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Memories of your suburb: Menangle
The name Menangle is accredited to the language of the Tharawal people and is thought to have been derived from the word Manangle meaning 'place of swamps and lagoons'. The town was originally the village for the Macarthur family estate of Camden Park House. Prime farmland and the flowing Nepean River made the area rich for grazing and the Macarthurs established prosperous sheep and dairy industries in the region.
The Menangle Viaduct is the oldest railway bridge in New South Wales having opened in 1863. The original 1860 design was for a timber bridge however, following a terrible flood in the same year, new plans were made for a higher iron and stone bridge.
Menangle Railway Bridge across the Nepean River soon after its opening in 1863. Copyright: Camden Historical Society.
A Menangle tourist destination for many years was the Rotolactor. This rotating milking platform opened in 1952 and after some closures, ceased production completely in 1983. In its heyday, the Rotolactor was capable of milking up to 375 cows an hour, operating both day and night under fluorescent lights. Cows were milked in an efficient 8 – 12 minutes.
Menangle has several Heritage listed buildings including Camden Park House, Gilbulla, St James Anglican Church and St Patricks Catholic Church.
Rotolactor and cattle yards on Camden Park Estate at Menangle. Copyright: Camden Historical Society.
Posted in memories, Places and tagged Camden, dairy on April 4, 2017 by camdenlocalstudies. Leave a comment
Memories of Your Suburb: Gledswood Hills
Before white settlement this was the land of the Tharawal and Gundungurra peoples. In 1810 Governor Macquarie granted 400 acres of land to Count Huon who had been a tutor to William and James Macarthur, sons of John Macarthur. Huon named his property Buckingham. He sold the property to James Chisholm, one of the founders of the Bank of NSW in 1816 after a series of bad agricultural seasons. Chisholm built the homestead and out buildings on the property now named Gledswood by the second James Chisholm's wife Elizabeth. Chisholm planted vines for wine and ran cattle and sheep. The Chisholms owned Gledswood for 128 years. From 1914 to 1971 Gledswood had a number of owners including Anthony Hordern. In 1971 the Testoni family bought Gledswood and opened the property as a tourist attraction. The present owners the Nasso family continue this tradition.
Gledswood, Catherine Fields. 1997 Copyright: Camden Council Library Service.
On part of the original Gledswood property bordering Camden Valley Way, El Caballo Blanco school for dancing Spanish Andalusian horses ran from 1979 to 1998. At its height this popular tourist attraction had an indoor seating arena holding 800 people.
Entrance to arena complex at El Caballo Blanco built by Western Australian business entrepreneur Ray Williams. Copyright: Camden Council Library Service.
The new suburb of Gledswood Hills, gazetted on 9th December 2011, is bounded by Camden Valley Way, Raby Rd and Gregory Hills Drive. It includes a 27 hole golf course and will eventually have 3000 houses. The first estate to be released is The Hermitage and includes the historic homestead of Gledswood as a central feature.
A joint project 'My ideal house' between Mirvac and Australian House and Garden magazine saw over 80 designers offer design entries for consideration. Architect Madeleine Blanchard's winning design took just over 2 years to complete. It was auctioned on 30 June 2018 with a sale figure of $950,000. Mirvac donated $50,000 from the sale proceeds to the Salvation Army.
August 2018 saw Sekisui House propose the development of a central piazza at Gledswood Hills. It would include 75 new homes.
Posted in Aboriginal History, Agriculture, memories, Places, Suburbs and tagged Count Huon, El Caballo Blanco, James Macarthur, John Macarhtur on October 13, 2016 by camdenlocalstudies. Leave a comment
Memories of Your Suburb: Gregory Hills
Before white settlement this was the land of the Tharawal and Gundungurra peoples. Located between Camden Valley Way and St Gregory's College, the new suburb of Gregory Hills is part of the South West Growth Area. It is built on land which was formerly St Gregory's College farm. This land was given to the Marist Brothers by Thomas Donovan in the 1920s for the development of a boys school to teach young men the skills to have careers on the land.
Gregory Hills.
Gregory Hills includes more than 280 hectares of rolling hills and undulating land with views across the district and beyond to the Blue Mountains. Nearly 300 families have bought blocks in the suburb in the last year and 2,400 homes are planned. Gregory Hills will feature its own primary school, shopping centre and an extensive network of parks linked by bike paths and walkways. Gregory Hills Drive will join Badgally Rd giving access to Campbelltown railway station.
Posted in Aboriginal History, Places, Suburbs and tagged Marist Brothers, residential estate, St Gregory's College, Thomas Donovan on October 6, 2016 by camdenlocalstudies. 1 Comment
Memories of Your Suburb: Camden South
The area known as Camden South is established on land originally home to the Dharawal and Gundangarra people and acquired by the Macarthur family as part of their extensive land grant in the early 1800s. The area supported the farming of wheat, sheep and dairy cattle. An original house Murrandah is now known as Camden House Nursing Home.
Bicycle track, Camden South, 1998. Copyright: Camden Historical Society.
The expansion in population in Camden in the 1960s and 1970s saw the establishment of two large housing areas to the east and west of the Hume Highway. These were known as Elizabeth Macarthur, honouring the contribution to the development of agriculture by Elizabeth, wife of John Macarthur, and Ponderosa. The new areas were originally collectively known as Benkennie but this later changed to Camden South.
The 3.4km Nepean Cycleway links Camden South to the township of Camden passing under the Camden bypass and along the Nepean River. The flat lands of Camden South are home to a number of sporting fields for local soccer and rugby clubs. Camden Valley Inn is a landmark on the old Hume Highway and a popular gathering place for local people.
Posted in Aboriginal History, Places, Suburbs and tagged Camden House Nursing Home, Murrandah, Nepean Cycleway on September 29, 2016 by camdenlocalstudies. Leave a comment
Memories of Your Suburb: Oran Park
Oran Park is on the traditional land of the Dharawal people. The area has a rural character with open pastures and rolling hills. The area was originally made up of two principal land grants, one of 2,000 acres, Harrington Park, granted to William Campbell in 1815 and another to George Molle in 1817, Netherbyes, of 1600 acres. Oran Park appears on the pre-1827 map as part of Harrington Park. The Oran Park portion was sub-divided from the Harrrington Park estate in 1829 and acquired by Henry William Johnston in 1852. The Oran Park estate is representative of the layout of a country manor estate with views afforded to and from the manor over the landscape and to the important access points of the estate.
Front facade of Oran Park House, 1991. Cpyright: Camden Council Library Service.
The two-storey Georgian-style house was built in c.1857. The house was acquired by Thomas C Barker (of Maryland and Orielton), who sold it to Campbelltown grazier Edward Lomas Moore (of Badgally) in 1871. The property was later owned by Atwill George Kendrick and then the Moore family who sold the house and land to B Robbins and a Mr Smith operated a golf course with trotting facilities. It was sold in 1945 for £28,000, and in 1963, 361 acres was purchased by ER Smith and J Hyland, farmers. The homestead and stables were sold in 1969 by John and Peggy Cole and purchased by the Dawson-Damers, members of the English aristocracy. John 'DD' Dawson-Damer was an Old Etonian and car collector. He was a prominent motor racing identity and was killed in an accident in West Sussex in 2000. After her husband's death his wife sold the house, with its historic gardens and 107 hectares of pasture, in 2006 for $19 million to Valad Property Group.
Old Silo at Oran Park, 1991. Copyright: Camden Council Library Service.
During World War II Narellan Army Camp was based at Oran Park. Part of the original estate is the location of the Oran Park Motor Racing Circuit. The main grand prix circuit is 2.6 km long with a mixture of slow, technical and fast sweeping corners as well as changes in elevation around the track. Apart from the main racing circuit there area has had a number of subsidiary activities including a two dirt circuits, two four wheel training venues, a skid pan and a go-kart circuit. The racing circuit has been used for a variety of motorsport including club motorkhanas, touring cars, sports sedans, production cars, open-wheelers, motocross and truck racing The track closed in 2010 to become a housing estate. Oran Park Town opened for land sales on March 2010. The suburb is being developed by
The main building at the Oran Park Raceway, 1997. Copyright: Camden Council Library Service.
Leppington Pastoral Company (owned by the Perich family) in a joint-venture with Landcom with an estimated 11,500 dwellings and 33,00 people to reside in Oran Park and Turner Road. Oran Park is part of the South West Growth Area which is eventually planned to accommodate 295,000 people by 2031. Between 2010 and 2018 the population of Oran Park grew from 0 to 7500. The median house price in April 2018 was $785,000.
Oran Park Town has seen numerous community facilities emerge, from schools, churches, a retirement home, and the Podium retail complex and business hub. Camden Council's new Administration Building is now open and a new library and community centre were opened on 30 June 2018.
Posted in Aboriginal History, Agriculture, memories, People, Places, Suburbs and tagged Oran Park House, Oran Park Raceway, Oran Park Town, William Campbell on September 22, 2016 by camdenlocalstudies. Leave a comment
Memories of Your Suburb: Leppington
The name Leppington comes from the property granted to William Cordeaux in 1821. Leppington Park House was a huge two storey home with its own private ballroom built by convict labour. It was destroyed by fire in the 1940s. The bricks at the base of the outdoor stage at Leppington School came from this building.
In 1914 an area of Leppington was subdivided as the Raby Estate, named after the property Raby some 3269 acres granted to Alexander Riley in 1810. The 1914. The subdivision was developed by Arthur Rickard & Co. People interested in buying a lot would be met by a sulky either at Ingleburn or at the Coach crossing at the Water Canal Bringelly Road. Rickard Road in the estate was named after the developer.
Public School at Leppington. The sign reads 'Raby 1923-1955, Leppington 1956.' 2007. Copyright: Camden Historical Society.
The school on the estate was opened as Raby School in 1923. The first teacher was Mr Cox and he taught about 40 pupils between the ages of 6 and 15. It remained a one-teacher school until 1951. In 1955 the name was changed to Leppington Public School. The Post office, also on the Raby Estate was established in 1930 and remained on its original site until 1981. The Riley estate south of the Raby Estate was subdivided in 1956.The area has supported small farms and vegetable and flower market gardens. The area is subject to planned development as part of South West Sydney Growth Area. A corridor of land is being resumed by NSW State Government for an extension to the Liverpool rail line with a station in the north-eastern part of Leppington due to open by 2014.
Posted in Agriculture, memories, Places, Suburbs and tagged Leppington, Raby, William Cordeaux on September 15, 2016 by camdenlocalstudies. Leave a comment
Memories of Your Suburb: Rossmore
The area was originally called Cabramatta an aboriginal word for place of the cobra grub. It was later named Rossmore, a Scottish name refering to high ground by John Dickson a Scottish engineer who was granted 3,000 acres of land here by Governor Macquarie. A number of other settlers received land grants in the area including Barker, Riley, Moore and Bell.
The area was initially used for wheat and sheep farming and later for dairying, poultry farming and orchards. The bushranger Jack Donahoe was shot by an ex soldier, Mugglestone on Robert Lowe's property just south of Bringelly Rd in 1830.
Holy Innocents' Anglican Church, Rossmore, 2007. Copyright: Camden Historical Society.
After World War 1 Ashley McCann bought 1,400 acres at Rossmore for dairy farming and named the property Allenby after General Allenby the hero of the 4th Light Horse.
Until 1948 Rossmore was part of Nepean Shire. This local government area no longer exists and was divided between Camden Liverpool and Penrith Councils. The southern third of the suburb of Rossmore is now in Camden Local Government Area.
From 1950s the area was settled by immigrants from Europe who established small farms and market gardens providing food for Sydney markets. The area continues to perform this function although large scale development is planned as part of the South West Sydney Growth Area.
Posted in Agriculture, People, Places, Suburbs and tagged Allenby, John Dickson, Rossmore on September 8, 2016 by camdenlocalstudies. Leave a comment
Memories of Your Suburbs: Mount Annan
The suburb is on the traditional lands of the Dharawal and Gundungurra people. Mount Annan is the name given to a high point in the western part of the locality and is 190 metres above sea level. It only appears on published maps after 1834. This point was part of Glenlee which was owned by William Howe, who built a fine Georgian house (1824) on the property. Glenlee was acquired by James Fitzpatrick in the 1850s and his descendants ran it as a dairy farm until 1978 with associated cropping and grazing.
The first land release for housing at Mount Annan was in late 1980s for first home buyers and low income families. Later land releases such as Garden Gates were aimed at second and third home buyers. The population growth encouraged the establishment of new shopping facilities, a leisure centre and schools.
The Mount Annan Botanic Garden is the highlight of the suburb. It is a native plant botanic garden and arboretum in an attractive garden and parkland setting and is managed by the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust.
Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan, 1989.Ceremonial opening of the memorial sundial in the Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan donated by the Macarthur Onslow women in memory of their mother Winifred Macarthur Onslow (nee Owen) widow of Edward Macarthur Onslow. L to R Pamela Harrison; Annette Macarthur Onslow; Phoebe Atkinson. Copyright: Camden Historical Society.
On the eastern side of the Mount Annan Botanic Gardens is a little piece of history which was constructed in 1880. It is a water canal (aqueduct) which is partly made of sandstone blocks thought to be quarried from Mount Annan. It is part of the Upper Nepean Scheme which supplies water by gravity from the dams on upper Nepean River to Prospect Reservoir along a course of 62 km. Until Warragamba Dam was finished in 1960 this canal supplied most of Sydney's water.
Glenlee Coal Washery, viewed from top of Mount Annan, 2007. Copyright: Camden Historical Society.
In 2001 Mount Annan had a population of 6,761, and which was an 85 per cent increase from 1996. The demographic profile of Mount Annan is predominantly young families, with 35 per cent of the population under 18 years of age.
Posted in Aboriginal History, Agriculture, Environment, memories, Places, Suburbs and tagged Australian Botanic Garden, Mount Annan, William Howe on September 1, 2016 by camdenlocalstudies. Leave a comment
Memories of Your Suburbs: Smeaton Grange
Before white settlement this was the land of the Tharawal and Gundungurra peoples. The property later known as Smeaton Grange was originally called Naralling Grange and was a land grant of 283 hectares (700 acres) by Governor Macquarie in 1816 to Captain William Hovell.
Smeaton House Smeaton Grange, 1985. House built by Edward & Elizabeth Sedgewick in 1894. Now Magdalene High School. Copyright: Camden Historical Society.
Smeaton was also an adjoining land grant to Charles Throsby who was an early settler and town leader in Campbelltown. Both of these landholdings were purchased by James Fitzpatrick who had come to Australia as a convict in 1822 and who worked as a servant of Hamilton Hume. Fitzpatrick accompanied Hume and Hovell on their famous 1824 expedition to Port Phillip Bay. He later became a prosperous farmer. The property first grew wheat, and when rust developed, moved into sheep production and later dairy farming.
During World War Two the house was used as a residence for army officers. The Catholic Church acquired the property in the early 1960s and the Patrician Brothers Order used it as a religious house, retreat centre and novitiate till it was developed as part of Magdalene High School in 2000. In the early 1990s the area of land north of the house was zoned industrial. The new industrial estate has been able to attract a wide range of business both large and small and continues to grow as an industrial centre for the area.
Posted in Aboriginal History, Agriculture, memories, Places, Suburbs and tagged Edward Sedgewick, Elizabeth Sedgewick, industrial estate, Smeaton Grange, Smeaton House on August 25, 2016 by camdenlocalstudies. Leave a comment
Memories of Your Suburb: Spring Farm
Spring Farm covers the southern section of John Oxley's land grant of 1816 and the south-western section of William Howe's grant of 1818.There were also nine land grants to smallholders along the floodplain in the western part of the suburb. Spring Farm has had a long history of industrial, mining and agriculture activity. From 1930s-1970s there were extensive orchards and vineyards along Springs Road with a mixture of stone fruit, apples and grapes. Another land use has been the production of poultry: chickens for eggs, and both chicken and turkeys for meat. The Tegal family were one of the major operators from the 1950s.
Spring Farm, 2008. Copyright: Camden Historical Society.
There has also been industrial land use in the area including treatment of nightsoil, sand mining, gas extraction, coal washing and waste facilities.
The first urban development in Spring Farm in an otherwise rural setting was in the Ettlesdale Road area in the 1960s. The most recent urban development in Spring Farm comprises a series of urban villages. The area is planned to have around 3900 housing lots.In 2006 the population of the Spring Farm was 287 predominantly made up of young families with 44 per cent of the population under 25 years of age. The suburb will be subject to an increasing number of new arrivals.
Posted in Agriculture, memories, People, Places, Suburbs and tagged floodplain, John Oxley, orchards, Spring Far, William Howe on August 18, 2016 by camdenlocalstudies. Leave a comment
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This project has been assisted by funds allocated to the Royal Australian Historical Society through the Heritage Branch of the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage
Information used in the Changing Camden blog is from the resources of the Camden Library Local Studies Collection. The blog is written for historical interest and the views expressed are not those of Camden Council or Camden Library Service.


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President Donald Trump attacked the media after news reports showed attendees at his North Carolina rally chanting "send her back," referring to Rep. Ilhan Omar. | Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
President Donald Trump asserted Friday that Rep. Ilhan Omar is "lucky to be where she is," again accusing the Minnesota Democrat and Somali refugee of hating the United States and extending his sustained attack on a group of progressive freshman congresswomen.
"I'm unhappy with the fact that a congresswoman can hate our country. I'm unhappy with the fact that a congresswoman can say anti-Semitic things," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
"I'm unhappy when a congresswoman goes and said, 'I'm going to be the president's nightmare.' She's going to be 'the president's nightmare.' She's lucky to be where she is, let me tell you," he continued. "And the things that she has said are a disgrace to our country."
Trump's suggestion that Omar — who immigrated to the U.S. with her family in the early 1990s and became a citizen in 2000 when she was 17 years old — should be grateful to be in America marks his latest ambush on the lawmaker.
Beginning Sunday, the president has leveled incendiary attacks against her and three other high-profile House Democrats — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan — repeatedly declaring the women of color should "go back" to their countries of origin and questioning their patriotism.
But of that quartet of freshman progressive congresswomen, Trump has increasingly singled out Omar, launching into a vitriolic critique of her past controversial statements at a campaign rally Wednesday night that goaded the audience into chants of "send her back."
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Earlier Friday, Trump accused the media of siding with Omar and the other congresswomen with whom he has feuded this week, slamming journalists' coverage of his rally in Greenville, North Carolina.
"It is amazing how the Fake News Media became 'crazed' over the chant 'send her back' by a packed Arena (a record) crowd in the Great State of North Carolina, but is totally calm & accepting of the most vile and disgusting statements made by the three Radical Left Congresswomen," the president tweeted.
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Trump's disavowal came after statements of disgust from several congressional Republicans over the rally display, as well as a meeting Thursday morning in which House GOP leadership conveyed their concerns to Vice President Mike Pence.
Upon her return to Minnesota on Thursday evening, Omar was met by a throng of supporters at a Twin Cities airport chanting, "Welcome home, Ilhan."
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Summary of Shia Rights Violations in 2018 as Reported by USCIRF
May 6, 2019	Breaking
USCIRF 2019 Report
This is the selected summary of the violations toward Shia Muslims as it is reported by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).
The ongoing operation of terrorist groups, such as the Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISKP), threaten the country's overall security but particularly endanger the nation's Shi'a Muslim population who have faced increased attacks in recent years.
In fact, 2018 was one of the most fatal in Afghanistan for all civilians—and particularly religious minorities—due to terrorist activity, and the government often was unable to protect civilians from attacks.
Since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, a few historically disadvantaged ethnic and religious minority groups have overcome generations of discrimination to hold prominent positions in the public and private sectors.
This is especially true for the Shi'a Muslim community, whose socio political influence has grown over the last two decades as its members increasingly hold leading positions in the government, media, and private industry.
There are now more than 10,000 Shi'a mosques in the country, 400 of which are in the capital city of Kabul. There are also several prosperous neighborhoods and enclaves throughout the country that are predominantly inhabited by the Shi'a Muslim community. Shi'a Muslims' sociopolitical ascendance has been one of the reasons some extremist groups have continued to target the community, whom they consider to be apostates. Yet, a superficial division has formed between extremists allied with the ISKP and those working for the Taliban. For example, in the aftermath of an attack in November 2018, the Taliban's website explained that its aim was not to target any "specific race, ethnicity or sect" but rather to attack anyone abetting the government.
On the other hand, extremists affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have intentionally escalated their attacks and increased their public hate speech dehumanizing Afghanistan's Shi'a Muslims. This is, in part, due to the fact that some of Afghanistan's Shi'a Muslim population fought against ISIS in Syria. As a result, many ISIS leaders who fled from Syria to Afghanistan to establish bases have exported their intent to exact revenge against all Shi'a Muslims in the country. This is especially significant because an increased number of local Taliban fighters have started to switch their allegiance to the ISKP.
In 2018, this culminated in an increasingly lethal series of ISKP attacks against Shi'a mosques, such as an attack in March 2018 that left one dead and eight wounded and another in August that resulted in the deaths of 29. While the ISKP carried out attacks that targeted all civilians in general, its attacks targeting the Shi'a Muslim community have been more lethal, with nearly 300 fatalities from almost two dozen attacks in 2018 alone. Such attacks often have coincided with Shi'a religious festivals like Ashura or Muharram.
In response to this threat, the Afghan government has attempted to provide additional security and offered weapons to civilians living near Shi'a mosques.
In 2018, extremist groups, including the ISKP, continued targeting one specific ethnic group in particular: the overwhelmingly Shi'a Hazaras. Some examples include the ISKP's twin bombings on September 5 of a Shi'a Hazara enclave that resulted in the deaths of 20 and injuries to 70, along with an attack on August 15 that resulted in 48 young Shi'a Muslims being killed and 67 injured.
These kinds of attacks were not limited in 2018 to major cities like Kabul, but increasingly occurred at the provincial level, such as a series of attacks in Ghazni Province.
Hazara advocates have complained that the government has failed to provide proper security to the community and that Hazara political leaders were granted limited influence over the government's policy-making process.
Elections remain a point of conflict in Afghanistan. During the leadup to the October 2018 parliamentary elections, the ISKP carried out several attacks on religious minorities—such as Shi'a Muslims—at voter registration or polling centers. For example, an April 22 attack in Kabul left 57 people dead and 117 wounded.
By the end of 2018, Sardar Babayev, an Iranian-educated Shi'a Muslim imam, remained imprisoned for violating a law that prohibited individuals with foreign religious education from performing religious ceremonies
In February 2018, MUM leader and Shi'a Muslim theologian Taleh Bagirov (also known by the surname Bagirzade) received an additional five-month sentence for allegedly possessing micro-discs containing the text and audio recordings of the Qur'an.
In December 2018, Telman Shiraliyev, a Shi'a Muslim man originally sentenced to six years in prison for participating in an October 2012 protest against a ban on headscarves in schools, was sentenced to an additional six months in prison.
USCIRF visit to Bahrain in March 2019 found that the government continued its discrimination and repression of the Shi'a Muslim community on the basis of their religious identity in certain areas. In 2018, the government arrested some Shi'a Muslim clerics during Ashura religious observances, allegedly for "inciting hatred." In the November 2018 local and parliamentary elections, some Shi'a Bahraini candidates were prevented from participating, and several party leaders were arrested or remained in jail. Some human rights defenders who advocated for greater religious freedom remained in prison. Furthermore, discrimination against Shi'a Muslims in government employment and some public and social services also continued, even though Bahrain's laws affirm principles of nondiscrimination.
Bahraini government has sometimes used this pretext to crack down on some Shi'a opposition leaders, clerics, and activists without substantiating charges of subversion or criminal activity.
In 2018, Bahrain's government continued its targeting of some Shi'a Muslims in the country. While government officials discouraged sectarian language in media outlets, progovernment and private media at times used inflammatory, sectarian rhetoric. Sheikh Isa Qasim, Bahrain's leading Shi'a cleric, had his citizenship revoked by administrative order in June 2016; such orders are usually unappealable, but past removals of citizenship required a royal decree or an order from the Ministry of Interior, both of which are subject to an extra layer of appeals.
Bahrain also continued to arrest and detain Shi'a clerics on the basis of their religious identity. Shi'a cleric Sayyed Adnan al-Sayed Hashim was arrested in Diraz in January 2018 and held incognito for two weeks. This arrest contravened the BICI report's recommendation not to detain individuals "without access to the outside world for more than two or three days." A Bahraini appeals court also upheld a verdict against the imam of the Shi'a al-Kheif mosque, Sheikh Isa al-Moemen, for "inciting hatred" in a July 2017 sermon. Moemen served a three-month sentence and was released in May 2018.
In September 2018, during Ashura, three Shi'a clerics—Sheikh Yassin al-Harami, Sheikh Hani al-Bana', and Sheikh Mohammed al-Sahlawi—were arrested for allegedly "encouraging acts of terrorism" and "inciting hatred against the regime"; according to groups that monitor religious freedom in Bahrain, these charges were unsubstantiated.
In November 2018, Bahrain's Ministry of Interior arrested leading Shi'a cleric Sheikh Khalid Fadhil al-Zaki during security raids in Shakhura and Abu Saiba and held him until mid-December 2018.
As in previous years, in September 2018 Bahraini security officials clamped down on peaceful Shi'a Muslim religious rituals during Ashura observances. While Bahrain is the only Gulf state to recognize Ashura as a public holiday, authorities restricted celebrations in some areas. More than 15 Shi'a clerics, chanters, and lay assistants reportedly were summoned and interrogated over their sermons. Bahraini authorities claimed 13 preachers were arrested in 2018 for violating sermon laws, seven of whom were Sunni Muslim and six of whom were Shi'a Muslim, and that all offenders were suspended from preaching. Bahraini security forces destroyed banners and signs advertising Ashura rituals claiming that the displaying of banners across streets posed a safety hazard.
In April 2018, Bahrain's Ministry of Interior demolished a temporary building meant to replace the Shi'a Imam al-Askari mosque in Hamad Town, northern Bahrain, for the second time and without prior notice, claiming it was subject to demolition under the Building Regulations Code Law No. 13 of 1977 and the Road Works Law No. 2 of 1996.
In August, the Ministry of Interior demolished the fence and the foundation marking the outline of the al-Alawiyat mosque in al-Zinj, which had been destroyed in 2011. Since 2011, Bahraini authorities have destroyed more than 38 mosques and Shi'a religious institutions. The Bahraini government has stated that the mosques it destroyed did not comply with safety and zoning laws, and that a small number of mosque destructions in a country with 608 places of Shi'a worship is not evidence of a religious freedom violation. Members of Bahrain's Shi'a Muslim community reportedly still cannot serve in the active military, only in administrative positions, and there are no Shi'a Muslims in the upper levels of the Bahraini government security apparatus, Members of Bahrain's Shi'a community reportedly still cannot serve in the active military including the military and police, with the exception of a Shi'a Muslim who holds the rank of brigadier general.
Many Shi'a public sector employees who were dismissed from their jobs because of participating in the 2011 protests were reinstated in lower-level jobs, positions outside of their specialty, or positions without actual responsibilities.
The Bahraini government continued to deny any discrimination against the Shi'a Muslim community in government employment, and has asserted there has been progress to diversify the military and security apparatus, for example, by recruiting from all segments of society—including the Shi'a Muslim community—into its community policing program.
Activists informed USCIRF during its March 2019 visit that the government refused to track the exclusion of Shi'a Muslims from employment in the military and government on the grounds that keeping such records would be a violation of privacy. Several activists noted that while there is no formal hiring discrimination against Shi'a Muslims, many employers ask questions that indirectly reveal an applicant's religious affiliation.
Discrimination against Shi'a Muslims in the November Elections The Bahraini government continued its discrimination against Shi'a electoral candidates in 2018. No candidates were allowed to run from the Shi'a al-Wefaq party, which the government dissolved in 2016 after accusing it of providing "a nourishing environment for terrorism, extremism, and violence." A 2016 amendment by King Al Khalifa to Law 14 of 2002 banned anyone who had received a prison sentence of six months or longer from participating in elections, disqualifying hundreds of Shi'a activists and opposition figures who had previously protested mistreatment.
Ahead of the elections, Sheikh Ali Salman, the former secretary-general of the banned al-Wefaq party, and Sheikh Hassan Sultan, a senior Shi'a cleric, were sentenced to life in prison on spurious national security charges. Ali Salman had his sentence extended from four years to life in prison three weeks before the elections took place.
Prior to the elections, Bahraini authorities arrested former Shi'a al-Wefaq parliament minister Ali Rashed al-Asheeri for a tweet expressing his intent to boycott the November 2018 elections.
In 2016, King Al Khalifa amended a 2005 law banning religious parties from political participation to also preclude anyone engaged in politics from giving religious speeches, sermons, or spiritual guidance. Bahrain's government continued to use this amendment to prevent Shi'a Muslim religious figures from running for and holding political office, while allowing Sunni religious figures to do so.
In the 2018 elections, six candidates affiliated with the Sunni Salafist Asalah Islamic Society ran for office, three of whom were elected to parliament. Candidates linked to the Muslim Brotherhood-backed Al Menbar Islamic Society also ran, but did not win any seats.
According to the report, "Shi'a Muslim reformers and dissenters faced prolonged detention and the threat of execution":
In March 2018, the Iranian Intelligence Services (Itila'aat) arrested cleric Hossein Shirazi, the son of detained senior cleric Ayatollah Sadegh Shirazi. Iran's Special Clergy Court charged him with criticizing Iran's leadership and its system of rule of a single jurist.
The SRW annual report derails more cases of violations. Click here to read
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The quasi-governmental Indonesian Council of Ulema has issued fatwas declaring certain religious groups, including Ahmadiyya Muslims, Shi'a Muslims, and Gafatar, to be "deviant" and heretical to Islam
In 2018, public harassment of Indonesia's one to three million Shi'a Muslims continued. For years, authorities in certain localities, such as the city of Makassar, have prohibited them from commemorating Ashura in public.
USCIRF's October 2018 visit to Surabaya, the Commission learned that 346 Shi'a Muslims—or 83 households—remain internally displaced. Moreover, USCIRF heard that these displaced persons do not have access to a mosque qualified to conduct Shi'a Muslim religious rituals and cannot bury their dead in accord with their customs.
The Indonesian government requires all citizens to list their religious affiliation on ID cards. This has made it more difficult for individuals who do not follow one of the country's six officially recognized faiths to obtain licenses and permits, access education and government jobs, and complete financial transactions.
federal and state-level religious authorities have banned a number of so-called "deviant" minority religious groups including Shi'a Muslims
While the constitution makes no distinction between Sunni and Shi'a Islam, in practice, Shi'a Muslims experience various forms of discrimination, Shi'a Muslims experience various forms of discrimination. Malaysian authorities surveil and harass Shi'a Muslims, ban literature that promotes non-Sunni Islamic beliefs, prohibit public worship or assembly, and threaten arrests for observing Shi'a Muslim holidays.
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The IMN, the country's largest Shi'a Muslim group, was formed by Sheikh Zakzaky in the northern city of Zaria in Kaduna State in the 1980s and 1990s. The IMN has since become the target of violence by the Nigerian government, which classifies the IMN as a "violent group" and uses excessive force to repress IMN members and activities. More than three years since the most violent crackdown on the IMN—the December 2015 mass killing and burial of 347 IMN members by the Nigerian Army in Zaria—and despite the 2016 Kaduna State COI finding the army responsible and recommending prosecutions, no Nigerian Army officers have been held to account. In 2018, Nigerian police continued to detain hundreds of IMN members—including, most prominently, Sheikh Zakzaky and his wife Malama Zeenah Ibrahim, who have been held without charges since December 2015, despite an order from the Federal High Court in Abuja on December 2, 2016, that they be released within 45 days. Authorities arrested at least 15 IMN members in 2018.
Throughout 2018, IMN members staged protests around the country advocating for Sheikh Zakzaky's release. In Kaduna and Sokoto, state-level officials maintained bans on IMN activities, including religious processions. The IMN and news sources reported that force used to disperse protests was at times excessive, causing both injuries and deaths.
Between October 28 and November 1, Shi'a Muslims marched around the country for Arbaeen—an annual religious procession observed by Shi'a Muslims globally to commemorate the death of Imam Hussein in the seventh century. Hundreds of IMN followers reportedly marched in Abuja both to honor the religious occasion and to protest for Sheikh Zakzaky's release.
Although the Nigerian Army said protestors threw rocks at security services, there was no evidence of any violent provocation by the IMN. The Nigerian Army fired indiscriminately into crowds, killing at least 45 people, according to human rights groups. The Nigerian Army fired indiscriminately into [IMN] crowds, killing at least 45 people, according to human rights groups. Statement from the Nigerian government condemning this excessive use of force on peaceful protestors. The Nigerian Army initially tweeted a defense of soldiers' actions, but then deleted it.
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A Shi'a Muslim store manager, Mazhar Sipra, was sentenced to five years on terrorism charges.
Extremists targeted a Shi'a Muslim seminary with a terrorist attack, leaving nearly 30 people dead and 50 injured.
Groups like the Islamic State, LeJ, and the TTP have particularly targeted Hazara Shi'a Muslims. T
In April 2018, two young Hazara men were shot dead; no arrests were made. Responding to the government's failure to act, leaders in the Hazara community launched a sit-in protest to demand action by the government to protect them.
During a special case hearing in May 2018, the chief justice of Pakistan stated that attacks on the Hazara Shi'a Muslims in Balochistan Province were tantamount to wiping out an entire generation and that the state must "protect lives and property of the Hazara community."
The persecution of the Shi'a Muslim community in Pakistan has continued not only at the hands of extremist groups, but in some instances also by the government itself. In May 2018, the BBC exposed the "story of Pakistan's 'disappeared Shias,'" which detailed the harassment, arrest, and torture of nearly 140 Shi'a Muslims at the hands of Pakistan's security agencies.
These individuals were often kept in secret detention without trial or any formal charge.
The Saudi government continued to violate the rights of Shi'a Muslims.
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Shi'a Muslims Shi'a Muslims in Saudi Arabia continue to face discrimination in education, employment, and the judiciary, and lack access to senior positions in the government and military. The building of Shi'a mosques is restricted outside majority-Shi'a Muslim areas in the Eastern Province, and Saudi authorities often prohibit use of the Shi'a Muslim call to prayer in these areas.
Authorities arrest and imprison Shi'a Muslims for holding religious gatherings in private homes without permits and reading religious materials in husseiniyas (prayer halls). Saudi Arabia also restricts as a practice the establishment of Shi'a Muslim cemeteries.
During a USCIRF visit to the Eastern Province, certain Shi'a Muslims reported harassment by local police and invasions of privacy by the General Intelligence Directorate (GID). Shi'a Muslims who do not comply with GID instructions have their national identification blocked, restricting access to bank accounts and social services. Authorities also continued to target certain Shia' religious leaders. In early 2018, the Specialized Criminal Court in Riyadh opened a second case against Sheikh Mohammed al-Habib for "encouraging protests intended to destabilize the kingdom." Al-Habib, a Shi'a cleric and close associate of executed Shi'a Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, was detained in 2016 for "creating dissent."
The Saudi government has continued rebuilding the predominantly Shi'a Muslim town of Awamiya, which the government's security forces largely destroyed following violent clashes with Shi'a Muslim protesters and armed Shi'a Muslims in Saudi Arabia continue to face discrimination in education, employment, and the judiciary.
During these clashes, security forces sealed off the town, occupied a boys' secondary school near the town of al-Musawara, closed the town's clinics and pharmacies, and prevented essential services such as ambulances from reaching the area.
The government plans to invest nearly 64 million dollars (239 million Saudi riyals) into the Awamiya reconstruction project, which includes a park, market, library, conference center, and recreational facilities. Local residents expressed concern to USCIRF in September 2018 that the government's plans for the neighborhood do not address the area's lack of roads, schools, and adequate hospital facilities. The government also has not expanded and modernized the local sewage system, citing security concerns. A total of 488 houses were demolished as part of the Awamiya development project, although the Saudi government provided compensation and new housing to residents of these domiciles. Residents also expressed fear that violence would re-erupt after completion of the project.
In September 2018, the Saudi government reportedly restricted the observance of Ashura in Qatif and limited the performance of public mourning rituals to specific hours. Restrictions included bans on Shi'a Muslims broadcasting their rituals via loudspeakers and the destruction of food shelters where marchers are offered free meals because authorities claimed they lacked proper permits.
Municipal police also removed kiosks selling religious and cultural books, and took down celebratory signs on the grounds that they constituted "visual pollution."
In 2018, USCIRF met with and received information about multiple individuals charged with apostasy for expressing theological views that differ from the government's preferred interpretation, particularly members of minority Muslim communities. Government officials were reluctant to acknowledge the presence of Shi'a Islam in the country, viewed Shi'a communities through a geopolitical lens as enmeshed with Iran, and infringed on their freedom of religion.
SRW detailed the arrest and sentencing of the first female advocate in 2018 and its importance. Click here to read
The small Shi'a Muslim minority in Tajikistan is generally tolerated by the government, although subject to the same level of official scrutiny given to the Sunni majority. Nevertheless, there were some signs of tension in 2018. During the summer, a senior member of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan published an article In January 2018, amendments to the 2009 law on Freedom of Conscience and Religious Unions set rigorous new requirements for reporting mosque income, property, staff, salaries, and worshippers' personal data alleging that the membership of IRPT had converted to Shi'a Islam, which he labeled an 'alien religion'. On July 2, the article, which also alleged intense IRPT interest in Iran and its Islamic revolution, was re-published by the Tajikistani government news agency, Khovar.
The government has recently restricted registration of some minority group such as Shia.
In some cases the registration was rejected.
Jahongir Kulijanov, a member of Uzbekistan's Shi'a Muslim minority community, also remained imprisoned throughout 2018 for his conviction for allegedly participating in an illegal religious organization and the possession and dissemination of extremist religious materials. Kulijanov was one of 20 Shi'a Muslims originally detained in Bukhara in February 2017 for holding an illegal religious meeting in a local café and sharing Shi'a Muslim literature.
According to Forum 18, Kulijanov's peers believe he was targeted after he was tapped to replace the imam of a local Shi'a mosque.
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In this tutorials, we will see how to add Android Device to Android Studio, so that we can run or test the application on Android Physical Device.
We can run Android applications in 2 different modes.
In the previous tutorial, we discussed how to run the android application on emulator, now we will see how to run on our actual Android device (Android Mobile/Tablet).
Where you can see the Build Number, click on build number for 8 times and finally you will be prompted, that You are a Developer!
Now get the USB Cable and connect it to your PC/Workstation.
Go back to Settings in your Android device and search for the Developer Options.
Click on Developer Options, toggle it and Click on OK.
6. Enable OEM Unlocking , Now it will ask you for Screen Lock and After that click on ENABLE.
After all this steps you will be prompted with a dialogue, which will ask you Allow USB Debugging click on OK.
Now go and Click the Run Button again in your Android Studio, now you can able to find your device under connected devices. Select your device and then click OK.
That's it. After Gradle build you can see your app running in your device.


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Communicating through twitters, tweets and whistles, our red bear-cat friend gets around with an adorable waddling gait due to his relatively short front legs. Native to the Himalayas and southwest China, the Red Panda wraps itself in its fluffy tail when it gets cold. With fewer than 10,000 left in the wild, these furry little fellas need all the help we can give.
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In addition to side events hosted by the International Congress Center, the summit will include two plenary sessions and a closed session devoted to regional issues and challenges, as well as opening and closing sessions. The results will be presented in a joint statement and an Arab-European press conference.
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Judge says Miley Cyrus lyric-theft case shouldn't be dismissed on summary judgment
By Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 18 February 2019
A magistrate judge in the US has recommended that a copyright infringement case being pursued by Jamaican dancehall artist Flourgon against Miley Cyrus should not be dismissed on summary judgement, even though her 'fair use' defence is probably a good one.
Flourgon, real name Michael May, sued Cyrus in March last year claiming that Cyrus's 2013 single 'We Can't Stop' infringed his 1998 track 'We Run Things'. The dispute centres on a single lyric, with May arguing that Cyrus and her songwriting pals lifted his line "we run things, things no run we" and tweaked it to go: "we run things, things don't run we".
The lawsuit noted the popularity of 'We Run Things' within reggae and dancehall circles. It then referenced an interview with songwriting duo Rock City – co-writers on the Cyrus song – in which they talked about how reggae culture had influenced 'We Can't Stop'. May's legal filing then argued that Cyrus's team had taken reggae influences – including his lyric – as part of a plan to re-invent the pop star's image.
Lawyers for Cyrus and co responded with at least three arguments as to why they felt that May's copyright claim was invalid: ie that a single lyric isn't protected by copyright, that Cyrus's use of it was 'fair use', and that May's lyric in 'We Run Things' isn't in itself original.
Team Cyrus wanted the case dismissed forthwith, but last week magistrate judge Robert Lehrburger recommended that his colleague, district judge Lewis Kaplan, knock back that request. Though, Lehrburger added, Kaplan might want to limit any damages claim by May to just the three years before he filed his lawsuit last year.
According to The Blast, Lehrburger wrote in his recommendation: "In sum, analysis of the relevant factors strongly indicates that defendants' use of the phrase is a fair use. But whether that is so may be properly determined at summary judgment, not on this motion to dismiss where reasonable inferences are to be made, and ambiguities resolved, in favour of May, the non-moving party".
Both sides can now respond to Lehrburger's recommendation before Kaplan rules on the motion to dismiss.
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A top United Arab Emirates official said monitors from the United States and European Union would be needed to "guarantee" any potential agreement aimed at ending the dispute between Qatar and its Gulf neighbors.
Pakistani officials say the death toll from twin explosions in the northwestern town of Parachinar has risen to 67, bringing total deaths from multiple attacks across Pakistan on June 23 to at least 85.
Saudi security forces on Friday foiled a suicide attack on the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, cornering the would-be attacker in an apartment, where he blew himself up, the Interior Ministry said.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the U.S. State Department is eliminating the post of the U.S. special envoy on Afghanistan and Pakistan, saying the move will leave Washington without anyone at the policy post that was created by the previous U.S. president, Barack Obama.
The U.S. military said on June 23 that a crisis hotline with Russia set up to avoid accidental clashes in Syria is still being used, despite Moscow's threat earlier this week to suspend it.
The Trump administration doesn't believe its planned sale of high-tech surveillance drones to India poses a threat to Pakistan, a senior White House official said on June 24.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has inaugurated the deep-water phase of the TurkStream pipeline project that will deliver Russian gas to Turkey and eventually to the European Union.
A powerful car bombing close to the office of the provincial police chief in southwestern Pakistan has killed 11 people and wounded 20, officials say.
Turkey rejected a call from four Arab states on Friday to shut down its military base in Qatar, saying the base was a guarantor of security in the Gulf and demands for its closure represented interference in its ties with Doha.
Russia's Defense Ministry says it has targeted Islamic State (IS) positions in Syria with cruise missiles fired from the Mediterranean Sea.
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Pro Bowl running back Arian Foster reinjures hamstring
The Houston Texans will be hoping to get more out of Arian Foster, but his hamstring injury could become something that might never go away.
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Larry Johnson joins Reggie Bush in Miami Dolphins backfield
The Dolphins made a trade for Reggie Bush from the New Orleans Saints and have now acquired two-time Pro Bowler Larry Johnson.
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Veteran quarterback Kerry Collins signs with the Indianapolis Colts
Kerry Collins wanted to return to the Tennessee Titans for at least one more season, but the two sides couldn't agree upon a deal…
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Could Plaxico Burress turn into the favorite target for Mark Sanchez?
Plaxico Burress and Derrick Mason are no longer the young wide receivers they used to be with the Giants and Ravens, but they might be the missing pieces for Mark Sanchez.
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A lovely mother and daughter corn maiden by Sandra Quandelacy. The mother has five ears of corn in a decorative shell, and the daughter is adorned with the back of the shell surrounded by bits of turquoise,* as well as turquoise*, coral, lapis and serpentine dots. This is a very sweet piece.


In today's business environment communication is essential and a large amount of meetings, interviews, conferences and seminars are regularly being conducted. In this professional scenario, deaf and hard of hearing people often are at a disadvantage. Companies often struggle to provide reasonable accommodation for them, thus they are at an increased risk of becoming and remaining unemployed, drifting into long-term unemployment. Moreover, the majority (56%) of deaf or hard of hearing employees have experienced discrimination during their career, leading to one out of four deaf people leaving a job because of a difficult work environment.
A solution to this problem is transcribing all oral communication so it becomes rapidly available to those employees with a hearing disadvantage and include them in the work dialogue. However, this is usually a costly and time consuming process which stops many companies from using it.
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Since the fall of the Iron Curtain (sometimes described as the triumph of capitalism over communism), the United States has fallen behind other nations in terms of several key measures of human thriving: education, clean water, physical infrastructure and happiness. The much-vaunted American standard of living has been eroding for the past 30 years. For many, fixing the deficit will require drastic cuts in health and human service spending while keeping military, Medicare, and Social Security relatively intact. Given the prospects of decreased funding and increased needs to rebuild social capital and infrastructure, what scientific research priorities will best meet the needs of the United States and its citizens over the next decade?
Don Mayer, J.D., LL.M., professor-in-residence in the Department of Business Ethics and Legal Studies at the University of Denver and UM's inaugural Arsht Visiting Scholar in Ethics, will present "Getting to the Good Society--U.S. Research Priorities 2010-2020" this Friday at noon in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, fourth-floor auditorium. Mayer has written widely on international business, law and business ethics, and is co-editor of the book Good Business: Exercising Effective and Ethical Leadership.
For more information, contact the UM Ethics Programs at 305-243-5723 or ethics@miami.edu.


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◄ 2 Kings 13:24 ►
Hazael king of Aram died, and Ben-Hadad his son succeeded him as king.
When Hazael king of Aram died, Ben-hadad his son became king in his place.
So Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son reigned in his stead.
King Hazael of Aram died, and his son Ben-hadad became king in his place.
After king Hazael of Aram died, his son Ben-hadad replaced him as king.
And Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son reigned in his stead.
And Hazael king of Syria died, and Benadad his son reigned in his stead.
And Hazael king of Syria died, and Ben-Hadad his son reigned in his stead.
And Hazael king of Aram dieth, and reign doth Ben-Hadad his son in his stead,
Aram Benhadad Ben-Hadad Ben-Ha'dad Died Dieth End Hazael Haz'ael Reign Reigned Stead Succeeded Syria
Elisha's Final Prophecy
14Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. 15And Elisha said to him, Take bow and arrows. And he took to him bow and arrows. 16And he said to the king of Israel, Put your hand on the bow. And he put his hand on it: and Elisha put his hands on the king's hands. 17And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the LORD's deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for you shall smite the Syrians in Aphek, till you have consumed them. 18And he said, Take the arrows. And he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, Smite on the ground. And he smote thrice, and stayed. 19And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, You should have smitten five or six times; then had you smitten Syria till you had consumed it: whereas now you shall smite Syria but thrice. 20And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year. 21And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulcher of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet. 22But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz. 23And the LORD was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect to them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet. 24So Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son reigned in his stead. 25And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did Joash beat him, and recovered the cities of Israel.
Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa sent them to Benhadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelled at Damascus, saying,
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, all their days.
And the LORD was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect to them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.
And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did Joash beat him, and recovered the cities of Israel.
Hazael
Psalm 125:3 For the rod of the wicked shall not rest on the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands to iniquity.
Luke 18:7 And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night to him, though he bear long with them?
Aram Benhadad Ben-hadad Ben-ha'dad Died Dieth Hazael Haz'ael Reign Reigned Stead Succeeded Syria
2 Kings Chapter 13 Verse 24
Alphabetical: and Aram as became Ben-Hadad died Hazael him his in king of place son succeeded When
OT History: 2 Kings 13:24 Hazael king of Syria died (2Ki iiKi ii ki 2 kg 2kg)


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Hideo Kojima will be attending the EuroGamer Expo today and will be hosting one of the developer sessions. After his spectacular presentation of the new FOX engine in this year's Tokyo Game Show, Kojima-san will come to the show to continue the celebration of the 25 year anniversary of the Metal Gear saga.
To celebrate the occasion, EuroGamer asked their readers to send in questions regarding the 25 years of Metal Gear history, and Hideo Kojima himself will be answering as many as he can. Kojima-san will also have a surprise up his sleeve for all those lucky enough to attend the show!
But of course, we could not celebrate the 25th anniversary without paying tribute to all the games that have made part of this epic saga. So for all our fans, we will be bringing playable versions of all our games to the Retro gaming area of the EuroGamer Expo, including full versions of the original Metal Gear on MSX and Snake's Revenge on NES. Our fans will also be able to revisit the all time favourites Metal Gear Solid 1, 2, 3 & 4.
Be sure to also tune in to this year's BAFTA Annual Speech, where Hideo Kojima will continue to celebrate Metal Gear's 25th Anniversary alongside industry giants such as Will Wright and Peter Molyneux.
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Henry was a firefighter. Gladys was a mill worker. Neither could afford college, but frugal living and wise investing -- especially in Aflac stock – enabled them to save more than $1 million. Part of that sum funds this scholarship, boosting Columbus youth to obtain the college education the Smiths could not.
Foundation staff and board members, along with Muscogee County School District superintendent David Lewis and Columbus High principal Marvin Crumbs, surprised Donald with the good news during a presentation in Ken Broda's Advanced Placement macroeconomics class.
In addition to academic achievement, applicants also must demonstrate high character and financial need to receive the Smith Scholarship.
Donald's school activities include speech and debate team, drama and theater, International Thespian Society and, as a sophomore, serving as lieutenant governor adviser for the Georgia Superintendent Advisory Council.
His community activities include coaching in the Columbus Urban Debate League and volunteering at the Columbus Community Center and in the Victim-Witness Assistance Program.
Covington then explained why the committee selected Donald.
"Your interest in improving yourself so that you can help the world be better really resonated with our committee," she told Donald. "You have very intentionally challenged yourself in ways that will put you in a position to make our world, our state and, we hope, Columbus better -- so this will be the first pitch in our recruitment to get you to come back to Columbus one day, the first of many, I'm afraid.
In an interview with the Ledger-Enquirer after the announcement, Donald described his reaction.
He wants to major in international business and minor in marketing or business information systems. His dream job, he said, it to work with Marvel Comics' movie business and to become an entrepreneur.
This scholarship will help him reach that goal.
2008: Turkeisha Fogle of the Teenage Parenting Center graduated from Columbus State University.
2009: Laketa Lewis of Kendrick High School graduated from Savannah State University.
2010: Brandy Pierce of Brookstone School graduated from Valdosta State University.
2011: BreAuna Delpesche of Columbus High School chose Columbus State University.
2012: Sam Shields of Columbus High Schools attends Presbyterian College.
2013: Sam James of Northside High School attends the University of Georgia.
2014: Anna Laura Davenport of Hardaway High School attends Georgia Tech.
2015: Taylor Casey of Jordan Vocational High School attends Columbus State University.
2016: Donald Williams Jr. of Columbus High School plans to attend Mercer University.
To learn more about the scholarship, call the foundation at 706-320-0027 or see www.cfcv.com.


In 1978, Richard Goodman (M.D. 1975, Residency 1978) became an officer in the Centers for Disease Control's Epidemic Intelligence Service, or EIS. The service offered hands-on experiences in applied epidemiology, which fascinated Goodman.
On his first assignment, he was asked to help a colleague investigate the death of an otherwise healthy Idaho man. They ran tests, interviewed family and friends and obtained autopsy cultures. But their findings were inconclusive; they couldn't concretely determine cause of death. Puzzled, they left, starting on their next respective assignments.
Fifteen years later, the CDC was scrambling to isolate an outbreak of Hantavirus in the southwestern United States. A series of ecological events increased the deer mouse population, which spreads the virus through feces, urine and saliva. As editor-in-chief of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the case reports flooded Goodman's desk. Then he realized: The Idaho man had the same symptoms.
Consulting his long-shelved notes, Goodman found that, "the features fit." Immediately, he requested a sample of the man's tissue, still on file.
The tests confirmed Hantavirus. Goodman had discovered the very first known case of Hantavirus in the United States.
Goodman knows this case's conclusion was a profound one, and it helped the CDC better understand Hantavirus, as well as retrospective diagnoses and specimen retrieval.
"It taught a lot of lessons," he says.
Goodman is now a senior medical advisor in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health in the Department of Health and Humans Services and the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion at the CDC. His focus is on multiple chronic conditions and the medical issues of aging.


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God is Dead (2007) is the debut novel of American author Ron Currie Jr.

Summary
The book is a collection of related shorter stories about a world where God has come to earth and died.

Plot
The book begins in Sudan, where God, disguised as a Dinka woman, attempts to help out around a refugee camp. She speaks with the American diplomats visiting the camp, including former Secretary of State Colin Powell, about finding the missing brother of the body she inhabits. While she is there, the camp is attacked by the Sudanese government, killing everyone, including God.
The rest of the book focuses on how things unravel after God's death. A high school graduate watches in horror as a priest commits suicide. Soon after, a group of childhood friends form a suicide pact after all their relatives die in the chaos. People later begin to worship their children in the absence of religion, while the psychiatrists tasked to disrupt such unproductive behavior are the most hated people alive. The dogs who ate God's corpse are revealed to possess a higher knowledge, but this brings only death to all but one of them. The book closes with a view into war in this Godless world, where religious wars have been replaced by ideological wars between supporters of evolutionary psychology versus postmodernism.

Reception
In The Believer. Andrew Ervin called God is Dead "an extraordinary book." Ervin described the chapter "My Brother the Murderer" as "beautiful and profound," the book's "obvious highlight."

References

External links
Review of God is Dead in The Believer
Review on Strange Horizons

2007 American novels
Novels set in Sudan
Fiction about God
2007 debut novels

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After 16 seasons as an NBA player, after three championships, an almost-annual spot in the All-Star Game, a scoring title, three franchises, four children, an Olympic gold medal and 161 teammates, Dwyane Wade is nearing the end of his final NBA season.
The Miami Heat icon has basked in the glow of adoration from fans and fellow players alike throughout 2018-19. Many times this season, Wade swapped jerseys with many of today's stars as well as those whom he squared off against often in his prime.


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My cat Mojo has been missing since Wed. Feb. 6 in the early morning. It is VERY unusual for him to be gone more than one day. Large male neutered Siamese cat – blue eyes and dark brown/chocolate points. I live on Drexel. He likes to go to Heights and see some of his friends.