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TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Feb. 12, 2013) - BESRA (TSX:BEZ)(ASX:BEZ)(OTCQX:BSRAF)(FRANKFURT:OP6), John Seton, Chief Executive Officer of Besra is pleased to announce that the final mining certificate renewal required for the main area of the Bau Goldfield being considered for mining (Jugan and Young's Hill) has been granted as a full mining lease with rights to exploit gold, silver, base metals and calcium. The granting of the lease, for twenty years from January 23, 2013, is seen as another positive for a project that already possesses infrastructure features such as roads, electric power, close proximity to an international airport and a deep-water port. The new mining license covers the Jugan, Fern Hill, and Jambusan deposit areas (See below: Aerial view of the Bau Goldfield).
To view Aerial view of the Bau Goldfield, please visit the following link: http://media3.marketwire.com/docs/bau_goldfield_map01_feb12.pdf
The Bau Goldfield has a NI43-101 Measured resource of 3,405600 tonnes at 1.52 g/t Au containing 166,900 ounces of gold. Indicated resource of 17,879,700 tonnes at 1.67 g/t Au containing 958,000 ounces of gold and an Inferred resource of 50,206,400 tonnes at 1.35 g/t Au containing 2,181,600 ounces of gold.
The Bau property is a brown-field project, spread over a large geographic area, in which the Company is in consortium with a Malaysian company with material Bumiputra interest that owns rights to consolidated mining tenements covering much of the historic goldfield. Besra increased its ownership of the Bau Goldfield from 83.25% to 85.05% on January 28, 2013 paying USD 2 million. (See Olympus Press Release dated January 24, 2012.)
Besra is a diversified gold company focused on four advanced properties; the Bau Goldfield in East Malaysia, Bong Mieu and Phuoc Son in Central Vietnam, and Capcapo in the Philippines. Besra expects to expand existing gold production capacity in Vietnam over the next two years and is projecting new production capacity from Bau Central during 2015 (start up and production forecasts will depend on the result of the current Jugan feasibility, which is scheduled for completion in 2013).
John A.G. Seton, Chief Executive Officer
The technical information in this press release has been prepared under the supervision of Mr. Rod Murfitt who is a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM), a "Competent Person", as defined in the 2004 Edition of the "Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserve" and a "Qualified Person" as defined in National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects of the Canadian Securities Administrators. Mr. Murfitt is a full-time consultant to the Company and is not "independent" within the meaning of National Instrument 43-101. Mr. Murfitt consents to the inclusion in this press release of the technical information, in the form, and context in which it appears.
Certain of the statements made and information contained herein is "Forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities laws, including statements concerning our plans at our producing mines and exploration projects, which involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company, or industry results, to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Forward-looking information is subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events or results to differ from those reflected in the forward-looking information, including, without limitation, failure to establish estimated resources or to convert resources to mineable reserves; the grade and recovery of ore which is mined varying from estimates; capital and operating costs varying significantly from estimates; delays in obtaining or failure to obtain required governmental, environmental, or other project approvals; changes in national and local government legislation or regulations regarding environmental factors, royalties, taxation or foreign investment; political or economic instability; terrorism; inflation; changes in currency exchange rates; fluctuations in commodity prices; delays in the development of projects; shortage of personnel with the requisite knowledge and skills to design and execute exploration and development programs; difficulties in arranging contracts for drilling and other exploration and development services; dependency on equity market financings to fund programs and maintain and develop mineral properties; and risks associated with title to resource properties due to the difficulties of determining the validity of certain claims and other risks and uncertainties, including those described in each management's discussion and analysis released by the Company. In addition, forward-looking information is based on various assumptions including, without limitation, the expectations and beliefs of management; the assumed long-term price of gold; the availability of permits and surface rights; access to financing, equipment and labour and that the political environment in the jurisdictions within which the Company operates will continue to support the development of environmentally safe mining projects. Should one or more of these risks and uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described in forward-looking statements. Accordingly, readers are advised not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made. Except as required under applicable securities legislation, the Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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Researchers are warning organizations that a recently-fixed authentication vulnerability in MySQL is simple to exploit.
The authentication bypass, called "tragically comedic" by Rapid7's HD Moore, also affects MariaDB and was fixed in recent versions of both products.
"This flaw was rooted in an assumption that the memcmp() function would always return a value within the range -127 to 127 (signed character)," explained Moore, chief security officer at Rapid7. "On some platforms and with certain optimizations enabled, this routine can return values outside of this range, eventually causing the code that compares a hashed password to sometimes return true even when the wrong password is specified. Since the authentication protocol generates a different hash each time this comparison is done, there is a 1 in 256 chance that any password would be accepted for authentication."
Whether a particular build of MySQL or MariaDB is vulnerable, depends on how and where it was built, MariaDB Security Coordinator Sergei Golubchik explained on the Full Disclosure mailing list.
"A prerequisite is a memcmp() that can return an arbitrary integer (outside of -128..127 range). To my knowledge gcc builtin memcmp is safe, BSD libc memcmp is safe," he explained. "Linux glibc sse-optimized memcmp is not safe, but gcc usually uses the inlined builtin version."
According to Moore, statistics compiled in a research project he is involved in underscore how many organizations could be in danger if they are running vulnerable instances of MySQL. As part of the project, Moore said he was able to find and gather the initial handshake for roughly 1.74 million MySQL servers on the Internet. Of the 1.74 million, more than half failed to enforce host-based access controls.
"The first rule of securing MySQL is to not expose to the network at large in the first place," Moore blogged. "Most Linux distributions bind the MySQL daemon to localhost, preventing remote access to the service. In cases where network access must be provided, MySQL also provides host-based access controls. There are few use cases where the MySQL daemon should be intentionally exposed to the wider network and without any form of host-based access control."
"If you are responsible for a MySQL server that is currently exposed to the network unnecessarily, the easiest thing to do is to modify the my.cnf file in order to restrict access to the local system," he continued. "Open my.cnf with the editor of your choice, find the section labeled [mysqld] and change (or add a new line to set) the "bind-address" parameter to "127.0.0.1". Restart the MySQL service to apply this setting."
Joshua Drake, a researcher with Accuvant Labs, has provided a sample application that can be used to determine if a system is affected.

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Sundborg, Ericsson's Director of Standardization and Technical Regulation, was one of 28 members elected to serve on the organization's board at the ETSI General Assembly at the end of November 2011. He was subsequently elected by the same General Assembly to be Chairman of the Board for the three-year tenure.
Sundborg, who joined Ericsson in 1986, served on the ETSI board for six years prior to his election as chairman. He held the positions of Board Vice Chairman and Chairman of the Operational Coordination Group for the three years before being elected chairman.
He says he is delighted to serve as Chairman of the ETSI Board.
"It's an honor to receive this kind of support and trust," he says. "I look forward to working with a diverse 28-member board comprised of delegates from many European countries as well as China and North America," he says. "In addition, there are now delegates from Japan and South Korea on the Board for the first time.
"I'm considered committed, professional and results-oriented. I'm also considered diplomatic – I don't create conflicts, I resolve them. This is a good thing, given the spirited debates that take place between delegates from a wide range of companies, countries and cultures.
"I will be required to respond in an effective manner and to focus on the most strategic telecommunications and ICT standardization issues."
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Despite being a short week thanks to the Labor Day holiday, it has still been a tiring one. But thankfully it is Friday afternoon and the weekend is just around the corner.
First and foremost on the minds of Americans this weekend is the 10th anniversary of 9/11. The editors here at U.S. Catholic shared our own personal memories of 9/11 and where we are 10 years later, part of our special section on 9/11. There is plenty more commentary around the web, but one worth checking out is at the Washington Post, where experts from various faith backgrounds ask what we've learned about religion from 9/11. A Catholic take is provided by Washington's Cardinal Donald Wuerl, who shares his prepared homily for this Sunday.
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In the Catholic world today, there's still a lot of talk about new Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput, who was installed yesterday. Everyone knows he has his work cut out for him, but he's already talking about getting personally involved in the ongoing strike of Catholic high school teachers, which is a good sign.
And speaking of good signs, a former priest who served in Massachusetts and Texas that was found guilty of multiple counts of sexual abuse has been defrocked. Now let's get to work on clearing the rest of the offenders out of the priesthood.
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It's been a few weeks of major Muzzling attempts on Israel/Palestine. Last week in Washington, DC, AIPAC held their annual conference, or shall we say chorus, where over half the US Congress and thousands of Likud supporters cheered on Prime Minister Netanyahu's assertion that Iran's potentially-maybe-would-be nuclear capacity is the same thing as Auschwitz, a move some keen observers see as making it that much harder for Netanyahu not to attack Iran. As Jon Stewart makes only too clear, American politicians do not – cannot? – oppose Netanyahu. (In this excellent essay, Peter Beinart lays out the history of Obama's failure to stand up to Netanyahu, warning that the cost of this failure may be war with Iran.)
JVP activists were among the hundreds of activists who occupied AIPAC from within and without, reminding attendees and the media that AIPAC does not speak for Jews, and that many, many Jews, allies and others oppose the Israeli government's planned war on Iran and policies of occupation and oppression of Palestinians. Though JVP's truck ad was silenced, JVP's voice came through loud & clear, both displayed on the outside wall of the Convention Center on the night of the AIPAC Gala and as JVP Board Member and general badass Liza Behrendt directly challenged AIPAC, StandWithUs, the David Project and Hillel for silencing young Jews on the issue of Israel/Palestine.
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And last, the March 3 & 4 One State Conference at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government was a success even before it took place, before an array of fascinating, bold thinkers, including JVP Advisory Board member Sarah Schulman and Rabbinical Council co-founder Brant Rosen, aired nuanced, thoughtful and difficult ideas to a sold out crowd.
This conference was a success simply because it happened. No less a powerful figure than Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown tried to get it shut down, while the ADL led the charge among dominant Jewish organizations in demanding that Harvard denounce the conference and the legitimacy of discussing a one-state solution. More than 4,000 "students, alumni and friends" of Harvard signed a petition calling for the university to effectively prevent the conference by denying it funding and facilities. The AJC called it a "non-starter".
The condemnation of the conference took the same forms, calling the discussion of a one state solution anti-Semitic, and worse: organizers are "soft eliminationists" (Jeffrey Goldberg) who seek Israel's "elimination" (ADL) through a "Final Solution" that will lead to the "extermination" and "annihilation" of Israel (FrontPage Magazine). As the ADL put it in a letter to Harvard president Drew Gilpin Faust, "there can never be any legitimate discussion" about a one-state solution. Yet do they lob the same critique at Knesset members calling for one state – one Jewish supremacist state, that is – or the state legislatures of Florida and South Carolina, which recently passed resolutions supporting one state, meaning the state of Israel in the greater land of Israel?
No, on the topic of a viable solution for Israel/Palestine, these muzzlers reserve their muzzling for perceived leftists. What they're doing is trying to make it impossible for anyone but speakers they've vetted and chosen to speak about Israel's future. Palestinians need not apply – and nor should anyone who thinks there's more to the story than "why the Palestinians have inflicted so much unnecessary suffering on themselves," as the ADL's New England Regional Director put it.
Harvard hosted the conference in spite of the attacks, yet it did something else, too. Dean David Ellwood of the Kennedy School issued a statement regarding the conference, saying "We would never take a position on specific policy solutions to achieving peace in this region, and certainly would not endorse any policy that some argue could lead to the elimination of the Jewish State of Israel." Does "the Jewish State of Israel" ring any bells? That's the new language / negotiation precondition imposed by Netanyahu in 2007. Never before did Israel demand official recognition as "the Jewish state;" this demand flummoxed diplomats and threw a wrench in potential negotiations with Palestinians. Israel as the "Jewish state": what impact would this declaration have on discrimination against Palestinian citizens? Or civil rights for Jewish Israelis, who also suffer from ultra-orthodox domination? On negotiations over the Palestinian right of return? In short, Dean Ellwood's use of that language is a victory for Netanyahu and a loss for democracy, equality, civil rights and justice. Congratulations, ADL. Congratulations, Harvard.
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I've entitled this section the disaster of denying bodily resurrection. Now you will remember that the theme of the chapter is the physical, literal, bodily resurrection of men from the grave. That's the major theme.
Paul is reminding the Corinthians that dead men do and shall rise from the dead. This is not a new truth. It is a cardinal truth in Christianity. It is also a key truth in Judaism. It is both in the Old and the New Testament. As far back as the ancient book of Job in Chapter 19, in verse 26. Job said, "Though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God whom I shall see for myself and not another though my reins be consumed within me."
In other words, Job said though my body rots in the grave, somehow in some way, yet in my flesh, I'll see God. That is the belief in a bodily resurrection. When you come into the New Testament, Jesus begins early in His ministry to promise a literal, physical, bodily resurrection. For example, in John Chapter 5 and verse 28, "Marvel not at this for the hour is coming in which all that are in the graves shall here His voice and shall come forth." "All that are in the grave," said Jesus, "shall hear His forth and come forth."
In John 6, verse 44, Jesus said, "No man can come to me except the Father who hath sent me draw him and I will raise him up at the last day." In John 11:25, Jesus said, "I am the resurrection and the life, whosoever believes in me so really never die, but have life that is eternal and everlasting."
So Jesus promised physical resurrection. Additionally, to the Old Testament hope and the promise of Jesus, the New Testament apostles also preached the resurrection of the dead. In fact, it got them into trouble in Acts 4, "And as they spoke under the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees came on them. Being grieved that they taught the people and preached through Jesus the resurrection from death," or from the grave.
They were preaching physical resurrection. This was the message of the apostle Paul. In 2 Corinthians for example, Chapter 4 and verse 14. "Knowing that he who raised up the Lord Jesus will raise up us also." And Paul preached this repeatedly. In Colossians 3:4, he said, "When Christ who is our life shall appear than shall ye also appear with him."
In 1 Thessalonians, he said that the dead would come out of the graves and be united with Christ and that we who were alive and remaining should be united with Him. In Philippians Chapter 3, he said, "Our citizenship is in heaven," in verse 20. And in verse 21, he said, "The Lord will change our vial bodies into glorious bodies like unto His body."
Jesus said in John 14, that He was going away to prepare a place for us and that He would come again and receive us unto Himself. In John 17, He prayed that we would be with Him in the presence of the Father. So there is the statement of the Old Testament, the word of Jesus, the word of the apostles, the word of Paul to the fact that there is resurrection bodily from the grave to be with the Lord for those who are believers.
This is basic to our faith. And I think it's important to note that in that resurrection form we will still be ourselves. For example, in Revelation 20, in verse 12 it says "that God called them to Him and out of the graves they came and John says I saw standing before the Lord the dead both small and great."
What's interesting about that is that there was still a difference in the people when they were there in the vision of the future judgment as when they were here on earth. Some were smaller or insignificant and some where greater. That is they maintained a personality and a personhood somewhat like that which they had in life. We'll be ourselves in a real way.
But in spite of the clear word of the Old Testament and in spite of the clear word of Jesus, in spite of the clear of apostolic preaching, in spite of the clear word of the apostle Paul, the Corinthians had come to the place where they were denying bodily resurrection. They had bought the bag of Greek philosophers and you remember the Greek philosophers taught that the soul was immortal, but the body was not.
That the soul would go on forever, but the body rotted in the grave and it was good-bye forever. So that immortality had only to bear on the spiritual. We would live spiritually forever not in any kind of corporeal sense. In fact, verse 12 of 1 Corinthians 15 has basically the statement these critics were making. "Now if Christ be preached that He rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?"
In other words, they were flatly saying dead men don't rise again. That was the statement of Greek philosophy and that was being parroted by the Corinthian church, at least a few in the church. Now remember, Paul has already told them in the first 11 verses that that's an impossible view for them to have. And the reason it's impossible is because they already believe that Jesus rose from the dead, right?
In other words, if you go back to Chapter 15 in the first few verses, Paul says, "Remember the gospel," folks, "the gospel you received and on which you stand and by which you are saved." And what is the gospel? It's verse 3, "That Christ died according to the Scriptures." Verse 4, "That He was buried and that He rose again." In other words, he's saying look, you already believe in resurrection. You already believe in bodily resurrection because you've already accepted it, received it, stand on it, and are being saved by it. And it's the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Now verse 12, "If Christ is already being preached that He rose from the dead, and you're already believing that, then how could some among you say that there's no such thing as resurrection from the dead." You already believe it. You're already committed to it. You've already been saved by that confidence and that faith.
So Paul as is his wonderful ability as a logician, as well as being inspired by the Holy Spirit, establishes a common ground, they both believe this, and because they already believe this, he can go ahead and build his argument against the error that's encroached upon them.
Now, I want you to notice verse 12, because it's kind of the kick off to the section. He says look this is gospel that all of us have preached verse 11, whether it were I or they, that is "whether it's myself or the other apostles so we preach and so you believe."
In other words, this resurrection of Jesus Christ is not some Johnny Come Lately, some addendum, something stuck on the end like an appendix, this is something you've already committed yourself to. You have already believed. You've already accepted. It's already been preached and if this is the case, how come you're denying resurrection.
Now, you'll notice that in verse 12 there are a couple of technical points that might help you to see the picture here. The last phrase of verse 12 is "resurrection of the dead." In the Greek there is no article. There is no the, and the text literally would read this way. "How say some among you that there is no resurrection of corpses." They're talking about the physical. "How say some among you that there is no resurrection of dead men." Dead men don't rise you say.
Oh? Then how is it you believe Jesus rose if dead men don't rise and you do believe that, because you were saved by believing that. That's his point. So he's already got them in a corner, they're never going to get out this to start with. Now Paul says further, from 13 to 19, "I want ye to understand what happens to the gospel and what happens to you if you don't believe in resurrection?" And people this is in...one of the most devastating passages you'll ever see.
By the time we're done, it literally covers every base. You can't just come along and say well, I believe that all except the part about bodily resurrection like the Corinthians. Oh I believe in the resurrection of Christ. Oh I believe in heaven, immortality for the soul and the spirit will be floating around up there. You know, and all that. I buy...it's just the bodily part I don't buy.
And Paul says, oh yeah, well watch what you've just done. You have just given a death blow to the total of Christianity. And so I want to give you seven disastrous results of denying bodily resurrection. Seven disastrous results of denying bodily resurrection.
Now remember this, now keep this in your mind. The key to remember is that Paul connects the bodily resurrection of men with the bodily resurrection of whom? Christ. Those are inseparable. And those two things are both sides of the same coin as it were all the way through his thought.
Now, the seven devastating disastrous results in denying bodily resurrection. This would, incidentally, deal seriously with any philosophy that says the soul is immortal and denies that the body is. This would certainly deal a death blow to reincarnation or as I call it recycling, where you just keep coming back in a different can.
You are a person and you will be that person forever in a form somehow physically, though in a glorious physical form, a glorified form. All right, let's look at reason number one or result number one, better of denying the resurrection. The first thing that happens if you deny bodily resurrection is one Christ is not risen, verse 13.
"But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen." In other words, while you're sort of gingerly and gluggly going along saying we don't believe in bodily resurrection, what about Christ? If dead men don't rise, then guess what, Christ didn't rise because you just said dead men don't rise.
Now that's a logical deduction. Paul uses a contrary to fact statement, and he says, if that statement is true that dead men don't rise, then Christ didn't rise and if Christ didn't rise, etc.
And you say well, he's different. Oh? Well, you see dead men don't rise, but Christ really isn't a man. Oh? Christ is a man. Yes, He is a man. You say, half man. No, 100 a man. You say do you believe that? Absolutely, Christ was 100 man. He was also 100 God and He's the only entity who ever existed who was 200 of something.
He was totally man and He was totally God and He still is. Listen Paul assumes the full incarnation here that's the basis of his argument. If you say dead men don't rise what have you done to Christ? He's a man. If you make that the postulate, then you've eliminated His resurrection.
You say well, are you sure He was a man? Oh yes, the Bible's very clear on it. Let me show you. Acts Chapter 2, verse 22, the first thing he ever said about Jesus in terms of apostolic preaching is said in Acts 2:22 and these are the words of Peter. "Ye men of Israel hear these words, Jesus of Nazareth a man approved of God." Peter says a man.
You're in 1 Corinthians 15 or you were. Verse 21 says, "For since by man came death." And who would that man be? Adam. So by man came the resurrection from the dead and that man is Christ. He's a man. Galatians 4:4 says, "That in the fullness of time, God sent forth His son made of a woman." He was born humanly. He was a man.
In 1 Timothy 2:5, it says "For there is one mediator between God and man the man Christ Jesus." In Hebrews 2:17 comes the greatest statement. "Wherefore in all things it behooved Him to be made like His brethren." He was in all things made a man like the rest of us. No lacking. And when the world looked at Him, they observed that He was a man. They didn't see Him as a floating phantom or some kind of mystical being. He was a man.
In fact, in Mark 6, they looked at Him, verse 3 and they said "isn't this the carpenter the Son of Mary, the brother of James and Joseph and Judas and Simon, and aren't these His sisters here." This is just a guy like any other guy. He's got a job. He's a carpenter. He's got some sisters. He's got some brothers. He comes from this little town, big deal.
He's a man like everybody else. John 19:5 after the excruciation of all of that thing that Pilot put Jesus through. He brought Him out before the crowd and said what in the Latin is ecce homo and in the English is behold what? The man. The man. In 1 John 1:1 and 2, John says, "Concerning this man our hands have handled Him."
In 2 John and verse 7, the very important statement of the word of God is this. It says, "For many deceivers are entered into the world who confess not that Jesus Christ comes in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist."
You cannot deny the humanity of Jesus Christ without being a deceiver and an antichrist. He's a man. He's every widow man, every way a man, in all things He's a man. And if dead men don't rise, then He didn't rise, because He's a man and He was a dead man on the cross.
The details of His life indicate He was a man. Matthew 1:18 says, "He was conceived in a woman's womb." Matthew 1:25 says, "He was born in a human manner." Luke 2:21 says, "He was circumcised." Matthew 26:38 says, "He possessed a human soul." John 1:14 says, "He had a human body." Luke 2:52 says, "He grew in stature and wisdom and favor with God and man. John 11:35 says, "He cried." Matthew 4:2 says, "He was hungry." John 19:28 says, "He was thirsty." Matthew 8:24 says "He was sleepy." In John 4:6 "He grew weary." In John 11:33, "He felt sorrow and grief and pain." In Luke 22:64 His face was beaten with fists. In Matthew 27:26, He was whipped. In Luke 23:33, He was nailed to a cross. In John 19:30, He died. In John 19:34, He had His side pierced. In Matthew 27:59, He was buried. Just like any other man.
He was a man. And even after He came out of the grave, He was still a man. Look at Luke 24. In Luke 24, verse 33, it says "And they rose the same hour and returned to Jerusalem and found the eleven. They were gathered together and those who were with them. And they said this is the ones who came from Emmaus. The Lord has risen indeed and has appeared to Simon." And they told them the things that were done along the way and He was known to them in the breaking of bread and as they thus spoke Jesus Himself stood in the midst of them and said to them, "Peace be unto you."
They were terrified and frightened and supposed they had seen a spirit. Maybe they were good prospects for Greek philosophy, believing in the spiritual resurrection. And He said to them, "Why are you troubled, and why do these thoughts arise in your hearts? Look at my hands and my feet that it is I myself, handle me and see for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see me have." He still had some flesh and bones. He still was a man. Oh a glorified one, but nonetheless a man and He was still the man that He was before and so shall we because when we shall see Him we shall be what? Like Him.
And just in order to prove it, He had them touch Him and feel Him and when He had spoken that, He showed His hands and His feet, and while they yet believe not for joy and wondered, He said, you want more proof? You got something to eat and they brought Him a piece of fish and a honeycomb and He took it and ate it. He was a man.
And listen, Paul's point is this, if you philosophers say dead men don't rise, then Jesus was a dead man, He didn't rise. You sure you want to say that? You just predicated your entire faith on His resurrection. Romans 10:9, "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in thine heart," what, "that God has raised Him from the dead thou shalt be saved." Salvation was predicated on His resurrection and He was a man.
So the first devastating impact of not believing in bodily resurrection is that Christ didn't rise. That leads to a second result. Point two, all gospel preaching is useless. Look at verse 14. "If Christ be not risen, then is our preaching useless?"
Stop right there. All of preaching is useless. There's no gospel. If the gospel is Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose the third day and all He did was die and didn't rise, there's no gospel. And all gospel preaching is empty useless jabber. If Christ is dead forever, the guts have just been torn out of the apostolic message. There's nothing to say. Preaching is lost. The gospel is subverted.
You see people, you have to remember this, now watch. The whole validation of everything Jesus said and did was predicated on His coming out of the grave. Do you understand that? If He doesn't rise, then everything is lost. If He does everything is gain. You see in Romans Chapter 1, verse 3 it says, "that the gospel of God," in verse 1, then there's a parenthesis in verse 2, but verse 1, "The gospel of God." What is it? It's this concerning His Son, "Jesus Christ our Lord who was made of the seed of David according to the flesh."
In other words, verse 3 proves His humanity. He was a man. He was born in the family of David according to the flesh. He was made of the seed of a woman of the line of David and a man of the line of David. That's His humanness. But verse 4, "He was declared to be the Son of God," that's His deity, "with power according to the Spirit of Holiness, how by the resurrection from the dead."
In other words, the humanness is obvious from His Davidic lineage. His deity is predicated on the resurrection if He doesn't rise, He isn't God. And if He isn't God, then all gospel preaching is worthless, empty vanity.
In Revelation 1:18, He is saying there in effect, I have right to rule a church. I have a right to lead the church. I have the right to call the church to accountability. Why? "Because I am He that liveth and was dead and am alive forever more, Amen." And that's why I have the keys of Hades and death.
In other words, His right to reign in His own church, His right to rule in the church, His right to promise life after death is predicated on His own resurrection. In Romans 14:9, he says, "He is not only the Lord of the dead, but the Lord of the living." And He wouldn't if He didn't rise. You see the Lordship of Christ over the church, the deity of Christ is predicated on His resurrection. If He doesn't rise, the whole of the gospel, which is all about the resurrection and all about the Lordship of Christ and all about the deity of Christ. The gospel is gone. It's empty. There's no good news. The news folks is bad news.
And the angels who said, "Behold I bring you good news of great joy," lied. There's no good news. If Jesus didn't rise because He isn't God and there's no good news. Gospel preaching is a sham. It's a hoax. It's a fake. It's a phony. He didn't conquer death and He didn't conquer sin and He didn't conquer Hell. Bad news.
So Paul says, if you don't believe in bodily resurrection, if dead men don't rise, one, Christ didn't rise. Two, all gospel preaching is useless. Three, faith is empty. Verse 14, the rest of the verse. The end of the verse says, "and your faith is also useless." Same word, empty, useless, vain. Verse 17, "If Christ be not raised, your faith is vain." Empty, useless, same phrase repeated again.
Now, the point is that if the gospel is a lie and the gospel is useless, then putting your faith in it is equally useless, right? We've reached out our hand to grasp a God who isn't there. We've tried to touch a Savior who isn't alive. We've believed in a gospel that didn't happen. This is an inevitable consequence people. The apostles preached a risen Christ. The Bible teaches a risen Christ. If dead men don't rise, then He didn't rise and if He didn't rise, they've been telling us lies. And they've been telling us lies, we've been believing them, our faith is useless.
I mean, we might as well say with Psalmist on Psalms 73:13, "I have cleansed my heart in vain." We might as well say with Isaiah in 49:4, "I have labored in vain. I have spent strength for nothing." Abel who believed God was a fool. Enoch was a myth. Noah was a fool beyond any fool. 120 years building a dumb boat for a God who couldn't pull off the sacrifice to save him from his own sins.
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, David, Gideon, Sampson, Barak, Jephthah, Samuel, Elijah, Isaiah, Daniel, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, and all the rest all had an empty faith in a God who couldn't pull off the salvation He planned, because He couldn't His son out of the grave, if dead men don't rise.
And all those precious people in the 11th of Hebrews, those people who had trials of mockings and scourgings and bonds and imprisonments and were stoned and sawed in half, and tested and slain of the sword and wandered in sheep skins and goats skins and destitute and afflicted and tormented, those of whom the world wasn't worthy who wandered in deserts and mountains and dens and caves of the earth. All of those people who through faith held on to God were stupid. Their faith was useless if the dead don't rise.
Incredible, incredible emptiness if the dead don't rise and all the martyrs of the New Testament and all the saints of the new age are examples of useless faith and so is your and so is mine. If there's no resurrection because then Christ didn't rise and if He didn't rise, the gospel is useless and so is our faith.
Fourth, Paul says the apostles were liars, verse 15. "Yes, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that He raised up Christ whom He raised not up if so be that the dead don't rise." If the dead don't rise, then God didn't raise Jesus and if God didn't raise Jesus, we're liars because we've been telling everybody that He did. So you know what, we've not only lost our faith, but we've lost the ability to believe the apostles. They're liars.
Now do you see people what happens when you just pick one little thing in the Bible that you want to discard? You got the apostles all liars. You say well, well, wait a minute, I don't...I may want to deny the resurrection...this is what liberals, well, we want to deny the resurrection, certainly don't believe that, but they're wonderful men. Listen, they're all a bunch of liars if you do that. Do you realize that in Acts 1:22, they all said, "we are witnesses of His resurrection" and that that was the bottom-line on their entire ministry? That the whole thing is predicated on a lie. They're a bunch of phonies. You say well, their well meaning fellows who are somewhat misguided. It doesn't say that. It says they were false witnesses. And the term means they were out right deceiving liars.
They were charlatans, they were phonies, they were frauds, giving false testimony about God claiming God raised Jesus when God didn't. This is not just a small detail. You have just in effect devastated the entire gospel and all the people whoever preached it. They're not just honest men with sincerity giving bad advice. They said, "Jesus arose." They said they saw Him, but if dead men don't rise, the Jesus didn't rise and they didn't see Him and if they said they did, they're what? They're liars.
Now you can see there's a circle of reasoning here isn't there? All the way from verse 13. You see the resurrection of dead men, the resurrection of Christ, the preaching of the apostles, the faith of the Corinthians and everybody else and the testimony of the apostles form a unit. You either believe all of it or none of it. Did you get that? Now listen to this, you either believe all of it or none of it. You don't come along and say well, I believe in the resurrection of Jesus, but not the resurrection of the rest. Paul says, no deal. Or you don't come along like liberals and say well, I believe maybe in the resurrection of us, but not of Christ. No deal.
Well, I don't believe in those two things, but I certainly the apostles are wonderful men. No deal, they were liars. Well, even there wasn't a resurrection and even though there won't be one we certainly have to put our faith in God. No deal. Nothing or everything.
It's a closed case folks, you can't cut it anywhere and let anything leak out. If the dead don't rise, Christ didn't rise and if He didn't rise, the gospel isn't true and if the gospel isn't true, your faith is stupid and everybody who ever preached is a liar.
Now besides this, this also is a death blow to the Old Testament saints who prophesized the resurrection, they're liars too. And you know what comes out of it that's worst of all, you make Jesus into a liar. Listen, if the apostles are liars, then what am I going to do with the New Testament? Can I believe it? No, none of it's written by liars, well, they say they didn't mean to be liars. Yeah, well, how do I know where they missed it. See if I can't believe in the credibility of these men, then I'm really lost because that does it for the Scripture. At least the liberals are consistent there. They not only deny the resurrection, they also deny the authority and the truthfulness of Scripture, because it's obvious they go together.
But you know what's the worst thing of all? You make Jesus into a poor victim, because in John 16 said to those same apostles who would write the New Testament, he said, "I'll send a spirit and when my Spirit comes He will lead you into all," what, "truth." And the sad part of it is if you just deny one little thing like bodily resurrection, you have made Jesus into a liar. The Holy Spirit didn't keep them from error and lead them into all truth. If they told lies, and they told lies if Christ didn't rise and Christ didn't rise if dead men don't rise.
Then 16 restates the major premise of his argument. "If the dead rise not, remember then is not Christ raised?" Now that's...that's's a summary of all that he said and it's also a kicker for what he's about to say which is the second part. The first part he has treated theologically. The first part has been a look at what happens to our theology. The second part, the last three disastrous results of denying bodily resurrection are personal. Not what happens to our theology, what happens to us if we deny dead men rise, which results in denying the resurrection of Christ.
Christ has not risen. Gospel preaching is useless, faith is empty, apostles are liars, and now we get to us, in verse 17, "sins powers unbroken." We're still in our sin. Look at verse 17. "If Christ be not raised," now it gets to us, "your faith is vain." Before he was saying our preaching is vain, and then your faith is vain. Now he really singles in on us. "Your faith is vain because you are still," what, "in your sins."
If Jesus didn't rise, you know what happened? Sin killed Him and held Him dead. You know it was sin that killed Jesus, did you know that? He died on the cross not of His own sin, but of the sins of the world put upon His back. He died because He was made sin for us and sin killed Him.
And you know something if He didn't rise, sin killed Him so dead that He couldn't come back and sin won. If He didn't rise and He didn't rise if dead men don't rise. You see people, to benefit us our faith must forgive us our sins. Our faith must bring us to the place where we're delivered from sin and guilt and punishment. If it doesn't do that "it's useless faith," he says in 17. If Christ isn't raised your faith is dumb, because it doesn't do a thing with your sin. It can't deal with sin. And if it can't deal with sin, it can't help you. You see because the wages of sin for us is what? Is death. And that's eternal death, and that's spiritual death, and if Christ couldn't handle it and He couldn't overcome it, then we'll have to do it ourselves and pay the price. And our faith is ridiculous and useless. We can't put faith in Christ with any sense at all if Christ's act cannot take away our sin. It's a waste.
But if there's no resurrection then He didn't conquer sin. Sin conquered Him, it killed Him and kept Him dead. There's no reconciliation. There's not justification. There's no salvation. There's no life. If Christ is still dead, then every believer is still dead in trespasses and sins and there's no deliverance, none at all.
As long as Christ our surety was held by Satan, as long as He was held by death and not released, then the debt was never paid and we're still liable. But in Romans 4:25, bless God, it says "He was raised for our," what, "justification." He came out of that grave. The Bible says when you put your faith in Christ you're united with Him. "If He died and stayed there, we'd die and stay there too. But if He came out of the grave so we come to walk in newness of life."
"Only as the living Christ," Paul says in 1 Corinthians 1:30, "can He be made unto us wisdom and sanctification and righteousness and redemption." He couldn't keep us. He couldn't save us. He couldn't do anything for us if He wasn't alive. And there's nobody else to turn because Acts 4:12 says, "salvation is in Him." And if He couldn't pull it off we're dead folks, we're dead. And what Jesus said to those leaders in John 8:21, "You will die in your sins," was true of Him and of everybody else if He didn't rise.
There's two elements here. If Christ doesn't rise, number one, He didn't pay the penalty for sin in full and come back to grant us life. Sin killed Him if He didn't rise. Secondly, if He didn't rise, He's not alive today to intercede for us and to keep on cleansing on us and to keep on forgiving us. And His life is not there. Romans 5:10, "To hold us and keep us." He couldn't save us and He can't keep us if He didn't rise.
That's why it's so important that we believe that He did rise. That's why Peter said what He did in Acts 5:29. Peter and the other apostles answered and said, "we ought to obey God rather than men. The God of our Father raised up Jesus whom you slew and hanged on a tree and Him hath God exalted with His right hand to be a prince and a Savior and give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins." God did raise Him and God made Him a prince. And the word in the Greek is archagos. That's the word that means front runner, pioneer.
Seamen...seamen had a guy on the ship who was the archagos. And he was the strongest swimmer and when he would come to shore and he would get into the billows and the waves and they didn't know whether they could get the ship to shore and how they would get the people safely, this guy would take the rope and he would tie it around his waist and he would dive in and he would swim through the turbulent waters and because he was a strong swimmer, he would get to the shore and he would take rope and he would tie it around a rock or a tree and the rest of the people would come along that rope to safety on the shore. But it was the archagos who took the rope and anchored it.
And Jesus is the prince, the archagos. He swam through the waters of death and death couldn't hold Him and death couldn't drown Him and He got to the shore and He anchored the rope and the rest of us have come along behind. That if Jesus drowned, then we're going to drown too.
If He's doomed, we're doomed. If Jesus didn't rise, then sin killed Him and sin will kill us. And there's nobody interceding for us now to make it any different. If Jesus didn't rise and He didn't rise if dead men don't rise.
The next conclusion in Paul's thinking follows immediately on what I just said. Sixthly, he says, "The dead in Christ have all perished." "The dead in Christ have all perished." Listen, if dead men don't rise, Christ didn't rise. And if Christ didn't rise, all faith is empty. Everybody's still in his sin. And everybody whoever died with his faith in Jesus Christ is damned. That's Paul's statement. Look at verse 18. "Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ are perished." That's it. Their faith is as vain as ours. Peter, James, John, Paul, beloved Stephen, all of them are in eternal torment. So is Augustine, so is Luther, so is Calvin, so is Billy Sunday, so is D. L. Moody. So is your grandmother who love Jesus. They're all in Hell. If the dead rise not and Christ didn't rise, and you're still in your sins when you die. Hell holds them all.
Satan won, God lost if the dead don't rise. Every believe whoever closed his eyes in death full of hope to open them and see the face of Jesus Christ perished forever and never saw Him whom their soul loved if the dead don't rise. They were damned with everybody else in sin if Jesus didn't rise. It's a crushing argument people.
You can't just take a little small variation out of Scripture, not this one. Because if the dead don't rise, Christ isn't risen, preaching is useless, faith is empty, apostles are liars, sin is unforgiven, and dead believers are damned. And lastly, summing it all up, that means Christians are the world's most pitiful people, verse 19.
The Christians are the world's most pitiful people. "If in this life we have hope in Christ only." The Greek has the only right at the end of it's clause. "If in this life we have hope in Christ only, we are of all men the most to be pitied." The only goes at the end of the clause and what it means is if in this life we have put our trust totally in Christ. In other words, that's it, we've put all our eggs in one basket and if it isn't true what we've hoped about Christ, we are a pitiful bunch.
Because can you believe what we've been through for the last 2,000 years. Pretty dumb. If in this life we have hope in Christ only, we've got nothing else going and believe me anybody who's a Christian knows that you become a Christian when you've got nothing else going but Christ, right? When you commit totally to His Lordship. No other Gods, no other tolerance.
So ever Christian has Christ only and our whole hope is in Christ. Hey folks, if Christ doesn't work, I haven't got anything to fall on, how about you? This is it. I'm a one horse shea, I'm telling you. And if it isn't in Jesus, we are a pitiful bunch. And believe me it isn't he says if dead don't rise, and Christ didn't rise. We wasted our lives. What a pitiful bunch. All those people. Imagine, all these people have been fighting against temptation, struggling with sin, seeking to please Christ, obeying the Scripture, having Bible studies, bearing the cross, suffering reproach, trying to witness, all...and it's all a bunch of bologna. What a bunch of dumb-dumbs. This is not easy folks.
We are to be pitied, what a waste. But says, Paul, look at verse 20, "But now is Christ," what, "risen." Amen? Listen, He is alive. He did rise, it's all true. The resurrection's essential. Listen as I summarize this. The resurrection is essential.
Number one, because the resurrection proves truth is stronger than the lie. Now listen, Jesus came, He said, "I am the truth." And His enemies wanted their lies and so they killed the truth and if the truth stayed dead, then the lie won. If the enemies of Jesus succeeded in obliterating Him, falsehood won, truth lost.
The Earl of Morton, Region of Scotland during the great reformation times sent for one of the great reformation leaders by the name of Andrew Melville. He said to Melville, "there will never be quietness in this country til half a dozen of you be hanged and banished." "Tush, tush," said Melville. "Threaten your corderes in that fashion. It is the same to me whether I rot in the air or on the ground, yet God be glorified. It will not lie in your power to hang or exile God's truth." Listen to this, the resurrection is the final guarantee of the indestructibility of the truth. The truth came out of the grave.
Second, the resurrection of Christ proves that good is stronger than evil. The forces which crucify Jesus were the forces of evil. "You are of your father, the devil," he said in John 8:44. And if there's no resurrection then evil won and the very moral principle of the universe, the holy nature of God is in peril because...because evil is winning, but if Jesus comes out of the grave, the good winds and the evil is destroyed and the resurrection then is the final guarantee that good is indestructible and evil will be destroyed.
Thirdly, the resurrection of Jesus Christ proves that love is stronger than hate. Jesus came to the world as the love of God incarnate. He faced a world of hate. They hated Him so bitterly, they killed Him. And if He stayed dead, hate won and love lost. But the resurrection of Jesus Christ is the triumph of love over all of hate.
A poet wrote, "I heard two soldiers talking as they came down the hill. The somber hill of Calvary bleak and black and still and one said the night is late, these thieves take long to die and one said I'm so afraid and yet I don't know why. I heard two women weeping as down the hill they came and one was like a broken rose and one was like a flame. One said men shall rule this deed their hands have done. And one said only through her tears, 'my son, my son, my son'. I heard to angels singing "Er yet the dawn was bright.' And they were clad in shining robes. Robes and crowns of light and one sang 'Death has vanquished,' and one in golden voice sang 'Love Hath Conquered, Conquered All Oh Heaven and Earth Rejoice.'" The resurrection proves that love conquers hate.
Lastly, the resurrection proves that life is stronger than death. Death couldn't hold Him. William Barkley tells the lovely little story of the church in England, in London. It was all decked out for harvest celebration at Thanksgiving, beautifully decorated. The folks already to come. On the communion table in the front of the church was a great sheaf of corn to symbolize the thankfulness of their hearts for God's provision. They never met.
There was an air raid and the church was bombed into bits. The months passed on says Barkley. And the people in the community noticed amidst the rubble some green shoots coming out of the ground. Summer came, the shoots flourished, and in the autumn there was a flourishing patch of corn growing in the midst of the rubble. Not even the bombs and the destruction could kill the live and the seeds that were just lying on the table. So it is with life. Life conquers death, because Jesus conquered death. And now is Christ risen?
Let's pray. Father thank you for thus filling us up so much with this great truth, glorious resurrection. Oh God, help us to know this is so basic. Thank you for resurrection life, in Jesus Christ. Amen.


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NEWPORT CITY – Work on having a hotel on the corner of Main Street and Coventry Street is moving full speed ahead. The Newport City Council Monday approved the request for the city to apply for a $401,000 implementation grant under the Vermont Community Development Program.The hotel will be on the second floor of the Largo Trattoria Restaurant. During a public hearing, held prior to the start of the council meeting, Michelle Richardi, who co-owns the restaurant with her husband Frank Richardi, said they scaled the project back from the original plan that included 23 rooms and adding two stories to the building, to having seven rooms in the existing building. "We are finding it's too big for the area," said Michelle Richardi of the original plan. "Going smaller will benefit us as well."The Richardis plan to start renovations in October or November. They are in the process applying for funding in addition to the grant. The council also accepted a $4,400 aquatic nuisance control grant from the state to pay someone to greet boaters going onto Lake Memphremagog and to educate boaters about plants such as milfoil. The greeter also makes sure there are no plants on the boats before the owners launch them into the lake.


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- 6 or 8 sheets of paper (I used 8 old book pages)
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Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Paper decoration tutorial
15 comments:
- Annie Carie said...
ooo This could be very cool with wraping paper!
I tried it with brown luch bags and it didn't go so well, at Marths Stewart they didn't tell me where exactly to put the sticky tape, so your tutorial helps a lot!
- Tuesday, April 1, 2008 at 7:01:00 PM MDT
This is a gorgeous post!! I am totally smitten! :) I will HAVE to remember them for my next decorating kick! :) Perhaps for a future tea party?
- Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 3:18:00 PM MDT
- Jenn said...
I love this project Lorajean! you did such a great job! Wonder if I could seal them somehow and hang them all over my porch!!?? xox
- Thursday, April 3, 2008 at 8:44:00 AM MDT
- CJ's Woodland Shed said...
how fun!
- Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 7:13:00 AM MDT
- Vicki said...
I have shared this tutorial on my craft blog Whimsical Parasol. Thank you for sharing. I am going to give it a go with some christmas wrapping paper.
- Friday, December 3, 2010 at 5:46:00 PM MST
- Aubree said...
Wow these are beautiful! I teach a small crafts class at a jr. high and we are definitely going to have to make these. The girls will just DIE!
Thanks for stopping by Yellow Blackbird so that I could find your blog!
- Tuesday, January 25, 2011 at 10:03:00 PM MST
- the room magazine said...
I tried it using an old telephone directory but I couldn't manage to make one like you did.
- Friday, June 24, 2011 at 1:35:00 AM MDT
- Crafty said...
I love this and can see it in my bedroom. But how do you make a folding bag fold? Thanks for this.
- Friday, July 29, 2011 at 10:23:00 AM MDT
- Erin of HomeSavvyAtoZ.com said...
That is super cute! Anyone who has book parties needs to jump on that idea for decor quick! I also love it for a library or office as you mentioned. Well done! I would love if you would stop by my HomeMade Monday blog party at HomeSavvyAtoZ.com to share!
- Friday, July 29, 2011 at 11:15:00 AM MDT
- Daily Craft said...
Great project! I just wanted to let you know that we featured this project on our Facebook page with over 17,000 fans. We'd love it if you'd use our Featured Blogger button, available at: http://www.dailycraft.com/thank-you-for-crafting/. Our audience loved the project and we look forward to sharing more from you. Please let us know if you have any questions or projects you'd love us to feature! Thanks!
- Monday, August 1, 2011 at 7:56:00 AM MDT
Can you elaborate where you fold the paper to get the "paper bag" effect? Thanks, it looks beautiful!
- Sunday, April 29, 2012 at 6:59:00 PM MDT
Would love to try this but don't quite understand how to bag fold. Could you explain it in more detail?
- Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 12:54:00 PM MDT
- Chante LaGon said...
What a fun project! I plan to pin it to our Wedding Inspiration pinboard. Check it out at pinterest.com/homedepot
- Chante
- Tuesday, July 30, 2013 at 9:31:00 AM MDT
Hi! I would also like to know how you fold the paper to get the "paper bag" effect. Can you please explain? Thank you so much!
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- Saturday, August 17, 2013 at 10:33:00 AM MDT
- BezimenGirl said...
I tried it at home. It would really help if you could show more steps on the blog!
You seem to have done it with so much ease, I am a little flustered trying to get it right!
I'm sorry for the complaining!
I'm going to try this again tomorrow with newspaper.
- Thursday, October 31, 2013 at 12:03:00 PM MDT


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10 Superb Ways For A Small Business To Friend Facebook
This article is a reprint of Wise Bread's contribution to OPEN Forum from American Express -- where small business owners can get advice from experts and share tips with each other.
Love it or hate it, Facebook has proven to be a major source of traffic and income for small business websites. A recent study showed that Facebook shares are worth almost three times as much as a tweet. And these nuggets from this compelling infographic ought to give a good indication as to how important Facebook has become to ecommerce in general:
- 90% of consumers trust recommendations from people they know;
- 67% spend more online after recommendations.
Plenty of big companies have already seen incredible success with Facebook promotions:
- Pampers sold over 1,000 diapers in an hour on the Pampers Facebook store;
- Baby & Me receives about 50% of online sales from Facebook;
- Spinback sees an average of 10.9% conversion rate for Facebook shares that lead to a purchase.
If your small business is selling products online, then Facebook can be a fantastic way to add social proof and find more leads. Here are a few ways to snag some of that Facebook traffic for your small business website.
1. Get to Know Your Audience
Before you start, figure out if Facebook marketing is a good fit for your customers. After all, you may find that your audience or customers just aren't going to catch the Facebook fever. That's fine. Figure out what does work and focus your efforts there. There's no sense trying to fit a round peg into a square hole.
If you find that Facebook will resonate with your clientele, then forge right ahead. Just don't put all of your eggs into the Facebook basket without testing the waters first.
2. Start Tracking
If you're going to start Facebook marketing, you're going to have to track your results. Facebook Insights is a great place to start tracking shares, fan pages, apps, or just a regular domain. And it's free.
You can also start tracking sales from Facebook by setting up Google Analytics to track sales.
3. Start Engaging
If you've got a fan page on Facebook and have started to get a few fans, it's time to start engaging them. Start conversations with your fans on the page. Ask intriguing questions. These are the things that will keep visitors coming back to your site. Facebook pages are fantastic platforms at generating discussions, so use it to the max.
Compete.com has found that 68% of people who like retail fan pages do so to stay current with promotions and sales. Use your Facebook page to post coupons and sales as well as product updates. You might even think about posting special promotions only to your Facebook page to reward your fans. (More on that later.)
Many small businesses make the mistake of simply setting up an RSS feed to automatically post content to the page. If you want to start sparking true engagement, then you're going to have to go to the next level and get away from automation.
4. Take Advantage of Friend Referrals
There's no stronger recommendation than one from a personal friend.
Facebook is different than other social sites because the friend connections are stronger. If your friend in real life recommends a book to you, you're much more likely to buy it than a recommendation from a random guy on Twitter.
Do everything you can to get shares. Add the Share button to each product or post, at the bare minimum.
5. Reward Facebook Fans
Often it's not enough to ask to simply get people to become fans of your business on Facebook. Sure, asking helps, but try giving them something in exchange for becoming a fan. A free newsletter, a coupon, anything that will get users liking your page.
As an example, some musical artists like Lady Gaga let fans who have "liked" their page listen to songs and watch videos that others can't.
6. Learn More about Facebook Ads
Facebook is going to overtake Google and Yahoo! as the largest online display advertising company later this year. Not only that, Facebook allows you to target very specific demographics of people who will see your ad. Facebook ads are a great way to generate leads to your Facebook page, and to generate sales.
Aside from Facebook's In-house ad doc, there are a couple of great guides already out there. The How-to Guide for Facebook Advertising and Facebook Ads 101 - How to Setup and Track Facebook Ads are great places to start.
7. Create a Landing Page for Your Facebook Fan Page
If you don't have a landing page for your Facebook fan page, then you're already missing out. Instead of showing new visitors your comment threads or posts, direct them to a targeted landing page with more information about your business. Here's an easy guide to creating a landing page for your fan page.
8. Think about a Contest
To boost the number of fans on Facebook, you might consider starting a contest. Contests generate interest and attention that you might not get from traditional content. Plus, friends love to share contests on Facebook.
Gigcoin has a great article on how to evaluate whether a contest is right for you or not.
9. Stop Giving away iPads
If you do decide to create a contest, make sure the prize is something targeted towards your audience. For example, if you have a small business that sells cookware, give away a free kitchen set.
Whatever you do, don't give away a generic gift like an iPad. Search Engine Journal has an excellent writeup on why you shouldn't give away iPads for contests. In short: they're too generic. You're not attracting targeted fans when you give away un-targeted gifts.
10. Consider Starting a Facebook Store
Selling items on Facebook has become quite a boon for many shops. Facebook has passed Google to become the most visited site on the internet, so it is only logical that selling products on Facebook is the next step. After all, the average Facebook user spends 14 minutes on the site every day.
There are some existing applications like ShopTab and Storefront Social that allow you to quickly integrate your existing store into a Facebook application.
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Red Rover, Red Rover, a rink roof is on the way over
At this time next year, a roof will span the ice rink.
Moreover, a viable business plan will be in place after one summer's worth of watching what works and what doesn't.
It will be the town's first and only "multi-use facility," and it got the green light earlier this month from the Recreation Commission, which awarded the town $12,500 in funding to design it.
The funding, coming from Measure R money in the first year and Measure U funds in the second, would not be touched by either the town's budget cuts or by the $43 million Mammoth Lakes Land Acquisition judgment.
The idea of such a project is straightforward, according to Recreation Director Stuart Brown.
In the warm months, the structure—a durable fabric structure that could last 10 to 15 years, could be reserved for birthday parties, small concerts and a host of recreational activities, including rollerblading.
The birthday rentals and rollerblading (inline skating) will get their first trial runs this summer, beginning June 8, albeit without a roof, Brown said. The town will rent inline skates (Golden Horse, a mix of used and new) for those without equipment.
He cited recreation surveys in Mammoth that emphasized the clean, smooth surface.
Town crews completed the concrete slab and rink last winter, in the first phase of an ambitious plan to place a metal roof over the structure.
However, with a metal roof cost of about $1.5 million, the town decided to go with a "sun shade" fabric structure that would make the facility more usable both in the winter (by reducing sun exposure and melting ice) and in the summer, when the intensity of the sun could bake users like so many buttermilk pancakes.
The roof structure itself will be 125 feet wide and 22 feet long. It would be a removable system, depending on the needs for weather and shading. Its design is by local architect Bruce Woodward
It is possible, Brown said, that State Parks funds might be available to assist with construction costs. The grant cycle, he said, is due in October of this year and requires a 50 percent match.
Engineer Peter Bernasconi said there is a probability that the structure will reduce costs of electrical power for the ice rink by 50 percent, or $10,000, a year.
After its shelf life, Bernasconi said it might be about the time that the metal cover could be funded.
Last winter, the ice rink drew about 13,000 skaters in the two-and-a-half months of operation. It closed in February, when rays from the rising sun melted away the ice. In the upcoming summers, Brown said the facility would be more conducive to an older crowd for events and concerts.
The facility is on land owned by the Mammoth Unified School District, which worked out a lease arrangement with the town. It is fenced and has restroom facilities.


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Mayor Luke Ravenstahl today introduced legislation to City Council that will turn a former downtown fire house, located at 344 Boulevard of the Allies, into a key development of Point Park University's downtown expansion plans called the Academic Village Initiative.
"Point Park University's aggressive transformation plans are a key component in ensuring that downtown's revitalization continues," Ravenstahl said. "This is a terrific partnership that will allow for Point Park University to continue their expansion plans downtown, and at the same time, improve a facility that will be used by both the City and the University."
The City will sell the three-story, 11,580 sq. ft. property to Point Park University for the appraised value of $275,000. The University will rehabilitate the property as part of a University Student and Convocation Center that will extend through several properties on the Blvd of the Allies.
"Point Park is pleased to be able to work with the City on a transaction that would benefit both the University and Downtown Pittsburgh," said Paul Hennigan, president of Point Park University. "The option agreement being considered before City Council is yet another step in making the Academic Village Initiative a reality."
The Student and Convocation Center is the final piece to the first phase of Point Park's Academic Village Initiative, a multi-block living and learning hub that will transform the campus and downtown. The Center will encompass areas for group and quiet study; advanced computer labs; a gymnasium and health center; student club offices; a multi-purpose student lounge for lectures, performances and other student activities; and a 1,800-seat space for community events and activities. The University is currently raising funds that will allow it to begin work on the Student and Convocation Center. That effort is expected to take three to five years.
Last fall, Point Park completed the restoration of two residence buildings on the Boulevard of the Allies. Other development happening along that corridor include: a $4 million smart transportation project at Wood Street from Ft. Pitt Blvd. to Third Ave.; and an urban park at the corner of the Blvd. of the Allies and Wood Street.
The legislation also provides the City with a 50-year lease to continue to utilize the facility at the cost of one dollar. Currently, an EMS medic unit and police bicycle patrol detail operates out of the facility. They will be temporarily relocated during renovations at no cost to the City. After renovations are complete, the units will return to a more updated facility.
"Market Square's revitalization is bringing in new investment downtown, creating jobs and attracting new residents," Ravenstahl said. "That momentum is continuing along the Forbes Avenue Corridor, and with Point Park's efforts, the other side of Market Square is getting the attention it deserves to help us turn downtown into a 24/7 City that attracts even more residents and economic development."


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