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Q: Apply function to dataframe row use result for next row input I am trying to create a rudimentary scheduling system. Here is what I have so far:
I have a pandas dataframe job_data that looks like this:

wc
job
start
duration

1
J1
2022-08-16 07:30:00
17

1
J2
2022-08-16 07:30:00
5

2
J3
2022-08-16 07:30:00
21

2
J4
2022-08-16 07:30:00
12

It contains a wc (work center), job, a start date and duration for the job in hours.
I have created a function add_hours that takes the following arguments: start (datetime), hours (int).
It calculates the when the job will be complete based on the start time and duration.
The code for add_hours is:
def is_in_open_hours(dt):
    return (
        dt.weekday() in business_hours["weekdays"]
        and dt.date() not in holidays
        and business_hours["from"].hour <= dt.time().hour < business_hours["to"].hour
    )

def get_next_open_datetime(dt):
    while True:
        dt = dt + timedelta(days=1)
        if dt.weekday() in business_hours["weekdays"] and dt.date() not in holidays:
            dt = datetime.combine(dt.date(), business_hours["from"])
            return dt

def add_hours(dt, hours):
    while hours != 0:
        if is_in_open_hours(dt):
            dt = dt + timedelta(hours=1)
            hours = hours - 1
        else:
            dt = get_next_open_datetime(dt)
    return dt

The code to calculate the end column is:
df["end"] = df.apply(lambda x: add_hours(x.start, x.duration), axis=1)

The result of function is the end column:

wc
job
start
duration
end

1
J1
2022-08-16 07:30:00
17
2022-08-17 14:00:00

1
J2
2022-08-16 07:30:00
5
2022-08-17 10:00:00

2
J3
2022-08-16 07:30:00
21
2022-08-18 08:00:00

2
J4
2022-08-16 07:30:00
12
2022-08-18 08:00:00

Problem is, I need the start datetime in the second row to be the end datetime from the previous row instead of them all using the same start date. I also need to start this process over for each wc.
So the desired output would be:

wc
job
start
duration
end

1
J1
2022-08-16 07:30:00
17
2022-08-17 14:00:00

1
J2
2022-08-17 14:00:00
5
2022-08-17 19:00:00

2
J3
2022-08-16 07:30:00
21
2022-08-18 08:00:00

2
J4
2022-08-18 08:00:00
10
2022-08-18 18:00:00

A: You can use Timedelta and groupby operations.
As you did not provide your custom function, I'll apply here a simple addition of the duration:
df['start'] = pd.to_datetime(df['start'])

t = pd.to_timedelta(df['duration'], unit='h')
g = t.groupby(df['wc'])

df['start'] = df['start'].add(g.apply(lambda x: x.cumsum().shift(fill_value=pd.Timedelta('0'))))

df['end'] = df['start'].add(t)

Output:
   wc job               start  duration                 end
0   1  J1 2022-08-16 07:30:00        17 2022-08-17 00:30:00
1   1  J2 2022-08-17 00:30:00         5 2022-08-17 05:30:00
2   2  J3 2022-08-16 07:30:00        21 2022-08-17 04:30:00
3   2  J4 2022-08-17 04:30:00        12 2022-08-17 16:30:00

A: I show an alternative method where you only need the first start date and then bootstrap the lists according to the job durations.

# import required modules
import io
import pandas as pd
from datetime import datetime
from datetime import timedelta

# make a dataframe
# note: only the first start date is required
x = '''
wc  job start   duration    end
1   J1  2022-08-16 07:30:00 17  2022-08-17 14:00:00
1   J2  2022-08-16 07:30:00 5   2022-08-17 10:00:00
2   J3  2022-08-16 07:30:00 21  2022-08-18 08:00:00
2   J4  2022-08-16 07:30:00 12  2022-08-18 08:00:00
'''
data = io.StringIO(x)

df = pd.read_csv(data, sep='\t')

# construct start and end lists
start = datetime.strptime(df['start'][0], '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
start_list = [start]
end_list = []
for x in df['duration']:
    time_change = timedelta(hours=float(x))
    new_time = start_list[-1] + time_change
    start_list.append(new_time)
    end_list.append(new_time)

start_list.pop(-1)

# add to dataframe
df['start'] = start_list
df['end'] = end_list

# finished
df

The result is this:

A: I'm not sure what's the size of your dataset, but if it's not too big you could use the following elegant solution (which would take quite a while to run because your'e replicating calculations)
df['cum_duration'] = df.groupby('wc').duration.transform(sum)
df['end'] = df.apply(lambda x: add_hours(x.start, x.cum_duration), axis=1)

If the OP provides the business_hours df I could try to validate this solution


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They argue that ANWR holds perhaps the largest untapped reserve of crude oil left in North America. The Interior Department's average estimate for possible oil reserves is about 3.2 billion barrels--about 200 days' supply at the nation's current consumption level.
California, which gets nearly half its oil from Alaska, would be a particular beneficiary.
To quell environmental fears, industry officials say that much has been learned since Prudhoe Bay's massive oil fields were developed in the 1970s. Environmental effects, they say, can be minimized. The oil industry says, too, that the amount of development proposed in ANWR is so small relative to its total size that the refuge will hardly feel it.
Two and a half years after the Exxon Valdez fouled Alaska's coastline, the national debate over energy and the environment centers again on this grand, wild, resource-rich state.
More than others, Alaskans have had to come to terms with their own attitudes toward the debate. The oil industry has made them richer, but it also has forced them to deal with one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history.
Their struggle to sort out economic self-interest from environmental risk mirrors the nation's.
"The environmental debate up here has always been between two stereotypes," says Michele D. Brown, head of the Citizen's Oversight Council, created in the wake of the spill. "You've got this Gore-Tex-clad granola-head on one side, and you've got this diesel-swilling hard-hat guy on the other, and they're always going at each other. . . .
"I think what the Exxon Valdez did is raise the general environmental awareness," she says. "People realized their own back yards are affected. You now have the middle interested in the subject."
The promise of oil here is tantalizing. At a rare outcropping of subsurface rock, BP's Herrera breaks off a crumbly piece and holds it up. The smell of petroleum is unmistakable. "You have the right rocks, the right structures and the right sequence in which various things occurred here," he says.
ANWR was created as a wildlife range in 1960, then upgraded to a refuge and expanded under the Jimmy Carter Administration in 1980 to its present size of about 19.3 million acres. At that time, most of the refuge was put off-limits--all except the coastal plain, making up about 8% of the refuge's total acreage, which was set aside as a special study area for possible development.
From the air in summer, ANWR's coastal plain appears as a fuzzy expanse of Kelly green, honeycombed with fissures from the spring thaw, punctuated here and there by shallow ponds and striated by the parallel tracks of caribou.
Upon landing, a visitor is overwhelmed by the vastness and silence of the place. To the east and west, the tundra stretches from horizon to horizon. To the south, the towering peaks of the Brooks Range dominate the skyline. To the north, the Beaufort Sea--studded with late summer ice--hugs the inhospitable coast.
No one knows for sure if there is any recoverable oil in ANWR. Only one exploratory oil well has been drilled--a 15,193-foot well sunk in 1985 by Chevron Corp. and British Petroleum on refuge land owned by the Inupiat Eskimos of the nearby village of Kaktovik.
The so-called "KIC No. 1" well was capped in 1986; all that remains is a six-foot length of rusty pipe sticking out of the mud, a favorite stop on tours conducted by BP and the other major oil operator on the North Slope, Atlantic Richfield Co. of Los Angeles.
The well's results? Only about 10 people know, and they're not saying. "The well cost us about $40 million, and our competitors would be very interested in knowing what it shows too," said Tom Cook, exploration representative for Chevron U.S.A. in Alaska. "The honest answer is, that well is so tightly held, I don't even know the results to it."
The Interior Department estimates there could be as little as 590 million barrels or as much as 9.2 billion barrels of oil here.
An assessment of the coastal plain was completed by Interior in 1987. It concluded that the prospect of finding sizable oil reserves was good, about 19%.
That estimate was boosted to 46% in a controversial report by Interior earlier this year. The revision was challenged by drilling opponents, who argued that the department inflated the chances for political purposes. In July, a federal judge ruled that the department had to submit the revised estimate to more review.
If there is oil here, environmentalists argue that it wouldn't last more than a year or two at the nation's current rate of consumption.
But it would still be an astonishing amount of oil.
At 3.2 billion barrels, there would be enough to reduce by nearly 9% daily the oil imports that slake about half of the nation's oil thirst. Production of such a reserve would provide net national economic benefits of $79.4 billion, including corporate earnings and federal royalties, the Interior Department estimates.
The industry argues that ANWR oil also would compensate for the natural decline of production from nearby Prudhoe Bay and related oil fields of the North Slope, which provide about a quarter of the nation's total oil production. That production, now about 1.8 million barrels a day, has been dropping steadily from its peak in 1988.
Without ANWR, production will decline to the point that it will not sustain the 800-mile trans-Alaska pipeline, 70 miles away. In August, the pipeline's operator, Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., said that it might have to begin shutting down some of its 11 pump stations in the next two or three years to accommodate reduced flows.
Even if Congress approves a bill to open ANWR this year, actual oil production would not begin for as long as a dozen years while companies bid for leases, explore for oil, define any fields and build infrastructure and pipelines.
Despite ANWR's potential oil resources, a study by the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group, concluded that greater conservation--including tougher auto mileage standards--could save the equivalent of 56.5 billion barrels of oil by 2020, roughly when ANWR would be brought into full oil production. That would make ANWR unnecessary, the NRDC says.
Predictably, proponents of drilling scoff at such estimates, arguing that demand for oil will likely remain high, since there are few economical alternatives to gasoline and diesel-powered cars and trucks yet.
But that hasn't stopped environmental campaigns from making conservation a key issue.
Greenpeace, which sent the Rainbow Warrior on an Alaskan tour this summer, runs an advertisement with a photograph of Exxon Valdez captain Joseph Hazelwood. The headline reads: "It wasn't his driving that caused the Alaskan oil spill. It was yours."
On a foggy August morning in Port Valdez, Greenpeace activists launch inflatable rafts from the Rainbow Warrior, a converted trawler, and head for a berth at Alyeska's marine terminal. It is the place where Alaskan crude oil is loaded onto oil tankers for shipment south.
From the water, four activists scale the berth's iron support structure, handcuff themselves to it and unfurl a banner that reads: "Stop Arctic Drilling, Yield to Clean Energy."
Eventually, Alyeska workers lower themselves on ropes, disconnect the protesters and hand them over to the U.S. Coast Guard.
"If they can't figure out how not to pollute Prince William Sound, they have no business opening other things," says Dorothy Smith, a Greenpeace spokeswoman.
In these post-Alaskan oil spill days, environmentalists and others are leery of industry promises to develop oil in ANWR with little environmental harm. They point to past practices at Prudhoe Bay and other oil fields to the west:
--A report by three major environmental groups documents ecological damage that, they argue, exceeds expectations throughout the oil fields of the North Slope. Each year, hundreds of spills occur on the North Slope, involving tens of thousands of gallons of oil and other materials, according to the report by the Natural Resources Defense Council, the National Wildlife Federation and Trustees for Alaska.
Every day, oil operations generate tons of wastes, the report says. The oil fields have displaced more than 15,000 wild birds, oil field workers have killed polar bears and grizzly bears as "nuisances," and 400,000 larval fish have been sucked into a seawater treatment plant, the report says.
--Arco was fined $200,000 by the state of Alaska after it understated the extent of an August, 1989, spill of oil from a pipeline onto the tundra of the Kuparuk oil field. Between 312 and 603 barrels of oil spilled when a valve failed. Arco first reported a spill of only one barrel, waiting two weeks before raising its estimate to the full amount.
"We did not intentionally underreport the size of the spill," said Arco spokesman Ronnie Chappell. Nevertheless, Arco was told to improve its oil-spill assessment and reporting procedures, clean up the site and speed up maintenance of pipelines in the field. More than two years later, the spill site of about 1.4 acres is still being cleaned up.
--In 1988, the Environmental Protection Agency made an inspection of Arco's crude oil topping unit (COTU)--basically a small refinery on the North Slope--and the nearby Surfcote storage area, in response to complaints from three former employees.
The EPA confirmed that some small oil spills went unreported, that some spills were simply covered up with gravel and that storage tanks of bolted steel construction continuously leaked diesel, gasoline, jet fuel and other liquids from 1969 to 1986, when the tanks were replaced.
"For the last year before the COTU was upgraded in 1987, Arco indicated that other partners in the COTU were unwilling to fund the project to correct problems associated with the bolted tanks," said a 1988 memo from the governor's office.
Arco says it began correcting problems at the plant and storage area long before the EPA's inspection, Chappell said in a statement. He added that the company stopped using the Surfcote site and installed new fuel storage tanks at the topping plant five years ago. Remediation of both sites continues, he said.
--Interviews with current and former oil field workers give a glimpse of the way things worked on the slope. When a waste flare--a flame designed to burn off excess natural gas--malfunctioned at the crude oil topping unit, workers didn't fix it. Instead, they relit the flame by firing a flare gun at it, or by shooting flaming arrows from a toy archery set, one former Arco employee said.
Other times, workers were told not to report spills of oil or diesel fuel, the employee said.
Arco declined to comment on the allegations.
A current oil field contract worker said he'd seen caribou injured when tripping over pipe carelessly left on the ground. Other times, he said, waste paper and other debris were allowed to blow away without being disposed of.
And he described regular drinking by some field workers, despite a ban on alcohol. The whiskey of choice: Crown Royale.
Herrera denied that caribou have been injured in accidents, and industry officials call into question the conclusions of environmentalists.
In any case, they say, things have improved vastly since the early boom days on the North Slope, whose fields spread out over more than 400 square miles of Arctic tundra. They include far-flung processing plants, drilling pads, waste pits and oil wells clad in green or orange metal structures to shield against the cold.
All told, the operations directly cover about 8,200 acres, not counting pipelines, Arco says.
Development of ANWR, by comparison, would affect about 12,650 acres--or about 0.8% of the coastal plain--the Interior Department has estimated.
But industry officials argue that new technology would reduce the size--or "footprint"--of such development, with much less environmental effect. The Endicott Field, BP's newest North Slope drilling site--on two man-made islands just offshore--includes accommodations for 150 workers, space for 100 oil wells and related processing plants, but covers only 55 acres.
Elsewhere, a new BP plant now in experimental stages will eventually treat all "cuttings"--drilling wastes from the oil fields--for reinjection into stable underground rock formations. The plant will eliminate the need for so-called reserve pits, the unsightly and at times leaky open waste basins where workers once disposed of the water and drilling clays used in oil production.
In another part of the oil field, BP officials proudly show off a so-called revegetation site--a patch of tundra where all traces of drilling have been removed, the fragile soil has been reseeded and some vegetation now struggles to return.
Still, the threat of harm to ANWR is enough, environmentalists argue, that the coastal plain should be put off limits, whatever the prospects or need for oil there.
"You have operating on the Arctic coastal plain one of the top 10 wildlife spectacles in the world," says Allen E. Smith, Alaska regional director for the Wilderness Society in Anchorage. "It's on a par with what happens on the plains of Africa. It's on a par with the giant whale migrations.
"And some of us value that," Smith adds, "for both its intrinsic value and also the biological and ecological study value for management of the rest of the planet."
But for Alaska Gov. Hickel, the question is simple.
"Where are you going to get the things that people need? . . . You go where you're not in competition with people's living--the Arctic. . . . "Wildlife is important," Hickel says. "But so is independence."
Drilling in the Arctic
Debate over the nation's energy future is centering on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which drilling proponents believe is the last, best chance for a sizeable oil reserve. Environmentalists oppose drilling, arguing that the refuge is irreplaceable wilderness. A small portion of the area under question--the so-called "1002" area, or coastal plain--is owned by Native Alaskans of the Kaktovik Inupiat Corp. and the Arctic Slope Regional Corp.
Comparing Sizes
The area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would cover most of Southern California.
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge at a Glance:
Created: 1960
Current size: 19 million acres, larger than 10 states.
Location: Northeast corner of Alaska, bordered on the north by the Beaufort Sea, on the east by the U.S.-Canadian border and on the northeast by the Canning River. The entire refuge lies within the Arctic Circle.
Residents: About 200 Inupiat Eskimos in the village of Kaktovik on Barter Island in the Beaufort Sea.
Wildlife: 180,000 head of caribou, as well as grizzly and polar bears, muskoxen, wolves, moose and several bird species.
Average Summer Temperature, July: 41 degrees
Average Winter Temperature, February: --4 degrees
Estimated oil reserves: Between 590 million and 9.2 billion barrels


Netflix Inc. (NFLX) has added some content specifically for its Canadian subscribers, who will now be able to stream both contemporary and classic matches from the Ultimate Fighting Championship (:UFC), a mixed martial arts (:MMA) program.
Netflix subscribers will be able to watch UFC programs like UFC Best Of, Ultimate KO, 100 Greatest Moments and Ultimate Heavyweights, as well as the documentary Bad Blood that features Canadian MMA stars like Mark Hominick, Rory MacDonald and Sam Stout along with a host of international players like Georges St-Pierre, Anderson Silva and Jon Jones to name a few.
In the recently concluded quarter, Canada was the strongest of its international ventures, according to Netflix. The company's subscriber base nearly doubled when compared with the year-ago quarter. Netflix has been adding content through licensing agreements with Canadian broadcasting companies to further boost its subscriber growth.
Management expects the Canadian operations to generate some profit in the current quarter and continue to contribute favorably through the rest of the year.
We believe that content additions will not only improve Netflix's competitive edge in international markets, but will also boost subscriber growth going forward. In the recently concluded quarter, Netflix added 1.21 million net international subscribers and revenues from international operations increased 48.3% sequentially.
Additionally, Netflix's future growth and strategy is entirely based on the online streaming business, as its DVD rental business continues to witness subscriber losses. Netflix faces significant competition from Shaw Communications and BCE Inc. in the Canadian market and from Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), HBO and Verizon Communications (VZ) in the domestic market, which will remain a headwind going forward. Moreover, higher capital expenditure arising from international expansion will impact profits.
We have a Neutral recommendation on Netflix over the long term. Currently, Netflix has a Zacks #3 Rank, which implies a Hold rating in the short term.


A starliner cruise perched on the edge of oblivion. A murder no one believes happened.
Chief Steward Abel Michaels of the starliner Neutron's Sonata has a murder with no evidence, a faulty AI (even though that's impossible), a ship full of passengers of all species, events to plan, and a black hole on the verge of a supernova explosion.
The Neutron's Sonata black hole cruise to witness the supernova explosion of the Tartaros accretion disk promised a singular experience for all sentients aboard. When Chief Steward Abel Michaels discovers the corpse of a murdered alien, he expects the ship's artificial intelligence to swiftly identify the killer.
Except the AI denies that the murder happened. When the body disappears before anyone else can see it, Abel's sanity is brought into question. After all, everyone knows that an AI can't be tampered with and can't be wrong.
Now Abel must find evidence of the crime, identify the victim without the body, and discover the killer's identity. All before the black hole's accretion disk explodes—and they must rely on a faulty AI to jump the ship to safety.


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Q: Given a parametrization $r(u,v)$ of a surface, do we use $r_u\times r_v$ or $r_v\times r_u$ for the normal vector in a surface integral? I am confused a bit in surface integral .
When we compute surface integral using parameterization of the surface then we first write the vector r in terms of parameters say u and v
Then we find the derivative of vector r with respect to u (let's call it r(u) )and then the derivative of vector r with respect to v (let's call it r(v) )
Now comes my confusion to get the unit normal vector we take the cross product of two differentiated vectors.
I am confused in which order shall I take the cross product shall I compute r(u) × r(v) or shall I compute r(v) × r(u) as both are not equal.
Is there a rule as to which order shall I apply as it makes my answers wrong many a times.
Thanks

A: The order does not matter much. In any way you can take the cross product, the answer will differ by just a "-" sign. So, in one case, your answer will be positive and in the other case, negative. Usually we take the outward normal, which gives us the positive answer. If you wish, you can take the absolute value of the answer in the final step.


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Dan S. / September 3, 2011
Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)
The first minute and a half of Billy Joel's sophomore album is tremendously revealing, and also a little bit deceiving.
The most obvious development in that opening minute and a half is Joel's tremendously colorful sound provided by a diverse instrumentation. Where Cold Spring Harbor relied almost entirely on piano and vocals, Piano Man has a vivid soundscape that includes numerous string and wind instruments along with a wider variety of percussion and a distinct bass line.
The next most obvious development in those ninety seconds is a looser, more creative structure; Travelin' Prayer, the opening track, is a refrain-less beat poem. While Cold Spring Harbor had flirtations with unusual structure (the strange middle verse of Tomorrow Is Today, for example), the songs largely fit a uniform mold that is often absent on Piano Man.
We also learn quickly that Piano Man is a west coast album, not an east coast one. Joel moved to Los Angeles in 1972 after Cold Spring Harbor floundered commercially, and the western influences are obvious. Elton John's The Tumbleweed Connection is clearly a key inspiration.
From the start of Piano Man, Billy Joel simply sounds more confident, polished, and professional. No longer do these performances feel like rough drafts. He hadn't yet reached his peak, but every composition and rendition is adequate at worst, which couldn't be said of Joel's debut.
While these first impressions all accurately reflect the evolution in Joel's career found on Piano Man, that first minute and a half also gives one inaccurate impression: That Piano Man is a sentimental and loving album. It definitely isn't.
That's not to say Piano Man is entirely cold. In fact, I divide the album thematically into half. Five of the ten tracks here — Travelin' Prayer, Piano Man, You're My Home, The Ballad of Billy the Kid, Worse Comes to Worst — showcase Joel's warm, humane side.
The other half, though, showcases Joel at his darkest. He chronicles all sorts of emotional despair and broken relationships. A recurring theme is the inevitability of solitude and suffering.
The bleakest moment is the seven-minute Captain Jack, which depicts the two-headed beast of addiction and nihilism and how they can lead to a pretty crappy young adulthood. If this sounds grim, it's because it is; Joel so casually tosses out revelations like "They just found your father [dead] in the swimming pool" and "You can't understand why your world is so dead," that the song can be a tough listen.
But in the correct live setting, the song is something of a masterpiece that plumbs and purges the darkest depths of Joel's soul. It never has a redemptive moment, but its organ-backed chorus is so intensely cathartic that it is somewhat therapeutic.
There are a few other dark moments. For example, Somewhere Along the Line posits that everything nice and enjoyable will eventually go sour, and If I Only Had the Words laments that romance is kind of pointless anyways.
Also on the bleak end of the spectrum are Stop in Nevada and Ain't No Crime, which cover breakups from two perspectives. Stop In Nevada lambasts a leaving lover even as it can't really blame her for doing so ("And though she finds it hard to leave him / She knows it would be worse to stay"). Ain't No Crime, meanwhile, takes pity on the bum who gets left behind even as it smacks him around.
Together, these five tracks paint a pretty dark picture of humans in general, and specifically men: They're nothing but fleshy bags of impulses. It's an emotional low-point for Joel, who must have been going through some heavy stuff at the time.
Fortunately, there's a flip-side of the coin to all this pessimism and desolation. The other half of the album, which is more structurally ambitious and weighted towards the front of the album, takes a slightly more positive light on humanity.
Travelin' Prayer, whose opening I've described, provides a good lens to some of the musical themes on the album. It's very bluegrass-tinged both in the lyrics and the music, which makes it something oddity in Joel's oeuvre.
The second notable romantic ballad in Joel's career (after She's Got a Way) is You're My Home, which sports some troublesome wordplay ("instant-pleasure dome" is the notorious phrase here) but makes up for it with some really moving lines — "It always comes as a surprise when I feel my withered roots begin to grow."
Joel self-mythologizes on The Ballad of Billy the Kid, painting himself (presumably — he claims the song is actually about another Billy, though I doubt that's entirely true) both a hero and a villain. It seems heavily inspired by Copland's Hoedown and has some distinct classical elements to it.
And so we come to the elephant that I've avoided thus far: Piano Man the album, ultimately, will always be remembered first and foremost for Piano Man the song. Certainly, Piano Man is one of Joel's finest and most moving works.
It more than overcomes a few bits of clunky writing — "tonic and gin" will never sound quite right, and God only knows what a "real estate novelist" is — with a series of heartbreaking portraits of lives that are sinking as the narrator's music soars.
It would be a mistake to overstate the prominence of the title track on Piano Man. Though it's understandably Joel's trademark song, it never overshadows the magnificent, vivid, aching album around it, one that's just short of a masterpiece.
This post is part of The Month of Billy Joel series.
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New Technique Analyzes Shadows to Spot Photo Fakes
A new algorithm can spot fake photos by looking for inconsistent shadows that are not always obvious to the naked eye.
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The technique, which will be published in the journal ACM Transactions on Graphics in September, is the latest tool in the increasingly sophisticated arms race between digital forensics experts and those who manipulate photos or create fake tableaus for deceptive purposes.
National security agencies, the media, scientific journals and others use digital forensic techniques to differentiate between authentic images and computerized forgeries.
James O'Brien, a computer scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, along with Hany Farid and Eric Kee of Dartmouth University, developed an algorithm that interprets a variety of shadows in an image to determine if they are physically consistent with a single light source.
In the real world, O'Brien explained, if you drew a line from a shadow to the object that cast the shadow and kept extending the line, it would eventually hit the light source. Sometimes, however, it isn't possible to pair each portion of a shadow to its exact match on an object.
"So instead we draw a wedge from the shadow where the wedge includes the whole object. We know that the line would have to be in that wedge somewhere. We then keep drawing wedges, extending them beyond the edges of the image," said O'Brien.
If the photo is authentic, then all of the wedges will have a common intersection region where the light source is. If they don't intersect, "the image is a phony," O'Brien said.
A growing toolbox
The new technique does have limits, though. For instance, it was designed for use with images in which there is a single dominant light source, not situations with lots of little lights or a wide, diffuse light.
One could also imagine a clever forger anticipating the use of the shadow detection software and making sure they created shadows that would pass the test. The researchers call this just one technique in a toolbox of methods that are being developed to catch forgers.
O'Brien says one of the motivations for developing their algorithm is to reduce the need to rely on subjective evaluation by human experts to spot forgeries, which can easily mistake forged photos for authentic photos and authentic photos for forged ones.
Take for example the iconic 1969 photo of NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin posing on the surface of the moon.
"The shadows go in all kinds of different directions and the lighting's very strange...but if you do the analysis [with our software], it all checks out," O'Brien said.
Our trouble with shadows
It's unclear why humans are so bad at detecting inconsistent shadows, especially since our visual systems are so attuned to other cues, such as color, size and shape, said UC-Berkeley vision researcher Marty Banks.
One idea, Banks said, is that shadows are a relatively unimportant visual cue when it comes to helping organisms survive.
"It's important to get the color right because that might be a sign that the fruit or meat you're going to eat is spoiled, and it's important to get size and position right so you can interact with things," said Banks, who did not participate in the research. "And then there are things where it just doesn't really matter. One of them is shadows, we believe."
After all, before the advent of photography, one was unlikely to ever encounter a scene where the shadows are pointing in the wrong direction.
Analyzing shadows could also just be a more mentally taxing task, said Shree Nayar, a computer vision researcher at New York's Columbia University, who was also not involved in the research.
"This is a more complex second order effect," Nayar said, "and it's something we have a much harder time perceiving."
Man-machine collaboration
For now at least, the team's method still requires some human assistance, by matching shadows to the objects that cast them.
"This is something that in many images is unambiguous and people are pretty good at it," O'Brien explained.
Once that is done, the software takes over and figures out if the shadows could have been created by a common light source.
In this way, the scientists say, their method lets humans do what computers are poor at — interpreting the high-level content in images — and lets computers do what humans are poor at — testing for inconsistencies.
"I think for the foreseeable future, the best approaches are going to be this hybrid of humans and machines working together," O'Brien said.
Columbia's Nayar said he could envision a day when computers won't need human assistance to perform such tasks, because of increasingly sophisticated models and machine learning algorithms.
Because their software requires relatively simple human assistance, O'Brien and his team say it could one day be useful not only to experts, but the general public as well.
"So you could imagine a plug-in for Photoshop or an interactive app in your web browser where you can do that, and it would flag any inconsistencies," O'Brien said.
- Ker Than, Inside Science News Service
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Devastating flooding: Gov should account for Ecological funds -Environment Minister
…Says Nigeria has measures in place to contain climate change
…reveals FG nets N8.7 billion from environmental services
Soni Daniel, Northern Region Editor
Alarmed by the perennial flooding that devastates Nigeria annually, the Minister of Environment, Dr. Mohammed Abdullahi, has asked Nigerians to seek answers from their governors on what they do with the huge sums they receive routinely from the federation account for ecological challenges.
The minister said if the governors had deployed ecological funds to tackling ecological problems in their respective states, the level of flooding that confronts Nigeria yearly, would not have been as devastating as they have been in recent years, leading to the loss of many lives in many cases.
Dr. Abdullahi maintained that while the federal government through the relevant ministries and agencies including that of environment has it role to play in controlling and mitigating flooding, state governments must do their own part with the huge sums they collect for ecological purposes.
The minister spoke while presenting the scorecard of the President Muhammadu Buhari's administration in the environmental sector from 2015 till date at a news conference coordinated by the Ministry of Information in Abuja on Wednesday.
The minister who reeled out an avalanche of achievements said to have been recorded by the Environment Ministry, announced that it generated and paid into the Treasury Single Account of the Federal Government the sum of N8.7 billion it generated internally through environmental services.
He also announced that Nigeria had out in place various measures in place to mitigate the impact of climate change and ensure that the country is not left behind in the energy transition process.
The minister said, "We are at the forefront of benefitting from climate change fund, which is being put together as a global fund. We have an action plan in place to ensure that Nigeria benefits from it by identifying projects and programmes that support our transition from carbon to renewable energy.
The minister also announced that work on the clean-up of Ogoni land was in progress and in accordance with the timeline developed between Nigeria and the United Nations Environmental Programme.
The minister said, "The ministry, conscious of the need to ensure effective and timely implementation of the UNEP report on the Ogoni clean-up in line with Mr. President's commitment, has achieve the remediation of 21 sites covering about 230 hectares out of the 65 sites reported in the UNEP factsheet and accessed additional 213 grids consisting of 200 by 200cms per grid shorelines which will pave way for the actual clean-up and remediation of 635 hectares of contaminated shorelines and planting of mangroves seedlings of the clean-up shoreline areas.
But to pave way for the operation, the minister said a number of initiatives had been undertaken to give succour to the Ogoni people and add value to their lives, among them the construction of water supply schemes with the capacity of supplying Eleme, Gokana, Tai, Khana communities and the training of no fewer than 400 Ogoni women on agribusiness and the setting up of 20 cooperatives for them.
Additionally, the minister said the sum of N491million was used for the engagement of 500 Ogoni youths as local security at the various HYPREP sites.
The minister said that the ministry was able to recover arable land in the northern part of Nigeria from a baseline of 90 hectares in 2019 to 6007 as at the second quarter of 2022 while the planting of trees increased from 1 million to 9 million in 2022.
The Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who coordinated the briefing, had earlier disclosed that government had so far realized at least N120 billion as proceeds from criminal financial operations since the Bill on Proceeds of Crime Recovery Management was signed into law earlier this year by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Mohammed said, "I have an update on the Proceeds of Crime (Recovery and Management) Act (POCA), 2022. In line with the new law, all relevant agencies of government have now opened 'Confiscated and Forfeiture Properties Account with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
"I can confirm that so far, the Federal Government has realized over 120 billion Naira, among other currencies, from POCA.
"This money will be used to fund the completion of ongoing critical infrastructure projects in the country like the Second Niger Bridge as well as Lagos-Ibadan and Abuja-Kano Expressways. We will continue to update you on this," the Information Minister said.
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Rear Admiral Terry Loughran CB is not an imposing figure at first. Short in stature, he's not what you may first visualise when thinking about great Navy commanders, but get him talking and you realise why he is affectionately known by his people as 'Big Tel'. He's full of enthusiasm, opinion and has a great grasp of history, making him the ideal man to head up this year's centenary activities for the Fleet Air Arm. His career is extensive, from his early days as a pilot on Sea Kings on the 'old' HMS Ark Royal in the sixties, he went on to command the current HMS Ark Royal in 1993, and was Flag Officer Naval Aviation (in other words head of the Fleet Air Arm) before 'retirement'.
Rather than retire to a cottage by the sea and tend the garden, Terry became a consultant to Thales UK in the design of the proposed Future Aircraft Carriers (formerly known as the Carrier Vessel Future or CVF, the acronym still used to describe the programme) and is Chairman of the Independent Review Panel, ensuring the programme stays on track. He's also Chairman of the Trustees of the Fleet Air Arm Museum and Fly Navy Heritage, the reason for his presence at Greenwich.
When asked of his opinion on the choice of the F-35B, he is clear the right choice has been made. "Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing (STOVL) is the better choice – it drastically reduces the training requirement. It is always better to stop and land, rather than land and stop. In the meantime, it is important that Harrier maintains our expertise in embarked STOVL operations – further delays (to F-35) are likely to demand further investment in both the aircraft and in the two remaining 'stop gap' carriers – Illustrious and Ark Royal. We need all the time we can get to recover the skills of operating large aircraft carriers, skills that, through necessity, have faded somewhat since the demise of the 'old' HMS Ark Royal. It is the intricacies of the ship/air interface that allow the most effective employment of embarked aircraft, core skills embedded in Royal Navy Fixed and Rotary Wing Squadrons, and no job for a part-time air group, embarked today but ashore tomorrow.
With that, 'Big Tel' was off, heading for the group of schoolchildren that were chatting excitedly about the big boat parked in the middle of the river – future sailors for recruiting!
*CB – Companion of the Order of the Bath, a British order of chivalry founded by George I on May 18, 1725.


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Police: Norwegian man called in threats after missing flight
PUBLISHED: December 4, 2015 at 5:29 a.m. | UPDATED: September 24, 2021 at 1:38 a.m.
PHILADELPHIA >> Police say a 30-year-old Norwegian man has been arrested after two bomb threats were called into Philadelphia International Airport.
Chief Inspector Joe Sullivan tells the Philadelphia Daily News (http://bit.ly/1HKkUfN ) the man called in the threats Thursday because he missed his flight to London and was desperate to catch the rescheduled flight.
Sullivan says the first call was made at about 3:30 p.m. and reported an explosive at baggage claim in Terminal A. About an hour later, police say he made a second call demanding the airport ground all British Airways planes.
Investigators say he made the calls from a pay phone inside the airport and took him into custody.
The threats were unfounded and airport operations weren't affected. Police cleared the scene by 6:30 p.m.
Information from: The Philadelphia Daily News, http://www.philly.com


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Home Page Chess Life Online 2012 May Dr. Frank Brady Steps Down as Marshall Chess Club President
Dr. Frank Brady Steps Down as Marshall Chess Club President
To: The Board of Governors
Marshall Chess Club
Colleagues:
I am a bit saddened and I highly regret to have to inform you that I must step down as president of the Marshall Chess Club, and also as a member of the Board of Governors.
As my literary career continues to develop, I am about to sign a long-term contract for a new book (not about chess!) that must be completed by December 2014. Additionally, I am continuing my role as a fulltime faculty member of St. John's University. I would like to say that my cup runneth over, but it is more accurate to say simply that my plate has just become too fulleth. Hence, I must give up my activity at the Club.
During the five years that I have been president, there have been many positive and exciting changes at the Marshall, and it has been an honor and a privilege to be a part of these events: the formation of the Marshall Chess Foundation (shepherded in by Board member Nelson Farber), which has brought in more than $70,000 in donations, almost all of which has gone to prizes, sponsorship of tournaments, entry fees and travel expenses for promising juniors, and grants to some of our members in need; a series of new tournaments such as the New York International, the Grandmaster Challenge, the Marshall Invitational, and the Marshall Masters; five-minute tournaments with handsome cash prizes, and many other tournaments for lower and intermediate-ranked players; renovations of rooms throughout the Club (under the guidance of Vice President Larry Price). There have also been book signings, simultaneous exhibitions, lectures, instructional classes, chess camps, book sales, concerts, films, and visits by such chess luminaries as Gary Kasparov, Hikaru Nakamura, Magnus Carlsen, Gata Kamsky, Pal Benko, and World's Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk.
All of these events have helped us to grow as a Club. We have doubled our membership in just the past two or three years to approximately 500 members.
None of this could have been accomplished without the cooperation and encouragement of the Board, the enthusiastic participation of the members, and without one of the strongest management staffs --directed by Dr. Marcus Fenner -- we have had in memory. I thank all of you for what you have done.
I will remain in my post as president through the New York International (June 20-24), where I will serve as its International Arbiter, and I will officially step down at the conclusion of the Annual Meeting on June 26th.
Please accept my thanks for the opportunity of working with you these past years, and I hope that we may continue our friendship on and off the board...and Board.
Yours for chess,
Dr. Frank Brady, President
Find out more about Dr. Frank Brady in Al Lawrence's February 2011 story and a US Chess Scoop interview with him.
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Thursday, Jul 12 2012
Medicaid News: Federal Officials Question Drop In Pa.'s Rolls
In Pennsylvania, the federal government is checking into why 130,000 people were removed from the Medicaid program.
Philadelphia Inquirer: Federal Agency Asking About The Sharp Drop In Pa.'s Medicaid Rolls
Pennsylvania has dropped tens of thousands of people from its Medicaid rolls since last summer -- and now the Obama administration wants to know if the state wrongly cut off those benefits. The federal agency that oversees how states administer Medicaid sent a letter last month to the Department of Public Welfare saying initial data showed 130,000 people, including 89,000 children, had been dropped from state Medicaid rolls between August and January. Those people were dropped, noted the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, when DPW was struggling with a backlog, leaving it unable to sort through all the information people had submitted in efforts to qualify for the benefit (Couloumbis, 7/12).
The Associated Press/Houston Chronicle: LePage Sharpens Medicaid Attack Against Pingree
[Maine] Gov. Paul LePage sharpened his attack on U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree over Medicaid cuts on Wednesday, suggesting Pingree is part of the "jet-setting Washington culture that keeps people dependent on government handouts." The Republican governor was angered when he learned Pingree, a Democrat, had urged Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to reject Medicaid cuts approved by the legislature that will eliminate coverage for more than 20,000 Mainers. LePage contends the cuts are legal because the Supreme Court decision that upheld President Barack Obama's federal health care overhaul limited congressional power to expand Medicaid (Sharp, 7/11).
Meanwhile, California outlets look at several aspects of Medicaid there.
Contra Costa Times/McClatchy Newspapers: Medi-Cal Compensation Inadequate, Doctors Say, As Enrollment Boom Looms
As California gears up for a major expansion of Medi-Cal under national health reform, such compensation is leading to a critical concern: Will enough physicians be willing to see the influx of new patients? Many doctors now refuse to accept Medi-Cal patients or sharply limit the number they see because of what they describe as extremely low reimbursement rates. As a result, patients report difficulty getting timely care, a problem the expansion could worsen (Kleffman, 7/11).
San Francisco Chronicle: Hospitals See Pros And Cons To Health Care Law
Hospital administrators in the state said they largely support the federal health care reform legislation upheld by the Supreme Court last month, but many are apprehensive about major pieces of the law, including the possible expansion of the state's Medicaid program. … Locally, hospital executives said they've been preparing for the onset of the reforms, mainly through administrative changes, such as moving to electronic medical records expected to streamline the health care process. But most added that there are significant unanswered questions about how health care reform will affect their business and the patients they serve (Cuda, 7/11).
California Healthline: Rural Clinics Hope DHCS Email Will Turn Tide In Medi-Cal Benefits Lawsuit
The Department of Health Care Services has been accused of withholding information in a court case -- information that has the potential to change the reimbursement status of rural health centers and federally qualified health centers in California, according to court documents filed Monday in the U.S. Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit by the California Association of Rural Health Clinics. Officials from DHCS could not comment on the lawsuit, according to Norman Williams, deputy director of public affairs for DHCS (Gorn, 7/12).


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Benefits of the Copyright Office's New Online Recordation System
December 5, 2022 by Nora Scheland
Earlier this year, the U.S. Copyright Office and the Library of Congress successfully launched the Copyright Office's new online Recordation System, an important piece of the Office's Enterprise Copyright System (ECS) modernization effort. Its launch marks the first part of the ECS that is now widely available to the public and the first time in the Office's history that users are able to electronically record documents about transfers of copyright ownership, among other types of documents discussed below.
The launch is also a significant milestone for the Office's strategic goals of continuous development and copyright for all. Continuous development refers to our commitment to continuously improve and update our services, utilizing state-of-the-art technology and flexible services. Copyright for all refers to our commitment to make the copyright system as understandable and accessible to as many members of the public as possible. The new Recordation System makes the process of recording documents with the Office more accessible and more efficient for all.
What is recordation at the Copyright Office?
Recordation is when the Office records and makes public certain kinds of documents for indexing into our public records. Examples of these documents include transfers of copyright ownership, other documents pertaining to a copyright, and notices of termination. Recordation allows owners of copyrights to submit documents about changes in ownership to the Office, and it helps interested parties find out who has rights in a particular work. The Office has a short video about recordation on YouTube.
Recordation is a process typically used by law firms, organizations, commercial entities, and associations, though individual users and creators can use it as well.
Additional information about the different types of documents accepted, the recordation process, and more is on our website at copyright.gov/recordation.
What are the benefits of the online Recordation System?
There are significant benefits to using the online Recordation System:
The Recordation System is a completely online system that allows users to file documents for recordation with the Office electronically for the first time. This will eventually become the primary recordation process, so it is a great idea to get started using the system today.
The Recordation System offers much faster service and improves average processing times for electronically submitted documents. What used to take months now only takes weeks! Currently, a majority of users are saving at least ninety days in processing times.
Finally, the Recordation System provides online status tracking, centralized messaging for correspondence with the Office, notifications and alerts for key events, and a bulk upload option.
Many users are already filing their documents using the Recordation System. In the first three months available to the general public, over 800 organizations recorded 2,029 documents containing 98,139 works in the Public Catalog.
What is not available in the online Recordation System?
While the online Recordation System offers significant benefits, it is important to note that, at this time, the online Recordation System is only accepting submissions for transfers, other documents related to transfers of copyright ownership, and other documents pertaining to copyright. This means that recording notices of termination, for example, is not yet available in the Recordation System. A full list of what a user can and cannot submit is located on the Recordation System portal page. There, you can also find rules for using the system, frequently asked questions, and tutorials.
Copyright Office staff member checks out the new Recordation System
Recordation is a different and separate process from copyright registration, and it is important to know that the Recordation System cannot accept copyright registration applications. Eventually, ECS will integrate the Office's registration, recordation, public record, and licensing IT applications, among other functions. The ECS's registration module is currently under development but is not yet ready to accept copyright claims. For now, to apply to register a copyright, please use the Electronic Copyright Office registration portal (eCO). Learn more about copyright basics and the benefits of copyright registration through our circulars.
Check out the new Recordation System today!
The Office worked closely with stakeholders while developing the new Recordation System, listening to their important feedback. We worked hard to make sure it reflects the needs and contributions of its users. We hope you will check it out and start electronically recording your documents today!
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As one who is honored to have been invited to participate in the pilot of this system and who then used it to successfully to record numerous and a variety of kind of documents, I wanted to add to the above from the user's perspective. The Office did a great job creating this system and carrying it through the pilot to smooth out any rough edges. The new Recordation System is just simply amazing how simple it is to use and how fast you get back your recorded document. Highly recommended.
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The One & Only Arts and Crafts Fair will once again be held in Sandy Hill on Saturday, November 17, 2018. This is a community-led event for shoppers who come to purchase Christmas gifts for friends and family.
Free admission; light refreshments will be served from 10 am to 2 pm for everyone: shoppers, vendors and volunteers.
This event is hosted by Action Sandy Hill, which is an incorporated, not-for-profit, community association that represents and promotes Sandy Hill and its residents. A portion of the proceeds from the event will be donated to a community arts initiative.
Volunteers needed! Can you put up posters, place cards in neighbour's mailboxes, help out in the kitchen on the day? Email us at oneandonlyartscrafts@gmail.com .
We have now filled up our exhibition space but if you are a vendor who might want to exhibit your work and would like to go on a wait list in case of cancellations we would be pleased to hear from you. To view the vendor information form, including information on how to apply & be wait listed, click here.
1.	Greeting shoppers into the Entrance Hall of the Sandy Hill Community Centre.
2.	Artisans and shoppers in the Main Hall. Kate McGovern of Sweet Fern Canada and her hand-made cosmetics.
3.	More tables in the Main Hall. Cuddly fabric toys of Liv.Well Toys and enticing sweets of K & L Chocolate and Gift Wrapping.
4.	Potter Lynn Murphy and baker Carol Waters. Carol bakes Christmas cakes in aid of a Kenyan charity.
5.	Author Robin Harlick and her books.
6.	Mina Jalali showing her hand-painted silk scarves.


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David Edmund "D.E." Morris
Irene (Jordan) Harkness 1845–1916
Posted on July 9, 2016 Updated on July 15, 2016
Birth 30 Nov 1845 • Mississippi, USA
Death 15 Nov 1916 • Biloxi, Harrison, Mississippi, USA
my great great grandmother
Irene JORDAN Harkness (1845 – 1916)
Irene JORDAN Harkness (1845 – 1916) of the Mississippi Gulf Coast
When Irene JORDAN was born on November 30, 1845, in Mississippi, her father, William, was 30 and her mother, Nancy, was 24. She married Capt. John Rankin HARKNESS on November 19, 1868, in Harrison County, Mississippi. They had seven children in 14 years. She died on November 15, 1916, in Biloxi, Mississippi, at the age of 70, and was buried there.
Irene "was the daughter of Wm. M Jordan and Nancy Bond Jordan."
Bradford O'Keefe Funeral Home records.
Irene JORDAN Harkness (1845 – 1916), Biloxi, Harrison County, Mississippi Obituary
Irene is buried with her husband, John Rankin Harkness and daughter (also named Irene) in the old Biloxi Cemetery.
Pioneers of Biloxi Mississippi
Irene Jordan Harkness' father, Rev. William Millard S. Jordan,
founded Biloxi's first Methodist Church in abt 1842.
Her mother Nancy Bond Jordan's family history includes a locally famous pioneer of the Mississippi Gulf Coast listed in the . Irene's great grandfather was John Bond of Wiggins, Mississippi. He was an American Revolutionary War officer. He and his father is listed in "The Order of the First Families of Mississippi 1699-1817" ancestor roster.
This entry was posted in American Revolutionary War Descendant, Biloxi Harrison County Mississippi, Biloxi History, Biloxi Pioneers, Biloxi, Harrison County Mississippi, USA, David Edmund "D.E." Morris 1866-1934, Harrison County, Mississippi, Irene (Jordan) Harkness 1844-1916, J.R. Harkness-Architect-Biloxi, Methodist Church, Mississippi Gulf Coast, Rev. William Milton Jordan 1815-1892 and tagged Biloxi, Biloxi Methodist Church, Biloxi Pioneer, Capt. John Rankin Harkness, David Edmund "D.E." Morris, Edna Irene Harkness, Family History, Genealogy, Genealogy, Family History, Wings of Angels, The Tenderly Rose Collection, Harrison County, Irene Harkness, Irene Harkness, John Lewis Harkness, May Harkness, Mississippi, Mississippi Gulf Coast, Old Biloxi Cemetery, Rev. J. L. Jordan, The Order of the First Families of Mississippi 1699-1817, W. T. Harkness, Wings of Angels Family Tree.
Belle L Puts Thrills in Regatta Crowds–Wins Coast Championship: David Edmund "Ed" Morris in the Biloxi Regatta 1917
Posted on July 3, 2016 Updated on July 9, 2016
Daily Herald, July 6, 1917
Belle L Puts Thrills in Regatta Crowds–Wins Coast Championship
J.M. Lopez's Speed Wonder and Casey Jones, Owned by Ed Morris of Gulfport In Thrilling Contest–Casey Jones Disabled–Regatta Is Brought To a Close
(Biloxi)
The Belle L, Julius Lopez's speed-boat, won the concluding race of the eighteenth annual regatta at Biloxi yesterday afternoon, defeating the Casey Jones, which is owned by Ed Morris, of Gulfport, and of which Morris was skipper. The Casey Jones broke down in the first lap, leaving the field to the Belle L, history in this case reversing itself, as last year the Belle L was disabled and the Casey Jones won the race.
Leo Ohr and Fred Moran, skippers on the Belle L, put more speed into the Belle L than has ever been seen before in local waters, the speed wonder of the Biloxi man fairly leaping over the waves and making a distance of eighteen miles in thirty minutes and twenty-eight seconds. The Casey Jones has a speed of about thirty-five miles an hour. The Belle L's speed is at its maximum about forty-five miles an hour.
The speedboat race was for five laps on the inside course of fifteen miles with an additional three miles for turning and the Belle L gets a $50 prize. The race was one of the most interesting ever seen at any Biloxi regatta.
ONE BOAT FINISHING.
The race was finished by only one speedboat, after her competitor had become disabled before he made the first stakeboat, thrilled those on shore. Mr. Morris broke his rudder and was forced to withdraw, leaving Mr. Lopez to make the run of fifteen miles around the inside course in thirty minutes and twenty-eight seconds allowing the Bell L three miles for turning, he ran his speed marvel at a rate of thirty-six mile an hour without forcing her to the limit. This is the first time since this boat was built that she was enabled to make the entire course without the slightest mishap, for which those watching her were well satisfied with the running qualities.
Rain fell at the start of the second day's races of the eighteenth annual regatta, given under the auspices of the Biloxi Yacht Club, and with a breeze of fifteen knots, the three big schooners, Henry M, Willie Ewing and Wonder got away in one of the prettiest starts that has been seen in a sailing race in years and furnishing a thrilling sight for the crowds. These boats sailed the course on the first round in just a little over an hour with the Wonder and Henry M coming to the home stakeboat with just two seconsds difference between the two boats. The Willie Ewing which had become outdistanced, finished the race to demonstrate that her skippers were game even if they did not have a chance of winning.
The second round favored the Wonder considerably and after gaining a headway, which the Henry M failed to overcome, she finished with a credit of eight minutes, winning the special prize of $50 offered by the regatta committee to the winner between the three boats. The schooner race was considerably more interesting than that of the first day and as a result of the rivalry which now exists between the Wonder and the Henry M. Officers of the yacht club are arranging a special prize to be offered for a match race between them on Sunday. The Wonder was built by Henry Brasher, of this city and is claimed to be the fastes schooner in these waters by her decisive defeat of the Henry M a boat which has won numerous races in this and other cities.
The Willie Ewing is owned by W.K.M. Dukate and Guy Green was skipper. Henry M is owned by Martain, Sr., and Martain Fountain, Jr., is skipper. Wonder is owned by Devitt & Clark and F. Tiblier was skipper.
The race of cabin cruisers, one lap on the outside course, was an interesting sight, being won by the Firefly, owned and operated by Capt J.M. Rodgers, of Mobile, Capt Rodgers award is a trophy cup. The boats contesting with the Firefly were Cleo… (continued on Third Page)
This article was transcribed by Ed Morris's great grandaughter, Tenderly Rose.
Unfortunately at this time, I have been unable to locate the continuation of this article, but, I'll keep looking!
Biloxi Yacht Club Building In Holiday Attire, MS cir 1925
Regatta – Bay Saint Louis, MS / Not Biloxi
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David Edmund "D.E." MORRIS 1866-1934
I'm still working on my great grandfather, D.E. Morris', life-story today. My aunt told me she remembered that after D.E. died, my grandmother, whom he had been staying with in Gulfport, had found a trunk full of expired patents he'd filed. I'll add this entry to D.E.'s post on the blog today. I call D.E. (David Edmund) "Ed" as apparently relatives referred to him by Ed. However, all the newspaper articles call him D.E. I was sad to learn Ed had battled alcoholism and in the end that is what caused his passing. His third wife, Miss Elizabeth they called her, was still living at their home in New Orleans when Ed came to live with my grandmother and grandfather in Gulfport on Wisteria St. where he actually died. His obituary in the Times-Picayune read that he died in New Orleans. It has been a bit of a mystery to unravel Ed's life events as he accomplished much in his days despite his illness. Through his work with It would be so much easier for me to learn about him if I lived in Gulfport or Biloxi. Seems he haunts me… and I like that. He somehow became one of my favorite ancestors because I've spent so much time "with him".
Ed Morris was a 33rd degree Mason – Gulfport, Mississippi, Masonic Lodge.
Gulfport, Harrison, Mississippi, USA
my great grandfather
son of David Edmund "D.E." MORRIS
David Edmund "D.E." MORRIS was born in 1866 in Moss Point, Mississippi to Frances M. "Fanny" WRIGHT, age 21, and John Wesley MORRIS, age 27. He was married three times and had two sons and two daughters. He died on December 24, 1934, in New Orleans, Louisiana, at the age of 68, and was buried in Gulfport, Mississippi.
David Edmund "D.E." MORRIS married Virginia Watkins on May 9, 1890, when he was 24 years old. My aunt says she has a record of them marrying in the Presbyterian Church in Moss Point, Mississippi on March 11, 1898. I have not found that record. I found a record that stated they were married in Scranton, Jackson, Mississippi.
David Edmund "D.E." MORRIS married Edna Irene HARKNESS on December 25, 1900, in Biloxi, Mississippi, when he was 34 years old.
His son John Harkness was born on October 8, 1901, in Biloxi, Mississippi.
cir 1957 Playing in an old fishing boat that belonged to Ed Morris, Kevin Cooper and Tenderly Rose enjoy the sand in the re-purposed john boat. The boat's final resting place was in the backyard of Rosie and John Morris's home at 1711 Wisteria Street in Gulfport, Mississippi (Gulf Gardens).
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