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Canadian Ebook Store Offers 'Free' Public Domain Ebooks -- Claims Copyright Says You Can Only Make 1 Copy
Murdoch's The Times Accused Of Blatant Copying, Just As It Tells The World You Should Pay For News
Copyright Extension Moves To Japan
from the ain't-no-such-thing-as-a-public-domain dept
Fri, Nov 20th 2009 7:15am — Mike Masnick
Looks like the latest battle over copyright extension is about to take place in Japan, where the new prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, has vowed to extend certain copyrights. Specifically, he says that posthumous copyrights for compositions should last 70 years, rather than 50. This makes no sense, no matter what basis you judge copyright on. Copyright is supposed to serve a simple purpose: to encourage the creation of new works. It never makes sense to extend copyright on existing works, because those works were already created. In other words, the social "bargain" that was offered in terms of the limited times of protection available were clearly sufficient. But, it's making a pure mockery of the law to specifically single out posthumous copyright protection to be extended because, as far as I know, the dead no longer have any incentives to create new content, no matter how long the copyrights on their old content lasts. The only explanation for doing so is to create a special welfare program for songwriters and composers. But, if that's the case, let's make it clear this is a welfare system, rather than anything to do with copyright.
Filed Under: copyright, copyright extension, japan
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Anonymous Coward, 20 Nov 2009 @ 7:29am
It's to destroy the public domain in an attempt to destroy competition and hence give monopoly rents to the existing status quo.
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Dark Helmet (profile), 20 Nov 2009 @ 7:40am
"as far as I know, the dead no longer have any incentives to create new content"
Obviously you've never heard of a ghost writer, have you?
:Lobo Santo (profile), 20 Nov 2009 @ 8:09am
Re: Boo!
My favorite ghost writer is Thomas Jefferson--if only I could locate his twitter feed.
Speaking of, have you head the song?
RJD2 - Ghostwriter on YouTube.
Re: Re: Boo!
I hadn't heard it before, but I like it! Trip hop is one of my favorite obscuraties.
If you're into that kind of sound, definitely check out the Dust Bros. Fight Club soundtrack. It's one of the most interesting experimental albums I've ever heard....
Re: Re: Re: Boo!
Been listening to 'em for awhile now. Good stuff.
Nina Paley (profile), 20 Nov 2009 @ 9:36am
Jefferson just blogged at QuestionCopyright.org!
http://questioncopyright.org/ideas_should_spread_freely
Hulser (profile), 20 Nov 2009 @ 8:00am
I find it interesting that the linked article doesn't actually provide any justification for the extension. Oh, other than that the "JASRAC, other rights holders societies and music industry bodies in Japan" want it. At least in America, the RIAA/MPAA has the decency to lie to us to our face.
This is just the mentality of intellectual property maximists. Intellectual property is not, and was never, about promoting the progress. It was always about promoting the profit margins of the plutocracy. and that's exactly what it does. It hinders innovation in order to help the rich better exploit the public.
Moron N Ahurry, 20 Nov 2009 @ 8:41am
So naive...
Copyright has been about promoting progress or additional works since... well... let's just say men were wearing powdered wigs and had wooden false teeth back then...
Before criticizing the proposed change, it is helpful to at least have some familiarity with Japanese copyright law. It is not based upon what we have here in the United States.
Please elaborate, what's there not to criticize?
So, you're saying that Japanese copyright is not based on "promoting the progress"? Do you know this for a fact or are you just saying that it's not necessarilly based on the same principles as in the US? If it's not based on promoting the progress, what is it based on? Enriching the elite?
Chargone (profile), 20 Nov 2009 @ 12:50pm
this would at least make it honest and achieving it's goals, i suppose :D
that said, a lot of weirdness in Japanese law can be traced back to US interference.
of course, it's Japan. it's also just outright weird in the first place :D
Christopher (profile), 20 Nov 2009 @ 10:09am
It's the only way to proceed.
I would propose: Copyright plus zero years after death, period. Heck, 30 years or death, whichever comes first. If it's truly a form of welfare or pension, make it work like a pension plan, expire the time or split total to a beneficiary after death.
Patents, seven years period, no extensions, nothing.
Trademarks is the only one that defies my awesome ability to cut through the bullshit.
Anonymous Coward, 20 Nov 2009 @ 5:46pm
Re: Disobey
Zero years after the book goes out of print.
TheStupidOne, 20 Nov 2009 @ 10:19am
(Slightly off topic, but related) What would happen if a group of American citizens sued the government over ownership of copyrighted works that are only under copyright because the copyright was extended? The claim would be that congress does not have to right to retroactively change an agreement between content creators and the public. This agreement is of course that they would have x number of years of the exclusive right to copy their work in return for the content being created and for it to be given to the public after x years. However Congress changed that agreement preventing the public from receiving the content once the initial agreed upon time frame had expired.
I would compare this to ex post facto laws which are expressly forbidden by the US constitution (Article 1, Section 9) Though that part of the constitution has been interpreted as only pertaining to criminal offenses.
Mike Masnick (profile), 20 Nov 2009 @ 10:57am
Re: I was wondering
What would happen if a group of American citizens sued the government over ownership of copyrighted works that are only under copyright because the copyright was extended? The claim would be that congress does not have to right to retroactively change an agreement between content creators and the public.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldred_v._Ashcroft
Tragically, it was done, and it failed. There are a few reasons why it failed -- some of which had to do with how the case was argued, and some of it had to do with the Justices' understanding of copyright law. The book "No Law" has a very depressing, but thorough analysis of how badly the justices screwed that one up.
Liquid, 20 Nov 2009 @ 11:32am
If you think about it. Everyone is saying the creator of the song gets the copyrights to it. Well that is not true most of the songs are copy writed to the label. Which is where the extension comes in to play. You don't see a programmer, or a designer working for company A designing or programming for them. Then getting fired going to company B, and taking all that work with them. That designer/programmer would be sued in a heart beat.
Same with music industry you don't see an artist working at Disney lets say, and then leave to work for Sony. They don't take the work's that were done at Disney with them, because it's all owned by Sony. So saying an artist can't claim money on a song after they died. That is true, but the label is the one who gets the money first then pays the artists their cut just like any other business.
kyle clements (profile), 20 Nov 2009 @ 11:56am
Christopher:
"I would propose: Copyright plus zero years after death, period. Heck, 30 years or death, whichever comes first. If it's truly a form of welfare or pension, make it work like a pension plan, expire the time or split total to a beneficiary after death."
There is a big problem with something like this.
Say someone wants to use a work that is still under copyright, but they don't want to wait for it to enter the public domain, and they don't want to pay a fee for permission to use the work. Well, the poor artist/copyright owner may be the victim up some kind of 'unfortunate incident' which 'tragically' takes their life, and bingo! the work in question is instantly public domain!
copyright that lasts 25 years after date of publication, regardless of the artists life-span solves this potential problem.
Good analysis. Also, zero years after the book goes out of print .... Provided ..... that the book didn't go out of print because the artist died.
Then again that could create incentive to kill an artist to extend a books copyright.
How copyright works in Japan.
http://www.cric.or.jp/cric_e/csj/csj.html
And the wiki entry for it :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_copyright_law
http://www.washlaw.edu/forint/asia/japan.html
Another link with a compilation from lots of countries and their laws.
Some Japanese case studies about copyright law and how those differs from the U.S.
http://www.softic.or.jp/en/articles/fordham_sugiyama.html
Note that Japan don't have statutory damages, and payments from infringement are very low. That could change.
Some interesting blogs that keep track of what happens on that side of the world.
http://asiajin.com/blog/
http://fumijp.blogspot.com/2009/06/copyright-law-amendment.html (this is an article about a law controversial copyright amendment that passed)
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Methodist Review, Volum 1
RELIGIOUS AND MISSIONARY INTELLIGENCE.
EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM MR. NEWSTEAD, METHODIST MIS
SIONARY IN CEYLON, DATED AUGUST, 1817.
With very much pleasure I address a line to you from the shores of Ceylon, assured that you will receive it with equal pleasure. When we formerly met together I could have little thought that we should ever exchange countries, that I should leave the western for the eastern world, from whence you came; but so has the God of Providence ordered it, and we cannot doubt it is for the best, since both of us, I trust, have the glory of God fully in view.-It will afford you pleasure, I doubt not, to hear that friend preached from the bible which you presented to the new chapel in Colombo, for the first time, on Sunday August 3, from 1 Cor. i. 23. It was committed to my care across the great deep, and it so happened that, though I staid at Galle near three months after our landing, and brothers Osborn and Fox proceeded to Colombo before me, yet I had the pleasure to carry it to its place of rest; and after placing it in the pulpit with my own hands, in the evening I preached out of it for the first time, and I did not forget the giver. No, my dear brother, nor will our God forget this work of faith; it shall be acknowledged, I trust, in the great day, when motives are weighed, and men's actions brought to light. It was no small pleasure to our dear brethren here, to learn that I had met a long time in class with the giver of that Bible: your name is stamped on the cover, and will serve to remind every preacher who uses it, of the genuine influence of true Christianity on the heart of a native of India, and so to encourage him in his missionary work. You will rejoice to hear, that I am already engaged in preaching in a strange language--the Portuguese, (which is understood all round the coast,) and to the Cingalese through an interpreter. But you will rejoice more to hear that many are turning to the Lord.
We have an encouraging prospect in the establishment of schools, where vast numbers of native children are taught the principles of Christianity every day while learning to read; and every sabbath-day by hearing preaching, &c. At Colpetty, about a mile from the fort of Colombo, there is a good work begun in the school; the master, who was educated in our school at Galle, is undoubtedly converted to God, and such is the blessing attending his prayers and exhortations, that five of the boys come earlier every day, that they may join the master in his prayers; and they go home in the evening and pray with and read to their parents. We have about eight classes round the coast, and I suppose nearly 2000 children under instruction. Mr. Lynch has established a mission also at Madras, to which he again proceeds.
I trust the Lord will bless us, and make us instrumental of much good. My own soul is exceedingly happy in God, and I have many most refreshing seasons from his presence. My voyage was delightful, as it respects safety and quietness, though we had many and great dangers, out of which we were delivered in answer to the prayers of our dear friends. You, my dear brother, have, I do not doubt, often prayed for me. Continue to pray, and God will hear and answer. I need your prayers, for here are many trials connected with the Missionary work. But withal I am very happy in the blessed employ of spreading abroad the Saviour's name; and I doubt not that I shall be more so when I am settled in a station, and get a circle of work as. signed me. My kind love to all our dear Christian friends in Thetford.
I remain your ever affectionate
brother, in the gospel,
ROBERT NEWSTEAD.
EXTRACT FROM LONDON PAPERS.
We are informed, that among the various christian missions established in different parts of the world, those sent out by the Wesleyan Methodists continue to prosper abroad, and are gaining a large increase of support at home. Fifteen Missionaries have been sent out within the last twelve months, and the number now employed abroad is above one hundred. Their Missionarics in Ceylon are printing the new Testament in Cingalese for the Colombo Bible Society, and in that Island alone they have more than cleven hundred native children in their schools. Among the Namaqua Negroes of South Africa, and the slaves in most of the British West-India Islands, where thousands have been benefited by their ministry, they are successfully teaching both adults and children.
OBITUARY.
ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH OF MR. ANDREW MC KENNA.
To the Editors of the Methodist Magazine. theme of pardoning love was his joy, Albany Sept. 3, 1818. and perpetual song. Some time after
this change took place in his views, he DEAR BRETHREN,
I send you the inclosed to be insert- removed to ihis city, where he ended ed in one of your numbers, if you think his useful life in the triumphs of faith. it deserving a place in the obituary
For several years before his departdepartment; hoping that it may be ure, he had his mind greatly exercised bome with symptoms more unfavour- break out in extatic raptures, ascribable.
about the welfare of his fellow crcarendered a blessing to some of your
tures, which led him frequently, on numerous readers. J. CRAWFORD.
proper occasions, to exhort them to
flee from the wrath to come. Dies at Albany, August 29, in the A number of villages and neigh56th year of his age, our highly es. bourhoods lying contiguous to the teemed, and much lamented friend and city. formed a suitable field of action, brother, Mr. Andrew Mc KENNA.-- connected with his more domestic He had been for upwards of twenty circles, to express his ardent love for years a respectable member of the souls, and vent bis desires in their beMethodist Episcopal Church ; most of half. His labours on such occasions the time he had served the church in were owned of God, by being renderthe capacity of a Class Leader, and ed a blessing to many, both saints and Trustee ; in both of which offices he so sinners. demeaned himself as to give universal He often returned to his house and satisfaction. He had the confidence, family much fatigued with bis labours, and the affection of the church, of expressing himself at the same time, which he was a member; and also, as that, though weary in the work, be we have abundant reason to believe, was never weary of it; but such were the good will of the citizens generally, his expressions of joy and peace as composing his extensive acquaintance. convinced all who knew him that it Oui worthy friend was brought under was his supreme delight, to do, and serious impressions, at a prayer-meet- suffer the will of God. ing amongst the Methodist (at the Though he loved all the followers of house of our old brother Snyder, who Christ, it might be said of him, that he then lived in the city of New York), in a peculiar manner, " loved our ls. sometime in the latter part of the year rael:" his house, his hands, and his 1794. The following spring he be heart were open, as all who were incame more deeply concerned about tirnate with bim well know:his ab. the welfare of his soul; he joined the sence will be very sensibly felt, both Methodist society as a seeker, and by his fainily and the church. But we about midsummer he
was happily believe " to die is gain" to him,-ie brought into the glorious liberty of the "rests from bis labours." SODs of God.
For several months before he was Before his acquaintance with the confined to the house, he was sensible Methodists, nuthing could be more that his health was on the decline, and distant froin his mind than the know. in June he made an excursion for the ledge of God, by the forgiveness of purpose of breathing the sea air, think. sins; but when the Lord had gracious- ing it probable that it might be the ly liberated his soul, the delightful means of his restoration; but returned
ing "glory and ballelujah to the Lamb He applied to those he judged most that was slain for us ;" and when his skilful in the healing art; and they, no strength was so exhausted that be doubt, did all in their power to restore: could scarce speak to be beard above but a lurking disease had so corrupted a whisper, being asked if he saw bis his blood, and scattered the arrows of way clear, he answered, " Yes ! O death through the whole tenement, yes! perfectly clear,-all is well with that all their faithful endeavours were me, whether I live or die." His conrendered abortive.
cluding scene was so perfectly calm I believe it was thought for near for- and serene, that those who sal by his ty days nothing passed through the bed-side could not tell the precise mosystem, in the ordinary course of di- ment when the spirit took its Bight; gestion ; added to this a very large im- every feature of his countenance reposthume had collected in the hollow mained composed as in a state of bearof his thigh, which was finally laid opeu enly contemplation. by surgical operation.
So died our valuable friend. His Through all these sufferings, which funeral rites were performed on the were of the most severe description, he following day, in the afternoon. I was not heard to murmur, or wish his was requested to deliver a sermon on sufferings less; but calmly said, " the the occasion, before the interment; will of the Lord be done."
and for convenience the corpse was He was often asked, in the course removed to our church; and if the of his confinemeut, the state of bis number who attended, and the respectmind, and he always gave the most ful attention paid, should be a rule by unequivocal evidence of his accept- which to form an idea of bis real worth ance with God; frequently uttering, in public estimation, our conclusion " Jesus has done all things well." must be truly favourable ; for, could
our house bave held hundreds more, it " Jesus can make a dying bed is probable they would have been there,
Feel soft as downy pillows are, for vast numbers came to the gate, While on his breast I lean my head, and could neither get in, nor bear, and And breathe my life out sweetly were obliged to be disappointed for there."
want of room.
It affords real comfort in the midst A number of times, in conversation, of bereavement, to hear it so often said, he broke forth in acclamations of "he is gone, but he was truly a good praise and glory to God that he had man, and an ornament in the house of graciously kept him so free from temp- God." "The memory of the jast shall tation during his ill health.
be blessed." It is said "Devout men As long as his strength would ad- carried Stephen to bis burial." The mit, it was very common whilst we devout and venerable were bis pall. were at prayer with him, to hear him bearers.
METHODIST MAGAZINE,
FOR NOVEMBER, 1818.
DIVINITY.
EVIDENCES OF THE TRUTH OF THE CHRISTIAN REVELATION.
Extracted from the new Edinburgh Encyclopædia.
(Continued from page 369.)
135. There is another essential part of the argument, which is much strengthened by this obscurity. It is necessary to fix the date of the prophecies, or to establish, at least, that the time of their publication was antecedent to the events to which they refer. Now, had these prophecies been delivered in terms, so explicit, as to force the concurrence of the whole Jewish nation, the argument for their antiquity would not have come down in a form as satisfying, as that in which it is actually exhibited. The testimony of the Jews, to the date of their sacred writings, would have been refused as an interested testimony. Whereas, to evade the argument as it stands, we must admit a principle, which, in no question of ordinary criticism, would be suffered for a single moment to influence our understanding. We must conceive, that two parties, at the very time that they were influenced by the strongest mutual hostility, combined to support a fabrication; that they have not violated this combination; that the numerous writers on both sides of the question have not suffered the slightest hint of this mysterious compact to escape them; and that, though the Jews are galled incessantly by the triumphant tone of the Christian appeals to their own prophecies, they have never been tempted to let out a secret, which would have brought the argument of the Christians into disgrace, and shown the world, how falsehood and forgery mingled with their pretensions.
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These Roots are set Deep in the Land
Aditi Maddali's film uncovers the scarcely recorded history of uyyala songs, sung in fields across present-day Telangana.
Bharathy Singaravel
Image Courtesy: Aditi Maddali
How do you locate oral traditions in their histories? What is the context that they are born out of? What are the politics of how we remember them? These are the questions that led to the making of Telugu film Songs of our Soil (2019). Aditi Maddali's film uncovers the scarcely recorded history of uyyala songs, sung in fields across present-day Telangana.
The uyyala songs, she tells the Indian Cultural Forum, are responses to the immediate context: a gathering; to a goddess; but most often sung during long hours spent on the fields. They seem to be sung only by women. Unsurprisingly, these songs have become a means of mobilisation. They were sung during the time of the Telangana People's Movement. Today, of the many situations they have been sung in, one of the most gripping is in protest of the Mallanasagar Dam Project.
In 2016 the land acquisition process for the Mallannasagar reservoir under the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project was underway. The Kaleshwaram project was supposed to be the largest of its kind in the world. The capacity of the Mallanasagar Dam alone was to be 51 thousand million cubic feet of water, leading to the eviction of eight villages and submerging 20,079 acres of land. The scale of this displacement and more which would be caused by the whole of the Kaleshwaram Project caused 30,000 villagers to protest against it.
Also read: Liberating the Sitas of India
Aditi's film belongs to many of these women who joined in the protest. The women tell their reasons for their anger. They walk you through their homes, the fields and their lives. The compensation for their land is poor. "Where will we get such irrigable land for that kind of money?" "What will happen to the [landless] labourers who depend on these lands for their livelihoods, when these same lands are underwater?" Here there is a place for the camaraderie of women. "Will we also get a courtyard to sit together like this?" "What is the point of protesting? The documents to the land are in the men's names. When they get together to drink they convince each other to sell the land." Despite this, the women did go to the protests. They talk matter-of-factly about police brutality. Smilingly, Lakshmi, a villager from Vemulaghat says "they did their duty, we did ours". Their uyyala songs even scold KCR — as Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao is popularly called — by name.
Songs of the Soil also features the women who come to work on the paddy fields in Telangana. They sing while they replant the paddy saplings and talk to the camera when they take their lunch break. They tell you how [privileged] others wouldn't survive working those hours in the burning sun. They're strong-willed old women who tell you they find their peace with each other, in their songs.
As Aditi points out, the ability of the uyyala songs to become a means of political mobilisation sits within the larger history of "work songs". The political power of work songs as resistance many know through the songs sung by African-American slaves forced to work gruelling hours on plantations.
I asked the filmmaker if there has been a deliberate attempt to deny the uyyala songs their place in history. "It's not as clean as erasure," she replied. "What we need to look at is how so much gets clubbed under folk culture. Doing that means you are not even attempting to locate these traditions historically. You're not attempting to look at how they play a role in women's political articulation or even everyday articulation. When it is clubbed under folk culture you're removing the songs from their roots."
These roots are set deeply in the land. The tradition passed down from one generation of women to the next, songs carried from one field to the next or one gathering to the next. They are fluid. "There is no guarantee that the same song will be sung in the same manner the next time. There is no guarantee that it will even be passed on. Some version of it will be though" says Aditi.
As these songs are woven together at the moment, they draw upon their own lives for material. The singers tell stories from their lives, sing of their goddesses or express their feelings about a specific situation. This is how the anger against the Mallansagar Dam and the KCR government flows so easily into their songs.
During the many screenings the film has had, it has elicited a range of responses. The most outlandish of them was when a film festival organiser told Aditi that there had been complaints from men. They'd found it uncomfortable to sit through a film in which there was no male figure at all. The women to their dismay had not even been angry or crying or performing victimhood. They laugh, they sing, they talk about the local political situation regarding the dam, they work and they tell their stories. The filmmaker laughs as she recounts this to me, glad that her film caused such discomfort.
Aditi Maddali spent three years in research and in making the film. After more than a year spent on research and trying to find funding, a grant from India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) helped her in completing her debut film.
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What is the worth, the value, of assigning blame here? It doesn't change anything. It doesn't stop anything.
This weekend, Hamas went crazy, and Israel too.
It's simply no longer possible to say who went crazy first, or who went crazy more. This discussion is sickening.
Israel attacked and killed people in Gaza on Friday. It announced on Sunday that one of the dead included a senior Hamas commander.
This is perhaps the explanation for why Hamas went crazy on Saturday morning — suddenly firing about 50 mortars into the Israeli perphery in about 15 minutes (is this possible?) — and taking responsibility for the act.
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Ivy League Confirms Lia Thomas Will Be Eligible To Compete At Conference Championships
by David Rieder - Senior Writer
07 February 2022, 05:06pm
Ivy League Confirms Lia Thomas Will Be Eligible for Conference Championships
Recent announcements of rule changes from the NCAA and from USA Swimming have thrown Lia Thomas' eligibility for March's NCAA Championships into doubt, but the NCAA will not make a final determination until late this month. However, Thomas will definitely be able to compete at her final Ivy League Championships. The NCAA announcement about new rules suggested any changes would not apply this season outside the NCAA Championships, and the Ivy League confirmed that policy to Swimming World on Monday evening.
"The recent rule changes do not impact Lia's eligibility for this month's Ivy League Women's Swimming & Diving Championships as the effective date for this unprecedented midseason NCAA policy change begins with the 2022 NCAA Winter Championships," an Ivy League spokesperson said in an email to Swimming World.
The conference meet is scheduled for February 16-19, and it will take place at Harvard University.
The new NCAA policy regarding transgender athletes defers to national governing bodies for the purpose of determining eligibility in each sport, and if the NCAA were to immediately follow a strict version of USA Swimming's new rule, no transgender athlete would be allowed to compete in the women's category prior to showing that her concentration of testosterone in serum has been less than 5 nmol/L for a continuous period of 36 months. Thomas did not begin transitioning until the late spring of 2019, so that may make her ineligible for NCAAs.
However, there are several possible loopholes that may allow Thomas to compete after all. According to the NCAA's January 20 release, the organization recommends "flexibility to allow for additional eligibility if a transgender student-athlete loses eligibility based on the policy change provided they meet the newly adopted standards." That may mean that Thomas would only need to record a testosterone level matching USA Swimming's 5 nmol/L at a point one month prior to the NCAA Championships to retain her eligibility, or it may mean that she would be grandfathered into this season's NCAA Championships regardless of testosterone levels.
A spokesperson for the NCAA confirmed last week that the Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports (CSMAS) "will review this change at its next meeting and will make recommendations as it deems appropriate to the NCAA Board of Governors." That meeting will take place in late February.
Thomas' presence in competition this season has generated considerable debate, particularly concerning the fairness for biological women racing against her.
"Karen"
This is outrageous.
The only silver-lining is that from here on out no rational person will send their child to an over-priced, over-Woke Ivy League to become indoctrinated into gender ideology/Queer Theory and other unscientific, deeply misogynistic, tripe.
P.S. Lia Thomas is not and will never be a woman
Stop appropriating words
Reply to "Karen"
Stop appropriating words. "Woke" has to do with consciousness and being aware of a history that by historical law and commitment has been deliberately buried and denied. This area of the sociopolitical landscape is uncharted. Sick of the appropriators taking words and their meaning and re-narrating it their own way.
The problem here is that Lin competed just last year as a man and was unremarkable. She should not be able to forum shop and compete in another league where she literally increases her ranking more than 400 levels. Without resorting to ignorance and bigotry we see the numbers don't work here. Very sorry for the hurt women like Lin experience but even with testosterone suppression Lin is not competing against her true peers.
Reply to Stop appropriating words
Don't him "she". He's a guy. Lift up his dress and it will be obvious.
I'll put it in SJW terms for you, then:
MEN, like Lia Thomas, are APPROPRIATING my biology and my oppression, and that of every woman, especially the women forced to swim against them.
MEN are COLONIZING & OCCUPYING women's sex-segregated SAFE SPACES, like Penn's women's locker room, where allegedly the "woman" in question has been swing "her" male genitalia around.
MEN are also COLONIZING & OCCUPYING women's sports, under the guise that, somewhere in their heads, they are women too. Hey buddy, PROVE IT.
And we're supposed to believe them and let these men run roughshod over women's rights, women's safety and women's sports.
NO – there is nothing BIGOTed about women standing up for our rights, like these brave swimmers.
TEG
Has "woke" always meant what it means now, per your perceived definition above? This appropriation business is going too far.
He's a guy. Grow some nuts and compete against guys.
I do agree with you. This nonsense has to stop. This guy could not compete in men's so as a coward he chose to go against the women. If he still has his d..k Then he should only be able to compete in men's swimming.
DR. TY HOOPER
AMEN and WELL SAID, TIME to STOP the Nonsense !
Jake Boyd
Dude has a D***, wants to swim in the Girls Race.
Reply to Jake Boyd
Amen, Jake. Enough said.
Ex Collegiate FEMALE Swimmee
I'm certain that most women have no issue with Lia being transgender. He/she is free to be whatever so long as it doesn't affect others' lives. Swimming as a female DOES affect other people's lives. It is wrong! Let him/her swim– with other people who were born male. Seeing Lia smile after beating female swimmers makes me feel sick. How can he/she feel good about him/herself? He/She has cheated to get those results. Lia should be in the stands dressed in whatever makes him/her feel good… just not a women's swim suit.
Reply to Ex Collegiate FEMALE Swimmee
Absolutely! This is sick and so wrong- this person has a serious physical advantage and should NOT be competing against actual women
LetAllWomenCompete
Good. Lia deserves to compete. She has suffered more from namecalling, misgendering, hate, betrayal of teamates, wimping out of NCAA due to societal pressure, and not hard data. She has worked just as hard as any other woman in the competitions. But the reality is she will likely lose in the final National Championship competitions because few people could emerge from the insanity thrown her way by haters and be healthy enough to win against the best. If she does it will be a remarkable accomplishment. It will also be the first time in trans woman has won a championship in 76 cumulative years of competition when you combine Olympics, NCAA Division 1, and US Open. Millions of women have competed during this time. And Lia would be the first if she could accomplish such a feat. Then, after this year there will likely never be another trans woman when a national championship due to the incredibly constraining rules designed to keep trans from competing.
Reply to LetAllWomenCompete
Give me a break! She is a man. It will be no feat when he wins against the women. This is a sham! Sinful behavior
Reply to Frank
You so right Frank
Lia Thomas is a cheater. I feel so bad for the women who have not only have compete with a male but be exposed to male genitalia in their own changing room. Lia can say he's a woman all he wants but it doesn't make it true. Nobody watching him sees a woman. I don't even think he believes he's a woman, just wanted to be #1 instead of #462.
Reply to Sarah
My thoughts EXACTLY! No amount of makeup and lipstick can change the reality of his sex. And yes, I said "his". #1 instead of #462 could be enough incentive for his epiphany….. Just saying.
If Lia is a cheater then so is Penn.
Wonderful and powerful comment.
Reply to SETH
Lia Thomas is a cheat. No self respecting and decent man will ever compete against women. And when I say man and woman I mean adult human male and female.
Lia is a male and should have never been allowed to compete in a female category. Ever.
Let All Women Compete – He is not a woman!
Reply to Stuart
Your an idiot it is a man get over it it can't win as a man so it change to a girl shame on it shame on you
If you cant hack it in the males division…..
HE is not a female. His body chemistry is not that of a female. He should not be allowed to race females. How can he feel proud of his accomplishments when his physical abilities outweigh any and all of the females?
Lia will never be a woman and your an idiot!
Reply to Anonymous
All u 100% Women Boycott the race deny that " He/She " his wanna b glory
D. Bowman
Stop the insanity! His physiology, anatomy, strength and endurance as a male, for 20+ years, give him an unbeatable advantage over true females. Stop the lunacy…just STOP.
Dr3yec
Reply to D. Bowman
You forgot also a cheater. No matter how much you sugar coat it.
Zoe Ferguson
Please tell me what accomplishment is involved here other than having enough narcissistic tendencies to be able to go out and take a spot that doesn't belong to you even when you're in the public eye?
Biological woman
Not even Caitlyn Jenner agrees with this, a former Olympian. Completely not fair. Her height is taller than the average female. They usu have bigger hands, larger lungs, bigger heart, no hips, bone structure different…..competed as a man before…still has more teetering. This is a slap in biological womens sports. All trans should feel ashamed to compete in women's sports…stop being selfish and start a trans league. I'm a competitive biological female….and doesn't take rocket science to know its not fair. Women we need to protest and sign petitions. This is getting out of hand. Men need to stay out of womans sports. Trans can do whatever but not in womens sports!
Susan Prior
So swimming legends like Katie Ledecky and Missy Franklin just have to grin and bear it when their NCAA records are broken by a biological male? What message does that send to young female swimmers like my daughter? It's madness and if Lia really cared about female athletes she would step down.
Reply to Susan Prior
Yeah right. Nevermind the obvious. That "he" just dominates actual women while only being ranked in the 400's as the actual gender HE is. Totally fair. Give me a fkn break!
ALL the real ladies should just refuse to compete against this dude. Let him swim laps alone. The end result is the same. He wins.
Amanda J.
Reply to Steve
I agree 100%.
He was born a man he should be swimming with men. He has the advantage over those girls WHO WORKED JUST AS HARD AS HE DID AND DESERVE A FAIR CHANCE. SO SCREW U. YOU MUST OF VOTED FOR THAT THING IN OFFICE
She does not deserve to compete. She has bigger hands, feet, lungs, heart, no hips, taller, etc…more testosterone. I'm a competitive female and know Life 101 that is is not fair. Not all trans people agree with this. People who do are either non athletic or don't care about saving womens sports. Women only started to run in marathons in the 1970s. We were banned before.
WRONG, HE is NOT a Female and will NEVER be a Female. HIS. DNA is MALE .
Pikay
I disagree. This is like saying that if a 25-year-old beat an 8-year-old in an arm-wrestling contest, it's because the 25-year-old worked really, really hard and deserved to win.
People are protesting this not because they "hate transpeople" but because they can see that what has been allowed to happen is grossly unfair to natal female athletes. Lia Thomas can, no doubt, ALSO see that it is unfair to natal female athletes. But obviously, Lia Thomas doesn't CARE how unfair this is to natal female athletes. In spite of this, we are supposed to admire Lia Thomas' "courage" instead of standing up for those "betraying" team mates who were cheated, muzzled, and compelled to surrender their locker room privacy and dignity to a swimmer with an intact male body and an ongoing attraction to females?
I don't understand why you think it would be such a great accomplishment for Lia Thomas to swim to victory over all the natal women Lia Thomas has obvious overwhelming physical advantages over. How is that an "accomplishment" rather than just an "inevitability"?
Frankly, the new "standards" do not go far enough. Testosterone is a tiny piece of the story (and even the levels the rules ask for don't take them down to female-body territory). Worse, the new rules ignore the larger muscles, greater lung capacity, larger heart, longer body, etc., of a transgender athlete who went through male puberty.
Female sports categories should be open only and forever to natal female bodies. People with male bodies but female gender identities should also be able and encouraged to compete, but NOT in the category reserved for female bodies.
I hope someday soon the natal female athletes will stand up to this unfairness. Female and mixed categories are the answer.
Yes, she does deserve to compete – AGAINST PEOPLE SIMILARLY SITUATED. Which is NOT biological women.
But, she gets her rocks off on beating women. The smile on her face is demented, just like in movies. Or maybe like a cat who just swallowed a canary. Kind of reminds me of Jack Nicholson in the The Shining. "Honey, I'm home!"
Absolutely no empathy for anyone else. A true woker – me, me, me! Same with the whole Ivy League sickos. Maybe their brains are all infected with COVID.
Will Thomas quit the men's team in November 2019 (junior year) after 3 or 4 dual meets in which he was coming in 3rd behind teammates, including rising freshman star Matt Bonnesll.
From a Nov. 16 meet against Princeton:
"As has been the case throughout the season, the Quakers got off to a hot start with a dominating performance in a distance event. CJ Hinckley headlined a 1-2-3 finish in the 1,000 free with a time of 9:31.41.Matt Haigh (9:32.62), and Will Thomas (9:33.37) closely followed."
"The Quakers closed things out with another victory in a distance event. Freshman Matt Bonnell won the 500 free (4:29.53) while William Kamps finished second (4:32.96)."
His 4 years at U Penn was over in June 2021, so why didn't he graduate? Or, maybe he actually did. But, aha! He decided to make HUGE SPECTABLE on the women's team in his 5th year at U PENN as to poster child and CAUSE CELEBRE for the LGBTQ community, who also have no empathy for anyone but them self.
Your comment it typical of supporters, totally lacking in any rational argument examining real facts. That seems a hallmark of the supports. NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT. NO EMPATHY FOR ANY WOMEN. That's really sick.
you are so wrong. If she truly loves the sport of swimming she would not swim or she should swim in male races and transgender after senior year. no one is denying her a chance to swim but she is denying some girl a chance to shine as a champion. It is wrong on so many levels. Bad for women's sports really bad for the ivy league. Even with the level of testostone that was set for her ,she will still be twice what a biological girl would have. She will have bigger hands,larger lungs all very important in swimming. you clearly are not a swimmer or you would know this.
It would be very cool if all of the alumni immediately withdrew all of their donations. And all of the swimmers boycotted.
He's a man, he's a man, he's a man….. PERIODTTT!
Reply to AEF
Truth wins. He is a man.
At the end of the day if ya put lipstick on a piv, its still a pig!!
All females should just stand on block at beginning of every race he is in.
.ayhem
All of the female swimmers should boycott the championships so that Lia swims alone. They should rent the nearest pool and hold their own race, even if it isn't the right size pool, just to makr a statement. That started happening a lot in mountain bike racing when people were fed up with the national organization. It has also become common with horse shows– holding "unrecognized shows" because people are fed up with the U.S. Equestrian Federation.
100 years later, and we still don't have a voice. Why even bother when the patriarchy will always find a way to win?
Reply to Sharon
Honestly!
Who would have thought that the way misogynists would finally be able to destroy women's human and civil rights would be by putting on a dress and claiming to be women.
It's simply a question of motivation. If Lia's motivation was truly to be a women, then she would see the discourse that her continued participation is causing to the fellow competitors within her newly accepted gender, and voluntarily pull out of the competition. If his motivation is to selfishly exert his biologically given competitive advantage over female competition, then he will continue. His actions are disruptive to the sport as a whole and very unfair to the young women who have worked so hard to compete at this level, who have played by the rules and who have accepted who they were born to be. How can Lia ever expect to be accepted as a women if she doesn't respect the accomplishments of other women?
John Bahlinger
Reply to Robert
Good point. I feel bad for Trans people but she has to realize the unfair advantage she has if she wants to be respected as a woman.
Reply to John Bahlinger
I hope Lia competes and I hope she wins for several reasons. First, cuz I don't gaf about college swimming anyway. Second, cuz it would be awesome seeing so many ignorant m'fers, such as many of those making their misogynistic comments here, get all buttsore because they didn't get their way.
Reply to Hydro
Read what you wrote – do you understand what the word "misogynistic" even means? It can only be applied to WOMEN. This is not a woman, regardless of how hard he pretends. Think a little harder – it's about fairness, NOT misogyny.
WRONG waterboy, this IT was Born Male and will die Male. ALSO , considering your Chosen lifestyle, the only one with a Sore Butt would be YOU Cinderella M 'FKR
This is just the latest instance of males making demands of females and females being expected to give in with grace. Transgender women are women, but as we've been told, not all women are female. Female athletes should compete against female athletes and male athletes can budge over and make room for women born in male bodies. Separate sports by sex, not gender. Gender is just a construct, right?
Reply to Jemma
WRONG, THEY are NOT , and will NEVER be Women, they are Males impersonating REAL FEMALES.
Mauricio Ortiz
Nobody in their right reasonable mind would ever even consider allowing a MAN to compete against women on a physical sport.
The fact that Lia identifies himself with a woman does not make him a woman. No more than someone identifying themselves as an airplane would make them an airplane.
Will has chosen to compete with others than his peers. It would be no different than if he applied to race 9th graders.
Terrie
This is just so viscerally wrong. As a woman this makes me want to scream! Lia is NOT a biologic woman, I have no issue with her wanting to live her gender identity. But continuing to allow her to complete against BIOLOGIC women is a complete farce, and a slap in the face to not only Title VIIII but to every woman who has fought for women's spaces
This is just so viscerally wrong. As a woman this makes me want to scream! Lia is NOT a biologic woman, I have no issue with her wanting to live her gender identity. But continuing to allow her to compete against BIOLOGIC women is a complete farce, and a slap in the face to not only Title VIIII but to every woman who has fought for women's spaces
Fighting for Real Women
Women need to not compete. Can you imagine if ftm female to male transgenders were winning in men's sports?? You don't hear such things because they can't win. Women we need to stand up to injustice now. People who agree with this are not athletic or not smart. Guess who's losing?? Biological women…Absolutely not fair!
When the starter says take your mark all of the biological females simply fall in the pool. They're all disqualified and ready to compete again.
The real victims are kids, specifically, aspiring young girls. This will decay competitive girls swimming.
He's not a woman. Never will be. And this is wrong.
EASY FIX, the REAL FEMALE Swimmers Show up and REFUSE TO GO IN THE WATER WHEN THE STARTER GUN GOES OFF. IF THE women BOYCOTT this insanity, watch how Fast this wannabe Female drops out or quits the team
Why not just create a separate trans division? Seems simple enough. Those transitioning can compete.
I'm 100% against "Lia" swimming against real 100% female swimmers, but if he does at the Women's Ivy League Championships, it's gonna be an absolute media circus. What's gonna happen if "she" breaks some league records? Are they going to stand? It might be SRO (standing room only) with all the reporters being in attendance. This will be very interesting!
OceanSpirit
Reply to Billy
ALL of Lia's wins have a big fat asterisk next to them because he's a cheater. They are not legitimate. If he breaks any records at the Championships, they'll be just as invalid.
IVY LEAGUE BE PROUD!!!
How is it going to feel year after year for a young aspiring girl to know that no matter how hard she trains in the pool, no matter how many hours in the weigh room, she"ll never be able to beat the records set at the IVY LEAGUE FREAK SHOW.
WE'VE COME A LONG WAY BABY!!
Joe Transfoe
In ancient Greece, the maeneds were followers of Dionysus. They determined that a man insulted the god, and attacked him as a group. He was killed.
Be like the Maeneds, swimmers.
Sanford G. Thatcher
I am a member of the board of The Drake Group, which seeks a balance between inclusivity of transgender athletes and fairness in competition. Lia Thomas is not to be blamed for following the existing rules, and the Ivy League is justified in being annoyed with the NCAA in changing the rules in mid-season. However, two wrings do nit make a right, and allowing Thomas to compete at Ivies will harm multiple other athletes and significantly affect the outcome of the meet. Ellie Marquardt, in particular, who won the 500, 1000, and 1650 at the last Ivies, helping Princeton win the meet, was the High Point Award winner of the meet. Thomas will very likely win all those events and thereby claim the award at this year's meet. How can this possibly be fair? Thoas has legacy advantages from puberty like height (6'4″), great upper-body strength. big hands and feet that help her swim more efficiently, etc. and none of these advantages can be offset just by hormone therapy. Thisd wiull be a stain on the Ivy League's reputation, favoring just one athlete over multiple others who will lose out, and any records Thomas sets should therefore bear an asterisk beside them just as the records set by swimmers wearing high tech suits before FINA banned them. Thomas will enjoy the same advantages that the East German women did in there 1976 Olympics when, despite setting more American records than any US national team before or since, the US was able to win only one event. That injustice was created by bureaucratic failure to recognize the obvious, and its has yet to be corrected or acknowledged by FINA more than 454 years after the event. The Ivy League will have to accept responsibility for creating this injustice. It benefits only one person for one year, yet the damage done will be lasting–and probably harm the cause of transgender participating in sports rather than help it, as comments earlier in this thread suggest.
Lia can decide in his mind that he wants to be a woman but he will never be one because he's a MAN. Let's be real here. When he competed on the men's team he was ranked somewhere like 462. He transitions to be "called" a woman, joins the women's team and is now ranked number 1. LIA THOMAS IS A CHEATER. End of story. All of his wins have a big fat asterisk next to them. They are not legitimate. If he were still racing against men, we wouldn't even know his name.


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Twist necked turtles are one of the world's most unique species, they are very flat, oval shaped with a double keeled (ridged) shells and little orange heads - it is the only species in the genus Platemys. Biologists who have seen them in nature describe them as the "South American Bog Turtle", living in very shallow creeks, marshes and even forests of Venezuela, Brazil, Guiana, Ecuador and Peru. Known to be poor swimmers, (yet expert "stompers") living in the most shallow water, they are highly terrestrial and their diet is mainly worms, snails, insects and some plant matter.
Females lay just one large egg at a time and bearly cover or conceal it. Hatchlings emerge 195 days later, very large, (2.25") for a species that bearly makes it to 6" as an adult.
Our's personality shifts from from very active and outgoing to secretive and shy in just an instant - likely a survival adaptation useful in marshy natural habitats often filled with predators... Twist-necks are well known for being active, personable little turtles that thrive once established - but laying eggs - and laying eggs that hatch are two very different things . . .


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Songs and Character Pieces from the 19th and 20th Centuries for Piano
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GMP015 Songs and Character Pieces from the 19th and 20th Centuries for Piano
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This volume features fourteen character pieces composed in the early nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries. Included are songs without words, character pieces, and song-based compositions by Fanny Hensel (1805–47), the German-American composer Otto Dresel (1826–90), and the German-Israeli composer Hans Samuel (1901–76), as well as five solo piano arrangements by Clara Schumann (1819–96) of lieder by Robert Schumann. The pieces cover a range of difficulties and lengths and are suitable for pedagogical or concert use.
Song No. 2 in G Major, Fanny Hensel
Song No. 4 in F Minor, Hensel
Song No. 5 in F Major, Hensel
Song No. 9 in E Minor, Hensel
Capriccio, Hensel
Elfentanz, Otto Dresel
Reverie, Dresel
Liedchen ohne Worte, Dresel
Schöne Wiege meiner Leiden, Robert Schumann (arr. Clara Schumann)
Wanderlied, R. Schumann (arr. C. Schumann)
Stille Tränen, R. Schumann (arr. C. Schumann)
Loreley, R. Schumann (arr. C. Schumann)
Mädchen-Schwermut, R. Schumann (arr. C. Schumann)
Hassidic Hanukkah Tune, Hans Samuel


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Q: Centos 7 ISCSI diskless boot with ibft I have diskless server system, based on Centos 7. It receives targets specified in NIC bios and boots.
The problem is - the system has very low iSCSI failure timeout, it fails in 5 seconds.
Here is what i tried: editing parameters in /etc/iscsi/iscsid.conf:
node.session.timeo.replacement_timeout = 86400
node.conn[0].timeo.noop_out_interval = 0
node.conn[0].timeo.noop_out_timeout = 0

It does not help.
I specified same parameters with iscsiadm -T target -p ip -o update -n param_name -v value
It didn't help
I specified those parameters in dracut config (it argues on unknown command rd.iscsi.param=), still nothing.
Maybe someone can suggest something?

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


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Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group Ups Spring Aspers to President of Music
4:10 PM PDT 10/2/2019 by Colin Stutz, Billboard
Courtesy Sony
With the promotion, Aspers becomes the only female overseeing music at a major film studio.
Spring Aspers has been promoted to president of music at Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, Sony Pictures Entertainment announced Wednesday. She will oversee all music-related aspects of the music picture group's labels, including creative, licensing and publishing, production and promotion.
As head of music since 2017, Aspers was recently a key player in recruiting Swae Lee, Post Malone, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne and other artists to write new music for the 2018 Academy Award-winning animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. The single "Sunflower" by Swae Lee and Post Malone off that soundtrack hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and is over eight-times platinum.
For the 2018 film Venom, starring Tom Hardy and Michelle Williams, Aspers helped recruit Eminem to create an original song titled "Venom" with a music video that hit more than 14 million views in less than 24 hours. She also worked with director Edgar Wright on the acclaimed Baby Driver soundtrack and with composer Thomas Newman on the Oscar-nominated score for Passengers.
Aspers is currently working on Sony's upcoming Charlie's Angels film, which features Ariana Grande as the soundtrack's executive producer and singer on the lead single "Don't Call Me Angel," with Miley Cyrus and Lana Del Rey. In January, Aspers will help release the Bad Boys for Life soundtrack from Epic Records.
"Spring is simply an irrepressible power source," Columbia Pictures president Sanford Panitch said in a statement. "Sitting atop a large platform that includes overseeing composers, scores, and soundtracks for dozens of movies a year in addition to being our bridge to the Sony Music side along with everything else in her life, I don't know how she does it all. We have so much respect for her and this new title is hugely well deserved."
Added Aspers: "I'm honored to be part of such a forward-thinking company. It's a privilege to have the opportunity to work with extraordinary filmmakers, artists, musicians and executives to develop music for film that has a lasting cultural impact."
Aspers joined Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2009 as executive vp music creative affairs. She started her career at an independent supervision house working with filmmakers such as the Coen brothers on The Big Lebowski. Later, Aspers launched Island Def Jam Records' soundtrack department and produced soundtracks for films like 2 Fast 2 Furious, Jackass and Spider-Man, working with artists including Jay-Z, Kanye West, Rihanna, The Killers, Justin Bieber and Fall Out Boy.
This story first appeared on Billboard.com.
Colin Stutz, Billboard


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Home News All aboard for the Irish Catskills
All aboard for the Irish Catskills
"The Summer time is coming
And the trees are sweetly blooming
And the wild mountain thyme
Grows around the blooming heather
Will you go, lassie, go..."
The lassies will indeed be going, many of the lads too, up to the Irish Alps for Memorial Day Weekend.
East Durham will soon be the dead center of the universe - not to mention Gertie Byrne's Leeds, a mere stone's throw down the road.
This will mark my own 18th or 19th consecutive Memorial Weekend spent up there. Pardon the uncertainty, but the moment you exit the New York State Thruway you enter an alternate universe where memories and expectations collide and harsh reality doesn't reassert itself until you fumble for the EZ pass the following Monday evening.
I sometimes wonder who was the first Irish person to set eyes on the Catskill Mountains, or, more to the point, what Paddy first strode down the dusty lanes around East Durham? He must have experienced a sense of homecoming.
It doesn't really look like Ireland up there but the Irish have left their mark. I religiously take a ramble up the back roads beyond The Blackthorne every Memorial Saturday. It's usually as quiet as the grave; an occasional deer will look up in wonder at the sight of a human.
There's a wall dividing two small fields long ago constructed by some Clare or Connemara man for I've seen its double both on the Burren and around Carna.
Overgrown now, wild lilac and dogwood sprouting through its moss, once it was designed to put some manners on the land. The fine fields once hacked from gorse and maple are now almost totally reclaimed by nature.
That's the way up there. It's a country for tough, resourceful people who never say die. Take the Handels! The Blackthorne was burnt to the ground last September, but they reopened in late April.
Mountainy men and women have that kind of spirit and they throw open their resorts, motels and hearts to the rest of us for the summer season. And, oh by God, are we ready after long city winters rooting around concrete canyons.
It will be all action up there this coming weekend. Gavin's, The Shamrock, Erin's Melody, Weldon House, McKenna's, McGrath's and the others will be pulsing, half the people beyond familiar, the others soon to be friends.
Down at the Michael J. Quill Center, Tom McGoldrick has put his usual fine Irish Family Festival together. He's even persuaded The Whole Shabang to reform for the occasion. Black 47 will have its usual 9 p.m. spot on Saturday night before rushing back to The Blackthorne for a midnight show. They better have the Jameson's handy!
As ever, though the line up at the East Durham Festival is stellar, there are no airs or graces and you can rub shoulders with the like of Shilelagh Law, Andy Cooney, The Prodigals, Celtic Cross, Kitty Kelly, Jameson's Revenge, Brigid's Cross and a host of others.
I wouldn't want to omit London's Bible Code Sundays, Derek Warfield & The Young Wolfe Tones, The Gobshites, Padraig Allen & McLean Avenue, and the King of the Catskills, Peter McKiernan, stars in their own right, who won't make the festival, but will rumble the mountains with their powerful joyous din.
There are those who won't make it. This will be our first Memorial Day without Ginger Handel, house mother to so many musicians. She was always ready for a chat over a cup of tea, a few well-chosen words of advice to lost souls at their wits end, and if none of that worked, then an assurance that an extra dessert or two would not be missed from the pantry.
Yeah, we'll miss her almost as much as her immediate kin, for she made sure to make us all feel part of a larger family.
The mountains may not be trendy but they're strong and constant, and their roots run bone deep. If you're new to the scene, well you won't be a stranger for long. That's the way it is up in East Durham on Memorial Day Weekend.