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Eminem Surprise Drops 'Music To Be Murdered By – Side B' Deluxe Album
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The rumors came true as Eminem delighted Stans all across the globe when he unleashed the B Side to his latest studio album "Music To Be Murdered By", on December 17.
Uncle Alfred heard you screaming for more… enjoy Side B. https://t.co/Ebt0AqnCk2 pic.twitter.com/xCu4nueIvP
— Marshall Mathers (@Eminem) December 18, 2020
Comprising of a total of 36 tracks, the deluxe version of the project — the simply titled Music To Be Murdered By: Side B — features production from Dr. Dre and Royce Da 5'9 as well as guest contributions from DJ Premier, Ty Dolla $ign, MAJ and White Gold, among others.
Rumors online suggested the album was imminent after "Godzilla" director Cole Bennett was spotted in Detroit's 8 Mile and a bearded Eminem was then caught shooting what looked like a music video in front of a green screen.
Clocking it an nearly two hours, Music To Be Murdered By: Side B should hold Eminem fans over — at least until 2021. Stream the album below.
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Seventy-two Cats Dead and Alleged Animal Abuser Unable to be Prosecuted Due to Humane Officer Breach of Duty
"It is an absolute breach of duty when an officer sworn to protect animals not only sends seventy-two cats to their deaths without a proper veterinary evaluation, but in doing so, also destroys any chance of successfully prosecuting a person who will likely subject animals to abuse at her next address," said Dr. Becky L. Morrow, Founder of Frankie's Friends Cat Rescue and expert witness in the Tiger Ranch institutionalized hoarding case.
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PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 29, 2014 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Neighbors and concerned citizens are appalled that an Allegheny County Humane Officer who was called to investigate the abuse and abandonment of over 70 cats, removed two cats and sent the rest to die, according to Frankie's Friends Cat Rescue.
Kathy Hecker, a Humane Officer working for the largest "No-Kill" shelter in Pittsburgh, investigated a call for hoarding and abandonment of a large number of cats in a Mt. Lebanon, Pa. house. The cats were found in unsanitary conditions and without food and water; abandoned after the tenant, Jennifer Fix, was evicted.
Hecker took two cats and allegedly "refused to take any of the other cats because most of them were too sick or too wild to be saved," according to Big Daddy Wildlife Removal, the agency contracted to trap and kill the remaining cats. Seventy-two cats were removed and destroyed, while neighbors were allegedly told they were going to the "No-Kill" shelter. An additional five kittens and two adult cats were taken to the shelter due to pressure by neighbors.
Cats that were able to be removed from traps prior to being taken by the wildlife exterminators were found to be in good health by a veterinarian. None of the 72 cats were evaluated by a veterinarian for health or temperament prior to their death. Although animal abandonment is considered a form of animal cruelty according to Pennsylvania law, Hecker has not yet filed charges against Fix, and is unlikely to do so since all of the cats that would be considered "evidence" have already been removed from the property.
"It is an absolute breach of duty when an officer sworn to protect animals not only sends seventy-two cats to their deaths without a proper veterinary evaluation, but in doing so, also destroys any chance of successfully prosecuting a person who will likely subject animals to abuse at her next address," said Dr. Becky L. Morrow, Founder of Frankie's Friends Cat Rescue and expert witness in the Tiger Ranch institutionalized hoarding case.
Margo Cicci, a member of the Pittsburgh Feral Cat Movement, was involved in the rescue attempt for these cats. "When we first heard that a Humane Agent was involved, we were relieved, thinking that everything would be done correctly so that charges could be filed against the former tenant, and every effort would be made to save as many of these cats as possible. To find out that this is how the Humane Agent handled it is beyond devastating."
Please contact Frankie's Friends Cat Rescue at (724) 230-6485 for more information or to interview those involved in this case.
Frankie's Friends Cat Rescue was formed in 2010, after a sanctuary was created for unadoptable cats rescued from the Tiger Ranch Cruelty Case. Frankie's Friends is dedicated to relieving suffering caused by cruelty/neglect, disease, injury, and homelessness of cats, by providing shelter, low or no-cost veterinary care, and spaying and neutering thousands of cats annually. More information: http://www.frankiesfriendscatrescue.org/.
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Know the odds - gambling and mental health
Rows of people on plastic stools facing gaming machines is an image never far from the headlines lately. There have been growing calls on the government to limit the maximum stake on fixed odds betting terminals, and thankfully a consultation has been launched to look into how to minimise harm from this form of gambling. What's received less attention, though, are the other areas where gamblers are at risk of encountering harm.
15% of UK consumers spent money on online gambling last year. Most of this will have been the occasional bet on a sporting event or online game like poker, but 24/7 access to online gambling and aggressive marketing tactics mean that what starts as a one-off flutter can lead to problems. This can be a particular issue for people with mental health problems – as feeling low, socially isolated or unable to sleep can leave people both more vulnerable to gambling online, and less able to stop. Combined with the fact that many people with mental health problems are already living on a low income or struggling financially, this can be a recipe for disaster.
Reasons for gambling
We have carried out new research on the links between gambling problems and mental health problems, and identified several types of gambling behaviours that can be related to mental health.
Some of the people we spoke to during our research said that they gamble to bring back a sense of purpose to their lives, which they felt their mental health had taken away. Others gamble to get themselves out of financial difficulty or to make enough to treat friends or family they felt they had let down. Being driven by these powerful motivations often made it difficult to stop when they didn't manage to get that big win, or even after they did. And it's not always in pursuit of money, in some circumstances feelings of worthlessness led people to destructively gamble away thousands of pounds that they felt they didn't deserve.
"I start with setting a goal, like maybe enough to treat my family – say £100 – but then when you keep losing it becomes about recouping the money, as [I] feel so awful about it."
Mental health and gambling harm
The majority of those we spoke to felt that these decisions about gambling made during periods of poor mental health were often different to the choices they would make when they were well. Symptoms such as low mood and worthlessness in some cases prompted people to gamble more than they could afford to. Other symptoms such as memory problems or difficulties with planning ahead made it more challenging for people to keep track of how much they had spent gambling, or how much was left for essentials. This can put people with mental health problems at risk of further negative outcomes like financial difficulties, damaging relationships with loved ones and further worsening their mental health.
"I ate nothing for two days earlier in the week. If I had cashed out my winnings, instead of playing on, then I could have had food."
Putting on the brakes
The prominent marketing campaign to curb problem gambling advises "When the fun stops, stop". But heeding this advice can be much more challenging during a period of poor mental health, particularly when faced with an online environment that makes gambling as easy as a couple of clicks, and advanced marketing techniques. Exerting your already limited willpower to stop gambling can be an immense challenge when faced with an inbox full of messages reminding you of opportunities to gamble.
The option to self-exclude is available for those who want to stop completely, but unfortunately this isn't a simple process. There isn't a comprehensive self-exclusion scheme allowing people to remove themselves from all gambling situations. In some cases consumers are required to visit the gambling sites or premises themselves in order to complete the self-exclusion process, which makes it harder to resist the temptation to have another go.
Laying our cards on the table
Although some of the people we spoke to had encountered difficulties with gambling, the majority didn't want to totally exclude themselves, they simply wanted to ensure they could continue to enjoy gambling, safe from harm. We believe that more could be done to empower consumers by providing them with greater tools and resources to manage their gambling.
There's a role to for the gambling industry to support problem gamblers, but also card providers and internet service providers (ISPs) too. For example:
Customers should be able to choose to limit their access to online gambling – either by setting closing hours on individual gambling websites, or by blocking all gambling websites at ISP level, in a similar fashion to existing adult content controls. Financial services providers could give customers another easy way to opt out of gambling by offering simple options to block merchant category codes associated with gambling on credit and debit cards.
The gambling industry should work together to design a single self-exclusion scheme, with several ways of signing up (e.g. email, online form, in person or telephone) to make it much easier to opt out.
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Q: dearth of 4GB DDR2 800 memory modules: performance disadvantage? I notice there are very few single 4GB DDR2800 chips available vs. 4GB in 2x2GB format.  Why is this?  I want to go up from 8GB on my LGA775 system to increase memory available on my virtual machines: I like to have a Win32 and Centos box running while consuming only half my available RAM.
Is the lack of single 4GB modules on the market a reflection on lack of demand, or is there a technical reason why one would not want to install 12GB or more on their PC?

A: The problem is that 4 GiB modules are very expensive to manufacture using technology used for manufacture of DDR2 chips and at the time they were new, such density of RAM was considered very large for home computers, so they weren't developed. By the time they became interesting, DDR3 became new standard and it's much easier to manufacture DDR3 chips o such density than it is for DDR2 chips.
Another thing that comes to mind  is chipset and motherboard compatibility. Back when DDR2 was young, many chipsets and motherboards didn't support high density chips.
EDIT I'm assuming that you mean DDR2 800 modules. Never heard of DDR2800.

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Vestal Blended Potato Vodka
70cl | 40% ABV | Poland
Much like winemakers, Vestal focuses on the idea of bringing terroir and vintage into their approach to making vodka. In doing so, create wonderfully full and rich spirits.
Expect a top quality vodka with actual flavour - this is not a neutral, boring drink. Serve it slightly chilled in a bulbous glass or alternatively, as a Martini.
Vestal Blended Potato Vodka is made from Innovator, Asterix and Russet Burbank varieties of potato that are distilled once and not filtered, allowing a much bigger dose of flavour to come through into the end spirit.
First established by William Borrell in 2011, the UK-based alcoholic beverages manufacturer and distributor Halewood Wines and Spirits acquired a 48% stake in Jan 2020.
Vestal Vodka production is based in Poland, at a facility in Kaszubia region.
A tasty, rye based vodka from Poland that got its name from a journo - The adjective wyborowa (has a similar meaning as "fine" when used as an adjective in English) was used in a favourable press...
Launched in 1996 and made from 100% Polish rye, Belvedere is widely regarded as the world's first super premium vodka. Definitely one for the top shelf of your drink cabinet!
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Konik's Tail is named after the Konik (a primitive Polish horse), which lives in the woods but when lucky enough to spot one farmers would catch to help with the harvest - before releasing them again.
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Q: Importing multiple .csv files into R adding condition (row.names=1) Have find original question and solution here:
Importing multiple .csv files into R
solution is:
temp = list.files(pattern="*.csv")
list2env(
  lapply(setNames(temp, make.names(gsub("*.csv$", "", temp))),
         read.csv), envir = .GlobalEnv)

but I want to add one condition to read.csv, row.names=1 --the first column is row name
then the solution does not work anymore. Any suggestion?
was using:
temp = list.files(pattern="*.csv")
list2env(
  lapply(setNames(temp, make.names(gsub("*.csv$", "", temp))),
         read.csv(row.names=1)), envir = .GlobalEnv)

Thank you!

A: You may use this general syntax for lapply:
lapply(df, function(x) read.csv(x))

In other words, you may specify an anonymous function to be applied to df.  Applying this to your actual code:
temp <- list.files(pattern=".csv")
list2env(lapply(setNames(temp, make.names(gsub(".csv$", "", temp))),
    function(x) read.csv(x, row.names=1)), envir = .GlobalEnv)

A: If you call a function using lapply, you don't write arguments in braces as you would when you call the function itself. Instead, just add the argument like:
list2env(
  x = lapply(
    X = setNames(temp, make.names(gsub("*.csv$", "", temp))),
    FUN = read.csv, row.names = 1
  ),
  envir = .GlobalEnv
)


7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones was asleep on a living room sofa when she was shot once in the neck after a Detroit Police Special Response Team executed a no-knock search warrant at a two-unit flat in Detroit shortly after 12:30am on 15 May 2010.
Officers were supposedly searching for a murder suspect. They fired a flash-bang grenade through the front window and then stormed the family home. The family claims the grenade burned Aiyana.
Southfield attorney Geoffery Fieger, representing the family of Aiyana said, shortly after the shooting, he had obtained video footage of the incident. He claimed that it shot by the A and E crime reality show, "The First 48" shows at lease one shot was fired after police threw a stun grenade into the home.
The Detroit police department would not comment on early newspaper reports that neighbours had told police there were children in the house.
So far, three details are being disputed. The first, which the Detroit Free Press reported, is that the raid team did not know children might be in the home. Family members said there were toys in the front yard.
The second disputed detail is that police entered the home before Aiyana was shot. The family said police opened fire before entering the house. According to Fieger, the A&E video footage of the incident proves this.
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Manchester United: Analysis
Manchester United 2018-19 Season Preview
José Mourinho vs. The Glazers
Ahead of his third season at the helm, the Manchester United manager is going head-to-head with the club's owners
By Tom Britten@tomajbritten Jul 31, 2018, 8:00am BST
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To use the Game of Thrones strapline: War Is Coming. Embarking on his third, crucial season as Manchester United manager, it isn't José Mourinho who is the club's enemy. Mourinho's past demands that he be the villain of this script, but United's predicament predates the Portuguese and its problems are surfacing again.
As with most things of importance, there are often many layers to it. Dismissing a tetchy pre-season being simply the beginning of a typical Mourinho fallout and exit is staggeringly lazy. The incoherent post-Ferguson rebuild muddled further what was already a huge challenge, and only now are we seeing the Americans' hand after fleecing the club of a cool £1bn over the last decade or so.
Rewind to the end of last season, mood amongst fans was split. The cold, hard numbers were better, the process increasingly jarring and unsatisfying which is in danger of becoming the default regardless of the manager. What everyone did agree on was next season is make or break for Mourinho, an uncharted third consecutive term in the post-Ferguson wilderness. Mourinho has to do better in the transfer market, get more out of his current players, get the best out of his best players and ultimately deliver a bona fide tilt for the league despite City's high bar and Liverpool's aspiration. Thus far, Mourinho has been backed sufficiently to more than steady the ship – but is still a way off to match City and, more recently, Liverpool. A decade of relative underinvestment and then a chaotic handover with similarly haphazard transfer ins-and-outs has added to the to-do list rather than tackled it. History is neither kind nor on Mourinho's side. Worse still, the board's apparent desire for marketable, trophy players further complicates and hinders genuine on-field progress.
Mourinho disclosed he identified five targets, and that he gave his superiors ample notice before the end of the season and the World Cup. At a guess, that likely includes one or two full-backs, a centre-back, a midfielder and a winger. Whether that accounts for Fred and Diogo Dalot is unclear, but Mourinho suggested not; saying he expects to get maybe one, possibly two.
United have reached an intriguing period in their rebuild five years on. The squad can relatively comfortably finish top four after last season's gains, and compete — albeit inadequately — in the Champions League. Unfortunately for Mourinho, that appears to be enough for the owners. Mourinho did not sign up to oversee United's transformation into Arsenal, he came to win the league and needs the backing of the board again this season to achieve that to overhaul City and stop Liverpool. The Glazers were incredibly fortunate to have Ferguson in charge and were utterly spoilt by his genius in his castle. Conditions are no longer just so to squeeze the best out of the club, such is the hot mess of pre-existing issues that will take more than two seasons to unravel. Equally, if Mourinho fails to deliver a league title before leaving, his time at United will be a failure whichever way you slice it.
The underlying subplot of ambition is playing out. Mourinho spoke strongly at the weekend about being "in trouble" for the season start and felt he needed two more signings before the window closes and the opener against Leicester at Old Trafford. The Glazers have since publicly supported the manager's plea, but whether they back that up with any meaningful action remains to be seen. Nevertheless, Mourinho taking on the Glazers and making them put their hands in their pockets should be lauded rather than criticised. United have arguably appointed the perfect manager to challenge the owners, which may in part explain the reluctance to hire Mourinho immediately in 2013.
On the back of a preposterously enjoyable World Cup, there's a slight back to school edge and instilling some joy or camaraderie would go a long way, if not at least some style and swagger in their play. World Cup winner Paul Pogba's happiness and that of his manager with his player will be key. Pogba can set the tone for the team but has to discipline himself to succeed. Pogba can fulfil the potential he abundantly has to be the heartbeat of the side, and Fred's arrival in central midfield should help unburden the Frenchman. Elsewhere, the deployment of Alexis Sánchez after a rare summer off and who gets chances alongside him and Romelu Lukaku will be fascinating. The English kids, Jesse Lingard in particular, should return with a spring in their step. Andreas Pereira looks to be ready to step up for a spot in midfield. The concern, again, is in defence and the oft-mooted option of a genuine winger.
There was little point in appointing Mourinho if you aren't going to back him to the hilt, and there's little point in Mourinho if he's not gunning for titles. If the Glazers settle for top four and a hollow brand, expect aggravation which all United fans should identify with, and not confuse with individual reputations. Mourinho might feel uncomfortable with everyone behind him attacking the owners, but this one's a noble cause even if it's self-serving.


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Pennsylvania's music festivals strike a chord
By James Mentzer on April 11, 2019
It's Sunday night and, thanks to the Berks Jazz Fest, the Cheers American Bistro at the Doubletree Hotel in Reading is hopping.
Men in their favorite band T-shirts and tie-dye-clad ladies line up three deep along the bar waiting for service. The bartenders and waiters hustle to ensure glasses are full, food is served hot and all patrons are out the door before the band hits the stage. On the way to the ballroom, guests stop by the festival's merch table. The line for cold beverages snakes down the hall. Other vendors sell their wares nearby.
Festivals like this are big business in Pennsylvania and sweet music to the ears of economic development officials.
In 2016, the nonprofit Americans for the Arts conducted a survey of 250 arts organizations across the United States, including those in Berks County. The Arts and Economic Prosperity 5 report indicated that arts programs in Berks generated $18.9 million in economic activity in 2015. A total of $10.8 million was spent by 20 arts organizations and another $8.1 million by audiences, supporting 625 full-time jobs, delivering $11.6 million to household incomes, and producing $1.9 million in local and state tax revenue.
Hitting the merch booth at the Berks Jazz Fest
"Berks Jazz Fest is recognized as one of the largest and most diverse music festivals of its kind in the country," wrote Mike Zielinski, the fest's public relations director, in a press release. "Since 1991, the festival has been an important part of the Greater Reading's community revitalization efforts as both an economic and cultural catalyst for positive change."
Meanwhile in the PA Wilds, the 17-day Endless Mountain Music Festival, held in and around Tioga County, is an important cog in the economic development engine of a region that relies heavily on tourism dollars. According to Executive Director Cynthia Long, the festival generated nearly $441,000 plus approximately $39,000 in local and state taxes in 2018.
Since 1991, the festival has been an important part of the Greater Reading's community revitalization efforts as both an economic and cultural catalyst for positive change. Mike Zielinski, Berks Jazz Fest
"The revenue music festivals generate is very important to rural America, and that's particularly true in our part of the world," says Long. "This event is important to our communities, and sponsors say the program is making a difference for their businesses. They see the value of it and want to make a difference by becoming a sponsor."
Over the course of two consecutive weekends in mid-July, Camp Bisco (July 18 – 20, 2019) and the Peach Music Festival (July 25 – 28, 2019) will be held at Montage Mountain near Scranton in Lackawanna County. Both festivals cater to a different corner of the vibrant jam band community — the former is an annual jam/EDM event headlined and organized by Philly trance-fusion band The Disco Biscuits; the later will be headlined by Phil Lesh, Trey Anastasio and The String Cheese Incident — and together they are a boon for the local economy.
Jeremy Schon, right, of Pigeons Playing Ping Pong poses with fans Jenny Remetta and Frantony Rocco at the 2018 Peach Music Festival.
In published reports, festival owners Live Nation estimated that, in 2018, Camp Bisco and the Peach Music Festival drew attendees from all 50 states and had a $24 million impact on the region. Festivalgoers who don't camp at the events will stay at area hotels, dine at local restaurants and shop at nearby businesses.
Meanwhile, on the western side of the state, Pittsburgh organizers are proving that free festivals can also be big business. Billed as one of the largest free arts festivals in the world, the 10-day Three Rivers Arts Festival welcomes 500,000 attendees. According to a survey of 1,200 guests, they spend an estimated $21.5 million annually in lodging and dining alone.
"Keeping it free and open to the public is very, very important to the [Pittsburgh Cultural Trust]," says Executive Director Sarah Aziz. "Because it is free, guests come prepared to spend their money. That means more money to support the artists and vendors, but our guests also support the downtown area."
There are many reasons music lovers are willing to spend their hard-earned money at festivals. Some cite the sense of family that prevails while others enjoy the different styles of music presented over a long weekend.
Jenny Remetta of Attica, New York, says she attends about three festivals per year and plans to hit both Camp Bisco and The Peach in 2019.
"I've met so many people that have become such good friends of mine from going to festivals," says Remetta. "My boyfriend and I are going to a couple's wedding that he met at DomeFest [in West Virginia] a few years ago. I think [the familial spirit] exists because nearly everyone you interact with is so caring and outgoing."
The Allman Betts Band performs at Berks Jazz Fest. The band will hit several PA events this summer, including The Peach Music Festival.
Sue Kane, an Albright College alum, appreciates the intimacy of small festivals like the In and Out of the Garden We Go Festival (June 7 – 8, 2019) in Bucks County but also the communal vibe at larger festivals like The Peach, which she attended for the first time in 2018. This year, Kane and a crew of college friends returned to Reading to see the Allman Betts Band at Berks Jazz Fest.
The revenue music festivals generate is very important to rural America, and that's particularly true in our part of the world. Cynthia Long, Endless Mountain Music Festival
Laura Curren, another Berks Jazz Festival attendee, was turned on to music festivals by her husband Paul, who has the signatures of many members of the Grateful Dead tattooed on his right arm. In addition to the music, Curren enjoys the street commerce that occurs at festivals.
"I also like the vending — I am a big shopper," says Curren, who regularly attends The Peach, Bear's Picnic in Roaring Branch, PA, and In and Out. "I may not do all of my shopping at the festival itself, but I do get a lot of cards so I can network with those people. There's something special to what people offer when it is an item that they've made themselves."
2016 Musikfest in Bethlehem / Courtesty of ArtsQuest
Music festivals also provide a nice return on investment for the artists who play them. Just ask Berry Oakley, Jr., a bass player in the Allman Betts band whose father was a founding member of legendary Southern rockers The Allman Brothers Band (who actually created The Peach Music Festival).
"Music festivals really help spread the word about your band and the music," said Oakley after the band's performance before a capacity crowd at Berks Jazz Fest. "It really is great exposure – especially at those big festivals for young artists and old alike."
Here are some Pennsylvania-based music festivals worthy of your dollars in 2019.
Berks Jazz Fest
When: April 5-14; 2020 dates for Berks Jazz Fest are March 27 – April 5
Where: Various venues around Reading
Genre: Various musical styles, including blues, gospel and jazz.
Cost: Some events are free while others require a ticket.
The 10-day Jazz Fest features a variety of talent and genres with concerts at venues large and small encompassing contemporary jazz, traditional jazz, pop, crossover, blues, funk, R&B, gospel and unique concerts produced especially for the festival. Featured artists include Boney James, Arturo Sandoval and, West Coast Jam! with special guest musicians Richard Elliot, Rick Braun, and Peter White.
Three Rivers Arts Festival
When: June 7 – 16
Where: Point State Park, Gateway Center and Pittsburgh's Cultural District
Genres: Various musical styles, including country, pop and rock.
An iconic celebration of the arts in Pittsburgh, it is also one of the largest and most-celebrated FREE arts festivals in the world featuring 10 days of music, theater, dance, public art installations, gallery exhibitions, a visual arts market, creative activities, food and much more. Featured artists include India.Arie, Mandolin Orange and Karl Denson's Tiny Universe.
Camp Bisco
When: July 18 – 20
Where: Montage Mountain, Scranton
Genres: Electronic and rock
Cost: Various pricing levels and packages available.
Now in its 17th year, Camp Bisco is an outdoor music festival held at the picturesque Montage Mountain Resort, a world-class concert venue and waterpark. The event features three days and nights of music on three stages, and provides on-site camping for its guests. Featured artists include The Disco Biscuits, Umphrey's McGee and Bassnectar.
The Peach Music Festival
Genres: Bluegrass, funk, jam and rock
Founded in 2012 by the Georgia-based Allman Brothers Band — they played Montage Mountain numerous times in the nearly five decades they toured — the Peach Music Festival proves that the "road goes on forever." Although the Allman Bros ended their musical journey in 2014, their festival lives on, paying tribute to their legacy and the many bands they've inspired over the years. Featured artists include Phil Lesh & Friends, Trey Anastasio Band and The String Cheese Incident.
Endless Mountain Music Festival
When: July 19 – August 4
Where: Various venues throughout Tioga County and New York state.
Genres: A mix of musical styles, including blues, Broadway and classical.
Cost: Some events are free while others require tickets for admission.
The mission of the Endless Mountain Music Festival is to bring world-renowned musicians to the communities of northern Pennsylvania and southern New York, enriching the cultural, economic and educational life of the Twin Tiers region. Featured artists include blues guitarist Abbie Gardner, guitarist Vance Gilbert and Kansas City musicians Bram Wijnands and his daughter, jazz singer Lucy Wijnands.
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Zonnestraal, ship on the heath
September 23, 2019 May 24, 2020 Public History Student Blog
In 1924 Thomas Mann published his novel The Magic Mountain: a masterpiece about medicine, death and disease. The story centers on the experiences of Hans Castorp, a young bourgeois German, at a tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps. The book has had me in its tight grip ever since I bought it in 2015 and with a generous 900 pages, it's the thickest book I didn't finish yet. After two exciting tries I'm currently climbing it for the third time – and I'm still struggling. So, in an attempt to bring the book alive, I decided to visit Zonnestraal, Schip op de heide in Amsterdam-west; an exhibition that shows us the history of a world-famous Dutch sanatorium in Hilversum.[1]
Public enemy number one
When you enter the exhibition in Museum Het Schip you're immediately faced with the facts: tuberculosis was, and still is, one of the most lethal infectious diseases worldwide. At the dawn of the 19thcentury, the disease claimed ten-thousand victims each year in the Netherlands. TBC afflicted every section of the population, but mostly the lower social classes. While people from the elite were visiting sanatoriums to cure, poor working-class people were trapped in dirty cities. Terrible work- and living conditions were the most important allies of the tuberculosis bacillus: a lack of sunlight and ventilation, a lot of moist and poor hygiene were a lethal combination. The social consequences were enormous, especially when TBC affected the breadwinner of the family. Stigma made that people ended up in social isolation.
Patients "curing" on the balcony of sanatorium Zonnestraal.
Hope for a better future
The most important information, like the above, is written on the hospital-white-walls of the museum, not to be missed. In the first room you can watch a short video, that tells you something about the architecture of former sanatorium Zonnestraal in Hilversum, which was created as a result of an unequalled belief in progress. It's a typical example of modernist architecture, we find out; the white concrete, blue steel and transparent glass symbolizes hope for a better future. It reflects the concepts of air, light and hygiene in a highly functional building.
The realization of this unique piece of architecture starts in the dusty factories of the diamond industry. The diamond workers founded the first modern worker's union in 1894 (Algemene Nederlandse Diamantwerkersbond) and they managed to improve the working conditions. Despite of that, the tuberculosis got worse. One of their members, Jan van Zutphen, then founded the Copper Stalk Fund (Koperen Stelen Fonds) and the union used the profits they made from copper stalks and diamond powder to buy the estate "Pampahoeve"; here they could build a sanatorium to cure people.
For a moment it feels like we are actually at Zonnestraal, as we look at big pictures of the monument in all it's glory. Curator Joppe Schaaper (30) joins me and we walk through the exhibition together. For years the municipality of Hilversum has been trying to draw national and international attention to the sanatorium. Schaaper: 'the adventure started for me when the municipality asked me to do research on Zonnestraal, because they were working on a request for the UNESCO world heritage list.' Unfortunately, the nomination failed and the city of Hilversum had to find other ways to put the sanatorium in the spotlight; they turned to Museum Het Schip.
Social context
In the second room I listen to an audio clip of the Dutch Queen Mother Emma, who called for support for the tuberculosis control. A bust of Jan van Zutphen is shining in the center of the white space. Museum Het Schip is located in an iconic, 'Amsterdamse School'-style building, designed in 1919 by Michel de Klerk. It was a safe haven for working class people who, after the implementation of the Housing Act (1902), finally found a good home.
Amsterdamse School architecture.
'The link with Zonnestraal is quite obvious,' says Schaaper. 'Architecturally spoken, the two buildings have nothing in common, but there is an important connection in social context. Over here it's about work and over there it's about health; the main incentive for both is idealism. People were living in bad houses and they suffered from terrible working conditions. A solution had to be found for that, so the people joined forces, everything based on a social enthusiasm; a belief in progress. That's the kind of feeling I hope the people leave with, after a visit here.'
The people: quite an important factor in a social-historic museum like this, I would argue. The curator tells me that he has his own ideas about what the exhibition should look like. He didn't want it to be 'flat' (solved by placing objects on different heights) and by using objects (like a cigar in an ashtray) that evoke a feeling of nostalgia he tries to make a personal connection with the visitors, he tells me.
Although I like the thought of the feelings he tries to evoke, I'm hoping that there might be some cooperation with the visitors, which, turns out, is not the case. Luckily, this has more to do with the fact that Het Schip is a small museum and Joppe had to collect his artefacts here and there, than with Huizinga's wish to protect our stoic historical science from passionate and sentimental 'plebeian people'.[2]'I think the exhibition is clear and the people seem to be impressed,' says Schaaper.
Idealism: I do feel it when me and Joppe walk past a big banner with the line 'de sterken voor de zwakken' (the strong for the weak). He shows me the third room, where there is some more information about the architecture of Zonnestraal and then we walk out. I ask him whether he has read The Magic Mountain…I will leave no further comment on his – slightly disappointing – answer. But I forgive him, because the exhibition gave me motivation. It gave me motivation in the first place to clean my room – and I hear you laugh – but clean rooms, clean streets, clean cities and clean countries in a healthy global environment is something to fight for. It starts with your own room.
Tuberculosis can be cured for over fifty years now. That is, in the so-called 'West'. A quarter of the world's population is still infected with tuberculosis, which means that on a yearly basis ten million people get infected, causing 1,5 million people their death. According to the RIVM (National Insitute for Public Health and Environment) it is the most lethal infectious disease. Apart from all the collecting boxes in the museum displays – crowdfunding for tuberculosis has been going on for a long time – Joppe also put up a QR-code; so visit the museum, get your phone out and donate!
And after you have done that; read The Magic Mountain or watch the film.
'Schip op de heide' is to be seen until 12 januari 2020 in Museum Het Schip, Oostzaanstraat 45 in Amsterdam. For more information about exhibitions and excursions to Zonnestraal, visit the website.
Paul Stam
[1]Bjørnar Olsen argues for objects as actors in the 'drama' of the narrative. I figured it might help me with my book. See: Catherine Colebourne, 'Collecting psychiatry's past: collectors and their collections of psychiatric objects in western histories, in: Catherine Colebourne and Dolly Mckinnon (eds.), Exhibiting madness in museums: remembering psychiatry through collections and display (London and New York, 2011) 25-26.
[2]For more about Johan Huizinga's slightly old-fashioned, but still beautifully expressed opinions, see: Johan Huizinga, 'De taak der cultuurgeschiedenis', in: Johan Huizinga, De taak der cultuurgeschiedenis (Groningen 1995) 95-107.
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Chapter Eternal G. Dewey Vann '46 entered Chapter Eternal in May of 2013. He was a native of Birmingham and a graduate of Phillips High School. Dewey served in the U.S. Navy for three years during World War II. After boot camp, he was offered Officer Candidate School, but chose to return to the University of Alabama following his service. From radio school he was sent to Green's Bayou near Galveston, Texas, where his crew was formed. They trained in the gulf before being sent to Little Creek, Virginia Amphibious Base. The crew trained for six months and were then sent through the Panama Canal, up the West Coast, and to several islands before engaging in the invasion of Okinawa. Dewey worked for Retail Credit, US Steel, and Puritan Chemical in his early years. Later he worked for St. Regis Co., Horner Waldorf, and Champion International. He was a charter member of Green Valley Baptist Church and the first treasurer. He and his wife, Edie, were season ticket holders for Alabama Football for many years and he enjoyed meeting his friends to talk sports, especially Alabama football. Dewey is survived by his wife, his daughters, Annette and Carolyn, and three grandchildren. James B. Anderson '50 entered Chapter Eternal on October 25, 2012. He attended the University of Alabama on three athletic scholarships, playing football, basketball, and running track. He was a member of the 1946 Rose Bowl Team. James was president of Anderson Homes Company in Meridian, Miss., which he founded in 1953. He was past chairman of the Meridian Housing Authority, member and chairman of the Meridian Planning Commission Board, and former chairman of the Board of Directors at Great Southern National Bank, serving on the board from 1976 to 2012. He was a Scout Master and received numerous recognitions from the Boy Scous of America. He was also a veteran of the U.S. Army. James is survived by his wife, Joann, daughters, Janet and Kathleen, and son, James. Arthur J. Fox entered Chapter Eternal on October 18, 2012. He is survived by his wife, Joann, and three sons: Arthur III, Thomas, and Alexander. Lt. Col. Phillip L. Newton '53 entered Chapter Eternal on February 2, 2013. He enjoyed his years in Sigma Chi very much. Iota Iota Chapter of Sigma Chi P.O. Box 1880 Tuscaloosa, AL 35403 Address Service Requested Attention: This newsletter is intended for alumni and parents. If your son is still attending The University of Alabama, he will receive a copy at the chapter house. If he has graduated, please send us his permanent address. Thank you. www.bamasig.org Phil was a resident of Mount Vernon, Wash., and is survived by his wife, Rita, and their children, Nancy and Phillip III. Robert "Don" Woodall '54 entered Chapter Eternal on April 30, 2013. He served 20 years in the Air Force, retiring as major in 1973. He spent 21 years as airfield manager at McChord AFB, retiring in 1995. He was a member of Lakewood Presbyterian Church, serving as elder and treasurer. Robert is survived by his wife, Sarah, and his three daughters and their families. James "Dex" Reagan '57 entered Chapter Eternal on February 9, 2013, at his home in Montgomery, Texas. He is survived by his wife, Patricia, and children: Craig, Pam, Tommy, Jeff, and Dea. Questions? Billy W. Tate, Jr. '65 entered Chapter Eternal on April 6, 2013. He was an exceptional gentleman, friend, and mentor to many young people in both Alabama and Tennessee. Billy taught at Selma High School for 14 years. During this time he built the debate program from a small club into an organization that won many national trophies. In 1983 he joined the faculty of Montgomery Bell Academy (MBA) in Nashville and again grew the program. A Life Loyal Sigma Chi, Billy served as Consul as an undergraduate. Andy Grimes '95 entered Chapter Eternal on April 4, 2013. He was a proud member of Sigma Chi and a member of Grace Life Baptist Church in Bessemer. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, skiing, golfing, and certainly Alabama football. He is survived by his parents, Cindy and Robert. If you have questions regarding Iota Iota Chapter, the new house, or the campaign, please contact Quentin Brown '69 at qb@brownmediations.com, Ralph Procter '81 at procter1@gmail.com, or Steve Shockley '71 at steve.shockley71@gmail.com.
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In Situ Site Investigation have recently carried out overwater seabed cone penetration testing (CPT) as part of the Stranraer East Pier overwater near shore marine ground investigation. The work was carried out as part of the planned redevelopment works for the former high speed ferry link terminal connecting mainland Scotland to Northern Ireland and Ireland.
The project involved over twenty cone penetration tests carried out over a period of four days, using a specialist 4.5 tonne capacity off shore Neptune 5000 Marine Seabed CPT Unit utilising a bespoke 20m digital cone coiled push rod system.
At each test location, the CPT unit was lowered to the seabed from the deck of a multi-cat support survey vessel via the vessel crane and primary deck winch, allowing the vessel to hold position without moving the CPT unit while each test push was completed. Measured digital data from the cone is transferred through a control umbilical cable to the top side system control cabin on the ship's deck, allowing real time observation of the ongoing test parameters.
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Dering v Uris and Others was a 1964 English libel suit brought by Polish-born Dr Wladislaw Dering against the American writer Leon Uris. It was described as the first war crimes trial held in Britain at the time.
Dering alleged that Uris had libelled him in a footnote in his novel Exodus, which described his participation in medical experiments in Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust. The case was tried in the High Court of Justice before Mr Justice Lawton and a jury between April and May 1964. On 6 May, the jury returned a verdict for Dering, but awarded him contemptuous damages of one halfpenny, the smallest coin in the currency. As a result, Dering became liable for the defendants' legal costs.
The trial attracted wide media coverage. In particular, The Times provided extensive coverage of the case, printing large portions of the testimony presented in court. The novel QB VII and its 1974 miniseries adaptation are loosely based on this case.
Dr Wladislaw Alexander Dering was a Polish doctor who was imprisoned at Auschwitz during the Second World War for resistance activities. After the war, he reached Britain, but was detained by the British government as an alleged war criminal, while the Polish government sought his extradition. In 1948, he was released, the Home Secretary having decided that there was insufficient evidence to support a prima facie case against him. Dering thereupon joined the Colonial Medical Service, running a hospital in Hargeisa, British Somaliland. For his services, he was appointed an OBE in 1960. The same year, he returned to England and established a medical practice in North London.
Here in Block X Dr. Wirths used women as guinea pigs and Dr. Schumann sterilized by castration and X-ray and Clauberg removed ovaries and Dr. Dehring performed 17,000 'experiments' in surgery without anaesthetics.
Dering issue writs for libel against Uris, his British publishers William Kimber & Co Ltd, and the printers. The printers settled the case before the trial for £500 and an apology. Uris and William Kimber admitted the words at issue were defamatory against Dr Dering, but pleaded that the words were true in substance and in fact, save for some particularized exceptions.
The trial opened in the High Court of Justice in London on 13 April 1964 before Mr Justice Lawton and a jury. Colin Duncan QC (with Brian Neill) appeared for Dering, while Lord Gardiner (with David Hirst and Louis Blom-Cooper) represented the defendants.
In court, Dering denied having carried out experimental operations. He claimed he removed prisoners' sexual organs because Schumann had asked Dering to assist him by removing the organs. He did not feel he could refuse, because he thought it was better for him to perform the operations than if they were performed by an untrained person. Furthermore, he claimed the organs he removed were already damaged, and that he removed them for the benefit of the prisoners' health. He also claimed he feared for his life if he did not comply with Schumann's request. Finally, he denied having operation without anaesthetics, and claimed that of the 17,000 operations he performed at Auschwith, only about 130 were not ordinary proper operations.
The defence admitted that the figure of 17,000 'experiments' was inflated, and that some anaesthetics was administered. However, they disputed Dering's claim that his life would have been in danger if he had not carried out the operations. They also disputed Dering's claim that the anaesthesia was effective. The defence presented a number of witnesses who had been operated upon by Dering, as well as prisoners-doctors who had worked with Dering. The doctors testifoed that they had refused the Nazi doctors' requests to assist them in their experiments, and had not been punished as a consequence.
Gardiner: As a result were you shot?
Gardiner: Were you punished in any way?
She then testified that she told Dr Wirths that performing the operations was against her conception of medicine.
Hautval: He asked me, "Cannot you see that these people are different from you?" and I answered him that there were several people different from me, beginning from him.
Gardiner: I shall not ask you again whether you were shot. Did Dr Wirths say anything further?
Hautval: He never said anything.
The jury awarded Dering a halfpenny in damages, the smallest coin of the realm. Since publisher and author had paid a marginally larger token sum of £2 into court, Dering was liable for all the legal costs amounting to £25,000 from that point, due to court rules. Dering died, however, leaving Kimber saddled with the heavy legal costs.
At a news conference held at the Howard Hotel by Uris and publisher Kimber, Uris is reported to have made a comment that future editions of Exodus would omit Dr Dering's name. Uris and the publishers, William Kimber and Company, admitted that a paragraph in the book, referring to Auschwitz medical experiments, was defamatory to Dr Dering, but they also contended that it was true in substance, subject to certain qualifications.
The trial received extensive coverage. Breaking with tradition whereby it only reported judgments, The Times Law Report sent two reporters to report on the trial. The Times' reports were later published in book form (Auschwitz in England, 1965). It was said that the newspaper's circulation rose for the first time since the end of the Second World War as a result of its coverage.
Uris had copied his data from Underground by Joseph Tennenbaum when he referred to doctors working in Auschwitz. The complex issue of Dr Dering's role—whether villain or hero—continued to be a subject of debate through 2010.
^ "DR. WLADISLAW DERING HC Deb 23 September 1948 vol 456 cc1070-3". Hansard. 23 September 1948. Retrieved 2013-11-12.
^ "A H'penny & the Truth Dr.Dering's Trial in London by Jack Winocour In Points of Compass Encounter, August 1964, pp. 71-88". Sunday Times. 13 September 2008. Retrieved 2013-11-12.
^ "London Court Told Poles Saved Some Auschwitz Inmates from Death". Sunday Times. April 15, 1964. Retrieved 2013-11-12.
^ "Was doctor Wladislaw Dering a hero or was he a criminal? Newsweek Polska in Filip Gańczak, Władysław Dering, doktor z Auschwitz, "Newsweek Polska" , 23 sierpnia 2010". Sunday Times. 23 September 2010. Retrieved 2013-11-12.
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A new special issue from the Journal of Paleontology, brings together a collection of 17 papers focused on different aspects of echinoderm paleobiology. Author David F. Wright discusses his article 'Bayesian estimation of fossil phylogenies and the evolution of early to middle Paleozoic crinoids (Echinodermata)'.
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Simon Moore | 24 Aug 2017
Beliefs in magical creatures can impact the protection of biodiversity and the field of conservation needs to consider them seriously, researchers have warned. According to a new study, by the University of Leeds and Cardiff University, the conservation of threatened species has much to gain from acknowledging people's spiritual, magical and cultural beliefs.
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Steven Ross | 23 Aug 2017
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Samantha Martin | 22 Aug 2017
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College football coaching search candidates: What we're hearing at Auburn, Nebraska, Arizona State and beyond
Seats are open and others will soon be vacated ... but who will be filling them?
By Dennis Dodd
Nov 22, 2022 at 11:18 am ET • 5 min read
Sunday has all the indications of being a coaching free for all. There are currently eight openings now that the first has been filled with Charlotte hiring Michigan assistant Biff Poggi, but more changes are ahead.
Though pink slips have been limited over the last few weeks, teams looking to make changes are likely waiting until the regular season concludes. That means a handful firings are likely ahead this Sunday -- and there may even be some programs ready to make hires now that their top candidates have moved on to postseason play.
Our final Hot Seat Rankings update earlier this month covered many of the jobs that could still come open this cycle. As such, it's time to take one last look at some of those programs before asking who might fill the positions already vacant.
Potential future openings
West Virginia: In Year 4, Neal Brown is headed for his worst season with the Mountaineers -- 4-8 if they lose to Oklahoma State. Does the administration even wait to hire a new athletic director?
Navy: It will seemingly be Ken Niumatalolo's call after 16 seasons. The Midshipmen haven't had a winning campaign since 2019.
New Mexico: Danny Gonzales is in the middle of his worst season with the Lobos (2-9, 7-23 overall).
Texas State: Jake Spavital, Johnny Manziel's former offensive coordinator, is 13-34 in Year 4.
Texas A&M: No, not Jimbo Fisher. But he'll most likely be convinced to hire a play-calling offensive coordinator.
Last year, there was record 31 job changes. It won't be anywhere near that this carousel. Maybe ADs are becoming more patient. Maybe there aren't that many jobs to fill. Going into this season, there had been 72 job changes across the last three years.
What we're hearing
Lane Kiffin is going to get paid either by Auburn as its No. 1 target or by Ole Miss in a retention play. Kiffin has won 18 games and counting in two seasons, two shy of the school record (20). Given his agent (Jimmy Sexton) and the current market, Kiffin might as well look for a total package in the high eight figures over 10 seasons. He's already the 11th-highest paid coach at $7.25 million per year. Sexton will leverage Ole Miss and Auburn against one another to ensure Kiffin gets paid, and reports that Kiffin has shot down already are only helping to that end.
That's similar to 2017 when Gus Malzahn got the exact same offer from both Auburn and Arkansas (six years, $42 million). He chose Auburn and lasted four more seasons. If Kiffin does move to the Tigers, he should make it a condition of his employment that the meddlers don't meddle. Why is it a better job than Ole Miss? No matter what, Auburn seems to compete for a national championship every five years or so. That might be the deciding factor. As always, Kiffin is incredibly self-aware. "Maybe if they watched the first [half of a 15-point loss to Arkansas], I wouldn't be No. 1 anymore," he told reporters Saturday night.
If Kiffin stays, Liberty's Hugh Freeze will get a long look.
Did Matt Rhule turn down the Cornhuskers this weekend? That was the word from several sources. Rhule had been the No. 1 candidate to replace Scott Frost. If Rhule has indeed taken his name out of consideration, that isn't necessarily a statement about the quality of the job. It's still a heavy lift for whoever takes Nebraska, but for Rhule, it may be a further indicator that he intends to sit out 2023 to rest and retrench. Rhule is at a point in his career where he can have his pick of jobs and not have to settle. His first two college jobs were bottom-of-the-barrel, last-place types (Temple, Baylor), but he made his reputation with worst-to-first success stories.
If Rhule is no longer available, does Nebraska turn its attention to Kansas' Lance Leipold? The 58-year-old coach has deep roots in the state of Nebraska as a former analyst at Nebraska-Omaha and assistant under Frank Solich with the Huskers. Has the shine worn off, though? The Jayhawks started 5-0 and were ranked but will finish 6-6 if they lose to Kansas State this week. Another name to watch at Nebraska: Washington first-year coach Kalen DeBoer.
A Saturday night report said interim coach Jim Leonhard is in line to get the permanent gig. Leonhard had been the Badgers defensive coordinator since 2017 before stepping into the big chair. He is extremely popular with the Wisconsin faithful and has long been expected to be an eventual head coaching candidate for the Badgers. Wisconsin is 4-2 since he replaced Paul Chryst on Oct. 2.
Watch for Oregon offensive coordinator Kenny Dillingham to get a good look. ASU may fall into one of the best hires of the cycle. The talented Dillingham seems to be the leader in the clubhouse, but you never know with an administration that got rid of Herm Edwards then retained the AD who hired him (Ray Anderson). Dillingham, 32, is a proven commodity despite his relative youth. His quarterback, Bo Nix, may get a Heisman Trophy invite. Dillingham would be given all kinds of resources to turn around the Sun Devils. In the new Pac-12 (without USC and UCLA), why can't ASU compete for a playoff spot every year?
Los Angeles Rams running backs coach Thomas Brown is said to be interested. Jackson State's Deion Sanders has already taken his name out of the running saying he'd never go "West."
Interim coach Brent Key may have taken a huge step after upsetting North Carolina. GT may even get to a bowl game. That would mean beating Georgia this week. If not, watch for Bulldogs running backs coach Del McGee, Tulane coach Willie Fritz and former Houston/Texas A&M/Arizona coach Kevin Sumlin. Sanders also must be considered given the Atlanta connection.
Northwestern defensive coordinator Ryan Walters is largely considered the favorite. Walters played safety for the Buffaloes from 2004-08. If he somehow doesn't get the job, there is a long line of worthy contenders. Departed Auburn coach Bryan Harsin is interested, as is former Texas coach Tom Herman, former Virginia coach Bronco Mendenhall and Sacramento State coach Troy Taylor. Texas analyst and former TCU coach Gary Patterson is also interested in getting back in somewhere.
AD Mike Kelly is said to be keeping an open mind on any number of different directions he could head after the Jeff Scott disaster. Don't be surprised if the name of at least one NFL assistant surfaces. Here's a suggestion: Three years after leaving Missouri, Arkansas defensive coordinator Barry Odom is ready to be a head coach again. Sanders is another name who could be interesting here as Kelly is casting a wide net.
Former coach Bill Clark has healed nicely from the back that caused him to resign before the season. However, don't look for him to return to the program he built from scratch. We're hearing former Virginia Tech coach Justin Fuente or veterans like Sumlin, Brown (if West Virginia makes a move), Skip Holtz and Larry Fedora.
Coaching search updates: Auburn, Nebraska and beyond


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Q: Can I add jars to Maven 2 build classpath without installing them? Maven 2 is driving me crazy during the experimentation / quick and dirty mock-up phase of development.
I have a pom.xml file that defines the dependencies for the web-app framework I want to use, and I can quickly generate starter projects from that file. However, sometimes I want to link to a 3rd party library that doesn't already have a pom.xml file defined, so rather than create the pom.xml file for the 3rd party lib by hand and install it, and add the dependency to my pom.xml, I would just like to tell Maven: "In addition to my defined dependencies, include any jars that are in /lib too."
It seems like this ought to be simple, but if it is, I am missing something.
Any pointers on how to do this are greatly appreciated. Short of that, if there is a simple way to point maven to a /lib directory and easily create a pom.xml with all the enclosed jars mapped to a single dependency which I could then name / install and link to in one fell swoop would also suffice.

A: Using <scope>system</scope> is a terrible idea for reasons explained by others, installing the file manually to your local repository makes the build unreproducible, and using <url>file://${project.basedir}/repo</url> is not a good idea either because (1) that may not be a well-formed file URL (e.g. if the project is checked out in a directory with unusual characters), (2) the result is unusable if this project's POM is used as a dependency of someone else's project.
Assuming you are unwilling to upload the artifact to a public repository, Simeon's suggestion of a helper module does the job. But there is an easier way now…
The Recommendation
Use non-maven-jar-maven-plugin. Does exactly what you were asking for, with none of the drawbacks of the other approaches.

A: I found another way to do this, see here from a Heroku post
To summarize (sorry about some copy & paste)

*

*Create a repo directory under your root folder:

yourproject
+- pom.xml
+- src
+- repo

*

*Run this to install the jar to your local repo directory

mvn deploy:deploy-file -Durl=file:///path/to/yourproject/repo/ -Dfile=mylib-1.0.jar -DgroupId=com.example -DartifactId=mylib -Dpackaging=jar -Dversion=1.0

*

*Add this your pom.xml:

<repositories>
    <!--other repositories if any-->
    <repository>
        <id>project.local</id>
        <name>project</name>
        <url>file:${project.basedir}/repo</url>
    </repository>
</repositories>

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.example</groupId>
    <artifactId>mylib</artifactId>
    <version>1.0</version>
</dependency>

A: What seems simplest to me is just configure your maven-compiler-plugin to include your custom jars. This example will load any jar files in a lib directory.
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
            <configuration>
                <includes>
                    <include>lib/*.jar</include>
                </includes>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>

A: You may create local repository on your project
For example if you have libs folder in project structure

*

*In libs folder you should create directory structure like: /groupId/artifactId/version/artifactId-version.jar

*In your pom.xml you should register repository
 <repository>
     <id>ProjectRepo</id>
     <name>ProjectRepo</name>
     <url>file://${project.basedir}/libs</url>
 </repository>

*and add dependency as usual
 <dependency>
     <groupId>groupId</groupId>
     <artifactId>artifactId</artifactId>
     <version>version</version>
 </dependency>

That is all.
For detailed information: How to add external libraries in Maven (archived)

A: After having really long discussion with CloudBees guys about properly maven packaging of such kind of JARs, they made an interesting good proposal for a solution:
Creation of a fake Maven project which attaches a pre-existing JAR as a primary artifact, running into belonged POM install:install-file execution. Here is an example of such kinf of POM:
 <build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-install-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.3.1</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>image-util-id</id>
                    <phase>install</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>install-file</goal>
                    </goals>
                    <configuration>
                        <file>${basedir}/file-you-want-to-include.jar</file>
                        <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
                        <artifactId>${project.artifactId}</artifactId>
                        <version>${project.version}</version>
                        <packaging>jar</packaging>
                    </configuration>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

But in order to implement it, existing project structure should be changed. First, you should have in mind that for each such kind of JAR there should be created different fake Maven project (module). And there should be created a parent Maven project including all sub-modules which are : all JAR wrappers and existing main project. The structure could be :

root project (this contains the parent POM file includes all sub-modules with module XML element) (POM packaging)
JAR 1 wrapper Maven child project (POM packaging)
JAR 2 wrapper Maven child project (POM packaging)
main existing Maven child project (WAR, JAR, EAR .... packaging)

When parent running via mvn:install or mvn:packaging is forced and sub-modules will be executed. That could be concerned as a minus here, since project structure should be changed, but offers a non static solution at the end

A: Problems of popular approaches
Most of the answers you'll find around the internet will suggest you to either install the dependency to your local repository or specify a "system" scope in the pom and distribute the dependency with the source of your project. But both of these solutions are actually flawed.
Why you shouldn't apply the "Install to Local Repo" approach
When you install a dependency to your local repository it remains there. Your distribution artifact will do fine as long as it has access to this repository. The problem is in most cases this repository will reside on your local machine, so there'll be no way to resolve this dependency on any other machine. Clearly making your artifact depend on a specific machine is not a way to handle things. Otherwise this dependency will have to be locally installed on every machine working with that project which is not any better.
Why you shouldn't apply the "System Scope" approach
The jars you depend on with the "System Scope" approach neither get installed to any repository or attached to your target packages. That's why your distribution package won't have a way to resolve that dependency when used. That I believe was the reason why the use of system scope even got deprecated. Anyway you don't want to rely on a deprecated feature.
The static in-project repository solution
After putting this in your pom:
<repository>
    <id>repo</id>
    <releases>
        <enabled>true</enabled>
        <checksumPolicy>ignore</checksumPolicy>
    </releases>
    <snapshots>
        <enabled>false</enabled>
    </snapshots>
    <url>file://${project.basedir}/repo</url>
</repository>

for each artifact with a group id of form x.y.z Maven will include the following location inside your project dir in its search for artifacts:
repo/
| - x/
|   | - y/
|   |   | - z/
|   |   |   | - ${artifactId}/
|   |   |   |   | - ${version}/
|   |   |   |   |   | - ${artifactId}-${version}.jar

To elaborate more on this you can read this blog post.
Use Maven to install to project repo
Instead of creating this structure by hand I recommend to use a Maven plugin to install your jars as artifacts. So, to install an artifact to an in-project repository under repo folder execute:
mvn install:install-file -DlocalRepositoryPath=repo -DcreateChecksum=true -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=[your-jar] -DgroupId=[...] -DartifactId=[...] -Dversion=[...]

If you'll choose this approach you'll be able to simplify the repository declaration in pom to:
<repository>
    <id>repo</id>
    <url>file://${project.basedir}/repo</url>
</repository>

A helper script
Since executing installation command for each lib is kinda annoying and definitely error prone, I've created a utility script which automatically installs all the jars from a lib folder to a project repository, while automatically resolving all metadata (groupId, artifactId and etc.) from names of files. The script also prints out the dependencies xml for you to copy-paste in your pom.
Include the dependencies in your target package
When you'll have your in-project repository created you'll have solved a problem of distributing the dependencies of the project with its source, but since then your project's target artifact will depend on non-published jars, so when you'll install it to a repository it will have unresolvable dependencies.
To beat this problem I suggest to include these dependencies in your target package. This you can do with either the Assembly Plugin or better with the OneJar Plugin. The official documentaion on OneJar is easy to grasp.

A: For throw away code only
set scope == system and just make up a groupId, artifactId, and version
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.swinglabs</groupId>
    <artifactId>swingx</artifactId>
    <version>0.9.2</version>
    <scope>system</scope>
    <systemPath>${project.basedir}/lib/swingx-0.9.3.jar</systemPath>
</dependency>

Note: system dependencies are not copied into resulted jar/war
(see How to include system dependencies in war built using maven)

A: If you want a quick and dirty solution, you can do the following (though I do not recommend this for anything except test projects, maven will complain in length that this is not proper).
Add a dependency entry for each jar file you need, preferably with a perl script or something similar and copy/paste that into your pom file.
#! /usr/bin/perl

foreach my $n (@ARGV) {

    $n=~s@.*/@@;

    print "<dependency>
    <groupId>local.dummy</groupId>
    <artifactId>$n</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1</version>
    <scope>system</scope>
    <systemPath>\${project.basedir}/lib/$n</systemPath>
</dependency>
";

A: The problem with systemPath is that the dependencies' jars won't get distributed along your artifacts as transitive dependencies. Try what I've posted here: Is it best to Mavenize your project jar files or put them in WEB-INF/lib?
Then declare dependencies as usual.
And please read the footer note.

A: A quick&dirty batch solution (based on Alex's answer):
libs.bat
@ECHO OFF
FOR %%I IN (*.jar) DO (
echo ^<dependency^>
echo ^<groupId^>local.dummy^</groupId^>
echo ^<artifactId^>%%I^</artifactId^>
echo ^<version^>0.0.1^</version^>
echo ^<scope^>system^</scope^>
echo ^<systemPath^>${project.basedir}/lib/%%I^</systemPath^>
echo ^</dependency^>
)

Execute it like this: libs.bat > libs.txt.
Then open libs.txt and copy its content as dependencies.
In my case, I only needed the libraries to compile my code, and this solution was the best for that purpose.

A: To install the 3rd party jar which is not in maven repository use maven-install-plugin.
Below are steps:

*

*Download the jar file manually from the source (website)

*Create a folder and place your jar file in it

*Run the below command to install the 3rd party jar in your local maven repository

mvn install:install-file -Dfile= -DgroupId=
  -DartifactId= -Dversion= -Dpackaging=

Below is the e.g one I used it for simonsite log4j

mvn install:install-file
  -Dfile=/Users/athanka/git/MyProject/repo/log4j-rolling-appender.jar -DgroupId=uk.org.simonsite -DartifactId=log4j-rolling-appender -Dversion=20150607-2059 -Dpackaging=jar

*In the pom.xml include the dependency as below

  <dependency>
        <groupId>uk.org.simonsite</groupId>
        <artifactId>log4j-rolling-appender</artifactId>
        <version>20150607-2059</version>
  </dependency>

*Run the mvn clean install command to create your packaging
Below is the reference link:
https://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-3rd-party-jars-local.html

A: Note: When using the System scope (as mentioned on this page), Maven needs absolute paths.
If your jars are under your project's root, you'll want to prefix your systemPath values with ${basedir}.

A: A strange solution I found:
using Eclipse

*

*create simple (non-maven) java project

*add a Main class

*add all the jars to the classpath

*export Runnable JAR (it's important, because no other way here to do it)

*select Extract required libraries into generated JAR

*decide the licence issues

*tadammm...install the generated jar to your m2repo

*add this single dependency to your other projects.

cheers,
Balint

A: Even though it does not exactly fit to your problem, I'll drop this here. My requirements were:

*

*Jars that can not be found in an online maven repository should be in the SVN.

*If one developer adds another library, the other developers should not be bothered with manually installing them.

*The IDE (NetBeans in my case) should be able find the sources and javadocs to provide autocompletion and help.

Let's talk about (3) first: Just having the jars in a folder and somehow merging them into the final jar will not work for here, since the IDE will not understand this. This means all libraries have to be installed properly. However, I dont want to have everyone installing it using "mvn install-file".
In my project I needed metawidget. Here we go:

*

*Create a new maven project (name it "shared-libs" or something like that).

*Download metawidget and extract the zip into src/main/lib.

*The folder doc/api contains the javadocs. Create a zip of the content (doc/api/api.zip).

*Modify the pom like this

*Build the project and the library will be installed.

*Add the library as a dependency to your project, or (if you added the dependency in the shared-libs project) add shared-libs as dependency to get all libraries at once.

Every time you have a new library, just add a new execution and tell everyone to build the project again (you can improve this process with project hierachies).

A: For those that didn't find a good answer here, this is what we are doing to get a jar with all the necessary dependencies in it. This answer (https://stackoverflow.com/a/7623805/1084306) mentions to use the Maven Assembly plugin but doesn't actually give an example in the answer. And if you don't read all the way to the end of the answer (it's pretty lengthy), you may miss it. Adding the below to your pom.xml will generate target/${PROJECT_NAME}-${VERSION}-jar-with-dependencies.jar
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.4.1</version>
            <configuration>
                <!-- get all project dependencies -->
                <descriptorRefs>
                    <descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
                </descriptorRefs>
                <!-- MainClass in mainfest make a executable jar -->
                <archive>
                  <manifest>
                    <mainClass>my.package.mainclass</mainClass>
                  </manifest>
                </archive>

            </configuration>
            <executions>
              <execution>
                <id>make-assembly</id>
                <!-- bind to the packaging phase -->
                <phase>package</phase>
                <goals>
                    <goal>single</goal>
                </goals>
              </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>

A: This is how we add or install a local jar
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.example</groupId>
        <artifactId>iamajar</artifactId>
        <version>1.0</version>
        <scope>system</scope>
        <systemPath>${project.basedir}/lib/iamajar.jar</systemPath>
    </dependency>

i gave some default groupId and artifactId because they are mandatory :)

A: This is what I have done, it also works around the package issue and it works with checked out code.
I created a new folder in the project in my case I used repo, but feel free to use src/repo
In my POM I had a dependency that is not in any public maven repositories
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.dovetail</groupId>
    <artifactId>zoslog4j</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.1</version>
    <scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>

I then created the following directories repo/com/dovetail/zoslog4j/1.0.1 and copied the JAR file into that folder.
I created the following POM file to represent the downloaded file (this step is optional, but it removes a WARNING) and helps the next guy figure out where I got the file to begin with.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>com.dovetail</groupId>
    <artifactId>zoslog4j</artifactId>
    <packaging>jar</packaging>
    <version>1.0.1</version>
    <name>z/OS Log4J Appenders</name>
    <url>http://dovetail.com/downloads/misc/index.html</url>
    <description>Apache Log4j Appender for z/OS Logstreams, files, etc.</description>
</project>

Two optional files I create are the SHA1 checksums for the POM and the JAR to remove the missing checksum warnings.
shasum -b < repo/com/dovetail/zoslog4j/1.0.1/zoslog4j-1.0.1.jar \
          > repo/com/dovetail/zoslog4j/1.0.1/zoslog4j-1.0.1.jar.sha1

shasum -b < repo/com/dovetail/zoslog4j/1.0.1/zoslog4j-1.0.1.pom \
          > repo/com/dovetail/zoslog4j/1.0.1/zoslog4j-1.0.1.pom.sha1

Finally I add the following fragment to my pom.xml that allows me to refer to the local repository
<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>project</id>
        <url>file:///${basedir}/repo</url>
    </repository>
</repositories>

A: You really ought to get a framework in place via a repository and identifying your dependencies up front. Using the system scope is a common mistake people use, because they "don't care about the dependency management." The trouble is that doing this you end up with a perverted maven build that will not show maven in a normal condition. You would be better off following an approach like this.

A: Maven install plugin has command line usage to install a jar into the local repository, POM is optional but you will have to specify the GroupId, ArtifactId, Version and Packaging (all the POM stuff).

A: I alluded to some python code in a comment to the answer from @alex lehmann's , so am posting it here.
def AddJars(jarList):
  s1 = ''
  for elem in jarList:
   s1+= """
     <dependency>
        <groupId>local.dummy</groupId>
        <artifactId>%s</artifactId>
        <version>0.0.1</version>
        <scope>system</scope>
        <systemPath>${project.basedir}/manual_jars/%s</systemPath>
     </dependency>\n"""%(elem, elem)
  return s1

A: This doesn't answer how to add them to your POM, and may be a no brainer, but would just adding the lib dir to your classpath work? I know that is what I do when I need an external jar that I don't want to add to my Maven repos.
Hope this helps.

A: What works in our project is what Archimedes Trajano wrote, but we had in our .m2/settings.xml something like this:
 <mirror>
  <id>nexus</id>
  <mirrorOf>*</mirrorOf>
  <url>http://url_to_our_repository</url>
 </mirror>

and the * should be changed to central. So if his answer doesn't work for you, you should check your settings.xml

A: I just wanted a quick and dirty workaround... I couldn't run the script from Nikita Volkov: syntax error + it requires a strict format for the jar names.
I made this Perl script which works with whatever format for the jar file names, and it generates the dependencies in an xml so it can be copy pasted directly in a pom.
If you want to use it, make sure you understand what the script is doing, you may need to change the lib folder and the value for the groupId or artifactId...
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

open(my $fh, '>', 'dependencies.xml') or die "Could not open file 'dependencies.xml' $!";
foreach my $file (glob("lib/*.jar")) {
    print "$file\n";
    my $groupId = "my.mess";
    my $artifactId = "";
    my $version = "0.1-SNAPSHOT";
    if ($file =~ /\/([^\/]*?)(-([0-9v\._]*))?\.jar$/) {
        $artifactId = $1;
        if (defined($3)) {
            $version = $3;
        }
        `mvn install:install-file -Dfile=$file -DgroupId=$groupId -DartifactId=$artifactId -Dversion=$version -Dpackaging=jar`;
        print $fh "<dependency>\n\t<groupId>$groupId</groupId>\n\t<artifactId>$artifactId</artifactId>\n\t<version>$version</version>\n</dependency>\n";
        print " => $groupId:$artifactId:$version\n";
    } else {
        print "##### BEUH...\n";
    }
}
close $fh;

A: The solution for scope='system' approach in Java:
public static void main(String[] args) {
        String filepath = "/Users/Downloads/lib/";
        try (Stream<Path> walk = Files.walk(Paths.get(filepath))) {

        List<String> result = walk.filter(Files::isRegularFile)
                .map(x -> x.toString()).collect(Collectors.toList());

                String indentation = "    ";
                for (String s : result) {
                    System.out.println(indentation + indentation + "<dependency>");
                    System.out.println(indentation + indentation + indentation + "<groupId>"
                            + s.replace(filepath, "").replace(".jar", "")
                            + "</groupId>");
                    System.out.println(indentation + indentation + indentation + "<artifactId>"
                            + s.replace(filepath, "").replace(".jar", "")
                            + "</artifactId>");
                    System.out.println(indentation + indentation + indentation + "<version>"
                            + s.replace(filepath, "").replace(".jar", "")
                            + "</version>");
                    System.out.println(indentation + indentation + indentation + "<scope>system</scope>");
                    System.out.println(indentation + indentation + indentation + "<systemPath>" + s + "</systemPath>");
                    System.out.println(indentation + indentation + "</dependency>");
                }

    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}