Aurora Cannabis Inc (OTCMKTS:ACBFF) Partners With Mcgill University In Global Research Project
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Aurora Cannabis Inc (OTCMKTS:ACBFF) has partnered with McGill University in a medical research project. The study will seek to examine the therapeutic impact and human health of CBD products that are used as treatment for depression, anxiety and pain.
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The study was funded by money provided by the Quebec's Ministère de l'Économie, de la Science et de l'Innovation ("MESI"). The study secured the funding after sucessfukky going through an extensive review by the provincial government. The grant was issued under the government's program dubbed Programme de soutien à la recherche, Soutien à des initiatives internationales de recherche et d'innovation (PSR-SIIRI).
Aurora has also made some financial contribution toward the project, which is expected to be conducted in Canada, France and Italy.
Dr. Gabriella Gobbi one of the leading researchers at McGill University Faculty of Medicine will lead other researchers working on the project. Together with her team, Dr. Gobbi will work with another team of global research scientists. The study will be conducted at Universities of Vita – Salute San Raffaele and Campania "L.Vanvitelli" in Italy and Université Paris Descartes in France. The study will be conducted for three years and will investigate the properties in CBD oil that help relieve pain. The research will seek to establish who the CBD work in reducing pain, anxiety and depression.
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In a statement, Terry Booth, the CEO of Aurora said that based on the experience they have in handling CBDs, there is a high possibility that CBD have a big impact of having the use of cannabis approved on medical grounds.
Aurora welcomes by Ontario Government allow Cannabis retail in the province
In other news, Aurora, together with Alcanna Inc have welcomed a decision by the Ontario Government to allow responsible and regulated sale of recreational cannabis in the province. The new plan will be implemented through the private sector and government-operated online stores.
Both Aurora and Alcanna have formed a partnership that will see the later open retail stores under Aurora's brand name. The stores will be opened after getting final approval from the Ontario Government.
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Wanderport Corp. (OTCMKTS:WDRP) has announced the launch of its CBD-infused Hempova skincare facial serums through which it plans to tap into the skincare market.
This is an interesting step for the company considering that it previously dabbled mainly in the food and beverage industry with products infused with CBD derived from hemp. However, the company is now leveraging its manufacturing prowess and CBD knowledge to expand into the skincare market with the CBD-infused Hempova skincare line.
"Growth in the global skincare industry in general and in the anti-aging segment, in particular, has been staggering and we are excited to introduce our line of CBD serums," stated Wanderport's interim CEO, Liliana Vo.
The CEO also noted that her company also wants to introduce new products in the future as part of its campaign for people to adopt a healthy lifestyle. The company will announce the additional pipeline products in the future. For now, the launch of the Hempova skincare facial serums will allow the company to assess the market and see how things go.
The Hempova skincare product line consists of Collagen Cream, Eye Serum, and Anti-aging Face and Neck Cream for Men. All of the above products are developed using high-quality ingredients such as CBD, collagen and Hyaluronic Acid. These ingredients are supposed to help rehydrate the skin and at the same time helping the skin to appear youthful.
Wanderport cannot afford to ignore the lucrative skincare market
Wanderport has also entered the skincare market at an opportune time when the demand is shifting. Skincare products were in the past mostly purchased by older consumers but now there is a wave of younger consumers that are adopting the trend.
One particular segment of the skin care category that has seen significant growth in the anti-aging skin care segment. The segment was valued at $250 billion globally in 2016 and analysts estimate that it will be worth $331 billion by 2021.
Wanderport does not intent on being left behind by the anti-aging product wave. It has its Hempova anti-aging skincare product line that will allow it to secure a piece of the pie. The product line will target spas, wellness centers, and boutiques.
Harvest Health & Recreation Inc (OTCMKTS:HRVSF) announced a few days ago that its shareholders together with those of Verano Holdings LLC approved a business combination between the two firms.
The idea of a Business Combination Agreement between the two companies was introduced in April this year. Once the agreement is in motion, Verano and Harvest Health shareholders will get to own stake in the merger which will handle the business operations of both firms.
An overwhelming number of Harvest Health investors voted in favor of the merger and the same case for Verano investors who unanimously agreed that it was the best way forward. The voting took place during a special meeting that was held towards the end of June.
Harvest shareholders and Verano shareholders will exchange their ownership stake on a 1:1 basis as part of the agreement. This means that Verano shareholders will receive Harvest Health shares while Harvest shares will receive Verano shares.
Harvest Health buys out Leaf Life dispensary
More recently, Harvest Health announced that it acquired Leaf Life, the only medical cannabis dispensary that is licensed in Casa Grande, Arizona. The strategic acquisition adds to the company's growing portfolio of acquisitions in Arizona. It previously acquired a company called Devine Hunter, Inc., and that gave it access to six licenses.
Harvest Health's acquisition of Leaf Life means the company can now operate in about 18 facilities and dispensaries that are based in Arizona.
"Arizona is the third largest medicinal cannabis market in the United States, yet too many in our communities still do not have adequate access to dispensaries that offer the high-quality medicinal products," stated Harvest Health's Executive Chairman Jason Vedadi.
Harvest Health therefore targets Arizona as one of the underserved markets where it can potentially secure a strong footing. Ricky Hendrickson, the vice president of Leaf Life pointed out that his firm agreed to a buyout by Harvest because the company seems committed to achieving success in Arizona. He also revealed that the two businesses agreed to a 2-year stock option lockup. Leaf Life will now become part of Harvest Health following the transaction.
Crop Infrastructure Corp (OTCMKTS:CRXPF) announced towards the end of June that World Farms Corp, its investment holdings secured a definitive deal with Graphite Energy Corp to go public.
The deal will facilitate a reverse takeover and World Farms Corp will go public through the Canadian Securities Exchange. Crop Infrastructure currently owns a sizable stake in 10 World Farms Corp at 10 million shares. Crop divested its stake in Jamaican and Italian joint ventures in February so that it could purchase the 10 million World Farms Corp's common shares at $0.20 per share.
"By divesting our Italian and Jamaican assets to World Farms, it has allowed CROP to focus and expand its operations in the USA, as well as gain a major investment," stated Crop Investment Holding CEO Michael Yorke.
The CEO also noted that the reverse takeover will go on as planned and that it was pending regulatory greenlight by the CSE. Yorke also noted that World Farms already has 100,000 cannabis plants in cultivation, and it plans to grow an extra 500,000 plants in Croatia over the next few weeks.
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The company also revealed that it already paid a US$30,000 down payment on the new location in Cathedral City. The Emerald Heights brand will handle deliveries in key routes within Coachella Valley and the Bay Area. The brand is also looking for a partner that will assist with distribution in Southern California.
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Seeing the Forest For the Trees: The Meaning and Message of Forests and Trees in the Christian Tradition
As many know, we are involved in the Holy Garden of Patmos project. This article by Vincent Rossi (RELIGION and the FORESTS magazine June, 1999) discusses St Amphilochios of Patmos and the theological importance of trees and our Christian duty to protect them.
"Whoever does not love trees, does not love God." This was the teaching of the renowned Greek Orthodox monk, Elder Amphilochios of Patmos (1888-1970). According to Orthodox scholar Bishop Kallistos Ware, Fr. Amphilochios was an ecologist long before environmental concern became fashionable. "Do you know," the elder said, "that God gave us one more commandment, which is not recorded in Scripture? It is the commandment, "Love the trees." When you plant a tree, you plant hope, you plant peace, you plant love, and you will receive God's blessing." It is recounted that when the elder heard the confessions of local farmers, he would regularly give as a penance the task of planting a tree, while he himself would go about the island watering young trees during times of drought. His Christian love for trees transformed Patmos, the island where St. John the Evangelist lived for many years. Where photographs taken around the turn of the century reveal barren countryside, a thick and healthy forest now grows.
Many other examples could be found of people who, from religious conviction, combined a deep love of God and a love of trees. The story of John Chapman (1774- 1845), better known as Johnny Appleseed, who wandered the American frontier, a Bible in one hand, a bag of seeds in the other, planting trees and herbs, who was considered a healer and something of a saint by Indian and settler alike, comes to mind. Are these just unusual examples of religious piety that one can admire but dismiss as irrelevant to one's own spiritual life as a Christian? After all, so the reasoning goes, trees are not people, but plants, put here on earth by God for human use. Or is there truth to the teaching of Elder Amphilochios that there is an implicit "eleventh commandment" in the Bible that enjoins human beings to love the trees? Is it possible that there is a spiritual link between the way we treat God's creation and the state of our relationship to God? Should Christians recognize that, just as the First Epistle of John teaches that anyone who says he loves God but hates his brother is a liar, it is equally if implicitly true to say that anyone who says he loves God, but willingly participates or acquiesces in the wanton destruction of forests and trees is also deceiving himself?
Is there Scriptural evidence that God actually cares how we treat trees and forests and the rest of His creation? I believe the Elder from Patmos is right: there is a link between love of trees and love of God. In the first place, it is clear from Scripture that respecting, protecting and honoring nature as the creation of God is a fundamental spiritual duty of all Christians.
The principal text outlining human responsibility for stewardship of the earth, including the forests, is Genesis 2:15, with its two key verbs, "to cultivate" and "to keep," describing how we are to exercise our stewardship in creation. Supporting this principal text are a number of other key texts, including Rom. 8:19-20 and 2 Cor.5:17-21 which indicate our God-given vocation to reconcile and restore creation to its God-ordained natural order. To be Christian is truly to be ecologist in a Biblical sense. More specifically, within human responsibility of creation-care and earth stewardship, the care of forests and trees possesses a special place in Biblical ecology.
Let us now turn to the witness of Scripture. Scripture is rich with references to trees and forests. The words "tree" and "trees," "forest" and "forests," occur hundreds of times throughout the Bible. These occurrences may be grouped into general categories and contexts. Among them are references to trees and forests as: 1) a species created by God and of intrinsic value: (Gen.1:11-12, 2:9). 2) a source of food; a natural resource, or a source of wealth: (Gen.1:29, 2 Kgs.19:23; Ezek.39:10) 3) a natural part of the local or planetary ecosystem: (1Sam.22:5; 1 Kgs.7:2; Isa.57:5; Mt.21:19-21; Mk.11:13; Rev. 7:3. 9:4) 4) a sign of and/or response to God's blessing or punishment: (Isa.41:19-20, Rev. 7:1) 5) a simile or metaphor modeled on the tree's natural properties: (Ps.1:3; Isa.56:3; Mt.7:17-19,12:33; Mk.13:28; Lk.13:6-7,17:6; Rev. 6:13). A great many tree references are of this category. 6) a sign of the natural world in harmony with itself: (Gen.2:9; Ps.104:16-17; Song 2:10-13) 7) paradigm of the cosmic world tree; primordial living symbol of human knowledge and life: (Gen.2:9, 17; 3: 1-24; Rev.2:7, 22:2) 8) symbol of the Cross of Christ: (Acts 5:30, 10:39, 13:29; Gal.3:13; 1 Pt.2:24)
This represents only a small sample of the hundreds of references to forests and trees in the Bible. Human beings excepted, no other living organism appears as often as trees in Scripture. On the basis of textual prominence alone, the tree is the most important nonhuman living organism in Scripture.
But is there a larger and deeper significance to trees and forests in the Bible? The importance of the images of trees and forests in Scripture cannot be attributed merely to numerical frequency alone. There must be a deeper meaning, a meaning both literal and spiritual, that delineates the revelation of the Holy Spirit as it relates to forests and trees, and that reveals the attitude that God expects human beings to take to the trees and forests He has created. There is.
This deeper meaning emerges out of the differences and the relationships between the kinds of references to forests and trees. I refer especially to the ways that Scripture uses the image of the tree.
The eight categories above, which are not exhaustive, give us a clue. Characteristically, Scripture uses the image of trees and forests in three basic ways, plus a subsuming fourth, which represent respectively three kinds of the Scriptural tree, corresponding roughly to the Pauline trichotomy of body, soul and spirit, plus a transcending fourth, representing the presence of the Holy Spirit that is "everywhere present and fillest all things." We may call these three types of tree usages the Natural Tree, the Metaphoric Tree and the Symbolic Tree. Subsuming the functions of the previous kinds of tree while transcending them is the fourth kind of tree in Scripture, which we may call the Iconic Tree.
1. The Natural Tree We meet the "natural tree" as part of the integrated order of the natural world. Throughout Scripture there is a warm and loving quality to the references to trees, almost as though they were "relatives" of the Biblical writer or familiar members of his community. And that, precisely, is what they were. The trees mentioned by name in the Bible— species such as hazel, chestnut, poplar, vine tree, olive, wild olive, palm, fig, bramble, cedar, pomegranate, hyssop, fir, juniper, bay, almond, apple, oak, acacia, myrtle, cypress, pine, brier, willow, mustard, sycamore, almug, lotus, frankincense, holly, galgal—were part of an ecological community called the Land of Israel, a community acutely aware of the interdependence of all the elements of life on earth, including human culture.
Forests and trees are also often mentioned in Scripture as a source of food, shelter, fuel, commerce and artistic expression. This approximates the way human societies from time immemorial have used trees. What is especially significant is how Scripture deals with trees and forests as they are used by people. The Bible does not forbid the cutting and harvesting of trees for human use. The cedars of Lebanon were used in the construction and adornment of the Temple of Jerusalem (1Kgs. 5:1-10). However this is not the end of the story of the natural tree.
Following the injunction of "cultivating" and "keeping," Scripture indicates a strong preference for Godly stewardship. This is strikingly shown in the injunction against cutting down the trees of an enemy in time of war (Deut.21:19). This principle of restraint is especially remarkable, given the context of warfare, when it is characteristic of human nature to abandon ordinary ethical rules to conquer the enemy. The Bible emphatically tells us that all is not "fair in love and war" when it comes to the natural world, and specifically when it comes to trees. The verse following, which seems at first glance to mitigate the law against destroying trees in time of war, upon close reading actually confirms the law of restraint. "Only the trees which are not trees for food you may destroy and cut down, to build siegeworks against the city that makes war with you, until it is subdued" (Deut.21:20). The Torah of God makes it clear that only the trees that are not "trees for food" may be cut down, for the "tree of the field is man's food."
God tells his people that under no circumstances, not even during war, may you endanger the food supply. More than this, the destruction of non fruit-bearing trees even of an enemy is also prohibited, for Deuteronomy specifies that the cutting down of non fruit-bearing trees is allowed only for the purpose of building siegeworks. There is no indication whatsoever that Scripture justifies a scorched-earth policy. The first part of verse nineteen states without qualification: "you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them." By the principle of restraint, remarkably enjoined even in time of war, and by the specification that trees must be spared, the Bible clearly implies and points to that "eleventh commandment" insisted upon by the holy Elder Amphilochios of Patmos: trees are to be protected, nurtured and, yes, loved, not only for their benefit to humanity as food, but for their role in the harmony of the earth environment, and for their own sake as a creation of God.
2. The Metaphoric Tree By the "metaphoric tree" I mean the Scriptural use of the image of forests and trees in simile, metaphor, allegory, analogy or parable for teaching basic moral and spiritual principles. The metaphorical use of the tree-image is the largest category of references to 4 trees and forests in the New Testament. Just as natural references to trees are on the physical-natural level of existence, or the level of the body, so the metaphoric tree in Scripture relates to the level of soul. To say soul is to say the moral-ethical and therapeutic-spiritual. This is the pre-eminent level of Scriptural teaching and admonishment concerned with and focused upon the way to salvation.
The Book of Psalms offers many examples, none better than the first lines of Psalm 1:
1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful….
3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in season….
Another example, this time in the form of an allegory in which the children of Israel are warned of the hidden dangers of monarchy, comes from Judges 9:8-15:
8 The trees went forth to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us. 9 But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees? 10 And the trees said to the fig tree, Come and reign over us. 11 But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees? … 14 Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us. 15 And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth you anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
All the books attributed to Solomon contain tree references, some of which are acute observations of trees in nature, others are metaphoric. It is noteworthy that when the Bible wishes to demonstrate that Solomon is the wisest of all men, it speaks in terms of his knowledge of the natural world, in particular, of trees: The metaphoric tree is prominent in the parables of Jesus. The parable of the fig tree (Mt. 24:32; Mk. 13:29; Lk. 21:29) and the parable of the mustard seed (Mt.13:31; Lk.13:19) are two of the most outstanding of these.
3. The Symbolic Tree What we are calling "the natural tree" represents the Scriptural expression of Biblical culture's awareness of the intrinsic value of trees and of the central role played by trees in ecological balance, as well as the human use of trees for food, shelter, trade and commerce to satisfy the needs of the body. The "metaphoric tree" represents the figurative use of trees for the purpose of education, moral instruction, and the inculcation of the teachings necessary for salvation to satisfy the needs of the soul. Beyond these two levels or types of tree, a third tree-image occurs in the Bible, which we are calling the "symbolic tree." The Holy Spirit in Scripture employs the image of the tree to reveal and communicate truths about the cosmos, about humanity, about God's will in creation, and thus, about the deepest principles of the order of nature and life. It is this symbolic, anagogic (that is, uplifting) function of trees in Scripture that we call The Symbolic Tree.
The most important context in which the symbolic tree appears is the story of God creating the Edenic Paradise in the center of which He planted two trees, the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and the Tree of Life (Genesis 2:8-17). This passage is part of the "second creation story" of Genesis Two, which scholars agree is older than that of the creation story of Genesis One. We Christians must not let the familiarity of this story blind us to some of its remarkable features, especially as they relate to our theme. Aside from man, trees are the first living thing mentioned. It is highly significant that of all the plants and growing things that could have been mentioned, only trees are actually mentioned. This is a strong indication that Scripture singles out the tree as representative of the biosphere as a whole. This corresponds with an ecological view which recognizes trees as the organic center around which all the other parts of the ecosystem are organized. Without directly pointing it out, Scripture is bearing witness to the pre-eminent value of trees in the organic world or biosphere.
Two categories of trees are distinguished in Genesis 2: those "pleasant to the sight" and those "good for food." Both categories link trees to human physical and psychological well-being and represent the gift-nature of trees to humanity. Trees are shown to be a gift and blessing of God to man, as Elder Amphilochios taught, bearing in themselves elements of hope, peace, beauty and love. Without introduction or the slightest bit of explanation, the Sacred Narrative reveals the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the midst of the Garden. Here we confront the primordial symbol of the sacred World Tree, which is a universal symbol in human consciousness. In the Genesis Two creation story, our primary concern is the image of the tree. Why the tree? Why does the Holy Spirit use the tree to symbolize life? Why is human consciousness, across the spectrum of cultures and times so congenial to, so accepting of, the tree as the universal symbol of life?
To answer this question we must ask and attempt to answer another: What is a symbol? Commonly, this word is used as a synonym for "figure" or "sign" and is opposed to what is "real," such as when someone says that something is "only a symbol" or that such and such "symbolizes" or "represents" so and so. But symbol can mean more than this. A symbol may be distinguished from a metaphor in that the latter is a figure of speech in which we speak of one thing in terms of another; whereas a symbol is not specifically linguistic and may represent physical objects and visual representations. One may speak metaphorically about a tree, but one cannot say, for example, that the tree is a metaphor of the cross, because a tree, as a physical object, is not a metaphor. One might properly say that the tree is a symbol of the cross. Because symbols are not figures of speech, but signifying objects, the representational definition of symbol—symbol as "only" a sign—does not exhaust either the meaning or the function of symbol. Because the nature of a symbol is rooted in real objects, its meaning is not exhausted by convention and, as it were, on the "horizontal" plane.
A symbol is also capable of "vertical" significance by making visible a higher meaning. Further, a symbol, by the meaning of its form, its "transparency," may itself be in the physical world the manifestation of a higher, invisible reality. Such was the view of the Fathers of the Church. The very physical presence of the symbol re-presents the higher reality it points to and reveals. Thus "symbol" and "reality" may not be opposites, but may coincide. As an example of this kind of "living" symbolism, Bishop Kallistos Ware cites Edward Carpenter's (1844-1929) vision of a tree:
'Has any one of us ever seen a Tree? I certainly do not think that I have — except most superficially… Once the present writer seemed to have a partial vision of a tree. It was a beech, standing isolated and still leafless in early Spring. Suddenly I was aware of its skyward-reaching arms and up-turned finger-tips, as if some vivid life (or electricity) was streaming through them far into the spaces of heaven, and of its roots plunged in the earth and drawing the same energies from below. The day was quite still and there was no movement in the branches, but in that moment the tree was no longer a separate organism, but a vast being ramifying far into space, sharing and uniting the life of Earth and Sky, and full of most amazing activity.'
Bishop Ware comments, "Here is a vision of joyful wonder, inspired by an underlying sense of mystery. The tree has become a symbol pointing beyond itself, a sacrament that embodies some deep secret at the heart of the universe."
Carpenter's experience, plus the bishop's comment, provide insight into the tree as symbol. Something in the nature of the tree makes it a symbol of life itself. The tree's upright form; its three-fold structure of roots-trunk-branches; its intimate connection with the four elements—roots deep in the earth, branches high in the air, its power to draw down sunlight and draw up water; its longevity and stability; its silent generosity, offering shade, shelter and sustenance to all other living things; its created capacity to "unite the life of Earth and Sky," all these qualities of the tree-nature created by God make it a powerful, central and universal symbol of life. Yet this capacity in the tree to be a symbol only hints at the depths of that "deep secret at the heart of the universe" embodied by the symbolic tree and glimpsed by those blessed with even a "partial vision" similar to Edward Carpenter's. For the life we have been speaking of is created life. But the Tree of Life in Paradise confers eternal life. The tragic consequence of Adam's sin reveals the luminous reality of the Tree of Life just at the moment that he loses all contact with it.
'Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever," therefore the LORD God sent him from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. He drove out the man; and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life (Gen.3:22-24).'
The loss of access to the Tree of Life meant death and expulsion from paradise, and the way back blocked. The "deep secret at the heart of the universe" still lies beyond the flaming sword of the cherubim. Nevertheless its presence may yet be intuited and felt, as did Edward Carpenter, in the transparent symbol of a living tree, truly seen.
If a symbol is, in its highest meaning, the reflection of a higher reality, then the sin of Adam can be seen as becoming attached to the symbol instead of the higher reality. The symbol had become an idol. Choosing the created symbol over the uncreated Life it symbolized, Adam's vision was darkened. He lost not only the Tree of Life, but the tree as the symbol of life. The fatal descent had begun, from the paradisal vision of trees "pleasant to the sight," as transparent symbols of life, to the infernal sight of "clearcutting": the brutal stripping of entire mountainsides of their forests to feed the world's appetite for wood. Nevertheless, natural things have not lost their inner nature; they still praise God their Creator. The trees along with all else in creation wait with earnest expectation for the manifestation of the sons of God (Rom. 8:19), that is, human beings redeemed by Christ and members of His body, so that they once again may see both the forest and the trees. Restoring this Christian unitive vision of creation as a cosmic sacrament points us to the Iconic Tree.
4. The Iconic Tree The mystery of life is that even the life of fallen nature partakes somehow of the Life beyond life, even though without redemption access to the Tree of Life remains blocked by separation, sin and death. As a great saint of the early Church, Dionysios the Areopagite wrote in his enormously influential work, The Divine Names, "Life" is one of the names of God: 'The Divine Life beyond life is the giver and creator of life itself. All life and living movement comes from a Life which is above every life and beyond the source of life. From this Life souls have their indestructibility, and every living being and plant, down to the last echo of life, has life.'
St. Maximos the Confessor (580-662), a profound student of Dionysios and a great theologian in his own right, sums up the whole tradition in a few words: 'Death in the true sense is separation from God, and 'the sting of death is sin' (1 Cor. 15:56). Adam, who received the sting, became at the same time an exile from the tree of life, from paradise and from God; and this was necessarily followed by the body's death. Life, in the true sense, is He who said, 'I am the Life' (Jn 11:25), and who, having entered into death, led back to life him who had died.'
With his allusion to John 11:25 ("Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die"), St. Maximos gives us the link to the Iconic Tree to which the symbol of the tree is finally pointing. For with the Incarnation, Crucifixion, Resurrection and glorious Ascension of Christ, the glory of the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ (Gal. 6:14) has transformed the image of the tree from symbol to icon. In order to understand how the symbol of the tree becomes an icon, we need to touch on the meaning of icons in the Orthodox Church. The icon is not merely religious "art" or pious decoration. Iconography is sacred art with a primarily liturgical function, which is to manifest the unity of creation with heaven in the liturgy.
According to the Orthodox understanding of icons, icons make present that which they re-present. Therefore, the icon is a "symbol" as we have tried to present it, but a symbol in the highest possible sense. An icon is the apex of symbolism in which the visible reveals the invisible in an essentially sacramental manner. As we have seen, a symbol, contrary to a widely held opinion, both popular and scholarly, is not necessarily opposed to "reality," and can signify much more than mere "representation." In fact, the essence of the symbol is precisely to make known by reflecting or manifesting a reality beyond itself. According to the Bible, the natural world was created by God so that He might be made known: because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead (Rom.1:19-20).
As Orthodox theologian Fr. Alexander Schmemann writes: "the world is symbolical in virtue of its being created by God"; to be "symbolical" thus belongs to its ontology, the symbol being not only the way to perceive and understand reality, but also a means of participation. It is this natural symbolism of the world that is reflected in the understanding of the early Church that the universe is itself a Book, the Liber Mundi, or "Book of Nature" through which the wisdom, power and glory of God might be known.
Philip Sherrard, one of the foremost theologians of this century and a contemporary exponent of the sacred cosmology of the Greek Fathers of the Church, says that it is crucial that we learn to: 'Read the book of nature, the Liber Mundi, in a way totally different from that in which we have been taught to read it. It demands that we read it in a way similar to that in which the great spiritual expositors tell that we should read the Bible—we have to learn to look on the world of natural forms as the apparent, exterior expression of a hidden, interior world, a spiritual world: all the phenomena of the world of nature represent or symbolize with things celestial and divine.'
Or as the same author says in another place:
'a true reading of the book of nature, the Liber Mundi, leads to the recognition that these realities constitute the immaterial, spiritual and uncreated realities of the forms of the natural and physical world; they embrace the archetypes of which these forms are the exterior, apparent expression. This in turn means that we are able to perceive through our physical eyes the symbolic function that natural things possess by virtue of their correspondence and interpenetration with spiritual things.'
The Book of Job says the same thing more directly:
'But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; and the birds of the air and they will tell you. Or speak to the earth and it will teach you; and the fish of the sea will explain to you. Who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this, in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind? (Job 12: 7-10).'
To perceive the living symbolism of natural things—to read the Book of Nature—is to perceive the spiritual presence of which each natural form is the image—or icon. There is an inherent "sacramentality" to creation because the Divine presence in and through and beyond each created thing gives each its uniqueness, immediacy, transparency and meaning. Thus to learn to read the Book of Nature is to move from creation to symbol to sacrament. That movement from symbol to sacrament is, as it were, an "iconic" movement. For the tree, its iconic movement came as the God-Man Christ Jesus was crucified on the cross at Golgotha. At that moment, and irreversibly, the image of the tree, source of the wood that formed the instrument upon which our salvation was wrought, became forever a symbol of the cross.
There are five instances in the New Testament in which "tree" is used for the cross on which Jesus was crucified: three in Acts (5:30, 10:39, 13:29), one in Galatians (3:13) and one in First Peter (2:24). Remarkably, each of these texts is a kerygmatic paradigm—that is to say, each is a unique divine moment filled by the Holy Spirit in which the Spirit-directed and empowered preaching of the Good News revealed the form and contours and scope of the Christian faith.
1) The Witness to the Religious Authorities—the Power of the Gospel: Acts 5:30 shows Peter, standing before the high priest and the chief priests of the temple after his miraculous escape from prison at the hand of an angel of the Lord, fearlessly bearing witness to the Good News: 'The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.'
2) The Witness to the Gentiles—the Universal Scope of the Gospel: Acts 10:39 shows St. Peter again, this time teaching the pagan centurian Cornelius at Caesarea, after his threefold vision of the great sheet filled with all manner of creatures and after refusing to eat being instructed of God that "what God hath cleansed, that call thou not common": 'And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree.'
3) The Witness to the Jewish People—the Gospel as the Fulfillment of Salvation History in Christ: Acts 13:29 shows St. Paul in the synagogue at Antioch on the Sabbath day, preaching to the assembled congregation a magnificent sermon in which he shows through the Law and the prophets that the entire history of salvation is fulfilled in Christ Jesus: 'And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.'
4) The Witness to the Early Church—the Gospel as the Transformation of the Covenant in Christ: Galatians 3:13: Here Paul teaches the doctrine of faith in Christ how we cannot be justified by the Law, but only by faith in God and in Christ, who redeemed us by becoming answerable to the Law on our behalf, who died for us and rose again: 'Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree.'
5) The Witness to all Christians—the Gospel Command to Follow Christ on the Path of Suffering: This epistle evokes the suffering of Christ on the tree of the cross as an example for all Christians of all times: 'Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.' (1Peter 2:24).
In each of these primordial moments of the revelation of the Gospel through preaching of the mission and message of the Church of Christ, the image of the tree as the cross was invoked as the very heart of the Gospel. This cannot be mere coincidence.
Liturgy and the Liturgical Ethos We have seen that Holy Scripture bears witness to the singular importance of trees, not as objects of worship, but as one of the most complete manifestations in the created order of the wisdom, goodness and mercy of God. We have seen that awareness of the interdependence of all life is prominent in the Bible, and that the Bible knows trees to be of central importance to the balance and harmony of all the aspects of the living community of beings on earth. We have seen that Scripture utilizes the figurative value of the nature, growth and function of trees in the biosphere or "soil community" to teach moral lessons and spiritual wisdom. Finally we have seen that the Christian Revelation draws upon the inherent symbolism of the tree and the natural sacramentality of creation to reveal that Christ Himself is the "deep secret at the heart of the universe." But what are we as Christians and as human beings to do with this knowledge?
Scripture tells us that the proper response to the revelation of God's truth, goodness, beauty, wisdom, life and mercy is praise and thanksgiving. The Church, as Body of Christ, calls us to the Eucharist: communion in the Kingdom in thanksgiving. Putting the two together means that the truly human task on earth, combining the healing of disorder, the manifestation of the Gospel and the perfecting of praise, is to develop a liturgical ethos, to liturgize the world. What does this mean? And how do trees relate to liturgy and the development of a liturgical ethos? Liturgy, leitourgia in Greek, means, literally, the "work of the people" [leit-people, ergonwork].
Scripture tells us the work of the people of God is thanksgiving and praise. The Gospel Revelation of Christ—"ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:32) and "This is eternal life, that they know thee, the only true God" (John 17:3) first fully manifested at the Baptism of Jesus (Theophany) and accomplished for all creation on Golgotha, culminates in the Descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost and the establishment of the Church in which all are called to "give thanks for all things" (1 Thess. 5:18). When we know who Christ is and what He has accomplished, when we experience the freedom inherent in that knowledge, we will be naturally filled with thanksgiving. It flows from the impulse in the heart to give thanks to Him who made us free from bondage to sin and death, an impulse rooted in heart-knowledge.
We have seen that from the beginning of Revelation and the history of our salvation God used trees to teach humanity. We have seen the amazing emphasis upon trees in the Bible and in the teaching of the early Church. The liturgical ethos—the heart of a Christian response to the creation–is centered around the acts of praise and thanksgiving which are the chief responses of human beings to the presence of God. As the earth, including all living creatures, from microbes to the human microcosm, and the macrocosmic universe as well, are created by God with a symbolic ontology and a sacramental potentiality, they fulfill their existence also in praise. Indeed, the greater degree of transparency in the creature, the greater its symbolism, the more it praises God. The Christian mind and heart must truly reflect a liturgical ethos, which is to give voice to the song of praise for all creation. Of all plants the tree most fully symbolizes the blessings that God has bestowed upon us through creation. The presence of the tree in the natural environment and also in Scripture is a sign of health, hope, goodness, fertility, abundance and order. The destruction of trees in Scripture is a sign of God's wrath and punishment for all transgressions of the order of nature and of spirit.
Presently trees and the forests of the world are being wantonly destroyed to an unprecedented degree by the hand of man. How long will the four angels holding the full retributive power of nature be stayed by the mercy of God?
Clearly the entire witness of the Christian Revelation calls all Christians to protect the trees. Christians should be at the forefront of any campaign to restore the forests of the world.
Growing trees are a sign of hope, peace and love, as the Elder from Patmos has said. Landscapes wantonly stripped of their forest cover, hillsides ravaged to feed the insatiable greed of the market, can such sins against nature be anything but signs of an inevitable day of judgement? Good deeds may not forestall this day. Nevertheless it is a universal Christian duty to protect the forests. Love the trees. Love the trees.
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Gas Insulated Switchgear Market
Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Forecasts to 2028 – Global Analysis By Type (High Voltage GIS, Medium Voltage GIS), Product Insulation Type (SF6, SF6-free), Installation (Indoor, Outdoor, Solid Bus Duct Connection & Cable Connection) and By Geography
US $18.84 BN
Highest Growing Market
According to Stratistics MRC, the Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market is accounted for $18.84 billion in 2021 and is expected to reach $40.37 billion by 2028 growing at a CAGR of 11.5% during the forecast period. Gas Insulated Switchgear (GIS) is a critical piece of equipment in an electrical substation. It is generally utilized in locations when space is at a premium. It is a kind of metal-encased switchgear that contains components such as lynchpin and circuit breakers. GIS, for example, is installed on roof expansions, offshore platforms, industrial plants, and hydropower plants, among other places.
Growing Portion of Renewable Power Generation
The increasing awareness about renewable power led to a significant adoption of renewable energy. This coupled with supportive government initiatives for the development of renewable power are the prominent factors responsible for the growth of renewable power generation. According to the International Energy Outlook 2019 report, 28% of the global power came from renewable sources in 2018, which is majorly contributed by wind, solar, and hydropower. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts that renewables will account for almost half of the global electricity output. Hence, growth in renewable power generation is predictable to help drive the demand for this market.
High Equipment Cost Associated Beside with Stringent Environmental and Safety Regulations
SF6 gas is listed as an extremely harmful GHG by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Presently, no nearest alternative can work as efficiently as SF6 gas. Hence, increased procurement costs, coupled with stringent policies against SF6gas, will restrict the growth of this market. The procurement cost increases in terms of capital expenditure (CAPEX), manufacturing process, and the use of expensive components, which includes transformers, switching elements, and a circuit breaker, that has to be operated inside an enclosure filled with a dielectric gas. Hence, enclosing all the equipment in one chamber led to an increase in equipment cost.
Rising Investments on Construction of New Substations to Bode Well for Players
The competitors operating in the global market are adopting various strategies to gain a competitive edge in the market. These strategies include mergers and acquisitions, contracts, agreements, partnerships, joint ventures, and others. Players are also investing heavy amounts in the construction of new substations for attracting market revenue in the forthcoming years.
Stringent Government Laws
Government regulation has expanded enormously over the past century, prompting business complaints that interventions impede growth and efficiency. Due to the growing stringent government laws enforcing environmental and safety requirements will affect the market negatively and is one of the major threats.
Outdoor segment is expected to be the largest during the forecast period
The outdoor segment is dominating the market, Significant investments in the expansion of transmission & distribution projects over the long length and t the wide scope of application in an outdoor application, which includes long-range power transmission, very large power plants, and transmission of ultra-high voltage boost the segment growth.
The Utility segment is expected to have the highest CAGR during the forecast period
The utility segment is expected to hold the highest market CAGR, owing to the extensive application of GIS by utilities for transmission and distribution of an extensive range of sub-transmission voltage, extra-high voltage, high-voltage, and ultra-high voltage. Hence, the segment is predictable to continue grow its market.
Region with largest share:
The North America is projected to hold the highest market share, due to major investments made for the enhancement of transmission, distribution, and the overall performance of the generation of electric power for avoiding losses. Most companies located in this province are acquiring their substation for efficient and reliable power transmission which will ultimately add significant value to the regional market.
Asia Pacific is projected to have the highest CAGR. It is the most populated province in the world and consequently witnesses a high demand for electricity. Countries such as China, Japan, and India are investing in grid expansion projects to increase distribution grid reliability. China accounted for the largest share of the market in the Asia Pacific and has the highest installed generation and distribution capacity. The country, which is an export-oriented economy, has witnessed exponential growth in the demand for electricity in the past couple of decades, fuelled by industrialization and infrastructural developments. Almost all the countries in the province are augmenting their generation capacities. India, China, and Indonesia are investing heavily in their hydroelectric power projects. Japan, China, and India are also emphasizing nuclear and solar power generation to meet their increasing energy demand. These have led to a rise in investments in the transmission & distribution sector by connecting renewable energy generation to the grid and are anticipated to drive the growth of the market in the Asia Pacific.
Key players in the market:
Some of the key players profiled in the Gas Insulated Switchgear Market include Siemens, Fuji Electric, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Hitachi, Ltd., Nissin Electric Co Ltd, Meidensha Corporation, CHEM Group, ABB, Schneider Electric, Hyundai Electric & Energy Systems Co., Ltd., Eaton, GE, Toshiba International Corporation, Larsen & Toubro, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited.
In July 2021: Hitachi acquired majority stake in ABB Power Grids. Hitachi ABB Power Grids is the new company formed by the close of Hitachi's acquisition of an 80.1 per cent stake in the venerable power grids unit of the Swiss-Swedish engineering giant.
In July 2021: Hitachi ABB Power Grids announced that the company has composed a complete prefabricated containerized gas-insulated substation for the industrial gas company Linde. The substation comprised of 10 bays of 66 kV gas-insulated switchgear, protection and control panels, and all ancillary equipment in pre-assembled, pre-tested, container-sized modules, which were shipped as a single prefabricated unit, ready for speedy on-site installation
In January 2020: ABB announced that it has received contract from German transmission grid operator Transnet BW for the installation of 380-kV gas-insulated switchgear with the help of an environment-friendly SF6 gas mixture.
In April 2021: Siemens announced that it has taken a contract to deliver ten bays of sulphur hexafluoride(SF6) free gas-insulated switchgear to Finland's transmission system operator, Fingrid.
In June 2021: Toshiba Energy Systems and Solutions has collaborated with Meidensha Corporation for the joint development of gas-insulated switchgear using natural gas containing no sulfur hexafluoride(SF6). Additionally, the company has decided to accelerate the development and commercialization of gas-insulated switchgear due to the increasing demand for environment-friendly products in the market.
In January 2020: Siemens acquired C&S Electric, one of India's largest switchgear and power equipment companies, with its major operations in switchgear, busbar, and metering devices. The acquisition will help the company become one of the leading players in terms of switchgear production in India.
• High Voltage GIS
• Medium Voltage GIS
• Low Voltage GIS
Insulation Types Covered:
• SF6
• SF6-free
Installations Covered:
• Indoor
• Solid Bus Duct Connection & Cable Connection
Voltage Ratings Covered:
• Up to 66 kV
• 66 kV - 170 kV
• 170 kV - 550 kV
• Above 550 kV
Voltage Covered:
• Distribution Voltage
• Extra High Voltage Transmission
• High Voltage Transmission
• Sub-Transmission Voltage
• Ultra-High Voltage Transmission
Technology's Covered:
• Hybrid Switchgear
• Integrated Three Phase
• Compact Gas Insulated Switchgear
• Commercial and Residential Sector
• Heavy Industries
• Infrastructure & Transportation
• Manufacturing & Process Industries
• Oil, Gas & Mining
• Railways & Metros
• Utility
3.6 Technology Analysis
5 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market, By Type
5.2 High Voltage GIS
5.3 Medium Voltage GIS
5.3.1 Primary Distribution Medium Voltage GIS
5.3.2 Secondary Distribution Medium Voltage GIS
5.4 Low Voltage GIS
6 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market, By Insulation Type
6.2 SF6
6.3 SF6-free
7 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market, By Installation
7.2 Indoor
7.3 Outdoor
7.4 Solid Bus Duct Connection & Cable Connection
8 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market, By Voltage Rating
8.2 Up to 66 kV
8.3 66 kV - 170 kV
8.4 170 kV - 550 kV
8.5 Above 550 kV
9 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market, By Voltage
9.2 Distribution Voltage
9.3 Extra High Voltage Transmission
9.4 High Voltage Transmission
9.5 Sub-Transmission Voltage
9.6 Ultra-High Voltage Transmission
10 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market, By Technology
10.2 Hybrid Switchgear
10.3 Integrated Three Phase
10.4 Compact Gas Insulated Switchgear
11 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market, By End User
11.2 Commercial and Residential Sector
11.3 Heavy Industries
11.4 Infrastructure & Transportation
11.5 Manufacturing & Process Industries
11.6 Marine
11.7 Oil, Gas & Mining
11.8 Railways & Metros
11.9 Utility
11.9.1 Power Distribution Utility
11.9.2 Power Generation Utility
11.9.3 Power Transmission Utility
12 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market, By Geography
14.1 Siemens
14.2 Fuji Electric
14.3 Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
14.4 Hitachi, Ltd.
14.5 Nissin Electric Co Ltd
14.6 Meidensha Corporation
14.7 CHEM Group
14.8 ABB
14.9 Schneider Electric
14.10 Hyundai Electric & Energy Systems Co., Ltd.
14.11 Eaton
14.12 General Electric (GE)
14.13 Toshiba International Corporation
14.14 Larsen & Toubro
14.15 Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited
1 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By Region (2019-2028) (US $MN)
2 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By Type (2019-2028) (US $MN)
3 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By High Voltage GIS (2019-2028) (US $MN)
4 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By Medium Voltage GIS (2019-2028) (US $MN)
5 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By Primary Distribution Medium Voltage GIS (2019-2028) (US $MN)
6 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By Secondary Distribution Medium Voltage GIS (2019-2028) (US $MN)
7 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By Low Voltage GIS (2019-2028) (US $MN)
8 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By Insulation Type (2019-2028) (US $MN)
9 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By SF6 (2019-2028) (US $MN)
10 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By SF6-free (2019-2028) (US $MN)
11 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By Installation (2019-2028) (US $MN)
12 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By Indoor (2019-2028) (US $MN)
13 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By Outdoor (2019-2028) (US $MN)
14 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By Solid Bus Duct Connection & Cable Connection (2019-2028) (US $MN)
15 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By Voltage Rating (2019-2028) (US $MN)
16 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By Up to 66 kV (2019-2028) (US $MN)
17 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By 66 kV - 170 kV (2019-2028) (US $MN)
18 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By 170 kV - 550 kV (2019-2028) (US $MN)
19 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By Above 550 kV (2019-2028) (US $MN)
20 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By Voltage (2019-2028) (US $MN)
21 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By Distribution Voltage (2019-2028) (US $MN)
22 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By Extra High Voltage Transmission (2019-2028) (US $MN)
23 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By High Voltage Transmission (2019-2028) (US $MN)
24 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By Sub-Transmission Voltage (2019-2028) (US $MN)
25 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By Ultra-High Voltage Transmission (2019-2028) (US $MN)
26 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By Technology (2019-2028) (US $MN)
27 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By Hybrid Switchgear (2019-2028) (US $MN)
28 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By Integrated Three Phase (2019-2028) (US $MN)
29 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By Compact Gas Insulated Switchgear (2019-2028) (US $MN)
30 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By End User (2019-2028) (US $MN)
31 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By Commercial and Residential Sector (2019-2028) (US $MN)
32 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By Heavy Industries (2019-2028) (US $MN)
33 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By Infrastructure & Transportation (2019-2028) (US $MN)
34 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By Manufacturing & Process Industries (2019-2028) (US $MN)
35 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By Marine (2019-2028) (US $MN)
36 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By Oil, Gas & Mining (2019-2028) (US $MN)
37 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By Railways & Metros (2019-2028) (US $MN)
38 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By Utility (2019-2028) (US $MN)
39 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By Power Distribution Utility (2019-2028) (US $MN)
40 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By Power Generation Utility (2019-2028) (US $MN)
41 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market Outlook, By Power Transmission Utility (2019-2028) (US $MN)
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SumThingsRong July 10, 2019 at 6:17 pm
Wikipedia James Wolfensohn who is reported to be a member of the Committee of 300. Wikipedia Quartet on the Middle East … The Quartet on the Middle East or Middle East Quartet, sometimes called the Diplomatic Quartet or Madrid Quartet or simply the Quartet, is a foursome of nations and international and supranational entities involved in mediating the Israeli–Palestinian peace process. The Quartet comprises the United Nations, the United States, the European Union, and Russia. The group was established in Madrid in 2002, recalling Madrid Conference of 1991, as a result of the escalating conflict in the Middle East. The Quartet's current Special Envoy is Kito de Boer, who assumed the position after the resignation of Tony Blair in 2015…James Wolfensohn, the former president of the World Bank, was appointed Special Envoy for Israel's disengagement from Gaza in April 2005. He stepped down the following year because of restrictions in dealing with the Islamic militant group Hamas and the withholding of money from the Palestinian Authority, risking its collapse. Tony Blair announced that he had accepted the position of the official envoy of the Quartet, the same day he resigned as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and as a Member of Parliament on 27 June 2007. The approval came after initial objections by Russia.[8] The United Nations were overseeing the finances and security of his mission, before his resignation on 27 May 2015
Tony Blair is also reported to be on the Committee of 300. James Wolfensohn gives presentations at the Israel Council on Foreign Relations search engine this…… Point being that the Money Powers/Synagog of Satan do not want peace and safety for the people of Israel or the Palestinian people or the People of Syria or Turkey or Iran or Lebanon or Saudi Arabia or Yemen or the United States or the British or all of Europe or Russia or China or India or Pakistan ect ect… They want Albert Pike's plan for 3 world wars. They want us all to fight each other.
Also in General remember when you see Ellis that George H W Bush's sister married into the Ellis family and that the Ellis's were Skull and Bones also like the Bushs.
A longtime Bronfman henchman at Seagrams, Stephen Herbits, was recruited by then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to make "heads roll" in the military, screening Pentagon promotions and appointments, enforcing Zionist control of the U.S. war machine. This move on the military came in 2006 when top retired American military leaders publicly slammed the Bush administration for waging the war against Iraq, making it clear they spoke for many colleagues still in the Pentagon who opposed the war from the start. Herbits urged the media to investigate military leaders who dared to take on the administration. Saying it would be "a service to this country when the media digs a bit below these attacks to examine the generals," Herbits was sending a warning: Military leaders who stood up against civilian warmongers promoting the interests of Israel were subject to investigation by spy agencies such as the Anti-Defamation League, which could come up with "data" on the dissidents to destroy them.
he Bronfmans were the "godfathers" behind the career of Arizona Senator John McCain (R), Israel's most outspoken advocate in Congress. McCain's $150 million fortune comes from his marriage to Cindy Hensley, who inherited one of the nation's largest beer distribution companies from her father, Jim Hensley. Hensley made his money as a henchman of Kemper Marley who, for 40 years, was political boss of Arizona and the Lansky syndicate's front man in The Grand Canyon State. The Bronfmans set Marley up in business and after Hensley took the rap for Marley in a criminal case, Hensley's reward was the beer business now in McCain family hands.
SumThingsRong July 10, 2019 at 11:39 am
When Bernstein died in 1999, his firm managed $80 billion in stock and bonds for individual investors and institutions. In October 2002, Sanford C. Bernstein's firm was acquired by Alliance Capital, the two merging into AllianceBernstein, which would become AB in 2015. The Weekly Standard's l has been a Director of AllianceBernstein since 1994 and is a Director of various Sanford C. Bernstein funds within AB, including its International Portfolio. Wikipedia Project for a new american century The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) was a neoconservative think tank based in Washington, D.C. that focused on United States foreign policy. It was established as a non-profit educational organization in 1997, and founded by William Kristol and Robert Kagan.
and of common knowledge is that Bronfmans are connected to the Committee of 300. An aide to Netanyahu, and ghost writer of one? of his books is Yoram Hazony who was funded by Lauder who was Silversteins partner in target acquisition of the World Trade Center.
Since its inception, the center has enjoyed funding of tens of millions of dollars, not least from donations by Jewish philanthropists such as Ronald Lauder, Sheldon Adelson and Zalman Bernstein. The center is located in two buildings and has a budget this year of $10 million, though fewer than 100 employees. Since its inception, it has also been under the centralistic control of a small group of people, who have known each other since their student days at Princeton University, headed by Dr. Daniel Polisar and Dr. Yoram Hazony. Polisar, the institution's president, is described as its operational and guiding arm. Hazony, a former confidant of Benjamin Netanyahu, preceded Polisar as president and is now provost.
Under their leadership, the center has recruited figures such as former chief of staff Moshe Ya'alon and former minister Natan Sharansky. A year and a half ago, the center established the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies, which Sharansky heads and in which Ya'alon is a "distinguished fellow." Adelson's $4.5-million donation to the center stems from his unreserved support for Sharansky. The center is constantly gathering momentum and influence. It recently held a conference on "Democracy and Security" in Prague, at which U.S. President George W. Bush spoke.
joetv July 9, 2019 at 12:46 pm
Polly is asking the right questions and searching for the right answers to the enigma known as Epstein. I'm a nobody, but years ago my 1st response to Epstein's notoriety was how did he become so wealthy? This character Jeffrey Epstein is obviously State sponsored, and I believe the state to be Israel. Polly claims the tail number on Epstein's jet is shared with another airplane owned by the state department. Let your mind wonder about that, and ask how sharing a tail number with the US Department of State could benefit a man like Epstein, and his handlers. The 1st question to answer is how it happened and who at the FAA signed off on it?
Sadly I doubt we'll ever know. I think Jeff's days are numbered and his expiration date is near.
Gall July 9, 2019 at 8:58 pm
The FAA still had the alleged tail numbers for AA Flights 11 and 77 listed as operational until around 2006 when some internet sleuths pointed this out. At which point they mysteriously vanished from cyberspace. Lucky some of us got screen shots.
Hopefully this answers your question. The FAA is to flight safety like the ADL is too philanthropy both just deep state tools.


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The pictures below show larger views of one of the (2) 1976 The Outlaws Music Band Boston Massachusetts Black & White Professional Photograph Negatives in this lot, and a closer view of it. We were having scanner issues at the time and the second negative was not scanned, but it is the exact same pose as the 1st one. PLEASE NOTE: The third image is NOT included here. IT IS ONLY SHOWN FOR REFERENCE. It had been taken of the band drinking and playing cards around the same time as the (2) negatives that we are offering.
These negatives, along with many others, were acquired professional Photographer negatives from a Boston, Massachusetts agency. They were all taken in 1976. We do not know if these images have ever been published anywhere or not. This agency had much business with many of the airlines at the Logan Airport in Boston and with the MTA, Mass Transit Authority. We believe that the Photographer was there for an airline photo shoot, and the Outlaws band just happened to be leaving on a flight on a British Airways airplane. The (2) photos had been taken just before they boarded the plane.
The band members in the images include: Billy Jones, Henry Paul, Frank O'Keefe, Harvey Dalton Arnold, and Monte Yoho. They were most likely touring and promoting their first record album "OUTLAWS" (1975) and perhaps their second "LADY IN WAITING" (1976).
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Below here, for reference, is some information about the Outlaws band:
Origin: Tampa, Florida, U.S.
Genres: Southern Rock, Country Rock
Years active: 1967 - 1971, 1972 - 1996, 2005 - present
Labels: Arista, Cleopatra
Associated acts: Lynyrd Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet, BlackHawk
Members Photographed here: Billy Jones, Henry Paul, Frank O'Keefe, Harvey Dalton Arnold, and Monte Yoho
Outlaws is an American southern rock/country rock band best known for their 1975 hit "There Goes Another Love Song" and extended guitar jam "Green Grass and High Tides" from their 1975 debut album, plus their 1980 cover of the Stan Jones classic "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky".
The Outlaws were formed in Tampa, Florida in 1967 by guitarists / vocalists Frank Guidry. Hughie Thomasson and Hobie O'Brien, drummer David Dix and bassist Phil Holmberg joined the on going band to replace members. By early 1968, O'Brien and Holmberg both left the band to get married and Herb Pino and Frank O'Keefe came in on vocals and bass respectively. Later that year, Tommy Angarano joined the Outlaws to replace Pino, bringing Hammond organ sounds and his style of vocals to the band. Shortly after, he quit and Herb was brought back in. In the spring of 1968 the group's first manager, Paul Deutekom, brought them to Epic Studios in New York City to record an album, which was never released after the band and the producer of the album had a falling out. The group headed back to Tampa then got another deal to go to Criteria Studios in Miami. There they recorded another album with producer Phil Gernhard. But this album was likewise never released and Gernhard vanished soon after. As part of the Gernhard record deal, Ronny Elliott working with Phil Gernhard was brought in around this time forcing Guidry out of the band. Ronny played bass while O'Keefe briefly switched to guitar. But O'Keefe went back to bass after Elliott left several weeks later when the band didn't sound the same and Herb Pino began playing guitars and doing vocals at this time. Drummer Monte Yoho also joined that same year to sub for Dix.
In early 1970, the Outlaws were joined by two members of the Dave Graham Group that was also managed by Paul Deutekom (Ped-Dyn. Productions.) The Dave Graham Group's Union leader was Monte Yoho, but he was not invited to be part of this line up. The early 1970 Outlaws line up was Hughie Thomasson, Frank O'Keefe, Dave Dix, Billy Jones and Dave Graham. Graham was influential in moving the group toward country-rock, especially the music of Poco. They recorded a cover of the Doors' "Five to One" as an audition to a recording deal that never materialized. This lineup ended in the spring of 1970 and the group eventually parted ways with Deutekom. Yoho and Herb Pino returned, but by 1971 the offers for gigs had slowed down and the group went into limbo for a year or so, not sure if they would continue.
In 1971 Henry Paul, a singer and guitarist who was born in New York City but grew up in the Tampa area, returned from a stay in Greenwich Village, N.Y.C. to form Sienna, which was more of a country rock outfit. He was joined by Monte Yoho and Frank O'Keefe. In 1972 Hughie Thomasson returned from a brief spell in New York where he'd been backing up folksinger Milton Carroll, joined up with Paul, Yoho and O'Keefe and Sienna became the reborn Outlaws.
Billy Jones, who would sometimes show up to jam with the group on organ in 1971 and 1972, returned from a stint in Boulder, Colorado in 1973 and switched to guitar, giving birth to the band's first infamous guitar trio later dubbed "the Florida Guitar Army". O'Keefe left the group temporarily in 1973 - 1974. Buzzy Meekins and another bassist named Rick Birkbeck stood in until he was able to return. In 1974 Charlie Brusco signed on as manager for the Outlaws. Alan Walden (brother of Capricorn Records founder Phil Walden) was told of the group by Lynyrd Skynyrd frontman Ronnie Van Zant and he joined forces with Brusco as co-manager.
The band was the first act signed to Arista Records under Clive Davis. Davis was in the audience at a show in 1974 where the band was opening for Lynyrd Skynyrd in Columbus, Georgia. On the way to the stage for Lynyrd Skynyrd's set, lead vocalist Ronnie Van Zant said to Clive Davis who was with Charlie Brusco "If you don't sign the Outlaws, you're the dumbest music person I've ever met, and I know you're not."
The Outlaws' earliest well known songs were "There Goes Another Love Song" and "Green Grass and High Tides", both from their 1975 debut album The Outlaws. Their 1980 cover of "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky" from the album Ghost Riders was their biggest single chart success, reaching No. 31 on the Billboard "Pop Singles" chart.
I would just like to set the record straight about the very early history of The Outlaws Band from Tampa, Florida. I was the lead singer in the band which evolved into the Outlaws. This band of youngsters was called The Senders (not The Rogues). Frankly I never knew a band in that area called the Rogues at that time. The Senders was formed in late 1965 or early 1966 as I recall. Most of us were still in high school. The Senders manager was a businessman named Mr. Spivey. His son Ken played bass and vocal. The drummer was Larry Diaz, lead guitar was Paul Argentier, rhythm guitar and vocal was Frank Guidry and myself Carl Parnell was lead singer. We played school dances, teen clubs and anywhere Mr. Spivey could get us a gig. We became the house band at a popular teen club called "The In Crowd" near Tampa University and started to get a little notoriety in the Tampa area. We were contacted by Mr. Paul Deutekom who had a professional booking agency out of St. Petersburg I believe. This would have been about mid 1966. It was about that time things began to change within the band. A suggestion was made that we should come up with a new name. Mr. Spivey wanted to devote more time to his business and Mr. Deutekom felt we needed to make some internal changes. Things began to happen quickly then. The band signed on with the Deutekom Agency and a new base player came in. His name was Danny Feriese. We wanted a name with a kind of Western badguy twist so we kicked around lots of names like James Boys, Younger Boys, Outlaws, Sundowners etc. We finally settled on The Outlaws Band. Everybody agreed so we went with it. This group was in place and playing as The Outlaws Band in Tampa by mid 1966. Ultimately, by mid 1967 our lead guitar player Paul (who was an excellent guitarist) moved back to New York. I left the band to head off to college and Frank reformed the group with those mentioned in the original article. Frank Guidry was the only member I recall as an early member of the famous Outlaws Band from Tampa. The others came after my time. This is the true, first person history.
While the Outlaws are generally considered to be a part of the Southern Rock genre, there are distinct differences in their approach and their influences. Their primary similarity to other Southern Rock bands is the dual lead guitar interplay, a defining characteristic of many Southern rock bands. However, the Outlaws' mix of country and rock elements displays the vocal harmony influences of groups like Buffalo Springfield, the Byrds, Eagles, New Riders of the Purple Sage, and Poco. Their use of three and four part harmonies set them apart from their contemporaries who usually relied on a single lead vocalist. Hughie Thomasson's signature guitar playing style and voice were defining characteristics of the band's sound. Thomasson's guitar sound was underpinned by the use of the Fender Stratocaster (and sometimes a Telecaster) played in a quasi-country style mixed with fluid, quick blues runs. Hughie was nicknamed "The Flame" for his flaming fast guitar work. He is a member of the Fender Hall of Fame.
The other lead guitarist, Billy Jones, played mainly a Gibson Les Paul and switched between a clean and distorted sound. A good example of this can be heard on "Green Grass and High Tides" on the right stereo channel. Hughie Thomasson's distinctive Stratocaster sound can be heard on the left channel. Thomasson opens the first solo at the intro and plays the first half of the two succeeding longer solos all on the right channel. There are many video examples of his Green Grass solos on the internet. The records released by the band between 1975 and 1980 are considered the best representation of the band's style. The band was seen on successful concert tours billed with other non Southern rock acts of the time including opening for the Who on the "Who Boots In" tour in 1976. This contrast of styles was more common at that time than the packaged "genre" tours seen so often these days. The willingness of promoters to mix styles led to the Outlaws gaining a large following in the United States.
The Outlaws' style is highly characterized in their first three albums, The Outlaws (1975), Lady in Waiting (1976), and Hurry Sundown (1977). These are considered the best work of the band with all of the "classic era" band members, except for O'Keefe, who was replaced by the left handed bass player Harvey Dalton Arnold on "Hurry Sundown". Henry Paul left after their third album in 1977, and eventually formed the Henry Paul Band, which would release four albums from 1979 - 1982. With the band beginning to falter in the early 1980s, Billy Jones left the band in 1981. Henry Paul returned in 1983.
The albums released after 1980 are largely viewed by critics as a gradual move away from the original sound that gained them success in the 1970s. The reworking of the Western styled "Ghost Riders" in 1980 was the band's last taste of big league success, although the band released two more records, Los Hombres Malo in 1982 and Soldiers of Fortune in 1986. As the 1980s came to a close, Thomasson became the final original member of the act. Albums such as Diablo Canyon, released in 1994, were released on smaller independent record labels. The band by now was mostly confined to smaller club dates. This situation led to Thomasson accepting a guitar position in the legendary and more popular Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1996. This essentially sidelined the Outlaws for a decade, as Thomasson's voice and guitar style were just too integral a part of the Outlaws' sound for the other members to successfully work without it. In 2000, the Diablo Canyon lineup released the album So Low, to mixed response from fans. Many cited it as being more of a solo output from Thomasson. After this release, the band again vanished from the musical environment. Henry Paul went on to form the country band BlackHawk, which had some chart success in the 1990s.
In April 2005, classic members Hughie Thomasson, Henry Paul, Monte Yoho, and David Dix reunited as the Outlaws and the rest of the lineup was filled out with former guitarist Chris Anderson, bassist Randy Threet, and Dave Robbins on keyboards. The latter three had been with Paul's country group BlackHawk. The members from the band's heyday, guitarist Billy Jones and bassist Frank O'Keefe, had died in 1995, O'Keefe of a drug overdose and Jones suicide shortly after. Paul and Robbins left to resume their careers in BlackHawk in early 2006, but the remaining band soldiered on. They were part of the Charlie Daniels Volunteer Jam tour in the summer of 2007. Band leader Hughie Thomasson died on September 9, 2007, of a heart attack in Brooksville, Florida. No release date has been announced for the new studio album, Once an Outlaw, which was finished before Thomasson's death. A cover version of their trademark epic 10 minute track "Green Grass and High Tides" is featured as the finale in the set list for guitar and bass in the video game Rock Band and features two complicated solos.
In December 2007, 2008 Outlaws tour dates were released. In January 2008, the Outlaws lineup would be revealed to include Henry Paul (guitars/vocals), Monte Yoho (drums), Chris Anderson (guitars/vocals), and Randy Threet (bass), along with newer additions Billy Crain (guitars), Jon Coleman (keyboards), and Brett Cartwright (bass). Cartwright left the band shortly thereafter. This would be the first lineup in Outlaws' history without Hughie Thomasson on guitar and vocals, as from the band's formation to his death, he was the only constant member, garnering him the nicknames "Mr. Outlaw" and "The Lone Outlaw". According to the band's web site, the Outlaws announced their intention to continue to tour throughout the summer and fall of 2009 with this lineup and planned to participate in the Simple Man Cruise with Lynyrd Skynyrd in January 2010. It was also stated on the website that the band would change its name to "Henry Paul Band" due to Thomasson's death, but to continue touring with the same set lists.
In May 2010 the Outlaws were featured, along with the Marshall Tucker Band, Molly Hatchet, Blackberry Smoke, and the Chris Hicks Band, on stage at Long Island Southern Jam 2010 in Babylon, N.Y. at Overlook Beach. The all day concert featured a unique jam fest for all the bands. For the 2010 tour Dave Robbins returned on keyboards and Henry Paul was involved in a lawsuit brought about by Hughie Thomasson's widow, Mary, which alleged trademark violations. In April 2011 the case was ruled upon in favor of Henry Paul, Monte Yoho and the co-defendants.
On July 30, 2012, it was announced on the band's website that "their first new album in 12 years" will be released on September 25, 2012, titled "It's About Pride". It was also accompanied by a separately released DVD documentary about the making of the new album, called "Hidin' Out In Tennessee". Led by Henry Paul, the album was critically acclaimed. A few years before the album, Paul recruited an old friend from the Henry Paul Band, lead guitarist Billy Crain to join the band. Paul and Crain collaborated on writing many of the songs for It's About Pride. The final track was a cover of the Henry Paul Band song "So Long" from its 1979 debut album, "Grey Ghost". In 2013, Billy Crain left the band and Steve Grisham, who performed on the 1986 album Soldiers of Fortune, rejoined as guitarist. In 2016, the Outlaws released a 2 CD concert set titled "Legacy Live". In 2018, Dale Oliver (guitar), former touring guitarist with country band BlackHawk, replaced Chris Anderson.


Twitter: An Asymmetrical Chat Room
December 6, 2008 by Whitney Hess 3 Comments
Back in July, I wrote a blog post titled "How Twitter has changed my life" in which I stated that the best way to explain Twitter to non-tech friends is to show, not tell. Giving examples of Twitter's impact on my life has been far more effective than trying to describe the service in layman's terms.
The blog post has had a lot of traffic in five months, and visitors spend an average of 5 minutes and 17 seconds on the page (for me, that's a lot). That tells me they're actually reading it.
Looking back on it now, I realize I left out something really important: images. I went on and on and on about it in writing, telling stories of the great things that have happened to me because of Twitter without actually showing what it looks like to me. Big oversight.
This morning, still lying in bed, I was catching up on overnight messages and thinking about how I'm a lurker in some conversations and an active participant in others. That's when I realized the perfectly short-and-sweet way of communicating just what this crazy thing is: an asymmetrical chat room. Not everyone sees the same messages, but we see the ones that are important to us. It's a universe of simultaneous conversations, only some of which we individually see and take part in.
At exactly 10:30am ET today, this is what my friends timeline looked like:
I sent out a tweet asking folks to take a screenshot of their friends timeline at exactly the same time, just to prove this point.
@Yoni's friends timeline is below. Notice that he sees the same tweets as I do from @theguigirl, @tbrunelle, and @DougMeacham. Yoni follows @mstephens7 and I don't, so notice how his tweet appears at the top of Yoni's timeline but not mine.
Most interestingly to me, both Yoni and I follow @mknell, but his tweet appears in Yoni's timeline and not mine. That may be due to the fact that Yoni only follows 229 people while I follow 321 so my timeline is naturally more dense — or it could just be that the people I follow happen to be tweeting more this Saturday morning. Either way, I'd have to go one page back in order to see that tweet from Matt.
@Texburgher, who started following me a month ago but with whom I haven't conversed yet, also follows @theguigirl, but he also follows a bunch of people that I don't.
I got the @GeeksWhoGive friends timeline via @KaraLaFleur. They're based in Philly. You can see they're following @nancymk and @cspenn…
…as is @scheuguy, who's based in Boston: @Scheuguy also follows @awolk, who you can see appears in my friends timeline as well. See all the overlapping going on here?
Now take a look at @DeadLand's friend timeline. He follows me, but I don't follow him. In fact, we had never conversed before today. As you can see, my tweet is there, but the rest of the tweets are from people that neither me nor my friends listed above follow.
If you use @Yoni's super cool TwInCommon, you'd find that of the people I follow, only 2 people follow @Deadland, and of the people @Deadland follows, only 1 follows me. I think it's safe to say that @Deadland and I have the least possible intersecting "Twitterverses" (social circles) while still being connected.
I hope these images help to illustrate the inherent nature of Twitter and what makes it so fascinating. Right now, look out your window. You're closed off from the hundreds of millions, billions of conversations that are going on simultaneously at this very moment. But on Twitter, you can hear a whisper, and you can follow a path, and suddenly you can be right in the middle of it.
Oh and by the way, follow me on Twitter :)
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Geoff Barnes says
Nice post. Interestingly, the overlapping twitter conversations as you're describing them are online conversational micro-equivalents of IRL relationship maintenance. We have both common and uncommon friends, and we engage them in conversation on different bases and with differing regularity. We've all got friends about whom we only hear from common friends or acquaintances. Some of us talk to our family more regularly than we talk to our employees or employers.
What Twitter does, that IRL conversations cannot, is remember – for anyone interested to look – non-private exchanges between all these sometimes-overlapping-but-mostly-disparate parties.
Whitney Hess says
I love that distinction about remembering. You're so right. I try to tell people all the time that Twitter is just real life relationships finally digitally realized, but I think it takes a lot of personal use to see it that way. Thanks for your thoughtful comment, Geoff!
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[…] or the lack of features on the apps, or whatever silly complaint you might have about it, this asymmetrical chat room we call Twitter is ultimately about one thing and one thing only: people. People connecting with […]