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tlie carolina watchman 70l xx.-third series salisbury n c thursday june 6 1889 no 33 pianoforte tuning foe salisbury v|k owes ii bishop pupil of dr marx music at merlin university uul , - benezel of paris has come from ■i close to salisbury and is • me regulate and repair piano pipe < irgans elaving had tical experience in england i gentlemen who wish their musical ■- carefully and regularly attended . . relv upon liaving thorough and con 1 work done if they will kindly favor th their esteemed patronage liv ■town 1 1 • > traveling expenses will be fore the terms u il be low l 1 pianoforte if tuned occasional three tunings in one year please irther particulars by postal card r iffiee si inimann says : it is the falsest liiow any pianoforte to remain uii : ruin both instrument and ear if any dealer gay he ha the w l donglm rhoea without name and price stamped on the bottom put him down an a fraud w l douglas 3 shoe centlemen lu-bt in th world eiamlne hlb . "_ jjs.-.oo genuine hand-skwki shoe s4.oo hand-sewed welt shoe i..v police am kakmeks shoe si 50 extra value calf shoe 2.25 vokkin<;m.\vs shoe 5a.ooai.il 81 75 boys school shoes all inadu in congress iiuttuu aud lace w l douglas 3 shoe la'dtes kest material h«<nt style west fitting " w'l/lio'lxilas miockton mass examine w l douglas 2 shoe for gentlemen and ladies foii sale by m s brown salisbury for sale by jno h enniss druggist d a at well's hardware store where i lull line of goods in his line may always be found fk^xfcss lf rsloo.un.lll :■llullll i twelafl i limtk«i»r w.r-1 illllj 8u"j'"^v\f^j one r«t«on in nek lo vi.in 1:1 it have called uitr become tour own properly thoi ho tvtkf at once c«n t ure of rrcfirinc fh watch m.u.u'u tf co ivox m3 i"ortl»»d m*i m-rj-rrj rj « tjt7itj mnv lx found n fllt t «<*». advertising bureau 1 10 spruce stvwh«»«^«*m»8 lontracts may u marie for it 1 nt okli r0y4i v v royal powder 9 powder absolutely pure this powder never varies a marvelof pur.t > strength and wholesomeness more ceonomliul than theordlnarv kinds and cannot be sold lu competition with tbe multitude ol low trst short weight alum or phosphate powders sold only in , cans koyal baking 1'owdkk c0..106 wall st n v for sale by bingham & co young fc bos tian und n p murphy this age ! is full of humbugs and that remedy that disproves this charge is a cjoil-sen<l to human ity 15 b b has never failed and that ought to count for something to him who wants to be cured of what b 15 15 sets itself up to cure ' utterly surprised ! meridian miss july 12 1887 for a number of years i have suffered un tulil i{;iiiiy from the effects of blood poison i had my case treated bj several prominent physicians but received but little if any re lief i resorted to all sorts of patent medicines ; spending a large amount of money but yet getting no better my attention was attracted by the cures said to have been affected by h b.b 1 and i commence taking it merely us an experi ment having but little faith in the results to my utter surprise i soon commenced toimprore and deem myself to-day a well and hearty per son — all owing to the excellent qualities of h b 15 i cannot commend it too highly to those suffering from blood poison j 0 gibson trainman m k 0 k b after twenty years baltimore april 20 1887 — for over twen ty years i have been troubled with ulcerated bowels and bleeding piles and grew very weak and thin from constant loss of blood i have 1 uned 4 bottles of b b b and have gained 1 "> pounds in weight and feel better in general j health than i have for ten year i recom mend your b b b as the best medicine i have ever used and owe my improvement to the use j ' of botanic blood balm eugexius a smith 318 exeter st an old man restored dawsos ja june 30 1887 — being an old man and suffering from general debility and rheumatism of the joints of the shoulders i found difficulty in attending to my business that of a lawyer until 1 bought and used five bottles of b b b botanic blood balm of mr t c jones or j r irwin & son and my general health is improved and the rheumatism ' left me 1 believe it to be a good medicine j h laisg all who desire full information about the cause 1 ami cure of itloi'l poisons scrofula and scrofulous j swellings dicers sorrs rheumatism kidney complaints catarrh etc can secure by mall free a copy of our 32-page illustrated hook of wonders tilled with hie most wonderful and startling proof ever beforeknown address 4o:iy blood tulmco atlanta ga fytfspills thcdyspop tic the debilitated wheth er from excess of work of mind or body drink or exposure in malarial regions will find tntt'i ptlln the most genial restorative ever offered tho sufreriuj iuvuiid try them fairly a vlrorong body pure blood strong aervt-k and a cheerful mind will result sold everywhere p h thompson & go manufacturers sash doors blinds work scroll sawing wood turning sra.0ssts c and castings of all kinds dealers in steam engines and boilers steam and water pipe steam fitting shafting pulley hangers — also — machinery of all kinds repaired on short notice mar 15 88 ly subscribe for the carolina watchman home company seeking home patron abe /— i^^^k a str0ng c0mpany i prompt miable ' liberal ! p^sl|jg«%gjgb hb3rwkk|b bj^-a^int in all cities and town in the south pi br j rhodes browne president total assets 750,000 j allen beown agent salisbury it c i for the watchman the boys of sixty tears ago hezekiah's first courtship tart ii captain woodman never could tell what captivated him nor how he got away from the presence of his charmer — how he got awav from thyatira or who of his many friends and acquain tances he met there it is a fact that the mind may become so thoroughly engrossed with a single subject as to obscure its concomitants had he been asked what about miss jenny and miss mary he would probably have answered very nice girls but it the inquiry had been more specific ; 4 v hat is their complexion or the col or of their hair or eves he could not have told anything it is easy to see how unavailing as a restraining force philosophy or the facts of figures would be on a man in this mental condition the captain was human and in this case an excel lent type of the race he wa in love more he was infatuated — to things of which he should have been obser vant he was blind we will now pass over several months during which tim the love craae of our hero was at its full and marching towards a crisis doubtless it would lie interesting were the writer in possession of the facts and could relate the particulars of each visit and the reader not acquainted with the devel opments of such cases might be warn ed against the absurdities of them we will mention an incident in one of his visits as showing how dead he was to all abstract subjects when in the company of his augel — a very pretty worthy and sensible girl she was they were returning from church one sun day horseback and the captain's sad dle blanket commenced working out behind from under his saddle it seems that it had been very awkwardly put on at the first for which he was probably responsible it worked back until it covered the horse's rump and then it commenced unfolding until one enil dropped down and covered his tail and yet the captain did not see it but was riding as erect and talk ing as brisk as if in good trim the lady saw it and was smiling at it young thing as she was but the cap tain's consciousness was otherwise oc cupied if he saw it it did not seem to be amiss — he didn't take it in a countryman riding up behind the party was less ab.-orbed and said stranger you are about to lose your saddle blanket the captain glanced back and immediately drew his rein and dis mounted and as he did so the blanket slid off the horse to the ground he felt a little awkward — a little like a fool but sought to make light of it another incident as showing the captain's demeanor on coming sudden ly upon danger he and miss liebecca were out in the fields one saturday evening gathering strawberries — and talking of course — when the captain's eyes fell upon a large snake lying in coil only a few feet from them la what a snake he exclaimed and dashed ff from it clutching miss rebecca's dress as he did so he ran off some twenty yards or more every ' muscle strained up to its utmost ten sion and looking the very picture of fright it is probable that there never i was a full grown man who could on : such occasions so suddenly become a boy snakes were a terror to the cap tain miss rebecca to whom snakes were no uncommon sight found it impossible to behave in sympathy and it was only after a hearty laugh that she seemed to remember what should be done let's kill it said she and picked up a stick for the purpose no no said the captain don't go near it — just hold on a minute until i find a stone thus armed he ap proached with caution the place where he had seen it his snakeship was still there and it may be was an amus ed spectator of the captain's excited manner but if so it was a brief enjoy ment it had put en a more defiant ! uspect had lifted its head higher j its tongue playing out and in like i lightning and as the captain came | within about thirty feet it began \ slowly to unfold its coil and more to j wards him miss rebecca was enjoy , ing the scene with peculiar relish when i she heard a sudden zip and then saw about six feet of snake writhing and contorting on the ground the cap tain's rock had knocked its h«nd off an achievement both gratifying and astonishing to his sweetheart the subject as a whole afford them a free topic of conversation while they con tinued to gather the berries and with the family after their return as they carried it home for exhibition one other incident this time illus trating the captain's agility on an other saturday evening while they were roaming the fields for it seems he preferred to do his courting in the open fields and apart from the observ ing eyes of mother and sisters there was a captivating freedom about it which pleased rebecca he thought about as well as it did himself th y came to a meadow ditch and wanted to cross it it was about eight feet wide from bank to bank and not many days before it had been full of water the banks were wet and slippery i don't believe we can cross it said miss rebecca we had a bridge just above here but i see the jiigh i waters have swept it away l 0h i can jump across it said the cap tain and bring those rails and lay them across for you to walk on no mr woodman don't try it — it is too long a jump said the lady ah no and the captain stepped back a few paces and took a running start he reached the ditch with the wrong foot foremost and on slippery ground and landed in the mud of the opposite side with her other gifts his sweet heart had a keen perception of the ridic ulous and of course enjoyed the failure but with seeming anxious concern fortunately the captain wore boots so that though he sunk pretty deep in the mire he pulled out and after get ting clear of the mud fixed up a bridge for the lady and they went on their way but it is not to be supposed that our | infatuated hero had at no time a re turning sense of the responsibility of his careerof late thoughtsof it would at times confront him like ghosts and awe him into most serious reflections he felt that his honor was deeply im plicated and that he must vindicate it cost what it might he had fully committed himself by the attentions he hud bestowed on miss rebecca and there was no honorable escape from it even if he could bear the thought of giving her up he f;lt that he must at once make a tender of his heart and hand and as he had no doubt of their acceptance he whuuld also lay his plans for the future in reference to the new relation his own means were very scanty and hers were no better but he believed that by renting a cheap house and bringing into it the simple and inexpensive articles of furniture for two persons they could manage to live comfortably however this might be the trial must be made his in come would not allow them to board at a hotel or even at a private house and the situation in either case would not be so desirable as a home of their own though that home might be very hum ble he believed that 50 would pro cure half a dozen chairs a dining table cupboard candle stand cooking uten sils and table ware if judiciously laid out and rebecca's mother he thought would give her a bed and furniture " man wants but little here below '" was an old saw that fitted his case ex actly and he settled down on testing it and with his mind nade up and plans thus laid he set out to lay them before miss rebecca after she had answered to the momentous question will you have me he could not for the life of him decide beforehand upon the manner of submitting that question he wanted to do it neatly and effectively but found himself at miss rebecca's door as undecided as ever she met him with her usual smile of welcome was indeed expecting him as it was his usual time of calling she was alone in the sitting room with her work-basket on the table near her after the customary greetings were over which were cordial free and easy and the captain had drawn his chair near hers she said " i've been plan ning a new pattern of patchwork since you were here capt woodman and i must have your opinion on it planning asked the captain i've been doing that kind of work myself this week and as my planning concerns you as well as myself 1 will tell you of it before i leave all right was the happy rejoinder but you must see my new patchwork i have a part of it made up ' after a careful inspection of tbe work the captain said it is indeed very pretty aud worthy of the skill and taste of a professional " you must not praise it too much or i'll think you are flattering me flattering you saiil capt wood man no i have called to pay you a higher compliment than that — the highest a man can pay to a woman to offer you my heart and hand for life will you a cept them the captain had performed before he was fully aware of it the very thing he had studied how to perform a mere formality — and was surprised at himself for having reached it with eo much ease the lady however evinced no great surprise nor feeling either her fingers twitched and fumbled with the scraps on her lap a little and her cheeks paled perceptibly but her head was too much bowed to admit of reading the language of her eyes she delayed to answer until pressed and when she did speak she said no to be continued we stood near a coal yard during the cold weather and saw scores of wa gons come for fuel they all came empty that was to be expected some were bright newly painted others were dingy and worn from long use some were high others were low some went away full others only half full the comparison was devoid of poetry but it reminded us of souls coming to the sanctuary they were not all alike in dress or appearance or age some'car ried away n large blessing others a smaller portion but all received just what they came for here is a marriage notice clipped from a cleveland paper in guilford me dina county ohio on the 21st inst by s wilson/esq mr ssiniu-t d curtis to mi sally murphy after i tedious courtship of fifteen yeurs which was borne with christian fortitude and pa tience 0 h kothaker on ingersoll mr ingersoll is the only great phi losopher who was ever known as col onel " or familiarly called " bob he is the drum-major of the army of athe ism he creates a profound impression upon the people below stairs thev always crowd up to the area gate with loud admiration to see him pass with what dignity he marches through the mud what florid grace in the sweep ! of the arm what a lovely baton what an awe-inspiring hat it is alto ! gether very splendid and very impresire the drum major has turned more thoughtful fools into recruits than the sergent with his shilling the man has done much harm atheism was once the somber monop oly of unbalanced scholars he has popularized it men with strong brains i do not follow him there for he is most dangerous he gives primary lessons ! in donbt penny readings in infidelity i he is the apostle of the shallow the ' derai-god of amatuer thinkers he is ' an authority in the kindergarten of i speculation the grace of his oratory hold audiences which are above the sub stance of his speech he bedizens im piety with pretty words and makes jests of the mystery " an eloquent juggler he attacks truth with trickery he hides the snake under a tropical luxu riance of word-blossom distinctly practical he buffets at the surm because the essence is beyond him he plays ' with language in that which is essen tially spiritual and beyond language he answers an organ tone with a jin gle a poem with a gibe he is a phrase-huckster preaching the gospel of unrest a moment brawling at eternity lacking the finer fibre himself he has been singularly influential in brusingor destroying it wholly in others in one sense he is a mental phenom enon his arguments are not new | uor is the basis for his declamatory un belief a foundation recently built he is on the same ofd forum voltaire sneered before him hume philosophized before him paine railed and denounced l>efore him he is simply a repetion of the substance with an addition of tin sel rhetoric they were hard logical and sterile he has many musical mannerisms he covers the hardness and sterility with flowers of language he adds to borrowed weapens an arti ficial sentimentalism beauty and bru tality go hand in hand in his mental world the infidelity with which he lures to spiritual ruin is a lilitk tes ted by the intellectual standard he scarce ly merits mention tested by results he has been the raostdangeious man of the century his influence commands the necessity of serious combat the potency of lugersoll's position lies in his ingenious avoidance of exist ing facts in the practicle workings of christianity and his noisy citations of persecutions in the time when church and state were one he confounds the present church with the church that was simply a political machine all the faults and follies of men he ascribes to the religion of which they were but poor exemplars he attacks that which is by heaping denunciation upon that which was he brings in evidence against this generation the tomb-stones of its ancestors in even this he is not honest he forgets luther nailing against the old church door at witten burg the ninety-five theses which con stituted magna charta of mental liber ty that was a time when ideas leaped from rack and from scaffold to freedom — a time when thought was so young it had scarcely learned how to think and only knew that it must es cape from the old bondage surely its just meed for the mightest movement 111 the history of human advance should not be denied to christianity yet there has always been overmuch of galileo and too little of luther in the favorite infidel argument that religion persecutes progress and withal there has also been a consistent disregard of the fact that each was persecuted by the same power and that this power was not religion but its false represen tative the name of galileo and the churchmen courtiers and politicians are placed on the same platform riche lieu was a cold crafty cloudy diplomat therefore ohist is a myth or pretender the inquisition existed therefore his doctrines are false this is the argu ment it does not commend itself to intelligence an institution must be judged by its power to purify itself this applies as much as to any other its tendency has been steadily away from forms and j symbols and towards a closer conson j ance with its principles and teachings j in the very nature of things this con ; sonance can never be complete re \ ligion is the concern of the individual j it reaches each man in its way a church is a human effort to organize j the spiritual it is strong or weak as i it approaches that which it seeks to ty ■pifv in so far as it is alloyed by hu man p.ission it is not a reflection of re ligion because there are bad poets one can not condemn poetry because there are bad christians one can not con demn christianity there are dividing lines between the false and the true and the only reason which mr lnger soll boasts ts the basis of his doctrine is necessary to throw the distinction under the light of calcium he holds reality responsible for the pretense he talks of genuineness when he means i hypocrisy jtistruethat men enter the church as a means of individual ad vancement it is true that the church is sometimes avaricious enough to ac cept the one tenth as a tithe of that which was not honestly earned it is true that pretentious piety can hold its temporal own at times against the pu rity which should overthrow it it is true that the mantle of the just has cov ered injustice and that falsehood has been the noisy partner of truth yet all these do not destroy the pure met tal a counterfeit does not invalid a legal tender the fate of reform a yery jcst reason for complaint the returns of the november elec tions were scarcely in before the re publican spoilsmen and place-hunters were in full cry for the offices beseig ing every appointing power and ev^rv one who had any influence whatever with the officials at washington this vriis not otherwise to be expected nor was the administration responsible for it but what they were and are respon sible for was the fearful blunders they have made in hurriedly aud without consideration yielding to this army of place-hunters whereby incompetent men were placed into positions that they were unqualified to fill in other other words they were profoundly ig norant of their official duties which render their services a source of un measured annoyance to the public whom they pretend to serve for in stance look at our mail service it is in a condition to-day more unsatisfac tory than it hus ever before been since its organization the complaints are loud and long against the gross neglect and incompetent service it seems to have been the policy of republican representatives at wash ington to fill the places with party favorites as rapidly as possible regard less of their lack of qualification or special fitness and in utter disregard of the public requirements on the salem branch road between this point and greensboro an old gen tleman was placed on the mail service a very clever old man we presume when attending to business he had some knowledge of but totally unfit to be mail agent physically weak and without any experience and lacking a knowledge that he never could be able to acquire he may have done the best he could but that beht has been far short of meeting public requirements this fact he no doubt h;is learned him self as he has or will at an early day forward his resignation to washington city to take effect at once last night we got no mail at all and to-day we are without a bingle exchange he may be sick we know not what the trouble is but we felt very much this morning as if we would like to con struct a battering-ram out of about a doaen billy goats of the billy persua sion and turn them loose with trip hammer velocity with directions to strike some where a little to the left of where hon john brower wears his pistol pocket for not exercising more discretion in making this and other appointments in this district the republican national conven tion at chicago reiterated the follow ing declaration which of course sim ply meant that public office was a private snap the reform of the civil service aus piciously begun under the republican administration should be completed by the further extension of the reform system already established by law to all the grades of the service to which it isapplicable the spirit and pur pose of the reform should be observed in all executive appointments and all laws at variance with the object of existing reform legislation should be repealed to the end that the danger to free in stitutions which lurk in the power of official patronage may be wisely and effectually avoided and gen harrison in his letter of acceptance uses the following lan guage the law regulating appointments to the classified civil service received my aupport in the senate in the belief that it opened the way to a much needed reform i still think s and therefore cordially approve the clear and forcible expression of th conven tion on this subject only the inter ests of the public should suggest remov als from office it will be my sincere purpose if elected to advance the re form as to how much of this was meant the public are learning day by day we have not a word to say against the filling of the places held by democrats by competent republicans this is what : the public expect and they have no j right to demur against it but they do i have a right to protest againt the filling i of responsible positions by incompetent i persons whereby they are made to suf fer an inconvenience and loss and ; this protest should be made in a way j that will not be misunderstood — twin city daily the trustees of the hartford theo logical semenary has voted to open all courses of the institution to women on the s;\me terms as to men tins action is taken to meet the special needs ol women who are desirous of preparing themselves for christian teaching f<.i the missionary nvm and for any relig ions work other ttrin the pastorate he fought at winchester akd he will n'ot pass through thk penitentiary gates judge phillips who held korsyth court told the sentinel a pathetic incident which occurred at the last term of sorry court it beautifully illustrates the tender sympathy of one old soldier for another who has been unfortunate in the case of the state vs john stuart indictment for larcenj the prisoner appeared in the court-room shuffling along scarcely able to work he wore a soiled check shirt a very much worn suit and a battered hat appearing as states-witnesses were two well-dressed sleek-looking men who clearly showed by their looks that they were determined to send the old man to the penitentiry if pos sible has the prisonor any counsel?"ask ed judge phillips i hare none your honor answer ed stuart i am a p«or man unable to pay an attorney the judge saw by the man's looks that this was au unusual case and said well go on and tell your sto 7 well sir i was in the confederate army and at the battle of winchester i was shot through both hips since then it has been exceedingly hard for me to support myself 1 went to work for this man la.it year and worked eight months upon his promise to board and cloth me and pav me what my services were worth during that time he p.iid me ten cent with which i bought tobacco at the end of eight months be refused to pav me any money and refused to give me any clothes saying that inv services were worthless then vour honor 1 went into his ward-robe took a suit of clothes to hide inv nakedness and left ik had me indicted for larceny and i have been in jail ever since as the old man finished a hushed murmur of indignation was heard throughout the court-room you say you were shot at winches ter asked judge phillips who was himself an officer in that splendid and memorable charge yes sir were you in the second charge to the left on the other side of the town the prisoner's face brightened yts he said i was there in rhodes division a id was shot while crossing the ravine just below the hill the judge was satisfied that the old veteran was telling the truth but to be certain he called the states 1 wit ness while the witness was giving in liii testimony which was to the effect that the old man's story watt about right but that he refused to pay him anything because his services were worthless stuart leaned over to solici tor settle mr settle hesaid your father and i were friends i lifed in uockingham county and your father r;rsuaded me to enlist in his company received my wound while following him since then it has been a hard struggle for me to keep out of the poor-house hy this time judge phillips solici tor settle and everylnxly else in the court-room was satisfied that the old soldier had b«en pitilessly persecuted and the faces of the on-lookers show ed the deepest pity and sympathy for the unfortunate man and the black est indignation for his heartless em ployer mr solicitor said the judge change your bill of indictment from larceny to trespass this was will ingly done by mr settle now he continued judgment is suspended and the prisoner is discharg ed scarcely had the last word been spoken before every man in the room applauded and great tears were seen rolling down the cheeks of strong men a similar scene judge phillip's tells us he has never seen in the court house as the old mm who half hour be fore had been friendless hobbled out of the court-room hundreds of men drew around him to shake his hand our townsman hon w h glenn volun teered his services to secure a pension mr holiyfield offered him a position as miller and in less than five minutes a handsome purse of money was made up to buy the old soldier a comfortable suit of clothes needless to add he was almost over come with gratitude and to his dying day be will bless the memory of hisold comrade-in-.u m and generous new found friends penalties for contempt the post has called attention to the need of legislation fixing the bounds and power of judges in prescribing penalties for contempt of court that unrestrained power is a relic of despo tism in the present absence of law the utterance of an offensive word or an uncalled for disturbance in the pres ' ence of a jurdge or a failure to obey a 1 j summons or ignorance of an obscure . point of judicial etujuettte on the part i of juryman may entail a heavior pun • | ishmeut than the running down and i killing of a pedestrain by a reckless " | horseman and there is no apparent relief
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tlie carolina watchman 70l xx.-third series salisbury n c thursday june 6 1889 no 33 pianoforte tuning foe salisbury v|k owes ii bishop pupil of dr marx music at merlin university uul , - benezel of paris has come from ■i close to salisbury and is • me regulate and repair piano pipe < irgans elaving had tical experience in england i gentlemen who wish their musical ■- carefully and regularly attended . . relv upon liaving thorough and con 1 work done if they will kindly favor th their esteemed patronage liv ■town 1 1 • > traveling expenses will be fore the terms u il be low l 1 pianoforte if tuned occasional three tunings in one year please irther particulars by postal card r iffiee si inimann says : it is the falsest liiow any pianoforte to remain uii : ruin both instrument and ear if any dealer gay he ha the w l donglm rhoea without name and price stamped on the bottom put him down an a fraud w l douglas 3 shoe centlemen lu-bt in th world eiamlne hlb . "_ jjs.-.oo genuine hand-skwki shoe s4.oo hand-sewed welt shoe i..v police am kakmeks shoe si 50 extra value calf shoe 2.25 vokkin<;m.\vs shoe 5a.ooai.il 81 75 boys school shoes all inadu in congress iiuttuu aud lace w l douglas 3 shoe la'dtes kest material h«


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SUAO, Taiwan (AP) — Perched on a narrow promontory jutting off Taiwan's heavily industrialized northeastern coast, the Suao naval base is only 220 kilometers (140 miles) from a rocky group of islets at the center of a bitter territorial dispute between Japan and China.
Along with Taiwan, the islets — called the Diaoyu islands in China and the Senkakus in Japan — form part of what military strategists call the "first island chain." The string of islands and atolls extends along China's eastern periphery from South Korea to the southern Philippines, taking in a number of other disputed territories — notably the Paracel and Spratly islands in the South China Sea.
While most explanations for the territorial disputes focus on nationalistic pride and access to rich fishing grounds or potentially large reserves of oil and gas, the first island chain once figured prominently in strategic calculations — and some say still has strategic relevance today.
Military interest in the chain dates from at least the 1920s, when American planners concluded it could play a key role in helping the U.S. defend against rising Japanese militarism. After the communist victory in the Chinese civil war in 1949, Washington came to regard the chain as an important vehicle for containing Chinese military expansion, with special emphasis on Taiwan's role in it. U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur called the island "an unsinkable aircraft carrier," whose position 160 kilometers (100 miles) off China gave it the ability to project power all along the mainland's eastern coast.
MacArthur's doctrine helped focus Beijing's attention on the chain's strategic value. Admiral Liu Huaqing, head of the Chinese navy from 1982 to 1986, saw control of the waters within its boundaries as the first step in a three-stage strategy to transform the navy into a formidable platform for projecting Chinese power. The next stage, he wrote, involved controlling a second island chain linking the Ogasawara Islands — including Iwo Jima — with Guam and Indonesia, while the third stage focused on ending American dominance throughout the Pacific and Indian oceans, largely by deploying aircraft carriers in the region.
Contemporary analysts are divided on whether the chain has lost its strategic relevance, notwithstanding the rapid expansion of the Chinese navy. Skeptics say that China's acquisition of advanced, longer-range missiles means it can defend itself from its own shores, though the island chain still creates vulnerable chokepoints for Chinese vessels heading to sea.
"In my view, technology is diminishing the relevance of geographic strategy," former American military attache in Beijing Mark Stokes said in an email. "For example, the ability to strike moving targets at sea from southeast China at extended ranges reduces the need for cruise missile platforms closer to sea lines."
This view was echoed by Shanghai University of Law and Political Science military affairs expert Ni Lexiong.
"In the era of the fast development of military technology such as missiles, air strikes and nuclear weapons, the military role of the first island chain is getting less important," Ni said. "For instance, if China acquires advanced military technology, it will be useless for the U.S. ... to make military deployment along the first island chain because it's easy to get attacked."
Countering Stokes and Ni are the geographic-centric arguments of chain advocates such as geopolitical analyst and author Robert Kaplan — his latest book is titled "The Revenge of Geography" — and East Asia military specialist Dan Blumenthal of Washington's American Enterprise Institute, who believes the chain is important in safeguarding U.S. strategic assets all the way to the sprawling American military facility in Guam.
"The chain matters," Blumenthal wrote in an email, emphasizing the U.S. could thwart ocean-bound Chinese submarines at the chokepoints. "It is very hard to defend the Pacific if you lose the ability to slam the gate shut."
The official American view appears to be to ignore the chain, lest an increasingly powerful China react aggressively. The Obama administration believes it makes far better sense to approach Beijing not so much as a rival but as a potential partner for dealing with a welter of crucial issues — nuclear proliferation, for example, as well as climate change and global economic security.
"We are in the same boat, and we will either row in the same direction or we will, unfortunately, cause turmoil and whirlpools that will impact not just our two countries, but many people far beyond either of our borders," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton declared in a 2011 speech dedicated to U.S.-China relations.
Since then, the regional geopolitical climate has grown much tenser, fed by a series of confrontations between Japan and China over the disputed islets and escalating friction between Beijing and a number of Southeast Asian countries over expanding Chinese territorial claims in the South China Sea.
Under its "Pacific Pivot" policy, Washington has expanded military exercises in the region and placed important military resources in strategic Asian locations, but it has made no mention at all of the chain and avoided taking sides in the territorial disputes.
Treating the chain as a relic seems a dubious proposition here in Suao, which looks out onto a broad expanse of open water that Chinese naval vessels often cross en route to the Pacific. On a recent weekday morning, three Taiwanese corvettes lolled placidly in its waters, just to the west of a breakwater.
But the U.S. ended its direct military relationship with Taiwan in the run-up to the transfer of its recognition from Taipei to Beijing in 1979, effectively removing Taiwan from the first island chain, and few analysts expect it will be reintegrated anytime soon.
"I think we have come to a point where maintaining cordial ties with China trumps lesser concerns for many in official Washington," said James Holmes of the U.S. Naval War college in Newport, Rhode Island, writing in an email. "No U.S. government agency sees a pressing stake in Taiwan anymore."

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"From an end-user perspective, the real breakthrough that we are talking about with this announcement is the ability for them to join in from outside [the organization] without having to launch an additional VPN client," said Chris Wiborg, director, Collaboration Portfolio Marketing. "Today, the experience for somebody using the full Jabber solution, for example, on their cell phone would be that they have to fire up something like AnyConnect to make the connection. We've made it simpler by eliminating the need for that VPN."
Instead, Wiborg said, security is handled at the application layer via Transport Layer Security, the same technology that's widely used to secure e-commerce transactions.


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If your radio dial has ever tripped across an easy-listening station promising all the best the adult-contemporary genre has to offer, congratulations. You have found the Lexus ES of the airwaves.
Designed to please all and aggrieve none, this mid-size sedan from Toyota's luxury division has crooned its way into more than a million households since its debut in 1989. It's done so by playing it cool with reliably conservative comfort, docile performance and a solid value proposition.
But after nearly 21/2 decades of smooth hits, Lexus decided to redo the 2013 ES playlist with a smidge less Peabo Bryson and a smidge more "Gangnam Style." The result is a fresh take on a car starting at $36,980 that should largely broaden the appeal of one of the brand's most important vehicles.
The key change is the new ES' styling. Lexus is in the process of fitting its entire lineup with what the company calls a spindle grille. (Think of a short, angular hourglass.) Despite this design coming across as a little, gosh, unique when it's viewed independent of the car, the ES actually wears the spindle better than the other vehicles it's been bolted to.
Angled headlamps with daytime running LEDs complement the grille. The bumper is now more pronounced and falls lower, giving the ES more of a chin than it's had before. And, in back, Lexus stretched the taillights and added a small lip to the trunk lid and dual exhaust pipes. The result is a more aggressive facade than you've ever found on this car's banal predecessors.
Less noticeable on this ES is the fact that it's grown; the wheelbase is almost 2 inches longer, while the length is up an inch. Previous versions of this car were based on a platform shared with Toyota's Camry, but for 2013 the ES is based on the larger Avalon.
While an inch here or there may not sound like much, this growth pays its biggest dividends in interior space. Rear legroom is up 4 inches, making the back seats positively cavernous for this segment. Throw in the most comfortable headrests this side of a Mercedes-Benz S-Class, and you have a lovely place to spend some time. And, wouldn't you know it, such a setup matches the riding habits of many buyers in China, where Lexus and others are eager to make gains.
Head to the front seats, and life is just as comfortable — if somewhat marred by the view. The dashboard layout of the ES is new and, unfortunately, overwrought. There are more lines and folds here than in a beginner's origami class. Most notably, a pair of heavy, jarring creases above and below the 8-inch navigation screen bisect the dashboard horizontally.
Adding to the discord is the smattering of buttons, knobs and storage bins on either side of the driver. Placement of these controls seems to have been executed at the 11th hour of the interior's design and makes them hard to find at times.
What you can't miss, however, is the large, flat joystick affixed to the center console. Found on numerous Lexus vehicles, it's the controller that one uses with the optional navigation screen to operate the stereo, climate control and navigation system itself.
Each time I used this controller, I liked it less. In theory, it's not a bad idea: Replace a touch screen or rotary dial with what amounts to a computer mouse. But the device loses its precision when the car is moving, and the input systems on other luxury marques are quickly leaving this setup behind. That the screen itself is saddled with outdated graphics doesn't help matters.
But these shortcomings are most noticeable if you spend a lot of time in other cars. Plenty of buyers will overlook them and focus on the car's comfort and the brand's historically pragmatic approach to luxury.
An interior with the quietude of a sunset will also align with buyers' expectations. This Lexus is so good at keeping the cabin serene, you have to strain to hear either of the two available engines do their work.
The base ES 350 carries over the previous 3.5-liter V-6, which still pumps 268 horsepower and 248 pound-feet of torque to the front wheels via a six-speed automatic transmission.
This engine is also used in other Toyota and Lexus products, which is a good thing. It packs stout, smooth power and it moves the ES 350 from zero to 60 mph in 7.1 seconds. Even better, by reducing the car's weight versus the previous version — and using some aerodynamic trickery — the 2013 model bumps up its fuel economy ratings to 21 mpg in the city and 31 on the highway. During my time with the ES 350, I averaged 21 mpg in mostly city driving.
If you're willing to trade some horsepower and trunk space for noticeable fuel economy, consider the hybrid ES 300h. A first for the ES line, this version uses the same electric motor and 2.5-liter inline four-cylinder engine as Toyota's Camry hybrid, for a total of 200 horsepower. Paired with a continuously variable transmission, it gets 40 mpg in the city and 39 on the highway. The hybrid starts at $39,725, a $2,730 jump over the base engine.
Both ES models come standard with 10-way power driver and passenger seats, faux-leather seats, moon roof, eight-speaker sound system with Sirius radio, dual-zone climate control, LED daytime running lights and eight air bags. Sadly, a backup camera and navigation system are not included, though both come bundled in a $2,625 package.
Both cars also come with a dial that enables drivers to choose among Eco, Normal or Sport settings for the throttle and steering systems. The inclusion of this feature is undoubtedly a move by Lexus to up the ES' performance cred a hair, and the Sport setting's added boost of throttle from low speeds is appreciable.
We should remember, however, that the ES hasn't earned its keep over the years by being sporty — not even close. Thus, the few buyers who do change the drive mode will probably set it once and then leave it alone. Although the overall handling of this 2013 model is improved over the old version and it's more exciting to pilot, that's like saying "Gigli" is a better film than "Battlefield Earth." It's a marginal gain, kids.
This incremental boost in dexterity probably will mix with the newfound aesthetic mettle to pull in a respectable number of newcomers to the ES line.
Meanwhile, these cars adhere to Lexus' inoffensive approach to comfort and luxury and thus will please a fan base wary of surprises. The result should be a continued popularity that's music to Toyota's ears. Smooth, easy-listening music.


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Keeping an eye on Fido gets easier with home security systemBy APRIL GUILMET
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October 15. 2013 7:17PM
Jonathan Dubois's job takes him miles from his Amherst home most days, but that doesn't mean he can't keep a watchful eye on the daily activities of his two energetic poodle mixes, Daisy and Jessie.
Dubois, who works as an Xfinity Home Expert at Comcast's Granite State headquarters in Salem, can personally attest to the many perks offered to pet owners as part of the company's home security packages.
"People are always asking me what the dogs are doing all day when my wife and I go to work," Dubois said. "That's when I take out my iPad and show them the dogs sound asleep on the couch."
With recent advances in technology making it easier and more economical for pet owners to keep their pets safe and comfortable when they're at work, on vacation or out running errands, more households are relying on their digital cable and communications providers to keep a watchful eye on Fido and Fluffy when they're not at home.
About a year and a half ago, Comcast launched Xfinity Home, a security, home control and energy management service that's been catching on with pet owners ever since.
Earlier this year AT&T launched a similar product, Digital Life Home Security and Automation.
Both services offer a complete lineup of wirelessly enabled devices, including security cameras, motion sensors, door locks and remote controls for thermostats, water, appliances and lighting.
The new technology, with packages starting at approximately $10 per month, allows customers to get text and email alerts when doors or windows are opened or closed, tune into live streaming video inside their homes via their tablet or smart phone and turn on lights and heat remotely to make sure their four-footed friends are lounging in comfort.
"We want to treat our pets well," said Dubois, who also uses the technology to keep an eye on his family's flock of backyard chickens.
Comcast spokesman Marc Goodman said it's difficult to determine just how many Xfinity customers are using the technology specifically for their pets, but so far "feedback has been positive."
The technology also comes in handy for folks relying on the services of a pet sitter, particularly those who'd like to make sure their pet sitter is arriving and departing at certain times.
Both text and email alerts can notify an offsite pet parent when their scheduled sitter arrives and departs.
Kristen Levine, a national pet expert and blogger, said she first learned of the demand for new solutions when she was working at a Florida animal shelter 18 years ago.
Levine said the new technologies on the market might even save animals' lives.
"It soon became pretty clear to me that people surrender their pets for silly reasons," she noted, adding that's made it her life's mission to offer resources and information to pet parents.
"A recent survey of pet owners showed that 75 percent of them worry about leaving their animals alone in the house all day," Levine said. "Technology is growing fast in the pet industry for that reason."
Levine noted that video monitoring systems originally intended for home security can also be used to trouble-shoot pet behavior issues, such as separation anxiety, as well as allow working pet parents to check in on sick or elderly pets.


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Last week, Mary Steenburgen shared the news that she was joining the third season of Netflix's Orange Is the New Black, but details on her role were being locked up in solitary. Now the secret has escaped, and we know that she won't be wearing orange as a new inmate at Litchfield.
Orange Is the New Black, Fargo top Critics' Choice TV Awards winners
The Oscar-winner will instead play the mother of one of the show's most despised characters, reports TV Line. Say hello to Momma Pornstache!
Yep, Steenburgen's character will likely have to deal with her son's complicated situation as of the end of Season 2, which saw Mendez (Pablo Schreiber) facing fallout over his relationship with Daya.
Orange Is the New Black's Uzo Aduba on Crazy Eyes' major mommy issues
Netflix is quite high on Orange Is the New Black, renewing the critically acclaimed series for a third seasonbefore the second season was released on June 6. Critics are also smitten with the series, which took home a Best Comedy victory and two acting honors at Thursday's Critics' Choice Awards.
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Bandit and Frog, You guy's have got a killer T/A, something to be proud of. I love it and wish that I had one. Take care of her and she take care of you. We had such a great time on this event, I just wanted you all to know that. We appreciate all the hard work that you've done to make this dream a reallity. I can only wish that this can be a event again in the future. (maybe a 5yr event, that way it will always have a mile stone - 35yrs),. Plus you probably need a rest for all the planning and work that went into this. I hope you know that it was worth it though. You all take care and good luck in your move to CA. Stay in touch. Long live the legend of the Trans AM, Pontiac's muscle car stills lives in each of us.


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With a keen eye for the formal qualities of his subjects, and sensitivity to the particularities of place and community, Michael Dweck uses his camera to engage with the visual world. After an award-winning career as a creative director, he left commercial work in 2001 to pursue his passion for photography full-time. He works in color and black-and-white, and always in narrative series; "each photograph stands on its own but also contributes to a larger spirit that informs the body's overarching narrative," he explains. His subject matter ranges from cars and architecture to landscapes and female nudes, the latter being his most sustained focus. Among Dweck's best-known series are "The End: Montauk, N.Y." (2004), in which he captured Montauk's old fishing community and its surfing subculture, and "Habana Libre" (2011), an unprecedented, intimate portrayal of Cuba's privileged creative class.
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The Flight
So yesterday I posted a vignette called The Forest, done for a little "write-off" between John (55555) and others. We've been doing them for the past four or five nights now, so I'll probably post more here, but here's the one that we just did. Also, just for a little background on these write-offs: someone chooses a theme (usually John -- in this case, the theme was "Flight"), and then everyone participating (tonight it was Rene [EW], John, Micah [Kakaru], Lord Oblivion, and a couple other people not on BZP) is given that theme and then 15 minutes to write about it, no time for preparation (unless you want to take away from writing time), and no editing afterwards. As such, keep in mind that it is not the quality of my usual work and is unedited.
The FlightWe ran. Ran until our legs burned and our feet blistered. The forest whipped past us as we dodged the trees, not concerned with where we were going as long as it was far away from here. In my arms I carried my 18-month-old son who was crying emphatically. But I ignored his cries, focusing only on the running. Concerned with only his safety and mine.
..........I chanced taking a look behind me and I could still see our pursuers hot on our heels. We weren't gaining on them. No, they were gaining on us. In the distance smoke still rose from above the tree line.
..........They had come in the middle of the night with no warning, burning our houses, killing everyone in sight. When already half the village was destroyed the warning bell finally came. I was awakened, first from the horrid cries of my neighbors, then the ringing tone of the campanile got me on my feet. I quickly shook my wife awake, a sound sleeper, and grabbed my satchel which I kept for emergencies. I put the bag around my neck and placed my sleeping son in my arms.
.........."Go!" I yelled to my wife, who without hesitation began to run. We made for the tree line, following a small group of others who lived on same side of the village we did, the farthest part from where the attackers came.
..........And so we ran. Ran with all the strength we had. I wished I could help my son, give him something to make him stop crying. Something to tell him it was going to be okay. But I couldn't. I could only run for dear life and pray to God the barbarians didn't catch us.
..........My wife had tried to stay with me, but I ordered her to go on; she was faster not having to carry anything. I saw her up ahead, dodging the trees just as I was as she ran. For a brief second I saw her worried, scared, horrified face as she looked back toward me. I knew what she was feeling. We all did, and we all felt the same way.
..........It was hopeless. They'd catch us. But we ran anyway, fleeing from the place we had called home for generations.
..........I tripped over a root of a tree, falling face first into the frondescence that had formed on the ground. I kept my son in the air, taking the force of the fall on my chest and face. Pain seared through my being, but the adrenaline in my system allowed me to ignore it. To fight on. I picked myself up and ran again.
..........Finally, after what had seemed like hours, I looked behind again. No longer were our pursuers following us. I stopped, taking a closer look and realized it was true. They were gone. Our number had lessened, but we were not longer being hunted.
..........I fell to my knees on the forest floor. My wife came up behind me, hugging me closely. Tightly. The other members of our group gathered together to celebrate our victory. We were safe. We were alive. Our flight from the enemy was over.
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Menus in most school lunch programs are too high in saturated fat and cholesterol and too low in fiber- and nutrient-rich fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and legumes. Major changes are needed to encourage the health of the nation's youth and to reverse the growing trends of obesity, early-onset diabetes, and hypertension, among other chronic diseases, in children and teens.
The Healthy School Lunch Campaign encourages schools to offer more healthy low-fat, cholesterol-free options, including reimbursable meals and beverages, a la carte items, and vending machine items. The Physicians Committee Healthy School Lunch Team works with school districts across the country and organizes meetings and presentations for school boards, PTAs, and student groups. Feel free to use our healthy school lunch menu. We can provide marketing materials, meal planning and recipe ideas, and other resources upon request.
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The Tryal and Sentence of Elizabeth Cellier, For Writing, Printing, and Publishing, A Scandalous Libel, Called Malice Defeated, &c...
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Elizabeth Cellier was accused and imprisoned as a Catholic conspirator in the fraudulent "Meal Tub Plot". After the plot was exposed and she was released, she wrote and published a book called Malice Defeated; or a Brief Relation of the Accusation and Deliverance of Elizabeth Cellier, describing the Plot and various other persecutions of the Catholics by the government. The book was immediately translated into French and found a ready audience among Catholics. Because of the pamphlet Cellier was charged with libel and sedition. The case was of tremendous public interest, and the Mayor of London had this account of the trial published. Cellier attempted to show throughout the trial that she might not be the author of the work published under her name and sold by her at her home, but the jury did not believe it. It is interesting to note that once it became clear that the trial was going against her, she cast her defense in terms of a plea for mercy based on the fact that she was a woman and had not known it was illegal to publish the material of the book. Although she was a forceful, active, extremely intelligent woman, she called on a stereotype of female weakness and ignorance in her appeal.


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Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds hold hands in this first look at their wedding photos in a cover spread for Martha Stewart Weddings' Winter Issue.
While it isn't the big reveal we were all hoping for when it was announced that the wedding photos would be featured in the mag, we at least get a little peek at Blake's Marchesa dress and all the delicious food at the affair!
Blake and Ryan were married in a private ceremony in Charleston, S.C. back in September.
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Martina Navratilova's people are clearly hard at work. First, the fifty-year-old opened a tennis-themed art exhibit, Art Grand Slam, at Roland-Garros (home of the French Open). She teamed up with artist Juraj Kralik, and spawned artwork whose concept lies somewhere between Jackson Pollock and Stephen Murmer.
This and this are two of my favorite pieces.
Martina also just announced plans for a tennis academy in the Czech Republic. She inadvertently criticized the current power hitters — and even the sport's current magicians — by saying that she wants "to concentrate on a more varied form of tennis, more subtle than the style displayed by Martina Hingis, Justine Henin or Roger Federer." Wow. Bold statement. Let's see if she can deliver.
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WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. – The Westchester County Police took to the skies on Thursday night, as the department's Aviation Unit rescued a Mount Vernon wind surfer in New Rochelle.
New Rochelle police received an emergency call shortly after 7:30 p.m. after an observer on shore saw the 26-year-old wind surfer fall off board and into the Long Island Sound.
According to Public Information Officer Kieran O'Leary, the caller said the Mount Vernon resident was "clinging to the board and had drifted out of sight oft hose on shore."
The county police's Aviation Unit – in a helicopter piloted by Officer Peter Pucillo - subsequently conducted a search of the Sound between Glen Island and David's Island in New Rochelle and Orchard Beach in the Bronx using heat-seeking and night vision technology, operated by Officer Michael Brady. When that produced no results, a sweep of David's Island found the wind surfer to be on the southwest portion of the island.
The Mount Vernon resident and his equipment were retrieved, and he was flown to Glen Island Park to be checked for hypothermia by emergency officials. He declined further medical attention.
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The prevalence of slavery in pre-Revolutionary America made actual and threatened slave uprisings of intense interest throughout the British colonies in North America. The West Indies, or Caribbean islands, where slavery predominated, were vitally important to commerce and trade in the colonies, and slave revolts there were particularly newsworthy. In this issue of the New-York Weekly Journal, dated March 11, 1733[/4],* editor John Peter Zenger printed a sloop captain's report on a slave takeover of the Danish island of St. John in November 1733.
A group of slaves, the captain reported, "kill'd all the Men and aged Women, that they could lay their Hands on, and debauched the young Women, and that they kept Possession of the Island and Fort for 8 Days." He also claimed that the revolt had been put down after "a number of Whites and Negroes from St. Thomas's . . . attack'd the Fort, which they took after a stout Resistance." However, fighting continued on St. John until 1734, when English and French forces ended the uprising.
* Zenger mistakenly continued to print 1733 on his masthead after the year changed. He began printing the newspaper in November 1733.
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BOSTON, January 12.
Friday Night last a Sloop from St. Anguilla, came to Anchor in Nantasket Road, the Master of which informs us, that on the 10th Day of December last, there was the most violent storm at Statia, St. Martins and Anguilla, that has been known in Memory of Man. . . . The said Master further informs us, that while he lay at Anguilla a Bermudas Sloop arrived there from St. John's, the Master of which informed him, that the Number of Whites destroyed by the Negroes of that Island did not exceed 60, some having found Means to escape their Fury. That they kill'd all the Men and aged Women, that they could lay their Hands on, and debauched the young Women, and that they kept Possession of the Island and Fort for 8 Days, when a Number of Whites and Negroes came from St. Thomas's and attack'd the Fort, which they took after a stout Resistance; and among the rest, had the good Luck to take the Ringleader or Captain of the Black Gentry, whom they flea'd alive, and tortured several others of them to Death. Upon this Defeat, most of the Negroes that were scattered about upon the Island, took all the Canoes and other small Craft they could find, and quitted the Place, and 'tis thought they are gone to Cape Fransway, &c. This Rising of the Negroes at St. John's, has so alarmed our Islands, that they keep 30 or 40 Men every Night upon the Watch upon each Island, to prevent a Surprize. 'Tis further said, that all the Islands in the West Indies are under Apprehensions of a War. . . .
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House's top lawyer is defending President Barack Obama's nominee to be the No. 2 official at the Department of Homeland Security.
White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler says in a letter that the White House has no concerns about Alejandro Mayorkas' "suitability" for the post. Mayorkas is facing questions from a Senate panel about an investigation into his role in helping a company run by former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's brother secure a foreign investor visa.
Ruemmler's letter is addressed to Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Del., chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee. The letter was obtained by The Associated Press.
Ruemmler also says the White House followed standard procedures in vetting Mayorkas for the job. She also urges the Senate to confirm him swiftly.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 29th Jul 2013 08:54 UTC
"The Super Game Boy is probably the coolest piece of video game hardware in existence. It's also probably the biggest wasted opportunity in video games. It's been pretty much entirely forgotten about now, because - as is pretty common with neat hardware made by Nintendo - very, VERY few games ever really took advantage of it at all. And it's a shame, because the unique visual style of Super Game Boy-compatible games, in addition to just looking really neat, can teach a lot about effectively using colour in games. The ones that do work exist in a really bizarre stylistic place."


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NEW YORK (AP) — Ken Follett has signed on for three new novels, including a sequel to his million-selling "The Pillars of Earth."
Known for his thrillers and epic historical tales, Follett has an agreement with the Berkeley/NAL Publishing Group division of Penguin Group (USA). The division's president, Leslie Gelbman, announced the deal Wednesday.
Follett's other best-sellers include "Eye of the Needle" and "The Third Twin." The conclusion of his "Century" trilogy, "Edge of Eternity," will be out in September. Novels by Follett, a 64-year-old native of Wales, have sold more than 100 million copies worldwide.


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If you use Solstice DiskSuite or Solaris Volume Manager software, you must set aside a slice on the root disk for use in creating the state database replica. Specifically, set aside a slice for this purpose on each local disk. But, if you only have one local disk on a node, you might need to create three state database replicas in the same slice for Solstice DiskSuite or Solaris Volume Manager software to function properly. See your Solstice DiskSuite or Solaris Volume Manager documentation for more information.
SPARC: If you use VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) and you intend to encapsulate the root disk, you need to have two unused slices that are available for use by VxVM. Additionally, you need to have some additional unassigned free space at either the beginning or the end of the disk. See your VxVM documentation for more information about root disk encapsulation.


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The Nautical Archaeology Society (NAS) wants to allow everyone to benefit from the unique and fascinating resource that is the world's maritime heritage. It was fundamentally established 'to further research in nautical archaeology and publish the results'.
NAS is a UK based charity (Registered in England No. 1039270 English Registered Charity No: 262209 and Scotland No: SC040130) and a limited company (registered in England No: 1039270), but it also has strong links to other organisations around the world which work together collectively to promote the cause on a global scale.
NAS is dedicated to advancing education on nautical archaeology to everyone –its members, the general public and across the global archaeological sector. To this end it publishes a quarterly member's newsletter Nautical Archaeology.
The charity also aims to preserve an accurate record of the past – to achieve this it aims to improve archaeological techniques and encourage publication and research. It publishes a peer reviewed academic journal twice a year called the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology.
In 2018 the NAS received an Heritage Lottery Fund "Resilient Heritage" grant to transform our marketing, communications and fundraising abilities. The full press release can be read here.


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NEW DELHI -- Roughly 8,000 women in India died violently in 2013 because their families were unable to meet the demands for higher dowries, according to government statistics.
Such deaths have been a longtime problem in India and explain why the country passed a series of laws against dowries in the 1980s to protect against such violence.
Yet in July, India's Supreme Court delivered a landmark ruling that questioned the propriety of the laws and said they are used unfairly by "disgruntled wives" to prosecute their husbands and in-laws.
Anti-dowry statutes "are used as weapons rather than shields," the court concluded. "The simplest way to harass is to get the husband and his relatives arrested under this provision."
The judges then instructed the police to follow due diligence before making arrests.
The ruling threatens to undermine hard-won battles by the women's movement in recent decades, advocates of the law say. But it has given a boost to the growing number of families who are saying the dowry laws unfairly favor female complainants.
Husbands and mothers-in-law who claim to have been wrongfully accused of extortion under the dowry law recently gathered on a hot afternoon on the courthouse lawn in New Delhi. They carried bags full of legal documents and brimmed with tales of lying wives and manipulative daughters-in-law.
The questions poured: Will I be arrested? What if she drags me to court? Do we return all the gold jewelry?
"Print out a copy of this month's Supreme Court ruling," counseled Amit Lakhani, a senior activist of a growing nationwide support group called Save Indian Family, which blames Indian women for destroying families by misusing anti-dowry laws. "If the police come to arrest you, read out the ruling."
Dowries were officially outlawed in 1961, but over the years the number of brides who were killed by their husbands and families over dowries grew because brides' parents could not feed the continuing demands of their husbands' families, even after the weddings. Many of these deaths were reported as suicides or as "kitchen accidents." Stronger laws were introduced in the 1980s to protect married women from cruelty and battering by husbands or his relatives.
Despite the laws, the practice of dowry-giving remains entrenched and has grown because of rising middle-class consumerism and affluence, analysts say.
"Ninety percent of Indian marriages are arranged by parents. There is some form of dowry in all of them," said Ranjana Kumari, director of the Center for Social Research and author of the book Brides Are Not For Burning. "Every groom has a price tag for dowry, depending on his occupation and his family's economic status. The middle class is under pressure to give bigger cars, bigger home theater systems and bigger everything."
Parents of brides now keep the bills and photographs of dowry transactions as evidence, said Varsha Sharma, a senior policeman in the crime-against-women division in New Delhi.
More than 220,000 people were arrested on charges of dowry harassment in 2013. The conviction rate last year was 16 percent, according to India's National Crime Records Bureau.
In the New Delhi prison, there is a cell named "mother-in-law, sister-in-law barrack" for women arrested on charges of dowry cruelty. Even sisters living abroad for decades are arrested, the court noted this month. In 2011, the court likened the dowry law to "legal terrorism."
Kaushal Yadav, a lawyer in the high court case, said arrest was often swift after a married woman accused relatives of extortion. No longer.
"For the first time, the Supreme Court has said the police and lower-court magistrate will be held accountable if they arrest without adequate justification," he said.
But the supporters of the dowry law say the tone of the ruling hurt.
"How can the Supreme Court use words like 'disgruntled wives' to describe women who complain and seek legal action?" Kumari asked. "Should the court create conditions for social change or blame the victim?"
Activists who work with victims of dowry harassment and domestic abuse face a quandary.
"Every law is misused in India -- why single out just the dowry law?" asked Tulika Dutta, an activist. "Unfortunately, the misuse tarnishes the case of genuine victims of dowry, too."
Leela Om Prakash, a domestic worker, lost her 24-year-old daughter last year after the husband's family made repeated demands for gifts and money.
At the time of the marriage in 2011, "the groom's parents said: 'We don't want any dowry. Send us your daughter with just three sets of clothes,'" Prakash said. But she still gave the groom's family a cupboard, a TV, a sewing machine, a juicer, a kitchen stove, an ironing machine and jewelry. Later the groom's family demanded a motorcycle and then a down payment for a home loan. When Prakash could not deliver, her daughter was killed, she said.
"She had been strangulated with a nylon rope," said Prakash, 55.
Her son-in-law and his mother are in prison on charges of dowry murder but have claimed in court that the death was a suicide.
The Supreme Court's ruling comes at a time of unprecedented public debate about women's safety amid growing instances of rape.
But families at a meeting of the Save Indian Family group criticized the direction in which India's women's movement is headed.
"The modern Indian woman does not want to live with her husband's parents anymore, and she uses the dowry law to build pressure," said Sanjeev Kumar, a teacher facing dowry charges.
Kumar's mother waves a dowry list. "Our daughter-in-law is lying. She has inflated the list of dowry her parents gave at the wedding," she said. "But the police only listen to her, not us."
Some at the meeting said the National Commission for Women was acting like the "National Commission for Wives." A man wore a T-shirt that said "The Wedding Gift," showing a knife with the dowry law written on it.
The group recently started a national help line to counsel those caught up in dowry cases.
The meetings serve as group therapy, said Lakhani, 36, the group activist, who is also facing trial for dowry harassment charges by his wife. He said he never asked for dowry, and the marriage fell apart because his wife was temperamental.
Some husbands are accused of dowry torture by their wives' families to cover up the stigma of a divorce, said Deepika Narayan Bhardwaj, who is making a film about dowry law misuse titled Martyrs of Marriage.
Even after everything, Prakash says, she does not regret giving a dowry.
"Parents give dowry because they want their daughter to be pampered and respected by her husband's family," she said, leafing through her daughter's wedding album. "Even if I drowned in a sea of debt, I was willing to give whatever I could just to see her smiling. Instead I saw her dead.
"I want justice. The law is my only hope now."
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20w, 2d. Yesterday was my birthday--and also coincidentally the date of my anatomy scan. I've made no secret of my wanting daughter, and so I was up before 4 am, worrying and wondering what we might find. The night before, I had the chance to catch up with a good friend with whom I'd spent the past week playing phone tag. She asked if Sam and I were going into the ultrasound with two names, one for either sex. I laughed and said that we hadn't begun to think about names--honestly, the thought of considering any girls' names was just too painful. It sounds silly, but I've wanted a daughter for so long and knowing that this was our last shot at having one (yes, we're really and truly done having kids after this one is born), I just felt like I couldn't handle the disappointment of thinking about a baby girl in more concrete terms, like what we might name her. Only boys have been born into my husband's family for the past three generations--12 boys thus far, and everyone has just come to expect that that's how it will continue to be...
When I woke up around 4:00 (all too common these days), I started worrying about whether or not the baby would be healthy--I'd spent so much time focused on whether we were having our third boy or not that I had just taken the baby's health for granted. Given that this pregnancy has been surprisingly hard on me, all of a sudden I wondered if something could be really wrong with the baby. There hadn't been any indication of that during my nuchal translucency at 11 weeks, but those things don't find everything... Luckily, my kids snuck down the stairs around 5:30 am, singing 'Happy Birthday' to me, and distracted me for the next couple of hours.
When we got into the ultrasound room and the anatomy scan began, the sonographer confirmed that we wanted to know the sex. She moved the wand around for a while, saying that the baby has its legs crossed and she'd take pictures of other stuff first, until the baby changed position. I jokingly offered to let her hang me upside down if she needed to, so anxious was I to finally know what we were having. Eventually, she said she thought she knew what the baby was but just wanted one more picture to confirm. When she got that, she said, "It's a healthy baby... girl."
I immediately started sobbing on the ultrasound table, my belly shaking and making it impossible for her to see much of anything for a moment. Sam asked if she was sure it was a girl, and she nodded, pointing out the labia and eventually the ovaries. He looked happy but stunned--although he had admitted to me the night before that he felt for the first time like having a daughter was a realistic possibility and had even started looking at girls' names on his own.
If it makes any sense, especially to those of you who have lost someone close to you, I really felt my mom's presence in the room at the moment the sonographer shared the news. I had told Sam the night before that I knew that regardless of what we were having, this baby was the one that was meant for us, given that despite two previous precisely planned pregnancies, this one had been a bit unexpected. Not only had I gotten pregnant before we started "trying," but I'm due on 1/2/13--which is exactly the season in which I have never wanted to have a baby, given that it meant being pregnant through the summer and having a baby with a birthday within days of a major present-filled holiday (it always seemed to me that those kids get stiffed on presents and celebrating, due to all of the other hullabaloo at that time). Kind of like this baby was a reminder to me of just how little life can actually be planned out according to my specific whims.
But back to that feeling about my mom--she died less than two months after my second son was born, and I continue to feel her absence in my life. We were really, really close--the kind of close where I called her everyday when I moved away for college--and continued doing so until the day she died because I wanted to talk to her. She was an excellent mother to my little brother and me, and I aspire to be like her. And while I have come to learn that she and my brother also had an excellent relationship of a different sort (which relieved me, given the fact that I have two boys of my own), I have always wanted a daughter in the hopes of having the kind of relationship with her that my mom had with me. I'm sorry that she'll never get the chance to enjoy having a granddaughter, but it kind of feels like this little girl is a gift from her (despite my understanding full well how babymaking works--and I can assure you my husband and I were the only two people in the room at that time).
Anyhoo, I went to bed last night still feeling elated--and woke up this morning feeling the same way. This ultrasound experience was much better than when we learned our second child was a boy--and I punched Sam while lying on the ultrasound table!
Did you find out the sex of your baby in advance? Were you surprised? Delighted? Disappointed? Leave a comment.


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PORTLAND, Ore., April 8, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Schmitt Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq:SMIT), announced today that Ann M. Ferguson has been named Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of the Company, effective April 15, 2013. Ferguson is a former partner with Deloitte & Touche, LLP in Portland, where she spent over twenty years in public accounting for various clients in a variety of industry sectors, with a focus on manufacturing. She replaces Jeff Siegal, who is resigning effective April 12, 2013 to accept a position with a company in Walla Walla, Washington. Ferguson will report to James A. Fitzhenry, President and Chief Executive Officer of Schmitt Industries.
"We are thrilled to have Ann Ferguson join the management team at Schmitt," commented Jim Fitzhenry. "She not only has substantial public accounting experience but also significant leadership and management experience. We look forward to her contributions as we prepare for the next stage of our growth," he concluded.
Commenting on her appointment, Ferguson said, "I am excited to join Schmitt at a time when the Company is poised for growth. I am enthusiastic about the contributions I will be able to make to the management team."
About Schmitt Industries
Schmitt Industries, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets computer-controlled vibration detection and balancing equipment (the Balancer segment) primarily to the machine tool industry. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Schmitt Measurement Systems, Inc., the Company designs, manufactures and markets precision laser-based surface measurement products for a wide variety of commercial applications in addition to the disk drive, silicon wafer and optics industries; laser-based distance measurement products for a wide variety of industrial applications; and ultrasonic measurement products that accurately measure the fill levels of liquefied propane tanks and transmit that data via satellite to a secure web site (the Measurement segment). The Company also sells and markets its products in Europe through its wholly owned subsidiary, Schmitt Europe Ltd. located in the United Kingdom.
CONTACT: For more information contact: Jim Fitzhenry, President and Chief Executive Officer (503) 227-7908 or visit our web site at www.schmitt-ind.com
Source:Schmitt Industries, Inc.