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Smith, Amanda
I had met Brother Luce at Round Lake Camp Meeting. He was a strong holiness preacher. Among others who had asked me to go to different camp meetings, he had asked me. I was a young beginner yet, and knew the Lord was leading. But I generally prayed over matters a good deal before deciding. There was a Mrs. Brown, who used to live at Harlem, N. Y. She was a good woman, and I used to work for her. I liked her very much. They had a tent at Round Lake, also. So one day she asked me to bring her a pitcher of water.
I often did little things for the ladies, brushed and settled up their tents, or got them a pitcher or bucket of water. I never felt that it hurt my dignity.
After I had brought her a pitcher of water, Mrs. Brown said to me, "We have a camp meeting at Wesley Grove at such a time, and we are short of workers, and I believe, Amanda, the Lord would bless you if you would go to our camp meeting; and all the money you needed would be at your disposal."
"Thank you," I said, "there are several who have asked me about going to different camp meetings. But you know I have to pray about it. So if you give me the address I will know how to go when I get home and get still before the Lord, so as to know just where He wants me to go, for when one says 'Come here,' and another 'There,' I cannot tell which way or place the Lord wants me to go. But when I get home and get still I can know His voice."
So off I went at that. The day before the camp meeting closed I met Brother Luce again.
"Now, Sister Smith," said he, "I have a church at St. Johnsville, and our people have a large society tent, and you could stay in it, and I would like to have you come to our camp meeting. I will give you my address, and when I get home I will write you and give you all the directions how to come, so you will have no trouble."
"All right, sir; thank you," I said.
The meeting closed, and I never had heard such wonderful preaching on the line of holiness. I was filled and thrilled. So I went home and began to pray and ask the Lord where He would have me go. For out of all the places I had been asked to visit, I wanted to know just where He would have me go. And a deep conviction settled down upon me that I was to go to Kennebunk. I liked Brother Luce and Brother Munger, and their families were all so kind to me while at Round Lake. Then Brother Luce would send me word just how to come. But to my surprise, when the letter came Brother Luce said, "Sister Smith, I am not well, and our people have decided not to take our big tent; so you had better not come, as you are a stranger, and have no place to stop."
"Well," I thought, "all right. I will go to Wesley Grove, where Mrs. Brown wants me to go. Then I know her, and like to work for her. So it will be better than going to Kennebunk."
Then the conviction to go to Kennebunk seemed to deepen, and I did not understand it. I must go to Kennebunk. I went to the Lord and told Him. I said, "Lord, I would be willing to go to Kennebunk, but Thou knowest Brother Luce has written and told me not to come. And Thou knowest it is not nice to go where you are told not to come. And if I do, it will look like impertinence after he has written and told me not to come. So I will go to Wesley Grove. Mrs. Brown says they need help there. Then I have worked for Mrs. Brown, and I am better acquainted with her, and that would be better for me."
This time Satan helped me a little bit. He said, "Yes, the reason you want to go to Wesley Grove is because Mrs. Brown offered you money, and that is all you are going there for--money."
Oh! how horrible it seemed as I thought of it. And I knew it was not so. And I said, "Now, Mr. Satan, that's a lie, and I will not go to Wesley Grove at all. I am going straight to Kennebunk, where they told me not to come. And I will show you it's not money I'm after."
I didn't know how much it would take for me to go to Kennebunk. I had been only to Philadelphia. So on Friday night I went to old John Street Church. Brother Roberts was class leader there. When they held their fiftieth anniversary they had made me, with a number of others, a life member, so I often used to go to this class.
That night there was a Mr. Palmer there. He was a very nice man, and a very consistent Christian. When the meeting was over, this gentleman went to put me on the Sixth avenue cars. He said, as we walked along, talking, "Sister Smith, for years I have been seeking the blessing of heart purity, and your testimony to-night helped me. But why is it I do not seem to get out into the full light? The Lord has blessed me," he added, "and I have some means. I am a broker on Wall street. But I have consecrated all to the Lord. And any time you need any help, you must just let me know."
"Well, sir," I said, "I never tell anybody but the Lord about my needs. He knows all, and I always tell Him to put it into the hearts of the people to help me when I need it, and then I leave it."
Now, somehow, I felt that the Lord wanted that brother to give me some money, for I did not have quite enough to go to Kennebunk. So I said good night, and got on the car and on I went. But I prayed all the way, and after I got home, that the Lord would trouble that man's heart, for I felt that he was disobeying the Spirit, and that was one reason why he could not come out into the light of full salvation. You must not keep back the full price of loyal obedience to God, and yet expect Him to bless you. And yet how often do we find persons doing this very thing. Then they wonder why they do not get on. The Lord help someone who reads this to see the truth.
I felt somehow all the time that that man was the one that was to help me out. So next morning I got down and prayed again. And then I got up and began to get my things ready. I was doing some ironing. All at once I heard someone come running upstairs very quickly. When he got to the foot of the stairs he called out, "Sister Smith!"
"Yes," I said. Who should it be but this very brother.
"I had an errand uptown this morning," said he, "and I thought I would run in and see you."
Now he had never been to my house before in his life. So I
But he did sit down a few minutes, and then he said, "I wanted to give you a little money."
"Amen," said I. "You might as well have done it last night. That's what the Lord told you to do."
"Well, yes," he said.
It was just enough, with what I had, to get me a round trip ticket to Kennebunk Camp Meeting. Praise the Lord!
Then we got down on our knees and prayed. I said, "Now, brother, you might just as well settle this thing. The Lord is willing to bless you. Why don't you let him? Why not be obedient now? The Lord can do it now if you will just trust Him."
So while kneeling it came to me to sing a verse or two of that old hymn of Charles Wesley's:
"Come, O, Thou traveler unknown,
Whom still I hold but cannot see.
My company before is gone,
And I am left alone with Thee," etc.
After singing I said to him, "Now, Brother Palmer, pray and let go."
So he did. My! how he prayed! The Lord broke him all down. He got blessed while he was praying. I prayed a little and then I sang the next verse:
"In vain Thou strugglest to get free,
I never will unloose my hold;
Thou art the man that died for me,
The secret of Thy love unfold.
Thy mercies never shall remove,
Thy nature and Thy name is Love."
Then the blessed Spirit fell upon him, and he launched out into light and liberty. Oh! how he praised the Lord. What a morning that was in that little attic room on Amity street. "And still there's more to follow."
In a few days after this I was off to Kennebunk. I left New York by the Fall River Line at five o'clock P. M. When I got on the boat, to my surprise whom should I meet but Sister Clark.
"Why," she said, "Sister Smith, where are you going?"
"I am going to Kennebunk Camp Meeting. Where are you going?" "Well, praise the Lord," she said, "there is where I am going."
We had a very pleasant evening together on the boat. We talked and prayed and sang. There were a number of very nice ladies, who seemed to enjoy Sister Clark's talk and prayers. We should have got into Boston, at the old Providence depot, at eight A. M., so as to take the train there for Kennebunk. But on account of a fog the boat did not get in on time, so we were ten minutes late for the train. Then we had to wait till twelve o'clock, noon, before there was another train. Well, I was going to get my ticket and go on the boat from Boston. It was cheaper that way. But Sister Clark said:
"Now don't do that, Sister Smith. You will lose two days of the camp meeting if you do that. Go right on now with me."
Well, I thought I would like to do it, yet I didn't have money enough. But she said, "I think you had better do it. I think you had better go right on with me."
So after talking awhile I decided to buy my ticket and go with her. That left me only fifty cents. After I got my ticket and sat down, oh! how Satan attacked me. He said, "Now you have been getting on, and the Lord has been leading you all the way. But now you have got out of the Lord's hands. You have got into Mrs. Clark's hands. She is leading you now."
Oh! I felt dreadful. I wished I had not seen Mrs. Clark. I wished I had not come on the boat. Oh! to think the Lord had blessed me so much, and now I had got right out of His hands, and was in the hands of a woman. I do not suppose Sister Clark ever knew how bad I felt. I could have cried.
After I walked about a little while, I said to Mrs. Clark, "I have Miss Sarah Clapp's address."
She lived on Winter street, Boston. I had met her at the camp meeting at Round Lake, and she had given me this address, and told me if I ever came to Boston I must call and see her. So I said, "I think I will go and see Miss Clapp."
"Very well," she said, "I will stay here and mind the things. Be sure you get back in time."
"Yes," I said.
So I went out and took the car and went to Miss Clapp's. How glad she was to see me. She had got the blessing at the
Well, I was in a fidget, because I wanted to see what it was. So she sent a little girl with me to put me on the right car that would take me right to the depot. Oh! how I did want to look at what she had given me. But she had made me promise not to look at it, so I did not. When I did look at it, lo and behold, it was a five dollar bill! So another triumph for Jesus.
We arrived at Kennebunk at nine o'clock P. M. Sister Clark had friends that were looking for her, so they met her at the depot. Of course when we got to the grounds the meeting was over, and all the people were in their tents. I had the company of Sister Clark and her friend as far as the stand, or auditorium. Then Sister Clark said, "Sister Smith, what are you going to do?"
"I don't know."
The lady was with her said, "I wish I had room for you, Mrs. Smith, I would take you in. But really I have only room for Sister Clark."
"If I could find the lodging tent," I said, "I might inquire whether I could get a place for the night."
But she said she did not know really where to direct me. So the man set my trunk down, and I sat down on the end of a long bench beside it. There was one or two lights burning.
"Now then," the Devil said, "if you had gone on the boat as you first thought, and had not followed Sister Clark, you would have got here in the day time, and it would have been much better. Then, besides, you might have done some good work for God on the boat. It is all well enough for Mrs. Clark. She had friends looking out for her. But no one here knows you." "That is so," I said, "and I am so sorry I did not go on the boat."
One might have thought he was wonderfully interested for the poor sinners on the boat. What a pity I had not gone and talked to those people as he said. Oh! how subtle his suggestions. How he likes to tantalize you about what you might have done, especially after the opportunity is past. He does it to get your eye
So in my mind I began to fix about which way I should lay my head. There was a great pile of leaves and some straw under the stand, to be kept dry in case it should rain. So my imagined bed was made. Then I thought, "I wonder if there are any pigs about here, and if they would disturb me."
Then I began to feel a little afraid, and I said, "Lord, help me, and do, please send some one to me."
I had scarcely uttered the words when I saw a door open away at the upper part of the grounds; a man came out and walked to where I was sitting. A moment later, and out came a sister. She said, "Brother M., where are you going?"
"Oh!" he said, "I think I see someone here! so I am looking about."
By that time he was quite up to me. "Why, is this Amanda Smith?"
"Yes," I said.
"Sister A.," he called, "here is Sister Amanda Smith. Praise the Lord. Oh! now I see why the Lord sent me out here. I had no especial business, but it seemed I must come down here and look about. Praise the Lord."
We had a praising time of it. They took me, bag and baggage, to the tent. It was a large society tent, and there were several families together. They had a large upstairs, and they said they could accommodate me for the night anyhow. I was so thankful. I had an elegant bed, and was so comfortable. In the morning when they had all gone downstairs I got on my knees and said, "Now, Lord, this seems like the very place where Thou wantest me to stay. But they have said they could accommodate me only to-night. Now if Thou dost want me to stay here, make them ask me when I go downstairs, to stay. Amen."
In the morning I arose and went downstairs. We had family prayers. What a time we had. It was not strange to have a baptism of the Spirit fall upon us in those days while at family prayers and praising the Lord.
When the breakfast was over I said, "Now can you tell me where the office is where I can go to inquire about getting a tent and some straw to fill my tick and pillow?"
"Oh! you are not going away, are you?"
"Well, you know you were only to accommodate me till morning, as I was out of doors last night."
"Well, were you comfortable where you slept last night?"
"Oh! yes."
"Very well. You just stay where you are."
Oh! didn't I praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men. No wonder Job said, "And these are only parts of His ways." Hallelujah!
Here I must speak of Sister Clark's help when I was greatly tempted because the people gazed at me and followed me about from place to place and just stared at me.
Under this trial I learned the meaning of the thirty-second and thirty-third verses of the tenth chapter of Hebrews.
It was one Sunday. There had been a great crowd all day, and everywhere I would go a crowd would follow me. If I went into a tent they would surround it and stay till I came out, then they would follow me. Sometimes I would slip into a tent away from them. Then I would see them peep in, and if they saw me they would say, "Oh! here is the colored woman. Look!" Then the rush! So after dinner I managed to get away. I went into a friend's tent and said, "Let me lie down here out of sight a little while."
"Yes," she said, "the people do not seem to have any manners. I never saw anything like it."
So I got down on the floor under the foot of the bed, and I could see them as they would pass by, and hear them say, "Where is she, the colored woman?"
"I don't know, but I think she is in here," someone would say. But I kept still. About five o'clock the people began to leave the ground. So about six I stepped out and went down to the spring. I met Sister Clark. She said, "Sister Smith, have you had your supper?"
"No," I said, "there is something the matter with me."
"What is it?"
"The people have followed me about all day, and have stared at me. Somehow I feel so bad and uncomfortable."
"Well," she said, laughing, "don't you know the Bible says, 'You are to be a gazing stock?"
"No," I said, "is it in the Bible?"
"All right, I can settle it then."
She went to the dining hall to supper, and I went down in the woods by myself, and there I had it out. I told the Lord how mean I felt because the people had looked at me. I prayed, "Help me to throw off that mean feeling, and give me grace to be a gazing stock." And after I had prayed, I remained kneeling and thinking it all over. All at once a thought came to me: "The other day when you were carrying the clothes home you saw a crowd standing and looking in at a window on Broadway, New York, at a picture."
"And you went up with the crowd and looked at it too."
"You heard the remarks of the people, and the approvals and disapprovals."
"Yes," I said.
"Did that picture say anything?"
"Did it injure its beauty?"
"No, Lord; I see it."
I got up and went on double quick to the tent. I praised the Lord. I laughed, and cried, and shouted. It was so simple, and yet so real. The next morning at the eight o'clock meeting I got up and shouted, "I have got the victory! Everybody come and look at me! Praise the Lord!"
I was free as a bird.
"What a wonderful Saviour is Jesus, my Jesus,
What a wonderful Saviour is Jesus, my Lord!"
At this same camp meeting the Lord cured a good old brother, Jacob C., of prejudice. He was a well-to-do man, and had lived in Maine all his life. He said he had never seen many colored persons, and never cared to have anything to do with them when he could help it. If he had any business to do with them, he would always do it as quickly as possible and get away. So now, when he saw me about in the meetings he was much disturbed.
So he did, I should say. One morning under a powerful sermon by Rev. B. F. Pomeroy, of the Troy Conference, he was led to make a full surrender of himself. When Brother Pomeroy invited them forward, this man went. He had got the victory while praying in the woods, over his prejudice against me an hour or two before. But the tobacco stuck. He had it in his mouth, and when he knelt there the Spirit said to him, "Can you give up that tobacco?" And I saw him when he dug a hole in the straw and leaves and took his tobacco out of his mouth, put it down, covered it over and got on it with his knees! It was not long before the Lord poured in his heart the blessing of full salvation. My! how he shouted!
It was a wonderful meeting that afternoon. The first thing he saw when he got up and stood on his feet, he said, was the colored woman standing on a bench with both hands up, singing "All I want is a little more faith in Jesus." And he said every bit of prejudice was gone, and the love of God was in his heart, and he thought I was just beautiful!
I saw him the next year, and he was still saved. And he sat down by me in the dining hall at the table and gave me two dollars; and he said the past year had been the best year of his life. Oh, how happy he was! God bless him. Amen.
I think it was June 21, 1871. I remember the great railroad accident at Revier. I got into Boston from Martha's Vineyard. I was anxious to catch the five P. M. train. It left Boston, and stopped at Hamilton, about seven o'clock. Then the next train did not leave till seven thirty, and that would not arrive at the camp
"Oh, my!" I said, "I wanted to go on that train." The porter said, "You are too late now."
"When will the next one go out to the camp meeting?"
"Seven thirty," he said, "and will arrive about nine o'clock."
"Oh," I said, "I'm so sorry. I wrote I would be on that train."
There were a number of persons who had come to say good-bye to loved ones, parents, and children, and friends; and as the train moved off, handkerchiefs were waved and kisses were thrown, and the last good-bye said, and the train passed out of the station, and I felt as though I would cry, I was so disappointed. But that disappointment saved my life. We left Boston on the next train, a lively company of camp meeting folks. A number were just going for the Sabbath. I met a number of friends who knew me, and we had some singing on the train, and I was feeling glad and happy, after all my disappointment. We went at full speed, and all at once the train suddenly stopped. We sang on and waited for it to start. We didn't know what the trouble was. A half hour passed; still we did not move on. Some of the men went out, and we thought when they came back we would know what the trouble was. Another half hour passed, and they did not come back. Then some of the women said, "Let's go out and see." So several of us got out and walked down the track and met several coming, who said there was a great accident at Revier. Our train had stopped about a mile away, this side of where the accident occurred.
I, with several others, walked to the scene, and as we drew near the fire was roaring, and the shouts for help and the groans of the dying and wounded were something beyond description. Revier was only a small way station; there was no drug store, and no houses to get any help from. They took off the doors of the few houses that stood round, and the shutters, and everything they could get hold of. Some were scalded; some were burned; others with broken limbs; and we were helpless; we had nothing. I could only weep and pray. I thought of the goodness of the Lord in not letting the man get my trunk in time, and then the words of this Psalm came to my mind with much force. 'A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right
They succeeded somehow in getting the track clear, and our train passed on. We arrived at the camp-ground between twelve and one o'clock at night. Sunday was a sad day, though many who were on the ground knew nothing of the accident, yet it seemed to cast a shadow. But the Lord was with us and helped. How well I remember some of the dear friends. My home was with Mrs. James Musso, in their pretty cottage. The lovely meetings we had! I remember Mrs. McGee, of Boston, and old Father Waite, of Ipswich. One day, going into the dining tent, he introduced me to the people as the "Fifteenth Amendment." That was the first I had heard of that bill. I also remember Father Snow, of Boston, Sarah and Laura Clapp, and dear Beenie Hamilton, and the wonderful tent meeting. She asked me to go with her to a little quiet meeting in a cottage. It was not to be a large meeting; only a few hungry ones who wanted help specially. The meeting was to be held only an hour; but we never closed it from half past two till six o'clock, and we could hardly close then; and if ever I saw God take hold of a meeting and control it, it was that afternoon. More than a score of souls were swept into the fountain of cleansing. Some people were convicted for pardon and for purity on the spot, and yielded to God, and God saved. Truly it was realized, "Knock and it shall be opened; seek and ye shall find; ask, and it shall be given you, for every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, it is opened." The most of the time I stood on my feet and exhorted, and sang, and talked, and prayed. When I got out and went to start home, I could scarcely walk. I was thoroughly exhausted. I had a cup of tea, and lay down a while, and was ready for another pitched battle. Glory to God!
Those were wonderful days. One does not see it in that fashion now. Oh, how we need the mighty Holy Ghost power that they had at Pentecost!
It was while they all were praying,
It was while they all were praying,
It was while they all were praying
And believing it would come,
Came the power, the power,
Came the power that Jesus promised should come down."
One day, just before the camp meeting closed, Rev. Dr. Cushman, who was then Principal of the Ladies' Seminary at Auburndale, Mass., came to me and said: "Sister Smith, have you ever been to Lindenville, Vt.?" I said, "No."
"Well," said he, "that is my home, not far from there. Our camp meeting begins such a day (naming the day), and I believe the Lord would have you go to that meeting. I think you would do us good. I have to leave to-night," he continued, "or in the morning, but I will give you the directions how to come." So I told the Lord if He wanted me to go to Lindenville, and would give me the money, I would take that as an indication of His will. So the money came all right.
On Tuesday morning, I think it was, I was off. I didn't stop to eat my breakfast; I thought I would wait till I got there. I left Hamilton about six A. M. for Boston, so as to get as early a train as I could. I had no idea where Vermont was, much less Lindenville. I was as green: pea! I had never traveled any distance, and coming from New York to Boston, and then to Martha's Vineyard, was the biggest thing I had ever done. I expected to get to Lindenville about ten o'clock A. M. When I got to the station at Boston, I went to the ticket office and asked for a ticket to Lindenville, Vt. The man said, "You won't have time to get a ticket; the train is just moving out." I turned and said to the man, "Put on my trunk, quick!"
He pitched it on, and I got on. I think it was the eight-fifteen train in the morning. When the conductor came I told him I didn't have time to get a ticket, so paid him what he asked. I said to him, "I didn't get my trunk checked; will you please look in the baggage car and tell me if you see such a trunk?" describing the trunk as best I could. In a little while he came through, and said, "Madame, there is so much baggage piled up that I cannot tell, exactly, but from the description you give I think it is there: it will be all right." So I was contented. Ten o'clock came, and I was not at Lindenville. Eleven o'clock--twelve o'clock--not yet. Then I began to get hungry. I saw no place where I could get even an apple. Then I wondered if I had not made a mistake after all. So the Devil thought this was his chance, and he assailed me fiercely:
"You don't know if you are on the right train."
"No," I said, "I do not."
"You ought not to have come without getting a ticket."
"No," I said, "I suppose not." Then I thought, "Well, I asked the Lord about it," and then he said, "You prayed, but you didn't pray enough."
"Perhaps I didn't," I thought.
Then a gentleman got in, and he looked very pleasant, and I thought I would ask him if I was on the right train to Lindenville, Vt. So I went to him and said, "You will excuse me, sir, but I want to ask you if this is the train that goes to Lindenville, Vt.?"
He said very sharply, "I don't know." Then everybody seemed to look at me. All the people seemed so strange. It seemed to me I had never seen that kind of people before. And they seemed as though they had not seen many of my kind before! My! how they stared at me! After a while a lady got on, and I thought I would ask her. And I said, "Madame, will you tell me if this train goes to Lindenville, Vt.?"
She pulled herself up, and said, "I don't know." Then I thought I would ask the conductor, but he sailed through in such a rush that I couldn't ask him. Then the Devil said, "You think the Lord wanted you to go to Lindenville, Vt.; but if the Lord wanted you to go, somebody would know if you are on the right train, and be able to tell you." And I thought, "Yes, that is so: it does seem so." And imagine my surprise when I never got to Lindenville, Vt., till six o'clock in the evening. But about four o'clock in the afternoon we stopped at a station, and Rev. Mr. Luce and his wife and children got on, and they spied me, and Brother Luce came up, and said, "Why, Amanda Smith, where are you going?"
"To Lindenville, Vt., sir."
"Well," said he, "we go as far as St. Johnsville. Then we are going up to Lindenville on Sunday to the camp meeting."
I was so glad. Then he asked me if I had had anything to eat. I told him no, and they gave me some lunch, and that helped me.
When we got to Lindenville, Dr. Cushan was there and met me at the station, and hunted for my trunk high and low; but he could not find it; there was no such trunk there. And I had to stay just with the clothes that I had on, and had traveled in, up till the next Saturday.
Well, we went to the camp meeting at Lindenville. We had a good time. The Lord blessed me very greatly. It was very primitive, but the people were very hearty and kind.
I remember Rev. Mr. McCann was Presiding Elder, and had charge of the meeting. I shall never forget the lecture he gave me the morning I left. He was very much afraid that I would be spoiled; and I remember as I sat before him, he charged me with vehemence; when he told incidents where colored people had been made a good deal of, and how they came down, and how they were spoiled, and how it affected them, and hurt their influence. I smiled, and he went on with his charge. People pitied me for his great solicitude, and I felt that his labor was in vain. There I sat in the congregation, and it was his farewell remarks, as the camp meeting had closed that morning. I didn't know whether to stay for another camp meeting, or whether to go. Some laughed, and others seemed to feel sorry, I didn't know what to do: but I prayed mightily. But the Lord kept me, and none of these things have come upon me. How I praise Him!
On Saturday we went to Boston. Dr. Cushan went to the store and got me some things to help me through Sunday. I was entertained at the home of Dr. Hopkins, of Auburndale. I spoke several times on Sunday. Sunday night we had a very precious meeting at the Methodist Church; so that I went home cheered in heart, though I had no trunk. I went to my room, and just as I was getting ready for bed I thought to myself, "I must make a very special prayer for my trunk." So I knelt to pray, and the words of John 15:7 came forcibly to my mind: "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you." And I said, "Now, Lord, here is Thy word, and as far as I know, I believe that I am abiding in Thee, and that Thy word is abiding in me. And now, Lord, I'm going to ask you about my trunk. Grant me this petition, that I will either get my trunk, or hear from it to-morrow."
Then these words came to me: "If thou canst believe all things are possible with them that believe." And I said, "Lord, I believe I will get my trunk to-morrow."
Just then Satan said, clearly, "That trunk has been gone a week, and you have hunted for it high and low, and Dr. Cushan, and Dr. Hopkins, and other friends, have looked for it; you have sent telegrams, and you have not heard a word of it; and
And then I began to get a little frightened. I said, "Oh, Lord, Thou knowest I do not mean to be presumptuous. But somehow or other I believe I will get my trunk to-morrow;" and every time I said "I believe" to God, it seemed to me my faith was strengthened, and there was a sweet assurance and peace came over my spirit that did not come when the least shadow of doubt would try to enter my heart. But the Tempter harassed me. Oh, how he harassed me! I rose from my knees, and went over to the little stand in the corner, and I said, "Lord, give me some word to help me." Then I opened my Bible, and my eyes fell on these words: "A crooked and perverse generation seeketh after a sign, and there shall be no sign given them," and I shut the book, and said, "Lord, I don't want any sign. I believe I will get my trunk to-morrow." Then Satan seemed to leave me, and I went to bed in peace. I believed God all night.
The first thing in the morning the thought of my trunk came into my mind, and I said, "Lord, I believe I will get my trunk to-day."
I didn't tell anybody. I just kept it before the Lord. I went down to breakfast. Dr. Hopkins was such a kind gentleman. He read the Bible for family prayer, then he knelt down to pray, and asked the Lord so earnestly about my trunk. I did not say anything to him about what I had believed upstairs. At breakfast he said, "Sister Smith, we will go to town this morning, and have another search for your trunk." This was Tuesday morning. They had hunted everywhere Monday, and had no tidings.
When breakfast was over, he and I started for Boston. He said to me, "Now, Sister Smith, you can go to Miss Clapp's, and I will go to the baggage room and inquire if they have heard anything about your trunk."
So I went on to Miss Clapp's, 19 Winter street. She was busy in the outer room, and told me to be seated in the parlor. I did so. After awhile she called out and said, "Sister Smith, have you heard anything about your trunk?"
"No," I said.
Then she in a very pleasant manner said, "Well, somehow I believe you will get it. I had a valise lost once, and it was gone three months, but I got it all right."
I thought to myself, "Three months, indeed; I cannot wait three months; I want my trunk now." Still I did not tell her how I had believed in God. As I sat in the chair I threw my head back and began to sing this little hymn, that had been blessed so wonderfully of God to so many souls:
"All I want, all I want, all I want,
Is a little more faith in Jesus."
I sang two verses; and as I was repeating the chorus of the last verse a knock came at the door, and as Miss Clapp was not in the room, I got up and went to the door: and when I opened it, there stood a great big Irishman, about six feet high, with my trunk. And as he wheeled it in, he said, "Here is a trunk for Amanda Smith," and I shouted, "Praise the Lord," and he looked as though he was frightened. He wheeled the trunk in and stepped back, and I said, "You needn't be afraid; I'm only believing in God. That is all. Glory!" And he cut down stairs and I have never seen him since!
Oh! how Satan tried to wrest my faith. But God stood by me as He stood by Joshua; so that when the Tempter comes in like a flood the Lord shall lift up a standard against him. "Fear not. Be strong and of good courage. Said I not unto thee if thou wouldst believe thou shouldst see the glory of God?" Amen. Amen.


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Every year, some lawmakers introduce a bill to eliminate school property taxes and establish a modern method to fund public schools. Every year, critics complain that the proposal is simply a tax shift.
Well, of course it is a tax shift. So is the current system, under which state lawmakers shift to local school districts what should be their state-level responsibility to pay for education.
Pennsylvania relies more heavily on local property taxation for public school funding than most other states, and the results aren't pretty, directly relative to schools and indirectly relative to other levels of local government.
The state government should bear the burden for education funding because the Pennsylvania Constitution mandates an 'adequate' public education for every child in the commonwealth. It is impossible to meet that modest standard because of the wide range of economic conditions across the state's 500 school districts. Reliance on local property taxation guarantees vast disparities in the abilities of local districts to provide 'adequate' education.
State-level taxation to replace local property taxes not only would ensure the broadest possible tax base for public education, but eliminate the economic disparities that result from the differences in local tax bases.
Eliminating the school property tax would have an added positive impact. Municipal and county governments also rely on local property taxation, but the vast majority of that limited pie goes to school districts. Shifting school taxation from the local to state level would go a long way toward resolving municipal government financing statewide.
A state House bill introduced last week would replace school property taxes with a 29 percent increase in the state income tax, to 4.24 percent, and a 1 percentage point increase in the state sales tax, which would be expanded to include sales of more goods and services.
Whether that is the correct mix is open to debate. But that Pennsylvania needs a better system should be a closed debate. The school property tax is not just unfair, but destructive.
State lawmakers should get serious about eliminating it in favor of a fairer system to spread the tax burden and distribute school funds.
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Holiday shoppers plan to deck the halls and splurge a bit more on themselves this year, but overall spending will remain cautious this holiday season as shoppers hunt out the bargains they know they'll find this time of year, according to the results of a new survey.
The average holiday shopper will spend $749.51 on gifts, décor, greeting cards and more, up slightly from the $740.57 they actually spent last year, according to the survey conducted by BIGinsight for the National Retail Federation.
"We've seen this pattern of cautious optimism all year and despite the challenges that still exist in our economy, it looks as if consumers are eager to celebrate with friends and family, " said Matthew Shay, president and CEO of the National Retail Federation.
Recently, the NRF forecasted that holiday spending would rise 4.1 percent, slower than last year's growth, but higher than the average gains over the past 10 years. (Read More: Retail Trade Group Sees Sales Up 4.1% )


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Note: If your Apigee account has multi-factor authentication (MFA) enabled, Basic Authentication will not work.
About the Apigee management APIs
To view the available management APIs, use the left navigation bar or the API index page.
Where to begin
You can get started calling the Apigee management API with the following helpful resources:
- Build your requests: See Using the Edge management API.
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As noted in Best practices for API proxy design and development, do not call the Edge management API from inside API proxies. The management API is used for administrative management purposes only, not API flow logic. Use policies in API proxies instead.
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As an alternative to managing your Edge organization with the management UI, you can manage it using a RESTful API called the Edge management API. That means you can use the API to create, configure, and manage API proxies and API products, create and manage apps and app developers, and to perform many other types of operations programmatically, using any HTTP client. The API resources exposed by the Edge management API support JSON and XML, and are secured using HTTP Basic Authentication and OAuth.
Edge also supports Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0 as the authentication mechanism. With SAML enabled, access to the Edge UI and Edge management API still uses OAuth2 access tokens. However, now you can generate these tokens from SAML assertions returned by an identity provider.
You need to provide the email address and password associated with your organization on Apigee Edge with each API call that you make, and the user making the calls must be in a role that's allowed to make the calls, such as an Organization Administrator.
Following RESTful principles, you can call HTTP GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE methods on any of the API resources.
As noted in Best practices for API proxy design and development, do not call the Edge management API from inside API proxies. The management API is used for administrative management purposes only, not API flow logic. Use policies in API proxies instead.
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Casio just gave a simultaneously cool and really weird press conference. They've shrunk the famous EX-F1's guts into a nice compact little package, then demonstrated what they said was going to be the next generation of photography. I would tend not to agree.
Still the shrinking of the high-speed camera is a fantastic thing. It has roughly the same capabilities as the EX-F1 (30fps instead of 60 for stills, and 1000fps instead of 1200 for video, but still) but is waaay smaller, like normal-size slim point-and-shoot size. They hadn't turned on the lights when I was taking shots so sorry if the flash is a bit overbearing. I'd like to give a shout out to the official Engadget guy who was flopping around in front of everyone else, getting in all my shots. Thanks, dude!
Kazuo Kashio himself then demonstrated what they said was going to be a revolution in photography. He took a short movie of a model on a white background presenting a box, then proceeded to show how it could be "composited" onto a "background." In other words, the newest generation of Casio stuff does basic photo compositing, essentially magic wanding your photos a million times for you. Revolutionary that's not, I'm afraid. They didn't even show the process! Come on! He then continued to show photo composites for like 15 minutes straight, explaining every time how it was revolutionary. I stayed till the end, but half the room had left by then to get the free watches they were giving away outside. They literally gave away the last one to the person in front of me. These are the tribulations I go through for you, reader. You would have had yourself a giveaway if things had gone differently.
The high-speed point and shoots are the FS10 ($350), which has a 3x optical zoom, and the FC100 ($400), which has a 5x optical zoom. Both have 9 megapixels and shoot video with reduced amounts. We'll have more info in a few minutes, and video of the weirdness as well.
Check out the gallery below — it's in reverse chronological order because of the way I selected the things in Aperture. You like that?


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Sometimes we aren't ready to learn things until it's our own idea. Noah was not going to be encouraged or even bribed into riding a bike. But, one day, he finally had the motivation to get it done and learned in just a few minutes. He's got a good dad who ran up and down the street with him for an hour.
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Wine and milk don't really mix. Nevertheless, the design of these silver wine coolers, from a set of four at Knole, was inspired by the appearance of milk pails. They were made by Aaron Lestourgeon in 1776, at a time when there was an increasing taste for idealised country life.
As Meredith Martin has described in here recent book Dairy Queens, this period saw the building of model farms and pleasure dairies, such as the Hameau de la Reine at Versailles and the Bergerie Royale at Rambouillet, where aristocratic ladies could channel their inner milkmaid.
There was a serious philosophical and moral undertone to this, as both milk and country life in general were praised as healthy, wholesome and socially regenerative.
Perhaps it is an indication of the pervasiveness of that trend that even a relatively hedonistic object like a wine cooler was given 'dairy' styling.
This set of wine coolers, together with another set of four, was recently accepted by the Government in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to the National Trust for display at Knole.


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Review of "Sam, Interrupted"
I have a confession. Maybe it was the super-long hiatus and my avoidance of spoilers. Maybe it was the intensity of my work and family obligations over the holidays and through January. But coming into this week, I was afraid I'd lost my
obsessive love passion for this show.
Some of it might have been the promo for this episode, which focused so much on insanity and had the kind of horror movie vibe I avoid unless Jared or Jensen are involved.
So the show started in an insane asylum, an unsympathetic doctor trying to convince a paranoid schizophrenic that the monster she saw kill her roommate wasn't real. Then the boys are in the same office. Dean's checking Sam in. Sam earnestly explains that he's a little depressed because he started the apocalypse…and all the love came rushing back.
There are two ways to look at this episode: a masterful combination of the classic and the current, or a rehashing of old ideas. To me, it felt more like the former, mainly because of a high level of humor, an exploration of the boys (both physical AND mental), and superb acting by everyone from the patients to the doctors.
"Sam, Interrupted" follows a pattern established by "Folsom Prison Blues" a couple of seasons ago. An old friend of Dad's* calls for their help, so they get themselves checked in to the asylum, in a hilarious sequence where Sam and Dean get to be uniquely honest. Forget exposition—this may be the best incorporation of a post-hiatus recap ever. Not that we needed to be reminded that Sam started the apocalypse but it was really Ruby's fault.
After their…ahem…intimate intake physical, they find Martin, Dad's old friend. This requires a little tolerance, since the early seasons established that the boys were not aware of the extent of the hunter network. The guy at the prison was okay, he was an old military buddy. But then there was Travis, and now Martin, and it's always an old friend they owe everything to.
But that's a small flaw. Martin's awesome. Messed up because of whatever happened in Albuquerque, he still has the hunter instinct. Sam and Dean get the info he's gleaned, then break out of their cells and start searching. They're moments too late to save the next victim, but Sam does a brain autopsy and finds it sucked dry, so Martin figures out it's a wraith. It can appear as human, of course, so now they have to check reflections to see the being's true form.
Dean first thinks it's the main doctor, the guy in charge, and that doesn't surprise because he was so harsh. But when they go after him, he doesn't react to the silver letter opener Sam slashes him with. It's early in the show, so again, we're not surprised. Then they think it's Wendy, a patient who kissed Dean, then switched to Sam, because "he's larger." But they find Wendy under attack by the real wraith, who turns out to be the nurse who first checked them in. Battles ensue, Dean finally defeats her, the boys escape.
The episode followed a common trajectory. It frontloads the funny—I couldn't stop giggling all through their intake interview. Then there was Dean's reaction to Wendy's kiss (joining in enthusiastically) and Sam's opposite reaction (full resistance, complete with bitchface), and Dean getting "thraped." And who of us will ever forget, when they get caught in the morgue, Dean pantsing himself, throwing up his arms, and yelling "Pudding!"
Then things get more serious as the episode goes on. Dean gives real answers to his shrink's questions, and she takes note of the humongous weight of his burden, whether it's real or not. When the wraith's poison, designed to bring on the crazy (and the apparently very tasty surges of hormones and chemicals), starts to effect both the boys, things get painful. None of it's new stuff, but it's nice that they're alluding to it. It's realistic that Dean is struggling with the burden of having to save everybody, and Sam is full of rage, and they're both trying to deal with those things in the same ways they always have. Sam wants Dean to confront his feelings, Dean wants Sam to bury his.
One of the things I liked in this episode was snipping loose threads. The nurse/wraith talks to Sam (mmmm, restrained Sam…) about knowing Martin's a hunter, but he's a mess, and they blabbed about hunting monsters, which made them easy targets. Otherwise, I'd have been rolling my eyes that she went after them immediately, when Martin and other patients had been there a long time without being targeted.
One loose thread I kind of hope they get to revisit someday: Albuquerque. Whatever happened there was bad, bad enough that Martin didn't think he could overcome it, until he had to. (I hope Kissing Wendy survives!)
Bottom line: Not an amazing episode, but a solidly done one that I'll enjoy revisiting next time we have an unendurable hiatus!
A note about next week: How bummed am I? How can they have a body switching episode where Sam switches with some random teenager, and not with DEAN?! I curse misleading teasers. *pouts*
So, what about you? What did you think of this episode? What did you like or dislike, especially about parts I missed or forgot to mention? Hit the comments!


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EDITORIAL: Democrats' budget plan comes up short
Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-Wash.) has now weighed in with a budget plan to counter the House Republican tax-and-spending blueprint. We'll get to that Democratic document in a moment. First, here's a quick fiscal reality check, based on an analysis published Feb. 28 by economists William G. Gale and Alan J. Auerbach of the Brookings Institution.
There has been halting, but real deficit reduction progress in recent months. The United States faces no imminent budget "crisis."
Nevertheless, the economists write, "the 10-year budget outlook remains tenuous." Even assuming steady economic growth, the national debt in 2023 will be twice as high as its historical average, as a percentage of the economy -- and poised to resume rising.
That long-term fiscal problem, driven by the growth of entitlement programs for an aging population, remains unaddressed.
Dealing with it, Messrs. Gale and Auerbach write, will take tax and spending changes "several times the size of those adopted under the recent legislation."
Except for the part about no imminent crisis, the Senate Democratic budget recognizes none of this. Partisan in tone and complacent in substance, it scores points against the Republicans and reassures the party's liberal base -- but deepens these senators' commitment to an unsustainable policy agenda.
The Democratic budget rightly pushes back against the more mindless anti-government impulses of the GOP. It emphasizes infrastructure, education and research, which can enhance the economy's growth potential. It protects programs for the poor. It includes revenue as part of the solution.
Of the plan's modest $1.85 trillion in 10-year savings, half would come from eliminating tax loopholes and deductions.
The document admirably backs this goal with a sophisticated explanation of distortion and unfairness wrought by federal tax expenditures.
But it is woefully imprecise about which breaks -- including popular items such as the mortgage-interest deduction -- it would eliminate. It alludes to economist Martin Feldstein's intriguing plan to cap deductions and credits but doesn't dare endorse it. It is on the issue of entitlements that the Democrats' document really disappoints.
There is literally nothing -- not a word -- suggestive of trimming Social Security, whether through greater means-testing, a more realistic inflation adjustment or reforming disability benefits.
The document's fuzzy call for $275 billion in "health savings" is $125 billion less than the number President Obama has floated.
As for the coming flow of baby boomers into Medicare, the Democrats declare that "new retirees deserve the same promise of quality, affordable health care from which their parents have benefitted -- and it is the position of the Senate Budget that they ought to get it."
There's plenty of excoriation for the GOP "premium support" plan. But there's no explanation of how the Democrats would pay for their "promise" -- nary a hint of the many cost-saving reforms that would extend Medicare's life without embracing the GOP plan.
In short, this document gives voters no reason to believe that Democrats have a viable plan for -- or even a responsible public assessment of -- the country's long-term fiscal predicament. Read alongside the GOP's own partisan outline, it leaves only a faint hope that sensible members of both parties, together with Mr. Obama, might yet meet in the serious middle.
Editorial courtesy of the Washington Post, washingtonpost.com.


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The Artichoke Basille Duo Talks New TV Show, 'Pizza Cuz'
I owe Artichoke Pizza a lot. So many late night cravings satisfied—and so many hangovers dodged—with those over-the-top slices. There's the Margherita, with its tangy sauce and full basil leaves spread over the surface, topped with thin melted slices of mozzarella. But their real claim to fame is the artichoke slice, a wedge of buttery, creamy spinach-artichoke dip that drips down your face as you eat it. It's also the site of some pretty serious debate here at Slice. But whether you love it or hate it, you gotta admit that Artichoke has become a New York institution—for some of us* at least.
*Yes, that's me.
Now, co-owners (and cousins) Francis Garcia and Sal Basille are embarking on a new joint venture. You'll be able to catch the duo tonight on their brand new Cooking Channel show, Pizza Cuz. The premise? Two men, six episodes, and one epic journey to sample some of the best slices this country has to offer.
We took some time to chat with them about the show before tonight's premiere.
What did you want to accomplish by having this show?
Francis: Growing up in the pizza business, one of the things we always did was go to other pizzerias. When the production company asked if we wanted to do a show where we'd get to try pizza, it was a definite yes.
Sal: In the show we go around to all these great pizzerias. We get to try new styles of pizza, and we get to compare it to our own. It's something we've been doing all our lives.
What is the biggest challenge about working with a family member?
Francis: There are some I'd go into business with and some I wouldn't. Me and Sal are great partners; we don't bump heads. My own brother, I wouldn't go into business with him if you handed me the keys to the Palazzo hotel for free.
Sal: We expect a lot from each other.
How do you feel about pineapple on pizza?
Francis: I hate it.
Sal: I'm open to it. I didn't grow up eating it, but just recently I tried it with my girlfriend. It's not bad at all.
What inspired your most famous slice, the artichoke slice?
Francis: I started making it in 2006 at my mother's restaurant. I knew it was going to be a hit. For every table that came in, I would take a slice of the artichoke pizza and put it in with the Italian bread on the table and people would flip out. When me and Sal opened Artichoke, we handed out free samples and it just exploded.
Any tricks for our home pizza-makers?
There are a lot of tricks to getting New York-style pizza. For the water, use Poland Springs or Dasani.
What is the most underrated slice you've tried from your travels?
There was a place we went to on Mission Street called Zante. It was started by a couple of Indian guys from Queens...The space was originally a pizza joint. They kept the pizza ovens and decided to make Indian pizza with turmeric in the crust and toppings like curry powder, cilantro and tandoori chicken. It was out of this world.
How many artichoke slices have you eaten in your lifetime?
Too many. Way too many.
How did you celebrate when you found out you had your own show?
We ordered Papa John's.*
*They were kidding...right, guys?!
Pizza Cuz premiers Monday, May 6th at 9pm ET / 6pm PT
Want to know more? Click here to see the trailer »
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Hacked e-mails reveal global-warming fraud?
Top climate scientists discuss hiding contrary data, marginalizing dissenters
Posted: November 20, 2009
11:27 am Eastern
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit
Officials at a key global warming research center in the United Kingdom have authenticated a series of e-mails and other documents apparently taken from their computer system by a hacker, but they cannot explain what scientists in internal exchanges meant by references to a "trick" that would "hide the decline" of global temperatures nor by instructions to delete contrary data.
Author James Delingpole writes in a London Telegraph column the most damaging revelations indicate climate-change scientists may have "manipulated or suppressed evidence in order to support their cause."
According to the Australian Investigate magazine, the 62 megabyte Zip file with documents, e-mail exchanges and other information from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit apparently was posted by an unidentified hacker on a Russian web server.
One e-mail said: "I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd (sic) from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline."
Another expressed internal doubts: "The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't. The CERES data published in the August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even more warming: but the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is inadequate."
Further, an e-mail exchange suggested the suppression of information: "Can you delete any e-mails you may have had with Keith re AR4? Keith will do likewise. He's not in at the moment – minor family crisis."
"And, perhaps most reprehensibly," Delingpole writes, "a long series of communications discussing how best to squeeze dissenting scientists out of the peer review process. How, in other words, to create a scientific climate in which anyone who disagrees with AGW can be written off as a crank, whose views do not have a scrap of authority."
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He cites an e-mail: "This was the danger of always criticizing the skeptics for not publishing in the 'peer-reviewed literature.' Obviously, they found a solution to that – take over a journal! So what do we do about this? I think we have to stop considering 'Climate Research' as a legitimate peer-reviewed journal. Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal. We would also need to consider what we tell or request of our more reasonable colleagues who currently sit on the editorial board …What do others think?"
Myron Ebell, of the GlobalWarming.org website where "cooler heads prevail," said the e-mails are "shocking."
"Its kind of interesting to learn that petty politics seems to be more prevalent in the scientific community than in the political community," he said.
The documents, he said, "raise a huge number of questions about the integrity of a lot of people in the alarmist community.
"What I've seen there is a very strong effort to manage the issue by scientists and not as a scientific issues. It's very improper," he said. " One of the criticisms is that we need scientists to be scientist, and policy can be handled in public debate."
Delingpole observes the world "is currently cooling; electorates are increasingly reluctant to support eco-policies leading to more oppressive regulation, higher taxes and higher utility bills; the tide is turning against Al Gore's Anthropogenic Global Warming theory. The so-called 'skeptical' view is now also the majority view."
Phil Jones, head of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit, confirmed to Investigate magazine the documents appeared authentic.
"It was a hacker. We were aware of this about three or four days ago that someone had hacked into our system and taken and copied loads of data files and e-mails," he said.
"It's completely illegal for somebody to hack into our system," he told the magazine
But Jones denied there was any attempt to mislead or conceal.
"They're talking about proxy data going further back in time, a thousand years, and it's just about how you add on the last few years, because when you get proxy data you sample things like tree rings and ice cores, and they don't always have the last few years," he said.
Jones said he could not recall what he meant when he wrote about a plan to "hide the decline."
In the e-mail, dated 10 years ago, Jones wrote: "Once Tim's got a diagram here we'll send that either later today or first thing tomorrow. I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd [sic] from1961 for Keith's to hide the decline. Mike's series got the annual land and marine values while the other two got April-Sept for NH land N of 20N. The latter two are real for 1999, while the estimate for 1999 for NH combined is +0.44C wrt 61-90. The Global estimate for 1999 with data through Oct is +0.35C cf. 0.57 for 1998. Thanks for the comments, Ray. Cheers, Phil Prof. Phil Jones Climatic Research Unit."
The documents also included a message dated last month from Kevin Trenberth to Michal Mann about the "U-turn on climate" by Britain's BBC News.
"Well I have my own article on where the heck is global warming? We are asking that here in Boulder where we have broken records the past two days for the coldest days on record. We had 4 inches of snow. The high the last 2 days was below 30F and the normal is 69F, and it smashed the previous records for these days by 10F. The low was about 18F and also a record low, well below the previous record low. This is January weather (see the Rockies baseball playoff game was canceled on saturday and then played last night in below freezing weather)."
Despite the advocacy of a financially vested former vice president, Al Gore, and others, public opinion about whether mankind is causing an ultimately catastrophic rise in global temperatures is shifting.
U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, has urged members of Congress to consider the joint opinion of nearly 32,000 scientists, including more than 9,000 Ph.D.s, who believe humans likely have little or nothing to do with any "global warming."
The Petition Project, launched some 10 years ago when the first few thousand signatures were gathered, has steadily grown without any special effort or campaign.
But in the last few years, and especially because of the release of Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth," the campaign has been reinvigorated.
"Mr. Gore's movie, asserting a 'consensus' and 'settled science' in agreement about human-caused global warming, conveyed the claims about human-caused global warming to ordinary movie goers and to public school children, to whom the film was widely distributed. Unfortunately, Mr. Gore's movie contains many very serious incorrect claims which no informed, honest scientist could endorse," project spokesman and founder Art Robinson has told WND.
Robinson, a research professor of chemistry, co-founded the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine with Linus Pauling in 1973, and later co-founded the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine.
Paul cited the petition results in his statement to Congress.
"Our energy policies must be based upon scientific truth – not fictional movies or self-interested international agendas," Paul said. "They should be based upon the accomplishments of technological free enterprise that have provided our modern civilization, including our energy industries. That free enterprise must not be hindered by bogus claims about imaginary disasters."
The petition states: "There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth."
Robinson has warned of serious political and economic consequencesof assuming "global warming" results from mankind's actions.
"The campaign to severely ration hydrocarbon energy technology has now been markedly expanded," he said. "In the course of this campaign, many scientifically invalid claims about impending climate emergencies are being made. Simultaneously, proposed political actions to severely reduce hydrocarbon use now threaten the prosperity of Americans and the very existence of hundreds of millions of people in poorer countries," he told WND.
Warned Paul, "Above all, we must never forget our contract with the American people – the Constitution that provides the sole source of legitimacy of our government. That Constitution requires that we preserve the basic human rights of our people – including the right to freely manufacture, use, and sell energy produced by any means they devise – including nuclear, hydrocarbon, solar, wind, or even bicycle generators.
"While it is evident that the human right to produce and use energy does not extend to activities that actually endanger the climate of the Earth upon which we all depend, bogus claims about climate dangers should not be used as a justification to further limit the American people's freedom," Paul said.


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What is it and how is it used?
Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop is a combination of two active substances, irbesartan and hydrochlorothiazide.
Irbesartan belongs to a group of medicines known as angiotensin-II receptor antagonists. Angiotensin-II is a substance produced in the body that binds to receptors in blood vessels causing them to tighten. This results in an increase in blood pressure. Irbesartan prevents the binding of angiotensin-II to these receptors, causing the blood vessels to relax and the blood pressure to lower. Hydrochlorothiazide is one of a group of medicines (called thiazide diuretics) that causes increased urine output and so causes a lowering of blood pressure.
The two active ingredients in Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop work together to lower blood pressure further than if either was given alone.
Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop is used to treat high blood pressure, when treatment with irbesartan or hydrochlorothiazide alone did not provide adequate control of your blood pressure.
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What do you have to consider before using it?
Do not take Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop
if you are allergic (hypersensitive) to irbesartan or any of the other ingredients of Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop
if you are allergic (hypersensitive) to hydrochlorothiazide or any other sulfonamide-derived medicines
if you are more than 3 months pregnant. (It is also better to avoid Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop in early pregnancy ? see pregnancy section) if you have severe liver or kidney problems
if you have difficulty in producing urine
if your doctor determines that you have persistently high calcium or low potassium levels in your blood
Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop should not be given to children and adolescents (under 18 years).
Take special care with Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop
Tell your doctor if any of the following apply to you:
if you get excessive vomiting or diarrhoea
if you suffer from kidney problems or have a kidney transplant
if you suffer from heart problems
if you suffer from liver problems
if you suffer from diabetes
if you suffer from lupus erythematosus (also known as lupus or SLE)
if you suffer from primary aldosteronism (a condition related to high production of the hormone aldosterone, which causes sodium retention and, in turn, an increase in blood pressure).
You must tell your doctor if you think you are ( or might become) pregnant. Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop is not recommended in early pregnancy, and must not be taken if you are more than 3 months pregnant, as it may cause serious harm to your baby if used at that stage (see pregnancy section).
You should also tell your doctor:
if you are on a low-salt diet
if you have signs such as abnormal thirst, dry mouth, general weakness, drowsiness, muscle pain or cramps, nausea, vomiting, or an abnormally fast heart beat which may indicate an excessive effect of hydrochlorothiazide (contained in Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop) if you experience an increased sensitivity of the skin to the sun with symptoms of sunburn (such as redness, itching, swelling, blistering) occurring more quickly than normal if you are going tohave an operation (surgery) or be given anaesthetics
The hydrochlorothiazide contained in this medicine could produce a positive result in an anti-doping test.
Using other medicines
Please tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are taking or have recently taken any other medicines, including medicines obtained without a prescription.
Diuretic agents such as the hydrochlorothiazide contained in Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop may have an effect on other medicines. Preparations containing lithium should not be taken with Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop without close supervision by your doctor.
You may need to have blood checks if you take:
potassium supplements
salt substitutes containing potassium
potassium sparing medicines or other diuretics (water tablets)
some laxatives
medicines for the treatment of gout
therapeutic vitamin D supplements
medicines to control heart rhythm
medicines for diabetes (oral agents or insulins)
It is also important to tell your doctor if you are taking other medicines to reduce your blood pressure, steroids, medicines to treat cancer, pain killers, arthritis medicines, or colestyramine and colestipol resins for lowering blood cholesterol.
Taking Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop with food and drink
Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop can be taken with or without food.
Due to the hydrochlorothiazide contained in Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop, if you drink alcohol while on treatment with this medicine, you may have an increased feeling of dizziness on standing up, specially when getting up from a sitting position.
Pregnancy and breast-feeding
You must tell your doctor if you think you are ( or might become) pregnant. Your doctor will normally advise you to stop taking Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop before you become pregnant or as soon as you know you are pregnant and will advise you to take another medicine instead of Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop. Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop is not recommended in early pregnancy, and must not be taken when more than 3 months pregnant, as it may cause serious harm to your baby if used after the third month of pregnancy.
Tell your doctor if you are breast-feeding or about to start breast-feeding. Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop is not recommended for mothers who are breast-feeding, and your doctor may choose another treatment for you if you wish to breast-feed, especially if your baby is newborn, or was born prematurely.
Driving and using machines
No studies on the effects on the ability to drive and use machines have been performed. Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop is unlikely to affect your ability to drive or use machines. However, occasionally dizziness or weariness may occur during treatment of high blood pressure. If you experience these, talk to your doctor before attempting to drive or use machines.
Important information about some of the ingredients of Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop
Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop contains lactose. If you have been told by your doctor that you have an intolerance to some sugars (e.g. lactose), contact your doctor before taking this medicine.
How is it used?
Always take Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop exactly as your doctor has told you. You should check with your doctor or pharmacist if you are not sure.
The usual dose of Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop is one tablet a day. Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop will usually be prescribed by your doctor when your previous treatment did not reduce your blood pressure enough. Your doctor will instruct you how to switch from the previous treatment to Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop.
Method of administration
Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop is for oral use. Swallow the tablets with a sufficient amount of fluid (e.g. one glass of water). You can take Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop with or without food. Try to take your daily dose at about the same time each day. It is important that you continue to take Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop until your doctor tells you otherwise.
The maximal blood pressure lowering effect should be reached 6-8 weeks after beginning treatment.
If you take more Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop than you should
If you accidentally take too many tablets, contact your doctor immediately.
Children should not take Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop
Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop should not be given to children under 18 years of age. If a child swallows some tablets, contact your doctor immediately.
If you forget to take Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop
If you accidentally miss a daily dose, just take the next dose as normal. Do not take a double dose to make up for a forgotten dose.
If you have any further questions on the use of this product, ask your doctor or pharmacist.
What are possible side effects?
Like all medicines, Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop can cause side effects, although not everybody gets them.
Some of these effects may be serious and may require medical attention.
Rare cases of allergic skin reactions (rash, urticaria), as well as localised swelling of the face, lips and/or tongue have been reported in patients taking irbesartan.
If you get any of the above symptoms or get short of breath, stop taking Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop and contact your doctor immediately.
Side effects reported in clinical studies for patients treated with Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop were:
Common side effects(affect 1 to 10 users in 100)nausea/vomiting
abnormal urination
dizziness (including when getting up from a lying or sitting position)
blood tests may show raised levels of an enzyme that measures the muscle and heart function (creatine kinase) or raised levels of substances that measure kidney function (blood urea nitrogen, creatinine).
If any of these side effects causes you problems, talk to your doctor.
Uncommon side effects(affect 1 to 10 users in 1,000)
low blood pressure
heart rate increased
sexual dysfunction (problems with sexual performance)
blood tests may show lowered levels of potassium and sodium in your blood. If any of these side effects causes you problems, talk to your doctor.
Side effects reported since the launch of Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop The frequency of these effects is not known. These undesirable effects are: headache, ringing in the ears, cough, taste disturbance, indigestion, pain in joints and muscles, liver function abnormal and impaired kidney function, increased level of potassium in your blood and allergic reactions such as rash, hives, swelling of the face, lips, mouth, tongue or throat.
As for any combination of two active substances, side effects associated with each individual component cannot be excluded.
Side effects associated with irbesartan alone
In addition to the side effects listed above, chest pain has also been reported.
Side effects associated with hydrochlorothiazide alone
Loss of appetite; stomach irritation; stomach cramps; constipation; jaundice (yellowing of the skin and/or whites of the eyes); inflammation of the pancreas characterised by severe upper stomach pain, often with nausea and vomiting; sleep disorders; depression; blurred vision; lack of white blood cells, which can result in frequent infections, fever; decrease in the number of platelets (a blood cell essential for the clotting of the blood), decreased number of red blood cells (anaemia) characterised by tiredness, headaches, being short of breath when exercising, dizziness and looking pale; kidney disease; lung problems including pneumonia or build-up of fluid in the lungs; increased sensitivity of the skin to the sun; inflammation of blood vessels; a skin disease characterized by the peeling of the skin all over the body; cutaneous lupus erythematosus, which is identified by a rash that may appear on the face, neck, and scalp; allergic reactions; weakness and muscle spasm; altered heart rate; reduced blood pressure after a change in body position; swelling of the salivary glands; high sugar levels in the blood; sugar in the urine; increases in some kinds of blood fat; high uric acid levels in the blood, which may cause gout.
It is known that side effects associated with hydrochlorothiazide may increase with higher doses of hydrochlorothiazide.
If any of the side effects gets serious, or if you notice any side effects not listed in this leaflet, please tell your doctor or pharmacist.
How should it be stored?
Keep out of the reach and sight of children.
Do not use Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop after the expiry date which is stated on the carton and on the blister after EXP. The expiry date refers to the last day of that month.
Do not store above 30°C.
Store in the original package in order to protect from moisture.
Medicines should not be disposed of via wastewater or household waste. Ask your pharmacist how to dispose of medicines no longer required. These measures will help to protect the environment.
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What Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop contains
The active substances are irbesartan and hydrochlorothiazide. Each film-coated tablet of Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop 300 mg/12.5 mg contains 300 mg irbesartan and 12.5 mg hydrochlorothiazide.
The other ingredients are lactose monohydrate, microcrystalline cellulose, croscarmellose sodium, hypromellose, silicon dioxide, magnesium stearate, titanium dioxide, macrogol 3000, red and yellow ferric oxides, carnauba wax.
What Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop looks like and contents of the pack Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop 300 mg/12.5 mg film-coated tablets are peach, biconvex, oval-shaped, with a heart debossed on one side and the number 2876 engraved on the other side.
Irbesartan Hydrochlorothiazide Winthrop 300 mg/12.5 mg film-coated tablets are supplied in blister packs of 14, 28, 56, 84 or 98 film-coated tablets. Unit dose blister packs of 56 x 1 film-coated tablet for delivery in hospitals are also available.
Not all pack sizes may be marketed.
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The Arduino MEGA has 4 user serial ports - 1 reversed for the system and 3 user controllable serial ports. These serial ports can be configured in code or via the Motors and Sensor Setup window. The serial ports are buffered - a 70 byte receive buffer and a 40 byte transmit buffer.
|short getChar(const TUARTs nPort)
|(short) Function will retrieve the next character from the buffer that was sent to port 'nPort'.
|void sendChar(const TUARTs nPort, short nChar)
|(void) Function will send the next character to port 'nPort'.
|void setBaudRate(const TUARTs nPort, TBaudRate nBaudRate)
|(void) Function will set the Baud Rate for port 'nPort'.
Acceptable Baud Rates: 1200, 2400, 4800, 9600, 19200, 38400, 57600, 115200, 200000, 230400 and 250000.
|void configureSerialPort(const TUARTs nPort, TSerialPortMode nMode)
|(void) This function will manually configure the serial port for a specific mode (system, user, Xbee, VEX LCD, etc). You can also set this same functionality using the "Motors and Sensor Setup" window.
|bool bXmitComplete(const TUARTs nPort)
|(bool) Function will return if the transmit (Xmit) buffer is empty.