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Autograph Document Signed (Luther Bailey, Adjt.), Camp White Plains [NY], July 24, 1778. 8 1/8 x 12 5/8. 2 p. Return of the 1st Massachusetts Regiment of Foot Commanded by Col.o John Bailey
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This ledger sheet lists the disposition of the eight companies [to wit: Captains Maxwell, Darby, Allen (late), Burr, Drew, Warren (late), Alden, and Dunham] of the 1st Massachusetts Regiment, John Bailey commanding. Demarcated are the various types of officers – 19 subcategories – in addition to the "Rank & File," who are categorized by: "Present fit for duty," "Sick Present," "Sick Absent," "On Command," and "On Furlough." The total present & fit force numbered 204 of 346 men enlisted, with 294 men "Wanting." In all the regiment was at less than but 60% of full strength, not an uncommon situation.
11 absent officers are individually named, with their reasons and locations. For instance, Second Lieutenant [Simeon] Lord [of Berwick, ME] is on command at "Valley Forge."
Historical Background
The 1st Massachusetts Battalion of Foot under Colonel John Bailey had responded to the Lexington Alarm of April 19, 1775.
On August 22, 1776, the British forces, led by General Sir William Howe, moved from their positions on Staten Island, New York across the Narrows to invade Long Island. They defeated the Americans in the Battle of Brooklyn Heights (August 27). The Americans retreated across the East River to Manhattan Island (August 29), followed by the British (September 15). The Americans were then able to stop the British advance on the north end of Manhattan at the Battle of Harlem Heights (September 16).
One month later, Howe's troops landed in Westchester County, New York (October 12 and 18), and made a frontal attack on the American positions in White Plains (October 28). The attack failed, and the British withdrew to Dobbs Ferry.
The British were later able to consolidate their hold on Manhattan by capturing Fort Washington (November 16), but Westchester remained in American hands. The brutal winter of 1777-1778 found the regiment at Valley Forge.
Howard H. Flierl, PhD and Chatherine Urell, PhD. Living in New York (N.Y.: Follett Publishing Company, 1962). Barnet Schecter. The Battle for New York (N.Y.: Walker Publishing Company, 2002).


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Friday night welcomed the return of Fringe, but things just aren't right now that we're back in season four. Last season left us with the realization that Peter Bishop had been erased from everyone's memories (because he had been erased from time), but as we see in the premiere episode, he has left an imprint on time. Walter knows something is off, and you can feel it in the episode yourself. Something is totally off.
Good news is Fringe is getting back to its roots with the creepy and freaky cases that we've all been craving (that translucent man is straight out of season one!). Season three was so bogged down by the alternate universe story line that I felt like it was becoming a totally different show. Not so, says the premiere episode. I'll recap my favorite things about "Neither Here Nor There" in the slideshow, but be sure to chime in with your thoughts on the episode in the comments!
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Michael Ratner: Obama, Guantánamo, and Civil Liberties
Will President Obama be prepared to close Guantánamo on day one? Michael Ratner, for one, certainly hopes so. But he's not holding his breath.
Obama in this election has moved heavily to the center on issues that I really care about, and that gives you great pause. His new chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, is a very moderate Democrat, was one of the only members of the Illinois congressional delegation to vote in favor of the Iraq War. At the same time, Obama has made a number of promises, at least on some of the issues that are at least the heart of some of my work, which is he said he would close Guantánamo, he said he would end torture—and what that means is stop the CIA from torturing people in secret sites—and he said he doesn't favor the current military commission system that's going on at Guantánamo, but he favors criminal trials. Now, those are just promises, and as I know with any president, even on those three issues where he's spoken very boldly, really, and on his web site as well, those, you still have to hold their feet to the fire, because it's certainly not going to be a main priority. You have the economy here, you have the war here, etc. But those are three issues that are of great concern to me.


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Miki Agrawal is a serial entrepreneur and the author of "Do Cool Shit," an upcoming book focused on entrepreneurship and lifestyle design.
I've been thinking a lot about the concept of raising money.
I found out recently that a few people I know are having a real hard time getting funds for their passion projects and I've been thinking critically about the psychology behind this process.
Over the years, my twin sister Radha and I managed to raise more than $4 million for our various passion projects — Slice New York (now WILD New York), Super Sprowtz, and the women's underwear startup THINX) — and we have a much clearer understanding of the emotional process of raising money that just about anyone could apply.
I remember when I started going around and "setting up investor meetings." I was nervous, I fidgeted a lot, I forgot some key points, I didn't have all of the answers on the spot, and I just wasn't myself.
After many failed attempts at one-on-one meetings in every setting possible (coffee shop, conference room, their office, my office, etc.), I took some time to evaluate my methodology.
I realized that the biggest, most glaring problem in all of these instances was simply that I wasn't myself at all.
The sparkle and fire that I usually have when I am with my close friends just disappeared in these meetings. The way I talked with confidence about my business idea with my friends was replaced with cracking voice and jumbled thoughts.
Why was this happening?!
That's when I heard the "ding ding ding" sound in my head and everything became clear.
My new goal? To put myself in a place that made me most authentically me while I was pitching to investors so that my best self came out when I needed me to appear the most.
I asked myself in what settings did I feel most authentically myself and realized that it was when Rads and I were hosting our friends at our house, just like we used to host people growing up with our family.
(It's kind of like when you're trying to impress a new boyfriend/girlfriend and you have them come and meet your friends so you can show them how cool you are, or have them watch you play in your intramurals soccer game so they can see you shine on the field. The same principle applies here.)
When I figured this out, I did a few key things:
- Organized a "Fundraising Dinner Party" for anyone and everyone I thought may be interested in my idea and/or people who believed in me. The dinner party was free, so it made it easy for people to say yes.
- Did not cook the meal myself and did not run around trying to make the food while hosting people. (Go through Kitchit.com and hire Chefs super cheap and so you could focus entirely on connecting with your guests.)
- Invited only a couple of key close friends who make me super comfortable.
- As for the rest of the invitees, I invited only really interesting people so they could connect with each other at my dinner party and build friendships through me.
- Hosted it a really cool venue so that it gives people the "ooh, ahhh" factor.
- Most importantly, I brought in someone else to give my pitch (preferably with a British accent) so that I could relax and focus on being my most awesome self (unless you're uber comfortable presenting your idea to a room full of people staring at you).
- Created a postcard with an "Ask" to all of the invitees to pledge their support to the mission. This postcard was placed on the tables during dessert and gave the perfect lead to follow-up with the potential investor.
All of this worked beautifully and I was able to quickly raise the money because I had "group buy-in" as well. At the events, you want peer pressure to work in your favor. Get everyone in the room to be smiling and nodding at your project and wanting to collective support your project.
Miki Agrawal is a serial social entrepreneur. She was a recipient of the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival's "Disruptive Innovation Award" and named 2013's Forbes' "Top 20 Millennials On a Mission." Her book, Do Cool Shit, will be released on August 6th via Harper Collins Business. Her next undertaking is THINX, a high-tech, beautiful underwear solution for women during their "time of the month."


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Tender New Signs is the kind of record that exists where experiences connect to the senses, where memories emerge and bring with them all the feeling and imagery that had been resting just below the surface of consciousness. It's the title of Tamaryn's second album, in partnership with her longtime collaborator and San Francisco native Rex John Shelverton. Informing the layers and textures found on their debut full length The Waves, this new opus takes a bold step forward in structure and form. With it's skygazing pop songs and impressionistic sketches of once well-guarded emotions, Tamaryn and Rex have created a defining work.
The roots of this musical partnership started over a decade ago. "Rex and I met in New York City where I was living in the early '00s," says Tamaryn. "We bonded instantly and over time started sharing ideas for songs. Eventually we began to collaborate on some recordings, traveling between coasts until the project inspired me to move to California indefinitely." These activities culminated in a slew of singles and the Led Astray, Washed Ashore EP. In 2010, Mexican Summer released Tamaryn's critically acclaimed LP The Waves, a collision of hypnotic psychedelia and bittersweet dream pop.
Tender New Signs' nine songs showcase stadium-sized guitars, surging with softly-lit, languid melodies and a familiar sense of purpose anchored by Tamaryn's intimate vocal delivery and unmistakable presence. The choice to continue self production seems to be key in persevering their sound. Tamaryn explains how the writing process is intrinsically linked to the recording process, "Rex finds that getting in the studio and taking things apart to adjust the subtleties of their sonics inspires him to want to play guitar more in general, and therefore is probably the biggest influence on how we make music. We like the idea of seeing how far we can take what we have, and we work best together without too many other distractions. The Waves found us in this 'minimal wall of sound,' so we took that style and applied it to these more defined song structures."
Tracks like "Heavenly Bodies" are anthems of surrender and reflection, while "The Garden" evokes those tiny moments of change when numbness gives way to feeling, and projects them into gigantic rock and roll epiphanies. Tender New Signs creates its own hope and transforms it into something sublime. "In making this record, I hoped to transcend the mundane world, by living in a new one of my own creation, " Tamaryn says, "now it's time to invite everyone else in it with me."
MIRROR MIRROR, the New York based duo of David Riley and Ryan Lucero, bring their avant-pop explorations to RVNG Intl. with the release of Interiors, the ten-song follow up to their debut album, The Society for the Advancement of Inflammatory Consciousness.
Recorded in two parts, Interiors features the production work of Chris Coady (Beach House, Gang Gang Dance, Zola Jesus), who helped realize an expansive sound from Mirror Mirror's home-studio recordings. The other album half, aided by Joshua da Costa's monstrous and metronomic live drumming, was produced by Thomas Asenault and Zeljko McMullen at So Many Fields (Brooklyn, NY).
Interiors deals in themes of secret societies, escapist fantasies, and psychological extremes. "Sublime Objective" opens the album in the mind's eye of an adventurer attempting a daring mountain climb. "Under the Sun" rollicks under ray-baked guitars until it's split in two by a cameo from SSION front man Cody Critcheloe. "Dot Dot Dot" mutates an R&B midi-bass line, before "Sick City" tours an underworld of nightwalkers and plastic shamans. The acid-inflected "Starseed" adapts a futurist Timothy Leary lecture, promising listeners "bread and dope for a thousand years." Album namesake "Interiors" describes a recluse who shuts out worldly distractions, while the stringed cavalcade of "Open Wide" leads to new psychedelic pop pastures. The album closes with "Overpower / Overjoy," an industrially flourished, whip-cracking serenade of sorts.
Following Society's 2008 release, Riley and Lucero toured the US & UK while pursuing a variety of related art projects. Some of those pursuits included a series of group workshops at Momenta Art, multimedia performances at The Kitchen and Saturday Sessions at MoMA PS1 with Tamaryn, and contributions to K48 and DIS Magazine. Mirror Mirror also partook in a FRKWYS experiment on RVNG Intl., collaborating with post-punk pioneers Stuart Moxham, Alig Fodder, Stuart Argabright, and Rico Conning.
Various songs from Interiors were remixed by Kingdom, Pictureplane, Bruno Coviello (Light Asylum), Jamstation, Sister Mantos, and The Magick Report. Each of these remixes will be released as single support and bonus downloads. A video for "Interiors" featuring Rumi Missabu of The Cockettes will precede an Interiors-inspired film directed by Tom Kalin (Savage Grace, Swoon).
The physical version of Interiors will be available on August 16th from fine retailers worldwide. The LP edition features a surprise inner cover with a reflective coating. The digital version will be available August 30th from the drab internet universe.
is the performance supergroup of Raul De Nieves, Jessie Stead and Nathan Whipple .
A master blend of punk installation, live show and original music, HARIBO has presented their cross-genre pop-operettas to sold out crowds in New York and internationally. Recent engagements include Performa 11, MoMA PS1, Fitzroy Gallery, Real Fine Arts, Cage, Santos Party House, Styx Gallery and Akershus Kunstsenter. HARIBO have appeared in numerous motion-pictures and will soon release their debut studio LP and several paintings.
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Inside the Music Gallery in Lahore, dressed in a fitted black t-shirt and pants, actor and director Shaan Shahid cuts an impressive figure.
After making a career through countless Lollywood films, Shaan is still keen to develop his resume, but, unlike many others, he is not aiming to do so by going abroad or venturing into Bollywood. Instead, this star plans to work with the younger lot of film-makers.
Currently, Shahid, 40, is filming up-and-coming director Bilal Lashari's action flick Waar. The film, whose details and release dates have been kept under-wraps, seems to encapsulate how the actor wants to shape his future career.
"Right now, the future of film belongs to this form of cinema that will be brought by Pakistan's young directors," smiles Shahid, who announced his retirement from the local mainstream film industry in Pakistan three months ago. "It's taken me five years, but now I have the infrastructure to invite young film-makers and provide a platform for them to make films. It is about creating a work of art, and if they need me to act, then I will act as well."
When asked what the reason behind this decision was, Shaan explains that 50 to 60 years ago, what is termed as 'parallel cinema' was a part of mainstream cinema. However, because Pakistan has faced so many ups and down over the years with dictators ruling the country and political instability being rampant, this was never sustained. Shahid has praise for one politician though, "Thanks to Musharraf, the youth have learnt the value of freedom of expression and creative openness, it is my goal to now take film to their doorstep."
Another venture which Shaan is trying to work on is to bring forth shorter films, which, are different from the typical long Lollywood length. His newest project for which filming will start in December is an untitled romantic-comedy. It is expected to be only 90-minutes-long and will include many of Pakistan's famous faces. The film is set in mainly Pakistan but five to seven days of shooting will be done in London, England.
The reason behind this is, "When the concept of three-hour-long films was developed, people had a lot more time on their hands, now life is much more fast paces and people cannot take time out for such long movies," says Shahid. The actor adds that he has not undertaken this project for money, as 30 days of filming on this venture will only earn him what he would normally earn in two days. Instead Shaan hopes that by pushing for such incentives, he can revitalise and strengthen Pakistan's film scene.
Despite being a star in the country Shahid has faced his share of problems and says that a film which he had been working on for three years was stalled after the sponsor pulled out at the last second as they wanted to take the plot in another direction. The film's plot was based on a love story between a young boy and girl who met at the Lux Style Awards. "It's really high time that sponsors realise that branding in films is essential and an important way to help finance films," emphasises Shahid.
When asked why he has not gone to Bollywood, Shaan says, unlike many Pakistani stars, he remains hesitant of working in the Indian market as he feels that each Pakistani has a patriotic duty and wants to ensure that no film he works in misrepresents Pakistan. This is something that seems to be critical in understanding Shaan — he states that he values being Pakistani more than anything.
"Aamir Khan asked me to take on the role of the villain in Gajini but my response was simple; why choose a Pakistani to play a negative role when there are 10,000 other actors in India who could do the job?" states the actor.
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When I was first looking for a place to volunteer I feared getting in over my head but I wanted to do something to help animals. I stopped by a Castle of Dreams Rescue event and the volunteers were so nice and understanding of my concerns I signed up.
These people are angels! They are a group of the most caring individuals I have ever met. They supported me from the first minute I started fostering and today, years later, they are still there whenever I need them. Each and every member of the Castle of Dreams team gives 110%. They are there for the right reason, to help save every dog possible.
I'm proud to be a part of this wonderful organization. They are truly angels for each and every dog that comes their way.
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There have been few companies in the audiophile world that have created as much buzz as Berkeley, Calif.-based Magico over the past few years.
This relatively new manufacturer has introduced a series of products for the luxury market and has established itself as one of the top loudspeaker companies in the category.
With its S1 compact freestanding loudspeaker, Magico has addressed a broader demographic by providing luxury consumers a visually appealing solution that does not compromise sound quality for style and ergonomics.
The two-way loudspeaker stands just under 4 feet tall, 9 inches deep and 10 inches wide, and it can be used for traditional two-channel applications or as the main left and right speakers in a home theater that also features the company's upcoming center-channel speaker.
Internally the speaker uses Magico's 1-inch MB30 tweeter and 7-inch M390 mid-woofer. Magico states the 4-ohm speaker has a rated sensitivity of 86dB and a frequency response of 32Hz to 50kHz.
Magico offers the speaker in a number of colors to ensure it complements an array of home interior designs.
The Magico S1 carries an MSRP of $12,600 and is made in the company's California facilities.
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Release Date: 2012 |
Album Rating: 1.0What a great review! thanks for the heads up bro
Recommended by reviewer: Oceano-Contagion
i met the rhythm guitarist of Whitechapel b4. cool dood
Album Rating: 4.5"Recommended by reviewer: Oceano-Contagion"
Oh goodness, change this asap. Heres some recs:
Carnifex-Until I Feel Nothing
As Blood Runs Black-Allegiance
Whitechapel-A New Era of Corruption
Born of Osiris
Veil of Maya-Eclipse
Or even Oceano-Depths
Like those are any better.
Album Rating: 4.5They are more respectable at the least.
Aside from this, and the excessive use of commas, good review. This album is very underrated on this site. I think people just try to hate it because of Whitechapel's "-core" label.
"They are more respectable at the least."
Not really.
This is a big improvement from a new era of corruption
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Album Rating: 4.0Dont understand why people are saying i should have listed these songs in the reccomendation section. It says "please list any any ALBUMS that you think are similar to this"
Because that's how this site works man. Just do it lol
Album Rating: 4.0Lolol fair enough. Btw guys this is the first review I have ever written, so take it easy with criticism ;)
Oceano sucks so hard. This is kinda cool though it has it's moments. Good review.
Digging: Death of Lovers - The Acrobat
lol album
I forget which song that lyric is from.
MAKE It BLEEEEEEEEEED
Album Rating: 5.0Possession, bach
Pretty solid review. Articulate, and well thought out.
"Possession, bach."
That's the one.
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