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Letters by Oliver Sacks

The kaleidoscopic world and polymathic interests of a great neurologist brought to life in his correspondence

In 1960, Oliver Sacks, a 27-year-old University of Oxford graduate, arrived in San Francisco by Greyhound bus. Born in Cricklewood, London, Sacks spent the better part of his 20s training to be a doctor, but came to feel that English academic medicine was stifling and stratified. A “tight and tedious” professional ladder, he thought, was the only one available to aspiring neurologists like him.

A young queer man with a growing interest in motorcycle leather, Sacks had other reasons to leave. The revelation of his sexuality had caused a family rift: his mother felt it made him an “abomination”. And so he looked for escape across the Atlantic. America, for him, was the wide open west of Ansel Adams photographs; California was Steinbeck’s Cannery Row. The new world promised “space, freedom, interstices in which I could live and work”. This is how we meet Oliver Sacks in Letters: as an immigrant undertaking an internship at Mount Zion hospital, the first step in a career on US soil that would span another five decades.

Sacks’s San Francisco years also marked the beginning of his life as a writer. The city wasn’t an arbitrary choice. As he eagerly confessed to a one-time lover, Jenö Vincze, his true motivation for travelling to California was to force a meeting with an artistic idol, the British-turned-Haight Ashbury poet, Thom Gunn. Gunn’s The Sense of Movement (1957) spoke to and stirred Sacks’s predilection for motorbikes. Moreover, it performed on Sacks the kind of private miracle only poetry can: it helped decode “the babble” of his emotional life. “There is a queer, colossally big London Jew called Wolf,” Gunn wrote to his partner in 1961, after first meeting Sacks (who used his middle name, Wolf, as a nom de guerre when frequenting the city’s gay bars, wise to its lycanthropic resonances). “[He] came out to be a doctor here because I live here.” Sacks shared his writing with Gunn, whom he found a ruthless but tender critic, later crediting the poet with first impressing on him that he had real literary talent; a pivotal moment for a man who would go on to publish a dozen books.

“I am not a good correspondent,” Sacks wrote to his parents in 1961, “because I speak and write at people rather than to them.” This is an apt summation of Letters: 52 years of outgoing mail sent (or left unsent) to family, friends, scientists, writers and later, fans and celebrities, a panoply of addressees as diverse as the subjects Sacks writes “at” them about. Unleashed in a self-described “volcanic logorrhoea” that typifies his writing style, these letters variously consider botany, etymology, entomology, geology, neurology, and literature; the tussle between xenophobia and xeniality in Star Trek; the “phantasmagoric-comic unconscious” of actor Robin Williams. Edited by Kate Edgar, who worked as Sacks’s editorial assistant for over 20 years, Letters represents a mere fraction of the total in his archives, which runs to more than 200,000 pages.

Many of the included letters are incomplete, with ellipses denoting gaps whose editorial logic we must take on faith, even when they occasionally appear to interrupt tantalising trains of thought. In a 1984 letter to Lawrence Weschler, for instance, Sacks’s conflicted reflections on strike action in hospitals that might put vulnerable patients at risk feel prematurely curtailed. Despite these excisions, Letters leaves one with the overwhelming impression of a brilliant and vivid mind, a man whose intellectual appetite was vast, and whose professional and creative passions – far from being the self-absorbed obsessions of a pedant – were first and foremost an act of reaching out, the means through which he sought to communicate with others, a “love affair with the world”.

Sacks is an endearing and entertaining prose stylist – inquisitive, often funny, never obtuse – and the organisation of Letters, separated into broadly thematic, chronological chapters with concise editorial introductions, provides narrative momentum. The resulting book is far more engaging than the unwieldy reference text for Sacks specialists it could have been. It might, in fact, serve as a more affecting autobiography than his On the Move (2015), which occasionally slides into sentimentality. Letters is crammed with off-the-cuff profundities, moments of elevated perception that briefly unriddle the more inscrutable aspects of human nature. Here he is on grief, after the passing of his mother in 1972, an emotive state he deems “so unlike depression: it is so filling and real and expanding and uniting and – (it sounds an almost blasphemous word) – nourishing”.

Letters also draws an illuminating line from Sacks’s neurological career to his unlikely emergence as a bestselling author. In the late 60s, having relocated to New York, Sacks treated a group of patients suffering from encephalitis lethargica, also known as “sleeping sickness”, with an experimental drug, L-dopa. This experience informed his second book, Awakenings (1973), which married scientific research with storytelling through case studies of his patients’ lives and their responses to the treatment – a hybrid genre that irritated his colleagues just as it struck a chord with general readers. The literary attention Awakenings received set Sacks on a course to public renown.

“Brevity has never been a quality of mine,” he wrote to Mrs Miller, a physical therapist who helped him regain mobility after a leg injury in 1974. Indeed superabundance – the instinct toward excess – is everywhere in these letters. As a man of 30, dallying with powerlifting, Sacks routinely bragged to his parents about his weight, how much he could lift, the amount he ate – “I love to shake the pavement as I walk, to part crowds like the prow of a ship.” At Mount Zion, special scrubs had to be made to accommodate his bulk, and he found himself in disfavour with his superiors for stealing patients’ food.

But his overconsumption wasn’t always dietary. During the following 10 years or so, Sacks took a prodigious amount of amphetamines and psychotropics – “every dose an overdose” – with one trip producing visions of the “neurological heavens” so intense it inspired him to write his first book, Migraine (1970). By the 80s, following Awakenings and an appearance on The Dick Cavett Show that boosted his profile, pumping iron and popping pills had been replaced by correspondence. “I receive at least fifty or sixty letters and phone-calls a day,” he told his father with the same pride he formerly felt after squatting 575lb, “and, if anything, this number is increasing!”

What was Sacks trying to satiate? His substance abuse, the workaholism that eventually displaced it, speaks of the addict’s need to fill or stuff a void, an effort to forestall the unbearable loneliness that might accompany a moment’s rest. And loneliness certainly runs through these pages. Sacks once felt that his very existence was only made tolerable by rejecting intimacy and becoming “impersonal or supra-personal”; relationships, he said, were a forbidden area for him.

Late in life, he cited internalised homophobia as the driving force behind this isolation, a heart-rending admission, given that he temporarily felt liberated from this oppressive “social matrix” during that short-lived 1965 love affair with Jenö. It wasn’t until 2008, after 30-odd years’ celibacy, that an epistolary meet-cute with the writer Bill Hayes precipitated a loving, intimate companionship, one that would last the remainder of Sacks’s life. It’s a touching if bittersweet moment that arrives towards the end of Letters, the coda to this portrait of a man who, half a century earlier, had travelled across the world hoping to meet a poet who might truly understand him.

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Nipper and His Master’s Voice

The famous Nipper picture as revised for the Gramophone Company, from an oleograph

For much of the 20th century, one of the world’s most famous trade marks was a picture of a small terrier staring into the brass trumpet of a primitive gramophone.  “His Master’s Voice” read the caption.

The picture was painted, probably in 1898, by the Huguenot artist Francis Barraud; the dog, ‘Nipper’ (he tended to nip people’s legs), had belonged to his elder brother Mark but was inherited by Francis on Mark’s death.  Nipper himself had died, in 1895, before the picture was painted.  Originally, the dog was shown listening to a cylinder phonograph, on which the user could record his own voice; thus, Nipper could have heard the voice of his master emerging from the trumpet.  As Gramophones played only pre-recorded discs, a dog could hear only a master who happened to be a recording artist.

The story goes that Barraud offered his picture to the Edison Bell company (responsible for the phonograph in question), but they rather sniffily turned their nose up at the idea.  Then a friend suggested that Barraud improve the picture with one of the brass horns used by the new Gramophone Company, so the artist approached them at their offices in Maiden Lane, off the Strand, for the loan of a brass horn to copy.  “Yes, certainly”, was their response, “and if you replace the phonograph with a Gramophone, we will buy the picture.”

The Gramophone Company took delivery of the revised picture in October 1899; they paid Barraud £100 (£50 for the painting and £50 for the Copyright).   Barraud had copyrighted the original painting in February 1899.  No one knew what sort of phonograph was in that picture, until in 1972 the late Frank Andrews, of the City of London Phonograph & Gramophone Society (CLPGS), realised that Barraud’s copyright application would have been accompanied by a photograph. Searching through a box of applications in the Public Record Office in Chancery Lane, he found that photograph, showing the dog in front of an Edison Bell phonograph with a rather ungainly black horn.  An illustrated booklet was published in 1973, The Story of ‘Nipper’ and the ‘His Master’s’ Voice Picture, written by Leonard Petts, then archivist at EMI, with assistance from Frank Andrews.

Francis Barraud talked of how “It suddenly occurred to me that to have my dog listening to the phonograph, with an intelligent and rather puzzled expression, and call it ‘His Master’s Voice’, would make an excellent subject” but recently two possible sources for the title, at least, have been put forward in For the Record,* the journal of the CLPGS.  In 1888 a painting was exhibited by Sir William Orchardson called Her Mother’s Voice. It is in the Tate Gallery, a typical Victorian narrative picture of a widower listening to his daughter singing and reminding him of her mother.  A more probable source is an engraving which appeared in the magazine Black & White in 1891, of a scene in which members of the Browning Society listened, a year after the poet’s death, to a recording of his voice. It was captioned ‘Listening to the Master’s Voice’. Barraud is likely to have been aware of this scene (its title might in turn have been inspired by the Orchardson picture).  (*FtR 52, 2014 and 76, 2020)

In 1950, a party from EMI, with two members of the Barraud family, went to a courtyard in Kingston-upon-Thames where it was said that Nipper had been buried.  Excavations near the stump of a mulberry tree in what was now a garage parking area revealed no bones that could be definitely identified as those of Nipper, but the site, then behind a bank, is widely regarded as Nipper’s resting place.

The picture, without its title, was registered by The Gramophone Company as a Trade Mark in December 1900 (it had been registered in the USA in July by Emile Berliner, the inventor of the Gramophone).  In later years, up to his death in 1924, Francis Barraud was engaged to paint copies of the picture for the Company’s various offices; the original remained in the EMI boardroom for many years, and close inspection shows the pentimenti where the phonograph was overpainted.  The picture was reproduced in Gramophone Company publicity from the outset, but did not replace their existing ‘Recording Angel’ trade mark.  In the USA, the Victor Talking Machine Company, which was affiliated to the Gramophone Co, made more use of it as a trade mark. The two firms divided the world between them (Victor supplied the Americas and Far East; Gramophone supplied Europe and the British Empire apart from Canada) and thus Nipper and the Gramophone became a worldwide emblem very quickly.  Ultimately, it was the British company which used it most prominently, for when a court decided in 1910 that the word Gramophone was no longer a proprietary name, the company registered the picture with the title ‘His Master’s Voice’ and the title alone as Trade Marks. ‘His Master’s Voice’ then became their brand name. It was a clumsy epithet, but public usage soon abbreviated it to HMV, as eventually, after WW2, did the company.

Take-overs, sell-offs and globalisation of products caused EMI to drop the Nipper trade mark by the end of the 20th century, and it was sold to the newly independent HMV shops in 2003.

The famous Nipper picture as revised for the Gramophone Company, from an oleograph

Nipper (photograph by Barraud, Liverpool and Oxford Street, London)

The original picture, with a phonograph, as shown in Barraud’s copyright photograph of 1899 (National Archives: Copy 1/147)

His Master’s Voice, cartoon by Victor Gillam, 1903; already, the picture was well enough known to attract a political cartoonist.

Blue plaque at 126 Piccadilly, London, the location of Francis Barraud’s studio in 1899

Nipper needle tins, 1902-1960; the embossed tin (top left) is the earliest, 1902-3.  Top right is a cardboard packet from WW1, and bottom right, one of the many ‘clones’, mainly from overseas, trying to cash in on the dog’s popularity without infringing the trade mark

Copyright Christopher Proudfoot 12 March 2024 via huguenotmuseum.org

FRANCIS BARRAUD (1856-1924) English artist with a version of His Master's Voice painting which he originally completed in 1899

[thetruearchmagos]

🥸- Which character is most like you?

🕳️- Talk about a research rabbit hole you fell down!

Second one is specially for you to talk about whatever it is you need to rant about

Thank you so much for the ask!

🥸- Which character is most like you?

Short answer is that a little bit of me is in all of them, the correct answer is 'the Magi' (name pending), seeing as he started out as a more direct and literal self insert, albeit with obviously significant chances. Really though, he's very much a caricature in that sense, and power fantasy, but that kinda comes with the territory?

Then there's the fact I've dumped every special interest and passion of mine into Gustav, so...

🕳️- Talk about a research rabbit hole you fell down!

Oueghh!1!!!

So, I'm going to use this as an opportunity to talk about that Battleship one I mentioned in the notes of that post o' yours, but as far as my own stuff goes I recently went down the tangent of trying to find whenever it was people first used the words 'track' or 'tractor' to refer to caterpillar tracks and the vehicle respectively. I know I'm not using tanks as a word or a 'classification', if I can help it, but coming up with something original is tricky, like those sci-fi nerds who avoid using 'frigates' and 'corvettes'.

Anyhow!

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^It's this one, btw.

When I first saw your collage, my mind immediately jumped to the battleship in the bottom right hand corner, which contained this picture:

The screen I was viewing this on was a small one, which is my only excuse, because when I decided to try and check the number on the bow there, the very obvious 62, my brain saw that and thought '52'. Now, I think I recognised the ship itself as one of the Iowa class, and probably a Cold War era one at that, but when I checked the designation 'BB-52' (BB being the US Navy prefix for battleships), I got this:

Now, this is where the actual stupid trouble comes in. I will assume I didn't read the 'cancelled' part here, because I decided to try and find actual photographs of this ship, which, y'know, don't actually exist. What I did managed to find was pictures of the South Dakota-class, but...

NOT THE RIGHT ONE!

You see, the previous ship class to the Iowas was also called South Dakota, and to me they looked pretty similar, so I then assumed that North Carolina was one of those ships, and became even more confuzzled as to why I couldn't find a picture of it.

Then, at some point, I checked the photograph again, and quickly realised that the not-in-that-picture ship I thought was in the picture, wasn't. So... rabbit hole!

Anyhow, though, I did find out about the existence of a class of ship I didn't know anything about, which is handy. I think I've brought up Naval Treaties with you before when we chatted about naval stuff in Mortal Sparks, so I thought it was interesting for it to come up again. They're very interesting phenomenon in international politics and strategy to me, considering some of the behaviour they can push governments to take, and I think any politics or military focused setting should at least consider the place for 'balance of power' treaties like this in them. For what it's worth, I've put in a lot of thought into how they function in the 12 Worlds, a subject I might bring up at some point.

Hope this rant was maybe a little enlightening!

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Twelve things we know about the taxi tests and the first flight of the new B-21

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 11/26/2023 - 16:34in Military

After almost a year of speculation since the U.S. Air Force organized a carefully controlled frontal view of the B-21 Raider at its launch in December 2022 - leaving many doubts about the shape and equipment of the bomber - images of the aircraft taken from its taxi tests and first flight in November provided some definitive answers on the subject.

All the images that circulated from the taxi tests and the first flight were taken by private photographers who watched Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, where Northrop Grumman builds the B-21. The U.S. Air Force has not yet released any official images of the events.

Taking off in the early hours of November 10, the lower part of the B-21 was illuminated at an almost right angle, revealing all its characteristics in sharp relief. The aircraft made a tortuous flight of approximately 140 minutes to the northwest before landing at Edwards Air Base.

General form

The first flight solved the question of whether the initial USAF conceptual art of the general format of the B-21 was realistic or intended to deceive potential opponents. The shape of the aircraft is actually a simple W-shaped flying wing - as the Air Force originally described - without the serrated tail seen on the B-2, on which the B-21 is clearly based.

The B-2 originally had a similar plan, but in the mid-1980s, the U.S. Air Force added a requirement that the B-2 be able to fly sustainally at a low level and following the terrain, forcing the addition of additional tail area and control surfaces. The redesign cost several billion dollars and added several years to the B-2 schedule.

The W format of the B-21 suggests that the aircraft will only fly at higher altitudes. The wing sweep angle of the B-21 is also similar to that of the B-2. A striking aspect of the aircraft is its prominent central area in "diamond", which refers to the first ideas of stealth modeling of the 1980s. The fact that the aircraft is totally light gray also indicates that, unlike the B-2 - which is painted dark gray to be visually difficult to detect at night - the B-21 was designed to be a daytime bomber.

Nickname

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Engraved on the nose door of the aircraft is the name "Cerberus", the mythical three-headed dog that guards the gates of the underworld. All 20 aircraft in the B-21 fleet bear state names.

size

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Based on the known size of its F-16 companion plane and the general format, the wingspan of the B-21 will probably be about 43 meters; smaller than the wingspan of 52 meters of the B-2, but slightly larger than the previous estimates. Its length seems to be about 17 meters, against the 21 meters of the B-2. The U.S. Air Force has consistently stated that the B-21 will be slightly smaller than the B-2 and will have a lower gun payload.

The back

The exhausts of the B-21 have a cut-out shape, similar to the air intakes of the B-2, and are very different from the simple slots of the older bomber. The exhausts are moved away from the tail, where darkened panels indicate some kind of thermal reduction treatment. Unlike the B-2, where the rear part of the tail was articulated, the tail of the B-21 seems to be fixed.

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In B-2, this articulated control surface, known as "beavertail", but officially known as the Gust-Load Relief System, aimed to help the aircraft jump off the runway faster if a nuclear attack was coming. However, the B-2 pilots said that this feature was not considered useful and was effectively "disabled", so their exclusion from the B-21 is not surprising.

Auxiliary air intakes

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The B-21 has two high triangular doors on its upper surface - one on each side - that open to provide more air to the engines during ground operations, takeoff and landing.

The fact that there are only two of them, positioned symmetrically, suggests that there are only two engines feeding the bomber. There are four analogous features in the B-2, which has four engines.

Weapon Compartments

The B-21 can have three weapon compartments: the seams show the clear contours of the doors of the main central compartment, as well as the seams that indicate the engine access doors. Among them, another set of narrow doors can be additional weapons launch doors.

The B-21 must be capable of carrying at least three specific weapons: the B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb, the conventional stand-in attack weapon (SiAW) and the AGM-181 Long-Range Stand-Off (LRSO) nuclear missile. The mysterious bays may aim to transport SiAWs, intended to destroy enemy air defense systems. Smaller and thinner compartment doors will probably be able to open and close more quickly, increasing stealth when approaching the enemy's ground radar.

Seam sealing

Although program officials have said that the B-21 will dispense with the "tape, caulking and putty" sewing sealing techniques used in other stealth aircraft, such as the B-2, the F-22 and the F-117, the lower part of the B-21 showed some irregular contours in the seams of the weapon and engine compartment, especially in the curves, suggesting that perhaps these techniques have not been completely abandoned.

The side surface does not have the impressive smooth finish like glass seen on the upper surfaces. The openings in front of the keel also seem to have seams treated with adhesive tape or caulking. Although effective, these seam sealing techniques consumed a lot of time in previous stealth aircraft, increasing their maintenance hours per flight hour. Industry experts described these techniques as "more art than science", questioning their repeatability and usefulness in war conditions.

Control surfaces

The B-21 has eight control surfaces on the escape edge of the wings and tail. Like the B-2, these can be deflected to provide the stability normally provided by a vertical stabilizer; the deflection is controlled by the aircraft computer to make the calculations of many times per second necessary to keep the aircraft stable. They can also be deflected to play the rudder role.

Tanks at the depth of the wing

The depth of the B-21's wings was impressive under the sunlight in high relief of the first flight. There is a prominent bulge in the center of each wing, probably indicating deep fuel tanks that go almost to the tips of the wings.

Radar openings

The front edge of the B-2's keel has clear contours that show where its radars are, but the visible seams of the B-21 leave some doubts about whether it has similar equipment or similar size equipment. This may mean that the openings are an integral part of the outer line of the aircraft mold and that the radar can only be accessed from the inside. Or the radars can be sealed: this may be possible, since the reliability of the transmission and reception modules in recent years has been very high, and the radars now have a long average time between failure and normal degradation, which means that the radars still work well with several inoperative TR modules. This may also mean that the B-21 will depend on external radars, since it has been consistently said that the aircraft is part of a “family of systems” that includes other aircraft and satellites.

Radar reflectors

Two extendable rods in front of and into the landing gear bays appear to be radar reflectors, to prevent opponents in the Palmdale area (and now Edwards Air Base) from making cross-section measurements of the plane's radar. The main train was also not retracted during the time the aircraft left Palmdale, possibly for the same purpose. The B-21 also has extendable landing lights near the wing tips that can also serve to increase the cross section of the radar when operating in populated (and therefore unsafe) areas such as runways.

Test equipment

In addition to a test data probe that extended in front of the aircraft's port keel, the B-21 dragged an aerial data cone at the end of a long cable that extended from the lower rear port.

Shortly after the first flight of the B-21, U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said that "it is an important milestone" and is "quite optimistic" about the program.

In a November 13 webcast of the Center for a New American Security, Kendall warned that all programs end up having problems, and systematically refuses to offer complimentary reports on the programs, regardless of their performance. But with B-21, "I can say that cautious optimism is justified".

He also said that "we have ways to do the flight tests and, obviously, we have to go through production and make it work", but "we can still find problems that we need to solve, and I hope we can solve."

Source: Air Force & Space Magazine

Tags: Military AviationB-2 SpiritB-21 RaiderNorthrop GrummanUSAF - United States Air Force / U.S. Air Force

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Fernando Valduga

Aviation photographer and pilot since 1992, has participated in several events and air operations, such as Cruzex, AirVenture, Dayton Airshow and FIDAE. He has work published in specialized aviation magazines in Brazil and abroad. Uses Canon equipment during his photographic work in the world of aviation.

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Do you know Yates County?: Yates County Oddity No. 27 through No. 52

By Jonathan Monfiletto

Anyone who has conducted research either through Yates County’s digitized newspapers or the Yates County History Center’s subject files has likely come across items titled either “Penn Yan Oddity” or “Yates County Oddity.” These items – snippets might be a good word – provide information about various aspects of local history, seeming to answer some sort of question or mystery.

Seeing so many of these snippets – and finding the answers but seeming not to find the question – I decided to scour our digitized newspaper database to see if I could find all of them, the questions with the answers. It turns out the oddities – 90 Penn Yan Oddity items, 52 Yates County Oddity items – were part of an advertising campaign in the 1940s for Baldwin’s Bank, then located at 127 Main St. in Penn Yan, the present-day home of the Arts Center of Yates County.

  The Penn Yan Oddities ran in The Chronicle-Express in consecutive weeks from February 20, 1947 to November 11, 1948, and then the Yates County Oddities picked up right away in the newspaper from November 18, 1948 to November 24, 1949. So, for more than 2 and a half years, readers of The Chronicle-Express learned something about local history each week in the newspaper.

Each item started out as an advertisement for Baldwin’s Bank with the phrase “Do You Know Yates County?” at the top of the graphic followed by the question for the week. In the middle, the bulk of the ad, would appear information about the bank’s various services and offerings. The bottom would direct the reader to look for the answer elsewhere on the same page and then look for another Oddity the following week.

In this article, I present Yates County Oddity No. 27 through No. 52. Each question and answer has been transcribed exactly as it appeared in the newspaper, which changes made only for typographical errors and not for grammatical errors. The only time words have been removed from the items is in the case of references to photographs that appeared in the newspaper.

27) How many Lake Keuka cottages in Yates County?

There are 1,800 dwellings along the shores of Lake Keuka, according to the county made this past fall by John V. Stark, compiler of the new Lake Keuka directory. Of these 850 are in Yates county.

Here’s the breakdown: cottages (not lived in the year around) on Lake Keuka number 1,480; in Yates county 640. Year-around residences, either on Lake Keuka shore or on the lake roads, number 320, of which 210 are in Yates county.

28) How many miles of lake shore in the county?

More than half of the Lake Keuka shore line is in Yates county. Supervisor John V. Stark estimates 35 of the approximate 60 are in Yates. Some 9 miles of Canandaigua lake shore lie within Yates and some 20 miles  of the west shore of Seneca, which gives Yates a total of about 64 miles of shore line, much of which is available for summer homes.

Since there are 348 square miles in this county of about 17,000 population, there is a mile of lakefront for every 260 persons and for every five square miles of lake. Is there any other county in the Empire state with a greater lake frontage per square mile of area?

29) What Yates pioneer helped chain the Hudson?

With his two yoke of oxen, Eliphalet Hull helped in placing the great chain across the Hudson near West Point to prevent the British ships from sailing up the Hudson. Mr. Hull later became of the noted pioneers of Benton township, the first Methodist class leader west of Utica.

30) What Grange founder was born and buried here?

Francis Marion McDowell was born near Wayne, just beyond Yates county and died in 1894, his grave being in the Lake View cemetery, Penn Yan. He was one of seven founders of the national grange, holding the office of treasurer for 20 years.

31) Which town touches the most other Yates towns?

Milo township touches five other Yates county townships: Benton on the north, Torrey on the east, Starkey and Barrington on the south, and Jerusalem, for a short distance with a land-to-land boundary, on the west. If intervening lake were ignored, Jerusalem would also have five Yates towns touching.

But Jerusalem, along with Potter and Benton, each directly border four other Yates townships.

32) How many Yates towns have lake frontage?

All but two of the Yates county townships border upon at least one of the Finger lakes and Milo has frontage on two – Seneca and Keuka.

With Bluff Point jutting deep into Keuka to give her the characteristic “Y” shape, Jerusalem claims by far the greatest lake frontage of any township. Italy has the least, barely cutting across the southern end of Canandaigua lake. Potter town alone is landlocked.

Middlesex fronts on Canandaigua; Barrington on Keuka; Benton, Torrey, and Starkey on Seneca lake.

Before days of the railroad and auto trucks, convenient outlet to the lakes was all important as a means of transportation. Today it means resort business.

33) What four towns have the most population?

According to the 1940 census Milo, Starkey, Jerusalem, and Benton led the Yates county population count in that order. Potter, Barrington, Torrey, Middlesex, and Italy followed.

Work has already started on the 1950 census. Will the Yates county population of 16,338, as revealed by the 1940 count, be greater or less? It has been declining in recent years by small amounts.

34) How many mail routes are there in the county?

There are a total of 21 mail collection and delivery routes in Yates county, exclusive of the Star routes.

Of the six village routes five are Penn Yan letter carriers and the sixth is the carrier in Dundee. Of the 15 rural delivery routes, five emanate from the Penn Yan post office, three from Dundee, two from Branchport, and one each from Rushville, Middlesex, Himrod, Bluff Point, and Rock Stream.

35) Is Yates the smallest county in the state?

Yates county is not the smallest county in New York state, measured by population or area.

According to the last federal census Putnam, Schuyler and Hamilton counties had less population than Yates, whereas 11 other counties had fewer than the 343 square miles of area included within the boundaries of Yates. Among these smaller counties are most of the densely occupied areas of metropolitan New York – such as Kings, Queens, Bronx, Rockland, Richmond, Nassau, and others.

36) Where is the highest spot in Yates County?

The highest point in Yates county is in Italy township southwest of Italy Hill village, about where a bomber crashed during the war, killing the entire crew. The altitude at this point is given as 2,130 feet above sea level on some maps, a little less on others.

37) How many churches in Yates County?

There are 41 churches in Yates county in which services of worship are held regularly or frequently. This does not include the Garrett Memorial chapel or isolated and independent congregations which meet in halls or homes.

38) What Yates man invented milk tablets?

J. Robert Hatmaker of Paris, formerly of Milo township, 45 years ago was gaining fame as inventor of the process for reducing milk to tablet form. The German emperor had ordered thousands of these tablets and was sending quantities of them     to his troops in Manchuria.

39) Where is biggest rock in the county?

The late Berlin Hart Wright, local naturalist, believes that the big boulder on the east side of Italy valley is the largest rock in the county. Brought here by glaciers some 2,500 miles from the Laurentian mountains in Canada, it measures some 25 by 15 feet above the ground and weighs an estimated 350 tons.

40) Where is oldest cemetery in Yates?

City Hill cemetery on the west hill above Seneca lake, south of Dresden, established in 1788 by followers of the Universal Friend and early settlers of this area, is the oldest cemetery in what was then known as the Genesee country and is the oldest in the county.

41) What unique Yates monument honors a woman?

The boulder and plaque on the west shore of the West branch of Lake Keuka, just south of Branchport, at the time of its erection 16 years ago, was the only monument erected in the United States to honor an Indian woman. The mother of Red Jacket, famed Indian chief and orator who lived in thish section is honored by the unique monument.

42) What is our latitude?

Yates county is situated at 42.5 degrees north latitude, as far north of the equator as are: northern Spain, central Italy, Vladivostok, in Siberia, southern Manchuria and north central China.

43) Which railroad bridge is highest?

The highest railroad bridge in Yates county is the span which carries the Pennsylvania tracks over Big Stream at Glenora. At this point the tracks are 102 feet above the stream bed. The Rock Stream span is 71 feet high and the bridge over the Keuka Lake outlet at Penn Yan is 50.

The first bridge of pine timbers built in the (1850s), when the railroad line from Watkins to Canandaigua was put through was some 90 feet above the bed of the gorge. About 1893 the present steel span was erected just west of the old wooden structure, which was then torn down.

44) In what square mile of rural Yates lie the most roads?

The greatest concentration of public highways in anyway square mile of rural Yates county appears to be at the tip of Bluff Point where a car can traverse an estimated eight miles of different roads without going beyond the limits of a square mile area.

45) When was wheat first raised in Yates?

The first bushel of wheat grown in western New York is said to have been raised in Yates county.

A note in the old family Bible of Richard Smith, one of the followers of Jemima Wilkinson who settled on the west shores of Seneca lake, south of the present village of Dresden, reports grinding 10 bushels of winter wheat raised in this vicinity. This was in 1789 and was ground in the first grist mill in this part of the “pioneer west.” The mill, erected on the outlet, opposite of what is now Seneca Mills, was first ready for use July 4, 1790. Previous to then grain was taken by horseback to a mill in Pennsylvania for grinding.

46) Where was Yates County’s source of pearls?

The late Edwin C. Dinturff had some beautiful necklaces and jewelry pieces made from pearls which he took from clams that once thrived in Flint creek, where it entered Potter swamp near Potter Center. Edible fresh water clams are still found in some local streams.

47) What Elm Street residence was once situated on Main Street?

The residence of Mr. and Mrs. William D. Allison, 133 Elm St., was once situated in Main street. As a matter of fact, on April 5, 1911, it was located in the very center of the business section as it was being moved to make room for the present post office building.

By means of block and tackle and a team of horses, it was rolled down Main street to the four corners and thence on Elm to its present location, the second house west of the parking station. One of the biggest jobs was removing the trolley wire on Elm street and suspending trolley traffic to make possile moving the large dwelling. The other residence removed from the post office location is now used as a dwelling at the foot of Champlin avenue. A picture of the moving appears in the window of the Baldwins bank.

48) In Yates which was first – Italy or Naples?

In Europe, Naples was a part of Italy, but here Italy was a part of Naples. The township of Italy, Yates county, was organized by act of legislature Feb. 15, 1815, it being set off from the township of Naples, Ontario count. The origin of the name is not known.

Italy township grew in population to 1698 persons in 1845. Now, a century later, it is estimated at about 500 population.

49) Where is the smallest post office building?

Rock Stream residents have claimed that their post office, recently abandoned for one located in the community store, was the smallest in the United States. El Dorado, Calif., is one place which contends it has a smaller post office, but has not sent in the exact dimensions, as yet.

In the meantime the residents in the southern end of Yates county can boast of having had the smallest post office in Yates county. The building, which measures 12 by 24 feet and 9 foot walls, is now being converted into living quarters.

50) What Penn Yan home has hickory shade trees?

The shade trees in the lawn in front of the home of Miss May E. Decker, 203 Clinton street, Penn Yan, are hickory nut trees – so far as we can learn the only dwelling in the county seat which depends upon hickory nut trees for shade. There are maples, however, between the walk and the curb.

51) Is population mostly village or rural?

According to the last Federal census figures, Yates county’s population is more rural than village. The total population of the four incorporated villages – Penn Yan, Dundee, Rushville, and Dresden – was listed as 7,001, whereas the total population of the entire county was estimated at 16,338. These are 1940 figures.

52) How much will be paid out in Christmas Club checks?

When three of the Yates county banks send their Christmas club checks to the more than 1700 club members, which is being done in Penn Yan this week Saturday, the total amount of the Christmas club checks will be about $115,000.

[bobmccullochny]

History

November 15, 1777 - The Articles of Confederation were adopted by Continental Congress.

November 15, 1864 - During the American Civil War, Union troops under General William T. Sherman burned Atlanta.

November 15, 1881 - The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada was formed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Five years later the organization was renamed the American Federation of Labor (AFL).

November 15, 1889 - Brazil became a republic.

November 15, 1943 - During the Holocaust, Heinrich Himmler ordered Gypsies and part-Gypsies to be sent to concentration camps. The number of Gypsies killed by Nazis is estimated up to 500,000.

November 15, 1969 - The largest antiwar rally in U.S. History occurred as 250,000 persons gathered in Washington, D.C., to protest the Vietnam War.

November 15, 1980 - Pope John Paul II visited West Germany, the first papal visit to Germany in 200 years.

Birthday - American artist Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) was born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. She painted desert landscapes and flower studies and was the subject of more than 500 photographs taken by her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz.

Birthday - German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (1891-1944) was born at Heidenheim, in Wurttemberg, Germany. During World War II, he led the 7th Panzer Division to victory in the Battle of France. His early victories in North Africa earned him the nickname, "Desert Fox." However, in 1943, he was defeated at El Alamein by the British under General Montgomery. Rommel was implicated in the July 1944 failed assassination of Hitler. He was then forced to commit suicide and died at age 52 on October 14, 1944, near Ulm, Germany.

[nini-writes2003]

11:52 pm, A night before his birthday

He knows that I'll probably write something for his birthday He probably knows that I'll be writing something complicated because I am an English major, He knows that I'm probably in love with him because if I don't, I'm definitely not writing this for him He always knows what my letter to him will consist of one, my love for him two, how thankful I am to have him in my life and, three, how sorry I am because of all the billion people on this planet, someone like me is the one who came into his life. But, what he doesn't know is that, I tried my best not to write something for his birthday but still failed because I love him too much to not write something for him I am an academic writer who tries my best to be less complicated when I am writing him a letter, I always grin when I see him happy with the new hobby that he'll definitely regret later on, and you don't know how adorable he is when he complains to me about it I love it when he comes to me and gets excited to share a story that he can't wait to tell, it makes my heart melt I can't help myself to hide my happiness when he's talking about me to other people I always make him my subject and inspiration whenever our professors ask us to write something, and lastly, He probably doesn't know that, He's my angel who saved me countless times with the moments I was barely hanging & I still wish that even if I have a weak soul, I don't want to lose him in my life and, I want to bring him with me to my future. -ends writing at 12:10 am, his birthday-

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#5

I am feeling super frustrated lately so days must be getting shorter again.

I made this the other day because I had time to kill. This is two versions of my cosplay. Both were taken by pro photographers at cons. 2019 is by Ashton Williams. 2022 is Bryan Humphries.

I was very, very pleased with both versions of this cosplay. In 2019 I was at my third con in as many months. I’d made myself a shield and custom painted my sword. I was asked shortly after that image if I was gender bending Link or crossplaying and I didn’t have an answer for that, so I had to do a lot of thinking on the subject, and that’s been really interesting. I wasn’t wearing makeup or contacts yet.

That 2019 photo sits in my kitchen, where I see it all the time.

So yes, very pleased with it, but it wasn’t where I wanted it to be yet.

In the 2022 image, the wig is the same, though it’s better styled. The pants and gloves are the same (the 2019 photo was the first time I wore leggings with this) The belts, bracer and the sword are the same. I thrifted the boots, but the tops were recycled out of the old pair. I have colored contacts and started figuring out how to change my face a little, and to hold myself different,y (both works in progress). I’ve started to learn to sew and the tunic is the second version I made- it’s linen and it hangs to the right spot. I had to make my own to get one that went over my hips. I made the cape you can see, too. I’ve got arm wraps that stay in place finally, and that Shiekah slate I made holds my phone.

I love everything about this 2022 photo, too. I think I’m going to get it printed out to sit next to the other one in my kitchen. It’s still not exactly where I want it, but it’s all just little refinements. Well, I want to make my own pants because I could use some more pockets. Plus pants look like a challenge. I can’t wait to see where he’s at in another year.

I’m a very competitive person and when I started cosplay it was easy to see someone who had been doing it a decade and feel discouraged. I still sometimes do that. It’s better for me to see where I’ve been and where I’ve gotten. I sometimes see artists here who redraw an image a year apart to show their growth. I think this is the same

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I was out getting selfies with that guardian and several other Zelda cosplayers geeked out over my phone case. One of them asked if they could take a photo of me taking a selfie, so I obliged. Then they sent it to me.

I love this image, it’s pretty much a capture of my whole weekend

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My #1 post of 2022

I’ll throw all my photos of all the Zelda I’ve been seeing (so many koroks!) but this deserves its own post.

Low key terrifying to stand near

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[theoriesanddocuments]

Our introductory slideshow for this session is more personal than usual: I decided to use some of the images I’ve saved to a folder titled “Notes for Paintings.”

The interview with music producer Rick Rubin, the subject of the first post, contained a passage in which the interviewer quoted Rubin’s book: “When searching for the solution to a creative problem, pay close attention to what’s happening around you.” The interviewer (author Malcolm Gladwell) goes on to elaborate on the idea: “Look around, and you can find solutions... in the most prosaic details of your existence at the moment.” 

There are different ways to interpret this advice. For my purpose here I choose to consider the ways that various, seemingly unrelated found images can serve as sources of inspiration and help to jog my visual memory as I develop new techniques. I’ve always kept pictures--things found online and photographs taken by me--with the expectation that they may one day help me to solve visual problems, or remind me later of an idea that doesn’t quite fit within the work of the present moment. 

Recently, as I’ve started exploring a very new body of work, I’ve been searching through some of these older saved images. I’ve also found quite a few new ideas in unexpected places; for example, I was reminded of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s iron choir screen when it appeared in the background of an Instagram selfie from an acquaintance who visited the museum in December, when the screen serves as a backdrop to the museum’s annual display of decorated trees. My interest in the screen has to do with the proportion of the iron spindles as related to the empty space between them. That particular proportional relationship may inform a coming work.

Rafal Amezúa (Spanish). Choir screen from the Cathedral of Valladolid (completed ca. 1763). Iron, gilded and painted, with limestone base; 52 x 42 feet. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Beacon Hill Supply “Craft hobby spindles.” This illustration depicts turned wood spindles available from an online retailer. Source.

Lathe-turned stone balusters, Angkor Wat, Cambodia. Source.

Detail of work in progress.

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Draft 2

“CORNER COUCH”

A home is perceived in many different ways. Home is what you make of it. A can ideally be a safe place, a place of focus, a place of relaxation or hecticness. Project “Corner Couch”, highlights this as we explore our home. Throughout this photo book I wanted to showcase my family in a recurring spot. With four permanent members, two adults and two siblings with the occasional stay of my grandparents. As well as my partner who stays from time to time. With this exposing the view of an intergenerational home. With the appearance of  each person and how they personally interact with spaces within this space. Showcasing aspects of my home that are used for the multiple, or spaces that are more for the individual. As I grow older I wanted to capture these moments to reminisce on as I become more aware of people growing old who are close to me. This particular space in my home is used often but isn’t noticeable. The sense of repetition explains a story of how each individual can use a space in their own sense.  Inspired by photographers such as Carrie Mea Weems and Barbara Probst, showcasing aspects of their work to strengthen mine. Encouraging the candid approach allows for showcasing  of images in a relaxed and authentic feeling in photography. Blending the images together to create a seamless feeling that can capture genuine moments in time. Working with light colour and dark colour hues to pay homage to the difference in perspective but also time of day. Ultimately looking back on space in my home and how it can reflect the thinking of one person and the actions of another. 

Throughout this photobook, you will see much of the same but difference of perspective. Creating spaces that are used often and repeatedly capturing moments in time of people enjoying the space. Grabbing inspiration from Barbara Probst and her inspiration for juxtaposition experimentation. 

Creating multiple views of images to view a full image as well as receiving as much information. This produces images with intent. In addition Carrie Mea Weems' work motivated the constant idea of repetition. Throughout this assignment I looked at spaces within my household that are of frequent use. Exposing elements of 52 John Dee Crescent. By dividing these spaces as we experience each space differently. Capturing the variation in images from the influences such as time of day to family environment. After much research and looking at commonly used spaces I came across “corner couch”. A space that is quietly tucked away in the corner. Tucked in the quiet corner that creates a seamling loud sitting space as it becomes the preferred place to sit while in the lounge. Walking through the members of my household and showcasing their own emotions as they discover and interact with “corner couch. From the early mornings to the late nights. Focusing on the individuals while they sit. With use of light and after processing editing I was able to create a set of photos ready for the final stage.  After conducting research, I explored various photo books and websites where my work could be published for public viewing. After grabbing inspiration, since I used my own living space as the subject, I thought it would be fitting to create a coffee table book. A collection of photos that serve as home decor. A coffee table book, with its thick pages and minimal text, would showcase my work effectively. A hardcover with textured writing could emulate the feel of the couch featured in the photos. This would also be a great way to advertise my couch for sale or for the company to showcase the couch. The book could be displayed when potential customers view the couch. "Architectural Digest" publishes similar books that highlight people's homes and their furniture. Displaying photos that enhance a space. Another way to get my work into the public eye would be by adding the set of images into “HOME Magazine”. Home magazine is very similar to Architectural Digest but is based on homes in New Zealand. This helps reach more domestic customers rather than international. Last but not least the unlimited publisher I would want to feature my work would be “Frankie Magazine”.  Frankie Magazine, an Australian publication, covers topics like people, fashion, photography, and architecture. I believe my work would be a great fit for their "people" category, where they interview everyday individuals. Through this platform, they could interview me, allowing my work to reach their audience.

"I need to bulk up this as it is only at 750 words and needs to be at 800 minimum"

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The Netherlands considers supplying its F-16 fighters to Ukraine

The Dutch government also supports the shipment of German Leopard 2 tanks.

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 01/21/2013 - 17:32 in Military, War Zones

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Repeated requests from Ukrainian officers and pilots for F-16 fighters seem to be able to be met, as the Dutch office studies the supply of F-16 jets to Ukraine if the Kiev government requests it.

During a parliamentary debate on Thursday, Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra said that the Cabinet would analyze such a request with an "open mind". In Davos, Defense Minister Kajsa Ollongren also said that the Netherlands is willing to help pay for the modern Leopard 2 tanks that other countries send to Ukraine. “This is certainly something we are willing to do,” she told Bloomberg.

Hoekstra said that "there are no taboos" for the delivery of regular equipment. Parliamentarian Sjoerd Sjoerdsma asked the Cabinet to provide F-16s and infantry combat vehicles to the Ukrainian armed forces. Many fear that Russia will launch another major offensive in the coming months.

An F-35 from RNLAF, which is replacing the current F-16s.

The Royal Dutch Air Force is currently deactivating its fleet of F-16A/B fighters, progressively replacing them with 52 F-35A stealth fighters. Twelve Dutch F-16 fighters have already been sold to Draken International, a private company based in the United States that offers realistic training for fighter pilots.

Wopke Hoekstra, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands (left), and Annalena Baerbock, German Foreign Minister, speak at a press conference in The Hague last week. (Photo: Christophe Gateau / picture Alliance via Getty Images)

During his speech at the Ramstein-8 meeting in Germany on January 20, President Volodymyr Zelensky asked partners to give Ukraine long-range missiles and F-16 fighters, according to Sky News. Ukraine's allies have been reluctant to supply these Western-made fighters so far.

The delivery of the F-16 would undoubtedly be subject to the approval of the United States, its manufacturing country. Although the Biden administration was initially reluctant, the U.S. House of Representatives allocated $100 million to train Ukrainian pilots to fly U.S. combat aircraft in July 2022.

F-16 fighters of the Royal Dutch Air Force. (Photo: Logtnest / Shutterstock.com)

According to Hoekstra, the Netherlands only sends items that Ukraine asks for. Currently, Ukraine mainly needs heavy weapons. For some time, the country has been asking for modern tanks. Poland and Finland want to send the German Leopard 2 tanks, but they need Germany's permission.

An F-16C of the Alabama National Air Force taxi passes through Ukrainian Su-27 and MiG-29 fighters in the courtyard of the Mirgorod Air Base in Ukraine during a fiscal year in 2011. (Photo: U.S. Air Force)

According to Zelensky, Poland, Finland, Portugal, Spain and some other countries have stated that they are ready to supply German-made Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, but need permission for the transfer of equipment from Germany.

Germany is still thinking about offering Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. (Photo: KMV)

Berlin is hesitant. The German government is under intense pressure to allow these tanks to be sent to Ukraine. The Netherlands is willing to help pay to get the tanks in Ukraine, Ollongern said in Davos, but the delivery should take place within a European or NATO coalition.

“We are waiting for Germany’s position on this, but I am in favor of trying to find a solution and send tanks to Ukraine,” Ollongren told Bloomberg. "Every time, we show that we are able, together, to provide Ukraine with what they need."

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It is a recognized problem in statistics that as additional hypothesis tests are conducted on a set of data there is a parallel increase in the familywise error rate (FWER). This represents the probability of making one or more false discoveries, also known as type I errors. At an original significance threshold of p = 0.001 the probability of a falsely significant result is represented by the formula 1-0.999n, where n represents the number of tests conducted. By 52 tests the probability of a false result has increased to p = 0.051. With 130,000 voxels the probability of a false discovery approaches p = 1.0. The Bonferroni correction is perhaps the most famous approach to the multiple comparisons problem, but is not the only strategy to address this issue. The aim of this project was to demonstrate the necessity of multiple comparisons correction in functional neuroimaging and to highlight some easy methods of correction built in to popular software.

Methods One mature Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) participated in the fMRI study. The salmon was approximately 18 inches long, weighed 3.8 lbs, and was not alive at the time of scanning. The task administered to the salmon involved completing an open-ended mentalizing task. The salmon was shown a series of photographs depicting individuals in social situations with a specified emotional valence. The salmon was asked to determine what emotion the individual in the photo must have been experiencing. [...] One mature Atlantic salmon participated in the study. It is not known if the salmon was male or female, but given the post mortem state of the subject this was not thought to be a critical variable.

First thought: that is hilarious and extremely catty. Second thought: wait, how is it that I'm just now hearing about a paper that seriously throws into question numerous important popular ideas about brain function, despite it being written in 2009?!

Also, for the record, this was published in "The Journal of Serendipitous and Unexpected Results", which... wow. Hell of a name for a scientific journal. 😁

From a Scientific American Blog article on it, the hits keep on coming:

The lead author, Dr. Craig Bennett, wanted to get something fresh, so he headed in to the grocery story first thing in the morning. At the fish counter, he spoke the words that will echo down the centuries as a testimony to the dedication and drive of neuroscientists throughout the ages: "I need a full length Atlantic Salmon. For science." I am still shocked that the guys at the fish counter didn't give him a discount. Can't you get a discount for science?!

And, importantly:

And the poster, and the paper that was eventually published, may have had an effect on the field. The authors note that at the time the poster was presented, between 25-40% of studies on fMRI being published were NOT using the corrected comparisons. But by the time this group won the Ignobel last week, that number had dropped to 10%. And who knows, it might, in part, be due to a dead fish.

10% is still embarrassingly high, but hey - progress is progress.

one of the best academic paper titles

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Do you know Yates County?: Yates County Oddity No. 1 through No. 26

By Jonathan Monfiletto

Anyone who has conducted research either through Yates County’s digitized newspapers or the Yates County History Center’s subject files has likely come across items titled either “Penn Yan Oddity” or “Yates County Oddity.” These items – snippets might be a good word – provide information about various aspects of local history, seeming to answer some sort of question or mystery.

Seeing so many of these snippets – and finding the answers but seeming not to find the question – I decided to scour our digitized newspaper database to see if I could find all of them, the questions with the answers. It turns out the oddities – 90 Penn Yan Oddity items, 52 Yates County Oddity items – were part of an advertising campaign in the 1940s for Baldwin’s Bank, then located at 127 Main St. in Penn Yan, the present-day home of the Arts Center of Yates The Penn Yan Oddities ran in The Chronicle-Express in consecutive weeks from February 20, 1947 to November 11, 1948, and then the Yates County Oddities picked up right away in the newspaper from November 18, 1948 to November 24, 1949. So, for more than 2 and a half years, readers of The Chronicle-Express learned something about local history each week in the newspaper.

Each item started out as an advertisement for Baldwin’s Bank with the phrase “Do You Know Yates County?” at the top of the graphic followed by the question for the week. In the middle, the bulk of the ad, would appear information about the bank’s various services and offerings. The bottom would direct the reader to look for the answer elsewhere on the same page and then look for another Oddity the following week.

In this article, I present Yates County Oddity No. 1 through No. 26. Each question and answer has been transcribed exactly as it appeared in the newspaper, which changes made only for typographical errors and not for grammatical errors. The only time words have been removed from the items is in the case of references to photographs that appeared in the newspaper.

1) Where are there 10 different classifications of soil within ½ mile?

A Yates County soil analysis made in 1916 shows that at Fiveville, a little south of Italy Hill, there are 10 classifications of soil within a half-mile radius: Wooster, gravelly silt loam and stoney silt loam, Volusia flat phase silt loam and silt loam, muck, Holly silt loam, Papakating silt clay loam, Chenango gravelly silt loam, Lordstown stoney silt loam, and Genesee silt loam.

2) What farm still uses an “old oaken bucket?”

There is an “Old Oaken Bucket” well still in use on the old McFarren farm, Penn Yan, RD 4, now owned by H.M. Fulkrod. The bucket is lowered by a rope and there is a wood hand brake to slow the speed as it descends the well. When filled, the bucket is drawn up by turning the crank attached to the wooden spool.

3) Who was the first white child born here?

The great grandfather of Charles Beaumont, Penn Yan insurance agent and real estate brother, is said to be the first white child born in what is now Yates county. Joseph Hopeton Beautmont was born Sept. 26, 1798, to James Beaumont, native of England, and Mary Malin Beaumont, flollowers of Jemima Wilkinson. Their child was the first born in the New Jerusalem settlement. J.H. Beaumont died June 27, 1893, in the residence at 109 East Main street, now owned and occupied by Herbert Thayer. The old “Beaumont” horseblock may still be seen in front of the residence.

4) Bricks for what building were made of clay dug from the building’s cellar?

Sixty years ago this summer clay was removed when the basement for Ball hall of Keuka institute and college was being excavated. The same clay went chiefly into the making of the interior bricks from which the present structure was built.

5) What township was called Vernon?

From Jerusalem township of Ontario county in 1803 a new township, including what is now Milo and Torrey, was created and named Vernon. But Oneida county had created a Vernon township a year earlier, so confusion resulted. As a result on April 6, 1809 the state legislature changed the name of Vernon township, Ontario county, to Snell, honoring the state senator, Jacob Snell from Montgomery county.

Residents of this area apparently saw no reason for honoring a senator from another county, so assembled in a protest meeting at the inn of Luman Phelps, located at the corner of Main and Head streets in the young village of Penn Yan. The group petitioned the legislature to change the name to Benton township, honoring Levi Benton, the first settler in the region. On April 2, 1810, Albany nodded consent.

Milo township was set up and apart from Benton township in 1818 and Torrey township was separated from Benton in 1851.

6) What traditional birthplace of a people is in Yates?

Bare Hill in the western section of Yates county on the east side of Canandaigua lake is famous in legends of the early inhabitants of Yates county as the supernatural birthplace of the Seneca Indians.

7) What was the first name of Starkey town?

Both Starkey and Barrington townships were originally, along with Tyrone, Wayne, and Reading townships, now of Steuben and Schuyler counties, a part of Frederickton in Steuben county. Afterwards Reading was cut off and the Town of Wayne, including what is now Barrington, was organized. In 1822 Barrington was organized with the boundaries that define it today and in 1826, along with Starkey, it was annexed to Yates county.

8) Where was the nearest toll gate to Penn Yan?

A toll gate on the Penn Yan Branchport plank roead was near the site of the Allison and Daniels office – the old Hanford farm. The toll gate at the other end of the road was near Esperanza at the foot of the old road that ascends the hill west of the spacious mansion. Many older residents can remember the ruins of this toll gate house.

9) What surveyor was first settler of a town?

John Mower, 18, carried the chain, served as cook and was in charge of the pack horses for the crew which surveyed the new pre-emption line from Pennsylvania’s north border to Lake Ontario. In 1790 he settled in West River hollow, Italy township. Italy was originally part of Middletown township, organized in 1789, but changed to Naples township in 1808. Seven years later Italy township was set off. John Mower is quoted in history as saying that one spring he killed 314 rattlesnakes on the west side of the stream not far from the rocky ledges where they hibernated. The township was then rich in a dense forest of noble trees.

10) What rural cemeteries were once next to churches?

The cemetery near Swing’s or Ovenshire’s corners on the Penn Yan-Dundee road in Barrington and the Nettle Valley cemetery on the Penn Yan-Potter road, road were once adjoining churches. The church buildings have long since been removed and their location obliterated.

Do you know of any others in Yates county?

11) What was the first barn west of Seneca Lake?

In 1791, according to tradition, Caleb Benton built a barn 30 by 40 feet, starting on Monday morning with trees standing in the woods. These, it is said, were felled, hewed, and framed and the barn enclosed so that wheat was drawn into it by Saturday.

This was reported to be the first barn built west of Seneca lake.

12) Is there a battle ground sites in Yates?

The nearest any part of the present area of Yates county came to becoming a battleground was Sept. 9, 1779, when 400 of General Sullivan’s riflemen were sent along the west side of Seneca lake from the site of Geneva to what is now Kashong point and there wrecked the Indian settlement. Resistance of the [Native Americans] was insignificant if not entirely lacking.

The power of Indians had been broken in the battle of Newtown, east of Elmira.

13) What is Lake Keuka unlike other lakes?

Lake Keuka is unique, but not because it is shaped like the letter Y.

Geologists say that it is perhaps the only body of Y-shaped water with one of the upper branches an inlet and the other an outlet. Elsewhere nature has made the two top branches inlets and the base branch an outlet. Early glacial action, say geologists, created this freak. Water flows in at Hammondsport, the south end, also at Branchport, one of the north ends, and flows out through the other north end by way of the East or Penn Yan branch.

14) How old is the Friend house?

While commonly referred to as 150 years, the actual age of the Jemima Wilkinson house in Jerusalem is a matter of dispute. Arnold Potter, descendant of the early Friend settlers, believes the dwelling was some five years in the building and was completed in 1815. Her death occurred four years later. The Friend joined her followers near City Hill, Torrey township, in 1790 and there built the first frame dwelling in western New York. This would have been 25 years before completion of the Jerusalem home which still stands.

15) Where is there a Kentucky coffee tree?

On the east side of Route 14, the Dresden-Geneva state road, just before crossing the bridge over Kashong creek as one drives north out of Yates into Ontario county is a Kentucky Coffee tree – a rare sight in this vicinity. The tree is conspicuous because of its large leaf and uniquely shaped seed pod.

Does anyone know of any others in Yates county?

16) Through what bay does Yates rainfall reach ocean?

Practically all the area of Yates county drains into Canandaigua, Keuka, or Seneca lakes or into Potter swamp and runs eventually through the St. Lawrence river and bay into the Atlantic ocean. But a very limited section of South Italy and Jerusalem townships drain into the Cohocton and a bit of southern Barrington into Waneta and Lamoka lakes from when the water may flow through the Susquehanna system into the Atlantic by way of the Chesapeake bay, some 1,000 miles south of the St. Lawrence.

17) How many Yates places use Old World names?

At least four Yates county townships – Italy, Jerusalem, Milo, and Middlesex – have names which were long famous in England or on the continent of Europe. Also two villages – Dundee and Dresden.

Do you know of any other Yates community names borrowed from other countries?

18) What famous orator was born in this county?

Some of the addresses of Red Jacket, famed Indian orator, have been included in printed collections of the famous speeches of the years. But Red Jacket may or may not have been born in Yates county. Historians disagree upon the place of his birth. It may have been near Branchport or at Canoga, in Seneca county.

Robert G. Ingersoll, agnostic and brilliant orator, was born in Dresden Aug. 11, 1833. His birthplace is being preserved in his memory.

19) Where is the highest spot in Yates County?

The highest spot in Yates county is 2,130 feet above sea level and includes a few acres on the high plateau just west of the Jerusalem township line in Italy, about six miles west and a bit north of Branchport. It was in this area that a bomber crashed during World War II, killing all occupants.

20) Where is the lowest spot in Yates County?

The lowest spot in Yates county is above sea level – and is located somewhere in the bottom of Seneca lake this side of the Seneca county line which is in the middle of the lake.

Within the last few years Yates county has “settled” a great deal – some 400 feet roughly. Up to that time the eastern boundary of the county was highwater mark on the west shore of Seneca lake, which is listed as about 444 feet above sea level. This boundary caused much confusion. Game Protector Clay White, for example, apprehending a duck hunter or fisherman off the Yates county shore for some violation, had to take his man all the way around the end of Seneca lake, possibly 40 miles, to bring him before a Seneca county official. Assemblyman Vernon Blodgett introduced a bill a few years ago placing the county boundary in the middle of the lake.

In spots Seneca lake bottom is said to be even a bit below sea level.

21) How may lakes are there in the county?

There are no lakes in Yates county – entirely within the county, that is.

More than half of the Lake Keuka shoreline is within Yates, about seven miles of the Canandaigua shore line and over 20 miles of Seneca lake’s west shore. Lakes Waneta and Lamoka are just beyond the county boundaries.

22) How many railroads are there in the county?

Three different railroad companies operate lines in Yates county: the Pennsylvania, the New York Central, and the Lehigh Valley, the latter running diesel motors over the Middlesex Valley line between Geneva and Naples. These are the first diesels to be used in regular service in the county.

23) How many schools are there in the county?

While there are 50 rural school districts in Yates county, according to Superintendent Stephen Underwood of Branchport, but 26 of them maintain a school. Of the remaining 24 districts, 8 have sold their buildings; the others being idle, actually there are 32 schools in Yates county, if you add to the above 26 rural schools, the Middlesex Valley and Dundee central schools, St. Michael’s Parochial school in Penn Yan, the Penn Yan Union school (which has five buildings), Lakemont academy, and Keuka college with its several buildings.

24) How many miles of state road are there?

According to George Havens, county superintendent of highways, the total public highway mileage in Yates county is 1,813.44. Of this total 149.18 miles are in county highways, 109.16 state roads, and only 55.10 of town roads.

25) How many post offices are there in Yates?

Two of the Yates county townships, Italy and Barrington, have no post offices. Three townships have one post office each: Rushville in Potter, Dresden in Torrey, and Middlesex in Middlesex township. Milo and Benton have two post offices each: Penn Yan and Himrod in the former, Bellona and Gage in the latter. Jerusalem township with three offices, at Branchport, Bluff Point, and Keuka Park, and Starkey with  four, at Dundee, Rock Stream, Starkey, and Lakemont, bring the total number of post offices now operating in this county to 14. Years ago there were many more.

26) How many public libraries in Yates County?

Branchport, Keuka Park, Dundee, and Penn Yan now have the only libraries which are open to the public.

All of these are included as participants in the Yates County Community chest.

[geneajournals]

Preserve / 52 Ancestors, Week 19

My preservation project began with old photo albums inherited from our parents. These albums were used essentially as scrapbooks and contained photos, newspaper clippings and other artifacts.

Mortarboard tassels from my high school and college graduation as preserved by my mother in a photo album.

As photos were removed from the albums, they were scanned using an Epson Perfection V39 flatbed scanner. It can scan up to four 4X6 photos at a time. The digital files are given a file name prefix (example: PH_TPB = PH(oto)_Tullie Peevy Byers collection). Once scanned and given a unique file name and number, the digital images are entered into a photo index.

Photo index created in Google Sheets spreadsheet.

The file name, and if known, the subject's names are written on the back of the original photograph using a Stabilo All 8046 pencil. Each photograph is placed into a polypropylene photo sleeve.

Archival polypropylene sleeves that have passed the Photo Activity Test.

Small photographs (4"x6" and under) are placed in photo organizer envelopes, in numerical order by collection. They are stored in an acid-free, lignin-free archival storage box.

This Museum Grade Archival Photo Storage Box holds 1700 Photos. Box size: 5 x 15 x 12". Compartment size: 5 x 7-1/2 x 6" (H x W x D).

Larger photographs, also encased within a polypropylene sleeve, are stored in a flip-top, acid-free, lignin-free photo storage box.

Flip-Top Storage Box for 8-5/8" X 10-5/8" X 5" photos.

Digital images of the old photos are backed up by a USB flash drive and a Seagate Backup Plus Portable hard drive. They are also stored in the cloud on Amazon photos.

More recent photos, those judged not polypropylene sleeve-worthy, are sorted and stored in archival photo organizer envelopes.

Archival photo organizer envelopes have pockets for negatives and prints.

In late 2002 and early 2023, my husband was the lucky recipient of his maternal aunt’s photo collection. This consisted of photo albums plus several large boxes of loose photos and artifacts. So far 301 photos from this collection have been scanned and indexed. This includes all of the photo albums and the older loose photos. My ongoing project is sorting the remainder of the photos in this collection to determine which to digitize.

Tullie Peevy Byers (1898-1961) is my husband's paternal grandmother. Photos from the Tullie Peevy Byers collection have been shared with family members via Dropbox. A great deal of the photographs in this collection remain unidentified. I have been posting them on Instagram as #unidentifiedphoto.

Hopefully the preservation of these family photographs will be helpful to other descendants of our ancestors in the future.

[cinemapsychosshow]

Hitchcock's Voyeur Fantasy - Rear Window (1954) - Episode 307

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Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 classic, Rear Window, is a voyeur's fantasy about all the good that spying on your neighbors can bring...like solving a murder. Starring Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly, Rear Window tells the story of a disabled photographer who turns to the lives of his neighbor's in a small Greenich Village apartment complex as an escape from the monotony of his single bedroom apartment only to discover that one of his neighbors is a cold blooded killer; but could it be all in his head as a result of his own isolation? 

CHAPTERS

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00:17 : Intro

04:03 : Brian's first viewing of Rear Window

06:28 : Hitchcock is a Jerk and a Genius

11:48 : Rear Window (1954) Synopsis

12:44 : We are complicit in voyeurism

13:42 : Miss Torso- Hitchcock's eye candy

15:39 : Rear Window Feels like a Play

18:20 : Bad Reviews of Rear Window

27:08 : It's OK to Spy on Your Neighbors....as long as you catch them doing something illegal

28:07 : Hitchcock's Visual Style in Rear Window

30:25 : The Opening Shot That Says EVERYTHING!

37:35 : How many people do you know who clean their hacksaws at 3am

42:53 : Could Hitchcock make a contemporary thriller?

44:44 : The Ending of Rear Window is both Goofy and Great

48:29 : Jimmy Stewart's Falling VFX Suck

49:29 : Thorwall is the dumbest killer ever

52:45 : Female Representation in Rear Window....Or Lack Thereof

58:13 : Hitchcock's Cameo

58:59 : What lessons can Rear Window teach modern filmmakers?

01:04:37 : Outro

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