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Connecticut Offers Small Business Express Package
Connecticut Governor Daniel P. Malloy signed into law a bill intended to support small business growth, spur innovation and entrepreneurship, and increase the competitiveness of businesses in the state. The legislation creates a new Small Business Express Package that will provide small businesses with $180 million in incentives to create jobs, direct financial assistance including a loan program and a matching grant program, and training assistance. The bill will also drive innovation and entrepreneurship by providing $25 million loans for startup companies and matching grants, and providing incentives for "angel" investors to support high-tech and emerging technology startups.
In addition, the bill provides $20 million to expand or establish manufacturing technology programs at community colleges and vocational-technical schools to ensure that worker skills meet business needs. Finally, the bill streamlines the process of doing business by reducing the timeframe for obtaining permits and creating a new online portal that will serve as a central point of access to business programs and services.
(Contact: Erin Sparks)
Minnesota Doubles Funding Available to Small Businesses
Minnesota expanded its Small Business/Banking Partnership to provide additional funding to support small businesses in the state. The Partnership will provide up to $200 million to qualified Minnesota community banks for direct lending to small businesses. Funding for the expansion of the Partnership is provided by the Minnesota State Board of Investment, which manages the state's pension funds. Qualifying banks are defined as well-capitalized banks with a "satisfactory" rating or above from the state Department of Commerce. The state hopes to increase the tax base and revenues while spurring job creation through the increased lending to small businesses. The Partnership was expanded in response to small business concerns about difficulties accessing investment capital and credit.
(Contact: Erin Sparks)
Hawaii Requests Proposals to Contract for State Medicaid Reforms
Hawaii's Department of Human Services Med-QUEST Division released a request for proposals (RFP) for health care plans to bid on contracts to improve the state Medicaid program known as QUEST. The agency's RFP requires plans to incorporate benefits that address chronic diseases, coordinate care, and increase the use of electronic health records among providers to improve care quality and reduce unnecessary or duplicated services.
The RFP encourages applicants to focus on incorporating "patient-centered care" practices to support patients with complex health problems and chronic diseases. The goals of the new contracts are to improve access statewide, address cost issues, support new models to manage care for people with chronic diseases, and to provide incentives for leveraging information technology to improve health outcomes.
(Contact: Jason Hsieh)
Iowa Committee Urges New Oversight for Mental Health Service
An advisory board within the Iowa Department of Human Services is recommending that the legislature reconfigure the state's mental health service coordination by replacing its existing county-based system with a series of regional agencies. Under the proposal, mental health services would be coordinated by five to 15 regional administrators, overseeing at least three counties each and serving populations of 200,000 to 700,000 people. After the panel's recommendations are considered, a special legislative committee will propose legislation to be taken up by the legislature early next year.
(Contact: Jason Hsieh)
Michigan Proposes Changes to Gas Tax
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has released a series of policy proposals to the state legislature for funding up to $1.4 billion in infrastructure improvements, including significant changes to the state's motor fuel taxes. In his Special Message to the legislature on infrastructure, Governor Snyder called for an elimination of the state's 19 cents per gallon gasoline tax and 15 cents per gallon diesel tax. In place of the current taxes, the governor has proposed a percentage-based, wholesale tax on all motor fuels. The wholesale tax would be revenue neutral but indexed to inflation so that as gas prices increase more revenue would be generated for state road maintenance. The proposal would also allow counties to levy local vehicle registration fees if approved by local voters, with revenues going to transportation projects.
Governor Snyder also proposed improvements to Michigan's roads, multimodal transportation system, water infrastructure, and broadband network, including:
- Creating a new Regional Transit Authority in Southeast Michigan to improve transit access in the Detroit area as well as a separate rural transit program;
- Changing investment priorities for water and sewer projects, based on the recommendations of the State Revolving Fund Advisory Group, that emphasizes recuing long-term costs by focusing on asset management and storm water programs; and
- Establishing a one-stop-shop for approving utility work permits within state road rights-of-way to streamline the expansion of broadband connectivity.
(Contact: Andrew Kambour)
Massachusetts Program Collects Leftover Crops for Emergency Food Providers
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has launched a new program that collects leftover crops from local farms and makes them available to emergency food providers. The Massachusetts Gleaning Network includes farms, service agencies, food banks, local volunteers, and other community organizations. Members of the network will participate in gleaning projects, in which crops leftover after commercial harvest or crops that would normally be uneconomical to harvest are set aside for emergency food providers. Gleaning projects in November will help ensure that food is available for the winter months. The state Department of Agricultural Resources will serve as a clearinghouse for the network, vetting participants and connecting farms, food providers and community organizations and volunteers that wish to participate in gleaning projects.
(Contact: Andrew Kambour)
Washington Corrections Reforms Yield Savings
Washington Governor Chris Gregoire has proposed several changes to state corrections practices to help reduce expenditures and balance the state budget. In August, Governor Gregoire directed state agencies to submit a list of options that would reduce their budgets by up to 10 percent. Based on their input, Governor Gregoire identified the following cost-cutting measures for savings of approximately $46.8 million:
- Reduce the length of time offenders spend under community supervision to 12 months, except for sex offenders who will be supervised for 24 months;
- Release offenders at low to moderate risk of reoffending 150 days early;
- Close one minimum-security camp and change the security level of a prison from medium to minimum security; and
- Increase offender health-care co-payments.
(Contact: Jeff McLeod)
Michigan Commission Will Examine Legal Representation for the Poor
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has issued an executive order that establishes a commission to examine how to improve legal representation for low-income criminal defendants. As legal defense for low-income defendants varies across the state, the commission is responsible for providing the governor with recommendations that ensure equal legal representation to indigent defenses throughout the state and are cost-effective. The commission must submit its recommendations to the governor and legislature by July 15, 2012.
(Contact: Alisha Powell)
Tennessee Moves to Streamline Teacher Evaluation
Tennessee is considering modifications to the state's teacher evaluation policies. Specifically, the adjustment would allow principals to conduct two of the required classroom observations of teachers in succession, reducing the reporting and scheduling burden for both teachers and principals. The changes are meant to streamline the evaluation process, increase flexibility, and respond to feedback from educators on the evaluation system. The commissioner indicated he would recommend additional modifications to the evaluation system next summer after reviewing data from this year's results.
(Contact: Amanda Corcoran)
Other News
Report Suggests Strategies to Align Workforce Systems and Labor Market
A new report from the National Skills Coalition and the Georgetown Center on Poverty, Inequality and Public Policy examines innovations in state workforce policy over the last decade and suggests additional strategies to help state workforce systems effectively meet labor market demands. State Workforce Policy: Recent Innovations and an Uncertain Future discusses the growing skills gap in the U.S. workforce and suggests that federal education and workforce policies have not effectively addressed that gap. Instead, a number of states have developed innovative strategies to coordinate and align higher education, workforce, and economic development policies. The report profiles recent state policy innovations with a focus on several key practices: sector or industry partnerships, career pathways, and integrated education and training.
In addition, the report suggests several approaches states can take to better align their workforce systems with the labor market:
- Encourage community colleges to use labor market demand data in employment training and career counseling efforts;
- Provide incentives to community colleges to offer more training in high-demand sectors;
- Increase state funding support for part-time community college students who are workers expanding their basic and technical skills;
- Increase links between state workforce and unemployment insurance systems, such as improving collaboration between unemployment insurance offices and One-Stop Centers; and
- Encourage employers to create jobs that provide opportunities for skill-building and higher compensation.
(Contact: Garrett Groves)
Report Examines Medicaid Long-Term Care Spending Patterns
A report released by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured examines Medicaid long-term care spending patterns in institutional- and community-based settings. The report describes an overview of aggregate and per-enrollee Medicaid spending on long-term care services, and details the spending by long-term care users. The report also highlights key policy considerations for states regarding Medicaid long-term care spending, including:
- Medicaid long-term care users account for 6 percent of Medicaid population, but nearly half of all Medicaid spending;
- Medicaid is the only major financing stream for long-term care designed to provide services in both institutional and community-based services; and
- Long-term services account for 70 percent of all Medicaid spending on dual-eligibles.
Contact: Jason Hsieh)
Report: The Impact of the Economic Downturn on Policing
The U.S. Department of Justice has released a report that examines the changing operations of police agencies in the current economic climate. Law enforcement agencies have implemented hiring freezes, required furloughs, and reduced the number of officers and staff in departments in order to comply with budgetary restraints. The report highlights several strategies for police agencies to consider as they seek to maintain the same quality of service with a reduction in available resources. Those strategies include:
- Using technologies such as closed-circuit television, video teleconferencing equipment, and social media to provide law enforcement with a way to increase available information;
- Shifting certain delivery of police services from sworn officers to civilian personnel, which can help alleviate the strain on police work loads, mitigate payroll costs, and allow sworn officers more time to focus on time-sensitive issues; and
- Combining police agencies' resources, training, and information.
(Contact: Anne Elizabeth Johnson)
Report: State Progress in Enabling Distributed Electricity Generation
A new report from the Network for New Energy Choices and the Vote Solar Initiative has found that more states have adopted best practices around net metering and interconnection standards that help enable and promote distributed electricity generation such as solar photovoltaic (PV) installations. The report, Freeing the Grid 2011, defines interconnection as the technical rules and procedures that allow customers to access the electric grid and defines net metering as the billing arrangement for customers under which they realize savings from their generation systems equal to what they would otherwise pay in electricity costs. The report finds that more states are adopting rules for both interconnection and net metering, and that states have expanded best practices significantly since 2007.
The report considers best practices for state net metering policy to include large individual system capacity, small or no limits on total program capacity relative to peak demand, provisions for new or additional meters, a larger number of eligible technologies and customer classes, and customer ownership of renewable energy credits, among others.
Interconnection best practices include larger individual system capacity, waived fees for net metered customers and capped interconnection charges, and the removal of restrictions on interconnection into certain customer networks, such as campuses, large commercial buildings, or dense urban areas.
(Contact: Andrew Kambour)
Report Urges Innovation in Preparing Principals
A new report from the Center for American Progress urges states to take a more proactive role in ensuring principal effectiveness. The report, Gateways to the Principalship: State Power to Improve the Quality of School Leaders, highlights the critical role states play in supporting school leadership, citing two critical state policy "gateways" to ensuring principal quality: approval of programs that train principals and oversight of principal licensure. Yet the report finds that few states are exerting their authority in those areas to meet the challenge of ensuring that schools are led by effective leaders. Focusing on principal preparation, the report profiles the work of eight states identified as leaders in developing innovative ways to improve principal training, and eight states that are "lagging" in the area.
The report offers several recommendations to states to improve principal preparation, including:
- Defining characteristics of high-quality principal preparation programs based on current research and best practices;
- Sunsetting all currently approved programs and requiring them to redesign their models based on those characteristics and to reapply for state approval;
- Developing robust data tracking systems to collect data on the effectiveness of a program's graduates in raising student achievement;
- Publishing data on program effectiveness to drive program improvement and attract candidates to the strongest programs;
- Eliminating the master's degree requirement for principals and being open to approving district, state, and nonprofit principal preparation programs that meet the state-required characteristics; and
- Awarding initial licensure based on performance and demonstration of competencies against the state definition of principal effectiveness.
(Contact: Amanda Corcoran)
What's New
Apply Now: Next Generation Justice Information Sharing Policy Academy
The NGA Center invites states and U.S territories with full NGA membership benefits to apply for the Next Generation Justice Information Sharing Policy Academy. Up to four state teams of senior-level state policymakers will be selected to develop policy frameworks that focus on improving efficiency, security, reusability, and scalability in their systems. States will receive up to $30,000 to complete project work and will host site visits, attend two policy academy meetings, and receive specialized technical assistance from NGA Center staff and national experts. Proposals are due December 9, 2011 by 5:00 pm EST.
(Contact: Anne-Elizabeth Johnson)
NGA Center Releases Report on Effective Common Core Implementation
NGA Center recently released a report, Realizing the Potential: How Governors Can Lead Effective Implementation of the Common Core State Standards, to provide governors and other state policymakers with guidance to transition their school systems to the standards. Governors' authority over education and the tools with which they can take action vary considerably from state to state, yet all governors should consider taking the following actions to support implementing the CCSS:
- Communicate a vision for reform;
- Identify performance goals and measure progress;
- Engage key leaders from education, business, and philanthropy;
- Build educator capacity;
- Lead transitions in state assessments and accountability policy;
- Support local development and acquisition of new curricula and materials; and
- Maximize resources and share costs.
(Contact: Amanda Corcoran)
NGA Center Workshop: Economic Development in the Clean Energy Sector – Western States
The NGA Center will be holding the second of three regional workshops December 8-9 in Phoenix, Arizona to discuss strategies for fostering economic growth in the emerging area of clean energy. Topics of discussion will include: pivoting existing economic development efforts to clean energy industries, applying strategies from past successes such as biosciences and information technology, and determining where clean energy's unique attributes require new approaches. Targeted participants are governors' energy and economic development advisors from the states of: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, and Wyoming. A previous workshop was held for Northeast and Midwest states (October, 2011) and a future workshop will be held for Southern states (January 10-11, 2012 in Nashville, Tennsee). States that are or were unable to attend the workshop in their region are welcome to attend one of the other workshops if they choose.
(Contact: Andrew Kambour)


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GigEmNation writer Sam Khan Jr. chatted with readers on Friday about Texas A&M football and recruiting. Here's the full transcript of the chat. Here's an excerpt from the chat:
Paul (Texas): What do you think of the scrutiny of Johnny's every move? Is some of it unfair?
Sam Khan Jr.: Maybe a little bit, yeah. I mean, he's still a 20-year-old college football player and college student. Of course, playing major college football, some of this attention comes with the territory. But Manziel's in uncharted waters. There' are more media and mediums to get information out than ever before, and nobody in college football history has won the Heisman as a freshman. I don't think there's anything wrong with him living his life and doing the things he does as long as it's within the rules. And us as media members (me included) are a little guilty of writing about every little thing he does. But I'll say this -- if nobody cared, we wouldn't write about it. And people care, so we do. But yeah, I think he's in a bit of a tough spot, and I think many can understand that. It's not like he's making millions (yet) like a pro player where criticism and scrutiny is pretty fair game and comes with the salary.
Mike (The H): Who's most likely to be our next 2014 commit?
Sam Khan Jr.: I'm going to guess Katy (TX) Seven Lakes defensive end Jarrett Johnson. The trip to A&M junior day made a big impression on him, and now he has said that both Texas and the Aggies are "even." He's going to make probably one more trip before he makes a decision, but my prediction is that he pledges to the Aggies.
David (Houston): Is the Maroon and White game being televised by ESPN a sign that A&M has really gotten the attention on a national level?
Sam Khan Jr.: Absolutely. Their SEC membership, their success in the first SEC season and the accomplishments of Manziel have all contributed to their national reputation. And people are interested in them around the country, so that's why ESPN is televising it.

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A major WMD attack on USA homeland?
On the evening of October 3, 2012, a major invasion--with the deliberate use of WMD(Weapon of Mass DECEPTION)--was premptively perpetrated on the Amercan Public. The Wall Street-Pentagon ruling elite--after decades and trillion dollars of fine-tuning this sophisticated weapon's development--finally unleashed an "on the air" attack by the drones. The occasion was officially heralded as a "(p)residential debate" featuring the Baracky-drone versus the challenger Mitty-drone. Each of those political robots is a remotely-controlled mouthpiece that re-gurgitates the talking points given by their corporate handlers representing the Democratic NeoLibs(i.e., "humanitarian interventionists") and the NeoCon GOP(Greed, Oil & Profits)party, respectively.
While the corporate-bin-Laden media devotes endless hours covering and parsing the hair-splitting rhetoric from the 2 talking heads, who droned on and on regarding which particular policy would best fatten the already-swollen bank-vaults of the 1%, the truth is that neither Wall Street-financed party is capable of reversing the historic downfall of their bi-partisan Clunkered Capitalist Corporate regime. While nearly 50 million workers are unemployed in the USA empire and the European allied states(plus at least that many millions more in the Third World), neither candidate vying to be the next WHO(White House Occupier) had the audacity to explain why not a single criminal bankster on Wall Street--who caused the greatest GLOBAL financial collapse in recorded history!--has been sent to jail. And on the most important question of War and Peace, both political drones were eerily silent on why the US launched 2 illegal and murderous invasions into Iraq and Afghanistan, in order to attack the same Islamic jihadists that Uncle Sam financed and set up back in the 1980s!
By investing more than $2.5 billion into the once-every-four-years pageantry of presidential "election," the Wall Street-Pentagon ruling elite is banking on its most-aggressive Weapon of Mass DECEPTION to beat back any effort by the 99% to enlighten the American Public into an educated and mobilized collective that will embark on a protracted search for an alternative, "Beyond Capitalism."


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Undoubted Student - Poem by lecie Bailey Jackson
When a pupil unlearn a reflection of misconception
is like a brown pointed thorn
A known mental harm definitive with impulsiveness
takes over
Yet nobody notice how sharp memories,
implies deep deception that fragrant roses
When a pupil relearn a reflection of accomplishment
is like a moiety of unlearn and relearn
A mental combination-unwraps delayed gratification
When a pupil learn a reflection of academics
is like a lily white porcelain teacup
A zestful mental rush- affinity for greater knowledge
runneth over
Yet nobody notice how fragile uncertainties corals,
inscribes deep achievement that shadows no blemishes
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Dr.subhendu Kar (5/16/2008 4:28:00 PM)
yet we learn, unlearn and relearn across the mental impulssiness..............nice imagery that flows............., i like it,10+, thanks for sharing (Report) ReplyLecie Poetry Ambassador (6/23/2015 2:41:00 PM)
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very very cool. This poem is filled with imagery! The idea of reflecting on your learning so as to 're-learn' or 'unlearn' trials/tribulations and knowledge while at the same time using metaphors is awesome. I like the thought of delayed gratification from continued accomplishment. Great job 10; /10 (Report) ReplyLecie Poetry Ambassador (6/23/2015 5:08:00 PM)
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On 10/30/06, Chris Janvrin <chrisjanvrin at sellmytimesharenow dot com> wrote:
> The way I have the traffic shaper set up currently Router1 is allocated
> 2Mbps, and Router2 is allocated 4Mbps total bandwidth. What we are
> finding during our testing is that Router2 needs more bandwidth during
> peak usage periods. Ideally, Router2 could use another Mbit for a total
> of 5Mbps. If I reconfigure the traffic shaper on Router2 for a total of
> 5Mbps I will be taking needed bandwidth away from the stats server and
> VoIP gateway on Router1.
> If it helps, the peak traffic periods of each Router are at different
> times during the day. Aside from not using the traffic shaper at all (or
> adding more T1s) is there any way that I can safely add pipe limits to
> one Router without hurting the other one?
It wouldn't be safe.
You have 6Mbps and if you set up pipes of 2Mbps + 5Mbps you risk
totally messing up the traffic on both if Router 2 starts using up
more than 4Mbps when Router 1 is using 2Mbps.
Is there a reason why you can't have a single Router handle this
setup? Maybe setup VLANs instead of separate interfaces? That way you
could use Queues which would be able to share out traffic. What you
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Target: Rawsom-Neal psychiatric hospital
Goal: Condemn a Nevada state psychiatric facility for dumping thousands of poor and mentally ill homeless patients onto buses headed to California
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera recently filed a lawsuit against Nevada because a state psychiatric facility sent thousands of poor and mentally ill homeless patients on a one-way bus to California in order to seek medical care. Herrera claims that providing the necessary treatment and housing would cost San Francisco at least $500,000 – a cost that should be the responsibility of Nevada. The lawsuit will most likely become a class action one and will hold the state of Nevada responsible and thus accountable to reclaim expenses. Homeless psychiatric patients continue to be vulnerable to such abhorrent practices in Nevada. The state must be condemned and held accountable for treating its homeless population with such disregard and distaste.
Nevada officials have agreed to comply with Herrera's investigation but have announced that they would not repay the city of San Francisco because it failed to show the necessary standing to represent the patients. The dumping of patients by Rawson-Neal psychiatric hospital was first exposed in April 2013 during an investigation headed by the San Francisco Bee. The facility purportedly dumped about 100 mentally-handicapped patients to California between July 2012 and February 2013. In the past five years, the facility may have bused as many as 1,500 patients to locations where the patients had no family or friends.
Doctors at the Rawson-Neal facility claimed that Nevada did not have enough funding to provide affordable housing and medical services for the mentally ill and indigent. Sending these patients elsewhere, they claim, would ensure that they receive the treatment they need. The facility doctors discharged patients and gave them three days' worth of medication, some food, and a one-way bus ticket to California. When this practice was exposed, both local and federal officials were extremely upset. In April 2013, the center for Medicare and Medicaid Services warned the Nevada facility that it would strip it of its federal Medicare funding if they did not drop the practice of patient dumping and cooperate with the conditions stipulated in the Medicare program. One condition includes properly discharging all of its patients.
Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval has promised to revamp the mental health system in Nevada in the upcoming months. He proposed an extra $8 million in mental health funding. Nonetheless, this heinous practice of exporting mentally ill homeless patients must be stopped and condemned. Please sign this petition to condemn such adverse treatment of the indigent and mentally ill.
Dear Rawsom-Neal psychiatric hospital,
We condemn you for dumping thousands of poor and mentally-ill homeless patients onto buses and sending them elsewhere to be housed and treated. Sending them to states such as California where they have no friends or family with a one-way bus ticket is unjust and must be stopped. You need to be held accountable for such heinous treatment of vulnerable patients who already greatly suffer from their impoverished and mentally-handicapped condition.
The state of Nevada must further revamp its mental health care services as well as how the homeless population is treated. As a democracy, all individuals in the United States deserved to be cared for in a just and humane fashion. We urge you to completely halt the abhorrent practice of patient dumping.
[Your Name Here]
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Newcastle's anarchist film festival Projectile returned over the Bank Holiday weekend, covering culture, class, ideas and organising. Here's a report on a small fraction of the events.
The Jewish Anarchists is a documentary from 1980 offering a bridge back to a lost culture of Yiddish speaking anarchism around the New York garment trade in the early years of the 20th century. The last survivors, around the Fraye Arbeter Shtime (Free Voice of Labor) and historian Paul Avrich. Inspirational in the way that only a sweet old lady instructing you on the appropriate way to poleaxe a scab worker can be.
Porto Marghera tells the story of an industrial zone near Venice, Italy which threw up interesting parallels with the plant in Grangemouth. It told the story of struggles there in the 1960s, industrial diseases neglected by bosses and the present day slow decline and wind-up of production. With its toxic legacy, poor environmental record and ambivalent local reputation ("when you hear a bang, no-one thinks of an earthquake [here], they think Porto Marghera has exploded"), the documentary should be of interest to Environmental Justice campaigners but offers no easy answers, making it a slightly frustrating watch.
"Death to the fascist insect that preys upon the life of the people!"
If all this sounds a bit heavy going, there was Raspberry Reich on hand to provide relief; a bonkers coupling of porn and politics equally indebted to the Baader-Meinhof, John Waters and MTV. You could view it as an acute queer manifesto or as self-indulgent smut, either way it's well-made (if not acted) and bound to raise a smile (if nothing else).
More laughs came from Jean Vigo's Zero de Conduite (1933), the story of four young boys rebelling against their repressive school environment. Cited as an inspiration by the screenwriter of If, you get slapstick, satire and solidarity all in one. The final image shows our heroes marching to the sunset and freedom, arm in arm across the rooftops.
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As well as films there were talks by Dave Douglass on 1968; Newsnight's Paul Mason on the Paris Commune and also a panel discussion on practical organising in our communities. This was a "Question Time"-style session with speakers from the Independent Working Class Association, London Coalition Against Poverty, Haringey Solidarity Group and Praxis. Questions focussed on in-depth discussion of how to make politics / ideas relevant and more used in working class communities. Strong emerging themes were the need to focus on everyday concerns above abstract issues; building community strength by working with not for people; the importance of building confidence through victories, no matter how small. The panel didn't fudge the difficult question of how to deal with anti-social elements causing problems for a community, whether those be drug dealers, youths or prostitution. They emphasised empowering communities to deal with situations, pointing out some behaviours as anti-working class and damaging to community cohesion. Some audience members felt that this was anti-libertarian; but panelists re-posed the issue as "whose side are you on?"
Dave Douglass's talk, A Geordie Perspective on May '68 and after, provided a lively insight into the upheavals 40 years ago. The energy evoked was a far cry from the pious pronouncements from some commentators, giving a feel for the excitement, culture clash and possibility of those times. He began with a breathless description of the Battle of Grosvenor Square in November 1968, where angry demonstrators came within yards of torching London's US embassy. He pinpoints this as a moment when the protests turned (potentially) revolutionary, a fracturing of the post-war consensus where if you had a peaceful protest, the government would change policy. He pointed out that a more recent example of this consensus came in the Labour government's (not unprecedented) dismissal of the million-plus anti-war marchers in March 2003. When the tactic no longer works, it's time to try something new. That's what happened in the optimism of the 1960s, but who knows from what quarter it will return.
This is only a part of the ambitious programme offered by the festival, much of which was recorded and hopefully will be made widely available. With live music on all three nights and reasonably-priced local ale on tap, the discussions and ideas carried on with the dancing. Let's see how they top this next year...


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The United Way of Portage County kicked off its 2013 campaign at the Kent State University football opener Thursday evening.
This year's campaign goal of $1.1 million arrived written on a football passed to Flash, the Kent State mascot, at the start of the third quarter of play at Dix Stadium.
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The campaign kickoff came as part of a tailgate celebration of the start of the football season and to mark the continued development of downtown Kent. The evening ended with a massive fireworks display sponsored by Ametek, United Way and The Portage Foundation.
Honorary campaign chairman is Jack Vresics, CEO of Step2 LLC in Streetsboro.
Phil Faluotico, director of motor engineering at Ametek and a member of the campaign committee of United Way, said he urges businesses to support the campaign because "it benefits their employees, family, friends and neighbors. Most people never imagine themselves in a position of needing United Way."
Matt French, vice president and general manager of Ametek's Kent division and honorary campaign chairman the previous two years, said he tells business people, "You don't only work here, you live here. You could be just one step away from needing help. That's why it's important" to support United Way.
French said any successful community needs four things: "A strong community, a strong economy, a strong governmental structure and strong education." He said the United Way helps support a successful community.
Brian D. Duchon, new president and CEO of United Way, said the goal is the same as last year's. The 2012 campaign fell just short, raising $1.075 million and encouraging officials that the community effort was recovering. Previous campaigns had fallen below the $1 million mark.
The United Way of Portage County funds 43 partner programs within 14 social service agencies in the county that touch thousands of residents. Duchon noted money raised in Portage County stays in the county, and decisions about funding are made by local community members.
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https://wiki.sabayon.org/index.php?title=HOWTO:_Booting_Sabayon_LiveDVD_Image_from_a_USB_Device_with_Grub&feed=atom&action=history HOWTO: Booting Sabayon LiveDVD Image from a USB Device with Grub - Revision history 2017-07-21T08:34:20Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.26.4 https://wiki.sabayon.org/index.php?title=HOWTO:_Booting_Sabayon_LiveDVD_Image_from_a_USB_Device_with_Grub&diff=8508&oldid=prev Joost at 06:09, 7 June 2010 2010-06-07T06:09:05Z

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'''*Grub method for booting a thumbdrive requires that you be able to possibly edit your grub.conf when moving from one system to the next. If you require being able to seemlessly move from one computer to the next please use the extlinux how-to in the how-to list.*'''
 =Introduction=
 Based on my searches, there seem to be two main methods for booting USB devices: Grub and Syslinux (perhaps lilo is a third).

 This method uses grub. The advantages of grub are that it is becoming the standard linux boot method, and it will let you use a variety of file systems (where syslinux is restricted to vfat). If you were trying to build an installed linux system on a USB thumb drive, you would probably use grub so that you could use one of the typical linux file systems such as ext2, ext3, reiserfs, etc.

 Syslinux actually seems to be more widely used for setting up USB bootable systems. Syslinux' big advantage is that it can be set up from within Windows, and, for the other USB capable distros I looked at, it seemed pretty easy to set up. I'm not 100% sure why I had problems with syslinux and Sabayon's LiveDVD, and I may still go back and put together a method that works for syslinux also.

 =Requirements=
 You need a computer that boots from your USB.

 You need at least a 4 Gig Stick for the DVD (the Pod version of Sabayon should require much less).

 =Procedure=
 {{Warning| '''Warning! As written, this procedure will erase, overwrite, and otherwise destroy any previously existing contents of a USB Drive.'''}}
 Make sure there is no data you need to save on the USB drive used for this method.

 This procedure includes steps for formatting and partitioning devices, and has the potential to irretrievably damage part or all of your hard disk if you apply this method to the wrong device. Be very careful you are sure which device you are affecting, especially in Sabayon where both hard disks and USB drives are /dev/sdx# devices.

 I will refer to USB devices as 'sdu'; whereas it is probably sdb or sdc in most systems. If you cut and paste these steps, you will need to edit the device.
 ==Prep a USB Stick to be Bootable==
 The method assumes you have a blank USB drive available for manipulation. These steps may not be necessary, but you are on your own to adapt the procedure to an already formatted and used USB drive.

 Also this method is based on ext2. I'm sure vfat is more interesting to people since it allows their thumb drive to be compatible with Windows. I'll update this procedure for vfat later, assuming I don't run into any problems.

 So the first step is use fdisk on an USB drive to create a bootable partition. Most USB drives do not ship with a bootable partition, so at a minimum, you'll need to use fdisk to make it bootable. However, this procedure is written so as to wipe the drive clean.
 {{Console|
# fdisk /dev/sdu
}}
 Now delete the existing partition or partitions until the partition table is empty.

 Create a new partition 'n', 'p', '1', '<enter><enter>'.

 Make sure the partition type is '83' for linux (otherwise adjust the type with 't').

 Make the partition bootable: 'a', '1'.

 Write the results and quit: 'w'.

 Note: I had an issue with fdisk inconsistently seeing more that 1024 cylinders on my thumb drive. I found I could delete the partition table, write and exit, then restart fdisk, and it would see 1024 cylinders.
 ==Format the USB Stick==
 Format the USB with the ext2 filesystem (you should be able to substitute your own choice of file system here since we are using grub, but I have tested this procedure with ext2).
 {{Console|
# mke2fs /dev/sdu1
}}
 ==Mount the Iso Image and USB device==
 {{Console|
# cd /<some-work-area>
 # mkdir isofs
 # mkdir usbdev
 # mount -o loop /<path-to-iso-image>/Sabayon-Linux-x86-3.5.iso isofs/
 # mount /dev/sdu1 usbdev
}}
 If you only have the actual DVD, and no longer have the image file, just mount the DVD at isofs instead.
 ==Copy the DVD Files Over==
 Since the DVD is slightly over 4 Gig, you'll need to leave something out if you only have a 4 Gig drive. The following commands omit copying the games.squashfs file, which is not used anyways the way this procedure is written.
 {{Console|

 # cd isofs/
 # cp -a isolinux GEEXBOX boot README.txt livecd livecd.squashfs ../usbdev/

}}
 ==Copy Grub Directory and Files Over==
 If you are in a working linux environment with grub already installed, you can use your installed grub.
 {{Console|

 # cd ../usbdev/
 # cp -a /boot/grub boot/

}}
 Alternatively, grub is also available on the DVD image, but you will need to mount the LiveDVD squash image. Also, to use the steps listed below, you will need to create your squashfs mount point in the same subdirectory you created your isofs and usbdev mount points.
 {{Console|

 # mkdir squashfs
 # mount -o loop isofs/livecd.squashfs squashfs/
 # cp -a squashfs/boot/grub usbdev/boot/

}}

 ==Generate an Appropriate grub.conf File==

 ''These steps describe how to install Grub 1. This is for releases < Sabayon 5.2''

 Things got a little confusing in this step. Notice that I have identified the root device as '(hd0,0)'. This may be an issue specific to my hardware, but when grub boots a USB device, it then sees the USB device as the first device.

 However, in the very next line, you see me refer to the USB partition as 'sdb1' for the chroot parameter. On my hardware, it seems the the kernel sees the hardware order differently than grub.

 One of the shortcomings of this method is that the cdroot parameter must be exactly where the kernel expects to find it after booting, or the boot will fail. You may need to play around with these settings on your hardware.

 Here is an example of the grub.conf I have in my USB drive's /boot/grub/ directory:
 {{File|conf|

 # grub.conf
 #
 # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
 # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
 # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
 # root (hd0,1)
 #
 # Video Mode Table
 # | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
 # ----+-------------------------------------
 # 256 | 0x301 0x303 0x305 0x307
 # 32k | 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x319
 # 64k | 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x31A
 # 16M | 0x312 0x315 0x318 0x31B
 #
 default=0
 timeout=6

 # Comment out splash during development phase of USB boot method
 #
 # splash=silent,theme:sabayon
 # - or -
 # splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

 title Sabayon Linux x86 DVD/USB (cdroot sdb1)
 root (hd0,0)
 kernel /boot/sabayon root=/dev/ram0 aufs init=/linuxrc cdroot=/dev/sdb1 \
 looptype=squashfs max_loop=64 loop=/livecd.squashfs vga=0x318 \
 CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 verbose scandelay --
 initrd /boot/sabayon.igz

}}

 ==Apply Grub to the USB Drive==

 ''These steps describe how to install Grub 1. This is for releases < Sabayon 5.2''

 Be careful to apply grub to the correct device. You don't want to overwrite your existing grub or other boot entry on your hard disk.

 In this example, I'm using the grub command line interface. The grub command line method allows you to use tabbed completion for you entries, which can assist you in determining how grub sees your system.

 For instance, if I enter 'root (hd<tab>' or 'setup (hd<tab>', I get:
 {{Console|
Possible disks are: hd0 hd1
}}
 ...with hd1 being the USB in my case.
 {{Console|

 # grub
 GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)

 [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB
 lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
 completions of a device/filename. ]

 grub> root (hd1,0)
 Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

 grub> setup (hd1)
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
 Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... yes
 Checking if "/grub/stage2" exists... yes
 Checking if "/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
 Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd1)"... 16 sectors are embedded.
 succeeded
 Running "install /grub/stage1 (hd1) (hd1)1+16 p (hd1,0)/grub/stage2 /grub/menu
 .lst"... succeeded
 Done.

 grub> quit

}}
 ==Reboot to Your USB Drive==
 At this point, you should have a bootable USB device. Give it a try!
 =Problems and Troubleshooting:=
 =References:=
 Forum Discussion: [http://www.sabayonlinux.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=14286]

 HOWTO: Run 3.5 Loop Without Burning The Image: [http://wiki.sabayonlinux.org/index.php?title=HOWTO:_Run_3.5_Loop_Without_Burning_The_Image]

 BootUsb - Debian Wiki: [http://wiki.debian.org/BootUsb]
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On a May morning in 1836, at a stockade called Parker's Fort near the Navasota River in Texas, 140 kilometres south of present-day Dallas, a nine-year-old girl was taken captive by a Comanche raiding party. At the beginning of March, 1955, a famous director at a crisis point in his career began shooting a movie distantly derived from that earlier event.
From these separate stories – the abduction of Cynthia Ann Parker and its long aftermath, and the making of John Ford's The Searchers, and its own cultural aftermath as a belatedly acknowledged masterpiece – veteran journalist
In effect, it is two books of roughly equal length. In juxtaposing them, Frankel measures the abyss between. Tracing the process by which raw experience is turned into history, and history into found material for art to chop up and rearrange for its own purposes, the book measures the gulf separating what happens from what is finally put in its place as memorial. The more connections Frankel establishes between events that occurred in 19th-century Texas, and the uses that Ford's film makes of them, the more layers of uncertainty and disconnection he exposes.
It is all about information being passed along and shared, but by whom, with whom and towards what end?
Relentless ambiguity
In laying out the elements of these stories – paying particular and sensitive attention to the personalities, so far as they can be surmised, of the individuals caught up in them – Frankel asserts no resolution beyond a nagging sense of the "relentless ambiguity" embodied by Ford's movie. An unhealed historical wound finds expression in a film whose extraordinary beauty cannot assuage the contradictory and painful emotions that resonate at its core.
The Searchers is not a work of history but of legend, yet it is not a legend that puts history to rest. Suffused by inherited themes of incursion, massacre, captivity, racial antipathy, protracted cycles of revenge – marked in its opening episodes by a dread no subsequent plot developments can efface – it cannot relegate the past to the past. In its last scene, a restored captive enters the dark interior of the home where we want to imagine she will find the warmth of family, while her rescuer – a figure doomed to isolation – walks off into the desert. Restoration is represented by an image of irrevocable separation.
Cynthia Ann Parker too became a restored captive, having surrendered, after 24 years with the Comanches, to a force of United States troops and Texas Rangers in 1860, at what has been variously called the Battle of Pease River and the Pease River Massacre. She was then 33. There was no warmth in the restoration and it is difficult to envision a movie of her fate.
When Alan LeMay wrote the novel (1954) from which Frank S. Nugent's screenplay is adapted, he drew on the Parker story as on other captivity narratives, and interviewed a Parker descendant. But had he attempted to hew to the outline of Cynthia Ann's life, he could not have produced the shapely and satisfying narrative intended. Her story was one that her own contemporaries found hard to grasp, if not altogether unacceptable. It is not really a story at all but many stories, to be patched together from partial, bewildered, sometimes outright mendacious accounts. Years go by unrecorded. Crucial scenes are missing. From Cynthia Ann herself, there is nothing but silence. Her recorded communications are very much second hand.
She belonged to an extended family that settled in Texas in the early 1830s at what was then the western limit of the frontier. Ostensibly ruled by the king of Spain until 1821, this land would pass through the successive jurisdictions of Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the United States and the Confederacy in the next 43 years. None of these governments was able to assert control over the inland empire known as Comanchería, a region extending from Kansas to the Rio Grande and centred in the high plains of west Texas, its borders vigilantly guarded by the tribe that had enjoyed dominance there since the early 18th century.
The Comanches were a federation of nomadic bands whose mastery of mounted warfare made them, in Frankel's words, "the most relentless and feared war machine in the southwest". Their raids were feared for reasons that were clear in survivor testimonies.
The logic of Comanche raids," S C Gwynne writes in his recent history Empire of the Summer Moon, ". . . was straightforward: All the men were killed, and any men who were captured alive were tortured to death as a matter of course, some more slowly than others. The captive women were gang raped. Some were killed, some tortured. But a portion of them, particularly if they were young, would be spared . . . Babies were invariably killed, while pre-adolescents were often adopted by Comanches or other tribes."
They dispossessed the Apaches, Utes and other tribes, kept the Spanish colonies of New Mexico and Texas under intermittent siege, and made destructive forays into northern Mexico. Frankel quotes an estimate of 2000 captives held by Comanches in the early 19th century, when the Comanche population itself numbered between 20,000 and 30,000. These captives might be kept as slaves, sold as hostages or adopted into the tribe, sometimes as a substitute for a lost Comanche child.
Clubbed to death
Adopted captives might receive the same loving affection that one captive, British immigrant Sarah Ann Horn, was startled to observe among the tribesmen who clubbed her husband to death as she watched: "The strength of their attachment to each other, and the demonstration they give of the same, even to the dividing of the last morsel with each other upon the point of starvation, might put many professed Christians to the blush! But they are just the reverse of all this to all the world outside."
Cynthia Ann's uncle James Parker – a non-drinking Baptist with a doubtful reputation as a land speculator and horse trader – led the clan to Texas. Frankel called him a self-proclaimed Man Who Knows Indians: the man steeped in wilderness ways, a necessary intermediary between frontier and civilization.
Yet Parker had placed his family in a location of maximum jeopardy.
On the morning the Comanches rode up to the stockade, in a party of at least 100, neither he nor anyone else had taken precautions. Most of the men were working in the fields, well beyond the limits of the fort. Cynthia Ann's father Silas was there but had no ammunition in his pouch and the gate was open.
Within half an hour Cynthia Ann's grandfather, father, one of her uncles and two other men had been killed and her grandmother left for dead. Cynthia Ann and her eight-year-old brother John, James Parker's married daughter Rachel Plummer, her newborn son and another female relative, were taken captive. All were soon sent to different bands.
James Parker, who survived the attack with 23 others, published a narrative describing the fugitives' arduous flight to safety:
"We were in the howling wilderness, barefooted and bareheaded, a savage and relentless foe on the one hand; on the other, a traceless and uninhabited country literally covered with venomous reptiles and ravenous beasts."
Rebuffed in his request for military help in getting back Rachel and the other captives, James returned alone to Comanche country in repeated, failed rescue attempts. In 1837, Rachel was ransomed and restored to her family. In failing condition, she wrote a plain and harrowing memoir of her captivity – she had her son taken, her baby born in captivity was killed in front of her, and she survived as a frequently abused slave. She died soon after in March, 1839.
State of war
The widely read accounts of James Parker and Rachel Plummer kept Parker's Fort alive in memory and in 1842 both Rachel's son James, now seven, and Cynthia Ann's brother John, 13, were separately ransomed. They spoke only Comanche. A state of war existed between the Republic of Texas and the Comanches. Texas president Mirabeau Lamar called for the "total extinction or total expulsion" not just of Comanches but of all Indians in Texas.
When a group of Comanche chiefs came to San Antonio in 1840 to negotiate the return of captives, the parley flared into a massacre when the Texans, outraged by the condition of one of the captives, began to slaughter the chiefs and many of the women and children accompanying them. This was followed by large-scale Comanche raids, culminating in the burning of the port town of Linnville, avenged in turn by a Texan attack in the heart of Comanchería.
The figure of the lost Cynthia Ann lingered as an incitement to vengeance. With time, the idea of rescue became fainter and less meaningful. Narratives like those of Rachel Plummer and Sarah Ann Horn, left little hope that, even if found, she could be restored to what she was. The unspoken taint of sexual violation attached itself to restored captives and they could, in Frankel's words, "find themselves shunned by husbands, friends, and relatives".
Over the years there were contradictory reports of sightings of Cynthia. She was married, it was said, against her will or otherwise. She had borne children to whom she was devoted. Her brother John had supposedly visited her and been told she did not wish to go home. John subsequently vanishes from the record. He was rumoured to have gone back to the Comanches, unable to readjust.
At Pease River, as soldiers shot down old men, women and children, a woman in a buffalo robe, holding her infant daughter, called out "Americano!" It took a while for her to be identified as Cynthia Ann Parker. She now spoke only Comanche and at first said (through an interpreter) that she had forgotten her original name. An observer wrote: "She was sullen . . . a hard looker . . . as dirty as she could be and looked to me more like an Indian than a white woman." Her rescue was hardly an occasion for public celebration. Apparently it resembled more a second captivity. Withdrawn, terrified, grief-stricken at the loss of her husband and of her two sons, she was passed from relative to relative, no one knowing what to do with her.
Tore off clothes
Truncated glimpses found their way into the record. She tore off the clothes she had been dressed in and tried to run away. At her uncle's house in Fort Worth, she crawled under the bed to avoid the stares of strangers. She was tied up and put on public display.
"Tears were streaming down her face, and she was muttering in the Indian language."
She made a fire in the back yard and practised a Comanche mourning ritual. In a rare encounter with a Comanche speaker, a retired Indian scout, she pleaded with him all night to take her back to Comanchería. "My heart is crying all the time for my two sons."
She died unmemorialised about 1865, devastated by the recent death of the daughter she had with her when she was rescued. Her uncle Isaac Parker called her "the most unhappy person I ever saw . . . She was as much an Indian as if she had been born one. She knew no other people except as enemies".
Are these latter episodes scenes Ford could have filmed?
He knew how to paint deep sorrow and wordless estrangement, disappointment with life and the gaze fixed on what is no longer there. Such moments are found throughout his work, forming almost a secret undercurrent binding them together. But to have entered the consciousness of Cynthia Ann Parker, a captive restored into a second captivity, unable to manage a second transformation of identity: that would have to have been part of another history. The Searchers is a film with a profound understanding of its own limits. Even as it pushes against them, it acknowledges further depths it cannot really represent.
One of the lost sons Cynthia Ann longed for was Quanah Parker, a chief of the Comanches both before and after their surrender to overpowering military force in 1874. He negotiated for the Comanches, built a house at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and entertained visitors such as Theodore Roosevelt. In 1910 he had his mother's bones retrieved from what a witness called "the most desolate and forsaken cemetery I have ever seen" and re-interred with a monument in Cache, Oklahoma, where he would be buried next to her the following year. To his son-in-law, who had brought back the remains, he said, "I look for her long time. Now I'm done".
The story LeMay wrote, that Nugent adapted and Ford in his usual fashion pared down, is simple, although abounding, in incident. In Texas, 1868, Ethan Edwards (John Wayne) returns to his brother Aaron's homestead, where he lives with his wife Martha, his young son, his daughters Lucy and Debbie, and Martin Pawley (Jeffrey Hunter), an adopted son whose parents were killed by Indians. Rapidly, we are given to understand Ethan's recent past is mysterious and dubious. Gestures and exchanged glances also establish Ethan and Martha love each other.
The next day Ethan and Martin ride with a posse to investigate the theft of cattle from a neighbouring family, the Jorgensens.
Diversion theft
Too late, they recognise the theft as a diversion. The girls have evidently been taken captive. Ethan and Martin, at first accompanied and then on their own, set off in pursuit. Lucy is found raped and murdered but they continue hunting for Debbie (played as an adult by Natalie Wood). Seasons turn into years. The search advances through snowy landscapes and stretches of desert.
Martin becomes aware that Ethan, appalled at the idea of Debbie becoming a Comanche, may not want to rescue her but kill her. When she is at last found it appears he will do just that, but instead he lifts her into his arms and takes her to the Jorgensens, whose ranch has now become a surrogate home replacing the one destroyed in the beginning. Debbie and the others enter the house. Ethan, the eternal outsider, goes on his way.
This broad outline hardly conveys the experience of watching a movie of such measured and detailed expressiveness. Virtually every shot in The Searchers has the density of a composition whose implications have been nurtured over a lifetime. Ford's collaboration with cinematographer Winton C Hoch yields images that seem fundamental and inescapable, virtually abstract, yet teeming with the human life that inhabits them.
Each scene establishes a distinct geography. We move through many worlds in a film that feels hauntingly extended although it is only two hours long.
Ford creates epic feeling through compression. What for some filmmakers would be a scene with him might be a fragment of dialogue or a glance, such as the glances that convey all we are told about the emotional bond between Ethan and Martha. Nugent, whose superb script was made even better by Ford's cuts, wrote: "Ford never has formally surrendered to the talkies" and "detests exposition".
Remarkably, the film was shot out of sequence, with different moments of crucial scenes (such as Debbie's rescue) shot in separate locations. "He never shot in continuity," says his frequent collaborator William H. Clothier. "It didn't mean a damn thing to him . . . He could shoot a close-up here and put it in a scene that was shot three weeks later."
The uncanniness of The Searchers – I don't know another word for it – is the impression it creates of emanating in one piece from a single perception. There is an aesthetic unity, expressed through colour and geometry, the movements of actors and animals, the texture of landscape and language.
The landscape is mostly Monument Valley, substituting for the altogether different Texas Plains setting of the story; the language incorporates a mixture of near-biblical archaisms and folksy turns of phrase, often drawn directly from LeMay's text.
That sense of unity vibrates against the roiled and contradictory currents of the material. The movie is all about violence and incompatibility, about families ripped apart and individuals torn down the middle, about traumas that cannot be forgotten and losses that cannot be made up. There is a ragged sense of pain at its heart.
Yet we are talking about a work of popular entertainment marketed with great success. Part of Ford's genius lay in doing precisely what he wanted without declaring it, often hiding his most subtle implications under the seeming obviousness. His is an art of concealment, appropriate to a man who managed to conceal himself within the domineering, sometimes cruelly bullying persona he perfected to protect his domain. By Maureen O'Hara's testimony, Ford "built walls of secrecy, lies and aggression".
He made The Searchers at a bad moment. He had withdrawn in mid production from Mister Roberts after punching Henry Fonda and then, contrary to his usual practice, started drinking heavily on the set. Ford's alcoholism was deep but controlled. He made the movies sober, then collapsed into binges. He was 60 and had serious health problems. His eyes were getting bad.
The Searchers feels like a challenge. In the early 1950s Ford made a string of beautiful, entirely personal films – Wagon Master, The Quiet Man, The Sun Shines Bright – in which private allegorical worlds were disguised as the Old West or Ireland or the Old South.
Race hatred
The Searchers lets in a ferocity previously kept at bay – lets it in primarily through its star. Wayne's Ethan Edwards becomes a medium for expressing a race hatred and lust for vengeance, all the more disturbing for being only a part of a complex and, despite all, sympathetic personality – he is, after all, the hero.
Of the Cynthia Ann Parker story and the world in which it unfolded, The Searchers keeps only fragments, yet it channels a live current of emotion directly from some unhealed hurt, some old well of fear. Right at the start we are made to experience the fear of massacre, of being set upon in the middle of nowhere and violated, tortured, wiped out. I don't know if anyone has compared The Searchers with Psycho, but the destruction of the Edwards family just after we make their acquaintance – a destruction all the more terrifying because we are not allowed to see it, just as Ethan knocks down Martin to prevent him from seeing his aunt's body – surpasses Janet Leigh's shower scene in intensity.
There, a person kills a person. Here, a group annihilates another group. Psycho makes us worry about getting killed. The Searchers makes us worry about people we love getting killed while we can do nothing about it.
The shot of Wayne leaning on his saddle as Ethan grasps that he will be unable to reach his brother's home in time, is like a photograph of the moment when suffering turns into vengeful bitterness. It is the face of a sorrow that can justify unlimited hatred. Frankel, writing about James Parker's narrative of his travails, notes the persistent self-pity that informs it, while acknowledging his sufferings were doubtless real enough: "I pursued my journey with little hope of being alive at night, or ever again beholding the face of a human being."
Ethan clearly derives from James, a man with a dubious past and capable of murder, a stark early wilderness figure right down to his occasional biblical utterance.
"We'll find them just as sure as the turning of the earth," he says.
Everyone else in the film seems modern and forward-looking beside this ancient wanderer who cannot forget or forgive – everyone, that is, except for his opposite number, the Comanche chief Scar, Debbie's abductor and consort, who Ethan will finally scalp.
The Searchers is not a liberal western in the mode of Broken Arrow (1950) or Apache (1954). Ford's son Pat wrote in a pre-production note: "We hope to portray the Comanches with as much barbarism and savagery as possible."
The film's premise is pretty much that of the original Texas settlers. They saw it as their destiny to settle on the land and would remove any obstacles to that end.
Eloquent speech
Mrs Jorgensen's eloquent speech ("Some day this country will be a fine, good place to be. Maybe it needs our bones in the ground before that time can come.") could just as easily have come from the pen of James Parker, who wrote: "If this region was not infested by hostile Indians, it would be very soon settled, and when once settled and cultivated by civilised man, it will approximate to an earthly paradise."
Rhetorical ornaments aside, the story is about one implacable force colliding with another. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, the wealthy heir who largely financed the film, lobbied Ford to make it explicitly patriotic and suggested changing the title to The Searchers for Freedom.
In fact the American nation is represented here by the army, depicted variously as comically inept and needlessly brutal. We see the aftermath of one indiscriminate massacre of Indians. The final cavalry assault on Scar's camp looks uncomfortably like the Pease River Massacre. Otherwise, we are dealing with small, isolated groups struggling to assert a place in a merciless landscape.
The Comanche enemy as such is not the problem. Chief Scar is merely the alien other to be dealt with like any other opposing force. That is the stuff of clean, heroic tales. Mere death and torture were common elements even for the most innocuous adventure movies. But the poison that seeps into The Searchers is the mixing of bloodlines.
Ethan's rage is focused on sexual violation by which a woman is irrevocably alienated. Aunt Martha and Lucy are killed after being raped, and Ethan assumes this is preferable to Debbie's living on after being married to a Comanche.
Frankel ranges through the 19th-century record to exhibit the constantly recurring theme of the Fate Worse Than Death. Yet, strangely enough, in a 1956 movie it had a shocking effect. We were on the edge of being shown some ultimate image of degradation and cruelty and there was only Wayne to spare us by blocking the view, as when Ethan refuses to say more about Lucy's fate: "What have I got to do, draw you a picture? Spell it out? Don't ever ask me! Long as you live, don't ever ask me more!"
Those blacked-out images, the scenes we are not permitted to see, have as their counterpart, the images we do see of the violence their memory provokes: Ethan shooting out the eyes of a dead Comanche because "by what that Comanch believes, ain't got no eyes he can't enter the spirit land, has to wander forever between the winds", or slaughtering a buffalo herd to help starve Indians, or simply plunging his knife repeatedly with main force into the sand: perhaps the most subtly troubling of all, pure, violent energy lacking only a target.
But Ethan is the hero. When the moment arrives and according to all that has gone before he must shoot Debbie down, he relents and lifts her up: "Come on, Debbie, we're going home."
Here we enter definitively the country of legend. The unlikeliness of Ethan breaking out of the circle of vengefulness is written on Wayne's face again and again, most vividly in the scene – Frankel singles it out as "the richest and most troubling" – in which he looks in horror and disgust at the deranged white women recovered from a Comanche camp.
That Ethan should be liberated in an instant from history is a miracle.
It is the resolved chord that the film needs and that history lacks. Ford does not wish to deny history or offer the kind of specious happy ending that movies of the era were generally glad to provide.
So while he lets us rest in the possibility that the restored Debbie will find in the bosom of her new family the serenity that Cynthia Ann Parker never knew, he severs Wayne from the reunion and sends him out into the howling wilderness.
We may, as in the hymn sung twice in the film, gather at the river.
But there are chasms that cannot be bridged.
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April 18, 2010
Photoshop Skills Practice
I've been wanting to improve my Photoshop skills of late. Not simply in the arena of photo retouching, but also in the arena of graphics work. While in the local Barnes and Noble the other day, I was perusing the "Digital Arts" section and ran across the book 100% Photoshop by Steve Caplin. In this instructional tome, he guides you through a number of exercises designed to help your graphics building skills.
EVERYTHING is done from scratch! No clipping and pasting from somewhere else. You name it, the screw heads, the light switch, the doorknob, the rips in the wallpaper, the lighting, all is created by you the user. You start with a blank white page and through a building up of layers you end with a scene.
After a day and a half of work, below is my first effort. (If you click the image you'll go to my Smugmug page where you can see the full detail of the image… once there if you click the "O" at the top of the image you'll see the "original sized version). I hope you like it, but again really I am doing this for the skills practice.
And if you would like to see the image without the shadowing and lighting effects click here (allows for more of the details.)
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November 06, 2008
Well sort of...
I've created and published my first book, "We Own the Airfield and the Airspace!" It is actually an experiment in using the popular book making organization "Blurb."
I have to say I'm mostly happy with the experiment thus far. The process of creating (layouts), editing, and writing were all fairly easy.
I learned of Blurb through an announcement on my Smugmug account and, not too long ago, I had received a book published in a similar way from a good friend of mine. So I wanted to see if I could assemble a compelling photo essay of something that most interests me... as Brad Wilson so noted in a recent comment to one of my more political posts... "Shiny Airplanes!"
"We Own the Airfield and the Airspace!" is a photo essay of the Grand Junction 2008 Airshow, emphasizing the US Navy Blue Angels Flight Demonstration Squadron. Other aircraft featured are the US Air Force F-15 Eagle and F-16 Viper, as well as warbirds like the P-51 Mustang and B-25 Mitchell and Civilian acts like Gene Soucy and his Showcat and Les Shockley in his rocket truck "Shockwave"!
The process involves signing up as a Blurb user, very standard. Then you will need to download the FREE formatting software, which is actually a great way to do this as you can assemble, write, format etc... entirely off line if need be.
Blurb is very well connected to a number of photo sites and blog sites making importing your content from your Blog or your online photo albums a breeze! I grabbed my photos both from my smugmug account and my hard drive.
The software makes formatting super easy! You can select from a large number of pre-built themes or create one entirely of your own. The select the aspect ratio of the book you want (portrait, landscape, square, big coffee table size, etc...) and then soft cover, hardcover jacketed, or hardcover image wrap. Once complete with the preliminaries, you are free to create! the internal pages have a wealth of templates to choose from that render very professional outcomes. All you have to do is simply drag and drop which of your image you want on the page into the gray area designated... and voila' it shows up there, where you then have the opportunity to resize and manipulate the image to you liking. Editing text is a similar easy process.
Once you have what you like... you click "Publish" and your software connects to the Blurb servers (under your account) and begins to assemble your book, you'll be prompted to answer a few questions, then you will want to order your first copy. It is HIGHLY recommended you order one for yourself to receive a "Proof" if you will... because unless you are a super dedicated photographer and have calibrated your screen exactly to match color, your exposures colors and image quality will be off slightly. You can use the first copy as a guide to change your book's photo quality, color, brightness, etc... before you take the plunge and expose your work to others! That's right you can sell your creations right from the site! They even allow you to set a price (above their cost of course) so if you have a quality product, you might even make a small profit.
I received my first copy today (8 business days after I ordered it) delivered via FedEx ground. And indeed the cover and binding are very professionally done and easily meet up to most professional publishing standards. The internal pages are well binded and printed. I ordered on premium paper, and I would recommend always doing so, I've seen the other and... well it lacks! Even so, the internal page quality of premium paper could use an even higher boost, but in all honesty it is quite adequate for amateur publishing. But again... if you choose to make a book, I would not waste time with anything less than the premium paper.
Also, one other slight (and I do mean minor) drawback was in the creation process of the cover, I wanted more flexibility in creating my title. Blurb does provide a plethora of fonts, colors and scales to choose from, however the effects offered are extremely limited (not much much more complex than an e-mail editor... limited to bold, underline, italics...) I could not locate simple additions like shadowing, embossing etc... Fortunately I have Photoshop at my disposal to create a title look I am happy with, but most of us do not ($600.00 for photo editing software is not in most people's budgets).
All in all I am quite happy with the results, certainly the service has been exemplary. I would like to see slightly higher quality internal pages, but again it is probably a limit of the "On-demand" publishing agencies used.
If you would like to preview my book, click here: "We Own The Airfield and the Airspace" you will be able to virtually thumb through the first 15 pages. And hell, if you want to contribute to the Carmichael Enterprises (
Guinness fund) bottom line please feel free to purchase a copy. Especially if you like Shiny Airplanes!
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November 02, 2007
Why I Love Ben Stein
Looks like I have a book to buy...
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President May Be Considering Executive Action On Some Immigrants
As the crisis at the Texas-Mexico border continues there is now word that President Obama has a different idea as to how to deal with some people who want to migrate to the United States.
That idea is to give refugee status to hundreds of kids from Honduras without them making the trip through Mexico. The President admitted on Friday after meeting with Central American leaders that this idea is something he is considering.
"There may be some narrow circumstances in which there is a humanitarian or refugee status that a family might be eligible for," the President told reporters. "If that were the case it would be better for them to apply for that status in their home country."
Texas Senator John Cornyn told ABC's 'This Week' that this idea is not a solution to the problem of kids being smuggled here by drug cartels.
"That won't stop the magnet and the business model that the cartels have created," Texas Senator John Cornyn said on ABC's 'This Week' on Sunday.
Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies told KTRH if it happens, we could see some of these kids wind up here.
"Houston has a significant Central American population, so some of these kids could go there. They could also wind up in Washington, D.C. or Los Angeles," Krikorian said.
How will the President wind up doing this? The report says he is considering enacting another of his Executive Actions. Even though other Presidents have 'used their pens' more often, U-H Political scientist Brandon Rottinghaus told KTRH News this President is finding more opposition to his ideas.
"I don't know that they are more controversial," Rottinghaus said. But they are more public and Congress is objecting more."
And in another development Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar has asked FEMA to reimburse city governments that have been shelling out money because of the border crisis.


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Teeth - braces
Will Braces Placed by One Orthodontist Be Maintained by Another Orthodontist - Since I Will Be Moving Different Places in 2 Yrs?
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Transfer treatment
Well hopefully you will be done in 2 years!
If you're not you certainly will be able to find another orthodontist to finish your treatment but just expect to pay more than the original quoted fee
Moving during orthodontic treatment
It is not a problem to transfer to another orthodontist when you are moving. Just give your orthodontist a few weeks to duplicate your records and refer you. Hopefully you will be finished with orthodontics before two years is up though.
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February 28, 2010 at 17:22:59 Feb 28, 2010 @ 17:22
We done made history.
insta: @nicksiha @skulpist
Couldn't have a better player to score the game winning goal!
Disagree...Crosby didn't do shit in any of the games n got lucky with a no look. Anyways WE GOLD bitccches.
g0id m3dal fuck d4 h4t3r5
9 to 5 is how to survive, i ain't tryin' to survive. i'm tryin' to live it to the limit and love it a lot
Disagree...Crosby didn't do shit in any of the games n got lucky with a no look. Anyways WE GOLD bitccches.
smh @ your ungratefulness. the nig just completely saved the legacy of these Olympic games and our canadian heritage and you do him like this?
Come on man we got more heritage than a hockey game that wasted millions of our tax money lol, anyways I'm not tryin to hate on the kid, just stating facts, I feel like he's getting all the credit for a lot of other players' work.
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Don't try to downplay the significance of this occasion. Get off your disconnected, holier-than-thou pedestal and get in touch with your fellow Canadians. What went down yesterday had NOTHING to do with hockey, winning the gold medal, or anything like that.. it was simply all of Canada rallying together to kick some fucking American ass and then peering over their unconscious bodies and mouthing 'wsup den?' before casually strolling away victorious.