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Error code: DatasetGenerationError
Exception: ArrowInvalid
Message: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 127
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 145, in _generate_tables
dataset = json.load(f)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/json/__init__.py", line 293, in load
return loads(fp.read(),
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/json/__init__.py", line 346, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/json/decoder.py", line 340, in decode
raise JSONDecodeError("Extra data", s, end)
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Extra data: line 2 column 1 (char 9063)
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1995, in _prepare_split_single
for _, table in generator:
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 148, in _generate_tables
raise e
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 122, in _generate_tables
pa_table = paj.read_json(
File "pyarrow/_json.pyx", line 308, in pyarrow._json.read_json
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 127
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1027, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1122, in _download_and_prepare
self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1882, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2038, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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Alcohol Withdrawal Treatment, Symptoms, and Timeline
Learn If Detox Is Needed
Alcohol Withdrawal
Timeline & Treatment
Drug Withdrawal Symptoms, Timelines, and Treatment
What is the Alcohol Withdrawal Timeline?
Alcohol withdrawal can be broken down into three stages:
Stage 1: Anxiety, insomnia, nausea, and abdominal pain characterize this stage, which begins 8 hours after the last drink.
Stage 2: High blood pressure, increased body temperature, unusual heart rate, and confusion come with this stage, which begins 24-72 hours after the last drink.
Stage 3: Hallucinations, fever, seizures, and agitation come with this stage, which tends to begin 72+ hours after the last drink.
All symptoms tend to decrease within 5-7 days.
Alcohol Withdrawal Side Effects
Detox Timeline
Almost all American adults over the age of 18 have drank alcohol at some point. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) estimates close to 87 percent of the adult population has had at least one drink in their lifetime. Unlike many other addictive substances, alcohol is legal to those over age 21 and readily available.
Many people drink alcohol on a regular basis without any issues. In fact, Mayo Clinic publishes that drinking in moderation (no more than one drink a day for a woman and two for a man) may even have some health benefits. Patterns of binge or heavy drinking, (drinking more than four drinks for a woman or five for a man in a span of a few hours, or more than seven drinks a week for a woman and 14 per week for a man) can contribute to a problem with alcohol, according to NIAAA. Stats on alcohol abuse and its effects include:
An estimated 16.6 million American adults in 2013 had an alcohol use disorder (AUD), NIAAA
One out of every three visits to the emergency room is related to the consumption of alcohol, International Business Times
Alcohol consumed in excess was responsible for one out of every 10 deaths in working age adults (ages 20-64) from 2006-2010, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes.
Alcohol is the third-leading preventable cause of death in America according to NIAAA, as 88,000 people each year die from an alcohol-related cause.
As someone drinks, levels of dopamine are elevated in the brain, resulting in a flood of pleasant feelings. Alcohol can elevate mood, increase self-confidence, and lower inhibitions. As alcohol leaves the bloodstream, these feelings and dopamine dissipate.
Repetitive alteration of the dopamine levels in the brain can cause it to expect the presence of alcohol and therefore discontinue its production at previous levels without the substance.
The more a person drinks, the more tolerant to alcohol the body becomes and the more dependent the brain may be on its interference. When alcohol’s effects wear off, someone who is dependent on it may suffer from withdrawal symptoms that can range from mild to life-threatening.
Alcohol withdrawal is likely to start between six hours and a day after the last drink, as reported in American Family Physician. Withdrawal can be broken down into three stages of severity:
Stage 1 (mild): anxiety, insomnia, nausea, abdominal pain and/or vomiting, loss of appetite, fatigue, tremors, depression, foggy thinking, mood swings, and heart palpitations
Stage 2 (moderate): increased blood pressure, body temperature and respiration, irregular heart rate, mental confusion, sweating, irritability, and heightened mood disturbances
Stage 3 (severe/delirium tremens): hallucinations, fever, seizures, severe confusion, and agitation
Alcohol withdrawal is highly individual, and it is influenced by several factors, such as length of time drinking, the amount consumed each time, medical history, presence of co-occurring mental health disorder, family history of addiction, childhood trauma, and stress levels. The use of other drugs in conjunction with alcohol can also influence withdrawal and increase the potential dangers and side effects. The more dependent on alcohol a person is, the more likely the person is to experience more severe withdrawal symptoms. Each person may not go through every stage of withdrawal, therefore.
The most serious form of alcohol withdrawal is delirium tremens (DTs), which occurs in 3-5 percent of individuals in alcohol withdrawal, according to the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), and it can be fatal without treatment.
DTs may not start for a day or two after alcohol leaves the bloodstream, and it can occur without warning. It is primarily for this reason that alcohol withdrawal should be closely supervised by a medical professional who can continually monitor vital symptoms and ensure the individual’s safety during detox.
Stopping drinking “cold turkey”is never recommended without medical supervision. Alcohol withdrawal can be fatal, as the brain and central nervous system experience a rebound after being suppressed by alcohol repetitively for an extended period of time. Sudden removal of the central nervous system depressant can be life-threatening.
There is no specific and concrete timeline for alcohol withdrawal; however, it is typically held that withdrawal will follow the following general timeline, as detailed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM):
Roughly 8 hours after first drink: The first stage withdrawal symptoms may begin.
After 24-72 hours: Symptoms generally peak in this time period, and stage 2 and 3 symptoms can rapidly manifest.
5-7 days later: Symptoms may start to taper off and decrease in intensity.
Beyond the first week: Some side effects, particularly the psychological ones, may continue for several weeks without treatment.
During detox, the first step is usually to monitor and control the physical symptoms and reach a stable point. This is often accomplished via medical detox, which may use medications to treat symptoms like nausea, dehydration, seizures, and insomnia. Benzodiazepines are commonly used during alcohol detox to reduce some of the potential over-activity the central nervous system may undergo as it attempts to restore its natural order. Blood pressure, heart rate, respiration, and body temperature should all be closely monitored in a medical detox center, and steps can be taken to ensure that they remain at safe levels.
At times, alcohol usage may be slowly reduced over a period of time through a detailed tapering schedule that should be set up and supervised by a medical professional. In this way, alcohol can be weaned out of the system in a controlled manner in order to avoid more dangerous withdrawal side effects.
Someone dependent on alcohol may also suffer from malnutrition. Supplements and the implementation of a healthy diet and regular sleep schedule may improve withdrawal side effects and help the body heal faster.
After the physical symptoms have been controlled, mental health professionals can help reduce some of the more powerful emotional side effects of withdrawal.
Anxiety, depression, and potential suicidal ideations can be managed by medications coupled with therapy and counseling sessions. Preventing relapse is an important part of alcohol treatment, and 12-step groups and individual therapy can offer continued support through detox and beyond.
Currently, three medications are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to help with alcohol-related cravings in the treatment of alcohol withdrawal and dependency: disulfiram, naltrexone, and acamprosate. These medications work to manage withdrawal symptoms and discourage individuals from drinking again. Naltrexone blocks opioid receptors in the brain, thereby reducing cravings and the potential rewards that may come from drinking, while acamprosate is believed to work on long-term withdrawal symptoms. Disulfiram can make people sick if they drink, thereby making drinking undesirable. A fourth medication, topiramate, also shows promise for the treatment of alcohol use disorders by also potentially interfering with the way alcohol “rewards” drinkers, as reported in the journal Addiction Science and Clinical Practice.
Alcohol withdrawal should not be attempted without professional help, as symptoms can pop up and magnify very quickly. Even after the physical effects of alcohol withdrawal are under control, protracted withdrawal, or the continuation of emotional symptoms and cravings, can continue without the right level of support and treatment.
A medical detox program can provide the most comprehensive and supportive environment during all stages of alcohol withdrawal and detox.
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Withdrawal Timelines for Club Drugs
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John (Francis) Russell Fearn : Within That Room! , 1946
(Cover of the rare Italian Locked Rooms collection, which includes the novel by Fearn)
Published at 1946 with name and surname original, Within That Room!, is still, by someone defined more than a mystery, a horror novel. But, instead, it is a mystery novel with a strong and steady connotation of the gothic genre.
John (Francis) Russell Fearn was born in 1908 in Worsley in Lancashire (UK). He published many novels, especially westerns and science fiction . In this last genre, he excelled, winning the masses of readers, under the pseudonym Vargo Statten. Other pseudonyms, signed novels of a different kind: Thornton Ayre, Polton Cross, Geoffrey Armstrong, John Cotton, Dennis Clive, Ephriam Winiki, Astron Del Martia, etc. ..
Fearn also published 26 novels under various names, of different genres, among them, several contained Locked Rooms.
Fearn died in 1960.
Within That Room! is still essentially a room that kills. It’s the old subject invented by Eden Phillpotts with The Grey Room, and then cooled by other authors, including for example The Door to Doom by John Dickson Carr.
Here is a heroic nurse of Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), which, immediately after the second world war, rather unexpectedly inherits from a geezer uncle, famous entomologist, a site surrounded by an aura strange and disturbing: Sunny Acres . Vera Grantham, does not believe the old stories of ghost that surround the castle inherited from his uncle Cirrus; yet she is located just before the hostility of the people, when you know she is the new owner of the manor: no one wants to go with her, so young woman ends up accepting the offer of a young man who does not know, an airman in the RAF, veteran as she, Dick Wilmott, who is trying to open a radio repair shop. On the shabby car of him, they reach the castle, inhabited only by two servants, the Failworth , he the butler, she the cook and the housekeeper.
The young woman, newly arrived, hopes to find a peaceful atmosphere, and instead the two servants, begin to press her to sell the property in order - they say - to avoid the problems by the girl's uncle, Cirrus Merriforth, become mad . More, however, the two servants, and in particular the housekeeper , trying to terrorize the younger, get as result her apathy. One evening, the girl surprises without being seen, the two servants intent in the basement to pump a mysterious liquid from a manhole in the stone floor of the cellar and to open all sorts of containers at their disposal: the two are wearing gas masks to protect themselves from poisonous and stinking fumes, immediately convincing the girl who is spying them, to seek some help. So the next morning she goes to Godalming, a place near where is the shop of Dick Wilmott and prays the young man, who is secretly in love with her, to go with her to the castle, pretending to be engaged. Mrs. Failworth does not believe at all that the two say, realizing that the game of terror and the sale of the castle can not result as they had intended: the young does not sell, even better, together with the young , she wants to visit the cursed room, that had led to the madness her uncle, and at which is said to manifest a ghost, and at June 21, also an evil spirit. They made unrivet the door, whose jambs are nailed and whose cracks are sealed with adhesive tape, the two entering into: it is a completely empty room, filled to capacity with dust and dominated by a large fireplace, the bottom of which has collapsed. Soon, they begin to have serious breathing problems, and also see a ghost materialize, grinning. They have to leave the room, to go back to being able to breathe and to reflect with clear mind.
More and more convinced by the attitude of the servants, that they are involved in some kind of plot against them, the two young people come to the law firm that handled the transfer of property from his uncle to his niece and come to know that such a chemical analyst, Harry Castairs, offered to detect the castle and around the property, about fifteen thousand pounds; connecting to the profession of the buyer clues concerning the mysterious liquid pumped from underground and smelly stench that accompanies the extraction, are convinced of the existence of some underground source, corroborated by the discovery in a book from the library of the castle, news about the castle, built on an ancient volcanic fault apparently.
The two suspect now that those feelings of suffocation and the stench of rotten eggs, is due to sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide, two substance present in volcanic gases, and the gas is pushed up into the room through the chimney flue: they prove that the unhealthy atmosphere in the room does not exist when the servants are engaged in other activities and do not suspect that the two young people should enter the room. The ghost manifests anyway, and then, to find the explanation, before they attribute the cause to a mysterious substance on the ceiling of the room, then clinging to ivy climbing of the tower, Dick is hoisted out to see from the outside the window glass, finding a drawn figure corresponding to that which is manifested in the damn room.
In the book found in the library of the castle is missing a map of the manor, torn by someone, so the young man goes in search of another copy of the book, which located at an acquaintance of his, not realizing that the cellars are accessed only by the main staircase, but also by a ladder of service.
Again a lot will happen, and continuous revelations will accumulate with each other until the dramatic end, at the torture chamber of the castle.
Novel with a great atmosphere, and with a brisk pace, does not keep its promises to the end, deflating soon, and especially giving the answers too early, so that the expectation of the final revelation is replaced by that concerning the lives of two young men. You will know about the culprits from the beginning and still a few surprise covers only the role of one spouse to the other, and that of the analytical chemist. Moreover, the two young men have not won deservedly the combat with the murderers of his uncle, as they are able to get the better just because one spouse rebels himself to the other while Dick and Vera are helpless, chained and point of being tortured with red-hot embers.
A final liberator, very cinematographic, dominated by the outdated system, but rather elementary and childish ghosts, bad domestic (obviously as in the tradition of the mystery novel super-fashioned), inheritance disputes, treasures, mysterious roots, hell poisons.
Novel does not belong to a distant time, and for this reason excusable, but even to 1946, as if 30s never existed, Fearn realizes a ghost comedy, tucking the reason for the room that kills, but too early revealing the mechanisms deadly , and then removing bite to the story. And setting the novel in the way of the stories of Nancy Drew, in which women are always defenseless beings, engaged couples are knights who rushed to defend the maiden and if there are castles, surely the servants are required to be treacherous.
It 's interesting to read only for lovers of Locked Rooms, who want to add another Room to the list of read and understood works.
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George Meirs: Le Cadavre assassin, 1912
George Meirs is an author now forgotten.
The lodging of his novels is that of the so-called realistic mystery, but the French connotations set it apart from other novels of the period (early '900): first, it features adventure, to bring it closer to many other novelists of the period (Leblanc, Sauvestre, Leroux ); then there is a tendency to present a hero who is the protagonist of all the adventures (or nearly so); and finally there is sensationalism typical of the novels of the period, which is cloaked in mystery, in haunted castles, supernatural crimes, cursed jewels. For more Meirs has a significant portion of the sub-genre of the Locked Rooms and Impossible Crimes: is one of its greatest exponents, before Chesterton.
But who was George Meirs?
It was one of the many pseudonyms (AM, Asmodé Dayle, Héma, Adrien Méria, Jean Mires, William Thook, Weal) by Adrien Jean Remy Machaux. He was born May 21, 1878 in France. After studying at the School of Fine Arts in Paris, he became a draftsman. This characterization is in common with other French-speaking novelists, most notably Stanislas-André Steeman, who before exploring the genre literature, were designers.
Under the pseudonym of Adrien Meria, he worked for Le Rire, La Fin de Siècle, Frou-Frou and L'Assiette au Beurre. But above all, he founded a satirical magazine, which became very famous: The Gifle.
In 1911 George Meirs began, for the publisher Albert Mericant, the series of adventures of the famous English detective William Tharps. The first books, with covers signed by him, were written in collaboration with J.M. Darros, aka Edmond Fricot: L’Enigme du train 13,1912; La Carte sanglante,1912; Le Cadavre assassin, 1912.
"William Tharps, the famous British policeman" (as titled his adventures, the most important series of detective novels in Italy, before the advent of the Mondadori publishing house, that is, "Detective Novels" Sonzogno), is a clone of Sherlock Holmes . Logical, esthete (as the hero by Shiel), Tharps is a graduate in Medicine (coincidentally like Professor Bell, a model for Holmes, which professes to be a former student). He also has his Watson, the lawyer Pastor Lynham; and as Holmes, he has an implacable enemy, Ludovic Marmont. If the mystery and sensationalist characterization are a common feature, even espionage is explored thoroughly in the adventures of Tharps. After 22 novels, Meirs abandoned William Tharps Meirs for a younger hero, Walter Clark, that was involved in a few of them.
During the war, George Meirs wrote the Novelization of Les Vampires, directed by Louis Feuillade, which told the struggle between the journalist Guerande and a mysterious gang of criminals whose leaders were called Le Grand Vampire, Venenos, Irma Vep, satanas.
His last work, a novel scandal over parliamentary life, Monsieur le depute et sa Maitresse, dates back to 1924. Until his death in 1962 in Reims, very sick, he did not write anything.
The first novel, co-written with JM Darros was Le Cadavre assassin (=The cadaver murderer, 1912). It 's the debut of Tharps that so pimp, is presented as the most direct and accredited heir of Sherlock Holmes, as a former student of Professor Bell that had provided the model for Conan Doyle for his famous detective. In fact, in the first pages Tharps who is depressed by the death of her former professor of medicine, states that "only a nice murder" could bring him up. The profession on the beauty of the crafted crimes, is a bit the leitmotif, which we will find expressed in Pierre Boileau, who will inherit a lot from Meirs, but derives his "profession of faith" directly from the aesthetics of crime, discussed in " Murder considered as one of the fine arts " by Thomas De Quincey.
And a nice murder happens to him, when his Watson, the lawyer Pastor Lynham, sees the title of a newspaper, which tells about a mysterious murder at Netley, a small town near Southampton: the late Duke of Willingham, waiting to be buried, who had watched over by a priest and an altar boy in a church closed and barred from the inside, he would have killed the priest, stabbing him. The oddity is the fact that the church had been barred with chains and padlocks from the sacristan, the person of the utmost confidence, which had remained in the sacristy, while in church watching over the deceased priest and an altar boy. The sacristan, questioned further by the Tharps, will reveal some shocking details that had anticipated the crime: the fall of a candle at the foot of the dead, the shroud that had stood before the eyes of terrified onlookers, and a current that had invaded the church. And, after the crime, the fact that was cut the ring finger of right hand by the priest, to steal a ring. This particular, however, would coincide with the release of the sexton of the church, which has charge of the portal shut behind him and to call for the intervention of some people passing by the church, which burst into the church armed, determined to find the murderess. But there is none in the church. At this point, the one that makes its way, is the supernatural assumption. From which it dissociates Tharps, who begins to investigate.
First of all, equipped with a large lens, aided by his assistant, who raises the dead man's head cold, he looks at the coffin beneath the body, revealing fragments of short hair blacks. And then the fingerprint of mud on the shroud. To keep in mind is that the presence of these signs is inexplicable: no rain for several days and there is not mud in the streets; and yet there is mud. From where he was taken?
From the initial investigation of Tharps does not show anything that would contradict the only three hypotheses about the death of the priest: He was assassinated by a body that was animated at the moment, falling asleep again later in the sleep of death; or was murdered by the sacristan, such Southam, which would threaten the altar boy, not to speak, or else ...; or was murdered by another person, but they would have to find the strength to penetrate there, through the walls or the door, and not being able to completely access the bell tower. So what? The Inspector Gregger suspects the sacristan, because according to the logic can not be more responsible; also the popular rumor speaks about the fact that the sacristan's wife was the mistress of the priest. Motive of murder it is the jealousy? Or / and the greed (because part of the goods would have gone to the woman, dying the priest)?
Tharps is doubtful. Both he and Linham hosted by a friend of Tharps, the banker Elijah Callon, they find out that he himself had become intimate acquaintance of the old duke Horace Jesson; and how the old duke, feeling close to death, he ordered that at the study of his notary, in addition to being read other bequests, was handed an envelope to his friend that it should be read only after he died: the old Duke confessed to have done something reprehensible. In addition, we learn that in the ducal residence was in a room in which opened a secret panel by the hilt of a dagger old, used like a key.
The dagger can not be used for this purpose because through it the priest was murdered and then this knife is in the hands of the police, and then Tharps by the soft wax, produces a mold from which he forges a kind of key that allows him to open a secret compartment, in which, however, he does not find anything about was said from the old Duke.
The magazine must have been opened before them by others. Even by those who long ago, during the night, had terrorized the old man to the point to make him mad and then cause him from death. At that time nothing was stolen except for the value of the trinkets, so to accredit that the robbery was ruled out.
Gregger is ready to stop the sexton, while Tharps does everything to save him not believing him guilty. Tharps suspect a particular person, when he learns: the priest before his death had called “The Virgin Mary” and that "He had killed him," and especially when he learns that the church before it became the place of citizen worship, had been the old chapel of the ancestral castle that the duke had decided to destroy.
An attempt to get away Tharps and his subsequent assassination attempt, make it clear to the amateur detective who someone fears him so much that he groped to shoot: was found the shell of the bullet, a caliber 6, shot from a Webley pistol. It’s also that which directs the investigation of the police officer in one direction, supported by other findings and discoveries, After stopping the culprit, Tharps will explain the whole case and also the incredible dynamics of the murder.
Beautiful novel of the past, it blends skillfully even if naively, feuelliton, betrayed loves, disowned children, an heir who returns, a priest who dies inexplicably, a large inheritance, secret passages, two castles among which one destroyed, an old chapel of the destroyed castle, a pavilion of the guards where you see strange lights, ghostly apparitions, etc ..
All mixed up atmosphere and tension that makes reading the novel with passion, even though the style is that of a book written in 1912.
Direct seems to me the affiliation of this novel from Le Mystère de la chambre jaune by Gaston Leroux, who apparently impressed with his solution many of the French writers who found him. Too many the leitmotifs of this novel: disguises and double identity; the issue of the curse - here, the contract thanks to a cursed dagger - which affects members of a family (a theme that will be picked up by Carr and Derek Smith for example); the theme of the return of the heir (present in most of the best novelists Anglo-Saxon); secret passages and hidden rooms (a characteristic example at Leblanc); the issue of the assassination taken almost as a work of art (it will return in Boileau), not by a common criminal but by a sublime murderer; the fact that the cadaver can in turn kill or his ghost appear (Boileau alone, and then with Narcejac, Leo Duvic, but also Hake Talbot); the disappearance of a finger (Steeman).
The solution of the Locked Room, despite takes place through a secret passage (escamotage that complaints the age of the novel, and which in the following years will be completely abandoned, but that is still present in Connington and then in a novel by Herbert Brean, one of the friends by Carr), however it’s spectacular, because it confirms the astonishing fact that the murderer got up from the coffin and just wanted to kill the priest, even to steal the solid gold ring from the finger of the right hand by the priest, although the duke was already long dead.
All this is topped by considerations that make us rediscover the old-fashioned goodness of the investigation, acute observations that must immediately bring to mind Holmes, whose Tharps is credited to be the follower, which makes this novel very enjoyable.
Besides the murderer sets up an ingenious plan (you do not appreciate it at first glance, but it is in fact) to steal the murder weapon. It anticipates here, almost before a century, that trick at the base of "Fracture", thriller of 2007 with Anthony Hopkins: to wipe out the murder weapon. In the film, the weapon is changed between the cop's pistol and the killer's pistol, here the weapon, an antique dagger, is only used to kill, but the purpose is the same: to ensure that it is taken over by the police. In this way, the murderer, in the novel by Meirs, subtracts the only key to access not only to the magazine, but also to the secret passage in the church, making sure that it is taken over by Scotland Yard, and then subtracted to investigation on the spot. Really ingenious!
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Perhaps a case of providential protection was never more noticeably exemplified in Milton than on Wednesday evening of last week. W. W. Conwell, cashier of the National Bank, with his wife and four year old son in a buggy, stopped in front of S. J. Wilson & Son’s store to get a new bridle bit. While Mr. Wilson was after the bit the bridle was taken from the horse, and when he returned with the bit and attempted to put it into the horse’s mouth, the animal began to rear and plunge. Mr. Conwell was out of the buggy, but Mrs. Conwell and son were sitting in it. As the horse started Mr. Wilson seized her by the nostrils but could not stop her. Seeing he could not stop the animal, and believing he was going to get hurt if he held on, he let go and in so doing was thrown against a post, hurting one of his arms and legs somewhat. The horse being relieved sprang into a run and made for the dock. Then there was exhibited the awful spectacle of an unmanageable runaway without a bridle, hitched to a buggy in which were a lady and a little boy. The spectators unable to render any assistance, held their breath, and looked on in horror, expecting each moment to see the occupants thrown out and killed. But before reaching the river the horse turned on the dock and ran amongst the piling strewn all over the wharf. Mrs. Conwell and son were thrown out but, providentially, in a clear space between the piling and were comparatively unhurt. The buggy was completely demolished. The horse ran to the upper part of Federal Street and was captured near Wilson’s hardware store.
F. H. Bishop has contracted with J. C. Clendaniel to build a modern dwelling and barn on the farm he recently purchased near Reynold’s Mill.
William Workman & Co. are receiving cans at the station cannery.
Mrs. Fannie Davis, of Philadelphia, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Collins.
W. H. Chandler, of Scranton, Pa., is a Milton guest.
Capt. Charles Cannon, wife and daughter, Ethel, were Milton visitors on Sunday. Captain Cannon returned to his home at Camden, N. J., on Monday. Mrs. Cannon and daughter will remain indefinitely.
William Tomlinson, attorney-at-law of New York City, is visiting his father and many friends.
Capt. George Goodwin is on a business trip to New York, Massachusetts and Maine.
Lawrence, the oldest son of Editor Crouch, while playing at the station on Sunday afternoon was pushed from the higher platform, and in falling his head struck a log, producing a partial concussion of the brain. Dr. J. A. Hopkins has the case in hand, and the boy is improving.
Alfred King, Levy Courtman for the Tenth Representative District, is said to be quite ill with typhoid fever.
The street leading to Lavinia’s Camp ground has been cleared of its grass; but the mushrooms are springing spontaneously on the ground. The “Camden contingent” will soon shout them down when the meeting commences.
Mrs. Florence Johnson will operate the boarding tent at Lavinia’s Camp, and we are told that Joseph Morris[i], contractor and builder, will have charge of the “food pen,” and G. W. Atkins of the confectionary.
On Sunday the Rev. W. D. Wilson preached at the M. E. Church both morning and evening; and at Zion in the afternoon; and the congregations were treated to good plain gospel sermons. They showed their appreciation of the speaker by the rapt attention they paid to his discourses. Mr. Wilson was entertained by Mrs. Emma Johnson.
Two baskets of home raised tomatoes sold last week for $1.00 per basket.
John Heavelow, colored, died on Wednesday, the result of paralysis, aged 66 years, 10 months and 2 days. Funeral services were held in the A. M. E. Church in north Milton, on Friday afternoon by the Rev. Hill; assisted by the Rev. M. P. Jackson, and interment in the colored cemetery, near town, by J. R. Atkins.
Gertrude W. Palmer, wife of Robert Palmer, died near Whitesville on Wednesday, of blood poison, aged 22 years, 3 months and 17 days. Funeral at White’s Chapel on Friday afternoon by the Rev. W. P. Compton and burial in the adjacent cemetery by S. J. Wilson & Son.
Catherine Coverdale, wife of John Coverdale, of near Bowers Beach, died on Saturday of paralysis while visiting her daughter, Mrs. Fred Salmons, near Milton. Deceased was 56 years old. The remains were transmitted to Barratt’s Chapel on Monday, where the funeral services were held by the Rev. Kelso, of Magnolia, and sepulture made in the historic cemetery adjoining by S. J. Wilson & Son.
George W. Calaway died near Oakley on Sunday, quite suddenly, aged 64 years, 3 months and 16 days. Funeral services were held at his late residence on Tuesday morning by the Rev. Dryden, of Greenwood, and the remains inhumed at Bridgeville, by S. J. Wilson & Son.
Wilhelmina B. Hill, wife of Theopolis Hill, died near Coolspring on Monday morning of tuberculosis, aged 57 years, 4 months and 15 days. The funeral was held at Coolspring Presbyterian Church, by Rev. Compton, on Wednesday afternoon, and sepulture made in that cemetery by S. J. Wilson & Son.
The Second Quarterly Conference of the M. P. Church was held on Monday evening.
The wheat and scarlet clover yield is reported to be extraordinary in this locality; and not withstanding all the pessimistic predictions of failure in the corn crop, that cereal is looking well and promises an abundant yield.
[i] This is the first mention of in the Milton News letter, to this point, of Joseph B. Morris, a trustee of the Milton M. P. Church and the presumed sponsor of one of the windows, “In Memory of Annie M. Morris.”
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Batken
Batken town is an administrative centre in the south-west of Batken Province of Kyrgyzstan located about 240 kilometres far from the west of Osh. The total area of town is 5180 ha which includes 1143 ha of own territory without personal plots and 4037 ha of agricultural land.
In 1934 Batken was formed as a village. Afterwards, in 2000 Batken took the status of a town with a population of 10987 and the first mayor of town became Sultanov Mamasydyk Mamadievich. In 2009, the area of town was 205 km2 which consisted of 51,8 km2 of city lines and 153 km2 of rural areas with a population of 5760 people. During this period, the largest village was Kyzylzhol with a population of 3207 people. Compared with 2009 (23134 people), the population increased gradually in 2017 reaching at 24400.
Since 2017 the following villages have merged with the town: Bazar-Bashy, Bulak-Bashy, Kelechek, Kyzyldon, Kyzylzhol and Chetbulak.
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Hazard signs on the dotted line for rebuilding Real in Madrid
MADRID: Eden Hazard was unveiled as a Real Madrid player after putting the finishing touches on his “dream” move from Chelsea.
Hazard has reiterated his desire to win many titles with Real Madrid after completing his £130 million transfer to the Spanish giants on Thursday.
The 28-year-old Belgium forward, who was announced as a major summer signing for Real last Friday, passed a medical in Madrid before signing his five-year contract alongside club president Florentino Perez.
Hazard then emerged at the Bernabeu where, witnessed by tens of thousands of Real fans, he pledged to help restore Los Blancos to former glories following a trophy-less season at home and in Europe.
After being introduced by Perez, Hazard said: “I want to win many titles with Real Madrid, in this shirt. This has been my dream since I was a child and now I’m here. I just want to enjoy this moment.”
Hazard then visited his new changing rooms before donning the famous white shirt of Real and returning to the Bernabeu pitch to demonstrate his ball-juggling skills and waving to the crowd.
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Rogers' Rangers
From Project Seven Years War
Hierarchical Path: Seven Years War (Main Page) >> Armies >> British Army >> Rogers' Rangers
1 Origin and History
2 Service during the War
3 Uniform
3.1 Privates
3.2 Officers
3.3 Musicians
Origin and History
In the summer of 1755, Robert Rogers raised a company of rangers that originally belonged to the Blanchard’s New Hampshire Regiment. Recruits were in fact experienced woodsmen coming from the New Hampshire border. This company then became independent from Blanchard's regiment and became known as “His Majesty’s Independent Companies of American Rangers”.
In March 1756, the unit was increased to two companies. In July of the same year, it was further reinforced to three companies.
By the spring of 1757, the unit counted seven companies and Robert Rogers had the rank of major.
In 1758, the unit counted about 750 men.
In 1759, the standing orders of the unit were:
Don't forget nothing.
Have your musket clean as a whistle, hatchet scoured, sixty rounds powder and ball, and be ready to march at a minute's warning.
When you're on the march, act the way you would if you was sneaking up on a deer. See the enemy first.
Tell the truth about what you see and what you do. There is an army depending on us for correct information. You can lie all you please when you tell other folks about the Rangers, but don't never lie to a Ranger or officer.
Don't never take a chance you don't have to.
When we're on the march we march single file, far enough apart so one shot can't go through two men.
If we strike swamps, or soft ground, we spread out abreast, so it's hard to track us.
When we march, we keep moving till dark, so as to give the enemy the least possible chance at us.
When we camp, half the party stays awake while the other half sleeps.
If we take prisoners, we keep 'em separate till we have had time to examine them, so they can't cook up a story between 'em.
Don't ever march home the same way. Take a different route so you won't be ambushed.
No matter whether we travel in big parties or little ones, each party has to keep a scout 20 yards ahead, twenty yards on each flank and twenty yards in the rear, so the main body can't be surprised and wiped out.
Every night you'll be told where to meet if surrounded by a superior force.
Don't sit down to eat without posting sentries.
Don't sleep beyond dawn. Dawn's when the French and Indians attack.
Don't cross a river by a regular ford.
If somebody's trailing you, make a circle, come back onto your own tracks, and ambush the folks that aim to ambush you.
Don't stand up when the enemy's coming against you. Kneel down. Hide behind a tree.
Let the enemy come till he's almost close enough to touch. Then let him have it and jump out and finish him up with your hatchet.
Never use your gun when you can finish him with your hatchet.
Service during the War
In May 1756, Rogers and his Rangers took part to the expedition against the French outposts on Lake Champlain.
On June 17, Rogers and his band lay hidden in the bushes within the outposts of Fort Carillon (present-day Ticonderoga) and made a close survey of the fort and surrounding camps. He reported an important concentration of French troops around the fort.
At the end of June, Robert Rogers with 50 of his rangers embarked in five whale-boats on Lake George. They carried their boats over a gorge of the mountains, launched them again in South Bay and reached Lake Champlain. They managed to pass unnoticed in front of Fort Carillon and Fort Saint-Frédéric (prsent-day Crown Point). On July 8, Rogers' party captured and sunk two French sloops, making 8 prisoners. They then hid their boats on the western shore and returned on foot with their prisoners.
A party of 45 Mahican warriors of Stockbridge joined Major Robert Roger's Rangers and covered British settlements along the Housatonic River.
In the middle of January 1757, a detachment of the unit was sent out on a scouting party from Fort Edward towards Fort Saint-Frédéric. They spent two days at Fort William Henry in preparation for their raid. On January 17, they set out, marching on the frozen Lake George. They encamped at the Narrows. Some men were sent back, thus reducing the party to 74 men. On January 18, the party continued to advance towards Lake Champlain. On January 19, Rogers' party reached the west shore of Lake Champlain, about 6 km south of Rogers Rock, they marched a further 13 km north-west and bivouacked among the mountains. On January 20, the party marched north-east, passed Fort Carillon undiscovered and stopped at night some 8 km beyond it. On January 21, they marched 5 km eastward under a drizzling rain and reached the banks of Lake Champlain near Five Mile Point. They tried to ambush ten sledges going from Fort Carillon to Fort Saint-Frédéric, capturing three of them but letting the rest escaped to Carillon. Alarm being now given in Carillon, Rogers immediately ordered his men to return to their previous encampment and dry their guns. They then retreated but were ambushed by a party of 89 French regulars and 90 Canadians and Native American warriors. The rangers managed to retrace to the hill they had just descended. A firefight then lasted several hours. Towards evening, Rogers was shot through the wrist but the remnants of his war-party (48 effective and 6 wounded men) were able to withdraw under cover of night. In the morning of January 22, Rogers and his rangers finally reached Lake George. The wounded were sent to Fort William Henry on a sledge while the rest encamped at the Narrows. On January 23, Rogers' party reached Fort William Henry.
In August, after the capitulation of Fort William Henry, the unit was stationed on Rogers Island near Fort Edward.
In March 1758, the unit ambushed a French-Indian column and, in turn, was ambushed by enemy forces during the so-called skirmish of Snow Shoes. The unit lost 125 men in this encounter, as well as eight men wounded. Only 52 survived. Rogers estimated 100 killed and nearly 100 wounded of the French-Indian forces; however, the French listed casualties as total of 10 Indians killed, 17 wounded and 3 Canadiens wounded.
In July, the rangers took part in the expedition against Carillon. On July 5, it formed part of the vanguard with the 80th Gage's Regiment of Foot. On July 6, after the disembarkation of the British army, the regiment along with the provincial regiments of Fitch and Lyman were sent forward to reconnoitre. They drove a French advanced party from the field.
On July 8, the regiment fought in the disastrous battle of Carillon. At daybreak on July 9, the British army re-embarked and retreated to the head of the lake where it reoccupied the camp it had left a few days before.
By November 1, Fort Edward was garrisoned only by one battalion of the 60th Royal American Regiment of Foot and four companies of Rogers' Rangers.
In March 1759, a detachment of 30 Rogers Rangers and some Native American warriors reconnoitred French positions around Carillon and attacked a party of carpenters. D'Hébecourt immediately sent a party of 30 French and some Native American warriors to relieve the carpenters. In this skirmish, five carpenters were killed and six wounded while one Native American warrior and three French soldiers were wounded. The rangers had a few men wounded and one sergeant captured. From this prisoner, the French learned that an engineer was with the British detachment to draw a plan of the fortifications and that the British planned to attack Carillon in the spring.
In September, Amherst ordered the unit to destroy the Abenaki settlement of Saint-François from which attacks on British settlements were frequently being launched. The village was located on the Saint-François River a few km above its junction with the Saint-Laurent. Amherst explicitly instructed Major Robert Rogers not to kill or hurt any women or children. Rogers and 200 rangers set out in whaleboats from Crown Point. On 10 September, eluding the French armed vessels, then in full activity on Lake Champlain, the rangers came to Missisquoi Bay, at the north end of the lake. Here Rogers hid his boats, leaving two friendly Native American warriors to watch them from a distance, and inform him should the enemy discover them. Rogers then pushed straight for Saint-François.
On October 4 at 2:00 a.m., Rogers and his rangers burst in upon the settlement half an hour before sunrise. About 7:00 a.m., the affair was completely over. The Abenakis had lost about 200 men while 20 of their women and children had been taken prisoners. Soon, 15 of the prisoners were freed. Rogers retook five British captives.
Note: According to Abenaki oral traditions on the attack on Saint-François (see Bruchac, M. (2006) Reading Abenaki Traditions and European Records of Rogers' Raid. Vermont Folklife Center), most of the men were absent from the village. On October 3, some Abenaki women washing in the Saint-François River spotted wood chips floating on the water. In addition a warning had been given to the Abenaki by the Mahican ranger Samadagwis, and most of the village had managed to leave before the attack, going into hiding near the ravine at Sibosek. A few stayed at the Council House loading up muskets to fight back. Others who remained behind perhaps were too late to get away or disbelieved the warnings. The Abenakis themselves state that they lost approximately 40 people who stayed behind, 32 died, 22 of them women and children. The rangers took at least 6 Abenakis captive.
The rangers then made all haste southward, up the Saint-François River, subsisting on corn from the Native American town till, near the eastern borders of Lake Memphremagog, the supply failed, and they separated into small parties, the better to sustain life by hunting. The enemy followed close, attacked Ensign Avery's party and captured five of them, then fell upon a band of about 20, under Lieutenants Dunbar and Turner, and killed or captured nearly all.
The other bands eluded their pursuers, turned south-eastward, reached the Connecticut River, some here, some there, and, giddy with fatigue and hunger, toiled wearily down the wild and lonely stream to the appointed rendezvous at the abandoned Fort Wentworth at the mouth of the Upper Ammonoosuc. However, the provisions requested by Rogers at this place were nowhere to be found.
Leaving his party behind, Rogers made a raft of dry pine logs, and drifted on it down the stream, with Captain Ogden, a ranger, and one of the captive Native American boys in an attempt to send relief to his men.
Five days after leaving his party, Rogers reached the first British settlement, Charlestown NH, or "Fort Number 4," and immediately sent a canoe with provisions to the relief of the sufferers, following himself with other canoes two days later. Most of the men were saved, though some died miserably of famine and exhaustion. The few rangers who had been captured were killed by the Native Americans.
On March 17, 1761, General Amherst ordered Lieutenant Jacob Farrington to sail on the Greyhound with nine Native American warriors and five white men from Rogers' Rangers. They joined the expedition against the Cherokees. This detachment served under what became Quintin Kennedy’s “Indian Corps,” a light infantry unit consisting of Native American allies and elite British and provincial soldiers, and was disbanded at war's end.
Rogers arrived in South Carolina with another eighteen men in August, after the fighting was over and after treaty negotiations had begun. But now Rogers held a commission as captain in the South Carolina Independent Companies, replacing Captain Paul Demere, who had been killed following the capitulation of Fort Loudoun a year earlier. Captain Rogers would spend the next fourteen months recruiting in North and South Carolina. In October, he lobbied, unsuccessfully, to become the next superintendent of Indian affairs for the southern department.
In the summer of 1762, Rogers wrote Amherst seeking a leave. He was wholly unaccustomed to the sweltering heat of the South. He had “the Fever and ague” and his health was suffering. Amherst agreed, and by December, Rogers was back in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Amherst re-commissioned Rogers a captain in the New York Independent Companies, but these were soon disbanded at war’s end.
Rogers reassembled a new Ranger unit for Pontiac’s Rebellion.
This unit had no formal uniform, especially before 1758. On January 11, 1757, in a letter to Captain Robert Rogers, John Earl Loudoun wrote:
"...augment the Rangers with five additional Companies...each company to consist of one Captain, two Lts, One Ensign, four Sergeants and one hundred privates... They are likewise to provide themselves with good warm clothing which must be uniform in every company, ...And the Company of Indians to be dressed in all respects in true Indian fashion..."
The “uniform” described in the following table rather represents the most popular variants.
Uniform Details
Ranger blue Scottish bonnet or black or green bonnet
Grenadier not applicable
Neckstock white
Coat short green jacket or green or grey hunting smock
Collar n/a
Shoulder Straps n/a
Lapels n/a
Pockets n/a
Cuffs n/a
Turnbacks n/a
Waistcoat dark green
Breeches brown or green or buckskin
Gaiters brown or green
Leather Equipment
Crossbelt natural leather
Waistbelt natural leather
Cartridge Box natural leather
Bayonet Scabbard none
Scabbard black
Footgear mocassins
Troopers were armed with a “Brown Bess” musket and a hatchet.
no details available
Ranger units fielded no musicians.
Ranger units did not carry colours.
May, R. and G. A. Embleton: Wolfe's Army, Osprey Publishing, London, 1974
Parkman, Francis: Montcalm and Wolfe, Collier Books, New York, 1884
Rafm Miniatures - Rangers In-20, 21, 25
Ross, John F., War on the Run: The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier. New York, 2009.
Teixeira, Ed, Standing Orders for Rogers' Rangers - French and Indian War, Citadel, Winter 1999
Todish, Terry, Ranger History, Rogers' Rangers
Wikipedia - Rogers' Rangers
Larry Burrows for additional information on the raid on the Abenaki settlement of Saint-François, on the uniforms of the unit and on the Native American company
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A Parallel Universe
Photography and other observations
Tag Archives: music industry
20 TikiKiti tips on how to make a music videos
Talking to JimmyK at TikiKiti I got an idea on how they look at music. He offers plenty of advice to would-be video producers — mist of these tidbits of advice seem obvious. JimmyK says we’d be surprised at home many are clueless. Considering how many fan-made videos I’ve seen, I don’t think I’d be surprised. JimmyK says one thing about TikiKiti; “It’s all about the music and we’re all about how you visually interpret popular music.”
When looking through these tips it’s easy to see the three categories TikiKiti uses when evaluating a good versus bad video. These are, production quality; technical quality, such as editing; and creativity. All three seem very subjective but TikiKiti has developed some guidelines on how they rate these videos. More on that later. For now, here’s twenty tips on how to make a better music video — arranged, sort of, by the categories mentioned:
Good camera, lighting and production design matters as much in a performance video as in a narrative video.
Start and end your video with the song — no intro, no end credit roll, no bloopers reel.
For a great performance video, don’t just copy the artist — use your talent and your imagination for the performance, the scene design and the camera.
Use multiple sources for a mashup video. We judge on the quality of your editing, shot selection, appropriateness for the music and overall effect.
To add motion to use shots use a motion stabilization system, skateboard or bike.
Good camerawork and good lighting are important. Include “pools of light” in your sets and shots.
Try to keep the gratuitous twerking to a minimum.
Good camerawork and good lighting are important. Include camera moves to follow the action.
The more action, the better. The more movement, the better. The more cuts, the better.
Give clear credit to the band: song name, album (if any), artist, label and year.
We don’t do promotional videos: a product, a religion, an organization, your friend’s band … even a good cause.
A great mashup video should have a point (what you are trying to say) and a unifying theme.
We don’t do “slice-of-life” videos such as train fanning, vacation or scenery videos.
We don’t do travelog/vacation, dog, cat, Cosplay or anime videos.
No pitch shifting or modification to the music — No dialog or narration during/over the video.
No lyrics videos.
For the most part, we don’t display music videos by unsigned artists. We exhibit videos of artists interpreting other peoples (usually popular) music.
Don’t use shots of performing in stage or in a dance studio. Drug use, exploitation, putting down or degrading others — seriously, we don’t want to see it.
Have fun, meet cool people, change the world.
Have fun, but take your work seriously. It’s art.
Find TikiKiti on Twitter, and their YouTube Channel.
This entry was posted in Music Videos and tagged fan produced videos, fan-made videos, independent music artists, Making a music video, music industry, music videos, TikiKiti, Unofficial music video, YouTube on September 17, 2015 by MarkD.
More Tips for Indie Music Video Producers
Tips of the day:
Keep it clean: don’t use nudity, graphic or disturbing images.
Don’t start your video with an introduction of dialog or silence.
And three excellent mashups to Eminem’s Phenomenal:
This entry was posted in Music Videos and tagged fan produced videos, fan-made videos, independent music artists, music industry, music videos, Unofficial music video, Vidding, YouTube on June 21, 2015 by MarkD.
Mashup videos are all over the place. The quality ranges from superb to dismal. YouTube is full of sources. Since most take images from there anyway, try to pick more than just a few. How to make a good mashup video:
Use clips from a variety of sources.
Have a unifying theme; make it make sense.
As always, use creative editing well timed with the music.
This entry was posted in Music Videos and tagged fan produced videos, fan-made videos, independent music artists, Jesse Locke, music industry, music videos, Unofficial music video, Vidding, YouTube on June 20, 2015 by MarkD.
Do not make a video of any of these personal themes:
Your great summer vacation.
Walking around some fascinating city.
Having fun in your back yard.
Your friends and family will love seeing these, but most people will find them kinda boring. Actually, between you and me, your friends and family will pretend to be interested, but they won’t like them either.
This entry was posted in Music Videos and tagged fan produced videos, independent music artists, music industry, music videos, Unofficial music video, Vidding, YouTube on June 19, 2015 by MarkD.
The Music Video Online
The music video has been around for a couple of generations now. Most people who listen to music also like to watch their music. Since the launch of Vevo in 2009 music video viewership has been increasing. As of the end of 2013 music videos viewership on Vevo reached 55 billion views globally, up 33% from 2012. Monthly views at the end of 2012 was approximately 5.5 billion.
The number of people watching music videos has spurred Google to create Google Play using their vast collection of music videos. In fact, of the millions of videos streamed every day on YouTube music videos are the most popular. Forty percent of YouTube’s audience watches music video — more than any other category.
Specially, who watches videos is not as surprising as where they are watched more. The U.S. only accounted for 12.3 billion views in 2013. In the UK the views are around 2.6 billion. In each case the majority of views is on a smartphone, tablet, or a connected TV. But are these the only places where people watch music videos? What about the rest of Europe, or Asia? Who is watching music videos and what are they watching?
For the most part all of the music video information available in the sites linked above are from record labels promoting artists under contract with them. They each have a YouTube channel and remarkable number of views to show for their collections. But one type of video that has been ignored and not included in any statistical breakdown is the fan made — or unofficial — music video.
There is a type of fan made music video called Vidding that has been around for some time. But this title doesn’t seem to fit the number of unofficial music videos made every day by students for class projects or just for fun by countless others. There is a app called VideoStar that helps people make their own music video and upload it to YouTube. It seems to be used mostly by pre-teen kids and only has a few effects, but its popularity highlights the popularity of the fan made video.
Expect to see more of these unofficial videos made by fans as they will likely come to dominate the music video scene. More about this in other posts.
This entry was posted in Music Videos, The Business of Music and tagged fan produced videos, independent music artists, music industry, music videos, Unofficial music video, Vidding, YouTube on April 12, 2015 by MarkD.
The Future of the Music Industry
Part 1 — The less than golden age
The 1990s were a heyday for the music industry. The major music labels were enjoying record profits, mostly from CD sales. 1999 was the pinnacle for the industry [1]. The graph in Figure 1 shows how steep the loses were after 1999, when digital music downloads (mostly illegal) started to encroach on their profits — and their way of doing business.
Figure 1. US Recorded Music Revenue, 1973-2009. Recording Industry Association of America (2011).
Seen as greedy and bloated, major label bigwigs have been depicted as evil overlords. In his article for Wired Magazine, Tong Long says, “If there’s an industry where the Marxist exhortation for the workers to control the means of production makes sense, this is it.”[2] Indeed, many artists consider making a deal with the major record labels a deal with the devil.1 This attitude has long been a part of the relationship between artists and business people. We are now witnessing the major labels modifying their approach to new technologies in order to maintain control over their product. What is actually happening is the opposite of what many believe the Internet would accomplish. Instead of technology democratizing the music market it has increased the disparity.[3] What really happened can be explained in the volume of music that has been available for digital download. In 1982, with the introduction of the CD catalog, sales began to rise. Prior to 1991 there were between 7,000 and 8,000 new releases a year. With the advent of digital recordings in 1991 new releases of music have occurred every year. In 2006 there were over 75,000 new releases. With so much new music available, the consumer is inundated and confusion reigns.[4]
Unashamedly, Napster2, known as a peer-to-peer (P2P) site, allowed users of their site to download anything that was uploaded to their site. Napster quickly became the most popular place to download copyrighted music. This action put them directly in the sights of the Recording Industry Artists of America (RIAA), the legal arm of the recording industry that represented the major labels.
Caught unprepared to handle the degree of illegal digital downloads, the industry resorted to using extreme legal measures. The RIAA went after anyone and everyone suspected of illegally downloading music. Often called a “witch hunt” the results were mixed but the public relations was a disaster.[5] Tactics changed when court rulings began to go against the RIAA for their practices.[6]
Regardless, Napster was destroyed.
Apple Inc. and iTunes™
In 2000 Apple purchased a little known software program from Casady & Greene called SoundJam. Apple took SoundJam and turned it into iTunes. In 2001 iTunes was created.[7] Later that year the first iPod™ was introduced and soon became the icon of digital music players. It wasn’t until 2003 that the iTunes Music Store was launched, selling songs for 99 cents each.[8] The music industry agreed to Apple’s terms on pricing and distribution of profits. Their concern with loss of revenue overshadowed their understanding of the digital environment. They saw this as a way to stop the bleeding of their profits. In the chart on above it’s evident that the advent of digital sales did not restore profitability. Digital sales became another source of income for the labels, but not their savior.[9]
Reeling from the hemorrhaging of profits, and licking their wounds after negotiating with Apple, the industry leaders regrouped to solidify their position as gatekeepers. As other companies started to sell digital music downloads (Amazon.com soon followed), the industry was unresponsive. Although many believed the Internet, and digital downloading specifically, would be the end of the major music label, this was mostly a myth. Digital downloads did encroach on the profits for the majors but their survival was never seriously in doubt.[10] For several years now, many articles have appeared in academic and trade circles that discuss how the Internet will open music creation and distribution, heralding a utopia for artists. In his paper, Gustavo Azenha (2006) was correct when he states that, “new technologies ultimately tend to reinforce existing social hierarchies and relations.”[11]
The same model used to promote music before the Internet exists today. In an effort to strengthen their position as gatekeepers the majors are clamping down on copyright infringers everywhere; especially on sites such as YouTube. However, this has not stopped piracy or other unauthorized uses. In fact, visiting YouTube is an example of just what they are up against. YouTube’s Terms of Use [12] spells out what can be posted on their site and how the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is used to protect themselves.[13] But there are loopholes. Much of the fan-created music videos on YouTube use copyrighted music. As long as the creator does not use this video for anything commercial, and keeps the video on YouTube only, the music video will likely stay on YouTube. Again, there are exceptions that are discussed in Part 2.
Part 2 — Music and Copyrights
Who owns what?
Music copyrighting is a complicated maze of content creators; those that write the music, song publishers, recording, and distribution. In his book, The Plain and Simple Guide to Music Publishing, Randall Wixen says, “Under United States copyright law, a musical work is protected by law and inures to the benefit of the authors once it has been ‘fixed in a tangible medium from which it may be reproduced.’ This means once a writer records the work into a media from which it can be reproduced in his or her absence, it is copyrighted.”[14]
This all seems simple enough and especially easy for an artist wanting to copyright their work. However, there are other types of royalties that must be considered when trying to acquire the permission to use someone’s music. First, mechanical royalties: This is a fee payable for the use of a performing arts (PA) copyright; a copyright for the underlying composition. Then there is the sound recording (SR) copyright. If you’re trying to get the rights for a particular recording — such as the single from an album — you will need the SR copyright. In the United States, performing arts copyrights are fixed at a statutory rate, whereas sound recording copyrights are negotiated between the artists and the record label.[15] In addition, there are performance royalties whenever a song is performed live on TV, and radio, as well as restaurants, nightclubs, bars, and other venues that can be considered remotely public.
The type of licensing required for using copyrighted music in a film or video is the synchronization right. It is necessary to acquire two sets of rights to put into a film or video. First, clear publishing rights from the publisher — the PA copyright. Next, the master recording, or SR copyright (that song from the album) will be needed to complete your project. Synchronization rights are not something you can acquire by filling out a form (at least, not yet). Many artists are very particular about the types of images that are displayed along with the music and lyrics from their songs. It’s common for an artist to not want to be associated with pornography, politics, or products.[16]
Why Music Videos?
Why is the acquisition of synchronization rights singularly important when producing music videos? There is a simple one-word answer: YouTube. As of this writing, “YouTube is the music video champion holding a 38.4% share of total views across all partner channels and search related content.”[17] YouTube is planning its own music streaming service, rumored to become active in 2014.[18] Although it is not certain what types of videos will be streamed — amateur (fan-produced) or professionally produced — the service may likely evolve to include all types of production. Considering the sheer volume of amateur music videos this seems like a possibility.
Listening habits by age and gender
With the birth of the popular music video on MTV in 1981, the music industry has never been the same.[20] Music videos were produced as a way to promote an artist — they were commercials. Videos became elaborate and expensive. A successful music video could make or break any new artist. The power MTV exerted over the selection of successful artists began to irritate many in the music industry.[20] They were criticized for the homogenization of music and many artists began to shun the station.[21] Eventually, MTV, seeing the music video declining as a source of influence, began to change their programming. Musicians no longer needed a successful video. The major labels were more particular about how and where to spend money on videos as the Internet became the new venue for up-and-coming artists to promote their music inexpensively.
In April 2005, YouTube became a reality when the first video was uploaded. In October 2006 Google purchased YouTube. At the same time, YouTube, “presented agreements with media companies in an attempt to escape the threat of copyright-infringements lawsuits.”[22] In 2010, YouTube was the third most visited site behind Google and Facebook and the dominant provider of online video.[23] Today, it is where people in the music purchasing demographic of 14-45 year olds listen to, and watch, music.
Everyone wants to be a star
YouTube has become many things to many people. But there is one thing it is above all else; a place to show off. This is where people come to say, “Look at me!” Done in myriad fashions, one way is to use it as a place to exhibit a video portfolio. The influence of Hollywood, and the desire to have a career producing film and video, has added to the lure of this profession.[24] A certain type of music video — the amateur fan video — has become a path to a career in media production.
Part 3 — The Music Industry and the Internet
The Music industry evolves
One label that has had their share of conflict with YouTube is Warner Music Group (WMG). Pulling their music from YouTube in 2008, because of conflicts over royalties, they renegotiated with Google to move their videos back on YouTube. However, this has not stopped them from using a wide net to stop any and all music videos of contracted artists from being uploaded. All fan videos that use WMG artists have their audio track silenced. Even the artist Neil Young has complained about their tactics.[25]
In 2013, WMG continued their attack on YouTube by targeting Fullscreen for using music videos without paying licenses or paying royalties. “Fullscreen is a multichannel network that operates and aggregates thousands of YouTube channels, with content that is comprised mainly of cover song videos, according to the complaint.”[26] What Fullscreen did was cross the line between fan videos and commercial use. According to YouTube’s Terms of Service, paragraph 4e, the following is applicable: Prohibited commercial uses do not include: uploading an original video to YouTube, or maintaining an original channel on YouTube, to promote your business or artistic enterprise: showing YouTube videos through the Embeddable Player on an ad-enabled blog or website, subject to the advertising restrictions set forth above in Section 4.D; or: any use that YouTube expressly authorizes in writing.[27]
Practices such as this by the industry reflect a reactive approach while not recognizing changes the way people now listen to music.
Speaking to Jesse Locke of AMZ Productions in Bend, Oregon, a video producer with firsthand experience dealing with YouTube, WMG and royalties; he calls the major labels, “a closed club. More like a fraternity with lots of barriers.”
As with many other independent producers looking for a career in video and film production, Locke started making fan videos. When he did one for a song owned by WMG it was automatically removed from public viewing on YouTube. Later he did another song by the Black Keys — the song Next Girl on Nonesuch Records. He was contacted by the label with a cease and desist notice. However, there was a provision that would allow him to continue keeping the video on YouTube: He would have to pay $500, $250 for the publishing rights and $250 for the synchronization rights. Under these circumstances, the video could only be posted on the Black Keys YouTube channel.3 An important concept to understand when acquiring synchronization rights is called MFN, or most favored nation. This means when one party, the publisher, asked Locke for $250, the label will likely ask for the same.[28]
The Internet has leveled the playing field for many industries. Entire retail businesses have disappeared. Blockbuster Video is out of business because of downloading and streaming of movies online.[29] The major record labels are hoping to recoup the type of profits they had in the late 1990s as they invent new ways of managing their products. The product they have is not just the final production of a song, but also the licensing of that song. All too often this product is set aside until the legal team needs to use it as a hammer.
Successful artists are being abandoned because they do not fit into a narrow definition of modern pop music success. Record labels have a wealth of music at their disposal. Because of a short-sighted approach to marketing, a focus on short-term profits, then add the lack of direction, means there will always be a defensive and reactive approach to changes in public listening habits. The major record labels need to consolidate their efforts and take a leading role in changing how people acquire access to producing a film or video.
Part 4 — Conclusion
As negative as the information presented may seem, the music industry will survive. All stories published about their demise is fiction. That said, real leadership is needed to consolidate certain aspects of the industry. The remaining music labels, those controlling the vast majority of all music in the world, can join their libraries for the purpose of licensing through an Internet portal.
A recent article in the L.A. Times details the amount the U.S. copyright industries contributed to the overall gross domestic product (GDP) in 2012. For the first time since tracking began, copyrights contributed over one trillion to the GDP and have increased every year for the last five years. “The study tracks the economic effect and contributions of U.S. industries engaged in the creation and distribution of computer software, video games, books, newspapers, periodicals and journals, as well as motion pictures, music, radio and television programming.”[30]
Copyrights are part of the intellectual property development boom that keeps the U.S. economy moving ahead of the rest of the world. For the nation as a whole, intellectual property-intensive industries support at least 40 million jobs and contribute more than five trillion dollars to, or 34.8 percent of, the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP).[31]
Copyrights are a strength of the music industry; one needed to maximize in order to better adapt to the changing market of popular music consumption. These media giants have vast libraries of copyrighted music at their disposal. By being more flexible and focused on synchronization licensing, the music industry — artists, songwriters, music labels, and distributors — will likely see an increase in the use of their vast library for music video production. More fan-produced music videos are being made daily. By using a central portal for access to an online database, and requiring only a nominal fee for acquiring copyrights, the industry will see an increase in legal acquisition of copyrights. At the same time more artists and songwriters will see their catalogs being used more frequently.
Chris Butler, songwriter and performer in the 1980s band, The Waitresses, spoke of his back catalog of music still controlled by a large music label. Discussing YouTube and the proliferation of fan produced music videos; he was dismayed that his older music catalog is not accessible to new generations accustomed to finding their music online. How can newer listeners discover his music if his record label does not consider how people now consume music?
Understanding the importance of access to copyrights is the key to building upon the continued growth of music sales. The music labels must enter into a coalition with the artists that create the content. Creating a centralized database, where anyone and can purchase the copyright to any song not in the public domain, would be giving the independent producer a tool to bring their music video or film to fruition.
As already mentioned, YouTube is positioning itself to become a major source for music streaming on the Internet — and this includes streaming music videos. As competition increases, many players in the music streaming industry — Pandora, Rhapsody, Spotify, or others — will likely be consolidated with larger companies.[32] This market is getting ready to grow as more people in the 18-34 year old demographic start to create more videos to build their portfolios in the hope of getting recognition.
Although Apple’s iTunes did not stop piracy, it did stem the flow of pirated music and made iTunes the world’s largest music retailer — online or offline. Creating an online site where all music across music labels and history can be researched and the copyright acquired — for a reasonable price — will mean the copyright industry will continue to be a major contributor to the U.S. economy. This also creates an opportunity for musicians and songwriters to have a new source for access their music — and get paid for it in the process.
This database does not mean the creation of an iTunes-like experience or shopping cart that is a one-stop shopping experience for all copyrighted music. There are too many variables for this to happen. When looking for another analogy as to what this online database can look like think of the Apple’s App Store and approval process for apps used for the iPhone™ or iPad™. Apple has had much criticism for this process but it has been very successful in weeding out poorly produced apps and unacceptable content. In the highly competitive world of smart phone apps, Apple’s App Store is still held as an example of doing this right.[33] Artists need to know their music will not be used for something they do not like.
Ultimately, the success of this idea will come down to the producer who considers making films and videos. These are the people that will pay for the soundtrack to their films and music videos. They are the ones using YouTube to build their portfolio of visual projects. They want the recognition a successful music video can bring to them. Facilitating this process, the music labels can build goodwill and profits they have been looking to regain over the last two decades. It’s time for the major record labels embrace the Internet for the powerful tool it is.
1 Of the artists interviewed for this paper most requested anonymity because of their relationship with a major label or the expectation of a contract with one.
2 As of this writing Napster is part of Rhapsody and can be found at http://www.rhapsody.com/napster
3 This video can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCYPXWXj8hg&list=PLF44F7244DB0B0F70
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[8] Cheng, Jacqui, (2012, November 23). iTunes through the ages. ArsTechnica. Retrieved from http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/11/itunes-through-the-ages. September 2013
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[12] YouTube, Terms of Service, Community Guidelines. (2013, November 13). Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/t/terms.
[13] US Copyright Office (1998, December). Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Retrieved from http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf. September 2013.
[14] Wixen, Randall D., (2009). The Plain and Simple Guide to Music Publishing, 2nd Edition (Kindle digital version) p 2. Hal Leonard Corporation, 7777 W. Bluemound Road, PO Box 13819, Milwaukee, WI 53213, 2009.
[16] Holmes, David, Andrew Bean, Sharon Shattuck. (2013). The music industry explained. PandoDaily. Retrieved from http://pandodaily.com/2013/08/05/who-killed-the-music-industry-an-interactive-explainer/. November 5, 2013
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[24] Lockard, C. Brett, Michael Wolf (2012). Employment outlook: 2010-2020: Occupational employment projections to 2020. Monthly Labor Review, January 2012. Bureau of Labor and Statistics, p 89. Retrieved from http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2012/01/art5full.pdf.
[25] Van Buskirk, Eliot, (2009, September 28). Warner’s Music returns to YouTube following nine month hiatus. Wired Magazine, Business. Retrieved from http://www.wired.com/business/2009/09/warner-music-group-signs-youtube-deal/. November 13, 2013.
[26] Pearson, Sophie & Christie Smythe. (2013, August 6). Warner Music sues Fullscreen over YouTube video use. Bloomberg. Retrieved from http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-06/warner-chappell-music-sues-fullscreen-over-copyrights.html. November 13, 2013.
[28] HubPages (2010, June 25). MFN: What “All In” means for a music supervisor. Retrieved from http://mateof.hubpages.com/hub/MFN-What-All-In-Means-for-a-Music-Supervisor. September 2013.
[29] Walker, Rob. (2013, November 6). Blockbuster is closing all of its video rental stores. Good Riddance. Yahoo News. Retrieved from http://news.yahoo.com/blockbuster-closing-buh-bye-205039449.html. November 21, 2013.
[30] Verrier, Richard. (2013, November 19). U.S. copyright industries add $1 trillion to GDP. The Los Angeles Times. November 19, 2013. Retrieved from http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-fi-ct-intellectual-property-20131119,0,3616966.story.
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[32] Resnikoff, Paul. (2013, September 25). The 13 most insidious, pervasive lies of the modern music industry. Digital Music News. Retrieved from http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2013/09/25/lies. November 24, 2013.
[33] Hughes, Neil. (2013, November 18). Apple’s iOS App Store still handily trumps Google & Amazon offerings in new analysis. The AppleInsider. Retrieved from http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/11/18/apples-ios-app-store-still-handily-trumps-google-amazon-offerings-in-new-analysis. November 24, 2013.
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MONDAY, Jan. 17, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Power outages are becoming more frequent in the United States, and a new study highlights one consequence of prolonged blackouts: carbon monoxide poisonings.
Looking at major U.S. power outages between 2007 and 2018, researchers found that carbon monoxide poisonings spiked during those disruptions, versus the days immediately before.
The pattern is not surprising, said lead researcher Dr. Christopher Worsham. Last year, when a winter storm swept across Texas, causing a massive power outage, carbon monoxide poisonings shot up. More than 1,400 people reportedly ended up in the emergency department, and at least 11 died.
"The big cold snap in Texas gave us a dramatic example of what can happen," said Worsham, a critical care doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, in Boston.
But while there is "no shortage" of such stories, he said, the issue had not been systematically studied before now.
Carbon monoxide (CO) is an invisible, odorless gas produced when fuels — including gasoline, coal, wood and natural gas — are incompletely burned. When people breathe in CO, it replaces oxygen in the bloodstream and can prove fatal.
During a typical year, CO poisoning sends more than 20,000 Americans to the emergency room, and kills upwards of 400, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"It's a silent killer," said Katherine Pruitt, national senior director for policy at the American Lung Association. "But these are preventable tragedies."
Often, CO poisonings are related to furnaces and other indoor appliances that are faulty or improperly ventilated to the outdoors.
During major power outages, people often fall victim after running power generators indoors, or bringing outdoor heat and cooking sources — like charcoal grills and campfire stoves — into the home. In some cases, people tried to use a gas stove as a heat source, or ran a car in a closed garage, in an effort to warm up or charge batteries.
It's critical, Pruitt said, to keep those devices out of the home.
"Don't burn anything inside unless it's intended to be used indoors, and has proper ventilation," she said.
For the new study, Worsham's team used federal data to identify 581 major power outages that happened between 2007 and 2018. On average, they lasted 48 hours.
Then, using an insurance claims database, the researchers found 799 emergency department visits for CO poisoning that happened within 10 days before or 10 days after the onset of an outage. The large majority — 580 — struck after an outage began.
When outages lasted more than 48 hours, the study found, CO poisonings peaked on day three. At that point, they were nine times more common, versus 10 days before the outage began.
The findings were published Jan. 13 as a research letter in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Tracy Fox, a spokesperson for the American Red Cross, said it is critical for people to have a working CO detector on each level of the home — plus backup batteries in the event of a blackout.
And while power generators can provide electricity during an outage, Fox said that using them properly is vital. "I think many people don't realize power generators should only be run outdoors," she said.
Pruitt, of the lung association, said that people who rely on power for medical devices, such as supplemental oxygen, should plan for emergencies. Talk to your doctor about what to do should you lose power, she advised.
Symptoms of CO poisoning include dizziness, headache, nausea and confusion. Fox stressed that people who notice those symptoms, in themselves or their children, should immediately get to fresh air then call 911.
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, 2020 was a record-setting year for power outages — with the average American going eight hours without power, versus a little over three hours in 2013. Weather events, like hurricanes and ice storms, were often the culprit.
Worsham echoed the advice on what individuals should do to prevent CO poisoning, but also said the root causes of power outages need to be addressed: weather extremes related to climate change and the nation's aging power grid.
"We need to invest in our infrastructure for many reasons," Worsham said. "This is one more."
The American Red Cross has more on power outage safety.
SOURCES: Christopher M. Worsham, MD, pulmonologist and critical care doctor, Massachusetts General Hospital, and instructor, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Tracy Fox, spokesperson, American Red Cross, Washington, D.C.; Katherine Pruitt, national senior director for policy, American Lung Association, Chicago; New England Journal of Medicine, Jan. 13, 2022
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Twitter’s mood predicts the stock market?
October 20, 2010 Paul Raven
I can’t really reword this one to sound any less (or more) incredible, so I’m gonna go straight to quotes:
The emotional roller coaster captured on Twitter can predict the ups and downs of the stock market, a new study finds. Measuring how calm the Twitterverse is on a given day can foretell the direction of changes to the Dow Jones Industrial Average three days later with an accuracy of 86.7 percent.
“We were pretty astonished that this actually worked,” said computational social scientist Johan Bollen of Indiana University-Bloomington.
You and me both, Johan, you and me both… but then, it’s a weird old interconnected world we live in, isn’t it?
“We’re using Twitter like a psychiatric patient,” Bollen said. “This allows us to measure the mood of the public over these six different mood states.”
As a sanity check, the researchers looked at the public mood on some easily-predictable days, like Election Day 2008 and Thanksgiving. The results were as expected: Twitter was anxious the day before the election, and much calmer, happier and kinder on Election Day itself, though all returned to normal by Nov. 5. On Thanksgiving, Twitter’s “Happy” score spiked.
Then, just to see what would happen, Mao compared the national mood to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. She found that one emotion, calmness, lined up surprisingly well with the rises and falls of the stock market — but three or four days in advance.
As daft as it sounds on the surface, this is probably pointing at some sort of core truth; it’s pretty much established that markets are emergent systems born of human interaction, so why shouldn’t you be able to get an idea of where things are going by finding a way to sample the mood of the planet?
That said, I’d very much like to know how wide-ranging the Twitter sampling was: did they use multiple languages, for instance, or just English? I suspect that Twitter’s demographic in geographical terms is still very white, Western, male and middle-class, too; would these results be strengthened by using more data from wider sources, or has a sort of accidental cherry-pick taken place? (White Western middle-class males are more likely to be stock owners or investors of one stripe or another, I’m guessing, so there’s probably some sort of inherent bias in using Twitter as a sample source.)
Even so, I’m fascinated by research that treats human civilisation as a system-of-systems with observable properties, and the rise of social networking is probably the catalyst for this growing field. Whether knowing how the system reacts and correlates will allow us to control it more effectively is another question entirely, of course… feedback is a powerful thing, but as any guitarist will tell you, it comes with risks. 😉
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The Iranian elections: is democracy viral?
June 15, 2009 Paul Raven 2 Comments
The past weekend’s hot news story is still smouldering strongly today: the Iranian elections (and the resulting landslide victory for incumbent president Ahmadinejad) have resulted in accusations of vote fraud (which isn’t entirely surprising) and street riots and protests from supporters of the principle opposition candidate, Mir Hossein Mousavi. Throw in some state censorship in the form of social networking websites and text messaging services being blocked, and you’ve got a story that’s not entirely unfamiliar in recent years. [image by Shahram Sharif]
Of course, I have no idea whether or not the election was rigged or not, though I have my suspicions. What interests me most about this story is how it paints a very different picture of Iran to the one we’ve been fed in the last decade or so. Far from being a monolithic Islamic state in thrall to Ahmadinejad, there’s evidently enough support for reform to threaten the incumbents; after all, a mere handful of angry reformists does not a riot (or an electoral recount) make.
How long this has been the case is beyond my knowledge, and I wish I had the time and opportunity to research it further. But the ubiquitous presence of peer-to-peer communications (and their inevitable censorship by the state) is telling, and I find myself wondering if perhaps the talk about democracy being a viral concept has some weight to it after all. Have services like Twitter and Facebook simply given a voice to those already opposed to the incumbent Iranian government? Or have they acted as a catalyst, enabling a population whose access to information and discussion was previously more closely controlled to see that there are alternatives within their grasp?
These aren’t questions with simple answers, of course, and there are many other factors at play in a world where everything is changing faster than ever before. But I think it’s fair to suggest that the internet is one of the strongest disruptive forces on the gameboard, especially in countries where state control of media has been far more crude and heavy-handed than here in the privileged West.
I fully expect we’ll be seeing a lot more stories like this from developing nations in years to come, as affordable communications technology pulls aside the heavy curtains of the state… it’s good news for oppressed citizens, certainly (at least in the short run), but for global stability? Maybe not so much.
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A new use for social networking technology: examining patents
February 23, 2009 Edward Willett
The possibilities (beyond merely sharing the latest embarrassing YouTube video or cat-based humour) inherent in today’s social networking technology are just beginning to be explored. A group of researchers in Pennsylvania suggests one possible use is to help deal with the enormous backlog in patent applications (a backlog that directly impacts how quickly new technology makes its way into society) by helping to identify what’s known as “prior art” (which, as Wikipedia–which seems a particular apt source for this item*–explains, “constitutes all information that has been made available to the public in any form before a given date that might be relevant to a patent’s claims of originality. If an invention has been described in prior art, a patent on that invention is not valid.”). (Via Science Blog.)
“The burgeoning backlog of patent applications at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), several hundred thousand in any year, has created an urgent need for Office reform,” the team explains, “Review of related application reference material, or prior art, is a necessary but time-consuming step in the patent process.” If prior art can be identified early in the assessment process then a patent claim can be discarded quickly and the patent examiner move on to the next claim.
Peo and colleagues explain how the USPTO initiated a pilot project that uses social networking software to allow groups of volunteer review experts to upload prior art references, participate in discussion forums, rate other user submissions and add research references to pending applications. The aim was to allow the actual patent examiners to focus on reviewing the most relevant prior art associated with any particular submission and so streamline the overall application process.
The pilot project, Peer to Patent, has proven successful enough (here’s its one-year report) that similar approaches are being investigated by the UK Intellectual Property Office and the European Patent Office.
*Particularly apt because there’s an unofficial patent review site called Wikipatents.
(Image: Drawing from Canadian patent awarded to my grandfather-in-law)
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Chessmen that debate every move
When I first read about the “Democratic Chess Set” I thought it was going to be some kind of political satire aimed at the U.S. Democratic Party (“It’s just like regular chess, except you throw borrowed money at everything that moves while yelling ‘Stimulus! Stimulus!’. The first player to use up $1 trillion wins!”). But instead (Via Gizmodo):
Democratic Chess is a work in progress, the idea derives from Lewis Carroll´s “Through the looking glass”. The book is based on a game of chess played on a giant chessboard with fields for squares. Most main characters met in the story are represented by a chess piece, with Alice herself being a pawn.
Democratic Chess is Chess game where each figure is made of an IP-WLan-network camera each capable of looking around, listening and talking to the other figures as well as the 2 real person players. With this technology there are many different ways how to play the Game, the next move can be decided in a democratic way among the Figures or they are allowed to discuss with the players and each other the next moves, but at the End the 2 player make the moves.
It’s the brainchild of designer Marco Marcovici, who says the technology is already working and he hopes to have a prototype shortly…but there’s no detail beyond what’s quoted above.
Now, personally, being the committee-adverse type that I am, the thought of what’s essentially chess-by-committee appals me. Still, it’s an interesting concept, combining elements of social networking and telepresence with an ancient game.
What other board–or other–games could it be applied to?
(Image: ArtMarcovici.)
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The future of social networking
July 8, 2008 Tom James 1 Comment
Where is social networking going exactly? Will Facebook still exist in a recognisable form in 100 years? (I’d say certainly not). Some people are of the opinion that “social networking” is a con designed to persuade people to part with marketable information:
Perhaps [people will] realise that web 2.0 is not there to “connect you with the people around you” and not about some pseudo-academic “social graph”. That’s the bait. The switch is the big data centre pumping adverts based on your age, where you live, who you’re friends with, what you like doing for fun, your politics and your grandmother’s shoe size.
This leads to many interesting debates about who owns the data held on social networking websites, and how much the whole shebang is worth.
The problem with exponential growth and constant change is that you can’t tell if something is a flash in the pan or a long term trend.
It seems likely that people will continue to use communication networks to socialise, but that they will become less tied to a particular social networking website, given the systems produced by companies like Plaxo, which (if their guff is to be believed ) allows you to integrate stuff belonging to you and your friend’s from other social networks into one area.
[stories from Technology Review and The Register][image from luce legay on flickr]
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Pilot field works in the Lake of Kastoria
Written on June 25, 2020 .
The Ministry of Environment and Energy has issued the permit for recording and estimating population size in the areas of Natura 2000 Network. More specifically, this permit concerns the actions that focus on the recording of aquatic (Otter – Lutra lutra) and semi-aquatic (American Mink – Neovison vison) mammalian footprint traces, in order to assess their population size, and on the other hand, to improve population size and conservation status of vulnerable wildlife species (Otter (Lutra lutra)) ) and birds.
The research will be carried out in the selected areas of the Natura 2000 network of Northern Greece, and more specifically in the SPA Lake Orestias (Kastoria) (GR1320003), SPA National Forest of Prespa (GR1340001), but also in the areas of, Kastoria, Florina, Grevena, Kozani, Imathia and Pella, with an implementation period from March 2020 to September 2022. The whole process will take place in a way that ensures the least possible disturbance to the species of wild fauna and its habitats.
According to the permit, the first pilot floating rafts were placed in order to record footprint traces.
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Photo by Pablo via Flickr, used under CC by 2.0 / Desaturated from original with colour filter.
7 February 2019 Labour Markets, Public Finance Authors: Guo Xu (Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley)
Civil servants constitute a key element of state capacity, with the responsibility for raising government revenues, providing public services and implementing reforms. But what happens to their performance when they are appointed to office less on the basis of their talents than on their social connections to powerful patrons? This research examines the costs of patronage through the lens of a historical bureaucracy that spanned the globe: Britain’s Colonial Office. The research combines newly digitized personnel and public finance data from the administration of the British Empire over the period 1854-1966 to show how patronage influenced the promotion and performance of colonial governors.
There is growing concern among policy-makers that patronage – discretionary appointments to public office – undermines government effectiveness. Yet such appointments remain ubiquitous (Grindle, 2012): from chiefdoms and royal courts to modern-day presidents, discretionary appointments are pervasive in both developing and developed countries. In the United States alone, over 8,000 Federal positions are still allocated ‘at the pleasure of the President’.
Despite the ubiquity of patronage as an allocation mechanism, there is little empirical evidence on how this practice affects public sector performance. In theory, the impact of patronage is ambiguous (Aghion and Tirole, 1997, Prendergast and Topel, 1996). On one hand, patronage may mitigate the risk of an official doing something in her own interest rather than the public good (moral hazard) through better information and the appointment of loyal subordinates. On the other hand, discretionary power can be abused by biasing the allocation of positions in favor of socially connected subordinates.
It is important to understand how patronage affects performance: civil servants are responsible for raising revenue, providing public services and implementing reforms – and thereby constitute a key element of state capacity.
Patronage in Britain’s Colonial Office
I have been studying patronage through the lens of a historical bureaucracy that spanned the globe: Britain’s Colonial Office. This was the government ministry in charge of administering the British Empire through its colonial governors. Governors were senior civil servants who were heads of colonial regimes. At the Empire’s peak, they were responsible for administering a territory that covered a fifth of the earth’s landmass.
Data from the British colonial administration 1854-1966 reveal how patronage influenced the promotion and performance of governors
My study makes use of a change in the allocation system within the ministry. In the early period of the Colonial Office (1854-1930), the Secretary of State had full discretion over the appointment of governors – by colonial regulations, that official ‘enjoyed the privilege of patronage’. After 1930, a civil service reform – the Warren Fisher Reform – removed that right of patronage by limiting the discretion in appointments of the Secretary of State through an independent civil service board.
I combine this natural experiment – the abolition of patronage – with changes in social connections induced by ministerial turnover in London. This allows me to study if differences in the promotion and performance of socially connected civil servants varied with the extent of discretionary appointments.
Gathering data on bureaucracies
A major barrier to studying bureaucracies is the lack of data available to researchers. To overcome this, I undertook a large-scale digitization of historical administrative reports to combine colonial and public finance data. Over the course of three years, I digitized over 3,000 administrative reports, photographing more than 135,000 pages of historical documents from the National Archives.
This is the first time that colonial personnel and public finance data have been combined into a single dataset covering the entire period of the Colonial Office (1854-1966), the universe of all colonial governors and the 70 colonial territories under the control of the ministry.
Notes: Difference in (log) salaries for connected and unconnected governors around the Warren Fisher Reform 1930 (solid vertical line). The salary gaps are estimated with an extension of specification (10), where connectedness is allowed to vary by five year bins.
To measure social connections, I collected data on family trees and biographies. This allows me to measure connections by shared ancestry and membership in the British aristocracy, and attendance at the same elite schools and universities.
To measure performance, I make use of the fact that revenue generation was a key performance dimension of the Colonial Office. As in studies of chief executives and leaders (Bertrand and Schoar, 2003, Jones and Olken, 2005), the seniority of governors allows me to map colony-level performance to individual governors. This makes it possible to relate total tax takes to someone’s degree of connection before and after the removal of patronage (see Figure 1).
Colonial governors’ pay and performance
I find that governors with connections to the Secretary of State receive 10% higher salaries during the period of patronage. As wages are fixed across positions, this increase is driven by the allocation to higher salaried colonies. These colonies are more desirable positions that are larger, lie closer to London and enjoy lower rates of settler mortality.
Governors were more likely to be promoted to higher salaried colonies when socially connected to the Secretary of State
Importantly, the salary gap vanishes after the removal of patronage – suggesting that the civil service reform aimed at limiting discretion in the appointment of governors was indeed effective at reining in favoritism in the allocation of public sector positions.
Of course, the interpretation of the salary premium hinges critically on the performance of the connected governors. If they perform better – for example, due to greater loyalty to their superior – the preferential allocation of connected governors need not be detrimental to organizational performance. In this case, limiting discretion in the appointment process would tie the Secretary of State’s hand in leveraging family ties to avoid shirking and improve performance.
To investigate the performance implications of connected appointments, I make use of the fact that governors – once allocated – serve a fixed six-year term. This allows me to observe the revenue performance of the same governor serving in the same colony under different Secretaries of State: those that were connected and those that were unconnected to the governor.
Notes: Difference in (log) revenue/expenditure for connected and unconnected governors with leads and lags. 0 marks the year the governor becomes connected. Reporting 90% confidence intervals.
I find that connected governors, once allocated to serve their six-year terms, perform worse in their job. Governors raise 4% less annual tax revenue when connected during the period of patronage (see Figure 2). This decline is primarily driven by an increase in tax exemptions to the settler elite, which coincides with a sharp decline in customs revenue.
This has direct implications for the ability of the colonies to make productive investments: faced with lower revenue, these colonies also see a decline in investments in public goods, such as infrastructure. Most importantly, this negative performance gap vanishes after the removal of patronage.
Long-run implications and lessons for policy
The large negative effects raise the intriguing question of whether the exposure to patronage governors has had any ‘scarring’ effects that have persisted beyond the historical period. Indeed, this is the question taken up in my companion paper (Xu, 2019).
In a cross-sectional analysis, I find that countries exposed longer to connected governors during the period of patronage have lower fiscal capacity today. Consistent with policy persistence and the tax exemptions granted in the colonial period, these countries have lower quality tax systems. As before, the exposure to connected governors after the removal of patronage has no long-run impact (see Figure 3).
Notes: Second stage (IV) partial correlation between the regional Tax/GDP ratio in 2010 and the number of connected appointments 1854-1930. Controlling for the years under British rule, (log) initial governorship salary, the share of land area within tropics and absorbing continent fixed effects. Robust standard errors.
Taken together, my results provide evidence that there were large costs of patronage, both for the British Empire but also for the independent countries that emerged from the Empire following decolonization.
The organization of Britain’s Colonial Office offers a striking resemblance to modern-day bureaucracies
While my research provides evidence from a historical ministry, the organization of the Colonial Office – with its hierarchy and multi-divisional form – offers a striking resemblance to modern-day bureaucracies.
The key implication for organizations now is that incremental reforms aimed at curtailing discretion in the appointment of civil servants may improve government effectiveness and economic performance. This could be particularly important in the cases of senior appointments with strong influence over decisions that have potentially wide and long-term consequences. It is precisely these senior positions that are still under patronage today.
This article summarizes ‘The Costs of Patronage: Evidence from the British Empire’ by Guo Xu, published in the American Economic Review in 2018.
Guo Xu is at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.
Aghion, Philippe, and Jean Tirole (1997) ‘Formal and Real Authority in Organizations’, Journal of Political Economy 105: 1-29.
Bertrand, Marianne, and Antoinette Schoar (2003) ‘Managing with Style: The Effect of Managers on Firm Policies’, Quarterly Journal of Economics 118: 1169-1208.
Grindle, Merilee (2012) Jobs for the Boys: Patronage and the State in Comparative Perspective, Harvard University Press.
Jones, Benjamin, and Benjamin Olken (2005) ‘Do Leaders Matter? National Leadership and Growth since World War II’, Quarterly Journal of Economics 120: 835-64.
Prendergast, Canice, and Robert Topel (1996) ‘Favoritism in Organizations’, Journal of Political Economy 104: 958-78.
Xu, Guo (2019) ‘The Colonial Origins of Fiscal Capacity: Evidence from Patronage Governors’, Journal of Comparative Economics 41: 181-200.
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International Women's Day - EU must do more to tackle inequality
THE GREENS/EUROPEAN FREE ALLIANCE
EU Priorities 2020
On International Women's Day (Tuesday 8 March) MEPs Jill Evans (Wales) and Frieda Brepoels (Flanders) are calling for more focussed action at EU level to tackle inequality and eliminate poverty.
The European Parliament in Strasbourg held a special debate to mark the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day.
MEPs discussed the ongoing need to close the gender pay gap and raise the number of women in employment. Parliamentarians also heard that 17% of all women in the EU continue to live in poverty.
Jill Evans MEP (Plaid Cymru), President of the EFA Group said:
"The European Union can and should do far more to tackle ongoing inequalities between men and women, particularly in terms of equal pay and eliminating poverty.
"As a group we will continue to support the contribution, experience and participation of women in every sphere of life - in the economy, politics, culture, peace processes and decision making."
Frieda Brepoels MEP (N-VA), Vice-President of the EFA Group said:
"Effectively tackling labour market inequalities between men and women can have a very positive effect in promoting economic growth. We know that if employment and productivity rates for women could be raised to a similar level to those of men, then we would see a substantial increase in GDP across the EU.
"This isn't simply a matter of principle, it is especially important during this time of economic hardship when promoting greater equality would bring real economic benefits."
Note - The European Free Alliance (EFA) draws together political parties fighting for democracy and self-determination for the stateless nations and regions of Europe.
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Home » » Zaragoza, San Luis Potosí: National Guardsmen Attacked By Unknown Armed Gunmen
Zaragoza, San Luis Potosí: National Guardsmen Attacked By Unknown Armed Gunmen
By Sol Prendido 4/06/2022 10:19:00 AM 7 comments
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Video translation is as follows:
Elements of the National Guard were ambushed by armed men while carrying out surveillance tours on the San Luis Potosí - Querétaro highway. The armed attack occurred around 5:00 am on Highway 57, right at the junction with Interstate Highway 22. Near the Cerro Gordo Santo Domingo thoroughfare, in the municipality of Zaragoza.
About 200 meters from the junction with Highway 37, in Leon, San Luis. The uniformed men were carrying out surveillance tasks. Earlier, hours before, a persecution against officials of the Ministry of Communications and Transportation had been reported. The gunmen fired point-blank at the elements who upon seeing themselves outnumbered in weapons and the number of gunmen, asked for reinforcements.
An element of the National Guard died during the events. While another was left injured. One of the units he was driving in had at least 23 gunshot impacts. A dozen vehicles from state and federal forces, as well as from the Prosecutor's Office, descended into the area. They deployed a security operation. Currently no one has been detained for this crime.
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SOSAP7G April 6, 2022 at 11:22 AM
the GN was out patrolling and happened to enter an area where a top cartel commander/Boss for SLP CSLPNG/CJNG was hiding out close to the cerro. As a response the GN was ambushed by the commanders outer Ring of Protection
MyHmbleOpinion April 6, 2022 at 6:17 PM
And who is this so called boss?
SIR April 6, 2022 at 11:37 AM
AND then again, maybe then dead GN element knew too much...
How can the melitary be outsmarted, ambushed and outnumbered by a bunch of illiterate chiveros cochachivas?
Mr. Siresame
Our 3 year old boy, at night he would her voices, telling him if he wanted ice cream, we ended up turning off our Ring camera at night, as we think someone hacked into it and is bothering our son, who offers my son ice cream at night.
It's happened before. There a difference between an ambush and just running into each other in the street. An ambush the DiCaprio's are going to try and maximize every advantage they can think of and if possible try to mark a point where they are the most isolated (the farthest away from assistance/reinforcements possible), they'll chose the world terrain that'll give them the best advantage possible and try to be as efficient in damage and time. The shorter their time executing the operation, the better their chances of escaping. Even with all that in their favor something might go wrong.
SIR April 7, 2022 at 12:41 PM
6:28 the first time may be an accident, the second time could be a coincidence, by the third time it is a pattern that somebody gots the hots for you, according to wise ass marines.
1:49 stop molesting your 3 year old boy in the middle of the night...
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First volunteers for Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games undergo training
The first group of Rio 2016 volunteers has already begun training at the organising committee HQ (Photo: Rio 2016/Mathilde Molla)
While thousands of candidates are waiting to find out if they will be hired as volunteers for the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, a select group has already been taken on and is busy at work – getting ready to help recruit the 70,000 people who will help stage the first Games in South America. About 100 specialists in recruitment were the first group to undergo training last Saturday (7 March), learning about the volunteer programme and its demands at the Rio 2016 headquarters.
“The involvement of these volunteer recruiters is very important for us, since, in addition to being responsible for helping select 70,000 people who will help put on the Games, they represent the values of the Games – they make things happen, they value others and they spread joy,” said Flávia Fontes, Rio 2016’s head of volunteers.
Between March 2015 and May 2016, about 1,000 volunteers will work at training centres in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, and on a ‘road show’ that will visit Brazil’s major cities, helping run group role-play sessions and online interviews. More than 240,000 people applied to be volunteers at the Rio 2016 Games before December’s deadline, with strong interest from the USA, Russia, China and Great Britain.
The first group comprises volunteers qualified in administration, psychology, teaching, human resources and a host of other areas. One of those on board is 63-year-old Maria Inês Aguiar, who previously volunteered at the Rio 2007 Pan-American Games and 2014 FIFA World Cup, and is already signed up for the 2015 Pan-American Games in Toronto.
“It’s going to be a great experience, but of course I’m a little nervous,” she said. “It’s a big responsibility, there are 70,000 people, but I’m sure it’s going to work out well. The training we have done has been very thorough, we already can see how things will be.”
For those who missed the deadline for applications, there is still hope: you can register on the waiting list (click here). Candidates must be 18 years old by February 2016 and available to work during the Games.
By: Rio2016.com
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Abandoned Catalina seaplane: 50 years between the sea and the desert
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It's a beautiful seaplane abandoned between the sea and the desert of Saudi Arabia and it's been left there for almost 50 years. The plane is a PBY-5A Catalina, a military American seaplane from the 1930's. It's is located on a beach off the Strait of Tiran on the Saudi Arabia side of the entrance to the Gulf of Aqaba. Thanks to Adam, we get to know about it and it's story (You too can propose a story to us) :
"The aircraft is a PBY-5A model and was bought from the US Navy by Thomas W Kendall, a retired businessman who converted it to a luxury flying yacht.
The PBY-5A Catalina was one of the most widely used multi-role aircraft of World War II.
In the spring of 1960 Mr Kendall took a pleasure trip around the world with his wife and children together with his secretary and her son. A photographer joined the group to cover part of the trip for life magazine.
On the 22nd March 1960 they landed at the Strait of Tirana and anchored the aircraft a short distance from the shore to spend the night there. They heard someone shouting but did not pay any attention.
In the afternoon of the following day they were attacked with machine guns and automatic firearms from a headland nearby. The children were able to swim back to the aircraft. Mr Kendal and his secretary were wounded while trying to start the Catalina but moved it about 800 metres, unfortunately it ran aground on a coral reef.
The firing lasted 30 to 40 minutes and no fewer than 300 shots hit the aircraft. The fuel tanks were perforated and 4000 litres of fuel poured from the holes but miraculously the aircraft did not catch fire. The sea was only about 1.5 metres deep and all aboard managed to leave the aircraft and reach the shore.
On the beach they were captured by a group of Bedouins attached to the Saudi Arabian army, who had taken them to be Israeli commandos. They were eventually taken to Jeddah, interrogated and finally set free with the help of the American Ambassador. The Ambassador protested to the Saudi Arabian government but they refused to accept any liability for the attack and consequent loss of the aircraft." Incredible story. Thank you Adam.
pictures sources : 1 & Adam
text source : 1 & Adam
Anonymous // Thursday, July 30, 2009 6:28:00 AM
Neat story and great photos. A little political statement though? All nations, proper names etc are capitalised except "American"...
Dang Lad // Thursday, July 30, 2009 2:27:00 PM
One of the most amazing stories I've seen on AO so far. Great pictures and excellent supporting context.
The Artificial Owl // Thursday, July 30, 2009 6:54:00 PM
To answer to Anonymous: There was absolutely no political statement :) just a mistake, it's been corrected now.
Anonymous // Friday, July 31, 2009 9:28:00 AM
Not certain this story is true.
Here is the actual plane that he flew with his family.
http://www.aerospacemuseum.org/exhibits/aircraft_september.html
Anonymous // Thursday, August 06, 2009 3:53:00 AM
there's one of those at Anchorage Flight Museum.
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The History of Smyrna
January 30, 2018 February 7, 2018 ~ Micheal Golden
In those days Cobb County (where Smyrna is located) was equally divided between the Cherokee Indians and the State of Georgia but in 1831 all the land was deeded to the State of Georgie after a settlement was reached. By 1832 pioneers had started to settle in the area where a campground was established for all denominations to worship. Soon the campsite became the center of the religious and social life of the entire surrounding area which was later to become the City of Smyrna. In 1838 the Methodist Church was organized from this campground.
The Railroad
In 1836 the construction of a railroad was started through Cobb County which played a significant role in the development of the town. By its completion in 1842, the Western and Atlantic Railroad started its change from a small frontier village to a town with a growing community. The railroad was known by several different names, Ruff’s Siding, Varner’s Station, Ruff’s Station, and Neal Dow before 1872 when it became the Western and Atlantic.
In 1872 the town was incorporated and named Smyrna with a population of 300 residents and high expectations of rapid suburban development. The railroad was instrumental in establishing a permanent location for the city and work for the townspeople. Factories and gristmills established in the 1840s also played a prominent role in the growth of the community. By the end of the 19th century, however, Smyrna had become a primarily agrarian community with an economy based largely on agriculture.
The first brick building in Smyrna was erected in 1850. Originally a boy’s academy called the Smyrna Institute; it was later used as a hospital, a house of worship, and a training school for officers. After General Sherman razed Cobb County to the ground in 1864, it was the only building that was left standing on the site of the old Masonic Lodge on West Spring. The award-winning Market Village, a mixed-use development and vibrant part of Smyrna’s revitalized active downtown, today stands on this site.
In 1972 Smyrna was incorporated as a municipality by the State of Georgia with boundaries extending one mile from the Smyrna Boys’ Academy in every direction. The first election was held in 1973.
The Aeronautics Industry
The coming of the aeronautics industry to the area in the post-World War II period is what finally generated enough sustained growth for Smyrna. The Bell Bomber plant situated nearby produced B-29 bombers for the war effort and became a catalyst for growth. In 1951 the plant was reopened by Lockheed. In the next two decades, the population grew from 2,005 to 20,000 in 1970.
Aunt Fanny’s Cabin
The unique restaurant, Aunt Fanny’s Cabin, was founded by Isoline Campbell MacKenna Howell in 1941. In 1948 it was taken over by Mrs. Marjorie Bowman and Harvey Hester under whose guidance the restaurant became famous throughout the country and attained status as a favorite dining spot among celebrities for its authentic southern cuisine and rustic cabin atmosphere. After 5 decades of successful operation, it was closed in 1992. The city of Smyrna purchased the original cabin in 1999 and had it moved to Atlanta Road to become the new Smyrna Welcome Center. During the years of its operation over five decades, the restaurant was visited by famous movie stars, politicians, sports figures, and celebrities who signed the guest book and left behind autographed photographs. Many of these were obtained by Smyrna and today grace the walls of the Welcome Center.
Smyrna Today
The social center of Smyrna is the Market Village that sits beside the Village Green. The Smyrna Public Library is situated here. The city-owned library is the only one of its kind in the state of Georgia. The Village Green is also home to a lively and thriving community center.
Between the Village Green and the Market Village is the 20th Century Veterans Memorial and the sidewalks of the new downtown are paved with bricks that have come to be known as “Smyrna bricks”.
In the 1990s Smyrna reinvented itself with the help of an aggressive program for urban renewal directed by its progressive-minded mayor, Max Bacon, and a dynamic city council. Between the years of 2000 and 2012, the city grew by 28% and is historically the fastest growing city in the State of Georgia.
The Cox/Armstrong Civil War Collection was installed in 2013 with select items in three displays gleaned from the collection of Gerald Cox. The displays can be viewed at the Smyrna Public Library, City Hall, and Brawner Hall.
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Bad-Seed FAQ
Last updated: December 9th, 1997
Index, Acronyms and Credits
Related bands and their important releases
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Influences on Nick Cave's work
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Quoted Sources
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Nicholas Edward Cave was born in Wangaratta, Australia on 22 September 1957. His mother's name is Dawn, a librarian; his father Colin was an English teacher. He has two older brothers, Tim (1952) and Peter (1954) and a sister, Julie (1959). He was raised an Anglican, which explains the apparent influence of The Bible in his work. Nick Cave was living together with Viviane, born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and has a son with her, Luke, born in 1991. Nick and Viviane split up and according to rumours, Nick has had some kind of an affair with PJ Harvey.
His education: Caulfield Grammar School, Melbourne and an Art School (Art department of Caulfield Institute of Technology, now Monash University) which he attended only two years. An example of Nick's art is on the back of the Birthday Party's "Prayers On Fire" album, signed "Nicholas Cave". At Caulfield, Nick met Mick Harvey, with whom he founded a high school band thatwould become The Boys Next Door. The first recording released by NC was "These Boots Are Made For Walking" in 1978, a single that was soon followed by the album "Door Door" the next year. The band consisted of Nick, Mick Harvey, Tracy Pew, Phillip Calvert and Rowland S. Howard (from 1979 on).
The Boys Next Door slowly dissolved into "The Birthday Party" in 1980 when thealbum of the same name came out: some copies stated "The Birthday Party by The Boys Next Door", others only "The Birthday Party". When they changed their name, the band moved from Australia to London. The Birthday Party had a huge impact on the British rock scene of that time, especially because of the expression of raw emotion, wit and essential dumbness in their music, though it took some time for them to really break through. The LP "Prayers on Fire" was released in 1981, "Junkyard" in 1982. The band moved to West-Berlin and fell apart in 1983 after releasing 3 studio albums and 2 EP's. Their last EP, "Mutiny", was the ultimate manifestation of everything punk pretended to be. Here, Blixa Bargeld, from Einstuerzende Neubauten, appeared for the first time with Nick Cave.
Part of the BP members continued to form The Bad Seeds, recording the first NC&BS album in 1984: "From Her To Eternity". The line-up at this time was: Nick Cave, Blixa Bargeld (guitar), Mick Harvey (drums), Barry Adamson (guitar and piano), Hugo Race (guitar), Tracy Pew (bass, only during the Australian tour), with cooperation of Anita Lane. The name "Bad Seeds" may come either from the Bible (e.g. St. Matthew 13) or from the film "Bad Seed" by Mervin LeRoy, 1956, based on a play by Maxwell Anderson and a novel by William March. The year 1985 saw the release of the second NC&BS album, "The Firstborn Is Dead". The Bad Seeds were now reduced to Cave, Harvey, Bargeld and Adamson.
The song "Tupelo" contains some of the initial ideas for the novel Cave would publish a few years later: "And The Ass Saw The Angel" (1989). In fact, the greater part of the songs written during the conception of "The Ass" can be seen as parallels of the book (e.g. The Carny and Sad Waters from Your Funeral... My Trial). It is the story of a criminal idiot hounded by a lynch mob. The novel got very good reviews and was translated into ten languages.
The next year, 1986, two albums were released; one album, "Kicking Against The Pricks" was a compilation of covers of mainly blues songs. The Bad Seeds were extended by Thomas Wydler and there are guest appearances of Tracy Pew and Rowland S. Howard. The second album was "Your Funeral... My Trial", released on two EPs.
In 1988, Wim Wender's film "Der Himmel Ueber Berlin" ("Wings of Desire") saw the light of day, featuring "The Carny" and Nick doing "From Her to Eternity" live ("I'm NOT going to tell them about a girl..."). Other Wim Wenders films that feature NC's music are "Bis ans Ende der Welt (Until The End Of The World" and "Faraway... So Close", the follow-up to "Wings...".
The album "Tender Prey" was released in 1988. After this, Cave moved from Berlin to Sao Paolo, Brazil, where he had met Viviane Carneiro during a tour. The influence of Brazil is apparent in "The Good Son", the album released in 1990. The music is much more melodious and friendly than on any other album released before. Kid Congo Powers (Cramps, Gun Club) made his appearance as a member of the Bad Seeds on this album, although he already played in the band for a longer period, during the YFMT and KAtP times. In 1989, a film called "Ghosts... of the Civil Dead" was released, co-written by Nick, the soundtrack of which was written by Nick, acted in by Nick. It is a prison movie.
Not until 1992, the seventh album was released: "Henry's Dream", followed by a worldwide tour. Again, the line-up was changed: Nick, Blixa, Mick, Thomas, Martyn P. Casey and Conway Savage. The tour was used to record their only official live CD to be released in 1993: "Live Seeds". The CD was intended as a celebration of the ten years' existence of The Bad Seeds and is sold together with a photo book by Peter Milne. The book contains photographs from the 1992/3 tour.
During the spring of 1993, Nick Cave moved to London, where part of the ninth Bad Seeds album--"Let Love In" was recorded. In 1996, "Murder Ballads" was released. The album contains songs which exclusively deal with the subject of murder. Record-breaker for the longest song by NC is "O' Malleys Bar", which lasts about a quarter of an hour. Duets are sung with P.J. Harvey and Kylie Minogue. Other artists featured are Shane McGowan and Warren Ellis (from The Dirty Three).
Apart from this, Nick Cave features on the compilation Album "Songs In The Key Of X", which has songs on it from the TV serial "The X-Files". Nick does "Red Right Hand" and can be found on a "Hidden Track" called "Time Jesum transeuntem et non reverendum" (Dread the passage of Jesus for he will not return) with The Dirty Three. Nick Cave was shortlisted for "Best Male Artist" of 1996 by MTV Music Awards. He declined the honour, stating that he did not want to compete with other people where Art was concerned.
1997 brought a new album, again, called "The Boatman's Call", released in February. Now Warren Ellis and Jim Sclavunos are listed as members of the Bad Seeds.
A European tour started in April in France and ran through July. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds will not play in the US in the next eight months or longer.
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Tender - Operator of the Czech Restaurant
2009. 8 July
(czexpo.com) The Commissioner General Office for the participation of the Czech Republic at EXPO 2010 announced a tender for the order "Sub-Lease of Restaurant Premises in the Czech Pavilion at the World Exposition EXPO 2010 Shanghai".
The aim of the tender is to find the most suitable entity for concluding a sub-lease contract for parts of the Czech pavilion premises at the World Exposition EXPO 2010 Shanghai where such entity would provide the operation of a prime restaurant under the conditions stipulated by the Sub-Lease Contract and the Rules of the Organiser of EXPO 2010 Shanghai.
Below are the basic conditions for the establishment and operation of the restaurant; these conditions are further specified in the Sub-Lease Contract and the Rules of the Organiser of EXPO 2010 Shanghai:
a) Equipment of leased premises (especially kitchen) with technologies and other equipment necessary for due restaurant operation, such as dishes, cutlery, glasses, etc. whereas the overall capacity of the restaurant shall be approx. 80 places;
b) Provision of all permits required for the operation of a restaurant in the People´s Republic of China whereas the Contracting Entity shall provide its assistance to get such permits from the Organiser of EXPO 2010 Shanghai;
c) The restaurant shall be of first-class quality and shall offer especially Czech cuisine and shall be open daily between 1 June and 31 October 2010, from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. (including Saturdays and Sundays);
d) Tidying up, cleaning and sanitation of all restaurant premises and backrooms;
e) Removal of the restaurant equipment (see point a) above), materials and stock from the pavilion or shared areas at EXPO 2010 at least by 10 November 2010.
For due operation of the restaurant in compliance with the Rules of the Organiser of EXPO 2010 Shanghai, the Operator shall provide the storing of stock and materials at its own responsibility and costs.
The sub-leased premises are located in the Czech pavilion rented from the Organiser of EXPO 2010 Shanghai, i.e. at Shanghai World EXPO Site - zone C10, 3588, Pudong rd. (S), Shanghai, 200125, People’s Republic of China.
Exact location of the leased premises within the pavilion and their layout is included in the Sub-Lease Contract.
Concluding of the Sub-Lease Contract is expected immediately after tender closing, i.e. in September 2009.
The tender documents will be provided to prospective bidders/suppliers in print and digital format upon written request and the contact address where the applications shall be directed is as follows:
HAVEL & HOLÁSEK s.r.o., advokátní kancelář (law office)
Mgr. Zuzana Picková
E-mail: expo.restaurace@havelholasek.cz
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One County, One Ballot, Two Very Different Votes
There has been so much commentary on last Tuesday's race, very little of which I have read. I've been plowing through Happiest Baby on the Block as if the secret of life is written somewhere therein (which may be true for the father of a four day old). But I've obviously thought about the election a lot, particularly what it means for the next two years, four years, and beyond.
First, my own. For all the hard work, money, and spirit we invested, at the end of the day the voters get to make their choice. And between Bob and I, I don't think there was a choice that could be considered "wrong". We had two different philosophies, two different approaches to governance, and two different party affiliations. In this race, I think it was the latter that moved the dial. And as much as it hurts to lose, I'm proud to have lost because I was a Democrat. I spent four months being called a liar and a "Democrat In Name Only" by people who ignorantly thought this seat was "made for Democrats". On Tuesday, I lost because I was a Democrat running for a seat that was assuredly not made to be won by a Democrat in 2014. If I had to lose, I am fine with losing for that reason, fighting for policy that I genuinely believe in, and never turning my back on my friends.
Second, Governor-elect Hogan. This may bother some of my Republican friends, but I think Maryland voted against Anthony Brown more than they voted for Larry Hogan. And that's a shame. I had a chance to get to know Anthony a little bit over the past year and found him to be a truly down-to-earth, good man and a good leader. Whenever I would talk about Anthony on the trail, I would also bring up the fact that he's a foster parent. That's walking-the-talk in ways most of us cannot imagine, much less replicate. And similar to the analysis of my own race, I don't think any other Democrat wins the governorship in 2014. Not Gansler, not Mizeur, and, sadly, not even Ken Ulman. Maryland Democrats had the fortune and misfortune of governing in crisis. We can debate whether the choices they made on taxes and spending were appropriate, but there is no question that they were unpopular. Beneficiaries of sustained spending are likely none the wiser, while those who bore the cost of increased taxes certainly noticed every penny. I am positive that Republicans who voted for Larry Hogan were excited about his candidacy and his policy positions. But this is Maryland. He won because Democrats were disinterested and Unaffiliated voters were ready for a change.
Third, County Executive Kittleman. During the campaign, I didn't have sleepless nights thinking about losing. I lost sleep because I was intimidated by what would happen if I won. When you talk about "fundamentally changing government as we know it", you better have something to show for it if you win. I hope that doesn't come across as self-aggrandizement. I had big plans (still do) and unlike many candidates, even those who won, I had an obligation to produce big change if provided the chance.
I think Allan Kittleman may lose some sleep over the next few weeks, and I say that as someone who considers him a friend. He has promised so much. To Republicans, he has promised to be their leader and do everything they've always wanted to do, but were unable to due to Democratic dominance. Things like OPEB make for great campaign fodder, but are empty accounting gimmicks once you take the wheel. Concern about year after year budget increases make sense in a sound bite, but are actually a product of state mandates and population growth, which will be difficult to reverse. And while it may have been great to lionize those counties who rejected the "stormwater management utility fee" (i.e., "rain tax") as a candidate, I don't think Howard County has ever sought the mantle of rebellion.
To Democrats, he's promised to represent their interests and not put ideology over office. That is a difficult promise for a Republican to maintain. Not because it was a lie, but more because those who took that promise as true will be looking for any variance from that path as betrayal. While it was characterized as "negative campaigning" to point out Allan's party affiliation (and related votes) during the race, Allan Kittleman is a Republican and it is his right to govern as such. Voters are foolish to think otherwise.
This is a very full plate and Allan is going to need to deliver early to avoid buyer's remorse. As we've seen with our own President, the image you spend an entire campaign building will crumble months after you begin to govern. Not because you lied, but because votes cast with optimism and idealism carry with them greater expectations than those cast with anger and fear.
But if I know Allan, I know he is motivated and excited by this challenge. He will have every opportunity to succeed. And that's the most intimidating thing of all.
Have a great Sunday doing what you love!
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Europe, is a continent whose boundaries are the Atlantic Ocean in the west, the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Ural Mountains and Ural River in the east, the Caspian Sea, Caucasus mountains and Black Sea in the southeast and the Mediterranean Sea as the southern boundary. With Asia, Europe forms the supercontinent Eurasia: Europe is the western fifth of the Eurasian landmass. In tems of size, Europe is the world's second smallest continent, being slightly larger than Oceania. In terms of population it is the second biggest continent after Asia.
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The name Europe possibly stems from a female character in Greek Mythology named Europa who was abducted by a bull-shaped Zeus. There is some trouble with this, though--the myth has nothing to do with Europe. A more prosaic explanation holds that it is derived from the word ereb from a Semitic language, meaning "sunset." From the point of view from the Middle East, the sun would appear to set beyond the lands to the west. In this regard it may be significant that Eurus is also a Latin term for the East Wind. This may even provide the (albeit noncausal) connection with Europa, as she was originally from Phoenicia and so, from the Greeks' point of view, was a woman of the East.
Main article: History of Europe
Europe has a long history of great cultural and economic achievement, starting as far back as the Bronze Age. The origin of Western culture is generally attributed to the ancient Greeks, and the Roman Empire spanned the entire continent for many centuries. Following the decline of the Roman Empire, Europe entered a long period of stasis, generally known as the Dark Ages, which came to an end with the Renaissance and the New Monarchs, marking the start of a period of discovery, exploration, and increase in scientific knowledge. From the 15th century European nations, particularly Spain, Portugal, France, and Britain, built large colonial empires, with vast holdings in Africa, the Americas, and Asia. The Industrial Revolution started in Europe in the 18th century, leading to much greater general prosperity and a corresponding increase in population. After World War II, and until the end of the Cold War, Europe was divided into two major political and economic blocks: Communist nations in Eastern Europe and capitalistic countries in Western Europe. Around 1990 the Eastern block broke up.
Often other borders of Europe are drawn, based on political, economical, cultural or practical considerations. This has led to there being several different "Europes" that are not always identical in size, including or excluding countries dependent on the definition of "Europe" used.
Increasingly, the word "Europe" is primarily being used as a synonym for the members of the European Union (EU). Fifteen European states are currently members of the EU, with 10 more due to join by mid-2004, a few more negotiating for membership and several more expected to commence negotiations at some stage in the future. Almost all European states are members of the Council of Europe; the sole exceptions are Belarus and the Vatican City.
Currently, geographic Europe comprises the following 45 countries (in alphabetical order):
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Cyprus is not shown in the above map. It is an independent island which is currently de facto divided between the primarily ethnically-Greek Republic Of Cyprus in the southern 2/3rds of the island, and an internationally-unrecognised Turkish statelette in the northern 1/3rd, the "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus". The island of Cyprus is located to the east of southern Greece.
Denmark has two dependent territories: the Faeroe Islands in Europe, and the self-governing island of Greenland, which is considered part of North America. .
France distinguishes overseas departments (such as French Guiana), overseas territories (such as French Polynesia) and territorial collectivities (such as Mayotte); they are all located outside of Europe.
The Kingdom of the Netherlands consists of The Netherlands itself and two overseas territories in the Caribbean, Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles.
Portugal also includes the Azores and Madeira in the Atlantic Ocean.
Russia extends far across Asia, but only the area westward of the Ural Mountains is considered to be within continental Europe.
Spain also includes the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla in the north of Africa.
Turkey is for the most part on continental Asia, only the area west of the Bosporus and the Sea of Marmara is in Europe.
The United Kingdom consists of Great Britain, Northern Ireland and dependent territories, of which the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and Gibraltar lie within Europe.
Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, three CIS republics in the Transcaucasus, are geographically part of continental Asia, but are frequently associated with Europe. Whether or not Armenia and Georgia are considered to be European countries usually depends on whether one defines Europe as being primarily an ethnic / linguistic entity, or primarily a political / geographic entity, and what one considers those definitions to be.
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James Suit: Friend AND Foe
Elizabeth Shown Mills, and other respected genealogists, have long emphasized the importance of studying our ancestor’s FAN club: friends, associates, and neighbors. While it’s taken me awhile to expand my tunnel vision, and to accept that my research needs to include a larger pool of subjects, I’m beginning to reap the benefits.
My ancestor, Asa Oren Ives, will never be an easy subject to study. Although there are strong clues which suggest his origins are in Vermont, I’m focusing now on digging as deeply as I can in Indiana, where known events of his life took place. Since his paper trail is pretty meager, I've turned my attention to his associates, hoping to create a picture of his life through their experiences.
At the time of Asa’s 1827 marriage to Mary “Polly” Largent in Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, the bondsman was James Suit. I wondered what the connection was between this couple and their bondsman, so I began to collect information that might answer the question.
The following sketch appears in an historic county history, which has been digitized at http://www.ingenweb.org/intippecanoe/twp.html: "The first white man to come to Wabash Township was probably James Suit, a trapper, who came in 1822. He employed a number of men to assist him in trapping beaver and collecting wild honey from the forests of Tippecanoe County. He would take these items down the river by flatboat to Vincennes where he would trade for salt, Mackinaw blankets, dry goods, whiskey and general merchandise." This may conjure up the image of a loner on the move, with no fixed address. My research proves otherwise. While James Suit’s occupations required time away from home, he maintained strong personal ties to Lafayette.
Examination of land records in Tippecanoe County reveals that James Suit and his wife were involved in a number of transactions, which name many other parties. The name of James’ wife is variously listed as Amy, Bethama, and Bethamy. In 1828, a marriage for Sarah Suit is recorded, with James Suit named as her father. James Suit is also shown on a list of potential grand jurors in 1827. In strong contrast, he was fined twice for assault and battery upon the body of: Asa Oren Ives! The two assaults bookended the wedding: one taking place before, and one after. They evidently endured a rather tempestuous relationship, to say the least. They were hardly alone: the court records are filled with accounts of neighbors settling their differences by less than peaceful means!
Reaching back earlier in time, James Suit spent a short period as a sergeant in (Christopher) Wood’s 1st Ohio Company of Spies during the War of 1812. A John Suit served as a private in the same unit. This company was formed in Champaign County, Ohio, where James Suit voted in an early Sheriff’s election. It was also here that he married Amy Davis in 1806.
The location of Champaign County, Ohio, makes me believe that the basis for James Suit serving as a bondsman, was due to a connection to Mary “Polly” Largent. Her father and other relatives lived in the same township as James Suit, during the time they were all in Ohio. Perhaps James Suit took a dim view of Asa Oren Ives as husband material?
Wabash River, Lafayette, Indiana. Taken by the author.
As I've discovered, when information about our own ancestors is lacking, including the FAN club in our research can be enlightening, fascinating, and highly entertaining!
Labels: Asa Ives, Asa Oren Ives, Champaign County, Davis, Indiana, Ives, James Suit, Lafayette, Largent, Mary Largent, Mary Polly Largent, Ohio, Polly Largent, Suit, Tippecanoe County
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The Journey Home by Radhanath Swami - A Book Review
It has been two weeks since I finished reading this book. What an extraordinary reading experience it has been. It is an incredible story of a seeker who eventually becomes a revered seer.
The blurb gives a quick idea of what readers should expect from the book.
“Within this extraordinary memoir, Radhanath Swami weaves a colorful tapestry of adventure, mysticism, and love. Readers follow Richard Slavin from the suburbs of Chicago to the caves of the Himalayas as he transforms from young seeker to renowned spiritual guide. The Journey Home is an intimate account of the steps to self-awareness and a penetrating glimpse into the heart of mystic traditions and the challenges that all souls must face on the road to inner harmony and a union with the Divine.
Through near-death encounters, apprenticeships with advanced yogis, and years of travel along the pilgrim’s path, Radhanath Swami eventually reaches the inner sanctum of India’s mystic culture and finds the love he has been seeking. It is a tale told with rare candor, immersing the reader in a journey that is at once engaging, humorous, and heartwarming.”
Can you imagine a desire for spiritual knowledge in a person so strong that he could hitchhike from Europe to India with almost no money? Sound incredulous, right? Those were exactly my thoughts when I came to know about the way Richard (later known as Radhanath Swami) reached India.
The year in 1970 and the author, then only 19 years old flies to Europe with friends. He is a Jewish American who lives in Chicago with his family. At that time, he is immersed in the hippy culture, but something is constantly nagging him. While he is in Europe with friends, he suddenly has a strong urge to satiate his spiritual quest. With practically no money in his pocket, he travels from London to some popular European destinations like Amsterdam, Florence, Athens, etc., and finally Crete where he decides he must visit India. Since, he has no money for a ship ticket or for airfare; he decides to hitchhike to India via Turkey. His journey is filled with various encounters and experiences that will make you wonder about the person’s determination.
So determined Richard was about his quest that he kept on moving towards his goal with conviction and determination. I am totally in awe for him and his life story.
The book gives you some of the very important lessons about life. It is an inspiring and enlightening story that could help many seekers like him in their quest.
I received this book from Jaico publishers in exchange for an unbiased review.
This book was originally published by Mandala Publishing in the United States in the year 2010. It was first published in India by Jaico in 2013.
Radhanath Swami was born in Chicago in 1950. In his teens he set out to wander the world on a spiritual quest, eventually discovering yoga path of devotion.
He presently travels in Asia, Europe and America teaching devotional wisdom but can often be found at his community in Mumbai. People who know Radhanath Swami speak of his dedication to bringing others closer to God. Almost in the same breath they speak of his lightness, simplicity and sense of humor. Visitors and friends are inspired by his unassuming nature and natural unwillingness to take credit for the works he inspires - community development, massive food distribution to indigent children, missionary hospitals, eco-friendly farms, schools, ashrams and emergency relief programs.
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Pears Cyclopaedia 2014-5 Edition: Human Knowledge Encapsulated
By Sam Vaknin
Author of “Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited”
This one volume cyclopaedia is maintained meticulously up to date by a dedicated team of scholar-contributors, headed by the indefatigable polymath, Dr. Chris Cook. Hundreds of entries in dozens of sections reflect the latest developments and knowledge in numerous areas of life. It is an astounding feat.
The 2012-2013 edition of Pears Cyclopaedia was the first major revision in some time. It added considerable heft to veteran chapters as well as re-introduced categories of knowledge from previous editions. This 2014-5 edition follows in its footsteps and is augmented with a Biblical Glossary, replete with coverage of the Apocrypha.
The “Chronicle of Events” is brought up to April 2014. The “Prominent People” section has been updated to include, for instance, Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State (2009-13) and Chavez’s passing away.
The “Background to World Affairs” – a compilation of chronologies arranged by country and monographs about the history and societies of the regions of the globe - is indispensable: it is as updated as an online blog and as thorough as an encyclopedia. Four pages are dedicated to the History and Development of the European Union.
“Britain Today” is by far the best synopsis of current affairs and statistics of that Sceptered isle. It has been completely revamped to include a Who’s Who in British Politics and a Glossary of Recent Politics as well as chapters about “Redress of Grievances”, the media, and pressure groups. It offers a sweeping overview of the British constitution and system of government.
“The Historical World” comprises a historical glossary, a guide to historic Britain, a dictionary of modern wars since 1914, annotated lists of famous battles and treaties and alliances, selected European rulers, and a comprehensive chapter about archaeological discoveries and sites.
The “General Compendium” is a cornucopia of tables and data and delectable lists, some useful, some quaint: English and Scottish monarchs, British Prime Ministers since 1721, US Presidents, foreign phrases, national currencies, Roman numerals, the international time-table, the Greek alphabet, common legal terms, Popes since 1800, Archbishops of Canterbury and York, traditional ranks in the armed forces, Roman rulers and towns, a digest of new words (including “selfie”), Nobel Prize winners, major literary prizes, famous ships, the order of succession, patron saints, the phonetic alphabet, the Chinese and Hindu calendars, the dates of Easter Day, signs of the zodiac, a glossary of antiques, taxes, British military anniversaries, and the Beaufort Scale of Wind.
The venerable and popular section “Myths and Legends” now covers not only Greece and Rome, but also Norse mythology. Pears provides a constantly-updated survey of “Ideas and Beliefs” throughout the centuries. The entry about the Gay Movement, for example, notes that the first gay marriages in Britain took place on 29 March 2014 and that in Russia “homophobia is rife and attacks on gays are common.”
Regrettably, the Gazetteer of the British Isles is all that remains from the once excellent Atlas. It is followed by a much enlarged “General Information” gateway: a mini encyclopaedia with hundreds of listings pertaining to all fields of human knowledge, from astronomy and architecture to zoology. The entries are scrupulously au courant: under “Television” one learns about the next trend: UHDTV or that “India’s population will overtake China by 2028.”
To augment these magnificent offerings, Pears Cyclopaedia provides a “Literary Companion” (outline of English literature arranged as a chronological survey, replete with biographical and bibliographic entries and surveys of twentieth-century poetry and drama); an “Introduction to Art and Architecture” (key terms, movements, and styles as well as biographies); “The World of Music” (outline historical narrative, glossary of musical terms, index to composers, and a special topic about popular dances in the West); “The Cinema” (its history and famous actors and directors as well as a glossary of key terms and list of Oscar winners up to and including 2013).
A massive section, aptly titled “Food and Drink”, tackles the world of wine (including a detailed treatment of the libations of Europe), proffers a glossary of food terms, discusses beer and brewing, spirits and liqueurs, only to revert to the quintessential Anglo-American delectable obsession of coffee and tea. This is seamlessly, albeit somewhat incongruously followed by a “Sporting Almanac.”
The “World of Science” comprises coverage of diverse fields such as astronomy, physics, chemistry, geology, biology, and human evolution. It also sports a variety of scientific tables. Medicine merits its own gateway, inevitably titled “Medical Matters”: the most common illnesses and conditions, some of them treated to in-depth analyses within special topics. A subject index caps this wondrous work of reference.
“Affection” and “attachment” are terms rarely used in a review of a reference title, but, they are the ones that come to my mind as I contemplate the new (2014-2015) edition of Pears Cyclopaedia, one of many editions I possess. I confess to my addiction proudly: control freak that I am, I like to hold the Universe of Knowledge in the palm of my hand, in a manageable, pocket-sized form.
What renders this single volume unique is not that it is a cornucopia of facts (which it is, abundantly and lavishly so), but that it arranges them lovingly in patterns and narratives and, thus, endows them with sense and sensibility. It is at once an erudite friend, a mischievous iconoclast, a legend to our times, the sum total of human knowledge in a panoply of fields, and a treasure-trove of trivia and miscellany. It is as compellingly readable as the best non-fiction, as comprehensive as you need it to be, and as diverting as a parlour game. It is both quaint and modern in the best senses of these loaded words.
Pears Cyclopaedia is a labour of love and it shows. Its current editor (formerly its Assistant Editor), Christopher Cook, has been at it for decades now. Annually, he springs a delicious surprise on the avid cult that is the readership of Pears Cyclopaedia: new topics that range from wine connoisseurship to gardening. This edition is not an exception, though the surprises are within the chapters.
At more than 1000 pages, Pears Cyclopaedia is a bargain. Alas, its distribution leaves something to be desired. I have spent the better part of a long afternoon searching for it in vain in London’s bookshops. Last time I had it ordered in Europe, I waited for months on end for its arrival. It is also not exactly available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. It should be. Pears Cyclopaedia is wonderful, in the true meaning of this word: it is full of wonders and, therefore, is itself a wonder.
Sam Vaknin ( http://samvak.tripod.com ) is the author of Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain - How the West Lost the East, as well as many other books and ebooks about topics in psychology, relationships, philosophy, economics, international affairs, and award-winning short fiction.
He is the Editor-in-Chief of Global Politician and served as a columnist for Central Europe Review, PopMatters, eBookWeb , and Bellaonline, and as a United Press International (UPI) Senior Business Correspondent. He was the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory and Suite101.
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RICHARDS BROTHERS BAND
PIX #1 - Jimmy Richards and Jimmy Durante
PIX #2 - Nat King Cole and Jimmy Richards
PIX #3 - Marlowe Thomas was on the Dave Garaway and Arthur Godfrey shows with Jimmy Richards
PIX #4 - Sam Levenson and Jimmy Richards
PIX #5 - Danny Thomas and Jimmy Richards
PIX #6 - Rony Martin and Jimmy Richards
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Today's article is the last in the series about the Richards brothers and their orchestra which was well received and attained fame nationally. This last article continues the story about other local musicians...it was part of last week's article, and provides the final scenario about Jimmy, his later activities, and a final "sign off". I hope you enjoyed the series.
"HAP" ANDREWS BIG-TIME TOO
Another musician who grew up in Fostoria prior to Wainwright's era, was Earl "Hap" or "Happy" Andrews. Ernie Duffield knew him, but I did not, except by sight, and that he was a very good musician. Andrews' ability was on the piano and vocalizing.
He had a band during the big band era, playing Atlantic City, Pittsburg, and large cities throughout the South. His band often practiced at the Andrews' home at 248 E. Crocker St., and event that entertained the neighbors.
Andews was also a standby pianist ofr Zez Confrey's band. Esther Shaffer, who lived close to the Andrews home, once told me about Andrews. She said Confrey, composer of "Dizzy Fingers" and "Kitte on the Keys" played the specialties, leaving the routine keywork for "Happy".
Andrews was of great help to young, local musicians who wanted to be professionals. Those known, who benefitted through his generosity were Guy Workman, Richard Conley and Lola Lutzy, Miss Shaffer told me.
Still another Fostorian who made the big time in music was Harold "Red" Saliers, according to Duffield. Sailers moved to Florida upon retirement and participated some in music there, along with his wife Cleo (Bates Turner Dennis).
She now resides in Alabama. He is dead.
WHEN THE BAND DISCONTINUED
Stan Moyer, a member of the Richard's orchestra and one who was of great help to me in putting together these articles, "Jogged" his memory and came up with the following list. It shows who was with the band in the final days, and what happened to them.
Paul Lew worked with Spike Jones, also Ice Capades; Ray Heath joined Mitch Ayres, and did studio work in Los Angeles; Jim Stutz played with Paul Whiteman and with others in Las Vegas casinos; Frank Gress went with Lou Breese, and played at various Chicago clubs; Jim Daly played with Wayne King at various Chicago Clubs.
Hank Shanks played with Tommy Tucker and also with Las Vegas clubs; Chuck Carrel became president of Texas Musicians Union; Stan Moyer formed his own band and played engagements, but also joined the Schmidler-Haughton Co., Toledo.
Dave Mullett, Gene Moyer and Cherie Carroll formed The Carroll-Aires, a vocal group. They joined up with Eddy Oliver at Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chicago. Later, the group went with Griff Williams, and performed at Palmer House, Chicago; Aragon and Trianon, Chicago; Waldorf Astoria, N.Y.; CoCoanut Groves, Los Angeles; Mark Hopkins, Sand Fransisco; Rossevelt Hotel, New Orleans; and The Peabody, Memphis.
Moyer said Mickey Carroll also sang with Harry Jones Orchestra for a while. The manager of the James Orchestra happened to be the "band boy" when Jimmy Richards was working with "Red Norvo", mentioned in one of the eariler articles. The "band boy" in any orchestra was the person who went to the site of the engagement ahead of the musicians and set up the equipment.
Lucky me...and readers; if Stan Moyer hadn't kept in touch wiht his old band buddies, some of this history would have been lost and not available now.
CARREL EARLY BAND MEMBER REPORTS
Orrin Carrel, a member of the Richards orchestra in its early days, and now a resident of Milton Center, also provided information for this series of articles.
Orrin left the band in 1930, to be employed by F.W. Woolworth as a store manager up intul 1942, when he went into the U.S. Air Force in World War II.
Carrel told me that Paul Decker, Tiffin, was the band's drummer before Chuch Carrel (his brother) joined the band.
Orrin named Jimmy as "a very solid musician". He would take stock music numbers and arrange them for the size of his band. Other bands admired his ability and asked for copies.
Carrel rated his four years with the band as "a very pleasant experience with a wonderful group of musicians". He recalls playing at Greenmill Gardens, Findlay, and watching Park Burtscher and Flo Botto dance to perfection.
In 1942, when Uncle Sam put out the call for fighting men to "win the war that would end all wars" that was the start of the end of Jimmy Richards orchestra. A date for the demise of the orchestra doesn't exist. It was a chain of events which led him to another place in the music world.
Jimmy continued to play at several engagements with a band made up of his "regulars" and "fill-ins" from the Chicago Union. However, the band never took to the road again, as it had for so many years.
JIMMY WENT TO WORK FOR M.C.A.
It was about that time that Jimmy went to work for Music Corporation of America (MCA), as an agent, MCA had actually booked his band for some years.
MCA Artists Ltd., part of Music Corporation of America, controlled much of the entertainment business in America. The U.S. government, through enactment of the Sherman Antitrust Act, broke the powerful grip of MCA, causing it to dissolve.
Jimmy was at the right place at the right time. He then picked up some of the MCA accounts and set up "Jimmy Richard Productions, with offices in the Palmolive Building in Chicago, continuing in that business for a number of years.
He had talked of retirement, wishing to settle in California, but he waited too long. He died in 1978, and as the saying goes "with his boots on"... still active with his booking business. He died of a heart attack.
After Jimmy's death, his wife, Betty moved to California to live with her daughter, Betty Anne.
After the death of Will Richards, his wife and son Bill, moved to San Diego, where they both died.
So, how does this series come to an end?
When Betty, Jimmy's wife and their daughter Betty Anne, returned to Fostoria with the "scrapbook" material and the cremated ashed of her sister-in-law for burial on the family plot at Fountain Cemetery, I was present that day.
I returned to the cemetery more recently to view the burial plot again and to gather data from the grave markers. It was noted that William A. (Will) Richards, father of the two musicians, whom he had luanched and assisted in their early career, died in 1937.
His wife, Eugenia M., died in 1971. William C. (Bill) also died in 1971. He was a World War II veteran, and the grave marker has an official government plaque in dicating he was part of TEC, U.S. Army. James A. (Jimmy) died in 1978.
Two other members of the family buried on the plot are Eugenia A. (Richards) Babcock, and her husband Oral Peter Babcock, who many will recall as a Fostoria businessman for many years on Main Street, in the retail meat business with Clarence Huss.
That day, about a year ago, when the ashes of Mrs. Babcock were buried, Betty Richards remarked to me, I'll make one more trip back here.
That day, I observed that there was one other market on the family burial plot...for James Ball and wife. I asked Betty if James Ball was part of the family, and if he was the local photographer of years ago. Her reply was "yes". The Ball's were the parents of Mrs. Will Richards...grandparents of the two musicians...Jimmy and Bill. Top of page
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Education, Transparency
Gender Identity is an Assault on Reality
by Rretta • September 12, 2017 • 0 Comments
George Orwell, in his novel 1984 depicted a mind-controlled technique called “doublethink,” which describes the act of simultaneously accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs as correct. If the malleable masses could be made to believe self-contradictory, patently absurd and empirically impossible concepts as true, they could then be made to believe, or do, anything. Today the far-left has not only managed to impose this blatantly Marxism theory on society, but have also demanded that the immutable laws of physics and biology be repealed.
According to Matt Barber, in an article at Townhall, Gender identity, the ability of people to determine whether they are male or female, or some unknown quantity, based only on their personal feeling and inclinations, is yet another left-wing Cultural Marxist assault on natural and biological realities. By claiming that humans at birth are a blank slate, molded by society to be whatever they turn out to be, is not based in reality, at least not on this planet.
The man behind gender as a social construct was Dr. John William Money, a leading proponent of the blank slate theory, sex researcher, pediatric psycho-endocrinologists and cofounder of the Gender Identity Clinic at John Hopkins. Obsessed that everyone was a hermaphrodite psychologically from birth, Money was convinced that we could be whatever we wanted to be, at least gender wise, so long as we were raised that way from a young age, totally ignoring the effects of genetics and biology on the development of the human personality.
While those on the left applauded Dr. Money’s studies, his intervention in debates about pedophilia dogged his reputation. Through his “studies” of pedophilia, Dr. Money claimed there was a distinction between types of pedophilia. While “sadistic pedophiles” abused and would sometimes kill their victims, “affectional pedophiles,” according to Money, were driven by an “eroticized parental base” that had little to do with sex. “Childhood sexual experience such as being the partner of a relative or of an older person need not necessarily affect the child adversely.” He also said that “if I were to see the case of a boy aged ten or eleven who’s intensely erotically attracted toward a man in his twenties or thirties, if the relationship is totally mutual, and the bonding is genuinely totally mutual…then I would not call it pathological in any way.”
Doctor Money was also known to personally enjoy nudism and group sex, practiced in the libertarian environment of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality’s (SSSS) gatherings, and advocated for the study of human sexuality in its recreational use as compared to purely procreational function, in which the SSSS led the way. He also took the position that “heterosexuality is an example of a societal and therefore superficial ideological concept.”
A person born with XX chromosomes is, and always will be, female. A person born with distinct X and Y chromosomes is and always will be forever male. No amount of self delusion, gnashing of teeth, cross-dressing, genital mutilation surgery, utterly bizarre so-called scientific studies, or Marxist doublethink dictates can alter this unalterable fact.
While we would call a person who subjectively insists that water is composed of pure hydrogen either ignorant or insane, we incongruously call the person who similarly insists that a man can somehow “transition” to a woman, progressive. Even so, it is neither ignorance nor insanity that drives the progressive goal of creating a “genderless” society. It is something far more sinister – it is temporal control and spiritual defiance.
Progressive efforts to “legalize” genderless “marriage” by way of extra-constitutional judicial fiat do not make it legitimate marriage any more than “legalizing” abortion made it NOT murder. Likewise, calling a sexually confused man a “trans-woman” makes him no more a woman than cutting the stem off a banana makes it a cantaloupe.
Cultural Marxism entails, among other things, secularist aspects of left-wing statist ideology that seeks, within society, to supplant traditional values, norms and mores with postmodern moral relativism. It endeavors to destroy innocence, sexualize our children, and desensitize them to sexual perversion of every stripe, with an aim to scrub America of her Judeo-Christian, Constitutional Republic founding principles while creating a Brave New World of despotic androgyny.
Thank goodness not all are accepting of this Cultural Marxist fraud. In his book The Blank Slate, Doctor Steven Pinker, a cognitive scientist, psychologist , and the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard, explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional and political colorings. He shows how many intellectuals deny the existence of human nature by embracing three linked dogmas: The Blank Slate which claims the mind has no innate traits, the Nobel Savage, which says people are born good or corrupted by society, and the Ghost in the Machine which says that each of us has a soul that makes choices free from biology. Each of these dogmas, according to Pinker, carries a moral burden which explains why their defenders engage in a desperate tactics to discredit any scientist who challenges them.
According to Dr. Pinker, the doctrine of the Blank Slate may have done more harm than good by denying our common humanity and our individual preferences, and replaces that with hardheaded analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans while distorting our understand of government, violence, parenting and the arts.
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Auto Dealers Rebut “Concerned” Scientists
by Marlo Lewis on November 4, 2011
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and seven other green groups sent the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) a letter (dated October 19) criticizing NADA’s opposition to President Obama’s plan to increase new-car fuel economy standards to 54.5 miles per gallon by Model Year (MY) 2025.
The UCS letter parrots the administration’s claims about the many wonderful benefits more stringent fuel economy standards will achieve during MYs 2017-2025. In a letter dated November 2, NADA points out that the claimed benefits depend on assumptions, such as future gasoline prices and, most importantly, whether consumers will want to buy the cars auto makers are forced to produce.
The UCS letter neglects to mention that, according to the administration’s own estimates, the MY 2025 standard would add at least $3,100 to the average cost of a new vehicle. NADA also notes other likely consumer impacts:
Vehicles that currently cost $15,000 and less effectively regulated out of existence.
Weight reductions of 15%-25%, with potential adverse effects on vehicle safety in collisions.
25% to 66% of the fleet required to be hybrid or electric, even though hybrids today account for only 2-3% of new vehicle sales.
The “concerned” scientists also completely ignore NADA’s critique of the legal basis of Obama’s fuel economy agenda. [click to continue…]
House Committee Opens New Front in Fuel Economy Battle
by Marlo Lewis on July 13, 2011
Yesterday, the House Appropriations Committee approved an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2012 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriations bill that would block EPA from using any funds to:
Develop greenhouse gas (GHG) emission standards for new motor vehicles and vehicle engines manufactured after the 2016 model year; and
Consider or grant a Clean Air Act waiver allowing the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to establish GHG emission standards for new motor vehicles and vehicle engines manufactured after the 2016 model year.
Capital Alpha Partners, LLC, a firm providing political and policy risk analysis to institutional investors, rightly notes that the amendment, sponsored by Rep. Steve Austria (R-Ohio), could “shift the debate over fuel economy standards and pressure the administration to soften its 56.2 mpg target floated two weeks ago.” In addition, the measure “would slice two of the three currently-involved agencies [EPA and CARB] out of the rule-making loop,” leaving fuel economy regulation to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), “the one agency seen as ‘most reasonable’ by industry and other observers.”
Capital Alpha reckons the measure “has a 25% chance of enactment into law this year.” If enacted as part of the one-year EPA funding bill, the measure would expire on September 30, 2012. “However,” says Capital Alpha, “should it make it into law, opponents would be hard-pressed to strip it out in future years.” An exciting prospect for liberty-loving Americans! [click to continue…]
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