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Opinion Journal: England's Bitter Clingers
Best of the Web Today Columnist James Taranto on the resignation of a British Labour Party Member of Parliament. Photo credit: Twitter / @emilythornberry
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... do you think the tea party is are unfairly maligned by snotty elites ... well this is the situation going on in in the lands west of the Web Today Columnist James Taranto has recently returned from the British Isles with a report ... it isn't all started with this tweet from belabor and TMO we Thornbury it shows ... a white van in front of a house flying the was flat but so from St ... without God ... I was mystified by this is well what I read it on Friday morning in the Telegraph sitting in London ... night but decided to set up a few Oriental in Thornbury was the will to call the shadow attorney general which when she was the ... right ... decision he planned to write exactly ... and she was ousted in that position because of this tweet which simply all season was image from Rochester ... Rochester is a town in southern England were those with the call by election this is like an election for the ... best collection ... of bacon House seat ... by ... Ben and Mark reckless who was a conservative member of Parliament it quits ... and was running as ... a member you kept this new right wing party that I wanna go into much detail but but roughly similar to the the US to yes but with more of an emphasis on immigration and opposition immigration and to European unity ... so ... by ... this was supposed to be a defeat for the Conservatives the ruling party ... and instead ended up tied with ... set such an offensive tree while I was when they bought this might soften five with the Guardian left wing paper explained yet to understand the symbolism here ... are the flag is the side of the EU and its policy toward describes as distinct from the five we usually recognizes the United Kingdom ... that apparently it's viewed by some in England as a symbol of racism of the twenty four percent of ... all ... the white van ... represents about white van man ... which is ... a British stereotype of longstanding white van man is essentially the odd tradesmen who use to vote Labour and switch to the conservative the shot in the dry gets it right ... he is the Reagan Democrats in the American crafts translation ... so she was I it looking down her nose at this guy who had the symbols it was as if Nancy Poloz see it with a picture ... of the house with ... maybe the Confederate flag or maybe the Gadsden flag the don't tread on me stake ... at a pickup truck with a rifle rack and said this is an image from the sound you really be surprised by class snobbery in England ... well no I especially because it's so similar to the class snobbery here its site ... you know I'd take my column is that what's the matter with cats but the memo that out you were Rochester is located ... at an allusion to what's the matter with Kansas ... the saw book by Thomas Frank the left wing commentators says I'd you know what's wrong with the use of white people why they vote for ... Republicans when the Democrats have their economic best interest to part of the big takeaway snobbery is everywhere ... Britain is just like us


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That war is an evil, and often, a sore and terrible evil, and a thing at variance with the spirit of the Gospel, is what no Christian can for a moment doubt. But these facts do not place it beyond the employment of God, as a means of working out His purposes on earth. Sickness, suffering, famine and pestilence, are also evils, yet God employs them in this way, and having declared that "the wrath of man shall praise Him," He may also use war to effect His designs among nations. Had there been no sin, there would have been no war, as there would have been no suffering of any other kind; but as long as there is sin in the world, so long may we expect to find this huge, colossal scourge--this Moloch of evils--among men. Indeed, our Lord expressly declares that wars and rumors of wars shall be among the signs that shall herald the end, so that our fond dreams of a universal peace, when in millennial blessedness, men shall "beat their swords into plough-shares, and their spears into pruning-hooks," may be realized only in those final scenes that lie beyond the great day, and not on this side of it, "in the new heavens and new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness."
But war is not an unmitigated evil, terrible as its ravages are. It is like the hurricane and the flood in Nature, desolating
and terrific, yet accomplishing ends in the physical world that can be accomplished by no other agencies. The brooding miasma, the tainted air and the poisoned water are swept away, and there are left behind a purer air and a richer soil than could have existed without this purgation of tempest and flood. Similar services are rendered by the hurricane of war, in spite of its evils.
A long course of peace and prosperity, acting on our depraved nature, tends to emasculate and corrupt a people. As wealth increases, unless religion advances with it, luxury grows apace. Mammon-worship soon becomes supreme, everything assumes a money standard, and corruption creeps slowly into the very heart of a people. The refined and intelligent withdraw from political life, either to amass wealth in business, or to enjoy it in scholarly ease, leaving the direction of public affairs in the hands of brawling demagogues; and the fiery energy of youth is expended in revelry and dissipation. There grows gradually up a worldly and Epicurean expediency that sneers at lofty heroism and high principle as mere Quixotic romance; a hard and brassy materialism that measures everything by the standard of dollars and cents and rejects all that will not pay in this coin; and a secret, but potent scepticism as to the very existence of anything like virtue, honor, unselfishness or truth, believing that every man at last has his price. The general prevalence of this feeling will at last sap the very foundations of public and private morality, enthrone a shameless selfishness in the high places of life, which in the end will be guilty of some outrages on common justice and right so flagrant as to provoke resistance, the recoil of whose violence may lay the whole fabric of society in ruin.
War tends to break up this mammon-worship, effeminacy and selfish expediency, to show that there are nobler things to be contended for in life than mere material advancement; that the chief end of man is not to make money; that there are great principles of belief, and great elements of moral
character which underlie all human prosperity, and the sacrifice of which will, in the end, undermine even material greatness; and that heroism, daring, unselfishness, and a sacrificing patriotism, are living realities, and not mere poetic romances. As men contend for great political or religious rights, they have a clearer perception of the nature and value of all human rights; and as they endure hardship, hunger, cold and danger, in defence of these rights, there is generated a sturdier manliness, and a loftier tone of character that will descend in kindling memories of noble deeds, at once a heritage and a model to coming generations, inspiring them with a generous ambition to emulate the bright example of their worthy sires. It is thus that national character is formed. It is thus that vigor, enterprise and honor are breathed into the heart of a people, and that the hardy, simple and manly virtues are worked into the very sources of national life. It was thus that the Hebrew Commonwealth gathered its enduring strength after the effeminacy of its Egyptian life, by battling with the Canaanites, and purchasing their God-given homes and fields with their swords and spears. It was thus that the Greek republics attained their athletic sinew and symmetry, and quickened into its beautiful life their immortal genius. It was thus that the wolf-nursed colony of the Tiber became at last imperial Rome, stamping in lines of iron her mighty image on all nations and on all time. And it has been thus that God has caused the roots of every enduring nationality to strike deep, and grow strong, as its branches have wrestled with the storms of war. As no nation has ever risen to greatness without this stern tutorage, it seems but a simple induction from the facts of universal history, that in a fallen world like ours, war is a necessary part of the agency by which God disciplines nations.
These views furnish no apology for an offensive war, which is a crime as well as an evil, but they do furnish an encouragement to those on whom a defensive war is forced; for they show that what is an undoubted evil may be, and has been,
overruled by God to good results. Man means it for evil, God controls it for good. It comes as a chastening for sins, and becomes a blessing by extirpating those sins, and bringing to a hardier life the corresponding virtues. We can thus see some of the reasons for that general fact alluded to by Solomon in the text, when he assumes that God's people will go forth to war by "a way in which God shall send them," as if war was one of the inevitable incidents in the history even of a people belonging to God, and under His special protection, and an incident arranged by His special and foreordaining providence.
In the war now upon us there are special considerations bearing on this point.
(1.) One of the sins of the Southern country has been a lazy dependence on the industry of the North for what we might have done, and ought to have done for ourselves. We have looked to them to manufacture everything--from a man-of-war to a lucifer match; allowing them to come and carry away our cotton, wool, iron, lead, copper, coal, hemp, and our very cord-wood, to return them in manufactured forms, whilst we paid not only for the manufacture, but for this double transportation, and brokerage, commission, percentage, exchange, insurance, discount, storage, and a list of charges whose name was legion, for the privilege of being dependent on them for the very necessaries of life, as we are now learning to our cost. Add to these the tribute that was paid for papers, periodicals and books, boarding schools, seminaries and colleges, that moulded our opinions, and the enormous expenditures of travel to watering places, hotels, cities, and other resorts, that moulded our fashions and manners, and we have but a faint conception of that condition of provincial dependence to which half a century of fishery-bounty, navigation, tariff, revenue and commercial laws, written and unwritten, had reduced this broad and opulent region. So enormous was the tribute paid in this way for things wholly unnecessary, that we shall save probably the entire expense of the war by simply
keeping at home the wealth that would otherwise have been sent to build up the prosperity of those who would use that very prosperity as an argument to prove the superiority of their institutions to ours.
Now, had a peaceable separation been effected, this dependence would have continued, until with overgrown wealth on one side, and exhausted poverty on the other, that very separation would have been our ruin. But separated by the convulsive throes of war, all these ties must be broken, all these channels filled up; domestic industry must spring up to meet the very necessities of life; manufacturing and commercial independence be firmly established, without which political independence would be a sceptre without a kingdom, a sword without a hand to wield it. Thus the very blockade, cruel as it is designed to be, will be a blessing; and should another war come upon us, it will not find us, as this one did, without a mill or a manufactory to furnish powder and caps for the muskets of our soldiers.
And in nothing does the suicidal folly of this war on the part of the United States Government appear more vividly than in the light of this fact. It proposes to make us friends by hunting us down as enemies; to restore our love and loyalty by means that must naturally produce the most undying hate; to drag us back, all bleeding and crushed, to the iron embrace of a huge enginery of coercive power, to illustrate the theory of free government; to ravage our coasts, and slaughter our sons, and distress our households, in order to restore our allegiance to those who have thus cruelly, wantonly and bitterly oppressed us. It professes to regard slave territory as an unmitigated curse, and yet, rather than allow this alleged curse to be separated from it, will raise half a million of men and half a billion of money that it may grasp this accursed soil with a hand of iron, even though it thus makes it but one vast field of blood. Surely the lessons of all past history have been in vain if such means do not engender a hate, a deep, burning and deathless memory of
wrong and cruelty, that shall remain in its engendered animosities a wide and yawning gulf for generations to come. These two sections, however this war may end, shall
"Stand aloof, the scars remaining
Like cliffs that have been rent asunder,
A dreary sea shall roll between,
But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder,
Can wholly do away I ween,
The marks of which once hath been."
The sword may cut apart, but can never unite.
(2.) But there is another effect of the war, not less important than this one. The deep, original cause of that mighty disruption that is now going forward was the diversity of interests that were included in a single government, interests so vast, and connected with other diversities, social, historical and political, themselves so important, that all could not be harmonized under a single organization, without an amount of wisdom, justice and statesmanship but rarely found in any administration. Similar diversities remain in the separated section, which in time must have produced the same result unless prevented by some powerful agency. The jealousies even now exhibited, which every good man should frown down as the worst kind of treason; and the unkind detractions that have been uttered against our own great old Commonwealth, without whose aid, whatever may be said about her, the success of this struggle would have been a hopeless impossibility, all prove that these divisive tendencies are at work, and that one of our greatest dangers was in the diversities that existed between border, and cotton, and gulf, and western States, producing undue friction in the working of government. What our young Republic needed was a feeling of oneness, a broad, deep national unity, binding together the separate sovereignties of the Confederacy, so that whilst, politically, they shall be "distinct as the billows," yet, nationally, they shall be "one as the sea." Although the common institution of domestic slavery is a powerful bond of union, especially in view of the mighty hostility against it that compresses its adherents
together, yet even this could not have created this national unity, as we had it, under a peaceful separation. Had the original thirteen colonies separated peacefully from Great Britain they would never have made that e pluribus unum under which they advanced to such peerless greatness, until the spirit of that Revolutionary struggle became extinct in a generation "that knew not Joseph." In the same way it was necessary that these Confederate States should be put into the furnace of war, that they might be welded into one great, united and loving people, fused together by common weakness common suffering, and common triumphs; having a common heritage of grief, and a common heritage of glory; mingling the blood of the border States with that of the gulf and the great valley on the same battle-fields; garnering their precious dust in the same graves; mingling their tears over the same hallowed sods; and thus creating for all future time, memories so deep and so enduring as to mould into one warm, living and enduring whole, this new birth into the great sisterhood of nationalities.
(3.) There is another result of this war, which as far as it exists, is a yet higher one than that just stated. War is usually a vast demoralizer, and all religious feeling withers under its baleful breath. And, to some extent, this is true of this war, as we mournfully know. And in this aspect the act of our Congress in virtually degrading the office of Chaplain, by making it the only one in the army whose rank and pay were cut down, and after two reductions, fixing it at a rate that excludes from it any man with a family, who has not private means of his own, a thing not very common with clergymen--this marked and seemingly invidious distinction of this office, I feel bound to say kindly, but plainly, was at least an unfortunate act, if not more blameable. In an army of volunteers, like ours, a good Chaplain is just as important as a good Captain or a good Surgeon, for he is adapted to meet those moral evils arising from inaction, discontent, weariness and home-sickness that are often far more injurious than the dangers of the battle-field. And we know of no reason
arising from incompetency or dereliction of duty in those who have filled the one office for any such stigma, which does not exist in a twofold, if not a tenfold degree with the occupants of the others. It is a false economy that starves the soul to feed the body, even in an army. The eagle that robbed the altar of its sacrificial flesh fired her own nest by the living coals that adhered to it, and so will it ever be in depriving religion of its honest rights in any human organization. Hence we feel bound to say plainly, that this was a wrong, a short-sighted and suicidal wrong, although we also believe an undesigned and inadvertent wrong, which we hope will be remedied as soon as it can be reached by competent authority. If the finances of the government will not warrant the employment of men of experience and mature age in this office, it were better to abolish it, and leave the spiritual wants of the soldier entirely to the voluntary action of the people. But if the office is to be retained at all, it ought to be put on an equality with other offices of the same importance.
But in spite of all these things, I believe, that there has never been an army since the time of Cromwell, in which there was a more pervading sense of the power of God than our own. A brave, but irreligious officer remarked to me a few days ago, we may well adopt the language of the good book, "If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, now may Israel say, when men rose up against us, they had swallowed us up quick." And this is the solemn conviction of thousands, even the most wicked. The resources of the mighty organization, whose stupendous gage of battle we fearlessly took up, were so vast in men, money, munitions of war, forts, fleets and armies, that unless God had been with us we must have been crushed. When we saw the bloodless achievements of Sumter, Gosport, Harper's Ferry, and the river batteries; when we saw an unprotected woman sent forth as it would seem by a Divine impulse to venture alone in imminent peril to give the information that led to the first victory on our soil, which struck the key-note to all the rest; when we saw boys yet warm from their mother's hearts
stand like veterans in the iron sleet of Bethel, and college lads from our quiet lowland homes make the gorges of Rich Mountain a very Thermopylæ; where we saw squadrons of volunteers stand, "like a stone wall," a sweep like an avenging hurricane over the red plains of Manassas and Springfield, or the green hills of Carnifax Ferry, Belmont, and Leesburg; when we saw the very winds and waves, the very "stars in their courses" conspiring to bring disaster on our enemies; when all human calculation must have predicted the exact opposite; we cannot wonder that even ungodly men have been compelled to pause and say, "this is the finger of God." And we cannot wonder that many a brave man, as he saw these seeming tokens of the ascending and descending angels, and the protecting presence of God, has found these battle-fields to be Bethels, and said: "Surely the Lord was in this place, and I knew it not;" that many a dear child, while pacing his lonely round as sentinel, or standing on his perilous post as picket, beneath the silent stars, has found his place to be a Manassah, "a forgetting" of the wild delusions of sin, and a solemn rising to his memory of words that he has heard, amid the sweet scenes of home, from lips, some of which are silent in the grave, and others of which may be even then, in the deep silence of midnight, moving in wakeful prayer for the brave and beloved boy who is far, far away. The many conversions in camp, the prayer-meetings in soldiers' tents, of which we have heard, and the letters we have seen breathing emotions of piety that have been awaked by the exposures and sufferings of the army, induce us to believe that this war will lead many a soul to the Cross that might otherwise have perished in impenitency.
All history proves, from Abraham and his armed servants, and Gideon's three hundred men, through Marathon, to the Spanish armada, and later struggles of heroic people for their rights, that "the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong." God gives victory as He pleases to carry out
His great and holy purposes in human history. Hence the instinctive resort of every right-hearted people at such a time is to that High and Mighty One, "who doeth his will in the armies of heaven and among the inhabitants of earth." This resort is proper for several reasons.
(1.) That the sins which have caused the chastening may be removed.
As these sins have been set forth on former occasions, we will not repeat the enumeration, but only say that, until they are repented of and forsaken, God will continue to smite us. Hence we should come to-day with honest penitence, and, taking words of truth and sincerity upon our lips, should cry to him, "Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger against us to cease, and bear us from thy holy heavens."
(2.) That we may be delivered from evils that must weaken us.
There are evils inevitable to war from which we cannot expect to escape. We must expect to find personal ambition in the guise of patriotism; itch for office, with its horse-leech cry of "give, give;" favoritism and nepotism, by which the sons, relations and friends of those in office will be placed over the heads of better and older men who are unable to command this kind of patronage, and must, therefore, drudge in humbler and harder positions; wastefulness in the use of public funds and the granting of public contracts; blunders in movements, both civil and military, that are hard to explain; provoking circumlocutions and red-tape delays in the transaction of public business; insolence and petty tyranny in men raised from obscurity and dressed in a little brief authority, who lord it with arrogance and sometimes with cruelty over braver and better men placed under their command; heartless brutality in drunken surgeons and drunken nurses allowing sick men to pine and suffer, and even to die from sheer and inexcusable neglect; drunkenness in the ranks, as well as among the officers, preparing many a gallant man for disgrace and defeat in battle, and a drunkard's grave when
the war is ended; profanity; gambling; pillage and peculation at least in small matters; all these evils are well nigh inevitable in a time of war, with our poor fallen nature as it is, and can only be diminished by looking to that God before whom we bow this day in reverent supplication.
But there are some evils that we had no right to expect, and that, therefore, as far as they do exist, are the more difficult to bear. We had no right to expect that flaming and furious patriots of twelve months ago, whose voice was then for war, denouncing all who could not go as fast and far as they, should now be as meek and as mute as mice, leaving to others the burdens, sacrifices and dangers of this contest when it has really come. We had no right to expect that they who have been so long sneering at Yankee greed and Yankee meanness, should emulate this ignoble example by filching the funds that the hard taxation of a burdened people have generously given to their governments, by usurious contracts, and exorbitant charges for supplies which the poor soldier often finds to his cost were made to sell and not to use; buying up the very necessaries of life to pile enormous profits on them, so that whilst brave men are driving off the hungry invader abroad, at the point of the sword, their straitened families find the wolf at the door in the form of the hungry speculator, who spares not even medicine for the sick, and will wring his percentage out of the very agonies of the suffering; trafficking in the hunger, cold and nakedness of the soldier while living, and speculating upon his very shroud and coffin and grave when dead; blockading our homes by land as really, as wickedly, and as heartlessly as our enemies are blockading them by sea; bribing officials to act as accomplices with them in their schemes to obtain undisputed control of a market; creating needless panics and needless pressures, that they may wring from a groaning and helpless community the hard earnings of the poor on whom these exactions must fall most heavily; and whilst a struggling country is bleeding at every pore, instead of seeking to staunch that blood, virtually gathering it up drop by drop
to sell like butcher's meat in the shambles, and coin it into gold; acting a treason more deadly than an armed aid to our enemies, by compelling many a poor man who once calculated the value of the Union, to begin to calculate the value of disunion, and ask what have we gained by escaping the leeches and blood-suckers of one Confederacy, only to fall into the fangs of the sharks and cormorants of another; surely, surely, we had a right to expect that in a struggle so sublime, so tremendous, and so desperate as this, we should have been safe from the cruel greed of such hungry Shylocks, such human vultures as these. And if in any cases we have been disappointed in this reasonable expectation, it but creates another reason for coming before Him whose blood was sold by his own chosen companion for thirty pieces of silver, to pray that He would not only deliver us from the Ahithopels abroad, but also, and even more earnestly, from the Iscariots at home.
(3.) That we may have direct strength from on High for this conflict.
Did time permit, it would be easy to show that the religion which fits men for any duty, suffering and danger, must fit them for the duties, sufferings and dangers of war; and that he who believes that God is with him, and that the field of death will be to him only the vestibule of heaven, must move down to the dread ordeal of battle with a heart all the stronger for this faith and hope; that the religion which breathed such heroism into the battalions of Gustavus; that made feeble Holland an over-match for the proud chivalry of Spain; that nerved the iron men of Cromwell to such deeds of daring prowess; that has inscribed the name of Huguenot and Covenanter among the world's heroes; that nerved the hearts of so many brave men in our first Revolutionary struggle; that has written upon her spiritual muster-roll such heroic names as Vicars and Havelock; that has adorned the character of some in our own army, whose glorious work is not yet completed, and whose names our children will utter with enthusiastic love; that such a religion as this should be
a yet loftier spring of action than even that wild fanaticism whose religious faith made the Moslem arms resistless for so many centuries. For such strength then as it gives to suffer and wait at home, as well as to suffer and strike in the field, we should come this day, saying, in the words of the old Hebrew battle-cry, "Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we will remember the name of the Lord our God; and in the name of our God will we set up our banners."
Had we far less to excite our hopes in this struggle than we have, there is a stern necessity upon us to go forward to it which we cannot escape. There is nothing now left us but a death-grapple for very existence. An institution has been planted on our soil, the ethical nature of which, as a relation in human society, it is too late to argue, for God has recognized it twice in the Decalogue, and devoted an entire epistle to an incident connected with it in the New Testament, without hinting at its unlawfulness. Like all, human institutions, it has its evils, evils which the ceaseless assaults of its enemies give no opportunity to correct, and yet under its influence more members of Christian Churches have been enrolled from a race whose ancestors were heathen, than has been done in the same length of time by all the missionary societies on earth, much good as they have done; and under it there has been secured more temporal comfort to the slaves than has been reached by any corresponding class of laborers on earth. There is one fact that speaks volumes on this point, that in this bitter struggle, whilst every possible agency has been used upon them, for one colored man who has been unfaithful to the South there have been ten whites; that whilst a Washington was fighting and dying in Western Virginia against white traitors born on her soil, his servants were faithfully tending the fields of Mount Vernon, and trying to secure for him their proceeds from the pillaging vandals, within the sound of whose drums Old Gabriel and his follow-servants remained faithful to their master;
and that, in one of the hottest battles on the Kanawha, a servant begged and obtained the privilege of fighting by the side of his master, whilst that master's own blood relations were fighting on the other side. Nor are these cases few or far between, but enough to show that we have often more reason to trust the black face of the honest servant who fears God and loves his master, than the black heart of many a snivelling white man, whose god is a dollar, and who would sell not only his country, but his very soul, if need be, for a fat office and a bloated salary. Let this be recorded to the honor of the black man, and let it be remembered to his advantage when the struggle is over, as we believe it will be, and let it stand as an answer to some of the slanders that have been heaped on this institution.
Against this institution, and thus both the races that are connected with it, has been waged a hostility whose steady course has never faltered nor turned aside. There is something portentous in the rise and growth of this anti-slavery Hydra with which we are now struggling. Spawned in the huge Serbonian bog of French infidelity and radicalism, it was a fitting coincidence that the same year which witnessed the first development of the one in the French Revolution, should have witnessed the first development of the other in the seizure of that magnificent North-Western territory, which the credulous generosity of Virginia bestowed as a free gift to the Federal Government, to rear up on her border a deadly enemy, by the Ordinance of 1787. Again did the Hydra demand and receive a fresh accession to its bulk in the Missouri Compromise, where rights that were solemnly guaranteed by the Louisiana treaty were ruthlessly disregarded, and yielded to the clamors of this voracious and growing monster. Again and again was it swollen by new gorges of new territory, purchased by the common blood and treasure of all the States, and, therefore, rightfully belonging to the whole, and not to any of its parts. Grown by these enormous meals, and stimulated by the secret working of foreign emissaries, who saw in this agent the serpent that might strangle this mighty Republic
in its infancy, it planned a more deadly assault on the object of its hate. Suborning every avenue to the creation of public opinion, it was able at last to inoculate vast masses of men with its envenomed feeling, until having nullified the Constitution of the United States; divided churches; broken up benevolent agencies; embroiled States; stirred up Kansas and John Brown raids; bespattered the very Bible with its virus; breathed its poison into the very Gospel of the Son of God, and filled its pulpits with a religion of hate; hissing its venom from a million heads and through a million tongues, from the Senate of the United States to the penny pamphlet, it then proposed, as its coup-de-main, to coil itself in one huge, stifling cordon of hostile settlements around the territory of the Confederate States, so that having crushed this hated institution to death by its tightening folds, these States might be left to the terrible doom of the ancient criminal when a living body was chained to a dead corpse to perish by a slow, loathsome and inevitable death. Against this dreadful doom these States remonstrated with the most supplicating entreaties, but in vain, for the Hydra was, in contemptuous disregard of them, exalted to the sacred seat that had been filled by the form of Washington. Even then they sought in fraternal conference for some guarantee against this hideous policy, until their entreaties were taken as confessions of cowardice and weakness, their humblest proposals received with sneers of derisive scorn, and they commanded to furnish men and money to murder and crush their own flesh and blood. Then, and not until then, did an outraged and long-suffering people rise in their indignant might, and, appealing to the God of Justice, resolve to cut with the sword the coils of this mighty constrictor, and crush his beads of venom beneath their feet. And this Herculean task must be done, or we must perish, miserably perish. There was a time when submission and compromise might have postponed this fate, though perhaps never have finally averted it, but that time has forever gone by, and now they would only make it more abject and complete, adding dishonor
to defeat, and degradation to destruction. Never since the terrible scenes of La Vendee, under the ravaging hordes of Republican France, has the old heathen war-cry, Voe Victis, (wo! to the conquered!) been more unmistakeably sounded by an army of invaders.
Let this tremendous crusade become successful, either by mismanagement in the army, or cowardice and greediness at home, and history furnishes no page so dark and bloody as that which would record the result. Our best and bravest men would be slaughtered like bullocks in the shambles; our wives and daughters dishonored before our eyes; our cities sacked; our fields laid waste; our homes pillaged and burned; our property, which we are perhaps selfishly hoarding, wrested from us by fines and confiscations; our grand old Commonwealth degraded from her proud historic place of "Ancient Dominion," to be the vassal province of a huge central despotism, which, having wasted her with fire and sword, would compel her by military force to pay the enormous expense of her own subjugation, or, in default of this, parcel out her broad lands to insulting emigrants as a feudal reward for the rapine and murder of this new Norman conquest: whilst the owners of these lands must either remain as cowering factors for insolent conquerors and oppressive lords, or wander as penniless and homeless fugitives in a land of strangers.
Is this picture overdrawn? Does it exceed the avowed designs of the great invasion as proclaimed not only by partisan journals, but by those who profess to be ministers of the gospel of peace? Did not their leading journals, at the outset of this war, exult with gloating delight over the terrible fate that their avenging armies were to inflict on us, our suffering wives and our hunger-bitten children, until all Europe cried out shame on such fiendish barbarity? And has not the work already begun? Has not a gallant sister State been trodden under foot by an insolent military despotism--some of her best citizens banished to our own borders, (may God bless them, and enable them soon to return to a home untainted by tyranny and outrage,) others imprisoned in loathsome dungeons
without even the farce of a legal process; her Legislature and Judiciary insulted, defied and overawed; her houses searched and pillaged; her women subjected by the reeking ruffians of New York stews to those outrages "that turn a coward's heart to steel, a sluggard's blood to flame," whilst rights of the common law, as old as the fields. of Runnymede; rights which the Queen of England dare not violate without imperilling her crown, have been scornfully trampled under foot by these lawless miscreants? Have they not repeated these atrocities as far as they dared in our own State; in Alexandria and Hampton, and elsewhere, where the gray hairs of age, the feebleness of disease, and the helplessness of womanhood have been no protection against insult, robbery and murder? Have they not made war on the sick, the aged and the dying, on childhood and helplessness, by making medicines, and even the Holy Bible itself, contraband of war, thus by a kind of Italian revenge, carrying their warfare to the very interests of the soul, and the very destinies of eternity? Have not their most magnanimous men-of-war bravely bombarded helpless houses and unprotected villages that two British wars had spared, houses and villages containing the sick and feeble, who had no other notice of their danger, and whose sole attraction to these marauders seems to have been their weakness? Have they not kidnapped hundreds of servants and then made them beasts of burden; and is not their mighty armada now prowling along our coast, intending to arm the rest for another St. Domingo massacre? Have not sovereign States, whose spindles were turned by Southern staples, and whose coffers were filled by Southern gold, who refused to give a man to the war of 1812, waged to protect their own shipping, and the war with Mexico, to vindicate the honor of that flag which they now so idolatrously worship; yet, now, when their own flesh and blood, their own brothers to whom they were bound by interest and gratitude as well as affection, were to be coerced and trampled under foot, send hordes of men, many of them blood-thirsty braggarts, who fly like sheep when the meet men fighting for their firesides and altars?
And, although we believe that many an honest heart in the North is indignant at these outrages, yet, have not all who have dared to remonstrate against them been muzzled by the bayonet or silenced by the Bastile? And if "they have done these things in the the green tree, what will they do in the dry?" If good men of the North in private life, and good officers in public, have been powerless to prevent these things hitherto, when they were impolitic as well as cruel, how can they prevent their most intense aggravation, when an infuriated and conquering army shall have crushed all opposition? Must not our fate be all the more terrible the more prolonged and determined our resistance? Then, if we must perish, is it not better to die the death of a man on the field of honor, than to die the death of a dog on the gibbet? Is it not better to meet this huge barbaric invasion with one flaming front of defiant resistance, than to sit hugging our treasures until the grip of the invader is at our throats, his manacles on our wrists, and we bound helpless at his feet?
But no such fate as this awaits us, if we are true to ourselves and true to God. If we are worthy to take our place among the nations of the earth, no human power may hinder us; for eight millions of brave, united and determined people can never be conquered. Battles may be lost, cities may be taken, many a gallant man and many a gentle woman may sleep in a premature grave, and many a home be shrouded with mournful memories, and yet we shall be unconquered still; for
" Freedom's battles once begun,
Descend from bleeding sire to son,
Though often lost are surely won."
The swamps that sheltered Marion's men, the rugged hills that blazed with the deadly fire of Morgan's riflemen, the blue mountains of West Augusta where Washington meant to make a last stand for liberty, and the storied heights of Yorktown, where he did make it, are still standing to tell us, that from the invading hordes of Xerxes, of Varus, of Farnese, and of
Napoleon, down to the vanquished columns on the plains of Manassas, a people who are fighting for their altars and their firesides, in the fear of God, can never, never, never be conquered. God will maintain our cause! He has maintained it. Starting in this conflict as unfurnished for battle as the stripling boy of Bethlehem going forth to meet the gigantic Philistine, nothing but the power of Jehovah could have made the arms of our beardless boys to vanquish again and again the stupendous preparations of our enemies. In that God we will continue to trust. These brave heroic boys may fall; and though many a weeping parent may not be able to say with the noble stoic of England, "I would not give my dead son for any living son in Christendom," they will say with an humbler, and yet a loftier spirit, "if God has willed that I should lay him as a sacrifice on the altar of my country, I bow to His will with unrepining submission, rejoicing that though he has perished, the cause has not, will not, and cannot perish, for God will maintain it to the end."
Hence, to every prophet of evil, every croaking Cassandra, who tells us we are too weak, and must perish at last before our powerful enemies, we reply, trusting, not in our own might, but in the strength of our covenant God--
"Down, soothless insulter, I trust not the tale,
For ne'er shall our brave men a destiny meet
So black with dishonor, so foul with defeat,
Though their perishing ranks should be strewed in their gore,
Like ocean weeds heaped on the surf-beaten shore,
They still, untainted by flight or by chains,
While the kindling of life in their bosom remains,
Shall as victors exult or in death be laid low
With their back to the field and their feet to the foe,
And leaving in battle no blot on their name,
Look calmly to Heaven from the death-bed of fame."
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Local officials keep tweaking the �Leave No Trace� ordinance aimed at eliminating clutter on the beach.
Local officials keep tweaking the �Leave No Trace� ordinance aimed at eliminating clutter on the beach. It�s good to see that although confiscation of abandoned property is the ultimate result, they hoped to avoid that by placing the emphasis on the front end of the process � education.
Panama City Beach and Bay County adopted the ordinances in 2012 in response to too many beachgoers leaving their tents, umbrellas, chairs and other items on the sugar sand overnight. That created a safety hazard when high winds would send stuff tumbling down the beach. It also created obstacles for beach cleanup crews to do their jobs each night to make the area look nice for the next day�s visitors. Officials also were concerned with how the debris might interfere with turtle nesting.
So they instituted rules that initially required that no personal items be left unattended on the beach between the hours of 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. The hours were later amended to 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. Anything remaining on the beach between those times is subject to removal.
Beachgoers may stake out their plot of sand to enjoy while they are sunning themselves or swimming the Gulf, but they don�t own that part of the beach. When they get up to leave, their stuff should go with them. If they return, they can find another place to temporarily settle if the previous one is occupied.
That might be a bit inconvenient for those who believe they found the perfect spot � so long as the enforcement doesn�t become heavy-handed.
Moving the �all-clear� time from 9 p.m. to 7 p.m. seems too early during the summer, when many beachgoers might want to sit and watch the sunset. But the bigger concern is that people will be ignorant of the rules and be blindsided by seeing their items disappear the next day. That will create anger and resentment, which they will carry home with them. That�s not exactly the ideal tourist experience officials want to promote.
So it�s encouraging to see that the ordinance now requires all hotel and rental units on the beach to post informational flyers so visitors know to collect their personal items. The latest proposed change would shift enforcement of the ordinance to the Panama City Beach Police Department, but with the priority being further informing the public.
PCBPD Chief Drew Whitman has proposed assigning two auxiliary patrol officers to drive the beach from 6 p.m. to 12 a.m. nightly to educate beachgoers about the rules. That�s a �soft power� approach that�s sensible (although it might make even more sense to spread the word earlier in the day when more beachgoers are present).
The publicity should be so widespread there should be no excuse for someone to say, �I didn�t know.� Give people every chance to comply.


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3) Arrowcreek is nestled in Southwest Reno above the city with breathtaking views. ?Their Golf course is wonderful, they also feature a club house, exercise gym, dining and a wonderful walking path. ?The beauty of Arrowcreek is in its location. Close to Mt. Rose as well as close to Reno Central, families are able to commute to work while dropping their children off at daycare, schools and also able to enjoy the weekends with shopping at the Summit mall and Golf during the summer with skiing during the winter.
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When we arrived back at School after Christmas we had a special visitor for classes 7, 8, 9 and 10. His name was Trevor and he was a TV reporter for Truly Terrific Travel.
He told us that he travels around making TV shows about different places. His next show was about Hasland and Chesterfield so we decided to help him. We found out lots of interesting information about the different landmarks in both areas, such as the Crooked Spire and Eastwood Park. After becoming experts on the different landmarks we picked our favourite and wrote a report about it ready for Trevor's show. We had to use geographical expert words in our writing. These included 'village', 'town', and 'landmark'.
Once we had written our reports classes 7, 8, 9 and 10 worked with Trevor from Truly Terrific Travel to make a video all about Hasland!
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Das, Bibhuti B and Ajithkumar, TG and Sinha, Neeraj and Opella, Stanley J and Ramanathan, KV (2007) Cross- and axial-peak intensities in 2D-SLF experiments based on cross-polarization—The role of the initial density matrix. In: Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 185 (2). pp. 308-317.
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Simulations and experiments on simple oriented systems have been used to estimate the relative ratio of cross-peak to axial-peak intensities in 2D-SLF experiments based on dipolar oscillations during cross-polarization (CP). The density matrix prior to dipolar evolution is considered and for an isolated spin pair, it is shown that direct calculations of the ratios match well with simulations and experimental results. Along with the standard CP pulse sequence, two other pulse sequences namely CP with polarization inversion (PI–CP) and another novel variation of the standard CP experiment (EXE-CP) reported recently have been considered. Inclusion of homonuclear dipolar coupling has been observed to increase the axial-peak intensities. In combination with Lee–Goldburg (LG) decoupling, experiments on an oriented liquid crystalline sample have been carried out and the performance of the pulse schemes have been compared. The applicability of the new pulse sequence for different samples and different nuclei is discussed. Such studies are expected to lead to a better understanding of the experiments and to the design of useful pulse sequences.
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Oftentimes when I read about the importance of saying no and setting boundaries, the advice seems to assume that the things being declined aren't all that desirable: unmanageable amounts of work, exhausting social commitments, and so on.
This week, I learned how hard it is to turn down things that might be very enjoyable, but yet feel like too much. As soon as I was on the mend, I wanted so badly to connect with friends, get back to work, and feel more engaged with the world around me. Even quick forays into doing more quickly resulted in my feeling lousy again: another unequivocal request from my body for me to slow down. Possibly to a full stop, if only for a little while.
This weekend, I've practiced saying no, not only to the things I (secretly or not-so-secretly) don't want to do, but also to things I'd really like to do, if only it weren't so important to be gentle with myself right now.
It has been challenging, not because any external pressures are being applied to me, but because it's still my instinct to muscle through this period of feeling unwell. Being honest about what I can and can't do right now means that my actions align with the truth of what I feel in my body.
There have been times in my past when going about my usual routine in the face of a health or psychological challenge was actually healing and soothing. This isn't such a time, and as long as I'm going to commit to healing this summer—whatever that ends up looking like, for me—I owe it to myself to do so honestly and wholly.
Only a few hours after saying no to a few things I was anticipating happily, I feel sad to be missing out, but a little more rested and at peace. A hopeful sign that I'm tuning in wisely. Wishing you a week of heeding intuition, whether that means saying no, saying yes, or saying both when each makes sense. Here are the recipes and reads I've been catching up on.
A spicy, earthy, simple vegan soup is just what the doctor ordered right now!
I love Steven's idea to add meaty portobello mushrooms to classic ratatouille.
This hearty, plant protein-packed dish is my kind of summer salad. I love the combination of lentils and wild rice.
I'm always happy to have a new mango avocado salsa recipe!
Elena's vegan cherry almond galette is show-stopping.
1. This past week has issued a powerful reminder that mental health struggles often go unseen. Joanna Goddard shared a powerful reflection depression and suicide, which is worth reading for the comments that were shared as well as the original post.
2. Relatedly, it can incredibly difficult to know what to do or what to say when a loved one is struggling with severe depression. Here are some broad, yet thoughtful tips.
3. Today's Dietitian addresses the benefit of family meals and tackles the challenges that folks face in making them happen. I appreciate the invitation to toss out the idea that everything has to be made from scratch: appliances and wholesome store-bought options are a powerful means of making at-home meals doable for families, and for all of us!
4. A review of a new memoir about endometriosis and how poorly it's often understood by healthcare providers.
5. Gut health is a huge topic of interest, and there's a lot of buzz around probiotics and probiotic-containing foods. Still, there's a great deal we don't understand about how the microbiome works; it may take more time for us to identify all of the factors that actually enable beneficial bacteria to colonize and flourish the gut.
Coming up, a lovely summer salad that utilizes my fave balsamic Dijon tahini dressing. Can't wait to share.


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GAME.PLAY.DESIGN is an interdisciplinary and process based summer school course, which highlights digital games, digital game interaction and digital game design through a foundation of interdisciplinary academic fields, with academic roots in, amongst other, media studies, interaction design, experience design, learning design, aesthetics, rhetoric and experience economy.
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The purpose is to gain insight into being able to discuss, critically reflect and productively apply humanistic subject traditions into one's own competences, in order to strengthen them in relation to digital games as a phenomenon, praxis and design. By doing so, it brings into play the particular humanistic, theoretical, analytical, methodological and product-oriented subject competences, which the individual student possesses and in the process also helps the entire group, in addition to it developing and highlighting one's own competences.
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Become a Member of the Bengal Marching Band
The ISU Bengal Marching Band joins the Winds, Drums, Colorguard, and Bengal Dancers to perform at ISU Football and community events.
Students may enroll in MUSP 1179 for 1 credit. All current students (at least part time/6 credits) and have a GPA over 2.0 are eligible for scholarship.
Community members may also be a part of the Bengal Marching Band with a firm commitment to attending all rehearsals and performances. There is no monetary benefit for participation of non-students.
EMAIL DR. KLOSS for the Google Doc Link to submit your information (May - August). All students must register here to receive the summer info packet. Links will also be sent to the MUSP 1179 Class List.
The Band meets MWF from 12-2pm in Holt Arena. On game day Saturdays, plan on all-day events. We typically rehearse for 90 minutes in the morning, play for the team at 12pm, and football games usually begin at 2:30 pm.
The ISU Bengal Band Camp begins about a week before classes begin. Band Camp is mandatory for all members. Some meals are provided and on-campus housing is available for the week.
The Bengal Marching Band typically does 3-4 shows per year. By the end of camp, we will have Pre-Game and have started our first halftime show.
Drumline auditions and Section Leaders/Drum Majors begin Friday, August 9, 2019 - FINE ARTS BUILDING
EVERYONE ELSE Begins Saturday, August 10 - FINE ARTS BUILDING (Check last year's schedule for appoximate dates and times).
** Everyone must get a new T-Shirt again this year...ISU has changed the official logo.
To get on the OFFICAL MARCHING BAND LIST, please email Dr. Kloss and ask for the Google Doc Link. This is the OFFICIAL ISU Marching Band Camp Registration. Check your ISU Email Address if you have registered for MUSP 1179 to find this link.
2019 Performance Schedule (subject to change until Summer 2019)
|September 5 (Thursday)
|Home Game - Thursday (7pm Game)
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|Away Trip - Performance in SLC - Utah Stadium
|September 28
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|Holt Arena
|Homecoming Events/Alumni Gig
|Homecoming Parade (Morning)
|October 12 - HOMECOMING
Home Game - SATURDAY (Schedule TBA)
North Dakota MB Joins Halftime Show (possibly)
|Holt Arena
|October 19 (all day)
|Mountain West Marching Band Invitational
|Holt Arena
|November 2
|Home Game - SATURDAY (Schedule TBA)
|Holt Arena
|November 9
|Home Game - SATURDAY (Schedule TBA)
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|November 11
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|November 13
|Pep Band Begins
Bengal Marching Band Scholarship Information
ISU Student Members of the Bengal Marching Band will automatically receive a $500 scholarship.
With Successful Audition: $700
Colorguard: $700
Bengal Dancer: $500
Section Leader: Add $350 Bonus
Drum Major: Add $550 Bonus
Drum Corps Bonus: $250 - Complete a drum corps season prior to band camp
Pep Band: $300
Additional scholarship money may be offered by attending the department of music scholarship audition day.
Scholarship auditions for all ensembles are held on the last Saturday in February. All students interested in being a Music major or minor must audition. You may apply for a scholarship on the music department website and a staff person will contact you to set up a specific time. Scholarship auditions can also be made by appointment in the event you cannot make one of the scheduled audition days. It's never too late to audition!
Students receiving scholarships must be full-time ISU students with a minimum GPA of 2.0.
If you have any questions about scholarships, the marching and pep bands, or our music programs please call the music department office at (208) 282-3636.


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What is a "public retirement system" as defined by the IRS? A "public retirement system (sometimes referred as a "FICA replacement system or plan) is a pension plan maintained by a public employer that meets the requirements of Internal Revenue Code 3121(b)(7)(F). These requirements must be met as an alternative to mandatory social security coverage. A retirement system may be a pension, annuity, retirement or similar fund or system established by a state or political subdivision.
The system does not have to be a state creation, nor does it have to be a plan under which the benefits are guaranteed by the state constitution. A retirement system can include a group annuity purchased by the state or political subdivision from a private insurance company. Whether a system qualifies as a "public retirement system" does not depend on whether it meets the requirements within the Employees' Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 or commonly referred to as ERISA.
What does it mean to be a qualified participant in a retirement system? To be a qualified participant, a member must actually participate in the system. An employee who is eligible for an optional system, but decides not to participate, will be subject to mandatory social security tax.
How are part-time, seasonal and temporary workers defined for purposes of determining whether they are qualified participants in a public retirement system under Internal Revenue Code section 3121? A part-time employee normally works 20 hours or less per week. A seasonal employee may work full-time, but for less than five months a year. In the case of teachers above the high school level, part-time is defined as less than one-half the classroom hours designated as full-time by the school.
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For new employees, entering a retirement system, is there any waiting period for coverage in which social security does not have to be paid? If a full-time employee can be enrolled in the plan by the first day of the first full calendar month of service, social security taxes do not have to be paid during the partial month in which he or she begins work. This rule does not apply to part-time, seasonal, and temporary employees.
Is a retirement system that does not cover all employees a "retirement system" within the meaning of Regulations 31.3121? A retirement system is not required to cover all employees; it may be a retirement system for some employees and not others. The coverage determination is made separately for each individual.
A teacher who is a participant in a retirement system during the academic year also works a few hours per week in the summer in the school library. The library job is not covered by a Section 218 Agreement or by the public retirement system because it does not fall during the normal 10-month school year. Are the wages for the summer job subject to social security or Medicare taxes? Not for social security but possibly Medicare. The wages are not subject to social security taxes because the teacher is a qualified participant in the public retirement system with respect to her full-time job. The Medicare tax applies, unless the employee was hired prior to April 1, 1986, and qualifies for the continuing employment exception.
We have discussed Revenue Procedure 91-40 that defines rules relating to the minimum retirement benefit requirement prescribed under 31.3121(b)(7)-2 of the Employment Tax Regulations. We have discussed the ways government employers and employees participate in social security and/or Medicare as well as when the employers and employees are exempt from social security if participating in a FICA replacement plan as qualified participants.


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Slap Is The Answer
I remember one story I read in my email. I'll try to rewrite the story from my memory. One person (who we will call Tenggang) came to see an ustaz. The ustaz was at the moment teaching his student about Islam in a mosque. Tenggang rudely interrupt the teaching and asked the ustaz.
Tenggang : Ustaz, you have been teaching about Allah and Islam. I just want to ask you two questions.
Ustaz : (interrupted but stil remain calm) Yes, please ask and I'll try to explain them to you if I know
Tenggang : You talked about Allah, Can you show me this Allah so I can look and be satisfied? Second question, It was said that Satan was created from fire. Hell was also said to be made of fire. If so, how can satan be tormented and tortured in hell when he is fire by nature?
Ustaz : (approached Tenggang.. and slap him)
Tenggang : (shocked) Why are you mad at me? Is this how an ustaz should behave?
Ustaz : I just answered both questions with the slap.
Tenggang : (still angry) What do you mean by that?
Ustaz : Do you feel the pain when I slap you?
Tenggang : Yes, what's your point?
Ustaz : So you believe that the pain exist?
Tenggang : Yes
Ustaz : Then show me this pain. Obviously you cannot, you can't even comprehend such a normal feeling, how would you expect to understand the physical of Allah (Zat). To know Allah is not to know His "zat". You would go crazy if you think about it. Know Him through His creation.
Tenggang : (slightly humble) But what about the second question?
Ustaz : What is your cheek made of?
Tenggang : Skin
Ustaz : And what is my hand made of?
Tenggang : (Realizing) Also skin
Ustaz : So when I slap you, do you feel the pain?
Tenggang : Yes, Ustaz
Ustaz : Even though Satan is created from fire and so is hell. If Allah will it to hurt satan, It will hurt him.
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I read a lot of debate from non-believer who actually question the very existence of God. And they were actually expecting a logical answer from us. The thing is, logic is flawed to begin with. The story serve as a good example of this. To those non-believer, before you ask for the logic behind God, tell me first, where's the logic of you being you
- you cannot choose the way you were born
- you cannot choose the way you were going to die
- you claim that you live but you have absolutely no control of your inner organ. Try to make your heart stop beating for five seconds or ten. How to claim you are you when you can't even explain your beginning, your life and your end
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Keep your Business Running at a High Level
Damon Crossland Agency provides insurance to retail businesses in El Paso, Las Cruces, Deming, Van Horn, Dell City, Horizon City, and surrounding areas.
Retailers face a number of challenges when it comes to keeping their business running at a high level, including everything from regulatory issues and theft, to competition within the industry. When it comes to managing the risks of running your own retail business, you want the best protection possible. Damon Crossland Agency will work with you to formulate an insurance package fit for your business.
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Talabostat Combined With Temozolomide or Carboplatin in Treating Young Patients With Relapsed or Refractory Brain Tumors or Other Solid Tumors
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00303940
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : March 17, 2006
Last Update Posted : March 15, 2012
- Study Details
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- No Results Posted
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RATIONALE: Talabostat may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as temozolomide and carboplatin, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Giving talabostat together with temozolomide or carboplatin may kill more tumor cells.
PURPOSE: This phase I trial is studying the side effects and best dose of talabostat when given together with temozolomide or carboplatin in treating young patients with relapsed or refractory brain tumors or other solid tumors.
|Condition or disease
|Brain and Central Nervous System Tumors Childhood Germ Cell Tumor Kidney Cancer Liver Cancer Neuroblastoma Ovarian Cancer Sarcoma Unspecified Childhood Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific
|Drug: carboplatin Drug: talabostat mesylate Drug: temozolomide Other: pharmacological study
|Phase 1
- Determine the dose of talabostat, when used in combination with either temozolomide or carboplatin, at which maximum plasma dipeptidyl peptidase IV enzyme inhibition is achieved (in the absence of talabostat-related dose-limiting toxicity) in pediatric patients with refractory or relapsed solid tumors, including brain tumors.
- Determine the maximum tolerated dose of talabostat, when used in combination with temozolomide or carboplatin in pediatric patients, if dose-limiting toxicity attributed to talabostat is observed.
- Define the toxicity profile of talabostat when used in combination with temozolomide or carboplatin.
- Describe the pharmacokinetic profile of talabostat in pediatric patients.
- Study levels, at baseline and after drug administration, of serum cytokines (interleukin [IL]-2, IL-6, IL-10, filgrastim [G-CSF], tumor necrosis factor-α, IL-1β, IL-8, IP10, and thrombospondin) that may be important in the immune-mediated antitumor effect of talabostat.
- Evaluate the antitumor effect of talabostat in combination with temozolomide or carboplatin on pediatric solid tumors by direct assessment of tumor response.
- Study the effect of talabostat on neutrophil function.
- Evaluate the expression of fibroblast activation protein (FAP) in pediatric tumors using immunohistochemistry to detect FAP in paraffin-embedded tissue sections from existing tumor specimens, when available.
OUTLINE: This is a dose-escalation study of talabostat. Patients are stratified according to tumor histology and prior therapy.
Based on stratification, patients receive either oral temozolomide on days 1-5 or carboplatin IV over 30 minutes on days 1-2. Patients also receive oral talabostat on days 7-20. Treatment repeats every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. (Closed to accrual as of 5/25/2009)
Cohorts of 2-6 patients receive escalating doses of talabostat until the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) is determined. The MTD is defined as the dose preceding that at which 2 of 6 or < 4 of 12 patients experience dose-limiting toxicity during the first course of therapy.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 26 patients will be accrued for this study.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Estimated Enrollment :
|26 participants
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Phase I Trial and Pharmacokinetic Study of Talabostat (PT-100, Val-Boro-Pro) in Combination With Temozolomide or Carboplatin in Pediatric Patients With Relapsed or Refractory Solid Tumors Including Brain Tumors
|Study Start Date :
|December 2005
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|February 2010
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|2 Years to 18 Years (Child, Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Histologically confirmed solid tumors, including, but not limited to, any of the following:
- Rhabdomyosarcoma and other soft tissue sarcomas
- Ewing's sarcoma family of tumors
- Osteosarcoma
- Neuroblastoma
- Wilms' tumor
- Hepatic tumors
- Germ cell tumors
Primary brain tumors
In patients with brainstem or optic gliomas, requirement for histological confirmation can be waived if biopsy was not performed
- Patients with brainstem gliomas that did not respond to therapy but that are without radiographic evidence of disease progression must have clinical evidence of progression
- Patients with brain tumors must be on stable or tapering dose of corticosteroids for 7 days prior to study entry
- Measurable or evaluable disease
Relapsed or failed to respond to frontline curative therapy, including any of the following:
- Surgery
- Radiotherapy
- Chemotherapy
- Combination of modalities
- No other potentially curative treatment options available
- ECOG performance status 0-2
- Absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1,500/mm^3
- Hemoglobin ≥ 8 mg/dL
- Platelet count ≥ 100,000/mm^3 (platelet transfusion independent)
- Bilirubin ≤ 1.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
- SGPT ≤ 2.5 times ULN
Creatinine clearance ≥ 60 mL/min OR age-adjusted creatinine* as follows:
- No more than 0.8 mg/dL (for patients ≤ 5 years of age)
- No more than 1.0 mg/dL (for patients 6 to 10 years of age)
- No more than 1.2 mg/dL (for patients 11 to 15 years of age)
- No more than 1.5 mg/dL (for patients > 15 years of age) NOTE: *For patients receiving carboplatin a nuclear glomerular filtration rate study, 24-hour urine collection, and serum creatinine for estimation of creatinine clearance is required if under 15 years of age OR serum creatinine and weight for estimation of creatinine clearance is required if 15-18 years of age
- Patients with history of seizures eligible if seizures controlled by anticonvulsants
No clinically significant, unrelated systemic illness, including either of the following:
- Serious infections
- Hepatic, renal, or other organ dysfunction that would preclude study treatment
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception
- No generalized pitting peripheral edema
- No sensitivity to valine-proline boronic acid
- See Disease Characteristics
- Recovered to ≤ grade 1 from the acute toxic effects of all prior chemotherapy, immunotherapy, or radiotherapy prior to study entry
- Any number of prior chemotherapy regimens allowed
- Prior temozolomide or carboplatin as frontline therapy or in the adjuvant setting allowed provided patient did not experience severe toxicities related to the drug and tumor progressed during this therapy
- At least 3 weeks since last dose of all myelosuppressive chemotherapy
- At least 7 days since last dose of anticancer biologic agents (e.g., retinoids)
- At least 30 days since prior investigational agents
- At least 4 weeks since prior radiotherapy to > 25% of marrow-containing bones (pelvis, spine, or skull) (2 weeks for palliative [limited-port] radiotherapy)
- At least 2 months since prior autologous stem cell transplantation and recovered
- At least 1 week since prior filgrastim (G-CSF), sargramostim (GM-CSF), or epoetin alfa
- At least 2 weeks since prior pegfilgrastim
- No history of allogeneic stem cell transplantation
- No other concurrent anticancer chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or immunotherapy
- No other concurrent investigational agents
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00303940
|United States, Maryland
|Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center - NCI Clinical Trials Referral Office
|Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892-1182
|Study Chair:
|Holly Meany, MD
|National Cancer Institute (NCI)
|Principal Investigator:
|Elizabeth Fox, MD
|National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Publications of Results:
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00303940 History of Changes
|Obsolete Identifiers:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|March 17, 2006 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|March 15, 2012
|Last Verified:
|March 2012
unspecified childhood solid tumor, protocol specific
recurrent childhood rhabdomyosarcoma
recurrent childhood soft tissue sarcoma
recurrent Ewing sarcoma/peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumor
recurrent osteosarcoma
recurrent neuroblastoma
recurrent Wilms tumor and other childhood kidney tumors
recurrent childhood malignant germ cell tumor
recurrent childhood liver cancer
recurrent childhood brain stem glioma
recurrent childhood cerebellar astrocytoma
recurrent childhood cerebral astrocytoma
recurrent childhood ependymoma
recurrent childhood medulloblastoma
recurrent childhood supratentorial primitive neuroectodermal tumor
childhood atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor
childhood low-grade cerebral astrocytoma
childhood high-grade cerebral astrocytoma
childhood choroid plexus tumor
childhood craniopharyngioma
childhood infratentorial ependymoma
childhood supratentorial ependymoma
childhood oligodendroglioma
recurrent childhood visual pathway and hypothalamic glioma
recurrent childhood brain tumor
childhood central nervous system germ cell tumor
childhood grade I meningioma
childhood grade II meningioma
childhood grade III meningioma
childhood malignant ovarian germ cell tumor
Brain Neoplasms
Liver Neoplasms
Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal
Nervous System Neoplasms
Central Nervous System Neoplasms
Neoplasms, Connective and Soft Tissue
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplasms by Site
Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Neuroectodermal Tumors, Primitive, Peripheral
Neuroectodermal Tumors, Primitive
Neoplasms, Neuroepithelial
Neuroectodermal Tumors
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue
Digestive System Neoplasms
Digestive System Diseases
Liver Diseases
Antineoplastic Agents
Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating
Alkylating Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action


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Year 3 and 4 Sportshall Athletics
Tonight we headed to BCHS for the Sportshall Athletics Competition. There were 7 other schools there and the atmosphere was super!
We had 18 children 9 girls and 9 boys in our team and what a credit to the school they were! They put in everything they had to all the races and all their hard work over the last term paid off with us finishing 2nd in the borough!
The children ran, threw and jumped the best they have with the girls smashing the competition and winning the girls events by over 40 points! The boys put up a great fight as well especially Marshall (Year 3) who was a last minute stand in.
They tried to throw us with a couple of twists and changes to events that we have never seen before but it didn't affect the children and their superb attitude and determination to do the best they could. Mr Ripley and I couldn't be prouder of the team and their achievement and we have high hopes for next years competition now!


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In an early episode I made a comment that we all have the same 24 hours as Beyonce which prompted a listener to write in and say Beyonce is barely human. I addressed that comment here, and I wanted to take a couple minutes to approach the topic from the slightly different angle of being too busy to start a successful online business.
It's not easy to suddenly discover more time in your day. You might have a demanding job, a family, long commute, etc. I get it.


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Studio Homes Grande Prairie has a diverse range of residential projects underscoring our reputation for quality, plus a roster of clients to speak for our business integrity and performance. Customer satisfaction and superior construction is our investment in the future. Additionally, the Studio homes team is committed to giving back to the community in which we live, contributing time, funding, resources, and materials to building neighborhood relationships and fostering community fellowship.
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Foundation Funded Programs
Future READY SKILLS
The Foundation invests in programs and initiatives that develop students' skills and offer learning opportunities to students for their future success in work and life.
Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Classes and Programs
Funds from the Foundation give all elementary school students access to comprehensive online math support at school or at home, with unlimited practice questions and problems, aligned to state standards. Middle and high schools receive funds to use for robotics classes or after school robotics programs that teach design, construction and operation of robots to encourage interest in STEM.
Reach for Success Grants
Equal Access
Elementary students in Title 1 schools have the opportunity to explore and learn about STEM concepts with robotics equipment provided by the Foundation. High school robotics students mentor the elementary students and learn teaching and leadership skills.
Looking Into the Needs of Kids and Schools (LINKS)
LINKS mentors work one on one with K-12 students to engage, support and empower them to succeed in school. LINKS volunteers work as Lunch Buddies, Classroom Tutors and Academic Mentors. Providing extra support to students who need it, these volunteers support the district's goal that every student should find a place where they belong and can be successful. Volunteers support academic achievement (from math facts to algebra, geometry and AP Calculus), give confidence to students in developing relationships with others and help students acquire the academic and social skills needed for lifelong success. The Foundation has fully funded the LINKS program since 2008.
" The LINKS volunteers have been of service to RHS students during homeroom tutorial time and after school this year. Volunteers provided individual and group tutoring support to students from all backgrounds, including just-in-time intervention to get them ready for state testing. RHS hopes to continue this relationship with LINKS and is very grateful to the volunteer for opening a community-based pathway to student success. "
- Myra Arnone, Redmond High School Teacher
- Myra Arnone, Redmond High School Teacher
" My Lunch Buddy is someone to talk about my weekend when no one else wants to hear about it. "
- 3rd grader
- 3rd grader
Quality Teaching and Leadership
The Foundation funds professional development, training and mentoring opportunities that support teachers and leaders in offering an academically rigorous education to all students.
New Teacher Support Program for Second Year Teachers
The Lake Washington School District is intensely focused on retaining the talented new teachers that come to work in our district. Teachers in their second year of teaching experience their biggest improvement in instruction to students when provided with focused learning opportunities. Funding from the Foundation allows LWSD to provide instructional coaches for second year teachers, who spend time co-teaching, modeling peer to peer support, observing, and mentoring each teacher in their group. One new teacher described having a mentor during his first two years of teaching as a "life-line".
" I knew I was a teacher when I received numerous letters of appreciation from students indicating I had made a difference in their lives over the past school year. Most notable were several notes from students that I don't have in my classes. I realized that simply being part of the school and encouraging students to do their best every day truly does inspire anyone that I interact with, even if we don't see it in our normal daily routine. It feels great to know I have made a positive impact on so many students in my first year of teaching. "
- Thomas Nash, Inglewood Middle School Teacher
- Thomas Nash, Inglewood Middle School Teacher


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Champion barista and Barista Hustle founder, Matt Perger, is collaborating with Swiss coffee equipment company, Eversys, on its range of super automatic coffee machines.
Perger, who has consistently challenged the industry's perception of the quality and capability of super-automatic equipment, will work closely with Eversys to launch its new machine later this year.
He will also work with the Swiss-based team and its customers worldwide to help them provide consistent quality in the cup and coffee excellence across the board.
The company said that his 'stamp of approval' is further confirmation of the leading technology and capability of Eversys' range of super automatic machines.
Perger said: "Eversys is right at the forefront of coffee making tech, so I'm excited to be working so closely with the team behind it. I'm a big believer in super automation freeing baristas to do what they do best – bringing the human touch to coffee making. I'm in this industry for the love of coffee, and Eversys' technology is raising the bar to deliver quality coffee for everyone."
Two years ago, Perger gave a talk where he predicted that super automatic machines would one day provide an authentic challenge to traditional machines.
He said Eversys had now made that breakthrough and is developing machines that provide coffee quality and steadfast consistency.
Kamal Bengougam, chief commercial officer at Eversys, said: "The partnership with Matt is a great fit – we share a philosophy of fantastic coffee. His endorsement of our technology is confirmation of how we help baristas deliver the exceptional service customers want.
"We're also delighted to be announcing our partnership at this month's World of Coffee in Budapest, where super automatic machine manufacturers are being invited to exhibit for the very first time. It's a sure signal from the industry of the high standing super automation now has."
Eversys is set to launch a new super automatic machine later this year.
It claims the system will take super automation to the next level of coffee making, further bridging the gap between traditional and super automatic coffee machines.
The unit will be unveiled at the HOST show in Milan in October.


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This Knowledgebase article provides information about what to do when the backup phase of a Neverfail installation fails or was aborted.
More Information
In some situations, you may wish to continue a Neverfail Heartbeat installation when the ntbackup phase fails or was aborted on the Primary server. Please follow the steps below to continue the installation without starting from the beginning.
- Edit the following file: "c:\nfinstalltemp\install.txt". Change the line "backedup=true" to "backedup=false".
- Stop NFConfig if you have not already. Check that the nfconfig.exe process is not present in the task manager.
- Check the Windows Application and System logs for any warnings or errors relating to ntbackup. Investigate the source of the error and keep a note of any messages relating to ntbackup. Contact Support if necessary for advice.
- Check to ensure all protected services are stopped via the Service Control Manager. Run Neverfail\scripts\\stop.bat if they are in the started state.
- Check the Network properties of the network cards to identify whether the Neverfail Packet Filter has been installed. Run the following command to uninstall the Neverfail Heartbeat packet filter if it exists:
\neverfail\r2\bin nfpktfltr uninstall.
- Re-run nfconfig.exe, it should proceed directly to the backup phase.
Applies To
Neverfail Heartbeat prior to V4.4
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President Sirisena further said that forests provide many socio-economic benefits, including food, energy and shelter, which are basic human needs and to sustain the products and services that help meet these and other needs, forests must be sustainably managed.
President Sirisena arrived in Gerogia to attend the 5th Session of Open Government Partnership on July 17, where he was welcomed by the Deputy Foreign Minister of Georgia, George Sharvashidze. The OGP 2018 Global Summit focused on civic engagement, fighting against corruption, and public service delivery. Sri Lanka was offered membership of the Open Government Partnership in 2015, following the election of President Maithripala Sirisena, whose commitment to fight corruption gained international attention.
The Global Session, chaired by Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze with the participation of Presidents, Prime Ministers, Speakers, Ministers and other representatives from 75 member countries. The Open Government Partnership is a mechanism formed to enhance transparency and accountability to the public and people's participation in governance. President Sirisena spoke at the Session with the theme, "How the decisions taken at the OGP could be used for the welfare and benefit of the people of the member countries?"
The President, expressing his views further regarding the steps that have been taken by Sri Lanka to promote the principles of Open Government Partnership, said that the 19th Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka was introduced within a few months of assuming office by him and it became a key factor that strengthened transparency, accountability and the rule of law in the country. With the passage of this important constitutional amendment, the open government partnership with the executive, legislature and judiciary was transformed to yield progressive benefits.


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A closer look at thin provisioning
- Jo Maitland, TechTarget
Everyone wants a slice of thin provisioning. Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) and EqualLogic recently added the technology to their arsenals, prompting EMC to confirm its plans to support thin provisioning in early 2008. Hewlett-Packard (HP) is rumored to have something in the works for this summer, and IBM has talked about thin provisioning in the context of its System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) software. Industry analysts expect thin provisioning to be available on all midrange and high-end arrays by mid-2008.
Thin provisioning lets administrators earmark more capacity than has been physically installed on an array to delay storage purchases until absolutely necessary. Physical capacity is only dedicated when an application writes data, rather than when the storage volume is initially allocated. 3PAR and Compellent Technologies have long been offering this feature and many of their customers swear by it.
"We no longer have to guess how much storage we need; we can pre-allocate and when we get up to or close to that amount, we just add more," says Curtis Smith, storage and system administrator at The Ohio State University, a Compellent user. "We can purchase smaller chunks of storage, making it much more economical."
But thin provisioning has had a checkered past and still appears to require careful attention on the management side. In the early '90s, StorageTek released its Iceberg system for IBM mainframes. "It soured some people on the notion of thin provisioning as it made management very difficult," says Claus Mikkelsen, chief scientist at HDS. Today's products are much more reliable and simpler to manage, he says, with some caveats.
"Not all applications are thin-provisioning friendly," says Mikkelsen. Some databases will immediately try to take all the space that's available, and disk-to-disk backup, which might fill up a volume in one week, wouldn't make a good candidate. Users need to predict their growth accurately over time.
This hasn't deterred Alan Hunt, IT operations manager at Detroit law firm Dickinson Wright, and an EqualLogic customer beta testing the thin-provisioning feature. Hunt is so sold on the technology that he's planning to order it as soon as the code is released. "I'll have it up that day," he says.
Dickinson Wright has 70TB of storage on 13 EqualLogic arrays supporting 140 Windows servers. During beta testing, Hunt found that thin provisioning helped him get around a Windows limitation when booting from a SAN. "You can't extend a volume that's booted without taking it down," he says. "But if you thin provision a boot volume, you can trick it into thinking it has more capacity than it actually has." Hunt is also enamored with EqualLogic's decision not to charge extra for the feature.
Meanwhile, HDS' pricing strategy is unclear. "Pricing will be based on usable capacity of the physical disk pool ... For the first 10 terabytes it is practically free of charge--once you purchase the USP V [Universal Storage Platform V]. From there, it depends on configuration," wrote an HDS spokesman in an email to Storage magazine.
3PAR charges a license fee for thin provisioning based "slightly ahead of what customers are writing," explains David Scott, 3PAR's president and CEO. But this is still better than buying hundreds of terabytes before you actually need it, he says.
When evaluating thin provisioning, users should consider three things: how manual the process is to replenish a thin-provisioned pool of storage, whether an application is thin-provisioning friendly and the scalability of the storage system supporting it. "Not all thin-provisioning systems are created equally," says Scott.
--Jo Maitland