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When it comes to the benefits of Botox, you're fairly certain you know what this youth-enhancing injection can do. You know that Botox can smooth away the most stubborn wrinkles from your visage, revealing a youthful appearance that will make your friends and family members beg for your anti-aging secrets.
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This is handcrafted by Japanese traditional method "STSZ" which is branded through government designation as one of traditional Japanese handcrafts.
Diameter : around 7.5cm,
Height: around 22.0cm,
Flower vase is all made of bamboo with black plastic flower stand.
Product is handcrafted one by one so it sometimes takes time to be delivered to customers.
Crafts should be regarded as something which is living and breathing.
Dust should be removed by soft brush and dirt would be wiped by strongly squeezed wet cloth. Please do not wash the product by water.
The serene and classical beauty of craft will be enhanced when it is placed and cared at well-ventilated dry areas.
Only flower vase with black plastic flower stand is delivered.
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The Montcalm County prosecutor's office is considering whether to file charges against a Coral woman who left her two young children inside a running vehicle while shopping last week Thursday.
According to Howard City Police Chief Steve DeWitt, they were called to the Dollar General Store on M-82 in Howard City just after 11 a.m. to check on the well-being of the two children, ages 5 and 1. While being left alone in the vehicle by their 22-year-old mother, the 5-year-old put the Dodge Caravan into reverse. The van traveled through the parking lot, over two curbs and a grassy area, and then entered highway M-82 and came to a rest sideways, blocking both east and westbound traffic.
A passerby stopped and assisted by moving the vehicle back into the parking lot out of moving traffic.
The mother of the children came out after finishing her shopping and left the scene with the children prior to the arrival of the police. Howard City Police Officer McDonald tracked her and the children to a home in nearby Coral.
Chief DeWitt said it is illegal to leave a vehicle running unattended, as is leaving children unattended in any vehicle. Leaving a child unattended in a vehicle can result in charges from misdemeanor to a felony if a child is harmed.


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Circus Vazquez Brings Big Top Fun To Queens
Circus Vazquez (www.circusvazquez.com), one of the premier and longest-running circuses in the United States, will bring its distinctive climate-controlled big top tent to Citi Field in Queens, NY for an extended run from October 28 – December 12. See unforgettable one-of-a-kind performances by an international all-human cast of circus superstars in this exciting all-new show. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the show playing New York City. Tickets are on sale now!
Synonymous with quality family entertainment for over 50 years, Circus Vazquez continues to bring joy to audiences across the country helping them make enduring memories. The new 2022 show, now presented in English, carries on the tradition of great circuses of the past but blends it with contemporary elements to create a vibrant entertainment experience for modern audiences.
Led by Ringmaster Memo Vazquez, Circus Vazquez presents an awe-inspiring, death-defying, hilarious and affordable circus experience for New Jersey and New York area audiences.
See the bravado and daring speed of Columbia's X-Metal Riders inside the Globe of Death while Duo Vanegas defy gravity on the Wheel of Wonder. Be amazed by the acrobatic display of America's own Super Tumblers and the mastery of Mexico's Jan & Carolina on the Rolla Bolla balance board. The Medini Xtreme Skaters, a brother & sister act from Italy, will mesmerize with their incredible roller skating maneuvers as Ukraine's Bingo Group, whose members escaped the war in their home country to join the show, will make you want to move with their energetic and inspired aerial, hand balancing and dance performances. Italy's famed clown, Fumagalli, weaves his unique side-splitting comedy throughout the show. Laying down the beat behind each act are the talented musicians of the live Circus Vazquez Band.
Whether it's a family outing with the kids, a date night, or a get-together with friends, Circus Vazquez is the perfect place to celebrate life together.
Tickets start at $25 and are available now at www.CircusVazquez.com.
Show times are 7:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays; 12 p.m., 3 p.m., 7 p.m. on Saturdays; 12 p.m., 3 p.m., 6 p.m. on Sundays.
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San Francisco (CNN) -- Playing Super Mario on a Nintendo phone will remain a pipe dream.
Although Microsoft and Sony -- Nintendo's rivals among the "Big Three" gaming companies -- have branched into mobile phone development, Nintendo isn't planning to build a phone or license its games for third-party software platforms, executives for the Japanese company said in interviews.
Instead, the video-game giant is continuing to focus on machines dedicated to entertainment.
"We have no desire to get into telephony," Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime said. "We believe that we will earn our way into someone's pocket without having to offer that (phone capability) as an additional factor."
Nintendo isn't completely discounting the idea, but the high costs involved in cellular carrier partnerships are a roadblock, said Hideki Konno, a top Nintendo producer.
"It's not that I'm uninterested," Konno said through a translator. "However, I look at the business model, and I see so many additional costs that come into play." Splitting revenue with cell operators would affect the retail price of games, he said.
"Would we increase the price of the software itself?" Konno asked. "The distribution couldn't be free."
On March 25, Nintendo released the 3DS, the first mainstream gadget available that can show 3-D graphics without the need for special glasses. Games cost about $40, compared with the free and inexpensive applications available for phones. In addition to games, the 3DS also is designed to be able to download movies or stream them via Netflix.
Some tech bloggers have wondered aloud whether Nintendo should have put cellular connectivity in the 3DS, and some analysts project that smartphones could cut into the market for hardware dedicated to gaming.
But in the U.S., the 3DS sold more units on its launch day than on any other DS or GameBoy system's first day, Nintendo said in a statement. Nintendo didn't release sales figures, but the NPD Group will release a report in two weeks.
LG Electronics and HTC are both working on smartphones with displays capable of glasses-free 3-D similar to Nintendo's. The technology has gotten off to a strong start, especially with children. Yongseok Jang, LG vice president of strategy, recently joked that his kids are "begging" him for 3DS systems. "But I said no way," he said.
While Apple has had significant success with the iPhone, some of its mobile-platform adoption has been driven by the iPod Touch, a phone-less entertainment device. And Samsung Electronics is releasing a similar handheld media player, called the Galaxy Player, in the U.S. in the next few months.
Nintendo recently has begun heavily criticizing the sprouting smartphone-games industry. Executives said the app-store model degrades the quality of games and isn't sustainable.
"We don't want to be in the phone business," Fils-Aime said. "We don't see that as an opportunity. Phones are utilities. Phones are not by definition entertainment devices."
Even so, Nintendo has been thinking about phones for at least a decade. It filed a patent for a game-playing cell phone in 2001.
"It makes sense to enter a market when you feel you've got some sort of competitive advantage," Fils-Aime said. "From Nintendo's perspective, we don't see that we have a competitive advantage in telephony."
Sony Computer Entertainment, which makes the PlayStation, is working on a new portable system dedicated to gaming. It is also licensing older games in its catalog to outside vendors.
The first fruit of this mobile-gaming-software platform, called PlayStation Suite, will be Sony Ericsson's Xperia Play phone for Verizon Wireless. While the legacy PlayStation games come from Sony Computer, the phone maker is responsible for negotiating deals with other game developers to support its hardware, said Peter Farmer, Sony Ericsson's head of marketing for North America.
Sony's new nonphone PlayStation gadget, which is scheduled to debut this year, will be able to connect to cell data networks for online play and accessing downloads.
Fils-Aime from Nintendo did not discount the idea that a Nintendo system might adopt this strategy at some point and highlighted the relationship his company has with AT&T. Owners of the 3DS will receive free access to AT&T's public Wi-Fi hot spots in the U.S., starting in May.


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Razr phone gets iTunes-lite
'It sure is good to be out of that CROCKR'
Motorola has announced an upgrade to its hit RAZR mobile phone that features the crippled version of Apple's iTunes software.
The mobile iTunes was announced to great fanfare in September, but to date, is only available on one device - Motorola's ROKR E1. However the ROKR spent so long in development that its specifications fall far behind what's considered the leading edge today, causing some wags to nickname it 'the CROCKR'. Early indications suggested that even with a large advertising campaign behind it from Cingular, interest in the $249 phone has been tepid.
While the mobile version of iTunes syncs perfectly with its PC or Mac version, the phone is limited to carrying 100 songs at any one time.
The new RAZR V3i looks the same as its predecessor, but features a 1.2 megapixel camera, up from the VGA camera in current versions, and a micro-SD flash slot.
If Apple and Motorola are serious about phones as a digital music player, they need to shape up fast. Thanks to a single-chip design, Nokia is able to push today's high-end Symbian smartphones down into the midrange next year, and features like WiFi are standard across next year's N series and E series models. More importantly, Nokia is determined to allow users to share their songs and playlists over a personal area network connection using WiFi or Bluetooth - something that Apple is extremely reluctant to do. As the cheeky graphic nicely illustrates.®


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2012 Teen Internet Behavior (McAfee)
Hidden Behavior Includes Everything from Adult Content to Cheating on School Work, Up from 45% since 2010
Study Reveals Top 10 Ways Teens Are Fooling Their Parents
22.8% of Parents Are Overwhelmed by Technology and Just Hope for the Best
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – June 25, 2012 – McAfee, the world's largest
dedicated security technology company, today released findings from the
company's 2012 Teen Internet Behavior study. The study investigates the
online habits, behaviors, interests, and lifestyles of the first
generation to truly grow up online, and discloses how teens are not only
engaging in risky behaviors, but how they are hiding it from their
parents, many of whom don't realize they are being fooled. The study
also exposes ten ways teens are hiding their online activities from
their parents.
Despite their awareness of online dangers, teens continue to take
risks by posting personal information and risky photos online,
unbeknownst to parents. Many teens are accessing inappropriate online
content, despite 73.5% of parents whom trust their teens to not access
age-inappropriate content online. Specifically 43% of teens have
accessed simulated violence online, 36% have access sexual topics
online, and 32% have accessed nude content or pornography online.
Nearly half of parents believe their teens tell them everything they
do online and insist they are in control when it comes to monitoring
their teen's online behaviors. However, the study reveals that teens
deceiving their parents are on the rise, as over 70% of teens have found
ways to avoid parental monitoring, compared to 2010, where 45% of teens
have hidden their online behavior from a parent. The top 10 ways teens
are fooling their parents include:
As teens continue to outsmart their parents online, more and more
teens are participating in dangerous and even illegal activities.
Surprisingly, 15% of teens have hacked a social network account, 30.7%
access pirated movies and music, and 8.7% have hacked someone's email
online, while less than 15% of parents are aware their children are
engaging in any of these behaviors. Instant access to information has
also made it easier than ever for teens to cheat in school with 16% of
teens having admitted to looking for test answers on their phone, and
48.1% of teens having looked up answers online. Meanwhile 77.2% of
parents said they were not very or not at all worried about their teens
cheating online, again showing the disconnect.
"While it is not necessarily surprising that teens are engaging in
the same types of rebellious behaviors online that they exhibit offline,
it is surprising how disconnected their parents are," says Stanley
Holditch, Online Safety Expert for McAfee. "There is a major increase in
the number of teens finding ways to hide what they do online from their
parents, as compared to the 2010 study. This is a generation that is so
comfortable with technology that they are surpassing their parents in
understanding and getting away with behaviors that are putting their
safety at risk."
In addition to putting themselves in risky situations, teens are
finding that much of this online behavior is attributing to personal
problems. In fact, over half of teens with a social network account have
already experienced negative consequences as a result of being on a
social network account, such as arguing with friends (35.4%), getting
into trouble at home or school (25.2%), ending friendships (20%),
fearing for their safety (6.8%), and physical fights (4.5%). Conversely,
many parents live in denial, with only 22% claiming that their teens
can get into that much trouble online.
Despite the classic "not my kid" denial, many parents are starting to
up the ante with online monitoring to help keep their kids safe online
by: setting parental controls (49%), obtaining email and social network
passwords (44%), taking away computer and mobile devices (27%), and
using location-based devices to keep track of teens (10%). But there are
still some parents so overwhelmed by technology that they are throwing
up their hands and hoping for the best. In fact, 23% of the surveyed
parents disclosed that they are not monitoring their children's online
behaviors because they are overwhelmed by technology.
"Parents need to get informed about their children's online
behavior," says Robert Siciliano, McAfee Online Security Expert. "The
fact is that allowing teens to participate in unmonitored online
activity exposes them to real dangers with real consequences, and these
dangers are growing exponentially with the proliferation of social
Other key findings included:
Quantitative MethodologyTRU conducted a total of
2,017 online interviews in the U.S. among teens ages 13-17 and parents
of teens ages 13-17. These interviews were split evenly among 1,004
teens and 1,013 parents of teens. The parent/teen samples yield a margin
of error of + 3.1 percentage points. The total sample of 2,017 yields a
margin of error of + 2.2 percentage points. The interviews were
conducted from May 4th through May 29th, 2012.
Interviews among teens were split evenly by age and gender.
Interviews among parents were split fairly evenly by gender, as well as
by age and gender of their teen. The sample was comprised of 15%
Hispanic and 15% African American respondents and achieved geographic
distribution according to the US census.
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The Headless Horseman - Fairy Legends of Ireland
OD speed you! and a safe journey this night to you, Charley," ejaculated the master of the little sheebeen house at Ballyhooley after his old friend and good customer, Charley Culnane, who at length had turned his face homewards, with the prospect of as dreary a ride and as dark a night as ever fell upon the Blackwater, along whose banks he was about to journey.
Charley Culnane knew the country well, and, moreover, was as bold a rider as any Mallow boy that ever rattled a four-year-old upon Drumrue racecourse. He had gone to Fermoy in the morning, as well for the purpose of purchasing some ingredients required for the Christmas dinner by his wife as to gratify his own vanity by having new reins fitted to his snaffle, in which he intended showing off the old mare at the approaching St. Stephen's Day hunt.
Charley did not get out of Fermoy until late; for although he was not one of your "nasty particular sort of fellows" in anything that related to the common occurrences of life, yet in all the appointments connected with hunting, riding, leaping—in short, in whatever was connected with the old mare—"Charley." the saddlers said, "was the devil to plase." An illustration of this fastidiousness was afforded by his going such a distance for a snaffle bridle. Mallow was full twelve miles nearer Charley's farm (which lay just three-quarters of a mile below Carrick) than Fermoy; but Charley had quarrelled with all the Mallow saddlers, from hard-working and hard-drinking Tim Clancey up to Mister Ryan, who wrote himself "Saddler to the Duhallow Hunt;" and no one could content him in all particulars but honest Michael Twomey of Fermoy, who used to assert—and who will doubt it?—that he could stitch a saddle better than the lord-lieutenant, although they made him all as one as king over Ireland.
This delay in the arrangement of the snaffle bridle did not allow Charley Culnane to pay so long a visit as he had at first intended to his old friend and gossip, Con Buckley of the "Harp of Erin." Con, however, knew the value of time, and insisted upon Charley making good use of what he had to spare. "I won't bother you waiting for water, Charley, because I think you'll have enough of that same before you get home; so drink off your liquor, man. It's as good parliament as ever a gentleman tasted, ay, and holy church too, for it will bear 'X waters,' and carry the bead after that, may be."
Charley, it must be confessed, nothing loth, drank success to Con, and success to the jolly "Harp of Erin," with its head of beauty and its strings of the hair of gold, and to their better acquaintance, and so on, from the bottom of his soul, until the bottom of the bottle reminded him that Carrick was at the bottom of the hill on the other side of Castletown Roche, and that he had got no further on his journey than his gossip's at Ballyhooley, close to the big gate of Convamore. Catching hold of his oil-skin hat, therefore, whilst Con Buckley went to the cupboard for another bottle of "the real stuff," he regularly, as it is termed, bolted from his friend's hospitality, darted to the stable, tightened his girths, and put the old mare into a canter towards home.
The road from Ballyhooley to Carrick follows pretty nearly the course of the Blackwater, occasionally diverging from the river and passing through rather wild scenery, when contrasted with the beauti-ful seats that adorn its banks. Charley cantered gaily, regardless of the rain which, as his friend Con had anticipated, fell in torrents: the good woman's currants and raisins were carefully packed between the folds of his yeomanry cloak, which Charley, who was proud of showing that he belonged to the "Royal Mallow Light Horse Volunteers," always strapped to the saddle before him, and took care never to destroy the military effect of it by putting it on. Away he went, singing like a thrush—
"Sporting, bellowing, dancing, drinking,
Breaking windows—(hiccup!)—sinking;
Ever raking—never thinking,
Live the rakes of Mallow.
Spending faster than it comes,
Beating—(hiccup, hic),—and duns,
Duhallow's true-begotten sons,
Live the rakes of Mallow."
Notwithstanding that the visit to the jolly "Harp of Erin" had a little increased the natural complacency of his mind, the drenching of the new snaffle reins began to disturb him; and then followed a train of more anxious thoughts than even were occasioned by the dreaded defeat of the pride of his long-anticipated turn out on St. Stephen's Day. In an hour of good fellowship, when his heart was warm, and his head not over cool, Charley had backed the old mare against Mr. Jepson's bay filly Desdemona for a neat hundred, and he now felt sore misgivings as to the prudence of the match. In a less gay tone he continued,—
"Living short, but merry lives,
Going where the devil drives,
"Keeping," he muttered, as the old mare had reduced her canter to a trot at the bottom of Kilcummer Hill. Charley's eye fell on the old walls that belonged, in former times, to the Templars; but the silent gloom of the ruin was broken only by the heavy rain which splashed and pattered on the gravestones. He then looked up at the sky to see if there was, among the clouds, any hope for mercy on his new snaffle reins; and no sooner were his eyes lowered, than his attention was arrested by an object so extraordinary as almost led him to doubt the evidence of his senses. The head, apparently of a white horse, with short cropped ears, large open nostrils, and immense eyes, seemed rapidly to follow him. No connection with body, legs, or rider could possibly be traced—the head advanced—Charley's old mare, too, was moved at this unnatural sight, and, snorting violently, increased her trot up the hill. The head moved forward, and passed on; Charley pursuing it with astonished gaze and wondering, by what means, and for what purpose, this detached head thus proceeded through the air, did not perceive the corresponding body until he was suddenly startled by finding it close at his side. Charley turned to examine what was thus so sociably jogging on with him, when a most unexampled apparition presented himself to his view. A figure, whose height (judging as well as the obscurity of the night would permit him) he computed to be at least eight feet, was seated on the body and legs of a white horse full eighteen hands and a half high. In this measurement Charley could not be mistaken, for his own mare was exactly fifteen hands, and the body that thus jogged alongside he could at once determine, from his practice in horseflesh, was at least three hands and a half higher.
After the first feeling of astonishment, which found vent in the exclamation "I'm sold now for ever!" was over, the attention of Charley, he being a keen sportsman, was naturally directed to this extraordinary body, and having examined it with the eye of a connoisseur, he proceeded to reconnoitre the figure so unusually mounted, who had hitherto remained perfectly mute. Wishing to see whether his companion's silence proceeded from bad temper, want of conversational powers, or from a distaste to water, and the fear that the opening of his mouth might subject him to have it filled by the rain, which was then drifting in violent gusts against them, Charley endeavoured to catch a sight of his companion's face, in order to form an opinion on that point. But his vision failed in carrying him further than the top of the collar of the figure's coat, which was a scarlet single-breasted hunting frock, having a waist of a very old-fashioned cut reaching to the saddle, with two huge shining buttons at about a yard's distance behind. "I ought to see further than this, too," thought Charley, "although he is mounted on his high horse, like my cousin Darby, who was made barony constable last week, unless 'tis Con's whisky that has blinded me entirely." However, see further he could not, and after straining his eyes for a considerable time to no purpose, he exclaimed, with pure vexation, "By the big bridge of Mallow, it is no head at all he has!"
"Look again, Charley Culnane," said a hoarse voice, that seemed to proceed from under the right arm of the figure.
Charley did look again, and now in the proper place, for he clearly saw, under the aforesaid right arm, that head from which the voice had proceeded, and such a head no mortal ever saw before. It looked like a large cream cheese hung round with black puddings: no speck of colour enlivened the ashy paleness of the depressed features; the skin lay stretched over the unearthly surface, almost like the parchment head of a drum. Two fiery eyes of prodigious circumference, with a strange and irregular motion flashed like meteors upon Charley, and a huge mouth reached from either extremity of two ears, which peeped forth from under a profusion of matted locks of lustreless blackness. This head, which the figure had evidently hitherto concealed from Charley's eyes, now burst upon his view in all its hideousness. Charley, although a lad of proverbial courage in the county Cork, yet could not but feel his nerves a little shaken by this unexpected visit from the headless horseman, whom he considered this figure doubtless must be. The cropped-eared head of the gigantic horse moved steadily forward, always keeping from six to eight yards in advance. The horseman, unaided by whip or spur, and disdaining the use of stirrups, which dangled uselessly from the saddle, followed at a trot by Charley's side, his hideous head now lost behind the lappet of his coat, now starting forth in all its horror as the motion of the horse caused his arm to move to and fro. The ground shook under the weight of its supernatural burthen, and the water in the pools was agitated into waves as he trotted by them.
On they went—heads without bodies, and bodies without heads. The deadly silence of night was broken only by the fearful clattering of hoofs, and the distant sound of thunder, which rumbled above the mystic hill of Cecaune a Mona Finnea. Charley who was naturally a merry-hearted and rather a talkative fellow, had hitherto felt tongue-tied by apprehension, but finding his companion showed no evil disposition towards him, and having become somewhat more reconciled to the Patagonian dimensions of the horseman and his headless steed, he plucked up all his courage, and thus addressed the stranger,— "Why, then, your honour rides mighty well without the stirrups!"
"Humph!" growled the head from under the horseman's right arm. " 'Tis not an over-civil answer," thought Charley; "but no matter, he was taught in one of them riding-houses, may be, and thinks nothing at all about bumping his leather breeches at the rate of ten miles an hour. I'll try him on the other tack. Ahem!" said Charley, clearing his throat, and feeling at the same time rather daunted at this second attempt to establish a conversation. "Ahem! that's a mighty neat coat of your honour's, although 'tis a little too long in the waist for the present cut."
"Humph!" growled again the head.
This second humph was a terrible thump in the face to poor Charley, who was fairly bothered to know what subject he could start that would prove more agreeable. " 'Tis a sensible head," thought Charley, "although an ugly one, for 'tis plain enough the man does not like flattery." A third attempt, however, Charley was determined to make, and having failed in his observations as to the riding and coat of his fellow-traveller, thought he would just drop a trifling allusion to the wonderful headless horse that was jogging on so sociably beside his old mare; and as Charley was considered about Carrick to be very knowing in horses, besides being a full private in the Royal Mallow Light Horse Volunteers, which were every one of them mounted like real Hessians, he felt rather sanguine as to the result of his third attempt.
"To be sure, that's a brave horse your honour rides," recommenced the persevering Charley.
"You may say that, with your own ugly mouth," growled the head.
Charley, though not much flattered by the compliment, nevertheless chuckled at his success in obtaining an answer, and thus continued,—
"May be your honour wouldn't be after riding him across the country?"
"Will you try me, Charley?" said the head, with an inexpressible look of ghastly delight.
"Faith, and that's what I'd do," responded Charley, "only I'm afraid, the night being so dark, of laming the old mare, and I've every halfpenny of a hundred pounds on her heels."
This was true enough. Charley's courage was nothing dashed at the headless horseman's proposal; and there never was a steeple-chase, nor a fox-chase, riding or leaping in the country, that Charley Culnane was not at it, and foremost in it.
"Will you take my word," said the man who carried his head so snugly under his right arm, "for the safety of your mare?"
"Done," said Charley; and away they started, helter-skelter, over everything, ditch and wall, pop, pop; the old mare never went in such style, even in broad daylight; and Charley had just the start of his companion, when the hoarse voice called out, "Charley Culnane, Charley, man, stop for your life— stop!"
Charley pulled up hard. "Ay," said he, "you may beat me by the head, because it always goes so much before you; but if the bet was neck and neck, and that's the go between the old mare and Desdemona, I'd win it hollow!"
It appeared as if the stranger was well aware of what was passing in Charley's mind, for he suddenly broke out quite loquacious.
"Charley Culnane," says he, "you have a stout soul in you, and are every inch of you a good rider. I've tried you, and I ought to know; and that's the sort of man for my money. A hundred years it is since my horse and I broke our necks at the bottom of Kilcummer Hill, and ever since I have been trying to get a man that dared to ride with me, and never found one before. Keep, as you have always done, at the tail of the hounds, never baulk a ditch, nor turn away from a stone wall, and the headless horseman will never desert you nor the old mare."
Charley, in amazement, looked towards the stranger's right arm, for the purpose of seeing in his face whether or not he was in earnest, but behold! the head was snugly lodged in the huge pocket of the horseman's scarlet hunting-coat. The horse's head had ascended perpendicularly above them, and his extraordinary companion rising quickly after his avant courier, vanished from the astonished gaze of Charley Culnane.
Charley, as may be supposed, was lost in wonder, delight, and perplexity; the pelting rain, the wife's pudding, the new snaffle—even the match against squire Jepson—all were forgotten; nothing could he think of, nothing could he talk of, but the headless horseman. He told it, directly he got home, to Judy; he told it the following morning to all the neighbours; and he told it to the hunt on St. Stephen's Day; but what provoked him after all the pains he took in describing the head, the horse, and the man, was that one and all attributed the creation of the headless horseman to his friend Con Buckley's "X water parliament." This, however, should be told, that Charley's old mare beat Mr. Jepson's bay filly Desdemona by Diamond, and Charley pocketed his cool hundred; and if he didn't win by means of the headless horseman, I am sure I don't know any other reason for his doing so.


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Chapter III.
Of the agent or chief author of the work of our redemption, and of the first thing distinctly ascribed to the person of the Father.
I. The agent in, and chief author of, this great work of our redemption is the whole blessed Trinity; for all the works which outwardly are of the Deity are undivided and belong equally to each person, their distinct manner of subsistence and order being observed. It is true, there were sundry other instrumental causes in the oblation, or rather passion of Christ but the work cannot in any sense be ascribed unto them; — for in respect of God the Father, the issue of their endeavours was exceeding contrary to their own intentions, and in the close they did nothing but what the "hand and counsel of God had before determined should be done," Acts iv. 28; and in respect of Christ they were no way able to accomplish what they aimed at, for he himself laid down his life, and none was able to take it from him, John x. 17, 18: so that they are to be excluded from this consideration. In the several persons of the holy Trinity, the joint author of the whole work, the Scripture proposeth distinct and sundry acts or operations peculiarly assigned unto them; which, according to our weak manner of apprehension, we are to consider severally and apart; which also we shall do, beginning with them that are ascribed to the Father.
II. Two peculiar acts there are in this work of our redemption by the blood of Jesus, which may be and are properly assigned to the person of the Father:— First, The sending of his Son into the world for this employment. Secondly, A laying the punishment due to our sin upon him.
1. The Father loves the world, and sends his Son to die: He "sent his Son into the world that the world through him might be saved," John iii. 16, 17. He "sending his Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteousness 164of the law might be fulfilled in us," Rom. viii. 3, 4. He "set him forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood," chap. iii. 25. For "when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons," Gal. iv. 4, 5. So more than twenty times in the Gospel of John there is mention of this sending; and our Saviour describes himself by this periphrasis, "Him whom the Father hath sent," John x. 36; and the Father by this, "He who sent me," chap. v. 37. So that this action of sending is appropriate to the Father, according to his promise that he would "send us a Saviour, a great one, to deliver us," Isa. xix. 20; and to the profession of our Saviour, "I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord God, and his Spirit, hath sent me," Isa. xlviii. 16. Hence the Father himself is sometimes called our Saviour: 1 Tim. i. 1, "According to the commandment Θεοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν," — "of God our Saviour." Some copies, indeed, read it, Θεοῦ καὶ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν, — "of God and our Saviour;" but the interposition of that particle καὶ arose, doubtless, from a misprision that Christ alone is called Saviour. But directly this is the same with that parallel place of Tit. i. 3, Κατ' ἐπιταγὴν τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν Θεοῦ, — "According to the commandment of God our Saviour," where no interposition of that conjunctive particle can have place; the same title being also in other places ascribed to him, as Luke i. 47, "My spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour." As also 1 Tim. iv. 10, "We trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of them that believe;" though in this last place it be not ascribed unto him with reference to his redeeming us by Christ, but his saving and preserving all by his providence. So also Tit. ii. 10, iii. 4; Deut. xxxii. 15; 1 Sam. x. 19; Ps. xxiv. 5, xxv. 5; Isa. xii. 2, xl. 10, xlv. 15; Jer. xiv. 8; Micah vii. 7; Hab. iii. 18; most of which places have reference to his sending of Christ, which is also distinguished into three several acts, which in order we must lay down:—
(1.) An authoritative imposition of the office of Mediator, which Christ closed withal by his voluntary susception of it, willingly undergoing the office, wherein by dispensation the Father had and exercised a kind of superiority, which the Son, though "in the form of God," humbled himself unto, Phil. ii. 6–8. And of this there may conceived two parts:—
[1.] The purposed imposition of his counsel, or his eternal counsel for the setting apart of his Son incarnate to this office, saying unto him, "Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the nations for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession," Ps. ii. 7, 8. He said unto him, "Sit thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies 165thy footstool;" for "the Lord swore, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek," Ps. cx. 1, 4. He appointed him to be "heir of all things," Heb. i. 2, having "ordained him to be Judge of quick and dead," Acts x. 42; for unto this he was "ordained before the foundation of the world," 1 Pet. i. 20., and "determined, ὁρισθείς, to be the Son of God with power," Rom. i. 4, "that he might be the first-born among many brethren," chap. viii. 29. I know that this is an act eternally established in the mind and will of God, and so not to be ranged in order with the others, which are all temporary, and had their beginning in the fulness of time, of all which this first is the spring and fountain, according to that of James, Acts xv. 18, "Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world;" but yet, it being no unusual form of speaking that the purpose should also be comprehended in that which holds out the accomplishment of it, aiming at truth and not exactness, we pass it thus.
[2.] The actual inauguration or solemn admission of Christ into his office; "committing all judgment unto the Son," John v. 22; "making him to be both Lord and Christ," Acts ii. 36; "appointing him over his whole house," Heb. iii. 1–6; — which is that "anointing of the most Holy," Dan. ix. 24; God "anointing him with the oil of gladness above his fellows," Ps. xlv. 7: for the actual setting apart of Christ to his office is said to be by unction, because all those holy things which were types of him, as the ark, the altar, etc., were set apart and consecrated by anointing, Exod. xxx. 25–28, etc. To this also belongs that public testification by innumerable angels from heaven of his nativity, declared by one of them to the shepherds. "Behold," saith he, "I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be unto all people; for unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord," Luke ii. 10, 11; — which message was attended by and closed with that triumphant exultation of the host of heaven, "Glory be to God on high, on earth peace, towards men good-will," verse 14: with that redoubled voice which afterward came from the excellent glory, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased," Matt. iii. 17, xvii. 5; 2 Pet. i. 17. If these things ought to be distinguished and placed in their own order, they may be considered in these three several acts:— First, The glorious proclamation which he made of his nativity, when he "prepared him a body," Heb. x. 5, bringing his First-begotten into the world, and saying, "Let all the angels of God worship him" chap. i. 6, sending them to proclaim the message which we before recounted. Secondly, Sending the Spirit visibly, in the form of a dove, to light upon him at the time of his baptism, Matt. iii. 16, when he was endued with a fulness thereof, for the accomplishment of the work and discharge of the office whereunto 166he was designed, attended with that voice whereby he owned him from heaven as his only-beloved. Thirdly, The "crowning of him with glory and honour," in his resurrection, ascension, and sitting down "on the right hand of the Majesty on high," Heb. i. 3; setting "him as his king upon his holy hill of Zion," Ps. ii. 6; when "all power was given unto him in heaven and in earth," Matt. xxviii. 18, "all things being put under his feet" Heb. ii. 7, 8; himself highly exalted, and "a name given him above every name, that at," etc., Phil. ii. 9–11. Of which it pleased him to appoint witnesses of all sorts; — angels from heaven, Luke xxiv. 4, Acts i. 10; the dead out of the graves, Matt. xxvii. 52; the apostles among and unto the living, Acts ii. 32; with those more than five hundred brethren, to whom he appeared at once, 1 Cor. xv. 6. Thus gloriously was he inaugurated into his office, in the several sets and degrees thereof, God saying unto him, "It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth," Isa. xlix. 6.
Between these two acts I confess there intercedes a twofold promise of God; — one, of giving a Saviour to his people, a Mediator, according to his former purpose, as Gen. iii. 15, "The seed of the woman shall break the serpent's head;" and, "The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, till Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be," chap. xlix. 10. Which he also foresignified by many sacrifices and other types, with prophetical predictions: "Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you; searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into," 1 Pet. i. 10–12. The other is a promise of applying the benefits purchased by this Saviour so designed to them that should believe on him, to be given in fulness of time, according to the former promises; telling Abraham, that "in his seed all the families of the earth should be blessed," and justifying himself by the same faith, Gen. xii. 3, xv. 6. But these things belong rather to the application wholly, which was equal both before and after his actual mission.
(2.) The second act of the Father's sending the Son is the furnishing of him in his sending with a fulness of all gifts and graces that might any way be requisite for the office he was to undertake, the work he was to undergo, and the charge he had over the house 167of God. There was, indeed, in Christ a twofold fulness and perfection of all spiritual excellencies:—
First, the natural all-sufficient perfection of his Deity, as one with his Father in respect of his divine nature: for his glory was "the glory of the only-begotten of the Father," John i. 14. He was "in the form of God, and thought it not robbery to be equal with God," Phil. ii. 6; being the "fellow of the Lord of hosts," Zech. xiii. 7. Whence that glorious appearance, Isa. vi. 3, 4, when the seraphims cried one to another, and said, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke." And the prophet cried, "Mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts," verse 5. Even concerning this vision the apostle saith, "Isaiah saw him, and spake of his glory," John xii. 41. Of which glory ἐκένωσε, he as it were emptied himself for a season, when he was "found in the form" or condition "of a servant, humbling himself unto death," Phil. ii. 7, 8; laying aside that glory which attended his Deity, outwardly appearing to have "neither form, nor beauty, nor comeliness, that he should be desired," Isa. liii. 2. But this fulness we do not treat of, it being not communicated to him, but essentially belonging to his person, which is eternally begotten of the person of his Father.
The second fulness that was in Christ was a communicated fulness, which was in him by dispensation from his Father, bestowed upon him to fit him for his work and office as he was and is the "Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus," 1 Tim. ii. 5; not as he is the "Lord of hosts," but as he is "Emmanuel, God with us," Matt. i. 23; as he was a "son given to us, called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace, upon whose shoulder the government was to be," Isa. ix. 6. It is a fulness of grace; not that essential which is of the nature of the Deity, but that which is habitual and infused into the humanity as personally united to the other; which, though it be not absolutely infinite, as the other is, yet it extends itself to all perfections of grace, both in respect of parts and degrees. There is no grace that is not in Christ, and every grace is in him in the highest degree: so that whatsoever the perfection of grace, either for the several kinds or respective advancements thereof, requireth, is in him habitually, by the collation of his Father for this very purpose, and for the accomplishment of the work designed; which, though (as before) it cannot properly be said to be infinite, yet it is boundless and endless. It is in him as the light in the beams of the sun, and as water in a living fountain which can never fail. He is the "candlestick" from whence the "golden pipes do empty the golden oil out of themselves," Zech. iv. 12, into all that are his; for he is "the beginning, the first-born from the 168dead, in all things having the pre-eminence; for it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;" Col. i. 18, 19. In him he caused to be "hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge," chap. ii. 3; and "in him dwelt all the fulness of the Godhead σωματικῶς," substantially or personally, verse 9; that "of his fulness we might all receive grace for grace," John i. 16, in a continual supply. So that, setting upon the work of redemption, he looks upon this in the first place. "The Spirit of the Lord God," saith he, "is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn," Isa. lxi. 1, 2. And this was the "anointing with the oil of gladness" which he had "above his fellows," Ps. xlv. 7; "it was upon his head, and ran down to his beard, yea, down to the skirts of his garments," Ps. cxxxiii. 2, that every one covered with the garment of his righteousness might be made partaker of it. "The Spirit of the Lord did rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord," Isa. xi. 2; and that not in parcels and beginnings as in us, proportioned to our measure and degrees of sanctification, but in a fulness, for "he received not the Spirit by measure," John iii. 34; — that is, it was not so with him when he come to the full measure of the stature of his age, as Eph. iv. 13; for otherwise it was manifested in him and collated on him by degrees, for he "increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man," Luke ii. 52. Hereunto was added "all power in heaven and earth, which was given unto him," Matt. xxviii. 18; "power over all flesh, to give eternal life to as many as he would," John xvii. 2. Which we might branch into many particulars, but so much shall suffice to set forth the second act of God in sending his Son.
(3.) The third act of this sending is his entering into covenant and compact with his Son concerning the work to be undertaken, and the issue or event thereof; of which there be two parts:—
First, His promise to protect and assist him in the accomplishment and perfect fulfilling of the whole business and dispensation about which he was employed, or which he was to undertake. The Father engaged himself, that for his part, upon his Son's undertaking this great work of redemption, he would not be wanting in any assistance in trials, strength against oppositions, encouragement against temptations, and strong consolation in the midst of terrors, which might be any way necessary or requisite to carry him on through all difficulties to the end of so great an employment; — upon which he undertakes this heavy burden, so full of misery and trouble: for the Father 169before this engagement requires no less of him than that he should "become a Saviour, and be afflicted in all the affliction of his people," Isa. lxiii. 8, 9: yea, that although he were "the fellow of the Lord of hosts," yet he should endure the "sword" that was drawn against him as the "shepherd" of the sheep, Zech. xiii. 7; "treading the winepress alone, until he became red in his apparel," Isa. lxiii. 2, 3: yea, to be "stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted; wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities; to be bruised and put to grief; to make his soul an offering for sin, and to bear the iniquity of many," Isa. liii.; to be destitute of comfort so far as to cry, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Ps. xxii. 1. No wonder, then, if upon this undertaking the Lord promised to make "his mouth like a sharp sword, to hide him in the shadow of his hand, to make him a polished shaft, and to hide him in his quiver, to make him his servant in whom he would be glorified," Isa. xlix. 2, 3; that though "the kings of the earth should set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against him, yet he would laugh them to scorn, and set him as king upon his holy hill of Zion," Ps. ii. 2, 4, 6; though the "builders did reject him," yet he should "become the head of the corner," to the amazement and astonishment of all the world, Ps. cxviii. 22, 23; Matt. xxi. 42, Mark xii. 10, Luke xx. 17, Acts iv. 11, 12, 1 Pet. ii. 4; yea, he would "lay him for a foundation, a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner-stone, a sure foundation," Isa. xxviii. 16, that "whosoever should fall upon him should be broken, but upon whomsoever he should fall he should grind him to powder," Matt. xxi. 44. Hence arose that confidence of our Saviour in his greatest and utmost trials, being assured, by virtue of his Father's engagement in this covenant, upon a treaty with him about the redemption of man, that he would never leave him nor forsake him. "I gave," saith he, "my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting," Isa. l. 6. But with what confidence, blessed Saviour, didst thou undergo all this shame and sorrow! Why, "The Lord God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know; that I shall not be ashamed. He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me. Behold, the Lord God will help me; who is he that condemn me? Lo! they shall all wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up," verses 7–9. With this assurance he was brought as a "lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth," Isa. liii. 7: for "when he was reviled, he reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously," 1 Pet. ii. 23. So that the ground of our Saviour's confidence and assurance in this 170great undertaking, and a strong motive to exercise his graces received in the utmost endurings, was this engagement of his Father upon this compact of assistance and protection.
Secondly, [His promise] of success, or a good issue out of all his sufferings, and a happy accomplishment and attainment of the end of his great undertaking. Now, of all the rest this chiefly is to be considered, as directly conducing to the business proposed, which yet would not have been so clear without the former considerations; for whatsoever it was that God promised his Son should be fulfilled and attained by him, that certainly was it at which the Son aimed in the whole undertaking, and designed it as the end of the work that was committed to him, and which alone he could and did claim upon the accomplishment of his Father's will. What this was, and the promises whereby it is at large set forth, ye have Isa. xlix.: "Thou shalt be my servant," saith the Lord, "to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation to the end of the earth. Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the Lord that is faithful." And he will certainly accomplish this engagement: "I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages; that thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places. They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them. And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted. Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim," verses 6–12. By all which expressions the Lord evidently and clearly engageth himself to his Son, that he should gather to himself a glorious church of believers from among Jews and Gentiles, through all the world, that should be brought unto him, and certainly fed in full pasture, and refreshed by the springs of water, all the spiritual springs of living water which flow from God in Christ for their everlasting salvation. This, then, our Saviour certainly aimed at, as being the promise upon which he undertook the work, — the gathering of the sons of God together, their bringing unto God, and passing to eternal salvation; which being well considered, it will utterly overthrow the general ransom or universal redemption, as afterward will appear. In the 53d chapter of the same prophecy, the Lord is more express and punctual in these promises to his Son, assuring him that when he "made his soul an offering for sin, he should see his seed, and prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord should prosper in his 171hand; that he should see of the travail of his soul, and be satisfied; by his knowledge he should justify many; that, he should divide a portion with the great, and the spoil with the strong," verses 10–12. He was, you see, to see his seed by covenant, and to raise up a spiritual seed unto God, a faithful people, to be prolonged and preserved throughout all generations; which, how well it consists with their persuasion who in terms have affirmed "that the death of Christ might have had its full and utmost effect and yet none be saved," I cannot see, though some have boldly affirmed it, and all the assertors of universal redemption do tacitly grant, when they come to the assigning of the proper ends and effects of the death of Christ. "The pleasure of the Lord," also, was to "prosper in his hand;" which what it was he declares, Heb. ii. 10, even "bringing of many sons unto glory;" for "God sent his only-begotten Son into the world that we live through him," 1 John iv. 9; as we shall afterward more abundantly declare. But the promises of God made unto him in their agreement, and so, consequently, his own aim and intention, may be seen in nothing more manifestly than in the request that our Saviour makes upon the accomplishment of the work about which he was sent; which certainly was neither for more nor less than God had engaged himself to him for. "I have," saith he, "glorified thee on earth, I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do," John xvii. 4. And now, what doth he require after the manifestation of his eternal glory, of which for a season he had emptied himself, verse 5? Clearly a full confluence of the love of God and fruits of that love upon all his elect, in faith, sanctification, and glory. God gave them unto him, and he sanctified himself to be a sacrifice for their sake, praying for their sanctification, verses 17–19; their preservation in peace, or communion one with another, and union with God, verses 20, 21, "I pray not for these alone" (that is, his apostles), "but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; that they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us;" and lastly, their glory, verse 24, "Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me." All which several postulata are no doubt grounded upon the fore-cited promises which by his Father were made unto him. And in this, not one word concerning all and every one, but expressly the contrary, verse 9. Let this, then, be diligently observed, that the promise of God unto his Son, and the request of the Son unto his Father, are directed to this peculiar end of bringing sons unto God. And this is the first act, consisting of these three particulars.
2. The second is of laying upon him the punishment of sins, everywhere ascribed unto the Father: "Awake; O sword, against my shepherd, against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of 172hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered," Zech. xiii. 7. What here is set down imperatively, by way of command, is in the gospel indicatively expounded. "I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad," Matt. xxvi. 31. "He was stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted;" yea, "the Lord laid upon him the iniquity of us all;" yea, "it pleased the Lord to bruise him, and to put him to grief," Isa. liii. 4, 6, 10. "He made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him," 2 Cor. v. 21. The adjunct in both places is put for the subject, as the opposition between his being made sin and our being made righteousness declareth. "Him who knew no sin," — that is, who deserved no punishment, — "him hath he made to be sin," or laid the punishment due to sin upon him. Or perhaps, in the latter place, sin may be taken for an offering or sacrifice for the expiation of sin, ἁμαρτία answering in this place to the word חַטָּאת in the Old Testament, which signifieth both sin and the sacrifice for it. And this the Lord did; for as for Herod, Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, when they were gathered together, they did nothing but "what his hand and counsel had determined before to be done," Acts iv. 27, 28. Whence the great shakings of our Saviour were in his close conflict with his Father's wrath, and that burden which by himself he immediately imposed on him. When there was no hand or instrument outwardly appearing to put him to any suffering or cruciating torment, then he "began to be sorrowful, even unto death" Matt. xxvi. 37, 38; to wit, when he was in the garden with his three choice apostles, before the traitor or any of his accomplices appeared, then was he "sore amazed, and very heavy," Mark xiv. 33. That was the time, "in the days of his flesh, when he offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death," Heb. v. 7; which how he performed the evangelist describeth, Luke xxii. 43, 44: "There appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him. But being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground." Surely it was a close and strong trial, and that immediately from his Father, he now underwent; for how meekly and cheerfully doth he submit, without any regret or trouble of spirit, to all the cruelty of men and violence offered to his body, until this conflict being renewed again, he cries, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" And this, by the way, will be worth our observation that we may know with whom our Saviour chiefly had to do, and what was that which he underwent for sinners; which also will give some light to the grand query concerning the persons of them for whom he undertook all this. His sufferings were far from consisting in mere corporal perpessions and afflictions, with such impressions upon his 173soul and spirit as were the effects and issues only of them. It was no more nor less than the curse of the law of God which he underwent for us: for he freed us from the curse "by being made a curse," Gal. iii. 13; which contained all the punishment that was due to sin, either in the severity of God's justice, or according to the exigence of that law which required obedience. That the execration of the law should be only temporal death, as the law was considered to be the instrument of the Jewish polity, and serving that economy or dispensation, is true; but that it should be no more, as it is the universal rule of obedience, and the bond of the covenant between God and man, is a foolish dream. Nay, but in dying for us Christ did not only aim at our good, but also directly died in our stead. The punishment due to our sin and the chastisement of our peace was upon him; which that it was the pains of hell, in their nature and being, in their weight and pressure, though not in tendence and continuance (it being impossible that he should be detained by death), who can deny and not be injurious to the justice of God, which will inevitably inflict those pains to eternity upon sinners? It is true, indeed, there is a relaxation of the law in respect of the persons suffering, God admitting of commutation; as in the old law, when in their sacrifices the life of the beast was accepted (in respect to the carnal part of the ordinances) for the life of the man. This is fully revealed, and we believe it; but for any change of the punishment, in respect of the nature of it, where is the least intimation of any alteration? We conclude, then, this second act of God, in laying the punishment on him for us, with that of the prophet, "All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all," Isa. liii. 6: and add thereunto this observation, that it seems strange to me that Christ should undergo the pains of hell in their stead who lay in the pains of hell before he underwent those pains, and shall continue in them to eternity; for "their worm dieth not, neither is their fire quenched." To which I may add this dilemma to our Universalists:— God imposed his wrath due unto, and Christ underwent the pains of hell for, either all the sins of all men, or all the sins of some men, or some sins of all men. If the last, some sins of all men, then have all men some sins to answer for, and so shall no man be saved; for if God enter into judgment with us, though it were with all mankind for one sin, no flesh should be justified in his sight: "If the Lord should mark iniquities, who should stand?" Ps. cxxx. 3. We might all go to cast all that we have "to the moles and to the bats, to go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty," Isa. ii. 20, 21. If the second, that is it which we affirm, that Christ in their stead and room suffered for all the sins of all the elect in the world. If the first, 174why, then, are not all freed from the punishment of all their sins? You will say, "Because of their unbelief; they will not believe." But this unbelief, is it a sin or not? If not, why should they be punished for it? If it be, then Christ underwent the punishment due to it, or not. If so, then why must that hinder them more than their other sins for which he died from partaking of the fruit of his death? If he did not, then did he not die for all their sins. Let them choose which part they will.
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Developers are reporting a mass delisting of Android tethering apps from the App Marketplace, after being informed that such apps breach the Developer Distribution Agreement. That's your cue for righteous indignation, internet!
It's not yet clear if all tethering apps have been pulled from the Marketplace, but a some have—and we know why. Though the developer of Wifi Tether for Root Users—one of the apps that got pulled—doesn't reprint his entire exchange with Google, he tells us that their reasoning invokes T-Mobile's terms of service, which (surprise!) prohibit unofficial tethering.
These actions surely won't sit well with many, but it would have been naive not to expect them, at least a little. For all the "open" trappings of Android, the G1 is still a subsidized phone. Protecting their own interests and arguably counter to the OS's ethos, T-Mobile locked the phone, like all carriers do. Likewise, to capitalize on tethering plans (or alternately, to minimize data traffic) they're now demanding that Google pull apps that endanger their business interests, despite the fact that anyone can just download these same apps independently of the store and install them anyway.
But that's obvious. What's not obvious is why they doing this now, and why they allowed these apps in the first place, setting a precedent for the Marketplace's independence from carriers' dictates that they now have to break, making asses out of everyone involved. [False Dichotomies via Android Community]


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I have to admit that I actually found this record to be more useful than odd. Even though I slogged through 5 years as an undergraduate music major, I never learned how to pronounce even a tiny percentage of these names, titles, etc. This record is definitely a relic of a bygone era, the 50s-60s golden age of classical music snobbery and classical music recordings. It seems so pretentious, but this is just the thing for those of us who don't want to be caught dead at, say, a Stravinsky concert not knowing how the hell you're supposed to say "L'Oiseau de Feu!" True, some parts of this record are a bit behind the times, hence the fact that I'm STILL not 100% sure how to say "Steve Reich" or "Gyorgy Ligeti," but hey, it's a start. Ooh, and it's on RED WAX, and includes a booklet with all the names/titles/terms!
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What Is Prolotherapy? | How Is Prolotherapy Performed? | What Is the Scientific Evidence for Prolotherapy? | Safety Issues | Finding a Qualified Prolotherapy Practitioner | References
Invented in the 1950s by George Hackett, prolotherapy is based on the theory that chronic pain is often caused by laxness of the ligaments that are responsible for keeping a joint stable. When ligaments and associated tendons are loose, the body is said to compensate by using muscles to stabilize the joint. The net result, according to prolotherapy theory, is muscle spasms and pain.
Prolotherapy treatment involves injections of chemical irritant solutions into the area around such ligaments. These solutions are believed to cause tissue to proliferate (grow), increasing the strength and thickness of ligaments. In turn, this presumably serves to tighten up the joint and relieve the burden on associated muscles, stopping muscle spasms. In the case of arthritic joints, increased ligament strength would allow the joint to function more efficiently, thus reducing pain.
Prolotherapy has not been widely accepted in conventional medicine. The technique is used by prolotherapy practitioners to treat many conditions, including back pain, osteoarthritis, fibromyalgia, plantar fasciitis, sciatica, sports injuries, temporomandibular joint disorder (TMD), tendinitis, and tension headaches. Most studies have focused on its use in back pain and osteoarthritis, but this evidence does not clearly support its effectiveness.
Prolotherapy is generally administered at intervals of 4 to 6 weeks, although studies have used a more frequent schedule. The treatment involves injection of a mixture containing an irritant and a local anesthetic. A total of 4 to 6 treatments is typical.
When treating back pain, prolotherapy practitioners frequently use a form of manipulation somewhat similar to chiropractic. However, it is applied after local anesthetic has been injected and is somewhat intense.
There are several irritant solutions used in prolotherapy. Concentrated dextrose or glucose has become increasingly popular because it is completely non-toxic. Phenol (a potentially toxic substance) and glycerin are also sometimes used. Other non-irritant substances may be added to the solution, such as vitamin B 12, corn extracts, cod liver oil extracts, zinc, and manganese; however, there is no evidence that these substances add any benefit.
Some animal and human studies have found that prolotherapy injections increase strength and thickness of ligaments.1-4
Six double-blind human trials of prolotherapy have been reported: four involving back pain (with mixed results), and the other two involving osteoarthritis (with positive results).
Although two studies have suggested prolotherapy may be effective for low back pain,5,6 two more recent studies found prolotherapy to be ineffective.10,13
In a review of five studies, three found prolotherapy to be no more effective than control treatments for low back pain. The other two studies suggested that prolotherapy was more effective than control treatments when used with therapies such as spinal manipulation and exercise.11 Another review suggested prolotherapy may be effective when used with other therapies, but not when used alone.12
What can one make of this contradictory evidence? When used alone prolotherapy is probably no more effective than a placebo injection for the treatment of low back pain. However, there is some evidence that the technique may be beneficial when combined with other therapies.
A double-blind, placebo-controlled study evaluated the effects of 3 prolotherapy injections (using a 10% dextrose solution) at 2-month intervals in 68 people with osteoarthritis of the knee.7 At the 6-month follow-up, participants who had received prolotherapy showed significant improvements in pain at rest and while walking, reduction in swelling, episodes of "buckling," and range of flexion, as compared to those who had received placebo treatment.
The same research group performed a similar double-blind trial of 27 people with osteoarthritis in the hands.8 The results at the 6-month follow-up showed that range of motion and pain with movement improved significantly in the treated group as compared to the placebo group.
In studies, prolotherapy has not caused any serious, irreversible injury. There is usually discomfort after each injection that lasts for a few minutes to several days, but this discomfort is seldom severe.9 Of more concern, severe headaches have been reported in treatment of low back pain in a minority of patients. Because phenol is a potentially toxic substance, treatment with a dextrose solution alone is preferable.
Prolotherapy is practiced by a medical doctor (MD) or doctor of osteopathy (DO). Generally, physicians specializing in orthopedics or physical medicine and rehabilitation are most likely to practice prolotherapy. To find a qualified practitioner, contact the following groups:
1. Hauser RA. Punishing the pain. Treating chronic pain with prolotherapy. Rehab Manag. 1999;12:26-30.
2. Liu YK, Tipton CM, Matthes RD, et al. An in situ study of the influence of a sclerosing solution in rabbit medial collateral ligaments and its junction strength. Connect Tissue Res. 1983;11:95-102.
3. Reeves KD. Prolotherapy: present and future applications in soft tissue pain and disability. Phys Med Rehab Clin North Am. 1995;6:917-926.
4. Klein RG, Dorman TA, Johnson CE. Proliferant injections for low back pain: histologic changes of injected ligaments and objective measures of lumbar spine mobility before and after treatment. J Neurol Orthop Med Surg. 1989;10:141-144.
5. Ongley MJ, Klein RG, Dorman TA, et al. A new approach to the treatment of chronic low back pain. Lancet. 1987;2:143-146.
6. Klein RG, Eek BC, DeLong WB, et al. A randomized double-blind trial of dextrose-glycerine-phenol injections for chronic, low back pain. J Spinal Disord. 1993;6:23-33.
7. Reeves KD, Hassanein K. Randomized prospective double-blind placebo-controlled study of dextrose prolotherapy for knee osteoarthritis with or without ACL laxity. Altern Ther Health Med. 2000;6:68-70,72-74,77-80.
8. Reeves KD, Hassanein K. Randomized, prospective, placebo-controlled double-blind study of dextrose prolotherapy for osteoarthritic thumb and finger (DIP, PIP, and trapeziometacarpal) joints: evidence of clinical efficacy. J Altern Complement Med. 2000;6:311-320.
9. Klein RG, Eek BC, DeLong WB, et al. A randomized double-blind trial of dextrose-glycerine-phenol injections for chronic, low back pain. J Spinal Disord. 1993;6:23-33.
10. Yelland MJ, Glasziou PP, Bogduk N, et al. Prolotherapy injections, saline injections, and exercises for chronic low-back pain: a randomized trial. Spine. 2004;29:9-16.
11. Dagenais S, Yelland M, Del Mar C, Schoene M. Prolotherapy injections for chronic low back pain. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2007;2.
12. Dagenais S, Mayer J, Haldeman S, Borg-Stein J. Evidence-informed management of chronic low back pain with prolotherapy. Spine J 2008 Jan-Feb;8(1):203-12.
13. Dechow E, Davies RK, Carr AJ, et al. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of sclerosing injections in patients with chronic low back pain. Rheumatology (Oxford). 1999;38:1255-1259.
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