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Hello Im news to this beautiful world of music! my name is Tony!
Hey Tony, and welcome to the forum!! You can find almost anything and everything to do with Hayley on the forum. Hope you enjoy it here! I know I have. Oh! And you're from Myrtle Beach!! I've been there. It's pretty cool.
P.S.- AWESOME banner! Might want to make it just a little bit smaller.
Thanks for joining us...looking forward to discussing all things Hayley with you!
As mentioned above, your signature banner is a bit large...we ask that such banners be no larger than 800 pixels wide and 200 pixels tall.
Hello Tony, and welcome to the forum!
I hope you will enjoy your visits here and I look forward to your future posts.
I've temporarily resized the banner in your signature to 800 x 533 pixels, but it's still rather too big vertically, so please try to find a smaller image.
I think the photos on the bottom of posts serve no purpose. Most all of these photos are available to view on this or another website, so why take up space to post a redundant photo.
You can switch them all off if you wish, click your Profile button, Modify Profile, Account Preferences section. In "Show Signatures" change it to "no".
Tony, welcome from me too, but don't forget to reduce or remove your signature image to within the size mentioned by Joe above.
is this better? im sorry again everyone!
Hi Tony, Welcome here !!!
My friend, please don't worry about causing a problem...there isn't one.
It is a lovely sig banner isn't it...and it is still a little tall.
No worries! We're glad to have you here!
Thank you very much for ur welcomes!
You nearly had it....just needed the [/img] to surround your new banner's link.
Sit back and enjoy your time with us.
And Jenny...I should've waited to post this message at 11 minutes past the hour!


Barbara Garren comes to The Art League with a long and rich history in the fiber arts, with a concentration in knitting. Barbara has developed a hands-on, personal, one-on-one approach, essential to learning the basic art of knitting, into a system of instruction that is not only highly effective, but inspires confidence in the beginning knitter to try more advanced projects in relation to their progress. Noting that most knitters slowly learn the craft of knitting from their mothers or grandmothers over a long period of time, Barbara has spent many years knitting for her family and friends.
Coming most recently from Springwater Fiber Workshop and School where Barbara taught beginning knitting privately and in classes, she particularly enjoys sharing her skills, enthusiasm, and passion for knitting with beginning students.


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Prague: Státní Nakladatelství, 1959. Plate H 3022.
Boca Raton: Edwin F. Kalmus, n.d.(after 1991).
The composer wrote two nonets; an early unpublished (and rarely-performed) H.144 (1925, Paris), and the better-known H.374 of 1959. One way to tell: H.144 has a piano part. I can only see the first page of this work here, but there is no piano part. I think that's fairly good evidence.


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Impact Of WTO And Trade Negotiations On Fisheries
Post-harvest Economics
14 March 2010, at 12:00am
A recent study compiles and analyses information on international as well as EU trade flows with regard to fisheries. The study looks at the possible impact of trade negotiations on the EU fisheries and aquaculture sectors.
Over the last decades the European fisheries sector has increasingly struggled with a number of structural issues. Efforts to decrease a significant overcapacity of the fleet since the 1980s have at best been partially successful. Modernisation of the remaining vessels requires important investments in order to improve product quality for an increasingly competitive world market, ensure compliance with ever stricter environmental and quota regulations, and maintain adequate safety and working conditions for the sector's workforce. Although the sector is comparatively well positioned to deal with these challenges, greater ability to compete in the future will hinge on the ability to adjust to resource and market constraints.
The objective of this study is to provide the Committee on Fisheries with a clear and detailed description of the potential impact of WTO and other trade negotiations and instruments on the EU fisheries and aquaculture sector. For this purpose, the study shall review and analyse international trade negotiations conducted by the EU that are relevant for the sector. The study analyses ongoing trade negotiations on fish and aquaculture products with regards to their impact on the EU fisheries and aquaculture sector.
It provides an overview of the most important issues in fisheries trade, such as trade barriers, fisheries subsidies and environmental/socio-economic concerns. For this purpose relevant information on international trade flows; tariff and non-tariff trade barriers as well as the use of relevant trade defence instruments; and WTO, bilateral and regional trade negotiations are presented in the course of the document.
The negotiations conducted in the international WTO framework, particularly the current Doha Round and negotiations on non-agricultural market access (NAMA) constitute a special focus of the study.
Levels of world and EU trade
The study reaffirms that fish and derived products are one of the most traded commodities in the world today. World trade value of imports amounted to 57 billion Euros in 2006. Thus, almost 40 per cent of total world fisheries production enters international trade.
While Non-LDC developing countries supply 65 per cent of world trade, the share of LDCs has remained stable at a very low level of one per cent. The EU is an exception to that trend, with imports of (semi-)processed fish from LDCs having doubled since 2000. Trade flows between non-LDC developing countries and developed countries have increased by 25 per cent since 2000. China is now the largest exporter of fish products and has emerged as a major player in fish processing.
The study underlines the significance of trade in fisheries for the EU-27 as the leading import market for fish products in the world, followed by the USA, Japan and China.
The EU-27 share of world import amounts to 30 per cent in value. Imports originate mainly from Norway, China, Iceland and the USA. Around 10 per cent of EU-27 imports (1.7 billion Euros) are imported from ACP countries. Japan, Switzerland, Russia and, Norway are the main clients of fish products exported from the EU-27. Exports to Norway mostly consist of fishmeal for aquaculture.
Tariffs and non-tariff barrier's
In general, traditional barriers to trade such as tariffs and quantative restrictions have been reduced considerably under the GATT. On average, tariffs for fish have been reduced to 4.5 per cent for developed and below 20 per cent for developing countries.
Among the major importing countries, the USA applies the lowest tariffs, while China and the EU impose average tariffs close to 10 per cent. These two regions also exhibit the highest occurrence of tariff peaks.
EU tariffs on processed products which compete with EU production are high, e.g. tariff peaks amount to 24 per cent for processed tuna, 20 per cent for shrimp, and 12 per cent for canned sardines. Another important characteristic of the EU tariff structure is the wide variety of applied tariffs by country of origin, based on different preferential regimes applicable to different trading blocks.
Only an estimated 5 per cent of imports are charged the full MFN tariff rate. 45 per cent of imports benefit from tariff free arrangements. Also, the EU has highly transparent structures as it applies tariffs as ad valorem duties. In return the tariff structure of emerging and developing markets may pose problems for EU exporters. Extremely high or no bound tariffs are applied by India and Brazil.
In light of the current tariff structure tariff reductions are expected to have only moderate economic impacts given the relatively low tariff levels at present. However tariff reductions could severely hit specific sectors inside and outside the EU, in cases where tariff peaks or tariff escalation still exist.
With the decline of traditional barriers to trade, the importance of non-tariff barriers (NTBs) has grown. The large developed importing economies, including the EU, have set up a web of stringent standards and regulations for public health or environmental reasons (e.g. protection of endangered species). For example the number of WTO SPS-notifications for fish products have doubled since 2000.
The EU is generally perceived to be at the forefront of developing food safety standards and, consequently, wields substantial leverage on the development of the seafood export industries in developing countries. A practical problem to be addressed by the EU regards the uniform implementation of its standards, so as to prevent "port shopping", that is the selective landing of imports at European ports that are perceived as "less strict" with regard to the enforcement of food safety standards.
WTO framework on trade in fisheries
The international legal and policy frameworks governing trade in fish and fish products is largely shaped by the WTO. With China's entry in 2001, all major fishing nations are now WTO Members, except for Russia who is in the process of negotiating membership. In the current Doha Round of negotiations, fisheries are dealt with at five different levels:
Market access for non-agricultural products (NAMA);
the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (ASCM);
Trade and the environment, in particular as regards multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs);
the Anti Dumping Agreement (ADA) and
the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS).
In addition, WTO case law has some influence on trade in fisheries.
NAMA negotiations were launched with the goal "to reduce, or as appropriate eliminate tariffs, including the reduction or elimination of tariff peaks, high tariffs, and tariff escalation, as well as non-tariff barriers, in particular on products of export interest to developing countries" (WTO 2008a).
According to the current NAMA modalities draft tariff reductions for fish and fishery products will be subject to the so-called "Swiss formula" with separate coefficients for developed and for developing Member States. It has been agreed that developing countries will be allowed to choose certain flexibilities. The current version of the draft modalities fixes a coefficient of eight for developed countries and 20, 22, and 25 respectively for developing countries. For the European Union, this would mean a maximum tariff of eight per cent, possibly resulting in an average tariff of below three per cent and constraints on tariff peaks even for the most sensitive products.
The impact on the formerly relatively protected market for certain fishery products, particularly shrimp, tuna, and sardines, would be quite substantial. This fact initially triggered requests from within the sector for exemptions from the formula. However, this was perceived as too great a risk for the overall success of the NAMA negotiations, so that the stance of the EU has been to support the current proposal in return for the obligation on developing countries to work progressively towards binding their tariffs.
Some WTO members have engaged in sectoral negotiations aiming at achieving deeper tariff reductions in some non-agricultural sectors, among them fish and fishery products. Disagreement on the issue of sectoral negotiations is considered one of the reason for the failure of the Doha Round negotiations in July 2008.
The rigorous position held by the USA, who demand that developing countries commit to sectoral negotiations in return for exemptions in the application of the Swiss formula, strongly contributed to the situation. The EU is an opponent of sectoral negotiations on fish and fishery products. Existing commitments to tariff cuts are considered far-reaching enough and further cuts are considered contrary to the interests of maintaining a competitive fisheries sector in the EU.
Fisheries subsidies
Currently, there are no special WTO provisions relating to fisheries subsidies. These subsidies are disciplined only by the general subsidies rules found in the current WTO Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (ASCM).
The ASCM provides a framework for defining, reporting and disciplining subsidies that create trade distortions. At the WTO Ministerial Conference in Doha in 2001 agreement was reached to make fisheries subsidies part of the Doha Development negotiations. While in the first years the negotiation process was marked by substantial disagreement as to the scope and the strength of the mandate, the 2005 Hong Kong Ministerial renewed the mandate calling for an enforceable ban on harmful subsidies, clearly including environmental and development criteria.
At the end of 2007, a draft text on fisheries subsidies was circulated taking the form of a new Annex to the ASCM. The list of subsidies proposed for prohibition was fairly broad. The proposal met strong objections - also from the EU. In December 2008 a new draft consolidated chair text was issued containing only a "roadmap for discussions" for fisheries subsidies. The chair advised to "take a step back and reflect on the fundamental issues raised by the mandate" once again (WTO 2008b).
However, some characteristics of a new emergent fisheries subsidies regime are already perceivable. Subsidies for fisheries management, research as well as monitoring, control and surveillance purposes are most likely to be exempted from disciplines. Also, LDCs will very likely not be affected too much from new disciplines. Disciplines on subsidies directly resulting in overcapacity are widely accepted, in principle. However, the question if subsidies for operating costs should be disciplined is highly controversial. Another issue that is as of yet unresolved relates to the question if exemptions from disciplines should be linked to fisheries management requirements.
The EU has shown a preference for restricting disciplines to subsidies contributing directly to enhancement of overcapacities over restrictions on contributions to operating costs and processing activities. In addition the EU has a special interest to exclude its money transfers in the context of fishing agreements opening third countries' fisheries to European fleets from the scope of the ASCM. If access fees were to be paid entirely by fishing fleets this would seriously impair the competitiveness of distant fleets in all likelihood.
Some Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) contain a number of trade or traderelated measures. As regards fisheries, trade-related measures in MEAs seek to promote fishery products complying with sustainable management and conservation objectives. An example is the use of trade measures in the fight against illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing. In this context, trade-related measures may target certain national vessel registers ("flags of convenience") or certain catching methods (e.g. through eco-labelling schemes).
Relevant MEAs include inter alia the International Convention for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), the UN Fish Stocks Agreement (UNFSA), or the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). To ascertain the coherence between the WTO and MEA regimes, the EU has been a proponent of defining more specifically and generally clarifying the MEA-WTO relationship within the Doha negotiations.
However, the mandate for these negotiations is rather limited: a negotiated amendment to the WTO rules or any other outcome altering the legal status quo are likely to be perceived as exceeding the Doha mandate. Thus, it is conceivable that negotiations will rather lead to the adoption of a brief statement endorsing existing elements of the WTO-MEA relationship, i.e. the conclusions reached by the Committee on Trade and Environment (CTE) for the purposes of the WTO's Singapore Ministerial Conference in 1996. This would presuppose, however, unanimous acceptance of the Singapore conclusions, which in itself is not likely to be reached.
Negotiations on reduction or elimination of tariffs and non-tariff barriers for environmental goods and services (EGS) are also taking place under the heading of "Trade and Environment". Generally speaking, this issue is of a limited interest for trade in fisheries at best. Goods and services concerned are either directly related to pollution control or natural resource management, relying to a great extent on capital-intensive technological solutions to environmental problems. The only fisheries related products suggested for inclusion in the list of EGS are fishing nets that incorporate turtle excluder devices. Discussions to include products derived from sustainable activities (e.g. fish caught through sustainable practices) are not taking place.
Anti-dumping measures
Trade defence instruments have developed as a means of correcting trade distorting effects of uncompetitive or unfair practice in international trade. Economists criticise that these instruments usually delay the structural change needed for protected domestic industries to survive in the long term.
The EU has made use of trade defence instruments, mainly targeting imports of farmed salmon from Norway and Chile. Intermittent trade defence measures have been in place from 1993 until 2008.
The most recent case has lead to the adoption of a WTO panel report in January 2008. The panel found that the European Commission had made errors in conducting its investigations, in calculating the dumping margins, and in the assessment of the injury to the EU salmon industry. The measure was consequently repealed by the European Commission in summer 2008.
The Doha agenda also includes the mandate for negotiations on Anti-Dumping with the aim of clarifying and improving disciplines while taking into account the needs of developing and least-developed Member States. A quite ambitious chair's draft circulated in the end of 2007 proposed to include into negotiations measures concerning circumvention, zeroing practices and sunset reviews.
The 2007 draft was replaced by a less ambitious document in the end of 2008. While elements to strengthen important procedural aspects such as the provision for more meaningful information disclosure during investigations have been retained, the most controversial ones have been proposed for re-negotiation. Important elements of a revision of the ADA are still missing. However, the general assumption is that the amendment will nonetheless raise the bar on international trade regulation. The use of ADM will most likely be more difficult in the future.
The request-offer process remains the main method of GATS negotiations under the DDA. Any new commitments will most likely weigh most on developing countries. Impacts on the European fisheries sector will only be minor as Europe, along with other net-importers of fish products and related services already have largely liberalised markets and because they committed to higher requirements as regards the trade in services negotiations during the Uruguay Round.
However, one issue of concern to the EU is the chartering of vessels. Liberalisation in this respect might be conducive to re-flagging of fishing vessels, which would result in an increase of European vessels flying "convenience flags" and employing crew from low wage countries. As large-scale reflagging is not a frequent phenomenon up to date this concern is regarded as purely hypothetical at the moment.
WTO case law
The survey of fishery related WTO case law shows that use of the dispute settlement system is mostly related to the application of defence instruments, as well as alleged NTB. Cases involving the European Communities are the Chile-Swordfish case, (DS 193), Definitive Safeguard Measures on salmon (DS 326 and DS 328), Trade description of Sardines (DS 231) as well as Trade descriptions of Scallops (DS 7, DS 12, DS 14).
While in many cases no formal decisions have been taken, the cases demonstrate that the WTO dispute settlement procedures have an important corrective role to play in the enforcement of WTO trade law in general. Usually, conflicts are resolved by mutual agreement among the parties concerned. However, if decisions are taken within the WTO dispute settlement system, i.e. if formal reports are adopted, their effect is not necessarily limited to specific cases. If and insofar as a stringent body of case law is established, it may contribute to setting overarching standards for national trade practices.
Bilateral and regional trade negotiations
Beyond its involvement in the development of the global trading system under the umbrella of the WTO, the EU engages in regional and bilateral trade negotiations. Currently, 121 countries are linked to the EU by regional trade agreements, many of them negotiated in the 1990s. Moreover, the EU maintains the most extensive network of preferential trade agreements of any WTO Member State. The EU concludes different kinds of bilateral trade agreements:
Economic Partnership Agreements in negotiation with ACP countries as a follow-up of the Cotonou Agreement,
Free Trade Agreements, notable examples include negotiations with EU-MED and Mercosur.
Bilateral and regional fisheries trade negotiations have had an increasingly important role to play in the EU's trade policy over the past years. With the backdrop of the stalled Doha Round negotiations, this trend is most likely to continue.
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If you're reading this, you're probably on the verge of partnering with a digital marketing agency.
Maybe you're underwater and need some help managing your workload.
Or maybe you're not completely satisfied with your current marketing firm and you're looking for some guidance so you don't step on the same tack twice (yelp!).
Whatever the case may be, let me start off by saying congratulations! You're entering into an extremely exciting phase in the evolution of your business.
Well… it certainly can be exciting if you take the proper steps to ensure you're hiring a marketing agency intent on taking your business to the next level.
Not to worry – this isn't meant to be a precautionary tale. Quite the contrary.
This exhaustive list of questions will weed out the studs from the duds once you're ready to screen prospective agencies vying for your business. Feel free to download the list and use it to record your notes as you interview potential digital marketing agencies!
So, without further ado, let's dive into the 51 questions that will help you bring on the ideal marketing partner for your business.
If you're checking out some of the agency's work and notice that all of their clients have been B2B manufacturing companies and you operate a trampoline park, take notice.
Not to say that agencies can't be versatile, but it's nice to see proven results from previous clients within your industry.
Conversely, watch out for agencies that work exclusively in one industry – they may have conflicts of interest with your competitors. A big no-no.
Look for case studies and blog posts featuring one of their recent clients, and ask how well the agency understands your business. If they don't have recent work in your industry, find out how they will gain the knowledge they need about your company's industry, revenue, and sales goals.
2. WILL THEY WORK WITH ME TO SET AND ACHIEVE MY COMPANY GOALS?
The best digital marketing agencies are strategic partners. Their definition of marketing is expansive and inclusive, granting them the ability to think through and tackle your business conundrums beyond generating leads and converting customers.
Every deliverable should relate back to your company's goals. Every action item should underscore your vision.
The last thing you want is an agency that's rowing at a different interval. Look for signs of alignment right off the bat.
A marketing agency, no matter how accomplished they may be, isn't a cure-all for all your business ailments.
Marketing is a long, hard road and success, however it's defined, shows up after you've resisted the urge to take the easy off-ramps along the way.
Work alongside you to define what your unique brand of success looks and feels like, and..
Demonstrate the results, however marginal or minuscule, along the way.
4. WHAT DID YOU LIKE ABOUT THE LAST AGENCY YOU WORKED WITH? WHAT MADE YOU BRM (blood red mad)?
If this isn't your first rodeo, make an honest assessment as to why you're looking for a new agency. Record the positives and negatives about the experience, and be frank about what kind of results you want with this new agency.
It can be especially difficult to avoid writing off every agency under the sun after one subpar experience. Look at each prospect with a fresh set of eyes and use your previous engagements to dictate the questions you ask and the information you collect.
It may take a little extra time but it's worth it to make an exhaustive list.
Warning: Skip the list at your own risk!
5. ARE THEY A SWISS ARMY KNIFE OR A ONE-TRICK PONY?
An agency's versatility is one of the most crucial deciding factors. The reason being that marketing doesn't work in a vacuum, it lives and thrives through a nexus of disciplines and capabilities.
What good is a blog post that's poised to garner thousands of views if your website is a relic from 1999? Exactly, it's useless.
Sure, every agency is better at some things than others, I'll give you that. But, in order for your marketing efforts to be well-rounded and potent, your agency should have a bouquet of proficiencies at its disposal.
Avoid hiring a one-trick pony. Seek out the Swiss army knife.
Oh, and before we move onto the next question, another benefit of partnering with a well-rounded agency, we'd be remiss to skip over, also happens to be one of the most important: cohesiveness.
You need your website, copy, collateral, marketing, and events to fit together seamlessly to establish a firm brand position.
6. HOW MUCH OF THE WORK WILL BE OUTSOURCED?
A marketing firm might offer web design, but will these designs be outsourced, or is there an art director and design team on staff?
It's okay to outsource some things, but if you're revamping your company's website or doing a complete rebrand, it's much more comforting to know that there are experienced designers or web developers on staff.
7. WHO WILL YOU BE WORKING WITH ON A REGULAR BASIS?
You probably know from different work experiences that the people you work with have a huge impact on your day-to-day happiness and success. When you hire a marketing agency, you're essentially gaining new teammates.
For marketing to yield any concrete results, the typical minimum retainer is from 8 to 12 months, so make sure these new co-workers are good people who you look forward to collaborating and communicating with over that long stretch.
Start off by checking out the agency's website – How approachable do they look? What is your gut instinct reporting back? When you go in for a visit, ask if you can meet some of the team members who would be working on your project.
8. DOES THE MARKETING AGENCY'S TEAM FIT WITH MY COMPANY'S PERSONALITY?
You want to work with a company that has similar values to your own. Are they fun and friendly or cold and analytical? Maybe a bit of both is a great alignment to your own company culture.
But let's face it: you are the only one who can make that call.
It's all too easy to dismiss this step. It may sound like a platitude, but relationships form the foundation for ALL species of success.
9. WHAT PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOLS DO THEY USE?
Now that you know what type of work they do and who's doing the work, it's time to take a look at the how. Not all tools and software are created equally.
For example, at Figmints, we use Basecamp for project management and file sharing. It streamlines the communication process between the team and clients – which is important because you want your agency to be using your budget for actual marketing work and not 50% project management.
10. WHICH MARKETING SOFTWARE DO THEY SPECIALIZE IN?
If you already use marketing automation software and aren't interested in switching, find out if the agency has experience with that particular platform.
HubSpot is an increasingly popular inbound marketing software. It ranks its 2,050+ partner agencies based on different tiers.
A gold partner agency has more experience than a partner fresh out-of-the-box.
Check what credentials the agency has, as well as their relationship with the different marketing software companies.
11. HOW FREQUENTLY WILL WE MEET WITH THE DIGITAL MARKETING AGENCY?
Communicate your expectations from the start so that the agency can assemble a team and schedule that meets your needs.
12. WHAT IS THE FORMAT FOR THESE MEETINGS?
If you are close enough to have in-person meetings occasionally, this is definitely a plus.
Otherwise, can you hold meetings over the phone or video conference?
Not everyone wants to make the commute every week or every other week for a meeting with their agency. Proximity is always a factor.
13. HOW AVAILABLE WILL I HAVE TO BE?
Most people ask if their agency will be available to answer their calls and emails, but what about the time you realistically have to approve designs and content?
Hiring an agency requires a bit of account management on your part as well.
If you are too busy to be approving designs and collaborating on projects when needed, maybe there is someone else on your team who you trust to coordinate the bulk of communications.
14. HOW LONG SHOULD MY CONTRACT BE?
With inbound marketing, you are not likely to see a return until after 3 to 6 months.
Can this really be true? There must be a quicker way to see an ROI, right?
Marketing is synonymous with trust, which takes time to cultivate and grow.
An agency should be able to understand your business and jumpstart your marketing campaigns, but it can take time to see substantial results – don't ditch them after the first month if you're not seeing a return.
If you're a large construction company in New England, your website is not going to be pulling in as many leads when the snow is falling compared to when the bees are buzzin'.
15. WHAT IS INCLUDED EACH MONTH WITH THIS CONTRACT?
Know what to expect so that your project stays in scope, and there are no surprises down the road.
16. WHAT DOES THE RAMP-UP PHASE ENTAIL?
A successful marketing strategy cannot be devised overnight.
And it certainly cannot be launched and executed in a month.
Oftentimes, clients put unrealistic time-lines into place, pressuring agencies to rush the ramp-up and proclaim promises that are impossible to keep, frustrating everyone involved to no end.
17. HOW HAS SEO EVOLVED OVER THE LAST 5 YEARS?
SEO (search engine optimization) is one of the most widely discussed topics in the inbound marketing arena. This is primarily because Google continues its crusade to relentlessly update and tighten its search ranking algorithms to cut down on loopholes, forcing marketers to step up their game if they want to be seen.
Don't believe me? This list of Google updates from MOZ will get you up to speed.
With that said, this question may just shine a light on defunct SEO techniques that dried up years ago. For instance, when the Panda update launched, overloading internal links pointing to pages you were trying to boost not only became an ineffective on-page SEO strategy, it was reclassified as an over-optimization penalty.
Your page can actually fall in rank for an SEO practice that was rampantly used up until 2012. Listen closely for red flags during their explanation.
18. WHEN WILL THE RESULTS START TO SHOW UP?
I don't say that to dissuade you from starting your inbound journey but it's imperative to set the right expectation in stone before you begin.
Even pieces of content that rightfully deserve the #1 spot take time to climb in the rankings. That goes for all aspects of inbound marketing, almost nothing is immediate, nor should it be.
Similar to the process of building trust towards strangers or new co-workers, inbound marketing requires an enormous amount of trust from your audience. It's the backbone of any solid marketing strategy.
So if a potential digital marketing agency trumpets their ability to bring you results in a month's time, you now know better than to take the bait.
19. IF THE MARKETING AGENCY COULD ONLY ENACT ONE SEO TACTIC, WHAT WOULD IT BE?
Like many others on this list, this is a bit of a trick question meant to ruffle some feathers and reveal valuable insight into a marketing agency's actual strategic philosophy.
There isn't any one SEO tactic that will send your site traffic soaring. SEO isn't a one-sided attack. The key to strong SEO strategy is flanking your marketing goals from all sides.
If you need to brush up on common and up-to-date SEO techniques, have a look-see at this list from one of the industry's most reputable sources. It covers everything from landing page optimization, ideal content length, devising backlink strategies, and performing all-encompassing SEO audits on your website.
20. WHAT ROLE WILL BACKLINKS PLAY IN CAMPAIGN SUCCESS?
Backlink strategies are tricky, mainly because they're time and labor intensive.
They're also largely out of your control.
You can't force a prominent web authority to link to your content unless your content is both superlative and relevant to their content.
For these reasons, most digital marketing strategies turn a blind eye towards backlinks and pray other ranking factors pick up the slack.
21. WHAT SEPARATES A QUALITY BACKLINK FROM A MEDIOCRE ONE?
Quality backlinks come from pages and domains that can boast high authorities i.e. pages and domains that have already built out their own strong portfolio of backlinks.
Quality backlinks depend on where they're positioned on a page. Links that appear in the midst of content rather than on a footer or sidebar are seen as more favorable and are thus weighted higher.
The relevancy of the link also plays a large part in the quality of the backlink. If the other links on the page don't match in content or context, the link can potentially be penalized.
You can read about other factors influencing backlinks here, but the elements above should arm you just enough to be dangerous when conducting your search.
22. CAN THEY RUN THROUGH EACH SEPARATE ITEM IN THEIR SEO STRATEGY?
As I've previously mentioned, SEO is multifaceted. There's always more to do on that side of an inbound marketing strategy.
Therefore, if you spot a blanket SEO item in a digital marketing proposal with no clarification, you may want to dig in a little deeper and request some elaboration.
23. WHAT 'BRAND' OF MARKETING DO THEY USE?
Are they strict adherents to inbound marketing?
Do they solely specialize in paid advertising?
Are they exclusively a content shop?
If you have any chance of matching your marketing needs to their capabilities, this question should give you the answers you need to delve deeper.
24. HOW DO THEY ONBOARD THEIR CONTENT CREATORS TO NEW INDUSTRIES?
If you're producing content for the sake of it or because you read somewhere that content is how you can jump on the fast-track to attracting visitors like moths to a light, you're not exactly wrong but you're not entirely correct either.
The core elements of superior content rest in its ability to inform, entertain, and entice.
Writing content that achieves this lofty trifecta requires you to understand your industry and the people who reside there, in very real ways.
Otherwise, you run the risk of providing shallow, lackluster, and obvious content that's going to do a better job at exposing your gaps in knowledge and understanding than it will in building your brand's tribe.
That's why it's imperative to discover how your prospective marketing agency onboards their content creators to industries that may be as familiar as an alien planet light-years away.
25. WILL THEY BE DEFERRING ANY OF THE CONTENT CREATION TO YOU?
This is not an uncommon move so don't be surprised if and when this topic arises. Some industries are just too convoluted, or too specialized, for outsiders to write about.
As you know from the last question we covered, excellent content should inform, entertain, and entice simultaneously. That being said, if an audience catches the scent of a neophyte when engaging with content of any kind, they'll immediately search elsewhere. There's too much good content out there, and too little time in the day, to expect visitors to settle for anything less than the absolute best.
You're not going to take advice on how to change your bike's tires from somebody who never graduated past training wheels. The same logic applies to the topic at hand.
So, if a prospective marketing agency taps you to help shoulder the weight of content creation, refrain from raising the red flag just yet. As the experts in your field and industry, it may just make perfect sense for you to write the bulk of the content and hand it over to a marketing agency who can work their magic to get it in front of the right eyes.
This topic often goes undiscussed which often leads to larger problems down the line.
26. HOW DO THEY INFUSE CONTENT WITH YOUR BRAND STRATEGY?
It's not enough to create helpful, engaging, actionable content (as much as I wish it was).
Oftentimes, there's a missing layer beyond the aforementioned attributes of stellar content and that layer is the degree to which your brand is shining through. Your content has to be 112% unique to your brand, it must be laden with your voice and your voice alone.
Your diction, cadence, choice of imagery, and tone must give your readers the sense that they can't find your content anywhere else.
Think of your favorite coffee shop that you trudge to every morning. Think about its ambiance, staff, layout, location, and the special way they prepare your order. Do they know your order before you reach the counter? Do they play a certain radio station on Wednesday mornings? Do the other customers who congregate there feel like your tribe? Why do you go to that specific coffee shop instead of the one two blocks away?
27. DO THEY HAVE EXPERIENCE BUILDING BRANDS?
How could a marketing agency hope to infuse your marketing with your one-of-a-kind brand voice if they don't have experience with branding in the first place?
You've got it, they'd have a more difficult time than their brand-savvy counterparts.
Marketing agencies with in-house branding expertise are better equipped to connect with your company's tribe. Period.
28. WHAT ARE THE TOP 3 FACTORS THAT MAKE A PIECE OF CONTENT SUCCESSFUL?
A successful piece of content (one that ranks well, is shared widely, and converts lots) is the sum of its well-considered parts.
The content must be original, thought-provoking, helpful, and with strong headlines as the cherries on top. The list goes on and on, but for the purposes of screening marketing partners, understanding their favorite factors for supercharging content will speak volumes about their strengths and weaknesses without directly asking about them.
29. DOES THE DIGITAL MARKETING AGENCY ADVOCATE FOR SHORT- OR LONG-FORM POSTS?
One of the great inbound marketing debates stretching back to time immemorial (all the way back to 2007 to be exact) is whether to produce short-form (300 – 1,000 words) or long-form (1,000 – 3,000) content.
Remember, one post that ranks well for a high-trafficked keyword has more stopping power than five posts that have never seen the light of day.
Beware of short posts with little substance, they're a sure sign your agency is more concerned with checking boxes than creating content that will blow your audience away.
30. HOW DO THEY GENERATE NEW IDEAS?
This question may feel obvious or self-explanatory at first blush, but the idea-well does eventually run dry, especially for longer-term engagements.
Any marketing agency worth their weight in salt should have a go-to process or exercise they can include you in when it comes time to fill up the idea silo.
Ability to Execute – Do we need to get a designer involved? Will it take longer than average to research/write for a particular topic? Does the content offer need an entirely new workflow behind it?
Impact Probability Ratio – A short-form blog post would score lower (1-2) versus a 12-page e-book featuring a topic that hasn't been covered before (4-5).
31. DO THEY HAVE DESIGNERS ON STAFF?
Marketing of any kind has solid design to back it up.
Whether you need an infographic created or a landing page tweaked, it's imperative your marketing agency have designers ready and waiting for whatever bubbles up.
Marketing without strong design behind it is like having all of the separate components of a Lamborghini in your garage unassembled.
32. HOW MUCH CONTENT WILL THEY PRODUCE PER MONTH?
This question is tied to the length of content your agency supports.
Short-form content is conducive to posting at a higher frequency. For example, Seth Godin has mastered the art of short-form blogging, allowing him to post every single day.
Long-form content may only have you posting 1-2 per month, but those posts have better chances at becoming robust resources that'll have people coming back to reference or review parts of it. If you want to delve deeper into the merits of long-form content, you can read more about it here.
33. WHAT IS THEIR PROCESS FOR BUILDING AUDIENCE PERSONAS?
Marketing strategies are only as good as their ability to connect to your audience in meaningful and inspiring ways.
This is where audience personas come in handy.
While there are a plethora of ways to create personas, Hubspot being the most widely adopted school of thought, there isn't necessarily any one perfect way. Persona strategies are scattered all over the digital marketing map.
You know your audience better than anyone else, and you may not even know it.
That means the development of your audience personas should be a joint effort between you and your marketing partner, so be wary of agencies who are gung-ho about putting together your personas without your input.
34. HOW DO THEY USE PERSONAS WHEN WRITING CONTENT?
Writing with a persona in mind is the only true way to produce content that will solve their problems, feed their curiosity, and have them coming back for more.
35. WHAT METRICS WILL THEY MONITOR AND REPORT BACK ON?
36. CAN THEY SHOW A SAMPLE BUYER'S JOURNEY FROM ANOTHER CLIENT?
The buyer's journey is the cornerstone of any inbound marketing strategy. It's a blueprint that allows you to synchronize your strategy to your audience's shifting needs and sure-fire way to cultivate trust.
Instead of force-feeding your brand into the mouths of your buying tribe, the buyer's journey ensures that you can target needs as they arise in the minds of your audience with pinpoint accuracy.
With all that laid down, it's worth mentioning that no two buyer journeys are alike even though they follow the same basic protocol.
This question presents a prime opportunity to draw past successes and failures out of your prospective marketing agency with all of the gritty detail still intact.
37. CAN THEY ELABORATE ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN VOICE AND TONE?
These questions should drive your prospective digital marketing agency to elaborate.
You may not need a lesson on voice and tone (or many other topics posed throughout the questions on this list) but what you do need is for your potential agencies to expound on their thoughts and feelings, their theories and philosophies on everything they claim to offer.
38. HOW WILL THEY DECIDE WHICH SOCIAL CHANNELS YOU SHOULD PURSUE?
The all-encompassing social strategy is a rare fit. Chances are your business doesn't have to be deployed across every social media channel, just the one or two that really matter.
If you're an industrial manufacturer, you're probably not going to stir much engagement on Twitter, whereas if you happen to be an ecommerce brand selling kooky socks, Twitter may be what pushes you the last couple of inches into the end zone.
39. WHAT MAKES A SOCIAL STRATEGY SUCCESSFUL?
Should you measure social media success on the sheer number of likes or follows alone? Or do you value authentic discourse with your audience whether they smash the like button or not?
Success on social for, say, an airline has more to do with responding to urgent queries in a timely manner. Conversely, social success for a record store would have more to do with how many site visits were driven by social posts.
40. HOW WILL THEIR SOCIAL STRATEGY REFLECT YOUR BRAND?
Branding and marketing aren't all that different.
If we look at marketing as the bright side of the moon, branding is the other side that's shrouded in darkness but rounds out the sphere nonetheless.
They're inextricably linked. Branding establishes your position and marketing defends it at all costs. Therefore, your social strategy should always reflect the ethos of your brand lest you fall into the sea of white noise where social posts come from different brands but look, sound, and feel the exact same.
If your social posts don't reflect your brand and come across as insipid, bland, or flat out uninspired, you're probably better off not posting at all.
41. DO THEY HAVE EXPERIENCE MANAGING PAID SOCIAL CAMPAIGNS?
Paid advertising has exploded in the last few years and continues to climb in importance.
It's also a highly nuanced game that requires a certain kind of finesse that only comes with copious experience in the trenches of writing and placing ads.
Offering a vague paid social services line-item in a digital marketing strategy is worlds apart from actually managing a paid social campaign. You've been warned.
42. DO THEY SPECIALIZE IN CUSTOM OR TEMPLATED WEBSITES?
Templated websites may slowly be eclipsing the need for custom websites as template sites continue to expand in capabilities while shrinking in cost.
While we're waiting for the verdict to come back on that debate, it's still important to know which kind of web design (if any) your digital marketing agency specializes in.
All websites aren't created equally.
43. DOES THE MARKETING AGENCY SUBSCRIBE RESPONSIVE DESIGN?
According to research from Smart Insights, 48% of smartphone users begin their search for a product or service from their phone.
Does your digital marketing agency practice mobile-responsive design? And if they do, do they start with considerations from mobile or finish with them?
44. HOW WILL THE WEBSITE KEEP PACE WITH YOUR BUSINESS?
A fresh and compelling web presence equates with fresh and compelling marketing. The two go hand-in-hand.
After an all-inclusive website redesign, a few years pass and, to your dismay, your website has once again fallen behind the times.
I'm here to let you know that you should look out for an agency with a background in growth driven design because they can put an end to that vicious cycle once and for all.
In a nutshell, growth driven design alters your website a little bit at a time, optimizing it as the process matures, which helps your website scale proportionately alongside your business.
You can read more about the many boons of growth driven design here.
45. DO THEY DESIGN WITH COPY IN MIND?
Website copy is one of the most misunderstood aspects of the web design process.
While the vast majority of website designers view copy as an afterthought, there's a growing understanding around web copy that places it on the priority frontline.
Marketing agencies that put copy before all else tend to be ahead of the game and give you a good omen that you won't want to miss.
46. HOW DO THEY INCORPORATE YOUR FEEDBACK INTO THE DESIGN PROCESS?
The mark of any great collaboration is the manner in which feedback is solicited and collected.
Sure, you're bringing a marketing agency on-board because ultimately, they're the experts, but beware of the agency that runs over your input like a big-rig barreling down the highway on the basis that you don't know what's good for you.
That's bogus. You may not be able to translate your needs into marketing-speak, but you most certainly do know what's good for you.
Don't move forward if you're uncomfortable with the rules of engagement, especially when it comes to how your voice will be heard.
47. WHAT DO THEY USE FOR WEBSITE ANALYTICS?
Do they have Google Analytics expertise?
If not, what do they use in place of it?
Do they have experience with lesser known web or marketing analytics services?
48. HOW WILL THEY ENHANCE YOUR SITE'S CONVERSION RATE?
Again, this another great question to gauge the depth of a marketing strategy. A wishy-washy answer most likely means a wishy-washy strategy.
Remember when I cautioned against putting stock on vanity metrics earlier? Well, conversion rates are on the opposite end of the spectrum.
Whether you're trying to get visitors to contact you or buy directly from your site, the conversion rate is one metric that simply can't be skipped over.
49. DO THEY WORK WITH ANY OF YOUR COMPETITORS?
Avoid conflicts with competitors at all costs. Does a prospective marketing agency work with a competitor? Great, find other prospects. End of story.
50. CAN THEY ILLUSTRATE PAST SUCCESSES?
If an agency can't demonstrate past success, they can't guarantee yours.
Run a fine-toothed comb through their case studies until you're satisfied with the results of their work. This is one step you cannot skip if you want to find your winning marketing partner.
51. HOW WILL THEY REPORT ON PROGRESS MONTH OVER MONTH?
Will they give you access to an analytics dashboard so you can follow along with their progress?
Will they provide you with a spreadsheet demonstrating positive results (or lack thereof)?
However they prefer to report back from the battlefield, make sure there are clear expectations set from the beginning.
I hope you find these questions helpful in guiding you towards a successful, collaborative relationship with your next marketing agency.
Feel free to reach out if you want to give any of these questions a test drive!
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using FluentMigrator.Runner;
using FluentMigrator.Runner.Initialization;
using FluentMigrator.Runner.Processors.Postgres;
using FluentMigrator.Tests.Helpers;

using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;

using NUnit.Framework;

using Shouldly;

namespace FluentMigrator.Tests.Integration.Processors.Postgres
{
    [TestFixture]
    [Category("Integration")]
    [Category("Postgres")]
    public class PostgresTableTests : BaseTableTests
    {
        private ServiceProvider ServiceProvider { get; set; }
        private IServiceScope ServiceScope { get; set; }
        private PostgresProcessor Processor { get; set; }

        [Test]
        public override void CallingTableExistsCanAcceptTableNameWithSingleQuote()
        {
            using (var table = new PostgresTestTable("Test'Table", Processor, null, "id int"))
                Processor.TableExists(null, table.Name).ShouldBeTrue();
        }

        [Test]
        public override void CallingTableExistsReturnsFalseIfTableDoesNotExist()
        {
            Processor.TableExists(null, "DoesNotExist").ShouldBeFalse();
        }

        [Test]
        public override void CallingTableExistsReturnsFalseIfTableDoesNotExistWithSchema()
        {
            Processor.TableExists("TestSchema", "DoesNotExist").ShouldBeFalse();
        }

        [Test]
        public override void CallingTableExistsReturnsTrueIfTableExists()
        {
            using (var table = new PostgresTestTable(Processor, null, "id int"))
                Processor.TableExists(null, table.Name).ShouldBeTrue();
        }

        [Test]
        public override void CallingTableExistsReturnsTrueIfTableExistsWithSchema()
        {
            using (var table = new PostgresTestTable(Processor, "TestSchema", "id int"))
                Processor.TableExists("TestSchema", table.Name).ShouldBeTrue();
        }

        [OneTimeSetUp]
        public void ClassSetUp()
        {
            if (!IntegrationTestOptions.Postgres.IsEnabled)
                Assert.Ignore();

            var serivces = ServiceCollectionExtensions.CreateServices()
                .ConfigureRunner(r => r.AddPostgres())
                .AddScoped<IConnectionStringReader>(
                    _ => new PassThroughConnectionStringReader(IntegrationTestOptions.Postgres.ConnectionString));
            ServiceProvider = serivces.BuildServiceProvider();
        }

        [OneTimeTearDown]
        public void ClassTearDown()
        {
            ServiceProvider?.Dispose();
        }

        [SetUp]
        public void SetUp()
        {
            ServiceScope = ServiceProvider.CreateScope();
            Processor = ServiceScope.ServiceProvider.GetRequiredService<PostgresProcessor>();
        }

        [TearDown]
        public void TearDown()
        {
            ServiceScope?.Dispose();
        }
    }
}


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By the way, didn't you love the children's musical last Sunday? It brought me to tears!
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See Miley Cyrus' Wild Police Chase in New 'Nothing Breaks Like a Heart' Video
Song is first single from Mark Ronson's forthcoming studio album
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Miley Cyrus and Mark Ronson have debuted their first collaboration together, "Nothing Breaks Like a Heart," with a high-speed police chase-themed video. Cowritten by the pair alongside Ilsey Juber, Thomas Brenneck, The Picard Brothers and Conor Rayne Syzmanski, the Ronson and Picard Brothers-produced track will appear on Ronson's forthcoming studio album, which is due next year. The pair are slated perform the new single on the December 15th episode of Saturday Night Live.
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Devotional Commentary on Zechariah 5
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http://www.egw.org/zboard/336928
Ever heard Adventists complain that 1 Peter 4:17 does not speak of a Judgment that will start at the House of God as the Investigative Judgment that will be prior to the Executive Judgment or Hell-event?
Well, this chapter will make those people think twice. And it is not just Adventists that think in this direction. It was the common way to interpret Zechariah 5 as a case of God's judgment, and secondly, as cleaning the remnant from the impure in the remnant and to remove them. A cleansing of the sanctuary as some Victorian scholars suggested.
Two scholars cannot be off the table for this chapter. They are Friedrich Delitzsch and August Köhler. Not because they are always right but because they are always helpful for Adventists living in the wake of the start of the Advent Awakening and thinking also in the same lines at times. Yet they still fall short of the reality.
Umbreit and Rabbi Kimchi saw that the size of the roll and the size of the Temple Holies are the same so the Judgment goes out from the throne of God in the Temple (Köhler 1860: 164). Köhler wanted to see it as the size of the curse or evil actions of the sinners to such an extent that it is the same size as the holies of the Temple. Other scholars thought that it is just a complaint by the Lord against all unsanctified places so that explains the sanctuary size of the roll, but Köhler was not convinced by this. Köhler said that the fact that it is not the size of the Most Holy, or the outer court, indicates that the visible and public sins of the people is the issue here.
Neumann indicated that the Holy is the place where the blessings for [spiritual] Israel is pronounced (Köhler 1860: 164). Thus, concluded Neumann, this roll is the size of the evil of those who did not want to join the blessings of spiritual Israel. Neumann may be on something here.
It is true that Hengstenberg declared that the roll is not a symbol of the Temple or the Holies. Köhler said that this judgment is against all sins, not just public sins. Secret sins and public sins are involved.
The curse written on this roll is against the "whole earth" kol ha-arezt (so Hoffmann and Neumann) and not only against the whole land [of Israel] (so Köhler, Delitzsch, Hengstenberg, Hitzig, Umbreit, Ewald and Baumgarten).
Thieves and cursing people will be removed. This is the cleansing of the sanctuary or the Holies from the thieves and cursing people. The word for "cleansing" or "becoming clean" is niqqa (see Isaiah 3:26). Adventists know very well about the cleansing of the sanctuary since they know the time when this would happen: After 2300 years, then the sanctuary would be cleansed or justified.
Köhler said that if His people or people of the world did not take advantage of the cleansing and expiation of sins that were offered in the Holies, then they have to be exposed to the executive judgment of rejection symbolized by the roll (Köhler 1860: 166).
On one side of the roll are the curses against the thieves and on the other side the curses against those who curse in the name of the Lord. They will be removed from the earth.
It is the sins of the hand and the mouth that are involved here (so Ewald). However, most commentators think it refers to sins of both the tables of the Law of God. Theft is on one side and cursing on the other side of the two tables of the Law.
How this judgment, this investigative judgment is to take place in biblical terms is when the thrones are set up before the Almighty in the time of the Most Holy according to Daniel 8:14 when the Son of Man (Christ) will appear before the Father in the Most Holy phase of the Day of Atonement event function.
This flying roll with their sins, utilized during the holies part of the sanctuary in antitypical heavenly sanctuary investigative judgment since 1844, was brought forth by the Lord "I have brought it forth, says the Lord of Hosts…" verse 4. What is brought forth? The deeds of the thief of the second table of the Law of God mentioned first and the deeds of the one who is swearing in His name second from the first table of the Law of God. Investigative Judgment takes place in relation to the Law of God. We are judged by our works of faith or no faith. We are saved by our faith. Thus, the Adventist systematic professor, Edward Heppenstall in his book, Christ our High Priest.
The endresult of these found unworthy of the price Christ paid for us will be that disaster will strike their homes (verse 4 last part).
The angel then left Zechariah and came back again to him (verse 5). Rabbi Redak in the Middle Ages said: "After the angel showed the prophet the vision of the flying scroll, he vanished from the prophet's sight. Then he reappeared, spoke to the prophet and showed him the vision of the ephah".
He then saw an ephah going forth (verses 5-6). "And He said, this is the eyes upon the whole earth". For Delitzsch and Köhler is it just the land of Israel (Delitzsch 1884: 280 "is just the land of Canaan") but for Adventists it may mean the whole earth as also Hoffmann and Neumann argued in the Victorian period.
Delitzsch translated the that the ephah "is going out".
The Trinity is God viewing everything and nothing is hidden from their eyes. Judgment is thus fair and just. It is penetratingly.
An ephah was a measure container in a market. It could hold 5-7 gallons. The SDA Bible Commentary cited in 1963 by A. V. Wallenkampf on Zechariah in the Sabbath School Quarterly suggested 5 gallons but the 1944 Sabbath School Quarterly by A. Chase on the prophets suggested 7.
Whereas I suggested that it is the eye of the Lord looking penetratingly at the works of the Law of the saints [1 Peter 4:17 saying 'judgment must start first at the house of God'] in the Investigative Judgment since 1844, Rabbi Rashi of the 12th century CE suggested that it refers to the eyes of the wicked that were over the entire land to rob and oppress.
Delitzsch made a point that the "eyes" should not be translated such but rather with the semantics of "shape" or "appearance". The ephah had the shape. Said Delitzsch: "The ephah (bushel) is the shape, i.e. represents the figure displayed by the sinners in all the land, after the roll of the curse has gone forth over the land, i.e. it shows into what condition they have come through that anathema (Kliefoth)".
When the lead lid of the ephah was lifted, inside was sitting a woman but she is interpreted as "wickedness". Delitzsch says that the sinners, the brokers of the law of God, first table and second table are viewed as one personality, an evil woman in the ephah (verse 7). Delitzsch said that the woman did not come into the ephah for the first time. She was already there when the lid was raised (Delitzsch 1884: 284).
In 2 Chronicles 24:7 the name of wickedness or mirsha`ath that is given to this woman in the ephah of Zechariah was given to Jezebel. In the time of the first Elijah, the name of wickedness was given to Jezebel and in the time of the third Elijah after 1844, the name of the sinners from the "house of God", the wayward remnant, will be also the same "wickedness".
Sitting in the midst of the ephah (verse 7) it seems that she stood up because the Lord "cast her into the midst of the ephah" (verse 8). Wickedness of the wayward remnant during the Investigative Judgment is placed where it belongs, in the penetrating visibility of the Lord.
Now the lead lid or cover is thrown at the woman where it ended up in the mouth, not of the woman but of the ephah container (so Köhler 1860: 175 and Delitzsch implied the same). The ephah, an instrument for measuring became a jail. Belshashar was weighed and found too light. He was measured as well that last night in 539 BCE when Gobryas entered the palace and Daniel exited.
In verse 9 Zechariah lifted up his eyes again and saw another image. It could be other detail in the same vision so that the flying roll, the woman in the ephah and this one in verse 9 are all connected (so Delitzsch).
Two flying woman, with wings similar to that of a stork came and lifted up the ephah between heaven and earth (verse 9). Zechariah wanted to know where they are going? (verse 10).
The answer was that they would take it to the land of Shinar [a name for Babylon] to prepare it [root kwn] and they shall place it there on its base [root kwn]. What Satan did through the Little Horn activities in Daniel 8:10-12 is to disturb the base or niche [kwn] of God. In the prophets that [kwn] would be restored in the eschaton.
Babylon is the word that means gate of the gods and every empire in history had a "Babylon" so that this name is almost symbolic. Babylon was built in ancient times in the land of Shinar. Delitzsch did not like the concept though. He felt that Shinar is "not the earth as the sum of all lands" (Delitzsch 1884: 280).
"The women denote the instruments or powers employed by God to carry away the sinners out of His congregation, without any special allusion to this or the other historical nation" (Delitzsch 1884: 284).
To interpret what is in the text thus far, is that when the time of the End comes, with speed and with swiftness, two females (good or bad or mixed) will be instruments to help carry the bad woman, symbolizing the lawbreakers, the first table and the second table, the Catholic Church maybe to set itself up on a foundation [kwn] as anti-foundation against the niche [kwn] of God sanctuary. This will happen near the end of the Investigative Judgment when the flying roll would have listed all the sinners "in the house of God" (1 Peter 4:17) in fullness so that the measures of the roll is equal to that of the holies, where saints are supposed to obtain grace from Christ our Righteousness as substitute on our behalf.
Ellen White said in Faith and Works page 30 "So great is the deceptive power of Satan that many have been led to regard the atonement of Christ as of no real value". "The doctrine which teaches freedom, through grace, to break the law is a fatal delusion. Every transgressor of God's law is a sinner, and none can be sanctified while living in known sin".
Dear God
Open our eyes, that we may see, thy loving grace so dear and free. We pray in Jesus Name. Amen.
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In Contesting the Iranian Revolution: The Green Uprisings, Pouya Alimagham harnesses the wider history of Iran and the Middle East to highlight how activists contested the Islamic Republic's legitimacy to its very core. Below is an excerpt from chapter one and is used by permission of the publisher Cambridge University Press.
SPRING 2020 : précis Faculty Feature : Pouya Alimagham
Iran is one of a number of countries that give real-world application to the Orwellian mantra that "history is written by the victors."1 Indeed, the militant clerics who consolidated power at the expense of all the other revolutionary factions have worked tirelessly to present their version of the Iranian Revolution's history as the only version, best encapsulated by the state's preferred revolutionary slogan, "Independence, Freedom, Islamic Republic" (esteqlāl, āzādī, jomhūrī-ye eslāmī). For years, the Iranian government has presented this one-sided history to the benefit of its ruling class and self-affirming ideology.
Just as the events of 1978‒1979 are far more complex and disputed than the state would like to admit, the historic uprising of 2009 is equally contentious. Years after the revolt, the Iranian government continued to refer to the Green Movement as "the sedition" ‒ a conspiracy orchestrated from abroad and without organic roots within the country.2 Inspired by studies that have contested the official narrative of the Iranian Revolution, this work aspires to do the same with the official narrative of the uprising in 2009.
Iran's protracted post-election uprising, the Green Movement, erupted more than two years before the protest movement in Tunisia ignited the firestorm of revolution that became known as the Arab Spring ("Arab Uprisings").3 Iran's revolt was hailed as the largest and most formidable challenge to the Iranian state since the seismic events of 1978‒1979 that shaped the way regional leaders, military officers, foreign heads of state, journalists, analysts and commentators, and, most significantly, various peoples view Iran and the Middle East. The Iranian Revolution of thirty years before, perhaps more than any other revolution of the twentieth century, created a "shock-wave" with ramifications that were "felt round the world"4 and which continue to reverberate throughout the country and the region.
In 2011, observers and politicians viewed Egypt, an Arab country that has not had formal relations with Iran since the Iranian Revolution, through the prism of the very revolution that precipitated the severance of ties between the two. As popular forces engulfed Egypt in revolt against Hosni Mubarak, the country's "Arab president for life,"5 American and Israeli leaders invoked the specter of Egypt becoming the "next Iran." Israeli Premier Benyamin Netanyahu stated, "Our real fear is of a situation that could develop… and which has already developed in several countries, including Iran itself: repressive regimes of radical Islam."6 In an open letter to President Obama, American Senator Mark Kirk called for direct US intervention in the affairs of Egypt to support the "secular nationalists" and take action to "defeat" the Muslim Brotherhood so the organization did not "follow Iran's revolution, turning Egypt into a state-sponsor of terror."7 In the aftermath of Mubarak's ousting, the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) declared that "Egypt will not be governed by another Khomeini."8 Even Ayatollah ʿAli Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader, referenced Iran's 1978‒1979 revolution, claiming that it served as an exemplar for action for fellow Muslims in the era of the Arab Uprisings.
Today's events in North Africa, Egypt, Tunisia, and several others, have a different meaning for the Iranian nation. They have a special meaning. These events are part of the Islamic Awakening, which can be said is itself a result of the victory of the great Islamic Revolution of the Iranian nation.9
Some similarities such as strikes were key to both the Iranian Revolution and the Arab revolts in Tunisia and Egypt. Despite the fact that no strikes occurred during the heyday of the Green Movement, the Arab Spring had more in common with the Iranian activists of 2009 in terms of their goals, youth demographic, and use of modern technologies, than with the Khomeini-led revolution and its outcome, but such commonalities either made for politically inconvenient comparisons at best or Orientalist generalizations at worst.
According to Kirk, Netanyahu, the SCAF, and Khamenei, it was of no consequence that the Iranian Revolution and the uprising in Egypt were separated by more than three decades with an abundance of differences. Such a generalization and simplification minimizes the social, demographic, political, cultural, geographical, and historical factors that distinguish these two countries and their historical trajectories. The leaps of history overlooked many significant differences: economic factors, the fundamental differences between Iranian Shiʿism and Egyptian Sunnism, the role of ideology, the subtle but important distinctions in these countries' Islamist movements, and the degree of autonomy of each countries' religious institutions vis-à-vis the state. Furthermore, the Cold War context crucial to Iran in 1979 and the contemporary political nuances relevant to Egypt, and the geographical realities between Iran bordering the Soviet Union in 1978 and Egypt bordering Israel and a Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip in 2011 are all disregarded to draw problematic parallels.10 Moreover, such a narrow perspective ignores the crucial role of the sizable Christian minority in Egypt that makes it all the more difficult for Egypt to become the "next Iran."11
Similarly, the Green Movement of 2009 could not avoid being seen through the prism of the Iranian Revolution. The actual connection between the two, however, is much more profound. Whereas in the context of the 2011 uprising in Egypt, foreign leaders either drew upon their limited knowledge of the Iranian Revolution in anxiety or invoked that history in the service of their political agendas, journalists inside Iran referenced the Iranian Revolution when reporting nearly every momentous occasion in the uprising in order to underscore its historical gravity. For instance, Al Jazeera's opening line in its report of the second day of the uprising referred to it as "the biggest unrest since the 1979 revolution,"12 "The largest and most widespread demonstrations since the 1979 Islamic revolution…"13 For outsiders the revolt did indeed invoke the Iranian Revolution because it brought millions of Iranians to the streets in defiance of their government.
The street marches were one of the most awe-inspiring and memorable aspects of the Iranian Revolution. Millions of women and men marched, often under the threat of state violence, to register their revolutionary protest against the monarch's absolutism. Charles Kurzman, author of The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran, notes that "It is almost unheard of for a revolution to involve as much as 1 percent of a country's population. The French Revolution of 1789, the Russian Revolution of 1917, perhaps the Romanian Revolution of 1989—these may have passed the 1 percent mark."14 Yet, on December 10 and 11, 1978, between six and nine million Iranians (some have estimated the number as high as 17 million15, between a third and half of the population, took part in demonstrations in what Kurzman believes could have been "the largest protest event in history."16 So vaunted and historically consequential were these street demonstrations that post-revolutionary17 Iranian leaders advised Palestinians "to deploy the multi-million tactic to destroy the Israeli army and Israel itself."18 The long span of three decades did not dissuade journalists from invoking the events of 1979 when the 2009 post-election uprising likewise prompted millions of Iranians to once again flood the streets against their government. As before, they voted with their feet, and under the threat of state violence, against a government that they believed did not respect the ballot box.
The uprising in 2009, however, shares a deeper history with 1978‒1979 that transcends the time and space of the momentous street demonstrations. The repertoires of action that were cemented in the official narrative of the revolution informed the actions of Green Movement activists in 2009, giving their reprogrammed methods historically infused importance and meaning.
1. The famous quote is tellingly attributed to Winston Churchill, the British premier who ordered his secret service to work hand in hand with the American CIA to orchestrate the overthrow of the Iranian government on August 19, 1953.
2. Fetneh-ye 88 toṭ'eh-ye doshman ʿalayh-i īrān būd." Fars News Agency, Aug 10, 2014. www.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=13931007001669. Also see: "Fīrūzābādī: yowm allāh-i nohom-i dey maḥṣūl-i ensejām-i ʿomūmī-ye mardom shod." ISNA, Jan 1, 2014. http://goo.gl/Ymi2h3. There is no doubt that the US government, especially during the second Bush administration, was spending millions of dollars to "promote democracy" in Iran. There is significant doubt, however, about the destination of the allocated US$75 million, an amount that was increased in later years. While the Iranian government suspected that the money was used to finance dissidents and groups to launch a "velvet revolution," the bulk of the funds, according to one seasoned observer, was used for Persian language programming such as Radio Farda and Voice of America. What is certain is that the news of the fund's establishment undermined "the kind of organizations and activists it was designed to help, with U.S. aid becoming a top issue in a broader crackdown on leading democracy advocates over the past year, according to a wide range of Iranian activists and human rights groups." See Robin Wright, "Iran On Guard Over U.S. Funds," The Washington Post, April 28, 2007. www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/27/AR2007042701668.html.
3. "Arab Spring" is a misnomer because it incorrectly implies that Arabs were apathetic and complacent until 2011. Arabs have busied themselves with violent and nonviolent uprisings throughout the modern period in the Middle East and North Africa. The Palestinian uprisings (1936‒1939, 1987‒1993, and 2000‒2005) are just three examples of the nonviolent and violent historical occurrences that predate the "Arab Spring."
4. This phrase is a headline to a news piece in The Observer. See "Shock-wave felt round the world," The Observer, January 7, 1979, p. 9.
5. To quote the title of Roger Owen's The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2012).
6. Ian Black, "Egypt set for mass protest as army rules out force," The Guardian, January 31, 2011. Accessed March 25, 2011. www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/31/egyptian-army-pledges-no-force.
7. Mark Kirk, "Press Release of Senator Kirk: Senator Kirk Statement on Muslim Brotherhood." Personal Website. February 2, 2011. Accessed March 25, 2011. http://kirk.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=330818. It is also important to note that Senator Kirk's obsession with the Iranian government has led him to advocate policies that not only target the Iranian government but also harm the civilian population, an outlook best captured in his own callous words: "'It's okay to take the food out of the mouths of the Iranian people to punish their government for its misdeeds." Eli Clifton and Ali Gharib, "Pro-Sanction Group Targets Legal Humanitarian Trade with Iran," The Nation, November 13, 2014. Accessed May 22, 2015. www.thenation.com/blog/190601/pro-sanctions-group-targets-legal-humanitarian-trade-iran.
8. "Army says no to 'Khomeini rule' in Egypt," ahramonline, April 4, 2011. Accessed April 4, 2011.http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/9321.aspx.
9. ʿAli Khamenei, "Khoṭbehhāye namāz jom'eh-ye tehrān + tarjomehye khoṭbeh-ye ʿarabī." leader.ir, February 5, 2011. http://farsi.khamenei.ir/speech-content?id=10955.
10. For a more detailed treatment, see Pouya Alimagham, "The Iranian Legacy in the 2011 Egyptian Revolution: Military Endurance and U.S. Foreign Policy Priorities," UCLA Historical Journal, 24(1) (2013).
11. The fact that Copts constitute 10 percent, or nearly 10 million Egyptians, means that it is far more difficult to establish an Islamic government in Egypt than in Iran, which did not have such a large religious minority in 1979.
12. "Poll results prompt Iran protests," Al Jazeera, June 14, 2009. Accessed August 7, 2010. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/06/2009613172130303995.html.
13. Parisa Hafezi, "Thousands mourn Iranians killed in protests," Reuters. June 19, 2009. http://in.mobile.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-40437520090618.
14. Charles Kurzman, The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004), p. 121.
15. Hamid Dabashi, Iran, the Green Movement and the USA (London & New York: Z Books, 2010), p. 207.
16. Kurzman, p. 122.
17.By "post-revolutionary," I mean the period immediately after February 11, 1979, the date of the revolution's victory, and not a period in which Iran has begun to move past the goals and ideals of the revolution.
18. Faleh A. Jaberi, The Shiʿite Movement in Iraq (London: Saqi Books, 2003), p. 250.


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Unfortunately I did not get anyone contacting me saying they would join my Waddell Mine walk.
I filled in the day by doing some more exploring in the area. Weather was perfect for this exploration. At one of the mine sites I found an old hut site with the remains of metal items and bottles. I discovered that the old bench track to the mine that already had a few obstacles in the way of fallen trees across it is now further obstructed by a huge gum tree that has fallen lengthways along the track. I was able to work my way around the steep hillside to get around the tree.


(Reuters) - 8x8 Inc EGHT.O, a U.S. provider of internet-based voice and communication services to businesses, is exploring a potential sale of the company, people familiar with the matter said on Friday.
The move comes amid a wave of consolidation in the telecommunications software and equipment industry, as smaller players such as 8x8 seek more scale to compete against bigger rivals such as Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO.O).
8X8 has been working with Morgan Stanley (MS.N) to field interest from other companies and private equity firms, the people said. There was no certainty that these talks will continue or that they will lead to a deal, the people added.
The sources asked not to be identified because the negotiations were confidential. 8x8 and Morgan Stanley did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
8x8 shares rose as much as 14 percent on the news and ended trading up 10 percent at $16.15 in New York on Friday, giving the company a market capitalization of close to $1.5 billion.
Based in San Jose, California, 8x8 competes with companies in the so-called voice over internet protocol (VoIP) sector, including RingCentral Inc (RNG.N), Vonage Holdings Corp (VG.N) and Shoretel Inc SHOR.O.
8x8 charges corporate clients such as McDonald's Corp (MCD.N) and GameStop Corp (GME.N) monthly fees for access to its internet telephone services to help run their stores and offices. It has also branched out into call center software services in recent years.
Last month, telephony services provider Avaya Inc filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as it struggled with its debt load. 8x8 Chief Executive Vik Verma has said that Avaya was a more traditional enterprise company than companies like 8x8 that have diversified into cloud-based services.
"If I had a Cessna that I could get, I would put a sign on it that says 8x8 welcomes any potential Avaya customers... and fly it around Avaya headquarters," Verma said on a January earnings call.
8x8's quarterly revenue for the three months ended Dec. 31 rose 19 percent to $63.6 million, compared to $53.17 million a year earlier. It narrowed its net loss to $1.3 million, or a loss of 1 cent per share, compared to a net loss of $1.68 million or a loss of 2 cents per share a year ago.


Picture yourself driving up to Nashville on I-24 or I-65 and imagine the last time you saw a single occupant vehicle pulled over for violating Tennessee's HOV lane laws? Drawing a blank? State Representative Mike Sparks has something to say about that.
Sparks points out that Interstate routes to Nashville are designed to reward people who leave a car at home.
The debate about our options is starting to capture the imagination of taxpayers and voters looking for leadership. Here in this video, Spark's shares his experience and firm commitment to do more with less - just like he writes in his book.
Representative Sparks put his knowledge of traffic laws and regional trivia to the test in a BeanBoozled challenge with Biele. Although he had to eat bean after bean, Sparks discovered that he couldn't differentiate the taste of strawberry-banana and dead fish, lucky for him! That made the challenge slightly less stressful.
Sparks believes that Hytch Rewards are a viable solution to the traffic crisis in Nashville and thanks to forward thinking companies like Nissan and Franklin Synergy Bank, both the driver and passenger get paid when they share a ride using Hytch.
Next time you drive to Nashville, remember to obey HOV lane laws because Tennessee State Highway Patrol has written more HOV citations in 2017 than in the previous three years combined - and Representative Sparks is thankful indeed.