2014: http://online.personalcarecouncil.org/ctfa-static/online/lists/cir-pdfs/...
The European Commission's Scientific Committee on Consumer Products (SCCP) Clarification of the SCCNFP Opinion on the Update of Entry No. 39 of Annex VI to Directive 76/768/EEC on Cosmetic Products: Mixture of 5-Chloro-2-Methyl-Isothiazolin-3(2H)-one and 2-Methylisothiazolin-3(2H)-one
http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_risk/committees/04_sccp/docs/sccp_o_00a.pdf
The European Commission database with information on cosmetic ingredients
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/cosmetics/cosing/
Search the FDA Code of Federal Regulations
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/cfrsearch.cfm
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The Battle to Stop the Shoreham Nuclear Plant, Revisited
by Karl Grossman
“Shoreham Action is One of the Largest Held Worldwide,” was the headline in The New York Times about an event which happened 40 years ago this month. The article told of how “more than 600 protesters were arrested” on June 3, 1979 at the site of the then under-construction Shoreham nuclear power plant and “15,000 demonstrators gathered” on the beach fronting the plant in the protest of it.
That action was important in stopping the Shoreham plant from going into operation—and preventing the Long Island Lighting Company from building a total of seven to 11 nuclear power plants on Long Island.
The Shoreham site, which was where the first plant was to go up, is 60 miles east of Manhattan. There were to be three nuclear power plants at Shoreham and four, to its east, at Jamesport, and several in between. In addition to these plants on the north shore, LILCO also eyed building a nuclear power plant in The Hamptons on Long Island’s south shore, in Bridgehampton.
With the anniversary of the 1979 protest at Shoreham, on Facebook and in email-communication, that action 40 years ago was heralded as a turning point for this area—and indeed it was.
On Facebook, Catherine Green, a founder of the SHAD (Sound-Hudson Against Atomic Development) Alliance which organized the protest, wrote about being part of a “committed band of activists…protesting the nuclear power that powerful corporate forces were trying to shove down our throats…Eventually we won, but not before we had committed civil disobedience repeatedly…Not before we had systematically thrown out every pro-nuclear official in [Suffolk] county government and elected an anti-nuke legislature. Not before our dogged grassroots educating coupled with the shock of Three Mile Island had turned the tide of public opinion. It took 25 years.”
Civil disobedience and political work were big parts of the challenge to LILCO’s plan to turn Long Island—in the jargon of the atomic promoters then—into a “nuclear park.”
There was an array of complementing strategies—including lawsuits, insistence by Suffolk County, N.Y. government that there could be no successful evacuation of the area in the event a major nuclear plant accident, and the use by New York State of its power of condemnation. The Long Island Power Authority was created with the power to seize LILCO’s stocks and assets and eliminate it as a corporate entity if it persisted in its nuclear drive.
That huge demonstration on June 3, part of an International Antinuclear Day, encapsulated the strong resistance on Long Island to the LILCO nuclear push. The protesters, enduring rain, heard from speakers and were sung to by folk singer Pete Seeger who described the “immoral” basis of nuclear power.
The Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident in Pennsylvania had recently happened. To come were the Chernobyl and, most recently, the Fukushima nuclear catastrophes.
Jack Huttner, also a founder of the SHAD Alliance, commented about the 40th anniversary on email, “What I miss the most…that feeling that I/we could do anything.”
Mitch Cohen responded: “Jack, we COULD (do anything), we DID, and we SHALL!!!” Cohen has, not too incidentally, continued as an activist as have a good number of others who were involved in the anti-nuclear fight in this area. Cohen is editor of a powerful just-published book, “The Fight Against Monsanto’s Roundup, The Politics of Pesticides.”
LILCO announced its plan for the Shoreham nuclear plant with an April 13, 1966 press release. It said the cost of Shoreham would be “in the $65-$75 million range.” I reprinted the release as a facsimile in a book on the nuclear drive that I wrote titled “Power Crazy.”
The final price—in the $6.5 billion to $7.5 billion range—was a 10,000% cost overrun.
Shoreham would have been the most expensive nuclear plant per kilowatt of electricity ever built.
Now that stands to be beaten. Nuclear power plants, besides being terribly dangerous, are terribly expensive. The only two nuclear power plants now under construction in the U.S. are plants named Vogtle 3 and 4 in Georgia—now projected to each cost $13 billion.
The economics of nuclear power, once described by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss as “too cheap to meter,” were not only grossly underestimated—so have been the dangers. As then LILCO Chairman Charles Pierce told the Suffolk County Legislature in 1983, the probability of a major nuclear plant accident at Shoreham was once every 500 million years. In fact, we are seeing a major nuclear power plant accident occurring about every decade, with less than 500 nuclear plants in the world.
Still, a nuclear push continues nationally. The Trump administration is staunchly in favor of nuclear power.
As Scott Denman, long executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Safe Energy Communication Council, said in the email traffic on the Shoreham protest, “Nearly 100 reactors still operate [in the U.S.] and billions in bailouts for uneconomic reactors to remain on-line have been given away in NY, CT, NJ, IL and now likely OH and maybe even PA and other states. Billions more are now being lavished via current federal r&d on new reactor concepts no matter how…grossly expensive, dangerous and uncompetitive they are. Nuclear power is far from ended and is rather a clear and present danger….Our work is far from done; indeed it’s just beginning.”
The newest argument of the nuclear promoters is that nuclear power is needed to deal with climate change because a nuclear plant doesn’t emit greenhouse gasses. What they don’t say is that the “nuclear cycle”—including mining and milling of uranium and its “enrichment” so it can fission or split in a nuclear plant—is highly carbon-intensive with large amounts of greenhouse gasses emitted.
Shoreham was sold to New York State for a nominal $1 to be decommissioned as a nuclear plant. All that remains at the site is a concrete hulk, its nuclear innards removed.
With the end of Shoreham, the other proposed nuclear plants LILCO sought to build never got off the ground. Further, the two nuclear reactors at Brookhaven National Laboratory were shut down. BNL was established in 1947 on a former army base on Long Island largely to develop civilian uses of nuclear technology. There was a close relationship between LILCO and BNL throughout the Long Island nuclear drive. Phyllis Vineyard, the wife of BNL Director George Vineyard, was a member of the board of directors of LILCO. And the last chief executive officer and chairman of LILCO was William Catacosinos, formerly assistant director at BNL.
Because of that 1979 protest and decades of painstaking and difficult struggle, LILCO was stopped in its nuclear push—and this Long Island today is nuclear-free.
More articles by:Karl Grossman
Karl Grossman, professor of journalism at State University of New York/College at Old Westbury, and is the author of the book, The Wrong Stuff: The Space’s Program’s Nuclear Threat to Our Planet. Grossman is an associate of the media watch group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR). He is a contributor to Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion.
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The Arab and Islamic World In the Bible, History, and Prophecy
The Arabic peoples mainly inhabit the areas of Northern Africa and the Middle East. And much of that area is referred to as the "Arab world". Although this does not include the Iranians (who are Persian) and Turks, they will be sometimes also discussed in this article because of certain prophecies as well as their connection to the Arab peoples due to the religion of Islam (see also Iran in Prophecy).
The Arabic nations themselves are basically part of a group called the Arab League:
The Arab world (Arabic: العالم العربي) (al-`alam al-`arabi) consists of 22 countries stretching from Mauritania in the west to Oman in the east. They have a combined population of 323 million people...The Arabic language forms a unifying feature of the Arab World...While this has often been a matter of dispute, the following entities (18 states and two territories) are considered part of the Arab World as all use Arabic as one of their official state languages, and most of their inhabitants speak one or more of the Arabic languages and dialects (though ethnically quite varied) (Source: Arab World. Wikipedia, 3/14/07).
Member states of the Arab League (Arab World, Wikipedia, viewed 02/17/13)
Algeria (Arabic: الجزائر al-Jazāʾir)
Bahrain (Arabic: البحرين al-Baḥrayn)
Comoros (Arabic: جزر القمر Juzur al-Qamar) (Comorian and French are the other official languages)
Djibouti (Arabic: جيبوتي Djībūtī ) (French is the other official language)
Egypt (Arabic: مصر Miṣr)
Iraq (Arabic: العراق al-ʿIrāq) (Kurdish is the other official language (minority))
Jordan (Arabic: الأردن al-ʾUrdun)
Kuwait (Arabic: الكويت al-Kuwayt)
Lebanon (Arabic: لبنان Lubnān)
Libya (Arabic: ليبيا Lībyā)
Mauritania (Arabic: موريتانيا Mōrītānyā)
Morocco (Arabic: المغرب al-Maġrib) (Berber is the other official language)
Oman (Arabic: عمان ʿUmān)
Palestine (Arabic: فلسطين Filasṭīn) (Full member of Arab League and recognized by the majority of the countries in the world)
Qatar (Arabic: قطر Qaṭar)
Saudi Arabia (Arabic: المملكة العربية السعودية al-Mamlakah al-ʿArabiyyah as-Saʿūdiyyah)
Somalia (Arabic: الصومال aṣ-Ṣūmāl) (Somali is the other official language)
Sudan (Arabic: السودان as-Sūdān) (English is the other official language (minority))
Syria (Arabic: سوريا Sūryā)
Tunisia (Arabic: تونس Tūnis)
United Arab Emirates (Arabic: الإمارات العربيّة المتّحدة al-ʾImārāt al-ʿArabiyyah al-Muttaḥidah)
Yemen (Arabic: اليمن a
There are nearly 3.5 million Arab Americans in the United States according to The Arab American Institute (there are also persons of Arab ancestry in many other nations). Some who are of Arab ancestory believe that they have descended from Ishmael.
Sometimes, peoples non-ethnically Arabic, but who now often speak the same language, such as some that the Bible refers to as Cushites and/or Nubians are considered to be part of the Arab world. The Bible also sometimes indicates that the Edomites (many of which are Turks) sometimes cooperate with the Arab world--the Bible also indicates that the Edomites (apparently Turks) have a tie to the descendants of Ishmael and Lot.
This article will discuss from a biblical perspective, some of the origin of the Arab peoples as well as part of the role of the Arab world in prophecy. And their hope of salvation.
God Made a Promise to Abraham
The Bible seems to show that the people who are now generally considered to be Arabic, descended, at least partially, from Abraham or one of his relatively close relatives.
The Bible teaches that Abraham had a son named Ishmael through Hagar (Genesis 16:8-15), his wife's maid servant.
7 Now the Angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur. 8 And He said, "Hagar, Sarai's maid, where have you come from, and where are you going?"
She said, "I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai."
9 The Angel of the Lord said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hand." 10 Then the Angel of the Lord said to her, "I will multiply your descendants exceedingly, so that they shall not be counted for multitude." 11 And the Angel of the Lord said to her:
"Behold, you are with child,
And you shall bear a son.
You shall call his name Ishmael,
Because the Lord has heard your affliction.
12 He shall be a wild man;
His hand shall be against every man,
And every man's hand against him.
And he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren."
13 Then she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, You-Are-the-God-Who-Sees; for she said, "Have I also here seen Him who sees me?" 14 Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi; observe, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
15 So Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram named his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael. (Genesis 16:7-15)
Most people of Arab ancestry consider that they are related to Abraham.
God told Abraham:
20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall beget twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation (Genesis 17:20, NKJV throughout unless where otherwise indicated).
As far as greatness is concerned, throughout most of the "dark ages" in the West, the Arabic peoples were the leaders in science and culture--perhaps the greatest of all peoples at that time. The Arabs are still a major people, and have partially fulfilled this prophecy (additional fulfillment will be discussed later in this article).
The Bible mentions the following concerning Ishmael and his first descendants:
12 Now this is the genealogy of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's maidservant, bore to Abraham. 13 And these were the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: The firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, 14 Mishma, Dumah, Massa, 15 Hadar, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. 16 These were the sons of Ishmael and these were their names, by their towns and their settlements, twelve princes according to their nations. 17 These were the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred and thirty-seven years; and he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people. 18 (They dwelt from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt as you go toward Assyria.) He died in the presence of all his brethren. (Genesis 25:12-18)
Ishmael also had at least one daughter, Mahalath. And she married Esau, grandson of Abraham and son of Isaac:
9 So Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife in addition to the wives he had. (Genesis 28:9)
There were, of course, other marriages between various families in the Middle East and Northern Africa. Some Arabs are apparently descended from Abraham through his second wife, Keturah:
1 Abraham again took a wife, and her name was Keturah. 2 And she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. 3 Jokshan begot Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim. 4 And the sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abidah, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah. (Genesis 25:1-4)
Some believe that those who eventually inter-married were descended from branches of Shem's family other than Abraham (who came through Peleg), specifically through Joktan.
A Great Nation
Ishmael died at the age of 137 (Genesis 25:17). As God had promised, his twelve sons grew into a "great nation" — today numbering scores of millions!
The specific genealogies of each of the modern-day Arab tribes, sub-tribes, families and clans are virtually impossible to trace back in every case to their ultimate biblical origins. But some of the major lines of descent are known. For example: From Ishmael's son Kedar (Qaidar in Arabic) — dated approximately 1840 B.C. — can be traced a line of descent to Adnan (or Qais) — 122 B.C. — and from him (21 generations further on) to Mohammed (A.D. 570-632) of the Koreish tribe, the founder and prophet of the Islamic faith.
Though Ishmael is considered to have been the progenitor of the majority of the Arab world, there are indications of some intermingling of Ishmaelites with other related peoples — specifically the Joktanites and Keturahites.
Joktan (called Qahtan or Kahtan by the Arabs) was the son of the patriarch Eber (Genesis 10:25), who lived many generations before Abraham and Ishmael. This Joktanwhom authorities consider to have been the ultimate father of all southern Arabs — had 13 sons, named in Genesis 10:26-29. One of them, Jerah (Yarab to the Arabs), is believed to have founded the kingdom of Yemen in the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula. Some authorities believe his name was the origin of the word "Arab," the meaning of which is thought to be "arid."
Yarab's brother Hadoram (Jorham to the Arabs) is believed to have founded the Hejaz, an important kingdom along the western coast of Arabia, containing the cities of Mecca and Medina. According to Arab history, the daughter of Mudad, a descendant of this Jorham, became one of the wives of Ishmael. It is from that union that Ishmael's illustrious son Kedar is said to have come.
Another of Joktan's sons, Hazarmaveth, is claimed by the present-day tribesmen of the Hadhramaut (a region in the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula) as their ancestor.
The other line with which the Ishmaelites are said to have intermarried is that of the Keturahites. The Keturahites were descendants of Keturah, whom Abraham married after the death of Sarah. Abraham and Keturah had six sons (Genesis 25:2), whose progeny, like that of Joktan, gradually became incorporated into the house of Ishmael.
Thus, after making due allowance for mixture with Joktanites and Keturahites, the Arabs may be regarded as essentially an Ishmaelite race. (Stump K. The Arab World in Prophecy. Plain Truth, December 1979, pp. 9-10).
As the previous account shows, some believe that the Yemenites were primarily descended through Jerah (Yarab to the Arabs) through Joktan. Here is the genealogy in the Bible that shows Joktan and Jerah:
25 To Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother's name was Joktan. 26 Joktan begot Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, 27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, 28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba, 29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan. 30 And their dwelling place was from Mesha as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east. 31 These were the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands, according to their nations. (Genesis 10:25-31)
In addition, Abraham's nephew Lot is shown to have been the father of certain ancient nations. The descendants of Lot are now considered to be Arabs primarily in the area of Jordan (Amman is the name of the current capital of Jordan). Here is some of that genealogy:
36 Thus both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father. 37 The firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day. 38 And the younger, she also bore a son and called his name Ben-Ammi; he is the father of the people of Ammon to this day. (Genesis 19:36-38)
Hence, the Bible indicates that the peoples who make up much of the Arab world descended from Abraham or one of his relatives. More on aspects of the identities of the progenitors of the Arabic peoples is also found in the article Is There A Future King of the South?
Some Problems Were Mentioned From the Beginning
The Bible prophesied problems between the the descendants of Isaac and Israel and the descendants of Esau and some of the Arab peoples.
The first such prophesy seems to indicate that the descendants of Ishmael would often be against many others:
11 "Behold, you are with child,
And he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren" (Genesis 16:11-12).
Notice the following concerning Esau and Jacob (Israel):
Genesis 25:23-26
23 And the Lord said to her:
"Two nations are in your womb,
Two peoples shall be separated from your body;
One people shall be stronger than the other,
And the older shall serve the younger."
24 So when her days were fulfilled for her to give birth, indeed there were twins in her womb. 25 And the first came out red. He was like a hairy garment all over; so they called his name Esau. 26 Afterward his brother came out, and his hand took hold of Esau's heel; so his name was called Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them. (Genesis 25:23-26)
38 And Esau said to his father, "Have you only one blessing, my father? Bless me — me also, O my father!" And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.
39 Then Isaac his father answered and said to him:
"Behold, your dwelling shall be of the fatness of the earth,
And of the dew of heaven from above.
40 By your sword you shall live,
And you shall serve your brother;
And it shall come to pass, when you become restless,
That you shall break his yoke from your neck."
41 So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him (Genesis 27:38-41).
After the children of Israel crossed the Red Sea, they sang the following in a song:
14 "The people will hear and be afraid;
Sorrow will take hold of the inhabitants of Philistia.
15 Then the chiefs of Edom will be dismayed;
The mighty men of Moab,
Trembling will take hold of them;
All the inhabitants of Canaan will melt away. (Exodus 15:14-15)
Thus, even from the earliest times, there has been discord between the Arab and Turkish worlds and the children of Israel. Throughout the Hebrew scriptures, many of the early conflicts are described.
It should also be mentioned that there were various interbreedings of peoples as well. Notice what the Bible says about the origin of the Philistines:
6 The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. (Genesis 10:6)
13 Mizraim begot Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, 14 Pathrusim, and Casluhim (from whom came the Philistines and Caphtorim). (Genesis 10:13-14)
"Christianity" and the Arab World
Most in the Arab world practices some version of Islam (normally the Sunni version). Prior to this, it appears that there were some true practicers of original Christianity there (please see Arabic Nazarenes May Have Kept Original Christian Practices).
While some few in the Arab world have accepted the faith of Christ as taught by the Church of God, many have not known the truth of the Gospel. Many Arabs consider that Christianity is a barbarous and pagan religion.
They consider it barbarous because of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox crusades against them and the fact that the Arabs were the ones that essentially preserved (and even expanded) science during the Middle Ages. Notice a few short excerpts from historians on this:
“While Europe languished in the Dark Ages, Arab scholars were pioneering developments in algebra and the study of modern astronomy” (Nature magazine, March 14, 2002)
“While the rest of Europe was in the midnight of the Dark Ages, the Moorish universities of Spain were the beacon of the revival of learning. The Christian teacher was still manipulating the bones of the saints when the Arab physician was practising surgery. The monachal schools and monasteries in Italy, France, and Germany were still grappling with poor scholastic knowledge when Arab scholars were well advanced in the study of Aristotle and Plato. Stimulated by their acquaintance with the works of Ptolemy and Euclid, Galenus and Hippocrates, they extended their researches into the dominions of astronomy, mathematics, and medicine.” (page 7, History of Egypt from 330 B.C. to the Present Time by Angelo Solomon Rappoport, Published by Grolier Society, 1904)
“Schools and universities flourished in Moslem lands when Christian Europe was still in the “Dark Ages.”" (page 383, Early European History by Hutton Webster, Published by D.C. Heath & Co., 1917)
They consider is pagan because of the doctrine of the trinity, pagan holidays, and the use of idols and icons. In one very real sense, Mohammed was a reformer who saw some of the errors in mainstream Christianity and rebelled against them.
Sadly, because of false "Christianity" much of the Arab world has never known real Christianity.
Most Arabs do not realize that no true Christian would ever have been part of the Crusades, because real Christians avoid military service. They do not realize that true Christians never celebrated Christmas, Valentines' Day, Easter or other pagan-adopted holidays. Although they might realize that early Christians were opposed to the use of idols and icons, they do not realize that those who later adopted them are not true Christians.
They do not realize that true Christians never taught the trinity, but that this was a heresy that slowly infected those who professed Christ originally introduced by the heretics Montanus and Valentinus--heretics that the true Christian leader, Polycarp of Smyrna, opposed--and that those heretics were tolerated by Rome for decades. They do not realize that the location of the leadership of true Church is not in Rome (please see the article Location of the Early Church: Another Look at Ephesus, Smyrna, and Rome) and that even Roman Catholic scholars acknowledge that the common Catholic view of apostolic succession is in error (see also the article What Do Roman Catholic Scholars Actually Teach About Early Church History?).
(More information on true Christianity can be found at the History of Early Christianity page as well as the article Nazarene Christianity: Were the Original Christians Nazarenes?)
Because of all this misinformation, most in the Arab world have no idea of the true Godhead of the Bible or the true plan of God.
Actually I have seen Moslem writings that correctly condemn those who call themselves Christian for idols and icons, Valentines' Day, the trinity, the Crusades, and many other practices that are unbiblical (and un-Christian).
And even in the 21st century, while nominally "Christian" Europe wants to encourage homosexuality, the Arab world correctly has opposed it. Notice one such stand:
The U.N. General Assembly split over the issue of gay rights on Thursday after a European-drafted statement calling for decriminalization of homosexuality prompted an Arab-backed one opposing it. Diplomats said a joint statement initiated by France and the Netherlands gathered 66 signatures in the 192-nation assembly after it was read out by Argentina at a plenary session.
A rival statement, read out by Syria, gathered some 60. The two statements remained open for further signatures, the diplomats said. No resolution was drafted on the issue and there was no voting, they added.
The division in the General Assembly reflected conflicting laws in the world at large. According to sponsors of the Franco-Dutch text, homosexuality is illegal in 77 countries, seven of which punish it by death. The European Union-backed document, noting that the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was marked this month, said those rights applied equally to all people, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. It urged states “to take all the necessary measures, in particular legislative or administrative, to ensure that sexual orientation or gender identity may under no circumstances be the basis for criminal penalties, in particular executions, arrests or detention.”
But the opposing document said the statement “delves into matters which fall essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of states” and could lead to “the social normalization, and possibly the legitimization, of many deplorable acts including pedophilia.” “We note with concern the attempts to create ‘new rights’ or ‘new standards,’ by misinterpreting the Universal Declaration and international treaties to include such notions that were never articulated nor agreed by the general membership,” it added. This, it said, could “seriously jeopardize the entire international human rights framework.”
Muslim countries have for years opposed international attempts to legalize homosexuality…
Syrian Ambassador Bashar Ja’afari told reporters sponsors of the statement had “cornered” other members by springing the declaration on them. (U.N. divided over gay rights declaration Reuters - Dec 18, 2008 UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4BH7EW20081218)
Thus, the Arab world has seen many problems with the morality of those who falsely claim Christianity. Hence, it is little wonder that most Arabs have rejected the Greco-Roman religions that falsely call themselves Christian.
And while there are many problems (moral, political, religious, social, and economic) in the Arab lands, it is nice to see that as a group, there are some sound doctrines that they are not backing away from in order to simply please those who seem to be set on the moral decline of the world.
Islam and Jesus
However, another quite serious problem exists with the Muslims and that is, that although the Koran refers to Jews and Christians as "the people of the book," Muslims believe that Jews and Christians distorted the original writings of the Hebrew and Greek scriptures (the Old and New Testaments) and thus the Bible itself is supposedly not as reliable as the Koran.
The scientific truth is that there are more early manuscripts that support the New Testament than any other piece of ancient literature and this evidence absolutely proves that the New Testament is reliable.
And while it is true that some who profess Christ rely on a few later improper "additions" to the original texts, the fact is that the New Testament itself is reliable and does teach, for example that Jesus was actually crucified and not simply appeared to be as certain Islamic writings teach. The Bible is reliable, and with the major exception of one or two verses falsely added to 1 John by an Orthodox scribe about 1,000 years ago, the overall text in the Bible is reliable (for details Did the True Church Ever Teach a Trinity?).
Regarding Jesus, perhaps I should mention that Muslims do believe that He will return, it is just that they do not see Him coming as King of Kings and Lord of Lords that the Bible clearly teaches (e.g. Revelation 19:10-16; 17:14).
Here is some of what some in Islam teach about Jesus:
"It is frankly said in the Koran that the person who was crucified was not Jesus" but Judas, one of the 12 Apostles and the one the Bible holds betrayed Jesus to the Romans, he said. In his film, it is Judas who is crucified.
Islam sees Jesus as one of five great prophets -- others being Noah, Moses and Abraham -- sent to earth to announce the coming of Mohammed, the final prophet who spread the religion of Islam. It respects Jesus' followers as "people of the book"...
Shiite Muslims, the majority in Iran, believe Jesus will accompany the Imam Mahdi when he reappears in a future apocalypse to save the world...
Shiites believe the Mahdi's reappearance will usher in a new era of peace and harmony.
"We Muslims pray for the 'Return' (of Imam Mahdi) and Jesus is part of the return and the end of time," Talebzadeh said ('Islamic Jesus' hits Iranian movie screens AFP - Jan 13, 2008 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080113231632.1q3rt654&show_article=1).
I did receive email comments about the above from an Muslim who wrote:
Problem is, the Quran actually doesn't say that at all...Yes, in the Quran it is written that Jesus Christ (peace be with him) only appeared to be crucified but was in reality taken up by God while alive and before he died, so the difference between Biblical and Quranic views of Jesus still stands.
However, the view that Judas was in fact crucified instead of Jesus (peace be with him) is found in Hadith literature and not in the Quran. It might be valid, or it might not (according to Islam) but Muslims do not consider "the Judas instead of Jesus" argument as Quranic truth.
Hopefully, that makes part of the Islamic position a bit more precise as to where some of its beliefs are from--Muslims do not trust the Bible as they believe it has been tampered with.
Do Muslims believe Jesus was the Messiah?
Yes, but not the same way Christians do.
The Quran refers to Jesus 35 times as “Isa ibn Maryam” (Jesus, son of Mary), a phrase occurring only once in the New Testament (Mark 6:3). The fact that he is not called the son of Joseph underscores Islamic agreement with Christians that Mary was a virgin when she conceived Jesus. (Morgan D. Essential Islam: A Comprehensive Guide to Belief and Practice. ABC-CLIO, 2010, p. 43)
The following, example, is from The Koran Interpreted a translation by A. J. Arberry:
That is Jesus, son of Mary, in word of truth, concerning which they are doubting. It is not for God to take a son unto Him. Glory be to Him! (Sura 19:35)
Related to the virgin birth, the following are also from The Koran Interpreted a translation by A. J. Arberry (Sura chapters are correct, but verses are estimates as they were not completely delineated in the text used):
And mention in the Book Mary when she withdrew from her people to an eastern place, and she took a veil apart from them; then We sent unto her Our Spirit that presented himself to her a man without fault. She said, 'I take refuge in the All-merciful from thee!
If thou fearest God. . . He said, 'I am but a messenger come from thy Lord, to give thee a boy most pure.
She said, 'How shall I have a son whom no mortal has touched, neither have I been unchaste?' He said, 'Even so thy Lord has said: "Easy is that for Me; and that We may appoint him a sign unto men and a mercy from Us; it is a thing decreed.'"
So she conceived him, and withdrew with him to a distant place. And the birthpangs surprised her by the trunk of the palm-tree. (Sura 19:18-21)
And she who guarded her virginity, so We breathed into her of Our spirit and appointed her and her son to be a sign unto all beings. (Sura 21:91)
The context (which I have read) makes it clear that this was a reference to Mary and Jesus. Islam accepts the virgin birth as well as the fact that Jesus performed miracles.
Now, as it turns out, Muslims also do believe that Jesus was the Messiah, but they reject His divinity, execution, and resurrection.
When the angels said, 'Mary, God gives thee good tidings of a Word from Him whose name is Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary; high honoured shall he be in this world and the next, near stationed to God.
He shall speak to men in the cradle, and of age, and righteous he shall be.' (Sura 3:41)
'We slew the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, the Messenger of God' -- yet they did not slay him, neither crucified him, only a likeness of that was shown to them. Those who are at variance concerning him surely are in doubt regarding him; they have no knowledge of him, except the following of surmise; and they slew him not of a certainty -- no indeed; God raised him up to Him; God is All-mighty, All-wise.
There is not one of the People of the Book but will assuredly believe in him before his death, and on the Resurrection Day he will be a witness against them. (Sura 4:157-159)
And We sent Noah, and Abraham, and We appointed the Prophecy and the Book to be among their seed; and some of them are guided, and many of them are ungodly.
Then We sent, following in their footsteps, Our Messengers; and We sent, following, Jesus son of Mary, and gave unto him the Gospel.
And We set in the hearts of those who followed him tenderness and mercy. (Sura 57:27-28)
Muslims tend to believe that Jesus will deny He was raised from the dead to be on the Earth. The Koran uses the term al-Masih, the Arabic term for Messiah (Christ).
Notice also:
They are unbelievers who say, 'God is the Messiah, Mary's son.' For the Messiah said, 'Children of Israel, serve God, my Lord and your Lord. Verily whoso associates with God anything, God shall prohibit him entrance to Paradise, and his refuge shall be the Fire; and wrongdoers shall have no helpers.'
They are unbelievers who say, 'God is the Third of Three. No god is there but One God. If they refrain not from what they say, there shall afflict those of them that disbelieve a painful chastisement.
Will they not turn to God and pray His forgiveness? God is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.
The Messiah, son of Mary, was only a Messenger; Messengers before him passed away; his mother was a just woman; they both ate food. Behold, how We make clear the signs to them;
then behold, how they perverted are! (Sura 5:76-79)
Muslims believe that Jesus was the “servant of God,” not the Son of God (p. 46). Essentially, they believe (similar to secular skeptics) that parts of the New Testament were altered and hence reject parts related to Jesus’ divinity.
It also needs to be understood that the majority of Muslims are Sunni (and the majority of Arabs are Sunni Muslims) and do not have quite the same belief as the Shi'ite Muslims regarding Jesus and the Mahdi. (Many of the Shi-ites are Iranian, and those who are Iranian are not Arabic.)
One Sunni Muslim source has predicted that Jesus may return in 2022:
Jesus Christ’s return (coming back) will most likely be in 2022 (End Times Research Center. www.EndTimes2013.com viewed 08/11/12)
That particular year is much too soon (see Does God Have a 6,000 Year Plan? What Year Does the 6,000 Years End?).
Muslims irrespective of the year, whether they are Shi’ite or Sunni, expect Jesus to return at the time of judgment. Notice what the Koran (Qur'an) teaches:
YUSUFALI: When (Jesus) the son of Mary is held up as an example, behold, thy people raise a clamour thereat (in ridicule)!
PICKTHAL: And when the son of Mary is quoted as an example, behold! the folk laugh out,
SHAKIR: And when a description of the son of Marium is given, lo! your people raise a clamor thereat…
YUSUFALI: And (Jesus) shall be a Sign (for the coming of) the Hour (of Judgment): therefore have no doubt about the (Hour), but follow ye Me: this is a Straight Way. The Qur'an. From chapter 43, known as AZ-ZUKHRUF (ORNAMENTS OF GOLD, LUXURY). (http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/muslim/quran/043.qmt.html The Qur'an viewed 03/22/09 )
So, when Muslims see Jesus return, they should hopefully accept the truth of His coming.
Notice more that Islam teaches related to this:
'Abdullah bin 'Amr bin Al-'As (May Allah be pleased with them) said: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, "Dajjal (the Antichrist) will appear in my Ummah and he will stay in the world for forty. I do not know whether this will be forty days or forty months or forty years. Allah will then send (Prophet) 'Isa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary). 'Isa will pursue him and slaughter him. ( 19 The Book of Miscellaneous ahadith of Significant Values. http://sunnah.com/riyadussaliheen/19/3 accessed 08/02/16)
Abu Hurairah (ra) narrated, "The Prophet, peace be upon him, said: 'There is no prophet between me and him, that is, 'Isa, peace be upon him. He will descend (to the earth). When you see him, recognise him: a man of medium height, reddish fair, wearing two light yellow garments, looking as if drops were falling down from his head though it will not be wet. He will fight the people for the cause of Islam. He will break the cross, kill the pig, and abolish the jizyah. Allah will cause to perish all religions except Islam. He will destroy the Dajjal and will live on the earth for forty years and then he will die. The Muslims will pray over him.'" (Abu Dawud) (Cited in Yahya H. Jesus will return. 22 September 2010. http://www.quranandscience.com/discover-islam/embracing-islam/islam-christianity/253-jesus-will-return accessed 08/02/16)
Here is another version of the Hadith:
Jami at Tarmidhi-Abu Hurairah narrated that the Prophet(s.a.w) said: “By the One in Whose Hand is my soul! Ibn Mariam shall soon descend among you, judging justly. He shall break the cross, kill the pig, remove the Jizyah, and wealth will be so bountiful that there will be none to accept it.”
Notice the following view of it:
The real interpretation of this special aspect is that the Messiah on arriving in this world will crush under his feet all the glory of the religion of the cross ... (Zahnister M. The Mission and Death of Jesus in Islam and Christianity. Orbis Books, 2015)
Jami at Tarmidhi-Abu Hurairah also narrated that the Prophet(s.a.w) said related to this pig removal, etc.:
At his hand, God will destroy the Messiah of error, the deceiver ... (As cited in Zahnister M. The Mission and Death of Jesus in Islam and Christianity. Orbis Books, 2015)
The Bible tells of the Antichrist being with the Beast, and the Beast will have power for 42 months. The Bible also shows that Jesus (often called the son of Maryam in Islam) will get the Beast and False Prophet (the Antichrist) tossed into the lake of fire (Revelation 19:19-20).
We believe that Jesus peace be upon him will come down to earth toward the end of the world time to fight the army of Satan which will be mostly from the "bad" Jews or "Zionist Jews" as we call them today, and the deceived from the Polytheist Christians or the Trinitarian Christians and the Pagan Polytheists such as Hindus, Buddhists, etc.... Some Jews and many Christians will be among the good and blessed who will fight with Jesus' side. The army of Satan will be lead by a person who will claim to be Jesus Christ himself. The Muslims will call him the Dajjal or the Deceiver. The real Jesus' army will fight the Dajjal's army and defeat him. The empire of Israel will fall, and the religion of Islam will prevail. (What do Muslims believe about the end of the world and Jesus' part in it? http://www.answering-christianity.com/que5.htm accessed 05/09/17)
While Islam will not prevail, Jesus will return and the Trinitarians and polytheists and pagans will fight against Him (cf. Revelation 19).
Sunni Muslims do believe that Jesus will return and usher in a glorious era:
The Sunni believe that after the al-Mahdi comes, Jesus will return to earth to fight the forces of evil led by al-Dajjal, the Great Charlatan or Antichrist. The forces of good will prevail, and Jesus will rule the world for an undisclosed period of time, after which he will die and be buried alongside Muhammad in Medina. (Morgan, p. 48)
The Bible tells of a leader from the predominantly Islamic lands, called the King of the South (Daniel 11:40) in North Africa and the Middle East rising up. After what looks to be the start (Daniel 11:39) of the “Great Tribulation” (Matthew 24:21), this King of the South will fight against the ‘King of the North” (Daniel 11:40-43) called the “Beast” in Revelation 13. The King of the North will win, but this Beast will be destroyed when Jesus returns (Revelation 19:16-20). Jesus will then establish the millennial kingdom and reign for 1000 years (Revelation 20:6). Islam agrees with most of this (the time period not a defined), but believes that Islam will then reign supreme. Christians believe that Islam will essentially be gone by then.
For more on Islam itself and Christianity, check out the article Differences Between Islam and the Continuing Church of God. A video of related interest is titled: Islam: Any Christian Concerns or Similarities?
Near-Term Prophecies Involving the Arabic Peoples
The Bible shows that after the re-emerging European Empire finally forms, that it will increase the prosperity to many nations. And to a degree, the Arab world is likely to benefit from this prosperity. And this European Empire will apparently make a deal with the Arab world that neither it nor the Arab world intend to completely follow.
Prior to the final formation of Babylonian European Empire, the Arab world will receive the witness of the gospel message. Notice what the Bible records:
14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come (Matthew 24:14).
The "end" being discussed above is the end of this church age, as the time of tribulation begins (see vs. 21) then (see also When Can the Great Tribulation Begin). What this means for the Arabs (and all other peoples) is that they will have had a witness just prior to the tribulation. This witness will ultimately help them understand what really will be happening in the world and will set the stage for the ultimate conversion of nearly all the Arabic peoples-who eventually will have more unity than they now do.
Recall that the promise that God made to Abraham said that the descendants of Ishmael would be a great nation (Genesis 17:20). And although they have been united in the past and tend to desire unity today, the Arab world is split into at least 22 nations.
Also notice:
Gulf states take plunge to monetary union...
In a major step toward setting up a Gulf equivalent of the European Union, foreign ministers from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar on Sunday night signed a monetary pact aimed at setting up a central bank and a unified currency. (The Associated Press June 8, 2009, 8:05AM ET; http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D98MFT5G0.htm viewed 06/08/09)
Thus, the foundations of a Muslim confederation seems to be in the beginning stages.
Interestingly, most, though not all, of the Arab world is located south of Jerusalem.
God had the prophet Daniel record that at "the appointed time" a king of the South would come to his end. Prior to this, however this king of the South would meet with the king of the North for some type of plan. Notice:
15... the king of the North... 25 And the king of the South...
27 Both these kings' hearts shall be bent on evil, and they shall speak lies at the same table; but it shall not prosper, for the end will still be at the appointed time (Daniel 11:15,25,27).
And while there is a League of Arab States, the nations that will apparently support this future king of the South simply are not yet united enough politically, nor yet strong enough militarily for this to occur before probably 2015 (and more likely a few years after than). This does not mean that these nations are not increasing their economic, political, and military power (as they are doing that)--it is just that they still have a way to go to fulfill these prophecies within the next year or so.
It perhaps should be mentioned that according to some Islamic prophecies, the Mahdi arise in an even numbered year (Zumwalt J. Iran’s Dynamic Duo Dedicated to Global Destruction. August 13, 2010. http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38528). The Islamic year 1438, for example, runs from 12 September 2018 to 31 August 2019.
He, called the Qa’im (‘atfs) below, is to come after what sounds like two of the horses of the Apocalyse (Revelation 6), or after two of the sorrows Jesus referred to in Matthew 24:4-8:
Imam as-Sadiq (‘a) said: “Before the advent of the Qa’im (‘atfs), two types of death will surface: the “red death” and the “white death”. The number of people to be killed will be such that in every group of seven, five will die.” (Security before the Advent of Imam al-Mahdi (‘atfs) https://www.al-islam.org/an-overview-of-mahdi-s-government-najimuddin-tabasi/security-advent-imam-al-mahdi#f_98d63633_17 accessed 02/09/19 )
Here is some information about one version of him:
Imam Mahdi is the 12th Shia Imam and according to Islamic hadiths is in ‘occultation’ or hidden and will return to earth to establish peace and justice on earth. He was born on July 29 869 in the city of Samarra, Iraq and his mother Nargis was of Roman descent.
He was kept hidden from birth till he disappeared because the rulers of the time the Abbasids knew the Prophesy of Imam Mahdi who will bring about a revolt against oppression and tyranny. The Abbasid’s knew that the prophesised one will be the son of the 11th Shia imam, Imam Al Askari.
READ MORE: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/08/11/why-is-israel-looking-for-imam-mahdi
Note: The Shi'a feel he will be this hidden one, the Sunni look for a leader, but do not believe that he needs to be the son of Nargis or anyone who lived before the 20th century.
Now here are some signs supposedly forecasting the Imam Mahdi:
Hazrat Imam Mahdi (A.S.) ( Courtesy: http:// www.kr-hcy.com/ articles/ imam-mehdi )...
The term "MEHDI" is a title meaning "Guided one". The Mehdi is a normal man who is going to follow the true Islam. His name will be Muhammad and his father name will be Abdullah. He is a descendant from Ali and Fatima (daughter of the prophet Muhammad) so he will be descendant from al-Hasan or al-Hussain or both. The Mehdi will be very just and his capital will be Damascus. The Mehdi is NOT a prophet but he is the final Rightly Guided Khalifah. The Mehdi will lead Muslims to a great victory against the Sufyaani and the Romans. This great war or Armageddon...
DETAILS OF IMAM MEHDI
The following are facts taken from the sayings of the Messenger of Allah( Sallallahu alayhi wasallam):
Name and Title
His name will be the same as that of (The Messenger of Allah Sallallahu alayhi wasallam), i.e. Muhammad. In addition, his father's name will be Abdullah. His title is the-Mehdi, meaning the guided one. The Holy Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasallam also called him Khaleefatullah, meaning "the Deputy of Allah".
FAMILY LINEAGE
Imam Mehdi will belong to the tribe of Quraish and the family of Fatima, the offspring of Imam Hasan...
He will be born in Madina Shareef.
PHYSICAL FEATURES
He will be tall with a fair complexion, having a broad forehead and an aquiline nose, with a mole on his right cheek.
SIGNS BEFORE HIS APPEARANCE AS THE MEHDI
The world will be filled with a great amount of injustice and oppression. There will be widespread evil in which all people will be heavily involved.
Muslim countries and their people will have become so weak that even animals would defeat them in battle.
Muslims would be totally disunited, hence their state of weakness. On the other hand, the Kuffar of the whole world would be united under one leader...
Throughout the world earthquakes would occur frequently. Innocent people will be put to death...
The Abdaals and pious leaders will all be on the lookout for Imam Mehdi, knowing that only he could bring relief to the failing Ummah...
HIS LEADERSHIP, BATTLES AND ACHIEVEMENTS
With his army now bolstered by saintly and pious people Imam Mehdi will defeat his enemies...
During his rule, the Muslims will experience great economic enrichment. There will be no droughts and lands will be exceptionally fertile...
Imam Mehdi will conquer the city of Constantinople (presently known as Istanbul). The story behind this conquest is as follows:
After the earthquakes, which destroyed his enemies, and the subsequent amassing of Muslim armies under his leadership, the Imam will leave Makkah for Madina, where he will offer salaam at the Rozah Mubarak (The Grave of The Messenger of Allah Sallallahu alayhi wasallam).
Having done this his next step would be to proceed on to Damascus, where the bulk of the Nasara (Christian) forces along with the tribe of Kalb would be deployed, as was previously mentioned.
In Damascus, the Imam will set up his headquarters. From here, he will conduct military operations against the enemies of Islam and defeats them (such as the ones in Jerusalem), and from here, he will rule.
In response to this, the Roman forces will attack, and destroy the city of the Prophet (Madina), and start to gather their forces against its inhabitants...
After the slaying of Dajjal by Prophet Eessa, Imam Mehdi will not live for very long. A few months will elapse and this great Imam, a man who provided the perfect sequel to Allah's Supreme Religion -ISLAM, will pass on to the realms of the hereafter. The Muslims will perform his Janazah Salat and bury him, and the Messiah son of Maryam will then become the new ruler of the Muslims. (http://www.nooredarwesh.com/main/imam-mahdi-as viewed 05/01/10)
Abu Nadra reported: We were with the company of Jabir Ibn Abdillah... Jabir Ibn Abdillah kept quite for a while and then reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) having said: "There would be a Caliph in the last (period) of my Ummah who would freely give handfuls of wealth to the people without counting it." I said to Abu Nadra and Abu al-Ala: Do you mean Umar Ibn Abd al-Aziz? They said: NO, (he would be Imam Mahdi). References: Sahih Muslim, English version, v4, chapter MCCV, p1508, Tradition #6961 Sahih Muslim, Arabic version, Kitab al-Fitan, v4, p2234, Tradition #67 (Imam Mahdi (Descendent of Prophet Muhammad PBUH) by Mufti A.H. Elias and Mohammad Ali ibn Zubair Ali. Islam.tc, http://www.islam.tc/prophecies/imam.html viewed 02/03/2012)
And while there have been earthquakes in various places, etc., Muslims need to be careful about this as this individual does not seem to be one who is trustworthy according to the Bible (cf. Daniel 11:27), nor will his European counterpart be (Daniel 11:27-44). Another point about the first version above, is that while some Muslims expect the Mahdi to be someone who is released from centuries of suspension from paradise, the above one states that he will simply be a "normal man" who is to follow "true Islam."
Since this "Mahdi" is supposed to be somehow an "anointed" one, the following prophecy might include him:
24 For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect (Matthew 24:24).
The Greek word for "christs" (χριστος) basically means anointed. Thus, while the Mahdi probably will not claim to be Jesus (nor will the elect possibly accept him), he will likely and falsely claim that he is anointed. And it is possible that some signs and/or wonders may follow him or be attributed to him--so this many deceive many. Hence, the idea of some type of supernatural influence with the final King of the South should not be ruled out.
Here is something that indicates certain Muslims believe their leader will beat the Europeans:
“Bin Laden and Zawahiri are from elite Sunni families who look down on this kind of speculation and think it’s something the masses engage in,” says Will McCants of the Brookings Institution, who is writing a book about the Islamic State’s apocalyptic thought.
During the last years of the U.S. occupation of Iraq, the Islamic State’s immediate founding fathers, by contrast, saw signs of the end times everywhere. They were anticipating, within a year, the arrival of the Mahdi—a messianic figure destined to lead the Muslims to victory before the end of the world. McCants says a prominent Islamist in Iraq approached bin Laden in 2008 to warn him that the group was being led by millenarians who were “talking all the time about the Mahdi and making strategic decisions” based on when they thought the Mahdi was going to arrive. “Al-Qaeda had to write to [these leaders] to say ‘Cut it out.’” ...
But other parts are based on mainstream Sunni sources and appear all over the Islamic State’s propaganda. These include the belief that there will be only 12 legitimate caliphs, and Baghdadi is the eighth; that the armies of Rome will mass to meet the armies of Islam in northern Syria; and that Islam’s final showdown with an anti-Messiah will occur in Jerusalem after a period of renewed Islamic conquest.
The Islamic State has attached great importance to the Syrian city of Dabiq, near Aleppo. It named its propaganda magazine after the town, and celebrated madly when (at great cost) it conquered Dabiq’s strategically unimportant plains. It is here, the Prophet reportedly said, that the armies of Rome will set up their camp. The armies of Islam will meet them, and Dabiq will be Rome’s Waterloo or its Antietam.
“Dabiq is basically all farmland,” one Islamic State supporter recently tweeted. “You could imagine large battles taking place there.” The Islamic State’s propagandists drool with anticipation of this event, and constantly imply that it will come soon. The state’s magazine quotes Zarqawi as saying, “The spark has been lit here in Iraq, and its heat will continue to intensify … until it burns the crusader armies in Dabiq.” ...
Now that it has taken Dabiq, the Islamic State awaits the arrival of an enemy army there, whose defeat will initiate the countdown to the apocalypse. Western media frequently miss references to Dabiq in the Islamic State’s videos, and focus instead on lurid scenes of beheading. http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants/384980/
New ISIS Video Shows Armageddon Battle With the West
A new video purportedly released by the Islamic State titled “See You in Dabiq” or “Meeting at Dabiq” depicts ISIS militants fighting “non-believers” in Rome. “Dabiq” is also the name of the Islamic State magazine and refers to a place in Syria where Islamic eschatological prophecy claims “Armageddon,” or “Malahim” in Islam, will take place.
The Clarion Project writes:
Dabiq is a place in Syria that is supposed to be the location for one of the final battles according to certain Muslim myths about a final apocalypse. Choosing such a name for the magazine highlights the caliphate’s goals.
In the video, tanks can be seen driving towards the Colosseum crumbled in the sand. Footage then cuts to outside buildings of the Italian capital, before zeroing in on the Vatican. …
The film’s dialogue makes claims that the “Dabiq Army” will race into Rome, destroy crucifixes, and enslave Christian women. http://heavy.com/news/2015/12/new-isis-islamic-state-news-video-see-you-in-dabiq-rome-muslim-extremists-rome-crusaders-colosseum-malahim-meeting-at-dabiq-italy-west-war-uncensored-full-youtube/
DABIQ: It’s Islamic State’s Armageddon — the place where the final battle between jihadists and infidels begins. With a string of recent defeats, that fight may soon be upon them.
Strategically, it’s utterly unimportant.
But the remote Syrian village of Dabiq is at the very heart of Islamic State’s death cult.
It represents the fulfilment of prophecy.
It’s supposed to be the trigger of the final frenzied confrontation the jihadists yearn for.
It’s a vision of an apocalyptic fight against the anti-prophet — “Rome” — on the fields outside Dabiq.
It’s a prophecy they say they’re determined to make real.
Perhaps Islamic State’s caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi actually believes this religious armageddon is real. Most likely, he wants others to believe he is the one fulfilling it. ...
“The last hour will not come until the Romans arrived in al-A’maq or Dabiq, and an army consisting of the best people on earth in those days will hasten them from Medina,” the Prophet Mohammed prophesied some 1400 years ago.
It’s a sentiment echoed by Islamic State’s now dead founder Abu Mus’ab az-Zarqawi: “The torch was ignited in Iraq and its heat will grow ... until it burns the Crusader armies in Dabiq,” he declared.
This makes Dabiq the Megiddo of the Islamic faith. Megiddo is the city at the heart of the Armageddon prophecies of the Book of Revelation in the Christian Bible.
This makes Dabiq the ‘Camelot’ of Islamic State: The mythical final bastion of good against an onrushing dark age.
Mohammed supposedly mapped out his vision of these ‘end times’: It’s called al-Malhama al-Kubra (The Great War).
Most of it isn’t in the Koran. This end-time prophecy is found mostly in words attributed to the prophet in later literature.
“You will unite against a force of 80 flags and under each flag are twelve thousand (men),” the prophecy intones.
Islamic State sees this as being the coalition assembled against it by the United States.
It’s also likely why the jihadists are determined to pursue a worldwide terror campaign: To mobilise the enemy that will meet them “under 80 flags” on the apocalyptic battlefield. ...
Dabiq is supposed to be the beginning of the end.
The Muslim savour, the Mahdi, is prophesied to appear in Mecca shortly after. He is then supposed to join the army of the righteous and lead it into battle.
This final struggle is supposed to see one third of the faithful fight “the Romans”. Another third would be killed in the struggle. The final third will flee.
Eventually, just 5000 faithful jihadists are supposed to be besieged within the walls of Jerusalem.
This is when Jesus — Islam’s second most powerful prophet whom they call Isa Ibn Maryam — is prophesied to return.
It’s one of the key signs of the arrival of the end times. Christ will take up the fight with the Muslims against the infidels. ...
But there is a problem with the prophecy.
It concerns the identity of the embodiment of evil.
It’s something Islamic State has been attempting to ignore.
“There is one prophecy about the Antichrist that the Islamic State and its fans have studiously avoided, even though it is in a collection of prophecies they revere: The Antichrist will ‘appear in the empty area between Sham [Syria] and Iraq,’” writes McCants in his book The ISIS Apocalypse. “That, of course, is precisely where the Islamic State is located.”
Naturally, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi doesn’t want the notion that he may be this demon-spawn to take hold. http://www.news.com.au/world/the-apocalyptic-prophecy-behind-islamic-states-death-cult/news-story/e28d3e633341c2db7f7c1e8d3f957f2b
JERUSALEM – The Islamic State may want Western and moderate Arab countries to send ground troops to Syria, because it believes an apocalyptic battle is necessary to fulfill an end-of-days prophecy of total Muslim conquest.
This belief is expressed in an ISIS propaganda video released last week titled “Meeting at Dabiq,” which references the future location of an epic final clash between Muslims and “crusaders.”
Dabiq is mentioned in the hadith – the Islamic oral tradition that claims to quote the prophet Muhammad verbatim on numerous matters.
Abu Hureyrah, a companion of Muhammad who is perhaps the most important narrator of the hadith, stated:
The Last Hour will not come until the Romans land at al-A’maq or in Dabiq. An army consisting of the best [soldiers] of the people of the earth at that time will come from Medina [to oppose them].
This hadith is constantly referenced by the Islamic State as “evidence” that the insurgency and resulting international intervention in Syria were predicted by Muhammad.
The hadith continues:
They will then fight and a third of the army will run away, which Allah will never forgive. A third [of the army], which will be constituted of excellent martyrs in Allah’s eye, will be killed, and the third who will never be put to trial will win and they will be conquerors of Constantinople.
After the battle, Jesus, who is depicted as Muslim, will “descend and lead them in prayer.
When the enemies of Allah see him, they will [disappear] just as the salt dissolves itself in water, and if [Jesus] were not to confront them at all, even then [the enemy] would dissolve completely.
Allah will kill them by his hand and he will show them their blood on [Jesus’] lance.”
According to interpretations of the hadith, “80 flags,” meaning 80 foreign countries, will come to Syria to fight against the Muslims during the final battle in Dabiq.
Breitbart Jerusalem asked Dr. Abdullah Mukat, an Islamic fundamentalist and former lecturer at the Hamas-linked Islamic University in Gaza, to explain the significance of this hadith in Islamic State ideology.
Mukat said the hadith claims that many Romans – meaning many Christians – will become Muslims and live in Syrian territory, with some fighting alongside their Muslim brethren during the final confrontation with the West.
“Dabiq is the border between the Muslim East and the crusading Christian West, and it is the place of the final confrontation, the clash of the judgement day,” Mukat said.
According to Mukat:
Among the signs attesting to the hadith being accurate and true is that of non-Arab and non-Muslim fighters joining the ranks of the Islamic State. This is just like what happened when some of the Romans joined Islam. Moreover, the preparations for as well as the participation of many countries in the fight against the Islamic State testify that the scripture is nearing fulfillment.
Turkey’s recent participation in the coalition and the war against the Islamic State explains why the Islamic State’s army will have to conquer Istanbul – Constantinople – on its way to the West.
Mukat stated that “the hadith says that in face of the gathering of foreign armies in Syria, an army assembled from Islam’s finest sons will set out for Syria to fight in the Dabiq region against the infidels. There, the Muslims will win, according to the hadith.” http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2015/12/13/inside-islamic-states-end-times-apocalyptic-battle-plan/
While the above articles focused on the Islamic State, the prophecies alluded to come from Islamic sources centuries older than that group. Yet, those who rely on the above Islamic understanding to fight against Europe in the end, as foretold in Daniel 11:40, will find they are in error. The Bible shows that the European power (called the Romans above) will win (Daniel 11:40-43).
Perhaps it should be noted that the final Antichrist will NOT be Islamic (see Can the Final Antichrist be Islamic?). And I do expect that the 'Islamic State' per se will be eliminated, but not its objectives (see also Is the Future King of the South Rising Up?). The Islamic State's hope for a 'Dabiq army' will not end well for the Islamic State if they exist enough to be the major force for such a battle.
Though not all Muslims expect the Imam Mahdi, some still seem to long for a leader to unify the Arab World. Some Muslims are looking for a political-spiritual leader, sometimes called the Caliph in English, to rise up (Caliph is a shortened version of "Khalifah rasul Allah" meaning "Successor to the Messenger of God"). The title caliph has been given to the head of state in Muslim-governed countries in the past and is something people of my faith have long suspected would rise again to fulfill Bible prophecy:
The supreme office of caliph, originally elective, became hereditary...Eventually...caliphs became figurehead or "puppet" leaders...Many Arabs...seek to re-create the political and theological unity of the early Islamic caliphate (Stump K. The Arab World in Prophecy. Plain Truth, December 1979, pp. 9-10).
Interestingly, within Islam, there is a belief that someone who sounds like the biblical “King of the South” of Daniel 11, who they tend to call the Mahdi or 12th Imam will participate in a deal like the one in Daniel 9:27...the Bible predicts the rise in the end time of a Future King of the South—and this person may be the one that Muslims will consider to be their prophesied "Mahdi." ...“the Muslim World League issued a fatwa in October of 1976 commanding Sunni Muslims to believe in the concept of an Islamic Savior called the Mahdi.”...Shi’ites also would do well to recognize that just because someone may claim to be the final Imam (or Mahdi), does not mean that God will agree that he should be followed. Neither Sunnis nor Shi’ites should support one who will appear to possibly be the final Imam in the next decade; whoever claims to be will be defeated soundly (Daniel 11:40-43). (Thiel B. 2012 and the Rise of the Secret Sect, Nazarene Books, 2009).
(More information about caliphates and prophecies concerning one can be found in the article The Prophesied 'Islamic' Confederation. as well as the video titled Will an Arabic Calphiphate Destroy the West?)
Some think the 2011 protests in the Middle East may be a factor for this Islamic leader to rise-up in the future:
“If the will of the Arab Street rules in Egypt in the hours and days to come, we could see Egyptian authority as we know it topple. The Suez Canal could be endangered or restricted. A bedrock peace treaty with Israel will surely vanish. The border containment of Hamas terrorism in Gaza and Al Qaeda in the North Sinai might quickly end, setting off volcanic anti-Western actions initialized by Hamas, Iran, and Bin Laden contenders.
If Mubarak in Egypt falls, Hussein in Jordan could be next. If Egypt and Jordan renounce their peace treaties with Israel and their allegiance to the West, war with Israel could be imminent. If the Arab Street in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Lebanon link up, the world could quite easily see the re-emergence of the decades-long move for a single Arab nation. What type of nation that would be, whether a resurrected Caliphate or an international democratic federation, is anyone’s guess.” FOX News – Jan 28, 2011 http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/01/28/egypt-protests-mideast-house-cards-brought-days-twitter-arab-street/
Whether he is called the Imam Mahdi or Caliph (or both), a leader from North Africa/the Middle East is going to get power. He will likely use terrorism. Terrorism is included in various biblical prophecies (see Why Terrorism? Is Terrorism Prophesied?).
Events seem to be happening in the Arab nations that align with the rising up of such a leader. Perhaps, if the claimed Ark is publicly shown (either the one claimed in Ethiopia or whatever may be in Jerusalem or somewhere else), he could point to it as proof that his timing for rising up was prophesied. We will see.
Western leaders also seem to be pushing for something that would help lead to the rise of that leader (Is the Future King of the South Rising Up?; see also the video Obama Administration Pushing for an Islamic Empire?).
It should, however, be noted that the area of Palestine is not mentioned in the Koran. Thus, not all Muslims believe that they are to acquire Jerusalem. Notice the following:
Sheikh Ahmad Adwan, who introduces himself as a Muslim scholar who lives in Jordan, said on his personal Facebook page that there is no such thing as “Palestine” in the Koran. Allah has assigned the Holy Land to the Children of Israel until the Day of Judgment (Koran, Sura 5 – “The Sura of the Table”, Verse 21), and “We made the Children of Israel the inheritors (of the land)” (Koran, Sura 26 – “The Sura of the Poets”, Verse 59).
“I say to those who distort their Lord’s book, the Koran: From where did you bring the name Palestine, you liars, you accursed, when Allah has already named it “The Holy Land” and bequeathed it to the Children of Israel until the Day of Judgment. There is no such thing as ‘Palestine’ in the Koran. Your demand for the Land of Israel is a falsehood and it constitutes an attack on the Koran, on the Jews and their land. Therefore you won’t succeed, and Allah will fail you and humiliate you, because Allah is the one who will protect them (i.e. the Jews).”
The sheikh added: “The Palestinians are the killers of children, the elderly and women. They attack the Jews and then they use those (children, the elderly and women) as human shields and hide behind them, without mercy for their children as if they weren’t their own children, in order to tell the public opinion that the Jews intended to kill them. This is exactly what I saw with my own two eyes in the 70’s, when they attacked the Jordanian army, which sheltered and protected them. Instead of thanking it (the Jordanian army), they brought their children forward to (face) the Jordanian army, in order to make the world believe that the army kills their children. This is their habit and custom, their viciousness, their having hearts of stones towards their children, and their lying to public opinion, in order to get its support.”
It is worth mentioning, that the above mentioned sheikh visited Israel and met Jewish religious scholars. The “Israel in Arabic” site conducted an interview with him, in which he said that the reason for his openness towards the Jewish people “comes from my acknowledgment of their sovereignty on their land and my belief in the Koran, which told us and emphasized this in many places, like His (Allah’s) saying ”Oh People (i.e the Children of Israel), enter the Holy Land which Allah has assigned unto you” (Koran, Sura 5 – “The Sura of the Table”, Verse 21), and His saying “We made the Children of Israel the inheritors (of the land)” (Koran, Sura 26 – “The Sura of the Poets”, Verse 59) and many other verses.
He (Adwan) added: “(The Jews) are peaceful people who love peace, who are not hostile and are not aggressors, but if they are attacked, they defend themselves while causing as little damage to the attackers as possible. It is an honor for them that Allah has chosen them over the worlds – meaning over the people and the Jinns until the Day of Judgment. I made the reasons for Allah’s choice clear in my books and pamphlets. When Allah chose them, He didn’t do so out of politeness, and He wasn’t unjust other peoples, it is just that they (the Jews) deserved this.” (Cohen E. Jordanian Sheikh: ‘There is no “Palestine” in the Koran. Allah gave Israel to the Jews.’ Jews News, August 15, 2014. http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2014/08/15/jordanian-sheikh-there-is-no-palestine-in-the-koran-allah-gave-israel-to-the-jews/ viewed 09/24/14)
Of course, just as many people who claim to be Christian believe as doctrines positions contrary to the Bible, Islam has similar issues.
Iran, the Imam Mahdi, and Jerusalem
Despite what the Koran does and does not say, Iran has indicated that it wants to take over Jerusalem and give it to the one that its leaders call the Imam Madhi (some details are in the article Iran in Prophecy).
But the Iranians tend to believe that the Imam Mahdi is in a type of suspended animation.
Here is some of what Wikipedia reports about the Imam Mahdi, essentially as believed by the Shi'ites of Iran:
Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Mahdī (Arabic:محمد بن الحسن المهدي) (born c. July 29, 869 (15 Sha‘bān 255 AH), in Occultation since 941) is believed by Twelver Shī‘a Muslims to be the Mahdī, an ultimate savior of humankind and the final Imām of the Twelve Imams. Twelver Shī‘a believe that al-Mahdī was born in 869 and did not die but rather was hidden by God in 941 (this is referred to as the Occultation) and will later emerge with Isa (Jesus Christ) in order to fulfill their mission of bringing peace and justice to the world.
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani credited the mystical ‘Imam Mahdi’ for his election (I call him ‘mystical’ because the Iranian Shi-ite view is that he has essentially been in a type of suspended animation for over 1,000 years, but then he will return and rule Jerusalem):
Iran’s newly elected president, Hassan Rohani, attributed his victory in the June 15 voting to the 12th Imam, Mahdi, a statement with ominous overtones in the Islamic regime’s quest for nuclear weapons.
The Shiites believe that at the end of times, the 12th Imam, a 9th-century prophet, will reappear with Jesus Christ at his side, kill all the infidels and raise the flag of Islam in all four corners of the world. Many analysts believe Iran is seeking nuclear capability to bring on that Armageddon.
“This political [election] was due to the kindness of the last Islamic messiah [Mahdi],” Rohani said Friday.
Kayhan newspaper, the main media outlet of the regime and the mouthpiece of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ran a centerpiece headline Saturday reporting Rohani’s statement. http://www.wnd.com/2013/06/new-iran-president-thanks-messiah-for-victory/#D4fjkLl73TALVLs6.99
Iran’s prior president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, had stated that the Imam Mahdi, someone similar to the biblical King of the South of Daniel 11:40-43), would arise before he (President Ahmadinejad) left office. Well, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad left office so he was wrong about that.
Iran's 'Supreme Leader' said he is relying on the 12th Imam:
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei... has been heard to say that the coming of the last Islamic Messiah, the Shiites’ 12th Imam Mahdi, is near and that specific actions need to be taken to protect the Islamic regime for upcoming events. Mahdi, according to Shiite belief, will reappear at the time of Armageddon. Selected forces within the Revolutionary Guards and Basij reportedly have been trained under a task force called “Soldiers of Imam Mahdi” and they will bear the responsibility of security and protecting the regime against uprisings. Many in the Guards and Basij have been told that the 12th Imam is on earth, facilitated the victory of Hezbollah over Israel in the 2006 war and soon will announce publicly his presence after the needed environment is created. http://www.wnd.com/2012/01/iran-preparing-now-for-armageddon/, January 24, 2012)
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that victory of the Islamic Revolution is an example for reappearance of Lord of the Time Imam Mahdi…
Imam Khamenei made the remarks while touring Darolhadis book exhibition at Imam Khomeini Hosseinieh.
The Supreme Leader made clear that the Islamic Republic of Iran enjoys divine support vis-a-vis the systematic conspiracies of the United States to topple the revolutionary government in Iran since 1979. http://www.abna.ir/english/service/important/archive/2014/06/11/615223/story.html
But, in a major military conflict with the USA, Iran is likely to find itself defeated. Its hope for help from its claimed Imam Mahdi will not change that.
Unlike Sunnis who do not believe that Muhammed appointed a successor, Shi-ites believe that during Muhammad's final pilgrimage to Mecca, he appointed his son-in-law, Ali ibn Abi Talib, to succeed him. As a result, Shi-ites believe that Ali ibn Abi Talib was the first Imam (leader), rejecting the legitimacy of the previous Muslim caliphs Abu Bakr, Uthman ibn al-Affan and Umar ibn al-Khattab. Shia Islam has several branches, the largest of which is the Twelvers, followed by Zaidis and Ismailis (Wikipedia, viewed 11/25/13).
The Twelvers (and many of the other Shia) basically have had a few peculiarities on the prophetic side. Notice:
By 'saving the world,' they mean a successful conquering by the forces of Islam.
Here is some of what Wikipedia reports about the Sunni view:
Sunnis believe that the Mahdi has not yet been born, and therefore his exact identity is only known to Allah. Aside from the Mahdi’s precise, genealogy, Sunnis accept many of the same hadiths Shias accept about the predictions regarding the Mahdi’s emergence, his acts, and his universal Khilafat. Sunnis also have a few more Mahdi hadiths which are not present in Shia collections.
Basically, like the Sunnis, those of us in COGs, like the Continuing Church of God, do not believe that the Imam Mahdi is in some type of suspended animation that the Shi’ites tend to believe. Yet, we the believe that the leader that the Bible refers to as the final King of the South may very well hold the title of Mahdi.
(Now, I should add that the idea of an Imam Mahdi is accepted in certain Sunni circles--but they do not tend to believe that this individual will be Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Mahdī coming back into full animation. And even in those Sunni areas that do not teach that a Mahdi must become their leader, many Sunnis long for a transnational Islamic leader to rise up.)
Some in the Muslim Brotherhood keep pushing for Jerusalem to be part of the Islamic world as the following shows:
The supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, from which Egypt’s President Mohammed Mursi emanated, called on Thursday for a jihad (holy war) to liberate Jerusalem from Israeli rule.
“Jerusalem is Islamic ... and nobody is entitled to make concessions” on the Holy City, said Sheikh Mohammed Badie in his weekly message to supporters.
“The jihad for the recovery of Jerusalem is a duty for all Muslims,” he said, stressing that the liberation of the Holy City “will not be done through negotiations or at the United Nations.” (Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood chief urges Jihad for Jerusalem. Al Arabiya with AFP. 11 October 2012. http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/10/11/243221.html)
Some Islamic Shi'ite predictions also suggest that the Mahdi will rule (at least for a time) in Jerusalem, and that may be. Notice what the Bible teaches:
2 For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem;
The city shall be taken,
The houses rifled,
And the women ravished.
Half of the city shall go into captivity,
But the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city. (Zechariah 14:2, NKJV)
The above passages are consistent with the belief that Jerusalem may be divided into Jewish and Islamic territories. Hence, the final King of the South, who many will likely consider to be the Imam Mahdi and/or Caliph may rule the half of Jerusalem that does not go into captivity when the King of the North begins to fulfill Daniel 11:31-39. (For more on the captivity, please see the article Will the Anglo-Nations be Divided and Have People Taken as Slaves?)
It should be noted that many Arabs also want Jerusalem as a capital:
Egyptian Cleric Safwat Higazi...reiterated the campaign promise, but this time in more unequivocal language: “Our capital shall not be Cairo, Mecca, or Medina. It shall be Jerusalem, Allah willing. Our cry shall be: ‘Millions of martyrs march toward Jerusalem! Millions of martyrs march toward Jerusalem!’” (http://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/muslim-brotherhood-launches-presidential-campaign-the-capital-of-the-united-states-of-the-arabs-will-be-jerusalem/2012/05/10/)
A "United States of the Arabs" sounds a lot like the King of the South that the Bible foretells--so another Islamic "prophecy" that seems to align with a biblical one (see also in YouTube video The Muslim Brotherhood and the Rise of the King of the South).
The Bible also shows that the entire city will have problems, which suggests that a few years after the Jews are taken captive, the Gentiles (including apparently also Arabic ones) who are there will be punished:
24 And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. (Luke 21:24)
29 For behold, I begin to bring calamity on the city which is called by My name, and should you be utterly unpunished? You shall not be unpunished, for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth," says the Lord of hosts.' (Jeremiah 25:29)
So, Jerusalem will highly likely affect the Arab peoples as well. For more on Iran, check out Iran in Prophecy. There is also a related YouTube video Iran In Prophecy.
The City of Rome in Islamic and Catholic Prophecies
Perhaps it should be mentioned that many in Islam believe that they will conquer Rome.
Notice something from Muhammad from the Quran:
[030:002] Romans have been defeated,
[030:003] In the lowest land! But after being defeated they will emerge victorious,
[030:004] Within several years! To Allah belong the decision and the decree prior to this (event) and later. That day, the believers would rejoice,
[030:005] Over the victory granted by Allah. He helps whom He wants. And He is the most Powerful and the most Merciful.
A conference specifically on that subject was held in Italy by Italian Muslims which looked forward to that conquering. Here is some of what they reported:
ISLAM IN ITALY - FULFILLING THE PROPHECY
Date: Saturday 10th April 2010
Time: 1.45 pm - 4.30 pm
Venue: Toynbee Hall, 28 Commercial Street, London, E1 6LS
“Are they waiting for anything except the Hour to come to them suddenly? But its Signs have already come!” (Al-Quran, 47:18)
As one of these signs, Imam Ahmad reports in his Musnad that Abdullah bin Amr bin Al-’As (ra) mentioned: “Whilst we were around the Prophet (saw) writing he was asked, ‘Which of the two cities will be opened first, Constantinople or Rome?’ He (the Prophet Muhammad) answered, ‘The city of Heraclius will be opened first!’”
The Great Ottoman, Sultan Muhammad Fatih (rh) fulfilled the first part of this prophecy by conquering Constantinople. Thus, remains the second part. Having been forced out of Andalusia, and more recently, dispersed across the Balkan states, the city of Gaius Julius Caesar (Rome) remains. So let the da’wah begin … (http://www.italianmuslims.com/ viewed 07/03/14)
The head of the self-proclaimed caliphate called the Islamic State called on his followers to support him so that one day they could conquer Rome in July of 2014.
Catholic prophecies tell of a time of war that will affect Rome as well as representatives of Islam:
Blessed Anna Maria Taigi (died 1837): "described to me the great ordeal ahead. Rome would be battered by revolutions...Millions of men would die by the sword in war and civil strife, other millions would perish in unforeseen death. Then entire nations would return to the unity of the Church, and many Turks, Pagans and Jews would be converted and their fervour cover with confusion the original Christians. In one word she told me that our Lord was intending to cleanse the world and His Church..." (Bessieres A. Wife, Mother and Mystic (Blessed Anna Maria Taigi). Nihil Obstat: Carlos Davis, S.T.L. Imprimatur: E Morrough Bernard, Westmonasteri, die Februari, 1952. Reprint TAN Books, Rockford (IL), 1982, p. 166).
Old Saxon Prophecy. "The seven-headed city, now more admirable than Jerusalem, shall be a place more desolate than Jerusalem. The Dog shall enter Germany but shall afterwards forsake his master and choose for himself a new man, whereby Scripture shall be fulfilled. This Dog shall signify the Turk which shall forsake his Mohammed and choose unto him the name Christian...But after all these things the end of the world shall approach, and there shall be heavey and pitiful days."
Comment: The seven-headed city is probably Rome...(the comment is from Dupont personally, Dupont, Yves. Catholic Prophecy: The Coming Chastisement. TAN Books, Rockford (IL), 1973, pp.23-24)
Sister Ludmilla of Prague (cir. 1250): Hardly three generations will pass after the world war, when one will also endeavor to prevent the Pope from exercising his sacred office, which will be a sign that the fall of Rome and the end of the world is near (Culleton, Reign of Antichrist, p. 131).
Anna-Katarina Emmerick (19th century): I saw again a new and odd-looking Church which they were trying to build. There was nothing holy about it...(Dupont, p. 116).
Yves Dupont {Catholic writer interpreting A. Emmerick}: They wanted to make a new Church, a Church of human manufacture, but God had other designs...The Holy Father shall have to leave Rome, and he shall die a cruel death. An anti-pope shall be set up in Rome (Dupont, p. 116).
Yves Dupont (20th century): Civil wars rage in Western Europe...the Pope leaves Rome and dies in exile; an anti-pope is installed in Rome...The Mohammedans invade Europe and commit innumerable atrocities. In the West, however, Christians rally around an unexpected leader... (Dupont, p. 1).
The Bible tells of conflict between a European power who will have ties with the City of Seven Hills (Rome) and a power primarily composed of Arabic, Nubian, and Turkish peoples. War will come (watch also the video War is Coming Between Europeans and Arabs).
Notice something that the 12th century Irish Bishop Malachy declared as reported in The Catholic Encyclopedia:
"In the final persecution of the Holy Roman Church there will reign Peter the Roman, who will feed his flock amid many tribulations, after which the seven-hilled city will be destroyed and the dreadful Judge will judge the people. The End."
Rome and other cities in Europe are bound to be affected. I have long expected civil war, civil unrest, and war with the Arabs coming to Europe.
As far as the destruction of Rome, both biblical (Revelation 17) and Roman Catholic prophecies (i.e. the Bishop Malachy prophecy) indicate that this will come after the coming war between the Europeans and the Arabs.
Muslim Brotherhood and the Caliph
There are supranational Islamic groups like the Taliban, Al Qaeda, Hamas, ISIL, and the Muslim Brotherhood. Historically, they have had too many issues to bring about pan-Arabic unity. The first four groups have tended to be considered too radical to truly succeed, while many have considered that the Muslim Brotherhood was not radical enough (though this seems to be changing). A caliphate is what many desire (more details are in the article The Prophesied 'Islamic' Confederation). Some consider the Muslim Brotherhood the more moderate way to accomplish pan-national Islamic unity.
The Muslim Brotherhood, which was formed in Egypt in 1928, had long been banned in Egypt (which is why its members/leaders are sometimes jailed there--and many left Egyptian jails in the 2011 protests)--it gained power there for a while, then lost it in a military coup in July 2013 (then in September 2013 it was again banned in Egypt). Yet it still has influence there and in other Muslim-dominated lands. Some Arabs seem to believe that the Muslim Brotherhood can give them the type of world and world-influence that many of them long for.
Here is some of what the official English-language website of the Muslim Brotherhood teaches about its history and goals (note: the now deposed president of Egypt ran the website below when I first viewed these quotes):
Al-Banna was chiefly responsible for formulating the policies of this association…the idea of universal muslim state was constantly implied due to the association’s focus on Islam. While strongly disapproving of local brands of Nationalism, particularly if they were Western-inspired and secularly-minded, Banna developed his vision of Pan-Islamic Nationalism, insisting that Islam and Nationalism were complementary, especially when the latter operated within the parameter of the Islamic truth, since, for the Muslim Brethren, Islam was of course both religion and state. Here we need to analyze what was the basic concept from which Hassan al-Banna initiated to establish such Islamic organization. Then we would also explore his thought of the causes of descend of Islamic society particularly in Egypt. However, his effort and works deserved great consideration of Islamic society in the revolution to the revival of Islamic state (Caliphate)…The Muslim Brethren…believe that the caliphate is a symbol of Islamic Union and an indication of the bonds between the nations of Islam. They see the caliphate and its re-establishment as a top priority, subsequently; an association of Muslims people should be set up, which would elect the imam”. (zhyntativ. HASAN AL-BANNA AND HIS POLITICAL THOUGHT OF ISLAMIC BROTHERHOOD. IkhwanWeb, May 13, 2008. http://www.ikhwanweb.com/article.php?id=17065 viewed 09/22/11)
What is the Muslim Brotherhood?
The world’s largest and most influential Islamist movement. Founded in Egypt in 1928, the group was originally focused on ridding the country of corrupting secular influences brought by British colonial rule. Over the years, it established branches and affiliates in many countries to promote traditional Sunni Islamic morals, social justice, and the eradication of poverty and corruption. “The Islamic nation,” its charter states, “must be fully prepared to fight the tyrants and the enemies of Allah as a prelude to establishing an Islamic state”—ideally a re-established caliphate, stretching from Spain across the Middle East and Central Asia to Indonesia, to be governed according to Islamic sharia law. (Understanding the Muslim Brotherhood. February 14, 2011. © The Muslim Brotherhood. http://www.ikhwanweb.com/article.php?id=28019 viewed 11/21/2011)
The Muslim Brotherhood apparently wants as its top priority a pan-national Islamic caliphate ruled by an Imam. Many Muslims long for the rising up of a leader called the 12th Imam, often referred to as the Imam Mahdi. It will not end up with Spain if I understand certain aspects of Bible prophecy correctly, but the confederation of the final King of the South may go from around Western Sahara and/or Mauritania to Oman (with possible involvement and/or coordination with Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and/or Indonesia).
To bring enough Arab nations together, I have felt that some type of “strongman” needed to rise up. One who Arabs would tend to respect--who might use or not use the title Imam Mahdi. The time may be now for him to rise up and the Muslim Brotherhood may play an important role. The Muslim Brotherhood has been called the world’s oldest and largest Islamic political group and has been called the “world’s most influential Islamist movement” (http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/2010/11/2010111681527837704.html)--though some new group could also form.
Back in 2011, the Muslim Brotherhood believed that it was close to be able to attain its goal for a caliphate:
The Muslim Brotherhood is close to achieving the “ultimate goal” set by the group’s founder Hassan al-Banna in 1928, which is the establishment of a “just and reasonable regime.”
The project begins with the creation of a sound government and ends with the establishment of a just Islamic caliphate, said Mohamed Badie, the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt on Thursday, in his weekly message on the group’s official website. (Al-Youm, AM. Muslim Brotherhood says they are close to attaining their “ultimate goal. Sharia Awareness Action Network, December 30, 2011. http://shariafreeusa.com/muslim-brotherhood-says-they-are-close-to-attaining-their-ultimate-goal/)
While some hope that it has changed, notice something reported about the Muslim Brotherhood:
Abd al-Galil al-Sharnubi says he can only laugh at the thought that there are people in the West who still see the Muslim Brotherhood as "moderate Islamists." Sharnubi is a journalist and a Muslim -- and he was a member of the Brotherhood for 23 years. He's been familiar with the movement since he was 14, and he says that the Brotherhood could be the kiss of death for democracy in Egypt...
As the former editor in chief of Ikhwan Online, the brotherhood's website, Sharnubi went public shortly after his resignation. In talk shows he warned his fellow Egyptians that the movement was undemocratic and authoritarian, and that leading Muslim Brothers were no less corrupt than politicians from the old regime...
In order to properly apply the Sharia code of conduct, the Islamists suggested that they should be interpreted by Muslim legal scholars, known as ulama...Consequently, even the most radical Islamists have become part of the daily political landscape in Egypt.
This includes preachers such as Wajdi Ghunaim, who views secular Egyptians as infidels who should be punished with death. (Steinvorth D. and Windfuhr V., translated by Cohen P. Morsi's Grab for Power Egyptian Revolutionaries Take on Radical Islam. Der Spiegel, November 26, 2012. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/egypt-at-a-crossroads-after-morsi-grants-himself-sweeping-powers-a-869291.html)
To see the likely nations involved in the biblical King of the South, please see the article Is there a Future King of the South?
It seems that the results of "Arab Spring" are favorable in the eyes of the Muslim Brotherhood (see also the YouTube video
The Muslim Brotherhood and the Rise of the King of the South). Of course, the troubles in Egypt and elsewhere in 2013-2015 have affected the situation for now.
We in the Continuing Church of God suspect that the Muslim Brotherhood, ISIS, and/or similar groups may be part of making end time events happen:
The Bible tells of the formation of a power of nations that are in the Middle East and North Africa that are part of the final "King of the South" (Daniel 11:40-43) The Muslim Brotherhood wishes to have an Islamic empire with basically the same nations. This video explains what to expect from such a confederation. (Continuing Church of God YouTube video The Muslim Brotherhood and the Rise of the King of the South).
An Islamic caliphate is consistent with prophecies in the Bible of a coming King of the South in Daniel 11:40-43. Groups like ISIS, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda, and Ennahda all are working towards putting together that type of confederation. (Iraq, the King of the South, Armageddon, and Prophecy)
The Muslim Brotherhood made major strides in 2011 and 2012 in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Tunisia, and elsewhere in the Arab world. It also has been cozing up to Hamas, who is an offshoot (see Muslim Brotherhood’s Egypt’s Goma Amin, Hamas, and the King of the South). And despite some setbacks in 2013, 2014, and 2015, it is attempting to move forward. ISIS basically exploded on the scenes in 2014, following its split from Al-Qaeda, and it too is pushing for Islamic caliphate (which it actually declared ISIL declares itself ‘Islamic State’ and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as caliph).
World events are lining up with the Continuing Church of God's understanding of biblical prophecy.
There is also an article about Differences and Some Similarities Between Islam and the Continuing Church of God.
Turkey, along with Various Arabs, Will Align With the European Power
In the Bible, Isaac's son Esau, received a particular blessing, and became the father of the Edomites:
38 And Esau said to his father, "Have you only one blessing, my father? Bless me — me also, O my father!" And Esau lifted up his voice and wept. 39 Then Isaac his father answered and said to him: "Behold, your dwelling shall be of the fatness of the earth, And of the dew of heaven from above. 40 By your sword you shall live, And you shall serve your brother; And it shall come to pass, when you become restless, That you shall break his yoke from your neck." (Genesis 27:38-40).
8. Esau is Edom. 9...Esau the father of the Edomites (Genesis 36:8-9).
Many of the descendants of Esau are modern Turks, whereas others seemed to have intermingled with the Arabs.
And Esau's brother was Jacob, was later known as Israel (Genesis 32:28). The part about breaking his brother Jacob's yoke from the neck happened centuries years ago, but the blessing of greatness for the descendants of Esau seems to have been fulfilled with the Ottoman Empire. For centuries, from the fifteenth until the early 20th (World War I), the Ottoman Empire ruled much of the Middle East and even parts of Europe.
Although for a while it was an Israeli ally, Turkey has lately seemed somewhat anti-Israel in a lot of its policies. And while its relationship with the EU also seems to be a bit more strained recently, this does not mean that it will remain that way.
My wife and I have been to Turkey on three occasions and really have enjoyed it and the Turkish people. When we discussed the EU with some Turks, basically we were told that the average Turk had little interest in the EU, but some of the political leaders were determined to move in that direction.
Turkey 'will probably never be EU member'
Turkey will probably never become a member of the European Union because of stiff opposition and "prejudiced" attitudes from current members, a senior Turkish minister has admitted. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/turkey/10325218/Turkey-will-probably-never-be-EU-member.html viewed 09/23/13)
The above leader (Egemen Bagis, minister for European Union) indicated, however, that Turkey may end with a relationship to the EU similar to Norway.
Since the current leadership of Turkey seems a little less pro-Western lately, it may be that little will happen with Turkey as far as being a nation to fully join the EU for some time. (More on Turkey can also be found in article Turkey in Prophecy as well as the video What Should You Know About Turkey in Prophecy.)
An alliance involving Arab, Turkish, and European nations will make a destructive deal:
3 They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones. 4 They have said, "Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more." 5 For they have consulted together with one consent; They form a confederacy against You: 6 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab and the Hagrites; 7 Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; 8 Assyria also has joined with them; They have helped the children of Lot. (Psalms 83:3-8)
Taking "crafty counsel" sounds like plotting terrorism (see also Why Terrorism? Is Terrorism Prophesied?). Notice that the Bible indicates that the Turks (who are not Arabs, but seem to be Edom in scripture) will make a deal with the rising European power (Assyria above), along with the Arabs and Turkey (Psalm 83). But since Edom seems to escape what happens to the King of the South in Daniel 11:40-43, despite a deal with the Arabs, Turkey is apparently not a going to be a strong supporter of the final King of the South for very long. But apparently it will be for a short while.
7 Remember, O Lord, against the sons of Edom
The day of Jerusalem,
Who said, "Raze it, raze it,
To its very foundation!"
8 O daughter of Babylon, who are to be destroyed,
Happy the one who repays you as you have served us!
9 Happy the one who takes and dashes
Your little ones against the rock! (Psalms 137:7-9)
Notice that Edom wants Jerusalem destroyed (consistent with its desires in Psalm 83) and that it is considered part of the "daughter of Babylon", which is also a term that seems to also represent the compromised religious Beast power (cf. Isaiah 47:1,8; Revelation 18:1-8; Zechariah 2:6-7). And Turkey apparently will help with and encourage the destruction of Jerusalem/Judea (also captives from that area will apparently be sent to Turkey per Amos 1:6,9). And while it could do that from an Islamic perspective, since the Bible tells of the King of the North entering Jerusalem and causing abominations (Daniel 11:31), it may be more supporting the King of North with its attitude and not just the King of the South.
Perhaps it should be mentioned that there are many Catholic prophecies that indicate that the Turks will become Catholic:
Dionysius of Luxemberg (died 1682): With divine assistance this ruler will not only lead erring souls back to the true Faith but also deal a heavy blow to the foes of the empire; the Turks, to take away their empire and restore it to Christianity (Connor E. Prophecy for Today. Imprimatur + A.J. Willinger, Bishop of Monterey-Fresno; Reprint: Tan Books and Publishers, Rockford (IL), 1984, p.84).
Blessed Anna Maria Taigi (died 1837): Millions of men would die by the sword in war and civil strife, other millions would perish in unforeseen death. Then entire nations would return to the unity of the Church, and many Turks, Pagans and Jews would be converted and their fervour cover with confusion the original Christians. In one word she told me that our Lord was intending to cleanse the world and His Church… (Bessieres A. Wife, Mother and Mystic (Blessed Anna Maria Taigi). Nihil Obstat: Carlos Davis, S.T.L. Imprimatur: E Morrough Bernard, Westmonasteri, die Februari, 1952. Reprint TAN Books, Rockford (IL), 1982, p. 166).
Old Saxon Prophecy. “The seven-headed city, now more admirable than Jerusalem, shall be a place more desolate than Jerusalem. The Dog shall enter Germany but shall afterwards forsake his master and choose for himself a new man, whereby Scripture shall be fulfilled. This Dog shall signify the Turk which shall forsake his Mohammed and choose unto him the name Christian…But after all these things the end of the world shall approach, and there shall be heavey and pitiful days.”
Comment: The seven-headed city is probably Rome…(the comment is from Dupont personally, Dupont Y. Catholic Prophecy: The Coming Chastisement. TAN Books, Rockford (IL), 1973, pp.23-24)
Venerable Bartholomew Holzhauser: All heresies shall be banished…the Turkish Empire shall be broken up, and all nations shall come to and worship their God in the true Catholic and Roman faith (Rossi, G. THE CHRISTIAN TRUMPET, OR, Previsions and Predictions about Impending General Calamities, The Universal Triumph of the Church, The Coming of Antichrist, The Last Judgment, and The End of the World. Compiled by PELLEGRINO [Gaudentius Rossi], A Missionary Priest with Superior’s permission. Boston, THOS. B. NOONAND & CO., 1873, p. 121)
Brother Louis Rocco (19th century): In Istanbul (Constantinople) the Cross will replace the half-moon of Islamism…the Turks…will subsequently embrace the Catholic faith. (Dupont, p.76)
Thus, even though it may not always have the best relations, Catholic prophecy indicates that Turkey will ultimately align with the coming compromised "Catholic" beast power. This is likely to happen around the time the King of the North, who is a prince first (cf. Daniel 9:26-27; Ezekiel 32:29-30) eliminates the King of the South (Daniel 11:40-43)--as this is when the Islamic "Mahdi's" forces will apparently be defeated.
Interestingly, notice the following Catholic prophecy about betrayal:
Nostradamus: The Great Arab shall progress well forward, But betrayed shall be by the Byzantines. (Turks).
Comment on above from Catholic writer Yves Dupont: Here, we are told that Turkey will break its faith with the rest of the Arab world. (Dupont, Yves. Catholic Prophecy: The Coming Chastisement. TAN Books, Rockford (IL), 1973, p. 107).
The "Great Arab" is probably supposed to represent the Mahdi/Caliph, the final King of the South. The Turks currently control Byzantium and have for many centuries. Hence, Catholic prophecy indicates that Turkey will betray the Islamic Arabic power. In the Bible, Daniel 11:25-26 is quite clear that an ally of the King of the South will betray the King of the South:
25 "He shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the South with a great army. And the king of the South shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand, for they shall devise plans against him. 26 Yes, those who eat of the portion of his delicacies shall destroy him; his army shall be swept away, and many shall fall down slain. (Daniel 11:25-26)
Presuming that Daniel 11:25-26 has a future fulfillment (and as it seems to parallel Daniel 11:40-43 so it may), there will be close allies (like Turkey) that will betray the King of the South according to scripture as well. Many events will not turn out well in the Arab World for a time--watch also the video War is Coming Between Europeans and Arabs.
Probably sometime after this, Islamic Asian nations, like Indonesia, will likely align with China and others in Asia and turn against the Europeans (for details, see Asia in Prophecy).
It may be of interest to note that there is an annual celebration for Mary in the area near Ephesus (in Turkey) that Islamic Turks put on and participate in. The name of Mary (or Miriam/Maryam/etc. depending on the translated spelling) is mentioned more times in the Qur'an than Jesus' is (I have read many passages in it about her). And while some may think that Islamic interest in Mary is odd, notice also the following:
In the Koran, the holy name of the Blessed Virgin Mary is mentioned no less than thirty times. No other woman's name is even mentioned, not even that of Mohammed's daughter, Fatima. Among men, only Abraham, Moses, and Noah are mentioned more times than Our Lady...Make no mistake about it, there is a very special relationship between the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Moslems! (Cizik LJ Priest. OUR LADY AND ISLAM: HEAVEN’S PEACE PLAN. Soul Magazine. September - October 2001, © 2001 The Blue Army of Our Lady of Fatima, U.S.A., Inc., page 6 http://www.ewtn.com/library/mary/olislam.htm viewed 11/02/10)
Because of Islamic fascination with Mary, it is possible that an apparition claiming to be Mary might appear in Turkey and/or elsewhere (see also Mary, the Mother of Jesus and the Apparitions).
Perhaps I should add that ever since the Turks took over Constantinople (now called Istanbul) in the 15th century, Eastern Orthodox Catholics have believed that Istanbul would once again embrace their religion (and likely it will embrace some version of it for a short while per Revelation 13:3-4,8).
The Bible indicates that Turkey will suffer mightily for some of its actions, including apparently how it will help destroy the Jewish nation of Israel (perhaps as venegance for what Israel might do if Iran attacks it--which is something that I have suspected in the past):
12 'Thus says the Lord God: "Because of what Edom did against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended by avenging itself on them," 13 therefore thus says the Lord God: "I will also stretch out My hand against Edom, cut off man and beast from it, and make it desolate from Teman; Dedan shall fall by the sword. 14 I will lay My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel, that they may do in Edom according to My anger and according to My fury; and they shall know My vengeance," says the Lord God. (Ezekiel 25:12-14)
15 As you rejoiced because the inheritance of the house of Israel was desolate, so I will do to you; you shall be desolate, O Mount Seir, as well as all of Edom — all of it! Then they shall know that I am the Lord. (Ezekiel 35:15)
19 "Egypt shall be a desolation,
And Edom a desolate wilderness,
Because of violence against the people of Judah,
For they have shed innocent blood in their land. (Joel 3:19)
11 Thus says the Lord: "For three transgressions of Edom, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
Because he pursued his brother with the sword,
And cast off all pity;
His anger tore perpetually,
And he kept his wrath forever. (Amos 1:11)
8 "Will I not in that day," says the Lord,"Even destroy the wise men from Edom, And understanding from the mountains of Esau? 9 Then your mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, To the end that everyone from the mountains of Esau
May be cut off by slaughter.
10 "For violence against your brother Jacob, Shame shall cover you, And you shall be cut off forever. 11 In the day that you stood on the other side— In the day that strangers carried captive his forces, When foreigners entered his gates
And cast lots for Jerusalem— Even you were as one of them. (Obadiah 8-11)
17 "Edom also shall be an astonishment;
Everyone who goes by it will be astonished
And will hiss at all its plagues.
18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah
And their neighbors," says the Lord,
"No one shall remain there,
Nor shall a son of man dwell in it. (Jeremiah 49:17-18)
Though, like others, salvation will be available to the Turks. But apparently because of how the Turks are expected to betray Israel, God has a special punishment first. More on Turkey can also be found in article Turkey in Prophecy as well as the video What Should You Know About Turkey in Prophecy.
An Islamic Middle East Confederation is Coming, Likely with a "Mahdi"
Some in Islam have taught several things about the Mahdi that suggest that he is the King of the South of the Bible. Notice the following:
Rasaullah [Muhammed] said: "There will be four peace agreements between you and the Romans [Christians]. The fourth agreement will be mediated through a person who will be the progeny of Hadrat Haroon [Honorable Aaron -- Moses' brother] and will be upheld for seven years (Richardson J. Antichrist: Islam's Awaited Messiah. Pleasant Word, 2006, p. 48)
The above sounds similar to the seven year (one week in biblical language) agreement discussed in Daniel 9:27 that involves a "prince" who appears to be the one the Bible warns will become the King of the North and apparently the nation of Israel. It certainly would make sense that there would be Muslim representation in a peace deal.
However, the Bible shows that this deal will be broken (Daniel 9:27; see also The 'Peace Deal' of Daniel 9:27) and the King of the North will invade Jerusalem (Daniel 11:31) and ultimately the King of the South (Daniel 11:40-43). Notice that this too, however, seems to be consistent with some Islamic prophecy:
5 General anarchy and bloodshed, that no Arab household will be spared from it 6 Then a life of peace as a result of a peace agreement between you and the Banil Asfaar (Romans) which they will break and attack you with a force consisting of eighty flags and under each flag will be an army of twelve thousand men. (Ibn Zubair Ali, Mohammed Ali. The minor signs of Last Days from: The Signs of Qiyamah. http://www.islamawareness.net/Prophecies/minor.html viewed 08/11/12).
Notice that not only biblical and Catholic prophecy indicate that the King of the South/Great Arab will be betrayed, even Islam indicates that the Roman "Catholics" will turn against the Madhi (and then the powers of Antichrist, according to another Islamic writing, will reign--see below).
Perhaps I should mention here that a preliminary deal to allow the Europeans and Northern Africans to co-operate did begin on July 13, 2008. And this deal involves a president for the North and a president for the South:
New York Times - July 14, 2008 PARIS — Leaders of 43 nations with nearly 800 million inhabitants inaugurated a “Union for the Mediterranean” on Sunday, meant to bring the northern and southern countries that ring the sea closer together through practical projects dealing with the environment, climate, transportation, immigration and policing.
But the meeting was also an opportunity for President Nicolas Sarkozy of France to exercise some highly public Middle East diplomacy...
The union has northern and southern co-presidents — to start, Mr. Sarkozy and President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt…
Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, who insisted that the Sarkozy project include all European Union members, called the session “a very, very good start for a new phase in the cooperation” between Europe and the south (Sarkozy Helps to Bring Syria Out of Isolation. New York Times, July 14, 2008. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/14/world/europe/14france.html?em&ex=1216094400&en=bfad08e20a1536e6&ei=5087%0A).
Thus, the idea that the Bible first shows cooperation between the Kings of the North and South (Daniel 11:27) appears to be becoming fulfilled in our day--and while Hosni Mubarak is likely no longer considered to be the co-president from the South, a structure for European and North African cooperation is in place. But according to the Bible, the end of the cooperation is also going to occur (Daniel 11:40).
If the Madhi is supposed to be betrayed, why would any Muslims support him?
The first is that it is a tenant of Islam to "believe in the last days," hence the understanding is that are to be believed (even though most Shi'a and Sunni disagree on the specifics).
The second is that many expect that the Madhi will make the world Islamic:
The Madhi will be victorius and eradicate those pigs and gods and the idols of this time...
The Mahdi...will cause Islam to be the only religion practiced on the Earth (Richardson J. Antichrist: Islam's Awaited Messiah. Pleasant Word, 2006, pp. 46,50-51)
(Although this will not happen, it is likely that more of certain regions of the world will embrace Islam for a while).
The third is that certain Muslims believe that Jesus returns after the Mahdi and hence that the Madhi is a necessary step. Notice the following:
The last days, as described in Islam, are marked by the figures of Gog and Magog (Juj wa Jajuj), the Mahdi, the Antichrist (Dajjal), and Jesus...Gog and Magog, representing the forces of chaos, have been kept at bay...At the end of time, chaos will break through the wall of Divinely imposed order, and the world will succumb to "outer darkness". At the same time, it is believed, there will be a countercurrent, or a brief return to the state of spiritual lucidity and primordial integrity that obtained at the dawn of time. This is the reign of the Mahdi, the "rightly guided one"...
The reign of the Mahdi will be followed by that of the Antichrist... once the Antichrist has led away his followers, Jesus will then come to destroy the Antichrist in the closing moments of the cosmic drama.
Belief in the Mahdi has been rejected by noted Sunni authorities... (Glasse C. New Encyclopedia of Islam: A Revised Edition of the Concise Encyclopedia of Islam, 3rd edition, 2008, pp. 143, 316).
Some in Islam seem to essentially understand that the reign of the Beast and Antichrist will happen after the Mahdi's death. Now this is true, for the Arab lands. However, the Beast (King of the North) will rule in Europe and in some of the American lands, though, prior to his reign over Arab lands as the Great Tribulation begins with Daniel 11:39, and not Daniel 11:40 when the Kings of the North and South fight.
Mid-Term Prophecy Involving the Arabic Peoples
The Arab world controls much of the world's oil. And Egypt itself now has significant reserves of gold. The oil to a large degree (and gold to a much smaller degree) is used by the Arab world to trade with the Europeans and others for a variety of goods.
The Bible says that during the end-time, many of the nations will have become wealthy trading with Babylon (the restored European Empire which will profess some apparently ecumenical form of Catholicism):
3 For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury (Revelation 18:3).
Thus, the Arab world, along with non-Arab nations, appears to be prophesied to attain wealth from the coming restored European Empire.
Many Will Worship the Beast
When people in the Arab world and elsewhere see the Beast power they will marvel:
8 The beast that you saw was, and is not, and will ascend out of the bottomless pit and go to perdition. And those who dwell on the earth will marvel, whose names are not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet is (Revelation 17:8).
They will marvel because of the great wealth, because they did not think Europe would gain such prominence, and because its leadership will have performed various signs and wonders. And perhaps also if one who claims to be Mary appear in their lands.
God indicates that the Arabs, Judah, and Turkey will all, in time, be subject to His punishment:
25 "Behold, the days are coming," says the Lord, "that I will punish all who are circumcised with the uncircumcised — 26 Egypt, Judah, Edom, the people of Ammon, Moab, and all who are in the farthest corners, who dwell in the wilderness. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart." (Jeremiah 9:25-26)
But before continuing, perhaps some information on the Islamic view of Jesus' mother Mary may be helpful:
Mary in Islam (مريم "Maryam" in Arabic), the mother of Jesus, is venerated as a righteous woman. She is mentioned more times in the Qur'an than in the entire New Testament. According to the Qur'an, Jesus (called 'Isa in Arabic) was born miraculously by the will of God without a father. His mother is regarded as a chaste and virtuous woman and is a highly respected figure in Islam. The Qur'an states that Jesus was the result of a virgin birth, but that neither Mary nor her son was divine. In the Qur'an, no other woman is given more attention than Mary. The nineteenth sura of the Qur'an is named after her and is, to some extent, about her life. Of the Qur'an's 114 suras, she is among only eight people who have a sura named after them. In Islam, she is generally referred to as Maryam, Umm Isa (Mary, the mother of Jesus). For Muslims she is a symbol of submission to God and piety. (Mary in Islam. Wikipedia, viewed 12/19/08).
Question: What does the Qur'an say about Mary, the mother of Jesus?
Answer: The Qur'an speaks of Mary (called Miriam in Arabic) not only as the mother of Jesus, but as a righteous woman in her own right. There is even a chapter of the Qur'an named for her (the 19th chapter of the Qur'an). For more information about Muslim beliefs regarding Jesus, please visit the FAQ Index. Below are some direct quotations from the Qur'an regarding Mary.
"Relate in the Book (the story of) Mary, when she withdrew from her family to a place in the East. She placed a screen (to screen herself) from them. Then We sent her our angel, and he appeared before her as a man in all respects. She said, 'I seek refuge from you to God Most Gracious! Do not come near me, if you fear God!' He said, 'No, I am only a messenger from your Lord, (to announce) to you the gift of a holy son.' She said, 'How shall I have a son, seeing that no man has touched me, and I am not unchaste?' He said, 'So (it will be). Your Lord says, 'That is easy for Me, and (We wish) to appoint him as a Sign unto men, and a Mercy from Us. It is a matter (so) decreed'" (19:16-21, the Chapter of Mary)
"Behold! The angels said, 'Oh Mary! God has chosen you and purified you, chosen you above the women of all nations. Oh Mary! Worship your Lord devoutly. Prostrate yourself, and bow down (in prayer) with those who bow down'" (3:42-43).
"And (remember) she who guarded her chastity. We breathed into her of Our spirit, and We made her and her son a sign for all peoples (21:91).
[While describing people who were good examples for others] "...And Mary, the daughter of 'Imran, who guarded her chastity. And We breathed into (her body) of Our spirit. She testified to the truth of the words of her Lord and of His Revelations, and was one of the devout (servants)" (66:12).
"Christ, the son of Mary, was no more than a messenger; many were the messengers that passed away before him. His mother was a woman of truth. They had both to eat their (daily) food. See how God makes His signs clear to them; yet see in what ways they are deluded away from the truth!" (5:75). (What does the Qur'an say about Mary, the mother of Jesus? By Huda, About.com http://islam.about.com/cs/jesus/f/mary.htm viewed 12/19/08)
Since many within the Islamic world have a certain reverence towards Mary, it is possible that if some apparition claiming to be Mary appears in some Arabic location[s] that this might temporarily persuade the Arabs and their allies to somewhat accept the Beast (see also Mary, the Mother of Jesus and the Apparitions).
Notice what two Catholic prophetesses have proclaimed concerning Mary and Islam:
Blessed Mary of Agreda (17th century): It was revealed to me that through the intercession of the Mother of God all heresies will disappear. The victory over heresies had been reserved by Christ for His Blessed Mother. In the last times, the Lord will in a special manner spread the renown of His Mother: Mary began salvation, and by her intercession it will be completed. Before the second coming of Christ, Mary must, more than ever, shine in mercy, might, and grace in order to bring unbelievers into the Catholic Faith. The power of Mary in the last times over the demons will be very conspicuous. Mary will extend the reign of Christ over the heathen and the Mohammedans…(Connor, Edward. Prophecy for Today. Imprimatur + A.J. Willinger, Bishop of Monterey-Fresno; Reprint: Tan Books and Publishers, Rockford (IL), 1984, p. 49)
St. Louis-Marie Grignion De Montfort (18th century): The power of Mary over all the devils will be particularly outstanding in the last period of time. She will extend the Kingdom of Christ over the idolaters and Moslems, and there will come glorious era when Mary is the Ruler and Queen of Hearts.(Dupont, p. 33)
Hence some Catholics apparently believe that "Mary" (see Mary, the Mother of Jesus and the Apparitions) will somehow convert/rule over the followers of Islam. Yet the Bible is clear that those in the Islamic world need to be careful not respond to deceptions of any kind (which includes apparitions).
3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. 5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? 6 And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. 9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, 10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. (2 Thessalonians 2:3-10)
But because of various actions, people throughout the world, including in the Arab world will (to some degree) worship a false leader:
Revelation 13:1-9 Then I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name. 2 Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority. 3 And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast. 4 So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, "Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?" 5 And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months. 6 Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. 7 It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation. 8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. 9 If anyone has an ear, let him hear. (Revelation 13:1-9).
But this will not last. And when you see these things coming to pass, while your nation may be deceived, you do not have to be.
God will provide another witness to the entire world at that time:
3 And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth." 4 These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands standing before the God of the earth... 7 Now when they finish their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit will make war against them, overcome them, and kill them. 8 And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. Then those from the peoples, tribes, tongues, and nations will see their dead bodies three-and-a-half days, and not allow their dead bodies to be put into graves (Revelation 11:3-4,7-9).
And although the above seems a little bleak, understand that people from many nations will have noticed the two witnesses.
Furthermore, many will understand the message of those witnesses and many will be called of God then:
9 I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands, 10 and crying out with a loud voice, saying, "Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!" (Revelation 7:9-10).
Those of the Arab nations will certainly be among those of "all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues" who will have responded. And more will respond after they are resurrected from the dead. Hence when you see the two witnesses rise up performing miracles and preaching against the future European Beast power, you should resist. More on the two witnesses can be found in the article Who Are The Two Witnesses?
Problems and certain blessings are prophesied:
1 The burden against Damascus. "Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city, And it will be a ruinous heap. (Isaiah 17:1)
18 In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear by the Lord of hosts; one will be called the City of Destruction. 19 In that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the Lord at its border. 20 And it will be for a sign and for a witness to the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to the Lord because of the oppressors, and He will send them a Savior and a Mighty One, and He will deliver them. 21 Then the Lord will be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know the Lord in that day, and will make sacrifice and offering; yes, they will make a vow to the Lord and perform it. 22 And the Lord will strike Egypt, He will strike and heal it; they will return to the Lord, and He will be entreated by them and heal them. 23 In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian will come into Egypt and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians will serve with the Assyrians. 24 In that day Israel will be one of three with Egypt and Assyria — a blessing in the midst of the land, 25 whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, "Blessed is Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance." (Isaiah 19:18-25)
These events will come to pass--Damascus could get destroyed soon, or perhaps in a few years related to Daniel 11:40-43. And since Egypt basically already speaks modern the "language of Canaan" (which is now, to a great degree Arabic), as opposed to to Egyptian, the other events are getting closer. (As far as Syria goes, see also the YouTube video Damascus and Syria in Prophecy).
The Arab World Will Be First Major Block to Recognize the Falsehood of the Beast
Lest any have the misimpression that the Arabs are not a discerning people, it needs to be understood that they will apparently be the first major block to recognize the falsehood of this European power. And this may also include those in Iran.
The late John Ogwyn wrote:
A powerful war-making apparatus marshaled by the coming European superpower will be billed as the cornerstone of world peace and security. Modern technology will be used to create a police-state that Hitler and Stalin could only have dreamed about. People will be induced to accept such draconian measures as the price of getting rid of terrorism and violent crime. At first, this system will bring an upsurge in the world economy. A worldwide trading combine, prophesied in Ezekiel 27 and Revelation 18, will be hailed as the key to universal prosperity. Those at the helm of this system will, for a short time, enjoy unparalleled wealth.
Yet fatal flaws in this system, inherent from its beginning, will in time produce widening disparities. The Arab world will be displeased by attempts to coerce it into religious unity with Europe. A powerful leader—called in Daniel 11 the “king of the South”—will...bring about temporary unity of much of the Islamic world. Provoked by this leader, Europe will launch a “blitzkrieg” resulting in European occupation of much of the Arab world (Daniel 11:40–43). (Ogwyn J. The Beast of Revelation: Myth, Metaphor or Soon-Coming Reality? Online version 03/14/07.)
Probably because of its attempts to dominate the world and its religions by the king of the North, the king of the South will become displeased.
According to Shi'ite prophecy, a great leader, called the Mahdi or thirteenth Imam is to rise up. Many Muslims are expected rally behind him as he attempts to attack the West. However, according to biblical and Catholic prophecies, while he will have limited success, he will lose. Sunni Muslims, who tend not to accept the Mahdi prophecies, should not follow this leader as the Bible is clear that he will be overpowered.
But before this occurs, the King of the North will destroy the United States and its Anglo-American allies (Daniel 11:39, see also Anglo - America in Prophecy).
Once this comes to pass, all Arabs and others, should WAKE UP as the King of the North will then destroy a major Middle Eastern power.
Notice what Daniel was inspired to write:
40 At the time of the end the king of the South will engage him in battle, and the king of the North will storm out against him with chariots and cavalry and a great fleet of ships. 41 He will invade many countries and sweep through them like a flood. He will also invade the Beautiful Land. Many countries will fall, but Edom, Moab and the leaders of Ammon will be delivered from his hand. 42 He will extend his power over many countries; Egypt will not escape. 43 He will gain control of the treasures of gold and silver and all the riches of Egypt, with the Libyans and Nubians in submission (Daniel 11:40-43, NIV).
In the verses above we see that after the "king of the North" invades the "king of the South", certain countries will be not be harmed. This is apparently because they continued to cooperate with the king of the North and hence were not invaded/destroyed--this apparently is referring to Turkey (Edom), Jordan (Moab) and some of the top Arab leaders ("the prominent people of Ammon") or perhaps some smaller countries (like Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Ajmān and perhaps others that make up the United Arab Emirates and other lands, like Qatar)--it is likely that those that escape the wrath of the King of the North are among supposed allies of the King of the South who will betray the King of the South per Daniel 11:25-26). Yet, other Arab nations, such as Egypt and Libya will not fair as well. Some peoples who speak Arabic, but are not ethnically Arabic (like the Nubians) will also not fair well--suggesting that the king of the South is supported by more than just those who are ethnically Arabic.
But it may be important to understand that the Roman Catholics have some private prophecies that sounds very similar to Daniel 11:40--and the Catholics teach that their political leader (who they call a great monarch or the prince of the North, see also The Great Monarch: Biblical and Catholic Prophecies) will destroy many Moslems (most Arabs practice the religion of Islam and consider themselves the descendants of Ishmael):
Pseudo-Methodius (7th century): This new Muslim invasion will be a punishment without limit and mercy…In France, people of Christians will fight and kill them…At that same time the Muslims will be killed and they will know the tribulation…The Lord will give them to the powers of the Christians whose empire will be elevated above all empires…The Roman King (Great Monarch) will show a great indignation against those who will have denied Christ in Egypt or in Arabia (Araujo, Fabio R. Selected Prophecies and Prophets. BookSurge LLC, Charlestown (SC), 2007, p. 103).
Rudolph Gekner (died 1675). "A great prince of the North with a most powerful army will traverse all Europe, uproot all republics, and exterminate all rebels. His sword moved by Divine power will most valiantly defend the Church of Jesus Christ. He will combat on behalf of the true orthodox faith, and shall subdue to his dominion the Mahometan Empire. A new pastor of the universal church will come from the shore (of Dalmatia) through a celestial prodigy, and in simplicity of heart adorned with the doctrines of Jesus Christ. Peace will come to the world." (Cited in Connor, Edward. Prophecy for Today. Imprimatur + A.J. Willinger, Bishop of Monterey-Fresno; Reprint: Tan Books and Publishers, Rockford (IL), 1984, p.36).
Holzhauser (died 1658)...There will rise a valiant monarch anointed by God. He will be a Catholic, a descendant of Louis IX, (yet) a descendant of an ancient imperial German family, born in exile. He will rule supreme in temporal matters. The Pope will rule supreme in spiritual matters at the same time. Persecution will cease and justice shall reign. Religion seems to be oppressed, but by the changes of entire kingdoms it will be made more firm.
"He will root out false doctrines and destroy the rule of the Moslemism. His dominion will extend from the East to the West. All nations will adore God their Lord according to Catholic teaching (ibid).
And while the Church of God and the Bible warn against this leader of the North (Daniel 11:36-38), Roman Catholics apparently will embrace him. It should be noted that most Muslims do not like to be called Mahometans or Mohammedans as they feel it implies that they worship Mohammed--but these terms are used in a variety of Catholic prophecies. There are many Catholic prophecies that look forward to the destruction of the Muslims by their "Great Monarch" (see The Great Monarch: Biblical and Catholic Prophecies and Catholic Prophecies: Do They Mirror, Highlight, or Contradict Biblical Prophecies?). Yet, unlike the Catholics, we in the Continuing Church of God consider this invader from the North to be the despicable beast power that should not be obeyed.
Any way one looks at it, it is important to watch the Middle East as prophecies are going to be fulfilled there as Jesus Himself taught (Luke 21:20,36).
Islamic Prophecy Looks Forward to the Confrontation
Notice the following concerning Islamic and other prophecies:
Islamic eschatology from its very beginnings embraced the necessity of violently conquering the world and gathering up souls to the faith before the expected hour of judgment - a notion that has risen and fallen over the centuries, but in past decades has received new impetus from Islamist revivalist movements.
It is partly a mirror image of the Protestant Christian tradition (a world made entirely Islamic, with Jesus as Mohammed’s lieutenant), partly a fantasy of the inevitable return of “sacred space”, the Caliphate, that includes most of Spain, parts of France, the entire Middle East, right up to the borders of China. As with the Christian scheme, Islam foretells of the destruction or conversion of the Jews…
In Jamkaran, a village not far from the holy city of Qum, a small mosque is undergoing a $20m-expansion, driven forward by Ahmadinejad’s office. Within the Shi’ite apocalyptic tradition, the Twelfth Imam, the Mahdi, who disappeared in the ninth century, is expected to reappear in a well behind the mosque.
His re-emergence will signify the beginning of the end days. He will lead the battle against the Dajjal, the Islamic version of the anti-Christ, and with Jesus as his follower, will establish the global Dar el Salaam, the dominion of peace, under Islam (McEwan, Ian. The day of judgment. The Guardian, May 31, 2008 http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2283072,00.html and http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2283101,00.html).
So, as mentioned earlier, many in Islam appear to be looking towards the time that Islam will fight a major war and take over the world. Perhaps I should add that both Islamic and Catholic prophecies expect this–both even look forward to it, and both believe it is their side that will win for a while–and while the Bible does reveal which side wins that confrontation (Daniel 11:40-43), it also shows that the “Catholic winner” will be destroyed (for additional details please see Who is the King of the North?).
The Bible Shows that the Beast Initially Wins, But Syria May Have Destruction Before the Beast Rises
Islamic and biblical prophecy discuss devastation in Syria.
There are various Islamic views on the leader, the Imam Mahdi rising up (who could be the King of the South of Daniel 11:40-43). Here is one that suggests he does after Syria has problems:
Traditions have been reported mentioning the signs for the time of the appearance of the Imam who will arise (qa'im), peace be on him, and the events which will take place before his appearance, together with the indications and features of it. Among them are: The Sufyani will come out in revolt; the Hasanid will be killed; the Abbasids will dispute over worldly kingdom; there will be an eclipse of the sun in the middle of the month of Ramadan; there will be an eclipse of the moon at the end of that month in contrast to ordinary happenings; the land will be swallowed up at al-Bayda'; it will be swallowed in the east-it will be swallowed up in the west; the sun will stay still from the time of its decline to the middle of the time for the afternoon prayer; it will rise from the west; a pure soul (nafs zakiyya) will be killed in the outskirts of Kufa with seventy righteous men; a Hashimite will be slaughtered between the corner (of the Ka'ba) and the station of Abraham); the wall of the mosque of Kufa will be destroyed; black standards will advance from Khurasan; al-Yamani will come out in revolt; al-Maghribi will appear in Egypt and take possession of it from Syria; the Turk will occupy the region of al-Jazira; the Byzantines will occupy Ramla; the star will appear in the east giving light just like the moon gives light; then (the new moon) will bend until its two tips almost meet; a colour will appear in the sky and spread to its horizons; a fire will appear for a long time in the east remaining in the air for three or seven days; the Arabs will throw off the reins and take possession of their land, throwing out the foreign authority; the people of Egypt will kill their ruler and destroy Syria; and three standards will dispute over it (Syria)...
The Abbasids will dispute; a voice will call from the sky; one of the villages of Syria called al-Jabiyya will be swallowed up; the Turks will occupy the region of al-Jazira; the Byzantines will attack al-Ramla; at that time there will be much conflict throughout the land until Syria is destroyed.
(Kitab al Irshad Chapter: The Twelfth Imam (Peace be on him) Page (s): 541 - 548 Published by Tehrike Tersile Qura'n. Contributed by Br. Ali Abbas, abbas@seas.gwu.edu http://www.al-islam.org/masoom/bios/12thimam.html viewed 7/22/12)
But, it should be noted that another Islamic view somewhat differs with this as it states that Damascus will be the Mahdi's capital (other Islamists have stated that Jerusalem will be the capital):
Mahdi will be very just and his capital will be Damascus. (Who Is Imam al-Mahdi? http://www.islamicweb.com/history/mahdi.htm viewed 07/02/14)
The black standard is also known as "the banner of the eagle" (Black Standard, Wikipedia, viewed 08/02/12). A flag is considered to be a ‘standard.’ Merriam-Webster defines a standard to include: “an organization flag carried by a mounted or motorized military unit.” The black flag that ISIS, Al-Shabaab, and some of the other Jihadists use certainly would seem to qualify here. It is very likely that is probably part of the reason why they use a black flag.
Isaiah shows that Syria, too, will become a “ruinous heap” (17:1-3). (Stump K. The Arab World in Prophecy. Plain Truth, December 1979)
Various prophetic books of the Bible prophecy the destruction of at least parts of Syria (or at least its capital Damascus), the Cushites (many are in Sudan, Somalia, and southern Egypt), those in Gaza, and the Egyptians:
1 An oracle concerning Damascus:
"See, Damascus will no longer be a city but will become a heap of ruins. 2 The cities of Aroer will be deserted and left to flocks, which will lie down,with no one to make them afraid. 3 The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,and royal power from Damascus;the remnant of Aram will be like the glory of the Israelites," declares the LORD Almighty.
4 "In that day the glory of Jacob will fade;the fat of his body will waste away. 5 It will be as when a reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests the grain with his arm--as when a man gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim. 6 Yet some gleanings will remain,as when an olive tree is beaten,leaving two or three olives on the topmost branches, four or five on the fruitful boughs," declares the LORD, the God of Israel.
7 In that day men will look to their Maker and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel. 8 They will not look to the altars,the work of their hands,and they will have no regard for the Asherah poles and the incense altars their fingers have made.
9 In that day their strong cities, which they left because of the Israelites, will be like places abandoned to thickets and undergrowth. And all will be desolation.
10 You have forgotten God your Savior; you have not remembered the Rock, your fortress. Therefore, though you set out the finest plants and plant imported vines, 11 though on the day you set them out, you make them grow, and on the morning when you plant them, you bring them to bud, yet the harvest will be as nothing in the day of disease and incurable pain.
12 Oh, the raging of many nations--they rage like the raging sea! Oh, the uproar of the peoples--they roar like the roaring of great waters! 13 Although the peoples roar like the roar of surging waters,when he rebukes them they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweed before a gale. 14 In the evening, sudden terror! Before the morning, they are gone! This is the portion of those who loot us, the lot of those who plunder us.
1 Woe to the land of whirring wings along the rivers of Cush, 2 which sends envoys by sea in papyrus boats over the water.
Go, swift messengers,to a people tall and smooth-skinned,to a people feared far and wide,an aggressive nation of strange speech,whose land is divided by rivers.
3 All you people of the world,you who live on the earth,when a banner is raised on the mountains,you will see it,and when a trumpet sounds,you will hear it. 4 This is what the LORD says to me:"I will remain quiet and will look on from my dwelling place,like shimmering heat in the sunshine,like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest." 5 For, before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the shoots with pruning knives, and cut down and take away the spreading branches. 6 They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey and to the wild animals;the birds will feed on them all summer, the wild animals all winter.
7 At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD Almighty from a people tall and smooth-skinned,from a people feared far and wide,an aggressive nation of strange speech,whose land is divided by rivers-- the gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the LORD Almighty.
1 An oracle concerning Egypt:
See, the LORD rides on a swift cloud and is coming to Egypt.
The idols of Egypt tremble before him, and the hearts of the Egyptians melt within them.
2 "I will stir up Egyptian against Egyptian--brother will fight against brother,
neighbor against neighbor, city against city, kingdom against kingdom.
3 The Egyptians will lose heart,
and I will bring their plans to nothing;
they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead,
the mediums and the spiritists.
4 I will hand the Egyptians over
to the power of a cruel master,
and a fierce king will rule over them,"
declares the Lord, the LORD Almighty (Isaiah 17-19:4 NIV).
3 Thus says the Lord:
“For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment…5 I will also break the gate bar of Damascus,
And cut off the inhabitant from the Valley of Aven,
And the one who holds the scepter from Beth Eden.
The people of Syria shall go captive to Kir,”
"For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four,
Because they took captive the whole captivity
To deliver them up to Edom.
7 But I will send a fire upon the wall of Gaza,
Which shall devour its palaces.
8 I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod,
And the one who holds the scepter from Ashkelon;
I will turn My hand against Ekron,
And the remnant of the Philistines shall perish,"
Says the Lord God. (Amos 1:3, 5-8)
1 The word of the LORD came to me: 2 "Son of man, prophesy and say: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says:
"'Wail and say,
"Alas for that day!"
3 For the day is near,
the day of the LORD is near-
a day of clouds,
a time of doom for the nations.
4 A sword will come against Egypt,
and anguish will come upon Cush.
When the slain fall in Egypt,
her wealth will be carried away
and her foundations torn down.
5 Cush and Put, Lydia and all Arabia, Libya and the people of the covenant land will fall by the sword along with Egypt.
6 "'This is what the LORD says:
"'The allies of Egypt will fall
and her proud strength will fail.
From Migdol to Aswan
they will fall by the sword within her,
declares the Sovereign LORD.
7 "'They will be desolate
among desolate lands,
and their cities will lie
among ruined cities.
8 Then they will know that I am the LORD,
when I set fire to Egypt
and all her helpers are crushed.
9 "'On that day messengers will go out from me in ships to frighten Cush out of her complacency. Anguish will take hold of them on the day of Egypt's doom, for it is sure to come (Ezekiel 30:1-9, NIV).
11 "For thus says the Lord God: 'The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you. 12 By the swords of the mighty warriors, all of them the most terrible of the nations, I will cause your multitude to fall. 'They shall plunder the pomp of Egypt, And all its multitude shall be destroyed. (Ezekiel 32:11-12)
It is possible that many of the above verses will be fulfilled when the king of the North invades the king of the South fulfilling Daniel 11:40-43 (though Damascus could possibly be destroyed years sooner).
Notice that the late Herbert W. Armstrong wrote that the king of the North is involved in the final crisis in the close of this age and involves "the beast and the false prophet" in Daniel chapter 11:
Verse 40 -- "And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him ...."...There is yet another leader to arise in Europe! Notice what will next happen!
Verse 41 -- "He shall enter also into the glorious land ... " -- the Holy Land. This is yet to be fulfilled.
When the coming revival of the Roman Empire takes the Holy Land, then the nations will be plunged into the initial phase of the great, last and final crisis at the close of this age!...
Verse 45 -- the coming Roman Empire shall establish its palace, as capital of the revived Roman Empire, and eventually its religious headquarters, at Jerusalem! Zechariah 14:2 says the city shall be taken! "Yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him"! This language signifies the end of the "beast" and the "false prophet" at the hand of God! You will find this end described in Revelation 19:19-20 and Zechariah 14:12. (Armstrong HW. The Middle East in Prophecy. Worldwide Church of God, 1972 edition).
As mentioned before, although the Beast is destroyed, that initially, the Bible shows that Beast (the King of the North) wins against the North African/Middle East confederation (Daniel 11:40-43).
More Mid-Term Prophecies Involving the Arabs and Other Peoples
In Revelation 16, we also see that God will issue punishment to nearly all of humanity after Babylon (the European Empire) falls:
Revelation 16:17-21 17 Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, "It is done!" 18 And there were noises and thunderings and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such a mighty and great earthquake as had not occurred since men were on the earth. 19 Now the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And great Babylon was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath. 20 Then every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. 21 And great hail from heaven fell upon men, each hailstone about the weight of a talent. Men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, since that plague was exceedingly great. (Revelation 16:17-21)
God sends the punishments to get all humans, including the Arabs, to repent, but they (like others) refused at first:
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent and give Him glory (Revelation 16:9).
Repentance for the Nations or You?
Since the Arabic nations are prophecied to be involved with Babylon and various wars, what about you?
Does this mean that you are doomed?
God does not require "group salvation."
The Apostle Paul wrote:
12...work out your own salvation with fear and trembling... (Philippians 2:12)
Thus, your personal relationship with God is not determined by what your fellow countrymen do.
Can, will, God help you during the coming tribulation?
Notice the prophecy for this latter time tribulation in the Hebrew scriptures:
29 But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. 30 When you are in distress, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, when you turn to the Lord your God and obey His voice 31 (for the Lord your God is a merciful God), He will not forsake you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them. (Deuteronomy 4:29-31)
Thus, help from God during these hard times will be available to the truly sincere who really strive for it. This includes not only the Arabic peoples, but the Turks, Iranians, and all others.
Some items of possible interest may include:
Just What Do You Mean -- Repentance? Do you know what repentance is? Have you truly repented? Repented of what? Herbert W. Armstrong wrote this as a booklet on this important subject.
Do Christians Sin? This is an article by Herbert W. Armstrong.
Overcoming Sin What is sin? How are Christians suppose to overcome it? Here is a link to a version in Mandarin Chinese: 克服是重要的. Here is also a link to a video in English titled How to Overcome Sin.
How to Prevent Sin This is an article by Herbert W. Armstrong. Here is a version in Mandarin: 如何不犯罪
Real Conversion Many think that they are converted Christians. But are they? Would you like to know more about conversion.
False Conversion Have you really been converted? Herbert W. Armstrong wrote this article on this important subject.
All About Water Baptism What is baptism? Would you like to know more about it. Herbert W. Armstrong wrote this as a booklet on this important subject. As far as early history, see also Baptism and the Early Church.
God's Grace is For All Is being Jewish a hindrance to salvation? What about not being a descendant of Israel? What does the Bible really teach?
There is a Place of Safety for the Philadelphians. Why it May Be Petra This article discusses a biblical 'place of safety' and includes quotes from the Bible and Herbert W. Armstrong on this subject--thus, there is a biblically supported alternative to the rapture theory. There is also a video on the subject: Might Petra be the Place of Safety? Here is something related in the Spanish language: Hay un lugar de seguridad para los Filadelfinos. ¿Puede ser Petra?
Read the Bible Christians should read and study the Bible. This article gives some rationale for regular bible reading. Here is a link in Mandarin Chinese: 读圣经 Here is a link in the Spanish language: Lea la Biblia.
Bible: Superstition or Authority? Should you rely on the Bible? Is it reliable? Herbert W. Armstrong wrote this as a booklet on this important subject.
What Happens to the Arabic and Other Peoples After These Problems?
After all the prophesied battles and punishments, the tribulation will end. And Christ will return:
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30 Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory (Matthew 24:29-30).
And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS (Revelation 19:16).
This will usher in a kingdom that will be established for 1,000 years:
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. 5 But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years (Revelation 20:4-6).
And people of many nations, including those of the Arab world, will be part of this kingdom:
9 After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb (Revelation 7:9).
(An article of related interest may include Did The Early Church Teach Millenarianism and a 6000 Year Plan?)
After the thousand years are over, there will be problems, and then all will be resurrected:
7 Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison 8 and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea. 9 They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them. 10 The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. 11 Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. 13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works (Revelation 20:7-13).
1 Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 "Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him, 3 and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal. 4 I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and lead you out, with all your army, horses, and horsemen, all splendidly clothed, a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords. 5 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya are with them, all of them with shield and helmet; 6 Gomer and all its troops; the house of Togarmah from the far north and all its troops--many people are with you...
14 "Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say to Gog, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "On that day when My people Israel dwell safely, will you not know it? 15 Then you will come from your place out of the far north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army. 16 You will come up against My people Israel like a cloud, to cover the land. It will be in the latter days that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me, when I am hallowed in you, O Gog, before their eyes."
...22 And I will bring him to judgment with pestilence and bloodshed; I will rain down on him, on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, flooding rain, great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. 23 Thus I will magnify Myself and sanctify Myself, and I will be known in the eyes of many nations. Then they shall know that I am the LORD." ' (Ezekiel 38:1-6,14-16, 22-23).
It is important to note that all remaining are judged at the second resurrection, but not all are condemned. However, prior to the second resurrection, apparently a Russian-led confederation (which will include Iranians and perhaps some Arabs) will rebel and attempt to attack God's people (apparently in Jerusalem)--but they will not be successful. They will be destroyed, but will be raised in the second resurrection.
When is Salvation Available to the Arabic, Turkish, & Persian Peoples?
The mainstream "Christian" view correctly teaches that there is salvation in no other than Jesus (Acts 4:10-12), as "there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved" (vs.12).
But what happens to the multitudes in the Arab, Turkish, and Persian world who have not heard the truth of Christ? What happens to those who do not respond to Deuteronomy 4:29-31 or the two witnesses? And what happens to those born before Christ's earthly ministry? Recall that the Bible teaches that after Adam sinned, humankind was blocked from the tree of life as God had it guarded so that humans would not be able to access it on their own (Genesis 3:22-24).
Even the basic Protestant view is that unless one professes belief in Jesus prior to the first death, then salvation will be unavailable. It is perhaps because of the difference between this view and that of the Church of God, that Protestants tend to label Church of God groups as cults.
The Church of God teaches that God is only calling a relatively few during this age with the Day of Pentecost (also called the Day of Firstfruits, Numbers 28:26) partially explaining this. "Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures" (James 1:18).
Jesus and the Church of God teach,
44 No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him (John 6:44).
14 For many are called, but few are chosen (Matthew 22:14).
14 Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it (Matthew 7:14).
Protestants and Catholics tend to feel, correctly, that God uses ministers to preach (Romans 10:14). Yet, the message is not always clear. In Isaiah 6:9-11 God teaches,
9"Go, and tell this people: 'Keep on hearing, but do not understand; Keep on seeing, but do not perceive.' 10 Make the heart of this people dull, And their ears heavy, And shut their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And return and be healed." 11 Then I said, "Lord, how long?" And He answered: "Until the cities are laid waste and without inhabitant, The houses are without a man, The land is utterly desolate".
In other words, the bulk of the people are not to understand until after a time of great desolation.
Thus, is God going to condemn those for what He has not let them understand?
Protestant and Roman Catholic theology tends to say yes.
Those in the Continuing Church of God say no.
Unless the someone has committed the unpardonable sin (which is unlikely) they will be judged in the future.
Hence, those in the Muslim world are not condemned to suffer forever for what they really do not understand.
Final Prophecies Which Will Affect the Arabs and Persians
Those who were uncalled in this age (including the vast majority of humans of all ethnic groups, including those that have long been dead) will be offered an opportunity for salvation.
And nearly all of them will accept it. The Continuing Church of God teaches that God will ultimately give every individual an opportunity for salvation--and that nearly every individual will accept that opportunity.
This means that ultimately that nearly all Arabs and Persians who have ever lived will be in the permanent kingdom of God. Notice that the Bible clearly shows that this includes the Arabic peoples (and because of the to and from lands, this also includes the Persians (Elam may be a reference to Iran, see also Iran in Prophecy); and Egypt probably represents all of the Arabic peoples in Isaiah 19:23-25):
47 "Yet I will bring back the captives of Moab
In the latter days," says the Lord. Thus far is the judgment of Moab. (Jeremiah 48:47)
6 But afterward I will bring back
The captives of the people of Ammon," says the Lord. (Jeremiah 49:6)
39 'But it shall come to pass in the latter days:
I will bring back the captives of Elam,' says the Lord." (Jeremiah 49:39)
6 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab and the Hagrites; 7 Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; 16 Fill their faces with shame, That they may seek Your name, O Lord. 17 Let them be confounded and dismayed forever; Yes, let them be put to shame and perish, 18 That they may know that You, whose name alone is the Lord, Are the Most High over all the earth. (Psalms 83:6-7; 16-18)
11 It shall come to pass in that day That the LORD shall set His hand again the second time To recover the remnant of His people who are left, From Assyria and Egypt, From Pathros and Cush, From Elam and Shinar, From Hamath and the islands of the sea (Isaiah 11:11).
23 In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian will come into Egypt and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians will serve with the Assyrians. 24 In that day Israel will be one of three with Egypt and Assyria-- a blessing in the midst of the land, 25 whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, "Blessed is Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance (Isaiah 19:23-25).
2 Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. 4 And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away." (Revelation 21:2-4).
God has a plan for those in the Islamic-dominated lands and it is better than what most in them seem to believe (cf. 1 Corinthians 2:9).
Conclusion About the Arabs and Other Muslims in Prophecy
The Arab world was promised greatness in the Bible. For hundreds of years it had major historical prominence.
In the 21st century, its wealth and influence are prophesied to increase, but it will have problems. God apparently plans to use the Arab world as part of a His plan to inflict punishment on the descendants of Israel. But ultimately, Arabs, Turks, Persians, and Israelis will be at peace.
The Arab world will be the first major block to who see that the European beast power is not what it pretends to be.
Just because the whole world (and not just the Arabs) will be temporarily deceived by the rising European Beast power, you do not have to be. Hopefully this article has given you some reasons to look at the world and your life and will motivate to come to God now on His terms. To learn more about what happened to Christianity, a good place to start may be The History of Early Christianity page. May God call you today and grant you the understanding so that you will "pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man" (Luke 21:36).
Yet, because most in the Arab world (as well as the non-Arab world) do not truly strive now to know the true God, God will punish them as well as the other inhabitants on the Earth.
However, since God is a God of love, He intends to resurrect the Arabs/Turks/Persians and offer them salvation. A salvation that nearly all will accept as nearly all the Arabs who ever lived will be in the kingdom of God. A kingdom without fear or death or sorrow. A glorious kingdom. And that is the prophesied future for nearly all of the Arabs, Turks, and Persians.
Some items of related interest may include:
The Prophesied 'Islamic' Confederation Where is an Islamic caliphate prophesied? Will one happen? Should you be concerned about it? A related video is Will an Arabic Calphiphate Destroy the West?
How Will Middle East Peace be Brought About? Can humans bring peace to the Middle East? Here is a link to a related video: Middle East Peace? When?
The Muslim Brotherhood and the Rise of the King of the South The Bible tells of the formation of a power of nations that are in the Middle East and North Africa that are part of the final "King of the South" (Daniel 11:40-43) The Muslim Brotherhood wishes to have an Islamic empire with basically the same nations. This YouTube video explains what to expect from such a confederation.
Is the Future King of the South Rising Up? Some no longer believe there needs to be a future King of the South. Might Egypt, Islam, Iran, Arabs, or Ethiopia be involved? Might this King be called the Mahdi or Caliph? What does the Bible say? A YouTube video of related interest may be: The Future King of the South is Rising.
Libya, Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia in Prophecy What is ahead for North Africa? What does the Bible teach?
Gaza and the Palestinians in Bible Prophecy What does the Bible teach about Gaza and the fate of the Palestinians? Here is a link to a related video: Gaza and Palestine in Prophecy.
Egypt in Prophecy Does Egypt have a special role in end time prophecy? Will Egypt rise up and then be defeated. What does God teach will happen to those in Egypt? Here is a link to a YouTube video titled Egypt and End Time Prophecy.
Turkey in Prophecy Do you know the Turkish people descended from? Did the Ottoman Empire possibly fulfill a promise in Genesis? Will Turkey support the European King of the North or Arabic King of the South? Will it betray one of them? Will Turkey be involved in the encouraging the destruction of Israel? Is Turkey going to become Catholic? Is Turkey mentioned in Psalm 83, Daniel 11, and elsewhere in the Bible? A related video is also available: What Should You Know About Turkey in Prophecy.
Damascus and Syria in Prophecy Will Bashar Assad hold power as he has it? Does the Bible show that Damascus, the capital of Syria, will be destroyed? What will happen to Syria? Will the Syrians support the final King of the South that the Bible tells will rise up? Which scriptures discuss the rise and fall of an Arabic confederation? Does Islamic prophecy predict the destruction of Syria. This is a video.
Iraq, the King of the South, Armageddon, and Prophecy What will happen to Iraq? Is it the prophesied Mystery Babylon? What is Armageddon and how does that have to do with Iraq? Here is a related video Iraq, Armageddon, & Prophecy.
Iran in Prophecy Is Iran in Bible prophecy? If so, what does the Bible teach? What names, other than Persia, may be used to describe Iran? Here is a related video also titled Iran In Prophecy.
Jordan in Bible Prophecy What does the Bible show will happen to the inhabitants of Jordan? Will they escape and then be punished?
What Should You Know About Turkey in Prophecy Do you know the Turkish people descended from? Did the Ottoman Empire possibly fulfill a promise in Genesis? Will Turkey support the European King of the North or Arabic King of the South? Will it betray one of them? Will Turkey be involved in the encouraging the destruction of Israel? Is Turkey going to become Catholic? Is Turkey mentioned in Psalm 83, Daniel 11, and elsewhere in the Bible? This video provides answers.
Líderes iraníes condenan la hipocresía de Occidente y declaran que ahora es tiempo para prepararse para el Armagedón, la guerra, y el Imán Mahdi. Some prophecy related to the Arab world in the Spanish language.
The History of Early Christianity Are you aware that what most people believe is not what truly happened to the true Christian church? Do you know where the early church was based? Do you know what were the doctrines of the early church? Are the major professors of Christianity teachings the Bible or a faith really based upon the truth or compromise?
Universal Offer of Salvation: There Are Hundreds of Verses in the Bible Supporting the Doctrine of True Apocatastasis Do you believe what the Bible actually teaches on this? Will all good things be restored? Will God call everyone? Will everyone have an opportunity for salvation? Does God's plan of salvation take rebellion and spiritual blindness into account? Related sermon videos include Universal Offer of Salvation I: God is love and Universal Offer of Salvation II: The Age to Come and the 'Little Flock' and Universal Offer of Salvation III: All Are to Know Jesus, But When? and Universal Offer of Salvation IV: Will the Guilty be Pardoned? and Universal Offer of Salvation V: All Israel Will be Saved? A version of the main article was also translated in the Spanish language: Oferta universal de salvación: Hay cientos de versículos en la Biblia que apoyan la verdadera doctrina de la Apocatastasis.
Thiel B. The Arab and Islamic World In The Bible, History, and Prophecy. www.cogwriter.com 2007/2008/2009/2010/2011/2012/2013/2014/2015/2016/2017/2018/2019 0622
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Maguire ties the web knot in Hawaii
Spider-Man film star Tobey Maguire and fiancee Jennifer Meyer were married during a ceremony in Hawaii, his US publicist has confirmed.
Tobey Maguire and Jennifer were married in Hawaii on Monday
The couple wed on Monday night, said publicist Kelly Bush.
Maguire, 32, and Meyer have been together since 2003. The couple became engaged last year and have a daughter, Ruby, who was born in November.
Meyer is the daughter of Ron Meyer, president and chief operating officer of Universal Studios.
Maguire, best known for the Spider-Man series, also has starred in other films including Seabiscuit and Wonder Boys.
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Dina Lohan: 'Lindsay is happy and healthy in rehab'
Embattled actress LINDSAY LOHAN is "happy" and "healthy" as she serves out a court-ordered stint in rehab, according to her mother DINA LOHAN.
The Mean Girls star checked into the Betty Ford clinic in California on 3 May (13) as part of a plea deal to avoid jail after she confessed to lying to police officers about a traffic accident last year (12), violating her probation on a jewellery theft charge.
Lohan reached out to her mum on Sunday (12May13) to mark America's Mother's Day, and Dina reveals the actress is doing well as she continues with her 90-day treatment.
She tells the New York Daily News, "I just spoke to Lindsay at Betty Ford. She's doing great. She's clear, she's happy, she's healthy."
Lohan's mother had planned to visit her daughter to mark the special day, but the star insisted she stay in New York with her siblings.
Dina Lohan also slammed reports the 26 year old wanted to leave the clinic after bosses allegedly confiscated her Adderall medication, a stimulant used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
She adds, "I don't know who's saying that. It's so evil. Lindsay will do what she has to do. She just needs to breathe and find out who she is again. And she's going to stay there and do that."
The 50 year old also revealed her daughter's former legal representative Mark Heller worked for free on the case, stating, "He's an angel too. He works for us for no money."
Lohan has officially re-hired her former lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley to help her deal with the case.
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Cobblers midfielder D’Ath sold to Luton Town for undisclosed fee
LEAVING SIXFIELDS - Lawson D'Ath has been sold to Luton Town for an undisclosed fee
Jeremy Casey
Published: 13:59 Updated: 14:35 Friday 06 January 2017
Lawson D’Ath has left the Cobblers and joined Sky Bet League Two promotion challengers Luton Town.
The former Reading midfielder has been sold to the Kenilworth Road club for an undisclosed fee.
Signed by Chris Wilder in August 2014 after impressing on trial, D’Ath found his first-team opportunities limited at Sixfields throughout most of 2016.
He started just three matches in the final two months of last season, and hasn’t started a league match since Rob Page became manager.
His only appearance in Sky Bet League One was as a substitute in the 1-1 draw at Coventy City in August, while his only start this season came in the 3-0 EFL Checkatrade Trophy defeat to Wycombe Wanderers.
His only other first team football was as a late substitute in the EFL Cup first round win at Barnsley.
D’Ath, who signed a new two-and-a-half-year deal at Sixfields 12 months ago, made 65 starts for the Cobblers as well as 30 substitute appearances, and scored 13 goals.
“It makes sense for Lawson to move on to play regular first team football,” said Town boss Page.
“He has found his opportunities here limited, both this season and in the second half of last season.
“We wish Lawson every success with his future career.”
D’Ath is a former team-mate of Hatters boss Nathan Jones, with the pair having played together when D’Ath was on loan at Huish Park from Reading.
And the player jumped at the chance to sign on at Kenilworth Road, saying: “I’m delighted to be here.
“As soon as heard that Luton were interested, this is where I wanted to come. I made my mind up pretty quickly.
Curle provides fitness update after five miss Owls clash
“I know the gaffer from playing with him at Yeovil, so I know all about the way he works, and I’m really looking forward to it.
“It’s a big club as well, but working with the gaffer was a big factor and the size of the club was important. I’m really happy.”
Hatters boss Jones said: “He is a player I know very well; a young player but with real good League experience, including a promotion last year with Northampton.
“He’ll add real quality and energy to our squad.
“I played with him and he was a great lad attitude-wise. He was fit, he was energetic, he’s learned a lot since then because he’s developed physically, and mentally he’s a lot stronger.
“I knew him then so I always had him on my radar, but from the many games I’ve seen him play for Northampton, I know he’ll add a quality and bring something different to our squad.
“In the shapes that we play, he’s a round peg for a round hole. He ticks all the boxes we have here, he wants to develop, he wants to get better and he’s shown a real desire to come here in the face of having a lot of options to go to other league two clubs.
“We are delighted to have him.”
D’Ath is in line to make his Luton debut in their FA Cup third round clash at Accrington Stanley on Saturday.
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Sergio González Rodríguez
Sergio in English -- por fin
March 26, 2012 in Mexico City
One of the first posts I published on this blog was about my dear friend, the noted author Sergio González Rodríguez, whose books have been translated into various languages -- but not English. Until now.
For its Interventions series, the publisher Semiotexte commissioned an original book by Sergio called Femicide Machine. It is a chilling little work about how in Ciudad Juárez murder, mayhem and lawlessness became the norm, thanks to a government that -- implicitly and explicitly -- either looked the other way or even sanctioned such activity. It is a cold-eyed analysis of the sociopolitical and economic conditions that produce the specific brand of horror that is contemporary Juárez, a city that has distinguished itself as the homicide capital of the world.
His books have been published in Spanish, French, German and Italian. It's about time that one of them became available in English -- even better, in an excellent translation by another amigo, Michael Parker-Stainback.
For friends in New York: On March 31, at 6 pm, Sergio will be speaking at Artists Space at 38 Greene Street, 3rd floor, in SoHo, as part of a symposium called The City Machine and Its Streets: Anomalous Ecologies. On April 2 at 6:30 pm, he'll be at the Center for the Humanities at CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue. This particular event takes place in the Skylight Room (9100), which sounds like a cocktail lounge -- which, as Sergio's friends know, would be an eminently appropriate venue.
Tags: Sergio González Rodríguez
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Wildlife officers return to field
Nov 20, 2010 at 12:01 AM Nov 20, 2010 at 12:57 PM
Five Ohio wildlife officials have returned to work after being suspended and charged in the alleged falsification of a hunting license provided at a discount to an out-of-state wildlife officer.
Sean Logan, director of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, said yesterday that he brought the officers back to work despite pending court action. They had been on paid leave since April.
The administrators are needed to oversee the coming deer season for gun hunters and to assist in the transition to a new governor, Logan said. The returning group includes David Graham, chief of the Ohio Division of Wildlife.
"We need to have that deep leadership that he and his team provide," Logan said.
Archers already have taken more than 50,000 deer, and the small-game and waterfowl seasons have begun, Logan said. Deer gun season begins Nov. 29.
So far, 420,0000 hunters have been licensed, Logan said. He cited the fatal wounding last week of a hunter on a state wildlife area around Lake Erie as an example of the need for the job that wildlife officers do.
"It just shows that the level of professionalism that the Ohio Division of Wildlife brings to the table with really serious situations during our busiest time of the year," Logan said.
The five officers and a human-resources manager pleaded not guilty in April in a 2006 incident in which wildlife officer Allan Wright was accused of illegally letting a South Carolina wildlife official use Wright's home address to receive a $19 Ohio license, saving $106.
State Inspector General Thomas B. Charles' investigation found that officials mishandled the matter and wrongly concluded that the alleged falsification was not illegal.
Graham acknowledged to investigators that he was a close friend of Wright's. He has pleaded not guilty to one count of obstructing justice and one count of complicity.
Randy Miller, assistant chief of the Ohio Division of Wildlife, was indicted in Brown County in April on charges of obstructing justice and complicity. Wright is charged with record-tampering and falsification.
A related case that Charles is investigating involves two wildlife officers who were reprimanded for allegedly letting counterparts from Indiana use the Ohio address of regional wildlife offices in Xenia in southwestern Ohio to obtain licenses at a discount. The Indiana cost would have been $40, versus $19 in Ohio.
While Indiana allows out-of-state wildlife officers visiting on official business to obtain hunting and fishing licenses at in-state rates, Ohio has no such policy. It is illegal to put false information on the licenses.
Logan said he's moving forward. The legal fight looks likely to extend beyond Strickland's term, which ends in January.
"So they've been out since April 8 on paid leave, and it's time that we have them report to work."
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The southern states of America are famed for their historic buildings and rich musical heritage, from the country music of Nashville to Memphis blues and New Orleans jazz. On this self-drive tour you'll explore these unique cities, visit Elvis' famous home, Graceland, and take in many charming small towns where you can experience the world-famous southern hospitality.
Arrive in Atlanta
Your road trip begins as you arrive at Atlanta International Airport (ATL), pick up your car and proceed to your hotel. The state capital of Georgia, “The Peach State,” Atlanta is a bustling but friendly city. You may like to spend the rest of the day exploring the interesting shops and restaurants of Midtown and the luxurious district of Buckhead.
Atlanta – Nashville
You'll leave Atlanta this morning for Nashville, known as Music City and famous as the home of country music. Don't miss the chance to visit the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, or Historic RCA Studio B, "The Home of 1,000 Hits", where the likes of Elvis Presley, Chet Atkins and Dolly Parton recorded over 35,000 songs. You may also like to visit the Parthenon, the world’s only full-scale reproduction of the famous Greek temple. This evening, you may like to take a romantic dinner cruise on a paddlewheel riverboat, or take in a theatre show.
Nashville – Memphis
This morning you're headed to Memphis, home of the blues, as well as to Graceland, Elvis Presley’s estate, where you can take an optional tour to see exhibits including Elvis’ two custom airplanes, his Pink Cadillac and his many gold and platinum discs. You may also like to visit Sun Studios, "Birthplace of Rock'n'Roll", or take a city sightseeing tour by paddleboat, carriage or motor coach.
Memphis – Vicksburg
This morning you'll continue to Vicksburg, home to many wealthy families in the cotton and lumber trades in the 19th century. Here you can admire the well-preserved churches, government buildings and grand homes, as well as visiting the Vicksburg National Military Park and Vicksburg Battlefield Museum. At Historic Downtown Vicksburg you'll find restaurants, shops and galleries, as well as The Corner Drug Store, which features a collection of Civil War artefacts, the Biedenharn Coca-Cola Museum, where Coca-Cola was first bottled in 1894, and the Antique Doll and Toy Museum.
Vicksburg – Natchez
Today you'll continue to the town of Natchez, the oldest permanent settlement on the Mississippi River, known for its well-preserved antebellum homes, including the magnificent Stanton Hall, built circa 1857. Below the town lies Natchez Under-the-Hill, home to many bars and restaurants, as well as a riverboat casino.
Natchez – New Orleans
This morning you'll continue into Louisiana, with a stop en route in Baton Rouge, Louisiana’s capital on the banks of the Mississippi. Here you can learn about the city's colourful history at the Capitol Building and the Old Governor's Mansion and taste some Cajun-Creole cuisine at one of the local restaurants before continuing to New Orleans. Here you'll want to visit the French Quarter, the centre of which is Jackson Square, filled with musicians, artists, mimes, tarot-card readers and entertainers. This evening, stroll down Bourbon Street, famous as the heart of jazz music, and perhaps visit the casino. Today you also have the option of taking the Atchafalaya Experience, a guided tour on North America's longest river swamp to see birds and mammals including beaver, nutria, otters, mink, squirrels, deer and alligators.
Today you'll leave the city centre and head to the Garden District, home to lovely historic residences and lined with parks and cafes. You may like to take a guided tour along the bayous in the hope of spotting an alligator or two, or head to the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas, where you can see 15,000 sea creatures, of nearly 600 species. You may also like to take the optional Mardi Gras World Tour Experience, which gives you the chance to see sculptors, costume makers and float builders at work and learn more about the history and traditions of carnival. In the evening, you can learn about voodoo on a walking tour of the French Quarter.
New Orleans – Florida Panhandle Area
This morning you'll continue to the white sands and emerald waters of Fort Walton Beach, where you can lounge on the beach, enjoy a round of golf and enjoy the fresh seafood in the waterfront restaurants.
Florida Panhandle Area – Tallahassee
This morning you'll drive toward Tallahassee, state capital of Florida, home to several universities and a centre of aeronautics and engineering. Some of the attractions you can visit here include an IMAX theatre and planetarium, the Tallahassee Museum of History and Natural Sciences and the Mission San Luis, a reconstructed 17th-century mission. This evening you can choose from an amazing selection of restaurants, with local specialties including country sausage, melt-in-your-mouth steaks, wild game and fresh seafood.
Tallahassee – Savannah
This morning you'll head into Georgia for some Southern hospitality in charming Savannah. Here you can explore the city's Historic District by trolley and perhaps join the optional Savannah Ghost Tour aboard the Trolley of the Doomed! You may also like to visit the Telfair Museum of Art, Forsyth Park and Factor’s Walk, or head to the restored waterfront area for some delicious southern cooking.
Today you'll continue exploring the traditions of the Old South as you drive toward Charleston, with a stop en route at the small town of Beaufort, which boasts nearly 100 antebellum and pre-Revolutionary houses. You'll then continue to Charleston, where the best way to see the city is with a horse-drawn carriage tour, taking in the many historic homes and buildings and the Civil War memorials. You may also like to head just outside the city to Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, where you can tour the house, learn about life on the plantation and enjoy the gardens filled with camellias and azaleas.
Charleston – Atlanta
This morning you'll head to Atlanta, where you can visit the Martin Luther King Jr National Historic Site and Sweet Auburn District to learn more about the history of the civil rights movement. At the Roswell Historic District you can tour several antebellum homes, while at Inside CNN Atlanta you can go behind the scenes to see how a news production comes together. You may also like to head to Stone Mountain, just east of the city, the world’s largest exposed granite monolith, with a relief carving of Confederate heroes.
Atlanta – Atlanta International Airport, GA
Your road trip comes to an end today as you return to Atlanta International Airport (ATL) for your onward flight.
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Gebauer & Griller Kabeltechnik, Austrian Cable Assembly Maker to Expand
Gebauer & Griller Kabeltechnik, an Austrian cable assembly manufacturer, is expanding and has plans to create 250 new jobs in 2012. The expansion is due to a 25% increase in production at its site in Mikulov, Czech Republic.
The plant currently employs 950 people and focuses on the production of cables, wires, and battery harnesses for the automotive industry. In February, the company founded the subsidiary GG Cables & Wires EE in order to expand activities in Moldova.
As part of this expansion, the company is preparing the establishment of the new production site in the Free Economic Zone of Balti.
The completion of the building and necessary infrastructure is estimated for late 2012. The first cables and wires are scheduled to be produced next summer.
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Turner, John Mallord William (1775-1851). One of the finest landscape artists was J.M.W. Turner, whose work was exhibited when he was still a teenager. His entire life was devoted to his art. Unlike many artists of his era, he was successful throughout his career.
Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in London, England, on April 23, 1775. His father was a barber. His mother died when he was very young. The boy received little schooling. His father taught him how to read, but this was the extent of his education except for the study of art. By the age of 13 he was making drawings at home and exhibiting them in his father's shop window for sale.
Turner was 15 years old when he received a rare honor one of his paintings was exhibited at the Royal Academy. By the time he was 18 he had his own studio. Before he was 20 print sellers were eagerly buying his drawings for reproduction.
He quickly achieved a fine reputation and was elected an associate of the Royal Academy. In 1802, when he was only 27, Turner became a full member. He then began traveling widely in Europe.
Venice was the inspiration of some of Turner's finest work. Wherever he visited he studied the effects of sea and sky in every kind of weather. His early training had been as a topographic draftsman. With the years, however, he developed a painting technique all his own. Instead of merely recording factually what he saw, Turner translated scenes into a light-filled expression of his own romantic feelings.
As he grew older Turner became an eccentric. Except for his father, with whom he lived for 30 years, he had no close friends. He allowed no one to watch him while he painted. He gave up attending the meetings of the academy. None of his acquaintances saw him for months at a time. Turner continued to travel but always alone. He still held exhibitions, but he usually refused to sell his paintings. When he was persuaded to sell one, he was dejected for days.
In 1850 he exhibited for the last time. One day Turner disappeared from his house. His housekeeper, after a search of many months, found him hiding in a house in Chelsea. He had been ill for a long time. He died the following day Dec. 19, 1851.
Turner left a large fortune that he hoped would be used to support what he called "decaying artists." His collection of paintings was bequeathed to his country. At his request he was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral.
Although known for his oils, Turner is regarded as one of the founders of English watercolor landscape painting. Some of his most famous works are Calais Pier , Dido Building Carthage , Rain, Steam and Speed , Burial at Sea , and The Grand Canal, Venice .
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Cobalt shortages to hit battery prices
July 03, 2018 //By Christoph Hammerschmidt
Cobalt, one of the indispensable raw materials to build lithium-ion batteries, will become increasingly scarce. Nevertheless, analysts believe that this type of battery will prevail.
More and more cobalt is needed for batteries. But the metal could soon become scarce. Demand is expected to double over the next eight years to 225,000 tons per year, announced the Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), an agency of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. Delays in the expansion of mines and further processing "can lead to considerable problems in supply," said geologist Siyamend Al Barazi.
MAJOR FIND FOR RARE EARTH ELEMENTS BOOSTS SUPPLY
Cobalt is a good conductor of electricity and heat and increases the energy density in batteries. The metal is mainly extracted as a by-product of nickel and copper production. Due to the rising demand, the price of cobalt has quadrupled in two years to around $90,000 per ton. Barazi said that Congo in Africa is the world's largest producer with a market share of 60 % which will climb to 70 % in the foreseeable future. All major new projects are located in Congo. Half of the world's reserves of seven million tons are also located there. However, Amnesty International deplores child labour, accidents and health risks in mines in the Congo. And in eastern Congo, several rebel groups are fighting for control of the territories and mineral resources.
In a related article in German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, automotive economoy expert Stefan Bratzel pointed out that the traction battery of an electric car contains on average about 12 kilograms of cobalt. Alternatives are not in sight, Bratzel said. For this reason, the price level of electric vehicles won’t fall as fast as expected - despite progress in battery research.
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Here's the New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer
"There is another."
By Matt Miller
Update, 10/20: The release of the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer last night inspired the full gamut of reactions among fans. But the film's leading lady Daisy Ridley had perhaps the most emotional response of everyone. Her friend filmed her watching it for the first time, and there were tears:
Watch the trailer below:
10/19: Let the speculation begin! Disney just debuted the latest trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, kicking off what will inevitably be weeks of fandom until we're teased with the next sweet, sweet look at the year's most anticipated movie.
The trailer, along with the poster released this weekend, provides more hints that Rey (the Leia-looking character played by Daisy Ridley) could be the movie's main heroine. We also get some more details about the First Order, which is the new incarnation of the Empire from the original series. Along with the trailer, tickets for the film are on sale now (it's kind of a clusterfuck), if you can pull yourself away from the video long enough to buy them.
It's the latest in a lengthy and painfully slow rollout of Star Wars news ahead of the release of the seventh installment of the franchise on December 18. In previous trailers, we got the first glimpse of Han Solo and Chewbacca, the reveal of BB-8 (the rolling droid that already comes in toy form), and Kylo Ren's (Adam Driver) three-bladed lightsaber that pissed off everyone but Stephen Colbert. Oh, and that awesome shot of Darth Vader's messed-up helmet. But for months, no Luke Skywalker...
Yeah, still no Luke.
Anyway, why are you still reading about the cast and not already on your fifth viewing of the trailer? And once you get sick of that, here's the original 1977 Star Wars: A New Hope trailer for comparison.
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Kate Middleton’s Brother James Middleton Is Opening Up About His Battle With Depression
Jan 14 2019 by Holly Rhue
Kate Middleton’s younger brother, James Middleton is speaking candidly about his struggle with depression, publishing a personal essay through the Daily Mail.
“I know I’m richly blessed and live a privileged life. But it did not make me immune to depression,” James wrote. “It is tricky to describe the condition. It is not merely sadness. It is an illness, a cancer of the mind.”
He continued, “It’s not a feeling but an absence of feelings. You exist without purpose or direction. I couldn’t feel joy, excitement, or anticipation–only heart-thudding anxiety propelled me out of bed in the morning. I didn’t actually contemplate suicide—but I didn’t want to live in the state of mind I was in either.”
Along with the personal description of what appears to be a longtime struggle, James also recently made his Instagram account public for the first time, where he has revealed personal details about his daily life and how depression has become a part of that. On December 31, he reflected on 2018 with a post about an animal he’s worked with that just earned its PAT certification:
Proud of Ella becoming a PAT dog this year. Animals can provide a sense of calm, comfort, or safety and divert attention away from a stressful situation and toward one that provides pleasure. Advocates of animal-assisted therapy say that developing a bond with an animal can help people develop a better sense of self-worth and trust, stabilise their emotions, and improve their communication, self-regulation, and socialisation skills. I am a huge believer in this & Ella has done so much for me and we look forward to sharing the love, Timmy tickles and many visits in 2019 @petsastherapy_uk
A post shared by James Middleton (@jmidy) on Dec 31, 2018 at 7:07am PST
“Proud of Ella becoming a PAT dog this year. Animals can provide a sense of calm, comfort, or safety and divert attention away from a stressful situation and toward one that provides pleasure,” James captioned the post. “Advocates of animal-assisted therapy say that developing a bond with an animal can help people develop a better sense of self-worth and trust, stabilize their emotions, and improve their communication, self-regulation, and socialisation skills. I am a huge believer in this & Ella has done so much for me and we look forward to sharing the love, Timmy tickles and many visits in 2019 @petsastherapy_uk.”
Storms a coming
A post shared by James Middleton (@jmidy) on Aug 7, 2017 at 10:36am PDT
Big sister Kate is apparently a driving force in James opening up about his emotional hardships.
“I feel compelled to talk about it openly because this is precisely what my brother-in-law Prince William, my sister Catherine and Prince Harry are advocating through their mental health charity Heads Together,” James explained. It’s nice to see that he and Kate clearly lean on one another.
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EngenderHealth Announces Caleb Tiller as VP, Global Communications and Marketing
July 26, 2018 (Washington, DC) – EngenderHealth, a global women’s health and sexual and reproductive rights organization, today announced Caleb Tiller as the new Vice President of Global Communications and Marketing. Tiller comes to EngenderHealth with more than 20 years of experience in communications, public relations, marketing, public affairs, and education.
“Caleb is the ideal candidate to serve as EngenderHealth’s Vice President of Global Communications and Marketing,” said Rosemary Ellis, Interim President and CEO. “Throughout his career, he has helped organizations meet their strategic objectives by developing and implementing savvy marketing and communications plans. His work is widely respected in both the cause and communications communities.”
Ellis continued, “In the years ahead, EngenderHealth will continue to deliver quality maternal health, reproductive health, and family planning information and services around the world, while proactively advancing family planning as an indispensable human right. Caleb will lead the communications and marketing initiatives to support this mission.”
Immediately before joining EngenderHealth, Tiller directed the UN Foundation’s award-winning communications team for eight years. In this position, Tiller led and contributed to a variety of initiatives, including journalist trainings on sustainable development, the Social Good Summit, the SXSW Social Good Hub, and #GivingTuesday. During his tenure, the Foundation initiated and strengthened several innovative programs to improve lives around the world, including: Family Planning 2020, which advances the principle that all women should have access to lifesaving contraceptives; Girl Up, which empowers adolescent girls globally; the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, which improves health, safety, and the environment by growing the clean cooking sector; and Shot@Life, which is helping the UN give more families access to lifesaving vaccines for their children.
“EngenderHealth’s mission is more crucial today than ever before. Investments in sexual and reproductive health and rights is a win-win for all communities and nations. I am inspired by the organization’s vision of empowering women and girls to decide their lives and their futures on their own terms,” said Tiller. “After 75 years of helping deliver improved health outcomes around the world, the organization is renewing its focus and refining its strategy, making it the perfect time for me to join. I look forward to working with our partners, staff in the new Washington DC headquarters, and programmatic teams in countries around the world to ensure our story reaches and engages key audiences.”
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Sheraton-Owner Starwood Accepts Higher Takeover Offer From Marriott
Image credit: Marriott | Starwood
This story originally appeared on Reuters
Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Inc. on Monday agreed to a higher $13.6 billion offer from Marriott International Inc., a proposal that trumped a bid by China's Anbang Insurance Group Co.
Starwood, the owner of the Sheraton and Westin hotel brands, said Anbang's proposal no longer constituted a "superior proposal" and under the revised merger agreement it was not allowed to engage in discussions with Anbang.
Marriott's new stock-and-cash offer is worth $79.53 per share.
A group led by Anbang had challenged Marriott with an initial non-binding offer of $12.8 billion on March 14, revising it later to $13.16 billion, or $78 per share in cash.
A deal with Anbang would have likely faced a review by the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, an interagency panel that reviews deals to ensure they do not harm national security.
The Marriott-Starwood combination will create the world's largest hotel chain with top brands including Sheraton, Ritz Carlton and the Autograph Collection. Marriott in November offered $12.2 billion, or $72.08 per, for Starwood.
The combined company will have over 5,500 hotels with 1.1 million rooms worldwide, giving Marriott a greater presence in markets such as Europe, Latin America and Asia and allow it to better compete with apartment-sharing startups such as Airbnb.
Marriott has cleared pre-merger antitrust review in the United States and Canada. Approvals from the EU and China are pending.
Starwood shareholders will receive $21 in cash and 0.80 shares of Marriott Class A common stock for each share held, Marriott said on Monday.
Starwood shares were up 3 percent at $82.72 before the opening bell on Monday. Marriott was down 1 percent at $72.25.
Under the revised agreement, Starwood will pay a breakup fee of $450 million, up from $400 million previously.
Starwood Chairman Bruce Duncan said the company was pleased that Marriott has "recognized the value" that Starwood brings to this merger.
Anbang was not immediately available for comment.
(Reporting by Arunima Banerjee and Sayantani Ghosh in Bengaluru; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty)
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By Mr. Douglas J. Wildes, Elmwood Park High School Principal
NOTE: Mr. Wildes' welcome message for 2019-20 will be published here in late July 2019.
We want to welcome everyone back to Elmwood Park High School for the 2018-19 school year.
We are extremely proud to prepare our graduating Class of 2019 for their final year of formal education within District 401, eager for the incoming freshman Class of 2022 to begin their high school experiences, and thrilled for the rest of the student body to see all the changes to the school they thought they knew.
I also cannot wait to begin my "sophomore year" as the building principal at EPHS.
With every year, our No. 1 priority at EPHS is to provide all students the most challenging, inspiring and well-rounded educational experience possible. Our school's goals are established with various perspectives in mind:
With the implementation of our building's 1:1 Chromebook initiative, we are utilizing 21st-century technologies to transform classroom instruction and student learning.
We are continuing to develop rigorous academic planning for every student's college and career preparation and pursuing individual social-emotional learning processes for each student.
We have expanded our course offerings to include more elective, dual-credit and AP classes.
We are creating an even broader set of athletic, club and extracurricular opportunities.
With all these experiences considered, it is our mission to mentor young adults in Elmwood Park on what it means to be active and engaged citizens and community members.
We are committed to not only providing the best educational experience possible for the students, but we are also dedicated to making sure the high school is looked upon with an extreme sense of pride by the Elmwood Park community. We will continue to build upon the strongly established community ties, celebrate the academic and extracurricular successes of our students and staff, and actively seek ways to improve the building and its grounds.
We are excited to build upon the strong foundation established at Elmwood Park High School over the years and are looking forward to a great 2018-19 school year. Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions, concerns and ideas you would like to discuss.
With kindest regards,
Mr. Douglas J. Wildes
NOTE: To download a PDF copy of this welcome message, please click here.
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Interstate Batteries making first appearance on the #18
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While the expectation for Kyle Busch, driver of the No. 18 Interstate Batteries Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR), is to run up front and challenge for wins each week in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, there are particular tracks where Busch excels more others.
One of those places happens to be Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California, the site of Sunday's Cup Series Auto Club 400. The Las Vegas native and his Interstate Batteries team will be shooting for his fourth career win at the track located approximately 50 miles east of Los Angeles this weekend.
Interstate Batteries will sponsor Kyle Busch in the Auto Club 400 at Auto Club Speedway on March 25. Image from Joe Gibbs Racing's Twitter. Joe Gibbs Racing
Busch will pilot the colors of Interstate Batteries at Fontana for the first of six Cup Series races this season. The founding partner of JGR, Interstate Batteries has been powering the championship-winning organization for more than 25 years and is the "Official Battery of Joe Gibbs Racing." This year, the iconic brand is celebrating its 65th anniversary. To commemorate the milestone, special 65th anniversary branding will be featured in each of the paint schemes JGR will race during the 2017 NASCAR season.
While Busch started the season with three disappointing finishes, he got back on track last weekend at Phoenix International Raceway by putting on a dominating performance. He led twice for a race-high 114 laps before a late-race caution foiled his chance at victory. With the season heading back in the right direction, Busch hopes to take that momentum to Southern California this weekend.
After winning back-to-back races at Fontana in 2013 and 2014 - both in dramatic fashion - the 2015 Cup Series champion is looking to add another win to his impressive record at the 2-mile oval. He scored his maiden victory there in September 2005 and overall has rattled off eight top-five finishes and 13 top-10s during his career. Busch also has six Xfinity Series wins at Fontana - October 2008, February 2009 and 2010, October 2010, March 2011 and 2013 -which included a weekend sweep in 2013.
Looking back on his most recent Cup Series wins there, Busch led a race-high 125 laps at Fontana in 2013 and brought home the checkered flag in dramatic fashion as he slid to the outside of the dueling Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin coming off turn four on the final lap. He followed that up in 2014 with another Fontana win despite the fact he was not nearly as dominant, leading just five laps. However, known as one of the premiere Cup drivers when it comes to restarts, Busch showed the field why that day. He restarted fourth late in the race and held off a hard-charging Kyle Larson to bring home his second Fontana win in a row.
So as Busch and the Interstate Batteries team head back to Southern California to finish off the final race of 2017's West Coast swing, Busch will look to bring home his first win of the season at a place where he's charged to the front many times before.
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Two Men Who Orchestrated $21 Million Movie Investment Scheme Sentenced to Federal Prison for Defrauding Hundreds of Investors
Central District of California
LOS ANGELES—Two men who were leaders of a scheme involving a company called Gigapix that defrauded hundreds of victims by promising large returns on movie investments and a production company’s imminent public offering were sentenced today, receiving sentences of up to eight years in federal prison.
The two defendants sentenced this morning—Christopher Blauvelt, 59, a former Woodland Hills resident who was transient when he was arrested last year, and David Pritchard, 67, of Hollywood (formerly of Malibu)—were convicted at trial last year on a series of federal charges, including mail fraud, wire fraud and offering for sale unregistered securities.
United States District Judge Manuel Real sentenced Blauvelt to eight years in prison, and Pritchard was sentenced to five years.
Judge Real scheduled a restitution hearing for April 20.
The case centers on a company called Gigapix that was founded by Blauvelt in 2002 and took on Pritchard as a partner in 2006. During the subsequent seven years, Blauvelt, who was the chief executive officer of Gigaix, and Pritchard., who was the president of the company, hired telemarketers to solicit potential investors. These who were solicited to invest were told that Gigpix was an animation company similar to Pixar Animation Studios, and that Gigapix was developing projects expected to generate large profits when the company went public.
As part of the scheme, telemarketers—known as “fronters”—used lead lists purchased by the defendants to find potential investors and then used scripts touting the supposed merits of Gigapix. When investors expressed an interest, materials about the investment were mailed to them. At that time, the potential investors were turned over to “closers,” who collected their money.
Two Gigapix telemarketers who acted as closers—Gregory Pusateri, 50, of Woodland Hills, and Cheri Brown, 65, of Studio City—were also convicted at a trial, and they are scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Real on February 23.
In addition to raising money for Gigpix, the defendants also raised funds to produce a movie titled “OZ3D.” While soliciting money for Gigapix and “OZ3D,” the defendants made numerous misrepresentations to potential investors and withheld material facts. For example, according to court documents, investors were told that Gigapix was a financially successful company, they would receive high returns on their investments in less than 18 months, the investments carried little or no risk, and investors would see returns within a year or 18 months of investing. Investors were also told there was an urgency to invest in Gigapix and “OZ3D” because of the window of opportunity to invest.
Investors were told that a minimum of 65 percent of the money invested in “OZ3D” would be used to produce and distribute the movie, and that only a small percentage of investor money would be used to pay commissions and finder’s fees. However, less than 5 percent of the investors’ money was used to finance the film. Of the millions raised for the Gigapix investment, less than 20 percent of those funds were spent on the production of movies or television shows. The majority of the money raised from investors was spent on salaries, commissions and overhead.
Approximately 730 victims lost virtually all of the money—approximately $21 million—that they invested in Gigapix and “OZ3D.”
“This case involves an egregious fraud of massive proportions that targeted non-wealthy victims who the defendants heartlessly misled,” prosecutors wrote in sentencing documents. “The effects of this crime on the victims are truly devastating in every way,” and compounded issues affecting elderly victims, low-income victims, victims who suffered from illnesses such as cancer and the effects of polio, and victims who were supporting children with Down syndrome and spinal bifida.
This investigation was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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César González-Bueno appointed CEO of ING in Spain & Portugal
The FINANCIAL -- César González-Bueno has been appointed as CEO of ING in Spain & Portugal. César starts in his new role on 1 May 2017, subject to regulatory approval.
César has been part of the ING family before. He joined in 1998 as the first CEO of ING Direct Spain, before taking on various regional roles. He left ING in 2011 to further his career as CEO of Novagalicia Banco in Spain, which he helped restructure and privatise. He then joined Gulf Bank of Kuwait as CEO in 2014, according to ING.
Aris Bogdaneris, head of ING Challengers & Growth Markets, said: “César has a proven track-record in strategic transformation and has extensive experience in retail, direct and wholesale banking. His leadership and experience will help us take our business in Spain and Portugal to the next level.”
César succeeds Peter Staal, who has played a major role in transforming ING in Spain into a full-service bank since his appointment as CEO in 2012. Peter’s next role will be announced in due course.
In welcoming César back to ING, Aris also thanked Peter for developing ING into one of the leading banks in Spain, known for its high customer satisfaction and innovative products and services.
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Georgian MP, Career Banker and Financier Reveals Details Behind Global Financial Crisis
The FINANCIAL -- Almost ten years have passed since the onset of the global economic crisis, but scientists, businesspeople, bankers, and politicians continue to argue about its causes and whether it could have been prevented.
New book by Professor Irakli Kovzanadze, Member of Georgian Parliament, presented last week, analysis macroeconomic, institutional and structural factors leading to global economic and financial crisis.
The anticrisis measures that were taken also remain in dispute, and if you ask ten different economists which direction the economy is going, you’ll likely get ten different answers.
Irakli Kovzanadze, a career banker and financier, examines the crisis, including its effects on the world’s social and political development in this important book.
He highlights the following: —causes of the crisis, including a dangerous triad of deregulation, financial innovation, and the speculative nature of doing business —anticrisis measures at the national, regional, and international levels —measures for reforming rating agencies that occupy an exceptionally important place in the modern global economy.
From the origins and development of the crisis in the United States of America and Europe, to its ultimate spread, and on to ways the crisis was overcome, this book is an essential resource for aspiring macroeconomists, geopoliticians, bankers, students, and business professionals.
Irakli Kovzanadze holds a Ph.D.s in mathematics and economics. He is a Professor of Finance at Tbilisi State University. A career banker and financier, chairs a Fiscal Committee of the Parliament of Georgia, elected in October 2016. He was CEO of JSC Partnership Fund in Georgia, a sovereign investment fund from 2012-2015, managing $3.5 billion-worth of assets of state-owned enterprises.
During 2007-2008 he chaired the Joint Commission of the EBRD/OECD on Corporate Governance of banks in Eurasia. In 2008-2012 he represented the EBRD in the Boards of Directors and Supervisory Councils of various financial institutions. Irakli Kovzanadze is an author of 7 monographs, over 50 scientific papers in the field of mathematics and economics. Most of his works focus on the study of emerging economies, systemic and cross-border banking crisis, their genesis, detection, development, prediction and prevention.
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Charles Burnham “Bud” Wilkinson
Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA
9 Feb 1994 (aged 77)
Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, USA
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Bel-Nor, St. Louis County, Missouri, USA
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Football Coach. As a player, Bud Wilkinson quarterbacked the Minnesota Golden Gophers to the first AP national championship. After serving as an assistant under Don Faurot, he took a position on the staff of Jim Tatum at the University of Oklahoma. When Tatum left to coach at Maryland in 1947, OU gave Wilkinson the head coaching job. During his tenure, he won 145 games, losing only 29, and had 4 ties, winning three national championships. From 1953 to 1957 he led the Sooners on a 47-game winning streak, a record that still stands and will probably never be broken. He pioneered the coaches television show that is now a mainstay of college and pro sports teams. Along with Bennie Owen, Barry Switzer, and Bob Stoops, he is one of four coaches at OU to win over 100 games, no other college football program has more than three. Among the many star players he coached are Buddy Burris, Leon "Mule Train" Heath, Tom Catlin, Max Boydston, Eddie Crowder, Prentice Gautt, and Heisman Trophy winner Billy Vessels, After retiring as Oklahoma's football coach in 1963, he ran for one of the state's U. S. Senate seats as a Republican, narrowly losing to Fred Harris in the 1964 election. The next year he joined ABC Sports as a color commentator, and is still regarded as one of the all-time best color analysts in football. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1969.
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WHEREAS, former United States Navy servicemember Kevin Yali was born in Paterson and was a longtime resident of Midland Park; and
WHEREAS, Kevin was a graduate of Midland Park High School, where he made the All-Bergen County wrestling team as a senior; and
WHEREAS, Kevin attended the United States Naval Academy following graduation; and
WHEREAS, Kevin enlisted in the United States Navy in 2012, completing four separate deployments as a servicemember; and
WHEREAS, Kevin tragically lost his life in Afghanistan on June 19, 2019, while providing security for American forces; and
WHEREAS, Kevin was a beloved son and brother, whose presence will be missed by his family, his friends, his fellow servicemembers, and by the people of New Jersey whom are grateful for his service; and
WHEREAS, it is with immense sadness that we mourn Kevin’s sudden passing, and extend our deepest sympathy to his family, friends, and colleagues; and
WHEREAS, it is appropriate to honor the exemplary character, outstanding achievements, and cherished memory of Kevin, and to mark his passing;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, PHILIP D. MURPHY, Governor of the State of New Jersey, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and by the Statutes of this State, do hereby ORDER and DIRECT:
1. The flag of the United States of America and the flag of New Jersey shall be flown at half-staff at all State departments, offices, agencies, and instrumentalities during appropriate hours on Wednesday, June 26, 2019, in recognition and mourning of a courageous and loyal American veteran, Kevin Yali.
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More than half of British firms 'report cyberattacks in 2019'
The proportion of UK firms reporting a cyber-attack has jumped, despite most businesses admitting they are under-prepared for breaches, according to research from Hiscox reported by the BBC. The insurer found 55% had faced an attack in 2019, up from 40% last year.
But almost three-quarters of firms were ranked as "novices" in terms of cyber-readiness.
Hiscox said a lot of businesses "incorrectly felt that they weren't at risk".
The firm surveyed more than 5,400 small, medium and large businesses across seven countries, including the UK, Germany, the US, Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Spain.
It said there had been a "sharp increase" in the number of cyberattacks this year, with more than 60 per cent of firms having reported one or more attacks - up from 45 per cent in 2018.
Average losses from breaches also soared from $229,000 (£176,000) to $369,000, an increase of 61 per cent.
Despite this, the insurer said the percentage of firms scoring top marks on cybersecurity had fallen, with UK organisations doing particularly badly.
British firms had the lowest cybersecurity budgets, it said, spending less than $900,000 on average compared with $1.46m across the group.
They were also joint-least likely with US firms to have a "defined role for cybersecurity" on their staff. In France, the proportion was closer to one in ten.
Gareth Wharton, head of Cyber at Hiscox, said the low UK spending could be driven by the large number of small businesses in Britain.
"They may feel like they won't be targeted, as we tend to only read about large breaches in the press. If they incorrectly feel that they won't be targeted, they may be less likely to spend on cybersecurity."
However, Hiscox also found the average cost of an attack in the UK was lower than average at $243,000, compared with $906,000 in Germany and $486,000 in Belgium.
New regulation has also prompted action, with eight in ten UK firms saying they had made changes since the introduction of tough new EU data protection rules last year.
BA, Marriott Face Massive Fines For Data Loss
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Cumbria First Police Force To Utilise NMC Tools
Cumbria Constabulary has become the first police force to use the National Management Centre (NMC) for cybersecurity set up under the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC).
Phishing Attacks Bypassing 2-Factor Authentication
Penetration testers and attackers have a new tool in their arsenal that can be used to automate phishing attacks in a way that defeats two-factor authentication (2FA) and is not easy to detect and block, reports CSO Magazine.
Third of Breaches Caused By Unpatched Vulnerabilities
IT security professionals have admitted that a third of cybersecurity breaches are the result of vulnerabilities that they should have patched.
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What’s the risk? Survey shows increased focus on reputation
By Ken Tysiac
A substantial majority of businesses are focusing more on reputational risk today than in the past.
But many companies do not vigorously monitor social media and lack processes to calculate the financial impact of not managing reputational risk, a new CGMA survey shows.
Seventy-six per cent of CGMA designation holders who took part in the global survey said businesses in their industry are putting more focus on reputational risk than in the past. Market demands for transparency, reputational failures at other businesses or leading companies, and the rise of social media were the top reasons cited for the increased global focus on reputational risk.
CGMA holders and their companies appear to be keenly aware of the effects a damaged reputation can have on their companies:
More than one-fifth (22%) said their organisation had experienced a reputational failure.
More than two-fifths (44%) said they or their organisations had rejected a project that made financial sense because the reputational risks were too great.
Nearly two-thirds (65%) said the financial implications of reputational risk are considered always or often in their organisation.
Enterprise reputation and risk expert Jim Traut, CPA, CGMA, said companies with strong brands that have direct relationships with consumers have been leaders in protecting their reputations. But Traut, the former vice president of enterprise reputation and risk management and ethics and compliance at global food company H.J. Heinz Co., said companies without direct customer contact and even small businesses and sole proprietors need to focus on reputational risk.
“Think about the great restaurant that you keep going back to, year after year,” Traut said. “Why do you go back? Because they’re managing their reputation. Every day, every meal, they’re managing their reputation.”
Brand reputation is built through all of an enterprise’s relationships, Traut said. Survey respondents ranked relationships with customers as most important, followed by relationships with employees, regulators and investors.
Finance personnel can help protect the brand by driving understanding of the value of these relationships.
“The accountant, who is traditionally thinking about cash and P&Ls and balance sheets, would be well-served to recognise that those relationships … will be absolutely critical in the valuation of those businesses [for decades to come],” Traut said.
The survey results show that financial impacts of reputational risk are being weighed to some extent, but there is room for improvement. Although excessive short-term focus by investors is a common concern in finance today, 76% of respondents said their companies are prepared to lose profit in the short term to protect the organisation’s reputation and drive more long-term success.
Social media disconnect
But 62% of respondents said their organisation does not have a formal process or model for calculating the financial impact of not managing reputational risk. And despite the many examples of companies hurt by damaging YouTube videos and Facebook posts, just 20% of respondents said their organisations heavily use social media feedback to help anticipate and monitor reputational risk.
More than half (52%) use social media feedback to some degree to anticipate and manage reputational risk, and 28% never use social media feedback that way.
Whether a sole proprietor or large corporation, businesses should monitor when their brand is being mentioned on social media sites, Traut said. He said companies should have a mechanism for reviewing and reacting to social media feedback.
“I don’t think companies are doing enough of that,” Traut said.
UK/US differences
Respondents from the UK and US made up the largest portion of the more than 1,300 survey responses. UK respondents were more likely than those in the US to say they are focusing more on reputational risk today than in the past. Almost four in ten (39%) UK CGMAs said they are putting significantly more focus on reputational risk today, compared with 21% of US CGMAs.
By more than two to one (34% to 16%), UK respondents were more likely to say their organisation had experienced a reputational failure.
Responses from CGMA designation holders from across the globe are included in the survey.
Related CGMA Magazine content:
“Anti-viral Remedies for Reputational Damage”: These days, bad news spreads faster than ever. Management accountants can help companies prepare to inoculate their hard-earned reputations against damage on social media and repair the harm when it occurs. Read the experts’ prescription.
—Ken Tysiac (ktysiac@aicpa.org) is a CGMA Magazine senior editor.
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See one of Shakespeare's most beloved comedies, replete with besotted lovers, mischievous fairies, and rude mechanicals.
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From internationally renowned Third Rail Projects (creators of Then She Fell, one of Ben Brantley's top ten shows of 2012), and the producers of the Drama Desk nominated Shake and Bake: Love's Labour's Lost, comes this 360-degree environmental staging of Shakespeare's beloved comedy. This sumptuous theatrical experience features an elegantly designed tasting menu and is housed in a historic building, just steps from New York City's Union Square.
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Security inside stadium and out for Super Bowl in Atlanta
ATLANTA (AP) — When Super Bowl 53 kicks off less than two weeks from now, legions of police and federal agents will be positioned to protect fans inside and outside the Atlanta stadium where the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Rams face off.
The game will bring international attention, which makes it a potential target for terrorism, said Brian Levin, a former New York City police officer who is director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino.
“We fortify these events because we have to,” Levin said. “They’re the brightest bug lamps that attract an array of possible extremists and also unstable people as well.”
Authorities won’t discuss specifics of their security plan. But they say they will safeguard areas beyond the downtown Mercedes-Benz Stadium and make officers visible across the city. The city’s police department has worked with more than 40 state, federal and local law enforcement agencies to develop the plan, Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields said. Officers will work 12-hour shifts and will “position ourselves so that we can react immediately to whatever scenario we are confronted with,” Shields said.
The chief said law enforcers have been preparing for two years, during which time they visited Super Bowls in Houston and Minneapolis to observe safety measures taken by their counterparts.
Recent attacks in the U.S. and around the world have taught authorities that they must be prepared to defend more than the obvious targets.
Atlanta knows this well. During the Olympic Games in 1996, a man set off a pipe bomb at Centennial Olympic Park, a downtown public space that lacked the high security of the athletic venues and Olympic Village where athletes were staying. Shrapnel from the bomb tore through a crowd of concertgoers on July 27, 1996, killing a woman who was hit in the skull with a nail, and wounding more than 100 others.
“Our main focus at that time was on the Olympic Village,” said Richard Stogner, who was in charge of finances for the Olympics and as such was involved in security meetings weeks and months before the games. Stogner witnessed the deadly violence from his office overlooking the park. He recalled walking onto his balcony and seeing a large cloud of white smoke and at least a couple of people lying on the ground.
Shields said there was a desire at the time to make the park “family friendly,” so the decision was made to keep security more lax there.
“In hindsight, that was a mistake,” she said.
In the days leading up to the Super Bowl on Feb. 3, the park — which has been closed off with high chain-link fencing in some places — will play a central role as it hosts numerous concerts and other game-related celebrations.
In addition to increased security around the city, Atlanta Fire Rescue will put some of its paramedics on bicycles so they can reach patients in areas crowded with pedestrians, Chief Randall Slaughter said. And Shields noted that a joint operations center that will also include officials from Georgia Power and the city’s mass transit system is set to open Saturday.
Authorities will not take their preparations for granted, however, because terrorists “never stop creating, they never stop thinking,” Shields said.
In Atlanta in 1996, “the guy just decided that he wanted to blow up people, so he set a bomb off,” Stogner said. “That’s hard to prepare for.”
During a soccer game between France and Germany near Paris in November 2015, it was outside the stadium where suicide bombers blew themselves up, killing a bystander. And in May 2017, it was as fans left a concert by singer Ariana Grande in Manchester, England, that a bomb was detonated, killing more than 20 and wounding more than 100.
In recent years, threats have evolved from large terrorist groups to small cells or “lone wolves” who can be harder to identify. Some become radicalized on the internet, borrowing hatred from other groups and blending it with their own views, Levin noted.
The motives of others are difficult to discern, such as the sniper in a Las Vegas high-rise who opened fire on an outdoor country music concert, killing 58 people and wounding more than 800 others in October 2017, Levin said.
Cedrick Alexander, a former public safety director in the metro Atlanta county of DeKalb, said he believes Atlanta “is going to be one of the most-prepared cities in America” because of its experience handling national events.
But he notes that the lesson of the Las Vegas massacre is that “you have to be prepared for anything.”
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Features : Best Bank in Region: BSCH
Santander Central Hispano, one of the top 15 banks in the world in terms of market capitalization and Spain’s leading financial group, has become a major player in banking in Latin America over the past decade.
The Madrid-based bank is committed to the region and has built a presence from Puerto Rico and Mexico in North America down to Chile and Argentina in South America. This giant banking institution is respected for its efficiency, profitability and its financial strength—the Santander name is backed by $350.5 billion in assets.
Corporate treasurers at small to large businesses know they can depend on Santander Central Hispano for everything from trade financing to treasury services to collections and payments operations. And multinational corporations value the bank’s global reach and expertise in areas like investment banking, brokerage services and asset management.
The bank’s assets in Latin America totaled $71.8 billion at the end of 2002 and it managed $15.3 billion of mutual funds and $11 billion of pension funds.
Francisco Luzon, board member and director general with responsibility for Latin America
www.gruposantander.com
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Banco Bisa
Banco Bisa continues to be the best performer in a country slogging through political and economic turmoil that has left its banking system in disarray. After 30 years of operation, Bolivia’s largest bank continues to draw high marks from analysts for a wide variety of products and services for its corporate clients.
services for its corporate clients. Bank executives have satisfied their core customer base—corporate clients—with a savvy management style that adheres to high standards.It also has positioned itself as the country’s leader in electronic banking services and has expanded its physical presence across the country.
Julio Leon Prado, president
www.grupobisa.com
Banco Bradesco, following a series of acquisitions last year, has become the financial institution with the largest branch network among Brazil’s private banks. The purchases included the Brazilian retail operations of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), the midsized bank Banco Mercantil de Sao Paulo, and a takeover of state bank Banco do Estado do Amazonas.
But the management of Brazil’s largest bank by assets also knows the value of diversification and remains a strong player in Brazil’s lucrative corporate banking market. For the fiscal year that ended in December 2002, the bank posted sales of $13 billion, up nearly 10% from the previous year, and a 41.5% jump in net income to $571 million.
Lazaro de Mello Brandao, chairman
www.bradesco.com.br
Banco Popular Puerto Rico
This well known financial institution remains a leader in the region with more than 30% of the market share in Puerto Rico and a presence throughout the Caribbean and the United States.
Its corporate and retail clients enjoy the confidence that comes from doing business with an institution backed by more than $28 billion in assets of its bank holding company, Popular, Inc. Its corporate banking sector continues to attract business with four subdivisions—credit portfolio management, manufacturing and service, retailers and wholesalers, and public sector— that cater to each corporate customer’s needs.
Richard L. Carrion, chairman
www.bancopopular.com
Banco Santander-Chile
Banco Santander-Chile (BSC) is a private bank that is a majority-owned indirect subsidiary of Spain’s Santander Central Hispano. BSC has captured more than 25% of the country’s market share for loans and nearly 23% of its deposits.
The Santiago-based bank keeps its corporate clients happy with services that include commercial lending, trade financing and cash management, treasury and risk management services. The bank, which also has a strong retail network with more than 375 branches in Chile, last year completed a successful merger with Banco Santiago— another Chilean bank owned by Santander.
Analysts laud a top quality, efficient management style as well as the financial institution’s dedication to innovative technology.
Emilio Botin Rios, chairman and president
www.santander.cl
Created by the 1998 merger of Banco Industrial Colombiano and Banco de Colombia, Bancolombia is the country’s largest financial institution, with more than 320 branches in 120 cities and towns. The bank has been at the cutting edge of technology and was the first bank in the country to create an internet banking service for transactions, nearly seven years ago.
Today, electronic banking is an important source of fee generation. Even in a country struggling with low economic growth, the bank remains strong in corporate banking, with more than 5,000 clients, and has about 12% of the market share for loans
Jorge Londonio Saldarriaga, president and CEO
www.bancolombia.com.co
Banco Banex
In a banking environment dominated by government-owned institutions, Banco Banex stands out as one of the top private banks among more than two dozen private players.
While only the second-largest of the private banks, Banco Banex has the backing of its parent, Panamanian bank Banco del Istmo.The Panamanian financial institution is among the largest regional banks in the area and bought Banco Banex in 1999.
Today, the Costa Rican bank has built a franchise that includes large chunks of the consumer and mortgage lending sector as well as the commercial business for mid-size and large corporations. The bank is equipped to offer companies everything from commercial and project financing credit to international trade-related services to insurance and pension plan products.
Richard Beck Hemicke, chairman
www.banex.co.cr
Banco del Pichincha
Operating in a troubled economy that has wreaked havoc on the country’s banking industry, Banco del Pichincha is managing to keep its head above water.
The Ecuadorian bank was established in 1906 and is one of this Latin nation’s largest private financial institutions. It has Ecuador’s largest branch network with more than 200 offices in over 75 cities and towns as well as international offices in the Bahamas, Colombia, Peru and the United States.
The bank is diversified, with a large retail presence throughout the country and a portfolio of corporate banking services that keep it at the top of corporate treasurers’ lists. Assets last year increased to $2.2 billion, up from $2 billion in 2001.
Fidel Egas Grijalva, president
www.pichincha.com
Banco Cuscatlan
This El Salvadorian bank is successfully struggling with a stagnating economy that has dampened loan demand and cut into the bank’s assets. The bank also has had to contend with the government’s decision two years ago to adopt the US dollar as legal tender—a move that sent interest rates plummeting.
But analysts laud the bank’s management for being able to deliver consistent earnings in a troubled environment. One way it has prospered is by expanding its loan portfolio to corporations in other central American nations—including Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. These external loans have helped the bank counter the lower demand for loans at home.
Mauricio Samayoa Rivas, president
www.bancocuscatlan.com
Banco de Occidente
Banco de Occidente is a smoothly run financial institution in a country that is considered to have too many commercial banks. Nevertheless it has managed to stand out in an economy that grew by only 2% last year.
Analysts say the bank maintains its integrity by adhering to international banking standards and offers it corporate customers everything from brokerage services to insurance products to project financing
Attention is now focused on how well Banco de Occidente will fare against its financial competitors after new banking regulations came into effect last summer. The new regulations require banks to file consolidated financial statements that include the results of their offshore operations.
Pedro Aguirre Fernandez, president
www.occidente.com.gt
Citibank’s successful purchase of Banco Nacional de Mexico (Banamex) from Grupo Financiero Banamex-Accival in August 2001 has pushed it to the top in a banking market dominated by foreign players. Last year, Banamex reported $42.5 billion in assets, up from nearly $37 billion at year-end 2001.
Analysts attribute Citibank’s decision to maintain the name, management style and most managers at Banamex for helping the merger go so smoothly.
They cite a conservative management’s decision to increase its loan loss provisions last year even though that meant the bank reported zero net income.
And while Banamex already has a large retail sector that is ready to grow once the economy picks up, Citibank is now targeting the corporate sector with the array of products, service and expertise that have made it a name in international banking around the world.
Manuel Medina Mora, CEO
www.banamex.com.mx
Banco General
One of the country’s three largest banks, Banco General draws applause for i t s sheer financial strength. The bank’s conservative management has produced an institution that remains stable and strongly capitalized while keeping its credit nose clean. And while some of its rivals are busy expanding in the region, Banco General prefers to stay close to home and stick to the territory it knows best—Panama. Assets in 2002 remained steady at $2.4 billion.
Federico Humbert, president
www.banco-general.com.pa
Banco de Credito del Peru
Despite the near constant political and economic turmoil that this South American nation endures, Banco de Credito del Peru has managed to retain its reputation as the cream of the crop.
Assets last year totaled $5.3 billion, up from $4.7 billion in 2001. The bank has nearly 30% of market share in a country of about 27 million people and is diversified in both retail banking and the corporate sector.
The Peruvian bank has more than 200 local branches as well as branches in Nassau and New York.
Dionisio Romero Seminario, CEO
www.viabcp.com
Banco Mercantil
In a nation led by a controversial president and plagued by political problems, Banco Mercantil has managed to survive under extreme pressure.
The Venezuelan institution is one of the best-run banks in the country, with a proficient management team that has been able to post positive results.Assets did drop to $2.8 billion at the end of 2002, down from $4.2 billion from the previous year, but this is still an achievement in a country where the overall banking system may have lost 25% of its deposits in the past year.
The bank is the largest in the country and has had to weather a declining currency, a gross domestic product that dropped by nearly 9% and earlier this year a two-month strike that crippled the country and its valuable oil revenues.
Gustavo A. Marturet, chairman
www.bancomercantil.com
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Dr. Grüneberg Discusses Patent Eligibility at Lecture Series in Basel
BASEL, CH (September 29, 2017) – On Tuesday, the Basel Intellectual Property Lecture (BIPL) series welcomed lecturer Dr. Kirsten Grüneberg, who presented on Judicial Exceptions and Patent Eligibility in the U.S.
Subject matter eligibility has become a major topic in U.S. patent law in the past few years, with new developments from the Supreme Court in cases such as Alice v. CLS Bank, Mayo v. Prometheus, and AMP v. Myriad. At the BIPL, Dr. Grüneberg characterized the current landscape as to patent eligibility in the U.S., further offering practical advice for those seeking U.S. patent coverage in technical areas particularly affected by recent developments.
With support from Niizuma Wasner GmbH, F.Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., the University of Basel, and the European Center of Pharmaceutical Medicine (EPCM), the BIPL provides a forum for discussions on intellectual property. Lecturers include legal professionals and researchers from across the globe. In her lecture this week, Dr. Grüneberg joins a list of prestigious lecturers to appear at this lecture series.
Launched in September 2017, Grüneberg and Myers PLLC is a 100 percent female- and minority-owned international patent firm. With a broad and sophisticated practice, the firm provides a full range of patent support services, including patent prosecution, counseling, post-grant representation, and M&A due diligence to meet the growing and diverse needs of U.S.-based, European, and Asian companies, entrepreneurs, and inventors.
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Navigating the Hypothetical Claim Seeking Doctrine of Equivalents
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Children with dylexia
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Schools are failing children with dyslexia
By Connie Meades
‘There’s no point in revising, Mum – I won’t do well anyway.’ We’re only two terms into secondary school and this is the kind of comment my dyslexic daughter is regularly coming out with.
There’s nothing wrong with my daughter’s intellect or her thirst for knowledge and learning. But there is something wrong with her confidence levels, which have taken a nose dive - at least as far as her schoolwork is concerned. I believe that’s because her school – like many others across the UK – is failing dyslexic children.
We have worked hard to ensure Beth sees the benefits of her condition, recognising that her left field thinking, willingness to take risks and ability to see the bigger picture, among other things, are almost certainly a direct result of her dyslexia. Jamie Oliver is among those who calls those with dyslexia ‘lucky’. ‘If I’m in a meeting, I just see the problems differently and I obsess about things differently,’ he says. Thank God people are increasingly recognising that dyslexia doesn’t need to prohibit anything and being positive about it encourages children to find their unique strengths while working around weaknesses.
For Beth, these weaknesses include difficulty with learning the sounds of letters and struggling with spelling, particularly when it is unpredictable and inconsistent, as well as visual processing. She has difficulty taking notes and copying, she struggles to plan schoolwork and meet deadlines and she finds it completely alien to revise for tests, of which there are many in her school. So many.
For other children with dyslexia, the challenges will be different. Dyslexia, after all, manifests itself in different ways. Granted, this doesn’t make it easy for schools. Nor does it help that many children are not diagnosed with dyslexia, but clearly have some of the characteristics. Then there’s the harsh reality of ever decreasing resources.
But these are not new problems. So why in 2019, is the system for helping children with dyslexia in schools still unfit for purpose? Surely we can provide support that is more creative, individualised and takes into account the latest research. With studies showing that dyslexic children are more likely to suffer low self-esteem, poor motivation and concentration, this is no small matter.
I know that teaching staff get equally frustrated - they regularly tell me so when I visit schools. As one teacher recently wrote in the Guardian, most local councils’ dyslexia guidance stress the importance of early recognition and intervention (simplifying written instructions, using certain fonts, presenting only small amounts of writing, using audio devices etc) but shortage of time, staff and technical equipment can mean huge delays in assessments, children with no plans for help when they clearly need help, and the support just not happening on the ground.
Learning difficulties like dyslexia, teachers have confirmed to me time and time again, just aren’t deemed severe enough and so these kids slip through the cracks, with any support they do get being be ad hoc at best.
Beth’s school isn’t blind to her dyslexia. She has a ‘learning passport’ – apparently given to all her teachers, which outlines her need, for example, to sit at the front of classes and to be given handouts of work that others copy off the board. Moreover, Beth and I were invited to meet the SENCo in her first term at the school and I liked the way she talked directly to Beth (not me) and discussed practical suggestions like touch typing.
But the help Beth has received is minimal (the position in class and handouts are about it), reactive (it’s no good asking Beth what interventions she wants if she doesn’t know what’s on offer) and doesn’t take into account her specific needs as outlined in her educational psychologist’s report. Nor does it take into account the stigma she and other dyslexic children can feel about getting extra support (no wonder when I’ve never heard a single positive comment about dyslexia come out of Beth’s primary or secondary school) or the fact that much of the damage has already been done. In primary school, for example, Sats were a nightmare for Beth, with no specific support available for dyslexics in these tests bar extra time (and only then, if you have supporting evidence). As for outdated spelling tests, don’t even get me started.
Few, if any, would argue that those with dyslexia are getting enough support in schools and young people like Beth are falling behind in learning and, more importantly, losing belief in themselves. Children deserve better than this.
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Panthers finding ways to close out games
STEVE REED, The Associated Press
Oct 9, 2017 at 6:34 PM Oct 9, 2017 at 6:34 PM
The offense's ball control in fourth quarters has helped Carolina keep pace atop the NFC.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Panthers are closing out games — and keeping pace atop the NFC.
Carolina (4-1) is coming off back-to-back wins over Detroit and New England in part because of its ability to control the ball on offense in the game's final minutes. That has left the Panthers tied for the best record in the NFC along with the Packers and Eagles, who they'll host on Thursday night.
In each of the last two games, the Panthers have built big leads, only to have their defense surrender two fourth-quarter touchdowns to allow their opponent back in the game.
But the offense has bailed them out.
On Sunday, the Panthers held on to beat the Lions 27-24 by running off the final 3 minutes, 22 seconds off the clock. A week earlier, the Patriots battled back to tie the game behind two late Tom Brady TD passes before Cam Newton drove the Panthers 36 yards and used all 3 minutes, 6 seconds off the clock to set up Graham Gano's winning field goal as time expired.
The Eagles will be with third straight division leader the Panthers face.
Panthers tight end Ed Dickson said it's a "huge" mental boost knowing the offense can put the game away when needed.
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But Rivera is confident the Panthers are ready for anything with Newton improving following offseason rotator cuff surgery on his right shoulder.
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Tamils condemn deportations of asylum seekers to Sri Lanka
The Australasian Federation of Tamil Associations released this statement on December 5.
The Australasian Federation of Tamil Associations (AFTA), the umbrella body of the peak Tamil associations in Australia and New Zealand, welcomes the news that the deportation of 56 Tamil refugees was halted after a dramatic hearing at the High Court in Sydney late on Monday.
However AFTA is disappointed by the department spokesman’s comment to the The Age that it was “not uncommon’’ for the department to face legal challenges of this kind, but no other deportations would be affected by the hearing and the department "will continue to remove unlawful non-citizens where it is in accordance with the Migration Act".
AFTA knows very well that Australia as a signatory to the UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (1951) [UNCRSR 1951] cannot commit “refoulment” by sending back any refugee claiming protection in Australia, to a country from where he or she fled from claiming that he or she has been persecuted and will be persecuted if sent back.
While AFTA is happy that these 56 Tamil men will not be deported to Sri Lanka until the High Court in Sydney makes a ruling in their case, AFTA is concerned that the 50 Sri Lankan men who were sent from Darwin to Colombo on Friday were not lucky enough. AFTA reliably learned from a source who contacted the relatives of one of these deported men that these men were driven in a bus direct from the airport to a Magistrate’s house and later to Negambo prison.
AFTA is perturbed at the comment made proudly by Australia’s Immigration Minister Chris Bowen after the Friday’s deportation that nearly 600 asylum seekers have now been returned to Sri Lanka against their will. Minister Bowen has been quoted in the media as having said: “The Sri Lankans were advised of their status and that they were subject to removal from Australia. They raised no issues that engaged Australia’s international obligations”.
Does the Minister expect these people who arrive by boats to have a thorough knowledge of Australia’s international obligations under the UNCRSR 1951 to raise issues about the way they are treated?
AFTA has no issues with the comments made by the department spokesman to The Age that it "will continue to remove unlawful non-citizens where it is in accordance with the Migration Act", if that removal is carried out after reviewing thoroughly every claims to declare one as an unlawful non-citizen.
AFTA reliably learns that in the already deported cases decisions were made after asking specific questions spending less than 30 minutes. This is a very unsatisfactory process that is described by the Refugee Action Coalition as “screening out”, alleged to be designed not to assess the asylum seekers as genuine refugees and is now challenged in the High Court.
While AFTA agrees that everyone coming by boat to Australia may not be genuine refugees, that notion should not be allowed to deny the opportunity of a genuine refugee’s claim to be dumped en-mass (to deter the people smugglers) with the non-refugees and expose that person who has already suffered in the hands of the brutal Sri Lankan regime, to be added to the list of disappeared people in Sri Lanka forever.
The whole Tamil community in Australia is highly disturbed by this matter and therefore AFTA appeals to the Minster to give each and every illegally arriving Tamils a proper opportunity to present his or her protection claim and that also in the presence of preferably a lawyer or at least a witness to be more transparent.
AFTA would like to appeal to the public to let AFTA knows of any one in the detention centres who are being denied an opportunity to make their protection claim properly, by calling on 0402 484 209 or contact by email rajakuv@wix.com.au. to enable AFTA to take further action.
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U.S., Djiboutian communications experts learn more about Africa Data Sharing Network
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February 21, 2016 U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Nehemias Bailon, Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, Africa Data Sharing Network (ADSN) help desk lead, explains a physical component of an ADSN terminal Feb. 18, 2016, in Djibouti. Members of the CJTF-HOA Communications Directorate met with Djiboutian Armed Forces ADSN soldiers and discussed how to configure and operate a terminal. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Peter Thompson)
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February 21, 2016 U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Nehemias Bailon, Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, Africa Data Sharing Network (ADSN) help desk lead (left), demonstrates how to use communication software Feb. 18, 2016, in Djibouti. Djiboutian Armed Forces (FAD) soldiers learned how to efficiently operate a terminal to access the ADSN. The FAD uses the ADSN to communicate with forward deployed soldiers. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Peter Thompson)
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February 21, 2016 U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Nehemias Bailon, Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, Africa Data Sharing Network (ADSN) help desk lead, demonstrates how to level the pedestal of an ADSN terminal Feb. 18, 2016, in Djibouti. The ADSN is a means for African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) troop contributing countries to communicate and share information with the U.S. and amongst each other. Members of CJTF-HOA taught Djiboutian Armed Forces members how to install and operate a terminal, and how to access the ADSN. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Peter Thompson)
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February 21, 2016 U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Nehemias Bailon, Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, Africa Data Sharing Network (ADSN) help desk lead, helps Djiboutian Armed Forces (FAD) Capt. Amer Abdarlaziz, ADSN section chief, configure an ADSN terminal Feb. 18, 2016, in Djibouti. The ADSN is a means for African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) troop contributing countries to communicate and share information with the U.S. and amongst each other. Members of CJTF-HOA taught FAD members how to install and operate a terminal, and how to access the ADSN. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Peter Thompson)
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February 21, 2016 Members of Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa Communications Directorate (CJ-6) and the Djiboutian Armed Forces (FAD) Africa Data Sharing Network (ADSN) section, set-up an ADSN terminal Feb. 18, 2016, in Djibouti. The engagement between the two forces was organized into two tiers, each consisting of two days. During the first tier, the three CJ-6 members covered the basics on how to operate the communication equipment. The second tier was more advanced and went more in depth on specific equipment roles, tracing signal flow and troubleshooting. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Katherine Thornton)
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February 21, 2016 U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Nehemias Bailon, Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, Africa Data Sharing Network (ADSN) help desk lead (left), demonstrates how to use communication software Feb. 18, 2016, in Djibouti. Djiboutian Armed Forces (FAD) soldiers learned how to efficiently operate a terminal to access the ADSN. The FAD uses the ADSN to communicate with forward deployed soldiers. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Katherine Thornton)
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Network training readies Djiboutian soldiers for Somalia mission
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October 5, 2016 U.S. Army Soldiers from the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa communications directorate held an Africa Data Sharing Network (ADSN) sharing of best practices and validation session with Djibouti Armed Forces (FAD) members Sept. 28, 2016, at FAD Headquarters in Djibouti City, Djibouti.
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U.S., Burundi share communications hardware best practices
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July 26, 2016 Members of Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa communications team recently worked with Burundian National Defense Force’s communications unit to share best practices for installing, operating, and maintaining their newly refurbished African Data Sharing Network Satellite Terminal June 8-17, 2016, at Bujumbura, Burundi.
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July 26, 2016 Burundian National Defense Force Soldiers take notes as Nevada National Guard Spc. Richard Taylor, 422d Expeditionary Signal Battalion, currently assigned to CJTF-HOA’s communications unit, shares lessons learned and best practices for operating their African Data Sharing Network terminal June 8-17, 2016, at Bujumbura, Burundi. The soldiers led a sharing of best practices for installing, operating, and maintaining their African Data Sharing Network satellite terminal. The ADSN communication package provides a dynamic intelligence sharing platform for the African Union Mission in Somalia’s troop contributing countries. (U.S. Army photo by 1st Lt. Justin R. Klatt)
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July 26, 2016 Burundian National Defense Force Soldiers work together to install their African Data Sharing Network termianl. Combined Joint Task Force–Horn of Africa communications Soldiers led a sharing of best practices for installing, operating, and maintaining their satellite terminal, June 8 – 17, 2016. The ADSN communication package provides a dynamic intelligence sharing platform for the African Union Mission in Somalia’s troop contributing countries. (U.S. Army photo by 1st Lt. Justin R. Klatt)
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July 26, 2016 Nevada National Guard Sgt. Corey Metzker and Spc. Richard Taylor, 422nd Expeditionary Signal Battalion, currently assigned to Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa’s communications unit, oversee Burundian National Defense Force soldiers as they install a newly refurbished African Data Sharing Network terminal June 8 – 17, 2016, at Bujumbura, Burundi. The Soldiers led a sharing of best practices for installing, operating, and maintaining their African Data Sharing Network satellite terminal. The ADSN communication package provides a dynamic intelligence sharing platform for the African Union Mission in Somalia’s troop contributing countries. (U.S. Army photo by 1st Lt. Justin R. Klatt)
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July 26, 2016 Nevada National Guard Sgt. Corey Metzker and Spc. Richard Taylor, of the 422nd Expeditionary Signal Battalion, currently assigned to CJTF-HOA’s communications unit, share lessons learned and best practices with Burundian National Defense Force Soldiers June 8 – 17, 2016, at Bujumbura, Burundi. The soldiers led a sharing of best practices for installing, operating, and maintaining their African Data Sharing Network satellite terminal. The ADSN communication package provides a dynamic intelligence sharing platform for the African Union Mission in Somalia’s troop contributing countries. (U.S. Army photo by 1st Lt. Justin R. Klatt)
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NHL News : BREAKING: New team has emerged as frontrunner for Rick Nash sweepstakes!
BREAKING: New team has emerged as frontrunner for Rick Nash sweepstakes!
As if they weren't good enough already!
Published on Saturday, February 24 2018 by HockeyFeed in NHL News
One of the most curious developments over the past couple weeks involves the New York Rangers, who decided to throw in the towel and sell off their free agents and even some veterans to build for the future. General manager Jeff Gorton traded multiple players over the past few days. Among them, 25-goal scorer Michael Grabner, who now plays for the New Jersey Devils, and 30-year-old defenseman Nick Holden. And it looks like he may not be done just yet.
According to various reports from a number of NHL insiders, star forward and former 42-goal scorer Rick Nash is on the verge of being traded. But while there are multiple organizations willing to acquire him, Darren Dreger, Bob McKenzie and even Elliotte Friedman confirmed on Twitter just minutes ago that the Boston Bruins are currently the frontrunners to land the talented forward:
However, The Fourth Period's David Pagnotta mentioned on Twitter that it would not be easy to pull such a complicated deal, considering Boston doesn't have a lot of cap room:
We reported earlier this week that the Rangers had decided to remove Nash from the lineup, just prior to their game against the Montreal Canadiens. New York Rangers insider Brett Cyrgalis, of the New York Post, called this a "precautionary" measure due to the fact that the Rangers wanted to make sure he wouldn't get injured.
Rick Nash played a grand total of 1049 NHL games since he was drafted first overall in 2002 by the Columbus Blue Jackets, in which he recorded 434 goals and 799 points. This year, he amassed 28 points in 60 games. He is currently in the last season of an eight-year, $62.4-million contract.
Bob McKenzie makes a shocking statement concerning a future Erik Karlsson trade Evander Kane is sitting out tonight's game, trade is definitely coming
RUMOR: Montreal Canadiens to ship veteran player to a Western Contender
Must See: Both the Flyers and the Avalanche have scored a goal from center ice today!
Steven Stamkos drops the gloves after his opponent hit Kucherov!
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Tom Hiddleston: "I Love" James Bond, Playing Role Would Be "Extraordinary Opportunity"
2:37 AM PST 3/7/2016 by Alex Ritman
'The Night Manager'
British bookmakers slash their odds on the actor becoming the next 007 following his "Bond-ish" role in John Le Carre adaptation 'The Night Manager,' although Tom Hardy and Idris Elba are still seen as favorites.
While much of the chatter about who will next play James Bond, should Daniel Craig end his run in the iconic role, has been focused on Idris Elba, another British actor has seen his 007 star rise in recent weeks.
Tom Hiddleston, whose name has often been linked to the iconic role, has further stirred Bond rumors thanks to his lead role in The Night Manager, the six-part adaptation of John Le Carre's spy thriller currently airing on the BBC in the U.K. (it's due to air on AMC in the U.S. in April).
Speaking to The Sunday Times, Hiddleston — who plays an undercover agent attempting to infiltrate the inner circle of a major international arms dealer — fueled the speculation by saying he was a "huge fan" of the Bond series and would jump at the chance to be involved.
"I simply love the theme tune, the tropes and the mythology. I love the whole thing," he said, adding that he went to watch Spectre while shooting Skull Island in Hawaii. "If it ever came knocking, it would be an extraordinary opportunity. And I’m very aware of the physicality of the job. I would not take it lightly."
Hiddleston's role in the The Night Manager, produced by U.K. banner The Ink Factory (run by Le Carre's sons) at a cost of some $30 million, has seen British betting shops slash their odds of him becoming Bond. Bookmakers William Hill cut his price from 25/1 to 10/1, although the actor still trails favorite Tom Hardy, followed by Elba, Damian Lewis, Aiden Turner and Henry Cavill in most outlets.
"There are some very Bond-ish elements to The Night Manager, and the producers of the next 007 movie will surely be keeping an eye on Hiddleston’s performance in case Daniel Craig decides to step down," said a William Hill representative, adding that his odds could go shorter in the coming weeks.
Last month, Craig sparked further chatter that he would quit 007 when he signed up to take a major part in Jonathan Franzen's 20-part TV adaptation of his book Purity. The actor had previously claimed he would rather "slash my wrists" than do another Bond film, although he later backtracked, saying he was still enjoying the role and that he would keep going for "as long as I'm physically able."
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Indian student murder: UK Parliament to seek report
Amid an outrage over the killing of Indian student Anuj Bidve, a top British parliamentary panel will seek a full report on the circumstances of the "unprovoked" attack in Manchester earlier this week.
world Updated: Dec 29, 2011 14:11 IST
Keith Vaz, the Labour Party MP and chairman of House of Commons Home Affairs Committee, expressed shock over the murder of 23-year-old Bidve on Monday.
"I will be asking for a full report on the circumstances of his death. Overseas students need to be reassured that the UK has taken every possible step to ensure such a tragic event will not happen again," said Vaz, the lawmaker from Leicester East.
"Most importantly, his family deserve to know the truth about the final moments of their much loved son," he said.
Bidve, from Pune, was with nine Indian students when they were approached by two men in Salford. He was shot at close range after a "very short" conversation.
Bidve was a student of Microelectronics at Lancaster University.
In a statement, Vaz welcomed the action taken by the Greater Manchester Police "on the shocking and deeply sad murder" in Manchester on Boxing Day.
The British police has arrested a fourth person in connection with the killing of Bidve, who died following an "unprovoked" attack on Monday.
The unnamed man is the fourth arrest after another man and two teenagers were arrested in the last 24 hours. No further details were released about the three arrests.
The cold blooded murder has sparked an outrage here, particularly among Indians. Many members of the minority community have demanded an exemplary punishment for those involved in the heinous crime.
The police have not ruled out racism as a motive for the killing. The two men who approached the group of students at Salford were described as white men.
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When the Japanese Bombed North Dorr, Michigan
Anjali DeSimone
The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor is one of the most remembered events in American history. That started the war between the U.S. and Japan, and essentially made the world war happen. What is not as widely known, is that the Japanese sent other kinds of bombs toward the mainland United States, and some of them actually landed in the states. One of them landed and exploded in North Dorr, Michigan.
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It was a rather ingenious project the Japanese came up with. They launched 9,300 balloons loaded with fire bombs. They hoped they would travel the jet stream and land in the pacific northwest, causing forest fires. The Japanese hoped this would cause panic at home, and distract from the actual battles of war.
The balloons were filled with nitrogen to keep them afloat. The balloons carried a metal bomb. The balloons were sent upward into the Jet stream, and had a control device that kept them between 30,000 and 38,000 feet.
In 1944, the Japanese had 10,000 of these balloons prepared. They launched 9,300 of them from the island of Honshu. It took a couple of months, but some of them did reach the United States. Many fell harmlessly into the ocean, and only 300 have been confirmed to have landed. As far as is known, there were no injuries as a result of the 300 that did reach the continent.
Most were found along the pacific coast as expected, but a few made it further inland. Some have been found in Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska and Montana.
The U.S. government had a news blackout, and news organizations cooperated. They did not want the Japanese to know any had reached the mainland., The Japanese also hoped Americans would talk about it, and they could learn from that how to make them better. The news blackout worked, because the Japanese stopped launching the balloons early in 1945, thinking they were not working.
The bombs kept coming for awhile though, and two of them made it as far as Michigan. One landed near Detroit and another one landed in North Dorr, which is near Grand Rapids.
In 1945, three young boys saw a balloon falling to the ground, and they could tell it would land near them. They managed to get someone to drive them in the direction of the balloon, and they found it in a field. The bomb had exploded, and the platform it was on had turned black. They brought the balloon home.
Finally the army was notified. The Government took the balloon away and told the family to never speak of it again. They were told to act like it never happened, and they did that.
It was several years later before the information was declassified. The boys then found out what they had found that day in a field. The balloon was taken to an intelligence center in D.C. to be studied. It was then sent to New Jersey to a research facility.
Cynthia Brooke
The international slave trade was outlawed far before slavery itself was banned in the United States; however, these laws didn’t stop people from trying to smuggle in new slaves of their own. During the height of slavery, one owner of an Alabama plantation made a friendly wager with a friend that he could still smuggle slaves into this country on his boat, which he called the Clotilda; however, one a fateful day in the hot summer of 1860, this plantation owner was worried that the authorities were going to catch them. He had just returned from West Africa and had to quickly unload his slaves in the middle of the night. Then, he set his beloved Clotilda on fire in an effort to hide the evidence in the Mobile Delta.
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A Possible Discovery by a Local Reporter
Now, close to 160 years later, a reporter from Alabama claims to have possibly found the wreck of this boat. Following a “bomb-cyclone” that went through the area in January of 2018, the wreck might have been revealed. Ben Raines, a reporter for AL.com, used historical records and the journal of the Clotilda’s captain to start his search. The intrepid reporter also relied on interviews from the time, local lore, and even the memoirs of local residents.
Revealed by a Massive Cold Front, a Bomb-Cyclone
As a result of the massive cold front, a burned-out wreckage of a ship was revealed just a few miles north of the Mobile Delta, where the ship was supposedly ditched. There are iron spikes, charred wood, and what appeared to be the body of the boat. The reporter, who posted a video along with one of his recent articles, stated that he had a gut feeling that this might be the wreckage of the long-lost slave ship. He might have uncovered a piece of the international slave trade.
A Chapter of the International Slave Trade
About thirty years after setting the boat ablaze, the financier of the voyage boasted about his smuggling abilities to a local newspaper. This newspaper story highlighted the importance of the slave trade to the local area. Many slaves were brought in from Benin (located in Africa) aboard the famous ship, even after emancipation had been declared. This area was dubbed “Africatown.” Since that time, many of the local residents can trace their roots back to ancestors who were brought over on this ship, signifying the place that the Clotilda has in history. Furthermore, historians such as Sylviane Diouf have even written entire books discussing the ship.
With the Help of Drone Technology: Gathering Evidence
Raines took a drone and recorded some aerial videos and snapshots of the famous wreck once it had been uncovered. Furthermore, he even took a visit to the site of the wreckage with a specialist to analyze the build and construction of the boat. With the help of professionals, everyone agreed that the design of the ship matched that of other boats that had been built during the time period of the international slave trade. Furthermore, it did show signs that it had been set ablaze, further confirming the identity of the vessel. In order to gather more evidence and information, he will need access to the hull of the ship. It could hold other artifacts that might identify it as a slave ship. Unfortunately, this will require Raines obtaining special permits to access the body of the vessel. With more time, funding, and manpower, Raines might be able to learn more about this small piece of history.
A Recovered 1930s Interview Tells The Story Of The Surviving Slavery
Brooke Hurbert
Many avid readers enjoy a good book by Zora Neale Hurston. What they may not know about her is that her talents ran much deeper than writing. Unbeknownst to many, she tracked down a man with an extraordinary story to tell. She found not just any man, but the last one that survived being held captive on a ship filled with slaves being transported from Africa to the U.S.
Not only did Hurston find this man, she thoroughly interviewed him as well. Unfortunately, she was not able to put the interview into book form, despite her best efforts. It wasn’t until 2018 that the interview was finally published in the form of a book titled Barracoon: The Story of The Last “Black Cargo.” With the release of Hurston’s book many longtime unanswered questions were suddenly answered.
Barracoon tells the story of a man born with the name Kossula, which later became Cudjo Lewis. When he was born he lived in Benin, a country in West Africa. At the age of 19 he was kidnapped by the Dahomian tribe. Against his will he was moved to the coast and sold as a slave, along with approximately another 120 men. He and the other slaves were forced to reside on the Clotilda, a slave ship which would take them from their home country to America.
In 1860 the ship arrived in Alabama with all captured slaves on board. Despite the declaration in the U.S. that slavery was legal, bringing slaves in from other countries was illegal. The ship arrived in Alabama during overnight hours. They were then confined to an area swamp for a matter of days. For fear of being caught, the kidnappers set the ship on fire. There is a distinct possibility that the remains of the ship were found in early 2018.
Those that read the book will get a firsthand view of the ordeal through Lewis’s eyes. Throughout the book, Lewis expresses how it felt to be sold into slavery against his will. He talks about how even though his fellow slaves lived together on the ship, they were separated once they reached Alabama. Readers experience the pain of the ordeal right along with him.
Lewis talks about how he struggled with being placed on a plantation he felt out of place in. Due to language barriers, he and the plantation workers could not effectively communicate. The frustration Lewis experienced during that time is evident throughout the story. He also shares with Hurston that the Civil War had started and he’d had no idea at the time. He later gained knowledge that the point of the war was to free him and his fellow slaves.
Following Robert E. Lee’s April 1865 surrender, Lewis told Hurston that Union soldiers came to the boat he was working on. They then delivered the news that the slaves had finally be freed . Not content to return to his prior life, Lewis and his fellow freed slaves teamed up to purchase land in Alabama. Located near Mobile, the men transformed the land they christened Africatown.
Though Hurston faced controversy for her handling of the book’s subject matter, she kept the book intact. Much of the book took Lewis’s exact words and put them on paper. At the time she was trying to get it published, this prevented her from being able to do so. As her readers know, Hurston was known for her controversial views on anthropology and not shying away from dialogue considered vernacular. Much of that is evident in this book.
When Trucking Leads to Change
The United States decision to resupply the Israeli military marked the beginning of a national crisis. In response to this decision, Arab members of the OPEC banned exports of petroleum to the United States and other supporting countries of Israel. Subsequently, oil prices quadrupled, and the economy begin to suffer. One of the people affected by this crisis was JW Edwards, A meat truck driver from Overland Park, Kansas. In an attempt to financially survive the crisis, Edwards and other truck drivers made up code names to let each other know where to find diesel fuel; however, this this did not last very long, as many gas stations did not supply enough diesel to meet trucker demand. No gas meant no deliveries, and no deliveries meant no money. Not only was there no gas, but there had been talk of changing the maximum speed limit to fifty-five miles per hour. Edwards knew that if this continued for too long, he would be forced out of business. “I had to take things into my own hands.” he said. “My family was depending on me.”
On the night of December 3rd, while passing through Blakeslee, Pennsylvania Edwards ran out of gas in the middle of the interstate. He had had enough. He picked up his CB radio and invited other nearby truckers to come block the interstate in protest.
When John Robinson, a local trucker from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania heard Edwards on the radio, he headed that way to show his support. Robinson knew and understood Edwards’ frustration all to well as he and his family were also feeling the affects of the oil crisis. He had been in the trucking business for thirty years, hauling lumber from state to state. Not only was this his families only source of income, but at the time, his wife had recently given birth to their fourth child. “Some nights he would come home and not say nothing,” remembers Mrs. Robinson. “I knew that he was worried, but I trusted that he would figure it out.”
The protest stretched nearly twelve miles, causing a standstill for nearly one thousand vehicles. It wasn’t long before truckers in other states followed the lead. The protest caught national attention, and although some state leaders promised changed, gas prices continued to rise. Since the protest had begun, food shortages were on the rise and the economy was a mess due to the over 100,00 people who were now unemployed.
It wasn’t until a group of six truckers from the Independent Driving Association decided to come together to speak with government officials that things begin to get better. Government officials agreed to ensure that the truck stops had enough diesel fuel to meet the demands of the truckers. They also worked together to appeal the decision to decrease the maximum speed limit.
In March of 1974, approximately six months after it had all started the embargo ended. Negotiations between Israel and Syria were finalized. The affects of the crisis however, including the high fuel prices, lasted throughout the 1970s.
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Bankers Accused of Libor and FX Fixing Are \'Scapegoats\' Going Unheard
By Gareth Brahams
July 22, 2014 11:00 BST
Bankers Accused of Libor and FX Fixing Are \'Scapegoats\' Going Unheard REUTERS/Fred Prouser
First we had the Libor interest rate scandal that led to banks paying billions of dollars in fines; now we have recurring, and possibly even more damaging, allegations of foreign exchange rate-fixing.
Dozens of bank traders have been suspended or fired amid firms' internal investigations into the market, and reports now claim that a probe could be opened in the coming days.
Six of those accused of conspiracy to defraud over alleged attempts to manipulate Libor.
But are some of the victims of this appalling situation actually going unnoticed?
Back in February, Martin Wheatley, the head of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), told MPs that the new FX rate claims were "every bit as bad" as Libor.
Then in March, the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, went further, labelling the allegations "serious as Libor, if not more so". He told MPs that ensuring the probity of foreign exchange rates was "incredibly important" for the currency market.
Now, the forex probes at the Serious Fraud Office and the City watchdog, the FCA, look certain to form the basis of a criminal investigation.
The FX Market
The daily $5tn (£3.1tn, €3.7tn) currency market is the largest in the financial system and is pegged to the value of funds, derivatives and products.
Morningstar estimates that $3.6tn in funds, including pension and savings accounts, track global indexes.
FX rates are calculated and compiled by using data from a variety of submitted provisions on a number of platforms, such as ThomsonReuters.
It is then calculated by WM, a unit of State Street, to form WM/ThomsonReuters at 1600 GMT daily.
It goes without saying that at the root of successful trading is trust. Once that has gone, the damage can be incalculable to financial organisations.
It's fair to say then that when so much is at stake and so many reputations are on the line, scapegoats can often be hastily sought, sacrificing smaller components in order to protect the integrity of the greater whole.
Indeed, away from all the sustained hand wringing that's been going on in the public eye, perhaps some of the victims of this latest situation are not being counted.
As employment law specialists, we have advised individuals who have been directly accused of wrongdoing in relation to Libor and FX.
Time and again the story has the same features.
The employees concerned had no formal training about manipulation of the markets; historically they were financially rewarded for producing profits as a result; there was no formal separation of roles – indeed the Libor setter was often sitting on the same desk as the trader - and the employee took their lead from their managers who were amply rewarded for what they did.
There are plenty finding themselves in the same boat again when it comes to FX; the unfolding scandal has so far seen dozens of traders placed on leave, suspended or fired by some of the world's biggest banks.
Those that we have seen have understandably wanted to fight back at their disciplinary hearings to try and clear their name and as has been the case on more than one occasion, return to work, perhaps with a warning.
What is Libor?
The London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) is a lending rate that is set by a panel of banks.
Libor valuations directly influence the value of trillions of dollars of financial deals between banks and other institutions.
The benchmark reference rates are used in euro, US dollar and British sterling over-the-counter (OTC) interest rate derivatives contracts and exchange traded interest rate contracts.
However, the individuals involved are typically aware that public opinion is against them and that their reputation will be exposed regardless of whether or not they win.
They also know that the banks have their backs against the wall on this issue and so cannot be seen to be soft.
This might be the state of public perception, where the only thing worse than the banks are the bankers themselves; but when people who are not truly culpable are made to take the hit for those who are, the courts can be expected to step in, regardless of the current mood.
Commentators love to make grand statements about "unelected judges" making unpopular decisions, but it is precisely because they are unelected that they have freedom to do what is right rather than what the baying mob want to see.
That is what we will be inviting them to do.
We all know that greater transparency must be promoted to prevent future abuses of Libor and FX.
However, closer attention must also be paid to those paying the heaviest personal prices, and who should really be carrying the can across the banking world.
That is a fundamental element of cleaning up so many tattered reputations.
Gareth Brahams is a partner at employment law specialist firm BDBF.
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US and India deepen defence ties with military logistics agreement
US Defence Secretary Ash Carter and his Indian counterpart stress importance of ties in Asia-Pacific region.
By Nandini Krishnamoorthy
August 30, 2016 06:54 BST
US Secretary of Defence Ash Carter met India's Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar for bilateral talks on Monday (28 August) where they signed a logistics agreement to let Delhi and Washington use each other's air, naval and land bases REUTERS/Edgar Su
India and the US have signed an agreement that will make them logistical allies and enable use of each other's military assets.
In a step seen as countering the rising maritime assertiveness of China, the agreement will also enable both the militaries to share and benefit from each other's land, air and naval bases for repair and replenishment of supplies.
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US Defence Secretary Ash Carter said the pact will "make the logistics of joint operations so much easier and so much more efficient", Reuters reported.
In a news briefing at the Pentagon with his Indian counterpart Manohar Parrikar, Carter said: "The US and India share a common vision for peace, stability and prosperity in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region." He added that the ties between the two nations are "destined to be one of the defining partnerships of the 21st century".
The deal will allow the US to cooperate with India in both strategic and technological areas at par with other close and long-standing allies of Washington. Besides, it will help the navies to have an "easier time supporting each other in joint operations and exercises and when providing humanitarian assistance", Parrikar said.
The Pentagon reportedly has long wanted to have deeper security ties with India just like its relations with other countries. But India is said to have remained wary as signing a deal would mean Delhi commit to hosting US troops at its bases. When the two leaders met in April they reached an agreement "in principle".
Meeting for the sixth time now, both Parrikar and Carter have made it clear that the current logistics agreement does not allow for India to host US troops. "It's not a basing agreement of any kind," Carter said.
Earlier in June, during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the US, Delhi was designated as a "major defence partner" of the US. Since the meeting with President Barack Obama, India is thought to have removed all hurdles that came in the way of signing a defence cooperation deal with the US.
According to the Times of India, Carter welcomed India's membership of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) while also confirming that Washington would continue to back India's membership bid in the elite Nuclear Suppliers' Group (NSG).
Washington is also reported to have underlined the need for more cooperation with India, especially in tackling China's military expansion in the seas. Both the defence secretaries also emphasised the importance of free flow of trade, without directly mentioning China.
"India and the United States have a shared interest in freedom of navigation and overflight and unimpeded commerce as part of rule-based order in [the] Indo-Pacific," Parrikar said.
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Smoking prevalence stays the same but proportion with no intention to quit rises
11:28 September 1, 2015
EUROASPIRE is a series of cross sectional surveys of the practice of preventive cardiology in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) and people at high risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) across Europe. Four EUROASPIRE surveys have been conducted under the ESC’s EORP initiative.2 EUROASPIRE III, conducted in 2006 to 2008, included for the first time people at high risk of developing CVD in general practice from 12 countries. The primary care arm of EUROASPIRE IV was carried out in 2014 to 2015 in 14 countries.
The current study was a time trend analysis of lifestyle, risk factor and therapeutic management in people at high risk of developing cardiovascular disease between the EUROASPIRE III and IV surveys in general practice. It was conducted in the five countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, Romania and the UK) that participated in both surveys. A total of 5 890 consecutive patients were included of whom 3 827 were interviewed across the two surveys.
“We wanted to see whether there had been any change in lifestyles or risk factors between the two surveys and whether the practice of preventive cardiology in patients at high risk of developing CVD had improved over time,” said Professor Kotseva.
In each general practice, consecutive patients under the age of 80 years, with no history of coronary or other atherosclerotic disease, who had been prescribed one or more of the following medications: (i) anti-hypertensive and/or (ii) lipid lowering and/or (iii) anti-diabetes treatments (diet and/or oral hypoglycaemics and/or insulin) were retrospectively identified and invited to an interview and examination. Study interviews took place ≥6 months and ≤3 years after the recruitment interview. The primary endpoints were the proportions of patients achieving targets for CVD prevention in the 2012 European societies’ guidelines.3
The analysis shows that smoking prevalence stayed the same (17% in both surveys; p=0.90) and remained highest in patients <50 years. The proportion of smokers with no intention of quitting increased from 23% to 34% (p=0.004). Professor Kotseva said: “The highest levels of smoking are still in the youngest patients who have the most to gain from quitting. But the use of pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation remained very low over the seven years so more emphasis is needed in this area.”
There was no change across the two surveys in the prevalence of overweight (82% and 82%; p=0.85), obesity (44% and 43%; p=0.88) or central obesity (59% and 62%; p=0.05), or in levels of physical activity. Less than one in five patients in both surveys reported having vigorous physical activity outside work for ≥ 20 minutes at least three times a week (16% and 19%; p=0.68).
Therapeutic control of blood pressure in patients using blood pressure lowering medication slightly improved but not significantly (28% and 35%; p=0.12), with 65% of patients above the recommended target (systolic <140 mmHg and/or diastolic <90 mmHg; <140/80 mmHg in patients with diabetes) in EUROASPIRE IV.
The proportion of patients on lipid-lowering medication who met the LDL cholesterol target (<2.5 mmol/L) increased insignificantly from 29% to 37% (p=0.38). However, 63% of patients still did not reach the target. Glycaemic control in patients with diabetes remained unchanged (62% and 60%; p=0.75), with 40% of patients not achieving the target of HbA1c <7% in EUROASPIRE IV.
“Lifestyle trends are not moving in the right direction,” said Professor Kotseva. “The prevalence of smoking, obesity and central obesity has not changed over the two surveys with more than four in five people at high risk of developing cardiovascular disease being overweight or obese. The therapeutic control of blood pressure and lipids has not improved significantly and the vast majority of patients do not reach the targets defined in the guidelines.”
She concluded “Our analysis highlights the pressing need for modern preventive cardiology programmes integrating lifestyle and medical risk factor management, adapted to the medical and cultural settings in each country. Health care systems that invest in prevention are urgently needed.”
1Professor Kotseva will give the presentation ‘Clinical reality of primary prevention in people at high cardiovascular risk in Europe: a comparison of EUROASPIRE III and IV surveys in general practice’ at 11:00 during:
• The session ‘Registry III – Prevention’ on Tuesday 1 September at 11:00 in Hyde Park (The Hub)
2About EORP: EURObservational Research Programme (EORP) is the large ESC registry programme. EORP aims at providing a better understanding of medical practice in Europe through the collection of observational data and at evaluating the implementation of ESC guidelines.
3European Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice (version 2012). European Heart Journal. 2012;33:1635–1701.
Principal results of EUROASPIRE IV presented for the first time at ESC Congress
Professor Guy De Backer will present the principal results of the EUROASPIRE IV survey for the first time during the Symposium ‘How are we managing cardiovascular risk in the primary care environment? EUROASPIRE IV survey’, held on Sunday 30 August at 11:00 in the Bratislava room, Village 2
SOURCES OF FUNDING: The EUROASPIRE IV survey was carried out under the auspices of the European Society of Cardiology, EURObservational Research Programme. The survey was supported through unrestricted research grants to the European Society of Cardiology from Amgen, AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca, F. Hoffman-La Roche, GlaxoSmithKline, and Merck Sharp & Dohme. The sponsors of the EUROASPIRE surveys had no role in the design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, decision to publish, or writing the manuscript.
DISCLOSURES: Professor Kotseva had research grant support from the European Society of Cardiology for the EUROASPIRE IV survey.
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ESC Congress is the world’s largest and most influential cardiovascular event contributing to global awareness of the latest clinical trials and breakthrough discoveries. ESC Congress 2015 takes place 29 August to 2 September at ExCel London in London, UK. Access the scientific programme. More information is available from the ESC Press Office at press@escardio.org.
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Healthy Children > Safety & Prevention > Immunizations > Vaccine Safety: The Facts
Vaccine Safety: The Facts
Some people have expressed concerns about vaccine safety. The fact is vaccines save lives and protect against the spread of disease. If you decide not to immunize, you’re not only putting your child at risk to catch a disease that is dangerous or deadly but also putting others in contact with your child at risk. Getting vaccinated is much better than getting the disease.
Indeed, some of the most devastating diseases that affect children have been greatly reduced or eradicated completely thanks to vaccination. Today, we protect children and teens from 16 diseases that can have a terrible effect on their young victims if left unvaccinated.
Your pediatrician knows that you care about your child’s health and safety. That’s why you need to get all the scientific facts from a medical professional you can trust before making any decisions based on stories you may have seen or heard on TV, the Internet, or from other parents.
Your pediatrician cares about your child, too, and wants you to know that...
Vaccines work. They have kept children healthy and have saved millions of lives for more than 50 years. Most childhood vaccines are 90% to 99% effective in preventing disease. And if a vaccinated child does get the disease, the symptoms are usually less serious than in a child who hasn’t been vaccinated. There may be mild side effects, like swelling where the shot was given, but they do not last long. And it is rare for side effects to be serious.
Vaccines are safe. Before a vaccine is licensed in the United States, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reviews all aspects of development, including where and how the vaccine is made and the studies that have been conducted in people who received the vaccine. The FDA will not license a vaccine unless it meets standards for effectiveness (how well the vaccine works) and safety. Results of studies get reviewed again by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Academy of Family Physicians before a licensed vaccine is officially recommended to be given to children. Every lot of vaccine is tested to ensure quality (including safety) before the vaccine reaches the public. In addition, FDA regularly inspects places where vaccines are made.
Watch the Journey of Your Child's Vaccine
Learn about the three phases of clinical trials, vaccine licensing and manufacturing, how a vaccine is added to the U.S. Recommended Immunization Schedule, and how FDA and CDC monitor vaccine safety after the public begins using the vaccine.
Vaccines are necessary. Your pediatrician believes that your children should receive all recommended childhood vaccines. In the United States vaccines have protected children and continue to protect children from many diseases. However, in many parts of the world many vaccine-preventable diseases that are rarely seen in the United States are still common. Since some vaccine-preventable diseases still occur in the United States and others may be brought into the United States by Americans who travel abroad or from people visiting areas with current disease outbreaks, it's important that your children are vaccinated.
Vaccines are studied. To monitor the safety of vaccines after licensure, the FDA and the CDC created the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). All doctors must report certain side effects of vaccines to VAERS. Parents can also file reports with VAERS. For more information about VAERS, visit www.vaers.hhs.gov or call the toll-free VAERS information line at 800/822-7967. Other systems exist to further study vaccine safety concerns if they are identified in VAERS by FDA and CDC.
Protection for everyone
Just as important as the initial vaccinations are the booster shots. These are designed to continue immunity by building on the previous vaccines’ effectiveness. Unfortunately, some parents forget or skip the boosters, which undercut the effectiveness of a very important concept in vaccination: herd immunity. Herd immunity is the benefit everyone receives from a vaccinated population once immunization reaches a critical level. When enough people are vaccinated, everyone—including those who are too young or too sick to be immunized—receives some protection from the spread of diseases. However, relying on herd immunity to keep your child safe is risky. The more parents that follow this way of thinking, the fewer vaccinated children we will have, and the more likely a serious disease will return and infect all of those unvaccinated.
In the rare case that a child has serious side effects to a vaccine, parents can contact the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) at 800/338-2382 or www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation. This federal program was created to help pay for the care of people who have been harmed.
If you have any additional questions or concerns, feel free to ask your pediatrician.
Additional Information & Resources:
Vaccine Studies: Examine the Evidence
Vaccines Your Child Needs
Weighing the Risks and Benefits
www.fda.gov (Food and Drug Administration)
www.cdc.gov/vaccines (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Adapted from Healthy Children E-Magazine, Back to School 2012
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Music to Your Ears
Your Spring '17 Concert Preview
By Alexandra Cavallo March 10, 2017
Glory Reigns
In the late ’90s, New Found Glory gave voice to legions of teens with asymmetrical haircuts and messy feelings. Two decades later, both the band and their early listeners have grown up, but they’re still rocking—and gaining new fans with every album. We caught up with guitarist/vocalist Chad Gilbert ahead of the band’s NFG: 20 Years of Pop Punk Tour, which stops at the Paradise Rock Club for back-to-back shows on March 29-31.
How does it feel to be on a 20th anniversary tour? As a fan, I know I feel old! It’s really cool. I can’t believe it’s been 20 years. I can’t believe time’s flown by so fast. At the same time, it’s weird because I kind of thought I’d be more tired or bitter or jaded by the time we hit 20 years. But, man, I’ve got to tell you there’s a light in our band that just makes me excited, because each of us is as excited about our new album as we are about this 20-year tour. I feel like we still have a drive and a hunger, and I feel our fans feel that way too. It’s cool because, I think even though there’s a lot of nostalgia that will be felt at the shows, it’s not just a bunch of our old fans coming back, it’s new fans who didn’t listen to punk when those records came out. It doesn’t feel like it’s just reliving something.
So you think the audiences will be a mix of new fans and diehards? Yeah, I think it’s both. We don’t just exist in our old catalog; we always believed in pushing our new albums. There are a lot of people who discovered us off of Resurrection. They weren’t alive when Nothing Gold Can Stay came out. Nothing Gold Can Stay came out in ’99, and some of our fans were born in, like, 2000! It’s really cool. I think that’s why I don’t mind playing the old records. I think that’s why I don’t mind playing the old records because the odds that you were into punk rock when this stuff—especially Nothing Gold Can Stay—actually came out are very slim. It’s cool to be able to sort of give [new] fans what they never would have had the chance of seeing.
Does your early music still resonate with you? I look at it in a way that you would look at an old photo. If you were going through old photos of yourself, from when you were a teenager … you wouldn’t want to be that person today. But you’re able to look at it and appreciate it for what it was and what it is. I think that’s how I can relate to those old records. Do I feel the same as I did when I was a teenager? No. Would I write songs with the same lyrics now? We wouldn’t, but that doesn’t mean when you look at your past that you’re like, “That sucked.” It’s awesome that we were a part of that.
You’re married [to Hayley Williams of Paramore] now. How does touring compare to when you were a bunch of young dudes in a van? You value both more. We value our family time, and we value our lives and our families. We love having real responsibilities. Because we’ve toured for so long, a lot of our lives were spent on the road so we really appreciate home life. But at the same time, being home and being married, you learn that “Hey, we have this gift, this band,” and we value it more now. And having a home life … gives you this sort of confidence… You can play music just for the passion of it. You can be more sincere. You can be less concerned about outside perspective because you have a home foundation.
Can you see yourself doing this for another 20 years? A 40-year anniversary tour? [Laughs.] Yeah, I definitely do. … There’s no feeling like playing. Does touring get really hard sometimes? Yeah. Does home life get hard sometimes? Yeah. But playing on stage is always fun, so maybe we won’t tour six months out of the year on our 40th anniversary tour, but we’ll always be a band. Nothing will ever keep us from wanting to go somewhere and play a show.
THE IMPROPER’S 2017 SPRING ARTS PREVIEW: COMEDY | THEATER | VISUAL ARTS | DANCE | FILM
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Bharat Ratna, Padma awards conferred on prominent people
New Delhi (IANS): India’s high civilian honours — the Bharat Ratna and Padma awards — were on Monday conferred by President Pranab Mukherjee on a galaxy of prominent people who have done the country proud.
President Pranab Mukherjee presenting the Padma Bhushan Award to Dr Ashok Seth (Chairman, Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, New Delhi) at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on March 30, 2015. (Photo: PIB)
Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award, was bestowed posthumously on freedom fighter and eminent educationist Madan Mohan Malaviya at an investiture ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Monday evening.
Former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who too was honoured with the Bharat Ratna, was presented the medallion and the scroll of the award last week at his residence because of his ill health.
President Mukherjee, in a simple yet elegant ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan, presented the Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri to a host of leaders and prominent people from various walks of life.
The awards, which are announced on the eve of the Republic Day every year, this year included two Bharat Ratnas, three Padma Vibhushans, 12 Padma Bhushans and 34 Padma Shris.
BJP leader and former deputy prime minister L K Advani, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and Jagadguru Swami Rambhadracharya received the Padma Vibhushan.
Noted cardiologist Dr Ashok Seth, journalists Swapan Dasgupta and Rajat Sharma, Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates and his wife Melinda Gates were awarded the Padma Bhushan.
The Gates couple, however, could not come to personally receive their awards.
Poet-lyricist Prasoon Joshi, filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali and playwright Tarak Janubhai Mehta were some of the well-known people who received the Padma Shri.
Rajat Sharma shook hands with Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he stood to receive Padma Bhushan.
People from the sports world included well-known wrestler Satpal, who received the Padma Bhushan for his outstanding performance in various international tournaments.
Renowned badminton player P V Sindhu and Indian hockey team captain Sardar Singh both received the Padma Shri.
The Durbar Hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan was overcrowded as relatives and friends of the recipients occupied most of the chairs.
Vice President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, many cabinet ministers and government officials were present.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was also present at the awards ceremony. He was seen interacting with the media freely after the function.
Relatives and friends of the recipients cheered when the names of their loved ones were announced to receive the awards.
Some of them put their hands up while clapping and were seen pointing at the recipients of the honour.
On March 27, President Mukherjee made a break with protocol to drive down to Vajpayee’s Krishna Menon Marg residence to confer the highest honour on the nonagenarian Bharatiya Janata Party leader who has been keeping ill health.
Ansari, Modi as well as former prime minister Manmohan Singh and Advani were among those who attended the presentation on that day.
Modi expressed his gratitude to Mukherjee for going to Vajpayee’s home to personally hand over the award.
A photograph of the president presenting the medallion to Vajpayee was released later.
Vajpayee, 90, was the first non-Congress leader to serve India for a full five-year term (1999-2004). His earlier two stints in office lasted 13 days and 13 months, respectively.
Dr Ashok Seth recently shared his views after being named as a winner of the coveted Padam Bhushan award, in an exclusive interview with India Medical Times.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Dr Ashok Seth
Jagadguru Swami Rambhadracharya
L K Advani
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Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya
Parkash Singh Badal
Prasoon Joshi
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Hidden bridge between Quantum Experiments and Graph Theory uncovered using Melvin
An answer to a quantum-physical question provided by the algorithm Melvin has uncovered a hidden link between quantum experiments and the mathematical field of Graph Theory. Researchers from the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Vienna found the deep connection between experimental quantum physics and this mathematical theory in the study of Melvin's unusual solutions, which lies beyond human intuition. They now report in the journal "Physical Review Letters".
Phenomena of quantum physics are perfectly computable - but often elude human logic. In the future, it would be precisely computer algorithms that could make a decisive contribution to the solution of quantum-physical questions, where human logic does not get any further, as was demonstrated now by Melvin. The algorithm developed by researchers of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) and the University of Vienna is actually being created for the calculation of technical solutions for quantum physical experiments [1]. For a general question asked last year, Melvin provided a solution that proved to be surprisingly practical - but initially completely out of touch with human intuition [2].
Remarkable number sequence
"The solution could practically be implemented in the form of an experiment in the laboratory," confirms quantum physicist Mario Krenn from the research group of Anton Zeilinger, professor at the University of Vienna and group leader at the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. "But at first we did not understand how it actually works," the researcher continues.
In the analysis of this solution calculated by Melvin, the researchers initially groped in the dark. Until they came up with a remarkable sequence of numbers known only in the so-called graph theory - a sophisticated area of mathematics that has been used to describe networks such as the Internet or neural networks.
New experimental methods
The unusual approach, which would have remained hidden to quantum physicists, prompted the scientists to further investigate this connection. As they now report in the journal "Physical Review Letters", there are great similarities between experimental quantum physics and mathematical graph theory [3]: If methods and knowledge from graph theory are used to calculate and plan a quantum experiment, it is possible to make very precise and novel statements about the results. "Properties of quantum experiments can be calculated using graph theory, and questions in graph theory can be answered in quantum experiments," explains Krenn. In this way, it is also possible to grasp quantum technology as a graph or a network in order to explore new experimental possibilities.
Also for quantum physicist Anton Zeilinger this bridge, discovered thanks to Melvin, is very promising: "It was very surprising to see that there is a new deep connection between quantum physics and mathematics". What concrete potential this finding holds, is currently not yet to estimate. "It is to be expected," says Zeilinger, "that this knowledge will be of importance for the development of both areas in the future."
[1] Mario Krenn, Mehul Malik, Robert Fickler, Radek Lapkiewicz, Anton Zeilinger, Automated Search for new Quantum Experiments, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116(9), 090405 (2016) - journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.090405
[2] Mario Krenn, Armin Hochrainer, Mayukh Lahiri, Anton Zeilinger, Entanglement by Path Identity, Phys. Rev. Lett. 118(8), 080401 (2017) - journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.080401
[3] Mario Krenn, Xuemei Gu, Anton Zeilinger, Quantum experiments and graphs: Multiparty states as coherent superpositions of perfect matchings, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119(24), 240403 (2017) - journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.240403
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Ballot issues brewing in Bradenton Beach
By Paul Roat
Some sweeping changes in Bradenton Beach governance may be proposed to voters on the Aug. 31 primary election ballot.
Bradenton Beach city commissioners have tentatively approved asking voters whether or not they wish to retain the services of a city manager as chief administrator of the city.
The manager, as proposed by City Attorney Ralf Brookes in draft ballot language, would be hired or fired by three members of the city commission. He or she "shall be the chief administrator of the city and shall be responsible to the city commission for the proper administration of all affairs of the city."
The manager would also "supervise all governmental and proprietary functions of the city and all departments and divisions except the office of the city accountant, city auditor and the city attorney (who shall report directly to the city commission) and as otherwise provided in this charter."
The manager would create the budget for the city annually and coordinate finances for the city.
He or she would also "appoint, remove, discipline and administer the compensation and salaries for employees of the city, except for the offices of the city accountant, city auditors and the city attorney, and chief of police who shall report directly to the city commission, subject to the provisions of this charter and in accordance with the ordinances and personnel rules and regulations of the city, and applicable state or federal law," according to Brookes' draft language.
City commissioners have also agreed to break out the position of city treasurer, currently under the auspices of the city clerk's office, into a separate department.
And the city commissioners themselves would, by a "super majority" of at least four of the five members, decide on matters dealing with land use: comprehensive plan amendments, rezoning, variances, special exceptions and street vacations.
By deciding on variances - currently under the sole purview of the city's board of adjustment - that body's responsibility may become advisory in nature under the proposed charter changes, if passed by voters.
City commissioners are also looking into changing the boundaries of the city's four wards, and are awaiting detailed voter information from the Manatee County Supervisor of Elections Office.
The next meeting of the commission to discuss ballot issues will at 4 p.m. Wednesday, May 26.
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Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, and the Balkans >
Spanish and Portuguese Physical Geography >
Alhambra [Arab.,=the red], extensive group of buildings on a hill overlooking Granada, Spain. They were built chiefly between 1230 and 1354 and they formed a great citadel of the Moorish kings of Spain. After the expulsion of the Moors in 1492, the structures suffered mutilation, but were extensively restored after 1828.
The Alhambra is a true expression of the once flourishing Moorish civilization and is the finest example of its architecture in Spain. It comprises remains of the citadel, the so-called palace of the kings, and the quarters once used by officials. The halls and chambers surround a series of open courts, which include the Court of Lions containing arcades resting on 124 white marble columns. The interior of the building is adorned sumptuously with magnificent examples of the so-called honeycomb and stalactite vaulting; its walls and ceilings are decorated with geometric ornamentation of minute detail and intricacy, executed with surpassing skill in marble, alabaster, glazed tile, and carved plaster.
See W. Irving, Legends of the Alhambra (1832); A. F. Calvert, The Alhambra (1907); S. Desmond, ed., The Alhambra (1974); O. Grabar, The Alhambra (1978).
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5 Festive St. Patrick’s Day Celebration... Return toEVENTS Put some spring in your step – April 20...
Things to Do in Vancouver This Weekend
by Alexis Baran in Events on March 14, 2019
This weekend there are some interesting ways to go back and forth in time. Watch a painting from the early 1500s come to life in the form of dance; see a Columbian crime drama set in the 1960s; witness the collapse of a 1970s commune; live the spirit of the 1980s and 90s music video boom; bring the kids to explore the sun and the moon (whose light is around 8 light-minutes and 1.25 light-seconds from us, respectively); or step forward in time to learn about improving salmon habitats.
Friday March 15
Hieronymus Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights
Hieronymus Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights (show 1 of 2)
Where: Vancouver Playhouse
What: In honour of the 500th anniversary of the Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch, renowned Canadian choreographer Marie Chouinard creates a living canvas, embodying the seething, teeming fecundity of Bosch’s most infamous masterpiece. Ten dancers breathe life into Bosch’s writhing figures and tortured souls with movement and images as video projections draw the audience deeper into this surreal world.
Midian Farm
Where: VanCity Theatre
What: From 1971 – 1977, Midian Farm was a back-to-the-land social experiment created by a community of urban baby boomers from Toronto. Part of the youth counterculture movement during a period of social and political re-imagining, its utopian vision married Christian beliefs with leftist sympathies. The participants had little-to-no experience in agriculture or farming, but they believed that with faith and love they could change the world. Midian Farm was just the starting point. Inevitably, things went awry, and after years of hardship and struggle, the collective collapsed in on itself.wit
Runs until: Tuesday March 19, 2019
Where: The Biltmore
What: Local darkwave electro-mod post-punk.
Marine Life | Image by Erin Gleig
Where: Firehall Arts Centre
What: The story revolves around an environmental activist who falls in love with her opposite. Incorporating magic realism, humour and live music, Marine Life explores themes of environmentalism, creativity, mental illness and personal responsibility in a delicately dark romantic comedy, set against a backdrop of apocalyptic proportions.
Runs until: Saturday March 23, 2019
Music Sea to Sea
Where: Shaughnessy Heights United Church
What: This concert will mark the 92 domestic and foreign tours with the Vancouver Chamber Choir which Jon Washburn has led during the last half century.
Where: Gateway Theatre (Richmond, BC)
What: Now in his early fifties, Deke has been in Millhaven Prison without a cellmate for the past twenty years. He is surprised and annoyed when Corey, a twentysomething rich kid, joins him in his cell. Deke is convicted for killing his sister Abigail’s rapist, and “newbie” Corey is in prison for sexual assault.
Where: Hard Rock Casino (Coquitlam, BC)
What: A Grammy Award–winning comedy duo consisting of Richard “Cheech” Marin and Tommy Chong. The duo found commercial and cultural success in the 1970s and 1980s with their stand-up routines, studio recordings, and feature films, which were based on the hippie and free love era, and especially drug and counterculture movements, most notably their love for cannabis.
Vancouver Canucks vs. New Jersey Devils
What: It’s a hockey game!
St. Patrick’s Day Punk-Stravaganza
St. Patrick’s Day Punk-Stravaganza (day 1 of 2)
Where: The Rickshaw
What: The Dreadnoughts host some of their favourite local punk/folk/Irish/gypsy/ska/metal bands over two nights before taking the stage themselves with their usual inebriated mayhem.
Within Temptation & In Flames
Where: The Vogue
What: A Dutch symphonic metal band and a Swedish heavy metal band.
Saturday March 16
VSO Presents: David Kadouch
Where: The Orpheum
What: Highly-decorated French pianist David Kadouch makes his VSO debut performing Beethoven’s dramatic, ferocious Piano Concerto No. 3, a work by a composer whose great creative genius is on full display. We also hear Beethoven’s very first symphony, a piece composed at the height of his powers, and giving every sign of the astonishing body of work yet to come.
Runs until: Sunday March 17, 2019
Rainwater and Salmon in the City
Where: Museum of Vancouver
What: City rainwater is typically flushed away quickly, out of sight and into our pipes. City of Vancouver and Salmon-Safe BC invite you to learn about useful, strategic green infrastructures that encourage nature’s return to the city. This interactive pop up station illustrates how we can manage rain in a way that provides salmon habitat, improves water quality, and celebrates water within our urban centres.
Spring Break at the Space Centre
Where: HR Macmillan Space Centre
What: Do you have a young space enthusiast in the family? Join us over Spring Break for some special activities and programming focused on exploring the sun and exploring the moon.
What: From the team that made Embrace of the Serpent, this Colombian crime drama completely reinvents the gangster film. Going back to the roots of the cocaine trade in 1968, when indigenous farmers started cultivating marijuana for eager backpackers, the movie spans 12 years and traces the incredible influx of money – and violence – as demand for harder drugs takes off.
Runs until: Thursday March 21, 2019
Gavin Matts
Where: The Comedy Mix
What: A stand-up comedian, writer and actor originally from Vancouver BC who is now living in Los Angeles. In 2018, he was named a TBS Team Coco Comic to watch and showcased at the New York Comedy Festival, through the showcase Gavin booked a spot on Conan and is set to make his late night television debut.
Bryan Hatt
What: Bryan has filmed his own Comedy Now! for CTV, performed on CBC’s Halifax Comedy Fest, performed at Massey Hall with Harland Williams, opened up for Gilbert Gottfried, Big Jay Oakerson, and has done festivals like JFL42 & NXNE.
Tori Kelly Acoustic Sessions
What: Her single, Hiding Place, debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Gospel Albums chart, earning more first-week streams than any gospel album in history.
Vancouver Warriors vs. New England Black Wolves
What: Join the Vancouver Warriors for pro-Lacrosse action against the New England Black Wolves.
Music Videos Live
Where: The Rio Theatre
What: The ultimate night of music videos from Vancouver’s brightest musicians – followed by live performance. Add dancers and DJs into the mix and it’s a retro dream come true.
Canuck Country Rocks
What: Several country musicians.
Sunday March 17
Shamrocks and Shenanigans
What: What is Celtic TheatreSports you might ask? Think of a scene with dialogue made up of random Irish expressions, or a scene in which someone “acts the maggot” or turns out to be one of “the little people.” As in all VTS shows, the inspirations come from audience suggestions so you never know what the talented improvisers will create on the spot. What we do know is that it will be hilarious and leave you drunk with giddiness.
I Got Rhythm + Laura Crema Live
What: Film scholar Michael van den Bos presents an all-new clip show featuring examples from the Great American Songbook first introduced in the movies, plus samples of Broadway tunes that became iconic because of their silver screen interpretations. Michael will set-up each of the clips studded with such musical stars as Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, and Fred Astaire, who introduced more popular standards than any other singer.
The Cat Empire
What: Feel-good, high-energy, smile-inducing roots pop.
Abstracted Exhibition
Where: Federation Gallery
What: Artwork that takes inspiration from the light abstractions contained in Impressionism all the way to the large-scale abstractions of Expressionists.
Body Language: Reawakening Cultural Tattooing of the Northwest
Where: Bill Reid Gallery
What: Explore the rich history and artistry of Indigenous tattooing, piercing and personal adornment on the Northwest Coast. These five contemporary Indigenous artists are at the forefront of the revival of Indigenous tattooing in BC. They are reclaiming traditional techniques and traditional rights to be tattooed, and building awareness of the significance and protocols around the tattooing traditions.
Growing Room Literary Festival
What: A feminist literary festival with over 30 panels and readings, writing workshops and two full days of manuscript consultations for literary folks both local and international. Authors in attendance include Ivan Coyote, Katherena Vermette, Eden Robinson, Heather O’Neill, Leanne Simpson, and Robyn Maynard.
The Metamorphosis
What: This exhibition ties together provocative themes and ideas of change undertaken in more than forty remarkable contemporary works selected from the Gallery’s collection. With its title inspired by Franz Kafka’s 1915 novella, The Metamorphosis invokes a compelling human and creative desire to explore oneself and the world. Kafka’s literary classic follows the experience of a man who, upon waking up, finds himself transformed into a giant insect. This exhibition looks at Kafka’s themes by way of visual art that addresses physical, spiritual and cultural transformation.
Reverberations
Where: Presentation House Theatre
What: Memories contain reverberations. In this site-specific performance piece, actor and sound designer, Brian Linds, explores memories through the sounds of a family’s history. Four performers and five rooms replay key moments in his life — a friend’s betrayal, a search for Jewish meaning, a simple task becoming difficult, a dying mother’s sudden lucidity in the late stages of Alzheimer’s, and a journey of love.
A Curator’s View: Ian Thom Selects
What: A showcase of the span of the gallery’s rich permanent collection through an exhibition of nearly ninety works including paintings, drawings, photographs, and sculptures. Since the Gallery’s establishment in 1931, its permanent collection has become the most comprehensive resource for visual culture in British Columbia. Building on the collection’s historical and contemporary strengths, the Gallery continues to steward acquisitions through donation and purchase.
What: From 1971 – 1977, Midian Farm was a back-to-the-land social experiment created by a community of urban baby boomers from Toronto. Part of the youth counterculture movement during a period of social and political re-imagining, its utopian vision married Christian beliefs with leftist sympathies. The participants had little-to-no experience in agriculture or farming, but they believed that with faith and love they could change the world. Midian Farm was just the starting point. Inevitably, things went awry, and after years of hardship and struggle, the collective collapsed in on itself.
Jesus Freak
Where: Pacific Theatre
What: The Campbell family prides themselves on their West Coast open-mindedness; from pot to political resistance, nothing is off the table. But when their daughter Clara comes home and announces she’s become a Christian, their tolerance is put to the test.
Anne Low: Chair for a Woman
What: Low’s artistic research is typically rooted in a close looking at historical objects, materials and surfaces, especially those created immediately prior to the Industrial Revolution. She is concerned with the specific conditions under which such objects are produced and consumed—particularly by women—and the domestic spaces they defined.
Aslan Gaisumov
What: This exhibition brings together two works never previously shown together and, in so doing, offers a new means through which to consider many of the concerns that have shaped the artist’s practice over the past eight years.
Vancouver International Dance Festival
What: A diverse and dynamic roster of internationally celebrated artists and local favourites, presenting three weeks of endlessly enriching performances, workshops, and a host of dance activities
Hot Brown Honey
Where: The York Theatre
What: Packing a punch of hip hop politics, the Honeys will make you laugh, cry, clap and shake what your mama gave you. This posse of phenomenal women make noise as they defiantly smash stereotypes and remix the system.
Marking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia
What: Showcasing for the first time in MOA’s history a presentation of all-women artists, this exhibition features the artworks of nine Aboriginal women, who are all celebrated artists from tiny remote communities across Australia’s deserts and tropical north. Encompassing a wide range of subjects from the natural to sublime and from minute organisms to vast celestial bodies, the exhibition invites visitors to explore the immutable tension between the universal and the specific, and discover the power of traditional Indigenous knowledge in an increasingly digital world.
Redpatch
Where: Arts Club Theatre
What: Between 1914 and 1918, over four thousand Indigenous men volunteered to fight and die for Canada in WW1. Redpatch tells a part of this story through the eyes of a soldier from the Nuu-chah-nulth nation of Vancouver Island. From his childhood home to the battlefields of France, follow him as he endures the horrors of the Great War in a new play that uses dance, myth, and mask to tell both a universal and a personal tale.
Elephant and Piggie’s “We Are In A Play!”
Where: Waterfront Theatre
What: Join best friends, Gerald and Piggie, on a day where anything is possible! Filled with beloved characters and lively songs, it’s the perfect adventure for young audiences .
Fitness For All
Where: 1100 West Georgia Street
What: Chinese contemporary art collective Polit-Sheer-Form Office (PSFO) has produced a five-piece set of exercise equipment specially designed for the Vancouver public. The artists’ decree suggests that establishing a more collective self-awareness fosters inclusivity and collaboration within a community.
In a Different Light
What: More than 110 historical Indigenous artworks and marks the return of many important works to British Columbia. These objects are amazing artistic achievements. Yet they also transcend the idea of ‘art’ or ‘artifact’. Through the voices of contemporary First Nations artists and community members, this exhibition reflects on the roles historical artworks have today. Featuring immersive storytelling and innovative design, it explores what we can learn from these works and how they relate to Indigenous peoples’ relationships to their lands.
Runs until: Spring 2019
Hastings Park Farmers Market
Where: Hastings Park
What: Find a weekly selection of locally grown fruit and veggies, farm fresh meat, eggs and dairy products, fresh baked sourdough bread and treats, craft beer, wine and spirits, artisanal prepared food, local crafts, hot coffee and food trucks.
Runs until: Sunday April 28, 2019 (Sundays)
What: Sixty paintings and sculptures from the Brooklyn Museum’s renowned European permanent and long-term loan collections. Identifying France as the artistic centre of international modernism from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, these works—which are diverse in subject matter, style and scale—were created by leading artists of the period, intended both for private collections and public display.
Runs until: Monday May 20, 2019
Affinities: Canadian Artists and France
What: Looking at the significance that French art and culture has held for Canadian artists over the past 120 years, this exhibition of works from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Collection focuses on influences of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and Surrealism on Canadian artists during the first half of the twentieth century.
Counternarratives: Paintings by Archibald Fairbairn
What: The watercolour paintings of Archibald Fairbairn (1888 – 1979) document the beauty of totem poles and communities during the early 20th century. This exhibition juxtaposes an idealistic painter’s postcolonial gaze with critical discourse from contemporary Indigenous voices.
Runs until: Sunday June 2, 2019
What: This exhibition comprises internationally acclaimed Victoria-based artist Mowry Baden’s work from the late 1960s to the present. Baden is known for producing intricate, sometimes humorous sculptural works and installations that borrow from the fields of perceptual psychology, science and architecture, and often solicit the audience’s participation.
Wild Things: The Power of Nature in Our Lives
What: This exhibition delves into the life stories of local animals and plants—how they relate to each other and how they connect people to nature in the city. Scenic design, videos, taxidermy, crowd-sourcing technologies, and the display of natural specimens breathe life into these tales of co-habitation. The immersive nature of the exhibition, including hands-on activities, encourages visitors to examine their relationship with nature, think about momentarily disconnecting from their devices, and find equilibrium with the natural world around them.
Runs until: July 2019
Making Waves: The Story and Legacy of Greenpeace
Where: Vancouver Maritime Museum
What: With humble beginnings in Vancouver, Greenpeace has grown into a large organization with offices in 40 countries. The NGO has protested numerous causes: whaling, deforestation, mining, genetic testing, and nuclear testing. Explore this exhibit that goes from their first voyage from Vancouver to Amchitka to protest Nuclear testing on an old fishing vessel to how cities, government, and industry today are developing new policies, technologies, and sustainable practices to ensure the preservation of our environment.
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Not so fast: Ex-Mainichi Shimbun reporter Takichi Nishiyama blasts the government for pushing forward the controversial state secrets bill during a news conference Friday at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo | AYAKO MIE
Ex-Mainichi reporter blasts Abe's push for secrets bill
by Ayako Mie
Takichi Nishiyama, a former reporter for the Mainichi Shimbun who uncovered the secret pact on the U.S. reversion of Okinawa to Japan, criticized the administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday for trying to centralize power and manipulate information with the contentious state secrets bill.
“The government believes it has to transform the Japan-U.S. alliance into a sacred cow,” Nishiyama told reporters at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan. “They will only leak the information that works for them.”
Nishiyama, 82, was found guilty of using devious tactics to obtain documents revealing Japan had secretly made a pact with the U.S. to pay $4 million of the cost of returning control of Okinawa. The documents were acquired from the foreign minister’s clerk, with whom he was having an affair.
Although the U.S. National Archives declassified this information between 1998 and 2000, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party refused to admit the pact exists.
“There are both good and bad things about the Japan-U.S. alliance, and we have to inform the public,” Nishiyama said. “It is only when the public is informed that they can make their decision by voting.”
If the secrets bill is passed, public servants as well as reporters will be punished if journalists seek state secrets using illegal methods. Masako Mori, the Cabinet member guiding the bill through the Diet, has said this is based on the 1978 Supreme Court ruling over Nishiyama’s case.
But Nishiyama criticized the clause for focusing only on methods of reporting, saying it disregards the implication of such reporting in terms of the public good.
“The information the public wants to access is the information the government wants to hide. This is an inherent paradox,” he said.
Nishiyama said a lot of information is already classified, especially in the realms of defense and diplomacy, and the government keeps the reins very tight.
Yet he also emphasized that the Japanese press should do a much better job of pursuing the public’s right to know, saying there have been only a few cases in which Japanese state secrets have come to light.
“Even though reporters proudly advocate the right to know, I would like to ask them if they have really exercised the right to know,” Nishiyama said. “Their reporting on secret pacts like this is mostly dependent on information obtained outside Japan. And we all should be ashamed of that, including myself.”
FCCJ, right to know, Takichi Nishiyama, secrecy bill, Okinawa reversion
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Bath again
I expect it's a major irritant for residents, but although Bath gets pretty crowded with visitors in the summer, it also gets something of a buzz going. It's not so much the tourist crocodiles or clusters, chattering away in any one of a dozen languages or listening to a local guide, it's more the people who turn up to entertain them - the pavement artists, the jugglers, and especially the vast range of musicians. Sax, hippy guitar, a short but powerful burst of opera, trumpet. I wander down the middle of the city, passing through little musical zones - normally the overlap between them is pretty limited, but perhaps it's no fun to work in a shop on those borderlands.
Art. Two galleries again, but this time Quercus and Bath Contemporary Art. I sought out Quercus because I had seen that Katherine Jones was exhibiting (sorry, it's finished now), and her prints are always enjoyable. They were again, and although I haven't gathered enough courage yet to ask in small private galleries if they'll let me take pictures, I'm much braver asking artists by email, and they're usually happy to accommodate my requests. Katherine was, so I'm not reduced to presenting a bald list of titles.
It's hard to remember, now, that once long ago I was disappointed by Katherine's prints 'in the flesh' - now I'm as hooked as the rest of the world. Here were three favourites from the show.
Paxton's Glass House no. 2
Buried Haven - I really like the erratic blue picket fence design running across
The Water Margin - it brings to mind a Center Parcs centre at night. In a good way!
Discovering Sandra Porter's collection of prints of bothans at the exhibition was a bonus. I particularly liked her larger prints, quite mesmeric, and the two below were just great. Again, Sandra was happy to let me use her images here. Both of the artists use collagraph in their work - it's such a great technique, it just does so much!
Bothan Window
Skye Long Shed
And finally this poor little butterfly, lying in the stairwell. I found no problem asking to snap this - it's not somebody's art work, for sale - and discovered that it was the last remnant of the previous gallery at that address, when there were many illustrations about the place. Fun.
Bath Contemporary Art was more of a chance thing. I had the intention of visiting the David Simon Gallery, which was showing seascapes that looked good (thanks again, twitter), but alas there I was on wednesday morning and it wasn't going to open till 2pm. So I abandoned that plan, and happened up across the road from Bath Contemporary. It's a gallery I often do walk past, but I've always thought of it as a little imposing and have never felt quite like venturing beyond the door. Last time I was there, however, it was after closing time, with an amazing head in the window and more sculptures further in.
What do you think, the eyes are the window to the soul?
There's the artist on the window, Rick Kirby, so back then it was obviously his show. This time, his work was still there though I think the original show had finished. That head is utterly amazing from outside, but once I had tentatively followed a couple of people inside (safety in numbers? Who knows what goes on inside my head - certainly not me!) I discovered it was somehow even more brilliant. There's obviously no back to the head, you can see that in the photo, but there's also no other side. It's just a quarter of a head, four building blocks that stack up slightly askew. Loved it! But I'd need a proper warehouse flat, wouldn't I, or at the very least a major clear-out at home . Anyway, the rest of the gallery had quite a few more pieces of his work and plenty of good stuff on the walls and in the browsers too. My only minor quibble was that ceramic pieces were unlabelled. Apparently the reason was that the labels would be too big, detract from the work, and I see the logic but I disagree. Not to label them by maker makes them appear less important, and that seems unfair to me. Anyway, gorgeous space, beautiful skylight further back (I'm not sure if there's a proper term, it's like a mini glass house sticking up from ceiling level), typical of many Bath shops and galleries, and now I've made it through the door once, I'll go again.
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Home/News/Kennedy Executive Strengthens Presence In Financial Services Market In German Speaking Europe With Unterberger & Partner Joining
Paris, April 16, 2019 – Kennedy Executive Search, the global network of privately owned executive search boutiques, welcomes new partner Unterberger & Partner. The new partner firm has offices in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, providing the network further access to the German speaking markets in Europe. With Unterberger & Partner joining, the network now has offices in Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Monaco, Switzerland, The Netherlands and USA.
Unterberger & Partner is an internationally operating Executive Search firm with offices in Munich, Frankfurt, Salzburg and Zurich. It was founded in 2007, and is still headed by industry veteran Markus Unterberger. The firm places executives and leadership positions for a variety of international clients, specifically German speaking markets as well as Central and Eastern Europe. They are specialized, but not limited to the financial services industry ranging from banks, insurance companies as well as positions in digitilisation, anti-financial crime, compliance, regulatory affairs, legal and security for companies within and outside of financial services. Their global scope, combined with a strong local footprint, is what makes them the perfect fit for the Kennedy Network.
Markus Unterberger: “We are always looking for ways to expand and broaden our horizon. For the past ten years, many, if not most of the assignments we worked on were international and for clients that operate globally. Joining Kennedy, we can accelerate our international footprint even further. Furthermore, it opens up doors to new markets and new industries and offers new opportunities. But it will also allow us to meet and exchange with like-minded peers that share the same passion for Executive Search and have the same global mindset. We look forward to learn from their knowledge and expertise and to share best practices with them. This in turn will benefit the level of service we can all provide our clients, both international and local. We are very excited to be part of the Kennedy Network.”
Markus Unterberger
“With potential new partners for our network, we try to meet as many criteria we set as possible”; says founder and chairman of Kennedy, Jorg Stegemann “We look for a minimum of 10 years experience in executive search for instance. Markus can look back on 20 years in executive search so ticks that box more than well. But when it comes to that other important criterion, an international footprint, we strive to look for more than ‘just’ experience with international clients. A true global mindset often stems from a person’s character rather than the company’s experience. Markus is a true global citizen. This is reflected in both his professional career and in his education as he studied in Italy. Furthermore, with his open minded and enthusiastic character combined with his professionalism, he also meets one of the other important criteria; he fits in the team. We are thrilled to have him and his team on board”.
Louise Royer Appointed Marketing Director At Kennedy Executive Search
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JDC, Paris Jewish groups partner in crisis-management program
(JTA) — The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee partnered with Paris-based Jewish groups to help deal with the challenges facing their communities.
The partnership involves resiliency programs addressing trauma, crisis management training and the relocation of at-risk Jews from troubled neighborhoods in the French capital, JDC wrote in a statement Tuesday.
The program follows the slaying of four at a kosher shop near Paris on Jan. 9, which occurred following a doubling of anti-Semitic incidents documented in 2014. With 851 such incidents, last year broke the 2009 record of 832 cases.
JDC’s involvement in the partnership comprises an initial investment of $100,000 and the dispatch of staff, including a psychologist, to Paris, a JDC spokesman told JTA. The partnership further involves 80 hours of additional JDC staff work that will provide professional psycho-social support to at least 450 people.
More than half of France’s Jewish community live in and around Paris, often in heavily Muslim suburbs. One such area is Sarcelles, home to 60,000 Jews, where police in July prevented a mob from reaching the municipality’s main synagogue.
“We are proud to partner once again with the French Jewish community to ensure that, as they chart their future, we are there to strengthen their resiliency, implement specialized services for the most vulnerable, and present a united front in the face of violent hate,” said Alan Gill, the CEO of JDC.
In France, JDC will cooperate with several Jewish groups including the United Jewish Social Fund, or FSJU; the humanitarian association OSE; and the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah.
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Cracksman primed for Coronation Cup
Posted by: AAP+ at 6:36am on 23/5/2018
Posted in: International Horse Racing
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Having made a winning return to action in the Prix Ganay at ParisLongchamp, Cracksman will now bid to complete a hat-trick of Group One wins and give John Gosden his first victory in the Coronation Cup at Epsom.
Gosden believes Cracksman is a vastly different horse from the one who finished third in last year’s Derby at the course.
The victory of the Champion Stakes winner in France was given a timely boost on Saturday, with fourth-placed Rhododendron claiming the Lockinge Stakes at Newbury on Saturday.
“He went to ParisLongchamp about 85-90 per cent (fit). He has come on since then and we are very pleased with him,” Gosden said.
“He has won over the track and he was third in the Derby when he was probably lacking the maturity he had later in the year.
“He won his only start nicely at Newmarket as a two-year-old, but to me he was the unfinished product when he ran in the Derby.
“We gave him a holiday through the middle of the summer and he came back twice the horse he was. Like his father (Frankel), he has a great stride on him.”
Rival trainer Charlie Appleby believes soft ground is no longer an essential requirement for dual Group One winner Hawkbill who begins his European campaign in the race on June 1 after finishing third in 2017.
“I know we’ve got Cracksman to beat, but we are pleased with our fellow,” he said.
“He was always stamped as a soft-ground horse, but he ran well on quick ground in last year’s Coronation Cup and he put up a career-best performance on good ground in the Sheema Classic.”
Aidan O’Brien could give five-year-old Idaho the chance to emulate his brother Highland Reel after he returned to winning ways last time out in the Ormonde Stakes at Chester.
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Cool bars and clubs
From sophisticated terrace cafes to intimate wine bars, plush lounges and pumping nightclubs, Valletta has a lot to offer after dark. If you’re after dance floor action, head to the Paceville area, just north of St Julian’s. The iconic Caffe Cordina, in the heart of Valletta’s pedestrian area, is a great place to soak up the outdoor evening ambience.
London Stansted, Sat 30 Nov 2019
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Manoel Theatre
Constructed in 1731, the Manoel Theatre is Europe's third-oldest working theatre and the oldest still operating in the Commonwealth of Nations. Located on Old Theatre Street, it's home to the Malta Philharmonic...
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Palace Armoury
This museum is one of the world's largest collections of arms and armour, housed in the home of the Knights of St John, a brotherhood of warrior monks who crusaded against the Ottoman Turks. The building...
Grandmaster's Palace
The administrative centre of Malta for over 300 years, the Grandmaster's Palace is now home to the House of Representatives of Malta and the office of the President of the Republic of Malta. It houses the...
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