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A dark side to Victorian society existed, in part as a reaction to the emphasis on restraint of pleasure and social propriety. Victorian society saw a rampant, though covert, use and abuse of drugs and alcohol. Developments in medicine and science made drugs such as heroin, chloral, and laudanum available and widely prescribed. Often the result was addiction http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/recent-news/6055-victorian-england-drugsA dark side to Victorian society existed, in part as a reaction to the emphasis on... more
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Celtic Tribal Band Wicked Tinkers plays to the National Association of Music Merchants crowd before convention doors open to the showroom floor, Jan. 15.
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This is a raw, unedited interview with Wicked Tinkers didgeridoo player C.J. Henderson at the NAMM show Jan. 15. Wicked Tinkers is "Tribal, Celtic, primal...We like to say, 'It's so old school, it's pre-school,'" said Henderson.Celtic Tribal Band Wicked Tinkers plays to the National Association of Music Merchants... more
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Pennsylvania Gym Shooter Bought Gun Accessories From Virginia Tech Killer's Dealer
The gunman who killed three women in an aerobics class at a Pittsburgh-area gym bought accessories for his weapons from the same dealer that sold a gun to the Virginia Tech shooter.
George Sodini, 48, purchased the items from TGSCOM Inc. of Green Bay, Wis., before committing the Aug. 4 massacre that left three women dead and nine wounded. He then killed himself.
It wasn't immediately clear what accessories Sodini bought.
Seung-Hui Cho purchased a .22-caliber handgun from TGSCOM in February 2007, two months before he killed 32 people at Virginia Tech.
Police investigating Tuesday's shootings at the L.A. Fitness center in Collier Township, Pa., say Sodini obtained his weapons legally.
TGSCOM's president, Eric Thompson, confirmed Sodini's purchases after WPXI-TV in Pittsburgh obtained a receipt. Thompson said he's cooperating with investigators.
Meanwhile, police say Sodini called his mother before the shootings to tell her of his plans, WPXI reported.
"I'm going to kill a bunch of people. I don't expect I'm going to survive this," police say he told her, according to the station. Her response wasn't disclosed.
Sodini entered the gym Tuesday and went into a Latin dance class at about 8:15 p.m. in black workout gear. He turned off the lights and fumbled around in a duffel bag before taking out three guns and firing indiscriminately.
Police described Sodini as a misogynist and said he didn't know his victims.
Killed were Heidi Overmier, 46, of Carnegie, a sales manager at an amusement park; Jody Billingsley, 37, of Mount Lebanon, who worked for a medical-supply company; and Elizabeth Gannon, 49, of Pittsburgh, an X-ray technician at Allegheny General Hospital. About 75 people attended a vigil to remember them Thursday night in downtown Pittsburgh.
In his 4,000-word blog apparently dating back almost a year, Sodini complained about his wrongful rejection by "30 million" American women and alluded to his plans to commit a mass shooting.
Mental health experts say Sodini shared a chilling trait with other spree killers: the desire to make their woes understood through multiple deaths.
Sodini did not appear to have any documented mental problems, but his massacre shares threads with others analyzed by psychiatrists and legal experts.
"They're thinking, 'I want everyone to understand and appreciate why I'm doing this,' and the way to do that, in their mind, is to kill other people and not just themselves," New York attorney Carolyn Wolf, whose firm specializes in mental health issues, told The Associated Press Thursday. "In their mind it sends a broader message."
Cho, who committed suicide after the Virginia Tech massacre, also left behind an online journal and posted YouTube videos. Prior to his rampage, he sent a video tirade to NBC railing about being overlooked by "snobs" and rich "brats."
"These people get into a very self-centered, sometimes self-aggrandizing, often psychotic path that enables them, in their mind, to finally get the attention they crave," Wolf said.
Many mass murderers feel rejected by a "pseudo community" that may exist only in their minds, said Dr. James Knoll, a forensic psychiatrist at the State University of New York's Upstate Medical University in Syracuse.
"He probably worked out at this gym, he was tanning and working out, trying to improve himself," Knoll said of Sodini. "These are things he thought would get him a relationship. It wasn't working."
In his Web diary, Sodini wrote that his anger stemmed from unfulfilled desire: The women at his gym "look so beautiful as to not be human," he wrote.
Two undated videos apparently recorded by Sodini were posted online showing him touring his home and talking about hiding his feelings, trying to "emotionally connect" with people and struggling to impress women.Pennsylvania Gym Shooter Bought Gun Accessories From Virginia Tech Killer's... more
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Nielsen Online reported that by the end of 2008 social networking had overtaken email in terms of worldwide reach. Sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and Linkedin provide users with a way to build and interact with a community in real time on a familiar platform at a very low cost.Nielsen Online reported that by the end of 2008 social networking had overtaken email... more
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The readers of more than 70 alternative newspapers are being urged to spend at least $100 of their holiday money this fall at locally owned stores in their communities -- a move that could pump more than $2.9 billion into urban economies during this recession-plagued season.
The project is based on data showing that money spent in locally owned businesses tends to stay in the area and circulate through the community, increasing economic activity. Economists call this the "multiplier effect."
"If every one of the 17.5 million readers of these weeklies were to spend just $100 with local, independently owned merchants, the impact would be enormous," said Jody Colley, publisher of the East Bay Express in Berkeley/Oakland and the originator of the project.
The Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) and the American Independent Business Alliance (AMIBA) helped develop the unprecedented project. The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, a trade organization of 130 alternative newspapers, helped line up 73 papers in the United States and Canada.
"This is an incredibly exciting and unprecedented effort by the press to reach out and work with the local economic development community," said Erin Kilmer-Neel, program officer at OneCalifornia Foundation, and active member in both BALLE and AMIBA. "In my mind, this can be a perfect partnership -- local, independently-owned publications helping other local indie businesses in their community toward positive economic change."
Added Kilmer-Neel: "When people choose to shop at locally-owned, independent businesses in their communities, they are re-circulating dollars in those communities, supporting more local jobs, keeping their neighborhoods interesting and unique and reducing their carbon footprints.
"We came out in the millions to make change this week by voting. Conscious shopping, like voting, is a powerful way to make change. Collectively, we will continue to spend billions and billions of dollars as we shop throughout our lives -- imagine the power that this money can have if each one of us tries to be conscious about where it goes."
The move is "simply part of our mission as a newspaper," Tim Redmond, executive editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian, one of the early supporters of the project, said. "A sustainable community needs a sustainable economy, and that starts with locally owned independent businesses."
The project will run through the holiday season. The readers of more than 70 alternative newspapers are being urged to spend at least... more
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