The Saint and the Sultan: The Crusades, Islam and Francis of Assisi’s Mission of Peace

The Saint and the Sultan: The Crusades, Islam and Francis of Assisi’s Mission of Peace Paul Moses New York: Doubleday, 200

Morse subsets of CAT(0) spaces are strongly contracting

We prove that Morse subsets of CAT(0) spaces are strongly contracting. This generalizes and simplifies a result of Sultan, who proved it for Morse quasi-geodesics. Our proof goes through the recurrence characterization of Morse subsets.Comment: 3 page

The Indian Community and Its Economic Activity in Zanzibar During the 19th Century

The Indians were considered the main category working in trade in Zanzibar during the reign of Sultan Saeed Bin Sultan, the founder of the modern state of Zanzibar (1806-1856). The Indian traders got the appreciation and respect of Saeed Bin Sultan and they were allowed to work in trade in the region and he treated them as local traders in order to establish a commercial empire. Hence most of the Indian traders came during his rule, and in 1835, as the case with others, they came with the seasonal wind. The Indian traders were Muslims and Hindu, but they didn't consider Zanzibar as their homeland, they used to travel to India and come back. Among them, the Moslem Bahara became prominent, most of them were rich traders, who lived in Zanzibar and took it as their homeland. The Indian traders succeeded in supporting the economics of Zanzibar and financing the Arab commercial projects and developing the internal trade. Some of them succeeded in possessing large farms of cloves. And because of their commercial activity and their economic status they succeeded in establishing an excellent social position and they taught their children reading and writing. On the other side Britain encouraged the Indians to migrate to Eastern Africa because of its need for the technical Indian working class and handcraft to make use of their experience. Hence the important role of the Indian merchants in the trade of Eastern Africa came

Relationship between education, health and crime: fable, fallacy or fact

The study is an empirical evaluation of specific criminal activities. The relationship of criminal activities with inflation, unemployment, investment, education and health are examined through an annual data set from 1980 to 2007. To test the order of integration, Augmented Dickey Fuller test and Philips Perron are used. To find the evidences of long run relationship, Cointegrating Regression Durban Watson, Engle Granger two step procedure and Johansen and Juselis method is used. Results show that education and health have a positive and significant relationship with most of the criminal activities in the study. Another unusual finding is that inflation and unemployment are insignificant in case of two out of three crimes, however, investment is found highly significant and negatively related with these crimes. The study indicates that an educated, healthy and legally employed person can also be involved in unsophisticated blue collar criminal activities.Education; health; Crime

Jubli Perak Kosass UPM disambut penuh istiadat

SERDANG, 26 Julai – Kolej Sultan Alaeddin Suleiman Shah (KOSASS) Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) telah mencatatkan sejarah yang tersendiri apabila Sultan Selangor, Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah Ibni Almarhum Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah telah menyerikan perasmian Jubli Perak KOSASS UPM baru-baru ini

Sultan To Launch UPM College's Anniversary Do

The Sultan of Selangor Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah will launch the 25th anniversary celebrations of Universiti Putra Malaysia s Sultan Alaeddin Suleiman Shah College