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What is Causing Buildings to Collapse in Northern Ontario?
When you or I visit a hospital, the last thing we want to worry about is whether the roof is going to cave in while we are in the building. If you happened to be visiting the hospital in Blind River, Ontario on Saturday, February 23, 2019, the fear of a roof collapse would have been one of your top fears.
What happened? Between February 23 and March 9, 2019, the North Shore Health Network (NSHN) had to re-locate its acute and long-term care patients from the Blind River hospital because of fears that the roof would collapse due to snow on the roof. The NSHN admitted that snow was removed from the roof of the hospital under the direction from a structural engineer, over this two week period.
This is NOT supposed to happen in the province of Ontario. In Ontario, we have an Ontario Building Code which assumes that a hospital’s passive structural system will prevent the roof from collapsing. Clearly there was a crisis in confidence in the strength of the roof structure supporting the snow.
The morning of Saturday, February 23, 2019, witnessed the collapse of a timber dome salt storage structure at the MTO's Haileybury, Ontario maintenance yard on Highway 558.
A couple of days earlier, on Thursday, February 21, 2019, the roof of the Lester B. Pearson Civic Centre in nearby Elliot Lake collapsed over the 340-seat auditorium, narrowly missing the members of the Elliot Lake Amateur Theatre Ensemble, who were getting ready for the final dress rehearsal for a play, which was scheduled to open the next day.
This is NOT supposed to happen in the province of Ontario. In Ontario, a stated objective of the Ontario Building Code is to “limit the probability that, as a result of the design or construction of a building, a person in or adjacent to the building will be exposed to an unacceptable risk of injury due to structural failure”.
At about 2:00 am on Monday, February18, 2019, the roof of the Timiskaming First Nation arena, near Notre-Dame-Du-Nord, Quebec, collapsed. It is reported that officials confirmed the heavy snow may have led to the collapse of the roof. The facility that only opened its ice rink in the fall of 2018. Notre-Dame-Du-Nord is located on the Ontario-Quebec border.
The structural system of a building is supposed to be designed as a passive system - the owner of a building is not expected to regularly send people onto the roof to actively clear the snow off the roof. It is clear that this is not the case in this part of northern Ontario.
The design of the structural system supporting the roof of a building begins with a reference to the climatic data specified in the Ontario Building Code. The Ontario Building Code data is based on the National Building Code of Canada, which relies on the data collected by Environment Canada.
Contrary to the assertions of the eco-freaks and their run-of-the-mill, granola crunching, know-nothing leftist social justice warriors and camp followers, the ground snow load data derived from Environment Canada’s statistics indicates no significant climatic data changes.
The first three editions of the Ontario Building Code used working stress design and used a single ground snow load value. Limit states design was introduced in the 1990 Ontario Building Code, along with separate loads for snow, SS, and rain, SR. The 1990 and 1997 editions of the Ontario Building Code used snow and rain data based on a 1 in 30 years probability of being exceeded. Subsequent editions of the Ontario Building Code use values based on a 1 in 50 years probability of being exceeded.
Admittedly, the design methods specified in the Ontario Building Code have changed over the years. The latest (2015) edition of the National Building Code of Canada has made further changes, which have not been adopted in the Ontario Building Code at this time.
It remains unclear why the roofs are collapsing in this part of Northern Ontario. Are there any other factors at play?
The days are now getting longer, the weather is slowly warming up, and the snow will soon disappear, even from the roofs in Norther Ontario. It is likely everyone will forget about this issue ....... until the next heavy snow storm in Northern Ontario next winter.
As much as we would like, this question will not go away until the Chief Building Official for Ontario takes steps to find the answers.
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The State of Oregon can't stop people from calling themselves engineers.
On January 2, 2019 at 20:33, Thomas Claburn reported in The Register that, last week, US Magistrate Judge Stacie Beckerman converted an earlier preliminary injunction into a permanent one, which limits the application of the state's Professional Engineer Registration Act.
The State of Oregon (like many other North American judisdicitons) had prohibited individuals from representing themselves as engineers unless they had registered as professional engineers. Unregistered engineers risked being fined simply for using the title "engineer".
The court ruling allows people to communicate their views about mathematical equations (traffic light camera equations, in this particular case) publicly and privately without the review of an Oregon-licensed professional engineer, provided that communication isn't done as a government employee or contractor.
Read the entire article on The Register web site.
In spite of the total corporate media blackout, Faith Goldy finished in third place in the 2018 election for Mayor of Toronto.
In essence, John Tory has been elected mayor by Toronto's corporate media, which subverted the democratic process by silencing Faith Goldy's campaign.
The 2018 election campaign proves that most of the information we receive is either filtered or cut off by the likes of Google, Rogers Media, Bell Media, and the other members of this corporate media cabal that is working to imprison our minds.
In 2017, Ontario municipalities received over 180,000 building permit applications. The vast majority of these applications were made in person, where the permit applicant traveled to the building department, waited in line to be served, waited for the counter clerk to review the application, paid the permit fee, and then traveled back to the office or home.
If it took an average of 2 hours for an applicant to travel to the building department and apply for a building permit, at a minimum wage salary of $15/hr., the lost productivity for Ontario is $5 million every single year. Many people have told me that $15/hr. is an unrealistically low salary for the design and construction industry: agreed! – let’s double the salary! – then Ontario’s lost productivity becomes over $10 million a year.
That $10 million a year will buy more than 20 brand new detached houses in Belleville this year, next year, and thereafter. What would you rather choose: drive to the building department and wait in line to apply for a permit; OR enable the Ontario economy to provide those 20 brand new detached houses in Belleville for young families next year and thereafter?
In its report, titled "Streamlining the Development and Building Approvals Process in Ontario", released on July 4, 2018, the Residential Construction Council of Ontario (RESCON) proposed a building e-permitting pilot project to transition the current antiquated Ontario system to a state-of-the-art system.
From the user’s point of view, it is preferable to have one, uniform user e-permitting interface for the entire province. After all, Ontario already has one, common permit application form, as well as one Building Code for the entire province.
Municipal building departments have invested millions of dollars in their individual data bases (such as Amanda) and processes. They would resist any changes that would render their current systems obsolete. Therefore, it would be prudent to design a building e-permitting system that has a common user interface but the system would have “back-end” connections to the existing “legacy” municipal systems.
An e-permitting interface for Ontario has to be capable of handling enormous data files, process financial payments, and maintain security for users and municipalities. The information technology component of the project would likely be outsourced.
Who would administer the Ontario Building E-permitting Interface?
In view of the new Ontario government's need to contain costs, this may be a good time to move the Building and Development Branch's code development, production, and regulatory functions into a designated administrative authority, in order to eliminate these costs from the government's financial books. The Building and Development Branch would become a 3 person policy shop funded by the taxpayer whereas the Building Code Designated Administrative Authority would manage the Ontario Building E-permitting Interface and the code development, production, and administrative functions.
Since annual building permit fees in Ontario are about $200 million, a 1% - 3% surcharge on building permit fees would support a streamlined designated administrative authority and free up some cash for the provincial government that is currently being spent to fund the Building and Development Branch. A 3% permit surcharge would enable the Building Code Designated Administrative Authority to produce and distribute the electronic version of the entire 2-volume Ontario Building Code for FREE to all college and university students, designers, builders, and anyone else who wants one.
"This is low-hanging fruit for Premier Doug Ford and the new Ontario government. One of their platform planks was to cut red tape to help industry thrive – we recommend they start here."
What will the Ontario Building Code require for electric vehicle charging stations, beginning on January 1, 2018 .......?
What will the Ontario Building Code require for electric vehicle charging stations, beginning on January 1, 2018 .......? That was a controversial question discussed on Tuesday, November 14, 2017, when Alek Antoniuk delivered a seminar to the Wellington Waterloo District Chapter of the Ontario Building Officials Association on the major changes to the Ontario Building Code that are contained in O. Reg. 139/17.
The 20/80 rule in the requirements of O. Reg. 139/17 is ambiguous when it comes to buildings that contain parking spaces.
In 1984, the Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO) and the Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) essentially divided up the professional design “pie” so that PEO licence holders and architects gained the exclusive right to design and conduct general reviews of significant buildings in Ontario. This exclusivity is shared in a carefully negotiated arrangement between professional engineers and architects that is set out in complementary provisions of the Professional Engineers Act, 1984 and the Architects Act, 1984. Both statutes were enacted in 1984. A Joint Practice Board of the two professions is supposed to help avoid confusion and conflicts between them.
In 1984, the Ontario Building Code, a regulation made pursuant to the Building Code Act, was amended to reflect the division of the design and general review “pie” between professional engineers and architects. The Ontario Building Code contained a Design and General Review Table, which reflected the design and general review divisions embedded in the Professional Engineers Act, 1984 and the Architects Act, 1984. Where an application was made for a building permit, a municipal building official would check the drawings to ensure that the design was prepared in accordance with the Ontario Building Code’s Design and General Review Table. For 22 years, between 1984 and 2007, this arrangement worked very well because municipal building officials would not issue building permits if the design drawings contravened the Design and General Review Table.
Bill 124, the Building Code Statute Law Amendment Act, 2002, proclaimed on July 25, 2003, amended the Building Code Act to require all building officials and all designers submitting designs for the purpose of obtaining a building permit to be qualified and registered by the government, effective January 1, 2006. Needless to say, this upset a lot of professional engineers and architects, since they already considered themselves to be qualified to design buildings and they did not appreciate more government red tape.
The PEO, supported by the OAA, challenged the Ontario government’s authority to regulate the practice of the province’s professional engineers under the Building Code Act. The PEO) applied for a judicial review of Bill 124 to clarify the exclusive jurisdiction of self-regulating professions. In 2007, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice confirmed the exclusive jurisdiction of the PEO and the OAA to regulate the practice of engineering and architecture, respectively. The Court declared that the professional qualification and registration requirements of the Building Code Act and Ontario Building Code do not apply to any holder of any licence or certificate issued under the Professional Engineers Act. That was the good news.
Unfortunately, the Court also found that the Building Code Act did not provide sufficient authority to allocate responsibility for the design of buildings between members of the professional engineering and architectural professions in the Ontario Building Code. The effect of this decision was to invalidate the Ontario Building Code’s Design and General Review Table. In other words, the proverbial “baby was thrown out with the bath water”.
In December, 2007, the PEO and the OAA recognized the mess that was created and issued a joint bulletin, entitled “Design and General Review Requirements for Buildings in the Province of Ontario”, which encapsulated the scopes of practice contained in their legislation. This joint bulletin was sent to all Ontario chief building officials on January 3, 2008 to be used as a guide. Although the joint bulletin was useful because it contained a table that could be easily referenced to determine whether professional design was required for a building permit application, it was unenforceable by municipal building officials.
After the 2007 Ontario Superior Court of Justice decision, municipal building officials could no longer demand that certain buildings had to be designed by professional engineers and architects. Indeed, a building official could not refuse to issue a permit for a 20 storey residential condominium building where a non-professional designer, who was qualified and registered under Bill 124, prepared the design.
The simple solution to this absurdity would have been to amend the Building Code Act to reinstate the Ontario Building Code’s Design and General Review Table. The OAA and the building officials’ organizations supported this simple solution. Of course, the PEO would not permit this. The PEO had won the court case and there was no way they would back off on this point.
Although municipal building officials continued to have the authority to refer plans to the PEO and the OAA for enforcement of the Professional Engineers Act and the Architects Act, municipal building officials had no authority to enforce those statutes.
Neither of the two main Ontario associations representing building officials took part in the2007 judicial review. The Ontario Superior Court judges had to rely only on the arguments presented by the PEO, the OAA, and the Ontario government. Had the Ontario Building Officials Association or the Large Municipalities Chief Building Officials been involved, one can only speculate that the outcome of the case would have been different.
In response to the Court’s decisions, the 2012 Ontario Building Code (O. Reg. 332/12), which came into effect on January 1, 2014, deleted the “professional design table” from Section 1.2.1., “Design”, of Division C. A version of this table was relocated to Section 1.2.2., “General Review”, of Division C of the 2012 Ontario Building Code to apply only to general review requirements, since the 2007 Ontario Superior Court of Justice decision did not address general review.
The 2012 Ontario Building Code is silent on when professional design is required for a building. All references to an “architect” or a “professional engineer” have been replaced by a “suitably qualified and experienced person”.
Finally, 7 years after the Ontario Superior Court of Justice decision, the Ontario Legislature passed the Building Opportunity and Securing Our Future Act (Budget Measures), 2014 and the Act received Royal Assent on July 24, 2014. Schedule 3 of the Act amended the Building Code Act, 1992 to establish the requirement for professional design of buildings.
The effect of this amendment to the Building Code Act is that a municipal building official has to read the Architects Act or the Professional Engineers Act in order to determine whether to issue a building permit. Plus ça change! Now, instead of consulting the old Design and General Review Table, a municipal building official has to interpret the professional design Acts!
In the meantime, the PEO continues to maintain its long held view that building officials are not authorized to adjudicate between professional engineers and architects with respect to which professional designer is required to be involved in the design of a building. Clearly, this is an unresolved issue that was not addressed by the 2014 amendments to the Building Code Act.
We often fall into the trap of believing what politicians want us to believe, regardless of whether it is true or not. We were promised a green economy which would be a nirvana for everyone. Today, the Globe and Mail reports that 340 real people will lose their jobs in spite of the corporate welfare provided to green energy firms to set up industries in Ontario.
We need to re-examine many of the "truths" we have been fed, especially about climate. Climate change models that change every week are not a basis for investing trillions of dollars for an unproven outcome.
Why an East London Bethnal Green Solar Panel Fire is just as likely in Ontario, Canada.
Following the 2003 Ontario general election, which was won by the Ontario Liberal Party, led by Dalton McGuinty, Ontario's civil servants were tasked with dismantling the Common Sense Revolution championed by Premier Mike Harris. By 2006, civil servants in the Building and Development Branch were given instructions to remove all PERCEIVED barriers to "certain green technologies" in the Ontario Building Code. At that time, I was the Manager for the technical development of the Ontario Building Code and, as a civil servant, it was my duty to obey the orders of the Central Committee Cabinet.
(1) A combustible solar collector system is permitted to be installed above the roof of a building required to be of noncombustible construction.
All of the changes were incorporated into Ontario Regulation 349/06, which amended the 1997 Ontario Building Code. So there you have it - in the name of making Ontario green, the code change increased the fire hazard of buildings in Ontario. The permission to install combustible solar collectors applies to roofs of high rise buildings as well as low rise buildings. There is no height limit.......!
"A block of flats in Bethnal Green, east London, caught fire last Sunday with around 80 firefighters attending the scene and initial suggestions are that the solar panels appear to have caught fire."
If it can happen in Bethnal Green, it can just as easily happen in Ontario.
Amendment Package #6 (July 1, 2017 update) for the Compendium Version of the Ontario Building Code is now available for free downloading, as Publication Number 510159, from the ServiceOntario Publications website. This package includes the changes arising from O. Reg. 139/17, parts of which are scheduled to come into effect on July 1, 2017 and January 1, 2018.
Follow this direct download link to the free 412 page amendment package.
the creation of slum housing by allowing for a new building type, euphamistically called "houses", which encourages the construction of sub-standard housing by permitting the circulation of polluted air from kitchens, bedrooms, living rooms, and washrooms in one dwelling into another dwelling unit. This is all done for the goal of achieving affordable housing. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
(14) In a house containing two dwelling units, return-air from one dwelling unit may be recirculated to the other dwelling unit, provided a duct-type smoke detector is installed in the supply or return air duct system serving the entire house which would turn off the fuel supply and electrical power to the heating system upon activation of such detector.
There you have it! In the next new house in Ontario, you will have the opportunity to smell the excrement and urine and body odours of your neighbour, as they are blown directly into your own living room. Of course, the smell of your neighbour's burning hemp will alleviate the other smells.
When the Canadian Commission on Building and Fire Codes (CCBFC) published the 2005 edition of the National Building Code (NBC), one of the most significant changes was to permit combustible components in the cladding of tall sprinklered buildings of unlimited height.
Following the changes to the 2005 NBC, there was pressure on Ontario to follow the lead of the CCBFC. Ontario’s Chief Building Official and Director of the Building and Development Branch, David Brezer, P. Eng. and the Branch’s Code Development Manager, Alek Antoniuk, OAA reviewed the NBC changes and were not convinced that the combustible cladding changes were proven to be safe. Branch staff recommended that the Ontario government not proceed to change Ontario’s Building Code to permit combustible cladding in buildings of unlimited height. It was deemed prudent to refrain from amending the Ontario Building Code for at least one code cycle in order to see the experience of other jurisdictions that had implemented the change.
Therefore, Ontario kept a height restriction of 6 storeys for sprinklered buildings and 3 storeys for unsprinklered buildings in Sentence 3.1.5.5.(1) of Div. B of the Ontario Building Code. Ontario remained one of the few jurisdictions in North America with restrictions on the height of buildings with combustible cladding.
Ontario’s caution was justified as a significant number of buildings around the world have experienced cladding fires. Although these buildings are protected by automatic sprinkler systems, standard sprinkler systems are ineffective against fires on the exterior of buildings. Ontario’s 6 storey limit is based on the ability of emergency responders to use fire hoses on the exterior of the building to control cladding fires.
It will be interesting to see whether other jurisdictions will align their building codes to match Ontario’s wise choice made over a decade ago.
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“The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive.
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1) Isn’t the Exodus story a myth?
There is an ancient Egyptian papyrus document called the Ipuwer Papyrus, which seems to recount in eye-witness fashion the plague of blood, the plague of cattle, the plague of strange fire, the plague on the firstborn, as well as the strange darkness – events previously known only from the Bible, in the book of Exodus.
The Ipuwer Papyrus, often referred to as the Papyrus Ipuwer, is believed to have been written between 1,600 B.C. and 1,850 B.C. The oldest copy in existence was purchased from a collector in 1828 and translated into English in 1909. Currently the Ipuwer Papyrus resides in the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, Netherlands. This small piece of papyrus has sparked a great deal of debate and scholars remain divided over its true meaning and purpose. The primary interest for our purposes are the striking similarities to the plagues recorded in the book of Exodus.
First let’s take a look at the similarities between the Ipuwer Papyrus and the Book of Exodus. There is no denying the two are shockingly similar and it should come as no surprise that many use the papyrus in their arguments for the story of the plagues being historical fact.
The Iupwer also speaks of a pestilence throughout the land and the collapse of order that servants are leaving their servitude and acting Rebelliously. Some translations tell how the king has been taken away by poor men.
All of these examples show how many people, some scholars included, have claimed the Ipuwer Papyrus to be speaking of the plagues as recorded in the Bible. When read in this manner it is in fact hard to deny the similarities and to come to any other conclusion. However, when read in its entirety, the Ipuwer Papyrus takes on an entirely new meaning to many scholars.
Interestingly, some scholars believe the papyrus recorded the events immediately following the plagues when the land of Egypt was invaded and conquered. Given the condition of the country, and its armies, after the plagues it should not come as any surprise that Egypt’s advisories would take advantage of the opportunity and invade. In one line the Ipuwer records, ” The stranger people from outside are come into Egypt.” Only one of the eight examples listed above seem to relate to an invasion. Example number eight could easily be seen as the result of an invasion by a conquering army.
It would be difficult to believe that two independently written documents, recording similar events all of which take place in Egypt, can be so similar and are in no way related to one another. To what degree they are connected is difficult if not impossible to determine. While any connection to the book of Exodus is hotly debated and refuted by many scholars, the Ipuwer Papyrus remains an interesting element worthy of study and further evaluation.
We also can rely on the bible account as well. The five books of Moses (including Exodus) abound with Egyptian words, roots and phrases, as would be expected of a writer who had come out of Egypt.
“The contents of our pentateuch [the five book of Moses] are, in general, very much older than the date at which they were finally edited; new discoveries continue to confirm the historical accuracy or the literary antiquity of detail after detail in it….It is, accordingly, sheer hypercriticism to deny substantially Mosaic character of the pentateuchal tradition.” CH Dodd, More New Testament Studies, p.224. Manchester University Press, 1968.
2) Where were the various stops along the Exodus route from Egypt to the Red Sea?
• Where was the crossing spot?
Firstly, the Israelites travelled from Rameses to Succoth (Exodus 12:37).
“And Joseph placed his father and his brethern, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land , in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh commanded” Genesis 47:11.
“And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly” Genesis 47:27.
Moses gathered the Israelties (Hebrews) at Succoth (Exodus 12:37).
Succoth had to be a place large enough for this tremendous amount of people and flocks to assemble.
“Succoth” is a Hebrew transliteration of the Egyptian “Tjeku” mentioned in Egyptian documents as a border station. It was also known as “Tharu”.
In ancient Egypt there was a line of guarded fortifications along the canal which connected the Gulf of Suez with the Mediterranean sea. This canal is known to have existed anciently, by satellite photos and infra-red photos, which still show its path. At the border – the point where one would leave Egypt proper and go into the Sinai desert, there was a fortress and a bridge.
This was located near the Delta where the Israelites were living. “Tharu” was where the Egyptian army assembled in preparation for their military expeditions to the north. Armies consisted of a great deal of men, horses and chariots; and they required a large area to assemble properly.
Moses well knew Tharu, called “Succoth” in the Biblical account – and it was here that he orgainzed the people for their journey. They had left Egypt proper once they crossed this line of fortification, just as the Lord had promised.
Yes, Moses was thoroughly trained in all aspects of military leadership and would have known well how to assemble large numbers of people for travel. The fact that Moses was indeed a general in the Egyptian army seems to have been a well-known fact. Josephus writes about this in his Antiquities of the Jews, Bk.2 and ch.X. As a military man, once again, Moses knew “Tharu”, and it was here that he orgainzed his largest “army” ever travel. And from this assembly point, they travelled to Etham.
– Route B – “the way of the wilderness of the Red Sea” – the southern route (v.18).
They took the southern (and longer) route. Josephus, the Jewish historian, concurs that the Hebrews headed southward from Egypt.
“But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red Sea” Exodus 13:18.
It was the Wilderness of the Red Sea – the mountainous land of the mid and southern Sinai Peninsula. This was along a route that was commonly taken in those days by both caravans and the army, and it was called “the southern route”. This route was taken because it was safer than travelling along the coastal “northern” route, where the Philistines were.
Etham was not a singular location, but a region. How do we know this? Because they were in Etham BEFORE they crossed the Red Sea (Exodus 13:20). And they were still in an area called Etham AFTER they crossed the sea (Numbers 33:8).
Etham was, therefore, a designation of the land that lay around the mid-northern edge of the Gulf of Aqaba.
“Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baalzephon; before it ye shall encamp by the sea. For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, they are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in” Exodus 14:2,3.
To be “entangled in the land”, they would have to be travelling through an area with mountains all round, hemming them in. This is BEFORE crossing the sea.
So from Etham they changed their direction of travel (“that they turn”) and went south.
They found themselves entering the mountains, along a dry river bed system that must have appeared like an endless maze to them. The 27 kilometer (17 mile) Wadi Watir is a natural highway from Egypt.
The multitude comprised 603,000 men, as well as women and children – perhaps as many as two million people.
As the great multitude WEAVED their way through this awesome and wild canyon, it would appear that they were entangled. Hemmed in to the left and right, they could travel in only one direction. The only path through that wadi leads to an enormous beach – so big that it can be seen on satellite maps.
The beach head is named today “Nuweiba”. The root of this name suggests that some misfortunate incident happened here (Haas Wehr Arabic-English dictionary). It is speculative to say whether or not it refers to the drowning of the Egyptian army in the Red Sea.
On the north end of the beach area are the remains of an ancient Egyptian fortress – another evidence that Egyptian territory extended all the way through the Sinai Peninsula. We believe this was Pihahiroth.
Pihahiroth means; “Mouth of Gorges” (Strong’s concordance). As was the typical custom of the people of that time, they named it after an attribute of the geology of that place.
7) Where was the crossing spot?
The Wadi Watir leads to a wide expanse of beach on the Gulf of Aqaba arm of the Red Sea, which could easily have held the multitude, their flocks and also Pharaohs pursuing army – separating the two groups by several kilometres.
This beach at Nuwebia is so large (7km by 3km); it can easily be seen on satellite maps. It is the only place that matches all the requirements of our checklist.
As they were now encamped between Migdol and the sea, Migdol could be either the mountains to the west, which make a perfect barrier, enclosing them on the beach, or it may have been a watch-tower atop one of those mountains. (The name “Migdol” means “tower” or “fortress”).
The Egyptians had watch-posts all through the Sinai Peninsula. It is documented that they flashed messages from tower-to-tower by day and night, using reflected light. Perhaps this is how Pharaoh knew exactly where the escaped slaves had gone.
On the opposite shore, in Saudi Arabia, precisely across from where they camped by the sea, is another ancient structure. All alone on the beach, it may have been a Midianite fortress, dedicated to Baal; we believe this could be Baalzephon. The phrase “over against” seems to mean “opposite from” in respect to being across a body of water. (As, for example, in Deuteronomy 32:49 “……in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho” – meaning across the Jordan River from Jericho).
10) Isn’t the Gulf of Aqaba too far from Egypt? Wouldn’t it have taken too long to get there?
The record says that they travelled both day and night (Exodus 13:21). This means they did not stop and camp much at all. Knowing that the Egyptians would spend time in mourning and burying their dead as a result of the tenth plague, they knew the Egyptians would be bent on revenge. THEY WERE IN A HURRY!
“Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians and how I bare you ON EAGLES WINGS..” Exodus 19:4.
Again, we are told in Scripture, that this Israelite trip was accomplished by a miracle – just as was their 40 year wilderness wandering.
When the Bible mentions an eagle it usually refers to ‘SWIFTNESS’. For example in Daniel 7:4 a Leopard is depicted with EAGLES WINGS. This denotes Alexander the Great’s SPEED of conquest.
In Exodus 19:4, the implication is that their journey was a MIRACLE – that the Israelites were supernaturally strengthened to accomplish this journey swiftly. Because the distance was NOT SHORT, BUT LONG.
If the distance was only to the Gulf of Suez you would not need a miracle to get there quickly. Thus, the Biblical account does not suggest a short, but rather a long distance – which required travelling by both day and night.
The question arises, is it possible to travel to the Gulf of Aqaba on foot in three days and nights?
The distance from the Suez Canal to Nuweiba is 336km (210 miles). In 1967, Israel’s Moshe Dayan marched his troops ON FOOT over the same route, in reverse, that the Hebrews took – between Succoth and the Gulf of Aqaba. Marching only by day they did it in 6 days. And the modern Israeli marchers camped at night.
“And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night” Exodus 13:21.
With divine assistance, this huge mass of people travelled in an orderly manner both day and night, with great speed: “Ye have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles wings”.
Even if they accomplished the trip in 3 days and 3 nights (equivalent to the 6 days of marching on foot performed by the Israeli troops over the same distance), that would be at an average speed of no more than 4.67km (2.9 miles) per hour.
11) Why do Exodus Route Maps put some of the cities differently, where you claim them to be?
Since scholars have placed Mt.Sinai in Egyptian territory, they are compelled as a result to locate all of the preliminary stops likewise on the traditional Sinai Peninsula.
This impediment of miss-alignment with the Biblical account that the conventionally trained scholars have inherited, has led them into trying all sorts of clumsy techniques to make their theory fit. Their maps of the route often wildly disagree – since they are based only on speculation. Some of the map-makers are honest enough to insert question marks (?) after each name.
12) Why do the vast majority of Scholars reject this Red Sea discovery?
Micheal Lemonick (U.S. Time Magazine) would tell us that “most scholars suspect that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob….never existed; many doubt the tales of slavery in Egypt and the Exodus” Time, December 18th, 1995.
13) Didn’t the crossing occur at the “sea of reeds or bitter lakes” at the eastern border of Egypt?
Confusion over the Red Sea crossing stems from a wrong location for Mt.Sinai, which the Hebrews reached after the crossing.
Mt.Sinai as we know it today was land marked by St.Helena in the 4th Century AD. The story has it that she went around the Israeli & Middle Eastern area with a group of men and landmarked places that fit her own ideas. Subsequently, the Church picked these up as traditional historical spots for biblical events. Since the marking of modern Mt.Sinai by Helena and adherence to it by the established Church many Christians had difficulty reconciling the Red Sea crossing. Stories have been concocted that the water was only a marsh, a couple of feet deep – and that this Exodus path went over the area of what over the area of what over the area of what is today the Suez Canal.
Now it really would have been a “miracle” to drown Pharaoh’s army in only 2 feet of water!
Some people determine to support the Exodus as crossing marshlands from the Hebrew words used in the Bible to name the Red Sea: “yam soof”, which means “Sea of Reeds”. These words are still used by the Jews today, but they are used to name the entire Red Sea including the Gulf of Aqaba and the Gulf of Suez.
Regarding a marshland, or lake. Think now. Would it make sense for the Hebrews to flee through a lake, when all they needed to do was to go around it?
In any case, marshland crossing does not fit the Biblical account, which describes the crossing spot as “the heart of the sea” Exodus 15:8. The Suez Canal area is NOT “the heart of the sea”. The Suez Canal is NOT the RED SEA.
With all of the digging that went on to construct the modern Suez Canal, not to mention the clearing of that canal after the first Egyptian-Israeli war, not one wheel of Pharaoh’s drowned army in that spot was ever found.
Firstly, we have shown that the Hebrews under Moses assembled at Succoth, which is OUTSIDE of Egypt. From this point armies or caravan assemblies used to strike SE across the Wilderness of the Red Sea to distant places. At no time was there any reason for them to have to cross the upper reach of the Red Sea (Suez branch), nor did they have any necessity to cross any of the Bitter Lakes. All they had to do was bypass either of these masses of water if they were encountered. This is clear from any map.
Look at the map again! At the proposed crossing site south of Suez along the Egyptian shore, if the Hebrews were facing the Gulf of Suez, ready to cross, in which country would they still be standing? The answer is, they would still be on Egyptian soil!! One is still in Egypt, as one faces the proposed Red Sea crossing at the Gulf of Suez.
Egypt borders the entire western shore of the Gulf of Suez. Whatever the Hebrews camped along that coast, they would still be in Egypt. However, the book of Exodus tells us that before they came to the Red Sea crossing, they had ALREADY LEFT Egypt.
The “children of Israel went up harnessed OUT OF the land of Egypt.” Exodus 13:18. So, when they later arrived at the Red Sea and found themselves trapped, they complained to Moses their leader, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness?” They asked why Moses has carried them forth “OUT OF Egypt….we did tell thee IN Egypt, saying, Let us alone” Exodus 14:10-12.
You notice, when they found themselves trapped BEFORE crossing the Red Sea, they were already OUT OF EGYPT.
Secondly, the proposed crossing spot in the Gulf of Suez is “comparatively shallow.” The Suez area is not deep! When the sea rolled back according to the Bible account, there was not one survivor.
I ask you, would 250,000 soldiers (Josephu’s figure) all drown in just 3 to 4 metres of water? Every one of them? And likewise, thousands of strong horses? And how come the multitude of chariots has not been found in such shallow water, to this day?
Those who insist on a Lake Timsah or Suez crossing ALWAYS emphasize how shallow the water was. Shallow water couldn’t have swamped Pharaoh and his army!
Every single one of these texts is describing the Red Sea crossing spot! The Gulf of Suez is “shallow.” The Gulf of Aqaba is “the great DEEP” – up to 5,400 feet deep – with a ridge crossing it between two deeps!
14) Isn’t the Gulf of Aqaba too deep to cross?
Nautical charts show the Gulf of Aqaba arm of the Red Sea to be an underwater trench more than 5,000 feet (1,600 meters) deep in places. That’s positively “DEEP.” The Western shoreline drops steeply underwater into this “canyon” at a slope of 45 degrees. However, at the precise location of Nuweiba beach, the deep trench is spanned by an 8 mile underwater land bridge.
From the Egyptian end, it slopes at a gentle angle of about six degrees underwater – until midway across the sea it is, according to one source, some 300 feet (100 meters) below the surface of the sea. It then gently rises to the opposite shore.
This bridge appears to have been formed by washouts meeting each other from two directions – from the Western and the Eastern shores. Perhaps it was during the closing stages of the Great Flood, that the Lord, in His foreknowledge, divided the Gulf with this path across the sea, for the event He saw ahead.
• “dividing the water” (Isaiah 63:12) of this deep trench.
Based on data from the ETOP05 data base that the greatest depth on this ridge is only 300 to 320 feet deep. If this is correct, there would be no noticeable angle of ascent or descent at all, over the 8 mile length of the bridge.
Please note that ETOP05 is claimed to be a combination from various data bases. However, we must say that there remains so much disagreement between the various sources that we cannot be certain about the depth. One thing is certain: the bridge is there!
It was by following Biblical clues (disregarding all previous human theories) and accepting every word of the Exodus account as LITERALLY true, that Ron Wyatt & his crew were led to this very spot on the Red Sea. There is NO OTHER LOCATION that fits ALL the Scriptural requirements. On the Eastern shore of the Sinai Peninsula there is ONLY ONE PLACE that is big enough to hold the perhaps 2-3 million people, their flocks and Pharaoh’s army! And the underwater land bridge extends DIRECTLY from that beach area! That beach is so huge that it can be seen from outer space!
What if there was no Underwater Ridge Today?
For purposes of argument, let’s say that the underwater ridge had over the centuries become eroded away. Would that negate the mass of Bible evidence that indicates that spot? Would it eliminate the chariot parts and skeletal remains found on the seabed?
Suppose the Bible said that there was once a lush green plain and a valley (the vale of Siddim) where armies fought in a battle. But today all we can find there is a desert and a salt (the Dead Sea). Would that mean that the Scripture was wrong? We must always remember that Geography can change dramatically.
The strongest point to be made is the enormous total weight of evidence – the true Mt.Sinai on the other side of the crossing, with the golden calf altar, Moses 12 pillars, the boundary fence around the mount, the split rock out of which poured the water, and so on. The fact is that NO ONE has been able to find these things anywhere else. The over-all evidence shrieks that this is the spot!
As we see the weight of evidence accumulating, to keep opposing it requires an extra measure of foolishness.
But trying to pin a man down to FACTS can be futile. His main goal seems to be debating the hair splitting meaning of the word “bridge.” It becomes easier to understand the Lord Jesus Christ’s anger at the Pharisees of His day who thrived on debating the trivial shades of the meaning of the word. It was not that they could not understand Him, but that they would not.
Some of God’s people can get so bogged down, caught on a detail of something that to them raises doubt, that they fail to see the weight of evidence, the overall picture, and as a result miss out on the great blessing that God is trying to reveal to them.
15) In the Bible, it says that when the children of Israel crossed the parted Red Sea, there was a strong wind. Wouldn’t the strong wind have blown them all away?
Midway across on each side, the cliffs of water were up to 300 feet (100 meters) high, that’s skyscraper height! Only a MEGA HURRICANE could have exposed that deeply covered land bridge and pushed and held two walls of water 100 meters high.
The walls of water eventually stood up WITHOUT the wind, and the Hebrews walked through to the other side.
Strong’s Concordance notes that “congeal” comes from the Hebrew “qapha” (pronounced kaw-faw), which means “to shrink, ie. Thicken (as unracked wine, curdled milk, clouded sky, frozen water)”.
16) Could Bible writers have wrongly assumed it to be a miracle?
There are certain events in the lives of men and nations, for which coincidence is hardly an adequate explanation – events where one senses a greater, even intelligent, reality working behind the scenes.
Consider for example, the Red Sea Crossing event. In reading the story, one is forced to the conclusion that either this event did NOT happen as described, or it was a miracle.
Well, we can rule out the first option – that it did not occur. We have now been able to document the evidence that it DID.
That leaves us with the second option…..a miracle. There are just too many “impossible” coincidences, to call it anything but a miracle.
1. The bridge across the undersea trench – prepared, as it were, ready for the event.
From two separate land masses, two washouts occur, which form two half bridges. These meet precisely to form a raised pathway right across the deep undersea canyon. We know of nothing like this – a canyon so bisected – anywhere on this planet.
2. At the right time, a strong wind parted the sea, precisely at the bridge location.
Had the sea split open anywhere else, the fleeing Hebrews would have looked down a 45 degree drop to about 5,000 feet (1,600 meters) – impossible to cross. But at the underwater land bridge it was a gently 6 degree slope, an easy passage for the 8 mile (13km) journey to the opposite shore.
3. On each side of this dry passage through the sea, watery walls of skyscraper height (up to 300 feet/100 meters) were held back.
4. These walls of water stood firm for hours, until every Hebrew was safely on the opposite shore, and then crashed down only when every Egyptian pursuer was on the sea bed. Too many coincidences. A deliverance unique in history – for a once only need.
17) What has been found on the sea bed?
Ron Wyatt and his team have found the remains of chariot parts, chariot wheels & skeletal parts of horses and men, ALL CEMENTED IN CORAL. Because of this, it is difficult, if not impossible, to extricate them without destroying them.
Ron Wyatt did extract the hub of a wheel with parts of 8 spokes attached and presented it to the Egyptian authority. This was sufficient for Mr. Nassif Mohammed Hassan to identify the dynasty from which the wheel came.
To date, the chariot parts have never been found in the Red Sea anywhere, except this site!
18) Can the remains be protected from treasure seekers?
One shudders to think what might be happening to the irreplaceable evidences of the destruction of Pharaohs hosts in the Red Sea, now that Ron Wyatt has revealed the true site. This information would undoubtedly draw hordes of scavengers and treasure seekers well aware of the value that such ancient artifacts would bring. How can these survive?
The remains, fortunately, are largely covered with coral, which not only has preserved them, but also helps to disguise their presence. And – fortunately – most of the remains lie at the Saudi Arabian side of the sea, which is out of bounds to tourists, divers, etc. Any divers at the Egyptian side most now report to a local police officer – and no artifacts are allowed out of Egypt.
19) If this is the crossing, there should exist the Biblically mentioned sites beyond the crossing – such as Marah, Elim, etc. Have these been found?
People working on these discoveries in Saudi Arabia and who have gone into this region, time and time again and provided wonderful footage of their explorations, have noticed one major thing. The LACK OF PALM TREES! Especially considering how plentiful they are in Egypt. There were no palm trees anywhere throughout the large, dry valleys which led from the seashore directly east.
“And they removed from Marah, and came unto Elim: and in Elim were twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm trees; and they pitched there” Numbers 33:9.
The two wide north-south wadis mentioned above end to the south at an east-west wadi, which again leads back to the sea. And there these three wadis intersect, there is an extremely large oasis with hundreds of palm trees, and 12 wells of water.
We have no doubt that this is the Biblical Elim. The 70 palm trees have proliferated and now hundreds of their descendants are thriving in this extremely desolate and arid region.
“And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red Sea” Numbers 33:10.
Why did the children of Israel go back to the Red Sea? Did they reverse back to the crossing spot? Why would they do that? But since the exploration of this area, we now know why!
This third wadi (the east-west one) leads just a few miles westward to the sea!
From the sea there branches off another wadi, and then they resumed their travel, they would have followed this.
Along this route they made two more encampments – Dophkah and Alush. We may never know their exact location, since no information is given.
After a short distance eastward, they met the Wadi Alfa, which cuts north-south. They veered left and after travelling the Wadi Alfa between mountains into an open plain, they immediately turned east into the foothills of the western side of Jebel el Lawz. Here they found themselves at Rephidim. And now the people became very angry at Moses because of the lack of water. It was here that the Lord caused water to gush out of the “rock at Horeb”. Evidence which survives here of this awesome event is given in the “Mt.Sinai FAQs” section.
Down through history, the inhabitants of Al-bad, a short distance to the south of here, have preserved the memory of Jethro (Moses father-in-law) who came to visit Moses after the Israelites arrived at the “mountain of God”. They still claim this day that the oasis of Al-Bad was his home. Travellers through the region in the 1800’s all recorded the tales told them about Jethro.
The stone circles around Al-Bad are called the “circles of Jethro”. Al-Bad is the only large oasis in the N.W. Arabian plain near Jebel El Lawz. We firmly believe this was his home and the home of Moses during his exile.


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My main zipper is a Lampo as well as the front pocket. The inner zipper is blank. The bags at Nordstroms, all had riri zippers - both inside & out. Also, as several people noted from the picture of the bag I bought, the woven handles on my bag are a bit stretched out. Not too bad, but definitely stretched. They also "creak" when you hold the bag by the handles. I've read that there were several issues about the handles on some of the earlier bags and that the company addressed them, and fixed the issues. I noticed that the handles on all the bags at Nordstroms were a little bit more secure & tight than mine are. I'm guessing this could be one of the issues that was fixed.
I need to know if anyone who has a bag w/brass hardware can tell me if their zippers are Lampo or riri, and if their inner zipper is also blank.
I hope I didn't get another fake bag. I will scream! That will definitely put an end to my ebay buying days (I've already been the victim of a fake Balenciaga (2 yrs ago - money refunded), a fake Bulga (1 yr ago - lost my money on that one), & a questionable Kooba (recent - still unresolved). I don't think I could stand it if another bag was fake. I've had much more good luck on ebay than bad, but I don't think I can take another disappointment right now.
Please - someone give me some good news!
Oh yea - while I'm not concerned about it (becuz I've seen pics of other linings), the linings of the new bags are all different too. Black now has Ivory, the Blue Jean has a blue suede, the chocolate has a greyish color, and I think white has a burgundy color (I could mistaken there). I know that all the linings used to be grey, and that's what my bag has.
I have the Gryson Skye and the pulls all say "Gryson" - inside and out. Are you talking about the pulls saying "Lambo," or the little thingie at the start of the zipper? (I see something written there, but can't read what it says. Old eyes here ). Mine is the white with brown leather handles and trim. The lining is a brown suede and the hardware is brass. Not sure if this helps. I got mine from Bergdorf Goodman about 6 mos. ago. Does anyone have a new style who could help her? I wouldn't think they had changed the pulls from saying Gryson, but I might be wrong and the newest ones out could not have Gryson on them!? (Notice that is a question, because I haven't seen the latest ones.) Oh, and both sides of all zippers, including the inside zipped pocket, say Gryson.
the "squeak" in your handles is actually a sign of vegetable tanned leathers. It is really a good thing, even if it bugs you a little bit. Veg tanned leathers are really nice.
I have the Gryson Skye and the pulls all say "Gryson" - inside and out. Are you talking about the pulls saying "Lambo," or the little thingie at the start of the zipper?
The name of the zipper is actually on the bottom part of the actual zipper (not the pull). It's on the part that faces the inside of the bag. You'd have the open the zipper & look underneath. My pulls all say Gryson and look just like the ones I've seen.
I bought a gently used bag that was used for one season, so I'm guessing this was bought at least 6 mos ago (if not longer).
OK, I've got the Tate and Skye with Brass hardware. All say Gryson inside and out on the pulls. On My Tate all the zippers are Riri(even inside pocket). On the Skye all of the zippers are Lampo...and The back of the inside zipper (you have to turn the zipper inside out almost to see it, right) does say something that I think is Lampo. It's also hard to see.
I just took a pic of it and it magnified it. Yes, it says Lampo. My Skye is from last Spring I think. Or was it last Winter. I'm confused on when I bought what. I can't say for sure whether this signifies a fake bag. Maybe you can contact Gryson. My handles also creak a little.
The brass zippers on my Grysons are just as you describe. It says lampo on the outer zippers and is blank on the smaller one, inside on the zip pocket. These bags are all from their fall 2006 line. Interestingly, my first Gryson had the creaking handles, my second one did not, and my newest does. They look identical, just "sound" different. I know that the Gryson Spring line came from a different manufacturer than the fall bags. Maybe that explains the differences you see in the handles and zippers. By the way, the handles on my first bag (military Skye) did stretch out some. The later bags, from their Holiday line, did not. I think they probably addressed this issue after it became apparent that there was a concern.
It sounds likely that your new bag is an authentic Olivia from their first manufacturing run. I think you will love it. I know I adore mine! Congrats on a wonderful find.
Whew! Thanx Lexie and Romeo! That's a relief to hear. The bag is really, really nice and I like it a lot. The outside of the bag is nearly flawless with no obvious signs of wear whatsoever. The inside has the stain as she described and is a little dirty, but nothing too major. I can probably just clean it up a little w/a suede brush.
One thing about the lining. I know that Lexie described how the lining appeared to be tacked down and was nice and tight. Well, I don't know if it's becuz when she listed this bag & photographed it she pulled the lining out to get a better picture, or if it's because the bag has been used so much, but the lining of the bag I got is definitely much looser than you described. It's not bad - I smoothed it out a little & I'm sure as I stuff it, it will smooth out even more. But it does appear that the more you use the bag, the more the lining stretches.
BTW Romeo, with the stretching & creaking of the handles, were you less likely to carry the bag by the handles & use the shoulder strap? They seem secure enough to me (and obviously, the previous owner carried the bag by the handles a lot, otherwise they wouldn't be so stretched out!). I just don't want the handles to break if the bag is a little bit heavy with "stuff."
I would agree that since Gryson changed manufacturers for their spring line that it would explain the difference in the brand of zippers used. I had thought that maybe when they changed to silver, that maybe they decided on riri zippers instead of lampo (I think riri are a little bit better zippers, esp on the heavier bags - coincidently, that's what MJ uses most of the time!). It is a little odd that the Skye would have a lampo zipper inside, while the Olivia's don't.
Thanks again. I can finally enjoy my bag & carry it confidently!
I'm really a shoulder strap kind of gal, so that's what I use most of the time, on any bag, if its an option. I don't think the creaking indicates any weakness. If the strap were going to break it would likely come loose from where it is attached to the brass ring.
WOW! Impressive. It's nice to know that Gryson intends to stand behind their products and are willing to address the issues that many have found problematic. It's too bad that other designers aren't as forthcoming and willing to admit that they made mistakes and/or fix the things that need fixing.
Ohhh. I am too stupid to live. YES, the zippers (under it!!) say Lampo on the outside ones. I can't get into the inside of the small one to see. Tried, but am scared I'm going to ruin it, or something.
And Lexie, we both bought ours about the same time. I don't have a frame of reference either on exactly when that was. I hate getting old!!!
While I was looking at these bags last night at Nordstroms, I noticed a couple of things. For one, while looking at all the pics of these bags online, I imagined that the leather was smooth. When I got my bag, I noticed that it's more of a textured leather. Not pebbled, but completely smooth either. What I noticed last night was that every color was different. The black was very similar to my bag, while the brown was slightly more textured. The white bag was VERY textured, and felt almost like a pebbled leather (you could definitely feel the bumps and rises in the leather when you run your hand over it). The Blue Jean, however, was very smooth. More like I thought these bags were from the online pics. Does anyone else notice this? Do you think it has something to do with the dyes? The other thing I notice - the blue jean bag (which is GORGEOUS!), really doesn't look blue. At first, I thought it was the military, until I saw the tag. It's got blue trim around the zipper and the lining is blue suede, but the leather has more of a greyish, olive tint to it. It's a little weird. It's not like a slate blue. Kinda hard to describe. It is gorgeous tho. I also saw some of her other styles. I really like the Josey bag. It's a shoulder bag, but it has a shorter strap and a longer one (I guess you could wear it messenger style). It's not the hard to access either (I thought those studs would be kinda hard to open & close). They also had some of the "box style" bags (the Maya & Molly). Very nice. I think Gryson's got a long career in front of her! The designs are nice & different, without being all flashy. I'm looking forward to seeing what the future holds for this line.
I think the texture differences aren't due to the dye but to the cow! When you think about it, I think a skin would be dyed all one color, and then would be cut into the right shape for each bag. I notice on my Olivia, which is white, that it is smooth all over except the "shoulder" of the bag which is slightly pebbly. I love the texture differences. I see this as an idication of the quality of the leather. My bags are developing the most beautiful patina as they age. Getting more burnished and beautiful instead of looking beat!
I'm anxious to see the Blue Jean IRL. It vaires a lot in the different photos I've seen. I wonder if it has dye lot differences for real, or if its just how it looks on the computer?
when I was at Nordstoms the other night, I bought a bottle of Cadillac leather cleaner/conditioner. I asked the salesgirl about it, and explained how I used to use Coach, but ever since it lifted the color off several of my bags, I stopped using it. She told me that the Cadillac wouldn't do that and that the Coach products are known to do that - I guess it's an older formula that was meant for a certain type of leather (she explained it in more detail, but I couldn't repeat it!). So anyhow, she assured me that it wouldn't lift the color and that they use it all the time in the store (for quick fixes!).
So, last night I used a little bit on my Gryson. Wow! The bag looks brand new now! And she was right, very little to absolutely no color lift! (the cloth was a little bit darker, but it may have been dirt - I don't think the seller ever cleaned and/or treated the bag). So then, I took my suede "eraser" and used it on the spots inside of the bag, and VOILA!! Stains are gone! There are a few pen marks way down at the bottom, but they're off to the said and you can't even see them unless you flatten the lining and look way into the corners.
I am soooooo happy with this bag!! Finally, I have a reason to celebrate! While I've gotten lucky w/ebay "finds" before, I don't think I've ever gotten THIS lucky - a current, hot selling bag that retails for around $900 - that I paid $250 for! Whoo-Hoo!!
Here a few pix - I know they're not the best, but neither is my camera!


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Home Views & Opinions How can we eradicate poverty?
Hardly any country will boast of being free from poverty. One can say confidently that governance and people’s problems, especially poverty, are interlinked. Good administration yields good results.
Principles of democracy have to be followed in all circumstances to reap benefits for all lawful citizens. The principle that should be followed to serve masses is to keep an eye on the evil. And that is the key to success, city elders say.
A good administrator, they stress, should bear in mind and do for citizens that religious tolerance is essential.
There are two kinds of people: one, those who have the same religion, and those who have religions other than rulers’, but all are human beings.
Men of either category suffer from the same weaknesses/disabilities that humans are inclined to; they commit sins, indulge in vices intentionally or foolishly, and unintentionally, without realizing the enormity of their deeds.
Let mercy and compassion come to their rescue and help in the same way and to the same extent as anyone expects from God mercy and forgiveness.
The rich always want more: they are the people who will be the worst drag upon any administrator during his moments of peace and happiness, and the least useful to him in hour of need and adversity. They hate justice the most—they keep demanding more and more out of the state resources and are seldom satisfied with what they receive and will never be obliged for the favour shown to them if their demands are justifiably refused.
City olds say prosperity of the whole set-up depends upon traders and industrialists, who act as a medium between the consumers and suppliers. They exert to provide goods.
Then there come the poor and disabled persons who have to be looked after, helped and provided at least the minimum necessities for well-being and contented living.
One has to realize that poverty leads to ruination. If a city is prosperous and if its people are well-to-do, then it will happily and willingly bear any burden.
Poverty is the actual cause of devastation: the main cause of the people’s poverty being the desire of administrator and officers to amass wealth, whether by fair or foul means. Corruption undermines the nation’s well-being.
Businessmen and industrialists need fair treatment, they’re sources of wealth to the state, but an eye has to be kept over their activities. They may hoard goods to get more profit out of them by creating scarcity and by indulging in black-marketing as they do in holy month of Ramazan.
Staying in touch with masses is must: never should there be any curtain of false prestige between the ruler and the people. Such pretension and shows of pomp and pride are manifestations of inferiority complex and vanity.
As a result administration remains unaware of the real condition of citizens.

industry_corpus2: Politics & Administration


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Dreamland Metaverse has implemented full estate management functionality.
For example changes for estates can be applied just for the current estate or for all estates owned by the same estate owner. Standard OpenSim does not provide this functionality that very much simplifies managing many OpenSim regions.
Setting access permissions and banning users works, kicking users at region and estate level, as well as sending region and estate messages (blue box messages).
Thread level required: VeryLow; estate owner and managers only.
Send a blue box notice to all users currently on the estate.
Thread level: High; all users; channel 0 not allowed.
Send a region message on the given non zero channel to the region given by name.
Thread level: VeryLow; all users.
Gets a list of the names of all regions of the current estate.
With these functions it is possible to implement tools that work across region boundaries within the same grid.
Additionally it is possible to request the User Level of users using llRequestAgentData with the value 9 (DATA_USERLEVEL). This way scripts can function differently based on the User Level of a user.
If you have questions using estate management or these scripting extensions, please contact us.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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If you’ve been in a fender-bender, you know how traumatic and time consuming it can be to get your automobile back in top-top condition. The safety of you and your family is our primary concern. To ensure your safety, all vehicles repaired at Imperial Auto Body will be restored to their pre-accident condition.
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We work with all major insurance companies to make certain you have a hassle-free experience. If desired, we can arrange a rental vehicle from Enterprise Car Rental. Should you require tow, please call our partners at MTS Towing at 301-585-1880.


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This page provides a Beam supplier with a two options to add his Beam to the Multi-Supplier Inventory. The first option is to add Beam offerings individually. This section also lets a supplier edit or delete individual offerings. The second option involves uploading an Excel file containing descriptions of your Beam offerings. Beam offerings in the uploaded file is added automatically. After Beam Offerings are added, new Offerings are sent to buyers who have signed up to Receive Beam Offerings by email.
The form is used to add information describing your Beam Offering. The Type, Dimensions, Pieces, Description, Price, Tag No and Location fields are used to describe each of your Beam offerings. The Type, Dimensions and Location are required fields. Dimensions is in inches and can be specified as a decimal or fraction. Location is where the Beam is physically located. The city and state abbreviation (or city and province abbreviation, if Canada) is separated by a comma. Units for the Price, unless otherwise identified, is US$ per CWT. Any information about your Beam that is not specific to the other fields goes in the Description field.
We added a Pre-processing option that could be helpful to try to fill in some of the fields in the form. Copy the information describing your Beam into the provided Pre-Process text box and press the "Pre-Process" button. The site will try to recognize the type, dimensions, location, price and pieces from the description provided in the Pre-Process text box. Recognized fields will be placed in the appropriate fields and the remainder will be inserted in the Description field. Make any needed changes to the form and press the "Insert Beam" button to add your Beam to the Inventory. For example, the site is looking for a "$" or "CWT" to identify the price. It is looking for a number of terms separated by an "X" for the Dimensions. A number in parentheses is assumed to be the number of pieces. It also tries to find the location (City, State).
A Beam supplier can also add, edit and remove Beam offerings by uploading an Excel spreadsheet containing descriptions of his Beam offerings. Each offering is described on a single row. Steel Spider reads the file a row at a time and adds the offerings to our Inventory automatically. The location and order of columns containing the data about each offering determines how the file is processed. The supplier provides a file with the layout defined by the supplier. This supplier defined layout file is usually a file that the supplier is already preparing or is easily exported from the suppliers inventory database. It is usually an Excel file. Under certain circumstances we can handle a text file or an Adobe .pdf file.
If you are considering using this Automatic Data Entry Process you need to Register first and then attach your Beam inventory file to John@steelspider.com. We need to set-up the site to recognize the layout and other information about your file before you an use this. There is no charge to set this up and we provide a free trial period so you can evaluate using this method for adding your Beam Offerings to the Inventory.
The file format can be Excel but in some cases we can handle Text, Word or Adobe PDF. Send what you use internally. We will test the processing of the file on the site so we can recommend the simplest way to add your Beam and walk you through the process. If your company uses codes or abbreviations, such as for location or grades, let us know what the codes represent and we can set up the site to recognize these and replace them with alternative terms that describe your Beam. You can keep the codes in your file and will not need to convert them. This makes it possible for us to handle your inventory data without you having to do much "clean up" of the data. Using this method of providing your Beam offerings also lets us do more to tailor how your offerings appear and provide more information than is available with the other methods. For example if your have pictures of your Beam offering on your website, we can include a link to the applicable picture with the offering.
On this page you can add your Beam offerings to the Inventory along with the Beam of other suppliers so that buyers can search for needed Beam. You can also change or remove your Offerings in the Inventory here.
Buyers will receive an email notification of any new Beam offerings added to the Inventory if they have signed up to Receive Beam Offerings for Beam. In Receive Beam Offerings a buyer can specify which Beam Offerings he wants to be notified about by email by specifying type, dimension or distance requirements.
We have provided two methods for adding your Beam Offerings to the searchable Inventory. The first is to add each Beam Offering separately. The second involves uploading an Excel file to add multiple Beam Offerings automatically using a layout of your choosing. These methods are briefly described below and described in more detail in the Show Help for this Page link above.
To add an individual Beam Offering, form below needs to be filled in and saved. Required fields are outlined in red. If the form is not visible, Click on "+ Add Your Beam to the Multi-Supplier Inventory" below.
To simplify this we can Pre-Process the information about your Beam and try to fill in some of the fields in the form. Copy the information describing your Beam Offering in the text box below and press "Pre-Process". Information that is recognized will be placed in the appropriate fields in the form below. Unrecognized information will be placed in Description. Review and make any necessary changes to the form before saving your Beam offering by pressing the "Insert Beam" button. Hopefully you will find this simplifies entering your Beam data into the form.
Copy the information describing your beam here or fill in the form below.
Add Your Beam to the Multi-Supplier Beam Inventory.
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Row No Delete Edit Type Dimensions Pieces Grade Description Price $/cwt Location Tag No.
You have no Beam in the Inventory. To add Beam click on "+ Add Your Beam to the Multi-Supplier Beam Inventory"
You need to periodically update your Beam offerings to ensure that your Beam being advertised is still available. If you haven't returned to this page to check on your beam for 30 days we will email you a reminder to update your beam or confirm your beam's continued availability. If no confirmation is received, we will remove your beam.
Some suppliers may find it easier and faster to automate the process of providing your Beam offerings. To add your Beam Offerings you upload an Excel file with information describing each Beam on a single row. The uploaded file is processed and automatically added to the Inventory. The Layout of the uploaded file needs to be defined so the site knows where the appropriate information can be found. Our goal if for you to provide a file with a layout that is easiest for you to prepare. We tailor the automation process to handle your layout. A walk-through describing the options for handling Multiple Beam Offerings is provided in Show Help for this Page above. To add, edit or remove your Beam Offerings when you upload subsequent files we remove the Beam from a previous file and replace it with the Beam in the current file.
When you upload your Beam here, only the Beam from your file will be displayed in the grid above so you can edit or delete individual items. A button will appear at the top right of the grid that will let you view and edit all your Beam on the site if other methods were used to add Beam to the Inventory.


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The Gloster Javelin was the UK’s first line of night and all-weather air defence both at home and in RAF Germany. In the 1950s, when it replaced the Meteor and Venom, this revolutionary bomber/interceptor became the focus of many great stories told here in terrific detail.
Here, author Steve Bond has interviewed a number of veterans, all with captivating tales of their time on the aircraft. Alongside their anecdotes is a detailed history of this unusual aircraft, accompanied by photography never seen before in print.
Javelin Boys is bound to appeal to all aviation fans.
The highly anticipated follow-up to Phantom Boys is here! Once again Richard Pike has brought together brilliant, hitherto unpublished, accounts across eighteen chapters.
With both British and American perspectives, Phantom Boys 2 is packed with exhilarating action.
Throughout the book Richard Pike captures the drama and emotion of life in the cockpit in vivid detail. With such engrossing stories, readers will be gripped by this captivating book.

industry_corpus2: Aerospace


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Your royal feeties need to stay toasty warm. How can you be expected to jump around the pumpkin patch with cold feet? That's right, you can't. You deserve the very best, and it doesn't get any better than a king wearing a king. These slippers feature the Pumpkin King with matching bat bow-tie, and he's ready to make sure you're ready for some serious comfort.
The Nightmare Before Christmas Jack Skellington Slippers feature the king of Halloween on open heel slippers. Dot grips line the bottom so you don't slip on graves or pumpkins. These slippers are only fit for royalty so we're leaving that no good Oogie Boogie out of this.

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text: Spain's renewables association, APPA, has demanded that the national energy board Comisión Nacional de Energia (CNE) "pronounce clearly" on its official stance towards wind power. The demand follows reports in leading newspapers on CNE complaints regarding the destabilising effect of wind power on the national grid and its "excessive cost" to both distributors and consumers. APPA's Manuel de Delás points out that all CNE's reported allegations come from an anonymous "spokesperson" and not any official CNE representative. This is the second time that APPA has come to wind's defence following similar reported CNE allegations (Windpower Monthly, July 2001). Spanish wind power is supported under two different subsidy systems, which wind plant owners choose between: a guaranteed fixed rate of EUR 0.0628/kWh; or a production incentive of EUR 0.0290/kWh paid on top of the general power pool price. The production incentive is the most popular since pool prices are relatively high. Both subsidies are paid by the electricity distribution companies and both are up for review at the end of the year. As a result, Spain's renewables sector is particularly sensitive to political game playing. For De Delás the arguments are clear. Spain's objective of producing 29.4% of electricity from renewable sources by 2010 is far from being realised. Wind power covers around 2% of current electricity demand while total electricity demand is growing at 6% a year. "How could such quantities possibly destabilise the grid?" asks De Delás of the contribution of wind power to the grid. Furthermore, last year's surcharge for green electricity was EUR 336.6 million according to APPA -- a negligible amount compared to the invisible costs in the bill for Spain's nuclear moratorium, coal subsidies, nuclear waste disposal or gas and oil pipelines.

industry_corpus2: Power & Energy


text: It’s called Style but it’s really Style with Style to spare. We adore the sleek silhouette, athletic seamline and contrasting details of this full zip, fully snuggable, warm, comfortable, movement-friendly hoodie. We think you will, too.


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Home» VideoScribe» Community» VideoScribe questions and answers» DESPERATE - TROUBLE RENDERING!
I've had huge problems rendering a scribe. It freezes at all the morphing points and I've had to take them out. I've finally got it to render as a ppt - it's taken an hour - and it's crashed on the very last bit!
We have identified, and are working on a fix for, a problem with rendering when you have a morph where the morph time is set to zero.
If it is crashing when you publish then we would suggest rendering to a mov file or a flv file as there are some issues with wmv rendering for some, but not many, users. Also, before you render I would suggest saving your scribe with a new name, closing and opening VideoScribe and then publishing to your hard drive.
It's crashing in most formats but I am trying to publish it to powerpoint. Are there any quick fixes i can try?
The Powerpoint Publish option uses wmv which is where we are seeing most of the problems.
What resolution are you trying to publish at? Is your scribe a large scribe with lots of imported images?
I'm not sure, I'm just giving it another try. it's taking a long time - currently 55 minutes remaining.
When the render gets to the end where it says that it has a few seconds to go and it appears to stop it is writing the file to disk so try leaving it for a while and see if it completes.
If that doesn't publish then please raise a support question http://help.videoscribe.co/support/tickets/new and then Save your scribe online and let us know the name in the support question and we can take a look.
Would you be able to assist with my video scribe? It is saved online. I have changed my "morph" options to "draw" or "move in" options but it is still not rendering. It will get the point of "Making PowerPoint pptx file" but then freeze. I waited 1 hour to see if just maaaybe it would work. Sadly, no luck.
-use MOV if you can, set to 720.
-just before you're ready to render save your work, restart your machine and then make rendering the first thing you do.


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London-April 03, 2012: World Squash Day takes place this year on Saturday October 20th in a global show of support for the sport’s efforts to win a place in the 2020 Olympic Games. Events will be taking place all over the globe with one firm message: Back The Bid.
In announcing the date, World Squash Federation Chief Executive Andrew Shelley said: “The players want it, and squash enthusiasts all over the world are desperate to see the sport included in the Olympic Games.
“So it is essential that we stage events like World Squash Day to galvanise that global support on one fantastic day of activities to promote the bid. This is a great way for players of all ages and abilities to support the Olympic bid and have a lot of fun in doing so.
World champion Nick Matthew, an Ambassador for the Squash2020 campaign, explained that the opportunity to win an Olympic gold medal would be the pinnacle of any squash player’s career.
Clubs and players from around the world should stand by for announcements of exciting participation events that will form the centre-piece to World Squash Day.

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With the cold shift in the weather, and the seasonal ranges appearing in shops it means Halloween is fast approaching! Nothing gets you in the scary mood better than the TV scheduling showing Halloween themed TV shows and horror films throughout October. Below is a selection of some of the Halloween specials you can catch to get you in the spirit!
Possibly the scariest gameshow ever made is back for a Halloween special on Tuesday 31st October. Featuring the cast of TOWIE who are kidnapped by the puppet from Saw and become trapped in a possessed church. Not for those with a nervous disposition or fear of puppets!
You can never beat a classic ‘Treehouse of Horrors’ episode and on Friday 27th, you can expect Ned Flanders as a serial killer whilst Homer is bitten by a venomous spider and Bart becomes an alien. Expect the weird and wonderful!
In the run up to Halloween, bakers battle it out to produce the scariest and creepiest cupcakes. With slime and insects themed food, these treats are downright scary (and gross!).
This Disney classic is a family favourite and back on ITV2 on 28th October. Eddie Murphy stars as a realtor who is summoned to a mansion in this comedy based off the Disneyland ride.
Season 2 arrives on Friday 27th October and sees the gang a year after the events of the previous season. Set around Halloween in 1984, we have many questions after last year’s ending. How is Will coping after surviving the upside down? Where is Eleven? Will they get her back?
Zombies are still alive and kicking as Season 8 of this gore fest premieres on 22nd October. Fan favourites Daryl Dixon, Rick Grimes and Michonne continue to survive (for how much longer?) in the 100th episode. You can expect more deaths, gore and war!
Hope you have a fang-tasic day filled with lots of tricks and treats!

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In celebration of 50 Goldilicious years and as a loving tribute to our founders, Mrs. Milagros Yee and Mrs. Clarita Go, we will be releasing the special, one-of-kind Goldilocks Bakebook.
The Goldilocks Bakebook is a collection of recipes of the most well-loved Goldilocks products, honed and perfected through the years. It is a lovingly crafted gift by Goldilocks for our most loyal ambassadors, our customers.
The Goldilocks Bakebook is not only a collection of our timeless recipes but is also a story of how Goldilocks achieved its success. It is also a compilation of special stories from customers about their own sweet moments shared with Goldilocks.
The Bakebook is also a unique way of giving back to the community since all proceeds from the sale of the book will be donated to the Goldilocks Foundation.
* Meat Filled Bun (page 8) – Salt should be measured at 1/2 Tbsp and not 1/2 Cup.
* Mocha and Vanilla Chiffon Cake Recipes (pages 76 and 78) – Add Egg yolks of 4 Large Eggs in the list of ingredients.
* Caramel Tart (page 196) – Condensed Milk should be measured at 2 Tbsp and Salt should be measured at a pinch.