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Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
William Butler Yeats "The Second Coming"
Not to get too dramatic, but the Republican victory in Massachusetts made me want to hide under the covers and never come out. Then I saw this quote and thought that one reason why the Democrats lost, in addition to tone deafness, poor campaign and candidate, and the bad economy, was that we had relatively little intensity about this campaign. What is the "revelation" for the Democrats now? Is there a possibility of a "second coming" for the Party and for health reform?
There have been and will be multitudinous analyses about this election and what it means. I could fill this blog with links to smart, sad or even funny takes on what happened.
But I'm more interested in what convictions are left in the Democratic party and how they might be manifest in finishing the job with health reform. Last week, we were literally days away from combining the House and the Senate health reform bills into a single piece of legislation. Many of the elements of contention had been sent to the CBO for review and analysis; a lot of language had been written and re-written. We were closer than we had been for 40 years. Inches, not feet, not even yards.
So what happens now? We do have at least one way forward. It's called "House passes the Senate bill and fixes it with reconciliation." This would not be as good as the compromise bill they had almost completed, but many of the key issues — how it would be paid for, how large the subsidies might be, whether there would be a public option, whether Medicare could be extended to people age 55 to 64 — could perhaps be included in a reconciliation package that would require only 51 not 60 votes. At least some of the policy wonks think so.
Do Nancy Pelosi and the House Democrats have enough "conviction" to do this? Can they get some passionate intensity around moving forward? Can the President? Not clear. Not clear at all.
I'm done with predictions. I'm totally into fantasy now. And my fantasy is that the House Democrats swallow their pride and their individual issues, pass the Senate bill, fix it with a reconciliation package and send it to the President for signature by Valentine's day. XXOO.
And my other fantasy is that Obama comes into the State of the Union speech swinging. Doesn't have to be rude. Americans don't like too much rudeness in their leaders (although, frankly, have they been listening to Limbaugh, Steele, McConnell, Boehner lately?). Obama doesn't have to put down the Republicans, he needs to put "up" what he is for. Why he ran. Why so many supported him. Maybe we thought once we elected him, we could just sit back and put our feet up and relax. No conviction needed now. No passionate intensity. Well we were wrong. If Obama and the Democrats can show some passionate intensity now, I can show some intensity in fighting for the agenda. No revelation needed. Only the second coming and finish for health reform.
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Crime Fiction Alphabet 2012 - T is for A TRICK OF THE LIGHT
I've decided that for the Crime Fiction Alphabet meme this year I will choose books I've read in 2012. So it was easy to choose the book for the letter T as it is so near the top of my 2012 list.
I read A TRICK OF THE LIGHT by Louise Penny back in January of this year and it remains one of my top reads for the year.
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The tranquillity of the little Canadian village of Three Pines is again shattered by murder. The artist Clara Morrow is celebrating her successful art exhibition with a party but others in the village and the investigative team are recovering from cataclysmic events, detailed in earlier books, that have changed their relationships forever.
The threads of continuity that come from earlier titles in the series do mean that, if you are new to the series, you should read them in order. But if someone gave you A TRICK OF THE LIGHT for Christmas or your birthday do read it now.
But I guarantee you'll want to go looking for the first in the series and then read them in order.
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Kerrie - I'm very glad you highlighted Louise Penny's work. She's such a very talented writer. Every novel draws me in...
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Balancing strong and well developed characters with an interesting mystery is hard but it sounds like A Trick of the Light pulls this off. I'll keep an eye out for Penny at the local library. Thanks.
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Indiana University has been awarded $336,000 to help launch a new experimental network research infrastructure that one day will lead to the future of the Internet.

Part of the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) Project, IU is among 29 academic and industrial research teams to receive subcontract awards totaling $12 million from BBN Technologies, an advanced technology solutions firm. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, GENI prototyping supports the development of a national-scale suite of infrastructure for experimental research in groundbreaking network science and engineering.

"GENI represents an opportunity to build a platform that will help shape the future of networks," said Jon-Paul Herron, IU's principle investigator on the GENI project and group manager of engineering for the IU Global Research Network Operations Center. "Network scientists are asking, 'If we were to build the Internet from scratch, what would it look like?' GENI is designed to provide the infrastructure network scientists will need to answer that question."

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Driscoll ousted by faith network he co-founded
Acts 29 Network, an organization that helped start and build some 500 churches around the world, said Mars Hill and Pastor Mark Driscoll are no longer among its members.
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Less than a week after protesters picketed Mars Hill Church and called for the ouster of its leader, the megachurch and its controversial pastor, Mark Driscoll, were removed from a nationwide network of churches Driscoll had helped organize.
Since it was co-founded by Driscoll 15 years ago, that umbrella organization, called Acts 29 Network, has helped start and build more than 500 churches around the world based on a shared set of core principles.
But Friday, the board of that network suggested Mars Hill had not taken strong enough actions against Driscoll after a string of allegations that he regularly bullied or shunned churchgoers and spent church funds inappropriately.
"It is our conviction that the nature of the accusations against Mark, most of which have been confirmed by him, make it untenable and unhelpful to keep Mark and Mars Hill in our network," the Acts 29 group wrote. "In taking this action, our prayer is that it will encourage the leadership of Mars Hill to respond in a distinctive and godly manner so that the name of Christ will not continue to be dishonored."
The decision, while largely symbolic, is the latest in a spate of bad news for the church Driscoll founded as a Bible study group in Wallingford 18 years ago. Today, Mars Hill claims more than 6,000 members and says as many as 13,000 people attend services at its 15 locations, most in Washington.
The church is known for its blaring rock music, its big-screen sermons and its charismatic founder, whose preaching can slip fluidly from casual or comic to thundering and who has come under fire through the years for statements he has made about homosexuality, the role of women and sensitive men.
In response to Friday's move, Mars Hill officials said they have acknowledged "unhealthy culture issues" within the church and have been working to address them.
But the church group expressed dismay that Acts 29 would dismiss Driscoll and Mars Hill without first reaching out to discuss the matter, and said the church's problems largely stem from old issues that Driscoll has long since put behind him.
"There is clear evidence that the attitudes and behaviors attributed to Mark in the charges are not a part and have not been a part of Mark's life for some time now," two members of the Mars Hill Board of Advisors and Accountability wrote in a note to church members.
But issues continue to bubble up.
Less than two weeks ago, Driscoll apologized to his congregants for "cussing" and making other crude remarks about gender roles in an online forum 14 years ago under the name William Wallace II.
Mars Hill has agreed that it used church money to have a company buy up one of Driscoll's books to boost sales. And earlier this summer, Mars Hill told church members that it had confirmed that some money given to help start churches overseas had instead gone for Mars Hill expenses.
The recent protests were sparked in part because one recent video of Driscoll himself suggested he could not respond to some criticism because it was anonymous. In response, demonstrators carried signs that read "WE ARE NOT ANONYMOUS."
Then on Thursday, a former Mars Hill member, who started attending the church in 1996 and claimed he was rebuffed when seeking help from Driscoll, urged the pastor to resign.
"The sharks are circling now, and it appears there are many who want only your destruction," former church member Ron Wheeler wrote in an open letter to Driscoll on his personal website. "I don't. I want to see brokenness, humility, and change that I can support."
But church officials have made clear that Driscoll has no plans to leave — and they have no plans to ask him to. In fact, they reminded church members that they had predicted there would be controversy from within, stating that "Friendly fire always hurts the most."
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Alonso and Webber are now the only two drivers to have won twice in the nine races so far this year and Silverstone's rain-soaked track handed both their teams their biggest points haul of the season from a single race. The Spaniard has 129 points to Webber's 116 with Vettel the only other driver with a three figure tally, on 100. With three races in quick succession this month – Germany and Hungary are on back-to-back weekends – there is the danger that by the time the teams head into the August break the championship has gone from being wide open to a two-team tussle at the front. McLaren tumbled from second to fourth overall with Hamilton now 37 points adrift of Alonso and behind both Red Bull drivers. "A pattern is sort of starting to emerge but that could be thrown out of the window quite easily at the next race," said ever-cautious Red Bull principal Christian Horner. "I think it's far too early to write off anybody in this championship." 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I think that before then, we'd been finding our way with the new regulations, but I think we understood a little bit more about the RB8 in Valencia, and that has been an on-going process here," declared Webber. McLaren, winners of the season-opener in Australia with Button, are finding the Pirelli tyres hard to fathom. Hamilton won in Germany last year and Button in Hungary and team principal Martin Whitmarsh was hopeful that upgrades would help the team get back into contention. "Sometimes you learn more from these weekends than the successful ones. I'm not seriously worried. Worry doesn't make your car go quicker. There's no magic, you've got to work on developing the car and understanding the conditions," Whitmarsh told reporters. 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Welcome to San Francisco porn studio Kink.com's new sex-ed classes for adults. Forget the sober diagrams and condom-clad bananas of your high school days; these classes feature real, live naked people having real, live sex. Instead of a sterile classroom, these workshops take place on elaborately designed porn sets (without cameras present). The class subjects range from oral sex to dirty talk, but this week I happened to attend a "g-spot and female ejaculation" class led by adult performer and director Madison Young. Our set: an ornate Edwardian living room filled with oriental rugs, red velvet curtains and dark wood paneling.
It isn't just a live sex show, though. Before any pants were removed, Young passed around a diagram of the g-spot, reviewed the anatomy, dispelled myths about female ejaculation and goaded the audience members into talking about how they liked to be touched. Then she whipped out a speculum and brought her model Ava, or "stunt pussy," up to the front of the room. In went the clear plastic device and then Ava began to stimulate herself with a Hitachi Magic Wand in an attempt at making her g-spot swell and become more visible.
The class of more than 40 people — most of them ranging in age from their 20s to 30s, and with a partner in tow — lined up patiently to get a firsthand glimpse of a stranger's g-spot. "It's this nice ruffly pink tissue," she said, pointing to the ceiling of Ava's vagina. "It's so festive!" Indeed, there was highly visible ruffly pink tissue right where the sometimes-controversial g-spot is said to exist. "I think it's so amazing that there's any dispute of the g-spot existing," she said, pointing in-between Ava's legs.
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Pope John Paul II was both a mystic and a mystery. Those are good qualities for a leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
The mystery is how a man who suffered as much as he did could emerge as a lover of God and of people. By the time he was 21, he was the sole survivor of his immediate family.
He lived through a vicious war fought in his homeland by two of the cruelest and most murderous totalitarian regimes the world has ever seen. Such a miserable environment saturated with death and destruction could easily be expected to produce at the least a cynic, if not a misanthrope. Yet it produced a man whose most signal characteristic was love for people.
"Be not afraid" was the message he often preached. Be not afraid to believe, to hope, to love, to have faith and to live. All of those things do require courage, especially in this age when the devil's new religion, Scientism, tries to convince us all that there is no God and are no mysteries.
Such a religion is a joke to anyone who is familiar with the history of science, which has had to admit far more mistakes and errors than theology. It wasn't that long ago when the "best scientific minds" thought bleeding was a cure for most diseases, and that malaria and yellow fever were caused by noxious gases arising from swamps. Even today, medicine deals mainly in palliative treatments rather than cures, and anthropologists imagine whole novels from a simple piece of bone.
True, religion is based on revelation not subject to proof by inductive reasoning. You either believe it or you don't. Much of science, however, is based on speculation also not subject to proof by inductive reasoning. Evolution and the big bang are theories, not facts. To suppose that the millions of different and complex life forms came from a single cell in a primordial soup requires a great deal more blind faith than the belief in intelligent design. As for the big bang, maybe it happened and maybe it didn't, but even if it did, it begs the question of where all the stuff that went bang came from.
There are plenty of mysteries in this world, including how so many seemingly educated people can believe in so many dumb ideas.
It's a shame that the world's press paid more attention to Pope John Paul II when he was dying than when he was living. At least, however, the attention has prompted many people to read his books and the biographies written about him.
Another great characteristic of the man was that he stuck to his guns on basic doctrine. He said no to the feminists clamoring to be ordained and no to the cafeteria Christians who want to pick and choose which parts of the revelation they believe. He criticized communism and he criticized capitalism, as any decent Christian must, for both sin against the human race. One sins out of a lust for power, and the other out of a lust for material gain.
His steadfastness attracted people who are disgusted by the universal flippy-floppiness and lies of politicians. No politician in the past or present has ever been able to draw the crowds Pope John Paul II has drawn. Even in death, he out-pulls all the celebrities in the world combined.
The next pope will have a hard row to hoe. He will be compared with John Paul, and that's unfair. The Polish pope was a unique man, and we will never see his like again. It's clear, though, that the future of the church lies, as John Paul was smart enough to see, in the Third World and not in Europe or North America. The people there have grown too secular and materialistic. The great cathedrals in Europe are largely empty, except for a few gray-hairs. Americans seem to be opting for a more emotional and fundamentalist religion. Some are even acting as if they are Christian jihadists.
Goodbye, my favorite pope. I will miss you.
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"Islam is the solution"by Uri Avnery
First, an apology: I am not going to write about the Wikileaks.
I like gossip as much as the next (wo)man. The leaks provide a lot of it, interspersed with some real information.
But there is nothing really new there. The information only confirms what any intelligent person could have worked out already. If there is anything new, it's exactly this confirmation: the world is really managed the way we thought it was. How depressing.
Four hundred years ago, Sir Henry Wotton, a British diplomat, observed that "An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." Since then, nothing has changed except that the ambassador has been joined by the ambassadress. So it is quite refreshing to listen to what they say in secret messages home, when they don't have to lie.
That said, let's move on to more important things.
The elections in Egypt, for example.
Years ago, the story goes that a Soviet citizen went to the polling station on election-day and was handed a sealed envelope to put into the ballot box.
"Aren't I allowed to see who I am voting for?" he asked.
"Of course not!" the stern-faced official retorted indignantly, "In our Soviet Union, the elections are secret!"
This could not happen in Egypt. First of all, because Egyptians are a very humorous people. If told that their elections were secret, they would burst out laughing.
Second, because they so obviously are not.
On one of my visits to Anwar Sadat's Cairo, I had the chance to witness an election day. It was a jolly occasion, more a medieval carnival than a solemn fulfillment of democratic duty. Everybody was happy.
Visiting a polling station in a village near the Giza pyramids, I was struck by this atmosphere of jolly cynicism. No one even pretended that it was serious. Good-humored soldiers guarding the locale volunteered to help old women in choosing the right ballot and putting it in the envelope.
I am not sure whether this good humor has been retained under the Mubarak regime, but the results are the same. Media editors, all appointed by the government, prevent any criticism of the government. Opposition activists are arrested well before election day (if they are not in prison already). The government party is a sorry joke. No one seriously pretends that the country is anything but a dictatorship. The upper classes like it that way, not only out of fondness for their privileges but also out of a genuine fear that under democracy, their country would elect a fundamentalist religious regime, with burqas and all.
All over the Arab world, this is a real dilemma. Free elections would bring fundamentalists to power.
During the last century, secular nationalism was in vogue. In many Arab countries, nationalist movements sprang up. Their model was the great Ataturk --- a revolutionary renovator as no other. He suppressed Islam, forbade the fez for men and the hijab for women, replaced the Arabic with the Latin script, fostered Turkish nationalism instead of the Ottoman Islamism.
This, by the way, was a model for many of us, who aspired to replace the Jewish religion and Zionist pseudo-nationalism with a healthy Hebrew territorial secular nationalism. The son of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the renovator of the modern Hebrew language, also proposed replacing the Hebrew script with a Latin one.
In Turkey, the Ataturk revolution is now threatened by the upsurge of a rejuvenated Islam. In Israel, the new Hebrew nation is under siege by a fundamentalist, aggressive Judaism. All over the Arab world, the situation is worse.
To put it bluntly: secular nationalism has not delivered. It has brought no real independence, no freedom, no economic and technological breakthrough.
In the economic sphere, no Arab country has succeeded in doing what has been done by Japan, South Korea and even Malaysia, and what is being done now by China and India. The successful Israeli example is near at hand and increases the frustration.
The dream of a secular pan-Arab union, as envisioned by Gamal Abd-al-Nasser and the original Ba'athists, is in tatters. So is the dream of Arab independence. Almost all Arab countries are backward American clients and dance to the American tune. A whole generation of Arab leaders has spectacularly failed.
The most recent example was Yasser Arafat. He created a Palestinian national movement that was proud of its non-sectarianism. Christian Arabs played a significant role in the Palestine Liberation Organization. George Habash was a Christian physician from Ramallah, the Christian Hanan Ashrawi is one of the most articulate Palestinian spokespersons.
Arafat himself was a practicing Muslim. Often, even in private conversations, he would excuse himself, disappear for a few minutes and return unobtrusively, while his assistants would whisper to us that the Ra'is was praying. Yet he never tired of assuring everyone that the future State of Palestine would be free of any religious domination.
As long as he was alive, political Islam remained a minor influence, and not because of any repressive measures.
All this is history. The Sunni Hamas ("Islamic Resistance Movement") and the Shiite Hezbollah ("Party of God") are becoming the models for masses of young people all over the Arab world.
One of the major reasons for this is Palestine.
If Arafat had succeeded in founding the free and sovereign State of Palestine, the texture of Arab politics would have changed, not only in Palestine itself but in all Arab countries.
The rise of Hamas in Palestine is a direct result of this failure. Secular Palestinian nationalism has been given a try, and has failed. The Islamic revolutionaries are appealing to a people deprived of all national and human rights, with no alternative in sight.
As the Wikileaks show (here I go, mentioning them after all) not one single Arab regime gives a damn about the Palestinians. That is nothing new --- indeed, Arafat created his movement, Fatah ("Palestinian Liberation Movement"), in order to liberate the Palestinians, first of all, from the cynical Arab regimes, all of which exploited the "Palestinian Cause" for their own ends.
But the depth of cynicism revealed in these conversations between Arab potentates and their American masters borders on outright betrayal. This will increase the already massive frustration not only in Palestine, but in all Arab countries. Any young Egyptian, Jordanian, Saudi or Bahraini (to mention only a few) must be acutely aware that his country is led by a small group for whom the preservation of their personal power and privileges is vastly more important than the holy cause of Palestine.
This is a deeply humiliating insight. It may not produce immediate results, but when hundreds of millions of people feel humiliated, the effects are foreseeable. The older generation may be used to this situation. But for young people, especially proud Arabs, it is intolerable.
I am very sensitive to this kind of feeling, because at the age of 15 I felt the same and joined the "terrorist" Irgun ("National Military Organization"). I just could not stand the sight of my leaders kowtowing before the British rulers of my country. Putting myself in the shoes of a young Arab of similar age now in Jeddah, Alexandria or Aleppo, I can just imagine what he feels. Even Ehud Barak, that veteran Arab-fighter, once said that if he were a young Palestinian, he would join a terrorist organization.
Sooner or later, the situation will explode --- first in one country, then in many. The fate of the Shah of Iran should be remembered by those who speak --- in secret documents --- about the "Iranian Hitler" who is on the verge of obtaining a nuclear bomb.
The frustration about Palestine is the immediate cause of this humiliation, being manifest for all to see, but the feeling itself goes beyond one single cause.
Secular nationalism has signally failed the Arabs. Communism has never taken root in the Islamic world, being by its very nature inimical to the basic tenets of Islam. Capitalism, while attractive to some, has also failed to solve any of the basic problems of the Arab world.
The Islamic revolutionary movement in its many forms promises a viable alternative. It is no fluke that the Egyptian dictatorship forbids the use of the slogan "Islam is the solution" --- the simple and effective slogan that unites the Islamic opposition in all the countries. There is a gaping vacuum in the Arab world, with no one there to fill it --- except Islamism.
For the United States, this is a huge challenge. Obama seemed to have perceived it, before he was swallowed --- head and body --- by the American political routine.
Everybody seems to be talking about the Decline of the American Empire. It's all the rage. What's happening in the Arab world may accelerate or slow this process. The creation of a sovereign, free and viable State of Palestine --- with the electrifying effect this would have throughout the Arab region, indeed the entire Islamic world --- would slow it considerably.
Judging from these leaks, this seems very far from the minds of American statesmen and stateswomen, such as they are.
For Israel, the outlook is even grimmer. The prospect of a fundamentalist Arab world, with a completely new and popular set of leaders, surrounding us on all sides, with the power of America (and its Jewish lobby) declining ever more, is a frightening prospect indeed.
If I were responsible for Israel at this moment, I would worry about this much more than about the Iranian bomb.
Fortunately, this is not an inescapable danger. Israeli policy can do a lot to avert it. Unfortunately, we are doing the exact opposite.
To those who chant "Islam is the solution," our answer should be: "A just peace is the solution."
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Supervisory Naval Architect Morton Gertler directs Instrument Maker Carson W. Caudle in preparing a model of the submarine for further tests at the David Taylor Model Basin, Carderock, Maryland, 1 March 1956.
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Malcolm Fowler's Map of pre-1748 grants in Bladen/Cumberland County, NC (opens in new tab)
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Location of Roger McNeill Meeting House on Cape Fear River
1834 Cumberland, Robeson and Richmond County lines
John McPherson, Jr.'s home and lands (grandson of Old John McPherson of the Argyll Colony)
1863 Colton Map of of area around Fayetteville in Cumberland County, NC
Area south and west of Red Springs, Great Desert, and the Blackfork region of upper Robeson County, NC
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Map of lands and location of the home of James McNeill of Rockfish Creek
Location of Job's Branch, the seat of Neill McNeill's lands in Hoke County, NC
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map below (I've created links within it) is a small section of a larger map, one of several created by Malcolm Fowler before 1980 as a result of his research on the early families of the Argyll Colony. This is Fowler's McKethan map and was created to show McKethan tracts around the Bluff area — also showing McAlesters and McNeills — including grants that pre-date the Argyll Colony of 1739.
1834 Cumberland, Robeson and Richmond County lines
The northern corner of Robeson and the southwestern corner of Cumberland were taken from both counties to form Hoke County in 1911. I failed to find the source for this map, except the year the map was created. If anyone can identify this map, please contact me with that information. Thanks!
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1825 Tax List for the Rockfish District
John McPherson, Jr.s 1829 Cumberland County tax entry, shown below, is shown because it has been believed that there were two John McPhersons who were neighbors at this time, and whose names were recorded adjacent to one another in the 1820 census. This double entry for John McPherson in the census (one on Rockfish and one on Beaver Creek a few miles away) only meant that he owned two separated tracts in the same district; indeed, the Beaver Creek tract appears to have had a household upon it. The total acreage of the two tracts was 1326 acres. The tax entry for 1829 and the years preceeding it clearly show there was only one John McPherson with 1326 acres of land. His 1829 estate record further proves this.
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Notice that Little Raft Swamp and McPhaul's Mill Swamp are the same watercourse. The Blackfork region, the wedge of land between Big and Little Raft Swamps, is in the top right quarter of the map. The broad delineations are township boundaries. Also, Richland Swamp, shown below running through Brown's Pond at Philadephus, was known in early records as Scolding Branch.
The McNeill section of McCaskill's cemetery at Philippi Church in Cumberland County, NC.
This cemetery is within two miles or so of Raeford, NC, at Philippi Presbyterian Church. It is possibly where Turquill McNeill of the Argyll Colony is buried, as well as James McNeill of Rockfish Creek (aka 'Jimmie McNeill of McCaskills Creek'.), and other local Scots of their time.
Click the image of the little grave with the sandstone marker to see the inscription. The inscription had flour rubbed into it to make it more readable. It says "J. McNeill APTH 1800." APTH may be a misspelling of "tomb" or "burial." This is likely the grave of James McNeill of Rockfish Creek. My mother wrote before her death that her grandfather, J.F. "Frank" McKay (1849-1941), told her that James McNeill came to America in 1740.
The grave of Duncan McNeill, Sr. is that of "Long Duncan" McNeill; Long Duncan's wife Margaret (daughter of James McNeill of Rockfish Creek) is buried beside him. Long Duncan McNeill was the son of Turquill McNeill of the Argyll Colony.
Archibald "Archie Ghar" McNeill was buried in this cemetery with his wife, Barbara Patterson McNeill (which is near "Long Duncan" McNeill's grave) but, today, his tombstone is missing.
A section of the 1884 McDuffie map of Cumberland County, NC, showing the general location of two McPherson families' landholdings (written over in red) west of Fayetteville and the Cape Fear River.
One is just left of center, and the other is right above it near the top. The McPherson lands at the top combine the Malcolm McPherson and Alexander McPherson of Jura lands. The McPherson lands toward the bottom are the lands of Old John McPherson who entered tracts to be surveyed in 1753; the small cross beneath that area is the site of McPherson Presbyterian Church, the lands of which were donated in 1802 by Colin McPherson, the grandson of Old John McPherson of the Argyll Colony.
A map of the lands and homesite area of James McNeill of Rockfish and his wife Elizabeth (nee McNeill) McNeill.
James McNeill of Rockfish is known to have lived inside Cumberland County near McCaskills Bridge on Big Rockfish Creek but probably below Philippi Church and cemetery. Most all of his lands were in Robeson County on the opposite side of Big Rockfish. Philippi cemetery, originally called McCaskills cemetery, was an early burial place for Scottish settlers. The map has links within it to information about some of the McNeills shown. The men shown come from the research of Dan MacMillan of Fayetteville who placed them on one of his maps that I used for my research on James McNeill and some of his neighbors. I'm particularly interested in the Hector McNeill near Lauchlin Cameron just south of Dukeminers Branch. I believe this Hector wrote his will in 1778 naming his wife Margaret and leaving slaves to the Bluff McNeills and a John Johnston. He mentions Lauc Cameron and his mother Isabella Buie.
Location of Job's (or Jobe's) Branch, the seat of Neill McNeill's lands in Hoke County, NC.
It also could be the location of "Neill McNeill's burial ground" mentioned by Col. Neil Buie in his 1828 deposition which provided details about the time and burial place of Daniel and Marian McNeill McPherson's young son Archibald.
According to James M. Roberts in his history of the descendants of Sailor Hector McNeill, Sailor Hector's father Neill McNeill was buried "in front of 'Big Will' McNeill's house on Duffie Road, Robeson County, N.C." Is Roberts's statement incorrect about the house being in Robeson—could it have been in southern Hoke County? It was in the Job's Branch area, but where exactly was "Big Will" McNeill's house located?
The surveyor's plat below is found in a folder called "John McPherson, 1840" under "Civil Actions Concerning Land" in the Robeson County records at the NC Dept. of Archives and History. I recommend such records to any researcher for all the genealogical and property information that can determine land location, vanished landmark names, time of purchase and purchasee, and possibly distribution by heirs of the original owner(s).
This map shows in detail the disjointed grants and tracts bought by Old John McPherson and his son Daniel dating from the 1760s up to around the time of Old John's death in 1791. The land between the various plats was by 1820 entirely owned by the McPherson family, and the whole as shown below is half of the McPherson family estate disputed from about 1823 until 1845 by Catherine McPherson Brown and Gilbert Gilchrist. The other half—some 1100 acres owned by Hugh and Colin McPherson from 1796 until 1823 when they were both deceased—adjoins the lands shown below on their left edge and likewise lay between the Lumberton Road and Raft Swamp, and continued beyond the location of the bridge at Juniper Branch and the Raft Swamp further on. There appears to have been a Juniper Branch on both sides of the Raft Swamp and they drained into the swamp at the same place, but I may be wrong about this.
The "old plantation", centrally located in the middle of the map, is probably the first tract purchased by Old John McPherson upon settling in Bladen County in the mid-1760s, and which he probably acquired at the same time he bought the Moses Bass tract (Moses Bass owned a mill in this region and lived on this tract in 1758). McPherson's log home was located in this irregular-shaped tract on its far right side, marked by a tiny box. The Big Pond and the Bear Pond are now gone, certainly drained and cleared by subsequent owners, but which can be seen on the topozone map (see next map below) if it is compared with the hand drawn map shown here.
With regard to the two maps below, it should be noted that Juniper Branch, now located as a branch draining into the Raft Swamp from its south side, was originally the small branch draining into the Raft Swamp from its north side (see topozone map below). I have come to suspect that at the time the McPhersons owned this land, Juniper Branch drained into the Raft Swamp from the north and south side of the swamp because there the topo map below shows that a branch did at one time drain into the swamp on the north side of the swamp directly across from today's Juniper Branch on the south side.
This entire estate was located just above the current intersection called McLeod's Crossing in northern Robeson County, just east of Red Springs. McLeod's Crossing was called "Godfrey's Crossing" as it was the crossing of the Old Lowery Road and Lumberton-Carthage Road where Godfrey McNeill's house stood. It has been said the house standing there today on a rise near the intersection's northeast corner was indeed Godfrey McNeill's house, but this is yet to be proven. In the late 1700s, other neighbors in this area included the families: Council, Peter Dallas, Henderson, "Big John" Johnston, Daniel Johnston, Alexander McArthur, Peter and wife Peggy Campbell McArthur (2nd McArthur link), John McBryde, Daniel McIntaggart, Godfrey McNeill and Malcolm Munroe and Peter Munroe.
Topozone.com is a very good site with which you can match current topography with surveyor's plats. Compare the map below with the plat of Old John's land just above. The town of Shannon is almost due north of the red cross, which is the site of Old John McPherson's cabin.
At the bottom of the map is the reputed homesite of Godfrey McNeill, at what was called Godfrey's Crossing and is now referred to as McLeod's Crossing. This crossing is the intersection of the old Lowry Road (Hwy 1505) and the Carthage to Lumberton Stage Coach Road (Hwy 1001).


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Lawsuits filed in 2010 by Craig Air Center and Sky Harbor Corp to force the city of Jacksonville to extend the runway of Jacksonville Executive at Craig Airport are dead.
The plaintiffs won't pursue them in federal appeals court.
The Jacksonville Port Authority said extending the 4,000 foot runway by 1,600 feet would allow for more and larger planes, which would be an economic development boon.
Opponents said the larger planes would be louder, and the increased air traffic would mean a higher risk of a plane going down in one of the surrounding neighborhoods.
The City Council approved the extension despite several big protests, but several members soon announced they would change their votes.
Before it could come back for a second vote, JaxPort withdrew the bill.
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Speakers in the conference include many DSU alumni and former students including Danielle Rosheim, Projects and Marketing Coordinator at Heartland Consumers Power District, a public power company in Madison, S.D. and owner of Striped Banana Photography and Design; Chad Hunt, Game Entertainment Director for the Sioux Falls Sky Force; Quinn Kathner, owner of Surf's Up Interactive a web design firm located in downtown Sioux Falls, S.D.; Jeff Sampson, owner of Jeff Sampson Photography in Sioux Falls, S.D.; Doug Wire, motion graphics artist and a 3D generalist for Keyframe, a division of Daktronics, in Brookings, S.D. and Derek Soukup from Lawrence and Schiller.
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In a fairly lackluster episode of Community, the group is secluded within the study room until Annie can find out who stole her purple pen (assuming she didn't have it herself). Now when I say "lackluster," please take that as a comparison to other Community episodes. I'm sure I'll still watch this episode a few more times before even tapping into any other Thursday night programming that I've DVR'd — that, my friends, is the power and greatness of Community.
When the group is getting ready to leave the study room and view the highly anticipated "Puppy Parade," Annie announces that someone has stolen her favorite purple pen. Apparently this is not the first time this has happened and this pen is the straw that broke the camel's back. She immediately demands a thorough search and investigation in to the whereabouts of her special writing utensil.
The doors are locked, the room barricaded and the hunt begins. Annie goes as far as demanding everyone empty their bags and purses and, eventually, pushes the envelope further with a strip search (boys on one side of the room and girls on the other, of course). The search gets out of hand as everyone soon finds out more about each other than they needed to know — for example, emptying Abed's contents reveals his perfectly constructed chart of each female group member's menstrual cycle. Don't worry; he has an excellent explanation for this.
The invasion of privacy and continuing curiosity of who the culprit brings everyone to a state of hysteria and madness — as the episode progresses, Annie ends up being the least concerned when she sees what this has done to everyone. It is Jeff, however, who truly realizes what everyone has become and provides the group with his "winners speech to take us home" (quoting Abed).
Jeff explains that the lengths they have gone (to the point where the cut Pierce's leg casts off) to find this pen is so insane that the thought of a ghost entering the room and taking it actually seems more likely. He settles everyone down, puts a smile on their faces and everyone accepts that they are decent people and wouldn't lie or steal from each other. Of course there was no ghost; the darn monkey had been stealing these pens all along! He has an entire heating vent full of miscellaneous, stolen goods!
Fortunately, the episode concludes with a peak in on the puppy parade with hilarious commentary from Dean Pelton. My favorite line from the episode came from Abed when the Dean entered the study room post-search:
The dean asks what the hell they did in there, to which Abed responds with "something you and your puppies could only dream of you non-miraculous son of a bitch."
Still my favorite show on television, even if I did see this as a weaker episode. What did you think?
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Last night, Nine Inch Nails treated a select group of fans to an intimate club show at L.A.'s Troubadour, during which they paired old classics with new material from the group's latest album, Hesitation Marks. The crowd was pulverized by Reznor and Co.'s loud live gig, but thankfully, they were still able to flood social network platforms with a bevy of fantastic Instagrams and Vines. To get a feel of how special this show was, check out this collection of 17 fantastic fan shots.


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Working as a personal fitness trainer for many years, Markus Bender understands the importance of proper fitting performance underwear and active wear. Out of personal necessity in 2002, Bender created the ultimate fit boxer-brief.
The luxurious fabric, trendy look, and the fabulous fit are some of the signature elements Bender uses for his collection. His devotion to creating an eco-friendly products set him apart from his competition, and has earned him a spot at the prestigious Neiman Marcus stores, as well as at the incredible 'Under U4 Men' stores located in Seattle and Portland.
Made in the USA, Bender uses a fabric called Tencel, which is made from Eucalyptus trees. The fabric's ability to be more absorbing, breathable and durable put the Bend the Rules collection above any cotton underwear. These unique factors also place this new collection of underwearas the superior brand in the performance category.
Growing up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Bender knows what it takes to be successful. His dedication and commitment to the work required to design and produce the Bend the Rules label is the reason why the brand has become so successful. In a recent interview with PINK, designer Marcus Bender shared some inside information about his company.
PINK: Was the packaging of Bend The Rules intented to look like a Bible?
Markus: Yes, it was intentional. I designed it to look like srcipture––except it's the 'Bend the Rules' Scripture. The underlying message is that we all Bend the Rules and perhaps scripture also needs to bend the rules at times as well. Perhaps it's gay marriage or allowing priests to marry.
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Markus:My inspiration comes from people. I'm a people watcher and I am also into fitness. I love to travel and look at what people are wearing. I get inspired by knowing how I can make someone look better when wearing my designs.
PINK: Describe the typical Bend the Rules customer.
Markus: A guy who is active, knows true quality, and appreciates the finer things in life. He's Intelligent and sophisticated, but also a rebel at heart. As far as age, I really can't say if we have a typical customer. I have had young men tell me they love BtR, but I have also had older men tell me it makes them look and feel great to wear BtR. I even had a well-known actor switch from the famous brand he had been wearing for 8 years and is now exclusively a BtR customer.
PINK: How did you discover the fabric Tencel?
Markus: Personally, I felt most underwear fabric just did not cut it for a guy who leads an active lifestyle like me. I methodically searched for a fabric that would give me superior performance with extreme comfort. I discovered that Tencel, which is derived entirely from eucalyptus, is extremely breathable, absorbing, and naturally anti-bacterial––all features that make for a fabulous garment for the active guy. I spent over a year perfecting it. I wanted it to last, feel luxurious, and give great comfort and support. I kept testing until I got it right.
PINK: Was it easy to get your line into Neiman Marcus? Was the line an over-night sucsess?
Markus: Neiman Marcus now carriers my label, although I don't think anything happens over night when dealing with a national chain. However, they were quick to recognize the quality and comfort which Bend the Rules is all about.
Markus: Being recognized by an upscale high-end national retailer such as Neiman Marcus definitely helps put Bend the Rules on the map as a serious brand in the apparel industry. Continued growth in the direction of select upscale stores in key cities domestically and abroad are already taking place.
PINK: What's your opinion on fashion reality TV, and would you consider being on one?
Markus: I can not tell a lie––I never watch any of those shows! I do, however, have lots of friends who are avid fans. And even though I don't watch them, I would consider taking part. After all, life is an adventure, and delving into the unknown can be rewarding.
PINK: Do you think men use their underwear to their advantage?
Markus: I would love it if more men were as meticulous in looking as great in underwear as women.
Women use underwear to enhance their sexuality, while men just wear it to cover up. However, more and more men are waking up to the fact that when you take your clothes off, you want what is underneath those expensive designer jeans to look just as good. Men also need to use their sex appeal.
PINK: What's the ideal male body to design for?
Markus: Personally, I enjoy designing for guys who are active and who are in decent to great shape. PINK: Any final thoughts you'd like to share with our readers before saying goodbye?
Markus: Yes! Wearing Bend the Rules is an experience unlike any other and they will literally last years. The more you wear them, the better they feel.
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