Painting Do’s and Don’ts for Home Sellers

It’s easy, quick and cheap, but don’t make the mistake that it can cure every homes woes. To do it right when selling you should follow some basic rules of using paint as part of your home marketing to-do list. Mark Nash author of 1001 Tips for Buying and Selling a Home shares some tried and true tips on how to get the most mileage out of repainting a room or an entire house.

-To make the living space of a home appear larger or flow more easily use the same color or hues of the same color in adjoining rooms. The key is to keep the eye moving. Recently a home seller had painted each room on the first floor a different bold trend color, it shrunk the home visually and made it much darker. A new tone-on-tone color scheme I suggested expanded and lightened the house, and it sold soon after the redo.

-Use eggshell paint on the walls and semi-gloss on woodwork and trim. White is a fail-safe trim color. Buyers get always imagine their wall color choice with white trim and they like that they won’t have to repaint the trim.

-To expand room height paint the ceiling a different but light color than the walls. A decorator tip that really works is to add some blue tint to your white ceiling color.

-Don’t paint laminate kitchen cabinets, the paint peels and wears easily and looks like a quick fix.

-For a quality paint job, preparation is important. Walls and trim should be sanded, spackled and cleaned, for paint to adhere properly.

-Light paint colors require two coats, darker colors three or four. Prime everything once to even existing surface colors out before using finish colors. Gloss finishes show wall imperfections more than flat finishes, use sparingly.

-Use quality paints. It might not make sense to buy better paint if you won’t enjoy it, but inexpensive paints can really cheapen a paint job and the home. The small cost difference isn’t worth the gamble.

-Bring paint samples home from home improvement stores to accurately match with carpets and fabrics. Paint manufactures now offer sample sizes, do a wall test of any color your thinking of using. Colors look different in different lighting and times of day.

-Don’t be tempted to use faux finishes, leafing or glazes. They’re trendy and very specific in taste. Buyers will think it will take extra time and expense to remove and change them.

-Do take the time to put down drop clothes, tape trim and window mullions, remove switch plates and curtain hardware. Paint drips and stains lack attention of detail to home buyers.

-Think twice before have a bath tub or ceramic tile repainted or finished. To get a good new finish on these surfaces is difficult and buyers run from bubbled bathtub make over’s.

-If you’re not the best painter or time-starved to do the job right, hire a professional to come in and paint. You can focus on other jobs to be done before the marketing of your home begins and it will eliminate additional stress.

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Mark Nash’s fourth real estate book, “1001 Tips for Buying and Selling a Home” (2005), and working as a real estate broker in Chicago are the foundation for his consumer-centric real estate perspective which has been featured on ABC-TV, CBS The Early Show, Bloomberg TV, CNN-TV, Chicago Sun Times & Tribune, Fidelity Investor’s Weekly, Dow Jones Market Watch, HGTVpro.com, MSNBC.com, The New York Times, Realty Times, Universal Press Syndicate and USA Today.

Internet Marketing For Online Business Newbies

Starting an online business has become very popular among many
people of all backgrounds throughout the world. It doesn’t
matter if you are a high-school graduate, or you’re completing
your third trimester of your second year in Chiropractic School.
Any person with the desire to work from home can start an online
business. Especially now more than ever with all the turnkey
websites, “all-in-one” marketing solutions and such, one can
literally have a business up and running within 24 hours.

It’s well known that nearly 95% of all online businesses will
not succeed. So what exactly “makes or breaks” an online
business? Simply put, the type of marketing used.

Internet marketing is as hard as you make it. It can be very
hard getting past the “learning curve”, but once you do, nothing
will stop the checks coming in month after month.

We’ll begin our internet marketing lesson with 7 small, but very
powerful forms of advertising that can yield tremendous profits
for you if used correctly!

1) Article Submission

Writing articles are one of the oldest forms of advertising on
the internet. Whatever kind of business you do, write about it!
Most articles written are between 500-1000 words. The way you
advertise through articles is by having a “byline” or “resource
box” at the end of the article. For an example, please look at
the bottom of this article to see what one looks like.

After you have written an article of your business topic, you
will then want to submit them to Article Directories or Websites
that will publish the article you wrote. Here are some good
submission sites:

http://www.stickysauce.com/wanted.htm
http://www.webpronews.com/submit.html
http://www.boconline.com/sub-art.shtml
http://www.powerhomebiz.com ermsofuse/articlesubmission.htm
http://www.promotionworld.com/pop/feedback/submitarticle.html
http://www.businessknowhow.com/newsletter/articleguidelines.htm

These should get you started, but if you would like more, or
these aren’t towards your business, simply do a search at your
favorite search engine for “submit article”.

2) Participating in Active Forums

In most forums or discussion groups, they allow you to include a
little “signature ad” following every post you make. If you are
fairly knowledgeable in your business area and post good answers
to help people, more readers will be curious about you and will
click on your link and be directed to your website.

Some great forums dedicated to internet marketing are:

http://www.ablake.net/forum/ http://www.howtocorp.com/forum/
http://www.williecrawford.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi

3) Pay Per Click / Google Adwords

If you’re not familiar with this type of advertising, please
don’t be completely turned of by the title. Yes, you do need to
pay for some advertising. And using pay per clicks (ppcs for
short) allow you to drive very targeted traffic to your website.
With a PPC, you literally “bid” on whatever keywords your
potential customers will search for.

Another great way to grab traffic before you have to shell out
your money is by utilizing Google Adwords. TO learn more about
this, please visit Google Adwords tips at:

https://www.adwords.google.com <-- Quick Reference
https://www.adwords.google.com/select ips.html <-- Tips & More

4) Search Engine Optimization

Let's face it.. The best kind of traffic is free traffic, right?
There are a ton of ways to get traffic to your website, but in
my opinion, this is the most cost effective. After all, it's
free! Search Engine Optimization requires a great deal of
knowledge of how search engines work, but it's definitely not an
impossible feat by any means. The basic rule of thumb is to
create a website in such a way that your visitors will want to
come back. Also, create a website that will make others want to
link to your site, without any required link back to theirs.

Some great SEO (search engine optimization) resources are:

http://www.highrankings.com
http://www.searchenginestrategies.biz
http://www.bruceclay.com/web_rank.htm

5) Paid Advertising On High Traffic Sites

Sometimes, you will find a website that allows advertising on
their site. For a reasonable price, they will display your link
and sometimes a description for a weekly or monthly fee.

One of the best ways to find websites that offer advertising is
quite simple actually. You simply go to your favorite search
engine, search for your businesses best keyword phrase and look
through the results. These are the people you will want to
partner with, especially if they receive a good amount of
traffic. A good way to know if they receive a good deal of
traffic to their site is by a neat tool called the Alexa
toolbar. You can go directly to that site and download this
tool, or you can simply go to :http://www.alexa.com and search
for their site. When you get the results, it will say something
like “Traffic Rank for ________.com : 2,445″. The main thing to
remember is, the *lower* the traffic rank, the *more* traffic
that website receives.So, a site with a traffic rank of 26,983
receives more traffic than a site with a traffic rank of 76,990.

6) Joint Ventures

A Joint Venture (JV for short) is just that. It’s a venture that
you do jointly with one or more parties. This method isn’t only
limited to those with their own product, as many people think.
The way this works is by setting up a deal with a person who has
a very large customer base already. What you do is literally
“tap into” their resources. You see, they have already done the
hard part (creating a list of people who have already bought
from them). Now all you do is simply email them with a special
proposal, and have them recommend your product/service to their
list. This alone can product thousands of website visitors to
your website. And in the end, can yield massive profits for you
if done properly.

7) Having Your Own Affiliate Program

Generally speaking this form of advertising typically applies to
those with their own products or services to sell. For example,
if you create an information “how-to” digital ebook. Many times
your merchant account will have a built in affiliate program
manager that will allow people to join, and promote your product
or service for a certain percentage that you determine.

Some great affiliate program managers that I have personally
have used and recommend are:

http://www.clickbank.com http://www.quickpaypro.com
http://www.homebasedbusinessindex.com/webhost.html (built in web
hosting as well)

The main thing to remember when marketing your business is to
keep your potential customers/visitors in mind. Build a website
that caters to their needs and wants. If you utilize these
resources for internet marketing, you will see the success that
most individuals never truly see. Even though what is listed
above gives a great starting point, don’t limit yourself to
what’s listed above only. If you truly want to succeed with your
online business, study the “Art of Internet Marketing”. Give
yourself room for improvement, and never think you know enough
to “get by” either. Internet Marketing changes as time does, so
keep the ball in your court, and have fun while playing ;)

Killing Red Heads

“With regard to the ancient Egyptians we have it on the authority of Manetho that they used to burn red-haired men and scatter their ashes with winnowing fans {So the atoms of energy would spread with the wind to all present.}, and it is highly significant that this barbarous sacrifice was offered by the kings at the grave of Osiris. We may conjecture that the victims represented Osiris himself…

…found in the general, though not unanimous, voice of antiquity, which classed together the worship and myths of Osiris, Adonis, Attis, Dionysius {A root in de Danaan and Dianistic female worship} and Demeter, as religions of essentially the same type. The consensus of ancient opinion on this subject seems too great to be rejected as mere fancy. So closely did the rites of Osiris resemble those of Adonis at Byblus… themselves maintained that it was Osiris and not Adonis whose death was mourned by them {Remember that Mount Olympus was originally on Cyprus and the home of the Greek gods, now called by a different name.}… Herodotus found the similarity between the rites of Osiris and Dionysius so great that he thought it impossible the latter could have risen independently… Plutarch, a very keen student of comparative religion, insists upon the detailed resemblance of the rites of Osiris to Dionysius…. resemblances of ritual are matters of observation.”(1)

The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity by Hyam Maccoby says the following:

Defying the accepted view of Jesus as creator of Christianity, Hyam Maccoby, a leading Talmudic scholar, offers a brilliantly argued, boldly provocative challenge to traditional theories about the origin of the Christian religion and leads us to a startling unorthodox conclusion. Maccoby claims that Paul rather than Jesus was the theoretician and architect of that amazing hybrid of Hellenism and Judaism we know today as Christianity, and that it was Paul alone who created a new religion through his vision of Jesus as a divine Savior who died to save humanity. This concept went far beyond the messianic claims of Jesus and, in fact, was an amalgamation of ideas derived from Hellenistic religion, especially from Gnosticism and the mystery cults… Bold and scholastically scrupulous. (pg. xi) In my earlier book on Jesus, Revolution in Judaea, I showed how, in the Synoptic Gospels, Jesus speaks and acts as a Pharisee, though the Gospel editors have attempted to conceal this by representing him as opposing Pharisaism… In the present book, I have used rabbinical evidence to establish an opposite contention: that Paul, whom the New Testament wishes to portray as having been a trained Pharisee, never was one.

This explains the puzzling and ambiguous role given in the Gospels to the companions of Jesus, the twelve disciples. They are shadowy figures, who are allowed little personality, except of a schematic kind. They are portrayed as stupid; they never quite understand what Jesus is up to. Their importance in the origins of Christianity is played down in a remarkable way. For example, we find immediately after Jesus’ death that the leader of the Jerusalem Church is Jesus’ brother James. Yet in the Gospels, this James does not appear at all as having anything to do with Jesus’ mission and story. Instead, he is given a brief mention as one of the brothers of Jesus who allegedly ‘opposed’ Jesus during his lifetime and regarded him as mad. How it came about that a brother who had been hostile to Jesus in his lifetime suddenly became the revered leader of the Church immediately after Jesus’ death is not explained, though one would have thought that some explanation was called for. Later Church legends, of course, filled the gap with stories of the miraculous conversion of James after the death of Jesus and his development into a saint. But the most likely explanation is, as will be argued later, that the erasure of Jesus’ brother James (and his other brothers) from any significant role in the Gospel story is part of the denigration of the early leaders {Thus the whole of the Jewish people who like the Armenians and Celts or indeed anyone in the orthodox churches suffered the fury of Roman deceit and hatred.} who had been in close contact with Jesus and regarded with great suspicion and dismay the Christological theories of the upstart Paul, flaunting his new visions in interpretation of the Jesus whom he had never met in the flesh. (2)

So, Paul who had participated in the murder of St. Stephen and lots of other dastardly oppressions of the Jews while called Saul was able to get great visions of his former foe. His inventions include laying claim to having been a Pharisee and a conversion to a church who was the enemy of his Roman employers and their henchmen (the Temple ‘idiots’) who were too inbred to develop the brain and discipline due to their inherited positions. The Pharisaic saying covering this was ‘a learned bastard takes precedence over an ignorant High Priest’. (3)

This group of learned men called Pharisees are quite in line with the Bairds, Ovates and Druids who were their ‘brothers’ in earlier times and probably were still in touch as the references to King Ophir indicate just five centuries earlier. Abaris the Druid was the Dean of Studies for Pythagoras and his name ‘Abaris’ means rabbi. In fact the Greeks who took the Benjaminites to Arcadia in Greece were probably loyal to the ‘Brotherhood’ or in concert with the Phoenicians who were almost ever-present in Biblical and early Hebrew times. Mr. Maccoby is a Rabbi and that is close to being a Pharisee and that may have caused him to think Paul’s usurping of the rabbinic bloodline is worse than his usurping of the Benjaminite legacy. The truth is the Benjaminite claim is even more outlandish. This man’s own words tell us in Romans 11:2: “I am an Israelite myself, of the stock of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin, circumcised on my eighth day, Israelite by race, of the tribe of Benjamin, A Hebrew, born and bred; in my attitude to the law, a Pharisee (Philippians 3: 5).”

Nothing in his early life actions would tell us that he was a Pharisee who supported the underprivileged in laws and all societal structures throughout the Roman and Parthian Empire. A detailed and honest investigation can easily see the Pharisees have been ridiculed and given all kinds of negative publicity in the Gospels and from the pulpits of all churches to this day. What better way to destroy someone than to have your ‘front man’ be one of them. This is classic espionage and ‘black ops’ intrigue!

“Instead of the priests, the Pharisees looked for guidance to their own leaders, the ‘hakhamin’ (sages), who were not a hereditary class but came from every level of society including the poorest… The other verse quoted by Jesus from Leviticus, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself’ was also regarded by the Pharisees as of central importance, and was treated by the two greatest figures of Pharisaism, Hillel and Rabbi Akiba…

Jesus’ threat to the Temple was not subversive of Jewish religion, but it was a real threat to the quisling regime of the High Priest. (Appointed by Rome)… rather it was the Jews who were framed by the Gospels, whose concern was to shift the blame for the crucifixion from the Romans to the Jews and their religion.” (4)

Surely we need only look at the result and know this is the truth! When the ‘Holocaust’ has garnered so much press how is it that the whole history of this plot has escaped our schools’ attention. Clearly the geneticists say we are all descended from a strain of hominids in Africa and there is little good reason to diminish each other.

Have you heard of the Sarmoung or Sarman Brotherhood? They were an important group of esoteric philosophers or Magi whose home in later day Persia started around 2600 BC. What is their legacy and heritage? Gurdjieff spoke of being a ’speaker’ of the ancient ‘verbal tradition’ and I think he draws his inspiration from such alchemists as Mani (the leader of a post Christian effort to fuse Christianity and Zoroastrian ideologies). Augustine was a Manichean before his ‘conversion’ or should I say ‘quisling sell-out’. What was their roots? Did they influence the remnants of Sumeria or were they the remnants of it? There were many outposts and brigands or leaders who followed their own ideas on the Silk Route. Some of these were considered pure legend but space photos and archaeology have proven the legends right again. I think the legends have a great deal more credibility than the Bible or other religious ‘narratives’.

‘The Golden Bough’ brings us some more information that ties in with the ’shem-an-na’ furnaces of Mt. Serbit or Mt. Sinai that we quoted from Genesis of the Grail Kings.

“The island of Cyprus lies but one day’s sail from the coast of Syria {He has bought a large chunk of the Bible portrayal of the Phoenicians and does not know the relevance of the cones and ’shem-an- na’ conical objects… His research seems to all post-date the explosion of the island of Thera.}. Indeed, on fine summer evenings its mountains may be described looming low and dark against the red fires of sunset. With its rich mines of copper and its forests of firs and stately cedars, the island naturally attracted a commercial and maritime people like the Phoenicians; while the abundance of its corn, its wine, and its oil must have rendered it in their eyes a Land of Promise by comparison with the niggardly nature of their own rugged coast, hemmed in between the mountains and the sea. Accordingly they settled in Cyprus at a very early date and remained there long after the Greeks had also established themselves on its shores {The Greeks were a Phoenician supported culture and often are seen on islands like Sardinia with camps next to each other as Kelts (5).}; for we know from inscriptions and coins that Phoenician kings reigned at Citium, the Chittem of the Hebrews, down to the time of Alexander the Great. Naturally the Semitic colonists brought their gods with them from the mother-land {We’ve reported that Richard Rudgely’s book on Stone Age Civilizations confirmed the 35,000 year old mines in Egypt and if Frazer had this information we think he would have been more daring in dating this Cyprus settlement to earlier times rather than saying very ancient. He could have known of Professor Smith of Hobart College’s work on the sidereal charts of the heavens in the Great Pyramid though. This shows a 60,000 year greater antiquity to the culture in itself. The 80,000 year old refined tool from Central Africa found in 1997 ties in with the far older cultures as well. There is an ever-increasing mountain of evidence that the academic community is starting to have to agree makes the ‘conventional’ view of history ridiculous. Mr. Rudgely is an Oxford trained scholar and he also reports the Berekhat Ram figurine pushed art back to 400,000 years old from earlier 40,000 year thought. Even 40,000 was a big step for the ‘Bible Narrative’ to swallow. The Mu motherland of Churchward may figure in all of this too. That is especially true because there was a time when Troy was called AA-MU and known to have been Phoenician.}. They worshipped Baal of the Lebanon, who may well have been Adonis, and at Amathus on the south coast they instituted the rites of Adonis and Aphrodite, or rather Astarte. Here, as at Byblus, these rites resembled the Egyptian worship of Osiris so closely that some people even identified the Adonis of Amathus with Osiris.

But the great seat of worship of Aphrodite and Adonis in Cyprus was Paphos on the south-western side of the island. Among the petty kingdoms into which Cyprus was divided from the earliest times until the end of the fourth century before our era Paphos must have ranked with the best. It is a land of hills and billowy ridges, diversified by fields and vineyards and intersected by rivers, which in the course of ages have carved for themselves beds of such tremendous depth that travelling in the interior is difficult and tedious. The lofty range of Mount Olympus (the modern Troodos), capped with snow the greater part of the year, screens Paphos from the northerly and easterly winds and cuts it off from the rest of the island. On the slopes of the range the last pine-woods of Cyprus linger, sheltering here and there monasteries in scenery not unworthy of the Appenines {Or the area around Ctl Hyk dated to 9,500 years and more ago; that Frazer would not have known about except in legend.}. The old city of Paphos (the modern Kuklia) was one of the most celebrated shrines in the ancient world. According to Herodotus, it was founded by Phoenician colonists from Ascalon; but it is possible that a native goddess of fertility was worshipped on the spot before the arrival of the Phoenicians, and that the newcomers identified her with their own Baalath or Astarte, whom she may have closely resembled. If the two deities were thus fused in one, we may suppose that they were both varieties of that great goddess of motherhood and fertility whose worship appears to have been spread allover Western Asia from a very early time. The supposition is confirmed as well by the archaic shape of her image as by the licentious character of her rites; for both that shape and those rites were shared by her with other Asiatic deities. Her image was simply a white cone or pyramid. In like manner, a cone was the emblem of Astarte at Byblus, of the native goddess whom the Greeks called Artemis at Perga in Pamphylia, and of the sun-god Heliogabalus at Emesa in Syria. Conical stones, which apparently served as idols have been found at Golgi in Cyprus, and in the Phoenician temples of Malta; and cones of sandstone came to light at the shrine of the ‘Mistress of Turquoise’ among the barren hills and frowning precipices of Sinai.” (6)

If these ‘conical stones’ are in fact the same as Sir Flinders-Petrie found at the site Frazer is referring to (ten years before he wrote, while archaeologists were trying to figure them out, and failed.) and they are in Malta and elsewhere - then we can see the ‘chaos scientists’ had sites to make ‘mfzkt’ or the ‘white powder’ of the alchemic factory in diverse places. The turquoise that one would expect to find was not the reason for this site that Gardner almost ‘proves’ was for this white powder. He demonstrates all the excuses like turquoise and copper mining are part and parcel of the cover-up of this site which is the legendary Mt. Sinai or Mt. Horeb from the Bible. He shows Moses was visiting these scientists while his people saw the fires and thought they were a ‘burning bush’ that didn’t actually combust.

We are certain there is enough in what we have put together here to prove the existing fables are not true history. The Ka’bah in Mecca has a black meteorite that is revered and honored in an appropriate fashion. This may be the origin of alchemy and all metallurgical arts. The meteorites that fell from the sky have been here since long before the dinosaurs and they provided the first alloyed tools or weapons that made man try to duplicate them. In fact, the ‘black earth’ and ‘virgin earth’ or ‘Black Madonnas’ are all part of the alchemic process to make the ‘Great Work’ known as the ‘Philosopher’s Stone’.

Mircae Eliade documents the practice of sacrificing humans was part of Mycenaean religion and a turning point in the matriarchal ‘Brotherhood’ of egalitarianism; The Eliade Guide to World Religions says:

“Mycenaean Religion… Mycenaean culture, Greek speaking but related to Minoan, has often been interpreted as the triumph of male qualities {What an interesting way of describing the end of equality?!} in both society and religion. Admitting the naveté of this theory, it may be noted that Mycenaean cities, unlike Minoan, are walled fortresses (such as Tiryns, Gla, and Thebes), patriarchy and battle are dominant themes, and the great goddess (Potnia: “Lady”, “Mistress”) is displaced in her preeminence by the sky-god of Indo-European origins, Zeus the father. This was the civilization that brought us the Trojan War, or the misty historical precedent for the Homeric poem, and then burnt itself out in princely adventurism, falling with the Sea Peoples’ invasions into a four-century dark age (twelfth to ninth century B.C.E.) after its flourishing trade network had stretched across the Mediterranean from Asia Minor perhaps to Sicily.”(7)

These ‘Sea People’ are the Hyksos Kings of Egypt who had possibly joined with the remnants of Mu in the time of the founding of Karnac. Certainly they were more inclined even at this late stage to fight against the patriarchal domination of women and the destruction of the knowledge the soul and each individual’s divinity can bring. The idea of early beliefs being altered and usurped are evident and numerous. Of course this means the ‘Virgin’ birth or ‘Incarnation’ legend is another hoax. Sally Cunneen covers some more of these great liars who are excellent role models for our citizens of today:

“By the fourth century, church scholars maintained uniformly that Jesus had no real siblings, merely cousins, and most Roman Catholics still believe this. However, Protestant Biblical scholars today generally believe that Mary had four other sons: James, Joses, Simon and Jude, and two or three daughters, none identified by name. Although Catholic teaching has consistently held otherwise, Catholic New Testament scholar John Meier finds no reason not to believe that Jesus had sisters and brothers.” (8)

So, if so much of the Catholic fable is based on the ‘immaculate conception’ with a ‘virgin’, and James is the older brother of Jesus who many think was a twin (to Thomas of the Gospel of Thomas, from 1945’s Dag or Nag Hammadi ‘finds’). Then what we are faced with, on this fact alone, is a truly evil hoax to obliterate other beliefs and diminish women. All the evidence we have put before the reader is but a small part of the trials and tribulations that truth has yet to overcome.

1) The Golden Bough, by James Frazer ‘A Study in Magic and Religion’, 1922, Intro. by George W. Stocking, Jr., Penguin Books, 1996 Ed., pgs. 455,463.

2) ‘The Mythmaker: Paul and The Invention of Christianity’, 1986 by Hyam Maccoby, Harper Collins, NY, 1st Harper & Row Paperback in 1987.

3) Mishnah, Horayot, 3.8.

4) The Mythmaker, op. cit. pgs. 23, 48, 49, Includes reference to Hillel (Babylonian Talmud Shabbat 31a, where the principle of Love of neighbor is expressed in the form of the Golden Rule: ‘What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow creature!’) and Rabbi Akiba (Sifra 89b, Genesis Rabbah 24:7, who said: ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself’ is the greatest principle of the LAW!’). I agree the Law of RIGHT THOUGHT = RIGHT ACTION places this above all principles in the Brotherhood of Iesa. To diminish one diminishes all!

5) Etruscan Life and Afterlife, by Larissa Bonfante, Wayne State University Press, many maps show Celts encamped next to Greeks but little thought they were all Phoenicians.

6) The Golden Bough, op. cit. pp.397-400. Hiram Abiff of the Masonic themes is actually Osiris too, according to some Masonic authors.

7) The Eliade Guide to World Religions, Mircae Eliade & Joan P. Couliano with Hillary S. W,iesner, Harper San Francisco,1991. pg. 114.

8) In Search of Mary, The Woman and the Symbol, by Sally Cunneen, Ballantine Books, NY, 1996, pg. 35 and quote from John Meier and ‘A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus’, Vol. 1. (NY, Doubleday 1991) 318-319.

Author of Diverse Druids

Columnist for The ES Press Magazine

Guest ‘expert’ at World-Mysteries.com

The Most Essential Gardening Equipment

Taking good care of your garden shouldn’t be left only on the natural conditions, such as sun, rain and soil minerals. These three as vital for every plant, but there are few things which you have to do yourself in order to preserve the good looks of your garden. The thing you need to invest in, if you like to have the perfect garden, is suitable gardening equipment. Gardening equipment is crucial for the state of your garden. But people usually tend to neglect that fact, and often come up with problems they could easily have solved, if having used the proper gardening equipment on time.

Gardening equipment should be carefully scrutinised so that no defects occur unnoticed. Just like all machinery, gardening equipment is meant to deteriorate sooner or later. That is why you need to keep an eye on your gardening tools, so that you can avoid any bad cases happening. To be absolutely safe about all the problems that might happen in your garden, you need to have the full set of gardening equipment. Borrowing from the neighbours can be cool, as it strengthens the friendly bonds, but daily borrowing can turn out to ruin even the polite attitude of your neighbour towards you. So, you had better buy all the gardening equipment that you may need. What are they?

1) First and foremost, you need a lawnmower. Luxus Push Reel Mower can be the great choice for everyone. It protects flowers and it cuts the grass to perfection. Another appropriate tool is called American Lawn Mower Deluxe. It causes no pollution, but it may be useless for too tall grasses.

2) The second tool in your gardening equipment is a garden shredder. All shredders have watt motor and are silent when switched on. The portable type of shredders is best for your needs as they come together with a plunger. Shredders can help in pruning trees, and in finishing the minor defects left on hedges.

3) Leaf sweepers are gardening tools used for minor lawns. They have 200-litre collector and can work on every height.

4) Another useful tool for the full gardening equipment is a cultivator. It is used for preparing the soil, and for making it smoother. Flowerbeds and vegetable plots can be prepared by cultivators. They can also help cleaning the moss, aerating and in thatching.

5) Edge trimmer. A tool used for the most relaxing work in the garden - the trimming of hedges. It can also be used in plant pruning.

6) Mattock. This practical tool can substitute a hoe and a pick. It is used for working on clay soils to break them up.

7) Spading fork. The fork is used for aerating and transplanting. It helps in splitting of grasses and perennials. The spading fork can be applied to serve multiple needs: can be used as a manure fork, a mulch fork, and for sorting hay.

The tools listed are just the most necessary. Your gardening equipment can vary depending on your needs, but you should have these seven before attempting to take on gardening at all.

Article by Robbie Darmona - an article writer who writes on a wide variety of subjects. For more information click Organic Gardening Equipment

Forex Basics Part 1

This is the first in a series of articles that are intending to introduce beginning traders to all the essential aspects of foreign exchange. I will start by identifying and defining the essential aspects of foreign exchange trading, and key components that you will be exposed to as a forex trader.

Forex is an acronym for Foreign Exchange. The foreign exchange is a currency market where currencies are traded. Traders are trading one currency against another. There are very large players in this game such as, large banks, corporations, and countries. There is also the speculative trader. Most individual traders would fit into the speculative category. Speculative trading focuses on the value of one currency with regard to another. As a speculative trader you focus on or bet on which currencies will go up in value and which ones will go down. Fundamental economic news and political situations play an important roll in the fluctuation in value of a currency for any given country.

Forex is the largest financial market in the world. Daily trading volume exceeds $1.5 trillion. Comparing this to other financial markets such as equities at $50 billion daily trading volume, and the futures market at $30 billion in daily volume you can begin to realize the flexibility and infinite trading liquidity the FOREX has to offer. The FOREX is a 24 hour market. This means flexibility for you as a trader. This market never closes. You can always find good trading opportunities at your convenience. This is a 24 hour electronic online currency exchange.

Currencies are traded in pairs. Meaning when you buy one currency you are selling the cross currency. The position that you take long or short is indicative to how you think that pair will perform. For example, if you were to buy long USD/GBP, you are betting that the USD (US Dollar) will increase in value against the GBP (Great Britain Pound). You are actually buying the USD and simultaneously selling the GBP. If you were to go short on this pair you would be betting that the USD is going to decrease in value against the GBP. It can get confusing but fortunately the services that provide the trading platforms from which you will be placing trades will keep track of this for you. Everything is electronic and online, trading is done in real time. You can watch immediate results of all your trades. These are highly sophisticated programs tracking every movement in the currency market in real time.

Part 2 will focus more on currency pairs, trading platforms and charting software.

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Learning to Surf With Corky Carroll

Learning to Surf With Corky Carroll

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I’d like to say the sun flooded
us with a warm glow that morning.

That we could barely make out the orangey rays peeking through the holes in the clouds. I’d like to say that my feet and skin welcomed the daybreak, but unfortunately this wasn’t the case.

It was an August Monday morning, and as I nervously walked onto Bolsa Chica State Beach in Huntington Beach, California, I was greeted by a bitter chill and a slight drizzle. It was gray and cold. So cold, that I couldn’t understand why anyone would want to get into an even chillier water in an attempt to surf. But surfing isn’t about lazy warm afternoons or playing in the water. It’s about style and technique. It’s about love; something I would soon learn.

I have signed up for the group lesson, and I took cover under the tarp where I was welcomed by blonde haired, deeply tanned Rick Walker, the Corky Carroll Surf School Director. After introducing myself, I felt comforted by his raspy voice and amazing enthusiasm. For the next 45 minutes or so, the rest of the students and I listened to Rick’s wisdom on the importance of safety, direction and technique in the water. One of the more interesting things I noticed during his enlightening and slightly comical routine was the fact that the majority of students were about 15 years younger than I and about half my size. Naturally I bonded with a few surfers more my age as we were lined up in order of height. Feeling more comfortable now, I was ready and willing to give my first attempt at surfing an embarrassing try.

We were separated in groups of about four or five, each with a different instructor. Smiling and a little out of breath, an instructor by the name of Brian showed up soaked from all ready surfing. After that came the pivotal moment that made me understand how anyone in their right mind could be out here surfing in these gloomy conditions, I was given a wet suit.

Corky Carroll’s Surfing School provided us with wet suits, pre-waxed surfboards and professional instructors. Brian told me that some of the instructors here have been competing in international competitions for years. He, on the other hand, only gives surfing lessons during the summers. During the rest of the year he is an academic teacher.

“Sometimes I’m having so much fun out here that I forget I’m working,” he said. I responded with a smile and a nod as he proceeded to get each of us the correct board. Soon came the dreaded moment of entering the water. My new buddies and I strutted our way down the beach to an open area where we could learn surfing basics safely. With echoes of the Baywatch theme song in the back of my head I entered the water.

First we learned how to get over or under the waves we didn’t want. It was this moment when the real work began - paddling. The key, as Brian explained, is to make sure your shoulders are back, your feet are together and you paddle hard. This is exactly what we did for the first 45 minutes or so in the water.

Sometime after learning more about the basics and techniques, we headed again out to sea to try and catch some waves. The waves were moderately small, so we sat on our boards waiting for a set. As I bounced around like an unbalanced buoy, I noticed something off in the horizon about 60 yards out.

“What is that,” I said to myself. “There it is again.” And just as my eyes squinted enough to focus in, out popped three triangularly shaped fins shuffling southward between the waves ahead of us. Our presence went unnoticed as three dark gray dolphins swam perpendicularly past us. It was one of those moments that makes you realize how glad you are to be a long way from your cell phone or any other electronic device. It’s refreshing to be completely at the mercy of a seemingly infinite body of water. But alas, the waves did come and not a moment too soon.

Paddling hard like Brian taught us to, I pushed and pushed to stay in front of the quickly growing curl. I crashed and burned on this first wave, but eventually I began to get a grasp of this surfing thing. As we walked back on the beach to take a rest, all the students gathered in a line so each person could have a photo with Corky Carroll himself. He stood there next to the surfboard with a warm grin. Students were excited to have a photo taken with the surfing expert, and Corky hwas delighted in the opportunity to teach others his tricks of the trade.

Corky Carroll, the other director of the school and ex-professional surfer, explained how a wave could rear its face at you. “Sometimes the wind blows against the wave ripping off the crest. It can leave the rest of the wave jagged and rough.” Overlooking the progress of the up-and-coming surfers, Corky told the story of the gnarliest wave he ever

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You Will Not Get A Bang Out Of This Hunt

Each year ten of thousands of meteorites hit the earth. They are
worth big dollars to the finders. This is your chance to find
one. You also will be able to say that you have entered the
Twilight Zone, or better known as The Flying X Meteorite Hunting
Ranch of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.

Did you ever go on a strange vacation? Well this one is out of
this world. When you come to Truth or Consequences to see the
new space station that will launch tourists into space, do a
little walking to find space junk…meteorites on our ranch.
Hunting for meteorites does not have to be a bone chilling
adventure to the Antarctic where the temperature is 50 below
zero F and 50 mile per hour winds. Meteors enter the earth
atmosphere everywhere. They impact everywhere. The trick in
finding them is to look where they have had a good chance of
impacting or where they have been concentrated by natural forces
of the earth and HAVE NOT BEEN DESTROYED BY WEATHERING. This
means deserts are a good place to search for meteorites. Deserts
can change over the centuries. But deserts don’t alway have
major weathering. Thus if you want to find meteorites you may
want to come to our Truth or Consequences Ranch. It is located
in New Mexico adjacent to the Chihuahuan Desert. There are
trillions and trillions of terrestrial rocks for each meteorite
that could be in this area. Metal detectors are used by many
professional meteorite hunters around the world. Metal detectors
can easily distinguish between ferrous and non ferrous rocks.
Since not all meteorites are ferrous only the ferrous meteorites
will be found by the metal detector. Modern metal detectors can
balance out dominant background rocks. This inhances the
detector to find the meteorites. Metal detectors creat a
constant hum. The volume and pitch of this hum increases as the
detector passes over the metallic object. There are hot rocks
which produces a signal but is a false positive. Thus detecting
requires concentration and you will see lots and lots of hot
rocks. You must also keep a visual eye for other interesting
rocks which can be meteorites. It seems that the best way to
find meteorites from this area is to use a combination of metal
detecting and good old-fashioned shoe-leather foot searching.
The weather is not hard to predict for the Truth or Consequences
area. Don’t bother to bring a rain coat, it only rains 10″ per
year. The winters are mild as it is Southern New Mexico. It
could get to 10F, but not for many days of the year. A clear sky
with a gentle breeze is the norm.

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