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Battle of the Dumbos: Elephant Warfare From Ancient Greece to the Vietnam War
Elephants have fought in wars for 2,300 years
Uncategorized March 25, 2014 Kevin Knodell 0
Elephants were the tanks of the ancient battlefield.
An elephant charging into a group of soldiers or horses could decimate a formation. That's assuming the sheer psychological impact of watching a giant war beast with pointy tusks—charging and shrieking like murder incarnate—didn't first cause the opposing force to flee in terror.
They could smash fortifications, impale people on their tusks, and stomp people to death under their huge feet and enormous weight. They towered over the battlefield.
In addition to their brute strength and the inherent psychological impact on the enemy, elephants were incredibly useful for logistics. They're also highly intelligent.
As recently as 2004, the U.S. Army even classed elephants as a pack animal, though also warned—in a field manual distributed to Special Operations Forces—that the giant herbivores "should not be used by U.S. military personnel" due to their endangered status and the inherent dangers in riding them.
But for 2,300 years, armies have used elephants to help fight wars. They have used the animals for fighting, hauling heavy equipment or working on construction projects. Elephants have a long and distinguished military career, from ancient conquests to well into the modern era.
On ancient battlegrounds
If there was one ancient general who was the most instrumental in the spread of elephants as a weapon of war, it was probably Alexander the Great.
The ancient king first encountered elephants during his conquest of Persia in the 2nd century BCE (Before the Common Era). Alexander was able to skillfully defeat the Persians and their elephants, but was nonetheless mesmerized by the terrifying beasts. He took the Persian elephants that survived the campaign—and attempted to build an army of his own elephants.
Alexander was always on the march, so he never had time to truly train his elephants into an effective combat force. Instead, he used them mostly for their logistical prowess and for the powerful psychological impact they had on their the enemies.
This began to change as Alexander marched into India and clashed with the elephant-equipped forces of King Porus of Paruava. Here Alexander saw what fully-trained war elephants could do in combat. His spear-armed troops fought them off by organizing into tight ranks—like a porcupine—but they did so at a terrible price.
After Alexander died and his kingdom splintered, an elephant arms race ensued throughout the ancient world. The animals served as a potent symbol of an army's wealth, status and power. But as future campaigns would reveal, they also had their weaknesses.
More than a century later, Hannibal of Carthage led his daring march across the Alps with an army of elephants. Hannibal, one of antiquity's most celebrated generals, hoped to meet his Roman enemies head on with his war beasts. Ironically—as Hannibal is famous for it—this feat turned into a major blunder.
Elephants, not historically known for living in cold, high-altitude environments, proved ill-suited to the task of scaling the Alps. Many died crossing the mountains. Even the ones who survived the trek came out famished, exhausted and sick. When Hannibal met the Romans in combat at the Battle of Zama, the elephants proved ineffective.
To make matters worse for Hannibal, the Romans had developed anti-elephant tactics learned after earlier campaigns against the Greek kingdom of Espirus.
Hannibal lined his elephants up in front of his army—a screening force except with six-ton, man-crushing animals. The Roman general Scipio Africanus responded by creating gaps in his lines. When the elephants charged, the Romans funneled them through these open gaps, and dispatched them in Scipio's rear.
The Romans also outmaneuvered Hannibal's elephants with javelin-throwing troops, and mounted spikes on their wagons in order to wound the animals. The Romans also set fires to frighten them away.
Hannibal's campaign also revealed several other weaknesses.
For one, when put under extreme stress, elephants can become unruly and difficult to control. Some of the more aggressive male elephants would sometimes pick fights with each other, causing major disruptions to operations as well as putting friendly troops around them at risk.
After Hannibal, the Romans adopted elephants—poetically so—during their campaign to conquer the late Alexander's kingdom of Macedonia. Yet the golden age of the war elephants was coming to an end, at least in Europe.
Elephants saw infrequent use during the Middle Ages. The Frankish king Charlemagne owned an Asian elephant named Abdul-Abbas—given to him by Harun Al Rashid, the caliph of Baghdad. This unfortunate pet met his end while marching north with his master during a war against King Godofrid of Denmark. Historians still debate whether Charlemagne actually intended to use Abdul-Abbas in battle or whether he was there as a status symbol.
Elephants were more common in Asia, where the Khmer fielded them to great effect during their 12th century conquest of the Chams. The Mongols encountered many elephants as they marched into southeast Asia—outmaneuvering them with archers in a manner similar to Roman javelins.
The advent of gunpowder made elephants even more of a rarity on the battlefield—as they became vulnerable to deadly musket volleys. But in the late 19th century, the Siamese army used the elephants against French colonial troops, sometimes even mounting musketeers on the elephants' backs.
But elephants no longer had the same effect they once did. As the world became introduced to industrialized warfare in the form of machine guns, armored vehicles and chemical weapons, elephants suddenly didn't seem so scary.
But that's not to say that the armies of the world no longer had any use for their beasts of burden.
Elephants in modern warfare
Though the days of elephant offensive operations were over, elephants still proved useful in logistics and in support functions as pack animals. During World War I, armies pressed a few circus elephants into service to haul heavy equipment and artillery.
However, it was during World War II that a man named James Howard "Elephant Bill" William would show the world what elephants could do.
William was a British World War I veteran and infantry officer who supervised mules and camels while in the service. After the war, he moved to Burma and worked at the Bombay Burmah Trading Company, and became a supervisor of the company's elephants, working to transport heavy goods and supplies through the jungle.
After the Japanese invasion and Allied retreat from Burma, William volunteered his services to the Allies, and became an adviser to the Royal Indian Engineers. His experience with elephants, and his fluent Burmese made him a valuable asset.
Elephants proved incredibly useful. Both Allied and Japanese forces fielded elephants in large numbers. They were able to move with relative ease through thick jungles—and could cross rivers that would otherwise mire vehicles.
As a result, elephants were instrumental in quickly moving heavy equipment and timber for construction projects. Elephants helped build bridges and roads necessary to move tanks and armored vehicles to the front.
Outside the jungle, the U.S. Army Air Corps used elephants at airfields in India. These animals hauled freight and helped load airplanes before their arduous journey across the Himalayas. In one case, the Americans even made use of elephants to conduct a salvage operation to reach a plane that crashed deep in a thick jungle, with a scout plane in the sky relaying instructions to elephant-mounted troops on the ground.
British Field Marshal William Slim, writing the forward for Elephant Bill's autobiography, praised the contributions of the elephants.
"They built hundreds of bridges for us, they helped to build and launch more ships for us than Helen ever did for Greece," Slim wrote. "Without them our retreat from Burma would have been even more arduous and our advance to its liberation slower and more difficult."
But by far, the most famous individual elephant of the campaign was Lin Wang—an elephant who served on both sides of the war.
Lin Wang started his service as a pack animal for an Imperial Japanese Army unit. In 1943, Nationalist Chinese forces under the legendary Gen. Sun Liren captured Lin Wang, conscripting him and several other elephants into hauling supplies.
Lin Wang served under Sun for years. Chinese forces brought the animal across Burma to China—along with several other elephants—for use in construction projects. In 1947, Sun went to Taiwan, and brought the remaining three elephants with him, including Lin Wang.
The other two died of illness, and in 1952, the Nationalist army gave Lin Wang to the Taipei Zoo where he lived until 2003, dying at age 86.
The 1960s were the last time elephants were widely used in war.
Rebels employed elephants along the Ho Chi Minh trail—first by the Vietminh during the French Indochina War and later by both North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong forces throughout the Vietnam War—to move heavy ammunition and supplies.
During early stages of the war, South Vietnamese units occasionally used elephants in counter-guerrilla patrols, or would hire local elephant handlers to help them cross deep rivers or haul heavy equipment when conventional transport was unavailable.
One of the most bizarre military operations involving elephants was Operation Bahroom, when a group of U.S. commandos facilitated the air drop of two elephants from a CH-53 helicopter in 1968. The elephants were for a local tribe in Vietnam's Central Highlands that needed the animals for farm tasks. Yes, the Danny Glover and Ray Liotta movie Operation Dumb Drop is based on a true story. I'll give you a moment to process that.
But today, elephants are rare on the battlefield. Trucks and helicopters are faster and amphibious vehicles have made crossing rivers easier. When the situation does call for troops to use pack animals, mules are typically cheaper to obtain, safer to handle and easier to care for.
Unfortunately, elephants can still become targets in modern war, even though armies are not going into battle on their backs.
Many armed groups have embraced the ivory trade, which wipes out surviving elephant populations and helps fund militias that are trying to wipe out people. It's a sobering reminder that when elephants and war have mixed, the former have too often become its victims.


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Thursday, December 20, 2007
To Pirate or not to Pirate....
They are insanely cheap, like $4 for a disc with up to 16 movies on it!
On one level, plain and simple, it is stealing. This is pretty much how it is. So it is black and white...or is it?
I have been discussing this with TJ a bit whilst over here. There are a few factors to think about.
If the company that makes it is not actually losing anything, does that make a difference? (Like if you were to steal a shirt from Myer, then Myer would lose the money it cost them to make that shirt). Particularly if you would not have otherwise bought the DVD-which i wouldn't, as I pretty much never buy DVDs.
Is it better that my money goes to some dude on the street in malawi who actually needs it rather than some suit who works at a movie studio? Or am I just supporting them in earning a dishonest income?
As the actors are almost always paid before the movie goes on sale, the only people who really make money from me buying a DVD is the studio.
I often wonder about this when buying CDs, as it really annoys me that only $1-2 actually goes to the recording artist.
Is it any worse than people at home who buy coffee that screws over the coffee farmers (as does 90% of the coffee people at home drink). Does that even make a difference?
I used to be pretty set that it was totally wrong, but am now reconsidering it. I would love to hear what others who have been faced with this situation think.
6 comments:
- Gareth LovesTha Pye said...
I don't I mind the little guy on the street making a small profit on a pirated DVD, what I have the issue with is the organised crime ring that he buys the bulk pirated DVD's off. I'll never buy pirated work because of its roots in organised crime.
I will obtain my own copies of pirated stuff though, just while trying to avoid letting anyone make a profit off it. I feel that I physically goes to the movies often enough and live music often enough that I've 'paid my dues'. I know how hollow that sounds, but I strongly believe that the way I consume media doesn't fit with the traditional distribution of it. I sit here at work with 22 thousand odd songs available for me to listen to, I don't think I could afford to own that much music :)
- 9:10 am
How many wrongs make a right?
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- Gareth LovesTha Pye said...
Is there a right?
- 10:31 pm
Hey Digs,
AB's words of wisdom:
If you care about the street vendor, give him the $4 but don't take his dirty disc!
Merry Christmas!
love from andrew
- 3:08 pm
I don't think there is a right...but if you have to choose...id buy pirated...when i was in a developing country i didnt...id rather buy things that remind me of the country and stuff like that...your choice in the end mate.
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Home remedy for vertigo is to stop your world spinning on the wrong axis.
Simply one of the very worst of conditions can sometimes be well managed with Brandt Daroff exercises.
So, what causes vertigo? It's a disturbance of the flow of fluid in two small organs in the inner ear. When calcium crystals block one canal, say in the right ear, then one organ gives divergent information to the brain, compared to the left; the result is nausea and sometimes vomiting, not unlike sea sickness and a world that spins.
The standard treatment is known as the Epley manoeuvres; a series of exercises done by a skilled practitioner. There are six canals and determining which is the offending beast is vital to the success of the treatment. But once the acute phase is over a simple exercise may help prevent it returning.
Don't take stugeron; it doesn't help and in fact one of its side effects is nausea in ten percent of cases. It may actually won't make things worse.
Eighty percent of the time, vertigo is caused by this inner ear condition known as benign paroxysmal positional vertigo; the treatment of choice is the Epley manoeuvres.
The other twenty percent is caused by an inner ear infection, multiple sclerosis, Meniere's disease or a stroke; serious diseases so a diagnosis is paramount.
So a careful history and examination is vital before starting the treatment. Your chiropractor will take your blood pressure, examine the cranial nerves and reflexes, ask about progressive deafness and look for signs of an upper respiratory infection.
Two features give the diagnosis; it's paroxysmal. There is sudden onset for no obvious reason and a strange flicking of the eyes known as nystagmus begins. It's this uncontrolled movements of the eyes that make the world appear to spin.
A very clever neurologist called Dr Epley worked out a complex treatment procedure to displace the naughty crystals from where they are blocking one canal, and shifting them to a sort of rubbish bin called the utricle.
Don't lie in bed despite the awfulness of getting up and moving about; just lying down worsens the problem. Do be careful because you may fall; you'll look like a drunken sailor as you make your way to the bathroom. A recent patient came in with umpteen thorns in her body; walking in the garden she'd fallen into a rose bush. Use a stick and balance with your hands against the wall and on furniture.
Vertigo usually affects the older person; someone who also may be suffering from brittle bone disease. A fall can mean a broken hip.
Keep a bucket near you; nausea is common, and you may vomit too.
This home remedy for vertigo that I will describe shortly is not for you when you're in the acute phase, throwing up and falling about. Then it's time for a consultation with a skilled practitioner who has learnt the Epley manoeuvres; often doctors and chiropractors may not have a clue unless they have been on a specialised course on the management of vertigo.
Medical doctors will want to prescribe Stugeron which doesn't help and may worsen the condition; nausea is one of the side effect in ten percent of people.
And your chiropractor may want to adjust your neck; in my book it's absolutely contraindicated until the acute phase is completely over; even if you have a sore neck. Investigations by two esteemed chiropractic researchers found that dizziness is one of the conditions where chiropractors need to tread very carefully.
Confusingly, in a small group of people, the vertigo may actually be caused by a subluxation in the neck affecting the blood flow to the brain. In this group, a very careful adjustment of the neck may be the only treatment that will fix your vertigo; however I personally would only do that once all other avenues have been exhausted.
I do occasionally adjust the cervical spine of the patient with vertigo, but never in conjunction with the Epleys; an acute episode of vomiting may occur. Stroke chiropractic is a very rare phenomenon, but the dizzy patient is one of those considered at risk.
Start these home remedy for vertigo exercises slowly in the beginning. In the acute phase they may cause a real upset; don't be concerned.
Another home remedy for vertigo
Routinely, when you stand up, wait a moment and then slowly turn around in a circle.
Then take a step to the side, and back to the other side.
You can also do this with your head slightly tilted to the side.
A caution when doing this home remedy for vertigo
During the Brandt Daroff exercises your head tends to flop around as you drop to the side and your neck goes into lateral flexion. If you suffer from neck problems, and particularly a cervical facet syndrome, then this routine can increase your neck pain.
Ask your chiropractor for advice.
Likewise if you have a lower back problem; ask someone to raise your legs as you flop on your side, trying to keep your body straight. Otherwise, next thing you may be needing chiropractic help for sciatica pain!
Chiropractic help might be for you, but manipulation is to be used last after the other exercises like Brandt Daroff and Epleys have been exhausted unsuccessfully.
Small doses of vertigo are not uncommon as we get older; a sudden spinning of the world as we turn our heads in odd positions, or turning in bed. It usually passes in a few seconds.
But if it turns into vertigo, it's a horrible, nasty condition. Don't panic, this too will pass. If it's bad, don't start these home remedy for vertigo exercises, but get professional help. My advice is not to take pills, and not let your chiropractor adjust your neck initially. Find someone who can do the Epley exercises with you. They are safer and more effective.
For years sometimes, if you don't follow the right treatment and these home remedy for vertigo exercises.
I'm in the midst of treating a 60 year old lady with a particularly nasty episode of vertigo dizziness. You can get a lot more detailed information about the disease at this page. She's the inspiration for this blog. Yesterday I gave her this home remedy for vertigo; in a week's time I'll give an update on how she's progressing.
But, back to the question you may be asking; how long does vertigo last? Her vertigo started two weeks ago. For a day she did nothing, not liking doctors of any ilk, but when she fell into a rosebush in the garden and started vomiting, her husband insisted.
They went to a medical doctor who examined her and ruled out a stroke, diagnosing, correctly I believe, Benign Positional Paroxysmal Vertigo, commonly called BPPV. But obviously not familiar with the research about vertigo, she prescribed Stugeron; it didn't help in the slightest. So, that's one week with no improvement; in fact if anything slightly worse.
Then, desperate, she consulted her local chiropractor since she also had a sore neck and had heard the problem might be in her neck. Me! Fortunately this chiropractor has been around the block, and I didn't adjust her neck. I once had colleague, now long deceased who adjusted a dizzy patient who then had a stroke. Once bitten, twice shy!
Stroke chiropractic is rare, about one in six million manipulations of the neck, but it's the dizzy patient who is at risk. It's always safer to start with the Epley exercises and this home remedy for vertigo until there is no longer any nystagmus; then if the neck is still painful, one might consider adjusting the cervical spine. Cautiously, and not in the direction of the positive Hallpike Dix test. That's the test your chiropractor will use for diagnosing BPPV.
Having given probably several hundred thousand cervical manipulations with any serious incident, I'll never forget the dizzy patient who I adjusted and gave the Epley exercises at the same consultation. She vomited continuously for three hours; it wasn't pleasant and fortunately the episode passed when I was about to call in the help of a neurologist. She recovered completely but never consulted me again for obvious reasons. In her book I screwed up, and she's right. I never do the Epleys and adjust the neck on the same consultation. Never.
Did you find this page useful? Then perhaps forward it to a suffering friend. Better still, Tweet or Face Book it.
Interesting challenges of the day
1. Mr S is a 76 year old man with neck pain of some 9 months duration. Luckily, most of the discomfort is upper cervical which is only rarely arthritic; his lower cervical spine is a degenerative mess that I have left alone. After seven treatments his pain and stiffness is 50 percent better, and he is happy in the circumstances. He can sleep through the night now and that makes a huge difference.
2. Mr P is 32 year old man with very severe lower back pain radiating to the big toe which is 30 percent numb. He had an episode three weeks ago, took anti-inflammatories and was soon better as is typical of the medial disc herniation. But before it healed, after a trivia it came roaring back, much worse. The characteristic crossed sign was evident; sitting in a chair, straightening the right leg provoked severe left back pain and tingling in the leg. He is doing well.
3. Severe lower back pain is scary; just ask Mrs P. Just watching her get out of the car I she was in trouble; she had a slipped disc at L4 making her lean towards the opposite side; luckily she had no pain in the leg. Despite family pressure that this was far too severe for a chiropractor, she persevered. Within five days she was standing upright, and after two weeks almost pain-free.
Despite a hectic job, she wisely took my advice and stayed home for what I call exercising bed rest.
4. Mr S has had lower back, groin and back of thigh and calf pain for fourth months.
He has a pincer deformity in the hip causing the stabs in the groin, and a degenerative facet causing the sciatica. Both are responding well to chiropractic and he is well pleased; sixty-five percent better after three treatments.
5. Mr T is a wise man; he has taken a warning TIA seriously and has lost 15 pounds, and has at least as much again to lose. A change to a low starch diet and half hour daily stroll has made the difference; but the walking is making his foot and back miserable. The expensive orthotic is hopeless; luckily his hips and back are fine, but he needs a simple heel lift; he has a short leg.
6. I too have had serious lower back issues, luckily fixed by my own chiropractor; so I too have to do my exercises, take care when lifting supers full of honey, gardening and using the chainsaw. Regaining the function of your spine is just as important as the pain.
7. My own granddaughter, only 7 is hypermobile giving her pelvic, knee and ankle issues. X-rays show a mildly dysplastic hip. Years ago we would have called it growing pains. She too regularly needs chiropractic care and luckily responds well. Increased range of motion is more difficult than too stiff in my opinion. Our care is for kids too.
8. This 65-year old lady is a serious gardener; every day she is bending, lifting and digging for 2 to 3 hours a day. It regularly catches her in the sacroiliac joint, so she has a treatment once a month that sorts it out. She does her lower back exercises faithfully.
9. This 88-year old lady is an inspiration; every day she is busy in the community. With a nasty scoliosis she manages very well with a chiropractic adjustment every six weeks and exercises faithfully done.
10. Mr X is a 71-year old retired man who wants to continue with maintenance care every six to eight weeks; he had suffered from two years of lower back pain when he first came a few months ago. He has no discomfort now after 8 chiropractic treatments, but is aware that danger lurks.
11. Mrs C has been having severe headaches, and taking a lot of analgesics. It is a non-complicated upper cervical facet syndrome, and she is doing well.
12. Mr D is a 38-year old year man with chronic shoulder pain after a rotator cuff tear playing cricket. It responded well to treatment, but he knows he must do his exercises every day; for two years he could not sleep on that shoulder.
13. Mr D, a 71-year old man, has a severe ache in the shoulder and midback since working above his head. Trapped nerve tests are negative but he has advanced degenerative joints of Luschka; after just two treatments he is 50 percent better. Can we reach 90?
And so the day goes; chiropractors should not be treating the elderly most medical sites state but that is so much bunkum.
Do you have a problem that is not getting better?
Are you looking for a different slant on your pain?
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Greetings, Dr B.
You helped me quite some time back with a soothing and professional response which turned out to be exactly correct. I now consult a local chiropractor. You write a superb newsletter, too.
Your own unresolved problem. Pose a question
Knowing that up to 70 percent of the time the correct diagnosis is made with no examination, no special tests, no xrays, but just from the history, there is a fair chance I can add some insight to your unresolved problem. But at least 30% of the time, I may be quite wrong. Give plenty of detail if you want a sensible reply.
You visited this chiropractic help site no doubt because you have a problem that is not resolving and want to know more about what a DC does.
The quickest and most interesting way is to read one of my eBooks of anecdotes. Described by a reader as gems, both funny and healthful from the life and work of a chiropractor, you will love them. Priced right at $2.99, though Kindle fiddles the amount without telling me.
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"Imitation Love"
Ephesians 4:24 – 5:2
August 9, 2015
This scripture was fresh in my mind as I sat down to watch the Republican debate Thursday night. I found myself thinking, here is a case study of what the author of Ephesians wanted the early community of followers of Jesus Christ avoid. Many of the candidates profess Christian faith, but if you want an example of how to live in love, that was not it.
I know, they were just doing what they were supposed to do in a debate: using their words to skewer each other. (Although usually the points go to the candidate who calls others stupid without actually saying "Stupid… stupid!"). They were just meeting the expectations of how they perceive the voting public.
The author of this letter knew about debates. [We call the author Paul, but scholars debate whether or not the author was actually Paul, or someone writing in Paul's persona, which was common at that time.] He – and it was probably a he – knew that supposedly reasoned arguments could easily turn into fighting words. He also knew the danger of the divisiveness in this way of speaking, and so encouraged a different mode for the gathering that would become the church at Ephesus. Too much was at stake for them to act out of their anger, or to not deal with each other honestly. "Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building up," he said. And "let your words give grace to those who hear." I appreciate that he said it's okay to be angry, but slander and malice and wrath are not acceptable. Instead, "be kind, tenderhearted, forgiving as God has forgiven you."
I suspect these are words we could never hear too much, especially given this larger community which we inhabit here in the D.C. area. Kindness, tenderheartedness, forgiveness – these are not values our political culture engenders or espouses. It's not that they don't exist here, but that they often aren't celebrated. Or that they aren't to our advantage. Our nation's current military involvements aside, on this week when Japan observes the seventieth anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I remember an article describing a conversation between a Japanese journalist and Clifton Truman Daniel, President Truman's grandson. The journalist kept pressing him to apologize for his grandfather's order to drop the bombs. Clifton Daniel never did.
"I don't know that there'll ever be an apology. Maybe the two countries can find language that brings them together to say 'you know we acknowledge that serious hurt was done on both sides and we own that and going forward we pledge not to do something like that' but it doesn't feel at this point that there will ever be a flat out apology from the US to Japan or the other way around," he explained.
Admitting that our nation did something wrong, even if we believed we were doing it to save as many lives, to end the war – it's just not politically savvy.
The author we call Paul has a different motive for those who follow Christ. He wants them to see themselves, not in terms of what divides them, but in terms of their common identity in Jesus Christ, an identity that means they are members of one another. The way they treated someone else was merely an extension of how they treated themselves. "If I hurt you, it's going to hurt me, too."
Ultimately, this common connection to Jesus means that they understand they are loved by God in the same way that Jesus was, that they know the same truth. Paul wants them to hear the same way Jesus did at his baptism, "You are my beloved." And Paul would add, "So live like it." In the end, it's about living out the same kind of love God has for us: imitating God's love – or imitation love – not in the sense that it's a fake, but in the sense that the only we way to learn it is to imitate God.
Our culture tells us love happens when you are on the same side, when you agree, when you have proven yourself to be worthy, whether because of your body shape or skin color or intellect or ability to make yourself popular or electable. Which in the end isn't really love.
It's a direct contradiction to the unconditional love Paul describes here. Paul uses the Greek word agape – translated literally, it says "walk around in agape." This is love for love's sake, and this is how we imitate God. Some people call it cross-shaped love: on the vertical axis, we know God's love for us; therefore we should live it horizontal plane with others.
Agape – it's the best kind of love, but also the most difficult, particularly when you understand that Paul is talking about a community that takes on family relationships. In my own family, I have two wonderful children, until they end up on the back seat of a car on a long ride from North Carolina. The people we love the most can also frustrate us the most. Paul had to know this, because he didn't say don't be angry, only don't let the anger get the best of you.
The last few months have taught me a little more about the agape part, too, about the challenges of loving people unconditionally. Imitating God, trying to walk in agape, means you're going to hurt some, too – not because of anything you or the other person has done – but simply because of circumstances.
I have only lived apart from my family for a few short months – getting to see them on the weekends, knowing they are being cared for and that we will be and are now reunited. Knowing how I felt for that short time, I ache so much more for those parents and children who are divided by long work hours, or military service, or incarceration, or deportation, or chronic illness, or even struggles to conceive.
As a parent separated from her children, as scripture also describes God, I've also learned that the actions that spring from agape – the imitating – also brings goodness. Advice to preachers is usually to take some distance from your emotions before you try to preach about them, but yesterday, anticipating my family's arrival – my parents and my children – it was all I could do not to pop. Last week, every night, I would stand in the doors to Will's and Ginny's rooms in our new house in Arlington, rooms they saw for the first time yesterday, and imagine them there, what they would be doing, how they would arrange things – or leave things on the floor. (You may guess which one of them does that.) Only at the end of the week could I bring myself to sit on their beds – partly because one of them didn't have a bed until Thursday – but mostly because it was just too much for me. Our new neighbors would ask about our children, and we would say, "yes, they're coming Saturday," – almost to remind ourselves we put up a bright, tacky "Welcome to your new Home" poster and balloons. When I heard Scott say "they're here," I dropped everything and ran. I wasn't consciously imitating God, I was just doing what a mom does – what a daughter does – when those she loves the most drive up after an absence.
Yet here's what struck me, and why I share it with you. That's what God feels like all the time. Times infinity. Towards you, towards me, towards every single person. That's what Jesus came to show. That's what makes us members of one another, whether we like each other or not. Being faithful means recognizing unconditional love when we see it, means sharing that unconditional love, and not just with those we naturally love the most. In fact, if Jesus's way, if the words to the Ephesians are true, they may be the very people we are called to love if we are to live as God's beloved children.
Friends, in this world, in this town, where words are often crafted to hurt, may yours give grace to those who hear. In this time when anger often erupts in malice, may we learn to show kindness, compassion, and mercy. And may you walk in love, in agape, and discover the unimaginable love God has for you and for all. Amen.


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Beat the post-holiday blues, get fit, and ski vacation on the cheap with a January ski getaway.
Photo: Stowe Resort
January 2nd is a big day for ski resorts: not because big crowds are coming, but because of the mass exodus that takes place in (literally) a single day, making the transition from the busiest time of ski season to the slowest, which is January. The locals tend to love it, and for good reason: slopes are empty, lift lines don't exist, and there's so much more powder to go around. But as ski vacationers, you should love it too: you'll find some of the best deals for lodging, lift tickets, and airfare, as well as fun festivals and personalised attention in ski lessons. Keep reading for 17 reasons to book a January ski vacation.
No Lift Lines
Forget about 45 minute waits in line like most of us experienced over the Christmas holidays: January brings the sweet serenity of empty lift corrals and more laps than your legs will want to handle. Besides special times like Martin Luther King Weekend, expect little to no waits – especially if you take a sick day and head to the resorts mid-week.
More Powder
January brings big snow storms across the Rocky Mountain West, Tahoe, and sometimes New England. Because of fewer crowds, there's more powder to go around – which means you won't be fighting for fresh tracks at 8am: you'll be basking in free refills all day. It's not uncommon to find powder stashes in the trees up to a week after a January storm. Enjoy.
Après Deals
Bars and restaurants love to get customers in during the low of the winter season, which is January. Expect superb happy hour deals and freebies, as well as drink reps making rounds in the slopeside bars and lodges promoting their products with free samples and swag.
Empty Slopes
No crowds mean no lift lines, as well as empty slopes. This is a huge perk for beginners who want safer learning environments, and experts who want to cruise down steep pistes without having to dodge other skiers. The quality of intermediate slopes stays strong throughout the day.
Local Vibes
Ski towns are dominated by locals in January, which makes for laid-back mountain town pace and an enjoyable peak into the true culture of the place. This is a great time to kick back with an après beer and listen to local lore, chat it up with shopkeepers, and attend a few town events.
Best Lodging Deals
Hotels offer big deals to fill empty rooms in January, so be on the lookout for up to 40% off, bonus free nights, upgrades, and the works. There are also great deals on chalets and slopeside homes. Search our site for the best deals available.
Lift Ticket Prices
Major resorts like Vail and Jackson Hole are now setting records for highest lift ticket prices (a one-day ticket over the holidays will cost you a cool $179 USD (£137 GBP)). But January blows in with slightly discounted rates at many areas, which means you can still ski the legendary resorts. Check online and purchase 1 week ahead for the best discounts.
Easy Travel
Travel may not ever feel "easy," but compared to the hustle and bustle of holidays, whisking through airports should be a breeze in the first month of the year. Chances of lost bags and hassles are few compared to Christmas week; providing the weather cooperates, air traffic schedules also run more smoothly.
Group Getaways
With fewer crowds and discounted rates across the board, January is the ideal month for the group ski vacation. If your family is not locked into the school vacation cycle, spend a week or ten days in the chaos-free mountains when the masses are back at home. Between ample lodging, restaurant, and activities availability, this is the stress-free time for great vacations with groups.
Post-Holiday Happiness
A January ski trip is the way to beat the post-holiday blues. After the excitement of Christmas and New Year's (and the long wait until spring), moods tend to drop. Embrace the cold, the snow, and the mountains by passing the time with a ski vacation. Hit the spa, shop the post-holiday deals, eat fabulous food: it's all available at top ski resorts.
Cool Festivals
Scope your favorite ski towns for festivals, like Telluride's Fire Festival and the Sundance Film Festival in Park City. One of the perks of a month of no holidays is that mountain towns can fit in all the other great celebrations they think up. Did we mention the X Games in Aspen?
Weekend Getaways
If work or kids are keeping you at home, consider a quick weekend getaway to a local area. Weekend ski trips are great ways to keep up your skills and have some on-hill thrills between major vacations. For the Denver area, we love Aspen; and for New Englanders, Stowe.
New Rental Equipment
If you're considering renting your gear on your ski vacation, going early season is best: you basically get to use the newest gear, in its newest condition, at very little cost. Rental shops tend to be much more flexible after the holidays because there's no shortage of equipment for guests, so you'll likely be able to try everything they carry in the shop (and in excellent condition!)
Empty Ski Schools
Showing up for a group lesson – especially midweek – in the low month of January often means getting a private or semi-private lesson. January is an excellent month for beginners especially because they get much more personal attention due to small group sizes. If you're advanced, consider a half-day lesson simply to get a tour of the all the secret stashes on the mountain.
Getting Fit
Burn the holiday calories the fun way with an early 2017 ski vacation. While hitting the gym and stretching things out in yoga are a solid bet for a healthy start to the new year, skiing makes it so much more fun. And having fun while getting fit tends to produce better, long lasting results than arduous hours on the treadmill.
Easy Restaurant Reservations
Top restaurants at resorts like Beaver Creek and Telluride book out months in advance during peak periods; in January, the books are usually wide open. If the foodie-inspired ski getaway is your plan, now is the best time to do it.
International Escapes
Finally, don't forget that international ski vacations are not to be looked over by any serious ski vacationer. Consider January your month to visit the Alps or the Pyrenees, and especially Japan. There's a reason they call it Japow.
Want to get the skinny on all the January deals? Find the biggest discounts here.


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Paul Leeland would put the 'hop' back in 'bishop.'
—Rev. Ben Williams
Probationary Member, St. Mark's UMC, Raleigh
"In 2007, the North Carolina Conference Clergywomen's Association awarded our 'Red Shoe' recognition to Paul Leeland for his advocacy, support and encouragement of women in ministry. Paul has a commitment to inclusive ministry, solid Christian character, and depth of knowledge of our connection."
— Rev. Para Lee Rodenhizer Drake, President, NC Conference Clergywomen's Association
Paul is a visionary leader who seeks to be centered in God's will for the church. He is committed to a "partnership" of ministry empowering laity and clergy together to make disciples of Jesus Christ. He is a great communicator who inspires others to serve God with heart and soul.
—Emily Innes
NC Conference Lay Leader
Paul brings to the church the gift of discernment as well as the God-given ability to be a peace-maker. He can listen to a discussion, hear the important issues to be resolved and then peacefully lead others to work through these issues.
As a deacon in full connection, I am also thankful for Paul's support of the Order of Deacon as he has helped to interpret the Order to the Church.
—Rev. Patricia Archer, Chair
Order of Deacon, NC Conference
On the Council on Finance and Administration, Paul showed vision and wise leadership involving conference expenditures and great sensitivity to the local churches.
I presently serve with Paul on the Commission on Equitable Compensation. He exercises prudence and sound judgement in dealing with issues involving struggling churches.
—Mack B. Parker, President
UM Retirement Homes Board of Trustees
Paul is a deeply spiritual pastor and a remarkably gifted leader. On the Board of Ordained Ministry, I have seen his ability to understand complex issues, articulate them to others, and find a way through.
As a foundation officer, I see a need for the church to have episcopal leadership keeping us faithful to the Gospel while exploring creative ways to relate the Gospel to human need and outreach in the world. Paul is that kind of leader.
—Rev. W. Joseph Mann, Director
Rural Church Division, The Duke Endowment
I was a young man who fought against God's call to ministry. Paul Leeland reached above and beyond to nurture me. He lives by a different set of values and made a profound impact on my life. Any annual conference would thrive under his kind of sacrificial, servant leadership.
—Rev. Chad Pullins
Probationary Member,
Organizing pastor of a new congregation
Paul Leeland models the best of United Methodist balance, passion, outreach, and warmth. His style of ministry is collegial, not Lone Ranger; his style of life is what is right, not what is easy.
—Dr. F. Belton Joyner, Jr.
Retired Clergy
I have found Paul to be intentionally inclusive, a strong leader, an educator, a visionary. He holds immense compassion and passion for all God's children.
—Darlene Jacobs, Executive Director,
Southeastern Jurisdictional Agency for Native American Ministries
I am amazed at Paul's knowledge of the Word, Discipline, Methodist beliefs and their intent. Paul is passionate about God's call for lay people to be in ministry with clergy. He treats everyone with equal respect.
—Eston C. Brinkley, lay member
NCC Board of Ordained Ministry
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About Sistema
Sistema is a publicly-traded diversified holding company in Russia and the CIS.
Established in 1993, today Sistema is a large private investor operating in the real sector of the Russian economy. Sistema's investment portfolio comprises stakes in predominantly Russian companies representing various sectors of economy, including telecommunications, retail, timber processing, agriculture, high technology, banking, real estate, healthcare services and hospitality. Sistema is the controlling shareholder in most of its portfolio companies. Sistema's competencies focus on improvement of the operational efficiency of acquired assets through restructuring and attracting industry partners to enhance expertise and reduce financial risks.
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sistema Vladimir Evtushenkov, with 59.2% of shares, is the principal Sistema shareholder.
Sistema's global depositary receipts are listed under the "SSA" ticker on the London Stock Exchange. Sistema's ordinary shares are in the first (highest) level of listing under the "AFKS" ticker on Moscow Exchange.


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I Have Moved!
My wife and I just moved the family to the town we grew up in: Northampton, Massachusetts. If you are in the area, let me know and we can get together. I am looking forward to participating in user groups like I did back in Boston with BostonPHP and BostonPlone. I am still working with Optaros so I plan to be in the Boston area for work with some frequency - it's less than 2 hours away.


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"Mom was admitted to the hospital with a serious illness. Although we are both fairly well-educated people we had never heard about this type of problem and were shocked to find out that no surgical or curative procedures exist for it. Mom had long before signed an advanced directive rejecting any artificial life support. After many discussions, the doctor suggested we talk with the hospital social worker who mentioned Montgomery Hospice and Casey House as a possibility.
What a relief for Mom to be transported to Casey House! Casey House has such a homelike atmosphere. We were actually startled by how nice it is. After Mom died, we realized we missed going there because it was so pleasant. The building is architecturally welcoming and there are lovely touches such as the smell of cookies and coffee, dogs for petting, and a harp. The courtyard is lovely. We would go outside and make calls and enjoyed the view and the birds.
At Casey House, we felt welcomed and at home. We could come and go at any time. We were able to treat the Casey House great room as though it was our own den. My siblings were there a lot and we were able to be together very comfortably as a family. Friends came too. The grandchildren were able to play Nintendo on the Casey House TV. Our kids were nervous and anxious about the whole process and we were able to provide pizza for them at the table. That was so reassuring and helpful.
Mom had always enjoyed listening to jazz. At Casey House she wanted to hear her music—which she did, a lot of old Duke Ellington tunes. The second day Mom was at Casey House, the family gathered for her 85thbirthday celebration in her room. We sang 'Happy Birthday' to her and there was a cupcake with one lit candle. She couldn't eat but she was happy to have us around her.
The nurses were very attentive and could perceive Mom's pain in ways we could not. They helped to educate us when we had to make decisions about Mom's care. At the time Mom was admitted the social worker helped us make tentative long-term plans in case Mom needed to leave Casey House if she stabilized. She was good about making clear to us that Casey House is for very short-term hospice care only. The chaplain helped us connect with clergy. We were pleasantly surprised to find out the staff wanted to take care of the whole family, not just Mom.
At one point on her birthday, Mom and I were alone and I whispered to her, 'You were a great mom' and she whispered back, 'Thank you.' Those were her last words to me. I never saw her awake again. But that was the perfect way to close out a life-long relationship.
Casey House is all-embracing and all-enveloping. We want to help people learn that Casey House and Montgomery Hospice are there to give people the care they need at the end of life."


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Preheat oven to 180°C (350ºF) Gas 4.
Mix the oats, almonds, cinnamon and sugar of your choice together in a large mixing bowl. In a separate bowl, mix the milk, vanilla, melted butter and egg together.
Pour the wet mixture in the dry ingredients and stir to combine. Fold in the blueberries then transfer the oatmeal to the prepared baking dish.
Bake in the preheated oven for 30–45 minutes, until the edges are crisp and golden.
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As the new school year commences, we would like to wish all students a happy new school year.
Learning can be delightful. However, studies conducted by a research team at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University found that life satisfaction of secondary students declined year on year, their confidence in handling studies declined over the years and they generally regard learning life skills as important, but inadequately covered by the school curriculum. Similarly, parents also worried about their children's studies and feel a lot of pressure.
Every year, the Hong Kong government commits substantial resources into education. So why are students and even parents unhappy?
Although the government's Announcement of Public Interest advocates that "learning is not about scores," the assessment system, public exams and the education system still emphasise appraisal and assessment. How can students, parents and even teachers be expected to detach themselves from reality and forget about how scores impact them?
Faced with the problems in the educational system, many dedicated educationalists endeavour to open up new horizons for students.
In recent years, some schools have launched a life education curriculum and spiritual education. Some schools adopt positive education as their educational philosophy to help students develop positive interpersonal relationships, positive emotions, "positive physical health, engagement, accomplishment" and positive meaning, and empower them to flourish in life.
These can be considered as bringing the educational objective from dissemination of knowledge back to the most fundamental, most essential element which is often neglected in the secular world: developing one's personal qualities.
We understand that in modern, secular education, every kind of assessment providing students with substantial life skills for the future is an important issue. However, in view of the rapid changes and uncertainties in modern times, the coming generations, apart from acquiring these skills, need spiritual nourishment as well.
Spiritual nourishment enables children to experience love and be loved, and allows them to have the courage to cherish life and know how to cherish life so that they can face all kinds of challenges as they journey into their future.
This ideal education should not be the sole concern schools. In fact, learning, education and even the formation of the whole person require the family. This important factor has, however, been gradually neglected.
In addition to the knowledge acquired and good peer and teacher-student relationships at school, the care and good examples given by the family are of utmost importance, particularly for the moral development of teenagers or the formation of the Catholic conscience. Only when the next generations have this conscience and the ability to practise good deeds can they live an abundant life.
Jesus Christ embodies love and truth in action and and sets the ultimate good example. Thanks to his unconditional love and acceptance, of his disciples gathered around in spite of their various backgrounds. It is this kind of teaching by example and master-disciple relationship that serve as important elements in education. SE


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Ok so here I am now day 7 and no improvement. Google still acting up as is Youtube.
So tried the Local Network change to 18.104.22.168. and 184.108.40.206 on ipv/4 did a reboot.
No Change. I did look at my hub page and it is still saying the old
Primary DNS 126.96.36.199
Secondary DNS 188.8.131.52
Using HH3 with white modem if that has any bearing.
At the moment I am in the midst of testing some 3d software and we need to post unlisted vids on youtube.
A 14 second clip said 31 minutes to process OMG.
So cancelled and tried again and it went up in under 1 minute.
No I am not a Business I am a hobbyist so please don't suggest a Business Account as 99.9% of my use of joe public on
the internet.
Can one of the moderators please let us and me know what is going on.
Thank You.
I'm getting this problem again tonight. Websites working one minute, and the next they are unavailable.
I think there is more to it than a simple DNS issue, as I have been using Google DNS for the past few days. When I connect though a VPN which also uses Google DNS, everything works flawlessly.
I am getting the exact same issue tonight as well making surfing the internet very hard and frustrating.
Websites are working one minute and then the next minute they are not.
I have also tried with a VPN and the issue is gone and all websites load up up fine.
There must be an issue with the BT network or perhaps it is caused by the bad weather we have been getting recently.
I hope the issue goes away soon.
Yup, here we go again.
Once my contract is up, I'm off from this noncense, had it.
My understanding is that:
BT have been forced by court orders to restrict access to certain sites. They did to their credit appeal against this but lost and have implemented it in a way that intercepts DNS requests even when using DNS servers outside of BT.
The result is that due to a misconfiguration or lack of performance on the system in question, it fails with the results we have all been experiencing recently.
Why do the government bother trying to implement solutions to problems they don't understand??
A VPN will be necessary soon to have a basic, unrestricted internet connection and not for anything illegal, making it so much more difficult to actually acheive their aims.
Just to add a "me too" in Wirral, Merseyside.
I did notice a small reduction in performance last week (?) when BT was required to remove the DLM software. I put that down to my imagination but now I'm getting complaints that my 3rd Party=hosted website won't load and I'm finding much the same issues as everyone else - things are bad when even Google won't load!
I'm already running OpenDNS so, as someone has commented, BT are presumably intercepting traffic before it reaches the DNS servers.
I've been having the same problems over the last few days and thought it might be DNS related but having switched to Google's, there's no difference. Swapped router out too and then came on here to see lots of other people having the same issue.
I did try logging a fault but no luck. The support team say its a problem with my home hub so have sent a new one out. Which is part of the problem with using offshore teams working from scripts, there's no real knowledge about the technology or even context which is why its so frustrating when there's clearly a fault.
The main part of the problem is having a Government requiring ISPs to implement protocols that the Governemnt doesn't understand, are completely 100% ineffective against those they're trying to catch and only serve to screw things up for everyone else.
It's like trying to do stop and search on every vehicle travelling on the M1. The bad guys take another route and, as usual, it's just the honest people who are inconvenienced! (Sorry, rant over!)


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July 28th is sysadmin day. I wish all fellow SysAdmins a Happy sysadmin day!!! 😀
There is also a Sysadmin of the year contents. From the site, "…We're honoring the underappreciated, often misunderstood and rarely recognized system administrators and you can be a part of it. Tell us why your sysadmin is amazing before October 31, 2006 and they'll be entered to win fabulous prizes…"
Do not forget to nominate for your sysadmin. Offical SysAdminDay site.


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Curves are great until they're not.
1. Jeans that fit your thighs, waist and butt are an urban legend.
You can get one, or maybe even two but never all three.
2. And if they do fit they're the wrong length.
Because apparently all curvy girls are the same height.
3. When you finally find a decent pair they never last long.
So you've learnt not to get attached
4. And if Jeans can't cut it leggings stand no chance.
5. Chaffing is the literal worst.
When it's hot out your thighs be like.
6. You bump into everything and everyone with your hips.
7. And knock everything over.
8. Your butt too.
9. Getting to the back seat of a matatu is exhausting.
10. The fear that grips your soul when you hear a ripping sound while trying clothes on in a store.
11. Putting on jeans/tights should definitely count as cardio.
12. People are super comfortable with talking about your assets.
So you just awkwardly sit there and smile until their done.


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Atmospheric Paintings by Victoria LoweJanuary 5, 2018 - April 15, 2018
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Recurring daily
Museum of Arts & Sciences
4182 Forsyth Road
Macon, GA
Abstract painting can appear in many forms – as a visual phenomenon, perceptual conundrum, or personal testament. Victoria Lowe's paintings encompass all of these modes, and go further to become deeply immersive experiences. Expansive fields of sprayed color deliver us into an indeterminate space that seems to expand, pulse, or glow.
Four decades of abstract paintings by Alabama-based Artist Victoria Lowe explore atmospheric surfaces and gradations of color. Inspired by stargazing with a telescope, and the feeling of sublime connectedness to things beyond the physical environment and conscious comprehension, Lowe's painted atmospheres include abstract fields activated by coronas of color, expansive illuminated spaces, and shifting geometric realities. Resulting from the application of nearly fifty layers of sprayed paint, the tiny particles of pigment of each work act like pixels, interacting with adjacent hues to create new, subtle colors and a sense of depth.
Consistent through this body of work is a concern with energy in its many forms and the viewer's deep emotional response to color. Lowe's painted atmospheres are free of narrative or subject matter, but invite viewers to experience the depth of their own imagination.


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tically expressed, " an instance of triumph, "a proof of victory, which no one could "gilsay."—I have the honour to reman, Sir, &c.—C.
For N5u R G H REv if we Rs. Sir :-The Edinburgh Iteviewers, in heir bulky painphlet of April, 1803, under he guise of reviewing two publications, writen by gentlemen, whose names, I beere, are wholly unknown to the public, Mr. Rylance and a Mr. Lingham, are leased to enlighten the world with their longhts, upon the subject of the late emiition to the Brazils. Upon this topic, I el no interest in controverting their opions, as they are of course the echo of the etches in parliament, of that faction upon hose fortunes their own depend ; it being w no secret to any one that the positive erbearing and dogmatical paradoxes, which we so peculiarly distinguished the EdinIrgh Review, proceed from a small lot of young friends, who hunt after the al dinners and other good things of those :0mplished statesmen, Lords Holland and onry Petty. The subject, upon which I present address you, Mr. Cobbett, is the guage, which, in the article above-inenned, these gentlemen have made use of on the subject of Libel; language betraying once the base slavish spirit of which they composed, and the determined hostility nich animates them against all the assertors the Liberty of the Press. It seems, that ese authors, whose pamphlets form the preice of the review, Mr. Rylance and Mr. gham, unfortunately agreed in nothing in each dedicating his work to the Liver-- ol Solomon, Mr. Roscoe. Upon every int, relating to the subject of the Portuese emigration, they differed in their itiments. Mr. Lingham, to use the rds of the review, " kept quite clear of the least appearance of faction; while Mr. Rylance, without any material qualification, except perhaps his praise of Mr. Roscoe in the dedication, adopted the precise line of argument, taken by the persons in opposition to the present ministry." This was difference enough regulate the judgment of these candid, and partial critics. Mr. Rylance became, of 'urse, the favourite, and Mr. Lingham, as man swayed by no party motions, but bold ld independent enough to write from his wu understanding, was, of course, to be run own. If, however, on the present occaon, the Edinburgh Reviewers had confined hemselves to literary strictures only, how
or partial and corrupt those strictures
might have been, I should not have called your attention to them. But will you believe it, Mr. Cobbett in consequence of Mr. Lingham, who in his book, according to these critics' own account, " kept quite "clear of the least appearance of taction," having characterised the other gentleman by a few expressions not by any means unusual in political controversy, and none of which, from their analysis of his publication, I think it is pretty clear, were misapplied; such as " obscure pamphleteer," " unauthorized tool of a party," and the like; I say, will you, Sir, believe it, that these worthy disciples of the Whig school, these pains-taking underlings of the present Opposition, these Scotch preachers of political liberty, are actually for letting loose the dogs of law upon poor Mr. Lingham, and amercing him with fines, penalties, imprisonment, and the pillory, for having failed to acknowledge the eminent consequence of this Mr Rylance and his perfect independence, (which, be it observed, these reviewers themselves impeach) for having dared to publish the truth of him, and to speak of him as he deserves. They introduce their whiming complaint, and garbled quotations of Mr. Lingham's "abusive language" with this sentence : "Some passages, we are " pretty sure, would subject him to punish" ment in a court of justice : " and having finished their extracts, they conclude:— "We have little doubt that the above pas" sages, are themselves libellous." Is not this monstrous 2 Why, the action lately brought by the Duke of Bedford's Knight, (I forget his name) was nothing to this. Irritated feelings in being shewn to be a dunce, and disappointed expectations in not getting from his task-master his usual hire, to a certain degree palliated the resentment of that wretched book-maker. But what have these reviewers to urge in extenuation of this gratuitous recommendation of legal proceedings 2 Mr. Lingham did not charge them with a systematic and scandalous perversion of their duty, with a base and profligate bias either for or against every author whom they noticed ; Mr. Lingham did not say of them, that their malignity against most authors was to be equalled only by their interested adulation of a few ; that their wanton and scurrilous attacks on respectable writers in general, were balanced only in infamy by their gross and unblushing panegyrics upon the members of their own fraternity; that, throughout the whole of their career, their pens have been vilely prostituted to party purposes, in which task their inconsistency has been as notorious as their corruption,-the grovelling sycophants of power and place,—the admirers of Pitt, when living, and of his opponents, when dead. These, or similar charges, Mr. Lingham never insinuated against the Edinburgh Reviewers. One does not see, therefore why they should feel so sore, why they should so strongly sympathize with Mr. Rylance, cry out the senseless yell of libel, and call for punishment in a court of justice ' Really, Mr. Cobbett, the coincidence between the time of this publication (April, 1805) and the commencement of the knight's law-suit, and the identity of their sentiments upon the subject of libel, are so marvellous, that I verily suspect some of these young friends, who perhaps may belong to the profession of the law, were his counsellors upon the occasion, advised the action, as the phrase is, and perhaps assisted in getting up the cause. The knight, I dare say, has since heartily re. pented of having acted upon the opinion, from whatever quarter it proceeded ; and the Edinburgh Reviewers, since the unfortunate failure of his experiment, are probably now ashamed of the detestable persecuting spirit so wholly inimical to the liberty of the press, upon the expression of which I have animadverted. In making these animadversions I have no other object in view than to vindicate that palladium of our rights. without the secure enjoyment of which you, Sir, have so often observed, that our boasted freedon is nothing worth At the same time I feel an apology to be due, for the length to which my observations have extended, a length to be justified only by the importance of the subject itself, which will, I hope, plead my excise, and hestow a temporary consequence even upon these insignificant individuals, Messrs. Ry}ance and Hingham.—Yours, &c. – P. D.— Sept. 24, 1808.
Exposition of THE ra Act 1 ces A N D M Acrit NATIoss wortch LED to TH+. Usui R* Atto N or THF crow N of spa IN, AND * a HE MEANS A ports o BY THE EMPERo R of THE PRENCH TO CARRY IT INTO Exrcut to N, BY Dox for Ro cov Allos, FIRST SECRETARY OF STATE AN to DISPAT cites to His cATHolic M.A., Esty FER or NAN: WIN. At a period when the notion has made and continues to ni..!:e the most heroic efforts to shake of the yoke of slavery attempted to be imposed upon it, it is the duty of all good citizens to coutribute, by every means in their power, to eulighten it with respect to the real causes that have brought it into its present situation, and to
keep up the noble spirit by which it is animated.--To make known to Spain and the whole world the base means resorted to by the Emperor of the French to seize the person of our king, Ferdinand V11, and to . subjugate this grcat and generous nation, is a duty well worthy of one who, like my -is in a condition to discharge it; inasmuch as circumstances placed me in a situation be an eye-witness of the events which p ceded the catastrophe of Bayonne. and which I bore a part It was not in m power to do this before, it consequence personal restraint, and from not having coi lected the documents necessary to accred my statement. Some are still wanti which it was necessary to burn, in con quence of dangerous circumstances, which every thing was to be feared ; oth have disappeared through the various in dents connected with that unhappy per but those which I now present are suici to prove the atrocious violence commit against our beloved king, Ferdinand V and the whole nation—Though the cond of Spain towards France since the peace Băsie, a very interesting portion of its tical history in these latter times, is i mately connected with the important ev which form the subject of this Expositi it is not necessary to dwell even upon principal periods. It will be sufficient state what the whole nation, and all Eur know, that the political systein of S has constantly been during this time top serve friendship and the best understand: with France, and to maintain, at all b zards, the ruinous alliance concluded: 1796.--To attain this end, there is no sa fice which Spain has not made ; and as preservation of the Prince of the Peace the high degree of favour be enjoyed wi Charles IV. depended in a great mease upon the continuance of this system, it w maintained with the greatest constancy a indefatigable attention. Fleets, armi treasure, every thing was sacrificed France; humiliations, submissions, eve thing was suffered, every thing was do; to satisfy, as far as possible, the insatia: demands of the French government ; b. the idea never once occurred of preservi the nation against the machinations of ally, who was overrunning Europe.—l Treaty of Tilsit, in which the destiny of world seened to be decided in his favor, was hardly concluded, when he turned hi eyes towards the West, and resolved on t ruin of Portugal and Spain; or what come to the same purpose, to make himself mas ter of this vast peninsula, with a view
making its inhabitants as happy as those of Italy, Holland, Switzerland, and the league f the Rhine.—At this very time, the EunJeror was revolving in his mind some designs ital to Spain (for he began to disarm her), y demanding a respectable body of our roops to exert their valour in remote reions, and for foreign interests. This he ficted without difficulty, and there was laced at his disposal a gallant and picked rce of 16,000 men of all descriptions.— he enterprize of making himself master Spain was not so easy as Napoleon imaned. It was, above all, necessary to find it some pretext for carrying into execution * during and gigantic plan of subjugating tiendly and allied nation, that had made many sacrifices for France, and which s very Emperor had praised for its fidelity i nobleness of charaster.—Nevertheless, ng accustomed to act with that disregard to icacy in the choice of his means, which characteristic of the man who imaginas the conquest of the whole world, the truction of the human species, and the oc of war are conducive to true glory, resolved to excite and foment discord in royal family of Spain, through his amsador at this court.—The latter, though haps not initiated in the grand secret of master, succeeded in seducing the prince Asturias, our present king and master, suggested to him the idea of intertrying with a princess related to the emor. The affliction which his highness oured under from a conjunction of circumices, as lamentable as notorious, and his iety to avaid another connection into £h it was attempted to force him, with dy selected for him by his greatest eneand on that account alone the object of aversion, induced him to acquiesce in suggestions of the anbassador, but with stipulation that it was to lileet the approon of his august parents, and under the ression that it would strengthen the udship and alliance then subsisting be*n the two crowns. His highness, acled by motives so cogent in a political ht of view, and yielding to the solicitais of the ambassador, wrote accordingly his Imperial majesty.—A few days after beloved prince wrote this letter, occurrthe scandalous imprisonment of his auit person in the royal monastery of St. utence, and the still more scandalous de. e which was issued in the name of the *g, and addressed to the council of Cas* There are very strong reasons to be**, that the unknown hand that fiti-trato seigned conspiracy was some French |
its situation, entertained a just opinion of *
the good disposition and religious principles of their prince of the Asturias, and suspected instantaneously that the whole was a
calumny fabricated by the Favourite, as ab
surd as it was audacious, in order to remove
the only obstacle which then opposed his
views.- It is already known, that on the . imprisonment of the prince of Asturias, his royal father wrote to the Emperor, no-, doubt at the suggestion of the Favourite, complaining of the conduct of the ambassador Beauharnois, in his clandestine communications with the prince of Asturias, and expressing his surprise that the emperor had not come to a previous understanding with his majesty on a subject of such preeminent importance to sovereigns.—As the imprisonment of the prince of Asturias, and, above all, the most scandalous decree fulminated against his royal person, produced an effect completely contrary to the expectations of the Favourite, he began to be afraid, thought proper to lecede, and to mediate a reconciliation between the royal parents and their son. With this view, as is stated in the Abstract of the Escurial Cause, circulated by the Council in consequence of his majesty's orders of the 8th April, he forged certain letters, and made the prince of Asturias sign them while a prisoner, which being delivered into the hands of the royal parents, were supposed to have softened their hearts; and by these singular means did this innocent prince obtain a nominal liberty.—This was the state of affairs when a French courier arrived at the royal palace of St. Laurence, with a treaty concluded and signed at Fontainbleau on the 27th of Oct. by Don Fogenio Isquierdo, as plenipotentiary of his Catholic majesty, and Marshal Duroc, in too manie of the emperor of the French. Its contents, as well as those of the separate Convention, constitute Nos. 1 and 2 of the documents annexed to this Exposition —It is worthy of observation, that the department of the ministry, of which I was at the head, was totally unacquainted with the measures taken by Don E. 1squierdo, at Paris, as well as with his appointment, his instructions, his correspondence, and every part of his proceedings.-The result of this treaty was to render the Emperor master of Portugal with very littie expence ; to furnish him with a platisible pretext for introducing his armies into our peninsula, with the intent of subjugating it of a proper opportunity, and to put hia, in
ng its inhabitants as happy as those of
Holland, Switzerland, and the league ... : Rhine—At this very time, the Eun. . was revolving in his mind some designs ... • Spain (for he began to disarm her), manding a respectable body of our o exert their valour in remote rend for foreign interests. This he without difficulty, and there was
his disposal a gallant and picked 16,000 men of all descriptions.— prize of making himself master was not so easy as Napoleon ima... was, above all, necessary to find *I etext for carrying into execution * -o and gigantic plan of subjugating ... od allied nation, that had made
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or so ... * >eror had praised for its fidelity ... s of character.—Nevertheless, ...to med to act with that disregard to *** - choice of his means, which * - c of the man who imaginas ... .ost of the whole world, the * . . ." he human species, and the * ... < are conducive to true glory, *" of xcite and foment discord in ... -- " . - to is of Spain, through his amo so court.—The latter, though to . . . . ited in th d t of so. 2 ited in the grand secret o so ded in seducing the prince c. * * ... present king and master, . ...," him the idea of inter". ... incess related to the em- o ion which his highness a conjunction of circum... le as notorious, and his * - ... nother connection into . . . * oted to force him, with 2 m by his greatest ene:
:rifices for France, and which
royal father doubt at the suggestion of the Favourite, complaining of the conduct of the ambassador Beauharnois, in his clandestine communications with the prince of Asturias, and expressing his surprise that the emperor had not come to a previous understanding with his majesty on a subject of such preeminent importance to sovereigns.—As the imprisonment of the prince of Asturias, and, above all, the most scandalous decree fulminated against his royal person, produced an effect completely contrary to the expectations of the Favourite, he began to be afraid, thought proper to lecede, and to mediate a reconciliation between the royal parents and their son. With this view, as is stated in the Abstract of the Escurial Cause, circulated by the Council in consequence of his majesty's orders of the 8th April, he forged certain letters, and made the prince of Asturias sign them while a prisoner, which being delivered into the hands of the royal parents, were supposed to have softened their hearts; and by these singular means
did this innocent prince obtain a nominal
liberty.—This was the state of affairs when a French courier arrived at the royal palace of St. Laurence, with a treaty concluded and signed at Fontainbleau on the 27th of Oct. by Don Eugenio Isquierdo, as plenipotentiary of his Catholic majesty, and Marshal Duroc, in t!e name of the emperor of the French. Its contents, as well as those of the separate Convention, constitute Nos. and 2 of the documents annexed to this position —It is worthy of observation. epartment of the ministry, of at the head, was totaliy unacmeasures taken by Don E. well as with his apions, his corresponis proceedings.-s to render the ith very littie plausible into our Kong it 1.1, lil
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The Dow bubbles and the bears rumble
By Gerard Jackson
On does not need any Wall Street experience to realise that what ultimately matters to companies is profit. If profits are squeezed share prices will fall. The realisation that this is now happening across the board is having a very sobering effect on some analysts' market predictions, to the extent that some now privately express the view that the end is here rather than just 'nigh.' A fact that I never tired of pointing out is that the symptoms of a coming recession are first felt in those lines of production furthest removed from the final stages of production. This is hidden from us by figures that concentrate on total spending and employment so that any fall in spending on equipment can, statistically speaking, be more than offset by consumer spending. This is basically why people tend to see recessions as sudden occurrences, much like lightening, rather than a process that has been gathering speed for sometime.
That more and more bears are coming out of hibernation as more bellboys buy into the market should be a worrying sign for those deeply concerned with their savings and pension schemes. That the rise in stocks is narrowly based is finally causing widespread concern. The more I think of these high-flying tech stocks the more I think of 'Tulip Mania.' Just as this sorry episode in Dutch economic history was fuelled by insane expectations, credit expansion and capital inflows, so are our hi-tech stocks. Even though about 66 per cent of NASDAQ hi-tech stock have fallen in the last 12 months and 50 per cent of shares quoted on the New York exchange are down 30 per cent in the same period, some commentators are still predicting plain sailing. No way. The same thing is happening with the Standard & Poor 500 index and the Russell 2000 index of company stock has also fallen. And this is not a bear market?
These shares didn't just fall for no reason. This trend is not an act of God and there is nothing mysterious about it. Shares are falling because earnings are falling or are expected to fall. I suspect this is one of the reasons that Warren Buffet publicly questioned the fundamentals of corporate America. When the likes of Warren make statement like that then one should sit up and listen very carefully. This man is talking from within corporate America. Perhaps the announcement by the famed Caterpillar company that its predicted first quarter profits had been slashed by 50 per cent and that it was planning to close US and foreign plants has finally prompted some investors, including Buffet, into reassessing the market risk factor. That bulls have been quietly withdrawing for some months while bears have been moving in may have motivated Martin Armstrong to argue that many investors have become more risk averse. If so, then the market is being driven by "bubbleheads".
Caterpillar is just one of the capital goods companies that is feeling the pinch of a slowly emerging profits squeeze. Eventually the profit squeeze works its way down the production structure where if finally strikes at companies located at the consumption stage. Once this happens, things really begin to look bleak. But has it happened? Coca Cola's profits are now falling and it has been reported that other corporations whose products more or less go straight to the public find themselves in a similar situation. If correct, this suggests that the profit squeeze has now spread through the economy meaning that it has already entered the bust phase. At which point this will become pronounced cannot be determined at this stage.
It has to be understood that the profit squeeze is actually part of the purgative process; it is part of the means by which malinvestments are liquidated. Of course, there would by no such process if the Fed did not use monetary policy to force down interest rates. Regardless of what Ralph Acampora of Prudential Securities claims, the Fed's policy of using the money supply to keep interest rates down is the real reason why a major correction is unavoidable. I'm not impressed by his so-called view of "mega-markets" either.
Depressing as this will sound to some: if the data I have seen is accurate and the anecdotal evidence correct then I believe this year will see a major correction and the blame can be squarely laid at the feet of the Federal Reserve.
Note: The profit squeeze is a general process and does not hit every company to the same extent. Companies heavily in debt will obviously be hit extremely hard, no matter at which stage of the production process they are operating. However, that companies at the consumption stage suffer less than those in the higher stages of production is a well-noted phenomenon.
Gerard Jackson is the editor of the peerless The New Australian. This article is reprinted with his permission.
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10 Things to Do This Spring Break In San Antonio without breaking the bank. Spring Beak is creeping up on me this year. I feel like we just closed the door on the new year and I am scrambling to figure out what we are going to do for seven days. We are doing things a little different and not taking a vacation during there time off from school. I feel like I really need to fill our days with fun in order to compensate for the fact that they will be home. I also don't want to break the bank.
10 Things to Do This Spring Break In San Antonio
Spring Break FUNpass: Feb. 29 – April 8
Main Event is offering the ultimate FUN during Spring Break with an All You Can Play bowling, billiards, laser tag and more. The Spring Break FUNPass is just $17.95 per person and valid all day Tuesday through Sunday, and Monday from open to 4pm.
Tourist For The Day:
There are tons of family friendly activities in San Antonio that are mostly frequented by tourists and kids field trips. Become a tourist for the day and head downtown. Start at the IMAX theater at Rivercenter mall and watch the 3D version of the The Price Of Freedom. This is a great segway into heading across the street and visiting the Alamo (free). You can even pack a lunch and eat on the grounds of the Alamo. Head down to the river and take a Rio Boat Tour. My kids were amazed by the Lock & Dam tour in the Rio Boat. If you haven't had your fill yet, head over to the Tower of the Americas observation deck for 600′ view of San Antonio.
Free Museum Days
San Antonio is filled with museums to entertain all ages and best of all they have FREE days to visit. IF your Spring Break falls on any of these Freebie days, take advantage of them.
- Witte Museum: free general admission every Tuesday from 3:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
- The DoSeum: Free Family Night is on the first and third Tuesday of every month.
- San Antonio Museum of Art: Free admission Tuesdays from 4:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. and Sundays from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Kids under 12 always free.
- McNay Art Museum: 19 and under always free. Adults free Thursday evenings from 4:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. and the first Sunday of every month.
- Institute of Texan Cultures: free admission the second Sunday of each month, from 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Foodie Food Truck Fun
Some days are just meant for eating and expanding your palate. Head out to The Point Park & Eats and explore some new foods. There is also a great play area for kids.
Swim Free
The Natatorium has activity days all Spring Break, March 14-18, 12-3PM. This indoor swim experience is a great way for the kids to exercise and have fun.
Drive-in Theater
The drive-in isn't dead! The Stars and Stripes Drive-in Theater in New Braunfels is great for an entire evening of fun. The double feature movies, Cafe and playground offer a great reason to head to our neighboring town.
The drive-in isn't dead! The Stars and Stripes Drive-in Theater in New Braunfels is great for an entire evening of fun. The double feature movies, Cafe and playground offer a great reason to head to our neighboring town.
Yanaguana Garden
My new favorite place to play in downtown San Antonio. Pack a lunch and spend the afternoon at Hemisfair park with the kids. Check out all the fun to be had on the Hemisfair Park facebook page.
Rodeo Night
I may a bit biased because this is in my backyard, but a Rodeo is just what you need on a Saturday night. Have a steak night at the Tejas Steakhouse and then stay for the best Texas rodeo experience. Pro tip, watch Groupon for a great deal at the Steakhouse.
The San Antonio Zoo + Zoo Fun Pass
Grab a Zoo Fun Pass in addition to the Zoo entry and experience the Zoo carousel, butterflies and a train ride plus a box of popcorn.
Natural Bridge Caverns
You could literally be here all day. Checkout the caverns, take a drive through the Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch and then test yourself at the Canopy Ropes and Zip Line.