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Seniors Week Program now available
The program of events for Council's Seniors Intergenerational Festival 2010 are available from Customer Service in The Phoenix Building, Armstrong Street South. The program for 2010 is extensive and there are events that will appeal to everyone!
Sports Central
September 15, 2010 by Helen
Filed under Community Groups
Sports Central is a not for profit organisation established to assist communities in the six local government areas of City of Ballarat, Ararat Rural City and the Pyrenees, Moorabool, Hepburn and Golden Plains Shires.
Sports Central services the region by:
Sports Central recognise the valuable contribution sport and recreation clubs and organisations provide to the community in the Central Highlands. Becoming a member with Sports Central will allow us to support these clubs and organisations to keep sport & recreation opportunities sustainable, inclusive and accessible.
Members can expect:
To become a Sports Central member, register your club on Sportslink (Central Highlands) today! Visit http://centralhighlands.sportslink.org.au/ and click on Add your Club/Activity. Following this, you will receive (by mail) a membership pack consisting of the range of services available from Sports Central.
For more information, call Sports Central today on (03) 5331 6966
Sports Central Launch – 22nd Sept
The former Central Highlands Sports Assembly would like to invite you to the official launch of their new branding including a new name and logo as they officially emerge as "SPORTS CENTRAL".
This is your chance to talk with staff about the services they offer, the partnerships which can be formed, and what they can do for you!
Contact: Paul Owen, 5331 6966 – RSVP 14th Sept please. email: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Listen To Your Heart – Support The Heart Foundation's Doorknock Appeal
Victorians are being asked to listen to their heart and support the Heart Foundation's annual Doorknock Appeal this September. In Victoria, the fundraising appeal started on Saturday 4 September and will conclude on Sunday 19 September 2010.
The Heart Foundation is an independent charity that funds lifesaving research, supports health professionals and promotes health in the community.
For easy recognition and security, each Doorknock Appeal volunteer will wear a clearly visible badge displaying the Heart Foundation logo and the words Volunteer Collector Official Identification Badge. The badge also has the volunteer s ID number and an expiry date of 30 September 2010. Collectors will also carry an official receipt book and a small Heart Foundation bag.
All donations $2 and over are tax-deductible and Heart Foundation Doorknock Appeal volunteers can issue supporters with a receipt. If you are not home when one of our Doorknock Appeal volunteers visit, you can make a credit card donation directly with the Heart Foundation Doorknock Appeal Hotline 1800 55 22 55 or by visiting www.heartfoundation.org.au/doorknock.
Sustainable Gardening Program launched today
September 14, 2010 by Helen
Filed under Local Ballarat News
Central Highlands Water (CHW) launched the new "Ballarat Gardens Come Alive" program in the Bridge Mall in Ballarat today. It is an innovative sustainable gardening support program. CHW staff and representatives from Formosa Gardens Nursery, Dahlsens Ballarat and Diggers Club provided residents and school children with information about the program as well as conducting sustainable gardening demonstrations.
For expert gardening advice, residents are encouraged to visit either Formosa Gardens Nursery or Dahlsens Ballarat. Information about Ballarat Gardens Come Alive is also available at CHW's Waterwise Garden Education Centre at Kirks Reservoir or at their Learmonth Road office.
Information: www.chw.net.au
Voice FM Team to call the CHFL Grand Final
September 9, 2010 by Helen
Filed under Local Ballarat News
Dave, John and Pete who make up "All Bases Covered" each Friday night from 8-10pm have taken up the challenge to call the CHFL Grand Final this Saturday the 11th September. Tune in from 1pm for news, scores and interviews before the call of the big game.
"Tinderbox" starts at their new timeslot Tonight 6-8pm!
September 9, 2010 by Helen
Filed under Music News, Station News
Join Lauren and Amy as they present "Tinderbox" at the new timeslot of 6-8 pm tonight, right after "Drive" for something completely different (ie. no gratuitous vocoders in the Tinderbox!) Just pure exciting, igniting and delighting (some Led Zep, Sly & Funkadelic, Bowie and loving the ladies as usual- Bjork, Nina Simone, Bat For Lashes, Cat Power, Hope Sandoval, Sharon Jones-they're rockin the casbah)
Lauren and Amy wanted to let you know "We'll be welcoming all our regular listeners alongside new ones so playing all our faves, old and new, near and far, as well as playing you some great tracks from the brand new Going Down Swinging no.30. Then the following week we'll get back into Strange News from a Distant Star with Voice Fm's very own Iris reading for us, and other great writers and musicians joining us over the rest of the year. We'll also be telling you about the creative project we've been working on that will be hitting Ballarat the evening of Saturday Oct 2nd so put it in the diary!"
Two hospitalised after car hits horses
September 8, 2010 by Website Administrator
Filed under Local Ballarat News
Two people were treated for minor injuries in the Ballarat Hospital overnight after their car hit a number of horses.
Police say the accident happened on the Glenelg Highway at Smythesdale, south-east of Ballarat, about 10:30pm (AEST).
They say a number of horses were struck and two had to be put down.
Can you help Hepburn Shire develop their Freight Strategy?
September 7, 2010 by Helen
Filed under Local Ballarat News
A freight strategy is to be developed across the Hepburn Shire to help respond to the changing and future transport needs of the community, local industry, farmers, visitors and external road users.
Hepburn Shire Mayor Councillor Janine Booth said the Council was now calling for expressions of interests from community members to form a Steering Committee to oversee the development of the strategy.
The Steering Committee will include three community representatives, two representatives of the transport industry and one representative of the tourism industry. The closing date for expressions of interest is Friday, 24 September 2010. The expression of interest form for the Freight Strategy Steering Committee may be found in electronic format on Council's website
www.hepburnshire.com.au, or in hard copy from reception at Council's Offices at Creswick, Daylesford Town Hall and Duke Street.


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SingleMalt Sep 25, 2012 4:54 AM
in response to tobifs
I assume folks would have done this check but just incase, has anyone looked at the IP address in the WiFi network settings (Settings>WiFi> and then selct the right arrow on your network). If it starts with 169 then it is a problem with the router.
I had exactly the same problem with my iPhone 4 - could catch the WiFi but not download any data through it although my MacBook Air and iPad worked just fine. Resetting the device as new etc did not help and it was only when I saw the IP address that I did a router reset and things have been fine since.
Doesn't explain whyt it happened in the first place (Apple supects it could be a faulty antenna) but atleast the problem has been resolved for now.
kliu82 Sep 25, 2012 5:56 AM
in response to SingleMalt
Hey guys -
Went to the Apple Store last night to get my replacement 16GB Black and.....WiFi works!
pingman30 Sep 25, 2012 7:02 AM
in response to tobifs
Just had mine replaced 32gb black in the apple store, and now it works perfectly no wifi problems at all. If your having problem take it back now and get a new model, otherwise if you leave it your replacement could be an OEM version. So do it now
wepiii Sep 25, 2012 7:40 AM
in response to pingman30
Fix for those getting half speed.
My family has 3 different iphone 5's and they are all doing the same thing. All other iphones and ipads in the house get the expected results on speedtest.net app. But our iPhone 5's get around half of what the other iOS 6 devices are getting over Wifi on the same servers.
I have fixed the issue on our phones by going into Settings/Wifi/Blue arrow next to your Wifi name/ and typing test into Client ID and then *renewing lease*. (Won't work without renewing lease.)
If I test in speedtest I now get 10.97 Mb per second. Without test in the Client ID (I imagine any word would work, not just test) I only get 5.45 Mb per second on a 12Mb line.
No idea why it helps but I was trying everything to get it working because I was blowing through my LTE not wanting to deal with slow Wifi. Issue completely resolved after doing this. Makes me think it is just a software bug that is only affecting iPhone 5's on ios 6 and will likely be fixed when ios 6.0.1 is released.
Please let me know if this helps in your situations... Could be exclusive to my Wi-Fi setup (I run all Airport Extremes and Airport Expresses).
i_Mike Sep 25, 2012 8:34 AM
in response to kliu82
Did you have to make an appointment at the genius bar to get your replacement?
hudsonmanx Sep 25, 2012 8:39 AM
in response to i_Mike
I just made my appointment today as telephone support we're not helpful, earliest I can get an appointment is on Monday.
schultemd Sep 25, 2012 8:43 AM
in response to wepiii
This worked for me. I typed "test" in my client ID and renewed my lease. Blazing fast WIFI!!!!
philipfromeast lansing Sep 25, 2012 8:44 AM
in response to tobifs
Just curious -- but it can't be a software issue if a 4S that was upgraded to iOS 6 doesn't exhibit the same problems as the iphone 5, correct?
It has to be some kind of antenae issue, presumably.
pingman30 Sep 25, 2012 8:52 AM
in response to i_Mike
I made an appointment for Friday, but after speaking to apple on the phone, they told me to take it straight in and get a replacement. Went in and they swapped it with no problems
tny618 Sep 25, 2012 8:58 AM
in response to tobifs
I would tell anybody to take theirs up there. I just got my phone in the mail that was supposed to be delivered on the 5th. It's hardware possibly cuz mine is fine. I don't know if this has to do something with a bad batch or not but I would turn them in. No one is supposed to go through these steps on their router just for it to work and its not supposed to be slow...well depending on some of y'all Internet but no not slow
philipfromeast lansing Sep 25, 2012 9:01 AM
in response to tobifs
I am a bit curious about something.
There are millions of people who are waiting for a new iPhone 5 -- and I see theer are a lot of folks posting here who are on their SECOIND ONE already.
Why is apple replacing iPhone 5's for people when they are in short supply and others are waiting patiently for them?
People who are waiting for a new iPhone becaus eof supply issues could be getting quite ****** off seeing some folks getting a brand new phone already (albeit to fix a problem).
boosteddub69 Sep 25, 2012 9:06 AM
in response to philipfromeast lansing
The folks who are getting replacements are getting white box replacements (mostly) not full retail boxes.
EL Renrut Sep 25, 2012 9:08 AM
in response to tobifs
Same problem here. I have a temporary fix, but I'm waiting for something better.
Got the phone on Friday. It worked great on wifi all weekend. When I got to work on Monday, it wouldn't work on the wifi at work. Then when I got home, it didn't work there either. I tried Facetime. Would connect for about 5-10 seconds and then cut off. Phone would show that it was "on" wifi - but the wheel would spin and spin trying to get something downloaded.
I reset the phone - but still had problem. Finally turned off the security on my wifi, and that worked. Obviously that's not a permanent solution.
I have an iPad, and that was working fine at the same time the iPhone was not workinig.
schultemd Sep 25, 2012 9:08 AM
in response to schultemd
For those who haven't tried the "test" fix, I just did this again from a second WPA2 network and it worked.
joehero Sep 25, 2012 9:22 AM
in response to tobifs
My two strange things that make me think it is a combo: I didn't have a hotspot option before the replacement, now I do. Also the battery life is drastically better on the working replacement. It state at 100% today for a good hour. I'm thinking it is a chip issue and there was heat killing the battery.

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Studanka - Zbraslavec, Czech Republic
in Natural Springs
CS: studanka // EN: Natural Spring
posted by: Olii05
location: Jihomoravsky kraj, Czech Republic
date approved: 5/6/2015
last visited: never
Studánka U svatého Antonícka / St. Anthony Spring - Sazená (Central Bohemia)
Depicted St. Anthony Spring (Studánka U svatého Antonícka), recently reconstructed, is hidden among trees ca 350 meters east of village Sazená.
posted by: Dorcadion Team
location: Stredocesky kraj, Czech Republic
Studanka Na Rokli - Brno, Czech Republic
CS: Studanka Na Rokli // EN: Natural Spring Na Rokli
date approved: 5/3/2015
Studanka Veveri - Brno, Czech Republic
CS: Studanka Veveri // EN: Natural Spring Veveri
last visited: 2/6/2016
Roaring River State Park Dam Waterfall – Cassville, Missouri
in Man-made Waterfalls
Waterfall created at the dam below the fish hatchery at Roaring River State Park near Cassville, Missouri.
posted by: BruceS
location: Missouri
date approved: 5/2/2015
Burgsandstein Quelle - Feucht, BY, Germany
This spring is located in Lorenzer Reichswald, south from Feucht, east form Ludwig-Main-Donau-Kanal. The little spring has its beginning in the Burgsandstein rocks.
posted by: GeoLog81
location: Bayern, Germany
date approved: 5/1/2015
Sladka studanka - Semanin, Czech Republic
CS: Studanka Sladka // EN: Natural Spring Sladka (Sweet)
location: Pardubicky kraj, Czech Republic
Studanka U Salase - Semanin, Czech Republic
CS: Studanka U Salase // EN: Natural Spring U Salase
Zlata studanka - Strakov, Czech Republic
CS: Zlatá Studanka // EN: Natural Spring Zlatá
Cascata das Lombadas - Ribeira Grande Azores - Portugal
in Waterfalls
Most beautifull waterfall from São Miguel Island
posted by: mcassis
location: Arquipélago dos Açores, Portugal
date approved: 4/30/2015
Kopfleinwiese - Rothenburg, BY
This old well is located at the Kopfleinwiese. It's not functioning. It's near pavement.
posted by: bluesnote
date approved: 4/27/2015
Dürer's Spring - Nuremberg, BY
This old spring well is located in the Nurnberg city center, near the city walls, south from Burg.
date approved: 4/23/2015
last visited: 12/9/2015
Le Gué de Cousse - Vernou-sur-Brenne, Centre, France
in Bridgeless Water Crossings
[E] This ford is located next to the old wash-house of the village.
|F] Ce gué se trouve près du lavoir du village.
posted by: Chickilim
location: Centre, France
date approved: 4/22/2015
last visited: 10/14/2015
Poço - Jerumelo, Mafra, Portugal
A beautiful well by the road in the village of Jerumelo
location: Lisboa, Portugal
date approved: 4/21/2015
Carver Branch Spring – George Washington Carver National Monument – Diamond, Missouri
Spring located near George Washington Carver's boyhood home, now the George Washington Carver National Monument.
date approved: 4/18/2015
St Ives Bay Cornwall, Godrevy lighthouse
in Wavy Places
3 miles of golden sands and great surf
posted by: MoreOutdoor
location: South West England, United Kingdom
date approved: 4/12/2015
last visited: 4/19/2015
Manu Waterfalls - Miami, FL
This waterfall is located in the Manu Encounter area at Jungle Island.
posted by: Metro2
location: Florida
date approved: 4/11/2015
last visited: 2/19/2015
Bicentennial Falls - East Fremantle, Western Austarlia
A riverside waterfall
posted by: blingg
location: Western Australia, Australia
date approved: 4/10/2015
Jungle Island Waterfalls - Miami, FL
Two waterfalls are featured in a man-made pool at Jungle Island.
Destination - Moore River, Guilderton , Western Australia
in River Origins, Destinations and Confluences
A river mouth north of Perth
Studánka Za Nádražím - Brno, Czech Republic
Studánka Za Nádražím v brnenské cásti Královo Pole
posted by: puczmeloun
date approved: 4/8/2015
Krystalmirská studánka - Brno, Czech republic
Krystalmirská studánka poblíž brnenských Jehnic a Mokré Hory
last visited: 5/14/2015
Hinterrhein, Via Mala gorge, Graubünden, CH
in National Wild and Scenic Rivers
This narrow gorge was the most serious obstacle on the approach to two mountain passes: the Splügen and the San Bernardino.
posted by: André de Montbard
location: Graubuenden (GR), Switzerland
date approved: 4/6/2015
last visited: 3/20/2010
Cayuga Lake - Ithaca, NY
in Natural Lakes
Ithaca is at the southern end of Cayuga Lake
posted by: ripraff
location: New York
Origin - Sieg River
Die Quelle der Sieg liegt im südlichen Rothaargebirge | The origin of the of the river Sieg lies in the southern part of the Rothaargebirge
posted by: Eibacher Kuckuck
location: Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
date approved: 4/2/2015
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This Instructable will show how to run your home HVAC less often during Time-of-Use peak hours and potentially cut power bills in half on extreme days. I implemented this using a VeraLite smart home controller and tested with both Z-Wave and Nest thermostats.
How does it work? Just imagine during peak hours repeatedly switching your thermostat to Cool for 5 minutes then to Off for 10 minutes. That s all your HVAC needs anyway on a moderate day, but on very hot days it will run less than needed to maintain the temperature you selected. You will continue to get regular bursts of cool air to give some comfort but at a fraction of the cost.
This is automated by coding a Vera scene to run every minute and switch between modes. Scenes are written in Vera s Luup (Lua-UPnP) language and can be triggered to run based on timers or events. It works for both heating and cooling and allows customization based on your power company s time-of-use plan, which may have different costs based on time of day, day of week, or month.
You will need a working knowledge of coding, create and running Vera scenes, and debugging when things go wrong. I provide basic working code examples but you must modify them for your application. To get started you ll need:
- Details of your power company s Time-of-Use plan
- Vera smart home controller, like the VeraLite ($99)
- Any Vera compatible thermostat I have specifically tested this on:
It would be straightforward to modify these concepts to SmartThings and other controllers. Feel free to copy, share, and create your own Instructable to improve upon these ideas.
We received a Nest Thermostat as a wedding present (awesome friends, right?) and it s a cool gadget but it really hasn t saved much money. Someone is home almost all the time so Auto-Away rarely kicks in, and hot California summers either keep the AC running all the time or not at all if you set it too high. With Pacific Gas & Electric with rates ranging from $0.10 to $0.50 per kWh that can be $30 a day. Ouch!
As you can see from the picture above I have been able to flatten those costs out during peak hours. In spite of the high temperature of 107F on Wednesday July 29th 2015 the daily cost was about $12.50.


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I go to my doctor today for an early appointment because on Saturday I was spotting and FREAKING OUT! He was the voice of reason and was telling me to calm down I described it and everything and he was like its very common just come in on Monday and we'll make sure everything is fine. Its a little pink not a lot and I don't feel like anything is wrong with my baby, I've had a miscarriage before and actually felt like something was wrong this time I don't I just want to be reassured everything is fine.
My question to the mommies have you spotted before? In this pregnancy or previous pregnancies?


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Distance from Exton, PA to Cincinnati, OH is 543Miles or 874 Km. You can get this distance about 8 hours 17 mins. If you want to planning travel with plane, you can get this distance about 1 hours 31 mins .
A car with an average MPG will needs 25.14 gallons of gas to get the route between these points.
The estimated cost of gas to get between Exton, PA and Cincinnati, OH is $57.07.
During the route, an average car will release 492.54 pounds of CO2 to the atmosphere. Your carbon footprint is 0.91 pounds of CO2 per mile.
* Average US MPG used for calculations is 21.6 MPG.
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The Memory Maker
Published: April 14, 2002
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June brought to Mr. Kirk's studio beaming graduates clutching new diplomas. During the war, a parade of soldiers, sailors, Wacs and Waves -- many of whom had trained at the Kingsbridge Armory just up the street -- came by for portraits to give their parents before being shipped overseas. Buried under the pictures of ceremonial events are luscious, creamy-limbed women adrift in chiffon -- aspiring actresses, perhaps; thanks to a trick of focusing, their faces and bodies are gauzy as a dream.
As you riffle through these photographs, which have been carefully stored in cartons in Ms. Olsen's Hudson Street row house in Greenwich Village, a long-vanished world leaps into life. You can almost hear the buoyant tarantellas, the cantor's lyric chant. You can almost hear the clink of Champagne flutes. Your fingers long to caress the plush Persian lamb coats. You can almost smell the Shalimar.
THE four-room apartment on East Kingsbridge Road soon housed a family of four; a son, Kirk, was born in 1935, a daughter, Mimi, in 1938. But domestic activities were tucked away in the back bedroom and kitchen, and the remaining two rooms were devoted to the studio. The parents slept there, on a foldout sofa. The children slept in the tiny rear bedroom, in foldout chairs that became beds, and were constantly shushed. A walk-in closet had been converted into a darkroom and retouching area, and in the bathroom, drying negatives hung from a wooden frame above the tub and damp prints dried on a cheesecloth-covered rack.
When customers arrived, Mr. Kirk would wheel over one of his painted backdrops, either the richly colored brocade or the pale, pastoral scene. A family might be grouped in front of the oak plant stand with the claw feet or near the antique library table that now sits in Ms. Olsen's front room.
Once the subjects were arranged, Mr. Kirk would dip into his drawer of props for the perfect accessory: the velvet stole that made possible the off-the-shoulder look (a girl had to be over 16 for that); the bouquets of dried roses and camellias; the prayer book for confirmation and communion pictures; the snap-on bow tie that made every young man look spiffy.
''He never diverged from certain poses or certain props,'' his daughter recalled. ''Babies got a tin rattle to shake. Older children got a red rubber ball, a truck or a doll. Sometimes my doll.''
Sunday, the day the brides came, was a madhouse. The entire wedding party, or two or three, descended in full bridal attire after the ceremony, and everyone had a drink in honor of the occasion. Impressionable little Mimi was in heaven. After the last click of the shutter, the participants and Mr. Kirk headed off to a reception at one of the great Bronx ballrooms or restaurants.
Later, when the place was quieter, Mr. Kirk retreated to his darkroom, where for decades he measured his chemicals using an old-fashioned brass scale fitted with miniature weights, and then to his workbench, to retouch his images and print the best of them. Until the arrival of color photography, he hand-tinted all his pictures, using toothpicks wrapped with wisps of cotton and dabbed in special oil paints, a task his daughter eventually assumed.
''I was more bold,'' said Ms. Olsen, who started helping her father when she was 11. ''Perhaps it was because he was never trained as a painter. He didn't see a lot of color in black and white photos.''
Or maybe, she suggested, the explanation was more complicated. Looking at Mr. Kirk as he bent earnestly over his light box, his slender frame silhouetted by the light streaming in behind his shoulder, a Lucky Strike dangling from his lips, you might not know how troubled a soul he was. As with so many of his countrymen, the demons of his childhood haunted him until his death.
The same horrific past may explain why the refrigerator at 52 East Kingsbridge Road was always bursting with rolled grape leaves, salted black olives, lamb meat pies and other tempting Armenian delicacies. And perhaps why he never switched on a radio when he worked, even as the sounds of Sinatra and doo-wop bounced from nearly every corner of the borough.
''He didn't want to leave his apartment, except for photography jobs,'' his daughter said. ''He'd been wandering for so long alone in his youth. He just wanted a safe place with his little family.''
Yet even a home and family could not keep the nightmares at bay. And so he drank, and by the late 1950's he was drinking heavily. Sometimes he slipped downstairs for a few whiskeys with Vinnie Orotelli, who owned the barbershop next door, but more often he drank alone. Liquor made him aggressive, not physically but verbally, as his family remembered all too well. Afterward, he tumbled into bed and slept it off, only to have the cycle repeat itself the next time the past drew too near.
OF all the milestones preserved in amber in Mr. Kirk's trove of contact sheets, few were more lavish than the 1949 wedding of Betty Kanganis, the daughter of a florist, and Nick Raptis, the nephew of a florist. Their romance was the talk of New York's Greek community, mostly because Betty was really just a child when it began, a sophomore at Walton High School, her Sweet 16 party still a year away.
Her father, George, ran the florist shop on Kingsbridge Road and Jerome Avenue, with his brother, Charlie. Nick, born in America but raised in Greece, worked for a wholesaler in the flower district.


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Re: Oldest Account On Fico
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Thank you for your help.
I think I understood. So once the account is closed, it no longer grows.
1 Year old account will be 2 yrs old next year.
But If I close that account today, it will stay 1 year old next year.
Did I understand correctly?
If an account is opened on 11/2000, it is 12 years old today.
If an account is opened on 11/2000, and closed tomorrow, then 8 years from now in 2020 (if still reporting), it'll be 20 years old, not 12, and scored as a 20 year old acct.
It doesn't matter per FICO when you closed an account. It'll still factor in whether closed or not per age and AAoA.
What we are saying is if you have an account, and you close it now, then it'll delete in about 10 years. This is a general guideline as used by the credit reporting agencies. You said you have a 15 year old account. If you close it now, it'll be a 25 year old account, but at the age of 25, it'll likely delete (again, the 10-yr guideline). If that deletes, you lose 25 years of history. It'll drop from 25 years to 15 years and that'll result in a very significant FICO hit 10 years from the date you close it.


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After the death of King Solomon, Ophir was abandoned and soon forgotten. After the passage of hundreds of years nobody would know where or what is Ophir. The other word associated with Ophir is the word "Tarshish." Nobody also knew what it meant. In old translations of the Bible it was Supposed also to be a place. However, in new translations of the Bible, it is Used to refer to the fleet that went to Ophir.
What happened to the Hebrew or Jewish settlements that were established Process the gold before they were shipped back to King Solomon? Nobody also knew. However, we knew that because of their religious beliefs the Hebrews tend to survive as a separate enclave wherever they settled.
Historical facts
In Spain there is a book called Coleccion General de Documentos Relativos a las Islas Filipinas. It is found in the Archivos de Indias de Sevilla. It was reprinted in 1920 in Barcelona, Spain by the Compania General de Tabaccos de Filipinas. Its Tomo III (1519-1522), pages 112-138, contains Document No. 98 describing how to locate the land of Ophir.
This same volume also contains the official documents regarding the voyage of Ferdinand Magellan. It also contains the logbook of Francisco Albo, the chief pilot of the ship Victoria. This logbook is also one of the main references regarding the voyage of Ferdinand Magellan.
Since this book contains important documents, we can discern that the Spaniards did not really believe that Ophir was in India. In fact the Cabot expedition that left Spain on April 3, 1526 had a secret mission, "to search for a route to Tarsis, OPHIR, Oriental Cathay (China), and Japan."
Document No. 98 describes how to locate the land of Ophir. The travel guide started from the Cape of Good Hope in Africa to India, to Burma, to Sumatra, to Moluccas, to Borneo, to Sulu, to China, then finally Ophir.
Ophir was "…in front of China towards the sea, of many islands where the Moluccans, Chinese, and Lequios met to trade…"
This group of islands could not be Japan because the Moluccans did not get there. It could not be Taiwan because it is not "of many islands." Only the present day Philippines could satisfy the description.
Jewish Settlements
Along the route described by Document No. 98 are locations of old Jewish settlements.
It would not be surprising for that was the procedure used by King Solomon's fleet.
Settlements were established at selected places to trade and process the gold and silver. The ships will collect the gold and silver and bring it to King Solomon. To the credit of the Hebrew people, their settlement remained true to the Jewish faith even for thousands of years. Settlements were found in India, Burma, Sumatra, and Vietnam (Annam and Cochin China).
Who Were the Lequios?
Spanish records mention of a mysterious people known as Lequios. Modern historians variously identified them as Okinawans, Koreans, or Vietnamese. They were favorite targets of Spanish ships during the time of General Miguel Lopez de Legazpi because the ships of the Lequios were always laden with gold and silver.
According to Documents 98, the Lequios were big, bearded, and white men. They were only interested in gold and silver when trading at Ophir. Okinawans, Koreans, and Vietnamese people are not big nor are they white. Their beards are just small goatees and could not satisfy the word "bearded". Therefore they were not the Lequios. So who could the Lequios be but the remnants of Hebrews and Phoenicians who have made some enclaves along the Southeast Asian shores?
The Hebrew word "LEQOT" or "LIQQET" means to gather, to glean. It resembles closely the word Lequios. It will fit the men of King Solomon's fleet who gathered gold and silver. (Note: The Hebrew alphabet has no small letters.)
Where Was Ophir?
There is no doubt that the group of islands in front of China towards the sea is the present day Philippines. The question is where was Ophir located in the Philippines?
Ancient Chinese records say that the ancient trading places in the Philippines were Ma-yi and Pulilu. Dr. Otley Beyer identified Ma-yi as Mindoro. Dr. Jose Rizal, Blumentrit, Robertson, and Stangl say that it was Luzon in part or in whole.
Dr. Jose Rizal identified "Pulilu" as Bo-ol or Bohol. Nobody disputed Dr. Jose Rizal. So there are only three possible places in the Philippines that could be identified as Ophir, they are Luzon, Mindoro, and Bohol.
The Ancient-Name of the Islands of the Philippines
(Only the descendants of Levites Datu Gerson, Datu Merari and few descendants of Datu Cohat reached the island of Ophir, but the High Priest comes in the lineage of Aaron left in Yahrushalom)
People in the Islands of Ophir speaks Ancient-Hebrew Language
Who is Ophir ?
Ophir written in the Old Testament of the Bible 1 Kings 22:48, 9:28 and 22:49,
Psalms 45:9, Isaiah 13:12, Job 22:24, 28:16, 1Chron. 24:4, 1:23, Genesis 10:25-26.
In Genesis 10:25-30 " And Heber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for his days was the earth divided and his brother's name was Yoktan. And Yoktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Yerah, and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba, and OPHIR, and Havilah, and Yobab; all these were the sons of Yoktan. And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the EAST".
The language of Ophir
The language of Heber is the same language of Adam and when the language was confused, only Heber retained the original language of Adam and was called Hebrew from Heber's name and therefore the language of his two sons Peleg and Yoktan will be Hebrew and the language of Ophir the son of Yoktan will be Hebrew also.
The language of Abraham
Peleg son is Reu, reu son is Serug, Serug son is Nachor, Nachor son is Thare, Thare had tree sons Abram become Abraham, Nahor and Haran the father of Lot. Abraham is Hebrew in Genesis 14:13.
Historians said about Ophir
The western writers garlanded the Philippine land with more names such as Maniolas, Ophir, Islas del Oriente, Islas del Poniente, Archipelago de San Lazaro, Islas de L*****s (Island of Mortars), Archipelago de Magallanes and Archipelago de Legaspi. The western writers and ocean navigators called the islands Ophir before the Western people arrived and re-named it as Felipinas from the name of King Felipe of Spain.
When the first European historian set their foot in the land of Ophir, it was written by historian Gregorio F. Zaide in page 2 and page 24 of History of the Filipino People, that Padre Chirino an eminent Jesuit historian found in Tagalog language that "it has the Mystery and obscurities of the Hebrew language".
Therefore in the islands of Ophir the people speaks Ancient-Hebrew language.
During the early period of European colonization, the Biblical lands of Tarshish and Ophir, or Tarsis and Ofir, as they were called, held the imagination of European explorers. Not only was it believed that the "lost tribes" of Israel were to be found in these lands, but also untold wealth. To these kingdoms King Solomon and King Hiram of Tyre sent ships for trade that "brought from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones," (I Kings 10:11). Concerning Tarshish it is written: "Fro the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Hiram: every three years once came the shop sof Tarshish bringing gold and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacock." (II Chronicles 9:21)
In Samuel Purchas's well-known travel compendium Purchas His Pilgrim, he devotes the entire first chapter to a discussion of Tarshish and Ophir. In particular, he argues strenously that it is beloved Britain and not Spain that deserved the title as the modern Tarshish and Ophir. Curiously, in Careri's journal of his visit to the Philippines, he mentions that he would not go into the argument raging in Europe at that time over whether the Philippines was originally populated by the descendants of Biblical Tarshish.
In modern times, scholars have attempted to relate Tarshish and Ophir with a number of areas, none of which include the Philippines. However, things were different in Europe prior to the discovery of the Philippines. There, they believed that Tarsis and Ofir were some lands far to the east of biblical Israel. Their reasoning was actually quite logical. King Solomon built the port from which ships departed for Tarsis and Ofir at Ezion-Geber on the coast of the Red Sea. The return journey took about three years, so obviously the location must be somewhere far to the East. In modern times, some scholars have tried to suggest that Solomon's navy circumnavigated Africa to reach the Mediterranean, but the seafaring Europeans of those times would not consider such nonsense. Tarsis and Ofir were unknown lands beyond the Golden Chersonese of Ptolemy. Their discovery would undoubtedly bring untold wealth and great fame in the minds of the people of those times.
But what, one may ask, has this to do with the Philippines? The truth is that the search for Tarsis and Ofir was directly related to the "discovery" of these islands by Magellan!
Magellan and the Search for Ophir
Magellan's contemporary, Duarte Barbosa, wrote that the people of Malacca (in modern Malaysia) had described to him an island group known as the Lequios whose people were as "rich and more eminent than the Chins (Chinese)," and that traded "much gold, and sliver in bars, silk, rich cloth, and much very good wheat, beautiful porcelains and many other merchandise."
However, Barbosa was not the only one to mention the Lequios during Magellan's time. About a decade after Magellan's voyage, Ferdinand Pinto had wrote in his journal of the experience of his crew and himself after being shipwrecked on the Lequios! Pinto was traveling through the Malay Archipelago at the time and he describes the Lequios islands as belonging to large group of islands many of which were rich in gold and silver. He mentions that at that time the Portugese were familiar with Japan and China, and also with the island of "Mindanaus" or Mindanao, so the Lequois islands must have been somewhere between these two areas. Furthermore, Pinto even goes as far as to give the exact latitude of the main Lequios island. He states that is was situated at 9N20 latitude and that the island was on a merdian similar to that of Japan.
Now, in Magellan's time all exploration was done by latitude sailing and dead reckoning, as no navigational clocks were in use. Latitude sailing required fixing one's latitude precisely by means of an astrolabe. Longitude could only be approximated roughly by using a patent log to track the distance the ship has travelled in any particular direction. When Magellan began to suspect he was nearing the region of the Moluccas he deliberately steered on a north course and then turned westward at a latitude of 13 degrees North according to both Pigafetta and Albo. Pigafetta states that the reason was to get near the port of "Gaticara" which was the Cattigara mentioned by Ptolemy. In the book, Magellan's Voyage around the World, the author, Charles E. Nowell, offers another possible reason for Magellan steering so far to the north of the Moluccas. He notes that Magellan himself had rewrote part of Barbosa's book referring to the Lequios, and in his version Magellan substituted "Tarsis" and "Ofir" for the world "Lequios."
Although these lands are not mentioned in Magellan's contract, less than six years after his voyage, Sebastian Cabot signed a contract with Spain which did have as one of its objectives the "lands of Tarshish and Ophir." Magellan had been to Malacca himself, and probably many have heard of the community of Filipino workers and merchants that lived there under the protection of the king of Malacca. Probably many of you already know of the theory that Black Henry, the slave Magellan purchased at Malacca, may have belonged to the Filipino community of Malacca as he was able to speak with the natives at Limasawa. Whatever the case, we know from his own pen that Magellan thought the Lequios islands might be the same as the Biblical Tarsis and Ofir, and it may be that his idea of the position of the Lequios was partly shaped by Barbosa's book, and partly by information he may have received from Filipinos in Malacca. Was the fact that Black Henry was able to converse with the people living at the latitude given by Pinto (but not with the people of Samar or Leyte) a coincidence, or something planned in advance from information gleaned in Malacca?
Even after their discovery, many still regarded the Philippines, rich in gold and silver, to be the same as ancient Tarsis and Ofir. Father Colin, referred to them as such in the early 1600's and even at the turn of the century, the Philippine historian Pedro Paterno, still claimed that the Philippines were really Tarshish and Ophir! Whatever one thinks of these claims though, the search for the Biblical El Dorado appears to have played an important role in the European discovery of the Philippines.
Chryse, the "Golden One," is the name given by ancient Greek writers to an island rich in gold to the east of India. Pomponius Mela, Marinos of Tyre and the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea mention Chryse in the first century CE. It is basically the equivalent of the Indian Suvarnadvipa the "Island of Gold." Josephus calls it in Latin Aurea, and equates the island with biblical Ophir, from where the ships of Tyre and Solomon brought back gold and other trade items.
Chryse is often coupled with another island Argyre the "Island of Silver" and placed beyond the Ganges. Ptolemy locates both islands east of the Khruses Kersonenson the "Golden Peninsula" i.e. the Malaya Penisula. North of Chryse in the Periplus was Thin, which some consider the first European reference to China.
In addition to gold, Chryse was also famed for having the finest tortoise shell in the world according to the Periplus. Large ships brought trade goods back and forth between Chryse and the markets at the mouth of the Ganges.
In ancient Chinese literature, a mysterious region beyond their southern border in Annam was known as Chin-lin "Golden Neighbor" and the Southeast Asian border was also called the "Golden Frontier."
When China invaded Annam (northern Vietnam) in the first century BCE, the kingdom of Champa fortified villages along the old caravan trail. This path became Route Colonial 9 during the French colonial period, and it was used by the Americans to build the McNamara Line of fortified bases during the Vietnam War.
With this fortified line, the rugged Central Highlands and a policy of constant piracy, the Champa kingdom held the Chinese at bay for a thousand years. After the fall of the Chin dynasty in the 5th century, Cham raids on Tongking became so frequent that the governor appealed to the emperor for assistance. A war of attrition between China and Champa began that lasted until the rise of the T'ang dynasty.During this time though, China was well aware of the golden lands far to the south. The Buddhist pilgrim I-Tsing mentions Chin-Chou "Isle of Gold" in the archipelago south of China on his way back from India.
Zabag and Wakwak
The kingdoms of Zabag and Wakwak, famed among the medieval Muslims as rich in gold, referred to the eastern islands of the Malay archipelago i.e. the Philippines and Eastern Indonesia.
Zabag was based in what would later become the kingdom of Lusung. In this sense, the Philippines fits the bill as a gold-rich realm. The country has consistently ranked second in the world behind only South Africa in gold deposits per land area. The Philippines has historically been the largest producer of gold in Asia despite its relatively small size and the fact that until 1980 most gold was obtained only through small alluvial deposits.
Although some ancient gold artifacts have been found in this region, they don't match the age suggested by linguistic reconstruction. Gold may have been mostly handed down from generation to generation rather than being used as a burial good item.
In about the second century CE, there arose a practice of using gold eye covers, and then, gold facial orifice covers to adorn the dead resulting in an increase of ancient gold finds. More than a millennium later, the popularity of dental gold to decorate the teeth significantly increased the amount of gold found at archaeological sites.
When the Spanish came they discovered an abundance of gold used among the people of the Philippine islands. Here are some relevant quotes:
Pieces of gold, the size of walnuts and eggs are found by sifting the earth in the island of that king who came to our ships. All the dishes of that king are of gold and also some portion of his house as we were told by that king himself...He had a covering of silk on his head, and wore two large golden earrings fastened in his ears...At his side hung a dagger, the haft of which was somewhat long and all of gold, and its scabbard of carved wood. He had three spots of gold on every tooth, and his teeth appeared as if bound with gold.
--- Pigafetta on Raja Siaui of Butuan during Magellan's voyage
For brass, iron and other weighty articles, they gave us gold in exchange...For 14 pounds of iron we received 10 pieces of gold, of the value of a ducat and a half. The Captain General forbade too great an anxiety for receiving gold, without which order every sailor would have parted with all he had to obtain this metal, which would have ruined our commerce forever.
--- Pigafetta on gold trade in Cebu
Sailing in this manner, for some time, in 16° of north latitude, they were obliged by continual contrary winds, to bear up again for the Philippine islands, and in their way back, had sight of six or seven additional islands, but did not anchor at any of them. They found also an archipelago, or numerous cluster of islands, in 15 or 16 degrees of north latitude, well inhabited by a white people, with beautiful well-proportioned women, and much better clothed than in any other of the islands of these parts; and they had many golden ornaments, which was a sure sign that there was some of that metal in their country.
--- Antonio Galvão in 1555 describing the journey of Bartholomew de la Torre in 1548
"...the ore is so rich that I will not write any more about it, as I might possibly come under a suspicion of exaggerating; but I swear by Christ that there is more gold on this island than there is iron in all Biscay."
--- Hernando Riquel et al., 1574
In this island, there are many gold mines, some of which have been inspected by the Spaniards, who say that the natives work them as is done in Nueva Espana with the mines of silver; and, as in these mines, the vein of ore here is continuous. Assays have been made, yielding so great wealth that I shall not endeavor to describe them, lest I be suspected of lying. Time will prove the truth.
--- Hernando Riquel et al. on island of Luzon, 1574
There are some chiefs in this island who have on their persons ten or twelve thousand ducats' worth of gold in jewels--to say nothing of the lands, slaves, and mines that they own. There are so many of these chiefs that they are innumerable. Likewise the individual subjects of these chiefs have a great quantity of the said jewels of gold, which they wear on their persons--bracelets, chains, and earrings of solid gold, daggers of gold, and other very rich trinkets. These are generally seen among them, and not only the chiefs and freemen have plenty of these jewels, but even slaves possess and wear golden trinkets upon their persons, openly and freely.
--- Guido de Lavezaris at al., 1574
About their necks they wear gold necklaces, wrought like spun wax, and with links in our fashion, some larger than others. On their arms they wear armlets of wrought gold, which they call calombigas, and which are very large and made in different patterns. Some wear strings of precious stones--cornelians and agates; and other blue and white stones, which they esteem highly. They wear around the legs some strings of these stones, and certain cords, covered with black pitch in many foldings, as garters.
-- Antonio de Morga, 1609
"... the natives proceed more slowly in this, and content themselves with what they already possess in jewels and gold ingots handed down from antiquity and inherited from their ancestors. This is considerable, for he must be poor and wrethced who has no gold chains, calombigas, and earrings."
-- Antonio de Morga, 1609
The Portugese explorer Pedro Fidalgo in 1545 found gold so abundant on Luzon the inhabitants were willing to trade two pezoes of gold for one pezo of silver.
When the Portuguese first arrived, most of the gold traded into Brunei came from Luzon. That island was known as Lusung Dao or "Golden Luzon" to the Chinese who also traded for gold in this region.
Legeza, Laszlo. "Tantric Elements in pre-Hispanic Philippines Gold Art," Arts of Asia, July-Aug. 1988, pp.129-136. (Mentions gold jewelry of Philippine origin in first century CE Egypt)
Peralta, J.T. "Prehistoric gold ornaments from the Central Bank of the Philippines," Arts of Asia 1981, no.4, p.54.Villegas, Ramon N. Ginto: History Wrought in Gold, Manila: Bangko Central ng Pilipinas, 2004.
Mines Dating Back to at Least 1,000 B.C. Have Been Found in the Philippines
According to De Morga: (1,000 B.C. is when King Solomon's navy of ships going to Ophir for gold)
Mines dating back to at least 1,000 B.C. have been found in the Philippines. When the Spanish arrived the Filipinos worked various mines of gold, silver, copper and iron. They also seemed to have worked in brass using tin that was likely imported from the Malay Peninsula. The iron work in particular was said to be of very high quality in some cases, and occasionally in some areas, even better than that found in Europe.
When the Spanish arrived, the Philippines was so gilded with gold that most of the gold mines had been neglected. "... the natives proceed more slowly in this, and content themselves with what they already possess in jewels and gold ingots handed down from antiquity and inherited from their ancestors. This is considerable, for he must be poor and wrethced who has no gold chains, calombigas, and earrings."
As the missionary Francisco Colín wrote in 1663:
In the punishment of crimes of violence the social rank of the slayer and slain made a great deal of difference. If the slain was a chief, all his kinsfolk took the warpath against the slayer and his kinfolk, and this state of war continued until arbiters were able to determine the amount of gold which had to be paid for the killing… The death penalty was not imposed by public authority save in cases where both the slayer and slain were commoners, and the slayer could not pay the blood price.
Blair and Robertson, Vol. II, p. 116.
Legazpi describes one of the "Moro" pilots captured from Butuan:
"...a most experienced man who had much knowledge, not only of matters concerning these Filipinas Islands, but those of Maluco, Borney, Malaca, Jaba, India, and China, where he had had much experience in navigation and trade."
According to Pigafetta:
However, things seem to already diminished from Pigafetta's time:
"On the island [Butuan] where the king came to the ship, pieces of gold as large as walnuts or eggs are to be found, by sifting the earth. All the dishes of the king are of gold, and his whole house is very well set up."
Pigafetta goes on to describe the huge gold ornaments, gold dagger handles, tooth plating and even gold that was used to decorate the outside of houses! On the gold work of the Filipinos is this description of the people of Mindoro: ( copied by Israel recorded in 1Chronicles 29:4 Even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses withal)
"...they possess great skill in mixing it [gold] with other metals. They give it an outside appearance so natural and perfect, and so fine a ring, that unless it is melted they can deceive all men, even the best of silversmiths."
Arts of Asia, Jul-Aug 1988, p. 131
Arts of Asia 1981, no.4, p.54
Apparently, even foreigners desired Filipino gold products. Recent discoveries show that gold jewelry of Philippine origin was found in Egypt near the beginning of the era. These finds are mentioned in Laszlo Legeza's "Tantric elements in pre-Hispanic Philippines Gold Art," (Arts of Asia, Jul-Aug 1988, p. 131) along a discussion of Philippine Tantric art. Some outstanding examples of Philippine jewelry, which included necklaces, belts, armlets and rings placed around the waist, are showcased in J. T. Peralta's "Prehistoric gold ornaments from the Central Bank of the Philippines," Arts of Asia 1981, no.4, p.54.
Luzon Empire
LUCOES or LEQUIOS ISLANDS
Luzon Empire according to Chinese historians
Luzon Empire (1279-1571 AD) was an ancient empire once located around Manila bay region of the Philippines. Its capital was Tondo, its territories covered most of what is now Central Luzon, extending from delta region that surrounds Manila Bay, all the way into the interior along head waters of the surrounding rivers in the province of Pampanga, Bulakan (covered part now Rizal).
The history of Song Dynasty was compiled under Mongol Prime Minister Toktoghan in 1345 AD. In it the Mongols recount tha final and complete destruction of Nan song (southern song Empire) (1127-1279 AD), where in 1279 AD the Mongol Fleet crushed the Nan Song Navy at the Naval battle of Yamen. The loyal Minister of the Left Liu Xiufu committed suicide with last Na Song Emperor, the children Songdi Bing rather than be captured by the Mongols.
The Grand Admiral Zhang Shijie escaped with his grand armada but were later annihilated by a typhoon while crossing the seas.
Alternative source refute the accounts of the destruction of Zhang Shijie's grand armada as nothing more than Mongol propaganda since there were no eyewitness accounts of its destruction nor were there traces left of its remains. For most historians, the fate of Zhang shijie and his grand armada remains a mystery.
Contemporary Chinese historians in Guangdong are now even questioning the Mongolian accounts regarding Emperor Bing's death. Even though Mongol sources claimed that the corpse of the last emperor has been found washed ashore along the coast of Shenzen, his actual grave is yet to be found. Cantonese folklore expressed in the ttraditional Cantonese opera narrates an alternative account where the loyal Minister Liu Xiufu tricked the Mongols by committing suicide with his own son disguised as the young emperor. The real emperor was said to have been smuggled out of the scene of battle by Grand Admiral Zhang Shijie, who will eventually return to redeem the empire from the invaders. The Travel of Marco Polo also recounts the escape of the last song emperor across the ocean. Zhang Shijie's fleet and the last song emperor may have escaped to pre-colonial Philippines and established the Luzon Empire or the 'Lesser Song Empire".
Despite the conjectures regarding its origins, the Ming Annals are clear on the actual existence of the Luzon Empire. It records that in 1373 AD, the Luzon Empire sent its first among the many succeeding diplomat mission to the Great Ming Empire (1368-1644 AD), accompanied by the embassies of India's Chola Empire.
The Ming chroniclers added the character for "kingdom"of "empire" (pinyin: GuU) after Luzon (Lusong), indicating that it was once an independent and sovereign kingdom. Her rulers were acknowledged as king and not mere chieftains. The Ming empire treated the Luzon Empire more favorably than Japan by allowing it to trade with china once verey two years, while Japan was only allowed to trade once every 11 years.
Luzon empire flourished during the latter half of the Ming Dynasty when China closed its doors to foreign trade. Foreigners were forbidden to send trade missions to China. Chinese merchants were likewise forbidden to trade beyond the borders of the Ming Empire. Yet clandestinely, merchants from Guangzhou and Quanzhou regularly delivered trade goods to Tondo. Luzon merchants then traded them all across Southeast Asia and were considered "Chinese" by the people they encountered.
The Portuguese who came to Asia much earlier than the Spaniards recorded their encounter with the inhabitants of the Luzon empire and called them 'Lucoes'. The Portuguese records that the Luzon Empire played an active role in the politics and economy of the 16th century Southeast Asia, especially in controlling the trade traffic at the Straits of Malacca.
The Luzon Empire's powerful presence in the trade of Chinese goods in 16th century East Asia was felt strongly by Japan, whose merchants had to resort to piracy in order to obtain much sought after Chinese products such as silk and porcelain. Famous 16th century Japanese merchants and tea connoisseurs like Shimai Soushitsu and Kamiya Soutan established their branches here. One famous Japanese merchant, Luzon Sukezaemon, went as far as to change his name from Naya to Luzon.
Tondo (Tungdu in Cantonese) or the 'Eastern Capital' has always been the traditional capital of the Luzon Empire. Its traditional rulers were the lakandula (Kapampangan: 'Lord of the Palace'). During the reign of Paduka Sri Baginda Rajah dan yang di Pertuan Bulkiah (1485-1521) the Kingdom of Brunai decided to break the Luzon Empire's monolpoly in the China trade by attacking Tondo and establishing the city state of Mainl'l, as a Burneian satellite. Anew dynasty under tha Salalila was established in Manila to challenge the House of Lakand'l, in Tondo.
When the Spaniards arrived in 1571 AD, the unity of the Luzon Empire was already threatened by the uneasy alliance of the Three Kings of Luzon: the Rajah matanda of Sapa, the Lakandula of Tondo and Rajah Suliman III, the 'rajah muda' or "crown prince" of Mainl'l and 'laxamana' or "grand admiral" of the Macabebe Armada. Powerful states like Lubao, Betis and Macabebe become bold enough to challenge the traditional leadership of Tondo and Mainl'l. the Spaniards took advantage of the chaos, played favourites with one ruler and pitted them against the other.
Rumor has it that the Spaniards had poisoned the Rajah Matanda of Mainl'l, so as to win the support of Lakandula of Tondo. Disregarding the legitimacy of Rajah Suliman III as 'rajah muda', the Spaniards installed the child Rajah Bago as the new king of Mainl'l.
In 1571, Rajah Suliman III, the 'rajah muda' of mainl'l and laxamana of the Macabebe armada, challenged the Spaniards to a naval battle at the estuary of bangkusay. The Spaniards were able to crush Rajah Suliman III and his Macabebe armada due to the lack of support from the other rulers of the empire. The Luzon Empire was quickly overtaken by the Spaniards. Its territories were carved out and distributed as spoils among themselves. The province of Pampanga was the first Spanish colonial province carved out of the Luzon Empire and the people who spoke one language from Tondo to the rest of Pampanga are now called Kapampangan.
After the collapse of the Luzon empire, the Spaniards were finally able to create their first colony in Asia, the Philippines, named in honor of Spanish King Philip II of Spain. The name Luzon was given to the entire northern Philippine island, in memory of the former Luzon empire.
The Luzon Empire was said to have finally ended in 1571 AD according to Spanish records.Yet the fortified cities of Lubao and Betis continued to thrive as independent principalities of the Luzon Empire till 1572 AD.
In 1575 AD,the Spaniards executed the child king Rajah Bago and his cousin Lumanlan. The Lakandula of Tondo also died in the same year.
In 1586 AD, the Spaniards crushed the revolt of former nobles of the Luzon Empire, in the province of Pampanga. The revolt was based in Candaba under the leadership of Don Nicolas Mananquete and Don Juan de Manila.
In 1588 AD, the Spaniards crushed the revolt of the nobles of the Luzon Empire in Tondo. It was led by the descendants of the Lakandula and their kinsmen with the assistance of Japanese merchants. Many of them executed or exiled and their properties confiscated.
In 1590 AD, the King Sattha of Cambodia sent two elephants to the "King of Luzon" through his Portuguese ambassador and requested the Luzon Empire's assistance in their battle against Siam. In the same year the "lords" of the Luzon Empire were said to have been corresponding with theTaikou-sama of Japan, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, begging for assistance to help liberate the Luzon Empire from Spaniards. Hideyoshi responded by sending a letter to the Spanish Governor of Manila, demanding that the Spaniards leave Luzon quietly or else face a full scale invasion that would force them out. I'll prepared for a Japanese invasion, the Spanish Governor of Manila decided to appease Hideyoshi by sending gift from the Americas, including the two elephants sent by the King of Cambodia. The rulers of the old Luzon Empire who cooperated with the Spanish overlords became the principalia of the new Spanish colony. To this day, their descendants still play an influential role in Philippine society.
The study of Philippine history has for many years been Eurocentric, most Philippine historians have gone as far back at the earliest Spanish records but have failed to look into the archives of neighboring countries, such as Brunei, Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan and China. Their dependence on the English language limits the majority of Philippine historians from accessing volumes of materials written in Chinese and other Asian languages. As a result, the history of the Luzon empire remains mythical in their scholastic psyche and still virtually non-existent in mainstream Philippine History.
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Morga, Antonio de, Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, obra publicada en Mejico el aOo de 1609 nuevamente sacada a Luz y anotado por Jose Rizal y precedida de un prologo del Prof. Fernando Blumentritt, Impresion al offset de la Edicion Anatada por Rizal, Paris 1890. Manila: Historico Nacional, 1991.
Miyamoto, Kazuo, Vikings of the Far East, new York: Vantage Press, 1975,p.88-89. See also:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luzon_Sukezaemon
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Santiago, Luciano P.R.,The House of Lakandula, Matanda ang Soliman (1571-1898)" Genealogy and Group Identity, Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society 18 (1990).
Scott, William Henry, Barangay: Sixteenth-Century Philippine Culture and Society, Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1994.
Tolentino, Aurelio. 1914. Kasulatang Ginto, Manila: Imprenta y Litografia de Juan Fajardo.
Yule, Henry (ed), The Travel of Marco Polo, Dover Publications, New York, 1983.
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Pieces of gold, the size of walnuts and eggs are found by sifting the earth in the island of that king who came to our ships. All the dishes of that king are of gold and also some portion of his house as we were told by that king himself...He had a covering of silk on his head, and wore two large golden earrings fastened in his ears...At his side hung a dagger, the haft of which was somewhat long and all of gold, and its scabbard of carved wood. He had three spots of gold on every tooth, and his teeth appeared as if bound with gold. --- Pigafetta on Raja Siaui of Butuan during Magellan's voyage
For brass, iron and other weighty articles, they gave us gold in exchange...For 14 pounds of iron we received 10 pieces of gold, of the value of a ducat and a half. The Captain General forbade too great an anxiety for receiving gold, without which order every sailor would have parted with all he had to obtain this metal, which would have ruined our commerce forever. --- Pigafetta on gold trade in Cebu
Sailing in this manner, for some time, in 16° of north latitude, they were obliged by continual contrary winds, to bear up again for the Philippine islands, and in their way back, had sight of six or seven additional islands, but did not anchor at any of them. They found also an archipelago, or numerous cluster of islands, in 15 or 16 degrees of north latitude, well inhabited by a white people, with beautiful well-proportioned women, and much better clothed than in any other of the islands of these parts; and they had many golden ornaments, which was a sure sign that there was some of that metal in their country. --- Antonio Galvão in 1555 describing the journey of Bartholomew de la Torre in 1548
There are some chiefs in this island who have on their persons ten or twelve thousand ducats' worth of gold in jewels--to say nothing of the lands, slaves, and mines that they own. There are so many of these chiefs that they are innumerable. Likewise the individual subjects of these chiefs have a great quantity of the said jewels of gold, which they wear on their persons--bracelets, chains, and earrings of solid gold, daggers of gold, and other very rich trinkets. These are generally seen among them, and not only the chiefs and freemen have plenty of these jewels, but even slaves possess and wear golden trinkets upon their persons, openly and freely. --- Guido de Lavezaris at al., 1574
About their necks they wear gold necklaces, wrought like spun wax, and with links in our fashion, some larger than others. On their arms they wear armlets of wrought gold, which they call calombigas, and which are very large and made in different patterns. Some wear strings of precious stones--cornelians and agates; and other blue and white stones, which they esteem highly. They wear around the legs some strings of these stones, and certain cords, covered with black pitch in many foldings, as garters. -- Antonio de Morga, 1609
"... the natives proceed more slowly in this, and content themselves with what they already possess in jewels and gold ingots handed down from antiquity and inherited from their ancestors. This is considerable, for he must be poor and wrethced who has no gold chains, calombigas, and earrings." -- Antonio de Morga, 1609


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S KILLS someone! I think it was accidental but how will I know.
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How do you know she kills someone ?
I think it was accidental, seriously serena isn't a cold blooded killer, they can be numerous circumstances, maybe it a hit and run accident, or someone was forcing themself on serena and serena in self defence killed the person. what ever it is, serena must have called Goergina and goergina helped cover it so if serena does go down, she will be taking that skanky bitch G with her.
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Im happy that Jenny is back to herself and now see that being in the rich circle aint that fun anyways.And Im so looking forward for episode 17, what BAD thing has she actually done that can over top "I killed someone"?
i seriously hope that G goes down like she deserves toand CS i wish you were right but i don't think anything can overtop a murderi thing G planned the whole thing to make it look like serena did it but she really did itand mumiph: serena used to be a whole lot different, maybe she was on drugs or completely drunk or something, i doubt G helped S though, that skank doesn't think of anyone but herself
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I was only in Hiroshima for one day and I would have loved to have stayed longer. I stayed at the Hotel Intelligent, which was clean and comfortable for ¥5100 per person. The hotel was a 5-to-10 minute walk from the train station. The hotel also has vending machines and laundry.
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And with just 15-20 more weeks to go, how are you feeling about it now?
Leah Sivan - born 11 January, 2012 - 34 weeker
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"OMG NO!!! I can't be" followed by screams and cries of joy.. followed by panic. I was worried because I just stared new medication for my Lupus and I was afraid that I could have hurt the baby.┬Ā
Now my Dh and I are so excited. We just hope that I make it beyond 30 weeks. I'm nervous but I am up for the new adventure.┬Ā
elated, we had been trying for 8 months.
R~03' A~05' L~08' J~12' Isla Kathryn born 8-1-14
1st thought - "how'd that happen??? I dont remember having sex" LOL
Now - totally excited!!! Cant wait to have the whole birth experience this time (I had an unplanned c-section last time)
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DD-April 2004
DS-November 2005
I think I said "Holy shit!" about four times, then I started smiling and tearing up. Then since Sean was at work and I was home alone with Alex, I scooped him up and danced around the dining room saying "You're gonna be a big brother!" When Sean got home, he asked how Alex was that day, and I said "Pretty good, but I think he's mad at me." When he asked why, I just handed him the positive test.
Now right at halfway through, I'm feeling...excited and anxious, I guess. I haven't felt him move consistently though, so it also doesn't seem completely real yet. But I am definitely looking forward to holding my sweet baby in my arms!
Mama to two gorgeous boys, Alex, born June 24th, 2010, and Jackson born March 7th, 2012!
First reaction was that I was freaked out. Like, not in a bad way, but I had to go auxiliary from my military job. :( And then, that meant I would miss all training. That really upset me. I was actually on an active duty mission when I found out. (Had severe nausea that didn't go away when I ate. I didn't say a word to my fiance other than how sick I felt.)
I took a test the next day at lunchtime after I threw up in the morning. I couldn't believe it. I was shocked. I was bent on the idea that I couldn't concieve again after an abortion when I was 17 because I'd been on B/C since. I was only off B/C for a week!!! Not to mention the fact that I was just at my doctors telling her we were thinking of trying to concieve. She was happy. Who knew I was actually 3 weeks pregnant when I was there!┬Ā
Now I am just scared about finances. But can't wait for my little bundle.┬Ā
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Senior Fellow Lawrence McQuillan, author of California Dreaming appears on Newsmax TV to discuss the financial crisis facing many cities and states in the US: the fact that public-pensions are grossly underfunded and taxpayers can be left holding the bag. McQuillan talks about how to resolve this pending, man-made crisis in America.
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Entrepreneurship, Liberty, and the Future
Recorded: Tuesday, January 27, 2015
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Peter Thiel is Founder and Managing Member of Clarium Capital Management, LLC; Co-Founder of Paypal, Palantir Technologies, Mithril Capital Management, and Valar Ventures; Managing Partner of Founders Fund; and past President of Thiel Capital International and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Confinity, Inc. He has been a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, and he is the author of the books:
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Mr. Thiel started the Thiel Fellowship, which ignited a national debate by encouraging young people to put learning before schooling, and he leads the Thiel Foundation, which works to advance technological progress and long-term thinking about the future. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University, where he received an A.B. in philosophy and a J.D. from the Stanford University School of Law. He further co-produced the film, "Thank You for Smoking," he was rated a master by the United States Chess Federation, and he received the Innovation Award from "The Economist" in 2010.
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Recorded: Saturday, November 15, 2014
Research Fellow Burton A. Abrams appears on the "Freedom & Prosperity Radio" show with host Joe Thomas. Abrams talks about his book The Terrible 10: A Century of Economic Folly which contains ten of the U.S. federal government's biggest economic mistakes and the fallout of those mistakes.
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Ivan Eland on Ranking US Presidents
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Recorded: Thursday, July 17, 2014
Senior Fellow Lawrence McQuillan appeared on The Rob Schilling radio show to discuss the Fed's zero interest rate policy (ZIRP) and how this effects the economy.
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Michael Thomas: Division of Labor and Free Trade
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Michael Thomas breaks down the factors that go into a free trade economy and how division of labor plays into the equation.
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|We are extremely pleased that Egan-Jones supports the election of ModusLink's two highly-qualified and experienced director nominees. ModusLink's Board and management team are actively engaged and committed to building value for all ModusLink stockholders and have the necessary depth and breadth of expertise in areas that are critical to ModusLink's continued success. We are confident that our Board and management team, including our director nominees – Tom Johnson and Jeff Fenton – is the right team to continue leading ModusLink as we push forward on executing our plan to set the Company on a path to sustained growth in revenue and profits, which is already delivering results, and also continue to conduct a comprehensive review of strategic alternatives to enhance stockholder value. We strongly urge all ModusLink stockholders to follow the recommendation of Egan-Jones and protect the value of their investment by voting for our Director nominees on the WHITE proxy card today.
|We are also pleased that ISS supports the election of ModusLink's director nominee, Jeff Fenton. However, we believe that ISS and Glass Lewis reached the wrong conclusion in failing to support our nominee Tom Johnson. Both ModusLink director nominees, like every member of the Company's Board, are committed to representing the interests of all ModusLink stockholders, not those of one stockholder.
|In contrast, we strongly believe that, if elected, the Peerless nominees could interrupt the ongoing implementation of ModusLink's strategic plan, disrupt the current review of strategic alternatives, reduce the level of relevant experience on the Board and negatively impact stockholder value. This is supported by the Peerless nominees' lack of any relevant experience related to the industry in which ModusLink operates and their failure to provide any strategic or operational suggestions that might lead to improved stockholder value creation at ModusLink.
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A memory for six months passed
You took Coach Joe and me to Gettysburg
last summer on a day trip in July.
It was hot on the bus ride we took
overlooking battle fields, but nice
outside on the patio of a local dive,
drinking beer, the three of us.
We made fun of Jake for being a confederate,
you and I, because he picked the wrong side
and because he's a bit racist, but you
were too, I guess. The movie was good,
but the mural was better and we took
pictures by the cannons and by the hillside
where men of both sides died.
The drive down Jake talked and we,
we listened to Morrissey—I should of seen.
We asked for directions from probably
the strangest toll booth man in history,
he had to be. I loved that trip, being with
two of my favorite men—loud and strong
and fathers to me. I wish we could go back
even if Jake's a confederate and you
a sympathizer and we learn again
that America has gotten fat and slow
and lazy in the outdoors. I'd go back
in an instant if you would come with me
for old time's sake.
A Break From the Blog
Readers, I know I've been a somewhat absentee blogger for a week or so here. It is going to be like that for a little while, my family is going through some very hard times and my time lies with them. I will try to post here and there, but it may not be consistent. Hang in there with me and don't forget to write poems of your own! If you would like, you can email me and I will feature some guest poems on soso.
Book People Unite
A PSA for Book People Unite that features the best of childhood stories and imagination. I think this is brilliant, wonderful, and all things that are good. LaVar Burton definitely doesn't hurt.


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Two toy mice, see how they run
May 6, 2016, 11:08 a.m. by Noel Kirkpatrick
Toy mice try to survive in a house with a family of cats and an adorable human infant.
9 reminders why David Attenborough rules
May 5, 2016, 12:40 p.m. by Michael d'Estries
From playful spoofs to interrupting birds, here are our favorite moments with the official voice of nature.
Key and Peele's shelter cat promo for 'Keanu' is brilliant
April 27, 2016, 3:23 p.m. by Michael d'Estries
Comedy duo lend a hand to the Tree House Humane Society in support of pet adoption.
Hey everybody, we found Waldo!
April 25, 2016, 6:50 a.m. by Catie Leary
Photo project 'Wally Found' imagines the live-action antics of everyone's favorite elusive globetrotter.
Heart color illusion makes the web lose its mind
April 19, 2016, 11:33 a.m. by Michael d'Estries
Don't get mad, but the hearts below are all the same color.
'Boaty McBoatface' may not see the light of day
April 18, 2016, 10:06 a.m. by Michael d'Estries
The viral entry brought worldwide attention to the U.K.'s new $288 million polar research vessel.
Liz Climo softens all life's awkward moments with this animal cartoon
April 13, 2016, 6:39 p.m. by Jenn Savedge
Animator from 'The Simpsons' captures the mundane and the epic in her cartoon.
New stout pokes fun at Donald Trump
April 12, 2016, 1:28 p.m. by Michael d'Estries
Dock Street Brewery in Philadelphia launches the brew as part of its new 'Friends Don't Let Friends Vote Drumpf' series.
Pixar's latest little hero has a fear of water
April 8, 2016, 12:32 p.m. by Michael d'Estries
New animated short 'Piper,' about a sandpiper with hydrophobia, will appear before the highly anticipated 'Finding Dory.'
Boaty McBoatface inspires Internet to rename animals
March 24, 2016, 3:18 p.m. by Michael d'Estries
From 'Stab Rabbit' (porcupine) to 'Huggles Von Deathcuddle' (grizzly bear), here are some of the hilarious new monikers.
Norwegian TV host sets speed record on frozen golf course with miniature jet thruster
March 7, 2016, 4:54 p.m. by Michael Graham Richard
This thing is so powerful, you can even ski uphill!
Why you shouldn't drive your car in a bike path
March 3, 2016, 9:16 a.m. by Catie Leary
A new bridge in Portland had been opened for just 12 hours before someone drove their pick-up truck through bike path and got stuck.


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