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The Greek philosopher Pindar (ca. 522–443 BC) wrote in his Ode: Pythian 2, Line 72, "Learn and become who you are." [Perseus Digital Library Project. Ed. Gregory R. Crane. 01.13.2012. Tufts University. 01.13.2012 http://www.perseus.tufts.edu]. The passage was translated by Diane Svarlian.
Dr. Paul Tournier expanded on the ancient wisdom in his 1957 book, The Meaning of Persons: "It is not, then, a case of casting off the personage, but of bringing it into harmony with the person. It is a case of being in accord with oneself. Pindar put it magnificently: 'Become what you are.'"
What exactly, for example, is the personage of being a "patriot," or a member of a liberty group? How does that personage relate to who we really are as persons? Pindar and Dr. Tournier believed that we should become what we are. Those who are bigots, racists or threats to physical beings have become the same, use the language of the same and have nothing in common with true patriots. Those who are fighters for their beliefs, while respecting the persons and beliefs of all, have become patriots. We become what we are, use the language of what we are and form the habits of what we are. Much has been written lately about "fringe" followers of Ron Paul, whom I would call "village idiots." They speak no sense or reason, Aristotelian or otherwise. They speak the language of hate. Hate is not confined to fringe supporters of Paul. It is not confined to the red and blue boxes of the party-elitist Republicans and Democrats. Hate is hate no matter where it originates from, and it originates from many political and societal ratholes.
The following is my condensation of Dr. Paul Tournier's chapter four, entitled Utopia, from his The Meaning of Persons. This chapter of Dr. Tournier's 1957 book speaks directly to the needed harmony between how we act and who we are. –SB
[From: Tournier, Paul. The Meaning of Persons: Chapter 4: "Utopia." Tr. Edwin Hudson. 1957.]
Man remains a mystery to himself, and to attempt to elucidate that mystery by delving into one's mind is merely to increase its perplexing obscurity.
We are, then, pursuing a chimera in attempting to grasp the essence of our person, completely divested of all adornments and disguises with which life has clothed it.
Thus, the result of our quest is that the person, through having its successive envelopes peeled off one by one, vanishes in our hands. One can understand, then, Shri Ramakrishna's remark: "Think well, and you will see that there is nothing you can call 'I.' As you peel an onion, there is always another layer, but you never reach the kernel. So when you analyse the ego, it disappears completely."
It seems that we must resign ourselves to this indissoluble connection between the person and its personage—or rather, between the person and its personages. For we are not only one personage through our lives; we are innumerable personages. At each new encounter we show ourselves different; with one friend we are the serious thinker; with another, the wag; we change our demeanor to suit each new situation. We are even many personages at once.
There is in me the troubled and anxious man, full of doubts about himself and about everything else, who himself knows all the anxieties and all the failures that my patients come to confess to me. There is in me the steadfast believer, who has had solid experience of God's grace, and who witnesses to it with conviction. In me there is one who wishes to see himself and show himself, clearly, as he is; and there is one who wishes to parade even this honest desire. There is in me the doctor who believes passionately in his medicine, and eagerly runs to help his fellowmen; there is in me the egoist and skeptic, who would like to run away and hide in a solitary cabin.
The person, whatever it be, can only be manifested by expressing itself; and expression means a personage.
The whole of art, however personal it seems or tries to seem, is essentially communion, a bond between persons, a suprapersonal and interpersonal reality. Cartesians always affirm the primacy of reason, the language of which they hold to be universal. But the language of images, of poetry and art is universal also. There is no drama without convention, no photography even, without social convention. My dog does not recognize his photograph—to him it is only a blackened piece of paper.
So, if we tried to cast off all our social apparel, we should tend to become individuals and not persons. The notion of the person is bound up with the human community, a spiritual solidarity, a common patrimony, and therefore to a certain conventional form of expression which partakes of the nature of the personage. When we meet someone, we seek personal contact, but one of its conditions is a certain mutual intelligibility in our modes of expression which is of the order of the personage.
If I speak neither the language of reason nor that of poetry, I speak by my glance, my smile, my silence, my gestures, and the demeanor I adopt. Consider this, and you will see that there must always enter into these things some measure of convention, which varies with the country and the period.
It would seem that nudists—at any rate some of them—sincerely pursue the paradisiac and utopian dream of a complete divesting of the formal personage in the hope of creating a more genuine human community. To reveal oneself in all simplicity, just as one is, without even hiding what elementary modesty prompts one to conceal, is meant to be the symbol of a renunciation of all hypocrisy. Often our patients tell us of dreams in which they have seen themselves naked, and this always represents an inner longing to cast away their mask.
On this subject there is a passage in the Bible which is very much to the point. After the Fall, Adam and Eve provided themselves with a covering by sewing fig leaves together to make aprons (Gen. 3:7). But God himself soon came and perfected their rudimentary art, making them clothing of skins (Gen. 3:21). For he knew that thenceforth, in our human condition, and until the redemption of the world should be accomplished, we might no more be completely naked persons. Instead of taking man's clothing away from him, God provides him with a finer garment.
So, with its characteristic realism, the biblical revelation turns us from the utopian dream of a life exempt from all appearance and all protection. For the efforts we were vainly making to isolate our person completely from our personage it substitutes a quite different idea: that of accepting the clothing which God himself gives us, of choosing our personage—the personage God wills us to have.
The bohemian who affects to despise conventions is not on that account without a personage. He has simply chosen one which he considers to be more original, and takes as much pride in it as the dandy in his sartorial elegance.
I myself, as I write this book, take care to arrange the parts and chapters harmoniously, and feel dissatisfied if one of them gets too long and so threatens to throw the whole book out of balance. I feel it would be disrespectful to my readers. This is a concern of an architectural nature, which aptly expresses a genuine bent in my person. Thus every function in the world entails its own requirements and calls for the observance of certain forms, and to conform to them is not mere play-acting.
I had occasion recently to visit a big health resort in the Alps. It was the day after St. Catherine's Day. On that day a masked fancy-dress ball is held in each sanatorium. The medical superintendents told me that they never miss attending these functions, because there they can glean information about the persons of their patients which they miss in the routine of day-to-day life. Why does this woman disguise herself as a man or that one choose to dress up as the traditional witless country girl or the wicked fairy of the folktales? It is no mere accident!
And then, wearing masks, the patients behave differently from usual. They reveal facets of their person that are normally concealed. So, by a curious paradox, the costume and mask, instead of hiding their person, actually display it with greater truth.
We always tend to think of form and substance as opposites, and we would rather the substance of our work were appreciated than the form. But this differentiation is naïve and pretentious: the form is what is seen, and we always like to flatter ourselves (with regard to ourselves as well as to others) that what is not seen is more valuable than what is seen. 'The exterior is the signature of the interior,' wrote Jacob Boehme.
The same is true of the whole of life. The personage we put on is not as artificial as we think. It expresses our real person all the more faithfully because we are less on our guard with respect to it. When one of my patients is talking to me and trying most carefully to express his real self, his mechanical gestures and his unpremeditated attitudes also speak to me and furnish information about him which is quite as valuable as what he says.
The occupation I have chosen, the arrangement of my study, where I go for my holidays, the whole setting of my life, all the external appearance which makes up my personage, is inseparable from my person, because it is the expression of it.
Our personage molds our person. The external role we play transforms us constantly, exerting its influence even on the deepest and most intimate recesses of the person. Of course, the habit does not make the monk—the proverb is an indication of the subtlety of the problem—putting on a dress will not turn us into a saint. But neither is it without good reason that a priest wears a cassock, a judge his robe, or the soldier his uniform. . . . Napoleon knew what he was talking about when he wrote: "One becomes the man of one's uniform."
Propaganda comes to us from without, but it penetrates our deepest selves. The demeanor we adopt, every gesture we make, similarly play their part in fashioning us inwardly. . . . our physical, psychical, and even our spiritual life bear the imprint of our personage.
We turn our backs on the utopian dream of living nakedly, of shedding the personage from the person. We recognize that they are inseparable. But why is it, then, that we are obsessed with the idea of distinguishing and separating them? Whence comes the uneasy feeling which we all experience when we see ourselves and others acting a part?
One of my patients once said to me: "There is something in me which protests—when I am at the theater, for example, watching a magnificent production, I seem to hear a voice inside me telling me the whole thing is grotesque." She went on: "What irks me is the thought that it has been arranged in order to be magnificent." It is not the mask, the personage in itself, but its artificial and deceptive character, which gives us the uneasy feeling I was speaking of. It happens as soon as we perceive a discord between the person and the personage.
It is not, then, a case of casting off the personage, but of bringing it into harmony with the person. It is a case of being in accord with oneself. Pindar put it magnificently: "Become what you are." We must turn about and proceed in an entirely new direction. Instead of turning our backs on the outside world and concentrating on our own inner life, where the true nature of the person always eludes us, we must look outward, toward the world, toward our neighbor, toward God. We must boldly undertake the formation of a personage for ourselves, seeking to form it in accordance with our sincerest convictions, so that it will express and show forth the person that we are.
This will no longer be a cold intellectual analysis; it will be a movement of life, a daily fashioning, a becoming, a constant adjustment of our personage in order to render it more in conformity with our thought, feelings, and aspirations. It is an act of will, a conscious choice of an external appearance, of a line of conduct and behavior that will be as genuine as possible.
The sincerity of the natural scene is one of the most striking and admirable things about it. Nature is beautiful because it is what it is, without any kind of affectation. We shall always wear a garment; we cannot cast it off without tearing away something of ourselves with it. What we can do is to aim at harmony so that the garment does not belie the wearer.
. . . when the personage we show comes to the point of running counter to the quite unconscious motions of the mind, the uneasiness may take the form of obscure psychical symptoms such as anxiety, depression, obsessions, and inhibitions.
But in this world full concord between personage and person remains an utopian ideal. . . . The final reality of the person—always in motion, complex, mysterious, and incomprehensible—still eludes us. Here and there we may catch a gleam of light, a reflection of it, just at those humbling moments when we perceive that we are not what we thought we were.
This tension that always exists between the person and the personage is one of the conditions of our life, and we must accept it. It is part of the nature of man—indeed, it is what makes him a man. Every other creature in nature is simply itself, without this discord which is our constant lot. That is why we can study everything else in nature much more surely than we can study ourselves. With ourselves, all we have to go on is an occasional glimpse of some small part of the truth, and we must be content with that, knowing that we are truly known by him who alone knows us: "For now we see through a glass, darkly"; writes St. Paul, ". . . now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known"; (I Cor. 13:12).
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Albert Douglass, of Berrien County, GA served with the 26th Georgia Regiment after desertion from the Berrien Minute Men.
Albert Douglass and the 26th Georgia Regiment
Albert B. Douglass, son of Seaborn Douglass, came with his father and siblings from Hamilton County, FL to Lowndes County, GA sometime before 1838. About 1851 Albert Douglass, then a young man of 19, married Abigail Shaw, a daughter of Martin Shaw, Sr. In the Census of 1860 Albert and Abigail were enumerated in Berrien County, Georgia. Albert was 28 years old, Abigail was 35. Their daughter Francenia Douglass was enumerated as age 6. Also in the Douglass household was the seven-year-old boy William W. Turner.
The Douglass Family had a tradition of military service. Albert's father and brothers served in the Indian Wars 1836-1858. Albert and his four brothers all enlisted during the Civil War. Albert Douglass enlisted with the Berrien Minute Men, Company D (later Co. K), 29th Georgia Regiment. He soon went absent without leave and was listed as a Confederate deserter from the 29th Regiment while they were stationed in Savannah, GA. In actuality, he joined the 26th Georgia Regiment and went with them to Virginia in the summer of 1862. Also serving with the 26th Georgia Regiment were: David Stone, father of Arrilla Stone Cook of Berrien County, GA; James Brown, father of Creasy Brown Wood of Rays Mill, GA; John Jefferson Beagles served with the unit until May 1862; Andrew Jackson Liles, Adjutant of the Regiment, was a merchant and post master of Milltown, GA – his civil rights were restored by an act of Congress in 1868 and he later practiced law in Valdosta, GA; Benjamin P. Jones, who later opened a bank at Rays Mill, served with the 26th until the regiment departed for Virginia, at which time he hired a substitute to take his place. (Hiring a substitute for military duty was allowable under Confederate military practice; Soldiers in Savannah, GA advertised for substitutes in the newspapers.)
Confederate military records show Albert Douglass was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital, Richmond, Virginia, for dysentery, June 29, 1862 and returned to duty July 10, 1862. On August 14, he was admitted to Lovingston Hospital, Winchester, VA with a complaint of fever and convulsions. He returned to duty on August 27, 1862.
The following day, the 26th Georgia Regiment suffered horrific casualties at the opening of the Battle of Second Manassas (called the Second Battle of Bull Run by the Union army), when Confederate forces under the command of Stonewall Jackson met Union Brigadier General John Gibbon's Black Hat Brigade in the late afternoon and evening of August 28, 1862 near Groveton, VA. Earlier that same afternoon about ten miles to the west, the Berrien Light Infantry, Company I, 50th Georgia Regiment had engaged federal forces, driving them out of Thoroughfare Gap through the Bull Run mountains, and occupying the position at the gap.
According to a historic marker placed at Groveton, Confederate General Robert E. Lee had dispatched "Stonewall" Jackson to lure Major General John Pope's Union army away from the Rappahannock River. At the same time, Lincoln hoped drawing some of Lee's troops to northern Virginia to confront Pope would weaken Lee's position outside Richmond and help the Army of the Potomac."
On August 28, Jackson's force concealed itself northeast of here near Groveton atop a wooded ridge on and beyond John Brawner's farm to await the rest of Lee's army. Early in the evening, as Brigadier General Rufus King's division of Pope's army marched by in search of Jackson, he attacked, stopping the Federal movement with heavy casualties on both sides.
The 26th Georgia Regiment suffered 74 percent casualties that bloody summer evening in the Battle of Brawner's Farm. This engagement began the Second Battle of Manassas.
John Brawner's farm was located on the Warrenton Turnpike, on present day U.S. Highway 29 inside Manassas National Battlefield Park.
By the morning of August 28, Jackson had deployed his 25,000 men along Stony Ridge, behind the embankments of a railroad grade of the unfinished Manassas Gap Railroad north of the little village of Groveton, near the old First Bull Run battlefield. From there, Jackson could monitor Union activity along the Warrenton Turnpike, a strategic east-west thoroughfare, while awaiting Longstreet's arrival. Due to the concealment of Jackson's defensive position, Pope had completely lost track of the Rebels' movements after the destruction of Manassas Junction on August 27. Stonewall Jackson's 25,000 soldiers were, in effect, missing as far as the Army of Virginia was concerned.
On the evening of August 28, Gibbon's brigade of 1,800 Westerners sluggishly marched eastward toward the village of Centreville, where the majority of Pope's army was massing. The 2nd Wisconsin (the only regiment in the brigade that had previously seen combat, at First Bull Run), the 6th and 7th Wisconsin and the 19th Indiana were getting very close to having a chance to show their mettle in battle. – from Civil War Trust's Battle of Brawners Farm
The first exchange of fire began about 5:45 pm. The battle raged ferociously for two hours when General Stonewall Jackson ordered the 26th and 28th Georgia regiments to advance on the Union line.
In a letter to the editor of the Savannah Republican, a soldier of the 26th Georgia Regiment reported the Southern perspective on the battle:
Savannah Republican
September 22, 1862
The Twenty-sixth Georgia in the Battle of the 28th August
Editor Savannah Republican: – While the opportunity presents itself, I cannot refrain from writing you a few lines commemorative of the gallantry of the 26th Georgia regiment upon the bloody and well contested field of Manassas, on Thursday, the 28th of August, 1862.
Again has Georgia been illustrated by this bravery of her sons, and again is it her lot to clothe herself in the mourning garb, in memory of the gallant dead. As we marched past the graves of the lamented Bartow and of the members of the Oglethorpe Light Infantry, of Savannah, little did we think that so many of us through whose veins the warm blood was so freely flowing, would, before the dawn of day, like them, be lying in the cold embrace of death.
Just before dark, on the evening of the 28th, General A. R. Lawton's brigade, to which the 26th belongs, was drawn up in line of battle in a skirt of woods near the battle field, and at dark was ordered to support General Trimbull's brigade. The 26th entered the field under the command of Lieut. Col. E.S. Griffin, Major James S. Blain and Adjutant A. J. Liles. We marched steadily across an open field for four or five hundred yards, through which the balls were flying by thousands, without firing a single shot. Men were constantly falling from the ranks, but our brave Georgians wavered not; as a man fell, his place was immediately filled by another, and the regiment moved steadily to the front. Not a word was uttered except the necessary commands given by officers. As we neared the enemy, General Jackson road up behind the brigade and urged us by the memory of our noble State to one bold stroke, and the day would be ours; and gallantly did the brave men to whom he was speaking obey his orders. Volley after volley was poured into the ranks of the enemy with terrible effect; still they held their ground and our ranks kept getting thinner and thinner. During the heavy fire, Lieut. Col. Griffin, of the 26th was wounded and the command devolved upon Major J. S. Blain. After firing several rounds, Gen. Lawton gave orders for the brigade to fix bayonets and charge the enemy. At the command every man bounded over a fence which separated them from the enemy, and with the true Georgia yell rushed upon them. Then it was that the 26th suffered so terribly. Men fell from the ranks by dozens still they wavered not. The color Sergeant fell mortally wounded; but the colors had hardly touched the ground before they were raised by Lieut. Rogers of the color company, and again waved in the advance.- Then it was that a well directed volley from the brigade, at a distance of thirty yards, sent the enemy flying in confusion over the hills to the woods. The night being very dark no pursuit was attempted; we had accomplished our object and was content to hold the battle field.
It was a heart sickening sight to me as I gazed upon the regiment when formed after the battle.
The 26th Georgia entered the field with eighteen commissioned officers and one hundred and seventy-three non-commissioned officers and privates; and lost twelve commissioned officers and one hundred and twenty-five non-commissioned officers and privates.
I send you a list of the killed and wounded of the 26th Georgia regiment, which I hope you will publish, with the request that the Macon Telegraph and Augusta Constitutionalist copy.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient serv't,
One of the 26th.
The Northern troops had a different perspective on the fight, as described at the Civil War Trust website on the Battle of Brawners Farm:
Jackson personally ordered Lawton's Georgia brigade to move forward at 7:45 p.m., but once more only two regiments responded. Jackson led the Georgians toward their parlous undertaking. In the fading sunlight, the 26th and 28th Georgia advanced obliquely toward the 2nd Wisconsin. Their attack was short-lived.
As they advanced, the 7th Wisconsin and the 76th New York wheeled to the left and poured a lethal volley into the Rebels' flank. Colonel William W. Robinson of the 7th Wisconsin wrote, 'The evolution was executed with as much precision as they ever executed the movement on drill. This brought us within 30 yards of the enemy.'
One man in the 7th reported, 'Our fire perfectly annihilated the rebels.' While the Southerners received fire from their flank, the 2nd Wisconsin poured deadly volleys into the Georgians' front. 'No rebel of that column who escaped death will ever forget that volley. It seemed like one gun,' said one New Yorker.
The 26th Georgia suffered 74 percent casualties in its feckless assault (134 of 181 men). One Wisconsin officer noted: 'Our boys mowed down their ranks like grass; but they closed up and came steadily on. Our fire was so terrible and certain that after having the colors in front of us shot down twice they broke in confusion and left us in possession of the field. They left their colors upon the field.' – from Civil War Trust's Battle of Brawners Farm
After the decimation of the 26th Georgia Regiment, the battle raged on through sundown. The fighting subsided after 8:00pm and at 11:00 the federal troops withdrew toward Manassas Junction.
The Savannah Republican later ran a list of the casualties suffered by the 26th Georgia Regiment.
Savannah Republican, September 22, 1862
LIST OF THE KILLED AND WOUNDED OF THE 26th GA. REG'T IN THE BATTLE OF MANASSAS, AUGUST 28th, 1862.
Killed: None. Wounded: Lieut. Col. E.S. Griffin, neck and shoulder; Adjutant A.J. Liles, neck and shoulder; Serg't Major E.H. Crawley, arm and hip.
Killed: None. Wounded: Lt. N. Dixon, shoulder; Orderly Sergeant Urbanus Dart, fore-arm; Serg't John J. Spears, abdomen; Corp'l John Pacety, in right breast; Privates Patrick Burney, hand; Jas. Barrett, arm; Jas. G. W. Harris, thigh; George Holmes, both legs; Jos. McLemore, hand; Daniel Cronan, arm and shoulder; Jno. Niblo, abdomen; Thos. Cumming, heel; Felix F. McMermott, hand.
CO. B McINTOSH GUARDS, LIEUT. E. BLOUNT, COM'DG.
Killed: None. Wounded: Sergeant Wm. Flauk, right breast; Serg't Wm. B. White, arm; Private Jas. Danvergue, shoulder. Missing: Privates Geo. Rowe, Jas. Townson.
Killed: Color Sergeant Thos. J. Durham, Orderly Sergeant W. S. Hines; Privates John Alderman, Virgil A S Edwards, John P. Hunter, Mathew Smith, Eli C. Mitchell, Robert A Jackson. Wounded: Lieut. J. H. Hunter, abdomen; Privates John Southern, abdomen; Jas. H. Southern, both thighs and hip; John M. Burch, knee; Zach McLeod, hand; Clayton Herring, thigh; S. Brannan, head and eye.
Killed: Privates W. L. Davis, A. J. McClellan, C. B. Gray. Wounded: Corporal J. T. Cooper, hand; Privates Wesley Rowland, knee; Lewis Perdon, thigh; A. J. Herrin, head. Missing; Private David Kean.
Killed: Lt. Jas. Riggins; Privates J. B. Riggins, T. S. Trowell, Jos. E. Trowell. Wounded: Capt. John Lee, hand; Lt. E. L. Pearce, arm broken; Serg't J. A. Hogan, head; Corp'l. Wm. A. Thompson, leg; Privates Joseph E. Harper, knee; Wm. J. Morris, arm, knee, and body; E. A. Elliott, shoulder, breast, leg and hand; R. J. Joiner, arm; A. McSwain, shoulder; Mitchell Sweat, foot; W. J. Murray, hips and legs.
Killed: Capt. T. C. Lott, Corp'l Jefferson Goettee, Private Lewis Williams. Wounded: Lt. J. T. Patterson, head, arm and breast; Serg't R. Sweat, knee; Privates Daniel Patterson, leg; Henry Guess, Knee; Moses Coleman, thigh; A. Goettee, left breast and side; John Sellers, hip; R. B. Phillips, wound unknown.
Killed: Corp'l A. J. Milton, Wm. Waters. Private Jesse Robinson. Wounded: Capt. J. Arnett, side and arm; Sergt. McD. M. Boothe, arm. Privates E. Johnson, thigh; H. Robinson, hand; Wm. Smith, thigh; Benj. Roach, shoulder and breast; Clemons H. Carter, abdomen; David Stone; abdomen; D. Dougherty, head; Willis McPhearson, face; Eaton Taylor, arm; Peter Spikes, wounded and in the hands of the enemy.
Killed: Privates Jennings Johnson, Langdon Turnbull, Lafayette Dees, Willet Yarborough, Madison Walker, Irwin Moore. Wounded: Lieut. H. H. Smith, arm. Privates John H. Dasher, hip and abdomen; Richard Moore, leg broken; Wm. C. Wilkinson, through the shoulder and arm broken; S. Cunningham, hand; Lawrence Lawson, leg; Toby Hewett, heel; James Allen, body; George Carter, arm; Jesse More, head; Jesse Adams, ear; Martin Knight, shoulder; Gus. Strickland, hand; W. Hunt, arm.
Killed: Sergt. Benj. Radford, Corp'l John Hammock, Privates Micajah Paulk, Thomas Saunders. Wounded: Privates Wm. Lamb, arm and thigh; R. McConnell, knee; Benj. Vincent, hand; Patrick Nolan, leg; Wm. Crawford, hip; Noell Hills, lower part of abdomen; J. P. Rickerson, thigh and arm; H. A. Pruett, leg; H. H. Manning, shoulder.
Killed: Lieut. V. A. Hodges, Sergt. Mark C. Chauncey. Privates Joel Spikes, John Griffins, John Summerlin, Thomas M. Bennett.
Wounded: Sergt. L. T. Morgan, left breast; Corp'l Wm. Smith, left breast. Privates Benj. Smith, in the leg; Wm. B. Booth, thight; J. B. Mills, neck; C. H. Hall, thigh; Wm. S. Ginn, right breast; Thompson Harris, head; J. N. McQuaig, arm and abdomen; Wm. Agu, hand; Jesse G. Booth, hand; D. H. Smith, hip; John Sweat, foot.
The Battle of Brawner's Farm was the opening engagement of the Second Battle of Manassas, August 29-30.
During the battle, on August 29, 1862 both the 26th GA and the 50th GA regiments were in positions at Groveton, VA. A number of men serving with the 50th were from the Ray City area including Green Bullard, Fisher J. Gaskins, Lemuel Elam Gaskins, Joseph Gaskins, John Jasper Cook and John Martin Griner.
The 26th GA Regiment was present the following month with Lawton's Brigade at the Battle of Antietam, where they again suffered heavy casualties on September 17, 1862.
On October 19, 1862 Albert Douglass was admitted to 1st Division, General Hospital Camp Winder and transferred to Hod Hospital on December 23, 1862. He was back on the morning report of Winder Hospital on December 24, and then transferred to Ridge Hospital. While he was in the hospital in December 1862, the 26th Georgia Regiment participated in the Battle of Fredericksburg.
Sick or not, Douglass was lucky to be out of the cold. James S. Blain, Captain of Douglass' company in the 26th Georgia Regiment, wrote on December 4, 1862 in a letter to the editor of the Savannah Republican:
Dear Sir:- We are frequently surprised by receiving letters from home congratulating us upon being so well prepared for a winter campaign in Virginia. This is probably true with regard to most of the Georgia troops in Virginia, but in reference to Lawton's Brigade, it is very far from the truth. This error has probably been promulgated through the papers by letters from members of other Brigades…
Lawton's Brigade is composed of the 13th, 26th, 31st, 38th, 60th, and 61st Georgia Regiments, and I venture to assert that a more gallant set of men were never embodied under one command. .. At the last report from our Brigade we had seven hundred and five (705) men without shoes, and there are numbers without a single blanket to shelter them from the cold. This is no fiction, but a simple statement of the truth. Georgians! think of this, think of such a number of these men, who have aided in making the name of Georgia illustrious, marching twenty and twenty-five miles per day, with nothing to shelter their feet from contact with the snow, frost and rocks, and without a blanket to shelter them from the chilling blast at night, and this, too, without a murmur at their hard fate…
Very respectfully,
Your obediant servant,
James S. Blain
Capt. Co. A, 26th Georgia Reg't
In May, 1863 the 26th Georgia Regiment was at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
Albert Douglass was admitted to Receiving and Wayside Hospital (General Hospital No. 9) on June 4, 1863 and the following day he was discharged from the Confederate States Army.
Douglas later served with the Florida Militia and the Union Navy.
Related Posts:
- Reward Offered for Confederate Deserters
- Indian War Service of the Douglass Family
- Albert Douglass: Soldier Grey and Sailor Blue
- Berrien Minute Men at Brunswick ~ July, 1861
- Berrien Minute Men on Sapelo Island: Part 1
- Campfires of the Berrien Minute Men
- 29th Georgia Regiment Soldier Killed by Fellow Soldier

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ITHACA, NY — According to a 2007 Business-Higher Education Forum report, there will be a shortfall of more than 280,000 math and science teachers nationwide by 2015. This negative impact on the ability of American students to think critically in science, technology, engineering and math will be felt most in high-needs school districts. To answer this challenge, five faculty members from the physics, math and education departments at Ithaca College have obtained a five-year, $1.2 million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation to support the Ithaca College Robert Noyce Scholarship Program, which will prepare 18 undergraduates for careers teaching physics and math in high-need school districts in central New York, New York City and Washington, D.C.
"This program will help address the critical shortage of science and math educators by creating a group of teachers who can take leadership roles and inspire future generations of teachers," said Michael "Bodhi" Rogers, associate professor of physics and principal investigator. "The focus on integrating research and education, coupled with strong mentoring, will build the infrastructure to support long-term efforts in sending more teachers to teach grades 7 to 10 in high-need schools.
Undergraduates will be recruited for the program from the time they are admitted to Ithaca College through their junior years. Selection will be based on academic achievement, leadership qualities and commitment to teaching. In addition to courses that link the content of their math and physics instruction to the K–12 curriculum, potential Noyes scholars will also take part in paid summer internships and field experiences at six central New York school districts to determine their interest and comfort in a classroom setting.
Selected during their junior years, successful candidates will
attend a summer workshop that will provide opportunities to discuss
instructional strategies and classroom management techniques with
their fellow scholars and faculty mentors. Noyes scholars will also
attend professional conferences and engage in educational research
that will give them a strong foundation in current teaching
practices. The scholars will receive tuition stipends during their
senior years as well as a stipend for the college's 13-month
Master of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.) program, which will lead to
their initial teaching certification. Faculty mentoring will
continue through the first four years of the scholars'
teaching careers, a time period when many teachers change career
"In order to teach effectively in a high-need school, prospective teachers need to have a deep knowledge of their discipline, a strong understanding of how to best use that knowledge in the classroom and expertise working with a diverse student body," Rogers said. "The Noyce Scholarship program at Ithaca College will provide students with experience to develop these much needed skills."
The coprincipal investigators of the grant are faculty members David Brown and Aaron Weinberg (Department of Mathematics); Linda Hanrahan (Department of Education); and Matthew Price (Department of Physics). All departments are located in the Ithaca College School of Humanities and Sciences.
For more information, contact Michael "Bodhi" Rogers at (607) 274-3963 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Every graying movie franchise needs a great sequel to give it a boost. Think Star Trek and James Bond. Operating systems are no different--especially Microsoft's. After receiving a critical beatdown for Windows 8, what does the company have up its sleeve for Windows 9?
It's too early to call Windows 8 either a success or a failure, but it's never too soon to ask what's next, particularly in connection with a rumored mid-2013 update dubbed "Windows Blue." Microsoft will have to pull off a tricky balancing act with its next version of Windows: It must satisfy its existing base of users while transitioning from the old desktop paradigm to the new touch-first interface. As matters stands, there's definitely room for improvement.
Microsoft declined to answer questions about how it might build on Windows in the future. So we've done some brainstorming--with the help of a few trusty experts--to imagine potential ways forward.
Kill the desktop
With Windows 8, Microsoft demoted the desktop user interface. Instead of being the main attraction when you turn on your PC, it's just one app among many on the new "modern-style" Start screen. The fact that Windows 8 is essentially two operating systems in one has given impetus to some interesting hybrid devices such as Surface Pro, but it has also drawn jeers from critics who find the desktop-versus-Start screen dichotomy jarring and confusing.
Tom Hobbs, creative director for Seattle-based design consultancy Teague, argues that retaining the desktop in Windows 9 would be a mistake. "I think one of the things they should do is just ditch the whole desktop completely," Hobbs says. In that case, only the touch-friendly side of Windows, with its walled garden of apps, would remain.
But wouldn't users--especially those in enterprise environments--stage a revolt? Perhaps, but committing to touch also creates a clear path forward for users and developers, Hobbs says. It's not unlike Apple's transition from Mac OS 9 to OS X, an operating system that was incompatible with legacy software in the absence of an emulation layer.
"Of course, there's going to be some resistance to that," Hobbs said. "There's going to be some slow uptake, but at the same time, it means that people know where they are. They know where they stand."
The key for Microsoft, Hobbs thinks, is to capitalize on its strengths. That means abandoning the fight to make Windows a consumption product--leaving that field to the Xbox team and to devices like the rumored Xbox Surface--and instead positioning Windows as the best touchscreen OS for business. In this scenario, a Modern-style version of Office for Windows 9 would be a must, of course, but Hobbs can also imagine Microsoft reinventing desktop PC hardware with a focus on touch.
Hobbs came up short on suggestions for what this reimagined desktop would look like, but here's one idea: Think of a Surface all-in-one PC that you could manipulate from afar with a Kinect-like system. It's not so farfetched.
We're already seeing glimpses of this type of functionality. A firm called Leap Motion is releasing a $70 motion sensor peripheral that's about the size of a pack of gum and can be added to Windows 8 PCs. Leap Motion technology lets you track movements of both your hands (and all ten of your fingers) at 290 frames per second and detect movements as slight as 0.01 millimeter (see the video above). Asus says that it will bundle Leap's hand-gesture technology into a number of high-end laptops in 2013.
Other ways to move beyond the mouse and keyboard in Windows 9 are possible, but success will depend on tight integration of hardware and software. Incidentally, such integration is the kind of thing that Steve Ballmer says Microsoft wants to do.
Keep the desktop for diehards
Let's be honest, though: Killing the desktop in Windows 9 would be an extreme step--and a highly unlikely one. But Microsoft could certainly arrange for a cleaner future transition. The desktop would live on, but in a way that didn't seem so jarring next to the new Modern-style interface.
Raluca Budiu, a senior researcher for user experience research firm Nielsen Norman Group, has an idea about how this might work. Instead of providing a full-blown desktop environment, Microsoft could offer some type of compatibility mode for desktop apps within the Modern-style interface. You would still be able to run the full version of, say, Adobe Photoshop in a self-contained area, with its own windowing system. Meanwhile, another program, such as iTunes, would be confined to its own area. You would lose the ability to run multiple programs side-by-side on a single screen, but none of the other desktop baggage would apply. You'd have no separate Control Panel, no dueling versions of Internet Explorer, no separate file browser, and no taskbar--all features of Windows 8 today.
"Just let PC apps start automatically in this desktop mode...but don't force people to have to manage their computer by interacting with the two different interfaces," Budiu wrote in an email exchange. In Budiu's description, the Modern-style interface would take over.
Budiu's suggestion makes sense for straight-up Windows 9 tablets, where the main goal is media consumption. But on a traditional PC, a full desktop environment still makes sense, especially for power users who need to juggle lots of windows. And on a hybrid device such as Surface Pro, users might want both interfaces in a single device.
So Budiu posits an alternative approach, which amounts to what PC veterans have been requesting all along: Untangle the two interfaces. Don't send users into the Modern-style interface when they're working on the desktop. Bring back a pop-up Start menu designed strictly to handle desktop functions and shortcuts. Prevent Modern-style elements such as the recent apps list and the charms bar from popping up along the sides of the screen, where they hinder window management.
"I think that if we really wanted to offer user the flexibility of both PC and tablet in a single device, a stronger separation of the two modes would help," Budiu wrote.
So what's the better method? Should Windows 9 do more to separate the desktop and Modern interfaces, or should it further deemphasize the desktop until that interface is no longer needed?
How about doing one and then the other? Untangling the two interfaces could be a minor tweak, so if Microsoft plans to launch a Windows Blue OS this year, improving the Modern-desktop dichotomy might be a great short-term fix. Later, when Microsoft has all of the necessary software and hardware in place to support touchscreen-based computing, it can make a clean break.
Update Modern UI charms
Even if Microsoft does go all-in with the Modern-style interface in Windows 9, the company still has work to do. As Nielsen Norman Group pointed out in a recent usability study, Windows 8 relies heavily on hidden commands, such as the menu bar that you call up by right-clicking or by swiping up from the bottom bezel. Since users don't know what's in those menus until they bring them up--assuming that they know to look for them at all--the design wastes time and breeds confusion.
Budiu suggests that Windows 9 could provide visual cues to show what options are hidden in a particular menu bar. Modern-style apps already have plenty of white space at the bottom of the screen, so there's room to hint (at least) at the contents of the menu bar, using text or partial icons, perhaps.
Another approach would be for Windows 9 to expose the relevant menu controls when a user opens the app, and then slide them out of view after a few seconds--a behavior that iOS apps have widely adopted. "That signals to users that there is something hidden, and it also gives them an idea of what that may be," Budiu says.
Microsoft might also rethink the charms bar. Currently, app settings are too difficult to access. You must open the charms bar, click settings, and then look for the appropriate settings menu selection in the sidebar--and you don't know what you'll find there until you look. Moving app-specific settings down to the menu bar would help point users in the right direction, especially if this change were combined with the visual cues that Budiu suggests.
Put apps at center stage
There's a problem with all this talk of slaying the Windows 9 desktop and committing 100 percent to the Modern-style interface: Third-party app developers haven't exactly flocked to Windows 8, and there's no guarantee that the death of the desktop would change their minds.
Microsoft can do only so much to spur app development; but according to Michael Cherry, lead analyst at Directions on Microsoft, the company hasn't done enough.
The biggest problem is that Microsoft hasn't led by example with great Modern-style apps of its own. Cherry noted that Office served as a role model for desktop application developers, illustrating the usefulness of concepts such as the icon bar and the ribbon interface.
No similar inspiration exists in Microsoft's Modern-style apps--some of which lack basic functionality when matched against their desktop counterparts. The Mail app, for instance, doesn't support POP email accounts. The Reader app doesn't support PDF editing, and Calendar doesn't support event invitations or task management. Even the ballyhooed Skype for Windows 8 lacks some features that the desktop version offers, such as screen sharing, file transfer, and group video calling. And of course, Microsoft hasn't yet released a Modern-style version of Office, choosing instead to try to shoehorn some touch-friendly features into Office 2013.
"I have to conclude that developing apps for Windows 8 is hard," Cherry said, "and the reason I get to that conclusion is...can you name one app from Microsoft that's good, or full-featured? So if they can't do it, how does an independent developer stand a chance of doing it well?"
Windows 9 will also have to combine the Windows Phone and Windows ecosystems. Doing so would mean less work for developers (though porting from one platform to the other is fairly easy, says Microsoft), and it would signal to consumers that Microsoft was offering a greater ecosystem worth investing in.
If I knew that I could play a Windows Phone game on a Windows PC and even on an Xbox 360 at no extra charge, I would be a lot more likely to buy the game. Apple and Google combined their phone and tablet platforms from the start. While Microsoft has done a lot to unify its phone and PC software with features such as SkyDrive integration and Xbox Music, those efforts only touch the surface of what is possible.
Postscript: The ugly truth for PC veterans
Much of our discussion of Windows 9 has accepted the twin premises of marginalizing the desktop and pushing the new Modern interface. We're just being realistic. Microsoft clearly sees its future in the new interface, where it has greater control over the apps and Web services that people use. Though longtime PC users might find comfort in imagining a future where desktops get their own version of Windows, untainted by the Modern-style interface, in real life that ship has most likely sailed.
For Windows 9, Microsoft must leave the legacy Windows desktop behind once and for all, while at the same time converting the Windows masses to seeing the necessity of this step the company's way. To accomplish this, Windows 9 must make the new interface beneficial for as many users as possible, while minimizing the damage from ditched desktops.
Regardless of how the particulars play out, that's the future of Windows. We hope that, in Microsoft's OS franchise, the sequel to Windows 8 will be more like the awesome The Dark Knight and less like the stinker Batman & Robin.


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Dear Mother and Father:
I wonder if you are having as much summer weather in Chicago as we are here. We haven't wanted any fire for a long time and overcoats have been put out of sight. If it were not for the wind which keeps the air full of dust nearly all the time the weather here would be ideal. The dust is very bad and it settles all over everything so that we can't keep ourselves or our bed clothes clean.
The St. Georges Herald came today. There doesn't seem to be a very great deal going on in the various lodges. I see the honor roll is growing with each new issue. The war will take away most of the younger men from the lodges and as time goes on the social affairs will be dropped. Music work in the colleges has fallen off a lot. Most of the boys are gone from school and the female attendance has dropped off, too. Next year will be still worse.
Our company is coming along in good shape. The men are improving right along and we have quite a reputation around the camp for being a first class organization. Evacuation Hospital No. One which left here last December is in active service now. Their commanding officer wrote quite an article on the work they are doing and it was printed in the Tribune last week.
According to the latest word we will be leaving in a few days. We are busy getting our things packed up as we are to be ready to go by Sunday. We may not have to go that soon but we are to be ready but it is very likely that we will go the early part of next week. It is probably that we will go to Hoboken [New Jersey] and I don't know how long a time we will be there. The men don't stay there any definite length of time because if they did that it would be easy for a U-boat to figure out when a ship would be leaving. This is not a bad time of year to go across and by the time we get located on the other side it will be good weather over there, too.
The men are glad at the prospect of going. Some of them, though, are not so anxious to go. We are fixed so nicely that those at home don't need to worry about us. We won't have near the hardship that many of the soldiers have and our work is a lot more pleasant and safe than many others. I have hopes that things will come out all right soon and we will get back to our old haunts again.
I had a letter from Gladys today. She thinks I have been gone for some time. It looks as though she had not gotten my last letter. I had a letter from Mrs. Davis also. It doesn't look to me as though things were coming out very well for her. She is in Denver working now. I don't know what it is all about but something seems to be wrong. Her husband doesn't seem to be doing anything right now. He wants to go to France doing YMCA work but that hasn't been decided yet.
When I get some more news I will write you again. I haven't got Aunt Louise's address so that if I got a chance to see her I wouldn't know how to address her.
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Former CRAFT writer and Eyebeam alum Diana Eng is currently teaching a weekly youth workshop series about wearable technology at The MOMA.
Can clothing that pleases the eye also please the ears? Can circuitry and sound push art and fashion further into the future? Participants in this workshop will produce wearable work that uses a little electricity to generate a lot of excitement!
The workshops meet Tuesday evenings through April 24th.
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I saw a poem today at islamgreatreligion that glorifys the condition of the traditional Muslimah. As the rabid pro-female person that I am, I had to do my own version of what it means to be Muslimah.
The Slavery of a Muslimah Soul
Is Reflected Through Her Eyes
Eyes flowing with Tears unshed,
Growing resignation dimming the passion of her eyes.
Her "beauty" reduced to acts of servitude that degrade,
Overflowing with the need to comfort
The ones that deny her humanity.
She is like a blazing fire
Smothered beneath an ocean of inhumanity.
Her trust is to another's strength,
Her slavery made glamorous;
Her ownership is preserved.
Taught to Fear Allah
She lives her life, each day a rape of her soul.
Self worth for her comes from outside,
Her beauty a reflection of her service
With patience and kindness toward
Those who will tolerate nothing less from her.
As she gives each drop of love that remains in her soul,
Look into her eyes and see the tears unshed,
She owes you less than she is owed
She owes you less than she is owed
For her soul is stronger than yours;
Her true beauty will only be seen
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I see a new rear wing. And maybe they changed something to the front bodywork?
Why? Because there are no stickers on it
Spyker Squadron completes line-up with Jarek Janis
After last week's confirmation of Tom Coronel as a Spyker factory driver, Spyker Squadron today reveals Tom's team mate for the upcoming race season: Czech talent and former Spyker Squadron pilot Jarek Janis will share the Spyker C8 Laviolette GT2R with Tom in the Le Mans Series and in the most grueling endurance race of all; the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Although both have raced the Spyker GT2 race cars before they have never shared a car in the past.
Jarek Janis: "I am really pleased to be back with the team. After the accident at Spa Franchorchamps in 2007 my first priority was to fully recover and get fit to be able race again. Fortunately Peter van Erp gave me a chance to test with the team last week at Vallelunga, Italy, and everything went really well. We successfully completed over 200 laps in two days and the car felt great. Both the aerodynamics and the engine have been improved a lot compared to the Spyker C8 that I raced in 2007".
He continues: "I am looking forward to race next season, we have a good chance to be a front runner, and I am pleased to share the car with Tom Coronel, he truly is great person to work with and brings a lot of experience to the team. I would like to thank team manager Peter van Erp for giving me the opportunity to race and Victor Muller and Antonin Charouz for making it possible for me to compete with a Spyker at Le Mans".
Tom Coronel: "Last week it was the first time I met with Jarek. He is a great guy to work with and although he is young, he is very bright and, most important, quick. If you look at his resume it is easy to understand why Spyker Squadron has chosen for Jarek".
Antonin Charouz, manager of Jarek Janis: "I am very glad that we succeeded to close a deal with Spyker Squadron and that Jarek became official factory driver of Spyker. Thanks to that, Jarek returns to a team where they know each other well. He also returns to world class sports cars racing competing in both the Le Mans Series and the 24 Hours of Le Mans".
Peter van Erp, managing director Spyker Squadron: "I am exited to have Jarek back in our team. We have worked with Jarek and his manager Antonin Charouz since 2007 and it has always been a pleasure to work with them. We first talked with Jarek before Christmas and decided to invite Jarek for our two day Vallelunga test last week. After a thorough evaluation the team decided to contract him for 2009. We have high expectations that both Tom and Jarek will perform well".
In the next weeks the team will reveal further details of their 2009 plans.
Source: Nieuwsdetail | Spykercars
Excellent news!!!
Winning on sunday, selling on monday!
Le Mans 24 hours: One Spyker in, one on the reserve list
Winning on sunday, selling on monday!
Don't think the chance is very big that the second Spyker will be on the grid at Le Mans...
When you look at the entry list you see that the Spyker engine is 3.8 liters. Last season they started with a 3.8 and changed it to a 4.0 liter engine.
Do you think they switched back? Or is it a small mistake? Maybe we will hear more in Geneva?
Bleekemolen joins Spyker Squadron at Le Mans
By Marcel ten Caat ⋅ February 28, 2009
Snoras Spyker Squadron has completed its line-up for the Le Mans 24 Hours after signing Dutchman Jeroen Bleekemolen. Bleekemolen will join Tom Coronel and Jarek Janis in the Spyker C8 Laviolette GT2R at the Circuit de la Sarthe next June.
The Spyker team has been able to assemble a highly experienced line-up for its Le Mans attempt in the LM GT2 class. Earlier on the Dutch team already confirmed Tom Coronel and Jarek Janis for the Le Mans 24 Hours as well as the full Le Mans Series.
Like his two team mates Jeroen Bleekemolen has got a lot of experience in sportscar and GT racing and is also very familiar with the team from Zeewolde, The Netherlands. Bleekemolen already raced for Spyker in the Le Mans Series and at Le Mans back in 2006 and has since then raced for Racing for Holland and Van Merksteijn Motorsport. Last year Bleekemolen won the LMP2 class at Le Mans.
Source: Planetlemans.com | Bleekemolen joins Spyker Squadron at Le Mans
Quotes from the official press release have been added to the article.
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Wow, that's a cracking line-up!
Winning on sunday, selling on monday!
Victor Muller and Vladimir Antonov talked with Honda F1
Hello guys,
Read this article in Dutch from today in de Telegraaf.
What must we think about this.
Redding nabij voor Honda - Telegraaf.nl - De website van wakker Nederland [Autosport]
Short translation:
"One of the parties who owned Honda Formula 1 and the current management have negotiated Muller, CEO of Spyker Cars NV listed in Zeewolde. There is no doubt that Vladimir Antonov as his major stockholder is involved. This Russian millionaire, the Lithuanian bank owned Snoras, which name comes back on the Le Mans GT cars from Spyker."
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CAIRO -- Sectarian domination was not what Egyptian protesters and self-described revolutionaries had in mind when they drove President Hosni Mubarak from office during Egypt's Arab Spring in 2011. But to underestimate religious sectarianism in the Middle East is to misunderstand one of its core realities.
After forcing out Mubarak and electing Mohamed Morsi last June, revolutionaries are back on the streets, this time with cries of "Leave, leave, Morsi."
As I walked toward the presidential palace in Cairo after Friday prayers, now the centre of protest, I passed families, with children in tow, seemingly not wanting to miss the historic showdown between the power of the mob and police. Soon the festival-like atmosphere turned into Molotov tossing, police in riot gear lobbing tear gas, and in the end, a man shot in the head by the police.
Many factors have converged to create this ongoing backlash. The economy is in tatters: 25 percent of Egyptians live on $1 a day, while another 25 percent make $2 a day. There are 45 million Egyptians under 30, and 90 percent of them are unemployed, providing an ideal breeding ground for unrest and protest. European powers are reluctant to provide financial aid until the social unrest abates.
And yet, looming in the background of every public debate, is religion. The U.S. recently, and European powers historically, have to their discredit blinded their eyes to the fundamental nature of the Middle East. The pressure between the Islamic majority and Christian minorities is reaching a boiling point.
The Coptic Orthodox were in Egypt long before Islam arrived. Once one of the central branches of Christianity, today, the Coptic Church, along with evangelical Protestants, constitutes 15 percent of Egypt's population. Yet, it has been this group, especially the Coptic Orthodox, that have felt the heavy hand of Mubarak's police (or their absence) when attacked by extremists. People have been fired or denied educations, or even harassed and killed, on the basis of their Christian faith, which they are required to declare on official government documents.
Christians and Muslim moderates had high hopes after Mubarak was ousted. They hoped for a modern, progressive Egypt. It hasn't happened. Morsi stacked the committee to write the constitution with Muslim Brotherhood members and Salafists (fundamentalists) and rushed the draft to a referendum. Christians and moderates were dismayed to see the lack of meaningful protections of religious freedom. But the constitution passed.
I asked Dr. Sameh Maurice, minister of Al-Dubara Church next to Tahrir Square, where the revolution might lead and what Christians expected from the future. During the revolution he had opened his church as field hospital and centre for dialogue between moderate Muslims and Christians. He is a primary spokesman for Egypt's Christian community.
He offered two possible scenarios. The first, of course, is that moderate forces win out and that Egypt's religious minorities are allowed to live in peace. But the other seems more likely. "Many Christians in the rural area today are being persecuted," Dr. Maurice told me. "Homes and fields and shops are being taken. In cities it is not that bad. But outside them, Islamists take by violence and guns and the government does not protect Christians. If the Islamists take over fully, we expect persecution to move into the cities. The economy will collapse, people will starve."
"If that comes, the church will go underground and be oppressed. If the [moderates prevail], we will bring truth and love to the people of Egypt. But we are working to prepare ourselves for either scenario."
Indeed. The Arab Spring has become a Christian Winter. Egypt faces an exodus of its Christian population similar to other Middle Eastern states in the grips of Islamist governments. This will be tragic for Egypt. Not only do Christians control almost a third of business, they are well educated, trained as professionals. They contribute greatly to Egypt's economic and social well-being.
It will be a tragedy if Egypt's Christians are forced to flee after 1,300 years of largely successful co-existence with their Muslim neighbours. And it will be a tragedy felt even by those who would drive them from their homes.


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Acclaimed director Rick Altizer (Chonda Pierce: Laughing in the Dark) traces Taff's iconic four-decade career, and for the very first time, uncovers the secret life Russ was leading at the top of his career as he tried to overcome his traumatic childhood that included addiction and abuse.
Unable to overcome his shame for many years, Taff turned to alcohol, distancing his family, threatening his career and jeopardizing his life. In Russ Taff: I Still Believe the award-winning Gospel singer candidly reveals how a tumultuous past fueled his own addiction and the ultimate healing he embraced in the power of Christ's love and forgiveness. I Still Believe also shines an important spotlight on Taff's wife of 42 years, Tori. Her tough love, fervent prayers and unfailing devotion helped her husband find freedom from his past and let Jesus heal and inspire Russ to a fuller life and deeper relationship with Him.
The film includes appearances from such legendary artists and entertainers as Amy Grant, Mercy Me's Bart Millard, Michael W. Smith, Newsboys' Michael Tait, Bill Gaither, and comedians Mark Lowry and Chonda Pierce.
Rated PG. Closed-captioned. Approx. 120 minutes.
More Product Information
- Publisher: Gaither Music Group
- Release Date: March 29, 2019
- Language: English
- Binding: DVD
- Height: 0.50 inches
- Width: 5.30 inches
- Length: 7.50 inches
- Weight: 0.15 pounds


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When Lupita Nyong'o accepted the award for outstanding supporting actress for her role as Patsey in "12 Years a Slave," no one was happier for the actress than Ron Van Lieu, chairman of the Yale School of Drama acting program from which Lupita Nyong'o graduated in 2012.
"I think it's unprecedented that somebody who graduated as recently as she did, which [was] about a year and a half ago… would in her first movie win an Oscar for that role," said Van Lieu.
Van Lieu called Nyong'o extremely talented and said she has always paired her talent with a great attitude, grace, intelligence and charm, which made her an exceptional candidate for Yale's School of Drama.
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"It was clear when she auditioned that she was both extraordinarily gifted and very modest," he said.
Nyong'o now serves as an inspiration for aspiring actors at the school.
"We watched it live, and we were really excited about the win," said first-year drama student Shaunette Renee Wilson.
"When her name was called, it was just mayhem, and then there was a lull, and when she said YSD everyone just exploded," said Jonathan Majors, another first-year drama student.
Nyong'o was not the only Yale graduate to take home an Oscar last night. Robert Lopez, who graduated in 1997, won for his original song "Let It Go" from Frozen. The song has now won Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards.
"I think it was such an affirmation of what it is to be in the arts in America, to be a young artist in America," said Majors.


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Cons have this cute little conversation-stopper they use when liberals and progressives are demanding improvements to America. "Love it or leave it!" they crow.
As if wanting to improve something means you don't love it.
As if love means never questioning your country.
"Love it or leave it."
All right.
What if we did?
What if we decided that, yes, the fact that America isn't perfect means we shouldn't live here anymore? What if every single liberal packed up and moved to a country with a saner political system tomorrow? What if we left America to the cons who "love" her?
I hope the cons didn't love America for her blue skies and clean water. We progressives were the ones who ensured that those things were protected. The Republicons, with their big bidness buddies, will take all of the brakes off of pollution – Beijing's air will start to look downright breathable compared to what will be left here. And it's very hard to drink the water when it's so polluted you can set it on fire, FYI.
I hope the cons didn't love America for her abundant wildlife, her hunting and fishing, her wilderness. Because the Republicons, with their big bidness buddies, want to fill that wilderness with coal mines and oil wells and leave nothing but toxic waste behind. They'll be happy to blast mountains apart and chop down every tree. Last I checked, the salmon and trout and deer and bears don't rent apartments in city centers. And the cons will learn soon enough that the caribou love of oil pipelines is nothing more than a myth. They'll find out just how much the progressives protected for their shooting pleasure.
I hope the cons didn't love America for her opportunity. For every self-made man who becomes a multi-millionaire, there will be thousands toiling at thankless jobs, without the education or the assistance to have a shot at pulling themselves toward the upper middle. And those thankless jobs won't include a minimum wage, so you'd best hope the corporate overlords will somehow find a heart and pay you enough to survive on. Don't count on it, though – all of those whose compassion trumps their greed will have left. (That's assuming all of the jobs haven't been shipped overseas, mind you.)
I hope the cons didn't love their Social Security, their health insurance, or any other program that the Republicons want to privatize. The progressives have tried to ensure that the government programs that keep us from starving or dying of preventable disease aren't eviscerated. We won't be here to save them.
I hope the cons didn't love America for her innovation. The Republicons have never been fond of either funding or teaching science. The progressives have ensured that science education maintains some reasonable standards, and that science has money to innovate. Without us here, creationism will rule the schools, science funding will dry up, and Americans won't be able to compete globally against people who have the education and the science to invent.
I hope the cons didn't love America for her Constitution, or her freedoms, or her democracy. Without the progressives to protect those things, they won't survive as anything more than a memory.
I hope the cons didn't love America for her preeminent place in the world. After a few years of unfettered Republicon rule, America will be nothing more than a has-been bully. And she does not have the military might to bomb every nation into submission.
If everyone who loves America enough to want to make her the best she can be leaves tomorrow, there soon won't be much left of her for the cons to love. Where would your "love it or leave it" rhetoric be then?
You'd better be godsdamned grateful we love America enough to stay.


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