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Jack Sparrow Costumes Party Arranged by an Events Manager
A few days ago my friend arranged a Jack sparrow costumes party and for this purpose and hired an event manager who was highly expert in arranging events especially a Jack sparrow costume party one. The event manager impressed him a lot and the most important factor that proved him as a well planned Jack sparrow costume party manager was his awareness about the weather during the ceremony. He gave a call to the meterological department and took information about the weather conditions during the planned day.
Keeping in view the venue, time and weather factors, he prepared his plan of the party and turned up a day in advance at the venue. These details were narrated to me by my friend who had arranged the Jack sparrow costume function. Though I was surprised to learn that this was the only costume party manager, I have ever seen, who makes such meticulous planning, but I was happy because I myself and my family was going to arrange a costume party in near future.
But the most important thing, other than planning, about that event manager was innovation and new ideas. He arranged a very high quality photographer for the event to make it a memorable one for all times to come and for the references of other friends and families. I myself was witness to that photography because I was invited in that ceremony. As soon as the party started, he asked all the couples to walk arm in arm and asked them to walk in a slow March style like a chief guest reviews the parade along with parade orderlies in a slow march style.
The photographer kept on taking the pictures of couples who were wearing Jack sparrow costume in his styles. Still there were two more things that made the invited audience stunned. Firstly, he asked the couples to stop on and off to create a momentum of joy and suspense. The photographer kept on recording those moments in his lovely photographic memory. Secondly, he asked the couples to look into each other's eyes in a romantic manner and this created a magical atmosphere all around. This was the best costume party I have ever participated in.

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We are in the process of developing our programme of Thinking Tank debates and, as always, welcome some co-creation.
Here are some of the ideas that have been suggested. What do you think we should do first? Or do you have another idea?
- Beware of the loan shark. How has short term credit been so successful in persuading people to make what can end up being catastrophic choices about their finances. As the Archbishop of Canterbury rails against Payday Loans we look at short term credit and the reasons it exists. Causes like lower benefits and higher costs as well as social aspects like the shame of asking for help outweighing the shame of asking for money. And we wonder what we can learn from Wonga and co to improve the situation.
- What's the point of old people? As western society creates more ways to separate its citizens by age are we missing a trick? What if old people are not just a problem to be dealt with but a valuable resource? What can they offer and how could they improve their connectedness to support that? A hotbed of ideas from young and old to redress the balance and include the elderly in our world.
- When is murder justified? The psychological test of who you would sacrifice to save lives is well known. It's a tough one to consider but when is murder the least worst option?
- Decline of the West. Is it true – as Niall Ferguson claims? Do we care? What will improve or deteriorate or just stay the same? Participants welcome from East and West (and North and South) to hammer this out


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Mariners Insider Blog
Mariners get timely hitting and a Vargas CG
OAKLAND – After Eric Wedge said precisely what he wanted to about the Seattle Mariners anemic offense 24 hours earlier, his players responded Saturday with a seven-run outburst.
Or maybe Oakland starting pitcher Jarrod Parker had a bad night.
Whatever the cause, the Mariners loved the effect, making the most of eight hits to beat the Athletics, 7-1, behind efficient hitting and the pitching of Jason Vargas.
"Kevin Millwood pitched a great game last night and we lost, Vargas picked up right where he left off and we won," shortstop Brendan Ryan said. "That was a game we should have won and didn't and a game we did win."
Wedge, critical on Friday, was pleased with what he saw this time.
"Tonight was what we're looking for," he said. "We had a complete game – defense, big hits and it all started with Vargas. Everything is freed up when you score a few runs early. It allows you to play with more confidence, and we did."
Was Wedge apologetic about implying there would be changes to his roster after the All-Star break, or that some of his hitters either were not paying attention or were 'dumb'?
"I wasn't letting off steam," he said Saturday. "Maybe if we went in my offense, closed the door and had a few beers, yes. What I said was what I wanted to say."
It's not as if Seattle hitters rocked Oakland with a barrage of hits. They didn't – collecting nine of them.
It was the situations in which they came that pleased Wedge and beat the Athletics:
- With two outs in the first inning, Michael Saunders worked an eight-pitch walk. John Jaso singled to center field, where Coco Crisp misplayed the hit into a run-scoring two-base error.
- Casper Wells singled and Justin Smoak doubled to set up a second-inning threat, and No. 9 hitter Brendan Ryan doubled over third base to chase home the runs that made it 3-1.
- Two outs into the fifth inning, Seattle loaded the bases on Ichiro Suzuki's single and walks to Saunders and Jaso. Kyle Seager short-hopped the wall in right center frield with a double that scored three runs.
Behind those runs, Vargas shut down Oakland on seven hits, and seemed even more dominant by getting the ground balls that Seattle's infield turned into four double plays.
"That's a sign I'm down with my pitches, and getting two quick outs takes the momentum away from them," Vargas said. "The defense was great behind me."
It was the third consecutive solid start from Vargas, who had no decision in a 6 2/3 inning, two run game against Oakland on June 26 – and another despite going eight innings and allowing one run to Boston on July 1.
"Well, after the game in Arizona where I gave up 10 runs, every thing looks good," he deadpanned. "It couldn't get any worse."
Vargas winning his team-high eighth game was only one of the Mariners highlights. After Wedge changed the lineup, he seemed to get some reaction.
Ichiro, dropped from leadoff to No. 2 in the batting order, started the night 0-fo-2, pushing his slump to a career-worst 0-for-23. He followed with a pair of singles.
Wells had a pair of hits, too, including his fourth home run, and Ryan had two to pull his batting average to .191.
"Ryan's been creeping up, having much better at-bats," Wedge said. "And his defense … well, you won't see a shortstop make a better play than he made in the second inning."
Against designated hitter Jonny Gomes, Ryan was playing deep, and still took two full steps onto the infield grass to field a ground ball, set and throw Gomes out by a half step.
"That got Vargas and Seager all fired up," Ryan said, all smiles.
Seager, whose average had dropped to .241, still has the knack not only for RBI but two-out RBI. Down in the count, 0-2, before his three-run double, Seager was calm.
"You can't be passive and take a third strike, so you look for a pitch you can do something with," Seager said. "I got a curve ball up a little."
Seager's RBI were No. 50, 51 and 52 for him – and 29 of those have come with two outs. That's the second highest total in the majors.
It was, of course, just one game, and Seattle's 36th win in 86 games. With All-Star Felix Hernandez starting today, the Mariners could turn it into a series win, a two-game winning streak and, more important to Wedge, show improvement.
"We're looking for signs on the field," Wedge said. "Seeing them is the only way we an stick with 'em when we're struggling. Tonight, there were signs."


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Story highlights
- Rosario Dawson said Saturday she stands with Monica Lewinsky's fight against bullying
- The comments come in response to a super PAC supporting Clinton correcting Reddit threads.
Wilmington, Delaware (CNN)Outspoken Bernie Sanders surrogate Rosario Dawson said Saturday she stands with Monica Lewinsky's fight against bullying, and suggested that the Clinton campaign is engaging in such behavior. Sanders on Sunday defended Dawson's overall speech, but declined specific comment on the Lewinsky reference.
"We are literally under attack for not just supporting the other candidate. Now I'm with Monica Lewinsky with this: bullying is bad. She's actually dedicated her life now to talking about that," Dawson had said, before introducing the Vermont senator on-stage at a rally here.
She added: "And now as a campaign strategy, we are being bullied and somehow that is okay and not being talked about with the richness that it needs to (be)."
The actress and activist covered a wide range of topics, but honed in on what she calls a "media blackout" of coverage of Sanders and recent revelations that a super PAC supporting Clinton, Correct the Record, is correcting Reddit threads.
Sanders defended Dawson's performance overall in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union" Sunday,
"Rosario is a great actress and she's doing a great job for us," Sanders told Tapper. "She's been a passionate fighter to see that we increase the voter turnout, that we fight for racial, economic, environmental justice."
But when pressed by Tapper if it was OK for her to bring up Lewinsky, Sanders said: "I have no idea in what context Rosario was talking about her. But I would hope that all of our people would focus on the real issues facing working people and the massive level of wealth and income inequality."
Earlier this week, super PAC Correct the Record announced a project called "Barrier Breakers 2016," which they describe as a task force partially designed to help Clinton supporters "push back on online harassment." The organization is allocating more than a million dollars in this effort.
In response to Dawson's criticism, the super PAC defended their campaign.
"This is the farthest thing from bullying -- posting positive graphics about Hillary is our job," said Elizabeth Shappell, communications director for Correct the Record. "The Bernie supporters are intimidated by a graphic that says 'Love & Kindness' or #ImWithHer?"
In the past several years, Lewinsky has become an activist speaking out against cyber-bullying, speaking publicly in a TED talk last year about her experiences.
Sanders, for his part, steered clear of addressing the Lewinsky comments in his speech, but did thank Dawson when he took the stage. Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver had no comment for Dawson's remarks.
Clinton campaign press secretary Nick Merrill said their campaign will "absolutely not" address Dawson's comments, but suggested, "You could ask the Sanders campaign why they encourage this vitriol in the vicinity of their candidate by staying silent."


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Rot! One word you NEVER want to hear
We knew that there was a leak in the cab-over when we bought the rig. We taped it up, put it on our 'To-Do' list to fix and would re-check that the super sealing RV tape was covering the spot.
When we finally got to the cab-over yesterday to rip apart, we were shocked to see that the rot was much worse than we ever knew. If Daniel had not reinforced the cab-over we would have fallen through a long time ago. The wood disintegrated to dust when touched. Apparently there was also a leak in the seam of the curve of the cab-over that we never knew about and rot all around the front window.
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Early Briefing: Cleaner Carts And A Tysons B-Day
*Jason and Kevin Kirsch know how common it is for the youngest customers at Chevy Chase Supermarket on Connecticut Avenue to treat cart handles like lollipops. Worse, they know how unnerved folks have become in recent years over alarmist reports that rank shopping carts right up there with public restroom toilet seats in terms of germs.
And so the brothers yesterday installed what they say is the Washington area's first full-scale shopping cart wash, a push-through device that sprays a misty peroxide solution over each cart between every use. It dries in a few seconds, leaving behind a faint whiff of beauty parlor and a cart promised to be 99.9 percent germ free for the next customer.
*Tysons Corner Center turns 40 Friday, but Northern Virginia's political and commercial luminaries couldn't wait and held a little birthday bash Tuesday that included a ribbon-cutting ceremony for new nearby transportation projects atop a seven-story parking garage.
The officials who gathered on the rain-soaked parking deck kicked off construction of 14 miles of toll and carpool lanes on the Beltway, which will tie into Tysons and stretch south to Springfield. Potting soil was poured on a brown tarp for the photos of the groundbreaking.
The $1.4 billion high-occupancy toll lanes project is scheduled to be finished in 2013. Carpoolers will travel free, but other drivers will face prices that rise or fall based on how many cars are in the lanes. There is no ceiling.
*The Bush administration's plan to prop up troubled mortgage-finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is likely to cost taxpayers less than $25 billion, Capitol Hill's chief budget analyst said Tuesday. But there is an outside chance that a further collapse in the housing market could require an infusion of $100 billion or more.
In a letter to lawmakers, Peter R. Orszag, director of the Congressional Budget Office, also said there is "a significant chance -- probably better than 50 percent" -- that federal officials would never have to use the authority to loan the firms money or buy their stock. "There is significant uncertainty involved here," Orszag told reporters. The cost "could be zero. It could be $100 billion."
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I shop there frequently, and can't say its the best use of a resources as a businessowner...was there really an epidemic of kid germs threatening Chevy Chase area ?
Maybe more organic foods, taking out the coffee machine in the deli area, maybe better fish selection, maybe better marketing budget..but cart cleaning machine in the store.
Goood luck, my brotha !
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This Community Health Assessment, a follow-up to similar studies conducted in 2007, 2012 and 2015 is a systematic, data-driven approach to determining the health status, behaviors and needs of residents in the Quad-Cities and Muscatine areas.
The "community" defined for this study includes residents of Scott and Muscatine Counties in Iowa and Rock Island County in Illinois.
For over a decade, the sponsors of this study have been collaborating on improving health status and quality of life in the Quad-Cities region through the Quad City Health Initiative (QCHI). This work together has been rooted in periodic community health assessments conducted by the health systems and health departments. New reporting requirements and best practice trends encouraged our local health partners to redesign our approach to community health assessment and create a comprehensive assessment process that meets the information and reporting needs of all partners.
Our coordinated assessment approach included primary data collection, secondary data analysis, and qualitative input from community leaders. Each of our health departments convened a community health task force to review and prioritize secondary data and collect qualitative input from community leaders in Scott, Muscatine, and Rock Island counties. In addition, through QCHI, the health systems funded a survey and data collection for the bi-state area.
Based on that assessment, Trinity developed a Community Health Improvement Plan focused on key areas identified in the assessment. Read that plan here.
UnityPoint Health - Trinity and other community health leaders are sponsors of a new petition that will seek a change in city codes throughout the Quad-Cities to ban smoking within 100 yards of outdoor public children's play equipment, youth athletic fields and family-centered activities.
In addition to Trinity, other petition sponsors include Genesis Health System, Tobacco Free QC, Scott County Health Department, Rock Island County Health Department and the Quad City Health Initiative, among others. Sign the petition at:
Residents of the Quad Cities are able to sign the petition and will be asked for their individual city name when signing.
Trinity became a tobacco-free campus in May 2006.


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E. B. Elliott's Horae Apocalypticae
April 21, 2010
The complete fifth edition of E. B. Elliott's Horae Apocalypticae is now available in PDF format on the Harvest Herald site.
You can get it here. And the release notes here.
Be warned, this is a large file (189 meg) and may take a while to download.
This PDF edition was created from high quality scans made available at archive.org. It contains extensive bookmarking, and a pdf pagination scheme which corresponds with the original page numbers making it easy to quickly jump to any page throughout the four volumes. Also included are all of the original 'plate' illustrations, plus the apocalyptic chart. Extensive hyperlinking of the comprehensive index is underway but is not complete at this time.
From Wikipedia:
Horae Apocalypticae is an eschatological study written by Edward Bishop Elliott. The book is, as its long-title sets out, "A commentary on the apocalypse, critical and historical; including also an examination of the chief prophecies of Daniel illustrated by an apocalyptic chart, and engravings from medals and other extant monuments of antiquity with appendices, containing, besides other matter, a sketch of the history of apocalyptic interpretation, the chief apocalyptic counter-schemes and indices."
"Horae Apocalypticae (Hours with the Apocalypse) is doubtless the most elaborate work ever produced on the Apocalypse. Without an equal in exhaustive research in its field, it was occasioned by the futurist attack on the Historical School of interpretation. Begun in 1837, its 2,500 pages are buttressed by some 10,000 invaluable references to ancient and modern works. It ran through five editions (1844, 1846, 1847, 1851 and 1862)."
For those who may not be familiar with this work, Eliott's Horae Apocalypticae is the greatest, most detailed, and most scholarly exposition on the Book of Revelation ever written from the historicist perspective of interpretation. Sadly, it was also to be the last of its kind. Beginning in the late 19th and early 20th centuries the historicist approach to the Apocalypse was increasingly abandoned as the futurist school of interpretation gained popularity.
While I do not agree with all of Elliott's conclusions, it's hard for me to believe that some of the interpretations brought to light in this work could have ever fallen out of favor.
His masterful exposition of the fifth and sixth trumpet judgments (Revelation 9), representing the invasions of Western Christendom by the Saracens and the Turks respectively, is absolutely jaw-dropping. I remember vividly the first time I read it. Why had I never heard this information before? Why in all my years as a Christian had I never been shown this interpretation by those who professed to be Bible teachers? If this could not convince a skeptic of the divine inspiration of the Apocalypse then nothing could. Here, it seemed, was proof, absolute proof that God had revealed history beforehand. How could something so profound and so obviously true have been lost in favor of the wild speculations and sensationalist fantasies that pass for 'prophetic teaching' in our day?
Most Christians have never even heard of this work, much less read it. It's nearly impossible to find anywhere except in the libraries of theological seminaries. I present it here as a link to the past and a reminder of the height from which we have fallen.
About Those Who've Never Heard
April 20, 2010
I recently came across the "Christian Apologetics" site rationalchristianity.net. This site contains a section in which they attempt to answer common objections to Christianity.
Among the first questions they attempt to answer is: 'What happens to people who never hear the Gospel?' That's a great question. When I click the link I get an article entitled 'What happens to those who've never heard of Jesus?'. That's an even better question because it's more specific; after all the gospel is the good news about Jesus Christ.
The problem is that the article never answers the question! Instead we get this:
In order to be saved, a person must have faith in God. How can someone who's never heard of God believe in him? The answer is that God has planned things so that everyone has access to some knowledge of him, through nature and conscience as well as other means. (emphasis mine)
This is simply sleight of hand. 'How can someone who's never heard of GOD believe in him?', is an entirely different question than asking 'What about those who've never heard of JESUS?' or even 'What about those who've never heard the GOSPEL?'
Ask the average Christian if anyone can be saved apart from the Gospel and faith in Jesus . If they are scriptural they will answer in the negative. The Bible is clear:
"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. " (John 14:6)
"Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. " (Acts 4:12)
No one will ever be saved apart from the gospel and faith in Jesus Christ, so asking 'What happens to those who've never heard of Jesus?' is a perfectly legitimate and appropriate question. But the article never answers that question. Instead it immediately substitutes an entirely different question; 'What about those who've never heard of GOD?', and answers:
'The answer is that God has planned things so that everyone has access to some knowledge of him, through nature and conscience as well as other means.'
But how does this answer the real question; 'What about those who've never heard of JESUS?' Does the writer of this article believe that the person who by 'nature, conscience, or some other means' comes to believe in GOD can actually be saved by such belief? If not then the question is irrelevant and the answer of no value in answering the real question: 'What about those who've never heard of JESUS?'
Jesus himself said:
"And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. " (John 17:3)
One may believe that everyone is given enough light via conscience or nature to believe in God, but that's not the issue. Instead we have to ask, Does God give to everyone enough light to come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, the only name given whereby they can be saved?
It's easy to see why many Christians avoid this question, and why it's so often raised as an objection to the faith. Billions of people have lived and died on this planet without having ever heard of Jesus, much less having come to a saving faith in him. It makes no difference whatsoever whether or not these people believed in GOD. What about those who've never heard of JESUS? One cannot hope to satisfy the skeptics who ask this question by providing the answer to a completely different and wholly irrelevant question.
Does christianity have any meaningful way of answering this question without obscuring the main issue? Well, if by 'christianity' we mean that which passes for 'orthodoxy', whether Catholic or Protestant, then probably not. But the Bible does provide a direct and unambiguous answer.
What about those who've never heard of Jesus? THEY WILL HEAR.
To be continued…
How a Valley in Jerusalem Got Turned into 'Hell'
April 18, 2010
We all know what the Bible teaches about hell. Or Do we?
Most Christians believe that hell is the place where the unsaved will be tormented in flames for all eternity. They firmly believe that this teaching comes straight from the Bible and that the greatest teacher on this subject is Jesus himself. After all, it was Jesus who said:
"But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. " (Matthew 5:22, KJV)
But what exactly is this 'hell' Jesus spoke of? Are you sure you know?
The Greek word which has here been translated 'hell' is gehenna. But when I study this Greek word, this is what I find:
1) The word literally means 'The Valley of the Sons of Hinnom". This is a literal place in Jerusalem referenced many times in the Old Testament – you can go visit it today if you'd like.
A red flag immediately goes up. How did the name of a valley in Jerusalem which exists to this day get translated into an English word which stands for a fiery place of eternal punishment in some other place or dimension. I don't get it, so I keep studying and find out that:
2) According to the Old Testament evil Jewish Kings made this valley a place for idolatry and sacrificed children there to false gods. Later, king Josiah abolished these practices and made the place into the city garbage dump. Fires continually burned there to consume the refuse. This still doesn't tell me how gehenna turned into 'hell' in our English Bibles. So, I keep going…
3) The prophet Jeremiah pronounced curses over the valley and prophesied that because the Jewish nation had abandoned God, he would make the whole nation as the Valley of Hinnom (a burning trash heap). There would be a great slaughter and they would bury their corpses there until there would be no place left to bury (See Jeremiah 19). Surely a somber warning of a horrible judgment which would befall the Jewish nation, but still no information on how this relates to 'hell' as we know it. I search in vain through the Old Testament for any information on this place which connects it with a future place of eternal torment.
Now, every student of the Bible should stop right here and consider the significance of this. Jesus never spoke the word 'hell'. No, he spoke of 'Gehenna'. Gehenna was a physical place in Jerusalem; a place to which he could point – the audience to which he spoke was familiar with this place. The history of this valley was well known from the Hebrew scriptures. But NONE of that had anything to do with the concept of 'hell' as a place of future punishment as we know it.
Consider then that for 'Gehenna' your English Bible has inserted an INTERPRETATION, not a TRANSLATION. A proper translation of gehenna would be 'Valley of Hinnom', but certainly not 'hell'. Knowing this information, what conclusions would you draw about 'Gehenna' by using the Bible alone? Think about it. What if the translators of the Bible had inserted 'valley of hinnom' (a literal translation) every time this word appears. Could you find a place of eternal torment connected to this place? No, you would be forced to conclude that Jesus was pronouncing upon those who rejected him and his message the well-known curses and judgments associated with this place as described in the Old Testament prophets. What other conclusion could you possibly come to? Scripturally, nothing in the Old Testament concerning the 'valley of the sons of Hinnom' has anything to do with hell as we've been taught to understand it. Why then do our Bible translations feel justified in inserting this interpretation into our Bibles?
The answer (which should be called the 'dirty little secret') is unsettling because it raises questions that most Christians simply do not want to deal with. Most want to continue to preach 'hell' from their Bibles while remaining ignorant of the gymnastics and machinations which turned a Greek word meaning 'Valley of Hinnom' into a fiery place of torment in the afterlife.
The fact is, translators of the Bible really do believe that Jesus had more in mind when he spoke of 'Gehenna' than the literal Valley of Hinnom in Jerusalem and the curses and judgments associated with the place as found in the Old Testament prophets. But why? Aren't we told time and again that we must base our interpretations on the scriptures alone? The answer is disturbing.
Here's the story which the average Christian is never told.
Scholars know that the Old Testament verses concerning the 'Valley of Hinnom' have nothing to do with 'hell' as we understand it. What they also know is that after the Old Testament was completed, in the 400 years between the writings of the Old and New Testaments, that the Jews began to be seriously influenced by Greek culture and philosophy, and that these GREEK ideas began to be assimilated into Jewish interpretations of the scriptures. The idea of the immortality of the soul (a concept foreign to the Hebrew scriptures) gave rise to different thoughts about reward and punishment in the afterlife. In the minds of some Jews, the idea of 'Gehenna' began to be associated with a place of future punishment, and these ideas found their way into various 'apocryphal' (uninspired) writings in that period. 1
What the average Christian is never told is that scholars have assumed that Jesus understood the word 'Gehenna' in this way – a way that they KNOW is foreign to the Old Testament, and one which they KNOW only developed under the influence of Greek thought in the period between the close of the Old Testament and the writing of the New.
If this is true then it gives rise to some very disturbing thoughts, namely:
1) This would mean that the Old Testament understanding of gehenna is incomplete, and you CANNOT come to a proper understanding of this place by using the scriptures alone.
2) That the Jews did not have a proper understanding of gehenna until they came under the influence of pagan Greek thought and philosophy.
3) That the apocryphal writings which are considered to be uninspired, contain a more correct understanding of gehenna than is found in the inspired Hebrew scriptures.
4) But most disturbing, that Jesus' understanding of gehenna represents, not the view of the Hebrew Scriptures, but that of hellenized (Greek influenced) Jewish thought.
The situation becomes even more troubling when we consider that even among the Greek-inspired Jews, ideas about gehenna were so varied and conflicted that we would be hopeless to try and figure out exactly WHICH of these conceptions of gehenna Jesus had in mind, if in fact this was the case. Simply translating 'gehenna' into 'hell' with the justification that some Jews may have understood the word to mean a place of future punishment in the afterlife is a gross oversimplification.
The bottom line is this: When an English translation uses the word 'hell' for 'gehenna' they are assuming that Jesus is using the word in a way that is foreign to the Hebrew Scriptures. If that doesn't disturb you, then it should.
Scholars know that you cannot turn the 'Valley of Hinnom' into 'hell' without knowing what they know. But they also know that their justification for doing this raises a lot of serious questions. Did the Jews need Greek philosophy in order to properly interpret their scriptures? Did Jesus? So, instead of giving you a translation of gehenna ('Valley of Hinnom'), they've hidden from you the whole process and instead have inserted their interpretation ('hell').
So how did a valley in Jerusalem get turned into Hell? Only with a lot of help from Greek philosophy, and scholars who assumed that Jesus understood gehenna in a way that was completely foreign to the Old Testament scriptures.
May God help us from making the same assumption!
1 B. Intertestamental Period
One product of the development of a concept of the afterlife during the Hellenistic Period was the notion of a fiery judgment (1 En. 10:13; 48:8–10; 100:7–9; 108:4–7; Jdt 16:17; 2 Bar. 85:13), a judgment usually in a fiery lake or abyss (1 En. 18:9–16; 90:24–27; 103:7–8; 2 En. 40:12; 2 Bar. 59:5–12; 1QH 3). The Valley of Hinnom, often referred to simply as "the accursed valley" or "abyss," then came to represent the place of eschatological judgment of the wicked Jews by fire (1 En. 26–27; 54:1–6; 56:1–4; 90:24–27).
Freedman, D. N. (1996). The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary. New York: Doubleday.
The 'Crux Interpretum'
April 18, 2010
(Torment of the Interpreters)
"Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand. And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days."
Within the past year I have concluded a study of what I believe to be the proper interpretation of the 1290 and 1335 days (to be reckoned as years) mentioned in the passage above – a passage that has caused tremendous difficulties for Biblical scholars for centuries. It is my conviction that the proper interpretation of this passage has profound implications for the times in which we live and should be of the greatest interest to all students of the Bible and of prophecy.
Those who are not familiar with the study of prophecy may not fully appreciate the significance of what it means to come to a satisfactory interpretation of this passage. E. B. Elliott in his Horae Apocalypticae – his classic commentary on the chief prophecies of Daniel and Revelation, spoke of the 'difficulty felt by all expositors of prophecy' when they encountered this passage. The Pulpit Commentary calls it a 'Veritable crux interpretum' ; that is 'the interpreters cross' or 'the torment of the interpreters'. I challenge anyone who doubts this to study the voluminous amounts of commentary and wild speculations which have been written in order to come to a satisfactory understanding of the passage.
Before examining the passage, it might be helpful to examine the interpretations which have been offered. These generally fall into one of the five following categories.
1) The removal of the daily sacrifice, the setting up of the abomination of desolation, and the time periods referenced in the passage were fulfilled in the history of the Jewish nation during the reign of Antiochus Epiphanes in the second century BC. The Jews, being severely persecuted during this period of Syrian rule witnessed the desecration of their religion and temple under the reign of this tyrant.
Many scholars believe that the time periods of 1,290 and 1,335 days have reference to the deliverance of the Jews from this oppression during the Maccabean revolt in 165 BC.
The interpretation is problematic because scholars have been unable to apply the time periods in question to any specific events in the history of the Maccabean Revolt or in the final downfall of Antiochus Epiphanes. Scholars generally admit that the prophesied overthrow of the tyrant in Daniel chapters 11 and 12 does not match at all match the known facts about the final years of Antiochus's reign and his death.
2) The removal of the daily sacrifice and the setting up of the abomination of desolation refer in some way to Jesus' earthy ministry or possibly the crucifixion. While a novel approach, the 1,290 and 1,335 prophesied days have never been successfully applied to specific events in the ministry, life, death, and resurrection of our Savior.
3) The removal of the daily sacrifice and the setting up of the abomination of desolation refers to the rise and reign of the papacy. This interpretation is usually offered by those of the historicist school of interpretation and fails for two main reasons: First, it is difficult to see how the rise of the papacy could in fact be the 'Abomination of Desolation' when both Jesus and Daniel (Dan 11:31) connect it directly to the desolation of the Jewish nation and the removal of their daily sacrifice. Second, once again the time periods cannot be applied in any meaningful way in either literal days, or prophetic years from the rise of the papacy.
4) The daily sacrifice and the setting up of the abomination of desolation refer to the desolation of a future rebuilt Jewish temple by an antichrist still to come. This interpretation is impossible. Jesus connected the 'abomination of desolation' with the Roman destruction of Jerusalem and the Jewish temple that was standing in the first century. The entire discourse of Matthew 24 was given in answer to the disciple's question about when the temple would be destroyed.
5) The removal of the daily sacrifice and the setting up of the abomination of desolation refers to the desolation of the Jews in the first century. It is beyond question that Jesus did in fact connect the 'Abomination of Desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet' with the desolation of Jerusalem at the hands of the Romans. But once again these time periods have never been satisfactorily applied to that period of the first century. Some have tried to connect the 1290 and 1335 days to either the start of the Jewish war (66 AD) or the end of it (70 AD) but have failed to find any meaningful application. Attempts to apply the 1290 and 1335 days as prophetic years dating from that period have also failed.
The Pulpit Commentary sums up this difficulty:
"As we have already said, if we take the profanation of the temple, 25th Casleu, 145 Seleucid era, as our starting-point, it is impossible to fix any great deliverance or any event of importance which happened some three years and seven months after. Antiochus may have died seven months after the news arrived of the reconsecration of the temple; but we have no data. As above stated, the death of Antiochus wrought but little alteration in the condition of the Jews. If we regard the days as literal days, there is one period that nearly coincides with the twelve hundred and ninety days—our Lord's ministry upon the earth. It is difficult to understand how our Lord's commencing his ministry was the removing of the daily sacrifice. Yet in the "heavenlies" it might be so. Further, we sometimes reckon "from" a period to come, as we can say, "We are yet—weeks from harvest, midsummer, or Christmas." So the Crucifixion as the fulfilment of all the sacrifices of the Law may be regarded as their removal. Certainly in his crucifixion was the real abomination which maketh desolate set up. It suits the next verse. From our Lord's crucifixion to his ascension there would be exactly forty-five days if, as is commonly believed, his ascension, as his resurrection, took place on a Sunday. This, however, is merely a thought thrown out. If we take the date indcated by our Lord, the war against the Jews, dating from Vespasian's march to Ptolemais in the beginning of A.D. 67 to the capture of the temple and the cessation of the daily sacrifice (Josephus, 'Bell. Jud.,' vi. 2. 1), is not far off twelve hundred and ninety days. From this to the final capture of the city is close upon forty-five days. If we, however, take a day for a year, then another series of possible solutions are before us, all more or less faulty. One has the merit of postponing the solution to a date still future. The capture of Jerusalem by the Arabs in A.D. 637 is made the starting-point; if we add to that twelve hundred and ninety years, we have A.D. 1927. The Mohammedan power may have fallen by that time; anything may have happened then. All these various solutions, all more or less unsatisfactory, prove that no solution is possible."
This is not an imaginary problem and should concern any serious student of the Bible. The 'rationalist' school of interpretation which began to rise in the 19th century and exists today in many universities and seminaries teaches that the book of Daniel is in fact a forgery written by a second century BC Jew living during the reign of Antiochus Epiphanes. They believe that the author of Daniel 'guessed' at the fate of Antiochus and 'got it wrong'! Thus, to them, these time periods of 1290 and 1335 days are nothing more than the failed speculations of a prophetic pretender.
Now, there are those who will contend that the solution which I am about to offer is nothing more than my own 'opinion', 'private interpretation', or just one more wild speculation. I will let the reader judge. I cannot change anyone's mind, but in light of the attempts at interpretation mentioned above, I ask that you open your hearts and minds and prayerfully consider what follows.
I believe the solution to 1290 and 1335 days of Daniel 12:11-12 to be as follows:
1) Jesus has the final say on what the 'abomination of desolation' is. This abomination is mentioned by Jesus in Matthew 24, and Mark 13, and by cross reference is defined in Luke 21.
The surrounding of Jerusalem by armies in the first century and its subsequent desolation at the hands of the Romans is referred to by Jesus as 'the abomination of desolation'. This is as solid a scriptural fact as can be determined and should be beyond dispute. Since the 1290 and 1335 days of Daniel 12:11-12 commence in some way from this epoch, then any proper interpretation must deal honestly with this fact.
Comparing Matthew 24 with Luke 21:
Mat 24:15-16 "When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) (16) Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains"
Luk 21:20-21 "And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains"
2) ALL passages which refer to the 'abomination of desolation' concern the Jewish nation and NOT the Christian Church. The prophecies in Daniel and the gospels clearly refer to the 'taking away of the daily sacrifice', the destruction of the Jewish temple, and the desolation of Jerusalem.
Since the 1290 and 1335 'days' of Daniel 12 are connected with these events, then these also concern the Jewish nation, and not the Christian church. Any attempt to properly interpret these periods must deal with this fact.
3) We must then look for specific and not vague fulfillments of these time periods in the history of the Jewish people and the city of Jerusalem.
4) We will reckon the 1290 and 1335 'days' of Daniel 12 as so many years based on the precedent of the 'seventy weeks' prophecy of Daniel 9, in which 70 weeks were equal to 70 'weeks' of years, or 490 years, as is the nearly unanimous opinion of most interpreters.
5) Logically then, the time periods reckoned as 1290 and 1335 years, cover centuries of history and in some way mark events in the desolation of Jerusalem and the fate of the Jewish people, the beginning of which is connected with the destruction and desolation of Jerusalem at the hands of the Romans as prophesied by Jesus. Read the rest of this entry »


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Osa is one of the last landscapes in Central America that can still sustain the five species of wild cats in the region: Margay (Leopardus wiedii), Ocelot (Leopardus pardalis), Jaguarundi (Puma yagouaroundi), Puma (Puma concolor), and Jaguar (Panthera onca).
Despite a relatively intact and healthy forest here in Osa, these cats face pressures such as:
- habitat fragmentation
- decrease of natural prey
- increasing conflicts with humans and livestock
To better understand the conservation needs of wild cats and their prey, Osa Conservation created the Camera Trap Network for the Osa Peninsula in collaboration with National University of Costa Rica (UNA). This monitoring program is comprised of camera traps placed on properties throughout the Osa Peninsula- ranging from Corcovado National Park, local eco-lodges, private landowners and Osa Conservation's properties and Piedras Blancas National Park.
Members of the Osa Camera Trap Network:
In 2017, Osa Conservation collaboratively hosted partners for the very first workshop of the Osa Camera Trap Network. The Network is now composed of more than 20 members in the Peninsula, including Corcovado and Piedras Blancas National Parks, the Golfo Dulce Forest Reserve and Private Reserves. Additionally, more members are expected to join the initiative – producing one of, if not the largest camera trap systems in Central America!
As part of the workshop, this Network identified several of the key priorities for 2018, including:
- Estimating the current density of Jaguar in the Osa Peninsula.
- Estimating abundance of terrestrial mammals among the different protected areas in the Osa Peninsula.
- Identifying anthropogenic and environmental factors affecting the distribution and abundance of terrestrial mammals in the Osa Peninsula.
- Evaluating the biological corridors in the Osa Peninsula.
Why camera traps?
As part of the Osa Camera Trap Network, the cameras are placed in areas with high probability of cat presence. They take pictures based on a motion sensor so every time an animal passes by we have photographic evidence that we can use to learn about the population trends. These images are especially important for the estimation of the density of spotted cats, as they have distinctive patterns among them and individuals can be identified. Our resident jaguar that has been spotted in the area has been named Rukka, or warrior (in the local indigenous language).
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Working together, we will be able to take on this ambitious and exciting work. We see this workshop as an important stepping stone to mark the beginning of this essential collaboration to help conserve these amazing species and their ecosystems.
We would like to give a special thank you to the International Conservation Fund of Canada for their support of the Osa Camera Trap Network.
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I really love it when you have an idea for a script, then you realize it's already been impeccably executed by Loïc. "This script implements an observer that monitors the editing of glyph sidebearings in the space center and propagates these sidebearing modifications among all glyphs belonging to a common metrics group."
Tag: spacing
Pangrammer Helper
A RoboFontified version of this ol thang. Mark is such a G.
"Adds a Change Case button to the Space Center menu. Cycles through ALL-CAPS, Title Case, lowercase."
"A tiny extension for RoboFont to equalize sidebearings for all or a selection of glyphs in a font."
Ground Control
Gives a window which is basically a Space Center for multiple fonts. This is an awesome script, and Loïc is the man.
"Adjust Metrics was created in 2012 by David Jonathan Ross for Font Bureau. It may or may not work the way you want it to." Wow, a script that is three years old. Lol at DJR for, "it may or may not work the way you want it to." Well, if it doesn't, write your own you jerk!
Nina's word-o-mat is an incredibly useful way of getting a customized list of words into the Space Center. From Nina's GitHub: "Looking for words that contain 'q' but not 'u'? Or French words that use an 'a', a 'g', at least one ascender, and one diagonal, but only the ones you've marked green? Or words in which to see a specific letter combination, like 'fk' or 'Yc'? This is the sort of thing that word-o-mat can help you with. It's an extension for RoboFont that generates words for use in type sketching, spacing, testing etc."


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Mini-Course #1 (September) – MARKET STRUCTURE - BASIC AND INTERMEDIATE CONCEPTS
Description: This mini-course will teach you how to read market structure. Understanding market structure allows you to anticipate coming price action. You will learn to identify and analyze accumulation, distribution, re-accumulation and re-distribution – the key trading ranges that power trends. You will also learn Wyckoff method trade set-ups based on market structure, how to enter an existing trend, and how to recognize in advance when a trend is likely to end.
- Why analysis of market structure should precede everything else
- The Price Cycle: Accumulation, Mark-Up, Distribution and Mark-Down
- Trading ranges that generate big trends: accumulation and distribution
- A key concept in Wyckoff Method analysis of trading ranges: Phases
- Phase anatomy: Wyckoff Method events (e.g., climaxes, tests, springs, upthrusts, signs of strength)
- Identifying phases in accumulation and distribution
- Identifying phases in re-accumulation and re-distribution
- How to enter a position in an established trend
- Price behavior signaling a change of trend and/or beginning of consolidation
- Distinguishing re-accumulation from distribution and re-distribution from accumulation
- Three rules to trade Wyckoff Method market structures
- Wyckoff Method Buying and Selling Zones, including entry and exit strategies
- Exercises and home assignments
- Course Duration: 4 online sessions
Dates: August 31, September 14, 21, and 28
Time: 4:00-6:00 p.m. PDT
Cost: $400 for new students, $250 for AWTC alumni and free to yearly AWTC membership holders
Payment methods: check or PayPal due on or before September 13, 2015
Registration link: http://www.wyckoffanalytics.com/classes/2015/9/14/advanced-wyckoff-course-i-wyckoff-market-and-stock-structure-webinar-2
Mini-Course #2 (October) – SUPPLY AND DEMAND
Description: Here Mr. Bogomazov will focus in detail on identifying supply and demand on any chart. The Wyckoff Method is based on the assumption that all freely traded markets are governed by supply and demand. In today's markets, as in Wyckoff's time, large professional interests dominate supply and demand. Having the ability to accurately read supply and demand on a chart will allow you to make better decisions about timing your entries and exits and to join the large operators rather than being caught on the wrong side of a trade.
- Concepts in supply and demand – the forces that move all markets
- Who is the composite operator and how do his actions in the market affect supply and demand?
- Volume and spread analysis
- Variations of spread and volume in different market environments
- Effort (volume) versus results (price action) – confirmation and discordance both predict future price behavior
- Volume analysis and schematics in trading ranges
- Volume characteristics in different phases of accumulation and distribution
- Wyckoff's springboard: when price is poised to move
- Tradable volume patterns
- Exercises and home assignments
- Course Duration: 4 online sessions
Dates: October 5, 12, 19, and 26
Time: 4:00-6:00 p.m. PDT
Prerequisite: AWTC Part I (Market Structure) or consent of an instructor
Cost: $400 for new students, $250 for AWTC alumni and free to yearly AWTC membership holders
Payment methods: check or PayPal due on or before October 12, 2015
Registration link: http://www.wyckoffanalytics.com/classes/2015/10/5/advanced-wyckoff-course-ii-supply-and-demand-webinar-5
Mini-Course #3 (November) - RELATIVE AND COMPARATIVE STRENGTH
Description: Relative and comparative strength, the core of the third mini-course, are Wyckoff Method concepts that can help you select the top stocks in the best sectors to trade, particularly at market turns. In this mini-course you will learn how to apply these concepts to identify candidates for long or short trades, and how they can also be used to improve the timing of your entries and exits.
- Relative and comparative strength analysis: how to choose the best vehicles to trade
- Use of comparative strength for stock selection in the Wyckoff Method
- Improving the Wyckoff Method's comparative strength analysis in trading ranges
- Differences between relative and comparative performance
- Using changes in relative strength or weakness to spot sectors and stocks to trade
- Creating selection filters using relative and comparative strength to identify high-probability trades
- Exercises and home assignments
- Course Duration: 4 online sessions
Dates: November 2, 9, 16, and 23
Time: 4:00-6:00 p.m. PST
Cost: $400 for new students, $250 for AWTC alumni and free to yearly AWTC membership holders
Payment methods: check or PayPal due on or before November 9, 2015
Registration link: http://www.wyckoffanalytics.com/classes/2015/11/2/advanced-wyckoff-course-iii-relative-and-comparative-analysis-webinar-9
Mini-Course #4 (December) – PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER: DEVELOPING A WYCKOFF TRADING PLAN
Description: The first three mini-courses incorporate foundational elements of the Wyckoff Method and are designed to allow you to immediately apply standalone concepts in each to your own trading. For students who want to integrate these elements more deeply, Mr. Bogomazov will teach how to create a Wyckoff trading plan in the 4th mini-course. Because the last mini-course relies heavily on the materials in the other three, participation will be limited to students who have attended at least two of the previous Wyckoff Method mini-courses.
- Using filters to improve selection of stocks or options to trade
- Relative strength filters
- Structural filters
- Supply and demand filters
- Using multiple filters to pinpoint the best trades and times to open positions
- Market Analysis as a Filter – timing entries in sync with the market
- Using Wyckoff Method concepts to create a trading plan
- Back-testing your trading plan with a pre-formatted Excel template – key variables to track
- Trading tactics for your Wyckoff trading plan: entries, position management, and exits
- Exercises and home assignments
- Pre-requisite: Attendance of all 3 AWTC courses
Course Duration: 4 online sessions
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Michael Grade
Michael Grade has a long and distinguished career in broadcasting, encompassing London Weekend Television, the BBC (as Controller of BBC-1) and over nine years as Chief Executive of Channel Four Television. In May 2004, he was appointed Chairman of the BBC, succeeding Gavyn Davies, resigning in November 2006 when his appointment as Executive Chairman of ITV was announced.
He stepped down from ITV at the end of 2009. He is non-executive Chairman of Pinewood and Shepperton Film Studios. He was non-executive chairman of Ocado, the online food retailer, from 2006 until 2013.
Michael has presented many television programmes for the BBC, most recently BBC4's The Story of Tom Thumb and Goodbye from Television Centre. Documentaries include The World's Oldest Joke, The Story of Variety, History of the Pantomime Dame, and The Story of Music Hall. He has also hosted BBC4's Don Black: A Life in Song and BBC2's Tim Rice: A Life in Song, the latter broadcast on Christmas Day 2014. He also presented a series reflecting his own view of television for BBC Radio 2, Michael Grade: On the Box. Michael's series for BBC Radio 2 "Brits in Hollywood" has recently been broadcast
He is a passionate sailor, having sailed the Atlantic 3 times, most recently in December 2014. He was created a life peer in January 2011.


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Ricardo Baeza-Yates is VP of Research for Europe and Latin America, leading the Yahoo! Research labs at Barcelona, Spain and Santiago, Chile. Until 2012 he also supervised the lab in Haifa, Israel. Until 2005 he was the director of the Center for Web Research at the Department of Computer Science of the Engineering School of the University of Chile; and ICREA Professor and founder of the Web Research Group at the Dept. of Information and Communication Technologies of Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. He maintains ties with both mentioned universities as a part-time professor for the Ph.D. program.
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Looking Back to Move Forward: Vol. 4 (April)
5 comments:
- Rowaida said...
Hi Andrew, back from my Easter holiday. Beautiful images from previous issues. I downloaded my May issue it is really amazing, do you download her digital issues beside reading the magazines?
PS, I would like to share my spring sweets http://flic.kr/s/aHsjzuHCtM
- April 14, 2012
- Anonymous said...
Andrew I have just returned from an art festival and two of the booths I felt as if I had walked into the MS magazine. One booth had examples of castings from leaves beautiful organic forms cast from the leaf shapes and painted in a manner that preserved the leaves of Autumn- just an example . I walked into the booth and asked "Where did you get such an idea?" and the artist responded Martha Stewart and I said I was hoping you would say that because Heavens I remember seeing this technique on her show!! I bet MSLO editors get many letters documenting their journey inspired from the pages of MS
- April 14, 2012
- ANDREW RITCHIE said...
Anonymous, yes, the magazine is more inspiring than we may know. So many people use it for ideas and inspiration. Thank you for sharing that story.
@Rowaida: Are those YOUR sweets?? You did an amazing job!!!
- April 15, 2012
- Rowaida said...
Thank you Andrew! Yes they are.
Do you have a twitter account?
- April 15, 2012
- ANDREW RITCHIE said...
I don't have Twitter. Please send me a private email!
- April 15, 2012


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On 27th September 2016, Hilary Osborn wrote a chilling article in the Guardian about the rise of debts from guarantor loans and rent-to-own firms. Like Hilary demonstrated, many borrowers are unable to pay their loans and lenders are left with no option but to follow the guarantors. The 16% rise in these debts in the second quarter of 2016 is a cause of worry that needs a broader focus involving all stakeholders. In his touching example, Hilary demonstrates the serious financial problems that people often get themselves into prompting the need to look for urgent solutions.
Using appropriate legislations can help keep down the cost of interest
When a client goes for unsecured loans such as guarantor loans or rent-to-own firms, it is important to understand resultant impacts. Many people only read through the conditions half way while others sign without a glance. In other cases, the guarantor jumps into the problem and getting out is almost impossible. A suitable legislation would come in handy.
Like Hilary demonstrates in the article, using legislation helped to lower interest rates on payday loans. After introducing price caps on payday loans that limit interest to 100% on the original borrowed amount, people who are struggling with related debt fell with a whopping 53% according to Citizens Advice.
Legislation limiting the guarantor's liability to a given level could be of great help to ensure that people do not take full responsibility for money they did not use. The responsibility bestowed on the guarantor should have a way out. For example, though the lender should be allowed to go for the guarantor, it is important to also ensure that the borrower is followed to reclaim the incurred losses.
Emphasizing on risks that guarantors take in guarantor loans
While Hilary's piece correctly captures the unfolding problem that could be a recipe for disaster, he omits a crucial part of the entire situation; risk taken by the guarantor. If guarantor debts rose by 16%, in the second quarter of 2016, why should you get into the same problem?
Before guaranteeing a loan to your friend, make sure to comprehensively understand the ensuing risks. If you find the risk too much, it is advisable to say no or support your friend with direct cash. Make sure to also read through guarantor loans review to understand the following risks.
- Risk of the entire loan being shifted to the guarantor.
- Danger of being dragged to court.
- Possibility of family breakups after borrowers default.
- Impact on your credit score after default.
- Risk of losing personal
Before you guarantee a loan here are things that should guide you
When a close friend approaches you to be his guarantor, it is prudent to know what you are getting into. It is very important to review why the borrower cannot get a loan directly from the bank. Many people looking for guarantor loans have a very poor credit history. In such a situation, the chances of defaulting are very high and the problems headed your way will be too much to bear. In such a case, do not agree to be the guarantor.
If you have to become a guarantor, insist that the borrower takes a small amount of credit that cannot shock you in the case of default. You can also ask for limited guarantee so that the amount you will be required to pay in case of default is small.


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An effective and comprehensive contract is the foundation of a successful construction project. Zetlin & De Chiara has long been recognized as the preeminent firm in drafting and negotiating in the areas of Design Professional/Owner, Design Professional/Sub-Consultant, Owner/Contractor, Owner/Construction Management, and Owner/Owner's Representative agreements.
At Zetlin & De Chiara, the contract development process begins with you. Once our attorneys are acquainted with your objectives, concerns, and expectations, we thoroughly evaluate the implications, detect potentially unforeseen consequences of complex contract provisions, and capitalize on your strongest points of leverage. The result? An agreement specifically tailored for your firm, project and success.
Our attorneys aim to produce contracts that allocate risk and responsibilities, anticipate and prevent ambiguities, as well as provide mechanisms to avoid disputes arising from contract performance. We are familiar with all construction delivery methods, including design-bid-build, design-build, construction management and Integrated Project Delivery (IPD), as well as the full range of public and private sector construction projects, including commercial, infrastructure, industrial, residential, institutional, retail, and mixed-use.
Zetlin & De Chiara is also well-versed in project labor agreements and often advises on their suitability and practicality for particular projects.


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Posted By admin on January 3, 2015
Pest control might not become the part of your concern because you do not see any pest around you. Even if you find it, you might not really think about it too seriously. Just imagine if you find a termite in your house. Don't you think that there is no need to worry at all? However, such behavior is totally wrong. You need to know that termite can be really troublesome.
Without any of your consideration, the termite is able to become so massive in its amount in short time. One termite that you see today can become so many in the next day. And, therefore, it will be really hard for you to take care of it. It seems to be next to impossible to make sure that the termite can be gotten rid of properly. You might find that the termite will have no end and it seems that the termite that has been gotten rid of is back to your house again. If such situation has come to you, it means that your house has been invaded by the termite and thus, you need to have the help from the professional so you can really put an end to the situation. Termite control in Pittsburgh, PA offered by PestControl-Pittsburgh.com is more than just capable of making sure that your termite situation can be solved properly.
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Pushed: the Painful Truth about Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care
by Jennifer Block
***A Best Book of 2007***
--Kirkus Reviews
***A Best Consumer Health Book of 2007***
--Library Journal
According to writer and editor Block, "the United States has the most intense and widespread medical management of birth" in the world, and yet "ranks near the bottom among industrialized countries in maternal and infant mortality."
Block shows how, in transforming childbirth into a business, hospitals have turned "procedures and devices developed for the treatment of abnormality" into routine practice, performed for no reason than "speeding up and ordering an unpredictable...process"; for instance, the U.S. cesarean section rate tripled in the 1970s, and has doubled since then. Block looks into a growing contingent of parents-to-be exploring alternatives to the hospital-and the attendant likelihood of medical intervention-by seeking out birthing centers and options for home-birth.
Unfortunately, obstacles to these alternatives remain considerable-laws across the U.S. criminalizing or severely restricting the practice of midwifery have led the trained care providers to practice underground in many states-while tort reform has done next to nothing to lower malpractice insurance rates or improve hospital birthing policies.
This provocative, highly readable expose raises questions of great consequence for anyone planning to have a baby in U.S., as well as those interested or involved in women's health care.


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What is Cinemacide?
Cinemacide is a riff-based entertainment group. We like to make fun of Hollywood's mistakes. We sell our own MP3 commentaries that you can play right along with your DVDs at home. Riffing is in our blood, and we love to make people laugh. We've been inspired by the greats, and hope to be the greatest. Buy a riff, sit back and laugh until it hurts!
Selecting the "Shop" page of this website will take you to our MP3 and MP4 commentaries, and in the future, our other merchandise, as well. After you have purchased your selected riff, we will send you a personal email with the file attached. Save it to your hard drive, and select it to start the riff. Each and every track will begin with a greeting, and the easy to follow instructions you will need to get rolling. The basic idea is this: after the introduction, we will instruct you to pause our audio track, insert your DVD for the film into your DVD player, and press play to start the film. During the instruction, we will give you an exact moment during the films opening title sequence to restart our audio track. This will serve as the first sync point between the DVD and our track! Later, during the film, you will hear us speak a line of dialogue at the exact moment a character in the film does. If they aren't perfectly synced up, then you'll simply need to pause the track that you heard first for the amount of time it was off. This is usually just a fraction of a second, and we offer several sync points early in each riff. Once you have the film and riff synced, they should stay that way without much more attention. Now you can sit back and enjoy the fun!


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Pumpkin lights are symbols of Halloween. It is said that a man called Jack Irish, because of his particularly mean to the money, he is not allowed into heaven after death, but the damned. But he always make fun of the devil in hell, Satan, they were kicked out of hell, punished his lantern at night to walk on earth forever.
Cut and Kill Halloween
Cut and Kill Halloween is a fun Halloween edition of Cut and Kill physics game. Cut objects at the right position and angel to roll the monsters into spikes and collect pumpkins.
Pumpkin Remover 3
Pumpkin Remover 3 is the third installment of the Pumpkin Remover physics game, it comes back just in time for Halloween. Use fire, gravity and your wisdom to remove all rotten pumpkins and keep the fresh ones safe.
Halloween Shooter
Halloween Shooter is a physics-based shooting game with a Halloween theme. Your goal is simple, just shoot witches into cauldrons, vampires into their coffins and mummies into tombs. Finish each stage to unlock the next level.
Pumpkin Master
Do you remember the great physics game Meeblings? Here comes a Halloween and Pumpkin version. Use your torch to guide the pumpkins to the gates of hell, but many obstacles are in your way. Using good timing and strategy, guide them to the end.
Kill a Vampire
Kill a Vampire is a fun physics-based puzzle game, your goal is to kill all the vampires in each stage. Place all the directional arrows around in the correct position, click the garlic to start falling.


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The Internet offers an infinite market for promoting your products and services.The following are a few effective online promotional strategies that can help you create an online profile and improve your company's presence online.
This is the first thing to do before launching your promotional campaign online. Provide visitors with a user friendly website. Keep the code clean and keep the site architecture and site navigation simple. Strike a balance between aesthetics and ease-of-use.
Patience is the virtue when you rely on SEO to promote your product online – expect results to build slowly as organic listings do not yield results overnight. In fact, it can often take three to six months before results are apparent. Use effective link building tactics and code optimization on your website to get the ball rolling.
Marketing common products such as clothing and accessories are found to be more effective using PPC ads through Google AdWords. Pay Per Click campaigns are an effective way to promote products that are very niche in nature. Track campaigns through use of Google Analytics code.
Use social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Pinterest to promote your brand. Use blogs and videos for promotional purposes too. Social media tools are a great way to build your brand online.
Run special online offers like special promotions, discounted products and great online pricing on products and services that will keep the audience engaged. Limited offers are also a great way to make your presence felt online.
Customized email campaigns are one of the cheapest and easiest forms of marketing. Email marketing should engage a user to perform some sort of task such as filling out a form, that way you are consistently gathering new contact details for potential clients.
Truly unique marketing ideas can translate into millions of dollars – literally. As more and more businesses pop up in the market, the need for novel concepts is unparalleled. Whether it is offline or online marketing, organizations are always in search of innovative strategies that will set them apart from the pack and, more importantly, generate leads through increased traffic and sales.
Both online and offline marketing are equally effective if they are implemented the right way. Often times, your choice of marketing completely depends on what the product is. Let's take an example: How do you intend to market a service such as web design? It would probably be much easier to market such a service through the use of banners, SEO or even through paid marketing campaigns such as PPC. Since services such as web design and web development are inclined toward the web, using the online medium for advertising your services is much easier and relevant. Therefore, when weighing the best medium for gaining exposure for your business, ask yourself questions such as, "Would this be something that will interest my clients?", or"Is this the most professional way of marketing my product?".
However, if you owned, say, a pizza delivery business, a more traditional approach such as flyer distribution to residential areas would likely be more effective and illicit a higher ROI than going online.
In short, in all cases, knowing your audience and how best to reach them is key to finding creative and innovative ways for promoting your business.
Consumers are using their mobile devices to search for local businesses more and more these days. As a result, the race is on for small businesses to invest more aggressively in mobile marketing in order to target local customers for better results.
In fact, recent surveys show that entrepreneurs who use mobile marketing have experienced an uptick in their businesses. The reason for this growth is attributed to factors such as:
While bigger businesses can illicit robust results with minimal effort due to their already recognizable branding and wealth of resources, small businesses have to put in a bit more legwork for comparable results. Many times while small businesses might have a website which is PC-friendly, they miss out on potential customers by not also making their website mobile-friendly.
Here are the strategies that small businesses can use for mobile marketing:
Mobilizing the Website: As mentioned before, mobilizing the website or making the website mobile- friendly is the first step, small business owners should take. This includes using font sizes that are readable on mobile screens as well as placing contact details in a location where they are easily viewed.
Localize the Search: As a small business owner, you would have to localize your search. In other words, change your search strategy to ensure that local customers can find your store, product or service.
Make Use of Social Media: Social media can be an excellent platform for small businesses to get more customers. Use Facebook, Twitter and other platforms to invite visitors to connect, share experiences or follow your updates.
Reputation of any business is built over time through consistent efforts that result in satisfied customers. Though promoting your business through forums, reviews and testimonials are valid options, the use of social media to create a solid reputation is the order of the day. Here is how you can work on building a strong reputation in the social media world:
Include Share Buttons: Adding share buttons to your website is a great way to make it easy for visitors to offer feedback and reviews.
Solicit Feedback through Facebook: There is no doubt Facebook is the most popular social media platform, therefore utilize this medium to gain feedback on your services and products through surveys, customer quotes and case studies.
Create a Blog: Creating and writing relevant and updated information on a blog is an ideal way to build your reputation. Blogs help gather opinions and views in the form of comments which can, in turn, be used to provide better services and products. You can immediately address any issues cited by your followers and take adequate action to cultivate the most positive online experience possible.
Get Endorsements on LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a social media platform that puts entrepreneurs on common ground and can be used to get endorsements from credible, non-competitive companies and links.
Use Video Testimonials: Video testimonials depicting satisfied customers are an excellent way to develop a positive reputation and can be obtained through networking events and trade-shows.
In short, although building a strong social media reputation takes some time, it is worth the effort as it helps your business to grow and sustain profitable relationships.
Marketing is an important aspect of any successful business, whether online or offline. However, with the penetration of the Internet growing every day, the importance of online marketing is increasing by leaps and bounds. Here are some online marketing techniques that are particularly effective:
Small businesses are realizing the importance of web presence and, therefore, are taking extra steps toward making their presence felt in the cyber world. The success of any business relies upon marketing and online marketing is no exception. Where the point of contention often lies for small business owners is the affordability of the marketing tools. We've listed a few tips below to help small business owners identify how to get the most for their marketing dollars.
Hire Experts: Small business owners often perform most tasks related to their business on their own out of necessity, however, online marketing is an altogether different genre of marketing that requires experts.
Find Your Target Audience: Business owners need to know their target market and the issues related to it. A top priority, therefore, should be to identify the problems faced by existing customers of similar products and offer solutions. This then becomes your unique selling proposition.
Press Releases: Press releases are a good option for promoting your products and services. Not only are they a strategic tool for gaining exposure, but releases can also be tied in with current news and ongoing trends for better visibility and readership.
Viral Internet Marketing: Viral marketing refers to promoting products and services in such a way that users are compelled to share the information with others, resulting in exponentially increased exposure in a very compressed timeline.
Smart online marketing strategies can give a considerable boost to your business. Here are a few ways you can successfully market your business online:
Register with Local Listing Services
This is a simple procedure that produces great results. Getting your business registered with the local listing services ensures that your businesses profile is ranked highly on search engines. With this registration, your business will appear whenever a user searches for products or services similar to those your company provides.
Optimize Your Website
Search engine optimization is an essential part of any online marketing campaign as it increases the visibility of your website resulting in a wider audience for your products and services.
Use Social Media
Social media platforms are becoming increasingly important tools for marketing businesses online. Facebook ads and offers are one highly effective and easy-to-use strategy as is communicating directly with customers via outlets such as Twitter. LinkedIn is also an ideal networking platform for building business relationships. Whatever the medium, the main objective is to interact with customers so that they feel constantly connected to your services and products.
Join Online Communities
Online communities and forums are good places to market your business. You can join communities and forums relevant to your industry and establish a rapport and then slowly put in a few words for your business and post links that direct visitors to your website.
When we were approached by Surface Savers, a tile and grout cleaning company based in Boca Raton, Fla., sales were waning, website traffic was stalled and a marketing strategy was MIA. After consulting with the company's owners, we created a story for the company based on their vision and turned that vision into a brand. Here is how the metamorphosis took place.
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Our calendar has been updated to include all of our regattas for the upcoming year. More information will be made available about each event and we will add events as the year progresses. Check it out on our calendar page!
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