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5 Things Wrong With Invisible Sun
Back in August of 2016, Monte Cook Games launched a kickstarter for their game Invisible Sun. At the time, there was a lot of secrecy surrounding the game, with very little details of what all the obtuse terminology the game was using meant. It had numerous components, each with a name that wasn't explicitly indicative of what purpose it served, and further, the game wasn't made available online. It was described as a "Luxury RPG Experience."
As of February 2019, however, Monte Cook Games has announced that they were going to release Invisible Sun digitally in pdf form, along with a digital preview of the game. When it initially came out, I mostly ignored it. Though with the release of the preview, I decided to dig into it a little bit, because I believe that an informed marketplace is a healthy one.
If the title of this article is any indication, I was not impressed with what I was able to surmise. So for your reading pleasure and to help you make a more informed decision as to whether you should get this, I bring you Five Things Wrong With Invisible Sun!
1) It's Expensive And Excessive
When it was initially funded via Kickstarter, the lowest tier that gave you a copy of the game was set at approximately 200USD, and since then, the price for a pre-order of the next batch of these to be shipped out is about 300USD. This is a steep price tag for any game, especially when you consider that the trio of books for Dungeons and Dragons is about 150USD (oftentimes much less), with the options to eschew certain books if you don't want or need them. Even the digital copy of Invisible Sun goes for about 100USD.
While Invisible Sun does come with numerous books, there's also other props it comes with that, frankly, probably aren't necessary. Props such as The Testament of Suns, which is a plastic hand meant to hold a card for everybody around the table to see.
Invisible Sun's weight, according to its listing on Amazon, is 30lbs (about 13.5kg). There's a lot in this box which, even if one isn't opposed to paying a high price point, still means you'll not only need to find room for this 30 inch cube (about 75cm), but you'll need to lug it around and move it about when you're going to play.
And the game has several books, several decks of different cards, and several other things that contribute to our next concern...
2) It's Poorly Designed, Organized, And Explained
The rules and all the pertinent information needed to play the game are spread across four different books, as well as numerous different decks of cards. Some of these decks contain information that isn't reproduced in any of the books, according to their web page. This means if one of these cards is lost, that's a part of the game that's likely to be lost as well.
Four books sounds like an incredible thing for a game to have, and I will give props to Invisible Sun because they do seem to divide the content of the books up pretty reasonably: basics information in one book, setting information in another, etc etc. That's an idea I can get behind, since one of my favorite games, Tenra Bansho Zero, has a similar setup for its English edition.
However, if the table of contents is to be believed, the index for Invisible Sun is located in the back half of the book "The Gate." While I'm fond of the multi-book approach, putting the index in just one book like its an encyclopedia does open up some problems. What if that book is unavailable, and you need to find a specific piece of information within it?
Furthermore, on the subject of indexes, Invisible Sun does a little bit of indexing throughout itself. This is a welcome answer to the issue of the index being in only one of the books, but, they picked a jarring place to put these mini-indexes: right in the center of the page.
3) It's Not As Original As It Claims
Invisible Sun makes some very bold claims; among these being that it'll change how RPGs are played, it's a new way to play RPGs, and also that it includes "magic that is truly magical." These are all claims that, at best, are exaggerated, with one of the big selling points being that includes rules for how to play without having everybody present, or even when the GM isn't present.
On its own, that isn't a problem. How to handle player absence would ordinarily be something I'd welcome in a rulebook. It's one of the praises I sing of Meikyuu Kingdom. In fact, if a player character is absent for a session, there are codified rules on how that character can still contribute to the game.
However, these are issues the greater RPG community has, for the longest time, already solved. We've figured out how to run games without a GM, we've already come up with and codified the idea of flashbacks as a gameplay device, and we've also come up with having one-on-one scenes between GM and Player.
It takes hubris (or being wildly out of touch) to codify these things we've been doing for so long, and use it as a selling point for your boutique priced game.
4) It's Pretentious
"Invisible Sun is deep. It's smart. Just like you. Invisible Sun will change the way you play rpgs."
That is the the final line in the original sales pitch for Invisible Sun, the crowning gem after a passage of nonsense and promises of solving problems that were already solved. This page has since fallen off the Invisible Sun website, replaced instead with a somewhat more informative one that describes the setting and premise a little better.
Arguments could be made in contrast to the first three points: Invisible Sun is smart because it codifies these solutions the community has solved. It should command a higher price for this benefit, since there are games that don't do this. Other games have obtuse settings and a blurred line between where rules and setting information are.
However, it's this collection of traits, convoluted layout, obtusely described setting, high price point, and being described as a smart game for smart people, that marks the sort of snob appeal that makes it pretentious.
Given that this hobby is social in nature, though, it behooves me not to villainize anybody who likes this games. So more power to you if you were one of the folks who got your hands on the limited quantities of Black Cubes out there. Just keep this in mind: high barriers to entry, monetary or otherwise, means there's not likely to be as many players for your game.
I'll end this article on a slightly more amusing note.
5) Bonus! Poor Security For Their Web App
This factor isn't really a strike against the game, so much as something that makes me think perhaps the team at Monte Cook Games is out of touch with the modern world. (After all, never blame on malice what could just as easily be incompetence.)
Invisible Sun also had a companion app developed for it, though it isn't available on the Google Play or Apple App stores. It's instead what could best be described as a web-app, a website that has the functionality of a smartphone app. In my quest to dredge up more information on Invisible Sun, I came across the app, and wondered if registering might yield any secrets.
There's one field that asks for a specific word, from a specific page, of a specific book that Insibile Sun comes with. This is what we call a Dictionary Encryption, and it's an old form of securing information that was also used as a form of copy protection in about the 1990s.
However, the app doesn't seem to include a captcha verification. Meaning somebody handy with scripting languages could potentially brute force their way through registration, trying every possible word to fulfill the Dictionary Encryption. (An activity that, we at High Level Games do NOT condone.)
Aaron der Schaedel is aware of the folly of punching up at a name like Monte Cook in this hobby. Having been chased out of other circles for more absurd reasons, though, he remains unperturbed. You can chastise him for questioning a long time member of the industry via twitter: @Zamubei
Picture Reference: https://www.montecookgames.com/store/product/invisible-sun-preorder/
RCautela
Couldnt disagree more. High mendacity and misinfirmation is rampant in this article. Fake news from our canadian friends!?
Agreed. There are some legit critiques of this game and I agree with this author on number one (being expensive is probably the first thing folks learn about IS) but two and three are just guesswork from Googling things. Maybe try it out? These don't hold up to me after reading the game. Number four is just opinion and number five is completely unrelated to the game (the web app isn't great but "they need Captcha" is a thin comment).
This article should read "Invisible Sun Costs a Bunch and I'm going to Speculate Wildly About It."
Two and three are not presented as guesswork. They are presented as the author's opinion, and they have embedded links to sources that back up said opinion. "Number four is just opinion," is an irrelevant criticism of the article as the whole article is clearly an opinion or summation of opinions. Number five is largely irrelevant, true, to the larger point of the article, but the author states that in the relevant section. I will say that the list probably could easily have been four or even three items long, and to me it feels a bit padded.
"Mendacity?" Really? Where? Do point out this mendacity and "misinfirmation." I largely agree with the entire article, and it is clearly the author's opinion and presented as such.
R Cautela
Yes, mendacity, and lotsa it. It's his opinion, yes, and it's a bad one.


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Funeral set for 3 girls killed by mother in Missouri
Authorities: Lisa Cochran bought shotgun days earlier, sent goodbye email
Updated: 1:12 PM CDT Sep 11, 2012
Funeral services will be Thursday for three girls killed by their mother in a murder-suicide last week south of St. Louis.The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the funeral for 11-year-old Alyssa Cochran, 10-year-old Autumn Cochran and 22-month-old Faith Ehlen will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Heiligtag-Lang-Fendler Funeral Home in Arnold. The girls will be buried next to each other.Funeral information for the mother, 32-year-old Lisa Cochran, is not yet available.The bodies of all four were found early Thursday at the home of Lisa Cochran's ex-boyfriend. Authorities said she had purchased a shotgun days earlier and sent a goodbye email to her former boyfriend hours before the bodies were found.
Funeral services will be Thursday for three girls killed by their mother in a murder-suicide last week south of St. Louis.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the funeral for 11-year-old Alyssa Cochran, 10-year-old Autumn Cochran and 22-month-old Faith Ehlen will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Heiligtag-Lang-Fendler Funeral Home in Arnold. The girls will be buried next to each other.
Funeral information for the mother, 32-year-old Lisa Cochran, is not yet available.
The bodies of all four were found early Thursday at the home of Lisa Cochran's ex-boyfriend. Authorities said she had purchased a shotgun days earlier and sent a goodbye email to her former boyfriend hours before the bodies were found.

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Game Over, Kacho Off
It all started so innocently: In early 2006, I found out about Game Center CX, this Japanese video game show that was immediately interesting and seemingly no one else knew about, so I decided to buy the DVDs and download all the episodes I could, and a year later, start to form a full episode guide on Crunk Games. It was fun and insane and generally unnecessary; things I strive for when writing long-form things. When I thought the show was ending, it didn't, and work continued apace, and the guide became a hub for GCCX information.
But as the show enters its 16th season, and this episode guide almost reaches its fifth year, I've decided it's time for me to step away. It's not about the show — I'll continue to watch it as long as it's on, no worries there — but it's becoming harder to justify working on this guide when I have bigger things to worry about. So instead, I'll justify why I won't be working on it.
· No one really knows about it anymore. Some of my friends have often told me that I'm responsible for GCCX having the international fans it does now, but I wasn't so ready to believe that. While it may have been true around the first year of the episode guide (where I also got to spread the word by acting like a doofus for the site I worked for), the effects quickly faded. It's only natural — it's not like anyone can search for a Japanese TV show they don't know about. As the fansubbed episodes starting spreading around, people went from linking to this page to linking straight to videos, and it's not like I'm going to say that watching the show isn't the best way to get into it. In the end, there's a dimension of this I brought upon myself: I didn't link to places you can watch or download the show online, because I didn't want to entertain even the slightest possibility of getting in trouble when the episode summaries and the extra info was the real point.
· No one really used it. Search for GCCX on Google and you'll see that this guide is stil a top result, but so is the Wikipedia entry, and that's also something I noticed gets more links than this thing. I have all the evidence I need when I see fans ask things like "Did Arino ever play Bonk's Adventure?" when the big list of games is right here, but it's not nice to just go "Yes!!" when they just didn't know about the page (tempting though it is). And the sheer volume of it all is probably a little daunting for people who just want info at a glance, not paragraphs of play-by-play commentary.
· A lot of it is wrong. I didn't have a great knowledge of the Japanese language when I started, and I just barely do now. The episode pages are mostly summaries, with little explanation of jokes or other details that may help the enjoyment of the show. Several factual errors have since been corrected, but I don't need them pointed out to me to know there's dozens more. Granted, I never once claimed that this was all perfectly accurate to begin with, but I didn't say the opposite, either.
· It's not super complete. At first, I voluntarily didn't write about the DVD-exclusive challenges, because at the time I figured I'd just get to them after the show was over. It would make a nice bonus, and in the interim, it might encourage people to buy the DVDs for themselves. Well, the show never ended, so I didn't get around to the DVD episodes. There's also a few GCCX specials and spin-offs like the web series GCCX Tokumeika, and a second New Year's comedian gabfest that I just skipped because they were mostly boring. It's a bit of a regret, but I'd argue no one's missing anything, considering how many real episodes they're missing because they're not translated.
· It became a thankless job. It always sort of was, which is perfectly fine, though there were periods where it was linked more than a few times and audibly appreciated. But as the years went on, updating it really started to drag. "But Ray," you say, "It can't be that hard to take screencaps of an episode, write about it, and then compile all that in an HTML template." Well, yeah, that's right. But soon after starting, I began planning weekends around working on the guide, and I couldn't stop doing that. Saturday was for writing, Sunday was for compiling, and while I thought it was a way to better manage it, it just took over. I started the guide when I had a job, and as I write this, I don't, but I also have other big crazy projects I work on, and y'know… I'd like some time to play video games.
· The file is HUGE. Because this is a paginated WordPress post, I have to put every single page into one big load of raw text/HTML and then publish it. At last check, that load weighs at 2.3 MB. In the past few months, it got too big for even WordPress, so I had to manually dig into the database, find the post, and re-paste it all in that way. That's actually a minor annoyance once you know what to look for, but it's still ridiculous. It's like watching the start of Weird Al's "Fat" video.
· It's not my best work. Not knowing Japanese was bad enough, but what about English? The episodes were written up in a first draft, except that was the only draft. Aside from visible typos I noticed from going through again compiling screenshots, the rest of the writing is fairly rickety. The grammar stayed spotty, mostly because writing an episode as it plays is one notch removed from a liveblog. (And yes, I'm my own grammar nazi, thank you.) Being known for the GCCX guide is nice, but I dunno about being remembered for it, especially with all its blemishes.
· Dreams have since been realized. 2011 was a turning point for GCCX fandom. Towards the summer, the efforts of a new band of fansubbers rose up to give the show a much better translation treatment than in past years. Around the same time, the previously-dormant English version of the show, Retro Game Master, debuted on the web. It flopped for several reasons, but what that did was give the show's staff incentive to bring Arino to America for a special California adventure, including a fan meet-and-greet where I tried to rally the troops and ultimately appeared on the show myself, in costume (see above). Months later, the show featured the one game I always wished Arino would play: Battletoads. As the fansubbers continued on into 2012, Retro Game Master resurfaced on DVD, with new translation support from one of those fansubbers. All of these were awesome contributing catalysts to my decision to take a break. Why not go out on a high note?
All of what's been listed so far feeds into my final, by-now-totally-obvious point:
· It's obsolete. Who needs to really know about Game Center CX when they can just watch it? They heard it was awesome, then they agree it's awesome, and we all have a good time talking about it. What's now valuable to the fans is not knowing how many episodes there are, it's knowing how many aren't translated yet. And at the rate things are going, maybe even that won't be important anymore.
As I said at the start, I'll still be a GCCX fan and continue to support it and the pockets of fans that exist all over the internet, so maybe you'll see me gushing about the show somewhere else. I'll admit, though, that using the term "obsolete" isn't really fair, because the episode guide — and the rest of Crunk Games — isn't disappearing. I intend to keep it up a long as possible, to serve as a potential launching pad for anyone who does still find out about the show this way and wants to learn exactly who AD Emoto is, or whatever. But if that doesn't pan out, it's also possible that it may show up in another form, too. For now, you can always follow me on Twitter or check out my other site, scroll.vg for any possible GCCX news that comes down the line. See you next show?
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At the same time as Tory Chancellor George Osbourne, is trying to steal jobs from steel workers, benefits from the disabled, tax credits from the working poor and homes owned by Councils, he is also trying to plunder the local government pension scheme (LGPS).
The government is seeking powers to direct Council pension funds to pay into their pet infrastructure investment schemes and even interfere in the day to day running of the £180 billion funds and make them only invest in accordance to the current UK Government's foreign policy.
Ironic for someone who claims to be a small state Conservative and is refusing to nationalise the UK steel works because he believes in "free markets" and that the government shouldn't own anything.
It may be that the local government pension funds should invest more in infrastructure but they should be the ones making that investment decision after receiving proper advice, since they will have to carry the can if it all goes wrong. There is no "Crown Promise" nor even the tender mercies of the Pension Protection Fund for these schemes if they make the wrong investments decisions and go belly up.
British foreign policy is also notorious for recognising and supporting nasty, corrupt, totalitarian regimes but putting aside any ethical issues for the moment, that doesn't mean that these countries are suitable investment choices for council pensions funds to put their members' money into. Such regimes are often economic basket cases and not safe for pensions..
Since there has been no debate in Parliament on this "nationalisation" UNISON is encouraging its members to sign this Parliamentary Petition https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/125475 (see below) to get a debate in the House on this matter.


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Kvinder i mandsklæder
Tyge Krogh
Female Transvestism in Denmark in the 18th and Early 19th CenturiesIn the 18th century, several women, whose fate in other respects was likely to pass unnoticed, chose to disguise themselves as men and live as such for long periods of their lives. Studies carried out by scholars in Sweden, The Netherlands and England reveal a few dozens of cross-dressing women in each country. This article presents four, maybe five similar cases from Denmark.In 1714, Sidsel Andersdatter, aged 34, after two childbirths and a subsequent career as wet-nurse, changed her gender identity. She married a young woman, whom she – under secret circumstances – had assisted during pregnancy and delivery and in having the woman's child registered as legitimately born. Pretending to be male, Sidsel joined the Navy as a cook. The next four years she participated in several naval battles with Sweden. When at home during winter breaks in military activity, she behaved as a man, had herself shaved, carried a rapier and frequented alehouses. After the war, her marriage soured and she left Copenhagen to work as a farmhand. Her wife divorced her and married a better off ship's clerk. After a while, Sidsel returned to Copenhagen and worked as a tailor until 1728, when her sex was publicly disclosed after she had been leading a man's life for 14 years. The court sentenced her to two years of hard labour on grounds of the false marriage and on suspicion that a horn she carried, allegedly using it to pee through, had in fact been used as a dildo.Else Kortzdatter disguised herself as a boy at the time of pubescence and worked with nightmen on Zealand. In 1731, 21 years old, she disclosed herself and married an older nightman in the town of Køge.Engelbrecht Maria Stockenbeck, aged 20, after being married in Copenhagen, left her husband and went to Holstein, where she disguised herself as a man and took up the profession of a tailor. Over a period of three years, she moved between many different places in Northern Germany and Jutland as a travelling journeyman. After returning to Copenhagen in 1784 her sex was disclosed. She then applied for and was awarded a royal privilege which allowed her, despite being a woman, to work as a tailor and employ a journeyman.The same year an account of her adventures was published. In the booklet, she told with pleasure of victorious tavern brawls and spoke highly of the solidarity between travelling journeymen. When she once again assumed a female identity, Engelbrecht Maria maintained both the masculine (Engelbrecht) and the feminine (Maria) marker in her name, even though her baptismal name appears to have been Ellen Maria. In the following years she resumed the life of a travelling journeyman, including such lifestyle features as frequenting taverns, only now as a woman. Several times during her travels, she had confrontations with local authorities who disbelieved her claim of a royal privilege to perform an otherwise exclusively male occupation. Her husband filed for divorce after her return to Copenhagen and provided solid proof to the court that Engelbrecht Maria lived with another man, whom she apparently had been bossing around. There are indications that she gave birth to several children.Finally, the tailor and pauper Liebenberg Petersen was discovered to be a woman in 1839, at about the age of 80. She had lived in a village in Jutland for 30 years, first with her wife, who had died 15 years prior to the disclosure. Her remains were now exhumed and examined, corroborating an earlier suspicion that it was really a male person. Thus, Liebenberg and wife had both lived under reversed gender identities. Liebenberg refused to reveal her own past identity or any details about the disguise of the couple. Witnesses reported that Liebenberg, who had a sharp tongue, used to chew and smoke tobacco and take a drink, habits her wife would never engage in.The research in female early modern transvestism has explained the phenomenon partly with the social advantages provided by male status, such as better wages and employment opportunities as well as personal freedom and freedom to travel, partly with sexual attraction to other women. The cases that are analysed in the present study likewise emphasize the social motives to assume a male identity. However, the other presumed motive, the possibility to court and marry other women, corresponds less smoothly with the evidence and is at any rate a gross simplification. Rather, the cross-dressing women did not feel at home in the traditional gender and sexual dichotomies. Even when showing heterosexual preferences, they were nevertheless attracted by the comportment and lifestyle of men.
Historisk Tidsskrift
Udgivet - 17 okt. 2013
Kønshistorie, socialhistorie, transvestisme, 1700-tallet, 1800-tallet
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N2 - Female Transvestism in Denmark in the 18th and Early 19th CenturiesIn the 18th century, several women, whose fate in other respects was likely to pass unnoticed, chose to disguise themselves as men and live as such for long periods of their lives. Studies carried out by scholars in Sweden, The Netherlands and England reveal a few dozens of cross-dressing women in each country. This article presents four, maybe five similar cases from Denmark.In 1714, Sidsel Andersdatter, aged 34, after two childbirths and a subsequent career as wet-nurse, changed her gender identity. She married a young woman, whom she – under secret circumstances – had assisted during pregnancy and delivery and in having the woman's child registered as legitimately born. Pretending to be male, Sidsel joined the Navy as a cook. The next four years she participated in several naval battles with Sweden. When at home during winter breaks in military activity, she behaved as a man, had herself shaved, carried a rapier and frequented alehouses. After the war, her marriage soured and she left Copenhagen to work as a farmhand. Her wife divorced her and married a better off ship's clerk. After a while, Sidsel returned to Copenhagen and worked as a tailor until 1728, when her sex was publicly disclosed after she had been leading a man's life for 14 years. The court sentenced her to two years of hard labour on grounds of the false marriage and on suspicion that a horn she carried, allegedly using it to pee through, had in fact been used as a dildo.Else Kortzdatter disguised herself as a boy at the time of pubescence and worked with nightmen on Zealand. In 1731, 21 years old, she disclosed herself and married an older nightman in the town of Køge.Engelbrecht Maria Stockenbeck, aged 20, after being married in Copenhagen, left her husband and went to Holstein, where she disguised herself as a man and took up the profession of a tailor. Over a period of three years, she moved between many different places in Northern Germany and Jutland as a travelling journeyman. After returning to Copenhagen in 1784 her sex was disclosed. She then applied for and was awarded a royal privilege which allowed her, despite being a woman, to work as a tailor and employ a journeyman.The same year an account of her adventures was published. In the booklet, she told with pleasure of victorious tavern brawls and spoke highly of the solidarity between travelling journeymen. When she once again assumed a female identity, Engelbrecht Maria maintained both the masculine (Engelbrecht) and the feminine (Maria) marker in her name, even though her baptismal name appears to have been Ellen Maria. In the following years she resumed the life of a travelling journeyman, including such lifestyle features as frequenting taverns, only now as a woman. Several times during her travels, she had confrontations with local authorities who disbelieved her claim of a royal privilege to perform an otherwise exclusively male occupation. Her husband filed for divorce after her return to Copenhagen and provided solid proof to the court that Engelbrecht Maria lived with another man, whom she apparently had been bossing around. There are indications that she gave birth to several children.Finally, the tailor and pauper Liebenberg Petersen was discovered to be a woman in 1839, at about the age of 80. She had lived in a village in Jutland for 30 years, first with her wife, who had died 15 years prior to the disclosure. Her remains were now exhumed and examined, corroborating an earlier suspicion that it was really a male person. Thus, Liebenberg and wife had both lived under reversed gender identities. Liebenberg refused to reveal her own past identity or any details about the disguise of the couple. Witnesses reported that Liebenberg, who had a sharp tongue, used to chew and smoke tobacco and take a drink, habits her wife would never engage in.The research in female early modern transvestism has explained the phenomenon partly with the social advantages provided by male status, such as better wages and employment opportunities as well as personal freedom and freedom to travel, partly with sexual attraction to other women. The cases that are analysed in the present study likewise emphasize the social motives to assume a male identity. However, the other presumed motive, the possibility to court and marry other women, corresponds less smoothly with the evidence and is at any rate a gross simplification. Rather, the cross-dressing women did not feel at home in the traditional gender and sexual dichotomies. Even when showing heterosexual preferences, they were nevertheless attracted by the comportment and lifestyle of men.
AB - Female Transvestism in Denmark in the 18th and Early 19th CenturiesIn the 18th century, several women, whose fate in other respects was likely to pass unnoticed, chose to disguise themselves as men and live as such for long periods of their lives. Studies carried out by scholars in Sweden, The Netherlands and England reveal a few dozens of cross-dressing women in each country. This article presents four, maybe five similar cases from Denmark.In 1714, Sidsel Andersdatter, aged 34, after two childbirths and a subsequent career as wet-nurse, changed her gender identity. She married a young woman, whom she – under secret circumstances – had assisted during pregnancy and delivery and in having the woman's child registered as legitimately born. Pretending to be male, Sidsel joined the Navy as a cook. The next four years she participated in several naval battles with Sweden. When at home during winter breaks in military activity, she behaved as a man, had herself shaved, carried a rapier and frequented alehouses. After the war, her marriage soured and she left Copenhagen to work as a farmhand. Her wife divorced her and married a better off ship's clerk. After a while, Sidsel returned to Copenhagen and worked as a tailor until 1728, when her sex was publicly disclosed after she had been leading a man's life for 14 years. The court sentenced her to two years of hard labour on grounds of the false marriage and on suspicion that a horn she carried, allegedly using it to pee through, had in fact been used as a dildo.Else Kortzdatter disguised herself as a boy at the time of pubescence and worked with nightmen on Zealand. In 1731, 21 years old, she disclosed herself and married an older nightman in the town of Køge.Engelbrecht Maria Stockenbeck, aged 20, after being married in Copenhagen, left her husband and went to Holstein, where she disguised herself as a man and took up the profession of a tailor. Over a period of three years, she moved between many different places in Northern Germany and Jutland as a travelling journeyman. After returning to Copenhagen in 1784 her sex was disclosed. She then applied for and was awarded a royal privilege which allowed her, despite being a woman, to work as a tailor and employ a journeyman.The same year an account of her adventures was published. In the booklet, she told with pleasure of victorious tavern brawls and spoke highly of the solidarity between travelling journeymen. When she once again assumed a female identity, Engelbrecht Maria maintained both the masculine (Engelbrecht) and the feminine (Maria) marker in her name, even though her baptismal name appears to have been Ellen Maria. In the following years she resumed the life of a travelling journeyman, including such lifestyle features as frequenting taverns, only now as a woman. Several times during her travels, she had confrontations with local authorities who disbelieved her claim of a royal privilege to perform an otherwise exclusively male occupation. Her husband filed for divorce after her return to Copenhagen and provided solid proof to the court that Engelbrecht Maria lived with another man, whom she apparently had been bossing around. There are indications that she gave birth to several children.Finally, the tailor and pauper Liebenberg Petersen was discovered to be a woman in 1839, at about the age of 80. She had lived in a village in Jutland for 30 years, first with her wife, who had died 15 years prior to the disclosure. Her remains were now exhumed and examined, corroborating an earlier suspicion that it was really a male person. Thus, Liebenberg and wife had both lived under reversed gender identities. Liebenberg refused to reveal her own past identity or any details about the disguise of the couple. Witnesses reported that Liebenberg, who had a sharp tongue, used to chew and smoke tobacco and take a drink, habits her wife would never engage in.The research in female early modern transvestism has explained the phenomenon partly with the social advantages provided by male status, such as better wages and employment opportunities as well as personal freedom and freedom to travel, partly with sexual attraction to other women. The cases that are analysed in the present study likewise emphasize the social motives to assume a male identity. However, the other presumed motive, the possibility to court and marry other women, corresponds less smoothly with the evidence and is at any rate a gross simplification. Rather, the cross-dressing women did not feel at home in the traditional gender and sexual dichotomies. Even when showing heterosexual preferences, they were nevertheless attracted by the comportment and lifestyle of men.
KW - Kønshistorie, socialhistorie, transvestisme, 1700-tallet, 1800-tallet
JO - Historisk Tidsskrift
JF - Historisk Tidsskrift
Krogh T. Kvinder i mandsklæder. Historisk Tidsskrift. 2013 okt 17;113(1):39-79.
Krogh, Tyge. "Kvinder i mandsklæder". Historisk Tidsskrift. 2013, 113(1). 39-79.


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Researchers design a strategy to make graphene luminescent
A University of Cordoba research project is able to incorporate luminescence into this super material, paving a new way to continue expanding properties
Lighter than aluminum, harder than a diamond, more elastic than rubber and tougher than steel. These are only a few of the characteristics of graphene, a super material that acts as an excellent heat and electrical conductor. Due to its features, it is called upon to be a key player in future technological advances in the fields of research, electronics, IT and medicine.
The FQM-346 Organic Chemistry research group at the University of Cordoba came up with the way this material acts in a luminescent way, a new feature it did not have before and that now ushers in a new range of applications. Professor Francisco José Romero Salguero, one of the authors of the research piece, explains that luminescence is a characteristic of some substances which allows them to emit light at a different wave length than the one they absorbed it at. In other words, luminescent materials can emit visible light from energy, a property that makes them useful as photocatalysts and fluorescent tags that can be displayed in macromolecules and biological materials. Now, thanks to this new research, luminescence is added to the long list of services graphene can provide.
This research was published in Chemistry---A European Journal, sponsored by the main chemical societies in Europe, and also involved the work of UCO researchers Juan Amaro Gahete, César Jiménez-Sanchidrián and Dolores Esquivel, along with another Belgian research group. Because of its degree of relevance, this prestigious journal described the article as a hot paper.
Though previous attempts have been made to endow this super material with light properties, all of those were unsuccessful. What really makes graphene special is its hexagonal structure based on highly cohesive carbon atoms by means of a kind of electronic cloud in the shape of a sandwich. If the connection between the atoms in this cloud is interrupted, part of the properties are lost, explains researcher Francisco Romero.
Specifically, overcoming this obstacle is where the success of the research lies. The group was able to incorporate luminescence into this material without affecting its other qualities, thus safeguarding the functionality of its complex structure. In order to do so, europium was integrated into graphene. Europium is a metal that perfectly coordinates with the modified molecules of this super material and is the one that grants it its luminous properties.
The results offer immediate applications, since this luminescent graphene could be used in biological material and for analyzing tissue cells. However, the research goes even further. The use of europium "is just a concept test," explains University of Cordoba Professor César Jiménez-Sanchidrián.
Henceforth, this study opens the door to the use of a variety of chemical elements that could be combined with graphene to confer new characteristics on it. For instance, if certain kinds of metals are integrated, a magnetic graphene could be generated. Ultimately, it is a line of research that this group, which belongs to the the University Institute of Nanochemistry (abbreviated to IUNAN in Spanish) and the College of Science, will continue to work on with the aim of adding new properties to the list of graphene's qualities. Doing so will increase the versatility of this substance that holds very promising characteristics and that has already earned the right to be called a material of the future.
Luminescent graphene‐based materials via europium complexation on dipyridylpyridazine‐functionalized graphene sheets. Juan Amaro-Gahete, Anna M. Kaczmarek, Dolores Esquivel, César Jiménez-Sanchidrián, Pascal Van Der Voort,Francisco José Romero-Salguero. 18 March 2019 https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201900512
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Q: Bash array with spaces and no spaces in elements I know this question has been asked in different manners, and I've referred to some answers on here to get to where I am now.
I'm trying to create a script to essentially watch a folder and virus scan files once they're not being written to.
The files/strings I need it to handle will sometimes contain spaces and sometimes not, as well sometimes special characters. At the moment it will actually work only on files with spaces in the name (as in actually scan and move them), but not for files without spaces. Also after each file (spaces or not) the while loop breaks thus stopping the script with the following output;
./howscan.sh: line 29: snmp.conf: syntax error: invalid arithmetic operator (error token is ".conf")
./howscan.sh: line 34: snmp.conf: syntax error: invalid arithmetic operator (error token is ".conf")

I had it working to handle file names without any spaces, but since I introduced the "${files[$i]}" method to use the array elements it only works on files with spaces and outputs the above error.
Feel free to omit the sepscan part of this, as I'm sure if I can get it working with the other tasks it'll work for that too (just wanted to show the full script for a complete understanding).
Current Script:
#!/bin/bash

set -x

workingpath='/mnt/Incoming/ToScan/'
outputpath='/mnt/Incoming/Scanned/'
logfile='/var/log/howscan.log'
faildir='/mnt/Incoming/ScanFailed/'
sepscan='/opt/Symantec/symantec_antivirus/sav manualscan -c'

# Change to working directory
cd $workingpath

# Exclude files with a given extension, in this case .aspx, and declare the remaining files as the array "files"
shopt -s extglob nullglob

# Loop the below - ie it's a watch folder
while true
    do
    # Exclude files with .aspx in the file name
    files=( !(*.aspx) )
    # If the array files is not empty then...
    if [ ${#files[@]} -ne 0 ]; then
        for i in ${files[*]}
        # For every item in the array files process them as follows
        # Declare any variables you wish to happen on files here, not globally
        # Check each file to see if it's in use using fuser, do nothing and log it if its still in use, or process it and log the results
        do
            fileopen=`fuser "${files[$i]}" | wc -c`
            # Here for 'fileopen' we are checking if the file is being writen to.
            if [ $fileopen -ne 0 ]; then
                echo `date` "${files[$i]}" is being used so has been ignored >> $logfile
            else
                echo `date` File "${files[$i]}" not being used or accessed >> $logfile

                    sepscan=`$sepscan "${files[$i]}" | wc -c`
                    if [ $sepscan = 0 ]; then
                        mv "${files[$i]}" $outputpath
                        echo `date` "${files[$i]}" has been virus scanned and moved to $outputpath >> $logfile
                    else
                        echo `date` "${files[$i]}" has been moved to $faildir as a virus or error was detected >> $logfile
                    fi
            fi
        done
    fi
    echo `date` 'No more files to process. Waiting 60 seconds...' >> $logfile
    sleep 60
done

Let me know if I can provide anything else to help clarify my issue.
Update:
There is a file in the /mnt/Incoming/ToScan/ directory called snmp.conf by the way.

A: for i in ${files[*]}

should be
for i in ${!files[*]}
# or
for i in ${!files[@]}

${files[*]} expands to the contents of the array and undergoes word splitting. The above syntax expands to a list of indices of the array.
You might also need to double quote the variables, e.g.
if [ "$fileopen" -ne 0 ]; then

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Central Florida is experiencing mass layoffs, while Florida's unemployment drops to its lowest in 12 years
Posted By Xander Peters on Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 1:24 PM
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Even as the state's unemployment level dropped to 3.3 percent last month, the lowest in 12 years, more Central Florida workers lost their jobs amid mass layoffs this year than any year since 2010.
According to employer reports to the state under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, a law that requires companies to notify the state 60 days prior to laying off more than 50 workers or 33 percent of their employees, more than 2,000 people in Orange, Osceola, Lake and Seminole counties were laid off this year.
Across Florida, 17,868 mass layoffs were reported in 2018, the highest since the Great Recession peaked in 2009 – the largest of which in Central Florida took place at the Carlton Palms Educational Center in Mount Dora, where 272 jobs were cut after the facility was shuttered in October, following years of allegations of abuse against patients.
Retail took a shellacking too. In November, C&S Wholesale, a distributor for the Florida-based Southeastern Grocers family of supermarkets, such as Winn-Dixie and Fresco y Mas, announced it was nixing 205 employees. Winn-Dixie then closed 94 stores nationwide in March, including three based in the Orlando area. And around that same time, following the closure of a store in Fern Park, Sam's Club laid off 173 workers.
For an economy that's supposed to be booming, booming, booming on all fronts, that doesn't make much sense, right?
It does when you take into consideration the further advent of automation.
The Pew Research Center estimates that the average hourly cost of a manufacturing worker in the U.S. is $36, compared to just $4 for a robot. It's figures like those that lead the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to estimate that 14 percent of jobs in advanced economies could become susceptible to automation and another 32 percent substantially changed, which in turn affects the lives of millions of workers, not just statewide or nationwide but worldwide, too.
So even with the good news there's bad news. Sorry.
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The great chip sector consolidation continues.
Chipmaker Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO) has announced an offer to acquire Brocade Communications (NASDAQ:BRCD) in all-cash deal valued at $5.9 billion (including $400 million of net debt). That values Brocade at $12.75 per share, representing a 47% premium relative to last Friday's closing price. Broadcom will fund the deal with cash on the balance sheet combined with new debt financing. The official news comes following market speculation that the two companies were putting together a deal.
"This strategic acquisition enhances Broadcom's position as one of the leading providers of enterprise storage connectivity solutions to OEM customers," Broadcom CEO Hock Tan said in a statement. "With deep expertise in mission-critical storage networking, Brocade increases our ability to address the evolving needs of our OEM customers. In addition, we are confident that we will find a great home for Brocade's valuable IP networking business that will best position that business for its next phase of growth."
Broadcom is actually only interested in Brocade's fiber channel storage area network (FC SAN) business, and intends to immediately sell off the IP networking segment. Last quarter, the FC SAN business comprised 57% of revenue, with IP networking representing the remaining 43% of sales. Brocade will support the divestment process and seek a buyer for its IP networking portfolio. The company did not disclose how much it may seek to recoup from the divesture. The company expects the deal to be immediately accretive to non-GAAP free cash flow and earnings per share, and the FC SAN business should add $900 million of non-GAAP EBITDA in fiscal 2018. Broadcom expects the deal to close within the next six months.
This deal is the latest in a long string of high-profile consolidations within the semiconductor space. It hasn't even been a year since Broadcom itself merged with Avago, adopting the latter's ticker symbol. Elsewhere in the sector, there's another blockbuster acquisition on the table as well.


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Světový pohár družstev 2012, oficiálně se jménem sponzora Power Horse World Team Cup 2012, představoval 34. ročník mistrovství světa tenisových družstev mužů pořádaný Asociací profesionálních tenistů. Turnaje se účastnilo osm družstev, která byla nominována na základě pořadí dvou nejlépe umístěných hráčů světového žebříčku na konci předchozí sezóny. Konal se od 20. do 26. května 2012. Společnost Power Horse sponzorovala druhý ročník mistrovství.

Soutěž se hrála tradičně na otevřených antukových dvorcích Rochusclubu v německém Düsseldorfu a byla součástí kategorie ATP 250 series v rámci ATP World Tour 2012.

Obhájcem titulu byl tým Německa, který v předchozím finále porazil Argentinu 2:1, když rozhodující bod ve čtyřhře získal pár Philipp Petzschner a Philipp Kohlschreiber nad dvojicí Juan Ignacio Chela a Máximo González poměrem setů 6–3, 7–65.

Vítězem 34. ročníku se stalo Srbsko ve složení Janko Tipsarević, Viktor Troicki a
Nenad Zimonjić, když ve finále zdolalo Českou republiku 3:0 na zápasy. Získalo tak druhý titul.

Rozdělení bodů
Rozdělení bodů do žebříčku ATP.

 Pouze hráči, kteří nastoupí ve finále, získají také body z předchozích zápasů.
 Bonuso získají pouze hráči, kteří vyhrají všechny čtyři zápasy a budou součástí vítězného týmu.

Složení družstev
Japonsko získalo divokou kartu.

Červená skupina

Modrá skupina

Základní skupina

Červená skupina

Pořadí

Argentina vs Spojené státy americké

Česko vs Japonsko

Argentina vs Japonsko

Česko vs Spojené státy americké

Česko vs Argentina

Spojené státy americké vs Japonsko

Modrá skupina

Pořadí

Chorvatsko vs Srbsko

Německo vs Rusko

Chorvatsko vs Německo

Srbsko vs Rusko

Srbsko vs Německo

Rusko vs Chorvatsko

Finále

Česko vs Srbsko

Vítěz

Odkazy

Reference

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