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By Chris Cwik
After a 99-loss season in 2013, the White Sox now sit at a markedly improved 31-31, through Friday night, and the team's core of Cuban players has been a major factor. Jose Abreu led the league with 15 home runs before a stint on the disabled list put his season on hold. Alexei Ramirez has been one of the American League's best shortstops, and Dayan Viciedo is having his finest season at the plate at age 25. This isn't a coincidence. Over the past several years, the team has invested a large share of resources into scouting and signing Cuban players.
Any discussion of Cuban ballplayers in Chicago has to start with Minnie Minoso, whose impact on Latin American players is hard to overstate. "For many [Cuban players], he's the first Cuban star to play in the major leagues," according to Dr. Adrian Burgos, professor of history at the University of Illinois. Orlando Cepeda called Minoso the Latino version of Jackie Robinson. He was not only a standout player for the White Sox, nearly winning the 1951 Rookie of the Year and making six All-Star games over 12 seasons, but he also pioneered integration in the organization and around the city.
Minoso still plays a significant role with the White Sox today, and it's clear he's had an impact on the club's current Cuban players. "To talk about Minnie Minoso, I need five to six hours to talk about what he means to us," Ramirez said through an interpreter. "He's an encyclopedia of knowledge. He opened the door for all of us. We always have him in our hearts, and we're always thinking about him." Catcher Adrian Nieto agreed, saying Minoso "lives and dies" watching the Cuban players' at-bats. "When he talks, the Cuban guys are all ears," Nieto said. Nieto was born in Cuba but grew up in Florida after his family left the country. While it's unclear whether Minoso actively participates in the recruiting of Cuban players, his presence cannot be overlooked.
Chicago's recent success in signing Cuban players is also linked to former pitcher Jose Contreras, who enjoyed the most successful stretch of his career with the club, including a World Series victory in 2005. Contreras was still a member of the team when Ramirez was being pursued, and his success in the majors was not lost on Ramirez. "Jose Contreras plays a very special role in my life, and all Cuban baseball players," according to Ramirez. "He's a symbol of baseball and a symbol of success." Contreras reportedly walked Ramirez down the aisle at Ramirez's wedding.
With Ramirez and Contreras in tow, the team focused its attention on Cuban outfielder Dayan Viciedo the following offseason, and Ramirez played a role in the recruiting. "I think he saw that there were Cuban players here," Ramirez said. "He saw that I was here, he saw that Contreras was here. I think it was a personal decision, but we did what we could to let him know how this team works."
Contreras was traded the following season, but Ramirez and Viciedo were still around when the team began to pursue first baseman Jose Abreu. The White Sox reportedly offered the most money to Abreu, so it's fair to assume that's why he signed with Chicago, but surely Ramirez and Viciedo's presence and past success played a role as well.
"There is definitely a great sense of fraternity" among Cuban players, according to Burgos. Ramirez has cited the Cuban players' sense of "togetherness" due to their shared experiences. "It's like anyone from any country," Ramirez said. "We all have the things that bring us together. We help each other, we support each other, and it's not just on the baseball field." Though Nieto has been with the club for the shortest time among the four Cuban players, he already feels close to this group. "We all look out for each other like a family would. Anything you need, you ask each other for a favor and for help," he said, adding that Abreu has been "like a big brother to me."
It's also apparent that, as an organization, the White Sox value loyalty, a consistent element of the team's regime under owner Jerry Reinsdorf. General manager Rick Hahn was thought to be a popular candidate for jobs with other teams, but he remained with the White Sox. In order to make Hahn the general manager, Kenny Williams, who played for the club and worked his way up through the front office, was promoted to executive vice president. The last two White Sox managers, Ozzie Guillen and Robin Ventura, were former players who had no managerial experience at the time they were hired. A number of players have chosen to return to the White Sox for second stints. Once you become a member of the White Sox, you tend to stay a member of the White Sox.
That sense of loyalty and respect isn't lost on the current players. "It's the whole package," Ramirez said. "It's how we're treated as players. How were respected as players. Everyone from the managers we've had to our owner, who really treats us with respect, I think it's the total package, playing with the White Sox." The team's commitment has played a role in its success over the past decade-plus. Despite playing in a large market, the White Sox haven't been particularly active in free agency since the early 2000s. Ignoring Abreu, the team's most prominent free-agent additions over that period have been Adam Dunn and Jermaine Dye. The White Sox usually go into each season with a high payroll, but that money has been spent on re-signing their core players, along with talent acquired through trades and waiver claims.
For those reasons, the club's success acquiring Cuban players becomes even more important. While Abreu's $68 million price tag suggests that prices are rising, it's still a bargain for premium talent. Ramirez signed out of Cuba for just four years, $4.25 million. He earned that money during his rookie season and outperformed the contract almost immediately. Viciedo signed for $10 million over four years a season later, and though he hasn't experienced the same type of success as Ramirez or Abreu, that price too is a small price to pay, based on Viciedo's current production. The Sox may not receive elite production from any of the three players, but the money they save on these contracts can be put toward other acquisitions.
Even the newest Cuban player, Nieto, said he would absolutely recruit the next one the team goes after, and players around the league have taken notice. "We play other Cubans on other teams, like Leonys Martin from Texas and Yoenis [Cespedes] from Oakland, and they are like 'Wow, it's pretty cool there are four guys on the one team,'" Nieto said.
Chicago's investments have paid off thus far. Abreu looks like a legitimate star. Ramirez has been an above-average player. Viciedo is on pace to have the best season of his career, and Nieto is being groomed as a possible catcher of the future. On top of that, Minoso remains a highly influential and respected figure among Cuban players. Until the league starts handing out astronomical contracts to Cuban players, the White Sox have a significant edge over the competition in recruiting Cuban talent.
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Chris Cwik writes for various baseball sites, including CBSSports.com and FanGraphs.com. He has also contributed to ESPN and the Hardball Times Baseball Annual. Follow him on Twitter at @Chris_Cwik.


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SANDY, Utah — Less the three weeks ago, Real Salt Lake defender Chris Wingert suffered a broken rib and a pneumothorax early in his team's 4-2 playoff win over Portland. On Dec. 7, Sporting Kansas City just might look out on the field and see him facing off against them.
Wingert and Salt Lake's leading scorer, Alvaro Saborio, are the team's biggest question marks as they prepare to take on Sporting in MLS Cup (4 pm ET, ESPN, UniMas, TSN2/RDS in Canada). Both worked out with the team this week, and RSL head coach Jason Kreis said it's "very likely" that Saborio will be available for the match.
Whereas Saborio is working his way back from a pulled muscle he suffered in the playoff win over the LA Galaxy on Nov. 7, Wingert was hospitalized and needed surgery for the pneumothorax after his injury in the first leg of RSL's series against Portland. He fouled Timbers midfielder Diego Valeri, but took a knee to the chest in the process, breaking his rib and injuring his lung.
Working out with the team, Wingert said he feels "great," but he acknowleded that his doctors "are still just a little bit nervous that if I was to get hit there, that it could break again."
"The rib's not completely healed, because it's only been a couple weeks," he told reporters. "But it feels really good. And the lung is healthy. We just don't want to do anything to make it worse."
Which is why he didn't fly to Portland to see his teammates eliminate the Timbers. And why he didn't fly home to New York for Thanksgiving.
"All my focus is to try to prepare to play, and we'll see where we're at a week from now," Wingert said "Hopefully, I'm healthy enough to at least make it a tough decision on Jason and the staff and possibly be able to help the team."
Kreis sounded optmistic about Wingert's chances, as well. Cautiously optimistic.
"I think the biggest concern for Chris will be pain tolerance and then protecting that rib," Kreis said. "He's handling the pain tolerance extremely well, and we leave it to our trainers and doctors to do a good job of padding up that rib."
Maybe padding it a bit more given that RSL's MLS Cup opponent, Sporting Kansas City, has a reputation among some as the league's most physical team.
"That's not really entering my mind," Wingert said. "And, hopefully, I'll be the one making the challenges and not the other way around. Unfortunately, in the last game, that's actually what happened. I was the one making the tackle and ended up getting injured."
Still, he's "dying to be out there. You only get a few times in your life to play in a championship game."
"But the guys have been playing awesome without me. And I want to win as much as everybody else. So if that means that somebody else should be playing, so be it."

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I'm don't understand the DP lingo!
A collection of FAQ's and informative articles on digital pianos
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I'm don't understand the DP lingo!
Well then, look no further.
Most of these terms are universal but a couple of them are terms that relate to a particular manufacturer!
Check out this thread for your glossary!
Most of these terms are universal but a couple of them are terms that relate to a particular manufacturer!
Check out this thread for your glossary!
A feature that produces a rhythmic, albeit rather simple, pattern which can also produce a chordal/arpeggiated accompaniment.
Short for Advanced Wave Memory. It's the method used by Yamaha for capturing the sound sample from an original acoustic instrument.
Allows two instruments (or more) voice to be played at the same time when keys are pressed. Sometimes, zone panels on stage pianos can allow you to manually edit voices without the need for going into the keyboard settings.
A portable and/or removable memory device (e.g. pen drive) for storing compositions or performances for easy transferral to a computer or other device.
A digital piano which uses hammers attached to the keys to replicate the feel of an acoustic piano. Note, this is not the same as the Graded Hammer Action or Graded Hammer Action 3 (GH3). Check with the dealer for a precise expression of what he/she means by "weighted action" (see later).
This means Musical Instrument Digital Interface. It's the universal language (or interface) by which instruments and music hardware and their software can interact and communicate, irrespective of instrument 'brand'. Instruments or computers that receive this form of communication can then translate this back into music, depending on the set parameters.
A device converts light intensity and speed into a varying electrical signal that gives you your louds, softs, mp, fff, etc. depending on the force being applied to the keys.
This feature replicates the "echo" that reduces the sound decay of the voice being used. Good concert halls take great pains to regulate and perfect the natural reverb so that the sound does not become too dead-sounding, but equally not too echoey or muddy to the ear.
This is an external device that has a huge library of voices saved on it. This can be connected via MIDI to your keyboard, which allows you to access the voices on the sound module. This significantly expands the options available to you on your digital piano/stage piano.
This allows you to split the keyboard at any given point on the digital piano that allows you to play a different instrument within a particular zone. Mostly, digital pianos will allow you to split the keyboard into two zones that will allow you to play one instrument with the left hand and a different one with the right hand. It is becoming more popular for stage pianos to split into three or four zones.
Closely related to the digital piano save for the fact that it does not necessarily have to specialise in simulating a piano. It will have a vast library of other sounds and can also have quite advanced recording and production software on board. In the case of the Motif XS, the synthesiser is designed with advanced computer interactive software and powerful sequencing software. This is also where "arranger keyboards" get their name.
A term that is closely related to "weighted keyboard" in that it is not hammer action. The keyboard with "touch sensitivity" is becoming a less-used term in the digital piano world. A keyboard with touch sensitivity does not have to have any weighted action attached to its keys, but is mostly geared towards responding to the force of the player and not the counter-action we have come to appreciate in the hammer action keyboards.
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Darn. Drobe was an excellent site and it's painful to see it go. Credit must be given for keeping the content archived and not just deleting everything. Though not personally a RISC OS user (but would love to be), Drobe provided a really accessible face to RISC OS. There are still a number of RISC OS related news sites, particularly notable iconbar.com (named after the task-bar concept RISC OS had long before Windows ever did).
The loss of any major portal is a blow to any niche operating system; it's hard to imagine a world without BeBits and AmigaWorld. It is important to OSnews to cover niche / aged / alternative operating systems and I hope we can be of assistance to the RISC OS community going forward.
Thank you Peter and Chris for 10 years of dedicated work and I hope the RISC OS platform continues to grow ever stronger.


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If ever I've had a "But for the grace of God, there go I" occasion (even though I have problems with that expression) it would have to have been February 5, 1981 – thirty years ago today.
At 11 p.m. that night, more than 150 police carried out simultaneous raids on four of Toronto's most popular bath houses, arresting close to 300 men. "Operation Soap", as the police named the investigation, is very well recalled here by Pink Triangle Press. It was the largest mass arrest in Canada since the October Crisis of 1970 and the late Rick Bébout's account of the raids and the aftermath live on here. This was long before police "sensitivity training".
Had it not been a weeknight I might very well have been swept up in the raids as I was a frequent visitor to bath houses on my almost-weekly trips from St. Catharines to Toronto bars and baths.
Until the events of that night I was leading a tortuous double life as a twenty-one-year-old, secretly trying to extinguish my homosexuality during the week as part of a conservative church and inevitably giving in to my natural instincts on the weekend (or whenever my days off happened to be) in the anonymity offered by the big city across the lake.
I came out to my parents, writing them a letter.
I was livid when the pastor of the church wrote a letter to the local paper praising the actions of the Toronto police. He was driven from the church not too long after due to an unrelated split in the congregation.
Assuming that television cameras would catch me protesting, following the raids, I came out to my parents, writing them a letter. Their positive response included them telling me that my brother, Craig, had come out to them a few years earlier. Understandably, neither they nor Craig were interested in telling me so long as I was part of the fundamentalist church.
The bath raids brought me out of the closet, frankly feeling more angry than liberated, and I count myself among the thousands in Toronto who can trace their passion for gay liberation politics through the tumultuous events of the raids and the subsequent massive demonstrations. I hung out with Rick, Chris Bearchell (who gave me a button which read "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle") and others, at a few meetings/parties at The Body Politic. I later wrote, infrequently granted, for TBP (the excellent forerunner to Pink Triangle Press' Xtra!) – particularly when police arrested men having sex in public washrooms in Welland and St. Catharines.
Niagara Regional Police released the names and addresses of the accused. Most media outlets ran them – before trial – including my employer, but not before I engaged in a heated argument with my boss. He insisted on "the public's right to know" (read gossip) while I argued that the extreme sensitivity of the charges far exceeded the seriousness of the allegations.
Very few of the accused fought the charges. In rural west St Catharines in January, 1985 a 42-year-old father of two, and a Sunday school teacher, was found dead in his car, having soaked himself with gasoline and set off his lighter. Just days earlier, he had been at the Fairview Mall. Three hours before his suicide, he had been charged with gross indecency.
He missed his trial; didn't enter a plea. He was never convicted and yet he, and many others, had already been punished by the police and the media. The St. Catharines Standard was an outstanding exception, not only witholding the names of the accused but also doing a series of reports on the phenomenon of anonymous sex, even "tearoom sex".
It was heart-warming to find so many of the activists with whom I had cut my political teeth, in the aftermath of the bath raids, now playing key roles in Toronto's response to the AIDS crisis.
Using a pseudonym, so as not to upset management at the St. Catharines radio station where I was employed (I'd already caused a ruckus by "coming out" in the local paper), I worked with other activists on various information and political action campaigns through my years there in the 1980s.
When I was diagnosed with HIV, and then AIDS, not long after moving to Toronto in 1988 it was heart-warming to find so many of the activists with whom I had cut my political teeth, in the aftermath of the bath raids, now playing key roles in Toronto's response to the AIDS crisis. Rick Bébout was among them until his death in 2009.
The Pride parades in Toronto, now held each June, got their biggest shot in the arm following the raids. What had only loosely been called a "community" was now a community indeed. We became very adept organizers and campaigners of all sorts.
Another of the lasting legacies of the raids is the almost universal disdain with which the Toronto Sun is held in the LGBT community. The paper, and most notably columnist Claire Hoy, were constant cheerleaders of the brains behind the raids at the Attorney-General's office and Metro Toronto Police's 52 Division. Ironically relations with the police have greatly improved over the years.
The Sun? For "old-timers", at least, not so much.
What follows is a full-length documentary about the bath raids entitled "Track Two". I well remember how proud the community was when it was released. It is available, and in smaller segments as well, from Xtra's YouTube site.
In fact I'll lead off with one of those segments because I thought it was so funny and I was mere steps away from the main subject, author Margaret Atwood, during the filming. I even remember that date, February 20. This was an event at St. Lawrence Market North, a fundraiser for legal defense and for future political advocacy. (The evening also featured a then up-and-coming a cappella group The Nylons.)
Enjoy Margaret's deadpan!
Now the full 87 minute documentary:


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Julian Assange's Ultimate Publicity Stunt: Running For Australian Senate?
from the really,-now? dept
Oh, and just for amusement's sake, one Australian publication mocked Wikileaks for misspelling Gilard's electorate, given its namesake's similarities to Assange himself:
Assange had an electoral learning process of his own which played out live on Twitter yesterday morning, with a first message from the Wikileaks feed announcing only that the organisation would be "fielding a candidate to run against Julia Gillard in her home seat of Laylor (sic)". Very shortly afterwards, a second tweet declared: "We have discovered that it is possible for Julian Assange to run for the Australian Senate while detained. Julian has decided to run." The spelling error in the initial tweet betrayed a curious ignorance of Australian history, given that the electorate in question is named after Peter Lalor, who led the famous Eureka Rebellion at the Ballarat goldfields in 1854. One would have thought that Lalor, a radical activist who saw his efforts crudely suppressed by the authorities before going on to a distinguished career as a parliamentarian, might have been better known to Assange – if not to the extent that he would have spelt his name correctly, then at least so far that he might have misspelled it in a phonetically correct manner ("Lawlor"). But I digress.I would be pretty surprised if this candidacy (or either candidacy if they really do raise two candidates) actually goes anywhere, but that won't make it any less entertaining to follow.


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Selena Gomez & Blake Lively May Star In 'Sex And The City' Prequel!
Selena as prim and proper Charlotte? Blake as super sexy Samantha? Could you see these young stars taking on these iconic roles?
Sarah Jessica Parker and her catty cosmopolitan cast mates Cynthia Nixon, Kim Cattrall and Kristen Davis may be done with Sex and the City, but there is a whole new group of young actors being lined up for the prequel!
The Daily Mail reports, "It is rumoured that current preferences for the roles are Blake Lively as Samantha Jones, Selena Gomez as Charlotte York, Emma Roberts as Miranda Hobbes and Elizabeth Olsen as Carrie Bradshaw." Those are some pretty big names!
The prequel will visit the four Manhattan ladies in their twenties and be based off two of author Candice Bushnell's novels, The Carrie Diaries and Summer And The City.
Take a look at the lovely ladies and their predecessors above and let us know HollywoodLifers, who do you think is the best cast?
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For many young people, this practice has replaced breakfast.
The promise of these beverages is the pick-me-up and boost in mental alertness, perhaps even "sports energy" for athletes — all in one convenient can.
The reality, though, is that energy drinks could be far more detrimental than helpful.
We've known for a while that the volume of caffeine in energy drinks can exceed the maximum daily intake for children, along with plenty of sugar. Even so, the Canadian Paediatric Society had stopped short of taking a position on sports and energy drinks other than to suggest non-athletes avoid them.
That is, until this week.
Back in April, a teenaged boy in the U.S. collapsed after downing an energy drink, a pop and a café latte within two hours. The teen likely died from a caffeine-induced heart arrhythmia, despite having no pre-existing heart condition.
This and other cases prompted the pediatric society in this country to recommend that people aged zero to 18 avoid energy drinks.
The society's announcement this week is another step in the right direction for kids' health — some schools in Atlantic Canada have already banned the consumption of these beverages, so this latest warning is another shot across the bow for the Monsters, Red Bulls and Gatorades of the world.
Lest you feel too badly for these poor, beleaguered energy drink makers, consider all the slick marketing, cool commercials, celebrity endorsements and professional sport sponsorships that come along with them, much of it targeted to the younger demographic.
That's why the pediatric society's position should only be the start of something more concrete.
Ontario pediatrician Dr. Catherine Pound, a co-author of the society's statement, mused about restricting the use of energy drinks to adults, similar to alcohol or cigarettes.
It's a suggestion worth considering.
Some store owners in this region have discussed asking for identification when selling energy drinks to customers who are under the age of 18, and some actually went as far as to implement the practice.
This, combined with making warning labels on energy drink cans mandatory, would go a long way to curbing their use among youth.
After all, if the Canadian Paediatric Society is telling us children shouldn't be drinking these products, why not take the decision out of the hands of the population they target?
Let's take these warnings one step further and explore the possibility of mitigating the potentially harmful effects from ever happening in the first place.
The promise of these drinks and the money behind the campaigns will make them difficult to resist. Still, we must find the energy to keep a potentially harmful product out of the hands of our kid


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Indians' bats waste McAllister's strong effort
CLEVELAND -- John Axford sat in the corner of the Indians' clubhouse, still in uniform, staring into his locker. When the Indians closer sensed the pack of reporters gathering behind him, he stood tall and discussed yet another setback.
The best cure for a blown save can often be a quick turnaround. That was not the case for Axford in a 1-0, 10-inning loss to the Twins on Monday night at Progressive Field. One night after blowing a save against the White Sox, Axford surrended a go-ahead home run to Eduardo Escobar in the final frame vs. Minnesota.View Full Game Coverage
CLEVELAND -- John Axford sat in the corner of the Indians' clubhouse, still in uniform, staring into his locker. When the Indians closer sensed the pack of reporters gathering behind him, he stood tall and discussed yet another setback.
The best cure for a blown save can often be a quick turnaround. That was not the case for Axford in a 1-0, 10-inning loss to the Twins on Monday night at Progressive Field. One night after blowing a save against the White Sox, Axford surrended a go-ahead home run to Eduardo Escobar in the final frame vs. Minnesota.View Full Game Coverage
Axford wanted the ball, even though it betrayed him once again.
"That's something you want, and that's something that I want," Axford said. "I want to go out there the next day, the next game, and get the job done. Erase the slate. Get a clean slate and erase what happened the day before. Unfortunately, second pitch, it didn't work out."
The path to that pitch was paved by Cleveland's offense.
For the second game in a row, the Indians received a stellar starting performance from one of their pitchers. This time, it was right-hander Zach McAllister who cruised into the seventh inning without allowing a run, escaping harm along the way. In Sunday's loss to Chicago -- a game undone by a three-run meltdown by Axford in the ninth -- Corey Kluber spun eight brilliant innings.
Neither McAllister nor Kluber had much margin for error, though. George Kottaras swatted a pair of home runs on Sunday, but Cleveland managed only three runs on the day. On Monday, Twins right-hander Kyle Gibson hardly overpowered the Tribe, but he scattered two hits in seven shutout frames to frustrate the Indians' anemic offense.
The Tribe had three hits on the night, and no baserunners advanced beyond second.
"We got in some hitter's counts. We hit some balls hard," Indians manager Terry Francona said. "We just are fairly inconsistent right now. Even in hitter's counts, we're not getting really good swings. I think when it's team-wide, everybody is trying to do [too much]. It's a good quality, but we have to fight through it together and keep the line moving. Right now, we're not doing that."
The rotation has certainly done its part of late.
McAllister exited after 6 2/3 scoreless innings, during which he equaled a career best with eight strikeouts. The big right-hander walked only one in an outing that continued a recent resurgence for the staff. Over the past three games, Indians starters have posted a 0.41 ERA with 27 strikeouts in 22 innings. The Tribe's rotation has a 1.33 ERA in 27 innings through four games on this homestand.
"Zach pitched so well," Francona said. "He pitched with his fastball and he worked ahead. He pitched out of a couple jams. He was so good. That's two in a row. That's about as good as they're going to pitch. There certainly isn't much wiggle room right now."
McAllister sidestepped harm at a handful of turns.
Chris Colabello opened the second inning with a single and moved to second on a wild pitch, but McAllister retired the next three batters in order to escape unscathed. In the fourth, the Twins had runners on the corners with two outs, but McAllister induced an inning-ending fly ball off the bat of Kurt Suzuki to avoid any damage.
Sam Fuld tried to ignite a rally for Minnesota in the sixth inning, when he slashed a pitch into the left-field corner for a one-out double before stealing third base. Unfazed, McAllister then sat both Trevor Plouffe and Colabello down on called third strikes.
"I knew it was a big part of the game right there," McAllister said.
In McAllister's final frame, the Twins again threatened. Josmil Pinto reached with a double to left field and Chris Herrmann followed by drawing a walk. With two outs and McAllister's pitch count up to 114, Francona opted to turn to Shaw. The right-hander forced Escobar -- pinch-hitting for Pedro Florimon -- to ground out to wiggle out of the jam.
Setup man Cody Allen followed with a clean ninth inning, setting the stage for Axford.
Just two games ago, Axford had a 2.31 ERA through 13 appearances. The lanky right-hander had converted five straight saves heading into Sunday, when he walked two before yielding a three-run home run to Chicago's Dayan Viciedo in a 4-3 loss for the Indians. Monday marked Axford's third consecutive day of work, but Francona felt it was an opportune situation.
"We don't want to hurt guys," Francona said, "but I actually wanted to get him back in there. I thought it'd be good for him."
Two pitches into the 10th inning, Escobar sent a 1-0 fastball from Axford over right field and into the first few rows of seats for a leadoff home run. Axford now has a 4.85 ERA with nine saves in 11 chances this season for Cleveland.
"It's a shame," Axford said, "that my performances in the back end the last two days has kind of taken precedent over a great hitting performance by George and two outstanding starting pitching performances from Kluber and Mac.
"Hopefully, everyone knows that those guys are doing their best and working hard and doing fantastic for us. We'll piece it all together as a club soon and start pulling out some wins."
In the wake of the loss, McAllister expressed confidence in his teammate.
"He's a huge part of this team," McAllister said. "We trust him every time we hand him the ball. His stuff's too good not to be good out there. That's just part of the game right now. That happens. We're ready for him to take the ball again."
Jordan Bastian is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Major League Bastian, and follow him on Twitter @MLBastian.


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iiio ly^roiiiici vv r/ql xix.-thied seeies salisbury n c thue3bay september 20 1888 [ . vi ,,,,. l.h.clkmknt craig & clement ralisuuky n !'• ■..; r r councill m d ifcssional services to the . , i surrounding eommuni tll.s promptly attended day fonnd at my office or the drug '•<•[).• i h.enniss respectfully j h council m d ... in the heilig building 2nd in 18:6m iilnt traveling anil laeal i salpoinan for agricultural and ma cs sell to the trade rence amounl expected , xpenses ' ildress ia \ \ &. co montehuna < ra djm-*n s wonders exist in thou pprgiinds "'' forms but are pur passed *"* ;,.. s i f invention those who . profitable work that ea/i be ivina il home should sit once ; . *< to uullett & co port ... jvc free lull informal iou of al r.ges i sin turn from and upwards v her r , : , kartell free ( npil nl 1 1 1 n\i s.'h all si ccei-d constipation is patted the kalhor of diseas 1 ** ■i ii re is no mi limn through ■diseii rton it lucks 1 );'• sj stem • ious tfa.si « in tlio • i > i"<li ■•■■• il - - ii-l iit'-ii matu-r .■■.• h ! ixl irtiw els it is caused i y t j • i pit i er not • uougli bilo he ing from hlood to | ml ■■■■■i n n ■■:" :. ■■■; if a nd is generally atis uupanii 1 wi1 ii ucli results as loss of appetite sick headache bad breath etc tlio treatment of consttpni ion docs not rr>n-i-t merely in unloadfngtlic bowels tin medicine must notuuly act as:i purga tive but be a tunicas well and not produce after ms use greater costivenesb to secure a regular liabit of txxly without ctiimigiug the diet or disorganizing theuykteiu '^ — _ my attention after suffering with constipa tion for two or three years was called to simmons liver regulator and having tried almost every thing else oiiclr.<'«d to try it i first took a wineglassful ar.'l afterwards reduced the dose to a teaspooo&l as pet directions aftrr eacli meal i found that it had done me so much good that i continued it until took two bottles since llienl have not exj erienced any difficulty i keep it in my house and would not be without it but have no n>e fur it.it having cured me "— gho w si mi a.-.s't clerk superior court bibb co ga take only the genuine whii h ha i n tl ■wrappcrthe red i v trade mark and signature of j ii zeilin & co si cant reduci:oii #^% on sllvewa^e fj k next six days a bargain to eartv callers w fl 3 1 . c"fmw respectfully w h beisner leading jeweler ioms company -- : " - -^ a _* ,\ strons go 8 a^y ssekirg • v ' . v \ t " v prompt ! hue mqionabe . itaiasl mbiral — j - iiii(^^r xei tmvii and n : tj'^t william c coabt in the soutk 1 srriftnti fotal assets - - 75o,ooo oo i allen brown eesideut agent salisbury n c forty vkap.s u fruits lc t0u my k1icd reader j vou planted j i tunteous supply ' til tree the apple pear ■iv apricot quince the auberry and all other desir ts li not why uot send in your one of nature's great blessings h number of varieties of fine j it - '"■wuokome ivuii :: cedar covg nurseries mil a\)ont one million ■:; i fruit trees \ iues and plants .' from including i.e^rly t hrei i ■• ■'-■ii of heme auclimuted nd at roek bottom prices our nearest railroad jspatd 1 ran please , '' who wants to plant a tree strawberry plant etc i | ; omjmrativc competition as to .'"' ii is and desirable nursery j ■' it'uy i can and i w ill please you ' ii sizes of tree desired ivom i 3 ■i high and stocky ltaloguc free ad w craft prop > ' 1 re vadkin county n ' '. ■-■• : - .::■:. 1 mijl winfpr itnplr li-i dons in black blue i ... li : . ... the king of glory tl i mo?t charming life of christ kvki u 11 i i kx li is very clioap anil bcuutituilv hound tow 1'riv.es and fast sales pont reidle when vou can be making from 75.00 to 6ioo per montn there is nn booh in i lie american market that sells any faster tliaa it does one agent has sold looo in less than six months 0 illy we are receiving re ports showing from ■',*■to so sales per week l io were sold in wilmington in 5 clays li is i b i \'< of vivid interest is endorsed by the !• i ding men of tue south one agent nes contrac l.ed 1 sf>u tooo copies in loss than a year send tor nrauhfully illustrated circular ut tin boon anil , r i i eat ho r ue of other publications we give ■. ' territory s u 1 .' i i >. tor canvas-ung outfit 1 no lulling com plex • . . ,. ,; the book in best binding \ : lr ■'-. soitthwbstern pl'll iiodsk r : .\ i"i5 spruce sr nashville teno -. i \\ ■arc the oldest an>l larvfesfr mrti^crtptlon ■■■, ■-• mi ii our line of bibles are ' 36 3111 j health health a new discovery — and — great southern remedy having been from childhood a great sufferer the result of protracted chills and indigestion terminating in diseases of liver j kidney and urinary organs and luiving tried many remedies known to the profession with only temporary ■.;;< f have finally succeeded in discov ering n combination of vegetable reme | dies which combination lias proven i . ,;■- .;-. of all lhe internal organs • ujicrior to any knew n in a life of suileiing and piuctice of nearly fifty ■, . : •.. ( va bj it ! have been restored from what seemed to be inevitable death to perfect health without taking a dose of iuiy other medicine in nearly two years past j lor farther particulars apply to your druggist or jno f foaed m d i olin iredell county n c july '.'. 188s 3m put a ninrnlom nicln plilndclnhlu this paper 1 :' w -.', v myfr a son uui tflth riwd h one of these days oho of theso day it will all be over sorrow and laughter and ions and i^ain mectinjr.s and partings of friend and lover joy thai was ever o edged with pain iic<if these days will our hands be f.ddi'd on ■1 those dnys will the work lie done finished the pattern our lives have moulded ended our labor beneath tin bim one of these days will the heart-ache leave us one of these days will the burden drop never again shall a hope deceive us never again will our progress stop freed from the blight of the vain en deavor winged with the health of immortal life one of these days we shall quit forever all that is vexing in earthly strife one of these days we shall know the reason haply of much that perplexes now one of these days in the lord's good season slight of ifis peace shall adorn the brow blessed though out of tribulation lifted to dwell in hissuifs bright smile happy to share in the great salvation well may we tarry a little while the women who smuggle how they ark caught by clever in i spectresses on landing it takes fcwenby zealous and direful vvomeu of keen perception great force of character and considerable nerve to keep i nele s;tin from fairly being cheated out of his eyes by other wo men smuggling is the way the lat ter do it and do it well women like to smuggle it would seem they have an ela tic conscience in the matter which real'y seems to tempt them to what is of course swindling the government but to themselves an act of no special harm and of little consequence of course there is the genuine women smuggler who knows just what she is doing just what trouble she is liable to get into and what the result will be it is business with her and she consid ers it an ordinary bunness risk jut she is caughl j ist as < e.'tain as the other little woman is who doesn't think it any special harm just to save a little by tucking away a few pairs of gloves which only make her shapely leg a bit plumper if they don't slip down and giver her a queer shaped ankle or tilling her corset with some rare und dainty lace that if purchased here would cost a pocketful of money on account of the duty it's such awfully jolly good fun said a very pretty girl recently to stuff little articles away in yaw well with a deep bin h any where where they wonl be apt to look if they don't suspect you and then to watch ! ; hose horrid women from i he iu-;p ■■■- tor's office maul and paw over every thing in your luggage and then not find anything because its on you the fair inspectresses deserve praise for the great work that they do for there is absolutely nothing more slippery than a woman smuggler there are more of the latter than among the ! men 0u of ihe entire seizures in a i year more than 825,000 "•;■- saved to the government as a result of the ex amination of women passengers lug gage women are far more wary than men in smuggling and their d ivices for bringing in goods of a dutiable na ture are many it is usually the case that the inspectress can tell by the face and contour of the person as a general rule the woman who has goods bid away will look the searched of her luggage calmly in the face se'doni turning away and if the searcher po litely informs her that she thinks that she has dutiable goods on her person she will of course be greatly insulted and invite a careful examination she gets it and a little trouble in the bar gain the elf assurance that a woman smuggler has is of such great quantity that it will lead her to do the most ab surd and foolhardy deeds whereas if she had less perhaps she would not re ly so much upon its carrying her through and would therefore be more careful the bustle is a godsend to the women who wants to smuggle they are made large and roomy and of iron framework and in them may bo safely carried yards of the most valuable goods the most absurd thing for a women to do who has goods hid about her per son is to wear a heavy nlster when it is too warm for one she will have to r move it when graciously asked if it is not a bit warm and such a refusal of course results in a necessary investi gation on the part of the inspectress the manners of women smuggle is are always very charming and therefore it is in such a kindly way that they inform the tired inspectress that she is really tired and needs a little rest therefore need not examine their trunks as they will tell the inspectress what is in them and save her so much extra trouble i>ut she doesn't look at it in that light and does inspect the trunks much to i he regn t of 1 he owner these smugglers possess a quiel and i car ' ss air but t'no inspe tress can al ' ways tell then by the way they at tempt to sit down their bodies then have a stillness that is hardly in keep ing with the manner in which thev carry the head and arms and of course they a e immediately suspected of hav ing goods concealed somewhere about their skirts there are many curious i i'acc •>!' co eeahuont i cm hard lv be improbable tli;it many thousand dollars worth of dutiable goods are brought through by smart tricks for instance diamonds and other pre cious jewels have been brought over fastened in the fr nt and in the pinnies of the bonnet they are generally wrapped in bluet cotton anil securely fastened in such a manner that it would be necessary to take the hat apart to find them the heel of the shoe is another queer but secure place where jewels have been carried the heel is fal.se having a hollow place in the center where packed in cotton the gems rest safely sometimes a wom-in is found with lace wrapped around her form yard 1 after yard of it is thus securely carried until the eye of tie inspe.-tress looks with suspicion upon the peculiar shape of the wearer and she examines her in the bustles have been found toilet bugs filled with all sorts of odds and ends such as silks gloves hat frames yards or rather hundreds of yards of ribbon stocking and everything dear io the eye of the female to a lean woman the curvatures in their corsets offer a snug resting place for quite a number of dutiable goods that cm be carried safer there than almost any where else one woman was found with lee curtains pinned under her dress taking the place of her usual un derskirts silk has been found worn in the same manner anil ribbon has been wound around the legs and body nn til yard upon yard was concealed \\ hen a discovery is made the woman smuggler of course attempts a bribe but ihe amount is absurd always very much smaller than a man would for a minute think of offering a woman will offer the inspectress 1 and con sider it a big amount ten dollars would break them all up a nun's bribe is as high as 50 the woman inspectors will accept no such favora however when a woman is suspected the inspectress informs the suspect of the necessity of undergoing inspection and she is requested to go to her stater room then slit is ordered to remove her outer garments then the bustle and ii ilu inspectress considers it nec essary to go further she removes the remainder of her clothing t is said that a good deal of solid information regarding smugglers is furnished by many dressmakers dur ing the season these dressmakers send their forewoman abroad to purchase goods they keep their eyes open know all women who go abroad to buy goods in the hope of evading duty on them and send the information straight to new york another source of in tornuiti <;; is t!it i stewards and steward esses on the big steamship lines they receive a percentage on all goods seiz ed and they will most remo s lessly disclose the names ol passengers who are smugglers they almost always know some of the recent seizures from women smugglers are as follows mrs smith her daughter meta and mrs greenwood ami tin 1 misses greenwood passengers on the steamship bervia were found by mrs anna m parks an inspectress to have coueealed on their persons seventeen yards of cash mere,'three yards of plush five yards of cloth and twehei ml 0lwpha.ii yards of satin in their b iggage werelound tweuty-tliree yards of carpet six plated porks and neckties gloves and other articles in june last collector mag one received a letter signed corbett which stated that a quantiity of goods had been smuggled to xew york by mrs adele jeiss who was a p;issenger on the french steamer la xormandie the case wa,s put in the hands of one of the agent who went to the woman's home no 420 west forty-six street and there seized about seventy-five yards of very expensive material when found tne goods were conceal ed on the shelves of the tailor shop of her husband she brought them over concealed in s-.)iue bedding and claim ed that she did not mean to be guilty of any offense english cotton spinning owing to the perfection of her spin ning machinery and the amount of capital invested in the business eng land spins more woolen and cotton yarn than all the other countries com bined and yarns are a.nong the most important of her exports the qual ity of cotton yarn in england is expressed by counts or numbers de noting the number of hanks in a ponnd signifviug c wrseness or fineness this rule of numbering is very simple being the number of hanks each 840 yards long requisite to form one pound in weight thus no 4(1 denotes yarns of which forty hanks weigh one ponnd dry iuods chroaicle sun cholera mixture an efficient remedy for diarrhoea dysentery eholera morbus and summer complaints may be compounded as fol lows equal parts of tincture rhubarb tincture opium tincture cayenne pep i or c sence pepp nnint and spirits camphor dose for adult luto 30 drops in about two tablespoonfiils of water ever v twenty or thirty minutes according to age and violence until relieved one to two doses are suhi cient to relieve any mild case of diar reoea or dysentery it takes eighty-four of our years to ' i ia!ce • ■■■: car < i uranus british soldiers their valor von cannot form nn idea nf the gal lantry of the british soldiers i will givo you i few iinpcdotes of matters of which i took note in the crimea the first feat of aims i will speak of took place in the plain of bhlaklava lord i raglan the euglisli coniman<l..i--iii cliief had taken up his station on the plateau of uhersonesus in front of him was a mound which subsequently was called the mamelou canrobert to the south were heights occupied bv lord cardigan in the middle of the triangle formed by these three points stretched the plain of lialaklava all of a sudden russian tioopa appeared l>ehind the mamelon canrobert which they appeared to menace lord ra ghus saw them he immediately dis patched one of his orderly officers to general cardigan you will order him he said to charge the rnssfans the orderly officer galloped off without saying a word he took half an hour to get up to general cardigan and once he had gained that point he saw the plain which had been prev iously concealed from his sight and perceived behind the russian cavalry two divisions of whose presence lord raglan had not been aware when he gave the order to advance neverthe less he gave general cardigan the in structions he was ordered to transmit taking no account of the events which had altered the situation lie was not on g od teims with lord ragtan who conl i not have forgiven his taking any initiative upon himself so he quietly told general cardigan lori kaglaii orders you to change the russians the general replied charge the russians don't you see how numer ous they are lord raglan must be mad no matter replied the or derly officer you hare to carry out the order lam com minded to transmit to you having delivered his message it was quite open to the orderly to turn i back but he did nothing of the kind the general drew his sword and ex j claimed en route mesamis — let all i follow the last of the cardigans 1 ! that same evening general cardigans i had t.vo bullets in his le -. only one j third of his men came out of the charge the remainder having been killed and i not one would have escaped but for a | french general morris who advanc ; ing to the relief of the english enabled them to fall back but the orderly ( officer who had accompanied the charge w is killed what can be more admirable than [ those men d ishing wibh indomitable i if ink against the enemy although they know thai death awaits them j without any advantage to any one and that merely because an ill-inspired chief had given the word of command what can be more admirable than ' this orderly officer who without be \ ing under any obligat o.i to do so ac companies those about to die this feat will give you an idea of the brit ish army it will be set down in uiy i memoirs which are to be published after my death if l rl raglan had been on good terms with his orderly officer the mishap i have described would not luiv ■occurred 1 always k-"pt my orderlies v:i ji me as long as i could bioye for instance who now i commands a division in the thirteenth j i corps w.is under my order as chief i d'escadrons one day i sent him with i an order to general de la motte ! rouge he was clever enough to see j how matters stood directed him to do ; precisely the reverse of what i had or | dered 1 was the first to congratulate him on this modification which the enemy's movements made necessary ; some initiative should be left to one's , officers when one knows them to be in — 1 telligent this is the kind of courage of the british army the non-commissioned ' officers ar • excellent the soldier taid volunteers freely laid down their lives for it is in their eyes an obliga tion the consequence of a contract freely entered into the force of re sistance is very great those who ventured to effect a landing in eng land would have their work cut out for them the turks alone can be compared with the english as they are buoyed up by the belief that they can not be killed before their hour comes the russians also have a little of that feeling they are perhaps a little reluctant to enter the service but once they arc in the regiment they behave well improved weapons military training count for a good deal no doubt but what is indispensa ble is disregard of death and above all that military spirit that enables men to bear up against fatigue and disappointment that is everything that is the only ro id to victory — mar slinl mac-mahon in g uclois don szpsriment von cannoi afford tn waste time in exper imenting w!m-!i ynw lun-:s are in danger consumption always seems at first on h u cold lj not [<•■i mil any di :''■; to .... \ upon vou with some cheap imitation ol dr king's new discovery for consumption couuii and colds but be sure jou get the enuine because he can make more profit he niuy tell you lie lias something just as good or just the barne don't be deceived cut insist upon retting dr king's new discovery wnich is guaranteed to ivc rc lii.l'in alltbroat lnnjr and chest affections trial botile free at kluttz's drag store a persian carpet twenty-two feet squre was sold in l*aris the other day for 87.000 snaks and herring the crosks and deep water ditches that in all directions intersect the low lying meadows around kidgetield n j have their source of supply in the lower rlackensack river and are slightly brackish they are suys the new york sun salty enough to suit the herrings that abound in them but are sufficiently fresh for water-snakes which are very numerous too the herring would be even more plentiful if the wafer-snakes were less so for the reptiles though not especially par ticular as to the general nature of their diet have a marked and destruc tive partiality for fish the snake catches the herrings much as in bet ter-preserved waters they capture trout \\ ita their sinuous motion they are of course greatly inferior to their prey in point of speed but the race is not always to the swift and the proverbial subtlety of the serpent serves them in good stead concealed by the waving reeds or m the shadow of the overhanging embankment the snake lurks waiting for his dinner he is not rashly impetus when he sees a shoal of herring approach but allows him to pass their hiding place he then glides out follows them and seizes the one he has selected by the tail the free fish at once disap pear and the doomed creature that is towing its destroyer behind it tries to shake off the snake by forcing its way as rapidly as possible through the water it it runs with the current the reptile tries to turn it but if it works upstream its fate is sealed the snake can live for a long time under water and when the herring tries to rise for air the live weight hanging to its tail holds it down new jersey authorities say and it soon drowns then the snake drags it among the reeds and eats a small portion of the hesh from its back it discards the rest of the body and herrings thus mutilated are frequently found by the shores of the creeks xot often is the snake foiled but ike evans a lad noted m the n • g'ib rhood for his veracity and skill as an angler says he saw a urge and determined water so-pent completely b.iffled the snake had seized the herring by the tail and the distressed risli was swimming against the stream and rapidly drowning its fellows had all sought safety except one but j that one w;is a host in itself as tho ! boy breathlessly watched the struggle the disengaged herring swam quickly to its comrade's a sistance and taking a lesson from the common enemy i opened its mouth and fearlessly took a hnn hold of the serpent's tail the biter was bitten and the herring iu the rear of the line used the rudder like force or its position to swing aronnd and all the participants in the s'g ilar battle went down the stream in a lively procession of three the snake soon loosed the fish before him and turned upon the one behind adulteration of food in reporting favorably to the house a substitute for the lee bill to prevent the manufacture or transportation of adulterated articles of food drink and drugs made iu one stale and intended to be sold in another the house com mitte on agriculture referring to the extent of adulteration says this state of facts amounts not only to a premium upon dishonesty but is a threat to national health honest manufacturers and dealers are placed at a disadvantage or are forced into a reckless competition with fraud legitimate trade is handicapped and demoralized it tends to make an ishmaetite of both manufacturer and dealer recent investigations in the department of agirculture of cheese deceptions frauds in milk adultera tion in beer and spirits in spices and condiments and other things in daily use as food and beverage emphasize the necessity for prevention or repres sion of these disreputable practices stimulated by the greed of gain liquids perhaps even more generally than solids are subject to this sophis tication aged brandies are made from diluted alcohol cheap wines are mixed and manipulate tu imitate ex pensive brands ueera are doctored to i avoid the use of expeusrre hops and to cheapen the product or simulate some desired quality teas are mixed col ored with some poisonous minerals and spent leaves are dried and placed a second time upon the market the animal industry which a»ks fur the protection proposed in thi bill reaches all the levels of life from the milli n aire to the day laborerer it embraces more than all other industries in the country combined the property of the poor a sound l3gal opinion e ijaini*ri<jge munday esq county aitw f'l-iv go tex a have wed electric bitters with mosl !»;* = * j • i results m brother al was very low with mala ria fevi r ai i jaundice bui was eared l<y se <>: tlii medicine ani s;r,i-ti j l ' ■■■" • - ■■■■'■•" m . d i wilcoxsno at hone cave ky adtlsn ■- i " '•""'; res mj .■■., ild bare died had i noi ij '•!! f r eli e'.oc bitt w thisgreat remedy will ward off i well as cure all malarial diseases ami for all kidney liver and stomach disorders stands unequalcd price 50c and fl at t f kluttz & co public oflice is a public tr ;-:." we need health to succeed to have health that is 1 in ac cord with the righttakmovrment of the earth in lter orbit with thcgntwth of her plants with the flowing of her ' tides xot to have it is to ho out of j tune with the universe if it is not your sin it is the sin of some one in the past come to light in vlu the combined sin perhaps of many break ers of law that great thin have been wrought by those whose health was a tiling of doubt or a thing b 1 yonddonbt b-ing sj helplessly defi cient is not to be denied by men ami women whose hearts whose stomach whose spines whose uervom sys tems wire only pathological spec imens of disorder yet it has been in rare and exceptional instances and the work done has seldom been more than the completion of ih t iv gun in health and finished only under the impetus then acquired bat those who have been able under such cir cumstances to accomplish much have been rarely exceptional for the major ity of the people are incapable in pain in languoi in distress of thinkiug of much outside of their immediate circle of wants and emotions and when out of health are also out of all energy and desire to do anything but to gel well or die in india there is a god to whom the sick report and having rubbed his im age with grease or oil in whatever part of the body they are themselves af flicted they rub themselves likewise and depart cured or about to be cured the god is thick and dark with his toatftge of greaae attesting lioth the faith of his worshipers and their great eargerness for health in america un like god to whom we appeal is th patent medicine bottle and the purser and palaces of its proprietors testify to the eagerness of this deity's subject worshippers harper's bazar nightly cooling of the earth during the day when the sun is shining it cmijiuunieates its heat t the earth and the latter becomes warm w hen night conies however theearth gives off the heat which it has stored up during the day and consequent becomes colder this cooling con mences at sundown and increases very minute until the sun rises again when the lowest degree of cold s reached that is the time when tin most of us fe.'l even in bed after tl hottest night a chilliness which eau.es us to cover ourselves more cto&elj with the blankets which were rejected at the beginning of the night that fact also explains the cause of taking cold in midsummer whir has seemed such a mystery to many going to bed on a hot evening the windows are left o en and all the cov ern g is thrown off now when from neglect or through failure to waken the body i not covered as morning ap proaches it is exposed to the same con ditions as in the depth of winter ii sudden lowering of temperature urnl a cold is the natural result the nightly cooling of the earth is not so much noticed in cities as it is in tho country in the former the many 1 irge buildings of brick stone and iroi have become reservoirs of boat during ih day and at night they add so much mure of the amount of heat tobegiveu off as a consequence the air is not cooled to such a degree is it is in tho country and very frequently in tin hottest weather the whole night w intensely oppressive — lujttim jfrr>i remarkable coincidence a most remarkable coincidence in connection with a berks county ( ponn ) family shilling by name is that bomi parents were born on february 22d and all of their six children which in clude two sets of twins were l>orn oa february 22nd we tell you plainly tliiit simmon's liver regulator will rid yci of dyspepsia hcailftrhe constipation n:ul bilhoasness it will break up cliills un-l fcrerand prevent their return and is i complete antidort lor all uiahiri.i nnison yet entirely free from quinine or cafonict try it and you will ue astonished lit the rood r<->u!t oft lie simnion liv ; kegalator prepared l>y j h z i!in & cq . — — » — — — — the panama canal losi»ok september 0 — a pn|w-r written by count d lessens was read to-day before the british a.v>o ciation at bath the count de lares that he is confident of completing h panama canal tu conteinter l<»<*ks bv iv hi let every young man lay for him self a ure foundation family r-pi fcition may afford him jjroiiad on which to stand while he hews 6n it hiins.-!f the rock on whi.li he is :■» re>t the structure of individual ciiar.ic fcer two wooes wionging to elzy har ris palmer township ohio w.-re tiuig t > d.-atii n saturday by honey beea the beea attacked them when newr'the hivo and in less than thirty minfufej both horsey were de~d mrs hall of sabine county la has three lingers preserved in a jar of alco hol which the owner can have by proving property they belong on the hand of a burglar ana she < ut * i 1 < ff with a hatchet ho 48
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|Carolina Watchman
|The Carolina Watchman
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|[J. J. Bruner and T. K. Bruner]
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|[J. J. Bruner and T. K. Bruner]
|United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury
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|State Archives of North Carolina Historic Newspaper Archive
|The Thursday, September 20, 1888 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina
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|Carolina Watchman
|The Carolina Watchman
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|Hamilton C. Jones
|United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury
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Fresh start for all as Navarro replaces Arencibia
Blue Jays like acquisition's game-calling ability; trade didn't materialize for J.P.
TORONTO -- The Blue Jays had an obvious need for some help behind the plate, and general manager Alex Anthopoulos believes he has found the solution in veteran catcher Dioner Navarro.
Navarro certainly comes with a lot of question marks, but this business has always been about risk management. If there had been more certainty, Navarro likely would have priced himself out of the Blue Jays' market, but instead he arrives in Toronto on a two-year contract worth $8 million.
That's still a lot of money for a player who hasn't earned full-time duties since 2009, but the Blue Jays liked what they saw from the former Cubs backstop over the past calendar year and decided to take a chance with the hope that he will provide a clear upgrade over the departing J.P. Arencibia.
"We looked at the trade market and the free-agent market to see if there were any fits for us," Anthopoulos told reporters during a conference call Tuesday morning. "Navarro wasn't in an everyday role last year and hasn't been in an everyday role in the past [few years], but he's someone that has a pretty good contact rate, low strikeouts, pretty good on-base skills, can take a walk and work the count.
"From a game-calling standpoint, the work that we did on him, I think everyone really raved about his game calling and how guys loved throwing to him. When we looked at the lineup that we had, ways to improve the team, we felt like he was a better fit for us right now."
Navarro's contract is worth essentially the same amount of money that Arencibia would have earned over the next two years in salary arbitration. The upside is that Navarro is coming off a season during which he posted an impressive .300 average, .365 on-base percentage and .856 OPS while recording 13 homers and 34 RBIs.
Those numbers came in just 89 games, and whether this deal works out ultimately depends on if Navarro can put up at least somewhat similar numbers over the course of a full season. The 29-year-old is viewed as an offense-first type of a catcher, and if the bat regresses, then it's a move that ultimately won't work out. But the organization scouted him last season and appears confident the numbers will be consistent.
In some ways, there are similar concerns for Navarro as there were for Arencibia. Navarro's defense has come into question at times as the 10-year veteran is average at throwing out runners and blocking balls in the dirt. His strength appears to be in game calling, and he was known to be a favorite of Matt Garza and Jeff Samardzija in Chicago.
One of the deciding factors was the amount of times Toronto has given opportunities to veteran catchers over the past decade that, in the end, proved beneficial for both sides.
"I think Dioner, with his age and the fact that he has already done it three times in the past and that we've had some success with it -- whether it was Gregg Zaun, John Buck, Rod Barajas, those types of guys who came in here and were given an opportunity to play every day and really took the ball and ran with it -- that certainly factored in," Anthopoulos said.
"He hadn't done it [recently], and that's part of the risk, but with all of the work that we did, we feel like he's certainly capable of that."
There had been very little doubt over the past several weeks that the Blue Jays were on the verge of cutting all ties with Arencibia. That officially happened late Monday night, when the club decided to non-tender the native of Miami and allowed him to become a free agent.
The writing was on the wall Sunday night, when Anthopoulos made a phone call to his former catcher. Toronto was still pursuing other options with the hope that a trade would eventually present itself, but the market never developed as every team took a pass on the $2.7 million Arencibia was projected to earn in arbitration.
That put Anthopoulos in the rather difficult position of having to decide whether to cut ties now or wait until later in the offseason, with the hope that a need from another organization would ultimately surface. Arencibia's deal wouldn't have been fully guaranteed, but with no room for him on the roster, Anthopoulos decided to try and do the right thing for a player who once was viewed as a potential cornerstone with the Blue Jays.
"At some point, when you really don't think it's possible to make a trade, you try and do what's best for the player and for his career," Anthopoulos said.
"If we really felt there wasn't going to be a trade out there for him, to sit there and carry him into Spring Training, on a non-guaranteed deal, potentially having to release him or option him, it just wouldn't make sense for him or for us. We were pretty motivated, if we could get something done by last night, we were going to do it, and if not, probably the best way for all parties involved was to make the decision."
The one thing Toronto never put much thought into was using Arencibia in a backup role. His salary would have been too expensive, and more importantly, there seems to be some uncertainty of just how accepting Arencibia would have been to that type of move.
Anthopoulos went out of his way to praise Arencibia's commitment to the team and his work in the community during a conference call with reporters, but over the past couple of years, there have been some red flags. Arencibia bristled at criticism from the media and words of advice from coaches over the past year as he remained steadfast in a belief that he knew how to turn his career around.
There were times when Arencibia privately complained about being lifted for a pinch-hitter, and he never seemed to change his approach at the plate despite public statements to the contrary. To his credit, Arencibia never wanted to come out of the lineup, but it's that same hard-nosed approach that would have resulted in some uneasiness with a backup role.
In the end, the cons outweighed the pros, and the Blue Jays decided a fresh start was best for all involved. The club will move forward with Navarro as the starter, and once that signing became official, there was little incentive to keep Arencibia in the fold.
"I don't think that was going to work," Anthopoulos said of using Arencibia as a backup option. "Especially with Josh [Thole] having caught R.A. Dickey, and from J.P.'s standpoint with where the money was going to end up in salary arbitration and things like that, it just didn't make a whole lot of sense for us to go down that path."
Gregor Chisholm is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, North of the Border, and follow him on Twitter @gregorMLB.


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Media 2005
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Technical conference on North American and regional reliability
"Today, the Commission holds the first of two technical conferences focusing on current and future procedures for establishment and approval of electric reliability standards. Discussions at these conferences will focus on (1) the process that the Electric Reliability Organization (ERO) will use in proposing new mandatory reliability standards, (2) the role of regional entities in that process, and (3) how existing reliability standards can be improved over time. The second conference will be held on December 9, and will continue exploring related issues and stakeholders' views to assure successful implementation of the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
"These conferences come at a particularly important time. On August 8, 2005, President Bush signed the Energy Policy Act into law. Perhaps the most important responsibility given the Commission by the Energy Policy Act is the responsibility of safeguarding the reliability of the bulk power system, by certifying an ERO, carefully reviewing and approving mandatory reliability standards, and ensuring these standards are properly enforced. The Commission is committed to faithfully execute these new responsibilities.
"I just want to be clear that the Energy Policy Act does not provide for a "one size fits all" approach towards reliability standards. That much is clear from the plain words and structure of the law. Under the Energy Policy Act, regional entities will propose standards to the national reliability organization charged with standards development, the Electric Reliability Organization, which can then, in turn, propose to the Commission those regional standards it has approved. Congress would not have provided for consideration of regional standards if it had intended a "one size fits all" approach.
"We had both North American and regional reliability standards before enactment of the Energy Policy Act. And, I expect that we will continue to have both North American and regional reliability standards after issuance of the Commission's final rule.
"Under the law, the Commission must approve any reliability standard before it becomes enforceable. We are operating under the expectation that it is the Version 0 standards that will be proposed to the Commission for its consideration and review. In the proposed rule, the Commission interpreted the Energy Policy Act to permit the ERO applicant or applicants to propose reliability standards in their certification application. We did that in order to accelerate establishment of enforceable reliability standards.
"In anticipation of the filing of Version 0 standards, the Commission has been conducting a constructive review of existing reliability standards. We have been examining the existing Version 0 standards as well as the relationship of Version 0 standards to regional standards.
"That process has been very instructive. We have learned that a significant portion of NERC's existing standards - about 25 percent - are in the form of obligations for the regional reliability organization to define regional criteria and procedures necessary to implement the NERC reliability standard. This is particularly true in certain subject areas, such as system planning. In addition, some regional standards have been incorporated into NERC reliability standards when necessary to address physical differences of the interconnections or market protocols used in organized markets.
"The Commission has a legal duty under the Energy Policy Act to assure that proposed reliability standards "provide for reliable operation of the bulk power system." To me, that means carefully reviewing proposed reliability standards and assuring that they have technical support and are written so that they are enforceable against "all users, owners, and operators of the bulk power system," as the law provides. We will, of course, give "due weight" to the technical expertise of the ERO and regional entities organized on an interconnection-wide basis.
"The Commission is holding these technical conferences to ensure we fully understand the existing reliability standards and processes in advance of a filing of reliability standards by an ERO applicant or applicants. Our purpose is a thorough and expedited review of proposed reliability standards and accelerated establishment of enforceable reliability standards.
"The Commission's goal, of course, is to faithfully execute the law in the manner Congress intended. We are faithfully implementing the reliability provisions of the Energy Policy Act, and moving swiftly to meet the aggressive deadlines in the law.
"As I conclude, I want to recognize and welcome Kim Warren from Ontario. The Commission recognizes the importance of continued cooperation with our neighbors in Canada, as we share not only a border but potentially an ERO as well. Good governance of the ERO, including the approval and enforcement of clear and effective reliability standards, will benefit both our nations.
"I look forward to hearing the views of the participants today."
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Trend Micro Custom Defense Takes "Command and Control" of Advanced Persistent Threats
Unique Solution Delivers Breakthroughs in Identifying and Blocking Targeted Attack Communications
Feb 25, 2013, 08:00 ET
CUPERTINO, Calif., Feb. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), is introducing new advances in its Custom Defense solution that focus on identifying and blocking the command and control (C&C) communications used by advanced persistent threats (APTs) and targeted attacks. Trend Micro Custom Defense is the industry's first advanced threat protection solution that enables organizations not only to detect and analyze these attacks, but also to rapidly adapt their protection and respond to the attackers.
These new advances in C&C response provide unique custom detection and protection for network, gateway, server and endpoint protection points, along with centralized alerting and C&C risk intelligence to keep the customer informed and in control of the response to C&C activity. For the first time, enterprise organizations will have the visibility and intelligence to detect and respond to this important attack indicator before the damage is done.
APTs Directed by C&C Communications
APTs and targeted attacks continue to evade the standard defenses of organizations, as recently witnessed with attacks on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and US Federal Reserve. According to a recent ISACA member survey, 21 percent of respondents reported that their enterprise has already been victimized by an APT, and 63 percent think it is only a matter of time before their enterprise is targeted.
These attacks are typically remotely orchestrated via C&C communications between the infiltrated systems and the attackers themselves. Advanced malware used for an attack will "call back" for additional downloads and new instructions. Throughout the attack, the perpetrators will also use this channel to open and manipulate backdoor network access to discover and exfiltrate their targeted data. 2012 Verizon research verified that exploitation of backdoor or command and control channels were used in nearly 50 percent of all stolen data investigated.1
The C&C Detection Challenge
Identifying and responding to C&C communications is a critical factor in detecting a targeted attack, but unlike large-scale botnets, the intermittent and low-volume APT C&C traffic is difficult to detect. And the attackers don't make it easy, attempting to hide C&C traffic with techniques such as changing and redirecting addresses, using legitimate applications and sites as the conduit, and even setting up C&C servers within a customer's network. Trend Micro researchers note that the average lifespan of a C&C address is less than three days and that many sophisticated attackers use techniques only detectable with specialized network-based detection on-site at the organization.
Recently tracked C&C data from TrendLabs℠ researchers shows over 1500 active C&C sites, with victims per site ranging from 1 to over 25,000. Of note, over two-thirds of these sites had three or fewer active victims. Over 25 percent of the sites had a lifespan of one day or less. Over 50 percent had a lifespan of four days or less.
"Most security vendors lack the expertise, scale, technology and resources to reliably identify the various types of C&C. And when their web, messaging or endpoint products do detect a C&C, it's likely to be simply blocked or logged without notice – the same way any minor event is handled. So in most cases, the organization never knows that it may be under a serious targeted attack," Steve Quane, chief product officer at Trend Micro.
Enterprise security teams need to reliably answer these critical questions:
- Is there C&C activity on my network?
- Is it a simple botnet or a possible targeted attack?
- How risky is it? Where and whom is it from?
- Should I immediately block and remediate or monitor it further?
The Trend Micro Custom Defense Solution for C&C Response
Only the Trend Micro Custom Defense solution can answer these questions with the C&C detection, intelligence and response control needed to stop a targeted attack before the damage is done. At RSA 2013, Trend Micro is introducing and demonstrating these new and unique Custom Defense C&C functions:
- Enhanced identification and tracking of C&C communications in the cloud and on the customer network
- Built-in detection of C&C communications activity in network, gateway, server, and endpoint protection points
- Centralized C&C alerting, dedicated C&C risk intelligence, flexible response control options
- Adaptive security updates to inform all products of new C&C detection
- Open web services APIs to include any security product in the Custom Defense
How It Works
Global Identification and Tracking: Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™ and Trend Micro Threat Researchers
The Smart Protection Network automatically identifies active C&C sites worldwide based on daily processing of 12 Billion IP/URL inquires and the correlation of over six Terabytes of data. Its correlation engines keep up with the changing nature of C&C addresses, and it employs the latest innovations from Trend Micro's 1200 threat researchers to continually detect all evasive measures taken by attackers.
Trend Micro threat researchers also collect and examine the forensic evidence of attempted targeted attacks over the tens of thousands of Trend Micro enterprise customers worldwide. Peeling back the layers of an attack, they gain further insight into C&C, malware, and attacker techniques, driving constant improvement in the Smart Protection Network and Trend Micro products.
Network-Based Detection and Learning with Trend Micro™ Deep Discovery Advanced Threat Protection
Trend Micro Deep Discovery uses customer-specific threat detection to discover advanced malware, communications and attacker activities at the network level. Unique "fingerprint" detection of cloaked C&C traffic can identify attackers' use of legitimate applications and websites, as well as other advanced techniques such as the use of internal C&C servers. Deep Discovery custom sandbox analysis can also discover new C&C destinations of zero-day malware attacks and update the Smart Protection Network and all customer security protection points.
Integrated Protection Across Products; Centralized Alerts and Control
The latest global and local C&C detection information powers Trend Micro enterprise security products at the endpoint, server, network, gateway, and messaging protection points to identify and control C&C activity across the customer environment. C&C detection at any point is clearly identified on a centralized console, alerting the security team and allowing them to control the course of action. C&C risk assessment, containment and remediation are aided by unique Threat Connect intelligence on the severity, activity, origins and related addresses of the C&C site – helping to determine whether the communication represents a high risk, whether it should be immediately blocked, and how the containment and remediation should proceed.
Products and Availability
These Trend Micro products will include the new Custom Defense C&C functions, with Beta versions available in February 2013 and individual product General Availability dates throughout 1H 2013.
Endpoint Security
- Trend Micro™ OfficeScan™
Server, Virtualization & Cloud Security
- Trend Micro™ Deep Security
Network Security
- Trend Micro™ Deep Discovery
Messaging Security
- Trend Micro™ InterScan Mail Security
- Trend Micro™ ScanMail™ for Exchange, Trend Micro™ ScanMail™ for Lotus Domino
Web Security
- Trend Micro™ InterScan™ Web Security
Central Management
- Trend Micro™ Control Manager™
"Trend Micro is the only major security vendor who gets APTs - and we continue to expand and deliver on our Custom Defense vision. C&C can be a critical APT attack indicator. Customers have the right to expect their security products to do a better job of detecting risky C&C and giving them the intelligence they need to respond appropriately. We are leading the way by improving our C&C detection and intelligence, integrating it into each of our products, and providing the visibility and response control that customers need to combat their attackers," said Kevin Faulkner, director of product marketing at Trend Micro.
"We are big fans of Trend Micro Custom Defense. It not only detects and analyzes APTs but also allows us to rapidly respond. In its first two months on our network, Deep Discovery spotted and stopped 5,000 anonymous events on our WAN that were not caught by any other security layer," said John Dickson, Director, IT Infrastructure Republic National Distributing Company, Atlanta, Georgia.
"Attacks on the enterprise today are more sophisticated and targeted than ever before. Trend Micro's Custom Defense solution and the C&C detection and response control capabilities it offers across the Trend Micro product line will help customers to better identify and deal appropriately with attacks to their organization," said Richard Stiennon, chief research analyst, IT-Harvest.
Additional Assets:
APT C&C Communication Superior Detection with Trend Micro Custom Defense (Trend Micro Solution Brief)
ISACA Advanced Persistent Threats Awareness Survey
TrendLabs research paper: Detecting APT Activity with Network Traffic Analysis
Tracking Known C&C Traffic infographic
Custom Defense White Paper
Custom Defense web page
Trend Micro Custom Defense Video
1. 2012 Data Breach Investigations Reports, Verizon RISK Team, March 2012
About Trend Micro
Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), the global cloud security leader, creates a world safe for exchanging digital information with its Internet content security and threat management solutions for businesses and consumers. A pioneer in server security with over 20 years' experience, we deliver top-ranked client, server and cloud-based security that fits our customers' and partners' needs, stops new threats faster, and protects data in physical, virtualized and cloud environments. Powered by the industry-leading Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™ global threat intelligence data mining framework, our products and services stop threats where they emerge – from the Internet. They are supported by 1,000+ threat intelligence experts around the globe.
Additional information about Trend Micro Incorporated and the products and services are available at Trend Micro.com. This Trend Micro news release and other announcements are available at http://newsroom.trendmicro.com/ and as part of an RSS feed at www.trendmicro.com/rss. Or follow our news on Twitter at @TrendMicro.
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Gastrological Forecast
I wish I had a magic printer that could make copies of the images I keep in my brain. I'd make a food file and record all the meals I ever ate, or the good ones at least. I could stick the firewire plug up my nose or under my tongue and bzzzzzp out would come glossy prints of my mother's gloppy creamed chipped beef. And the preschool birthday party when some girl named Dong wouldn't give me one of the red sugar roses from her birthday cake and I wanted to punch her in the nose. I remember the cake perfectly. I have hundreds like this: bright red pistachio shells rolling around on the nubby black rubber floor of a car. My legs were short and dangled from the seat; my father's fingers were stained red. And I remember the darkened interior of The Phoenix, a Greek restaurant where we ate dinner with my grandfather every Wednesday night. They had a blind piano player and a lounge singer who looked like Ricardo Montalban. Before the food came I ate package after package of Club crackers smeared with butter. And my grandmother's huckleberry cake—how did she do that, exactly? If I tried to recreate it now we'd all fight about it. I wish I had a picture that could prove I was right.
The Dish
All the News That's Fit to Eat
Venezia's puts Mama to work doubletime. Venezia's, the Rio Rancho pizzeria, now has an Albuquerque location at 3908 San Mateo NE (you know the place, it's been a Dairy Queen, a doughnut shop and a hot "dawg" joint.) The business is a family enterprise that was run by Frank Venezia from the late '70s until 1995 when the founder closed his restaurant in order to focus on concession sales at Tingley Coliseum and the flea market. In 2000, the second generation, brothers Aldo and Renato, decided to get back into the family business (they put in hours working at the Rio Rancho restaurant as kids) and reopened a Venezia's at 1690 Rio Rancho Drive SE.
Food 101
Identify This Object! Win a Prize!
Backscratcher or egg beater? We can't tell.
What is this thing? A colleague (all right, it was Film Editor Devin O'Leary) recently discovered this mysterious gadget in a bin of kitchen items at a yard sale. The sellers had no idea what it was and Devin paid less than a dollar for it. Since then we've been tossing it around the office and none of us can figure out what it is. We've modeled it as a codpiece (hysterical but impractical) and imagined using it to whip cream (too floppy), beat rugs (too flimsy) or scale fish (plainly ridiculous).
The Itis
CBD-Infused Dinner
Chowtown Restaurant Guide
Whether you're more familiar with the French Riviera or the French Quarter, there are plenty of places in Albuquerque to get a taste of authentic French cuisine. Read Hosho McCreesh's review of Le Quiche Parisienne in this issue, and check out these other restaurants in the city that will cater to your wanderlust and make you feel, if only for the evening, that you're dining in the City of Lights. Bon appetit, mes amis.


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Lullabies Behind Bars
In a few innovative prisons, babies find a safe haven with their moms
By Beth Schwartzapfel
It's midday on a recent
Tuesday, and Rachael Irwin, 27,
scurries across the floor on her
hands and knees, playing peekaboo
with her 10-month-old daughter,
Gabriella. The baby's big blue eyes
dance with delight. Like many children
her age, Gabriella is in day care.
Unlike most children her age,
though, Gabriella is in prison. She
and her mother are participating in
the Bedford Hills (N.Y.) Correctional
Facility's nursery program, one of
only nine programs in the country
that allow incarcerated women to
keep their babies with them after they
give birth.
Nationwide, nearly 2 million children
have parents in prison. The
number of those with incarcerated
mothers, in particular, is growing exponentially:
A recent report from the
Bureau of Justice Statistics found that
the number of minors with mothers
in prison increased by more than 100
percent in the last 15 years.
"These children are sort of victims
by default," says Paige Ransford, research
assistant at the Center for
Women in Politics and Public Policy
at the University of Massachusetts
(UMass) Boston, and coauthor of
the recent report "Parenting from
Prison." Most of the children go live
with grandparents or other relatives;
one in 10 is placed in foster care.
About half are separated from their
siblings. These children are prone to
a whole host of social developmental
difficulties, and are more likely than
their peers to be in trouble with the
law later in life.
In the case of women who enter
the system as mothers-to-be, the usual
excitement of pregnancy is replaced
with a sense of dread. The
choices that, on the outside, are understood
to be a woman's right—such
as where and how to give birth, and
whether or not to breastfeed—are
transferred from the woman to bureaucrats
and officers at the state Department
of Corrections (DOC).
Of the 115,308 women incarcerated
in the U.S. as of 2007, some 4,000
women—4 percent of women in state
custody and 3 percent in federal—
were pregnant when they entered
prison. In the vast majority of cases,
babies are removed from their mothers
immediately after birth and
placed with relatives or in foster care.
However, a small but growing number
of states are recognizing that the
mother-child bond formed in the first
few months of life is crucial to the
child's development, and that the
bond need not be broken.
"We're definitely seeing more
states grapple with what it means to
send women to prison, some of whom
are pregnant," says Sarah From, director
of public policy and communications
for the Women's Prison
Association (WPA) and coauthor of
the agency's forthcoming report on
prison nurseries. Eight states now
have some sort of program to house
female offenders together with their
newborns, the newest being Indiana.
The West Virginia legislature recently
passed a bill establishing a program
in its correctional facility for women,
which is slated to open in 2009.
These programs vary widely in the
length of time babies are allowed to
stay with their incarcerated mothers and in the services provided while
they're in prison with them. South
Dakota's program allows babies to
stay for just 30 days—with the mother
in her regular cell—while Washington
state allows children to stay
for up to three years with their mothers
in a separate wing of the prison.
The Washington facility offers a federal
Early Head Start program for
prenatal health and infant-toddler
development, and partners with the
nonprofit Prison Doula Project to
provide doula services to the women
during and after pregnancies.
Originally started way back in
1901 when the prison was a state reformatory,
the Bedford Hills Program
is the oldest and largest in the country,
with its own nursery wing and
space for up to 29 mother-baby pairs.
Women live with their babies in
bright rooms stuffed with donated
toys and clothes. During the day, while
the women attend DOC-mandated
drug counseling, anger management,
vocational training and parenting
classes, their children attend a day
care staffed by inmates who have
graduated from an intensive two-year
Early Childhood Associate vocational
training program.
Although the idea of babies living
the first months of their lives behind
bars is sad to contemplate, many experts
say that the alternative—separating
them from their mothers—is
far worse. "If a woman is serving a
short sentence and can look forward
to a life with her child…so much research
addresses the importance of
that early bonding relationship," says
Sylvia Mignon, associate professor
and director of the graduate program
in human services at UMass Boston
and coauthor, with Ransford, of the
"Parenting from Prison" report. "The
reality is, an infant does not know that
she is in prison. All she knows is that
she's getting the warmth and love and
attention of this wonderful being
called mom." Among women serving
sentences of more than a decade, however,
there is no clear consensus on
what's best for the child; the Bedford
Hills program generally only accepts
women serving sentences of five years
or less. "We don't want to create a
bond that's guaranteed to be broken,"
says the children's center program director,
Bobby Blanchard.
Unlike in the general prison population,
doors in the program are never
locked; inmates must be able to
come and go freely in order to warm
bottles, do laundry and comfort crying
children out of the earshot of
other sleeping babies. Rooms are
decorated with photographs and
handmade posters that say things
like, "Loving yourself is something to
be proud of!" Danielizz Negron, 23,
rocks her 4-month-old son, Jeremiah,
while he naps in a stroller. She was six
months pregnant when, after a year
of fighting burglary charges, she accepted
a plea deal and turned herself
in. "If I had not known about this
program, I would not have came in. I
would've been in Mexico somewhere
by now," she says, only half-joking.
As the number of prison nurseries
continues to grow, some caution
against becoming overly sanguine.
Prison nurseries are wonderful programs,
says the WPA's Sarah From,
however "we shouldn't be looking to
build more prison nurseries, but
rather work in the community to put
less women in prison."