David Ji
David Longfen Ji is an American businessman who co-founded Apex Digital, an electronics manufacturer.
In 2004, he was arrested in China following a dispute with Sichuan Changhong Electric, a supplier owned by the city of Mianyang and the province of Sichuan.
Changhong accused him of defrauding them through bad checks.
Ji was taken, according to an account by his lawyer, to the senior management and told, "I decide whether you live or die."
He has been held in China without charges.
Ji's case highlighted an "implicit racism" in dealings with American businessmen.
As a U.S. citizen he was not granted the same treatment by authorities as non-ethnically Chinese businessmen sharing the same nationality.
Benjamin Rabier
Benjamin Rabier( 1864–1939) was a French illustrator, comic book artist and animator.
He became famous for creating" La vache qui rit" and is one of the precursors of animal comics.
His work has inspired many other artists, notably Hergé and Edmond- François Calvo.
A native of La Roche- sur- Yon, Vendée, Rabier started to work as an illustrator for various newspapers after meeting Caran d' Ache.
His first album for children was the story of" Tintin Lutin", published in 1887, which told of a young" lutin" or" imp"; here his main characters are human and not animals, as they came to be in later albums.
His most famous creations are Gideon the duck and the characters he drew for Le roman de Renart.
He died at Faverolles, Indre, in 1939.
Jim Tolle
Jim Tolle is an American Pastor, small college president, and radio host based in Los Angeles.
After graduating with a degree in theology, he began as an apprentice minister with the well- known pastor, Dr. Jack W. Hayford and eventually served as Senior Pastor at The Church On The Way, a very well known congregation in the city, which became one of the largest multicultural churches in the United States.
Since his retirement, he has pursued starting other multi-ethnic congregations.
Today, he pastors El Camino Metro Church,( see: El Camino Metro), which offers services in both Spanish and English.
Having begun the church in 2018, it has grown rapidly in rented facilities and has become an incubator for new leaders who have begun more than 50 other congregations.
Throughout his ministry, he has held numerous positions including that of being a church planter in Colombia and Argentina and the International Director of a global missions organization involving over 70,000 churches in 120 countries.
Jim is also well known as a radio host with his daily Spanish language program" Respuestas" which airs twice daily, reaching millions across the U.S. on the Radio Inspiración Network.
He is often called upon to share his insights with television, radio, and print media, including CBN, CNN, Fox Español, Univisión and Salem Broadcasting Network.
His influence has also extended to Washington, D.C., where he has testified before Congress and has been a participant in the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. Pastor Jim also serves on the board of directors of numerous organizations, including the National Association of Evangelicals( NAE), and the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Council( NHCLC).
Jim is passionate about helping people improve their lives through personal development and education.
He serves on the boards of several schools and has championed the cause of education both in the private and public school systems.
Pastor Jim is the president of El Camino Christian College, a school which he and his friend, Dr. Paul Chappell founded in 2014, which helps low- income students obtain college degrees.
( see: El Camino Christian College)
In his early adult years, Jim Tolle served in Vietnam in the U.S. Army.
Later, he became an entrepreneur, starting a number of successful small businesses.
He holds numerous degrees, both earned and honorary.
He and his wife, Alice, live in Los Angeles near their close- knit family.
Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle( born Ulrich Leonard Tölle, February 16, 1948) is a spiritual teacher.
He is a German- born resident of Canada best known as the author of" The Power of Now" and. In 2008," The New York Times" called Tolle" the most popular spiritual author in the United States".
In 2011, he was listed by" Watkins Review" as the most spiritually influential person in the world.
Tolle is not identified with any particular religion, but he has been influenced by a wide range of spiritual works.
Tolle said he was depressed for much of his life until age 29 when he underwent an" inner transformation".
He then spent several years wandering" in a state of deep bliss" before becoming a spiritual teacher.
He moved to Vancouver, British Columbia in 1995 and currently divides his time between Canada and California.
He began writing his first book," The Power of Now," in 1997 and it reached" The New York Times" Best Seller list in 2000.
" The Power of Now" and" A New Earth" sold an estimated three million and five million copies respectively in North America by 2009.
In 2008, approximately 35 million people participated in a series of 10 live webinars with Tolle and television talk show host Oprah Winfrey.
In 2016, Tolle was named in Oprah's" SuperSoul 100" list of visionaries and influential leaders.
A New Earth
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life ’s Purpose is a self- help book by Eckhart Tolle.
First published in 2005, it sold 5 million copies in North America by 2009.
In 2008 it was selected for Oprah's Book Club and featured in a series of 10 weekly webinars with Tolle and Oprah Winfrey.
René Bull
René Bull was a British illustrator and photographer.
He was born in Dublin on 11 December 1872 to a French mother and an English father.
He went to Paris to study engineering, but embarked on an artistic career after meeting and taking drawing lessons from the French satirist and political cartoonist Caran d' Ache( Emmanuel Poiré).
Bull returned to Ireland to contribute sketches and political cartoons to various publications, including the' Weekly Freeman'.
Moving to London in 1892, Bull drew for" Illustrated Brits" and created cartoons in the style of Caran d'Ache for' Pick- Me- Up' from 1893.
In 1896 Bull joined" Black and White" illustrated newspaper as a special artist and photographer.
In 1898, he covered the Tirah Campaign in India and went on to Sudan for the campaign culminating in the Battle of Omdurman.
He went to South Africa to record the Boer War until the relief of Ladysmith in March 1900.
As he was wounded in 1900, Bull was invalided out.
He settled in England and drew cartoons for such magazines as" Bystander ChumsLondon Opinion Lika Joko".
In" The Sketch" Bull created cartoons of humorous inventions, predating those of William Heath Robinson.
From 1905 he illustrated books, starting with an edition of Fontaine's' Fables'.
Other major titles he illustrated included" The Arabian Nights"( 1912)," Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám"( 1913)," The Russian Ballet"( 1913)," Carmen"( 1915)," Andersen's Fairy Tales".
In 1914, Bull joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as a lieutenant and was eventually transferred to the Royal Air Force where he reached the rank of Major.
In World War II Bull joined the Air Ministry for technical duties.
He died on 14 March 1942.
List of The Jim Henson Company films
The founders of The Jim Henson Company are Jim and Jane Henson.
This is a list of notable feature films produced by The Jim Henson Company.
Caran d'Ache
Caran d' Ache was the pseudonym of the 19th century French satirist and political cartoonist Emmanuel Poiré( 6 November 1858 – 25 February 1909).
" Caran d' Ache" comes from the Russian word" karandash"( карандаш), meaning" pencil."
While his first work glorified the Napoleonic era, he went on to create" stories without words" and as a contributor to newspapers such as the" Le Figaro", he is sometimes hailed as one of the precursors of comic strips.
The Swiss art products company Caran d' Ache is named after him.
Rachel Hadas
Rachel Hadas( born November 8, 1948) is an American poet, teacher, essayist, and translator.
Her most recent essay collection is" Classics: Essays"( Textos Books, 2007), and her most recent poetry collection is" The Ache of Appetite"( Copper Beech Press, 2010).
Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Ingram Merrill Foundation Grants, the O.B. Hardison Award from the Folger Shakespeare Library, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
Guardians of Being
Guardians of Being is a picture book written by Eckhart Tolle, and illustrated by Patrick McDonnell.

Question: Are Jim Tolle and Caran D'Ache of the same nationality?
Answer: no