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HUD AWARDS $13.3 MILLION TO BRING JOBS, REVITALIZE 'BROWNFIELDS' IN SIX CITIES
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Nearly 2,000 permanent jobs being created through Brownfields cleanup
WASHINGTON, DC – September 8, 2011 – (RealEstateRama) — In six cities across the country, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is awarding $13.3 million to stimulate job growth and revitalize unproductive industrial areas known as 'brownfields.' The grants announced today, combined with an addition $35 million in federal loan guarantees, will generate total public and private investment in these areas to more than $166 million.
Philadelphia; Cleveland; Toledo, Ohio; Santa Rosa, California; Taunton, Massachusetts; and Ranson; West Virginia will each receive grants under HUD's Brownfields Economic Development Initiative (BEDI) and expect to create nearly 2,000 jobs as part of their redevelopment strategies.
"These grants, and the other investments they generate, will not only help redevelop environmentally distressed areas in these cities, they'll put people to work!" said HUD Secretary Donovan. "This is a win-win for these cities. The funding we announce today creates jobs while reversing years of neglect in areas that are ripe for economic development and even more job growth in the future."
HUD is announcing the following grants:
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New Railroad Square
Fairfax Gardens
Warner and Swasey Facility
Knapps Centre
Edison Square
Bakers Centre
Powhatan Place Town Center
Often perceived as unproductive eyesores in their communities, brownfields hold tremendous potential as sites for community revitalization. Many of these brownfield sites are strategically located in or around key areas and were, in many cases, the economic centers of their communities. Redevelopment of these sites is both a challenge and an opportunity and returning them to productive use can serve as a catalyst for local economic recovery.
These six cities will amplify the grants they receive today through HUD's Section 108 Loan Guarantee Assistance Program which enables local governments to borrow money at reduced interest rates to promote economic development, stimulate job growth and improve public facilities. Such public investment is often needed to secure private investment in the projects and catalyze markets for continued growth in affected communities and businesses.
Donovan added, "These are tough times for cities looking to invest in growth-oriented development and to kick start their economies. It's our job to help them in any way we can as we focus on job growth for those invested in remaking their home towns."
The Following are summaries of the projects that received BEDI funds:
The City of Toledo, Ohio will receive a BEDI grant of $2 million and a Section 108 Loan for $10 million for the Knapps Centre Development. This mixed-use project will revitalize the former Owens Corning building and create 140,371 square feet of office space on 11 floors, a 96-room Marriott Courtyard on seven floors, and 81 apartments on nine floors, with retail and restaurants in the lobby area. The building is a significant landmark, designed by the architecture firm of Harrison and Abramowitz, which also designed the United Nations headquarters. This project will create 368 permanent jobs. The BEDI will leverage $6.4 million in other funds already committed to the project. The total project cost is $29.4 million.
The City of Santa Rosa, California will receive a BEDI grant of $1.5 million and apply for a Section 108 Loan for $5.6 million for the first phase of a three phase transit oriented development called New Railroad Square. The project will develop a Club One Health facility within the historic walls of the 1908 Santa Rosa Cannery. It is projected that the health club will generate 232 full time positions. The BEDI will leverage $779,000 in other funds already committed to the project. The total project cost is $19.9 million.
The City of Cleveland, Ohio will receive a BEDI grant of $3 million and a Section 108 Loan for $10 million for the cleanup and redevelopment of the former Warner and Swasey Facility. The project will transform the property into over 180,000 square feet of office, lab, warehouse and light manufacturing and post incubator space in support of the Health-Tech Corridor. HUD funding will result in the creation of up to 360 permanent full time equivalent positions. The total project cost is estimated to be more than $19 million.
The City of Ranson, West Virginia will receive a BEDI grant of $1.5 million and a Section 108 Loan for $3 million to redevelop the former Kiddie Fire Fighting foundry. The project is part of the Obama Administration's Partnership for Sustainable Communities and will prepare a 6-acre site for development of an anchor building in the Powhatan Place Town Center project, by demolishing dilapidated buildings and remediating environmental contamination. This project will create 150 jobs in downtown Ranson. Total project cost is $7.8 million.
The City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania will receive a BEDI grant of $1.25 million and will apply for a Section 108 Loan for $1.75 million for the first phase of the Edison Square Project. The project entails demolishing a high school that has been vacant for more than 9 years, and construction of a retail center. Phase one of the project will include a grocery store, stores selling electronics and general merchandise, and restaurants. The second phase of the project will be an affordable housing development. The project will create 100 permanent full-time jobs in a community where poverty and unemployment are currently more than twice the national rates. The total project cost is approximately $11 million.
The City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania will receive a BEDI grant of $3 million and will apply for a Section 108 Loan for $3 million for the Bakers Centre Project. The project will involve new construction of a 219,000 square foot community shopping center anchored by a supermarket, on a 30-acre parcel vacated by Tasty Baking. This development addresses community needs in a "food desert" and will also include benefits such as a preventive-care health clinic and credit union. It is projected that this project will create 650 permanent jobs. Unemployment and poverty levels in the surrounding community are currently more than twice the national rates. The BEDI will leverage $12 million in other funds already committed to the project. The total project cost is approximately $53 million.
The City of Taunton, Massachusetts will receive a BEDI grant of $1 million and will apply for a Section 108 Loan for $2 million for the remediation of a vacant parcel as part of Fairfax Gardens, a transit-oriented mixed income housing project. The project will create 86 jobs of which 67 – more than the required 51% – will benefit low- and moderate income persons in the project area. The BEDI will leverage $8.3 million in other funds already committed to the project. The total project cost is $26 million.
HUD's mission is to create strong, sustainable, inclusive communities and quality affordable homes for all. HUD is working to strengthen the housing market to bolster the economy and protect consumers; meet the need for quality affordable rental homes: utilize housing as a platform for improving quality of life; build inclusive and sustainable communities free from discrimination; and transform the way HUD does business. More information about HUD and its programs is available on the Internet at www.hud.gov and http://espanol.hud.gov. You can also follow HUD on twitter @HUDnews, on facebook at www.facebook.com/HUD, or sign up for news alerts on HUD's News Listserv.


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Paris on the Grand, Dogs Nest, Punkeydoodle's Corner, Crotch Lake await your visit
One-Tank Trip for Aug. 18-18
(c) By Jim Fox
Want to impress or create envy among your friends and co-workers?
Just tell them you're planning to visit Paris, with perhaps side-trips to London, Scotland and the former Berlin.
Paris on the Seine is wonderful at this time of year – and so is Paris on the Grand.
Paris on the Grand is a pleasant and pretty tourist destination.
For those special-interest tourists who "collect places and destinations," these namesakes are "one-tank trips" for people living in southern Ontario.
The province is filled with special places that have links to historic world cities and towns – along with dozens of quirky and funny monikers.
How about Dogs Nest, Punkeydoodle's Corner, Turkey Point, Wawa and the Ojibway's Ochiichagwe'Babigo'Ining.
There's also Ball's Falls, Bastard, Crotch Lake, Dorking, Frogmore, Happyland, New Hamburg, Pain Court and Swastika, just to name a few.
Yes, you've found it if you're ever in Eureka, northwest of Sudbury, and now what?
Why spend all the money and time getting to the other Paris when also it's just 10 minutes northwest of Brantford in southern Ontario?
Stroll the cobblestone streets or paddle the rivers of Paris, says Brittany Hunter of Brant County Tourism.
It's been voted "Canada's Prettiest Little Town" by Harrowsmith Magazine, she adds.
The town of about 12,300 people is located where the Grand and Nith rivers converge right downtown.
It got its name from the plaster of Paris type of product made from the mined gypsum that lay along the river bed and banks.
The busy downtown is packed with open-air cafes, bakeries, cheese and candy stores, specialty shops and boutiques along with numerous fine-dining and casual restaurants.
Paris is best known for its cobblestone buildings and has the lavishly restored historic boutique hotel, The Arlington.
Still in Brant County and along the way to the Lake Erie shoreline and Port Dover is the rural community of Scotland.
Stepped in history, the area around nearby Oakland is where the last battle in the War of 1812 on Canadian soil was fought.
A recommended stop for a picnic is Scotland's Optimist Butterfly Park where perennials and annuals attract butterflies. theheartofontario.com/operator/brant-tourism
Doggy, doggy
The Dogs Nest highway sign was stolen so many times, it hasn't been replaced.
Perhaps the most unusual community names in Ontario are Dogs Nest and Punkeydoodle's Corner.
There have been many "tails" about the origin of the Dogs Nest name that now is a hamlet with just one residence east of Port Dover, said Ted Willey of Norfolk County Tourism.
Scott Gillies, former curator at the Eva Brook Donly Museum, said long-time residents of the area related differing stories.
"The gist of them all had to do with a dog having puppies at the former tavern in the hamlet" and after a stay, people have called it a "dog's nest of a place."
An early painting by W.E. Cantelon in the Eva Brook Donly Museum shows the two former taverns and few houses in Dogs Nest.
"The Dogs Nest highway signs were regularly stolen and at one point the county opted not to continue to putting them up as they seemed to end up in local man-caves, garages, etc.," Gillies said. norfolkculture.ca
A much photographed heritage community sign at Punkeydoodle's Corner.
In Punkeydoodle, legend has it the hamlet where Waterloo Region, Oxford and Perth counties intersect was named after a German tavern keeper's garbled version of "Yankee Doodle" that sounded more like "punkeydoodle," Heritage Wilmot reports. wilmot.ca
For a taste of Germany, visit the former Berlin that was renamed Kitchener in 1916.
The city's Germanic heritage comes alive each year at Oktoberfest, marking its 50th year as the second largest Bavarian festival after Munich's, this year from Oct. 5 to 15.
Jim Fox can be reached at onetanktrips@hotmail.com
For more One-Tank Trips: http://1tanktrips.blogspot.ca
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Recovering, John Paul II Begins Breathing Exercises
VATICAN CITY, FEB. 28, 2005 (ZENIT.org).- Four days after undergoing a tracheotomy, John Paul II is recovering normally and has begun respiratory exercises, says a Vatican spokesman.
In a brief written communiqué, Joaquín Navarro Valls, director of the Vatican press office, said that the Pope's medical condition is generally good.
"The Holy Father's post-operative phase is taking place without complications," stated the spokesman in his note. "His general condition and biological parameters continue to be good."
"The Holy Father is eating regularly, spends some hours in an armchair and has begun exercises to rehabilitate breathing and phonation," added the statement.
Navarro Valls said the next scheduled medical report would be on Thursday.
John Paul II appeared unexpectedly at his 10th-floor hospital window on Sunday and gave blessings to those keeping watch outside the Gemelli Polyclinic.
Last Thursday he underwent a tracheotomy to ease his breathing, owing to complications of the flu. He was hospitalized earlier in the month for complications from the flu.
The Vatican press statement did not speculate on how long the Pope would be in the hospital.
Today, in the newspaper La Repubblica, Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragán, president of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers, said: "In these cases, prudence is never exaggerated."
Use of Media Urged in Evangelization
Many Diocesan Press Services Poorly Organized, Says Priest
Cardinal Electors to Lose 2 in March
VATICAN CITY, FEB. 28, 2005 (Zenit.org).- On Tuesday, when Angolan Cardinal Alexandre do Nascimento marks his 80th birthday, the number of cardinal electors will decrease to 118.
Pope's Improvement "Striking," Says Official
VATICAN CITY, FEB. 28, 2005 (Zenit.org).- After a visit to the Gemelli Polyclinic, Italian Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini said that John Paul II's improvement is "striking."
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From the moment you arrive in Cairns you will feel the warmth of our great city.
We want your time with us to be the best you've ever had, so we take extra care to make sure that your holiday is exceptional.
Cairns is located in Far North Queensland Australia.
It is a popular travel destination because of its tropical climate and a great place to discover the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree Rainforest.
Cairns has loads of highlights – Cairns is the only place in the World that 2 World Heritage sites sit side by side the Daintree Rainforest and the Great Barrier Reef, in our region you will find Quinkan Country near Laura north of Cairns has the oldest Aboriginal Art in the World, this region grows delicious coffee, Chillagoe has World Class limestone caves and is one of the largest marble deposits in the World.
Cairns has outstanding game fishing from September to December – try your luck to catch a giant black Marlin – we have fishing tours to suit everyone all year round. There are lots of wonderful tours to take in and around Cairns. Whether you need a quiet holiday or an untamed adventure, a holiday with your loved ones, to party hard or take a well-earned rest Cairns has it all. Discover our beautiful region on a Cairns tour to the Great Barrier Reef, the Daintree Rainforest, The Cairns Tablelands, waterfalls, whitewater rafting, bungy jumping, hot air ballooning, VIP tours, Scenic Train journeys, tropical zoos, Liveaboard tours, Learn to scuba dive, spend a day on one of our Great Barrier Reef Islands/re really is a Cairns tour for everyone.
See our wide array of Cairns tours. From day trips to a full two-week stay, there is a dream holiday just waiting for you.
We are locally owned and operated, which gives us an intimate understanding of the city and all its magnificent sites.
We work with other local businesses in the community to provide you with custom-tailored service and the best tours available anywhere. Let Cairns Trips take you to the gateway of Australia's most precious jewels.


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Pupils welcome special visitors to learn more about life in Norfolk
Published: 11:14 PM January 29, 2019
A total of 33 Chinese children and their teachers from the HuMen Foreign Language School in Dongguan made the journey to visit pupils at Reepham High School and College. Picture: REEPHAM HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE - Credit: Archant
School pupils from overseas have been welcomed at a Norfolk high school to learn about life in England.
A total of 33 Chinese children and their teachers from the HuMen Foreign Language School in Dongguan made the journey to visit pupils at Reepham High School and College.
A spokesperson from the mid-Norfolk school said: 'Pupils at Reepham High School and College were delighted to welcome the Chinese pupils and their teachers.
'They have been attending lessons and eating lunch with their English friends, and learning as much as possible about the life of the school.
'Their teachers have also spent time with their British colleagues comparing teaching expertise.
'Reepham High School and College currently offers Mandarin at GCSE level and it is taught by a Chinese national who arrived at Reepham as part of the same programme which brought about this visit - as well as several successful exchange trips between Reepham and Chinese schools.'
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Honor Roll: Grade 6, 4th Marking Period 2016-2017
Schools Press Release - June 30, 2017
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Yvette McNeal and David Galbierczyk, principals of H.B. Whitehorne Middle School, are proud to announce the names of these sixth-grade students who have earned...
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Yvette McNeal and David Galbierczyk, principals of H.B. Whitehorne Middle School, are proud to announce the names of those students who have earned academic recognition...
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Have you ever wondered how antivirus software works? In a nutshell, traditional computer security software hooks into your operating system, and inspects every file or program before it is allowed to be open or run. Newer anti-malware technology keeps an eye out for unexpected system changes. Combining both methods will provide the best security. Let's crack open the nut, and look at these techniques in a bit more detail.
Antivirus vendors compile databases of malware signatures and distribute copies to their users regularly. The antivirus program scans files on a user's system looking for matches between each file's code and those in the signature database. Matches are flagged as malware.
There are several problems with signature-based malware detection. First, only known malware is included in the signature database. New malware is created all the time, and there is a lag between its creation and its inclusion in signature databases. Second, malware authors create self-modifying malware that alters its own signature every time it runs. Third, encryption can disguise the signature of a malware program. Signature-based detection is a basic but dangerously incomplete form of protection.
The second malware detection method looks at what a program does rather than what it is. This "behavior-based" method assumes that certain actions indicate harmful intentions. A program that scans for other executable files on your hard drive is presumed to be looking for files it can infect, for instance. All sorts of "suspect behavior" may be deemed reasons to flag a program as potential malware. Some examples are programs that modify the Windows registry, or make changes to system settings.
"Heuristic analysis" is a fancy term for behavior-based detection. Heuristic programs may have many complex behavioral rules and run a suspect program in a virtual machine or sandbox, simulating what the program might do without allowing it access to the actual resources on your system. This sort of testing consumes a lot of computer resources, so it is typically reserved for user-initiated "on-demand" tests of suspect files.
On the plus side, behavior-based detection can stop even the newest or best disguised malware. On the other hand, it may have a high rate of "false positives," frequently flagging innocuous programs that are behaving in suspect ways for legitimate reasons. The user has to look at a flagged file and decide whether to tag it as "OK" to run or "banned" as malware. These interruptions can be inconvenient, and often the user isn't qualified to make that decision correctly.
The "always connected" culture has enabled techniques that improve signature and behavior based detection methods. Cloud-based signature databases are updated constantly, eliminating delays between additions to the database and the downloading of updates to users' computers. Cloud-based antivirus engines run on the vendor's servers, reducing the drain of users' computer resources and ensuring that the latest version of the engine is always used.
Collaboration between antivirus programs running on many different computers is also enabled by the Internet. When my behavior-based antivirus program flags a new potential malware program, that new "threat" is communicated to the antivirus vendor. Someone there determines whether this new threat is really a threat or a false positive, and that "wisdom of the crowd" is added to the antivirus product. Suspect files can also be uploaded to a vendor for analysis and inclusion in signature databases.
Some readers have asked why they need antivirus software if they already have a firewall. To put it simply, a firewall is a doorman while antivirus software is a bouncer. A doorman keeps unauthorized people out. A bouncer monitors people who are already in, kicking out known miscreants who slipped in, and anyone who starts behaving inappropriately. A well-secured nightclub has both doorman and bouncer. A well-secured computer has both a firewall and antivirus software.
To learn more about firewalls or find links to free anti-virus software, see my articles Do I Really Need a Firewall? and Free Anti-Virus Programs.
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BRIEFING ROOM: Open-Carry Win?
There is not a more far-left court in the land than the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals based out of San Francisco, California. For that reason it came as a shock when a three-judge panel, by a two-to-one margin, recently voted to affirm that the Second Amendment allows the open carry of a firearm in public.
This can be considered a win for gun owners—at least for the time being. The decision will likely be appealed to an en-banc panel of all the San Francisco-based courts' 29 judges. And considering how far left the 9th District is, it's a fairly safe bet the three-judge panel will be overruled. Though this is a "win," outside of the range I'm not in favor of open carry.
First and foremost, open carry gives up a tactical advantage. If a miscreant intent on harming others sees your gun, he will view you as a threat. That openly carried pistol almost screams, "Shoot me first!" to the reprobate.
Next is the fact that open carry will alarm little old ladies and snowflakes. Lawful gun owners are already painted as lunatics by the liberal media. Open carry may only add to that stereotype.
In addition, an openly carried pistol makes its wearer more susceptible to a gun snatch or losing it in a scuffle. In July, a trooper with the Arizona Department of Public Safety was murdered during a physical altercation while trying to make an arrest. He was killed when the murderer gained access to another officer's gun carried in an off-duty holster. That second officer was also shot (and survived) before the murderer was subdued by other officers.
Many people think differently than I do, and proclaim that an openly carried gun may thwart a ne'er-do-well from committing a crime. Perhaps, but I believe the proven advantages of concealed carry outweigh the hypothetical advantages of open carry.
Until next time, stay low and watch your back.
Denny Hansen
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What are the Different Types of Illegal Hunting?
Jessica Ellis
Illegal hunting, sometimes known as poaching, is the killing of animals without permission or in violation of conservation and wildlife management laws. There are several types of illegal hunting, many of which are seen as serious issues by environmentalists. Illegal hunting is believed to be a major contributor to the demise of many species throughout the world. In addition to breaking the law, illegal hunting can be a threat to biodiversity and even cause extinction.
Certain animals, such as deer, may be legally hunted in some places during certain times of the year. Often, when game animals are in their breeding season, hunting is prohibited in order to ensure the continuity of the species. Illegal hunting out of season can damage the future population by killing off pregnant females or breeding males. Penalties for hunting out of season may include fines and prohibition from future access to hunting licenses.
Illegal hunting usually carries a hefty penalty.
In a season where hunting is permitted, hunters are often limited as to how many and what type of animals may be killed. In the name of ensuring species continuity, animals under a certain age or size may be protected from hunting. In wildlife managed areas, there may also be a quota of kills per hunter, in order to protect the species from an unsustainable loss of population. Hunting areas may also require licenses to hunt legally, which may only be given to a certain amount of hunters and have requirements such as a minimum age limit. Hunting without a license or failure to follow restrictions can lead to fines, jail time, and revocation of license.
Deer may be hunted only during certain times of the year.
In areas where animals are protected by law, such as wildlife preserves, any type of hunting is illegal. Conservation laws against hunting are put in place because a species shows clear signs of an unsustainable population loss, due to both excess hunting and other factors such as pollution or diminishing habitat. Poaching endangered species is taken very seriously in many regions, especially regarding populations that are near extinction levels. In some regions, illegal hunting of protected species carries a very high fine, sometimes in excess of $100,000 US Dollars (USD). In more strict regions, game wardens may be permitted to kill poachers found hunting in protected areas.
Illegal hunting is a serious problem in many regions of the world; as animal populations continue to dwindle worldwide, the careful management of both endangered and game species becomes critical to long-term survival. Though some people resent restrictions on hunting, the laws are often put in place to prevent the disruption of an animal or fish population that could have ramifications up and down the ecological chain.
With a B.A. in theater from UCLA and a graduate degree in screenwriting from the American Film Institute, Jessica is passionate about drama and film. She has many other interests, and enjoys learning and writing about a wide range of topics in her role as a MyLawQuestions writer.
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I will tell you something even worse than people who go around ignoring hunting regulations. Those folks who comply with them 100 percent but head to the woods with high powered rifles and enough beer to fill a bathtub. Handling a rifle while drunk is a terrible idea, yet you see that happen a lot. Booze and rifles have given rise to more hunting accidents than you can shake a stick at.
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I do believe I live smack dab in the middle of the land of illegal hunting. It is not uncommon to see people hunt out of season or even fire at animals on the side of the road (yes, I have seen that happen).
Here's the thing about all that poaching, though. Game wardens have gotten wise to a lot of that activity and crack down on it. The fines are no joke, either, so people ought to think twice about learning the local hunting laws and sticking to them.
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TCU harp students enjoy many performance opportunities within a small studio environment. In addition to private lessons, students may also participate in the TCU Harp Ensemble, TCU Symphony Orchestra, TCU Wind Symphony, TCU Opera productions, chamber music collaborations, vocal accompaniments, as well as solo recitals, studio recitals and campus, intercollegiate and community performances.
TCU harpists receive balanced instruction in repertoire and technique, representative of major harp literature and with an emphasis on supple playing, tone production and clear articulation. The harp program at the undergraduate as well as graduate level includes studies in Harp Pedagogy, orchestral excerpts, improvisation techniques and masterclass opportunities with visiting guest artists.
The TCU Harp Ensemble serves as an enhancement to the private study and large ensemble experience of TCU harpists. The ensemble meets two hours weekly with the instructor for rehearsal. Performance opportunities with the ensemble include a class recital, optional duo or trio performances on weekly School of Music Recital Hour and other group appearances at university-related events or public venues. Through instructor-led rehearsals and coachings, the students develop a solid base of ensemble skills, harp technique, musicianship, stage deportment and professional conduct. Skills learned in Harp Ensemble translate to excellence in performing chamber music with other instruments, accompanying vocalists or choir and participating in orchestra or band. The students are introduced to challenging repertoire of advanced level that is drawn from a wide variety of musical styles, including arrangements and transcriptions of well-known works as well as original compositions for harp ensemble.
The TCU Harp Ensemble has performed in conjunction with the Latin American Music Festival, presented a collaborative recital with the TCU Flute Choir and TCU Brass Ensemble, hosted and performed in a joint recital with the University of North Texas Harp Ensemble, recorded two Christmas arrangements for the School of Music Christmas CD project, provided entertainment at the annual Scholarship Dinner and the Tucker Technology Center Celebration of Student Research and performed on the annual TCU Harp Ensemble Spring Recital.


"Things are looking really pretty good right now".
Meanwhile, additional firefighters were headed to Wyoming to work on a wildfire that has exploded in size and prompted evacuations near the Colorado border. Springtime predictions of a wild summer of blazes across the state appear to be proving themselves true - and with a fervor.
Another day of hot, dry and windy weather is expected in southern Wyoming, where a wildfire has been burning virtually unabated this week.
Another wildfire is being fought in Colorado, this time near the town of Silverthorne along the busy Interstate 70 corridor.
The 416 Fire - named after its emergency service call number - is by far the largest of at least a half-dozen blazes raging across Colorado. MOre than 900 firefighters were trying to control the blaze, according the AP.
The San Juan National Forest makes up some 1.8 million acres across nine counties. "We're not out of the woods by any means, but we've been very fortunate there have not been any homes burned or firefighters hurt".
The Buffalo Fire broke out Tuesday on a mountain near Silverthorne in Summit County, forcing the evacuation of more than 1,300 homes. People in the Lower Buffalo Mountain area, in about 1,100 units, have been placed on pre-evacuation notice.
Nearby, the Burro Fire has now grown to 2,829 acres with heavy fuels driving the fire growth and behavior. The red line around the 416 Fire was the perimeter at 10:12 a.m. MDT June 11.
"The fire grew extremely rapidly", Berino said.
Purdy said she was "frantic" as she placed belongings in the auto and left her home.
"It's going to come down to a point there, and that's what we're striving to achieve there, is to get that all nicely brought together", Knight said.
An overnight shelter has been opened for evacuees at Frisco Elementary School.
The communities of Mountain Home, Wold Tract, and Wycolo are under evacuation orders from Albany County officials.
Because of possible thunderstorms, that National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning this morning for the areas around the fires.
The city hasn't decided whether it will close either the foothills trails or the trails in the bosque.
"If it wasn't for the fire breaks put in place our neighborhood would have burnt down", Purdy tweeted.


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The Hon. W. H. Herndon, of Springfield, Illinois, for more than twenty years the law-partner of Mr. Lincoln, delivered an address in that city, December 12th, 1865, upon the life and character of the lamented President, which, for masterly analysis, has scarcely an equal in the annals of biographical literature. Quaint and original in style and construction, this description — an imperfect abstract of which I subjoin — is in singular harmony with the character it depicts. To those who knew Mr. Lincoln personally, so thorough a dissection of his nature and traits will need no indorsement; while to the multitude who knew him not, it may be commended as probably more complete and exhaustive in its treatment of the subject, than anything which has been given to the world.
Abraham Lincoln was born in Hardin County, Kentucky, February 12th, 1809. He moved to Indiana in 1816; came to Illinois in March, 1830; to old Sangamon County in 1831, settling in New Salem, and from this last place to this city in April, 1837: coming as a rude, uncultivated boy, without polish or education, and having no friends. He was about six feet four inches high, and when he left this city was fifty-one years old, having good health and no gray hairs, or but few on his head. He was thin, wiry, sinewy, raw-boned; thin through the breast to the back, and narrow across the shoulders; [324] standing, he leaned forward — was what may be called stoop-shouldered, inclining to the consumptive by build. His usual weight was one hundred and sixty pounds. His organization — rather his structure and functions — worked slowly. His blood had to run a long distance from his heart to the extremities of his frame, and his nerve-force had to travel through dry ground a long distance before his muscles were obedient to his will. His structure was loose and leathery; his body was shrunk and shrivelled, having dark skin, dark hair,--looking woe-struck. The whole man, body and mind, worked slowly, creakingly, as if it needed oiling. Physically, he was a very powerful man, lifting with ease four hundred or six hundred pounds. His mind was like his body, and worked slowly but strongly. When he walked, he moved cautiously but, firmly, his long arms and hands on them, hanging like giant's hands, swung down by his side. He walked with even tread, the inner sides of his feet being parallel. He put the whole foot flat down on the ground at once, not landing on the heel; he likewise lifted his foot all at once, not rising from the toe, and hence he had no spring to his walk. He had economy of fall and lift of foot, though he had no spring or apparent ease of motion in his tread. He walked undulatory, up and down, catching and pocketing tire, weariness, and pain, all up and down his person, preventing them from locating. The first opinion of a stranger, or a man who did not [325] observe closely, was that his walk implied shrewdness, cunning,--a tricky man; but his was the walk of caution and firmness. In sitting down on a common chair he was no taller than ordinary men. His legs and arms were, abnormally, unnaturally long, and in undue proportion to the balance of his body. It was only when he stood up that he loomed above other men.
Mr. Lincoln's head was long and tall from the base of the brain and from the eyebrows. His head ran backwards, his forehead rising as it ran back at a low angle, like Clay's, and, unlike Webster's, almost perpendicular. The size of his hat, measured at the hatter's block, was 7 1/8, his head being, from ear to ear, 6 1/2 inches, and from the front to the back of the brain 8 inches. Thus measured, it was not below the medium size. His forehead was narrow but high; his hair was dark, almost black, and lay floating where his fingers or the winds left it, piled up at random. His cheek-bones were high, sharp, and prominent; his eyebrows heavy and prominent; his jaws were long, upcurved, and heavy; his nose was large, long, and blunt, a little awry towards the right eye; his chin was long, sharp, and upcurved; his eyebrows cropped out like a huge rock on the brow of a hill; his face was long, sallow, and cadaverous, shrunk, shrivelled, wrinkled, and dry, having here and there a hair on the surface; his cheeks were leathery; his ears were large, and ran out almost at right angles [326] from his head, caused partly by heavy hats and partly by nature; his lower lip was thick, hanging, and undercurved, while his chin reached for the lip upcurved; his neck was neat and trim, his head being well balanced on it; there was the lone mole on the right cheek, and Adam's apple on his throat.
Thus stood, walked, acted, and looked Abraham Lincoln. He was not a pretty man by any means, nor was he an ugly one; he was a homely man, careless of his looks, plain-looking and plain-acting. He had no pomp, display, or dignity, so-called. He appeared simple in his carriage and bearing. He was a sad-looking man; his melancholy dripped from him as he walked. His apparent gloom impressed his friends, and created a sympathy for him, -one means of his great success. He was gloomy, abstracted, and joyous,--rather humorous,--by turns. I do not think he knew what real joy was for many years.
Mr. Lincoln sometimes walked our streets cheerily,--good-humoredly, perhaps joyously,and then it was, on meeting a friend, he cried "How d'y?" clasping one of his friend's hands in both of his, giving a good hearty soul-welcome. Of a winter's morning, he might be seen stalking and stilting it towards the market-house, basket on arm, his old gray shawl wrapped around his neck, his little Willie or Tad running along at his heels, asking a thousand little quick questions, which his father heard not, not even then knowing that little Willie [327] or Tad was there, so abstracted was he. When he thus met a friend, he said that something put him in mind of a story which he heard in Indiana or elsewhere, and tell it he would, and there was no alternative but to listen.
Thus, I say, stood and walked and looked this singular man. He was odd, but when that gray eye and face and every feature were lit up by the inward soul in fires of emotion, then it was that all these apparently ugly features sprang into organs of beauty, or sunk themselves into a sea of inspiration that sometimes flooded his face. Sometimes it appeared to me that Lincoln's soul was just fresh from the presence of its Creator.
I have asked the friends and foes of Mr. Lincoln alike, what they thought of his perceptions. One gentleman of undoubted ability and free from all partiality or prejudice, said, "Mr. Lincoln's perceptions are slow, a little perverted, if not somewhat distorted and diseased." If the meaning of this is that Mr. Lincoln saw things from a peculiar angle of his being, and from this was susceptible to Nature's impulses, and that he so expressed himself, then I have no objection to what is said. Otherwise, I dissent. Mr. Lincoln's perceptions were slow, cold, precise, and exact. Everything came to him in its precise shape and color. To some men the world of matter and of man comes ornamented with beauty, life, and action, and hence more or less [328] false and inexact. No lurking illusion or other error, false in itself, and clad for the moment in robes of splendor, ever passed undetected or unchallenged over the threshold of his mind,--that point that divides vision from the realm and home of thought. Names to him were nothing, and titles naught,--assumption always standing back abashed at his cold, intellectual glare. Neither his perceptions nor intellectual vision were perverted, distorted, or diseased. He saw all things through a perfect mental lens. There was no diffraction or refraction there. He was not impulsive, fanciful, or imaginative, but cold, calm, precise, and exact. He threw his whole mental light around the object, and in time, substance, and quality stood apart; form and color took their appropriate places, and all was clear and exact in his mind. His fault, if any, was that he saw things less than they really were; less beautiful and more frigid. In his mental view he crushed the unreal, the inexact, the hollow, and the sham. He saw things in rigidity rather than in vital action. Here was his fault. He saw what no man could dispute; but he failed to see what might have been seen. To some minds the world is all life, a soul beneath the material; but to Mr. Lincoln no life was individual or universal that did not manifest itself to him. His mind was his standard. His perceptions were cool, persistent, pitiless in pursuit of the truth. No error went undetected, and no falsehood unexposed, if he once was aroused in search [329] of truth. If his perceptions were perverted, distorted, and diseased, would to Heaven that more minds were so.
The true peculiarity of Mr. Lincoln has not been seen by his various biographers; or, if seen, they have failed wofully to give it that prominence which it deserves. It is said that Newton saw an apple fall to the ground from a tree, and beheld the law of the universe in that fall; Shakspeare saw human nature in the laugh of a man; Professor Owen saw the animal in its claw; and Spencer saw the evolution of the universe in the growth of a seed. Nature was suggestive to all these men. Mr. Lincoln no less saw philosophy in a story, and a schoolmaster in a joke. No man, no men, saw nature, fact, thing, or man from his stand-point. His was a new and original position, which was always suggesting, hinting something to him. Nature, insinuations, hints, and suggestions were new, fresh, original, and odd to him. The world, fact, man, principle, all had their powers of suggestion to his susceptible soul. They continually put him in mind of something. He was odd, fresh, new, original, and peculiar for this reason, that he was a new, odd, and original creation and fact. He had keen susceptibilities to the hints and suggestions of nature, which always put him in mind of something known or unknown. Hence his power and tenacity of what is called association of ideas must have been great. [330] His memory was tenacious and strong. His susceptibility to all suggestions and hints enabled him at will to call up readily the associated and classified fact and idea.
As an evidence of this, especially peculiar to Mr. Lincoln, let me ask one question. Were Mr. Lincoln's expression and language odd and original, standing out peculiar from those of all other men? What does this imply? Oddity and originality of vision as well as expression; and what is expression in words and human language, but a telling of what we see, defining the idea arising from and created by vision and view in us. Words and language are but the counterparts of the idea,--the other half of the idea; they are but the stinging, hot, heavy, leaden bullets that drop from the mould; and what are they in a rifle with powder stuffed behind them and fire applied, but an embodied force pursuing their object. So are words an embodied power feeling for comprehension in other minds. Mr. Lincoln was often perplexed to give expression to his ideas: first, because he was not master of the English language; and, secondly, because there were no words in it containing the coloring, shape, exactness, power, and gravity of his ideas. He was frequently at a loss for a word, and hence was compelled to resort to stories, maxims, and jokes to embody his idea, that it might be comprehended. So true was this peculiar mental vision of his, that though mankind has been gathering, arranging, and [331] classifying facts for thousands of years, Lincoln's peculiar stand-point could give him no advantage of other men's labor. Hence he tore up to the deep foundations all arrangements of facts, and coined and arranged new plans to govern himself. He was compelled, from his peculiar mental organization, to do this. His labor was great, continuous, patient, and all-enduring.
The truth about this whole matter is that Mr. Lincoln read less and thought more than any man in his sphere in America. No man can put his finger on any great book written in the last or present century that he read. When young he read the Bible, and when of age he read Shakspeare. This latter book was scarcely ever out of his mind. Mr. Lincoln is acknowledged to have been a great man, but the question is what made him great. I repeat, that he read less and thought more than any man of his standing in America, if not in the world. He possessed originality and power of thought in an eminent degree. He was cautious, cool, concentrated, with continuity of reflection; was patient and enduring. These are some of the grounds of his wonderful success.
Not only was nature, man, fact, and principle suggestive to Mr. Lincoln, not only had he accurate and exact perceptions, but he was causative, i.e., his mind ran back behind all facts, things, and principles to their origin, history, and first cause,--to that point where forces act at once as effect and [332] cause. He would stop and stand in the street and analyze a machine. He would whittle things to a point, and then count the numberless inclined planes, and their pitch, making the point. Mastering and defining this, he would then cut that point back, and get a broad transverse section of his pine stick, and peel and define that. Clocks, omnibuses, and language, paddle-wheels, and idioms, never escaped his observation and analysis. Before he could form any idea of anything, before he would express his opinion on any subject, he must know it in origin and history, in substance and quality, in magnitude and gravity. He must know his subject inside and outside, upside and downside. He searched his own mind and nature thoroughly, as I have often heard him say. He must analyze a sensation, an idea, and words, and run them back to their origin, history, purpose, and destiny. He was most emphatically a remorseless analyzer of facts, things, and principles. When all these processes had been well and thoroughly gone through, he could form an opinion and express it, but no sooner. He had no faith. "Say so's" he had no respect for, coming though they might from tradition, power, or authority.
All things, facts, and principles had to run through his crucible and be tested by the fires of his analytic mind; and hence, when he did speak his utterances rang out gold-like, quick, keen, and current upon the counters of the understanding. He [333] reasoned logically, through analogy and comparison. All opponents dreaded him in his originality of idea, condensation, definition, and force of expression, and woe be to the man who hugged to his bosom a secret error if Mr. Lincoln got on the chase of it. I say, woe to him! Time could hide the error in no nook or corner of space in which he would not detect and expose it.
Though Mr. Lincoln had accurate perceptions, though nature was extremely suggestive to him, though he was a profound thinker as well as analyzer, still his judgments and opinions formed upon minor matters were often childish. I have sometimes asked prominent, talented, and honest men in this and other States for their manly opinion of Mr. Lincoln's judgments. I did this to confirm or overthrow my own opinions on this point. Their answers were that his judgments were poor. But now what do we understand by the word "judgments?" It is not reason; it is not will, nor is it understanding; but it is the judging faculty,--that capacity or power that forms opinions and decides on the fitness, beauty, harmony, and appropriateness of things under all circumstances and surroundings, quickly, wisely, accurately. Had Mr. Lincoln this quality of mind? I think not. His mind was like his body, and worked slowly.
Tne portion of mankind maintained that Mr. [334] Lincoln was weak-minded, and they look at him only from the stand-point of his judgments. Another class maintain that he was a great, deep, profound man in his judgments. Do these two classes understand themselves? Both views cannot be correct. Mr. Lincoln's mind was slow, angular, and ponderous, rather than quick and finely discriminating, and in time his great powers of reason on cause and effect, on creation and relation, on substance and on truth, would form a proposition, an opinion wisely and well,--that no human being can deny. When his mind could not grasp premises from which to argue he was weaker than a child, because he had none of the child's intuitions,--the souls quick, bright flash over scattered and unarranged facts.
Mr. Lincoln was a peculiar man, having a peculiar mind; he was gifted with a peculiarity, namely, a new lookout on nature. Everything had to be newly created for him,--facts newly gathered, newly arranged, and newly classed. He had no faith, as already expressed. In order to believe he must see and feel, and thrust his hand into the place. He must taste, smell, and handle before he had faith, i.e., belief. Such a mind as this must act slowly,--must have its time. His forte and power lay in his love of digging out for himself and hunting up for his own mind its own food, to be assimilated unto itself; and then in time he could and would form opinions and conclusions that no [335] human power could overthrow. They were as irresistible as iron thunder, as powerful as logic embodied in mathematics.
I have watched men closely in reference to their approaches to Mr. Lincoln. Those who approached him on his judgment side treated him tenderly — sometimes respectfully, but always as a weak-minded man. This class of men take the judgment as the standard of the mind. I have seen another class approach him on his reason-side, and they always crouched low down and truckled, as much as to say, "great," "grand," "omnipotent." Both these classes were correct. One took judgment as the standard of the man, and the other took reason. Yet both classes were wrong in this,--they sunk out of view one side of Mr. Lincoln. A third class knew him well, and always treated him with human respect: not that awe and reverence with which we regard the Supreme Being; not that supercilious haughtiness which greatness shows to littleness. Each will please to examine itself, and then judge of what I say. I have approached Mr. Lincoln on all sides, and treated him according to the angle approached.
An additional question naturally suggests itself here, and it is this: Had Mr. Lincoln great, good common sense? Different persons, of equal capacity and honesty, hold different views on this question,--one class answering in the affirmative, and the other in the negative. [336]
These various opinions necessarily spring out of the question just discussed. If the true test is that a man shall quickly, wisely, and well judge the rapid rush and whirl of human transactions, as accurately as though indefinite time and proper conditions were at his disposal, then I am compelled to follow the logic of things, and say that Mr. Lincoln had no more than ordinary common sense. The world, men and their actions, must be judged as they rush and pass along. They will not wait on us; will not stay for our logic and analysis; they must be seized as they run. We all our life act on the moment. Mr. Lincoln knew himself, and never trusted his dollar or his fame on his casual opinions; he never acted hastily on great matters.
Mr. Lincoln very well knew that the great leading law of human nature was motive. He reasoned all ideas of a disinterested action from my mind. I used to hold that an action could be pure, disinterested, and holy, free from all selfishness, but he divested me of that delusion. His idea was that all human actions were caused by motives, and that at the bottom of those motives was self. He defied me to act without a motive and unselfishly; and when I did the act and told him of it, he analyzed and sifted it, and demonstrated beyond the possibility of controversy that it was altogether selfish. Though he was a profound analyzer of the laws of human nature, still he had no idea of the peculiar motives [337] of the particular individual. He could not well discriminate in human nature. He knew but little of the play of the features as seen in "the human face divine." He could not distinguish between the paleness of anger and the crimson tint of modesty. He could not determine what each play of the features indicated.
The great predominating elements of Mr. Lincoln's peculiar character, were: First, his great capacity and power of reason; secondly, his excellent understanding; thirdly, an exalted idea of the sense of right and equity; and, fourthly, his intense veneration of what was true and good. His reason ruled despotically all other faculties and qualities of his mind. His conscience and heart were ruled by it. His conscience was ruled by one facultyreason. His heart was ruled by two facultiesreason and conscience. I know it is generally believed that Mr. Lincoln's heart, his love and kindness, his tenderness and benevolence, were his ruling qualities; but this opinion is erroneous in every particular. First, as to his reason. He dwelt in the mind, not in the conscience, and not in the heart. He lived and breathed and acted from his reason,--the throne of logic and the home of principle, the realm of Deity in man. It is from this point that Mr. Lincoln must be viewed. His views were correct and original. He was cautious not to be deceived; he was patient and enduring. [338] He had concentration and great continuity of thought; he had a profound analytic power; his visions were clear, and he was emphatically the master of statement. His pursuit of the truth was indefatigable, terrible. He reasoned from his wellchosen principles with such clearness, force, and compactness, that the tallest intellects in the land bowed to him with respect. He was the strongest man I ever saw, looking at him from the stand-point of his reason,--the throne of his logic. He came down from that height with an irresistible and crushing force. His printed speeches will prove this; but his speeches before courts, especially before the Supreme Courts of the State and Nation, would demonstrate it: unfortunately none of them have been preserved. Here he demanded time to think and prepare. The office of reason is to determine the truth. Truth is the power of reason — the child of reason. He loved and idolized truth for its own sake. It was reason's food.
Conscience, the second great quality and forte of Mr. Lincoln's character, is that faculty which loves the just: its office is justice; right and equity are its correlatives. It decides upon all acts of all people at all times. Mr. Lincoln had a deep, broad, living conscience. His great reason told him what was true, good, and bad, right, wrong, just or unjust, and his conscience echoed back its decision; and it was from this point that he acted and spoke and wove his character and fame among us. His [339] conscience ruled his heart; he was always just before he was gracious. This was his motto, his glory: and this is as it should be. It cannot be truthfully said of any mortal man that he was always just. Mr. Lincoln was not always just; but his great general life was. It follows that if Mr. Lincoln had great reason and great conscience, he was an honest man. His great and general life was honest, and he was justly and rightfully entitled to the appellation, "Honest Abe." Honesty was his great polar star.
Mr. Lincoln had also a good understanding; that is, the faculty that understands and comprehends the exact state of things, their near and remote relation. The understanding does not necessarily inquire for the reason of things. I must here repeat that Mr. Lincoln was an odd and original man; he lived by himself and out of himself. He could not absorb. He was a very sensitive man, unobtrusive and gentlemanly, and often hid himself in the common mass of men, in order to prevent the discovery of his individuality. He had no insulting egotism, and no pompous pride; no haughtiness, and no aristocracy. He was not indifferent, however, to approbation and public opinion. He was not an upstart, and had no insolence. He was a meek, quiet, unobtrusive gentleman. These qualities of his nature merged somewhat his identities. Read Mr. Lincoln's, speeches, letters, messages, and proclamations, read his whole record in [340] his actual life, and you cannot fail to perceive that he had good understanding. He understood and fully comprehended himself, and what he did and why he did it, better than most living men.
There are contradictory opinions in reference to Mr. Lincoln's heart and humanity. One opinion is that he was cold and obdurate, and the other opinion is that he was warm and affectionate. I have shown you that Mr. Lincoln first lived and breathed upon the world from his head and conscience. I have attempted to show you that he lived and breathed upon the world through the tender side of his heart, subject at all times and places to the logic of his reason, and to his exalted sense of right and equity, namely, his conscience. He always held his conscience subject to his head; he held his heart always subject to his head and conscience. His heart was the lowest organ, the weakest of the three. Some men would reverse this order, and declare that his heart was his ruling organ; that always manifested itself with love, regardless of truth and justice, right and equity. The question still is, was Mr. Lincoln a cold, heartless man, or a warm, affectionate man? Can a man be a warm-hearted man who is all head and conscience, or nearly so? What, in the first place, do we mean by a warm-hearted man? Is it one who goes out of himself and reaches for others spontaneously, because of a deep love of humanity, apart from equity and truth, and does what [341] it does for love's sake? If so, Mr. Lincoln was a cold man. Or, do we mean that when a human being, man or child, approached him in behalf of a matter of right, and that the prayer of such an one was granted, that this is an evidence of his love? The African was enslaved, his rights were violated, and a principle was violated in them. Rights imply obligations as well as duties. Mr. Lincoln was President; he was in a position that made it his duty through his sense of right, his love of principle, his constitutional obligations imposed upon him by oath of office, to strike the blow against slavery. But did he do it for love? He himself has answered the question: "I would not free the slaves if I could preserve the Union without it." I use this argument against his too enthusiastic friends. If you mean that this is love for love's sake, then Mr. Lincoln was a warm-hearted man — not otherwise. To use a general expression, his general life was cold. He had, however; a strong latent capacity to love; but the object must first come as principle, second as right, and third as lovely. He loved abstract humanity when it was oppressed. This was an abstract love, not concrete in the individual, as said by some. He rarely used the term love, yet was he tender and gentle. He gave the key-note to his own character, when he said, "with malice toward none, and with charity for all," he did what he did. He had no intense loves, and hence no hates and no malice. He had a broad [342] charity for imperfect man, and let us imitate his great life in this.
"But was not Mr. Lincoln a man of great humanity?" asks a friend at my elbow, a little angrily; to which I reply, "Has not that question been answered already?" Let us suppose that it has not. We must understand each other. What do you mean by humanity? Do you mean that he had much of human nature in him? If so, I will grant that he was a man of humanity. Do you mean, if the above definition is unsatisfactory, that Mr. Lincoln was tender and kind? Then I agree with you. But if you mean to say that he so loved a man that he would sacrifice truth and right for him, for love's sake, then he was not a man of humanity. Do you mean to say that he so loved man, for love's sake, that his heart led him out of himself, and compelled him to go in search of the objects of his love, for their sake? He never, to my knowledge, manifested this side of his character. Such is the law of human nature, that it cannot be all head, all conscience, and all heart at one and the same time in one and the same person. Our Maker made it so, and where God through reason blazed the path, walk therein boldly. Mr. Lincoln's glory and power lay in the just combination of head, conscience, and heart, and it is here that his fame must rest, or not at all.
Not only were Mr. Lincoln's perceptions good; not only was nature suggestive to him; not only [343] was he original and strong; not only had he great reason, good understanding; not only did he love the true and good — the eternal right; not only was he tender and kind,--but, in due proportion and in legitimate subordination, had he a glorious combination of them all. Through his perceptions,the suggestiveness of nature, his originality and strength; through his magnificent reason, his understanding, his conscience, his tenderness, and kindness, his heart, rather than love,--he approximated as nearly as most human beings in this imperfect state to an embodiment of the great moral principle, "Do unto others as ye would they should do unto you."
There are two opinions — radically different opinions — expressed about Mr. Lincoln's will, by men of equal and much capacity. One opinion is, that he had no will; and the other is, that he was all will -omnipotently so. These two opinions are loudly and honestly affirmed. Mr. Lincoln's mind loved the true, the right, and good, all the great truths and principles — in the mind of man. He loved the true, first; the right, second; and the good, the least. His mind struggled for truths and his soul for substances. Neither in his head nor in his soul did he care for forms, methods, ways,--the nonsubstantial facts or things. He could not, by his very structure and formation in mind and body, care anything about them. He did not intensely [344] or much care for particular individual man,--the dollar, property, rank, order, manners, or such like things. He had no avarice in his nature, or other like vice. He despised, somewhat, all technical rules in law and theology and other sciences,mere forms everywhere,--because they were, as a general rule, founded on arbitrary thoughts and ideas, and not on reason, truth, right, and the good. These things were without substance, and he disregarded them because they cramped his original nature. What suited a little, narrow, critical mind did not suit Mr. Lincoln's, any more than a child's clothes did his body. Generally, Mr. Lincoln could not take any interest in little local elections — town meetings. He attended no gatherings that pertained to local or other such interests, saving general political ones. He did not care (because he could not, in his nature) who succeeded to the presidency of this or that Christian Association or Railroad Convention; who made the most money; who was going to Philadelphia, when and for what, and what were the costs of such a trip. He could not care who, among friends, got this office or thatwho got to be street inspector or alley commissioner. No principle of goodness, of truth, or right was here. How could he be moved by such things as these? He could not understand why men struggled for such things. He made this remark to me one day, I think at Washington, "If ever this free people — if this Government itself is ever [345] utterly demoralized, it will come from this human wriggle and struggle for office — a way to live without work; from which nature I am not free myself." It puzzled him a good deal, at Washington, to know and to get at the root of this dread desire,--this contagious disease of national robbery in the nation's death-struggle.
Because Mr. Lincoln could not feel any interest in such little things as I have spoken of, nor feel any particular interest in the success of those who were thus struggling and wriggling, he was called indifferent — nay, ungrateful — to his friends. Especially is this the case with men who have aided Mr. Lincoln all their life. Mr. Lincoln always and everywhere wished his friends well; he loved his friends and clung to them tenaciously, like iron to iron welded; yet he could not be actively and energetically aroused to the true sense of his friends' particularly strong feelings of anxiety for office. From this fact Mr. Lincoln has been called ungrateful. He was not an ungrateful man by any means. He may have been a cool man — a passive man in his general life; yet he was not ungrateful, Ingratitude is too positive a word — it does not convey the truth. Mr. Lincoln may not have measured his friendly duties by the applicant's hot desire; I admit this. He was not a selfish man,--if by selfishness is meant that Mr. Lincoln would do any act, even to promote himself to the Presidency, if by that act any human being was wronged. If it [346] is said that Abraham Lincoln preferred Abraham Lincoln to any one else, in the pursuit of his ambitions, and that, because of this, he was a selfish man, then I can see no objections to such an idea, for this is universal human nature.
It must be remembered that Mr. Lincoln's mind acted logically, cautiously, and slowly. Now, having stated the above facts, the question of his will and its power is easily solved. Be it remembered that Mr. Lincoln cared nothing for simple facts, manners, modes, ways, and such like things. Be it remembered that he did care for truth, right, for principle, for all that pertains to the good. In relation to simple facts, unrelated to substance, forms, rules, methods, ways, manners, he cared nothing; and if he could be aroused, he would do anything for anybody at any time, as well foe as friend. As a politician he would courteously grant all facts and forms --all non-essential things — to his opponent. He did so because he did not care for them; they were rubbish, husks, trash. On the question of substance, he hung and clung with all his might. On questions of truth, justice, right, the good, on principle his will was as firm as steel and as tenacious as iron. It was as firm, solid, real, vital, and tenacious as an idea on which the world hinges or hangs. Ask Mr. Lincoln to do a wrong thing, and he would scorn the request; ask him to do an unjust thing, and he would cry, "Begone!" ask him to sacrifice his convictions of the truth, and his soul would indignantly exclaim, "The world perish first!" [347]
Such was Mr. Lincoln's will. On manners and such like things, he was pliable. On questions of right and substance, he was as firm as a rock. One of these classes of men look at Mr. Lincoln from the stand-point of things non-essential, and the other looks at him from the stand-point of substance, rejecting forms. Hence the difference. Mr. Lincoln was a man of firm, unyielding will, when, in human transactions, it was necessary to be so, and not otherwise. At one moment Mr. Lincoln was as pliable and expansive as gentle air, and at the next moment he was as biting, firm, tenacious, and unyielding as gravity itself.
Thus I have traced Mr. Lincoln through his perceptions, his suggestiveness, his judgments, and his four great predominant qualities, namely,--his powers of reason, his great understanding, his conscience, and his heart. I assert that Mr. Lincoln lived in the head. He loved the truth; he loved the eternal right and the good,--never yielding the fundamental conceptions of these to any man for any end.
All the follies and wrong Mr. Lincoln ever fell into, or committed, sprang or came out of his weak points, namely, his want of quick, sagacious, intuitive judgment,--his want of quick, sagacious, intuitive knowledge of the play and meaning of the features of men as written on the face,--his tenderness and mercy, and, lastly, his utterly unsuspecting nature. He was deeply and seriously honest himself, [348] and assumed that others were so organized. He never suspected men. These, with other defects of his nature, caused all his follies and wrongs, if he ever had any of either.
All the wise and good things Mr. Lincoln ever did, sprang or came out of his great reason, his conscience, his understanding, and his heart, his love of truth, right, and the good. I am speaking now of his particular and individual faculties and qualities, not their combination, nor the result of wise or unwise combinations. Each man and woman must form his or her own estimate of the man in the mind. Run out these facts, qualities, and faculties, and see what they must produce. For instance, a tender heart; a wise, strong reason; a good understanding, an exalted conscience, a love of the good, must, in such combination, practically applied, produce a man of great humanity.
Take another illustration in the combination of his faculties and qualities. Mr. Lincoln's eloquence lay, 1st, in the strength of his logical faculty, his supreme power of reasoning, his great understanding, and his love of principle; 2d, in his clear, exact, and very accurate vision; 3d, in his cool and masterly statement of his principles, around which the issues gather; in the statement of those issues, and the grouping of the facts that are to carry conviction, aided by his logic, to the minds of men of every grade of intelligence. He was so clear that he could not be misunderstood nor misrepresented. [349] He stood square and bolt upright to his convictions, and formed by them his thoughts and utterances. Mr. Lincoln's mind was not a wide, deep, broad, generalizing, and comprehensive mind, nor versatile quick, bounding here and there, as emergencies demanded it. His mind was deep, enduring, and strong, running in deep iron grooves, with flanges on its wheels. His mind was not keen, sharp, and subtile; it was deep, exact, and strong.
Whatever of life, vigor, force, and power of eloquence the whole of the above qualities, or a wise combination will give; whatever there is in a fair, manly, honest, and impartial administration of justice, under law, to all men at all times,through these qualities and capabilities given, never deviating; whatever there is in a strong will in the right, governed by tenderness and mercy; whatever there is in toil and a sublime patience; whatever there is in particular faculties, or a wise combination of them,--not forgetting his weak points,--working wisely, sagaciously, and honestly, openly and fairly;--I say, whatever there is in these, or a combination of them, that Mr. Lincoln is justly entitled to in all the walks of life. These limit, bound, and define him as statesman, orator, as an executive of the nation, as a man of humanity, a good man, and a gentleman. These limit, bound, and define him every way, in all the ways and walks of life. He is under his law and his nature, and he never can get out of it. [350]
This man, this long, bony, wiry, sad man, floated into our county in 1831, in a frail canoe, down the north fork of the Sangamon River, friendless, pennyless, powerless, and alone,--begging for work in this city,--ragged, struggling for the common necessaries of life. This man, this peculiar man, left us in 1861, the President of the United States, backed by friends and power, by fame, and all human force; and it is well to inquire how.
To sum up, let us say, here is a sensitive, diffident, unobtrusive, natural-made gentleman. His mind was strong and deep, sincere and honest, patient and enduring; having no vices, and having only negative defects, with many positive virtues. His is a strong, honest, sagacious, manly, noble life. He stands in the foremost rank of men in all ages, -their equal,--one of the best types of this Christian civilization.
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Campus ministers seek stronger church connections
A web-only photo courtesy of Kelbe Hollrah
Katrina Banker (left) and Hillary Desmond are part of a campus ministry knitting group at Fontbonne University in St. Louis.
Katrina Banker (left) and Hillary Desmond are part of a campus ministry knitting group at Fontbonne University. The school is one of four campuses in the St. Louis area served by the Rev. Melanie Briscoe, a United Methodist clergywoman. A web-only photo courtesy of Kelbe Hollrah. Photo #W05-080. Accompanies UMNS story #405. 7/19/05
A UMNS Feature
By Vicki Brown*
When William Johnston became president of Iowa Wesleyan College, one of his first actions was finding money to hire a full-time campus minister, something the college had not had in 17 years.
"I wanted us to provide an environment and have an individual on campus who supports church relations," Johnston says. "I would hope that person supports the values of — and helps the college community support the values of — our church."
Johnston believes hiring the Rev. Robert Koepcke, initially done in part with a $25,000 annual conference grant, has already paid off in the enrollment of more United Methodist students. "We had 40 or 50 United Methodists enrolled, and now we have about 75," he says.
He attributes that partly to Koepcke's practice of visiting area churches and taking students with him.
Such connections between campus ministries and churches need to be strengthened, says the Rev. Frank Wulf, campus minister at the University of California, Los Angeles, since 1997.
"We need to re-establish that sense of fellowship and sense of being together in the same ministry," Wulf says. He is working with other campus ministers and United Methodist Board of Higher Education and Ministry staff on endorsement proposals and best practices for campus ministry that will be presented to the 2008 General Conference, the denomination's legislative assembly.
With those goals in mind, campus ministers will meet July 23-27 in Baltimore for workshops, training and discussion of endorsement requirements.
"We are doing our best to make sure campus ministers are the best-trained, and evaluating who is qualified and who can be an effective campus minister," Wulf says.
The July conference will be a watershed event for United Methodist campus ministries, says the Rev. Luther Felder, assistant general secretary of the board's Campus Ministry Section.
"Some of the heart and soul issues, fundamental principles on which campus ministry is based, will be explored and re-examined," he says. "How can we turn the heart of the church back toward campus ministry?"
Felder hopes the conference will help clarify for the church what it means to be in campus ministry in the new millennium.
Wulf and the Rev. Melanie Briscoe, who serves four campuses in St. Louis, say the training and qualifications that will be required for endorsement are crucial.
"There seems to be a real ignorance among a lot of individuals as to what campus ministers do, how they do it and how to do it well," Briscoe says.
"We need people who are called to be campus ministers, who have a passion for students and the growth of the church from the perspective of young adults," Briscoe says.
Sometimes in the past, campus ministries were seen as a place to put a minister who had not been successful in the local church setting, she says. Today, a bishop and cabinet sometimes see a campus minister doing really well and immediately want to move the minister into a church.
"Churches can sustain themselves pretty well if they have turnover every four years, but it's horribly handicapping in a campus ministry," Briscoe says.
The endorsement process will equip campus ministers to do their job better, and it will enable boards to better evaluate the ministries, she says.
Campus ministers will also tackle the thorny issues of funding and lack of curriculum for young adults during their July meeting.
Most campus ministries struggle with funding, and many annual conferences see the ministries as a drain that will never pay off, Wulf says.
"But these are the young people who, when they leave college, will be the ones who are pledging or becoming ministers or chairing church committees," Wulf says.
"I don't see our being in conflict with local congregations. I see our training up young leaders who will go back into local churches when they leave college and be strong and committed United Methodists," Wulf continued.
Finding curriculum is another struggle.
"The majority of curriculum is for adults or youth and children," Briscoe says, adding that curriculum that does exist translates poorly to campus.
New federal privacy laws are another challenge, since campus ministers can no longer find out the religious affiliation of students. Wulf sends letters each year asking local pastors in the area if any of their youth are enrolling at UCLA, and only a couple respond.
The Rev. Sharon Rhodes-Wickett, pastor of Westwood United Methodist Church near UCLA, says when she led a church that was not near a campus, her congregation picked a campus ministry to support financially.
"We had a line item in our budget. It's one more way to help the local church understand what it means to be part of the connectional church," she says.
Kelbe Hollrah, a peer minister at Fontbonne University in St. Louis, one of Briscoe's campuses, believes campus ministries are crucial for students, who are usually in a time of transition.
"I grew up in a very conservative, almost fundamentalist Baptist church ...," she says. "I eventually realized in college that it wasn't working out for me." Friendship with a peer minister for the Wesley Foundation led her to get involved with campus ministry and become United Methodist.
"Your faith is brought into question in college," she says. "If students don't have someone to help, they might turn away from the church."
*Brown is an associate editor and writer in the Office of Interpretation, United Methodist Board of Higher Education and Ministry.
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The legendary Sandy Frank is VideoAge's International TV Distribution Hall of Fame honoree for the MIPCOM (October 2016) Issue.
Frank is the 13th pioneer featured in VideoAge's printed edition since April 2015, and the 15th featured in the online version.
After 67 years in television, Frank could write a how-to book about the international TV distribution business. Most likely, he couldn't write a "how not to" book, because during his long career he never wasted time with things that did not bring results.
Frank's calling in the entertainment business began in 1949 and 15 years later he started his own company, Sandy Frank Entertainment, which he still runs out of a New York City office. During the past 52 years, Frank has been associated with hit shows such as Lassie, Name That Tune and The Dating Game, among many others.
Always a serious, intense person, Frank took risks in order to succeed. For example, in 1970, barely in his sixth year in business, he guaranteed the William Morris Agency $1 million for the distribution rights of Bill Cosby's first off-network show. The show was difficult to sell because there were only 52 episodes, which did not fit the strip format or a once-a-week show.
It is believed that no one in the U.S. international television industry doesn't know who Sandy Frank is or something about him. He's has the highest name recognition in the industry and seemingly every one can tell a story or an anecdote about Frank, which makes him a TV pioneer who made selling entertainment actually entertaining.