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Enough: Week 4 "Defined by Generosity" 1 Tim 6:17-19
<outline based on Adam Hamilton's lesson of Generosity from 'Enough'>
As for those who in the present age are rich, command them not to be haughty, or to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but rather on God who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. They are to do good, to be rich in good works, generous, and ready to share, thus storing up for themselves the treasure of a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of the life that really is life. (1 Timothy 6:17-19)
Some give freely, yet grow all the richer; others withhold what is due, and only suffer want. A generous person will be enriched, and one who gives water will get water. (Proverbs 11:24-25)
Those who are generous are blessed, for they share their bread with the poor. (Proverbs 22:9)
A Theological Foundation for a Generous Life
Created to be generous, tempted to hoard
God created us with the willingness to give—to God and to others. This design is part of our makeup; we actually have the need to be generous. Yet there are two voices that work against our God-given impulse toward generosity and that tempt us to keep or hoard what we have. The charge is to multiply: God graciously gives us life, breath, brain, purpose, and passion: What stops us?
- The voice of fear
Fear of what might happen to us, along with a misplaced idea about the true source of our security, keeps us from being generous and leads us to hoard what we have. The truth is that hoarding offers us no real security in this world.
- The voice of self-gratification
Our culture tells us that our lives consist in the abundance of our possessions and pleasurable experiences. So we find ourselves thinking, If I give, there won't be enough left for me.
Defeating the voices
When we give our lives to Christ, invite him to be Lord, and allow the Holy Spirit to begin changing us from the inside out, we find that our fears begin to dissipate and our aim in life shifts from seeking personal pleasure to pleasing God and caring for others. Although we still may wrestle with the voices from time to time, we are able to silence them more readily and effectively the more we grow in Christ. And the more we grow in Christ, realizing that our lives belong to him, the more generous we become. Generosity is a fruit of spiritual growth.
Biblical reasons to give to God and others
- "It is more blessed to give than to receive" (Acts 20:35).
- "Those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it" (Matthew 16:25).
- "The earth is the Lord's and all that is in it" (Psalm 24:1).
Biblical guidelines for giving
From the early days of the Old Testament, God's people observed the practice of giving some portion of the best they had to God. A gift offered to God was called the first fruits or the tithe, and it equaled one-tenth of one's flocks or crops or income. Abraham was the first to give a tithe or tenth.
- Genesis 14:20b and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!" And Abram gave him one-tenth of everything.
- Genesis 28:18-22 So Jacob rose early in the morning, and he took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up for a pillar and poured oil on the top of it. 19 He called that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first. 20 Then Jacob made a vow, saying, "If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear, 21 so that I come again to my father's house in peace, then the Lord shall be my God, 22 and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God's house; and of all that you give me I will surely give one-tenth to you."
- Leviticus 27:30-33 All tithes from the land, whether the seed from the ground or the fruit from the tree, are the Lord's; they are holy to the Lord. 31 If persons wish to redeem any of their tithes, they must add one-fifth to them. 32 All tithes of herd and flock, every tenth one that passes under the shepherd's staff, shall be holy to the Lord.33 Let no one inquire whether it is good or bad, or make substitution for it; if one makes substitution for it, then both it and the substitute shall be holy and cannot be redeemed.
Giving a tithe
As Christians who live under the new covenant, we are not bound by the law of Moses; we look to it as a guide. Yet most Christians agree that the tithe is a good guideline for our lives and one that is pleasing to God. Though tithing can be a struggle, it is possible at virtually every income level. If you cannot tithe right away, take a step in that direction. Perhaps you can give 2 percent or 5 percent or 7 percent. God understands where you are and will help you make the adjustments necessary to become more generous.
Giving beyond the tithe
Tithing is a floor, not a ceiling. God calls us to grow beyond the tithe. We should strive to set aside an additional percentage of our income as offerings for other things that are important to us, such as mission projects, schools, church building funds, and nonprofit organizations.
What Our Giving Means to God
How does our giving affect God?
From the earliest biblical times, the primary way people worshiped God was by building an altar and offering the fruit of one's labors upon it to God. They would burn the sacrifice of an animal or grain as a way of expressing their gratitude, devotion, and desire to honor God. The scent of the offering was said to be pleasing to God. It wasn't that God loved the smell of burnt meat and grain. Rather, God saw that people were giving a gift that expressed love, faith, and the desire to please and honor God, and this moved God's heart. When given in this spirit, our offerings bless the Lord.
What is God's response to our giving?
- Luke 6:38 give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap; for the measure you give will be the measure you get back."
- Matthew 25:14-30 "For it is as if a man, going on a journey, summoned his slaves and entrusted his property to them; 15 to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. 16 The one who had received the five talents went off at once and traded with them, and made five more talents. 17 In the same way, the one who had the two talents made two more talents. 18 But the one who had received the one talent went off and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master's money. 19 After a long time, the master of those slaves came and settled accounts with them. 20 Then the one who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five more talents, saying, "Master, you handed over to me five talents; see, I have made five more talents.' 21 His master said to him, "Well done, good and trustworthy slave; you have been trustworthy in a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.' 22 And the one with the two talents also came forward, saying, "Master, you handed over to me two talents; see, I have made two more talents.'23 His master said to him, "Well done, good and trustworthy slave; you have been trustworthy in a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.' 24 Then the one who had received the one talent also came forward, saying, "Master, I knew that you were a harsh man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter seed; 25 so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.'26 But his master replied, "You wicked and lazy slave! You knew, did you, that I reap where I did not sow, and gather where I did not scatter? 27 Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and on my return, I would have received what was my own with interest. 28 So take the talent from him, and give it to the one with the ten talents. 29 For to all those who have, more will be given, and they will have an abundance; but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away. 30 As for this worthless slave, throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'
What Our Giving Means to Us
Through it, our hearts are changed.
When we are generous—to God and to our families, friends, neighbors, and others who are in need—our hearts are filled with joy. They are enlarged by the very act of giving. When we give generously, we become more generous.
In it, we find the blessings of God.
Many Christians have it wrong. They say that if you give, then God will give more back to you. But that is not how it works. We do not give to God so that we can get something in return. The amazing thing is that when we give to God and to others, the blessings just seem to come back to us. Of course, there is no guarantee that if we tithe, we will never lose our job or never have other bad things happen to us. Nevertheless, when we give generously, the unmistakable blessings of God flow into our lives.
Closing Prayer
O God, we thank you that you have given us life, that you sustain us by the power of your Holy Spirit, and that you gave Jesus Christ as an offering for us and for our sins. We thank you for the abundance that we have in our lives. And we pray, O Lord, that you would help us. Help us to honor you with our tithes. Help us to care for the poor and those who are in need. Help us to recognize that it is more blessed to give than to receive. We offer ourselves to you. Guide us now as we prepare to fill out our commitment cards. Help us, O Lord, to do your will. Lead us, we pray. In your holy name. Amen.
Luke 12:15 "Cultivating Contentment"
Posted by myoikos in #2018, #enough, #simplicityaccountability, #stewardship on August 25, 2018
Hebrews 13:5-6, Ecclesiastes 2:20-11, Luke 12:15
Sermon Aug 26, 2018 RSUMC "Cultivating Contentment" Adam Hamilton's "Enough"
Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be content with what you have; for he has said, "I will never leave you or forsake you." So we can say with confidence,
"The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can anyone do to me?" (Hebrews 13:5-6)
[Jesus] said to them, "Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for one's life does not consist in the abundance of possessions." (Luke 12:15)
Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them; I kept my heart from no pleasure. . . . Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had spent in doing it, and again, all was vanity and a chasing after wind. (Ecclesiastes 2:10-11)
In recent years we have witnessed a number of devastating natural disasters, including hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, and wildfires. Natural disasters remind us that everything in this world is temporary. Most recently in the Hawaiian islands, we see the power and the loss. This is why we can say with Jesus, "[My] life does not consist in the abundance of possessions" (Luke 12:15). Yet the culture is shouting that it's not true. The result is a wrestling match in our hearts.
Despite the fact that we say we believe Jesus' words, we still find ourselves devoting a great deal of our time, talents, and resources to the acquisition of more stuff. We say that our lives do not consist in the abundance of our possessions, but we live as if they do.
Restless Heart Syndrome: Struggling with Discontent
Perhaps you've heard of restless legs syndrome (RLS), a condition in which one has twitches and contractions in the legs. Something we might call Restless Heart Syndrome (RHS) works in a similar way, but in the heart—or soul. Its primary symptom is discontent. We find that we are never satisfied with anything. The moment we acquire something, we scarcely take time to enjoy it before we want something else. We are perennially discontent.
When discontent is a virtue
There is a certain discontent that God intended us to have. God actually wired our hearts so that we would not be content with certain things, causing us to seek the only One who can fully satisfy us. We are meant to yearn for a relationship with God, to cultivate a deeper prayer life, to pursue justice and holiness with increasing fervor, to love others more, and to grow in grace and character and wisdom with each passing day.
When discontent destroys
The problem is that those things we should be content with are the very things we find ourselves hopelessly discontented with. For example, we find ourselves discontented with our stuff, our jobs, our churches, our children, and our spouses. God must look down on us and feel the way we feel when we give someone a special gift and the person asks for the gift receipt. It's as if we're saying to God, "I don't like what you have given me, God. I want to trade it in and get something better."
Four Keys to Cultivating Contentment
The Apostle Paul is an excellent example of contentment. In his letter to the Philippians, he wrote about the "secret" of his contentment (Philippians 4:11-12). Like Paul, we can learn to be content in whatever circumstances we may find ourselves. Four keys, which include the "secret" Paul referred to in his letter, can help us to do that.
- 1.Four words to repeat: It could be worse.
John Ortberg, pastor at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church in California, says there are four words we should say whenever we find ourselves discontented with something or someone: "It could be worse." This is essentially the practice of looking on the bright side or finding the silver lining. It is recognizing that no matter what we may not like about a thing or person or circumstance, we can always find something good to focus on if only we will choose to do so.
- 2.One question to ask: How long will this make me happy?
So often we buy something, thinking it will make us happy, only to find that the happiness lasts about as long as it takes to open the box. There is a moment of satisfaction when we make the purchase, but the item does not continue to bring satisfaction over a period of time. Many of the things we buy are simply not worth the expense. This is why it is a good idea to try before you buy.
- 3.Develop a grateful heart.
Gratitude is essential if we are to be content. The Apostle Paul said that we are to "give thanks in all circumstances" (1 Thessalonians 5:18). A grateful heart recognizes that all of life is a gift. Contentment comes when we spend more time giving thanks for what we have than thinking about what's missing or wrong in our lives.
- 4.Where does your soul find true satisfaction?
The world tells us that we find satisfaction in ease and luxury and comfort and money. The Bible, however, answers this question very differently. From Genesis to Revelation, it tells us that we find our satisfaction in God alone.
- "Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in thee." (Saint Augustine)
- "O God, you are my God, I seek you, / my soul thirsts for you. . . . / My soul is satisfied as with a rich feast, / and my mouth praises you with joyful lips / when I think of you on my bed, / and meditate on you in the watches of the night." (Psalm 63:1, 5-6)
- "Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them; I kept my heart from no pleasure. . . . Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had spent in doing it, and again, all was vanity and a chasing after wind." (Ecclesiastes 2:10-11)
- Jesus said the two most important things we must do are to "love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind," and to "love your neighbor as yourself" (Matthew 22:37, 39). If we keep our focus on these two things, we will find satisfaction for our souls and lasting contentment.
Five Steps for Simplifying Our Lives – Contentment through Simplicity:
The road to cultivating contentment in our lives, is finding the most simple path. Contentment and simplicity go hand in hand.
- 1.Set a goal of reducing your consumption, and live below your means.
Set a tangible goal to reduce your own personal consumption and the production of waste in your life. For example, use canvas bags when you go grocery shopping and refuse any extra packaging. Whenever you are making purchases, look at the mid-grade instead of the top-of-the-line product. When buying a new car, aim to improve fuel economy over your existing car by at least 10 percent. Reduce your utilities 10 percent by setting the thermostat back a couple of degrees when you are away during the day and asleep at night. Find other ways to reduce your consumption and live below your means. To find other ways of reducing consumption, do some research, share ideas with others, or have a brainstorming session with your family.
- 2.Before making a purchase, ask yourself: Do I really need this? Why do I want this?
These questions will help you determine the true motivation for your desired purchase. Is it a need, a self-esteem issue, or something else? You may find yourself wrestling with your true motive and decide that your reason for purchasing the item is not a good one.
- 3.Use something up before buying something new.
Take good care of the things you buy and use them until they are empty, broken, or worn out. Buy things that are made to last, and when buying things that have a short lifespan, spend your money wisely.
- 4.Plan low-cost entertainment that enriches.
When it comes to choosing entertainment for your family or friends, plan things that are simple and cheap. You'll be amazed at how much more pleasure you derive from low-cost, simple activities.
- 5.Ask yourself: Are there major changes that would allow me to simplify my life?
Consider downsizing your home, canceling a club membership you don't use, or selling a car to buy one you can pay for in full. Ask yourself questions related to your home, possessions, job, and activities to identify some significant changes that will simplify your life. Remember, if you cannot do all the things God is calling you to do and you're unable to find joy in your life, perhaps it's time to simplify in some major ways.
The Power & Responsibility of Self-Control
Simplifying your life requires the practice of self-control. Solomon wrote, "Like a city whose walls are broken through / is a person who lacks self-control" (Proverbs 25:28 NIV). When a city's walls are broken through, the enemy can march right in and destroy it; there is no longer any protection. Likewise, self-control is a wall around your heart and life that protects you from yourself, from temptation, and from sins that are deadly and ultimately can destroy you. Self-control often comes down to making a choice between instant gratification and delayed gratification for some greater cause. The choice can be examined using three questions:
- What are the long-term consequences of this action?
- Is there a higher good or a better outcome if I use this resource of time, money, or energy in another way?
- Will this action honor God?
Conclusion: Which tent will you live in?
Will you live in "discon-tent" or "con-tent-ment"? You and you alone determine which "tent" will be yours. You choose it in large part by deciding what life is about. If you decide that "life does not consist in the abundance of possessions" (Luke 12:15), then you are choosing contentment. Choosing contentment means we look to God as our Source, giving thanks for what we have; we ask God to give us the right perspective on money and possessions and to change our hearts each day; we decide to live simpler lives, wasting less and conserving more; and we choose to give more generously.
Closing Prayer
Lord, we pray that you might cure us of Restless Heart Syndrome. We are truly sorry for the times when we received the gifts you give us and asked for the gift receipt: when we were dissatisfied with a person you entrusted to our care, with our children or parents, with our home or our car, with our healthcare or our jobs. God forgive us for the times we've offended you by our discontent. Forgive us for being content with the things we should not be content with. Give us a hunger to pursue righteousness and holiness and justice and love, to long for you and for your will in our lives. Help us to simplify, to get off the treadmill, and to find our peace in you. We ask these mercies in your holy name. Amen.


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My name is Haley and here is my story.
it all started when i was 17. i had never even had a sip of alcohol. i was still a virgin. i went to school everyday and lived a life that any 17 year old?girl would want too. but then,?i started dating this boy who sold drugs and also abused them. i got my very first prescription of hydrocodone...and so the fun began.
he tells me "come on babe, just take one or two..i promise you'll like it." and ofcourse i wanted to fit in with him and his crowd, so.. i did. i began to abuse hydrocodone until my tolorance was too high that i couldnt feel the high anymore.. so i moved on up to stronger opiates.. (pain killers) such as perkasette, oxycotten and?methadone. in the mix of all this, i started to drink and party alot. my father had been convicted of a crime and was taken to prison, so i suppose i felt i had to mask my pain with prescription drugs and alcohol. little did i know at the time, i was in for a long road myself also slowly being imprisioned by addiction.
My boyfriend and i broke up about two years later. at this point i was mentally and phyically addicted to pain killers. if i didnt have them, i would have cold sweats, head aches, restless leg syndrome, anxiety and sometimes even vomiting. no one wanted to be around me because my life revolved around getting my pills for the day. eventually i lost two cars and my house and a good handful of friends and family.
then...i meet another boy. we were only together for a few months?before?he introduces me to meth. so, on top of my opiate addiction, i now endure another. meth is completely different from my drug of choice. i smoked this drug, i liked the high. i stayed up for days on end and everything seemed to be going my way.. then, i run out of meth. i felt terrible. my throat was hurting so bad that i couldnt breathe well, let alone talk. my head was spinning. i was so dehydrated that my skin was sunk in all over my body. at this point i had realized that i hadnt eaten in days. i went to the hospital for obvious reasons. i was diagnosed with tonsilitus. (an infection in my throat.) once i was over that sickness.. i went back for more...
this cycle went on for months, intertwined with lying, stealing and fighting. i witnessed my boyfriend get jumped multiple times. there were times that my car was stolen.. my friends were raped. all over dope. i even had a close friend die because of meth and yet i still chose to do it. "why?"?ive asked myself that question many times. i have yet to find an answer.
There arent many people that i know that have?stopped using drugs the way i did. i just took a step back and did a re-cap on the past few years of my life. i realized that i didnt want to end up the way some of my friends and family did. i seen that i actually did have something to live for.?it took me a very long time to see the truth in what i was doing to my body and mind and also my family, i decided i wanted help.?i can honestly say that if i wasnt for my family, i would probably be dead. when the whole time i thought they were the enemy because they always tried to talk to me about my addiction and i always felt that they were trying to force an intervention on me. out of everyone who has helped me, my mother has been the most supportive. she truly is my angel. she taught me how to be headstrong about my problem and how to move on. she has never done drugs a day in her life. she amazes me everyday.
today i have been clean for 3 and a half?months. i aknowledge the fact that i am a recovering addict. addiction is a disease. it bounds you to depression and hate and lonelyness. its a venom from the ugliest darkest serpent.. the devil. with drugs in my life, i could have never been happy. but now, with the help from my family and my religeous beliefs, i can move on and leave all of that in my past. exactly where it belongs.
This Story of Hope was created in celebration of recovery and to let families know that there are pathways to hope and healing. The Partnership for Drug-Free Kids is the only nonprofit organization dedicated to helping families who are struggling with their son or daughter's substance use. Please consider sharing this page so that families know where to turn to for help, and that there is always hope.

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NB: This is the adventure front after Session 1 of "From Us Came Dusk". I thought this might serve as a useful example for anyone looking to understand fronts. A video explanation can be found at the end of the post. Based on "Vault of the Blue Golem" by Dyson Logos. Additional inspiration from "Black … Continue reading From Us Came Dusk Adventure Front
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From Us Came Dusk Session 1
I started a short mini-campaign of Dungeon World (Homebrew World) a few nights ago on Variant Roles called "From Us Came Dusk". We play on Tuesday nights at 7pm US Central for two or three hours; the game will run for three more weeks. Players include Cole, Forta, Jessie, and Jimmy. One of the nicer … Continue reading From Us Came Dusk Session 1
Create the content you want to see in the world
Lately, I've been thinking about whether I should start publishing more stuff beyond my musings here and my game sessions. I wouldn't do this for the income stream ("monetize your hobby and make it a job" doesn't appeal to me) but rather for the fun of seeing other people use what I've made and hopefully … Continue reading Create the content you want to see in the world
Di Rosalba Manor
The characters in "Gothic Brunch" recently visited the manor of the Di Rosalba family while tracking a necromancer in the city of Creedhall. Knowing they'd want to poke around a bit, I used Tramur's Lakehouse by Dyson Logos as the map. My notes and additions follow. The home is owned by a brother and sister, … Continue reading Di Rosalba Manor
Free Dungeon Starter: Caves of Hypnos
I learned an important lesson on Saturday night about open table games: consider carefully how much you want the world to change based on one session. In my ongoing Dungeon World community game, some players wanted to return to the Dreaming Wood. This location used a mix of two Lampblack & Brimstone Dungeon Starters: "The … Continue reading Free Dungeon Starter: Caves of Hypnos
Community Dungeon World Games
Ross Castle—Killarney I've been running some Dungeon World games (off stream) for members of the Variant Roles community for the last month or so. It's not a "serious" campaign, for whatever value you might attach to that word. It feels more like a series of one-shots, sometimes with recurring characters. This all stems from the … Continue reading Community Dungeon World Games
5 Mappers to support on Patreon
I love maps. Ever since I was young, I always loved "antique maps", whether of the entire world or a region or to illustrate an event. The maps in our family Bible fascinated me and I'd trace my fingers along the paths of Paul's missionary trips as much as those of ancient Judea. These days, … Continue reading 5 Mappers to support on Patreon


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- New Orleans Redevelopment Fund buys property in Texas
- Louisiana House kills shield law for tax incentive recipients
- Tauzin: effective, non-vaccine COVID treatment may be ready by September
- Saints preseason schedule finalized
- Car-free French Quarter?
- Bill to kill parishes' lawsuits against oil & gas advances
- Coronavirus cases up 443, to 38,054
- Former Ravens OL James Hurst joining the Saints
- Tropical Storm Bertha forms
- Louisiana fishing industry set to receive $73 million in federal assistance
- Saints preseason schedule finalized
- Newell: Louisiana must capture repatriated manufacturing & tech jobs
- Scoot: Twitter spanks President Trump
- Former Ravens OL James Hurst joining the Saints
- Could the Pelicans' season already be over?
- Saints LB Anthony Chickillo looking forward to fresh start in New Orleans
- Newell: SWBNO faces uphill battle in regaining public trust
- Kristian: Don't thank, let's reflect on Memorial Day
- Video of Ed Orgeron jogging goes viral
- Drew Brees posts he'll play winner of Brady-Manning golf match
- U.S. deaths from coronavirus surpass 100,000 milestone
- NHL monitoring situation before choosing where to play games
- Disney, SeaWorld announce plans for Florida parks to reopen
- The Latest: US deaths from coronavirus surpass 100,000 mark
- Victim in police encounter had started new life in Minnesota
- The US Surpasses 100,000 Deaths From Coronavirus
- Boeing cuts 12,000 jobs, resumes production of grounded jet
- Inquiry into Russia probe carries political consequences
- Half of Americans would get a COVID-19 vaccine
- Through kids' eyes: Virus outbreak brings sadness, fear, joy
Of the big three, which one do you care the least about returning?
Coronavirus New OrleansNewell: Medical community pleads for citizens to seek appropriate care- May 27, 2020


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How to Make Individualized Balconies
A garden creates the best feeling among people especially those living in busy and noisy environments. They elicit good memories. Backyards exist to make people more relaxed. Added skills recreate the appearance on balconies making them beautiful. Expansion and beautification desired by the homeowner does depend on the size of the balcony. Sizes of backyards cannot change the desire by the homeowner to get the balcony to the required standards. However stunning and fully useful a backyard is, it will be better than a massive backyard that contains a sweeping lawn and crazy paving.
Experts have designs and tactics that make people can apply to change their backyards. First, they consider light and weather. Mainly, balconies do not receive sunshine throughout. People need to set the number of hours that sunlight will stream through the balcony. It is the first step in the process of planning for and executing beautification. It starts by identifying parts of the balcony that do not receive sunshine completely. The landscapers advise that the next step is to identify plants that will make the balcony green when planted in sunshine. Understanding the micro-climate is another essential feature to understand after knowing the extend of sunshine in the backyard.
Remember that choosing the right plants for the balcony and choosing the planter is another one. The property owner has to ensure that the planter has a growing room for chosen plants. Remember that the plants need to drain well so as it helps in aeration, transfer of nutrients and water. People should plant flowers and trees in porous pots as opposed to plastic ones according to experts. It is important to use them as they handle changing weather conditions and sustain plants even during winter. Select porous materials over plastic, as they are the best for draining.
Flooring is also a considerable aspect of beautifying balconies. The homeowner must have sweeping lawns. Effective maintenance of lawns requires that people should have lawn-sweeping items. Take a multiturf to replace sweeping lawn during the entire process of beautifying your backyard to satisfy moods. It makes the environment greener. Transforming the entire balcony could involve laying an artificial turf overall space in the backyard. The other important aspect in balcony transformation is adequate or appropriate furniture. The owner does not need to fill the backyard with furniture as though he or she is filling a living room. A wonderful little bistro set serves the best purposes. The homeowner only requires fold tables and chairs work well for coffee and newspaper perusals. Such seats will be enough for people sitting in the balcony and handling daylong stress.
The use of the space gives the necessary direction to the type of beautification you want on the balcony. People have no reason to set aside thousands of money for renovations and other beautification exercises. It is cheap to complicate your backyard or make it simple to reflect what you want exactly. Staying in rented houses makes a balcony constitutes an intimate size. It starts by figuring out the exact environment of the balcony during planning. It is essential to understand necessary items during planning increases the chances of beautifying the balcony. A backyard should be a form of a garden that remains wonderful and mysterious. Simultaneously, it should elicit excitement and mystery.
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This December seems to have been calmer than usual, which is rather nice. We've both had concerts – Tom's choir sang a delightful program of Spanish Christmassy music whilst mine performed Handel's Messiah at Carnegie Hall, and of course there have been some carols too. Other than a single string of lights we haven't bothered decorating this year, but have been making the most of every opportunity for festive food and drink, with one particularly note-worthy weekend including both the first mulled wine of the season and Tom's first attempt at hasselback potatoes (an epic success!).
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Choral capers in the Cathedral
Back in August we spent a wonderful week singing with the St Bart's choristers at Exeter cathedral. It almost feels like this was too long ago to bother writing about (Aug 13th-20th), but I'm a completist. Also, it's somewhat ironic that, despite knowing numerous English singers who do the summer cathedral week residency thing, it took an American choir to actually get us there.
Mil, mile, marvellous
Months ago, a number of local amateur choirs were invited to participate in a mad-sounding project, the so-called "Mile-Long Opera". This performance piece was going to be staged along the High Line over a week in early October, and would involve 1000 singers/speakers positioned along the length of the park. The choir Tom sings with were among the participants, and they spent most of the rehearsal process complaining about various aspects of the piece, so I didn't have particularly high expectations, but in the end the whole thing was completely delightful.
A month in five images
The longer we stay in New York the harder it is to find interesting things to write about. Life continues to be interesting, of course, but lately we've mostly just been getting on with the usual sorts of things… (I mean, I could tell you about the trials and tribulations of an event planning committee I'm working on, or the epic meeting I'm coordinating at my professional association's conference next month, but truthfully it's all about as exciting as laundry and grocery shopping, and nobody wants to read about that.)
Monday miscellany
Another of my occasional "what have we been up to lately" posts…
With the end of summer fast approaching we finally made it to an open-air performance, and I managed to visit an exhibition I've been meaning to see at the Met for months, just days before it closed. We spent the Labor Day weekend visiting a friend in Chicago, and the 9/11 anniversary weekend singing two different requiems at St Bart's. Continue reading
Spring in the City
Over the last week or so the weather here seems to have jumped straight from winter to summer, and the temperature has gone up by around 20C (although I understand that it will shortly revert to a more seasonal level). To keep myself from spending the afternoon pining for air-conditioning (which this apartment sadly lacks) I thought I would put together a quick round-up of highlights from the last few weeks.


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US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Gina Haspel has briefed Senate leaders on the death of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who several Senators believe was killed at the order of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS).
Haspel briefed members of the Foreign Relations, Armed Services and Appropriations committees on Tuesday.
Following the briefing, two Republican senators said they were more certain than ever that bin Salman was culpable in the killing of Khashoggi.
"You have to be willfully blind not to come to the conclusion that this was orchestrated and organized by people under the command of MBS," Senator Lindsay Graham told reporters.
"He murdered him. ...No question in my mind," retiring Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) said of the Saudi crown prince. "I had almost no question before, I have no question whatsoever now."
US Defense Secretary James Mattis and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last week briefed the whole Senate on US-Saudi relations in the wake of the murder of Khashoggi, who was killed after entering the Saudi consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul on October 2.
The senators, however, found the presentation unconvincing and were also upset at the CIA chief's absence. The lawmakers wanted to directly hear from her the CIA's opinion on the Khashoggi death.
The CIA has reportedly concluded that bin Salman ordered the killing.
US President Donald Trump has so far resisted growing calls from both sides of the isle in Congress for a strong response to Khashoggi's murder, arguing that doing so would endanger deep financial and political ties between the two sides and push Riyadh towards Russia.
Trump's reluctance to go after bin Salman became clearer after he undermined the CIA assessment that the prince was indeed aware of the murder, despite Riyadh's denials.
But the biggest reason is perhaps the risk that losing Saudi Arabia's services would pose to Israel, Trump has admitted.
A top Democratic senator said on Sunday the United States should maintain its strategic partnership with Saudi Arabia while he held bin Salman responsible for the murder.
Senator Ben Cardin said he had no doubt that the Saudi crown prince, also known as MBS, was involved in the murder of Khashoggi.
But the Trump administration has publicly pushed back on those claims. Pompeo told reporters following the Senate briefing that there is no "direct reporting" connecting MBS to the killing.
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Fanou, Roderick and Tyson, Gareth and Francois, Pierre and Sathiaseelan, Arjuna (2016) Pushing the Frontier: Exploring the African Web Ecosystem. In: The 7th African Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF 2016) , 30 August - 1 September 2016, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.Full text not available from this repository.
It is well known that Africa's mobile and fixed Internet infrastructure is progressing at a rapid pace. A flurry of recent research has quantified this, highlighting the expansion of its underlying connectivity network. However, improving the infrastructure is not useful without appropriately provisioned services to utilize it. This paper measures the availability of web content infrastructure in Africa. Whereas others have explored web infrastructure in developed regions, we shed light on practices in developing regions. To achieve this, we apply a comprehensive measurement methodology to collect data from a variety of sources. We focus on a large content delivery network to reveal that Africa's content infrastructure is, indeed, expanding. However, we find much web content is still served from the US and Europe. We discover that many of the problems faced are actually caused by significant inter-AS delays in Africa, which contribute to local ISPs not sharing their cache capacity. We discover that a related problem is the poor DNS configuration used by some ISPs, which confounds the attempts of providers to optimize their delivery. We then explore a number of other websites to show that large web infrastructure deployments are a rarity in Africa and that even regional websites host their services abroad. We conclude by making suggestions for improvements.
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Darden's Founding Faculty Member Inspires A&S Writing Seminar
Generations of students at the Darden School of Business left Prof. John D. Forbes' classroom with a greater appreciation for the art of writing succinctly, and with style. For years, Darden alumni surveyed by the graduate school consistently cited Forbes' "Analysis and Communication" course as the one in which they learned and retained the most.
Now 105 years old, Professor Emeritus Forbes is serving as the inspiration for a new, upper-level writing and public speaking seminar under development for undergraduate students in the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. The John D. Forbes Seminar for Career Focused Writing and Communications, to be supported by a $250,000 gift from Darden alumnus Lee R. Forker, Jr., will emphasize oral and written communications in the interest of preparing Arts & Sciences students for leadership roles in a variety of careers.
"Many of us, from the early days of Darden, considered Prof. Forbes' course, of everything we did there, to be the best class with the greatest impact on our careers," said Forker, a 1963 graduate of Darden and the founder of New England Research & Management, Inc., a Boston-based investment management firm.
The first faculty member to be hired by Darden's founder, Forbes helped to design the curriculum for its inaugural class in 1955. He carried the title of Professor of Business History, and during his career at UVA, Forbes authored biographies of American banker and financier J.P. Morgan, Jr., Edward R. Stettinius, Sr, and of the Victorian architect William Tinsley. But unlike most of his academic colleagues at Darden, Forbes did not arrive at UVA from Wabash College with the traditional areas of expertise for a business school professor.
Born in San Francisco in 1910, Forbes served as curator for paintings at the San Francisco World's Fair (1938-40) and taught history, fine arts and communications at Wabash College, Bennington College and other liberal arts institutions after completing his Ph.D. in 1937 at Harvard.
"He's a true Renaissance man," said C. Ray Smith, Darden's former dean and a former student of Forbes'. (Smith is a member of Darden's second graduating class.)
Forbes taught at Darden until the age of 70, while finding time to write several mystery novels. After his retirement in 1980, he taught Continuing Education courses in architectural history and art history. Forbes and his wife Mary Elizabeth continue to live in Charlottesville.
"I was deeply touched," Forbes said in December of Forker's gift to the College. "I was deeply, deeply moved by this vote of confidence. Lee was just so dear to do this."
The Forbes seminar is being developed as the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences continues work on the first proposed revision of the undergraduate curriculum in four decades. Similar to other Arts & Sciences courses established in recent years, including the "Liberal Arts and the World of Work" seminars supported by the Armstrong Scholars Program Fund, the new Forbes seminar will serve to reinforce the value of a liberal arts education in a global economy where translating the transcript to a resume of professionally valuable skills has become increasingly important.
"The liberal arts education that our undergraduate students receive in the College holds true, professional value in the global economy they will be entering and helping to remake," said Ian Baucom, Buckner W. Clay Dean of Arts & Sciences. "The John D. Forbes Seminar, named after the first faculty member of Darden, will equip its students with the timeless communications skills essential to leadership."
First-year Darden students in Forbes' year-long course learned to get to the point quickly and to not exceed his requested word counts for the term papers and case studies due each Saturday afternoon in his office, Smith said. Forbes also tried to spark the creativity of his students with a variety of imaginative exercises.
"He would have you draw a picture of the house of your dreams in class, or bring a brick to class and ask, 'What are all the things you could do with this brick?' You'd be amazed at what 30 to 50 students could come up with," Smith said.
Forbes said he insisted that his students tap into their imaginations.
"I always said this to my students: 'The people who only take courses in money and banking, and labor economics, that sort of thing, they'll be the people you hire. But the boss is the one with imagination.'"
Along with tapping their imaginations, Forbes expected his students to master the grammatical rules espoused in William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White's "The Elements of Style." He was a strict – and often blunt – grader of their weaker writing efforts. Forbes recalled one Darden alum who returned to UVA for a recent Reunion Weekend with the "C-" term paper that Forbes had graded. Still legible in red ink, years later, was Forbes' caustic assessment of the paper: "Is English your mother tongue?"
Forker said the lessons that he learned in Forbes' classroom served him well during his career in the U.S. Navy, and in the fields of investment banking and financial management. He hopes that the Forbes Seminar similarly will inspire future Arts & Sciences undergraduates.
"I don't remember too much from my finance courses back then, but I still know the difference between objective and subjective case, thanks to Professor Forbes," Forker said. "I remember one of the first things he told us in class, 'Especially for you engineers, I know you don't know how to read and write, and I don't want you to reflect badly upon this University when you guys get out of here because you guys can't properly speak or write.
"But it was so fun because he made the class so amusing, and in my judgment and in the judgment of many others, it was the one, lasting course that helped us in our business careers. Because of that class, we ended up sounding and writing smarter than we actually were."


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* Winds: South 40 to 50 mph with gusts up to 60 mph. Gusts up to 70 mph are possible at capes, headlands, and other exposed areas.
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Three men from Gyöngyös earned nearly 2 million HUF on a mentally disabled, underage girl, who was forced into prostitution.
Among others, the District Prosecutor's Office of Gyöngyös indicted for the crime of Pandering and Violation of Personal Freedom against 3 men – a father and two of his sons.The men accommodated young girls in their family house in Gyöngyös, forced them into prostitution and took away their earned money. In autumn 2012 the accused persons forced a mentally disabled girl to move to their house and to be a prostitute.
In 2013 and 2014 the three accused men made other young women to live with them in Gyöngyös. One of the victims earned 600 000 HUF between spring and November 2014 which covered the living of all of the accused men. Anytime she tried to escape she was beaten. The third victim was a prostitute voluntarily but the first time she earned less money than usually one of the accused assaulted her. All the money she earned (960 000 HUF) was taken by the accused persons.
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Tourism, a good deal for Belgium
Tourism, a good deal for Belgium
While the economic situation for Belgium in 2013 has known a period of growth, tourism in this destination seems to follow the same trend since the beginning of 2014. Indeed, during the first five months of the year, the national hotel activity has shown a rise of almost 2% in its Revenue per available room due to outbound and business tourism.
This growth which started in 2013, seems to continue over the initial months of 2014, given the performance observed in the national hospitality industry. The reports published by MKG Hospitality show a 1.9% improvement of the revenue per available room (RevPAR) for the period of January to May. The 1.1 point rise in the occupancy rate has allowed the offset of the decline of 0.6% in average daily rate. As a reminder, Belgian overall park was made up of 1,771 hotels with more than 59 700 rooms on January 1st 2014, these figures include 226 chains hotels, representing more than 25 500 rooms.
The improved performance of the hospitality industry has accelerated over the month of May, during which the Revenue per available room has increased by 13.7%. All indicators of the sector are positive over the period, with an overall increase of about 3.1 points of the occupancy rate and 9.2% of the average daily rate. One must say that the organization of the European elections from May 22th to 25th, has been favorable for Brussels' hospitality industry, namely the meeting of 28 heads of European states and their delegations in the capital on the 27th of the same month.The activity was further boosted by the organization of the European Seafood trade show which took place from the 6th of May to the 9th instead of April last year. Hospitality structures in the city have been able to increase their RevPAR by 17.3%, with an increase of 2.1 points in their occupancy rate and 13% in their average daily rate. The city of Liege also stood out over the period, with an increase of 25.1% in the Revenue per available room of its hotel industry, mainly due to the increase of 10.4 points in its occupancy rate. The city also benefited from the European Seafood trade show and held its 24th Jazz Festival -8, 9 and 10 of May- and the Zatopek Urban Tour on May 4th. This comparison is also reinforced with the fact that the city had experienced a decline in its performance in 2013, when it had significantly increased during the past years of crisis.
To support the performance of this sector for the coming years, the Belgian industry had placed bets on its business tourism. This sector is already booming in the city of Brussels which welcomes, each year, nearly 14 million visiting delegates and business tourists in transit, of which 1.7 million generate 3.3 million room nights. Brussels is the city where you can find the five major European institutions, NATO and hundreds of multinational headquarters and international associations. According to the UIA (Union of International Associations), Brussels is ranked first among the European cities for the organization of conferences, a ranking which the Belgium capital has been dominating for several years now.
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Upper south secession was a bit more complicated than the lower south's secession. In reading about Arkansas, I think an essential book is James M. Woods' Rebellion and Realignment: Arkansas's Road to Secession, published in 1987 by the University of Arkansas Press. Woods discusses the internal political divisions in the state and follows the state from its territorial days to its secession in 1861. Some other sources include Mark K. Christ's The Die is Cast: Arkansas Goes to War, 1861, Michael B. Dougan's Confederate Arkansas: The People and Policies of a Frontier State in Wartime, and an article by Ralph Wooster, "The Arkansas Secession Convention," in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Vol 13, Number 2, Summer 1954. As with our other considerations of why individual states seceded, I think it's important to primarily view the issue from the words of the men involved. For that reason, the Journal of Both Sessions of the Convention of the State of Arkansas, Which was Begun and Held in the Capitol, in the City of Little Rock, is important.
As that title tells us, the Arkansas Secession Convention actually had two sessions. The first convened on March 4, 1861, the day Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated President of the United States. It adjourned on March 21, having decided to submit the question of secession to the voters in August. The firing on Fort Sumter and Lincoln's call for 75,000 troops to put down the rebellion changed things, though. The convention's president, David Walker, called the convention back into session, and it met again on May 6, eschewing the popular vote to decide the question and voting for secession on that same day. From that point the convention shifted to the goal of putting Arkansas on a war footing and settling some old political scores, particularly against Governor Henry M. Rector. The convention passed a new state constitution and it ended its session on June 3, 1861.
On March 7, James L. Totten of Arkansas County [not to be confused with the James Totten who had commanded the US arsenal in Little Rock which was taken over by secessionist forces in February], a secessionist delegate, introduced four resolutions. The first stated, "Resolved, That the inaugural of Mr. Lincoln, President of the United States, is, and should be, regarded as a menace involving the inhuman doctrine of coercion, against which Arkansas should pledge herself to resistance, by all she holds sacred on earth, as long as she has a dollar to spend or a son to defend her." [Journal of Both Sessions, pp. 27-28] "Coercion" is a term we see many times in the upper south deliberations on secession. It's important to understand what they mean by that term, and that's something we'll get to in due course as we make our way through the journal.
The second resolution read, "Resolved, That the assembling of an army at Washington, under the plea that there would be an attempt on the capital, was but a miserable pretext, poorly disguised–the true object being, first, to intimidate us into submission; and if that failed, then to carry out the policy indicated in his inaugural address, which is both humiliating to southern honor and destructive to southern interest." [Ibid., p. 28] Remember, this is referring to Lincoln's March 4 Inauguration, in which soldiers were sent to the capital to provide security. Totten is attempting to redefine what had happened for his own ends.
The third resolution said, "Resolved, That the vast preparations for war, manifested in assembling the navy from foreign stations–the building of new ships of war–the passage of the laws by Congress authorizing the raising of large bodies of troops, and the collection of military stores–the appropriation of large sums of money from the federal treasury–the declared purpose of the President in his inaugural, to recapture the forts, arsenals and public buildings in the seven States that have seceded from the Federal Union, are an unquestionable declaration of war against those States, and afford unmistakable evidence that it is the intention of the administration of the federal government to precipitate the people of those states into all the horrors incident to a civil war, and that the declared intention of the President also contained in his late inaugural, to collect the revenues and duties in those states, is a further manifestation of said purpose." [Ibid.] Notice how he takes a typical government action to protect itself and turns it into an accusation of aggression on the part of the government.
The fourth resolution read, "Resolved, That in so trying an emergency there is but one path left for Arkansas to tread with honor, and that is found in the instant dissolution of those ties that bind her to her oppressor,a nd the assertion of her rights, by all the means which God has given her–making a common cause with those who are ready to live or die with her." [Ibid.] This is the payoff for the other three resolutions, the goal Totten and his secessionist allies were after. Totten's four resolutions were referred to the Committee on Federal Relations. That afternoon, William M. Fishback of Sebastian County, introduced another resolution which read, "Resolved, That any attempt on the part of the federal government, to coerce a seceding state, by armed force, will be resisted by Arkansas to the last extremity." [Ibid., p. 30] This resolution was also referred to the Committee on Federal Relations.
The next day, March 8, delegate George W. Laughinghouse [I promise I'm not making these names up] of St. Francis County introduced this resolution: "Resolved, That in the opinion of this convention, any attempt on the part of the federal government to retake the forts, arsenals or public property, to collect the revenue, or to enforce the laws in any of the states which have seceded or withdrawn from the Federal Union, will amount to coercion on the part of the federal government, and will justify or warrant resistance by those states, and will meet with the unqualified disapprobation of this convention and the people of this state; justifying us fully in our own consciences, and as we believe, will be in the estimation of the civilized world in severing the ligaments which unite us to a government so unjust and unmindful of its obligations to those governed, and so disposed to usurp and assume the exercise of powers not delegated by the constitution under which it arrogates to act." [Ibid., p. 33] This is how they will define coercion: the government enforcing the laws and retaking that which belonged to it from thieves who had stolen it. This resolution also was referred to the Committee on Federal Relations.
On March 9, George P. Smoote of Columbia County introduced these resolutions:
"1st. Resolved, That the platform of the party known as the black republican party, contains unconstitutional dogmas, dangerous in their tendency and highly derogatory to the rights of slave states, and among them the insulting, injurious and untruthful enunciation of the right of the African race in this country to social and political equality with the whites.
"2nd. Resolved, That it is the sense of this convention, from the past history of the party, known as the black republican party–from the past action of its leaders, and their course in the present crisis, and from the acts, utterances and conduct of its newly elected president, that said party intends to abide by and carry out, if possible, its insulting and unconstitutional platform.
"3rd. Resolved. That the seceded states have ample justification for having dissolved the ties which bound them to the old Federal Union, in the constant and unconstitutional political warfare made by the party, known as the black republican party, upon the institutions of the slave states, which warfare has culminated in the election of a president by that party, by a purely sectional vote–upon an unconstitutional platform, the principles of which, if carried out, would utterly ruin the South.
"4th. Resolved, That this convention cannot shut its eyes upon the fact that the government of the United States is now under the control of said black republican party, and that said party has power to use every arm of the same, except, perhaps, the judicial.
"5th. Resolved. That in the opinion of this convention it is a conclusion clearly resulting from the foregoing that every feeling of honor, interest and sympathy demand that the State of Arkansas should discontinue her present political relations with the United States of America, and unite herself with the Confederate States of America." [Ibid., pp. 38-39] These were also referred to the Committee on Federal Relations.
That same day, Jilson Johnson of Desha County introduced this resolution: "Resolved, That any attempt to reinforce any of the forts now held by the government of Lincoln, in the southern states, will be considered as coercion, and will be resisted by all the power of the state government of Arkansas." [Ibid. p. 40] This was also referred to the Committee on Federal Relations. As we can see here, they now wish to define as "coercion" any movement of troops or supplies into any fort belonging to the United States anywhere in any state of the United States that is in the south.
In a message to the convention dated March 2, 1861, Governor Henry M. Rector wrote, "Unfortunate it may prove in the future for the cause of civil liberty, that the American government, made up of confederated states–peopled from a common ancestry, and deriving the inestimable blessing of republican liberty from a common fountain, have from antagonistic, domestic and social institutions become alienated–distrustful and inimical to each other–until the ligaments of the Union, once like hooks of steel, have been severed so insensibly as almost to defy realization. … The question at issue before the people of Arkansas is, whether their honor, their future safety and happiness now and forever, impels them to separate from the Federal Union, and unite their fortunes with the seven seceding states, or, on the other hand, whether prudential motives shall admonish them to take refuge amidst the fragments of the old Union, hoping for a reconstruction of the government upon terms of honorable equality to the slaveholding states." [Ibid., pp. 42-43] In reference to the deep south, Governor Rector wrote, "Have they in the light of heaven been sinned against, or are they sinning against others? Their offence, like our own, in the eyes of the northern people, is slavery [emphasis in original]. This institution, co-existent with the remotest periods of civilization, and sanctioned by divine authority, is declared by the president elect to 'be in the course of ultimate extinction.' He has declared, and that truly, that the United States government 'cannot exist half slave and half free' [emphasis in original]. An irrepressible conflict, says he, is going on between freedom and slavery. That institution is now upon its trial before you, and if we mean to defend and transmit it to our children, let us terminate this northern crusade, by forming a separate government, in which no conflict can ensue. But if, upon the other hand, we are prepared to admit the argument, that slavery is a sin–that the melioration of the white and the black races requires us to abolish it, we shall keep in the true line of policy marked out by the incoming President, by remaining in the Union." [Ibid., pp. 43-44]
Rector continued, "Great solace is indulged in by some, that it is the avowed purpose of black republican domination to permit slavery to remain unmolested in the states where it now exists; whilst it is distinctly announced upon the other hand, that the institution shall be denied all power of expansion over territory now possessed or hereafter acquired. … The area of slavery must be extended correlative with its antagonism [emphasis in original], or it will be put speedily in the 'course of ultimate extinction.' " [Ibid., p. 44] Agreeing with Lincoln, Rector said, "The extension of slavery is the vital point [emphasis in original] of the whole controversy between the North and the South. [Ibid.]
According to Rector, "Fifteen southern states have failed in the past to protect slavery–how then can the remaining eight accomplish that object by remaining in the Union? Secondly, the doctrine of coercion announced by Mr. Lincoln, and indorsed recently by the lower house of Congress on the Branch amendment, by a vote of 136 to 53, leaves the whole question of secession or no secession a barren field for argument. The doctrine of coercion now stands at the summit of the controversy. Practically with Arkansas the question is, whether she is willing to contribute men and money to subjugate her southern sisters to the condition of conquered colonies. If she withdraws, she is lawfully relieved at once from the performance of this onerous duty. If she stays in, she must perform it or rebel against proper authority, and this when pressed to such a necessity, I believe her people will do." [pp. 45-46]
Rector then addresses compromise proposals: "Amendments to the federal constitution are urged by some as a panacea for all the ills that beset us. That instrument is amply sufficient as it now stands, for the protection of southern rights, if it was only enforced. The South wants practical evidence of good faith from the North, not mere paper agreements and compromises. They believe slavery a sin, we don not, and there lies the trouble." [Ibid., p. 46]
He does talk about taxation, but not as a reason for secession. Rather, he talks about it as reason to not worry about the economic survival of the slave states on their own apart from the US. "The burthen of taxation necessarily imposed upon the people of the new government, it is said, must be onerous and oppressive. The expenses incident to a government are proportionate to its magnitude. The government of the United States, when first organized, was maintained for years at a cost of less than seven millions of dollars annually. The indirect annual tax paid by the slaveholding states, upon foreign importations, exceed an amount sufficient to maintain and operate a southern confederacy." [Ibid.]
On March 9, Samuel Robinson of Lawrence County introduced a resolution that said: [begin quote]Resolved, That it is the deliberate sense of this convention that African negroes, and the descendants of the African race, denominated slaves by all the constitutions of the southern slaveholding states, is property, to all intents and purposes, and ought of right to be so considered by all the northern states, being expressly implied by the constitution of the United States, and a denial on the part of the people of the northern states, of the right of property in slaves of the southern states, is, and of right ought to be, sufficient cause, if persisted in by northern people, to dissolve the political connection between said states. [end quote][Ibid., p. 51] Like the other resolutions, this was also referred to the Committee on Federal Relations. Marcus Hawkins of Ashley County then introduced this resolution: [begin quote]Resolved, That it is the sense of this convention, that it is the duty of the governor of the State of Arkansas to resist, by force of arms, any attempt on the part of the federal government, to levy men or money, within the limits of, or against said state, for the purpose of coercing back into the said Federal Union, any one, or all of the seceded states, for the purpose of holding or retaking arsenals or forts in any of said states, or for the purpose of enforcing the collection of duties and imposts therefrom. [end quote] [Ibid.] Again, this was also referred to the Committee on Federal Relations.
Next, Hugh F. Thomason of Crawford County presented these resolutions: [begin quote]
We, the people of the State of Arkansas, in convention assembled, in view of the unfortunate and distracted condition of our once happy and prosperous country, and of the alarming*dissentions existing between the northern and southern sections thereof ; and desiring that a fair and equitable adjustment of the same may be made; do hereby declare the following to be just causes of complaint on the part of the people of the southern states, against their brethren of the northern, or non-slaveholding states:
1. People of the northern states have organized a political party, purely sectional in its character, the central and controlling idea of which is, hostility to the institution of African slavery, as it exists in the southern states, and that party has elected a President and Vice President of the United States, pledged to administer the government upon principles inconsistent with the rights, and subversive of the interests of the people of the southern states.
2. They have denied to the people of the southern states the right to an equal participation in the benefits of the common territories of the Union, by refusing them the same protection to their slave property therein that is afforded to other property, and by declaring that no more slave states shall be admitted into the Union.
3. They have declared that Congress possesses, under the constitution, and ought to exercise, the power to abolish slavery in the territories, in the District of Columbia, and in the forts, arsenals and dock yards of the United States, within the limits of the slaveholding states.
4. They have, in disregard of their constitutional obligations, obstructed the faithful execution ol' the fugitive slave laws by enactments of their state legislatures.
5. They have denied the citizens of southern states the right of transit through non-slaveholding states with their slaves, and the right to hold them while temporarily sojourning therein.
6. They have degraded American citizens by placing them upon an equality with negroes at the ballot-box.
To redress the grievances hereinbefore complained of, and as a means of restoring harmony and fraternal good will between the people of all the states, the following amendments to the constitution of the United States are proposed:
1. The President and Vice President of the United States shall each be chosen alternately from a slaveholding and no slaveholding state—but, in no case, shall both be chosen from slaveholding or non-slaveholding states,
2. In all the territory of the United States now held, or which may hereafter be acquired, situate north of latitude 36 deg. 30 min., slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime is prohibited while such territory shall remain under territorial government. In all the territory now held, or which may hereafter be acquired, south of said line of latitude, slavery of the African race is hereby recognized as existing, and shall not be interfered with by Congress, but shall be protected as property by all the departments of the territorial government, during its continuance. And when any territory, .north or south of said line, within such boundaries as Congress may prescribe, shall contain the population requisite for a member of Congress, according to the then federal ratio of representation of the people of the United States, it shall, if its form of government be republican, be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, with or without slavery, as the constitution of such new state may provide.
3. Congress shall have no power to legislate upon the subject of slavery, except to protect the citizen in his right of property in slaves.
4. That in addition to the provisions of third paragraph of the second section of the fourth article of the constitution of the United States, Congress shall have power to provide, by law, and it shall be its duty so to provide, that the United States shall pay to the owner, who shall apply for it, the full value of his fugitive slave, in all cases, when the marshal, or other officer, whose duty it was to arrest said fugitive, was prevented from so doing by violence; or when, after arrest, said fugitive was rescued by force, and the owner thereby prevented and obstructed in the pursuit of his remedy for the recovery of his fugitive slave under the said clause of the constitution and the laws made in pursuance thereof. And in all such cases, when the United States shall pay for such fugitive, they shall have the right, in their own name, to sue the county in which said violence, intimidation or rescue was committed, and to recover from it, with interest and damages, the amount paid by them for said fugitive slave. And the said county, after it has paid said amount to the United States, may, for its indemnity, sue and recover from the wrongdoers or rescuers, by whom the owner was prevented from the recovery of his fugitive slave, in like manner as the owner himself might have sued and recovered.
5. The third paragraph, of the second section of the fourth article of the constitution, shall not be construed to prevent any of the states from having concurrent jurisdiction with the United States, by appropriate legislation, and through the action of their judicial and ministerial officers, from enforcing the delivery of fugitives from labor to the person to whom such service or labor is due.
6. Citizens of slaveholding states when traveling through, or temporarily sojourning with their slaves in non-slaveholding states, shall be protected in their right of property in such slaves.
7. The elective franchise, and the right to hold office, whether federal, state, territorial or municipal, shall not be exercised by persons of the African race, in whole or in part.
8. These amendments, and the third paragraph of the second section of the first article of the constitution, and the third paragraph of the second section of the fourth article thereof, shall not be amended or abolished, without the consent of all the states.
That the sense of the people of the United States may be taken upon the amendments above proposed:
1. Resolved by the people of Arkansas in Convention assembled, That we recommend the calling of a convention of the states of the Federal Union, at the earliest practicable day, in accordance with the provisions of the fifth article of the constitution of the United States.
2. Resolved further, That a committee of three delegates of this convention be appointed, whose duty it shall be to lay before the President and Congress of the United States, and before the governors and legislatures of the several states, a copy of these proceedings.
3. Resolved further, That looking to the call of a national convention, as recommended in the first resolution above, this convention elect five delegates to represent the State of Arkansas in such convention.
4. Resolved further, That a committee of five delegates of this convention be appointed to prepare an address to the people of the United States, urging upon them the importance of a united effort on the part of the patriotic citizens of all section and parties to save the country from the dangers which impend it, and which threaten its destruction—and especially to arrest the reckless and fanatical spirit of sectionalism north and south, which, if not arrested, will inevitably involve us in a bloody civil war.[end quote] [Ibid., pp. 51-54] These resolutions were accepted by the convention and 200 copies were ordered to be printed "for the use of the convention."
As we can see, at the convention, the overwhelming issue driving the secessionists was the issue of slavery and its protection.
The secessionists didn't prevail at this session, though. Conditional Unionists prevailed. Rufus Garland of Hempstead County, one of the Conditional Unionists, introduced this resolution on March 13: "Resolved, As the sense of this convention, that the people of Arkansas prefer a perpetuity of this Federal Union to is dismemberment or disruption–provided it can be perpetuated upon a basis recognizing and guaranteeing equal rights and privileges to every state in the Union, south as well as north." [Ibid., p. 63] Notice the proviso. As long as slavery was protected, they want to stay in the Union. The primacy of the slavery issue isn't surprising if we consider the makeup of the convention. "The Arkansas secessionist delegates held more slaves than did their opponents. Indeed, the average secessionist holding of 18.0 slaves was nearly three times the average of the anti-secessionist holding of 6.2 slaves. The median holding of the secessionist delegates was ten slaves, while the median for the anti-secessionists was zero. Twenty anti-secessionists were not even slaveholders, and only three of them held 20 slaves or more. One of the three, Thomas H. Bradley of Crittenden, was the largest slaveholder in the convention. The secessionists, on the other hand, included fourteen persons who held 20 or more slaves in 1860, and only nine who were non-slaveholders. These figures seem to indicate a decided relationship between slaveholding and secession in the Arkansas convention." [Ralph Wooster, "The Arkansas Secession Convention," The Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 2, Summer, 1954, p. 187] The incidence of slaveholding isn't the only significant factor. "Another striking fact about the counties represented by secessionists is that the ratio of slaves in the total population was higher than in the anti-secessionist counties. Only six Arkansas counties (Union, Lafayette, Chicot, Desha, Arkansas, and Phillips) had more slave than free inhabitants in 1860; all six were represented by secessionists at the Little Rock gathering. Of the sixteen counties more than 25 per cent but less than 50 per cent slave, eleven were secessionist counties before the firing on Fort Sumter. On the other hand, nineteen of the twenty-five counties less than 12½ per cent slave, and twenty-two of the thirty-three counties less than 25 per cent slave were represented by anti-secessionists in the convention." [Ibid., p. 188]
Concerns about the protection of slavery were at the root of the secession movement in Arkansas. No other issue had the power to drive disunion. However, at first those concerns weren't enough to drive Arkansas out of the Union. But the question of disunion did cause "a fundamental realignment of Arkansas politics during the winter of 1860-61." [James M. Woods, Rebellion and Realignment: Arkansas's Road to Secession, p. 113] Woods explains, "Older political alignments of Democrat and Whig receded before a geophysical division between uplands and lowlands. The two regions had always had their differences. The hills had settled first with immigrants arriving from farther north, and after the great immigration from the slaveholding South to the delta and plains the hills remained a region of yeoman farmers–slaveless farmers. the lowlands became the final frontier for the slaveholding cotton kingdom, finding wealth and prosperity based on cotton production and slave labor. But, however great, the differences had little real effect on the permanent political arrangements prior to the Civil War. The antebellum structure arose from territorial factionalism and evolved into Arkansas's two political parties–the Democrats and the Whigs. Once the issue of secession was injected into state politics after Lincoln's election, however, the older party structures evaporated before a resurging division between hills and flatlands. By the end of the winter of 1860-61, this division based on a geophysical split seemed to be tearing the state apart." [Ibid., pp. 113-114] The Whigs in Arkansas had supported Bell in the 1860 election, and they urged calm in the face of Lincoln's victory. They counseled waiting until some overt act was made. But while they were willing to wait, they also wanted the slavery issue to be dealt with. The Arkansas State Gazette of Little Rock editorialized, "Redress will be asked for our grievances, and if not granted, fully and entirely, a formal separation will take place. This is inevitable." [Quoted in Donald E. Reynolds, Editors Make War: Southern Newspapers in the Secession Crisis, p. 183]
James Woods tells us, "By the spring of 1861, most white Arkansans were probably conditional Unionists." [James M. Woods, Rebellion and Realignment: Arkansas's Road to Secession, p. 151] Without an overt threat to the safety of slavery in the state, Unionists prevailed in the first session of the Secession Convention. "As much as Unionists wanted reconciliation and peaceful reconstruction of the Old Union, they agreed with their opponents in believing that slavery had to be protected." [Ibid.] Woods quotes Thomas Hindman's newspaper in Little Rock, The Old Line Democrat, opined, "We cannot separate from the Cotton growing States. You might as well expect a limb severed from a human body to live. Sink or swim, persevere or perish, our destiny and theirs must be one." [Quoted in Ibid.] As Woods tells us, "Secessionists believed with Governor Rector that it was 'the Union without slavery, or slavery without the Union.' Unionists, as yet unwilling to accept this bleak alternative, still clung to the hope that slavery could be made secure within the Union. In the event of a final break or whenever it appeared that slavery could not be protected, Unionists would not abandon slavery for the sake of the Union. For secessionists and most Unionists slavery had become too important during the 1850s to be disregarded simply to maintain a Union that was no longer convenient and perhaps even hostile to the interests and needs of Arkansas." [Ibid.] Then came Fort Sumter. With confederates opening fire on Fort Sumter, the rebellion turned into a war, and Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to put down the armed rebellion. This ended all hope of peaceful reconciliation and met the conditions laid down in the convention for calling Lincoln's actions "coercion."
Public opinion in Arkansas changed dramatically. Newspapers that had previously been anti-secession published editorials supporting immediate secession. The President of the Secession Convention, David Walker, called the convention back into session on May 6. The very day the convention met, they passed and published an ordinance of secession.
Protection of slavery drove secession in Arkansas. Conditional Unionists held out against secession as long as they believed a reconciliation that protected slavery was possible. Once that dream evaporated, the Unionist support evaporated with it.


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Antonis Mavropoulos knows he is lucky. Alone among passengers booked on to Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302, he got to the departure gate two minutes after it had closed. "I could see a guy in a green T-shirt and others boarding and I shouted to also be let in," he says, his voice cracking with emotion. "I am still in a state of shock knowing what happened. I've found it very difficult to sleep since."
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You may want to look at Xora, offered by Verizon and AT&T, web based subscription, just an idea and fresh in memory as I just posted about the offering.
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Inside by Alix Ohlin was a fast and tidy read. The novel is made up of four narratives shoved all together into a cohesive message about love and pain. It also explores what keeps humans together and interacting, despite all the pain.
The story seems to be the most about Grace, an idealistic therapist who wants to save people who have been wounded and broken. This desire is not isolated to just her clients, but spills over into her own relationships. Grace wants to throw herself at someone and really know them inside, but it often turns into a vulnerability. In the end, she learns emotional restraint keeping her insides inside, without compromising intimacy.
Ohlin weaves a novel that is rich with insight and care. The characters are real, although maybe a tiny bit bland. I still think it was lovely. The premise was simple, and in a way feels like anyone's life. I was interested in the characters, but I still felt that the novel lacked a certain flair. The outcomes seemed too predictable.
I have not read a book like this is a while. It's simple, but with enough meat to satisfy a literary appetite. I loved how Ohlin explored how we bear witness to each others pain. Mitch, Grace's ex-husband who was also a therapist says:
Sometimes he hated himself simply because he was alive when others were not, and he wanted to wipe out the memories of every patient he'd ever had, every problem he's caused or heard about or failed to alleviate. Other times he thought he would never forget any of these things and that it was important not to, perhaps the most important task of his life. Witnessing the pain of others is the very least you can do in this world. It's how you know when your turn comes, someone will be there with you.
And I think this is the point really of the inside lives we hold and keep and carry. We share them to know we are alive, and so others will know we will listen too.


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If things look a little different here today, it's just me messing around with different designs on Blogger. Gotta change things up a bit. Let me know what you think!
Welcome to Wednesday Stamp Club, and thanks for stopping by to see me today! I've got a clean and simple design with a splash of rainbow using this week's sketch. The MFT blog has links to everyone playing as well as all the information you need to play along for your chance to win some MFT cash-ola.
I opted for the Die-namics Pretty Pocket in lieu of the central circle called for on the original sketch and topped it with a scroll-y 'hi' from the Happy Hellos Die-namics. All of the white portions are cut from Smooth White card stock and the Lemon Drop layer is stamped with LJD Art Expression Text in coordinating Lemon Drop ink.
MFT inks in a rainbow of color (see links below) using one of the many brushstrokes from Abstract Art and overlapping each brushstroke just enough to get an additional color, I stamped over the top with the Western Backgrounds denim stamp in Steel Blue ink, stamped off once. I really love the extra bit of texture it gives the pocket. How about those yummy buttons?! I could eat 'em for snack. Just got a fresh stash and couldn't wait to throw them together here in Razzle Berry, Limeade and Orange Fizz!
Clearly Sentimental about Art simply stamped in Black Licorice ink atop a trio of brushstrokes from Abstract Art in Razzle Berry, Orange Fizz and Lemon Drop inks with a paint drip in Blu Raspberry. Super simple.
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