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WHERE WAS THE TEMPLE LOCATED? By Dr. Randall Price
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1 WHERE WAS THE TEMPLE LOCATED? By Dr. Randall Price Recently there has been a sensational claim made in the book Temple: Amazing New Discoveries That Change Everything About the Location of Solomon's Temple that the Temples constructed in Jerusalem were not located on the site that has been traditionally assigned to them, but were situated below the Ophel in the area above the Gihon Spring. The charge is made that there has been a cover-up, or least an unwitting deception, for the past 2,000 years that has prevented the Middle East Conflict from being resolved due to the religious rivalry between Jews and Muslims over the present Temple Mount. The advertising at amazon.com states: In a book that is being heralded as an investigative masterpiece with astounding archaeological and prophetic implications, TEMPLE: Amazing New Discoveries That Change Everything About the Location of Solomon's Temple, by Robert Cornuke, is sending shockwaves through the Jewish, Muslim, and Christian worlds. Can you imagine the upheaval in political and religious thinking if the Temple Mount in Jerusalem is not the site of Solomon's and Herod's temples? And what if the stones of the Wailing Wall are not what tradition says? In this highly-researched, exciting book, the author proposes from current archaeological excavations and Scriptural corroboration that the true temple location is not where tradition teaches. This is must reading for anyone who wants to fit together the pieces of biblical records, current geo-politics, and prophecy. These claims and charges were answered previously in reviews of an older book by Ernest Martin, The Temples That Jerusalem Forgot (1994). However, it seems this recent iteration requires a new response since the hype surrounding it has produced greater interest than generated by Martin s work and is based on later excavations. Such a response in preparation by Mr. Gordon Franz and will be published shortly and available on our website. In the meantime, let me say this about Mr. Cornuke s book s claim that his sensational data for a new location for the First Temple would change everything. Even if such a claim were correct (which it isn t), it would not affect the Middle East Conflict or its prophetic preparation in the present time, since the basis of the conflict is not over holy sites, but over the extension of an Islamic Caliphate and which branch of Islam will succeed over the others in achieving it. There are already Islamic states, but not an Islamic State, and that is an apocalyptic vision driving the conquest agenda. Israel is simply caught in the geography of this conquest and as the only non-muslim entity in the midst of the sea of Islam, is subject to removal or subjugation according to the Islamic program dictated by Shariah law and the prophetic declaration of the last day. Modern Islamic doctrine denies the existence of a Jewish Temple in Israel in the past, and only recognizes the so-called Temple Mount as the place of the original mosque built by Abraham (site of the Al-Aqsa Mosque) and site of the binding of Ishmael (site of the Dome of the Rock). Therefore, it makes no difference to the Islamic Waqf or other Islamic authorities if non-muslims place the location of the Temples in one place or another. The second point to make is that Mr. Cornuke s location of the First (Solomonic) Temple is irrelevant because wherever it was built it was exactly on the same spot that the Second Temple later occupied: And some of the heads of fathers households, when they arrived at the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem, offered willingly for the house of God to restore it on its foundation (Ezra 2:68). In similar wording, Ezra later recalls: For we are slaves; yet in our bondage, our God has not forsaken us, but has extended lovingkindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us reviving to raise up the house of our God, to restore its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem (Ezra 9:9). The point of each of these passages is to note that the former foundations and ruins of the First Temple was the precise place where the Second Temple was erected. This was not simply a rebuilding, but a continuation of the structure commanded by God in perpetuity (Exodus 25:8) in continuity with the place chosen and
2 prescribed by God to build the Temple (see Exodus 15:17; Deuteronomy 12: 5-11; 2 Samuel 24:18-25; 1 Chronicles 21:18-29; 1 Kings 6-8; 2 Chronicles 3-7). This history of God s chosen location is summarized by the Chronicler at the time Solomon commenced the First Temple: Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite (2 Chronicles 3:1). Therefore, while evidence of the First Temple s construction is scarce (but still present as Eilat Mazar has demonstrated in her excavations of a Solomonic wall and 7 th century AD hoard of Templerelated Jewish gold items in the Ophel and the recent discovery of a First Temple period water reservoir next to the Temple Mount), evidence for the Herodian Second Temple is replete, both in the original documentary sources and the archaeological remains. Therefore, if the evidence for these two sources agrees (and is interpreted accurately), there is little doubt that the location is correct. I will leave the issue of the accuracy of Mr. Cornuke s interpretation of the sources to the forthcoming review by Mr. Franz, but here I would like to briefly review recent data archaeologists have uncovered for the Herodian Second Temple and why they are unified in their declaration that the present Temple Mount is the site of the First and Second Temples. This is also supported by the off-site recovery efforts of the Temple Mount Sifting Project that has amassed an impressive collection of Temple-related artifacts over their ten years of analysis of debris, primarily from the southern end of the Temple Mount. We may add to this that the Orthodox Jewish organizations (such as the Temple Institute) that are preparing for the rebuilding of the Temple agree with the archaeologists and contend the rabbinic sources also affirm this location (such as Mishnah tractate Middot; cf. Mishneh Torah Beth Ha Behira 1:3-4). The Herodian Second Temple that occupied the Temple Mount from 20 BC until AD 70 was the central and most prominent structure in the Land of Israel and arguably one of the most impressive structures in the Roman empire. Herod s construction doubled the size of the previous Temple Mount. This extensive platform, with its huge retaining walls to bear the weight of the fill and of the structures to be built above, was trapezoidal in shape (Antiquities 8.97; , 400; ; War 5.192). The dimensions of the south wall were 918 feet (280 meters), the west wall 1,591 feet (485 meters), the north wall 1,033 feet (315 meters), and the east wall 1,509 feet (460 meters). The total circumference of this sacred precinct was 5,052 feet (1,540 meters), and the total area 172,000 square yards (144,000 square meters). This made the Temple Mount the largest site of its kind in the ancient world. Its sacred area was twice as large as the monumental Forum Romanum built by Trajan, and three and a half times larger than the combined temples of Jupiter and Astarte-Venus at Baalbek. The surface area of the modern-day Temple Mount between 35 and 36 acres reflects a portion of this Herodian enlargement. 1 The Temple faced east according to the biblical precedent, and to pilgrims approaching from the Mt. of Olives the Temple s white polished limestone and imported marble gave it the appearance of a great snow-clad mountain. Anyone waking in the city saw a glowing golden mountain as its limestone absorbed the morning rays of the sun. Once the sun had fully risen, the sun reflected off the elevated upper exterior of the structure that was covered with gold. Josephus observed that Herod had applied so much gold that when the sun shone on it it blinded those who looked at it (War 5.5; 6.222). Walking the pedestrian street along the western side of the Temple Mount or striding within the Royal Stoa, Jews and Gentiles alike beheld highly decorated and brightly painted (red, yellow, blue, and purple) architecture. Recording the Jewish reaction to this splendor, the rabbis wrote whoever has not seen Herod s Temple has not seen a beautiful building in his life, (Sukkot 51:2). This was the magnificent building that Jesus entered for his dedication on the eighth day of his life (Lk. 2:21-39), visited three times a year in keeping with the custom for Jewish males living outside Judea (cf. 1 For visual reconstructions of the Herodian Temple see Randall Price, Rose Guide to the Temple (Glendale, CA: Rose Publishing, 2012) and Leen Ritmeyer, The Quest: Revealing the Temple Mount in Jerusalem (Jerusalem: Carta, 2006).
3 Lk. 2:41-49), and in which he completed the last week of his life daily preaching in its courts (Matt. 26:55; Lk. 21:37). Throughout his lifetime the Temple was continually being added to and remodeled so that each time Jesus visited the structure he was greeted with some new improvement. It is unclear how long the construction of the Temple and sacrificial area took, but Josephus records that the construction of Temple took a year and a half and that the stoa and the outer courts took eight years (Antiquities ; ). According to the statement of the Jewish authorities recorded in John 2:20, continued work on the Temple s structures had taken 46 years to that point (cf. Sanhedrin 41.2 and Aboda Zarah 8.2) and Josephus reports that the Temple complex was still receiving further embellishments and repairs until the Jewish Revolt broke out in AD 66 (Antiquities ). This fact, coupled with the magnificence of the Temple just described, helps us understand the Gospel accounts recording the disciples pride in offering Jesus a private tour of the Temple (Matt. 24:1-2; Mk. 13:1-2; Lk. 21:5-6) and explains their astonishment at his statement that such an immense structure so much the focus of Jewish life and faith was to be completely destroyed (Matt. 24:3; Mk. 13:3-4; Lk. 21:7). Nevertheless, Jesus referred to the Temple as his Father s house (Lk. 2:49; Jn. 2:16) and it is recorded that zeal for [the Temple] consumed him (Jn. 2:17). Herodian Temple (looking east) showing Herodian street along western and southern walls (Randall Price owns this original painting) Evidence of Herodian Construction The delapidated condition of Zerubbabel s Second Temple and Herod s plans to enlarge it on a scale equal to his ambition forced the complete dismantling of the former structure (Antiquities ). For this reason most archaeologists do not expect any structures from either the first or second (Zerubbabel) Temples to have survived under the present buildings on the Temple Mount. This, however, does not
4 apply to parts of the retaining walls or the area of the Ophel that lay immediately to the south of the Temple Mount where remains from previous structures have been discovered. Nevertheless, part of a wall (possibly from the house of oil in the First Temple) was observed in a trench during construction work by the Waqf on the Temple Mount (see remarks on pages xxx). Pottery shards recovered from near this wall dated to the 8 th century BC and possibly date the structure to the time of Hezekiah. To build the Temple Herod brought in 10,000 skilled workers and employed 1,000 priests to serve as masons and carpenters in order to comply with Jewish law that required the construction of the Temple to be the work of the priests (Ant ; ). Ancient quarries provide evidence of the source for the materials used for this construction. On the northern side of the Old City is a quarry known as Solomon s Quarry and Zedekiah s Cave that was used during the Herodian period and one dating to the end of the Second Temple period was found during a construction project in Jerusalem s Shmuel HaNavi Street. The immense size of the stones suggests strongly that they were for use in the construction of Herodian projects in Jerusalem, including the walls of the Temple. Across the Hinnom valley from the Temple Mount at a site known as Ketef Hinnom, Gabriel Barkay excavated a First Temple tomb complex that had been used as a quarry in the Roman period (see remarks on Numbers 6:24-26). Several Second Temple period quarries (part of an ancient city of quarries ) have also been discovered in the area of northeast Jerusalem s ultraorthodox neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo. In total, archaeologists uncovered an area of around 11,000 square feet of quarry, as well as ancient pick axes and wedges. Visible at the quarry site are rock masses in various stages of quarrying, including some in a preliminary stage of rock-cutting prior to detachment. Most of the quarried stones weighed some tens to hundreds of tons and the largest was 26 feet in length. No stones this size had ever been found in an archaeological excavation anywhere in the country, except in the walls of the Temple Mount. The large number of outlines of the stone cuts in the white limestone at the quarry showed that this was a massive public program that had employed hundreds of workers at the site, exactly what is described in the sources for an imperial construction project such as Herod s. Further proof came from artifacts found at the site such as iron stakes used to split the stone and datable finds like pottery and coins. These confirmed a date around 19 BC, the time of Herod s expansion of the Temple. The use of such immense stones allowed construction without the need for cement or plaster, and maintained the stability of the structure of the walls of the Temple Mount for thousands of years. Josephus had described the stones used for the Temple s construction as "hard and white" (Antiquities ; 392) and of such strength that during the Roman assault on the Temple the military s battering rams were unable to cause a breach in the outer wall (War 6.4.1; ). The exceptional stones in the quarry gave evidence that this was indeed the site from which the stones for the Temple had been taken. Herod used a thousand oxen to transport the stones from the quarry to the construction site and archaeologists also uncovered a part of the ancient main road to Jerusalem used for this transport some 300 feet from the quarry. This road was located only two miles (four kilometers) from the Temple Mount.
5 Second Temple quarry at Ramat Shlomo Evidence of Temple-related Structures On the northwestern side of the Temple Mount Herod built the Antonia Fortress over the remains of the former Seleucid-period Baris to guard this weaker location and provide a watch and a station for troops to control the crowds on the Temple Mount. To the north of this structure he constructed an open-air reservoir called the Strouthion Pool that was originally built as part of an open-air water conduit by the Hasmoneans. On the northeastern side he constructed another reservoir pool known as Birket Israel ( the Pool of Israel ) to serve as a public cistern and a defense for the northeastern corner of the Temple Mount. The remains of most of these structures have been discovered and those of the Strouthion Pool can be viewed today near the exit of the Western Wall Tunnel and beneath the Sisters of Zion Convent. From the outside, a portion of the Antonia Fortress is visible within the structure of the building housing an Islamic boys school. The most visible remains of a structure associated with the Herodian Temple are sections of the massive retaining walls still extant today. Herodian ashlars and masonry can be seen in the lower courses of the southern wall and eastern wall on either side of the Islamic period Golden Gate. However, the most impressive example is the exposed section of the Western (or Wailing) Wall (Hebrew, Kotel), which is more than 1,500 feet in length (north to south) and 900 feet in width (east to west). Its height is approximately 50 feet above the modern plaza with another course of stones continuing down at least another 50 feet (more in the southern end than the northern end). In the 1990 s a tunnel was opened alongside the underground course of stones to enable tourists to view the full extent of the Herodian construction. In the course exposed in this tunnel is one of the most massive of the foundation stones yet discovered. Its measurements are 45 feet (13.70 meters) x 11.6 feet (3.19 meters) x feet ( meters) and weighed nearly 600 tons. Alongside the Western Wall wall (and also the southern wall) Israeli archaeologist Benjamin Mazar excavated revealed many structures related to the Herodian Second Temple including the great western staircase for entrance to the Temple known as Robinson s Arch (due its initial discovery and report in the 19 th century by British archaeologist Edward Robinson), and a monumental staircase stretching almost half a mile uphill from the Pool of Siloam to the Huldah Gates at the southern entrance to the Temple
6 carried the Jewish population (including Jesus and his disciples) through the Huldah Gates and onto the Temple Mount. Also here was found a public building that housed miqva ot (ritual immersion pools) that were used by Jews requiring purification to enter the Temple precincts. These were mentioned in Acts 2:41 as the place of immersion for Jewish believers in Jesus during the Feast of Pentecost. Traces of gates from Islamic period construction (now sealed) called the Double and Triple Gates marked the sites of the Huldah Gates and the subterranean passages that still lay beyond them. Inside the interior of the Double Gate entrance archaeologists found Herodian columns that had supported portions of the ornate roof design (sections of which were recovered from the debris) and that had given the site the New Testament name the Beautiful Gate (Acts 3:1). Inscription to the place of trumpeting Artist conception of trumpeting place Haifa University archaeologist Ronny Reich continued the excavations along the southwestern side of the wall and reached the ancient street 32 feet (10 m) wide and paved with large slabs up to a foot thick. The street was lined with shops (where Jews bought sacrificial animals for the Temple) and archaeologists found the remains of merchant activity such as weights and coins used for transactions. Also found here was the landing for Robinson s Arch, more miqva ot and an inscribed stone that instructed the priests where to stand to blow the trumpets signaling the beginning of the Sabbath. It had originally been located high above on the top corner of the southwestern wall. Within the context of these architectural structures was found a wealth of artifacts that demonstrated Jewish daily life in and around the Temple. Also of great significance was the discovery of the lid of a stone sarcophagus bearing the Hebrew inscription: Ben HaCohen HaGadol ( son of the High Priest ). This name is known from the Second Temple literature as the son of the High Priest who had served in the Temple. One of the more moving archaeological finds for Jewish people were piles of Herodian stones still lying on this ancient street where they had landed after being thrown down from the western side of the Temple complex by Roman soldiers during their destruction of the Temple on the 9 th of the month of Av, AD 70. Most of the stones weighed 2 4 tons each, but some were in excess of 15 tons. The force of impact had caved in the flagstones that formed the street, exposing an underground sewer channel, first excavated in 2007 by Reich and his assistant Eli Shukrun to its exit point deep in the Kidron Valley.
7 Herodian street with shops (left and right) and fallen ashlar stones (upper middle) This sewer channel was under an aqueduct that connected the western plaza of the Temple Mount to the City of David, but according to Josephus (need reference), it had been used as an escape tunnel by Jews fleeing from the Romans. Inside this escape tunnel evidence was found of Jewish refugee life including cooking pots, oil lamps, a key, First revolt coins, and the remains of a 60 cm long iron Roman sword inside a decorated leather scabbard. In 2011 archaeologists found here a stone slab with an etching that depicted the Menorah that was used in the Temple s holy place. It was probably sketched by a priest who had seen the sacred vessel while on duty and had taken refuge in the tunnel with other Jews. It is especially important because this sketch, like one found in the Jewish Quarter from the is period, shows the quadrapod base of the Menorah, a detail debated by scholars because the depiction of the Temple Menorah on the relief inside the Arch of Titus Triumph in the Roman Forum is of an octagonal base bearing mythological images.
8 Menorah from Jewish Quarter Menorah from sewer tunnel Menorah on Arch of Titus In 2011 in Reich s and Shukron s excavation, soil sifted from the Herodian street beneath the Robinson s Arch produced a small stone seal with a two line Aramaic inscription ( pure ) ( to/for God ). This seal certifying the ritual purity of an item to be used in the Second Temple is the kind of seal mentioned in the Mishnah (Shekalim 5:1-5). It is also recorded in the Gemara (TB Shabbat 2:21) that the only cruse of oil that was discovered in the Temple after the victory of the Maccabees over the Greeks, lay with the seal of the High Priest, a seal that indicated the oil was pure and acceptable for use in the Temple. Such a seal would have been carried by Temple priest to identify items qualified as ritually pure. Pure for God seal for Temple related items Evidence from Temple-related Artifacts Artifacts coming from the area of the Temple are extremely rare since archaeologists have never been allowed to excavate at this site. Even so, in 1871 French archaeologist Charles Clermont-Ganneau discovered in rubble from the Temple Mount a large limestone block with a seven-line Greek inscription. The translation revealed this was a warning against entering the ritually pure area of the Temple courts. In the Jewish sources, this stone balustrade (Hebrew Soreg) was said to have separated the Court of the Gentiles from the Court of the Women and was the main barrier beyond which Gentiles and the
9 ceremonially unclean were forbidden to pass (Kelim 1.8). According to Josephus it stood 5 feet 2 inches (1.57 meters) high. To insure this boundary was not improperly breached, large stone inscriptions in Greek and Latin that threatened death to violators were posted at each entrance to the courts (Antiquities ). In the New Testament, the Apostle Paul was reported to have been accused of violating this prohibition because he had been earlier seen in the company of Trophimus, a non-jew, and it was assumed he had brought him into the Temple (Acts 21:27-31). The riot generated from this accusation resulted in Paul s arrest and subsequent Roman trials (Acts 21:11, 32-28:31). This was the most complete example of this Temple warning sign known as the Soreg Inscription, which was taken to Istanbul and today is exhibited in the Museum of the Ancient Orient. A fragmentary example of this inscription was discovered near the Lion s Gate in Jerusalem and is on exhibit in the Israel Museum. Put a photo here of this stone inscription from the Istanbul Museum From the Temple Mount, but removed from the original context, are artifacts that have been recovered from construction debris by the Temple Mount Sifting Project. Among the some 6,000 coin finds from are the earliest Judean (Yehud) coin from the Persian period, coins of Antiochus IV Epiphanes ( BC) who desecrated the Temple, and hundreds of common Jewish coins from the Hasmonean and Second Temple periods. Of special note was the discovery of silver and bronze shekel coins minted by Jews during the First Jewish Revolt (A.D ) that contained inscriptions such as: Holy Jerusalem, and For the Freedom of Zion. Scores of iron arrowheads were also found as evidence of this Jewish war against the Romans. Among the inscribed finds is a clay bullae with an ancient Hebrew inscription: Belonging to Gaalyahu son of Imer, who may have been a priest or high official, and a potsherd decorated with a menorah (Jewish ceremonial lamp) such as was used in the Temple. During Randall Price s group s work in the project (sifting dirt collected from the valley below the Golden Gate) there was discovered a murex shell, the very shell used by the Temple priests to dye parts of their priestly garments, unique tiles (Opus Sectile) that created a wave-pattern and came from one of the courts of the Temple, and a clay bullae containing an Israelite name written in Egyptian hieroglyphics. Egyptians had influence on Judean kings and officials throughout the First Temple period, beginning with Solomon who made an alliance with the pharaoh of Egypt and had an Egyptian wife (1 Kings 9:16; 11:1). Many Egyptian scarabs were also found in the Temple Mount rubble. In addition pieces of fresco from buildings within the Temple precincts, a column of a Doric Capital that may have been part of the Royal Stoa, a fragment of a sculptured stone engraved with an Acanthus Leaf (an Herodian style that may have been from the Temple itself). It must be remembered that all of these artifacts came from the Temple Mount and that still lying in rubble on the Temple Mount today are hundreds of columns, decorated building stones, and portions of other monumental structures that were part of the Temple complex, but are under the control of the Muslim authorities who continue to do construction and discard these such priceless relics as irrelevant junk from an unimportant past. Another artifact found in excavations directed by Hebrew University archaeologist Eilat Mazar outside the southern wall area of the Temple Mount is a gold medallion, four inches in diameter with a menorah depicted on it. Though part of a late Byzantine-era (7 th century AD) hoard, which included thirty-six gold coins, this adornment for a Torah-scroll (probably for a synagogue located in the area) reflects the Jewish continued reverence to the Temple Mount, even though destroyed centuries before.
10 Torah Scroll Medallion found near the Temple Mount For Further Evidence See Ben-Dov, Meir (1985) In the Shadow of the Temple: The Discovery of Ancient Jerusalem. Translated by Ina Friedman. New York: Harper & Row. Haran, Menahem (1978) Temples and Temple Service in Ancient Israel. Oxford: Claredon Press. Mazar, Eilat (2002) The Complete Guide to the Temple Mount Excavations. Jerusalem: The Old City Press. Ritmeyer, Kathleen and Leen (1991) Reconstructing Herod s Temple Mount in Jerusalem. BAR offprint New York: Biblical Archaeology Society. Ritmeyer, Leen (2006) The Quest: Revealing the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Edited by Barbara Laurel Ball. Jerusalem: Carta Jerusalem & The Lamb Foundation. Roitman, Adolfo (2003) Envisioning the Temple: Scrolls, Stones, and Symbols. Jerusalem: The Israel Museum. Schwartz, Max (2002) The Biblical Engineer: How the Temple in Jerusalem was Built. N.J.:KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
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Two points that I would like to hear what some other people think:
First, when Lock appeared out of the jungle when Ben summoned the monster he seemed to have knowledge he didn't possess before. Some people are already jumping to the conclusion that Locke is the smoke monster. It's kind of a Clark Kent/Superman effect; wherever Superman is, Clark is nowhere to be seen. I disagree with this point and believe a more plausible solution. Doesn't it make more sense that Locke visited Jacob's Cabin to see Christian or Jacob? I know it may be fun to say he is smokey, but Locke has gotten information this way before. Anyone agree with me?
Another thing: When Llana started her "What lies in the shadow of the statue?" nonsense, didn't it seem as though she and the other two men had a crazed look in their eyes? Is it possible they got infected by the sickness? Which basically means they have become Others in a way. Think about it, who are the only people that would know the answer to that question: THE OTHERS! They could have been taken to the Temple and seen the picture of the smoke monster underneath the Egyptian god (Anubis I think?) We know that this is where it drug Rousseu's friend and where Ben became an Other, so it makes sense that they witnessed this engraving. So when anyone becomes an Other, they stand underneath this picture and the experience is so shocking, anyone that is an Other would know the answer. This could maybe even explain why the monster didn't come and judge Ben right away, it was busy with Llana and her two friends. Something is up with those people and it isn't just what is inside that box (although I have no ideas at all what could be in there). They definitely appeared different in quite a strange way, like they were possessed.
I think I have made a pretty strong case on these two points, so please, SOMEONE AGREE WITH ME!!

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- Unlimited account replenishment via the Internet banking system without visiting the Bank.
Main conditions:
- account term is unlimited;
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- availability of irreducible amount for the interest accrual;
- account currency - tenge.
Documents required for "Plus" account opening:
• ID document
Note: The Bank may request documentary evidence of the origin of money.
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The notional amount of contribution: 10,000,000 tenge. To accumulate the interest, the notional amount shall be divided into segments:
Amounts (tenge)
99 999 (from 0 to 99 999, interest accrual – 99 999, interest rate – 0% per annum)
2 900 000 (from 100 000 to 3000 000, interest accrual – 2 900 000, interest rate – 1.5% per annum)
2 999 999 (form 3 000 001 to 6 000 000, interest accrual – 2 999 999, interest rate – 2.0% per annum)
3 999 999 (from 6 000 001 to 10 000 000, interest accrual – 3 999 999, interest rate – 3.0% per annum)
999 999 999 (over 10 000 001, interest accrual – 0, interest rate – 0% per annum)


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Poor communication. After 6 weeks called to find out status of my case. Ms Alexander said had papers on her desk in front of her and were going to be sent out. Two weeks later still no papers. Sent 2 faxes to her and all three partners asking for refund of my $2000 retainer. She said she was going on vacation and would have to wait till she returned. Got a response from Mr Scuderi. Called Mr. Scuderi for 5 days left voice mails. He return my call the following week saying he was waiting for Ms alexander to return from vacation. Told him he could have had his secretary call and tell me that. I asked if he received my 2 faxes he said he only got one. I said "so you don't get any communications via fax from clients?" he stated "They go into a file." They were going to charge me 3 hours @ $250 per hour for work done. I said what work? She said to prepare the papers, that I never received and take not 5 minutes to insert names to a document, research, of which I gave her all pertinent information, phone calls I made to her to ask the status of my case and "I had to pay to find out the status of my case!" She never called me until I requested the refund.
It was agreed by Mr. Scuderi to deduct 1 hour plus a partial hour.
It is now more than 4 weeks since that phone conversation and still no papers or refund.
Have sent 2 faxes stating still no refund. I believe that I will never see either.
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21 November 2007,
Price realised GBP 8,750
William Wyld (1806-1889)
A view of St. Mark's Square, The Doge's Palace and the Campanile, Venice
signed 'W WYLD' (lower right, on a boat)
pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour with gum arabic, heightened with touches of bodycolour and with scratching out
19 1/8 x 28 3/8 in. (48.6 x 72.1 cm.)
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Wyld lived in Paris for the large majority of his life, travelling extensively throughout Europe, often accompanied by Horace Vernet (1789-1863). It was with Vernet, Director of the French Academy in Rome, that Wyld visited Italy in 1834. The present watercolour was probably worked up from a sketch made during this trip. Wyld executed other watercolours of this view in Venice and an oil painting, formerly in the collection of the Leggatt Brothers, 1956.
Special Notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 5 June 2006, lot 69.
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Adus The Eternal, a budget property in Leh provides free internet access and unlimited hour of front desk assistance to its guests. The famous tourist hot spot Prayer Wheels is (2 km) and Leh Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport is (5 km) away from the hotel. This hotel in Leh has 6 well-maintained rooms with hot and cold running water in attached bathroom. The room amenities include wardrobe, reading lamp, bottled drinking water, telephone and makeup mirror.
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Bert is my newest toy pattern! November is my birthday month (like my birthday decorations?) and I have decided that I am going to celebrate my birthday month by giving away more patterns! Bert is the first of a series of dinosaur patterns that I have come up with. He is a FREE Ravelry Download from November 3rd to November 10th, 2012. After that, his pattern will be available in my Ravelry and Etsy stores for $2.99. Get him FREE while you can....don't waste any time!!
Because Bert is eventually going to end up being a purchased pattern, there are no restrictions put on your ability to sell the items you make from this pattern! Even if you got it for FREE! :)
Bert works up fast and easy. He is what I would consider a good beginner's pattern for someone just getting into Amigurumi. Not too many pieces and he's simple to put together.
Hope you enjoy making Bert as much as I did!
Welcome to my blog! I talk about God, Family, Crocheting, Knitting and Food! I, also, have an ever-growing collection of personal free patterns that you are welcome to utilize.
About Me
- Biz
- I am 45. I am married to the love of my life. Together we have two beautiful young adults who bring me joy everyday. In 2015 we added another beautiful young adult to our house, our niece, and she has been a great joy! Secretly, I'm counting the years till grandbabies start coming; they just need to find their forever loves first.
Saturday, November 03, 2012
Meet Bert the Triceratops!
Posted by Biz at 3:06 PM
2 comments:
- Katie B said...
Bert is very cute!
- Brenda Jones said...
Hi love your blog and find the Groovy Ghan Groovy but don't know if I would have the patience to do one looks like it would take forever!! I am into doing the Q hook afghans that work up quickly. Great blog hope to see more of your great crochet soon.
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A Cascade of Revolution?
Stephen W. Walt made the bold prediction, 12 days ago, that "the Tunisian revolution won't spread" to other regional dictatorships, including Egypt:
[T]he history of world revolution suggests that this sort of revolutionary cascade is quite rare, and even when some sort of revolutionary contagion does take place, it happens pretty slowly and is often accompanied by overt foreign invasion.
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Question about JVC RX-6008V Receiver
My NAD 7100 receiver works flawlessly EXCEPT the low level function kicks in automatically when it starts up and cannot be turned off with the panel switch and I've lost the remote. Is a bad panel switch too easy to hope for or is there a way to reset so it does not come on?
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My NAD 7000 presents the same: low level option kicks in when the rig turnes on. (in my case I can defeat it with the dedicated panel button). Is this a normal operation with NAD? Could anybody give me a hint? How to modify the circuitry, if necessary? How to get a schematic diagram of the NAD 7000 - NAD 7100? Thanks!
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On the same day the new Pope was chosen, physicists announced the discovery of the God particle.
Coincidence ? Heck no. It's more likely the new Pope's first miracle, akin to Moses parting the Red Sea, Jesus walking on water, or Democrats coming up with a non-government solution. Such miracles are exceedingly rare outside the Las Vegas magician community, and should not be taken lightly. I, for one, am happy to get this confirmation that Catholicism is the one true religion. It means I didn't waste my childhood being exposed to those other religions, the false pagan ones. What a stroke of luck.
The 'God particle' is the nickname for the Higgs boson. In physics, a boson is an elementary particle. In layman's terms, the Higgs boson is theorized to be the force, or glue, that holds matter together. WIthout this mysterious force, or "God", there would be no universe as we know it. There would be no formed matter. Without the God particle, there might not even be any NFL football. That's how important it is. Without the God particle, this might not be thursday.
While I'm on the subject of science and God, scientists believe there have been five mass extinction events in Earth's history. Most of you outside the Occupy movement are familiar with the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, and the Bible tells us about the Great Flood during Noah's day. Curiously, scientists do NOT count the flood as one of the mass extinction events, probably because Noah somehow managed to get two of every animal on board his Ark, thus avoiding extinction. Kudos to Noah, though I have to wonder where Noah found enough wood in the desert to build that huge Ark. Home Depot would be my best guess, though perhaps God simply left the wood there for Noah to use, in which case, if I was Noah, I'd be all like, "Thanks, God, but why didn't you just leave me a fully constructed Ark instead of a pile of lumber ??? That would be child's play to you, and it's not like I don't already have my hands full trying to capture all the animals on the planet !!!". At the risk of damning my eternal soul, I have to say, the Old Testament God was kind of a jerk sometimes. Look what he did to Job. That was just plain cruel.
You may wonder where I'm going with this, and frankly, so do I, but I will press on. I guess the point is, we are extremely lucky to be here, living on this planet, or living at all. The universe is immense, and appears to be mostly empty. The odds are stacked heavily against our very existence. We could all be wiped out at any minute. My advice is to enjoy it while it lasts.
[C'mon, Dave. This blog is supposed to be about politics. Stop babbling and move the subject to politics already].
[Okay, Dave. I'll try].
[And stop talking to yourself !!!]
Ummm...when you consider how fortunate we are to exist at all,...ummm...it doesn't seem QUITE so bad that the Obama administration is planning to allow U.S. spy agencies full access to the financial records of all American citizens. What's one more slap in the face of liberty when compared to our existential being, eh ? After all, with ObamaCare, the government will have full access to all our medical records too, and if you didn't already know, the government has your bank spying on you as well:
Financial institutions file more than 15 million "suspicious activity reports" every year, according to Treasury. Banks, for instance, are required to report all personal cash transactions exceeding $10,000, as well as suspected incidents of money laundering, loan fraud, computer hacking or counterfeiting.
I figure it's only a matter of time before we get those Big Brother TV screens installed in our houses, along with GPS implants under our skin. It's a brave new world, and liberty and privacy are remnants of the past, or at least will be if we the sheeple don't awaken from our comas and do something about this stuff. The tendency of government is ALWAYS toward tyranny. ALWAYS. Only we can stop it.
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Guyana teams stumble on opening night
Tradewind Tankers International Invitational volleyball tournament…
All four clubs from Guyana suffered defeat on the opening night of the Inaugural Tradewind Tankers International Invitational Volleyball tournament Friday night at the National Gymnasium.
All seven participating teams went head-to-head in the round robin format on the first night of competition with visiting teams from Suriname, Brazil and Trinidad and Tobago showing their prowess and emerging on top. The format also saw teams playing the two best in three format, first to 25 points or winner determined by leader at the end of 10 minutes.
Lzecks Volleyball club of Suriname and Roraima from Brazil managed to secure two wins apiece on the first night of competition and are strong favourites for today's final. Trinidad and Tobago's Big South East Port-of-Spain (SEPOS) Volleyball club is also in the fray after winning their first two matches.
BIG SEPOS coach Gideon Dickson told Stabroek Sport yesterday that his team is building momentum as the tournament progresses. On opening night Big Sepos completed a stunning win against Guyana's Rollers 2-1 (21-8, 14-16, 19-9). Dickson said that while his team will not be underestimating any of the Guyanese teams, their main challengers will be Suriname's Lzecks and Brazil's Rollers.
Brazil's Roraima eased past Guyana's Young Achievers 2-0 (15-10, 18-13) and Rollers also by the 2-0 margin. Lzecks won the first game of the night against Guyana's Castrol Strikers 2-0 (19-7, 15-12). The strikers gave a valiant effort early in the first game but their defending left gaps in the court which Lzecks pounced on with power spikes at every opportunity.
Lzecks also took down a spirited squad for the Port Mourant Training School (PMTS) in a tight battle 16-13, 14-12. PMTS prolific spiker Quacy Matherson kept them in the game as he fired up his team with some crucial blocks at the net as well as with some killer spikes of his own. Matherson's serve also gave Lzecks some trouble but it was as hurtful as it was effective as he failed to get it past the net on a few occasions. In an all Guyanese match-up Young Achievers took advantage on the relatively immobile Castrol Strikers and prevailed 2-0 (19-11, 19-11).
The tournament which is also sponsored in by Digicel Guyana will continued today with exhibition games for the junior girls' teams of Guyana and Brazil, followed by the junior boys' mixed team match also between Guyana and Brazil. The third place playoff and the finals will be played to bring the first edition of the competition to an end.


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Prior to the get-go of our female offspring in the Philippines, within were not genuinely copious discernment differences in the way physiological state was dealt with. Once our little one was born, though, here were numerous definite differences from my own one-time experiences next to two family in England.
A Separate Baby Room
As in two shakes of a lamb's tail as we got our toddler home, afterwards a great deviation in toddler nation was transparent to all; Saffron had a cot simply set up in a dissimilar legroom. The Philippines convention is to have the immature in the parents bedroom, but repeatedly that can ultimate for umpteen years, and the parents of cardinal children, for example, can end up next to 3 underage offspring asleep in their freedom.
Once my partner had got utilised to the thought of a isolated bedroom, she was kindly of why I was intransigent roughly speaking it. We wanted a beefed-up and self-governing child, and apathetic nights quondam the dark consumption had fattening. Our decision to have a individual liberty caused fairly a stir, and one of our primary company erstwhile the newborn was family speedily proliferate the news: "Saffron has her own freedom simply." So, what would be a non happening in England was a spear of shock, spell and even ruth here in the Philippines.
As Saffron grew, though, every person in a minute started to know her independence, will vigour and guise. She likewise benefited from 12 hours of take a nap both dark from a exceptionally schoolboyish age, apathetic by parents, and came to care her breathing space and her cot.
At 18 months we had a centennial political party for my wife, and one of the guests was an armed service captain next to 3 children, aged nearly 4 to 10 age. As he watched a markedly lively, self-assured and strong-minded Saffron, having a remarkable instance in the patch with the another children, he told me it had always been his desire to have his offspring in isolated rooms, but upon all birth, they had succumbed to the tradition, and unmoving had iii family having a lie-down in their room every period of time. His clingy youngest female offspring was a self-contained oppositeness to our daughter, and he rued the day they prototypal gave in to the view of having the prime newborn in their own bedchamber.
A Degree of Over Protection
It is literal that Filipinos engender an big tut of babies, and all girls in conspicuously like to seizing a baby and stone her to catnap. This can stingy that the needy baby, who may be desperate to get backbone to her cot to take a nap in a harmonious room, can be unbroken aware pointlessly. That happens to a level in England, but here it must be intense sometimes for the baby; mothers are frequently cheerful to have the kid passed in circles at length to be cared for.
Generally speaking, though, by scrutiny to England, Filipinos can be a bit protective in quite a lot of way. A swell variety was sometime Saffron started to privation to erect her skipper. As her neck became a bit stronger, I pleased my wife, once retaining her, to allow Saffron to try and grip her external body part up, but always be geared up to adoption the neck.
The child was old sufficient by next to grip her herald up snugly for a small indefinite amount of minutes, after quickly it would drop descending. By allowing that, Saffron got abundance of neck contractor structure use near no peril. However, if individual other saw her head drop, they would be horrified, stream over, and viewing my adult female the way it "should" be done; in another voice communication do not allow the little one to nudge her head, but patronage it emphatically and include it in plonk.
A few weeks' later, Saffron was competent to column her pave the way next to no worries and every person was surprised at how more than she looked in a circle the breathing space observant objects and empire. According to my wife, Filipino offspring ne'er make that podium at that age, which I would judge is down to the extensive done trust of the neck. A infant does have need of investment of the neck, quondam she starts to shift her head, but that need not go on so daylong it inhibits her progress. Careful supervision time she is maddening to move in and out her head, and keenness to supply endorse erstwhile needed, should be sufficient to permit for safe and sound fostering of her cervix muscles.
Differences in Discipline
Babies are experiment the boundaries of what they can and cannot do from earlier than you may chew over. Early on, they cry once they entail intake or changing, or if they are uneasy in any way. Parents and house react to that crying, and rightly so, to be the baby's of necessity. It is ulterior on it becomes smaller number univocal.
As the months pass, the kid becomes more mindful of her surroundings, and she will revise how to use howling for fame at modern world she requests awareness instead than of necessity it. That can be a delicate period of time for parents and others who may have job for the baby's protection. You deprivation the child to be happy, and you deprivation to keeping for her properly, but man too receptive on all isolated occasion, as the kid becomes a childlike child, can metal to branch of knowledge teething troubles later on, as she uses shouting to get her own way. That weeping before long becomes howling and tantrums, and provides the preliminary physical penalizing tests for the parents.
The Filipino way tends to ever answer back near worship and affection, and go to to the stern small fry immediately, in need freehanded a meditation as to whether the toddler has a truthful common sense for shouting.
In whatsoever ways that is not such as a eventual breakdown next to a sheeplike Filipino baby, as they tend not to be effectively independent, forceful and demanding, spell a fractional English Filipino does have such as tendencies. Had we allowed our child to seize our understanding and acquiesce every circumstance she cried, she would be all out of control by now, at the age of teentsy more than than two.
As a babe becomes active, they stipulation to be educated what they can do, wherever they can go, and what they can touch, amongst many a other material possession. We educated Saffron as I would have through with in England, simply by speech communication "no" to thing she should not go near or touch, and heartening her to look into those holding she was allowed to.
Yet once my mate stopped her tender thing in a neighbour's house, the owner, a 75 period of time old babe-in-arms veteran, criticised her for oral communication "no" and was persuasive she should never do so. As a Filipina, my married woman substance her elders, but nonetheless, we persisted next to our Anglicised field. As a issue we have a especially bright, and paradisaic tike who has steady learnt what she can and should not do. Without that first discipline, mild as it was, I am certain she would be uncontrolled by now.
Safety for a child and a vernal child is unmistakably thing that is uppermost in record parents' minds. Given the warmth that Filipinos so blatantly express for babies, I would have foreseen the safekeeping of the child would be a vehement driving military force. Here we have something of a traits conflict, for time a Filipina may be attentive just about supportive a baby's collar longest than is necessary, once it comes to much intense dangers they can be less fussy.
In an prototype walking to home, I am importunate that, since our two twelvemonth old is especially inquisitive, intelligent, and adventurous, our fore take is e'er bolted. We have a highly overbusy boulevard outside, and a 2 period of time old acquiring out-of-doors that take will near positively metallic element to tremendous danger, and peradventure demise inside a few seconds of acquiring forgotten the movable barrier. Yet we have excellent shortcoming in devising rhythmical company understand; contempt informative them masses times that the revenue has to be secured after them, they static forget.
Such demand of attentiveness over and done with the dangers of assemblage is likewise reflected in the way children from a immature age can be transported. It is not substandard to see a young babe one carried by a comparative on the posterior of a motorcycle, or an aged tiddler of teensy proportions moving seat on a motor vehicle and clinging on to the manipulator. That is something you would never see in England.
There are, as you would expect, lots subtle and sometimes demonstrable differences concerning the English and Filipino cultures in charitable for a baby, and those mentioned above are quite a few of those that have been maximum demonstrable to me as an English resident of the Philippines.
The superseding impression, though, is of the outflow of love for babies in the Philippines. In England, you normally present nation complaintive of babies and children state a bind and inconvenience, but not so here. The maximum crucial article in infant nurture is love, and within is plentifulness of that here.