#Ernest Holmes

[kamala-laxman]

“All the power of the universe is with you. Feel it, know it, and then act as though it were true.” — Ernest Holmes

#ernest holmes #power #universe

[mrs-trophy-wife]

"Your word is your wand: the power of your spoken word can create or destroy.”

—Ernest Holmes

#quotes #words #spirituality #law of attraction #persona #quote #magic #magical #the word #spirit #cause #thought #thought power #Ernest Holmes #manifesting #manifestation #the secret #manifest #creation #creating

[ophelia-network]

“You are an eternal being now on the pathway of endless unfoldment, never less but always more yourself. Life is not static. It is forever dynamic, forever creating not something done and finished, but something alive, awake and aware. There is something within you that sings the song of eternity. Listen to it.” —Ernest Holmes

Tree Of Life by Richey Beckett

#tree of life #richey beckett #ernest holmes #quotes #dark surreal #dark art #illustration #ophelia net #tree #spiritual #awareness #recognition #self improvement #self healing #eternal #being #unfoldment #growth #life quotes #awake #aware #inner journey #hippie #transformation #transcendence #psychology #philosophy #self help #self awareness #self growth

[theglasschild]

Life is not just something to be endured. It is to be lived in joy, in a fullness without limit/

Ernest Holmes, Discover a Richer Life

#Discover a Richer Life #Ernest Holmes #quotes #quote #lit #philosophy

[automotiveamerican]

Paying Tribute to Tow Trucks and Wreckers at the International Towing & Recovery Hall of Fame and Museum - Michael Milne @Hemmings

From the beginnings of the tow truck to the wrecker, you’ll find it in the hometown of Ernest Holmes Many of us have been stuck by the side of the road at some point in our lives, waiting for a tow truck to come to the rescue. The tow operator’s job is often an unsung service that gets overlooked in the motoring world. That oversight is remedied at the International Towing & Recovery Hall of…

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#Ernest Holmes #hemmings #Holmes Motor Company Lexington #International Towing & Recovery Hall of Fame #Michael Milne #Wrecker

[alreadyalwaysthis]

One Mind

If there is but One Mind then it follows that our word, our thought is the activity of that One Mind in our consciousness. The power that holds the planets in their place is the same power that flows through each of us. – Ernest Holmes

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#Ernest Holmes

[sunbathing-owl]

"The only limits that exist are the ones you place on yourself."

- Ernest Holmes

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[rivieiraa]

J’appris à comprendre bien mieux Cézanne et à saisir, vraiment comment il peignait ses paysages, quand j’étais affamé. 

#inspiration #quote #ernest holmes

[quotes-by-dilanka]

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. —Ernest Holmes

#ernest holmes #life #thinking #law of attraction #spirituality #krishnamurti #taoism #john templeton

[kamala-laxman]

“Life is not just something to be endured. It is to be lived in joy, in a fullness without limit . ― Ernest Holmes

#ernest holmes #life #joy

[mrs-trophy-wife]

When you speak the word expect it to happen. Know that it must be as you say. This will not be fooling yourself, it will simply be using the law as it is meant to be used.

—Ernest Holmes

#quotes #words #spirituality #law of attraction #persona #manifesting #manifestation #manifest #creation #imagining #imagination #imagining creates reality #ernest holmes #universal law #law of assumption #spiritual truth #quote

[mostlysignssomeportents]

2023's public domain is a banger

40 years ago, giant entertainment companies embarked on a slow-moving act of arson. The fuel for this arson was copyright term extension (making copyrights last longer), including retrospective copyright term extensions that took works out of the public domain and put them back into copyright for decades. Vast swathes of culture became off-limits, pseudo-property with absentee landlords, with much of it crumbling into dust.

After 55-75 years, only 2% of works have any commercial value. After 75 years, it declines further. No wonder that so much of our cultural heritage is now orphan works, with no known proprietor. Extending copyright on all works – not just those whose proprietors sought out extensions – incinerated whole libraries full of works, permanently.

But on January 1, 2019, the bonfire was extinguished. That was the day that items created in 1923 entered the US public domain: DeMille's Ten Commandments, Chaplain's Pilgrim, Burroughs' Tarzan and the Golden Lion, Woolf's Jacob's Room, Coward's London Calling and 1,000+ more works:

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2019/

Many of those newly liberated works were forgotten, partly due to their great age, but also because no one knew who they belonged to (Congress abolished the requirement to register copyrights in 1976), so no one could revive or reissue them while they were still in the popular imagination, depriving them of new leases on life.

2019 was the starting gun on a new public domain, giving the public new treasures to share and enjoy, and giving the long-dead creators of the Roaring Twenties a new chance at posterity. Each new year since has seen  a richer, more full public domain. 2021 was a great year, featuring some DuBois, Dos Pasos, Huxley, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Bessie Smith and Sydney Bechet:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/16/fraught-superpowers/#public-domain-day

In just 12 days, the public domain will welcome another year's worth of works back into our shared commons. As ever, Jennifer Jenkins of Duke's Center for the Public Domain have painstaking researched highlights from the coming year's entrants:

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2023/

On the literary front, we have Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse, AA Milne's Now We Are Six, Hemingway's Men Without Women, Faulkner's Mosquitoes, Christie's The Big Four, Wharton's Twilight Sleep, Hesse's Steppenwolf (in German), Kafka's Amerika (in German), and Proust's Le Temps retrouvé (in French).

We also get all of Sherlock Holmes, finally wrestling control back from the copyright trolls who control the Arthur Conan Doyle estate. This is a firm of rent-seeking bullies who have abused the court process to extract menaces money from living creators, including rent on works that were unambiguously in the public domain.

The estate's sleaziest trick is claiming that while many Sherlock Holmes stories were in the public domain, certain elements of Holmes's personality were developed in later stories that were still in copyright, and therefore any Sherlock story that contained those elements was a copyright violation. Infamously, the Doyle Estate went after the creators of the Enola Holmes series, claiming a copyright over Sherlock stories in which Holmes was "capable of friendship," "expressed emotion," or "respected women." This is a nonsensical theory, based on the idea that these character traits are copyrightable. They are not:

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2023/#fn6text

The Doyle Estate's shakedown racket took a serious body-blow in 2013, when Les Klinger – a lawyer, author and prominent Sherlockian – prevailed in court, with the judge ruling that new works based on public domain Sherlock stories were not infringing, even if some Sherlock stories remained in copyright. The estate appealed and lost again, and Klinger was awarded costs. They tried to take the case to the Supreme Court and got laughed out of the building.

But as the Enola Holmes example shows, you can't keep a copyright troll down: the Doyle estate kept making up imaginary copyright laws in a desperate, grasping bid to wring more money out of living, working creators. That's gonna be a lot harder after Jan 1, when The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes enters the public domain, meaning that every Sherlock story will be out of copyright.

One fun note about Klinger's landmark win over the Doyle estate: he took an amazing victory lap, commissioning an anthology of new unauthorized Holmes stories in 2016 called "Echoes of Sherlock Holmes":

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Echoes-of-Sherlock-Holmes/Laurie-R-King/Sherlock-Holmes/9781681775463

I wrote a short story for it, "Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Extraordinary Rendition," which was based on previously unpublished Snowden leaks.

https://esl-bits.net/ESL.English.Listening.Short.Stories/Rendition/01/default.html

I got access to the full Snowden trove thanks to Laura Poitras, who jointly commissioned the story from me for inclusion in the companion book for "Astro noise : a survival guide for living under total surveillance," her show at the Whitney:

https://www.si.edu/object/siris_sil_1060502

I also reported out the leaks the story was based on in a companion piece:

https://memex.craphound.com/2016/02/02/exclusive-snowden-intelligence-docs-reveal-uk-spooks-malware-checklist/

Jan 1, 2023 will also be a fine day for film in the public domain, with Metropolis, The Jazz Singer, and Laurel and Hardy's Battle of the Century entering the commons. Also notable: Wings, winner of the first-ever best picture Academy Award; The Lodger, Hitchcock's first thriller; and FW "Nosferatu" Mirnau's Sunrise.

However most of the movies that enter the public domain next week will never be seen again. They are "lost pictures," and every known copy of them expired before their copyrights did. 1927 saw the first synchronized dialog film (The Jazz Singer). As talkies took over the big screen, studios all but gave up on preserving silent films, which were printed on delicate stock that needed careful tending. Today, 75% of all silent films are lost to history.

But some films from this era do survive, and they are now in the public domain. This is true irrespective of whether they were restored at a later date. Restoration does not create a new copyright. "The Supreme Court has made clear that 'the sine qua non of copyright is originality.'"

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/499/340

There's some great music entering the public domain next year! "The Best Things In Life Are Free"; "I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice-Cream"; "Puttin' On the Ritz"; "'S Wonderful"; "Ol' Man River"; "My Blue Heaven" and "Mississippi Mud."

It's a banger of a year for jazz and blues, too. We get Bessie Smith's "Back Water Blues," "Preaching the Blues," and "Foolish Man Blues." We get Louis Armstrong's "Potato Head Blues" and "Gully Low Blues." We get Jelly Roll Morton's "Billy Goat Stomp," "Hyena Stomp," and "Jungle Blues." And we get Duke Ellington's "Black and Tan Fantasy" and "East St. Louis Toodle-O."

Note that these are just the compositions. No new sound recordings come into the public domain in 2023, but on January 1, 2024, all of 1923's recordings will enter the public domain, with more recordings coming in every year thereafter.

We're only a few years into the newly reopened public domain, but it's already bearing fruit. The Great Gatsby entered the public domain in 2021, triggering a rush of beautiful new editions and fresh scholarship:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/books/the-great-gatsby-public-domain.html

These new editions were varied and wonderful. Beehive Books produced a stunning edition, illustrated by the Balbusso Twins, with a new introduction by Wellesley's Prof William Cain:

https://beehivebooks.com/shop/gatsby

And Planet Money released a fabulous, free audiobook edition:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/18/peak-indifference/#gatsby

Last year saw the liberation of Winnie the Pooh, unleashing a wild and wonderful array of remixes, including a horror film ("Blood and Honey") and also innumerable, lovely illustrations and poems, created by living, working creators for contemporary audiences.

As Jenkins notes, many of the works that enter the public domain next week display and promote "racial slurs and demeaning stereotypes." The fact that these works are now in the public domain means that creators can "grapple with and reimagine them, including in a corrective way." They can do this without having to go to the Supreme Court, unlike the Alice Randall, whose "Wind Done Gone" retold "Gone With the Wind" from the enslaved characters' perspective:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind_Done_Gone

After all this, you'd think that countries around the world would have learned their lesson on copyright term extension, but you'd be wrong. In Canada, Justin Trudeau caved to Donald Trump and retroactively expanded copyright terms by 20 years, as part of USMCA, the successor to NAFTA. Trudeau ignored teachers, professors, librarians and the Minister of Justice, who said that copyright extension should require "a modest registration requirement" – so 20 years of copyright will be tacked onto all works, including those with no owners:

https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2022/04/the-canadian-government-makes-its-choice-implementation-of-copyright-term-extension-without-mitigating-against-the-harms/

Other countries followed Canada's disastrous lead: New Zealand "agreed to extend its copyright term as a concession in trade agreements, even though this would cost around $55m [NZ dollars] annually without any compelling evidence that it would provide a public benefit":

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/nz-agrees-to-mickey-mouse-copyright-law

Wrapping up her annual post, Jenkins writes of a "melancholy" that "comes from the unnecessary losses that our current system causes—the vast majority of works that no longer retain commercial value and are not otherwise available, yet we lock them all up to provide exclusivity to a tiny minority.

"Those works which, remember, constitute part of our collective culture, are simply off limits for use without fear of legal liability. Since most of them are 'orphan works' (where the copyright owner cannot be found) we could not get permission from a rights holder even if we wanted to. And many of those works do not survive that long cultural winter."

[Image ID: A montage of works that enter the public domain on Jan 1, 2023.]

#pluralistic #copyright #usmca #james boyle #jennifer jenkins #canpoli #canada #silent films #enola holmes #les klinger #copyright trolls #rogers and hammerstein #irving berlin #laurel and hardy #marcel proust #ernest hemingway #william faulkner #copyfight #public domain #remix #preservation #al jolson #winnie the pooh #franz kafka #virginia woolf #metropolis #sherlock holmes

[ophelia-network]

"We have within us, a power that is greater than anything we shall ever contact in the outer, a power that can overcome every obstacle in our life and set us safe, satisfied and at peace, healed and prosperous, in a new light, and in a new life." Ernest Holmes

Flight of the Dragons by Boris Vallejo

#boris vallejo #flight of the dragons #ernest holmes #inner power #innerpower #courage #strength #ophelia net #fantasy #art #dragons #flying #flames #overcoming #peace #healing #spiritual #faith #inspirational #mindset #motivation

[theglasschild]

Never limit your view of life by any past experience.

Ernest Holmes

#Ernest Holmes #quotes #quote #lit #philosophy

[devoursjohnlock]

Mark Gatiss, Queer For Fear Part 2 | Ernest Thesiger, The Old Dark House (1932) | Richard Morrison, The Times July 14, 2018 | Mark Gatiss as Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock: The Empty Hearse | Harry Benshoff, Queer For Fear Part 2 | Mark Gatiss as Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock: The Final Problem

#Queer For Fear #Mark Gatiss #Ernest Thesiger #Sherlock #TEH #TFP #Lady Bracknell #Mycroft Holmes #'one of the queerest men' in London #The Greek Interpreter

[no-side-us]

Letters From Watson Liveblog - Sep. 27

The Retired Colourman, Part 2 of 2

Watson continues to be the most long-suffering partner in existence. And while being stuck with a miser of a man in some little village in the middle of nowhere is admittedly pretty funny, Holmes could have at least saved the laughter for when Watson got back.

I had assumed the mysterious man who was present while Watson was investigating solo would turn out to be Holmes in disguise, a la other stories, but I guess not. So is he the local inspector or something?

Very direct and upfront. I like that. No need to play games or act coy with Amberley, Holmes just confronts him about it outright.

A cyanide pill? Or whatever poison thing is in that pellet. I didn't know they had those back then. How did Amberley even get it, or rather why did he have it on him at all? Did he suspect the jig would be up before he and Watson went to the vicarage, which would make some sense now that I'm thinking about it.

Holmes has a rival! A "hated" rival at that! What an interesting little tidbit. Looking him up, it doesn't seem like he's in any story other than this one (unless you decide to make him Cecil Barker from Valley of Fear like some do), so I would have liked if he had more of a role in this story as a rival to Holmes.

I like the credit Holmes gives to Watson throughout the explanation of the case. He should do that more often.

So the paint was used to cover up a smell, but the smell of the gas used to kill them and not of their decaying bodies stashed somewhere in the house. Well, at least I was half right, though I think the gas might have been a bit too complicated since it required a whole specific room to work.

And that day is today. I feel like we haven't seen Holmes allow another detective to take credit for a case in a while, at least not in story. Glad to see he's still keeping it up, while also acknowledging that the truth will get out some day anyways.

Great case, can't wait.

Part 1 - Part 2

#letters from watson #the retired colourman #sherlock holmes #john h watson #josiah amberley #mr barker #inspector mackinnon #mrs amberley #ray ernest #arthur conan doyle #liveblogging sherlock holmes