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The OECD has released Information Technology Outlook 2002. It can be ordered from the OECD bookshop but highlights of the report are available online (PDF).
Nokia to Join With I.B.M. in 2 Ventures on Software: Nokia and IBM. will develop digital rights management software for what wireless operators call light content ring tones, games, logos and pictures. For example, portions of popular songs can be downloaded for a small fee and used as the ring tone on a cellphone. The current market exists mainly in Europe and Japan, where wireless services are more advanced than in the United States, and among young people, 25 and under. In Europe, the market for such light content is $500 million a year. [New York Times: Technology]
A new Internet draft, The E.164 to URI DDDS Application, has been published. This forms the basis of a document intended to replace RFC 2916, which describes the ENUM protocol.
The Internet's root name servers are seen as a possible soft target for distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks (in fact, they already are as described in this paper). A possible method to deal with this vulnerability that's getting some serious consideration is the use of IPv4 anycasting, as first conceptualized in RFC 1546. A recently released primer on anycast from Cisco can be found here (PDF). The application of anycasting to providing DNS services was explored in a number of Internet drafts which eventually became the informational RFC 3258: Distributing Authoritative Name Servers via Shared Unicast Addresses. RFC 3258 describes how authoritative name servers with the same IP address could be replicated at different locations. The route to these servers would be advertised for each location and the routing protocols would direct traffic to the topologically nearest server. As an example of how anycasting for the root name servers could possible work, there's already a project, named AS112, that uses anycast to distribute the load for bogus requests for private address space (as described in RFC 1918, also see description of problem here). A possible benefit of using anycast for the root name service is that it may solve both some technical security issues as well as some political issues (i.e., better geo-political distribution of the root name servers). On the other hand, it may make it much harder to deploy DNSSEC. It'll be interesting to watch this play out...
Now That Ringing Cellphone May Be a Telemarketer's Call. Cellphones have long been safe from the marketing that bombards kitchen phones and e-mail in-boxes. But that electronic cocoon is starting to fray. [New York Times: Technology]
I'm on my flight back from Paris where I participated in Nom de Domaine 2002 (in English, Domain Name 2002), which supposedly will become an annual event. ISOC France and Cigref, the organizers, brought together quite a number of speakers for an interesting programme and workshops. I gave a talk (PowerPoint) this morning in a session on internationalized domain names and ENUM. I'm told that all the presentations and speeches given will eventually become available on the conference web site. Last night, the organizers hosted a dinner in a restaurant near the Champs-Elysées which helped the speakers to get to know each other. It was interesting to see many of the same people in last week's ICANN meeting in Bucharest, the "World Summit on the Information Society preparatory meetings" in Geneva, and at this meeting in Paris.
Updated: The ITU is taking the leading role in the organization of the World Summit on the Information Society, which will be held in Geneva in December 2003 and Tunis in 2005. The Summit is being held under the high patronage of the UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan. The anticipated outcome of the Summit is to develop and foster a clear statement of political will and a concrete plan of action for achieving the goals of a global Information Society. As part of the preparatory process for the Summit at the global level, three preparatory committee meetings are to be held. The first, PrepCom-1, is taking place this week in Geneva (1-5 July 2002) as described in this ITU press release. News highlights of the discussions at this preparatory meeting are made available at the end of each day: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5. The closing ITU press release Global Strategy for the Information Society Takes Successful First Steps can be found here.
The demise of CIX was announced last January according to the bottom of this press release from a new entitity called the United States Internet Service Provider Association, which according to the press release says "The US ISPA was created from the former Commercial Internet eXchange ('CIX'), which announced today that it was disbanding and being reconstituted with an entirely new membership group and Internet focus under the US ISPA name." It's the surprising end of an era. The Commercial Internet Exchange (CIX) was founded in 1991 to provide a commercial interconnection point so that commercial traffic could be exchanged without compromising the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) of NSFNET. Later, CIX became a trade association and lobbying force for ISPs in the US and it's somewhat surprising that it didn't manage to rally enough support to survive. In general, I've been surprised that ISPs have never been able to collectively front very effective trade associations that defend their interests, a topic which Scott Mace discusses in his two articles on Who Speaks for the ISPs?: part 1; part 2.
Bret Fausett's icann.Blog notices it first: The ICANN Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) secretariat has now posted the materials it presented to the ICANN Board in Bucharest. The Bucharest communique is here, and the GAC's Statement on ICANN Reform is here. We've been asked by a number of people why, in Annex 2 of the GAC statement on Reform, there is the statement "The International Telecommunication Union disassociates itself from portions of this document." The explanation is that based on a number of discussions among Member States within the ITU on ICANN and ICANN reform, there are clearly a wide range of views. Under these circumstances, the ITU Secretariat has to reflect this and disassociate itself from a number of the substantive statements made in the GAC document. These will be later specifically documented for the minutes of this GAC meeting.
It seems that it's finally all over for Ebone.
The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) development of the MPEG-4 standard is widely seen as important to the availability of an open, cross-platform, interactive multimedia standard. For example, MPEG-4 functionality is being built into 3G mobile phones. For a detailed overview of MPEG-4, see here. The MPEG-4 Industry Forum (M4IF), who promote adoption of MPEG-4, held a workshop and exhibition last week in California. The keynote address, given by Rob Koenen, President of M4IF, provides an overview of the state of play of MPEG-4, including the thorny issue of licensing. The ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) and ISO/IEC recently announced that they had formed a joint video team (JVT) to produce a next generation video coding standard, which will become part of the MPEG-4 standard.
MSNBC has posted a Wall Street Journal article that's been getting lots of interest: Cyberlaw: Cybersmart or cybersilly? Sketpics cast doubt on hot new legal field. There's a related thread on the article over on Slashdot.
Egyptians Flock to New Net Plan. Egypt scraps its old Internet subscription plan in favor of per-hour dial-up charges, resulting in an immediate and welcome spike in usage. [Wired News] This is an interesting model of access network revenue sharing with telcos, one method that national ministries or regulators, in this case the Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), have used to stimulate Internet usage for their general population.
From the covergence file: The Register is reporting on Coming soon: SMS TV. For readers in countries who aren't aware of the popularity of text messaging over mobile phones, NUA gives one example by reporting that, according to the Swedish regulator, PTS, Swedish mobile users sent over 1 billion SMS messages during 2001. [Only for statistics mavens: I always thought it'd be interesting to plot the growth of SMS messaging vis-à-vis Internet email traffic but I'm unaware of where to find any real good indicators on email traffic. Anyone who has an idea on how to estimate this is invited to contact me.]
News.com has a special report on spyware and adware being surreptitiously installed on users' PCs: "The Wild West days of cyberspace are over--and, like it or not, it's time for government to change its laissez-faire attitude toward the Internet and create laws that clearly prevent unscrupulous businesses from preying on unsuspecting consumers and seizing control of computers."
The Economist has an article on wireless telecoms: Four disruptive technologies are emerging that promise to render not only the next wave of so-called 3G wireless networks irrelevant, but possibly even their 4G successors. For me, the most fascinating wireless technology is the concept of mesh networks, similar to Peter Cochrane's concepts of 'parasitic networks' requiring zero infrastructure. This seems to me to offer the possibility of rapid organic network growth once the network is initially 'seeded'.
The Internet Protocol Journal has an good article on ENUM by Geoff Huston. He concludes: "It appears that the technical components of ENUM are generally the most straightforward part. The regulatory and social implications of ENUM are more of a concern..."
Cigref and ISOC France are hosting a conference NOM DE DOMAINE 2002 in Paris on the 4th of July, 2002. I plan to participate on behalf of ITU.
Two years ago today right here in Bucharest, following a meeting on the topic of "Police of the XXIst century : Strengthening the protection of citizens' rights and new international threats against security", the conclusions of the meeting noted that "a Convention on Cyber Crime is in an advanced stage of preparation within the Council of Europe and call for the adoption of this Convention without delay". Since then a lot has happened. The Council of Europe's Convention on cybercrime is now the first international treaty on crimes committed via the Internet and other computer networks, dealing particularly with infringements of copyright, computer-related fraud, child pornography and violations of network security. It also contains a series of powers and procedures such as the search of computer networks and interception. Its main objective is to pursue a common criminal policy aimed at the protection of society against cybercrime, especially by adopting appropriate legislation and fostering international cooperation. The Convention is the product of four years of work by Council of Europe experts, but also by Canada, Japan, the United States and other countries, who are not members of the organization. It is somewhat unusual in that it is open to signature and accession by non-EU member states.
Korea has the highest Internet broadband penetration per capita in the world and by a very large margin (the runner-ups are not even close). It's always interesting to look at how technology leaders address policy issues as it indicates where other countries might be heading. For example, as I explained in my earlier mention of "Cyber-Crime and Cyber-Terrorism in Korea", the government is attacking a wide range of hacking and cyber-crime issues. In its latest initiative, this article in the Korea Herald explains how the the Korean Ministry of Information and Communication has now unveiled plans for tough new laws dealing with SPAM.
XML-Signature XPath Filter Last Call Published. The joint IETF/W3C XML Signature Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of XML-Signature XPath Filter 2.0. Comments are welcome through 11 July. The draft defines a means to digitally sign a document subset using XPath, the language for addressing parts of an XML document. [The World Wide Web Consortium]. For a primer on XML Signatures, see here. You might also want to see the the XML Signature working group web pages.
The Markle Foundation has issued a statement (Word) on ICANN reform for submission to the US hearings on ICANN held on June 12, 2002 (see "US Congressional Testimony on ICANN").
One sees lots of criticism in the press and elsewhere about the deployment of 3G mobile systems. This paper (Word, PDF) by Audrey Selian of the ITU provides some good perspective on the historical development of GSM and how we are moving to IMT-2000 (3G) mobile systems. Not surprisingly, there were plenty of GSM naysayers in its early days, just as there are today for IMT-2000 systems.
Reuters is reporting on British engineers who have have invented a revolutionary tooth implant that works like a mobile phone. The 'tooth phone', designed by James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau, consists of a tiny vibrator and a radio wave receiver implanted into a tooth during routine dental surgery. Even more bizarre, this comes at the same time that Reuters is reporting studies that show that mobile phone radiation can cause changes in human cells that might affect the brain.
From the myth-bashing department: Reason has an interview with Larry Lessig. In this interview, he repeats his arguments from his book, The Future of Ideas, concerning his views on the importance of the "end-to-end design principle", repeating a common mantra of Internet techies, who argue that the Internet is obviously a superior design to the telephone network because "the intelligence is at the end nodes and not inside the network". These theories are blindly parroted and even applied to cyber-political theory, typically as variations of David S. Isenberg's stupid network theme. Showing that the populist view often does not bear scrutiny, in this posting back in March 2000 on the Cybertelecom-L mailing list (no archives), Fred Goldstein takes the opposite view and argues convincingly, that on the contrary, "The telephone network has even more content-neutrality than the Internet, because as a circuit-switched network, it has zero visibility of the bearer channels. Once the call's set up, bits is bits. No firewalls, censorware, caches, or other content-invasive intermediaries a la the Internet as people tend to see it nowadays. Thus the amount of intelligence in the Internet's switches (routers) is many orders of magnitude above what goes into a telephone switch, even a huge one."
Whoops, so much for the stupid network theory...
The Asia-Pacific Telecommunity (APT), a regional intergovernmental telecommunication organization, in its preparation of common proposals to the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, 23 September - 18 October 2002, includes a proposal from APT members concerning the Role of Member Administrations in the Management of Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) and Addresses (Word), which would include an instruction to the ITU Secretary-General to promote effectively the role of Member States in the internationalization of domain names and address of their respective languages.
The ITU-T is organizing a workshop on IP and Optical networks in Chitose, Japan from 9-11 July 2002. Participation is open to non ITU-T members. The relevant ITU-T Study Groups (SG13 and SG15) have made available their respective general work plans for IP networks (Word, PDF) and Optical Transport Networks.
Every dial you take. The FBI is asking for more information about what you do on the phone, and no one is saying no. [Salon.com]. On a related note, remember that VeriSign recently announced the somewhat unusually-named NetDiscovery Service "enabling carriers to meet June 30 CALEA Deadline with Minimum Expense", taking "full advantage of VeriSign's core expertise in security and bridges our telecom, PKI, and IP network assets".
ICANN has posted a list of 11 applications received for .org reassignment [ICANN Announcements]
This Internet-draft from Neustar staff is a great primer on numbering portability in the Public/Global Switched Telephone Network (PSTN/GSTN). Service provider portability, meaning the ability to switch service providers and retain existing numbering resources, is an important component of any pro-competitive telecom market liberalization. The concepts behind number portability, preventing service lock-in, is what made the IAHC propose a similar model for the generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) marketplace back in 1996 (as well as the pioneering work of Nominet in the split registry/registrar model). As an original member of the IAHC who pushed for this, there are times, five years later, when I wonder whether the regulatory costs of mandating portability and overseeing a large number of competing registrars are worth it.
[New York Times: Technology]: Telecom Outlook: First the Bad News, Then the Bad News. In light of a wave of bad news last week, some analysts say the telecommunications industry's problems could become worse before they become better. "This confluence of negative news, combined with the languishing bankruptcy proceedings of Global Crossing and persistent concern over giants like WorldCom, have prompted some analysts to forecast a more severe crisis in the industry, which has already endured the erasing of an estimated $2 trillion in the market value of its constituent companies since the telecommunications slump began about two years ago."
George Gilder listened to the technology, and became guru of the telecosm. The markets listened to his newsletter, and followed him into the Global Crossing abyss. [Wired]. "None exemplifies Gilder's rise and fall more than Global Crossing, which filed for bankruptcy - the fourth-largest ever - in January. Even in a portfolio of flops, the scope and depth of this particular debacle stands out. ... I would've been willing to bet my house against it." In effect he did. Just a few years ago, he was the toast of Wall Street and commanded as much as $100,000 per speech. Now, he confesses, he's broke and has a lien against his home."
U.N. Conference Says Digital Divide Still Growing. The digital divide between rich and poor countries is growing despite the many efforts to help developing nations break into the global economy via computers. "Some countries have prospered while others have fallen behind,'' said Yoshio Utsumi, Secretary-General of the Geneva-based International Telecommunications Union. "If we do not take any action, the gap between the information 'haves' and 'have nots' will continue to grow.'' Utsumi said "information poverty'' remained a reality for much of the world. More than 80 countries had fewer than 10 telephone lines for every 100 inhabitants. And in three out of five countries, fewer than one out of 100 people used the Internet, he said. [New York Times: Technology]
There's been considerable debate on the IETF main discussion list about whether it'd be appropriate to deploy a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) on top of the Internet Domain Name System (DNS). As there is no single rooted deployed PKI system with a single root certificate authority (CA), this has lead to a deeper debate about what really is the right underlying model: the single root as argued for the DNS in RFC 2826 or some form of cross-recognition scheme across roots as pursued in the PKI world. (As background, this ITU paper from 1999 explains why there exists widely different approaches to PKI). The debate has deftly exposed a fundamental inconsistency in people's reasoning: there is wide acceptance of multiple root CAs but total intolerance of a multiple rooted DNS. In this post, Peter Deutsch was brave enough to point out the logical fallacy of holding both views simultaneously.
ITU has issued a press release: World Leaders must shape the direction of the 'Information Society'; United Nations General Assembly told that 'global strategy' needed, in preparation for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), which will be held under the high patronage of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, with ITU taking the lead role in preparations. The first phase will be held in Geneva 10-12 December 2003 and the second phase in Tunis in 2005. "The transformation to the Information Society is every bit as profound as the movement from agrarian to industrial societies and just as in the past, such change has led to winners and losers. ' Some countries have prospered, while others have fallen behind,' Yoshio Utsumi, Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union, told the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York. ' If we do not take any action. The gap between the information 'haves' and 'have nots' will continue to grow.'
[BBC]: Privacy worries fuel domain name concerns. Nominet, the .uk top level domain administrator, plans to introduce changes in its whois.
Europa Press is reporting (Spanish) on the deliberate sabotage of telecommunication networks in the Madrid, Spain area. Spain's Telecommunications Committee has asked that security contingency plans be put immediately into effect. Spanish consumer and user associations have also joined in expressing their concern about the interruption of fundamental services.
The Australian has news about advances in quantum teleportation at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra. Using a process known as quantum entanglement, the researchers have disassembled a laser at one end of an optical communications system and recreated a replica a metre away. "The applications of teleportation for computers and communications over the next decade are very exciting" says physicist Ping Koy Lam, leader of the project. Some web pages at ANU explain some of the background on quantum teleportation.
New TLD Evaluation Process Planning Task Force Issues Draft Final Report, Invites Comment [ICANN Announcements]
Legal Scholar Michael Geist, Commentator Lauren Weinstein, and ICANN counsel Joe Sims have engaged in a short debate on ICANN Reform on Dave Farber's IP mailing list and Declan McCullagh's Politech mailing list. It's an interesting read. Here's the exchange so far: (1) Geist post; (2) Sims Reply; (3) Geist Rebuttal; (4) Weinstein Comment; and (5) Joe Sims Reply to Weinstein. [icann.Blog]
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Here at Vida Vegan, we're over the moon with excitement, as usual. This time, it's not only about one of our esteemed speakers, it's for the debut of her new cookbook that conquers the world at this summer's Vida Vegan Con!
Bryanna Clark Grogan is one of the most versatile, creative, and respected vegan chefs out there, and we're honored to have her involved—and to get our own hands on World Vegan Feast!
Be sure to check out the schedule for her sessions and stop by the speakers' shared tables in the Exhibitor Hall for a meet, greet & copy of her book!
Bryanna is scheduled to participate in the Nutritional Panel, Publishing Panel and a cooking demo.
You can learn more about Bryanna and her creations on her blog, Notes from the Vegan Feast Kitchen/21st Century Table.
You can also pre-order her book on Amazon here.
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GSA Launches Section 508 Web Accessibility Training to Aid Compliance
July 11, 2001
Contact: Eleni Martin, (202) 501-1231
Deborah K. Ruiz, (202) 501-1231
WASHINGTON, DC - On July 6, 2001, the U.S. General Services Administration launched the first of a series of free, self-paced, Web-based training modules designed to help federal agencies comply with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, as amended in 1998.
Available as a link from the current Section 508 Web site at http://www.section508.gov, the training explains what accessibility is all about, what the Section 508 Standards are, and how to design for 508 compliance by exploring the Web-based course "Designing Accessible Web Sites." The course covers such topics as �Designing to the Standards,' �Alternatives for Multimedia,' and �On-line Forms and Adobe PDF Files,' among other lessons. The first module of training is designed to train Web masters on the development of Web pages to meet the Web-based Standards for Section 508, as specified in �1194.22 of the Federal Register published December 21, 2000.
The training will also include future modules to address training needs for procurement officers, human resources personnel as well as agency coordinators focused on Section 508 issues. Additionally, the Web site includes resource lists, a glossary and an interactive link to "ask the experts."
GSA is a centralized federal procurement and property agency responsible for providing office space, supplies and services for the federal government. GSA operates and manages 1,800 government-owned buildings and 6,500 leased buildings while playing a key role in procuring and managing the government's massive inventory of computer and telecommunications equipment and services.
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Alvin Denton of Adair County has seen almost every home game his
Jessica, has cheered over the last 12 years.
COLUMBIA, Ky. -- When Lindsey Wilson College
and Campbellsville (Ky.) University play basketball tonight at
Biggers Sports Center, you can bet Alvin Denton of Adair County
will be sitting in the stands.
He rarely misses a game, and not only because he enjoys watching
Blue Raider basketball. He also attends the games to support his
granddaughter, Jessica, who cheers for the Blue Raiders.
Since Jessica began cheering in the fourth grade, Alvin reckons he
has missed only a handful of games she has been on the
"I might have missed four games the whole time since she started
cheering," Alvin said recently between Lindsey Wilson women's and
men's basketball games.
Denton and his wife, Joyce, raised Jessica and her brother, Jared,
who is an Adair County High School senior.
"We raised her, and I just always felt responsible for supporting
her and her brother in whatever they did," Alvin said. "She always
said, 'Poppy, you don't have to come if you don't want to.' But I
always managed to get there and support her."
Jessica, who is a Lindsey Wilson junior, said she has wanted to
cheer since she was a little girl.
"Whenever I was at games, I would watch the cheerleaders, and I
always wanted to be one," she said.
Jessica didn't make the cheerleading team the first time she tried
out as a third-grader at the now-defunct Shepherd School, but she
made the team in the fourth grade. After cheering five years at
Shepherd, Jessica cheered all four years at Adair County High
School before joining the LWC squad three years ago. And Alvin has
seen almost every cheer she has led.
"It means a whole lot to me because he's always been there for me
no matter what," Jessica said.
More ...
LWC and Campbellsvile play a women's-men's doubleheader that
begins at 6 p.m. CT Monday, Feb. 25, in Biggers Sports Center. The
game is a blackout for LWC fans, which means wear black to the
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Anyone else get a bit frustrated by this? Right now I can only really afford to do a couple of sessions of training a week, and it is sooo frustrating when the instructor decides to spend half the class doing solo exercises I could have done by myself at home. Arghh I want to do technique and sparing in that precious mat time, I already did my allotted running for this week.
Having said that it would not be a problem if one knows in advance what the session will be in advance. If its going to be more of a cardio workout session then say so on the timetable, or tell me in advance and I can plan my week's training. Just occasionally the masochist in me does enjoy a session with a fitness nazi. Just dont change the focus of the class on a whim.


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I just returned from the annual conference of the American Library Association (ALA). It's quite a gathering of librarians, trustees, authors, publishers, library school students, vendors and others who support or are associated with libraries of all types.
Of course I concentrate on sessions that deal primarily with public library issues and try to network with others from libraries similar to KPL. I came away from the conference with two strong feelings: "we are on the right track at KPL" and "it's pretty darn good here."
"We are on the right track" – strategic planning is the norm; most, like us, are using the ALA process. An emphasis on early childhood literacy is seen as the #1 priority for many, same for us. Digital downloads of content is increasingly available, likewise here. Use of computers is strong, circulation is up, traffic is steady – in summary "business" is good!
"It's pretty darn good here," especially as compared to public libraries which are part of city or county government. Those libraries have had significant reductions and have closed branches, reduced or eliminated many services, laid off staff. As an independent district library, we are fortunate to have a dedicated millage. Although we have dropped bookmobile service, reduced expenditures in most categories of the budget, and not filled many staff vacancies, our reductions are considerably less than most urban public libraries.
The saying holds true yet again... ...it's good to go away, it's good to be home.
Come visit soon.
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'The Sabres have been through bankruptcy courts and two years of losing. Likewise, the Penguins' precarious financial plight has forced them to give away most of their high-priced players and have not been a playoff contender since.'
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Marlins rally to sweep Mariners - April 20th
Miami, FL (SportsNetwork.com) - The Miami Marlins scored twice in the bottom of the eighth inning to come back and sweep the Seattle Mariners with a 3-2 win on Sunday in the finale of a three-game series.
Garrett Jones, Adeiny Hechavarria and Donovan Solano picked up an RBI apiece for the Marlins, who have won four of five.
Marlins starter Kevin Slowey gave up two runs on three hits through five innings of work, picking up three strikeouts. Mike Dunn (1-2) earned the win setting down the three batters he faced in the eighth.
Despite allowing a leadoff double and a walk, Steve Cishek worked out of a one-out jam with runners on the corners to pick up his third save of the season and 32nd consecutive save dating back to last season.
Corey Hart hit two doubles and Dustin Ackley and Justin Smoak each drove in a run for Seattle, which has dropped six straight and eight of nine.
"The only way we're going to come out of this, is our guys have to step up and perform a little better. It was a great game but we had opportunities to get some things done and we didn't do it," said Seattle manager Lloyd McClendon.
Seattle starter Brandon Maurer hurled four hitless innings before surrendering a run on two hits in the fifth. Maurer fanned four, while walking two through 4 1/3 frames.
Tom Wilhelmsen (0-1) pitched one inning and allowed one run, while walking two and picking up his second blown save.
Miami trailed, 2-1, heading into the eighth. Christian Yelich doubled to left to lead off the inning before Giancarlo Stanton was intentionally walked, then Casey McGehee walked to load the bases.
Jones then grounded to first and Smoak threw home to force out Yelich, however, after a challenge on the play he was ruled safe. Hechavarria then hit a sacrifice fly to drive in Stanton for the game-deciding run.
"I felt that I beat it from the get go and I saw him call me out. I started yelling at him a little bit, telling him that I was safe. If we didn't have replay right there then it's a 2-1 game and we have two outs right there," said Yelich.
Earlier, Hart doubled to left center to lead off the second before moving to third on an Ackley groundout. Smoak followed up with a sacrifice fly that plated Hart and gave Seattle a 1-0 lead.
The Mariners struck again in the fourth when Ackley picked up an RBI. Robinson Cano hit a leadoff double to left field and advanced to third on a Hart flyout to right. Cano then scored on Ackley's sacrifice fly.
Trailing 2-0 in the fifth, the Marlins broke through for a run. Jones hit a one-out single, which Hechavarria followed with a walk before Solano singled in Jones.
Game Notes
Yelich extended his career-high hitting streak to 14 games ... The Mariners host the Houston Astros on Monday to open a three-games series ... Seattle went 0-for-8 with runners in scoring position, while Miami was 1-for-7 with RISP ... Miami opens a three-game set in Atlanta on Monday against the Braves.


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Like everyone else with a lick of moral sense, I was shamed and saddened by the news out of Duke University last February that a freshman student was paying her tuition bills by doing porn. Belle Knox, as she called herself in print, felt no shame when she was publicly exposed by a male classmate, who recognized her while—you guessed it—watching porn. (He wasn't ashamed either.) Doing porn, Knox told the Duke student newspaper, is "liberating. It's probably the most empowered I have ever felt."
The expected moral outrage never developed. If sermons were preached against the degradation of pornography, they did not penetrate the church walls; if a scarlet letter appeared in the night sky, no one reported it. Instead, Knox very quickly became a victim. The sin against her? An outrage called "slut-shaming." Facebook postings and Twitter messages ridiculed her; girls on campus glared at her, boys yelled, "You're the porn star!" "There were stares and whispers in the dining hall," Knox complained to the Huffington Post. "After I was outed, every single day waking up was like a nightmare."
Defenders leaped to her side. "This country is in a trillion dollar student loan debt," the website College Candy reasoned, "Duke is $60,000 a year, so if someone has to make a few porno movies to get a good education, who is anyone to judge?"
We must be non-judgmental toward one another, because moral judgment is so yesterday. "To suggest—as many Duke students have on various message boards—that [Knox] is somehow deserving of harassment or abuse because she works in adult films sets us back about five decades, if not five centuries," a libertarian blogger explained.


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The generally accepted ethnographic definition of northern Mexico includes that portion of the country roughly north of a convex line extending from the Río Grande de Santiago on the Pacific coast to the Río Soto la Marina on the Gulf of Mexico. This southern boundary coincides in a general way with the northern margins of pre-Columbian Meso-AmericaMesoamerica. Northern Mexico is more arid and less favourable for human habitation than central Mexico, and its native Indian peoples have always been fewer in numbers and far simpler in culture than those of Meso-AmericaMesoamerica. Today, the native peoples are extinct over all of northeastern Mexico; the only Indians present in that area are a group of Kickapoo who immigrated to Coahuila from the United States in the 19th century. In the west the Sierra Madre Occidental, a region of high plateaus that break off toward the Pacific into a series of rugged barrancas, or gorges, has served as a refuge area for the Indian groups of the northwest, as have the deserts of Sonora. At present only the northwestern states of Baja California, Sonora, Sinaloa, Nayarit, Jalisco, Chihuahua, and Durango have Indian populations.
Although accurate population data is lacking in parts of this region, estimates place the total population that is still Indian in language and culture at approximately 130,000, a tiny minority among the several million non-Indians of northwest Mexico.
Surviving Indian peoples of northern Mexico today fall easily into two divisions. By far the greater number are members of the first type, the ten groups which speak some language of the Uto-Aztecan linguistic stock and are traditionally agriculturists. The second type is now reduced to four groups—the descendants of nomadic bands who resided in Baja California and coastal Sonora and lived by hunting and gathering wild foods. The second type spoke various languages not related to Uto-Aztecan.
Uto-Aztecan peoples of northern Mexico have been divided into three branches—Taracahitian, Piman, and Aztecoidan. The Taracahitian branch consists of the Tarahumara of the southwestern Chihuahua; the Varohío, a small group which borders the Tarahumara on the northwest and are closely related to them; the Yaqui, in the Río Yaqui valley of Sonora and in scattered colonies in towns of that state and in Arizona; and finally the Mayo of southern Sonora and northern Sinaloa. Another Taracahitian group, the once prominent Opata, have lost their own language and no longer maintain a separate identity. The Piman branch consists of three groups: the Pima Bajo of the Sierra Madre border of Sonora–Chihuahua; the Papago of northwest Sonora, identical with a much larger portion of the same tribe in Arizona; and the Tepehuán, one enclave of which is located in southern Chihuahua and another in the sierras of southern Durango and Nayarit. The third branch of Uto-Aztecan is the Aztecoidan family, including the Cora located on the plateau and gorges of the Sierra Madre of Nayarit and the Huichol in similar country of northern Jalisco and Nayarit. A final member of this branch, locally called the Mexicanero, includes speakers of Nahuatl, remnants of central Mexican Indians introduced into the area by the Spaniards. The Mexicanero number only a few hundred and live in the mountains of Nayarit and southern Durango.
The remnants of the Baja California Indians—the Tipai (Diegueño), Akwa'ala (Paipai), and Kiliwa—live in ranch clusters and other tiny settlements in the mountains near the American border. Speaking Yuman languages of Hokan stock, they are little different today from their relatives in American California. A small number of Cocopa in the Colorado Delta in like manner represent a southward extension of Colorado River Yumans from the American Southwest. The remaining Seri are found along the desert coast of north central Sonora. This famous group also speaks a language of Hokan origin and is probably related to now extinct peoples who lived across the gulf in Baja California two hundred years ago.
Missions and isolation helped to preserve the several surviving Indian groups of northwest Mexico through the colonial period (1530–1810), but all underwent considerable alteration under the influence of European patterns. Nearly all the agricultural tribes adopted some form of Roman Catholicism and much Spanish material culture. It was at this time that the traditional cultures of northern Mexico were formed, the basic patterns continuing until the present. Many groups faded away—gradually losing their languages and identities in the emerging mestizo, or mixed-blooded European and Indian population, the predominant people of present-day Mexico. Only the Huichol, Seri, and Tarahumara remained primarily aboriginal cultures, but even these groups adopted many items and ideas from the Spanish invaders.
Today, all these peoples exist as ethnic enclaves surrounded by, and in most cases sharing their lands with, non-Indians and manifesting some of the characteristics of ethnic minorities everywhere. There is competition for lands with mestizo ranchers and, in most groups, a conscious desire for survival as distinct cultural entities.
Although in some aspects of culture the Indian groups share much with other rural Mexicans, psychologically they tend to be very distinct. The basic orientation of life of the traditional Indian cultures is primarily religious in that they look to the supernatural to solve their problems and tend to see their own lives as requiring continuous service to the deities. This is in strong contrast to the practical and materialistic orientation of other northern Mexicans. The average Uto-Aztecan Indian in this area is reserved toward outsiders, especially non-Indians, and prefers not to be too much in evidence. The ideal person is industrious, carries out his religious obligations, and does not seek change in his traditional lifeways. In contrast, the Seri and Yuman groups, being of another tradition, are less inclined to secrecy and more aggressive toward outsiders.
The social structure of the Uto-Aztecan peoples of northwest Mexico are variations of one basic type, while those of the Seri and Baja California remnants follow other forms.
The Uto-Aztecan agriculturalists of modern times possess only two real social units, the family and the Indian village community. No real tribal organizations exist, and only among the Cora and Yaqui are there strong feelings of tribal solidarity. For all these peoples the community is the society, and there is little movement in or out—or even interaction with other communities of the same "tribe."
The traditional Indian community is largely the result of colonial missionary efforts to concentrate the scattered rancherias, or hamlets, of aboriginal times into Spanish-type villages in which the natives could be more easily administrated. Usually furnished with land grants, these communities survived the close of the mission period and remained viable social units. The modern Indian community is built around a political and religious structure having its origin in the village organization set up by early missionaries to carry out church fiestas. It consists of a series of cargos, or civil and religious offices, in which most males of the village participate, the higher offices being achieved with age and experience. Some version of this structure or copy of it is or was present among all these groups. Today, among most groups it is still the backbone of the community, serving to produce the village fiestas as well as settle disputes among the people. While serious crimes or major issues are now handled by the Mexican government, in most situations the Indian gobernador (governor) and elders are consulted as well.
The family is of one type for all the agricultural peoples. Kinship is based largely on descent from both parents, though with some orientation toward the authority of the father. The judgment of the elder males is highly respected, and in most groups the advice and permission of family elders is sought on all important occasions—to produce a ceremony, sell a cow, contract a marriage. Everywhere, however, the role of women is more nearly equal to that of men than is the case among the heavily male-dominated rural mestizo families. Needless to say, there is little of the famous Mexican machismo (cult of the male) among the aboriginal peoples of northern Mexico. The normal system of Spanish Christian and family names is present in all these groups.
Marriage is primarily monogamous, though some informal polygyny occurs. Polygyny is most common among the Huichol (constituting about 5 percent of the marriages), which suggests that it was more common in northern Mexico in aboriginal times. Marriage tends to be brittle, and many unions are not permanent. Parents commonly arrange a match, though the custom is not uniform over the area. Among the Cora and Huichol, the boy's parents must make a series of ritual requests before the match is accepted. In most cases there is little or no ceremony; a few seek church marriages and have wedding fiestas. Among the Cora, the young couple are given formal advice by family elders in the manner of ancient Mexico.
There is a strong tendency for marriages to take place within the community. In most areas intermarriage with the mestizo population is not approved but occurs to a small degree. Among the Mayo and Tepehuán, however, there has been so much outside marriage that the ethnic status of many individuals is uncertain. In most of northern Mexico the offspring of mixed marriages pass easily into mestizo society and tend to ignore their Indian origin.
The Seri have an elaborate system of gift exchange for marriage in which the groom is expected to furnish the family of the bride with certain valuable gifts, such as a rifle, fishing canoe, or, more recently, a pickup truck. His services to the bride's family may continue for several years.
The institution of compadrazgo, or coparenthood—that complex of ritual relationships between parents, godparents, and child set up at the baptism of a child—has been deeply integrated into the traditional cultures. Indeed, a copy of it occurs among such non-Christians as the pagan Tarahumara and Huichol. Many minor variations of compadrazgo occur among the Indians. It serves everywhere to extend the kinship structure and provide "spiritual" kin on which one can call in times of need. Some Indians may choose mestizos to serve at the baptism of their child; others, such as the Cora, do not favour this.
None of the Indian peoples of northern Mexico shows even minimal evidence of social stratification. Egalitarian societies exist everywhere, and historical accounts suggest that this has always been the case. Only among certain extinct coastal peoples of southern Sinaloa and Nayarit is there found some mention of stratification on the Meso-American Mesoamerican pattern. Prestige accrues to wealth and ceremonial knowledge, but this seldom passes to the children.
Socialization and native education follow traditional patterns. A child is given little formal training, but is often admonished by his elders as to proper behaviour. Training in household tasks for the girls and men's work for the boys is through observation and gradually increasing participation until the techniques of maintaining oneself and family are mastered. Both boys and girls are expected to contribute their work as soon as possible. At an early age, children haul water, gather wood, or herd sheep. Small Seri boys spear crabs with miniature turtle harpoons as training for their adult pursuit of the sea turtle. Among the farming peoples all ages take part in the work during critical periods, such as periods of weeding and harvesting.
Rites of passage survive for children among several of the least Hispanicized groups. Cora, Huichol, and Tepehuán have rites in which a newborn is introduced to the gods. The Cora have a ceremony in which children are symbolically introduced to the use of alcoholic drinks.
Today, all Mexican Indian groups have access to schools, usually federal rural schools, and most attend to some degree, though the remote areas in which most Indians live and their lack of interest in education designed for the mestizo world does not make for the most effective program. In some areas native Indians have been trained as teachers with somewhat better results. The Kickapoo have steadfastly refused schools, seeing in them a strong threat to their cherished way of life.
The aboriginal settlement pattern of the agricultural Indians centred on the rancheria, which consisted of a number of household units clustered in spots convenient to cultivation sites or water. When colonial missionaries incorporated these into larger villages, the lowland peoples, such as the Yaqui, Mayo, and Opata, accepted this arrangement. They continue to live in concentrated settlements today. In the Sierra Madre, subsistence patterns did not lend themselves to such towns, and the Indians returned to their rancherias when the missionaries withdrew.
As a result, all contemporary Indians of the mountain regions live in scattered ranch clusters using the village itself as a religious and political centre. Most Indian villages have a church (often the original mission structure), a school, government buildings used for courts or meetinghouses, and small mestizo-operated stores as well as a few houses owned by Indians who spend most of the year at their ranches. In many areas the once exclusively Indian village has acquired a non-Indian population that resides there permanently. Communities of the Tarahumara, Pima, Tepehuán, Cora, and Huichol follow this pattern. Yaqui and Mayo settlements are more like towns. Many Mayo settlements are now on the outskirts of Mexican towns.
The originally nomadic Hokan peoples now tend to live in small permanent settlements. The Seri have coalesced into two fairly permanent settlements, though they still move about to fish, hunt sea turtles, or sell their crafts.
Housing utilizes the available local material, be it stone, adobe, wattle and mud, planks, bamboo, or even caves, which are occupied seasonally by some of the Tarahumara and Pima. Dwellings primarily consist of one room with a dirt floor and no chimney. The kitchen tends to be an auxiliary structure as does the corn crib. Many Indians sleep on the floor on mats and blankets, but crude bamboo or rawhide beds are also used. Furniture is seldom more than a stool or two, although a few may possess tables. In most areas Indian housing is more primitive than that of other poor rural people. Water, lights, and sanitary facilities are nonexistent.
All the Uto-Aztecan peoples of northern Mexico are subsistence agriculturalists raising maize, beans, squash, a few other plants, and some livestock. Maize remains the basis of life and everywhere is a sacred substance, considered, for instance, as a deity by the Cora and Huichol. Cultivation methods range from the primitive digging stick used in slash-and-burn plots on hillsides and ox-plow agriculture in level fields, to some mechanized agriculture among the Yaqui. Characteristically, farm technology is primitive and of low yield. Few of the Indians have any considerable amount of good productive land, and there is competition with mestizos for even the poor mountainside plots of the Sierra Madre Occidental. The corn supply seldom lasts out the year, and in many areas it is significantly supplemented by gathering wild plants, cactus fruits, wild greens, maguey, and the usually abundant seedpods of mesquite, guamuchil, and other treelike legumes. The cash needed for outside items comes from the occasional sale of a young bull or from sporadic wage work in which many Indians engage. Deer and other game once abundant both in the sierra and in the desert are now rare. All the Uto-Aztecan tribes still hunt, but scarcity of game makes hunting relatively unimportant. The rivers yield a few fish and crayfish, which are much esteemed. Among the Seri, hunting of deer and sea turtles as well as fishing is still common but, even so, is of decreasing importance.
For centuries individuals from all these groups have worked for wages first in Spanish and then in Mexican mines and fields. The great silver mines at Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, in colonial times made use of Tarahumara, Pima, Opata, and Yaqui labour. Yaqui and Mayo have long laboured on ranches and railroads and in mines away from their own country, even in the United States. Today, wage work is a factor in every Indian community in northern Mexico with some members of every group working for wages in the new agricultural areas of the Mexican west coast. The typical pattern is for young men or whole families to go to the coast for a few weeks to pick cotton or harvest corn or tobacco, returning to their own homesteads to plant and care for their maize. Some Tarahumara and Tepehuán work in lumber camps. No matter how important wages are as supplementary income, these peoples all prefer their own agriculture in their own communities, and few are drawn away permanently. It is rare indeed for sierra Indians to live and work in cities. This is not as true for the Yaqui, who have permanent settlements in several large Sonora towns.
About 1930 the Seri adopted commercial fishing and developed a mixed economy that included traditional hunting and gathering. Since 1965, however, a new industry has grown up in which the Indians have learned to carve animal figurines from the dense wood of the palo fierro, a desert tree. A large number of Seri families turned to production of the figurines for sale to tourists and appeared to be abandoning gathering and fishing as primary means of livelihood.
The Indian market system of central Mexico does not exist in northern Mexico. All Indian areas are served by small rural stores almost entirely owned by non-Indians. Here the few but important necessities such as cloth, metal tools, soap, salt, tin cups, and matches are purchased. Money, in use everywhere, is completely a part of modern Indian culture.
Clothing combines the older styles of rural Mexico with modern lower class dress. Only the Tarahumara, some communities of whom still wear a type of loincloth, and the Huichol, with a colourful embroidered costume, have retained forms that stand out as distinct. Some, like the Cora and Tepehuán men, favour the pajama-like muslin garments of two generations ago and today consider them Indian dress. All others wear modern clothing with few reminders of earlier attire. Huaraches (sandals) are generally worn, as are homemade or commercial hats, usually made of palm; people near the United States border, however, prefer modern shoes and cowboy hats. Women's dress throughout tends toward a skirt and blouse with a rebozo, or head scarf.
Long hair is worn by males in some Tarahumara and Huichol communities and by many adult Seri. Elsewhere, short hair is the custom. Women wear the hair loose or, among the more Mexicanized, in braids.
Food is largely vegetable and consists of local varieties of the rural Mexican staples—tortillas, tamales, beans, and cheese. Indians, however, make much use of atole (corn mush) and pinole (ground parched corn) both of which were aboriginal favourites and are not as popular with the mestizos.
Crafts, nearly everywhere disappearing, are very largely limited to household necessities and are seldom made primarily for sale. Wool blankets are produced by the Mayo, Tarahumara, and Cora and woven shoulder bags by the Cora and Huichol. Utilitarian pottery and twilled containers and mats are still made in most groups, using native Indian techniques. The only objects produced for the tourist market are copies and elaborations of colourful ceremonial material by some Huichol and the figurines and shell beads produced by the Seri.
Other technology differs but little from that of other rural Mexicans of the northwest. Ranch tools and the paraphernalia used in handling livestock are identical. None of the sierra Indians possess automobiles. Some individuals in the other groups, including the Kickapoo, have acquired motor vehicles.
The northern Mexican tribes, like all Mexican Indians, have had contact with Christian missionaries for centuries, and all the agricultural Indians of northern Mexico are nominal Roman Catholics except for a few communities of pagan Tarahumaras, called "gentiles," and the majority of the Huichol. Even pagan groups, however, have incorporated Christian ideas and ritual practices. It can be generally stated that all the Uto-Aztecan speakers of northern Mexico today practice some form of Roman Catholicism blended with native religion. The extent of aboriginal retentions varies from group to group, with the Huichol approximating pre-Columbian patterns to the greatest degree, keeping their gods, pilgrimages to sacred places, and native religious concepts almost intact. Others like the Cora have fused these, retaining native gods but equating them with Christian personages. The Yaqui and Mayo, both with a strong religious orientation to their culture, have an even more homogenous mixture. It is doubtful, though, whether any of the groups have absorbed Christian philosophy or belief systems to any great degree. Religion retains its aboriginal functions of protecting one's health, bringing the rains, and insuring the abundance of agriculture, rather than as a means to a glorious afterlife.
The relationship of many of these peoples to the modern Roman Catholic Church is tenuous. Modern priests tend to discourage folk observances such as the fiestas; the Indians, by and large, produce them without help of a priest. In the southern Sierra Madre, among the Cora, Huichol, and Tepehuán, there are modern Franciscan missionaries, while in the Tarahumara area there are Jesuits. Among all the Uto-Aztecans, religion remains central to the traditional culture, and it is an area in which there is great resistance to outside pressure for change.
Protestants have been active among the Seri and Yumans, achieving their greatest success with the Seri, who in the 1950s were all converted by an evangelical sect and largely abandoned their non-Christian practices. The Kickapoo, though also contacted by Protestants, remain, for the most part, followers of their aboriginal religion.
The shaman, or medicine man, still exists in most of these groups. Called a curandero in Spanish, he uses supernatural means to cure illnesses, to insure the success of crops, or to assist in other situations requiring divine aid. He is very distinct from the mestizo curandero, who utilizes European folk medicine. Huichol medicine men, or marakame, are especially famous among the tribes of the Sierra Madre for their knowledge and power. Belief in witchcraft still exists among all these peoples. A shaman himself may be accused of being a witch.
The traditional Indian cultures of northern Mexico that emerged from the Spanish colonial world remained remarkably stable throughout the 19th century. Combinations of isolation, poverty, and conservatism resulted in what were essentially static societies. There were sporadically some uprisings, but it was not until the Mexican Revolution of 1911 and after that most Indian cultures were significantly affected by changes taking place elsewhere in Mexico. All these peoples took part in the revolutionary conflicts, and some disorganization took place everywhere. Thousands of individual Indians followed the armies, many never to return. The aftermath of the revolution marked the beginning of governmental concern with the Indians. The Instituto Nacional Indigenista was established and took upon itself the task of raising living standards and gradually integrating the Indians into the national life. Some groups benefitted significantly by the revolution and its results. Many Yaqui and Mayo escaped from hacienda peonage, and the Yaqui had a large portion of their ancestral lands restored to them.
It has been only since World War II that real changes have been taking place in the cultures themselves. There are multiple reasons for increased pressures from the outside world, but the primary cause is simply the development of modern transportation and a corresponding loss of centuries-long isolation. A major factor has been the construction of dams in the rivers flowing out of the Sierra Madre and the development of major irrigation projects and large modern cities on the coastal plain. There is now greater interest in the resources of the mountain hinterlands on the part of non-Indians, and there are opportunities for the mountain and desert peoples to engage in migrant farm labour.
Opening of the Mexican west coast highway brought major changes in the whole area. The desert lands of the Papago, the Sonoran seacoast of the Seri, and the thorn forests of the Yaqui and Mayo were penetrated by paved roads. A railroad across the Sierra Madre from the city of Chihuahua to Los Mochis on the Pacific bisects the Tarahumara country, and roads have made numerous villages of this tribe accessible to truck traffic. Truck roads are approaching even the gorges of the Cora and the Huichol. Many parts of the Sierra Madre previously accessible only by animals or by foot are served by local airlines that fly small planes hauling freight and passengers to most of the mountain communities. It is a common sight at the airport in Tepic, Nayarit, to see rural mestizos, Cora, and Huichol Indians waiting to board a plane for airstrips near their remote homes. Although there are still vast areas in these mountain regions not reached by modern transportation, the outside world has become more accessible, and all of these peoples have been affected to some extent.
Development of modern transportation has greatly increased the possibility that many Indian communities in time will cease to exist. There is growing competition for lands in all areas as non-Indian cattlemen, lumbermen, and farmers exploit these regions more intensely. Almost everywhere Indians find themselves being pushed or crowded out of ancestral lands by more sophisticated forces who have use for their resources. The Instituto Nacional Indigenista has come to the aid of some, such as the Tarahumara and Huichol, and given them legal assistance in securing land titles. In most areas, though, Indians, having no legal knowledge and lacking sophisticated leadership, are severely handicapped in dealing with these problems. Without a land base it is doubtful that communally oriented societies such as these can long survive.
The basic strength of the Indian groups in the late 20th century is found in their village organization and associated ceremonial structures that effectively preserve ethnic boundaries. Those retaining the strongest organized communities—the Tarahumara, Yaqui, Cora, and Huichol—while threatened, appear to be in no immediate danger of cultural disintegration. Others, few in number (such as the Pima) or lacking well preserved independent village structures (such as the Mayo), appear less likely to survive the impact of modernization.
Fear of alienation of lands and ultimate loss of ethnic identity has led to avoidance of innovations in many cases. Most still continue to resist social and religious change and avoid too close contact with non-Indians. There is, it is true, less reluctance to adopt material objects. The spread of modern communications media, even to the depths of the Sierra Madre, has resulted, among other things, in the increased learning of Spanish. The cast-iron corn mill is now used to grind masa (tortilla dough), saving hours of kneeling at a metate, or millstone, grinding by hand. Pedal sewing machines and metal containers are common. Nevertheless, most northern Mexican Indians express concern that their lifeways are dying. They fear that loss of community lands and the cultural seduction of their youth will mean that their days as separate peoples are indeed numbered.


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I forget who does the art for the Growlanser series, but I really feel bad for the guy. While his shiny style of wide-eyed heroes and heroines certainally was the right for the early 90s, it looks rather dated today. Still, as the chief character designer for the Growlanser series, it's good to see he's still getting work, even despite the less than modern visuals.
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS m H. MINER, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Notary Public and Conveyancer, Sauk Centre, - - Minnesota. *.«"=:: Office over the Post Office. ,R. B. E. PALMER, . PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. ■M3° Residence pear the Mill, Sauk Centre. -=©3. ILLIAM J. PARSONS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Saint Germaine street, over Burbank Bros., St. Cloud, Minnesota. CHAS. WALKER, Attorney at Law. %R.P. EDSON, " Attorney at Law and Notary Public. Edson <8s Walker, REAL ESTATE AGENTS, Office over Philadelphia Store on Third street, Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minnesota. Business Property, Houses and Lots, Farms, Farming Lands, etc., etc., bought and sold on commission. ATTENTION! i is called to the fact that our facilities for making out Pre-emption papers and for locating <ahd entering Government Land with Cash, Scrip or Land Warrants, are unsurpassed by any office west of St. Cloud. A large assort- nieiit of Town Plots for the use of seekers of . Claims on hand and kept constantly corrected- uy correspondence with the Land Office. We have in our hands for saie some of the .finest Farms and Farming Lands in this upper countjy. BUSINESS CARDS. XJILLIAED SALOON, A. L>E GROAT, Proprietor. Third street, Sauk Centre, Minnesota. Has first class Phelan & Collender Billard Tables. Choice Wines, Liquors, Ale, Porter and Cigars. < PmSsHn ■QALOON AND BAKERY. O. M. RENNOE, Proprietor. Main Street, Sauk .Centre, Minnesota. .Bread, Cakes, Pies, &c, always on hand. Hot Coffee and- Meals at all hours. Good Wines and Liquors and the best brands of Cigars^s II. miner: Insurahco Agent, ' Sauk Centre, - - Minnesota. Represents the ssundest and most reliable Fire, Life and Accident Insurance Com- " panies of the Eastern and Western States. Office over the Post Office. J. WHITEFIELD, House .fie Sign Painter, ■Graining, Glazing, Paper Hanging, &c, done •with neatness and on reasonable terms. Work warranted equal in quality to that agreed upon or no charges made. j6®~ Paint Shop next door to Thomas & Co's. Sauk Centre, Minn., June 5,1867. OHN CHRISTGAU, Boot &z SHioo Maimer, Main Street, Sauk Centre, Minn., A complete stock of Boots and Shoes kept ' constantly on hand, and made to order on $hort notice. Good fits warranted. Repairing promptly done, at reasonable -prices. All kinds of Shoemaker's Tools for sale. P. EDSON Is Agent for sound and reliable FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENTAL LIFE AND LIVE STOCK INSTJRANE COMPANIES. He insures LTve Stock against Death and Theft, in the Hartford Live Stock Insurance Company—the soundest and only reliable Live Stock Company on this continent. E _,.DWARD DEEBLOW, Cabinet Maker. "Main street, Sauk Centre, Minnesota. ■Keeps constantly on hand a complete stock of Furniture, Coffins, &o. All orders will receive prompt attention. LAND OFFICE & EEAL ESTATE AGENCY. j*v|? 2V. H. Mluei-, Lands sold on commission. Farms composed of Prairie, Meadow and Timber Land for sale. .Persons desiring to enter Land, with Cash, Scrip or Land Warrants, can do so at j»y office and avoid the time and expense of a trip to St? Cloud. Office over the JPost Office, Sank Centre', Minnesota. ■Mt%%, EiAHCttJrtT E.ANSS. BY ROBEBT BItOWNING. In all the land, range up, range'down. Is there ever a plaee so pleasant and sweet As Langley lane. In London town, Just out of the bustle of square and street? Lttue white cottages all In a row, Gardens where bachelor buttons grow, . Swallows' nests in roof and wall, And up above the still blue sky, Where the woolly white clouds go sailing by— I seem to be able to see it all! For now, in summer, I take my chair, And sit outside in the sun and hear The distant murmur of street and square-, And the swallows and Sparrows chirping near; And Fanny, who lives just over the way, Comes running, many a time each day, With her little hand's touch so warm and kind. And I smile and talk, with the sun on my cheek; And the little live hand eeems to sit and speak— For Fanny la dumb and I am blind. Fanny is sweet thirteen, and she ■ Has fine black ringlets and dark eyes clear, And I am older, by summers three; Why shouldn't we hold one another so dear 7 Because she cannot utter a word. Nor hear the Eiuslc of bee'o? bird, The water carts splash or the milkman's call? Because I have never seen the sky, Nor the little singers that hum any, Yet know she is gazing upon them all?J For the sun is shining, the swaUows fly, The bees and blue fly murmur low, And I hear the water cart go by, With its cool, splash, splash down the rusty row; And the little one close to my side perceives Mine eyes upraised to the cottage eaves, Where birds are chirping insummer shine, And I hear, though I cannot look, and she, Though she cannot hear, can the singers see, And the little soft lingers flutter in mine! Hath not the dear little hand a tongue When it stirs, on my palm,for the love of me? Hath not my soul any eye to see 7 .'lis pleasure to make one's bosom stir, To wonder how things appear to her, That I only hear as I pass around; And and as long as we sit in tlie music and " lMht, i. $*- She is happy to keep in God's light, And I am happy to keep God's sound. Why, I know her face, though I am blind— I made it of music long ago! Strange large eyes and dark hair twined Bound the pensive'light of a brow of snow; And whfen I sit by my little one. And hold her hand and talk in the sun, And hear the music that haunts the place, I know she is raising her eyes to me, And guessing how gentle niy voice must be, And seeing the music upon my face. Tho' if ever the Lord should grant me a prayer (I know the fancy is only vain> I should pray Just once, when the weather Is fitirl To see little Fanny and Langley lane; Though Fanny, perhaps, would pray to hear The voice of the friend that she holds so dear, The song of the birds, the hum of the bee; It is better td"be as we have been— Each keeping up something, unheard, unseen To make God's Heaven more strange and near. Ah! life is pleasant in Langley lane! There is always something sweet to hear, Chirping of birds or patter of rain! And Fanny, my little one, always near; And though I am weakly and can't live long, And Fanny, my darling, is far front strong, And though we can never married be, What then? since We hold one another so dear, For the sake of the pleasure one cannot see, And the pleasure that only one can hear. *, .f$mlg;ttg Tlie Story of 4Sie Bad IiJtile Boy \y3io jDldnt Come to Grief. BY MASK TWAIN. There was a bad little boy whose name was Jim—though, if you will notice, you will find th&t bad little boys are nearly always called James in your Sunday school books. It was very strange, yet it was true that this one was called Jim. He didn't have any sick mother, either—a sick mother who was pious ahd had the consumption, and would be glad to lie down in the grave and be at rest but for the strong love she bore her boy, and the anxiety she felt that the world would be harsh and cold to him when ghe was gone. Many bad boys in the Sunday school books are named James, and have sick mothers who teach them to say, "Now I lay me down," etc., and sing them to sleep with plaintive- voices, and then Kiss them good-night, and kneel down by the bedside and weep. But it was different with this fellow. He was named Jim, and there wasn't anything the matter with his mother—no consumption, or anything of that kind. She was rather stout than otherwise, and she was not pious j moreover, she was not anxious on Jim's account. She said if he were to break his neck, it wouldn't be much loss. She always spanked Jim to sleep, and she never kissed him good-night; on the contrary, she boxed his ears when she was ready to leave him. Once this little bad boy stole the key of the pantry and slipped in there and helped himself to some jam, and filled up the vessel with tar, so that his mother would never know the difference, but all at once a. terrible feeling didn't come over him, and something didn't seem to whisper to him, " Isit right to disobey my mother ? Isn't it sinful to do this ? Where do bad little boys go who gobble up their good, kind mother's jam?" and then he didn't kneel down all alone and promise never to be wicked any more, and rise up with a light, hajrpy heart, and go and tell his mother all about it, and beg her forgiveness, and be blessed by her with tears of pride ahd thankfulness in her eyes. No; this is the way with all other bad boys in the books ; but it happened otherwise with this Jim, strange? ly enough. He ate that jam, and said it was bully, in his sinful, vulgar way ; and he put in the tar, and said that was bully also, .and laughed, and observed that " the old woman would get up and snort" when she found it out; and when_she did find it out he denied knowing anything about it, and she* whipped him severely, and he did the crying himself. Everything about this boy was curious—everything turned out differently with him from the way it does to the bad Jameses in the books. Once he climbed in Farmer Acorn's apple-tree to steal apples, and the limb didn't break, and he didn't fall and break his arm, and get torn by the farmer's great dog, and then languish on a sick bed for weeks, and repent and become good. Oh, no ! He stole, as many apples as he wanted, and came dt»wn all right, and he was all ready for the dog, too, and knocked him end- wavs with a rock when he came to tear him. It w*a very strange—nothing like it ever happened in those mild little books with marbled backs, and with pictures in, them of men lyUh swallow- tailed coats and bell-crowned hats, and pantaloons that are short in the legs,' and women with the waists of their dresses under their arms and no hoops on. Nothing like it in any of the Sunday school hooks. . Once he stole his teacher's penknife, and when he Was afraid it would be found out and he would get whipped, he slipped it into George "Wilson's cap— poor widow Wilson's son, the moral boy, the good little boy of the village, who always obeyed his mother, and never told an untruth, and was fond of his lessons and infatuated with Sunday school. And when the knife dropped from the cap, and poer George hung his head and blushed, as if in conscious guilt, and the grieved teacher charged the theft upon him, and was just in the very act of bringing the switch down upon his trembling ahodklers, a white haired, improbable jftstice of the peace did not suddenly appear in their midst and "strike ah attitude and say, •' spare this noble boy—there stands the cowering culprit 1 I was passing the school- door at recess, and, unseen myself, I saw the theft committed." And then Jim didn't get whaled, and the'venerable justice didn't read the tear&l-BChool a homily, and take George by the hand and say such a boy deserved to be exalted, and then tell him to come and make his home With him, and sweep out the office, and make fires, and run errands, and chop wood, and study law, and help his wife to do household labors, and have all the balance of the time to play, and get forty cents a month and be happy. No; it would have happened that .way in the books, but it didn't happen that way to Jim. No meddling old clam of justice dropped in to make trouble, and so the model boy George got thrashed, arid Jim was glad of it; because, you know, Jim hated moral boys. Jim said he was " down on thern milksops." Such was the coarse language of ffoisbad, neglected boy. But the strangest thing that ever happened to Jim was the time he went boating on Sunday and didn't get drowned, and that other time that he got caught out in the storm when he was fishing on Sunday', and didn't get struck by lightning. Why, you might look and look, and look through the Sunday school books from now till next Christmas, and you would never come across anything like this. Oh I no; you would find that all the bad boys who go boating on Sunday invariably get drowned} and the bad boys who get caught-out in storms, when they are fishing on Sunday, invariably get struck by lightning. Boats with bad boys in them always upset on Sunday, and it always storms when bad boys go fishing oh the Sabbath. How this Jim ever escaped ia a mystery to me. This Jim bore a charmed life—that must have been the way of it. Nothing could hurt him. He even gave the elephant in the menagerie a plug of tobacco, and the elephant didn'teknock the top of his head off with his trunk. He browsed around the cupboard, after essence of peppermint, and didn't make a mistake and drink aqua fortis. He stole his father's gun and went hunting on the Sabbath, and didn't shoot three of four of his fingers Off. He struck his little sister in the temple with his fist when he was angry, and she didn't linger in pain through long summer days, and die with sweet words of forgiveness upon her lips that redoubled the" anguish of his breaking heart. No; she got over it. He ran off and went to sea- at last, and didn't come back and find himself sad and alone in the world, his loved ones sleeping in the quiet churchyard, and the vine-embowere'd home of his boyhood tumbled down and gone to decay. Ah! no; J^came home drunk as a piper, and got into the station-house the first' thing. And he grew up and married, and raised adarge family, and brainedHhem. with an axe one night, a»d got wealth/ by all manner of cheating and rascality, and now he is the internalist wicked scoundrel in his native village, and is universally respected and belongs to the Legislature. So you see, there never was a bad James in the Sunday school boo£s that had such a streak of luck as this sinful Jim with the charmed life. ■rattling on ! Your D. D. is dwindled down; your P. M. is .past minding; your M. C. is a microscopic curiosity.— B. F., Taylor. jfc. A THUttLMG SCENE. Characteristic OT8TAIJCE. Did you ever creep"' gingerly up to the deck of a railroad car, when the train was moving say twenty-five or thirty miles an hour ? And did you ever look away on beyond the train where two iron bars—that noblest couple in the great epic of time—were welded lovingly togelftrer without hammer, or furnace, or fire, but just below the wonderful fingers of Distance, till they lay there, a huge V upon the bosom Of the prairie ? And how marvellously, as the train moved on, those bars swayed round to a parallel, as lightly and noiselessly as a brace of sunbeams flung from a mirror swinging in the wanton wind, sweep round in the blue air ? And did you mind—not a spike wrenched -from its good hold; not a tie wrctied ; not a timber splintered. There must be a eharra in those, fingers indeed I There new?, a brood of little haycocks, escaped from their native mea- doW) have clustered dowri in the track, righi'before.the engine. Heedless little things I But age will bring wisdom, and one of these days they'll be discreet hay-stacks. WW. be 1 Why they are getting to be stacks already. How they expand and " get up In the world " as we near them! And they hear the train ; for see they are wheeling in a sort of Knickerbocker waltz to the right and left, over the fence and back Of the barn, and beyond the orchard ; and there they are, dignified and'im- perturbable as hay-stacks ought to be. And those little Bushes—a capital B, if they are bushes—exactly in the way, whispering and all of a flutter, dodging up here and nestling down there like " truants" in the entry during school hours. On thunders the train, and up jump the bushes. Bushes'indeed I Trees, forest trees; trees of a century; " columns in God's first temple." The, trees are on the track, eh ? By the holy rood-they are rods away, just where they were before railroads were dreamed of. And the worker of all this diaHeriei You can see the fluttering of her blue robe just above *he horizon. She has gone on to conjure again. It is Distance. " Stop the train 1 Let us off) Conductor, Captain, somebody, anybody! There's a village dri the track; born, christened and grown since last night. There's a meeting house, and a grave yard, and a block of stores in the way! On we plunge—dispelled at the first whistle 1 The church moves gravely away) as churches should. The grave-yard, with its sleeping tenantry, is whisked out of sight like a trundle-bed; a martin-box of a cottage scuds round the corner of the meeting house; the row of brick stores very much flushed, steps six paces to the rear; the cars jar on, and Distance and Motion axe in the secret. Look behind you, and they are adjusting the machinery for the next train. Back goes the - village, that has been frightened away by the whistle, and the stacks and the trees grow "beautifully less;" and so it is every day and all day, and everywhere, when Motion and Distance are partners. There's something on the the track again ! It^s a fly—it's a frog—it's a child-—it's a man—six feet high—a P. M.—an M. C. On we go. We have passed him. Five feet high—four feet high—a child—a bug—a nothing! What pranks Distance can play-with a man and his dignities as the cars drive A correspondent of the New York Independent, writing from Rochester, says': " It was a thrilling seen* in the Assembly when Dr. Adams, of New York, •read the report of the reunion committee. Most of the delegates were ignorant of its contents. It was an admirably drawn document—largely from the pen of Dr. Patterson, of Chicago. The Assembly was full, and during the readingjof the paper you could have heard the drop of a handkerchief. Dr. Adams, with his manly figure and fine white head, stood by the. Moderator's side, and read it with a solemn and sonorous emphasis. As he went forward, tears began to start in the eyes of the old men who had witnessed the disruption of the church, just thirty years,, ago. The fountains werfe breaking up ; and, in the blessed,- full-banked flood of christian love, the ice-floes of controversy and prejudice were swept away in the irresistable torrent. When Dr. Adams finished, we all sat in mute, tearful joy, and in adoration of the majestic hand of God that had. wrought for us such a glorious issue, Dr Wiener rose and offered a few tender words. He was followed by Dr. Lyon, of Erie; and then the whole Assembly came "to their feet, and joined in a. fervent prayer of thanksgiving! It was a scene to be remembered to the dying hour, and to be recalled in the memories of Heaven. Henceforth the Presbyterian church is to be one ; and what God joins together let no heresy- hrlnters ever put asunder 1 ' I-venture to predict that ..this hurried epistle is one of the last that you will ever receive from a New School General Assembly in the. church of Calvin and John Knox—the «huroh that follows even those mighty men only in so far as they follow ChrinW' YOTJKG AMERICA WONDERS. Wonder why mamma keeps Bridget home from church all day, and then say to me it is wicked to build my rabbit house on Sunday. Wonder why our' minister bought that pretty cane with the yellow lion's head on the top, and then asks nie for my cent to put in the missionary box. Don't I wa«t ajewsharp just as well as he wanted a cane ? Wondefr what makes papa tell such nice stories about hiding the master's rattan when he went to school, and about his running away from the school mistress when she was going to Whip him, and then shut me up all day iu a dark room because I tried just once to be as smart as he was. Wonder what made papa say that bad word when Betsey upset the ink all over his papers, and then, slap my ears because I said the same thing When my kite string broke. Wonder why mamma told Bridget the other day that she was not at home when Tommy Day's mother called, and' then pute me to bed without my supper every night I tell a lie. Oh dear 1 there'are lots of things I want to know. How I wish I was a man.—Fanny Fern. Quotations of Gold.—The quotations of gold as given in the money articles of the daily papers, convey no fixed idea to the common mind ; the information needed by the generality of the people ia, what is a paper dollar worth ? We have been furnished with the following, which those that care to do so can cut out for reference: When gold is quoted at $1.10, a paper dollar is worth 90 cents nearly. When gold is quoted at $1.15, a paper dollar is worth 85 cents. When gold is quoted at $1.25, a paper dollar is worth .80 cents. When gold is quoted at $1.30, a paper dollar is worth 77 cents. When gold is quoted at $1.35, a paper dollar is worth 74 cents. When gold is quoted at $1.40, a paper dollar is worth 71 cents. When gold is quoted at $1.45, a paper dollar is worth 69 cents. When gold is quoted at $1.45, a paper dollar is worth 66§ cents. A preacher in Berks county, Pennsylvania, discoursingabout Daniel in the lion's den, said: "An thar he sot all Ijight long a lookiu' at the show for Ajjthin', and it didn't cost him nary a cent. From the WatertoWn "Reformer. A few days since a small, fine looking bright boy came into the cars and , took a seat. Shortly after a minister came in and took a seat before and facing him, when the following conversation ensued: " Well, my little lad, what is your- name? " said the,minister. " My name is James, Footy 'what Us your ? " " William Hand," was the answer, "Where are you going?" asked the minister, y ' cli - * To Rome, sir, and where are you going -?" Was the -respcmse'of the boy. ,The minister could 'So no .less"than answer '• to Camden." " How old are you ? " was the next question of the minister. '• Eight years," replied. the boj\ " HoW old are you, sir ? " The minister hesitated but gave aft answer. '" Are you alone?" Was the riext question of the minister. "Oh,»o,"*aad the teoy, pofiatiAg tS the minister, " I have plenty of com- P*uy»*\" '" But have you' no friends oh boarci 'to look afteV yon?" asked the minister. " No, sir," said the boy, a have you 2^ This was not answere'd. but followed by a little history. " When! I was a little bay," said th6 minister, *• my parents Would net allow me to go off the farm alone." . At this, the.boy, with an indescriba- ble,look, said; "it is different now." A SOAP STORTi . The Rockford Gazette tells the following of a Chicago soap drummer : One of these gentlemen the -other day Walked into the store, of our friend S. W. Stone, and after opening up his kit, informed Mr,' fttone that he WafcL soliciting orders for a Chicago Soap Manufacturipg Corhpany, and wished to get his order" for twenty.-five or fifty boxes of his " Erasive, detersive soap-, and no family could keep house without it; it washed several men ashore when lost on Lake Michigan^", and so on. Mr. Stone was quite busy at the time, and had been extremely annoyed by several drummers during the dayj and remarked that of all traveling men-, he most disliked to see a soap man, for they could never be induced to " dry upy' most likely on account of -the lye, (lie) used in manufacturing their goods-. The soap man replied, " Yes, that is what a Freeport merchant' told me yesterday. After showing my samples I commenced talking, when the merchant, with hair erect, his 'eyes starting from their sockets, bawled out at the top of his piping voice to one of his clerks—Joe ! bring the club i here's another soap man I''" It is needless to sayj. Stone came down and ordered —-m- tf Sin itnnyi . A burly Irishman called at th.e telegraph office during the heavjr storm of last Week, says the Red Bluff Independent, and desired to send a message to Shasta. Lyon told him he would have to wait a few hours before it could be transmitted, as the line was temporally disarranged by the storm-. " What difference doea that make ? J* says Pat. -. "Why the wire is down—underwater—and we have to wait till it is put up," says Lyohi " Undher wather, is It?" said the Fenian; " that don't hinder it at all, at all. Shure,-4rB only forty miles from here to Shasta; an it's five thousand miles from here to ould Ireland. ' Ah* begorra, I read iu the Sacraininty Uj*» ion yesterday a whole lot iv late news from Dublin an' 6-B-r-k^about the Fay- nians, an' more about Louis Napoleon writin' to the O'Donahue to borry the loan of Brian Boru's blackthorn shtick to bate Garibaidy ami restore the Poap; an' that kem all the way under wather, so it did. To the devil wid yur ould fresh-wather teiegjaph that can't spake forty miles." <l Dad's DriN'."-^As a remarkable ila* stance of filial affection and juvenile philosophy, we present the following: A lad of twelve or thirteen years of age visited Caledonia for a doctor; He found Dr. Riddle at home taking his siesta," and woke him up with : ^Doctor, I want you to come and see dad— he's dyin'." " Well," says the doctor, " if he's dyirr1 I can't do hrm any good.'1 < " That's so," rejoined the boy ; *he"ll be dead in less than an hour;" and turning on his heel, added; "Well, by jing, we've all got to die some time or other, and dad might as wejl die now as any time." . , -
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