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As with any technology there can be some safety and privacy risks associated with location-based-services, but by paying attention to privacy features, they can be used safely.
by Larry Magid
September 20, 2010
For better or worse, today's cell phones not only know where their users are located, but have technology that can broadcast that information to friends and authorities. When used carefully, these services can be fun or reassuring. But before you or your kids start to use any location-based-service (LBS) be sure you know how to protect your or your child's privacy.
Virtually all modern phones have GPS receivers as well as the ability to identify the nearest cellular tower and most smartphones now can access Wi-Fi, which also can be used to pinpoint location. The phone's location can be used by 911 operators to locate you in an emergency but also can be used by application programs offered by carriers and third-party developers.
For now, LBS applications can be divided roughly into three categories: services that let others track your location; services that let you actively "check in" to places; and services designed to present you with ads based on where you are.
Active and Passive
Some of these are "active," meaning that the person with the phone has to do something to disclose his or her location, such as use a service to request the location of the nearest sushi bar. Others are "passive," which means that once they are set up, they continue to operate until terminated. Those include child tracker services, which are initiated by parents and can continue to track the child unless the parent terminates the service.
Popular location services include Foursquare and Gowalla, which can be used to "check in" to locations such as restaurants. Facebook recently introduced a similar service called "Places" that not only lets users check themselves into a location but allows their friends to check them in as well — subject to the user's privacy settings, which include being able to block others from checking you in.
Other services, like Google Latitude, Loopt and Glympse, allow people to broadcast their location as they go from place to place. With Loopt and Latitude for example, you can permit friends to see where you are at any given moment. And the person's access to your location remains in effect until you take it away, which could be a problem if a friend becomes an ex-friend. Glympse also allows people to see where you are but you have to initiate the process each time you want to be tracked. And to eliminate the ability for someone to use it to stalk you, it automatically times out after as few as 15 minutes but never more than 4 hours.
Other types of services can be embedded into devices, such as digital cameras. Location-aware cameras (including most smartphones) are capable of embedding location information in the metadata associated with digital pictures. If you post those pictures online there is a chance that they will reveal your location unless you disable location for your camera application (as can be done on most phones).
Known and imagined risks
As with any new technology, there are known risks and imaginable risks. Although not common, there have been reported cases of adults being stalked as a result of the technology. There are, of course, privacy implications and there have been reports of security researchers who have been able to track people without their permission by accessing cell call logs obtained from phone carriers.
But just because things could go wrong doesn't mean that they will. Speaking at a location-based services safety panel at the 2010 Internet Governance Forum in Vilnius, Lithuania, John Carr, with the European NGO Alliance for Child Safety Online, opened the session by outlining the potential risks of LBS but pointing out that, so far, he's not aware of a child having been harmed as a result of this technology. Still, Carr worries about the potential for harm. He is pressuring companies to adopt a code of practice that would include requiring permission of both the parent and the child before anyone under 18 could be the subject of location tracking, and that would prohibit sharing a child's location data with "groups of people or to public or semipublic places."
Another panelist, European Parliament member Sabine Verheyen, echoed Carr's concerns and indicated that the Parliament will be considering legislation to address child safety issues with location-based services.
Use caution but don't over-react
While I fully agree that industry and government (including our Congress) need to consider the safety implications of location services, I think it needs to be approached with a positive attitude. Like other technologies, the vast majority of users will find ways to use them safely and appropriately. I'm not sure exactly what services might emerge from the technology but I have no doubt that many will be beneficial to both adults and children.
The last thing we need to do is stifle a technology simply because it has the potential for harm. It also has the potential for great good, but the only way for that to happen is to allow companies to develop and test technologies. Regulatory authorities around the world have a responsibility to be watchful but they must do so with an open mind.
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The economic viability of solar power is advancing rapidly. It's actually already more then competitive within certain markets, and the price of solar panels saw a precipitous decline over the last four years.
In fact, solar technology has been advancing so rapidly that analysts have had troublekeeping their models up to date. When the Electric Reliability Council of Texas revised the circa-2006 assumptions about the state of technological development in its economic models, it found massive increases in the economic viability of wind and solar power, making them competitive with natural gas within the state over the next twenty years. Former Energy Secretary Steven Chu predicted in 2011 that, along with wind, solar would be no more expensive than oil or natural gas by the end of the decade.
The latest evidence of solar power's rise comes via Bloomberg: El Paso Electric Co., a southwestern utility, has agreed to purchase electricity from a New Mexico solar project owned by the solar panel manufacturer First Solar, for a price lower than the going rate for coal:
First Solar bought the 50-megawatt Macho Springs project from Element Power Solar, according to a statement yesterday. El Paso Electric Co. (EE) agreed to buy the power for 5.79 cents a kilowatt-hour, according to a Jan. 22 procedural order from the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission.
That's less than half the 12.8 cents per kilowatt-hour average price for new coal plants, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Thin-film photovoltaic power typically sells for 16.3 cents a kilowatt-hour, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
The price would be "the lowest solar power purchase agreement price we have ever seen," Aaron Chew, an analyst at Maxim Group LLC in New York, said in an e-mail. It's less than half the price that First Solar will get for its Antelope Valley, Topaz, and Agua Caliente projects, he said.
The Macho Springs project is just the latest in over 50 megawatts worth of solar projects First Solar has built in New Mexico since 2011, and the company is slated to install another 21.5 megawatts by late 2013. First Solar even developed the first solar project to reside on public U.S. lands: the 50-megawattSilver State North installation outside of Primm, Nevada, which began generating electricity this past May. And its 250 megawatt installation in Yuma County, Arizonawas the largest solar plant operating in the world as of October, 2012.
First Solar is also the largest maker of thin-film solar panels in the world, and its panels — which will be used in constructing the Macho Springs project — boast the smallest carbon footprint and shortest energy payback time of any solar technology currently available.
Zooming out to the larger picture, analysts anticipate American solar power will soon account for 10 percent of the world market, given the industry's 70 growth rate over the course of last year. Installations of solar panels surged in 2011 as industry analysts predicted the price of solar-generated electricity would quickly come to rival that of coal. By December 2012, U.S. solar installations had increased 116 percent over the same period in 2011, bringing sufficient capacity to power about half a million average American homes. And according to a census by the Solar Foundation, the sector currently employs over 119,000 Americans — an increase of 13,872 workers over 2011.
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Just a few days after replacing Nikesh Arora, Omid Kordestani, the new chief business officer of Google, has joined the Spotify board of directors, it was reported Monday.
The news is more interesting because Google has already expressed interest in acquiring Spotify and integrating it with YouTube, according to the Re/Code. So far there haven't been any definitive actions or negotiations about buying the online music service, though.
Perhaps proof that Google isn't buying Spotify is the awaited launch of a YouTube subscription music service that will be its rival. "We're always working on new ways for people to enjoy YouTube content across all screens, and on giving our partners more opportunities to reach their fans and generate revenue," a Google spokesperson said in a statement. "We'll be adding subscription-based features for music on YouTube with this in mind, and look forward to sharing them with music fans."
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Another former Googler, an ex-YouTube head of product Shishir Mehrotra, has also been assigned an advisory role to Spotify's executive board and chief executive.
Tech executives sit on a lot of boards, and with Google working on its own music service, it's unlikely the announcement is Google's stealth way of acquiring Spotify. It should be said, though, that Kordestani works very quickly. Only in the office for a few days and already on the board of directors at another tech company? That's some quick work indeed.


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Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Draft Analysis: We want you as a new recruit
Sure, we could put on our most authoritative voice, and write a lengthy post on relative merits of this year's draft. We could fake it to the best of our abilities, and then point to the aspects of our guesswork that came true as proof of our insight. But given that we're still smarting from the spanking that we took from those who questioned our literary bona fides this weekend, we're going to avoid any puffery and play along like the happy fool that we are.
(And no, Meredith, we're not going to let this go. You hurt our feelings. Harrumph.)
So join us as we look at the draft, shake our head like a Magic 8 Ball, and see what floats to the top.
First Round, pick 11 - Deck McGuire, RHP, Georgia Tech: It was funny after the fact to hear Keith Law proclaim on last night's Prime Time Sports that the Jays probably wouldn't pick him, given his supposed low ceiling. Not that we're harshing on the KLaw or anything...Just that we figured that his thought process would be similar to that of just about every Jays fan that we heard from or saw on Twitter: A lower-ceiling college dude? No way! The Ghost of J.P. live on!
They say ("they" being the draftologists and experts that allegedly really know this shit) that Deck profiles as a number three starter with a shorter (two-year) trip to the Bigs. Given the guys who we have under control for the next three to four years, having a good third starter shouldn't be looked upon as a bad thing, especially when he might serve as your number five.
Plus, he's tall. And you can't teach tall.
(And as a side note: Our inner Chris Berman has gone nutty cuckoo coming up with bad nicknames for Mr. McGuire: "Upper" Deck? "Back" Deck? "Poop" Deck? "Captain's" Deck? "Flight" Deck? "Gun" Deck?)
Compensatory Round Picks - RHPs Aaron Sanchez, Noah Syndergaard, Asher Wojciechowski: Our initial thought was that Alex Anthopoulos felt that since the Jays blogosphere has managed to master the spelling of his name and that of Marc Rzepczynski, we need a new challenge. Well, we say bring it on.
Also, we shall refer to the latter two picks a Syndy and Wojo from here on out.
Someone asked us on Twitter why the Jays were going so heavy on pitching in the draft, and our response was that you need 12 arms on your roster at any given time (even if The Manager uses just nine), and it never hurts to add some additional depth to the pitching in your system. And while we might just be making this up, it seems to us that you can trade for a bat later on to fill out your lineup more easily than you can a pitcher.
The Rest of the Draft So Far: Some more pitchers, one of whom we'd guess surprises us all and becomes the real jewel of this draft. (Our guess is Sam Dyson. Just because.)
The first Canadian picked by the Jays came with the 113th pick overall, which we're certain is way too late for Bob Elliot's liking.
Nevertheless, outfielder Marcus Knecht looks like at least a reasonable gamble. Also, the music in his MLB.com video is fonkalicious.
Also, the Jays have just picked Dickie Thon Jr., and for those of us who remember Dickie Thon, that's kinda awesome. Kinda makes us feel old too.
12 comments:
- Darren Priest said...
Wu Tang fans vote "Inspectah" Deck.
I still wonder if all these pitcher picks indicates a plan to move some higher level prospects before the trade deadline.
- June 8, 2010 at 3:31 PM
James Paxton and James Eliopoulos haven't signed yet?!? Another example of kids getting bad advice after their first draft. Don't they know there is a real chance that they will get injured or the President of the team that drafts them can ruin their college career with a slip of the tongue?
- June 8, 2010 at 3:50 PM
- Unknown said...
I've seen it mentioned a couple of times that Beeston fucked up Paxton's NCAA legitimacy last year. I'm sorry, but wouldn't it be Paxton's fault too? Wasn't it Paxton (and his agent) who were breaking the rules? Shouldn't Scott Boras know better? Or, is this something that happens behind closed doors all the time?
- June 8, 2010 at 4:05 PM
- Unknown said...
I guess legitimacy should read "eligibility". Long day at work.
- June 8, 2010 at 4:12 PM
I may sound like a bit of a dink here, but I really don't care that they haven't been drafted yet. In fact, one might say that this bitter brew they are forced to drink right now might be a warning for future draft picks that aren't happy with the hundreds of thousands of dollars they have been offered (to play motherfucking baseball I might add) and decide they would prefer to wait for the following year's draft. Maybe if this happens a to a few more players, it will become less of a norm to sign over slot.
- June 8, 2010 at 4:21 PM
- Darren Priest said...
Scott Boras, greedy athlete, NCAA rules, Beeston -- who to cheer for...
I am going to go with the athlete since the this is his only shot.
My fandom doesn't really extend to the draft though. The development time is too long for most of these guys. In that one way, the NBA draft is the most fun to follow. The early picks are usually in the lineup the following year.
- June 8, 2010 at 4:28 PM
- Comfortable And Furious said...
James Eliopolous does remain undrafted. Jake Eliopoulos on the other hand finally went to the Dodgers in the 15th. The big negative on James is his lack of existence.
- June 8, 2010 at 4:59 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
You say that as though I care about which Eliopoulos it was.
And at least I got the last name right.
- June 8, 2010 at 5:01 PM
- Comfortable And Furious said...
Psh, it's way easier than this year's names. Robbie Alomar WISHES Eliopoulos was the toughest name he had to get right last night.
- June 8, 2010 at 5:12 PM
- Leaker19 said...
I'm with Priest, the baseball draft is so miss and hit that it really turns into a BFD affair. Wake me up when one of these 2010 kids is shredding the PCL.
- June 9, 2010 at 12:10 AM
- Tools of Ignorance said...
Please tell me that Harrumph is a Dingo reference...!
- June 9, 2010 at 11:46 AM
- William J. Tasker said...
Hope the real future nickname of the first round draft choice is Deck the Hall (of Famer) Fa la la la la...lala la la...
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FRISCO, Texas — FCD head coach Schellas Hyndman and his players aren't in the least bit intimidated by the visit of reigning league champions RSL in the first leg of a Western Conference Semifinal series.
Sure, playing RSL in the opening round is the toughest of assignments, but Hyndman said his club is more than well-equipped for the challenge.
"This is where last year they really turned it on — in the playoffs," Hyndman said. "They kept that going the whole year. I have a lot of respect for them. They're a very good team and an experienced, effective team. For us, it's a new season and an opportunity to play and continue to chase our dreams of bringing a championship to Dallas."
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"All home games are important in this league and we're a team that, like most teams, has done very well at home," Hyndman said. "We're going into this game with everything we possibly can to have success."
The fact that FCD so recently faced RSL is something Hyndman sees as an advantage for both sides.
"We saw them two weeks ago, which helped us a lot in our tactics that we're going to try and play and some of the things we're going to do," Hyndman said. "Only recently have we been giving up multiple goals, and those could be because of the multiple injuries."
READ: Hyndman's lineup problems ahead of RSL
Earlier this week, RSL head coach Jason Kreis said that his side might adopt a defensive approach for the first leg. If that's the case, his FCD counterpart wouldn't rule out rolling out a more attack-minded formation.
"I would not believe anything that Real Salt Lake says first of all — if they believe anything I say, it's a mistake on their part as well," Hyndman said jokingly. "I think Milton Rodriguez and Jeff Cunningham could both be on the field. We could very well go into a 4-4-2 because we want to be offensive."
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Could Oprah Winfrey be moving to the east coast? According to the New York Post, Oprah is house hunting in the elite "Estates at Alpine" neighborhood in Alpine, NJ.
The entertainment mogul and billionaire was spotted yesterday touring the most expensive home in what is said to be the most expensive zip code in America, according to Forbes magazine. The 30,000-square-foot mega mansion boasts five stories, 19 bedrooms, and 12 bathrooms. More lavish features of the home include: a library, ballroom, basketball court, wine cellar, carriage house and 11-car garage.
The stone English-style mansion sits on six acres—land at an estimated value of $15 million—and was formerly part of the Frick estate, owned by the grandson of steel magnate Henry Clay Frick. View the listing.
UPDATE: Oprah tweeted on November 19, 2010, "No truth to me looking for a house in Jersey. No idea who started that rumor. Been in Chicago all week working."


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Father of Justin Bourque says he was paranoid, ranting days before Moncton shootings
MONCTON, N.B. — Just days before three Mounties were gunned down and two others wounded in Moncton, N.B., the man accused in the shootings was ranting against authority and growing paranoid, says his father.
The comments are contained in an affidavit signed by Victor Bourque that was filed Thursday in provincial court.
His son, Justin Bourque, faces three counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder. He has not entered pleas on the charges.
The two-page affidavit provides a view of the man accused of holding police at bay during a 30-hour manhunt last month that put much of the city under a virtual siege.
In the document, Victor Bourque said he did not notice any serious mental or emotional problems with his son until about 18 months ago when he said Justin Bourque's condition began deteriorating.
The affidavit was used by Justin Bourque's lawyer in court Thursday to request a psychiatric assessment for his client, which was granted by Judge Irwin Lambert.
"I have met extensively with the father and to a lesser degree with the mother," said defence lawyer Lutz. "I'm aware of the circumstances that led up to this horrific incident and I feel based upon my experience that this is an appropriate case (for an assessment), based on the content of the affidavit."
The document contains assertions by Victor Bourque that have not been proven in court, but in it he says his 24-year-old son went from living with his parents and six siblings in Moncton to buying a gun, getting kicked out of the house, and becoming depressed and paranoid.
"We were a very close-knit family until Justin was asked by his mother and me to leave the home," he said. "His inappropriate behaviour and his purchase of yet another gun prompted our request."
Victor Bourque said things only got worse after that. During his visits home, he said his son appeared seriously depressed and was emotionally and financially unstable.
"Often, he would pace back and forth while talking about things that made no sense to me or other members of the family," said Bourque.
Bourque said he was unable to reason with his son or calm him down while giving him a drive to work about two days before the shootings.
"He was ranting and raging against all authority and concerning himself with matters which were well beyond his control and some issues not even relating to Canada," he said.
"This behaviour I can only describe as paranoia."
The day of the shootings, Victor Bourque said he was with his son about 2 1/2 hours before shots rang out in Moncton's north end. Justin Bourque told his father he was going to work but his employer called to say he never showed up.
Bourque said that's when he reached out to his son.
"I called him to ask why he lied to me — he was distant and disrespectful to me on the telephone," he said. "He hung up on me. He had never spoken to me in this fashion before. His tone was very dry and as if it was another person speaking."
Justin Bourque is scheduled to return to court July 31 following his psychiatric assessment at the Shepody Healing Centre in Dorchester, N.B.
Constables Dave Ross, Fabrice Gevaudan and Douglas Larche were gunned down after responding to a report of a man with firearms in a residential neighbourhood on June 4.
Two other RCMP officers — constables Eric Dubois and Darlene Goguen — were wounded and later released from hospital.


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When Foursquare first came out, I didn't like it. In an early review of the app, I wrote that "check-ins" felt invasive, that the app was buggy, and that it wasn't mature enough to offer real benefits. And I felt that earning badges and becoming "mayor" were sort of silly.
But the company has rolled out a new design over the past several months, and has introduced new features that have made it more than just a check-in app.
So, I decided to check out the whole checking-in thing again.
To my surprise, Foursquare has become my go-to app for finding local restaurants. Now it truly is the "local discovery" app it claimed to be from the beginning, with an Explore button that helps people find restaurants and other places nearby without needing to check in, and a Lists feature that lets you follow your friends' lists of favorite places.
The app still has its quirks, and I still haven't experienced a ton of deals or discounts or serendipitous run-ins with friends. But in many instances, I've found the app's distilled, personalized approach to finding restaurants to be more helpful and less cluttered than Yelp's mobile app or even Google search results on my smartphone. This has been the case whether I've been in my own neighborhood or in a foreign country.
If you're not one of Foursquare's 25 million registered users, here's the basic premise: It's a free mobile app for iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry that lets you send out a blast of information to your friends about your current location. You can choose to share this with your Facebook and Twitter accounts, too.
The check-in icon is in the upper right-hand corner. Tapping this brings up a list of various places, like markets, or bars, or concert halls. Foursquare says it currently has 40 million venues in its worldwide database. From there, you select which venue you're at; you can add a short message or a photo to your post before you share it to Foursquare. And there you have it: You've checked in.
In order for the app to work properly, you will have to turn on location services. You can, however, opt out of push notifications, which can be both irritating and battery-draining. Foursquare has said that it's working on ways to make push notifications relevant and more useful to users, but for now, I still don't feel the need to see everyone's check-ins.
In the latest version of the app, there are three main tabs at the bottom of the home screen: Your own profile, your friends list and Explore, the app's standout feature.
Explore is also a Web app, but my tests of it have been almost entirely mobile.
A couple of months ago, I found myself searching for a snack after a not-remotely-successful surf lesson in a remote beach town in Costa Rica. So, naturally, I pulled my smartphone out of my geeky waterproof pack, found a spotty Wi-Fi network, and opened a few apps.
What happened next surprised me. Searching for "lunch" in "Playa Guiones" or "Nosara" on Yelp brought no results. Google's search app fed me a few TripAdvisor threads that were helpful, but long-winded.
Foursquare Explore gave me exactly what I needed. It pointed me in the direction of a place called The Gilded Iguana, just about a kilometer away. Foursquare users that had gone before me had left behind a few short tips recommending that I order chimichangas there.
In another instance, back home in New York, I tried to take a friend out for his birthday, only to discover upon arrival that the restaurant I had in mind was reserved for a special event that night. I pulled out Foursquare and tapped Explore, then typed in "dinner." Not only did a list of reputable restaurants quickly appear, but it told me that five of my friends had eaten at one of them — and since a few of these friends are discriminating foodies, I knew it was a good choice within walking distance.
This week, while searching for a grocery store in an unfamiliar neighborhood in San Francisco, I saw on Foursquare that four of my friends have been to the local Safeway, which made me more inclined to go to that one than the other stores on the list. Finally, the value of check-ins was becoming clear: If my friends hadn't taken the time to actually check in to a grocery store — something I personally would never have considered doing before — I wouldn't have had that information at my fingertips.
Check-in features aren't new. They abound in dozens of other mobile apps, as do search buttons and tips from friends.
Yelp shows short tips in its mobile app, in addition to much longer reviews, and it has a check-in feature, too. There's also a "Nearby" tool that will help users find places in close proximity. The Google+ app offers users the ability to check in to local places, and Google now shows results from its acquired Zagats restaurant-rating system, which I like. And, of course, Facebook lets friends check in to places, too, tagging other Facebook friends alongside them; many users, when seeking advice on which restaurant or coffee shop to go, might simply post a Facebook status update for this.
But Foursquare makes finding things fast and frictionless. The tips users leave are more digestible than wordy online reviews of a place. I like the layout of Foursquare's app now, too. Explore results include large photos of venues, but always with a map above the results; you can easily tap on the map to get directions to a place or see how far away it actually is.
Foursquare still isn't a perfect app. While the Explore tab is excellent for finding places in close proximity, it's not great for searching restaurants in a different location. A few days ago, I tried to use Explore to look up sushi restaurants in San Francisco when I was south of the city. All that came up were nearby places in Silicon Valley. I could pinch and move the map in Foursquare, then tap a button to load a map in that area, but it was a lot easier to use the Yelp or Google apps in that case.
And while Foursquare is still touting the deals it offers, I haven't redeemed many of those. After more than eighteen months of sporadic check-ins, I finally received a Foursquare deal that I liked: A free bottle of water at a yoga studio. American Express users can get discounts by linking their AmEx accounts to a Foursquare account and checking in at AmEx-friendly businesses, but I currently don't have an Amex card.
Lastly, users concerned about privacy should be aware that unless you adjust your privacy settings so that nobody can see your check-ins — which will limit the full experience of the app — check-in information can be shared with the businesses you are checking into, or with other app developers who have access to Foursquare's open platform.
Still, if there was ever an app worth a second chance, for me, that would be Foursquare.


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Method of Defiance To Play New York's
Santos Party House, November 6th
More on Method of Defiance HERE +Free Download "One World"
Method of Defiance To Play New York's
Santos Party House, November 6th
More on Method of Defiance HERE +Free Download "One World"
Arianna Foster, aka Ari Up, frontwoman for pioneering English punk band the Slits, has passed away, according to the website of John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols and Public Image Ltd., who was also Up's stepfather. According to Lydon's site, Up died "after a serious illness." She was 48 years old.( pitchfork report)
Typical Girls – The Slits
M.O.D. Technologies To Release Albums
by Method of Defiance
& Gigi in October
M.O.D. TECHNOLOGIES created by the principle members of Method Of Defiance. This label is a modern evolution of the original AXIOM label – for the purpose of destroying, discerning musical genres, trends, approved or unapproved formats, false ideas and other unnecessary borders. All releases are the direct manifestations of Bill Laswell and other key members of the collective. The label is formed for the advancement of art and communication, in all forms of the creative process.
Method of Defiance Features All-Star Crew of:
Bill Laswell, Bernie Worrell, Dr. Israel, Hawk, DJ Krush, Toshinori Kondo and Guy Licata.
Click HERE to Stream the Song "One World" or below
Grammy–winning electric bassist, producer, and re-mixer Bill Laswell has worked with many of music's biggest names on the planet, including Herbie Hancock, Laurie Anderson, George Clinton, Brian Eno, Tony Williams, Mick Jagger, Williams Burroughs, Afrika Bambaataa, Motorhead, John Lydon, Bootsy Collins, Carlos Santana, Matisyahu, Anthony Braxton, Sting, Zakir Hussein, John Zorn, and hundreds more from the Americas, Africa The Caribbean, Europe, The Middle East, China, and Japan. Laswell has built a reputation on consistently working with a diverse array of artists, and rejecting the restrictions of genre, tradition, and commerce in favor or taking risks and uniting seemingly disparate voices. It is with this ethos that he has formed the record label M.O.D. Technologies, which is set to release albums this October by the group Method of Defiance and one of Ethiopia's most famous contemporary vocalists, Gigi. In addition, the label is planning releases from Dr. Israel, Gnawa Fusion, Afa Negus, and DJ Krush in the near future.
Method of Defiance is an all-star cast that consists of the following members:
BILL LASWELL (see collaborations above)
BERNIEWORRELL (Parliament Funkadelic, Talking Heads, Keith Richards)
DR. ISRAEL (Sublime, The Mad Professor, KillahPriest)
HAWK (Tricky, Tool, The Roots' Black Thought)
DJKRUSH (Ronny Jordan, Luna Sea & Ryuichi Sakamoto)
TOSHINORI KONDO (Herbie Hancock, Derek Bailey, Henry Kaiser, Peter Brotzmann)
GUY LICATA (Santigold, Massive Attack, Hercules & Love Affair)
Method of Defiance will release three albums, first the immediately accessible Jahbulon (October 5th): Ten songs featuring vocalists Dr. Israel and Hawk, keyboardist / Funkadelic icon Bernie Worrell, legendary bassist/producer Bill Laswell, and post modern/futurist drummer, Guy Licata. A cross-generational affair that incorporates elements of reggae, hip hop, dancehall, dub, electronica, rock, roots music and more. The beauty lies within its ability to touch on multiple overlapping cultural reference points.
This will be followed (October 19th) by Incunabula a spontaneous improvisation of musical interaction. The album's lineup includes Bill Laswell on bass and dub efx, Bernie Worrell on keyboards, Guy Licata on drums, Dr. Israel on dub efx, turntable master DJ Krushand on electric trumpet Japan's own, sound and fury – Toshinori Kondo with a special appearance by keyboard legend Herbie Hancock.
Ending the trilogy in Jan 2011 with the remix project Dub Arcanum Arcandrum a mix of both Jahbulon (the vocal) and Incunabula (the instrumental) by Bill Laswell, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Mad Professor, Dr. Israel, DJ Krush, and others.
Stay tuned for more info on Gigi, whose album Mesgana Ethiopia will be released on October 19th.
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Texas GOP lawmaker wants $2B for water infrastructure
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Republican lawmaker is proposing Texas spend $2 billion to implement a sweeping plan to ensure the drought-prone state has enough water for its rapidly expanding population.
Two bills filed Thursday by state Rep. Allan Ritter would double the amount of money Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst proposed spending on water projects.
The Nederland Republican proposes taking $2 billion from the Rainy Day Fund to bolster infrastructure, including new dams and reservoirs, as outlined in the State Water Plan. Ritter chairs the House Natural Resources Committee.
Every five years, Texas reports on the state's water needs for 50 years and proposes solutions. But the plans are unfunded, and a two-year drought has made water a hot topic.
House Speaker Joe Straus says water will be a priority this legislative session.


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After August 31, 2011, all analog televisions will require a converter box in order to receive Canadian over-the-air broadcasts using an antenna. that time, over-the-air broadcast signals in Canada will be in digital-only format. Canadians using satellite or digital cable services should see no change.
U.S. television stations broadcasting over-the-air into Canada will make this change sooner, in February, 2009.
All Canadians should be aware of the upcoming transition and will need to know what type of television they own and how they receive broadcast signals to understand what they may need to do to prepare.
Once the transition takes place, Canadians with analog televisions, using over the air signals, will have to add a digital-to-analog converter box, or use a television with a built-in digital tuner, to continue to view over the air broadcasts.
Canadians who already have televisions with a digital tuner, or subscribe to satellite or digital cable service should see no change. Related decisions have been made regarding the distribution of cable services.


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It the morning of May 19, 1836, less than three weeks after Sam Houston destroyed Santa Anna's army at the battle of San Jacinto over on the Brazos River. While the rest of Texas celebrated its freedom, the inhabitants of Parker fort worked outside the stockade. The men looked up when a mixed band of Indians rode causally near the fort and dismounted. Several warriors walked unarmed toward several men and women busy working their gardens outside the gate. With shocking ease, the warriors killed the adult Parker men starting with the elders who walked forward holding out their empty hands in a sign of friendship. The warriors captured all the children and women they could catch. One of the captives herded north after the raid was a nine year old girl named Cynthia Ann, daughter of Silas Mercer Parker and Lucinda Ann. In her presence, the warriors killed Silas and her uncles John and Benjamin Parker. Her grandfather John Parker had been one of those who walked foreword with his hands outstretched. Surprisingly, the raiding party included only a few Comanches, perhaps only one or two Penetekas. The raiders were primarily Wichitas, the warrior band of the generally sedentary Caddoes, most of whom lived in beehive-shaped grass huts. Ohter tribes were represented as well, perhaps Wacoes and Keechis. Cynthia Ann's three-year-old brother, Silas Mercer Parker, Jr. was captured as were her mother, Lucy Duty Parker, her baby sister Orlena Parker. The baby was four months old. Cynthia Ann's 46 year-old aunt Phoebe Hassell and Phoebe's year-old baby daughter Sally were forced along as the warriors headed back north. Little Sally would not stop crying and the warriors killed the baby by smashing its head against a tree.
Over the next six years, the Parker family managed to ransom all of the surviving women and children except Cynthia Ann. One of the elders of the family, Cynthia's uncle Isaac Parker, crusaded continually among the Texas authorities for the girl's return, never letting her capture fade from public consciousness. Speaking often to members of the congress of the Texas Republic, Isaac asked for Ranger companies to be formed and sent out into the frontier and for monetary rewards to be raised for her safe rescue. Ultimately the government created a handsome reward for her recovery. Isaac traveled up and down the Texas frontier, advertising his niece's plight, speaking to church, lodge, and school meetings. Cynthia Ann became a frontier cause celebe.
Meanwhile, Cynthia Ann had been sold to a Comanche family who lived in the Texas Panhandle. The band to which she belonged lived far out into the unknown vastness of the Llano Estacado. Although she was beaten at first and treated like a slave for a while, the couple that purchased her fell in love with the child calling her Nadauh. A few weeks after becoming part of the family, Cynthia Ann was a permanent member of the Tenewa Plains Comanches.
In 1840, a New Mexican Comanchero trader camped with the Tenewa Comanches somewhere out in the Texas Panhandle. While he traded for buffalo skins and hides, he noticed a young white girl among the Comanches. Cynthia Ann would have been 13 at the time. She was properly dressed as a band female and acted completely at home. Alert to the reward that the Texan Isaac Parker had advertised, the man attempted to discover if she was in fact the girl, Cynthia Ann Parker. The trader broke out his best items and offered them to the headman for a trade. The chief scorned the offer. Eventually, for a portion of the trade items, the chief agreed to permit him to approach her. The young woman turned away when he spoke to her and refused to talk. She refused all gifts. When the trader returned to his town at Loma Parda, he spread the story of the white girl living among the Comanches, which soon reached the ears of the authorities.
An article appeared in a Texas newspaper on April 29, 1846, which described a visit by Col. Leonard G. Williams' trading party with a band of Tenewa Comanches. These Comanches were camped on the Canadian River. Williams saw a young woman, she would have been 19, and married. He thought she could be Cynthia Ann. The tribal elders refused all Williams offers and the woman refused to speak English.
A year later, federal officials P. M. Butler and M. G. Lewis ventured into Western Indian Territory and met with the Yamparika Comanches who were camped on the Washita River. Here again, the men encountered a young woman, she was age 20 by then, they thought might be the famous Cynthia Ann. Again she turned away and the elders would not accept gifts in exchange for her.
In 1848, the Indian Agent for Northern Texas, Robert S. Neighbors was told that Cynthia Ann had married a warrior from the Tenawa band. Comanches living on the Upper Reservation at Camp Cooper told him that she had a family and would never leave her husband. Her husband was Peta Nocona, a rising young warrior who gained fame for his raids on white settlements.
About 1841 when she was 16 years old, Cynthia Ann gave birth to her first child. She named him privately Quanah, meaning "Fragrant" (or Stinky, Smelly). Quanah was destined to rise to the top of the Comanche world. He is remembered as one of the last great fighting warriors of the Quahada Comanches and later, head chief of all reservation Comanches in Indian Territory.
Along the frontier of Texas for 24 years, the name "Cynthia Ann Parker" rang like a saber striking steel. Her uncle Isaac Parker never rested, nor would he let the legislators in Austin forget that his niece, one of the original daughters of Texas (she was born in Illinois) remained a prisoner of the Indians. A stalwart born-again primitive Baptist, Isaac Parker's persistent and dramatic pleas for the safe return of his niece disturbed the sleep of the authorities along the frontier until the very eve of the Civil War.
In 1860, a double murder on the frontier attributed to Comanches stirred the Texas government to authorize a Ranger Company for the second time in three years. The previous coming after the murders of two families, probably by whites dressed as Indians. (see the Dear Chum Letter and battle of Antelope Hills).
Toward the end of November, Comanche or Kiowa warriors attacked and killed a rancher, stole his horse herd then tortured and killed and a neighboring rancher's wife. This time there was no doubt that Native Americans were the perpetrators. The crimes occurred in northern Palo Pinto County, only a few miles west of Parker County. Ironically, the latter is named for Isaac Parker, Cynthia Ann's persistent uncle. It had been over 24 years since Cynthia Ann was dragged screaming away from her father's home in Limestone County.
It was cold when Palo Pinto Sheriff John Nathan Hittson and the other settlers in the frontier county first heard the reports.
At ten o'clock in the morning, 46 year-old John Brown, his nearest neighbor was the famous cattlemen Oliver Loving to the west and Charles Goodnight to the east, was riding across his pasture near Keechi Creek to gather his cattle. Suddenly up from the banks where they were hiding, a war party of Kiowas and Comanches raced out of the underbrush and surrounded the man. After a brief scuffle, a warrior knocked Brown off his horse and leaped on him, cutting Brown's scalp while he was still alive and stabbing him in the back and sides. Brown's hair was left the area attached to the warrior's saddle. Brown's body was left in the deep grass while the half-dozen members of the raiding party drove Brown's horse together with 20 other horses they collected earlier across the creek. They headed north toward their camp. Ahead were other ranches. Moving stealthily along the Keechi Creek branches, the warriors took Thompson's horses directly north of Brown's range. About noon the raiding party approached the Sherman farm in the extreme north of Palo Pinto County. Attracted by smoke coming from the ranch house chimney, the warriors dismounted and one man guarded the horses while the rest surrounded the house. The leader simply opened the door and walked inside.
The Sherman family, father, mother and two children, were seated at the noon meal before a food-covered table. They froze in their seats. One warrior grabbed the father by his hair and jerked him out of his seat flinging him to the floor. In seconds other warriors pulled the family members from their seats and took their places at the table. The hungry Indians ignored the family as they ate the food. Mr. Sherman, his wife and children crept to the door and slipped outside. The Comanches guarding the horses outside eyed them but did nothing as the family walked down the road.
As soon as the warriors finished the meal, they began ransacking and destroying the house. One warrior discovered a large family Bible and held it up in triumph. To the Comanches, books were highly prized because they could be used as stuffing material for the inside of their war-shields.
When the leader of the war party came outside he looked for the family and sent the horse holders after the Sherman family. Catching up with the family on the road, a warrior grabbed Mrs. Sherman by her hair and dragged her up over his horse. The father tried to save his children and herded them into deep underbrush. The screams of Mrs. Sherman could be heard for a long while. Mr. Sherman ran frantically toward his nearest neighbor, miles away. It took several hours for Sherman to reach a house. Leaving the children he borrowed a horse and raced to town. Hearing Sherman's report, sheriff Hittson and deputy James Hamilton Baker recruited a group of armed townsmen and rode north toward the Sherman family farm.
At the Sherman farmhouse, Hittson's posse found the building torn apart, ransacked and all contents destroyed. After a cursory look around the yard, the posse headed north, trailing the war party. They estimated about seven warriors. The large horse herd they had gathered made the trail easy to follow. A mile along the trail, Hittson and the men found Mrs. Sherman's body lying in a field. She had been sexually abused, scalped and nearly killed, but was breathing. Her body was severely bruised; her clothing torn off, her body covered with blood from several knife wounds. Two arrows protruded from her breast. Around her body lay dozens of pages torn from the family Bible. Hittson detailed two men to remove the arrows, bandage her wounds and cover her with a blanket. They carried her back to town while the posse continued to track the warriors. The next day, when the men's horses gave out, Hittson led the posse back to town.
Mrs. Sherman lived four days before she died. Neither Hittson nor James H. Baker, who kept a detailed diary of the event, ever mentioned the incident in writing again. Like the Cambren-Harris murders three years earlier, the horrible fate of Mrs. Sherman aroused the entire frontier of Northwest Texas. From the sheriff's office in Palo Pinto, Hittson sent messengers to spread the word about the attacks to Fort Worth and Dallas to Austin.
Within a few days, all across the frontier, musket-toting men made their way to Palo Pinto. Preachers railed against the perpetrators, calling the crime against Brown and especially Mrs. Sherman, a "double sacrilege." Strong men pledged to the congregations to avenge the Holy Book and recover "white women's honor."
Within the cultural framework of the Texas frontier, Indians were usually defamed as "horse-thieving" and "murderous." Now they were seen as violators of both the most sacred Christian book and white womanhood itself. In the village of Palo Pinto, Weatherford and other towns, militia representatives gathered cursing the existence of "God-less heathens" beyond the frontier. Hittson and Baker wrote an appeal to the Governor at Austin pleading for armed assistance and protection. They demanded a Ranger company be formed and permanently stationed in Palo Pinto County. The local militia captain, Jack Cureton, called out his followers and formed what he called "The Palo Pinto Cavalry." Within a few days, nearly 100 able-bodied men camped in and around the county seat awaiting word from the state governor. Hittson and his brother joined the force along with almost every man and older boy in the county who could carry a musket. Meanwhile Hittson and most settlers moved their families from their outlying farms to town. Hittson's wife Selena was pregnant with Martha Jane, their third child. His other two children, grandfather Jesse Hittson and grandmother Mary Ann were lodged in the hotel.
Sheriff Hittson and his deputy became common soldiers, subordinating themselves to the militia leadership. Cureton was an established leader, having frontline experience under Colonel Archibald Yell in the Mexican War. The stores in town relinquished their best horses, rifles, pistols and other equipment that was available. Merchants in Fort Worth and Dallas sent wagonloads of weapons and supplies to the men. After a week, word arrived that Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" Ross had been commissioned by the governor to recruit and outfit a Ranger Company, but not in Palo Pinto, in Fort Worth, Tarrant County. Ross was specifically ordered to pursue the Comanches.
Ross soon appeared in Palo Pinto and asked the militia there to join him. They agreed. He then ordered scouts Benjamin Dragoo and three other men to ride north beyond the Trinity River to scout the land south of Indian Territory. They were to search the frontier until they found the Indians' trail. Despite the rush, it was nearly three weeks before the force was ready. By the time the Ranger Company was formed and joined the militia at Palo Pinto, it was the second week of December. A bitterly cold north wind blew through Texas from Canada.
On December 14, 1860, three columns of armed men left Palo Pinto and headed north for a crossing of the Brazos River. Sul Ross' Texas Rangers consisted of 27 men and a detachment of 18 soldiers from the United States 2nd Dragoons. Lieutenant Colonel Robert E. Lee had ordered them to leave Camp Cooper for the expedition. First Sergeant John W. Spangler was in charge of the Dragoons. In the rear rode the rag-tag Cureton militia, which numbered perhaps a hundred men. The force, with difficulty, forded the Brazos and in two days reached the West Branch of the Trinity River where they halted. On trees on the banks of river, Dragoo and his scouts had left markings showing they progress and the way they had gone.
In the bitter cold winds, several older militiamen and even some of the robust young Rangers fell behind. Ross never faltered and with most of his men and the Dragoons he continued pressing on in forced marches. By the time Dragoo's men reported Indians sign, many of the militia had been forced to walk their horses that had become exhausted and were broken down. By December 17, the Rangers and Dragoons were camping each night about three miles north of the struggling militia.
At dawn, December 18, fresh and frigid North winds whipped across the prairie as Ross led the Rangers and First Sergeant Spangler's men out of the scrub trees onto a broad, flat field of dead grass that stretched for miles, broken only by a scattering of small hills. Baker wrote in his diary that when they reached the open plain, he estimated they were about 70 miles north and west of Palo Pinto. While the Rangers broke camp that morning, Cureton's militia stayed in camp. One of the men, James Chick, had lost his horse in the night and headed out on foot trying to catch the elusive animal. Rather than to summarily abandon their neighbor to the mercies of the enemy, Cureton called for a vote. The company largely voted to wait for Chick to return.
By eight or nine o'clock, Ross's force was a dozen miles north of the militiamen and had completely lost contact with them. Ross and his lieutenants approached a series of cedar-covered mountains at the headwaters of Pease River. Riding to the crest of a hill, Ross halted the column and motioned for his men to join him in scanning the river below. The Rangers immediately spotted several small groups of individuals moving near the river a mile or so away. Ross claimed he recognized them instantly as a Comanche war party. All the other men agreed the scattered groups were indeed Indians. The Rangers noted some were mounting horses with travois dragging behind. Others were loading equipment and taking down tepees. Several fully loaded horses moved slowly across the prairie. Ross decided the Comanche village was in the process of moving. He instantly called for the Rangers to come forward on line.
The Rangers with Dragoons following behind, pulled out their pistols and at Ross's command, charged on a dead run down the hill. Individual Rangers began shooting at the winter-clad Indians at a fairly long range. These turned out to be mostly women and children. Several women tried to escape by cutting loose their travois poles, dumping their packs on the ground, which helped them race away. Frantic children on ponies dashed away in several directions. The Ranger line fragmented, men chasing individual Indians this way and that. Finally, it became individual Rangers following single mounted Indians. In only a minute, every Ranger lost sight of every other Ranger. Spangler held up the Dragoons near the abandoned camp and sent his men to capture the Comanche's horse herd.
After twenty minutes, a majority of Ross' Rangers returned to the site of the initial attack. Most came back empty handed. A few Rangers joined the dragoons in controlling the horse herd, about 350 horses, which was not large by Comanche standards. Ranger Private Charles Goodnight, Private George Lemely, Private Christopher Columbus "Lum" Slaughter and Private Christpher "Kit" L. Carter gathered near the herd. They looked around, talking and joking. Where, one asked, were the officers?
At that moment, Captain Ross, Lieutenant Tom Killiher, and Lieutenant Somerville were in heated chases after two well-mounted Comanche warriors. Ross shot at his well-dressed warrior-chief who fell from his horse. As Ross was finishing the warrior, Killiher ran by chasing another warrior. Ross got on his horse and followed. After a long run Ross got close enough to fire his pistol at the bulky-looking Comanche. To his surprise, a body fell off the pony but left another rider. Ross realized he had shot a woman riding behind a warrior. Ross rejoined the chase and fired several more shots. One or two struck the Comanche's horse, which slowed and began staggering. The warrior leaped clear as the pony fell and he rolled across the prairie to avoid being shot. The Indian came up firing arrows at Ross. Dancing his horse from side to side to avoid the missiles, Ross nearly fell off when an arrow struck his horse in the side. Stung, the animal began bucking and pitching, making it impossible for Ross to do anything but hold on. Running forward at Ross' horse, the Indian grabbed the reins and attempted to stab the Ranger captain with an arrow pulled from his sheath. Desperately firing his pistol over his horse's head, Ross luckily hit the warrior in the chest. Blood flowing, the warrior dropped the arrow, turned deliberately away and walked to his fallen horse where he knelt down singing his death song.
Martinez, Ross' interpreter, rode up to his captain at this juncture. While Ross tended to his injured horse, he motioned toward the Comanche and asked Martinez to ask him to surrender. The Comanche spit and then continued singing. Ross reloaded his pistol. Walking toward the Indian, he killed him with one shot. Ross took a shield, quiver, lance and head-dress from the Indian's body. Ross later claimed the Comanche's name was Mohee.
Ross and Martinez rode together back toward the initial attack. As they approached the captured horse herd, Ross saw that the Rangers had several captives, including "a small Comanche boy who had been picked up … by Lieutenant Sublet." Ross, "fearing that he (the boy) might be killed by some of the more reckless men, I took him up behind me and carried him back." Ross rode to where Goodnight and the other Rangers had gathered. Killiher returned about the same time with a captive Indian woman who had a baby strapped on her back. Killiher was, "bitterly cursing his luck for having run his favorite horse so far and so hard just to catch an old squaw." Ross thought little of the captives at the time. He called the captive boy "Pease" and arranged with the Rangers to have him taken to his ranch in Waco.
Meanwhile Cureton's volunteers suffered the rewards of an undisciplined army in the presence of combat. Everything went wrong. Chick found his horse but as soon as the men headed north toward the sounds of battle, Cureton discovered his pack drivers had abandoned their packs. These were vital supplies. The pack drivers were afraid they would be left behind as easy prey to the fearful Comanches. Cureton ordered the column to wait while the packers went back and recovered the supplies. Lieutenant Saunders made sure the muleskinners recovered all the packs. Not until late in the afternoon did the militia reach the Pease River near where the attack had been joined. As the men rode and walked along the riverbank, they met the Rangers, Ross leading, riding triumphal back south on the opposite side. Hittson's deputy, James Baker, noted the event in his diary. "We were soon together and he (Ross) told us that they had overtaken a band of 15 Indians, had killed 12 of them and taken prisoners."
Relief swept over the men as the rangers described what sounded like a terrific victory. "There was great yelling and whooping and shaking hands and congratulating Capt. and his men, upon his good luck for he has not even had one wounded." While the Rangers and Dragoons prepared their camp, most of the militia pushed on, eager to see the battlefield. "Our boys could not be restrained but rode eagerly to the scene of action."
When they reached the scene Baker noted a much less heroic picture than had been described by Ross and the Rangers.
We found only four dead Indians, all squaws. There were many packs strewn on the prairie for a distance of 2 or 3 miles, with a large amount of dried beef and buffalo meat, buffalo skins, camp accouterments, ... The prisoners are a woman, a little girl and a boy about 10 years old.
According to Baker, the identity of the captured woman was of no importance. All the men assumed her to be a Comanche. Later that evening after camp had been made and fires built, Baker and some of the other men looked her over carefully as they ate their evening meal. Baker wrote in his diary.
The woman is of white parentage ... looks just like an Indian, except that she has blue eyes ... the bucks pushed them (she and her baby) off and rode away ... she cried `Dont shoot, me Mericana.' The man closest to her saw that her eyes were blue and spared her. Tonight as we sat about the camp fire, a discussion arose as to her identity, and in the course of the talk, some one remarked that years ago a family by the name of Parker had been killed where Parker Co. is now [sic], and a child Cynthia Ann Parker had been carried off. At once the woman spoke up and said, `Me Cynthia Ann.' So we have decided that the long lost Cynthia Ann Parker has been recaptured.
The next day dawned cold as usual. Ross led the Rangers toward Camp Cooper with the prisoners and the captured horses. The militia trailed along, disgruntled and angry. Not only had the rangers exaggerated the nature of the fight, but they also claimed the entire captured pony herd for themselves. They refused even to loan the dismounted militiamen a pony to ride home. From that time on, the Palo Pinto militiamen viewed all Rangers with suspicion. They spread tales of them being, at worst liars and at best, greedy opportunists. The Dragoons fared no better in the eyes of the settlers. Baker wrote.
Sergeant Spangler ... reported that his men killed a party of 7 Indians who ran in a different direction from where Ross and his men were engaged. We found only one killed at the place he designated, but we found the trail of 6 leaving this place, hence we concluded that Spangler lied and let his Indians get away. 7 all todl [sic], 4 squaws, and 3 bucks are all of the dead Indians we have found.
At Camp Cooper, rancher George Evans' wife was asked to care for the woman and her infant. A message was sent to Fort Worth to notify Isaac Parker. After 24 years of searching, the Rangers proudly declared Cynthia Ann had been recovered. In time, she was sent to Isaac, her uncles' farm to live. Of course, no one ever asked Cynthia Ann what she wanted. Isaac had to watch her carefully as he discovered the woman would do practically anything to return to her Comanche family. Her desires in the matter were never seriously considered, however, her happiness a casualty of the fierce contest between the two opposing cultures. The recovery of Cynthia Ann Parker restored the honor of Texas and boosted the morale of the settlers in the frontier counties.
The Comanches responded to the loss of Cynthia Ann by increasing their raids. Within days of the Pease River fight, a series of warrior assaults struck at towns, one notably putting the village of Palo Pinto under an all-night siege. Hittson organize the townspeople to provide round-the-clock protection for the town day and night. Everyone boarded up his house, groups men took turns standing guard. It is thought that Cynthia Ann's husband, Peta Nokona, led raids into Palo Pinto County and on the surrounding settlements of Jacksborough and Fort Belknap for the next several months. That winter proved one of the most deadly and intense of the long history of the Comanche-Texan conflict.
Peta Nokona, or Petsa-no-ko-ni as the Kiowas knew him, never rose to the status of a great chief but remained a warrior-leader. Even before Cureton's militiamen were able to return to their homes, Nocona's raids struck. Angry over the killing of their wives and relatives, the revenge-minded Comanches attacked and killed Palo Pinto settler Gholston Flahegin on New Years Eve night.
During the first week of 1861, Indians severely wounded a young boy named Smith on Leon Creek north of Weatherford in Parker County. During the same attack Indian arrows severely wounded Mrs. Coin and Mr. Brannon of Young County. Through the spring and summer the raids continued without letup. The Indian raids caused the town of Palo Pinto to organize an "internal" Ranger company. Though some grumbled, Hittson and others voted to elect 19 year-old Ranger Private C.C. "Lum" Slaughter as captain of the local rangers. Peta Nokona concentrated on raiding Palo Pinto for two years. In 1863, he was severely wounded in a raid and died somewhere in North Texas. After that, the Comanches do not mention his name again.
One direct result of the Comanche and Kiowa raids during this period, which included the first years of American Civil War, was that the population of all the outlying frontier counties fell dramatically. In at least five of the counties around Palo Pinto, the local county governments ceased to exist, dissolved for lack of citizens. Ten years after the Pease River fight; the population of the counties around Palo Pinto was thousands less than it had been in the summer of 1860. It would take more than twenty years before the frontier population recovered to what it was when Cynthia Ann was recaptured.
Photographer A. F. Corning from Fort Worth often visited Palo Pinto, taking photos of the local residents as his life work. In January 1861, he heard that the famous Cynthia Ann Parker was being held at Camp Cooper. Packing his equipment onto pack animals he made the long, 150 mile trip west to the army post. His picture of Cynthia Ann and her baby girl "Topsannah" (Prairie Flower) is the only one known to exist. Fifteen years later, Corning sent a copy of the photograph to Quanah, who by then was living on the reservation in Indian Territory near Fort Sill. Quanah instantly identified the woman in the photograph as his mother (see Hacker, Cynthia Ann 30, 38)
Cynthia Ann Parker and daughter Topsannah by photographer A. F. Corning 1862
The Texas legislature debated the future of the woman. Concerned that she, a Texas legend, seemed unhappy and destitute, the congress granted her a pension on April 8, 1861. She got $100 a year for five years and was presented a league of land. A league was over 4,000 acres but to obtain title required expensive legal and surveying work. Isaac Parker took Cynthia Ann and her baby to his home west of Fort Worth where she moved into a room in his cabin. Years passed and she never learned to speak English nor did she respond pleas to rejoin the Parker family. Lonely, unable to adapt, she never stopped mourning her separation from her husband and her two sons.
The Civil War years were especially disease prone along the frontier of Texas. On December 15, 1863 Cynthia Ann's daughter Topsannah died at age 5 from complications from influenza and pneumonia. Cynthia Ann subsequently died while living with her sister Orlena and her sister's husband, James Rufus O'Quinn, near Poyner, Henderson County, Texas.
After finally surrendering in 1875 and settling on a reservation in southern Indian Territory, Quanah adopted agricultural methods, promoted education for his children and fellow Comanches. He prospered as both a farmer and the managing agent for business deals between white ranchers to lease the "Big Pasture," a Comanche hunting area bordering the Red River. At one point he was considered the wealthiest Native American in North America. In 1886 he was appointed judge of the Court of Indian Affairs; by 1890 he was principal chief of all Comanche bands. He became a major figure in the peyote religion. In 1905, he rode beside Geronimo in the inaugural parade for President Theodore Roosevelt. He had at least seven wives.
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See Margaret Schmidt Hacker, Cynthia Ann Parker (El Paso, 1990). On Nov. 28, 1860. Wednesday. "Indians kill 21, ... one man in Parker Co. and scalped one woman ... Mrs. Sherman ... (scalped) shot (with) an arrow ..., left her alive naked on the prairie." [Diary of J. H. Baker]. Smythe incorrectly recorded the date as December, 1859 (Smythe, Sketch of Parker County. 131-33). Benjamin Crawford Dragoo (1835 Washington Co. Ill-1929 London, Tx) moved to Texas at age three. He grew up on the Navasota River next to Fort Parker and played with the Parker children who survived the raid on the fort (Hunter, Trail Drivers of Texas, 797). Peter Robertson (b. July 25, 1840 Hall Co., Ga) from McLennan County and Robert W. Gray (b. Vera, Knox Co., Tx) accompanied Dragoo. Dragoo's narrative is in Hugh D. Corwin, Comanche & Kiowa Captives, 52-54, 67 (Guthrie, 1959). Sul Ross' Rangers included Capt. J. M. Smith. Lieutenants: Tom Killiher; Somerville; Sublet. Privates: Charles Goodnight (see abundant literature); C. C. Slaughter; Kit Carter; George Lemley; Antonio Martinez; Francis Marion Peveler; Frank Cassidy; Benjamin Franklin Gholson. See Dallas Herald (June 19, 1875); Walter Prescott Webb, Handbook of Texas (Austin, 1951, 2, 685). Sgt. Spangler's Dragoons were a detachment from Co. H, 2nd U. S. Dragoons. They were stationed at Camp Cooper on the Clear Fork of the Brazos River, in Shackleford County. The camp commander was Lt. Col. Robert E. Lee. For more on the sergeant, see M. L. Crimmins, "First Sergeant John W. Spangler..." West Texas Historical Association Year Book 26 (October, 1950, 68-75). Cureton's volunteer rangers numbered about a hundred men. Besides the Hittson brothers, 2nd Lt. James Hamilton Baker, Hittson's deputy sheriff, James H. Chick (27 years-old, Indiana) was a cowboy for Joel McKee, his lost horse delayed the militia Rangers. J. H. Coffee, John Dalton (age 16, son of Mark Dalton), George Washington Dodson (age 22, Hittson's cousin), James Dulin (Hittson's hired hand, 23 years-old), Jack Flint (age 29, Oliver Loving's son-in-law), Calvin T. Hazlewood (35 years-old) B. B. Medders (age 27, sheriff of Palo Pinto County after Hittson), Vollintine Simons (age 22, Hittson's hired hand), Lt. Thomas Linaeus Stockton (age 27, Hittson's best friend), Peter Eldridge Slaughter (eldest son of G. W.)., Lt. James Buckner Berry and F. A. Ball (Hittson's lawyer). See list in Loftin, Trails Through Archer, 55; Cox, Historical & Biographical . 306, 653; Dallas Herald (Dec. 19, 1860); McConnell, West Texas Frontier 167, 174.
For Ross' remembering the recovery of Cynthia Ann Parker, see Dallas Herald June 19, 1875. The Diary of J. H. Baker, December 19, 1860 mentions the discovery of Cynthia Ann as they sat around the campfires.
Mrs. George Evans helped her husband handle the remounts for the Butterfield Stage depot near Camp Cooper. One of her sons was apparently Jesse Evans, the outlaw in Lincoln County, New Mexico, with Billy the Kid.
Peta Nocona, Petsa-no-ko-ni, was a revered headman, but not the chief of the Nocona Comanches. The Nocona meant "Wanderers." In revenge, Peta Nocona correctly concentrated his attacks on Palo Pinto, Young, and Jack counties. See Mayhall, The Kiowas; Hacker, Cynthia, 24.
Saturday, Palo Pinto. James Baker wrote the following after a meeting with the militia. He tried "to influence the election of a commander of the ranger co. that has been organized here. C. C. Slaughter [age 24] was elected Lieut. and consequently in command. I opposed his election as I do not consider him suitable for that office." Diary of J. H. Baker, January 19, 1861,
Many frontiersmen were Unionists. In February 1861 at the Texas Ordinance of Secession the vote was 14,697 against and 46,129 to leave the Union. Lamar, Fannin, Grayson, Collin, Cooke, Denton, Montague, Wise, Jack and Young counties, containing just over a tenth of the population, cast more than a fourth of the total votes against secession. However, Parker, Palo Pinto, Johnson, Erath, Comanche, Hamilton, Brown, Lampasas and San Saba voted 88% in favor of secession. The northwestern counties counted only slightly more than ten percent of their population in slaves as compared to a state average of almost 50 per cent. In Palo Pinto County, there were 107 votes for secession, none against. Floyd F. Ewing, Jr., "Origins of Unionist Sentiment on the West Texas Frontier," West Texas Historical Association Year Book, 32 (October, 1956: pp. 21-29).
On March 17, 1861, the John Robert Baylor regiment organized in Weatherford, Texas. Hamner was elected captain and George Baylor initially became Hamner's First Lieutenant. Company H, 2nd Texas Cavalry (later called the Texas Mounted Riflemen) marched out of the frontier with Baylor at its head. In May in San Antonio, the two Baylor brothers were officially commissioned to the regular Confederate Army for three years. John Robert Baylor had his ups and downs but ended the war as a newly commissioned Brigadier General heading to Texas to recruit his brigade. His brother George ended the war under arrest for murder. See Kenneth A. Goldblatt, "The Defeat of Major I. Lynde, U.S.A." Password 15:1 (Spring, 1970), 16, 22. On February 21, 1861 U. S. Army Captain T. S. Carpenter surrendered Camp Cooper to Texas Colonel W. C. Dalrymple. Metz, Selman 27.
Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" or "Sully" was a second son, the fourth child of Shapley Prince Ross and Catherine Fulkerson. Ross was born in Iowa but was raised on the frontier of Texas. He participated in three expeditions against the Indians in Texas and Indian Territory, once taking an arrow through his lung. He attended Baylor University at Independence, Tx, in 1856. The following year he attended Wesleyan University at Florence, Alabama (Mississippi?). In 1858, at age 20, Ross returned home and led 125 Indians in support of Major Earl Van Dorn, who took part of 2nd Dragoons against a Comanche village. Severely wounded in the battle (an arrow penetrated his lung), Ross returned and graduated from Wesleyan in 1859. One of the events for which he is most famous occurred in December, 1860. "[A]t the head of Pease river, as Captain of a company of sixty rangers, employed to guard the Western frontier, administered a blow that forever crushed the warlike Comanches [his force killed six women, two or three men and captured one woman and two children]. Immediately after the battle he claimed to have killed Peta Nocona, the last great Comanche chieftains (he changed his mind later) ... and restored to civilization Cynthia Ann Parker, who had been captured by the Comanches at Parker's Fort in 1836."


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Steelers smarting after dismal loss to Ravens
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Byron Leftwich trudged off the Heinz Field turf, hand on his aching ribs, an expression that became all too familiar during his last stint as an NFL starting quarterback three years ago.
The Pittsburgh Steelers refused to place blame on Sunday night's 13-10 loss to the Baltimore Ravens on the veteran backup, but Leftwich has been around long enough to know where the blame goes when things don't turn out as planned.
"I don't know if it's a setback, it's a loss," Leftwich said. "I don't really want to look at it as a setback. We just have to find a way to win next week."
Even with lowly Cleveland on the horizon, that hardly seems like a given.
The Ravens did more than give themselves a nice two-game cushion over Pittsburgh (6-4) with six weeks remaining in the season, they also exposed the Steelers' flaws with quarterback Ben Roethlisberger sidelined indefinitely with shoulder and rib injuries.
Pressuring Leftwich at every opportunity, the Ravens disrupted the unit that worked like an 11-man metronome with Roethlisberger under center. Leftwich completed just 18 of 39 passes for 201 yards. He ran for a stunningly athletic 31-yard touchdown in the first quarter but also threw an interception and was sacked three times.
Even worse, the Steelers converted just 5 of 17 (30 percent) of their third-down opportunities, well off their 49 percent conversion rate with Roethlisberger taking the snaps.
"We just never could put two, three, four, five, six plays together," Leftwich said. "We would make a big play and then we were right back to third-and-9, third-and-8 ... You've just got to be better on first and second down."
Something the Steelers failed to do with any regularity against a defense that loaded the line of scrimmage to stop the run, daring Leftwich - who hadn't won as a starter in more than six years - to be the difference.
Despite insisting he wasn't rusty, Leftwich underthrew a handful of open receivers and failed to sneak the ball past Baltimore cornerback Corey Graham on a drive-killing third quarter interception.
"I'm telling you the guy made a hell of a play on the ball," Leftwich said. "I wish I would have done something different in hindsight. I think I would just try to do a different throw, a better throw. That is part of football and I just can't allow that to happen."
Particularly if he wants to remain the starter.
The Steelers have another reliable backup in 37-year-old Charlie Batch, who is 5-2 while subbing for Roethlisberger over the years. Batch lacks Leftwich's big arm but his quick release would fit well into offensive coordinator Todd Haley's short passing game.
Batch warmed up briefly on the sideline after Leftwich took a blindside hit from Baltimore safety James Ihedigbo midway through the fourth quarter. Team doctors evaluated Leftwich for a rib injury but allowed him to return to the game.
Pittsburgh coach Mike Tomlin downplayed any disappointment in Leftwich's play, saying he thought Leftwich was "great" on a night the Steelers recorded their lowest point total at home since a 3-0 victory over the Dolphins in the middle of a torrential rain storm five years ago.
"He sustained some hits, but that's football, particularly when you're talking about this matchup," Tomlin said. "He did of nice job of communicating where he was and, more than anything, we just wanted to do a nice job of communicating."
A rematch with the Ravens looms in two weeks, though Pittsburgh's hopes of catching the Ravens for the AFC North title have all but evaporated. The Steelers would likely need to win in Baltimore - where they're just 2-7 in the last nine meetings - and have the Ravens stumble to the finish to host a playoff game.
It's a notion the Steelers cling to, one that seems at least remotely plausible if the defense can continue to thrive. While Baltimore was busy harassing Leftwich, Pittsburgh was doing the same to Baltimore quarterback Joe Flacco.
The Ravens managed a season-low 200 yards of total offense as the Steelers shut down running back Ray Rice - 20 carries for 40 yards - and never let speedy wide receiver Torrey Smith to get loose.
"We knew that it was going to be a defensive game coming in," linebacker Larry Foote said. "It normally is. We mixed up a lot of blitzes and zone. Our back end did a great job."
Something the defense will have to continue to do repeatedly until either Roethlisberger returns or one of the backups finds his footing. Leftwich's teammates believe he can still get the job even if he's now 0-7 in his last seven starts dating back to 2006.
"Byron Leftwich is a great quarterback and so is Charlie Batch," cornerback Keenan Lewis said. "We knew we had to come out, play hard and prevent (the Ravens) from scoring a lot of points. We just didn't get the win."
And Leftwich didn't get a monkey - 2,234 days in the making - off his back.
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