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I do not believe the attached coin could be attributed as Serbian, Bulgarian, Byzantine or a local imitation.
Mr. Jovanovic does not provide any arguments for his attribution of the coin as Serbian. In fact, he attri-butes it as such quite informally, solely on the grounds that the coin was found in an area which was on-ce part of the Serbian country. I don't believe that is a strong argument.
The only analogy I could make is to some of the anonymous Bulgarian issues from 1395-1415, mainly due to the size of the coin, material, and lack of letters. However, those coins usually reflect 3-4 crosses, as opposed to stars.
There are also certain coins, i.e., "church coins," which have similar size and thickness. Such coins were made of copper but even those coins either reflected various Christian signs or letters. Those coins, however, were struck around the 19th century and apparently are unrelated to the coin in question.
There are also certain Wallachian copper coins of similar size. Such coins have stars on the obverse, but also have a cross on the reverse. Those coins were issued by Radu I (14th century). If your coin is such, it is clearly unpublished in the Romanian numismatic literature.
Your coin is clearly neither not Ottoman nor Arabic. It could potentially be a "copper pool" of the Golden Hoard, however, I am unaware of such type.
Hope that helps. Apologies for the delay!
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COSTA MESA — The city has rescinded three requests for bids from companies to take on city services following a letter from employee groups arguing that the requests violate municipal policy.
In an Aug. 1 letter to city Chief Executive Tom Hatch, Costa Mesa City Employee Assn. President Helen Nenedal argued that the city's request for proposals (RFP) to contract out animal control, video production and building inspection violate a city ordinance because a committee has not been formed to outline the proposals.
To adhere to city code, Costa Mesa now will form Contracting Committees, and these will include employee group representatives, Hatch announced Thursday. The committee will review a fourth RFP the city already sent out, he said.
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The Great Basin is one of the world's great metallogenic provinces and about 11% of the total world production of gold (approximately 74% of the United States production) is produced annually from this region, as well as additional silver and copper. Included within this region are some of the largest Au deposits in the world with a resource potential that exceeds 3,200 metric tonnes (100,000,000 ounces) of gold. The impact of these mines on local economies, on the nation's economic sustainability, and on our national balance of trade are profound, and will continue to be so well into the 21st century. This project focuses on critical questions regarding the genesis of precious-metal deposits in this region in order to develop state-of-the-art mineral and geoenvironmental models used in crucial land-use planning decisions affecting federal lands in the west and in designing exploration strategies by the mining industry. This project also is the cornerstone of the USGS's participation in a consortium with academia (CREG at Mackay School of Mines, Reno, NV), the mining industry, and the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology (NBMG).
This project focuses research efforts on fundamental questions still seeking resolution regarding the genesis of gold-sliver deposits in the Great Basin. These deposits include: (1) world-class sedimentary rock-hosted gold-silver deposits, such as those found along the Carlin trend; (2) pluton-related gold deposits that are peripheral to porphyry copper-gold deposits; and (3) hot-spring gold-silver deposits that are the shallowest deposits in the region. Additional resources have been recognized in (4) sedimentary exhalative deposits, which locally reach economic ore grades and in some cases are precursor auriferous concentrations upon which younger hydrothermal systems are superposed. The thread that ties together the tasks is the known or potential geologic linkages between deposit types. The multidisciplinary scientific investigations undertaken herein in these major gold-silver environments will result in a comprehensive overview that then will be linked into a synoptic major treatise by all participants documenting crustal life cycles of gold in the northern Great Basin. This aim is accomplished through five integrated tasks:
Task 1: Crustal Structure and the Spatial Distribution of Ore Deposits (Tien Grauch, task leader, firstname.lastname@example.com)
The linear arrays of gold deposits in northern Nevada suggest fundamental deep crustal and tectonic controls on their development. This task seeks to constrain any such controls through integrated geophysical and radiogenic isotopic investigations that probe the crustal structure of northern Nevada, especially in the vicinity of the Carlin and Battle Mountain-Eureka trends. Geophysical investigations are integrating gravity, magnetic, magnetotelluric (MT), and seismic-reflection data to model the physical aspects of the deep crust that are related to major structures, crustal composition, and fluid migration. Radiogenic isotopic mapping using initial Pb and Sr isotopic compositions of feldspars in rocks provides independent information about variations in crustal composition through time that may be related to the crustal structure. Integration of these diverse studies, combined with the results from the other tasks, will ultimately provide a better understanding of the tectonic evolution of the area and the role of crustal structure in controlling fluid migration, source of ore, and the spatial distribution of mineral deposits at the surface.
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Sedimentary-rock hosted (Carlin) deposits are the major gold deposits in northern Nevada. Characterization of the range of geologic environments of the deposits, their relationship to structure and stratigraphy, their ages, and metal sources are critical to developing a model for the deposits. Studies will document impact of Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Tertiary stratigraphy and structures on Carlin-type deposits. Additional studies focus on the role, if any, of syngenetic (sedex) gold occurrences in Devonian rocks in the Carlin trend. Integrated investigations will delineate geologic phenomena important to Carlin-type systems, their relationship to regional geologic events, the relationship if any to tectonomagmatic systems, metal sources for the deposits, and relation of deposits to the tectonic evolution of the region.
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Knowing the source and evolutionary path(s) of hydrothermal fluids during ore deposition are essential to improved descriptive and genetic models for Carlin-type gold deposits. Site-specific and reconnaissance studies will constrain the composition and source of ore fluids (meteoric, metamorphic, magmatic), age of the deposits where possible, and any climatic role in genesis, preservation, and destruction. The resultant descriptive and genetic information will improve life-cycle models for Carlin-type gold deposits. Additional study will be devoted to the newly recognized sedex gold occurrences on the Carlin Trend. The resulting sedex gold deposit model should have general applicability and will improve assessments of gold potential in sedimentary basins world-wide and especially in the western United States.
Task 4: Framework of Pluton-related gold deposits (Tom Moore, task leader, email@example.com)
Pluton-related gold deposits are the second most important type of gold deposits in northern Nevada. Major pluton-related gold deposits in the Battle Mining District and at Bingham, Utah are the focus of this task. In the Battle Mountain Mining District, research centers on understanding the relation between the pluton-related gold deposits, flanking peripheral gold-silver deposits, and nearby Carlin-type deposits that may represent a halo zone genetically linked to the Battle Mountain deposits. Work involves (1) 3-D modeling of metal zoning and fluid-flow paths in gold-rich porphyry and peripheral environments using industry supplied geochemical data at Copper Canyon in the Battle Mountain Mining District, and (2) characterization of sediment-hosted gold deposits and their host rocks south of the district in the Shoshone Range (The Cedars quadrangle) with the intention of distinguishing whether this environment is genetically linked to the pluton-related gold deposits at Battle Mountain. In the Bingham, Utah deposits, research focuses on examination of paleothermal anomalies that mark the locations of auriferous magmatic-hydrothermal plumes associated with the ore-forming system.
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Hot-spring gold-silver deposits represent the third major deposit type in northern Nevada. These near-surface deposits, the shallowest setting of ore genesis in northern Nevada, provide a link between the magmatic and hydrologic environments. Of critical importance in defining their genesis and role in the metallogeny of the region is understanding their environments, age, and relationship to tectonomagmatic events along the Miocene Northern Nevada Rift and during Eocene volcanism and extensional strain thought to be contemporaneous and important to the formation of the Carlin-type systems.
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Preserving Latin America's Wildlife
April 22, 2013 | By Microsoft blog editor
In the late 1800s, the guanaco, a close relative of the llama, was hunted to near extinction. As we mark this year's Earth Day (April 22), I want to share my excitement about a new tool that looks to make the future a little brighter for the guanaco and other threatened species in Latin America. That new tool is LiveANDES (Advanced Network for the Distribution of Endangered Species).
Developed by a partnership among researchers at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, the LACCIR (Latin American and Caribbean Collaborative ICT Research) Virtual Institute, and Microsoft Research, LiveANDES is designed to collect, house, and analyze data about Latin America's wildlife—data that could prove vital to the preservation of the region's rich but increasingly threatened biodiversity, which has suffered grievously from loss of habitat and climate change.
Mariano de la Maza, a wildlife officer in Chile's Parks and Protected Areas Service, sees this decline on a daily basis. "The main problems of the Chilean forest are habitat loss and the fragmentation and degradation of native forests," he says.
LiveANDES begins with field observations, made not just by wildlife biologists and park rangers but by "citizen scientists," including hikers, eco-tourists, and other nature enthusiasts. As Cristian Bonacic, director of the wildlife laboratory at Pontifical Catholic University, notes, "When people go to the wild, they can encounter an endangered animal by chance." These chance encounters can provide extremely valuable information about the location and status of threatened and endangered wildlife.
All that's needed is a smartphone equipped with the LiveANDES app. Imagine you're hiking in the Chilean countryside, and you think you've spotted a rare species. You simply take its picture with your smartphone and upload the picture and any sighting comments into LiveANDES. Your photo and annotations, along with the phone's recognition of your geographical location and a time stamp, are then logged into the LiveANDES database, ready for parsing by the university team.
Once processed, the data becomes available to scientists locally and around the world, as well as to the public, in both Spanish and English. Bonacic praises LiveANDES for the way it helps researchers "share that information with the scientific community, park rangers, and people at large."
Knowing where and under what circumstances a threatened species is living can help biologists devise strategies to stabilize and, one hopes, restore these vulnerable populations. Moreover, the information gathered in LiveANDES also will help keep the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) red list of endangered and threatened species accurate, complete, and up-to-date.
The LiveANDES platform was built by using Microsoft technologies, including Windows Phone, Microsoft SQL Server data management software, and Bing Maps for locating and visualizing the animals, and the Microsoft .NET Framework for programming. It not only houses data about Latin America's wildlife, including photographs, audio and video recordings, and location and sighting data, but it also makes parsing huge volumes of data manageable for researchers.
According to Ignacio Casas, the executive director of LACCIR, LiveANDES integrates with the fourth paradigm, a foundational concept of eScience, in which data-intensive computing facilitates scientific discovery. LiveANDES is designed to make parsing the huge volumes of data recorded manageable for researchers.
Bonacic and his colleagues look forward to receiving a barrage of wildlife data from rangers, biologists, and, of course, citizen scientists. Thanks to LiveANDES, this data deluge will be manageable and actionable.
I am inspired by this project, as it tackles an extremely challenging environmental problem, which is the rapid decline of important elements of our natural heritage. Each animal species is an important piece of a puzzle, and each citizen scientist and researcher can play a crucial role in the preservation of endangered species for the next generation. I'm hopeful that LiveANDES will help the guanaco and other vulnerable species survive to see Earth Day 2113!
—Jaime Puente, Director, Latin America and the Caribbean, Microsoft Research Connections
Learn More
- LiveANDES.org
- Latin American Researchers Use Data to Raise Awareness, Protect Species (video)
- Investigadores latinoamericanos utilizan datos para crear conciencia y proteger a las especies (video)
- Latin American Researchers Use Data to Raise Awareness, Protect Species
- LiveANDES case study (PDF)
- LiveANDES caso de estudio en español (PDF)
- LiveANDES image gallery
- UC and Microsoft create a site with the largest registry of Chilean wildlife species (in Spanish)
- Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
- Latin American and Caribbean Collaborative ICT Research
- Earth, Energy, and Environment at Microsoft Research Connections


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A policeman's lot may not be a happy one -- but a policewoman's is even worse.
D.C.I. Jane Tennison, starring Helen Mirren, is a skilled, top-class detective, battling to prove herself in a male world. While investigating a murder, her strength of character and skills as a detective are put to the test as she exposes a cover-up within the force. And when a second murder victim is discovered, the inquiry turns into a grisly investigation stretching back over ten years.
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Key dates: Aug. 5, singles and doubles finals Venue: Wimbledon Big stories: Serena Williams (above), 30, says she's happier and healthier than she has ever been and she just finished winning Wimbledon on grass then won the tournament at Stanford. She seems on a grass court roll and has never won a singles gold. She and her 32-year-old sister Venus Williams won the women's doubles at Wimbledon, making them favorites to defend their Olympic title. Top U.S. prospect: Lisa Raymond and Liezel Huber will also represent the U.S. in doubles and are ranked No. 1 in the world. The Williams sisters, who don't have a ranking because they don't play enough together, easily beat the top-ranked Americans at Wimbledon. Christina McHale, 20, and ranked 32nd in the world would have a slight chance at a bronze medal. Venus and Varvara Lepechenko, the other American singles players would be huge upsets if they were to win a medal. Others to watch: Maria Sharapova, who won the French Open in May was upset in the fourth round of Wimbledon, the same day Kim Clijsters was knocked out. Sharapova, who won her first major at Wimbledon, could challenge Williams as could Wimbledon runner up Agnieszka Radwanska and 2011 Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova. Little-known fact: So far four women's tennis players (Sharapova-Russia, Radwanska-Poland, Stephanie Vogt-Lichtenstein, Tsevetana Pironkova-Bulgaria) have been named flag bearers for their countries in the opening ceremony.
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Last week on Big Rich Texas, Leslie Birkland decided to have Kalyn Braun baptized (in a pool during a thunder and lightning storm) to wash away her slutty tendencies. Much to Kalyn's dismay, Leslie invited Kalyn's mom, Terry. Instead of embracing her mother, ignoring her, or faking small talk, Kalyn threw a temper tantrum of epic proportions.
Following the party, if Leslie's face could show emotion, she would look bewildered. Leslie doesn't understand why Kalyn got so upset with her mother. Just a guess… perhaps because they're two manipulative drama queens fighting for attention. Kalyn tells Leslie that she got too heated and cannot even remember what set her off, adding, "Everything was just rushing through my head, like all the crap she pulls, and I just went off. I lost it. I couldn't handle it anymore."
Leslie stresses that people can change. Leslie blows my mind with, "Now that you're an adult and you've been baptized, you're looking and viewing life differently." Being baptized does not instantly make one an adult… and, for crying out loud, Kalyn's hair is practically still wet. When did she have time to change her outlook on life? Leslie urges Kalyn to give Terry a chance. Kalyn says the mere thought is exhausting.
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WASHINGTON – Republican U.S. Representative Trey Radel, who was charged in November with buying cocaine, plans to resign from Congress on Monday, his office said.
Radel, 37, elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2012 backed by the conservative Tea Party movement, returned to Congress in January, six weeks after he pleaded guilty to cocaine possession and checked into a rehabilitation clinic.
The Florida congressman plans to release a resignation letter on Monday, Radel spokesman Greg Dolan said.
Radel was charged with buying 3.5 grams of cocaine in Washington on Oct. 29, in the presence of an undercover agent.
The House Committee on Ethics in December said it would launch an investigation into whether Radel violated congressional rules or broke any other laws related to his responsibilities as a member of Congress.
Radel rebuffed calls for his resignation from the Republican Party of Florida and Governor Rick Scott as otherFlorida Republicans expressed interest in his seat.
"I look forward to getting back to work next week, representing my neighbors in Southwest Florida as they face the burdens of Obamacare, a jobless recovery, and a federal government that continues to spend more than it takes in," Radel said in a statement in early January.
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The case against Radel stemmed from an investigation by FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration agents into cocaine trafficking in the Washington area, Assistant U.S. Attorney Nihar Mohanty said.
Radel was sentenced to one year of probation in November.
"I am so sorry to be here. I know I have let my constituents down, my country down and, most importantly, my family, including my wife and my 2-year-old, who doesn't know it yet," Radel told Judge Robert Tignor after pleading guilty to the misdemeanor charge.
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ROCKLEDGE, Fla. - Rockledge police are looking for a man who they say raped a woman inside her home in Rockledge.
Police say the single mom was sleeping in her home on Fiske Boulevard near Golfview Elementary Magnet School when she opened her eyes to see a man on top of her.
The man broke into the woman's home through a back door, according to police.
"She was just very, very scared, very disoriented," said Lt. Donna Seyferth of Rockledge Police.
The woman told police she didn't see a weapon when the man attacked her on April 3.
She describes him as heavy set, and six feet or taller. The woman told police she had never seen the man before.
Local 6 brought the sketch, released by police on Thursday, door to door near the home.
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McCain hits the trail like it's 2008
John McCain is barnstorming the country like he's running for president all over again.
Of course, the prize is different this time: The Senate majority, and with it a chance for the decorated Vietnam War hero to become chairman of his beloved Armed Services Committee — a post his Senate predecessor, the late Barry Goldwater, once held.
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"I think it would be a fulfillment of a lifelong dream that I've had. Barry Goldwater was also chairman — he also lost a presidential election," McCain told POLITICO in a phone interview Thursday, cracking himself up while getting off a plane in Grand Forks, N.D., where he planned to stump with Senate hopeful Rick Berg.
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"My family comes from a long line of military. I have a son who is a Navy pilot also. My family goes all the way back to the Revolutionary War," McCain added. "And to be chairman of the Armed Services Committee would be a wondrous thing for not only me personally but also for my family."
McCain, who turned 76 in August, has been traveling the country — from Nevada and Montana to Indiana and Florida — working to elect fellow Republicans in hopes of ousting Majority Leader Harry Reid and Democrats from power. He recently held fundraisers for two candidates in nail-biter races: former Gov. Tommy Thompson in Wisconsin and Indiana's Richard Mourdock (before the state treasurer's now-infamous "rape" remarks).
On Friday, the still-spry McCain will join Sen. Mike Johanns and Rep. Lee Terry at an airplane hangar in Omaha to campaign for Deb Fischer, the GOP Senate nominee in Nebraska, a state McCain carried by 15 points in 2008. Then he'll hop on a plane this weekend for events with Josh Mandel in Ohio and George Allen in northern Virginia.
"Frankly, there has never been a more dedicated campaigner on behalf of Republicans than John McCain, and the schedule he maintains would kill men half his age," said Phoenix-based GOP strategist Kurt Davis, who co-chaired McCain's Arizona campaign in 2008.
In the Grand Canyon State, McCain has held a conference call with reporters and cut a TV spot ripping Democrat Richard Carmona for running an ad using decade-old video footage of McCain and retiring Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl heaping praise on the former U.S. surgeon general. McCain and Kyl, who back Carmona's GOP rival Jeff Flake, have called the ad "deceitful."
And McCain, a retired Navy pilot who spent more than five years as a Vietcong prisoner of war, lent some of his military credentials to vulnerable Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) this summer when he presided over a pinning ceremony at the Capitol promoting Brown to colonel in the Army National Guard. He has also done Bay State fundraisers and campaign events for Brown, who's facing an uphill race against Democrat Elizabeth Warren.
On Wednesday, the Arizona senator did a series of events and media interviews in Billings to boost Montana Republican Denny Rehberg. The state's lone congressman is trying to unseat first-term Democratic Sen. Jon Tester in one of the closest Senate races in the nation.
"I hope the voters understand that I believe in Denny Rehberg, but I also believe that we need to have control of the Senate," McCain told KTVQ-TV in Billings. "Because the last four years under Harry Reid and Jon Tester have been an abysmal failure."
It was a message he repeated to POLITICO from chilly Grand Forks.
It's about "the agenda, the agenda, the agenda, setting the agenda," McCain said. "Harry Reid has obviously abused that authority of the majority leader in more ways than any of us have ever seen. Secondly, the investigative powers that are involved."


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Techonomy Talks the Internet's Fantastic Four
Above: Savitz, Ellison, Hasker, and Mahaney
Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google have been called the Internet's "Fantastic Four," as they are the platforms that are most determining how consumers interact with new technology. At the Techonomy conference yesterday, a panel of Wall Street analysts and a ratings analyst from Nielsen had some interesting thoughts on how these four companies are succeeding, how they may face off against one another, and what companies might challenge them.
During the panel, which was moderated by Forbes' Eric Savitz, the panelists talked about the how four companies have become so successful. Alec Ellison of Jefferies, an investment bank, said these four are all platform companies that play in hardware, media, and Web services; most of them also have hardware and a platform for developing applications. The range gives them both offensive and defensive capabilities, he said.
Mark Mahaney, a Wall Street analyst who recently left CitiGroup, said all of these have set up deep competitive moats around their businesses, citing Amazon's distribution system, Facebook's network effect, and Google's algorithms. As a result, it's hard to imagine their positions being undermined in the next five years. But, he said, there are plenty of opportunities in more vertical areas like search and commerce.
Steve Hasker, president for Global Media Products at Nielsen, said it ultimately comes down to who will own the consumer. It is unclear whether there will be one winner, or if they all will continue to own a part of customers' attention. He said Nielsen is most concerned with video, and whatever company has the consumer there will have a really strong position. All are coming at it from different angles, he said.
Ellison talked about how these four are not only facing each other, but disrupting other industries. Hasker said this has already happened in print advertising, music, classified advertising, and now is positioned in the $80 billion video market. The question is whether any or all of the four will get access to the most valuable video content, such as professionally produced content and live sports. Google is very focused on YouTube, and Apple is moving in from its strengths in music. The other two are farther behind, he said, but playing on other strengths.
One big question is which has the most data, and the most interesting data, Mahaney said. Google has the most data, and Facebook might be next, but Amazon has what might be the richest and most interesting set of commercial data, as it knows what you buy.
"What's the stickiest site?" is another big question, Ellison said, with Google and Facebook being very sticky. Amazon, however, is building scale through its distribution network. Apple is the weakest from that perspective, he said.
Hasker noted that two of the four (Apple and Google) have increasing valuable real estate in the mobile environment, and said it might be hard to catch up.
Moderator Eric Savitz asked if Facebook deserves to be in the group. Ellison said it is younger, but belongs there because it is a 55 percent margin company, which tells you it has a tremendous position with its customers. Ellison is worried that with a lower margin, Amazon could afford to invest at the level the others did. Hasker agreed, saying Facebook has a billion users, with lots of use in lots of demographics, including access to a hard to reach audience that is not spending a lot of time with other media. He also said Facebook is used as a companion with other media, and there is value in harnessing the social network of friends' preferences.
Ellison said Jefferies has buy ratings on all four, mainly because they are consuming other industries. These four are now about six percent of the market cap of the entire U.S. He thinks Apple is most vulnerable because it needs to keep innovating as it faces competitors such as Samsung. He also wonders whether the retail store could become an albatross if Apple doesn't keep up in innovation, just as the Disney store was once popular, but has now faded.
Hasker said Nielsen works with all four and said we should look at their demographics and international presence. He perceives that Amazon isn't as international as the others.
Mahaney said there is a question at Facebook about the management team just because it takes five to 10 years to judge. If mobile is the biggest trend in the Internet in the past five years, Apple and Google get tremendous credit, and Amazon gets credit through its Kindle line, but Facebook hasn't participated as much. Facebook's margins are too high, and he wants to see the company invest more in areas like mobile.
Asked about Amazon, Mahaney said it is the most disruptive company, with strengths in core retail, marketplace, devices, content, and cloud infrastructure today, and the potential to grow in advertising. He, too, talked about the "moats" the company has built around its core business.
Savitz asked about Microsoft, and wondered if the only reason we weren't talking about it was because Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt didn't include the company in his original comments on the "four horsemen" at the D conference a few years back.
Ellison said there is obviously an agenda in Schmidt's comments, but noted that Microsoft hasn't been as focused on the consumer as the others. Hasker said Xbox could be the second largest cable MSO with video on the Xbox, so that's interesting. Mahaney also said it isn't part of the group because it is more enterprise-oriented. Ellison said it hasn't had the consumer engagement, and noted that over 100 percent of its profits come from Windows and Office. But, he said, Microsoft has been making moves with things like Surface and Windows phone that can potentially make it a competitor in this space.
Could there be another company in the group? Mahaney said it is possible an international company such as Tencent, the big Chinese Internet company, should be included, but all of the four are international. Still, it is certain there will be another company of this size in the next five years—probably one we aren't considering, just like no one considered Facebook in the group five years ago.
In 10 years, Ellison said, there will be a company that uses a new technology that is not economic now, just like early social networks like SixDegrees couldn't allow photos to be uploaded because it was so expensive, but Facebook could. The next great company might be focused on voice recognition, he said.


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So enormous are the contributions of the Italian people to typography that they often pass unnoticed. The words you are reading may be written in the English language, but they are rendered in the Latin alphabet, which comes to us via Roman ancestors. We celebrate these same ancestors in the name of our upright Roman alphabet, and we remember their country of origin in our slanted Italics. If you ever use our Requiem typeface, take note: taxonomically it is a Venetian Old-Style, its letterforms modeled on the work of a renaissance Roman calligrapher, who was inspired by the inscriptional lettering on a classical Roman monument, which was dedicated to a Roman emperor. The emperor's name was Trajan, an Italian name you may recognize from your font menu; he is immortalized there alongside dozens of his compatriots, including Aldus, Arrighi, Bodoni, and Jenson.
Since Italy has remained a cradle of letters and literacy since classical times, it makes an excellent destination for any lover of typography. This June, design historian and calligrapher Paul Shaw will be leading Legacy of Letters, an eight-day typographic tour of some of Italy's most typographic destinations. Including both Emilia-Romagna and the Veneto, the tour includes stops in twelve typographic capitals including Parma, Mantua, Verona and Venice. Registration is now open for a limited number of spaces.
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Everyone deals with the retention issue differently. Some club owners choose to have a retention person on staff to stay in touch with members, invite them to functions and keep them using the club. Others choose to make retention a part of the salesperson's responsibility.
How do you decide which option works best for you? It's not an easy task, but it starts with looking at compensation.
Compensation for a dedicated retention staff position varies. The most typical way to compensate is an hourly wage or a salary. For example, you could pay this person$12 per hour, roughly $25,000 per year, plus whatever benefits you offer. To decide if this model is the best option, you must then calculate how many members this person must save in order to get a return on your investment. If your membership rate is $50 per month, or $600 per year, then this person needs to prevent 41 members from canceling just to pay for his or her position. This is an option for a lot of clubs.
However, incorporating retention into the job responsibilities of your sales staff might be a better option for some club owners. Let's say that your membership sales department is staffed with three people and they are just hitting sales goals. Chances are that the staff is unable to get anything else done and is not doing consistent, systematic retention or prospecting work. Therefore, the club is losing on the front end and the back end because the department is not structured to fully get and keep members. This is a common mode of operation.
However, if you instead staff your sales department with four people and each of them produces 28 new membership sales per month, the club would be ahead on new sales by 12 more each month. Because you have an additional membership person, the selling schedule would have better coverage, and sales staff could put in time on retention work and prospecting. With this model, the club would increase membership from a new sales perspective and also improve retention because the sales staff could focus on maintaining relationships with all of the members they signed up.
Some club operators hesitate on this option because it means adding more payroll, and sales staff may hesitate because it means decreasing the size of the pie when it comes to prospects. But this is false thinking. When you have four membership sales reps rather than three, their focus expands from simply getting members to getting and keeping members.
Of course, this means compensation also needs to change to add incentives for keeping members. Let's say that every month you give each sales rep 75 cents for each membership they sold if that member is retained. This will continue to build month after month. As a club operator, you will have the ability to keep good sales staff longer because they have a pool of income that continues for as long as their members stay.
By structuring this arrangement well, you can alleviate concerns about promoting lazy salespeople. Simply tie the retention payment to new sales goals. In other words, reps that hit 100 percent of their new sales goal receive 100 percent of their retention commissions. If they do not hit 100 percent of their sales goal, they get a smaller percentage of the retention commissions. The focus always has to be on getting and keeping members. Bookkeeping for this system may seem like a headache, but it's a simple payroll procedure.
This model does not have to be expensive. You would still pay a base salary, commission and bonuses, but the amounts you pay for each could decrease because you are adding another compensation element — the retention commission. However you choose to arrange it, make sure that the sales staff is not going to lose compensation. Ideally, they make the same, if not more, and the club also increases revenue. Membership sales payroll can increase with this plan, but it does not have to. If it does increase, what you have to consider is the increase as a percentage of revenue or how much the revenue has increased. (See the sidebar below for a comparison of three versus four sales representatives and a sample of retention commissions for a membership sales rep.)
The retention effort is a team effort. I typically find that staff members in most clubs are not aware of that fact and do not understand the bigger picture. Instead, they see themselves as responsible for one job or task in the club. All staff members need to know how they affect retention and how to act daily to improve retention.
Next Page: Sidebar: Comparison of Three Reps to Four Reps
Comparison of Three Reps to Four Reps
Let's compare the cost of three membership sales representatives who focus on getting memberships versus four reps who focus on getting and retaining members.
Three membership sales reps with the sole focus of getting new members
(Assuming $50 per month membership dues, a $100 joining fee and each rep selling 33 memberships per month.)
Base salary of $1,500 per month x 3 representatives x 12 months = $54,000 in annual salaries
100 sales per month x $50 commission x 12 months = $60,000 in annual commissions
$250 monthly bonus x 3 x 12 = $9,000 in annual commissions
Total membership sales payroll expense (not including benefits, taxes, etc.) = $123,000 annually
Total Membership Dues: 1,200 members x $600 dues for the year = $720,000
Total Joining Fees: 1,200 x $100 = $120,000
Total New Membership Revenue: $720,000 in dues + $120,000 in joining fees = $840,000
Because the focus of this scenario is more on getting than keeping members, let's say the club has an attrition rate of 25 percent. With that assumption, 100 memberships sold per month would equal 1,200 for the year. A 25 percent attrition rate would equal 300 memberships. (That is just the attrition on what has been sold during that year and does not take into consideration the current membership base.) If 300 members left, the future revenue lost would be 300 x $50 (monthly dues) x 12 = $180,000. That does not consider other ancillary sources of revenue that those members would have purchased if they had remained members. Thus, the loss probably is much larger than $180,000.
Four membership sales reps focusing on getting and keeping members:
(Using the same assumptions on membership pricing, but the membership sales reps sell 28 memberships per month instead of 33 and they get 75 cents for each membership they sold and retained.)
Base salary of $1,300 per month x 4 representatives x 12 months = $62,400 in salaries annually
112 sales per month x $50 commission x 12 months = $67,200 in commissions annually
$250 monthly bonus x 4 x 12 = $12,000 in bonuses annually
$3,024 annual retention bonus x 4 = $12,096 in annual retention bonuses
Total retention commissions paid during the first year equal $1,386. (See the Sample of Retention Commissions chart below to see how I arrived at this number by adding up the commission for each month.) However, the total commissions from all the memberships sold after each membership has run 12 months would equal $3,024 assuming no cancellations, so that is how the $3,024 in annual retention bonus is figured in the equation above.
This example only accounts for the new memberships sold in one year but does not account for potential growth in successive years and does not take into account any other current members that may be assigned to the representatives.
Sample of Retention Commissions for Membership Sales Staff
(Assuming an average of 28 memberships are sold per month from January through December and no cancellations occur)
J commission paid in Feb
F $21 Jan commission
M $42 Jan and Feb commission
A $63 Jan, Feb, March commission
M $84 Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr commission
J $105 Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May commission
J $126 Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun commission
A $147 Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul commission
S $168 Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug commission
O $189 Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep commission
N $210 Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct Commission
D $231 Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov commission
December commission is paid in January when the commission model starts the new year with members who have stayed. In year two, the commissions start to grow further and it becomes more attractive for membership sales staff to stay. Direct correlations can be made to longevity of staff and members.
Based on the equations above, you can figure the following:
Total membership sales payroll expense (not including benefits, taxes, etc.) = $153,696
Total Membership Dues: 1,344 memberships sold for the year x $600 = $806,400
Total Joining Fees: 1,344 x $100 = $134,400
Total New Membership Revenue = $940,800
How the Two Scenarios Compare
The first scenario in which you have three sales reps focused on getting members, the total annual new membership revenue equals $840,000, with membership payroll expense equaling approximately $123,000. That would leave the club with a net of $717,000.
In the second scenario in which the focus is more on getting and keeping members, total annual new membership revenue equals $940,800 with membership payroll expense equaling approximately $153,696. That would leave the club with a net of $787,104. This scenario puts the club ahead by $70,104. Not a huge amount, but nevertheless, farther ahead.
Here is where this model jumps even further in revenue. Let's assume that the club had a 25 percent attrition rate, and through this model and structure of operation, the club decreases attrition annually by 3 percent in the first year to 22 percent. Using the same model as above for attrition, the club would lose 264 members as opposed to 300 members and add an additional $21,600 to the bottom line. If you consider those rough numbers, this model puts the club ahead by $91,704 in the first year. The better news is that that revenue number will keep growing assuming consistency in membership sales and member satisfaction.
Karen Woodard-Chavez is president of Premium Performance Training in Boulder, CO, and Ixtapa, Mexico. She has owned and operated clubs since 1985 and now consults with and trains club staff members throughout the world.


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AEG founder Philip Anschutz said in an exclusive interview with the Los Angeles Times that he pulled his sports and entertainment conglomerate off the market after having a change of heart and deciding to become actively "reengaged" in managing the company.
Anschutz wouldn't directly address how many bids he received for AEG or what prices were offered. But he hinted strongly that the bids fell short of the $8 billion to $10 billion that he reportedly was seeking.
"We were very clear from the start," Anschutz said in an hourlong interview in a conference room high atop L.A. Live. "Unless there was the right buyer, the right set of terms and the right price, we might not sell."
Anschutz complained that the closely watched sales process, which the company announced to great fanfare in September, had become a distraction that interfered with day-to-day operations.
"This became a very noisy process," he said. "Lots of people. Lots of talking heads. Lots of unnamed experts and lots of opinions. Many of them were wrong, but that didn't seem to dampen their enthusiasm. So that was a contributing factor. It just got too noisy. I didn't like the process."
As for the departure of Tim Leiweke, AEG's highly regarded president and chief executive, Anschutz indicated that the executive had chosen to leave when the sale didn't occur.
"I think he made his decision based on the fact that I had terminated the process for the sale," Anschutz said. "By the way, I might add, he's had a pretty good turn here."
The Anschutz Corp. caught Los Angeles business and civic leaders flat-footed Thursday by announcing that it had decided not sell its AEG subsidiary.
AEG is a sprawling entity that owns and manages a variety of sports and entertainment properties, including the L.A. Live complex, the L.A. Galaxy professional soccer team and a worldwide concert-promotion business.
The company also owns a minority stake in the Lakers and has worked closely with Los Angeles city officials to bring a professional football team to L.A.
Among potential bidders said to be interested in AEG were Los Angeles billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong and powerhouse Santa Monica investment firm Colony Capital. Guggenheim Partners, which led the consortium that bought the Los Angeles Dodgers, also was said to be interested.
Colony Capital and Guggenheim refused to comment. Soon-Shiong couldn't be reached for comment.
It's uncommon for a 72-year-old, as Anschutz is, to dive aggressively into active management of a company. However, Anschutz is known as particularly hard-charging.
Despite walking with a cane after recent back surgery, Anschutz seemed fit in a tailored blue pin-striped suit with a cuff-linked shirt and white pocket square.
"All I have ever done in my life is work," he said. "I'm kind of excited about reengaging."


text: Good health is a top priority for Shari Duncan.As a certified nutrition and wellness coach, as well as a body builder and power lifter, Duncan puts a great amount of emphasis on proper training. But hitting the gym for hours is only part of her regimen. Her diet is equally important. While she sticks to healthy foods that help her body fire on all cylinders, there is one area that she can't afford to scrimp on -- protein. That is because during exercise muscle tissue is broken down, only to be rebuilt bigger and stronger. Duncan says that protein is key to this re-growth., "Protein consumption is essential for stimulating the growth of cells and helping to repair body tissue," she said. A person doesn't have to be a body builder or a power lifter to benefit from a high-protein diet. Duncan says this plan also plays an important role in any fat-loss program. "To lose weight you must restrict the number of calories you consume. However, when you cut down on what you eat, the body starts using muscle protein as energy -- so it is important to get enough protein from your diet to cover these losses," she said. "Foods rich in protein help the body build lean muscle, and can be converted into glucose for energy. This method of energy is more time-consuming for the body. This means you will burn more calories digesting proteins; which explains why high-protein, low-carbohydrate diets are so popular for those attempting to lose weight and build muscle." A lack of quality protein, Duncan says, will result in a person's body losing muscle tissue and tone, a reduction in the function of the immune system, a slower recovery rate from exercise and a lack of energy. "If you fail to get enough protein on a daily basis, you'll quickly lose strength and slow down your metabolic rate," she said. Proteins can be found in a variety of foods. Allison Query, a registered dietician with the Brunswick hospital of Southeast Georgia Health System, says that small, frequent protein-rich meals can help dieters stay full as well as promote muscle growth. "You can start with breakfast and eat eggs or add milk to oatmeal or a high-protein cereal. Throughout the day, you can snack on yogurt, string cheese or nuts," she said. "Also, you can eat lean meats, like fish, chicken and turkey. Always cut off the visible fat from any meat." As for how much protein a person needs, that depends on gender and ideal weight. "For a high-protein diet, you should shoot for 120 grams per day, 25 to 30 percent of calories should come from protein," she said. Most people do not have difficulty attaining that For persons who have trouble with adequate protein consumption, supplements are available. Kel Quarterman, owner of Gold Coast Nutrition in Brunswick, says there are a multitude of ways to add protein to a diet. Protein supplements come in powder form and can be added to milk or water. "There are many different types of protein. A lot of vegetarians use soy-type of protein," he said. "There is also rice, pea, chai, and a new one is hemp." For body builders and other exercise enthusiasts, a pure whey isolate is usually the go-to protein powder. "It's definitely the purest source of protein. It's definitely the most popular," Quarterman said. "Years ago, protein powders didn't taste very good, but nowadays, though, it tastes awesome. There are fruit flavors, chocolate vanilla, and designer flavors, like pina colada," he said. (c)2012 The Brunswick News (Brunswick, Ga.) Visit The Brunswick News (Brunswick, Ga.) at www.thebrunswicknews.com Distributed by MCT Information Services


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Search Underway for Homicide Suspect in Midland County
The Midland County Sheriff's Office is asking you for help in finding a man wanted in connection to a deadly shooting overnight.
They are looking for Daniel Easterling.
According to our media partners at Newswest 9, 52-year-old Jimmy Conway was killed in the 6300 block of East County Road 86.
If you have any information on where Easterling is or may be, contact the Midland County Sheriff's Office at 688-4600.


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January 2009
From the Editor. Forgiveness is central to Christian orthodoxy, rightly understood. For those who conceive of orthodoxy as a means of their always being right about doctrine, forgiveness is often in short supply. And yet, ironically, this attitude guarantees that much important doctrine is overlooked. All that Scripture and Reformed confessions articulate about the person and work of Christ teaches us, among many other things, that we are forgiven. An essential fruit of that knowledge is that we learn to be forgiving.
In three decades of ministry some of the worst church problems that I observed remainedand in some cases, remain to this dayunresolved, precisely because of a lack of forgiveness.
An excellent way to begin the new year is by renewing our practice of forgiving others. Brenton Ferry's pointed article on forgiveness should help us in that pursuit. My review of Frank Schaeffer's autobiography should provide some cautionary material on this important aspect of our spiritual formation. Ultimately we cultivate a mentality of forgiveness by contemplating our Savior's suffering on the crossexecuted for our sins.
Blessings in the Lamb,
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As he has most nights this season, Orioles left-hander Wei-Yin Chen pitched well enough to give the Orioles a chance to win Saturday night against Boston.
Chen lasted just 5 1/3 innings but held the Red Sox to three runs on nine hits, striking out five and walking one in the Orioles' 6-5 win over Boston.
Chen left the game with a 4-3 lead, a runner on second and one out in the sixth. Josh Stinson escaped the sixth, but allowed two runs (one unearned) in the seventh. The Orioles regained the lead on Steve Pearce's two-run double in the eighth.
"This is the last start for this year," Chen said through interpreter Tim Lin. "I definitely wanted to finish on a good note and finish strong. This year, you can tell, there were a lot of ups and downs, so that's a lesson I have to learn and improve. And next year, I'll come back stronger."
Chen (7-7), who led last year's club with 12 wins and 192 2/3 innings, ended the season with no-decisions in each of his past six starts. He also lost four of his past five decisions dating to the beginning of August.
Over Chen's past 10 starts, he was 1-3 with 5.55 ERA.
In his first 13 starts of the season, Chen recorded five starts of seven or more innings. But over his final 10 starts, he reached seven innings just once and twice wasn't able to get an out in the fifth inning.
That was partially because of inflated pitch counts that prompted early exits.
When Chen goes seven or more innnings, the Orioles are 13-2 and Chen is 11-1. When he goes five innings or fewer, the Oriole are 3-10.
An oblique strain cost Chen nearly two months from mid-May to mid-July. But Chen allowed three or fewer runs in 11 of his first 12 starts, including a five-start span from July 10 to Aug. 4 in which he went seven or more innings four times.
"This is really important to me, to not only go deep but also to limit my pitch count," Chen said through Lin. "I wasted too [many pitches] in the first couple innings, and this is a lesson I have to learn. This is my priority next spring, to go deeper as a starter and also just limit my pitch count.
"I can tell there's a lot of stuff I can work on. I can't tell you here, but I definitely will work harder and get stronger next year."


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Advertiser Matt Griffin YMCA holding 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament March 15
Advertiser Matt Griffin YMCA will be holding a 3-on-3 "Lucky Shot" Basketball Tournament on Saturday, March 15.
The fun starts at 10 a.m., with check-in at 9 a.m.
Cost is $45 per 3-person team or $50 per 4-person team.
"Join the Matt Griffin YMCA on St. Patrick's Day weekend as we host our 2nd annual Lucky Shot 3-on-3 basketball tournament!" reads an announcement. "Proceeds benefit our Annual Campaign, supporting youth and families in the SeaTac and surrounding communities."
Space is limited, and payments must be received at the time of registration, and can be made at the front desk via cash, check, credit card or online.
To register, visit www.seattleymca.donordrive.com/participant/2103
WHEN: Saturday, March 15, 10:00am (check in begins at 9:00am)
COST: $45/per 3 person team, $50/per 4 person team (proceeds benefit the 2014 Annual Campaign)
PAYMENT: Payments must be received at the time of registration and can be made at the front desk via cash, check or credit card or online at
AGE: 16 and older
DEADLINE: March 14
CONTACT: Kimi Lee King, [email protected] or 206.787.1178.
Pick up a team packet at the front desk or register online and it will be sent to you.
All teams must fill out a registration packet and return to the Y no later than March 14th.
- Teams are allowed up to 3-4 people, men and/or women.
- Games will be on a running 15 minute clock.
- 24 team maximum allowed.
- Double elimination bracket.
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The dust hadn't even settled from Operation Desert Storm after Iraq invaded Kuwait in the early 1990s when I received an advertisement for a book predicting that this was the beginning of the end. Armageddon was about to be fought, the author said. In the book, the author painted a vivid picture of Russia coming down to support the Arabs and the United States moving in to support Israel. Earth's final battle was surely just around the corner. And the author assured his readers that it would be fought in Israel's Valley of Megiddo.
The word "Armageddon" comes from two Hebrew words: Har, meaning "mountain," and mageddon, meaning "Megido," that is, Mount Megiddo. There is no Mount Megiddo in the Middle East or anywhere else in the world. However, the Valley of Megiddo in Israel is located near Mount Carmel where Elijah confronted the priests of Baal nearly 3,000 years ago.
Many people today believe that Armageddon will be fought between two groups of nations on our planet. But is that view correct?
Where it All Began
Thousands of years ago, a powerful angel named Lucifer, now called Satan, rebelled against God, and he gained a huge following among heaven's angels. Satan and his followers were expelled from heaven and cast to the earth (Revelation 12:9), and their struggle against God has continued on Earth ever since.
Armageddon will simply be the final battle in that conflict. Right now this war doesn't seem real. You and I can chat about it in the same detached way we talk about Rome's conquest of Greece 2,000 years ago. But the conflict between Greece and Rome is history; no one will ever feel the terror of that war again.
Armageddon, on the other hand, is still to come, and one of these days it will be very real. Here is one of Revelation's most important statements that helps to clarify what Armageddon is about. "The dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to make war against the rest of her offspring" (Revelation 12:17).
The dragon is a symbol for Satan—the devil. The woman and her offspring represent "those who obey God's commandments and hold to the testimony of Jesus" (verse 17). So this war is between Satan and God's people. Of course, Satan does not personally attack God's people in this war. He attacks them through his surrogates on earth, especially earth's political and religious powers that are opposed to God and His truth. John introduces us to one of these in the very next chapter of Revelation.
John describes a powerful creature that stalked out of the ocean: "I saw a beast coming out of the sea. He had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on his horns, and on each head a blasphemous name" (Revelation 13:1). John went on to say that people all over the world will follow this beast. They will ask, " 'Who is like the beast? Who can make war against him?'" (verse 4). This beast is invincible! Or is it? Revelation says this beast was "given power to make war against the saints" (verse 7).
The reason why the beast fights against God's people is that they resist him. They will pay a heavy price for their resistance, though. Revelation goes on to say that the beast will conquer the saints. God's people appear to be doomed. However, before we reach that conclusion, let's find out what else Revelation says about this war.
War with the Scarlet Beast
The next reference to a war comes in Revelation 17. This chapter describes events in the world immediately prior to Christ's second coming. It opens with a description of a prostitute riding on a scarlet beast, which, like the beast in chapter 13, has seven heads and 10 horns. And it also attacks God's people, as we shall see.
Revelation says that the 10 horns on this beast represent 10 kings " 'who for one hour will receive authority as kings along with the beast'" (Revelation 17:12). Kings means "heads of state," which in our day can include presidents and prime ministers. These kings represent the nations over which they rule.
Now note this: Revelation says that these kings—the nations of the world— will "make war against the Lamb" (verse 14). The "Lamb" is a symbol of Jesus Christ. So the beast and the nations of the world will join the devil on one side, while Jesus will be on the other. However, since Christ's second coming is still in the future at this point in Revelation, their attack will not be on Him personally. They will attack Him in the person of His saints. So are God's people doomed? Not at all. Verse 14 says that "the Lamb will overcome them [earth's nations] because he is Lord of lords and King of kings."
How the War Ends
Christ's actual victory over earth's rebellious political and religious powers is described in Revelation 19, and here Jesus Christ personally joins the battle. Verse 11 says, "I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and makes war." The Rider on the horse is Jesus. Revelation goes on to say that "the armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean" (verse 14). Adventists believe the phrase "armies of heaven" refers to the angels (chapter 12:7-9).
On the other side, John says that "the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against the rider on the horse and his army" (chapter 19:19). This is the battle of Armageddon, and it's also a symbolic description of Christ's second coming. The striking thing about Revelation's description is that when Christ returns to our world, the Bible says that the world's leaders and their armies will try to defeat Him.
But Christ will not be defeated. Revelation says that "the beast was captured, and . .. thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur" (verses 20). You just read the question in Revelation 13:4, " 'Who can make war against him [the beast]?'" Chapter 19 answers that question: Jesus, the Rider on the white horse, can make war against the beast—and defeat him. Armageddon is a battle between Christ and His people on one side and Satan and his forces of evil on the other. Throughout most of world history, Satan and his followers have appeared to have the upper hand. That's why Revelation 13:7 says that the beast conquered the saints. However, the tide will turn in the final battle of this ages-long war—what Revelation calls the battle of Armageddon. At this point, Jesus Himself will enter the fray, and earth's evil forces will be doomed.
What difference does it make?
It's easy to think that the battle of Armageddon doesn't have much to do with you and me. However, as we've seen, Armageddon is simply the final battle in a war that's been going on ever since time began on our planet. And it isn't just a war for control of our planet. It's a war for the control of your mind and mine. Satan and Jesus are both trying to win us to their side. For thousands of years, Satan has tried desperately to compel people to join his side. He especially uses earth's political powers to try to force us into yielding to him.
Jesus will never do that. Those who join His side will do so by their own free choice, unfettered by any compulsion on His part. The issue in the conflict is whose side we will join. It will be too late to make a choice when Armageddon is fought. Those who are on the winning side in earth's final battle will be those who are choosing to be on the winning side right now. It's a choice Jesus invites you and me to make today. Which side are you choosing to be on during the battle of Armageddon?
This article originally appeared in Signs of the Times magazine, March, 2010.


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