By Associated Press, Published: May 21
AMMAN, Jordan — Jordan’s King Abdullah II urged U.S. businessmen visiting the kingdom Saturday to make bigger investments in Jordan, saying they should not be dissuaded by the popular uprisings that have unseated two Arab leaders and threatened others.
Abdullah said investing in Jordan allows them access to three continents, 350 million Arab consumers and a cheap, bilingual and skilled Jordanian labor force.
Some protests calling for political changes have been held in Jordan, but the country has not seen the kind of serious unrest that has hit other Arab nations.
Abdullah addressed American businessmen from companies including Hilton Hotels, Cisco Systems Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Corp., General Electric Co., Citigroup Inc., Raytheon Co. and Boeing Co.
One of the attending firms, the global entertainment organization Rubicon Group Holding, announced it will design and produce a 184-acre theme park in the Red Sea city of Aqaba at a projected cost of $1 billion.
Rubicon said in a statement that the Red Sea Astrarium will feature an attraction inspired by the 2009 movie “Star Trek” and developed by Paramount Recreation.
The statement said the project, which is due for completion in 2014, will generate employment for more than 500 high-skilled workers in the local community and will incorporate renewable technologies throughout the facility.
Rubicon, which is specialized in digital content production for entertainment and education, is headquartered in Jordan with subsidiaries in Los Angeles and two other locations worldwide.
So as I have announced in the past, I am the Associate Director of Themed Entertainment at Rubicon and am currently directing the creative content that will be produced in The Red Sea Astrarium. This is a very exciting time for me and my team to be a part of a huge project, but something that His Majesty believes can bring about major change to a region with huge potential. If you are interested in being a part of this, I am staffing up as fast as I can find qualified people. Get a hold of me!
Monday, May 23, 2011
Monday, May 2, 2011
This is the wrong kind of dance.
It was an interesting experience to not be in the know last night. My wife and I were playing the Wii and then we watched a movie together, so I never even heard the news of what had happened in the world until I was plugging my phone in to go to bed and noticed that ALL of facebook nation and something to say about the death of Osama Bin Laden.
First of all, I really don't like getting my news from Facebook. Not sure whether its because I now feel like I am behind, or I am just bugged that everyone has to post the same thing, twice...on their status line, but I don't like it.
Actually, I think the thing that bothers me is the immense spectrum of responses that came through in light of the news. And perhaps that is what is most un-nerving about all of this. I feel that, as a nation, perhaps we have gone a little off the deep end with this news. Is America more great then it was yesterday? Is "F*^$ Pakistan" really the best response? But most of all, is dancing on the grave of someone else really what this all boils down to? I thought we as a people were better than that (who am I kidding?).
Now don't get me wrong, I am not any different, in many regards than the country as a whole; I just happened to come online and read everything post-news break and had the opportunity to think before responding. So please don't think I am taking the Holier-than-thou approach (as I have noticed most of my posts are); but I am very concerned with how happy we are of the death of another human being. Relieved? Great. Closure? Fine. But Happy? Doesn't seem right. To me, some of the Facebook posts I read last night seemed way too self-righteous and "ass-kicking, gun-toting, Jack Bower owned your Islam ranting, muslim preaching, terrorist-mongering piece of trash."
We should be better than that. Regardless of our views, and I share them; despite what we feel, and I feel it; we need to find some reverence in the fact that we as a country have had to resort to killing another man. A life was ended. And while it was deserved, and very much coming for some time, we should in no way be spitefully dancing on the grave of the deceased. This is not that kind dance. We need to be better than that.
First of all, I really don't like getting my news from Facebook. Not sure whether its because I now feel like I am behind, or I am just bugged that everyone has to post the same thing, twice...on their status line, but I don't like it.
Actually, I think the thing that bothers me is the immense spectrum of responses that came through in light of the news. And perhaps that is what is most un-nerving about all of this. I feel that, as a nation, perhaps we have gone a little off the deep end with this news. Is America more great then it was yesterday? Is "F*^$ Pakistan" really the best response? But most of all, is dancing on the grave of someone else really what this all boils down to? I thought we as a people were better than that (who am I kidding?).
Now don't get me wrong, I am not any different, in many regards than the country as a whole; I just happened to come online and read everything post-news break and had the opportunity to think before responding. So please don't think I am taking the Holier-than-thou approach (as I have noticed most of my posts are); but I am very concerned with how happy we are of the death of another human being. Relieved? Great. Closure? Fine. But Happy? Doesn't seem right. To me, some of the Facebook posts I read last night seemed way too self-righteous and "ass-kicking, gun-toting, Jack Bower owned your Islam ranting, muslim preaching, terrorist-mongering piece of trash."
We should be better than that. Regardless of our views, and I share them; despite what we feel, and I feel it; we need to find some reverence in the fact that we as a country have had to resort to killing another man. A life was ended. And while it was deserved, and very much coming for some time, we should in no way be spitefully dancing on the grave of the deceased. This is not that kind dance. We need to be better than that.
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