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Studio Fascino – What is it and how did it come about?
Studio Fascino – What is it and how did it come about?
Firstly what does FASCINO mean??
fascino (ˈfaʃʃino)
charm, fascination
avere fascino (persona) - to be fascinating
una donna di gran fashion - a woman of great charm
How did the logo come about? It looks so glamorous.
Why, thank you. I designed and made the logo as I thought about the style of the woman I would like to photograph and the glamour of the old Hollywood era that I adore. I also have a love of everything French, so I was hoping to achieve this in the logo. The black, the silver and the art deco feel of the 1920, 30's &40's.
How did you know this is the style you wanted to specialize in?
I have loved old Hollywood for a very long time. I remember as a young girl, my father giving me a book of Marilyn Munro. I fell in love. It just seemed so glamorous, so warm and romantic. As I learned to refine my photographic technique over the past few years, I was drawn back to these images and started to re-create them with my own look.
I have been a frustrated stylist for many years with a collection of sequined dresses and accessories that I have been collecting for over 20 years now. My girlfriends would always ask to try them on and play 'dress up's' after a glass or two of wine. I even started collecting old American Pageant costumes after my little girl was born and as a toddler she would wear them to the supermarket & to the park, anywhere she could. It was normal every day attire for her. I laughed the day she was visiting a friend's home and I heard her ask, "Where is your mums Dress-up room?"…it was only then that I realized for her it was 'normal' to have dressups! I had succeeded in life!!
So to answer your question, I suppose, looking back, it was always something I had loved and had collected…leading me up to this point now, where I can use those fabulous frocks to make women feel and look stunning.
I read this quote the other day and could relate.
What can people expect when they come to Studio Fascino?
Studio Fascino is about feeling good. About loving your inner self, looking after yourself as a woman and letting me show you how gorgeous you can become.
I have a retail section of body products that I introduce you to at our first meeting. These products by SAYA are about looking after yourself, nourishing your skin and pampering your body. Scrubs, moisturizers and oils for the body and face, all in preparation for your skin to have that gorgeous glow when you are in front of the camera.
When you come in for your photography session, I have chosen the best hair and makeup woman on the coast. I have been working with Bree for many years and she is the perfect woman to transform you into a Hollywood bombshell. It is fabulous that when we discuss the look for each client, we always have a very similar vision of how the styling should look. Bree will work her magic as you sip champagne from vintage gold embossed glasses and nibble on the delicious sweet treats ordered in just for you as the Soulful, deep, and jazzy female voices from the 1930's to the 1940's including Doris Day, Rosemary Clooney, Jo Stafford transport you.
Then come the actual shoot, where we laugh, play and talk about you and your life and get to know each other…oh and I take a couple of photographs whilst we are having fun.
Once this is complete, you are ready to hit the town with your loved one or a bunch of girlfriends, filled with your new found confidence a pizazz from our time together. Glitter now follows you wherever you walk!
Within the week, I have your images edited and printed ready for the 'Reveal'. I will have chosen 20 images I think are the best possible shots of you and have them ready on the wall for you to choose the ones you love, as we sip more champagne, laugh, giggle and sometimes cry. These beautiful crafted images, that we created together will be carefully placed in a stunning Art box and tied with a black satin ribbon for you to take home, share with your loved ones and treasure for the rest of time.
This is all part of the package and it is only at this time that I feel fulfilled and happy that I have been able to share my craft to help you to see the true beauty that you really are. For some women, it can be life changing.
Where are you located and how can we book?
I am located at – 9/8 fortitude Cresent, Burleigh Heads. Q 4220
Who is Megan Rizzo?
Megan Rizzo, the name behind Studio Fascino, is a Multi Award Winning photographer and the owner of Studio Fascino.
Studio Fascino specialises in creating classic and creative images that capture the elegant and timeless vintage look and feel reminiscent of Hollywood's golden era starlets.
Megan has a passion for Vintage style and has been collecting for over 20 years. Megan also is a trained Beauty Therapist and Makeup Artist, in her younger years, and she knows what looks great when styling her clients.
Now after working out of home studio's, made from the family garage, Megan has her own, perfectly suited commercial warehouse premises to create her photographic magic and a space to bring like minded women together to teach and inspire with her vintage Hair & Makeup workshops.
You can contact Megan on 0430 156 333 or email email@example.com for an information pack.
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Have you seen How The Grinch Stole Christmas yet this year? The real hero is Cindy Lou Who, she knew there was some good left in the Grinch. Don't be a Grinch, be Cindy Lou Who and be on the look out for someone that could use a little extra love this Christmas.
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A Mexican wrestling star was fatally injured during a match Friday night, but the show continued for a full two minutes before the other wrestlers and the thousands of fans in attendance realized something was wrong.
Pedro Aguayo Ramirez, 35, better known by his wrestling moniker El Hijo del Perro Aguayo, was fatally injured after taking a flying kick to the head from American wrestling legend Rey Mysterio Jr. during a match in Tijuana, Mexico, reports the Daily Mail. Video taken at the event shows Aguayo laying motionless on the mat for at least 2 minutes before the referee and the other wrestlers became aware of his injury.
The California state prosecutor's office in Baja told the Mail that Aguayo was taken to a hospital one block away from where the wrestling match was being held, where he died around 1:30 a.m. Saturday morning. Prosecutors have reportedly opened a manslaughter investigation.
"I have no words for this terrible news," AAA Wrestling Federation director Joaquin Roldan tweeted Saturday. "My sincerest condolences for the Aguayo Ramirez family."
According to the Mail, Aguayo was a three-time Mexican National Tag Team champion, a Mexican National Atómicos champion, and a former Mexican National Light Heavyweight champion who had wrestled professionally for 20 years. Aguayo was the son of legendary hall of fame Mexican wrestler Pedro "Perro" Aguayo.
Pro Wrestling Magazine tweeted its condolences for the fallen luchador:
Our deepest condolences to the loved ones of El Hijo del Perro Aguayo, who reportedly passed away earlier this morning. #km
— PWI (@OfficialPWI) March 21, 2015
Rey Mysterio Jr. had just returned to AAA wrestling after a long stint with WWE, according to Bleacher Report. Aguayo and Mysterio were considered to be rivals, reports SanDiegoRed.
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Two top agents of CIA are best friends and co-workers until the day they both fall in love with the same woman. Men who have been successful in all kinds of impossible missions, will now be using their high knowledge and skills against each other. It is an action comedy, with a little bit of romance.


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UFC 161 takes place this Saturday in Winnipeg, Canada, marking the Ultimate Fighting Championship's first trip to The Peg.
Headlined by the UFC Light Heavyweight collision between Rashad Evans and Dan Henderson, UFC 161 takes place at the newly-constructed MTS Centre – home of the Winnipeg Jets.
UFC 161: Evans vs. Henderson also features a number of highly intriguing Heavyweight bouts, such as Roy Nelson vs. Stipe Miocic, and Pat Barry vs. Shawn Jordan. Also on the card, VFD Marketing athlete Tyron Woodley takes on the former Strikeforce Middleweight champion Jake Shields in a bout that will be aired LIVE on FX.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, is expected to quickly become a valuable market for the Ultimate Fighting Championship, thanks to the huge impact of the live event experience.
Hereby are quick predictions for UFC 161:
Dan Henderson vs. Rashad Evans
Hendo's experience will be the key factor in this fight. It seems as Dan Henderson is simply more durable than Rashad Evans, which will serve him well when this fight hits its high points. Dan Henderson via Decision.
Roy Nelson vs. Stipe Miocic
Big Country Nelson is freakishly strong and should not be underestimated. Miocic disappointed against Stefan Struve, who was once viciously knocked out by Nelson. Big Country via 2nd Round TKO.
Tyron Woodley vs. Jake Shields
T-Wood's wrestling is expected to nullify Jake Shields' exceptional grappling skills. In stand-up, Woodley is by far more dangerous than Jake Shields. T-Wood via TKO in Round 3.
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How does temperature impact leaf size and shape in four woody dicot species? Testing the assumptions of leaf physiognomy-climate models
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April 2017
Dana Royer
Earth & Environmental Sciences
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The physiognomy (size and shape) of fossilized leaves has been analyzed to reconstruct the mean annual temperature (MAT) of ancient environments. Colder temperatures often select for larger and more abundant leaf teeth—serrated edges on leaf margins—as well as a greater degree of leaf dissection. Accurate paleotemperature estimates play important roles in testing climate models used for predicting future patterns of climate change. Paleotemperature estimates can be compared with atmospheric CO2 concentrations from the same period to help constrain climate sensitivity. However, to be able to accurately predict paleotemperature from the morphology of fossilized leaves, leaves must be able to react quickly and in a predictable manner to changes in temperature. By growing Acer rubrum plants in growth cabinets under different temperatures, Royer (2012) found that this species develops more highly dissected leaves (larger, more frequent teeth, and a higher perimeter/area ratio) in cooler temperatures than it does in warmer temperatures. To expand this work, my research examines the extent to which temperature affects leaf morphology in four additional tree species: Caprinus caroliniana, Acer negundo, Ilex opaca, and Ostrya virginiana. Saplings of these species were grown in two growth cabinets under different temperatures. Carpinus caroliniana leaves had a significantly lower total number of leaf teeth as well as a lower ratio of total number of leaf teeth to internal perimeter, and Acer negundo leaves had a significantly lower feret diameter ratio (measure of leaf dissection) in the warm temperature treatment compared to the cool treatment. In addition, a two-way ANOVA was used to test the influence of temperature and species on leaf physiognomy. It revealed that all plants, regardless of species, tended to develop more highly dissected leaves with more leaf teeth in the cool treatment. Since the cabinets maintained equivalent moisture, humidity, and CO2 concentration between the two treatments, these results demonstrate that these species could rapidly adapt to changes in temperature. It was not always the case, however, that all species reacted identically to temperature changes. For example, Acer negundo, Carpinus caroliniana, and Ostrya virginiana all had a higher number of total teeth in the cool treatment compared to the warm treatment, but the opposite was true for Ilex opaca. Such differences in temperature response question a fundamental assumption in all models predicting paleotemperature from the physiognomy of fossilized leaves: a given climate will inevitably select for the same leaf physiognomy, regardless of species composition. To more accurately compensate for differences among species, it would be useful for models to incorporate phylogenetic information on the species in question.
Recommended Citation
McKee, Melissa, "How does temperature impact leaf size and shape in four woody dicot species? Testing the assumptions of leaf physiognomy-climate models" (2017). Honors Theses - All. 1744.
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On May 15, 2018, Governor Hogan signed into law the "Disclosing Sexual Harassment in the Workplace Act of 2018" (the "Act"). The Act will go into effect on October 1, 2018, and contains two new obligations with which Maryland employers will need to comply.
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On Thursday's broadcast of the Fox News Channel's "Special Report," columnist Charles Krauthammer remarked on the economic policy debate between the two major-party presidential nominees by stating, "His is a unicorn economy, and hers is no proposals at all…There's no overarching idea. It's more of the same."
Krauthammer said, "We have two policies. His is a unicorn economy, and hers is no proposals at all, other than these little items to relieve stresses in ordinarily life."
He continued of Clinton's policies, "There's no overarching idea. It's more of the same. And with him, it's the magical power of huge tax cuts, no entitlement changes, and we're going to get a miraculous spurt in growth that's going to be sustained, and we'll pay for all of this, including cutting waste, fraud, and abuse. It's not a serious debate. As you said, it is an election about nothing. And I think these attempts at substance are proof of that.
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Partial solar eclipse tomorrow!
There will be a partial solar eclipse tomorrow, November 3rd, visible from Africa, Southern Europe, parts of South America, and the eastern United States. If you're on the east coast of the U.S., and if skies are clear, you should be able to see the partial eclipse as the sun rises. Sunrise starts around 6:30 am EST tomorrow. The eclipse should be visible for about 45 minutes.
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth. The Moon casts a shadow on the Earth, which blocks out part or all of the Sun's light. Depending on where the Moon is in its orbit, we see different kinds of eclipses. An annular eclipse occurs when the Moon is at its farthest distance from Earth, which means the Moon's shadow is not big enough to cover the entire Sun. With an annular eclipse, the Sun appears as a bright ring around a dark circle. In a total eclipse, the Moon's shadow is large enough to cover the Sun. However, for both these cases, if you are not along the path of total eclipse, you'll see a partial eclipse, and the sun will look as though a bite has been taken out of it. Tomorrow's eclipse is special in that it is a 'hybrid eclipse', or an eclipse that transitions from an annular eclipse to a total eclipse. These are rare; only about 5% of solar eclipses are hybrid eclipses.
If you're interested in viewing the eclipse, you can check here to see if you are in its path: http://www.space.com/23419-hybrid-solar-eclipse-visibility-images-november-3-2013.html
Remember not to look directly at the Sun without proper protective eyewear (sunglasses are not sufficient). Here are tips for safely viewing the eclipse: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/eclipses/3306081.html


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Yes, my favourite Waterboys album has had the remastering and extra track treatment. Woo and indeed hoo.
I remember the first time I heard The Whole of the Moon. It would have been late 1985, or maybe early 1986, a Sunday evening round at my friend Peter's flat[1]. Radio 1 was on the stereo and the Top 40 show had just ended. Seven o'clock meant it was time for the wonderful Anne Nightingale show. The first thing on was The Whole of the Moon. It was one of those glorious moments where a song makes you say "What the hell's that?!?"[2]. I'd liked some earlier Waterboys stuff, but didn't recognise the style at that point. From then on, I was hooked. It's one of those songs that starts powerfully and builds. And builds.[3] Utterly bonkers, quite wonderful.
The rest of the album is rather nice, too.
It now comes with a second CD with a load of previously unreleased material. Haven't heard that yet[4], so I can't tell you about it yet. Doesn't really matter – the original album is quite wonderful as it is.
[1] Haven't seen him in a looooooong time….
[2] In a good way, you understand
[3] I used to say that Mike Scott didn't know the meaning of "restraint", and that I was in favour of hiding his dictionary to make sure he never found out
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Social Security
Social Security is Increasing for 2018
But don't get excited about this awesome news, because it's only increasing 2% which on the average, will boost up benefits 20 to 25 bucks a month.
Just imagine how you could spend that extra money you will be receiving beginning in January of next year. Ummm, let's see? I can think of a number of thrilling possibilities.
New tennis balls in lots of different colors for your Walker. Or extra money to blow at the Dollar Tree Store where one can find so many awesome deals, especially the junk from China.
Or maybe a couple cocktails at a Denny's restaurant where you can get a Senior Discount when you order some of their nutritious food.
"Yes", I am being sarcastic I know. But really only 2% increase?
I may look very youthful in my picture on this website, but I'm a senior too and if I wasn't working I would be standing on a street corner begging for money and food.
I'm lucky however, because I enjoy being a Reverse Loan Consultant and meeting many wonderful and amazing people who are considering using the funds from a Reverse loan to pay for medical expenses ( I just had a partial knee replacement in August.), home improvement, care giving or maybe simply taking that long "talked about, one day we will go to Maui" and finally doing it.
The number one concern of everyone, but especially seniors is out-living their retirement funds ( If they have any) and not being able to afford to remain in their home for the rest of their lives.
But there is an option, a wonderful option and no one should be "scared" to look into the FHA government insured loan program just for seniors affectionately referred as the HECM.
Its smart to find out if you would benefit from it or not, plus it's better than being reduced to groveling each month for enough money to pay on going expenses and staying awake at night in a state of fear.
Oh and by the way. I have a Reverse loan on my home that I used to pay off two mortgages I had at the time during the height of the Recession and Financial "crash". So unlike the majority of any of my competitors, I'm qualified about the advantages of using the loan because of my own experience.
And I'm glad I did. It was a great decision at the time and I don't regret it.
If I hadn't taken advantage of using a Reverse mortgage for my own situation, I would have lost my home in a foreclosure as I was quickly running out of money.
Reverse Loans Improve Lives
I mentioned in my last post that quite often I am asked why people apply for a reverse loan and what are the most common reasons.
In my previous post I spoke about a client who had been using her credit cards to pay for her "cost of living" expenses, because her Social Security income was too low to get her through each month.
However, the downside to using credit cards, is eventually you use all of the credit available on them, but still have an ongoing payment that now cannot be met.
You can read about Sylvia and how we managed to eliminate that debt and give her additional money each month from a reverse mortgage in the previous post.
My next example is Bonnie and Jim ( No last name for privacy reasons) who had had a major medical disaster destroy their lives. Medical emergencies are probably the number one reason for causing personal financial collapse as no one is prepared for the medical expenses that come with aging.
He had a great career in the movie studios as a transportation driver and life was quite good for them until he developed diabetes.
Unfortunately like so many men, Jim ignored it and continued to eat and drink whatever he wanted and did not take care of his health. Needless to say he became very ill and almost died resulting in the loss of both of his legs and kidneys to the disease.
He was no longer able to work and they quickly ran out of their savings to pay medical bills and their regular ongoing monthly expenses and used up all of the funds that were available on their credit cards leaving them in a terrible, crushing financial situation.
They owed the IRS money, all the credit cards and ended up doing a Chapter 13 Bankruptcy but somehow managed to continue to make their mortgage payments and ultimately repaid the money they owed to the IRS
I was referred to them by a CPA and in spite of the ugliness of their credit and the bankruptcy, I managed to get them approved for their reverse loan, relieving them of the burden of mortgage payments, plus additional funds that they were able to receive at the close of Escrow.
Making their life just a little bit better.
Jim and Bonnie are doing very well as of this writing and even though their credit had been ruined, I was still able to get them approved for their reverse loan and help them move forward and into better circumstances.
Reverse Loan Paperwork
Reverse mortgage loan applications need the following documents from the borrower and it's very important that they provide everything that is needed to process their loan in a timely manner.
How quickly a loan funds and closes mainly depends upon the borrower's cooperation in providing whatever the lender as requested.
- Copy of photo I.D. Typically a current Driver's License or a Passport
- Copy of Social Security Card or a Medicare Card
- Copy of Social Security Awards Benefit Letter. These are mailed out each December and show how much Social Security income will be received in the following year.
- (2) Months of checking acct statements ( All pages) to show SS deposits or any other payments such as a pension/retirement check.
- Most recent statement for any existing mortgage(s)
- Copy of Homeowners Insurance Declaration Page
- Complete copies of most recent quarterly statements for investments and or 2 months of bank statements. All pages.
- Copy of Trust if one is in place. The new loan will record in the name of the Trust.
- Name and Phone number for the management company if there is a Home Owners Association.
If the borrower is currently employed or receiving income from rental properties, the following items will also be required along with the list above this line.
- (2) Years Federal Tax Returns – All Schedules
- (2) Years W'2's and any 1099's
- Most recent Year-to-Date Pay Stub for the previous 30 days.
Yes, I know. It's a lot of documentation and it's very similar to what is needed for a traditional loan. However, it continues to quite easy to be approved for a Reverse loan compared other mortgages.
Plus, you won't have any payments to make on it, so don't be intimidated by this list.
If the reader has any questions about this or anything else about Reverse loans, please call me. I'm here to help you through the confusion.
Reverse Mortgage Consultation and Meeting Sylvia
In my last post I mentioned that I would start to share some of my clients' reasons for applying for a Reverse loan and I think I will start out with one of my earliest clients, Sylvia K.
Needless to say, I will not be sharing their actual names due their right to privacy.
Sylvia was in her early 80's and a widow for a number of years, but did not have enough income from her Social Security to meet her monthly expenses and she had run up large balances on her credit cards to pay them and now found herself without funds to make the payments and still have money for her utilities and food.
I remember meeting her on a very hot summer day in her home and all the windows where covered up in heavy drapes and it was dark inside and she didn't have any air conditioning and sweat was running down my spine.
Oh yes….it was "hot" in her home.
A trusted friend and neighbor ( Brenda) was also there, much to my relief because Sylvia was a tough New Yorker and she of course didn't trust me.
Why should she? She didn't know me and I was to be treated with great suspicion.
Anyway, it was hotter then Hell in her living room as she "grilled' me about Reverse loans and made sure that I knew she was one, smart gal and had been in the clothing industry in New York, a "professional" and couldn't be taken advantage of.
And she was scared as well. Here she was, in her 80's and out of money. And I really liked her feisty attitude and her three cats, too.
( After she passed away about two years later, I found out about the feral cat colony she was feeding in her back yard).
Brenda asked me questions about the FHA loan, gently encouraged Sylvia to be "nice" to me. ( And here's the interesting part. Sylvia and I became friends and she used to send me cute note cards to my home address, telling me how she was doing and included the names of her three cats in her signature).
And "yes" she did her Reverse mortgage.
She received a Line-of-Credit, paid off the credit cards and had a comfortable amount of money leftover to use whenever she needed it for anything.
She called me one year after she had celebrated her birthday in Hawaii, just to chat with me and tell me all about the two Birthday parties she had, had and mentioned she wasn't feeling too well. I said that she probably had "partied' too much.
But as it turned out, I was the last person she spoke to as she quietly died later that morning at home in her bed and her neighbor Brenda ( Who checked up on Sylvia every day) called me and let me know that Sylvia had passed away.
And as I like to say "she lived life on her terms"and I was the last person she spoke to and I like to think that in the "end" she trusted me.
Why Do a Reverse Loan?
I have been a Reverse mortgage consultant for almost 20 years and quite often, I am asked why would anyone ever use a reverse loan?
It's certainly a reasonable question, but most of the time, it's coming from a place of lack of correct information about the FHA HECM loan program for seniors and too often the "stories" and myths they have heard about reverse loans.
Initially when I first started in this profession, the most common reason for applying for it, was the need for additional funds to simply pay on going monthly expenses. Needless to say, the amount of money seniors receive from Social Security are woefully inadequate to pay mortgage payments ( if they still have a mortgage), food, utilities, medical expenses and the plethora of costs we all have each month.
In my next several posts, I'm going to talk a bit about the loan and how it's become more affordable and other misconceptions that are still circulating in the public about it.
And I will share some stories about some of my clients ( Without naming them), as to why they chose to use a Reverse loan in their particular situation.
And…. no one has ever regretted their decision.


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Two House Chronicles
Babylon, the Mother of Harlots
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In analyzing the Revelation through the Historicist's lens (the wounded head in Rev 13:3 fulfilled by the 1260 years old Papacy) the conclusion was reached that the metaphor of the woman in chapters 12 and 17 represent the same entity. In support, the church is anthropomorphized corporately as a virtuous woman in 2 Corinthians 11:2, Matthew 25:1-4 and Revelation 14:4, similar to the Old Testament (Isa 62:5; Jer 14:17; 31:4, 13). Further, the woman Babylon is prophesied to fall in Revelation 7 and 14, which is also conveyed concerning the corporate church in the last days in such New Testament texts as Matthew 24:12, 2 Thessalonians 2:2-3 and 1 Timothy 4:1-3. The woman in chapter 12 is initially observed in heaven but afterwards falls to the earth, in flight to the wilderness of the earth to escape persecution from the dragon—which some Historicists have rendered as the early flight of militant groups like the Paulicians, Albigenses, Cathars, Waldenses and Anabaptists from the coercive and apostatizing penchant of the union of state and religion developed particularly through the Roman bishopric, who dwelt "in the seat of Satan" and became the Papacy. The Historicist's lens also allows the wilderness experience as coextensive with the era of the church of Thyatira, that was warned of the apostatizing penchant of the false prophetess Jezebel, who Historicists have also interpreted as the Papacy during the Dark Ages.1 Consequently, the Historicist's lens conveys two women in the message to the church in Thyatira: the woman Jezebel and the woman who fled into the wilderness during the era of the fourth church, Thyatira. Historicists have blundered on who mothered Protestantism; they mistakenly have held that Jezebel mothered Protestantism2 but upon further analysis only the woman of chapter 12 meets the criteria as the mother of the Protestant denominations.
The woman in Revelation 12 appears first in heaven to represent the chaste state of in the metaphor. This same corporate abstract is conveyed by the phrases "Jerusalem which is above" in Galatians 4:26 and "heavenly Jerusalem" in Hebrews 12:22. These images convey the inaugural corporate abstract. Nevertheless, the woman Revelation 12 falls from her position in heaven to represent the chaste state does not endure, which agrees with numerous New Testament texts that prophecy corporate apostasy3 and a final judgment prior to Christ's return (Mt 5:13; 24:12; 2Th 2:1-12; 1Ti 4:1-3; Ro 14:10; 2Co 5:10). It is written that "in the last days"4 there will be corporate apostasy and Babylon in Revelation 17 is symbolic of this apostasy.
In the corporate abstract, whence did Babylon fall; ancient Babylon never attained moral rectitude; the city's origin was pagan. This perception is also applicable to the Old Testament's Jezebel. In juxtapose, the OT expressed a fall from moral rectitude in Israel's marriage metaphor (Isa 50:1; Jer 3:1, 8; Eze 16:15); in the corporate abstract, a great falling away was prophesied by the song of Moses in Deuteronomy 31-32. Furthermore, numerous New Testament texts convey the fall of the church in the New Testament marriage metaphor; the New Testament prophecies corporate apostasy and a final judgment prior to Christ's return. The fall of the woman in Revelation 12 corresponds to the OT motif of "the unfaithful, divorced wife returned to her first husband" (Hos 2; Isa 50:1; 54:4; Jer 3:12-14)—conflated with chastisement and the trial by fire-adversity in Malachi and Paul (Mal 3:1-5; 1Co 3:9-15). And as previously stated, the return of the wife violates Deuteronomy 24:4, which was provided for by Christ's death and resurrection according to Romans 7:1-4.
Again, it was through the Historicist's lens that the aforementioned transition was rendered as the fall of Protestantism when it fornicated with the kings of the earth at the time the Reformation had all but dissolved and capitalism rose. It was concluded in the chapter about the proper rendering of the apocalypse that John was taken by the Spirit into the future to witness the harlot women in Revelation 17 entering the final judgment, and from this perspective, the sixth king of verse 10 "is". From this future perspective, the sixth king is easily reconciled as the two-horned beast in chapter 13 and his image becomes the seventh that rules for a short space before the eighth, the revived Papacy, is once again clothed in the civil powers it had before the rise of America; all the beasts in Daniel and the Revelation are accounted for as the seven, nay eight kings in Revelation 17. America cannot be overlooked as the sixth king that "is," who makes the image to the Papacy under the direction of apostate Protestantism, Babylon. The woman in Revelation 17 represents apostate Protestantism during the prophetic eras depicted by the last churches, especially the final era of Laodicea (Rev 3:14-22). The woman is depicted as highly attached to her affluence and her corrupt merchants during this era, which is easily seen as the Protestant's far-reaching corrupt influence on capitalism in the 19th through 21st centuries. The fallen commerce associated with the woman falls right into place as the exploitation of the poor to enrich the merchants at the height of the Industrial Revolution, foreseen also by James.
"Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you." James 5:1-6
Reformed theologian, Mark A. Noll, acknowledges that disestablishment was beneficial as well as injurious. (The knowledge of good and evil was set in Genesis 3:22).
"This combination of revivalism and disestablishment had effects whose importance cannot be exaggerated. Analyzed positively, the combination gave the American churches a new dynamism, a new effectiveness in fulfilling the Great Commission, and a new vitality in bringing the gospel to the people. Analyzed negatively, the combination of revivalism and disestablishment meant that pragmatic concerns would prevail over principle."17
The list of benefits by individualists is as long as the reproaches of even greater tyranny in the form of exploitation of the poor and class stratification; the latter is what Burnham is driving at in her expression "monstrous possibilities." Noll addresses these monstrous possibilities as untrammeled or "liberal economic practices."
"By 'liberal' in the context of the nineteenth century, historians mean the tradition of individualism and the market freedom associated with John Locke and especially Adam Smith…. The point again is not whether evangelicals should have embraced liberal economic practice, for a case can be made for the compatibility between evangelical Christianity and moderate forms of market economy. The point is rather how evangelical embraced liberal economic practice. Again this was done without a great deal of thought… The most important economic questions of the day dealt with the early growth of industrialization. How would the growth of large industries, first in textiles and then in railroads, affect community life or provisions for the disabled, aged, and infirm? Each of these questions, and many more like them, posed a potential threat to Christian witness and to public morality. Each of them was also the sort that could be answered only by those who had thought through principles of Scripture, who had struggle to see how the truths of creation, fall, and redemption applied to groups as well as to individuals. Unfortunately, there was very little of such thinking. These problems developed pretty much under their own steam and received little specific attention from Christians wrestling with the foundations of economic thought and practice."18
The benefits of liberal economics are touted by those who give little thought about their injurious effects. Noll maintains the injurious effects could have been avoided, "by those who had thought through principles of Scripture;" even so, history affirms they were not avoided because the "principles of Scripture" were disregarded by secular capitalism. Historian, Eric J. Hobsbawm expresses a number of "negative" observations regarding the consequences of the disestablishment in his book, The Age of Capitalism. Hobsbawm held that one of those "negative" effects was the demotion of the wife in the Puritan family at the beginning of the 19th century.
"Buttressed by clothes, walls and objects, there was the bourgeois family, the most mysterious institution of the age. For, if it is easy to discover or to devise connections between Puritanism and capitalism, as a large literature bears witness, those between nineteenth-century family structure and bourgeois society remain obscure. Indeed the apparent conflict between the two has rarely even been noticed. Why should a society dedicated to an economy of profit-making competitive enterprise, to the efforts of the isolated individual, to equality of rights and opportunities and freedom, rest on the institution which so totally denied all of these?
"Its basic unit, the one-family household, was both a patriarchal autocracy and microcosm of the sort of society which the bourgeoise as a class (or its theoretical spokes-men) denounced and destroyed: a hierarchy of personal dependence… Below him—to continue quoting the Proverbial Philosophers Martin Tupper, there fitted 'the good angel of the house, the mother, wife and mistress' whose work, according to the great Ruskin, was:
'I To please people
II To feed them in dainty ways
III To clothe them
IV to keep them orderly
V To teach them,
"A task for which, curiously, she was required to show, or to possess, neither intelligence for knowledge ('be good sweet maid and let who will be clever, as Charles Kingsley put it). This was not merely because the new function of the bourgeois wife, to show off the capacity of the bourgeois husband to keep her in leisure and luxury, conflicted with the old functions of actually running a household, but also because her inferiority to the man must be demonstrable."19
Hobsbawm was correct; religion lost ground to secularism commencing late in the 18th century and has wreaked havoc with family values since; Hobsbawm associated this with the demotion of the Puritan wife; he obviously alludes to decadence; affluence corrupted the Puritan family man as well as the Puritan wife. Here, Hobsbawm inadvertently stumbled onto one of the themes in ancient goddess worship, which depicts the plight of the church in the hands of Protestantism, especially the dissident Puritans, which will be analyzed shortly. The demotion of the Puritan wife illustrates the dissident Puritans' success in having the woman-church demoted at disestablishment. The church meretriciously cooperated with her demotion, consoled with leisure and luxury; viz., the dissident Puritans successfully changed the perception that the church contributed knowledge and intelligence in running civil society into one in which she was kept in leisure and luxury for her cooperation with their enterprises. This is depicted in Revelation 17 by the fornication of the woman with the kings of the earth and her compensation of leisure and luxury. Hobsbawm also observed the Papacy resisted "progress," and disestablishment was Protestant progress.
"Anti-clericalism was militantly secularist, in a much as it wanted to deprive religion of any official status in society ('disestablishment of the church', 'separation of church and state'), leaving it a purely private matter. It was to be transformed into one of several purely voluntary organizations, analogous to clubs of stamp-collectors only doubtless larger. But this was based not so much on the falsity of the belief in God or any particular version of such belief, but on the growing administrative capacity, scope and ambition of the secular state—even in its most liberal and laissez-faire form—which was bound to expel private organizations from what was not considered its field of action. However, basically anti-clericalism was political, because the chief passion behind it was the belief that established religions were hostile to progress. And so indeed they were, being both sociologically and politically very conservative institutions. The Roman Catholic Church indeed, had nailed hostility to all that the mid-nineteenth century stood for firmly to its mast… And, in so far as the masses—especially the rural masses—were still in the political reaction, their power had to be broken, if progress was not to be in jeopardy."20
Hobsbawm validated that disestablishment, anti-clericalism, secularization and liberal economics are Protestant, while anti-liberal Roman Catholic mindsets dominated Latin America, Spain and Portugal. This vindicates the "spirit of capitalism" is disestablishment, insomuch as it promoted liberal economics, capitalism and then the Industrial Revolution, while the anti-liberal mindset kept the Roman Catholic societies economically staggering behind the Protestant nations for centuries.
Returning to the relevance of goddess worship, the lascivious Babylonian goddess Ishtar (Inanna was her Sumerian counterpart) was depicted riding a beast in myth, along with other parallels that have moved many scholars to support her relevance in determining the woman of Revelation 17. One such scholar is the director of Biblical studies at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Tikva Frymer-Kensky, in her book, In wake of Goddess. Frymer-Kensky's research revealed other parallels, one of which Hobsbawm accidentally stumbled upon in his account of the demotion of Puritan wife at disestablishment. Frymer-Kensky affirms that, "the relationship between the gods," was, "both mirror of and model for human social relationships."21
"The eclipse of the goddesses was undoubtedly part of the same process that witnessed a decline in the public role of women, with both reflective of fundamental changes in society that we cannot yet specify. The existence and power of a goddess, particularly of Ishtar, is no indication or guarantee of a high status for human women. In Assyria, where Ishtar was so prominent, women were not… The world by the end of the second millennium was a male's world, above and below; and the ancient goddesses have all but disappeared."22
Frymer-Kensky found Israel's marriage metaphor (or the Church's for that matter), did not mirror the Israelite marriage, as the goddess myth mirrored the "patriarchal autocracy" of the heathen.23 Yet she also found, in exile they were overwhelmed by heathen autocratic, patriarchal pressure. In exile, their conquerors wreaked havoc with Israel's family values, just as secularism did with the Puritan household according to Hobsbawm. Finding a vacuum of "gender talk" in Torah, Frymer-Kensky held that this vacuum was filled by the "patriarchal autocracy" of their conquerors.
"After the exile, as Israel encountered other cultural traditions, the vacuum became more noticeable; it was ultimately filled by the introduction of Hellenistic misogyny and sexual phobia into the biblical tradition. The influence of these ideas on the newly emerging Christianity was very powerful…. promotion of the patriarchal household and the power of the paterfamilias… became more patriarchal; as it became Roman, the process intensified. Emerging Christianity incorporated these misogynistic and antierotic themes and made them central to its ideas about human existence."24
Is it an accident that Hobsbawm's meretricious account of the demotion of the Puritan or Protestant wife, due to financial success, following disestablishment and secularization—mirrors the prophets' motif of the "unfaithful, divorced wife returned to her first husband" (Hos 2; Isa 50:1; 54:4; Jer 3:12-14)? The woman in Revelation 17 represents corporate apostasy—the Great falling away prophesied in 2 Thessalonians 2:3 and 2 Timothy 3:4 (Lk 8:11-13; 1Ti 4:1-4; Heb 3:12-14). Through anthropomorphism, Hosea 2 and Ezekiel 16 prophesied of Israel's initial chastity and subsequent fall from fidelity, condemned and punished for their corporate harlotry, but ultimately redemption is promised for a contrite remnant (Deut 30:1-10).25 This is easily seen in the narrative of the Revelation; viz., the woman is witnessed in heaven, representing her chastity, falls to the wilderness, representing her subsequent fall in leaving her first love (Rev 2:5-6), and seen later in "leisure and luxury," after having fornicated with the kings and during the supremacy of the sixth king. In the final illustration, the woman is refined by persecution and "trial by fire" (vs. 16-17), in fulfillment of Malachi 3:1-5 and 1 Corinthians 3:9-15 (Rev 17:16-17); fire being a metaphor for trial or judgment (Ps 66:12; Isa 43:2; 1Pt 1:7; 4:12, 17). In similitude, the Babylonian goddesses Ishtar abides in heaven and her fornication engenders a lurid fall into hell and death, ending with her resurrection and restoration to heaven. Both employ the "mortification will only be temporary" motif, which corresponds with the "unfaithful, divorced wife returned to her first husband" in scripture (Isa 54).
Inanna/Ishtar was ultimately used to promote the societal acceptance that prosperity could be obtained through religion, empire, raising the status of the merchants and facilitating war; her symbolism conveyed the sophistication of an ideology. This is substantiated in Daniel Timmer's book, Cultural Imperialism and American Protestant Missionaries: Collaboration and Dependency in Mid-Nineteenth-Century China; he held that there was a symbiosis of "religion, warfare and economic activity" in the goddess myth that mirrored the society of the Assyrian empire.
"The threat in 3:4-7 describes Nineveh in terms of prostitution and sorcery. Given Assyria's strong interest in various deities and mode of divination, the emphasis on sorcery is understandable. The parallel characterization of a harlot draws in part on Nineveh's attractiveness (טֹ֥ובַת חֵ֖ן 'charming'), and both comparisons probably reflect the symbiosis of Assyrian religion, warfare, and economic activity."26
The "economic activity" is easily related as the "multiplied merchants" of the harlot in Nahum, representing the Assyrian Empire.
"Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts. Behold, I [am] against thee, saith the Lord of hosts…. Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away. Thy crowned [are] as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, [but] when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they [are]." Nahum 3:4-5, 16-17
Professor at the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Botswana, Laurel Lanner, also researched Inanna/Ishtar as the goddess referred to in Nahum 3:4, "that selleth nations through her whoredoms," which symbolized Neo-Assyrian marketing that prosperity could be obtained through religion, empire, raising the status of the merchants and facilitating war.
"Eaton considers that בַּעֲלַ֣ת כְּשָׁפִ֑ים is a reference to Ishtar, 'who was represented in Mesopotamia as a harlot, beautiful and gracious, but sometimes destructive.' Watts notes that Ishtar, the goddess of sex and war, was savage, destructive and seductive; 'With lustful visions of riches and power Ishtar had beguiled nations into the war of conquest.' Van der Woude also has little doubt that the harlot imagery of 3:1-1 refers to Ishtar. This passage is religious as well as political."27
The Protestants usefulness in Anglo-American imperialism is what is illustrated in Revelation 3:17 and 17-18 and also parallels the horsemen of the 7 seals. Professor of World Christianity and History of Mission, and Director of the Center for Global Christianity and Mission, Dana L. Robert, has researched the contemporary and highly controversial issue of missionary imperialism. She maintains that, "since the 1960s, public opinion has been severely divided over the meaning of missionary visions," and that, "flaws emerged," in the paradigm of missionary involvement in that it did not account for, "missionary efforts to 'convert' it."29 (The pronoun refers to imperialism.) Even so, two other professors, Lalsangkima Pachuau (the John Wesley Beeson Professor of Christian Mission and Dean of Advanced Research Programs) and Max Lynn Stackhouse (the Rimmer and Ruth de Vries Professor of Reformed Theology and Public Life Emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary) account for "missionary resistance" in imperialism and concluded "modernization" or imperialism still succeeded up to World War I and was facilitated by a good number of missionaries for sundry reasons.
"Christian missions were both allies and critics of colonialism. It was widely recognized that the missionary movement often spread with the extension of colonialism in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The military, administrative, and business leaders who dominated the colonized regions of the world were sometimes admired and imitated but often also deeply resented—especially by the indigenous elites who found themselves socially displaced, and also by masses of people who found it difficult to adapt to 'foreign' influences. The wrenching experience of 'modernization' was not easy and many treasured practices, skills, aspects of life-style, and conventions were made obsolete. While it is true, as already suggested, that many missionaries resisted the exploitation of indigenous peoples at the hands of colonialists or imperial administrators, and tried both to protect the people to whom they ministered and prepare them for some inevitable changes, there efforts were often seen as simply another part of the paternalistic problem. And, some missionaries were clearly supportive of colonial establishment, since it was believed to bring 'Christian civilization' to the world."30
It is clearly viable that John, knowing Nahum's use of Ishtar, "marveled" due to this parallelism. The final analysis cannot be avoided, the Protestant's part in Ango-American imperialism is supported, even after disestablishment, broadening the parallelism between the harlot in Revelation 17 and the goddess Ishtar. The parallelism with Ishtar conveys apostate Protestantism's marketing of prosperity through religion, empire, raising the status of the merchants and facilitating war.
The raising of the status of the merchants at the end of medievalism and the first attempt at globalism cannot be severed from the influence of apostate Protestantism and the parallelism with the harlot in Revelation 17. It requires little reckoning to determine Burnham, Bailyn, Noll and Hobsbawm substantiate apostate Protestantism as the driving force in the raising of the status of the merchants in fairly recent times. Frymer-Kensky, Lanner, Timmer and Newsom substantiate the parallelism with Ishtar's defiled traffic and apostate Protestantism, considering the former set of authors confirm the Papacy and its influence of establishment, resisted secularism.
"Of all private occupations trade was morally the most dangerous. The soul of the merchant was constantly exposed to sin by virtue of his control of goods necessary to other people. Since proof of the diligence he applied in his calling was in the profits he made from precisely such exchanges, could a line be drawn between industry and avarice? The Puritans answered, as had Catholics for half a millennium, that it could, and they designated this line the 'just price.'"32
Try as the as they may, Max Weber's critics cannot surmount that the spirit of capitalism lies in Protestantism; Protestantism ended establishment and secularized society. Success in disestablishment raised the status of "the merchants of the earth" in chapter 18, which naturally accompanied the first attempt of globalism and the seldom achieved exploitation of the poor in such magnitude. Even unbelievers such as the historian, Niall Ferguson, confirm the massive exploitation at the first Anglo attempt of globalism.
"Globalization... is not a new phenomenon.... Over a century ago, enterprising businessmen in Europe and North America could see that there were enticing opportunities throughout Asia... Capital was abundantly available and, as we shall see, British investors were more than ready to risk their money in remote countries.... the promise of Victorian globalization went largely unfulfilled in most of Asia, leaving a legacy of bitterness towards what is still remembered to this day as colonial exploitation…. Moreover, the last globalization had anything but a happy ending. On the contrary, less than a hundred years ago, in the summer of 1914, it ended not with a whimper, but with a deafening bang, as the principal beneficiaries of the globalized economy embarked on the most destructive war the world had ever witnessed…. If a foreign trading partner decided to default on its debts, there was little that an investor situated on the other side of the world could do. In the first era of globalization, the solution to this problem was brutally simple but effective: to impose European rule…. This vulnerability of early globalization to wars and revolutions was not peculiar to China. It turned out to be true of the entire world financial system…. The origins of the First World War became clearly visible—as soon as it had broken out."33
Furthermore, Ferguson also confirms American imperialism in our present and final attempt at globalism through America's International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
"Yet the days had gone when investors could confidently expect their governments to send a gunboat when a foreign government misbehaved. Now the role of financial policing had to be played by two unarmed bankers, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Their new watchword became 'conditionality': no reforms, no money. Their preferred mechanism was the structural adjustment programme. And the policies the debtor countries had to adopt became known as the Washington Consensus, a wish-list of ten economic policies that would have gladdened the heart of a British imperial administrator a hundred years before…. To some critics, however, the World Bank and the IMF were no better than agents of the same old Yankee imperialism. Any loans from the IMF or World Bank, it was claimed, would simply be used to buy American goods from American firms—often arms to keep ruthless dictators or corrupt oligarchies in power. The costs of 'structural adjustment' would be born by their hapless subjects. And Third World leaders who stepped out of line would soon find themselves in trouble."34
Financial journalist, Nicola Walton, concurs in her book: How to Report Economic News.
"Like the IMF, the World Bank is said by its critics to be an agent of Western and in particular US imperialism, imposing faulty development policies on poor third world countries. The World Bank then becomes part of the set of international institutions designed to keep people of the third world in poverty."35
Again, the raising of the status of the merchants at the end of medievalism and the first attempt at globalism cannot be severed from the influence of apostate Protestantism and the parallelism with the harlot in Revelation 17. It is evidence that the first horsemen in the 7 seals represents Protestantism's missionary imperialism.
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1 William J. Reid, Lectures on the Revelation, Printed by Stevenson, Foster & Co., No. 48 Fifth Avenue 1878, pg. 87, "It is supposed that the church of Rome is described in the epistle to the church of Thyatira, under the name of that woman, 'Jezebel.' And it must be confessed, even by those who reject this theory, that the similarity is wonderful."
John Gill's Exposition on the Entire Bible, 1690-1771, REVELATION 2:20 "because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel… By her is meant the apostate church of Rome, comparable to Jezebel, the wife of Ahab; as she was the daughter of an Heathen, so is Rome Papal the daughter of Rome Pagan; and as she was the wife of Ahab, and therefore a queen, so the whore of Babylon calls herself…"
2 "The Roman Catholic Church has the largest number of members with over 1 billion, and yet the Bible reveals this church to be apostate. And we now also have many of the Protestant churches heading back to Rome, back to the "mother" (Mother of harlots)." http://www.end-times-prophecy.org/seven-churches-revelation-thyatira.html
Dr. Francis Nigel Lee, John's Revelation Unveiled, Ligstryders 1999, "So too does John's description of the woman herself. For she is no more the virgin bride of Christ of which the Church of Rome was once a part, prior to the rise of Papal Vaticanism. No! By the time reflected in John's description, in much the same way that the Older Testament's Israel degenerated into a veritable Sodom also the Early-Christian Virgin had now degenerated into a mediaeval "Whore" or a painted Jezebel. This Whore had been unfaithful, constantly, to the heavenly Bridegroom to Whom she owed loyalty. For she had fornicated with the Kings of the Earth. Thereby she had also intoxicated the inhabitants of the Earth with the wine of all this fornication all this immoral commerce going on between an apostate ecclesiastical power and international political leaders. The great Whore, then, is Rome. Thus Tertullian, Eusebius, Jerome, Ambrose, Augustine, Bede, Berengaud, and many others. Specifically, she is the Romish Papacy. Thus Waldo and the Waldensians, Joachim of Floris, Eberhard of Salzburg, Pierre d'Olivi, Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Wycliffe, Huss, Savanorola, and all of the Protestant Reformers."
3 Meaning, few that profess actually worship in spirit and truth (Jn 4:23-24).
4 (Ac 2:17; 2Ti 3:1; Heb 1:2; Ja 5:3; 2Pe 3:3) Preterist hold the "last days" commenced with the first advent. What they fail to grasp is Prophetic Telescoping. Prophetic events appear in immediate sequence, like looking down a mountain range and viewing peaks than look up against each other but instead, great valleys lie between. The valleys correspond to the apocalyptic genre. But with new beginnings comes the end of the previous age or dispensation. The end of the Mosaic age ended in reformation and salvation of the remnant, which Prophetic telescoping conveys. The reformation is a trial or hardship, inaugurating the new age or dispensation. The Baptism of fire at the first advent was see also on the last mountain peak, which is not grasped by Preterism. It explains the misapprehension about temporal indicators.
17 Mark A. Noll, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, Eerdmans (October 19, 1995), pg. 66
18 Ibid., pg. 75-76
19 E.J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Capital, New American Library, Inc., New York, N.Y., 1979, p.261-62
20 Ibid., pg. 301
21 Tikva Frymer-Kensky, In the Wake of Goddess: Women, Culture and the Biblical Transformation of Pagan Myth, Ballantine Books (February 10, 1993), pg. 147
22 Ibid., pg. 80
23 Ibid., pg. 147-48, "The question must be asked whether this relationship of God to Israel is intended to serve as the paradigm for Israelite marriage. After all, in polytheism, the relationship between the gods is both mirror of and model for human social relationships. Can this be true in the Bible? Does the metaphor itself give men the right to be jealous of their wives, and to punish them when they do not live up to their husbands' expectations…. Marriage in Israel was certainly not "egalitarian" in the modern sense of the world. At the same time, it was not the hierarchy of master and servant, but a bond between loving intimates. As such it was an exact paradigm of the biblical conception of the proper relationship of people and God."
24 Ibid., pg. 213-14
25 Ibid., pg. 151, "The Torah's use of this imagery may have been influenced by the prophetic development of the marital metaphor. It may also be the source of it…. This bond of love and commitment between marital partners provides the positive note in a marriage that might otherwise be called disastrous. The marriage is not a "happily ever after" affair. The wife of Hosea/God is a wanton, and does not give God the steadfast exclusive loyalty that is expected of her. God-as-husband is not forbearing. He is angry, and punishes. Nevertheless, the marriage does not end, for the marital metaphor emphasizes the commitment of God to Israel. The repudiation will only be temporary, and God will come again to woo his bride, and re-espouse her. After the disaster comes the reconciliation; after the destruction, the renewal; after the violence, the lovemaking."
26 Daniel Timmer, The Non-Israelite Nations in the Book of the Twelve: Thematic Coherence and the Diachronic-Synchronic Relationship in the Minor Prophets (Biblical Interpretation), Brill (1724) 2015, pg. 130-31
Laurel Lanner on page 159 of her book, Who Will Lament Her?: The Feminine and the Fantastic in the Book of Nahum (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies), ties merchants with the goddess of the Assyrian empire through the book of Nahum. She states, "I see no reason why a motif—in this case 'locusts'—cannot be used in different metaphors and similes successively. In fact, given the identification of the locusts as the officials, merchants and scribes of the imperial power in 3:16 and 17, 15bA offers a neat reversal of situations; 'as you the Assyrians scythed us with your oppressive regime, so we shall return the favor."
27 Laurel Lanner, Who Will Lament Her?: The Feminine and the Fantastic in the Book of Nahum (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies), Bloomsbury T&T Clark; F First Edition edition (May 24, 2006), pg. 146
29 Dana L. Robert, Converting Colonialism: Visions and Realities in Mission History, 1706-1914, Eerdmans (January 2, 2008), pg. 1-4
30 Lalsangkima Pachuau, Max L. Stackhouse, News of Boundless Riches, Center of Theological Inquiry and ISPCK (2007), pg. xiii
32 Bernard Bailyn, The New England Merchants In The Seventeenth Century (p. 16, 19-21, 39). Read Books Ltd.. Kindle Edition.
33 Niall Ferguson, The Ascent of Money, Penguin Books; 1 edition (October 27, 2009), pg. 287-305
34 Ibid., pg. 309-310
35 Nicola Walton, How to Report Economic News, Routledge; 1 edition (February 5, 2017), pg. 182


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After radio silence for a bit here, I'm back in action looking into all the beer events I can get to. I am very disappointed that I was unable to take part in Darkness Day at Surly, but some of my friends were able to go and I'll get to take part vicariously with the official Limited Release episode when it is done.
On the day before Halloween our local fine dining restaurant, Terra Waconia, had their second beer dinner. They tried to organize this event for last Halloween, but things fell through, so here we are one year later and it really happened! Having been lucky enough to get to know Tracy and Craig, the wonderful folks who run the restaurant, I was invited to help out a bit with selecting the beers. I am very appreciative that they involved me in this. For a while they had planned on a Magic Hat dinner, but that was difficult to organize, so they rethought the event a bit. Through unusual circumstance, Adam O'Brien, the local Samuel Adams Representative, has been staying in town recently and had dinner at Terra about two weeks ago. He jumped at the chance to help out with this dinner and I give him a huge amount of credit for doing so on such short notice. Last week Adam, Tracy, myself and Craig (when he took quick breaks from chefery,) got together in the evening and tasted through a bunch of Sam Adams beers. We were looking for overall quality, as well as potential for pairing with food. This is the best way to plan a beer dinner: start with the beers and then mould the menu around that, looking for contrasting or complementary flavors.
We tasted through about 10 different beers and came up with a plan. Sam Adams has a huge portfolio of different beers to choose from, and many for this dinner came from the Fall Sampler. They have some newer and more unusual beers but most of them were not feasible to get on short notice or to serve to large group. Say what you will about the Boston Beer Company, they have been making and marketing true craft beers since before there was even a name for that. They have moved with the times and make funkier beers to please the beer geeks (Infinium, Utopias, etc.) but continue to make a lot of great drinkable beers. Tasting through the beers that night, I realized that I have pretty much counted them out of my regular drinking line-up over the last few years. I may have to re-think that and give them a bit more of my time.
We arrived at the restaurant right at 6 PM and were greeted by a "Welcome" smeared in sticky blood on the glass door. Entering the small vestibule, the walls and floor were coated in plastic sheeting and spattered with very realistic looking gore. Hmm, were we walking into a restaurant or a murder-house? As the door closed behind us, it gave an agonized groan, prompting us to spin around and look back. (Apparently the door always does that, but for this night it was perfect!) Into the restaurant proper, we came upon a tableau of skulls, bone-saws and lit candles upon the console table/hostess stand. Two skeletal life-sized dummies were near the entry way, one of which rotated it's head toward us, flashed red eyes, and warned us to enter at our own risk. The lighting was very dim, and each table had black table cloths and two candles in wax-coated wine bottles. Disturbing music played in the background. I was shocked at how much effort had gone into setting up this change in the restaurant interior.
We were seated at our table and Nikki, our server, handed us a Samuel Adams pint glass full of Boston Lager. At the bar they had a small grave-yard model with house-made suckers dressed in white ghost outfits poked around the periphery. We each got one to pair with our intro beer. Apparently they were made with pancetta and had a cranberry center...a very interesting mix of sweet and savory. Tracy gave a quick introduction and smoke billowed out from near the entry, further creepifying the atmosphere in the room. Adam, initially startled by the smoke, took it in stride and gave a quick talk about Sam Adams and the first two beers prior to our first course of food. We invited him to sit with us since they had him sitting at a small table by himself. It was great getting to talk beer with him during the dinner and his very sweet wife showed up later to join us as well. Later we realized that the kitchen staff was actually using headlamps and cooking by flashlight to keep the dim vibe of the dining area.
The first course was a crazy-good lamb sausage served with a cabbage salad. Sitting plopped upon the salad was a molecular gastronomy masterpiece of an eyeball! This was a circular globe made of parsnip puree with a black olive pupil and either chili thread or saffron red veins making it look bloodshot. Once you punctured the eye, the thick and viscous filling oozed out. Craig outdid himself on this one! The pairing was with the Oktoberfest, because what goes better with sausage than a German style malty lager?
The second course was a wonderful (and not creepy) fish and chips. The fish had a perfect crispy beer batter and was served with tasty fries and house-made tartar sauce and vinegar foam. This fancy take on a classic was paired with the English style IPA, Latitude 48. I am a huge fan of this beer, the earthy English hops and a strong malt backbone really cleanse the palate with fried foods. Last year they released a sampler pack called Latitude 48 Deconstructed which featured 6 single hopped versions of this base beer...an amazing thing for a commercial brewery to do.
The third course was a small serving of cider sorbet paired with the Angry Orchard Ginger Cider. Sj loves this cider and we always have some at home. I learned from Adam that Sam Adams used to make Hardcore Cider (which we never really loved) but had discontinued that and moved to a more impressive cider line-up for Angry Orchard. They use tart apples from France and Italy for these, which explains the improvement in complexity and flavor with the new brand. The ginger really accentuates the tart and sweet of this particular libation.
The fourth course was wonderful, named Tongue & Cheek. The base was more or less a cassoulet with large white beans, lamb tongue and wild boar cheeks. Atop this daunting hearty plate sat a disturbing reproduction of a severed finger. The finger had "bones" made of firm white turnip, "skin" of garlic flavored fruit-roll-up, and a dried cranberry "fingernail." Wow was this a crazy dish. The flavors were fantastic and the presentation was up there with some of the best restaurants I've been to (I'm looking at you Moto!) A very filling dish that had me groaning, but I had to finish it! This was a pairing made in heaven--Sam Adams Double Bock. The strong alcohol and malt truly played off the savory components in the meal.
The final course came with the sad knowledge that the meal was nearly over. Even the best things must end. We were served a plate that looked like a grave: a mound of chocolate ice cream topped with hazelnut "dirt" and a R.I.P. decorated shortbread cookie on a base of chocolate truffle. Amazing. This was paired with the new Sam Adams Hazelnut Brown Ale. I think this was the only pairing that didn't quite work, as the desert was much more rich and flavorful than the milder beer. Still both were great on their own.
Near the end of the meal Tracy came around with ballots and the people who didn't come in costume (lame!) voted on who was the best dressed couple. Sj and I were dressed in steam-punk outfits, (though Sj could be mistaken for sexy French maid in the low lighting.) One couple was dressed as a mobster and moll. And the last couple to dress up were a cowboy (complete with lasso) and an Indian with elaborate buckskins and headdress. Until that last couple came in I thought we had it, but Sj and I looked at each other and knew we didn't have a shot. They won a $50 gift card to Terra and a Sam Adams Fall sampler pack. At least we tried!
I have to give thanks to all the staff of Terra Waconia and to Adam for making this event happen on short notice. A lot of effort went into this and it was a great way to spend the night before Halloween. This brought back why Halloween always used to be my favorite holiday...dressing up, scary stuff, sweets. Terra plans to have this yearly now, and I highly recommend placing this on your calendars now. I will certainly be there again! And probably a bunch of other times in the year as well.


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Intermountain Community Bancorp in Sandpoint, Idaho, said its third-quarter loss narrowed by 76% from the second quarter, to $2.7 million, or 32 cents a share, as asset quality improved.
The $1 billion-asset company had a profit of $226,000, or 3 cents a share, in the third quarter of 2008.
Intermountain, which has been hurt mostly by its residential construction loans, reported a $3.76 million provision for loan losses, compared with $18.68 million in the second quarter and $2.74 million the year earlier.
It charged off $10.4 million of loans, down 12% from the second quarter, but up 352% from the year earlier.
Though he acknowledged that chargeoffs remained "elevated," Curt Hecker, Intermountain's chief executive officer, said in a press release that overall loan trouble has started to moderate.
Nonperforming assets shrunk 11% from the second quarter, to $22.3 million, or 3.47% of total assets. The ratio of loans more than 30 days past due to total loans fell 62 basis points, to 1.48%.
Intermountain paid $416,000 of preferred dividends during the quarter, which also added to the loss available to common shareholders. It issued $27 million of preferred stock to the Treasury Department in December through the Troubled Asset Relief Program.


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July 12, 2016 09:00 ET
Conexiom Earns Nomination From Customer, Further Identifying ecmarket as a Trusted Provider to the Supply Chain Industry
VANCOUVER, BC--(Marketwired - July 12, 2016) - ecmarket, creators of Conexiom Sales Order and Invoice Automation, announced today that they have been selected as one of SupplyChainBrain's 2016 100 Great Supply Chain Partners for their invoice automation solution. The 100 Great Supply Chain Partners features a select group of companies nominated by customers for their exceptional solutions which have provided a positive impact on their business processes.
CAPP/USA, a leading supplier of process instrumentation controls, HVAC, and electrical and flame safeguard controls, nominated Conexiom Invoice Automation for its ability to capture critical data from computer-generated invoices and automatically process them into their existing financial system with 100% accuracy and zero manual intervention. With 1.8 million products to stock and partnerships with vendors across the globe, CAPP/USA's AP department previously faced hours of overtime to reconcile hundreds of invoices daily, leading to significant operational expenses, slow processing times, and costly errors. With manual entry no longer required, CAPP/USA has dramatically reduced the time it takes to process invoices from hours to mere seconds, eliminated manual reconciliations, reduced the work load for their AP staff, and decreased stress levels overall.
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Please help me with this! I put this code.def main():
PirateNames = ["dEbug", "Sparrow", "Green Beard", "Jolly Roger"] Doubloons = [1000, 9000,200, 1234, 2014]
#Loop through PirateNames list herefor name in PirateNames: print ("My pirate name is",name)
I Figured it out. NEVERMIND!
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Hey there everyone!
So I've taken a look at the code that was provided and I think that his specific error is occurring due to a spacing issue, which python is particularly picky about. Here's my advice:
Click at the very end of the comment line so your cursor is flashing right after the gray word "here".
Once you see your cursor flashing, hit enter once and begin writing the code (Also, your code is correct, so go with it).Once you reach the end of the "for" line, just hit enter once more time and write the print() line.
After you're done writing up the print() line, submit and you should be good to go!
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Yesterday marked the end of Sean's week one on the Weight Watchers for Men program, and the end of our first week on the program together.
We survived. Nobody got hurt.
This is significant.
See, Sean is a 215-pound guy (well, WAS), and I am a 143-pound woman. Because of the obvious differences, the fine statisticians and dietitians at WW felt it was appropriate to create a calculation that grants us very different amounts of daily POINTS.
So Sean has 36 a day.
And I have 25.
Every single day last week, Sean would come home and ask, "What's for dinner? I have 18 POINTS left and am hungry...make it something big!" And I, having come home from a day full of stress eating, whimper, "I have 4."
:: sigh ::
He lured me to Dairy Queen not once, but twice. I enjoyed a kids' cone while he slurped down a medium Reese's Blizzard. And I only freaked out on him a few times.
In my defense, he was rubbing it in. And his Blizzard looked SO. GOOD.
Halfway through the week, I was really doubting if this whole husband-wife weight loss adventure was such a good idea. But we survived, and we both lost!
That's right. Sean was down over 6 pounds after the first week, and I sweet-talked the scale into cutting me a break this week, so it inched down 0.6 pounds.
Even better, I retook my measurements from two weeks ago, and was down all over. So it was a great week. Slow and steady wins the race...and fits into a new swimsuit.
Another wonderful thing came out of our partnership last week. We worked together to come up with some new meals that we both enjoyed and were great fits for the WW program. I don't have any photos to share with you, but here are some delicious ways to fill up, without breaking your POINTS budget.
Two eggs = 4 POINTS, but one egg and two egg whites scrambled with a smidge of 2% milk makes a beautiful mound of breakfast goodness. Add 3 slices of precooked bacon (which are smaller, thinner slices than regular bacon), and an Arnold Sandwich Thin, and you've got a hearty, filling breakfast for 5 POINTS.
Shrimp really delivers on WW. At one POINT per ounce, you can get a crazy wonderful amount for just a small amount. We buy big bags of frozen shrimp at Sam's Club and it will make three meals. At $12 a bag, that's not too shabby.
Last night, I sauteed up 8 ounces of shrimp with some chopped spinach, a tiny bit of olive oil and Penzey's Greek seasoning. Then I added two wedges of cubed Laughing Cow cheese and stirred until it melted, Topped with a sprinkle of fat-free feta and it made for one extremely yummy (and surprisingly filling) meal. Since Sean had 112 POINTS left for the day, I served his over a serving of Dreamfields pasta.
My meal was 5 1/2 POINTS and the pasta added 3 for Sean. Not. Too. Shabby.
Mmmmmmm grilled peaches. 'Nuff said.
Well, it would be enough said, but I bet you want the recipe.
Fine. Take 2 peaches, cut in half with the pits removed. Take a tiny bit of canola oil and brush on the cut sides of the fruit. Grill them on a medium to high-heat grill for a few minutes, or until you see grill marks. Now brush the other side with oil, flip, and sprinkle a mixture of brown sugar and cinnamon on the cut sides. Continue to grill until the peaches are soft and the topping has melted.
Top however you like, but we ate them just like this and were only out 2 POINTS. Can you believe it?
So there you have it, a very successful week. We're still loving the program and are excited to see how this week goes. I'm reading new WW book Eat! Move! Play! right now as well, and will definitely be sharing that with you soon.
And pictures. Next time there will be pictures.
Till the next time, stay healthy, peeps!


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This might help you learn harmonica. I know that the best words to describe learning any instrument are regular, systematic, and short practices. To avoid blowing a new harp out also, I:
Decided to give myself one year to learn - meaning a couple tunes that sound close to the original and the ability to improvise, plus learn bending on the easier, basic bending holes.
I bought 7 harps of a good brand so I HAD to learn. No turning back.
I practiced and just goofed off with the harp in my car to and from work, nowhere else. That's how I learned. Plus, a few tips from a harmonica playing buddy and John Sebastion's DVD.
So I had a structured practice regime that was fun too, and I had a goal to learn in a year. My harps were broken in slowly over time and still after 3 years they play fine. I wasn't pressured or embarrassed in public, because I wasn't in public - I was in my car. But the best advantage I believe is that you hear the harp clearly and deeply. Most people really get into their CD's or radio while driving. I really got into my harp. Driving is a right brain activity. So is music. They go together. You'll learn fast.


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Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) has announced that its President's Scholarship programme is to run again for CAO 2018 applicants
For the third year running five exceptional people will be awarded scholarships that have a total value of up to €12,000.
Rather than a focus on high points the scholarship scheme encourages and rewards inspiring people who show a capacity to shape a better society.
The closing date for President's Scholarship applications is Thursday, 1 March 2018 at 5.15pm.
To be in with a chance of winning one of five scholarships worth €3,000 a year each, scholarship applicants must have listed one of WIT's 70 CAO courses as one of their choices on their CAO application before applying. The normal closing date for the CAO is 1 February at 5.15pm.
Prospective applicants will find all the details on http://www.wit.ie/caoscholarship.


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Last month I booked a room for 1 day. The room was good, specially the staff was very helpful. When ever we ask for any assistance they ready to help. Specially want to mention the Food from Room Service was really so delicious. Its a...More
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