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My friendship with these great people has been an incredible blessing for me; in fact, I don't believe any Christian ever was so blessed by such friendship with non-Christians as I am. We had and still have a common enemy—the socialist state and its wicked ideology, and we fought as allies who knew their differences but had the self-control to focus on what is important. Their hearts and their homes were always open for me, and they let me share my faith in Christ freely without a word of reproach. They trusted me, they supported me, they taught me, they were patient with me, and they sacrificed with me for the common cause we had. While I know God is the One who turns the hearts, I am thankful that in His grace He allowed me to have such friends among non-Christians, and not enemies. It is way more than what I deserve.
This article is not a reproach or an argument against them; it is my debt to them. I find it my duty to tell them why I am a Christian Libertarian, and why I cannot be anything else. God forbid that I try to pick a fight with them who are my friends and allies in one of the most important cultural battles of our time. They deserve an open and friendly answer to the above question.
My answer will start with my teenage years when I was introduced to the ideas of individual liberty and freedom. These were not common ideas in a country that had been under Communism for 40-plus years. John Locke, Thomas Paine, Murray Rothbard, Ayn Rand were not exactly authors that the Communist government would allow on the market. I picked up bits and pieces of those ideas from the works of Spinoza (of all men!), a book on US history, and a smuggled copy of Pink Floyd's The Wall. My own indignation at things I saw every day contributed to it. Not after long, I knew I wanted to be free, free indeed.
My thoughts were well-trained philosophically by my parents so I never succumbed to the temptation to believe that freedom meant being able to do what I wanted. Even at that age I knew what all libertarians know: Freedom has limits, and these limits are ethical in nature.
But before I knew the ethical limits, I needed to know what freedom itself was all about. Where could I find it? I knew it wasn't in the Marxist ideology—there was no notion of free individuals there. Spinoza couldn't give it to me with his die-hard determinism. He only introduced me to the idea, showed me the cake and then left me starving. Hegel and Kant avoided the problem like leprosy, and neither Aristotle nor Plato would let the individual man be free.
I grew the suspicion that the philosophers were lying to me; that the greatest problem of philosophy was freedom vs. bondage; and they were unwilling to admit it for they had no solutions. Philosophy is the quest for Truth but what happens when we find that Truth? Is it going to be respectful of our personal freedom? Why would it? Why would an impersonal absolute entity—what the Truth is supposed to be, philosophically—care about our freedom? Take Spinoza himself: How can he reconcile his love for freedom with his determinism concerning Truth? Can we settle for identifying freedom with "necessity of nature," which is even a scarier notion? Can I act against the necessity of my nature?
Maybe I'd do better if I didn't expect absolute truths. Surely, if a world of absolutes threatened my freedom, then a world of relativism surely would make me free. Or, would it? But wouldn't my freedom be only relative in such a world? Was it possible that what was freedom today would be slavery tomorrow? Was it possible that I have fought for one thing and ended up with another? Was it possible that I set out for the Promised Land and ended up in a concentration camp? How would I know in a world of relative truths?
I couldn't find freedom either way. An ocean of relativity without shores or bottom made the very notion of freedom irrelevant—and indeed made the very notion of me irrelevant. I needed a stable shore to ground my feet on, a solid wall to lean against if I wanted to find my freedom, and yet that stability and solidness could and would limit my freedom to oblivion.
Oh, my friends would say, you don't need God for the solution. You can join Ayn Rand in assuming objective existence and objective conscience, and your problem is solved. The question of origins is irrelevant to the issue of freedom. The idea of freedom is based on the very nature of existence. We assume existence in an Axiom, and the rest is easy. Who cares how things originate, we only need to postulate that they exist.
Well, defining away the question of origins was a very good solution to my philosophical problem. I could now be an agnostic and still retain my sanity and my quest for freedom. In fact, I did find my freedom: It just existed and I could consciously exercise it. What else did I need?
But I had a new problem, an ethical one. By defining away the origins I defined away the possibility for ethical definitions. Remember the ethical limits I talked about? How could I find those ethical limits if all my thinking started with the simplistic Axioms of Existence and Conscience? What is is what is, and what I know is what I know. How do I derive a system of practical ethics from such simple axioms? Is morality part of existence? Is it "natural" to us? If it is, then whatever I do must be moral. If it isn't, how do we discern between "natural" and "unnatural" existence? How do I know Howard Roark was right in blasting that building? Only because he felt he had the right? Only because of his personal interpretation of history? And how do I know Ellsworth Toohey was a villain and not a hero? Ayn Rand never answers these questions. She makes us assume the definitions, accept them by faith. And don't get me wrong, I like Ayn Rand, I am proud to have been her first translator in Bulgarian, and I would do it again if I could. But I can't overlook the fact that once we axiomatize existence without origins, we must keep axiomatizing every definition—because there is no beginning for anything.
So in addition to the old problem of truth vs. freedom, I had a new one: philosophical vs. ethical. I must jump out of the frying pan of the philosophical quest for truth if I wanted to be free, but I found I would only end up in the fire of disintegrating reality where there was no practical way of discerning right from wrong, or natural from unnatural. Objectively, I could be free in that fire, free without any restraints—exactly what freedom is supposed not to be, ethically.
And then, of course, comes the very practical question of my rights. I know I want to be free, I know that my freedom is ethically limited, and I know that my freedom will require that others be ethically limited, unless I want to surrender my freedom to them. But how do I derive my rights from simple axioms of impersonal reality? Do my rights exist objectively? If yes, why do I have to fight for them, why don't they just exist of themselves? If no, am I making up new, subjective reality in my brain?
So now I had three things that I desperately wanted but I couldn't reconcile: Freedom, Ethics, and Justice. And none of the philosophies or philosophers I knew could reconcile them.
When a dear friend of mine shared the Gospel of Jesus Christ with me, he knew nothing of my intellectual struggles. There was one thing that caught my attention that night when he talked to me about his faith: "You shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall set you free." And then Jesus adds: "And if the Son sets you free, you shall be free indeed."
There was the solution to my problem! I was blind to search for an impersonal Truth, an inexorable, merciless entity that holds the universe in an iron grip. And I was blind to search for Freedom that was focused on myself so much that would make the rest of the world irrelevant—and make me irrelevant in the process. Truth was possible to know only if it was itself a Person; and Freedom was possible to have only if it was itself a Person. That Person couldn't be a mere man—or I would be in slavery. He must be a god, or rather, God, the Creator of the Universe. And if the Bible was true, then my problems had one reason: I was a stranger to God, and thus I was a stranger to Freedom, Ethics, and Justice. I had to come back to Him, through the redemption He provided in Jesus Christ. Only then I had . . . everything.
If He was the Creator, He was the Truth. Knowing Him, I would know the Truth. He was Freedom too: He created my very nature and He knew what I should do to be in harmony with my real nature. And He was Justice for He gave me the rules for a just society that has liberty and justice for all. What all the philosophers wanted but couldn't find, He had it, and He was it.
Therefore I couldn't be a libertarian without Christ. I tried, and it was impossible—philosophically and ethically. It was self-contradictory, it was against the very nature of things, and it was believing in a set of assumptions that had no discernible connection with reality or with each other. Only in Christ I had them all brought together in a coherent whole. And only in Christ did it make sense to be willing to die for your freedom—without Him death was the ultimate judge of things, and slavery was preferable to facing death. "Give me liberty or give me death" was folly in a world without Christ—but now it is divine wisdom in Him.
There are two main arguments I hear from my non-Christian libertarian friends.
The first one is: "How could a slave of God be free?" Indeed, Bojidar, if you self-consciously submit to another being, how is this freedom? How is this different from being a slave of men?
This argument misses the fact that the same word "slave" has different meanings in both cases. Let me use a different example to explain:
"I have a daily need of food and water."
"I have a daily need of heroin in my veins."
We have the same words: "daily need." But they have different moral meanings. In the first sentence they mean "healthy condition." In the second sentence they mean "addiction." What makes the moral difference? It is what comes after them. The nature of food and water on one hand, and heroin on the other make all the difference between the meanings.
Same with the word "slave" when used with God and man respectively. If God was like man, then there would be no difference. But why would I believe in a God who is in essence no different from a man? Would that solve my problems above? But if God is what He claims He is, then He is so different in nature from man that "slave of God" would be entirely different from "slave of man." And therefore "freedom from man" would be different from "freedom from God," to the point that slavery could be defined as "freedom from God."
The Founders of the United States of America knew this truth perfectly. I am not discovering anything new here. It is no mere coincidence that ideas of liberty originated, and were perfected and applied in practice only in Christendom, and nowhere else.
The second argument is: "How can you be free if you obey someone else's will?" What about free choice? Can't we do anything we want with our own body, or our own property? What about the choice of a woman to abort her baby? How is obeying God's Law freedom?
This argument misses a greater reality: Ethical limits. Remember, "anything we want" is not the definition of "freedom." A person who wants to sell himself in slavery is not free; and no definition of freedom can justify what Hitler and Stalin wanted to do with the resources they had. The definition of freedom is to be able to act according to your true nature. And your true nature is defined by the One who created you—or it is not defined at all. Is it possible that you want to do things with your body and your property that come from your twisted nature instead from your real nature? Even non-Christian libertarians understand that not everything a person wants is necessarily "free" or "moral."
A person can be a slave when they obey their own whims as much as when they obey someone else's will. It is ethical limits that define the realm of freedom, not whims and desires. And since we find clearly defined ethical limits only in the Law of the Creator, therefore we can find clearly defined and real freedom only in Christ.
To summarize, I cannot be a true Libertarian without Christ. I cannot fight for liberty unless I know what liberty is and where it comes from. Outside of Christ any notion of individual freedom is lost either to a frigid web of inexorable necessity or to an ocean of relativity without shores. Only in Christ I can have true Freedom, and the Truth that gives it meaning.
If I decide to avoid the questions of the origin of my individual freedom, I can't build a practical ethical framework for it. I can't know what the legitimate limits of my freedom are, and therefore I can't know what my rights—the legitimate limits of the freedom of others—are. Only in Christ I can have clear understanding of those ethical limits for any practical purposes.
Being a slave of God of doing God's will does not destroy my freedom. To the contrary, doing God's will is to my liberty what eating and drinking is to my body. Only by being obedient to Christ I have my liberty nourished and renewed. Everything else follows from it.
Lastly, without my hope in Christ, death will be the final judge of all, not life. In a Christ-less world life in slavery would be preferable to freedom in death, and therefore a true Libertarian in such a world is by necessity a fool. I don't want to be a fool.


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Lyric Theatre is producing the Tony-award winning rock musical SPRING AWAKENING at the Plaza Theatre from March 28 through April 14.
This coming-of-age indie rock musical, adapted from the controversial 1891 German play by Frank Wedekind, explores the intimate journey from adolescence to adulthood with unforgettable poignancy and passion.
This daring production is under the direction of Lyric's own Artistic Director, Michael Baron. Baron recently directed SPRING AWAKENING at Zach Theatre in Austin, Texas in November of 2011. Reviews from the show said Baron's direction "skillfully captured the energy and heart of the hit Broadway show and shocked and exhilarated audiences." The casting of SPRING AWAKENING requires large talent in such young actors.
"I'm excited to be collaborating with some of the best theatre programs in the nation- Oklahoma City University, The University of Oklahoma, and the University of Central Oklahoma to cast the production," says Baron. "Each of the students are not only strong actors but fearless at expressing their voices and experiences through song. There is definitely excitement building about this show and it is certain to get audiences talking."
Baron has directed over 65 productions at theaters across the country including direction for Lyric's 2011 Season shows such as ALWAYS…PATSY CLINE, BOEING BOEING, OLIVER!, RAGTIME and LYRIC'S A CHRISTMAS CAROL. Completing Baron's artistic staff for SPRING AWAKENING isAshley Wells, choreographer; Brian Hamilton, music director; Art Whaley, lighting designer; Brad Porch, sound designer; Rickelle Williams, stage manager and Jeffrey Meek, costume designer.
Making her Lyric debut as a professional actor is Leah Coleman starring as Wendla. Coleman, a Music Theatre major at the University of Central Oklahoma, was a student at Lyric's ThElma Gaylord Academy for many years. She expresses her excitement to share her talents on the Plaza Theatre stage for the first time.
"Having grown up as an academy student, it is incredibly surreal to be coming back to my childhood home, but this time as a professional. I may not be considered a student anymore, but just the same, I expect to learn and grow considerably with this show," says Coleman. "Above all, I am positively restless to tell Wendla's story because I am exceptionally passionate about this character and I am honored to tell her story to Oklahoma audiences in what I know will be a touching, thought provoking, and life changing production of SPRING AWAKENING."
Coleman's past Lyric and local productions include LITTLE WOMEN, MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS, ANYTHING GOES, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF and THE WIZARD OF OZ.
Playing Coleman's young love, Melchior, is the University of Oklahoma student, Kelly Methven. Methven has starred in many regional productions such as THE MIKADO, HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS at Cobb Civic Center and SWEENEY TODD at Carrolton Cultural Arts Centre. To complete this dynamic young cast are Alex John Enterline (Georg), Ryan Fitzgerald (Ernst), Grayson Heyl (Martha), Wilson Kerr (Moritz), Simone Raquel Laday(Thea), Renee Lawrence (Ilsa), Sheridan McMichael (Hanschen), Kate Moore (Anna) and Nicholas Oliveri (Otto). The adult roles in the show are played by Jonathan Beck Reed (Scrooge in LYRIC'S A CHRISTMAS CAROL) and Jennifer Teel (Lyric's OKLAHOMA! Interactive Show).
For this production of SPRING AWAKENING, Lyric is offering special stage seating for all 17 performances. These 24 general admission seats are $20 each and are for the SPRING AWAKENING fans who want a new and different experience.
Lyric's production of SPRING AWAKENING is rated R for strong language and sexually explicit scenes. Single tickets for SPRING AWAKENING, are available for purchase and are $40. For tickets go to www.LyricTheatreOKC.com, call (405) 524-9312, or come by Lyric's box office at 1727 NW 16th St, Oklahoma City, OK.
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Lyric's production of SPRING AWAKENING is sponsored by Chesapeake Energy Corporation, The Oklahoman, David and Lisa Flesher, Riggs Abney Neal Turpen Orbison & Lewis, and Richard Ogden, Attorney at Law, Mulinix Ogden Hall & Ludlam, PLLC. Annual support is provided by Allied Arts, Oklahoma Arts Council, Inasmuch Foundation, and Kirkpatrick Foundation.


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With the increase in networks connecting each and every computer, their security is gaining equal significance. An important problem to network services is cyber attacks. Intrusion detection is the act of detecting unwanted traffic on a network or a device. Intrusion prevention is the act of preventing or attempt to stop possible incidents. In this paper, the authors have discussed about network based intrusion detection and prevention system which can detect well known attacks and prevent the network service from cyber attack with emphasis on the location of sensors in the network.
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FORTUNE -- "I just made partner" sure sounds like music to the ears. It's a line many early-career employees at law firms and investment banks aim to say one day.
But making partner doesn't mean what it used to. It hasn't for a while, in fact. And still, many entering the workforce covet that milestone.
Why? There are a couple of reasons, most of them having to do with tradition and pay. And while making partner isn't meaningless, job seekers entering the workforce should question whether it's a solid end-goal.
About 20 years ago, the benefits of making partner at a firm were clear. It meant a pay increase, first of all, and there was a distinction of responsibilities between partners and associates. A partner was one of few shareholders in the company or firm. But these days, "it's harder than ever to become an equity partner," says Robin Sparkman, the editor in chief of the American Lawyer, "it takes longer, and the demands on that lawyer are more stringent."
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According to data collected by the American Lawyer, about 78% of all partners at the top 200 law firms (ranked by revenue) were equity partners in 2000. By 2010, 62% of partners at these firms had the same status.
No longer is making partner a golden ticket. In fact, in some cases, it can mean the opposite. Earlier this month, for example, about 20 partners at law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf left en masse after the firm couldn't make good on some of the promised perks of partnership. And, in the world of investment banking, Goldman Sachs (gs) has seen its fair share of partner-level departures in recent months. Arguably, Goldman's culture started to change about a decade ago when it transitioned from a true partnership to a public company.
The model of having a firm with a small group of owners who held equity stakes began to break down over the past couple of decades as financial and legal firms expanded, merged, and globalized. Then the recession hit, and firms simply had less money to give to people. Now, as many are starting to rehire, each defines its internal hierarchy differently.<!-- more -->
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"Law firms just have to face the reality that they can't make too many people equity partners or they can't survive," says Gerry Riskin, founding partner of law firm consulting firm Edge International. As a result, he says, some offer tiered partnerships with equity partners at the top. Other levels of partnership, Riskin says, "may be based on what other firms are doing, or may be just a glorified way of paying a salary."
"Partner is as broad of a word as cancer is," says Ken Young, who is part of the American Board Association's Law Practice Management Section. "To the business community, it means something, but people need to dig beneath the title."
That includes young people looking for jobs at firms. No longer is the key question during an interview, "when will I make partner?" but instead, "what, exactly, does making partner mean?"
In some cases, becoming partner can include a rather toxic contract, Young says. Some firms force lawyers to sign agreements that penalize them for leaving the partnership. Young knows of firms, for example, that require partners to agree to forfeit all of their capital contributions from the previous year should they decide to leave.
Yet still, the term "partner" holds sway. And as long as a partnership also means a pay increase, its associated cachet will stick around. Even though the contracts have changed, the status hasn't. It's like the logo on a polo shirt, Young says. It's a holdover from the traditional system, and it's something to tell your parents, or use to impress people at a cocktail party.
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"We are a society that recognizes pedigree steps along the way," says Michael Serino, executive director of Human Capital Development at Cornell's Industrial and Labor Relations School. That's especially true for the kind of person competing to make partner at a top law firm, who has probably been raised on accolades they've received for various educational and professional achievements.
But context is also important: being a partner doesn't only matter internally, Riskin says: "It's not just ego, it's really positioning -- it affects the way this individual will be perceived professionally." Clients, on the whole, prefer to work with partners, regardless of the compensation agreements behind the curtain.
That being said, the workforce is changing. Younger people want different things from their jobs than employees who have been at firms longer. Generally, new hires at firms are less interested in loyalty to one company long-term, and more interested in building a career that supports their value system. That tends to mean more job-hopping, which is less conducive to a system that requires paying dues at one firm for years until making partner.
On the flip side, many young people entering legal or financial firms are taking those jobs at a time when there simply isn't an excess of equity and funding to divvy up between people, which somewhat starves the old partnership model.
"I don't think there are any givens anymore, and perhaps the old model had more givens," Serino says. "The people that navigate that successfully have to reconsider the assumptions and constantly be ready to anticipate how workplace market conditions are going to change." In other words, young people at big firms will need to redefine the old milestones.


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Henry Gage (soldier)
Henry Gage
Portrait by John Weesop
29 August 1597
Haling, Surrey
|11 January 1645
(aged 47)
|Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
|Army of Flanders; Royalist Army
|Years of service
|1619–1625, 1630–1644; 1644–1645
|Commands held
|Governor of Oxford
|Siege of Bergen-op-Zoom (1622), Siege of Breda (1624), Siege of Saint-Omer (1638), Siege of Basing House (1644)
|Mary Daniel
|Thomas Gage (clergyman)
Sir Henry Gage (29 August 1597 – 11 January 1645) was a Royalist officer in the English Civil War.[1]
Early life[edit]
Gage was born at Haling, in Surrey, the son of John Gage and Margaret Copley. The family were Catholic[2] and long intermarried with other prominent Catholic families, including that of Sir Thomas More, the former Lord Chancellor.
At the age of twelve Henry was sent abroad for a Catholic education at the English Jesuit College in St Omer, where he was a student from 1609 to 1614.[3] After spending three years at the English College, Rome,[4] from 1615 to 1618, Gage decided the priesthood was not for him. At the age of 22 he became a professional soldier in the Army of Flanders.
Eighty Years War[edit]
In 1619 Gage enlisted as a gentleman pikeman in the Army of Flanders and initially served in the garrison of Antwerp. In 1622 he obtained a commission as captain of a company in the regiment of the Earl of Argyll. He distinguished himself during the Siege of Bergen-op-Zoom (1622) and the Siege of Breda (1624).[5] In 1625 he was serving as captain in Sir Edward Parham's regiment,[6] but during the Anglo-Spanish War (1625–30) he returned to England rather than serve against his native country. During these years his translation of Herman Hugo's Obsidio Bredana, a Latin account of the Siege of Breda, was published in Ghent by Judocus Dooms under the title The Siege of Breda.
After 1630 he raised 900 men and returned to Flanders as colonel of his own regiment. He played an important role in breaking the French Siege of Saint-Omer (1638).[7]
He was known for his ability and was described by Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, as "a man of great wisdom and temper, and one among the very few soldiers who made himself universally loved and esteemed".[8] He was also noted for his piety (he attended Mass daily) and in the later years in the Low Countries and in England had as his chaplain the Jesuit Peter Wright, later to be sentenced to death on the evidence of Henry's own brother Thomas Gage, an ex-Catholic renegade. In 1630 Gage was given the rank of Captain-commandant of the English regiment in the service of Spain.
English Civil War[edit]
Responding to the King's summons in the English Civil War, Gage organized weapons and munitions from the Spanish king and returned to England, going to the Royalist headquarters at Oxford. On 11 June he took and garrisoned Boarstall House.
Basing House[edit]
In September 1644 an appeal for military assistance came from the garrison of the besieged Basing House. This was the seat of the Catholic John Paulet, 5th Marquess of Winchester, the largest private residence in England, located at Old Basing, by the River Loddon (a tributary of the River Thames), forty miles away from Oxford and twelve miles (19 km) south of Reading, Berkshire.
The site covered 15 acres (61,000 m2) within a mile and half of enclosing walls and earthworks. The 'Old House' was a medieval fortress on a defensive mound and next to it stood the palatial 'New House', five storeys high and with 380 rooms. In November 1643 it had been placed under siege by Sir William Waller's Parliamentary troops. Though this first siege lasted only nine days, in June 1644, the house was besieged again, this time by Colonel Richard Norton, whose use of heavy mortar bombardment led in September to the Marquis's garrison asking Royalist forces at Oxford, forty miles away, for help. There the commander Colonel Henry Gage assembled a relief force consisting of Colonel Hawkins's regiment, a hundred volunteers and various servants. Disguised on the road as Parliamentarians, they managed to break through to Basing House, replenishing the garrison's ammunition and food on 11 September and then escaped by night back to Oxford, swimming their horses across the Kennet and the Thames. For this Colonel Gage received a knighthood. Less than a fortnight after Colonel Gage's relief, Colonel Norton resumed the siege, which seven weeks later, on 19 November, Colonel Gage again relieved. The house was eventually to be heavily bombarded, looted to the tune of some £200,000 and then systematically demolished by Oliver Cromwell in 1645. In the mean time, Gage had also (on 25 October) helped raise the siege of Banbury Castle.
Governor of Oxford[edit]
On Christmas Day 1644 the King made Gage Governor of Oxford, in place of the Catholic Sir Arthur Aston (1590-1649), thus earning in Aston a bitter enemy who made every effort to discredit him and undermine his authority. The time for this mischief was short, however. The following month Gage was mortally wounded in a skirmish at Culham Bridge near Abingdon on 11 January 1645. Two days later he was given an impressive military funeral at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, where he is buried. His memorial is in the Lucy Chapel, off the South Transept. The Latin inscription reads:
Here lies the troop commander Henry Gage, Knight, son and heir of John Gage of Haling, Esquire, in the country of Surrey, great-grandson of John Gage of the most noble order of Knights of the Garter. He served in Belgium over 20 years in every battle and the sieges of Bergen-op-Zoom, Breda and especially St. Omer. Sent from Belgium to the King of Great Britain he brought equipment for seven thousand troops. Given a command he took Boarstall House by storm and later, when the garrison of Basing House was cut off from supplies, he showed great energy and, when hope had already been abandoned, brought them provisions. Together with the Count of Northampton he relieved the garrison of Banbury. He was knighted for this and subsequently for the second time drove the enemy from Basing House. He was now made Governor of Oxford. But in an action near the bridge at Culham, while boldly leading his men in a third assault on the enemy, he was hit by a bullet and killed on 11 January 1645 at the age of 47. In solemn mourning his funeral was attended by members of the Royal Family, Noblemen, Soldiers, Members of the University and citizens (of Oxford), all manifesting their grief at the loss of a man outstanding for his natural genius, skill in languages, military renown, sense of duty, loyalty and love for his King and Country. This memorial was set up by his mourning and grieving brother George Gage. The Eternal Prefer to the Temporary.[9]
A short biography by Edward Walsingham was published as a pamphlet under the title Alter Britanniæ Heros: Or, The Life of the Most Honourable Knight, Sir Henry Gage, Late Governour of Oxford, Epitomiz'd (Oxford: Leonard Lichfield, 1645).
Henry married Mary Daniel, who bore him six children, two sons and four daughters.[10]
- ^ "Sir Henry GAGE". wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
- ^ "Sir Henry Gage". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
- ^ Geoffrey Holt, St Omers and Bruges Colleges, 1593-1773: A Biographical Dictionary (Catholic Record Society Publications 69, 1979), p. 109.
- ^ "Sir Henry Gage, Royalist, 1597-1645". www.british-civil-wars.co.uk. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
- ^ "SIR HENRY GAGE (1597-1645)". www.marquisofwinchesters.co.uk. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
- ^ A. J. Loomie, "Gondomar's Selection of English Officers in 1622", English Historical Review 88 (1973), pp. 574-581.
- ^ Quoted in George Steinman Steinman, Some Account of the Manor of Haling, in the Parish of Croydon, Surrey (1835), pp. 42-43.
- ^ Anthony Wood, The History and Antiquities of the Colleges and Halls in the University of Oxford, edited by John Gutch, volume 3 (Oxford, 1786), pp. 479-480.
- Firth, Charles Harding (1889). "Gage, Henry". In Stephen, Leslie. Dictionary of National Biography. 20. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 349, 350.
External links[edit]
A portrait c. 1640 by the artist Weesop is in the National Portrait Gallery, London, npg.org.uk
For the family tree of the Gages for this period:
For the story of the Basing House siege:


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Ready to tame Homestead: "Homestead-Miami Speedway is a tough track for sure especially as the years have went on and it has got slicker and slicker with the Florida weather and how it comes and goes," Allmendinger said. "With these cars we are racing now, I am sure it will be a little different. I am just thankful to be getting back in the car."
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Closing in on the first year of Anoka's Round up for Change Program, the city was able to make thousands of dollars in allocations based on donations from customers of its electric utility.
Round Up was instituted in January when Anoka Municipal Utility customers' bills were automatically rounded up to the nearest dollar.
That spare change was being used to help a few specific non-profits in the area, which the city typically funded in its budget.
Anyone who did not want to participate had to opt out of the program.
Current donations for the year are $43,260, according to Finance Director Lori Yager. There are a total 7,713 customers participating.
Already the city had designated $25,000 of those donations, including $15,000 for Youth First Community of Promise, a neighborhood program for at risk youth, as well as the domestic abuse shelter, Alexandra House.
Because the utility also has customers in Champlin and Dayton, donations were also made to CROSS and CEAP – food shelves serving those particular Hennepin County communities.
When the program was put in place it did receive criticism from some ratepayers because of its opt out requirement.
"In the beginning of the round up program there was a lot of apprehension from some folks, and I respected that," said Councilmember Mark Freeburg. "But we've taken line items from the police budget that were paid for by the taxpayers and compensated with nickels and dimes of volunteer money from this program."
He said it was lightening the load of the taxpayer.
Most customers are donating an average of $5 to $6 a year. The highest possible annual donation could be $11.88.
"I don't see a loss in this program at all," Freeburg said.
The council met Dec. 10 to talk about how much funds were available, where those contributions were coming from and where they were going in the future, according to Yager.
After that session, the council agreed to donate additional money to CROSS, CEAP, Alexandra House and Youth First.
It then decided to give $5,000 to the ACBC Food Shelf and $2,000 to Stepping Stone Emergency Housing.
Anoka resident Barbara Baldwin suggested the city consider using some of those funds to help customers who are struggling financially and having a hard time paying their electric bills.
"I would think that would be the first place we would donate our money," said Baldwin. "We have a lot of elderly and a lot of families who are out of work are struggling to keep the lights on."
Mayor Phil Rice said that is something the council could consider in the future.
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On OSX ST2 b2188 (dunno about others) I find I can't redo after saving. (The console says 'unable to parse command' with keybinding (cmd+y) or actually using the Redo command from the Edit menu, so I assume it's not a plugin/keybinding clash.)
I regularly find myself testing code by switch between amended and non-amended versions of the same file by putting code in, saving, testing, undoing it all, testing, redoing it all (or some of it), testing, etc.
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Elyse Williamson '10 and Professor Tewksbury Explore Iceland's Volcanoes
During the last Ice Age, the whole country of Iceland was covered in a thick sheet of ice. From an aerial view, most of the island would have appeared to be in a state of frigid serenity. But under the ice, chaos ensued – massive volcanoes entombed in the ice erupted often, causing the overlying ice to melt. As the hot lava erupted into cold water, explosions occurred, depositing fragmented rock and glass with few lava flows.
These unusual rocks are still abundant in Iceland today. Elyse Williamson '10 is working with Upson Chair for Public Discourse and Professor of Geosciences Barbara Tewksbury to analyze well-exposed areas of subglacially erupted rock and to study a particular kind of structure known as deformation bands, which occur commonly in these rocks but have not been studied before.
Tewksbury says that Iceland is very volcanically active because the plate boundary between the North American Plate and the Eurasian Plate runs right through Iceland, and new volcanic material comes up to make new crust. This makes Iceland one of the only places on the planet that one can see two plates diverging above the surface of the ocean.
Many people confuse Iceland with Greenland and assume that the country is desolate. On the contrary, the countryside is not as barren as Greenland, and in fact, parts of Iceland are very vibrant and grassy. Most people do live in the greater capitol city area, though, because "it is hard to get to some of the central areas without four-wheel-drive." Despite the remoteness of the area they are looking at, this is the third summer she has taken a student there to do field work.
The first season was the summer of 2005. This year, Tewksbury and Williamson want to observe some of the rocks surrounding the Hekla Volcano located in south central Iceland.
The deformation bands that they will be studying are harder and stiffer than the surrounding rock and tend to stick up as fins above the surface of the rock. They look very much like veins that occur commonly in other kinds of rocks. Deformation bands and veins are, however, very different kinds of structures.
"You can imagine if you have a really porous rock, kind of like weakly glued-together Cheerios, and you wanted to shift one side of the block of Cheerios with respect to the other, you could either cut it and make a fault through it or you could move one side against the other and cause all of the cheerios to crush, collapse and fill in all of the pore spaces," Tewksbury explained. "Sort of like Rice Krispie treats, too. You'd get one side to shift relative to the other without a through-going fracture [characteristic of a fault], but you'd have this band in the center where are the grains were crushed and all the pore space has collapsed."
In other words, the melting ice caused the deformation bands in the subglacial rocks to form as the volcanic pile slumped and adjusted. Because the deformation bands are harder than the surrounding rock, they stick up as fins when the rest of the rock erodes away.
In addition to studying the distribution of deformation bands along a volcanic ridge north of Hekla, they will also look at glacier burst deposits in South Iceland, which may also contain deformation bands. Glacier bursts occur when the water melted by an eruption floats the edge of the glacier and bursts out from under the ice sheet, carrying with it lots of sediment. Although the chances of finding deformation bands in these are slim, studying these deposits will provide an important confirmation of models that she and her students have developed so far or a pivot point from which they can modify and re-analyze their ideas.
Once they have collected sufficient samples and data, the two researchers will bring the rocks back to Hamilton to analyze under the microscope. The rocks they will look at were significantly altered very shortly after eruption. "It turns from pristine black pumice, ash, and rock fragments to kind of a Dijon-mustard colored rock called palagonite," Tewksbury clarified. "It's quite spectacular under the microscope though, even if it doesn't look so appealing in the field."
In some ways, process is just as much fun as the results. Field work is something both professor and student can appreciate. "There's nothing like doing field work," Tewksbury said. "It's really exciting to be out there, to be confused half the time, and to be trying to figure out what the rocks are telling you."
Williamson says that she is excited to be part of this project. For the past two summers she has gone to the Greenland Ice Sheet to do research with the Cold Regions Engineering Lab in Hanover, N.H. There she measured firn (snow more than one year old) properties to help aid in the interpretation of past atmospheric gases in ice cores. Her work this summer will further add to her geosciences résumé. She knows that she wants to do something with geosciences for a career, but is unsure what avenue she will pursue.
Regardless of what she decides, Williamson seems to be a natural-born geologist. A self-proclaimed outdoors-y person, she is an avid tennis player and runner. In her spare time she also enjoys hiking and playing on Hamilton's popular intramural sports teams.
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