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Sometimes two people respect and despise each other in equal measure. Two prominent men in the Reformation period had just such a complicated relationship. Luther once wrote of the scholar Erasmus, "I hold Erasmus of Rotterdam to be Christ's most bitter enemy . . . and the vilest miscreant that ever disgraced the earth. . . . Whenever I pray, I pray for a curse upon Erasmus." But Martin Luther also called Erasmus "one of the most learned men in the whole world." Luther wrote harshly against him in their theological disputes—and yet he respected and built on Erasmus's work. Erasmus's Greek New Testament was a landmark of biblical scholarship. Luther relied upon it for his translation of the New Testament into German. Erasmus initially sympathized with Luther and the Protestant Reformers. He even lobbied behind-the-scenes to save Luther from people who wanted him dead. Nonetheless, Erasmus refused to stand publicly against the Catholic Church. This was one of the sources of Luther's contempt. In a letter to one of Luther's colleagues, Erasmus explained his position, "I know nothing of your church; at the very least it contains people who will, I fear, overturn the whole system and drive the princes into using force to restrain good men and bad alike." Even in the midst of his explosive disputes with Luther, Erasmus produced scholarly work that informed and influenced a new generation of regional translations and, ultimately, the Reformation itself.
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School's Out Forever?
By Larry Sand
With just about every public school in the country closed at this time, the only way for kids to get an education is at home. Many see this as nothing less than tragic. Writing in Education Week, Stephen Sawchuk claims that schools are an "absolute necessity for the functioning of civic culture, and even more fundamentally than that, daily life."
If Sawchuk is correct, the country's troubles extend way beyond the Wuhan virus. While shutting down public schools is certainly a massive disruption, our civic culture was just fine before the government's monopoly on education came to be.
The push for the government's role in education began in the 1830s when a group of dedicated reformers declared that state involvement was needed to ensure all children get a better, more unified education. Leading the charge was Bostonian Horace Mann who, with like-minded souls, campaigned for a greater state role in education. They argued that a centrally planned system of tax-funded schools would be superior to the independent and home schools that existed at the time.
As the late Cato Institute scholar Andrew Coulson noted, "Shifting the reins of educational power from private to public hands would, they promised, yield better teaching methods and materials, greater efficiency, superior service to the poor, and a stronger, more cohesive nation. Mann even ventured to predict that if public schooling were widely adopted and given enough time to work, "'nine-tenths of the crimes in the penal code would become obsolete,' and 'the long catalogue of human ills would be abridged.'" (Emphasis added.) While Mann's utopian goals obviously didn't quite work out as planned, they did create a link in people's minds between the "institution of public schooling and the ideals of public education" that tragically still exists.
A look at literacy rates is instructive. In 1840, before compulsory public schools existed, literacy rates were about 90 percent.
But today?
According to the Literacy Project, 45 million Americans today are functionally illiterate, unable to read above a 5th-grade level. Half of all adults can't read a book at an 8th-grade level. In California, 25 percent of the state's 6 million students are unable to perform basic reading skills. It's way past time to reappraise the Mann-created mess.
Homeschooling certainly has its challenges, especially when foisted on families with little or no warning. But unlike in the 19th century, home learning today doesn't have to depend on family members sitting at a common table going over the ABCs. With computers omnipresent, the best teachers in the world these days can teach the world.
In "We're All Homeschoolers Now," the Heritage Foundation's Lindsey Burke cites just a few of the ample resources available to parents. Outfits like Zearn and STMath are providing their materials online for free during the coronavirus outbreak. Longtime resource Khan Academy has a wealth of educational resources. Prenda Microschool is offering its coursework to families for just $100 for the remainder of the year. The Cato Institute's Kerry McDonald lists even more resources. Also, the Home School Legal Defense Association is a one-stop-shop for all aspects of homeschooling.
Additionally, many home-schooling veterans have been offering a trove of support to the newbies, many of whom will find their unfamiliar role difficult. Married to a teacher, Michelle Thomas homeschools her four children and explains how she and her husband can swing it on a single income. She extols the many virtues of educating at home: her kids have become close friends, the family has no competition in helping form their kids' character development, flexibility in the school day, etc.
Even families who enthusiastically embrace their new role may find the money lost from cutting back on work hours daunting. But, writing about California, Reason Foundation';s Corey DeAngelis suggests that the state could "give some portion of that funding to parents to cover educational expenses during the shutdown. The state could allow school districts and families to split K-12 education funding 50 – 50. That could be a win for both groups. School districts would get to keep half of the funding for students who no longer attend them. Families would get to use half of their children's education dollars to find a school or program that fits their current needs."
As good an idea as that is, California lawmakers undoubtedly will pass on it. Any legislation that disrupts the big government-big union complex is a sure loser. Despite the fact that kids educated by their parents outperform traditional public school students, the teachers' unions and other wild-eyed statists have been gunning for homeschoolers for years. In March 2008, a California state appellate court ruled that parents who lack teaching credentials could not educate their children at home. Needless to say, this decision sent waves of angst through California's homeschooling families, while delighting the teachers' unions. United Teachers of Los Angeles President A.J. Duffy asserted at the time, "What's best for a child is to be taught by a credentialed teacher." Lloyd Porter, a California Teachers Association board member, chimed in: "We're happy. We always think students should be taught by credentialed teachers, no matter what the setting."
Sadly for the unionistas, however, sanity prevailed a few months later. In August 2008, a state appellate court ruled that parents may indeed legally homeschool their kids in California even if they lack a teaching credential. No matter, the California Teachers Association maintains that allowing parents to homeschool their children without a state-issued stamp of approval results in "educational anarchy."
At its yearly national convention in 2015, the National Education Association passed Resolution B-83 (exactly the same as 2011's B-82, 2008's B-75, etc.), which read in part: "The National Education Association believes that homeschooling programs based on parental choice cannot provide the student with a comprehensive education experience . . . Instruction should be by persons who are licensed by the appropriate state education licensure agency, and a curriculum approved by the state department of education should be used."
Also, courtesy of the California Federation of Teachers, there is a law on the books which hurts homeschoolers. It stipulates that enrollment in online charter schools be restricted to students living in a contiguous county to where the school is based. This makes as much sense as being told that because you live in Los Angeles County you can't use Google as your search engine because the latter's home base is in Santa Clara County, which is not adjacent to L.A.!
According to the latest numbers from the National Center for Education Statistics, about 1.7 million kids are homeschooled in the United States, with about 190,000 of them based in California. That number undoubtedly will increase if the virus threat continues for a protracted period – by how much is anyone's guess.
As you contemplate homeschooling your young ones, please consider: your family may wind up a tighter unit and your children more literate. At the same time, they will not be exposed to perverse sex education, bullies, indoctrination, the teachers' unions' archaic tenure and seniority rules, and so on.
This article has been republished with permission from American Greatness.
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Larry Sand
Larry Sand, a former classroom teacher, is the president of the non-profit California Teachers Empowerment Network – a nonpartisan, non-political group dedicated to providing teachers and the general public with reliable and balanced information about professional affiliations and positions on educational issues.
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Bible > Strong's > Greek > 758
◄ 758. archón ►
archón: ruler, chief
Original Word: ἄρχων, οντος, ὁ
Transliteration: archón
Phonetic Spelling: (ar'-khone)
Definition: ruler, chief
Usage: a ruler, governor, leader, leading man; with the Jews, an official member (a member of the executive) of the assembly of elders.
758 árxōn (from 757 /árxō, "rule, take precedence") – properly, a preeminent ruler (chief); a commander with authority (influence) over people in a particular jurisdiction.
pres. part. of archó
ruler, chief
authorities (1), leaders (1), magistrate (1), official (2), official's (1), prince (1), ruler (1), ruler (13), rulers (16).
STRONGS NT 758: ἄρχων
ἄρχων, ἄρχοντος, ὁ (present participle of the verb ἄρχω) (from Aeschylus down), a ruler, commander, chief, leader: used of Jesus, ἄρχων τῶν βασιλέων τῆς γῆς, Revelation 1:5; of the rulers of nations, Matthew 20:25; Acts 4:26; Acts 7:35; universally, of magistrates, Romans 13:3; Acts 23:5; especially judges, Luke 12:58; Acts 7:27, 35 (where note the antithesis: whom they refused as ἄρχοντα καί δικαστήν, him God sent as ἄρχοντα — leader, ruler — καί λύτρῳ — τήν); Acts 16:19. οἱ ἄρχοντες τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου those who in the present age (see αἰών, 3) by nobility of birth, learning and wisdom, power and authority, wield the greatest influence, whether among Jews or Gentles, 1 Corinthians 2:6, 8; cf. Neander at the passage, p. 62ff Of the members of the Jewish Sanhedrin: Luke 23:13, 35; Luke 24:20; John 3:1; John 7:26, 48; John 12:42; Acts 3:17; Acts 4:5, 8; Acts 13:27; Acts 14:5. of the officers presiding over synagogues: Matthew 9:18, 23; Luke 8:41 (ἄρχων τῆς συναγωγῆς, cf. Mark 5:22 ἀρχισυνάγωγος), and perhaps also Luke 18:18; ἄρχων τῶν Φαρισαίων, one who has great influence among the Pharisees, Luke 14:1. of the devil, the prince of evil spirits: (ὁ) ἄρχων τῶν δαιμονίων, Matthew 9:34; Matthew 12:24; Mark 3:22; Luke 11:15; ὁ ἄρχων τοῦ κόσμου, the ruler of the irreligious mass of mankind, John 12:31; John 14:30; John 16:11 (in rabbinical writings הָעולָה שַׂר; ἄρχων τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου, Ignatius, ad Eph. 19, 1 [ET] (ad Magn. 1, 3 [ET]); ἄρχων τοῦ καιροῦ τῆς ἀνομίας, the Epistle of Barnabas 18, 2 [ET]); τῆς ἐξουσίας τοῦ ἀέρος, Ephesians 2:2 (see ἀήρ). (See Hort in Dict. of Chris. Biog., under the word Archon.)
chief ruler, magistrate, prince
Present participle of archo; a first (in rank or power) -- chief (ruler), magistrate, prince, ruler.
see GREEK archo
αρχοντα άρχοντα ἄρχοντα αρχοντας αρχοντάς άρχοντας ἄρχοντας αρχοντες άρχοντες άρχοντές ἄρχοντες αρχοντι άρχοντι ἄρχοντι αρχοντος άρχοντος άρχοντός ἄρχοντος αρχοντων αρχόντων ἀρχόντων άρχουσι αρχουσιν άρχουσιν ἄρχουσιν αρχων άρχων ἄρχων archon archōn árchon árchōn archonta árchonta archontas árchontas archontes árchontes archonti árchonti archonton archontōn archónton archóntōn archontos árchontos archousin árchousin
Matthew 9:18 N-NMS
GRK: αὐτοῖς ἰδοὺ ἄρχων εἷς ἐλθὼν
NAS: these things to them, a [synagogue] official came
KJV: a certain ruler, and worshipped
INT: to them behold a ruler certain having come
Matthew 9:23 N-GMS
GRK: οἰκίαν τοῦ ἄρχοντος καὶ ἰδὼν
NAS: came into the official's house,
KJV: came into the ruler's house, and
INT: house of the ruler and having seen
Matthew 9:34 N-DMS
GRK: Ἐν τῷ ἄρχοντι τῶν δαιμονίων
NAS: out the demons by the ruler of the demons.
KJV: through the prince of the devils.
INT: By the prince of the demons
Matthew 12:24 N-DMS
GRK: τῷ Βεελζεβοὺλ ἄρχοντι τῶν δαιμονίων
NAS: by Beelzebul the ruler of the demons.
KJV: by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.
INT: Beelzebul prince of the demons
Matthew 20:25 N-NMP
GRK: ὅτι οἱ ἄρχοντες τῶν ἐθνῶν
NAS: You know that the rulers of the Gentiles
KJV: that the princes of the Gentiles
INT: that the rulers of the Gentiles
Mark 3:22 N-DMS
KJV: by the prince of the devils
Luke 8:41 N-NMS
GRK: καὶ οὗτος ἄρχων τῆς συναγωγῆς
NAS: Jairus, and he was an official of the synagogue;
KJV: he was a ruler of the synagogue: and
INT: and he a ruler of the synagogue
Luke 11:15 N-DMS
GRK: Βεελζεβοὺλ τῷ ἄρχοντι τῶν δαιμονίων
NAS: by Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons.
KJV: Beelzebub the chief of the devils.
INT: Beelzebul the prince of the demons
Luke 12:58 N-AMS
GRK: σου ἐπ' ἄρχοντα ἐν τῇ
NAS: to appear before the magistrate, on [your] way
KJV: to the magistrate, [as thou art] in
INT: of you before a magistrate in the
Luke 14:1 N-GMP
GRK: τινος τῶν ἀρχόντων τῶν Φαρισαίων
NAS: of one of the leaders of the Pharisees
KJV: of one of the chief Pharisees
INT: of one of the rulers of the Pharisees
Luke 18:18 N-NMS
GRK: τις αὐτὸν ἄρχων λέγων Διδάσκαλε
NAS: A ruler questioned Him, saying,
KJV: And a certain ruler asked him,
INT: a certain to him ruler saying Teacher
Luke 23:13 N-AMP
GRK: καὶ τοὺς ἄρχοντας καὶ τὸν
NAS: the chief priests and the rulers and the people,
KJV: and the rulers and
INT: and the rulers and the
Luke 23:35 N-NMP
GRK: καὶ οἱ ἄρχοντες λέγοντες Ἄλλους
NAS: on. And even the rulers were sneering
KJV: beholding. And the rulers also with
INT: also the rulers saying Others
GRK: καὶ οἱ ἄρχοντες ἡμῶν εἰς
NAS: the chief priests and our rulers delivered
KJV: and our rulers delivered him
INT: and the rulers of us to
John 3:1 N-NMS
GRK: ὄνομα αὐτῷ ἄρχων τῶν Ἰουδαίων
NAS: named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews;
KJV: named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
INT: name to him a ruler of the Jews
John 7:26 N-NMP
GRK: ἔγνωσαν οἱ ἄρχοντες ὅτι οὗτός
NAS: nothing to Him. The rulers do not really
KJV: unto him. Do the rulers know indeed
INT: have recognized those who rule that this
John 7:48 N-GMP
GRK: ἐκ τῶν ἀρχόντων ἐπίστευσεν εἰς
NAS: No one of the rulers or Pharisees
KJV: Have any of the rulers or of
INT: of the rulers has believed on
John 12:31 N-NMS
GRK: νῦν ὁ ἄρχων τοῦ κόσμου
NAS: world; now the ruler of this world
KJV: now shall the prince of this world
INT: now the prince of the world
John 12:42 N-GMP
GRK: ἐκ τῶν ἀρχόντων πολλοὶ ἐπίστευσαν
NAS: even of the rulers believed
KJV: among the chief rulers also
INT: from among the rulers many believed
GRK: τοῦ κόσμου ἄρχων καὶ ἐν
NAS: more with you, for the ruler of the world
KJV: you: for the prince of this world
INT: of this world ruler and in
GRK: ὅτι ὁ ἄρχων τοῦ κόσμου
NAS: because the ruler of this
KJV: because the prince of this
INT: because the ruler the world
Acts 3:17 N-NMP
GRK: καὶ οἱ ἄρχοντες ὑμῶν
NAS: just as your rulers did also.
KJV: [did] also your rulers.
INT: also the rulers of you
Acts 4:5 N-AMP
GRK: αὐτῶν τοὺς ἄρχοντας καὶ τοὺς
NAS: On the next day, their rulers and elders
KJV: that their rulers, and
INT: their the rulers and the
Acts 4:8 N-VMP
GRK: πρὸς αὐτούς Ἄρχοντες τοῦ λαοῦ
NAS: said to them, Rulers and elders
KJV: them, Ye rulers of the people,
INT: to them Rulers of the people
GRK: καὶ οἱ ἄρχοντες συνήχθησαν ἐπὶ
NAS: TOOK THEIR STAND, AND THE RULERS WERE GATHERED
KJV: and the rulers were gathered
INT: and the rulers were gathered together
ἄρχων — 8 Occ.
ἄρχοντα — 6 Occ.
ἄρχοντας — 3 Occ.
ἄρχοντες — 9 Occ.
ἄρχοντι — 4 Occ.
ἀρχόντων — 5 Occ.
ἄρχοντος — 1 Occ.
ἄρχουσιν — 1 Occ.


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Cell C launches online reality show Break the Net
Cell C has launched an online reality show titled Break the Net, featuring potential Internet stars competing for a prize of R250,000.
The show will consist of 30 contestants battling it out in an online content creation show and competing for the most views.
Entries will be open to all South Africans from 15 September to 16 October, with the show being broadcast from 16 October until 11 December 2016.
"How and where content is delivered to consumers is changing dramatically in South Africa as Internet access becomes more pervasive," said Cell C CEO Jose Dos Santos.
"As an innovator, Cell C is taking its first steps into playing a role in the production and delivery of incredible content."
The show will feature a lineup of popular South African celebrities, including Suzelle DIY, Ofentse Mwatse, and Darren "Whackhead" Simpson as The Taskmaster.
Derek Watts and the Sunday Blues will anchor the online show.
Download the Cell C Reality app from your app store.
Open the Cell C Reality app, and select #BreakTheNet.
Then go to "Enter Competition" and follow the on-screen instructions.
Create your profile and upload a one-minute video.
Entries are open from 15 September to 15 October.
The 30 chosen contestants will be given 5 challenges for the next 8 weeks starting from 23 October.
Contestants will have 48 hours to create and upload their video, and then try and get it to go viral. The winner will be the contestant with the highest amount of views.
Watch, share and like the videos on the Cell C Reality App and you will earn Cell C reward points, which can be redeemed for data.
Contestants will earn prizes for completing the first four tasks of the competition.
The overall winner of the event will receive a grand prize of R250,000 and an all-expenses paid trip to Hollywood.
Break the Net will kick off at 19:00 on Sunday 23 October and will be broadcasted on the Cell C YouTube channel.
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MAPW supports MSF call for an independent inquiry in to hospital attack in Kunduz
MEDICAL BODY SUPPORTS MSF CALL FOR INDEPENDENT INQUIRY INTO HOSPITAL ATTACK
The Medical Association for Prevention of War (Australia) has expressed its outrage at the recent bombing of an MSF hospital in Kunduz in Afghanistan. The fact that such an attack occured after ample warning of the hospital's location was given demands an impartial investigation at the highest possible level. MAPW urges the Australian Government to call for such an investigation.
MAPW President Dr Margaret Beavis said, "We express our solidarity with the courageous and selfless medical and other aid workers who bring medical and surgical treatments to war-torn communities who would otherwise have none. We commend them, grieve for all those who have died, and express grave concerns for those Afghan people whose only health care service has been destroyed."
MAPW gives full support to MSF's call for an investigation into this attack by the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission, which was set up under the Additional Protocols of the Geneva Conventions to investigate violations of international humanitarian law.
Dr Beavis also stated, "The notion of the Pentagon investigating itself over such a grave crime as this is nothing but laughable. This situation demands independence. Attacks on health care facilities are forbidden under the Geneva Conventions, and we call on the Australian Government to uphold and protect the law by demanding an independent inquiry into this attack."
If Foreign Minister Julie Bishop believes that Australia is a leading contender for a seat on the UN Human Rights Council, she could help that cause by demonstrating that the investigation of alleged war crimes does not depend on the identity of the perpetrator.
MAPW President Dr Margaret Beavis 0401 995 699


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Another few comics to take a look at, and the last of our new SpiderForest features!
The Last Traveler: A young lady is summoned through a forbidden portal to a world of dragon societies, strange magic, and handsome princes. If you're into royal courtly dramas, but also dragons, give it a look! It just started Chapter 4 a few weeks ago!
Fighting Dreamers: A heroic team of sleeping housecats hone their skills and battle the nightmares of every dreaming creature with their dream-fueled battle avatars. If you've ever watched The Matrix and thought "this movie would be better if they were all cats", check this comic out!
Goddess of Paradise: An ancient goddess wakes from a long slumber only to find her power gone and her fellow divine buddies scattered. The quest to reunite them is a fun, actiony, spell-slinging adventure. Very fun characters and style on this one!
Corner the Maze: A Formula One racer zooms through a portal mid-race into a fantastical moonscape, where warriors battle to keep demonic forces at bay. Is he the hero this world needs? Will he make it out to finish the race? And why is his car talking now?


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There is a plethora of Progressive Rock and Metal bands out there with an ever growing progosphere to boot. Yet, today's prog gets dangerously close to the state of being predictive.
Some think good prog needs to be djents, and only djents, plus some high pitched wailing. Others profess that only chaos will pay homage to the mighty gods of progressive nirvana. Loki preserve us – forsooth!
Now, this year (still) promises great things, like the new pop-infused (shiver…) album of Steven Wilson after his stellar Hand. Cannot. Erase. Not to forget the pretty cool latest piece of work … [...] Click to raid more!


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Algorithms will make life more challenging for freelancers: If today you were to read five articles from various websites on a multitude of different topics, chances are one of the articles you read was written by a journalistic engineering process that formatted the piece in a way that makes it as easy as possible for the reader to engage with. The most complex topics will still require a human touch, but expect algorithms for aspects of technical writing to be making a huge surge in the coming year.
Social Media will roll out new options for publishing: 'Instant Articles' via Facebook are only the beginning. Google has now jumped aboard the train to establish a way publishers can get more viewership through social media avenues then from just their domain name. Expect Facebook, Google and Twitter to all have their hands in the content publishing cookie jar by the end of the year.
Written content will require more visual cues: As wireless internet speed continues to increase, visual content that requires a high powered connection is quickly becoming the standard. Anything from interactive websites, to videos to live skype Q&A's that demand a higher bit rate will increase exponentially by the spring and summer of next year.
Interactive content will explode: Custom newsfeeds, a voice activated search engine that makes Siri look clueless and a plethora of other elements rooted in virtual reality are about to impact how we interpret and engage with technology in a very big way.
Aggregated content will put feedback for marketing teams back in the hands of users: It's pretty hard to debate that one of the most simplistic and effective ways of garnishing information for your business is through the usage of surveys. Tiny tidbits of information on a user's facebook page will be compiled into a collection of data to better market products towards the users that are most likely to purchase the product or services based on the information they knowingly (or unknowingly) provided.
Every single new business is trying to gain an advantage over the competition. Seeing as new businesses rise and fall on the daily, there is no real guarantee of a future, which is why initiating a business plan is often times the most daunting area of entrepreneurship. If you're reading this in an attempt to uncover some new tactic for business operation that will automatically place you in the fast lane than you're probably going to be disappointed. Because the best way to outperform the competition hasn't changed in the last few decades: have a great product or service, please your customers, and do it all while making a profit. Having said that, it helps immensely to know what your competition is up to. If you are completely in the dark on what other parties are doing, it leaves you prone to get caught off guard by their moves rather than beating them at their own game.
This is where content marketing comes into play.
As you can see, there is numerous ways in which content marketing can be a godsend if you're willing to be more tactful with your own strategies rather than just copying your competitors because you think it worked for them. Get to the bottom of things, establish whether or not a campaign one of your rivals ran was a raging success or if it costed them more money than it was worth in the long run. These are valuable pieces of information to know and can lead to a much more prosperous business of your own. Fix your competition's problems and reap the benefits of your self-made solutions.
Whether you are the owner, operator or admin of a company or brand's website, blog work is essential to successfully networking with neighboring sites and associates that could eventually help you grow your network. Here are a couple tried and true principles to routine blog posting that will not only help with consistency but also aid in SEO work as well.
The lengthier the better. If an article is roughly 300-500 words the search term you associate with the post should be mentioned 3 to 7 times spread out through the length of the post in its' entirety.
Make your posts as SEO-friendly as possible. Keywords need to be used in the subheadings and a priority must be placed on making the main topic of the post as easy to identify as possible. Meaning the reader should know the subject of the post within the first one to three sentences. Images attached to each article along with a meta description are also crucial for reader accessibility and for search engines to prioritize your writing over other random websites that have no relevancy to the topic you're trying to address.
Content must be updated regularly. That doesn't mean blow up the blog section of your company's site with useless posts that have no merit or calculatable wealth. All posts published must serve a purpose. Whether that purpose is to provide advice on business ventures or to simply update and educate readers on the product or brand that you are determined to successfully market. There is no room or time for wasted language on a successful company's site. Every amount of space must be used with the utmost efficiency– plain and simple.
Digital content strategy– despite being nearly halfway through 2015 this remains a difficult term to define and confine to one specific or universal description. Best case scenario you can characterize digital content strategy as a collection of ventures directly associated with every single one of your digital channels. It is the only surefire approach to making sure that audiences are engaging and interacting with the content you provide on your website to the point where the viewer of the content feels compelled to share it with other people in his or her network to see.
-Who are you trying to communicate with? The answer to this is simple: everyone. The larger a network you have through your marketing campaign the easier it will be to raise the rate in which your content is shared.
-What is the approach you are taking to engage with potential customers/clients? If a customer or client has an issue with the product or concept you are responsible for developing how fast will it take you to rectify the issue? Will you add more value to compensate for the problem at hand? This is where customer/client feedback is key. Without your target audience providing you with recommendations on how to better present your overall package it is very difficult to evolve past the first initial stage of your overall vision.
-What outcomes can you measure/keep track of? Where are you looking to do the most amount of development as a website? Audience size? Brand recognition? Focus on your primary goal and dedicate the majority of your time to tracking the initial measurements of growth in that one particular area.
-What content on your site performs the best?
With over 80% of consumers opening emails from companies and over 40% going on to purchase, email marketing continues to be a major mode of connection between businesses and consumers, according to Salesforce. Gain the advantage in branding, promoting, marketing or converting with an email newsletter tool that makes it easy to craft and send professional-looking emails to your subscriber list. These five email newsletter clients are easy to use, professional, and geared toward large and small businesses.
Since its founding in 2001, MailChimp has become a popular newsletter client and boasts over 5 million users. With free and paid plans, MailChip is easy to use, offers a range of free templates for HTML-formatted newsletters, and accepts your HTML code. MailChimp offers iPhone and Android apps that enable you to manage your email marketing on the go. It integrates with analytics and social media tools to extend your reach.
When you're trying to leverage social capital, use Constant Contact, which integrates with Facebook for social referrals. If you have a dedicated marketing budget, you might hire CC's professional services team to jump-start your email newsletter campaign. Constant Contact doesn't offer as fancy templates as other email newsletter tools, but it does have unparalleled reach. While plans begin at $20 per month, you can test out CC with a free trial. Additionally, it's ideal for surveys, event registrations, and other communications. Note, some users find CC has a steep learning curve.
40Nuggets aims to help you convert smarter by tailoring your marketing methods to unique visitors, giving you the analytics needed to take action, and helping you take next steps with ease. Target visitors based on behavior, location, or referral URL to ensure a seamless conversion with minimum disruption. 40Nuggets begins at $149 per month for businesses or $37 per month for solo marketers and personal brand mavens. Try 40Nuggets for yourself with a 14-day free trial.
Like Constant Contact, iContact has a steep learning curve and can be challenging for new users to set up. However, its premium features allow you to easily manage campaigns down to the individual level. When you're looking to convert leads and tailor marketing messages to individuals, iContact's incremental controls, call-to-action buttons, and auto-response tools help you achieve your purpose. Contact management tools and excellent customer support make it a good choice for small teams or startups that need to leverage email marketing to grow the business. While plans begin at $14 per month, iContact offers free trials.
When you need analytics, social integration, and marketing tips, Campaign Monitor may be your dream newsletter client. Campaign Monitor allows you to customize two free templates for your needs and save your changes, for ease in sending out future mailings. However, you'll need to download and import templates, which can be a bottleneck. The pricing structure allows you to pay a fee per month or per email campaign. With no free option, this may not be startup-friendly.
Branding is that part of your marketing plan that sets your business apart from others in your industry and lets your customers and potential customers know what's unique about your company. Your branding can include every aspect of your business, including your logo, website design, how your employees answer the phone, your office decor, your social media pages and every public-facing aspect of your business.
What words and qualities do you want customers and potential customers to associate with your business?
The best brands answer those questions … and ask again and again as they grow.
1. Splurge on a dynamite logo. Your logo makes your business and all of your marketing materials distinct and unique. A great logo can impart your business philosophy, your company's personality and your strengths all in one graphic. This is a must-have for any new business. If you're bootstrapping your business, issue a call for submissions through a third-party freelance service like Odesk or Elancer.
3. Tie it all together. For your branding to be successful, you need to have all aspects of your marketing plan interlinked. Your website should mention your print publications. Your print advertising and direct mail should mention your website, and so on.
4. Get the most for your branding dollars. Start-up companies, by definition, lack huge marketing budgets. To get the most from your branding dollars, invest first in the essentials—a great logo, a great website, business cards and someone to manage your social media and email marketing efforts. As you grow, you can add other components like point-of-purchase displays, direct mail marketing and logo items.
What are other examples of brand voices? Share your thoughts in our comments section.


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Creation Models
Author: Doug Sharp
Subject: Theology
When Darwin introduced the theory of evolution over a hundred years ago, there were many attempts on the part of the church to explain away its ramifications. Out of these attempts arose several different interpretations of the Genesis account of creation. These interpretations usually tried to incorporate evolution and long ages into the Biblical account.
Many of these interpretations are still held today by believers, and some churches incorporate these positions into their doctrine. They can be divided into these categories:
Theistic evolution
The Day-Age theory
The Gap theory.
Willson's Fifth Reader, written in 1861, gives us a glimpse of these explanations. This is an excerpt from a chapter on geology.
"It is believed by most geologists that the earth was at one time a molten mass, surrounded by an atmosphere filled with dense gases and vapors; and that, as the outer portions cooled, forming the rocks and the dry land, the vapors, condensing and falling in showers, formed springs, rivers and the waters of the oceans. This is the geological theory of the gradual calling of order out of chaos, after the great work of creation had been completed.
It is maintained that this view of the early condition of our globe, and of the successive changes that subsequently occurred in it during thousands and perhaps millions of years prior to the creation of man, does not at all conflict with the scriptural account of creation. The scriptural account, as paraphrased by a modern commentator, would read thus: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was desolate. Afterward, the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters;" thus allowing the possibility of even millions of years between the first act of creative power and the six days' work of arranging the universe.
Different opinions long prevailed among the learned with regard to the nature, the extent of time, and the date of the six days' work of creation, for the Bible gives us no explanation on these points; but by most of the learned of the present day, and by all eminent geologists, the "six days" are understood to be indefinite periods of time, as it is said that, with the Almighty, "a thousand years are to be reckoned but as one day." It seems reasonable to suppose that they may have been prophetic periods looking into the past, and seen in vision by the inspired historian."
Willson's explanation in 1861 shows that the church had already compromised with evolution two years after Darwin published his theory.
According to this idea, the creation was actually a re-creation out of chaos; presumably caused by the destruction of a previous world ruled by Satan and the dark angels. The "gap" theory, as some people called it, tried to stretch the period between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2 into millions of years.
Another attempt to stretch out the creation period was the redefinition of the word "day" to mean "age" as an indefinite span of time. The Willson Reader had the distinction of trying to incorporate both theories, attempting to maintain a literal interpretation of Genesis while holding to an evolutionary geologic view. This points out that the basic issue still hasn't changed a whole lot. There are few possible explanations for the origin of the earth:
Theory: Characteristics:
1. Macroevolution. Molecules to man. Atheistic.
2.Theistic Evolution. God intervened and helped evolution along. Unbelief in a literal Genesis.
3. The Gap Theory Theistic. Ruin-reconstruction.
4. Day-Age Theory. Theistic. Long ages instead of days.
5. Literal Six Day Creation. Theistic. No attempt to reconcile evolution with the Bible.
These theories or combinations of them are the only alternatives. For example, the idea that space aliens imported life from another planet is really another version of macroevolution, with the time factor pushed back into oblivion.
In 1884, L. T. Townsend wrote a book called "The Bible and The Nineteenth Century." In it, he offered quite a bit of wisdom which we could apply today2
"From very early times to the present, men have declared that the teachings of the Bible–not its supposed, but its actual teachings–and the teachings of science are in conflict. And we are willing to admit that Bible-writers and scientific men more than once have not been in agreement.
But this admission does not with it the confession that the Bible is necessarily wrong. For, if science were wrong and the Bible right, there would be a conflict just the same as if the reverse were true. Does anyone suppose that science has always been free from error, or always in agreement with itself?
'It is now thirty-five years' says Sharon Turner, 'since my attention was turned to these considerations. It was then the fashion of science, and of a large part of the educated world, to rush into a disbelief of all written revelation: and several geological speculations were directed against the Bible. But I have lived to see the most hostile of these destroyed.' At the date here referred to, there were conflicts between the teachings of science and those of the Bible; that is the errors of science and the truths of the Bible. The Bible can hardly be condemned for not harmonizing with error, though the error is in strictest scientific garb, and is supported by able scientific authorities.
Dr. Townsend continues to caution the reader that many scientific opinions of the day were not established, and could change with further research.
"We must not, therefore, decide matters hastily. We must be sure at least of two things, before pronouncing against the correctness of biblical statement; namely, correctness of interpretation and the firm establishment of scientific fact.
Had this rule governed skeptical thought and expression during the last half century, much that has been said against the Bible would not have been spoken."
Why haven't we learned from the mistakes of the past? Every time scientists find a new fossil, we think it is proof that life evolved. But if we examine the evidence closely and start with different assumptions, we find that the evidence is not in conflict with the Bible, but with evolution. An example is the so-called horse series, which on the surface appears to prove evolution. Closer examination finds evidence contradicting evolution.
(See the book "Evolution: The Challenge of the Fossil Record" by Duane Gish).
These creationist world views compromised with certain aspects of evolution by examining the wording and interpretation of Genesis to make it fit the concept of long ages. In recent times, though, creation scientists reject long ages because of the scientific evidence, not because of theology. There is no need to warp scripture to fit a warped science. A brief examination of the Gap Theory and the Day-Age theory reveal many scientific and theological problems.
PROBLEMS WITH THE DAY-AGE THEORY
The attempt to make the word "day" referring to the six days of creation mean an "age" millions of years long fails many important tests. Some of the numerous objections to this theory follows:3
1 If the Hebrew word "yom" meant "age" instead of "day", why did the phrase "evening and morning" appear in the account? It would be hard to put an evening and a morning on an age. The word was clearly defined when it was first used, when in Genesis 1:5 it referred to an evening and a morning.
In Exodus 20:11, the Scripture says that "in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is." This reference is from the Ten Commandments, where God commanded rest on the seventh day. The verse can't refer to six "ages" and the Sabbath "day" using the same word to mean two different things in the same sentence.
If the writer of Genesis wanted to convey the idea of long ages, he could have used the word "olam" meaning a long indefinite span of time, instead of "yom."
If the main purpose of the day-age theory is to try to fit the geologic ages into the six days of creation, there are so many contradictions between the two accounts that it fails miserably, even if a Biblical paraphrase would permit it. Compare the two accounts:
BIBLICAL ACCOUNT EVOLUTION
Earth covered with water from the beginning. Water gradually oozed out of the interior over long ages.
Genesis 1:7 speaks of a firmament separating two expanses of water. Completely rejects this concept.
First life was on land. Life was in the Oceans.
Fruit trees developed first, then fish. Fish and other marine organisms developed before fruit trees.
One of the first created animals mentioned in the Bible was the whale (Genesis 1:21). The first organisms were the protozoa.
Animals reproduced "after its kind". Slow ascent of all organisms from a common ancestor.
Six days of creation. No such six fold division occurs in the geologic record.
The book, "Biblical Cosmology and Modern Science" by Henry M. Morris outlines many additional problems created when people try to reconcile the six days of creation with long ages. Even if the "day" mentioned in Genesis was "as a thousand years," six thousand years isn't enough time to fit the geologic ages. Even six million years won't work. The natural reading of Scripture just does not permit this interpretation.
THE GAP THEORY
The gap theory tries to fit five billion years of earth history between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2. Proponents of this theory suggest that God destroyed the original earth ruled by Satan with a great cataclysm and became "without form and void" as described in Genesis 1:2.
Like the day-age theory, the gap theory has significant problems. For example:
1.Why would a five billion year history of the earth be ignored by the writers of scripture?
If there was a gap between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2, why would Genesis 1:2 start with the word "and", implying a direct connection between the two?
The gap theory hinges on the redefinition of the word "was" in Genesis 1:2 to "became". Neither the general usage of the Hebrew word nor the context indicates that this is the case.
Genesis 2:1-3 and Exodus 20:11 both say that God made the heavens at the same time He made the earth. Since "heavens" were mentioned only in the first verse, it implys that the two verses are connected.
There is no mention in scripture that Satan's fall in heaven produced a cataclysm here on earth. Satan was only "cast to the earth" after his fall (Ezekiel 28:17). In fact, how could everything be "very good" after the six days of creation if Satan was roaming the earth then? Satan's fall quite likely occurred after Genesis 1:31, when everything was still "good", and Genesis 3:1, when he appeared to Eve.
Since the theory of evolution and the concept of long ages is highly dependent on the concept of uniformitarianism and the gradual accumulation of strata and fossils over a period of millions of years, the Gap Theory cataclysm comes in direct conflict with the assumptions of the dating methods it is trying to reconcile itself with. A cataclysm resulting from the judgment of God would have produced quick burial of all of the fossils at once, rather than an accumulation over millions of years.
There is no need to presume a flood of Noah provides an adequate explanation for the fossil record.
Just like the day-age theory, the gap theory creates more problems than it solves. Instead of satisfying science, it introduces more contradictions and difficulties. Note the following comparison:
GAP THEORY PROBLEMS:
World wide cataclysm before the flood. Nothing in geologic record or The Bible that says this.
Attributes most fossils to the pre-world. Most fossils are identical to those found in the present world.
Teaches the existence of pre-Adamic men. Bible teaches Adam was the "first man" (I Corinthians 15:47).
Does not resolve the problem of evolution, but just pushes it back before the Creation. Indicates that God changed his method from evolution to creation.
World wide cataclysm before Adam. Geologic ages would be eliminated. There would also be no room for the flood of Noah.
Obviously, the day-age and gap theories do not accomplish what they set out originally to do. I believe these two theories have set back the cause of Christ because they have allowed compromise with the theory of evolution. These two theories may satisfy some who are content with a cursory reading of scripture and want a quick and easy explanation. But to those who are serious about finding the truth, no agreement between evolution and scripture is possible.
The ramifications of this conclusion are far reaching. If we cannot reconcile the theory of evolution to scripture, it means that more than a century of scientific reasoning has been in error.
How could this be in this age of enlightenment?
I believe that it is for religious reasons, not scientific, that the theory of evolution with its long ages has been embraced. With the theory of evolution, mankind has found the means in which to push God out of the picture, or way back in
eons of time where he can forget Him. The motivation behind this is so strong that it often results in people becoming very hostile and sometimes violent when confronted with scientific evidence contradicting their theory. Christians must come to grips with the fact that evolution is diametrically opposed to their faith.
THE LITERAL SIX DAY CREATION AND THE YOUNG EARTH
Reconciling science to the Bible involves separating theory from scientific facts. Evolution has been successful because it is so diabolical in its confusion of the two. For example, science has established microevolution, or changes within kinds, as fact. What is not established is macro-evolution, or changes between kinds. Evolutionists will say that the theory of evolution is a fact. What they really mean is that microevolution is established as a fact.
Creationists have no problems with microevolution, in fact, it lends great support for the "after its kind" declaration in Genesis. Creationists do contest macroevolution, however, and with just cause: macroevolution has never been observed!
Contemporary creationism challenges many of the assumptions of evolution. It is important to understand what creationists challenge and what they don't. Often, Christians will get themselves in trouble by questioning established scientific facts, ultimately embarrassing themselves and the cause of Christ by not doing their homework. We need to always have a ready answer to defend our faith in God, and to be accurate. Some have spread stories which in the end have turned out to be utterly false. Do not repeat a story unless you are absolutely sure it is scientifically accurate and verifiable.
Current creationist thinking has produced several models of the earth which lines up with scripture and scientific facts. These different models have the following features in common:
They postulate a young earth and a recent creation, and cite the following as evidence:
The decay of the earth's magnetic field shows that the earth cannot be more than 10,000 years old.
Sedimentary rock is noticeably absent from the ocean floor, except near mouths of rivers.
The accumulation of salt in the oceans does not indicate long ages.
The accumulation of space dust on the moon does not indicate long ages.
Long periods of time works against evolution because of the laws of thermodynamics.
They challenge radiometric dating methods because they are based upon the assumptions of evolution and cannot be tested. Radiometric dating is based on these assumptions, each of which would have been affected by the flood:
The decay of the radioactive material remained constant over long periods.
The original composition of the rock did not contain any of the end product.
None of the original material was leached away by water.
Outside forces, such as temperature, pressure and so forth remained constant and had no effect on the date.
The water which caused the flood could have come from the breakup of the fountains of the deep.
We know that reptiles, as they get older, do not stop growing but continue to increase in size up to a point. If a reptile lived 900 years, what would you have? A dinosaur! Other life forms, like the dinosaur, may have been taken on the ark, but became extinct after the flood because they could not survive in the new environment which was much more hostile. Job chapter 40 and 41 talk about two creatures, behemoth and leviathan whose descriptions match the dinosaurs.
Noah's flood explains the geologic column, the order of the strata and the fossils which are in them. Hydrodynamic sorting action of the water, habitats, the ability of an animal to escape the flood and ecological zones are all factors which would have produced fossil layers. This explanation handles the problem of out-of-order strata and fossils, which is a nasty problem for evolutionists.
Creationists point out that fossil men fall in one of two categories: either they are completely human, or they are totally ape. Some bones which were classified as human were dated far "older" than some of the "ape men" which were supposed to be man's ancestor. Other problems are hoaxes, misinterpretation of fossil evidence, incomplete evidence, and diseased specimens.
Creationists also call attention to the fact that fossil evidence is often placed in a "series" (such as the horse series) to demonstrate evolution, where in reality there is little connection between the fossils geographically or physiologically.
Many species, such as the frog, remain unchanged in the fossil record. Others jump geologic periods. The coelacanth, a fish which was used as an index fossil for the Ordovician period, was caught off the coast of Madagascar recently. How could such a fish appear in abundance in an early time period, disappear completely, then show up alive and unchanged by evolution in recent times?
Evidence of rapid burial is another argument creationists use for the flood. In many places, large fossils such as trees extend through several strata. Rapid burial is also necessary for coal and oil formation and for fossilization, otherwise the normal process of decay would completely disintegrate the organisms, even the bones.
Most young-earth creationists place the "ice age" directly after the flood; a result of the "great wind" God sent to dry up the waters on the earth. Such a wind would have produced a refrigeration effect, removing heat as the waters evaporated.
The imposition of the curse upon man at the Garden of Eden resulted in universal principle of decay and death following the entrance of sin on the world. This agrees with the laws of thermodynamics, but is diametrically opposed to evolutionary thinking that life progressed from the simple to the complex.
As with all scientific theories, there are many different creationist opinions and models. We must keep in mind that these theories are not doctrines, they are merely ideas which may explain some of the things we observe. We should be careful to revise our opinions to fit any new evidence which is gathered.
The Bible is not always specific on many issues related to science and origins. Since we cannot go back in time and observe creation taking place, we can only speculate in many areas. As we continue our scientific investigation, we can only disprove and eliminate that which is not true. As we do this, we continue to move closer and closer to the truth.
I conclude that neither science nor religion has done this. Evolutionists hang on to their theory, not because it is the most scientific, but because it supports their "religion" of atheism and hedonism. Christians commit the same mistake and continue to compromise with evolution with the day-age and gap theories. It is ironic how religious beliefs, theistic and atheist alike, keep us from the truth of the Bible. How we need to be teachable!
1Willson, Marcius. "The Fifth Reader of the School and Family Series." Harper Brothers. New York. 1865.
2Townsend, L.T. "The Bible and Other Ancient Literature in the Nineteenth Century." Chautaugua Press. New York. 1884.
3Morris, Henry M. "Biblical Cosmology and Modern Science." Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company. Phillipsburg, NJ. 1970.


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Climbing Gunung Raung in East Java.
I have tried to cut and paste a set of posts from Thorn Tree on Gunung Raung I believe are definitely worth reading, having been written by travellers who have climbed this mountain in recent weeks.
However, this has proved impossible so here is the link to the posts- suggest all travellers interested in this article do your own 'cut and paste' because posts do disappear from TT after a period of time.
Just bumping this back onto the front page so travellers can read the correct post.
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The cut and paste version.
Several internet entries list gunung Raung as the most enjoyable volcano climb in Java, no doubt due to stunning views of its caldera and crater. I would have loved to have brought you fotos of these views which are indeed stunners, but regretably my camera went missing somewhere along the descent. Needless to say, Raung�s caldera and the crater contained therein are awesome, on par, albeit on a smaller scale, to the views at Bromo and Rinjani.
Fortunately I didn�t lose my GPS which came in handy in finding my way to the top. Access to the trailhead is from the north, requiring a climb due southeast. From Bondowoso take the road heading to Situbondo via Wonosari.
A right turn at the intersection at (S7 52.584 E113 54.648) leads to Sukasari.
At Sukasari a sign points straight ahead to desa Sumberwringin.
Keep going on the paved road past Sumberwringin till you come to a fork in road marked by a big antenna tower.
Follow the road to the right which quickly degenerates into a stone track. That stone track will bring you eventually to another fork.
This time take the road on the left side. The road will then degenerate into a dirt track, with some soft and steep patches in a pine-tree forest. At (S8 02.388 E114 01.282) the road ends, and the trail begins. You can park your vehicle here.
You can probably find public transport till Sumberwringin. Thereafter you�ll have to hire an ojek.
Due to the poor road surface and the distance to the trailhead, I reckon they�ll ask no less than Rp.$50,000, likely more. For cars, clearance and higher profile tires are more of a necessity than 4WD. Those soft patches of dirt in the pine-forest will stump weak-engined or low-clearance vehicles.
Despite internet reports, it is not necessary to hire a guide. The trail is clearly visible, the only challenge being that the vegetation is over-grown in many places.
Judging from the thick brush, relative absence of garbage and the fact that I saw not one soul in two days, I�d say very few people climb Raung every year. In some places, the trail forks and you�ll have to use your intuition.
Keep in mind that you need to head southeast. When in doubt, take the fork that keeps climbing. There is one instance, however, where this will lead you down the wrong trail. That spot is at (S8 03.163 E114 01.925).
Here you will wish to take the right fork even though the trail descends (momentarily). The trail slope is pretty mild till at about 1,800 masl where, from the trailhead, you will climb about 550 meters over 5.5km. Thereafter till the peak, you will climb roughly 1,400 meters over 4.5km.
There are several campgrounds along the trail.
By campground, I mean places where the trail widens and levels to allow pitching a tent.
By far the nicest of the campgrounds, the one where I recommend that you set up base camp is Campground IV at 2,347 masl, roughly five and half hours from the trailhead. At 2,949 masl you are finally above the vegetation line.
There�s a grave a few meters beyond, presumably of someone who perished on the mountain. Exposure and hypothermia are a real risk so do come prepared.
Once you are out of the vegetation, there is nothing to shield you from the wind. I wore a baclava, gloves and a fleece vest beyond the vegetation line even though there was no a cloud in the sky and the sun was beating on me.
The peak--the top lip of the caldera, really�is still one hour ahead along exposed, weathered rock. Except for patches of scree, the going is good due to good traction and footholds. On the other hand, by then you will have started to feel the increasingly thin air. Not a big deal, but it�s there nevertheless.
All told, reaching the top will take about seven and a half hours of climbing at a quick pace.
Garmin GDB file is available on request.
Once again- another brilliant post from you with loads of valuable information- esp. on unusual places. Thank you so much. Sorry to hear about your camera-what a bummer.
Keep these posts coming- I enjoy every single word/photograph/link and I am sure other travellers do as well.
Later I will cut and paste this over to Indahnesia.com so it will never be lost.
interesting...last month I hiked Raung too.
Here some more information about this fascinating mountain.
From Jakarta, you can take air-con bus from Rawamangun terminal to Jember.
The bus starts around 1pm and will be arrived at Jember (east java) next day around 9am.
I choose Lorena bus, and it will stop at its pool in front of Terminal Tawang Alun in Jember.
From Tawang Alun, actually you have to take 'angkot' to the next terminal, Arjasa (still in Jember) then from Arjasa take the bus to Situbondo, stop at Gardu Atak junction (2 hours from Arjasa).
Or you can hire 'ojek' to take you directly to Gardu Atak from Tawang Alun (1 hours).
From Gardu Atak, take the blue angkot to the village of Sumberwringin (30 minutes). You can hire guide at Raung basecamp post of Sumber Wringin. Or you can sleep at its bungalow.
From Sumberwringin, hire ojek to take you the starting point of Raung trek (Pondok Serani, 1 hours). The trek will be quite clear from here, but at some point the trail forks (always choose the right way, as the left trail will steer you to other montain, Gunung Suket. Suket is still wild and not many people go there).
The best site for camp is pos IV or Pondok Angin (Wind Hut). From pos IV, 10 minutes walking you will see the remains of Deden Hidayat memoriam. This hiker from Bandung died after falling into Raung caldera in 1993.
After that the trail will be quite dangerous, especially when its raining and windy, as you have to walk up and down with deep ravine at right and left, with scrambling at some points. Be careful also when hiking down.
There are no water in this mountain, so you have to prepare.


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Kostel svatého Jiljí je gotický kostel v Dolním Dvořišti v okrese Český Krumlov zasvěcený svatému Jiljí. Patří k nevýznamnějším stavbám rodu Rožmberků pozdní gotiky v jižních Čechách. Byl stavěn zhruba od roku 1480 a vysvěcen v roce 1507. Od své výstavby prošel jen relativně malými stavebními úpravami a od roku 1963 je chráněn jako kulturní památka.

Dvořišťský kostel může především díky svému umístění v krajině působit v podstatě dvojím dojmem: jako stavba obranná nebo jako stavba poutní. Kostel sv. Jiljí byl postaven na nejvyšším místě okolí, což můžeme považovat za obranný i symbolický prvek. Opevňovacím prvkem mohla být i zvýšená ohradní zeď hřbitova, která se kolem kostela nacházela. Dominantní poloha kostela na vyvýšeném místě, kdy je velmi dobře viditelný ze všech příjezdových cest, rovněž napovídá jeho poutní funkci.

Historie
První doložené podklady o existenci kostela sv. Jiljí v Dolním Dvořišti se vážou k roku 1279. Kostel byl patrně postaven zároveň se vznikem vsi, kterou vlastnil šlechtický rod Rožmberků. Okolo roku 1400 začala přestavba kostela v rozsáhlý chrám na popud Petra IV. z Rožmberka. Tento krok vypovídal o ambicích Petra IV. z Rožmberka na přetvoření malého městečka ve velké významné centrum. Tyto ambice však překazily husitské války a hlavní část výstavby nynějšího kostela proto probíhala až od roku 1480.

První fáze stavby
Rožmberkové získali na stavbu kostela odpustkové privilegium, které mělo zajistit dostatek financí. Jako první byla postavena sakristie s kostnicí v suterénu. Současně se budovalo obvodové zdivo kněžiště. V roce 1488 doplňoval kněžiště kamenný svatostánek a kněžiště bylo zaklenuto hvězdovou síťovou klenbou. V roce 1492 byla vyrobena a osazena kovaná mřížka svatostánku. V další etapě výstavby došlo pravděpodobně k založení trojlodí, do kterého se vstupovalo dvěma sedlovými portály s lomeným tympanonem v nadpraží. Do roku 1500 se trojlodí stavělo podle původního plánu, byly vystavěny klenební výběhy v obvodovém zdivu a byla vytvořena arkáda kruchty. Trojlodí kostela mělo být podle všeho zaklenuto stejně jako kněžiště.

Změna projektu
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Dlouhá staletí se na kostele žádné významné přestavby neudály. První rekonstrukce jsou zaznamenány až v roce 1838 a 1891. Během rekonstrukce v roce 1891 byly odstraněny omítky a barokní mobiliář byl nahrazen novogotickým.

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Kostel sv. Jiljí je orientován klasickým způsobem na východ. Výrazná štíhlá vertikalita stavby má původ v české tradici doby předhusitské. Dolnodvořišťský kostel má mnoho společných prvků s kostelem sv. Jakuba v Prachaticích. Z tohoto kostela přejímá klenební vzorce a tvary příporových hlavic. Tyto znaky vypovídají o tom, že tyto stavby mohly být dílem stejného architekta.

Kněžiště
Kněžiště je zaklenuté dvěma klenebními poli síťové klenby se vzorem čtyřcípých hvězd a je zakončeno pěti stranami osmiúhelníku. Jeho nároží jsou z vnějšku zpevněná opěráky s pultovými stříškami a mají reliéfně ozdobené štítky. Na severní stěně kněžiště se nachází svatostánek, který má jemně profilované ostění ve tvaru oslího oblouku. Na téže stěně se také nachází sedlový portál s ostěním profilovaným hruškovcem a výžlabky vedoucí do sakristie. Sakristie má půdorys čtverce a na její východní straně se nalézá kamenný arkýř, který ukrývá oltářní niku osvětlenou okénkem. Pod sakristií se nachází kostnice. Na jižní stěně se nachází sedile, které je zakončeno členitým obloukem.

Klenba trojlodí
Trojlodí se skládá ze třech téměř stejně širokých lodí, které jsou od sebe odděleny dvěma řadami štíhlých výrazně vyžlabených pilířů. Trojlodí kostela je zaklenuto bohatou sítí, která se liší v lodi hlavní a v lodích bočních. Přechod mezi jednotlivými klenbami lodí je však téměř plynulý, protože zde chybí profilace arkád. Tento prvek můžeme najít i u síní z doby lucemburské. Východní dvojice pilířů (nejblíže ke kněžišti) má tělo členěné nejhlubšími výžlabky, střední pár pilířů je členěný mělčími výžlabky a dva západní pilíře, které prochází kruchtou, jsou osmiboký a zcela bez výžlabků. Na vrcholu všech pilířů jsou posazeny nečleněné válcové články a nad nimi vybíhají z jednotlivá žebra.

Kruchta a depozitář
V západní části trojlodí se nachází vstupní portál s lomeným tympanonem, který je poměrně malý a má mělce profilované ostění. Na jeho vrcholu se nachází reliéf pětilisté růže, která je znakem rodu Rožmberků - stavebníků kostela. V západní části lodi se také po celé šířce trojlodí nachází kruchta s poprsnicí, která je zdobená kamennými kružbami, typickými pro rožmberskou architekturu. I zde lze nalézt motiv velké pětilisté růže. Kruchta je také podklenuta síťovou klenbou. Z kruchty vede schodiště k depozitáři. Pozdně gotický depozitář má sedlový profilovaný malý portál. Na jižním průčelí depozitáře lze vidět dva erbovní štítky z období renesance. Na těchto štítcích byl při posledních opravách obnoven rožmbersko-ursinovský erb a znak lilie odkazující na duchovní správce kostela – cisterciácký klášter ve Vyšším Brodě. Boční okénka depozitáře mají záklenek, který je vytvarovaný do záclonového oblouku. Okénka po obvodu navíc doplňuje tvarovaná pasparta se stáčenými konci na horních okrajích. Pod kruchtou se nachází sedlový portálek vedoucí na šnekové schodiště, které umožňuje vstup na kruchtu dalším sedlovým portálkem s nadpražím zdobeným záclonovým obloukem a dále pak na půdu trojlodí.

Jižní předsíň
Jižní předsíň je také zaklenuta síťovou klenbou. Do trojlodí vede sedlový portál s tympanonem ozdobeným slepou kružbou a na vrcholu štítkem opět s reliéfem pětilisté růže. Patky prutů jsou šroubovitě kanelovány. Původně se předsíň pomocí lomené arkády otevírala volně ven, avšak při novogotické úpravě kostela sem byla vložena dřevěná příčka, která interiér uzavřela.

Kružby oken
Mezi opěráky se nachází štíhlá gotická dvoudílná okna s lomeným obloukem, profilovaným ostěním a původními jednoduchými kamennými kružbami. Okna mají po obvodu omítkové rámy a nad záklenky vystupují štukové znakové štítky. Štítek nad záklenkem okna na severovýchodě má tvar pětilisté růže a nad záklenky dvou jižních oken můžeme vidět štukové raně renesanční vykrajované znakové štítky. Okna trojlodí mají kružby vyplněné tzv. jeptiškami s půlkruhově ukončeným vrcholem, které mají na severní a západní straně vzor čtyřlístku a plaménku. Okna, která se nachází na jižní straně blíže kněžišti mají kružby složené z rotujících a prolínajících se plaménků a vrchol okna na jihozápadním nároží je vyplněn třemi kroužky.

Další kamenné prvky a zařízení
V kostele můžeme najít mnoho kvalitně zpracovaných kamenických prvků. Na svornících v kněžišti i hlavní lodi se nachází znak rožmberské gotické architektury – pětilistá rožmberská růže. Tento prvek se v kostele mnohokrát opakuje. Můžeme ho najít například jako reliéf na poprsnici, nebo malbu na jižním průčelí kostela. Zde je přímo namalovaný erb rodu Rožmberků. Některé svorníky jsou ozdobeny pouze dvojicí kroužků.

Kostel je vybaven polygonální kazatelnou na šroubovité točené noze, kamennou křtitelnicí, kterou bohatě zdobí štítky se znaky pětilisté růže a žulovou pokladničkou s točeným dříkem. V sakristii se nachází skříň na paramenta z druhé poloviny 17. století.

Náhrobní desky a sluneční hodiny
Na pozemku kolem kostela se rozkládá bývalý hřbitov. Doložení hřbitova pozorujeme na vnějších stěnách kostela, kde zůstaly pozůstatky náhrobních desek. Náhrobní desky se vyskytují na fasádě ze všech stran. Nad tímto portálem se nachází erb rožmberského rodu a středověké sluneční hodiny, které jsou však z velké části zakryté náhrobní deskou. Na západním průčelí vystupuje polygonální schodišťová věžice s kuželovou střechou, která je při základě zdobená motivem cimbuří.

Varhany
Na webové stránce farnosti jsou varhany popsány takto: Varhany jsou z roku 1765 (dílo freistadtského varhanáře Lorenze F. Richtera) a mají 12 rejstříků a 2 manuály. Traktura je mechanická. V zábradlí je třírejtříkový pozitiv.

Odkazy

Reference

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