Morlum concerts, are far more than music. They are closer to vaudeville. Big shows will have 30 or more dancing girls behind the singers, and a new set of girls are swapped out with new costumes with each song.

Between sets of songs there are comedy routines, often with men dressed in drag. I've been to a couple of very remote concerts where they had traditional shadow puppet plays.

Concerts start around 7pm and go all night ending around 7am.

Thai people love to dance and can't seem to stop themselves from jumping up and dancing. By 3am the only people still standing and dancing are usually the grannies who are smashed out of their heads and drag you up near the stage to dance with them.

There is a lot of cheap whiskey and rice moonshine, and it is common in big concerts for groups of teenagers to start throwing bottles at each other. This often provokes security into action who are usually armed with assault rifles. Shots get fired and people can get trampled in the rush to escape the gun fire.

But I've never seen any serious problems in any of the smaller concerts.

There is a lot of good Morlum and Lamlao on YouTube. Search for Jintara and Siriporn and you should find some good stuff.

I raised Araucana when I was a kid. The eggs are cool, but they aren't very good commercial egg layers because the hens only lay a dozen or so eggs and then begin to brood (stop laying for a month and try to hatch eggs).

We used them as much to raise chicks as for their eggs. They made very good mothers.

I was told that besides their color, Araucana eggs had little or no cholesterol... I have no idea if that's true or not.

Tim's definition can be seen as an embodiment of FRBR.

FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) is an emerging standard in library cataloging breaks down creative works into a hierarchy of "work", "expression", "manifestation" and "item".

A work is a concept representing a creative work, an expression is the actual content of the work (words, arrangement etc), the manifestation can be thought of as an edition of a manifestation (paperback, hardcover, large print etc) and an item is the physical instance of a manifestation (a specific copy of a book sitting on a shelf in a library).

This approach is brilliant, but it's been *very* difficult to get people to understand it and apply it. Tim's definition of Fair Use can be used just as easily as a rule of thumb for how to know when something is a separate work in FRBR.

If you add value to it, it must be a separate work, if you are only doing a variation of that work, it is an expression of the original work. If it is only a reformating of the expression then it is a manifestation. And if it is a duplicate of a manifestation it is a item.

I mention this, because it just occurred to me that all the work done on FRBR could easily be used as the foundation for a legal definition for copyright law.

Sadly, part of the problem is that many people like Andrew Burt believe that it's fundamentally wrong to give *anything* away for free. So if a take down notice includes works that they ought not to be taking down, it's not bad at all because they are "doing it for your own good".