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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Ezekiel 1
Lamentations 5
§ 1. Ezekiel's Call and Consecration as a Prophet (Ezekiel 1-3)
Date, June-July, 592 b.c.
Ezekiel's call and consecration to his prophetic work took place by means of a vision of God's glory (Ezekiel 1), and of a divine commission, or rather series of commissions, conveyed partly in speech and partly in symbol (Ezekiel 2, 3).
The Vision of God's Glory
This vision, unlike the inaugural visions of Isaiah and Jeremiah, came to Ezekiel not only at the beginning of his prophetic ministry, but also several times during the course of it. It was early repeated in connexion with his call and commission (Ezekiel 3:23), and it appeared on two other occasions (Ezekiel 8-11, Ezekiel 43:1-5). In Ezekiel 10 in particular the account in Ezekiel 1 is closely reproduced, with some additional details.
In a state of trance, or ecstasy, Ezekiel saw approaching from the north a glowing stormcloud, which resolved itself into a remarkable group of four living creatures, arranged symmetrically in a square. Their general appearance was human, and every one had four faces, a human face looking outwards, the face of a lion on the right, the face of an ox on the left, and the face of an eagle looking inwards to the centre of the square. Every one had also four wings, two of which were stretched out to meet those of the living creatures on either side, the points where the tips of the wings touched each other being the corners of the square. The other pairs of wings covered the bodies of the living creatures, and linder these wings were human hands. The living creatures had straight, jointless limbs, and feet like the hoofs of a calf. The whole group was pervaded with glowing lambent fire, from which lightnings shot forth. It moved to and fro with lightning speed, and did so without turning, as its four sides were exactly alike, and any one of them could be the front for the time. Beside the living creatures were four vast wheels, the rims of which were full of eyes. These wheels also were so arranged that they could move in any direction without changing front. Though apparently unconnected with the living creatures they moved in perfect harmony with them, ascending and descending, going backwards and forwards, or from side to side, exactly as they did. The motion of this living chariot was accompanied by a majestic rushing sound. Above tho heads of the living creatures there was a solid crystalline platform, supporting an enthroned human Figure, who was clothed in a fiery iridescent radiance. Overawed by the sight, Ezekiel fell upon his face, and as he lay he heard a divine voice addressing him.
The whole vision brought before Ezekiel's consciousness the presence and glory of God, but the part of it in which God Himself was more directly manifested is described with a reverent reserve. Ezekiel is careful not to identify the divine essence with the material emblems which he beheld. What he saw was 'the likeness of a throne,' and upon it 'a likeness as the appearance of a man.' The whole was 'the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Jehovah.' The details of the vision are concerned rather with the subordinate appearances by which the divine glory was accompanied and upborne.
We are not, of course, to understand that the living creatures and the wheels which Ezekiel saw were actually existing realities. They were only the forms in which certain aspects of God's glory were bodied forth before his mind's eye. And while the visionary combination of the symbols, and the impression which it produced, were the results of divine inspiration acting through a peculiar mental condition, it is permissible to seek the origin of the symbols themselves among objects which were familiar to Ezekiel's ordinary sight, and conceptions which were familiar to his ordinary thought. Composite animal figures, such as winged bulls and lions with human heads, and winged and eagle-headed men, were very common objects in the temples of Babylonia. There has even been found on an ancient BabyIonian seal a representation of a god in a fourwheeled chariot drawn by a winged monster. Then Ezekiel tells us himself (Ezekiel 10:20) that the living creatures were cherubim, like those which formed part of the furniture (Exodus 25:18-20) and decoration (Exodus 26:31) of the tabernacle, and of the Temple of Jerusalem (1 Kings 6:23-29). In Hebrew poetry, too, the cherubim were personifications of the storm-cloud on which Jehovah rode (Psalms 18:10, also Psalms 80:1; Psalms 99:1 RV). In the winged attendants, the glowing fire, and the throne, Ezekiel's vision has points of resemblance to that of Isaiah (Isaiah 6), but while the imagery of Isaiah's vision was evidently that of the Temple at Jerusalem expanded and glorified, the scene of Ezekiel's was rather the great temple of nature, where Jehovah's throne is above the blue sky, and His chariot is the thunder-cloud, with lightnings flashing from its heart of fire.
The details of the vision are all suggestive of the attributes of God. The Figure on the throne is an emblem of His sovereign rule. The general human form and the various faces of the living creatures symbolise different aspects of divine majesty and strength. The imposing height of the wheels, and the sublime sound with which the whole living chariot moved, convey the same impression. The symmetrical arrangement of the living creatures and the wheels, and their swift movements in every direction, indicate the omnipresence of God. The eyes on the wheels denote His omnisoient intelligence. The spontaneous and united motion of wheels and cherubim suggest the pervasive presence and universal working of God's Spirit, controlling things that seem to be independent. The fire is a symbol of divine purity and holiness. The rainbow colours add a touch of sublime beauty to the conception of the glory of God.
1. The thirtieth year] The reference of the number is uncertain. Suggested explanations are, (1) that Ezekiel's age is meant; (2) that the reckoning is from some recent era, such as Josiah's reformation (621 b.c.), or the independence of Babylon under Nabopolassar (625 b.c., taking thirty as a round number), or the accession of Nebuchadrezzar (604 b.c., reading 'thirteenth' for 'thirtieth'), or some Babylonian epoch otherwise unknown to us; (3) that 'the thirtieth year' is an insertion made with the object of harmonising the different periods assigned for the duration of the exile by Jeremiah (70 years, Jeremiah 25:11; Jeremiah 29:10) and Ezekiel (40 years, Ezekiel 4:6) respectively. Of these explanations (1) is improbable, and if (3) be not accepted we are shut up to some of the forms of (2). Among these 625 b.c. (Nabopolassar) seems a more likely starting-point for an epoch than 621 b.c. (Josiah's reformation), but, on the other hand, the latter date agrees more exactly with the number given. The fourth month] the month Tammuz = June-July: see on Ezekiel 8:14. The river of Chebar] the nârKabari (Great River, or 'Grand Canal') of the inscriptions. It was a large navigable canal branching off from the Euphrates, and passing near Nippur, SE. of Babylon. It is probably represented by the modern Shatt-en-Nil, a canal 120 ft. wide, which divides the ruins of Nippur in two.
2. King Jehoiachin's captivity] the first captivity, 597 b.c.: see Intro. The fifth year] 592 b.c.
3. The word of the Lord came] the usual formula for prophetic inspiration. Chaldeans] Babylonians. The hand of the Lord was.. upon him] producing the trance in which he saw the vision.
4. Amber] RM 'electrum,' an alloy of gold and silver.
7. Feet] rather, 'limbs.' Straight] kneeless, unjointed. The living creatures did not move by walking. Like.. a calf's foot] not projecting in one direction as a human foot does.
11. Stretched upward] RV 'separate above.'
15. One wheel.. with his four faces] RV 'one wheel.. for each of the four faces thereof,' four wheels in all.
16. A wheel in the middle of (RV 'within') a wheel] an obscure expression. One explanation is that every wheel had another joined to it at right angles, so that the compound wheel would appear thus
from above, and could revolve backwards and forwards on one rim, and from side to side on the other. Another theory places the four wheels symmetrically thus
, in which arrangement, taking anyside as the front, the back wheel would overlap the front one and could be seen through the spokes of the latter. A third suggestion is that every wheel was made up of two concentric circles, the outer rim having a smaller wheel within it, surrounding the axle, thus
17. They turned not when they went] as in Ezekiel 1:9, Ezekiel 1:12. The wheels of course revolved, but, like the living creatures, they could move in different directions without changing front.
18. Rings] RM 'felloes.'
20, 21. Living creature] The group of four is spoken of as one.
24. The voice of the Almighty] the voice of Jehovah is a common OT. expression for thunder. Voice of speech] RV 'noise of tumult.'. The articulate voice, as distinguished from the sound of the wheels, is not mentioned till afterwards.
26. A sapphire stone] see the very similar vision of God's glory in Exodus 24:10.
Dummelow, John. "Commentary on Ezekiel 1". "Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/eng/dcb/ezekiel-1.html. 1909.


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Planting Onions in the fall for next year?
Rainbowgardener recently was suggesting planting onions in the fall. I don't think I have aver heard of this but am going to try it this year with my garlic.
Applestar brought up a question I was thinking about do you plant seeds or sets in the fall.
I did recently read I believe it was in the Territorial seed catalog that some places plant short day variety's in the fall to bulb in the spring.
Any experience or advice on fall onion planting.
I'm going to try fall planting with onion seeds. I've been researching the subject and you want to time the planting of the seeds so that the plants will be close to the size of a pencil but not larger when late December and January comes. If they are larger than a pencil when the cold comes, they will flower since they are biennials. If they are smaller than a pencil, they usually don't flower but if they are tiny, they will probably die from the cold.
I may be too far north to have much success with this method, but I will try anyway. I hope my onions don't get confused in February and March when here the weather often goes from near 70°F one day back down to the 30s the next day.
This method works with short day onions and Walla Walla long days. It probably won't work with regular long day onions.
I think if you plant sets, the plants will flower because they will be too large when the cold weather arrives.
If you want to plant seeds, right now would be the time for your area. I plan to sow my seeds around September 20 to allow enough time for them to grow before it is too cold. In central and southern Texas, they plant onion seeds around October 15, which would be too late up here.
we have always planted our garlic and onions in the fall. to do otherwise would be insanity!
Onion seeds or sets, soil?
The only onions that I seem to be able to grow is Egyptians and green onions.
I will be fall planting the Egyptians, simply because alot of them sprouted with the recent rains and won't keep over winter. But, I am moving them to a new location, so it is necessary to replant them this fall.
Garlic works great over winter, I hope that onions do too. Worth a try, since I have some seeds, and can't grow onions any other way!
applestar wrote: Onion seeds or sets, soil?
Oh, then I DEFINITELY have to find my Red Wethersfield seeds!
Now, WHERE did I put them!
It's going to be a seed only year for me this year. Since my sets are near dust and all I have are seeds and no money.
Red Wethersfield huh? Not sure why probably just a better onion for my environment (variety wise) but the reds did better for me this year. Pl;us I just love red onions.
I, too, have heard of this before, but didn't give it much credit. I'm going to test it out sometime......I want to hear how you all do with your fall onions, first .
Soil, it says you are in CA, so your winters are probably a lot more mild than some of ours, though I could be wrong. Our fall onions will have to make it through snow, ice, and frost-jacking.
Which makes me wonder, would it be a good idea to perhaps set up row-covers or low-tunnels over the onions to help protect them through the winter? Surely it would be good to at least mulch them?
Gix, If you have a ton of seeds, do a succession planting. Plant some each week for a few weeks, label/mark the rows, and see which one did best come spring, this way, it will give you a good foundation to start from next fall . Good luck with your onions, all.
Onions often winter over in the ground. I have never tried planting seed in the fall. Garlic, shallots and Egyptian onion bulbils do just fine fall planted. In fact Garlic and shallots must be fall planted for a good crop. I think now would be a good time to plant some seed and see how it goes. Spring planted onion seed will also do well for you.
yea i do live in cali, but i also live in the mountains. we get snow, frost, ice all winter long.
Wow. When are your first and last frost dates?
So, you've successfully grown the large bulb onions this way? I guess it is possible. Do you use the same day-length bulbs that you plant in the spring, or different?
our first frost dates are usually in late november. last around mid may( but this year was a bit off and the last frost was late may).
i don't start any in spring. all of them are from seed i saved the previous year. not sure what daylength they are, i just select seed from the best of the garden each year. usually let the biggest onion go to seed. this years onion for seed was 6-7 inches diameter. got about 400 seeds off of it.
Wow, Soil, you got about a 1-1/2 to 2 month longer growing season than I do. We have the same last frost date, but my first-frost is about mid-Oct.


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Sorry to hear you've had a sucky week. If it makes you feel any better, so have I. Nonetheless the weekly SLS is always good to helping snap out of a funk so thanks for enduring and posting a prompt through your misery.
Hah, yeah. It does the same for me, so I pulled my head out long enough to post a theme. 😏 I'm equally sorry you had a bad week.
So I am cheating a little bit. I couldn't think of a song last night when Helen mentioned the theme to me, and she threw this one out, and it happens to be one of my favorite songs by the Counting Crows, so I am going to use it. Of course when I woke up this morning I thought of a ton of songs, but I am going to stick with this one. Thanks sissy!
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Het Europese kampioenschap voor mannen allround 1965 werd georganiseerd door de Internationale Schaatsunie (ISU), op 30 en 31 januari 1965 op de ijsbaan Nya Ullevi te Göteborg. Er namen 28 schaatsers uit 10 landen aan deel.

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UK bishop's Holocaust outburst probed
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German prosecutors said on Friday they had launched a probe against a controversial British bishop on suspicion of inciting racial hatred for comments he made about the Holocaust on Swedish television.
A spokesman for the public prosecutor's office in the southern city of Regensburg said it had opened an investigation against Richard Williamson, 68, for remarks he made in an interview broadcast this week.
"I believe there were no gas chambers... I think that 200,000 to 300,000 Jews perished in Nazi concentration camps but none of them by gas chambers," said Williamson during an interview with the SVT channel. "There was not one Jew killed by the gas chambers. It was all lies, lies, lies!"
Historians have established that six million Jews were murdered by Nazi Germany during World War II including vast numbers by systematic extermination in gas chambers.
This week, Pope Benedict XVI reportedly decided to cancel the excommunication of four bishops who were consecrated in 1998 by the conservative French bishop Marcel Lefebvre, including Williamson.
The pope has already signed the decree lifting the excommunication, which will be made public later in the week, according to the Italian report Thursday which the Vatican neither confirmed nor denied.
Lefebvre, who died in 1991, was excommunicated in 1988 by pope Jean Paul II for having consecrated the bishops in defiance of the Vatican's authority. Since assuming office in April 2005, Benedict has made great efforts to heal the schism with the more traditionalist Catholic movement.
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The pelvis (plural: pelves) is a set of bones. Many people think of the pelvis as the hip bone, because it is at the hip. The pelvis is at the lower end of the spine. In vertebrates, the legs are attached at the pelvis.
The function of the pelvis is to protect the organs used for digesting and for reproduction (making babies). It is also important for bearing some load.
A human pelvis, with the bones labelled.
Male and female human pelves are different. The female pelvis is wider and more shallow than the male pelvis.
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grandfather grizzly bear in alaska
Bear and boy jump for joy A curious bear and a 5-year-old boy jumped together at the Nashville Zoo. Genetic tests showed the bear had a polar bear for a mother and a grizzly bear for a father. A male brown bear can weigh more than 1,000 pounds; females weigh half as much. A bear decided to take a stroll through a neighborhood in Anchorage, Alaska. Giant Kodiak bears are the stuff of either dreams or nightmares, maybe both. The biggest known bruin in the grizzly bear category is also a found or pick-up skull. With a three-to-one bear-to-human ratio, we'd say that name is perfectly accurate. The bear was just over one thousand six hundred pounds. For as long as I can remember, there has been a bear in my grandfather's house. The native tribes saw the grizzly as a grandfather, an unmatched power as close to a deity as a creature can get. None of the passengers or crew members on board the plane were injured during the accident at the Yakutat Airport in southeast Alaska, The Anchorage Daily News reported. It is estimated that 1,600 brown bears inhabit the island. A rare "grolar bear," a grizzly-polar bear hybrid, has been killed in the frigid upper expanses of Canada. His homestead was the … So I stopped and said, "Hey bear," because that's what you do when you see one. Albert Jacques fled Lancashire England to Canada, he eventually found a home in the Yukon, 1889. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/world/canada/grizzly-bear-attack-yukon.html The other men are unidentified. Grizzly Bears in Alaska "Grizzly bears" are also brown bears, but as their habitat is on mountain slopes, tundra plains and inland forests they are typically smaller in size than coastal bears. In areas abundant food, such as the Alaska Peninsula, Kodiak and Admiralty Island, densities as high as one bear per square mile (2.6 km2) have been found. Roger Kuptana, center, right, was the guide on the expedition. A prehistoric South American giant short-faced bear tipped the scales at up to 3,500 pounds (1,600 kilograms) and towered at least 11 feet (3.4 meters) standing up, according to a new study. It is the largest grizzly bear ever recorded in the world. Most called the grizzly bear "grandfather," others "old man" or "elder brother." It scores 27 13/16 and was found by Gordon E. Scott in 1976 in Lone Mountain, Alaska. A more grizzly-like bear appeared in Europe some 5 million years ago. In central Alaska, both north and south of the Alaska Range, bear densities tend to be intermediate, about one bear per 15-25 mi2 (39-65 km2). It was the Tlingit people that originally named the island "Kootznoowoo" which means Fortress of the Bear. Our arms, legs, fingers, toes, ribs, backbone, stomach, heart and genitals are nearly the same, they would say. We are proud to operate small-group bear viewing trips to see Alaskan brown bears.After a gorgeous sea plane flight, we'll hike and explore the wilderness home of these massive Alaskan grizzly bears (Alaskan brown bears).Our Alaskan bear tours are based in Juneau and we love talking about Alaska. Here is a close up of the rifle. You will hear the term grizzly describing inland bears as their food source is quite varied and less plentiful than along the coast. The son of the. A grizzly–polar bear hybrid (also named grolar bear, pizzly bear, grizzlar, or nanulak) is a rare ursid hybrid that has occurred both in captivity and in the wild. As they saw it, very little separated grizzlies from men. According to the Midwest City Sun, a U.S Forest Service employee was out deer hunting in Alaska, when he was charged by a giant grizzly bear.. The polar bear's unique set of genetic adaptations could be lost. More specifically, it was a taxidermy Alaskan grizzly bear, a massive snarling lump with grey-blond fur who measured seven feet from snout to tail, and stood half-crouched upon a wooden stand scattered with … Little Bear is a Canadian educational historical children's animated series based on the Little Bear series of books written by Else Holmelund Minarik, and illustrated by Maurice Sendak; the program was originally produced for the CBC. And grizzlies walk … He was out deer hunting when a large grizzly bear charged him from about 50 yards away. President was one of three people who applied. Peddling away, I came around a bend, and there was a grizzly bear, about a hundred feet in front of me. The coastal-dwelling, salmon-feeding brown bear also happens to be the same species of brown bear as the smaller grizzly living in Interior and northern Alaska. Donald Trump Jr. has been granted the right to hunt a grizzly bear in northwestern Alaska near the Bering Sea town of Nome. A young Ohio man mauled by a grizzly bear amid a 10-day hunting trip at an Alaska state park was attacked so suddenly that he did not have time to defend himself. That bear, killed in 1953, was the world-record grizzly for several years and is still high in the records today. Soon to follow, Albert's son, Blondie Jacques, a prolific trapper and guide arrived in Alaska in 1938. An Alaska Airlines jetliner struck a brown bear while landing early Saturday evening, killing the animal and causing damage to the plane, officials said. The Northern Giant is reported to be a gargantuan-sized bear that roams the outskirts of Fairbanks, Alaska. Its teeth were large and flat, which indicates that it relied rather heavily on vegetation despite being a carnivore. I recently received an email from my wifes' work regarding a supposed grizzly bear attack in Alaska. Yes, outright bear attacks are rare, but this is a flawed article that presumes the bear population is the same across North America with regard to size and density, or that people spend as much time on the trail in bear country as they do sitting on the couch waiting to have a heart attack. The big bear was still alive so the hunter reloaded and shot it several times in the head. In 2006, the occurrence of this hybrid in nature was confirmed by testing the DNA of a unique-looking bear that had been shot near Sachs Harbour, Northwest Territories on Banks Island in the Canadian Arctic. The guy emptied his 7mm Magnum semi-automatic rifle into the bear, and it dropped a few feet from him. The Biggest Grizzly Bear Ever Killed In AlaskaThe Biggest Grizzly Bear Ever Killed In AlaskaThe Biggest Grizzly Bear Ever Killed In Alaska Dick Shideler, a biologist at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in Fairbanks who studies the farthest-north grizzly, has documented grizzly bears on the sea ice north off Alaska's coast. A 37-year-old father of five was killed by grizzly bears while he worked as a guide on a hunting trip. A San Diego man killed by a grizzly bear in Alaska's Denali National Park had been snapping photos of the animal for eight minutes before it attacked, authorities said Tuesday. "When I say hybrids I'm referring to half polar bear and half grizzly bear. COPPER CENTER, Alaska (AP) — A hunter has been killed by a grizzly bear in Alaska's Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. The brown bear is larger than the black bear, with a noticeable shoulder hump and longer claws. Where upon a 14 foot grizzly bear was shot to death by a ranger out deer hunting. Again, Boone and Crockett indicates that the skull's greatest length less the lower jaw … This is a true world-class brown bear hunt from start to finish, with standards that no other Alaska hunting outfitter can match. Alaska & Yukon, 100's of years of family history. But I know of four individuals that are three quarters grizzly and one quarter polar bear. It stood 12′ 6′ high at the shoulder, 14′ to the top of his head. The Kodiak bear (Ursus arctos middendorffi) is found in the Kodiak Archipelago islands of southwestern Alaska.It is the largest subspecies of brown bear and one of the two largest members of the bear family, the other being the polar bear.. Some of the recent pizzly sightings in Canada are now second generation hybrids, dominated by grizzly DNA. Larry Fitzgerald and a pal were moose hunting near Fairbanks, Alaska, when they came across fresh bear tracks in the snow. 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As such, the world has never been spared of natural calamities that have not only claimed thousands to millions of lives; they have also caused extensive destruction of properties.
In recent times, natural disasters have been occurring at a high rate especially drought and famine. Human activities have been blamed for contributing in the high occurrence of natural disasters.
This article lists the world's worst natural disasters of all time in regards to drought and famine. It will be noted it is hard to term some natural disasters worse than others as it depends on several criteria. Some will label natural disasters in terms of lives claimed or killed while others the magnitude of damage to property or the cost of rebuilding. In cases like earthquake, it will depend on the magnitude of the earthquake.
Famine can be defined as "extreme and general scarcity of food, as in a country or a large geographical area," or "any extreme and general scarcity," or "extreme hunger; starvation," according to Dictionary.com.
Also known as 'The Black Plague' or 'The Bubonic Plague,' this plague was the worst epidemic ever to hit the European region and parts of the world.
The epidemic which swept through Europe from 1348 to 1351 killed an estimated of between 25-60% of Europeans. There are reports that put the percentage at 33% while some go as far as to estimate two-thirds of the population died from the plague epidemic. In figures, it would translate from between 75 to 200 million people.
It is believed the plague started in China in the year 1346 spreading throughout Asia, Syria, Persia, Egypt, India, finally reaching Europe.
The black plague or bubonic plague is a bacterial infection caused by bacteria called Yersina Pestis. This bacteria found in animals is transmitted to humans through flies.
In overcrowded areas and areas with poor sanitation coupled with a large population of rodents, the risk of the plague is very high.
The bubonic plague infects the immune system causing soreness. If it is not treated early it can move to the blood or lungs causing septicemic and pneumonic plague.
It is spread when fleas which had fed on infected animals bite a person. Also, it is spread when one comes to direct contact with an infected animal/person, or when he/she eats an infected animal.
The symptoms of bubonic plague appear after two to seven days. The symptoms are: muscle pain, fever, chills, headache, fatigue, swollen lymph glands appearing in groin, armpits, site of bite and neck.
Also known as the Irish famine, over one million people died of starvation in Ireland. This famine took place in the late 1840s.
Not only did the people die of starvation, epidemic diseases also contributed to the high rate of deaths.
It is reputed this famine was not a natural disaster but an artificial famine. However, British Broadcasting Network (BBC) is quick to note this is not the case.
It is further noted, "This was not an artificial famine as traditional Irish nationalist interpretation has long maintained – not at any rate at the start. The original gross deficiency of food was real. In 1846 and successive years blight destroyed the crop that had previously provided approximately 60 per cent of the nation's food needs. Potatoes were the main crop in the country, therefore when potato blight, a fungus, struck the crop it became the start of famine.
It is important to know the grains and livestock that were raised in Ireland were owned by the English. The laws of the time did not allow Irish people to import grain for consumption. Therefore, about 1.5 million people were killed as a result of the plant disease combined with politics, the reason why the English are blamed for worsening the severity of the famine.
This drought famine was entered into the Guinness Book of Records as the deadliest drought in the history of the world.
The worst famine, it was caused by drought. It took place in five provinces in Northern China, killing between 9-13 million people. In some regions as close as ninety percent of the population died. The number of deaths was made worse by diseases and violence.
The winter season made the conditions worse as it led to contracting of diseases such as dysentry, fever, typhoid and typhus.
It was a hard-trying time as parents killed their own children for food while others committed suicide to escape the hunger. Cannibalism became the norm during this period. Women and children were sold as slavery or forced into prostitution in order to obtain food.
The worst epidemic in history, the flu pandemic killed more people than World War I. The influenza pandemic which occurred during the 1918-1919 period killed an estimated 20-40 million people worldwide. Some reports put it at between 35 to 75 million.
As opposed to Bubonic Plague that ran for four years, the influenza killed millions of people in a very short time.
As always Influenza appears as benign. This was not the case. It appeared as benign. As a common cold. However, it materialized more than a cold. "In the two years that this scourge ravaged the earth, a fifth of the world's population was infected," states Stanford University.
Influenza or flu, an infectious disease that normally kills young children and the elderly at a high rate than in any other age group took an unprecedented turn. The most infected during this time were young and middle-aged people (20-40 years), though young children and the elderly were at risk of contracting the disease.
This disease swept not only in Europe but also to North America, Africa, South Pacific, and Asia.
Somalia is a country that has experienced lawlessness for over twenty years. More than that, it is a country that has been hit by drought and famine, left to right.
From the year 2010 to 2012, the country experienced famine which claimed close to 260,000 lives. Half of those who died as a result of the famine were children under the age of five years.
The famine caused by a severe drought was made worse due to the continuous conflict that has torn the country into dehuman conditions.
This famine was termed as worse compared to 1992 famine which killed about 220,000 people.
Lack of preparedness also has been blamed for if the humanitarian community had been ready to take an early action it would have avoided many deaths at this magnitude.
The famine began in Lower Shabelle and Southern Bakool regions in Somalia. These regions were controlled by al-shabab, an Islamist group allied to al-Qaeda. This Islamist group denied there was any famine thereby banning aid from western agencies from operating in these two regions which were under their control.
It is estimated 4.6% of the total population in Somalia and 10% of children under the age of five died as a result of the famine.
In conclusion, many lives can be saved if the international community and respective governments come up with ways to offer relief or aid at an early point. It has been cited aid normally arrives late when a number of people have already died from hunger or starvation.
However, in other circumstances it is hard to offer aid in real time due to conflicts that ravage a particular country, for example, the situation in Somalia.
There are disasters which can be termed as natural but looking closely it is evident they are man-made. They result from man's actions such as pollution or selfish actions.
In reality, a lot of lives are lost due to human beings actions though some may not want to agree to it. Nowadays, we cannot blame everything to Mother Nature for we have helped her in increasing the rate of natural disasters particularly drought and famine.
The Plague (Black Death) How natural products were used in the Medieval Times to protect against the disease.
Yes, you are right. "Many lives can be saved if the international community and respective governments come up with ways to offer relief or aid at an early point." But sometimes it is very difficult to reach the exact point due to the transportation system broke down after disaster, religious cause, national security cause etc. Local government also responsible for this. If all the people or organization take the best steps to protect or prevent and cure after disaster then it will be possible to help those affected people.


1877 New Haven & Northampton Railroad Time Table.
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1879 Long Island RR Summer Schedule.
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1892 Chicago & St. Louis Electric Railroad brochure.
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Atlantic City via Pennsylvania Railroad time table. September 30, 1895.
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Atlantic Coast Line RR, 1918 signed & stamped ticket, with original envelope.
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Baltimore and Ohio Transportation Museum.
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The Bee Line, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railway time table. July 1881.
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Boston & Maine Railroad. Excursion Routes and Rates.
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Central Railroad of New Jersey time table. May 29, 1898.
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Central Railroad of New Jersey to the Sea Shore, time table.
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Chicago and Atlantic Railway, New Route East via Erie Railway, Time Table.
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Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad pamphlet & time table. February 1, 1931.
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Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad time table. October, 1895.
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Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad time table. September 29, 1929.
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Erie Railroad Time Table. Eastern Section. August 21, 1887, corrected to Sept. 18.
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Erie Railroad Time Table. Main Line and Newark Branch between New York and Suffern, June 1893.
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Great Western Railway Time Table, 1877. Canadian railway which served US northeast. Broadside.
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New Jersey and Camden & Amboy Rail Roads Time Table. December 16, 1867.
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In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.
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A year from now, you will wish you had started today.
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Some of the shells that wash up on the beach were once very beautiful, you don't know what kind of journey they had to take to get them in there fragile shape, same with people, be kind.
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It is only with the heart that one can see clearly, for the most essential things are invisible to the eye.
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I guess that I can no longer quote that fabulous feline Heathcliff with his lament of "I Hate Mondays" when this particular one comes with the announcement of a late Winter early Spring tour by the legendary Judas Priest. I'll let the official notes from the publicity team give you the full scoop but don't worry you know that I will close this up with some extra editorial notes. Here we go.
One of heavy metal's most legendary acts will be hitting the road in 2018 in support of their new studio album, 'Firepower.' The 'Judas Priest: Firepower 2018 Tour' will kick off on March 13th in Pennsylvania, and wrap up on May 1st in Texas. The new album (which was produced by Andy Sneap and Tom Allom) is due in early 2018 and the tour will feature the line-up of singer Rob Halford, guitarists Glenn Tipton and Richie Faulkner, bassist Ian Hill, and drummer Scott Travis.
All dates will be running a "Judas Priest Fan Presale" starting Wednesday, October 25th, 2017 at 10:00 A.M local time with the password: FIREPOWER that fans can use to purchase tickets in advance. Check the local venue for additional information.
There are few heavy metal bands that have managed to scale the heights that Judas Priest have during their 40 year career – originally formed during the early '70s in Birmingham, England, Judas Priest is responsible for some of the genre's most influential and landmark albums (1980's 'British Steel,' 1982's 'Screaming for Vengeance,' 1990's 'Painkiller,' etc.) and for decades have been one of the greatest live bands in the entire heavy metal genre including an iconic performance at Live Aid in 1985 – they also brought metal to the masses by their appearance on American Idol in 2011 – plus Judas Priest were one of the first metal bands to exclusively wear leather and studs – a look that began during this era and was eventually embraced by metal fans throughout the world! And in 2017, the band was nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The Details: If you're a Heavy Metal and Hard Rock fan who has studied the teachings of the masters then you know full well about the greatness of the legendary UFO and the equally dominating Saxon. Each of these bands has brought forth so many amazing tunes and to say that there are numbers that are among the most important tunes for the genre would be an understatement. Just imagine the kind of night that these two might deliver for their fans on the live stage. Having been a fan of each act for so many years I am excited to add this new contest to our offerings thanks to the powers that be at the vaunted Times Square venue. Yes my fiends, some of the PiercingMetal readership are going to see the UFO and Saxon show for free on the Wednesday night appearance. Read more down below.
To Participate: I've already extoled over the mutual greatness of UFO and Saxon and since this is a super important show I am NOT going to make it easy on you at all. Tenured readers know that I generally ask for three things about the main act that make you clamor for this show win and guess what, I will stick to the premise for this giveaway. However, in this case there are two main acts and that means three items for each of them. Yep. Three for UFO and three for Saxon. You can cite your favorite albums and why, discuss past concert experiences and what made them special or even let us know how they affected your musical psyche. Just know that there have to be three for each band. Not one, not two but three. Incompletes are an immediate NEXT in the Big Metal Book of Passes and let's face it, these guys deserve the input. As always you should make these interesting reading since typing in "because they rock dude" is just too un-original and boring. I'll be responding to the comments that I like most right below their answer. This is for a single ticket only and no plus one requests can be honored. Sorry.
UFO & Saxon Announce Spring US Tour – The British Invasion 2017!
I'm slowly coming back to Earth after the four-day massive event spectacle that was the NY Comic Con and while I do that it's great to find some new concert tours being announced. Check this one out from the teams working the great British bands UFO and Saxon who will be heading our way in Spring 2017.
Rock legends UFO have announced a US tour with very special guests SAXON, beginning March 9 in Houston, TX and continuing into early April.
UFO, with their long standing line up of Phil Mogg (Vocals), Paul Raymond (Keyboards / Guitar), Andy Parker (Drums), Vinnie Moore (Guitar) and Rob De Luca (Bass), are back in the US after a phenomenally successful sold out tour in early 2016. They are currently working on their 22nd studio album after the last studio release A Conspiracy of Stars in 2015.
SAXON are touring on their latest release Battering Ram together with the new double live album set Let Me Feel Your Power (out October 28 in North America), both on the UDR Music label. After great success with both US headline shows and dates with Judas Priest over last few years, the band are back as part of this great package. SAXON are Biff Byford (Vocals), Paul Quinn (Guitar), Nigel Glockler (Drums), Doug Scarrett (Guitar) and Tim "Nibbs" Carter (Bass).
The Details: Saxon is one of the most important and perhaps also prominent of the NWOBHM bands out there in today's music geography. Their overall impact on the scene and how Metal was to be delivered for many years after their own inception still resonates loudly in the hearts and minds of their worldwide fans. Fronted by Biff Byford, he leads the charge of the Metal forces and will bring their classics to life along with new material from the "Sacrifice" album that was just recently released. They will be joined by Fozzy (featuring Chris Jericho) and Halcyon Way so you know this show is going to be an exciting one. I am absolutely psyched that thanks to the fine folks in the B.B. King Blues Club marketing team, a few lucky PiercingMetal fans are going to get to see the show for free. More on this below.


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Land Of Rap – December 2020
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December 11, 2020 4 min read Kaptin D
I had so much great music to cover in last month's column, I have to admit part of me felt it might have been a fluke. Turns out it was the calm before the storm. So with that in mind I'm going to give shockingly little coverage to three of the best releases this month, simply for the reason that I covered the artists last week. Back with a vengeance and a whole album (or are they mixtapes?) are Juice Menace, Luke RV and SZWE. I fully advise you to search out all three of their releases as soon as you're done reading this. Here's a brand new Juice Menace video also…
Another album to search out is 'Tiwns' from esteemed stalwart of the Northern regions Mr Phormula, and what a fantastically well rounded album it is! From heavy funk ridden boom bap beats that make for a perfect bed to compliment his bilingual flows, to uptempo reflective moments drawing on influences such as Garage, House and Drum N Bass and allowing for him and guests such as Luke RV to go a little deeper.
There's no question that, despite the usual lack of attention outside of the country, rap music in Wales has definitely been gaining a lot more support from the wider Welsh Music Industry this year. For example this year's Welsh Music Prize winner announced just last month is Deyah for her album 'Care City', beating industry stalwarts such as Gruff Rhys (from Super Furry Animals) for the top spot. If you've not heard the album yet then it's a smooth, soulful and incredibly thoughtful release that should definitely be heard if that sounds like your flavour. Luke RV was also amongst the finalists, as was Don Leisure's connoisseur collection of instrumental collages Steel Zakuski.
Magugu has been on the South Wales music scene for a decent amount of time now, I remember him on the open mic during the Higher Learning days and I always rated his Grime releases, even though he always seemed to keep a relatively low profile. This year has seen him put out some of his strongest releases yet and become an in demand figure across the world for his deep dancehall influenced rhymes that are heavily peppered in Nigerian pidgin dialect. His 'Big Don' track with Famous Eno is one of my highlights of the year and I can't wait to get to a club and dance to it, but on a funkier tip is this collaboration with fellow Nigerian Welsh resident Skunkadelic's band Afro Cluster. The track also features rising soul singer Asha Jane who has shown tons of promise for the future recently.
Keep an eye out for Afro Cluster's long awaited debut album coming in February, I'm sure I shall tell you all about it nearer the time!
Perhaps unsurprisingly, I've not heard much Drill coming out of Wales but I have to say, I really do love this offering from Marino who is Swansea born and bred. Let's face it South Wales isn't lacking in grit and this captures that perfectly, so what could have easily come off like a poor London imitation feels genuine and from the heart.
Melo is another artist who isn't exactly a household name but has quietly been one of the most exciting rappers in Cardiff for some time. His latest project (or is it an alias, I'm not sure) is Mass Accord and as the name might suggest it, by the strength of this track it seems like he's no longer willing to play the background. This is the sound of a man on a mission.
Out of all the Welsh rap tracks that have stood out this year, the ones I've found stuck in my head the most have definitely been by Mace The Great and Local. I could honestly listen to just the two of them for days so the fact they've both linked up makes me real happy.
Finally, talking of this year's highlights, I've made this handy playlist with 30 of my favourite Welsh Rap tracks from this year. I'll be carrying on this playlist into next year to accompany this column also. It's been such a strong year and I get the feeling it was only the warm up! See you in 2021.
Afro Cluster, Care City, Deyah, Juice Menace, Local, Luke RV, Mace The Great, Magugu, Marino, Melo, Mr Phormula, SZWÉ
Immaculate Fools – Searching For Sparks (Cherry Red Records)


I saw that as well. They are starved in case they gain weight, hung by the arms from a tree, beaten... May Allah destroy those pigs.
Lala land living has been shook up.
Saw this cute pigeon at the train station today and when I looked at its feet closely noticed its toes had been cut off :( poor pigeon!
Had some the other day ... Just saying.
Was on the train and there was the cutest baby ever and when he smiled at me I literally melted.
Anyway, there is nearly no difference between your sister (?) on the right and my sister when she was little (except she was a little fatter lol).
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Its sort of like all the yelling/pushing/torture is a manifestation of the mother's desire to see her baby.
Allah (SWT) deserves all credits, Subhanallah.
Why am I crazy, because I'm baby obsessed??
I never pass a baby on the street/train unless I say hi to them, then they smile at me and I fall in love.
I know that. Have sisters/friends who have given birth and the stories they tell is enough to give you goosebumps.
One of my friends is due soon, second child, and she is freaking out but at the same time excited because she wants to see her baby.
This is why Islam gives mothers such a high status. May Allah grant all our mothers the highest of Jannah. Ameen.
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Subhanallah, so true. In my experience, the pain/torture was totally forgotten when you see him or her the first time.
You are not here just to fill space or to be a background character in someone else's movie. Consider this: nothing would be the same if you did not exist. Every place you have ever been and everyone you have ever spoken to would be different without you. We are all connected, and we are all affected by the decisions and even the existence of those around us.
This really ****es me off..
May Allah swt free all Muslims from the terrorists state ****rael.


For our first trip to Spain, we settled ourselves into a tiny town, Cazalla de la Sierra, in the heart of the national park area called Sierra Norte. We had chosen a newly built "hacienda-like" inn, Vega De Cazalla, with a central courtyard, just as one would want in their warmer climate. What we didn't know was it was on a new road that hadn't yet received a road sign. The good thing about that unmarked road was the circuitous route we had taken to find it, a route we immediately headed for the next day, exploring sunny, flower-strewn meadows filled with grazing sheep and a beautiful and friendly galloping horse.
On this trip we ventured forth from Sierra Norte, to Granada (The Independent, August 14, 2018), Cordoba, Seville and points in between before heading back to Madrid for the trip home. We did a lot of driving, on wide roads that skirted immense orchards of cork oaks, and on tiny, twisting hillside roads. But our most amazing foray was to Seville. Seville was celebrating Feria de abril de Sevilla, a weeklong fair/festival that was unlike any "fair" we'd ever been to before.
Feria began not as a festival, but actually as a livestock market. Back in the 1800s, people came to Seville to sell cattle and other animals in the spring. Over many years, the market took on a more festive feel, and it eventually expanded from just a couple of days to a wildly colorful six days of celebrations. Today, you don't find cattle for sale at the Feria — instead, you are treated to an array of horses, carriages, brightly colored casetas (tents), and traditional clothing worn by just about everyone. This means bright, colorful flamenco dresses for the ladies, and the traje corto, or short suit with wide-brimmed hat for the men. And the ladies don't stop with just colorful dresses — shoes, purses, mantillas, and, usually, a flower in the hair — all are completely coordinated. Much to our delight, this even applied to babies in carriages and strollers. It was like being surrounded by a walking rainbow.
One of the most elegant displays we saw comprised a group of gauchos, six young women and two men, who were crossing the street coming toward us. I aimed my camera at them, and they stopped and posed for me — looking like a photo shoot for some high-fashion magazine — then cheerfully went on their way. One of the most entertaining was the young lady, in full regalia, riding side-saddle on the back of a motorbike.
We don't have a real parallel to Feria — it's far more than a fair — it's a gathering of clans for dining, drinking, dancing, and delight. Interested? The Feria de Abril starts on a Monday evening roughly two weeks after Easter. The dates vary by year since Easter doesn't fall on the same date all the time, but it's usually in mid/late April or early May. In 2019, the dates will be May 6 to 12. The fair officially begins at midnight on Monday, and runs six days, ending on the following Sunday. It happens at the Real de la Feria, which is in Los Remedios to the southwest of city center, next to the river, about a 30-minute walk from the Seville Cathedral. Don't know the way? Just follow the ladies in their brightly hued, wildly ruffled dresses! Look for the public tents or hire a friendly guide when you arrive.
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How To Find Which Desktop Environment You Are Using
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Being a newbie to Linux operating system is really exciting as you keep learning more day by day. However, if you ever wondered how to find which desktop environment you are using. Even it's a very common question asked in many forums online. So, if you are one of those newbies, then this article will help you how to find out such details.
What is Desktop Environment?
How to check which desktop environment you are using?
How to find desktop environment version?
Alternative method to check desktop environment version
A desktop environment is a bundle of components that offers common GUI elements to users. Such components can be icons, toolbars, wallpapers, and various desktop widgets as well. If you are able to access the Linux system through a GUI alike other operating systems like Windows or Mac OS, then all it's possible due to desktop environment.
In the world of Linux, there's a number of DE available, and it's the only entity that determines how your Linux system will appear. Most of the desktop environment have their own set of applications and tools through which a user is granted with a uniform to access their operating system. The utilities include file explorer, desktop search, menu of applications, and many more. Here comes the list of various desktop environments:
Gnome: This desktop environment is considered as the most modern and polished option, however it eats a plenty of system resources.
Xfce: Offers a vintage look but is very lightweight option.
KDE: Offers a highly customization desktop environment with moderate resource consumption.
LXDE: This desktop environment focus completely on the usage of few resources.
Budgie: Includes modern look and needs moderate system resources.
Means, if you are using a Linux distribution, then obviously you are using one of the desktop environment on your system. But in case you don't known which one is active on your machine, then here you will learn how to find the desktop environment you are using on your machine.
In order to determine the information regarding active desktop environment on your Linux machine, you can use echo command to display information about XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP through terminal, and it's very easy. Just run the following command in terminal:
echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
the output will be like this:
In case of above used snippet on our machine, it shown GNOME as an active DE on Ubuntu. Although, this command helped to determine the desktop environment, still it offers no more information.
But, in many cases, the users may also require to know more details of installed desktop environment on their machine such as the version information. Actually, various version of a DE offers newly added features, and in order to avail such options, it's essential to upgrade the desktop environment to later versions. And to do so, it's necessary to determine the version details of active DE. Let's discuss the same in further section.
In order to find out the desktop environment version details in Linux computers, it's not actually simple like finding the DE details itself. Actually, there's no standard command available which can help to get those details on a system.
However, a user can use a third party utility which can help them gathering deep information of Linux machine including DE version as well. One such a helpful tool is Screenfetch offered by Github community. It's a command line tool that displays the Linux distribution logo in terminal in ASCII format along with more other information too like OS version, Kernel version, Uptime information, and many more. Fortunately, it also includes the details about active DE version.
So, you will have to install this third party tool (Screenfetch) on your machine if you want to find out those details. On a Ubuntu based machine, you need to enable Universe repository and run the following command to install the package:
sudo apt install screenfetch
For other Linux distributions, users can install this tool through their system's package manager. After the app is installed, open the terminal on your machine, and type 'screenfetch', and it should display various system related information on screen like one here depicted.
As per the details mentioned in the output, it displays that the current version of Gnome DE on system is 3.36.1 along with more other details too.
Update: Many users have reported that haven't get DE version details through screenfetch utility. Actually, the app's source code includes many conditions in order to identify the DE version details. And in case if it meets not all required parameters, it won't display the desktop environment version, but only the DE name.
In case you failed to determine the DE version details through screenfetch utility, then don't worry as still you can find out such details and we'll discuss how to do so. Actually, most of the desktop environments offer a basic system details in their Settings or About section. So, you can check your desktop environment Settings option to gather such details.
Since various desktop environments have different look and features, it's not possible here to depict all their exact steps. However, here includes an instance under which the GNOME users can check their version details on their system.
Just press Super + S and type 'Settings' in the search bar.
In the Settings section, find and click the About section, and it will show you the screen like this, which should include the details of your active DE version.
In the output displayed, it showed that active version of DE is Gnome 3.36. Similarly, you can also find out more other details too.
Desktop environment is a core entity that allows you to access Linux operating system with a GUI interface. Without a DE, a Linux system will be just a machine with a terminal, and it would be harder for users to access them unless they are tech savvy. If you want to find which desktop environment you are using and more of its details, we hope the above mentioned methods helped you. Do share this tutorial with your friends. If you have any question, you can click to Visit Our Discussion Board.
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It is a very bad idea for you to rely solely on the internet for marketing your business. In fact, using only online methods to promote your products and services is pretty bad business sense. Your business will never grow past a certain mark if you limit your efforts to the internet; the internet is convenient but you have to step out of your comfort zone.
Marketing your business offline increases your potential client base exponentially. As a marketer it is your duty to go to where ever the customers are located. Why not explore your offline market as well? Read on to learn about several of the offline tactics that works on everyone: even you.
Advertise your business on your car. Don't worry, you don't have to go overboard with this one. Making a full conversion of your car to advertise your business can get you a lot of exposure but you need to think about if that something you really want to do. Say for instance, you don't want to attach a display on the side of your car; then you can always make use of bumper stickers. Just be sure to include your site's URL. You might even try a window sticker. With every sticker that you create you want to keep in mind that if it becomes a trend then you can have thousands of people that will want to display it on their cars; all while advertising for you.
Television advertising is another way to get the attention of potential new buyers. Your ad will be shown at the time that the people who will be most interested in your offer are watching television. The only obvious downside is that a commercial can be very expensive. Even though running your ad online can come with a large price-tag, you need to find out how to make this work because it can catapult your business to the next level fast. Keep in mind that the price is based on the time of day it is ran so you can walk away paying less than you may imagine. Don't let fear of running a TV commercial keep you from advertising because this can be the thing that works for your you in a big way.
Pens cans work wonders with your ads. To find companies that will print your URL on your pens just do a search online or in your local phone book. Get a few batches of these things and then leave them strategically around town. A "sneaky" method of getting rid of them is to "accidentally" leave it behind at the check-out counter when signing a check. There are so many different places to leave these and people to pass them out to without even coming off as trying to market or sell something. Stop by your local library and leave some at the tables and pass them out to people there. You will be out of pens before you know it!. There are lots of different ways to market your internet based service or product to offline clients. There are at least as many great ways to market your business offline as on the internet. If you are open-minded and creative, more ideas will come to you.
Just look at the world with the idea of finding new ways to market your business, and you'll find inspiration all over! Wherever you go, think in terms of who could by helped by your business. It makes sense to allocate part of your advertising budget for some of these offline techniques. The trick to finding as many clients as possible is to market in as many places as you can think of on and offline.


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Houston hangover pill startup seen on Shark Tank rebrands following multimillion-dollar raise
Three cheers for cheers
Feb. 14, 2019 01:54PM EST
On his failed investor attempt on Shark Tank, Brooks Powell couldn't secure a shark investment for $400,000. Now, he just closed on $2.1 million for his startup. Courtesy of Cheers
When Brooks Powell's Houston-based startup got passed over by the investors on Shark Tank last year, he didn't let it deter him. Instead, the Houston entrepreneur buckled down and started seeking investments off the screen.
It paid off, and Cheers (née Thrive+) recently closed a $2.1 million seed round. The round was lead by NextView Ventures, which has the likes of TaskRabbit, threadUP, and Letgo among its portfolio.
With the new investment, Brooks says the company is rebranding from Thrive, its original moniker, to Cheers.
"Thrive+ doesn't really say anything about what we did or who we are about," Powell says. "We knew we needed something fitting for the alcohol industry but at the same time has the connotation of fun, responsibility, and health."
The process has been daunting, but worth it, Powell says, citing companies like Ring, which changed its company name from Doorbot.
"It would be hard to imagine Amazon buying a company named Doorbot," Powell says.
It's worth noting that Doorbot rebranded also following a similar rejection on Shark Tank.
Once Cheers had its new name, Powell began the process of the transition — relabeling bottles, redoing marketing materials, etc. There's still a long road ahead for the rebranding, but Powell says he wasn't going to drag his feet, since the change would just become more expensive and more challenging. Ring, for instance, had to pay $1 million for its new domain name.
"We wanted to become Cheers as soon as possible, because it would only become harder as time went on," he says.
From student to CEO
Cheers' formula isn't new. The key ingredient, Dihydromyricetin, a natural extract — like caffeine to coffee, which made the FDA process smooth sailing. DHM started being identified as an anti-alcohol treatment in 2012 following experiments on the effects on rats.
Around that time, Powell was a sophomore at Princeton University, and he came across the science surrounding DHM and knew if he could harness the natural extract for commercial use, it'd change the game of hangover health.
"I started working with some of my professors and asking them if it was safe and would it be effective," Powell says.
At the time, there was very little amount of DHM in the United States, so the company became the first to import the ingredient on a large scale.
Powell graduated from Princeton in 2017 and moved his company to its workspace in The Cannon.
Serving up growth
Cheers has seen a tremendous amount of growth over the past year. The company's revenue increased 20 times year over year. A key determiner of success for the company, Powell says, has been strategic marketing and a working product.
"Primarily products such as this, historically, have never worked," he says. "And they've always been marketing toward binge drinkers and partiers."
Another strategy Powell has is giving the company a presence nationwide by having advisers and investors from both coasts.
"What we have tried to do is have our cake and eat it too. We set roots in Houston, but we have our hands in other markets."
In addition to rebranding, Cheers plans to continue its growth, as well as research and development of the product.
Efficient referrals from doctor to doctor could save a life, so this Houston company is setting out to create a network of medical professionals all accessible in an app. Getty Images
Houston-based company is connecting the dots on patient referrals
Diagnosing doctors
When your doctor recommends that you visit another practitioner, it's only natural that you trust the suggestion. But it's one case in which your physician isn't always an expert. Married doctors Justin Bird, an orthopedic surgeon, and Terri-Ann Samuels, a specialist in female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery, have long noted that patients are often referred incorrectly.
No big deal, right? Just go to another doctor. But not everyone has that luxury. Bird and Samuels never intended to start their own company. But when Bird lost a patient due to faulty referrals, they knew something had to be done.
"He believes that if she hadn't been bounced around from doctor to doctor, they could have saved her life," says Chris E. Staffel, chief operating officer of Patients We Share, the app that the couple created to fix the broken aspect of the health care system.
In 2015, Bird and Samuels began their company when they were shocked to realize that such an app didn't already exist.
"They started working with physicians around the country who said, 'We really, really need this,' and they also invested in it," recounts Staffel. From those friends, they built a physician advisory board of 15 investors.
Prescribing growth
The project was accepted into Johnson & Johnson's incubator, JLABS in 2016, then TMCx's digital startup program in the spring of 2018.
"They started realizing it was gaining momentum and realized they needed to have business people on board," says Staffel.
They hired Michael Antonoff, a Rice University M.B.A., as CEO. He invited former classmate Staffel to join as COO. Having come from a background in oil and gas, Staffel jumped at the chance to try her hand in a different industry.
With new business clout behind PWS, the company is growing quickly. Currently, PWS is entering its next seed round of $2.5 million that will allow the company to pay salaries of new team members and bring some tech development in-house. Until now, the making of the app itself has been outsourced to Mobisoft Infotech, a company based in Houston and India, which has worked on many projects at the Texas Medical Center. Local Black + Grey Studio is responsible for the design.
PWS has been working with both those teams in recent months to get a prototype app ready for launch. Currently, 100 physicians around the country are part of an invite-only pilot program. Soon, Staffel hopes to allow early adopter doctors who haven't been invited to enroll in the program for free. It will likely be in 2020 that patients will start joining the community, too.
An index of all the providers on the app allows doctors to easily find practitioners in a particular specialty. But there's more to it. Detailed profiles contribute to machine learning that assures the optimal match every time. Patient reviews will also play a role.
Though referrals were the impetus for the creation of PWS, it may be even more important as a communication tool between doctors, fellow clinicians (anyone from nurse practitioners to physical therapists may be invited to join), and patients. Staffel says participants in the pilot program are already using the messaging system to compare notes on cases, even sending photos from surgery to consult on patient issues.
The app's encryption means that it's HIPAA-compliant. Patients provide permission to discuss their cases via the app. And they can be confident of the quality of care they'll receive. Likely, the app will remain largely invite-only, and everyone who joins will share their National Provider Identifier licenses to be vetted against the federal database.
Doctors will communicate directly with patients through the app, but will also share resources digitally. Instead of making copy after copy of information about post-surgical care, for instance, the physician need only press a button to share a link.
Eventually, the goal is for PWS to be used not just nationally, but internationally, not just by individuals, but by whole hospital systems. A world in which doctors can compare notes around globe could be a little safer for us all.
Over 700 people watched TMCx's Demo Day either in person or online. Photo by Cody Duty/TMC
5 Texas companies present the future of health care at TMCx's Demo Day
Homegrown heroes
After four months of product design, networking with medical professionals, pitching to investors, and more, 23 startup leaders had just a few minutes to show the medical community what they've achieved and where they're going next.
Over 700 attendees made it to TMCx's 7th Demo Day or tuned in online to see the results of Houston's award-winning medical devices accelerator program.
"It's really the draw of the experts within our 23 hospitals and clinics that really makes us quite special in our ecosystem compared to the East and West coasts," Texas Medical Center CEO Bill McKeon says. "We're proud to call ourselves the Third Coast of the life sciences."
The cohort, which is the most international to date with nine international companies, has already raised $73 million and confirmed 108 signed agreements for medical professional partnerships.
"The thing that cracks me up from time to time," says Erik Halvorsen, director of the TMC Innovation Institute, "is when you see these talks that say, 'what can the Houston ecosystem learn from Silicon Valley.' Well you know what, I think we're ready to flip that, and say, 'here's what can Silicon Valley learn from us here in Houston — what we've built and where we're headed.'"
From a wearable device that reduces back pain to a new technology that reduces suicidal thoughts, the cohort's presentations didn't disappoint. While all the cohorts made business connections to Houston in the months they were at TMCx, five of the 23 companies are based in Texas. Here are the companies with Lone Star State roots.
Articulate Labs
Articulate Labs' KneeStim allows for everyday activities to be muscle-building exercises.
Photo via articulatelabs.com
Herbie Kirn, co-founder and chief scientific officer of Articulate Labs, lost his leg from the knee down in a motorcycle accident and quickly wore through his other knee's cartilage. If he didn't do sufficient rehabilitation and physical therapy, he would lose function of that leg too.
Over 14 million people in the United States individuals suffer from chronic knee problems; however, whether it be due to time or cost, over 70 percent of those affected cannot attend the prescribed physical therapy.
Dallas-based Articulate Labs has a solution. The KneeStim device allows the patient to turn daily activities into rehabilitation exercises.
The company has raised a little over $500,000 already, but looks to raise $1 million with its next round of funding. Articulate Labs is also looking for more scientific and strategic partners.
Intelligent Implants
Intelligent Implant's co-founder, Juan Pardo, told the crowd at Demo Day that his company's device allows for 50 percent faster bone growth in patients.
Photo by Cody Duty/TMC
Chronic lower back pain can result in a need for spinal fusion surgery — and 40 percent of those surgeries fail, says Juan Pardo, co-founder of Intelligent Implants, which has an office in Houston. Pardo and his team have come up with an implant that tracks post-op healing and introduces electronic stimulation wirelessly.
The device is the same size and shape as the spacer that surgeons currently use, but contains a technology that can deliver electronic stimulation therapy and monitor progress without needing batteries. The doctor is able to adjust treatment remotely, and the device can heal the patient 50 percent faster than the standard care.
Intelligent Implants was announced as the first in-residence company at the Center for Device Innovation by Johnson and Johnson and also launched its large animal studies. The company has a goal to raise $1.6 million, and has already secured $900,000 — $250,000 of which came from the new TMC Venture Fund.
Noleus Technologies
Swarna Balasubramaniam, an experienced surgeon, created a device that heal gastrointestinal surgery patients faster.
Swarna Balasubramaniam watched helplessly as her mom slowly healed from gastrointestinal surgery. She couldn't eat and had trouble sleeping — both of which hindered her ability to heal quickly.
Balasubramaniam, founder of Houston-based Noleus Technologies, created a solution that reduces swelling in the bowels after operation. The disposable device is inserted into the abdomen at the time of surgery, and folds up like a fan to be removed without another surgery.
The invention is attractive to all parties involved. Patients are able to heal quicker, and surgeons are able to provide better care for their patients. Additionally, hospitals, which have bundled reimbursement for surgeries like this, are able to shorten the recovery time for patients thus reducing the costs spent on caring for the patient. Balasubramaniam says she estimates the device saving hospitals $4,000 per patient.
Vax-Immune Diagnostics
LabReady ensures samples make it from the patient to the lab without compromising the quality of the sample.
Photo via vaximmune.com
Over 70 percent of care decisions come from lab results, but more than 20 percent of microbiology lab tests are inaccurate due to problems in transport from the patient to the lab. Leonard Weisman, founder and chief technology officer of Houston-based Vax-Immune Diagnostics, invented Lab Ready — a tool for protecting the quality of the sample for testing.
The device is easy for patients to use at home and send to the lab directly, and the device is likewise easy to use by lab technicians.
Lab Ready is prepared to launch in 2019, immediately following FDA approval. Vax-Immune is on track to meet its funding goal of $5 million in the first quarter of 2019.
VenoStent
VenoStent wants every external stent procedure is successful on its first try.
Photo via venostent.com
Patients with kidney disease or diabetes have four chances to get an external stent successfully inserted into their arms for dialysis treatment, and the current standard of care results in a failure in half of these access sites, says Tim Biore, founder of Houston-based VenoStent.
It was Biore's vision to create a device that allows a successful stent implementation on the first try. VenoStent's SelfWrap is made from a shape-memory polymer that uses body heat to mold the stent into the vein-artery junction.
One in eight people suffer from kidney disease, and Biore says SelfWrap would save Medicare upwards of $200 million annually, while improving the success rate by 20 to 30 percent.
VenoStent has seven signed agreements from partners as a result of the accelerator program. The company is seeking $2.4 million to continue manufacturing as they await FDA clearance — expected in early 2022.


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