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Honda Insight Shan
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Honda Insight For Sale In Myanmar
The Honda Insight was manufactured by the automaker Honda. The Insight has two generations and first generation is as a three-door, two passenger hatchback (1999–2006). Second generation as a five-door, five passenger hatchback (2009–2014). The Honda Insight has produced this vehicle brilliantly with complete good quality features. There are three grades for the Insight such as G,LS and L. The Honda Insight achieved Green Car of the Year prize in 2013.
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Honda Insight Safety Review
The Honda Insight is impressively safe, with Euro NCAP awarding it the maximum five-stars in its crash test ratings. In terms of scores per category, the Honda Insight scored an excellent 90 per cent for adult occupant protection and 86 per cent for its safety assist features. All versions of the Honda Insight come fitted with ABS and ESP, as well as driver, passenger, side and curtain airbags.
Honda Insight Engine Specifications
The Honda Insight is powered by a petrol/electric hybrid drivetrain - a 1.3-litre petrol engine assisted by an electric motor. The petrol engine produces 87 bhp and 121 Nm of torque, plus the electric motor recharges the battery under braking and deceleration. The performance of the Honda Insight is adequate, with Honda claiming a 0-62mph time of 12.5 seconds and a top speed of 113 mph. In order to maximise economy, the Honda Insight also gets an Eco button, which limits the response of the engine.
Honda Insight Interior and Exterior Design
The coupe-shape of the old Honda Insight has been replaced by a Prius-esque silhouette on the newest version but the car still retains the old truncated rear in the name of aerodynamic efficiency. The Honda Insight also gets blue-tinted headlamps to underline its eco-credentials, as well as an attractive grille. Honda gives the Insight a futuristic interior, and one of our favourite parts is the glowing speedometer, which turns green when you drive economically and dark blue when you don't. What's more, Honda has been generous with kit across the Insight range, with entry level HE and HE-T models getting 15-inch alloy wheels, climate control, all-round electric windows and MP3 compatibility as standard. The mid-range HS and HS-T Honda Insight models get slightly more equipment with 16-inch alloys, automatic wipers and lights as standard, as well as rear parking sensors, front fog lights and a USB socket. The range topping HX cars get Bluetooth connectivity, as well as a sat-nav system with traffic updates and voice recognition.
Honda Insight Color Options
The available Honda Insight colour in Myanmar car market are:
- Black
- White
- Blue
- Gray
- Light Blue
- Silver
- Pearl White
Among them, the popular colour choice is silver and pearl white. The rest are pretty rare as most dealers would rather deal with the popular colour.
Honda Insight Dimensions
Overall dimension of Honda Insight:
- Length : 3,945 mm (155.3 in)
- Width : 1,695 mm (66.7 in)
- Height : 1,355 mm (53.3 in)
- Wheelbase : 2,400 mm (94 in)
Honda Insight Prices
According to their requirements their vehicle should be outfitted with good quality features. Honda Insight Price is very reasonable .You can easily buy this vehicle at an affordable price. We have a range of models from 2008 through to 2013 in Myanmar Market. And the price ranges are around 110 Lk Kyats to 230 Lk Kyats. Overall price of the Honda Insight Generation is fairly competitive when compared to other models in the same class available in the local market.
Alternatives to Honda Insight in Myanmar
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NewsBlur front page
Google Reader has been in the news of late after its recent changes, which have had a very sharply negative reaction from passionate fans. I had earlier written about how there are no good Google Reader alternatives in the market today and had mentioned NewsBlur then. Since then, I have been using NewsBlur daily, and have been extremely pleased with it. I got in touch with the developer, Samuel Clay, and he gladly made himself available to discuss life as an indie developer, developing NewsBlur, and how he plans on competing with Google.
Samuel Clay is an indie developer of NewsBlur. He just moved from Brooklyn to San Francisco. Previously, he worked at DocumentCloud, where they wrote Backbone.js, VisualSearch.js, Underscore.js, and many other open-source libraries. He is now at Tasty Labs, making a more useful social application on the web. Samuel can be reached on twitter at @samuelclay and NewsBlur is also on twitter at @newsblur.
Techie Buzz (TB): What is NewsBlur?
Samuel Clay (SC): NewsBlur is a feed reader with intelligence. It tries to do two things very well:
- Shows you the original site instead of a context-less feed. Read the original and NewsBlur marks the stories you've read as read.
- Filter stories you either like or dislike. A three-stop slider goes between dislike, neutral, and like (red, yellow, and green). Training is super-easy and all click-based (as opposed to you having to writing out what you like in a site, NewsBlur asks you, semi-Hunch-style, your opinions on facets of the site).
I started working on NewsBlur to see if I could do it, put the AI together with the back-end feed processing and fetching, along with the nifty front-end of the original site. This is one of those projects where I just kept pushing in all directions until I felt I had something good, not knowing if I could do it at all, but believing the entire time that I was able to complete the project.

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Another recount ordered for Fla. House District 29 race
Clelland leads Dorworth by 129 votes
The District 29 House race still has no official winner.
After the votes were sent to state officials Friday for a recount, the difference between Democrat Mike Clelland and Republican Chris Dorworth is still too close.
Election officials are again counting the ballots in Seminole County on Monday. They say they want to make sure they make the right call.
"We haven't won the race. We are very cautious," Clelland said.
The votes for District 29 were counted by a machine over the weekend. Now, officials have decided to count the votes again -- by hand.
Just 140 votes separate Clelland and Dorworth.
Dorworth conceded his defeat with a memo sent to Republican lawmakers.
"While we will exercise our right to have these recounts, I do not anticipate that they will change the outcome of this race," Dorworth said in the message.
A Clelland win is a big upset for Dorworth and local Republicans. Dorworth, the incumbent, is expected to take over as Florida Speaker of the House in two years.
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by Patrice L. Jeppson, Ph.D.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
My Day of Archaeology is unique this year as the United States Democratic National Convention (DNC) is taking place in my city, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The streets have been filled for days with delegates going to and from convention venues, ultimately casting votes on behalf of the nation's Democratic Party voters for either Bernie Sanders (my own personal hope) or Hillary Clinton (the resulting nominee). At the same time, the city is brimming with engaged and often enraged Sanders supporters, anti-Clinton and pro-Donald Trump protesters (very few of both really), and boosters/advocates (MANY) calling attention to any number of causes such as the need for clean energy, climate change action, Black Lives Matter, economic inequality, immigration reform, and establishing a federal legalization of marijuana. This is serious advocacy and demonstration going on –but it often also has a very festive feel to it with, for example, a 50 foot inflatable joint carried around by 25 people that walked down my street and a man with an alpaca — the mascot for an organic farming cause — that ate some of our flowers in front of the house. My cause during this period –beyond thanking Bernie Sanders and his supporters — has been to target DNC visitors to Philadelphia with a public archaeology campaign highlighting some of the 'Artifacts of Democracy' that archaeologists have excavated in our city.
This outreach effort involves a social media campaign undertaken as part of the Philadelphia Archaeological Forum, a local archaeology concern of which I am a member, and for whom I collate a local version of the International Day of Archaeology blogging project. I am the webmaster and Facebook manager for PAF. My own academic research involves studying how the public uses local Philadelphia archaeology sites for the needs of national and social identity.
The DNC social media campaign began earlier this week with the creation of a web page dedicated to 'Artifacts of Democracy' that was linked to through postings made at numerous city, national park, and DNC-related Facebook pages. Today, the Day of Archaeology, I monitored and analyzed the Facebook results for likes and shares trying to learn 'where is the archaeology of democracy outreach campaign being seen? who is sharing it? and where are they sharing it to? That was done first thing this morning.
After that I spent several hours interpreting archaeology to the delegates and their families, and to regular summer tourists, who were visiting the site of the President's House in Independence National Historical Park. The President's House site, excavated in 2007, is where the first US President, George Washington, served most of his administration, bringing as many as nine enslaved Africans with him from his Virginia home to the 'Executive Mansion' in Philadelphia. The site contains the evidence of the precursor to the Presidential Oval Office and bears witness to the original sin of slavery at the birth of the USA in the foundations of structures lived and toiled in by the enslaved Africans. Beyond interpreting the site (something I had done on site during the excavation), I handed out a flier tied to the "Artifacts of Democracy" webpage previously mentioned.
In preparation for this week I had attended an advocacy training session for non-profits to make sure that targeting delegates (many of whom are legislators) during electioneering didn't violate our group's non-profit status. At that training I was advised to create three theme statements to provide to the visitors – many of whom would be press people from around the world. I did this: a) Archaeology is an authentic touchstone to the past used by people in the present for establishing social identity, b) archaeology in Philadelphia (the US nation's birthplace) is the evidence of the real "we the people" ('us' back then), c) heritage tourism –largely based on Philadelphia's archaeology sites — is the primary factor in the city's economic engine. These are all things that are part of any archaeology interpretation, along with a LOT of other information, and are things that are usually common to archaeology found elsewhere.
In 2007, I helped to interpret this particular site to literally hundreds of thousands of people but have not been back for a concerted interpretive mission until today. In my studying of the public archaeology at this place I have often referenced the civil religious nature of the site. Standing at the site today I had this realization that the advocacy training I had was directed at 'trying to take the site's possibilities out to broader society'. However, as before, the people I was talking to wanted to take themselves into the past at the site. Helping the visitors who were already trying to build a bridge linking the past to their present was what the archaeologist 'was being asked for'. There was a disjuncture with my 'new preparation' that I am trying now to analyze. This was only a few hours ago and I am still mulling over this mismatch of formal advocacy training advice verses what we archaeologists are learning about the public's needs on-site during civic archaeology engagement.
Patrice L. Jeppson, Ph.D.
Webmaster, Philadelphia Archaeological Forum
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Cheyney University of Pennsylvania


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This was a slow and deceptive win for the Giants, who run their record to 2-1. The defense played solid in the first half and allowed the Giants' offensive live to methodically dominate time of possession against the high-powered offense of Carolina. Even without starters Hakeem Nicks and Ahmad Bradshaw, Eli Manning put up more than enough points in the first half so that the outcome was never in doubt. Also, Cam Newton may be seeing Jason Pierre-Paul tip passes in his nightmares tonight. What a defensive beast he is.
The Needle That Must Be Threaded: After Eli Manning put up 510 yards against the Bucs last Sunday, you could've guessed that Tom Coughlin would try to win this one through the air. That became perfectly clear in the opening drive of the game, when Manning lofted one just beyond the reach of the Carolina secondary to get New York on the board less than four minutes into the game. The rout was officially on.
Always Be Pickin': Just as Cam Newton and the Carolina offense was looking to claim some semblance of offensive competence, rookie Jayron Hosley took advantage of this Brandon LaFell tip to haul in his first career pick on a superb bit of athleticism. The Giants went into the locker room with a 20-0 halftime lead.
Meet The Second Half, Same As The First: Whatever second-half plans Ron Rivera had for rectifying Carolina's woes were quickly quashed, as Joe Adams let the opening kickoff get doinked out of his cradled arms. The Giants only managed a field goal out of the turnover, but the game's outcome was certainly no longer in doubt, making for a grueling second half that seemed interminable at times.


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F1's tyre situation will change after this weekend's Bahrain grand prix. Pirelli's heavily degrading 2013 product is dominating the sport at present, to the point that - according to Mark Webber - i...
Pirelli's heavily degrading 2013 product is dominating the sport at present, to the point that - according to Mark Webber - it is "a bit WWF".
That is a reference to the American 'fake' professional wrestling federation, with that sport taking a back seat to choreography and elaborate plots.
"At the moment it (F1) is not much to do with racing," reigning world champion Sebastian Vettel was quoted on Sunday by Germany's Auto Motor und Sport.
Like Red Bull, Mercedes has also been pushing Pirelli hard for a change of tack.
"Pirelli has a plan," team chairman and shareholder Niki Lauda said on German RTL television in China.
It is believed new harder compounds that last longer will be brought to May's Spanish grand prix, the first European race of the season.
"I can break the good news that the situation will change from Barcelona. Then it will get better," said Lauda.
He said the decision has been made for the good of the sport.
"It's just that there is so much confusion," said the triple world champion. "The tyres need to last longer."
Meanwhile, Bernie Ecclestone reportedly told British Sky television on Sunday that - also from Barcelona - Pirelli will supply more tyres to teams for Fridays, to ensure more action than has been seen in practice so far in 2013.


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This is an original oil-on-linen painting by Bergen County artist Mark Oberndorf.
"On Sept. 1, 1909, the Belmar Fishing Club was first organized and this building was built between Sept. 21, 1929 and May 30, 1930," artist Mark Oberndorf says.
Painting measures 20" x 33" and comes pre-framed in a gold-trimmed floater frame. (Allow two weeks for delivery. Ships insured for an additional cost.)
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Over the last 25 years, Mark Oberndorf's work has been included in multiple group and one-person exhibitions and has been purchased by many private collectors. His work has been seen at Kerygma Gallery in Ridgewood; Mason-Murer Gallery in Atlanta, Ga.; Plus One Gallery in London; Elliot Fouts Gallery in Sacramento, Calif.; Sola Gallery in Provincetown, Mass.; Lois Richards Gallery in Greenwich, Conn.; and Westwood Gallery in Westwood. His paintings have also been featured in several media outlets including The New York Times, The Record, The Ridgewood News, Provincetown Arts magazine, (201) Magazine, Art in America magazine, The E Jean Carrroll television show and on News 12 NJ television. His painting of the Bendix Diner has been featured on a billboard in his home state of New Jersey. Mark is currently represented by Westwood Gallery in Westwood and Mark Gallery in Englewood.


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Are you a "hugger"? You know what I mean. Some people are big huggers and some… not so much. I came from a family that was in the "not so much" category as it applied to physical affection. How about you? Here's a test… if someone hugs you, who lets go first? It wasn't until I was an adult that some of my friends started to win me over the huggy side of the fence. And you know what, I've never looked back.
My wife and I are super affectionate to our now 9½ year old girl. I recall reading studies that animals who were provided plenty of food, water and warmth, but no touching, grew weak and even died. Our daughter certainly is in no danger except perhaps from an overzealous hug. 😉 But what about us adults? Do we need hugs, too? I think the common wisdom says we do… that it affects our happiness and health, BUT…
We live in a world that's increasingly distancing us from other people. Families live in other states or even countries. And we spend increasing amounts of time online instead of together. So can friends, maybe even friends we've never met in person, contribute to our health and well being via social media as an article on BitRebels by Dianna Adams asks, "Can Twitter Hugs Improve Your Health?" She says, "Yes", and I agree. So here's my question… do you hug online?
I do. On Facebook and Twitter when I notice someone seems to be having a rough day I take a moment to check in, ask how they are doing, and offer a hug. It goes both ways. Just yesterday one of my online friends sent me a *hug* via tweet. And you know what? It made me feel better! So I'm committed daily to trying to make a difference in at least a few peoples lives by caring and offering *hugs*. Maybe it's a small thing, but cumulatively…
I'll bet if more and more people offered genuine caring positive thoughts and hugs, even if it's just online via social media, that it will have a very real physiological and psychological effect. I'm no scientist and I can't back this up, but what do you think? It feels right, and certainly can't hurt. In fact I've just coined a new Twitter tag, #IHugBack! I see people post #IFollowBack, but wouldn't it be great if we all hugged back?
For all of my dear friends online, many of whom I've never met in person, thank you for the difference you've made in my life. I like the idea that if our 9 year old must grow up in a world that's increasingly disconnected physically, while super-connected technologically, that she'll have an ongoing source of *hugs* when the day comes (I pray a very long time from now) when Daddy's not there to give them.
So… go out an hug someone. Hug several someones, whether in person or online. Oh, and let them know #IHugBack!


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PvP mount
The majority of PvP mounts are rewards for PvPers who have collected at least 2,000 Honor. They move at the same speed as the level 40 Epic mounts, and similarly require a Riding Skill of 150 (Journeyman) in order to ride. The mounts are available for purchase in the Hall of Legends in Orgrimmar, or Champions' Hall in Stormwind.
There are five choices of reward mounts, representing the available races on each faction's side. The mount you can choose is not dependent on reputation with any city. For example, a human with sufficient Marks of Honor may choose to ride a [Reins of the Black War Tiger], regardless of reputation with Darnassus. Similarly a Forsaken who has sufficient Marks of Honor may ride a [Horn of the Black War Wolf] if so inclined, regardless of reputation with Orgrimmar. Patch 2.4 added elekks and hawkstriders (previously, there were no PvP mounts representing the draenei or the blood elves. Obtaining any of these mounts will give you the Call in the Cavalry achievement.
Some players call the PvP mounts "welfare epics" or "welfare mounts," due to the fact that they are basically free (the marks of honor needed to purchase them are obtained simply by being in a battleground match, regardless of victory or defeat).
Other PvP mounts can be rewarded after turning in a number of tokens to a specific vendor. These tokens are usually rewarded for killing players in a specific area, or by controlling critical PvP zones.
Alliance mounts
- [Black Battlestrider] from the Gnomes.
- [Black War Ram] from the Dwarves.
- Black War Steed from the Humans.
- Black War Tiger from the Night Elves.
- Black War Elekk from the Draenei.
- [Stormpike Battle Charger] from Alterac Valley.
Horde mounts
- Black War Wolf from the Orcs.
- [Red Skeletal Warhorse] from the Forsaken.
- [Black War Kodo] from the Tauren.
- Black War Raptor from the Trolls.
- [Swift Warstrider] from the Blood Elves.
- [Horn of the Frostwolf Howler] from Alterac Valley.
Neutral mounts
- [Reins of the Dark Riding Talbuk] from Halaa (70 [Halaa Battle Token] and 15 [Halaa Research Token]).
- [Reins of the Dark War Talbuk] from Halaa (100 [Halaa Battle Token] and 20 [Halaa Research Token]).
- Reins of the Black War Mammoth (Alliance) (Alliance version) and Reins of the Black War Mammoth (Horde) (Horde version) from Wintergrasp (
- [Reins of the Black War Bear] from and Achievement ( For The Horde! or For The Alliance!).
Patch changes
- Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Cost changed from
50,000to 2,000 Honor
- Patch 3.3.3 (2010-03-23): Cost changed from to


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Welcome to Monday, December 12, 2011. Only 13 days until Christmas! For all of you out there (this includes me) who haven't finished your shopping, it is time to get busy! Right now I am out running 8-10 miles to help motivate myself to knock out the rest of my shopping later on today. Not sure yet if that will include in person or online shopping – it depends on how I feel.
With Hannah home sick with the stomach flu, I had plenty of time to catch up on all things online. I found some great gluten-free tidbits and plan to share one of them now with you guys! Are you ready? Ta-da….
Kinnikinnick is now offering some new mixes just in time for the holiday season. These mixes include: Read More »


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Far Cry 2, Ubisoft's answer to Grand Theft Auto meets Mercenaries 2, has a lot going for it from its enormous 50-square kilometer map to its use of animal AI. Another neat feature is how they've decided to deal with the player character.
In Far Cry 2 you can't customize the way you look, instead you get to choose to play nine of the dozen characters that inhabit the game as friends. Depending on who you choose it changes some of the 75 or so side missions you can play through.
But why only nine of the dozen characters in the game? Because the other three are women.
"There are so many lines of dialog that they would have had to rescript and record if we let people play as a female," I was told.
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Is NCIS big enough for two Leroy Jethros?
On Tuesday's episode (8/7c, CBS), we may just find out. During the hour, aptly titled "The Namesake," Gibbs (Mark Harmon) will once again cross paths with Leroy Jethro Moore (guest star Billy Dee Williams), the man after whom Gibbs was named.
Keck's Exclusives: NCIS casts Star Wars veteran Billy Dee Williams"Leroy Jethro Moore is a World War II Marine veteran who received a distinguished Medal of Honor," Williams tells TVGuide.com of his character. "I think he was one of the first to receive that honor. He's an old friend of Gibbs' father, and they have not seen each other for a long time. A particular incident brings us together and we begin to review our friendship and our lives together 30 years prior."That incident involves the elder Leroy Jethro — thankfully nicknamed L.J. — pawning his Medal of Honor. "He basically tries to sell the Medal of Honor to pay for something that he cares about," executive producer Gary Glasberg says. "Because he's not an egotistical man, it doesn't mean anything to him. Gibbs comes across the medal, and of course it's illegal to sell a Medal of Honor. So he takes it and then ultimately gives it back to him."For Gibbs, it's an interesting chance to reunite with a man who was a major influence on him. "L.J. was a presence in young Gibbs' life," Glasberg says. "He was a former Marine, and that certainly influenced our Leroy Jethro Gibbs to make the decision to become a Marine. This was a man he looked up to, in addition to his father. I think there's absolutely a connection and an appreciation for what L.J. did when he was younger."
NCIS: Can our "fallen heroes" pick themselves back up?Unfortunately, the same can't be said of the relationship between L.J. and Jackson Gibbs (Ralph Waite), whose former friendship has been on the rocks for some time. "There's a story element that comes into play that sort of drove them apart," Glasberg says. "It comes from a place of [Jackson's] stubbornness. Ultimately, it's Gibbs' responsibility to get them back together again."And in doing so, Gibbs will stumble upon some (potentially troubling) old emotions. "It's a very interesting reunion," Williams says. "They were very close friends in a very special way. It's pretty visceral, pretty deep —and very touching actually."Adds Glasberg: "[There's] a connection to Gibbs' mom as well, and what their friendship and their relationship was all about. ... I think it definitely gives you some insight into the Gibbs psyche. Anything that we can learn about Gibbs as a child, about what his home life was like, about the people who helped raise him — I think it all adds to the understanding of who Leroy Jethro Gibbs is."NCIS airs Tuesdays at 8/7 on CBS.


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Floyd Mayweather says Pacquiao is desperate for fight, but won't get it
Floyd Mayweather Jr. knows his audience, there's no doubt.
Boxing's superstar arrived in South Africa on Wednesday wearing a T-shirt with a bright yellow map of Africa on the front. Below it, his TMT logo - that stands for The Money Team - was in the colors of the South African flag.
Mayweather told South African fans he had arrived in the "motherland." He even said he might fight here one day.
"Money" Mayweather swooped into Johannesburg for the start of a four-city visit to South Africa and first trip to the African continent, and was hustled by security straight through a packed airport terminal and into a Rolls Royce. He sped off with no more than a few words, delivered on the run, to hundreds who had gathered to greet him.
It didn't seem to disappoint any of them.
Later, Mayweather was more generous with his time, speaking to reporters for around an hour about his future fight plans and this trip. Well, part of the audience was reporters. Many of those fans had also somehow infiltrated the news conference, beefy security and all, meaning there were fewer questions and more statements of Mayweather's general greatness.
James Dalton, a former South African rugby international, stood up and thanked "Mr. Mayweather" for making the trip and honoring South Africa. Rugby players are a big deal in South Africa, but Mayweather apparently is bigger. The biggest thing in boxing.
No surprise that Mayweather Jr. earned a guaranteed $41.5 million in his last bout, a dominating majority decision over Canelo Alvarez that was the richest fight in the world and made around $150 million on TV sales alone.
And with those kinds of figures, the 36-year-old five-division world champion is in no rush to give in to Manny Pacquiao's pleas for a fight, he said.
"As far as my last fight with, I can't even remember the guy's name. Canelo! They all the same to me," Mayweather said. "So, as far as my fight with Canelo, they said Floyd Mayweather's record could never be broken without the Pacquiao fight and as you have seen what we did, the fight done crazy numbers."
Mayweather also suggested Pacquiao's renewed desire to make their mega fight happen came out of desperation after the Filipino's back-to-back losses to Timothy Bradley and Juan Manuel Marquez in 2012, and his tax problems.
"I offered Manny Pacquiao the fight before," Mayweather said. "We didn't see eye to eye on terms. Years later we come back and I try and make the fight happen again. I offer him $40 million. He said he wanted 50-50. So we didn't make the fight happen.
"All of a sudden, he loses to Timothy Bradley, he loses to Marquez he has tax problems now. So, two losses and tax problems later, now he all of a sudden want to say: 'You know what? I'd do anything to make the fight happen,' when he's really saying: 'Floyd, can you help me solve my tax problems, get me out of debt?'"
Instead, Mayweather named Britain's Amir Khan and Argentina's Marcos Maidana as contenders to be his next opponent on May 3 in Las Vegas. Mayweather said nothing was finalized but they would know who it was within a week.
And it wasn't all business. Mayweather had a couple of pretty good wisecracks saved up, too.
He said he didn't call himself "the greatest," as that was Muhammad Ali. He rather referred to himself as "TBE" - the best ever. Asked how he would go about fighting Floyd Mayweather Jr., he replied, deadpan: "I wouldn't fight Floyd Mayweather."
Mayweather is due to also visit the cities of Bloemfontein, East London and Cape Town on his near week-long trip, which South Africa says will help "resuscitate" its own struggling boxing code. And he gave South Africans a glimmer of hope of their own Mayweather mega fight.
"It's been a dream of mine to fight here," he said.


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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 4, by Edward Gibbon, [1788], at sacred-texts.com
Conquests Of Justinian In The West. - Character And First Campaigns Of Belisarius - He Invades And Subdues The Vandal Kingdom Of Africa - His Triumph. - The Gothic War. - He Recovers Sicily, Naples, And Rome. - Siege Of Rome By The Goths. - Their Retreat And Losses. - Surrender Of Ravenna. - Glory Of Belisarius. - His Domestic Shame And Misfortunes.
When Justinian ascended the throne, about fifty years after the fall of the Western empire, the kingdoms of the Goths and Vandals had obtained a solid, and, as it might seem, a legal establishment both in Europe and Africa. The titles, which Roman victory had inscribed, were erased with equal justice by the sword of the Barbarians; and their successful rapine derived a more venerable sanction from time, from treaties, and from the oaths of fidelity, already repeated by a second or third generation of obedient subjects. Experience and Christianity had refuted the superstitious hope, that Rome was founded by the gods to reign forever over the nations of the earth. But the proud claim of perpetual and indefeasible dominion, which her soldiers could no longer maintain, was firmly asserted by her statesmen and lawyers, whose opinions have been sometimes revived and propagated in the modern schools of jurisprudence. After Rome herself had been stripped of the Imperial purple, the princes of Constantinople assumed the sole and sacred sceptre of the monarchy; demanded, as their rightful inheritance, the provinces which had been subdued by the consuls, or possessed by the Caesars; and feebly aspired to deliver their faithful subjects of the West from the usurpation of heretics and Barbarians. The execution of this splendid design was in some degree reserved for Justinian. During the five first years of his reign, he reluctantly waged a costly and unprofitable war against the Persians; till his pride submitted to his ambition, and he purchased at the price of four hundred and forty thousand pounds sterling, the benefit of a precarious truce, which, in the language of both nations, was dignified with the appellation of the endless peace. The safety of the East enabled the emperor to employ his forces against the Vandals; and the internal state of Africa afforded an honorable motive, and promised a powerful support, to the Roman arms. 1
According to the testament of the founder, the African kingdom had lineally descended to Hilderic, the eldest of the Vandal princes. A mild disposition inclined the son of a tyrant, the grandson of a conqueror, to prefer the counsels of clemency and peace; and his accession was marked by the salutary edict, which restored two hundred bishops to their churches, and allowed the free profession of the Athanasian creed. 2 But the Catholics accepted, with cold and transient gratitude, a favor so inadequate to their pretensions, and the virtues of Hilderic offended the prejudices of his countrymen. The Arian clergy presumed to insinuate that he had renounced the faith, and the soldiers more loudly complained that he had degenerated from the courage, of his ancestors. His ambassadors were suspected of a secret and disgraceful negotiation in the Byzantine court; and his general, the Achilles, 3 as he was named, of the Vandals, lost a battle against the naked and disorderly Moors. The public discontent was exasperated by Gelimer, whose age, descent, and military fame, gave him an apparent title to the succession: he assumed, with the consent of the nation, the reins of government; and his unfortunate sovereign sunk without a struggle from the throne to a dungeon, where he was strictly guarded with a faithful counsellor, and his unpopular nephew the Achilles of the Vandals. But the indulgence which Hilderic had shown to his Catholic subjects had powerfully recommended him to the favor of Justinian, who, for the benefit of his own sect, could acknowledge the use and justice of religious toleration: their alliance, while the nephew of Justin remained in a private station, was cemented by the mutual exchange of gifts and letters; and the emperor Justinian asserted the cause of royalty and friendship. In two successive embassies, he admonished the usurper to repent of his treason, or to abstain, at least, from any further violence which might provoke the displeasure of God and of the Romans; to reverence the laws of kindred and succession, and to suffer an infirm old man peaceably to end his days, either on the throne of Carthage or in the palace of Constantinople. The passions, or even the prudence, of Gelimer compelled him to reject these requests, which were urged in the haughty tone of menace and command; and he justified his ambition in a language rarely spoken in the Byzantine court, by alleging the right of a free people to remove or punish their chief magistrate, who had failed in the execution of the kingly office. After this fruitless expostulation, the captive monarch was more rigorously treated, his nephew was deprived of his eyes, and the cruel Vandal, confident in his strength and distance, derided the vain threats and slow preparations of the emperor of the East. Justinian resolved to deliver or revenge his friend, Gelimer to maintain his usurpation; and the war was preceded, according to the practice of civilized nations, by the most solemn protestations, that each party was sincerely desirous of peace.
The report of an African war was grateful only to the vain and idle populace of Constantinople, whose poverty exempted them from tribute, and whose cowardice was seldom exposed to military service. But the wiser citizens, who judged of the future by the past, revolved in their memory the immense loss, both of men and money, which the empire had sustained in the expedition of Basiliscus. The troops, which, after five laborious campaigns, had been recalled from the Persian frontier, dreaded the sea, the climate, and the arms of an unknown enemy. The ministers of the finances computed, as far as they might compute, the demands of an African war; the taxes which must be found and levied to supply those insatiate demands; and the danger, lest their own lives, or at least their lucrative employments, should be made responsible for the deficiency of the supply. Inspired by such selfish motives, (for we may not suspect him of any zeal for the public good,) John of Cappadocia ventured to oppose in full council the inclinations of his master. He confessed, that a victory of such importance could not be too dearly purchased; but he represented in a grave discourse the certain difficulties and the uncertain event. "You undertake," said the praefect, "to besiege Carthage: by land, the distance is not less than one hundred and forty days' journey; on the sea, a whole year 4 must elapse before you can receive any intelligence from your fleet. If Africa should be reduced, it cannot be preserved without the additional conquest of Sicily and Italy. Success will impose the obligations of new labors; a single misfortune will attract the Barbarians into the heart of your exhausted empire." Justinian felt the weight of this salutary advice; he was confounded by the unwonted freedom of an obsequious servant; and the design of the war would perhaps have been relinquished, if his courage had not been revived by a voice which silenced the doubts of profane reason. "I have seen a vision," cried an artful or fanatic bishop of the East. "It is the will of Heaven, O emperor! that you should not abandon your holy enterprise for the deliverance of the African church. The God of battles will march before your standard, and disperse your enemies, who are the enemies of his Son." The emperor, might be tempted, and his counsellors were constrained, to give credit to this seasonable revelation: but they derived more rational hope from the revolt, which the adherents of Hilderic or Athanasius had already excited on the borders of the Vandal monarchy. Pudentius, an African subject, had privately signified his loyal intentions, and a small military aid restored the province of Tripoli to the obedience of the Romans. The government of Sardinia had been intrusted to Godas, a valiant Barbarian he suspended the payment of tribute, disclaimed his allegiance to the usurper, and gave audience to the emissaries of Justinian, who found him master of that fruitful island, at the head of his guards, and proudly invested with the ensigns of royalty. The forces of the Vandals were diminished by discord and suspicion; the Roman armies were animated by the spirit of Belisarius; one of those heroic names which are familiar to every age and to every nation.
The Africanus of new Rome was born, and perhaps educated, among the Thracian peasants, 5 without any of those advantages which had formed the virtues of the elder and younger Scipio; a noble origin, liberal studies, and the emulation of a free state. The silence of a loquacious secretary may be admitted, to prove that the youth of Belisarius could not afford any subject of praise: he served, most assuredly with valor and reputation, among the private guards of Justinian; and when his patron became emperor, the domestic was promoted to military command. After a bold inroad into Persarmenia, in which his glory was shared by a colleague, and his progress was checked by an enemy, Belisarius repaired to the important station of Dara, where he first accepted the service of Procopius, the faithful companion, and diligent historian, of his exploits. 6 The Mirranes of Persia advanced, with forty thousand of her best troops, to raze the fortifications of Dara; and signified the day and the hour on which the citizens should prepare a bath for his refreshment, after the toils of victory. He encountered an adversary equal to himself, by the new title of General of the East; his superior in the science of war, but much inferior in the number and quality of his troops, which amounted only to twenty-five thousand Romans and strangers, relaxed in their discipline, and humbled by recent disasters. As the level plain of Dara refused all shelter to stratagem and ambush, Belisarius protected his front with a deep trench, which was prolonged at first in perpendicular, and afterwards in parallel, lines, to cover the wings of cavalry advantageously posted to command the flanks and rear of the enemy. When the Roman centre was shaken, their well-timed and rapid charge decided the conflict: the standard of Persia fell; the immortals fled; the infantry threw away their bucklers, and eight thousand of the vanquished were left on the field of battle. In the next campaign, Syria was invaded on the side of the desert; and Belisarius, with twenty thousand men, hastened from Dara to the relief of the province. During the whole summer, the designs of the enemy were baffled by his skilful dispositions: he pressed their retreat, occupied each night their camp of the preceding day, and would have secured a bloodless victory, if he could have resisted the impatience of his own troops. Their valiant promise was faintly supported in the hour of battle; the right wing was exposed by the treacherous or cowardly desertion of the Christian Arabs; the Huns, a veteran band of eight hundred warriors, were oppressed by superior numbers; the flight of the Isaurians was intercepted; but the Roman infantry stood firm on the left; for Belisarius himself, dismounting from his horse, showed them that intrepid despair was their only safety. *_0017 They turned their backs to the Euphrates, and their faces to the enemy: innumerable arrows glanced without effect from the compact and shelving order of their bucklers; an impenetrable line of pikes was opposed to the repeated assaults of the Persian cavalry; and after a resistance of many hours, the remaining troops were skilfully embarked under the shadow of the night. The Persian commander retired with disorder and disgrace, to answer a strict account of the lives of so many soldiers, which he had consumed in a barren victory. But the fame of Belisarius was not sullied by a defeat, in which he alone had saved his army from the consequences of their own rashness: the approach of peace relieved him from the guard of the eastern frontier, and his conduct in the sedition of Constantinople amply discharged his obligations to the emperor. When the African war became the topic of popular discourse and secret deliberation, each of the Roman generals was apprehensive, rather than ambitious, of the dangerous honor; but as soon as Justinian had declared his preference of superior merit, their envy was rekindled by the unanimous applause which was given to the choice of Belisarius. The temper of the Byzantine court may encourage a suspicion, that the hero was darkly assisted by the intrigues of his wife, the fair and subtle Antonina, who alternately enjoyed the confidence, and incurred the hatred, of the empress Theodora. The birth of Antonina was ignoble; she descended from a family of charioteers; and her chastity has been stained with the foulest reproach. Yet she reigned with long and absolute power over the mind of her illustrious husband; and if Antonina disdained the merit of conjugal fidelity, she expressed a manly friendship to Belisarius, whom she accompanied with undaunted resolution in all the hardships and dangers of a military life. 7
The preparations for the African war were not unworthy of the last contest between Rome and Carthage. The pride and flower of the army consisted of the guards of Belisarius, who, according to the pernicious indulgence of the times, devoted themselves, by a particular oath of fidelity, to the service of their patrons. Their strength and stature, for which they had been curiously selected, the goodness of their horses and armor, and the assiduous practice of all the exercises of war, enabled them to act whatever their courage might prompt; and their courage was exalted by the social honor of their rank, and the personal ambition of favor and fortune. Four hundred of the bravest of the Heruli marched under the banner of the faithful and active Pharas; their untractable valor was more highly prized than the tame submission of the Greeks and Syrians; and of such importance was it deemed to procure a reenforcement of six hundred Massagetae, or Huns, that they were allured by fraud and deceit to engage in a naval expedition. Five thousand horse and ten thousand foot were embarked at Constantinople, for the conquest of Africa; but the infantry, for the most part levied in Thrace and Isauria, yielded to the more prevailing use and reputation of the cavalry; and the Scythian bow was the weapon on which the armies of Rome were now reduced to place their principal dependence. From a laudable desire to assert the dignity of his theme, Procopius defends the soldiers of his own time against the morose critics, who confined that respectable name to the heavy-armed warriors of antiquity, and maliciously observed, that the word archer is introduced by Homer 8 as a term of contempt. "Such contempt might perhaps be due to the naked youths who appeared on foot in the fields of Troy, and lurking behind a tombstone, or the shield of a friend, drew the bow-string to their breast, 9 and dismissed a feeble and lifeless arrow. But our archers (pursues the historian) are mounted on horses, which they manage with admirable skill; their head and shoulders are protected by a casque or buckler; they wear greaves of iron on their legs, and their bodies are guarded by a coat of mail. On their right side hangs a quiver, a sword on their left, and their hand is accustomed to wield a lance or javelin in closer combat. Their bows are strong and weighty; they shoot in every possible direction, advancing, retreating, to the front, to the rear, or to either flank; and as they are taught to draw the bow-string not to the breast, but to the right ear, firm indeed must be the armor that can resist the rapid violence of their shaft." Five hundred transports, navigated by twenty thousand mariners of Egypt, Cilicia, and Ionia, were collected in the harbor of Constantinople. The smallest of these vessels may be computed at thirty, the largest at five hundred, tons; and the fair average will supply an allowance, liberal, but not profuse, of about one hundred thousand tons, 10 for the reception of thirty-five thousand soldiers and sailors, of five thousand horses, of arms, engines, and military stores, and of a sufficient stock of water and provisions for a voyage, perhaps, of three months. The proud galleys, which in former ages swept the Mediterranean with so many hundred oars, had long since disappeared; and the fleet of Justinian was escorted only by ninety-two light brigantines, covered from the missile weapons of the enemy, and rowed by two thousand of the brave and robust youth of Constantinople. Twenty-two generals are named, most of whom were afterwards distinguished in the wars of Africa and Italy: but the supreme command, both by land and sea, was delegated to Belisarius alone, with a boundless power of acting according to his discretion, as if the emperor himself were present. The separation of the naval and military professions is at once the effect and the cause of the modern improvements in the science of navigation and maritime war.
In the seventh year of the reign of Justinian, and about the time of the summer solstice, the whole fleet of six hundred ships was ranged in martial pomp before the gardens of the palace. The patriarch pronounced his benediction, the emperor signified his last commands, the general's trumpet gave the signal of departure, and every heart, according to its fears or wishes, explored, with anxious curiosity, the omens of misfortune and success. The first halt was made at Perinthus or Heraclea, where Belisarius waited five days to receive some Thracian horses, a military gift of his sovereign. From thence the fleet pursued their course through the midst of the Propontis; but as they struggled to pass the Straits of the Hellespont, an unfavorable wind detained them four days at Abydus, where the general exhibited a memorable lesson of firmness and severity. Two of the Huns, who in a drunken quarrel had slain one of their fellow-soldiers, were instantly shown to the army suspended on a lofty gibbet. The national dignity was resented by their countrymen, who disclaimed the servile laws of the empire, and asserted the free privilege of Scythia, where a small fine was allowed to expiate the hasty sallies of intemperance and anger. Their complaints were specious, their clamors were loud, and the Romans were not averse to the example of disorder and impunity. But the rising sedition was appeased by the authority and eloquence of the general: and he represented to the assembled troops the obligation of justice, the importance of discipline, the rewards of piety and virtue, and the unpardonable guilt of murder, which, in his apprehension, was aggravated rather than excused by the vice of intoxication. 11 In the navigation from the Hellespont to Peloponnesus, which the Greeks, after the siege of Troy, had performed in four days, 12 the fleet of Belisarius was guided in their course by his master-galley, conspicuous in the day by the redness of the sails, and in the night by the torches blazing from the mast head. It was the duty of the pilots, as they steered between the islands, and turned the Capes of Malea and Taenarium, to preserve the just order and regular intervals of such a multitude of ships: as the wind was fair and moderate, their labors were not unsuccessful, and the troops were safely disembarked at Methone on the Messenian coast, to repose themselves for a while after the fatigues of the sea. In this place they experienced how avarice, invested with authority, may sport with the lives of thousands which are bravely exposed for the public service. According to military practice, the bread or biscuit of the Romans was twice prepared in the oven, and the diminution of one fourth was cheerfully allowed for the loss of weight. To gain this miserable profit, and to save the expense of wood, the praefect John of Cappadocia had given orders that the flour should be slightly baked by the same fire which warmed the baths of Constantinople; and when the sacks were opened, a soft and mouldy paste was distributed to the army. Such unwholesome food, assisted by the heat of the climate and season, soon produced an epidemical disease, which swept away five hundred soldiers. Their health was restored by the diligence of Belisarius, who provided fresh bread at Methone, and boldly expressed his just and humane indignation the emperor heard his complaint; the general was praised but the minister was not punished. From the port of Methone, the pilots steered along the western coast of Peloponnesus, as far as the Isle of Zacynthus, or Zante, before they undertook the voyage (in their eyes a most arduous voyage) of one hundred leagues over the Ionian Sea. As the fleet was surprised by a calm, sixteen days were consumed in the slow navigation; and even the general would have suffered the intolerable hardship of thirst, if the ingenuity of Antonina had not preserved the water in glass bottles, which she buried deep in the sand in a part of the ship impervious to the rays of the sun. At length the harbor of Caucana, 13 on the southern side of Sicily, afforded a secure and hospitable shelter. The Gothic officers who governed the island in the name of the daughter and grandson of Theodoric, obeyed their imprudent orders, to receive the troops of Justinian like friends and allies: provisions were liberally supplied, the cavalry was remounted, 14 and Procopius soon returned from Syracuse with correct information of the state and designs of the Vandals. His intelligence determined Belisarius to hasten his operations, and his wise impatience was seconded by the winds. The fleet lost sight of Sicily, passed before the Isle of Malta, discovered the capes of Africa, ran along the coast with a strong gale from the north-east, and finally cast anchor at the promontory of Caput Vada, about five days' journey to the south of Carthage. 15
If Gelimer had been informed of the approach of the enemy, he must have delayed the conquest of Sardinia for the immediate defence of his person and kingdom. A detachment of five thousand soldiers, and one hundred and twenty galleys, would have joined the remaining forces of the Vandals; and the descendant of Genseric might have surprised and oppressed a fleet of deep laden transports, incapable of action, and of light brigantines that seemed only qualified for flight. Belisarius had secretly trembled when he overheard his soldiers, in the passage, emboldening each other to confess their apprehensions: if they were once on shore, they hoped to maintain the honor of their arms; but if they should be attacked at sea, they did not blush to acknowledge that they wanted courage to contend at the same time with the winds, the waves, and the Barbarians. 16 The knowledge of their sentiments decided Belisarius to seize the first opportunity of landing them on the coast of Africa; and he prudently rejected, in a council of war, the proposal of sailing with the fleet and army into the port of Carthage. *_0018 Three months after their departure from Constantinople, the men and horses, the arms and military stores, were safely disembarked, and five soldiers were left as a guard on board each of the ships, which were disposed in the form of a semicircle. The remainder of the troops occupied a camp on the sea- shore, which they fortified, according to ancient discipline, with a ditch and rampart; and the discovery of a source of fresh water, while it allayed the thirst, excited the superstitious confidence, of the Romans. The next morning, some of the neighboring gardens were pillaged; and Belisarius, after chastising the offenders, embraced the slight occasion, but the decisive moment, of inculcating the maxims of justice, moderation, and genuine policy. "When I first accepted the commission of subduing Africa, I depended much less," said the general, "on the numbers, or even the bravery of my troops, than on the friendly disposition of the natives, and their immortal hatred to the Vandals. You alone can deprive me of this hope; if you continue to extort by rapine what might be purchased for a little money, such acts of violence will reconcile these implacable enemies, and unite them in a just and holy league against the invaders of their country." These exhortations were enforced by a rigid discipline, of which the soldiers themselves soon felt and praised the salutary effects. The inhabitants, instead of deserting their houses, or hiding their corn, supplied the Romans with a fair and liberal market: the civil officers of the province continued to exercise their functions in the name of Justinian: and the clergy, from motives of conscience and interest, assiduously labored to promote the cause of a Catholic emperor. The small town of Sullecte, 17 one day's journey from the camp, had the honor of being foremost to open her gates, and to resume her ancient allegiance: the larger cities of Leptis and Adrumetum imitated the example of loyalty as soon as Belisarius appeared; and he advanced without opposition as far as Grasse, a palace of the Vandal kings, at the distance of fifty miles from Carthage. The weary Romans indulged themselves in the refreshment of shady groves, cool fountains, and delicious fruits; and the preference which Procopius allows to these gardens over any that he had seen, either in the East or West, may be ascribed either to the taste, or the fatigue, or the historian. In three generations, prosperity and a warm climate had dissolved the hardy virtue of the Vandals, who insensibly became the most luxurious of mankind. In their villas and gardens, which might deserve the Persian name of Paradise, 18 they enjoyed a cool and elegant repose; and, after the daily use of the bath, the Barbarians were seated at a table profusely spread with the delicacies of the land and sea. Their silken robes loosely flowing, after the fashion of the Medes, were embroidered with gold; love and hunting were the labors of their life, and their vacant hours were amused by pantomimes, chariot-races, and the music and dances of the theatre.
In a march of ten or twelve days, the vigilance of Belisarius was constantly awake and active against his unseen enemies, by whom, in every place, and at every hour, he might be suddenly attacked. An officer of confidence and merit, John the Armenian, led the vanguard of three hundred horse; six hundred Massagetae covered at a certain distance the left flank; and the whole fleet, steering along the coast, seldom lost sight of the army, which moved each day about twelve miles, and lodged in the evening in strong camps, or in friendly towns. The near approach of the Romans to Carthage filled the mind of Gelimer with anxiety and terror. He prudently wished to protract the war till his brother, with his veteran troops, should return from the conquest of Sardinia; and he now lamented the rash policy of his ancestors, who, by destroying the fortifications of Africa, had left him only the dangerous resource of risking a battle in the neighborhood of his capital. The Vandal conquerors, from their original number of fifty thousand, were multiplied, without including their women and children, to one hundred and sixty thousand fighting men: *_0019 and such forces, animated with valor and union, might have crushed, at their first landing, the feeble and exhausted bands of the Roman general. But the friends of the captive king were more inclined to accept the invitations, than to resist the progress, of Belisarius; and many a proud Barbarian disguised his aversion to war under the more specious name of his hatred to the usurper. Yet the authority and promises of Gelimer collected a formidable army, and his plans were concerted with some degree of military skill. An order was despatched to his brother Ammatas, to collect all the forces of Carthage, and to encounter the van of the Roman army at the distance of ten miles from the city: his nephew Gibamund, with two thousand horse, was destined to attack their left, when the monarch himself, who silently followed, should charge their rear, in a situation which excluded them from the aid or even the view of their fleet. But the rashness of Ammatas was fatal to himself and his country. He anticipated the hour of the attack, outstripped his tardy followers, and was pierced with a mortal wound, after he had slain with his own hand twelve of his boldest antagonists. His Vandals fled to Carthage; the highway, almost ten miles, was strewed with dead bodies; and it seemed incredible that such multitudes could be slaughtered by the swords of three hundred Romans. The nephew of Gelimer was defeated, after a slight combat, by the six hundred Massagetae: they did not equal the third part of his numbers; but each Scythian was fired by the example of his chief, who gloriously exercised the privilege of his family, by riding, foremost and alone, to shoot the first arrow against the enemy. In the mean while, Gelimer himself, ignorant of the event, and misguided by the windings of the hills, inadvertently passed the Roman army, and reached the scene of action where Ammatas had fallen. He wept the fate of his brother and of Carthage, charged with irresistible fury the advancing squadrons, and might have pursued, and perhaps decided, the victory, if he had not wasted those inestimable moments in the discharge of a vain, though pious, duty to the dead. While his spirit was broken by this mournful office, he heard the trumpet of Belisarius, who, leaving Antonina and his infantry in the camp, pressed forwards with his guards and the remainder of the cavalry to rally his flying troops, and to restore the fortune of the day. Much room could not be found, in this disorderly battle, for the talents of a general; but the king fled before the hero; and the Vandals, accustomed only to a Moorish enemy, were incapable of withstanding the arms and discipline of the Romans. Gelimer retired with hasty steps towards the desert of Numidia: but he had soon the consolation of learning that his private orders for the execution of Hilderic and his captive friends had been faithfully obeyed. The tyrant's revenge was useful only to his enemies. The death of a lawful prince excited the compassion of his people; his life might have perplexed the victorious Romans; and the lieutenant of Justinian, by a crime of which he was innocent, was relieved from the painful alternative of forfeiting his honor or relinquishing his conquests.
1 The complete series of the Vandal war is related by Procopius in a regular and elegant narrative, (l. i. c. 9 - 25, l. ii. c. 1 - 13,) and happy would be my lot, could I always tread in the footsteps of such a guide. From the entire and diligent perusal of the Greek text, I have a right to pronounce that the Latin and French versions of Grotius and Cousin may not be implicitly trusted; yet the president Cousin has been often praised, and Hugo Grotius was the first scholar of a learned age.
2 See Ruinart, Hist. Persecut. Vandal. c. xii. p. 589. His best evidence is drawn from the life of St. Fulgentius, composed by one of his disciples, transcribed in a great measure in the annals of Baronius, and printed in several great collections, (Catalog. Bibliot. Bunavianae, tom. i. vol. ii. p. 1258.)
3 For what quality of the mind or body? For speed, or beauty, or valor? - In what language did the Vandals read Homer? - Did he speak German? - The Latins had four versions, (Fabric. tom. i. l. ii. c. 8, p. 297:) yet, in spite of the praises of Seneca, (Consol. c. 26,) they appear to have been more successful in imitating than in translating the Greek poets. But the name of Achilles might be famous and popular even among the illiterate Barbarians.
4 A year - absurd exaggeration! The conquest of Africa may be dated A. D 533, September 14. It is celebrated by Justinian in the preface to his Institutes, which were published November 21 of the same year. Including the voyage and return, such a computation might be truly applied to our Indian empire.
5 (Procop. Vandal. l. i. c. 11.) Aleman, (Not. ad Anecdot. p. 5,) an Italian, could easily reject the German vanity of Giphanius and Velserus, who wished to claim the hero; but his Germania, a metropolis of Thrace, I cannot find in any civil or ecclesiastical lists of the provinces and cities.
Note *: M. von Hammer (in a review of Lord Mahon's Life of Belisarius in the Vienna Jahrbucher) shows that the name of Belisarius is a Sclavonic word, Beli-tzar, the White Prince, and that the place of his birth was a village of Illvria, which still bears the name of Germany. - M.
6 The two first Persian campaigns of Belisarius are fairly and copiously related by his secretary, (Persic. l. i. c. 12 - 18.)
*_0017 The battle was fought on Easter Sunday, April 19, not at the end of the summer. The date is supplied from John Malala by Lord Mabon p. 47. - M.
7 See the birth and character of Antonina, in the Anecdotes, c. l. and the notes of Alemannus, p. 3.
8 See the preface of Procopius. The enemies of archery might quote the reproaches of Diomede Iliad. Delta. 385, &c.) and the permittere vulnera ventis of Lucan, (viii. 384:) yet the Romans could not despise the arrows of the Parthians; and in the siege of Troy, Pandarus, Paris, and Teucer, pierced those haughty warriors who insulted them as women or children.
9 (Iliad. Delta. 123.) How concise - how just - how beautiful is the whole picture! I see the attitudes of the archer - I hear the twanging of the bow.
10 The text appears to allow for the largest vessels 50,000 medimni, or 3000 tons, (since the medimnus weighed 160 Roman, or 120 avoirdupois, pounds.) I have given a more rational interpretation, by supposing that the Attic style of Procopius conceals the legal and popular modius, a sixth part of the medimnus, (Hooper's Ancient Measures, p. 152, &c.) A contrary and indeed a stranger mistake has crept into an oration of Dinarchus, (contra Demosthenem, in Reiske Orator. Graec tom iv. P. ii. p. 34.) By reducing the number of ships from 500 to 50, and translating by mines, or pounds, Cousin has generously allowed 500 tons for the whole of the Imperial fleet! Did he never think?
11 I have read of a Greek legislator, who inflicted a double penalty on the crimes committed in a state of intoxication; but it seems agreed that this was rather a political than a moral law.
12 Or even in three days, since they anchored the first evening in the neighboring isle of Tenedos: the second day they sailed to Lesbon the third to the promontory of Euboea, and on the fourth they reached Argos, (Homer, Odyss. P. 130 - 183. Wood's Essay on Homer, p. 40 - 46.) A pirate sailed from the Hellespont to the seaport of Sparta in three days, (Xenophon. Hellen. l. ii. c. l.)
13 Caucana, near Camarina, is at least 50 miles (350 or 400 stadia) from Syracuse, (Cluver. Sicilia Antiqua, p. 191.)
Note *: Lord Mahon. (Life of Belisarius, p.88) suggests some valid reasons for reading Catana, the ancient name of Catania. - M.
14 Procopius, Gothic. l. i. c. 3. Tibi tollit hinnitum apta quadrigis equa, in the Sicilian pastures of Grosphus, (Horat. Carm. ii. 16.) Acragas .... magnanimum quondam generator equorum, (Virg. Aeneid. iii. 704.) Thero's horses, whose victories are immortalized by Pindar, were bred in this country.
15 The Caput Vada of Procopius (where Justinian afterwards founded a city - De Edific.l. vi. c. 6) is the promontory of Ammon in Strabo, the Brachodes of Ptolemy, the Capaudia of the moderns, a long narrow slip that runs into the sea, (Shaw's Travels, p. 111.)
16 A centurion of Mark Antony expressed, though in a more manly train, the same dislike to the sea and to naval combats, (Plutarch in Antonio, p. 1730, edit. Hen. Steph.)
*_0018 Rather into the present Lake of Tunis. Lord Mahon, p. 92. - M.
17 Sullecte is perhaps the Turris Hannibalis, an old building, now as large as the Tower of London. The march of Belisarius to Leptis. Adrumetum, &c., is illustrated by the campaign of Caesar, (Hirtius, de Bello Africano, with the Analyse of Guichardt,) and Shaw's Travels (p. 105 - 113) in the same country.
18 The paradises, a name and fashion adopted from Persia, may be represented by the royal garden of Ispahan, (Voyage d'Olearius, p. 774.) See, in the Greek romances, their most perfect model, (Longus. Pastoral. l. iv. p. 99 - 101 Achilles Tatius. l. i. p. 22, 23.)
*_0019 80,000. Hist. Arc. c. 18. Gibbon has been misled by the translation. See Lord ov. p. 99. - M.


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All good things come to an end – it's a fact of life. For the Emmetsburg Lady E-Hawks, the ride was fun while it lasted, though.
Emmetsburg's E-Hawks, who had played to a 2-18 mark in the regular season, erupted in the post season to earn a pair of wins and a ticket to the Regional semi-final before the magic ran out.
Emmetsburg saw its magic post season end Friday night with a 41-39 heartbreaker in Milford to the Pioneers. That loss had been predicated by an improbable 49-44 overtime victory over North Union in Armstrong on Tuesday night.
The tournament run began back on Feb. 9 with a 54-41 win over Pocahontas Area in the opening round of the Class 2A Regional, avenging a 31-point loss from the beginning of the season for Emmetsburg Head Coach Anne Fiene's ball club.
Advancing into the Regional quarterfinal on Tuesday, Feb. 12, Emmetsburg journeyed to Armstrong to take on North Union.
Coming off their win on Saturday, the Lady E-Hawks hit the court on Tuesday night with plenty of confidence, as they jumped out to take a 14-7 lead over North Union's Warriors in the first quarter of play.
Good defense helped Emmetsburg take the seven-point advantage into the second quarter, but North Union found their legs and managed to run down the Lady E-Hawks.
The Warriors would tie the game up with just over a minute to go and then got a late bucket to take a 19-17 advantage into the locker room at the intermission.
Emmetsburg would come out in the third quarter and put up a bucket-for-bucket performance to retake a 29-26 lead into the fourth, but the Warriors would retake the lead, only to see Emmetsburg tie it up and North Union mismanage the clock in the final :06 to send the game to overtime with a 40-40 score.
In the extra period, Emmetsburg went on a 7-0 run before North Union could score, and would go on to earn the 49-40 win.
Ashton Connelly led the effort with 15 points, while Alexa Naig added 14 points and nine rebounds. Whitney Kibbie tallied 11 points, while Hadley Egland added six and Michaela Rehm chipped in three.
Advancing to meet Okoboji on Friday for the Regional semi, the Lady E-Hawks looked to avenge an earlier season loss to the Pioneers.
Okoboji took an early 9-5 lead after the first quarter and led Emmetsburg by a 21-14 tally. But in the second half, Emmetsburg found their magic once again.
The defense tightened down on Okoboji as the Lady E-Hawks began getting their shots to fall, and Emmetsburg was able to make up their seven point deficit and overtake the Pioneers to lead by a digit, 33-32, to end the third quarter.
In the final frame, the two ball clubs would trade blows like a prizefight, answering bucket for bucket as the clock wound down.
With the score knotted at 39-39 with just seconds to go, a last-second shot by the Pioneers would fall, giving Okoboji the 41-39 win, as Emmetsburg's magical run came to a quiet end.
Ashton Connelly would lead the scoring with 20 points, as she also pulled down seven rebounds. Alexa Naig would add in 10 points in the contest, while Whitney Kibbie added five points and Hadley Egland scored four points. Michaela Rehm would hand out four assists in the contest.
The season ends with a mark of 4-19 for Emmetsburg s they bid farewell to the lone senior on the squad, Whitney Kibbie.


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Monsters in Greek Mythology
Argus may have had as many as one hundred eyes, which were located all over his body. Hera employed him as a guard. He was killed by Hermes. Afterward, Hera put Argus's eyes in the tail of the peacock, her favorite bird.
Cerberus was a huge and powerful three-headed dog. He was owned by Hades, god of the dead, who used the fearsome hound to guard the entrance to the underworld. In his final labor, Hercules went to the underworld and kidnapped Cerberus.
Each of the Cyclopes was gigantic and had a single eye in the middle of its forehead. The Cyclopes made lightning and thunderbolts for Zeus to use. The brutal Polyphemus, a Cyclops and a son of Poseidon, lived on an island, where he was blinded by Odysseus.
The Gorgons were horrifyingly ugly monsters who lived at the edge of the world. Their hair was made of serpents, and one look from a Gorgon's eyes would turn a man to stone. Perseus killed the Gorgon Medusa by beheading her while looking only at her reflection.
The Hydra was a massive and poisonous serpent with nine heads. Every time one head was injured, another two grew in its place. Hercules sought out the monster in its dark marsh and succeeded in destroying it.
The Minotaur was a man-eating monster with the head of a bull. King Minos kept it hidden in a labyrinth (a maze) in Knossos, on the island of Crete, where he used it to frighten his enemies. Theseus killed the Minotaur.
Scylla and Charybdis
The powerful monsters Scylla and Charybdis lived together in a sea cave. Scylla had many fierce dog heads and ate sailors alive; Charybdis created whirlpools by sucking in and spitting out seawater. Both Jason and Odysseus safely traveled by these monsters.
The Sirens were giant, winged creatures with the heads of women. They lived on rocks on the sea, where their beautiful singing lured sailors to shipwreck. Odysseus filled his sailors' ears with wax so that they might sail safely past the Sirens.
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