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Firm Recognized by Private Asset Management (PAM) Magazine for the Firm's Excellence in Investments and Client Service
ATLANTA, March 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ - Atlantic Trust, the U.S. private wealth management division of CIBC (CM: NYSE) (CM: TSX)—has been recognized by Private Asset Management (PAM), a financial services industry trade publication, as Best Private Wealth Manager—New Product and Best Multi-Family Office—Client Service among firms over $2.5 billion in assets under management (AUM). The 2014 PAM Awards were announced last week at a ceremony in New York.
"This recognition is a nice acknowledgement of our growing reputation for delivering the highest quality client experience," said Eric Propper, CFA, president of Atlantic Trust. "We strive to remain innovative with investments yet still achieve attractive returns for our clients. These awards underscore Atlantic Trust's ongoing commitment to keep our clients' interests at the center of all we do and emphasize our unique wealth management approach based on transparency, objectivity and trust."
In addition to these awards, Atlantic Trust has also been short-listed for the Lifetime Achievement award from Family Wealth Report (FWR) with the nomination of former chairman and managing director Edward I. "Ed" Rudman . Mr. Rudman, co-founder of Boston-based Pell Rudman, which merged with Atlantic Trust in 2001, has long been recognized as a leader in the field of wealth management, most recently being named by Family Office Exchange (FOX) as an Industry Pioneer and Thought Leader at its 20-year anniversary forum.
PAM annually invites firms to compete for awards in several categories and then a panel of independent industry experts selects the nominees and winners. PAM says that it considers the following criteria when selecting the winners of these awards:
- Financial progress: Candidates must be able to demonstrate performance track-records over the course of the last twelve months
- Growth: Client numbers, internal hires and geographic expansion
- Client satisfaction: Provide evidence of client satisfaction, including anecdotes and direct client statements
- Product innovation: Details of new services and products launched over the course of the year prior to the award date
This award follows Atlantic Trust's previous PAM wins as Best Wealth Manager: Long-Term Performance (3 years) in 2013, Best Private Client Investment Platform—Performance in 2012 and Best Private Wealth Manager in Overall Client Service in 2011.
Any reference to a ranking, a rating or an award provides no guarantee of future performance results, and is not necessarily indicative of any particular client's experience and is not constant over time.
Private Asset Management (PAM) annually invites firms to compete for awards in several categories. Each year a panel of independent industry experts selects the nominees and winners, considering the following criteria: 1) Financial progress: Candidates must be able to demonstrate performance track-records over the course of the last twelve months; 2) Growth: Client numbers, internal hires and geographic expansion; 3) Client satisfaction: Provide evidence of client satisfaction; 4) Product innovation: Details of new services and products launched over the course of the year prior to the year the award is given. For more information, visit www.pammagazine.com.
In 2014, Atlantic Trust was selected by PAM for the award of "Best Private Wealth Manager - New Product." The detailed information provided by Atlantic Trust for the award included information on a mutual fund that Atlantic Trust launched in 2013. Three firms were shortlisted for this award and Atlantic Trust was the only firm selected for the recognition. In 2014, Atlantic Trust was selected by PAM for the award of "Best Multi-Family Office - Client Service - Over $2.5 Billion." The detailed information provided by Atlantic Trust for the award included information on both internal and external strategies. Five firms were shortlisted for this award and Atlantic Trust was the only firm selected for the recognition.
In 2013, Atlantic Trust was selected by PAM for the award of "Best Wealth Manager: Long-Term Performance (3 years). The detailed information provided by Atlantic Trust for the award included information on both internal and external strategies. Of the six firms shortlisted by PAM in this category, Atlantic Trust was the only firm selected for the award.
In 2012, Atlantic Trust was selected by PAM for the award of "Best Private Client Investment Platform—Performance" based on information provided by Atlantic Trust. Ten firms entered the category for this award and four firms were shortlisted, of which Atlantic Trust was the only firm selected for the award. In response to PAM's question about "how [we] have developed our [investment] offering in 2011" regarding "product innovation, performance and how [we] dealt with the challenges of the last year," Atlantic Trust provided an overview of our investment approach and recent asset allocation recommendations, as well as highlights of proprietary performance. Atlantic Trust provided detailed performance information for the Atlantic Trust Disciplined Equity Strategy. Atlantic Trust did not provide detailed performance information with respect to the more than 50 other proprietary and externally managed strategies available on our platform. Thus, the reference to "investment platform—performance" in the award should not be misconstrued as suggesting that PAM conducted a comprehensive review of all of the strategies on our platform.
In 2011, of the five firms shortlisted by PAM for the "Best Private Wealth Manager in Overall Client Service" rating, Atlantic Trust was the only firm selected for the award.
About Atlantic Trust
Atlantic Trust is one of the nation's leading private wealth management firms, offering integrated wealth management for high-net-worth individuals, families, foundations and endowments. The firm considers clients' financial, trust, estate planning and philanthropic needs in developing customized asset allocation and investment management strategies. Experienced professionals deliver a broad range of solutions, including proprietary investment offerings and a robust open architecture platform of traditional and alternative managers. Atlantic Trust operates in 12 full-service locations throughout the U.S. with $24.0 billion in assets under management (as of December 31, 2013). For more information, visit www.atlantictrust.com.
About CIBC
CIBC is a leading Canadian-based global financial institution. Through our Retail and Business Banking, Wealth Management and Wholesale Banking businesses, CIBC provides a full range of financial products to individual, small business, commercial, corporate and institutional clients in Canada and around the world.
CIBC Wealth Management provides relationship-based advisory services and an extensive suite of leading investment solutions to meet the needs of personal, institutional and high-net-worth clients through an extensive distribution network that includes CIBC Private Wealth Management, CIBC Wood Gundy and CIBC Investor's Edge. Our asset management, retail brokerage and private wealth management businesses combine to create an integrated offer, delivered through nearly 1,500 advisors across Canada. In addition, CIBC Asset Management provides global money manager services to institutional and high-net-worth clients and industry-leading retail investment solutions through our two mutual fund families—CIBC and Renaissance—and the CIBC family of managed portfolio solutions.
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The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities: Kiara Advani, who plays the female lead in MS Dhoni: The Untold Story, took to Twitter to share the latest poster of the film. The actress tweeted, 'Here it is!!! The 3rd poster of #MSDhoniTheUntoldStory The journey of our legend will be unveiled on September 30th.' Starring Sushant Singh Rajput in the titular role, the film is directed by Neeraj Pandey and also stars Anupam Kher, Disha Patani and Bhumika Chawla. *** ...Rediff.com, 2 days ago What Dhoni Learnt About His Parents From Biopic Starring Sushant NDTV, 1 week ago Dhoni & Sushant to unveil the 1st trailer of MS Dhoni: The Untold Story in Jalandhar, Delhi & Mumbai Pink Villa, 2 weeks ago Ravichandran Ashwin crushes fan theories about his 'late' birthday wishes for MS Dhoni ZeeNews.com, 1 month ago
Binny, Mishra Named in India Squad for West Indies T20Is in Florida
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Kohli's message after taking over from Dhoni was clear: Gun for wins, says Rohit
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Photos: India celebrates Independence Day
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Stats / Wriddhiman Saha equals Dhoni's record
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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: Their love in pictures ten years on
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Despite their engagement in April 2012 when the heart throb presented his leading lady with a flawless diamond the supercouple have yet to walk down the aisle. Could 2014 be the year cinema's most photogenic duo make it official?
Their biggest fans - the six Jolie-Pitt children - couldn't have been more excited.
The wedding was partly a response to their wishes. Talking about their feelings on the subject, Brad said: "We'd actually like to (get married), and it seems to mean more and more to our kids."
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Australia and China, a changing partnership
You don't need me to tell you we lucked out when we sited our island continent not too far from China. But will our luck hold?
You don't need me to tell you we lucked out when we sited our island continent not too far from China. But will our luck hold?
Chinese policymakers have resorted to traditional levers to juice the economy this year: investment, public-sector spending, and monetary expansion.
Cheng Wei, 34, was once assistant to the head of a foot massage firm. A fortnight ago, his company Didi Chuxing bagged Uber's China business in a deal valuing his ride-hailing start-up at $35 billion.
Tesla removed a term for "self-driving" from its China website after a Beijing crash.
China's consumer price inflation accelerated at its weakest pace in six months as food prices rose at a slower pace, although the long decline in upstream prices continued to moderate.
When it comes to China's multi-billion dollar fast food industry, Yum! Brands and McDonald's Corp. are living large.
What looks today like Uber's capitulation, albeit an extremely rational one, may tomorrow look like a strategic retreat that helped it win a global war.
Activity in China's manufacturing sector unexpectedly shrank in July, reinforcing fears the economy may once again be losing momentum.
On the prospects for China's economy, it's easy to be wrong. We analyse unfamiliar things by comparing them with things we understand, but China is one of a kind.
AMP remains committed to China despite winding up ASX-listed China fund
It is all but certain the AMP Capital China Growth fund will be wound up, with early voting intentions signalling the plan to liquidate the fund will receive the backing of most shareholders.
Against the backdrop of firming coal prices as China's moves to force through domestic coal production cuts, BHP Billiton via its joint venture with Mitsubishi Corp, is among bidders for Anglo American's Australian coking coal assets, which could cost as much as $US1.5 billion.
Only a matter of months after it failed in a bid to take control of a languishing fund invested in Japan, LIM Advisors push to wind up the AMP China Fund managed may be headed for a better outcome
A majority of Chinese tourists plan to maintain or increase their travel spending this year.
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How a Chinese tourism boom, and a slide in the number Australians jetting to Bangkok, symbolises big changes in our economy.
Jailed for five years in China on what he says was trumped-up charges, Australian businessman Matthew Ng is determined he can rebuild his life and fortune.
Billionaire Jack Ma is taking the challenge to Apple and Google by pushing Alibaba Group into the car business, joining the global battle to control the automobile dashboard.
Predictions of a Chinese banking system bailout are going mainstream.
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Growth in China's manufacturing sector stalled in June, adding to expectations that Beijing will have to roll out more stimulus soon to boost the sluggish economy.
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Matt Ryan: Julio Jones 'doing OK' after ankle injury
Julio Jones gave his fans a scare when he left Thursday night's preseason game with an ankle injury. The Falcons termed Jones questionable to return to the team's game against the Miami Dolphins, but he was held out for the rest of the game as a precaution. @Jefflosh @The_Jerk_Forum Low ankle sprain mechanism for Julio Jones. Stayed on sideline. pic.twitter.com/VDLXN34gV1�...
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QUIZ: Name every prominent quarterback in the history of the Atlanta Falcons
While there are a few obscure quarterbacks who threw passes for the Atlanta Falcons, the QBs featured in this quiz were the 'top passer' for the team that year, according to the number of yards passing. We have identified only 16 (with some repeats), how many of them can you name? Clue: Years active
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Watch Matt Ryan Get Picked Off By His Offensive Coordinator
Training camp is a time for NFL teams to work out the kinks on both sides of the ball before continuing to workshop their performance through the four-game pre-season. It's a time to get mistakes and turnovers out of the way, when things don't count, the goal being to avoid looking foolish once the regular season begins. Usually, this is done in the privacy of team facilities....
Matt Ryan: Deflategate will not affect Brady's legacy
Whether he deserves it or not, Tom Brady is going to have a four-game suspension on his resume when his playing career comes to an end. Will that negatively impact his legacy? Matt Ryan doesn't think so. TMZ recently caught up with Ryan to get his opinion on Deflategate. When asked specifically if it puts a stain on what Brady has accomplished, Ryan defended the Patriots quarterback...
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Matt Ryan: Matthew Stafford will find a way without Calvin Johnson
Matthew Stafford is cautiously preparing for a future without star receiver Calvin Johnson, and Matt Ryan knows a little about moving on after a premier target retires. Ryan threw passes to Tony Gonzalez — who has the fifth-most receiving yards in league history — for five seasons before the Hall of Fame-bound tight end hung up his cleats, but the Atlanta Falcons quarterback...
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Matt Ryan is no longer a franchise quarterback
"Had a spark when you started but now you're just garbage/Fell from top 10 to not mentioned at all…" — Jay Z from "Takeover" on The Blueprint (2001) Do you remember a time when Matty Ice was regarded as a top 10 quarterback in the NFL? As recently as a few seasons ago, Ryan was at the helm of a potent Atlanta Falcons offense, a team that regularly dominated the...
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Report: Matt Ryan overwhelmed by Kyle Shanahan's offense
Matt Ryan is reportedly frustrated with the Atlanta offense and finds Kyle Shanahan's playbook overwhelming at times. Ryan has "raised his voice" about offensive concerns behind closed doors, according to an ESPN.com report Sunday, and has admitted to being occasionally overwhelmed by the playbook. Shanahan, the team's first year offensive coordinator, defended his offense...
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Matt Ryan becomes fourth-youngest QB with 30,000 passing yards
Matt Ryan turned the big three-oh this year. Now he's surpassed the big three-oh-oh-oh-oh. Ryan became the fourth-youngest quarterback to reach 30,000 career passing yards during the Falcons' game at Tennessee. Matt Ryan: 4th-youngest QB to reach 30,000 passing yards (age 30) 3 younger: Dan Marino, Peyton Manning, Brett Favre (via @eliassports) — ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo...
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Report: No pitch count for Julio Jones vs. Saints
Welcome to the conclusion of the week of not-necessarily-conflicting-but-ever-changing reports surrounding Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Julio Jones. According to Tracy Wolfson of CBS Sports, Falcons head coach "Dan Quinn told me Julio Jones will play and he will NOT be on a pitch count. Said he feels better than last week." Throughout the week, reports progressed from doubtful...
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2015 NFL Draft Predictions: NFC South
After a season in which they were probably the worst division in the NFL with each team struggling mightily on defense, I am betting on them going defense early and often in the upcoming 2015 NFL draft. Someone has to win the division; a good draft could push anyone of these teams into the postseason. Atlanta Falcons Needs: OT, DE, OLB, S, RB Possible first round picks: Shane...
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This is the first time three health care recipients were winners in the same year. The fourth 2011 winner, in the nonprofit category, is Concordia Publishing House, the St. Louis-based publishing arm of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.
U.S. Commerce Secretary John Bryson on Nov. 22 announced four organizations -- three health care operations and one nonprofit publishing company – have won 2011 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Awards for performance excellence through innovation, improvement, and visionary leadership. This is the first time three health care organizations have been selected in a single year.
The largest health care organization among the three is Henry Ford Health System, which is based in Detroit and operates six hospitals, as well as outpatient behavioral health, nursing homes, hospices, dialysis centers, and optometry and home medical products. HFHS employs 24,322 people, 2,200 independent community physicians, and 3,334 volunteers. Its 2010 revenue was $4.08 billion, according to Commerce Department data.
The other two health care recipients are Schneck Medical Center in Seymour, Ind., and Southcentral Foundation in Anchorage, Alaska. Concordia Publishing House, the St. Louis-based publishing arm of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, also won in the nonprofit category.
"With innovative practices, an unwavering commitment to excellence, dynamic management, and proven results, the four organizations recognized today with the 2011 Baldrige Award will serve as role models -— not only for their peers in the health care, nonprofit, and business sectors, but for every American organization that strives for a higher standard of performance and never settles for second best," Bryson said.
There were 69 applicants for the awards this year, all of which were evaluated by an independent board of examiners in seven areas defined by the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence: leadership; strategic planning; customer focus; measurement, analysis, and knowledge management; workforce focus; operations focus; and results. The evaluation process included about 1,000 hours of review and an on-site visit by a team of examiners.
The winners will receive their awards at an April 2012 ceremony in Washington, D.C. These awards are named after Malcolm Baldrige, a secretary of Commerce, and were established by Congress in 1987 to enhance the competitiveness and performance of U.S. businesses. Congress expanded the program in 1999 to include education and health care organizations and again in 2007 to include nonprofit organizations. For more information, go to http://www.nist.gov/baldrige.
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Dr. William Woolfitt, assistant professor of English at Lee University, has won the 2013 Texas Review Breakthrough Poetry Prize for his collection of poetry, "Beauty Strip."
"Beauty Strip" focuses on the landscapes and living things of Appalachia, protests the industrialization that results in ruin, and celebrates the human ability to remake, redeem, and find shelter and homes.
"I'd say that the structure of 'Beauty Strip' is part sketchbook, part dreambook," said Dr. Woolfitt. "It maps and ruminates on, haunts and is haunted by, the mountaintop removal sites and mill towns, the salt-works and bloomeries, that have scarred the land from West Virginia to Virginia to Tennessee."
Dr. Woolfitt joined Lee's Department of Language and Literature in fall 2012, where he teaches creative writing and American literature. He is the author of two chapbooks, "The Salvager's Arts," co-winner of the Keystone Prize, and "The Boy with Fire in His Mouth," winner of the Epiphany Editions contest.
Dr. Woolfitt's poems and stories appear in such publications as Shenandoah, Michigan Quarterly Review, Threepenny Review, New Ohio Review, Appalachian Heritage, The Cincinnati Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Ninth Letter, River Styx, Virginia Quarterly Review's Instapoetry Series, and Tin House's Flash Friday series. Recently, Woolfitt also took runner-up in the 2013 Gold Line Press Fiction Chapbook Competition.
The Texas Review Press publishes between 20 and 23 titles a year, including the winners of four international competitions and an annual Southern poetry anthology, making it one of the most productive literary presses in the Southwest.
For more information on the Texas Review Press, please visit http://www.shsu.edu/~www_trp/index.html.
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Dr. Jerome Boone, professor of Old Testament and Christian formation at Lee, has co-authored with his wife, Sandra Boone, a book released at the end of July titled "Thanksgiving Psalms: A Path to Praise." The book was released by the Department of Adult Discipleship in the Church of God and is written as an inductive Bible study on the thanksgiving psalms. According to ... (click for more)
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When the California Supreme Court announced last week that it would not hear a landmark case (Vergara v. California) you didn't hear much about it, but when Hamilton County employs almost 30 percent of teachers that are deemed to be "the least effective" by any measure, it's time for somebody outside our classrooms to start paying very close attention. I was amazed that last ... (click for more)


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2013 Brandon Blast 4th of July Fireworks
Jul 4, 2013 | 5:00 PM | Thursday
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Neighborhood: Brandon
Brandon, FL 33511
Celebrate 4th of July in Brandon with this great event featuring live music, family entertainment, kids activities, and more.
Start on : July 4, 2013 5:00 PM Thursday
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The 10th Annual Brandon Blast is taking place on Thursday, July 4 at the Westfield Brandon Mall in the Restaurant Courtyard in front of The Cheesecake Factory and California Pizza Kitchen.
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The 2013 Brandon Blast Fireworks display will blast off at 9pm!
Where is the best place to watch the fireworks in Brandon? The Westfield Brandon Mall is certainly the place to be but if you want to avoid the crowds and traffic, you can also see the fireworks from shopping centers and parking lots around Causeway Boulevard.
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"Interview With the Vampire" is the story of Louis, a grieving young widower and plantation owner, whose life is turned upside down when he meets the charming vampire Lestat. Lestat offers him a way out: become a vampire. Louis accepts, but once it's done, he finds that vampirism is more than he bargained for -- especially for his conscience.
"The Vampire Lestat" takes a totally different tack, showing us the world through the enigmatic, charming Lestat's eyes. After years of dormancy, Lestat wakes up in time for the early MTV years of the 1980s, becoming a rock star in the tradition of Ozzy and Black Sabbath. And like Louis, Lestat relates his long life's story -- how he became a vampire, his wanderings over the earth, and his investigations into the origins of vampirism itself...
"Queen of the Damned" builds on that research. Lestat's metal music has caused quite a bit of mayhem -- but not this much before: Akasha, Egyptian queen and mother of all vampires, has reawoken from her comalike sleep. The lesser vampires are having strange dreams, some are being murdered by the ruthless queen. Apparently she wants to kill all men. What is more, Akasha has taken a shine to the roguish Lestat himself...
"The Tale of the Body Thief" opens with lonely anti-hero Lestat deciding that he wants to be mortal again. At least temporarily.Read more ›
The vampires in this universe are elegant beings of the night who are very articulate and this traslates to immense description. This may bother some but once you get used to Rice's style, it could best be described as a dreamy flow of the subconscious and it works well for the series. The books take you all over the USA and much of Europe as well and Rice does a great job of creating these vampires that have very human qualities.
The series mainly centers around the title character Lestat. Lestat is a fascianting study of the flawed uber-vampire who does what he wants and refuses to conform to the vampire "rules". He knows he is not perfect but realizes the only way to live through immortality is to enjoy oneself whenever one can. The supporting cast has their fair share of interesting characters and the personalities of the vampires are really the heart of the series.
A couple of things Rice does makes her vampire world so fascinating. The vampires act as their own little microsociety with rules and taboos that are well thought out and extremely interesting. For example the longer a vampire makes before creating another vampire determines how powerfull that new vampire will be. There are complications to living forever that you never would of thought of.Read more ›
INTERVIEW: As I said, this remains one of my favorite books. Her ability to bring places to life is unparalleled; New Orleans remains on my "must visit before I die" list, thanks in large part to her. Louis is one of my favorite literary characters of all time; his internal ethical struggle is so in depth and real that I can almost feel his pain. The characters, the time, and the place are all so well developed and well done that I almost feel as if I am watching the goings on. By the way, the movie does not entirely do this book justice in my opinion; Brad Pitt did extremely well at portraying Louis' internal dilemma and severe depression, but Tom Cruise's Lestat fell flat for me. Ergo, if you weren't crazy about the movie don't let that stop you from giving the book a try.
THE VAMPIRE LESTAT: Excellent, and a must-read follow up to Interview, as you will never truly understand the first book (and certainly not the character of Lestat) without reading it. For anyone that doesn't know, The Vampire Lestat traces Lestat's life; including the time covered by Interview, so you get to see the story from Lestat's point of view. It has several very significant eye-openers that help to explain why Lestat was the way he was with Louis. It will totally change the way you view the character. Kudos to Anne for her ability to so totally change the way you feel about a character just by changing the point of view.
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The most important starting point is to recognise that American policy is the most critical issue. No amount of public diplomacy will convince Arabs or Muslims to embrace American actions they detest. The Bush administration's conception of public diplomacy generally involved putting lipstick on a pig — attempting to sell policies formulated in isolation from their likely reception. Even when public diplomacy officials had a seat at the table, they have had little influence on shaping decisions.
Improved public diplomacy from Obama — including his still unscheduled big speech in a Muslim capital — will be valuable, but only if it's accompanied by policy changes as well. Getting out of Iraq will help. Seriously engaging in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process will help. And supporting democracy more consistently will help. But if the PIPA poll is accurate, it's going to be a long, hard slog. There's a helluva lot of ground to be made up.


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There are no world changing theories put forward in this book, but it is a very insightful account into the culture and history of the early tribes of Israel and the forces and events that shaped the creation of two major religions. This subject matter is fairly complex and often in need of very thorough explanations. This makes the book somewhat strenuous to read, but to do the subject proper justice it is in my opinion a necessity.Read more ›
Lane Fox is not a biblical expert, but rather has used his expertise in the common currency of the historian, source criticism. Nonetheless he relies mainly on the work of others, and when he expresses preferences between possible variant conclusions, he (at least appears) to inform you of the alternatives.
Particularly interesting is the evidence that extensive parts of the bible have been compiled and edited from earlier by various early authors, and then later recompiled and re-edited, etc. We can infer the particular obsessions and agendas of the principal editors. The existence of the Dead Sea Scrolls, giving many variant texts, provides further evidence that old testament texts had a tendency towards revision in the light of political expediency.
The new testment is also examined. Unfortunately a clear conclusion is not available on whether the letters attributed to St Paul have a single author. It also examines whether there is more than one John (gospel vs revelations).
The book is a hard read. The problem with a genre such as this is that an author can get away with crankiness and only experts would notice. The book does not appear to be an attempt at sensationalism, nor does the author have an obvious axe to grind, but he is nonetheless aiming at the wider historical market. I have given it 4 stars because it appears that he has apparently made accessible an important area of work that others prefer to obscure. That makes it an important book on my bookshelf.
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For the author, `we have scriptures in plenty, but the original scripture has been lost forever. By the time of Jesus nobody read the scriptures correctly, because nobody knew what they were.'
The text of the Bible is a result of padding and reinterpretation. The Christian scriptures were `a battlefield for rewriting and textual alterations.'
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There is absolutely no coherence to support a theory of biblical truth, a correspondence with what really happened, with the facts.
A few examples. The Bible contains blatant contradictories in its story of the Creation and the Flood. The 4 Christian Gospels do not give us one single truth. Jesus' birth date and age are false. Outside the Bible, there is no evidence that Moses, David, Solomon or Joshua ever lived.
The sanctity of the Bible and its consequences
What have the prophets of the Old Testament predicted about Jesus Christ or Christianity? Nothing.
Moreover, the belief that as God's word, the scriptures never err, has been prominent in evangelical Christianity with important consequences for the uses of the scriptures in Christian missions throughout the world.
For Robin Lane Fox, `the theology of a single, jealous God, who required total love from his chosen people, had clear, earthly consequences. Yahweh ordered genocide against the unbelieving neighbors. Within Israel, those who broke the rules of behavior were to be killed by communal punishments.Read more ›
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Lane Fox appears to have two aims in writing this book: firstly, to cast doubt on practically all the historical material in the Bible, secondly, to persuade his readers that the... Read morePublished 15 months ago by Mr. J. Hastings
People say Charles Dickens books gives us a picture of the life and times of society during his life, like reading Sherlock Holmes stories where the goose was the Christmas bird... Read morePublished 19 months ago by Tai
An unbiased and wonderfully researched work by Mr Fox.
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It will make everyone who has read the Bible, and... Read more
If you want to know about the Bible and it's origins, this is probably the best overview. It details the chronology and origin of the Old Testament books and how the New Testament... Read morePublished 23 months ago by Mike Butler
This book is extremely interesting. It contains a wealth of information for anyone interested in the biblical text or that era of history. Read morePublished on 24 Aug. 2014 by Varian Beauregard
I wish I had been able to read this when being brought up as an evangelical Christian by my Salvation Army Officer parents. Read morePublished on 11 Mar. 2014 by Sam Merry
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