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  EH.Net Encyclopedia: Banking Panics in the US: 1873-1933
Federal regulation was absent in the antebellum period with panics in 1819, 1837, 1857 and incipient panics in 1860 and 1861.
A banking panic may be defined as a class of financial shocks whose origin can be found in any sudden and unanticipated revision of expectations of deposit loss where there is an attempt, usually unsuccessful, to convert checking deposits into currency.
During the banking panics of 1930 and 1931 there was no uniform response across the twelve Federal Reserve Districts, whether measured by the bank suspension evidence or the loss of depositor confidence as reflected in Federal Reserve notes in circulation.
eh.net /encyclopedia/article/wicker.banking.panics.us   (2714 words)

  
 Calendar Research Inc.: Autumn Panics A Calendar Phenomenon
Panics were originally ascribed to the god Pan simply because there were no obvious fundamental causes for their occurrence.
The correlation between the annual lunar calendar and the timing of the three 20th century panics as well as the supportive data from the 19th century does not prove that an annual lunar calendar position is the cause of those panics.
The annual lunar model for panics points to the 27th and 28th days of the lunar month as the dark days, yet that is only true in the autumn season, the 6th or 7th lunar month.
www.calendarresearch.com /autumnpanics.html   (3022 words)

  
 Panic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Panics typically occur in disaster situations, or violent situations (such as robbery, home invasion, a shooting rampage, etc.) which may endanger the overall health of the affected group.
The word panic derives from the name of the Greek god Pan, who is said to have the ability to cause fear of lonely or open places.
Panic experienced by air travellers during the last minutes of their lives aboard crashing commercial flights has been the basis of several multi-million dollar lawsuits brought against airlines, based on the legal concept of emotional suffering
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Panic   (650 words)

  
 Moral Panics
However, moral panics are not a new phenomenon and the actions of certain segments of society, most notably youths, have often been seen as immoral and threatening to the accepted norms and patterns found within our culture.
In the 1970s the image of the fl mugger became a target of those wishing to instil concern in the minds of the public, a panic which was to lead to a great deal of prejudice and racism at every level of society and a fear which, to a large extent, remains today.
A moral panic was created following the death of the eighteen year old Leah Betts from the drug ecstasy in November 1995, and the case demonstrates several aspects of moral panics which are created and substantiated by the media.
www.aber.ac.uk /media/Students/mtw9403.html   (3355 words)

  
 PANICS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the general concept of sudden fear, see Panic.
PANICS or P.A.N.I.C.S., an acronym for People Acting Normal In Crazy-Ass Situations, is a comic science fiction mini-series created by Rooster Teeth Productions and released in 2005.
Bravo 3, of course disagrees, advising the Chief that a code word in the middle of a panic situation is ill-fated.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/PANICS   (1846 words)

  
 SSRN-Libertarian Panics by Adrian Vermeule
The very same mechanisms are equally capable of producing libertarian panics: episodes in which aroused publics become irrationally convinced that justified security measures represent unjustified attempts to curtail civil liberties.
I will suggest that libertarian panics have been a regular occurrence in American history, and that we may be living through one now, in the form of a widespread and thoroughly irrational, even hysterical, reaction to small legal changes adopted after 9/11.
The existence of libertarian panics undermines the institutional reforms urged by the advocates of the standard model.
papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=671942   (490 words)

  
 Banking Panics and Business Cycles - Knowledge@Wharton
Using a century of newly constructed data, parametric and nonparametric tests are used to determine whether consumer behavior during banking panics can be explained by economic relations established during nonpanic periods.
The evidence shows that banking panics during the U.S. National Banking Era (1865-1914) were the products of the same behavior pattern as at non-panic dates.
Panics are triggered by a leading indicator of recession.
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu /paper.cfm?paperid=605   (97 words)

  
 Moral Panics
"Moral panics then, are those processes whereby members of a society and culture become 'morally sensitized' to the challenges and menaces posed to 'their' accepted values and ways of life, by the activities of groups defined as deviant.
Moral panics seek some sort of resolution and this often comes with a change in the law, designed to further penalise those established as the threatening deviants at the source of the panic ("New clampdown on devil-worshippers".
A classic, recent example of moral panic in the UK was the Sarah Payne case, which led to changes in the existing Sex Offenders Register (wider access, a shorter time for offenders to register).
www.mediaknowall.com /violence/moralpanicnotes.html   (525 words)

  
 Banking Panics of the Gilded Age Eastern Economic Journal - Find Articles
The panics during the national banking era (from 1863 to 1913) have never garnered the same attention as the Great Depression bank panics.
Commercial bankers recognized that during periods of panic it was desirable to have assistance from runs on solvent institutions.
Wicker finds that the actions of the NYCH were appropriate during the panics of 1884 and 1890, and that the behavior of the NYCH was a decisive factor in preventing a true and meaningful panic.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3620/is_200201/ai_n9037728   (904 words)

  
 Erowid Library/Bookstore : 'Synthetic Panics'
America has a long history of drug panics, during which countless social problems have been blamed on the devastating effects of some harmful substance.
Synthetic Panics traces the history of these anti-drug movements, demonstrating that designer chemicals inspire so much fear not because they are uniquely dangerous, but because they heighten deeply rooted public concerns about social and cultural upheaval.
Synthetic Panics also has important policy implications: it argues forcefully for a fundamental rethinking of our whole approach to the "war on drugs" which is increasingly curtailing our rights and liberties.
www.erowid.org /library/books/synthetic_panics.shtml   (271 words)

  
 Panics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Panic did not subside, economy continued its slump through the end of the decade.
November 9, 1903 - Panic of 1903 (known as the "Rich Man's Panic") reached its low; Dow dropped to 42.15; stocks of industrial companies fell to single-digit prices; fiscal crisis dragged on for the rest of the year, took severe toll on banks, many steel and iron producers.
Panic on Wall Street : A Classic History of America's Financial Disasters with a New Exploration of the Crash of 1987.
www.kipnotes.com /Panics.htm   (1590 words)

  
 MacFixIt - Tutorial: Avoiding and eliminating Kernel panics
For instance, if kernel panics occur while the system wakes from sleep, goes to sleep, or puts the hard drive to sleep (during low activity), energy savings may be to blame.
Kernel panics after the lid is closed Mac OS X portables sometimes exhibit a troubling issue where the system kernel panics after the sleep command is invoked by closing the lid of a portable.
If it were possible to create a Kernel Panic by changing a preference or cache file, or by running an application, you would have detected a serious security hole in Mac OS X. In such a case, a potential attacker could just artificially recreate the situation causing the Panic, making the system crash.
www.macfixit.com /article.php?story=20060911080447777   (3456 words)

  
 MacAddict Forums / samba related kernel panics
I have generated 3 kernel panics thus far, and the cause have been using samba.
I have had 3 kernel panics, all related to samba, that's what the panic.log says that cause it.
I was running 10.2, and after the first panic, upgraded to 10.2.4, but had two more, so the updates didn't fix them.
www.macaddict.com /forums/post/236426   (232 words)

  
 How to Troubleshoot Linux Kernel Panics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Kernel panics on Linux are hard to identify and troubleshoot.
Troubleshooting kernel panics often requires reproducing a situation that occurs rarely and collecting data that is difficult to gather.
The most common cause of a hard kernel panic is when a driver crashes within an interrupt handler, usually because it tried to access a null pointer within the interrupt handler.
resource.intel.com /telecom/support/tnotes/tnbyos/2000/tn062.htm   (1189 words)

  
 Resolving Kernel Panics
If the panic does not recur, the cause was likely a problem related to one of the hardware additions, or its associated software, you removed in step (1).
Likewise, if the panics consistently occur when using a specific application, be sure to note that application in your post, including its name and the version of the application you are using.
If a kernel panic occurs immediately after the startup tone sounds, a panic log may not be written as the file system has yet to be mounted.
www.thexlab.com /faqs/kernelpanics.html   (2688 words)

  
 Technical Note TN2063: Understanding and Debugging Kernel Panics
However, most panics are the result of unhandled processor exceptions in kernel code, such as references to invalid memory addresses.
For each line of the panic display, the name of the kernel source file and function that displays that line is given, followed by an explanation of the information on that line.
While the information in a panic dump may have been cryptic at first, it should now be just another debugging tool available to the Mac OS X developer.
developer.apple.com /technotes/tn2002/tn2063.html   (2330 words)

  
 What are moral panics?
He defined the concept as a sporadic episode which, as it occurs, subjects society to bouts of moral panic, or in other terms, worry about the values and principles which society upholds which may be in jeopardy.
It is society's inability to accept responsibility for its failures and problems which results in the creation of these panics and society's resistance to place blame upon itself which incriminates the 'scapegoats', those who don't fit into the normal world around themselves.
The 'moral panics' over recent years have essentially tapped into the public's fears for their safety and the safety of society in years to come.
www.aber.ac.uk /media/Students/hrb9701.html   (2835 words)

  
 Mac OS X Kernel Panic FAQ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
If you experience a kernel panic with a specific software, be sure to inform the developer what version of their software you are using and with which operating system it happened.
In some cases the kernel panic will alert you "There is no driver for this platform", and Apple has made a knowledgebase article about this issue in Article 106403.
These hardware items are the least likely suspect in kernel panics, but if you just got a new system, and or just installed new memory and you get a kernel panic, that's the most likely place to start looking.
www.macmaps.com /kernelpanic.html   (2259 words)

  
 Financial Panics
Up to the early 20th century, economic setbacks were known as "financial panics".
Ken Follet's recent novel, A Dangerous Fortune, is an excellent read and a lesson in the financial state of this period.
The "credit cycle" occurred when strong money growth, credit creation and economic activity were inevitably followed by the bankruptcy of financial institutions as lowered credit standards and asset-based lending took their toll.
www.finpipe.com /panics.htm   (746 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Moral Panics: The Social Construction of Deviance: Books: Erich Goode,Nachman Ben-Yehuda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
From the Renaissance witch craze to the American drug panic of the 1980s, the authors explore the genesis, dynamics, and demise of moral panics - and examine their impacts on the societies in which they take place.
Moral Panics is not only the first, serious book-length treatment of a fascinating subject, but also a superb introduction to wider themes in the sociology of deviance and social problems.
The correlation of moral panic theory and the wide-scale phenomenon during the 1980s of a growing irrational perception that all drug users were dangerous miscreants, that if drug users are not eradicated the state of America would quickly deteriorate, &c.
www.amazon.com /Moral-Panics-Social-Construction-Deviance/dp/063118905X   (1560 words)

  
 Manias, Panics and Crashes
Financial markets are particularly susceptible to manias, panics and crashes, where asset prices rise to extraordinary heights only for confidence and greed to turn to fear and despair, sending the market into freefall.
Kindleberger argues that there is a consistent pattern to financial manias and panics - quite apart from the ebb and flow of the business cycle - which can be controlled or moderated.
There might also be gambling on the upside, with some investors doubling their bets in a rising market, attracted by the thrill of winning and the whiff of danger.
www.deanlebaron.com /book/ultimate/chapters/mania.html   (1832 words)

  
 ONLamp.com -- System Panics, Part 2: Recovering and Debugging
In his first column, Michael Lucas talked about how to prepare a FreeBSD system in case of a panic.
When your computer panics, would you rather have all the crash information at your fingertips, or would you prefer frantically reading the documentation and trying to set up the debugger?
The panic occurred while executing code that was compiled from the file /usr/src/sys/kern/vfs_subr.c, on line 2301.
www.onlamp.com /pub/a/bsd/2002/04/04/Big_Scary_Daemons.html   (861 words)

  
 Understanding kernel panics - macosx.com - Mac Support
Diagnosing kernel panics has been a slight mystery to me. I know all the troubleshooting steps (I am Apple authorized), but I'd really like to be able to read and understand all of the text that appears on screen when a kernel panic happens.
In I think the first like of the panic message, it referenced CPU (0 or 1 if it is a dual system).
I have also seen panics caused by the.kext installed by Symantec, where the panic directly mentioned this.kext.
macosx.com /forums/unix-x11/19281-understanding-kernel-panics.html   (226 words)

  
 macosxhints.com - 10.4: Cisco VPN Client causes MacPro kernel panics
I would kernel panic during shutdown, etc. Once it started panicking during boot and got stuck in an endless reboot cycle.
There is a reproducible shutdown panic resolved by removing the Cisco VPN kext file.
He found that there were no kernel panics for his setup.
www.macosxhints.com /article.php?story=20060920100339745   (1975 words)

  
 New Mac Pro version of Parallels Desktop causing kernel panics - Parallels Support Forum
I have installed the new build of Parallels Desktop and have had two kernel panics in the process of trying to set up new virtual machines (Windows XP).
The only thing that might be a bit off is the fact that I'm putting the VM on a different hard drive than the one Parallels resides on.
Kernel panic happened when Windows XP was about to start installing.
forum.parallels.com /thread4121.html   (1424 words)

  
 The Home of the Panics Website!!
Nobody seems to know their story either and I have a suspicion that is a fake band with the album done by studio musicians to cash in on the "twist" craze.
The Panics cut "Drugs Are For Thugs" is one of our favorite tracks the band ever did, and many other acts deliver great slices of music for your edification.
Update November 1 This month's mp3 is to give the fans a taste of the post-Panics era, with the Walking Ruins smash hit, 'Social Insecurity', and in the vein of the post-Panics world, the reunion cut 'No Feelings'.
www.angelfire.com /myband2/panics   (1587 words)

  
 Kernel Panics
Here are two examples of kernel panics that are displayed in OS X 10.1 and 10.2.
When you get a kernel panic, you will have to do a forced restart.
Note that this may be displayed when the computer just wants you to restart, after an installation was done – it doesn’t mean it has crashed.
www.graphixmad.plus.com /macosx_troubleshooter/pix_kernel_panics.html   (74 words)

  
 MacFixIt - Apple Broadband Tuner 1.0 (#4): Kernel panics on subsequent startup, fix; Alternative connection ...
Kernel panics on subsequent startup, fix A few users have reported serious startup problems after applying the Broadband Tuner patch -- likely not directly resultant from the changes made by the update, but by other latent problems
As previously noted, if you have a kernel panic during the first boot after applying Broadband Tuner 1.0, you can restart in Safe Mode to sidestep its effects.
I don't really understand how users could be having panics from the changes made in Apple Broadband Tuner 1.0.
www.macfixit.com /article.php?story=20051205075928826   (580 words)

  
 PANICS · Home
Look for a similar poll for PANICS and all four seasons of Red vs Blue coming up soon.
In order to help ease your pain, I've added a new poll to break up the monotony of "who's your favourite" polls, and that poll is "What's wrong with Tucker?" Not in the general sense, in the episode 73 sense.
I have some other stuff to work on over the next couple days, but I should be able to write up the rest of the episode analysese for PANICS by the end of the week.
panics.roostertooths.com /index.php   (998 words)

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