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Two treasures of Campania
With this tour you will have a private transportation (A/C sedan or minivan) with a professional driver that will take you to me in Pompeii.
With my knowledge we will discover the ruins of the most preserved roman city buried by the eruption of volcano Vesuvius.
After Pompeii you will go straight to Positano, the pearl of Amalfi coast, with its characteristic alleys full of little shops and delicious restaurants.
*** This TOUR CAN BE CUSTOMIZED 100% to YOUR NEEDS and REQUESTS and FOR MORE PEOPLE with a DIFFERENT PRICE ***
About 2 hours tour in Pompeii where we will see in detail the most important public buildings: the area of the Theaters, a Sacred area, the public Thermal baths, the Forum (main square) and its surroundings. You can also have an introduction of Roman daily life visiting different shops and houses. I'll explain and show you the incredible technique to obtain the plaster casts of the victims of the eruption.
Along the road to Positano you can admire the beautiful landscapes of the bay of Naples and of the Amalfi coast.
About 2 hours in Positano for a relaxing time (a good lunch, shopping, beach and sea).
Meeting Location + Tour Duration
Meeting location: Where requested in Sorrento, Naples, Salerno
End location: Where requested in Sorrento, Naples, Salerno
Duration: 7 hours 30 min.
Private transportation (A/C sedan or minivan) with a professional driver
My guidance and assistance as your private archaeological guide for about 2 hours in Pompeii.
Private transportation (A/C sedan or minivan) with a professional driver, pick up and drop off at your hotel or accommodation.
Estimated Local Cash Needed
15 euros - tickets fee x person, free under 18
Entrance fees, food and beverage.
If you need extra hours of guided tour don't hesitate to ask me
I am not a driver. I can accompany you in your vehicle or I can arrange for a separate car and driver.
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Roberto was amazing! Our group enjoyed a fantastic tour of Pompeii, the Amalfi Coast and Amalfi itself. I highly recommend ToursByLocals and tour guide Roberto for anyone seeking a tour in the port of Naples!


Nirav Modi ordered to pay £6.3m to Bank of India
Bank of India solicitor Milan Kapadia expressed satisfaction with the judgment
File photo: Nirav Modi (ANI PHOTO)
LONDON High Court has ordered fugitive Indian businessman, Nirav Modi, to repay a hefty sum of $8 million (£6.3m) to the Bank of India (BOI).
The ruling was issued early this month after Modi’s Dubai-based firm, Firestar Diamond FZE, failed to repay the loan it had received from the bank, reports said.
The legal battle between the bank and Firestar Diamond had been ongoing, with the former seeking to recover £6.3m from the firm, consisting of £3.2m in principal loan amount and an equal amount in accrued interest.
The dispute started from a credit facility of £7m that the bank had extended to Firestar, which, the firm was unable to repay when demanded by the bank back in 2018.
This prompted the lender to take legal action, leading to the recent judgment in its favour. The court found no merit in Modi’s defence or claims against repaying the loan, and it ordered him to fulfill his financial obligations.
According to reports, the summary judgment from the court is expected to facilitate the recovery process and potentially lead to the auctioning of Modi’s properties and assets worldwide.
Tom Beasley, the lawyer represented the Bank of India, effectively argued that Modi’s chances of success were slim, rendering a trial unnecessary. The court learned that while Modi had submitted a defence, he failed to reply to the bank’s request for a summary judgment.
Judge Jonathan Klein, presiding over the case, concluded that despite Modi’s imprisonment, he had the opportunity to contest the bank’s claim.
Bank of India solicitor Milan Kapadia expressed satisfaction with the judgment and said that the lender is looking forward to the next legal steps.
This ruling marks a significant development in the ongoing legal saga surrounding the disgraced businessman, who is currently serving time in a UK prison.
Modi faces difficulties in paying his legal expenses for his failed extradition case and is being pursued in court for failing to settle over £150,000 in legal fees.


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These home remedies may help you to recover faster and may also help to prevent cold and cough, naturally.
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Home remedy for cold and cough: Ginger garlic soup is perfect to boost immunity and get relieve from congestion, runny nose, sore throat etc. in winter.
Ginger is considered great for boosting immunity in winter. Here are some health benefits of consuming ginger, shared by experts.

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The Earache Webstore Christmas Sale is on now, and is bigger and better than ever!
With CDs from just £0.49, vinyl from just £4.99 and T-shirts starting at just £2.99, one trip to the Earache Webstore is all you need to get your Christmas shopping sorted, and you don’t even need to leave your house!
In addition to these amazing reductions, we’ve also got a number of woven patches reduced in our Christmas sale for the very first time, plus there are some incredible bargains to be had at our Bundles page. For example, pick any 3 Bolt Thrower CDs for less than £20, all 5 Entombed releases for a mere £24.99, whilst just £15 will get you your choice of any CD and T-shirt from Massacre, Municipal Waste, Cult Of Luna and Vader.
The 5th and final release in our new vinyl series, this marks the very first time that the iconic Napalm Death live album, “Live Corruption”, has been released on vinyl. Originally only included on CD in a limited edition box set issued back in 1992, this album was recorded in 1990 at Salisbury Art Centre, England with the classic line up consisting of Mark “Barney” Greenway, Jesse Pintado, Mitch Harris, Shane Embury, and Mick Harris.
For the very first time on vinyl, Earache are delighted to be offering “Wake Up And Smell The..”, a fine collection of all eras of Carcass, containing tracks from the Swansong sessions, “Heartwork” and “Tools Of The Trade” EPs amongst others, spread across 2 stunning slabs of wax. This vinyl is shipping now, and with the limited colour release of Bolt Thrower already sold out, it won’t be long until this stunner is gone too.
Vektor‘s European tour is just kicking off ahead of the highly anticipated 3rd studio album out on Earache Records in early 2016. For now though, we’re delighted to offer their first two studio albums, “Black Future” and “Outer Isolation”, on vinyl once again, following both of our pressings selling out completely the first time around.
Both vinyl are available separately, with a choice of our FIVE Vektor T-shirts, or with our brand new “Black Future” zip hoodie! The extreme limited alternate colour sleeve version of “Outer Isolation” has already sold out, so don’t hang around any longer if you haven’t ordered one of these yet.
Widely acclaimed as one of Britain’s greatest new rock acts, The Temperance Movement are back with the eagerly anticipated new album, “White Bear”. Since their self-titled debut landed at number 12 in the Official UK Album Chart in 2013, the band have been busy with various sold out shows and major festivals around the world, including being hand-picked by the Rolling Stones to support them in Europe in 2014, and again in North America in 2015.
“White Bear” consists of 10 brand new energised rock tracks, ranging from the raucous opening track and first single, “Three Bulleits”, to the expansive and ambitious sound of “A Pleasant Peace I Feel” and the deceptively infectious title track. Phil Campbell’s distinctive road worn vocal is again thrust to the foreground, showing exactly why he’s rated as one of the best vocalists in the current rock scene.

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This paper presents results of an investigation covering the influence of optical errors on the thermal and thermodynamic performance of a solar parabolic trough system. The optical performance was evaluated by using Monte Carlo ray tracing for slope errors and specularity errors in the range 0–5 mrad. A parabolic trough collector (PTC) with a rim angle of 80° and a concentration ratio of 86 was considered in this study. The heat flux profiles obtained from the optical analysis were coupled with a computational fluid dynamics tool (ANSYS FLUENT) to numerically investigate the thermal and thermodynamic performance of the receiver. In the numerical analysis, inlet temperatures and Reynolds numbers ranging from 350 K–650 K and 6800–1,140,000 were considered, respectively. Results show that, slope and specularity errors influence the heat flux distribution on the receiver's absorber tube. Results further show that the optical performance and thermal performance reduce significantly as the slope errors increase. For the range of parameters considered, the intercept factor reduces by up to 21% while the overall thermal efficiency reduces by up to 17% as optical errors increase. Receiver thermodynamic performance is shown to deteriorate as slope errors increase.
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The support received from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Tshwane University of Technology, the University of Pretoria and the University of Cape Town is duly acknowledged and appreciated. This funding received from the National Research Foundation (NRF) is also duly acknowledged and appreciated. Special acknowledgement to the anonymous reviewers for their constructive suggestions that helped improve the quality of this paper.
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- Entropy generation
- Optical errors
- Parabolic trough receiver
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In the intricate and challenging realm of government contracting, balancing regulatory compliance, managing contract cycles, and understanding the nuances of federal acquisition regulations are tasks that demand specialized expertise. At StatonWalsh, we specialize in offering comprehensive business consulting, 401k plan management, and financial wellness programs, specifically designed for government contractors.
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Our consulting services aim to help you foster growth, enhance operational efficiency, and ensure regulatory compliance. We understand the complexities and time demands associated with managing a business in the government contracting sector, and we strive to work in sync with your team of professionals, such as accountants, attorneys, and insurance agents, ensuring seamless coordination and saving you valuable time.
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Location: Watershed Physical Processes Research2012 Annual Report
1a. Objectives (from AD-416):
Conduct laboratory investigations to assess the dissipation of wave energy and water level changes induced by vegetation.
1b. Approach (from AD-416):
Use the wave tank facility housed at the NSL to investigate the effectiveness of vegetation for dissipating wave and storm surge energy. First, rigid elements in regular spacings will be subjected to monochromatic waves, and the results will be compared to currently established theory to ensure proper measurement and operation of the wave tank facility. Successful completion of this phase of work will lead to experiments with flexible elements and live vegetation being subjected to both monochromatic and random waves. Vegetation type and flexible model scales will be based on native vegetation in coastal areas.
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Both inland and coastal shorelines are susceptible to erosion by waves and storm surges, but mechanical shore protection can be prohibitively expensive. Vegetative bank protection is self-sustaining and is a more ecologically sound alternative. Adequate protection depends on both the type of vegetation and the amount available. For planning marsh restoration or establishment, it is essential to be able to predict the performance of vegetation based on measureable quantities such as stem diameter and the number stems in a given area. The project is focused on measuring the performance of marsh grasses for attenuating waves in relatively shallow water. The improved wave flume at the National Sedimentation Laboratory (NSL) was used to collect wave interaction data with a sloping beach with and without scaled vegetation. Video analysis was used to measure wave runup and wave setup. It was found that wave setup and runup were significantly reduced by the presence of scaled vegetation elements. In this phase of the work, experiments with flexible scaled vegetation on a sloping beach were completed, as were experiments with waves moving over submerged rigid and flexible vegetation. The final phase of the work is underway as of the writing of this report. Live samples of marsh edges were carefully cut from a marsh near the Louisiana coast and transferred to the wave flume. The samples contained intact mature rhizomes and grass. They were allowed to time to root into a packed silty loam substrate that approximately matched the soil characteristics common to coastal marshlands. Video and acoustic measurements were used to monitor the process of wave erosion over time. Monthly reports, frequent emails, and occasional meetings provided opportunities to keep cooperators informed of progress. Monitoring activities included site visits, emails, meetings, and telephone calls on at least a monthly basis.

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OnePlus has been very successful with its Nord series of affordable devices, and the company has announced several Nord branded smartphones in the past few years. Today, we see new renders of the upcoming OnePlus Nord 2 CE, giving us an idea of how it may look. The new leak also reveals some of the specifications and the ports the new midranger will be equipped with.
The new renders come from 91Mobiles, who collaborated with Yogesh Brar to create the new render images. The device is called as OnePlus Ivan internally, and it looks nearly identical to the existing OnePlus Nord 2 in terms of design. What’s different this time around is the camera module on the back, which appears slightly wider, and it has a slightly different layout when compared side-by-side.
The Nord 2 CE will reportedly have a 6.4-inch AMOLED display with 90Hz refresh rate, and it will have a punch-hole cutout on the top left of the display, which will house the 16MP selfie camera. There will also be an in-display fingerprint sensor. When it comes to power, the device is rumored to be powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 900 chipset with 8/12GB of RAM and 128/256GB of storage, which will also be expandable.
On the back of the Nord 2 CE, there will be a 64MP primary OmniVision sensor, an 8MP ultra-wide, and a 2MP macro camera. The camera island will also be slightly wider compared to the standard Nord 2, and the LED and macro sensor will also be placed on the top of the module, instead of being placed on the bottom.
The OnePlus Nord 2 CE will reportedly keep the 3.5mm headphone jack, and it’ll have a USB-C port on the bottom, alongside the speaker and built-in microphone. The device will have a 4,500mAh battery, and it will support 65W fast wired charging. The device will boot Oxygen OS 12, based on Android 12.
The OnePlus Nord 2 CE is rumored to be available in Grey and Olive Green colors, and it is expected to be announced sometime early next year in Q1 2022.
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The OnePlus Nord 2 5G comes with 65W Warp fast charging, a powerful chipset to power all of your needs and a large 6.43-inch Fluid AMOLED display with 90Hz.


Advocates drop opposition to Jefferson Bank merger after First Mid inks a community benefits agreement
Last fall, members of the St. Louis Equal Housing and Community Reinvestment Alliance and other advocates publicly opposed plans by Illinois-based First Mid Bank & Trust to purchase Jefferson Bank & Trust, a site of major civil rights protests in 1960s St. Louis. Mortgage-lending data for First Mid Bank showed “significant and widespread redlining and fair lending concerns,” the advocacy groups said. They urged the Federal Reserve to deny the merger and open an investigation into First Mid’s practices.
But a lot can change in a few months. And on Jan. 11, the community advocates announced they had reached a community benefits agreement with First Mid. The three-year agreement includes a plan to open at least two new First Mid branches that will serve low-to-moderate-income and minority communities — one in St. Louis and the other in Champaign, Illinois — as well as target lending goals and personnel investments by the bank.
“I’m really happy with how this has evolved,” said Elisabeth Risch, the alliance’s co-chair and also assistant director of the Metropolitan St. Louis Equal Housing and Opportunity Council. “The agreement is pretty significant. It includes a lot of the commitments that our members were looking for and asking for, and I think what that represents is really the bank’s and our ongoing dialogue.”
First Mid also committed to commemorating Jefferson Bank’s prominence in the civil rights struggle in St. Louis with a $10,000 donation tothe Griot Museum of Black History, according to a release.
In a statement, First Mid Chairman and CEO Joe Dively called the dialogue with advocacy groups productive. He said the bank is “optimistic the CBA will serve as a road map for our broader engagement with the community and like-minded organizations.”
As to the promised new locations, Dively said in a statement that First Mid is “investigating opportunities to best meet the needs in these communities and [has] already begun exploring potential sites.”
“We are also open to a non ‘traditional branch’ in order to meet these needs, which could include co-locating with trusted community partners, such as libraries, churches and community centers,” Dively said.
But while Risch said the agreement represents significant progress, she said cooperation with First Mid isn’t nearly enough when it comes to larger issues within the financial sector.
“Our issue is also with the Federal Reserve and with the other banking regulators … the regulators who oversee how banks are meeting their obligations in the community and complying with fair housing and fair lending laws,” Risch said, noting that regulators gave First Mid solid ratings despite its poor record serving people of color. “And so we still see the need to really raise the standards for how those regulators are evaluating banks.”
“St. Louis on the Air” brings you the stories of St. Louis and the people who live, work and create in our region. The show is hosted by Sarah Fenske and produced by Alex Heuer, Emily Woodbury, Evie Hemphill, and Kayla Drake. Jane Mather-Glass is our production assistant. The audio engineer is Aaron Doerr.


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iPad app to check out—Sock Puppets
Sock Puppets is an app I just learned about for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. It’s an app that will allow you to create your own “sock” puppet show.—Who doesn’t love a good sock puppet show? You can use it to retell a story or for a book review or for an original play.
The app is free, and with that free app you can record shows that are 30 seconds. There is also a store where you can purchase more content and extend your recording time up to 90 seconds. Here is a link to a blog that provides a really good explanation.
Tammy Worcester - Sock Puppets App
Literature Circles/ Handouts for Book Groups
Check out the awesome Literature Circles handouts from Laura Candler Teaching Resources page. Even if you don’t use the Literature Circles model, the resources for character and the Literature Response Questions are excellent and could be used in a center. For character she has an Intermediate & Primary list of character traits and a handy graphic organizer.
A few more Halloween read aloud suggestions
Boo Katie Woo by Fran Manushkin— new Junior Everybody series
Halloweiner—Dav Pilkey—picture book
One Halloween Night— Mark Teague—picture book
Dangerous Pumpkins—Emily Jenkins—new chapter book in our LMC

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The next version of the Audi A6 has been spotted testing in a camouflage wrap prior to going on sale in 2019. It'll have far more modern styling than the existing car, a brand-new series of engines and Audi's latest version of the Virtual Cockpit infotainment system.
BMW's gearing up to replace its 1 Series hatchback with a brand-new model in 2019 based on the front-wheel-drive Mini Fellow citizen. Our special render programs what this upcoming Audi A3 and Mercedes A-Class competitor could appear like.
Fiat hit the mark when it released the 500 a decade back. It came 50 years after the previous 500 was available, and it handled to capture the hearts of numerous customers ever since. The funky Fiat 500 supermini will reportedly be replaced in 2019 by a brand new model that might feature hybrid technology to improve its fuel effectiveness. Continue reading for complete details and our special render of this upcoming rival to the Mini hatchback.


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EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WEHT) – Four hearts and twelve legs with a drive to make home the best it can be. Susan and Steve Harp have dedicated their lives, and dogs, to the cause.
This Evansville family is picking its way to be the best volunteers in America.
“They love those dogs, I mean they are their children,” said Julie Welch, Executive Director of Keep Evansville Beautiful.
Welch leads a non-stop mission, but with the help of Evie and Vandy, the local non-profit has an upper hand. Now the dogs and their owners have a chance to show the world how.
To count the distance Evie has run in her 12-and-a-half years, would measure the change she has made.
Every tail wag is proof she is in love with life.
Together, the team has picked up litter around Evansville and the Tri-State for years, while sharing their message to keep the planet clean with tens of thousands of people.
Welch nominated them for this nation-wide Disney and Points of Light contest. “They are so caring and just wonderful, wonderful people, and we are so blessed to have them,” Welch said.
After a nationwide search, and thousands of submissions, one amazing family with a passion for making the world a better place will be chosen as the winner and named the Disney and Points of Light Volunteer Family of the Year.
Non-profits and schools around the country have nominated families in their communities who exemplify the power of volunteering together. Disney and Points of Light have narrowed down the nominees to the Top 30 families, representing a wide variety of causes from the environment to pet rescue and homelessness.
The Harp’s and their dogs now wait to find out if they made the top 5, but no matter what, their mission will continue.
“Be the change in the world that you want to see,” added Susan.
The top five families will be announced on Good Morning America starting on October 7. The winning family gets a Disney vacation, and the nominating organization gets $10,000.
“You can make a difference if you just try,” Susan said. “You know you think one person can’t make a difference, and sometimes it takes more than one person, but you’ve got to start somewhere.”
It goes to show how little things go a long way, and love for their city, people, and life beyond their time on Earth can all fit in the jaws of a yellow lab.
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Life as a Trans Man in Turn-of-the-Century America
"Our Nation’s Past is Far Queerer than is Generally Discussed"
In 1902, 33-year-old Harry Gorman was hospitalized in Buffalo, New York, after he suffered a serious fall that broke one of his legs. While on the surface this event sounds inconsequential, it prompted a firestorm of media coverage. Indeed, on his hospital bed, it was revealed that Gorman lacked the anatomy generally associated with maleness—despite having lived as a man for more than 20 years. This revelation drew attention from newspapers across the nation, from Tucson to Boston and Fort Worth to New York City.
Gorman explained that his decision to dress as a man had been made in his youth, motivated by both a desire for freedom and a frustration with the limited opportunities available to women. He told the New York World, “I wanted to be a man, and since I reached my 13th birthday[,] I have worn male attire. I landed in New York 20 years ago. I have worked in all the large cities of the United States and Canada as a man. People think they are so smart. Why, I fooled them all, and if it had not been for my accident when I fell and broke a leg[,] I would still be a man.” Gorman went on to explain that, as a man, he took advantage of all the opportunities with which men were provided, including getting married to a woman. He also voted, telling the New York World, “I’m a good democrat . . . and have voted the straight ticket for the last seven years.”
Perhaps most sensational of all, however, was Gorman’s revelation that he was not the only trans man to call Buffalo home. In fact, he claimed that he knew at least “ten women right here in Buffalo who wear men’s clothing and who hold men’s positions.” He went on to explain, “Did we have an organization? No, hardly an organization, but we run across each other once in a while[,] and over our beer and cigars in saloons[,] we have had many a good hearty laughs at the expense of the men.” In this way Gorman suggested to readers that though his “true sex” may have been discovered, there were many more individuals like him who still roamed the streets, undetected. Indeed, the headline of Indiana’s Logansport Journal worried, “Ten Women Masquerade as Men.” Furthermore, and perhaps more unsettling to some readers—especially cisgender men— those undetected trans men were frequently in saloons, one of the most hallowed male institutions in the early 20th century, mocking and having “many a good hearty laughs at the expense of the men.”
Just as the brief story of Gorman initially may appear inconsequential, the revelation of Gorman’s “true sex” might, at first glance, similarly seem unimportant to the history of the United States at the turn of the 20th century. However, nothing could be further from the truth. Newspapers across the country discussed Gorman’s case in articles under flashy headlines such as “She Was a Man for 20 Years.” The blitz of newspaper coverage about Harry Gorman illustrates that Americans at the beginning of that century were fascinated with gender—particularly its permeability, its elasticity, and the ways it intersected with race, class, and sexuality. Even though the disclosure of Gorman’s “true sex” was described by some newspapers as “startling,” it is likely that this was not the first story of a trans man that newspaper readers had encountered. In fact, newspapers around the country regularly reported stories of individuals who had been assigned female at birth but chose to live as male; at least 65 cases appeared in U.S. newspapers between the 1870s and 1930s.
For example, in 1883, Frank Dubois gained national attention when his “true sex” was discovered. Anatomically female (and the birth parent of two children), Dubois abandoned his family in Belvidere, Illinois, to start a new life in the small town of Waupun, Wisconsin. Once in Waupun, Dubois made a name for himself as a hardworking man, and he quickly settled down and married a young woman named Gertrude Fuller.
Dubois fit so well within the small community that the townspeople only discovered his “true sex” when his former husband and their two children arrived in town searching for their departed wife and mother, attracting widespread attention in the nation’s newspapers. And while Harry Gorman portrayed Buffalo’s trans men in an antagonistic relationship with cisgender men, mocking them from the corners of saloons, it appears that many trans men sought to live normative lives—just as Frank Dubois had done in Waupun—supporting wives, earning respect as hard workers, and flying under the radar as much as possible.
“Americans at the beginning of that century were fascinated with gender—particularly its permeability.”
The stories of Harry Gorman and Frank Dubois are illuminating in that they provide a far more complicated vision of the American past than the one historians have previously accepted. Gorman’s comments about there being ten other trans men in Buffalo are suggestive not only in what they reveal about that city but also in what they imply about everywhere else in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. His comments intimate that if Buffalo—a city not commonly thought of as the bedrock of the queer community—had at least 11 trans men in 1902, than surely so did Tulsa, Saint Paul, Jackson, and Reno. In short, his remarks reveal that our nation’s past is far queerer than is generally discussed and that queer history penetrates beyond the coasts and into the nation’s interior.
Gorman’s depiction of the community of trans men is revealing. Rather than being part of a tight-knit community that shared an underground lifestyle, trans men existed out in the open, living and passing as normative men, and only on occasion encountered one another. While perhaps some urban enclaves did exist, Gorman’s comments anticipate a great deal of what this book reveals: that trans men at the turn of the 20th century were not always urban rebels who sought to overturn normative gender roles. On the contrary, they often sought to pass as conventional men, aligning themselves with the normative values of their communities. When mixed-raced Milwaukee resident Ralph Kerwineo’s “true sex” was revealed in 1914, the local papers were full of testimonies attesting to how conventional Kerwineo’s life as a man had been. His neighbor Joseph Traudt told the Evening Wisconsin, “In the neighborhood it was frequently remarked what a nice married couple [Kerwineo and his wife] were. After having seen the ‘husband’ help his ‘wife’ across a muddy street[,] my mother said to me: ‘How nice he is to his wife.’”
Like many of the other trans men at the time, Kerwineo, Gorman, and Dubois lived lives marked by movement. However, their trajectories challenge the dominant narratives about queer history. Although Gorman claimed that he had “worked in all the large cities of the United States and Canada as a man,” many of his contemporaries chose to move not from large city to large city but rather from small town to small town, often living in rural outposts like Manhattan, Montana, and Ettrick, Virginia. For his part, Kerwineo’s life as a man began once he had moved away from Chicago—a city with a burgeoning queer subculture—to the relatively sleepier city of Milwaukee. Frank Dubois also began his male life after a move; he had left his family in Belvidere, Illinois, to start over not in Chicago (the nearest large city) but in the tiny hamlet of Waupun, Wisconsin. Trans men seemingly chose these out-of-the-way places in order to make quite regular, maybe even ordinary, lives. They were, in a word, unexceptional.
The newspaper narratives produced around the moment of “discovery” when a trans man’s “true sex” was revealed to his community in the period between the 1870s and the 1930s provide a unique window into the ways individuals and communities made sense of national discourses about proper gender embodiment and the emergent medical literature on homosexuality. Indeed, this period witnessed the emergence of sexology, or the study of human sexuality, in the United States. A field of inquiry first established in Europe, sexology gained a foothold in the United States in the late 19th century with the publication of several important works, most notably Richard von Krafft-Ebing’s 1886 Psychopathia Sexualis and Havelock Ellis’s 1895 “Sexual Inversion in Women.” Both of these works defined homosexuality as pathological and degenerative and argued that in women, samesex desire was most often signified by inversion, or the predilection toward masculinity and crossdressing.
Scholars for three decades have been attempting to understand the relationship between sexological theories on gender and sexuality and popular understandings of the same. While Michel Foucault has famously argued that sexologists created the “species” of the homosexual, other scholars have been more tepid in their analyses. George Chauncey warned in 1982 that “it would be wrong to assume . . . that doctors created and defined the identities of ‘inverts’ and ‘homosexuals’ at the turn of the century, that people uncritically internalized the new medical models, or even that homosexuality emerged as a fully defined category in the medical discourse itself in the 1870s.”
“The truth is that gender is always in crisis.”
One challenge scholars have faced is a methodological one: How can we recover the ways everyday Americans embraced or rejected medicalized understandings of sexuality and gender? Lisa Duggan’s Sapphic Slashers, which focuses on Alice Mitchell’s 1892 murder of her female lover, Freda Ward, provides useful insight in this arena by tracking the emergence of “a recognizable American type—the mannish lesbian or invert, a prosperous white woman whose desires threatened the comfortable hegemony of the white home.” Duggan argues that the emergence of this recognizable “type” occurred in the 1890s through the development of the cultural narrative of the “lesbian love murder”—a form that developed in sexology, the sensational press, and literature. These accounts portrayed lesbians as masculine women who were violent, dangerous, and a threat to white domesticity. However, even Duggan acknowledged that her study was limited and analyzed only one of the many cultural narratives of lesbian identity that had been circulating at the turn of the 20th century.
A wider optic reveals that Americans, from small towns to big cities, often questioned proper “male” and “female” behavior and that the newspaper-reading public came face to face with stories of crossdressers, “female husbands,” and “sexual inverts” with surprising regularity. This discourse was not isolated to metropolitan areas but instead could be found within the most rural frontier outpost. For example, in the summer of 1901, newspapers nationwide breathlessly reported on the Parkersburg, West Virginia, trial of Ellis Glenn. The objective of the trial was to determine Glenn’s “true” identity; an individual named Ellis Glenn had committed several crimes in West Virginia and Illinois, but upon arrest it was discovered that he was anatomically female. When asked to clarify this turn of events, the suspect explained that he was not actually Ellis Glenn but rather Glenn’s twin sister—and that the pair had switched places just prior to the arrest.
According to the story, a deep sisterly devotion motivated her to take the fall for her persecuted brother. Thus, a lengthy trial took place centered wholly on determining Glenn’s true identity as either (as the Chicago Tribune described it) “a latter[-]day martyr or . . . an adventuress so exceptional as to lack a class.” In other words, the prosecution was charged with proving that the Glenn who had committed the forgeries—the Glenn previously known as a man—had actually been a woman posing as a man.
For several weeks in July 1901, Ellis Glenn’s trial was featured in newspapers across the country, from Anaconda, Montana, to Montgomery, Alabama. Glenn’s story, and those of many others, reveals a past during which gender norms were consistently challenged, questioned, and, most significant, in process. Whereas historians have traditionally credited only certain decades as being moments of “gender trouble” (the 1920s being the most common example), the truth is that gender is always in crisis and that crossdressing figures have often been the site on which debate about gender norms has taken place.
Adapted from True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Used with permission of NYU Press. Copyright © 2017 by Emily Skidmore.

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It seems that filmmaker Karan Johar has a deep filmy connection with the actor Ajay Devgn. After the famous clash of ‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’ and ‘Shivaay’, the ace director has something more in store for the actor. Reportedly, the film to be co-produced by Karan and superstar Salman Khan featuring Akshay Kumar has the same subject as that of Ajay’s film.
Ajay, last year, has announced the movie that hinted at the sequel of his 2012 film ‘Son of Sardaar’ and was related to the Battle of Saragarhi. Along with Ajay the film also had actor Randeep Hooda on boards. According to the latest reports, the film offered to Akshay by Karan and Salman contains same role as Ajay’s and has the similar story.
Rumours were rife that Ajay and Randeep has also started the pre-production work of the movie and will start the shooting of it post ‘Baadshaho’.
Few days back, an announcement was made that Salman and Karan will be joining hands for the first time to produce a film that will feature Akshay as the lead. It will be released in 2018. The news created curiosity among people as the biggest names of the film industry were coming together for the first time.
Now, if these reports turn out to be true then this is going to be a huge problem for Ajay.
Previously, Karan Johar’s Ae Dil Hai Mushkil clashed with Ajay Devgn’s directorial venture ‘Shivaay’ at the box office. Both the films entered the coveted 100 crore club, but ‘ADHM’ won the battle.

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In a sign that political opposition to surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency may be growing, a wide range of top Democrats took aim at the program throughout the day and called for immediate hearings to investigate the president's.
"We need to know what our government is doing in its activities that spy upon Americans," said Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat. "The Republican-controlled Congress has failed in its oversight responsibilities to the American people."
Pennsylvania's Arlen Specter, the Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, vowed to force executives from AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth to show up at a hearing and answer questions about what data they quietly handed over to the NSA without court approval. USA Today reported on Thursday that those three companies had voluntarily opened their databases to the NSA, while Qwest refused.
Sen. Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat, wrote his colleagues on the Senate Commerce Committee asking for a parallel set of hearings--in closed session, if necessary--that would require those three chief executives to explain "the role of the phone companies in this program."
During a hastily arranged press conference at the White House this morning, Bush Bush said. "Our efforts are focused on links to al Qaeda and their known affiliates. So far we've been very successful in preventing another attack on our soil."as perfectly legal and necessary to thwart terrorism. "We're not mining or trolling through the personal lives of millions of innocent Americans,"
It wasn't immediately clear how many other GOP members would break ranks and support more hearings. Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, warned his colleagues not to rush to judgment on the latest revelations, which said that the three phone companies had divulged records of the calling histories of hundreds of millions of Americans--but not the actual content of the conversations.
One, for instance, was supposed to focus on the privacy of Social Security numbers. But Democrats used it as a platform to criticize the president, while the panel's Republican members remained silent.
"We've entered a time where consumers' rights and privacy are for sale, and as it turns out, the government may be the best customer," said Rep. Jan Schakowsky, an Illinois Democrat. According to Rep. Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, the news represented "another telecom merger between NSA and AT&T."
"We've got a new slogan for the AT&T and NSA: Reach out and tap someone," Markey said, drawing laughter from fellow Democrats and their aides. Markey added, more seriously, that the nation has reached "a point of privacy crisis."
Other House Democrats, including Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, on Thursday introduced what they called the Lawful Intelligence and Surveillance of Terrorists in an Emergency by NSA, or the Listen Act. It specifies that covert attempts to spy on Americans or collect telephone and e-mail records must be approved by a court created by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Bush's difficult political position
The new revelations could be politically damaging to the Bush administration because the president has repeatedly stressed that the NSA spy program is aimed only at intercepting phone conversations and e-mail messages where one party to the conversation was outside the United States. In January, for instance, Bush assured Americans that "one end of the communication must be outside the United States."
A New York Times/CBS News poll published Wednesday put Bush's approval rating at a new low of 31 percent, the third-lowest of any president in the last 50 years.
USA Today reported the three phone companies had divulged "call detail records," which are database entries that record the parties to the conversation, the length of the call, and so on. It wasn't clear whether only names or names and phone numbers were turned over to the NSA.
Apublished in February asked telecommunications carriers whether they "turned over information or opened up their networks to the NSA without being compelled by law." Neither Verizon nor AT&T would answer yes or no to that question.
But BellSouth did answer in the negative at the time. A BellSouth representative on Thursday said he could not explain the discrepancy, and provided News.com with a statement saying: "BellSouth does not provide any confidential customer information to the NSA or any governmental agency without proper legal authority." The statement did not elaborate on what "proper legal authority" might be, and whether it would encompass a mere request from the White House.
Complicating the situation for the White House is the pending Senate confirmation of Michael Hayden, who was at the helm of the NSA when the surveillance program was created and was nominated by Bush last week to be the new CIA head.
Senate Democrats pledged to use those confirmation hearings as a means to get their questions answered. They will be "an opportunity to explore this and other vital issues regarding the effectiveness of our intelligence community," said Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid. "Hayden must demonstrate a willingness to be forthcoming with the Congress and present a strategy to address the systemic problems facing our intelligence community."
CNET News.com's Anne Broache contributed to this report.


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The group began life in 1991 as a studio project for the then uber-trendy Acid Jazz Records; their debut live show was a double header with the then equally unknown Jamiroquai. At the time they were not really a group, more a loose collection of musicians and special guests that found it's style in a hybrid of funky samples, retro-rock guitar and smoky psychadelia. Matt Deighton on guitar and vocals, Chris White on drums, Neil Corcoran on bass, Shauna Greene and Marie Jamille on vocals, while James Taylor (James Taylor Quartet) played organ and Simon Bartholomew (Brand New Heavies) layed down additional guitar parts. In need of a full time organist and before their debut gig at the Acid Jazz Christmas Party, Bryn Barklam joined the band. The group split in 1996 because of internal frustrations, but are now back together with a new line up featuring Matt Deighton, Mick Talbot (The Style Council / Galliano), Ernie McKone (Galliano), Crispin Taylor (Galliano) and Sulene Fleming (The Brand New Heavies).
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Last week I accompanied seven of our Year 5 and 6 pupils to the Dean Close Hockey Skills Day.
There was a 'celebrity' specialist coach (Lily Owsley) fresh from her gold medal performance with Team GB at the Rio Olympics. She was part of the team working with these enthusiastic young players from all over Cheltenham.
Our girls benefitted greatly from a morning of intense skills' coaching and an afternoon of mini-tournament hockey.
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He said: "In March, my wife took Joe back
to England for half-term.
Chanting "Hell no, Joe won't go" and "We want Joe back
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Chanting slogans such as "Hell no, Joe won't go" and "We want Joe back
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That is one of the reason why we went for Trey and worked so hard to bring Joe back
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Having Joe back
from suspension is a big advantage for us," said Lucas, who also netted on Thursday.
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A private developer’s pitch for a senior-housing development on Madison’s south side mirrors a city-led project a mile and a half away.
“My first thought was whether it would affect what we’re looking at,” said Stu Levitan, a member of the city’s Community Development Authority. “It’s a fair question to ask, and we’ll have a chance soon to ask those questions.”
Tom Sather, president of Middleton-based Silverstone Partners Inc., said his firm is considering building an estimated $7 million senior housing project in Bay Creek Neighborhood.
At the same time, the city is on its way to buying properties in nearby Burr Oaks Neighborhood for another senior housing development. Alderman Tim Bruer, who represents the area, said the city will have spent $3 million by year’s end buying and demolishing apartment buildings. The city is expected to request development proposals within two months.
“I don’t have any concerns at this time,” Bruer said about the projects possibly vying for residents. “The Silverstone project may be marketing to a different type of senior in terms of income, and the city’s is going to be off the drawing board a lot quicker.
“This part of the city has one of the highest concentrations of seniors in Madison, so it shouldn’t be a problem.”
Bruer said he does not have numbers to support the claim, and the most recent data the city has on the aging population on the south side is from the 2000 census. According to that census, the over-60 population was 22.2 percent, almost double the citywide average of 11.9 percent.
Sather said he is not familiar with the city’s plans for the Burr Oaks project but will seek resident input at a neighborhood meeting for the project Wednesday.
“I think with the proximity to residential neighborhoods and medical facilities, there are just some obvious conveniences to having that kind of project there,” Sather said.
But if either project is to succeed, the developers might have to look beyond Madison’s borders, said Bruce Beckman, spokesman for Capitol Lakes Retirement Community in downtown Madison.
Capitol Lakes is working on a plan to add 12 apartments to its building, and Beckman said the units likely will fill up fast. But he said that’s because the company is marketing to areas as far away as Chicago.
“One of the trends we notice is people relocating to Madison,” he said. “The downtown market here is very attractive, but in Madison alone, there might not be the demographics to support new retirement centers.
“I would think there would be severe occupancy problems.”
Patricia Eldred, a spokeswoman for Madison-based Independent Living Inc., disagreed. She said senior housing stock relies on too many factors to determine whether two proposals will conflict with each other.
“Madison’s proposal will be serving mixed- or low-income families,” Eldred said, “so if the other proposal isn’t supporting that, it might not be a problem.”
But it’s still something the city needs to consider, Levitan said. The CDA will review the city project Oct. 8.
“There’s been no independent analysis on the need for senior housing in this area,” Levitan said. “But the city’s already appropriated money, and I can only assume there are developers looking at this.
“I guess right now you just have to think they’re far enough apart that they won’t cannibalize each other.”


Ms. Pauline Picard (Drummond, BQ)
Mr. Speaker, the people of Montreal are speaking out against the Conservatives' policies in Ottawa that are compromising our economic model. The Montreal metropolitan community or CMM, Montreal city council, the Montreal agglomeration council, which is an umbrella council for a hundred or so cities, as well as Quebec City, have all asked the Conservatives to reinstate funding for the economic development agencies.
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Last May, when NBC released its official 2013/2014 schedule lineup, it looked like Craig Robinson’s comedy series, from creators of The Office, was dead, because it wasn’t on the list.
Skip ahead to July, to news that the series actually could see the light of day, as NBC had reportedly ordered 3 additional scripts for the untitled series, and extended its options on the entire cast, which includes Amandla Stenberg and Larenz Tate.
Skip ahead, finally, to today, to news that NBC has taking another leap forward, and ordered 6 episodes of the series, which is now titled Mr. Robinson.
First announced as a possibility in the fall of 2012, NBC gave a pilot order to a new comedy series from The Office executive producer Greg Daniels, penned by Owen Ellickson (supervising producer for The Office), and starring funnyman/actor Craig Robinson.
The project was to follow a talented musician (played by Robinson) with rough edges, who adjusts to his new life as a music teacher in a big-city middle school, where he encounters teacher politics and the temptations of single moms.
Tate was to play Craig’s character’s brother and partner in the duo’s band called The Filthy Gentleman, further described as a charismatic lady-killer who has never held a regular job, thanks to his musical talents, and who thinks Craig’s dedication to his students is a waste of time.
Stenberg was to play a spunky, fearless and smart 8th grader, desperate to learn to sing despite the fact that she can’t, with Craig’s character reluctant to teach her.
The series plot and cast roles remain the same.
The lead role in a comedy series on a major network should be a good look for Robinson, and I’m sure he’s thrilled that NBC finally pulled the trigger.
No ETA yet however, although I’d look for it on NBC’s scheduled for the 2014/2015 season.


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Science Fiction Was My Mid-Life Crisis
Other guys get a hot car or a facelift or even a new spouse, but I returned to the most outlandish books from my youth
I always knew that guys did strange things in their 40s. In fact, I’d seen it—but only from afar, like those accidents you view through the window of your passing car, thinking I wonder if that could happen to me?
Better drive more carefully. Don’t wanna end up like that.
But, like I say, this was all something I saw at a safe distance. I didn’t actually have middle-aged friends until the syndrome crept up on all of us at once. It wasn’t that I made new friends of more advanced years—it was just my young friends weren’t young any longer.
And some started doing peculiar things. Not just buying a hot new car, but the stranger phenomenon of purchasing the exact model of car that was hot decades ago when we were all teenagers—restored, repainted, and rejuvenated in a way we never could be ourselves.
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I felt like saying: What you’re really looking for is a time machine, my friend. And you’re not gonna find one of those on Craigslist. Better to stick with the Ford Explorer.
Then the affliction hit me. And in the most unexpected way possible.
I didn’t buy a hot new car. That was out of my budget. I didn’t find a hot new wife—that was out of my league ( and I was very happy with my current family setup, thank you very much)—or have an affair with my administrative assistant. I’d have to hire an administrative assistant first, and that’s out of my budget too. I didn’t get a face lift or dye my hair or have my navel pierced. I didn’t experience a dark night of the soul, or even an overcast afternoon of the soul, for that matter.
But I did try to recapture the lost days of my youth, although in a way I’d never anticipated.
I started reading science fiction books. And lots of them.
This made no sense. The last time I had taken a serious interest in science fiction was in 8th grade. The typical mid-life crisis is an attempt to recapture the magic of your late teens and twenties. And here I was revisiting a passion that had disappeared at age twelve. (Full disclosure: I also collected Matchbox cars, View-Master disks, and bubble gum cards back then—so I’m fortunate none of those passions recurred nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita.)
Back then I cherished a collection of science fiction magazines inherited from my brother Dana, seven years older than me, who had just gone off to college. It consisted of dozens of copies of Amazing Stories, Fantastic, Galaxy, Analog, and other pulp fiction periodicals with their gaudy and tawdry covers. And Dana also gave me a copy of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ A Princess of Mars in a powerful gesture of proselytization—take this brother, may it serve you well—a book that thrilled my adolescent soul to its shallow marrow.
During the brief halcyon spell of late adolescence, I tasted the marvels of stories by Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Fritz Leiber, and other masters of the idiom. But I also developed passions for sci-fi books and authors now completely forgotten.
I don’t think I’ve encountered the name Eando Binder even once in the last thirty years, but I devoured his stories about the robot Adam Link with the enthusiasm of Joey Chestnut at a hot dog stand. And I’m not sure what the current day royalty checks enjoyed by the estates of Jack Sharkey (1931-1992), Murray Leinster (1896-1975), or L. Sprague de Camp (1907-2000) might amount to, but these were luminous sages for me, in those innocent days, visionaries who could see a future the rest of us could only view secondhand via the cheaply-printed pages of their pulp fiction tales.
Then this phase passed. It happened the summer before I went to high school. Someone gave me a list of literary fiction titles suitable for high school students. There were around 40 or 50 books on the list—by John Steinbeck, Harper Lee, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton, J.D. Salinger, William Golding, Jane Austen, etc. I recall that the list did include science fiction books by at least four writers—Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut—but the implicit message was clear: you approached these works as literary novels, not escapist science fiction stories. I didn’t manage to read all of the titles on the list, but I made a serious dent in it before I embarked on my first day of high school.
And I never read another science fiction novel until my 40s. It didn’t feel like a sacrifice. It felt like growing up. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways, Paul of Tarsus tells us. And that’s exactly how I viewed those sci-fi stories that had thrilled me as a youngster.
I have done away with childish things.
Fast forward thirty years later. Something stirred in me when I saw a review of a book by Philip K. Dick in a serious literary journal. I vaguely recalled Dick from a youthful encounter with his work decades before in Amazing Stories. But nothing could be more amazing than to see his name in TLS or New York Review of Books. That seemed like an alternative reality experience even beyond those Dick described with such fervor in his stories.
Around that time, I had been reading Miguel de Unamuno and Robert Musil, but on a lark, I decided to put those authors aside and check out Philip K. Dick instead. I purchased The Man in the High Castle, wondering whether it could stand comparison with the literary masters that had formed my middle-aged tastes in fiction. After years of imbibing stream-of-consciousness, postmodernism, the Nouveau Roman, and every other trendy fiction style, could I really return to a genre that had seemed too childish to me even back in in ninth grade?
As I read The Man in the High Castle, I found the prose clumsy, the characters flat and insipid, the descriptions of scenes slapdash and unconvincing. This was not great writing, by any measure. Some of it was laughably bad.
And yet. . .
And yet, there was something passionate and wild and prophetic about the book that couldn’t be denied. It was only a few years later that I began to understand how well Dick predicted so many aspects of life in the digital age. But even at that first moment of impact, I sensed that this novelist had something to say that deserved to be heard. Like so many innovators in American arts—Poe, Whitman, Ives, Zappa—his very zaniness and indelicacy was part of the appeal.
After The Man in the High Castle, I moved on to another Dick title. The next one was Valis, and this book really shook me up. Perhaps Dick was crazy—well, almost certainly he was crazy, as he himself admitted—but Valis was a genuine work of avant-garde fiction, with unreliable narrators, disjointed prose, self-cancelling narratives, metafiction postures, and a host of other devices I’d never expected to encounter in a pulp fiction story. A work like Valis shouldn’t even be possible according to my snobbish literary presumptions, and here it was in my hands, violating every stereotype about sci-fi books.
And that was when science fiction became my mid-life crisis. I was hooked. In the coming months I read theses works:
Philip K. Dick—Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Ursula K. Le Guin—The Dispossessed
Alfred Bester—The Demolished Man
Robert Heinlein—Stranger in a Strange Land
Philip K. Dick—Ubik
Ursula K. Le Guin—The Left Hand of Darkness
Robert Heinlein—The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Robert Zelazny—Lord of Light
A.E. Van Vogt—The World of Null-A
Iain M. Banks—The State of the Art
Joanna Russ—The Female Man
Gene Wolfe—The Book of the New Sun
Brian Aldiss—Report on Probability A
Samuel R. Delany—Dhalgren
Walter M. Miller—A Canticle for Leibowitz
…and many, many others.
Some of these books were second-rate, or targeted at callow youths (I know the type; I was one myself)—perhaps churned out by a writer struggling to pay the rent, with little concern over niceties of style and thematic development. But a surprising number of these books were first-rate—some even worthy of comparison to the literary masterworks of the era.
I had known about Dune since my childhood, and had actually started reading it at age eleven or twelve—before giving up in the face of its length and arcane terminology (requiring a glossary in the back of the book). But now in my mid-40s, I returned to Dune, and this time it struck me as extraordinarily rich, inventive, and imaginative in its construction. Here, in a work of epic scope, I encountered an overabundance of themes, from the ecological to the theurgic, that had become more timely, if anything, during the intervening years. The same was true of Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, Gene Wolfe’s The Book of the New Sun, and Robert Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. By any measure, these were expansive, multilayered works.
Reading Gene Wolfe was probably the most unsettling experience of them all. By all reasonable assumptions, The Book of the New Sun (a series of four novels published between 1980 and 1983) is a literary work that shouldn’t exist—at least according to conventional genre definitions. The plot seems, at first or even second glance, little more than a conventional swords-and-sorcery potboiler, but at every turn the reader encounters apparent (and often quite ambiguous) hidden meanings, arcane symbols, unexplained gaps in the narrative, and possible allegorical substructures that no adolescent or teenage reader could be expected to grasp. In fact, this is one of the most complicated novels I’ve encountered—and I’ve read pretty much all of the most difficult ones, from The Recognitions to Finnegans Wake—requiring much patience and the most careful rereading. Yet it was packaged and sold as a sci-fi adventure story for the mass market. What’s going on here?
As I dug more deeply into the genre, I began to develop a passionate affection for writers who, just a few years before, I’d never heard of—David R. Bunch, James Tiptree, Jr. (a pseudonym for Alice Bradley Sheldon), R.A. Lafferty, Cordwainer Smith, and other figures who were betwixt and between. They had never earned the attention of the literary world, but were almost certainly too ambitious to appeal to the juvenile audience that has always constituted the target audience for the genre.
Of course, it helped that so many legitimate writers were now embracing sci-fi concepts. I thought I was the only person of advanced years paying attention to these books, but then Cormac McCarthy—as elite a figure in American letters as you can find—released a dystopian science fiction book called The Road. And it won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. Yet it was closer in spirit to Richard Matheson’s pulp fiction thriller I Am Legend than any previous winner of that coveted award. Haruki Murakami, perennial candidate for the Nobel Prize, delivered an immense book called 1Q84 that pursued a plot line very similar to those Philip K. Dick had contrived decades before. Kazuo Ishiguro actually won the Nobel after publishing Never Let Me Go, which is pure sci-fi of the highest quality. And now that I was sensitive to these currents, I began to perceive that other books that I had previously considered as highbrow fiction—such as Infinite Jest or The Blind Assassin, Wittgentsein’s Mistress, or Blindness, even Gulliver’s Travels and Gargantua and Pantagruel—relied heavily on sci-fi premises.
If a taste for science fiction represented a mid-life crisis, I was clearly not alone. The whole establishment of literati was moving in lockstep, it seemed, heading in the same direction I had taken. It was now the old-school advocates of realist fiction who seemed the outliers.
And that was how I recovered from my mid-life crisis. I never really got over my affliction. But everyone else came down with the same malady. I see a passion for sci-fi plots everywhere in the current day. TV shows with science fiction premises were once rarities, a kind of Star Trek eccentricity. But now futuristic premises are mainstays of networks and streaming platforms. Science fiction movies are not only more popular than ever today, but can even get nominated for Best Picture (Gravity, The Martian, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Shape of Water, etc.).
Alas, it’s no fun when your rebellious mid-life reinvention of yourself turns out this way. I thought I was doing something different from the rest, and now I find I was just part of a larger demographic trend. Maybe I should have saved up for that hot car instead. No, not a new one, but maybe a restored Mustang—like the ones that were popular back in my youth. That just might be the ticket. Not a time machine, but maybe the next best thing.


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A charge was dropped against a Suffolk officer indicted for allegedly filing false information in a police report.
The charge was against the only officer connected to an incident involving a physical altercation during Christopher Cruz's arrest a year ago.
Police say Cruz had stolen a Jeep and collided with two police
cruisers while fleeing.
He says police in the video ganged up on Cruz and beat him, adding that his client is not doing well since the incident.
Brewington also says the Department of Justice should evaluate the case.
"We have the video here, and we know that it is relevant evidence," Brewington says. "It is substantial enough to get an indictment."
The Suffolk County District Attorney's Office says they are reviewing the court's decision.
Meantime, officer Matthew Cameron was previously brought up on a criminal charge in this case for allegedly filing a false police report. That charge has now been dropped due to insufficient evidence.
"The evidence in the grand jury was overwhelming that the individual subject resisted arrest multiple times," says Cameron's attorney, William Petrillo.
The Suffolk DA's Office said last year that a special grand jury did not find reasonable cause that the other officers involved committed a crime.
Cruz's lawyer says there was a pattern of police doing wrongful acts, using excessive force and not being held accountable.


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The North American Car, Truck, and Utility Vehicle of the Year jurors narrowed down the 26 semifinalists to the vehicles up for the big award. We'll find out the winners on January 11, 2023, at a special event in Detroit, Michigan.
The finalists for North American Car of the Year are:
The finalists for North American Truck of the Year are:
The finalists for North American Utility of the Year are:
"Our nine finalists for 2023 represent a diverse cross-section of this year’s best new vehicles, ranging from sports cars to powerful pickups to three electric utility vehicles – which is the first time in our history that all three finalists in a specific category are battery-electric," said NACTOY President Gary Witzenburg.
Six EVs being finalists for this award is a new record for NACTOY.
During the October test drive event, the NACTOY jurors took part in an informal poll about their thoughts on EVs. They believe that 50 percent of vehicles up for the award would be electric by 2024 or 2025. They think "public charging limitations" is the primary reason people aren't buying electric vehicles. Misinformation about the models and cost are other major issues.
In June, the NACTOY organizers announced the 47 vehicles competing for this year's award. There were 31 SUVs and crossovers, 13 cars, and 3 trucks. They sliced it down to 26 vehicles as semifinalists in September.
A jury of 50 automotive journalists from the United States and Canada start with a long list of all of the new or substantially updated vehicles in a year. Throughout the year, the jurors whittle down the nominees to semifinalists, finalists, and eventually the winners.
Last year, the Honda Civic was the North American Car of the Year. The Ford Maverick won the truck category, and the Bronco took the utility class.


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Strange Days may refer to:
Film and television
- Strange Days (film), a 1995 science fiction film directed by Kathryn Bigelow
- "Strange Days" (Entourage), an episode of the TV series Entourage
- Strange Days: Fabulous Journeys with Gardner Dozois, a short-story collection by Gardner Dozois
- Strange Days: My Life with and Without Jim Morrison, a memoir by Patricia Kennealy-Morrison
- "Strange Days", a regular section of the magazine Fortean Times
- Strange Days (Doors album), a 1967 album by The Doors
- "Strange Days" (Doors song), the title track of the Doors album
- Strange Days (band), a 1980s British band
- "Strange Days" (Matthew Good Band song)
- Strange Days, an album by Government Alpha
- "Strange Days", a song by Brazil from The Philosophy of Velocity
- "Strange Days", a song by Creepy
- "Strange Days", a song by Humble Pie, the B-side of the single "Big Black Dog"
- Strange Days (Natacha Atlas album), 2019
- "Strange Daze", a song by Quiet Riot from Rehab
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Louis Vuitton is basically synonymous with luxury, so it’s no surprise that the brand goes all-out for its shows … especially with one Marc Jacobs at the helm. If you thought last season’s stunning life-size carousel was unbeatable, well, think again. As is fitting for a collection heavily influenced by “the golden age of rail travel,” Jacobs and team Vuitton truly outdid themselves with a custom-painted, LV-branded steam locomotive that transported the models out onto the runway. I can only daydream about the kinds of shows Marc would produce should he be tapped for la Maison Dior … [Fashionista]
I love Fashion Week, and I love runway show beauty, but not all of it is accessible. It’s not unusual for the makeup at some shows (see: red eyes at 3.1 Phillip Lim) to be utterly ill-advised when taken out of context. I believe that beauty is incredibly personal, and for that reason “runway beauty trends” are kind of moot: as beauty editor Cat Marnell at xoJane put it in her beautifully introspective piece on Fashion Week, “don’t you already sort of know what looks good on you?” Models, who look good in anything, including red eyeliner, whose faces are painted in a manner that complements the focal point, the clothes, should not dictate what makeup you decide to wear. You know what you like: stick to it. Sometimes, though, just as we scurry to replicate a red carpet makeup look we find covetable, and think would look good on us, there’s beauty on the runway that can work for you. If dark, dramatic eyes with a rebellious, middle-finger flair are your trademark, here are three tutorials for you to try.
“If I could put [Marc Jacobs], and oh my God, let me think for a second. Tom Ford. That’s a fit. Is Tom Ford and Marc Jacobs a fit? ‘Cause they both have those muscles and ripped bodies. And they both look straight. I’d date ‘em. They’re both gorgeous. And I didn’t mean that as a generalization, and don’t you gay people get all snippy with me. I meant that as a compliment!”
–Sad circus clown Patti Stanger is totally that annoying friend that assumes that all gay people she knows are attracted to each other. Here she is running her mouth at the Heart Truth Red Dress Fashion Show trying to set up Marc Jacobs and Tom Ford, because you know, they’re both in fashion, and gay, so obviously they should date. GAH. [NYMag]
Designer collection videos keep getting more and more elaborate (see this Proenza Schouler video for proof). This new campaign film for Louis Vuitton, made under the creative direction of Katie Grand, plays on the showgirl films of yore and features models doing synchronized fan dances. It’s a gorgeous video, but one note: it’s striking how much skinnier these models seem than the original fan girls. Where are their boobs and butts? [YouTube]
We’re all familiar with crimes of passion, but true crimes of fashion were unheard of until, well, now. It was intended for all of the (new, as-yet-unproduced) samples from Marc Jacobs’ spring 2012 collection to be presented to editors tomorrow, but an unknown thief had other plans. The Telegraph reports that the entire collection has been stolen from a train leaving Paris en route to the press day. How does that even happen? What will this mean for Marc’s line, and the distribution of the clothing? Here’s to the proper authorities catching whoever did it and recovering the clothes unharmed, because I don’t think I’ll be able to go on without owning this ensemble… or at least knowing where it is. I’m sure this won’t be the last we hear of the incident.


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In a recent site acceptance test, it was found that the shape and position of the centrifugal compressor curves varied from the design performance curve. These compressor curves were taken from the compressor as tested curve and contractual data sheet, and then used to calculate polytropic head and actual inlet flow for 12 test data points, at over 4 different compressor speeds. These values were further verified using software (HYSYS) calculation.
The performance points were plotted on the design performance curves. In addition, the fan laws were used to calculate additional ‘design’ speed curves, at compressor speeds equal to those used to gather the performance data. This allowed a direct comparison between the measured performance points and the calculated design speed curves. The plot is shown below -
Interpretation of data
The performance data at site correlated well with the design compressor curves. This was indicated by a DEV value on the compressor controller of 0.05 (i.e. almost 0) for two of the points taken (circled). This raised doubts regarding the correct set-up and positioning of the Compressor controller SCL.
Compressor controller surge control line set-up
The set-up of the compressor controller SCL was investigated, particularly the calculation of flowrate from the V-Cone flowmeter device pressure drop (deltaP) reading. It was seen that for a given deltaP, the calculation of mass flowrate by the compressor controller did not correlate with the calculated mass flowrate by process engineering department.
For example, flow measuring device (FMD) delta P of X bar at X bara suction pressure:
Compressor controller equated this to Y kg/h
Process engineering department equated this to Z kg/h
Root cause of discrepancy:
It was found from the compressor controller manual that the system calculates flowrate from the pressure drop across the flowmeter device, and it is dependent on a constant A, as per the equation:
ΔP=( Qs/A)2 ρs
Qs = Suction flowrate
ΔP = pressure drop across the flowmeter device
ρs = Suction gas density
A = FMD (Flow Meter Device) A constant
FMD A constant is calculated using a number of factors and coefficients specific to the flowmeter device sizing, as well as the service conditions:
A = N × Fa × CF × Y × E × β2 × D2
This equation enables the conversion of pressure drop across the device into flowrate in the compressor controller software. However, the values used in this formula as stated in the compressor controller manual, differed from the values stated on the flow measurement device data sheet. It was, therefore, suspected that compressor controller could have been supplied with incorrect flowmeter device sizing data.
To correct this error, an inaccurate constant ‘A’ was being used within the compressor controller software, and would subsequently lead to the incorrect calculation of flowrate by the compressor controller. This led to the compressor controller SCL being set up significantly to the right of the design SCL.
The compressor manufacturer and the compressor controller software supplier, along with the site process engineering department support, worked out the embedded errors in the calculations and resolved all discrepancies in the calculation of flowrate.
First, the nameplate of the flowmeter device in the field was reviewed to ascertain the correct device sizing. This data was used to calculate and check the compressor controller ‘A’ constant and ensure that the correct ‘A’ constant is used within the compressor controller software. The software will need to be updated in the field as required.
The compressor controller testing was then repeated to correctly set the Surge Control Line and shaping of compressor curve.


The ability to perceive the environments in different ways is essential torobotic research. This involves the analysis of both 2D and 3D data sources. Wepresent a large scale urban scene dataset associated with a handy simulatorbased on Unreal Engine 4 and AirSim, which consists of both man-made andreal-world reconstruction scenes in different scales, referred to asUrbanScene3D. Unlike previous works that purely based on 2D information orman-made 3D CAD models, UrbanScene3D contains both compact man-made models anddetailed real-world models reconstructed by aerial images. Each building hasbeen manually extracted from the entire scene model and then has been assignedwith a unique label, forming an instance segmentation map. The provided 3Dground-truth textured models with instance segmentation labels in UrbanScene3Dallow users to obtain all kinds of data they would like to have: instancesegmentation map, depth map in arbitrary resolution, 3D point cloud/mesh inboth visible and invisible places, etc. In addition, with the help of AirSim,users can also simulate the robots (cars/drones)to test a variety of autonomoustasks in the proposed city environment. Please refer to our paper andwebsite(https://vcc.tech/UrbanScene3D/) for further details and applications.


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I'm gonna travel to the USA in 2017, and drive around in Idaho State and maybe Oregon State. I heard a rumor that it is illegal to park a car along the roads, even if drivers are staying close to the car. I think this is false information.
What is the truth ?
This depends entirely on the situation.
It is true that in most cases along major highways such as freeways the shoulder is for emergency use only.
Thanks a lot, Mr. glabah.
I understand major highways are primarily or the use of emergency vehicles.
Then, what about road shoulders along minor roads or low speed-limit roads ?
It depends on the situation.
In a number of places the road shoulder is too small to park there without partially obstructing the lane. In some places in Oregon (I don't know about Idaho) the road shoulder may be a dedicated bike lane and parking is not allowed there. In some places the road shoulder is wide in order to allow a dedicated place for slow vehicles to pull over and allow everyone else to pass.
There are a number of places where it isn't a problem because you are able to do this because the space is large enough to get off the road without causing a problem.
I'll try to find some Google Street View illustrations of the various situations. It will have to be sometime tomorrow.
Thanks again, Mr. glabah. Your advice is very helpful.
My objective of driving a rent-a-car is to see the totel solar eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017. We need to escapse from clouds that will hide the sun. So, I'm gonna drive myself.
The majority of people - those from outside the USA - who are crazy for the totality will join some package tour. But package tours usually don't try to escape from the shadow of clouds. I think Americans will mostly drive on their own.
The borderline area between Oregon and Idaho is the bast place in terms of the fine weather prognosis. So, I will have to drive north of Biose.
North of Boise on the Oregon-Idaho border gets you somewhere along Highway 95, such as this:
This is an area where the road is too narrow in most places to park on the shoulder.
However, you will be able to find places like this:
where the shoulder has a wide spot that is wide enough to pull all the way over and outside traffic.
Following glabah's instructions will serve you well. One guideline you can follow is, if you can pull your car fully off the pavement, you should be okay.
There are often turnouts where you can safely pull over along the highways.
In general, you're only supposed to use the shoulders in emergencies. It's just not safe to leave your car there. Pulling off of the pavement as much as possible is the best way, but you need to be careful not to block driveways, and not to block mailboxes (it's common in rural areas to have a pull-out for the mailbox). And, of course, you have to make sure there's not a steep ditch/embankment on the side of the road, as there often is.
There are often gravel areas at rural intersections where you can pull off. Or you could find a parking lot. I don't think it will be a problem as long as you're willing to drive a few miles.
I agree with your self-drive option. It's easy to drive in the US, and it's often cheaper than taking a tour, and will offer you more freedom. Just make sure you have all of your insurance squared away.
Great thanks. Now, I can feel assured to drive a rent-a-car around in the total solar eclipse zone, and safely park in the road shoulders.
I think having a mobility will increase the chance of seeing the totality from 80% to 90%.

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In this clip, Karen Hunter welcomes UK comedian Gina Yashere to the show, where she talks candidly about facing Racism in the UK, the Royal Family fallout and more.
About Gina Yashere
Gina was born and raised in London, UK, of Nigerian parents and previously worked as an elevator engineer for Otis. Gina has been a stand-up and TV star in the UK for numerous years now, with appearances on iconic TV shows such as Live At The Apollo & Mock The Week, as well as creating and performing the hugely popular comedic characters Tanya and Mrs. Omokerede on The Lenny Henry Show. She broke onto the American comedy scene with her appearances on Last Comic Standing (NBC), where she made it to the final 10 and then never went home.


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