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Prologue - The Search for Perfection
by Bill Shakespeare
Mitch's brow wrinkled a bit. The look was all wrong. Emily looked fabulous, but it was like a Frederick's model had gotten lost in a department store intimates layout, he thought.
"When I said to look alluring, I didn't mean, uh, quite that alluring. A bit more daring housewife, and a bit less Times Square, okay?"
Emily pouted. She had a great pout, he thought. She stood fully upright and stretched, the cotton and Lycra lingerie straining, then relaxing.
"Mitch, I'm beat. I just don't have what you want today."
Mitch took a deep breath, trying to find his center, or whatever crap his shrink was always spewing. "Just because I have five grand riding on this shoot, and another ten grand of work down the line, doesn't mean I should be upset right now, does it?"
Emily sighed, and stepped away from the backdrop, grabbing a terry robe and sliding it on. "Look, it's just not happening. Let me get a glass of water and some feeling back in my legs, and we can try it again, okay?"
"Yeah. Fine. Whatever you need."
He wasn't finding his center, that was for damn sure. He looked over his lighting, decided to switch to off-white diffusers and a natural light level. The stock fashion look wasn't cutting it. He moved a prop dresser to the right side of the set, then slid the corner of a prop bed into the left side of the shot, finishing just as Emily came back.
"Wow. That's different."
"We need to shake things up here, try to fake that real life look a bit. Now, you just ... come right over here ... no, no, right there - there, that's the spot. Now just lean back on the dresser a bit ... don't lay on the god-damned thing ... yeah, like you're almost sitting against the edge. Perfect ... naw, something's missing. Wait a minute. Relax..."
Mitch ran to the other side of the room, where Emily's athletic bag was setting on an end table. He looked for ... there it was. He tossed her the plain white blouse.
"Okay, kind of half on, half off, you know ... no, not like ... that's a little better. We don't want to sell the shirt, just trying to get that fresh, dressing in the morning look. Damn."
She pouted again. "What's wrong now?" That expression was getting less cute as the evening wore on, Mitch thought.
"Your hair. It flumped. Jeannie, get over here with the curling iron." Mitch's hair and makeup assistant ran in front of the backdrop. "Just get the ends ... bangs look fine to me. We're after the morning look, remember? What woman in America curls her hair before she gets dressed ... okay, fine, what OTHER woman in America? Perfect! That's it!"
The simple shirt prop and switch in mood clicked on his creativity like flipping a switch. He slid into that timeless mode, taking shot after shot. Emily had finally found just the right facial expression, approachable but sensuous. Perfect for Venture, and it was turning him on a bit, too.
"Lift your chin JUST a little ... not quite that much. Perfect! Now hold that, and don't move for anything!" He snapped furiously, from two dozen slightly different angles. He picked up his second camera, and kept snapping, when Emily's nose wrinkled. He stopped, scowled. Her nose wrinkled again, and her eyes snapped shut as she sneezed furiously, twice. The white blouse went askew, and her long dark hair flew forward.
"That's it. At least I got a couple dozen shots. That's enough for a circular, anyway."
Emily didn't pout, she frowned. "Jesus Christ, Mitch! I had to sneeze! If you'd get rid of that fucking cat, I wouldn't sneeze!"
Mitch put his index fingers in his ears. "I haven't had the cat for months, and I'm not listening! We're done with this shoot, anyway. Forget it. I've forgotten it. Have you forgotten it?"
Emily walked over to her athletic bag, stripped off the Venture bra and panties, and started digging out her clothes. She turned around, and Mitch was putting away lenses.
She stood up, and put her hands on her bare hips. "Forgotten, my ass. I'm standing here naked, and you're ignoring me. I can't believe you're pissed off about a little sneeze."
He looked at her and smiled coldly. "Good night, Emily. I'll send the check."
She finished dressing, and gave the requisite slam to the elevator gate as she left.
"Mitch, that was a bit over the line, don't you think?"
He turned to shout at Jeannie, then thought better of it. She had a way of disarming him. "This business is all about perfection. I can't work with a model that doesn't understand that. You understand that, don't you?"
Jeannie sighed. "The presentation has to be perfect, but the people never will be, Mitch. I wasn't perfect when I modeled for you."
"Maybe not, but you could hold a pose better than any model I've ever known. If you'd just reconsider..."
She smiled. Jeannie was a very attractive 38, but past her modeling prime, and she knew it. "Mitch, I'm almost old enough to be some of these models' mother. I don't think your clients would be as appreciative as you are."
"I do appreciate you, you know."
"I know you do. Sit down, Mitch."
"Huh?"
"Just sit down, will you?"
Jeannie and Mitch had been more than model and photographer, employer and employee, on more than one occasion. He knew her well enough to understand what was happening.
"Who offered you a job?"
"Versace. They need some more support people for the runway shows. Mitch, I like working for you, but it's not very regular, and they can use me full time. I'm sorry, but ..."
He smiled. "You have to take care of yourself. Go. Get out of here before I beg."
"You don't have to beg." He looked up, to see her open the front of her blouse. She had the most unnerving habit of going without a bra, despite having fairly ample breasts - she had specialized in swimsuits during her model days.
"I meant before I beg you to keep working for me."
She laughed. "Well, that won't do you any good, but you don't have to beg for this." She ran her hand along the inside of his thigh. The film and the search for a new assistant could wait, he decided.
Mitch slammed back his second Sam Adams. It was going down a little too easily. "I'm telling you, everything's falling apart on me."
"I don't get it, Mitch. You've got solid, long-term contracts, a good location, a solid portfolio. What else do you need to make things work?"
Allen Byrne was one of Mitch's oldest friends. He'd even been in the business for a time, right out of law school, doing contract work for Elite. That wasn't why he had gone to law school, and as soon as a position opened with the Feds, he jumped. Five years later, he was back in New York, attached to the Patent Office or something. When Mitch needed grounding, he always went to Allen.
"Look, it's just ... it's like this. I'm a perfectionist. I mean, you know that."
Allen laughed. "I remember when we were in Little League, and you used to critique the guy laying down the baselines. 'That's crooked, mister. Can't you do better than that?' I never understood why he didn't kick your ass."
"Well, it's the same thing with the fashion shoots. I know EXACTLY how everything should look. When I get exactly what I'm looking for, everything falls into place. I'm the best in the business, period. That's how you get the client list I have. Problem is, nobody else gives a shit."
"Come on, that's not true. What about your assistant, Joanie? Jennie?"
"Jeannie. She quit on me. Can you believe that? 9 years, and she just quits."
"I hope you got laid, at least."
"Well, yeah. I mean, of course."
Allen shook his head. "You know, you've fucked some of the most beautiful women in New York. Hell, on the face of the earth. Somehow, it seems wrong to hear you feeling sorry for yourself."
The guy on the barstool to the other side of Mitch got a wicked grin on his face, leaned in a little.
Mitch ordered a third Sam Adams, to Allen's chagrin. "If you're going to drink like that, and we're going to have a conversation like this, maybe we should get a table, huh?"
"A capital idea. Barkeep, move our tab to a table please."
They found a table in the back corner of the pub. Mitch slouched in his chair, nursing the third beer. "So I'm feeling sorry for myself, huh? I didn't say that. I said everything's falling apart on me."
"I heard you the first time. I'm still waiting for a compelling reason you think that, besides having to find a new assistant."
Mitch sighed. "I just can't find the right models anymore, or get the right poses out of them. Maybe I'm losing it, but Jeannie used to be able to hold a pose for... well, for hours sometimes. I had two or three other models on the hook that could do that, too. These new models, though, no discipline whatsoever. Always bitching."
Allen got a light-bulb look in his eye, but Mitch's brain was too fizzy to catch it. "So the problem's continuity, huh?"
"Continuh... yeah, you could, uh, yeah. That's the problem. I've had too much beer, my friend."
"You need your models to hold a pose for a long time. That it?"
"Innnn a nutshell, Al. Exactly it."
Allen looked around nervously. "I came across something that might help you out, just a couple days ago. Kind of hush-hush stuff, though."
"At the Patent Office? What the fuck would you come across that would make a model hold a pose. Super Glue?" Mitch laughed; a little too loudly.
"Will you hold it down? Jesus, I'm serious. Look, let's talk about this when the beer wears off, okay?"
"A case of Super Glue. What's that cost, anyway? Ha!"
-- Cloak and Dagger Stuff --
"I can't believe I let you talk me into this. If this is like the time you tried to get me to invest in those Dick Tracy wristphone things, I swear to God ..."
"Keep it down, will you? And if you'd invested, the principal would have rolled into digital cell phones, and you'd be rolling in it."
Allen looked left, then right. "He should be here any minute."
Mitch stuck his hands in his jacket pockets. The morning was cool, by Manhattan standards. "I oughta have my fucking head examined, sitting on a bench in Central Park at three in the morning."
"Relax, I'm packing a taser. It's in my shoe."
"Great, I'm in the middle of Central Park in the middle of the night with fucking Maxwell Smart. Got a phone in there, too?"
"Quiet."
Mitch sat silent for a moment, then heard what sounded like a howl. "What was that? You know, there are wild animals in this park, Al. Somebody the other day saw a coyote or something."
A figure approached from the right, bundled in a long grey coat. After what seemed like an hour, the figure stopped at arm's length. The man was sixtyish, with glasses twenty years out of date and a grey Lenin beard, his face drained of all color. He looked Mitch and Allen up and down, then said to Allen in heavily accented English,
"The rain in Spain is mainly on the plain."
Allen cleared his throat. "The weather is especially lovely in Barcelona. Roses are in bloom, and the moon is full."
Mitch stifled a laugh, and said under his breath, "Jesus Christ, you are Maxwell Smart."
The grey man's brow furrowed. "You should instill a sense of proper protocol in your comrade, Mr. Byrne. This is the gentleman interested in the merchandise?"
Mitch extended a hand. "Mitch Kirkland. And you are?"
The gray man didn't take Mitch's hand. "Yes, a sense of proper protocol would be welcome. Have financial terms yet been discussed?"
Allen cleared his throat again. "We would prefer a demonstration of the merchandise prior to settlement on terms."
"Bah! You are not prepared to deal with me seriously."
"We are quite prepared to deal with you seriously. Just because other Federal offices have been less accomodating..."
"Mr. Byrne, I could have sold this technology to your enemies. It would have been most welcome in Tripoli, or Baghdad. Or Beijing."
"Sir, you know that the DOD is prepared to purchase rights in order to..."
Mitch stood very still; it suddenly wasn't a game any more. Every last trace of the beer's effects washed right out of him. Defense Department?
"Yes, yes, to quash the technology. This device was meant to be used..." The grey man stared right through Mitch. "...even if I disapprove of such a petty, decadent use. The potential uses in space travel alone ... well, it is no matter."
"In any case, this gives you an unexpected opportunity to derive additional income from your work, sir."
"Well, we shall see about that. You wish a demonstration, then? We will need to find a subject, then. Promptly."
Mitch scratched his head. "Well, I could probably talk one of my models into it tomorrow."
The grey man developed a trace of a smile. It took Mitch a split second to realize it was lacking humor. "Unacceptable. The demonstration must be now. I have no time to waste on idle curiosity."
"Well, where'm I going to find somebody willing to try this harebrained idea? At three in the morning?"
Allan sighed. "Mitch, quiet."
The grey man shook his head. "In my country, when we needed a volunteer, we had a volunteer."
Mitch was just enough intrigued with the grey man's invention to put his mind to it...
"Al, how much cash do you have on you?"
-- Test Shots --
She looked around cautiously as she entered the hotel room. "Nice room. What'd you have in mind?"
Mitch went over to his bag, on the floor under the window. "Well, I'm a photographer. I want to take a few pictures of you."
She sat on the edge of the bed. "I've done a couple photo shoot fantasies. I'm good with that."
"No, really. I'm a photographer. You've probably seen some of my work. I'm going to be shooting an... uh, electronics layout for one of the men's magazines. I wanted to get some test poses before I go out to California. Anyway, it's hard to find somebody comfortable in front of the camera without the clothes, on short notice anyway."
"Huh. What kind of electronics?"
He looked at the bag, thought a moment. "Walkman."
"A Walkman?"
Mitch took out his Hasselblad, and some lenses.
"I'll be damned. You really are a photographer. Mind if I clean up?"
"Uh... sink's okay, I guess. I'm in kind of a hurry."
"No time for a shower? I'd kind of like to look good, you know, for a real photographer and all."
Stall, he thought. "I've only got 30 minutes. Standard day's shoot pay in it for you, five hundred dollars."
"Five... hundred? For 30 minutes? Maybe I'm in the wrong business. How do you want it, then?"
"Well, I figured lying on the bed, with the Walkman on, and I'll let you use your imagination."
She laughed. "Well, I am the professional in that area." She slid out of the tight, stretchy black minidress she was wearing, revealing her bare breasts and a skimpy black G-string. She slid off the G-string without a second thought. She was probably about twenty, and her slim body was firm and muscular. The closely cropped brownish hair between her legs contrasted with her blond hair, but matched her dark roots.
"Okay, where's your Walkman?"
Mitch opened a small bag, and took out a flat black box. A six-foot long black cord extended from one end, dividing into two thin wires for the last foot or so. On the end of each wire was a C-shaped grey clip, about two inches long.
She looked at it curiously. "That's the strangest looking Walkman I've ever seen. How do those things fit in your ears?"
"They don't actually. They slip over and behind them, like the arm on a pair of glasses. It's a new kind of headphone, uh... cartilage conduction." Bullshit's flowing tonight, he thought.
"Oh, yeah. I think I saw something about that in a magazine at the beauty shop. Got a tape?"
"A tape?"
"For the Walkman. It'd be easier to get off to some music."
"Oh, a tape. Uh... well... this is only a prop from the manufacturer. It's not actually a working model of the Walkman. Uh... they're still gearing up to make these. In time for Christmas, you know."
"Oh, okay. Why don't you turn on VH-1 or something on the TV, then."
He picked up his camera and walked over to the television, so he could breathe a less conspicuous sigh of relief. When he turned around, she turned her head away from him, so he could see the back of her head. "Like this?"
"Almost. Here, let me get those." He carefully placed the sliver clips, just like the grey man had instructed.
She lay back on the bed. "Would it look better if I pulled back the covers. You know, against the white sheet instead of this thing?"
He smiled. Everybody's a photographer, he thought. "Sure. That'd be great."
She lay down, her head back against the pillow, as an Elton John video started in the background. "Where do you want the Walkman at?"
"Hm. How about right next to you here, where it'll show in the shot. You just get warmed up, and I'll position you, okay?"
"Okay." She closed her eyes, and slowly ran her hands along the contours of her torso, then down between her thighs. "Mmmm. Whenever you're ready." He set the black box next to her, and pressed a small switch on the side, making a small red light blink twice. He felt in his front pocket, where a small box with a single button waited.
"Okay, bend your left leg at the knee, left foot flat on the bed. Then move your right leg out to the side, so I can get everything in the shot. I don't have much foreground to work with in a room this size."
"Like this?"
"Uh-huh."
She exhaled forcefully. "That's a little uncomfortable, but I can do that for a while. Do you want my right leg out further to the right? I mean, I can only do that for a couple minutes."
"Okay, out as far as you think. I'll trust your professional judgment."
She laughed, then ran one hand through her hair, tracing circles around her left nipple with the other. It hardened and rose, the red-brown areola contracting. She did the same with the other before drifting down to the ringlets of brown hair between her legs. She began to writhe, all the while keeping her leg out and to the right, leaving a clear view of her dampening crotch. Her eyes were closed, occasionally tightening and releasing. He was impressed at her ability to hold the pose - not bad, he thought.
Her breathing deepened, became more labored, as her fingers probed deeply, first one, then two and sometimes three, and her other hand clutched at her breast. He waited for that picture-perfect moment, when her back would arch slightly, her breasts protruding up and out, head back, mouth slightly open. Now! He reached into his front pocket, brushing at his raging erection, and pressed the button.
She moaned a little more intensely, and was suddenly quiet. Then, the hand probing between her legs slowed abruptly. The other hand clenching her breast stopped moving. Her back remained uniformly arched. Her outstretched right leg stayed in place. Her breathing appeared to stop completely! The reflectance of her skin changed, subtly. He couldn't put his finger on the change for a moment, then he decided it had somehow hardened!. He moved closer, and she remained still.
"You okay? Hello - Angela? You can relax now."
Nothing. She remained exactly as she was, two fingers thrust deeply inside her sex, one breast clenched, the other thrust forward, arched in the beginning throes of climax. But she was rigid.
Not a sound. Not a flinch. Not a breath. It was like she was a statue.
"Jesus H. Christ!"
A door opened behind him, and Allen and the grey man came out of the bathroom. Allen gawked, and the grey man again showed just the slightest hint of a smile.
"Allen, look at this. Look at this! She hasn't moved in..." He looked at his watch. "Hell, I don't know. A minute, maybe more?" He looked back at the grey man, still nameless. "Hey, you, she's not breathing, either. This can't be right. I mean, what the hell's going on here?"
The hint of a smile went away as the grey man crossed the room. "The, ahem, lady is unharmed. Some of our subjects have spent more than a year in this condition without harm. She has been placed in a state of neuroelectrically-induced suspended animation, that's all."
Mitch scratched his head. "Neuroelec... Talk to me like someone who hasn't had a science class since, oh, high school."
Allen peered more closely at the motionless callgirl. "CIA calls it the 'cosmonaut sleep'. The Soviets came up with this for a Mars shot they planned for years. When perestroika came along, the space program was gutted, and our ... uh... colleague here was left with some new technology and nowhere to go with it."
Mitch raised an eyebrow. "CIA? Al, what the hell..."
Allen's voice was firm. "Another time."
Mitch was too distracted to press the issue. His mind raced. The callgirl remained motionless, frozen in exactly the same position as minutes before.
The grey man scowled. "You don't believe me? Go ahead, touch her. Do it."
Mitch slowly reached out, expecting the unmoving girl to jump. His hand made contact at her midriff, moved up over her exposed breast, to the side of her face. Nothing. Not even a blink.
She felt odd, somehow, almost artificial.
"Push against her skin."
He brought his hand back to her stomach, pushed down. There was no give, none at all. It was like pushing on a wooden store mannequin. A tingling sensation played through his fingertips, like wintertime static charges. "What's that feeling? The electric charge?"
The grey man was silent for a moment. "With deference to your science education, it is the boundary of the energy field generated by the device. Can you feel your fingers?"
Mitch moved his hand. "They're a little tingly, but yeah."
"Then the device is working optimally. The field does not extend beyond the contours of her body, and should not in proper operating conditions. You can determine that visually. If the field begins to variate, however, it can engulf other objects directly in contact. You must take care in handling the subject, in general."
Mitch was enthralled. He was struck by an image from that last high school science class, of ancient insects trapped in amber, preserved, forever motionless. "So it happens instantly? Push the button, and BAM?"
"No. The field takes 20 to 30 seconds to fully develop. Did you not observe her motion slow before stopping? Consciousness continues slightly longer than that. It takes approximately one minute for all movement to be fully conserved. After that, the subject is in a deep dream state. Bodily functions are slowed to approximately one-thousandth of normal rates. This device is less powerful than the prototype unit."
Mitch lifted his hand from the still body. "Prototype unit. That's what we're discussing here?"
"Correct. It was designed for the Mars vessel, to immobilize eight cosmonauts. The prototype uses wireless field transmission, with a single probe behind one ear."
Mitch's mind continued taking it all in. "Movement conserved, what does that mean? Does that mean a person could be repositioned during that one minute? Sort of... I don't know, fine tuned?"
"That is correct. Not big movements, but fine adjustments."
Allan's eyes grew bigger every moment the young callgirl remained totally motionless. "Sheez, I really thought this had to be a lot of crap, Mitch. I... I don't believe it!"
Mitch ran his hand along her rigid thigh. The slight tingle of the field thrilled him to the core. This was the most exciting thing he had ever seen - perfection! Then, his brain caught up again.
"How do you get someone out of this?"
The gray man's smile came back, ever so slightly. "You turn it off, of course. By pressing the button again. We had to estimate the young woman's weight, to determine the field intensity. The amount of time the field takes to wear off depends entirely on the accuracy of that estimate. Underestimate the weight, and the field may never properly develop to begin with. Overestimate, and the field can take hours to wear off."
Allen said, "Well, we glanced at her driver's license while you had her distracted earlier."
Mitch covered his mouth with his hand. "Jesus, Al, it could be days. What were you thinking?"
He turned to the grey man. "You have a deal. I don't care what it takes, I want this. Half the profits from additional business, anything. Now get back in the bathroom, so I can try to bring her out of it."
The grey man looked at him, even more seriously if that was possible. "There's a lot to be wary of, a lot to monitor with this device. I hope you are ready to be a very, very thorough pupil." Then he scurried back through the bathroom door, and closed it behind him.
This changes everything, he thought. He realized it would take a whole different kind of model, exclusive, willing to make a long-term commitment, willing to be frozen and stay frozen, no attachments. He chuckled to himself at the thought of trying to work with those stuck-up little supermodel-wanna-bees. He knew this would be his last photos in New York.
Mitch picked up the Hasselblad, took a few pictures from differing angles, wide and close angle, high and low light levels. His model was perfectly composed. She did not blink; did not sneeze. After a few minutes and almost a roll of film, he pressed the button. There was a humming sound from the black box, and a brief, vague impression of bluish energy discharge. The driver's license suddenly seemed very accurate.
Slowly, inexorably, the woman's right hand began moving again between her legs, her chest expanded with an interrupted breath, her left hand squeezed more tightly. She shuddered for a moment, and then came, suddenly and explosively. After lying quietly still for a few moments
-- to Mitch, she seemed vibrant with motion the whole time -- she opened her eyes.
"God, that was the strangest feeling... It was like I was stuck totally in the dream. I haven't come like that... Wow!" She reached up and took the silver clips from behind her ears. "That's the best five hundred dollars I ever made. Can you send me a picture?"
Mitch smiled. "I'd be happy to. Very, very happy."
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Auhor's Notes:
Here's my $.02 on the Living Statues exercise - a prelude, to be placed before Part 1. It ends up creating a few twists in Mitch's behavior in Parts 1-3, clears up a few things, confuses a few others.
This occurs approximately two years before the start of Part 1.
[ Prologue | LS-1 | LS-2 | LS-3 | LS-4 | LS-5 | LS-6 | The Revenge ]


Our company commander decided to take the young boy with us for awhile. Later, we decided to pick a name for him, and called him Jo-Lang.
He was everybody's brother for almost two years. It seemed to give us something to fight for; the more we looked at him, the madder we got at the enemy. As time went by, Jo-Lang began to adapt to our way of life. He stayed at night with our company commander in a bunker called the CO. We dressed him in a Marine uniform, gave him a set of dog tags with the name Jo-Lang and his serial number was 1950.
He became one of us. And we all were called by our first names. Lem, our interpreter, was a Chinese from California, and spoke three different languages fluently. In his spare time, he began to teach English to Jo-Lang, who seemed to have no memory of what happened. Later I was wounded and was sent to Japan for a second time. I kept in touch with my company, and especially what Jo-Lang was doing. He and I had become very close.
The last thing I heard after the war ended, Jo-Lang was sent to an orphanage somewhere in South Korea and, if I have my figures right, he could be around 62; that is, if he is still living. Melvin and Susie told Walter with tears in their eyes, "If Jo-Lang is in South Korea and alive, we will find him."
Early the next morning the search for Jo-Lang began. First, they got a list of all the orphanages in the surrounding areas dating back to the fifties. They found a total of 15 and some smaller ones and were told there was a large one, right out of Wonju, which was started back in 1951 by the United States Army. The Fifth Regimental team sponsored a boy's town and helped over 900 homeless orphans while the Seventh Infantry Division donated $36,734 to build the first orphanage in that area. Since then, it has become one of the largest orphanages in South Korea.
Walter told Melvin, "This one has a ring to it; let's catch a plane to Wonju and pay them a visit." The next morning they were on their way to that orphanage, which was about a 30-mile drive from the Wonju airport. When they arrived, they saw a beautiful place built in a valley surrounded by mountains.
As they entered the building, they could see a large bronze statue with a picture of a marine and a soldier with a foster child in between. They asked the desk clerk a few questions and told him that they were looking for an orphan dating back to 1950. The desk clerk was an older man, but asked if they had a name and age, and they told him "Jo-Lang, in his early sixties." After Dad told him the whole story, he smiled and said, "You must be angels. Jo-Lang has been telling me for years someone will come looking for him some day, but I just laughed it off and now you are here! Just a minute I will get him for you."
Soon a short, well-dressed man walked through the door and headed for Dad. He said, "I would know you anywhere because I have seen you in my dreams all my life." He then handed Dad his dog tags. Tears came to all their eyes as they hugged and went in his office and sat down to listen to Jo-Lang's real story.
"I went from orphanage to orphanage, finally ending up here, started getting some of my childhood memory back, but I never forgot my adopted family of the United States Marines, who taught me to live again and I always knew that someday we would find each other again," he said. "I never knew what my real name was; I just looked at my dog tags. I am married and have two boys and three girls with the name I was reborn with, thanks to my marine brothers. I have been here ever since; only now I run the place instead of occupying it."
Stay tuned to part four and the conclusion of bounty hunters and Dad's visit to the past.


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Interface3::~Interface3() = default;

TestBundleDSDependent::~TestBundleDSDependent() = default;
TestBundleDSUpstreamDependency::~TestBundleDSUpstreamDependency() = default;

DSGraph01::~DSGraph01() = default;
DSGraph02::~DSGraph02() = default;
DSGraph03::~DSGraph03() = default;
DSGraph04::~DSGraph04() = default;
DSGraph05::~DSGraph05() = default;
DSGraph06::~DSGraph06() = default;
DSGraph07::~DSGraph07() = default;

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CAInterface::~CAInterface() = default;
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Klete Keller, Olympic Gold Medalist Swimmer, Charged in Connection With U.S. Capitol Riot
By Katherine Fung On 1/13/21 at 4:12 PM EST
News Olympics IOC Capitol Riots Charges
A three-time Olympic medalist is the latest person to join a growing list of Americans who have been charged by authorities in connection with last week's U.S. Capitol riot.
Klete Keller, a champion swimmer who won two gold medals as a relay teammate of Michael Phelps, was charged in a U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, court records show. He is charged with obstructing law enforcement, knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building, and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.
The news comes after Keller was spotted in videos during the violent storming of the Capitol on January 6, which left five dead.
On Monday, swimming news website SwimSwam was the first to report his appearance at the riot. The site said that at least a dozen people from the competitive swimming community had recognized him in footage shared on Twitter by a reporter from conservative news outlet Townhall.
According to The New York Times, a number of Keller's former teammates and coach recognized him in the footage because of his height (Keller is 6-foot-6) and the U.S. Olympic team jacket he wore that day.
In a criminal complaint, an investigator also identified the 38-year-old swimmer in the Capitol Rotunda from his jacket, describing his "dark colored USA jacket, which also appears to bear a Nike logo on the front right side and a red and white Olympic patch on the front left side."
The swimmer has competed in three Olympics on the U.S. swim team, winning gold medals in the 2004 Athens games as well as the 2008 Beijing games.
When asked if Keller would lose his medals, the International Olympic Committee declined Newsweek's request for comment, saying that the five he did hold were "awarded for sporting achievements in the Olympic Games 2000, 2004 and 2008."
Klete Keller takes a breather after his victory in the Men's 800 Meter Freestyle event during the 2005 ConocoPhillips National Championship on August 3, 2005, in Irvine, California. Doug Benc/Getty
Keller had been working as a real estate broker for Hoff & Leigh in Colorado Springs, Colorado, for the past three years. After he was identified at the riot, the firm announced that he had resigned "effective immediately" and removed his profile and references to him from its website.
"Hoff & Leigh supports the right of free speech and lawful protest but we cannot condone actions that violate the rule of law," the company said in a statement.
There is currently no footage showing Keller engaging in any violent acts on January 6, but his presence inside the Capitol building may mean legal trouble. Others who were in the building are now facing federal charges for unlawful entry and disorderly conduct.
Keller was an outspoken supporter of President Donald Trump, according to both SwimSwam and the Times. He has since deleted all of his social media accounts.
Newsweek reached out to USA Swimming, the national governing body for competitive swimming, for comment but did not hear back before publication.
Update 01/14/21 9:01 a.m. ET: This story was updated with comments from the International Olympic Committee.
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Before entering into negotiations concerning any proposed foreign trade agreement under section 1351 of this title, the President shall furnish the United States International Trade Commission (hereinafter in sections 1352(a), (c), 1354, and 1360 to 1367 of this title, and section 624(b) of title 7, referred to as the "Commission") with a list of all articles imported into the United States to be considered for possible modification of duties and other import restrictions, imposition of additional import restrictions, or continuance of existing customs or excise treatment. Upon receipt of such list the Commission shall make an investigation and report to the President the findings of the Commission with respect to each such article as to (1) the limit to which such modification, imposition, or continuance may be extended in order to carry out the purpose of said section without causing or threatening serious injury to the domestic industry producing like or directly competitive articles; and (2) if increases in duties or additional import restrictions are required to avoid serious injury to the domestic industry producing like or directly competitive articles the minimum increases in duties or additional import restrictions required. Such report shall be made by the Commission to the President not later than six months after the receipt of such list by the Commission. No such foreign trade agreement shall be entered into until the Commission has made its report to the President or until the expiration of the six-month period.
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In the course of any investigation pursuant to this section the Commission shall hold hearings and give reasonable public notice thereof, and shall afford reasonable opportunity for parties interested to be present, to produce evidence, and to be heard at such hearings. If in the course of any such investigation the Commission shall find with respect to any article on the list upon which a tariff concession has been granted that an increase in duty or additional import restriction is required to avoid serious injury to the domestic industry producing like or directly competitive articles, the Commission shall promptly institute an investigation with respect to that article pursuant to section 1364 of this title.
In each such investigation the Commission shall, to the extent practicable and without excluding other factors, ascertain for the last calendar year preceding the investigation the average invoice price on a country-of-origin basis (converted into currency of the United States in accordance with the provisions of section 5151 of title 31) at which the foreign article was sold for export to the United States, and the average prices at which the like or directly competitive domestic articles were sold at wholesale in the principal markets of the United States. The Commission shall also, to the extent practicable, estimate for each article on the list the maximum increase in annual imports which may occur without causing serious injury to the domestic industry producing like or directly competitive articles. The Commission shall request the executive departments and agencies for information in their possession concerning prices and other economic data from the principal supplier foreign country of each such article.
(June 16, 1951, ch. 141, § 3(a), (b), 65 Stat. 72; Pub. L. 85–686, § 4, Aug. 20, 1958, 72 Stat. 675; Pub. L. 93–618, title I, § 171(b), Jan. 3, 1975, 88 Stat. 2009.)
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A's vs. Angels live stream: How to watch MLB games online, on TV
NBC Sports Bay Area staff
The A's are going streaking.
Oakland (12-4) has won nine straight games and look to make it 10 in a row when they head south to face the Los Angeles Angels. The A's are coming off a sweep of the rival Houston Astros, which was punctuated by a benches-clearing brawl between the two sides when Ramón Laureano charged at the Astros' dugout.
The Angels (5-11) just got swept by the Texas Rangers and sit in last place in the AL West.
Here's how you can watch the A's play the Angels online (download the MyTeams app here!) and on TV:
Monday, Aug. 10
When: A's Pregame Live at 6 p.m. PT -- First pitch at 6:40 p.m. PT
TV: NBC Sports California
Stream: MyTeams app
Tuesday, Aug. 11
Wednesday, Aug. 12
When: A's Pregame Live at 12:30 p.m. PT -- First pitch at 1:10 p.m. PT
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Count Chad Masters in that list. The Clarksville, Tenn., cowboy won his second PRCA gold buckle, finishing the season with $196,099. He put the bow on the world title wrapping by winning the average championship at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo with partner Clay O'Brien Cooper, a seven-time world champ himself.
Masters has qualified for the NFR nine times in the last 10 years and earned his first world championship in 2007. In a career that began 12 seasons ago, he has earned more than $1.4 million. That's pretty handy, especially for one of the greatest headers in the game.
But Masters is a pretty salty all-around hand. He's proved that over the years inside the Lazy E Arena. Just last March, he finished eighth in the average, pocketing $3,000 in the process. He'd like to earn more cash this weekend, which is why he's re-invested his 2012 Timed Event earnings into his 2013 entry fee.
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The SFFaudio Podcast #681 – AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: The Goddess of Atvatabar by William R. Bradshaw
The SFFaudio Podcast #681 – The Goddess of Atvatabar by William R. Bradshaw – read by Nigel Fisher. This is a complete and unabridged reading of the novel (8 hour 40 minutes) followed by a discussion of it. Participants in the discussion include Jesse, Evan Lampe, Will Emmons, Trish E. Matson, Connor Kaye, and Alex
how to pronounce Atvatabar, "BEING THE HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE INTERIOR WORLD AND CONQUEST OF ATVATABAR", 1892, hollow earth book, regretting the , kissing book, Vril with more science, a textbook to Theosophy, war, political intrigue, kissing, evolutions, sideye with philosophy, lift the labourers dreary lives, a classist perspective, dime novels, good intentions, travelogue genre, a little in there ideas, the plant birds, the Gutenberg illustrations, spider monkey plants, orchids, birds, fairies, ceremonial garb, silver polar bears, blue serge, a colour illustrated, her hair is blue, she has golden skin, blue black, the lighting from Swang!, the names of anything, the greeglazat of glosset gozzel, Lewis Carol, terrorite, exploding gender reveal parties, Dimitri Mendeleev, the hot new thing, a dictionary of explosives, rando 21st century novel, what an NFT is, plant bird NFT, a yarp happy, a castern owl, a haplid, the cavalry units in the air, bird like machines, studied for a dissertation, piling on, this doesn't matter to the plot, Battle Of The Five Armies, sailing over the rim of the world, heading towards the center sun, a planet orbiting that sun, 25 miles across, not a big dumb object book, an entire planet inside of a planet, why Ringworld is so cool, rishathra, standing on the Plutasian shore, seeing another continent across the space of the earth, teasing hard for a sequel, E.F. Bleiler, an anti-vivisection, the phonetic Irish accent, a bad book, primitive, an indisputable bore, Jesse doesn't understand kissing, philosophy of kissing, a revolution because people just want to bone, firearms, musk ox?, his dogs who are always eating each other, vivisection, its exciting to shoot off guns, what are their standing armies for?, such an imperialistic book, the British and Americans show up, team America, the American declares himself king, emperor of the roof of the world, co-equal, scientist buddies, Starbottle, a comedy, comic relief, Flathootley, eating food in the sky, a loveable Irish rogue, the avatar for the author, not a satire, empire all the way, decorative armies, no imminent threat, the conquest of Mexico, I love your philosophy, you aren't allowed to have sex? burn, I just want to have sex with your goddess, twenty years after Vril (aka The Coming Race), reincarnation, the longing couples are like batteries, pining for each other, priest and priestess, they worship the human soul, we'll surrender and dies, I just want some gold, a gold rush mentality, the gold rush period, the deus ex machina, timeline questions, at least a year, how many ceremonies, two weeks on the invisible island, the restrained horniness of a thousand priestesses, practice your spirit religion, Lexington White, convert them to Christianity, resurrection, banished to the weird rock in the sky, muscular Christians, just war, Tahiti, they see all the shows, the most realistic part of this book, this spiritual shit, get your prana adjusted, physical culture, sold a whole lot of horseshit, how the gravity kind of works, ok, Arthur C. Clarke, fun and interesting explanations, Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote this book and did it much better, At The Earth's Core, lesbian pterodactyls tore my flesh, a different kind of hollow earth, no upside down like Connor, The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym by Edgar Allan Poe, the hint, the promise, A Descent Into The Maelstrom, donut hole, a Symes hole, a model of the hollow earth over his grave, Giacomo Casanova's utopian novel, Ludvig Holberg's Niels Klim's Underground Travels, ripping off Jules Verne's Journey To The Center Of The Earth, we're drilling, where do volcanoes come from?, I'll weigh myself, John Carter's jumping around on Mars, they drop it, nothing comes of it, more virile (or more Vril?), electric wings, no gunpowder, who's tilling the fields, food gathering, surplus army corps, many many many government officials, Nazis under Berlin, The City Of Endless Night by Milo Hastings, exotic India or China, caucazoids with golden skin and blue hair, more or less human, a damsel fly, the baby buds off like a plant, I overthrew and entire continent for you, sex by holding hands, all for the good of mankind, I'm a man its good for me so its good for mankind, little hints, the Nicaraguan Canal, dead plans, effect on the outer world, if this was a movie, terrorite guns and the Nicaraguan canal was finished, we have to infer, M_ Valdemar, save the guilty from being exposed, what kind of document are we supposed to be reading here, voyages extraordinaires, that it is widely publicized is what makes it very science fictional, the philosophy of theosophy stuff, Edgar Allan Poe, most of Jules Verne isn't science fictional, Around The World In Eighty Days, vs. a journey of scientific exploration, where the sun will be in the sky, the science fiction explorations, the Vril stuff is not science fiction (or fantasy), "science fiction of the soul", how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, you have to deal, Rene Descartes, the tripartite god, under your table, he's in your pants, and the oil pan of Jesse's car, dualism, when you go to the gym you get buff, when you breathe through your nose…, claiming it is science, where are their experiments?, you can create matter?, the explanation is a whole bunch of wands, spiritualism, weighing bodies, social science fiction, a sound mind and a sound body, is Jesse just empirically wrong?, William James, altered states, religious experiences, chemical explanations, just because Jesse doesn't have a soul…, Protector by Larry Niven, an unsatisfactory mutation, an extensive explanation, a demonstration of this theory, charging up the 100 wands, we're firing the cannon because we're tired now, isn't it weird that humans have bad backs, aches and pains are because of a lack of vitamin c, cleverly developed, science and industry, lens-grinding and telescopes, as soon as we develop rockets the inner world stuff becomes less interesting, King Kong Vs. Godzilla (2020) went into the hollow Earth, discredited after it was proposed, where Dinotopia is, "the world beneath", a fantasy book, magical powers, the priests of witchcraft and sorcery and necromancy, telepathy, what if there were telepaths?, the Earth's frontiers, that drive to explore and take lands over and make profit from them, a BIG portal fantasy, we need another world somewhere, this is not a utopia, ships made out of gold, they worship a steam engine, they fly in the sky, overthrowing the utopia, local resistance, more like the CIA, an Omelas or Lottery situation, why the heart that should stay out of marriage, abstinence? burn it all down, Vril is much more obviously a utopia, a lot of parades, the catalogue of ships, the Amazon brigade, tuckerization, like part of The Iliad, the arabesques, Barsoom is not supposed to be a utopia, healing with rods, another battle and another victory, more concerned with weird wish fulfillment, I gotta find the perfect girl with blue hair, pretend it is a satire, Lexington is awesome in every way, he's so into it, its fascinating, military history catnip, playing with tropes in the air, I have to set it up then I get to do the battle, the Throne of the Gods, we're done with this Christian shit now, we're going to do the god of Reason, worship invention and honesty, cutting the church out, the god king's son, the church can change the game in radical ways, from Chapter 19, masturbating on the best ideas, all the best guys, Wheel Of Fortune, fucking bullshit, all the stuff in this book that is awesome is bullshit, scholarship to understand ancient religious texts, the book of names, dude, you fucked up, cool worldbuilding, funny, post scarcity so much they're spinning up any old idea, Reading, Short And Deep, the perfect scientist, The Ideal by Stanley G. Weinbaum, what he's doing here is not philosophy, not a way of knowing, spinning up theories, divine evidence through revelation, Thales, water, trying to understand how the universe works, life after death, we know the answer to this and we don't like the, arguments for life after death, context for Lovecraft's racism, spiritualism is not science, spiritualism, bad philosophy is not philosophy, play-doh, spore drives, warp drives, because spore drives, warp technology is to get to the stories, parts of Star Trek are science fiction, uniforms vs. replicators, Egon and crew in the Ghostbusters movies, Venkman, Courtney Brown and remote viewing, Stranger Things, the stuff in the middle is not science fiction, implausible but…, a fun exploration of known properties of science, astronomer, hire a sorcerer or a spiritualist, conjuration, clairvoyance, sideshow, theosophy, spiritualism, seership, the most ridiculous part of this books, pig Latin, Julian Hawthorne, the introduction, very long and enthusiastic, his opinion, a book review that's nice to the author, some plausibility, future adventures of Lexington White, piling up better novels, Cirsova is publishing a bunch of his stuff, The Cosmic Courtship reads a lot like this , jetpack, nude swim, I'm doing mad science, the King Of The United States, the jockey got arrested for murder, dangerous horserace, accidentally goes to Jupiter, son of Nathaniel Hawthorne, like Lovecraft but with a lot less eldritch and a lot more adultery, witchcraft, Young Goodman Brown, The House Of The Seven Gables, the groom man, The Hollow Of The Three Hills, Feathertop, the Scarecrow man, The Birthmark, a cool continuum of people to read, how did this book come to be, straight-up adventure fiction, The Lost World, baseless but it feels like its not, brainstates and chemicals in your food, internal consistency of the story, accept whatever, falling in love with the lady vs. falling in love with their society, the battles are competently done, the clouds of blood, sleeping in the air, crushed in a clump, these batteries, admantium and vibranium and twenty more, a lot of lists, this made of word is like a pineapple, in favour of the writing, in media res, they had great artwork, oh my god triceratops!, vast cities, people riding pterodactyls, people and dinosaurs co-exist and they're friends, burn it all down, the Anglo-American empire, the character names are comedic, he's basically Cortez, so much blood, you should all be down here getting gold like me, free trade, their eyes glitter, if he's doing satire, half the book, different kinds of things, sexism, why is their no triggering?, she could veto, she's not allowed to talk, more equal, equaler, the most equal, first among equals, amazonian brigades, segregation in the units, elected for life, his dad gave him five million dollars, inherited wealth is ok, an eyerolly book (in an enjoyable book), too dumb, Spock's Brain, pulp tropes, every issue of Fantastic Adventures, a blonde haired giant lady in her icy kingdom, She by H. Rider Haggard, men's romance, costumes out, playing captain, golden braiding, only for formal occasions, unconscious, wasted food, indelible for some reason, firing in a semi-circle, a lot of killing, a whole herd of musk ox, cuz America, flirting with satire, is it unconscious?, it starts really well, frames, navigator vs. divination, dating blue haired locals, thinking about how awesome Lexington is, going to a lot of banquets, airship, fills a little crack, Hollow Earth Adventures RPG, set in the 1930s, Space: 1889, pith helmet and martini rifles on spaceships, like Edgar Rice Burroughs with some Nazis, a D&D sourcebook, a massive infodump, page after page, what are the powers of the Lesbian dinosaur ladies, magical, telepathic, mind-control, open source, lists and thrones and banquets, what do the other places look like, almost a whole world opened up to us, a list of their household items, cotton gins, printing presses, what are their voting machines like, what is their average day, are they post scarcity, just cosplaying like the Klingons, Vril is a better book in general, better than Tolkien (at the battle scenes).
The SFFaudio Podcast #602 – READALONG: An Exchange Of Souls by Barry Pain
The SFFaudio Podcast #602 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, Maissa Bessada, Evan Lampe, and Trish E. Matson
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Lovecraft, a Platonic explanation, uses drugs, a Dreamlands story, set in the Dreamlands, The Cats Of Ulthar, The Quest Of Iranon, The Doom That Came To Sarnath, that horrible Heinlein novel, I Will Fear No Evil, yelling at Heinlein the whole time, kissing, a synonym for kissing, old married couples, a synonym for soul, spirit, aspire, expire, inspire, exhaling, the breath being the soul, very basic, Christian theologians, a Vorkosiverse reference, Barrayar, how deep is this book?, The Undying Thing, Paul in another form, frustrating, where to go with its gears, supernatural events out of nowhere, contact from beyond the grave, philosophy and medical science, not totally out of nowhere, she was physically changing, the metamorphosis, mind-body relationship, how does the mind control the problem, the change in mind affects the body, the mind IS separate from the body, cheated, the railway accident, can Alice be Alice again, Alice Daniel, bored, interesting, Strange Case Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde, he wants to part (by walking over kids), very banal Victorian stuff, wills, blackmail, dressing like a man, a mystery, men didn't understand women at all, up on a pedestal, wanting to wear men's clothes, freedom of movement, the woman becoming the man, a sort of queer story about transformation, the exciting undercurrent, a subtextual reading, deep into the subtext, reading it subversively, was there a murder?, a chivalrous man, their class relationship, emotional relationship (or lack there of), underground family secret, basically The Hound Of The Baskervilles but literally supernatural, some sort of sin tainting the genetics, divine retribution, by murder and theft, I am due elsewhere, he was killed twice, who smashed up all the equipment, we don't see it on screen, Jesse's reading, class revenge and gender swap, with our stupid narrator, so timorous, so conventional, a tool of the person who wants something, the two protagonists, we see so little from her point of view, The Thing On The Doorstep makes these things much more explicit, very subtle, The Moon-Slave, fairy tale France, The Glass Of Supreme Moments, Guy de Maupassant, a less passionate Philip K. 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Sawyer, the center of narrative gravity, a teapot, a uranium block glued to a teapot, anything with mass has a center of gravity, Rene Descartes, Phineas Gage, looking for a particular part of the brain, best mic, drop in history, souls aren't real, a Douglas Adams reference, dreams where dead people come, a very cool dream, jellyfish style thing, you're not dead, I got eaten by this monster thing, would you be back alive again the way you were, shot in the head, personality change, our spirit is physiological, its a software thing, Cyteen by C.J. Cherryh, the software is the hardware, silly theories about what sleep is for, all the studies looking for souls, a phone call in the middle of the night, spiritualism, Doyle wanted to believe, massive character flaw, giving money to grifters, a cultural judgement, this thread of mind-transference, quasi-spirtuality to scientific, they thought they were high tech doing spirtualism, Ghostbusters, psychokinetic energy, Dan Akroyd believes in that stuff, ghost hunting, hunting bigfoot is for exercise, playing a culturally important role, the essential work of ghost hunting, not reading enough books, religious people, rejecting the vast reality of the human experience, a character flaw Jesse is proud of, Evan's missing out on, William James, Contact, Arthur C. Clarke, conflating vs. mentioning, materialist, Robert Sheckley, Gregg Margarite, Mindswap, picaresque, bildungsroman, travel to mars, vacation to Mars through consciousness transference, swapping genders and species, The Strange (RPG), he roamed the stars in a borrowed body searching for his own, pretty funny, a prurient 12 year old, the sexual aspect of switching bodies, like Dollhouse, back to the book, Compton the narrator, with eye-rolling frequency, too French, floppy tie, disgusted by music-hall female impersonators, tidying away this mystery, beloved research, historical letters from the Peninsular War, this great mystery of life, a rather revolting annoyance, humours essays, social satire, people who try not to be like other people are very tiresome (hipsters), another comic book biography of H.P. Lovecraft, translated from French, some factual errors, a really interesting letter Lovecraft wrote in the Omaha Bee, what does this mean?, his father sold some property there?, what does Compton do when not doing blackmail?, a bunch of letters from Wellington, a really publicly important thing, the equivalent of Churchill, the word, Evan!, after you die you can still have your will done in a WILL, it's amazing, a part of somebody's consciousnesses, what you're doing is evil Will, Cecil Rhodes, an evil alliance that kinda worked out, Henry Ford's estate, being an executor is a burden, harm through social structures, the fairer sex, why she wants to be a man, Barry Pain is very good at not making it super-obvious, the ratings are very high, it doesn't overstay its welcome, he's going to his death in a calm and nice way, there's a poignancy, his personal world is going to end, The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters, which is the best Ringworld book?, they get progressively worse, diminishing returns, Larry Niven, self-criticism, take lessons, sometimes people write about stuff, the best general history of The Reformation, getting all corrupt, a very Douglas Adamsy thing, More Of God's Greatest Mistakes, a trilogy in 5 parts, exchange of dogs, a subsequent chapter, hinted very strongly, the face being disfigured was deliberate, transferred into another body, Jesse wants to read it subversively, Trish didn't see it at all, in cases of supermen stories, breaking it down, Captain America: The First Avenger, the hydra guys, bald guy actor, the recipe can't be repeated, one and done, Stanley Tucci, Big Night (1996), once the equipment is destroyed, who wants to do this again?, is Jesse crazy?, accursed of murder, she burned her hair in the oven, covering up, smells bad, a lotta lies, Compton is incompetent, a window on events almost too passively, a distraction, British murder mysteries, inheritance of property, the whole book is a distraction to Compton, coming to terms with death, literally doing what Frankenstein wants to do: defeat death, abandoning progeny, both ghosts, all delusions, another lie, incurious, covering up, if this was a true story, he's a briber, he doesn't do anything immoral, he's trying to be dispassionate, I found I had a lot more friends than I though I did, hilarious, if you buy a beach house you suddenly find you have a lot of relatives, upperclass twits, who are their patients?, paying off, class stuff, drinking to much, gambling debts, class concerns going up and down, rich people's problems, the exploitation of a nice person, a more sinister story than it looks and feels, proposing a term, back and forth, social customs, the science fictional aspects, the main aspects, a tragedy of manners, not a comedy of manners, what gives the story its juice, weird customs and judgements, what they say about each other when their not around, I'll tell him what you said, you see that in science fiction too, space opera, who's on the cover, who's being looked at, that's a really striking cover, that lady is our subject (object), A Princess Of Mars, her husband is the subject of the sentence and she's the object, who's that behind her, his tie is not that floppy, looking at her askance, sort of faded, astral projection, he's got some doubt in his mind, the mom, what is she in there for?, what's the point of that?, the governess, light and fluffy, pairings we want to see, European princesses, my son should marry her, he's an up and comer, servants are sources of amusement, golf cartoons, Trump golfing when 100,000 people were dead, Jimmy Carter was near the bottom, a business man's thing, money money money, ground Alice, her accent changed, London accent to upper-crust accent, so malleable, why he's choosing her, he really likes the apartment, access to materials, disgraced, moving people away, they're betrothed, she thinks it is for Alice's health, supposed to be read subversively, he doesn't kick his audience in the balls and run off he tweaks their nose, people need Paul, he's the nexus the axis the axel.
The SFFaudio Podcast #360 – READALONG: The Sign Of The Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The SFFaudio Podcast #360 – Jesse, Julie Davis, and Maissa talk about The Sign Of The Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
1890, Oscar Wilde, Lipincott's Magazine, a meeting at the Langham hotel August 30, 1889, The Picture Of Dorian Gray, a golden evening, years vs. six weeks, Doyle's massive output, Wilde's one novel, a whole new story, a Sherlock Holmes melting pot, Jeremy Brett adaptation, Mystery!, Masterpiece Theater, the 1983 cartoon, great visuals, the Sherlockiana, cocaine begins and ends the book, A Study In Scarlet, Watson is done already, black armbands, "an old adventure", so Aspergery, Psychology Today, a patriotic obligation, the Andaman Islander, wrapped into a romance, 120 different kinds of tobacco ash?, worrying about details, movable wounds, misshapen heads, the Andaman Islands, they may not even have fire (technology), that's still a thing, stone age, low on metal, Conan Doyle's omnivorous interests, Joseph Bell, Jonathan Small has big willpower, a supervillain with a conscience, a sympathetic villain, blacks vs. whites, if Seth were here, we four should enter into a tontine, a recipe for murder, a group investment scheme, the strand with the romance, holding hands, Mary's disdain for money makes her more attractive to Watson, the Agra treasure, the golden barrier, very chemical, significant looks, love is an emotional thing opposed to true cold reason, A Scandal In Bohemia, The Valley Of Fear, Sherlock Holmes vs. the Ku Klux Klan, the Mormon community, The Five Orange Pips, Philip K. Dick was reading histories of WWII, Doyle was reading the newspaper, a mystery romance, he's overthinking it, go out and get Toby, the Baker St. irregulars, he does a chemical analysis, Sherlock Holmes tropes, deerstalkers, like wearing a hunting jacket in NYC, warm tweeds, Watson calls Holmes an "automaton", Fred Saberhagen's Berserkers, Cylons, the Borg, he forgets to kill all humans, Wings Out Of Shadow, the Red Baron, a deducing machine, allowing for expansion, the little nuggets allow participation in the experience, Agatha Christie, waiting for plot development to happen, two knights errant, Mr. Spock, Edgar Allan Poe's C. August Dupin, consulting detectives, tales of ratiocination, The Purloined Letter, a government official who has lost a document, solves, Zadig by Voltaire, full blown Science Fiction, H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, Phileas Fogg is clock-like, he loves the fog, there is no hot-air balloon in Around The World In Eighty Days, The Seven-Percent Solution, a chase on the river Thames, Robert Downey, Jr., disabling spleens, hidden talents, an improvisational violinist, I am an excellent housekeeper, Professor Challenger, Otto Penzler, Neil Gaiman, The Big Book Of Sherlock Holmes, someone with vast interests, The White Company, off to look at The Lost World, dinosaurs, fairies, spiritualism, false-imprisonment, warships of the future, spaceships?, the conversations between Oscar Wilde and Conan Doyle, you seem great – come and talk to us, Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: The Undiscovered County, one of Spock's ancestors, Spock as a descendant of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The original Wrath Of Khan, Charles Dickens' A Tale Of Two Cities, Paradise Lost, Moby Dick, Genesis, the A Good Story Is Hard To Find podcast, the war in India, horse, foot and gunners, blowing our own bugles, we're still that stupid, the 1857 Sepoy rebellion, tallow and lard greased cartridges, the ultimate topper, repeating the cycle, the American Revolution, Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin radicalized Thomas Paine, Common Sense by Thomas Paine, you have to reject monarchy, a petition to King George, Paine was right, BBC Radio 4: In Our Time, like a ministerial briefing, nobody looks at history, Doyle is dropping little comments in there, he's super-anti-racist, rotten families, looking at it a little more cynically, taking-off the romantic blinders, super-human strength, murder, don't call the police, corruption, ultimately underneath all of it is corruption all the way up and down, human nature, otherwise you have no story, notice Sherlock Holmes never gets paid?, he lays out money, this is why he needs a roommate, class, child labour laws, latch key kids, free-ranging kids, homeless kids, Seth we miss you, Maissa's son, is Martin Freeman Hollywood's choice to represent the British everyman?, homo-eroticism, Sherlock's entire focus is on the will-they or won't-they?, Mary in Sherlock, derivative fiction, it is not an adaptation, Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings, stuffed up a chimney, Without A Clue, Ben Kingsley and Michael Caine, John Watson: The Crime Doctor, The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes, Billy Wilder, homosexuality, a twinkle, Maissa's local video store is still open!
The SFFaudio Podcast #326 – READALONG: The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The SFFaudio Podcast #326 – Jesse, Mr Jim Moon, and Bryan Alexander talk about The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lost World is a great read, Tom Barling illustrations of The Lost World, the Ladybird editions, King Kong, The Valley Of Gwangi, full of jokes, slapstick, witty banter, an awesome character, a role model for us all, Professor Challenger is Brian Blessed, every audio drama, every movie, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot, a sideways angle Gilles deLEuze's A Thousand Plateaus, Professor Challenger made the earth scream, "his simian disposition", When The World Screamed, The Poison Belt, The Land Of Mist, The Disintegration Machine, an end of the world story, you could do it as a stage play with a single set, the humiliation chair, Challenger and his wife embracing, The Strand Magazine (U.K. vs. American editions), they knew what gold they'd found, competing with Argosy and the colourful pulps, Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, it's the same story, Lost Horizon, the 1998 quickie movie of The Lost World, other adaptations, Summerlee as a woman, the 2011 2-part BBC Radio drama adaptation, Diana Summerlee, a male book, Dracula, assembling a team of adventurers, the sacrificial American, a mad Texan, Maple White Land, From The Earth To The Moon by Jules Verne, both books have a major role played by a noble, Lord John Roxton, he rocks, the 3 part BBC Radio drama (available as a 3 CD set), the wise sage, comic relief, a double act, a towering bastard, a modern day Munchhausen, the frame story, an evolutionary biology exemplar, the central lake, a vaginal symbol, a 1912 book, becoming soft, the Boy Scouts, a moral equivalent to war, a testosterone shot, it's a cartoon, Roxton's test, Boys adventure, a genocide, slavery, the 1960 adaptation, the 2001 adaptation, a romance, ahistorical women, the 1960 adaptation, the prince is turned into a princess, every Edgar Rice Burroughs book makes this change, otherwise we couldn't go back to our women, ape city from Planet Of The Apes, the Rod Serling scripted movie, one of the great scenes of history, The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature, it's not about gender roles, it's about racism, these Indians are so degraded their barely above the average Londoner, stupid and wise, every magazine story in the 19teens is about race and going soft and miscegenation, their good negro, the description of rage, the red mist, getting savage, Heart Of Darkness, the white feather, spiritualism, anticipation WWI, Roxton has a ton of rocks (diamonds), evolutionary psychology, Hungerford, proving the ability to care for a large number of children, a classic case (undermined at the end), Gladis Potts, an amazing amount of stuff happens in this book, good scientific analysis, poor Malone, there's reason to fear reporters of this era, a sophisticated view of the press, that's always been the case, news was a big business in 1912, wire services, 15 years earlier (in Dracula), The New York Times, TV journalism, pointing at pictures and saying "oh dear!", Charlie Brooker, Newswipe or Screenwipe, a high information culture, 5 posts a day, 3 editions a day, The War Of The Worlds, Now It Can Be Told by Philip Gibbs, the hoax aspect of the book, Doyle's problem with science, quasi-hoax in the original illustrations, the way Sherlock Holmes stories are told, the Maple White illustrations, playing with the nature of the evidence, preserving an information and financial monopoly, meticulous description, the British tradition of the novel, a very realistic novel, protestant novel, is Robinson Crusoe real?, The Castle Of Otranto by Horace Walpole, Edgar Allan Poe, The Balloon Hoax, meta-textual questions, assorted deranged individuals, the imitators of H.P. Lovecraft, Dracula is a found footage novel, future proofing the story, At The Mountains Of Madness, Ruritanian romance, Mount Roraima, a partial pterodactyl wing, the trump card, pterodactyl wing, founding a private museum, the Evolution Museum in Kentucky, a fairy museum, The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions, science studies, the Royal Society, "we've discovered everything", "we're all done inventing", the aether of the vacuum, "extraordinary claims requires extraordinary evidence", an antecedent for Professor Quatermass, Bryan's beard is intimidating, Bryan with beard and axe, The Horror Of The Heights, star jelly, Eadweard Muybridge, Sherlock Holmes as a the great Asperger's hero, Neal Stephenson's new novel is offensively hard SF, Larry Niven, you don't have to understand science to do it, Jurassic Park, the movie, Steven Spielberg, the betraying geek, what saves them, kids and dinosaurs, American conservative standard American movie, Schindler's List, A.I., the Americans are very repressed,
"I have wrought my simple plan
If I give one hour of joy
To the boy who's half a man,
Or the man who's half a boy."
C.S. Lewis, Gomez the traitor, Lord John Roxton's private war, the flail of the lord, half-breed slavers, hewers of word and drawers of water, this is totally colonialism, Rhodesia, Mungo Park, Water Music by T. Coraghessan Boyle, the 1925 silent film version, Willis O'Brien, the Brontosaurus, the 1960 version, the sound effects, the dinosaurs sound like tie fighters, The 39 Steps, show me the lizards, Jules Verne's Journey To The Center Of The Earth, 1860s paleontology, Ray Bradbury: 'dinosaurs are awesome', Ray Harryhausen, creationism, the poor iguanodon, dinosaurs are inherently partly mythical, the dinosaurs are all female, parthenogenesis, Eaters Of The Dead by Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain, The First Great Train Robbery, Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland, Beowulf vs. neanderthals, Ahmad ibn Fadlan, Congo, intelligent apes, Gorilla Grodd, DC Comics, Planetary, Lord Greystoke, loving riffs on SF classics, Doc Savage, The Shadow, too much incident (for a modern book), value for money, Speed, the whole bus gimmick, Interstellar, shallow water planet, weird ice planet, the O'Neil colony, ideas are of primacy, a humorous bombastic semi-psychotic reading, Bob Neufeld's narration for LibriVox, John Rhys Davies, the 2001 TV adaptation with Matthew Rhys as Malone, The Americans, the science, The Andromeda Strain's scientific density, Andy Weir's The Martian: "we're going to science the shit out of this", five-dimensional beings, the Nolan brothers, Elysium, in the geography of the public mind, Conan Doyle's passions, "I'm obsessed with fairies now!", FairyTale: A True Story, science runs the risk of P.T. Barnum, we need a Conan Doyle and a Houdini.


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TRAINEE A'S LEO IN BTS -"PERMISSION TO DANCE
Did you know, Trainee A's member Leo appeared as a background dancer in BTS' MV for Permission to Dance?
We already know Trainee A's member Leo from their various social media accounts like Instagram and TikTok.
With a screen time of seven seconds in Permission to dance, he shines at the side of two female dancers in six sequences throughout the MV.
He also participated in the flash mop sequence at the end of the MV, dancing with BTS and performing the choreography that went viral as the #Permission to Dance Challenge on the web.
Check Out Our BTS (Back To School 😉) Box.
Army's, the fan group of BTS, all around the world have posted their videos under this Hashtag, following BTS's call for the united dance party.
Trainee A is the new boy group that was formed in April 2021 and is planned to debut under the Hybe label, the same label that is the home of BTS and TxT.
Next to Leo, the pre-debut group consists of 5 other members Sangwon, Inhyuk, Jihoon, Sangwon, James, and JJ who most recently joined and who was revealed on August 24th.
Leo is one of the older members, being born in 2002. He was born in Australia and grew up there, making him fluent in English.
He moved to Korea when he was just seventeen years old to pursue his dreams of becoming a singer and K-Pop idol.
His vocals are very strong which makes it possible for him to become the main vocalist or even lead vocalist. He prefers singing over dancing, dislikes mint chocolate, and enjoys winter over summer.
These insights are all from Trainee A's TikTok page where they also revealed JJs face, so make sure to check it out if you want to stay up to date with the groups' development. Maybe we will even see more of Trainee A's members in future BTS MV's. Stay tuned!
We wish the pre-debut group a lot of luck with their training and upcoming debut. You will of course be able to read all about it on here, once we know more!
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Q: Problems when plotting integrated singular functions in matplotlib I want to plot the integral of an integral of (singular) function in matplotlib, but my code doesn't work. Mathematically I want this:

Code:
import numpy as np
from scipy import integrate
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

def g(x):
    if (np.abs(x)<1e-10):
        res = x
    else:
        res = x*(np.sin(1.0/x))
    return res

X = np.arange(-0.5,0.5,0.001)

plot(X,g(X)) ## Doesn't work

def f(x):
    res = np.zeros_like(x)
    for i,val in enumerate(x):
        y,err = integrate.quad(g,0,val)
        res[i]=y
    return res

plot(X,f(X)) ## Works

def F(x):
    res = np.zeros_like(x)
    for i,val in enumerate(x):
        y,err = integrate.quad(f,0,val)
        res[i]=y
    return res

plt.plot(X,F(X)) ## Doesn't work

(Code is an adapted version of https://scicomp.stackexchange.com/a/21871/9417)
So I can't plot the original function g, because it says:
      5
      6 def g(x):
----> 7     if (np.abs(x)<1e-10):
      8         res = x
      9     else:

ValueError: The truth value of an array with more than one element is ambiguous. Use a.any() or a.all()

And also I cannot plot the integrated integral-function as it says:
     17 def f(x):
     18     res = np.zeros_like(x)
---> 19     for i,val in enumerate(x):
     20         y,err = integrate.quad(g,0,val)
     21         res[i]=y

TypeError: 'float' object is not iterable

However plotting the first integral f works. How can I fix this? Is there a better method of plotting this with python without running into such problems?

A: There are a few errors in your code:

*

*When you run g(X), the parameter is an array, while in the inside of the function you treat X as a value. g(x) is not applied to every element of X, it is applied to the whole array X. This explains why The truth value of an array... error, because x is in fact the whole array X. You can solve it in 2 different ways:

*

*Mapping the function g to every value of X
>>> y = map(X, g)  # y = np.asarray(map(X, g)) if you want a numpy array back
>>> plot(X, y)

y = map(X, g) can also be written using list comprehension as y = [g(x) for x in X].

*Vectorize the function g(x) to be applied to the whole array
def g(X):
    r = X.copy() # create a copy of x
    mask = np.abs(r) < 1e-10   # create a mask with invalid values
    r[mask] *= np.sin(1.0 / r[mask])  # replace those values
    return r

However, if you choose option 2, the function f(x) will fail, as it is calling g(x) with a single value, once for every value of X.

*Your function f(x) is made to work with arrays instead, as you loop over every element of X and apply g(x) to each of them. If you still want to apply g(x) to every element of X use option 1.

*Your function F(x) also works with whole arrays, as you loop through its elements. However, for every element you call f(x), which only admits lists/arrays as input (and you are giving a single number). I think F(x) is redundant as it does exactly the same as f(x).
With your definition, you can rewrite equations as follows:
def g(x):
    return x if np.abs(x) < 1e-10 else x * np.sin(1.0/x)

def f(x):
    return integrate.quad(g, 0, x)[0]

def F(x):
    return integrate.quad(f, 0, x)[0]

And then obtain the result by mapping the function for every x.
X = np.arange(0,0.5,0.01)
yg = map(g, X)
yf = map(f, X)
yF = map(F, X)

Plot results:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
X = np.arange(-0.5, 0.5, 0.01)
yf = map(f, X)
plt.plot(X, yf)
plt.show()

A Quicker version that allows limiting the number of points within the integral:
def g(x):
    return x if np.abs(x) < 1e-10 else x * np.sin(1.0/x)

def f(x, limit=50):
    return integrate.quad(g, 0, x, limit=limit)[0]

def F(x, limit=50):
    return integrate.quad(f, 0, x, args=limit, limit=limit)[0]

Then run:
X = np.arange(-0.5, 0.5, 0.01)
FY = [F(x, limit=10) for x in X]
plt.plot(X, FY)

Larger values of limit will result in better representation of the image, at the expenses of much larger running times.

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I enjoy working for Terberg very much, already for 14 years now. We engineer from A to Z, are involved in all aspects of the technology and that makes this work so rewarding. At Terberg there is a lot of room for your ideas and initiative and there are a lot of opportunities to develop yourself. The atmosphere is great, you can feel that this is a family business. There is a lot of passion and drive.
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When I first joined Dennis Eagle, I really had no idea that I would eventually end up as Service Centre Manager," says Jamie. "I was 16 years old, and all I wanted to do was be a mechanic. However, I soon realised the career progression opportunities that the company offered and, after my first year, I moved on to become an engineer. Dennis Eagle saw that I had management skills and potential, and in 2014 I was promoted to Depot Supervisor / Assistant Manager, before taking on the Service Centre Manager role last September.
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I just started working for Terberg Benschop a couple of months ago (early 2020). I was trying to find a job where I could see and experience the whole picture, from start to finish. This means drawing (parts of) the vehicle and seeing the final result. For me, that's a great plus of Terberg Benschop.
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Pininfarina is nothing less than a legend. The Italian automobile design firm, in symbiosis with a select group of exclusive and iconic carmakers, has designed some of the most spectacular and valuable cars of all time, including the Ferrari 250GT, the Testarossa, and the Enzo. Many Pininfarina-designed cars wore the company's name proudly on the side. However, after decades of designing cars for others, Pininfarina has launched its own car this week, at the Geneva Motor Show, and is now sporting its iconic name on the front and back instead. The car itself is a remarkable feat of design, styling, and engineering, redefining what luxury means for automobiles.
And this is important, as we are in an era of disruption. Luxury consumers all over the world are getting younger, more sophisticated, and hungry for authentic experiences. With many of them living in highly urbanized environments like Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Tokyo, London, or Los Angeles, they experience a world in which pollution is becoming an increasing problem. It's not surprising that more than 80 percent of all-electric vehicles in the world are bought by Chinese consumers, and that in cities like Shanghai, electric scooters have practically replaced gasoline-powered motorcycles that were ubiquitous until seven or eight years ago.
Times are changing. In a few years, many of today's megacities will no longer allow cars that aren't zero-emission. In my point of view, many of the traditional premium and luxury carmakers are moving far too slowly in that direction, and consequently, risk that newcomers will leapfrog and win this new game. It's not surprising that Tesla already dominates the U.S. luxury segment with its Model S and X, and its Model 3 just became the bestselling electric car, even before becoming available in large numbers in Europe and China. While in China, hundreds — yes, hundreds — of electric car manufacturers have already launched vehicles or are ready to go, which is a fact that many people in Europe or the U.S. don't realize. Some might have a significant technological advantage over some traditional German brands, but they will lack brand recognition and brand equity, especially outside of China. The lack of brand equity of these Chinese companies presents a unique opportunity.
This is why Pininfarina's car is so exciting. Not only is it the fastest and most powerful car ever built, its also electric and hails from a company with an unmatched heritage and credibility in designing super sports cars. The vehicle, named Battista, underlines that the game of luxury is changing. When I met CEO Michael Perschke at the world premiere in Geneva earlier this week, I was impressed how serious he and his company are in combining luxury with sustainability. The $2 million Battista is just the beginning of a series of electric luxury cars that Pininfarina will launch over the next years. And cracking luxury and sustainability is an excellent opportunity in today's market, where none of the luxury hypercars are sustainable.
I recently co-authored a book titled, The Sustainable Management of Luxury, and in it, I wrote about what I called the "luxury sustainability paradox," which to me, is the difficult challenge for a brand to be both truly luxury and truly sustainable. One of the reasons is that to be perceived as a luxury, at least one performance criteria needs to be extreme. There are few successful examples, with prominent failures like the BMW i8, which in my view is too much of a compromise between the old gasoline world and the electric future. A car journalist described the i8 to me as a "faster Prius" — certainly not a compliment, and certainly not enough to be convincing as a powerful luxury sports car. A pretty design along with a high-end brand name are not enough to build a successful sustainable luxury business model, relevant to discerning millennial consumers.
Having experienced the Battista, Pininfarina's "different" ambition comes across. The car not only has beautiful lines, and a stunning interior that combines craftsmanship and design expertise into a fantastic luxury experience, it's also powered by a fully-electric drivetrain — blowing away anything that gasoline cars can do, and even setting a new standard for electric vehicles. Seeing the power of this car, it is clear that traditional engines have reached the end of their lifecycle. While they will be around for another 10 or 20 years, they won't achieve the performance that all-electric cars can reach. And by this, they won't be able to offer sustainable luxury.
It's great to see companies unafraid to disrupt the status quo, when leaders are bold enough to be consequent in implementing their vision. With today's super-empowered consumers, only bold, authentic, and real offers can succeed. It's a wake-up call for traditional car brands, and more importantly, and a periscope into the future.
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