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He brought the Delta blues to players, audiences here
Jerry Ricks, 67, a Philadelphia-born guitarist whose expert finger-picking was a direct link to the Delta blues, died Monday in a clinic in Croatia.
by By Daniel Rubin, Inquirer Staff Writer
His death was announced by the Croatian Music Union, according to an Associated Press report. He had been living in the Balkan nation since early summer.
In August, Mr. Ricks went to a hospital, complaining of headaches and dizziness. Doctors determined that he had a brain tumor. He underwent repeated surgeries for removal of the nonmalignant growth and for a subsequent infection, his partner of 17 years, Nancy Klein, told The Inquirer in October. At the time, he was making a slow but steady recovery.
Mr. Ricks learned to play guitar from some of the greats as they came through Philadelphia clubs in the 1960s: Josh White, Mississippi John Hurt, Brownie McGhee, the Rev. Gary Davis, and Skip James. He in turn taught an authentic style of country blues to legions of guitar students in Philadelphia.
"Jerry was not just a wonderful musician - and he was a terrific guitarist - but he was basically a folklorist and a scholar," said the folk singer Mike Miller. "He just became involved in the history of the music and the people who made it."
Over the years, Mr. Ricks moved in and out of Philadelphia to find work, living in the Mississippi Delta, the Jersey Shore and most recently the Croatian coast.
When he recorded, he went by "Philadelphia" Jerry Ricks to distinguish himself from another musician.
Friends of Mr. Ricks' gathered in October to raise money for his medical expenses. The show, which included performances by Shemekia Copeland, David Bromberg and many friends from the Philadelphia folk revival, brought in more than $10,000, organizers said.
"A lot of people at the benefit said they took their first guitar lessons with Jerry," said the folk singer Saul Brody. "There was quite a range - blues bands, many of whom had studied with Jerry and felt he was one of their original influences, and folkies like myself, who were part of that scene and felt a lot of affection for him."
In a 2000 interview with The Inquirer, Mr. Ricks said of his music: "I never tried to walk in my mentors' footsteps. And nobody ever asked me to carry on their legacy after they were gone. I just had an honest relationship with these people and their music, and I followed my nose around."
Funeral arrangements are pending.
By Daniel Rubin, Inquirer Staff Writer


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How Amazon Has Transformed the Hasidic Economy
Amazon has become a lucrative place to do business for many Hasidic Jews, offering anonymity to a largely insular community and allowing women to work from home.
Joseph Berger
They are a religious community known for clinging to 18th-century fashions and mores — strict rules that keep men and women apart and constraints on attire, with men favoring black suits and formal hats and women in long sleeves and long skirts.
But when it comes to doing business, Hasidic Jews have become enamored with a distinctly 21st-century company: Amazon.
The ability to sell merchandise easily and relatively anonymously on Amazon has transformed the economies of Hasidic enclaves in Brooklyn, suburban New York and central New Jersey, communities where members prefer to keep to themselves and typically do not go to college, let alone graduate from business programs.
But Amazon allows Hasidim to start selling without much experience and without making the investments required by a brick-and-mortar store. It permits Hasidic sellers to deal with the public invisibly — almost entirely by mail, by email or through package-delivery firms.
"Amazon doesn't ask for your résumé," said Sam Friedman, a marketer who designs trade show exhibits and works with many Amazon sellers. "And your picture is not on your business. The investment is minimal. You can work out of your bedroom."
And if Amazon takes over the packing and shipping, according to some interpretations of Jewish law, owners can operate their businesses through the Sabbath and on holidays like Rosh Hashana and the Sukkot festival without violating the proscription against working on sacred days.
Amazon also provides men who at certain ages spend a good deal of their day studying the Talmud and praying and women who tend to the seven or eight children common in Hasidic families the flexibility to become full-time and successful merchants.
Danny Khaimov, 33, works out of a 10,000-square-foot storage space in Brooklyn and uses Amazon to sell new and refurbished electronic goods that he buys from various closeout sales.
"You open a store, you get five, 10 people," said Mr. Khaimov, whose work space is filled with volumes of the Talmud and a set of tefillin, sacred leather boxes and straps used for morning prayers. "On Amazon you get 1,000 people. If your merchandise is a known brand, it sells pretty quickly. Once you start selling items it's like a drug."
Selling goods on Amazon has become so popular in the heavily Hasidic neighborhood of Borough Park, Brooklyn, that there is a square-block, six-story loft building chock-full of merchants, including Mr. Khaimov, who take advantage of the platform.
The 140 tenants are overwhelmingly ultra-Orthodox, and roughly 50 sell their cornucopia of products through Amazon. The building has a kosher cafeteria and a large room for the three required daily worship services.
Conferences in New York and New Jersey designed to help merchants sell on Amazon have drawn large numbers of Orthodox Jews, according to Buzzfeed, which chronicled the company's growing appeal among Orthodox businesses.
Nuchem, a 32-year-old father of four who asked that his last name not be published to protect his privacy, said that after completing advanced yeshiva study he was uncertain about how he might earn a living.
Then friends selling pet supplies on Amazon let him observe their operations. He started selling health supplements — pills and powders — out of his Brooklyn home and now has a business with an office, a warehouse, three workers and 800 orders a day.
"Whatever you decide to sell doesn't matter as long as you meet Amazon's requirements," he said.
Alexander Rapaport, who runs soup kitchens in Brooklyn and Queens and often serves as an informal guide for reporters to the insular Hasidic communities, said the number of Hasidic businesses that were reliant on Amazon was surging.
"It's the basic shtetl market, basic peddler economy that Hasidim are very into," Mr. Rapaport said. "Being on Amazon is kind of doing that virtually."
He was referring to the ragtag village marketplaces that the grandparents and other ancestors of those in Brooklyn and other Hasidic communities had to leave behind as a result of Hitler's drive to exterminate the Jews of Europe.
Destroyed were dozens of Hasidic hubs whose roots stretch back to the Baal Shem Tov, the 18th-century mystic who in western Ukraine founded a movement stressing passion and joy in worship as an alternative to more intellectual strains of Judaism. Through ardor, he preached, the ordinary unlettered Jew could feel the equal of a scholar.
While aspiring business people of all stripes have flourished with Amazon, the prevalence of Amazon-linked firms among Hasidic Jews is notable because it runs counter to the notion that ultra-Orthodox Jews spurn modern-day conveniences.
Hasidim embrace computers and cellphones even if they may add filters to keep out objectionable material.
Amazon, like many other tech companies, closely guards the data it collects on users. A spokesman, Joel Sider, would say only that "Brooklyn is home to many impressive independent retailers selling on Amazon."
A company official, who did not want to be identified because he was not authorized to provide any information about sellers, said that "we are certainly aware there is a significant concentration of businesses" in Hasidic neighborhoods like Borough Park.
Amazon has also opened the door for many Hasidic women whose time is consumed taking care of their large families to become entrepreneurs.
Zlata Bernstein runs a full-time business out of her Brooklyn home despite having eight children, ranging in age from 1 to 18.
Through Amazon, she offers custom printing and sells iron-on and stick-on labels to identify the clothes of children at summer camp and more recently branched out to clothing labels for nursing home patients and children at day care centers.
While her older children are in school and the 1-year-old is cared for by a babysitter, she hunkers down in the basement of her semi-attached home and produces labels with a $20,000 color printer, a smaller black-and-white printer and a cutting machine.
She then packages sets of 100 labels into stamped envelopes to deliver to retailers and individual customers.
She knows customers looking for labels will find her niche business, Starlight Labels, among the many other label sellers on Amazon and will choose hers as long as her products are high quality and she delivers on time. Many of her products earn four or five stars on Amazon's five-star rating system.
Mrs. Bernstein's husband had been selling camp labels in a Brooklyn variety shop but it failed and now he drives a bus for a Hasidic yeshiva and helps out with the cooking.
"I think Amazon has allowed more women to get into business," Mrs. Bernstein said, mentioning a Hasidic friend who sells needlepoint designs, another who sells strictly kosher gluten-free and other health foods, and a third who sells Judaica.
Samuel Heilman, a distinguished professor of sociology at the City University of New York and an expert on Hasidic life, said that Amazon allows Hasidic men and women to avoid face-to-face transactions, liberating them from the strict rules of gender separation that govern their community: A man does not have to worry about spending too much time selling to a woman and vice versa.
"Privacy is very important in a community that is very conservative," Professor Heilman said, "and where everybody knows everybody's business and where doing something off the standard path is looked on askance."
While many so-called third-party sellers like Mrs. Bernstein ship products they keep on hand directly to their customers, others operate entirely through their smartphones or laptops and never bother stocking merchandise.
They usually email orders to a foreign manufacturer, which ships it in bulk to Amazon, whose employees or robots individually pack, ship and track each order, and handle any returns or refunds.
Their sales are "fulfilled by Amazon," as the service is known, for a variable fee, in most cases roughly 15 percent of the price of each item, which Hasidic entrepreneurs say is still cheaper than the cost of renting a store or warehouse space combined with other overhead.
If Amazon is fulfilling orders, the business may effectively be running on Sabbath and Jewish holidays, though how that is carried out is the subject of vigorous debate. With a Talmudic twist of logic, some Hasidic entrepreneurs take on a non-Jew as a presumptive partner, attributing profits made on the Sabbath to that person.
One drawback to working with Amazon is the inability of Hasidic business owners to answer customer queries and complaints on holy days, which can lower customer ratings since Amazon rules require prompt replies.
With all the competition on Amazon, Hasidic Jews are learning to game the system and its algorithms.
Mrs. Bernstein, like many other Hasidic merchants, hires search engine optimization specialists to generate the key words that will get their businesses high on Amazon's product lists and in Google searches.
Mr. Friedman is also organizing a business, advertising and marketing expo in Brooklyn in December to help Hasidic merchants expand their online sales by contracting with experienced copy writers, web designers, videographers and other professionals whose occupations the Talmudic Sages never even dreamed of.
"We're not college students," Mr. Friedman said, "but the yeshiva makes us smart enough to figure things out."
A version of this article appears in print on Oct. 17, 2019, Section A, Page 26 of the New York edition with the headline: Insular Hasidic Communities Embrace Selling on Amazon.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/nyregion/hasidic-jews-amazon.html
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Review: Sam and Max Season 3 Special
June 22, 2010, Author: Ray Willmott
I don't need to tell you that 'The Tomb of Sammun-Mak' ended on a cliff-hanger and from the word go, Telltale Games decide to run with that momentum. Seeing his buddies head sliced open and devoid of a brain, Sam completely loses control. Throwing off his trademark blazer, rolling up his sleeves and loosening his tie; Sam carries the lifeless lagomorph carcass under his arm and, with fury in his heart, snarls, barks and growls on his pilgrimage to face the one responsible. Finding refuge in the words of Flint Paper, Sam patrols the dark city streets in search of vengeance.
Once again, 'The Devils Playhouse' is treated to another first from Telltale Games which puts a whole other spin on the games conversation system and ultimately how the game is played. In an effort to interrogate suspects, Sam can now interrupt their diatribe with a heavy slap across the face, and accuse them of lying. He can also threaten them with his gun, tell them to hurry it up if they begin to waffle or push them further on a particular subject if another suspect talked or the person he is interrogating has said too much and slipped up. The conversations prove that past the cartoony craziness people associate with TTG, they can produce serious dialogue and create real tension in any particular scene they choose. However, TTG also manage to stay faithful to the Sam and Max humour, occasionally creating tongue in cheek gags and poking fun at Sam's emotional state.
The innovations here are not as technical as those in Penal Zone and The Tomb of Sammun-Mak, and are rather more focused on character development, more notably Sam and the influence Flint Paper has had on him. 'They Stole Max's Brain' truly takes Sam to breaking point, and allows the player to see deeper into his inner psyche, getting an idea for how multi-layered his character is beneath the cool exterior. It also shows something more of the bond between Sam and Max and how both regard their relationship. For the first time ever, we get to see how their partnership thrives on an emotional level.
TTG have done a great job in showing how rough around the edges and dejected Sam is through his new character model. You can see through the vein pumping in his head that Sam is angry and he will stop at nothing to get to the truth. The darkness plaguing Sam is beautifully recreated through his midnight shadow, his aggressive snarls, the way he bares teeth and his noir-esque monologues. His character transformation is certainly a bold undertaking by Telltale, quite frankly, the biggest of the season so far. Introducing a whole other dynamic and feel to a character after two and a half seasons is gutsy and determined. However, I personally love the spin they've put on Sam and feel it's well suited to the premise of this season. This isn't a normal case that both dog and lagamorph have stumbled upon and the cracks on the surface really show the toll it is taking.
The episode doesn't start out via the traditional means as Telltale have introduced a very different style to their game with Sam driving in the Desoto by night, a dead Max sat in the drivers seat, moving from one suspect to the next. Each time Sam approaches the suspect, a cinematic accompanies his entrance in a foreboding way. There is a genuine atmosphere at the beginning of 'They Stole Max's Brain' which has both the ability to give you goosebumps and elicit a guilty snigger.
That atmosphere is also beautifully married with the sound as the music is very well suited to the noir-esque detective feel that Telltale captured in the opening moments of this episode. Sam's poetic monologues, brooding over the horrific attack on his partner really fit well together with the moody music hallowing in the background. The voice actor for Sam has also stepped it up a notch, taking the soft southern accent he is renowned for and really flared up his nostrils, adding some bark to his voice. This completely helps the player get into the mood of this episode.
No more Mr Nice Guy!
Unfortunately, just as you start to come to terms with the theme of the episode, TTG turn the wheel 360 degrees. I love the concepts Telltale have placed in the episode, even though I felt the first act could have been more interactive. I liked the hard-edged look and feel to Sam, strangely, it suits his usually zany, happy-go-lucky character and it completely changes your perspective on him as a protagonist. Yet, going into the second and third act, the narrative arc and structure of the episode becomes entangled, convoluted and seems to lose its way. To put it in perspective, the beginning of this episode is a real tease for what has all the makings of a great story that dares to walk the line with the likes of Discworld Noir, Tex Murphy and even Max Payne, but then is quickly jolted back to everything we come to expect from Sam and Max and the attempts at syncing both together really don't quite fit. I'm as much of a fan of the Sam and Max style as the next person, but ultimately, its as disjointed as it sounds and unfortunately, the differences were too radical for me to ignore. I understand that TTG are telling one large story with this season and are setting the scene for the remaining two episodes, but I truly think they missed an opportunity with this episode and could have done something more with the dynamics they went to such lengths to introduce.
Don't get me wrong, the conversation system will still be involved in later stages of the episode (in part) but it is treated in a completely different way and after what we've already been treated to, it feels more tacked on than inspired.
Patrolling the murky streets
Perhaps I've been too spoiled by the brilliance of this season so far as this is by no means a bad episode, but unlike the previous instalments, this episode really does require you to have played both Penal and Tomb to understand what's going on, as the events in Max's Brain are structured and defined by what happened in both of those games, and is the first game this season that isn't mostly self-contained. This is understandable and important for the progress of the season as it stems past the halfway point and heads toward its conclusion. In two episodes, Telltale have managed to establish characters in Season 3, they've got back story and they've got established concepts, now all they need to do is continue the foreboding arc that the narrator seems keen to remind us of at regular intervals throughout the season.
As a fan of the season, this was still an essential purchase for me, simply to continue on from the shocking cliffhanger at the end of Tomb and to see just where the season is headed, but also because I got a glimpse and a feel into how much Telltale understand Sam and Max, probably more than Lucasarts ever did. The innovation here is character development, in setting a mood and progressing a story. Unfortunately, I just can't help but feel Telltale could and should have done more with the way they opened this episode. They could have been bolder and made it more interactive, adding in a deeper interrogation system, some more investigating, more locations and clue finding with the COPS, but instead they move away from the best part of the episode almost too quickly and change the ideas driving it so much that you're left feeling conflicted and confused.
Even though I've spent a good chunk of this review talking about the opening act, it serves as little more than a mini-game in the grand scheme of 'They Stole Max's Brain' which really disappointed me. It's almost as if TTG weren't sure whether this was a good idea or not and were scared to push it any further in case they elicited rage within their fanbase and lost the meaning of Sam and Max completely. Unfortunately, this has worked out more detrimentally for the episode rather than beneficially and killed some of the heat this saga has currently been ablaze with.
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Q: Stop data getting shared between instances I'm trying to create classes for a network, but data is getting shared between nodes. I do not want data to be shared between nodes. I am not sure why this is happening. I have this code so far:
class Node:
    def __init__(self, data=dict()):
        self.data = data

class Network:
    def __init__(self):
        self.nodes = dict()

    def add_node(self, node_id, data=dict()):
        self.nodes[node_id] = Node(data=data)

Depending on how I add a node to the network, there seems to be an issue of data being shared between nodes. I demonstrate this below:
Firstly, if I add nodes without data, then insert data to the nodes, the data gets shared between the nodes.
nx = Network()
nx.add_node('a')
nx.add_node('b')
nx.nodes['a'].data['numbers'] = 123
nx.nodes['a'].data, nx.nodes['b'].data

Outputs:
({'numbers': 123}, {'numbers': 123})

So without adding data to the 'b' node, somehow its data gets populated with the data added to the 'a' node.
Now, if I avoid the add_node method, like this, I get a different outcome:
nx.nodes['c'] = Node(data = {'foo': 291284})
nx.nodes['c'].data

I get this output:
{'foo': 291284}

And nodes 'a' and 'b' remain as they were:
nx.nodes['a'].data, nx.nodes['b'].data

Outputs:
({'numbers': 123}, {'numbers': 123}

Where am I going wrong here? If I add data to node 'a', I only want node 'a' to have that data, it should not get shared.

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Equalism is a simple idea. But it is too big for us on this blog! Equalism is the silent principle that pumps the heart of all those concerned about inequalities. There are vast armies of professionals and public who produce vast bodies of research and campaigning on inequalities. It is somewhat harder to find and define the equalism that drives all that.
Here, we have to find expert quality thinkers to help us out. Accessible quality thinking is hard work too. It's a lot easier to pick a side and righteously attack the other side. Rich versus poor is one of the longest running fights there is.
So this post is to link you to an accessible interview on the case for a greater degree of income equality. In fact, two lots of quality thinkers got together (in 2016). They were: Kate Picket, c0-author with Richard Wilkinson of The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better; and David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton, the freelance philosophers who created and produce Philosophy Bites (and other "Bites" too).
Quality research, quality thinking, and quality discussion and argument are all essential outcomes of the principles of free speech. They are also essential to underpin equalism.
Here's the interview in the original audio form. And here is a transcript of the interview.
By carefully comparing existing data on developed countries, we can see that for many (but not all) of the important measures of good social, mental and physical well-being, a more equal-income country – e.g. Scandinavian countries, Japan – is better for its people than a more unequal-income country . And the interesting thing is that it is better for the richer classes not just the poorer ones.
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This entry was posted on 6 November 2017 by Nick Child in Class, Education, Employment, Equalism in general, Geography and tagged Equalism, Free Speech, Income, Research.


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Sloan's Ice Cream Parlor Opens Fifth Location in Delray Beach
Jess Swanson
Jess Swanson | November 29, 2013 | 9:00am
Sloan's Ice Cream Parlor in West Palm Beach was inducted into Cintas' Bowl Games back in August. While the 47 flavors of ice cream and hand-painted tickle-me-pink walls were nice, the nomination was for their bathroom, a mystical room that gives the illusion of exhibitionism through a transparent door that opaques when locked.
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