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"I love what I'm doing, I love printing," said Virgil Cashwell, 59. "I've been doing it since I was 16 years old. ... Now you take the hectic part, when the makeup editor says, 'Let's do it and get it together!' That's when I love it...."
In the fierce rhythm of daily journalism, Cashwell and his 180 brother printers at The Washington Star have played a key part in the production process, transforming the words of reporters into lead type or pages of pasted-up "cold type" used to manufacture the newspapers.
Advances in technology have now made much of their work unnecessary, however, and Cashwell and 79 other Star printers must give up their jobs as part of a labor agreement that has enabled the financially troubled paper to continue publishing.
"I probably would have worked another couple years withoug this turmoil," said Cashowell, who lives with his wife in suburban Maryland. Now he said he will go into retirement in three months, on his 60th birthday, when his Star pension will be just "a little better" than it is now.
Star management was ebullient yesterday after the paper resumed publishing after a one-day suspension that followed a traumatic weekend of labor negotiations.
"We are here to stay," proclaimed an editorial in yesterday's editions. Time Inc., which bought The Star last year, had threatened to close the peper permanently on New Year's Day unless long-term agreements were reached with 11 labor unions by then.
The printers' union -- Columbia Typographical Union No. 101, of which Cashwell is a member -- was the last union to arrive at an agreement with management in 11th-hour bargaining that involved federal mediators and a federal judge.
"The Star's available resources can hendeforth he concentrated on those things which make a newspaper great," Star chairman James R. Shepley said in a front-page message to readers yesterday. "... In the final analysis all of the newspaper's employes and their union leaders are to be congratulated for their willingness to re-examine established practices and consider new approaches."
The question of replacing workers with new technology is an issue at major publications across the country. The unions have resisted strongly, but are gradually losing the battle.
At The Star, each of the 80 printers who must leave by June under terms of the agreement will reecive a one-time $40,000 "buyout" from the paper.
Forty printers must leave by Jan. 10, and then 10 a month after that until 80 are gone, Star publisher George W. Hoyt said in an interview yesterday.
Yesterday afternoon in The Star's composing room, where the printers work, Cashwell and a few others moved quietly about among the printing machines and the long rows of drawing boards where the pages of the newspaper are prepared.
"The printing trade is dead. It's dying," said Eddie Crays, a prineter who sat behind a desk in the room yesterday. "This automation is wiping everybody out. You work at a place for years, then they bring a machine in and throw you out. They don't care whether you got a family or not. You're not an employe any more. You're a dollar sign."
Crays said he plans to stay. He said he has been at The Star 15 years, learned the trade there. "I don't know anything else.... I've got to stay. I've got a family out there."
Crays said that "70-some" of the printers have voluntarily agreed to quit and take the "buyout." "It's completely voluntary," he said. "Nobody's pointing the finger at anyone."
By the time taxes, social security and union dues are taken out of a $40,000 "buyout," Crays said, there may be only about $25,000 left -- "one year's wages. What good is that? A man's got three kids, a wife, a house with a mortgage....
"I can't speak for everybody, but I'm sick. It's a hell of a thing to go down and see 80 people you've worked woth for 10 or 15 years who have to quit their jobs so a few others can keep theirs. "It's a hell of a thing..."
Crays said that some who acceped the "buyouts" are 35-to 40-year-olds who "figured they're still a little young, they'd try to find another job."
Cashwell, who sid he does not tbink the $40,000 will go very far in helping him survive inflationary times on a retirement income, spoke with emotion of his love for the printing trade.
He came to Washington in 1935 as a 16-year-old and took a job for $3 a week in a Georgetown pring shop where he learned the trade. Wentywhere he learned the trade. Twentytwo years ago, he wnet to work for The Star.
In those days, the printers operated Linotype machines that cast molten lead into lines of type and some sizes of headlines. Other printers gathered the lines of type making up each article and arranged them to form newspaper pages. These "page forms" then were put through other processes to make plates that could be put on the presses to produce the newspaper.
As the deadline neared, the printer's work grew furious. With enormous skill he would fling the trpe into the form, slapping at it and making the whole fit together. He could read the type upside-down and backward, and keep his head amid the cacophony of shouted commands.
With the advent of computer typesetting and automation at The Star in the early 1970s, however, the need for these skills all but disappeared. Now the computers set type that comes out in printed form just as it will appear in the paper. All that needs to ber done is to trim it and pasts it in the design that will appear as a newspaper page.
"Hot lead, yes," said Cashwell. "When that went out, that's when we lost all our -- I don't like to use the word -- power, our influence. When other people could do what I could do, easily...
"When I was a hot-metal printer I had something that most other people couldn't just walk in off the street and do. With this cold type, anyone can learn to do it in a short course."


Why buy gaming headphones when you have regular ones? Let’s find out what the features of the headset that gamers use, and how to choose gaming headphones with and without a microphone.
Features of Gaming Models
Gaming headphones are designed specifically for playing browser games, slots at 22bet.com, and more versatile releases, like CS:GO or Sims 4. They differ from the usual design, additional features such as Bluetooth control, often the presence of an audio card and noise cancellation system, as well as sound characteristics.
For gaming models, what matters is how the sound is positioned in space, not how detailed and rich it is. This is especially true when playing shooters to understand where the enemy is shooting from, or in horror games to hear the monster approaching in time.
Also for gaming headphones amplify the bass, because games often contain a lot of sound effects with low-frequency components.
Headsets are equipped with a built-in microphone with high sensitivity: a clear sound is necessary for team games or streaming.
Gaming models have special requirements in terms of comfort: they should not squeeze your head or ears, because users usually spend a few hours playing the game console or PC without interruption.
Types of Headphones
Gaming headphones can be in-ear or earbuds.
Plug-in models have a more compact design, they are comfortable to play mobile games. Sound characteristics and sound quality can be somewhat lower than expected, although not always. For example, today manufacturers produce models that completely cover the ears.
Over-the-ear headphones provide better sound quality, but may be less comfortable for prolonged use. Also, full-size models provide maximum sound isolation, which allows you to distract from your surroundings and fully immerse yourself in the game.
Ways to Connect
There are two basic types of device connection: wired and wireless.
Wired headphones are said to provide a more stable and high-quality connection. However, the cable can restrict the player’s freedom of movement.
Wireless models allow you to move freely, but may transmit sound with delays or lose the connection altogether.
To achieve surround sound in gaming headphones manufacturers are trying different ways. Some of them are based on the use of “virtual” sound channels, while others are based on the placement of drivers in the devices themselves.
Gaming headphones offer multi-channel sound – a 7.1 or 5.1 audio system where small speakers are built into the speakers.
This technology allows players to hear sounds from different directions. The same principle is used for home theaters, where several speakers (7 or 5) and a subwoofer are installed in a room.
The optimal sound volume for a headset ranges from 90 to 120 dB.
How to Choose Headphones With and Without a Microphone: Basic Principles
A microphone is an important element in a gamer’s equipment if he wants to communicate with teammates or spectators.
Good products usually include noise cancellation systems that cut off various unnecessary sounds (breathing, coughing, squeaking, etc.). But the main thing to pay attention to when evaluating a microphone is its sensitivity.
Average sensitivity values are minus 40 to minus 60 dB, high sensitivity values are minus 35 dB and low sensitivity values are minus 70 dB. High sensitivity allows your voice to sound loud and clear.
If the microphone integrated in the headset isn’t suitable for these parameters, you can buy headphones with good speakers and a separate microphone.
Of course, the purchase of an additional device carries a certain cost, but gaming headphones without a microphone can cost significantly cheaper than headsets.
If you are looking for headphones with a built-in microphone, it should be flexible to easily take the position convenient to the user.
To summarize the above: gaming headphones both with and without a microphone should be light and comfortable, have good sound insulation, transmit sound clearly and without delay.
Top 5 Gaming Headphones
Based on the main characteristics of the headphones described above, we made a small selection of current models. See what headphones you can buy for gaming in different price categories.
The HyperX Cloud Alpha is a wired headset with dual-cam headphones. The frequency range is 13 Hz-27 kHz, the sensitivity (earpiece/microphone) is 98 dB/-43 dB
The model has high quality sound with excellent bass. The ear cushions provide maximum comfort for a long time. The headphones are quite durable and reliable. The disadvantages include the cumbersome design.
JBL Quantum 400 is a full-size headphone with wire, surround sound. Frequency range – 20 Hz-20 kHz, sensitivity – 98 dB/-40 dB.
The headset has excellent sound quality that allows you to hear even the subtlest shades of sounds in the game. The built-in noise-canceling microphone makes them ideal for communication.
You can use the device for hours on end thanks to the soft embracing ear cushions (removable parts) and comfortable headband.
Sony MDR-XD150 Black are full-size wired headphones without microphone. The frequency range is 12 Hz-22 kHz and the sensitivity is 100 dB.
The headphones look stylish, sound quality is good for this price range. Among the disadvantages, users refer to the hollow housing of the product, which can cause breakage.
Sven AP-U980MV is a wired headset with a microphone. The frequency range is 20 Hz-20 kHz, sensitivity is 108 dB/-58 dB.
This model gives excellent sound quality and a good microphone. The disadvantages include the weight of the device, which is 365 grams.
The Gembird MHS-780B is a full-size cable headphone with a frequency range of 20Hz-20kHz and a sensitivity of 105dB/-54dB.
It’s the best compromise in price and quality with good sound. The model has an adjustable headband and volume control, which is good for the most budget-friendly option.


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“Summer Reading” may be a fraught concept in the world of literary thinkpieces and book promotion, but here’s something that’s the opposite of fraught: kicking back with a good novel on a warm summer evening. So let’s not overthink this, okay? Here are just a few of the books hitting shelves this season that the Literary Hub staff thinks deserve a place in your beach bag this season. Or in your backseat. Or in your air conditioned apartment. Let’s just say… in your hand, but you know, summer.
Sloane Crosley, Cult Classic
MCD, June 7
In Crosley’s second novel, Lola is out to dinner with some ex-coworkers when she randomly runs into an ex-boyfriend, an interaction that forces her to question her current relationship with “Boots” and their upcoming nuptials. The following night she runs into another former boyfriend. And then another! Her ex-coworkers are in on the scheme, part of a cult with a plan to manipulate Lola’s romantic past to help her figure out her future.
It’s a little zany, sure, but in Crosley’s sharp and funny prose we get real insight into love and relationships, turning the who’s-behind-it suspense into a meditation on what it means to be in love and hope for happy endings. It’s also a great New York City novel. I’ll read anything Sloane Crosley writes, of course, but Cult Classic is for everyone. –Emily Firetog, deputy editor
Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling
Knopf, June 7
At only 19, Mottley has written the next great Oakland novel. In this gritty debut, teenager Kiara and her little brother have been on their own since their single mother had a breakdown, the rent on their tiny apartment has just doubled, and Kiara is forced into sex work to make ends meet. At an age when she should be finding out who she is, Kiara is forced to be the breadwinner and matriarch of her family, while coming into contact with the corrupt police, and trying to survive in a country that offers no roadmap for how to do so.
Love for Oakland seeps through these pages: love for the idea of it, love for what it is supposed to be, and love that reckons with the complexity of what it is now, a city with a notoriously violent and broken police force, a city of high-speed gentrification, a city pushing out those who made it what it was. Holding both sides of this coin is its own piece of artistry, let alone everything else that occurs in this fiery novel. –Julia Hass, contributing editor
Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Woman of Light
One World, June 7
Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s debut, the short story collection Sabrina & Corina, was something of a sensation upon its release in 2019. A finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, and the Story Prize, and the winner of an American Book Award, it immediately established the Denver native as one of the foremost chroniclers of the Latinx and Indigenous experience in the American West. Her first novel—a multigenerational, magical realist historical epic—delivers on the promise of that stellar collection.
Chronicling five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the region we now know as Colorado and New Mexico, Woman of Light focuses on Luz “Little Light” Lopez, a tea leaf reader and part time laundress who must navigate 1930s Denver on her own after her lothario snake charmer brother is assaulted and run out of town by a white mob. As Luz’s relationship with a firebrand lawyer complicates a budding romance with a sweet young musician, her visions of her ancestors’ origins grow more intense. This is a lush, gorgeously realized work of historical fiction, a thrilling and intimate family saga, and a powerful indictment of white violence that deformed the American west. –Dan Sheehan, Book Marks editor in chief
J.M. Miro, Ordinary Monsters
Flatiron, June 7
X-Men meets A League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in J.M. Miro’s imaginative, Victorian-set novel. A strange institute, led by the powerful and mysterious Dr. Berghast, is busy collecting orphans from across the globe, each with their own special powers. But someone else wants the talented children too, and he’s got some Gaiman-level henchmen to help him. Come for the world-building, stay for the badass train fight! –Molly Odintz, CrimeReads Senior Editor
Rebecca Rukeyeser, The Seaplane on Final Approach
Doubleday, June 7
Though the idea of exploring the world… through books! is one that always makes me think of the ALA posters in my elementary school library, I can’t deny that there’s something enormously satisfying about reading a book that evokes a place—particularly one I’ve never been—with both tenderness and specificity. Such is the great pleasure of Rebecca Rukeyser’s debut novel, which had me enraptured with both its rendering of the Kodiak wilderness and its exploration of sleaze. (Sleaze, you might assume, flourishes in heat, but you’d be wrong—the cold is sleazier.)
The novel follows Mira, a recent high-school drop-out on a quest to complete her unified theory of sleaze and win the affections of an Alaskan fisherman as she spends her summer at a remote Alaskan resort surrounded by flora, fauna, and lessons in sex, with all its tensions, ambiguities, ugliness, and of course, sleaze.
The Seaplane at Final Approach is, like all great coming-of-age stories, a perfect blend of deep, dark humor, sadness, and (of course), adolescent horniness. It’s also a love letter to the specific wildness of a place—“God’s own country,” as the proprietor of the Lavender Island Wilderness Lodge tells it. Whether the place belongs to God or something sleazier, in Rukeyser’s hands, its strange magic bewitched me. –Jessie Gaynor, senior editor
Jessi Jezewska Stevens, The Visitors
And Other Stories, June 7
Our systems have been collapsing for a while, all around us; it has become increasingly clear that that thing we call apocalypse—that we imagine through some bleak, near-future filter—has already begun. What you make of our slow-motion decline really just depends on where you look, and for Jessi Jezewksa Stevens, so much of our ongoing and imminent dystopia is plainly visible in the very recent past.
Set in a semi-fictional version of the aftermath of the 2008 housing collapse—as Zuccotti Park begins to the fill with radical possibility—The Visitors tells the story of C., a former art star whose (very) brief encounter with artistic acclaim (and the money that comes with it) has left her hollowed out and adrift, passing days at her money-losing art supply store, and most nights in conversation with a gnomic garden gnome who may or may not be entirely in her head (and who seems to be working on a systems novel his own?).
Along with the real-life Occupy Movement, which manifests in the margins of The Visitors as a reaction to the greed-induced mortgage crisis of 2008, a fictional “terror” group begins to take credit for various attacks on large-scale infrastructure, accelerant assaults on a grid already overwhelmed by the insatiability of late capitalism.
And this is where The Visitors distinguishes itself from a particular kind of arid systems novel: as its semi-fictional world frays at every edge, we stay close with C., a deeply written character who could be any of us: beset by the stresses of debt, anxious about decisions made and decisions to come, yet filled with all the rich longing, desire, and tenderness that renews our humanity, even at the worst of times. As C. admits to herself: “One can be relieved, at least, that one is not oneself a grid and therefore not a target.” –Jonny Diamond, Lit Hub editor-in-chief
Werner Herzog, tr. Michael Hoffmann, The Twilight World
Penguin Press, June 14
There was no way in the world I’d miss reading the first novel written by the incredible director (and Mandalorian villain) Werner Herzog. The subject matter seems to be the exact thing that would inspire him: the “absurd yet epic” true story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who single-handedly defended a small island for twenty-nine years after WWII ended, unaware that the fighting had stopped. Herzog loves starry-eyed oddballs and eccentric mavericks, and he brings Onoda’s unusual campaign to life with the kind of inquisitive, ruminative, mystical perspective only he can have. The Twilight World is a dream that is difficult to wake from and hard to leave behind. –Olivia Rutigliano, CrimeReads associate editor
Geraldine Brooks, Horse
Viking, June 14
Get ready to cry for a million years! I was a horseback rider for twelve years until a serious accident prevented me from pursuing it at the same level, but even if you’re not like me and you didn’t spend your entire childhood, adolescence, and adult years thinking about horses, you won’t be able to contain yourself while reading this elegant story about three generations of people inspired by the story of America’s greatest racehorse, who was raised by an enslaved groom in antebellum Kentucky and cared for by a Union army soldier before embarking on an even more important journey. This is a novel about love, anger, passion, and justice–unbridled and bursting. –Olivia Rutigliano, CrimeReads associate editor
Marcy Dermansky, Hurricane Girl
Knopf, June 14
The titular hurricane girl is on the run from her movie producer boyfriend when a hurricane destroys her home completely. Her NIMBYist neighbor won’t leave her alone about the wreckage, she’s got a head injury from a cameraman who was weirdly nice to his cats even though he broke a glass vase over her head, and she’s really not sure what to do next, okay? But she’ll figure it out, gloriously and completely, in this ode to escape and reinvention. –Molly Odintz, CrimeReads Senior Editor
Thuân, tr. Nguyễn An Lý, Chinatown
New Directions, June 21
Chinatown is not quite like anything else I have ever read; the best comparison I can come up with is Ducks, Newburyport—but this stream-of-consciousness novel clocks in at just 184 pages, and it’s best consumed in one sitting, because that’s how it’s told. Sitting on a stalled train (under the threat of an abandoned package at the metro station) with her young son, our narrator tunnels into her past. In her memory, we are taken to communist Hanoi (where she grew up), Leningrad (where she went to school), and France (where the frame of this story takes place).
No matter where her mind wanders, though, it always comes back to Thuy, the father of her child who she hasn’t seen in many years. Within their relationship and the way it’s reflected in the eyes of others (especially her parents), the conflicts between China and Vietnam play out. But she’s consumed by missing him. The layered stories here are incredibly effective. The way she’s stalled on the train mirrors the way she’s stalled in her life. Also, you’re so willing to dive into her recollections, but you also occasionally jolt back to the present: is there a bomb on the metro, and when is it going to go off? This lingering threat is like a sleight of hand: you’re not expecting it when her memories and her desire deliver the real blow. –Katie Yee, associate editor
Samantha Allen, Patricia Wants to Cuddle
Zando, June 28
I had high hopes for this one—The Bachelor meets a creature feature? yes, please—and Samantha Allen delivered: I devoured it in one sitting (a decision I regretted the next day when I wanted to keep reading, but I’ll definitely be revisiting it, preferably while in the Pacific Northwest). The highlights: the final four women on the latest season of The Catch, an uber-popular reality show coasting by with the help of a jaded crew, are shuttled to the remote and mysterious Otters Island to compete for their incredibly lackluster prize, Jeremy. But what should have been a luxurious night of glamping turns into a bloody nightmare… and then something else altogether. Part satire, part gleeful horror, part lesbian love story, I had as much fun reading this as Allen clearly did while writing it. A delightful, surprising summer romp that I dearly hope gets the silver screen treatment. –Eliza Smith, special projects editor
Lidia Yuknavitch, Thrust
Riverhead, June 28
Thrust is Yuknavitch’s first novel since The Book of Joan (a bold dystopian reimagining of Joan of Arc!) took the world by storm in 2017, and fans will be glad to know that her world-building powers are in full force here. In this realm, there are carriers, people touched with the ability to travel through time using objects of importance. Although this story is laced with elements of magic, it also echoes our recognizable reality, namely with its stark police presence and its depiction of a raging planet. How can we escape? How can we save ourselves?
In a fictional city, a carrier girl named Laisve stumbles upon an object that awakens the lives of a memorable cast of characters: from an artist to an accused murderer. This is where we see Yuknavitch’s talents as a short storyteller ignite. (Seriously, go read her most recent book, Verge, or at least this one story from that collection.) As we loop through these seamlessly interconnected tales, we are reminded again and again of how potent the voices of our past can be in helping guide us into the future. –Katie Yee, associate editor
Elisa Albert, Human Blues
Avid Reader Press, July 5
Feminism has failed us. What women were promised has not come to pass: there seems no real, tangible route to “having it all.” I haven’t seen enough written about what happens when you want both a family and a life of your own, but Human Blues is a good start. The story centers on Aviva Rosner, a singer-songwriter who craves a baby in addition to her lauded musical career, and who pours her angst and longing into her fourth album. Told in chapters of Rosner’s menstrual cycles, the novel does a thrilling job of writing through womanhood, the complexities of femininity, and what it means to get what you want, or what you thought you wanted. –Julia Hass, contributing editor
Chinelo Okparanta, Harry Sylvester Bird
Mariner Books, July 12
Okparanta’s satirical novel follows a decade in the life of Harry Sylvester Bird, a young white man who is convinced he’s Black. Harry’s parents are racist, bordering on cartoonishly evil, and the world is an alternative-current reality, including COVID protocols like vaccination checkpoints. After graduating high school, Harry, now G-Dawg, fully embraces his Black identity and leaves his small, backwards town, moving to New York. He problematically attends college on a white-supremacist scholarship and then falls in love with Maryam, a student from Nigeria. Okparanta weaves a narrative that’s uncomfortable for its truths—the limits of allyship, the way in which white supremacy is ingrained in every gesture. It’s an ambitious book that shines a light on all the worst parts of our current cultural moment, a sort of masochistic romp around racism. –Emily Firetog, deputy editor
Leyna Krow, Fire Season
Viking, July 12
Fire Season is a smoldering visitation of the American West, a novel about three opportunistic figures who converge following the great fire of 1889 in Spokane Falls: a conman, a bank manager, and a woman who can see the figure. Sparks fly as they collide with one another, and it’s not long before their simmering tensions, attractions, and conflicts lead to a conflagration most might not see coming, and from the ashes of which most will never rise up again. –Olivia Rutigliano, CrimeReads associate editor
Alex Temblador, Half Outlaw
Blackstone Publishing, July 12
If you were a fan of Sons of Anarchy but really wished there had been a biracial female narrator putting her own spin on toxic masculinity and bigotry, then Half Outlaw is the book for you. And me. I really enjoyed this book. Alex Temblador’s orphaned protagonist was raised by her outlaw biker uncle and his crew, but takes after her Mexican father and never felt fully accepted by the casually racist motorcycle club (the author wrote Half Outlaw partly to explore her own biracial identity). After her uncle dies, she’s called back to the club for one final Grieving Ride, and must reexamine her complicated relationships with the men who raised her, imperfectly but with love. –Molly Odintz, CrimeReads senior editor
Teddy Wayne, The Great Man Theory
Bloomsbury, July 12
Reading Teddy Wayne’s latest novel—about a 40-something father, adjunct, and writer of cultural commentary no one much wants to read—is, at times, painful. As a character, Paul evokes pity, irritation, and, at times, grudging identification. For all the discomfort, though, I loved The Great Man Theory, both because of Wayne’s knack for dark humor and because its plot clicks so satisfyingly into place. As Paul—a self proclaimed Luddite with a newly-acquired habit of writing lengthy internet comments on a liberal news site and obsessively checking their likes (while teetering on the edge of the Intellectual Dark Web)—falls deeper into the despair of political impotence and the punishing gig economy, he devises a plan to cement his legacy, make his daughter proud, and save America (maybe). –Jessie Gaynor, senior editor
Zain Khalid, Brother Alive
Grove Press, July 12
How does one even begin to describe the intricate web Zain Khalid has woven in his wondrous debut? This story takes us from New York City to Saudi Arabia and touches on themes of family, queer desire, capitalism, identity, and the unimaginable things we might do for survival. On the surface level, Brother Alive is a family epic about three adopted brothers living above a mosque in Staten Island: Dayo, Iseul, and Youssef (our guide for much of this journey). Their guardian, Imam Salim, pushes them to excel, but the secrets of his past force him to keep them at a distance.
There is one other very important figure worth mentioning: the eponymous Brother, sort of an imaginary friend that accompanies our narrator throughout his life. (Of Brother, he says, “When we acquire language, we are each other’s first word.”) He takes the shape of various creatures, and he feeds off memories and literature. (At some point, Italo Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler is referred to as “a book of beginnings, the way a child’s life might feel.” A love of language is a gift throughout this novel; Zain Khalid crafts each line with care and a masterful sense of command.) Even in the first section of the novel, in the glow of the main characters’ younger days, Brother’s presence casts a shadow over everything. What exactly is Brother, you might be wondering. You’ll have to read to find out; the truth is more wild than you could possibly imagine. But what I will say is that, unbeknownst to Youssef at the time, Brother ties him to Imam Salim’s sordid past and the story of what happened to his birth parents.
Although this novel spans generations and continents, what is perhaps most striking is the intense intimacy that is present, too. The bond between the three boys is rendered so realistically here; their teasing, their warmth, and their obligation to one another leap off the page. The majority of the novel is also framed as a story being told to Youssef’s niece (and the second section, a break in the narrative, is a letter to the boys from Imam Salim). There is an incredible generosity and tenderness in the telling. –Katie Yee, associate editor
Elizabeth Hand, Hokuloa Road
Mulholland, July 19
If Lost had been written by Jane and Paul Bowles, with some input from Stephen King, then it might read something like Hokolua Road. I guess I just could have called it a tropical version of The Shining, given the set-up: an out-of-work builder from Maine accepts a job as a live-in caretaker for a remote Hawaiian estate owned by reclusive and eccentric tech billionaire. He’s out of his element, far from help, and mysterious things just keep happening… But is it all in his admittedly messed-up head, or is the land itself rejecting him? –Molly Odintz, CrimeReads Senior Editor
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
Del Rey, July 19
If there are two things I love in this world, it’s contemporary reimaginings of Victorian era horror and sci-fi, and joyful genre mashups in literature. Thank the Lord, then, for Silvia Moreno-Garcia, the author of the 1970s Mexico City noir Velvet Was the Night and the postcolonial gothic romance Mexican Gothic, who brings her chameleonic powers to bear on H.G. Wells’ 1896 “exercise in youthful blasphemy.”
A thrilling fable of imperialism and exploitation, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau is the story of Carlota Moreau, a young 19th-century woman living on a ranch in northern Yucatán with her beloved mad scientist father and his “hybrids”—part human, part animal, bred to eventually work the haciendas of Dr. Moreau’s wealthy, and increasingly impatient, patron, Hernando Lizalde. Father, daughter, alcoholic caretaker Montgomery, and hybrids live together in (relative) harmony until the arrival of the patron’s spoiled son, Eduardo, who falls in love with Carlota.
As she explores her attraction to Eduardo and strains against the gilded cage her father has built for her, Carlota also begins to question the morality of the not-so-good doctor’s experiments. This sublime hybrid of historical, speculative, and gothic fiction might be Moreno-Garcia’s best yet. –Dan Sheehan, Book Marks editor in chief
Liska Jacobs, The Pink Hotel
MCD, July 19
This is the perfect book to recommend to all your friends in hospitality!!! And also just the perfect book. I tore through this one like a California wildfire—an appropriate comparison, given the novel’s setting in a high-end hotel beset by fires all around. As the hotel descends into a Roman-style bacchanalia, protestors fill the streets, smoke fills the skies, and those who live and work in the hotel must make their choice between grotesque hedonism and leaving in disgust. –Molly Odintz, CrimeReads Senior Editor
Barbara Bourland, The Force of Such Beauty
Dutton, July 19
I’d describe this one as My Year of Rest and Relaxation if it was written from the perspective of Grace Kelly or Lady Di. A former Olympic athlete, body broken from overtraining, meets the handsome heir to a small kingdom and becomes his blushing bride. Soon, her nuptial bliss turns to waking nightmare, as her husband and her mother-in-law conspire to control every dollar in the kingdom and every moment of the new princess’s life. –Molly Odintz, CrimeReads Senior Editor
Jon Raymond, Denial
Simon and Schuster, July 26
Imagine a world where a global protest movement brought all the oil executives and lobbyists to a Nuremberg-like trail, convicting them and ridding the world of our fossil fuel dependency. Though the results of devastating climate change still exist (cyclones, megafires, Venice under water) the criminals are behind bars. Or, in Jon Raymond’s cinematic-thriller, most of them are.
One of them, Robert Cave, is hiding out in Mexico, and journalist Jack Henry is going to find him. But an unexpected friendship makes Jack question individual morality and punishment, and the nature of justice itself. There are a wealth of recent novels imagining the climate disaster that will befall us and the destruction of social contracts. But Raymond’s version of climate change—the victory of the guilty facing repercussions and the possible healing of the planet—reinforces the fact that the most important crisis facing humanity is human nature itself. –Emily Firetog, deputy editor
Dwyer Murphy, An Honest Living
Viking, July 26
I don’t like reading books on the computer, or any sort of screen really, but I made my first exception so that I might read An Honest Living as soon as possible. Not only is it written by the great Dwyer Murphy, in whose esteemed company I have been gratified to work for several years (there’s your disclaimer), but it is also about all my favorite things: rare booksellers, old books, private investigators, post-millennium Brooklyn, the cafe in Sotheby’s auction house (which used to be on the top floor but now is in the basement), the New York Antiquarian book fair, brazen impostors, Roberto Bolaño… the list goes on. Anyway, I had a feeling I would enjoy it.
But, even after delightedly reading Dwyer’s slick, mile-a-minute prose on our site for three years, I wasn’t prepared for just how fun his debut novel would be. This is a novel—a smooth, timeless, thoughtful, wistful novel—that has to be read to be believed. It is a controlled, collected mystery, with narration that falls in step with the classic noir PI voice without turning it into a joke or sounding cliche. The best part about it is that it is a love letter to New York City—to the small New York, the nooks and crannies of it, the secret, out-of-the way landmarks and the vibrant hole-in-the-wall spots hiding in plain sight. And it is about the characters who live there—we meet so many charming, whimsical-yet-real-seeming characters that I felt at times like I was rereading The Pickwick Papers. It is a novel about exploring New York while investigating within it, getting to know it—but also holding on to it.
Our protagonist notes that countless small shops have come and gone but lovingly lingers in those that have remained somehow, and tries (as Dwyer does with the whole endeavor) to keep them alive. The central mystery is great, but its overall sensibilities are so tremendous that I would have enjoyed it just as much if it were a meandering travelog where nothing even remotely mysterious happened. –Olivia Rutigliano, CrimeReads associate editor
Amina Akhtar, Kismet
Thomas & Mercer, August 2
I’m a huge fan of Amina Akhtar’s cult classic debut, #FashionVictim, based on Akhtar’s experience working in the fashion magazine world. Her second novel skewers the wellness industry of Sedona (Amina Akhtar is now based in Arizona) and also includes a light supernatural touch that’s perfectly integrated into the thriller arc as a whole. In Kismet, a young desi woman follows her #livelaughlove mentor from New York to Sedona, befriends a bunch of ravens, and also solves some murders. Someone is killing extremely annoying people in this book, and readers may find themselves actively encouraging the killer. –Molly Odintz, CrimeReads Senior Editor
Emma Seckel, The Wild Hunt
Tin House, August 2
I never knew crows could be so creepy, but Emma Seckel schooled me in her richly imagined debut novel. Every year on the first of October, the crows arrive in threes—so many of them that the islanders off the coast of Scotland board up their homes for 30 days, instruct their children not to run under any circumstances (it attracts the birds), and celebrate the crows’ clockwork departure on the first of November.
But according to Celtic legend, these aren’t just any crows—they’re slaugh, ancient creatures known to ferry the souls of the dead. And in the solemn days after World War II, the slaugh are more numerous and aggressive than ever. When a young islander goes missing, Leigh Welles—harboring no small amount of guilt over feeling useless during the war, and no small amount of grief after her father’s recent death—teams up with the widowed RAF pilot Iain MacTavish—also guilt-ridden and reeling from the war—to investigate. A moving historical novel haunted by folklore and reality alike, best enjoyed during the slow slide from summer into fall. –Eliza Smith, special projects editor
Alejandro Zambra, tr. Megan McDowell, Bonsai
Penguin Books, August 2
Bonsai has been praised the world over by now. The debut novel of the brilliant Alejandro Zambra, it was originally published in 2006 and drew well-deserved attention; now reissued by Penguin Books in a new translation by Megan McDowell, this is the perfect time to discover (or re-discover) it. Not a single word is wasted in this powerful, elegantly told story, which traces through a few episodes in the lives of Julio and Emilia, two young people who fall for one another at university—bonding over their love of literature and discussion—then retreat from one another’s lives.
This is the story of a love affair, but more to the point, it’s the story of all the moments that happen around, and after, an affair’s conclusion: the wondering, the distance, the passage of time that feels normal and not-normal all at once. A brief, striking story about all the imperceptible ways that lovers change one another (and the ways that they don’t), this book is unforgettable. –Corinne Segal, senior editor
Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
Knopf, August 2
In Vacca Vale, Indiana—a poisoned corner of the Midwest, where the chemical remnants of an abandoned auto industry have leached into the water of a town and the bodies of its residents—the inhabitants of an apartment complex nicknamed the Rabbit Hutch try to get by. At the story’s center is Blandine, an unusually intelligent young woman who’s fascinated by the writings of mystics, but who dropped out of high school; she lives with three boys who, along with Blandine, have aged out of the foster care system. (As you might expect, the boys are all obsessed with her.)
The four of them are surrounded by a varied cast of characters, from a new mother to a content moderator at a memorial website for the deceased and others; their private heartaches, longings, and fumblings toward connection drive the story forward. Gunty writes with such compassion for her characters as they build their lives and assert their agency in a country that utterly disregards them, and in particular Blandine’s bright, fierce curiosity for the world kept me moving through the story; she’s a warrior, an intellectual force, a young woman who refuses to be disempowered. This is a skillfully told, beautiful, human story. –Corinne Segal, senior editor
Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void
Viking, August 9
As Walker Caplan wrote in our Most Anticipated Books of 2022 roundup, Emi Yagi’s Diary of a Void has “one of the most fun premises I’ve heard of all year”—and fortunately, the premise pays off. Tired of making coffee and cleaning up after her male coworkers, single, 34-year-old Ms. Shibata makes a spontaneous announcement that she’s pregnant (whomst among us). Suddenly, her team stops expecting the most menial tasks to fall to her, she gets to leave work early (which is to say, at the decent hour of 5 pm), and she even makes a new circle of friends at a pregnancy aerobics class.
The latter is where this story really shone for me—Yagi captures Shibata’s loneliness and the community she’s granted upon “falling into step” with her married peers in such a keen way that, reading along, you’re on pins and needles to discover what will happen as this fake pregnancy runs its course. (You won’t get any spoilers out of me!) –Eliza Smith, special projects editor
Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
Knopf, August 16
Barnes’ reputation precedes him as an immersive and gentle storyteller, someone transfixed with humanness, the mystery at the center of personhood, and most importantly, the fallibility of memory and story. In typical Barnesian fashion, Elizabeth Finch’s narrator, Neil, can trace the origin of his person, the turning point of his life, back to one season of his young adulthood. In this case, it is a class he took with the larger-than-life Elizabeth Finch, or EF, as we come to know her. She is a stoic, awe-inspiring professor who leaves her imprint on the minds of all those that come into her sphere—with nods to The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Barnes new novel revolves around this woman, what we know of her, what we will never know.
Perhaps one of Barnes’ most personal novels, he pulls almost direct quotes from his 2016 obituary of his real-life friend and novelist, Anita Brookner as he describes EF, a stand-in for Brookner, whom Barnes admired, respected, and never really understood. Elizabeth Finch is an interrogation of what it means to make a study of someone else, love someone, to be changed by someone, and to realize we maybe never have known them at all. –Julia Hass, contributing editor
Lauren Acampora, The Hundred Waters
Grove, August 23
Lauren Acampora’s The Paper Wasp, was one of my favorites of 2019. It was one of the most surprising and suspenseful novels I can remember reading. It’s strange in a way that feels elemental and necessary, as well as sad and scary and thrilling. I’m delighted to report that her latest novel, The Hundred Waters, manages to be both wholly different from The Paper Wasp, and every bit as exciting.
The Hundred Waters follows Louisa, a former model and artist, now living in a wealthy, staid Connecticut town while raising her 12-year-old daughter Sylvie and running the town’s sleepy art center. She and her daughter both become enchanted by the teenage son of a new couple in town, an artist and climate activist who seems both alluring and sinister. Questions of the pursuit of art, stagnation, youth and aging, and how to exist on a planet that is, increasingly, made up solely of emergencies, are grounded in the richness (no pun intended) of Sylvie and Louisa’s characters. And, as in The Paper Wasp, Acampora’s descriptions of the strangeness of artworks are not to be missed. –Jessie Gaynor, senior editor
Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
Flatiron, Aug 23
You don’t want to miss My Government Means to Kill Me, the debut novel from Rasheed Newson, producer and writer of such acclaimed series as Bel-Air, The Chi, and Narcos. His novel is a powerful story about Trey, a young, gay, Black man in 1980s New York City as he comes of age personally and politically. Newson’s writing is crisp and clear, witty and engrossing—the kind of prose that pulls you in so quickly you’ll miss your subway stop (and I did). Do you like footnotes? If so, then this is the book for you: extremely thoughtful and clever on narrative, thematic, and formal levels, unfolding meaning in every possible place, My Government Means to Kill Me is a tour-de-force. –Olivia Rutigliano, CrimeReads associate editor
Ella King, Bad Fruit
Astra House, August 23
Bad Fruit occupies that liminal space between psychological thriller and horror, beautifully written and incredibly disturbing. In this lushly poisonous tale, we follow a teenage girl on the cusp of freedom from her tyrannical mother. Things take a turn towards the supernatural when she gains access to intergenerational memories and begins to finally understand her family’s strange behavior. Perfect for those who enjoyed Natsuo Kirino’s underrated mishmash of thriller and body horror, Grotesque. –Molly Odintz, CrimeReads Senior Editor
Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives
Riverhead Books, August 23
When Abdulrazak Gurnah won the Nobel Prize in 2021 for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fates of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents,” American readers rushed to purchase his books; they found very little to buy, as many were out of print, and publishers soon began racing to correct the problem. Now, Afterlives—which was published by Bloomsbury in the UK in 2020—is coming to the US via Riverhead.
Afterlives is a sweeping look at multiple generations of a family as they navigate the shifting political climate in east Africa (present-day Tanzania), beginning with the era of German colonization through World War II. We’re introduced to Ilyas, who was kidnapped as a young boy and forced to serve with German forces, and his sister, Afiya, who, after Ilyas was taken and their parents died, lived with another family who abused her and forced her to work. When Ilyas comes back, he takes his sister to live in a nearby town, where she settles with friends as he voluntarily returns to the German army. It is in that town that Afiya encounters Hamza, reeling from his time serving with the same forces—the two of them fall in love and build a life together.
This is a look at the impossible decisions and violences that a community faces as the savage force of colonization rips through its social fabric; Gurnah’s deep insight into history, and his attentive narrative eye, make this an engrossing, moving read. –Corinne Segal, senior editor
Emma Donoghue, Haven
Little Brown, August 23
Twenty-first century living got you down? Wish you could disappear, even for a few hours, into an older, simpler, purer way of life? Well, it doesn’t get much purer than an extraordinarily inhospitable island off the west coast of Ireland, inhabited only by a massive colony of puffins and three severely under-resourced seventh century monks. In this brilliantly realized, utterly transporting new novel by Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue (Room, The Wonder), a pious traveling scholar-priest called Artt has a dream telling him to seek out a far-flung island, cut off from the sin and sloth of the modern world, on which to build a monastery. Taking with them minimal supplies (“God will provide”) Artt and a pair of bewildered but loyal new disciples—the awkward-but-seaworthy teenager Trian and the battered, late-in-life convert Cormac—set out in a currach, with nothing but faith as their compass, to discover what we now know as Skellig Michael (where, if you recall, old, bearded Luke Skywalker lives in one of those interminable new Star Wars movies).
Donoghue’s detailing of the island’s rugged geography and the methodical subsistence work of its dogged new stewards is masterful, almost hypnotic, but it’s the author’s quietly devastating depiction of the conflict between faith and survival, obedience and self-preservation, that powers this extraordinary novel. –Dan Sheehan, Book Marks editor in chief

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Biopics may have the strongest track record in currying Academy favor, but tales of overcoming physical obstacles aren’t far behind, and if the right film can merge both elements, all the better. Among this year’s surefire awards candidates is The Sessions, which covers the biographical and physical-hurdle bases, while boasting some tastefully risqué quirk to boot. Most would agree that the dramedy has been an Oscar player since its debut at Sundance, where audiences first bore witness to its cocktail of baity ingredients. Recounting the story of polio survivor Mark O’Brien (John Hawkes), whose personable nature assuages any characters (or viewers) unnerved by his disability (he’s immobile, yet not paralyzed, from the neck down), The Sessions offers a cheer-worthy underdog who, in a most relatable way, finally wants to get laid. That the movie uses sex as a human right of passage and not an incessant belly-laugh source is what continually saves it from puerile potholes. Like August’s Hope Springs, it’s a movie that takes a decidedly adult approach to sexuality, and any situational humor that results is largely due to the good old, natural discomfort of intimate moments. It’s also an actors’ showcase, a work of modest origins, and the breakout effort of a man (writer/director Ben Lewin) who lives with the same affliction as his protagonist. Thanks to all of this, The Sessions joins Beasts of the Southern Wild as one of few 2012 indies with serious Oscar traction, and secures an outside shot at a Best Picture nomination.
Even with Daniel Day-Lewis maintaining the insta-buzz surrounding his turn in Lincoln, some pundits are calling Hawkes the current Best Actor frontrunner, so humane and sympathetic is his performance in this film. A Hawkes win seems unlikely, but the probable nomination will be a big validation for the veteran character actor, who follows his recent Supporting Actor nod for Winter’s Bone with the first major leading role of his career. There’s already ample praise for Hawkes’s thespian triumph, which sees him craft a full character without moving a single limb. Folks in the industry will also know that the actor endured physical turmoil while tackling the part, sustaining minor injuries after altering his spine to recreate O’Brien’s posture. Like The Sessions itself, Hawkes sure has his ducks in a row, playing a real-life, disabled hero while facing actorly challenges and suffering for his art. He’s also funny and poignant. In short, he’s a lock.
Ditto Helen Hunt, whose turn as O’Brien’s sex surrogate, Cheryl Cohen Greene, made her the year’s first bona fide Supporting Actress hopeful the moment this film hit theaters. Even more impactful than Hawkes, Hunt delivers a performance worth cherishing, and in the end, it has precious little to do with her ample full-frontal nudity, which will have voters penciling her in for classic, and somewhat belittling, reasons of bravery. Hunt indeed showed pluck by signing on for so much skin-baring, but more important is what the choice proves about her taste in projects, as nothing in The Sessions’ sex scenes comes anywhere near vulgarity. And Hunt truly connects with viewers as a commanding, yet calming, coach, easing audiences into awkward moments right along with O’Brien. She’s the pilot of the film’s communal experience, and that she steers it so well reveals great empathy on the actress’s part. It’s the best work Hunt’s done since As Good As It Gets, which netted her a Best Actress trophy in 1997. Combined with the whole bravery draw, it’ll put her in the running again.
Though some outlets are dubbing him a dark horse, the ambitious Lewin doesn’t really have a prayer in the Best Director race, especially when heavyweights like Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty), Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master), and David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook) will be fighting it out for the category’s unclaimed slot(s). A better bet for the filmmaker is recognition for his Adapted Screenplay, which he crafted from O’Brien’s writings and his own similar experiences. The movie’s script is surely its weakest attribute, burdened by the troubling comic device of parallel sessions with William H. Macy’s priest, but there’s enough raw honesty present to overcome the missteps. It uses familiar avenues to present something new, and voters are sure respond to the story behind the story, which involves a freshly prominent talent whose creative abilities trump other limitations, and who pays homage to a kindred spirit.
Surest bets: Best Actor, John Hawkes; Best Supporting Actress, Helen Hunt; Best Original Screenplay, Ben Lewin.
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From Halopedia, the Halo wiki
Special Operations Officer
Huki 'Umamee was an officer within the Covenant Special Operations. He was killed in active duty during the Battle of Installation 04.
'Umamee was one of thirty Sangheili who hijacked the UNSC pelican Charlie 217 and used it to attack the human stronghold designated Alpha base. During the attack, however, he was killed by the defending ODSTs and marines.
His identity was later assumed by Zuka 'Zamamee.

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Check out the latest from singer-songwriter Ro James for his new song “84” featuring Snoop Dogg. The track is off James’ forthcoming EP Cadillacs out September 19th, and premieres today via The FADER.
Cadillacs is the final installment of Ro James’ 3-part EP series Coke, Jack, & Cadillacs, with Coke and Jack being released earlier this summer. The first EP, Coke, can be heard here and the Jack EP can be heard here. James, who has received praise from the likes of Complex, The FADER, and Vibe, is best known for co-writing “Use Me” off of Miguel’s Kaleidoscope Dream. More information about Ro James can be found on his official site: http://rojamesxix.com/.


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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A family in north Minneapolis is sharing police video that they say proves officers used excessive force during an incident in August of 2019.
The video, which may be hard for some to watch, shows officers responding to a mother who called police for help with her children — Brandy Adams, Lee Evans and Champaigne Hale — who she said were fighting.
Once officers were face to face with her adult children — the situation turned violent.
“I believed Champaigne, I believed Lee, when they told us the story, when we saw their wounds,” Leslie Redmond, head of the Minneapolis chapter of the NAACP, said.
It was last August when Tammy Squalls and her children stood before cameras. They told a story of how officers used excessive force during a domestic call to their home. Community leaders say the release of a police body camera video proves the family was victimized.
“What we saw was criminal conduct on the part of the police, an escalation that was utterly unnecessary, you saw officers tasing with these long cycle of tases,” Michelle Gross, from Communities United Against Police Brutality, said.
Police released a statement back in August that said officers arrived and spoke to the victim, and when they entered the house to arrest the suspect, family members were uncooperative and interfered physically. They say officers were outnumbered and additional squads were requested.
Activists say the video proves otherwise.
“Now we know Lee was trying to protect, and everybody can see on that video that he did nothing, she did nothing, and then we get treated like this,” community activist Al Flowers said.
Long-time community activist Spike Moss says in his 54 years of standing up against police brutality, this is the worst case he has seen.
“This one is too painful to watch the disrespect of a female, to watch the disrespect to a son that would do his best for his sister, and put his life at risk, and all you could hear is the popping in the tape, where they are just firing these tasers,” Moss said.
Activists say they are upset that the officers in this video haven’t been disciplined — despite the fact that top officials within the Minneapolis Police Department have had the video since August.
Because this is an open case and there are still court dates pending, Minneapolis Police have not commented. But on Tuesday afternoon, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman announced that assault charges have been dropped against Adams, Evans and Hale.
Community activists are pushing for a meeting with Mayor Jacob Frey, Police Chief Medaria Arradondo and County Attorney Freeman to discuss what comes next.

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Vintage Crate Carts Cute pallet carts made from reclaimed wood boards.HANDMADE FROM THIS PLAN >> Projects built from this plan.Thank you for submitting brag posts, it's appreciated by all! Handmade by: jaimecostiglio Handmade by: Jewels Handmade by: Simplehomelife Handmade by: landkmarlett Handmade by: MrsD2008 Handmade by: stcarroll Handmade by: takahler Handmade by: amil04 Handmade by: MaryMurray Handmade by: Cara Englund Handmade by: AnnaBaileying These turned out so much better than I would have ever expected for $8 each.
Especially with a few setbacks.You all already know that I can't spell.Stencils really should come with spell check.Or at least you should have to pass a test before you can purchase stencils.Or they should sell sandpaper with stencils.
Good thing I had some sandpaper handy.And while I was working on these carts, a bee stung me.So now I smell like vinegar too.At least I got our wedding date right on the first try.These crate carts were intended for my great room, but because of the setbacks, I ended up photographing them in Grace's room (that's where all the evening sun is in my house).
And I just think they look adorable filled with kids stuff.They will look adorable as bumper cars...

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Here in a single volume is the entire, unabridged recording of Gibbon's masterpiece. Beginning in the second century at the apex of the Pax Romana, Gibbon traces the arc of decline and complete destruction through the centuries across Europe and the Mediterranean. It is a thrilling and cautionary tale of splendor and ruin, of faith and hubris, and of civilization and barbarism. Follow along as Christianity overcomes paganism... before itself coming under intense pressure from Islam. It is a story that begins in Rome and ends in the capture of Constantinople by the Turks almost 1,500 years later. To aid in navigating this massive work, please refer to the accompanying PDF, which contains a table of contents and starting times for each chapter.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.
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- Marc Dierckx
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Dreadlabs is a creative hub that generally revolves around graphic design, fashion, music and more. It is a mostly online community that consists of a YouTube Channel, Website / Webshop, Instagram Pages and a Discord Server.
If you’re a graphic designer, music producer, someone who has their own clothing brand or anything related to creativity, dreadlabs is the community for you. Dreadlabs offers tutorials, guides and tools for you to become better at what you love doing.
If you’re new and don’t know how to start your creative career, feel free to join our discord community to meet other creatives. Don’t be afraid to ask questions. In the end we’ve all been there and that’s why we started this community. We hope you enjoy your stay, make new friends and flourish as a creator!
We also have an office space in Tilburg, the netherlands from where we create videos, our asset packs and more.
Every once in a while we host an open office session where everyone is welcome to join us for some drinks.
The goal of these sessions is to meet up with like-minded creatives and have a good time. There’s an open DJ booth, some free prints to take home, you can get a t-shirt and have it screen printed live and much more. So if you’re interested, be sure to come over and have a drink!
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There is no the same mine all over the world. For years, Xinhai stands at the customer’s point of view from beginning to end, taking customer demand as its own responsibility and devoting itself to provide customized mineral processing solutions for every mine. Recently, the Xinhai Tanzania 500tpd gold project was successfully put into operation, which became another milestone of the Xinhai customized project.
This project was located at the green rock belt around Lake Victoria in the northern Tanzanian province of Mara The type of deposit was mainly green rock iron formation and quartz vein type. In 2015, Xinhai already communicated with the clients of this project. They were very much in favor of the customized service idea put forward by Xinhai. Commissioned by the clients, Xinhai provided a customized full-set of equipment in the gold flotation production line.
Use the table of contents below to navigate through the guide:
Processing flow: gold flotation technology
Main equipment: jaw crusher, circular vibrating screen, cone crusher, grid ball mill, classifier, XCF flotation cell, KYF flotation cell, high efficiency agitation tank, reagent agitation tank, thickener, chamber diaphragm filter press, etc.
P – Equipment manufacturing and procurement
Considering the ore property, location of the plant, and other factors of Tanzania 500tpd gold project, Xinhai customized gold flotation production line including raw ore bin, fine ore bin, crushing workshop, grinding workshop, flotation workshop, concentrating dewatering workshop, tailing transportation, water supplying system, etc.
During the equipment design and production, Xinhai improved the equipment adaptively adjusting measures to local conditions and fully considering the environmental features of the project location. It satisfied the design requirement and improved the equipment operating efficiency from a practical angle.
After the manufacturing and procurement of relative equipment of this project, through complete packaging and delivery management, Xinhai sent all the equipment to the site safely.
C – Commission, and delivery
During the installation and commission stage, Xinhai sent a skilled team to the project site breaking through the epidemic barrier. With personal with more than 10 years of installation experience as the installation leader, Xinhai also provided the Chinese-English instruction book. The installation team developed personnel training and production line installation. Under the severe epidemic situation, Xinhai successfully completed the project installation and trail running installation commissioning. It urged the formal production of Tanzania 500tpd gold processing plant.
Overcoming the barrier of the epidemic, complete the project progress on schedule
Influenced by the epidemic, international cargo ships and flights have plummeted. The equipment faced many difficulties in arriving the site of the project. Xinhai overcame all the difficulties to guarantee the equipment arriving on time, avoiding delaying the later installation and commission.
Accompanying installation instruction books, and installation and personnel training with technology instruction
Xinhai provided accompanying instruction books for the equipment in the production line, and sending the installation and commission team to the site for equipment installation and commission and personnel training, which provided a complete technology guarantee.
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Combined with the process flow and plant characteristics, Xinhai provided customized primary and secondary equipment, which satisfied the technology condition. The equipment operated stably in high efficiency.
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There was the original gravity separation plant in this project. The graininess of the gold inlay was very fine, which is difficult to recover by a single gravity separation. The economic efficiency was weak. To find a reasonable and high-efficiency processing technology flow, this project finally entrusted Xinhai with the new construction and renovation of the processing plant.
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Think what clients thought, urge what clients need, and solve what clients wonder. In the future, Xinhai will keep practicing the service idea “what you need is what we can do”, providing more complete and professional customized processing plant service.


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• ON THIS DAY IN WWF HISTORY (June 30, 1997) – WWF RAW IS WAR
On this day in 1997, the World Wrestling Federation aired another episode of their weekly TV show ‘WWF Monday Night RAW’.
It was broadcasted from Des Moines, Iowa and featured matches, interviews & storyline segments on the road to the ‘WWF In Your House 16: Canadian Stampede’ PPV.
Here’s the card:
1. Ken Shamrock vs. HHH
2. Faarooq & D-Lo Brown vs. The Legion Of Doom
3. Brian Christopher vs. Scott Putski
4. Mankind vs. Brian Pillman
5. The Headbanger vs. Owen Hart & Davey Boy Smith
6. Rockabilly vs. Vader
7. Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. Jim Neidhart
• NXT UK Referee Released
WWE has released NXT UK referee Joel Allen due to sexual harassment allegations against him.
PWInsider broke the news and wrote the following about his release:
“Multiple sources have confirmed to PWInsider that NXT UK referee Joel Allen was released over the weekend by WWE.”
Allen was found of using explicit language against a girl and demanding explicit photos/videos from her in a video she shared during the #SpeakingOut movement. The video which she shared was recorded by David Starr (who’s also accused of sexual harassment).
UPDATE: NXT UK referee Chris Roberts has been released as well.
• WWE NXT UK Wrestler Suspended
Joe Coffey’s name was one of the most accused ones during the #SpeakingOut movement, which is why WWE has suspended him.
PWInsider noted the following about it:
“NXT UK star Joe Coffey has been suspended by World Wrestling Entertainment, PWInsider has confirmed.
Coffey was the subject of online allegations of improprieties against a woman, who made the claims anonymously over the last week as part of the #SpeakingOut movement.
WWE sources declined to comment further beyond acknowledging the suspension.”
WWE will investigate the allegations against him and then announce his status with the company.
WWE has suspended & released the following names so far due to harassment accusations:
– Jack Gallagher (Released)
– Ligero (Released)
– Travis Banks (Released)
– Joel Allen (Released)
– Chris Roberts (Released)
– Joe Coffey (Suspended)
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I remember when it started way back when dinosaurs ruled the earth and names like Bendis and Johns were only just beginning to take over everything. It was only four years ago. My girlfriend and I popped in to Robot Boy Comics to watch some Anime and the owner (a grumpy asshole named Dean) just slapped a bunch of books on my lap.
“Here, take these too.”
“Wha? What’s this? I already have this,” I replied.
“Don’t care, just take it,” he barked, before adding “Free Comic Book Day.”
I thought it amazingly cool that I could pick up a bunch of free stuff that I would not normally read. Turns out I ended up just keeping the reprint of Ultimate Spiderman #1 anyway to cut up and tape to my bedroom walls. It looked awesome to walk into my room and see my hero plastered everywhere. Oh, the memories.
It’s funny and scary to think how much I have changed in those four years. Different friends, different jobs, different study, different hobbies and interests. It has all changed dramatically since then. Comics too have evolved significantly with the constant rotation of writers, artists and editors, not to mention the massive boom in comic book movies, toys, cards, computer games and more. But has much changed since that first time? Has Free Comic Book Day updated itself with the times?
Well, not really. It’s much bigger now, and trust me that’s a good thing.
This Saturday the 6th of May marks the fourth Free Comic Book Day in as many years. Each year almost 2 million comic books have been handed out from 1,850 retailers across the globe. Ever since a Mr. Joe Field of Flying Colors Comics had a bright idea and decided the best way to get people interested in our books again would be to give them away (go figure!), we have seen increasing support from fans, creators and publishers to make each year bigger and better. And why not? Most retailers can get a piece of the action for as little as $50 for the base books, the added sales during and after more than make up for it. And it’s fun. So what’s lined up for this year?
With a brand new selection of comics up for grabs this year, with its usual nod to the kids, the standard sets feature a mixed selection for all ages. First up is an Archie Anniversary Bash from Archie Publications, followed by the Bongo Comics Free-For-All from the Bongo Group and a Donald Duck from Gemstone Publishing and Disney. That’s just kicking off, but already you can understand the sentimentality of these titles to old and accessibility and fun to the new. These titles for a Superhero fanatic like me are not what I would normally have in my weekly grab, but that’s the point, a chance to check out all the books I know nothing about. I encourage you all to do the same.
Of course, there are plenty of free titles from the major publishers too. Dark Horse delivers a Star Wars/Conan Flip-Book, IDW produced the Transformers/Beast Wars Special, Image Comics Future Shock (with an interesting cover), DC Comics Justice League Unlimited #1 (and a Superman/Batman #1 reprint as well I’m told) and finally Marvel has an X-Men/Runaways flipbook (something else I am particularly looking forward to). After the cancellation of my beloved JLU animated series, I am quite keen to check out the comic, along with the Conan if for any reason then to give to my friend (who is also named Conan). Runaways is also something which I have stupidly missed out from the beginning. If there’s nothing here that peaks your interest, don’t worry, there’s plenty more from independent publishers and surprise additions, so keep your eyes open.
In addition to that pile a few retailers will also be stocking a Wolverine Heroclix and/or a Stargate O’Neil Action Figure. Two items which I know will have more than a couple of my friends geeking over.
But such a plentiful bounty of free comics and more is not all that this event is about. Indeed, Free Comic Book Day has more in common with Christmas than you might imagine. Sure, there are the gifts, but it’s not an event without meaning. In fact, for many of us this event is something of a holy mission given form. It’s about revitalising the industry and getting people interested in comic books again. It’s about the children! It’s about promoting a fantastic medium and returning Comic Books to their rightful place in history. And to help with the process there will also be a host of happenings at the stores themselves with signings taking place all over the globe. Let me throw some big names at you and see if you recognise them: Ed Brubaker, Brian Azzarello, Tony Moore, Michael Lark, Daniel Way, Steve Dillon, Scott Kolins, Mark Waid, Brian K. Vaughan (faint!), Ron Marz, Ethan Van Sciver, Gail Simone, Scott Kurtz and many more. You could spend all day doing nothing but running between stores meeting the pros and getting things signed. Check out www.freecomicbookday.com for a complete list of events and locations. Even if the local store down the road could not pull a name like these, that’s no reason not to get excited; many retailers are offering specials and having celebrations of their own to keep with the spirit. I know that the boys at my store are dressing up for the occasion and plan to troll the streets handing our flyers and scaring old people. What fun!
So this Saturday get out there and have some fun. Run around, don a cape, put on your favourite comic t-shirt for a day and wear your heart on your sleave. Promote Free Comic Book Day. Promote Comics! Together we can make a difference and change the world. The kids need Superman, Spidey and Cap. We all do, and with these great titles and big names, there’s no reason why it shouldn’t be a hit.
What will I do this year? Well, I am just going to drop by my store in the morning and get this week’s batch, along with a few free tasty extras. In the spirit of things I might buy my little baby brother the first Essential Spider-Man book, or even get my Ex the first Fables trade. Who knows? Maybe it will rekindle something 4 years after.
Best Free Comic Book Day ever.

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Recipe: Banana Nut Cake
Updated 11:54 am, Friday, March 29, 2013
Makes 16 servings
Makes 16 servings
2/3 cup shortening
2 1/2 cups flour
1 2/3 cups sugar
1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 cups mashed ripe bananas
2/3 cup buttermilk, divided use
2/3 cup chopped pecans
1 (3-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1 stick butter or margarine
1 (16-ounce) box powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup pecans, chopped
2 bananas (optional)
Instructions: Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour two (9-inch) round cake pans.
Stir shortening to soften. Sift flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt into shortening. Add mashed bananas and half the buttermilk; mix until all the flour is dampened. Beat vigorously for 2 minutes. Add remaining buttermilk and eggs. Beat 2 minutes longer. Fold in nuts.
Pour batter into pans. Bake for 35 minutes or until done. Remove pans from oven and cool cakes 10 minutes in pans. Turn cake layers out onto rack and cool completely.
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For Frosting: Mix together cream cheese and butter. Add powdered sugar and vanilla. Mix well. Add chopped pecans.
To Finish: Spread frosting over top of cooled cake layer. Top with sliced bananas, if using. Add second layer of cake atop first layer; frost top and sides.
Per serving: 460 calories (42.7 percent calories from fat), 23 g fat, 50 mg cholesterol, 300 mg sodium, 64 g carbohydrates, 2 g dietary fiber, 4 g protein.
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Rep. Zinke Tells Interior Secretary Deb Haaland: “It’s Not Cowboys and Indians”
WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo) was on Capitol Hill Tuesday to defend the Biden administration’s $18.9 billion 2024 budget request for the agency that manages most federal lands, natural resources and programs for Native Americans.
The President is asking for a nearly $2 billion increase for the Interior's budget next year.
While Haaland traveled to the House Interior, Environment Appropriations Subcommittee to talk about the budget, Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) wanted to talk to her about the Interior Department’s current stance on policies he supported as Interior Secretary during the Trump administration.
Zinke, who held the position for less than two years before resigning under pressure, used his allotted time to grill Haaland on the Interior shift in mining policies that he had supported at Interior. He also questioned Haaland about her recent decision to withdraw a land exchange in Alaska between the Interior Department and King Cove Corporation that was signed by his successor, Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, in July 2019.
After the hearing, in an apparent effort to extend an olive branch, Zinke told Haaland: "I may wear a hat but it's not cowboys and Indians, I hope you know that."
Zinke later accused Haaland of not being able to answer his questions. His congressional office posted on its website the following exchange:
ZINKE: Are you aware that China produces more emissions than any other country on the planet?
HAALAND: I probably read that somewhere,
ZINKE: Are you aware that China produces 90% of plastic from four rivers?
HAALAND: I’ll take that to be true.
ZINKE: Are you aware that by multiple studies, that in order to satisfy the present requirement of EV and critical minerals, it would take an increase of 2,000% in minerals needed in the next twenty years?
HAALAND: Thank you for that information.
ZINKE: Are you aware that Northern Minnesota is home to those critical minerals?
HAALAND: I am not sure.
ZINKE: Can you pick any place in the United States that you’ve identified to fast-track so we are not vulnerable to China and Russia both In defense and EV?
HAALAND: We are working on identifying those critical minerals.
ZINKE: You would agree that not having the critical minerals identified and produced in this country is a security problem and prevents us from moving ahead on multiple issues, and makes us vulnerable to China?
HAALAND: Energy independence is a priority to President Biden.
In defense of the Interior’s Department’s 2024 budget increase request, Haaland told the Republican-led committee that $4.7 billion would be appropriated to the Interior Department’s tribal programs, which would provide an increase of $690 million over 2023 spending.
While maintaining tribal needs, including land management, law enforcement, and health care, are nonpartisan priorities for the committee, the subcommittee Chairman Mike Simpson (R-ID) said the Interior Department would not be immune from the GOP-led House’s efforts to slash domestic spending.
"We need to have a serious discussion about how to do more with less," Simpson told Haaland. "We'll be looking for ways to increase efficiencies, reduce duplication and ensure that federal dollars are spent wisely with a demonstrated benefit.”
Haaland defended the requests by saying the Interior Department is understaffed and the request for additional funding is justified.
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