Featured Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, making his contribution to the 2018/19 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on June 5. At left is Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Fayval Williams.
The Ministry Paper informed that to date, the MCU has registered approximately 61 medicinal cannabis products, manufactured locally and overseas permits for locally manufactured products must be obtained from the Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) and Pharmacy Council.
It added that without the permits, companies supplying registered products have no choice but to import these for local distribution.
"Import permits, granted by the MCU, and distribution licences will be required for companies to import drugs produced overseas. Distribution licences are obtained from the Ministry of Health and Pharmacy Council. This has been a hindrance in the local production and availability of these products for use by patients," the Ministry Paper stated.
Though not mandatory, the Ministry strongly recommends training in the area of medicinal cannabis for all persons involved in providing these products for patients. Training can be done locally, overseas, face-to-face or online.
"A registry of trained persons is kept at the Ministry. To date, 137 persons have been trained in the use of medicinal cannabis, which include physicians, pharmacists and researchers," the document said.
Since July 2017, the MCU has done or facilitated the following activities: the registration of 61 medicinal cannabis products and five medicinal cannabis applicators (devices); and providing two local manufacturing entities with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) certification for producing medicinal cannabis products.
Additionally, more than 30 travel permits were awarded to tourists/visitors/returning residents to bring in prescription products not available locally; and five permits have been granted to local residents to use medicinal cannabis as recommended by their physicians.
"These patients have also been facilitated with importation permits for their prescription items due to local unavailability. Draft Ethical Guidelines for Medicinal Cannabis Research have been completed by a local consultant to facilitate local clinical trials involving medicinal cannabis," the Ministry Paper informed.
Meanwhile, the document noted that a public education strategy is urgently required to address the implications of changes in the treatment of cannabis for various groups in the society, particularly youth, as well as to address the wide societal perception that marijuana is a safe drug.
It noted that all components of the programme should emphasise prevention of use by the vulnerable – children, pregnant mothers, and persons living with or predisposed to mental illness – among other key groups.


More disks have been added to our list: Disk D012 contains Foxe's Book of Martyrs, 1037kb and Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary, 85kb. Most Bible students are acquainted with Foxe's, one of the most inspiring accounts of many who held their religious convictions firm to the end. Hitchcock's contains over 2,500 Bible and Bible-related proper names and their meanings. Did you know that Aaron means "teacher," that Manasseh means "forgetfulness," or that Elisha means "Salvation of God"? Hitchcock's is a helpful desk reference for any Bible student. If you do not have a computer, you may obtain this 33-page listing from Giving & Sharing for $2.50.
D014 has Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1123kb, which is so large that it had to be compressed (win-zipped) to fit on one disk. Unzipped files are in ".html" (Worldwide Web) format, and take 2.8mb of space. The first file contains hypertext links, which jump you to detailed topics from A to Z.
Except for D014, all our disk files are in ASCII (text) format, readable by any personal computer. Suggested donation is $2.50 per disk, from Giving & Sharing, PO Box 100, Neck City, MO 64849.
"People who hate and kill Christians don't care if you go to church on Saturday or Sunday. Remember the old saying, 'If they get me today, they will get you tomorrow!' How long before the types of persecution described in [The Voice of the Martyrs] . . . comes to America? When the dragon wanted to kill the true Christ child, he had every baby boy two years old and under killed . . . . Satan wants to destroy all that appear Christian.
"Right now 'Christians' are being martyred, beaten, put in prison, sold into slavery, and suffering many other types of persecutions. Researchers are saying that more Christians are being martyred now than in the first century A.D.
"The Churches of God used to be so urgent on this matter. Is the Church of God asleep now?"
Founded in 1967 by Pastor Richard Wurmbrand, Voice of the Martyrs, PO Box 443, Bartlesville, OK 74005, has forty other VOM offices around the world. Its purposes are: to give Bibles, literature, and broadcasts in their own language to Christians in areas of the world where they are persecuted, to give relief to Christian martyrs, to win to Christ those who are opposed to the Gospel, and to inform the world about atrocities committed against Christians and about the courage and faith of the persecuted. You may subscribe to the free VOM Newsletter by calling 800-747-0085 (USA calls). Their web site is www.persecution.com.
Wurmbrand and his wife Sabina are no strangers to persecution. As Romanian Jews converted to Christianity in 1938, they were repeatedly beaten and arrested by Nazis. In 1944, when Communists gained control of Romania, Wurmbrand expanded his ministry to his own countrymen and the Russian soldiers occupying his country. He led an underground Church which smuggled Bibles into Romania and Russia. He was in and out of prison from 1948-1964. In 1965, the Wurmbrand family was ransomed for $10,000 by their friends, and escaped Communist Romania. Richard testified before the United States Senate Security Subcommittee, revealing eighteen deep torture wounds on his body. Wurmbrand began speaking around the world on behalf of persecuted Christians, and became known as "The Iron Curtain Paul," or "The Voice of the Underground Church." In 1990, the Wurmbrands returned to their native Romania, now liberated from Communism, and spoke on national television. VOM now operates a press in Bucharest, and city officials offer storage space below the palace of former Communist dictator Ceausescu, the very site where Wurmbrand was held in solitary confinement for many years.
There are still many countries where Christians in general, and Sabbatarians in particular, are being persecuted. The most notable are Nigeria, Myanmar (formerly Burma), China, and Indonesia. Much work needs to be done, especially in liberated former Communist countries such as Russia, Ukraine, and Tajikstan. In the many Moslem countries, such as Sudan, Sharia law calls for the death of anyone even criticizing the Islamic faith. Muslims who convert to Christianity "sign their own death warrant." The Voice of the Martyrs remembers them, and so should we. The cries of the martyrs have been heard. For fifty years, the Wurmbrands have been smuggling Bibles to persecuted believers, not giving expensive Steuben crystal to dictators. For more than thirty years, they have been serving the persecuted. To this day, Pastor Richard Wurmbrand continues to be an inspiration to take the message of love and hope to a lost world. He has never let borders hinder his determination. Neither should we!
Wurmbrand's most famous book is Tortured for Christ, available free from Voice of the Martyrs. The sequel, From Suffering to Triumph, is available for $6. Two inspiring videos produced by VOM are available on loan from The Bible Sabbath Association. Faith Under Fire interviews Christians who face persecution head on, in places such as Muslim territory, China, and Vietnam. This video will challenge you to ask the question, "Is my faith ready to hold up under fire?" A second video, Leaping China's Great Wall describes persecution in the most populous country on earth. These two VHS videos are available on 14-day LOAN for $10 for both from The Bible Sabbath Association, 3316 Alberta Drive, Gillette, WY 82718. Or, you may purchase these videos from Voice of the Martyrs for $15 each.
Persecution of Messianic believers is definitely a serious matter.
I personally know of oppression of Sabbath-keepers in Nigeria. Our persecuted brethren need our prayers, support, and encouragement. We cannot ignore the voice of the martyrs. After all, we may be next!
Are we keeping the same Sabbath today that the Savior kept? Have previous calendar changes altered the weekly cycle? Did Joshua's long day change the Sabbath? What about gaining or losing a day when traveling around the world? The Bible Sabbath Association, 3316 Alberta Drive, Gillette, WY 82718 has reprinted the classic booklet, "Has Time Been Lost?" Long published by the Church of God, Seventh Day, and later, the Worldwide Church of God, this excellent booklet demonstrates that the Sabbath day has not been lost. Single copies are free. You may order 100 for $35. This would be an excellent booklet for local evangelism.
If you are a student of the Bible, you have a lifetime Bible, your main study Bible, which you constantly use. We recommend a wide margin KJV Bible as your main study Bible. Even though you protect it with a book cover, and take extra precautions, Bibles tend to become tattered and the binding eventually loosens. My 30-year old Oxford Wide Margin Bible may soon be in need of repair.
Bookmenders Bible Repair specializes in the fast-disappearing craft of Bible repair. This family-operated business, begun in 1979, is situated on a tiny farm in the Ozarks region of the USA, and also repairs cookbooks, dictionaries and encyclopedias from mail orders all around the world.
Bookmenders receives Bibles in various states of disrepair . . . one or both covers torn off or missing completely . . . spines broken or missing . . . whole sections loose or falling out . . . pages torn or mutilated . . . beautiful leather covers, dried out or cracked and flaking away. Even though many Bibles they receive are "basket cases," they are able to restore them to reusable condition. Each Bible is carefully inspected and disassembled. A special mending tissue and transparent glue is used to repair torn pages. Loose sections are refastened into place with linen twine and flexible glue. When needed, new covers are cut from an attractive, bonded, long wearing leather, made especially for Bibles. All leather covers, when restorable, are cleaned with saddle soap, treated with a special leather dressing, which was developed by the British Royal Museum. Each cover is then carefully redyed to eliminate scuff and wear marks.
Repair of most hand Bibles and Testaments (sizes normally carried to Church) is $34.95 + $5.00 shipping and handling, which includes repair or recovered with bonded leather. Satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Write: Bookmenders Bible Repair, l4007 White Oak Lane, Bentonville, Arkansas 72712. Their Internet address is http://www.bookmenders.com.
If your are not a student of the Bible, you may not comprehend why anyone would repair an old Bible, instead of just throwing it away and getting a new one. Those who study God's Word, remember the location of important passages on the pages of their Bible. A main study Bible is like a familiar road. A different Bible is like an untraveled road.
Tom Belinno and the rest of the family at Bookmenders offer free tips about Bible care and repair. If you follow their suggestions, their service may not be necessary.
Supplies you will need: 3/4 inch 3M Magic Tape; small bottle of Sobo or Elmer's Craft Glue (Craft Shop); knitting needle or a piece of stiff wire longer than your Bible; small bottle of Neats Foot Oil (Hardware Stores or Shoe Repair Shops); small container of wall paper cleaner (Paint Store) and a pink pearl eraser (Office Supply); wax paper.
Don'ts of Bible care: don't let pets near your Bible, don't drop your Bible, don't let your Bible get wet, don't leave your Bible in the car, don't mark your Bible with any other pen than BIC Accountant's Fine Point.
How to clean soiled pages: Clean with wall paper cleaner. Stubborn spots can be removed using a pink pearl eraser. Rub very gently & remove residue.
How to refasten loose pages: Open Bible to missing page, support Bible with books or board so it lays flat. Place a piece of wax paper slightly longer than the page length 1/16 inch from spine edge. Put a light coat of glue on the exposed strip, carefully align loose page on all 3 sides and press onto the glued area. Place another piece of wax paper over the page, close the Bible and set aside to dry.
How to mend a torn page: Carefully align torn sections. Cut a length of Magic tape slightly longer than the tear. Caution: Use only 3M "Magic Tape." Other tapes become brittle and turn brown. Place tape over the tear and rub gently with the back of a spoon. Tape will almost disappear!
How to tighten loose covers: Stand Bible on end and gently open area between cover and contents, dip knitting needle or stiff wire in glue, to evenly coat it. Insert needle in area between cover and spine. Do this to both covers, close Bible and let it dry overnight.
How to care for leather covers: Once a year clean covers and apply a light coat of Neats Foot Oil. If dry spots occur, apply another coat. Use sparingly, put wax paper under covers.
David Merrill, a 16-year old Suffolk, Virginia, high school student, won top honors in the state science fair for a most revealing experiment.
Young David bought 72 male lab mice, a stop watch, a 5 x 3 foot maze, and some music CD's. The 16-year old tested the mice and found that on the average, it took ten minutes for them to find their way through the maze. Then, he divided the mice into three groups: a control group, a hard-rock group, and a classical music group. The mice had identical feedings and twelve hours of light each day. The hard rock and classical music groups were exposed to ten hours of their selected music each day. After three weeks of hard rock music, the hard rock group took thirty minutes to go through the maze. In their three weeks of no music, the control group were able to cut five minutes from their original measured time going through the maze, showing that practice helped them learn. Mice that listened to Mozart knocked 8.5 minutes off their time through the maze. David said the project had to be cut short because the hard rock mice began killing each other! David Merrill says that his experiment proves that hard rock music is bad for the brain. What do you think?
Students with musical training outperform others on the Scholastic Assessment Tests, scoring 59 points higher than others on verbal, and 44 points higher on math. Research by Frances Rauscher and Gordon Shaw on "The Mozart Effect," shows that even brief exposure to classical music has a beneficial effect on intelligence.
What would be the result if, instead of music, mice were exposed to Alexander Scourby reading the Bible, sermons by Gerald Flurry, Rod Meredith, etc.? Are the music and the sermons you are being exposed to, beneficial, or detrimental, to your mind and spirit? Sounds affect mice and men.
Scavengers are a necessary part of God's creation. They clean up the environment so that man would not get sick. They are walking disease factories. Pigs, catfish, eels, and buzzards eat rotten carrion and many things that would be deadly to others. A growing problem in our environment is that sinful man has eaten too many of the scavengers, and they are no longer capable of doing what God intended them to do. When scavengers of our bays and oceans have been harvested for human "food," our waterways become disease-manufacturing cesspools because the scavengers are no longer there to clean the filth from the water.
Enter, China and its ducks. Why is China the source of many strains of the flu virus, which produce worldwide epidemics? Chinese love to eat ducks. To feed the ducks, Chinese farmers raise catfish in duck ponds. The catfish are fed pig feces and duck feces. The ducks eat the baby catfish. Ducks are a reservoir for human influenza virus. Viruses are passed from pig to catfish to duck and to humans. Dead ducks and dead catfish are fed to the pigs, and so on in a vicious circle. And, as humans eat pigs and ducks, they get the disease. Wild ducks pick up the virus from their domestic cousins, and the virus is carried to distant lands. Today's chicken flu virus is killing people in Hong Kong. Chickens raised with ducks are quickly infected and carry their infection to the lands to which they are exported. In 1983, the chicken flu in Pennsylvania spread so rapidly, that all chickens in the state had to be killed. As a boy growing up in Gresham, Oregon, east of Portland, I knew what our Japanese neighbors "fertilized" their gardens with: human manure! Is it any wonder that disease epidemics are spreading?
Are ducks and geese unclean? It appears that most ducks and geese are "clean," but, they are very susceptible to water born parasites and disease. The key passage is Leviticus 11:18, which refers to the "swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle" as being unclean. The word translated "swan" by the KJV is Strong's #8580, tanshemeth, which Jay Green's Interlinear Bible says is "the barn owl." The Septuagint translates this word as porphyrion, which means "purple," or "scarlet," possibly indicating the flamingo. According to the JFB Commentary, Michaelis considers it the goose. Strong's Hebrew dictionary says it could mean "swan, water hen." The NIV footnote to Leviticus 11 informs us, "The precise identification of some of the birds, insects, and animals of this chapter is uncertain."
Let us give ducks and geese the benefit of the doubt. If they are clean, they quickly become unfit for human consumption when fed carrion, pig dung, and such tripe. Even cattle, when fed cattle dung and ground up sick cows, are prime reservoirs for the infamous "mad cow" disease, which can kill humans who eat the diseased meat. My employer's expert environmental scientist majored in geese. I jokingly call him "the goose man." Drainage ponds on our surface coal mines are home to nesting pairs of geese, and, among other things, our scientist makes sure they are healthy. During his university graduate research days, however, he made the mistake of walking in goose ponds in his bare feet. He contracted a goose-snail born parasitical disease, and faced years of painful medical treatment to rid himself of the parasites. My daughter Barbara, a marine biologist, was amazed how many parasites she found in a pelican she dissected.
The way animals are often raised in today's "fast buck" society should lead us to avoid some "clean" foods that are unhealthy because of they way are raised. Ducks and geese appear to fall in this category. For us, it is "ducks, limited."
Prices for the excellent series of young people's Christian videos, McGee and Me have been reduced. Produced by Focus on the Family, normally retailing at $12.95, these Christian videos - which combine high energy live-action drama with colorful animation - can now be purchased for $9.95 while current inventories last. Over a million McGee videos have been sold. Now a new group of young grade schoolers has not seen them. This award-winning series has been acclaimed for its ability to deliver the entertainment kids love, and the biblical values parents applaud. We heartily endorse the McGee and Me video series.
Recommended titles include: "Back to the Drawing Board," "Do the Bright Thing," "Skate Expectations," "The Not-So-Great Escape," "A Star in the Breaking," "Beauty in the Least," "In the Nick of Time," "Take Me Out of the Ball game," "The Big Lie," "The Blunder Years," and "Twister and Shout." You may purchase these VHS videos for $9.95 plus $3.50 shipping & handling, from Gospel Direct, telephone (USA) 800-467-7353.
What are ten foods you should never eat? What are ten super foods you should eat? What are the ten most dangerous food additives? This and more is covered by the ten-issue-per-year, Nutrition Action Healthletter, published by the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest. Some foods you should never eat are movie theater popcorn popped in coconut oil (fat), Haagen-Dazs ice cream (fat), and Campbell's red and white label soups (salt). Some of the foods you should eat are: sweet potatoes, whole-grain bread, broccoli, strawberries, beans, cantaloupe, spinach, kale, oranges, and plain oatmeal. The newsletter, which normally sells for $20 per year, is available now for $10/year, or $28 for three years, from: Nutrition Action, 1875 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20009.
The highest form of literature is poetry. Many parts of the Bible are in poetic style. Poetry conveys Truth in a sublime way. My friend, Dave Cameron, writes superlative poetry and wit in his little periodical, Rhyme & Reason, now in its seventh volume (28 pages of gems). You may order a copy from David M. Cameron, 1520 East North Street, Springfield, MO 65803. A donation of $2.50 is appreciated.
I have been invited to speak at the Church of God Seventh Day Campmeeting, in Meridian, Idaho (near Boise), on July 3-4, 1998. This annual event runs from June 26-July 4, with workshops, children and youth classes, and nightly services. Other speakers include Messianic Jew Saul Wallach, and Creation Science lecturers Fred & Carol Brauer. Visitors are welcome. Call (208) 467-6639, or write Church of God, 1827 West Third Street, Meridian, ID 83642. The campground accomodates RV hook-ups and tents, and there are hotels nearby. I hope to see you there!


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THE SURATH PEOPLES COOPERATIVE BANK
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The Surat Peoples Cooperative Bank IFSC and MICR Code:
State wise list of The Surat Peoples Cooperative Bank IFSC code, MICR code and addresses of all branches in India
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Bank THE SURATH PEOPLES COOPERATIVE BANK
IFSC code: and MICR code: ; THE SURATH PEOPLES COOPERATIVE BANK address : , - ; Branch code is , Contact Number: , THE SURATH PEOPLES COOPERATIVE BANK Timings: Monday to Friday: 10 AM to 4 PM, Saturday - 10 AM to 4 PM(Except 2nd and 4th Saturday).
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The Surat People's Cooperative Bank IFSC Code:
The Surat People's Cooperative Bank has made it simple for people for people to transfer funds from one bank account to another through its NEFT and RTGS services. These services are a secure and fast way of transferring money between banks. While using these services, people have to provide the IFSC code of the beneficiary's bank. IFSC code is alphanumeric and stands for Indian Financial System code. This code contains 11 characters, the first four are alphabetic symbolizing the bank's name, which is 'SPCB' in case of The Surat People's Cooperative Bank. The last six characters are generally numeric symbolizing the bank's branch name, which is between 251001 and 251026 for the branches of this bank. The fifth character is '0' (zero) and is reserved because it might come in use in the future.
How to Search for The Surat People's Cooperative Bank IFSC and MICR Codes?
The Surat People's Cooperative Bank's IFSC and MICR codes can be found on their official website and on the leaflets of their cheque books. There are many other websites online, which provide people with the IFSC and MICR codes of all banks. BankBazaar is one such website, which provide this IFSC and MICR codes of Indian banks free of cost.
To get the IFSC and MICR codes of the Surat People's Cooperative Bank on BankBazaar, people have to start by opening the homepage and then locate and click on 'Bank IFSC Code' on the bottom section. They will be directed to another page where they have to select the bank name, state, district and the branch name from the drop down menus, after which the IFSC and MICR code for the particular branch of the bank will be automatically generated.
How to Transfer Money using The Surat People's Cooperative Bank NEFT and RTGS?
Sending money from one bank to another is a hassle free process today as one can easily use the NEFT and RTGS money transfer facilities provided by the Surat People's Cooperative Bank to do so.
National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT):
The Surat People's Cooperative Bank NEFT service can be availed on the working days of the bank. This facility allows people to transfer money safely between banks and all the transfers are done in batches. To avail this service, a person has to pay certain fees to the bank, the details of which are mentioned as follows -
If the transfer amount is up to Rs.10, 000, the fee charged is Rs.3
If the transfer amount is between Rs.10, 000 and Rs.1, 00, 000, the fee charged is Rs.6
If the transfer amount is between Rs.1, 00, 000 and Rs.2, 00, 00, the fee charged is Rs.17
If the transfer amount is more than Rs.2, 00, 000, the fee charged is Rs.28
Apart from the fees, he or she has to provide certain details about the receiver such as –
The receiver's name
The receiver's bank and branch name
IFSC Code of the receiver's bank
The transfer amount
The receiver's account number
A remark for the receiver, if any
Real Time Gross Settlement System (RTGS):
The Surat People's Cooperative Bank's RTGS service can be used for transferring money from 9 am to 4.30 pm on weekdays and from 9 am to 1.30 pm on Saturdays. People can use this facility if they want to transfer a large sum of money as the minimum amount that can be transferred using the RTGS service is Rs.2, 00, 000. The requests for this service are taken on an individual basis, which is why the transfers happen really fast.
In order to avail this service, a person has to pay the following fees to the bank –
If the transfer amount is between Rs.2, 00, 000 and Rs.5, 00, 000, the fee charged is Rs.28
Apart from the fees, he or she also has to provide the following details about the receiver -
About The Surat People's Cooperative Bank:
Established in 1922, the Surat People's Cooperative Bank is one of the popular and leading banks, which has been working really hard to provide the best solutions to the banking needs of their customers. Today the bank has a network of 25 branches and their headquarters is located in Surat. They provide a number of products and services to their customers, which includes loans, deposits, fund transfer facility, ATM facility and Internet Banking among many others. The Surat People's Cooperative Bank works on 6 days a week, with Saturday being a half day.
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BALTIMORE - A Harford County, Maryland, man was arrested Saturday, July 11 after Transportation Security Administration officers caught the man trying to carry a .25 caliber pistol past a security checkpoint at Baltimore Washington International-Thurgood Marshal Airport (BWI).
TSA officers detected the unloaded handgun tucked into the man's camera case as he was passing through the airport checkpoint this morning. The man, a resident of Fallston, Maryland, told TSA officers that he forgot that he put his gun into the camera case and into his carry-on bag. The TSA officer who was staffing the checkpoint X-ray machine detected the handgun inside the traveler's carry-on bag as it passed along the conveyor belt.
TSA officers contacted the Maryland Transportation Authority Police who responded to the checkpoint, confiscated the firearm and arrested the man on weapons charges. There was no impact to airport operations.


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Home › Entertainment › Mike Rowe Speaks Out About How 'Faith and Church' Were Part of His Upbringing
Mike Rowe Speaks Out About How 'Faith and Church' Were Part of His Upbringing
by Michael Freeman March 9, 2022
written by Michael Freeman March 9, 2022 9:57 am
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Though known for Dirty Jobs and a variety of other shows, Mike Rowe discussed the subject of faith and its role in his life. According to him, "faith and church" were a huge part of his upbringing.
Rowe recently talked to Pure Flix about his television appearances throughout the years. While discussing his childhood and growing up, he revealed how big a role faith and church played as a kid. Much of this likely stemmed from Rowe's grandfather, who was a skilled tradesman and helped build the church he grew up frequenting. The church served as a crucial location throughout his life.
"Faith and church for me growing up wasn't an event — it wasn't a thing that was introduced to me," he said. "It was a thing that was just there. It was there like the stable had always been there … there were Lenten dinners on Wednesday nights. I was in the Boy Scouts [at the church]. For me, church and the faith that came with it were as much a part of the community as anything else."
To Mike Rowe's dismay, as he got into television, he realized faith isn't something prominently shown. "When I started making TV, I realized that a lot of the places where I went, people's faith and people's church … they occupied the same kind of real estate. But when I saw the finished versions of other shows, those things were always cut out."
Being the storyteller he is, he advises including it if it's important to people. "Don't tell the story you want to tell. Tell the story you find. And by and large, if you commit to telling the story you find, you are going to find people who have an element of faith in their life."
Mike Rowe Talks about 'Delayed Gratification' in American Culture
On the subject of stories, Mike Rowe recently spoke about "delayed gratification" in American culture. Though he believes it's a big problem, he explained telling stories is a great way to alleviate the issue, especially for younger generations.
Last week, Rowe talked to Faithwire's Tré Goins-Phillips about many topics, one of which was American culture. Goins-Phillips brought up the issue of delayed gratification and how it's becoming a more prominent issue. Rowe admitted that's true, but it's a complicated problem to tackle. According to him, a way to instill patience in younger generations is background information, namely, storytelling.
"People who live their lives by some sort of a code," Rowe began. "You know, I think that's important, telling their stories is important. The problem is nobody wants a sermon. Nobody wants a lecture. Nobody wants to be scolded and I certainly don't want to do any of those things either. So, it's a tricky balance."
Concluding, Rowes uses Dirty Jobs as the perfect example. On its own, it's another show, but after speaking to the people and learning how they got there, watchers become invested. This helps interested viewers see the payoff when learning a skill or going to school.
Plus, you know, it's a fun show.


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A '''High School''' is the term used to describe the last part of the regular schooling process. It usually entails 9th grade through 12th grade, but in some areas could be 10th through 12th grade. The school is usually separate from the Junior High School.
'''High school''' is the term used to describe the last part of the regular [[school]]ing process. It usually entails 9th grade through 12th grade, but in communities with [[junior high school]] (as opposed to [[middle school]]s), high school can be 10th through 12th grade.
== Drop out Rates ==
1.2 million students dropped out of high school in 2006 and only 70% of the students who started high school four years ago earned a diploma. These figures have been relatively constant for the last five years.<ref>Christian Examiner, Sept. 2007, Vol 25, No 9, Pg. 25</ref>
High school is the term used to describe the last part of the regular schooling process. It usually entails 9th grade through 12th grade, but in communities with junior high school (as opposed to middle schools), high school can be 10th through 12th grade.
Drop out Rates
1.2 million students dropped out of high school in 2006 and only 70% of the students who started high school four years ago earned a diploma. These figures have been relatively constant for the last five years.[1]
↑ Christian Examiner, Sept. 2007, Vol 25, No 9, Pg. 25
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Florida Atlantic University's department of computer and electrical engineering and computer science professor Imad Mahgoub, Ph.D., has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) MRI: Development of Instrumentation to Support Multi-Technology Vehicular Networking Systems Research grant of $330,000 with a matching grant of $142,000 from FAU to develop a vehicular networking testbed and the software tools needed to quickly develop and deploy protocols and applications on the testbed.
"This research provides our students and faculty with the opportunity to work on a new generation of active safety applications and safety systems to help improve roadway safety," said Mohammad Ilyas, Ph.D., interim dean of FAU's College of Engineering and Computer Science.
Vehicular Networks also known as VANETs is a new technology that can provide quick, efficient means of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle to infrastructure communication such as cell phone towers. V2V communication enables a vehicle to: sense hazards with a 360 degree awareness of the position of other vehicles and the threat that their vehicle presents; calculate risk; issue driver advisories or warnings; or take pre-emptive actions to avoid a crash. The technology has tremendous potential to improve roadway safety, traffic flow efficiency and convenience for drivers and passengers and is part of an envisioned Intelligent Transportation System.
One of the main research challenges to improving this technology is the lack of accurate evaluation schemes. The current research relies heavily on simulation. As new vehicular networks are ready to be released the research team will work to develop a platform to verify the networks performance in real-life environments and identify unforeseen problems. The information gathered from this research will help match the capabilities of next–generation vehicles and enable easier evaluation of complex vehicular networking systems and create a higher standard in vehicular networking research world-wide.
The co-principal investigators of the study include Ilyas and Aleskandar Stevanovic, Ph.D., assistant professor of civil engineering in FAU's department of civil, environmental and geomatics engineering.
tkLABS, a local engineering consulting firm specializing in embedded wireless systems, will be assisting the FAU research team with tasks requiring expertise in low-level software development, electrical and mechanical design and manufacturing.


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Flexport makes two senior appointments as it continues digital drive
Kevin Paige (L) and Mehmet Goker (R)
Freight forwarder Flexport has appointed Mehmet Göker as chief data officer (CDO) and Kevin Paige as chief information security officer (CISO).
Flexport chief executive Ryan Petersen said: "Hiring top talent for the CDO and CISO roles was an extremely important priority for us. Data and security are at the heart of the Operating System for Global Trade.
"We were fortunate to attract a CDO and a CISO with strong experience and a global perspective. Mehmet and Kevin's contributions will help our clients drive their businesses forward and will help Flexport become the most trusted company in global trade."
Göker will be responsible for strengthening and scaling Flexport's data and analytics functions. He will oversee how data is collected, analyzed and used to build predictive models, translating to better time estimates, delivery of focused services and predictive alerts to improve performance and products.
Prior to Flexport, he was most recently vice president of data and analytics at SurveyMonkey and vice president of business data science at Salesforce.com. He also spent time as research director at PricewaterhouseCoopers and started his career at DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology. Gӧker holds several patents and has published more than 60 scientific papers and three books on AI and engineering design.
Meanwhile, Paige will be responsible for IT and security, which are "both imperative to securing the supply chain data that Flexport leverages for its clients".
As CISO, he will oversee Flexport's data and privacy standards. He has more than 15 years of experience, engaging both technical and non-technical stakeholders to define business needs and align IT initiatives with broader company goals.
Prior to joining Flexport, Paige was CISO at MuleSoft, through its acquisition by Salesforce.com. He has held technical leadership roles at Salesforce, xMatters, the US Army and the US Air Force.
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Sicario Review
Director - Denis Villeneuve, Writer - Taylor Sheridan, Cast - Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro, Victor Garber, Jon Bernthal
The Skinny in 10 words
"Who? What? Why? Drug wars on the US/Mexican border"
"Nothing will make sense to your American ears, and you will doubt everything we do"
You should know something going into this movie; this is not a comfortable film to watch and your date probably won't like it... but you will.
In fact, the movie's beauty and its art form is in its ability to make the viewer decidedly uncomfortable throughout the movie's 121 minutes.
When I tell you the director behind this also directed Prisoners (Villeneuve) this will come as no great surprise upon viewing. Sicario is a brilliant mix of Prisoners meets Training Day (Fuqua) in the setting of the drug cartels. You can see no shortage of this genre of late from the award winning documentary Cartel Land to the new Netflix "everyone's talking about" Narcos and in Sicario you have a condensed and boiled down version of the old themes you think you know.
The story in short is this; Female FBI agent at the top of her game, Kate Macer (Blunt) is recruited by Matt Graver (Brolin) to an undisclosed government agency to help fight the war on drugs between the US/Mexico border. The great vehicle for this movie is uncertainty and deception. Are we the viewers being deceived or is our kick ass take-no-shit idealist Emily Blunt being led into something less than legal? These questions are there from the off and as the movie seriously gains momentum, more questions are raised than are answered.
This movie is brutal and violent and will be too much for some people and others will just be plain indifferent to this snapshot of a fictionalised take on a real world story thats been used many times in movies over the years.
The acting is what makes this film standout, Emily Blunt will have praise heaped upon her and rightly so for what could have been the weakest part of the movie. She pulls it off with both barrels and a character that has a soul and the audience can identify to.
Wait!!! I've not even come to the star of the show yet, Benecio "Hand me the keys you cock sucker" Del Toro, (Usual Suspects anyone? no? oh behave) what a performance from him! He is by no means a lead in this and yet he takes this movie into the upper echelons with all of the pivotal moments falling to him in some way or another. Josh Brolin has been in some big screen hit and misses of late (True Grit, Gangster Squad, Oldboy remake, Everest) and in Sicario he has hit his stride. The charismatic army man who we cannot help but feel is not telling us all of the truth.
The action scenes are shot brilliantly so that you are constantly second guessing if you are about to see an epic all out gun fight or if you are just left thinking something awful is about to happen every three seconds to no avail. That may frustrate some but that is great storytelling plain and simple.
Two hours of uncomfortable brilliance on a subject matter we all can't seem to get enough of. I'm not sure this is one you will go back to time and time again over the years and certainly it is too divisive a movie, in my option, to lend claim to film of the year. It will make you wish they opened up this story to reveal a bigger picture not just the snippet we are shown however wanting more is no bad thing. One more twist in the tale and this could have been a classic! That said; Go see. It's brilliant!
Say What?: Benecio Del Toro is no stranger to the drug cartel movie having been in Traffic (which he won an oscar), Savages, Escobar: Paradise Lost and now Sicario. All since 2000.
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Women on a Mission: Mom Edition: WOMS LIKE POMS!
Remember the shower post that I did recently that featured pinks, browns, owls, and so much more—it was DIVINE! (PS: Still no news on the new baby, but mom is ready for her arrival!).
Crafty Katie and crafty Danielle threw this shindig and it was AWESOME!
Danielle, soon-to-be-mom Andrea, and Katie! ADORABLE!
Take 8 to 10 sheets of tissue paper and cut in half.
Take one of these halves and fold accordion style, making each fold approximately an inch wide.
Then take a light gauge wire about 6 inches long and wrap around the center of your accordion folded tissue paper. You can fold this in half to make sure that the wire is in the center.
Trim ends to be either rounded or pointed - we did some of both.
Fan the two halves created by the wire. Gently pull apart each layer of tissue paper until they are all separated.
Tie a ribbon or fishing line to the wire to hang.
Sounds simple! And AFFORDABLE! Thanks Katie and Danielle for this simple and adorable tutorial! ETHNE AND I DEFINITELY PLAN TO MAKE THESE SOON! Totally WOM-WORTHY!


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Heartless Bastard
NYC: Soho/Tribeca
Heartless Bastard NYC Reviews and Tickets
Great acting, Entertaining, Quirky, Clever, Funny
HERE presents the world premiere of this drama about a commercial real estate broker who receives a heart transplant, and finds himself forever changed.
Barry Weiss is a hotshot broker: arrogant, smart, and tough. His girlfriend Janie is his take-no-prisoners business partner. They ride the big wave of ambition and wealth, self-involved and self-satisfied. But when Barry needs a new heart, he descends into a comically callous world of medically inept doctors and hard-bitten nurses. As he recuperates, he finds that everything feels wrong. What are these feelings, these thoughts, all these questions? When he shows up on the doorstep of his donor's widow, he begins a dangerous journey into the true nature of his illness and the deeper meaning of his new heart.
Quirky, Great acting, Great staging, Entertaining, Raunchy
See it if you are in for insane portrayals of doctors and nurses around a transplant-changing personality with some good acting and minimal staging.
Don't see it if you cannot juxtapose unrealistic sex and comedy with the seriousness of medical and psychological change among multiple characters.
506 Reviews | 1000 Followers
Clever, Banal, Funny, Thought-provoking
See it if a compromise with partners 88 and my 70. Some Jerry Lewis type scenes A real problem re: heart replacement. Expectations play a role.
Don't see it if One of us was ready for old time comedy and one was not. One wonders though how a person with a need for a heart might view it.
Young potatoe
Dizzying, Excruciating, Fluffy
See it if you want to see a very community theater type show here in the city
Don't see it if you are looking for anything professional. Read more
PATRICIA 3
Ambitious, Banal, Cliched, Disappointing, Raunchy
See it if you have a free evening and want to be mildly entertained; a very predictable plot has been done before; over-the-top comedic performances
Don't see it if you want a show with a new twist; you don't mind sexy scenes which have no reason to be there; you don't mind stupid out-of-place comedy
AmyAmyAmy63
Confusing, Cliched, Over the top acting
See it if you like experimental works in small spaces with low production values.
Don't see it if you're looking for a cogent plot or a message that hasn't been done many times before. Read more
dianefe
Relevant, Cliched, Funny
See it if you like to ponder who we are and how and if transplanted organs may impact us.
Don't see it if You expect a mature script. Play seemed somewhat incomplete with lots of ideas not fully fleshed out resulting in trite characters.
Funny, Great acting, Edgy, Dark comedy
See it if you like dark comedy. The acting is over the top but it works.
Don't see it if the topic of heartless people mixed with heart transplants as comedy is not for you.
Bruce 6302
Disappointing, Insipid, Good acting, Uninvolving, Mildly funny
See it if you like farces, silly plots and stereotyped characters with some humor and good acting.
Don't see it if you like shows that have realistic perceptive characterizations and plots that provide substance for interesting analysis.
"Initially confounding but builds to a satisfying climax...It's meant to be overblown and not at all realistic, and at times is hilarious...Shankman has the confidence to be jagged and confusing and pulls it all off with skillfully rendered surrealistic antics. George's staging is artfully brisk with the appropriate momentum of fast-paced comedy sketches. Flashes of raw emotion are also sharply emphasized and there are terrific performances."
Justin Sharon
"Combines elements of farce with moments of poignancy. Lively scene changes and uptempo music ensure you don't dose. The solid cast includes Kevin Sims, who portrays a dizzying array of male doctors...But it is Barbra Wengard who steals the show. Channeling two helpings of Marisa Tomei, she movingly conveys a widow's torment...This actress imbues 'Heartless Bastard' with a soul."
HERE Arts Center
Jim Shankman
Craig J. George
Collin Smith
Barry Weiss


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Methuen Police Seek Help Identifying Break-In Suspect
By News Editor | January 26, 2016
Surveillance photos released by police.
Methuen police are asking for the public's help in identifying a suspect believed to have broken into six local businesses last weekend.
The six, including three businesses on Merrimack Street, route 110, Methuen, were broken into during early morning hours on Saturday, according to Methuen Police Chief Joseph Solomon. Police did not provide details on what may have been taken as a result. Surveillance photos released by police show the suspect as a white male wearing glasses, blue jeans, a blue jacket, a hat, and boots. Surveillance video footage indicated the suspect "has a very particular stride" and police believe he was operating a pickup truck.
"We strongly advise business owners to take the necessary precautions in order to deter criminals from breaking into their building," Solomon said.
The break-ins occurred at Elan Hair Studio, 45 Osgood St.; The Hampstead House, 251 Hampstead St.; Romano's Pizza, 301 Merrimack St.; Monte Carlo Salon, 369 Merrimack St.; TT's Nails, 371 Merrimack St.; and Rosario's 1859 Restaurant, 12 Hampshire St., all in Methuen.
Methuen Police are encouraging business owners to take such precautions as using an alarm, not leaving cash in the building after closing and leaving lighting when using a camera system.
Anyone with information or tips is asked to contact Methuen Police Captain Kristopher McCarthy, criminal investigations bureau commander, at (978) 983-8752.


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Parliament: Nearly half of MediShield Life claims paid out went to Singaporeans over 65
Between November 2015 and September 2016, about $282 million in MediShield Life claims went to Singaporeans aged above 65, compared with $151 million in the previous year under the old MediShield. ST PHOTO: JAMIE KOH
Linette Lai
Political Correspondent
https://str.sg/UXwu
SINGAPORE - Nearly half the claims paid out in the first 11 months of MediShield Life's existence went to Singaporeans aged above 65, said Health Minister Gan Kim Yong in Parliament on Tuesday (Nov 8).
Between last November and September this year, about $282 million in claims went to people in this age group, compared with $151 million in the previous year under the old MediShield.
In total, more than $600 million was paid out under the universal insurance scheme during this time period. This is up from the $307.5 million disbursed over the same time under the old scheme.
"Overall, for older Singaporeans, MediShield Life paid out an average of $1,639 per claim," Mr Gan said. "(This is) a 15 per cent increase from $1,425 per claim under MediShield."
He was responding to a question from Ms Joan Pereira (Tanjong Pagar GRC), who asked how the Health Ministry determines if the benefits under the Pioneer Generation Package and MediShield Life are sufficient for the needs of the elderly.
Mr Gan added that the Pioneer Generation Package has provided more than $700 million in benefits to over 400,000 people so far.
"MOH will continue to review affordability and coverage of healthcare for the elderly, while ensuring that our healthcare financing system remains sustainable," he said.
Mr Png Eng Huat (Hougang) also asked how many people have not paid their MediShield Life premiums, and what the total amount owed is.
In response, Minister of State for Health Chee Hong Tat said that as of September, around 51,000 residents have outstanding premiums due, which amount to around $12.8 million. This represents about 1 per cent of all members, and includes overseas Singaporeans as well as those who cannot be contacted.
"We are reaching out to remind Singaporeans and help them with their MediShield Life premiums," Mr Chee said. "The Government has provided subsidies to help Singaporeans pay for their MediShield Life premiums."
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British sheikh reported to police for rape offences
Door SILVAN SCHOONHOVEN
The 51 year old leader Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi has thousands of followers and runs a Muslim commune on a secluded country estate near Birmingham.
THE HAGUE - Two Dutch women have made police reports against a well-known Islamist 'holy man' for rape. The British Police have now interviewed the British sheikh. The "investigation is ongoing", according to the Police.
The 51 year old leader Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi has thousands of followers and runs a Muslim commune on a secluded country estate near Birmingham. Tens of Dutch religious followers live there with him, most of whom come from the Hague area. The Hijaz movement has close ties with the Noeroel Islam mosque in The Hague.
The two Dutch women have stated to the West Midlands Police that the sheikh sexually abused them multiple times when they were children in the 1990's. A third Dutch woman had already complained to the police about the religious leader's father in the 1990's, also for rape, whilst she was a child. The father, Abdulwahab, died in 1994 while Interpol were investigating that case.
The British lawyer and former Chief Prosecutor Nazir Afzal has dealt with tens of abuse cases and is following the Siddiqi case closely. According to him, "…for Muslim women it is even harder to come forward about their abuse, due to the culture of honour and shame. In this community people prefer victims to suffer in silence. That applies all the more when it concerns a religious leader, who is more or less untouchable."
Ignored for years
The mother of two Dutch girls, who say they are victims of the sheikh, is angry that signals from her were ignored for years inside the community. "My children were abused in the most brutal manner", she writes. "I see how they are suffering from the consequences to this day. What the Siddiqi family has done is devastating." She warns that religious meetings exclusively for children are still being held on the sheikh's estate.
Sheikh Siddiqi is a lawyer in Sharia courts and an entrepreneur. He runs one of his companies together with the secretary of the Noeroel Islam mosque in The Hague. The company, SIB Global Investments, has a business plan for a holiday village including a bar serving 117 different types of beer.
Siddiqi won't respond to questions on the matter. Through his solicitor, he has stated that reports about sexual abuse are 'unfounded'. He says that rogue mosque-goers in The Hague are seeking to discredit his family.
Tips about this case? s.schoonhoven@telegraaf.nl
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Lauding India's efforts in providing treatment to HIV affected people, UNAIDS on Thursday urged the country to scale up its healthcare services for the benefit of HIV positive mothers and children.
"If we want zero AIDS–related deaths, India needs massive scale up of treatment and care services. By 2015, we need at least 15 million people on treatment world–wide," Charles Gilks, country coordinator for UNAIDS, said.
Gilks was speaking at the summit on good practices, innovations and impact of National AIDS Control Programme–III organised by National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO).
The second day of the three–day Summit brought together experts and community leaders who stressed on concrete strategies that are required to strengthen care, support and treatment in the next phase of the National HIV programme.
"We have an unfinished agenda. Stigma, discrimination and denial faced by HIV positive people is still very high," Aradhana Johri, Additional Secretary, Department of AIDS, said.
While Gilks said India should focus to improve services for pregnant mothers, Mohammed Shaukat, Deputy Director General of NACO, said though the number of Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) centres increased from 107 in 2007 to 355 in 2012, HIV positive people are accessing them at a very late stage.
"It is important for HIV positive people to start ART soon to improve the quality of life," he said.
NACO has directed all ART centres to provide ART for anyone who has a CD4 count of 350 from 250 earlier. The CD4 count determines the immunity levels of a person living with HIV.
Manoj Paradesi, living with HIV for 18 years, said there is an urgent need to listen to voices of the community.
Time has come to make drug dispensing units (ART centres) as complete Health Resource Centres which can provide quality counselling and information to HIV positive people, he said.


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A Record Breaking Deluge of Rain in Israel
US Drone Strike Puts Middle East on High Alert
The Ayes Finally Have it in Britain: Brexit set for January 31st
Tarshish Getting Brexit Done
Russia calls for "Partnership of Civilizations" in Europe
Russia's foreign minister lays out Russia's view of a New World Order.
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March 4, 2016 - Audio, 21.76 MIN
(Links at bottom of page to download free viewers.)
Russia sees itself as the successor to the Byzantine Empire, the champion of Christianity, a leader of an assembly nations who is to unseat the failed American hegemony over Europe, create a New European Order, with Russia at its center, and take on the burden of world problems. The Bible paints the same picture.
Sergey Lavrov gives his
vision of Russia's place
This week Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov wrote an article for Global Affairs magazine where he reflected on Russia's past and future.
In the lengthy article he attempted to correct the picture painted by western propaganda of Russia's development and current place in the world.
Russia the successor to the Byzantine Empire:
Lavrov described the rise of the Kievan Rus its adoption of Christianity in 988, over 1028 years ago. He showed how Russia was the defender of Christianity during the Mongolian invasion and successor to the Byzantine Empire:
Rus bent under but was not broken by the heavy Mongolian yoke, and managed to emerge from this dire trial as a single state, which was later regarded by both the West and the East as the successor to the Byzantine Empire that ceased to exist in 1453. An imposing country stretching along what was practically the entire eastern perimeter of Europe, Russia began a natural expansion towards the Urals and Siberia, absorbing their huge territories.
Lavrov's understanding of Russia's development is in keeping with John Thomas, and other Bible prophecy students, who wrote about the origins of Russia from a Biblical perspective. It is the successor to the Byzantine Empire, and became the dragon of Revelation when the Russian ruler assumed the title of Czar or Caesar, and Russia became the third Rome.
Peter the Great, Czar of Russia
Lavrov reflected on the glory of Russia's previous leaders such as Peter the Great, who put Russia in the center of political decision making in Europe:
Relying on tough domestic measures and resolute, and successful, foreign policy, Peter the Great managed to put Russia into the category of Europe's leading countries in a little over two decades. Since that time Russia's position could no longer be ignored. Not a single European issue can be resolved without Russia's opinion.
He wrote of Catherine the Great who put Russia into the center of military decision making in Europe:
Russia's size, power and influence grew substantially under Catherine the Great when, as then Chancellor Alexander Bezborodko put it, "Not a single cannon in Europe could be fired without our consent."
These reflections are by design, the implication being that moving forward, no European issues will be resolved without Russian' opinion, and no guns will be fired in Europe without Russian consent. Anything else would be tragic, as he went on to state.
Attempts to Unite Europe without Russia have been Tragic
Reflecting on the current situation with the European Union and NATO, Lavrov drew on historical attempts to unite Europe under Napoleon which did not include Russia in the decision making:
During at least the past two centuries any attempts to unite Europe without Russia and against it have inevitably led to grim tragedies, the consequences of which were always overcome with the decisive participation of our country. I'm referring, in part, to the Napoleonic wars upon the completion of which Russia rescued the system of international relations that was based on the balance of forces and mutual consideration for national interests and ruled out the total dominance of one state in Europe.
Czar Alexander I called for
a common European policy
According to Lavrov, Russia saved the day bay in Napoleonic times. Quoting the Russian emperor Alexander I he drew an analogy with today:
"there can be no more English, French, Russian or Austrian policy. There can be only one policy – a common policy that must be accepted by both peoples and sovereigns for common happiness."
This vision of the Czars, and now of the current leadership of Russia is also in keeping with Bible prophecy. Ezekiel talks of an alliance nations that spans Europe and Russia:
"And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the prince Rosh [RSV] of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him… (Ezekiel 38:2-3)
Historians identify Rosh with Russia, Meshech with the Muscovy people who gave their name to Moscow, Tubal with the area of Tobolsk and Siberia, the land of Magog with what we knew as Eastern Europe, and Gomer with France and Germany. Again John Thomas, writing in Elpis Israel looked for the development of the Czar's and the current Russian administration's vision of Europe:
"Gogue of the land Ma-gogue", that is, styling the ruler of Magogue by the latter syllable of the name of the country over which he rules. We have seen that Magogue is the region extending from the Ros, or Russia, to the Rhine, comprehending Wallachia, Transylvania, Hungary, and Germany. Of course, the prophecy must be future, because the Prince of the Ros is the Gogue of Magogue; and as yet no Emperor of Russia has been also Emperor of Germany, etc." (John Thomas, 1848. Elpis Israel, p385)
Ezekiel adds to this confederation Western Europe by the addition of Gomer and all his bands in verse 6:
"Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee." (Ezekiel 38:6)
Again, Thomas draws upon ancient historians to make his conclusion on Gomer and his bands:
In this general description may easily be discerned that extended portion of the West of Europe, comprehending ancient Gaul, Belgium, and the countries bordering upon them, which constituted in our day the Napoleon empire. Gomer, then, points immediately to France… Their country, according to the best modern geographers and historians, was bounded on the north by the Ocean; on the west by the Ocean and the Rhine; on the south by the Maine; and on the east by the Weser (A river running through Germany)."
Lavrov's vision of Russia united with Europe is in keeping with the picture painted by Ezekiel in chapter 38.
These nations are not just united geographically, militarily and politically but by a common ideology.
Out of the Mouth of the Dragon
Lenin, leader of the Russian Revolution
Lavrov then countered Western criticism that painted the Russian Revolution of 1917 "as a barbaric coup that dragged down all of European history." He pointed out that the Russian Revolution was part of a movement that swept Europe:
Undoubtedly, the Russian Revolution was a major event which impacted world history in many controversial ways. It has become regarded as a kind of experiment in implementing socialist ideas, which were then widely spread across Europe. The people supported them, because wide masses gravitated towards social organisation with reliance on the collective and community principles.
Lavrov's assessment of the Russian Revolution is in harmony with the Biblical prophecies about the "socialist" experiment that would effect Europe. Revelation 16 describes the threefold doctrine that was incubated by the French Revolution and burst out across Europe:
"And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty." (Revelation 16:13–14)
The "unclean" teachings described as spirits of the demoniac or mad men would effect the kings of the earth and the whole world, eventually bringing them to the battle of Armageddon. This is the doctrine of "liberty, equality and fraternity", which is a false doctrine, as the Bible states:
"While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage." (2 Peter 2:19)
Lavrov's reflection on Communism is an national admission to being infected by the spirit of the French Revolution, which he holds not as a stain on the Russian society, but as a defining element:
It is appropriate to recall yet another anniversary, which will be marked next year – the 100th
Stalin and Napoleon who both
emerged as dictators following
bloody revolutions in
Russia and France
anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Today we are faced with the need to develop a balanced and objective assessment of those events, especially in an environment where, particularly in the West, many are willing to use this date to mount even more information attacks on Russia, and to portray the 1917 Revolution as a barbaric coup that dragged down all of European history. Even worse, they want to equate the Soviet regime to Nazism, and partially blame it for starting WWII.
Without a doubt, the Revolution of 1917 and the ensuing Civil War were a terrible tragedy for our nation. However, all other revolutions were tragic as well. This does not prevent our French colleagues from extolling their upheaval, which, in addition to the slogans of liberty, equality and fraternity, also involved the use of the guillotine, and rivers of blood.
Undoubtedly, the Russian Revolution was a major event which impacted world history in many controversial ways. It has become regarded as a kind of experiment in implementing socialist ideas, which were then widely spread across Europe.
This is fair comment. In western opinion, Russian Revolution, a revolution of the people resulting in the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin: bad – something to be demonized. French Revolution, a revolution steeped in the blood of the guillotine, resulting in the dictatorship of Napoleon Bonaparte: good – something to be celebrated. The point is, both revolutions were bloody, resulted in dictatorships, but were the source of "implementing socialist ideas which were widely spread across Europe". In other words, The frog spirits came out of the the mouth of the European Beast, and out of the mouth of the Russian Dragon.
Changing Masters
Remarkably, Lavrov then describes the collapse of the Soviet Union and the reforming of the nations released from Soviet influence. He stated:
If you take an unbiased look at the smaller European countries, which previously were part of the Warsaw Treaty, and are now members of the EU or NATO, it is clear that the issue was not about going from subjugation to freedom, which Western masterminds like to talk about, but rather a change of leadership. Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke about it not long ago. The representatives of these countries concede behind closed doors that they can't take any significant decision without the green light from Washington or Brussels.
This is in keeping with the Biblical principle:
"Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?" (Romans 6:16)
All human forms of government are corrupt and fall under the "sin unto death" category, whether communist, capitalist or socialist as they are governed by men. As Bible believes we look for a new form of government:
"Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." (2 Peter 3:13)
NATO's Demise = United Europe
Lavrov, reflecting on how things went in Europe sees a tragedy in not involving Russia in the European Union:
We had a practical chance to mend Europe's divide and implement the dream of a common European home, which many European thinkers and politicians, including President Charles de Gaulle of France, wholeheartedly embraced. Russia was fully open to this option and advanced many proposals and initiatives in this connection. Logically, we should have created a new foundation for European security by strengthening the military and political components of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
George Kennan, architect of the US
policy of containment of Russia
Lavrov identifies the problem as being NATO:
Unfortunately, our Western partners chose differently. They opted to expand NATO eastward and to advance the geopolitical space they controlled closer to the Russian border. This is the essence of the systemic problems that have soured Russia's relations with the United States and the European Union. It is notable that George Kennan, the architect of the US policy of containment of the Soviet Union, said in his winter years that the ratification of NATO expansion was "a tragic mistake."
Lavrov sees Western policy as the core issue in a divided world:
The underlying problem of this Western policy is that it disregarded the global context. The current globalised world is based on an unprecedented interconnection between countries, and so it's impossible to develop relations between Russia and the EU as if they remained at the core of global politics as during the Cold War….
We see how the United States and the US-led Western alliance are trying to preserve their dominant positions by any available method or, to use the American lexicon, ensure their "global leadership". Many diverse ways of exerting pressure, economic sanctions and even direct armed intervention are being used. Large-scale information wars are being waged. Technology of unconstitutional change of governments by launching "colour" revolutions has been tried and tested.
He lays the blame for the destruction of the established international system at the feet of America, arguing:
"…as if it was us who bombed Yugoslavia in 1999 in violation of the UN Charter and the Helsinki Final Act, as if it was Russia that ignored international law by invading Iraq in 2003 and distorted UN Security Council resolutions by overthrowing Muammar Gaddafi's regime by force in Libya in 2011.
His conclusion is that America thinks it is the only game in town, and its actions have caused the current instability in the world. In his opinion, America has become the protagonist of George Orwell's novel, originally intended to condemn the Soviet Union:
It is based on the simple and even primitive logic that only Washington can set the tune in world affairs. In line with this logic, the principle once formulated by George Orwell and moved to the international level, sounds like the following: all states are equal but some states are more equal than others. However, today international relations are too sophisticated a mechanism to be controlled from one centre. This is obvious given the results of US interference: There is virtually no state in Libya; Iraq is balancing on the brink of disintegration, and so on and so forth.
Russia the Savior
Lavrov then goes on to point out Russia's leadership in solving problems, in contrast to America's leadership in creating them:
A reliable solution to the problems of the modern world can only be achieved through serious and honest cooperation between the leading states and their associations in order to address common challenges…. We know from experience that when these principles are applied in practice, it is possible to achieve specific and tangible results, such as the agreement on the Iranian nuclear programme, the elimination of Syrian chemical weapons, the agreement on stopping hostilities in Syria, and the development of the basic parameters of the global climate agreement.
The solution, plainly put, is for nations to join Russia in their approach to world affairs which is working, and leave the American sphere and it's approach to world affairs which is making things worse:
…Russia is fighting not against someone, but for the resolution of all the issues on an equal and mutually respectful basis, which alone can serve as a reliable foundation for a long-term improvement of international relations.
Our most important task is to join our efforts against… very real challenges, among which the terrorist aggression is the most pressing one…. The Russian President called for forming a broad-based front in order to defeat the terrorists militarily.
The Pope and Patriarch are echoing
the same humanistic Frog-Spirit
Doctrine.
Lavrov points out that Russia's tune is no different from the Vatican tune:
We believe that human solidarity must have a moral basis formed by traditional values that are largely shared by the world's leading religions. In this connection, I would like to draw your attention to the joint statement by Patriarch Kirill and Pope Francis, in which, among other things, they have expressed support for the family as a natural centre of life of individuals and society.
This is not surprising, since the third entity from which the frog spirits are to come is the False prophet as the book of Revelation States:
"And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet." (Revelation 16:13)
Guiding an Assembly of Nations
According to Lavrov, the vision of Russia is for a new world order, a new European order that has Russia at its heart, and not America:
We continue to believe that the best way to ensure the interests of the peoples living in Europe is to form a common economic and humanitarian space from the Atlantic to the Pacific, so that the newly formed Eurasian Economic Union could be an integrating link between Europe and Asia Pacific.
Putin, a Russian leader who is happy
to "take on the burden of great
world problems"
Having already drawn the analogy between Napoleon and America as "one state" dominating Europe, his view of Russia is it is the nation that has acted legally and creatively to solve problems, and influence an "assembly of nations":
Speaking about Russia's role in the world as a great power, Russian philosopher Ivan Ilyin said that the greatness of a country is not determined by the size of its territory or the number of its inhabitants, but by the capacity of its people and its government to take on the burden of great world problems and to deal with these problems in a creative manner. A great power is the one which, asserting its existence and its interest ... introduces a creative and meaningful legal idea to the entire assembly of the nations, the entire "concert" of the peoples and states. It is difficult to disagree with these words.
It is amazing to hear Sergey Lavrov, the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia for the past 12 years, painting of picture of Russia that Bible students have anticipated and written about for years. Ezekiel describes a Russia that will have nations "assembled" unto it:
"Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them." (Ezekiel 38:7)
As we saw, Revelation tells us it is the humanist socialist doctrine that ultimately will gather the nations into the Middle East at the time of the end:
"And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon [Russia], and out of the mouth of the beast [Europe], and out of the mouth of the false prophet [the Vatican] . For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty." (Revelation 16:13–14)
We now see Russia standing up, and asking the nations of Europe to join its humanist crusade to solve world problems. One of the problems that both Russia, Europe and the Vatican all agree on is the Palestinian problem. The Bible indicates that they will "burden themselves" with this issue, and it will be their downfall:
"Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all people of the earth be gathered together against it." (Zechariah 12:2-3)
So Russia's plan to "to take on the burden of great world problems and to deal with these problems in a creative manner" has been predicted in Bible prophecy. The stage is being set for the "legal" and "just war" that will "gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle" (Zechariah 14:2).
The time is short. The end of all things, as at present constituted, is at hand. The long-expected, but stealthy, advent of the King of Israel is on the eve of becoming a fact.
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Many years ago, towards the end of the fifties, Gio Ponti would go to his empty studio at seven in the morning and write letters to friends, colleagues, clients and fans, saying hi from America, from New York.
He would then give them to his secretary, who would mail them in envelopes from Italy with a small note saying, 'Gio Ponti from America'.
At the time flying to America on a Constellation, a for- mer World War II bomber with four propeller engines, was a feat; if you flew to America you were 'the one who had been to America'.
I received one of those letters. There was a greeting by Gio Ponti with a quick pen sketch. That drawing was very special: it was neither a description nor a representation and not even a message; it was a sort of pictogram, one of those drawings that preceded the alphabet, but that before and beyond the word's ambiguity, like in a sudden flash, would put you in contact with the emotion of existence 'without referring to any spoken linguistic form'.
Those drawings spoke without words about friendship between men and women, men and men; they talked about company, nostalgia, trust, hope, truth or falsehood, and serenity or turbulence.
Lisa, Gio Ponti's beloved daughter, fulfilled her father's legacy; not the technical legacy as much as the basic one, the more internal one, in other words, the overall courageous behaviour towards existence, which is able to scrape the crusts of nonsense off everyday life, and to always restore clear and perplexed eyes.
Lisa's drawings as well appear to me more as pictograms than – as they say – messages; I see them more as appearances and epiphanies, than actual declarations.
others or to show other epiphanies within the pictograms. Anything is possible.
It is always exciting, and heartening to meet someone who is still capable of keeping clear and perplexed eyes during the course of life.


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Brian Blessed
Spouse Hildegarde Neil (m. 1978)
Role Actor
Name Brian Blessed
Children Rosalind Blessed
Born 9 October 1936 (age 79) (1936-10-09) Mexborough, Yorkshire, England
Occupation Actor, television presenter, writer
Books The Dynamite Kid, Nothing's Impossible
Movies and TV shows Flash Gordon, Peppa Pig, Star Wars Episode I: The Phan, Tarzan, Blackadder
Similar People Hildegarde Neil, Rosalind Blessed, Melody Anderson, Chaim Topol, Sam J Jones
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Brian Blessed OBE (; born 9 October 1936) is an English actor famous for work on the stage, television, radio and in films. He is known for his booming voice, as well as his roles in I, Claudius, Blackadder , and Flash Gordon.
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Other accomplishments
Blessed was born on 9 October 1936 in Mexborough, Yorkshire, the son of William Blessed (1906–2005), a socialist coal miner at Hickleton Main Colliery (and himself the son of a coal miner), and Hilda Wall (1909–1997). Blessed was born at Montagu Hospital in Mexborough, Yorkshire. His great-great-grandfather Jabez Blessed, the father of 13 children, found work as a china and glass dealer in Brigg, Lincolnshire, and many of Blessed's relatives hail from there.
Blessed went to Bolton on Dearne Secondary Modern School and started drama training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
One of Blessed's earliest roles was that of PC "Fancy" Smith in the BBC television series Z-Cars, between 1962 and 1965. In 1966, he appeared in a production of Incident at Vichy at the Phoenix Theatre in London. In 1967, he played Porthos in a 10-part BBC adaptation of The Three Musketeers. Blessed also had minor roles in cult TV series such as The Avengers (1967, 1969) and the original Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969). He appeared as William Woodcock in the Yorkshire Television series Boy Dominic (1974). He played Caesar Augustus in the BBC Two drama series I, Claudius (1976) and Basileos in The Aphrodite Inheritance (1979). He hosted a docudrama on the life of Johann Sebastian Bach called The Joy of Bach (1978), in which he also played Bach in a number of scenes.
He played Long John Silver in the 10-part serial Return to Treasure Island (1986), King Yrcanos in the Doctor Who serial Mindwarp (1986), General Yevlenko in the mini-series War and Remembrance (1988), and Lord Loxley, the father of Robin Hood, in the Hollywood film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991).
On stage, he starred in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Cats, as both Old Deuteronomy and Bustopher Jones, for the original 1981 West End theatre production. Blessed has appeared in a number of Shakespearean roles on both stage and screen, including four of the five Shakespeare films directed by Kenneth Branagh: as the Duke of Exeter in Henry V (1989), Antonio in Much Ado About Nothing (1993), the Ghost of Hamlet's Father in Hamlet (1996), and both Duke Frederick and Duke Senior in As You Like It (2006).
Other roles have emphasised Blessed's comedic abilities. In particular, Prince Vultan in the film Flash Gordon (1980), for which he is remembered for the exclamations "Gordon's alive!" and "DIVE!"; the mad, comical figure of Richard IV in the first series of The Black Adder (1983), a role Blessed has claimed to be one of his most cherished; and Spiro in the BBC adaptation of My Family and Other Animals (1987). Blessed has joked that he was due to appear in Blackadder II (1986) as Elizabeth I, but was unavailable for filming. In 1997, Blessed portrayed Squire Western in the BBC adaptation of Henry Fielding's 1749 comic novel Tom Jones. He later recalled accidentally punching Peter Capaldi whilst filming and said of the event, "I thought I'd killed the poor bastard."
In 1999, Blessed provided both the voice and live-action reference for the blustery CGI character Boss Nass in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, and also provided the voice of the villainous hunter Clayton in Disney's animated feature film Tarzan, a role he later reprised in the video game based on the film and in the critically acclaimed Kingdom Hearts in 2002. He read the story "The White City" for the album series Late Night Tales, recording it in four parts released over four albums, and was also the voice of Jean Valjean in Focus on the Family Radio Theatre's audio adaptation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables. Blessed was one of the narrators for Story Teller, a children's magazine partwork series in the 1980s. He has further provided vocal links for the Sony-Award-winning Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show on Virgin Radio, and introduced advertisements for Orange mobile phones.
In 2002, under the direction of Royal Shakespeare Company director Adrian Noble, he originated the role of Baron Bomburst for the stage musical version of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. From December 2005 to January 2006, Blessed headlined the Christmas pantomime production of Peter Pan, alongside CBBC presenter Kirsten O'Brien, at Ipswich's Regent Theatre. From 2007 to 2008, he appeared in the same play as Captain Hook at the Grove Theatre in Dunstable; he reprised the role for the Christmas 2008 season at the Fairfield Halls, Croydon. For Christmas 2006, he presented a production of Cinderella for Virgin Radio, starring David Tennant, Thandie Newton and others.
Since October 2008, Blessed has presented the English-language dub of the Japanese TV game show Unbeatable Banzuke on Challenge, under the pseudonym "Banzuke Brian". He was the narrator of the Sky 1 series Crash Test Dummies, starring Steve Marsh and Dan Wright. In animation, he has provided the voices of Bob in Kika & Bob (2008) and Grampy Rabbit in Peppa Pig (2004–present).
Following a successful Facebook campaign, satellite navigation manufacturer TomTom recorded Blessed's voice for use in its products; he has been available as a voice command option since October 2010. In September 2010, Blessed recorded the voice of Great Sultan Shahryār for Sheherazade, or The Princess, the Pirate and the Baboon!, an album of children's stories set to Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's classical music composition Scheherazade, co-starring Rory Bremner and released as an instalment of Grandma Dingley's Ingeniously Musical Tales in 2011.
In 2017, Blessed voices famous German military engineer Lord Konrad Kyeser in the upcoming open-world medieval RPG, Kingdom Come: Deliverance.
Blessed was a keen boxer in his youth and claims to have sparred with the Dalai Lama. He has attempted to climb Mount Everest three times without supplemental oxygen, reaching heights of 28,200 feet (8,600 m) in 1993 and 25,200 feet (7,700 m) in 1996, but without reaching the summit.
He holds a 3rd dan in Judo. He has reached the tops of Mount Aconcagua in Argentina and Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. He is the oldest man to go to the North Magnetic Pole on foot, and has undertaken an expedition into the jungles of Venezuela, during which he survived a plane crash. Blessed has completed 800 hours of space training at Star City in Russia.
Blessed served as President of the Television and Radio Industries Club (TRIC) from 2007 to 2008 and presented the 2008 TRIC Awards at Grosvenor House, London. He has honorary degrees from the University of Bradford (awarded July 2003) and Sheffield Hallam University (awarded 2004) and has also been awarded the honorary title of "Official Shoutsperson" by the University of York's Douglas Adams Society. In 2011, the student union voted to name a new study area the "Brian Blessed Centre for Quiet Study". The same year, Blessed was nominated for the post of Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, following a campaign by graduates.
In 2004, Blessed appeared on Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes, impersonating the opera singer Luciano Pavarotti. Known for his football knowledge, he appeared as an expert and commentator on the satellite channel UKTV G2 during the 2006 World Cup. Blessed also appeared on A Question of Sport in 2006 and 2011, and was a guest host on the BBC's satirical quiz show Have I Got News for You in May 2008 and April 2013 (also making a surprise appearance in the 2008 Christmas special). In Blessed's first appearance on the programme, his exaggerated comic style resulted in a quick departure from the usual format, leading team captain Paul Merton to quip, "Does anyone remember how this show used to be like?" Other guest appearances include the talk shows Loose Women (2006) and The Paul O'Grady Show (2008).
In 2009, Blessed featured in the song "Army of the Damned" from the album Beneath the Veiled Embrace by British power metal band Pythia, reciting the poem "Suicide in the Trenches" by Siegfried Sassoon. Blessed also appeared on their 2014 album "Shadows of a Broken Past". He had previously contributed to the song "The Joust" by Christian band Eden Burning in 1994. Blessed also speaks in the Living Legend history presentation in Jersey alongside other celebrities such as Samantha Janus, Roger Lloyd Pack, Tony Robinson, and Kevin Whately.
Downloadable content for the computer game War of the Roses featured narration by Blessed. In 2013, he received the Spirit of Hammer Award at the Metal Hammer magazine's Golden Gods Awards.
On 14 August 2014, Blessed was the subject of an episode of the BBC documentary series Who Do You Think You Are?, tracing the lives of his ancestors.
Brian married American actress Ann Bomann when they were just 20 years of age and the marriage produced a daughter, Kathy. But over the years, due to work constraints, they drifted apart and eventually separated. They officially divorced in the late 1970s in order to allow Brian to marry Hildegarde Neil. Brian's relationship with his first daughter Kathy had always been difficult and by the early 1990s, following a shared climb of Mount Kilimanjaro, she informed him that she no longer wanted to be part of his life. They have not spoken since, something that saddens him but he respects.
Blessed lives in Windlesham, Surrey. He married Hildegarde Neil in 1978. Their daughter Rosalind is an actress. Blessed has worked alongside Rosalind on Doctors. He owns several dogs and is a patron of the Hopefield Animal Sanctuary.
On 19 January 2015, Blessed collapsed on stage during a performance of King Lear with the Guildford Shakespeare Company, in which his daughter Rosalind was also acting. He received medical attention from a doctor in the audience and returned, 20 minutes later, to the stage to complete the play. On 30 January 2015, it was announced that Blessed had been "compelled to withdraw" from the production on the advice of his heart specialist. He has been fitted with a pacemaker.
Blessed was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to the arts and charity.
Blessed is a patron of PHASE Worldwide, which works to improve education, healthcare and livelihoods in remote areas of Nepal.
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The primary responsibility for the filing of all employment-based immigrant and nonimmigrant petitions on behalf of the University of Michigan lies with the International Center at the Ann Arbor campus. However, the University has retained the services of several immigration attorneys to assist with the filing of specific immigration benefits, such as O-1 petitions, certain green card applications as well as Adjustment of Status applications.
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