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British meat bodies get set for Paris showcase
British meat bodies are preparing to go head-to-head with competitors from across the globe at this year's Sial food show in a bid to increase global sales.
Sial Paris, "the world's largest food innovation marketplace", is held from 19-23 October and will bring together more than 150,000 trade visitors and 6,300 exhibitors from 105 countries.
Hybu Cig Cymru – Meat Promotion Wales (HCC) believes Sial is the ideal location to sell Wales and its quality foods to the world. Gwyn Howells, HCC chief executive, said: "Overseas sales of Welsh Lamb and Welsh Beef were worth more than £224 million to the Welsh economy last year, and our aim is to increase that figure by identifying new customers across the world."
A reception showcasing Welsh food will be held on the HCC stand, hosted by deputy minister for farming and food Rebecca Evans AM, with existing and potential customers from around the world attending.
HCC's market development manager Laura Pickup said: "Prime examples of Welsh Lamb and Welsh Beef will be on display at the show, and visitors will be able to sample freshly cooked dishes on our stand.
"HCC's agents in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium will also be present to talk to existing and potential customers in their respective countries about the qualities of Welsh Lamb and Welsh Beef."
Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) said its stand will highlight the PGI status of Scotch Beef and Scotch Lamb and the guarantees of quality assurance, provenance and welfare that underpin the brands.
There will be nine Scottish exporters present, joined by QMS staff and European agents to promote the Scottish red meat industry to buyers and traders from around the world. There will also be a group of hospitality students from Fife College present, as part of an initiative supported by QMS.
QMS head of marketing Laurent Vernet said: "All the world's meat exporting nations will be attending Sial next week.
"It is therefore extremely important that Scotland's exporters have a strong presence at the show, highlighting and explaining what makes Scotch Beef and Scotch Lamb different and desirable to customers."
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Pathways Through Our Past
The Golden West I remember
(Excerpts from article by Emma (Kupfer) Beighley)
The year is 1902 and Blackduck was an up and coming town thanks to the Minnesota and International railroad which caused the timber business to boom.
All kinds of business developed and one of the largest and best was the Golden West Hotel. It was managed by L.J. Matheny and boasted that it had 40 rooms heated by steam. There was also a large dinning room or ball room, as it was called by some of the patrons.
The same year, the heaviest cedar logging operation was conducted by the Chicago Lumber Company and Mr. Squire the manager set up operations in the Golden West. This large two story building was located where the Beck Auto car wash now stands.
By 1907, the population in town reached a whopping 1,200 residents, but once the town went dry, that number leveled off.
In 1909, Emma and her husband arrived in Blackduck from Bluffton where Mr. Beighley had a livery stable. It was a taxi service where horses were used in place of cars. That town was beginning to lose many of its residents as big logging company's had moved their operations to more fertile locations.
By the time the Beighley's arrived in Blackduck, a woman named Mrs. Bain owned the Golden West and she let the couple live at the hotel at no cost in exchange for running the place.
Emma now had a very large kitchen in which she could prepare meals for customers and serve them in a room with velvet drapes and the food arranged on beautiful china.
While she was busy in the hotel, her husband was making a business with his horses skidding, hauling, etc. They had two cows which supplied the hotel with milk and cream. The cows were kept behind the establishment in a wet and boggy area. Emma could remember one of the cows got mired down and her husband had to take one of his horses to pull it out.
One thing she remembers most was the Saturday night dances held in the dining room.
These dances got started when friends inquired as to why the large room couldn't be used at the hotel. They allowed no drinking and noone ever complained, everyone had a lot of fun.
Emma would make a large pot of oyster stew and lots of sandwiches before the dance and then had cakes and hot coffee for lunch later on. She played cords on the piano while her husband played the violin along with Chris and Arnold Peterson who joined in. The Beighley's never charged a thing and each Saturday night got larger and children and adults danced until midnight when lunch was served then they closed up till the next Saturday.
In 1910, Emma and Edward Benjamin left Blackduck to find employment. For the next 10 years, the family, which now included eight children, moved several times before returning to the Blackduck area.


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Pricing for the 2011 Nissan Xterra has been announced today: $23,850 for the base model, the Xterra X 4x2 V6. As expected, the new 2011 Xterra is offered in three models, including the new Pro-4X. Each model is powered by a standard 4.0-liter V6 engine delivering 261 hp and 281 lb-ft of torque, and mated to a 5-speed automatic or 6-speed manual transmissions (X model not available with 5-speed manual transmission).
The Xterra X and S models are available in 4x2 and 4x4 configurations, while the top of the line PRO-4X is offered in 4X4 only.
Regarding the pricing for the other versions, here it is: Xterra S 4x2 V6 5AT priced at $25,840 USD; Xterra X 4x4 V6 5AT at $25,900 USD; Xterra S 4x4 V6 6MT at $26,840 USD; Xterra S 4x4 V6 5AT at $27,890 USD; Xterra PRO-4X 4x4 V6 6MT at $29,050 USD; Xterra PRO-4X 4x4 V6 5AT at $30,100 USD.
Regarding the enhancements for the 2011 Xterra, the manufacturer says that the new model year includes the addition of body side moldings to Xterra S, a rear tire deflector on the Xterra S 4x2, a white-faced meter cluster on Xterra PRO-4X and two new exterior colors, Lava Red and Metallic Green.
Furthermore, the 2011 Xterra offers a series of advanced technologies such as Bluetooth Hands-free Phone System, XM Satellite Radio (XM subscription required, sold separately) and an 8-speaker Rockford Fosgate audio system with subwoofer.
The 2011 Nissan Xterra remains as tough as ever. This SUV continues to inspire with its power and value while allowing customers to go to whatever outdoor activities they want to do. The 2011 Nissan Xterra offers more convenience than what customers may expect from an SUV, particularly inside its cabin. Yes, the Xterra features a "multi-flex" interior that allows for more useable room for storage as well as more convenience elements.
For instance, the 2011 Nissan Xterra features an available Easy Clean cargo area and a tie-down channel system. It also features 10 cargo hooks as well as a built-in first-aid kit. Convenience elements include Bluetooth Hands-free Phone System and an 8-speaker Rockford Fosgate audio system with subwoofer. XM Satellite Radio is also included although customers need to purchase an XM subscription to use the service.
Customers could pick from any of the three Xterra models -- X, S, and PRO-4X – each having certain features that would meet their wants and needs. All of these models sit on the rugged "F-Alpha" truck platform that also underpins the full-size Nissan Titan pickup and Armada SUV. These models are available in either part-time four-wheel drive or two-wheel drive. Additionally, the SUV can be finished in two new exterior colors -- Lava Red and Metallic Green.
Likewise, all of Xterra's models are powered by a 4.0-liter DOHC V6 engine that provides up to 261 hp of output and 281 lb-ft of torque. This powerplant can be mated to either six-speed manual transmission (for S 4x4 and PRO-4X 4x4 models) or 5-speed automatic gearbox. Now, the Xterra S features body side moldings to Xterra S while the Xterra S 4x2 now has a rear tire deflector. On the other hand, the Xterra S PRO-4X comes with a meter cluster with a white face.


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DVD Boosts Universal Revenue9 Feb, 2004 By: Holly J. Wagner
The theatrical and DVD success of Seabiscuit, Johnny English, Bruce Almighty and 2 Fast 2 Furious helped Universal Pictures Group to a 15 percent increase in revenue for 2003 compared with 2002, the company reported.
Also boosting the bottom line were DVD releases of Scarface and Animal House.
The company attributed a 32 percent revenue boost in the fourth quarter of 2003 to the DVD performance of Seabiscuit, Scarface, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Bruce Almighty and The Hulk.


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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Application number
|Publication date
|Aug 22, 2000
|Filing date
|Feb 2, 1999
|Priority date
|Feb 10, 1998
|Fee status
|Publication number
|Tiina-Maria Salminen, Hanna Sonne, Pentti Juhani Laiho, Ulla Uimonen
|Original Assignee
|Nokia Mobile Phones, Ltd.
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (23), Non-Patent Citations (1), Referenced by (9), Classifications (8), Legal Events (6)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
The present invention relates to packaging for articles.
A common form of packaging for an article is known as "bubble" packaging. An elongate sheet of rigid plastics material is moulded to conform generally to the shape of the article to be packaged. The plastics sheet can then be folded about the article to sandwich the article between its two halves.
For industrial purposes, it is desirable to decrease the amount of different steps in the packing process to a minimum in order to reduce costs and maximise packing speed. Furthermore, it is desirable to minimise packaging volume and to enable packaging to be reusable by the end-user.
Bubble packaging requires accurate alignment of the article to be packaged and of the two halves of the plastics sheet during the packing process. This is a relatively time consuming operation. The assembled packaging may also have a non-uniform shape which makes the bundling together of several packagings difficult. Bubble packaging uses a relatively large amount of plastics material and may therefor be uneconomic and wasteful.
It is an object of the present invention to provide for the speedier packaging of articles and to facilitate easier packaging.
According to the present invention there is provided packaging for an article or set of articles, the packaging comprising:
an insert shaped to accommodate an article or articles to be packaged;
a box arranged to contain the insert;
a catch member projecting from a surface of the insert;
an aperture provided in a wall of the box;
wherein, when the insert is contained within the box, the catch is arranged to project through said aperture to resist removal of the insert from the box, and wherein the insert can be released by the action of pressing the catch through the aperture from the outside of the box.
It will be appreciated that the action of pushing the insert into the box to engage the catch in the aperture locks the packaging and, to open the packaging, the user only needs to press the catch through the aperture in the wall of the box to release the insert and the packaged article(s), without damaging the packaging.
Preferably, said box is made of semi-rigid material, e.g. cardboard.
Alternatively, said box is made of plastics material.
Preferably, the insert is of a transparent plastics material and the box is provided with a window therein, such that the contents of the packaging are visible through the aperture in the box and the transparent insert.
As embodiments of the invention may be made from two easily separable parts, i.e. the box and the insert, recycling of these parts is easily achieved.
Preferably, the catch is wedge shaped to prevent the catch from snagging against the edge of the box, which edge defines the opening through which the insert is pushed.
Preferably, the catch projects from the insert sufficiently to engage an inner surface of the box during insertion of the insert. This results in the catch being strained so that, when the catch arrives at the aperture, this strain is released giving rise to a `click` sound.
Preferably, the packaging comprises a shoulder at an end region of the insert opposite to an end region at which said catch is provided, the shoulder being arranged to abut an edge of the box when the insert is fully inserted into the box.
For better understanding of the present invention and in order to show how the same may be carried into effect reference will now be made, by way of example, to the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 shows a cardboard sheet for forming a packaging box;
FIG. 2 shows a perspective rear view of a box formed from the sheet of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3a shows a perspective rear view of a packaging insert;
FIG. 3b shows a side view of the insert of FIG. 3a;
FIG. 4 shows a perspective rear view of packaging assembled from the box of FIG. 2 and the insert of FIG. 3a.
A rectangular sheet of cardboard 1 is shown in FIG. 1 and which can be folded along the dashed lines 2 to form a box 3 having top and bottom openings 4 and 5 as shown in FIG. 2. When folded, two overlapping edges 6 and 7 of the sheet 1 are joined together with adhesive. The sheet 1 has three apertures therein which in the finished box 3 provide a circular aperture 8 near the top of the rear box wall, a rectangular notch 9 extending from the bottom edge of the rear box wall, and a rectangular window 10 in the centre of the front box wall.
FIGS. 3a and 3b show an insert 11 moulded from a flat rectangular sheet of transparent plastics material such that the insert 11 has a flat peripherally extending rim 12 and a central projecting portion 13 shaped to accommodate an article to be packaged. Moulded projections of the sheet provide a catch 14 and pair of ridges 15 and 16. The insert 11 is additionally provided with a shoulder 17 on the lower rim portion, which projects in a direction opposite to that of the central projecting portion 13.
The catch 14 is provided in that part of the rim 12 which extends above the central projecting portion 13, when the insert 11 is viewed as shown in FIGS. 3a and 3b. The catch 14 projects in a direction opposite to that in which the central projecting portion 13 projects. The placement of the catch 14 on the rim provides the catch 14 with a spring-like property, i.e. the catch 14 and adjacent rim portion are able to flex relative to the rest of the insert 11. This is illustrated in FIG. 3a by the arrow 14a. The catch 14 is wedge shaped to guide the insert 11 through the bottom opening 5 of the box 3. Moreover, the lower perpendicular edge 18 of the catch 14 provides a locking edge which acts against the lower surface of the aperture 8 of the box 3, when the insert 11 has been fully inserted into the box 3 so that the catch 14 pops through the aperture 8.
The function of the shoulder 17 of the insert 11 is to engage the upper edge of the notch 9 to define the full limit of insertion of the insert 11 into the box 3, i.e. at a position where the catch 14 engages the aperture 8. The pair of ridges 15 and 16 project from the central projecting portion 13 to a similar extent to engage the opposed wall of the box 3. The ridges 15 and 16 provide a friction fit for the insert 11 to resist movement of the insert 11 within the box 3. This reduces the risk of the insert 11 accidentally dropping out of the box 3 during insertion and also inhibits rattling when the insert 11 has been inserted.
FIG. 4 shows the packaging assembled from the box 3 and the insert 11. As will be apparent, in order to release the insert 11 from the box 3, a user presses the catch 14 with a finger to push the catch 14 through the aperture 8 of the box 3. The insert 11 can then be pulled (or pushed) out of the box 3, through the bottom opening 5, by grasping the shoulder 17.
The window 10 in the wall of the box 3 allows the article(s) in the assembled packaging 19 to be viewed through the window 10 and the plastics insert 11.
It will be appreciated by the skilled person that modification may be made to the above described embodiment without departing from the scope of the present invention. For example, the aperture 8 may be replaced with a notch extending downwards from the upper edge of the box 3, which in that case it is sufficient to press the rim portion above the catch 14 in order to release the catch 14. In other modifications, the catch 14 may be located another surface of the insert, for example on side portions of the rim or on the central projecting portion.
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Kiro's mining guide
Main Page :: Tutorials :: Kiro's mining guide (Finding Ore Veins)
With this guide, you can find exactly where the vein is, in ~45 minutes. You'll need to make a squared map of the rock tiles. I've tried this technique one time, and it works!
Sorry for my bad English, if you find a mistake, can you correct it please? =)
The map
To make the map, you need an empty map. Download this one :
When you prospect a rock tile, it says if there is a vein in a range of 3 tiles around it. And if it says that "there is only rock here", it means that there is only rock shard in a range of 3 tiles around this tile.
So, now prospect every rock tile, and draw each tile on the map. Use different colour for each prospected tile, depending of what you find while prospecting.
For example, paint in grey the tile for which it says "There is iron ore nearby" when you prospect. In maroon the tile for which it says "There is only rock here". Paint the grass tile in green, and the water in blue.
After you prospected every rock tile, you should get something like this :
Eliminating the tile where there isn't vein
Paint all the rock tile that are in a 7x7 square around the maroon tiles in black.
A square like this:
For example :
Before :
And after you painted all the rock tiles in a 7x7 square around the maroon square in black :
You can know exactly where the vein is now!
Mine on the "grey tile"! If it say that the rock is too hard to mine, then mine the tile at the right or at the left.
Others examples
This is the map of the rock tiles near my house, and that's exactly how I found the iron vein. They were exactly where I found them on the map.
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Affiliate Week @en
- Posted on 5 July 2016
Six common mistakes in Affiliate Marketing and how they can be avoided
Affiliate Marketing is a good advertising foundation for companies to maximize their brands' awareness and sales. The benefit here is a distribution channel with low risk and good measurability, as companies only pay for the already-made action. This is especially the case when a company choses the option, which only pays a commission for every order (CPO). Advertisers can use various affiliate models to efficiently expand their range online.
Along with Google Adsense, Affiliate Marketing is a company's' form of monetisation for their own website. This is the equivalence to offline distributors.
To maximise the results of both online and offline, it's essential to have basic knowledge on this topic, in order to avoid some common mistakes.
1. Do not underestimate the relevance and expenses
As previously mentioned, online marketing is the equivalent to offline marketing and should be treated the same way. Affiliate Marketing can be a significant contribution to a company's online marketing goals. Therefore, this channel has to be maintained intensively, which also includes a strong partnership with top affiliates. In reality, this is rarely the case and the online channel does not get the attention that is needed for a successful and lasting cooperation.
2. Short term expectations lead to disappointment
It's definitely a misconception, that an affiliate programme's performance immediately achieves success on a high level right from the get-go. This high level has to be reached by creating a performance affiliate base. This has to be continuously optimised so that within time, the base can grow due to the channel's own innovative ability.
Empirical data shows that the first relevant results are only available as soon as three to six months after starting the programme. Even then, it's important for the Affiliate Marketing Manager to keep in mind that it's a people business, based on cooperative partnership. It's not collaboration with a search engine. So, campaigns cannot be started and stopped on an ad hoc basis. Affiliate programmes have to be maintained and expanded continuously to ensure a steady development of performance. Companies should add this to their budget plans and shouldn't forget about the effort affiliate marketing needs.
3. Wasted opportunities through a lack of flexibility and openness
For the last 20 years, Affiliate Marketing has steadily been in motion, and always will be. Affiliate Marketing is permanently changing, and with its innovations in technology and new ways of affiliate and payment models, it also changes the market conditions. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to keep updated with new trends, and be open to new approaches. Thus, networking and staying in contact with affiliates, should be of high priority for Affiliate Managers. Nevertheless, even though being active is essential here, the brand's value must not be compromised by impetuous decisions.
4. Hidden cost traps in Affiliate Marketing
There are now new challenges for companies, as the customer journey has changed with the digital era. As users have many "touch-points" which can occur on a single channel as well as cross-channels, it's advisable to use a cookie filter. Thereby, companies do not have to pay multiple commissions for one customer. In this new attribution model, every touch-point gets its' own quantifier – no matter whether it's on a single channel, or across channels. This guarantees proportional provisioning within the customer journey.
Advertisers, who don't want to have multiple commissions, should pay attention to this. Just as they should also pay attention to CPO's, which have a higher rate than necessary. In the retail sector especially, a comparison of sales is necessary, as the payment is supposed to be referring to the effectively bought products. Returns, taxes and dispatch should not be involved (Net Provisioning).
5. The silo mentality prevents maximum success
In companies, different people typically handle online marketing channels. The budgets for single channels are often determined at the beginning of the year. Thereby, every channel has the opportunity to gain optimal results. However, this silo mentality is counterproductive for the company. Rather than working together, the different channels compete with each other. For better results, companies should make the different silos work across channels. With the interlocking of the various disciplines, the channels work towards the same goal.
The users' data is also an important aspect, which offers a base for targeting activities. The information helps to improve the customer journey, as users can be optimally addressed. Here you have to keep in mind, that the undefined borders to other performance marketing channels such as social media or re- and pre-targeting on a CPO-base in display-media, can be another opportunity, not a barrier.
6. Local support for global campaigns
Every country is different. This is also the case when it comes to online marketing and affiliate marketing. Many companies and brands have global campaigns for online marketing. In these situations, it's of utmost importance that every campaign matches the motto "think global, act local". Campaigns cannot be adapted on a one-to-one basis, from the home country's market to the global market. Local market conditions are as relevant as the preferred methods of paying, purchase power and Internet penetration. Furthermore, a global strategy should include channel-related considerations for local networks or affiliate models. This, of course, depends on the branch's level of development in the country at hand.
As the Affiliate Marketing can be quite different in every single country, flexibility for potential co-operations is necessary for a global strategy.
How to avoid these errors (and others)?
Everyone who wants to be successful with affiliate marketing has to be able to understand and work with this increasingly complex topic, which has changed over the last 20 years (no matter whether it concerns online, offline or different touch-points of the customer journey), the development of affiliate marketing never stops. Stagnation in this field should therefore also be avoided. And even though data-driven campaigns are still not common in affiliate marketing, a targeted control of campaigns is possible by evaluating the percentage of new customers, above-average shopping carts and low cancellation rate.
Advantages of working with external agencies
Many companies choose an external agency to run affiliate programmes, in order to ensure optimal handling. To avoid problems between channels (as mentioned before), the optimal support from an agency includes handling all performance-marketing channels. The budget allocation thereby becomes more efficient, and the different channels follow the same goal. This is exactly the principle in which NetBooster's follows.
The know-how and time: Agencies who work with affiliate marketing on a daily basis, and are specialists on this topic, have a routine in optimising and developing partner-programmes. They have the necessary 'know-how' on the different kinds of affiliate and are able to recommend and create individual strategies. The agencies' Account Managers are able to invest enough time into developing partnerships, which is typically not feasible for online marketing managers who work for the company itself.
metapeople, (part of NetBooster Group), in Duisburg e.g. has three teams of six people who focus solely on affiliate marketing. Amongst other things, they are specialised in the travel and telecommunication industry as well as in the retail sector (with focus on the fashion sector), and have competent knowledge about particular verticals.
Intensive Contact: Agencies link advertisers and their sales partners as they are in constant contact with all relevant affiliates. Agencies don't only communicate with them by e-mail or telephone, but also have regular meetings and visit fairs where affiliates introduce new products. As agencies know about new developments, decisions can be made quicker, thereby operations can also be implemented on short notice.
The annual "Performance Night", that metapeople, (part of NetBooster Group), organises on the eve before the dmexco in Cologne, focuses on this topic. Here, Advertisers are able to meet their affiliates in person, talk to them about different performance channels and also discuss any other topic in mind. Furthermore, NetBoosger Group regularly takes part in networking events to strengthen partnerships with affiliates and work on new co-operations for their clients.
International experience: As mentioned before, the market can be quite different in other countries. As such, leading agencies have knowledge about what types of affiliate will work in which country and which types won't. When agencies have locations in several countries, they know the particular networks and are able to choose the right strategy for their client.
In 2011, metapeople became a subsidiary of the NetBooster Group. Together they have more than 800 employees in 25 locations around the world. NetBooster Group is therefore able to offer global strategies for optimal use, for clients.
Always up-to-date: Agencies' experts are the first contacts when networks and affiliates introduce their new developments and products and furthermore, agencies are always up-to-date with new trends on the market through their daily work. This routine and knowledge about trends guarantees that companies get the best consultation about the products and services.
Development is an important topic for NetBooster Group. Its employees take part in many meetings or webinars with affiliates and networks, where they get to discuss new trends. Thereby, together with the agency, they can directly suggest which clients these innovations could be relevant for.
Permanent exchange of knowledge: Agencies have a broad understanding as they work for clients from different branches and exchange their knowledge within the agency. This leads to an optimised support, as this broad knowledge is the foundation for creating the best individual strategy for each client.
A monthly exchange takes place in meetings at NetBooster Group's German agency in Duisburg. But that is only one small part of the exchange. As NetBooster works global, the exchange between colleagues from Germany, Switzerland, France, Great Britain, the Nordic countries and also the MENA region, guarantees permanent news about the different markets, types of affiliate and network-developments.
Modern technology: It's recommended to have one agency for all online marketing channels. The reasoning behind this is quite simple;big agencies are also up-to-date when it comes to modern technologies and for topics just as cross-device tracking, cross-channel tracking or the analysis of customer journeys, they usually have their own departments for technology and development. You can thereby use the whole range of gained data, for your online marketing strategy.
Effective protection against fraud: With affiliate fraud, it's possible to get unauthorised provisions or those of which are contrary to the contract. Agencies are able to detect such frauds and manipulations because of the daily use of the programmes and the necessary tools. Tasks that are time consuming but always work in the same way are easily accelerated by the agencies' technical know-how.
NetBooster Group provides a variety of options to avoid such fraud as well as quickly detecting infringements like brand bidding or ad-hijacking. An in-house tracking and reporting tool can for example, measure relevant dates in real time. Clients also have their own access to the real-time analysis of their campaigns and programmes as transparency is of utmost importance in affiliate marketing. To guarantee the optimal use of this tool, NetBooster Group also has its' own development department.
This also enables us to easily react to individual clients' wishes, and by interfaces (APIs) standard, processes can be adapted quickly, guaranteeing that merchants only pay for real sales.
To discuss your Affiliate Marketing strategy, get in contact with us:
Julius Ewig
Managing Director, metapeople Germany
Tim Ringel
NetBooster Group CEO


text: Long Walks and Recorded Talks by Spies On Bikes published on 2011-12-20T19:55:44Z The debut self released and self produced album by Spies On Bikes. Available on Bandcamp: http://spiesonbikes.bandcamp.com/album/man-overboard Produced, Recorded and Mixed by Nathan Cochran With an additional ambient sample by freesound.org member c97058890 Mastered by Jeremy Powell P.S. If you enjoy the music please spread the word, I'm one guy, with no label, trying to get my music out there. Thank you! Genre Electronic Comment by Dthousand that got really damn good :'D 2015/07/11 20:21:41 +0000 Comment by Spies On Bikes @erika-rose-sassmann: Oh nice! Thanks for coming out! That movie is amazing btw! 2014/05/22 17:31:27 +0000 Comment by Erika Rose Sassmann Very nice use of Midnight in Paris!! <3 Loved seeing you in Orlando last week. 2014/05/08 15:09:37 +0000 Comment by Spies On Bikes @s88music: Thank you so much! Cheers! 2014/03/22 23:57:46 +0000 Comment by S88MUSIC this puts me in such a great mood! 2014/03/22 23:49:43 +0000 Comment by Full_Werks Loving the grooves, please get in touch to talk about licensing some of your music with us :) 2013/03/05 20:42:04 +0000 Comment by Spies On Bikes @1kevbot2rulethemall: Awesome! Thanks for coming out! :) 2013/01/19 19:20:33 +0000 Comment by 1KevBot2RuleThemAll saw you last night. epic 2013/01/19 00:08:49 +0000 Comment by Haunted Water ☕ Got your album some time ago. Great stuff my friend. This tune and Catahoula in special. Do what you think is best in your life. Hopefully it´ll be music. : ) 2012/11/06 17:28:54 +0000 Comment by c85 amazing! 2012/07/19 04:55:51 +0000 Comment by skribbz gawdaYUMit beautiful! Thanks, man. 2012/07/17 03:06:43 +0000 Comment by Spies On Bikes @opaquetruth: Thank you! It's actually me singing. I hardly ever use vocal samples. All the vocals on this album were sung by me. Glad you're diggin the tune! 2012/07/10 11:32:09 +0000 Comment by Opaque Truth Where did you get the vox from? The melody is amazing 2012/07/10 03:47:53 +0000 Comment by Ciggy Pop YES!!! 2012/06/10 20:28:52 +0000 Comment by Spies On Bikes @chalkboardpoets: Fantastic! Very cool! Glad to brighten those exam days! 2012/05/10 22:12:40 +0000 Comment by ChalkboardPoets I think this is the theme song of my mental happy place. It certainly improved my finals week. ^_^ 2012/05/10 16:57:54 +0000 Comment by Spies On Bikes @mheilman2: Righton dude! Thanks for listening! Good meeting you the other day! Stay creative! 2012/04/09 20:03:49 +0000 Comment by Innocent Victims Amazing man! 2012/04/09 18:15:25 +0000 Comment by gluid @spiesonbikes: Don't know if i can be that patient 2012/03/17 21:07:55 +0000 Comment by Spies On Bikes @gluid-1: Thank you! BTW I'll have physical copies in about a week via Bandcamp! 2012/03/17 21:05:03 +0000 Comment by gluid great stuff you got here!! love it! going to purchase this album i think 2012/03/17 20:16:39 +0000 Comment by Implodo @spiesonbikes: Nice one mate, i'll be in touch, keep up the good work! 2012/03/10 14:32:39 +0000 Comment by Spies On Bikes @cloudy1-1: Not a problem at all! I've got a bunch of preorders over there! 2012/03/09 21:33:19 +0000 Comment by Implodo @spiesonbikes: sounds good! Im from scotland though, so.that.may be a problem, if its not possible ill just buy it online 2012/03/09 19:01:41 +0000 Comment by Spies On Bikes @cloudy1-1: They'll be $10. They're 10 tracks, hand painted. A nice printed insert. That also covers shipping btw. 2012/03/09 17:39:34 +0000 Comment by Implodo @spiesonbikes: How much you gonna be lookin for for the physical copy? bit skint at the moment but i'd be glad to support when i've got the cash 2012/03/09 14:58:15 +0000 Comment by Spies On Bikes @cloudy1-1: Thank you! I'm glad you're diggin it! 2012/03/09 13:39:14 +0000 Comment by Spies On Bikes @cloudy1-1: It is floating about the internet. If you can support I've got it up on my bandcamp page. And also I should have physical CD's in a couple weeks if you'd like one of those! 2012/03/09 13:38:51 +0000 Comment by Implodo Seriously good, where can i get the album? 2012/03/09 11:39:24 +0000 Comment by Implodo Very nice, happy and summerry 2012/03/09 11:36:46 +0000


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There are surely as many ways to slice an onion as there are to skin a cat.
Humans are pattern-detecting machines that excel at detecting symmetry, and the vast majority of us slice an onion by taking account of its vertical axis of symmetry. In fact, we find symmetry so incredibly meaningful that we have invented a special word for it: beauty. So, when we look at an onion with intent, we see its vertical axis of symmetry and act accordingly, either slicing it up along lines that are parallel to this axis, or perpendicular to it.
This is all very well and proves to be quite efficient, but slice one onion and you have sliced them all. Onions are, ultimately, simple things and the novelty of slicing them soon wears thin. Having just cooked a pheasant and chorizo casserole for 32 people, I know what I am talking about. For people who prefer thinking to doing, cooking involves a multitude of incredibly tedious processes, not just slicing lots of onions. If the onions don't make you cry, the tedium will.
What you see is how you slice. Your initial belief of how an onion is structured will determine how you slice it. If you believe that symmetry must reveal structure, then you will likely do as most sous chefs, and slice it perpendicularly to its access, revealing a neat, Russian doll concatenation of layers.
Meanwhile, whether you are studying an onion or cooking it, the end result will not be an onion any more. By slicing it you destroy it. Such is the nature of observing things that are smaller than us. We are more like baboons than gorillas. Give a gorilla a little bird, and it will help it to fly away. Give it to a baboon, however, and it will tear it to pieces to see how it is put together and what it tastes like.
The result of this destruction can be rewarding. For example, the chicken and chorizo casserole, or the realization that symmetry is, all too often, a sure indicator of the easiest route to new understanding, especially about things like onions. Slice an onion randomly, with disregard for its axis of symmetry, and your choice reveals layers of obfuscation rather than clarity.
The key, guiding assumption for learning about onions is symmetry. It turns out that this applies to other lines of inquiry too.
Take the observable Universe. Then try fitting what you observe with the arrogant belief that we stand at the God-given centre of this Universe, around which everything else in the heavens revolves as they evolve. The Sun, the Moon and the "fixed" stars will, at a first approximation, behave as expected, but you will soon notice that, if Earth is at the centre of the Universe, then the planets move along very weird paths indeed. Or rather, that is what Medieval astronomers observed when they took a closer look.
Space, it seems, doesn't make sense if the Earth is the Cosmic linchpin.
These inquiries into the nature of space have gone haywire not so much by the mixing beliefs with observations but by giving more weight to the beliefs than they merit. The beliefs are a guide, not a preordained result.
The simplest observations and assumptions you can make about the night sky are two: one, that all celestial bodies appear to be roughly spherical and two, that all are in rotation about something, either themselves when they are spinning, or around some other celestial body. More generally, both rotations can happen at the same time. This has to be saying something, but what precisely?
Well, for example, the Cosmos behaves like one humongous ballet with everything spinning around something and Saturn wearing a tutu. All we observers need to do is sit back, listen to the music and try to make sense of the choreography.
For this purpose, we have two options:
One is to refer to preconceived religious beliefs such as that we are at the centre of this balletic Cosmos and that everything else is rotating around us. As stated above, this requires the planets to move along really weird paths, that violate, amongst other things, our simple principle that all things in the Heavens above follow simple paths around themselves or each other. Add in the belief that the Earth is flat, in other words, different to all the other celestial bodies, and things get even worse. The whole thing becomes an unintelligible mess. Therefore, the belief that God put us at the centre of the Universe contradicts the belief that God created the World according to a plan, intelligible by us.
The other option is to believe that the Earth is just another celestial body: it is spherical, it rotates and is not necessarily at the centre of anything. This leaves us with the option of choosing a different centre around which everything rotates. If you choose the sun as the centre around which the planets rotate, and also assume that the Earth is just another spherical planet that spins around itself, then things come into sharp focus. Problems dissolve, complexity plummets and we have a neat little theory that matches most of our observations without contradicting our assumptions. The World has become simpler and God had a plan after all. Phew!
So, we cannot just believe what we want, if we do not want our beliefs to contradict each other.
What still stands, however, is that we need beliefs to guide our curiosity. To build a theory from our observations, we first need to believe something, that acts as our guiding assumption. Conflict between observation and belief will only arise if the guiding belief is unquestionable. In other words, when the data MUST comply with belief rather than the other way round. Empirical evidence is anathema to the mental state of belief. If Reality must conform to a belief, then all science is heretic. Fortunately, we are no longer in the Middle Ages for which we owe a debt of gratitude to Galileo. Our culture is not stuck with rigid beliefs and so we can make better use of our beliefs. For example, a belief that symmetry is meaningful guides you to the most efficient way to slice an onion.
The question that remains is this: how to tell in advance which belief will lead to clarity and advancement, and which to confusion and dead ends? Is there a formula, a way to rule out one belief in favour of another?
Surprisingly enough, to some degree there is. To believe the Earth is the centre of the Universe is nothing if not self-important, presumptuous and arrogant. Apply these terms to any being, let alone to an entire species, and they are usually deemed to be negative. By contrast, beauty, simplicity and elegance have an undeniably positive ring to them. So when in doubt, the positive vibes are more likely to lead you in the right direction. I note that this is NOT the same thing as believing what you want.
But even this has a fallacy at its heart. Not everything is an onion. Some things just ARE complex rather than simple, drab rather than elegant, ugly rather than beautiful. That we live in a simple solar system, where the movements of planets are regular and predictable ellipses, does not mean that the rest of Reality is like that. Mathematics is the language that best describes physics, so it follows that symmetry, and therefore simple, elegant beauty is at the core of Physics because it is, in turn, at the core of Mathematics.
Not every system is like that, however, with stable laws, based on Mathematics, that rule the roost – even the ones that are, like Physics, defy computation of their laws in all but the simplest scenarios.
The reality of complex systems such as economies, societies and ecologies is intrinsically unpredictable and anyone who says otherwise is barking up a tree.
That goes for Marx, Hitler, Lenin, Freud, Donald Trump, Nigel Farage and Theresa May and everyone else who succumbs to the temptation of putting their Beliefs at the core of Reality itself.
Not everything is like slicing an onion because not everything is like an onion. Or even a Solar System.


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Back to normal life after a crazy Fashion Week. Ever since I had an interest in fashion, my dream was to one day attend big Fashion Week, like NYFW, MFW, PFW or LFW. I always hoped that I would one day be lucky enough to get the opportunity to attend this "glamorous" event. And that time […]Read More


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What is the deal with SAP and IDS.
There is information saying SAP has pulled the plug on IDS and yet a 2008 post on IBM web site states IDS 11 is certerfied for SAP.
How can this be?
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As far I know...
Informix 11 is certified for a old version of SAP.. something like version 5.xxx (I not sure about the version number, I don't know nothing about SAP).
But the last version of SAP, doesn't support Informix any more... have a big history behind this ... IBM Internals fight , DB2 x informix...________________________________________
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Ox out and Lescott called up
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is out of the England squad to face Italy, while Manchester City Joleon Lescott has been added to the party.
Last Updated: 13/08/12 8:02pm
Arsenal winger Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is out of the England squad for Wednesday's friendly with Italy, while Manchester City defender Joleon Lescott has been added to the party.
Oxlade-Chamberlain reported for duty with Roy Hodgson's men on Monday morning but was immediately released back to the Gunners after suffering an ankle injury in Sunday's friendly against Cologne.
The youngster is the third player to pull out from Hodgson's initial selection, following Sunday's announcement that Joe Hart (back) and Daniel Sturridge (toe) would not be fit to feature.
Despite losing the services of a winger, goalkeeper and forward, centre-back Lescott is the only addition to the squad for the clash in Switzerland on Wednesday, although the decision to call him up had already been taken before Oxlade-Chamberlain pulled out.
Lescott was an ever-present for England during Euro 2012 and was left out of the original squad for the midweek encounter, along with numerous others who featured in Poland and Ukraine.
Wednesday's game is a re-run of the quarter-final showdown this summer, which Italy won on penalties after 120 scoreless minutes.


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Bristol Still a Busch Favorite
By: Pete Pistone - @PPistone | MRN.com on August 22, 2014 | 10:01 A.M. EST
Kurt Busch is hoping to return to his Bristol Motor Speedway winning ways in Saturday's IRWIN Tools Night Race. (Photo: Getty Images)
Kurt Busch is hoping to return to his Bristol Motor Speedway winning ways in Saturday's IRWIN Tools Night Race.
The Stewart-Haas Racing driver has five career Sprint Cup wins at the Tennessee half-mile including three straight a decade ago. Although his last trip to Victory Lane came back in 2006, Busch still calls Bristol one of his favorites and believes he can add to his career victory total come Saturday night.
"Bristol is one of those tracks that I get a little extra pumped up for," said Busch. "That feeling gets a little stronger when you're talking about the night race at Bristol. There's something special about that. I knew it before I ever made it to the big-league level of the Sprint Cup Series. The first time I was able to experience the night race as a competitor is almost indescribable.
"It's a place that gives you a big adrenaline rush. You can feel the energy around the track from the competitors and the fans. There's nothing quite like it."
While it took some time for Busch to find the handle around the 0.533-mile track, once he did he was nearly unbeatable. He made his Sprint Cup Series Bristol debut in 2001 with finishes of 25th and 42nd but started a run of success the following season that led to seven straight top-10 finishes - including four victories.
Busch believes he and the track are a perfect fit.
"Ever since they polished the outside groove, you have to wait for it to come in," he said. "When it does, it's fast up there. So I expect a lot of the fast cars to be up there on the high side. One of the important tasks of the weekend is getting the splitter control set properly if we want to be better than we were in the spring."
That spring outing Busch refers too was a frustrating day that ended with a 35th-place finish. So while his overall performance at Bristol has been good, Busch – like most drivers – is not immune to challenges, especially in recent years after the track went through a series of reconfigurations.
"The most challenging aspect is getting into those long, green-flag runs," Busch explained. "It's about being able to settle into a steady groove and making the best lap times you can. It's tough because that place is so fast for a short track and you can get dizzy pretty quickly. It's a physical track, but it's also mentally taxing and you have to be on your game when it comes to the concentration required to run well."
Busch won at Martinsville Speedway back in the spring and has already locked up a spot in the post-season Chase field. But with four spots still remaining to be filled, he's convinced that those drivers trying to find their way in will add spice to Saturday night's race.
"The short tracks - Richmond, Martinsville and Bristol - lead to opportunities for others that haven't been on the cutting edge of the setups this year," Busch said. "So you could easily see a surprise winner coming out of Bristol."
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The attic room is often only used for a limited storage facilities, or even not used at all. Whereas the attic space can be utilized more than that.
You can even process the attic into a bedroom that is ideal for occupancy. But to build a room in the attic area required careful planning. Moreover, this area is where the hot air circulation.
Here are five important things you should consider before making a room in the attic.
1. Change the Ceiling to Floor
Make room on the roof means you have to change the ceiling into a floor. It's certainly not easy. The first step, you have to dismantle the ceiling first, then replace it with a cast floor or no.
The goal is that the attic become stronger to be occupied furnishings and bearktivitas. We recommend using lightweight materials floor coverings to reduce the burden, such as wood or vinyl flooring.
2. Roof Construction
Note the roof construction. Roof material and slope can affect the comfort of the room. Make sure roof RUAG sufficient distance to your current position stand so you stay comfortable while on the move in the attic.
Safe limit slope of the roof that is 50 percent or 84 inches. This size is the standard size for the position of standing in the attic. Ideal for ceiling height of no less than 2 – 2.4 meters.
We recommend using a wooden frame or concrete for horses both these materials range from 3-4 meters. Better than mild steel frame construction which has a distance of 1-1.5 meters meeting.
3. Air Circulation
Eve of air in the attic area is certainly more heat compared to other parts of the room in the house because of exposure to direct sunlight.
As a workaround, you can use an insulator underneath a layer of tiles, such as aluminum foil, glass wool or polyurethane to reduce heat absorption. Add a window for air circulation. You can also install air conditioning.
4. Lighting
For the arrangement of light, you can add a skylight / dormer windows. The size of skylight you can define yourself as needed. For not too hot and blinding you could put a skylight in the darkest side of the room.
5. Access Attic
Do not forget access to the attic. Moreover, if the room is made for your child. Note the wide side of the stairs so as not difficult for children to move.
Note also the position put the ladder. Not to make the house look cramped and disrupt the flow of activities in the basement.
Furniture Fit in
The attic room is usually not too big, because it was to fill the space using furniture that is built in, so that the design fit with the room. Choose a multifunctional furniture as well as a storage box.
Some houses do not have an attic to be converted into a bedroom, but a few houses and new apartments are now designing the interior with a ceiling height of over 4 meters, so it can be transformed into a mezzanine space.


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Junior Achievement is the world's largest organization dedicated to educating students about workforce readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy through experiential, hands-on programs.
Junior Achievement of North Florida was chartered in 1963 and has since operated on the principal that economic education and workforce preparation contribute to a lifetime of success.
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JA helps students realize that the education they are getting today will help them to have a bright future tomorrow. JA's unique, volunteer delivered programs show them all of the possibilities that lay before them. They realize they can choose different paths; College? A specific trade? Start their own business?
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David S. Clark -The Message From Patmos: A Postmillennial Commentary on the Book of Revelation (1921) "This early twentieth-century Postmillennial commentary on the Book of Revelation, written by the father of theologian Gordon Clark, offers an easy-to-read alternative to the popular Pre-millennial/Dispensational views of the best-selling Scofield Reference Bible and a multitude of other dissertations on end-time prophecy that litter the shelves of Christian bookstores. "
The Menace Of Radical Preterism
By Wayne Jackson
One philosophy of eschatology is known as �preterism.� Ther term �preter� issues from an original form meaning �past.� Preterism, therefore, is an interpretive ideology which views major portions of Bible prophecy, traditionally associated with the termination of earth�s history, as having been fulfilled already.
But the term �preterism� is flexible. Some scholars, for instance, have dated the book of Revelation in the late 60s A.D. They contend that virtually the whole of the Apocalypse, therefore, was fulfilled by A.D. 70� when Judaism was destroyed by the invading Roman armies. A more moderate form of preterism moves the fulfillment of Revelation forward somewhat. These scholars hold that while Revelation was penned near the end of the first century, the major focus of the book is upon the fall of the Roman empire (A.D. 476); consequently they feel there is little beyond that date that is previewed in the final book of the New Testament.
While we do not agree with either of these concepts of the book of Revelation, we consider them to be relatively harmless. They represent ideas upon which good men can honestly disagree with no significant error being involved.
On the other hand, there is a form of preterism that is quite heretical.
This theory argues that all Bible prophecy has been fulfilled; nothing remains on the prophetic calendar.
This radical preterism was championed by James Stuart Russell (1816-95), a Congregational clergyman in England. Russell authored a book titled, The Parousia, (from a Greek word meaning �coming� or �presence�), which first appeared in 1878. Russell set forth the idea the second coming of Christ, the judgment day, etc., are not future events at the end of the current dispensation. Rather, prophecies relating to these matters were fulfilled with Jerusalem�s fall in A.D. 70. There is, therefore, no future �second coming� of Christ. Moreover, there will be no resurrection of the human body. Also, the final judgment and the end of the world have occurred already� with the destruction of Jerusalem.
Advocates of this bizarre dogma claim that the preterist movement is growing wildly. It probably is expanding some� though likely not as prolificly as its apologists would like everyone to believe. ("new wave in Reformed world" -ED) Occasionally the sect will get a thrust when a prominent name becomes identified with it. For example, noted theologian R.C. Sproul has apparently thrown his hat into the preterist ring� at least to some degree. Recently he characterized J.S. Russell�s book as �one of the most important treatments on Biblical eschatology that is available to the church today� (quoted in The Christian News, June 7, 1999, p. 17).
Radical preterism (also known as �realized eschatology� or the �A.D. 70 doctrine�) is so �off the wall�� biblically speaking� that one wonders how anyone ever falls for it. But they do. And, as exasperating as it is, the doctrine needs to be addressed from time to time. One writer, in reviewing the A.D. 70 heresy, recently quipped that dealing with preterism is like cleaning the kitty litter box; one hates to fool with it, but it has to be done. He can just be thankful that cats aren�t larger than they are.
Preterists strive for consistency in their view of Bible prophecy. The goal is admirable. But when a series of propositions is linked, and they are grounded on the same faulty foundation, when one of them topples� like dominos in a line� they all fall. So it is with the A.D. 70 theory.
Here is the problem. In studying the New Testament material relative to the �coming� of Christ, preterists note that:
And so, while preterists attempt to be consistent, it is nonetheless a sad reality that they are consistently wrong!
A major fallacy of the preterist mentality is a failure to recognize the elasticity of chronological jargon within the context of biblical prophecy. It is a rather common trait in prophetic language that an event, while literally in the remote future, may be described as near. The purpose in this sort of language to is emphasize the certainty of the prophecy�s fulfillment.
Obadiah, for instance, foretold the final day of earth�s history. Concerning that event, he said: �For the day of Jehovah is near upon all the nations...� (vs. 15). This cannot refer to some local judgment, for �all nations� are to be involved. And yet, the event is depicted as �near.�
There are numerous prophecies of this nature, including passages like James 5:7� �the coming of the Lord is at hand.� James could not have been predicting the literally imminent return of the Savior, for such knowledge was not made available to the Lord�s penmen. Not even Jesus himself knew of the time of his return to earth (Mt. 24:26).
Let us give brief consideration to the four eschatological events that are supposed to have occurred in A.D. 70� the Lord�s Second Coming, the resurrection of the dead, the day of judgment, and the end of the world.
Was there a sense in which Christ �came� to folks at various times and places? Yes, and no serious student of the Bible denies this. Jesus �came� on the day of Pentecost via the outpouring of the Holy Spirit (see Jn. 14:18). The coming was representative, not literal. The Lord warned the brethren in Ephesus that if they did not repent, he would �come� to them in judgment, and they would forfeit their identity as a faithful congregation (Rev. 2:5). In describing the horrible judgment to be inflicted upon rebellious Jerusalem, Jesus, employing imagery from the Old Testament, spoke of his �coming� in power and glory (Mt. 24:30). Again, this was a representative �coming� by means of the Roman forces (cf. Mt. 22:7). Verse 34 of Matthew 24 clearly indicates that this event was to occur before that first-century generation passed away. For further consideration of this point, see the essay on �Matthew 24� in our Archives.
The Lord�s �second coming,� however, will be as visibly apparent as his ascension back into heaven was (Acts 1:11). Indeed, he will be �revealed� (2 Thes. 1:7), or �appear� to all (2 Tim. 4:1; Heb. 9:28).
It is a mistake of horrible proportions to confuse the symbolic �comings� of Christ with the �second� (cf. Heb. 9:28) coming. And this is what the preterists do.
The dogma of �preterism� or �realized eschatology� is erroneous from beginning to end. For a more detailed consideration of this matter, see our book, The A.D. 70 Theory, listed in the Catalog section.
The doctrine of preterism is so radically unorthodox that its advocates realize that their efforts to win converts represents a formidable task. Consequently, they have developed a covert strategy that seeks to quietly spread their novel dogma until such a time when congregational take-overs can be effected. The distinctive traits of this discipling methodology are as follows.
It is alleged that this system represents an attractive, consistent method of interpretation. But there is no virtue in consistency, if one is consistently wrong!
Wise church leaders will inform themselves relative to the theory of preteristic eschatology. If such ideas are discovered to be circulating within a local church, the proponents of such doctrines should be dealt with quickly and firmly. It is a serious matter.
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A careful study of the Parable of the Tares would indicate that Jesus was talking about "this age" that was about to end. Your points do not refute Jesus coming in Judgment upon Jerusalem as the prophets prophesied and he promised. You do as you accuse others, you rely on long held beliefs rather than scholarly study that indicates some of these beliefs are in conflict with other passages of scripture so you ignore them. In response to you Matt. 24 study, see the parallels of vvs. 35 on in the account of Luke. Some of those things that are post vs 34 are in the pre vs 34 happenings listed in Luke. Jesus said he was "coming quickly" (Rev. 22:7),why do we make him out to be a liar to hold on to our interpretations that are weak and convoluted.
If this author wants anyone that actually understands what preterism is, to take him seriously, he should deal with what preterists actually believe instead of twisting thier beliefs so he can more easily make them to look like utter fools. This is called the Straw Man Fallacy. Description of Straw Man The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position. This sort of "reasoning" has the following pattern: Person A has position X. Person B presents position Y (which is a distorted version of X). Person B attacks position Y. Therefore X is false/incorrect/flawed. This sort of "reasoning" is fallacious because attacking a distorted version of a position simply does not constitute an attack on the position itself. One might as well expect an attack on a poor drawing of a person to hurt the person. For example, preterism does not hold that there isn't a resurrection of the dead, but a resurrection of a "cause". Preterism teaches that it already happened and that it wasn't a physical occurance, but it was a resurrection of the Old Testament people in judgement. They were taken out of Hades or Sheol and judged at the Great White Throne Judgment. Read some articles on this website for more information. A good one is David Curtis' message titled: The Rapture, physical or spiritual. Another thing that really bothered me was when the author stated that the penmen of the NT didn't know when the Lord would return and neither did Jesus. He then uses Mt. 24:26 to back that fact up. Well, I personally don't see what that verse has to do with Jesus not knowing when His return would be. However, if you go a mere 8 verses farther we read where He says that He will return within their generation! Also, wasn't the entire Bible inspired by God? Well I'm sure that God knew when He was going to return and since He inspired the Bible, why are the penman of the Bible limited to knowing when He would return? I don't think they were. All through the NT we see they expected His return during their lifetime. Why? I believe because they believed their master when He said He would return when some of them were still alive. Mt 16:26-27 So Wayne, if you want to argue against Preterism that's fine with me. I would however, appreciate it if you would deal with the actual preteristic view and not a Straw Man that you build to easily knock down.
Mennace? Really - what is the MENNACE? Even if Preterism were proved to be false - by a secret rapture... (i don't think this will be the case, but just suppose)... what tennent of the Christian faith have we denied? We believe in the trinity, the divinity of Christ, the atoning work of his sacrificial death, his resurrection, the resurrection of believers (though spiritually rather than physically) What about that is such a mennace?
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A DEVASTATED dad has described the horrifying moment his 18-month-old son's eye was sliced in half by a drone propeller after a family friend lost control of the gadget.
Little Oscar Webb lost his right eye after the sickening accident in a neighbour's garden.
He now faces several operations before he can have a prosthetic organ fitted.
Helpless father Rick Webb, 30, could only watch as the propeller severed a chunk of Oscar's eye — which landed on his shirt during the tragedy on October 10.
The youngster, of Stourport-on-Severn, Worcs., was rushed to hospital where he went under for a five-hour operation.
"To see it happen right in front of me was absolutely awful. "Dad Rick Webb
Stay-at-home dad Rick Webb, who has three other kids, said: "To see it happen right in front of me was absolutely awful.
"I was about to put Oscar on his trike and take him home.
"As I glanced over at Oscar the drone went straight into his face."
"I knew instantly what had happened. I saw the propeller speed up and I saw the blade spin right through his eye."
Terrified Ricky said he screamed in horror like never before.
He said: "People don't realise and understand how dangerous drones can be.
"I've got one myself but I'll never fly it again. People should wear eye and neck protection because those propellers can be deadly."
The youngster can still see through his uninjured eye but will have a long wait to gain his prosthetic.
His mum Amy Roberts, a care worker, said: "I think there should be laws on the use of drones. Rules and guidelines just aren't enough.
"I think drone owners need to be licenced and the products registered in their names.
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A street shot shows the left side of Adelbert Street from Clifford Street in the Sylvan Site development in South Portland. The development was designed by lawyer and politician Frederick Wheeler Hinckley as a model community. Each house was different.
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- Title: Adelbert Street, South Portland, c. 1920s
- Creator: Fenley, Walter
- Creation Date: circa 1920
- Subject Date: circa 1920
- Local Name: Sylvan Site
- Town: South Portland
- County: Cumberland
- State: ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 20 cm x 26 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 446, Box 1/17
- Collection: Sylvan Site
- Object Type: Image
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