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Shadow Game
by Christine Feehan
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The government is experimenting again and you guessed it, something has gone wrong. A specially recruited group of psychic men from the Special Forces headed by Captain Ryland Miller have agreed to have their psychic abilities enhanced, thus the "Ghostwalkers" are created. Greed breeds evil and when mixed with the military you can be assured their inherent need for secrecy will add another layer of problems. I didn't expect to like this book so much and it's obvious to me that she's setting up for another series with these characters. I'll be waiting for the next book.
This was the first Romance novel I ever read, and it got me hooked on Paranormal Romance for life. It really got me started on wanting to become a novelist and to be able to make readers feel the way I felt when I would get lost in the pages of this book for hours on end. Feehan is an excellent author with great attention to detail and a unique story that keeps readers intrigued. I would absolutely pass this book on to a friend and can only hope to write something this attention grabbing for my readers in the future.
When the heroine is asked by her father for her expertise on his project, she is proud to think he values her opinion. Loving her father and loving up to him career wise doesn't change the fact that he is emotionally distant at best and totally forgetful and absent at most. She's invited deep into the secret world of genetically engineered soldiers and in that facility she meets the hero. He isn't what the world would consider hansom yet from the very second she locked eyes with him she felt connected to the man in the cage. He touches her mind with his, they speak secretly under the noses of her father and the guard and though she tries to remain detached he can feel every single one of her emotions good and bad and has locked his target on her. The hero, responsible for why he and his team have been experimented on, tortured and imprisoned for years, feels guilty and wil do anything to escape. He sees the beautiful yet vulnerable woman for who she is and knows she's met to be his. Though he feels hatred towards her father, he grieves for her while she grieves the old man's death. He wasn't perfect as a father yet she still loved him and his death shatters her world. But it's only after his death that she begins to learn the truth regarding the man she thought of as her father. He was an evil man. He experimented on children, herself included-trying to push her abilities and mold her into a soldier. He tortured the hero and his men, playing with their brain until some lost themselves to insanity or their brains just shut down with the strain. The heroine is torn between the love she felt for a man she barely knew and the realization of just how hated her was. Throughout the journey to discover who murdered him, she has the hero to be her rock. Breaking out of their prison and hiding in her house, the heroine and hero explore this strange yet all consuming desire to be with each other. Both possess heightened abilities and the heroine fears that anything between them is only cold science not love but the hero knows that their connection runs deep in his very soul and that what he feels for her is real and true. Once again I found myself struggling to connect to the characters and their personalities though I'd rate this higher than the other books I've read. I think it's the writing style that puts me off. The long dramatic dialogue, the over the top desire and craving from the hero and the repetition of conversations make it a hardship to remain lost in the story. I found myself skipping pages knowing that I won't be missing anything. That being said the story wasn't a complete write off. There were some pleasant moments between the main characters that I adored and the action scenes were exciting and a bit of a lifter upper for the book. I can say that I enjoyed the light hearted conversations the characters had here and there which showed that this author does know how to write it just that I wish there was more to it you know? I never truly feel like the hero and heroine really get to know each other and fall in love- rather their romance just seems to happen. Overall, I thought this book was alright. I liked the fact that the villain Whitney is portrayed as a man who could possible have some good in him-something shown to be false in the books to follow.
Not my style of writing, maybe? Way more romance novel (like what I always pictured trashy romance novels to be like, but I haven't read them) feel to it than I expected. I liked the characters and the concept -- but it just wasn't believable to me (believable in the world of paranormal fiction), and I felt myself forced to keep reading just to finish. I'm confused about all the 5-star ratings....
Love the cover of this edition but when I opened it up to the first page, my heart dropped. The small font combined with almost non-existent line spacing made this reader-unfriendly. The words looked like they'd been desperately crammed on to the page and though environmentally friendly, using fewer pages, it's not something I'd expect from well-established publishers. It made this book seem almost never-ending considering the total number of pages.
Anyway, on to the actual story. This one was "love at first sight" and not the normal kind either, this was insta-love. I swear, if Lily's father and associates hadn't been in the room when Lily and Ryland met, they'd have been trying to get busy through the bars of his cell. No getting to know one another, no slow build up, just bang instant life-long partners.
Despite this unusual lack of romance considering the genre, the science behind these Ghostwalkers was intriguing and perhaps may even explain why there was no courting period: apparently it's possible Lily's father scientifically-engineered the incredibly strong attraction between his daughter and the Captain. Kind of scary to have no choice in the matter, huh?
That's the kind of man her father is, or was. The things he did in the name of his research, his selfish curiosity, were terrifying. He gave no thought to morals or ethics. That's not to say he did these things to be malicious, to take pleasure in others' pain, he only cared about results. If he had to bully a child, cause her pain, to get what he needed, it didn't matter to him. This made him by far the most interesting character and to see his past revealed to Lily, who was horrified but continued to love him in spite of his inhumane deeds.
I'll be continuing the series but hopefully we'll see more romance in the next one.
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4. The Gamblers
"Won't you come over to see me to-night? Just a friendly little game, my dear-
-our own crowd, you know."
There was something in the purring tone of the invitation of the woman across
the hall from Constance Dunlap's apartment that aroused her curiosity.
"Thank you. I believe I will," answered Constance. "It's lonely in a big city
without friends."
"Indeed it is," agreed Bella LeMar. "I've been watching you for some time and
wondering how you stand it. Now be sure to come, won't you?"
"I shall be glad to do so," assured Constance, as they reached their floor and
parted at the elevator door.
She had been watching the other woman, too, although she had said nothing
about it.
"A friendly little game," repeated Constance to herself. "That sounds as if it
had the tang of an adventure in it. I'll go."
The Mayfair Arms, in which she had taken a modest suite of rooms, was a
rather recherche apartment, and one of her chief delights since she had been
there had been in watching the other occupants.
There had been much to interest her in the menage across the hall. Mrs.
Bella LeMar, as she called herself, was of a type rather common in the city,
an attractive widow on the safe side of forty, well- groomed, often daringly
gowned. Her brown eyes snapped vivacity, and the pert little nose and racy
expression of the mouth confirmed the general impression that Mrs. LeMar
liked the good things of life.
Quite naturally, Constance observed, her neighbor had hosts of friends who
often came early and stayed late, friends who seemed to exude, as it were,
an air of prosperity and high living. Clearly, she was a woman to cultivate.
Constance felt even more interest in her, now that Mrs. LeMar had pursued a
bowing acquaintance to the point of an unsolicited invitation.
"A friendly little game," she speculated. "What IS the game?"
That night found Constance at the buzzer beside the heavy mahogany door
across the hall. She wore a new evening gown of warm red. Her face glowed
with heightened color, and her nerves were on the qui vive for the unlocking
at last of the mystery of the fascinating Mrs. LeMar.
"So glad to see you, my dear," smiled Bella, holding out her hand engagingly.
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Already several of the guests had arrived. There was an air of bonhomie as
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Ramona "Mona" Baumann, 85, moved into Hart Park Square senior community in February 2011. Two weeks later, her husband of 63 years, Basil, unexpectedly passed away. The couple had eight children, 17 grandchildren, and 11 great-grandchildren.
Raymond Kaas, 91, and his wife Evelyn had been living at Hart Park Square for four years at the time Ramona moved in. Several months later, Evelyn became ill and passed away. They were married for 63 years and had four children and four grandchildren.
The widow and widower soon became friends, and a relationship blossomed. It all started when Mona put a sympathy card in Ray's mailbox after he lost his wife. Shortly thereafter, they began socializing with mutual friends at the senior community and became inseparable.
"We often talked and joked about getting married," Ray said.
But Mona stressed that she did not want to get married out of loneliness: "It wasn't until Ray went away for a week to visit his brother in South Carolina that I knew I wanted to marry him. He called me every single night and even sent me a dozen roses while he was away."
When Ray came back from his trip, the couple was seriously discussing marriage, but out of respect for their children, they wanted to wait at least a year since the loss of their spouses. Eventually Ray picked out a diamond ring for Mona. The Saturday before Easter, he invited her to his apartment, got down on one knee and proposed like a true gentleman.
Originally, the wedding was to take place at St. Bernard Church in Wauwatosa. However, the couple has so many friends at Hart Park Square, they decided to have the wedding and reception there. The Rev. Peter Drenzek, the retired St. Bernard pastor who does weekly Mass at Hart Park Square, married the couple at 1 p.m. Aug. 18, 2012.
Robert Kaas, Ray's son, served as best man, and Julie Baumann, Mona's daughter, was maid of honor.
Mona wore a light pink dress with matching jacket and carried a bouquet of pink and white roses. Her son David Baumann walked her down the aisle.
A reception followed with 100 guests, including all 12 of the couple's children and their families.
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DeWitt Colony People & Demographics
Previous page--Slavery in Early Texas by Lester Bugbee
Some alarm had been created among the American settlers by the rumor that it was the intention of the Mexican leaders to introduce into the federal constitution a clause abolishing slavery. At the invitation of the acting political chief of Texas, the inhabitants of Austin's Colony held a mass meeting on June 5, 1824, to formulate instructions for the guidance of the representative of Coahuila and Texas in the Constituent Congress. At this meeting two subjects were considered--the tobacco monopoly of the government and slavery, and a memorial on each was addressed to Congress. The memorial on slavery asked that the slaves of the three hundred families settled in Texas be exempted from any emancipation provision that might be made by Congress; it appealed to the guarantee made by the colonization law, under which most of the settlers had felt safe in bringing their slaves with them; it laid emphasis upon the fact that such labor was necessary in clearing and cultivating their farms; and assured the government that no slaves had been brought into the country for speculative purposes.
Although the Congress passed no law prohibiting settlers from bringing their slaves into Texas, the attitude of the Mexican people soon became well known in the United States and materially injured the Texas settlements. People were slow to put in jeopardy such valuable property as their slaves. Exaggerated rumors became current everywhere, and from all quarters letters came to Austin asking for more definite information in regard to the matter. The following extract from a letter from J. A. R Phelps of Missouri, to Austin will serve to show how this decree against the slave trade became distorted by the United States newspapers.
Nothing appears at present, he wrote, to prevent a portion of our wealthy planters froin emigrating immediately to the province of Texas but the uncertainty now prevailing with regard to the subject of slavery. There has been a paragraph that has gone the round of nusepaper publication in the United States, perporting to be an extract from a Mexican paper; which precludes the introduction of Negro property into the Mexican Republick, without exception; Subjecting the persons so offending to the severest penalties, and also immediate emansipation of those slaves now belonging to the citizens of the province of Texas; and freedom to the slave that touches the soil of Mexico. If this be a fact, it will check the tide of emigrating spirits at once; and indeed it has had its influence already.
Rumors even more adverse to the settlement had already become current in Alabama. A letter to Austin from George Nixon, of that state, dated November 14, 1823, had this to say:
I think It my Dutey to say to you that the Genral [General Eugenio Cortez, on his way to Philadelphia, but forced to put into Mobile for repairs], Sayes to me that all Negrow in the Provances of Mexico are free, and that Slavery will not be Premited and that you have No author to Grant Lands Nor inVite Settlers to the Provance.
The interests of the colony perhaps suffered more from partial or exaggerated reports in the two sections just mentioned than elsewhere in the United States. But from all quarters came inquiries as to the present status of slavery and the probable future legislation of the Mexican nation. It must not be understood, however, that these reports altogether stopped immigration; Texas was being peopled in spite of the uncertainty about slavery. The Mexican authorities in Texas were not ignorant of the fact that the incoming colonists were bringing slaves with them, and yet they continued to encourage immigration, not regarding the introduction of slaves by their owners removing to Mexico as a violation of the decree of July 13, 1824.
It is now time to inquire into the attitude of the state government of Coahuila and Texas towards slavery, and to follow briefly the acts of the state Congress. By the Acta Constitutiva, January 31, 1824, the provinces of Coahuila, Texas and Nuevo Leon were united into one state under the title "Eastern Internal." By decree of May 7, 1824, Nuevo Leon was made a separate state, Coahuila and Texas remaining united. The old name was dropped and the state was known as Coahuila and Texas. The federal constitution adopted five months later approved this arrangement and Coahuila and Texas continued legally united until the Revolution. The Constituent Congress of the state met in August, 1824, and remained in session till June, 1827. The colonization law - under which all the contracts in Texas, except Austin's first, were made - was approved March 24, 1825 . This was one of the most liberal invitations ever issued by a nation to foreigners. Grants of land, to which the adjective "princely" may in truth be applied, were offered almost for the asking. As those who passed the law were well aware that it was directed chiefly to the Americans, it cannot be said with any semblance of support that the Mexicans had yet come to regard the Americans with jealousy or suspicion. Nor could they have felt much alarm at the introduction of the slaves, who they knew were every day being brought across the border. The slavery question, which was inseparably connected with the colonization of the provinces, was dismissed, so far as the state colonization law is concerned, as follows:
Art. 46. In respect to the introduction of slaves, the new settlers shall subject themselves to the laws that are now, and shall hereafter be established on the subject.
This was understood to amount practically to a declaration of at least temporary toleration, not only of slavery, but also of the further introduction of slaves by incoming settlers. It is true that this view is open to objection if we regard the national law of July 13, 1824, as does Professor von Holst, as excluding the introduction of slaves into all other colonies, by making a special exception of the isthmus of Tehuantepec. The matter need not, however, be discussed at this point, since the interpretation put upon that law a little later by Austin and the state Congress will perhaps aid us in passing final judgment.
The Congress made slow progress in the matter of framing the constitution of the state; but it soon became known that the body was hostile to slavery. The alarm was sounded through Texas; and, as usual, exaggerated rumors flew from settlement to settlement, until many of the slaveholders actually began to make preparations to return to the United States. Even Austin seems to have been much affected by the panic, as he faced the possibility of losing his most valuable colonists, and in consequence was plunged into one of those fits of gloom which sometimes settled heavily upon his heart. He drew up a strong memorial, which was pronounced by his Bexar friends to be algo duro and forwarded it through the political chief to Congress. The Americans in Texas, of course, warmly supported Austin's view. The Spanish leaders in Bexar were but little behind in endorsing the sentiments of the empresario. There has been, it appears, a general misapprehension as to the relations existing at that time between the Spanish and American elements in Texas. Instead of being hostile to the interests of the colony, the citizens of Bexar were willing to go almost as far as the American settlers in asking the government to grant toleration to slavery. When an adverse report on this subject was made to Congress in the form of the first draft of the thirteenth article of the constitution, the Bexar authorities at once interested themselves to have the objectionable article eliminated. Austin's brother, then in Bexar, wrote as follows:
The Ayuntamiento of this place presented a memorial to the Legislature as soon as the project arrived praying that the discussion on that important point might be suspended until they could have time to consider upon it, and inform the other Ayuntamientos of the Department that they might do the same. Since then they have given it the attention it merited - and by the last mail have sent up a representation couched in the strongest language they could express in favor of the admission in the New Colonies - they declare it to be indispensable for the prosperity of this Department; in fact they have said all they can say as to the project of freeing the slaves of the 300 families they declare it to be an unjust abuse of the rights of the Colonists.
In such language the brother of the empresario expressed his satisfaction as to the attitude of the Mexican officials in San Antonio. Austin felt that a crisis had been reached. Writing to one of his agents, who was making contracts for him in the United States while the matter was pending in Congress, he insisted that it be explained to the families who were then about to start to Texas, and said that he would in no manner be held accountable or censurable for embarrassments arising from the slow action of the government. The constitution, he explained, was under discussion and the slavery question was yet undecided; he believed that the unrestricted admission of slaves would not be permitted, though most probably those then in the colony would remain slaves for life.
In addition to his exhortations addressed to the Texas representative and the memorial which he directed to Congress, Austin felt that a personal agent in the capital was necessary to the interests of Texas. His brother, James Brown Austin, was selected for this mission. After remaining for some time in Bexar, probably with good effect, Brown Austin reached the capital in September. He found Congress almost unanimous on the subject of slavery, and was at once convinced that "the most that can be obtained is permission for the three hundred families to hold their slaves." The anti-slavery men were led by the deputy Carrillo, who seems to have been the controlling spirit in the body. It was believed by Brown Austin that all the members except Bastrop and one or two others had been bought by this aspiring leader. At all events, they were under his control. The only man in the body that defended the slave interest was the Baron de Bastrop, the Texas representative; and nobly did he work for what he believed to be the welfare of his adopted section. "The Viejo is very warm on the subject," wrote Brown Austin from Bexar to his brother, after having seen a letter from Bastrop to Cavallos, which in some way had fallen into the hands of the political chief of Texas; "I know not what would have been our fate if he had not been a member of the legislature. Our situation would have been a deplorable one indeed."
It would be interesting to follow the debates on this topic, but the want of the printed journals leaves us to conjecture as best we may the various forms assumed by the thirteenth article of the constitution before it was finally incorporated in that instrument. Certainly a movement was on foot to abolish slavery altogether, even to the extent of emancipating the slaves of the first settlers. "At all events, if it comes to the worst," were the words of Brown Austin, "and the slaves of the 300 families are freed, we have a right to appeal to Congress - where I am convinced all will go right." Bastrop's tireless exertions, the presence of Brown Austin in the capital, and the strong remonstrances which came from a united Texas, probably had considerable effect in moderating the demands of the extreme party. The Baron even went so far in his loyalty to Texas as to threaten that he would withhold his signature from the finished constitution, if it contained an article freeing the slaves of the Texas colonists. Brown Austin reported that the representation of his brother so clearly demonstrated the injustice of such an act "that the Author of the Article himself [Carrillo] asked permission to withdraw it." The substance of the article thus withdrawn is not stated; but perhaps we should not fly wide of the mark if we should guess that it was a clause emancipating all slaves in Texas. The withdrawal of the article, whatever it may have been, by Carrillo seems to have marked the crisis in the discussion of the matter. The slaves then in Texas were not to be freed. It remained to settle the status of the children born of slaves after their removal to the state, and to pass upon the question of the further introduction of slaves by incoming settlers.
The leaders of the Texas party seemed to have realized, from the first, that it would be useless to contend for the continuation of their property rights in the generation born of slave parents in Texas after the publication of the constitution. They did try, however, to claim as much service from that generation as possible. Brown Austin urged Congress to consider the wisdom of retaining the children under the master's supervision until they had acquired some "useful branch of industry whereby they might gain a livelihood - instead of becoming vagabonds and rogues." He believed that no such useful branch of industry could be acquired if they were freed at birth or fourteen, and suggested instead that they should be compelled to remain with their masters till they were twenty one or even twenty-five. He laid emphasis, too, upon the injustice of compelling the master to maintain the children of the slaves during the period when their support could be little less than a total loss, without providing some means of compensation, as by extending their period of compulsory service till the owner had been remunerated. He found the members inclined to listen to his arguments, and he left Saltillo indulging the pleasing thought that he had probably been instrumental in preserving to the Texas settlers the labor of the next generation of negroes till they had reached the age of twenty-one or twenty-five. His hopes proved wholly unfounded; the thirteenth article provided that after the promulgation of the constitution the children of all slaves should be free at birth.
Bastrop had early come to the conclusion that a further introduction of slaves into Texas would be strictly forbidden. We have as yet no knowledge of the considerations which moved Congress to postpone the effective operation of the thirteenth article for six months after the publication of the constitution, during which time slaves might be freely brought into the republic. Probably it was urged upon the notice of that body that many settlers were on their way to Texas, who might reach the border before hearing of the new constitution, and would then be compelled either to return or to lose their slaves. Simple justice required that ample notice be given to intending immigrants. The thirteenth article, as it was finally adopted and as it appeared in the constitution, which was published March 11, 1827, reads as follows:
Art. 13. From and after the promulgation of the Constitution in the capital of each district, no one shall be born a slave in the state, and after six months the introduction of slaves under any pretext shall not be permitted.
Six months later the Congress issued a decree for carrying into effect the provisions of the above article. The municipalities were ordered to make a list of all slaves within their limits, the deaths and births were to be reported to the state government every three months and a careful register of the same was to be kept by the ayuntamientos. In addition several provisions were incorporated in the law which were intended to ameliorate the condition of the blacks: a tenth of the slaves must be emancipated whenever ownership changed, which, of course, could be only by inheritance; the ayuntamientos were also required to provide for the best education that can be given "the emancipated children." A little more than two months later an additional article to this decree was passed, which allowed the slave to change his master, provided the new master would indemnify the old.
It will be seen from the above that the Congress of Coahuila and Texas did not even consider the proposition, advanced by Alaman and accepted by Professor von Holst, that the law of July 13, 1824, prohibited the further introduction of slaves into Mexico. Not once was it intimated by the younger Austin in his long letters to his brother that this view had been accepted by even the most radical opponent of slavery. Congress was not occupied with discussing the advisability of enforcing a law already in existence, but provided for the first time the proper regulations for introducing and holding negro slaves in Texas. It did not accuse the Texans of having trampled upon the federal law, but specifically granted them an extension of time during which the prohibitory clause in the newly made constitution should be suspended. The letters and documents above referred to establish beyond question, it seems to me, that the Congress of Coahuila and Texas, as well as the citizens of Texas, did not regard the bringing in of slaves by immigrants as contrary to either state or federal law.
The prohibition in the constitution undoubtedly operated to the temporary disadvantage of the colonies. During the discussion of the matter by Congress, few men were willing to risk the possibility of losing their slaves by carrying them into Texas; and after the prohibition went into effect, it was some time before the ingenious plan of evading the law became well known in the United States. It was not long, however, before slaves were again crossing the border with their masters, in spite of the seemingly rigid prohibition contained in the constitution. The Texas settlers developed a method of evading the law which was more in accord with Mexican institutions; and while it just as effectively secured to the master the absolute control of the servant's labor, it left unmentioned the obnoxious word "slave," and thus did not outrage the Mexican's theory of the equality of men. The system adopted by the Texans was the peonage common throughout Mexico. As has been said above, it is hard to believe that the thirteenth article was inserted in the constitution out of any motives of jealousy or hostility towards Texas on the part of the leaders of Coahuila: too many exclusive privileges and temporary exceptions were granted to Texas by the same Congress to permit such a view. It was more than likely that the abstract theorizing of a non-slaveholding people who had just won their independence had aroused opposition to slavery. For a few years following the publication of the constitution the attitude of the successive state Congresses was favorable to Texas. Many grants of monopolies in trade were made to Americans, and special laws or exceptions to laws were passed from time to time in favor of the Texas settlements. So it happened that when the question of introducing and controlling negro labor was again laid before Congress without the mention of the word "slave," the members did not feel that violence had been done to their principles, but proceeded to undo practically all that the constitution had done in favor of emancipating the slaves brought into the colonies.
The harmless-looking decree of May 5, 1828, which again opened Texas to slavery, reads as follows:
The Congress of the State of Coahuila and Texas, attending to the deficiency of workingmen to give activity to agriculture and the other arts, and desiring to facilitate their introduction into the State, as well as the growth and prosperity of the said branches, has thought proper to decree: All contracts, not in opposition to the laws of the State, that have been entered into in foreign countries, between emigrants who come to settle in this State, or between the inhabitants thereof, and the Servants and day laborers or workingmen whom they introduce, are hereby guaranteed to be valid in said State.
If we would fully understand to what extent there was a "deficiency of workingmen," and in what character it was desirable to facilitate their introduction into the State, we must consider a few other facts in connection with the decree just quoted. The laborers needed in Texas were for the opening and cultivation of the great plantations along the river bottoms, for the settlers of Texas at that time regarded the prairies and uplands as suitable only for cattle-raising. In these bottoms negro labor could be employed to far greater advantage than white labor, owing to that peculiar physical characteristic of the negro which renders him almost secure against attacks of the all-prevalent malaria. These plantations are worked to this day almost exclusively by black labor. It was negro laborers, then, that the decree regarded as especially desirable.
Not quite a year after the passage of the decree under consideration, Austin, in a letter to Wharton, said emphatically that "the men now in power in this state wish to tolerate slavery," and that settlers might bring their negroes without fear. Again, in a letter to Ellis, Sutherland, Winston, Royal and others, written at a time when Austin believed that enough slaves had been admitted to Texas, he stated that the object of the decree of May 5, 1828, was "to permit families to bring the necessary and indispensable house servants and laborers."
If any doubt yet remains as to the spirit of the decree, one more instance may serve to resolve it. Early in 1830 the legislature of Louisiana ordered the expulsion of all free negroes and mulattoes who had illegally entered that state since 1825. Here seemed to be a good opportunity to secure the needed workingmen for the Texas plantations. Instead, however, of offering inducements to these laborers to emigrate to Texas, we find the Mexican vice-consul in New Orleans publishing notices that such negroes are strictly forbidden to enter Texas, and that shipmasters will not be allowed to land them on the Texas coast. The free negro was not wanted in Texas.
In the light of these facts, we are driven to the conclusion that the Congress of Coahuila and Texas, after a harmless salvo in honor of abstract principles, quietly solved the practical difficulty by a decree which was intended to reopen Texas to negro bondage, now disguised under the more pleasing name of contract labor. That the Texans evaded the law prohibiting the further introduction of slavery is an undoubted fact, but it must be added that they did so with the express consent and connivance of the state government.
The form of contract under which the negroes were brought into Texas after the decree of May, 1828, was unique. I regret that the limits of this paper forbid my introducing it here in full. Prior to leaving the United States, the master and the slave appeared before a notary public, or some other official whose seal would give validity to such documents, and in the most formal manner gave their adhesion to the agreement, which was duly signed and witnessed. The document usually begins with the statement that the negro is held as a slave under the existing laws of the state in which the contract is drawn up; that he is worth so much; that he desires to accompany his master to Texas, where he will receive his freedom on entering the state; and by way of compensating his master he agrees to pay in labor the sum at which he is valued, plus the cost of removal to Texas. The necessary cost of clothing, etc., is to be deducted from his wages as a first charge. The wages named in a blank form found among Austin's papers is twenty dollars per year.
And furthermore [says the contract] the said E. F. [the slave], being desirous that his child (or children) should enjoy the benefits of the laws of said state of Coahuila and Texas, and that he (or they) should be removed to the same by said C. D. [the master], therefore, as parent and natural guardian, he, the said E. F., contracts and agrees with the said C. D. that his child or children shall serve on the same terms as the father, wages to begin when the child reaches the age of eighteen.
The contract even anticipates the birth of other children after removal to Texas, and provides that they shall serve the master till they are twenty-five without wages
this being in consideration of the benefits they receive from the laws of that state in consequence of the removal of their parent, E. F., by said C. D., and which they never could have enjoyed unless it had been secured to them by this contract, under which said C. D. was induced to remove said E. F. to said state of Coahuila and Texas.
After the expiration of the twenty-five years, the children born after removal are to continue serving on the same terms as the father, until all debts due the master are paid. The master is held bound
to instruct said children in some useful branch of industry that will make them useful members of the community. . . . And said E. F. generally contracts and agrees with the said C. D. faithfully to serve him or his representatives as a servant and laborer as above stated, and to be obedient and submissive as a good and faithful servant should be, and faithfully to comply with this contract under the penalty of . . . dollars.
Such a contract, properly signed by the parties concerned and certified by the notary's seal and the signature of two witnesses, made the negro thus brought into Texas as truly a slave as if his master had remained in the United States. It was of course a hopeless dream to think of ever paying the debt acknowledged in the agreement, or even that contracted from year to year for clothing and other necessaries. Under this legalized evasion of the law the Texas immigrants continued to bring in their slaves, and the agitation of the subject subsided for a year or two.
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The poll shows that Labor's primary vote is at 28 per cent, up 2 percentage points on a month ago, and 10 points lower than the party's vote at last year's election on August 21.
Over the past month the Coalition's primary vote fell 3 percentage points to 48 per cent, which is 4 points higher than it received at the election. The Australian Greens were unchanged at 12 per cent.
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Personally with that kind of history and backlinks I'd be looking at getting in touch with the previous owners and seeing if I could get the website and also the domain via the grace period the registrars put on the domain. Rather than just risking it going through the auction process.
Looks like I am stuck with the auction so anybody have a suggested price they would pay for this.
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Past months bought some really good domains through the auction and very few from owners due to the domain maket has changed and the domainers know this but the small owners still think it is an open market.
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I think the real (and unrealized) value in expired traffic domains is the value that an enduser/consumer/converter of that traffic could bring to the equation. For that I have no formula except to consider the likelihood of the traffic converting and the value of a converted sales lead to the beneficiary of that traffic.
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The Tall Man's Guide to Dating
Tall guys – are you fed up trying to play the dating game and losing?
Because the world just isn't set up for the likes of us; it's a world built around Mr Average's frame. Mr Average's rules. But we can make it. We just need to bend the rules a little.
We're going to show you how to get under the dating limbo bar. To undercome your tallcomings. To date like a pro.
We're going to address the things that might be holding you back and then help you to get prepared for that crucial first date. From then on – well, it's all up to you.
"I'm just too tall to be dated. I might as well give up."
There's a classic set of things tall guys list when they're musing on their lack of dates. They're myths and they need to be banished because they're holding you back.
They all think I'm weird.
They only want me for my reach.
I'll just draw unwanted attention to us.
Apparently 33% of being tall, dark and handsome isn't enough.
But guys, remember – NOBODY thinks they get enough dates! And everyone dreams up a bunch of excuses to justify their lack of success. Just because we're less successful than the footballers and movie stars doesn't mean a thing.
Go Big Yourself Up
You might think bigging yourself up is the dimmest idea. But sometimes you need to be a little more forward in communicating your unique selling points to your potential others before you even have a chance of making it to date stage. Try these passing comments to whoever you're interested in (although strangers at bus stops are not always the most willing of recipients):
I can reach literally anything, even when I'm sitting down.
I have a gargantuan appetite. Stick with me and you'll never go hungry.
Did I mention figures show that tall men earn more and are more likely to be promoted and put in positions of power? Just the twice? OK.
If they're yawning and checking Facebook, you might have to resort to the nuclear option. Take a deep breath …
You know, big guys have bigger hands and … bigger feet and … bigger … heads … and …
This high-stakes gambit will probably either have you (a) running for your life or (b) despairing as your intended other fails to get what you're driving at until you've exhausted all the mentionables in Gray's Anatomy. So there's a tiny glimmer of a chance that you'll get a positive reaction; but definitely save this one till last.
Dating Tall Women
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You've had it up to here with the all women down there. They just can't get past the height thing. It's not their fault. Remember, they were brought up in an average world and probably think you're from another planet. But what about you? Where have you been concentrating your attention? Did it ever occur to you that you're guilty of heightism when you've been assuming only medium-sized women appreciate your Good Sense of Humour? There are plenty of them out there and they're not too hard to find. As well as having off-the-shelf empathy, you'll also have these facts to bind you together:
- No backache from hugging
- No kissing gymnastics
- Fewer precarious positions in bed
- Periscope-free eye contact
- When you're out for a walk, no more stopping every five minutes so she can catch up
- You can really annoy people at cinemas and concerts and enjoy it together.
Opposites Attract
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And then there's the alternative approach – trying to find a woman whose outlook on life has always been angled upwards, so dating you will only be a matter of recalibration. Look at the facts of dating a small woman:
- Together you will be the first to know when it's raining or if there's a flood.
- For you, everyone is short, so what difference do a few more inches make?
- She can wear any heels known to science.
- She won't wear your clothes all the time (and you definitely won't be wearing hers).
- People won't know whether it's you who's tall or her who's short.
Where in the World?
If you're desperate you can uproot yourself and start looking for your perfect match internationally. If the height thing is important, try these countries with the tallest and shortest average heights:
The Tallest Three
- The Netherlands
- Denmark
- Montenegro
The Shortest Three
- Cambodia
- Indonesia
- The Philippines
Getting a Round In – Dates to Avoid
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So let's assume you've persuaded an eligible woman to accompany you on a date. First of all, well done! (We knew you could do it.) Now you're going to have to start thinking of a suitable venue for the date. You'll probably have grim experience of places that don't cater to the tall man's needs, so make sure these are struck off your list straight away. You'll have enough to contend with keeping your nerves at bay and remembering how you described yourself when you were wooing her. So here's our top-of-the-head list of places tall guys shouldn't consider for that all-important first date.
The Cinema
Even though the modern cinema has seating designed to provide an unimpeded view whoever chooses to sit in front of you, some are still not particularly tall-person-friendly (or, should we say, person-sitting-behind-tall-person-friendly). Unless you spend the duration of the film slouched down, you might have to contend with taps on the shoulder or flying popcorn. And if you purposely book the back seats she might think you have ulterior motives. There's also the legroom issue, too. Again, things have improved recently but you might still end up sitting with your legs at 45 degrees to your body, thus rubbing against a complete stranger or your date. AVOID.
Mini Golf
What better way to accentuate your altitude than to take her to a place where everything is small? Mini golf is appearing in all sorts of places of late, but try and resist the temptation. Same applies to model villages, although that would be quite odd anyway. AVOID.
Unless you've spent the past month in front of the mirror perfecting your knees-around-the-ears look, a first date on the karting circuit will probably not be entirely flattering. Racing drivers are always short, and there's a reason for this. AVOID.
You like wearing size 11 bowling shoes? You'd better had, because that's all they go up to in a lot of places. Tiptoeing around like you're holding an acorn between your buttocks might be fine on the third date, but not the first. AVOID.
Admittedly it would take a particularly confident person to suggest a swimming date for the first one, but hey, you might like to have a splash. But when the deep end only reaches your waist and children start to cry, you'll realise it was a bad idea. AVOID.
The Perfect Recipe for Dates
So now we've dealt with the don'ts, here are the dos.
DO keep it casual. A relaxed drink or a coffee on a midweek evening is a better ice-breaker than a noisy nightclub. You can hear each other speak and you can dress how you like, which should be casual.
DO show your confidence without straying into arrogance. You may well be a dazzlingly successful person, but let the brilliance trickle out and engage listening mode early on.
DO make light of your height. She knows you're tall; you know you're tall; so jokingly get the subject out of the way quickly to let her know you're comfortable in your own skin and that she's fine mentioning your height. Don't go overboard, though – she mustn't end up thinking it's the only noteworthy thing about you.
DO your research. If you've got a bit of time before the date, find stuff out about the venue to avoid getting flustered when the date gets going. Is it table service? What do people wear? Where can you get a taxi from? How much do things cost? Where are the toilets? What time does it close? Where are the fire exits? Are the food hygiene certificates up to date? And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
DO switch off your phone. For the next hour or two, your date is the focus of your attention. Nothing else matters. Switch it off. Or put it on silent. OK, vibrate. If you must.
DO offer to pay. She might beat you to it, but showing that you're generous and only slightly into your overdraft shows that you're not going to end up a liability. Going Dutch is fiddly and fussy, and saying she can pay next time might be a good way to secure that cherished second liaison, when you'll be a whole lot more relaxed (especially since you're not paying).


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Indonesians Are Rewriting the History Books Now that They Are Free (But Limits Remain)Roundup: Talking About History
Ellen Nakashima, in the Washington Post (April 24, 2004):
The Communist Party did it.
For more than three decades, that was the received wisdom in Indonesian classrooms concerning the night of Sept. 30, 1965, when six generals and a lieutenant said to be plotting against President Sukarno were kidnapped and murdered, their bodies stuffed down a well.
But in a high school here one recent afternoon, a teacher drew a diagram on a board with arrows pointing to three possible culprits besides the Communist Party, including Sukarno's successor, longtime dictator Suharto.
During the Suharto era, that diagram could have landed him in prison, said Ali Ramlan, a teacher at Public High School 26. Today, six years after Suharto was forced from power by mass protests, the teaching of history is slowly being freed of state-imposed dogma.
Historians still lack consensus on the circumstances underlying some major events, notably about who was behind the abortive coup of 1965, which led to a purge of suspected Communists that year and the following one and left hundreds of thousands dead. It also weakened Sukarno, opening the way for Suharto to take over.
A revised curriculum scheduled to take effect in July, the first such overhaul since the Suharto era, drops the words "Communist Party" from the section on September 1965, substituting the vague guideline to "compare various opinions" on the event. The new curriculum, begun in 1999, lacks specificity throughout. That poses a challenge for teachers, many of whom are unsure which topics to raise and whether or how to encourage debate.
The impetus for change has come mainly from a freed-up press and television, which are producing images and ideas that make students question the version of events offered by their outdated textbooks. That puts teachers in a dilemma.
"The textbooks say this, but the newspapers say that, and the students don't know which to believe," said Taufik Abdullah, a historian with the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, paraphrasing teachers who have attended his history seminars. "We are experiencing a credibility gap."...
The abortive coup of 1965 is a litmus test of how the teaching of history is evolving in a fledgling democracy. But teachers are shrugging off convention in other ways.
In December 1948, the Dutch invaded the central Java city of Yogyakarta, then capital of the young republic. The standard history text portrayed Suharto as a brilliant young officer who decided to lead an attack in 1949 against the Dutch.
Today, I Wayan Badrika, a textbook writer and high school history teacher across town, offers a different explanation. He said Suharto was ordered to attack by the armed forces commander.
But Wayan, who is revising his latest text for publication next year, said he will not discuss with students or include in his book alternative versions of the 1965 coup attempt until the state informs him what they are.
Opening his unfinished manuscript, he notes that the section on September 1965 is blank. His outline, conforming to the new curriculum, states only: "There are different opinions."
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Original post made by Don Barnby, Menlo Park: other, on Jan 19, 2014
My sense is that Council thought this change to be a good thing; however, I don't think so. There are a number of very bad things happening here.
1) Since when does staff dictate to City Council what it (staff) is going to do? Staff works for our elected City Council, not the other way around. Further, not one Councilmember objected to staff's assertion that it was going to study an option that is specifically contrary to Menlo Park's two-track policy (a policy established by City Council). Everyone on Council sat meekly silent and let it pass.
2) Suppose TA accepts Menlo Park's study application, and that application contains (as staff intends) a three-track option. And then suppose TA awards Menlo Park the millions of dollars needed to build the grade separation for the three-track option. Staff will then be demanding that Council accept those millions of dollars to build a grade separation designed to accommodate three tracks. Will Council then find its courage and have the backbone to stick with its (and the citizen's) two-track policy when faced with a multimillion dollar bribe? I can hear the arguments now, "If we build a grade separation that can accommodate three tracks we get the TA to pay for it, and that doesn't mean we can't still limit CalTrain (and HSR) to two tacks.
Please note, this isn't about Menlo Park's need for grade separation; that need is real and great. Nor is it about electrification which does not require three tracks. This is about doing the right thing for our city. Three tracks is solely a creature of High Speed Rail. Selling Menlo Park's birthright of a peaceful bucolic community in exchange for several million dollars is a devil's bargain. TA is in bed with the High Speed Rail Authority in order to get some of its bond money for electrification, and it seems the quid-pro-quo is for TA to help HSR break through Menlo Park's two-track limitation on the CalTrain right-of-way. HSR is still planning and pushing for a three or four track system up the Peninsula, and if we give way we'll degrade our lovely city and devastate property values. We've already been through this before.
It's not even clear that TA's bid to get some of HSR's bond money is legal. For Menlo Park staff to design for three tracks is a way to undermine Menlo Park's two-track policy. Further, it's interesting that last Tuesday's scheduled vote to set aside the two-track policy was not advertised widely in advance. In fact, it seems that much of staff's discussion of transportation matters occurs behind closed doors, i.e., staff is trying to help HSR achieve, by back-door means, what it failed to achieve directly.
I believe it's time for City Council to assert itself and give clear and unequivocal direction to staff, and require that they drop the three-track option from its application. Also, they should fire from staff all persons who fail to accept that City Council (by way of the citizens) runs the show. It is unacceptable that staff is doing the bidding of TA and HSR in an effort to end-run the well-considered two-track policy of Menlo Park.
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a resident of another community
on Jan 20, 2014 at 10:56 am
>Menlo Park's birthright of a peaceful bucolic community
With that kind of attitude, I say make it four tracks.
a resident of Menlo Park: Allied Arts/Stanford Park
on Jan 22, 2014 at 8:29 am
Tunbridge Wells is a registered user.
"it's interesting that last Tuesday's scheduled vote to set aside the two-track policy was not advertised widely in advance."
This is nonsense. The vote was noticed in the agenda that was made public at the right time. Council agendas are often packed with lots of different issues. Items relating to the Caltrain tracks or HSR don't require extra advanced notice as compared with other issues. If you think that Council agendas should be posted with more lead time, say that, but don't imply that staff has some nefarious plans because you believe the vote wasn't as widely publicized as you would have liked.
I think that Menlo Park's two-track policy is short-sighted and dumb, and that Council is pandering to a bunch of aging baby boomers who are still in love with their cars. Fifteen, twenty years from now residents will be wondering how Council could have been so stupid to let the fearmongering about HSR delay yet again fixing an extremely dangerous grade crossing.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Jan 22, 2014 at 9:39 am
Raise the tracks, it works on other parts of the Peninsula.
Build the damn thing - git 'er done!
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