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The Philistines in three companies : onc, 11 And both of them discovered theinselves *inpany turned unto the way that lewleth to unito tie garrison of the Philistines, and the Uplirah, unto the land of Shual:
Philistines said, Bebold, the Hehrews como 13 And another company turned the way forth out of the holes where they lsad bid lo Beth-boron : and another company turned themselves. to the way of the border that lookech to the 12 And the men of llie garrison answered valley of Zeboim, toward the wilderness. Jonathan and his armour-bearer, and said,
131 Now there was no smith found through-Come up to us, and ive will shew you a thing. rut all the land of Israel; for the Philistines And Jonathan said unto his armour-bearer, said, Lest the llebrews make them swords or Come up after me; for the Lord hath deli spears :
vered them into the hand of Israel. 20 But all the Israelites went clown to the. 13 And Jonathan climbed up npon lis Philistines, to sharpen every man bis share. hands and upon his feet, and his armour and iis coulter, and his are, and his mattock. bearer after lun: and they fell before Jona.
21 Yet they had a file for the inattocks, and than; and his armour-bearer slew alter luim. for the couliers, and for the forks, and for I! And that first slalighter, which Jonathan the axes, and to sharpen the goads. and luis armour-bearer made, was about
22 So it came to pass, in the day of battle, twenty men, within as it were an lalf-acre that there was neither sword nor spear found of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow. in the land of any of the people that were 15 And there was trembling in the lost, in with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul, and the field, and among all the people : the garwith Jonathan his son, was there found. rison, and the spoilers, they also trembled,
23 And the garrison of the Philistines went and the earth quaked : so it was a very great out to the passage of Michinash.
urembling. CHAP. XIV.
16 And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeahı JOW it came w pass upon a day, that of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the mulyoung man thal bare his armour, Come, ing down one wnother. and let us go over to the Philistines' garri 17: Thien said Saul unto the people that son that is on the other side. But lie told not were with hin, Number now, and see who his father.
is gone from us. And when they had num2 And Saul tarried in the uttermo-t part of bered, behold, Jonathan and his armourGibeah, under a pomegranate-tree which is bearer were not there. in Migron : and the people that were with 18 And Saul said unto Aliah, Bring hither luiin were about six hundred men;
the ark of God: (for the ark of God was al 3 And Ahiali, the son of Ahilub, l-eliabod's that time with the children of Israel.) brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, 19 Lind it came to pass, while Saúltalked the LORD's priest in Shilol, wearing an unto the priest, that the noise that was in ephod. And ihe people knew not that Jona- the liost of the Philistines went on and inthan was gone.
creased: and Saul said unto the priest, "l'itli4 9 And between the passages, by which draw thine band. Jonathan sought to go over unto ihe Phi- 20 And Saul and all the people that were listine 'garri-oil, there was a sharp rock on with him assembled themselves, and they the one side, and a sharp rock on the other came to the battle; and, behold, every man's sicle: and th name of the one was Bozez, sword was against his fellow, and iliere uus and the name of the other Seneli.
a very great discomfiture. 5 The fore-front of the one ras situate 21 Moreover, the llebrews thul were with northward over against Miehmasli, and the the Philistines before that time, which went other southward over against Gibeah. up with thein into the camp from the coun
6 and Jonathan said to the young man try round about, even they also turned to be that bare bis armour, Coine, and let us go with the Israelites that were with Sau! and over unto he garrixon of these uncircumcis. Jonatlian. ed; it may be three the LORD will work for 92 Likewise all the men of Israel which
for there is no restraini 10 tlie LORD to bad liid themselves in mount Ephrain, urhen sive by many or by few.
they heard that the Philistines fied, even they T and his armour-bearer said unto hin, also followed liard after thein in the battle. Do all that is in thine leart: ium thee; be- 3 Sothe LORD saved Israel that day: and hoid, i am with thee according to thy heart. the batile passed over unto Beth-aven.
8 Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass 28 And the men of Israel were distressed over unto these men, and we will discover that day: for Saul had aajured the people, ourselves unto them:
saying, Cursed be the man.shat eateth any 9 If they say thus unto us, Tarry until we foud until evening, that I may be avenged cu coine to you; then we will stand still in our inine enemins. So none of ihe people tasted place, and will not go up unto them.
10 But if they say thus, Come up unto us; 35 And all they of the le I caine to a wooul; diep we will go up: for the Lord hath de- and there was honey u'
the grouna. livered tnem into our land ; and this skull 26 And when the pople were come into in a sign outc is.
the wnod, behull, the honey dropped ; bus
any food.
L SAMUEL. ao mas put his hand to his mouth : for the 42 And Saul said, Cast lots between me aho people feared the oath.
Jonathan my son. Aud Jonathan was take27 But Jonathan heard not when his father 43 Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell 17. charged the people with the oath :: where- what thou hast done. And Jonathan told fore he put forth the end of the rod that was him, and said, I did but taste a little honey in his hand, and dipped it in an honey-comb, with the end of the rod that was in miue and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes hand, and, lo, I must die. were enlightened.
41 And Sau.answered, God do so and more 2.3 Then answered one of the people, and also : for thou shalt surely die, Jonathan. said, Thy father straitly charged the people 45 And the people said unto Saul, Sha!! with an oathi
, saying, Cursed be the man that Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great Cateth any food this day. And the people salvation in Israe!? God forbid: as the LORD were faini.
liveth, there shall not one hair of his head 29 Then said Jonathan, My father hath fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with roubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine God this day. So the people rescued Jonaeyes have been enlightened, because I tasted than, that he died not. a little of this honey;
46 Then Saul went up from following the 30 How much more, if haply the people Philistines; and the Philistines went to their had eaten freeiy to-day of the spoil of their own place. enemies which they found ? for bad there not 47'So Saul took the kingdom over Israrl, been sow a much greater siaughter among and fought against all his enemies on every the Philistines ?
side, against Moab, and against the children 31 | And they smote the Philistines that day of Ammon, and against Edum, and against from Miclimash lo Ajalon: and the people the kings of Zobali, and against the Philiswere very faint:
tives ; and whithersoever le turned himself, 32 And the people flew upon the spoil, and he vexed them. took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew 48 And he gathered an host, and smote the them on the ground : and the people did eat Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the them with the blood.
hands of them that spoiled them. 33 1 Then they told Saul, saying, Beheld, 19 9 Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, the people sin against the Lord, in that they and Ishui, and Melchi-shua: and the nama eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have trans- of his two daughters were these; the naine gressed: roll a great stone unto me this day. or the first-horn Merab, and the pame of the
31 And Saul said, Disperse yourselves younger Michal: among
thie people, and say unto them, Bring 50 And the name of Saul's wife ras Alime hitler every man his ox, and every mannoam, the daughter of Ahimaaz; and the his sheep, and stay them here, and eai ; and name of the captain of his lost, was Abuer, sin not against the Lorn in eating with the the son of Ner, Saul's uncle : blood. And all the people brought every 51 And Kish nous the later of Saul; and man his ox with him that night, and slew Ner, the father of Abner. was the son of Abiel them there.
52. And there was sore war against the Phi33 % And Saul huilt an altar unto the Lord; listines all the days of Saul; and when Saul the same was the first allar that he built un- saw any strong man, or any valiant man, le to the LORD.
look him unto hin, 36 9 And Saul said, Let us go ciown after
CHAP. XV. ene Philistines day night, and spoil them wil SATEL also said unto Saul The Lord the inorning-, let us not leave a man sent me to anoint thee to over his of them. And they said, !o whatsoever people, over Israel : now therefore bearien seemeth good unto thee. Then said the thou unto the voice of the words of the LURD). priest, Let us drax near hither unto God, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Irenent
37 And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall bei thut which Amalek did to Israe; how ne I go down after the Philistines ? wilt thou iaid rail for him in the way, wlica le came deliver them into the hand of Israel? But le up from Egypt. auswered him not that day.
3 Now go and smile Amalek, and utter :33 1 Aud Saul said, Draw ye near hither destioy all that they bave, and spare the all the chief of the people; and know and see not ; bui slay beti'man and woman, iwar wherein this sin baru been this day : and suckling, ox and sheep, camel aud as
33 For, as the Lori liveth, wliich saveth 4 And Saul gathered the people together Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he and numbered them in Telaim, iwo hundre sball surely die. But there uus uot a man thousand footinen, and ten thousand men among all the people that answered him. Judab.
10 Then said lie into all Israel, Be ye on 5 and Saul came to a city of Amalek, and one side, and I and Jonathan my sun will be laid wait in the valley. on the other side. And the people said unto 69 And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, Saul, Do what seemeth good unto thee. depart, get you down from among the Ama
* Therefore Saui saidmuto the Lord God lekites, lest I destroy you with them : fur ye si Israel, Give a perfecutot And Sauland Jo- sliewed himness io ali the children of tsrael alihan were taken: but the people escaped. when they came up out of i gypt. 30 ch
Kenites departed from among the Amalekires. 24 1 And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sili.
7 1 And Saul sinote the Amalekites from neu: for I have transgressed the commandHavilalı until thou comest tu Shur, that is ment of the Lord, and thy words ; because over against Egypt.
I feared the people, and obeyed their voice. & And lie took Agag the king of the Ama- 23 Now therefore, ! pray thee, pardon my lekites alive, and utierly desiroyed all the sin, and turn again with me, tisat I may worpeople with the edge of the sword.
ship the Lord. y Bul Saul and the people spared Agag, 26 And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, return with tliee: for thou hast rejected the and of the fallings, and the lambs, and all word of the Lord, and the Lord batlı reject. that was good, aad would not utterly destroyed thee from being king over Israel. them : but every thing that was vile and re- 25 And as Samuel turned about to go a. fuse, that they destroyed uterly:
way, he laid hold upon the skirt of his inan 10 1 Ther came lie word of the Lori un-le, and it rent. to Samuel, saying,
28 And Samuel said unto him, The LORD 11 It reperieth me that I have set np Saul hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee Lo be king: for he is turned back from follow- this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of ing me, and hath not performed iny com- thine, that is better inan thout. mandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he 29. And also the Strength of Israel will cried unto the Lord all night.
not lie nor repent: for lie is not a man, that 12 5 And when Samuel rose early to meet he should repent. Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, say- 30 Then he said, I have sinned ; yet honour ing, Saul came to i'armel, and, beluid, be me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my set lim up a place, and is gone about, and people, and before Israel, and turu again with passed on, and gone down to Gilgal. me, that I may worship ihe LORD thy God.
13 And Samuelcameto Saul: and Saul said 31 So Samue turned again after Saul; and anto hini, Blessed be thou of the LORD; llave Saul worshipped the LORD. performed the cominandment of the Lord. 32 1 Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to
14 And Samuel said, What meanelh then me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And this bleat:sg of the shieep in mine cars, and Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag the lowing of the oxen which I hear? said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.
15 And Saul said, They have brought them 33 And Samuel said, As thy sword liath from the Amalekiles: for the people spared made women childless, so shall thy mother be the best of the slieep and of the oxen to sacri-childless among women. And Sámuel hewfice unto the Lord thy God; and the rest weed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal. bave utteriy destroyed.
31 Ilien Samuel went to Rainah : and 16 Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and Saul went up to hiz house to Gibeah of Saul. I will tell thee wliat the LORD hath said to me 35 And Samuel caine no inore to see Saul this night. And he said unto him, Say on. until the day of his deaths; nevertheless Sa.
17 And Samuel said, When thou wast little mue! mourned for Saul: and the Lord repenin ubine own sight, wast thicu pot made the ted that he bad made Saul king over Israel. head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD
CHAP. XVI. anointed thee king over Israel? 18 And the Loru sent thee on a journey, A ople Logo) said unto Samuel, How
long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing ! and said, Go and utterly destroy ile sinners have rejected him from reigning over Israel ? the Amalekiles, and figlie against them until Fili thine born with oil, and go, I will send they be consumed.
thee to Jesse the Beth-lehemile: for I have 19 Wherefore then didst thou not obey the provided me a king among bis sons. yoice of the Lorn, but didst Ay upon the 2 And Samuel said, How can I go? If spoil
, and didst evil in the siglic of the LORD: Saul hear it, he will kill me. And the LORD 20' And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have said, Take an heiler with thee, and say, I am obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone come to sacrifice to the Lord. the way which the Lorp seni ine, and have 3 And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have shew thee what thou shalt do; and thou shalt utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
anoint unto me him whom I name unto thee 21 But the people look of the spoi', sheep 4 And Samuel did that which the LORD and oxen, the chici of the things whiirin should spake, and came to Beth-lehem; and the el. have been uiterly destroyed, io sacrifice unto ders of the town trembled at his coming, and the LORD thy God in Gilgal.
said, Comest thou peaceably? 2 And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as 5 And he said, Peaceably : ! am come to great deligat in burnt-offerings and sacrifices sacrifice unto the LORD; sanctify yourselves, as in obeying the voice of the Lorn? Behold, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he to obey is beter than sacrifice, and to hearken sanctified Jesso and his sons, and called thens than the fat of rams.
to the sacrifice. 93 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft,and 6 And it came to pass, when they were stubbornness is as iniquity and idolairy. Be- come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, cause thou hast rejected llie word of the Lorn), Surely the Lord's anointed is before him. he hath also rejected thee from being king. I 7 But the LORD said unto Sainuel, Luois
not on his countenance, or on the height of
CHAP. XVI!. bis ztature, because I have refused som for NO de Philistings
, gathered to the the LORD as man ; for inan their armies to battlegathered jooketh on the outward appearance, but the together at Shocnoh, which belongeth to Ju Lorp looketh on the beari.
, and pitclied belveen Shochoh and sze. 8 Then Jesse called Abinadah, and made kabı, in Eplies-duninim. kim pass before Samuel. And he said, Nei- And Saul and the men of Israel were ther hath the LORD chosen this.
gathered together, and pitched by the val9 Then Jesse made Sbammal to pass by. ley of Elah, and set the battle in ariay against And he said, Neither hala the Lorv chosen tie Philistines, this.
3 And the Philistines stood on a mountain 10 Again, Jesse made seven of liis sons to on the one side, and Israel stood on a mourpass belore Samuel. And Samuel said unto tain on the other side: and there was a vakay Jesse, The Lord latlı not chosen these. between them.
11 5 And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here 4 1 And there went out a champion out of all thy children? And he said, There remain- the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of eth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. die sleep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Senu 5 And he had an leimel of brass tipon liis aud felch him: for we will not sil down till head; and he was armed with a coat of inail; he cojne hither.
and the weight of the coat was five thousand 12 And be sent and brought him in. Now shekels of brass : ine wus ruddy, and withal of a beautiful 6 And he had greaves of brass upon hisings, countenance, and goodly to look to. And and a target of brass between lois shoulders: die LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this 7 And he staff of hisspear ias like a wea. is he.
ver's beam; and his spear's head weighed sig 13 Then Samuel took the born of oil, and hundred sliekels of iron: and one bearing a anointed him in the midst of his brethren : shield went before himn. and the S;irit of the LORD came upon David 8 And he stood and cried into the armies of fron that day forward. So Samuel rose up Israel, and said unto them, Why are ye come and went to Rauna'.
out to set your battle in array: Am not I a 14 ! But the Spirit of the LORD departed Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD a man for you, and let him come down to me. troubled liin.
9 If he be able to fight willi me, and to kil 15 And Saul's servants said unto him, Be- me, then will we be your servants : but it' ho!d now, an evil spirit from God troubleth prevail against him, and kill him, then sal thee:
ye be our servants, and serve us. 16 Let our lord now command thy servants, 10 And the Philistine said, I defy the ar which are belore thee, to seek out a man who mies of Israel this day; give me a man, tas is a conuing player on an harp: and it shall we may fight together. come to pass, when the evil spirit from God 11 When Saul and all Israel licard those is upon thee, that lie shall play with his band, words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and thou shall be well.
and greatly afraid. 17 And Sau' said unto his servants, Provide 12°Now David was the son of that Ephranic now a man that can play well, and bring thite of Beth-leiein-judatı, whose name was him to me.
Jesse; and he had eigla sons : and the mar 18 Then answered one of the servants, and went amung men for an old man in the day: said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the of Saul. Eetb-leliemite, that is cunning in playing and 13 And the thires eldest sons of Jesse wen u mighty valiant mau, and a man of war, and and followed Saul to the battle: and the name prudent in maiters, and a coinely person, and of liis iliree sons that went to the battie xen iae Lord is with him.
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now for thy brethren an ephan vi this parch 22 And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let Da- ed corn, and these ten loaves, and run w the vid, ! pray thee, stan: before me, for lie hull camp to thy brethren. Tuund javour in my siglit.
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21 For Israel and the Philistines had put inour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his the battle in array, arıny against army. head; also he armed him with a coat of mail,
42 And David left his carriage in the hard 39 And l'avid girded liis sword upon his of the keeper of the carriage and ran into the armour, and he assaved to go ; for be liad vol army, and came and saluted his brethren. proved it. And David said unto Sanl, I can.
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24 And all the men of Israel, when they saw bad, even in a scrip; and liis sling was iv his the man, Aed from bim, and were sore afraid. hand: and he drew near to the Philistine.
25 And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen 41 And the Philistine came on, and drew this man that is come up ? surely to de!ý Israel near unto David; and the man that bare s he come up: and it shall be, that the man the shield went before him.
! who killeth him, the ki:'g will enrich him with 42 And when the Philistine looked about and great riches, and will give him luis daughter, saw David, he disdained him; for he was but and make his father's house free in Israel. a youth, and ruddy, andor'a fair countevance.
26 And David spake to the men that stood 43 and the Philistine said unto David, Am by him, saving, What shall be done to the I a dog, that thou comest to me will saves ? man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh and the Philistine cursed David by liis gods. away the reproach from Israel? for who is 44 And the Philistine said to David, Come this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls defy the armies of the living God?
of the air, and to the beasts of the field. 27 And the people answered him after this 45 Then said David to the Philistine, Thiou manner, saying, So shall it be done to the comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, man that killeth lim.
and with a shield; but I coine to thee in the 28 9 And Eliab his eldest brotlier heard name of the Lorn of hosts, the God of the when he spake unto the men: and Eliab's armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. anger was kindled against David, and he said, 46 This day will the LORD deliver thee Why cainest thou down hither? and with into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and whom last thou left those few sheep in the take thine liead from thee: and I will give wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naugh- the carcases of the host of the Philistines this tiness of thine lieart; for thou art come down day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild that thou miglitest see the battle.
beasts of the earth; that all the eart! may 29 And David said, What have I now know that there is a God in Israel. done? Is there not a cause."
47 And all this assembly shall know that 30 I And be turned from him toward the Lord saveth not witli sword and spear: another, and spake after the same manner: for the battle is the Lord's, and lie will and the people answered him again after the give you into our hands. former inanner.
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the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone 33 And Saul said to David, Thou art not sunk into luis forehead; and lie fell upon his able to go against this Philistine to fight with face to the earth. hiin : for thou art biu a youth, and le a man 50 So David prevailed over the Philistine of war froin his youth.
with a sling and with a stone, and smote the 31 And David said unto Saul, Thy servant Philistine, and slew him ; but there was no kept liis father's sheep, and there caine a lion sword in the land of David : and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock. 51 Therefore David ran, and stood upon
35 And I went out after him, and smote the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew bim, and delivered it out of his inouth ; aud it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and when he arose against me, I cangiit him by cut off his head therewith. And when the his beard, and smote him, and slew him. Philistines saw their champion was dead,
36 Thy servant slew both the lion and the they fed. bear; and this uncircuincised Philistine sliall 52 1 And the men of Israel and of Judah he as one of them, seeing he bath defied the arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philis. armies of the living God.
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NHL Rumor Mill – March 4, 2021
NHL Rumor Mill – March 4, 2021
Should the Bruins pursue Jack Eichel or revisit their interest in Oliver Ekman-Larsson? Will the Penguins add some toughness before the trade deadline? Find out in today's NHL rumor mill.
NBC SPORTS BOSTON: Nick Goss believes the Bruins should be among the first team to contact the Buffalo Sabres if Jack Eichel decides he wants out or if they decide to move him in order to stockpile assets for their ongoing rebuild. However, the Bruins should say no if the asking price is David Pastrnak or Charlie McAvoy.
SPECTOR'S NOTE: With Patrice Bergeron aging and the possible departure this summer of David Krejci via free agency, Eichel would be a great fit with the Bruins. However, I don't believe they can come up with a suitable trade package to pry him away from the Sabres if they're unwilling (as they should be) to part with Pastrnak or McAvoy.
BOSTON HOCKEY NOW: Jimmy Murphy noted the Bruins' need for an experienced left-shot defenseman. He suggested Bruins general manager Don Sweeney should revisit his offseason trade discussions with the Arizona Coyotes regarding blueliner Oliver Ekman-Larsson. The Coyotes captain was willing to waive his no-movement clause for the Bruins or Vancouver Canucks but a trade failed to materialize by his self-imposed Oct. 9 deadline.
SPECTOR'S NOTE: Ekman-Larsson's agent was emphatic his client wasn't going anywhere after that deadline passed. Maybe the Bruins could revisit those discussions in the offseason. With the Coyotes jockeying for a playoff spot in the Honda West division they're probably not thinking of becoming sellers right now.
NBC SPORTS BOSTON: DJ Bean wonders if the Bruins should go for it this season and fill in the cracks in their roster to improve their chances for a deep playoff run. He points out their roster could have a different look next season if Tuukka Rask and David Krejci depart via free agency this summer.
If the Bruins decide to go for it they'll need to at least add a top scorer on Krejci's line. They have $3.62 million in salary-cap space. They could be unwilling to part with their 2021 first-round pick and their prospect pool is unimpressive. Bean suggests inconsistent winger Jake DeBrusk could be an interesting trade candidate, though there is the risk that he could blossom on another club.
Bean also noted the Bruins could use an experience left-side defenseman, pointing out Nashville Predators blueliner Mattias Ekholm could be available.
THE ATHLETIC: Fluto Shinzawa reports one NHL assistant general manager claims the Bruins haven't made DeBrusk available. Another NHL source, however, can see the 24-year-old winger being moved.
Shinzawa points to DeBrusk being bounced around the lineup and a five-game stretch sidelined by a lower-body injury as factors affecting his disappointing performance this season. He feels the Bruins should get back a like-minded forward or a left-shot defenseman if they decide to put DeBrusk on the block.
SPECTOR'S NOTE: DeBrusk has been a fixture in the rumor mill since the offseason but Sweeney has stuck with him. The Bruins GM might be able to bring in a decent second-line rental player by the trade deadline without having to part with DeBrusk to do so. Finding a top scorer for Krejci's line or an established top-four left-side rearguard, however, could be difficult without giving up something worthwhile in return.
PITTSBURGH HOCKEY NOW: Dan Kingerski cites Penguins director of hockey operations Brian Burke hinting his club could make a move or two before the April 12 trade deadline. "That's the goal, to see if we can add this year. See how far we can get with this group. Yes, the team is getting older. The stars are getting older. But since I've been here, they've all been excellent," said Burke.
Penguins GM Ron Hextall last Saturday admitted he'd like to add some toughness after Washington Capitals winger Tom Wilson injured Pens forward Mark Jankowski with a hit during a recent game. Hextall said his club would look into it if a suitable player could be found but there aren't many available around the league.
Kingerski listed Ottawa's Austin Watson, Anaheim's Nicolas Deslauriers and Detroit's Luke Glendening as three options that could address that need.
SPECTOR'S NOTE: We know Burke likes an element of truculence on his rosters. Acquiring one of those players listed by Kingerski shouldn't cost very much provided they're available.


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Demonstrators in Iraq Demand That U.S. Leave
BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 9 - Tens of thousands of Iraqis marked the second anniversary of the fall of Saddam Hussein by marching here in the capital on Saturday to demand the withdrawal of American forces. Meanwhile, one of the most lethal insurgent groups warned Iraqis against joining the army or the police force.
Most protesters were followers of Moktada al-Sadr, the rebel Shiite cleric who has led several armed uprisings against American forces but who has recently begun to take part in democratic politics.
The demonstrators gathered at Firdos Square in central Baghdad, where American troops and Iraqis pulled down a huge statue of Mr. Hussein on April 9, 2003, in a moment captured on television cameras and seen around the world. A year ago, the square was sealed off by American soldiers as Mr. Sadr's guerrillas rose up across the country.
Despite the symbolism of the day, the rest of Baghdad was mostly quiet. The demonstration was peaceful, and far fewer people took part than the one million Mr. Sadr's aides had predicted. Representatives of the Association of Muslim Scholars, a leading group of Sunni clerics that has expressed sympathy for the guerrilla insurgency, said its followers had taken part in the march.
The marchers echoed the demands by Mr. Sadr and the Sunni clerics: a timetable for the withdrawal of American forces and the release of Iraqi detainees from American-supervised prisons. Banners held aloft during the march also called for a rapid trial for Mr. Hussein and the elevation of Islam as the official religion of Iraq. One of the main chants of the morning, echoed by thousands, was: "No America, no Saddam! Yes to Islam!"
Demonstrators held up large photographs of Mr. Hussein that were taken after his capture, showing the former dictator looking shaggy and old. The marchers also burned large photos of President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain.
"We are asking that the occupier leave our country," said Amer Shihab, a university student who had come from Kut in southern Iraq. "Iraq now has enough competent forces to maintain security by itself."
The demonstration illustrated the ability of Mr. Sadr to mobilize his followers peacefully and capitalize on resentment here caused by the presence of more than 150,000 foreign troops. Thousands of demonstrators traveled by bus from southern cities and stayed overnight in the homes of their allies in Sadr City, the impoverished district that is named for Mr. Sadr's father, a revered Shiite cleric believed to have been killed on Mr. Hussein's orders. The district forms the heart of the son's support.
Last year, Mr. Sadr's armed followers, called the Mahdi Army, were routed by American forces after they rose up in cities across the south. The mauling of his army is believed to be one of the chief factors behind Mr. Sadr's entry into the political mainstream. He now commands one of the largest blocs in the Shiite alliance that makes up the government.
Still, the principal leaders in the Shiite alliance have publicly said that they want American forces to stay. Mr. Sadr's demonstration on Saturday seemed calculated to show others in the Shiite alliance, not the Americans, how strong he was.
Mr. Sadr, who is wanted in connection with the killing of a rival cleric in 2003, was not seen at the rally. He has been in hiding since August, when American forces entered Najaf to fight his militia after it had seized control of the Imam Ali Shrine, one of holiest sites in Shiite Islam.
Other disaffected groups used the occasion on Saturday to denounce the American military presence in Iraq. One was the Iraqi Islamic Party, a predominantly Sunni Muslim party that decided to boycott the elections on Jan. 30 after being threatened by the insurgents. Since then, the party has flirted with taking part in the political process, but has not done so.
In a statement, the Islamic Party blamed the United States for the chaos and destruction that followed the collapse of Mr. Hussein's rule. Since then, the statement said, the presence of American forces has brought only misery to the country. "The 9th of April is a day in which one tyrant fell so that another occupying tyrant could take his place," it said.
Although Sunni Arabs make up only about 20 percent of Iraq's population, they dominated the country for hundreds of years. When the Americans toppled Mr. Hussein, many Sunnis saw themselves as losers, and on Jan. 30, few went to the polls.
Despite the harsh talk, several prominent Sunni groups have recently indicated a willingness to consider taking part in the democratic process. That, in turn, has created anxiety among hard-line groups that want to continue fighting the Americans.
Last week, 64 Sunni clerics issued a fatwa, or holy writ, encouraging Iraqi Sunnis to join the police and armed forces.
The statement represented a significant break with the past; Iraqi police officers and soldiers have been among the prime targets of the Sunni-dominated insurgency.
On Saturday, insurgent sympathizers passed out leaflets at mosques in Mosul, a Sunni-majority city, threatening Sunnis if they joined the police and armed forces.
The leaflets were labeled "Al Qaeda of Mesopotamia," the group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian militant who has pledged support to Al Qaeda and is believed responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Iraqi civilians.
"Sunnis must ban their sons from collaborating with the infidel crusaders," the leaflet read. "Allowing Sunnis to join the tyrannical army would make jihad lose its meaning."
In Baghdad, officials at Yarmouk Hospital reported that 40 bullet-riddled bodies had been brought there from Yusufiya, a town south of Baghdad known as a haven for insurgents.
Also in Baghdad, an aide to Mr. Sadr, Fadhel Abdul-Zahra al-Musawi, was fatally shot Friday night while he drove a car in Dawra, a neighborhood in southern Baghdad. In Mosul, a car bomb killed two Iraqi policemen and a woman working for the agricultural department there.


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Samuel Clements (Mark Twain) once told an interviewer that he had once had a twin brother, but the two were in the bath tub together when one of them drowned. His parents couldn't tell them apart, so they decided that Sam must have been the one who survived, but to that day Samuel was never sure if he was Sam, or Sam's twin.
Who are you?
If you had to prove who you are, and you didn't have any ID, what would you say? If someone else claimed to be you, how would you prove that they were the imposter and not you? Can you count on your friends? I don't have any, but even if I did, they wouldn't truly know me. See, we each behave in different ways depending on who we're with and the context of the gathering. Your friends (remember, I don't have any) are used to the YOU that they interact with, but that isn't the same YOU that your spouse, or your child, or your boss, or anyone else in your sphere of acquaintances knows. So, if you're not acting the way they expect, would they know it was you?
Most of us don't even know ourselves that well. There are things that we choose to believe about ourselves that aren't necessarily true, but that WE need to get us through life – the narrative that we count on. But the narrative I'm living isn't the same one you are, and who REALLY knows which one is true?
And then there's memories – we'll just take a mind-dump of the two people and see which one has the right memories. But memories aren't etched in stone – they're poured into our gray matter, and are as malleable. You and I can be in the exact same place, experience the same event, and each have different memories of it – and that's before we start remaking the memory (which happens each time we try to recall it.)
In the end, how do you know what reality really is? And whether you're really you?
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A petty criminal crosses the wrong fat man, and is offered the opportunity to change his path; or, he could just "Sleep with the Snowmen."
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Development of a three-dimensional anthropometry system for human body composition assessment
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The prevalence of obesity has made it necessary to develop a convenient, reliable and safe tool for timely assessing and monitoring this condition in public health. We suggest that three-dimensional (3D) anthropometry can provide a convenient, accommodating and comprehensive means to body composition assessment. A 3D anthropometry system based on stereo vision technology is developed. To make it more portable and affordable, the system is reduced to a two-stance design and only uses off-the-shelf components. The system is calibrated in two separate stages: camera calibration and 3D registration. The first stage is relatively complicated, but there is no need to repeat frequently. Therefore, only 3D registration is required when the system is transported. This property contributes to the portability and also reduces cost of maintenance. In this system, image acquisition can be completed in 200 ms, which is important in reducing artifacts caused by slight body movement. However, the computation in stereo vision is complex and intensive, and is still a challenge. A two-phase stereo matching algorithm is developed. In the first phase, the foreground is accurately segmented with the help of a predefined virtual interface, and a coarse disparity map is generated with block matching. In the second phase, local least squares matching is performed in combination with global optimization within a regularization framework, so as to ensure both accuracy and reliability. To make the 3D data more interpretable and manageable, it is essential to convert the raw 3D data to a surface model. For our system, a unique challenge is that there are large gaps in the data caused by occlusions. An effective surface reconstruction algorithm based on subdivision surface representation is developed. It has been verified that the algorithm is reliable in gap closing, accurate in representation, and efficient in data compression. To make the 3D anthropometry system ready for practical use, a body measurement system dedicated to body composition assessment is developed based on an earlier system that was designed for applications in apparel fitting. The functions of 3D measurement are enhanced by taking advantage of modern graphics hardware. The overall performance of the presented system has been evaluated on mannequins and human subjects. It has been shown that the measurements are highly repeatable. The feasibility of 3D anthropometry in body fat assessment has been demonstrated in comparison to air displacement plethysmography and bioimpedance analysis.


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Nino Chikhladze has been holding the position of GYLA Administrative Director since February 2021. Nino has been working for the Georgian Young Lawyers' Association since 2005 and is leading various projects in the field of equality issues. At the same time, Nino was a member of GYLA's fundraising team. During her period of office, GYLA has obtained numerous financing. She actively cooperates with various private, public, local or international organizations.
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From the article: "That Ave's homes in Tehran, Paris and on a charming Greek island are. Edgy glamour doesn't come close to defining the breadth of what he has inside each or their particular mix of items. There's a funky but orderly clutter of items displayed with utmost care and reverence so as to give an air of majestic refinement. Ave exalts each object in his space."
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The Combined Authority is rolling out the next phase of the NTCA's Digital Growth and Innovation Programme with a call for 'Expressions of Interest' covering a range of interventions designed to support the growth of digital businesses.
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-Support for start-up and early-stage digital/tech businesses;
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Self trying her best to push all negativity out of her mind. She's in the kitchen, sipping tea, listening to her brother talk in his slow, sonorous way to a hapless secretary who is in some sort of muddle about his return ticket to Manila. In the usual complicated way of self's family (where nothing is straightforward, and everyone goes flapping around like chickens without heads), self's brother and nephew are returning to Manila the same day as self, though a few hours later (So we cannot share a taxi: this self discovered after timidly asking — after all, it would save them both 130 shekels, but brother gave her such a look of open-mouthed amazement that the utterance died away in her mouth almost as soon as she had uttered it). In the meantime, self's Dearest Mum, Ying's baby daughter, and the baby's yaya are arriving on April 2 and will stay the rest of the month of April.
In addition, on April 1, we are losing this apartment. So brother has been running all over Tel Aviv the last few days, hunting for a place that is "nice" and "suitable" to house Dearest Mum. This morning, self suggested she move out, to ease the congestion (brother had been hinting, none too subtly, that she do so, the last few days), and brother acquiesced with alacrity. So self went on the internet and found a very cheap hotel in Old Jaffa. When she showed the hotel website to her brother, and asked if he thought it would be safe (The website said the hotel was perfect for the budget traveler who was not bothered by noise and who didn't mind being next to the flea market), brother said impatiently that the hotel looked fine. He, however, had found a nice apartment for Dearest Mum, a place where she would "feel good" about staying, and not be frightened (Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! And would the elimination of one person — self — make so much difference to the "crowding" he is so afraid of subjecting Dearest Mum to ???)
This morning, the minute Dear Bro left the apartment (leaving nephew behind, for the fourth day in a row, so that the poor kid became cranky and cried), self cracked her brains how to entertain the poor child and decided on a walk on the beach. This fabled beachfront had been invisible to self since her arrival, last Sunday, though brother was simply amazed that self had not picked herself up and walked there, scoffing, "It's only two blocks away!" Forgetting, of course, that self visits Ying everyday, walks to the hospital and back (five miles each way) to save on taxi fare, plays games with his son, keeps the child company when he is afraid/ bored/ cranky/ tired and what-have-you. And the child is so weepy! As is understandable, when his mother is so sick. But being with her nephew round-the-clock makes self long exceedingly for son, who is such an angel of intuition that he knows when she is thinking/ writing and holds his tongue, and only opens his mouth when he senses his mother has returned to earth. (Son, self promises, I'll take you here one day. I will)
So here's what happened on self's walk with nephew: We looked for a landmark called the Opera Tower, and headed toward it. And the day was gray and blustery, and along the beachfront directly in front of us, a young woman turned her head and we saw she was Filipina. And this comely lass was walking hand in hand with a rather stooped, aged gent in a gray suit. And self counted two McDonald's on the stretch between the Sheraton Moriah and another Sheraton, and in between these somewhat tawdry-looking hotels (putting self in mind of Torremolinos, Spain, circa 1996) was the U. S. Embassy, an edifice of light-colored stone, with very well-muscled guards in dark blue uniforms standing with rifles at the ready, in case anyone should be planning an attack landing on the beach. Nephew asked if self would like to "drop by," after all it was her embassy. Self said she wasn't feeling inclined to do so at the moment.
Nephew got tired very quickly, and insisted that they return to the apartment. And self was going brain-dead with his non-stop prattling, so she agreed. And as soon as they were back, self sought relief by again picking up the Barbara Mann book, A Place in History, and on p. 177 she found this poem commemmorating a woman's arrival in Palestine:
"Tel Aviv, 1935"
by Leah Goldberg
The masts on the housetop then, were
like the masts of Columbus' ships, and
every raven that perched on their tips
announced a different shore.
And the kit-bags of the travelers
walked down the streets, and the
language of an alien land was plunged
into the hamsin-days like the blade of
a cold knife.
How could the air of a small city
support so many childhood memories,
loves that were shed, that were stripped
Like pictures turning black inside a
camera, they all turned inside out: pure
winter nights, rainy summer nights of
overseas, and shadowy mornings of
great cities.
And the sound of steps behind your
back drummed marching songs of
foreign troops; and — so it seemed — if
you but turn your head, there's your
town's church floating in the sea.


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Qatar Must Use Gulf Crisis To Reform Record on Migrant Rights
The Gulf crisis that erupted in early June, with Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain announcing an immediate restriction of relations with Qatar, more recently has turned into a very public war of words, with political arguments being played out through satellite TV channels and newspaper opinion pages.
The restrictions imposed have seen families from across the Gulf separated, students thrown off courses and governments ordering their citizens to return home. The measures have drawn widespread censure for violating people's rights from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.
But one of the most striking shifts generated by the crisis is the sudden interest governments and institutions from across the region have developed in the welfare of migrant workers in Qatar.
For years, NGOs and trade unions have been almost lone voices in highlighting the plight of workers in Qatar as preparations for the 2022 World Cup take shape. Now, as Qatar's neighbors seek fresh angles with which to target their political adversary, migrant workers' rights has emerged as a particularly promising avenue.
"Qatar 'still silent' on British man's death while working on World Cup stadium," ran the headline of an article published by Al Arabiya, the UAE-based and Saudi-owned satellite channel, in June. Bahrain's news agency, meanwhile, was quick to report that Qatar had canceled "all workers' annual leave" in July, and a briefing on the 2022 World Cup by the U.S.-based Saudi American Public Relations Affairs Committee highlighted "Qatar's 'modern-day slavery' of construction workers."
The hypocrisy of those governments and the media and public relations outfits that cheerlead them is pretty jaw-dropping. This is the same UAE, let's remember, where conditions for migrant workers have been described as "an international scandal" by the International Trade Union Confederation. The same Saudi Arabia that last year saw tens of thousands of unpaid migrant workers stranded in conditions so appalling, the Indian government resorted to flying in food supplies and airlifting workers home as if there had been a natural disaster or a war. And it's the same Bahrain that the U.S. State Department recently reported has made "minimal" efforts to investigate and prosecute hundreds of reported labor violations.
Given that the kafala sponsorship system exists, with varying levels of harshness, in each Gulf state, Qatar is hardly unique in treating workers poorly. During the current crisis there are real fears for migrant workers stranded in Saudi Arabia and separated from their Qatari employers as a result of Saudi Arabia's decision to close the country's border without notice.
But the trouble for Qatar is that while criticisms aimed at it by its neighbors may be dripping with double standards, they are not fundamentally "fake news."
Forced labor is rife among migrant workers in Qatar. The government has made no serious moves to investigate and address the large number of unexplained deaths among the young, mostly South Asian, men who are building the country's infrastructure.
And since the Gulf political crisis blew up, there have been credible reports of foreign workers on some oil and gas projects in Qatar being denied the exit permits they need from their employers to leave the country. There are also serious concerns about how rises in food prices and the uncertain economic situation generated by the crisis will affect migrants.
Instead of seizing the opportunity that the increased scrutiny the World Cup has brought and vigorously reforming its version of the notorious kafala employment system, Qatar has put its energies into a public relations effort aimed at rebranding the same old system—falsely claiming in December last year that kafala and the exit permit had been abolished.
This sluggish, defensive response of the government to legitimate criticism over migrant rights is a gift to Qatar's rivals, allowing them to politicize and exploit the very real suffering of migrant workers for their own means.
In his first public address since the crisis began, the Emir of Qatar thanked the country's non-Qatari residents for their solidarity and acknowledged their contributions. The best way he could demonstrate this gratitude is by finally respecting their rights.
There are some indications, judging by the UAE state news agency's reporting, that Qatar's rivals may choose to target Qatar at the International Labour Organization (ILO), which in November will consider whether to open a Commission of Inquiry into Qatar's failure to effectively address forced labor. Such a move would be a huge blow to Qatar's claims to the world that it is addressing the human rights of migrant workers.
The eyes of the world are on Qatar. The opportunity for the government is obvious, if it wants to prove its critics wrong:
Seek support from the ILO to agree a genuine and bold package of labor reforms, including really overhauling the kafala system so that migrants can no longer be trapped by their employers. Launch a transparent investigation into the causes of worker deaths, and put in place measures to address them. And ensure that in the current political crisis, the rights of migrant workers are protected with the same vigor and intensity as those of Gulf citizens.
If the government takes the other path, of continuing to promote hollow reforms, then migrant labor abuse will be the gift that keeps on giving for Qatar's political opponents.
James Lynch is deputy head of global issues at Amnesty International.


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Wolley and Wallis
A SMALL country auction house is not where people would normally go to sell a rare piece of Chinese art such as the handsome 18th-century beast known as the Pelham Water Buffalo. The animal had been carved from a single lump of spinach-green jade on the orders of the grandest of the Qing-dynasty emperors, Qianlong (who reigned from 1736 to 1795), and sits on a gilded stand bearing the four-character mark of Qianlong's reign. Lady Diana Miller had inherited the work from her father, Sackville Pelham, 5th Earl of Yarborough, an English aristocrat who bought it in 1938 from a well-known London dealer. The earl paid £300 for the piece, then a princely sum. To ensure its safety during the second world war, the buffalo was wrapped in newspaper, put into a wooden box marked "porcelain" and deposited in a bank vault. There it lay for the next 65 years.
When Lady Diana at last opened up the box she sent the buffalo, still in its original newspaper wrapping, to Woolley & Wallis, a family auctioneer in Salisbury. The firm had previously sold some family silver for her and she trusted it. Most of all she liked the young specialist, John Axford, and his plan for marketing her Chinese heirloom. He told her he would exhibit it at Hazlitt Gooden & Fox, a London gallery close to Christie's, during the spring season of Asian auctions in London, and also market it online to potential buyers in the Far East.
A look at the visitors' book for the Hazlitt showing proves that Mr Axford had the right instincts. Among the 100-odd people who came to see the buffalo were some of the biggest names in Asian art: Nicolas Chow, Sotheby's principal Chinese specialist, who is based in Hong Kong; Richard Littleton and Giuseppe Eskenazi, both leading dealers in Asian art, with nearly a century's experience between them; and Bruno Eberli, a Swiss-born foreign-exchange dealer who lives in New York and is one of the keenest buyers of Chinese and Japanese treasures.
There was standing room only at the sale in May this year. So many buyers had registered to bid by telephone that the auction house ran out of phone lines and Mr Axford had to field one bidder on his personal mobile. The catalogue, which featured the buffalo on the cover, offered no estimate of the price it was expected to fetch; only a coy "refer department", which usually means the auctioneer has no idea what a piece might fetch but hopes that it will be a lot. Bidding would open at £150,000. Mr Axford thought it might reach £500,000.
In the event, Daniel Eskenazi, who had travelled down on behalf of his father, the London dealer, saw off a Hong Kong telephone bidder with his offer of £3.4m. The Eskenazis' client was Mr Eberli, who still holds the record for the price paid at auction for an Asian work of art: just over £15.6m for a rare 14th-century blue-and-white porcelain jar bought at Christie's in London four years earlier.
The big surprise that May day was not so much that a provincial British auction house had beaten the previous record for a sale outside London by a huge margin, but that the bidders from Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China-who are now the principal buyers of Chinese treasures-had been outdone by a Westerner. It may not happen again.
Reversing the flow
Collecting Chinese fine art and ceramics was all the rage in the West in the second half of the 19th and the early 20th century. Heavy buying by treasure-hunters, as well as looting of imperial works by the Germans, Dutch, French and British, brought huge quantities of Chinese fine art into Western collections. But in the past decade the number of European and American buyers has dwindled.
Mr Eberli is one of a handful still active at the very top of the market, along with Edward Johnson III, whose father founded Fidelity Investments, and the two elderly Zuellig brothers (one of whom died recently), whose Meiyintang collection in Switzerland is probably the finest Chinese collection in private hands. "When the right piece comes along, they are still ready to fight the fight," says Mr Chow. But most Westerners with an interest in Chinese art and ceramics today tend to be sellers rather than buyers.
From 1949, when the Communist Party defeated the Nationalists, and especially during the Cultural Revolution, from 1966, owning, inheriting or exchanging pre-communist works of art was banned in China. Thanks to shifts in policy that started under Deng Xiaoping and continued after him, the Chinese are now catching up in a big way, following on from the Japanese buyers who dominated the market in the 1970s and the Taiwanese and Hong Kong collectors who started buying seriously in the 1990s.
The mainland Chinese are beginning to dominate the salerooms. Prevented for so long from celebrating the achievements of their forebears, they have a thirst for their own history, and especially for anything that connects modern China with the glories of its imperial past. The newly wealthy-such as Xu Qiming, China's biggest exporter of eels from the port city of Ningbo; Lu Hanzhen, an industrialist from Zhejiang province who became rich by selling motorcycles and nylon fabric for car tyres; or indeed any businessman or civil servant who benefited from the recent flurry of privatisations-can afford to pay, and pay they will.
Nor are these buyers to be found only in the old political and commercial strongholds of Beijing and Shanghai. There are probably seven Chinese cities with populations of more than 5m, and demand for fine art is as strong in Guangdong, adjacent to Hong Kong, as it is in Sichuan in the west or in more far-flung areas. "It's what I call 'natural repatriation'," says Patti Wong, who as chairman of Sotheby's Asia has been watching the Chinese buying wave grow for a decade, "and it is happening everywhere."
Having made their money quickly, Chinese buyers are in a hurry to build their collections fast and are willing to pay a premium to achieve that. "Arriving at the buffet party a little too late," says Mr Chow, "they are more aggressive than Europeans or Americans." Even though economic growth in China this year may be only 8%, after 9% last year, it is still far higher than in most of the rest of the world. China may be one of the few places where the number of dollar billionaires has actually increased in the past year, from 101 to 130, according to the recently published Hurun Rich List.
Deep pockets
Dealers and auctioneers familiar with the Chinese market estimate that there are around 150 collectors in Hong Kong and Taiwan who spend at least $1m a year each on Chinese works of art, and that their number is relatively stable. The mainland has another 150 or so buyers in that category, and the numbers there are growing rapidly. More Chinese treasures are now sold at auction in Hong Kong than in New York, London and Paris. Whereas back in 2004 Sotheby's did $10m-worth of business with 70 clients from the mainland in its spring and autumn sales in Hong Kong, the figure for the same sales this year is seven times higher and its list of mainland Chinese buyers has grown to 195. Many more bid through established dealers in Hong Kong. "Mainland China has clearly become our main land," says Kevin Ching, chief executive of Sotheby's Asia.
In 1886 Paul Durand-Ruel, a Paris dealer, packed his bags with 300 Impressionist paintings-including piles of Renoirs, Pissarros and Sisleys-to take to America. He was closely followed by a Briton, Joseph (later Lord) Duveen, who could see, like Durand-Ruel, that "Europe had the art and America had the money."
The new home market
Just as European Old Master and Impressionist paintings then began to move inexorably westwards across the Atlantic, now Chinese fine art and ceramics from America, Britain, France and the Netherlands are moving eastwards back to China. Not since the heyday of Duveen's and Durand-Ruel's exports to America has there been such vigorous redirecting of cultural artefacts from one part of the world to another as European and American collections are broken up and sold off to the newly wealthy Chinese. The traffic is almost all one way.
Mainland Chinese buyers made a dramatic first entrance in April 1999 when two previously unknown collectors, both entrepreneurs in their mid-30s from Chaozhou in Guangdong province, began to buy fine art and ceramics at auction, reviving the market after the Asian financial crisis two years earlier. They were guided by William Chak, a Hong Kong dealer who has since become a well-known television personality and is one of the leading figures in the Asian art market in Hong Kong. Others followed.
The Chinese buy for themselves, but they also like to present gifts to valued customers or even to the government, which sees repatriating national treasures as an important issue. The authorities have been quietly tightening up on the re-export of repatriated artworks. Chinese buyers used to be able to re-export their treasures for up to two years after they had bought them. That period of grace has now been reduced to six months.
The rat and the rabbit
The sensitivity of the subject was shown up in February this year when the collection built up by the late Yves St Laurent, a French fashion designer, and his partner Pierre Berge was put up for sale. The auction included bronze heads of a rat and a rabbit, two pieces that had been looted from the imperial palace of Yuanmingyuan by French and British soldiers in the opium wars in 1860. The heads, part of a series of 12 figures which dominated a zodiac fountain in the palace garden, had not even been designed by a Chinese artist but by a Jesuit priest from Venice who lived in the imperial capital. All the same, their provenance and history made their sale controversial.
The government let it be known that it did not approve of a public sale of the precious bronze heads in the West and did not want its citizens to take part. Even so, both the winning bidder and several underbidders turned out to be Chinese. One, a London-based businessman, had been planning to present the bronzes to the Chinese government as a gift. The buyer, Cai Mingchao, who secured the two pieces for EURO 31m ($46m), turned out to be an adviser to a Chinese foundation which seeks to retrieve plundered treasures. He announced very publicly soon afterwards that he would not pay up. The heads were quietly returned to Mr Berge. The government has since announced that it wants to catalogue all the pieces looted from Yuanmingyuan, which some believe is the first step in a campaign to reclaim them.
Mainland Chinese taste is influenced more by history and tradition than by aesthetics. For cultural reasons buyers tend to shun anything associated with the dead, so they keep away from tomb pottery and from the Tang horses that used to be rare and expensive but have flooded Western markets over the past 20 years. The Chinese are less interested in the early Song period that has been so alluring to Western collectors, instead favouring highly decorative blue-and-white Ming porcelain. Two lots of Ming ware in a recent sale at Doyle, a small New York auctioneer, were wildly bid up, one of them to over 180 times its high estimate.
Mainland Chinese also appreciate seals, lacquerware, antique rhinoceros horn, archaic bronzes, carved wooden furniture and jade, especially the white sort from Turkestan, carved by the craftsmen of Khotan for the Qing emperors. The imperial association is of crucial importance, especially any link with Qianlong and some of the other emperors of the Qing dynasty.
In Sotheby's sales of Chinese ceramics and fine art in Hong Kong last month 19 of the top 20 lots were bought by Asian collectors, mostly private buyers. American collectors were nowhere to be seen. Only one lot, an intricately carved red lacquer bowl, was secured by a European collector, an Austrian, after furious bidding that took it up to HK$2.7m ($344,000), seven times the top estimate. A hoard of imperial ware, put together by a London dealer, Hugh Moss, and romantically named the Water, Pine and Stone Retreat Collection, proved a particular draw, with yellow jade and a blue-and-white moonflask all making record prices.
But the biggest battle was over a Qianlong-period throne made of precious zitan wood and carved with dragons, which was estimated to fetch HK$20m-30m. After heart-stoppingly tense bidding it was bought by a Shanghai businessman, Liu Yiqian, who owns the Council Auction House in Beijing. He paid just under HK$86m, a world record for a piece of Chinese furniture.
Dealers, dealers everywhere
China's appetite for its own works of art, together with a national flair for commercial speculation, has helped expand the art market all over the country. On the mainland, auction houses were banned until 1992. Ms McAndrew of Arts Economics, who made a particular study of the art business in China last year, estimates that the country now has 50,000 art dealers and more than 2,000 auction houses. The biggest of these are Poly International, a subsidiary of the Chinese army, and China Guardian Auctions, founded by Yannan Wang, the daughter of a former Chinese leader, Zhao Ziyang, who died under house arrest about five years ago.
Foreigners are still forbidden to own auction houses in China, but the Chinese are eager to learn from them. Since 2005 Christie's, the region's leading auctioneer, has had a licensing agreement with Forever International Auction Company in Beijing, which uses the British name and benefits from increased transparency and consumer protection, as well as international standards in training and accounting. Neither of the Western auction giants is yet a household name in the country. Art-market observers speculate that the Chinese might one day acquire a leading Western auctioneer, but that could be some way off.
Still, plenty of other things are happening. Last June, for example, 50 fine-art dealers, a quarter of them from the West, exhibited at the first serious antiques fair in China, in Taiyuan in Shanxi province. It adopted many of the rules of other international fairs, with a vetting committee made up of Western and Chinese experts with the power to order the removal of items believed to be misattributed or fake. A similar, earlier experiment in Hong Kong had descended into chaos when dealers refused to remove fakes from their stands, but in Taiyuan the vetters were given a free hand. And the curious crowds queued to get in, some for hours.
China's new interest in bringing home its works of art has caused fears as well as satisfaction. Many are concerned by the increase in the number of fakes on the market, the best of which are made in Japan as well as China. Rising prices fuel the trade in fakes and also lead to more grave-robbing. In addition, China has become increasingly vocal about restricting the trade in its treasures. After nearly five years of negotiation the Bush administration in its final days at last agreed to prohibit the import of a wide range of antiquities into America. The agreement was not as strong as China would have liked, and in recent weeks its government has said that it will tighten up on the movement of cultural relics out of the country. Its plan is to ban the export of anything made before 1911, the end of the Qing dynasty. No matter that China is now a member of the World Trade Organisation, it still seems to be uncomfortable with free trade-except when it suits it.
This article appeared in the Special report section of the print edition under the headline "Treasures reclaimed"
From the November 28th 2009 edition
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Synagogue Defaced With Antisemitic Graffiti Amid Los Angeles Riots; Security Guards Fend Off Vandals From Second Temple
by Benjamin Kerstein
A synagogue was defaced with antisemitic graffiti in Los Angeles over the weekend as the city faced violent riots and looting following the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer.
Congregation Beth Israel in the Fairfax District of the city was spray-painted with the phrases "F*** Israel" and "Free Palestine," local NBC affiliate Channel 4 reported on Saturday.
It is believed that the vandalism was committed by those currently protesting the killing of the unarmed Floyd.
The Anti-Defamation League's Los Angeles branch commented, "Antisemitism is never ok. The answer to hate and bigotry is not more hate."
Richard S. Hirschhaut, the Los Angeles Regional Director of the American Jewish Committee, said in a statement to the Jewish Journal, "It is deplorable that certain protesters in Los Angeles today resorted to violence and vandalism."
"The epithets scrawled on the synagogue wall do nothing to advance the cause of peace or justice, here or abroad," he added.
He also noted that the targeted synagogue is one of LA's oldest and members of its congregation have been and are Holocaust survivors.
Liora Rez of the group Stop Anti-Semitism said, "Once again we see vile antisemitism being disguised as activism. To vandalize a synagogue during this horrific time does nothing but further divide a broken country."
The Simon Wiesenthal Center said that the graffiti was done under "cover" of the ongoing protests and called it "pure and simple antisemitism."
Anti-Semites use cover of protest in Los Angeles over death of George Floyd to attack synagogue and denigrate Jewish state. Pure and simple anti-Semitism! #GeorgeFloydProtests pic.twitter.com/9GRas58AIK
— SimonWiesenthalCntr (@simonwiesenthal) May 31, 2020
In a video from Saturday night circulating on social media and verified by The Algemeiner, a member of the Jewish volunteer security group Magen Am described fending off vandals intent on defacing another synagogue, Shaarei Tefila in Fairfax.
"They were spray-painting this whole area," he said, but were unable to damage the synagogue before "I sent them off."
Noting that several nearby stores had been "pillaged" and the area "had tear gas galore," he nonetheless noted, "We defended Shaarei Tefila today."
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